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- - TONIGHT FROM NEW YORK CITY EVANGELIST AND
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- PRESIDENT OF SAMARITAN'S PURSE, REVEREND FRANKLIN
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- GRAHAM, AND ACTOR, SONGWRITER, SINGER AND
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- MINISTER CLIFTON DAVIS NEXT ON PRAISE!
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- [ LAUGHTER ]
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- - CLIFTON DAVIS: HELLO, EVERYBODY!
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- WELCOME TO PRAISE IN NEW YORK.
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- THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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- SOMEBODY SAID YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD.
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- I GIVE GOD THE PRAISE FOR THAT.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- YEAH.
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- NOBODY BY ASKING CAN ADD TO DAYS TO THEIR LIVES,
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- BUT GOD CAN KEEP YOU LOOKING GOOD.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- [ LAUGHTER ]
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- I THANK HIM FOR THAT BLESSING.
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- I THANK HIM, IF I DO.
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- I THANK HIM FOR THAT.
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- WHAT A WONDERFUL BROADCAST WE HAVE PLANNED
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- FOR YOU TONIGHT.
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- IT'S GOING TO BE EXCITING.
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- I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO CHATTING WITH THIS
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- GENTLEMAN WHOSE JUST BACKSTAGE WHOSE FAMILY
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- NAME IS KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
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- TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
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- - FRANKLIN GRAHAM HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO
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- MEETING THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
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- AND PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
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- THE ELDER SON OF BILLY AND RUTH BELL GRAHAM, HE
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- HAS SERVED AS PRESIDENT AND CEO OF SAMARITAN'S
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- PURSE SINCE 1979.
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- UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, SAMARITAN'S PURSE HAS MET
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- THE NEEDS OF POOR, SICK AND SUFFERING PEOPLE IN
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- MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES.
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- AS AN EVANGELIST, HE HAS SERVED AS THE PRESS AND
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- CEO OF THE BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
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- SINCE 2001 LEADING CRUSADES AROUND THE WORLD.
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- HIS OUTSPOKEN AND UNABASHED ADVOCACY FOR
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- EVANGELISM, BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, AND SALVATION
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- THROUGH CHRIST HAS PUT HIM AT THE FOREFRONT OF
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- POLITICS AND NEWS COVERAGE.
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- IN 2016, HE RALLIED IN ALL 50 DAYS WITH THE
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- DECISION AMERICA TOUR TO CALL THE COUNTRY TO PRAYER.
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- FRANKLIN IS ALSO THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF A
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- NEW DOCUMENTARY ENTITLED FACING THE DARKNESS.
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- IT'S THE TRUE STORY OF TWO AMERICAN AID WORKERS
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- IN WEST AFRICA STRICKEN WITH THE DEADLY EBOLA
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- VIRUS, AND THE RACE AGAINST TIME TO GET THEM
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- HOME AND GET THEM TREATED.
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- PLEASE WELCOME FRANKLIN GRAHAM.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- - MY FRIEND, MY MOTHER, GOD BLESS YOU.
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- - FRANKLIN GRAHAM: THANK YOU.
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- THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
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- - ABSOLUTELY. THEY LOVE YOU.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- AND WELL THEY SHOULD FOR THE WAY GOD HAS
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- MANIFESTED HIS LOVE IN YOU.
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- WHAT AN AMAZING LIFE, WHAT AN AMAZING CAREER.
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- I MEAN, WE COULD TALK FOR MONTHS JUST ABOUT HOW YOU
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- GOT TO THIS POINT IN YOUR LIFE, BUT I'M EXCITED TO
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- KNOW MORE ABOUT THE KIND OF MINISTRY THAT YOU'RE
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- DOING RIGHT NOW AND SOME OF THE REASONS BEHIND IT.
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- LET ME ASK YOU THIS, FRANKLIN.
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- WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE NATION OF LIBERIA THAT
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- CAUSED YOU TO HEAR GOD'S CALL TO DO SOMETHING
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- ABOUT IT?
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- - YOU KNOW, CLIFTON, IN 2003 WE WENT TO LIBERIA
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- AT THE END OF CIVIL WAR.
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- THE COUNTRY WAS JUST DESTROYED.
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- THE CHURCHES THERE WERE ASKING FOR HELP.
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- THERE WAS A MISSION ORGANIZATION THAT HAD A
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- LITTLE HOSPITAL CALLED ELWAN, AND WE BEGAN TO
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- HELP THAT HOSPITAL WITH EQUIPMENT AND BEDS AND
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- SHEETS AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS TRYING TO BRING IT
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- UP A LEVEL.
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- AND THEN WE STARTED HELPING IN SOME OF THE REMOTE
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- AREAS BECAUSE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE
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- COUNTRY WAS DESTROYED.
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- WE TOOK A AIRPLANE OVER THERE, HELICOPTER SO WE
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- COULD GET OUT INTO REMOTE AREAS TO HELP PEOPLE AND
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- TO WORK WITH THE NATIONAL CHURCH.
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- THEN IN 2014, WE HEARD THAT EBOLA -AND I'VE
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- HEARD OF EBOLA BEFORE -WAS IN GUINEA, AND IT
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- MIGHT COME INTO LIBERIA, AND I WENT OH, THAT'S THE
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- WORLD'S MOST DEADLY VIRUS.
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- - IT IS.
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- - IT'S A HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, AND THERE WAS NO
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- CURE FOR IT.
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- IT WAS ALMOST 100% FATAL, AND I THOUGHT TO
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- MYSELF BOY, I HOPE EBOLA DOESN'T COME.
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- NEXT THING WE KNEW IT CAME.
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- - YES. YES.
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- NOW, BEFORE EBOLA CAME TO LIBERIA, THERE WAS
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- ALREADY A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, AM I RIGHT?
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- - AFTER THE CIVIL WAR -- - ON THE HEELS OF THAT
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- WAR THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A LOT OF MEDICAL ISSUES.
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- - MEDICAL ISSUES, FAMINE.
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- I MEAN, THERE WAS STARVATION IN CERTAIN AREAS.
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- AGAIN, THE WHOLE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE
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- COUNTRY WAS DESTROYED.
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- THE AIRPORTS HAD BEEN DESTROYED.
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- THE ROADS HAD BEEN DESTROYED.
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- THE BRIDGES HAD BEEN DESTROYED, SO YOU
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- COULDN'T EVEN GET PRODUCE, YOU COULDN'T GET
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- FOOD FROM ONE END OF THE COUNTRY TO THE OTHER, AND
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- SO WE JUST STARTED WORKING AND, YOU KNOW,
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- WHEN YOU GO INTO A COUNTRY LIKE LIBERIA, YOU
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- DON'T ALWAYS GO WITH A PLAN.
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- YOUR PLAN IS OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT WE CAN
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- DO TO HELP.
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- - YES.
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- - AND THEN EACH DAY YOU JUST ASK GOD TO
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- GIVE YOU WISDOM.
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- YOU ASK GOD TO GUIDE YOU AND DIRECT YOU, AND WE
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- JUST STARTED WORKING, AND IT BEGAN TO DEVELOP.
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- AND WE HAD DOCTORS OVER THERE, AND WHEN EBOLA,
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- WHEN IT CAME INTO LIBERIA, I GOT A PHONE
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- CALL, AND OUR PROJECTS DIRECTOR SAID FRANKLIN,
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- COULD WE USE OUR HELICOPTER AND OUR
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- AIRPLANE TO HELP TRANSFER MEDICAL PEOPLE TO THE
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- EBOLA AREAS?
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- THESE WOULD BE PEOPLE FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.
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- OKAY.
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- I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, BOY, I HOPE WE DON'T GET
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- OUR AIRPLANES, EBOLA IN THEM OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
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- [ LAUGHTER ] NEXT THING WE KNEW, EBOLA WAS COMING
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- INTO MONROVIA WHERE WE WORKED AND LIVED.
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- - WOW.
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- - AND THERE WAS NOBODY TO FIGHT IT.
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- AND SO THE NEXT CALL WAS FRANKLIN, CAN WE SET UP
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- AN EBOLA TREATMENT UNIT, AND SAMARITAN'S PURSE IS
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- GOING TO RUN IT?
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- AND I JUST HAD, CLIFTON, IN MY STOMACH I HAD A KNOT.
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- AND I THOUGHT WE'RE NOT PREPARED FOR THIS TO
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- FIGHT EBOLA, THE AT WORLD'S MOST DEADLY VIRUS.
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- THIS IS SOMETHING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO.
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- NOT US.
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- BUT IN THE WORK OF SAMARITAN'S PURSE, WE
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- DON'T RUN, CLIFTON, WE DON'T RUN FROM CRISES.
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- WE RUN TO THEM.
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- - I LOVE THAT. I LOVE THAT.
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- - AND THAT'S SOMETHING WHEN NOBODY ELSE WOULD DO
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- IT I SAID OKAY, WE WILL DO IT.
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- - HOW DID YOU FEEL IN TERMS OF BEING THERE?
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- BECAUSE I KNOW YOU WEREN'T THERE THE WHOLE
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- TIME, BUT YOU DID GO OVER AND VISIT.
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- - YEAH.
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- I'VE BEEN THERE A NUMBER OF TIMES.
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- - WERE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR OWN
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- WELL-BEING AT ALL?
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- - I THINK YOU'RE ALWAYS CONCERNED TO A POINT, BUT
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- AT THE SAME TIME THIS IS SOMETHING GOD HAS CALLED
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- YOU TO, SO I MEAN, IT'S DANGEROUS IN NEW YORK
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- CITY IF YOU'RE NOT CALLED TO BE HERE.
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- [ LAUGHTER ]
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- - I THINK YOU GOT A COUPLE OF WITNESSES.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- - BUT YOU KNOW, THE KEY IS BEING IN GOD'S WILL,
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- AND THAT'S THE KEY.
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- AND WHEN YOU'RE IN GOD'S WILL, I DON'T CARE WHERE
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- YOU ARE, I BELIEVE THAT HE SENDS HIS ANGELS AND
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- HE PROTECTS YOU AND HE KEEPS YOU SAFE.
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- - YES.
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- - AND SO IN LIBERIA, WE KNEW GOD HAD CALLED US
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- THERE, AND THE PERSON THAT WE HAD TO SET UP
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- THIS EBOLA TREATMENT UNIT, CLIFTON, HIS NAME
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- IS KENT BRANTLY, AN INCREDIBLE YOUNG DOCTOR,
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- JUST FINISHED SCHOOL AND WE HAD SENT HIM OUT THERE
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- TO WORK, HE AND HIS WIFE AND HIS FAMILY.
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- AND WHEN WE NEEDED A DIRECTOR, SOMEBODY TO RUN --
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- SOMEBODY HAS TO TAKE CHARGE OF THIS EBOLA
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- TREATMENT UNIT.
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- YOU JUST DON'T SET SOMETHING LIKE THAT UP.
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- SOMEBODY HAS TO BE IN CHARGE, AND DOCTOR
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- BRANTLY SAID, I'LL DO IT.
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- JUST AN INCREDIBLE GUY, SO THIS FILM THAT WE HAVE
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- PUT TOGETHER IS THE STORY OF HOW GOD SAVED DOCTOR
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- BRANTLY BECAUSE HE GOT INFECTED, AND THEN NANCY
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- WRITEBOL, A NURSE WHO WAS WORKING WITH HIM,
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- SHE GOT INFECTED.
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- AND WHEN HE CAME BACK TO THE UNITED STATES -UP TO
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- THAT POINT NOBODY IN THIS COUNTRY WAS LISTENING
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- TO LIBERIA.
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- NOBODY CARED ABOUT EBOLA IN AFRICA UNTIL DOCTOR
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- BRANTLY GOT EBOLA, AND THEN NOW ALL THE SUDDEN
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- PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION
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- THEY PAID 100% ATTENTION TO THIS, AND HE GOT
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- THE RESOURCES.
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- HE MADE IT POSSIBLE TO SAVE MANY LIVES THERE
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- IN LIBERIA.
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- - WHY DON'T WE TAKE THIS MOMENT TO -- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- - YES.
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- [ APPLAUSE ]
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- - LET'S TAKE A MOMENT JUST TO LOOK AT THE
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- TRAILER FOR FACING DARKNESS.
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- - YES, SURE.
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- FACING DARKNESS.
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- [ MUSIC ]
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- - THIS WAS AN UNFOLDING CATASTROPHE.
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- - THE NUMBER OF NEW CASES AND DEATHS ARE
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- STILL RISING.
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- [ MUSIC ]
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- - EBOLA IS THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS VIRUS.
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- - THE DISEASE IS OUT OF CONTROL IN WEST AFRICA.
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- - ACTION WAS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY.
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- - ALTOGETHER THE FAMILY MEMBERS I LOSE 17.
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- - GOD HAS CALLED US TO CARE FOR THE DYING, TO
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- CARE FOR THOSE THAT ARE SUFFERING.
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- - WE CAN'T SAY WE'RE SAMARITAN'S PURSE AND NOT HELP.
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- - I WAS CONFIDENT THAT WHAT WE WERE DOING
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- WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
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- - I DON'T THINK I WAS SCARED YET.
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- I SHOULD HAVE BEEN VERY SCARED.
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- - AS THE EPIDEMIC ESCALATED, WE WERE JUST
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- DESPERATELY TRYING TO STAY ONE STEP AHEAD.
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- - MY PHONE RANG, AND KEN ISAAC, ONE OF OUR
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- DOCTORS, SAID KENT BRANTLY HAS EBOLA.
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- - DAVID LOOKED AT ME AND HE SAID, YOU TOO HAVE EBOLA.
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- - AND THEN BARBARA WAS DIAGNOSED WITH EBOLA.
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- AND IT WAS LIKELY THAT OUR TEAM MEMBERS WERE
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- GOING TO DIE.
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- - I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE HOW AFRAID WE WERE.
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- - BUT WE STILL WENT IN.
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- HOUR AFTER HOUR TAKING CARE OF LIBERIANS AND
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- TAKING CARE OF KENT AND NANCY.
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- - WE'RE THERE TO SAVE LIFE.
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- WE'RE THERE IN YOUR NAME. WHY?
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- [ MUSIC ]
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- - DESPITE THE FACT THAT THINGS WERE OUT OF
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- CONTROL, WE KNEW THAT GOD WAS IN CONTROL.
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- OH, GOD ...
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- YOU NEVER LEAVE MY SIDE ...
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- - MY GREATEST FEAR IS THAT I WOULD HAVE TO
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- RAISE MY KIDS ALONE.
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- - I FELT BROKEN.
- 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:33.030
- WHO WAS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF MY CHILDREN?
- 00:11:33.050 --> 00:11:35.050
- - GOD PUTS YOU IN PLACES AND SUPPLIES THE STRENGTH
- 00:11:35.070 --> 00:11:37.220
- TO DEAL WITH IT.
- 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.250
- NEVER LEAVE MY SIDE ...
- 00:11:40.270 --> 00:11:43.030
- - IF THEY WERE ON OUR TEAM, THEY ARE OUR BLOOD.
- 00:11:43.050 --> 00:11:45.200
- NO MATTER WHAT IT TOOK, LET'S GET THEM OUT.
- 00:11:45.220 --> 00:11:48.220
- - TIME IS TICKING.
- 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.250
- [ MUSIC ]
- 00:11:50.270 --> 00:11:53.000
- - JESUS CHRIST DIDN'T RUN.
- 00:11:53.020 --> 00:11:54.160
- WE RUN TO THE FIRE.
- 00:11:54.180 --> 00:11:56.080
- WE DON'T RUN AWAY FROM IT.
- 00:11:56.100 --> 00:11:58.090
- [ APPLAUSE ]
- 00:11:58.110 --> 00:12:06.290
- [ APPLAUSE ]
- 00:12:06.290 --> 00:12:14.150
- - DRAWING THE ATTENTION OF THAT GOD'S LOVE HAS
- 00:12:14.170 --> 00:12:18.050
- BEEN DRAWN TO A TERMINAL ILLNESS.
- 00:12:18.070 --> 00:12:22.000
- WHAT IS IT LIKE WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE
- 00:12:22.020 --> 00:12:23.250
- TERMINALLY ILL?
- 00:12:23.270 --> 00:12:26.060
- WHAT DO YOU FEEL EMOTIONALLY?
- 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:29.000
- AND HOW DOES IT FEEL TO LOOK AT THE LIVES OF THE
- 00:12:29.020 --> 00:12:31.130
- PEOPLE ALL AROUND THEM?
- 00:12:31.150 --> 00:12:33.180
- - SEE, AT THAT POINT, CLIFTON, THERE WAS NO
- 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.060
- DRUG THAT YOU COULD TAKE FOR EBOLA.
- 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.170
- THE ONLY THING YOU COULD DO WAS PUT AN IV IN THE
- 00:12:39.190 --> 00:12:41.290
- ARM, GIVE THEM LIQUIDS AND HOLD THEIR HAND
- 00:12:42.010 --> 00:12:45.270
- UNTIL THEY DIED.
- 00:12:45.290 --> 00:12:48.180
- AND THAT WAS BASICALLY ALL YOU COULD DO IS TRY
- 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.250
- TO MAKE THEM COMFORTABLE, AND YOU JUST WATCHED
- 00:12:50.270 --> 00:12:53.050
- PERSON AFTER PERSON AFTER PERSON DYING IN FRONT OF YOU.
- 00:12:53.070 --> 00:12:58.080
- NOW, THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES HAD TO PUT THESE
- 00:12:58.100 --> 00:13:00.150
- WHAT THEY CALL TYVEK SUITS ON, SO NO EXPOSED SKIN.
- 00:13:00.170 --> 00:13:06.200
- EVERYTHING HAD TO BE DUCT TAPED, YOUR MASK, AND SO
- 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:09.170
- THE TEMPERATURE IN LIBERIA AT THIS TIME IS
- 00:13:09.190 --> 00:13:12.010
- ABOUT 90 DEGREES.
- 00:13:12.030 --> 00:13:15.070
- - OH, MY HEAVENS.
- 00:13:15.090 --> 00:13:17.150
- - SO WHEN YOU PUT ALL THESE TYVEK SUITS AND
- 00:13:17.170 --> 00:13:19.260
- THEN WHAT WE PUT ON TOP OF THAT WOULD BE LIKE A
- 00:13:19.280 --> 00:13:21.260
- RAINCOAT, ANOTHER RUBBER COAT ON TOP OF THAT, SO
- 00:13:21.280 --> 00:13:24.030
- YOU'RE DOUBLE GOWNED.
- 00:13:24.050 --> 00:13:26.110
- AND THE TEMPERATURE IS WAY OVER 100 INSIDE YOUR
- 00:13:26.130 --> 00:13:29.190
- SUIT, SO THE AVERAGE WORKER TO ONLY WORK FOR
- 00:13:29.210 --> 00:13:31.290
- ABOUT 20 MINUTES, AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO
- 00:13:32.010 --> 00:13:34.260
- LEAVE THE WARD AND TAKE ALL THE STUFF OFF.
- 00:13:34.280 --> 00:13:39.000
- BUT YOU HAD TO BE WASHED WITH A CHLORINE SOLUTION
- 00:13:39.020 --> 00:13:42.180
- AS YOU CAME OUT OF THE ETU, AND THEN WITH YOUR
- 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.130
- CLOTHES THEY CAME OFF IN LAYERS AND BE VERY
- 00:13:45.150 --> 00:13:48.020
- CAREFUL TO MAKE SURE THAT NO FLUID, BODY FLUID GOT
- 00:13:48.040 --> 00:13:51.150
- ON YOU, SO THAT WAS WHAT WAS DANGEROUS, SO THERE
- 00:13:51.170 --> 00:13:54.090
- WAS NO CURE.
- 00:13:54.110 --> 00:13:56.100
- AND WHEN DOCTOR BRANTLY GOT EBOLA -- HE STILL
- 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.070
- DOESN'T KNOW HOW HE GOT IT BECAUSE HE WAS A
- 00:13:59.090 --> 00:14:02.050
- DOCTOR IN THE HOSPITAL, NOT JUST IN THE ETU BUT
- 00:14:02.070 --> 00:14:05.100
- IS WHEN HE WASN'T IN THE ETU HE WAS OVER IN THE
- 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:08.160
- HOSPITAL DELIVERING BABIES, WORKING WITH
- 00:14:08.180 --> 00:14:11.010
- PEOPLE AND HELPING THEM, AND SOME PATIENT WE
- 00:14:11.030 --> 00:14:13.240
- BELIEVE THAT HAD EBOLA THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW.
- 00:14:13.260 --> 00:14:17.050
- - WE HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF FOOTAGE, DON'T WE,
- 00:14:17.070 --> 00:14:20.120
- THAT I'D LIKE TO RUN RIGHT ABOUT NOW THAT
- 00:14:20.140 --> 00:14:23.160
- DEALS WITH DOCTOR BRANTLY CATCHING EBOLA.
- 00:14:23.180 --> 00:14:26.070
- LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
- 00:14:26.090 --> 00:14:28.290
- - MY PHONE RANG.
- 00:14:29.010 --> 00:14:31.050
- I WAS WORKING IN ALASKA, AND KEN ISAAC SAID
- 00:14:31.070 --> 00:14:33.190
- FRANKLIN, ONE OF OUR DOCTORS, KENT BRANTLY, HAS EBOLA.
- 00:14:33.210 --> 00:14:36.100
- I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PRAY.
- 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:40.250
- I JUST -I JUST KEPT SAYING, LORD, WHY?
- 00:14:40.270 --> 00:14:45.090
- WE'RE THERE TO SAVE LIFE.
- 00:14:45.110 --> 00:14:49.020
- WE'RE THERE IN YOUR NAME. WHY?
- 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:53.100
- SO I CALLED AMBER.
- 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.280
- I SAID I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO
- 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.030
- EVERYTHING WE POSSIBLY CAN DO TO GET YOUR
- 00:15:00.050 --> 00:15:08.060
- HUSBAND BACK AND TO SAVE HIS LIFE.
- 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:11.180
- BUT AT THAT MOMENT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO.
- 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:23.050
- - FRANKLIN, HOW DID HIS FAMILY HANDLE THE FACT
- 00:15:23.070 --> 00:15:28.270
- THAT HE HAD COME DOWN WITH THIS DEADLY VIRUS?
- 00:15:28.290 --> 00:15:31.200
- - SHE HAD JUST LEFT LIBERIA TO GO TO TEXAS
- 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:34.020
- FOR A WEDDING, AND HE WAS GOING TO COME THAT WEEKEND.
- 00:15:34.040 --> 00:15:37.270
- AND ON WEDNESDAY HE FELT FEVERISH, AND BY SATURDAY
- 00:15:37.290 --> 00:15:43.230
- THE BLOOD TESTS HAD COME BACK THAT HE HAD EBOLA.
- 00:15:43.250 --> 00:15:47.000
- AND THAT'S WHEN I HAD TO MAKE THE PHONE CALL TO
- 00:15:47.020 --> 00:15:49.210
- HIS WIFE BECAUSE SHE WAS IN TEXAS.
- 00:15:49.230 --> 00:15:52.280
- - MY, MY, MY.
- 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:55.010
- - AND SHE KNEW THAT IT WAS A DEATH SENTENCE.
- 00:15:55.030 --> 00:15:56.230
- SHE KNEW THERE WAS VERY LITTLE THAT COULD BE DONE.
- 00:15:56.250 --> 00:15:59.190
- AND CLIFTON, THIS IS ONE OF THESE THINGS IN LIFE
- 00:15:59.210 --> 00:16:02.090
- WHEN YOU REALIZE ONLY GOD CAN SAVE THIS.
- 00:16:02.110 --> 00:16:09.030
- ONLY GOD CAN TURN THIS AROUND.
- 00:16:09.050 --> 00:16:11.120
- THE PRESIDENT, DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH HE CARES
- 00:16:11.140 --> 00:16:15.150
- OR HOW MUCH -- HE CAN'T SAVE HIM.
- 00:16:15.170 --> 00:16:17.290
- I CAN'T SAVE HIM.
- 00:16:18.010 --> 00:16:20.260
- THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO.
- 00:16:20.280 --> 00:16:22.170
- AND OF COURSE THE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY IT
- 00:16:22.190 --> 00:16:24.010
- ALWAYS RUNS SLOW, OKAY.
- 00:16:24.030 --> 00:16:26.210
- AND SO WE GOT ON THE TELEPHONE.
- 00:16:26.230 --> 00:16:29.290
- WE HAD AN INSURANCE POLICY THAT IF YOU GET
- 00:16:30.010 --> 00:16:33.110
- SICK ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, THEY'LL SEND AN
- 00:16:33.130 --> 00:16:36.170
- AIRPLANE, OKAY.
- 00:16:36.190 --> 00:16:38.070
- THEY'LL COME PICK YOU UP.
- 00:16:38.090 --> 00:16:39.220
- CALL THEM.
- 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.170
- OKAY, NOW WHERE IS THIS?
- 00:16:41.190 --> 00:16:43.100
- IS IN LIBERIA.
- 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.190
- OKAY, FINE.
- 00:16:44.210 --> 00:16:46.230
- WE CAN DO THAT.
- 00:16:46.250 --> 00:16:48.110
- AND WHAT DOES THE PATIENT HAVE?
- 00:16:48.130 --> 00:16:50.060
- EBOLA.
- 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:51.160
- WE'RE NOT GOING.
- 00:16:51.180 --> 00:16:55.060
- WELL, WE HAVE A POLICY.
- 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:56.160
- WE'VE BEEN PAYING ON THIS POLICY FOR YEARS.
- 00:16:56.180 --> 00:16:57.200
- SUE US.
- 00:16:57.220 --> 00:16:58.280
- WE DON'T CARE.
- 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.090
- WE'RE NOT GOING TO LIBERIA TO PICK UP EBOLA.
- 00:17:00.110 --> 00:17:01.290
- SO WE HAD NO WAY TO GET HIM.
- 00:17:02.010 --> 00:17:06.000
- THERE WAS NO AIRLINE THAT WAS GOING TO TAKE HIM.
- 00:17:06.020 --> 00:17:08.040
- THE AIRLINES STOPPED GOING TO LIBERIA.
- 00:17:08.060 --> 00:17:10.070
- THEY DIDN'T WANT TO PICK UP PEOPLE COMING OUT OF LIBERIA.
- 00:17:10.090 --> 00:17:12.110
- SO ALL THE SUDDEN NOW LIBERIA IS BEING
- 00:17:12.130 --> 00:17:15.060
- QUARANTINED, THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
- 00:17:15.080 --> 00:17:17.060
- YOU CAN'T -IT'S DIFFICULT TO GET IN AND OUT, AND
- 00:17:17.080 --> 00:17:19.140
- NOW WE GOT DOCTOR BRANTLY IS DYING.
- 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:23.160
- WHEN YOU GET EBOLA, ABOUT TEN DAYS IS ALL YOU HAVE.
- 00:17:23.180 --> 00:17:26.250
- THAT'S HOW QUICK, AND THEN YOU BEGIN TO BLEED,
- 00:17:26.270 --> 00:17:32.080
- YOUR ORGANS BEGIN TO BLEED INSIDE SO BLOOD
- 00:17:32.100 --> 00:17:34.150
- COMES OUT OF YOUR NOSE.
- 00:17:34.170 --> 00:17:36.140
- IT COMES OUT OF YOUR EARS.
- 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:37.270
- IT COMES OUT OF YOUR URINE, YOUR STOOL.
- 00:17:37.290 --> 00:17:39.250
- EVERY ORIFICE OF YOUR BODY BLOOD BEGINS TO OOZE.
- 00:17:39.270 --> 00:17:45.260
- IT'S A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE THING.
- 00:17:45.280 --> 00:17:47.240
- BUT DOCTOR BRANTLY HAD THIS.
- 00:17:47.260 --> 00:17:51.070
- SO SATURDAY WE KNEW HE HAD IT.
- 00:17:51.090 --> 00:17:54.060
- ON MONDAY, WE FOUND THIS INSURANCE POLICY.
- 00:17:54.080 --> 00:17:57.040
- BY MONDAY EVENING NOW WE KNEW THAT PLANE IS NOT GOING.
- 00:17:57.060 --> 00:18:00.280
- TUESDAY, ONE OF OUR GUYS WAS TALKING TO A GUY AT
- 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.080
- THE STATE DEPARTMENT, AND THIS GUY SAID, YOU KNOW,
- 00:18:04.100 --> 00:18:07.140
- WE DO HAVE AN ASSET THAT CAN TRANSPORT A HIGHLY
- 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:12.080
- INFECTED PERSON.
- 00:18:12.100 --> 00:18:14.130
- WHO DO WE HAVE TO TALK TO?
- 00:18:14.150 --> 00:18:16.250
- HE SAID, YOU'RE TALKING TO HIM.
- 00:18:16.270 --> 00:18:19.070
- - WOW. WAIT A MINUTE.
- 00:18:19.090 --> 00:18:21.130
- [ APPLAUSE ]
- 00:18:21.150 --> 00:18:24.010
- I DON'T WANT OUR AUDIENCE TO MISS THIS.
- 00:18:24.030 --> 00:18:26.250
- HERE YOU'RE PRAYING, YOU'RE WORKING, YOU'RE THERE
- 00:18:26.270 --> 00:18:29.170
- IN GOD'S NAME, IN JESUS' NAME.
- 00:18:29.190 --> 00:18:32.040
- YOU ARE WORKING TO SAVE LIVES, AND ONE OF THE PEOPLE --
- 00:18:32.060 --> 00:18:34.040
- - FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
- 00:18:34.060 --> 00:18:36.200
- - WHO IS SAVING LIVES COMES AT THE LAST MINUTE
- 00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:40.110
- AND HE GETS ILL, AND NOW YOU HAVE NO WAY TO HELP
- 00:18:40.130 --> 00:18:43.070
- HIM EXCEPT GOD INTERVENES.
- 00:18:43.090 --> 00:18:46.010
- [ APPLAUSE ]
- 00:18:46.030 --> 00:18:48.050
- - THERE WAS THIS GUY IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
- 00:18:48.070 --> 00:18:50.120
- HE'S NOT THE HEAD OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
- 00:18:50.140 --> 00:18:52.020
- HE'S JUST ONE OF THOSE GUYS DOWN WORKING AT A
- 00:18:52.040 --> 00:18:54.060
- DESK, BUT HE CONTROLLED THIS AIRPLANE.
- 00:18:54.080 --> 00:18:57.100
- - WOW.
- 00:18:57.120 --> 00:18:59.070
- - OUT OF GEORGIA, AND HE SAID NOW, SAMARITAN'S
- 00:18:59.090 --> 00:19:01.260
- PURSE WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.
- 00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:03.250
- THE TAXPAYERS CANNOT DO THIS.
- 00:19:03.270 --> 00:19:05.270
- IT'S A GOVERNMENT AIRPLANE, BUT IF
- 00:19:05.290 --> 00:19:07.280
- SAMARITAN'S PURSE PAYS FOR THE PLANE,
- 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.220
- I'LL MAKE IT AVAILABLE.
- 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:11.180
- - WOW.
- 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.260
- - SO TUESDAY AFTERNOON, WE DO A WIRE TRANSFER SO
- 00:19:13.280 --> 00:19:15.230
- THEY HAVE THE MONEY.
- 00:19:15.250 --> 00:19:17.200
- SO THE PLANE IS NOW SCHEDULED TO LEAVE ON
- 00:19:17.220 --> 00:19:20.020
- WEDNESDAY TO PICK UP DOCTOR BRANTLY.
- 00:19:20.040 --> 00:19:22.170
- NOW DOCTOR BRANTLY -- - IT'S ALREADY SATURDAY.
- 00:19:22.190 --> 00:19:24.140
- - YEAH, WELL, HE CAME DOWN ON WEDNESDAY THE
- 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.200
- PREVIOUS WEEK, SO IT'S NOW SEVEN DAYS.
- 00:19:26.220 --> 00:19:28.170
- - OH, MY GOODNESS.
- 00:19:28.190 --> 00:19:31.090
- - SO THE CLOCK IS TICKING.
- 00:19:31.110 --> 00:19:33.100
- AND HERE DR. BRANTLY IS SERIOUSLY ILL, AND HE'S
- 00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:37.030
- GETTING WEAKER BY THE DAY, AND THE PLANE TAKES
- 00:19:37.050 --> 00:19:39.290
- OFF ON WEDNESDAY, SCHEDULED TO PICK HIM UP
- 00:19:40.010 --> 00:19:42.090
- ON THURSDAY TO GET HIM BACK BY FRIDAY.
- 00:19:42.110 --> 00:19:46.010
- THE PLANE HAD PRESSURIZATION PROBLEMS,
- 00:19:46.030 --> 00:19:50.180
- SO HALFWAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, THE PLANE HAD
- 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.160
- TO TURN AROUND AND COME BACK.
- 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:55.020
- AND YOU JUST ASK YOURSELF, LORD, WHY?
- 00:19:55.040 --> 00:19:59.130
- WHAT IN THE WORLD?
- 00:19:59.150 --> 00:20:01.150
- ON THURSDAY, A PERSON SHOWED UP IN LIBERIA WITH
- 00:20:01.170 --> 00:20:08.020
- A BOX THAT HAD THREE FROZEN IV BAGS CALLED ZMAPP.
- 00:20:08.040 --> 00:20:16.290
- THEY SAID THIS HAS BEEN USED ON PRIMATES.
- 00:20:17.010 --> 00:20:20.100
- NOW PRIMATES, YOU KNOW, MONKEYS, APES.
- 00:20:20.120 --> 00:20:22.270
- IT'S NEVER BEEN USED ON A HUMAN BEING BEFORE.
- 00:20:22.290 --> 00:20:25.280
- THEY SAID BUT IN RESEARCH, IT SHOWED SOME PROMISE.
- 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:31.040
- YOU MIGHT WANT TO GIVE THIS TO DR. BRANTLY.
- 00:20:31.060 --> 00:20:34.140
- NOW THIS STUFF HAD BEEN SENT TO SIERRA LEONE TO A
- 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:38.040
- DOCTOR, DR. KHAN WHO WAS ONE OF THE LEADING
- 00:20:38.060 --> 00:20:42.260
- DOCTORS IN THE WORLD ON EBOLA.
- 00:20:42.280 --> 00:20:44.160
- HE HAD IT AND HE WAS DYING, BUT THE DOCTORS
- 00:20:44.180 --> 00:20:47.060
- REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM BECAUSE IT WAS
- 00:20:47.080 --> 00:20:48.230
- EXPERIMENTAL, AND THE LAWYERS SAID WE COULD GET
- 00:20:48.250 --> 00:20:51.130
- SUED SO THEY DIDN'T GIVE IT TO HIM AND HE DIED.
- 00:20:51.150 --> 00:20:55.150
- SO NOW IT SHOWS UP, IT GOES BY CANOE ACROSS A
- 00:20:55.170 --> 00:20:59.170
- RIVER, IT GOES BY SMALL PLANE BY A TAXI AND NOW
- 00:20:59.190 --> 00:21:03.170
- WE GET THIS BOX. AND IT'S FROZEN.
- 00:21:03.190 --> 00:21:06.230
- WHEN YOU OPEN IT UP IN THE TROPICS, THIS
- 00:21:06.250 --> 00:21:08.080
- STEAM VAPOR COMES OFF.
- 00:21:08.100 --> 00:21:10.240
- IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF AN ALFRED HITCHCOCK
- 00:21:10.260 --> 00:21:12.130
- MOVIE, BUT IT'S MADE FROM MICE BLOOD OF ALL
- 00:21:12.150 --> 00:21:17.250
- THINGS, AND IT'S CULTIVATED ON TOBACCO LEAVES.
- 00:21:17.270 --> 00:21:21.230
- SO WHEN THEY TOLD ME THIS THING HAD ANTIBODIES IN
- 00:21:21.250 --> 00:21:24.240
- IT, I SAID MICE BLOOD?
- 00:21:24.260 --> 00:21:27.030
- I DON'T BELIEVE-- ARE YOU SURE?
- 00:21:27.050 --> 00:21:31.050
- AND WE'RE GONNA GIVE THIS TO DR. BRANTLY?
- 00:21:31.070 --> 00:21:34.150
- THEY SAID FRANKLIN, WE DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE.
- 00:21:34.170 --> 00:21:36.240
- ON THURSDAY NIGHT, DR. BRANTLY, REMEMBER THE
- 00:21:36.260 --> 00:21:39.230
- PLANE HAD TO TURN AROUND AND GO BACK, DR. BRANTLY
- 00:21:39.250 --> 00:21:42.140
- NOW IS DYING.
- 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:44.170
- HE'S ALREADY TOLD THE DOCTORS, OUR DOCTORS THAT
- 00:21:44.190 --> 00:21:46.230
- WERE TENDING HIM I DON'T HAVE ANYMORE STRENGTH,
- 00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:49.060
- I CANNOT CONTINUE.
- 00:21:49.080 --> 00:21:52.040
- AND HIS BREATHING NOW BECAME VERY LABORED.
- 00:21:52.060 --> 00:21:55.100
- AND HE SAID I WON'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT.
- 00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:58.100
- AND WE MADE THAT DECISION, OUR DOCTORS,
- 00:21:58.120 --> 00:22:00.130
- TO PUT THIS ZMAPP IN HIM.
- 00:22:00.150 --> 00:22:03.260
- - LET ME TOSS RIGHT NOW TO THE VIDEO ABOUT
- 00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:08.000
- DR. BRANTLY'S RESPONSE TO THIS MEDICINE.
- 00:22:08.020 --> 00:22:11.290
- - KENDELL CAME FLYING THROUGH THE DOOR AND SAID
- 00:22:13.270 --> 00:22:17.250
- YOU GUYS NEED TO START PRAYING FOR KENT,
- 00:22:17.270 --> 00:22:19.090
- HE'S ABOUT TO DIE AND THEN LEFT.
- 00:22:19.110 --> 00:22:21.200
- - I REMEMBER GETTING ON THE FLOOR AND PRAYING,
- 00:22:21.220 --> 00:22:23.160
- OH, GOD IT'S NOT TOO MUCH FOR YOU TO SAVE HIS LIFE,
- 00:22:23.180 --> 00:22:29.170
- WILL YOU SAVE IT.
- 00:22:29.190 --> 00:22:31.210
- - WE HUNG THE BAG OF ZMAPP AND HAD TO COUNT
- 00:22:31.230 --> 00:22:35.170
- THE DRIPS, AND I REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT
- 00:22:35.190 --> 00:22:39.080
- I GOT THE RATE RIGHT BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT IT
- 00:22:39.100 --> 00:22:42.130
- TO GO IN TOO FAST OR TO GO IN TOO SLOW.
- 00:22:42.150 --> 00:22:46.170
- IT WAS EXTREMELY STRESSFUL.
- 00:22:46.190 --> 00:22:55.020
- ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS I DON'T WANT HIM TO DIE.
- 00:22:55.040 --> 00:23:00.230
- - I SAID EVERYONE YOU JUST HAVE TO PRAY, JUST PRAY.
- 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:04.200
- MY MOM WAS ASKING QUESTIONS, WHAT'S GOING ON?
- 00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:06.240
- SHOULD I TAKE THE KIDS OUT?
- 00:23:06.260 --> 00:23:08.200
- I SAID JUST PRAY MOM. JUST PRAY.
- 00:23:08.220 --> 00:23:13.200
- - WHILE WE WERE WAITING, KENT DEVELOPED RIGORS.
- 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:19.030
- - HE STARTED TO CONVULSE.
- 00:23:19.050 --> 00:23:20.180
- - SHAKE VERY INTENSELY.
- 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:24.180
- - AND I JUST THOUGHT TO MYSELF THIS IS IT.
- 00:23:28.070 --> 00:23:30.290
- - WOW!
- 00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:35.160
- AND INTO THIS MOMENT THIS DRAMATIC MOMENT,
- 00:23:35.180 --> 00:23:39.160
- THIS LIFE AND DEATH MOMENT, GOD STEPPED IN.
- 00:23:39.180 --> 00:23:43.180
- - HE SHOWED UP.
- 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:45.010
- - HE SHOWED UP AND SHOWED OUT.
- 00:23:45.030 --> 00:23:46.260
- - HE SHOWED UP. [APPLAUSE]
- 00:23:46.280 --> 00:23:57.180
- - DR. BRANTLY BEGAN TO RESPOND TO THIS MEDICATION.
- 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:01.000
- - LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED.
- 00:24:01.020 --> 00:24:03.020
- - YES.
- 00:24:03.040 --> 00:24:04.240
- - THEY PUT THIS ZMAPP IN HIS ARM.
- 00:24:04.260 --> 00:24:07.140
- HE GOES INTO CONVULSIONS IMMEDIATELY, WHAT YOU SAW
- 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.160
- IN THE FILM, THIS VIOLENT SHAKING.
- 00:24:11.180 --> 00:24:15.200
- AND SO THE DOCTORS CALLED THE MANUFACTURERS OF
- 00:24:15.220 --> 00:24:18.290
- THIS, IT'S KILLING HIM.
- 00:24:19.010 --> 00:24:22.160
- THEY SAID NO, WE SAW THIS HAPPEN TO THE PRIMATES.
- 00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:25.060
- IT'S THE ANTIBODIES FIGHTING THE VIRUS.
- 00:24:25.080 --> 00:24:28.210
- - WOW!
- 00:24:28.230 --> 00:24:31.040
- - SO HE HAS THIS VIOLENT SHAKING, AND 30 TO 35
- 00:24:31.060 --> 00:24:38.210
- MINUTES HE BEGAN TO RELAX, THE SHAKING STOPPED.
- 00:24:38.230 --> 00:24:44.120
- HE GOT OUT OF HIS BED AND WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND
- 00:24:44.140 --> 00:24:48.100
- HE HADN'T BEEN OUT OF THE BED IN THREE DAYS.
- 00:24:48.120 --> 00:24:50.270
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:24:50.290 --> 00:24:58.100
- REMEMBER THAT AIRPLANE THAT HAD TO
- 00:24:58.120 --> 00:25:00.150
- TURN AROUND AND GO BACK?
- 00:25:00.170 --> 00:25:01.220
- - YEAH.
- 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:03.010
- - THAT AIRPLANE WAS SUPPOSED TO PICK HIM UP
- 00:25:03.030 --> 00:25:04.160
- THURSDAY. IF THAT PLANE HAD ARRIVED, HE WOULD HAVE
- 00:25:04.180 --> 00:25:09.080
- BEEN ON THAT PLANE WITHOUT THAT ZMAPP.
- 00:25:09.100 --> 00:25:11.070
- HE WOULD HAVE DIED ON THE WAY HOME.
- 00:25:11.090 --> 00:25:15.020
- HE WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD.
- 00:25:15.040 --> 00:25:17.110
- SO LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, GOD ANSWERS
- 00:25:17.130 --> 00:25:21.220
- PRAYERS. HE DOESN'T ALWAYS ANSWER IT NECESSARILY
- 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:24.090
- THE WAY WE THINK.
- 00:25:24.110 --> 00:25:25.140
- - ABSOLUTELY.
- 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:26.260
- GOD GIVES US FREE WILL BUT LIFE GOES ON.
- 00:25:26.280 --> 00:25:30.250
- SICKNESS WILL CONTINUE IN THIS WORLD, DISEASE HAS
- 00:25:30.270 --> 00:25:35.000
- NOT BEEN ELIMINATED, NOT UNTIL JESUS COMES AGAIN
- 00:25:35.020 --> 00:25:38.260
- AND THE WORLD IS CHANGED AND WE ARE ALL CHANGED AS WELL.
- 00:25:38.280 --> 00:25:42.250
- - BUT GOD CARES. - HE DOES CARE.
- 00:25:42.270 --> 00:25:45.100
- - HE CARES FOR US.
- 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:47.030
- AND YOU TAKE DR. BRANTLY, HERE HE WAS DYING, THE
- 00:25:47.050 --> 00:25:51.170
- PLANE HAD TO TURN AROUND AND COME BACK
- 00:25:51.190 --> 00:25:53.050
- AND I'M ASKING GOD WHY?
- 00:25:53.070 --> 00:25:56.070
- AND GOD IS PROBABLY JUST SAYING FRANKLIN, JUST
- 00:25:56.090 --> 00:25:58.140
- SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN. I'M TAKING CARE OF THIS.
- 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:03.110
- BUT WE DIDN'T SEE THAT AT THE TIME.
- 00:26:03.130 --> 00:26:06.130
- I SAW THAT DR. BRANTLY IS GONNA DIE AND LORD, WHY?
- 00:26:06.150 --> 00:26:09.050
- WE'VE GOT THE AIRPLANE, EMORY UNIVERSITY IS GONNA
- 00:26:09.070 --> 00:26:11.230
- TAKE HIM IN ATLANTA, THE PRESIDENT HAS ALLOWED HIM
- 00:26:11.250 --> 00:26:16.040
- TO COME BACK WITHOUT A PASSPORT BECAUSE HIS
- 00:26:16.060 --> 00:26:18.010
- PASSPORT, WE COULDN'T GET TO IT BECAUSE IT WAS INFECTED.
- 00:26:18.030 --> 00:26:21.270
- SO ALL OF THESE THINGS HAD BEEN WORKED OUT AND
- 00:26:21.290 --> 00:26:24.020
- NOW THE PLANE CAN'T COME.
- 00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:26.260
- BUT GOD KNEW THAT HE NEEDED THAT ZMAPP.
- 00:26:26.280 --> 00:26:29.040
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:26:29.060 --> 00:26:34.000
- SO THE PLANE SHOWS UP ON FRIDAY, TAKES HIM BACK TO
- 00:26:34.020 --> 00:26:42.110
- THE UNITED STATES TO EMORY UNIVERSITY IN
- 00:26:42.130 --> 00:26:44.210
- ATLANTA, AND WHEN HE GETS TO EMERY, THEY OPEN UP
- 00:26:44.230 --> 00:26:47.190
- THE AMBULANCE DOOR AND HE WALKS OUT OF THE AMBULANCE.
- 00:26:47.210 --> 00:26:51.130
- - OH, MY GOD! LOOK AT GOD! [APPLAUSE]
- 00:26:51.150 --> 00:26:56.090
- - HE WALKS OUT.
- 00:26:56.110 --> 00:26:58.210
- AND THEN ON NANCY WRITEBOL, AN ASSISTANT,
- 00:26:58.230 --> 00:27:04.060
- SHE CAME DOWN AT THE SAME TIME WITH IT.
- 00:27:04.080 --> 00:27:06.190
- - WOW, NOW ANOTHER PATIENT.
- 00:27:06.210 --> 00:27:08.220
- - SHE WASN'T QUITE AS SICK ON THAT THURSDAY,
- 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:12.160
- BUT WE HAD TWO MORE BAGS AND WE PUT THE TWO BAGS
- 00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:17.030
- IN HER, WE BROUGHT KENT BACK, THE PLANE NEEDED 24
- 00:27:17.050 --> 00:27:20.290
- HOURS TO TURN AROUND BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO
- 00:27:21.010 --> 00:27:23.040
- CLEAN OUT THE AIRPLANE AND DISINFECT IT, AND
- 00:27:23.060 --> 00:27:26.110
- THEN THE PLANE WENT BACK TO LIBERIA, PICKED UP
- 00:27:26.130 --> 00:27:28.280
- NANCY WRITEBOL AND GOT HER BACK.
- 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:31.230
- NOW WHEN SHE CAME BACK, SHE WAS SICKER.
- 00:27:31.250 --> 00:27:33.240
- SHE WAS AN OLDER PERSON THAN KENT, SO SHE DIDN'T
- 00:27:33.260 --> 00:27:37.070
- WALK OUT OF THAT AMBULANCE BUT SHE
- 00:27:37.090 --> 00:27:38.220
- GOT OUT OF HOSPITAL BEFORE HE DID.
- 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:40.170
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:27:40.190 --> 00:27:43.250
- BUT THIS IS, THIS FILM IS NOT JUST ABOUT NANCY AND
- 00:27:43.270 --> 00:27:47.250
- KENT HOW GOD SAVED THEIR LIFE BECAUSE GOD DID SAVE
- 00:27:47.270 --> 00:27:50.020
- THEIR LIFE, BUT IT'S ABOUT THE WORKERS, IT'S ABOUT
- 00:27:50.040 --> 00:27:53.190
- THE PEOPLE OF LIBERIA, IT'S ABOUT THE SUFFERING
- 00:27:53.210 --> 00:27:55.250
- THAT THEY WENT THROUGH, AND WHEN KENT CAME BACK,
- 00:27:55.270 --> 00:27:58.290
- HE BECAME THE VOICE FOR THE LIBERIAN PEOPLE.
- 00:27:59.010 --> 00:28:02.100
- AND HE BEGAN, HE WENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS,
- 00:28:02.120 --> 00:28:04.220
- HE SPOKE BEFORE CONGRESS ASKING FOR HELP, THE
- 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:08.040
- PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT OBAMA BROUGHT HIM TO THE
- 00:28:08.060 --> 00:28:11.000
- WHITE HOUSE, HE SPOKE TO THE PRESIDENT, THE
- 00:28:11.020 --> 00:28:13.250
- PRESIDENT MADE ALL TYPES OF RESOURCES NOW
- 00:28:13.270 --> 00:28:16.060
- AVAILABLE TO THE FIGHT OF EBOLA.
- 00:28:16.080 --> 00:28:18.160
- SO WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR THAT.
- 00:28:18.180 --> 00:28:20.080
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:28:20.100 --> 00:28:26.030
- - ASIDE FROM THESE MIRACLE HEALINGS THAT
- 00:28:26.050 --> 00:28:29.070
- HAPPENED, WE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT PEOPLE CARING
- 00:28:29.090 --> 00:28:34.130
- FOR PEOPLE AS WELL DURING THIS EXPERIENCE.
- 00:28:34.150 --> 00:28:40.130
- WHAT WAS THEIR ROAD TO RECOVERY LIKE?
- 00:28:40.150 --> 00:28:43.060
- WAS IT AN EASY PATH? DID THEY STRUGGLE?
- 00:28:43.080 --> 00:28:48.160
- HOW DID IT WORK OUT FOR THEM GETTING HOME?
- 00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:51.280
- - FIRST OF ALL, LET ME GO BACK.
- 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.100
- REMEMBER NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT EBOLA.
- 00:28:54.120 --> 00:28:57.290
- WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW YOU GOT IT.
- 00:28:58.010 --> 00:29:00.060
- - OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT IT KILLS YOU.
- 00:29:00.080 --> 00:29:01.220
- - IT KILLS YOU.
- 00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:03.010
- WE DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS AIRBORNE OR BODILY FLUIDS.
- 00:29:03.030 --> 00:29:06.030
- WE SUSPECTED BUT WE DIDN'T QUITE KNOW.
- 00:29:06.050 --> 00:29:08.200
- AND THE CDC HERE IN THIS COUNTRY, THEY DIDN'T KNOW.
- 00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:12.160
- I CALLED UP THE HEAD OF THE CDC, I SAID I'VE GOT--
- 00:29:12.180 --> 00:29:15.120
- - CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL.
- 00:29:15.140 --> 00:29:17.050
- - CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL OF ATLANTA.
- 00:29:17.070 --> 00:29:19.060
- I'M BRINGING BACK 24 PEOPLE OF MY STAFF THAT
- 00:29:19.080 --> 00:29:23.220
- MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO EBOLA.
- 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:25.070
- WHAT DO I DO?
- 00:29:25.090 --> 00:29:26.240
- WHAT ARE THE PROTOCOLS FOR BRINGING THEM INTO
- 00:29:26.260 --> 00:29:28.130
- THE UNITED STATES TO-- AND I'M WORRIED ABOUT
- 00:29:28.150 --> 00:29:30.180
- PROTECTING THE AMERICAN POPULATION.
- 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.260
- HOW DO WE PROTECT THEM?
- 00:29:32.280 --> 00:29:34.230
- THEY SAID, HE SAID WELL TELL THEM TO GO HOME AND
- 00:29:34.250 --> 00:29:37.070
- TAKE THEIR TEMPERATURE TWICE A DAY, AND IF THEY
- 00:29:37.090 --> 00:29:41.210
- GET A SPIKE IN THEIR TEMPERATURE, TELL THEM TO
- 00:29:41.230 --> 00:29:43.190
- GO TO THE LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
- 00:29:43.210 --> 00:29:46.100
- I THOUGHT IF SOMEONE WHERE I LIVE IN BOONE,
- 00:29:46.120 --> 00:29:49.080
- NORTH CAROLINA, AND YOU GO TO OUR LOCAL HEALTH
- 00:29:49.100 --> 00:29:51.220
- DEPARTMENT AND SAID HEY, I THINK I GOT EBOLA,
- 00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.160
- THEY'RE GONNA RUN OUT THE BACK DOOR.
- 00:29:53.180 --> 00:29:56.240
- AND THEN THEY'RE GONNA CALL THE SWAT TEAM.
- 00:29:56.260 --> 00:29:59.290
- SO OUR COUNTRY WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS.
- 00:30:00.010 --> 00:30:04.100
- AND WHEN DR. BRANTLY CAME BACK, ALL OF A SUDDEN THE
- 00:30:04.120 --> 00:30:08.180
- UNITED STATES REALIZED OUR GOVERNMENT REALIZED
- 00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.290
- WE WERE NOT PREPARED FOR ANY TYPE OF INFECTION
- 00:30:11.010 --> 00:30:13.140
- LIKE THIS. AND SO ALL OF OUR HOSPITALS ACROSS THE
- 00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:16.080
- COUNTRY CHANGED THEIR PROTOCOLS, UPGRADED THEIR
- 00:30:16.100 --> 00:30:19.240
- FACILITIES TO DEAL WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
- 00:30:19.260 --> 00:30:22.020
- WE ARE MUCH BETTER PREPARED TODAY
- 00:30:22.040 --> 00:30:23.250
- THAN WE WERE BACK THEN.
- 00:30:23.270 --> 00:30:25.130
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:30:25.150 --> 00:30:32.150
- - LET ME ASK YOU AFTER THAT MIRACULOUS OUTCOME,
- 00:30:32.170 --> 00:30:37.150
- I KNOW WE'VE SEEN IN MINISTRY WE'VE SEEN GOD
- 00:30:37.170 --> 00:30:41.030
- WORK MIRACLES OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
- 00:30:41.050 --> 00:30:44.130
- I WISH EVERYONE KNEW WITH THE SAME SURETY THAT YOU
- 00:30:44.150 --> 00:30:49.290
- AND I HAVE OF GOD'S MIRACLE WORKING POWER.
- 00:30:50.010 --> 00:30:54.250
- I WISH EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD THAT AS CLEARLY.
- 00:30:54.270 --> 00:30:58.120
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:30:58.140 --> 00:31:01.240
- IT TOOK ME MORE THAN 35 YEARS BEFORE
- 00:31:01.260 --> 00:31:04.100
- I CAME TO THE LORD.
- 00:31:04.120 --> 00:31:06.070
- I WAS ON THE WILD.
- 00:31:06.090 --> 00:31:09.070
- AND THEN I PRESENTED GOD WITH WHAT TO ME WAS THE
- 00:31:09.090 --> 00:31:15.020
- MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM OF ALL. ME.
- 00:31:15.040 --> 00:31:22.090
- AND I SAID WELL, I'LL GIVE YOU AN HOUR OR TWO.
- 00:31:22.110 --> 00:31:25.270
- I CAN'T EVEN GIVE YOU A DAY BECAUSE I MAY
- 00:31:25.290 --> 00:31:28.180
- NEED TO GO GET ME A FIX.
- 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.290
- BUT I'LL GIVE YOU AN HOUR.
- 00:31:32.010 --> 00:31:35.200
- GOD TOOK THAT HOUR AND IT TURNED IT INTO
- 00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:37.210
- 35 YEARS CLEAN.
- 00:31:37.230 --> 00:31:39.160
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:31:39.180 --> 00:31:43.270
- SO I KNOW FIRSTHAND THE MIRACLE WORKING POWER OF
- 00:31:43.290 --> 00:31:49.150
- GOD, BUT AT THE SAME TIME FRANKLIN, I ALSO KNOW
- 00:31:49.170 --> 00:31:53.080
- THAT GOD DOESN'T ALWAYS ANSWER OUR HEALING
- 00:31:53.100 --> 00:31:57.230
- PRAYERS IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
- 00:31:57.250 --> 00:32:00.280
- JUST ONE MONTH AGO, MY AGENT, ONE OF MY AGENTS
- 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:06.230
- WHO IS A 53 YEAR OLD WOMAN DISCOVERED SHE HAD
- 00:32:06.250 --> 00:32:11.070
- CANCER IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER.
- 00:32:11.090 --> 00:32:14.110
- AND BY MID TO LATE JANUARY, IN SPITE OF ALL
- 00:32:14.130 --> 00:32:19.090
- OUR PRAYERS, ALL THE TREATMENT, CHEMO THERAPY,
- 00:32:19.110 --> 00:32:23.100
- SHE PASSED AWAY JUST A FEW MONTHS.
- 00:32:23.120 --> 00:32:26.260
- AND SHE WAS SO YOUNG AND ONE OF THE SWEETEST
- 00:32:26.280 --> 00:32:28.290
- PEOPLE ON THE PLANET.
- 00:32:29.010 --> 00:32:31.070
- AND SO OF COURSE, WE QUESTIONED THE LORD.
- 00:32:31.090 --> 00:32:33.220
- WE SAID LORD, WHY?
- 00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:35.040
- WHY WOULD YOU ALLOW THIS?
- 00:32:35.060 --> 00:32:37.000
- AND GOD SPOKE INTO MY SPIRIT AND HE SAID SHE'S
- 00:32:37.020 --> 00:32:40.060
- RESTING. SHE'S RESTING NOW. HER WORK IS OVER.
- 00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:44.190
- SHE'S GOT IT BETTER THAN YOU RIGHT NOW.
- 00:32:44.210 --> 00:32:48.000
- AND I JUST HAVE TO TRUST GOD ALL THE WAY.
- 00:32:48.020 --> 00:32:55.070
- - YOU KNOW SOMETIMES LIKE IN DR. BRANTLY'S
- 00:32:55.090 --> 00:32:58.180
- CASE, GOD USED DR. BRANTLY TO GET THE
- 00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:02.190
- ATTENTION OF THE WORLD.
- 00:33:02.210 --> 00:33:05.030
- GOD USED DR. BRANTLY AND NANCY WRITEBOL TO SHINE A
- 00:33:05.050 --> 00:33:08.250
- SPOTLIGHT ON THE PEOPLE THAT WERE DYING IN
- 00:33:08.270 --> 00:33:11.160
- LIBERIA AND THE WORLD WAS IGNORING THEM.
- 00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:15.000
- THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WAS IGNORING
- 00:33:15.020 --> 00:33:16.250
- LIBERIA AND GUINEA AND SIERRA LEONE,
- 00:33:16.270 --> 00:33:19.080
- SO WAS THE EUROPEAN UNION.
- 00:33:19.100 --> 00:33:21.250
- NOBODY WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO THEM UNTIL
- 00:33:21.270 --> 00:33:23.190
- DR. BRANTLY, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN
- 00:33:23.210 --> 00:33:25.140
- IT WOKE AMERICA UP.
- 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:27.170
- AND THE ADMINISTRATION WENT INTO OVERDRIVE.
- 00:33:27.190 --> 00:33:31.100
- AND SO IT WASN'T JUST SAVING THE LIVES OF
- 00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:33.110
- DR. BRANTLY, BUT THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
- 00:33:33.130 --> 00:33:36.090
- LIBERIANS THAT ARE WALKING TODAY BECAUSE
- 00:33:36.110 --> 00:33:38.260
- DR. BRANTLY GOT INFECTED.
- 00:33:38.280 --> 00:33:40.200
- - PRAISE THE LORD. PRAISE THE LORD!
- 00:33:40.220 --> 00:33:42.190
- - SO GOD USED THAT.
- 00:33:42.210 --> 00:33:44.180
- - AND GOD USED YOU, FRANKLIN GRAHAM.
- 00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:47.050
- GOD USED YOU AND SAMARITAN'S PURSE AND
- 00:33:47.070 --> 00:33:50.160
- THE CRITICAL MISSIONS MINISTRY THAT YOU DO OVER
- 00:33:50.180 --> 00:33:54.000
- THERE IN LIBERIA TO HELP BRING ALL OF THIS TO PASS.
- 00:33:54.020 --> 00:33:58.210
- GIVE GOD THE PRAISE FOR THIS MAN'S MINISTRY.
- 00:33:58.230 --> 00:34:01.140
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:05.070
- GIVE HIM THE PRAISE!
- 00:34:05.090 --> 00:34:08.040
- LET ME ASK YOU VERY QUICKLY, WHAT MESSAGE
- 00:34:08.060 --> 00:34:14.110
- DID GOD GIVE TO YOU TO CAUSE YOU TO OPEN
- 00:34:14.130 --> 00:34:16.180
- A HOSPITAL IN IRAQ?
- 00:34:16.200 --> 00:34:19.090
- - WELL, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME GO BACK TO THIS FILM.
- 00:34:19.110 --> 00:34:24.060
- IT'S GONNA BE OUT ON THURSDAY THE 30TH IN
- 00:34:24.080 --> 00:34:28.100
- THEATERS, BUT WE'VE GOT 600 THEATERS ALL ACROSS
- 00:34:28.120 --> 00:34:31.080
- THIS COUNTRY AND IT'S GONNA BE ON FOR ONE NIGHT.
- 00:34:31.100 --> 00:34:34.020
- THEN THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER SHOWING ON APRIL 10TH.
- 00:34:34.040 --> 00:34:36.240
- BUT YOU CAN GO TO SAMARITAN'S PURSE WEBSITE,
- 00:34:36.260 --> 00:34:41.070
- OR YOU CAN GO TO FACINGDARKNESSMOVIE.COM
- 00:34:41.090 --> 00:34:44.080
- AND FIND OUT WHERE THE THEATERS ARE IN YOUR
- 00:34:44.100 --> 00:34:46.240
- AREAS THAT ARE SHOWING THEM.
- 00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:48.080
- THERE WILL BE THEATERS HERE IN NEW YORK THAT
- 00:34:48.100 --> 00:34:49.160
- WILL BE SHOWING IT.
- 00:34:49.180 --> 00:34:51.030
- THEN YOU CAN GET TICKETS ONLINE.
- 00:34:51.050 --> 00:34:53.090
- NOW IF THERE'S ANY PROCEEDS FROM THIS, IT
- 00:34:53.110 --> 00:34:56.270
- GOES TO SUPPORT MEDICAL MISSIONS AND HOSPITALS.
- 00:34:56.290 --> 00:35:00.160
- - PRAISE THE LORD! AWESOME. THANK YOU.
- 00:35:00.180 --> 00:35:04.060
- - BUT TALKING ABOUT IRAQ.
- 00:35:04.080 --> 00:35:05.270
- - YES, TALKING ABOUT IRAQ AND HOW IT CAME TO
- 00:35:05.290 --> 00:35:08.220
- YOU TO TAKE ON THAT TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY.
- 00:35:08.240 --> 00:35:14.000
- - WELL, I GOT A PHONE CALL. AT SAMARITAN'S
- 00:35:14.020 --> 00:35:16.140
- PURSE, WE HAVE SEVERAL MOBILE HOSPITALS THAT WE
- 00:35:16.160 --> 00:35:20.180
- ALWAYS KEEP ON THE SHELF IN OUR WAREHOUSE.
- 00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:23.270
- AND I GOT A PHONE CALL BACK IN DECEMBER AND I
- 00:35:23.290 --> 00:35:27.240
- WAS IN BURMA, AND ONE OF MY GUYS CALLED AND SAID
- 00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:32.200
- FRANKLIN, WE'VE BEEN ASKED BY THE U.N. IF WE
- 00:35:32.220 --> 00:35:36.040
- WOULD BE WILLING TO PUT ONE OF OUR HOSPITALS RIGHT
- 00:35:36.060 --> 00:35:38.100
- OUTSIDE OF MOSUL IN IRAQ BECAUSE THE IRAQI ARMY
- 00:35:38.120 --> 00:35:41.190
- WAS GONNA TAKE MOSUL BACK FROM ISIS, AND THERE'S NO
- 00:35:41.210 --> 00:35:45.250
- HOSPITAL. ALL THE HOSPITALS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.
- 00:35:45.270 --> 00:35:48.140
- YEAH. WE'LL DO THAT.
- 00:35:48.160 --> 00:35:51.190
- I MEAN THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE THE HOSPITAL FOR.
- 00:35:51.210 --> 00:35:54.040
- NOW IT TAKES US, NORMALLY WHEN WE SHIP A HOSPITAL,
- 00:35:54.060 --> 00:35:56.070
- BY THE TIME IT GETS TO THE LOCATION, WE PUT IT
- 00:35:56.090 --> 00:35:58.010
- UP IN 24 HOURS AND HAVE IT RUNNING.
- 00:35:58.030 --> 00:36:02.040
- AND NOW IT'S NOT GONNA RUN IF YOU DON'T HAVE
- 00:36:02.060 --> 00:36:04.070
- PEOPLE, SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE PEOPLE TOO.
- 00:36:04.090 --> 00:36:07.130
- THE PROBLEM WAS WE'RE ELEVEN MILES OUTSIDE OF
- 00:36:07.150 --> 00:36:09.120
- MOSUL, WE'RE IN A WAR ZONE.
- 00:36:09.140 --> 00:36:11.090
- ELEVEN MILES FROM THE MOST EVIL GROUP OF PEOPLE
- 00:36:11.110 --> 00:36:15.010
- IN THE WORLD IS ISIS.
- 00:36:15.030 --> 00:36:16.220
- I DON'T KNOW OF ANYBODY MORE EVIL THAN ISIS.
- 00:36:16.240 --> 00:36:18.280
- WE HAD TO PUT INFRASTRUCTURE IN THAT
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- WE WERE NOT PREPARED TO PUT IN.
- 00:36:23.210 --> 00:36:25.190
- FIRST OF ALL IT RAINED AND THE GROUND OVER THERE
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- TURNS TO MUD SO YOU HAVE TO MAKE A HUGE GRAVEL PAD.
- 00:36:27.260 --> 00:36:31.110
- THEN BECAUSE IT'S A WAR ZONE, WE HAVE TO PUT A
- 00:36:31.130 --> 00:36:35.000
- BLAST WALL, A CEMENT WALL THAT'S FIFTEEN FEET, IT
- 00:36:35.020 --> 00:36:38.130
- WOULD BE AS HIGH AS THESE LIGHTS HERE, FIFTEEN FEET
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- TALL, MADE OUT OF CONCRETE SECTIONS, EACH
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- ONE WEIGHS FIVE TONS, AND YOU HAVE TO SURROUND YOUR
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- ENTIRE HOSPITAL PERIMETER WITH THIS BLAST WALL TO
- 00:36:48.200 --> 00:36:51.180
- KEEP A CAR BOMB FROM COMING IN AND BLOWING
- 00:36:51.200 --> 00:36:53.280
- EVERYBODY UP. WE GOT THE BLAST WALL IN.
- 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:58.130
- THEN WE HAVE TO PUT THE CONEX, THESE ARE LIKE
- 00:36:58.150 --> 00:37:00.240
- TRAILERS THAT YOUR STAFF LIVE IN.
- 00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:02.280
- WE HAVE SIXTY DOCTORS AND NURSES THAT WORK THERE.
- 00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:06.270
- SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE WOMEN'S DORMITORIES, THE
- 00:37:06.290 --> 00:37:10.090
- MEN DORMITORIES, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WASH HOUSE
- 00:37:10.110 --> 00:37:12.230
- FOR THE WOMEN AND FOR THE GUYS AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE
- 00:37:12.250 --> 00:37:15.190
- A COMMON EATING AREA.
- 00:37:15.210 --> 00:37:18.120
- NOW YOU'VE GOT YOUR HOSPITAL.
- 00:37:18.140 --> 00:37:20.130
- IT'S GONNA HAVE PATIENTS IN IT BUT HAVE YOU TO BE
- 00:37:20.150 --> 00:37:22.100
- ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR STAFF AT THE SAME TIME.
- 00:37:22.120 --> 00:37:24.050
- NOW THAT TOOK US A MONTH TO PUT UP SO IT WAS
- 00:37:24.070 --> 00:37:27.020
- JANUARY ABOUT THE FOURTH OR FIFTH BEFORE
- 00:37:27.040 --> 00:37:30.130
- WE WERE ABLE TO OPEN THE HOSPITAL.
- 00:37:30.150 --> 00:37:32.070
- - WE HAVE A CLIP ABOUT THAT HOSPITAL IN IRAQ.
- 00:37:32.090 --> 00:37:35.040
- I WONDER IF WE COULD ROLL IT NOW. THANK YOU.
- 00:37:35.060 --> 00:37:37.160
- - IT'S LIKE A BLACK CLOUD JUST LIKE
- 00:37:40.140 --> 00:37:43.080
- SUDDENLY BLIND THE SUN.
- 00:37:43.100 --> 00:37:48.010
- THE ISLAMIC STATE BURNED SCHOOLS,
- 00:37:48.150 --> 00:37:51.060
- CHURCHES, HOSPITALS.
- 00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:55.150
- YOUR LIFE IS CONNECTED TO YOUR HOUSE AND WHEN THEY
- 00:37:56.010 --> 00:37:58.140
- BURN YOUR HOUSE, THEY BURNED YOUR LIFE,
- 00:37:58.160 --> 00:38:00.020
- THEY BURNED YOUR SOUL.
- 00:38:00.040 --> 00:38:02.180
- SUDDENLY YOU FIND YOURSELF IN NIGHTMARE.
- 00:38:03.090 --> 00:38:07.100
- - RIGHT NOW IN MOSUL THERE IS INTENSE FIGHTING
- 00:38:10.240 --> 00:38:13.130
- BETWEEN IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND COALITION
- 00:38:13.150 --> 00:38:16.000
- FORCES AND ISIS CLINGING ONTO THEIR STRONGHOLD.
- 00:38:16.020 --> 00:38:20.100
- CIVILIANS ARE REALLY CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
- 00:38:20.120 --> 00:38:21.260
- ANY LINE THAT IS BETWEEN THE MILITARY LIFE AND
- 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.250
- CIVILIAN LIFE HAS BEEN ERASED.
- 00:38:23.270 --> 00:38:26.110
- - I DON'T THINK THERE'S ENOUGH WORDS IN THE ENGLISH
- 00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:28.060
- LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THE HELL THAT THESE PEOPLE
- 00:38:28.080 --> 00:38:31.020
- HAVE HAD TO LIVE THROUGH AND AS THEY TRY TO FLEE
- 00:38:31.040 --> 00:38:34.020
- THE FIGHTING, ISIS IS TARGETING CIVILIANS,
- 00:38:34.040 --> 00:38:37.050
- WOMEN, CHILDREN.
- 00:38:37.070 --> 00:38:39.150
- ISIS HAS BOOBY-TRAPPED HOMES AND PUT BOMBS UNDER
- 00:38:39.170 --> 00:38:42.160
- THE COMPUTER OR COFFEE POT AND A PERSON PICKS IT
- 00:38:42.180 --> 00:38:45.180
- UP AND IT EXPLODES IN THEIR FACE.
- 00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:48.190
- - AT OUR HOSPITAL, WE ARE RECEIVING ALL SORTS
- 00:38:50.130 --> 00:38:52.250
- OF WOUNDED FROM THE FIGHTING THAT IS
- 00:38:52.270 --> 00:38:54.230
- HAPPENING IN MOSUL.
- 00:38:54.250 --> 00:38:56.090
- OUR DAYS ARE OFTEN PEPPERED WITH THE SOUNDS
- 00:38:56.110 --> 00:38:57.260
- OF BOMBS AND SHELLING.
- 00:38:57.280 --> 00:39:00.230
- - THIS IS NOT SAFE. THIS IS A WAR ZONE.
- 00:39:00.250 --> 00:39:02.190
- ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
- 00:39:02.210 --> 00:39:04.070
- I THINK WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO WHERE JESUS LEADS US,
- 00:39:04.090 --> 00:39:07.120
- EVEN IF IT'S IN A DANGEROUS PLACE.
- 00:39:07.140 --> 00:39:10.180
- - I PERSONALLY THOUGHT WE WOULD BE SEEING MORE
- 00:39:10.200 --> 00:39:12.110
- MILITARY PERSONNEL.
- 00:39:12.130 --> 00:39:14.070
- SO FAR THAT'S NOT BEEN THE CASE.
- 00:39:14.090 --> 00:39:16.100
- UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE SEEING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY
- 00:39:16.120 --> 00:39:19.100
- WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
- 00:39:19.120 --> 00:39:24.180
- - LAST NIGHT WE HAD A FAMILY OF FOUR COME IN
- 00:39:24.200 --> 00:39:26.260
- ENTERING WEST MOSUL FIVE DAYS BEFORE
- 00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:29.210
- THEY ARRIVED WITH US.
- 00:39:29.230 --> 00:39:31.170
- FIVE OF THEIR CHILDREN HAD BEEN KILLED INSTANTLY.
- 00:39:31.190 --> 00:39:34.150
- THE BABY HAD VERY, VERY SEVERE FACIAL BURNS, SO SHE
- 00:39:34.170 --> 00:39:37.040
- REQUIRED A LOT OF WORK, AND WE COULDN'T HAVE HER
- 00:39:37.060 --> 00:39:40.050
- TOUCHING HER FACE OR MOVING HER FACE AROUND.
- 00:39:40.070 --> 00:39:43.070
- SO WE DECIDED THAT THE MORE COMPASSIONATE THING TO DO
- 00:39:43.090 --> 00:39:45.280
- WAS TO SWADDLE HER AND JUST CUDDLE HER ALL NIGHT,
- 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.030
- JUST KEEP HER COMFORTED.
- 00:39:48.050 --> 00:39:50.030
- IF HER MOTHER WAS THERE, THEN SHE WOULD BE DOING
- 00:39:50.050 --> 00:39:51.200
- THE SAME THING.
- 00:39:51.220 --> 00:39:54.260
- NO CHILD SHOULD GROW UP IN THIS ENVIRONMENT WHERE WAR
- 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:59.140
- AND DEATH IS NORMAL.
- 00:39:59.160 --> 00:40:01.130
- - I'VE DEALT WITH TRAUMA FOR 25 YEARS...
- 00:40:02.290 --> 00:40:06.080
- [HOLDING BACK TEARS]
- 00:40:06.100 --> 00:40:09.010
- BUT I'M TELLING YOU, DEALING WITH THE CHILDREN IS
- 00:40:09.030 --> 00:40:16.120
- EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.
- 00:40:16.140 --> 00:40:19.090
- THEY'RE PURE INNOCENCE, AND THIS PURE EVIL WAS BEING
- 00:40:19.110 --> 00:40:22.250
- DONE TO THEM.
- 00:40:22.270 --> 00:40:25.110
- - WE TREAT ANYBODY WHO COMES TO OUR DOORS.
- 00:40:29.290 --> 00:40:32.260
- WE HAVE TREATED WOMEN, CHILDREN, KNOWN ISIS SOLDIERS.
- 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:39.160
- WE'VE TREATED IRAQI SOLDIERS WHO ARE FIGHTING AGAINST
- 00:40:39.180 --> 00:40:42.120
- ISIS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT EVERY PERSON IS AN IMAGE
- 00:40:42.140 --> 00:40:47.060
- BEARER OF GOD, AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THEY HAVE VALUE.
- 00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:53.240
- IT'S UGLY WHAT WE SEE HERE, ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING, BUT
- 00:40:57.290 --> 00:41:01.070
- THERE IS BEAUTY IN IT, TOO, AS WE SEE GOD START TO
- 00:41:01.090 --> 00:41:04.090
- REDEEM TRAGEDY IN PEOPLE'S LIVES.
- 00:41:04.110 --> 00:41:07.040
- - A LOT OF CHRISTIANS SEEM TO THINK THAT THEIR
- 00:41:08.150 --> 00:41:11.010
- CHRISTIANITY STOPS AT THE PAVED ROAD.
- 00:41:11.030 --> 00:41:14.050
- THIS IS NOT THE PAVED ROAD.
- 00:41:14.070 --> 00:41:16.020
- THIS IS FAR, FAR AWAY, AND THANK GOD THAT SAMARITAN'S
- 00:41:16.040 --> 00:41:19.160
- PURSE IS WILLING TO GET OFF THE PAVED ROAD AND GO WHERE
- 00:41:19.180 --> 00:41:22.080
- THE NEEDS ARE REALLY GREAT.
- 00:41:22.100 --> 00:41:25.110
- - WE NEED TRAUMA DOCTORS AND NURSES.
- 00:41:25.130 --> 00:41:28.220
- WE NEED MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE WILLING TO COME AND WORK
- 00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:31.180
- AND SERVE.
- 00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:33.050
- JUST GO TO OUR WEB SITE AND SEE HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED.
- 00:41:33.070 --> 00:41:34.290
- GOD BLESS YOU, THANK YOU.
- 00:41:35.010 --> 00:41:36.160
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:41:36.180 --> 00:41:40.220
- - I HAD A PROFESSOR IN THE SEMINARY WHO ANSWERED
- 00:41:40.240 --> 00:41:47.090
- SOMEONE'S QUESTION AS TO WHO SHOULD WE SAVE FIRST?
- 00:41:47.110 --> 00:41:56.110
- AND HE SAID ANYONE FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED, WHICH MEANS
- 00:41:56.130 --> 00:42:01.170
- EVERYONE, WHICH IS WHAT YOU DO WITH THAT
- 00:42:01.190 --> 00:42:05.010
- HOSPITAL IN IRAQ. GOD BLESS YOU.
- 00:42:05.030 --> 00:42:07.260
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:18.030
- - MOSUL IN THE BIBLE IS NINEVEH, AND REMEMBER THE
- 00:42:18.050 --> 00:42:22.190
- PROPHET JONAH WAS SENT TO WARN NINEVEH,
- 00:42:22.210 --> 00:42:26.060
- AND THEY REPENTED.
- 00:42:26.080 --> 00:42:28.000
- AND SO MOSUL IS THE BIBLICAL CITY OF NINEVEH, AND WE'RE
- 00:42:28.020 --> 00:42:32.230
- JUST, AGAIN, 11 MILES OUTSIDE OF THIS.
- 00:42:32.250 --> 00:42:35.080
- BUT TWO YEARS AGO, ISIS TOOK THIS CITY, AND THEY STARTED
- 00:42:35.100 --> 00:42:38.030
- CHOPPING THE HEADS OFF CHRISTIANS, BURNING CHURCHES.
- 00:42:38.050 --> 00:42:43.200
- IF A PERSON IS CAUGHT WITH A CELL PHONE, THEY KILL THEM.
- 00:42:43.220 --> 00:42:47.060
- IF A PERSON HAS WATCHED A WESTERN MOVIE -- WHEN I SAY
- 00:42:47.080 --> 00:42:51.010
- A WESTERN, I MEAN AN AMERICAN-TYPE MOVIE --
- 00:42:51.030 --> 00:42:53.110
- THEY WILL KILL THEM.
- 00:42:53.130 --> 00:42:55.170
- AND WHAT THEY DO IS NOT -- GAY AND LESBIAN PEOPLE, THEY
- 00:42:55.190 --> 00:43:00.230
- TORTURE THEM AND CUT OFF BODY PARTS, AND THEN THEY'LL
- 00:43:00.250 --> 00:43:03.230
- TAKE THEM TO A ROOF AND JUST PUSH THEM OFF THE ROOF.
- 00:43:03.250 --> 00:43:06.180
- THIS IS THE MOST EVIL GROUP OF PEOPLE I BELIEVE ON FACE
- 00:43:06.200 --> 00:43:09.050
- OF THE EARTH, BUT WHEN THEY COME TO THAT HOSPITAL, WE
- 00:43:09.070 --> 00:43:11.290
- GET SOME OF THESE ISIS SOLDIERS, AND WE TAKE CARE
- 00:43:12.010 --> 00:43:15.260
- OF THEM JUST LIKE WE WOULD ANYBODY ELSE, BUT WHEN THEY
- 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:19.280
- LEAVE THE HOSPITAL, WE DON'T TURN THEM LOOSE.
- 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:23.140
- WE GIVE THEM TO THE IRAQI ARMY, AND WHAT THE IRAQI
- 00:43:23.160 --> 00:43:26.130
- ARMY DOES WITH THEM, I DON'T KNOW.
- 00:43:26.150 --> 00:43:27.270
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:43:27.290 --> 00:43:33.080
- - AND THAT'S NOT YOUR SPIRITUAL RESPONSIBILITY
- 00:43:33.100 --> 00:43:34.270
- EITHER, IS IT?
- 00:43:34.290 --> 00:43:36.110
- - IT'S NOT.
- 00:43:36.130 --> 00:43:37.260
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:41.000
- - I DON'T HAVE A HEAVEN OR A HELL FOR THEM.
- 00:43:41.020 --> 00:43:44.240
- I DID WHAT GOD TOLD ME TO DO, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU DID.
- 00:43:44.260 --> 00:43:47.250
- THAT'S WONDERFUL.
- 00:43:47.270 --> 00:43:49.100
- NOW, WE HAVE A FEW MINUTES, BUT I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE
- 00:43:49.120 --> 00:43:52.000
- BIT ABOUT HOW YOU HAVE DETERMINED AND HOW WE CAN
- 00:43:52.020 --> 00:43:55.280
- EASILY SEE THAT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
- 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.000
- IS BEING PERSECUTED.
- 00:43:59.020 --> 00:44:00.080
- - ABSOLUTELY.
- 00:44:00.100 --> 00:44:01.150
- - WORLDWIDE. - WORLDWIDE.
- 00:44:01.170 --> 00:44:02.260
- - WOULD YOU ADDRESS THAT ISSUE FOR A MOMENT OR TWO?
- 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:05.100
- - WELL, WE'VE GOT A SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON D.C.
- 00:44:05.120 --> 00:44:09.040
- THAT WE'RE HOLDING THIS MAY, 10-13 OF MAY, AND WE'RE
- 00:44:09.060 --> 00:44:16.140
- BRINGING IN 600 DELEGATES IN FROM 130 COUNTRIES BECAUSE I
- 00:44:16.160 --> 00:44:21.190
- WANT TO PUT A SPOTLIGHT ON THE SUFFERING OF
- 00:44:21.210 --> 00:44:23.220
- THE CHURCH WORLDWIDE.
- 00:44:23.240 --> 00:44:25.120
- THESE DELEGATES ARE COMING OUT OF AFRICA.
- 00:44:25.140 --> 00:44:27.130
- THEY'RE COMING OUT OF MIDDLE EAST.
- 00:44:27.150 --> 00:44:29.080
- THEY'RE COMING OUT OF ASIA, FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO
- 00:44:29.100 --> 00:44:32.230
- TELL THEIR STORY OF HOW THEY HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED FOR
- 00:44:32.250 --> 00:44:37.000
- THEIR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:44:37.020 --> 00:44:38.240
- AND THERE'S PERSECUTION RIGHT HERE IN THIS COUNTRY.
- 00:44:38.260 --> 00:44:41.190
- THERE ARE CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE BEEN PUT OUT OF
- 00:44:41.210 --> 00:44:43.260
- BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T GO ALONG WITH A
- 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.170
- CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE, AND THEY'VE BEEN FORCED OUT OF
- 00:44:46.190 --> 00:44:49.040
- THE BUSINESS BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH.
- 00:44:49.060 --> 00:44:52.130
- AND WHAT I WANT TO DO IS PUT A SPOTLIGHT,
- 00:44:52.150 --> 00:44:55.110
- SO WE'RE DOING THIS.
- 00:44:55.130 --> 00:44:56.240
- IT'S CALLED THE WORLD SUMMIT FOR THE PERSECUTED
- 00:44:56.260 --> 00:45:00.190
- CHRISTIANS.
- 00:45:00.210 --> 00:45:02.020
- WE'RE DOING THIS IN WASHINGTON D.C.
- 00:45:02.040 --> 00:45:03.240
- BECAUSE I WANT THE POLITICIANS TO SEE IT.
- 00:45:03.260 --> 00:45:06.060
- I WANT TO GET SOME OF THESE POLITICIANS DOWN THERE.
- 00:45:06.080 --> 00:45:08.220
- I WANT TO GET THE PRESIDENT DOWN THERE.
- 00:45:08.240 --> 00:45:10.060
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:45:10.080 --> 00:45:12.030
- - WE'VE GOT A VIDEO CLIP THAT DESCRIBES THIS SUMMIT.
- 00:45:12.050 --> 00:45:14.150
- WHY DON'T WE TAKE A LOOK AT IT?
- 00:45:14.170 --> 00:45:17.060
- - CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION IS ON THE RISE
- 00:45:17.080 --> 00:45:19.030
- AROUND THE WORLD.
- 00:45:19.050 --> 00:45:20.160
- - 125.000 CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN FORCED...
- 00:45:20.180 --> 00:45:23.090
- - THEY ARE SYSTEMATICALLY BEHEADING CHILDREN.
- 00:45:23.110 --> 00:45:26.050
- - CHRISTIANS ARE FACING PERSECUTION.
- 00:45:26.070 --> 00:45:28.290
- - IT IS, IN FACT, A GENOCIDE THAT'S GOING ON.
- 00:45:29.010 --> 00:45:31.160
- [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
- 00:45:31.180 --> 00:45:35.060
- - ONE TIME THEY BLOW UP MY CHURCH.
- 00:45:35.080 --> 00:45:38.060
- - WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?
- 00:45:38.080 --> 00:45:41.060
- - THERE IS ANOTHER PERSON DYING FOR THE
- 00:45:41.080 --> 00:45:42.280
- SAKE OF CHRIST.
- 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:46.010
- - IT MOTIVATES ME TO HELP MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN
- 00:45:47.250 --> 00:45:49.290
- THE FAITH AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE SUFFERING
- 00:45:50.010 --> 00:45:51.250
- INCREDIBLE PERSECUTION.
- 00:45:51.270 --> 00:45:54.150
- - I WANT THE PEOPLE TO SPEAK OUT.
- 00:45:55.180 --> 00:45:57.150
- SAVE MY PEOPLE.
- 00:45:57.170 --> 00:46:01.030
- - HE SAID, YOU WILL BE PERSECUTED, BUT I WILL
- 00:46:01.050 --> 00:46:04.080
- BE WITH YOU ALWAYS.
- 00:46:04.100 --> 00:46:06.280
- - THEY'RE DYING WITH A KNIFE AT THEIR THROAT, AND THEY'RE REFUSING TO DENY JESUS.
- 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:11.160
- - EXCELLENT.
- 00:46:17.020 --> 00:46:18.150
- MAY 10-13 IN WASHINGTON D.C.
- 00:46:18.170 --> 00:46:22.160
- THIS PERSECUTION IS A HORRIBLE THING, BUT ISN'T IT
- 00:46:22.180 --> 00:46:25.120
- PREDICTED IN SCRIPTURE?
- 00:46:25.140 --> 00:46:27.100
- - NO QUESTION.
- 00:46:27.120 --> 00:46:28.210
- JESUS SAID, IF THEY DID THIS TO ME, WHAT DO YOU THINK
- 00:46:28.230 --> 00:46:31.200
- THEY'RE GOING TO DO TO YOU?
- 00:46:31.220 --> 00:46:34.050
- AND SO MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT AS A CHRISTIAN,
- 00:46:34.070 --> 00:46:37.050
- WE ARE PROTECTED.
- 00:46:37.070 --> 00:46:40.170
- WE ARE TO A DEGREE, BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AND LOOK
- 00:46:40.190 --> 00:46:44.010
- AT WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR LORD.
- 00:46:44.030 --> 00:46:46.040
- THEY STRIPPED HIM. THEY BEAT HIM. THEY CURSED HIM.
- 00:46:46.060 --> 00:46:49.230
- THEY NAILED HIM TO A TREE.
- 00:46:49.250 --> 00:46:51.270
- HE NEVER HURT ANYBODY.
- 00:46:51.290 --> 00:46:54.060
- HE SAVED PEOPLE'S LIVES, BUT THE REASON CHRIST CAME TO
- 00:46:54.080 --> 00:46:56.280
- THIS EARTH WAS NOT TO GIVE US A BETTER LIFE, BUT HE
- 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.220
- CAME TO GIVE US ETERNAL LIFE, AND HE CAME
- 00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:03.250
- BY TAKING OUR SINS.
- 00:47:03.270 --> 00:47:05.170
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:47:05.190 --> 00:47:09.180
- JESUS CHRIST, WHEN HE HUNG ON THAT CROSS, AND HE WAS
- 00:47:09.200 --> 00:47:14.050
- NAILED TO THAT CROSS, AND HE WAS BEATEN, GOD POURED UPON
- 00:47:14.070 --> 00:47:19.010
- HIM ALL THE SINS PAST, ALL THE SINS PRESENT, WHICH WAS
- 00:47:19.030 --> 00:47:24.220
- THAT DAY, ALL THE SINS FUTURE, WHICH IS US.
- 00:47:24.240 --> 00:47:28.070
- AND WHEN JESUS CHRIST HUNG ON THAT CROSS, GOD TURNED
- 00:47:28.090 --> 00:47:32.100
- HIS BACK ON HIS SON BECAUSE OF THE SIN THAT HE BORE ON
- 00:47:32.120 --> 00:47:36.180
- HIS OWN BODY, AND HE DIED ON THAT CROSS, AND HE TOOK OUR
- 00:47:36.200 --> 00:47:39.230
- SINS TO THE GRAVE.
- 00:47:39.250 --> 00:47:42.020
- HE WAS BURIED FOR OUR SINS, BUT ON THE THIRD DAY, GOD
- 00:47:42.040 --> 00:47:44.200
- SAID, IT'S ENOUGH.
- 00:47:44.220 --> 00:47:46.110
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:47:46.130 --> 00:47:48.140
- THIRD DAY HE RAISED HIS SON TO LIFE.
- 00:47:48.160 --> 00:47:52.050
- JESUS CHRIST CAME TRIUMPHANT OUT OF THE GRAVE, AND FOR
- 00:47:52.070 --> 00:47:57.140
- ALL OF US THAT PUT OUR FAITH AND TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST,
- 00:47:57.160 --> 00:48:00.180
- WE KNOW THAT OUR SINS WILL BE FORGIVEN, AND THAT WHEN
- 00:48:00.200 --> 00:48:04.060
- THIS PHYSICAL BODY OF OURS CEASES TO EXIST ANYMORE, GOD
- 00:48:04.080 --> 00:48:09.250
- USES DEATH TO TRANSPORT US FROM THIS LIFE INTO
- 00:48:09.270 --> 00:48:12.260
- ETERNITY, INTO HIS PRESENCE FOREVER.
- 00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:15.170
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:48:15.190 --> 00:48:19.050
- BUT THIS SUMMIT IS TO SHINE A SPOTLIGHT ON WHAT'S
- 00:48:19.070 --> 00:48:24.060
- HAPPENING TO THE CHURCH, TO WAKE UP THE UNITED STATES,
- 00:48:24.080 --> 00:48:27.220
- TO WAKE UP EUROPE, TO WAKE UP THE WORLD BEFORE IT'S TOO
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- LATE BECAUSE THE CHRISTIANS ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED.
- 00:48:31.140 --> 00:48:34.010
- NOW, GOD PREDICTED IT.
- 00:48:34.030 --> 00:48:36.110
- JESUS SAID THESE THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT THAT
- 00:48:36.130 --> 00:48:38.190
- DOESN'T MEAN I JUST SIT BACK AND KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT.
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- REMEMBER IN GERMANY, MANY CHRISTIANS KEPT QUIET AS THE
- 00:48:41.250 --> 00:48:46.290
- JEWS WERE BEING SENT TO THE GAS CHAMBERS.
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- I'M NOT GOING TO SIT BY ON THE SIDELINES AND
- 00:48:51.100 --> 00:48:53.130
- JUST BE QUIET.
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- I WANT TO DO ALL I CAN FOR MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS
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- AROUND THE WORLD TO PUT A SPOTLIGHT TO TRY
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- TO GET HELP.
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- I HOPE THE PRESIDENT WILL COME SPEAK.
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- I HOPE THE VICE PRESIDENT WILL COME SPEAK.
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- WE'VE GOT CONGRESSMAN THAT ARE GOING TO COME.
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- I HOPE THEY WILL COME BECAUSE I WANT THEM TO SEE
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- AND TO HEAR FOR THEMSELVES WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE
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- CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - YES, LET ME ASK YOU WHAT ARE SOME PRACTICAL WAYS THAT
- 00:49:18.040 --> 00:49:22.160
- YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN MAKING A
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- DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THESE CHURCHES?
- 00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:29.220
- - WELL, WE WORK IN OVER 130 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD,
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- CLIFTON, AND ONE OF THE BIG PROJECTS WE DO EVERY YEAR IS
- 00:49:32.260 --> 00:49:35.020
- OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD WHERE WE TAKE SHOE BOXES AND
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- ASK PEOPLE TO FILL THEM WITH GIFTS FOR CHILDREN.
- 00:49:38.020 --> 00:49:41.100
- AND THIS LAST YEAR, IT WAS OVER 13 MILLION BOXES WE
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- COLLECTED AND SENT THEM OUT, AGAIN, TO OVER 130
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- COUNTRIES, BUT WE DID THAT THROUGH THE CHURCHES.
- 00:49:48.100 --> 00:49:51.240
- AND THE CHURCHES USE THESE BOXES AS A
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- TOOL FOR EVANGELISM.
- 00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:56.280
- AND SO THEY GIVE THESE KIDS IN THEIR COMMUNITY THIS
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- GIFT, A BOX.
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- THEY SAY IF YOU COME TO THE CHURCH, WE'LL GIVE
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- YOU A GIFT.
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- SOME PEOPLE SAY, WELL, THAT'S NOT FAIR.
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- WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT BEING FAIR?
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- SO WILL A KID COME FOR A FREE GIFT?
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- OF COURSE A KID WILL COME.
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- HE'S COME TO GET A GIFT.
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- - AND THERE'S AN EVEN GREATER GIFT WHEN
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- HE GETS THERE.
- 00:50:17.230 --> 00:50:19.140
- - WHEN HE GETS THERE, THE CHURCHES JUST DON'T GIVE
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- THEM THE GIFT.
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- THEY TAKE 30 MINUTES, 40 MINUTES, AN HOUR, AND PUT ON
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- A GOSPEL PRESENTATION.
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- THEY HAVE PUPPETS AND THESE KINDS OF THINGS, LIKE A
- 00:50:29.200 --> 00:50:32.080
- LITTLE SHOW GOING ON THAT EXPLAINS THE GOSPEL.
- 00:50:32.100 --> 00:50:34.220
- AND EVERY YEAR, HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
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- KIDS COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST.
- 00:50:38.040 --> 00:50:39.220
- AND SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THESE CHURCHES ALL
- 00:50:39.240 --> 00:50:41.260
- OVER THE WORLD. MUSLIM CHILDREN GET SAVED.
- 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:44.130
- - WOW.
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- - CHILDREN IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES GET SAVED.
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- - THAT'S WONDERFUL, PRAISE GOD.
- 00:50:47.240 --> 00:50:49.160
- - WE SEE THIS HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT IT'S THE
- 00:50:49.180 --> 00:50:51.030
- POWER OF GOD, OKAY?
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- AND IT'S NOT ANYTHING WE DO.
- 00:50:53.160 --> 00:50:56.040
- IT'S SOMETHING GOD DOES.
- 00:50:56.060 --> 00:50:58.000
- AND WHETHER IT'S SAVING DR. BRANTLY, OR WHETHER
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- IT'S THAT HOSPITAL OUTSIDE OF MOSUL, OR WHETHER IT'S
- 00:51:00.140 --> 00:51:02.240
- THE SUMMIT, GOD IS THE ONE WHO IS INSPIRED.
- 00:51:02.260 --> 00:51:07.040
- GOD IS THE ONE WHO HAS GUIDED AND DIRECTED ALL OF
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- THIS, AND SO I GIVE HIM ALL THE GLORY.
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- IT'S NOTHING THAT I HAVE DONE.
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- IT'S SOMETHING GOD HAS DONE.
- 00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:14.080
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:51:14.100 --> 00:51:20.210
- - JUST LIKE TBN, IT COSTS MONEY TO DO THIS KIND OF
- 00:51:20.230 --> 00:51:23.290
- WORK, AND WE KNOW THAT THE LORD HAS BEEN
- 00:51:24.010 --> 00:51:27.100
- BLESSING YOU MIGHTILY.
- 00:51:27.120 --> 00:51:30.050
- HOW DID YOU RESPOND WHEN YOU HAD CHALLENGES
- 00:51:30.070 --> 00:51:33.260
- IN YOUR MINISTRY?
- 00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:35.170
- HOW DID YOU TRUST GOD THROUGH THE TOUGH TIMES?
- 00:51:35.190 --> 00:51:39.010
- - YOU KNOW, YOU JUST PRAY BECAUSE I'VE --WHETHER IT'S
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- SAMARITAN'S PURSE OR THE BILLY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION,
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- SAMARITAN'S PURSE ISN'T MINE.
- 00:51:46.150 --> 00:51:47.290
- THE BILLY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION WASN'T MY FATHER'S.
- 00:51:48.010 --> 00:51:49.290
- IT'S NOT MINE.
- 00:51:50.010 --> 00:51:51.180
- IT BELONGS TO THE LORD, AND IF HE WANTS IT TO CONTINUE,
- 00:51:51.200 --> 00:51:54.080
- THEN HE'LL LET IT CONTINUE.
- 00:51:54.100 --> 00:51:56.110
- BUT I ALWAYS SAY THAT IF WE HONOR THE LORD, GOD WILL
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- HONOR US, AND THAT'S TRUE FOR ALL OF US.
- 00:51:59.180 --> 00:52:04.150
- IT'S TRUE FOR ALL OF US.
- 00:52:04.170 --> 00:52:06.150
- AND SO I'VE JUST ALWAYS FELT THAT IF GOD GIVES ME AN
- 00:52:06.170 --> 00:52:09.040
- OPPORTUNITY, I WANT TO TRY TO HONOR HIM, AND I WANT TO
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- TRY TO TELL AS MANY PEOPLE AS I CAN ABOUT HIS SON JESUS
- 00:52:11.210 --> 00:52:14.140
- CHRIST WHO TOOK OUR SINS TO THE CROSS, WHO DIED IN OUR
- 00:52:14.160 --> 00:52:16.280
- PLACE, AND ROSE FROM THE GRAVE, WHO WILL COME INTO
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- EACH AND EVERY HEART THAT IS WILLING TO RECEIVE
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- HIM BY FAITH. IT'S NOT COMPLICATED.
- 00:52:22.160 --> 00:52:25.100
- GOD IS WILLING TO FORGIVE SIN.
- 00:52:25.120 --> 00:52:27.180
- HE WANTS TO FORGIVE SIN.
- 00:52:27.200 --> 00:52:29.160
- HE'S EXCITED ABOUT FORGIVING SIN, BUT WE'VE GOT TO BE
- 00:52:29.180 --> 00:52:32.260
- WILLING TO ACCEPT.
- 00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:35.120
- JESUS SAID, "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.
- 00:52:35.140 --> 00:52:37.110
- NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME."
- 00:52:37.130 --> 00:52:40.110
- THERE'S NOT TEN ROADS TO HEAVEN.
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- THERE'S ONLY ONE ROAD, AND THAT GOES THROUGH THE CROSS,
- 00:52:42.150 --> 00:52:45.290
- THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:52:46.010 --> 00:52:47.250
- AND JESUS SAID, "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH,
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- AND THE LIFE.
- 00:52:49.140 --> 00:52:51.030
- NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME."
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:52:59.140 --> 00:53:07.020
- - I WAS THINKING TODAY TO MYSELF IN MY MOMENT OF
- 00:53:07.040 --> 00:53:10.190
- MEDITATION, TODAY OR YESTERDAY, I WAS THINKING IF
- 00:53:10.210 --> 00:53:15.080
- I ONLY HAD ONE SCRIPTURE THAT I COULD SHARE WITH
- 00:53:15.100 --> 00:53:20.210
- SOMEONE THAT COULD TELL ABOUT THE GREATNESS OF GOD'S
- 00:53:20.230 --> 00:53:25.100
- LOVE, IT WOULD BE JOHN 3:16.
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- - AMEN.
- 00:53:27.230 --> 00:53:29.170
- - BECAUSE THE GOSPEL IS EMBODIED IN THAT SCRIPTURE.
- 00:53:29.190 --> 00:53:33.100
- - IT'S THE ONE VERSE THAT'S GOT IT ALL.
- 00:53:33.120 --> 00:53:35.000
- - GOT IT ALL BECAUSE THE GREATEST BEING, FOR GOD SO
- 00:53:35.020 --> 00:53:38.290
- LOVED, THE GREATEST EMOTION, AND SO ON.
- 00:53:39.010 --> 00:53:44.120
- SO THE REALITY IS IF WE HAVE THIS KIND OF LOVE IN OUR
- 00:53:44.140 --> 00:53:48.200
- HEART AND A SENSE OF THE TRUTH OF GOD'S PLAN OF
- 00:53:48.220 --> 00:53:52.140
- SALVATION IN US, WE CAN ALL LEAD SOMEONE TO THE LORD.
- 00:53:52.160 --> 00:53:56.280
- - AMEN.
- 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:58.180
- IT'S JUST BEING ABLE TO SHARE WHAT WE BELIEVE, AND
- 00:53:58.200 --> 00:54:03.020
- YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A THEOLOGIAN, BUT FOR ALL OF
- 00:54:03.040 --> 00:54:06.030
- US JUST TO BE ABLE TO SOMEONE THAT'S HURTING SAY,
- 00:54:06.050 --> 00:54:09.070
- "GOD LOVES YOU, AND GOD SENT HIS SON FROM HEAVEN TO THIS
- 00:54:09.090 --> 00:54:12.150
- EARTH TO SAVE YOU."
- 00:54:12.170 --> 00:54:14.140
- AND IT'S JUST SIMPLY BY FAITH.
- 00:54:14.160 --> 00:54:16.170
- BY GRACE ARE WE SAVED THROUGH FAITH.
- 00:54:16.190 --> 00:54:18.060
- - THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:54:18.080 --> 00:54:19.140
- - YOU CAN'T WORK FOR YOUR SALVATION.
- 00:54:19.160 --> 00:54:21.010
- IT'S BY GOD'S GRACE, AND IT'S THROUGH SIMPLE FAITH,
- 00:54:21.030 --> 00:54:24.120
- THROUGH SIMPLY BELIEVING.
- 00:54:24.140 --> 00:54:25.260
- - WOULD YOU TAKE THIS LAST MINUTE AND PRAY FOR THE WORLD?
- 00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:28.080
- - ABSOLUTELY. - THANK YOU.
- 00:54:28.100 --> 00:54:30.080
- - LET JUST PRAY.
- 00:54:30.100 --> 00:54:32.010
- HEAVENLY FATHER, IF ANYONE'S WATCHING TODAY, AND THEY
- 00:54:32.030 --> 00:54:34.230
- DON'T KNOW YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST, IF THEY'RE NOT SURE
- 00:54:34.250 --> 00:54:38.040
- THEIR SINS ARE FORGIVEN, GOD, I JUST PRAY THAT RIGHT
- 00:54:38.060 --> 00:54:40.220
- NOW THEY WOULD JUST SAY, GOD, I'M A SINNER,
- 00:54:40.240 --> 00:54:43.130
- AND I'M SORRY.
- 00:54:43.150 --> 00:54:44.200
- FORGIVE ME.
- 00:54:44.220 --> 00:54:46.020
- I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS YOUR SON.
- 00:54:46.040 --> 00:54:48.130
- I BELIEVE THAT HE DIED FOR MY SINS, AND THAT YOU RAISED
- 00:54:48.150 --> 00:54:51.040
- HIM TO LIFE.
- 00:54:51.060 --> 00:54:52.220
- I WANT TO INVITE HIM NOW TO COME INTO MY HEART AND TO
- 00:54:52.240 --> 00:54:56.030
- TAKE CONTROL OF MY LIFE.
- 00:54:56.050 --> 00:54:59.200
- AND I PRAY THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
- 00:54:59.220 --> 00:55:03.150
- - FRANKLIN GRAHAM, EVERYONE.
- 00:55:03.170 --> 00:55:05.270
- THANK YOU SO MUCH, PASTOR.
- 00:55:05.290 --> 00:55:08.080
- GOD BLESS YOU.
- 00:55:08.100 --> 00:55:09.270
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:55:09.290 --> 00:55:12.120
- DON'T LET NOBODY STOP YOU.
- 00:55:12.140 --> 00:55:14.030
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:55:14.050 --> 00:55:16.230
- FRANKLIN GRAHAM, GIVE IT UP!
- 00:55:16.250 --> 00:55:18.000
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:55:18.020 --> 00:55:27.190
- - GOOD TO BE WITH YOU.
- 00:55:27.210 --> 00:55:28.270
- - IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU.
- 00:55:28.290 --> 00:55:30.190
- THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT SHARING STORIES AND
- 00:55:30.210 --> 00:55:36.040
- EXPERIENCES LIKE THESE WHERE CHRIST IS AT THE CENTER
- 00:55:36.060 --> 00:55:41.210
- BECAUSE IT RADIATES FROM THAT CENTER TO YOU, WHEREVER
- 00:55:41.230 --> 00:55:46.240
- YOU ARE, WHOEVER YOU ARE.
- 00:55:46.260 --> 00:55:49.110
- THE POWER, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HIS LOVE AND HIS
- 00:55:49.130 --> 00:55:53.210
- SALVATION RADIATES FROM THIS POINT TO YOU.
- 00:55:53.230 --> 00:55:58.290
- WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT?
- 00:55:59.010 --> 00:56:02.020
- ARE YOU GOING TO LET IT JUST SHOWER OVER YOU?
- 00:56:02.040 --> 00:56:05.050
- ARE YOU GOING TO LET IT JUST WASH OFF AND GO ON ABOUT
- 00:56:05.070 --> 00:56:09.250
- YOUR BUSINESS?
- 00:56:09.270 --> 00:56:11.270
- I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE WATCHING THIS, BUT FRANKLIN
- 00:56:11.290 --> 00:56:15.160
- GRAHAM'S FATHER, BILLY GRAHAM WAS ON TELEVISION --
- 00:56:15.180 --> 00:56:20.020
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:56:20.040 --> 00:56:25.090
- 30 SOME YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS STRUGGLING WITH COCAINE
- 00:56:25.110 --> 00:56:30.090
- ADDICTION, AND I WAS DRIVING ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN A
- 00:56:30.110 --> 00:56:34.150
- LITTLE HOTEL IN OKLAHOMA CITY, AND I TURNED ON THE TV
- 00:56:34.170 --> 00:56:40.140
- AND LIT MY CRACK PIPE, AND BILLY GRAHAM CAME ON THE
- 00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:45.050
- AIR, AND HE SAID, "ONE OF YOU OUT THERE RIGHT NOW IS
- 00:56:45.070 --> 00:56:50.240
- HUNG UP ON DRUGS, AND YOU'RE SMOKING IT RIGHT NOW."
- 00:56:50.260 --> 00:56:54.210
- HE SAID, "JESUS LOVES YOU, AND HE CAME TO SAVE YOU."
- 00:56:54.230 --> 00:56:58.250
- I WAS ABLE TO PUT AWAY THOSE DRUGS THAT
- 00:56:58.270 --> 00:57:01.040
- NIGHT, AND GOD SAVED ME.
- 00:57:01.060 --> 00:57:03.210
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:57:03.230 --> 00:57:06.250
- TELL SOMEBODY ABOUT THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD.
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- GOD BLESS YOU.
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- [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
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