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Value of a Soul

January 1, 2021

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Three lives search for true worth as their worlds crumble. Follow their unexpected journeys as Franklin Graham addresses the real value of the soul.

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Value of a Soul

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(rope creaks)
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(Woman)There's nothing else like it.
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(Man) Amazing and fun life.
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(Man)It was the perfect dream.
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Have you ever thought about
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what's the most prizedpossession,
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or the most valuablepossession that you own?
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Maybe it's your home;
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maybe it's your first car;or a TV;
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or a relationshipthat you have.
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But have you thought aboutwhat it would be like
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if you lost it?
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(rope snaps)
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(Scott Smiley) I was independentand proud of it.
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I was sure about life
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and I knew that I couldtake on the world.
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(Mark Outing)I was unstoppable;untouchable.
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A not-to-be-messed-with
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type of guy.
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(Laura Klock)I was in trouble
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and I didn't knowwhat to do.
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(engine revs)
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(Outing) There was a problem.
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I have all of these things,
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and suddenly they're losingtheir value to me.
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Sometimes you don't knowhow valuable something is
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until it's gone.
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(Klock) I was scared,
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I didn't know how badit was gonna get.
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(Graham) The Bible says
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"What should it profit a manif he should gain...
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"the whole world,and lose his own soul?"
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♪
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(Outing)You can spend six-ninety-nine
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and get yourselfa good juicy burger.
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Get you some friesand some onion rings.
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And that'll be a pieceof heaven.
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Come to Mark's Outingand eat
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our burger,and if you don't like it,
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I'll give youall your money back
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if it ain't the best burgeryou ever ate.
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You'll often see me sometimes
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when it really gets busy
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rushing to the back,throwing on an apron
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just beginning to
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move fast,
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talk fast;it's just exciting.
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But when I look back
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on my life,
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you know, I've had enemiesin my life,
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a lot of enemies,
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and it really, really gotway out there.
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I've done things thatI'm ashamed to even share.
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It'd be a club brawl,
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it'd be a fight.
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It'd be a shootout.
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Whatever it took--
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I had a group of guysand we wanted to be rappers.
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Our name--PKO--it was actuallylike drug weights;
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you know, like pounds,
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kilos, ounces.
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The desire to succeed wasat such a high rate
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that I woulda sold my soul
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to get to the top.
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We got ourself in a bunch of...
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hairy situations.
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(helicopter rotors thump)
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(Smiley)Forty souls were under my care
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and I was in charge
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of one of Alpha Company'sthree platoons.
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Almost every day
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we were attacked by
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improvised explosive devices--
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bombs in the road,bombs in cars.
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Snipers.
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The injuries were constantand always fearful.
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On April 6, 2005, woke up andread the intelligence report.
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It said to expect suicide
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car bombs.
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So heading out into the city
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I just nonchalantly toldmy squad leader,
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you know, it's been aboutseven months
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since I saw my wife,and I really miss her.
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Not even being married a year,we were separated.
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My first anniversary wasspent in a war-torn country,
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in Iraq.
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(Tiffany Smiley)The day he deployed was like,
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it's, it's so surreal.
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You go out to this field
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and you see all the soldierslined up,
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and then they load onto
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these buses and...
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(voice breaking) You don't know.
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(Smiley) As we were heading outinto the city,
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just on a normal patrol,
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our mission to finda suicide bomber...
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I spotted a suspicious vehicle
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that the back of the car wasa little lower than the front.
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(shouting)Get out of your car!
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(Smiley)He looked over his shoulder,
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raised his handsoff the steering wheel,
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and shook his head no.
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(shouting)Get out of your car!
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Now!
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(Smiley) I then shot two roundsin front of his vehicle.
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(shots fire)
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(bomb explodes)
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(Klock) My pain wasn'teasy to see; it was hidden.
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I got my first motorcycle
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when I was probablynine years old.
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When I was riding,I could be singing,
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making up songs,or crying or screaming.
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And jumping ditches,
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and stuff like that.
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My motorcycle didn't care.
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(engine revs)
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My parents were goingthrough a really tough time
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and as they were fightingI heard them say
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that I wasn't planned.
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It made me question my life,you know, like,
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was I wanted?
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Is there a purposefor my life?
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Like, why am I here?
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I just causedso much trouble.
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I was just hurting.
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(sighs)
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When I was sixteen,
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I got pregnant.
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I was in trouble,
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and I didn't know what to do.
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There was a part of me
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at that time when I found out
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that wanted that baby;something of my own,
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to love and maybe givethe love that I didn't feel like
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I was receiving, and yet...
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I decided to get an abortion.
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The procedure was done
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and when I lookedover at the counter,
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I saw my baby.
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And I don't know whythat happened
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other than, uh,it'll never go away.
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I'm never gonna
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forget that day.
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So I tucked it away.
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You wipe off your tears
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and you get up,
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and you didn'ttalk about it again.
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I didn't realize that I wastaking a precious gift
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and throwing it away.
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(Graham) The Bible says,"what should it profit a man,
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"if he should gainthe whole world
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"and lose his own soul?
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"Or what should a man givein exchange for his soul?"
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What do we mean by soul?
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You see, the Bible says that
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the Lord God formed manfrom the dust of the ground,
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breathed into his nostrilsthe breath of life,
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and he became a living soul.
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The soul lives in the body
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and it looks outthrough the eyes,
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it listens throughyour ears.
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We'll never burythe real you.
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The soul is compared by Christwith a value of the whole world.
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Let's say you could takeall technology.
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Your soul is worthmore than that.
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Your soul is more valuable
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than all the military powerin the world.
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Your soul is more valuablethan all of the gold,
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all of the world's currencies.
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One soul is worth more...
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one soul...
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than all of the valueof the world combined.
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And a person could wake upone morning,
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and realize that they havegained the world,
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but they've lost their soul.
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♪
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(light switch snaps off)
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It wouldn't be anything for me
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to have ten to fifteen thousanddollars in my pocket.
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It became more than just rap.
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Now it's really about drugs.
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Once we got to that situation,things took off.
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We began to make
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a lot of money.
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Porsches, Benzes,
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big dookie chains
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that cost a lot of money.
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Diamond rings, watches.
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Houses, we began to buyvery, very popular night clubs.
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At that time I thought,This is it, this is the life.
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Gaining cars, girls, jewelry.
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I was having a lot of fun.
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It seemed like the partywas all good.
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Hanging out with the buddieswas all good.
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But then I'm laying in my bedat night.
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It's me and my conscience.
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And my conscience is saying,This is not well.
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And me thinking--lemme go buy something.
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I buy a Porsche.
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I get excited for itfor a week.
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But it wouldn't leave me alone
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that something wasn't right.
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There was a problem.
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That thought of notbeing satisfied
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just wouldn't go away.
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♪
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(Klock) I wasn't satisfiedwith who I was.
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I was carrying horribleguilt and shame.
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I didn't spend a lot of timealone with myself
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because I didn't likethe thoughts that came.
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When everything wouldcatch up with me
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I would change my scenery.
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And I would move awayor change the situation,
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or the changethe relationship.
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I had my daughtersand... (sighs)
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two divorces later,I was a mess.
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I really had a desireto make things better.
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I did the best I could to tryto be a really great mom.
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As my daughters startto get a little older,
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I just hit the wall.
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I came to a point, I think,where I was just tired.
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And I knew I was falling.
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It was like having the rugpulled out from under me
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and I didn't knowwhat to do next.
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And so, I sent my daughtersaway with my family,
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feeling like I wasn't even sureif I was gonna see them again.
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And they don't know that.
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I felt terrible.
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I got on my motorcycle
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and rode from Cabo, Mexicoto the tip of Seattle.
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The stops along the way
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were filled withscreaming and crying.
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No one even knewthe depth of it.
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Someone said to me,
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You ride that motorcyclelike the devil's chasing you.
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(engine revs)
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It was true.
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I felt worthless,
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and I just wanted tofeel different than that.
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(engine sputters)
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Get out of your car!
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(bomb explodes)
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Help me!
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(phone rings)
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(Tiffany) I woke upin the middle of the night
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with the phone ringing,
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it was Scotty's commanderon the other line.
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And he started sobbing,
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he said, "Tiffany,I'm so sorry.
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"Scotty's been hurtreally bad.
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"There's shrapnel in his eyesand in his head."
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When the doctor called meand he told me, you know,
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"We removed his eye.
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"We're gonna probably haveto remove his other eye."
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And that's when I,
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I don't even rememberthe conversation after that.
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I just sobbed.
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Probably for days.
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(Smiley) My world was black.
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I woke up in Walter ReedArmy Medical Center,
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thousands of miles fromwhere I was supposed to be.
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I didn't know where I was,
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I didn't knowwhat I was doing.
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And I realized that I'd neverbe able to see again.
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The President ofthe United States of America
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has awarded the Purple Heart
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to First LieutenantScotty Michael Smiley,
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United States Army(voice breaking)
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for wounds received in actionon 6 April 2005...
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Given under my hand...
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(voice fades out)
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(Smiley)When I was done crying,
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my grief quicklyturned to anger.
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I thought I hadquote/unquote
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checked every blockto be a Christian,
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and still God had allowed
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me to be blinded.
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I felt God was responsible
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and that I was gonna makeGod pay somehow, some way.
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I denied God.
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I turned my back on Him.
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And I just sunk intodepression.
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I was just a broken man,
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lying in my bed, blind, useless.
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I felt I had no value.
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Why is your soul valuable?
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The soul is valuable
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because it's eternal.
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"We fix our eyesnot on what is seen,"
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the Bible says,"but what is unseen.
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"For what is seenis temporary,
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"but what is unseenis eternal."
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You may be big and strong,
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but I want you to know thatone day our bodies
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are gonna die.
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And "It's appointed unto manonce to die,
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"but after this,"the Bible says, "the judgment."
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We'll have to stand before God.
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God is going to judge sin.
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Sin is disobedience to God'slaws and His standards.
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You see, the Bible sayswe have all sinned;
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come short of God's glory.
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The Bible says that"the wages of sin is death."
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You see, our sinsseparate us,
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we're estranged from God,
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but God loves us
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and He doesn't want us to beseparated from Him.
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He wants us to havefellowship with Him.
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But sin is that barrier.
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Your sins block the way.
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So God devised a plan,and what is that plan?
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That plan is that
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"God so loved the world
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"that He gave His only
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"begotten Son
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"that whosoever believeth
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"in Him should not perish
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"but should have
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"everlasting life."
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Jesus Christ took our sins,
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and Jesus said,
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"I am the way, the truth,
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"and the life.
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"No man comes to the Father
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"but by Me."
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♪
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(no engine noise)
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♪
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(crow caws)
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(Klock)I was just running
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and I ended up in a small townin South Dakota,
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at a friend's custommotorcycle shop.
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I was helping him out
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and he invited meto church one day.
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And so I thought,(scoffs) yeah, okay.
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The pastor was preachingthat day about,
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a Heavenly Fatherthat loves you.
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He doesn't carewhere you've been,
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or what you've done.
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Or how you walk into that church.
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He just loves you.
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You don't have to earn it.
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You just can accept it.
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I believed that was true andthat I could be forgiven.
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Washed clean and start over.
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And the transformation
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and all of that, I wanted it.
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That day,
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in a clumsy, awkward,
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tear-filled way,
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I invited Jesus into my heart.
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(engine rumbles)
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I felt different inside.
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And I felt hope rising up.
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Like a motorcycle,God has transformed
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and rebuilt me.
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I have watched Him redeem
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my relationships
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with my daughters.
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I'm married now
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to that friend Brian.
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God has blessed me
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with opportunities to help
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young girls that were in
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the same situation I was in.
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When you really think about
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the fact that Jesus died
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on the cross for you,
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it changes the way
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you look at everything.
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I'm a different person.
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I have worth!
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Like, I have worth.
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It's so hard to even
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put into words.
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I'm a new person.
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You see, the Bible says Goddoes not want to take away life.
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Instead He devises waysthat a banished person
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may not remainestranged from Him.
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Why should we be concernedabout our soul?
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All of us have a soul.
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Every one of us herehas a spirit.
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And it's either gonna bein the presence of God in heaven
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or you're gonna be separatedfrom God in hell.
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The Bible saysit's a place of sorrows.
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Sorrowful souls,depression.
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Millions and millions of souls,wailing.
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Hell is a placeof complete darkness.
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(light switch snaps off)
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It's a place of unrest.
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It's a place of memory.
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You'll rememberthe opportunities that you had
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to come to Christthat you rejected.
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And you said,Well, not now,
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but maybe later.
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I'm not quite ready
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for that yet.
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You have an opportunity.
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You can settle this
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once and for all.
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Is your soul securein the hands of God?
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(Outing) Well, when youlook back on it,
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there's a hungerin my heart
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that these thingsare not filling.
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That thought of notbeing satisfied,
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it just wouldn't go away.
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I took a liking to a girl,
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and so I would followthis girl to church.
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I went to churchand the preacher began to
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preach about how,
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unless I had this Christ that
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I was gonna becondemned to hell.
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The Bible says"Repent and believe the gospel."
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I was really blown away by that.
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I was thinking, Me?Going to hell?
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What is this man talking about?
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I'm there and the Lord'sallowing me
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to see my true conditionand my true condition is,
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I was not right with God.
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That's scary.
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You know, it's real scaryto just think,
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I'm at odds with my Creator.
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But this particular time,I began to cry out to the Lord.
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Lord, save me,forgive me, help me!
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And the glorious thing wasGod did just that.
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He awakened me;He opened my eyes.
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God gave me new life.
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It moves you to tearsto know that the loss
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that a person has to
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go through...
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in life, sometimes, just to,
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for God to bring 'emto that point,
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and it moves you to tears
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to know thatpeople are blind.
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Like I was.
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The only way--
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the only truth--
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the only life
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is found in Christ.
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He saves sinners.
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He came into the world
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to save sinners.
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That's good news.
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(Graham) Jesus said,
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"I've come to seek and to save
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"that which is lost."
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Your soul is valuable
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because of the price
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paid for its redemption.
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Jesus Christ paid for your soulwith His blood.
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The Bible says, "This is howwe know what love is,
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"that Jesus Christ laid downHis life for us."
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And you say,But why Jesus?
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Because no one elsein history,
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only Jesus Christhas taken your sin.
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He is the One to paythe debt.
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He paid for itwith His blood.
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He was buriedfor our sins,
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and God raised Himto life.
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But here's the thing...
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You've got to bewilling to accept it.
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You've got to bewilling to believe it.
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And God is patient with us,
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the Bible says.
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He's not wantinganyone to perish.
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But He's wanting everyone
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to come in repentance.
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Repent means
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to turn from your sin.
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If you come to Christ tonight,
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you've got to be willing
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to leave your sins.
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Christ will give you
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the strength.
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He will help you to live a life
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that's honoring and
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pleasing to God.
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(Smiley) I didn't want toask God to help,
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and that depression, that,just, stress and just, fear
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just began to well up.
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Because I was makinga choice to live life on my own.
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I got transferred tothe Blind Rehabilitation Center
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where I learned to beas independent as possible.
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One day after finishinga workout,
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looking for the Blind Center,
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I got lost
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for over a half an hour,in the hot, ninety degree,
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Palo Alto sun.
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I tried to backtrack.
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Yelling out loud,
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Is anyone here?
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But everyone had left.
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I didn't know what to donor where to turn.
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I just threw my stickdown in anger.
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And I cried out to God
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in a way in which I had not done
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in months.
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Denying God...
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There was such an emptiness,
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and such a lost feeling
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that I had never known before.
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And once I knew
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that the reason I was lost,
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and the reason that I hadno purpose or direction,
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was because I didn'thave Christ...
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I had to repent.
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I had to ask God
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to forgive me for denying Him.
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It meant that I wastaking responsibility
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for the choices andthe decisions that I made.
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I realized that God loves me
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and that God is there for me
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and that Christ died for me.
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And I was now able to forgivethe man who blew himself up
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and it enabled me tohave purpose in my life.
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But it's us
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who make that decision:
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Do we want to choose Christ
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or do we not?
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(cheering)
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There was still stress;
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there was still anxiety.
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But I truly believe
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that Christ was carrying me.
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He was holding meand my wifetogether.
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♪
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(applause)
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Thank you.
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You're soamazing.
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(sobbing)
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I love you.
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God values my soul so much
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that Christ died for me.
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And it gave me a reason
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to live life with a purpose
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that will never cease.
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(Graham) I have people
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sometimes say,
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Franklin, does God
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really love me?
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Yeah, He does.
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He tells us that He does.
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He planned you;there is a plan for your life.
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There's a reason.
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(Outing)The Lord answers prayer.
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He hears the prayers.
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Like, you can be forgiven,instantly,
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because of what He didfor us.
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Through asking for forgiveness
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from our sins,
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we are able to fully and trulyaccept Him into our lives.
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You know, there's no formula;
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there's no rituals.
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(Graham) You have to be willing
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to accept by faith
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the Lord Jesus Christ,
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believing in Him,
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and trusting in Him.
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The choice is yours.
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You've got to be willing
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to turn from your sins
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and invite Jesus Christ
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to come into your heart,
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into your life.
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If you're willing to do that,
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God will forgive your sins.
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He'll heal your heart.
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And you can have
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that assurance that your soul
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is safe and secure in the hands
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of Almighty God
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from this night forward,
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and forever, for eternity.
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Jesus Christ is alive
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and He'll come intoeach and every heart
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that is willingto trust Him by faith.
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And you can do thatright now.
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You can just simplypray this prayer with me.
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Just say, Dear God,I'm a sinner.
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I'm sorry, forgive me.
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I believe that Jesus Christis your Son.
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I believe that He diedon the cross;
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that He shed His bloodfor me,
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and that you'veraised Him to life.
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I'd like to invite Himto come into my heart
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to take charge of my life
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from this moment forward,forever.
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And I pray thisin Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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If you've prayed that prayer
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there's a number on the screen
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or there's a website
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that you can go to
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and there's literature
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I'd like for you to have
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that will help you to grow
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in your new relationship
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with Almighty God
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through faith in Jesus Christ.
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God bless you.
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(Graham) If you're a believerand you're watching,
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