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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: REAIR | Stakelbeck Tonight | July 1, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck
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- Tonight i'm erick stakelbeck, and folks,
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- We are living in bible times, prophetic times.
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- And in days like these, we need to be reminded
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- That god still delivers, restores and raises up
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- Some of the most unlikely people to do his work.
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- Our guest tonight is living proof.
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- He went from rejection, rage and addiction to faith,
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- Freedom and fire, ones bound by drugs and brokenness.
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- Now spirit filled, redeemed, and preaching the gospel
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- Across the globe with boldness and clarity.
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- You may know larry huch is pastor of
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- New beginnings church, founder of larry
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- Huch ministries,
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- And one of israel's greatest friends in the world.
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- But his story goes much deeper.
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- His great new book,
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- From junkie to jerusalem, is a powerful, raw
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- And supernatural testimony of how god took him from the pit
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- To divine purpose and how no one is beyond god's reach.
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- Pastor larry, always great to see you, my friend.
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- Good to be with you. yes. mazel tov.
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- Congratulations on the book, pastor larry. thank you.
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- I was telling you before we started, i love the book.
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- It's spoke to my heart.
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- Let's take it back.
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- We've got a lot to go through with the book.
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- It's such an amazing journey.
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- Let's take it back to the streets of south saint louis.
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- Very tough upbringing.
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- Tell us a bit about your very difficult upbringing.
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- My dad.
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- And and i don't blame him
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- Because he didn't know jesus until the very end.
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- But my dad was a different person.
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- He was,
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- Addicted to certain things.
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- And extremely violent.
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- Would beat us from the kids to my mom.
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- And, we grew up in inner
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- City the hood south, saint louis, all of us.
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- I think our house was 800ft█ with all the kids
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- And everybody, and, it was,
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- It was a tough upbringing, but it made it tough.
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- We, you know, i lived on the streets,
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- Would run the streets, from day and day and night.
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- And, you know, erick,
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- The funny thing is, with all the bad things i did,
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- And i know this is every single person.
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- This is one of the reasons i wrote it is
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- We would stay out
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- All night on the streets and getting in trouble, breaking
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- Into places from, you know, 11, 12, 13, 14 years old. but,
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- Especially when it was cold, come dawn, we'd
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- Go to the catholic church and go and get out of the cold
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- And sit in the pews because they had,
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- You know, pre-dawn mass there.
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- And i would look at i knew nothing about,
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- We weren't religious at all.
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- And, and i said, someday i'd like to know god
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- And didn't know where to go with that,
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- Didn't know what to do with it. and,
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- I can remember when,
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- I was living in columbia, south america, and, i overdosed.
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- I was doing heroin and cocaine, and i overdose.
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- I knew i was dying and that old feeling and i.
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- And one of the reasons i wrote
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- The book is every one of us has that.
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- So no matter if it's your child or your grandchild
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- Or whoever it is,
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- And they say, i don't want to have anything to do with god.
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- God has put in every one of us and an emergency alarm
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- That we, without thinking, say, god help me.
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- And i remember overdosing in columbia, south america.
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- I was i had a ranch down there was smuggling drugs,
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- And we can talk about that.
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- And we will. and i overdose.
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- And i cried out and said, god, don't let me die.
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- And, it wasn't i was afraid to go into hell.
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- I'm from south saint louis.
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- We're tough. we're tough people on the streets.
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- But i said, don't let me die until i find what happiness is.
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- And i look at from being a kid.
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- Being a child, an extremely poor,
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- When the
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- Snow cone man came around
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- With, nicholas snow cone, we'd have to come in because,
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- We weren't allowed to have a nicole snow cone.
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- I was the first to graduate from university and ever.
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- And i got a white shirt for graduation.
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- And so i tried everything
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- From sports to drugs, making money.
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- And you were a great athlete, by the way.
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- College scholarship for football.
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- Powerlifter, powerlifter, boxer.
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- What's that box boxer, golden gloves boxer.
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- And everything satisfies
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- For a moment, but
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- It didn't satisfy forever.
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- And so i can look back at this journey and realize
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- That when i cried out and i said, god,
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- Don't let me die till i find what happiness is,
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- I look back and i can see god.
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- You know, we say the words,
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- The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the lord.
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- Well, the steps of an unrighteous man
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- Is also ordered by the lord.
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- And so i wrote this to tell people,
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- I know what you're going through.
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- I felt what you felt.
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- Yeah, but don't give up.
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- And people here, columbia, you mentioned a minute
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- Ago, pastor larry, this at columbia.
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- How did you end up in columbia?
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- Well, number one, you get you're dealing drugs,
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- You get hooked on drugs, you go to columbia.
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- What was the thinking there
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- And what was the plan to go down there? well, i started there.
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- You know,
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- There's a saying in the streets that a lot of people know
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- Once a junkyard is a junkie,
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- The world says you'll never change.
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- And in fact, my mom told my wife a few years ago,
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- She said, when i saw larry leave missouri, leave saint
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- Louis and go out to arizona, she said,
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- I never thought i'd see him alive again.
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- She knew i was a drug addict.
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- She knew i was mainlining, heroin and cocaine.
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- She knew that.
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- But she knew i was also dealing with some very dangerous people
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- With the, columbia cartel. and,
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- She figured i'd either overdose or someone would kill me.
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- The world says you can't change, but the word of god
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- Says who the sun sets free shall be free indeed.
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- And so
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- I started doing drugs in college while i was playing football
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- And started dealing drugs.
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- Started making a lot of money, dealing drugs.
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- So being somebody that's not afraid
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- Of most anything, i said, i'm going to cut out the middleman.
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- So i got an airplane and went down to columbia,
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- South america, and, started setting up,
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- What i tell church people. i was in the import
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- Export business of all natural substances.
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- I had a ranch down there, and, i talk about this in the book.
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- This is when,
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- The drug cartels really just started getting going.
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- Pablo escobar. pablo. escobar.
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- Everyone knows.
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- Yeah.
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- I, there was some contact between you and him.
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- I lived in.
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- They moved us out to miguel.
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- Which, if you watch, if you watch the movie narcos.
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- You know,
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- My family's known the story for years and years, that
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- They don't know everything, but they know a lot of the story.
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- And if you.
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- I think it's the first part of narcos,
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- And it shows them meeting, the american,
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- Contact in miami, a high rise parking lot,
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- And it shows the guy standing next
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- To a yellow 1969 mark one.
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- And we're watch this.
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- And this goes that's you.
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- And so a lot of that in that documentary,
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- I was selling for two years,
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- I was selling to an undercover agent.
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- And, and so, i was, living in an
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- Which was, escobar's village.
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- We used only their cabs, which was australia.
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- And you see that in the, documentary?
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- We had a ranch up there that no gringos were allowed up,
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- And, we were i was getting ready to give up my u.s.
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- Citizenship.
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- And because we had drugs readily available,
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- We had people wanting to buy
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- It from us there, and we'd make a fortune.
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- And i started using it and started using it
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- Sometimes six, seven,
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- Eight, ten times a day and became extremely addicted.
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- Pastor larry, number one, we were talking off camera.
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- It needs to be a movie.
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- In addition to your great book, from junkie to jerusalem.
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- But after break, we're going to talk about,
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- Okay, you're using the product,
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- As you said, you become really hooked.
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- Some thought you were hopelessly addicted.
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- And yet jesus comes into the picture
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- And then jerusalem, more with the one
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- And only pastor larry huch.
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- After the break, stick around.
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- After the break, stick around.
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- We'll come back to stock mike tonight.
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- We're talking
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- To our good friend, the one and only pastor
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- Larry huch, author
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- Of the great new memoir, from junkie to jerusalem.
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- Larry huch and pablo escobar together.
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- You may think that's very unlikely,
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- But that was the life pastor larry was living in columbia.
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- Pastor larry, for two years.
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- You become hooked on the drugs that you were
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- Dealing on a large scale.
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- Where does jesus come into the picture?
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- Well, you know, i said in the first segment that,
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- You know, i was in college,
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- I went i was, olympic weightlifter, powerlifter,
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- Took sixth in the nation. i was a football player.
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- I went from, erick,
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- I went from about 212 pounds,
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- Of an athlete to when my mom saw me
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- That i came back to the united states.
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- I was, living in the woods in a shack without any,
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- Any heat or any electricity.
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- I was down to about 100 4,045 pounds.
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- And, so we were you, i was you.
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- Now, this sounds crazy.
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- This sound crazy in everything i knew there was a god.
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- But the crazy thing is, i never thought
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- About looking for god in church.
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- I sold drugs to people who went to church,
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- And it just didn't feel like somebody like me would fit in.
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- And you had such violence
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- And rage, and you, pastor, you talk about in the book,
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- You were violent, aggressive and rage filled.
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- Yeah.
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- We, what made me really realize right at the time, i overdosed
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- And i called out to god something else happened.
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- We were actually meeting escobar.
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- Escobar was just starting to take over.
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- They called to a meeting, cartel.
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- But he was in and out.
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- Well, that's where he lived a little bit.
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- And so we were at a meeting with him at a restaurant.
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- It was an open air restaurant.
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- He was sitting at his table over there with his people.
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- We were sitting here and we couldn't sit together
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- Because there were, cia agents, dea agents around.
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- They didn't want to get pictures of us being together.
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- And so all of a sudden they come
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- In, they said, you guys get to get out of here.
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- They're cia agents.
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- They're looking for you guys get back up to the ranch.
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- And they had cabs there.
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- But we were young and stupid, and we went to a party instead.
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- And coming home from the party,
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- We were always told, don't take anybody's cab,
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- But escobar's don't take anybody's cab.
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- We took another cab, and we're going back to miguel,
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- Which was a 40 minute drive out of medellin.
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- And, all of a sudden, our cab driver, somebody yell,
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- Some of these men yell something to us, violence.
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- And all of a sudden he's taken back and he takes us
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- This what he said was a shortcut,
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- And we're going up through dirt roads, no lights.
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- A car pulls out in front of us, and a car pulls
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- In behind us, and we're thinking they're going to kill us.
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- And they said, there's, cia agents here.
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- Two guys and a girl.
- 00:11:26.776 --> 00:11:28.010
- We were two guys and a girl, and all of a sudden they think,
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- I think they think it's just us.
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- And so we're literally panicking.
- 00:11:32.248 --> 00:11:34.049
- We're in the middle of nowhere.
- 00:11:34.049 --> 00:11:35.518
- And this is a dangerous. these are dangerous people.
- 00:11:35.518 --> 00:11:38.120
- And so that one guy, john pastor, our pastor larry kill.
- 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:42.258
- Yeah. kill him, kill him.
- 00:11:42.258 --> 00:11:43.559
- And so i took my belt off.
- 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.394
- I'm sitting behind the driver
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- And he keeps going, no, it's okay.
- 00:11:46.662 --> 00:11:48.230
- And i was just about to put it over his neck and snap his neck,
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- And i didn't think any matter.
- 00:11:52.234 --> 00:11:53.803
- So i'm going to kill him. it's him or us.
- 00:11:53.803 --> 00:11:55.538
- And we come over and there's an begot.
- 00:11:55.538 --> 00:11:57.540
- So i came back
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- And i was actually meeting a shipment of drugs,
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- And i was in the middle of a drug deal.
- 00:12:01.110 --> 00:12:02.611
- I had a home out in the out in the rural area
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- Where we could hide.
- 00:12:05.781 --> 00:12:06.982
- And i had several drug dealers there, and i couldn't sleep.
- 00:12:06.982 --> 00:12:10.753
- I was all high on drugs.
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- And i remember back in the day when tv went off at midnight
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- Or something, i was through channels.
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- And so i remember turn on tv.
- 00:12:17.426 --> 00:12:19.228
- There was only one channel on and it was a preacher.
- 00:12:19.228 --> 00:12:22.298
- I couldn't have told you
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- If it was billy graham or oral roberts.
- 00:12:23.165 --> 00:12:24.800
- I couldn't tell you who it was.
- 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:26.302
- And so he said, why don't you pray?
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- And so i got on my knees and i and i prayed.
- 00:12:28.404 --> 00:12:31.040
- I don't remember what i prayed.
- 00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:32.241
- The next day i got a letter from my aunt
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- Who never gave up on me.
- 00:12:34.910 --> 00:12:36.712
- And she she wrote me a letter and she said, i,
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- Larry, i was praying and i really feel now's
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- Your time to give your life to the lord.
- 00:12:42.351 --> 00:12:45.454
- Well, all of a sudden
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- I went to meet
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- A shipment of drugs and i came back
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- And our house had been torn apart.
- 00:12:49.792 --> 00:12:51.861
- I thought somebody tried to rob us. we went to another house.
- 00:12:51.861 --> 00:12:54.697
- It was torn apart.
- 00:12:54.697 --> 00:12:55.564
- We found out
- 00:12:55.564 --> 00:12:56.699
- That they, had raided and arrested 48 drug dealers.
- 00:12:56.699 --> 00:13:01.036
- It's in the cape girardeau,
- 00:13:01.036 --> 00:13:03.873
- University of southern illinois area.
- 00:13:03.873 --> 00:13:06.075
- And a friend of mine's dad was a bail bondsman.
- 00:13:06.075 --> 00:13:08.777
- And he he which was he was a friend.
- 00:13:08.777 --> 00:13:11.480
- And he said, larry, you're number two on the list.
- 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.282
- They're looking for you. they want you.
- 00:13:13.282 --> 00:13:15.484
- There's seven federal warrants out for your arrest.
- 00:13:15.484 --> 00:13:19.054
- And i, you know, in in hebrew, there's no word for coincidence.
- 00:13:19.054 --> 00:13:22.892
- And you look at seven federal warrants
- 00:13:22.892 --> 00:13:24.593
- Because i didn't know that then.
- 00:13:24.593 --> 00:13:25.961
- And jesus shed his blood seven different times.
- 00:13:25.961 --> 00:13:29.131
- And so when i found out that they were looking for me,
- 00:13:29.131 --> 00:13:32.234
- They wanted me more than anybody else.
- 00:13:32.234 --> 00:13:35.170
- I, i decided to get out of
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- Town, so we loaded our hippie volkswagen van.
- 00:13:37.339 --> 00:13:40.643
- We headed to, flagstaff, arizona.
- 00:13:40.643 --> 00:13:43.879
- And the reason i went there is i read a book called black elk
- 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.849
- Speaks, and it's supposed to be a real spiritual place.
- 00:13:46.849 --> 00:13:49.518
- And i go because i knew only god could change me.
- 00:13:49.518 --> 00:13:52.121
- I knew god, only god could deliver me.
- 00:13:52.121 --> 00:13:54.523
- The drugs, the heroin, the cocaine.
- 00:13:54.523 --> 00:13:56.659
- Only god could deliver me of this violence.
- 00:13:56.659 --> 00:13:59.028
- I was so tired of being angry.
- 00:13:59.028 --> 00:14:02.131
- And, you know, i teach a lot, erick, because,
- 00:14:02.131 --> 00:14:04.767
- You know, break and family curses.
- 00:14:04.767 --> 00:14:06.502
- And i talk about that like father, like son.
- 00:14:06.502 --> 00:14:09.305
- And so we ran to arizona, and i'm sitting on a porch
- 00:14:09.305 --> 00:14:13.342
- We're living in.
- 00:14:13.342 --> 00:14:14.209
- We found a little house
- 00:14:14.209 --> 00:14:15.411
- In the red light district where all the drug dealers were.
- 00:14:15.411 --> 00:14:18.447
- I got hair down to here, you know,
- 00:14:18.447 --> 00:14:21.317
- Earrings in my ears.
- 00:14:21.784 --> 00:14:23.118
- This was 50 years ago.
- 00:14:23.118 --> 00:14:24.420
- So, and i'm sitting on my porch smoking a joint,
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- And, i'm watching this young hispanic guy
- 00:14:28.257 --> 00:14:31.393
- By the name of bill tree hill walking back and forth.
- 00:14:31.393 --> 00:14:33.729
- He keeps walking back and forth
- 00:14:33.729 --> 00:14:34.930
- And looking at me like this and walking, looking at me.
- 00:14:34.930 --> 00:14:36.966
- So i'm figuring he's trying to get the courage to,
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- Come up and ask me for to buy some drugs.
- 00:14:40.736 --> 00:14:43.172
- Yeah.
- 00:14:43.172 --> 00:14:44.006
- And i see him get down in the corner
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- And i'm watching him, and he takes a deep breath
- 00:14:45.140 --> 00:14:48.010
- And he turns around and just beeline toward me.
- 00:14:48.010 --> 00:14:50.279
- So i think he's saying, you got anything for sale? yeah.
- 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:52.982
- And he walks up to me and he says,
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- I've never done this before,
- 00:14:54.583 --> 00:14:56.552
- But i couldn't leave
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- Until i told you jesus is who you're looking for.
- 00:14:57.586 --> 00:15:00.589
- And i said, what?
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- And and he five days ago,
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- He was a drug addict on the street.
- 00:15:05.761 --> 00:15:07.963
- A paint sniffer.
- 00:15:07.963 --> 00:15:08.964
- You know, when you don't have drugs
- 00:15:08.964 --> 00:15:10.265
- And you just spray, spray paint a rag and sniff.
- 00:15:10.265 --> 00:15:13.268
- The human inspiration. yeah.
- 00:15:13.268 --> 00:15:14.837
- And they drug him in the back of a van and prayed with him.
- 00:15:14.837 --> 00:15:18.707
- And so he's looking at me five days later
- 00:15:18.707 --> 00:15:21.977
- And, you know,
- 00:15:22.311 --> 00:15:23.379
- I think every time i lead somebody to the lord,
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- Every time i get to do something that make a difference
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- With israel, bill gets another jewel in his crown.
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- Yeah.
- 00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:32.454
- And so he he kept coming over asking me to come to church
- 00:15:32.454 --> 00:15:35.357
- With him.
- 00:15:35.357 --> 00:15:36.358
- Make a long story short, i know, boy, i know.
- 00:15:36.358 --> 00:15:38.660
- Finally, they were shown a movie called the gospel road
- 00:15:38.660 --> 00:15:41.196
- With johnny cash and kris kristofferson. wow.
- 00:15:41.196 --> 00:15:43.499
- Now i know nothing about christianity.
- 00:15:43.499 --> 00:15:45.200
- I know nothing about religion.
- 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.236
- And at the end of it, it shows jesus dramatically
- 00:15:47.236 --> 00:15:50.973
- Dying on the cross.
- 00:15:50.973 --> 00:15:52.107
- And it moved me.
- 00:15:52.107 --> 00:15:53.042
- I didn't understand it,
- 00:15:53.042 --> 00:15:54.309
- But then it showed jesus dying on the cross.
- 00:15:54.309 --> 00:15:56.512
- But this time it was in times square with the homeless
- 00:15:56.512 --> 00:15:59.782
- And the prostitutes and and the people around him.
- 00:15:59.782 --> 00:16:03.085
- And then it shows him dying on the cross again.
- 00:16:03.085 --> 00:16:04.987
- But this time was in east
- 00:16:04.987 --> 00:16:06.422
- La with the drug addicts and the gang bangers.
- 00:16:06.422 --> 00:16:09.158
- And somehow i knew it was true.
- 00:16:09.158 --> 00:16:12.628
- I didn't understand it.
- 00:16:12.628 --> 00:16:13.562
- I know anything about being born again.
- 00:16:13.562 --> 00:16:15.831
- And it was a church, about 50 people,
- 00:16:15.831 --> 00:16:18.300
- And the pastor had people raise their hand, come forward,
- 00:16:18.300 --> 00:16:20.636
- But he kept pulling in poland
- 00:16:20.636 --> 00:16:22.237
- And poland, and there's no way i'm responding. wow.
- 00:16:22.237 --> 00:16:25.974
- And, and god has raised you up.
- 00:16:25.974 --> 00:16:28.077
- This is one of the most influential ministries
- 00:16:28.077 --> 00:16:29.745
- Folks in the world, including for israel.
- 00:16:29.745 --> 00:16:31.914
- By the way, from chungking to jerusalem is a love story
- 00:16:31.914 --> 00:16:34.950
- About pastor larry and tears hook his lovely wife.
- 00:16:34.950 --> 00:16:38.220
- So amazon.com
- 00:16:38.220 --> 00:16:39.922
- Wherever books are sold, coming up after the break,
- 00:16:39.922 --> 00:16:42.724
- Israel had a pastor,
- 00:16:42.724 --> 00:16:44.193
- Larry, become one of the world's greatest advocates
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- For the world's one and only jewish state.
- 00:16:46.462 --> 00:16:48.530
- More with pastor larry huch after the break. they'll move.
- 00:16:48.530 --> 00:16:55.008
- More with pastor larry huch after the break. they'll move.
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- Welcome back
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- To stakelbeck tonight.
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- We're talking about good friend pastor larry
- 00:17:00.744 --> 00:17:01.879
- Hook of larry huch ministries,
- 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:03.347
- Author of the great new book from junkie to jerusalem. folks.
- 00:17:03.347 --> 00:17:06.250
- You can pick it up, amazon.com, wherever books are sold
- 00:17:06.250 --> 00:17:09.253
- Right now, it is a book for such a time as this.
- 00:17:09.253 --> 00:17:12.156
- And, pastor larry,
- 00:17:12.156 --> 00:17:13.257
- We're scratching the surface just a little bit here.
- 00:17:13.257 --> 00:17:16.160
- We need an hour.
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- Yeah,
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- But we can't talk to you without talking about israel, right?
- 00:17:18.662 --> 00:17:21.632
- You're one of the world's foremost advocates
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- For the jewish state, christian or otherwise.
- 00:17:23.634 --> 00:17:26.570
- How did israel and you detail this in the book?
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- How did israel
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- Become such a passion for you and for your family?
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- Well, a very short version of the story
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- We were pastoring, actually,
- 00:17:34.445 --> 00:17:35.679
- In portland, oregon, had a church about 5000
- 00:17:35.679 --> 00:17:38.516
- Just started going on television.
- 00:17:38.516 --> 00:17:40.718
- Matt was directing our program, and i came home one day
- 00:17:40.718 --> 00:17:45.089
- And i told tears.
- 00:17:45.089 --> 00:17:45.990
- I said,
- 00:17:45.990 --> 00:17:47.224
- I think i'm going to step out of the ministry for a while.
- 00:17:47.224 --> 00:17:49.260
- And she said, why?
- 00:17:49.260 --> 00:17:50.227
- And i said, something's missing
- 00:17:50.227 --> 00:17:51.896
- And i need to go find out what it is.
- 00:17:51.896 --> 00:17:53.964
- And she said, what do you mean?
- 00:17:53.964 --> 00:17:54.965
- I said, i don't know. something's missing.
- 00:17:54.965 --> 00:17:56.800
- Some friends of mine invited me to go to israel with them.
- 00:17:56.800 --> 00:18:00.004
- I said, why would i want to go to israel?
- 00:18:00.004 --> 00:18:01.705
- We had heard the false teaching of replacement theology.
- 00:18:01.705 --> 00:18:04.875
- I went there
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- And you've been there
- 00:18:06.177 --> 00:18:07.511
- So many times, erick, doing such great things.
- 00:18:07.511 --> 00:18:09.747
- And when you go to capernaum, everybody walks through the gate
- 00:18:09.747 --> 00:18:13.584
- And goes almost immediately
- 00:18:13.584 --> 00:18:14.952
- To peter's home, where jesus healed peter's mother law.
- 00:18:14.952 --> 00:18:18.322
- But this brilliant scholar, this jewish scholar took us to
- 00:18:18.322 --> 00:18:21.392
- The side, showed us this synagogue,
- 00:18:21.392 --> 00:18:23.327
- This ancient synagogue that had hebrew writing on it.
- 00:18:23.327 --> 00:18:26.130
- And i said, yosef, what's this writing?
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- And he said, well,
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- These are the names
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- Of some of the grandchildren of the apostles.
- 00:18:30.100 --> 00:18:33.370
- He started walking away, and i said,
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- Why are they on a synagogue?
- 00:18:35.072 --> 00:18:36.674
- And he said, larry,
- 00:18:36.674 --> 00:18:38.842
- Jesus never came to separate us from israel.
- 00:18:38.842 --> 00:18:41.745
- He came to graft us into israel, and everybody walked away.
- 00:18:41.745 --> 00:18:45.716
- And i had this revelation.
- 00:18:45.716 --> 00:18:47.351
- And god said, i'm going to teach you
- 00:18:47.351 --> 00:18:48.552
- To reread the bible
- 00:18:48.552 --> 00:18:49.920
- Through the eyes of a jewish jesus, a jewish moses.
- 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:53.224
- And through that it opened the scriptures up.
- 00:18:53.224 --> 00:18:55.826
- So everything i teach,
- 00:18:55.826 --> 00:18:56.794
- I go to the hebrew to find out what it is,
- 00:18:56.794 --> 00:18:58.963
- And it caused me to fall in love with israel and realize that
- 00:18:58.963 --> 00:19:02.533
- One of the great bible prophecies is that the end
- 00:19:02.533 --> 00:19:05.469
- Times, the wall between jews and gentiles, will come down,
- 00:19:05.469 --> 00:19:09.607
- And this will tikkun olam
- 00:19:09.607 --> 00:19:12.810
- Repair the world to the point the messiah can come.
- 00:19:12.810 --> 00:19:15.913
- And i just got back from israel.
- 00:19:15.913 --> 00:19:17.681
- I did a conference with bibi, and i did a conference
- 00:19:17.681 --> 00:19:20.251
- With ambassador friedman about standing against antisemitism.
- 00:19:20.251 --> 00:19:24.588
- And they are so thankful for people like you for tbn
- 00:19:24.588 --> 00:19:28.492
- That are that are friends to the nation of israel.
- 00:19:28.492 --> 00:19:31.362
- And it's changed my life from a junkie to jerusalem who is.
- 00:19:31.362 --> 00:19:35.366
- Thought i mean only god. yeah, only.
- 00:19:35.366 --> 00:19:37.601
- And you know, erick, that's one of the
- 00:19:37.601 --> 00:19:38.902
- Reasons i wrote this, is to tell people
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- Maybe it's you,
- 00:19:41.438 --> 00:19:42.273
- Or maybe it's somebody you love,
- 00:19:42.273 --> 00:19:43.674
- And it looks like they're in a pit that is so dark and deep.
- 00:19:43.674 --> 00:19:48.045
- How can you ever get them out of there?
- 00:19:48.045 --> 00:19:50.881
- How can you ever get out?
- 00:19:50.881 --> 00:19:52.449
- And i wrote this mainly to tell people it doesn't matter
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- How deep of pit you're in.
- 00:19:55.753 --> 00:19:57.154
- God's love is deeper.
- 00:19:57.154 --> 00:19:58.822
- Doesn't matter
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- How dark your life looks, god's light will shine in brightness.
- 00:20:00.090 --> 00:20:03.494
- But then when you start serving the lord,
- 00:20:03.494 --> 00:20:06.463
- The journey that he's going to take you on
- 00:20:06.463 --> 00:20:09.466
- Is exceedingly abundantly above anything you can ask or think.
- 00:20:09.466 --> 00:20:14.238
- When i first gave my life to lord,
- 00:20:14.238 --> 00:20:15.673
- I couldn't hardly talk anymore because i'd done drugs so much.
- 00:20:15.673 --> 00:20:19.176
- And now i get to meet with
- 00:20:19.176 --> 00:20:20.277
- President trump, with bibi, with president hershel.
- 00:20:20.277 --> 00:20:23.447
- It's an amazing journey.
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- Yeah.
- 00:20:25.215 --> 00:20:26.016
- No one is beyond god's reach. nobody.
- 00:20:26.016 --> 00:20:28.218
- And that's that's the thing is, god is no respecter of persons.
- 00:20:28.218 --> 00:20:31.889
- And you know this,
- 00:20:31.889 --> 00:20:33.090
- That in hebrew, ancient jewish wisdom says, whenever you see
- 00:20:33.090 --> 00:20:37.661
- Or hear of a miracle in somebody else's life,
- 00:20:37.661 --> 00:20:41.365
- God let you see that or hear it because he's saying,
- 00:20:41.365 --> 00:20:44.301
- You're next. i'm no respecter of persons.
- 00:20:44.301 --> 00:20:46.937
- And so if you're watching today, are you can pass this
- 00:20:46.937 --> 00:20:50.841
- News on to somebody.
- 00:20:50.841 --> 00:20:51.975
- It's because whoever you're praying for,
- 00:20:51.975 --> 00:20:54.511
- Their next wants a junkie, always a junkie.
- 00:20:54.511 --> 00:20:57.948
- The world says you'll never change, but the word of god says
- 00:20:57.948 --> 00:21:02.086
- Who the sun sets free shall be free indeed.
- 00:21:02.086 --> 00:21:04.922
- And jesus didn't tell me, go get cleaned up.
- 00:21:04.922 --> 00:21:08.459
- You know, when i got saved in that church, erick,
- 00:21:08.459 --> 00:21:10.427
- No one prayed for me.
- 00:21:10.427 --> 00:21:11.729
- I had no shirt on, no shoes on, earrings.
- 00:21:11.729 --> 00:21:14.865
- And and everybody walked around me
- 00:21:14.865 --> 00:21:17.534
- And jesus didn't say, go get cleaned up.
- 00:21:17.534 --> 00:21:20.304
- This is,
- 00:21:20.304 --> 00:21:21.505
- When you come to the lord, it's a come as you are party.
- 00:21:21.505 --> 00:21:23.607
- Just come as you are.
- 00:21:23.607 --> 00:21:25.242
- He'll do the rest of the cleaning. wow.
- 00:21:25.242 --> 00:21:27.311
- Amazing. pastor larry. amen.
- 00:21:27.311 --> 00:21:28.912
- Well said.
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- And folks,
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- We can only close this out in one way
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- With prayer from the one and only pastor larry huch.
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- That's after the breaks the ground.
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- That's after the breaks the ground.
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- Will come back to circle back tonight
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- Before we wrap up with our good friend,
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- Pastor larry huch,
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- And a closing prayer for pastor larry from junky to jerusalem
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- Is one of the best books i've read in a long, long time
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- And one of the greatest memoirs i've ever read.
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- Beyond a doubt.
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- Can you close out in prayer? absolutely.
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- And and i appreciate you.
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- Allow me to pray because what we want people to know
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- Is, if god can do it for me, he'll do it for you.
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- He is no respecter of persons.
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- So let's come together in prayer.
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- Father, we thank you
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- That we can come before your throne,
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- And it's a throne of grace and mercy, but it's also
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- A throne of might and power and victory.
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- Father, you said, whatever we bind on earth will be bound
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- In heaven.
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- We bind every force of darkness that comes against us
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- Or our loved ones.
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- Whether it's addictions are whether it's anger or violence
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- Or depression, whatever it is, we bind that
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- In the name that's above every name.
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- And by the blood of jesus and father,
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- We loosen the power of that name and the power of the blood
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- To bring deliverance and freedom,
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- And to give every person that's praying right now
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- A journey of destiny, just as you gave me.
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- Father, i release this anointing.
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- I thank you in advance for the miracles
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- That are taking place in every person's life right now.
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- And we do it in the name of yeshua,
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- Hamachi of jesus, who is the messiah.
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- Amen and. amen.
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- Amen. larry, thank you so much.
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- Thank you, my friend. this was great.
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- From junkie to jerusalem, folks.
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- Pick it up right now until tomorrow night.
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- God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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