1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,800 Now, we are delayed at the half, pachter Pastor Vector, my actual 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,400 weather. So I'm going to ask them to come 3 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,400 and minister at two years as the Lord gives them help. 4 00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:13,100 Yes, thank you very much for the very kind invitation and the 5 00:00:13,107 --> 00:00:15,900 welcome here. This evening, a joy to return to 6 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:18,000 carry do free Presbyterian church. 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,500 And I want to thank the Reverend McLaughlin for the opportunity 8 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:24,900 and indeed the enduring friendship over many years. 9 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:29,000 I have a I have a Bible reading this evening in first Timothy 10 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:32,900 chapter 1. First Timothy chapter 1, and 11 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:37,100 we're reading at verse 12 of that chapter First Timothy 12 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:42,700 chapter 1 and verse 12, And this is the word of the Lord and I 13 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:46,100 thank Christ Jesus. Our lord, who hath enabled me 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,900 for that. He counted me faithful, putting 15 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:52,900 me into the ministry who was before a blasphemer and a 16 00:00:52,908 --> 00:00:58,800 persecutor and injurious, but I obtained Mercy because I did it. 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,500 Ignorantly in unbelief and the grace of our Lord was exceeding 18 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:07,300 abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 19 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:12,500 This is a faithful saying And worthy of all acceptation. 20 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,600 That Christ Jesus came into the world to save Sinners of whom. 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,500 I am chief I bet for this cause have obtained Mercy that in me, 22 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:25,700 first. Jesus Christ might Shew forth 23 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:30,500 all long suffering for a pattern to them, which shewed Hereafter 24 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:33,600 believe on him to life Everlasting. 25 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:38,200 No, on to the king, Eternal Immortal invisible. 26 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:44,100 The only wise God be honor and Glory forever and ever. 27 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:46,700 Amen. And amen. 28 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:51,100 May God bless to us the reading of his secret word. 29 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,400 It's a joy and a pleasure this evening to be invited to share a 30 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,800 personal word of testimony. We're looking back of many years 31 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:04,300 and it does remind me of the story of a man whose wife had 32 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:07,600 become ill and wanting to do something to encourage her. 33 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:11,100 He decided that he would pick her favorite bread. 34 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:14,900 He had never done this life before but he got an idea of 35 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:17,600 what he would put together. So, he went to the shop and he 36 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,700 bought the flower and the Margaery The everything else and 37 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:26,700 bought a packet of yeast, when it came to picking at the 38 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:30,000 needing it all together. He wasn't sure how much yeast he 39 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,400 should put in. So we put it all in and as he 40 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,800 got the door ready and got into the tendon soon, it was in the 41 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,300 oven. And as it was picking he went 42 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:45,300 upstairs to his wife and said well only speaking something, 43 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,900 just without the smell of the baking bread was wafting through 44 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:52,300 the house and she I said you didn't you're not being me, that 45 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:56,600 will if he says, I am, the only thing is only I didn't know how 46 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,200 much he stupid in. So a put it all in, all she 47 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,100 said, Jamie at that's terrible. And just what the doctor was on 48 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:08,400 a Almighty buying don't stirs and he opened run downstairs, 49 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,000 and when he was downstairs, she showed it Jimmy. 50 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,100 Can you not keep it in the oven? It showed it back, honey. 51 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:19,600 I can't keep it in the kitchen. I say that this evening because 52 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:24,500 Looking back on 67 years as a Christian, it's hard to keep it 53 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:27,600 all in and no word to start to tell the story. 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,400 But let me start at the beginning. 55 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,500 I was born on the Donegal Road. In Belfast was born unto a 56 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:38,300 Christian home, but a good home. My father was a football referee 57 00:03:38,300 --> 00:03:42,300 in the manager of Ross's Miller water Factory in this center of 58 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:44,800 the city. He took us to church every 59 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,600 Sunday morning at Richfield Presbyterian church. 60 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,600 And then the church Hall was only. 61 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,700 About 50 yards from our home and we were at Sunday school and 62 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:57,000 Christian. And ever since I was a Nipper, 63 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,800 as we say, I came to the life points, a BB and even other 64 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,100 nights, we went down to the GB, but that was for other reasons. 65 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:10,600 And so church was my life, dr. John Gervin was the city 66 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,200 missioner at the little City Mission hall, just down the road 67 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,899 from us. And we were there every Thursday 68 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:20,600 night and if you'd missed a night of John, Evans children's 69 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,700 meeting, he was riding a bicycle. 70 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:26,300 The next day, with a scowl on the Spheres, that with the fear 71 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:28,500 of God. And as, and we never missed the 72 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:32,600 children's meanings. For all of that, coming up 73 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,600 through all those days of Sunday, school learning the 74 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,400 gospel. I didn't become a Christian. 75 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:42,000 I say this this evening. I thank God for a Sunday school 76 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,300 teacher. Who was faithful to his name was 77 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:47,400 Billy Hamilton. Billy could never stood on a 78 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,700 platform like this to speak, but He taught five boys in his 79 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:54,900 class, taught them, the scriptures Faithfully every week 80 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:57,900 and told us. They catechism Faithfully every 81 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:00,600 week. I do that Sunday school class or 82 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,000 five, boys Trevor. Sorry, John mcquoid went to 83 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,200 Ethiopia as a missionary and today, he is a Brethren, 84 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:16,300 evangelist travel Coburn, became a presbyterian Minister, Joe 85 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,400 McCartney or more assume one of those two went to The submission 86 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,400 early and then I went to Brazil as a missionary and Eddie 87 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,300 hoisted behind stayed behind to pray for the other four. 88 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:30,200 He went back a nose, there's Billy Hampton. 89 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,000 Could never see what God would do with a Sunday school class 90 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:37,100 and I say that to encourage Sunday school teachers. 91 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 When I came through school, I went to the landfill and 92 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,400 Intermediate School just not too far from our home. 93 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,200 But I remember while at school, I was deeply impressed by the 94 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,900 death of Two boys, one almost called Bobby McIntyre. 95 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,200 Bobby didn't turn up school one day. 96 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,000 And as modern fact, he didn't turn up for that week. 97 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:01,400 Nor was he there for the following week? 98 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:04,900 And then we heard that Bobby was so very ill. 99 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,100 Very soon, we heard you died. He was only 13 years of age at 100 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:13,900 that time, but we heard that Bob had become a Christian and had 101 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,200 gone home to be with the Lord Jesus. 102 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:21,600 I was impressed with that Having learned the scriptures Etc but 103 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,700 also that seam here on ride day, that's the day. 104 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:29,500 When students had a lot of fun around the city, another young 105 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:33,200 boy a 13 year old boy from our class hopping on the back of the 106 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,300 truck. Fell off the truck on the 107 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:37,900 library. Loved on Eagle Road and was run 108 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:41,600 over by a bus. He also was killed but alas it 109 00:06:41,608 --> 00:06:45,900 was new testimony that he had become a Christian and even a 13 110 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:47,800 years of age. I would lie awake at night. 111 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,500 Wondering if that had been me. Where would I be in eternity? 112 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:56,600 We would I like Bobby Hamilton go home to heaven and spend have 113 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,100 eternity there or would it be that I would have knew such 114 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:04,300 testimony. And with such hope however, I 115 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:07,900 left school back in those days fourteen-year-old boys got into 116 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:10,800 short out of short Chargers in the long trousers. 117 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,600 I think we used to call it. We slid down the banister at 14 118 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,500 years of age. We went to work. 119 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:21,800 I got a job as a telegram boy at the post office in Belfast at 16 120 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,400 years of age. We got a motorcycle motorcycle 121 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:31,100 the old PSA Bantam 125 Bantam and all around the city of 122 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:33,400 Belfast. Us delivering telegrams with 123 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,900 speed among the telegram boys who was a boy called Sammy 124 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:41,800 punderson and he sent me one Sunday this instead of going to 125 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,900 Ritchie tonight. Why don't you come with me to 126 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:47,100 live with her Road? There's a preacher over there 127 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:50,500 and I guarantee that you'll not fall asleep in his Services 128 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,500 speaking of the dr. Ian Paisley and my granny just 129 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,200 lived a stone's throw from NPC structure nervously only stones 130 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:01,200 at his church, but she lived immediately at the back of his 131 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,500 church. So, I was glad to go to the 132 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:07,300 Raven Hill Road when dr. P sleep, reach the other 133 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,700 platform, wider than this pulpit. 134 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,700 And as he preached, he paraded up and down the platform, 135 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:19,500 sometimes, shaking the doors. I'd say this as he told of men 136 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:22,400 and women, pleading it again to heaven, but they had rejected 137 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,600 Christ. Sometimes he came down the 138 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,500 aisle. Pleading with people to come to 139 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:30,700 the Savior, I sat up in the gallery and as he preached, I 140 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:34,299 trembled I tumbled, because I knew, I needed to become a 141 00:08:34,308 --> 00:08:37,400 Christian. I knew I needed to perceive but 142 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,299 I was afraid as dr. Pierce, he preached. 143 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:43,600 I said this this evening. I can't remember anything. 144 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,200 He preached. But as he was preaching, all 145 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:47,900 that Billy huh? On the top, me and son to 146 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:49,900 school. Came back to me, Kim. 147 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:52,000 Back them to my mind. I was a sinner. 148 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:56,000 I needed to save Bobby McIntyre, died, and gone to heaven. 149 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,900 And when the appeal was made, I I so wanted to become a 150 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:03,100 Christian. I wanted to pick my The, but I 151 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:07,300 was paralyzed with fear. The Bible says, the fear of man 152 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:11,400 brings a snare and that fear was a snare to me. 153 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,500 I was afraid because I was afraid, I'd never be able to 154 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:20,900 keep it as I only thought and then I was afraid of what people 155 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:24,300 would say. As a telegram boy, there were 70 156 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:29,200 telegram boys, all the Eads between 16 and 18 years of age. 157 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:32,900 I can imagine going into work in the State to tell them, I become 158 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:36,000 a Christian why they would make fun of me if I would to do that 159 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,200 and so paralyzed without fear. I, I didn't respond, I left the 160 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,200 service, but I went back the next Sunday night and the 161 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,900 following Sunday night five, Sunday nights until the 20th of 162 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:52,800 October 1956 again sitting in the gallery again wrestling in 163 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,900 my heart, wanting to become a Christian but still resisting. 164 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,800 The Holy Spirit striving in my heart or assisting in the This 165 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,800 was over. I was coming down the stairs 166 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,800 with my friend Sammy. How much Sami Patterson? 167 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,200 When I spied a girl that had gone to school with Lily, 168 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,000 Campbell has? We knew her then Lily. 169 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,500 I was surprised to see her. She was as white as a ghost 170 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,800 since leaving school, she had spent two years in. 171 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,700 Foster Green Hospital Gerard tuberculosis and absolutely 172 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:27,400 surprised to see her. I said, Lily, what are you doing 173 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,500 here? And she answered Victor, what 174 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:32,100 are you doing here? Are you a Christian. 175 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,200 Without question, I was stunned. I shook my head and said, no 176 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,400 Lily, I'm not a Christian and she said to me, would you not 177 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,200 like to become a Christian? My friend on that moment. 178 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,500 I was faced with making the decision in my heart. 179 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,000 I so wanted to but still gripped with fear. 180 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,100 But from somewhere within me, I found the greatest to say, yes, 181 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,300 I'd love to become a Christian. And so that night beside doctor, 182 00:10:58,300 --> 00:11:01,700 a lie, I knelt and the all inquiry your room and ask the 183 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:05,800 Lord Jesus Christ. Into my heart and looking back 184 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,400 on that night so many years ago and I still say today. 185 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,900 Oh happy day. That fixed my choice on the My 186 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:16,000 Savior. And my god well me this glowing 187 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,600 heart Rejoice to tell it's ruptures all abroad. 188 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,500 I didn't know on that night that the rest of my life will be 189 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:27,200 taken up with speaking of the raptures and the joy of the 190 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,000 Gospel of Jesus Christ. However, I had to go home and 191 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,900 tell my parents, I would become a Christian. 192 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,100 Even my mother used to say to me, Victor your heads full of 193 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:37,700 nutrients, you'll get over it soon. 194 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:41,500 Well thank god. 67 years later, I've still never got over the 195 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:46,000 joy of coming to Jesus Christ. However I had to go to work the 196 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:51,000 next day and face. 70 telegram, boys, all of them teenagers and 197 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,100 tell them, I had become a Christian. 198 00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:57,500 As a matter of fact, when I want to work, the next day at 6:30 in 199 00:11:57,500 --> 00:12:00,800 the morning, I got there. I didn't need to tell 70 200 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,700 telegram, boys are you I told two or three them, within 10 201 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:06,500 minutes, all of them knew about it. 202 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:09,300 Did they make fun? Of course, amid fun. 203 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:12,400 Max a common thing for a single few choruses. 204 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:17,900 Give us a preach Maxell and so went on, but others came and 205 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:19,900 shook my hand and said, God bless you. 206 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,100 I wish it was me over the course of the next five years, had the 207 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:27,100 joy of pointing those. Some of those telegram boys, to 208 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:29,700 personal faith in Christ. Some of them went in the 209 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:32,800 Christian work to become missionaries, others became many 210 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,600 Esters of gospel. And I say this to all young 211 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,700 people are safely not only to important to seek the Lord while 212 00:12:39,700 --> 00:12:44,000 he may be found, but almost take your stand and confess him. 213 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,400 The Bible says, if Thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the 214 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,500 Lord, Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God has raised 215 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:53,500 him from the dead. Thou shalt be saved. 216 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,500 Never be afraid to take your stand for Jesus Christ. 217 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,800 After I was converted one day, I was delivering meal on the 218 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,600 Woodstock, Road on the street called, own myth Street, as you 219 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,200 went up the streets in those days. 220 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:14,200 Most most doors are most houses and the window had net curtains 221 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:18,400 and a brass pot with a plant. That's a lot of people had that 222 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,800 way, but in a me street While most sizes were like that, I 223 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,600 came to her house that had new curtains and a new plant, we 224 00:13:25,608 --> 00:13:27,800 were pushed her star in the window for God's. 225 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,500 Loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. 226 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:32,900 I am the way, the truth and the life. 227 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,500 Listen, to the sermons of d.l. Moody are a tardy. 228 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,700 I thought the house was different and when I knocked the 229 00:13:39,708 --> 00:13:41,900 door, the man who opened the door, he certainly was 230 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:44,500 different. He had the broadest brightest 231 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:49,000 smile I've ever seen in my life, he introduced himself as Ernie 232 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,800 Allen. The founder of Revival movement 233 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:55,900 and every home, Chris, in when he heard that, I was a Christian 234 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:57,800 why I immediately had me in the door. 235 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:01,200 And very soon. I was recruited to go testifying 236 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,100 with him and singing the choirs he was holding gospel missions. 237 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:08,400 Bringing missionaries are evangelist from United States. 238 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,400 Of course it was the beginning of every home Crusade and in 239 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,500 those days we were attending Don, Martin free Presbyterian 240 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,000 church and Ernie. Give me a kiss full of 241 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,100 literature to do every home in the Murray. 242 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:24,200 Wrapping all the doors spreading the gospel of Christ. 243 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,800 Those were great tears. Looking Back Now even though 244 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:33,100 Things ended with fear and trembling it was in 1958 or 59 245 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:36,600 in July of that year. The group of us young people 246 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,200 decided on a July day to go up the mountain Coast, the beauties 247 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,500 of the Antrim Coastal, l'ouverture head. 248 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,700 There are nine of us fellows and girls and when we got to portray 249 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:52,600 shall not beautiful, July day, we went in swimming swimming in 250 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,000 the blue, pull the Blue Pools and natural formation of rocks. 251 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,800 That are height. I tied, it's quite deep and 252 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,000 forms quite a pull. I think the called the blue pool 253 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:05,600 because that's the color, you turn them when they get into the 254 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,300 water, the North Atlantic up there. 255 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:12,100 But we were having the time of our lives diving swimming. 256 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:16,000 Jumping fellows girls. But there was one girl, a girl 257 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,000 from Jamaica, she didn't turn blue. 258 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 She went to sort of color of gray. 259 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:24,500 She couldn't swim, as she sat on the water holding onto the 260 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:30,100 steps, into the pool and The girl said to me, Victor take 261 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:32,300 Dorothy across the pool. She can't swim. 262 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,800 Well, I had a problem. Then I still have a problem 263 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,800 often others. I find it difficult to say, no. 264 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,900 So I decided I'll take Dorothy across the pool. 265 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,200 I'd seen people do it, ice floating on my back and holding 266 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,400 hers. I got across, but when we got 267 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,800 halfway across the pool, Dorothy, panicked and grabbed me 268 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,400 by the throat. And before long both of us were 269 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,800 on to the water. She still grabbing onto me when 270 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,500 we Boyd up again. In by this time, people were 271 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:01,600 jumping in and yelling. They G Dorothy. 272 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,600 But I went down the second time and then buoyed up again and 273 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,800 people were trying to get me, but I went on the third time and 274 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:15,100 letting years of uh I thought my life was just about over someone 275 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:18,900 from below me came in with a strong arm, push me up onto the 276 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:23,700 Rocks away from the shore on the ocean side of the the pool. 277 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:27,800 They tried to get the water out of my paw. 278 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,200 Bring up me and very soon. They, they threw a life belt 279 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,000 over and but this time, quite a crowd had gathered at the, at 280 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,100 the poolside, the through the lifebelt over, and they put me 281 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:41,800 across the water and got me out on amongst the cried. 282 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:46,500 There was dr. Love from the Victoria Hall and 283 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:49,700 he gave me artificial respiration as he pumped them 284 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:52,100 along. Zhanna, I think just about half 285 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,600 of the Atlantic was pumped out of my lungs that day and very 286 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,500 soon, the Bluebell of the ambulance was on The scene and I 287 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:00,400 was rushed off the Korean hospital. 288 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:06,599 I was in Korean hospital for 34 days and during these those 289 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:11,300 three or four days, God, really spoke to my heart. 18 years of 290 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:15,599 is some of you perhaps her daddy inch and I thought to myself, my 291 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:20,000 life was almost over. I was a Christian, I had, I had 292 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,900 Assurance Blessed Assurance of heaven but but what about my 293 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:29,700 life And on that hospital bed, I surrendered all of my life to 294 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:33,700 Jesus Christ, whatever you want me to be whatever you want me to 295 00:17:33,700 --> 00:17:40,000 go whatever you want me to do. Lord, I I surrender all to Jesus 296 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,200 Christ, my life came on to the lordship of Jesus Christ. 297 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,800 It was during that time that God began to speak to me about 298 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,400 missions. In those days, we were attending 299 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,800 missionary permanency a creeper. Meaning the work permitting, the 300 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,600 you A meeting we were writing to make sure he's writing mystery 301 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,600 books. Challenged about Mysteries until 302 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,800 I felt God was calling me to be a missionary. 303 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,200 And I remember, when I felt as I went behind, one, Sunday night 304 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,100 to speak to the minister of the Murray. 305 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:15,800 And he said, to me, Victor go home until the Lord, exactly 306 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,800 what you've told me and ask God to speak to you out of this 307 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,300 world, don't open the Bible or random, take your Bible reading 308 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:26,100 and ask God to speak to you. You out of the leading. 309 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:29,200 A remember that Sunday night, no one was home. 310 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,000 And before the bed with an Open Bible, I prayed Lord. 311 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,800 If it's you that speaking to me. If you want me to be a 312 00:18:35,808 --> 00:18:38,700 missionary, then speak to me through your word. 313 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:42,700 John chapter 6 is the story of the feeding of the 5000. 314 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,800 And after it was over the Lord, Jesus Christ. 315 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:50,800 Constraint his disciples to get into a ship and to go to the 316 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,800 other side. He went to the mountain to pray. 317 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:57,800 You probably All the story in the midst of the storm and the 318 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,200 dead of the night, the most distant part from Shore, those 319 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,800 disciples were hit with a terrible storm. 320 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,400 The waves on Darla are breaking over the bow of the ship. 321 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:10,200 And the Bible says that they feared for their lives. 322 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:13,400 When Jesus came walking to them on the water. 323 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:17,100 They were afraid that they'd seen a spirit and they cried 324 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:20,700 out. Now, I'm reading asking the Lord 325 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:22,100 Lord. Are you calling me? 326 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:24,900 Is this, your voice and verse 20? 327 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:27,700 Came with words, that touched my heart impact. 328 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:32,500 At my arm, Jesus said, it is, I be not afraid. 329 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:37,100 It is, I be not afraid. I say that's more than 60 years 330 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:40,200 ago, and I, I still need that verse every day. 331 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:44,000 Just to know the Jesus is guiding, and he's going before 332 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 us and he's repeatedly saying it is. 333 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,300 I be not afraid. I say that this evening. 334 00:19:51,300 --> 00:19:53,900 I'm Audrey Sears. So I can't tell you how she run 335 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:57,100 after me, but that wouldn't Is the truth, I run after Audrey 336 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:00,200 and very soon. Both of us shared this Vision 337 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,300 that God was calling us to the mission field. 338 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,900 We started to go together, but only went off to the Bible 339 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:09,200 College of wheels and Swansea. While I went to the Bible 340 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,500 College of the work, in Glasgow, after two years at work, I went 341 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:16,000 to the mystery School of Medicine in London. 342 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,100 And so, although we went together for five years, we sell 343 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:22,400 them saw each other, I would write the letters and kiss the 344 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,500 envelope and send it to Audrey. And that was about, The hate of 345 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:29,100 our courtship back. In those days at a Bible 346 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:32,500 College, I was deeply challenged because my mom and dad and 347 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:35,600 brother, they weren't Christians and the little God was calling 348 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:41,100 us to go overseas so far away to preach the gospel yet at home. 349 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,400 They weren't Christians. And so, I began to pray that God 350 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,000 would touch their hearts before we would leave for the mission 351 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,700 thing. While it Bible College, we got 352 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:53,900 an invitation that is the college students who went out 353 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:56,900 and missions every year. An invitation came in from 354 00:20:56,900 --> 00:20:59,500 Newton period of Baptist Church to do a mission. 355 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:04,100 That was April 1963. I led a team of young fellows, 356 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:08,700 five of us and we had a Gospel Mission, two weeks. 357 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:11,200 God, blessed and not Mission many. 358 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,800 Precious Souls were saved and many young people. 359 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,000 As a result of that mission were called to the mission field. 360 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,500 And today, some of them are still in Christian work. 361 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,200 God, so blessed. The meetings that we were asked 362 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,500 to do an extra week. And I remember preaching on the 363 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:30,400 last night of that Gospel Mission after three weeks, I 364 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,600 preached in Jeremiah eaten 20, the Harvest is past the summer 365 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,500 has ended and you are not saved. Thank God, that night, one man 366 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:42,700 was saved. It was my father, he trusted 367 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:46,900 Christ as Savior and not brought a big chance tomorrow home very 368 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:48,700 soon. My mother trusted the Lord. 369 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:52,800 And in that same year my my brother owned of the ministry of 370 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,000 dr. Pierce Lee also came to Christ. 371 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,700 I tell you this keep on praying for your family. 372 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:03,700 God does answer prayer. Audrey, and I'd applied to Accra 373 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:04,600 Gospel. Mission. 374 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,700 We knew the missionaries and we felt God was calling us to 375 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:13,500 Brazil and applying in 1964, we were accepted married on the 376 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:18,600 30th of January 65 to silt'e. Brazil within two weeks looking 377 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,700 back. It was too soon, but the ship 378 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:26,100 was the lead for several weeks and on the 5th of April, 1965. 379 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:30,300 We left for Brazil, big crowd down at the Docks, the seals of 380 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,000 and we were Selling with Fred or 90 days, you can get to Brazil 381 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,200 to quickly. You can get there in 18 hours, 382 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,500 but in those days to get to Brazil, it took our boat six 383 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:43,900 weeks to get to Brazil. I mean, we were traveling from 384 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:48,000 Liverpool to Cork cork to Lisbon, Lisbon to Barbados, 385 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,900 Barbados to Trinidad, Trinidad, to the mouth of the Amazon. 386 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:55,100 And then from the mouth of the Amazon, the seam ship took us 387 00:22:55,100 --> 00:22:59,900 four thousand miles upriver, To the city of manaus and having 388 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:05,100 left on the 5th of April, we got to Munoz on the 16th of may I 389 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:08,500 say on that because back on Tuesday is used to get my hair 390 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:11,700 cut every two weeks, short back and sides as we called it. 391 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:17,300 But having been at sea for six weeks, I desperately needed a 392 00:23:17,308 --> 00:23:21,100 haircut. And so, in the city of Muñoz, 393 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:26,400 which is a city in those days of 200,000 people, I spied in the 394 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:31,200 center of the city. A barber shop and I went in the 395 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:32,200 man. Showed me the church. 396 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,000 I said Tony didn't know how to he tried to talk to me, but he 397 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,300 couldn't speak back and so he began to cut my hair. 398 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:41,000 Has he talked and talked and cutting cutting? 399 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,800 And I realize it was getting too short and I didn't know how to 400 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,800 tell him that's enough. But I do remember seeing at the 401 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,500 traffic lights. The sign read said, Paris PA Ari 402 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:56,400 stop. So I said to the barber party. 403 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,300 He looked at me. It's only then that he began to 404 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:02,100 cut. I mean Sparks coming out of the 405 00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:05,200 scissors over the top of my head and he left me with a little 406 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,000 tuft of hair in the front of what was known as a military 407 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,600 haircut in Brazil, or what I learned afterwards. 408 00:24:12,300 --> 00:24:16,500 The word party signs, like a word a party, which means take a 409 00:24:16,508 --> 00:24:19,300 little more off. You don't tell a barber. 410 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:24,200 That the word you say to the barber, you have arrived. 411 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,800 That's what you would say to the barber, but Apparently, well, he 412 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,500 took a lot more off and left me with at taught me. 413 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,000 I needed to learn this language and so Audrey. 414 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,600 And I began language study are calling Bill Woods. 415 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,900 Of course fell into difficulty. Also, he, he was a short while 416 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:44,300 and poker to Accra. He needed to buy batteries for 417 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:47,700 his radio but he didn't know how to speak yet. 418 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:52,000 So he asked Molly Harvey, if she would write out to the man, have 419 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,300 you any batteries? And so the man, rather liked the 420 00:24:55,300 --> 00:25:00,600 word for battery is Pelias. When moliro's indict, do you use 421 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,200 in your tank? Pillion that is do you have any 422 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:09,900 batteries the word peculiar? Well, Pelion means daughter. 423 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,600 Ah, sorry. Sorry Pelion means battery but 424 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,100 the P look like an f. And so when he got to the shop 425 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,600 instead of asking for pillars, he said to the man, do you have 426 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,200 any figures that is? Do you have any daughters? 427 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:29,100 And the man said, yes, I do. Bill says, I like to buy five of 428 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:33,000 them, please do so. Maybe it's for that reason. 429 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,700 He's never been married, but the didn't get the five daughters 430 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:40,000 that night and so it is that we went to study in the town of La 431 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,300 Brea. La Brea had been a hard place. 432 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:47,800 Its were pharaohs, wife had died and only 29 years of age. 433 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:52,300 We learned the language. We started our language study in 434 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:55,300 August and by the month of November, Fred help me on my 435 00:25:55,300 --> 00:25:58,500 feet preaching, haltingly in Portuguese. 436 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:01,400 And the month of December, we moved to connote Ahmad. 437 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:07,100 The Joint Bill Woods color Tama had been was, is a very pure on 438 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:11,800 a very remote time. A Spanish priest dominated, the 439 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,200 tone phrase, the door. He was his name, he dominated 440 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,000 the tone, but God moved into that tine and a great way and 441 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,100 people were being converted. Our next door neighbor, seen her 442 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:26,300 a oh, fras you and his wife, Amelia they both got see if he'd 443 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:29,700 been a murderer, one of the hardest men and time people 444 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:33,600 feared him but I did enjoy of leading a oh fras you to Christ. 445 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:37,200 Then God, moves through that whole family until five of the 446 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,300 sons and daughters trusted. Christ. 447 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:41,700 The Savior. So many people were being 448 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:46,000 converted in kind of Tama that the priest who owned, the only 449 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,100 School in time. He made the order that those who 450 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:55,300 are leaving the Catholic Church to go to the Evangelical Church, 451 00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:58,300 their children can't come to school anymore. 452 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,300 So, there were many boys, and girls weren't allowed to go to 453 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:05,300 school, because their mom and dad had been converted, so Bill 454 00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:07,400 woods. And I we started the school. 455 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,000 We built the School. Bill had worked in an office and 456 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,800 had been in the post office. We've never built anything in 457 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,200 our lives before. So we built a lean-to school. 458 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,100 It needed to lean on something we could have done with the 459 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:22,500 Reverend McLaughlin nerves Joyner. 460 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:27,000 We built a link to school needed to lean in something or it will 461 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,500 fall and down with us building. But when we had finished with 90 462 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:35,300 boys and girls in that school, not only learning their Reading 463 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:39,100 Writing arithmetic. But also learning the scriptures 464 00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:41,200 and thank God. Many of those boys and girls. 465 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,200 Today have been missionaries and pastors serving God in various 466 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,200 parts of Brazil. Also, when not timed, there was 467 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,800 a lot of danger in the time. The particular time an epidemic 468 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:57,300 hit the town of what was known as black fever in our time. 469 00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:00,000 There were no doctors or nurses of no clinics. 470 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,600 And I guess, because I had been to the mystery school of 471 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,100 medicine. I learned enough to be 472 00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:09,700 dangerous, And so, I was responsible and atoned for 473 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:11,900 extracting teeth and treating sickness. 474 00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:15,900 Sometimes suturing wounds, remember how the amputeeot a 475 00:28:15,908 --> 00:28:19,400 part of a man's ear and one of the occasion, and unjust call 476 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,200 for four different things. But this terrible epidemic, hit 477 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,700 our time and it hit children between the ages of 3, 4 up to 478 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:31,400 16 years of age. It swept through the tone and 479 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,800 not only did we tried to treat many of those children but they 480 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,400 generally died after five days. As we know of one family who 481 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,600 lost six children within three months, three of them died in 482 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,600 the same week and tune were buried in the same day, I still 483 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,500 remember carrying some of the moment, arms trying to treat 484 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:52,700 them. It was a terrible time. 485 00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:55,800 Everyone Wednesday night prayer, meeting time. 486 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:00,300 Audrey was on, hisle were in the city of Muñoz and I was on my 487 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:03,300 own and Connor tell Mom, we were to have a permanent teachers 488 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:07,800 meeting before permitting and when it finished at Seven and it 489 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,000 was permitting. And as I was going into the 490 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,300 permitting, the lady said, to me Pastor Victor. 491 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,400 There's a girl up River and she's very ill. 492 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:18,300 Could you go tonight and see here? 493 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,600 Now, we had electric light in our time, it gets dark every 494 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,300 night at 6:00 in the Amazon all year round. 495 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,100 We had generally learnt only give us electric light from 496 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:33,800 6:00, to 9:00 every night, and after 9:00 the lights went out. 497 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,100 That's why we had our permitting from 7:30 to 8:30. 498 00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:40,000 In. When per meeting was over, I got 499 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,700 a young man from the town you want, but she stood to come with 500 00:29:42,700 --> 00:29:46,800 me on our mission boat and we traveled for another upriver to 501 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,100 treat this little girl. We saw the family, we give some 502 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:54,000 treatment, we prayed with the family and we headed back down 503 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,700 river during our absence. We didn't know what was taking 504 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:02,100 place in the time but the local tax collector who had left the 505 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:05,600 city in the left his family rather in the city of manaus. 506 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,700 He was incarnate talmud that checked. 507 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,500 The taxes and he did something that he shouldn't have been 508 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:13,000 doing. He took his guitar and he went 509 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,900 out, said under the window. The open window of a young girl 510 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,500 who was lying in a hammock and he began to certainly at her, he 511 00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:24,800 was a married man, this was a young woman and so an Indian in 512 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,800 the town seeing what the tax collector was doing. 513 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:31,700 He went with his torch and Charlotte in the tax collectors 514 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,600 eyes and said what you're doing is not right, you've come from 515 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,600 manaus, you shouldn't be here and an argument of Look and the 516 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,100 tax collector, took his guitar and broken over the Indians head 517 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,000 and round for the house. As I said, it's no dark. 518 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,800 It's dark after 9:00 and the tax collector smaller than me, but 519 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,300 he was not unlike me. We arrived back in the town at 520 00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:58,400 midnight and when I got back into the tiny left, you won't, 521 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,900 but she stood his house and then came to our house which was only 522 00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:04,500 about less than 100 yards from the river. 523 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,700 It came up, we didn't have keys on a doorway open the door and 524 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:11,300 then / do wooden block in the back of the door. 525 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:14,800 And after midnight is going to make myself a cup of tea when 526 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:20,300 suddenly gone, far started, bow long and I fell to my knees and 527 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,200 I thought they were shooting into his arms kimmons room. 528 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,800 So I looked in there was new and I thought they're shooting in 529 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,900 our room went there by this time I got back up on my feet and 530 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:32,100 suddenly, they're hitting the door. 531 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:34,200 Pastor. Victor come quickly convict 532 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,200 quickly. What had happened was the Indian 533 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,200 When the tax collector, broke the guitar, over his bed. 534 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,500 He over his head, rather he went, and he got his gun and Kim 535 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:48,800 hunting for the tax collector, who was not unlike me at 536 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,300 midnight. And the grace of God, while he 537 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:53,700 was coming down to me and street. 538 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,700 I was going up the main street, but because I don't need to go 539 00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:59,600 about 50 to 100 yards up. I got into the house. 540 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,000 When he passed the door, when he passed our door, there were two 541 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,600 men standing talking and he went for them with the gun. 542 00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:08,500 One of the men, jumped into the river. 543 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:12,400 The other got the gun and both of them wrestle to outside our 544 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,000 house. When the gun went off, it didn't 545 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,300 hit either of them but the Indian angry that he had lost. 546 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:19,800 His shot, took his place, Sheriff. 547 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:23,900 That is his fish knife about this length and got it and just 548 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:28,100 pull it up from the base of the neck, right up into the Temple 549 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,800 of the man. Seems one was his name that 550 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,800 carried amount of the boat, he lived on a boat and now they're 551 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,800 heading up my door. I remember they said he's been 552 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,200 shot come quickly. And so I grabbed my little 553 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,000 medical buying went down to the boat. 554 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,900 He was lying as if he was just about dead. 555 00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:49,800 His wife was hysterical and to try and stop the bleeding. 556 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,200 Ding should tick on the bag of coffee powder, a kilo of coffee 557 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,400 boat and poured it into the wound. 558 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,700 But through the coffee powder, you could see the archery 559 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:01,900 pumping out the blood and spheres and sought. 560 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,500 No, almost 1:00 in the morning. I began to clean out all the 561 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:10,000 granules of coffee from the wound and then suture tied up 562 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,900 the the artery and then closed and sold over. 563 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:18,800 Sutured has his Fierce and and we worked a bit. 3:30 4:00 in 564 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,200 the morning. And in the mercy of God, Synergy 565 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:27,100 amongst life was spared. But the impact of attending that 566 00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:31,600 man talks the whole of the time and God began to move in that 567 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,100 time, I don't have time to tell you this evening of individual 568 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:39,200 testimonies other than this, thank God for the mighty power 569 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,900 of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I always remember and remember 570 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:47,000 an old Brigadier General Frost speaking to us a bible college 571 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,700 and saying, remember boys wherever you go. 572 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,600 All the world, the conscience of men and women is on the site of 573 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,300 the Gospel. There is a truth in the gospel 574 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:59,700 that will touch their hearts and they will respond and that's how 575 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:03,200 it was. I see my time is gone but I wish 576 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,200 I had time to tell you about book or do archery and and what 577 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,900 God did in bukit to ARCA. I remember one night and poker 578 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:11,100 directory preaching in the opener. 579 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:15,600 And we saw lives transformed and poker to artery preaching. 580 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,500 The opener one, Saturday night. And after I had it was in the 581 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,199 times Square and quite a crowd and serenaded gathered our 582 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:25,300 church. And Kim was only 100 yards away 583 00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:29,800 from the Town Square. And after I had preached, I want 584 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,199 mingling amongst the crowd giving up gospel tracts. 585 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,199 And this man said to me, he said, pastor Victor, I'd love to 586 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,199 become a Christian. I'm going to church tomorrow 587 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,500 morning and I'm going to become a Christian. 588 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,000 I said, but you can do it tonight. 589 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,600 Why don't you come down to the church with me now, and you 590 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,199 accept Christ tonight? No, no. 591 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:51,500 He says out. Do it tomorrow morning Fred or 592 00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:54,600 soon, join me and Fred try to persuade him, come to Christ 593 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,500 tonight. And then he said, serves I've 594 00:34:57,500 --> 00:34:59,400 booked a room. I've bought in the drink. 595 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,500 I've invited people for a faster tonight and I can't cancel it. 596 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,000 I need to blur, but I'll be at church tomorrow morning and I 597 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,900 will trust Christ as Savior. He left us sadly at that dance. 598 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:17,600 At first that night young people under the age of 18 tried to get 599 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,100 Christ and tried to get in on the fight developments in fists 600 00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:24,000 were flying and feet were kicking and blood was flowing 601 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,600 and and the local police simple. Police came on the police and 602 00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:32,000 and took away a number of the people including our friend who 603 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,100 wanted to be saved. He was put in an old wooden 604 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:40,000 prison overnight and at Daybreak the next morning. 5:30 they took 605 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000 him and frog. Marched them up them in street 606 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,600 or polka darker. Incidentally book a Darkness 607 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,800 like a white West. I never fights and murders the 608 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,500 Lord in that time, they frog. Marched them up the street and 609 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:55,300 Down the River Bank on to a Dugout canoe to go to the other 610 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:58,500 side of the river, a curry to a place called Santa Maria. 611 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:03,800 It's all Forest jungle as they got into a canoe, the brothers 612 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000 of the young man, they were going for XI Wang. 613 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,300 Zhi dais was his name when they saw the police coming. 614 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,400 They showed it to their brothers, you won't run Fleet of 615 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,600 the forest here. Come the police. 616 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,900 The police were crossing. The river was our friend 617 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:19,900 tomorrow. Nice Sunday morning. 618 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,500 I'll get saved. As they cross the river, Jumanji 619 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:27,300 dais instead of flowing a fleeing rather to the forest. 620 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:29,900 He went to the wall. Took down his gun and came to 621 00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:35,100 the window of that simple. Jungle home made of bamboo wood, 622 00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:38,000 are not the window. Took careful, aim and bounce 623 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,800 shot. The bullet whistled through the 624 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,800 air and hit the Temple of our friends. 625 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,500 Who said tomorrow, I'll get saved tomorrow, I'll become a 626 00:36:47,508 --> 00:36:50,100 Christian. We'd reason with them and try to 627 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:54,000 persuade tomorrow, we're not bullet hit the Temple of his 628 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,800 head. He fell into the Muddy Waters of 629 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,100 the river, actually, and we never found his body. 630 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:04,600 Again, we find his food inside a shoe, the pyrenean fish and 631 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,100 eating the body. My friend, it reminds me that 632 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:13,300 when God speaks, it's important to respond when God speaks at 633 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:17,400 some part and to come to Christ, I wish I could tell you about 634 00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:24,800 Tara walk our way back. 1968 when Sharon his with us here. 635 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,000 Tonight was only a baby Audrey and I and Sean went to visit 636 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Arawak our friends. Dr. Thomas mulcair has just 637 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,500 arrived in the time. They were still learning 638 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,100 Portuguese and when we got to the town of A visit. 639 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:39,500 We saw the time was open to the gospel. 640 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:43,700 No missionaries had ever been to terrible cough before and so, to 641 00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:47,700 take the opportunity, we decided to have children meaning stone 642 00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:51,100 at the side of the river. And so we took songul graphs and 643 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:55,000 started a meeting alone that day of, but 40 boys and girls came 644 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,600 along and trust and listen to the gospel. 645 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,900 Next day, over a hundred people, men and women were all gathered 646 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:03,700 round and throughout all of that week. 647 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,700 I had to leave Audrey and Shannon, and because had to go 648 00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:09,100 away back to the poker drive three. 649 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:14,500 But two hours by Aeroplane away vast distances out there, and 650 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:18,100 only stayed on for three months. So it was from August, through 651 00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:22,600 November and she did studies for the women did studies on the 652 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,900 life of the Virgin, Mary Catholic woman, attracting them 653 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,800 to the gospel. I want back in November. 654 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,600 Sean had got whooping, cough, I got word. 655 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,000 So I went back in November and we're not I saw the response to 656 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,400 the women and the situation the time we felt we needed to do 657 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,500 something now. I made benches for a week. 658 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,000 I worked at making bank. I've never had benches my life 659 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,700 before but I made Dentures for people to sit on Tom and got an 660 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,900 old house that he bought we wait watch the inside of it and put 661 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:56,900 electric light and it and on the think it was the 16th of 662 00:38:56,900 --> 00:38:59,800 November. We opened that house for a week 663 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,900 of meetings on the Sunday night that Catholic Novena at six 664 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:08,900 Walk, the people were coming out at 7:00 and they had come down 665 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:12,700 past where we had the old house and I was almost like a 666 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:15,800 policeman on point students. The people can donate just kept 667 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,700 directing them into the house and very soon, you will hoist 668 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:21,700 was fool. We had a week of gospel 669 00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:23,600 meetings. I preached every night. 670 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,400 Some nights were my back to the world, children sitting around 671 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,000 my feet, every bench taken on holding, thank the Lord. 672 00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:33,900 And during that week, 16 people trusted Christ. 673 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,900 Amongst them was a girl called iolanda 16 years of age. 674 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,400 He landed got saved in the middle of that week and she went 675 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,500 home home. Her home was a shock over a 676 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:49,400 swamp, holds. The new roof, it was only pound 677 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,700 leaves boards. Missing from the wooden walls, 678 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,000 bamboo floor and a very / home as she came from. 679 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,600 And to tell her mother that she had become a Christian was quite 680 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,800 embarrassing because her mother was a prostitute Dona Maria, 681 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,400 espanol. She told her mother should 682 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,500 become a Christian and said, Mama like you to come to the 683 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:13,900 meetings. Maria was too embarrassed to 684 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:16,400 come but we were praying for her. 685 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,600 And after a month, Maria came to the meetings, she came to the 686 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:22,800 meetings and listen to the gospel and one night at the 687 00:40:22,808 --> 00:40:26,200 gospel meeting Ethel gathers, Leonard, the personal faith in 688 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,400 Jesus Christ. When she got saved, Ethel said, 689 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,600 Tom she can't go back to be a prostitute. 690 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,700 We've got to get her a job. And we had a small Hospital in 691 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:39,300 Sarawak are Samsung. Gomes, was the name of the 692 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:41,400 hospital? I was the administrator. 693 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:46,500 Tom goddess was a surgeon and they the local doctor doing 694 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:49,800 everything there. You got to get a job. 695 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,400 So Tom gave her job as a Washerwoman at the hospital. 696 00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:58,300 Hot worked out in the open sun, over aluminium Parts, balling 697 00:40:58,300 --> 00:41:02,500 the Linens in the whites and for two years she did that but every 698 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:05,600 night at the Bible, These surrounding buildings, permanent 699 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,500 Maria was there, her life was transformed, a prostitute saved 700 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:14,700 by the grace of God. After two years, she got an 701 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:16,800 easier job as a cook in her kitchen. 702 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,700 Now this wasn't a fancy hospital. 703 00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:21,800 I mean the boards were rotting and holes in the walls. 704 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:26,300 It was a wooden hospital and as I say 13 beds in the hospital. 705 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:31,300 So Maria got a job as a cook. It wasn't a fancy kitchen, 706 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,800 either every night I went down with Tom for the rod. 707 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,300 Ryan, Ward rind, at 9:00, on we take guns with us. 708 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,200 Take guns. Because when we opened the 709 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,300 store, the rats spread everywhere. 710 00:41:42,300 --> 00:41:45,600 And so, we were dead. I take time to shoot at the rats 711 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:53,000 in the store of rice and beans. After two years as a as a as a 712 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,700 cook, Tom came home one day and said we need a nurse now, 713 00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:59,400 they're not nurses from the city or ulcer hospital. 714 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,300 We had to trim the nurse taught them, how to count the pulse, 715 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,500 taught them how to take blood pressure, give him an orange and 716 00:42:07,500 --> 00:42:09,300 train them, how to give injections. 717 00:42:09,900 --> 00:42:16,800 And so simple things and when when Tom came and said, we need 718 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,600 a nurse, as I said, what about Marie? 719 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,900 Maria Maria can't kind as a says I'll teach you to come. 720 00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:27,400 And so for the next month, every night, Ethel taught Maria, had a 721 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:32,000 cone and she used to do all my boys tears and then she hit her 722 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:36,500 head and say what comes after? What comes after C, 445. 723 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:41,800 And within a month, she had learned to kind, she became a 724 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:42,800 nun. No, she wouldn't. 725 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,200 You wouldn't want her your hospital. 726 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:49,000 Remember the day I did the anesthetic when Tom To day 727 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,700 operations and this man had been operated on. 728 00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:56,900 He had a snake bite and he had got better and Tom was doing a 729 00:42:56,900 --> 00:42:59,400 skin graft. And so when the operation was 730 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,200 over we took him to the ward. And Tom says keep an eye on him 731 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,800 that when he comes out to down the set, he doesn't touch the 732 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:09,300 wound so I watch them for 10-15 minutes and then Tom said, time 733 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:10,900 for next operation Victor let's go. 734 00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:13,500 I said what about the man? Give Maria to look after. 735 00:43:14,100 --> 00:43:18,300 Now Maria was about my height and quite strong and I said 736 00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:20,600 Maria You watch him. Make sure he doesn't touch the 737 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,700 wound. So Maria stood over him with 738 00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:26,400 folded arms and Tom build a dam in order to and I call him, I 739 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,100 said, Tom watched Maria. Maria stream with folded arms 740 00:43:30,100 --> 00:43:33,300 and every time the monster heard and will lifted his head Marie, 741 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:37,200 just quoted him back out. You weren't, you wouldn't want. 742 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,900 That sort of a nurse. That was Maria. 743 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,100 One day. A man had come into the 744 00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:45,200 hospital. He had been shot in the legs six 745 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,200 months ago, For fear of the evil eye, they hid them in the 746 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,600 forest. So the people wouldn't see him. 747 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,900 And during 6 months when you're in the forest, this is when 748 00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:57,800 you're sick and not part of Brazil, you don't get washed 749 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,400 water mustn't, go near the body. So this man for six months was 750 00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,800 hidden and water hadn't touched his body. 751 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,500 But the wound was getting worse and almost a way above skin had 752 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,300 formed between the bowl of the leg and the thigh. 753 00:44:10,500 --> 00:44:13,500 And so they brought them about six days Downriver to tired of 754 00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:16,000 ikana. We put him in the hospital and 755 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,100 first law of her Hospital is, you've got to give them a wash a 756 00:44:19,100 --> 00:44:21,500 bath. I was in the hospital that 757 00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:25,100 afternoon and Kim by the wooden Ward were, the man was was 758 00:44:25,107 --> 00:44:28,100 sitting on a stool in his birthday suit and Maria was 759 00:44:28,100 --> 00:44:32,300 taking these five-gallon cans of water and just pouring over the 760 00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:35,200 head, and Paramount was like a doughnut run, and then should 761 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,100 take another one. She had emptied out over his 762 00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:40,600 head, I got over the road, I wasn't going to say anything or 763 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,600 interfere but not night at 9:00 during the war drained. 764 00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:48,100 When I got down there with Tom The / Mound was sitting on top 765 00:44:48,100 --> 00:44:50,000 of the bed shivering, it's in the topics. 766 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,300 It's all. And Tom said, what's wrong with 767 00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:54,500 you? Oh she said that nurse today. 768 00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:57,500 Nearly nearly drawing me and she couldn't get the dirt off. 769 00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:01,600 So should take brillo pads and she did blow apart from head to 770 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,900 toe. You wouldn't want Maria to be a 771 00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:08,900 nurse one day. Tom came home and said, we need 772 00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:12,700 a midwife. As I said, what about Maria? 773 00:45:13,300 --> 00:45:16,100 Maria? Do you know what Maria's like, 774 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:18,900 Ethel. God, our way of Maria became a 775 00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:21,300 midwife. As a matter of fact, she 776 00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:25,300 developed to be the best Midwife and tine and when all of us 777 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:31,300 left, Tara worker 1986 Maria was the best Midwife and tone. 778 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,200 And after we left, she said up, she had now got a proper home 779 00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:39,600 and Jesus into her home, she built an antenatal Clinic, it 780 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,500 was there that the rich people better off, people have time 781 00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:46,200 Center and wives, and daughters for the confinement of their 782 00:45:46,700 --> 00:45:50,500 Children in the antenatal clinic Maria. 783 00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:54,000 After some years, he retired. When she was 66 years of age, he 784 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:59,500 retired and on antenatal Clinic, became a prayer room, every 785 00:45:59,500 --> 00:46:02,500 Thursday morning did meet and where babies were born. 786 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:09,200 No women, young girls were born again, tremendous Testament. 787 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,300 Some years ago, Maria passed away. 788 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,500 And I guess it's nice seven years ago I was back in Tera 789 00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:21,400 Baca, I've been back since but back about seven years ago, 790 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,700 doing a week of meetings in the time and because we have another 791 00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:29,300 daughter who was born in that time, Tara Wacha. 792 00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:33,000 I went to look down with the old hospital was. 793 00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:38,300 And here there's a brand new hospital And as I looked at and 794 00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:43,700 murdered above it is this word, all speak towel familiar. 795 00:46:43,700 --> 00:46:48,600 That is Family Hospital dead. She can't do all that is 796 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:55,600 dedicated to organizing in honor of Maria Espanol. 797 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:01,600 Maria espanol, Mira spins. We called, she's a woman who had 798 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,100 been a prostitute in the time had trusted Christ as Savior. 799 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,800 Her life is transformed and became a beacon of light and not 800 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,400 own my friend, that's what the gospel can do. 801 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:20,400 Better still the church today and total because an autonomous 802 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,500 Church sends missionaries and pastors. 803 00:47:22,700 --> 00:47:24,700 Most of the best Pastors in the Accra. 804 00:47:24,700 --> 00:47:26,600 Came from the church and Tara vodka. 805 00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:34,400 But today and not Church Maria, espanyol's grandson Wagner is 806 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:38,300 the pastor of that church. That's what the gospel can do. 807 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,600 My friend, our time is gone and I've indulged too much but let 808 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,600 me just say this the Apostle Paul looking Back on his life, 809 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,700 he thanked God for the ministry that was given to him. 810 00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:52,000 And I thank Christ Jesus. Our lord, who has kind of me 811 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,600 fearful, putting me into the ministry. 812 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,100 Thank God for the ministry of the Gospel. 813 00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:00,900 My friend were liberating for eternity Sunday school teacher, 814 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,600 keep on serving Jesus. Thank God for the ministry but 815 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:08,600 Paul not only thank God for the ministry that was given to him. 816 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,100 Thank God for the miracle that happened in them. 817 00:48:11,300 --> 00:48:15,400 He said to me who was a blasphemer A persecutor 818 00:48:15,700 --> 00:48:18,900 injurious to the Church of cry while he says, I was a chief of 819 00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:23,400 sinners. But I am to Mercy because I did 820 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,700 it, ignorantly unknown, belief and faith and love and all the 821 00:48:26,700 --> 00:48:29,800 ingredients of the Gospel deserve the love of God, the 822 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,500 mercy of God, the grace of God. Thank God. 823 00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:36,800 If you're a Christian tonight, my friend, you are a miracle. 824 00:48:37,300 --> 00:48:40,700 If you're not a Christian that Miracle can happen to you. 825 00:48:40,700 --> 00:48:44,800 Tonight said the Apostle Paul. Thank God for the ministry. 826 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:47,000 Thank God for the miracle happened in me. 827 00:48:47,100 --> 00:48:50,600 Thank God for the message. This is a faithful saying and 828 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,700 Worthy. Worthy of all acceptation that 829 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,600 Christ Jesus came into the world to save Sinners. 830 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,200 That's the message that we have for the world. 831 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,500 Martin Luther said, if we could compact a Bible into one phrase, 832 00:49:02,700 --> 00:49:04,700 that would be the three years Christ. 833 00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:06,800 Jesus came into the world to save. 834 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:11,800 Sinners, my friend EQ for you. The ministry of the Gospel. 835 00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,100 Thank God for the miracle that happened in us for the message 836 00:49:15,100 --> 00:49:18,200 given to us. Now Paul sings The Melody. 837 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:24,100 Now on to the king Eternal Immortal invisible to the only 838 00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:29,000 wise God be honor and Glory forever and ever. 839 00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:33,300 Amen. And we say Amen this evening. 840 00:49:34,100 --> 00:49:36,900 Thank you for listening. I trust the young people 841 00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:39,600 committed to the martyrs, don't speak too much. 842 00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:43,900 That's just still our hearts before the Lord, our heavenly 843 00:49:43,900 --> 00:49:46,100 father. How we thank you tonight, for 844 00:49:46,100 --> 00:49:49,600 your enemies in Greece, and each individual life. 845 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:52,700 Each of us can say once we were blind. 846 00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:56,900 But now we're so we can see. We have been transformed out of 847 00:49:56,900 --> 00:50:00,300 the kingdom of darkness and brought into the kingdom of 848 00:50:00,300 --> 00:50:04,500 God's dear son and for this. Dear Lord, this evening we thank 849 00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:06,400 thee from the bottom of our hearts. 850 00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:09,800 Our Father, we do pray for friends and our meeting who 851 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:14,500 knows Not Christ as Savior Lord, we pray that you will give to 852 00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:17,800 them the grease tonight to do what they need to do. 853 00:50:19,300 --> 00:50:22,400 To do what they will be glad to have done when they stand before 854 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,100 the integrate eternity. Help them to come to Christ as 855 00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:29,800 night. So accept our thanks in Jesus 856 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,000 name. Amen. 857 00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:38,000 Maybe we could just sing two verses of our him. 279 Pass Me. 858 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:42,800 Not O Gentle Savior hear my humble cry while on others. 859 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,700 Thou Wert calling do not pass me by. 860 00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:50,000 If you're young people, you need to leave immediately do feel 861 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,300 free to leave as we sing the first. 862 00:50:52,300 --> 00:51:07,700 And last verses of this him to 79, Let's turn sick from our 863 00:51:07,700 --> 00:51:08,400 hearts.