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A Life Redeemed: The Nicky Cruz Story

March 25, 2026 | 55:2

A Life Redeemed: The Nicky Cruz Story
From feared gang warlord to global evangelist, Nicky Cruz shares his powerful testimony of violence, redemption, and relentless love. Discover how an encounter with Jesus transformed his life and launched a mission to reach at-risk youth around the world.
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| A Life Redeemed: The Nicky Cruz Story | March 25, 2026
  • Male: there is probably no story in the 20th century of
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  • Conversion that has captured the imagination of our people than
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  • The conversion of the gang leader, nicky cruz from new york
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  • City ghettos.
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  • Nicky cruz: i was leading one of the stronger and the most
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  • Tougher gangs in new york at that time called the mau mau
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  • Chaplains.
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  • Nicky: now i wanna demonstrate fear, psychological thing.
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  • Nicky: i win wars in the street. i start fighting.
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  • That's a right. we fought all the gangs.
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  • We start doing all kinds of things.
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  • Two months later, i was the vice president of my gang.
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  • Six months later i was the president of the mau mau.
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  • Now a reputation came.
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  • Watch out for nicky.
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  • That boy, he's crazy.
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  • Male: nicky cruz was the most feared gang leader in new york.
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  • His reputation as a killer was legendary.
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  • Nicky: that gang leader, he became a mark for the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • In signing dave wilkerson to come to new york city, he came
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  • Into my turf, in my territory.
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  • He screamed, "god have the power to change your life," and i say,
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  • "you shut up.
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  • There's no god of the-- get out of here.
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  • You don't belong here.
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  • You can get killed here."
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  • Mike zello: dave wilkerson spoke on a sunday night.
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  • His philosophy was go for souls and go for the worst.
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  • So when we'd pray about going into a neighborhood, he'd say,
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  • "try to find out who--try to find who's the main person in
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  • The neighborhood, gang member, politician, whatever, the worst
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  • Of the worst.
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  • We get that person saved, they're already
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  • Influencing people.
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  • So now they'll be influencing people for christ."
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  • So that's sort of the story of nicky cruz.
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  • He was one of those people.
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  • David wilkerson: god loves you, nicky.
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  • Nicky: that guy over here came over here and told me that jesus
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  • Loved me.
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  • Do you believe in that?
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  • I don't believe in that kind of junk, and then in the subway, in
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  • The train, fighting, cheating, lying, getting high.
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  • Everything was jesus love you, jesus love you.
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  • Nicky: i ask you, literally, jesus christ, i don't know who
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  • You are.
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  • This man say that you love me.
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  • I don't love you, but that man said, "yes, he can love you."
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  • I gave my heart to jesus christ.
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  • I'm a free man today. i'm a father man today.
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  • I've got children today. i got good news for you family.
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  • I got good news for your family.
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  • Nicky: i had to speak to over 50 million people just with
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  • My voice.
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  • Nicky: god became everything to me.
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  • He put the spirit in my life.
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  • He gave me life.
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  • Nicky: i've seen thousands of thousands of people come
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  • To jesus.
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  • God never let me go, even when i was sleeping, even when i was in
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  • The street, involved in cheating, lying, and all of
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  • These things that you do in the streets, getting stung,
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  • Getting high.
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  • You never thought about jesus and now jesus is in the picture.
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  • I really don't know why i lived this long to tell this story.
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  • I was born in the wombs of a witch that was my mother.
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  • And there was a tremendous hatred there between son.
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  • And it's happened that there was a lot of abuse and to a place
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  • That you come into a place that you don't believe in nothing.
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  • Even i tried to hang myself from the mango tree because i don't
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  • Wanna live.
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  • I was young and then ten years old.
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  • I didn't have no concept of god.
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  • I just saw supernatural manifestations of evil.
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  • I saw my father being a satanic priest and my mother being
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  • A witch.
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  • How now i can compare how satan was for real, how he can twist
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  • The mind.
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  • I left home when i was a little boy, eight years old.
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  • I was beat up very severe by my mother.
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  • I mean severe, and talking about being knocked out unconscious
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  • Right there in the pool of blood and wake up naked, and i'm a
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  • Little boy, three years and a half, four years up to eight
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  • Years, so through all of that there was a lot of bitterness,
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  • There was a lot of hate.
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  • I hate my mother.
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  • I hate the whole world around me.
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  • I want nothing to do.
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  • I don't want no part with this human race.
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  • I dropped out completely.
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  • As i stood there in new york city, i have to struggle for
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  • Survival like anybody has to do.
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  • But the difference in new york city, it was a city of 8 million
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  • People, a city that was infected by all kinds of crime.
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  • The hustlers, the prostitutes, the drug addicts.
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  • The murder, the gang, was running all over the place, and
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  • The only time that you hear was a crime in midnight when people
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  • Began to get killed and people died just without any reason.
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  • As i was walking down the neighborhood,
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  • Something happened.
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  • This guy didn't like me at all.
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  • I don't know why, but this guy used to belong to this gang.
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  • Without any reason, he grabbed me, pushed me against the wall,
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  • And put a knife on me.
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  • I said, "listen, man, i am not looking for trouble.
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  • I don't say that i'm tough or whatever you call me, but i
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  • Wanna tell something.
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  • I am not a punk.
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  • And whatever you do, you are tough because you have that
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  • Knife on me, but i bet you i can take you with my fists," and
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  • Then he'll close his switchblade, you know?
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  • So then there was quite a few people and there was about 50 or
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  • 75 people watching the whole deal.
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  • The guy took his position.
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  • I watched every move.
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  • I watched his leg, and i knew what kind of fighter he was.
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  • Then he came in and then when he came in, i started hitting right
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  • In his face, back and forth, go hitting him left and right and
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  • Then he didn't know that left hand at all.
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  • And then the guy, he was out of his mind.
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  • He didn't know what to do and i was having nothing but good
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  • Times right in his face.
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  • Until the guy turned to be a dirty fighter.
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  • He knew that he couldn't take me with his fists, so then he
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  • Changed his tactics, so he turned to be a street fighter.
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  • He charged on me, hit me in my chest.
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  • I fall on the floor and i hit the ground with my head, and i
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  • Was half unconscious, and then he kicked me three or four time
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  • On my eyes.
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  • I was bleeding from one side, and he really beat me up.
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  • But that was the day when i swear, i'm gonna get this dude.
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  • And i'm going to let him know that i know how to fight in a
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  • Dirty way too, and for two weeks i wait until my eye was better,
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  • And i began to hunting for this guy all over.
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  • I hunting for him like i was hunting for a wild animal.
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  • And the day came when i found him.
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  • He was having good time dancing with this chick.
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  • I walked to him, you know, and i told him, "hey, do you
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  • Remember me?
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  • Remember what you did to me?
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  • I don't want to give you a chance."
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  • And that moment there was a garbage can and i hit it right
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  • On his face.
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  • The guy was in a completely coma and then he ended up in hospital
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  • For two weeks.
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  • Now a reputation came.
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  • Watch out for nicky.
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  • That boy, he's crazy.
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  • I went wild in the street.
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  • I start fighting left and right.
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  • We fought all the gangs.
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  • We start doing all kinds of things.
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  • Two months later, i was the vice president of my gang.
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  • Six months later, i was the president of the mau mau.
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  • Male: nicky cruz was the most feared gang leader in new york.
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  • His reputation as a killer was legendary.
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  • Dave knew that in order to reach the gangs, he would have to go
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  • Through nicky.
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  • Dave: meeting nicky cruz changed my own life.
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  • I'd been working with gangs for months and not able to
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  • Get through.
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  • And i went to fort greene project in the east turf to
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  • Hold a street rally.
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  • Nicky: i was with my girlfriend and i heard all these commotions
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  • And all of this and people running and the first thing that
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  • My girlfriend told me--because i say, "what's happened in
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  • My neighborhood?
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  • What's going on?"
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  • And she said, oh, nicky, somebody got killed.
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  • That the only--the only time people get happy in new york."
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  • And i said, "no," so i put her with me and there is the man,
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  • David wilkerson.
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  • Dave: i'm a--i'm just a country preacher, 300 miles from home.
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  • But i've got a message for you.
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  • Nicky: and he said, "god have the power to change your life,"
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  • And i cursed him and i told him to shut up; if not, i'm gonna
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  • Kill him.
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  • And i went face to face and i spit at him.
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  • Dave: god loves you, nicky.
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  • Nicky: you come near me, i'll kill you.
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  • Dave: yeah, you can do that.
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  • You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in
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  • The street.
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  • And every piece will still love you.
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  • Nicky: and i cursed him and he was shaking.
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  • But that's when he said, "i came over here to give you a message,
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  • A message from heaven.
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  • 'nicky, jesus love you.'"
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  • He knew my name.
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  • "he love you and i came here to give you that message."
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  • Then i got furious.
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  • I got mad.
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  • And i went after him.
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  • And that's when he scream at me.
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  • Take a lot of guts.
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  • "kill me.
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  • Go ahead.
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  • Did that make you feel good?
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  • Did that make you feel good in front of these people that
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  • They're afraid of you?
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  • Kill me.
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  • Nicky, you can kill me in a thousand pieces.
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  • Throw them on the street, but every piece, every piece of my
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  • Body, every piece, can be 1,000 pieces, but he said, 1,000
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  • Pieces, you can cut it in 1,000 pieces and every little piece
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  • Gonna crying out--crying out that jesus love you."
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  • It was a shocking thing, shocking statement.
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  • And men should be scared, afraid, shaking.
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  • But i have a message to give regardless take his life.
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  • Mike: his heart was evangelism and his philosophy was--
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  • Probably got this from william booth, go for souls and go for
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  • The worst.
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  • So we'd pray about going into a neighborhood, he'd say try to
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  • Find out who--try to find who's the main person in the
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  • Neighborhood, gang member, politician, whatever, the main
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  • Guy, the worst of the worst, yep, and because he--his
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  • Philosophy was if we get that person saved, they're already
  • 00:12:32.068 --> 00:12:35.171
  • Influencing people, so now they'll be influencing people
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  • For christ.
  • 00:12:38.608 --> 00:12:39.943
  • So that's sort of the story of nicky cruz.
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  • He was one of those people.
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  • Nicky: the damage was done.
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  • Jesus love you. jesus love you.
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  • Jesus love you.
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  • For two weeks i couldn't sleep, even with my girlfriend.
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  • I just--i was laid down in that bed and i pushed her and i said,
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  • "get out.
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  • Get away."
  • 00:13:00.930 --> 00:13:02.265
  • And said, "what's the matter with you?
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  • You getting crazy?"
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  • "yes, i'm getting crazy.
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  • This thing about that guy over here came over here and told me
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  • That jesus loved me.
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  • Do you believe in that?
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  • I don't believe in that kind of junk."
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  • And then in the subway, in the train, fighting, cheating,
  • 00:13:15.712 --> 00:13:22.018
  • Lying, getting high.
  • 00:13:22.018 --> 00:13:25.054
  • Everything was jesus love you, jesus love you, until i went to
  • 00:13:25.054 --> 00:13:28.992
  • Dave wilkerson to speak and i took about 75 guys from
  • 00:13:28.992 --> 00:13:33.129
  • The gangs.
  • 00:13:33.129 --> 00:13:34.864
  • Each was the one who told me, come on, let's check it out.
  • 00:13:34.864 --> 00:13:38.368
  • "hey, preach.
  • 00:13:38.368 --> 00:13:39.802
  • Look at this.
  • 00:13:39.802 --> 00:13:41.204
  • I brought my whole bible class with me."
  • 00:13:41.204 --> 00:13:45.275
  • So in--to let you know, wilkerson was very, he was
  • 00:13:45.275 --> 00:13:50.346
  • Very naive.
  • 00:13:50.346 --> 00:13:52.181
  • You don't bring 12 gangs in the same place.
  • 00:13:52.181 --> 00:13:58.154
  • There's gonna be a lot of blood, there's--dracula gonna be
  • 00:13:58.154 --> 00:14:02.292
  • Happy, you see?
  • 00:14:02.292 --> 00:14:04.961
  • And you have 2,000 people, you know, the puerto ricans began
  • 00:14:04.961 --> 00:14:08.932
  • To--i don't know why they were doing there.
  • 00:14:08.932 --> 00:14:12.368
  • And they was backing dave wilkerson.
  • 00:14:12.368 --> 00:14:16.606
  • And i remember that a lot of things happened and the other
  • 00:14:16.606 --> 00:14:19.776
  • Gang was, "come over here."
  • 00:14:19.776 --> 00:14:21.344
  • We would challenge one another as--"and i'm gonna kill you.
  • 00:14:21.344 --> 00:14:26.149
  • When we get out of here, when this man's finished, we're gonna
  • 00:14:26.149 --> 00:14:29.886
  • Have it out."
  • 00:14:29.886 --> 00:14:31.220
  • This is the way we're talking back and forth and we're
  • 00:14:31.220 --> 00:14:33.356
  • Interrupting everything.
  • 00:14:33.356 --> 00:14:34.691
  • The people were scared.
  • 00:14:34.691 --> 00:14:37.393
  • And the man came in.
  • 00:14:37.393 --> 00:14:39.862
  • Dave stood there and that's when he came with the message of the
  • 00:14:39.862 --> 00:14:44.767
  • Thing that we don't preach that much.
  • 00:14:44.767 --> 00:14:48.237
  • The message of the cross.
  • 00:14:48.237 --> 00:14:51.341
  • The crucifixions of jesus christ.
  • 00:14:51.341 --> 00:14:55.044
  • The blood of jesus that can cleanse you from all your sins
  • 00:14:55.044 --> 00:15:00.316
  • And unrighteousness.
  • 00:15:00.316 --> 00:15:03.019
  • Dave: you say you gotta kill them because of what they did
  • 00:15:03.019 --> 00:15:04.821
  • To you.
  • 00:15:04.821 --> 00:15:06.189
  • You got to kill them because of what they've done to you.
  • 00:15:06.189 --> 00:15:09.092
  • Everybody's griping about this atrocity and that tragedy.
  • 00:15:09.092 --> 00:15:12.695
  • All i hear is what a rotten deal we've all got.
  • 00:15:12.695 --> 00:15:16.666
  • Let me tell you something, jesus christ was perfect.
  • 00:15:16.666 --> 00:15:21.571
  • And they crucified him.
  • 00:15:21.571 --> 00:15:24.707
  • And he didn't have to let them do that to him.
  • 00:15:24.707 --> 00:15:27.377
  • He could have called out a whole legion of angels to take him
  • 00:15:27.377 --> 00:15:30.179
  • Down from that cross.
  • 00:15:30.179 --> 00:15:32.982
  • He could have slaughtered all his tormentors.
  • 00:15:32.982 --> 00:15:35.885
  • But he didn't.
  • 00:15:35.885 --> 00:15:37.220
  • He hung there, bleeding for you.
  • 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:41.724
  • He died there for you, so you wouldn't have to die here today.
  • 00:15:45.561 --> 00:15:53.603
  • So you wouldn't have to kill here today.
  • 00:15:53.603 --> 00:15:57.106
  • Why don't you stop crying about the sins of the past?
  • 00:15:57.106 --> 00:15:59.909
  • Stop paying for those sins.
  • 00:15:59.909 --> 00:16:01.878
  • Man, it's all paid up.
  • 00:16:01.878 --> 00:16:03.613
  • It's free.
  • 00:16:03.613 --> 00:16:04.981
  • All you have to do is just accept it.
  • 00:16:04.981 --> 00:16:08.017
  • Just open up your hearts and let all that bitterness run out, and
  • 00:16:08.017 --> 00:16:11.988
  • Let jesus christ come in.
  • 00:16:11.988 --> 00:16:15.625
  • Nicky: i promised when i was-- when i tried to kill myself, ten
  • 00:16:15.625 --> 00:16:21.531
  • Years old or nine, i was, the first time when i experienced
  • 00:16:21.531 --> 00:16:28.371
  • The resurrections of life that even when you living in this
  • 00:16:28.371 --> 00:16:33.910
  • Earth, you are dead if you don't have jesus christ.
  • 00:16:33.910 --> 00:16:37.680
  • I'm gonna commit an act that it had to do with my life.
  • 00:16:37.680 --> 00:16:42.852
  • That he, you know, when you have a guy that wanna say something
  • 00:16:42.852 --> 00:16:46.622
  • And he open his mouth and there's nothing come out but
  • 00:16:46.622 --> 00:16:49.092
  • Light, it's so much tears to his face.
  • 00:16:49.092 --> 00:16:53.896
  • No, no, i climbed the tree and he pulled me down and i told
  • 00:16:53.896 --> 00:16:59.502
  • Him, jim, i'm never gonna laugh again and i'm never gonna
  • 00:16:59.502 --> 00:17:07.510
  • Cry again and i went like this...
  • 00:17:07.510 --> 00:17:10.480
  • Never.
  • 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:12.248
  • But to that day when jesus christ touched my life, not only
  • 00:17:12.248 --> 00:17:17.620
  • I cried but humbled me in front of my gangs, in front of all
  • 00:17:17.620 --> 00:17:21.958
  • Those people, i went down on my knees, choked up with so much
  • 00:17:21.958 --> 00:17:26.129
  • Pain inside, so many things that i carry on, memories and all of
  • 00:17:26.129 --> 00:17:32.535
  • This, and there is without knowing why i was crying, you
  • 00:17:32.535 --> 00:17:38.407
  • Know, i wasn't a crying baby and cry in front of my girlfriend.
  • 00:17:38.407 --> 00:17:45.481
  • You want another thing is, about two or four of the guys came
  • 00:17:45.481 --> 00:17:49.218
  • Forward with their girlfriends and i heard this sound, moaning,
  • 00:17:49.218 --> 00:17:57.293
  • And i mean a crying that it was different and the girls hugging
  • 00:17:57.293 --> 00:18:03.199
  • The guys and they were crying, all my friends.
  • 00:18:03.199 --> 00:18:08.337
  • Carl--the carl, he was a killer, crying like a baby.
  • 00:18:08.337 --> 00:18:14.177
  • He was a tongue tied.
  • 00:18:14.177 --> 00:18:16.812
  • He had a...
  • 00:18:16.812 --> 00:18:18.181
  • It'd take forever to say a word.
  • 00:18:18.181 --> 00:18:19.515
  • He was saying, "jesus, jesus, jesus, jesus," and then he
  • 00:18:19.515 --> 00:18:24.120
  • Started screaming, "help me, please."
  • 00:18:24.120 --> 00:18:28.991
  • Clear, clear, and it took him forever to say--
  • 00:18:28.991 --> 00:18:34.530
  • Matt crouch: no stutter?
  • 00:18:34.530 --> 00:18:35.898
  • Nicky: no stutter.
  • 00:18:35.898 --> 00:18:37.233
  • And that was the first time when i experienced the resurrections
  • 00:18:37.233 --> 00:18:43.072
  • Of life that even when you living in this earth, you are
  • 00:18:43.072 --> 00:18:48.611
  • Dead if you don't have jesus christ.
  • 00:18:48.611 --> 00:18:51.180
  • Nicky: i said, cool it now.
  • 00:18:54.817 --> 00:18:56.752
  • Hasn't there been enough killing and cutting?
  • 00:18:56.752 --> 00:19:00.923
  • Weren't you listening to the preacher?
  • 00:19:00.923 --> 00:19:03.226
  • Well, i heard the preacher.
  • 00:19:03.226 --> 00:19:06.329
  • I don't know how to say it.
  • 00:19:09.966 --> 00:19:12.101
  • Dave: he's here.
  • 00:19:12.101 --> 00:19:14.437
  • You feel it.
  • 00:19:14.437 --> 00:19:15.805
  • You all feel him.
  • 00:19:19.242 --> 00:19:21.777
  • He's here in this room.
  • 00:19:21.777 --> 00:19:24.547
  • Put your weapons away.
  • 00:19:24.547 --> 00:19:26.415
  • There's not gonna be a rumble here tonight.
  • 00:19:26.415 --> 00:19:29.118
  • You're in the presence of almighty god.
  • 00:19:29.118 --> 00:19:33.923
  • Come on up here together.
  • 00:19:33.923 --> 00:19:35.758
  • Stand, come on, not as saints.
  • 00:19:35.758 --> 00:19:40.396
  • Don't wait till you're good enough, because that day's never
  • 00:19:40.396 --> 00:19:42.365
  • Gonna come.
  • 00:19:42.365 --> 00:19:43.699
  • Come on, come on with all your hang-ups.
  • 00:19:43.699 --> 00:19:46.769
  • Let jesus clean you up.
  • 00:19:46.769 --> 00:19:50.306
  • And as you come, let your coming say, "god, i need you.
  • 00:19:50.306 --> 00:19:56.746
  • God, forgive me.
  • 00:19:56.746 --> 00:19:59.181
  • God, i give myself to you."
  • 00:19:59.181 --> 00:20:05.888
  • Female: hey, man, i know you got love.
  • 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:14.330
  • I can feel it in you 'cause i ain't scared of you no more.
  • 00:20:14.330 --> 00:20:20.670
  • Nicky: i was committed to killing that--i was committed
  • 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:27.076
  • To killing that night.
  • 00:20:27.076 --> 00:20:28.444
  • We was.
  • 00:20:28.444 --> 00:20:30.112
  • David didn't know what he was doing.
  • 00:20:30.112 --> 00:20:33.149
  • It was the holy spirit that knew what is gonna happen.
  • 00:20:33.149 --> 00:20:36.919
  • That abused child, that gang leader, he became a mark for the
  • 00:20:40.156 --> 00:20:47.730
  • Holy spirit in signing dave wilkerson to come to new
  • 00:20:47.730 --> 00:20:53.836
  • York city.
  • 00:20:53.836 --> 00:20:55.438
  • And he didn't know nothing about the city, and yet he came into
  • 00:20:55.438 --> 00:21:00.810
  • My turf, in my territory, to announce the good news.
  • 00:21:00.810 --> 00:21:05.414
  • I was nobody and this transformation here from nobody,
  • 00:21:09.251 --> 00:21:17.560
  • He make you somebody, he make me a child of his.
  • 00:21:17.560 --> 00:21:23.866
  • It took a process and i didn't know nothing about the bible.
  • 00:21:23.866 --> 00:21:28.871
  • Dave wilkerson was smart.
  • 00:21:32.475 --> 00:21:34.643
  • He sent me to bible school.
  • 00:21:34.643 --> 00:21:39.048
  • And i, still in bible school, i didn't know nothing about the
  • 00:21:39.048 --> 00:21:42.585
  • Bible, but i read the book of luke.
  • 00:21:42.585 --> 00:21:45.254
  • And that tore me apart.
  • 00:21:45.254 --> 00:21:48.124
  • It was like a picture of jesus.
  • 00:21:48.124 --> 00:21:51.494
  • And because i never had that kind of picture for--but in the
  • 00:21:51.494 --> 00:21:55.865
  • Bible it was so explicit, so real.
  • 00:21:55.865 --> 00:22:04.306
  • It's specifically real.
  • 00:22:04.306 --> 00:22:08.711
  • And i start crying and crying because i fell for jesus, what
  • 00:22:08.711 --> 00:22:15.451
  • He went through.
  • 00:22:15.451 --> 00:22:17.186
  • Now i can read it because it's the first time i opened the book
  • 00:22:17.186 --> 00:22:20.756
  • Of luke, and that's the first time, i really was moved.
  • 00:22:20.756 --> 00:22:28.431
  • I wanna be like him.
  • 00:22:28.431 --> 00:22:31.100
  • I wanna do my best to don't hurt him.
  • 00:22:31.100 --> 00:22:34.003
  • Then after that, i began to study the bible.
  • 00:22:37.239 --> 00:22:43.412
  • Then after that i got filled with the holy spirit and my
  • 00:22:43.412 --> 00:22:47.283
  • Life changed.
  • 00:22:47.283 --> 00:22:49.285
  • Everybody in the school know.
  • 00:22:49.285 --> 00:22:51.787
  • Everybody knew.
  • 00:22:51.787 --> 00:22:54.089
  • Because i used to go to chapel and to 12 or 1 o'clock in the
  • 00:22:54.089 --> 00:22:59.428
  • Morning praying and moaning and it was the most fantastic
  • 00:22:59.428 --> 00:23:03.766
  • Moments of my life.
  • 00:23:03.766 --> 00:23:07.436
  • Nicky: i left new york and i went to--i came to california
  • 00:23:07.436 --> 00:23:10.439
  • To study in spanish in a bible school.
  • 00:23:10.439 --> 00:23:14.510
  • And then i wasn't feeling comfortable because i did have a
  • 00:23:14.510 --> 00:23:20.483
  • Responsibility to really to see how the situation with my mother
  • 00:23:20.483 --> 00:23:26.889
  • Was gone.
  • 00:23:26.889 --> 00:23:28.824
  • And i went to new york to work with dave in--when i had my
  • 00:23:28.824 --> 00:23:33.929
  • First vacation for what you call them, they give you
  • 00:23:33.929 --> 00:23:38.033
  • Three months.
  • 00:23:38.033 --> 00:23:39.535
  • So it happened that one of my brother find out that i was in
  • 00:23:39.535 --> 00:23:43.706
  • New york and he came with a letter and that was a letter
  • 00:23:43.706 --> 00:23:48.811
  • From my mom.
  • 00:23:48.811 --> 00:23:50.746
  • She found out through the newspaper that i was alive, you
  • 00:23:50.746 --> 00:23:53.782
  • See, because when i got stabbed, when i was converted, i was out
  • 00:23:53.782 --> 00:23:57.086
  • Of the church and this guy came to kill me, and he stabbed me
  • 00:23:57.086 --> 00:24:01.490
  • Right here, so that was on the news because i was on the news,
  • 00:24:01.490 --> 00:24:05.661
  • In the--in those day when i got converted.
  • 00:24:05.661 --> 00:24:08.330
  • So it came in the upi, in the paper in puerto rico, and
  • 00:24:08.330 --> 00:24:14.036
  • My ma found out i was alive, so my brother brought me the
  • 00:24:14.036 --> 00:24:17.473
  • Letter, which i still have it in my house.
  • 00:24:17.473 --> 00:24:21.777
  • In the letter, my mom told me, "my son, i cannot die with this
  • 00:24:21.777 --> 00:24:26.248
  • Remorse in me.
  • 00:24:26.248 --> 00:24:28.050
  • I got to see you.
  • 00:24:28.050 --> 00:24:29.818
  • I cannot tell you whatever i have to tell you in letters, but
  • 00:24:29.818 --> 00:24:32.454
  • I have to tell you personally, and please come."
  • 00:24:32.454 --> 00:24:35.624
  • She thought i was dead.
  • 00:24:35.624 --> 00:24:37.526
  • And i went to puerto rico.
  • 00:24:37.526 --> 00:24:41.497
  • And you know, basically, i'm not afraid of things.
  • 00:24:41.497 --> 00:24:45.801
  • But something about your mother is totally different.
  • 00:24:45.801 --> 00:24:50.039
  • I think she still had that power on me, you know?
  • 00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:53.008
  • It was very essential for me to really clarify and clear up all
  • 00:24:53.008 --> 00:24:58.347
  • The things that happened in the past.
  • 00:24:58.347 --> 00:25:01.050
  • In my life, i asked the lord to give me strength and to give
  • 00:25:01.050 --> 00:25:04.553
  • Me wisdom.
  • 00:25:04.553 --> 00:25:05.888
  • I have to do it.
  • 00:25:05.888 --> 00:25:07.256
  • I have to approach her, because i didn't know how to do it.
  • 00:25:07.256 --> 00:25:10.893
  • I felt a little funny.
  • 00:25:10.893 --> 00:25:12.227
  • I didn't know how to hug her.
  • 00:25:12.227 --> 00:25:14.229
  • I mean, that was something very delicate for me to react.
  • 00:25:14.229 --> 00:25:19.468
  • The lord was dealing with so much healing in me.
  • 00:25:19.468 --> 00:25:22.972
  • When i went to puerto rico, my mom was sick.
  • 00:25:22.972 --> 00:25:25.474
  • My mom was laying in bed and i had not been in puerto rico for
  • 00:25:25.474 --> 00:25:28.711
  • Years and i left when i was a kid, a little boy.
  • 00:25:28.711 --> 00:25:31.880
  • I was a runaway kid.
  • 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:33.816
  • So when i came to puerto rico, i didn't know, i didn't recognize
  • 00:25:33.816 --> 00:25:36.885
  • My brothers.
  • 00:25:36.885 --> 00:25:38.554
  • I got lost.
  • 00:25:38.554 --> 00:25:40.422
  • I didn't remember where i used to live.
  • 00:25:40.422 --> 00:25:42.224
  • I forgot the house where we was living.
  • 00:25:42.224 --> 00:25:45.361
  • And one of my little brother, when he was big, he say,
  • 00:25:45.361 --> 00:25:49.365
  • "you nicky?"
  • 00:25:49.365 --> 00:25:50.733
  • And i say, "yeah."
  • 00:25:50.733 --> 00:25:53.435
  • He saw me with the bible.
  • 00:25:53.435 --> 00:25:55.270
  • He say, "you're my brother," and i say, "who are you?"
  • 00:25:55.270 --> 00:26:00.309
  • He was my little brother so he was the one who really took me
  • 00:26:00.309 --> 00:26:03.278
  • To my place.
  • 00:26:03.278 --> 00:26:04.613
  • And i was coming down to a little hill, and my mom have the
  • 00:26:04.613 --> 00:26:08.017
  • Master bedroom was right there in front.
  • 00:26:08.017 --> 00:26:11.220
  • And he run.
  • 00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:12.988
  • He left me behind.
  • 00:26:12.988 --> 00:26:15.057
  • He run.
  • 00:26:15.057 --> 00:26:16.458
  • Then the other brother of mine came to the master bedroom, told
  • 00:26:16.458 --> 00:26:20.295
  • My mother, "nicky's here," which that was a big explosion.
  • 00:26:20.295 --> 00:26:24.433
  • So my mom said, "can you help me to put my head--help me to go
  • 00:26:24.433 --> 00:26:29.772
  • Through the window so i can see him," you see, because this is
  • 00:26:29.772 --> 00:26:33.008
  • No emotion picture.
  • 00:26:33.008 --> 00:26:34.677
  • This is really happened.
  • 00:26:34.677 --> 00:26:37.012
  • She got her nightgown and all.
  • 00:26:37.012 --> 00:26:39.648
  • She got a blanket around her because she was very cold and
  • 00:26:39.648 --> 00:26:43.619
  • Then when she saw me, she received that extra energy and
  • 00:26:43.619 --> 00:26:48.924
  • She started running to our--she opened the master--the living
  • 00:26:48.924 --> 00:26:53.195
  • Room door and she start coming right there on the outside.
  • 00:26:53.195 --> 00:26:57.132
  • Now i wasn't expecting that kind of reception from my part.
  • 00:26:57.132 --> 00:27:00.936
  • I was plan to come in in a formal way, you know, and detect
  • 00:27:00.936 --> 00:27:04.106
  • How she do, but she was crying and crying and crying and
  • 00:27:04.106 --> 00:27:07.843
  • Crying, and then she grabbed me, and you can tell the hearts of a
  • 00:27:07.843 --> 00:27:12.014
  • Mother and a son.
  • 00:27:12.014 --> 00:27:13.348
  • I was 20, i was 22 years old and i left when i was 8, you know?
  • 00:27:13.348 --> 00:27:18.520
  • And i was--and then i recognized her.
  • 00:27:18.520 --> 00:27:23.892
  • I recognized her nose.
  • 00:27:23.892 --> 00:27:25.961
  • But really i felt so sad because her hair was so gray, her eye
  • 00:27:25.961 --> 00:27:30.032
  • Was so deep and very lonely, her body was so weak, and her face
  • 00:27:30.032 --> 00:27:36.638
  • That she didn't have no makeup, no nothing, and she was
  • 00:27:36.638 --> 00:27:40.042
  • Completely like she had been to many thousands of rumbles,
  • 00:27:40.042 --> 00:27:43.445
  • You know?
  • 00:27:43.445 --> 00:27:45.047
  • And then she hugged me so tight and i have a white shirt and she
  • 00:27:45.047 --> 00:27:51.353
  • Was crying and crying and i could not cry.
  • 00:27:51.353 --> 00:27:55.157
  • And then i closed my eyes and i said, "lord, make me cry because
  • 00:27:55.157 --> 00:27:59.661
  • I don't wanna hurt her."
  • 00:27:59.661 --> 00:28:01.029
  • At least i respect her now as a human being.
  • 00:28:01.029 --> 00:28:04.700
  • Before i didn't; i hate her.
  • 00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:06.835
  • And i closed my eyes, and i remember is i almost tried to
  • 00:28:06.835 --> 00:28:12.441
  • Force myself but didn't came in until just nicely i started
  • 00:28:12.441 --> 00:28:17.913
  • Crying and i hug her.
  • 00:28:17.913 --> 00:28:20.983
  • And i said, "ma, i came over here to tell you that i'm
  • 00:28:20.983 --> 00:28:25.754
  • All right.
  • 00:28:25.754 --> 00:28:27.122
  • I came over here to tell you that.
  • 00:28:27.122 --> 00:28:28.857
  • That i love you.
  • 00:28:28.857 --> 00:28:30.192
  • It has been hard," and i said, "i will forgive you, but i came
  • 00:28:30.192 --> 00:28:36.265
  • Specifically to tell you a message that will really put
  • 00:28:36.265 --> 00:28:39.568
  • This family back again into the best.
  • 00:28:39.568 --> 00:28:42.871
  • I wanna tell you that jesus love you, mother."
  • 00:28:42.871 --> 00:28:46.775
  • Nicky: it took the holy spirit to help me.
  • 00:28:46.775 --> 00:28:49.444
  • In puerto rican and in the spanish we call our
  • 00:28:49.444 --> 00:28:54.216
  • Mother "mami."
  • 00:28:54.216 --> 00:28:56.418
  • I never call her mami.
  • 00:28:56.418 --> 00:28:58.654
  • I used to call her dona aleja.
  • 00:28:58.654 --> 00:29:02.825
  • And that's something that the day that my mother got
  • 00:29:02.825 --> 00:29:07.262
  • Converted, that she was dying and god healed her, saved her
  • 00:29:07.262 --> 00:29:12.534
  • And healed her, and she was a packet of bone.
  • 00:29:12.534 --> 00:29:15.771
  • That god didn't heal my mother, she will die.
  • 00:29:19.708 --> 00:29:26.715
  • It was jesus, the resurrected jesus that resurrected my mother
  • 00:29:26.715 --> 00:29:30.919
  • In front of about 200 people that came to see what is gonna
  • 00:29:30.919 --> 00:29:39.394
  • Happen to the house of witches.
  • 00:29:39.394 --> 00:29:43.398
  • What happened is that we have a--that jesus came and visit.
  • 00:29:43.398 --> 00:29:48.871
  • This is us.
  • 00:29:48.871 --> 00:29:50.839
  • And that from that moment on, that place that they used to
  • 00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:57.312
  • Worship the devil, it became a place of god.
  • 00:29:57.312 --> 00:30:01.016
  • My mother got converted, my mother got healed, and we became
  • 00:30:01.016 --> 00:30:04.686
  • Very close.
  • 00:30:04.686 --> 00:30:06.989
  • How close, how much love can do, because i hate people.
  • 00:30:06.989 --> 00:30:13.295
  • I hate myself.
  • 00:30:13.295 --> 00:30:15.597
  • Can you imagine that i can kiss my mother, hug her, call her
  • 00:30:15.597 --> 00:30:22.437
  • Mami, asking for sometime advice?
  • 00:30:22.437 --> 00:30:29.211
  • She was a very bright woman, caught up into the world
  • 00:30:29.211 --> 00:30:34.917
  • Of witchcraft.
  • 00:30:34.917 --> 00:30:36.885
  • So that to me is the element that changed me, it was to
  • 00:30:36.885 --> 00:30:41.323
  • Tell--to forgive my mother and to pray for my mother and my
  • 00:30:41.323 --> 00:30:45.861
  • Mother gave her heart to jesus and my mother got
  • 00:30:45.861 --> 00:30:48.130
  • Healed instantly.
  • 00:30:48.130 --> 00:30:50.065
  • Confession and got healed.
  • 00:30:50.065 --> 00:30:52.701
  • Nicky: i had to confess, and i must confess, i didn't hate my
  • 00:30:52.701 --> 00:30:56.371
  • Mother anymore, but there's one thing i could never have those
  • 00:30:56.371 --> 00:31:00.309
  • Feelings for her because the memories, and when my mother was
  • 00:31:00.309 --> 00:31:04.012
  • Dying, that's when i went to puerto rico.
  • 00:31:04.012 --> 00:31:06.081
  • I was 22 when i went, when i saw my mother again, and i tell you,
  • 00:31:06.081 --> 00:31:11.186
  • If i never reach anyone, the greatest satisfaction that i
  • 00:31:11.186 --> 00:31:15.624
  • Have beside my conversion because my conversion was
  • 00:31:15.624 --> 00:31:19.494
  • A miracle.
  • 00:31:19.494 --> 00:31:20.829
  • That was all over new york, all over united states.
  • 00:31:20.829 --> 00:31:24.366
  • When i went back to forgive my mother and my mother gave her
  • 00:31:24.366 --> 00:31:28.170
  • Heart to jesus, renounce witchcraft.
  • 00:31:28.170 --> 00:31:34.776
  • Male: nicky's transformation was nothing short of a miracle.
  • 00:31:34.776 --> 00:31:38.547
  • But it didn't end there.
  • 00:31:38.547 --> 00:31:40.415
  • Dave: it was 2 o'clock in the morning and i heard somebody
  • 00:31:40.415 --> 00:31:43.151
  • Praying, and i walked to the chapel, and nicky cruz was on
  • 00:31:43.151 --> 00:31:47.389
  • His knees.
  • 00:31:47.389 --> 00:31:48.757
  • In fact, he was on his face on the floor crying.
  • 00:31:48.757 --> 00:31:51.026
  • He cried for two hours.
  • 00:31:51.026 --> 00:31:53.161
  • When he got up, he grabbed me by the shoulder and said, "david,
  • 00:31:53.161 --> 00:31:56.031
  • You're not the only preacher now.
  • 00:31:56.031 --> 00:31:57.399
  • God's called me."
  • 00:31:57.399 --> 00:31:58.800
  • Male: nicky went on to be a powerful leader in the ministry
  • 00:31:58.800 --> 00:32:01.269
  • Of teen challenge.
  • 00:32:01.269 --> 00:32:03.939
  • Nicky: david started with teen evangelism.
  • 00:32:03.939 --> 00:32:09.811
  • I was in bible school and in my second year i went to help dave.
  • 00:32:09.811 --> 00:32:15.884
  • And that was the taste of the street and that's what we find
  • 00:32:15.884 --> 00:32:21.556
  • Out that you got to go where the people is.
  • 00:32:21.556 --> 00:32:26.395
  • And either you got to go and search in the garbage cans and
  • 00:32:26.395 --> 00:32:31.033
  • Get your hands dirty if you wanna find a diamond, and then
  • 00:32:31.033 --> 00:32:36.338
  • That diamond you can take it and shine it.
  • 00:32:36.338 --> 00:32:40.142
  • So that's the way i felt about evangelism.
  • 00:32:40.142 --> 00:32:43.712
  • David had to--didn't understood that i was still a baby in
  • 00:32:43.712 --> 00:32:47.682
  • The ministry.
  • 00:32:47.682 --> 00:32:50.052
  • And what you do with a baby, you're still changing the
  • 00:32:50.052 --> 00:32:54.456
  • Diapers, spiritually speaking.
  • 00:32:54.456 --> 00:32:58.393
  • Nicky's perfect.
  • 00:33:01.797 --> 00:33:04.032
  • There's no such a thing.
  • 00:33:04.032 --> 00:33:06.368
  • But david, now he's prophesying.
  • 00:33:06.368 --> 00:33:11.306
  • Male: god blessed brother dave with astounding success on new
  • 00:33:11.306 --> 00:33:14.476
  • York city streets.
  • 00:33:14.476 --> 00:33:16.545
  • But success demanded an organization with programs and
  • 00:33:16.545 --> 00:33:19.948
  • Staff, volunteers, and a place that everyone could call home.
  • 00:33:19.948 --> 00:33:25.187
  • Dave: the more successful my experiences on the street, the
  • 00:33:25.187 --> 00:33:28.557
  • More i realized we had to act on the problem of follow-up.
  • 00:33:28.557 --> 00:33:32.961
  • We would call it teen challenge center.
  • 00:33:32.961 --> 00:33:35.797
  • And it would be located in the heart of the roughest part of
  • 00:33:35.797 --> 00:33:38.867
  • The city.
  • 00:33:38.867 --> 00:33:40.569
  • Here we could bring addicts and alcoholics who needed
  • 00:33:40.569 --> 00:33:43.438
  • Special help.
  • 00:33:43.438 --> 00:33:45.006
  • And they would live in the atmosphere of discipline, love,
  • 00:33:45.006 --> 00:33:48.276
  • And affection, where they would learn to work and be prepared
  • 00:33:48.276 --> 00:33:51.980
  • For the life in the holy spirit.
  • 00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:53.882
  • Mike: it was teenage evangelism for two years, '58, '59, '60.
  • 00:33:53.882 --> 00:33:58.253
  • '61 is when he bought the building.
  • 00:33:58.253 --> 00:34:00.489
  • And he was so passionate about this.
  • 00:34:00.489 --> 00:34:01.923
  • He said, you know, if i don't get that building, i'm gonna
  • 00:34:01.923 --> 00:34:05.026
  • Walk down the street and i'm gonna buy another one.
  • 00:34:05.026 --> 00:34:07.496
  • Male: by late spring 1961, teen challenge center was in
  • 00:34:07.496 --> 00:34:11.399
  • Full operation.
  • 00:34:11.399 --> 00:34:13.168
  • Kay zello: dave wilkerson, his great vision and burden, we
  • 00:34:13.168 --> 00:34:17.339
  • Caught hold of it.
  • 00:34:17.339 --> 00:34:18.707
  • God touched us, us group of students, maybe 25 to 30 of us,
  • 00:34:18.707 --> 00:34:22.277
  • We were living in that building, eating bologna sandwiches.
  • 00:34:22.277 --> 00:34:25.080
  • We had no money, walking the streets every night.
  • 00:34:25.080 --> 00:34:27.983
  • Two things i learned about dave wilkerson: he was a man of
  • 00:34:27.983 --> 00:34:30.685
  • Prayer and great passion, and so you couldn't be around him if
  • 00:34:30.685 --> 00:34:36.291
  • You were called of god without receiving that into yourself and
  • 00:34:36.291 --> 00:34:40.128
  • Saying that then became the driving force because it came
  • 00:34:40.128 --> 00:34:42.998
  • From the lord, of course.
  • 00:34:42.998 --> 00:34:47.435
  • Nicky: i got married in december.
  • 00:34:51.206 --> 00:34:53.375
  • I had my honeymoon in new york, locked up in the 416
  • 00:34:53.375 --> 00:34:56.978
  • Clinton avenue.
  • 00:34:56.978 --> 00:34:58.313
  • That the teen challenge center.
  • 00:34:58.313 --> 00:35:00.916
  • Here, i'm 23 years old and i tell you it was hard, the
  • 00:35:00.916 --> 00:35:09.491
  • Hardest thing to ministry to killers, to minister to
  • 00:35:09.491 --> 00:35:13.295
  • Drug addicts.
  • 00:35:13.295 --> 00:35:14.629
  • And i'm--here's my wife, she's 20 years old and we're living in
  • 00:35:14.629 --> 00:35:19.034
  • A little tiny room in teen challenge, and she believed in
  • 00:35:19.034 --> 00:35:25.774
  • Jesus, believed in me, believe in evangelism, and that the
  • 00:35:25.774 --> 00:35:30.412
  • Reason she married me because evangelism, and i say, "no, you
  • 00:35:30.412 --> 00:35:35.183
  • Marry me because of me."
  • 00:35:35.183 --> 00:35:37.452
  • Matt: because i'm handsome.
  • 00:35:37.452 --> 00:35:38.787
  • Nicky: yeah, yeah, because i'm handsome.
  • 00:35:38.787 --> 00:35:40.689
  • Thank you for helping me, yes.
  • 00:35:40.689 --> 00:35:44.926
  • The greatest thing is i started with little service, a little
  • 00:35:44.926 --> 00:35:49.664
  • Chapel, and people start coming in and sonny came in with his
  • 00:35:49.664 --> 00:35:55.770
  • Friend rafi.
  • 00:35:55.770 --> 00:35:59.341
  • And then he didn't know what's gonna happen so he came in and i
  • 00:35:59.341 --> 00:36:05.247
  • Approached him.
  • 00:36:05.247 --> 00:36:06.615
  • And then i knew he was high.
  • 00:36:06.615 --> 00:36:09.884
  • And i challenged him and i said, "you know, god can change your
  • 00:36:09.884 --> 00:36:13.588
  • Life and you know what?
  • 00:36:13.588 --> 00:36:16.524
  • I challenge you.
  • 00:36:16.524 --> 00:36:17.859
  • I'm gonna take you to the 3rd floor of the building.
  • 00:36:17.859 --> 00:36:21.830
  • And i--you stay with me, in three days you're gonna change."
  • 00:36:21.830 --> 00:36:26.501
  • And he accepted.
  • 00:36:29.904 --> 00:36:32.374
  • So i took it.
  • 00:36:32.374 --> 00:36:33.742
  • I left my wife, one month or two months, no more than that, that
  • 00:36:33.742 --> 00:36:39.914
  • We have been married, and here i left my wife and i took her to
  • 00:36:39.914 --> 00:36:43.585
  • This place, so i was in the half in the spirit, half in the
  • 00:36:43.585 --> 00:36:47.289
  • Flesh, the honeymoon, and i went over there.
  • 00:36:47.289 --> 00:36:52.160
  • I--this was two beds.
  • 00:36:52.160 --> 00:36:54.529
  • I said, "sonny, you sleep here."
  • 00:36:54.529 --> 00:36:57.699
  • I took my bed and i put it against the wall, so sonny had
  • 00:36:57.699 --> 00:37:00.568
  • To go through me, you see, because--
  • 00:37:00.568 --> 00:37:03.471
  • Matt: in case he was gonna bail out.
  • 00:37:03.471 --> 00:37:04.839
  • Nicky: you got to be wise.
  • 00:37:04.839 --> 00:37:06.174
  • You're not gonna-- you wasn't born yesterday.
  • 00:37:06.174 --> 00:37:08.510
  • Anything can happen.
  • 00:37:08.510 --> 00:37:10.278
  • And what happened was that i fall asleep.
  • 00:37:10.278 --> 00:37:14.349
  • I could not watch him anymore, and something strange happened.
  • 00:37:14.349 --> 00:37:21.323
  • Sonny wake me up, laughing and crying, and, "i got it.
  • 00:37:21.323 --> 00:37:26.294
  • I got it."
  • 00:37:26.294 --> 00:37:27.629
  • I said, "you got the--" "yes, jesus came into my life."
  • 00:37:27.629 --> 00:37:33.401
  • He--and since that day he's served the lord.
  • 00:37:33.401 --> 00:37:39.040
  • One time, david was preaching a hard message and sonny took
  • 00:37:39.040 --> 00:37:44.245
  • It personal.
  • 00:37:44.245 --> 00:37:46.081
  • So he left.
  • 00:37:46.081 --> 00:37:48.083
  • I was out, and when i came in, they say, "sonny left."
  • 00:37:48.083 --> 00:37:51.353
  • I said, "what?"
  • 00:37:51.353 --> 00:37:54.456
  • And laurie and matt, this is the most painful type of thing when
  • 00:37:54.456 --> 00:37:59.861
  • You come in and you began to say, "why?"
  • 00:37:59.861 --> 00:38:05.300
  • And i started searching for him all over new york because he
  • 00:38:05.300 --> 00:38:08.536
  • Told me the place that he used to hang out, and i went to all
  • 00:38:08.536 --> 00:38:11.806
  • Those places.
  • 00:38:11.806 --> 00:38:13.174
  • Came 2 o'clock in the morning, broken heart, because we began
  • 00:38:13.174 --> 00:38:17.312
  • To get together and do things together and then gloria was
  • 00:38:17.312 --> 00:38:24.352
  • Sleeping and she wake up.
  • 00:38:24.352 --> 00:38:26.354
  • I would put my pajamas, and that's when i say, "i forgot
  • 00:38:26.354 --> 00:38:31.826
  • This place."
  • 00:38:31.826 --> 00:38:34.129
  • And i put my clothes at 2 o'clock in the morning and
  • 00:38:34.129 --> 00:38:36.731
  • I went.
  • 00:38:36.731 --> 00:38:38.066
  • It was on broadway, and this cafeteria and there's sonny
  • 00:38:38.066 --> 00:38:42.637
  • Contemplating to take a shot which would have killed him.
  • 00:38:42.637 --> 00:38:48.276
  • And i walk in.
  • 00:38:48.276 --> 00:38:49.978
  • He was very pensive to really do it.
  • 00:38:49.978 --> 00:38:53.882
  • And that's my greatest memory of that.
  • 00:38:53.882 --> 00:38:59.287
  • The same thing that god did in my life, he did it for sonny,
  • 00:38:59.287 --> 00:39:03.224
  • And he became a very powerful person.
  • 00:39:03.224 --> 00:39:08.163
  • To me, sonny was--a lot of people call themself, they have
  • 00:39:08.163 --> 00:39:12.700
  • 50 people they call apostle.
  • 00:39:12.700 --> 00:39:16.004
  • That's not no apostle.
  • 00:39:16.004 --> 00:39:18.339
  • When you have--when you like sonny have built up about 400
  • 00:39:18.339 --> 00:39:22.844
  • Churches, little and bigger, and many drug addicts, thousands of
  • 00:39:22.844 --> 00:39:28.249
  • Thousands of them that have given their life to jesus, that
  • 00:39:28.249 --> 00:39:32.787
  • Is apostle.
  • 00:39:32.787 --> 00:39:35.356
  • That is paul going from places to places.
  • 00:39:35.356 --> 00:39:40.562
  • That's what i mean.
  • 00:39:40.562 --> 00:39:42.497
  • That i can remember that i can tell you guys that is the most
  • 00:39:42.497 --> 00:39:47.969
  • Beautiful thing when the glory of the lord is shine in a life,
  • 00:39:47.969 --> 00:39:55.176
  • That that shining light can touch other life, and that what
  • 00:39:55.176 --> 00:39:59.881
  • Happened to sonny.
  • 00:39:59.881 --> 00:40:02.217
  • Dave: if you knew sonny arguinzoni like i knew him,
  • 00:40:02.217 --> 00:40:04.552
  • You'd have to believe in miracles.
  • 00:40:04.552 --> 00:40:06.321
  • I met him in the streets of new york, dirty, skinny, frightened.
  • 00:40:06.321 --> 00:40:11.693
  • Male: in new york city, sonny was the first heroin addict to
  • 00:40:11.693 --> 00:40:16.130
  • Be reached by david wilkerson through teen
  • 00:40:16.130 --> 00:40:19.234
  • Challenge ministries.
  • 00:40:19.234 --> 00:40:20.635
  • Dave: if you'd have told me then that this young man there with a
  • 00:40:20.635 --> 00:40:25.306
  • Bullet hole in his leg, dirty needle marks in his arm, with a
  • 00:40:25.306 --> 00:40:29.043
  • Praying mother, would ever become a great man of god and a
  • 00:40:29.043 --> 00:40:31.379
  • Legend in his own time, i would have never believed it.
  • 00:40:31.379 --> 00:40:33.748
  • Sonny arguinzoni: there's that little tugging that takes place
  • 00:40:33.748 --> 00:40:36.217
  • Deep inside our hearts that as you're sitting there, you begin
  • 00:40:36.217 --> 00:40:39.787
  • To get nervous and something is happening inside.
  • 00:40:39.787 --> 00:40:42.490
  • You don't know what it is, but something is bugging you.
  • 00:40:42.490 --> 00:40:44.926
  • My friend, it's the holy spirit.
  • 00:40:44.926 --> 00:40:47.228
  • Male: while in bible school in california, sonny and his wife
  • 00:40:47.228 --> 00:40:50.932
  • Julie felt the call of god and a deep burden for the streets of
  • 00:40:50.932 --> 00:40:56.271
  • East los angeles.
  • 00:40:56.271 --> 00:40:57.639
  • Sonny: victory outreach ministry is a ministry that first of all
  • 00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:00.675
  • Started in the heart of god, and then i remember when he put the
  • 00:41:00.675 --> 00:41:04.145
  • Calling upon my heart to reach the treasures out of darkness.
  • 00:41:04.145 --> 00:41:08.583
  • When i received that calling, i felt very, very inadequate
  • 00:41:08.583 --> 00:41:12.420
  • Because i really felt that i was the very least of the least, but
  • 00:41:12.420 --> 00:41:16.357
  • That was the beginning of the victory outreach ministry there
  • 00:41:16.357 --> 00:41:20.828
  • With a humble, humble beginning in east los angeles.
  • 00:41:20.828 --> 00:41:24.532
  • Male: sonny and julie began to bring drug addicts into their
  • 00:41:24.532 --> 00:41:27.502
  • Own home and see them delivered by the power of god.
  • 00:41:27.502 --> 00:41:31.573
  • Sonny: right in your backyards there's a missionary field.
  • 00:41:31.573 --> 00:41:35.777
  • So many times we send missionaries around the world,
  • 00:41:35.777 --> 00:41:39.347
  • But there's a tremendous missionary field right in
  • 00:41:39.347 --> 00:41:42.317
  • Our backyards.
  • 00:41:42.317 --> 00:41:44.319
  • We need to pray, all god's people joining together and pray
  • 00:41:44.319 --> 00:41:49.157
  • And call upon the name of the lord, that the spirit of the
  • 00:41:49.157 --> 00:41:52.994
  • Lord will begin to sweep through the ghettos and the barrios of
  • 00:41:52.994 --> 00:41:57.332
  • America and cause a tremendous revival to break out.
  • 00:41:57.332 --> 00:42:02.670
  • And then also, go ahead and clap if you want to clap.
  • 00:42:02.670 --> 00:42:08.042
  • Nicky: and here i was given that responsibility, but there's
  • 00:42:12.213 --> 00:42:16.618
  • Something about the anointing of the holy spirit.
  • 00:42:16.618 --> 00:42:19.053
  • You know, the thing that you don't know, god lets you know:
  • 00:42:19.053 --> 00:42:22.624
  • "it's all right, i'm gonna help you," because there's anointing,
  • 00:42:22.624 --> 00:42:26.327
  • A special anointing for those that that have been choosed by
  • 00:42:26.327 --> 00:42:31.065
  • God that you cannot deny it.
  • 00:42:31.065 --> 00:42:34.902
  • Sonny: what no one else was able to do, jesus christ did it in
  • 00:42:34.902 --> 00:42:38.406
  • Just a moment.
  • 00:42:38.406 --> 00:42:39.774
  • Sonny: god gave me a promise that he was going to raise up
  • 00:42:39.774 --> 00:42:41.809
  • Treasures out of darkness, and these treasures out of darkness
  • 00:42:41.809 --> 00:42:46.047
  • Were gonna go and give their testimony all over the world,
  • 00:42:46.047 --> 00:42:50.418
  • And that has become a reality.
  • 00:42:50.418 --> 00:42:52.954
  • It doesn't matter what background you come from, your
  • 00:42:52.954 --> 00:42:56.224
  • Testimony, their testimony, is very important.
  • 00:42:56.224 --> 00:43:01.429
  • Sonny: there are many nations that are represented here.
  • 00:43:01.429 --> 00:43:04.565
  • God knew exactly what he was doing when he raised up this
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  • Ministry because of the need that exists throughout the
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  • Entire world.
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  • Nicky: for one month i never pick up my baby.
  • 00:43:41.703 --> 00:43:44.839
  • I went over there, close to the crib, and i just went
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  • Like this... and that's it.
  • 00:43:48.443 --> 00:43:51.145
  • I have this problem in my mind.
  • 00:43:51.145 --> 00:43:53.281
  • If i pick up alicia, put her in my arm, i would hurt
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  • Her physically.
  • 00:43:58.186 --> 00:43:59.887
  • I don't know from where i got that.
  • 00:43:59.887 --> 00:44:02.256
  • Until gloria showed me and she walked to me and say, "are you
  • 00:44:02.256 --> 00:44:09.097
  • Afraid to pick up your child?"
  • 00:44:09.097 --> 00:44:13.000
  • And it's hard for me to say this word, "yes.
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  • I don't know how.
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  • I've never been loved like this."
  • 00:44:18.906 --> 00:44:21.676
  • And she told me, "let me help you."
  • 00:44:21.676 --> 00:44:23.811
  • I'm serious, this is gonna be-- it's personal.
  • 00:44:23.811 --> 00:44:28.182
  • So gloria pick up alicia, it's just been a month, and say,
  • 00:44:28.182 --> 00:44:35.857
  • "extend your arms," and i did.
  • 00:44:35.857 --> 00:44:39.861
  • "i'm gonna place the baby in your arms, okay?
  • 00:44:39.861 --> 00:44:44.732
  • And then you roll your arms and the baby will landing in
  • 00:44:44.732 --> 00:44:48.302
  • Your chest."
  • 00:44:48.302 --> 00:44:50.905
  • And i didn't have a shirt.
  • 00:44:50.905 --> 00:44:54.742
  • And when i just went like this...
  • 00:44:54.742 --> 00:44:57.512
  • And i felt her mouth searching,
  • 00:44:57.512 --> 00:45:01.983
  • And oh my, i cried, i cry and i
  • 00:45:01.983 --> 00:45:07.588
  • Hold her tight and i say, "i will die for you.
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  • I will provide for you.
  • 00:45:11.092 --> 00:45:12.627
  • I will do anything for you," and, bang, that memory of
  • 00:45:12.627 --> 00:45:18.332
  • Forgiveness about forgiving my mother was broken.
  • 00:45:18.332 --> 00:45:24.939
  • Now love overcame hate.
  • 00:45:24.939 --> 00:45:30.878
  • Love erased those memories, and that's what i learned, that this
  • 00:45:30.878 --> 00:45:38.853
  • Life is not easy.
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  • Here i'm a strong guy and then i didn't know how to pick up a
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  • Baby, so that's to teach you love is a strong power.
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  • Nicky: it's a calling, dedication.
  • 00:45:55.736 --> 00:45:59.507
  • You got to be motivated constantly by the holy spirit,
  • 00:45:59.507 --> 00:46:05.079
  • By the bible.
  • 00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:06.914
  • You can do it.
  • 00:46:06.914 --> 00:46:09.150
  • "go, make disciple."
  • 00:46:09.150 --> 00:46:12.787
  • You got to follow those words that jesus spoke.
  • 00:46:12.787 --> 00:46:16.524
  • And when you began to understand that, then it's not so hard.
  • 00:46:16.524 --> 00:46:23.231
  • My biggest weapon was my testimony, and nobody can
  • 00:46:23.231 --> 00:46:27.034
  • Refute that.
  • 00:46:27.034 --> 00:46:29.403
  • And that's when i said it to the person: if god changed me, if
  • 00:46:29.403 --> 00:46:34.675
  • Jesus changed me, he can change you too.
  • 00:46:34.675 --> 00:46:38.813
  • It's a positive way of saying, hey, i'm still alive, i'm
  • 00:46:38.813 --> 00:46:43.618
  • Still kicking.
  • 00:46:43.618 --> 00:46:45.620
  • I still loving jesus.
  • 00:46:45.620 --> 00:46:47.588
  • I still see miracles.
  • 00:46:47.588 --> 00:46:50.591
  • I see thousands of people get converted.
  • 00:46:50.591 --> 00:46:55.229
  • I have to speak to over 50 million people with my--just
  • 00:46:55.229 --> 00:46:59.300
  • With my voice, no television, no magazine, no newspaper.
  • 00:46:59.300 --> 00:47:03.471
  • I have seen thousands of thousands of people come
  • 00:47:03.471 --> 00:47:06.607
  • To jesus.
  • 00:47:06.607 --> 00:47:07.942
  • Nicky: i ask him literally, "jesus christ, i don't know who
  • 00:47:07.942 --> 00:47:11.312
  • You are.
  • 00:47:11.312 --> 00:47:12.680
  • This man say that you love me.
  • 00:47:12.680 --> 00:47:14.015
  • I don't love you, but that man said, 'yes, nicky, i love you.'"
  • 00:47:14.015 --> 00:47:18.019
  • I gave my heart to jesus christ.
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  • I'm a free man today.
  • 00:47:20.121 --> 00:47:22.256
  • I'm a father man today.
  • 00:47:22.256 --> 00:47:24.325
  • I got children today and i got good news for you family.
  • 00:47:24.325 --> 00:47:29.997
  • I got good news for your family.
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  • My mother that she was a witch, she came to jesus christ.
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  • Nicky: god became everything to me.
  • 00:47:36.971 --> 00:47:41.509
  • He put the spirit in my life.
  • 00:47:41.509 --> 00:47:44.111
  • He gave me life.
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  • He put his son in my mouth.
  • 00:47:46.414 --> 00:47:49.050
  • He took my tongue and make like a sword to hit the areas of
  • 00:47:49.050 --> 00:47:53.387
  • Those that are in needs come alive.
  • 00:47:53.387 --> 00:47:56.557
  • We have to witness for christ.
  • 00:47:56.557 --> 00:47:58.526
  • We have to tell all about jesus christ.
  • 00:47:58.526 --> 00:48:01.462
  • We cannot come to church and you'll be, "oh, i'm satisfied."
  • 00:48:01.462 --> 00:48:05.132
  • No, if you wanna be satisfied, you got to take it right
  • 00:48:05.132 --> 00:48:08.936
  • Straight to the people that they're in great need.
  • 00:48:08.936 --> 00:48:16.811
  • Nicky: you know the greatest thing?
  • 00:48:20.648 --> 00:48:22.216
  • Is when you hug somebody that has broken and wet your shirt
  • 00:48:22.216 --> 00:48:27.455
  • And you can feel the heartbeat and the moaning and groaning of
  • 00:48:27.455 --> 00:48:31.559
  • That person.
  • 00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:33.928
  • That change you.
  • 00:48:33.928 --> 00:48:36.397
  • That change your life, and you know what?
  • 00:48:36.397 --> 00:48:40.301
  • I still feel it the same way.
  • 00:48:40.301 --> 00:48:42.236
  • Nicky: the greatest moments in this life is to be free from
  • 00:48:46.374 --> 00:48:51.645
  • Those burden that you carry and that loneliness and insecurity
  • 00:48:51.645 --> 00:48:56.617
  • And uncertainty and depressions, and i tell you, and sometimes
  • 00:48:56.617 --> 00:49:01.255
  • You can smell death.
  • 00:49:01.255 --> 00:49:04.158
  • And sometimes you wanna die.
  • 00:49:04.158 --> 00:49:07.361
  • But the thing is that we forgot that we all are different.
  • 00:49:07.361 --> 00:49:13.200
  • We are different spaces.
  • 00:49:13.200 --> 00:49:15.369
  • We are different human beings.
  • 00:49:15.369 --> 00:49:17.905
  • God didn't made us the same.
  • 00:49:17.905 --> 00:49:20.307
  • Something different, we might look like somebody, yes, but
  • 00:49:20.307 --> 00:49:24.879
  • There's something that in that person that you cannot detect
  • 00:49:24.879 --> 00:49:28.115
  • That is different because he make us different.
  • 00:49:28.115 --> 00:49:32.186
  • And to me the greatest moments of my life, guess what?
  • 00:49:32.186 --> 00:49:37.825
  • Forgiveness.
  • 00:49:37.825 --> 00:49:40.194
  • Not only god forgive my sins, not only he cleans my hands that
  • 00:49:40.194 --> 00:49:46.700
  • Were full of blood.
  • 00:49:46.700 --> 00:49:48.636
  • Not only that he came into my heart and just kissed my
  • 00:49:48.636 --> 00:49:52.273
  • Pains away.
  • 00:49:52.273 --> 00:49:54.241
  • Not only that he took it like a--like been into the hospital
  • 00:49:54.241 --> 00:49:58.379
  • And could see myself walking, i see the doctor running to try to
  • 00:49:58.379 --> 00:50:02.616
  • Save my life because i'm wounded and i'm close to die and here i
  • 00:50:02.616 --> 00:50:09.490
  • See the doctor jesus christ coming to my rescue and then he
  • 00:50:09.490 --> 00:50:14.462
  • Tell me, "close your eyes."
  • 00:50:14.462 --> 00:50:15.963
  • I close my eyes.
  • 00:50:15.963 --> 00:50:17.565
  • Then i feel that he came in and here, he opened up my chest, put
  • 00:50:17.565 --> 00:50:23.204
  • His hands all the way out.
  • 00:50:23.204 --> 00:50:26.006
  • I see my heart beating and dropping right on the floor, and
  • 00:50:26.006 --> 00:50:30.811
  • Then he got close and he kissed my heart.
  • 00:50:30.811 --> 00:50:35.382
  • And then he put my heart back, closed my chest.
  • 00:50:35.382 --> 00:50:41.522
  • Wake up, i was born again.
  • 00:50:41.522 --> 00:50:45.493
  • I was a new creature.
  • 00:50:45.493 --> 00:50:47.294
  • I got a new heart.
  • 00:50:47.294 --> 00:50:48.963
  • I got a new mind.
  • 00:50:48.963 --> 00:50:50.731
  • I got a destiny to meet is to see jesus christ face to face.
  • 00:50:50.731 --> 00:50:55.569
  • I'm here to tell you that jesus love you, that jesus had the
  • 00:50:55.569 --> 00:51:00.307
  • Power to help you with your family, with your marriage, with
  • 00:51:00.307 --> 00:51:04.011
  • Your children, because the world is going crazy.
  • 00:51:04.011 --> 00:51:08.349
  • Don't be part of that world.
  • 00:51:08.349 --> 00:51:10.751
  • There's a christ that is the one we call the prince of peace.
  • 00:51:10.751 --> 00:51:19.827
  • That is the one who sleep with me, walk with me.
  • 00:51:19.827 --> 00:51:24.798
  • That's the message: jesus love you.
  • 00:51:24.798 --> 00:51:28.569
  • You turn your life to him.
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  • Sweet jesus of the bible, we thank you for coming to
  • 00:51:33.107 --> 00:51:37.745
  • This earth.
  • 00:51:37.745 --> 00:51:40.047
  • Thank you that you was so unselfish.
  • 00:51:40.047 --> 00:51:47.421
  • That you lay your life for nobody like myself, for nobody
  • 00:51:47.421 --> 00:51:53.194
  • Like those who in this moment think that they're somebody but
  • 00:51:53.194 --> 00:51:56.897
  • They're sad inside.
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  • Kay: i pray in the mighty name of jesus, holy spirit, reach
  • 00:51:59.867 --> 00:52:03.737
  • Down and touch these people who are watching, who are listening,
  • 00:52:03.737 --> 00:52:07.908
  • The one who is lost and that you're coming to seek and to
  • 00:52:07.908 --> 00:52:11.412
  • Find, and to lift up in your own arms and to rescue.
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  • Nicky: i pray that you have, lord jesus, the power of
  • 00:52:14.815 --> 00:52:19.987
  • Forgiving sin.
  • 00:52:19.987 --> 00:52:21.755
  • I pray that you will come in right now in this specific
  • 00:52:21.755 --> 00:52:26.627
  • Moment and touch the heart that is so full of loneliness, a
  • 00:52:26.627 --> 00:52:34.034
  • Burden that is carrying when you can take it in your hands.
  • 00:52:34.034 --> 00:52:39.073
  • Kay: i ask for deliverance, lord, from the heaviness of drug
  • 00:52:39.073 --> 00:52:43.110
  • Addiction and from alcoholism.
  • 00:52:43.110 --> 00:52:45.846
  • I ask for miracles now, the miracle of the ministry of teen
  • 00:52:45.846 --> 00:52:49.683
  • Challenge because it's person to person and to every individual
  • 00:52:49.683 --> 00:52:53.187
  • Who will reach out and say, "yes, i believe jesus."
  • 00:52:53.187 --> 00:52:55.689
  • Nicky: i pray for the spirit of salvation.
  • 00:52:55.689 --> 00:52:58.359
  • I pray--i pray that right now you surrounded every place where
  • 00:52:58.359 --> 00:53:03.397
  • These people are listening to this prayer.
  • 00:53:03.397 --> 00:53:06.500
  • Touch their life.
  • 00:53:06.500 --> 00:53:07.901
  • Kay: i believe you died for me.
  • 00:53:07.901 --> 00:53:09.703
  • I believe you love me and you have a new life for me, and i
  • 00:53:09.703 --> 00:53:13.207
  • Ask, lord, as i humble myself now and receive you into my
  • 00:53:13.207 --> 00:53:16.977
  • Life, that you will change me and make me new, as you do make
  • 00:53:16.977 --> 00:53:22.182
  • All things new.
  • 00:53:22.182 --> 00:53:23.617
  • Nicky: let a miracle taking place, a resurrection.
  • 00:53:23.617 --> 00:53:30.224
  • The same thing that happened to nicky cruz, it can happen to
  • 00:53:30.224 --> 00:53:34.695
  • You, in jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:53:34.695 --> 00:53:37.831
  • Matt: amen.
  • 00:53:37.831 --> 00:53:39.166
  • Laurie crouch: amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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