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in China the story of the cloth one
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seems strange and as far away as the
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other side of the universe but today its
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message is here right in our midst
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during the Boxer Rebellion 236 Western
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missionaries in 23,000 Chinese
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Christians were killed
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[Music]
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in the following 50 years more Western
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missionaries came to China they
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established 19 universities over 6,000
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elementary schools and high schools and
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more than 900 hospitals the number of
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Chinese Christians grew to 700,000 the
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Chinese Communist Party believed this
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success was the result of imperialist
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cultural invasion they expelled all
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Western missionaries forced Chinese
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missionaries to renounce their religion
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and mandated a secular education for all
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Chinese
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[Music]
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50 more years have passed and today
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there are approximately 70 million
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Christians in China an increase of 100
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fold
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ah
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[Music]
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three missionary leaders were born
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around the time with a lot of Christian
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martyrs were said in the Boxer Rebellion
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Lindale Wong John's son and watch now me
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[Music]
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ring bell wang was born in beijing in
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1900 at age 20 he began his work as an
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evangelist at 27 he established
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spiritual food quarterly in 1955 he was
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imprisoned for refusing to renounce his
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faith while in prison weakened by
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intense interrogation and torture he was
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forced to sign a statement renouncing
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his face
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[Music]
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after his relief Ming Diwan could not
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find inner peace he gave himself up to
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the authorities and went back to jail
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with his wife
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this time for life
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20 years later in 1977 mrs. Wong was
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relieved
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Ming dal Hwan would rather die than
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accept his release but ten years later
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the government tricked him into leaving
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although I live in darkness the Lord is
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my life I want to endure his wrath
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because I offend anyone all who love ha
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Ming Bell Wong and his wife passed away
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in 1991 and 1992 Johnson was born in
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1901 in 1926 he studied in America and
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received his PhD in chemistry and then
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went on to the Union Theological
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Seminary of New York the president of
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the seminary thought song was crazy he
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was locked up for 193 days in the asylum
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song read the Bible 40 times later on
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his way back to China songs through a
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golden key into the Pacific Ocean it was
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the symbol of the PhD in the following
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17 years Yong Chun known as crazy song
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spread the gospel like wildfire across
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China in Southeast Asia in 1944 when he
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was 43 years old son passed away watch
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nanny was born in 1902 from the time he
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was 28 he wrote a great deal both in
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Chinese and English in Shanghai he
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established a church known as the local
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small group church and soon this form of
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church spread across the country in 1952
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he was convicted of
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counter-revolutionary activities and was
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imprisoned in by mail in jail he died
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suddenly in 1972 just before the end of
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his prison term
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[Music]
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all these men who were born during the
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Boxer Rebellion later became founders of
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Chinese Krypton George's during the late
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20th century no matter how fiercely the
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storms of persecution rage Christianity
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could no longer be uprooted from China
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as it was in the Tang name and chain
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dynasties instead the face flourished
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and had grown too strong to be surprised
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from Matteo Ricci Robert Morrison and
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Hudson Taylor to the boxer martyrs of
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1900 the seeds planted by the life and
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blood of thousands of Western
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missionaries finally had sent down deep
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roots into the harsh and ancient man
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raaah him infants awkward I'm sorry
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whoa
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the Chinese Communist Party members who
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took control of mainland China in 1949
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were die-hard atheists although the
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Constitution acknowledges freedom of
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religion the Communist Party's covert
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goal is to limit transform and
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eventually eliminate religions from 1949
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to 1953 at least several thousand
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Christians were killed tens of thousands
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were imprisoned while these horrors were
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happening premier Joe and Lai invited
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Rui out soon to a number of meetings
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they launched the three self Patriotic
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Movement it urged Christians to join the
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government-controlled three-self Church
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which advocated self-governance
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self support and self propagation its
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aim was to put Christians under the
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complete control of the Communist Party
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[Music]
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I was imprisoned because I refused to
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join the three self Patriotic Movement
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I love my country very much my students
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are the best pianist in China some even
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went aboard to perform and they were
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well received everywhere she didn't
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break any laws but the government wanted
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to denounce me anyway the real reason
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was that I spread the gospel and refused
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to join the three-self Church Oh God
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Sanju didn't feed on Amara I was a good
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friend of who Yan song the leader of the
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three self movement but I was surprised
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when he asked me to be part of the
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leadership and resist even though I knew
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my refusal would lead me to prison in
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labor champion tempers that I considered
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all the consequences sure enough on the
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evening of May 28 1959 people from the
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police and Public Security came to take
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me away back in a current
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about what tentative woman
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on September 14 1955 I was sent to
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prison for the first time 16 months I
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spent there in 1958 I was sentenced to
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20 years I wasn't released until 1978
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what is the first time I was sent to
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jail was in 1961 the main charge was my
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refusal to join the three-self movement
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why would these evangelists rather be
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imprisoned than join the government
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controlled three-self Church or majority
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people we believe that Jesus is the head
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of the church not any personal
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organization politics and religion
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should be separate when you try to
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integrate them the church deteriorates
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and can become a political tool they
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also have serious questions about the
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faith of ruuuuun
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and other leaders of the three-self
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churches with him with a recognization
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agent one day during a dinner
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conversation asked Leo's own what he
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thought about the miracles performed by
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Jesus he said he had rejected those
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longer so we also heard in Goshen ruyan
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and Dingaan Sean they both belong to a
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faction which we call the non-believers
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group we refused to join them because we
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felt they didn't have faith within 10
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years almost all the evangelists who
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refused to join the three-self Church
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were imprisoned or put into labour camp
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Madame yangshin Fey was one of them she
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graduated from the Shanghai Music
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Academy in 1957 and with 27 when
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arrested he spent 20 years in jail the
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night she was arrested her father was
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very ill what my dad was already in bed
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I went to say goodbye to you I also
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asked for my mother we always pray
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before leaving homes there was one
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policeman standing guard beside her
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another one beside to me my mother
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prayed to the Lord
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begging him to take care of new girls
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have mercy on my daughter never leave
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secretely and bring her back safe and
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sound
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middle or be with her then I left home
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and went to the labor camp during this
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harsh winter of faith
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the land was frozen and blue but the
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wheat did not die underneath the ice and
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snow seeds were struggling to take root
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waiting for spring to come
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more today Joe moon crucial I was in
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jail for 21 years and eight months in hi
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long Jiang province near the former
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Soviet Union it was extremely cold there
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and a lot of people died but you know
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all those years I never got sick not
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only did I survive I wasn't sick single
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day so I know God still has work for me
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to do the hardest part was that all the
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women criminals will lock up anyone's
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room and it was too noisy to sleep I
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also need to pray everyday or I can't
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sleep so I waited until they all fall
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asleep and I crept up out of bed and
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kneeled and pray to God every night was
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like this and - I left a labor camp that
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very water had to pull the blankets over
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my head and pray there was no Bible but
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a human stayed with me you know the one
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the old rugged cross boy y'all call
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ginger water Joe so I'll cherish the old
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rugged cross till my trophies at last I
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lay down I will cling to the old rugged
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cross and exchange it someday for a
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crown sure the Joe cohort : squirrel in
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there I sang it over and over to keep my
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spirit up the path of the class was
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paved with humiliation and suffering for
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those who chose to walk this path every
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step was taken with blood and tears was
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understanding again gentle decision I
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was in jail for 23 years
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if they had told me that it will last 23
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years I don't think I would have made it
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when they held a public meeting to
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criticize denouncement they asked do you
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still believe in God do you still
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believe in Jesus they pulled my hair and
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my ears they punched me knocked me to
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the ground and kicked me and they jerked
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my handcuffs and asked do you believe do
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you still believe the handcuffs had made
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deep gouges in my flesh which has
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started to fester they hauled me away
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like this back and forth back and forth
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but I prayed to the Lord I have followed
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you as far as I can surely you're not
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glorified when they denounced and
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torture me each day I'm your servant and
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your child are you glorifying heaven
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when I'm suffering like this in prayer i
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entrusted my whole family to the Lord
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then I was ready to kill myself how
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could I do it with handcuffs on when the
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two guards went for lunch I jumped onto
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the bed and unscrewed delightful I
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planned to kill myself with an electric
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shock but the electricity wasn't strong
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enough
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later people told me it was because I
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had income from the handcuffs diverted
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the electricity and saved me while I was
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in the middle of doing this people from
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outside noticed and shouted most she
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wants to kill himself the government
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officials call me out and lecture me you
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want to threaten the government you want
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to make the government look bad by
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killing yourself and night unconfessed
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to God I said Heavenly Father I have
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fallen short of your glory I've made it
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through 12 years of labor camp and
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endured a lot of suffering why can't I
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rely on you until the very end I'm not
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worthy of your glory please forgive me
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our Lord
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then I heard the Lord speak to dear
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child my grace is sufficient for you
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dear child my grace is sufficient for
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you and a third time he spoke so very
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gently my grace is sufficient for you
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then the word comforted me by His grace
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I survived
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while thousands of Christians suffered
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in prison for the sake of the cloth the
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storm outside the jails grow even
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stronger after 1958 the government
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closed down many churches in the name of
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unifying them 66 churches in Beijing
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only four remained open in Shanghai
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eight of 204 were left open and in
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Guangzhou only one of the original 52
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was left all of a sudden that seems that
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the Chinese Church was withering
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[Music]
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in 1966 when the Cultural Revolution
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started the Chinese Christian Church v
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extermination was a noun
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churches were destroyed believers homes
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were confiscated and Bibles were burned
17:32
even the three-self churches did not
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escape Chairman Mao's wife claims that
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Chinese Christianity was finished and
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belongs in the History Museum everywhere
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you went there were red guards
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everywhere you went there were armed
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radicals
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everywhere they interrogated you many
17:58
faithful believers shed tears in secret
18:00
while they waited and waited for light
18:03
to come what did imagine I remember
18:06
clearly on June 16th 1966 the largest
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poster they put out red was done with
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the imperialist running dog missionaries
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unrepaid I said I cannot change my
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belief in Jesus watch and they replied
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you stubborn idiot go see your God all
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the students came to the meeting
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criticized and denounced me from then on
18:29
they locked me in the cowshed watching
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me on congenital I remember watching a
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Christian standing on a platform they
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denounced him and called him a
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ringleader of superstitious people there
18:41
was an elderly sister in our area and
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when she got on the platform she called
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out leave in Jesus do not fear death you
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know what I was committed of
18:52
counter-revolutionary activities because
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of my faith in Jesus I was forced to
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pray through the streets they often held
18:59
public meetings to denounce me my whole
19:02
family suffered the same thing just
19:04
because they were related to me many
19:07
churches were shut down missionaries
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were arrested or forced to wear tall
19:11
guns caps their hands were painted black
19:14
and they were forced to parade through
19:15
the streets Church life was completely
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destroy
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at the same time an item landed on God's
19:26
altar when Mao Zedong sued overlooking
19:31
Tiananmen Square in his - the fanatic
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masses below it seems that he captured
19:37
the heart and soon of everyone in China
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near Chairman Mao we promise you we will
19:53
be the successors of the working class
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revolutionary mission we will follow you
19:57
and carry out revolution or our life we
20:01
will smash the old world and until the
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new world for the working class the
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imperialists and revisionists hoped in
20:08
vain to transform us and in future
20:10
generations peacefully but that will
20:12
never happened we will take the great
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south of 12 resume and carry them to the
20:17
next generation and spread them all over
20:20
China and the world underneath the
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overpowering waves stirred up by this
20:31
mighty hurricane many questions remained
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clear minded and held on to their faith
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[Music]
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Truman Mao's Fortran was larger than
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life we will force the mail and come
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fast afford it
20:48
I refuse to new and do their waffling
20:51
from one side to the other one people
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shouted and a dog kept barking and
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biting US officials brought out scissors
21:00
and cut off my hair and lay on the
21:03
ground but did not kneel before their
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prison oh yeah home or considering
21:08
whether we studied current affairs or
21:11
the quotations of Chairman Mao I kept
21:13
silent I refused to sing revolutionary
21:16
songs not a single line and refused to
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salute long list of Chairman Mao I
21:21
refused to raise my fist to show my
21:23
loyalty I refused to write statements
21:26
that promised obedience to know that
21:29
once they interrogated me
21:31
she answered this question can Chairman
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Mao go to heaven this was a tough
21:36
question if I said Chairman Mao couldn't
21:38
go to heaven they would beat me to death
21:40
on the spot it was a life-or-death
21:43
moment during that time but I had been
21:46
praying day and night I spent all my
21:48
time in prayer and got very little sleep
21:51
so I stood up and handcuffed and said
21:54
the door to heaven is wide open everyone
21:57
can enter as long as he acknowledges
22:00
that Jesus is the Son of God was
22:03
crucified on the cross that his blood
22:06
can cleanse all our things and admit he
22:09
is a sinner and is willing to receive
22:12
Jesus as Savior then he can enter the
22:15
gates of heaven the gate of grace is
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wide open now is the time for salvation
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I'm only too anxious to see you all
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repent and receive Jesus and His grace
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the government commenced our stepped
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down from the platform and hit me
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angrily most of Sheikh you are preaching
22:35
again I said you all asked me to speak
22:38
could I have refused to answer your
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question this elegantly murdered mr.
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Tsai was put in jail during the Cultural
22:46
Revolution he was accused of opposing
22:49
chairman now
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well mostly son you die we'll go
22:53
together in Turkey I didn't put up
22:55
Chairman Mao posters because at the time
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Chinese people worship Mao as their God
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and I believe Jesus is the only true God
23:03
the government held a public meeting
23:06
about 10,000 people were gathered to
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denounce me when they asked me to
23:11
confess the first words out of my mouth
23:14
were for God so loved the world in Idina
23:17
but the ephod is all-seeing eye Cillian
23:20
in detail
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you
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[Music]
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with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976
23:36
the nationwide movement to deify him
23:40
which had been disastrous for the
23:42
Chinese nation finally came to an end
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[Music]
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[Music]
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1977 palace church services conducted in
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the homes of the faithful started to
24:11
spring up in cities and throughout the
24:13
countryside in this empty square in
24:45
Shanghai pieces parts to pray together
24:49
soon a number of three-self churches
24:52
also overdone
24:54
[Music]
24:57
people quickly discovered that
24:59
Christianity had not died in China
25:05
in fact even during those traumatic
25:08
times faith in Christ had been spreading
25:11
in miraculous ways
25:13
[Music]
25:17
new yuan pool was a village teacher from
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Hunan Province and as a young man
25:23
traveled to Beijing to attend Chairman
25:25
Mao's reveal with regards a fijian
25:28
those of us who went to Beijing were
25:30
excellent students after returning home
25:33
from Beijing I was appointed rehgar
25:36
commander during the time we were so
25:38
ignorant all we wanted was to live or
25:41
die for chairman loud until the day I
25:44
die I'll never forget what happened when
25:47
an old missionary was denounced in fact
25:50
I was directly involved in organizing
25:52
the public meeting and scheming how to
25:54
accuse and punish her but when the
25:57
records beat her up she responded kindly
25:59
Oh God
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forgive this children but they don't
26:02
know what they're doing again in 1978 I
26:06
repented and my wife and I started a
26:09
house church in our home at first only a
26:12
few old ladies attended now we have over
26:16
3,000 believers the first training
26:19
school began in my house
26:21
today there are between 40 and 50
26:24
training schools like this
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[Music]
26:32
what we are the children of God but they
26:36
say we are the descendants of Dragon one
26:40
since I who is now a house church leader
26:43
was once a Red Guard commander in order
26:46
to show his loyalty to Chairman Mao he
26:49
persecuted his own mother because of her
26:52
belief in Jesus you know what she left
26:54
hold on back know what is yen to later
26:56
because I was an activist in the
26:58
Cultural Revolution I put up a big
27:01
poster to criticize my mother publicly I
27:03
didn't want to have anything to do with
27:05
her especially politically it didn't
27:08
matter that she was my mother
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[Music]
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[Music]
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in spite of what I did she prayed for me
27:20
and fasted for 20 days this made me
27:24
think if something were definitely bad
27:26
for them
27:27
a mother would not want her children to
27:29
have anything to do with it why did she
27:32
pray and fast for 20 days for my
27:34
salvation I had to think about that same
27:40
difficulty Vasily Wow I didn't go
27:43
seriously she would risk her own life so
27:47
that her child might come to believe in
27:48
Jesus while the same Jesus was denounced
27:52
convicted and labeled as evil by our
27:55
country
27:56
I was wondering but couldn't figure out
27:59
why ahead what they're called doctor
28:03
what God will do necessity whoa urge
28:06
yeah well Anna tahoe well be neat over
28:09
food one day my second sister came home
28:11
and asked me if I'd like to read a book
28:13
yes I said in those days I welcomed any
28:17
books later she gave me a book that had
28:20
no cover and no back it was worn out all
28:24
the way to the seventh chapter of
28:25
Matthew the moment I started reading it
28:29
I was moved in Chapter seven it said do
28:33
not judge or you will be judged whatever
28:36
measure you use to give to others the
28:39
same measure will be given to you
28:42
this is so true I thought
28:45
when I asked my sister who wrote it and
28:47
told her it was so well written she
28:50
thought I had already accepted Jesus she
28:53
said there were Jesus's words I was
28:55
furious
28:56
I threw the book out into the yard that
28:58
hurt my sister so much worse than a
29:02
wound she rushed outside and picked up
29:04
the Bible then she told me that a sister
29:07
in Christ had died during the Cultural
29:09
Revolution
29:10
in order to save this Bible still the
29:13
toda Gonzalez lunch inside sister
29:16
brought a Christian to see him later
29:19
this brother died in jail what about you
29:22
to know what a cool I invited him into
29:25
my room when he saw all the books on my
29:27
desk he asked me if I'd read them all I
29:29
said that I had then he said you must be
29:33
a seeker of truth I said yes he told me
29:37
that I wouldn't be able to find truth on
29:39
earth real truth comes from above he
29:42
gave me an example there was an apricot
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tree laden with ripe yellow fruit that
29:47
fell to the ground
29:48
a pig came by and ate the apricots
29:51
afterwards the pig dug the earth with us
29:54
now to try to find more it didn't know
29:57
to look up and see that the apricot had
29:59
come from above I thought the story was
30:02
very philosophical
30:03
he didn't mention Jesus at all or
30:05
anything about the Bible I couldn't move
30:08
or to Yasuko immediately like shit about
30:10
some dinner section I love you later on
30:13
I felt an explosive force within me and
30:15
said I believe after I said that help my
30:20
face turn red the blush was hotter than
30:22
being caught stealing after becoming a
30:25
believer one since I was eager to find
30:28
the Bible he had thrown away and he did
30:31
managed to track down the Bible's owner
30:33
Waldorf's william shockley
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i said i'd like to trade my bicycle for
30:37
your bible i see i offered my new pigeon
30:40
brand bicycle but he said no
30:44
in those years a brand-new bicycle cost
30:47
as much as a car does today however a
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Bible was an invaluable treasure for a
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Christian if I the church was shut down
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from 1958 on there were no gatherings
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but an elderly sister fasted prayed and
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cried out to the Lord every day she
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cried for the future of the Chinese
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church during the Cultural Revolution
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they found the Bible in her house and
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took her away they beat her and broke
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one of her feet tell the family I wasn't
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there was only one torn apart Bible that
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survived the Cultural Revolution within
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50 miles of a home it had the New
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Testament but only from Romans chapter
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12 to Revelation chapter 11 we wanted to
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study it but the owners wouldn't lend it
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out it was their treasure so we had to
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go over there to copy it every week we
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had to make two or three trips the
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original way to say that women in
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out-of-home ahem are the first Bible I
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received was from a sister someone from
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Hongkong had given it to her during our
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meeting we passed it around so that
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everyone could touch and feel it for a
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while everybody held it to their cheeks
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and kissed it after being kissed by 30
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people the Bible was soaked with tears
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and the red color became faded the fact
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only possum
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during the Cultural Revolution Chinese
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Christians risked their lives to
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preserve a few Bible perturbing and a
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lot of Hammurabi Bibles became available
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and overseas believers began to smuggle
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Bibles to house churches across the
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country it was not until 1985 sponsored
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by a Western foundation that Bibles were
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printed in China in large quantities but
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even today public distribution is not
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permitted people who want to own a Bible
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must buy one at a three South Church
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mountains cannot stop rivers that flow
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to the ocean the day the Bible has
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entered millions of Chinese families it
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is a stream in the desert poisoning
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every thirsty soul
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at the end of the 1970s Christians began
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to be released from jail I was so
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anxious to go home
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I wished at no time and took the Express
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train it was after 11 o'clock at night
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when the train arrived in the gene pool
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abundant here our eldest daughter in the
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her husband our first man in the four
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bars quickly ate some porridge then
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hurried to the train station the light
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was red until you could hardly see
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anything our eyes got very tired the
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folders were spread out along the
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platform with currency each other we
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kept looking around the train station
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until no one was left they didn't find
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him from operation wallah forward I'd
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been gone over 20 years and I was
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wearing a black cotton padded jacket in
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case and a big four hat and a pair of
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food coming condemn anyone took the bus
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to buy tossa to the home he had left but
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he couldn't find his home then was all
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it was all I looked here and there where
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should I go
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I started to call my wife's name Lily
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young I didn't know where she had moved
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in 1958
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we were at William Cheung their new
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address we've had no idea my third
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daughter-in-law answered my call Lily
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hyung went to the train station to pick
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someone up I replied that it was me
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remember I had never met any of these
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daughters involved my oldest son was
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only 17 when I left
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mrs. yuan along with her children came
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back from the train station very
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disappointed dependable Yonghwa I saw a
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light in my room was it possible I
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hurried up the steps and open the door
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there he was washing his feet his head
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was severed and he was perfect
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I was speechless so totally
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they gave him 60 yen per charlie I still
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couldn't say a word he was so thin I
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didn't know what to say yet I was a full
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of joy and gratitude usually if it was a
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life sentence you could never go home
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people who don't believe in Jesus a
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strong fate wants to help me return home
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it wasn't my fate I am God's child the
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decisive element
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the first thing we do was to thank God
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what was the young every hope I ever had
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that is you might come home it turned
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out that prison was a safer place to be
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during the Cultural Revolution otherwise
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he would have been bitten to death
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I was so full of gratitude when I
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thought of this after he washed his feet
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he didn't eat he went right to sleep I
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cleaned up a car ready to go to work the
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next day 20 years of imprisonment were
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over but Ellen UN knew that his wife had
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had a harder life outside prison during
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those long years so thank you all those
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20 years when I was gone my wife
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suffered a lot while she raised our
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children I thought I saw what after he
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left we had eight people in the family
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of my mother you know in a city Shirin I
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had no job later when I got a job I made
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80 cents a day which is 24 yen us three
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dollars a month after the three young
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Thai I had 21 year in left how could the
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eight of us live on so little money or I
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could do was pray Lord yes this is from
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you so I won't say anything about it I
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just want to ask you to protect my
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children and me from this honor and you
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know my six children complained I often
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told them that their father went to jail
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not because of any crime but my children
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to suffer allowed one of my sons he was
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with named homebred head
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cause that was the lunch we brought at
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school everything he said mother could
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you buy me a quick roll just once - shut
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up I say I couldn't if I just bought one
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roll it was not fair
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for the college kids and I couldn't
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afford to buy sticks one day this family
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of eight said math bottom there was
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absolutely nothing left to eat by handle
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it was late about 11 o clock and I pray
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O Lord we have nothing for tomorrow we
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no rice no flour no man named Lord if
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you don't provide all we have is water
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but early the next morning and well not
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on a dog I just finish my prayer so I
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opened the door and right away it was an
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elderly woman in her 60s I didn't know
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her so I asked her name she said please
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don't ask my name the Holy Spirit
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brought me here she saying here is
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something for you it was a package I
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opened it after she left it was a 15 min
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which was a bottle money so I was able
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to buy flour whole and put one day
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according to the UN family with three
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packages the local in attendance Elvin
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she saved a big bag you can send to
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uncle Yin the middle sized bed is for
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you to give to others you need in the
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deeper part is to be used for your
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expenses my child what is your name I
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ask you anything
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please don't ask mother didn't want me
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to tell you
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during this difficult 20 years it was
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this great love that came from above and
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from doors around her that sustains this
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gentle woman and her family in body and
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heart
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my mouth has resonated it was amazing
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each time the money came in the mail
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with a post mail 1017 or 1 0 5 6 I will
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write back I now need the money
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in hope to meet you soon I don't know
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you a thank you we will give a lot two
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days later my data was returned the post
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offices noting that there was no such
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person many ways in every month for over
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20 years
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some people like my new neighbors say
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how can you are still joyful after going
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through so much suffering they don't
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understand but I do my lord
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in 1978 pastor Samuel and which released
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important what's within yourself when I
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got out of jail I found out that my wife
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had died to use earlier
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my father died seven years earlier was
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we mobile cleaner over the years when I
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returned from labor camp I had nothing
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left they didn't return any of my assets
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all my house they came to our home three
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times to confiscate things finally they
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kicked us out we had to live in a little
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dark room about seven square meters
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there was no daylight no fresh air
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perhaps they didn't anticipate that the
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pressures that they had to face after
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leaving jail hadn't changed they still
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had to register to join the three-self
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Church but the government also had an
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unanticipated situation to deal with the
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answers from all these Christians remain
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the same as before
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and mobile but then I refused to
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register before that's what I said go
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ahead and arrest me again
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I was 75 in 1999 I am an old man I
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missed to jail the first time I was in
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prison for 16 months the second time 20
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years
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I'm used to it soon when I returned home
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in October 1979 people came to my house
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every day some came to read the Bible
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some came to pray later we started the
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house church service and we continued to
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this day
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my faith is more important than
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everything else if the laws of the
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government are against my face I will
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never submit to man I submit to God was
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it war father I was not against the
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government well the government
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misunderstood me according to the Bible
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we submitted the authorities but in
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terms of phases and I submit to God not
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man which is the way to go that's all
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they continue moving on to their faith
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and continue to carry their own cross
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first of all between October 10 1985 to
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January 10th 1986 they lock me up for
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three months and again between April
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24th and July 23rd 1992 they put me
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behind bars for three months accusing me
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of spreading the gospel outside of
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pre-assigned area hey Jimmy hall you may
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hear the plainclothes policeman came on
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Sunday and declared there was no service
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on that day they claimed yuan was sick
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you will be fine in the middle of the
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gathering seven public security
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personnel entered in uniform three of
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them went upstairs as a student I'll
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stay away one of them interrupted our
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preaching and asked who reported to the
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police that they had been a suicide one
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of the brothers said no one had reported
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a suicide we didn't have any suicides
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here then we started to sing the
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grossest Alma didn't draw we were
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singing as they later will be the Tyler
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sure - yeah sure - yeah
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what don't time to go singer yeah top
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Angela
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these elderly men who have been deprived
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of their youth who were even considered
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strange in the modern world said neither
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bitterness and regret the first time
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they asked me if I was going to appeal I
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said no I thought to myself why appeal
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to men I need is prayed to God hoping
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thank you and home die we shouldn't
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resent anybody because nothing happened
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that came from man God allowed us to
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suffer this way Jesus suffers as well
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but was not resentful he prayed for his
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persecutor example well - like what do
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you know just after I was relieved I
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didn't appeal the policeman said we're
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not going to rejoice you're here because
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you will keep doing the same thing we
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need you
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of course I will keep doing the same
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thing oh I'd be put on this earth to
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witness for the Lord what else is
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important - will be then the Lord tell
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me from the beginning to give up
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everything and carry the cross to follow
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him this is the Lord's way I'm following
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him on the same path why should I be
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upset why should I complain this is my
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biggest blessing at the first was
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originally sentenced to life
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imprisonment but they released him in
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1987 it was very important to him not to
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leave the Incheon jail so he stayed in
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the little house nearby
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yes Suja followed the court he to me and
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change my situation from non repentant
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to repentant in order to release me
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I protested in two ways first I refused
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to leave the jail then after that I was
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relieved I choose to live as a life
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sentence prisoner in a place just
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outside of the gates not only did he
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live next to the jail the first insisted
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on fasting five days a week if I keep on
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fasting like this they will know I have
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now repented that I don't accept their
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accusations in the first place if I
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continue to fight like this until I die
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it will mean that I refuse repentance
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even until death after 15 years of
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fasting ever first came to the end of
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his 78 years on this earth and rested in
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the Lord some churches in unit 1 wanted
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to have some of the badges but they were
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quietly spread on the yellow river in
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his last letter to his relatives pepper
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first wrote i died as an unrepentant
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criminal just like my lord jesus for
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many years I've believed in Jesus and
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follow him the Lord Jesus has always
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listened to my prayers he has been with
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me wherever I go I will never be 9
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the way the class surpasses all human
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understanding where the class is the way
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of humiliation and glory the way of
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suffering and joy the way of sacrifice
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and victory in children madam vengeance
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a nice a house church that consists
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mainly of college students she offered
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preachers in the nearby cities and
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villages in Shanghai and Beijing has two
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movies she devotes has advanced through
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to reaching out to the increasing number
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of younger people who have thirsty souls
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in Guangzhou pastor Samuel lamb and his
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damage and house church and firm and
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with grace in all their trials and
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hardships we were all out before I went
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to jail we had 400 people after I came
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back we had 900 they confiscated the
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house in 1999 after that we grew to
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2,000 the third floor was not big enough
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so we had to use a closed-circuit TV on
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the second floor
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finally we had to use the basement as
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well the more they persecuted the more
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blessed we became hi he is not a human
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project
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yeah he is
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today the church has moved to move many
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where everything is like a Holiday Inn
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versus Christians gather together enjoy
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in Beijing pastor Alan Wong's house
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church is like a lighthouse beaming out
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the hope of Chinese Christians into the
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dark night of German solution every
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summer
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Alan run who is now 90 baptized of
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hundreds of people
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what God called me to spread the gospel
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and serve the Lord in my mind except a
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vision from above even though we are
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limited in many ways the demo will never
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conquer the church battles like this
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raged in the past today the Lord's work
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marches forward in China like the time
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of Acts
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during the Cultural Revolution in China
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the flame of hatred and bitterness
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burned hot at the same time a quiet
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stream of love and forgiveness struggle
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to quench the thirst of the faithful
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militate in 1960 a few family started
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gatherings which had very few
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participants by 1967 these house church
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gatherings became very widespread what a
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guy beating jr. did not have the know
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lady next door was a devout Christian
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and I was drowning against Christianity
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and all I got it
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one day she came over for a chat she
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taught me to kneel and pray later I
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became Christian in our first gathering
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there were three to four people soon we
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had six then eight on at times as many
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as 30 people luga father all the
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meetings were held in secret
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every time we met we prayed together
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fervently of course we had to leave
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right after the service to escape arrest
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by the red car and the militia even
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later all of them even like talking
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daughter
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a woman census an end to Americans for
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30 or 40 years we kept our house church
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alive in the beginning there were only
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my mother my brother and I later our
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gatherings grew to 7 then 8 and then 10
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and gradually more and more man-mana
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your torture Ella
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Sydney I Shibuya in 1972 I received a
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letter from my brother-in-law who lived
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in my hometown of her 9 he said hurry up
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come home soon
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he told me there were some young people
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who wanted to devote their lives to
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spreading the gospel when I checked it
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out I found it was true so how did they
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preach the gospel well during the day
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they were hiding caves and he orchards
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or in barns after 10 o'clock at night
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they will come out and find other
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believers to pray with the others will
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make you regretting that you got
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sometimes we met in the cornfield
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sometimes we met in the graveyard those
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were the best places for gathering in
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prayer I remember there was a time we
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lived in an empty field for more than
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six months all on tell no matter what
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time it was evening midnight or dawn all
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I had to do was walk by someone's window
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and call his name all of them got up
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right away and contacted the others in
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no time at all three rooms will be
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filled with people with the end of the
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Cultural Revolution secret host church
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activities gradually came out into the
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open
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after the death of Mao Zedong the
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Chinese people cheated by a false god
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began to search for the true God
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for the first time in their lives people
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from the lowest levels of society came
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face-to-face with God's unconditional
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love with Christ's sacrifice on the
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cross and with the knowledge that in
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God's temple they had value and dignity
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how could they not rejoice like everyone
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who has received the most precious gift
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in the world
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ah
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it's a dollar job the first time I'm
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going to church I feel the atmosphere
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there was really good I found true
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meaning in life I found a piece that I
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never felt before peace in the world so
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I can say without reservation I will
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follow God for the rest of my life
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you are will you who know washing after
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the service my soul felt especially
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sweet and joyful Lord how wonderful it
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will be if we can meet like this every
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day
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I lay away for three nights overwhelmed
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with joy I thought Lord
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what happened received where am I still
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feel joy no money I have no family
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nothing and you know I was absolutely
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sure that destroy came from heaven what
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do you know you're so was it yes I
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didn't completely recover my health when
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I found Jesus but there was the kind of
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indescribable joy within me I didn't
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know where he came from
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I saw it over and over and I decided it
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was best to follow the reasoner my
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greatest joy it was there finally I
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found a meaning of my life when I look
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back I'm very happy I didn't choose the
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path of sin the Chinese have experienced
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a great deal of sin in this mortal
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existence but never have they
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experienced the peace that comes from
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forgiveness and baptism by the Holy
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Spirit
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any loss to me the whole time the
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minister was preaching I couldn't help
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crying I really didn't understand why I
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was afraid that other people might see
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my tears so I tried to wipe them away
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without anybody seeing me I kept my head
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bowed and I listened to the sermon I
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remember it was about repentance through
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Christ's atonement for us
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I always felt like I was the prodigal
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son
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but the last eternal love has not
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abandoned me I'm so thankful that so far
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I've been able to serve God reward you
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hopeful stood I got one thing I'll never
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forget it was only through God's grace
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that the warmth inside me healed so that
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nos ago when God came to me he touched
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my heart and the power of his message
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was Mahalo
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a while ago only way I knew that you
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wanted to use me to help save other
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people seeing what you know which is to
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turn your hand over
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Oh
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and how amazing God's grace is he loves
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each and every one of us I decided to
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devote my life to his service it's only
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through the love of God that I can live
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a better life it gives me a purpose and
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a reason to live just as the Sun cannot
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stop shining and seeds in spring cannot
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stop sprouting these people answered a
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call from deep in their souls they were
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reborn through Jesus they could not help
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but dedicate themselves to God and
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become missionaries of the gospel how
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fast time flies I have been on this path
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with 16 years Jane Chen Yoon was born
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and raised in an intellectual family
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when she decided to dedicate her life to
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missionary work she had a long talk with
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her father peddle al-ghazali was
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invented a descendent holiday and he
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said to me you have three choices if you
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like to continue your education I would
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support you financially if you'd like to
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keep on working as a teacher I'll make
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all the arrangements
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if you like a different job with my
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authority and connections I can find you
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a good one think about it I said I don't
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want anything of that why not
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he asked what else do you want I told
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him I want to continue my work as a
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missionary he gave the longtime Ching
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Ling if you ever get tired and feel you
64:42
can no longer carry on please come back
64:46
home our door is always open to you if I
64:50
need even a donation wall if you what
64:52
eyes if you are happy living with your
64:54
brothers and sister and choose to do
64:57
that for the rest of your life please
64:59
don't forget to write home no matter how
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far away you are
65:09
my eyes were full of tears and I was
65:13
afraid to look up and my father then he
65:17
asked me one last time if I was sure I
65:20
wanted to leave Watership I said yes I
65:24
want to go that that is so he took out
65:27
$30 and said I don't have much money
65:31
large take this with you for the role
65:34
the only thing is all optional way he'll
65:37
be supported my mother used to Tibet me
65:39
to come home to she say we use this is
65:43
artist traveling so I tell her it was
65:46
all for Gosselaar if I don't spread the
65:49
gospel many other people would answer
65:52
his call but God has planted the seat in
65:55
my heart he called me and gave me
65:58
definition and responsibilities and I
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can refuse to follow his will
66:26
this courageous girl grew up in a small
66:29
town but spent most of her youth in
66:32
caves and in jail there was a lot of
66:35
pain and also a lot of joy de- you know
66:40
gossip has cleaned me onto this path I
66:43
was weak I was lost but I have never
66:47
regret my choice today Jang Jin Eun and
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her husband are in charge of training
66:53
missionaries for house church activities
66:56
more and more people including their
66:59
families have begun to understand and
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support them with the company of your
67:04
love we will keep following your
67:06
footsteps to the end of our life since
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the 1980s in mainland China tens of
67:13
thousands of devout Christians like Jang
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Jin Eun have dedicated their lives for
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the world
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from 1981 on I completely devoted myself
67:25
to this past and after my hometown with
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several other girls and went by bicycle
67:30
now food to more than 10 counties nearby
67:33
in every village we talk to people we
67:36
met on the street many of them were
67:38
really interested they never saw the
67:40
group of girls spreading the gospel a
67:42
lot of sick people were healed by the
67:45
power of her prayers every time we
67:47
traveled tens of thousands of people
67:50
became followers of Jesus this is how we
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establish the cost churches conquer
67:55
service again in the beginning there
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were miracles in every village we
67:59
visited many missionaries were gifted
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with the power of healing we were able
68:04
to heal the sick with a touch of our
68:05
hands
68:08
sinister giggle we will visit a new
68:11
village we would say in the yards of
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farmhouses
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many neighbors would drop by just out of
68:16
curiosity we would teach them about
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Jesus
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then if the villages said they would
68:22
accept the gospel we were kneel and pray
68:24
together
68:25
funny unquote you every time there was a
68:28
celebration a wedding or a funeral we
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would beat our drums and strike our
68:32
gongs to spread the gospel we used to
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put on plays skits dances or tell Bible
68:42
stories in order to spread the gospel
68:47
none be applied or integer your king
68:51
that lies young Samuel good night
68:55
dreaming we spread the gospel on buses
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trains and in the streets we knocked on
69:06
every villagers door we went into their
69:09
homes and told them all about the good
69:11
news what is the gospel
69:14
sit down please everybody sit down book
69:17
digital we visited every corner of our
69:19
local area and spread the word after it
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was established locally we traveled to
69:24
other cities and prophets in this
69:25
fashion we've been to Xiang ji who binds
69:29
Ninjago Daniel essence back in 1980 and
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1981 that was the golden era for Wenzhou
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house church right from the remote
69:39
regions of Xin chà o from the desolate
69:41
land in the northeast from the Papa with
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a massive gathering the Holy Spirit came
69:46
down upon us with abundance then in 1981
69:51
the government re-established the
69:53
three-self Church the good times were
69:56
over as soon as the government
69:58
reestablished the three-self Church
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house churches became illegal than it
70:03
was forbidden to spread the gospel in
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1983 the government gave orders to
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arrest a group of Christians who they
70:11
labeled as the gang of agitators what I
70:16
would believe I was arrested because
70:17
they said I belong to the gang of
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agitate
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what on earth did I enter Tate for did I
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incite people to overthrow the communist
70:24
regime did I announced that I was
70:26
against the one-child policy I would not
70:28
complain if I had but all I did was
70:31
shout Christ is Lord and for that I was
70:33
convicted of anti revolutionary
70:35
activities and thrown in jail for 15
70:38
years this former Red Guard leader found
70:42
understanding and comfort in Christ
70:44
Jesus didn't do anything wrong but he
70:47
was crucified on the cross I didn't do
70:49
anything wrong either during the
70:51
Cultural Revolution I was a fighter and
70:53
a destroyer of lives but I was treated
70:56
as a hero now I am a righteous man but
70:59
I'm considered criminal unfallen
71:10
everyone who has been jailed for
71:11
speaking the truth please stand and come
71:13
forward being thrown in jail is such a
71:16
common occurrence that these faithful
71:19
brothers and sisters are quite
71:21
comfortable talking about their
71:22
experiences into the Roesel people the
71:27
persecution never stops there are always
71:30
some of us locked up some have been in
71:32
and out of jail more than 10 times right
71:35
now we have 14 members in jail and 21
71:39
key members are on the government's
71:40
wanted list from one central authority
71:42
we have all suffered in jail to
71:45
different degrees there are about 40 of
71:47
us three members were arrested recently
71:50
and they are still in jail but in Ashley
71:54
Hall you'll be by the chair did you all
71:57
alone Sun God since the government
71:59
started crackdown the church in Kirby
72:01
all the active members have become
72:03
wanted criminals when they came to my
72:05
home to arrest me I wasn't there so they
72:08
took my father instead they openly
72:11
shared what went through their minds
72:13
when they were caught
72:14
so should we die to tell you the truth I
72:19
was a little scared but God gave me
72:22
strength to overcome my fear so I guess
72:25
you could say I was well prepared but
72:27
yeah
72:28
it could be that help please I see and
72:32
that is suddenly the cops burst in to
72:34
arrest me but thank God after I was
72:36
handcuffed I calmed down and thought to
72:38
myself you're going to have to spend a
72:39
few more years in jail so just let it be
72:42
I felt very relieved ragazzo after we
72:45
were arrested with what fear was joy
72:47
there were more than 10 of us and were
72:50
singing hymns and the police car the
72:52
policemen shout why are you singing you
72:55
have just been arrested we reply because
72:57
we got a free ride she I tried to escape
73:05
arrest but injured herself and is now
73:08
handicapped Paris Alfonso salad I caught
73:13
up to the roof to escape but you might
73:16
be made there was a policeman on guard
73:19
while we were struggling he forced me
73:23
right to the edge of the roof then he
73:26
pushed me off when I landed I didn't
73:29
feel any pain but I couldn't stand up I
73:33
cry out to the sister help me help me
73:37
she came back and tried to pull me up
73:40
but just I couldn't my leg was broken
73:44
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some services add to this I'd lost all
73:56
my inner peace Christian occupation
73:59
why don't a police arrest real criminals
74:02
and leave as Christian alone later I
74:05
pray for that policeman he didn't know
74:07
what he was doing just as gold can
74:11
endure refining in the hottest fire true
74:14
believers in God can shine through the
74:16
deepest darkest jinsha the friend of
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shale guy was arrested three days before
74:23
her wedding day or her pious Chahal true
74:28
love ha ha ha
74:28
hey Java I would the rest on the 10th of
74:31
August and then sentenced to three years
74:33
in the labor camp my brothers and
74:36
sisters in Christ
74:37
including my fiance came to visit me the
74:40
next day everyone cried except me but
74:44
after they left I did go through a lot
74:46
of struggle in my heart all the lush
74:49
treasures are there but then you saw a
74:50
male finally I said to the guard the
74:53
truth is that I didn't commit crime she
74:56
agreed when I said I'm innocent
74:58
what did they give me a three-year
75:00
sentence she said they were afraid that
75:03
I would follow the wrong path
75:05
come on I said because of their fear I
75:08
must pay with three years of my freedom
75:11
then she started talking about how the
75:13
laws were not perfect yet laws of Allah
75:16
go gently days yeah ha all that time I
75:19
shrug 'old hard my soul I paced back and
75:22
forth from one window to another and
75:24
kept asking Lord do you really mean I
75:27
have to suffer like this for 3 years
75:29
later it was Lord who comforted me
75:32
before my arrest every day we had bread
75:35
talked and sung about nothing other than
75:38
the cross and the Bible but when I was
75:40
really walking on the same path how come
75:43
I still had to struggle so hard I said
75:46
lord I know you will help me you will
75:48
see that I don't spend these three years
75:50
Haeundae while she was serving her
75:53
sentence soon shall couldn't stop
75:55
worrying about her fiance hi Shawn
75:58
whether you look at the job OS yah yah
76:01
yah I kept sending notes
76:03
- telling him not to wait for me we're
76:07
not that young anymore I didn't want him
76:09
to waste time waiting for me three long
76:12
years parallely a job here as I said
76:16
come here sir - revolver and tantalum
76:19
wha-what soon after trench I was
76:21
arrested Uncle Tom asked me what I was
76:24
going to do if trench I had to spend
76:26
three years in jail well my family
76:28
accept this maybe I should consider
76:30
someone else I told him I will wait for
76:33
her whether it takes three years or even
76:35
20 years every month on visitors day -
76:41
would travel hundreds of miles by train
76:44
to visit June shell I can yell at her
76:47
girl our children each visit was limited
76:50
to 20 or 30 minutes
76:51
- never missed a visit and he always
76:54
brought a letter with him I'll bet his
76:55
little feet right on top yet I wanted
76:59
her to stop worrying about me I wanted
77:01
her to stop telling me not to wait for
77:03
her you hurt me I told her I would still
77:06
love her and marry her even when she
77:08
became an old lady with gray hair you
77:11
think I seen her - Lally oh ah I know
77:15
I've never shown anyone these letters
77:18
they gave me great comfort Saladin
77:21
elegida I didn't feel too bad during the
77:23
time in jail I was happy I told my
77:26
brothers and sisters in Christ God
77:28
answered my prayers I went through all
77:31
the hard times with joy praise the Lord
77:34
three months before the end of my
77:36
sentence I was released - Uncle Tom came
77:39
to pick me up I hope also for tommy your
77:42
crotch a palatal a wise young woman for
77:45
a doctor who I thought we both were
77:47
burst into tears but we didn't when we
77:50
got home a lot of brothers and sisters
77:52
were waiting for us we were very
77:55
emotional
77:56
my family was overjoyed my mother
77:59
started to sob
78:04
I mean I didn't expect it to happen so
78:12
fast I was released on the 29th of April
78:16
on the 3rd of May we are married the
78:19
brothers and sisters of our hometown yo
78:45
guys melon-bed and we know that in all
78:46
things God works for the good of those
78:48
who love Him God told me his plan in
78:51
this verse sometimes I wanted to blame
78:54
God for what we had to go through but at
78:56
the same time a voice within my heart
78:58
would tell me don't complain God doesn't
79:01
neglect anyone anywhere at any time may
79:05
Allah leave us during the wedding
79:07
everyone kept wiping away their Cheers
79:10
I couldn't stop smiling though I was
79:13
crying - tears of thankfulness and joy I
79:16
knew that God was with me all the time I
79:18
was in jail
79:19
Dumbledore being forced to delay their
79:22
wedding only deepens and love between
79:24
this young couple
79:29
three years in jail strength in their
79:32
face and despite the three years of
79:35
torture their happiness and their
79:37
gratitude increased to all my sense and
79:48
he is almost a major shakers he is for
79:59
my form I do my yoga inches
80:07
to all my size and itchiness all Sammy
80:13
Hagar chickadee wore my way he told bond
80:21
Yoho she wanna kiss you this young one
80:36
I wore my children a plane you know when
80:49
you see is yellow on gentle partying
80:58
Mayo's and one ounce of inicio de Maggio
81:07
shibano sama Heat
81:12
[Music]
81:30
generation after generation Chinese
81:33
missionaries have struggled along a path
81:35
that leads to the cross the Chinese
81:39
government refuses to acknowledge them
81:41
and China's huge population doesn't
81:44
understand them around every corner
81:47
these missionaries encounter suffering
81:50
and imprisonment yet with no remorse and
81:54
no regrets they keep on their difficult
81:57
task
82:01
more foolish illegal ni 10 my father
82:05
passed away when I was born my mother
82:07
died when I was only 3 years old before
82:10
I was 11 I never had a pair of shoes or
82:13
anyone to take care of me
82:15
it was a very painful life I couldn't
82:18
understand why I was born with such a
82:20
bad fate why was I born without parents
82:23
who cared for me how come other people
82:25
had good lives and I didn't if there was
82:28
a God why didn't he help this poor
82:30
suffering soul finally one day I was
82:34
desperate and ready to commit suicide
82:37
but I heard a group of people singing
82:40
with Zhang Jian Hui was one ye know it
82:43
was a cold bleak night and I wondered
82:45
who on earth would find anything to sing
82:48
about so I walked towards the house
82:51
someone saw me and called out isn't that
82:54
the homeless child that has no family
82:56
they took me inside my child believed in
83:01
Jesus he is the only one who can save
83:03
you they said then some elderly ladies
83:05
taught me how to kneel and pray they put
83:08
their hands on my head and prayed for me
83:10
with tears in their eyes that night I
83:14
accepted Jesus Christ into my heart
83:17
when the police in tangu County found
83:20
out that there was a 14 year old boy who
83:22
had become a Christian they started
83:24
searching for me after hiding in a pit
83:27
for seven days I became really hungry
83:29
and exhausted so I climbed out of the
83:32
pit to get a breath of fresh air Just My
83:35
Luck that a policeman happened to be
83:37
passing by he arrested me there and then
83:41
you are so young but already you're an
83:44
anti revolutionary he said they
83:47
denounced me they tortured me and he
83:49
starved me but I thought to myself Jesus
83:53
must be the way of truth otherwise why
83:56
is the great Communist Party so serious
83:58
about it even a homeless teenager like
84:01
me is seen as a threat Jing the orphan
84:05
adopted by a Christian became a
84:07
missionary when he was 19 another
84:10
scientist Ajay Banga window see at first
84:13
I worked as a local missionary after I
84:16
got married I carried my child on my
84:18
back and started to travel to different
84:20
provinces to spread the gospel I built a
84:23
lot of house searches I was filled with
84:26
joy I paid no attention to the
84:29
humiliation the suppression the poverty
84:31
in all the arrests
84:35
[Music]
84:41
hello little bit wobba lord take pity on
84:46
us we thank you for choosing us we thank
84:50
you for your love we thank you for
84:52
showing us the path which leads away
84:53
from this imperfect world we thank you
84:56
for allowing us to share your burden
84:59
door we thank you for watching over your
85:02
church in China and for taking pity on
85:05
your church in China although the
85:08
Chinese Church has suffered endless
85:09
suppression we see your presence in
85:12
China God is in charge here was a
85:15
Bosnian mondobri
85:16
I became a Christian in 1983 and I've
85:19
been working as a missionary ever since
85:22
during that time I was thrown in jail
85:25
four times three of which were in my own
85:28
hometown and the other was in jinyang
85:32
County Donna honey you knew how to burn
85:35
down blood oh I was barely beaten up
85:38
sometimes the guards beat me and
85:40
sometimes it was the other prisoners I
85:42
remember vomiting blood likes of blood I
85:46
even drew Sannes again the three or four
85:48
of us sat in a circle and passed the
85:50
bread around in a way that night we
85:52
cried for a long time we missed our
85:55
families we missed the Lord including
86:06
within a yahoo I was jailed eight times
86:09
for spreading the gospel one time a
86:11
sister and I were and cuffed together
86:13
around a pillar outside of the police
86:15
station our feet weren't allowed to
86:19
touch the ground at the same time when
86:22
my feet touched the ground
86:23
hers couldn't rehearse did my couldn't
86:26
hey da da da da dee kianga
86:29
Fela you did yellow I mean we hung like
86:33
that for four hours until our hands turn
86:35
black and blue that's in Virginia who we
86:39
call da they tortured me after I was
86:41
arrested they beat my face and it was
86:43
severely swollen again my skin was
86:45
burned by electric prods in the Ballad a
86:47
variable called Lana the guardian my
86:51
head and my body was electric paw
86:53
I passed
86:54
and could remember what happened later
86:56
since so that the advantage is him oh I
86:59
was struck by three or four cattle prods
87:02
at the same time the guards hit me
87:04
everywhere and tie me up
87:05
kuan-yin is a shame condition it has
87:08
been three years since that happened and
87:10
I still have the rope marks on my body
87:13
dokoni saniana Hyoyeon Johanna shocked
87:20
more than once while enduring endless
87:23
torture and extreme hardship many
87:26
missionaries raised questions to God he
87:31
answered their prayers in various ways
87:33
and without exception all the
87:36
missionaries found inner peace was akin
87:39
to a dog what are the junior Queen I
87:41
pray to God to give me the answer and he
87:43
said to me I can tell you nothing that's
87:46
my strongest memory because it was
87:47
during the darkest hours of my life and
87:49
God wouldn't answer me later I said to
87:52
God even though you won't give me the
87:55
answer I still accept all this with
87:57
gratitude after I did that my dark
88:00
spiritual life was completely
88:02
illuminated and revived much more once
88:06
like that one I told the law that I was
88:08
sprayed of going back to prison if I
88:10
were jailed again it would be the
88:12
eleventh time I told God that I had
88:15
enough of jail I was terrified my body
88:18
couldn't take it anymore
88:19
watching gayness I mean I heard a
88:21
heartbreaking cry it was from Christ
88:23
himself he cried out father why hath you
88:27
forsaken me I heard his word so clearly
88:30
they flew from the cross directly into
88:33
my head and all at once I understood why
88:36
Jesus wept but only 10k essentially
88:39
there and then I felt strong again I
88:42
realized that the Lord had not abandoned
88:45
me he wanted me to experience the cross
88:48
es Lea tota me and Carl Mullaly Jesus
88:52
told us if anyone would come after me he
88:54
must deny himself and take up his cross
88:57
and follow me
88:58
so tell Korra what mean either yeah hey
89:01
you know what did I tell you attend
89:03
those I don't have any hard feelings for
89:05
what I went through
89:07
Sampath our Lord Jesus walked down since
89:10
the very first day I became a missionary
89:12
I knew this path was the path across I
89:15
was more than willing to take it no
89:18
matter what I have suffered
89:19
I have never blamed God Thank You Ike I
89:22
made the decision to follow God God
89:25
found me and loved me what I went
89:28
through was all from God and I am filled
89:31
with joy the government's persecution is
89:33
no big deal it's just a way of showing
89:36
me God's blessing that's all
89:41
[Music]
90:02
[Applause]
90:05
religion and politics must be separate
90:09
you constantly believe in this principle
90:12
many Chinese Christians refused to
90:14
attend the government-controlled
90:16
three-self Church their house churches
90:19
and missionary work are considered
90:22
illegal by the government local
90:25
government officials can arrest and find
90:27
them under national laws that regulate
90:29
religion therefore meeting and preaching
90:33
in secret has become the only way
90:35
Chinese Christians can survive
90:43
however the degree of succession varies
90:46
in China churches in window were the
90:50
first to revive after the Cultural
90:52
Revolution but most of the church
90:54
buildings are destroyed
90:58
[Music]
91:14
churches and xenon were revised later
91:17
but there are more martyrs and jailed
91:19
Christians there than anywhere else
91:27
other Chinese Christians do not oppose
91:30
the government they're considered
91:32
illegal because they will not renounce
91:34
their faith they live righteously and
91:36
faithfully under tyrannical rule the
91:40
Chinese authorities are completely
91:42
mystified by the increasing number of
91:44
house churches coming butcher Dalmatian
91:58
tarnish they don't understand they have
92:00
no idea what we have been doing so they
92:03
call us anti-revolutionary in fact I
92:06
think they know in their hearts that
92:08
we're not anti-revolutionary among
92:11
gangaiah do the same for the NT we think
92:13
that the reason the government tries so
92:14
hard to suppress us is because they
92:16
don't understand what Christianity is
92:18
about it's a misunderstanding we don't
92:22
hate the government the only wish we
92:25
have is for everyone on earth to feel
92:27
God's love to receive God's love then
92:31
bottom would outweigh by the opponent
92:32
unzoom
92:33
through all our hardship is that God is
92:36
training and preparing and building his
92:39
church in China it is a blessing for the
92:41
Chinese Church we are praying for our
92:43
leaders in China and also for those who
92:46
suppress us we wish them well the
92:49
weather come on honey olan that sound
92:52
beyond a hiding doll we've been telling
92:56
our brothers and sisters that we should
92:57
show respect to every member and branch
92:59
of the government it's God's commandment
93:02
to respect authorities in China however
93:05
Christians are not understood in this
93:07
way are they here for the new disease
93:10
got you some typing Cheng hua ji ya que
93:14
intentan de aquila not okay - more than
93:17
they seen the worst in Chinese history
93:20
as the Taiping rebellion and the opium
93:24
war damaged people's trust the
93:28
government suppressed us because they
93:30
are afraid now they don't understand our
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true belief therefore as Christians in
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this country I think we should pray for
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our country's leaders and for everyone
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in authority Lord we are willing to risk
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our lives in order to save our beloved
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country of China long wait a moment Lord
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we ask you to bless our beloved country
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please bless this country with your
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hands please bless this nation with your
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hand you have shed your blood for the
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Chinese people we thank you for bringing
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us your gospel and salvation in these
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last times we thank you for opening the
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door to your gospel in China your mouth
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has come to us it has come to the land
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of China you have loved our country and
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people since the beginning of time many
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people in China deny you they don't
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recognise you they worship all kinds of
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idols Lord today we repent for our
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country Lord please withhold your anger
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person whose heart loves God also loves
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his country and his fellow human beings
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a person who is willing to carry the
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cross is full of mercy such people may
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be badly mistreated but they still feel
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sweet with love they may be imprisoned
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but their hearts are free they may be
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despised but are full of gratitude
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telling Elaine ages young Horace any
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God's Spirit and his mighty power have
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been with me over the years to tell you
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the truth I did go through a little
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suffering for him I was homeless at one
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time since I started following him I've
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gained so much despite all the hardships
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God's path is still very sweet to me as
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soon as that pudding a but you're the
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cool part I don't feel pain when having
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pain I don't feel hungry when I'm hungry
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I don't feel alone when I'm pursued and
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put in prison
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I don't feel depressed after I cry I
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feel sweet my whole life has been saved
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by God's love
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then I wish they'd only put us in again
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without God's love nobody can give up
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worldly possessions and be his servants
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Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross
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for us all we are bound by his love and
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have no choice but to follow in his
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footsteps one Google consider yes
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suspecting that she's attached I can
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picture the expression of pain on Jesus
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face when he will occupy on the cross I
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will never forget what it says in the
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Bible and the curtain of the temple was
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torn in two
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it did not do it for himself
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why is the cross an instrument of
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torture and a symbol of humiliation
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become a symbol of peace and good
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fortune
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the path leading to the cross is paved
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with suffering and sacrifice but why are
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people who walk along it fills with
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peace and joy
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why does suffering turn into happiness
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because of the cross
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the answers all lie in Jesus he was
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nailed to the cross because of his love
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for man and he was resurrected three
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days later today he is living in heaven
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in this world and in the hearts of
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everyone who believed in him
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just as Jesus announced his victory
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through the cross the faithful in China
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are building the church through
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suffering many hardships jail has become
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the faith building training center for
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missionaries in China suppression has
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revived the spirit of the Chinese
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Christians and never-ending arrests has
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helped to build teams of people
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spreading the gospel nationwide Philip
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you woman go Amon Roman the government
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keeps on tracking us down and you're
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arresting us we have no choice but to
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leave home but everywhere we hide we
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spread the gospel in the beginning we
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didn't want to leave our homes but it
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turned out to be just what God wanted
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if it weren't for the persecution and
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the arrests we probably won't have built
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such strong King
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Jakub Lila again thought wedding too we
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became homeless as we wandered from town
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to town we work at spreading the gospel
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a lot of brothers and sisters in the
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same situation have gotten together yeah
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la da da da janela wait Bob you and I
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dig a deep hole Jorge Allah when I
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escaped from being arrested by the
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police I became a full-time missionary I
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was forced to leave my hometown but I
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continued to spread the gospel wherever
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I went I have been to a lot of places
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over the years you don't the red navona
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cousin once we started to settle in one
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place the police would come then we'd
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have to move on to another town so bit
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by bit our work has spread to many
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places throughout the country every one
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of these unexceptional farmers leads
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tens of thousands of house churches and
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millions of Chinese Christians in fact
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there is an ever-growing number of house
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churches secretly scattered in the
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villages small alleys and sweets of Tana
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that's us with you abundant anointing we
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ask you to pour out your spirit on this
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land after visiting hundreds of house
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churches what we know is only the tip of
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the iceberg I don't know exactly how
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many house churches there are in China
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there are 97 in my district Liang NTN
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and I want my cell phone :
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two years ago our two families move here
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from Honan to last October 8 2008 Bali
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woman said Allah not let us to the drum
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track in Guang XI 2 years ago we have
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built seven house churches there
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we established four house churches
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within four months of our arrival almond
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Bedouin we have been doing God's work
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here in Sichuan for about 10 years
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the missionaries left their footprint in
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every corner of this land and many Jews
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who shared having interviewed hundreds
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of missionaries it's still hard to
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imagine how successful they've been
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without much education or experience
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nevertheless they found ways to spread
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the gospel
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when spring comes gentle breezes blow in
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sweet showers moist in the dry land with
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abundance like springtime when radiant
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glorious everywhere the gospel has been
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spread all over China by the work of
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these ordinary farmers there is no doubt
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that it is due to the mighty power of
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the gospel itself
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joyful hymns of praise are raised in
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every corner of this land from the
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coasts of the southeast to the border in
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the northwest from the banks of
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sunflowers earth to the lawn song river
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from small villages to major cities the
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seeds of faith have grown in the hearts
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of millions of farmers students
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civilians and government officials
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watching oilfields a model district in
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the northeast set up personally by
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Chairman Mel has been home for nearly
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100,000 faithful Christians since the
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1980s
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sicut I thought if the crowds of people
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came to my home for Sunday service no
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matter how much others made fun of me
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how can an illiterate farmer like you
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teach anything they stand nevertheless
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my congregation became too big to meet
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at one time so we had to split in two
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then three then four and then many many
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more documentable
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far we are there are 21 districts within
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the dodging area and each district has
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an average of 150 house churches with an
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average of 30 members each in other
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words we have about 100,000 members
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within this area and there are about 23
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districts in the surrounding areas at
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almost every major university such as
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Beijing Ching hua shaman and food on
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Christian students and teachers alike
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meet regularly
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the gospel has also spread to the tribal
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groups in China it has brought faith and
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dignity to the lives of people in the
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farthest reaches of China 90% of our
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village became Christian between 1985
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and 1989 woman 80% of our village has
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become Christian there are very few
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people in our type who aren't Christian
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I can preach in the languages of the
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resuit tribe guyue tribe and heyi tribe
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I can also communicate and sing in these
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languages
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Oh
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today in China there are countless
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devotees hundreds of non-governmental
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seminaries and thousands of Bible
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training centers
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these faithful Souls know they no longer
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belong to a corrupt and evil world they
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live to shed blood and tears even risk
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their lives for the sole purpose of
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spreading the love of their father in
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heaven
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Oh
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really I'm willing to devote my life to
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sharing with everyone who lives in pain
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and darkness that Jesus loves you the
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true love of Christ cannot be found
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anyplace else which ends with a you got
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a car Jesus Allah
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well yes if the promise I have made to
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the Lord Lord I will carry your cross
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and follow you for it is the duty of
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your disciples the hardships I've had
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are not sufferings but true blessings
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from you I know this is a long journey
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full of pain and tears but I am
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determined to follow your path
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faithfully I think
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whatever
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lady fun
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yeah
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Oh
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yeah
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Oh
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in the last 20 years China has become a
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giant dragon soaring across the sky
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this dragon cares for nothing but its
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own achievement the startling material
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growth of the nation is mirrored only by
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the steep decline of morality and
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personal values
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however the whole country from its
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meters to its citizens is ignoring its
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hollow moral core
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Semyon didn't occur Futami met us in a
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single night at a casino on firma I lost
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20 years of savings I was greatly
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depressed when I went back to Hong Jo my
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hometown to ease my pain my friends took
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me to the nightclubs now tonight Seattle
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and so you shouldn't change oh I thought
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I'd found relief but this kind of relief
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didn't last long when I came back to
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reality I was in even deeper pain so it
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harvest Tichenor said that's when I
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sought out God I browsed through all the
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bookstores for a copy of the Bible but I
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didn't find any one day while having
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dinner with a friend I told him I wanted
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to know about the Bible and Christianity
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he told me he knew a Christian and made
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a phone call for me that night the next
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day I met with this Christian he knelt
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down and prayed for me to accept Jesus
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for Tyrion theater I quit smoking
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drinking marijuana and popping ecstasy
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pills quitting these habits was such a
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hard struggle but inside me I felt a
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source of strength that was helping me
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all the way my belief has greatly
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changed my life there was a time when I
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really wanted to get back all the money
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the cars and the houses I'd lost but now
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I'm a changed man
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I still work hard but that's not
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everything in my life I go walking with
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my wife after dinner and I spend time
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with my family
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studying the Scriptures has become the
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greatest joy in my life my family has
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completely changed the opinion of me
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after my son he has changed so much he
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loves me and cares about me more than
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ever we're so grateful he asked me so
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many good friend the church family is
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truly blessed I feel great
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listen for those whoever the player is
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allow you to say repent for the kingdom
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of heaven is near
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yo yo liya you have no idea how he was
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before she was one of those so-called
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transfers lobbying street fighting and
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doing the worst things you can imagine
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Dola hey dog alwah if a fun had plum
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chicken he and his gang would steal them
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at night they would break the necks of
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the chickens even when I got home
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yeah Anna Gazzola who is either Dollard
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shit well if I saw a young girl I wanted
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I would go straight to her mother and
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threaten her for whatever my name I
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ended up she was always Christmas he
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never talked with us wearing will people
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fight with somebody he could never pass
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a young girl without feeding her up he
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says very yet only God's power could
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change such a man shouldn't we be
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thankful to God so this is I believe in
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Jesus Christ and today I would like to
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introduce the Lord to you people in
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China know very little about
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Christianity many think of it as nothing
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more than a superstitious belief or an
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unwelcome import from Western culture or
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a social force in reality the birth of
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Christ has only one purpose it is to
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redeem his people from sin today the
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gospel is cleansing and purifying all
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the sins in the hearts of the Chinese
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people like a clear spring of living
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water without a prince over his door
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fuck oh I was a big-time gangster
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I owned a casino and I was a loan shark
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later I became addicted to drugs and
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lost every penny I had
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I tried to put about twenty times but I
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just couldn't
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huh one day my mother said to me son
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believe in Jesus I'm kind of passively I
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said okay mom I try how's it - yes a lot
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she took my hand and started praying
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Jesus my lord I thank you now my son has
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going to follow you I have brought him
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before you please help me I will give my
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life to you
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if you save him more your new power is
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sounding nice evening
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well then what's in a million I was
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deeply touched by her prayer so I said
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all right
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I'd like to repent all my sins in about
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a half hour I fell asleep when I got up
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the next morning I felt a new strength
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inside of me I had no idea what the
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strength had come from several years
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have gone by and since that day I never
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gambled
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I still don't know where that strength
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came from him it had to have come from
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right
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and apparently Comanche we share
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knowledge when I was having dinner one
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day with some of the former police
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chief's I told him I needed to pray
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before eating I told him how Christ had
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saved me one of them said it took that
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long if you'd been save earlier we
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wouldn't have had all this chaos in our
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country why don't you bring your old
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buddies to Jesus please help them I'll
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support you I said praise the Lord why
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don't you join us
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don't worry though I don't remember what
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we're hoping up in the Bible at a time
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all I remember was they asked me if I
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had any questions I said I don't know
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how to love it was true I could
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understand what I wasn't loved when I
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tried so hard to love others I was
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having trouble with my boyfriend I was
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heartbroken so I started going out with
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anybody who asked me yet I never felt
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loved there were two Christian girls in
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my dorm they asked me if I would accept
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the Lord and I agreed to try and they
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said let us learn about the love of God
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together historically the concept of
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repentance has never been part of
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China's belief system it's a completely
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revolutionary spiritual experience for
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Chinese people when they discover that
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we are altered and we have all fallen
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short of God's glory what a miraculous
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change for a Chinese man or woman to
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finally admit they are sinners and need
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forgiveness and baptism from God
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we have a cargo had it covered I used to
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be a drunk after I became a Christian I
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quit smoking and drinking altogether
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sometimes when I fight with my wife I
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feel like swearing but somehow the
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curses just won't come out of my mouth
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anymore services dadada the ho or
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authors year the last time we fought I
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lay in bed for two days and night
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without eating or drinking water I
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thought to myself I might as well try to
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believe in Jesus if it works we'll spend
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the rest of our lives together
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if not I'll give a divorce him or kill
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myself why or neva I have orders to
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suffer for that II really agree which
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means six years since we became
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Christians now we get along pretty well
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oh man oh boy yeah
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a Christian doesn't swear fight steal or
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Rob ken there's a good life without
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faith in God the amazing thing is that
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no matter who you are whether you're a
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farmer and intellectual you're from a
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broken family or live in the underbelly
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of society you can live a new life once
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you come to Jesus it was all worth $1
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all their reserves sometimes I felt
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discouraged when I prayed about him he
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didn't seem to change at all in fact I
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fell he was getting worse and worse
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Paulo so I hustle hustle has negative
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way Paul confessed to being a great
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sinner in ways I felt that I was too in
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the Unbearable Lightness of being
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Sammis Milan Kundera mentioned that
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there are two kinds of men one finds the
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virtues of all women in one woman the
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other finds the virtues of one woman in
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all women I chose to be the latter I'm
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dealing with that you can use innocence
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I'm find him pull out Selenia and you
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don't make good I fell into a deeper and
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deeper traps I was a big sinner not only
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was I destroying the life of my faithful
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wife yes but I was also deceiving myself
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that's numbing my own
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but I still couldn't get out of the trap
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I thought I could deal with all the
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affairs I was having at the same time
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but it was really exhausting that later
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on I thought divorce might be a shortcut
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a better way out I kept screaming for
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divorce but I knew I didn't have the
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guts to do it is a how zhilie would tell
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with all of that Cynthia was Alina was
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wondering that too three hours I had to
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endure all kinds of verbal abuse from
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him but God gave me the strength of
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patience the kind of patient I never had
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before I became a believer when my
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husband attacked me
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I just find a quiet corner and prayed
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yes God helped to change him - loses her
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soul before she found faith in Jesus she
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always assumed that I was lying even
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when I wasn't after she became a
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Christian she became very trusting all I
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had to tell her was I needed to go out
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and she'd say all right gradually I
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stopped lying to her because I didn't
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want to be unworthy of her trust
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you know after I converted you I found
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peace within myself there's nothing
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worth getting England literally do you
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so wait adult a party not hosted it'll
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be sometimes I purposely tried to
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provoke a fight
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but to my surprise instead of fighting
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with me she would go into the kitchen or
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the bathroom to pray I said to myself
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this is impossible this girl doesn't
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have strength like that had a friendship
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for when he got angry I kept quiet I
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prayed and asked the Lord to calm him
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down
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to my surprise slam on him and enjoyment
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me out little by little poof then it
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died I heard him side and then come over
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to comfort me how grateful I was to the
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Lord
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this was God's Word it was right there
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when she prayed for me she was often in
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tears one
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de God told us restrain your eyes from
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tears he will return from the land of
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the enemy flesh aha April 10 1998 it was
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our wedding anniversary
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touch away that was out that evening she
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had a church gathering
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I offered to drop her off because
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Beijing was dangerous at night I thought
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I'd wait outside till the meeting was
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over and then I just caught her home but
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I was brought inside immediately and
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seated at the very front when we got
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home I told my wife that I'd like to
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pray but didn't know how she took me to
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the bathroom and we knelt down she asked
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me to repent so I did she told me she'd
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never seen me crying out loud like that
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before
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whatever it was the first time I saw him
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cry and repent at first he was sobbing
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later he started cry out loud what did
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it kid I felt the sky had turned into a
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huge book in front of my eyes
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after I repented for a sin recorded on a
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particular page that page would be
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turned to the next one I remembered
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things I'd long forgotten it was
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miraculous
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if I hadn't decided to follow Jesus
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Christ at that time I might have ended
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up dead
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oh yeah I'd also mention I didn't
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realize what a new life will receive
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until with those accepting God we're so
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grateful to the Lord and I said hey you
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know just as soon as the golden phase on
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our time you know really now we have a
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very good communication she understands
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me and I understand her we have become
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one as God says God is with us
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it feels so good to come close to God
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together as husband and wife I feel that
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she's not hard to talk to and she needs
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my love so much and I feel that with her
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as the only woman to love in my life I
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am complete one time I told her I felt
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like we were falling in love all over
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again
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I know as God is full of wonderful food
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in the Ganju son this is a can she
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nah I generally chachani Bianco he
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brought love into our home and saved us
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from the hands of Satan our life has
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gone back to the state of eating there's
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no deception in the past I hid my cell
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phone and beeper because I didn't want
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her to find out about all my love
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affairs but now I can leave her my cell
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phone and beeper if I'm not available I
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asked her to help me answer the calls
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and take care of my stuff she has become
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my personal secretary and I've become
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hers too there are no secrets between us
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we have become one physically and
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spiritually
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Oh
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Oh
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we never understand why Christ's death
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on the cross has such tremendous power
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to revive our souls in our lives but
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throughout history this miracle has kept
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on happening and the Chinese people in
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the 21st century are no exception
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in this volume we didn't talk about
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divorce but we were separated our
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marriage was in danger
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potential value when I was working in
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sentence my job made me feel very
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important we were on the verge of
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divorce and my family life felt
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meaningless well in general from the
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Shinhwa
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tamna I felt that my parents were only
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together out of convenience I didn't see
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why we should stay together as a family
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my wife decided to convert only after
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she saw the change in me what an equal
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up she asked me to go home and see the
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changes I will pride what believe you
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smoking drinking you don't know how to
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love anyone you're a lazy slob and you
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never help around the house what do we
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would have had prayed for my parents and
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a year I graduated my parents finally
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got back together talking would be a
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hundred
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she has never treated me so well
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not since the day we got married
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okay another guy chosen for but without
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or caregivers or the information haha
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when I was young I was in agony actually
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I was quite a pretty girl but even back
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then I wasn't able to change him now I'm
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old and he's so nice to me there was a
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lot of hard having overcome powder in
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the international tax penalty five years
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ago we had three cards and now we have
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three bicycles instead but I have no
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desire to go back to the life we had
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before although we only have bicycles
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our life has completely changed all over
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the younger they were anxious I was
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always the one who made tea for my
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husband but now when I wake up from my
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afternoon nap a cup of warranty is
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always there it's my favorite tea and my
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husband makes it especially for me if it
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weren't for God's power this never would
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have happened
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where was that I didn't know whether
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this love comes from Jesus or from
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somebody else but they really love me
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it's a fact an unchangeable fact
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this orphan has spent most of his life
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wandering the strip in 1999 he was
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adopted by a house church in Chengdu and
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later became a preacher I left home when
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I was 12 and lived on the streets for
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four years during that time I got
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involved in terms of street fights I
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have a lot of scars from those days one
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day I was stabbed in the back I lost a
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lot of blood and had to be taken to the
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hospital the church set up orphanages to
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adopt these homeless children who spent
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most of their lives wandering aimlessly
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through the streets and train stations
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say hi Zanna that led us to show these
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children have been living on the street
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when we found them they had pick up lots
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of bad habits we wrote them what the
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pure love only Christ can give and we
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taught them God's Word dogs be your hue
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daughter Heather I see immediate changes
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in mischievous children soon after they
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join our big family it's God's love that
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changes and renews the life of the
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children I'm from India Mongolia my
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parents abandon me because I was blind
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Obama after my parents were jailed I was
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home alone so I started to wander the
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streets follow our I really way from
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home it was my parents beat me Obama
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says oh I thought that my mother hates
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me after my father died so I took 20 yen
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and left home
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and he jumped on me and bought me here
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she bosses my father died from an
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overdose of drugs my mother went off
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with Saif Ali and be married she told
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everybody that I wasn't her son Bob
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although my father saw my brothers and
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he wanted to sell me too he beat me so I
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left home and pickpockets on the trains
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in the streets and just
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everywhere I went high or low he was not
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and death at first he was always hitting
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the other children here
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later on he stopped hitting and started
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to help others New Zealand because how
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old are you sit for where are you from
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mama mama Trisha aunty go into other
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sisters around him when he was just a
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baby in Chinese I think the bill was
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coming I'd always felt inferior but
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after I saw the selfless love of the
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teachers at the orphanage I learned to
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love others it's all because of the love
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of Jesus when yardage King Charles and
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Diane Kings I want to go see Julia
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filtration caesium Aarti to sit for star
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these sisters receive no wages for their
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work and they never have a vacation they
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do this with no accolades or recognition
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from society in fact they have to do all
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of us secretly because it is the service
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of the house churches which are illegal
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so Jabar solution us but I know the
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nerves of God is here when I love others
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I learned the greatness of love love is
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devotion and sacrifice love is sacred
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in a world of selfishness these faithful
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followers of Christ are willing to
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follow the example of Christ's sacrifice
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on the cross women whether bobbies are
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seeing this which is often nowadays
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what's missing in China is love the
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universal love that comes from our Lord
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Jesus tonight just nice view from the
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tool once we accept God's love it will
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grow at everyone's heart and flow out
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continually like a living spring you
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mention him very important than you
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actually Oh gasps mother has brought
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peace into families if more people
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believe in God
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Pete would spread out from family units
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into the whole of society including a
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whole todo agenda so we de una won him
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today humanity is the main problem of
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Chinese society I think Chinese have
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lost the ability to love this is very
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sad and dreadful China's intellectuals
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have begun to discuss and pursue the
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love of Christ in their own unique way
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Roger Oakland many consider me a harsh
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critic of our society however this is
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only one part of me was in the semilunar
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you go on there - Ginny was if there's
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another part closer to my true self such
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as love pity and compassion those
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qualities come from my understanding and
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study of the Bible and Christianity 95
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percent of Americans say they believe in
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God and I'm one of them for sure a fool
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when President Bush talked about
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September 11th in his speech during his
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visit to China he had tears in his eyes
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the host of the meeting and also the
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students who were there should have
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expressed concern and compassion about
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the catastrophe I'm sad to say that no
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questions or remarks were made I believe
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they simply didn't feel the pain because
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they don't have God's love in their
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hearts they can't feel others pain as
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their own all they cared about was the
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possible
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between China and Taiwan freedom of
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religion is not something to be feared
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to be welcomed because faith gives us a
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moral core and teaches us to hold
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ourselves to high standards to love and
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to serve others finally or a song being
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of the right positions in your unreal
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it's appointed for an artist to spread
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God's love otherwise his or her artwork
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will have no significance despite the
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apparent aesthetic value the good
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artists should bring the healthy
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positive image to a society could be Jim
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Connelly good season Shan Shan Wang Yong
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Chun a well-known artist in China once
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was falling deeper and deeper into a
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life of sin the union of energy I used
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to change girlfriends as often as I
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change clothes friends around me were
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all in similar situations a lot of them
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were successful artists but failures
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when it came to family the early May of
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Hawaii may appointment 30 eatery by
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beneath you EDI very innovative way ito
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to the quality control after watching
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China's confession I finally realize
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what the Chinese people need I also
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realized that my ignorance of love was
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pretty normal given the circumstances I
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grew up in I didn't have too much
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difficulty in becoming a Christian after
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I watched China's confession I read some
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books by Leo shellphone a missionary
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came to my house and talked to me for a
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while I had been a Christian for only
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one year I'm still an infant really but
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I pray every day I also pray for my
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friends and look forward to meetings on
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Sunday most people in our group are
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artists the group is called artists
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fellowship
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every week we get together and talk with
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each other I feel at home very
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comfortable it's really nice Jocelin
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okay
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Paloma home today the love of God here
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part us here
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we all good there's a song I can't sing
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well how can I sing it well if it
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doesn't have God's leaven in the ocean
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it won't have any power of spiritual
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awakening will kill me all the Italian
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food I used to own a bar I got drunk
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every day and I also used once in a
143:52
while I was numb about everything you
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know then I read in the Bible
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y'all both of all else guard your heart
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for it is the wellspring of life I was
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deeply moved I knew that I had lost
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touch with my heart right about them
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look I met my wife in Beijing in order
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to date her I ended up in church because
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that's where she was
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I was the only Christian my class and I
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started to spread the gospel mama
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classmate many of whom also became
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Christians our attitude towards learning
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the words made a good impression on our
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teachers sure all the same I received
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the backbencher word in the National
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denting contact when I was waiting for
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my journal is praying quietly
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I might have appeared our to everybody
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else I didn't care you know another
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thing I think my attitude is different
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from before
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though the trials and difficulties are
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still there I can try all the time
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waiting to hear my initial danger though
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the start of God often please tears to
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my eyes they're not tears of pain the
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tears of joy and peace to measure I
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think the world is called except for the
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love of God
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well did I send a lot of the show I feel
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that God is holding my hand and I'm
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walking with me even in the dark I never
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feel lost
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you don't even be very much
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I play mah-jongg every Friday and
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Saturday night we stayed up all night
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playing sometimes there were so many
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people the entire reason loads of my
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house would be full
145:41
I loved 90,000 won in six months one day
145:46
a sister brought me to church I'd never
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felt so good before that night I opened
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up and told them everything about me I
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felt as if I was talking with my family
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tardiness is this Sunday oh I wish I'd
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met God earlier we're are not enough to
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express how deeply my heart was touched
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[Applause]
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many brothers and sisters often ask me
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how I became a Christian in fact God has
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been guiding me all the time
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it came naturally I didn't experience
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many ups and downs or go through much
147:19
suffering I'm in a profession where Fame
147:23
and wealth are the priorities
147:25
not to mention four times of dirty
147:28
tricks disease time dot chosen me
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bringing me to a clean slate and
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allowing me to be in contact with
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thousand people now are there zone of
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course offers are not always clean even
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now I'm still travel by distracting
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thoughts see yo the show I'm sometimes
147:48
weak and self-centered I don't follow
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God's Word all the time I have a strong
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personality but I know I'm still a child
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of God it's not that you don't leave him
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it's he who doesn't leave you he's
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always there to help me get back on my
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feet when I strip and fall back hey
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Haleh lead on ba yeah linear tally
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pleasures Leila say in the gun show
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nothing should be new for a 40 year old
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because I have experienced so much in
148:27
life but for me somehow everything is
148:30
always fresh I wonder why I'm like this
148:34
when I'm so easily moved when I need
148:38
passion in my acting Mullen the passion
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comes out fully t-shirt such a done only
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through the veil before I add I usually
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play it's because of God's love that my
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heart
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Hajin so easily her you know she said
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yes
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for more than six months he would go to
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church every Sunday and argue about
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whether God exists
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it weren't them man Sandra no but I
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realized faith was a move I had to make
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on my own it's like a person who hears
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from others that an apple tastes good if
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he keeps on analyzing its composition
150:12
without taking a bite and he or she will
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never know the truth tastes of an apple
150:17
so I told myself just believe it well I
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know it's wrong charger a large
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all-nighter ago I went to one of the
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best high schools in Channel 9 KY high
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school in Kent England after that and
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went to one of the top universities in
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China
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Ching hua university because of my
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academic success I was really big headed
150:36
I love to ask tough or unusual questions
150:39
it's called reasoning but really it's
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the fifth Street one thing that greatly
150:45
influenced my decision to become a
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Christian was my first prayer before I
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open my mouth I felt very uncomfortable
150:53
once I started somehow I calm down right
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away my questions didn't bother me
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anymore
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it won't resolve but I stopped thinking
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about them I became a very happy person
151:04
my wife and I joined the gospel meetings
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around the same time and we accepted or
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at the same time too
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every night we study the Scriptures
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together we take turns reading them
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aloud and then pray together audaciously
151:18
physics is an experimental science I
151:22
felt I had to meet God before I could
151:25
believe in him one day it sister told me
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actually you may try praying to God when
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you have problems so I did this a few
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times and God did listen Jesus end of
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Haiti since the may 4th movement of 1911
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reason and science have had supreme
151:46
status among Chinese intellectuals what
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kinds of questions the Christian
151:51
scholars think about poor future others
151:54
everybody knows one plus one equals two
151:56
it's a self-evident truth no
151:58
mathematician would try to prove it it's
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the premise on which other mathematical
152:03
theorems are based when I first got to
152:05
know God like many others I constantly
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try to prove God's existence now I know
152:10
what I did was mean
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God's existence is not something that
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can be proved by human recently oh and I
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thought I hear come to us fees exist we
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try to synthesize a symmetrical molecule
152:23
for medical and scientific purposes our
152:28
achievements a minute compared with
152:30
God's creation the more one works in
152:33
scientific fields the more on one has
152:37
all the creator's wisdom had a
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circulation woman Felicia Pete many
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Chinese intellectuals are presently
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studying Christian philosophy and belief
152:47
however the essence of faith is not
152:50
theory but a way of new life God is not
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found through reasoning but in spirit
152:57
and in truth
152:58
we're shimmery ahora why do we live do
153:02
we really disappear after we die
153:04
I felt very troubled when I thought
153:06
about life and death so I went to
153:09
worship Buddha to find an answer but
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nothing ever happened
153:13
one day I felt compelled to visit a
153:16
local church it wasn't Sunday it was
153:19
Tuesday the door was locked so they
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allowed me to go inside and stay for a
153:24
while while sitting there somehow I felt
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very moved not knowing why I started to
153:32
cry i sat in unknown and quite a full
153:36
pouted now you didn't Forge in your
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accountant a Christian couple visited us
153:42
and took us to church during the church
153:44
meeting my sister and I both cried
153:47
uncontrollably tears were streaming down
153:49
our cheeks we didn't know why we were so
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moved it was like suddenly we saw a
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light it's shown through our hearts and
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as a seedling craves water and sunshine
153:59
in order to thrive so does the soul lung
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for the pure love of Christ in order to
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tourists
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why are you here to celebrate Christmas
154:13
you're angry because I want to receive
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peds and Christmas blessings you because
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I'm waiting for Christ I have to see him
154:22
today I'm sure you see him when you go
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in absolutely I thought you believed in
154:27
him where to the doctor II don't work in
154:30
a job you don't work in the genus Angela
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I think Christianity is a symbol of
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peace it's beautiful do we are long for
154:38
peace I come here often to pray for
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world peace
154:42
but you know that I realize well I
154:44
wouldn't be this good if I wasn't
154:45
Christian if everybody becomes Christian
154:47
our country will definitely be much
154:50
better off
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the churches in Beijing are overwhelmed
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with people not only on Christmas Eve
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but each and every Sunday throughout the
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year since the establishment of the
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People's Republic of China more than 50
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years ago the size of the Christian
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population in Beijing has grown from the
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tens of thousands to hundreds of
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thousands however the number of chapels
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has diminished from 66 to 6
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[Applause]
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Chinese people educated under the
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ideology of materialism may be confused
156:09
by the spiritual thirst they're feeling
156:11
their souls are longing for spiritual
156:15
awakening for the asymmetry rewarding
156:19
about some time was missing at the
156:21
bottom of my heart even though I was
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working at a preschool in people's eyes
156:26
with a very good place to work
156:28
when I first worked there miss Chan one
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of my co-workers told me that my
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previous job at the chicken farm was
156:35
actually a better choice it was easier
156:38
to deal with kickin sand with people
156:40
after a while I realized I may have
156:43
chosen the wrong place to work because I
156:45
really didn't know how to play politics
156:47
I made good money but I fell exhausted I
156:51
told my husband that I wanted to find a
156:54
place to cry out loud he loves to tease
156:57
me he said to me jokingly you must be
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sorry you marry me
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I told him I didn't know why I felt so
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upset I part that night her mom died the
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next day
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I went to miss Chan who told me about
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the gospel I started to cry as soon as I
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saw her at first she thought I'll have a
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fight with my husband I told her I just
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felt terribly depressed she said I think
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it's time for you to go to church so I
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went to church with her the first gospel
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song I learned with is Jesus who drove
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away the darkness in my heart is Jesus
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who drove away to coal and fatness in my
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heart
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from now on I won't ask myself bitterly
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why I'm walking of such a rough path Wow
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who wrote a song how come it was
157:51
speaking right to me I'm not a good
157:54
singer and I go off-key all the time
157:56
then that night I send allowing miss
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Chan pulled a collar off my shirt and
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whispered to me so laughs where everyone
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was singing off-key don't you the job it
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is overall covers collision this is the
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core message of Christianity is personal
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salvation the key point is that your
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attitude towards life will comply
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you change you live in this world and
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you might have all kinds of limitations
158:22
imposed on you but your spirit and
158:24
salvation exists beyond this world you
158:28
shall phone a contemporary noted scholar
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has persistently thought the truth of
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faith war hungry adult
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I lectured in Chong Chon University last
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month a student took up at the end of my
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lecture and said you are Christian that
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makes you not Chinese if you were
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Chinese you wouldn't believe in
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Christianity it's part of the Western
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culture say well accepting Christianity
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helps me solve questions of being human
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and as I've mentioned many times the
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questions of being human are above those
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of being Chinese given cash what boy
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Corinthian before the liberation of
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China it was believed that if one more
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Chinese became a Christian there will be
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one fewer real Chinese in other words
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you were like as Westerner however now
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people believe that if one more Chinese
159:19
becomes Christian then one more Chinese
159:22
is saved in fact there is one more real
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Chinese because he or she no longer
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smokes Gamble's use drugs commits crimes
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or disturbs our society
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community research and they are lower
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than that once before I became a
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Christian nobody ever talked to me about
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joining the Communist Party but the
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third day after I became a Christian the
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party secretary of our local branch came
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to ask me to consider joining the party
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I told him I was a Christian
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he said well Christians aren't bad at
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all there are several elderly Christians
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working for me they're all very nice
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people I thank the Lord in my heart that
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hazel
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that way you can doctor the manager of
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the company came to talk to me one day I
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hear you believe in God so remember you
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are a communist party member I said to
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her sure
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the party has treated me well but I've
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been receiving blessings peace and joy
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since I believed in Jesus the party is
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good but the Lord is better I have no
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choice but to follow him when he saw
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nothing we changed my mind
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he asked me to resign from the party for
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me this was great because now I don't
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have to go through the party meetings or
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pay member fees I can use all my time
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afterward to worship our Lord with my
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brothers and sisters in Christ
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well usable Taiwan report unusual pardon
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just i've been accounted in my company
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for two years then one day my company
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decided to start two books to keep
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bracket one accurate for inner youth and
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one order to through the public I
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struggled with myself all night and then
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I asked the Lord let me get this job to
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the end of this month but the Lord told
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me you should stop doing it the moment
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you know is wrong when I went to work
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the next Monday the first thing I did
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was to go straight to my manager I told
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him I couldn't do it my company that
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asked me to resign by then because the
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Lord didn't tell me to my company Ben
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Lainey
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after the transfer me to the maintenance
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department
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I believe guys very powerful otherwise
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he wouldn't have been able to transform
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the life of my son and his wife their
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life used to be like oh it's hard to
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describe anyway let's just say it was a
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trashy low life it was a life I
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absolutely hated to see now they've been
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completely changed they have become so
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wonderful how can I not thank God I have
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been to church four times my son always
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asked me to go with you he loves me
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Junia 2000 ha coming spring they can
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find anyone who wanted to plant trees
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for the city they had tried different
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government departments but nobody wanted
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to do it then there was a Christian who
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gathered hundreds of brothers and
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sisters gain no time at all they grabbed
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their shovels and kind of all the trees
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and a blink of an eye while the local
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government she was making a speech to
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praise them the brothers protein you
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should thank the Lord so that she
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thanked the Lord not the managers of the
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labor camps were very happy when
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Christians were brought in they would
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say great now we've got some prisoners
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who can be put in charge because
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Christians were the most trustworthy
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they were often decide jobs as keepers
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of personal belongings supervisors of
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other prisoners or group managers or any
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jobs that required trust the prison
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managers were sometimes very sad to see
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that Christians leave because they were
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such good people only a rowdy man pay
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seventy there's in my labor camp came to
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see me the day I was released they held
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my hands and said well gee we wish you
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could stay for three more years we don't
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want to see your goal then they told me
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to continue my faith after my release
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that exhausted four of our cam leaders
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became Christians we live together and
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talk a lot before I was released they
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told me if this were a bad place would
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keep you here we really don't want to
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let you go Commissioner Joseph the
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prison managers realized that the
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Christians were really good people
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we were nicknamed free prisoners because
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we were put in charge of the vegetable
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garden and distributed the produce to
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the managers Paget all humanity Amir
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Johnson the police officers went so far
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as to tell us that if everyone became
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Christian then they will have nothing to
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do see the chickens were successful in a
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job to spread the gospel not only saves
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a person's soul but also brings blessing
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to the entire society
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it changes Society
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Oh
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more slowly I found all my employees at
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church I have 600 employees they all
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attend Sunday services so every Sunday
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there are always more than 600 members
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in our four chapels we have prayer time
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every morning and evening we also have
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Bible study groups because our
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cooperation is mainly in the restaurant
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business but we also owe some sea water
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fish farms and schools for each business
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we have a choir of 20 people we sing
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gospel songs to our customers and bring
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blessings to their life they like those
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songs each business of ours has a prayer
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box for customers they write down their
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problems and put them in the box
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every week we open the box and pray for
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them each hour Mikado yeah so you get
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all fun we used to rely on our famous
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hospitality to be the main attraction of
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our business now we rely on Jesus Christ
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some customers didn't know who Jesus was
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after they met the Lord here they
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started to go to church what makes me
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happy is to see our customers at church
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I know some other customers suggested we
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hire Paul girls and hook up karaoke
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machines in our restaurants but I told
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them no way I felt very proud one day
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when one of our customers called home
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from our restaurant and all he had to
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say to his wife was I'm at Washu ethnic
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village and I'll be home late just one
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simple sentence but I was very touched
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he probably used to give a lot of
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excuses to his wife but when he called
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from my restaurant no explanations
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needed and no questions asked I felt
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this was a symbol of trust woman don't
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is not the initial
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a lot of us cried when we saw the news
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of flood on TV of their mouths of us
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come from the Northeast and have no
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family ties in the south we still felt
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the pain we've got together and pray our
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employees donated 135,000 yeah and that
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night
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yes sir Iowa we're on it or loves me and
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he commands us to love one another I
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feel the love and warmth among people
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here I longer care how much money I make
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or how hard I work I truly enjoy working
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here
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well my mania and Caillou the time we
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have parent meetings every year mainly
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to let them see what kind of life their
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children are living after they see the
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changes in their children they also want
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to know God after they go back home they
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start going to their local church we
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began as a small private business in
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1993 it's God's miracle that we have
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grown to be so huge and successful every
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day our restaurant is overwhelmed many
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people have asked me how do you get this
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many people to come every day I said I
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believe in God well machine that change
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I don't think of it like I'm running a
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business it's more like I'm in the
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business of loving God it is inevitable
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that we meet problems or disputes with
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our customers but the first thing our
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employees do is pray in tears they pray
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before God I also kneel before God and
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pray every day and so do my employees
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Lord we would like you to use our young
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lives in your service amen
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Legion I used to ask the Lord for wealth
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and now I only ask for one thing please
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use me as your tool it will be the
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greatest blessings in my life
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when Dawn arrives in China you can hear
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people praying they are rejoicing in the
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great love that unites all the peoples
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of the world these prayers soar over the
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highest mountains and melt the ice off
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the coldest hearts there is no more
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bondage there are no more Wars hearts
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receive blessings from above and
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destinies are changed it's going to be
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an excellent year for the harvest
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Chinese people use poetry and songs to
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express what is in their minds and
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hearts became in him show an
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open-mindedness which is rarely
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encountered in China the human voice is
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able to convey the unique beauty of the
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universe
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anyone who wants to understand the
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Chinese home church assemblies will want
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to reflect on the hymns sung by its
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members these hymns express the faith
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testimonies and experiences of the
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faithful and show the world the pure
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innocence of all those who tread a rocky
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path
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[Applause]
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in remote villages and prosperous cities
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wherever there are Christians you will
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hear joyful voices of the faithful
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expressing their devotion through their
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him
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without instruments or the ability to
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read words or musical scores these
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peasants who are Christians are able to
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sing dozens of hymns without ever taking
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a rest these songs have been assembled
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in what is called the scene in him most
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of the songs in this film are taken from
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these 930 hymns
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and
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and
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that are sung not only in the home
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church assemblies but also in the
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Chinese three-self churches some are
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sung in Chinese congregations all around
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the world
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xanax
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I think the themes are God's grace to
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the Chinese church the gesture great for
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the pain and hints are God's guidance
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the Chinese Church they are great
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inspiration to us all Angela shows I
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have sung the Quran heels since I was a
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child
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tell me tell me the hems way sing and
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mostly from the Canon hints towards
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reduction in gun horrible I think the
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kid ninh hymns are cough gift to Chinese
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people's what I think he was translated
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from other languages I feel that I'm
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walking into the kingdom of God
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now select God walks into our hearts and
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takes care of all our needs through the
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Cayman him he encourages us in we're
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weak he strengthens us when we lose hope
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he gives us power when we need it
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he drives us with his hand so I think
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the Canaan hymns are absolutely right
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for the Chinese Church they touch me
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very deeply
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the
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whatever
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d20 fun
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Oh for South Delsea three presidents one
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day when I was feeling weak and tired a
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him through into my heart it was amazing
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I certainly had scrubs again and
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continued to walk through the hills I
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was able to continue preaching the
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gospel what he is such an autism when I
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heard two hymns for the first time I was
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surprised I felt that they could be
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created only through the inspiration of
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the Holy Spirit
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ah there's now become political
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I think it will be difficult even for a
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delta-wave student from Beijing
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University to write such lyrics I know
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no student from my school the central
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music academy who can write music like
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this
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it's hard to believe that all the
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melodies and lyrics of the Kanan hymns
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were written by a peasant girl named
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shall mean a girl who can't even read
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music
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shellene grew up in a little village in
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Hunan ultra-light I was born into a
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family of farmers my parents are a
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simple farming function mother never
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went to school on my dad city for only a
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year - he barely read they were very
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poor children that so ho a o4 that we
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were going to give Sheldon away that
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when she was about 10 days old but a big
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flood came the day she was due to be
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taken away it was God's blessing to our
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families at home
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howdy doc Shayla Tasha said a girl from
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whatever century
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Eliza says while I was in junior high I
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suffered sinus infections every day
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about noon I felt dizzy and nauseous I
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couldn't finish the day so I just quit
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school altogether
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last year I participated in the
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recording of the Kanan hebes
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I was working with a choir and musicians
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of the Chinese ballet Orchestra when
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they finished recording everybody was
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clapping and guessing which master will
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thus hints they couldn't believe when I
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told them all these hymns were written
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by someone who didn't even finished
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junior high school they thought I must
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be lying or joking
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or semyonov abu bakar daniel woloson and
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said to show me God is the creator of
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everything on earth I said you must put
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your trust in God you'll be healed come
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to church with me this evening also try
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to watch happiness when she shared the
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gospel with me
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I feel sure there was a creator of
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heaven and earth often I sat down and
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look at the sky the birds the flowers
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the trees the grass and the field in my
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heart I knew all these were the works of
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a creator but I didn't know who he was
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and what his name was so when my aunt
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told me the good news of the gospel I
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knew very clearly oh is him your thought
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of your white house she came to my house
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so Ronnie that I haven't even finished
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my dinner and she she said hurry up
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let's go to church so I said alright
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thankfully she became a Christian or
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cheating after the first couple of
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meetings I found a difference in my body
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I said Oh Lord I've longed for true God
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I do believe you will heal me you will
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change my life
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Oh
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that occurs inclusion another layer for
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me repair lost people when she first
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became a Christian we didn't understand
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what was going on we were worried and we
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didn't want her to go out I'm sure what
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your favorite Jonathan and coming you to
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expect a what have you cook at first I
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went to church without telling my family
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where I was going because they were
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against it especially my brother he was
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strongly against it and gave me a hard
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time the brothers and sisters in church
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were so precious and they deeply loved
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each other we were so sincere and honest
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so I decided to follow Jesus the Holy
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Spirit touched me the moment I
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consecrated myself to God that's when I
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sama throws him instance in of 1990
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I need apply now hi
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I thought
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Oh
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yeah
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Oh
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[Applause]
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why am i fighting email a Worman team on
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at first I caught my hands for a young
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sister in my village then she thought
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someone else when people ask her where
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she learned the hands you're saying
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she answered from Chelny how can tell me
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right it's beautiful huh she never goes
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anywhere and she doesn't talk much
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she always hides in the corner - in
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church meetings they thought it was a
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strange thing so then when they started
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singing to me tension no sorry - mom
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monkeys and heightened sheep on water
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she didn't comment on such a sewer deep
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removed they said to the Lord NORs how
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green you are you didn't abandon us
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weirdoes we're no better than words
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we're not but he took pity on us you
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cared for us and chose us
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they were so deeply touched that they
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started looking for the hymn writer my
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politics parrot it was me but overall a
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solid area whole which way old was one
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day past midnight I heard somebody say
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means I got up I listened but I didn't
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know who it was
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she never told me I heard about it from
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others or holiday or what
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so a pietà kawashima-san Gila Valley
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mizerock one day when I went to church
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someone asked me do you know who wrote
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these him your sister so mean I didn't
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believe it later on many of you would
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told me the same thing I still didn't
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believe them
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one year she came back to visit from
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Beijing I went to our church with me
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she told me believe in God faithfully
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these hymns are cause inspiration to me
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then I knew what they told me was true
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see if it was for this true God how
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could she have come up with those
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inspirations hymns
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there was a for being just an art
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therapy cicero it has to be that God
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inspired I don't care how talented she
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is maybe she could have come up with a 9
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or 10 teams on her own nervous so many
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is how wonderful God is a guidance of
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God
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boss
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too often during prayer time quiet time
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certain time of meditating on God's Word
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the Holy Spirit would come and bring me
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a verse or two usually within 5 or 10
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minutes I'll be singing the hymn with
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melody and lyrics
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jikan when I teach a new song to the
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congregation some brothers and sisters
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quickly write down the music
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laterz shall mean was given a little
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recorder she records what comes into her
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mind whether it's day or night
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later she writes down the words and
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someone else writes down the scores
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during walks in the field or during
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prayer meetings shall mean finds
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inspiration from the world around her
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her heart is always open to being
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touched by the Lord
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ah
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the Canaan hymns came down to this
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golden land from the deep blue sky they
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are an eternal gift from the timeless
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beauty of the heavens a gift of love to
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those who inhabit our precious earth
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these hymns written by a peasant girl
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have spread over the
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what harmony in waning eyes I'm the one
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we once were on mission to the tribal
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villages in the province of Yunnan oh
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they are we needed inspiration from the
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hymns more than ever when we were
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feeling hopeless and weak
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it was show me enhancement that gave us
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strength Toronto Honolulu Adagio when I
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first became part of this team brothers
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and sisters were singing hymn you are
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the only one who treats me like a human
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being what did this hymn come from it
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was amazing it came from God
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every time I seen it she has filled my
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eyes one evening I was singing by myself
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Lord you've chosen me cheers were
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pouring from my eyes
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Oh
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get hands-on at home one morning there
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were many of us praying together some
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brothers and sisters hadn't seen each
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other for a long time - who knew each
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other very much they were all crying I
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didn't know why I was crying -
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what attachment in my Ottawa I started
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praying to God I said lord if it weren't
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for you in your love and Calvary whether
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your precious blood we never would have
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come together as brothers and sisters I
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felt an intense gratitude toward God I
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said oh lord thank you so very much the
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worst things knew a lot about this
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ah
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Oh
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ah
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those before we Michelle mean we thought
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she must be a very unusual girl we are
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wanted to meet her after we met we found
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out that she just as ordinary as the
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rest of us
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Waukesha I know that God is working
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through me think about it I'm a girl who
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didn't have finished junior high school
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I often come before the Lord and say
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Lord if you didn't use me and inspire me
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I wouldn't be able to write a single
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word
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- no any autumn evening I was on my way
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to a meeting when a thought came into my
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mind oh lord please hold our hands right
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into the storm
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ah I said Lord what a wonderful picture
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when I started singing - why didn't you
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not a wall and - oh ho Sai solution
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are
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ah
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but
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you may
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people who are deeply moved by the songs
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in the Canaan hymns may be curious about
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the peasant songwriter there is a deep
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spiritual connection between her and God
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since she became a Christian she'll
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means life is no longer hers alone
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she is the messenger that God chose for
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China
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so recently he knew whoever you are in
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jeweler hey bozo Sherman has been a
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quiet person who spends much time
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quietly before the Lord for her Jesus is
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not only the savior but also the love in
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her heart the song the loved one and I
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expresses the endless love between her
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and Jesus
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disarming sheriffs ignore such yummies
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hints were reaching from her personal
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experiences that's why they're so moving
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were all in Illinois when I feel
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spiritually weak and distant from the
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world I think God leads me into his
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gates I feel that God lovingly takes me
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by the hand and leads me into this case
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and two I see him again
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she'll mean is the daughter of a home
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church assembly that has had more than
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its share of trials and tribulations her
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hymns were born with blood and tears
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through the storms of the times they are
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the true echoes of China's house church
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assemblies another so she's at your
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antenna to it sha over to vote on
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September 7 1992 during a house church
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meeting someone shouted oh no here comes
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the police we were taken to the county
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jail where female drug addicts gamblers
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and murderers were locked up they said
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how come they got so many of you what
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did you do did you steal a kill
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I said we didn't do anything we believe
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in God they said it's a good thing to
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believe why do they arrest you
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that's when italic see me in that time I
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first won in tough times I learn about
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life really time employment in fatally
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surgery Simonton John McConnell caution
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from internationally for Dinkelman Tunku
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Shifu no one go to change one go to
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Georgia Khanna and someone came to see
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me and said your father is losing weight
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over you put so much work on the farms
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just help them that you are not a
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believer anymore and get out of here
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I told them I'd rather stay in jail for
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the rest of my life I will never give up
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my face tell my parents that no matter
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how angry they're at me I believe that
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the Lord will have mercy on me and will
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comfort them not go get what you tell me
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as a brother said to her to say that you
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don't believe in God and they will let
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you go why are you so stubborn $40
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Mosher whole century a homeland
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tada harsh and washing home or eating
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jungle booty the whole chicken tuition
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whoo whoo yo bye
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oh jeez ah ha ha invasion ha na young
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shell means sang the song that was in
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her heart to the other prisoners
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she sang dreaming in the wind looking in
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the rain I haven't found the answer for
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a long long time people said girl look
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for the true God he will tell you
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because he created heaven and earth he
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has all the wisdom and knowledge ah how
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joyful I have found the true and
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magnificent God he has answered all my
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questions and told me the value and
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meaning of life my life has become
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bountiful and beautiful my friends do
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you also have questions in your heads
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please come to know God he is not far
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away he is right next to you
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he lives in your faithful heart I need
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you show and in tiny dizzyingly I ask
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usual sugar sure Dennis you're a tall
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dude this is the longest white in the
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canyons when I said it to them I totally
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forgot I was in jail I felt like I was
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somewhere else hearing the gospel
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everyone was saying O God is wonderful
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God really exists Osama chocolate then
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in her so much boys it was the warden he
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poked his head in and said let me tell
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you something when you're locked up you
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should be thinking about how to get out
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of here but you're preaching
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unbelievable Tamara John you can't
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assume alternative ano KO taan kala so -
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what X in a swimming cap imaginary
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Vishwa after an inch version of when I
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was evangelizing in prison I never
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thought that what prisoners might think
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I was crazy
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ran away all they said was how preachers
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what is how beautiful your hands are
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why did he arrest you later I said it's
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God's marvelous idea with joy I traced
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the Lord when I saw that they were
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raising their hands up high and saying
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that they would follow God she was told
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that your tomato Joshua - what - I am no
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more sorrow I said to God
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so lord please bring these people to you
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even if we had to spend the rest of our
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lives in jail for it I have no greater
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joy than to see these people repent and
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come to know you
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Mitchell I Thomas immense igano-kun when
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you're calm in general sort of your
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tension since so many years I was very
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grateful for the strength that God gave
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me a present every evening we take turns
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fasting and praying for the other
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prisoners none of them said the
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Christians were bad people the day we
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left they took us by the hand and asked
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us to come back and visit them from us
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all once we were allowed to rest I heard
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a screaming come from the men's jail the
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long-term prisoners were beating up the
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new ones
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I couldn't sleep anymore on some trips
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just about January and military to check
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down
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and soon as I set up these words came to
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me yearning for freedom yearning for
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peace yearning for the love of God on
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earth wherever there's darkness in his
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light wherever this war needs teeth to
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intelligence I would like to be the
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messenger of love the Lord has chosen to
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be his messenger for a needy generation
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wellif are you who are what we are going
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to visit Germany there are you Eve when
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she was back home from jail
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I saw a bruise on her nose I asked her
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what had happened she said she got beat
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up
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I was hot-tempered back then and I
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wanted to sweeten this out with the
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warden but ShowMe said let it go uncle
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don't worry about it anymore
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just superb a retiree said you actually
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I didn't suffer as much as the other
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brothers and sisters they were
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experiencing jail clear testimony and
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their service to God had given me so
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much strength they are truly the
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servants of Christ they would give up
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their lives for him many people don't
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understand it
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they say why do you leave home and run
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around like this especially now we have
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children and have to leave them behind
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sometimes people misunderstand us saying
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you're disobeying the teaching of the
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Bible then I would pray silently Oh Lord
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if everyone stays home how would those
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who need to the gospel
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there was a time I was quite lonely and
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nobody seemed to understand me one time
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I was walking on a narrow lane it was
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very quiet and no one was around that's
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when I sensed the Holy Spirit saying to
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me you're not alone Jesus is with you no
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matter how much you've been wronged and
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suffered no matter where you go Jesus
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will always be with you
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he will always walk beside you so I
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started singing - this is war free to
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choose - you should
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to be honest they're happy moments we
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were discouraged but we would never say
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I would stop believing
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maybe I say Lord I'd like to take a
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break from sharing the gospel then you
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stay home and still believe in you
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truthfully
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we've all had similar thoughts there are
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too many souls at stake
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I know God has put a love for my country
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in my heart Psalm 33 says blessed is the
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nation whose God is the Lord when I
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tripped this I started my own country
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for so many years and generations it has
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been caught up in a fire and smoke of
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wars with smart please watch over China
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I believe when our nation turns to you
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we will bless us the Holy Spirit moved
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me to lift up my hands and prayers to
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the Lord for China
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Oh Holly culture depreciable the whole
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assembly was overtaken by the song they
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raise their hands and pray out loud Lord
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China belongs to you from the highest to
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the lowest
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let them all turn to you don't go to
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twenty odd
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many finalize Bernie carbo tiny comeback
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God has come to China in this vast
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barren land of 960 thousand square
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kilometers
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the gospel is moistening every inch like
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the gentle rain of spring in the spring
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festival party hosted by CCTV broadcast
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live to the whole country a song I love
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my home performed by a Christian family
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was very well received
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Handel's Messiah had an impressive debut
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performance in Beijing
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Jesus is walking on the land of China he
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walks with grace and supreme power but
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in simple clothes he walks into poor and
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desolate villages through Main streets
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and narrow lane he is followed by groups
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of Chinese people among them is the
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singer shall mean
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many years ago she'll mean became a
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mother but her life still belongs to God
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and His Church she is a beloved daughter
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of China her songs continued to flow
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from her heart
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Oh
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kanan hymns are becoming the holy songs
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of the Chinese nation they are the pulse
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of 70 million Chinese Christians they
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reflect the past were so many
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missionaries walked in the past century
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they prophesy the inescapable destiny of
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the Chinese nation
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Oh
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you
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Oh
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- or functional eating hygiene war
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yamaha chanting in ancient tongue to
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call you jeong inji - oh cool mentioned
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- d function mentioned your shitty heart
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or generation don't mean change every
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fortune by devotion to my magical town
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