WEBVTT 00:00:00.734 --> 00:00:07.101 ♪ TRIBAL TRAILS TRIBAL TRAILS 00:00:07.134 --> 00:00:13.401 THE SON OF GOD HE IS NEAR 00:00:13.434 --> 00:00:26.367 HE CHOSE TO WALK WITH US THESE TRIBAL TRAILS 00:00:26.367 --> 00:00:28.768 Conrad: HI, YOU'VE TUNED INTO TRIBAL TRAILS. 00:00:28.768 --> 00:00:32.835 OUR GUESTS ARE TREVOR AND SHERRY FLETT FROM GARDEN HILL, MANITOBA. 00:00:32.835 --> 00:00:38.334 EVERY YEAR IN THE FALL THEY GO TO THEIR TRAP-LINE AT PEZEDCO LAKE, ONTARIO. 00:00:38.334 --> 00:00:42.267 TODAY WE'LL JOIN RITA TO VISIT WITH THEM THERE. 00:00:42.267 --> 00:00:47.068 Rita: WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO BE HERE. AND AH- 00:00:47.068 --> 00:00:51.768 WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE TO THE TRAP-LINE, TREVOR AND SHERRY? 00:00:51.768 --> 00:00:57.768 Trevor: I SPENT A LOT OF TIME HERE GROWING UP WITH MY GRANDPARENTS AND 00:00:57.768 --> 00:01:04.001 I ALWAYS THINK OF THEM. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO COME BACK HERE EVERY YEAR. 00:01:04.001 --> 00:01:10.168 WE ARE HERE WITH MY PARENTS, MY MOM AND DAD, ARNOLD AND NATTIE FLETT. 00:01:10.168 --> 00:01:17.001 WE ARE JUST OUT HERE HUNTING. WE ENJOY VERY MUCH OUT HERE. 00:01:17.001 --> 00:01:22.935 Rita: DID YOU GET A MOOSE? Trevor: YES, WE DID GET A MOOSE. 00:01:22.935 --> 00:01:30.434 THE FIRST DAY WE GOT HERE, WHICH WAS ON FRIDAY WE WENT OUT IN A BOAT. 00:01:30.434 --> 00:01:37.401 MY DAD WAS CALLING MOOSE AND WE HEARD MOOSE. 00:01:37.401 --> 00:01:41.367 BUT IT WAS GETTING TOO DARK TO GO LOOK FOR IT 00:01:41.367 --> 00:01:45.568 BUT SO WE CAME BACK. WE WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY 00:01:45.568 --> 00:01:52.968 AND THEN AGAIN HE STARTED CALLING IN MOOSE AND SURE ENOUGH, A MOOSE CAME IN. 00:01:52.968 --> 00:01:58.401 Rita: WE SEE THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR MOOSE THERE. VERY GOOD. [laughs] 00:01:58.401 --> 00:02:02.367 SO WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU ARE HERE, SHERRY? 00:02:02.367 --> 00:02:04.668 Sherry: WE ALL GO FOR MOOSE HUNTING. 00:02:04.668 --> 00:02:06.334 Rita: AND WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO? 00:02:06.334 --> 00:02:08.801 Sherry: AND THEY DO FISHING Rita: OKAY. 00:02:08.801 --> 00:02:13.301 Sherry: AND THEN WE - TAKE THE SCALES OUT AND DO THE FISH, YAH. 00:02:13.301 --> 00:02:17.334 I WASH THE FISH AND THEN HANG THEM, THE FISH AS WELL. 00:02:17.334 --> 00:02:21.367 Rita: WHAT DO YOU WITH THE FISH WHEN YOU HANG THEM? 00:02:21.367 --> 00:02:26.001 Sherry: WE PUT THEM ON A STICK TO DRY OFF - 00:02:26.001 --> 00:02:31.267 Rita: YOU SMOKE THEM? Sherry: YAH, WE SMOKE THEM AS WELL. YAH. 00:02:31.267 --> 00:02:33.901 ♪ Narrator: KING DAVID SAID TO THE LORD. 00:02:33.901 --> 00:02:39.135 HOW GREAT IS THE GOODNESS YOU HAVE STORED UP FOR THOSE WHO FEAR YOU. 00:02:39.135 --> 00:02:43.334 YOU LAVISH IT ON THOSE WHO COME TO YOU FOR PROTECTION, 00:02:43.334 --> 00:02:49.234 BLESSING THEM BEFORE THE WATCHING WORLD. 00:02:49.234 --> 00:02:52.601 Rita: DO YOU COME FROM A LARGE FAMILY, TREVOR? 00:02:52.601 --> 00:03:00.568 Trevor: I HAVE TWO SISTERS, NO, THREE SISTERS, SORRY. NATASHA, TALLEY AND APRIL. 00:03:00.568 --> 00:03:04.367 AND WE ALSO HAVE A FOSTER BROTHER. 00:03:04.367 --> 00:03:08.501 HE'S BEEN WITH US SINCE HE WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD. 00:03:08.501 --> 00:03:11.334 Rita: YOU WERE RAISED IN A CHRISTIAN HOME? 00:03:11.334 --> 00:03:14.668 Trevor: YES, I WAS RAISED IN A CHRISTIAN HOME. 00:03:14.668 --> 00:03:22.801 WHEN I WAS 9 YEARS OLD, THAT'S WHEN MY PARENTS BECAME CHRISTIANS. BUT BEFORE THAT, 00:03:22.801 --> 00:03:27.301 THEY WERE "IN THE WORLD". 00:03:27.301 --> 00:03:29.634 AND EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN I WAS 9 YEARS OLD. 00:03:29.634 --> 00:03:31.401 Rita: DO YOU REMEMBER THE CHANGE? 00:03:31.401 --> 00:03:34.401 Trevor: YES, I DO REMEMBER THE CHANGE. 00:03:34.401 --> 00:03:40.968 BEFORE THEY BECAME CHRISTIANS, I CAN REMEMBER 00:03:40.968 --> 00:03:44.601 ALWAYS BEING SCARED BECAUSE OF THE LIFESTYLE THEY LED. 00:03:44.601 --> 00:03:53.001 ALL THOSE PARTIES; GROWING UP IN THAT ATMOSPHERE WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WAS SCARED. BUT, 00:03:53.001 --> 00:03:57.434 AS SOON AS THEY BECAME CHRISTIANS I NOTICED A REAL BIG DIFFERENCE 00:03:57.434 --> 00:04:01.068 IN THEIR LIVES. IT WAS LIKE NIGHT AND DAY. 00:04:01.068 --> 00:04:09.501 ♪ 'TWAS A LIFE FILLED WITH AIMLESS DESPERATION 00:04:09.501 --> 00:04:16.434 WITHOUT HOPE WALKED THE SHELL OF A MAN; 00:04:16.434 --> 00:04:24.568 BUT A HAND WITH A NAIL PRINT STRETCHED DOWNWARD, 00:04:24.568 --> 00:04:32.334 JUST ONE TOUCH THEN A NEW LIFE BEGAN. 00:04:32.334 --> 00:04:40.434 AND THE OLD RUGGED CROSS MADE THE DIFFERENCE 00:04:40.434 --> 00:04:47.601 IN A LIFE FILLED WITH HEARTACHE AND DEFEAT; 00:04:47.601 --> 00:04:56.367 I WILL PRAISE HIM FOREVER AND EVER 00:04:56.367 --> 00:05:05.568 FOR THE CROSS MADE THE DIFFERENCE FOR ME. 00:05:05.568 --> 00:05:13.568 BARREN WALLS ECHOED HARSHNESS AND ANGER 00:05:13.568 --> 00:05:21.068 LITTLE FEET RAN IN TERROR TO HIDE; 00:05:21.068 --> 00:05:29.301 NOW THOSE WALLS RING WITH LOVE, WARMTH AND LAUGHTER, 00:05:29.301 --> 00:05:36.434 SINCE THE GIVER OF LIFE MOVED INSIDE. 00:05:36.434 --> 00:05:44.401 AND THE OLD RUGGED CROSS MADE THE DIFFERENCE 00:05:44.401 --> 00:05:51.568 IN A LIFE FILLED WITH HEARTACHE AND DEFEAT; 00:05:51.568 --> 00:05:59.501 I WILL PRAISE HIM FOREVER AND EVER 00:05:59.501 --> 00:06:06.534 FOR THE CROSS MADE THE DIFFERENCE FOR ME. 00:06:06.534 --> 00:06:09.135 Trevor: I SAW A CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES 00:06:09.135 --> 00:06:13.168 AND I WANTED THAT CHANGE AS WELL, Rita: OH, GOOD. 00:06:13.168 --> 00:06:17.568 Trevor: I WANTED THAT CHANGE, EVEN AT 9 YEARS OLD. 00:06:17.568 --> 00:06:21.202 THEY WERE HAVING PARTIES BEFORE 00:06:21.202 --> 00:06:24.501 AND NOW THEY WERE HAVING BIBLE STUDIES IN THEIR HOME, 00:06:24.501 --> 00:06:29.434 FELLOWSHIPPING WITH OTHER CHRISTIANS. AND 00:06:29.434 --> 00:06:31.668 THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG CHANGES I NOTICED: 00:06:31.668 --> 00:06:41.634 WHERE THERE WAS NO PEACE AT ALL, TO COMPLETE PEACE AND JOY IN OUR HOME. AND AH 00:06:41.634 --> 00:06:49.768 ONE DAY WHEN MY PARENTS, AND A GROUP OF OTHER CHRISTIANS, MOSTLY FAMILY MEMBERS, 00:06:49.768 --> 00:06:56.801 WERE HAVING BIBLE STUDY IN OUR HOME, AND I SAW THEM SITTING AROUND THE TABLE 00:06:56.801 --> 00:07:05.968 SITTING AROUND A COUCH, AND I WALKED IN. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS MYSELF, 00:07:05.968 --> 00:07:10.735 MY MOM WAS SITTIN' THERE, "LOOK MOM" AND I WENT LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW. 00:07:10.735 --> 00:07:15.135 "MY MUSCLES ARE HAPPY" (laughter). 00:07:15.135 --> 00:07:17.068 ♪ 00:07:17.068 --> 00:07:21.768 Narrator: THE APOSTLE PETER WROTE TO THE BELIEVERS IN EXILE. 00:07:21.768 --> 00:07:23.968 FOR YOU ARE A CHOSEN PEOPLE. 00:07:23.968 --> 00:07:30.267 YOU ARE ROYAL PRIESTS, A HOLY NATION, GOD'S VERY OWN POSSESSION. 00:07:30.267 --> 00:07:34.768 AS A RESULT, YOU CAN SHOW OTHERS THE GOODNESS OF GOD, 00:07:34.768 --> 00:07:43.068 FOR HE CALLED YOU OUT OF THE DARKNESS INTO HIS WONDERFUL LIGHT. 00:07:43.068 --> 00:07:46.135 Rita: HOW LONG AFTER THAT BEFORE YOU ACCEPTED THE LORD? 00:07:46.135 --> 00:07:49.267 Trevor: WELL, PROBABLY RIGHT IN ONE OF THEIR BIBLE STUDIES 00:07:49.267 --> 00:07:52.835 WHEN I WAS 9 YEARS OLD WHEN I ACCEPTED JESUS INTO MY LIFE. 00:07:52.835 --> 00:08:00.935 BUT GROWING UP, AS MY TEENAGER YEARS WENT ON I KIND OF DRIFTED AWAY FROM THE LORD 00:08:00.935 --> 00:08:07.701 AND I WAS "WALKING IN THE WORLD" FOR A WHILE FOR A LONG TIME. 00:08:07.701 --> 00:08:16.468 OVER THE YEARS- I WOULD SAY "I'M SORRY" AND TRY TO GET BACK WITH THE LORD; BUT- 00:08:16.468 --> 00:08:20.468 AND THAT WENT ON FOR A LONG TIME LIKE THAT. 00:08:20.468 --> 00:08:21.334 Rita: YOU HAD TO FIND YOUR OWN WAY. 00:08:21.334 --> 00:08:28.367 Trevor: I HAD TO FIND MY OWN WAY, YES. BUT IT WASN'T REALLY UNTIL 2009 00:08:28.367 --> 00:08:31.801 WHEN I REALLY GAVE MY HEART TO THE LORD. 00:08:31.801 --> 00:08:37.801 WE WERE ATTENDING CHURCH AND WE USED TO SIT AWAY AT THE BACK, WAY IN THE BACK. 00:08:37.801 --> 00:08:42.701 WHEN IN ONE OF THE BACK SEATS THERE, I WAS LISTENING TO MY DAD PREACHING. 00:08:42.701 --> 00:08:50.835 AND HE HAD THIS ONE QUESTION, AND IT REALLY STUCK OUT IN MY HEAD, IN MY MIND, YOU KNOW IT- 00:08:50.835 --> 00:08:59.068 THE QUESTION WAS: "WHO IS SITTING ON THE THRONE IN OF YOUR HEART?" - 00:08:59.068 --> 00:09:04.434 ALL THROUGHOUT HIS SERMON- I WAS CRYING BACK THERE. 00:09:04.434 --> 00:09:08.468 I COULDN'T STOP MY TEARS, I COULDN'T STOP CRYING, 00:09:08.468 --> 00:09:12.501 I JUST SAT IN THE BACK THERE, JUST CRYING. 00:09:12.501 --> 00:09:19.334 I HAD A LOT OF THINGS IN MY HEART; A LOT OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T BELONG IN MY HEART. 00:09:19.334 --> 00:09:26.968 THAT ONE QUESTION PLAYED ON ME FOR A WHOLE WEEK. 00:09:26.968 --> 00:09:32.301 ♪ Narrator: KING SOLOMON SAID: O MY SON, GIVE ME YOUR HEART. 00:09:32.301 --> 00:09:38.068 MAY YOUR EYES TAKE DELIGHT IN FOLLOWING MY WAYS. 00:09:38.068 --> 00:09:41.668 Trevor: THE NEXT SUNDAY, MY WIFE AND I ATTENDED CHURCH AGAIN, 00:09:41.668 --> 00:09:50.735 SITTING IN THE SAME SPOT, SAME CHAIRS. THIS TIME, MY UNCLE JOHN WAS PREACHING. 00:09:50.735 --> 00:09:57.068 AS SOON AS HE STARTED PREACHING, TEARS STARTED ROLLING DOWN MY FACE AGAIN; 00:09:57.068 --> 00:10:03.301 AND ALL THROUGHOUT HIS SERMON I WAS CRYING, IN THE BACK PEW, 00:10:03.301 --> 00:10:08.135 I COULD FEEL THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 00:10:08.135 --> 00:10:10.168 Rita: IT TOUCHED YOUR HEART. Trevor: IT TOUCHED MY HEART 00:10:10.168 --> 00:10:14.068 AS SOON AS HE STARTED PREACHING- I STARTED CRYING. 00:10:14.068 --> 00:10:19.868 AS SOON AS HE STOPPED PREACHING I WENT UP; AND I WANTED PRAYER; 00:10:19.868 --> 00:10:25.102 AND I WANTED FORGIVENESS; I WANTED TO GIVE MY HEART TO THE LORD. 00:10:25.102 --> 00:10:31.035 FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, THAT WAS IN DECEMBER, EARLY DECEMBER, 00:10:31.035 --> 00:10:38.935 THAT'S WHEN I REALLY GAVE MY HEART TO THE LORD, BACK IN 2009. 00:10:38.935 --> 00:10:41.434 Conrad: I BELIEVE SOME OF YOU COULD IDENTIFY WITH OUR GUEST. 00:10:41.434 --> 00:10:48.401 YOUR CONSCIENCE BOTHERS YOU. YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO TURN TO GOD AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. 00:10:48.401 --> 00:10:52.401 BUT YOU ARE NOT SURE IF GOD WILL ACCEPT YOU. 00:10:52.401 --> 00:10:54.601 I ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK INTO THE BIBLE AND 00:10:54.601 --> 00:11:00.668 LISTEN TO WHAT IT HAS TO SAY TO THOSE WHO DESIRE TO TURN FROM THEIR SINS. 00:11:00.668 --> 00:11:03.401 IN PSALM 51, KING DAVID SAID, 00:11:03.401 --> 00:11:06.901 "THE SACRIFICES OF GOD ARE A BROKEN SPIRIT, 00:11:06.901 --> 00:11:13.701 A BROKEN AND A CONTRITE HEART THESE, O GOD, YOU WILL NOT DESPISE." 00:11:13.701 --> 00:11:21.768 SO WHEN YOU GO TO GOD WITH A SINCERE HEART, HE WILL RECEIVE YOU WITH OPEN ARMS. 00:11:21.768 --> 00:11:27.035 IF YOU NEED PRAYER AND ENCOURAGEMENT FROM GOD'S WORD, GIVE US A CALL. 00:11:27.035 --> 00:11:30.801 NEXT IS A VIDEO CLIP SHOWING THAT GOD FORGIVES SINNERS. 00:11:30.801 --> 00:11:38.968 IT COMES FROM "THE LIFE OF JESUS" AS DEPICTED IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. 00:11:38.968 --> 00:11:39.935 [noise of crowds] 00:11:39.935 --> 00:11:43.735 Narrator: EARLY THE NEXT MORNING, HE WENT BACK TO THE TEMPLE. 00:11:43.735 --> 00:11:50.168 ALL THE PEOPLE GATHERED ROUND HIM, AND HE SAT DOWN AND BEGAN TO TEACH THEM. 00:11:50.168 --> 00:11:52.035 THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW AND THE PHARISEES 00:11:52.035 --> 00:11:55.434 BROUGHT IN A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN CAUGHT COMMITTING ADULTERY, 00:11:55.434 --> 00:11:57.968 AND THEY MADE HER STAND BEFORE THEM ALL. 00:11:57.968 --> 00:12:03.001 Man1: TEACHER, 00:12:03.001 --> 00:12:07.568 THIS WOMAN WAS CAUGHT IN THE VERY ACT OF COMMITTING ADULTERY! 00:12:07.568 --> 00:12:19.835 IN OUR LAW, MOSES COMMANDED THAT SUCH A WOMAN MUST BE STONED TO DEATH. [shouting] 00:12:19.835 --> 00:12:21.835 NOW, WHAT DO YOU SAY? 00:12:21.835 --> 00:12:28.135 Narrator: THEY SAID THIS TO TRAP JESUS, SO THAT THEY COULD ACCUSE HIM. 00:12:28.135 --> 00:12:38.935 BUT HE BENT OVER AND WROTE ON THE GROUND WITH HIS FINGER. 00:12:38.935 --> 00:12:45.301 AS THEY STOOD THERE ASKING HIM QUESTIONS, HE STRAIGHTENED UP. 00:12:45.301 --> 00:12:50.202 [Jesus walked around looking at them] 00:13:02.367 --> 00:13:06.468 Jesus: WHICHEVER ONE OF YOU HAS COMMITTED NO SIN, 00:13:06.468 --> 00:13:11.135 MAY THROW THE FIRST STONE AT HER. 00:13:11.135 --> 00:13:19.868 Narrator: THEN HE BENT OVER AGAIN AND WROTE ON THE GROUND. 00:13:19.868 --> 00:13:30.468 WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY ALL LEFT, ONE BY ONE, THE OLDER ONES FIRST. 00:13:49.634 --> 00:13:58.835 JESUS WAS LEFT ALONE WITH THE WOMAN STILL STANDING THERE. HE STRAIGHTENED UP. 00:13:58.835 --> 00:14:08.534 Jesus: WHERE ARE THEY? 00:14:08.534 --> 00:14:11.801 IS THERE NO ONE LEFT TO CONDEMN YOU? 00:14:11.801 --> 00:14:16.202 Woman: NO ONE, SIR. 00:14:16.202 --> 00:14:22.701 Jesus: WELL, THEN, I DO NOT CONDEMN YOU EITHER. 00:14:22.701 --> 00:14:29.135 GO. BUT DO NOT SIN AGAIN. 00:14:29.135 --> 00:14:34.367 Trevor: THAT'S ONE OF THE PASSAGES I LIKE VERY MUCH. 00:14:34.367 --> 00:14:38.901 BECAUSE, ALSO IN JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSE 17, IT SAYS 00:14:38.901 --> 00:14:43.367 "FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, 00:14:43.367 --> 00:14:50.102 BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM MIGHT BE SAVED. 00:14:50.102 --> 00:14:57.068 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT GOD, THROUGH JESUS HIMSELF, YOU KNOW, 00:14:57.068 --> 00:15:03.202 WE ARE NOT CONDEMNED. IT IS THROUGH HIM THAT WE MIGHT BE SAVED. 00:15:03.202 --> 00:15:08.234 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT GOD IS ABLE TO FORGIVE ANY SIN. 00:15:08.234 --> 00:15:10.367 Rita: FROM THEN ON YOU KEPT WALKING WITH THE LORD? 00:15:10.367 --> 00:15:13.568 Trevor: YAH, WE KEPT WALKING WITH THE LORD, YEP. 00:15:13.568 --> 00:15:14.301 Rita: YOU WERE MARRIED ALREADY? 00:15:14.301 --> 00:15:21.434 Trevor: YAH, WE WERE MARRIED, WE WERE MARRIED IN 1992. Rita: OH, OKAY, YAH 00:15:21.434 --> 00:15:26.001 AND YOU MET IN GARDEN HILL? Trevor: YES, WE DID. 00:15:26.001 --> 00:15:29.901 Rita: DO YOU COME FROM A CHRISTIAN HOME? Sherry: NO. 00:15:29.901 --> 00:15:30.267 Rita: NO 00:15:30.267 --> 00:15:35.001 Sherry: JUST LIKE THE MAN, MY FATHER-IN-LAW WAS SAYING THIS MORNING, THAT - 00:15:35.001 --> 00:15:46.434 THEY RESPECT GOD, YAH, THAT'S HOW THEY WERE WHEN I WAS GROWING UP. 00:15:46.434 --> 00:15:52.267 2008, THAT'S WHEN I LOST MY MOM AND SHE - 00:15:52.267 --> 00:15:57.701 SHE GAVE HER LIFE TO THE LORD, WHEN SHE WAS ON HER DEATH BED. AND 00:15:57.701 --> 00:16:08.735 MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, SHE CAME OVER THERE, AT MY MOM'S, AND SHE STARTED PRAYING AND 00:16:08.735 --> 00:16:15.768 THAT'S WHEN SHE ASKED MY MOM IF SHE WANTS TO GIVE HER LIFE TO THE LORD; AND 00:16:15.768 --> 00:16:25.868 AND THAT'S WHAT SHE DID. AND I WAS HAPPY AND HAD JOY WITH WHAT I SAW. 00:16:25.868 --> 00:16:29.968 ♪ Narrator: JUDE CALLED BELIEVERS TO PERSEVERE IN THE LAST DAYS. 00:16:29.968 --> 00:16:36.334 YOU, DEAR FRIENDS, MUST BUILD EACH OTHER UP IN YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, 00:16:36.334 --> 00:16:38.668 PRAY IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, 00:16:38.668 --> 00:16:44.935 AND AWAIT THE MERCY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO WILL BRING YOU ETERNAL LIFE. 00:16:44.935 --> 00:16:50.035 IN THIS WAY, YOU WILL KEEP YOURSELVES SAFE IN GOD'S LOVE. 00:16:50.035 --> 00:16:54.901 AND YOU MUST SHOW MERCY TO THOSE WHOSE FAITH IS WAVERING 00:16:54.901 --> 00:16:59.234 RESCUE OTHERS BY SNATCHING THEM FROM THE FLAMES OF JUDGMENT. 00:16:59.234 --> 00:17:05.267 SHOW MERCY TO STILL OTHERS, BUT DO SO WITH GREAT CAUTION, 00:17:05.267 --> 00:17:11.501 HATING THE SINS THAT CONTAMINATE THEIR LIVES. 00:17:11.501 --> 00:17:21.434 Sherry: WE WENT TO A CHURCH. THE FIRST TIME WHEN I GAVE MY LIFE TO THE LORD WAS IN 1996. 00:17:21.434 --> 00:17:27.135 THERE WAS A CONFERENCE THAT TIME AND 00:17:27.135 --> 00:17:31.001 WE WERE SITTING AT THE BACK OF THE CHURCH AGAIN AND 00:17:31.001 --> 00:17:38.301 I WAS SITTING WITH HIM AND HE WENT UP WHEN THEY WERE PREACHING. AND 00:17:38.301 --> 00:17:41.601 WHEN THERE WAS AN ALTAR CALL, AND THAT'S WHEN, - 00:17:41.601 --> 00:17:50.868 I COULD JUST SEE HIM, HE WAS JUST- CRYING AND SEE HIS TEARS RUNNING DOWN FROM HIS EYES- 00:17:50.868 --> 00:18:01.001 I DIDN'T GO; NOT UNTIL THAT NIGHT AFTER THE CHURCH SERVICE WHEN IT WAS DONE 00:18:01.001 --> 00:18:05.668 THEY ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO RECEIVE JESUS INTO MY HEART. AND 00:18:05.668 --> 00:18:13.334 THAT'S WHAT I DID, I ACCEPTED JESUS INTO MY HEART AND THEY GAVE ME THE SINNERS PRAYER. 00:18:13.334 --> 00:18:20.068 WE WENT TO CHURCH, AND THEN WE KIND OF - 00:18:20.068 --> 00:18:23.334 Rita: YOU DRIFTED AWAY FROM THE LORD FOR A WHILE. YEAH 00:18:23.334 --> 00:18:29.768 Sherry: AND THEN WHEN HE SAID IN 2009, THAT'S WHEN WE - 00:18:29.768 --> 00:18:38.501 WE SURRENDERED OUR LIVES TO THE LORD; WE WENT FOR PRAYER WHEN JOHN WAS PREACHING. 00:18:38.501 --> 00:18:41.068 Rita: YOU WENT TOGETHER - THAT WAS GOOD! 00:18:41.068 --> 00:18:45.468 Sherry: I WAS PREGNANT AT THAT TIME Rita: OH, YOU WERE PREGNANT? 00:18:45.468 --> 00:18:48.267 Sherry: I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I WAS CARRYING 00:18:48.267 --> 00:18:53.068 NOT UNTIL THE NEXT YEAR FEBRUARY, WHEN FEBRUARY COME, 00:18:53.068 --> 00:18:58.334 THAT'S WHEN I KNEW I WAS PREGNANT WITH MY SON, KANEN, 00:18:58.334 --> 00:19:00.968 Rita: OH YEAH. DO YOU JUST HAVE THE ONE CHILD? 00:19:00.968 --> 00:19:06.202 Sherry: NO, WE GOT THREE KIDS, TWO DAUGHTERS AND A SON. 00:19:06.202 --> 00:19:10.135 Rita: OH, OKAY, THE DAUGHTERS ARE OLDER, RIGHT? Sherry: YES. 00:19:10.135 --> 00:19:20.935 ♪ I CAN'T TAKE A HEART THAT'S BROKEN MAKE IT ALL OVER AGAIN 00:19:20.935 --> 00:19:29.102 BUT I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN 00:19:29.102 --> 00:19:39.868 I CAN'T TAKE A SOUL THAT'S IN SIN, WASH IT WHITE, WHITE AS SNOW 00:19:39.868 --> 00:19:49.202 BUT I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN 00:19:49.202 --> 00:19:59.401 SOME THEY CALL HIM SAVIOR, THE REDEEMER OF ALL MEN 00:19:59.401 --> 00:20:08.968 I CALL HIM JESUS, FOR HE IS MY DEAREST FRIEND 00:20:08.968 --> 00:20:19.601 AND WHEN I THINK, THAT NO ONE LOVES ME, AND MY LIFE IS OUT OF HAND 00:20:19.601 --> 00:20:25.768 WELL, I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN. 00:20:25.768 --> 00:20:35.202 Sherry: WE WERE BAPTIZED IN 2010, IN AUGUST. IS IT AUGUST? [YAH, AUGUST] 00:20:35.202 --> 00:20:38.267 Rita: WHO BAPTIZED YOU? Trevor: MY DAD BAPTIZED ME. 00:20:38.267 --> 00:20:41.102 Rita: WHY DID YOU FEEL YOU NEEDED TO BE BAPTIZED? 00:20:41.102 --> 00:20:45.701 Trevor: IT'S ONE OF MY TESTIMONIES I WANTED TO SHOW THAT 00:20:45.701 --> 00:20:53.634 I WAS FOLLOWING THE LORD. ALSO, IN SCRIPTURE, I BELIEVE IT'S ACTS, 00:20:53.634 --> 00:21:01.968 I BELIEVE IT WAS PHILIP, WHO WENT TO THE- I BELIEVE IT WAS A EUNUCH AND WENT AND SEE 00:21:01.968 --> 00:21:06.634 IT SAYS, THE EUNUCH SAYS; "WHAT HINDERS ME FROM BEING BAPTIZED? " 00:21:06.634 --> 00:21:12.035 AND HIS ANSWER WAS: "IF YOU BELIEVE WITH ALL YOUR HEART YOU MAY BE BAPTIZED ". 00:21:12.035 --> 00:21:15.301 I BELIEVED WITH ALL MY HEART AND I WANTED TO BE BAPTIZED. 00:21:15.301 --> 00:21:18.267 WE DIDN'T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE WAS GOING TO BE BAPTIZED; 00:21:18.267 --> 00:21:21.901 WE THOUGHT IT WAS JUST GOING TO BE THE TWO OF US. 00:21:21.901 --> 00:21:26.367 AND I THINK, HOW MANY PEOPLE ENDED UP BEING BAPTIZED THAT DAY? 00:21:26.367 --> 00:21:29.035 Sherry: FOUR. Trevor: FOUR?. ABOUT FOUR, 00:21:29.035 --> 00:21:33.202 YAH, I THINK IT WAS ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE BEING BAPTIZED THAT DAY. 00:21:33.202 --> 00:21:36.668 AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT WE FOUND SO AMAZING; - 00:21:36.668 --> 00:21:44.468 DURING CHURCH THAT MORNING IT WAS KIND OF RAINING AND CLOUDY THROUGHOUT THE DAY. 00:21:44.468 --> 00:21:49.668 AND TOWARDS THE END OF THE SERVICE AS WE'RE GOING DOWN TO THE LAKE TO BE BAPTIZED,- 00:21:49.668 --> 00:21:56.768 YOU COULD SEE A BIG HOLE IN THE SKY JUST CLEARING UP AND JUST BLUE SKY, 00:21:56.768 --> 00:22:01.968 AND THE CLOUDS WERE ALL THE WAY AROUND IT, THE SUN BEATING DOWN ON US.- 00:22:01.968 --> 00:22:08.935 THAT'S WHAT WE FOUND SO AMAZING AS WELL, THAT DAY BEING BAPTIZED. 00:22:08.935 --> 00:22:12.202 Rita: IT'S WONDERFUL. 00:22:12.202 --> 00:22:16.202 ♪ Narrator: THE LORD SAID TO JEREMIAH ABOUT HIS PEOPLE. 00:22:16.202 --> 00:22:21.234 I WILL GIVE THEM A HEART TO KNOW ME, THAT I AM THE LORD. 00:22:21.234 --> 00:22:24.334 THEY WILL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, 00:22:24.334 --> 00:22:30.868 FOR THEY WILL RETURN TO ME WITH ALL THEIR HEART. 00:22:30.868 --> 00:22:34.234 Jesus: NOW THAT YOU HAVE KNOWN ME, YOU WILL KNOW MY FATHER ALSO. 00:22:34.234 --> 00:22:38.634 AND FROM NOW ON, YOU DO KNOW HIM, AND YOU HAVE SEEN HIM. 00:22:38.634 --> 00:22:45.701 Philip: LORD. SHOW US THE FATHER. 00:22:45.701 --> 00:22:49.168 THAT IS ALL WE NEED. 00:22:49.168 --> 00:22:52.568 Jesus: FOR A LONG TIME, I HAVE BEEN WITH YOU ALL. 00:22:52.568 --> 00:22:55.968 YET YOU DO NOT KNOW ME, PHILIP? 00:22:55.968 --> 00:22:58.701 WHOEVER HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER. WHY, THEN, DO YOU SAY, 00:22:58.701 --> 00:23:01.668 "SHOW US THE FATHER"? 00:23:01.668 --> 00:23:08.301 DO YOU NOT BELIEVE, PHILIP, THAT I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN ME? 00:23:08.301 --> 00:23:12.168 THE WORDS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU DO NOT COME FROM ME. 00:23:12.168 --> 00:23:15.835 THE FATHER, WHO REMAINS IN ME, DOES HIS OWN WORK. 00:23:15.835 --> 00:23:21.234 BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THAT I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN ME. 00:23:21.234 --> 00:23:24.801 IF NOT, BELIEVE BECAUSE OF THE THINGS I DO. 00:23:24.801 --> 00:23:26.768 I AM TELLING YOU THE TRUTH. 00:23:26.768 --> 00:23:32.668 THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN ME WILL DO WHAT I DO. YES, THEY WILL DO EVEN GREATER THINGS 00:23:32.668 --> 00:23:35.468 BECAUSE I AM GOING TO THE FATHER. 00:23:35.468 --> 00:23:39.168 AND I WILL DO WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR IN MY NAME 00:23:39.168 --> 00:23:45.267 SO THAT THE FATHER'S GLORY WILL BE SHOWN THROUGH THE SON. 00:23:45.267 --> 00:23:48.267 Rita: HOW HAS GOD HELPED YOU NOW, TREVOR? 00:23:48.267 --> 00:23:51.401 Trevor: THE LORD IS ALWAYS THERE FOR US - 00:23:51.401 --> 00:23:55.534 THERE'S SOMETIMES WHERE WE STRUGGLE AND 00:23:55.534 --> 00:24:00.202 THROUGH LIFE AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT- 00:24:00.202 --> 00:24:05.401 EVEN FINANCIALLY HE HELPS US FINANCIALLY AS WELL. 00:24:05.401 --> 00:24:07.701 I GUESS ONE OF THE BIGGEST AREAS IS, 00:24:07.701 --> 00:24:14.901 HOW HE'S HELPED ME IS GROWING IN MY CHRISTIAN LIFE AS WELL AND BEING ABLE TO SHARE. 00:24:14.901 --> 00:24:23.234 I GO ON TV TO SHARE MY TESTIMONY, WHEN I'M ASKED TO, AND ALSO IN CHURCH 00:24:23.234 --> 00:24:28.168 THEY ASK ME TO KIND OF LOOK AFTER THE SERVICE. 00:24:28.168 --> 00:24:34.168 WE TAKE TURNS IN THE CHURCH LOOKING AFTER THE SERVICES. 00:24:34.168 --> 00:24:40.068 I GUESS IN THAT AREA PREPARING ME FOR MINISTRY. 00:24:40.068 --> 00:24:44.701 I'VE ALWAYS SEEN MY DAD DOING THAT - AND OUR ELDERS; AND 00:24:44.701 --> 00:24:53.267 THERE IS A GROUP OF YOUNG CHRISTIANS IN OUR CHURCH THAT ARE KINDA TAKING ON THAT ROLE 00:24:53.267 --> 00:24:57.068 THAT RESPONSIBILITY OF SHARING THE GOSPEL. 00:24:57.068 --> 00:25:02.468 AND GIVING OUR TESTIMONY AND ALSO, EMCEEING AS WELL. 00:25:02.468 --> 00:25:03.668 Conrad: BEFORE HE WENT TO THE CROSS, 00:25:03.668 --> 00:25:09.135 JESUS TALKED TO HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF GOD'S PRESENCE WITH THEM. 00:25:09.135 --> 00:25:12.801 HE STARTED WITH WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO HIM. 00:25:12.801 --> 00:25:16.968 Jesus: DO YOU BELIEVE NOW? THE TIME IS COMING, IT IS ALREADY HERE... 00:25:16.968 --> 00:25:23.568 WHEN ALL OF YOU WILL BE SCATTERED, EACH OF YOU TO YOUR OWN HOME... 00:25:23.568 --> 00:25:25.968 AND I WILL BE LEFT ALL ALONE. 00:25:25.968 --> 00:25:29.701 BUT I AM NOT REALLY ALONE, BECAUSE THE FATHER IS WITH ME. 00:25:29.701 --> 00:25:32.735 I HAVE TOLD YOU THIS SO THAT YOU WILL HAVE PEACE BY BEING UNITED TO ME. 00:25:32.735 --> 00:25:39.601 THE WORLD WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER. BUT BE BRAVE. I HAVE DEFEATED THE WORLD. 00:25:39.601 --> 00:25:43.068 Conrad: AMEN! BUT, DO YOU KNOW THAT 00:25:43.068 --> 00:25:47.035 THE PEACE THAT WE HAVE IN CHRIST COMES WITH A PRICE? 00:25:47.035 --> 00:25:51.835 AT ONE POINT, JESUS DID FEEL THE ABSENCE OF THE FATHER. 00:25:51.835 --> 00:25:58.401 WHEN THE SIN OF HUMANITY CAME UPON HIS SHOULDERS, HE CRIED OUT, 00:25:58.401 --> 00:26:02.401 "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" 00:26:02.401 --> 00:26:07.501 IT WAS FOR OUR SIN THAT JESUS WAS SEPARATED FROM GOD, 00:26:07.501 --> 00:26:13.035 SO THAT WE MIGHT NEVER BE ALONE AND THAT 00:26:13.035 --> 00:26:16.568 WE MIGHT HAVE PEACE IN A WORLD OF TROUBLE AND HARDSHIP. 00:26:16.568 --> 00:26:21.868 I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE? BUT ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE IS THAT 00:26:21.868 --> 00:26:28.735 CHRIST CAN DO WHAT YOU AND I CANNOT DO. AS YOU YIELD YOURSELVES TO CHRIST 00:26:28.735 --> 00:26:35.835 AND TURN TO HIM, HE ENABLES YOU TO OVERCOME ANYTHING THAT COMES AGAINST YOU. 00:26:35.835 --> 00:26:41.202 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? IF YOU NEED HELP TO START YOUR WALK WITH GOD, 00:26:41.202 --> 00:26:44.202 GIVE US A CALL. WE'RE GLAD TO HEAR FROM YOU. 00:26:44.202 --> 00:26:56.202 ♪ SOME THEY CALL HIM SAVIOR, THE REDEEMER OF ALL MEN 00:26:56.202 --> 00:27:06.334 I CALL HIM JESUS, FOR HE IS MY DEAREST FRIEND 00:27:06.334 --> 00:27:10.835 AND WHEN I THINK, THAT NO ONE LOVES ME, 00:27:10.835 --> 00:27:15.768 AND MY LIFE IS OUT OF HAND 00:27:15.768 --> 00:27:25.701 WELL, I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN. 00:27:25.701 --> 00:27:29.668 I CAN'T WALK UPON THE WATERS 00:27:29.668 --> 00:27:36.601 NO I CAN'T CALM THE RAGING SEA 00:27:36.601 --> 00:27:44.568 BUT I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN. 00:27:44.568 --> 00:27:49.601 I CAN'T CAUSE BLIND EYES TO OPEN 00:27:49.601 --> 00:27:53.868 NOR THE LAME TO WALK AGAIN 00:27:53.868 --> 00:28:03.168 BUT I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN. 00:28:03.168 --> 00:28:14.301 SOME THEY CALL HIM SAVIOR, THE REDEEMER OF ALL MEN 00:28:14.301 --> 00:28:24.501 I CALL HIM JESUS, FOR HE IS MY DEAREST FRIEND 00:28:24.501 --> 00:28:29.735 AND WHEN I THINK, THAT NO ONE LOVES ME, 00:28:29.735 --> 00:28:33.868 AND MY LIFE IS OUT OF HAND 00:28:33.868 --> 00:28:41.701 WELL, I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN. 00:28:41.701 --> 00:28:50.468 OH, YES, I KNOW A MAN WHO CAN.