I Died and Survived 8 Hours in Hell — A Man Who Died and Came Back, Steve Kang's NDE Testimony

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I'm Ray. You're Codega, here to lead you through the
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shadows of the unknown. My journeys have carried me across
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hidden corners of the world, two places steeped in wonder,
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whispers and unanswered questions. Walk with me as we uncover
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ancient civilizations, unravel unexplained phenomena, and chase the legends that
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refuse to die. Welcome to Codega's Codex of Curiosities. All right, everyone,
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Welcome back to another episode of Codegas Codex of Curiosities.
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My name is Roy the Codega and tonight. You know,
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there are moments and people's lives that split everything into
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before and after. Most people never really talk about theirs,
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but tonight's guest did, and what he came back with
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change the trajectory of his entire existence. Now we're talking
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about a door that opened when it probably shouldn't have
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a door between this world and something else entirely, and
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what was on the other side wasn't what anyone expected,
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least of all him. All right, before I bring him on,
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I want to take just a second now. If the
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All right, let's get back to the mystery. All right,
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Let's welcome Steve Kanga to the show. Steve, Welcome to
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Codega's Codex of Curiosities.
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Thanks and honored to be here to share Jesus, Yeah,
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thank you.
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Y amen. Amen. You know I saw you on Blurry
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Creatures and I was just taken aback. I could not
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keep my eyes and ears off of the show. I
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thought it was a great, like an amazing testimony that
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you you gave, and I was like, I really would
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love to have you on my show and lo and
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behold here we are. So but before we get into anything,
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I'd love if you could just tell a little bit
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about who you are and where you grew up and
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what life looked like before all of this.
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Yeah, so the Lord brought us together, right, so I'll
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do it. Jesus Solanku alone is worthy of everything we
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have and all we are. My name is Steve kank.
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I'm I used to be a Buddhist monk, but now
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I'm a Christian pastor, or rather just a child a guy.
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So I grew up in Seoul and then moved to
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America when I was nine years old because my mom
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was a nurse and she got recruited by the American
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nursing program. So so yeah, when I came to America,
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I was like, Wow, the Promised Land, and I was
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pursuing the American dream. At the same time. I was
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raised to be a Buddhist monk from Asia six. My
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grandparents were a Buddhist on both sides, and yes, South
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Korea does have a lot of Christians, but I was
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that one Buddhist. Right, It's twenty five percent Buddhist, twenty
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five percent Christian, but thirty Catholic, twenty percent like atheist
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or agnostic, so it's it's like four major religious groups.
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So I was in the wrong camp, but go and
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behold the little had mercy on me. Before I met Jesus,
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I would say life was like good, but not ideal.
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It was good in the sense that I was still young.
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I didn't know the reality of heaven and health. I
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didn't know the reality of a guy the creator, and
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the reality of false religions. So I I have my
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whole life planned out. In our family, they really pushed
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academics of studying to become an attorney. So I went
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to a school. I studied, and while I was doing that,
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I always had questions though right like from Asia, from
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a very young age. Since I was a kid, I
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was always I was always very curious of why there
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was inequality in this world, why they were suffering, why
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there was like some people are rich and some people
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are poor. I just thought it was not fair. I
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looked around, you know, we look around, right, the world's
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not fair. But even as a I knew something was wrong,
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and so I went to the monks, the only religious
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authority figures in my life. My aunt was a leader,
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my grandma was a leader. My parents were giving all
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their money to build temples. We repented of that, but
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back then I didn't know, so they gave me answers like,
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you know, this life is a summation of their past,
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previous life. And I was asking them because I wanted
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to really meet God and have eternal life and escape
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suffering and be with my I wanted the truth. So
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they told me because I didn't have Jesus back then,
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they told me I need to like really meditate and
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absolve my sins through prayer because in Buddhism there's no
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forgiveness of them. You either got to pay for it
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or pray through it. So I asked them how long
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is it going to take me. They said it's going
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to take a very long time, millions of years. And
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I said, men like life is eighty years, and they're like, yeah,
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you better start now. So you know, fear factors, right,
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insctive like opposite of the cross. So they I was
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in the temples even as a young kid, whenever had time,
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I was praying thirty minutes here and then if you
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pray thirty minutes, you can write a letter, and like
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you keep a track with his notebooks, I was like, oh,
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I pray one hour, two hours, three hours. Sometimes I
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would create eight hours a day, like I would pray befo.
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I went into school and not once the Buddha encountered
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me or talk to me right. So, because it's a
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one way relationship. You know, Christ, you know, we pray
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this morning and I would just pray right now the
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sures before this interview, and he talks to the old
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ways through the word with your heart hit. He's a
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good relational father. So as a as a Buddhist, I
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had a very one way relationship, very self centered life,
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and very fearful of death and punishment in the spiritual
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world because then there was no clear authoritative structure. There's
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no clear uh teaching of what's going to happen after
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you that they say things like the monks taught me
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like you might get reincarnated into an animal, you might
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get reconned to a different human being. You might go
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hell for a little bit heaven phow. So it's like
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so uncertain. Whereas the Bible is complete, Officer, I have
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written these thingsues that you may know you have the
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time around. I will never leave here forsake you. So
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I went from you know now I can laugh about it,
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but it was such an uncertain, scary place of punishment.
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If that makes sense.
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It sounds like that. It sounds like there was no,
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like you said, no certainty. But then it's like, Okay,
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I need to keep praying and adding up, you know.
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It's like, Okay, I've prayed a half an hour and
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you're keeping track. That's a that's unheard of for me.
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It's like I've never actually like kept track of my
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praying or anything. And it's like okay, good. It's like
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I can cash it in now. Okay, I've prayed, you know,
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this week five hours and thirty minutes, so I can
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catch that in and a receipt for that place.
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Yeah, very very workspaced, without any grace.
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No forgiveness, Yes, definitely definitely. So where do we go
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from here? Then? Like we you're training to be in
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a Buddhist monk of all things, which is like you
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were on that path and your family I'm assuming your
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family supported that as well, your mom and father.
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Yeah, but it's not like the monks you see in
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the Tibetan monk movies, Like you can have hair, you
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can wear clothing, you can have a job, but you're
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praying throughout the week. You're like a you're like a
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vocational month. You know, so I didn't shave my head
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or anything. But my aunt who is the leader of
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our temple. So Buddhism has denominations in different you know,
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temples and regions and districts, just like church, and my
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aunt was one of the top leaders and a lot
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of people coming to these temples, you know, thousands. So
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they told me from a young age that this is
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like your path. And my parents were holy in agreement
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because they thought whatever spiritual is good for their family. Right.
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But what's interesting is like the more we pray and
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the more we gave to the temple, the crazier life,
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a goud everything that the monks prophesied, the opposite happened
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like like yeah, And it got to a point where
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my mom and dad were like disappointed to a certain
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extent at Buddhism. But it led to like so we
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were giving a lot to the temple, we were I
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was being I hated Christianity at the time, by the way,
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because most of my Christian friends when I was in
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the world partying and selling and doing drugs were all Christian.
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They all wore the cross and went to church on
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Sunday and got having me on Monday. So I just
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looked at them and said, Jesus can't be real, Like,
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how could his disciples be like this? So I didn't
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believe in the Lord because their lifestyle, you know, it's
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like you know, Gandhi said, like, Shuni a Christian and
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I'll become one. Right. But of course after I met
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the Lord, I met so many wonderful Christians that really
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shaped my life and helped me to walk on the
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narrow road of life and discipleship. And it's all by grace.
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So yeah, so yeah, go ahead.
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So it seems like you were on a different path
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though that you were saying that you were disillusioned by
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the Buddhist monastery, you know, by the by your the monastery,
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I guess, we'd say, and you were starting to get
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into drugs and uh and where did that? How did
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that start? Where did that lead to?
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Yeah? So I was I never like when I was
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a Buddhist, I was all in, but the drugs kind
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of kicked in because I was in California and everyone
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was just getting high. But what happened was my dad,
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he was a very wealthy businessman, right, and he inherited
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a lot of wealthrom my grandpa, who was a windery ceo.
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So like everyone's drinking in Korea right back in those ages.
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And I remember I was never poor like he always
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he was eating breakfast in Korea, lunch in Japan, dinner
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and like some other country. But he would always leave
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me with like babysitters. And he had all these businesses
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and and he was he was a very wealthy man.
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And I was like, what a successful, cool guy, right,
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I want to be just like my dad, right. But
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beginning in nineteen ninety eight, he started like we started
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losing all our businesses. They all went bankrupt, like the
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whole it was called the Asia Financial crisis. It was
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like the two thousand and eight real estate bubble that first.
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So he went from not from racks to riches, but
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from riches to racks. So he became so poor that
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he didn't even have money for me to sleep somewhere.
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And this was like my first time I suffered financially,
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And so that led to me living at my friend's
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house who was a drug dealing. Then I didn't know.
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So when we got there, we were getting high every
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morning after the evening. But that's not the key point.
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The key point was during this time I kind of
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my last time went from like studious and diligent to
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getting high every day. So when I transitioned back into
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school my sophomore year, I couldn't really get back into
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the groove of things. And one of the weak things
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that I smoke was actually lace. You know what the
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late drug is that it looks like we but it
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had heroin, cocaine and PCP on there. So it's called
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the death boat. So when I smoked this in the
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midst of financial poverty, right in the midst of just
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being lazy, in the midst of living without price. When
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I got high, I remember staying up for ten straight
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days and so for two hundred and forty hours, I
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did not get one second of sleep, and I started
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mentally cracking, and and it was the most the ten
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hardest days of my life because when it hit me,
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I felt like I was somebody else, and the fear
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and anxiety I've experienced from bad heighs just quadruple. It
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was so bad. I got to a point where I
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didn't know what time it was, what aid was, and
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who I was. And I looked in the mirror and
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I couldn't I didn't know I couldn't see who was
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looking back at me. I was like, who is that?
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So I told my mom. I was like, Mom, I
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didn't I'm like possessed with something. She goes, yeah, you know, Steve,
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the Buddhist guys are mad. We need to pray, so
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we prayed more to do it. I'm already pitching class.
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I'm not getting classic. I'm just in my just up
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in the house. And I found out later. But you know,
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in America, right you know, about sixty to fifty people
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commit suicide every day, and then forty million people are
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diagnosed with depression, and like fifty million people. It's all unchurched. Bekay,
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it's all real facts. So check.
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So I believe that, you know. And I told you
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I was from Canada, and unfortunately Canada is instituted made
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I don't know if you know what that is. That's
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like assisted dying. It's a medically assisted dying, and it is.
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of death in Canada, but it's one of them right now,
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and it is. It's terrifying. It is terrifying.
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Yeah. Yeah, So it's a reality for fallen nature of man.
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And there's also in South Korea, to about sixty souls
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commit suicidey every every day. That's a very small country.
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So so the spirit of death overcame to me and
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I knew I was gonna die because I couldn't get
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one stick in a sleep and I started mentally cracking.
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On the eighth day of staying up, I had a
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visitation from the devil, but I thought it was the
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Buddhist god. He came to me and said, if I
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attempt suicide, if I late, if I offer my life
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as a sacrifice to him. So this only time he
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comes right the whole my whole life is silent, and
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at a minute I'm not, he comes and he affirms
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the death right. Jesus Christ came to give us life
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to the fullest, but the devil comes to steal kill.
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This from a John chapter verse ten, exactly what happened.
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I experienced both. So when the when the enemy came
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to me and told me, if I kill myself, I
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get fifty thousands year as hell. I said, that sounds
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a good deal, but two three minutes of pain. I'm
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just doing the math, right, brother, Like if I do,
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if I it's gonna hurt, but it's not gonna hurt
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as much as fifty thousand years of burning whatever hell
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looks like. So he tricks me and said, I write
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a letter to my mom, and I said, Mom, I
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don't know what's going on, but all I know is
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I had to visit a visit from the from the gods,
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and I need to go. I filled you in this life.
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And my mom goes, she's just weeping she read the letter.
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Now it's not just the ninth day. On the tenth day,
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you know, I went to the kitchen and I was like,
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let's get this over. I got on my knees because
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around the fifth day, I started really cracking. In six
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seventh day, You're just totally possessed. I believe I was
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deeming it possessed. And while this is happening, we had
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poltragized experiences like cops are falling from the bathroom, but
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telling movies, I'm not doing anyone hearing this. Like I
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went through you know, Friday the thirteenth, Jason Kruger, I
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think nothing on me. I went I went through that,
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you know, the whole movie in real life, and with
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the knife in my neck and my stomach, I said,
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I was like, how do I do this. I never
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killed myself, but my mom saw what was happening, so
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she called nine one one and the cops came. But
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I still went for us. I scars everywhere, and I've
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shared this testimony in many churches. But when I cut myself,
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the cops jumped on me. I cut a lot of
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arter rates. It really hurts, but you know, somehow they
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got the knife away. I got whacked by the back
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and I had an ND and an OBE or near
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death experience, and an auto body experience which through YouTube.
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Now God is kind of like making a wave of this.
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Some of it I hear. Many of them are genuine.
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I think some of them are fake as long as
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you know. But I believe if the least to Jesus
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is real. So my spirit leaves my body while I'm
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being carried away into the emergency room that you see Irvin.
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And it was the weirdest thing because one minute I
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was on earth and the next minute I was in
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the turnsion, and I was like, what is going on? Well,
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I'm dying, Well, I'm dying. And I expected the Buddhists
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got to take me brother I and take me to heaven.
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But he disappeared because I was gonna ask him what's next,
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but he disappears. I'm all alone and I start sinking,
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which I did not expect. And I'm sinking and I
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was like, wait a minute, I should be going up.
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And I knew I messed up, and it's okay, I
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made a big mistake. I'm sinking and I knew I
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was gonna die and I'm going towards hell and I'm
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like this, I don't even believe in this stuff. And
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I and I think, you know, sink sink sync. One
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minute I see my body, the next minute, I'm out.
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It's like in and out of reality and consciousness.
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So you're kind of like, are you cycling between being
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in your body and out of your body or seeing
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your body and sinking at the same time, How is
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that working?
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It was more like I was in my body and
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then I came out and then back and then back
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into eternal realm, back into my body. So I went
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back and forth a few times, and it.
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Was like a yo yo almost is kind of what
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the best way to.
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Yeah, because when there's an obe like you can literally
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you're here, but you're out of your body and then
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out of body excuse, and then my spirit.
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Not to take away from this. I've had an over
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but it had nothing to do with suicide. It actually
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had to do with over exertion of the body. I
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was Wowce and I I shot out of my head
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and I could see wow and everyone else running. As
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soon as I realized I was out of my body,
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I was boomed back in.
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Well. I believe you because that's exactly what happened to
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me and many people when their spirit leaves a body
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through exertion or near death. And when my spirit started
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sinking and I was passing on to eternal judgment, I
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just knew, I supernaturally knew I'm in Hell. So I
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leave my body. I land somewhere, and when I look around,
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this place is dark, and there's rocks and stones everywhere.
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There's purple rocks, purple stones, big demons, and this space
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was very crowded. And for the first time in my existence,
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I knew I was in a place called hell, and
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I deserve to be there and I'm gonna be here forever.
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So that itself was a supernatural encounter for me, because
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I don't believe in hell, and I believe in reincarnation.
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So I should if my beliefs are court, I should
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come up right. But I knew, I knew I was
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never gonna come up, and I knew I was going
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to be there forever. When I was there, there was
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no animals, no plants. It was not Earth. It was
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not some nighttime in a different part of the country
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or the planet. It was a different route called Hell,
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which Jesus Christ talks about more than Heaven work volume
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wise in the Gospels. In the Bible, Hell is all
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of a revelation in every major religion, and Jesus Christ
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says it's better to get your hands cut off, your
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eyes plugged out, than to sin and go to Hell.
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Jesus says it in the Gospels. This is teaching of Christ.
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This is not my words, this is God's words. And
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I've read the Bible, you know, one hundred plus times
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as a seminary, you know, even every day. It's my
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daily bread. I love the Bible. And Jesus warns us
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not to go there. While will the man give in
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exchange for his soul, like would sell your soul for
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a million dollars for feign? Not because perfect God has
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to judge all men. So I thought it was the
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stupidest story when I was a Buddhist. But when I
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was there, I was like, this makes sense. I deserve
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to be or something acknowledging. I'm agreeing I should be
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in help. And then when I looked around, there's people
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everywhere in front of me, next to me, behind me,
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I look up, there's prison cells, there's people standing, and
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we're in so much agony you cannot converse with your
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neighbors like hey, how'd you get here? Where you're from?
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And even though it was surrounded by people, I felt
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so alone, more alone than ever ever felt on Earth.
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The anxiety of fear just multiplied the condemnation. The judgment
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I felt on Earth was just a lot worse in
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Hell than what I felt on Earth. So I tell
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people I'd rather get torture for my faith in North Korea,
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Iraq than to go back to help because it was
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such a real experience. I can relate to it even
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as I'm telling it back to you, like how it felt.
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I remember the reality of hopelessness, fear, because on Earth,
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at least you can repent and go to heaven, but
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once you go to Hell, you can never come out.
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It's once and for all judgment is not like that
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doesn't change his mind. He says in Luke sixteen, there's
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a chasm that those in hell cannot go to heaven.
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Heaven cannot go to help. Unlike Buddhism or purgatory, all
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that's man made. Jesus is the only story that's not
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man made. Jesus says, eternal judgment is once, so your
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name has to be in the Book of life. I
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didn't know any of this. I was just the blue
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this kid, right. But here I am in Hell, suffering
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and supernaturally by his grace, experiencing the eternal separation from God.
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And I felt so. I had so much regret. I
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was like, man, I shouldn't have killed myself. But it's
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too late. It's too late, and it's something that no
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human beings should experience. Because the Bible makes it clear
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the devil, the Hell was me for the devil. Hell
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was me for the devil. But human beings choose to
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go there because God first Timothy two Timothy two four
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says he desires all men to go to heaven, so
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people choose to God, sending nobody to help people going
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there on their own. But if you have Jesus, you
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don't have to go there. So here I am suffering
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and thank God for my mom ride because she had
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one Christian friend. She called her and she said, this
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is spiritual warfare. She called all her friends from the church.
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This is a Pentecostal church where later I became a
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youth pastor and a water baptized. They planted ten thousand
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churches and saved a million people one local church U
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and I went to China with them, Burma with them.
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I went to different countries with them for missions. Anyways,
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these praier Worris came to the er and they prayed
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for me, and the doctor said it was a miracle
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that they found the blood vessels that were screwing up
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blood because my blood pressure and my heartway kept going.
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And the doctor told my mom, this is not this dangerous.
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You might lose your son. And she was crying. We've
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been calling out every guy like a historical mom praying.
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Mom went in the er and these prayer warriors came
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and they prayed for me, and they really, I really
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believe their prayers is why I'm here. So that's why
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we pray so fervently for the loss. Because Jesus right now,
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says in Hebrews the Oka Hebrew he praying right now
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next to the Father. This is praying for us.
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I have a question. Yeah, I got a ton of questions,
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but I'm gonna go back to Hell. You said it
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was like these these cages up on the mountain side,
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like there was like a mountain almost like you were
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in a chasm. Can you go into a little more detail,
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like were you able to see colors? Is it like
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this dark or is it like this browns and rusts?
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What what are you seeing in this area?
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You know?
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So I had a very visual experience of how some
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people have like a smelly experience or whatever, but for me,
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it was very emotional, spiritual and visual. So in Hell,
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there are no plants, there's no black. And looked up
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it was pitch black. The rocks were red at first,
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and they're purplish. There was like purplish cliffs, red rocks,
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and I would look up and there was like like
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just ridges like people everywhere. And when I looked that
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way there were soul signed up with demons with caps.
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When I looked that way, there was little cells, and
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I knew I was gonna go in there and get tortured,
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like I supernaturally knew. I'm like, I'm gonna get tortured,
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and I'm like, oh, I was so scared. The feeling
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of hopelessness and fear was what I experienced visually people everywhere,
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but these demons that had the caps and by the
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way that none of the human beings I couldn't make
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out their faces and it was just outline human souls.
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Souls were there, and then the demons had these capeng
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and I knew they were in charge of this place.
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Now some people say like, oh, Steve, you know demons
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cannot torture you. It's all over the Bible because before
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we go to the eternal fire second Judgment with our bodies,
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it says we go to shield before that, and the
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believers go to paradise. So there's paradise before heaven, shield
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before eternal fire. And if you look at the scriptures
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job songs, there's people who torment souls and that I
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mean demons do that. So it's in the Bible. And
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the rich Man at last was parable because this is
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not made up stuff. This is like all in the
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the scripture, which is the Bible is above everything created
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so the only thing can trust. I don't trust feelings
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and visions unlessen lies with the scripture. And when I
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was in hell, I think more than the visual and
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the physical suffering ride, I think my biggest pain was
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the fact that there was no more hope. I knew
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I couldn't ever get out or change. I knew this
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was forever. I think that struck one anything. I remember
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that the eternal significance of that. So when I came
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back to my body, I hope I answered your question by.
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The way, knowing you did, you did, yes, And and sorry,
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I'm just going to redirect this a little bit. So
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your mom contacted a Christian woman, a Pentecostal from the Pentecostal.
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Does she reach out to like everybody, like the Buddhists
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as well to come pray for you or or was
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it only for the one Christian friend? What where did
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she go with that?
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Yeah? So she we called them monks first. During the
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ten days, we called the temple for help, but they
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did not they So check this out. It's crazy because
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they never did this, but all of a sudden, So
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back in the day's international call was expensive, but we're
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calling the headquarters right the temple in Korea, and they
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actually gave us a great disappointing answer, which was, oh,
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we're doing a sign a prayer and we cannot give
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you any advice. And I was like, what timing right?
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Because the devil's like orchestraing this whole thing, right, he
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making these monks and killing me right, because he kind
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of kill them too. He did not kill all of them,
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because you know, it's a false religion. So so we
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did reach out to help to the monks. First we
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prayed to Buddha, and things got worse the minute we
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reach out to a born again Christian. She brings a
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whole army of indecessors and they pray and it led
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to me opening my eyes eight hours later. Because that's
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why my book is called eight hours in Help. But
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I don't need to promote a billion I don't care
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about selling books and having another platform. None of that
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interests me. My only interested passionate seeing one person not
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have to go through what I went through and not
515
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go to hell. That's my only desire. This I've been
516
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crucial by in this world. There's nothing no one can
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give me to change my heart. In mind, I'm sold
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off for Jesus, he purchased movies. But I'm all in
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like you, brother. So but physically eight hours I was
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in Hell, and when I opened my eyes, I was
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surrounded by these prayer warriors from this church. I looked
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at my body. I had staples and fuse everywhere, and
523
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I was so tired from all the bloodshed and the
524
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whacking I got from the cops and the surgery they
525
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did and all the my pinky still don't bang. I
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got scars everywhere. I'm not gonna do no surgery because
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at the resurrection, we're gonna get a new bodies all over,
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new bodies. Jesus says, he gotta give us resurrected bodies
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all over the Bible. So yeah, so I right. If
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I opened my eyes, I did not see Jesus yet,
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but I felt the peace of God and I heard
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his still small voice, and he told me he loves
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me and I'm his and no more drugs, no more Buddhens.
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And I was like that this name Buddha, Like what
535
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is going on? So I'm like, I mean Buddhism one minute, Hell,
536
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next minute, I mean Heaven like the Gospel the next
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way like boom boom, and and and and the Chircht
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people who saw me open my eyes, they shared the
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gospel with me. So I was able to accept Jesus
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as soon as I opened my eyes. But They're like,
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what did you see? So I opened my eyes and
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these pastors asked me, what did you see? I go blah,
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blah blah, you know hell, And they go, oh, my gosh,
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you saw the we saw Hell. Do you want to
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accept Jesus? And I'm on my bed like, are you
546
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kidding me? I want to accept Jesus. So they leave
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me in the Sinner's.
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Prayer just just right then and there. It's just like boom.
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They were waiting for me to wake up. And and
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when I opened my eyes, I was shocked because I'm
551
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surrounded by strangers and my mom and I was like,
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who are these people? My Mom's like, you know, these
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are chirst people. And then they let me in the
554
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Sinner's prayer. And then after we created about ten times,
555
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I felt the peace of God and I knew that
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Buddhism was fake. And and I tell the whole world
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what I saw result Jesus helone, Jesus alone, no other name. Wow.
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Amen, that's that is. That is absolutely powerful, you know,
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and what you want? Yes, So did you now did
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you see Jesus at all? Did Jesus come to you?
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I know you've heard him and well he was there
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with you.
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Yes, yeah, I didn't see Jesus until I, you know,
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to be frank with you, I saw the Father. I
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felt Jesus, but I never saw him like many people do,
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like face to face. I've seen like heaven, I've seen angels,
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but not Jesus. It's interesting because I heard his voice
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many times. There were dreams I had to after I
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got saved, where he would take me with him, I
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rescue me. I had so many dreams with him, but
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not like an encounter where he came to face to
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face and said something. To be frank, I don't need
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that because I have the Bible and he's talking to me.
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He talked to me to my heart. He lives in
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my heart and I and I see him every day
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with the eyes of the heart, so so he always
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talking to me. I yes, in that sense, but not
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like a you know, those like movie experience, you know.
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But I did see heaven, but I saw I saw
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the Father's glory in the New Jerusalem.
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But at this time you said you said you saw heaven.
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Yeah, I've been to heaven nine months later or.
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So, Okay, sorry, I don't gay, I don't want to.
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Let's yes, please tell me about that. That's that's amazing. Okay, yeah,
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so heaven. I didn't expect this, But what happened was
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because I saw help. I was so traumatized in a
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way of like everything that happened, and my body was sick.
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So I stayed home for many like a month and
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after the incident, like six weeks.
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I stayed home and the church people would come and
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visit me with Bibles, and it was so touching because
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when I was a Buddhist, they never visited your brother Ryan,
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like everyone's up for themselves. When in church people actually
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love each other and cooked for each other, and in
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this community, I felt so connected. Whenever they came, I
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was so happy, and they were so annointed, like so
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much love, like Steve, like we love you cook brownies
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and Bible study and and that.
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You ask for Yeah, it's.
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Like wow, amen, Like it was so so and so
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I felt the love physically, spiritually, emotionally, but I was
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still physically sick and still had insomnia and still not
603
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fully recovered, and my heart was like still like sad
604
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because I saw Hell and I didn't see Heaven yet,
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like I had a superture encounter, but I'm not fully
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hold on the inside right because depression and self hatred
607
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and and fear led to the suicide right. But so
608
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so I thought meeting God would change me instantaneously, but
609
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it took time, and I wish somebody taught me this.
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But I was like, why why not changing? Like I
611
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was like, God, how come I'm not changing right away?
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I should be like changing the world, and I'm not.
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I can't even get out of bed right, So so
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naturally I went to a paramountain, got baptized in the
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Holy Spirit. And now it's January, which is like four
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months later. Bryan and I thought I was ready to
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conquer the world. But what boy, was I wrong? Because
618
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the minute I went back down to the world, my
619
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non Christian friends were waiting to take me back into
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the world. And I went back the same day to
621
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the party scene and I was like, I'll just go
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one more time. I was not discipled, so I backstayed.
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I got into like three car accidents, and the load
624
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wouldn't have it every time I went in to a
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party and came back car accident. Every time I went
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to the party, came back car accident. So I got the
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message and I was like, Lord, I'm so sorry, Like
628
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this is not how it should be. And then during
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the peak of my backsiding, God takes me to heaven
630
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in a dream, in a dream that was as real
631
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as the health experience, but not in the neodthics. It
632
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was just a dream. In this dream, it was the
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end times. Brother right and I've shared this story was
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like so many places, but it was on the Bible.
635
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The whole world was under one world government. All the
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Christians were dead, were raptured, everyone had the mark of
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the beast. And I knew supernaturally because I didn't read
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the Bible that much, but I just knew this was
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the last days and the world was under one government.
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These when we're going, the soldiers are chasing me, my
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mom and my brother who were escaping, and either we
642
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die or we got rapture, I don't know. But now
643
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we're standing on the mountain and this is now regulation
644
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and I look up on top of this mountain I
645
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saw the New Jerusalem come down, just like the Bible
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says pure transucing go over twelve foundations, twelve gates. We
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look up, it's fifteen hundred stadia or fifteen hundred stadia,
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a fifteen hundred stadia. But it looks like almost like
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a triangle, because it's a cute coming down if you
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look up this way, it looks because of the angle.
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And there's mirrors of angels worshiping God. I saw and
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heard these angels, the worshiping God, and I heard the
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heaven and quiet with my own physical years, and I said, wow,
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these are not human choir. No human being can sing
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like this, Lord God. And then the Father himself came
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to me, but he didn't come to me with like
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chit chat. He came to me as a glorious life
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that no man can approach. But I looked up and
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he the light was shining in my eyes, and I
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was like, Wow, that's my dad, that's your dad, that's
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our maker, that's the king of destiny, Brother God, the Father.
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And then he goes, Jesus Christ is my beloved son
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in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him, Listen
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to him, listen to him. Here, I'm here and here.
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And I found out later that this is in three
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of the four gospels, and it's about happens four times
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in the those three four four three three gospels. I
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opened my eyes and I was like, oh, my guys,
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I can't. I gotta stop backside, because the Lord himself
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came to me and said, listen to Jesus, in other words,
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obey and surrender. So that was the end of the party.
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And then I went back to the Permountain for fourteen
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months and I became a full time missionary to China.
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So I moved to China after this encounter in the
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year two thousands.
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That testimony is absolutely unbelievable. I want to go back
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to so this this vision that you had, it was
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a dream? Was it a dream or a vision? What
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would you call it?
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It was a drink because I came back drunk again
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another day of drinking, and my parents are like shaking
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their head, like how could you see hell and still
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go back. But that's how weak the human being is
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with our gods grace, that's how weak we are without
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being discipled and trained. Every human being needs to be
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disciple trained and died itself daily. Jesus says, pick up
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your cross and follow me, so I wasn't doing that.
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The Lord he gave me another chance. He visited me.
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So it was just a regular dream, right, It was
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not a vision, but the dream was so real. When
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I woke up, I told my parents and they said,
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you need to live life, right, And yeah.
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I agree with you. You know, like a lot of
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people see dreams and they just disregard what happens in
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these dreams. They disregard the messages we received. And I
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believe that we get messages from the divine. You know.
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Of course sometimes things are perverted and stole in that sense,
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but I think that we are showing the truth and
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the light in our dreams a lot of times. Now,
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when you saw these people with the mark of the Beast,
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are you able to discern what that was or you
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just knew that they had the mark?
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I just knew. I knew. To be frank with you, you know,
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the past twenty six years, twenty eight years of being
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a Christian, many many dreams and encounters, right, but all
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around me people are having that. I'm not special. Anyone
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that's surrenders to Jesus can have encounters. Anyone that calls
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up from the Lord of safe So God is no
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respect of persons. But in this dream, I didn't see
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the sixty six marks. But I had other visions where
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other crazy transition experiences where I saw them in times.
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But you don't need to have it. It's in Matthew
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twenty four to twenty five, it's in Revelation, second Festivonia,
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all over the Bible, God's coming back to It's even
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in Malachi. The day of the Lord is not a
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not a friendly day. It's a day where the whole
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heavens and the earth burn up. Second Peter, just like
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God judged the world, it says, with the flood his
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second come, he just the world of fire. He burns
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the heavens and the earth, and he creates a new one.
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It's called the New Heavens in new Earth. And that's
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our home, right, So we don't need to have a
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home here, like we're just passing by aliens and strangers.
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You know. Do I believe in aliens? Heck? Yeah, do you?
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And I with the aliens, I think that we do
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receive these dreams, you know. And I would say that
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I am blessed in that context. I do receive a
728
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lot of messages, a lot of things happen in my dreams,
729
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and I like, there was one occasion where I was
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waiting on a mountain because I knew Jesus was coming,
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and I I just knew he was coming up the mountain,
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you know, and I bowed my head, I did not look.
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But then he approached me and he actually gave me
734
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a different name. He says, this is your name, and
735
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it was it was beautiful. I have that really down,
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but of course now I'm like trying to remember. It
737
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was like it was very similar to the name that
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I go by, but it was it was amazing and
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and it you know, like I know, we should always
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be be scared and I don't say skeptical, but just
741
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discern to know if you're being fooled or not. And
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I think it's very important to know that. You know,
743
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there's many times where something comes to me and I
744
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think it's beautiful and amazing, but now I look back
745
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and I'm like, Okay, that was me being misguided and
746
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directed in a way that wasn't good. So we always
747
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have to be aware of what we are receiving and
748
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just and yeah, just be aware. And I also want
749
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to say that the greatest gift that God ever gave
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us was our free will. We unfortunately, like he says,
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he wants us all to come home, He wants us all.
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But it's our choice. It is our choice. And I
753
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know a lot of people. They they they're like, whatever, whatever,
754
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I just do this. I'm gonna do my own thing.
755
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And I'm like, it's your choice if you like you know,
756
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why do people go to hell? Well, that's because it's
757
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your choice. You're choosing to cut yourself off from God.
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You're choosing not to be part of the source of
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the maker of our Father. And it's and it's sad.
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It's sad. And I see that. I see it more
761
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and more. And I don't know if I'm the only
762
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one who sees Well, I'm not saying I know I'm
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not the only one who sees this. But is it
764
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just because I'm realizing it now, or do you see
765
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that there is almost like an increase of more and
766
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more people that are I actually find it almost a
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complete split. Like I find more more people are are accepting,
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coming back and accepting. But I also find it like this,
769
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it's a hard it's a hard split now because there's
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more people that are just rejected. I don't know. Is
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that something that you see as well?
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Yeah, I do see the ones that are believing are
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more on fire, and the unbelievers are more cold, the
774
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wicked getting wicked, and the holy getting more holy. And
775
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I'm so I mean golly sorrow too, because so many
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pastors are falling left and right, and my old mentors
777
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are cheating on their wives, sleeping with their church people,
778
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like I see people I led to Christ that almost
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die from the new suicide experience going back to the world,
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texting me like passive. I don't brother, Steve, I left church,
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you know, please leave me alone. So I see all
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types of this, people exiting the faith, answering the faith,
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like coming into Christ, leaving Christ. But like you said,
784
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at the end of the day's free will, and we
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cannot point the finger like it's because this pastor offending
786
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me or my parents abuse me. You cannot make excuses.
787
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Adam use it, Adam used an excuse. I've used an excuse.
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It didn't work. We're still responsible. But if you do,
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if anyone chooses Jesus, he can have Jesus. How much
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as much of him as you want. He's worth every
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in me.
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I think it's very important that we take on that
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responsibility because that is it's so true that we are
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diverting that responsibility and making excuses, you know. And and
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and that's something that I need to I myself, except that,
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you know, I have to take on my my shortcomings,
797
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my faults, and I have to you know, profess them
798
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that I've made these mistakes and I've done them. Yeah,
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And I have a question. You know, a lot of
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people listening to this show, I know that they've had experiences.
801
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They just can't explain things they've never really said out left.
802
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So when you shared your story over the years, have
803
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you had people come to you privately and say that
804
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matches almost exactly what happened to me. Have people come
805
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to you and said that that is so similar to
806
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what I have seen.
807
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Yeah, I've had many young people and even non believers
808
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and believers of all ages come and share it. Because
809
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depression is very common. Suicide is common, even in our
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little prayer meetings we have every day. Like most of
811
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them had near death experiences. Most of them come from
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you know, other religions, and they met Jesus powerfully, So
813
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it's very common. Yeah, and they can they say like, oh,
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you know, it encourages me because I couldn't tell anyone,
815
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but now that you shared it, I had the same
816
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experience too, So there's like, you know, this encouraging factor
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of like I'm not the only one.
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Right, That's exactly. That's one of the reasons why I
819
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did the show was to give people that that courage
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so that they can, you know, they can hear someone
821
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else profess, you know, like tell their tell their story
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what happened, and then then it gives them the power
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to know I'm not alone. This has happened to me
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as well, and then they don't have to You don't
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have to come and profess your story, but you can
826
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know that you aren't the only one. You know, other
827
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people have experienced this as well.
828
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Yes, spiritual reality, it's a real world.
829
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It is. It is this. There is so much more
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out there, uh than just what we see with McDonald's
831
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and movies and and everything else. We are in a
832
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spiritual battle that I you know, I was oblivious to.
833
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It's it was an oblivious to and at times you
834
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almost just don't want to see it anymore. But you can't.
835
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You have to battle that. You have to know that
836
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when you go out that door. Every day there's a
837
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decision that you need to make and it's and it's
838
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all the time you have. You have to be aware
839
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all the time.
840
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Yes, you're right, it's not it's by my strength, not
841
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by my strength, but his spirit helpless like you, Like
842
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you said, we got to ask for help and he
843
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will help us all the time. Amen. I love it.
844
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I try to think that I can do things on
845
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my own with my own willpower, but I can't. I
846
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need his help. But there are things that I falter
847
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and I fail, and I ask for his help to
848
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give me that strength too. And so you had talked
849
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about like the demons and I you know we're gonna
850
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we're gonna wrap this up fairly soon. But I have
851
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some questions about demons. I believe that their possessions are
852
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far more common a commonplace thing that we are led
853
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to believe. Also not necessarily falling possessions, but maybe influence.
854
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We are constantly being influenced by the devil and the demons.
855
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:40.719
Is that something that you see yourself or or what
856
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do you suggest that people do in these occasions?
857
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Yeah, So the word of God says to wrestle. The
858
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Lord teaches us to wrestle with the devil, the bab says,
859
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and Ephesian City it says, to resist the devil. In
860
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first feter, it says, to I see Jesus. He he
861
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had a showdown with the devil at the mounta and
862
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after the forties are fast and he uses Bible to
863
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defeat them. And also the Bible says, the god of
864
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this world blinds all the un believers to not believe.
865
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So it is a spiritual warfare. But I always say,
866
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don't focus on the enemy. But when we focus on Jesus,
867
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the demons will come and go, and we'll see them
868
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here and there, but they're not our focus or our interest.
869
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I believe believers have we have authority to cast up demons,
870
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and all is Jesus said, you can cast out every kill,
871
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every sickness, cast out every demons. So the believer has
872
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an authority. How much do you believe? It is key?
873
00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:38.159
So I believe we have to see ourselves the way
874
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God sees us, which is we have the authority to
875
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:43.840
tramp on snakes and scorpions, and nothing can help me,
876
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no weapon formed against yours or prospers the promise of God.
877
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:50.239
But the battle is real so I don't like the
878
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blaming demons for everything. But they're there. We know it.
879
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They're falling angels. You know. It's in the Book of Revelation.
880
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When the Lucifer fell, he used to be called lucy
881
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L like Miguel Abriel before he fell. After he fell,
882
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he became loose at first, and every Hebrew scholar knows this.
883
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And now he was charged this world. So Jesus came
884
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to defeat the devil, to disarm the principalities. He even
885
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went to Hell, took the kings Fromades. So now he's
886
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in charge of Heaven, Hell, Earth, everything, whether you're on Earth,
887
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under the earth, we're in heaven. That the name of Jesus,
888
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everything will abound. So I love that because that's not
889
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just human needs. My demonic needs to So the name
890
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of Jesus everything about down. But I wouldn't tell believers
891
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to go demon hunting, like looking for demon We don't
892
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need that. We're going after souls. We're here to rescue people.
893
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We're here to set the captive spree, preach the gospel
894
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for the pooring spirit. The Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
895
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Hey man, I agree, So Steve, your ministry is called
896
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Revives the Nation's correct.
897
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Yeah, but I'm part of a local church called Wunnui Church.
898
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We have like hundreds of churches, so I believe in
899
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I believe in healthy local church membership. And then on
900
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top of that, I made a parachurch to to really
901
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serve those who want to evangelize. And we do like
902
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hundreds of events every year, interviews for you know, a
903
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:20.599
linked podcasters like you who are really conquering the airways.
904
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We go up to the streets, we do youth crusades,
905
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blah blah blah, whatever guy wants. So yeah, Revived the
906
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Nations is a parachurch, official parachurch, and then we exist
907
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to serve the local church.
908
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Fantastic, fantastic, And and of course you wrote a book
909
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as well. Let's let's at least I know you said
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you don't care if you sell any books, but un
911
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let's at least the you know, give a shout out
912
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to your book and where people can find that as well.
913
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Yeah. So so the book was birthdic because of a
914
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documentary we did from Angel Studios. So me and my man,
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they are my friends. But about six seven pastors are
916
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on a near death experienced documentary call to Death. It
917
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was the number one selling faith based documentary in the
918
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history of America. It's like tens of millions of dollars.
919
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It was in theaters everywhere. You can find that on
920
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Amazon Prime and if you're interested, you can watch it
921
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a lot of It's like scientific documentary. So that's called
922
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After Death. The book is called eight Hours in Hell
923
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from Destiny Image, and it's not just about help, but
924
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a book on the reality of the hardship of the
925
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Christian life, how to be victorious and how not to
926
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go to hell. So it talks about hell. If I
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talk more about how to how yeah, how to walk
928
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the narrow road and not be deceived into thinking being
929
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a Christian and going to churches enough. That's not enough.
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We got to whoever does guy's will go to heaven.
931
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Not just say I'm a Christian. Every rapper and criminals
932
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a Christian. Every drug leader I met on the street
933
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is Christian. So how could that? How could that work?
934
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It doesn't work. So no, I pray that all your
935
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listeners go to heaven right, that they will repent and
936
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meet you as like you met him, like we met him,
937
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be born again and finished well, not just start well
938
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or finish well.
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Jesus finish well. I like that. I like that, and
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I think I think what you're preaching and what you're doing,
941
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the service that you provide to see is is is amazing.
942
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I want to say thank you so much, you know,
943
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and I agree with you with repent. I think that
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is the biggest thing that that that's the first step
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is repent. And there's a song that stuck with me
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ever since I was a kid, and they'll know that
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we are Christians by our love, and I think that,
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I think that is it. It's never left me, that
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song and I remember seeing it in like gospel and
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church and all the time. And I think it's extremely
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important that you know it's by our love and that
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they will know that we are Christian. And I think
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that is amazing. So one day time, where can everybody
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find your find you or get a hold of you
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if they want to past? Uh?
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Past yes sir? Yeah, yeah. So I have a Instagram
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to Steve King ninety seven, I have a YouTube Steve
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Steve King nine eight seven ninety this is my birthday.
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And then our website is revived. The nations our uh
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so that's all.
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Excuse me.
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The ministry's called grad Nation, where the website is called
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All Nations JC dot org. So it's like a L
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L and a T I O I S JC, Jesus
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Christ All Nations JC dot org and has our schedule,
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our resources, has free resources, Bible versus to memorize some
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teachings and so forth. But you know, at the end
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of the day, I'll go back to the Bibles. So
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as long as you have that book and you're obeying it,
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you're gonna be a right.
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That's the book. That's the book that everyone needs, you know,
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and if they want to back up, get your book
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as well. Thank you so much. I really really appreciate this.
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If you can just hold out in the green room
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when I do my sign off.
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Here, Yes, Scott blessure, I thank.
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You, God bless you too. Thank you so much. Steve
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already won. Steve A. Kang giving his testimony his Wow,
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that is something that really touches you. You know, he was
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a devout Buddhist Buddhist practicing to be a Buddhist monk.
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He fell into the wrong ways, fell into drug use,
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and the next thing you know, he's committing suicide or
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attempting to commit suicide, finds himself in hell, and then
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he is rescued, and then he stumbles again because it happens.
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We are not perfect, We're not instantly perfect like that.
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And then God visits him takes him to heaven, and
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that is it. And now he is on a mission
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to help and save so many. And I think that
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is something that we should all take to heart, that
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we should be on that mission so as well we can,
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and we most sometimes we will stumble and fall, but
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God will be there. God is always there as long
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as we choose him. And I do, I do, I
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choose God, all right. So until next time, keep your
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curiosity wandering, keep the lightly, and always bunch your way home.
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But English stars with shadows grow, benvolands echoes whisper low.
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Bigfoot roams through the forest deep, and dog man prowls
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where the brain will sleep.
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Across our history we want to ride.
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Seeking the truth that time try to hide.
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Keep your curiosity wandering, and.
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The likely in the darkness, don't he clear?
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And the codecs the mysteries comment, always find your way
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back home. You fo streak through the velvet skies. Ailey
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is watching with unblinking eyes. The pronormal homes were silence
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breaks in the void of secrets. The Lancern wakes.
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Through it, who realms his stories some Tall the co
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gastam is the lights of whole.
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Keep your curiosity is wandering and the light lid through
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the darkness.
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Don't ever clid.
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In the Code Acts, the mysteries calling, always find your
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way back home. You have foll streight through the velvet skies.
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Ailey is watched with unblinking eyes. The paranormal homes were
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silence breaks.
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In the void of secrets.
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Lancern wakes.
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Through his relative stories a Tall.
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The code gets famous like a hole. Keep your curiosityeth
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wandering and the lightly through the darkness.
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Don't ever quit.
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In the Code Acts, the mysteries comment, always find your
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way back home.
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Legends rise from the bird's deep core. The last legacy
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we can't ignore.
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With every step the fatal gross thin revealing was where
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the strength begins. Keep you curiosityeth wandering and the lightly
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through the darkness.
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Don't ever quit.
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In the Code Acts, the mysteries comment, always find your
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way back.
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Giants baptistic call.
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Hey, It's histories were uncover it all.
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Was why the Code cow will never be alone, the
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cattle will always find our way home.