Praise | Dave Roever | 5/24/19
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Praise | Dave Roever | 5/24/19
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- - THIS HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE PRAISE PROGRAMS
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- THAT WE WILL EVER CONDUCT.
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- - PRAISE TAKES YOU ON AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY.
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- - I'M IN VIETNAM ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER.
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- IN 1969, DAVE ROEVER LOST HIS SKIN ALONG WITH HIS
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- HEART FOR THE PEOPLE HE LOVED THE MOST.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - NATIONAL HERO DAVE ROEVER.
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- IT'S A STORY OF HOPE AND DELIVERANCE.
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- - I DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE TO REST IN PEACE.
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- - AN ALL NEW PRAISE STARTS RIGHT NOW.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - DAVE ROEVER: I GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU, DO
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- YOU HAVE TO DIE BEFORE YOU CAN REST IN PEACE?
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- SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
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- TODAY I'M ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER IN VIETNAM WITH
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- TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK WHO WENT TO THE
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- BACKSIDE OF THE PLANET TO RECORD A STORY THAT WOULD
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- CHANGE THE LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING
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- THE ONE TALKING.
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- IT'S A POWERFUL STORY OF GOD'S DELIVERANCE IN A
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- PLACE RIGHT NOW THAT WAS MY NEAR DEMISE.
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- SUICIDE FOLLOWED. I ATTEMPTED IT.
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- PAIN BEYOND WORDS THAT I COULD EVER DESCRIBE, BUT
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- I CAME BACK HERE, AND I'M TELLING YOU TODAY I'M
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- TOTALLY AT PEACE.
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- I DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE TO REST IN PEACE.
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- [MUSIC]
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- 50 FEET TO MY LEFT RIGHT UP HERE IN THIS WATER,
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- YOU WALK UP ON THE BANK OF THAT RIVER, YOU'LL
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- FIND SOME OF MY DNA, MY BLOOD, MY SKIN, MY TEARS.
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- I'M IN VIETNAM ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER WHEREIN 1969
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- DAVE ROEVER LOST HIS SKIN ALONG WITH HIS HEART FOR
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- THE PEOPLE HE LOVED THE MOST.
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- WELCOME, TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK, TO
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- A BROADCAST YOU WILL NEVER FORGET FROM VIETNAM.
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- GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
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- - MATT CROUCH: THIS HAS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE MOST
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- UNIQUE PRAISE PROGRAMS THAT WE WILL EVER CONDUCT.
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- WE HAVE SOME OF THE BEAUTIFUL VIETNAMESE
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- PEOPLE, AND SHE'S WAVING AND SMILING.
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- - LAURIE CROUCH: HI.
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- - HELLO.
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- WE ARE ON THE VAM CO TAY RIVER RIGHT HERE IN
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- VIETNAM, AND JUST OVER DAVE ROEVER'S LEFT
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- SHOULDER YOUR BOAT WAS NESTLED UP ON THE RIDGE
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- UP ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER, KIND OF LIKE OURS
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- IS RIGHT NOW.
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- AND A WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE BLEW UP IN YOUR
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- HAND, ABOUT KILLED YOU RIGHT THEN.
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- - ABSOLUTELY.
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- - BUT IT REALLY CHANGED WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING.
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- IT REALLY CHANGED HOW YOU DO WHAT YOU DID, AND GOD
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- MADE SOMETHING AMAZING OUT OF THAT TRAGEDY.
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- - WELL, HE DID BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WAS GOING TO
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- MAKE ANYTHING AMAZING OUT OF IT.
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- I WAS HEADED FOR THE MORTUARY.
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- THERE WAS NO WAY I WAS SUPPOSED TO LIVE
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- THROUGH THIS.
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- THAT GRENADE EXPLODED RIGHT HERE.
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- I'M NOT EXAGGERATING.
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- HOW DO YOU EXAGGERATE THIS.
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- IT BLEW RIGHT HERE, AND I DIDN'T KNOW AT THE MOMENT
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- WHAT HAPPENED.
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- I THOUGHT I WAS HIT BY A ROCKET, BUT THE BULLET
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- WENT THROUGH MY HAND, HIT THE GRENADE AND EXPLODED,
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- AND WHEN I LOOKED DOWN I COULD SEE MY
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- HEART BEATING.
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- I LOOKED FURTHER THERE'S MY FACE ON MY BOOTS.
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- THIS BEHIND US HERE GOES BACK INTO THE
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- JUNGLE A BIT.
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- THIS WAS A ROUGH COUNTRY.
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- THIS WAS THE ROUGHEST PLACE IN THE WAR AT THE
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- TIME BECAUSE IT WAS THE LIFELINE FOR THE
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- COMMUNISTS AS WELL AS US TROOPS TO FIGHT THE WAR.
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- THIS WAS THE LIFELINE FOR THE PEOPLE LIKE THIS
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- PRECIOUS WOMAN HERE TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING,
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- EKING OUT ONE FISH AT A TIME.
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- - WE'RE GOING TO UNPACK YOUR STORY FROM TRAGEDY
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- TO TRIUMPH, ALL OF THAT, AND FOR US TO TRAVEL BY
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- PLANE, BUSES, BY FOOT, BY BOAT TO GET TO WHERE WE
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- ARE SO THAT WE CAN UNPACK THE STORY THAT IS
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- DAVE ROEVER.
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- ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PRAISE PROGRAMS EVER.
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- STAY TUNED.
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- [MUSIC]
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- [MUSIC]
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- - DAVE ROEVER: THE BANK OF A RIVER IN
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- VIETNAM TO THE STAGE OF A BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE IN
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- WASHINGTON DC AND MANY OTHER STAGES WITH
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- DOCTOR GRAHAM.
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- HOW DID I GET FROM POINT A TO B?
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- FIRST OF ALL STARTED OUT WITH WAR, RIGHT HERE,
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- RIGHT HERE ON THE BANK OF THIS RIVER.
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- - WE'RE IN VIETNAM, AND THIS IS PRAISE PROGRAM.
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- DAVE ROEVER.
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- IF YOU JUST JOINED US, WE ARE ON THE VAM CO TAY
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- RIVER IN VIETNAM, AND WE ARE PUSHED UP AGAINST THE
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- BANK THAT CHANGED DAVE ROEVER'S LIFE.
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- WE PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE CLIP I WANT YOU TO WATCH.
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- WATCH THIS.
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- - DAVE ROEVER IS A PATRIOT AND VETERAN WHO
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- SERVES HIS COUNTRY WELL.
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- AT THE HEIGHT OF THE VIETNAM WAR, HE JOINED
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- THE US NAVY AND SERVED AS A RIVER BOAT GUNNER IN
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- THE ELITE BROWN WATER BLACK BERET IN VIETNAM.
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- EIGHT MONTHS INTO HIS TOUR OF DUTY IN VIETNAM, ROEVER
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- WAS BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION WHEN A
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- PHOSPHORUS GRENADE HE WAS POISED TO THROW EXPLODED
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- IN HIS HAND.
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- THE ORDEAL LEFT HIM HOSPITALIZED FOR 14 MONTHS.
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- HIS SURVIVAL AND LIFE ARE MIRACULOUS.
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- TODAY WITH HIS ENGAGING HUMOR, DAVE ROEVER IS
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- ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED BOTH NATIONALLY AND
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- INTERNATIONALLY AS A PUBLIC SPEAKER.
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- IN EVERY SETTING, MR. ROEVER'S MESSAGE IS
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- ONE OF HOPE.
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- - I'M STANDING HERE TODAY LIVING EVIDENCE
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- THAT TOMORROW IS WORTH WAITING FOR.
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- DON'T GIVE UP.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- - THE FOUNDATION OF HIS HOPE IS HIS FAITH IN GOD.
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- DAVE ROEVER HERE ON PRAISE.
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- MATT CROUCH: WE CAME TOGETHER --
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- MANY YEARS AGO OUR PATHS CROSSED.
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- - YOU WERE A CHILD.
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- - YOU WERE VERY VERY CLOSE TO MY FOLKS AND
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- VERY VERY CLOSE TO MY MOM AND DAD.
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- - THESE THREE FINGERS AND THUMB WERE TAKEN OFF
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- EXCEPT FOR THE SKIN ON THE BACK OF MY HAND.
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- NONE OF IT WORKED ANYMORE.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - MATT: WHEN WE BOOKED THIS TRIP, WE DIDN'T KNOW OUR
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- PATHS FROM YEARS AGO WOULD LEAD US TO THIS
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- LOCATION. AND HOW SYMBOLIC ARE THESE GATES, I MEAN
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- LITERALLY, THESE GATES ARE WORLD HISTORY MAKING
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- GATES. THE MOMENTS IN TIME, THE LIFE MAGAZINE COVERS,
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- THE FACT THAT YOUR LIFE INTERSECTED HERE IN VIETNAM.
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- YOUR LIFE WAS REDEFINED IN THIS NATION.
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- AND IT SOMEWHAT IS STILL BEING REDEFINED.
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- - RIGHT. RIGHT.
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- - AND YOUR THOUGHTS AS WE'RE STANDING HERE
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- KIND OF AT A HISTORY--
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- - THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST HIM.
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- [LAUGHTER]
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- THAT'S WHAT'S GOING THROUGH MY MIND.
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- AND I DON'T CALL THIS HELL.
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- I'M SAYING THE GATES OF FREEDOM AS WE UNDERSTAND
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- IT CANNOT BE PREVENTED.
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- THESE CANNOT PREVENT WHAT'S COMING.
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- AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
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- WE'RE AT MID-TERM. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
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- - WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE?
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- THIS IS A UNIQUE PLACE TO TALK TO ME AND THE
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- VIEWERS THAT ARE KIND OF HERE WITH US NOW.
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- WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY?
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- THIS IS A PRETTY IMPORTANT LITTLE, PRETTY
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- IMPORTANT LITTLE MOMENT IN TIME.
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- WHAT'S ON YOUR HEART, DAVE?
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- WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY?
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- - IT'S THE MASSES THAT BREAK MY HEART.
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- A HUGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, THESE FOLKS HERE HAVE
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- COME FROM ALL OVER VIETNAM AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
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- THESE COUNTRIES THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO VIETNAM ARE
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- NOT NATIONS KNOWN FOR THEIR EVANGELICAL MISSION
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- OR EVANGELICAL MISSION STATEMENT.
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- THE WORLD WOULD SAY WE'RE ALL WRONG.
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- IT DOESN'T MATTER. ALL PATHS LEAD TO HEAVEN.
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- I'M LOOKING OVER HERE RIGHT NOW AT A FEW
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- BUDDHIST MONKS, AND I CAN'T HELP BUT SAY
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- IF YOU ONLY KNEW.
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- IF YOU ONLY KNEW WHAT WAS BEHIND THE SCAR.
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- JOHN LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID I SAW A LAMB SLAIN.
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- HOW DID HE KNOW THE LAMB HAD BEEN SLAIN?
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- HE WAS COVERED IN SCARS.
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- OH, WE'VE GOT TO MOVE. A BUS IS COMING.
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- THANK YOU.
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- - A BUS INSTEAD OF A TANK IS A MUCH BETTER DAY.
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- - OH, YEAH, YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!
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- [MUSIC]
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- - MATT CROUCH: YOUR WORST DAY MAYBE EVER.
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- - EVER.
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- - HAPPENED RIGHT BEHIND YOU, BUT IN ONE CRAZY
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- SENSE IT MADE YOU WHO YOU ARE.
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- - YES, SIR.
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- - AND SO GOD DOESN'T DO ACTS OF PAIN AND MISERY
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- AND HORROR AND ALL OF THAT, BUT HE CAN
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- CERTAINLY FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE
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- SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL.
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- - OH, YEAH.
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- - OF IT.
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- AND SO WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS AND WHAT WE WANTED TO
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- DO IS ESTABLISH THE POINT THAT MAYBE SOMEBODY'S
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- WATCHING TODAY THAT IS EXPERIENCING THEIR
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- WORST DAY EVER.
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- - YEAH.
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- - WELL, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE A
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- WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE IN YOUR HAND THAT JUST
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- BLEW UP AND BLEW WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE SKIN
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- OFF YOUR BODY?
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- - JUST A LITTLE UNDER 50% THIRD DEGREE.
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- - OKAY.
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- - 60 POUNDS OF FLESH WAS BLOWN OFF ME IN
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- ONE SECOND.
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- I LOOKED DOWN, I SAW MY FACE
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- ON MY BOOTS.
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- I LOOKED CLOSER, I SAW MY HEART BEATING, MY BACK
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- IS ON FIRE, SKIN DRIPPING.
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- I PICKED MYSELF UP AND ROLLED ACROSS THE DECK
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- AND I SPLASHED INTO THE WATER RIGHT THERE.
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- I'M IN THE WATER, AND I WENT DOWN UNDER THE
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- WATER, AND YOU FEEL THE CURRENT MOVING THE BOAT?
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- IT MOVED ME UNDER THE BOAT.
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- VERY FEW HAVE EVER HEARD ME TELL WHAT I'M GOING TO
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- TELL YOU RIGHT NOW.
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- I DON'T SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE.
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- IT'S TOO MIRACULOUS, AND I CAN'T BUY IT MYSELF.
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- IT TAKES A GOD EXPLANATION.
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- I WENT UNDER THAT BOAT AS THE BACK OF IT SETTLED
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- DOWN, IT WAS TAKING ON WATER AS IT SETTLED DOWN,
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- AND IT PINNED MY SHOULDERS AND HEAD UNDER
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- THE BACK OF THE BOAT, AND MY FEET WERE KICKING IN
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- THIS WATER, KICKING.
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- I'M TRYING TO GET FREE AND I CAN'T GET OUT.
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- I CAN DROWN.
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- I CAN BURN TO DEATH, OR I CAN BLEED TO DEATH.
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- I HAVE THREE.
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- ALL OF THE ABOVE WAS TAKING PLACE AT ONE TIME.
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- I WAS PINNED UNDER THAT BOAT RIGHT THERE, AND I
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- COULDN'T CRY OUT TO GOD.
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- I WAS STUCK.
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- I'M GLAD THAT HIS WORD WAS NOT HIDDEN
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- IN MY POCKET.
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- HIS WORD WAS HIDDEN IN MY HEART.
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- AND I HOPE PEOPLE WATCHING UNDERSTAND THAT
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- I CAN'T TELL THIS STORY WITHOUT EMOTION BECAUSE
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- GOD WAS WITH ME THROUGH IT ALL.
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- AND I DON'T KNOW HOW I GOT OUT.
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- JUST SUDDENLY I FLOATED UP TO THE TOP OF THE
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- RIVER, AND MY HEAD BOBBED OUT RIGHT THERE.
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- MY CREW WAS ON THE FRONT OF THE BOAT.
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- THE BACK WAS DOWN IN IT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE THE
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- WATER HAD TAKEN -- FRONT WOULDN'T SINK.
- 00:11:09.110 --> 00:11:12.000
- SO THEY WERE ON THE FRONT OF THE BOAT.
- 00:11:12.020 --> 00:11:13.240
- I'M AT THE BACK OF THE BOAT.
- 00:11:13.260 --> 00:11:15.200
- ONE GUY, ONE OF MY TEAM MEMBERS JUMPED IN TO HELP
- 00:11:15.220 --> 00:11:17.290
- ME. THE OTHERS KNEW NOT TO TOUCH ME.
- 00:11:18.010 --> 00:11:19.270
- HE WAS THE NEW GUY, THE NEWEST GUY, DENNIS.
- 00:11:19.290 --> 00:11:22.070
- SWEETHEART OF A GUY. ONLY KNEW HIM A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
- 00:11:22.090 --> 00:11:24.270
- HE JUMPED IN RIGHT HERE TRYING TO SAVE ME,
- 00:11:24.290 --> 00:11:27.080
- AND I'M SCREAMING DON'T TOUCH ME!
- 00:11:27.100 --> 00:11:28.260
- DON'T TOUCH ME!
- 00:11:28.280 --> 00:11:30.080
- I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GET BURNED.
- 00:11:30.100 --> 00:11:31.270
- WHEN I SURFACED, THE FIRST WORDS THAT CAME OUT
- 00:11:31.290 --> 00:11:33.180
- OF WHAT WAS LEFT OF MY MOUTH WITH A BALL OF
- 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.120
- FIRE CAME OUT BECAUSE I INHALED THAT FLAME.
- 00:11:35.140 --> 00:11:38.110
- WHEN I SURFACED, I SUCKED IN [INHALES DEEPLY] AND I PULLED
- 00:11:38.130 --> 00:11:41.030
- THE FIRE IN. WHEN I EXHALED, THE FIRE CAME OUT AND I SAID GOD,
- 00:11:41.050 --> 00:11:44.180
- I STILL BELIEVE IN YOU!
- 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.260
- THAT'S AN EXACT VERBATIM QUOTE.
- 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:48.250
- I DIDN'T SAY THAT BECAUSE GOD DIDN'T KNOW.
- 00:11:48.270 --> 00:11:50.280
- HE KNEW I STILL BELIEVED IN HIM.
- 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.000
- I DIDN'T SAY THAT BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A
- 00:11:53.020 --> 00:11:56.290
- GREAT LINE TO SHARE ONE DAY IF I EVER CAME BACK. DUH.
- 00:11:57.010 --> 00:11:59.260
- YOU KNOW WHY I SHARED THAT?
- 00:11:59.280 --> 00:12:03.000
- I SAID THAT BECAUSE I WANTED THOSE BOYS THAT
- 00:12:03.020 --> 00:12:04.220
- I'D BEEN WITNESSING TO FOR EIGHT MONTHS, I
- 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.290
- WANTED THEM TO KNOW THAT THE GOD I TOLD THEM ABOUT
- 00:12:07.010 --> 00:12:08.260
- DIDN'T HURT ME. I WANTED THEM TO KNOW THE GOD I
- 00:12:08.280 --> 00:12:10.260
- TALKED TO THEM ABOUT DIDN'T DO THIS TO ME.
- 00:12:10.280 --> 00:12:14.050
- AND I VOWED TO BRENDA I'D BE FAITHFUL TO HER.
- 00:12:14.070 --> 00:12:16.190
- I VOWED TO GOD I'D BE FAITHFUL TO HIM.
- 00:12:16.210 --> 00:12:18.270
- AND I KEPT BOTH THOSE VOWS.
- 00:12:18.290 --> 00:12:20.280
- THE ONLY PROMISE I EVER BROKE TO MY WIFE WAS WHEN
- 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.040
- I KISSED THAT LITTLE TEENAGER GOODBYE AT LITTLE
- 00:12:23.060 --> 00:12:26.230
- FIELD IN DALLAS TO COME TO THIS WAR.
- 00:12:26.250 --> 00:12:28.280
- SHE ASKED ME, HER LITTLE LIPS WERE TREMBLING,
- 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.220
- SHE'S TRYING NOT TO CRY, AND I KISSED-- AND I CAN
- 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.250
- STILL TASTE THE SALT OF HER TEARS ON MY LIPS, SHE
- 00:12:33.270 --> 00:12:35.110
- SAID ARE YOU COMING BACK?
- 00:12:35.130 --> 00:12:38.260
- IN THIS WATER, AFTER I SAID GOD I STILL BELIEVE
- 00:12:38.280 --> 00:12:42.080
- IN YOU, I REMEMBERED MY WORDS AND I WAS SO SAD BECAUSE
- 00:12:42.100 --> 00:12:46.120
- I KNEW I WOULD BREAK THE ONLY PROMISE I'D EVER
- 00:12:46.140 --> 00:12:49.140
- MAKE THAT I MADE TO HER.
- 00:12:49.160 --> 00:12:52.010
- I CAME BACK BUT I WAS SCARRED. I WAS MUTILATED.
- 00:12:52.030 --> 00:12:55.150
- AND I ASKED HER TO FORGIVE ME FOR THAT WHILE
- 00:12:55.170 --> 00:12:58.290
- I WAS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL.
- 00:12:59.010 --> 00:13:00.210
- I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF TO TELL YOU ABOUT
- 00:13:00.230 --> 00:13:02.160
- THE HOSPITAL BUT WE'LL GET THERE.
- 00:13:02.180 --> 00:13:04.200
- BUT FROM THIS POINT THEY TOOK ME IN THE
- 00:13:04.220 --> 00:13:06.230
- HELICOPTER, AND THEY FLEW ME TO SAIGON. I DON'T KNOW
- 00:13:06.250 --> 00:13:09.210
- WHERE THE FIRST STOP WAS. IT WAS A MASH HOSPITAL.
- 00:13:09.230 --> 00:13:12.120
- - BEFORE YOU GET THERE, I REMEMBER A PORTION OF
- 00:13:12.140 --> 00:13:17.040
- YOUR STORY THAT YOU SAID SOMEBODY WAS REACHING
- 00:13:17.060 --> 00:13:20.210
- HERE TO PULL YOUR DOG TAGS OFF.
- 00:13:20.230 --> 00:13:23.030
- - OH, YEAH, THEY DID.
- 00:13:23.050 --> 00:13:24.220
- - AND THEY HAMMER THEM UP INTO YOUR--
- 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.050
- - THAT WAS IN THE HELICOPTER AND THAT WAS
- 00:13:27.070 --> 00:13:29.060
- STANDARD PROCEDURE.
- 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.230
- THEY TAKE THE DOG TAG, YOU HAVE TWO OF THEM, AND
- 00:13:30.250 --> 00:13:32.200
- THEY TAKE ONE OF THEM AND PUT IT BETWEEN YOUR
- 00:13:32.220 --> 00:13:35.080
- TEETH, AND THEN THEY KICK IT WITH THE HEEL AND IT
- 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:38.130
- DRIVES IT INTO THE GUM. YOU'RE DEAD.
- 00:13:38.150 --> 00:13:40.090
- IT'S NOT GONNA HURT YOU. BUT I WASN'T DEAD,
- 00:13:40.110 --> 00:13:42.260
- AND I DIDN'T WANT THE PAIN IN THE MOUTH.
- 00:13:42.280 --> 00:13:44.240
- I GOT ENOUGH PAIN NOW, AND I DIDN'T WANT HIM
- 00:13:44.260 --> 00:13:46.070
- KICKING ME IN THE MOUTH.
- 00:13:46.090 --> 00:13:47.280
- THAT'S WHEN I STARTED YELLING, MEDIC!
- 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:49.280
- AND HE ALMOST JUMPED OUT OF THE HELICOPTER.
- 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:51.150
- HE THOUGHT THE DEAD CAME TO LIFE AND SCARED HIM
- 00:13:51.170 --> 00:13:53.110
- HALF TO DEATH, AND THE PILOT LOST CONTROL AND
- 00:13:53.130 --> 00:13:55.150
- DROPPING LIKE A ROCK, AND THAT'S WHEN I THOUGHT
- 00:13:55.170 --> 00:13:57.290
- GOOD LORD, WE'RE GONNA CRASH.
- 00:13:58.010 --> 00:13:59.260
- I'LL BE THE ONLY SURVIVOR. [LAUGHTER]
- 00:13:59.280 --> 00:14:02.080
- - SO YOU GO FROM THE VAM CO TAY RIVER, FROM THIS
- 00:14:02.100 --> 00:14:10.090
- BANK TO THAT BANK, LIFT OFF IN A HELICOPTER
- 00:14:10.110 --> 00:14:13.250
- AND LAND IN SAIGON.
- 00:14:13.270 --> 00:14:16.040
- - ACTUALLY, WE LANDED IN A MASH HOSPITAL SOMEWHERE
- 00:14:16.060 --> 00:14:18.070
- ALONG THE WAY, AND THEY WERE ARGUING, THE TWO
- 00:14:18.090 --> 00:14:21.170
- DOCTORS WERE ARGUING.
- 00:14:21.190 --> 00:14:23.170
- OF COURSE THEY KNEW I WAS ALIVE, BUT THEY SAID
- 00:14:23.190 --> 00:14:25.130
- HE CAN'T LIVE. I WAS STILL BURNING.
- 00:14:25.150 --> 00:14:27.010
- THEY OPENED ME UP, AND SOME OF THAT HAD NOT HAD
- 00:14:27.030 --> 00:14:30.220
- ENOUGH AIR TO EXPLODE YET, AND I BURST INTO
- 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.220
- FLAMES. THEY'RE DIGGING IT OUT.
- 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.180
- I SET THE OPERATING ROOM ON FIRE.
- 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.100
- I WAS TOLD, BECAUSE I WAS UNDER ANESTHESIA,
- 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.190
- I WAS TOLD THIS STORY.
- 00:14:39.210 --> 00:14:41.090
- THEY SAID THEY RAN OUT, AND THEY SAID WHEN THEY
- 00:14:41.110 --> 00:14:43.140
- CAME BACK, THEY CAME BACK BECAUSE THE MORTICIAN
- 00:14:43.160 --> 00:14:46.120
- ASSISTANT CAME TO GET ME, AND THEY HAD STABBED MY
- 00:14:46.140 --> 00:14:49.150
- CHEST WITH A KNIFE AND TURNED IT SIDEWAYS TRYING
- 00:14:49.170 --> 00:14:51.190
- TO GET AIR IN ME BECAUSE MY LARYNX SHUT DOWN
- 00:14:51.210 --> 00:14:53.230
- AND I COULDN'T GET AIR.
- 00:14:53.250 --> 00:14:55.200
- THAT'S WHY I DIED ON THE TABLE.
- 00:14:55.220 --> 00:14:57.110
- THEY SAID I WAS DEAD.
- 00:14:57.130 --> 00:14:59.100
- THEY PULLED THE SHEET OVER ME AND SAID HE'S
- 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.200
- DEAD, AND THEY LEFT THE SCALPEL IN THERE, THEY WALKED
- 00:15:01.220 --> 00:15:04.110
- OUT BECAUSE I'M DEAD.
- 00:15:04.130 --> 00:15:06.160
- WELL, THEN THEY COME OUT TO TELL MY WIFE,
- 00:15:06.180 --> 00:15:08.000
- AND HER FOLKS AND MY DAD WAS THERE.
- 00:15:08.020 --> 00:15:09.070
- THEY SAID-- THESE ARE THEIR WORDS.
- 00:15:09.090 --> 00:15:10.210
- THEY SAID WE LOST HIM. AND THEY HEARD A SCREAM.
- 00:15:10.230 --> 00:15:12.150
- THEY RAN IN AND IT WAS THE MORTICIAN AGENT ASSISTANT.
- 00:15:12.170 --> 00:15:16.070
- I HAD, DURING THE TIME THEY HAD THAT KNIFE STUCK
- 00:15:16.090 --> 00:15:18.090
- IN THERE, OXYGEN REFILLED MY LUNGS SLOWLY, HAD
- 00:15:18.110 --> 00:15:21.290
- ENOUGH AIR, AND I LET OUT A YELL, AND THAT MEDIC,
- 00:15:22.010 --> 00:15:24.220
- HE ALMOST DIED. AND THAT WAS HOW CLOSE
- 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:28.250
- THE NEXT BRUSH WITH DEATH CAME.
- 00:15:28.270 --> 00:15:30.120
- I WAS THAT CLOSE TO BEING DEAD.
- 00:15:30.140 --> 00:15:32.140
- THEY'D ALREADY WALKED OUT AND SAID WE LOST HIM,
- 00:15:32.160 --> 00:15:34.230
- BUT GOD WASN'T THROUGH.
- 00:15:34.250 --> 00:15:36.000
- GOD DIDN'T LOSE ME. HE KNEW WHERE I WAS.
- 00:15:36.020 --> 00:15:38.190
- - BOY, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOUR LIFE
- 00:15:38.210 --> 00:15:41.170
- IS IN GOD'S HAND, AND IF YOU'RE STILL ALIVE
- 00:15:41.190 --> 00:15:43.170
- THERE'S STILL A PURPOSE FOR YOU, THEN I DON'T
- 00:15:43.190 --> 00:15:45.190
- KNOW WHAT ELSE IS GONNA CONVINCE THEM.
- 00:15:45.210 --> 00:15:47.260
- [MUSIC]
- 00:15:47.280 --> 00:15:58.150
- - THIS REPRESENTS WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS THE,
- 00:15:58.170 --> 00:16:02.060
- KIND OF THE END OF SOUTH VIETNAM.
- 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.160
- - THIS IS THE KEY THAT UNLOCKED THE GATE.
- 00:16:05.180 --> 00:16:08.020
- - ALL RIGHT.
- 00:16:08.040 --> 00:16:10.160
- SO WHAT PART OF THE STORY IS HERE AS YOU KNOW OUR
- 00:16:10.180 --> 00:16:13.240
- VIEW, WE'RE LOOKING PAST A TANK BARREL AND WE'RE
- 00:16:13.260 --> 00:16:18.010
- LOOKING NOW AT THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE WHICH
- 00:16:18.030 --> 00:16:22.100
- IS MORE OF A MUSEUM NOW, REALLY, BUT THIS WOULD
- 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.110
- HAVE BEEN THE WHITE HOUSE OF VIETNAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
- 00:16:25.130 --> 00:16:30.070
- AT THAT TIME. SO IN THE 60'S, YOU WERE A WARRIOR.
- 00:16:30.090 --> 00:16:34.120
- YOU WERE A GUY THAT WAS STRAPPED UP, YOU HAD
- 00:16:34.140 --> 00:16:39.180
- AMMO CRISS-CROSSED ACROSS YOUR BODY.
- 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.140
- - LITERALLY, M-16, 7.65.
- 00:16:41.160 --> 00:16:43.260
- - YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN BASICALLY COMING HERE AS
- 00:16:43.280 --> 00:16:46.210
- A WARRIOR TRYING TO DECLARE FREEDOM.
- 00:16:46.230 --> 00:16:49.190
- YOU CAME BACK IN THE 70'S TO PROCLAIM A
- 00:16:49.210 --> 00:16:52.220
- DIFFERENT KIND OF FREEDOM.
- 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.170
- - RIGHT.
- 00:16:54.190 --> 00:16:56.050
- - A FREEDOM FOR THE SOUL.
- 00:16:56.070 --> 00:16:57.230
- - AND MAY I CONTRAST RIGHT HERE.
- 00:16:57.250 --> 00:17:00.060
- HERE IS THE WEAPON OF WARFARE FOR THE CARNAL.
- 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.080
- THIS IS A WEAPON OF WARFARE USED IN A CARNAL
- 00:17:03.100 --> 00:17:06.180
- SENSE. MY WEAPON OF WARFARE IS NOT CARNAL,
- 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:10.280
- BUT IT IS MIGHTY THROUGH GOD OF THE
- 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.110
- TEARING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS.
- 00:17:14.130 --> 00:17:16.150
- - DAVE: AS WE WALK BY THE TANKS, I THOUGHT TO
- 00:17:16.170 --> 00:17:18.160
- MYSELF WHEN YOU MADE THE STATEMENT THESE ARE RELICS.
- 00:17:18.180 --> 00:17:21.000
- THE ENGINES ARE MISSING, THEY WON'T FIRE AMMO.
- 00:17:21.020 --> 00:17:22.280
- THEY'RE JUST TO LOOK AT.
- 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.100
- A LOT OF CHRISTIANITY ENDED UP THAT WAY, JUST A
- 00:17:25.120 --> 00:17:27.030
- RELIC. BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, WHEN YOU'VE BLED FOR
- 00:17:27.050 --> 00:17:30.010
- SOMETHING, YOU BELIEVE IN IT.
- 00:17:30.030 --> 00:17:32.130
- WHEN YOU'VE GIVEN UP YOUR FLESH AND BLOOD, YOUR
- 00:17:32.150 --> 00:17:35.010
- SKIN, YOUR HOPES, YOUR FUTURE, EVEN MY IDENTITY
- 00:17:35.030 --> 00:17:38.000
- WAS LOST FOR A CAUSE.
- 00:17:38.020 --> 00:17:40.000
- AND I WANT TO TELL YOU, THIS OLD RELIC HAS STILL
- 00:17:40.020 --> 00:17:42.060
- GOT AN ENGINE IN HIM, IT STILL FIRES WEAPONS WITH
- 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:44.270
- ALMIGHTY GOD BEHIND IT.
- 00:17:44.290 --> 00:17:46.230
- AND I KID YOU NOT, IT IS A VICTORIOUS WALK TO
- 00:17:46.250 --> 00:17:49.000
- STAND HERE TODAY AND SAY I WILL NOT BE DENIED MY
- 00:17:49.020 --> 00:17:52.070
- DESTINY. I WILL NOT BE DENIED IT.
- 00:17:52.090 --> 00:17:56.040
- I'LL STAND ONE DAY AND SEE THAT DREAM FULFILLED
- 00:17:56.060 --> 00:17:58.130
- IN THE SEA OF HUMANITY CARRYING THE HOPE OF CHRIST.
- 00:17:58.150 --> 00:18:01.130
- - SO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'RE REALLY TALKING
- 00:18:01.150 --> 00:18:07.060
- ABOUT, DAVE, IS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE IDEA
- 00:18:07.080 --> 00:18:11.040
- THAT ONE DAY A DREAM IS GONNA BE FULFILLED WHERE
- 00:18:11.060 --> 00:18:13.130
- YOU'RE GONNA STAND INSIDE OF THESE GROUNDS, INSIDE
- 00:18:13.150 --> 00:18:17.260
- OF THIS LOCATION, AND SEE THE GOSPEL PRESENTATION
- 00:18:17.280 --> 00:18:20.270
- SHARED. WELL, DAVE, WE COULD BE DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.
- 00:18:20.290 --> 00:18:24.170
- - DAVE: WE ARE.
- 00:18:24.190 --> 00:18:26.060
- - MATT: WE'RE DOING THAT RIGHT NOW.
- 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:27.270
- - DAVE: WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
- 00:18:27.290 --> 00:18:29.040
- - THE BIBLE SAYS EVEN THE STONES CRY OUT.
- 00:18:29.060 --> 00:18:30.100
- THE LENS OF THAT CAMERA IS MADE FROM A STONE.
- 00:18:30.120 --> 00:18:32.130
- IT'S CRYING OUT RIGHT NOW.
- 00:18:32.150 --> 00:18:34.190
- THIS IS FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY AND HOPE.
- 00:18:34.210 --> 00:18:36.160
- AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:37.220
- IT DOES NOT THREATEN THIS GOVERNMENT.
- 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:39.100
- IT DOES NOT THREATEN THIS PRESENT GOVERNMENT.
- 00:18:39.120 --> 00:18:41.000
- I DON'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO FEEL LIKE
- 00:18:41.020 --> 00:18:42.200
- THERE'S SOME KIND OF SUBVERSIVE EFFORT COMING IN.
- 00:18:42.220 --> 00:18:45.000
- NO. CHRISTIANS PAY THEIR TAXES, CHRISTIANS ARE
- 00:18:45.020 --> 00:18:47.020
- LOYAL, THEY DO NOT HAVE TO FEAR THE HOPE THAT IS
- 00:18:47.040 --> 00:18:50.060
- FOUND IN CHRIST IN THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION.
- 00:18:50.080 --> 00:18:52.250
- WE STAND WITH THESE PEOPLE, WHETHER IT'S
- 00:18:52.270 --> 00:18:55.020
- GOVERNMENT OR NOT, THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO
- 00:18:55.040 --> 00:18:57.190
- HEAR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:18:57.210 --> 00:18:59.050
- MY SACRIFICE, AS PUNY AS IT IS COMPARED TO THOSE
- 00:18:59.070 --> 00:19:02.100
- WHO GAVE EVERYTHING, FOR EVERY FINGER THAT WON'T
- 00:19:02.120 --> 00:19:05.150
- WORK, FOR EARS THAT ARE MISSING, FOR EYES THAT
- 00:19:05.170 --> 00:19:07.220
- DON'T FUNCTION, FOR ARTIFICIAL HAIR, FOR A
- 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.170
- BODY LITERALLY WRACKED FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY
- 00:19:10.190 --> 00:19:13.130
- FEET TOP OF MY HEAD WITH METAL, EVERY DROP OF
- 00:19:13.150 --> 00:19:17.020
- BLOOD HAS BEEN WORTH IT.
- 00:19:17.040 --> 00:19:20.270
- [MUSIC]
- 00:19:20.290 --> 00:19:28.290
- IT WAS JULY 1969 ON THIS RIVER
- 00:19:29.010 --> 00:19:32.240
- ON THE BORDER WITH CAMBODIA.
- 00:19:32.260 --> 00:19:35.040
- IT WAS A NORMAL DAY IN THAT, IF THERE'S EVER A
- 00:19:35.060 --> 00:19:38.220
- NORMAL DAY IN WAR, WE WERE HERE DOING LICENSE
- 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:42.250
- CHECK, PERMIT CHECKS.
- 00:19:42.270 --> 00:19:44.270
- THREE DAYS EARLIER WE HAD A FIRE FIGHT HERE.
- 00:19:44.290 --> 00:19:47.180
- I BEACHED THE BOAT ON THE BANK OF THIS RIVER
- 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.020
- RIGHT BEHIND ME. RIGHT HERE.
- 00:19:49.040 --> 00:19:50.280
- AND I WAS GONNA DO A BODY COUNT.
- 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.170
- WE WERE LOOKING FOR ANY EVIDENCE.
- 00:19:53.190 --> 00:19:55.140
- I REACHED DOWN, I FELT SOMETHING WRONG MATT.
- 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:57.140
- SOMETHING WAS BAD WRONG.
- 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:00.010
- I WAS PICKING UP ON IT, I DON'T KNOW IF I HEARD IT,
- 00:20:00.030 --> 00:20:02.110
- SMELLED IT, FELT IT SOMEWAY, I GRABBED A
- 00:20:02.130 --> 00:20:05.090
- WHITE PHOSPHORUS HAND GRENADE AND PULLED THE PIN.
- 00:20:05.110 --> 00:20:08.090
- I DREW BACK TO THROW, I WAS ONE SECOND FROM DELIVERY.
- 00:20:08.110 --> 00:20:11.130
- I DIDN'T KNOW WHY THEN, I FOUND OUT LATER, THE
- 00:20:11.150 --> 00:20:14.230
- GRENADE EXPLODED, ME THINKING IT WAS A ROCKET
- 00:20:14.250 --> 00:20:17.060
- THAT GOT THE WHOLE BOAT. IT WASN'T.
- 00:20:17.080 --> 00:20:19.210
- IT WAS A BULLET WENT THROUGH MY HAND, HIT THE
- 00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:21.130
- GRENADE AND EXPLODED RIGHT HERE.
- 00:20:21.150 --> 00:20:23.160
- HALF MY SKIN CAME OFF.
- 00:20:23.180 --> 00:20:25.020
- I JUMPED INTO THE RIVER RIGHT HERE.
- 00:20:25.040 --> 00:20:27.080
- I GOT IN THE WATER.
- 00:20:27.100 --> 00:20:29.010
- I SWAM TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER.
- 00:20:29.030 --> 00:20:31.200
- UNCANNY STRENGTH, UNBELIEVABLE STRENGTH.
- 00:20:31.220 --> 00:20:34.190
- I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SWIM.
- 00:20:34.210 --> 00:20:36.160
- MY FINGERS WERE DANGLING, ON THE RIVER ON MY KNEES.
- 00:20:36.180 --> 00:20:39.060
- I HEAR A HELICOPTER COMING IN.
- 00:20:39.080 --> 00:20:41.000
- I FOLLOW OVER BACKWARDS.
- 00:20:41.020 --> 00:20:43.050
- THAT MOMENT, THEY ALL THOUGHT I DIED.
- 00:20:43.070 --> 00:20:45.150
- THE HELICOPTER TEAM RAN OVER THROUGH DOWN A
- 00:20:45.170 --> 00:20:47.110
- STRETCHER AND ROLLED ME ON THE STRETCHER, PICKED
- 00:20:47.130 --> 00:20:49.180
- ME UP. I WAS STILL BURNING.
- 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:51.070
- THE STRETCHER CAUGHT FIRE.
- 00:20:51.090 --> 00:20:52.190
- THEY'RE RUNNING, I FELL THROUGH AND JUST DID A
- 00:20:52.210 --> 00:20:54.240
- FORWARD FLIP OUT OF THAT STRETCHER.
- 00:20:54.260 --> 00:20:57.140
- THEY ROLLED ME UP IN WET BLANKETS DIPPED IN THIS
- 00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:59.290
- WATER. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE DISEASE AND GERMS?
- 00:21:00.030 --> 00:21:04.180
- THEY ROLLED ME UP IN THAT BLANKET.
- 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:06.100
- GOT ME ON ANOTHER STRETCHER IN THE HELICOPTER.
- 00:21:06.120 --> 00:21:08.230
- IT LEFT FROM SOME AREA OVER HERE.
- 00:21:08.250 --> 00:21:11.020
- FLEW ME, MADE ONE STOP ON THE WAY TO A MASH UNIT,
- 00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:14.210
- AND THEY DID EMERGENCY SURGERY THERE DIGGING OUT
- 00:21:14.230 --> 00:21:17.150
- THE PHOSPHOROUS TRYING TO STOP THE FIRE BUT STILL
- 00:21:17.170 --> 00:21:19.140
- BURNING. WATER WON'T EXTINGUISH IT.
- 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.140
- THEN THEY FLEW ME BY THE HELICOPTER ON TO SAIGON,
- 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:25.110
- PREPARED ME FOR A LONG RIDE.
- 00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:28.280
- IT WAS IN A C-141 WHICH IS A CARGO JET MADE INTO
- 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:36.050
- A HOSPITAL PLANE. AND THEY FLEW ME TO JAPAN.
- 00:21:36.070 --> 00:21:40.000
- IN JAPAN, I WAS THERE I THINK THREE OR FOUR DAYS,
- 00:21:40.020 --> 00:21:43.110
- AND THE FIRST DAY THERE I ASKED FOR A MIRROR.
- 00:21:43.130 --> 00:21:45.150
- WISHED I HADN'T. WISHED THEY HADN'T BROUGHT IT BECAUSE
- 00:21:45.170 --> 00:21:48.230
- WHEN I LOOKED UP, I LOST MY HOPE AND I TRIED TO
- 00:21:48.250 --> 00:21:51.290
- TAKE MY LIFE. I DIDN'T HAVE A GUN OR KNIFE,
- 00:21:52.010 --> 00:21:54.030
- BUT I PULLED THE TUBE OUT.
- 00:21:54.050 --> 00:21:55.280
- IT'S REALLY A FUNNY THING OUT OF TRAGEDY, BUT I
- 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:58.260
- PULLED LUNCH AND I GOT HUNGRY. I DIDN'T DIE.
- 00:21:58.280 --> 00:22:01.140
- AND I'M GLAD I PULLED THE WRONG TUBE.
- 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:03.010
- IT GOT ME ON ANOTHER PLANE TO AMERICA.
- 00:22:03.030 --> 00:22:05.070
- THERE WAS A LONG FLIGHT. IT WAS A--
- 00:22:05.090 --> 00:22:10.150
- EVERYBODY ON THERE WAS NOT GONNA MAKE IT.
- 00:22:10.170 --> 00:22:12.130
- WE WERE ALL SUPPOSED TO DIE, BUT THEY HAD TO GET
- 00:22:12.150 --> 00:22:14.050
- US OUT OF JAPAN AND GET ON HOME IF WE COULD.
- 00:22:14.070 --> 00:22:17.050
- I THINK EVERYBODY LIVED.
- 00:22:17.070 --> 00:22:18.240
- I GOT TO KELLY AIR FORCE BASE IN SAN ANTONIO,
- 00:22:18.260 --> 00:22:21.220
- TEXAS, AND THEY SENT OVER A HELICOPTER,
- 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:23.240
- PICKED ME UP THERE.
- 00:22:23.260 --> 00:22:25.080
- FLEW ME OVER TO BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER.
- 00:22:25.100 --> 00:22:27.260
- AND THEY PUT ME IN THE HOSPITAL AT BROOKE INTO A
- 00:22:27.280 --> 00:22:30.210
- WARD THEY CALLED IT THE I.C.U., WHICH I DIDN'T
- 00:22:30.230 --> 00:22:33.090
- KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT UNTIL THEY GAVE ME MY
- 00:22:33.110 --> 00:22:34.210
- GOWN, WHICH IT WAS FUNNY, IT DIDN'T COME TOGETHER
- 00:22:34.230 --> 00:22:37.120
- IN THE BACK, IT WAS THE I.C.U. (I SEE YOU).
- 00:22:37.140 --> 00:22:39.260
- THEY SAW ME ALL RIGHT.
- 00:22:39.280 --> 00:22:41.110
- BUT I LEARNED TO WALK AGAIN AFTER ABOUT FOUR
- 00:22:41.130 --> 00:22:43.100
- MONTHS, AND AFTER ONE YEAR AND TWO MONTHS IN
- 00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:47.010
- THE HOSPITAL, I WALKED OUT SUITCASE IN ONE HAND
- 00:22:47.030 --> 00:22:50.070
- AND SWEETHEART IN THE OTHER.
- 00:22:50.090 --> 00:22:51.250
- AND I BEGAN THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE THAT WOULD TAKE
- 00:22:51.270 --> 00:22:55.210
- ITS LONGEST AND MOST WONDERFUL LEAP FORWARD
- 00:22:55.230 --> 00:22:58.280
- THAT BROUGHT ME TO THIS MOMENT ON THIS BOAT WHEN
- 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:02.100
- I WAS INTRODUCED TO PAUL AND JAN CROUCH AT TRINITY
- 00:23:02.120 --> 00:23:06.260
- BROADCASTING NETWORK IN CALIFORNIA.
- 00:23:06.280 --> 00:23:10.000
- AND I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE TBN,
- 00:23:10.020 --> 00:23:13.020
- I LOVE YOUR MOM AND DAD. I MISS THEM SO BAD.
- 00:23:13.040 --> 00:23:15.270
- ALL THE YEARS TOGETHER, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY
- 00:23:15.290 --> 00:23:17.160
- HUNDRED TIMES WE WERE TOGETHER.
- 00:23:17.180 --> 00:23:19.150
- BUT TODAY IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY
- 00:23:19.170 --> 00:23:21.150
- I'VE EVER BEEN ON TBN.
- 00:23:21.170 --> 00:23:23.080
- - BECAUSE IT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE.
- 00:23:23.100 --> 00:23:25.080
- WE'VE TRAVELED UP THE VAM CO TAY RIVER, AFTER
- 00:23:25.100 --> 00:23:30.080
- A LONG BUS RIDE, LITTLE BIT OF A WALK, GOT ONTO
- 00:23:30.100 --> 00:23:33.240
- THIS BOAT AND TRAVELED TO THE EXACT SPOT
- 00:23:33.260 --> 00:23:39.080
- THAT YOUR LIFE CHANGED.
- 00:23:39.100 --> 00:23:42.260
- DAVE, I JUST, I THINK OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE
- 00:23:42.280 --> 00:23:46.060
- GONNA CHANGE BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY.
- 00:23:46.080 --> 00:23:48.040
- WE'RE UNPACKING THE DAVE ROEVER STORY
- 00:23:48.060 --> 00:23:48.080
- RIGHT WHERE IT HAPPENED.
- 00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:53.150
- [MUSIC]
- 00:23:53.170 --> 00:24:03.070
- - SO LET'S TALK ABOUT IF YOUR LIFE WAS DEFINED ON
- 00:24:03.090 --> 00:24:11.210
- THE BATTLEFIELD, AND CERTAINLY IT WAS, A
- 00:24:11.230 --> 00:24:14.020
- PORTION OF IT, IF IT SHAPED YOU INTO SOMETHING
- 00:24:14.040 --> 00:24:19.250
- AND IF YOU TOOK THOSE SCARS AND TURNED THEM
- 00:24:19.270 --> 00:24:24.250
- INTO YOUR TESTIMONY THAT UNDOUBTEDLY YOU'VE
- 00:24:24.270 --> 00:24:28.260
- PREACHED BEFORE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THROUGH WAY OF
- 00:24:28.280 --> 00:24:32.090
- TELEVISION, AND CRUSADES, AND THE DECADE THAT YOU
- 00:24:32.110 --> 00:24:35.120
- WERE WORKING INSIDE THE BILLY GRAHAM
- 00:24:35.140 --> 00:24:39.070
- ORGANIZATION, AND, AND, AND, AND.
- 00:24:39.090 --> 00:24:42.220
- THEN LET'S REDEFINE IT ONE LAST TIME.
- 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:47.150
- WHAT'S YOUR LEGACY? WHAT DO YOU WANT PEOPLE--
- 00:24:47.170 --> 00:24:52.270
- - THE KINGDOM OF GOD SUFFERS VIOLENCE
- 00:24:52.290 --> 00:24:57.180
- BUT THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE.
- 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:01.090
- THEY REDEFINITION, RESIGNING THE PHYSICAL
- 00:25:01.110 --> 00:25:05.270
- TISSUE OF MY BODY IS REALLY A GOOD EXAMPLE OF
- 00:25:05.290 --> 00:25:10.010
- THE PRICE THAT'S PAID AND SACRIFICE FOR WHAT YOU
- 00:25:10.030 --> 00:25:13.180
- BELIEVE IN. YET ON THE INSIDE, AND THERE'S ONLY
- 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:18.190
- TWO PLACES TO HAVE SCARS, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE.
- 00:25:18.210 --> 00:25:21.060
- THE INSIDE, I DON'T HAVE THOSE SCARS.
- 00:25:21.080 --> 00:25:25.080
- I'M DEFINED IN THE EYES OF MANY PEOPLE BY WHAT
- 00:25:25.100 --> 00:25:27.270
- THEY SEE OF THE PHYSICAL MAN, BUT I AM FIRST AND
- 00:25:27.290 --> 00:25:32.060
- FOREMOST A SPIRITUAL MAN. IT'S NOT BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT;
- 00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:34.200
- IT'S SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY.
- 00:25:34.220 --> 00:25:37.020
- - WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO OUR GENERATION?
- 00:25:37.040 --> 00:25:40.290
- WHAT DO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE ACCOMPLISH?
- 00:25:41.010 --> 00:25:45.110
- HOW DO YOU ENSURE THE DYNAMICS OF CHRIST'S
- 00:25:45.130 --> 00:25:55.140
- DEATH, RESURRECTION, YOU KNOW, STAYS WITH OUR
- 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:58.220
- GENERATION AND THAT YOU ARE DUPLICATED, YOUR
- 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:02.190
- EVANGELISTIC CAUSE, WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE
- 00:26:02.210 --> 00:26:04.080
- TO OUR GENERATION?
- 00:26:04.100 --> 00:26:06.250
- - MATT CROUCH, THERE'S ONLY ONE OF YOU.
- 00:26:06.270 --> 00:26:10.050
- WE NEED A THOUSAND MORE.
- 00:26:10.070 --> 00:26:12.060
- WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT ARE NOT AFRAID,
- 00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:15.120
- THAT STEP IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD.
- 00:26:15.140 --> 00:26:17.280
- YOU CLAIM THE GROUND. YOU POSSESS THE LAND.
- 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.090
- AND I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO
- 00:26:21.110 --> 00:26:23.100
- ME THAT YOU AND TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK
- 00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:26.110
- WOULD STEP UP TO THE CALL AT SUCH A TIME AS THIS,
- 00:26:26.130 --> 00:26:31.100
- FOR SUCH A COUNTRY AS THIS, ONE OF THE GREATEST
- 00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:32.260
- NATIONS ON EARTH. LITTLE OLD VIETNAM.
- 00:26:32.280 --> 00:26:35.080
- EVERYBODY KIND OF LOOKS DOWN ON IT.
- 00:26:35.100 --> 00:26:37.050
- I'M GONNA TELL YOU SOMETHING, THEY BETTER WATCH IT.
- 00:26:37.070 --> 00:26:39.160
- I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MILITARY MIGHT.
- 00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:41.150
- I'M TALKING ABOUT THE POTENTIAL AND THE
- 00:26:41.170 --> 00:26:42.270
- GREATEST MOST AMAZING PEOPLE ON EARTH,
- 00:26:42.290 --> 00:26:45.060
- THE VIETNAMESE. I LOVE THEM. GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
- 00:26:45.080 --> 00:26:50.170
- - OKAY. YOU'RE GETTING TO AN AGE WITH
- 00:26:50.190 --> 00:26:57.100
- ALL OF YOUR GRAY HAIR.
- 00:26:57.120 --> 00:27:00.100
- - WELL, SOMEBODY ELSE'S GRAY HAIR.
- 00:27:00.120 --> 00:27:02.140
- HE'S FROM CHINA.
- 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:03.220
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:06.290
- - WITH ALL OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL GREAT HAIR,
- 00:27:07.010 --> 00:27:11.030
- WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF YOUR LIFE?
- 00:27:11.050 --> 00:27:16.090
- YOU TOLD ME OFF CAMERA, I'M GONNA SEE IF YOU'LL
- 00:27:16.110 --> 00:27:19.020
- SAY IT ON CAMERA, THAT YOU'VE NEVER REALLY WOKEN
- 00:27:19.040 --> 00:27:22.100
- UP A DAY IN YOUR LIFE SINCE YOUR ACCIDENT
- 00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:25.040
- FREE OF PAIN.
- 00:27:25.060 --> 00:27:27.280
- YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING I'VE DONE ON THIS TRIP
- 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:32.070
- WITH A SOMEWHAT BROKEN BODY, A SCARRED BODY.
- 00:27:32.090 --> 00:27:38.290
- YOUR, I CAN TELL NOW THAT WHILE WE'RE STANDING HERE
- 00:27:39.010 --> 00:27:44.030
- IN VIETNAM ON THE PALACE GROUNDS BY THE WAY DOING
- 00:27:44.050 --> 00:27:47.150
- THIS SEGMENT, WHICH IS AMAZING BY THE WAY,
- 00:27:47.170 --> 00:27:51.020
- THAT YOU'RE IN PAIN.
- 00:27:51.040 --> 00:27:52.210
- BUT WHAT IS YOUR MEMORY OF YOUR LIFE, YOUR
- 00:27:52.230 --> 00:27:59.290
- EVANGELISTIC CALL, YOUR EVANGELISTIC TIME?
- 00:28:00.030 --> 00:28:04.000
- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE
- 00:28:04.020 --> 00:28:07.120
- DATE, THE LIFE OF DAVE ROEVER?
- 00:28:07.140 --> 00:28:10.030
- - HE CAME, HE SAW, HE CONQUERED. IT'S THAT SIMPLE.
- 00:28:10.050 --> 00:28:13.040
- IT'S NOT ORIGINAL BUT IT IS WITH ME.
- 00:28:13.060 --> 00:28:15.130
- HE CAME, HE SAW, AND HE CONQUERED.
- 00:28:15.150 --> 00:28:19.190
- YET I CAN DO NOTHING IN MYSELF BUT I CAN DO ALL
- 00:28:19.210 --> 00:28:21.200
- THINGS THROUGH CHRIST.
- 00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:23.150
- OUT OF THIS TRAGEDY CAME THE TRIUMPH THAT'S NOW
- 00:28:23.170 --> 00:28:27.140
- ASCENDING THE MESSAGE THROUGH OUR OWN
- 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:29.170
- MINISTRY, NOT TO MENTION THE POWERHOUSE OF TBN.
- 00:28:29.190 --> 00:28:32.200
- JUST THROUGH OUR MINISTRY WE'RE REACHING 29
- 00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:35.210
- NATIONS, I THINK IN 11 LANGUAGES NOW BECAUSE
- 00:28:35.230 --> 00:28:39.120
- SOMETHING HAPPENED HERE ON THE BANK OF A RIVER IN
- 00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:41.110
- 1969 THAT TODAY, IN THE YEAR 2018 STILL
- 00:28:41.130 --> 00:28:46.000
- REAPING THE BENEFITS.
- 00:28:46.020 --> 00:28:47.150
- THE DEVIL CHOSE THE WRONG GUY TO FIGHT THAT DAY.
- 00:28:47.170 --> 00:28:49.260
- - IF DNA WAS SEED, YOU'VE PLANTED A LOT OF
- 00:28:49.280 --> 00:28:57.230
- SEED INTO THE GROUND PHYSICALLY INTO THIS COUNTRY.
- 00:28:57.250 --> 00:29:01.280
- YOUR BODY WAS PARTLY BLOWN OFF AND SCATTERED
- 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:06.110
- INTO THIS RIVER, AND YOUR LIFE IS REALLY PLANTED
- 00:29:06.130 --> 00:29:16.270
- INTO THE SOIL OF VIETNAM WHERE WE'RE TALKING
- 00:29:16.290 --> 00:29:19.040
- TO YOU FROM TODAY.
- 00:29:19.060 --> 00:29:20.090
- - YEAH.
- 00:29:20.110 --> 00:29:21.140
- - WHAT DO YOU WANT THAT HARVEST TO BE?
- 00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:24.110
- - I WANT IT TO BRING FORTH THE IMAGE OF CHRIST
- 00:29:24.130 --> 00:29:28.150
- AND OF EVER NEWBORN BABY. IF I CAN PUT IT THAT WAY.
- 00:29:28.170 --> 00:29:32.040
- THERE HAS TO BE-- YOU CAN'T ASK FOR GOD TO
- 00:29:32.060 --> 00:29:36.120
- SEND REVIVAL TO VIETNAM.
- 00:29:36.140 --> 00:29:38.010
- THERE'S NEVER BEEN A "VIVE" TO REVIVE.
- 00:29:38.030 --> 00:29:40.160
- IT REQUIRES A NEW BIRTH.
- 00:29:40.180 --> 00:29:44.000
- IT REQUIRES AN AWAKENING, AND THAT AWAKENING HAS
- 00:29:44.020 --> 00:29:48.140
- STARTED. MY HOPE FOR THIS WHOLE COUNTRY IS THAT
- 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:53.050
- THE ALARM WILL SET OFF AN AWAKENING, AND IT WILL
- 00:29:53.070 --> 00:29:56.160
- BRING THEM UP FROM VIRTUAL GRAVE OF
- 00:29:56.180 --> 00:29:58.070
- HOPELESSNESS INTO THE GLORY OF THE LIGHT OF THE
- 00:29:58.090 --> 00:30:01.240
- GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:30:01.260 --> 00:30:04.250
- - HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED?
- 00:30:04.270 --> 00:30:08.160
- - I USED TO THINK I'D BE FAT, UGLY AND STUPID, BUT
- 00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:10.210
- MY WIFE TOLD ME I WASN'T STUPID, SO THAT LEAVES
- 00:30:10.230 --> 00:30:13.040
- FAT AND UGLY, I GUESS.
- 00:30:13.060 --> 00:30:15.200
- I GUESS IF I'M GONNA BE REMEMBERED, THIS IS
- 00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:18.290
- REALLY WHAT I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR.
- 00:30:19.010 --> 00:30:20.280
- I'LL GET TO IT.
- 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:22.260
- I LOVE THE WAY YOU HOLD YOUR COMPOSURE.
- 00:30:22.280 --> 00:30:24.250
- I REALLY WANT TO BE REMEMBERED THAT HE NEVER
- 00:30:24.280 --> 00:30:28.080
- EVER GAVE UP. HE NEVER QUIT.
- 00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:31.270
- FIFTY-NINE SURGERIES AGO, I WAS A HEALTHY MAN, AND
- 00:30:31.290 --> 00:30:37.010
- IN ONE SECOND MY LIFE WAS VIRTUALLY DESTROYED
- 00:30:37.030 --> 00:30:40.060
- PHYSICALLY, AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN
- 00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:42.060
- THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
- 00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:44.180
- - WOW.
- 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:47.150
- [MUSIC]
- 00:30:47.170 --> 00:30:57.080
- [MUSIC]
- 00:30:57.080 --> 00:31:04.280
- - THINK OF THE UNIQUENESS OF BEING IN
- 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.200
- VIETNAM DOCKED AGAINST THE BANK THAT
- 00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:14.230
- CHANGED YOUR LIFE.
- 00:31:14.250 --> 00:31:18.010
- SET THE STAGE AND TELL US KIND OF WHERE WE ARE AND
- 00:31:18.030 --> 00:31:23.170
- WHY THIS AREA WAS THE DIFFERENCE IN DAVE ROEVER
- 00:31:23.190 --> 00:31:29.280
- BEFORE THIS BANK AND AFTER THIS BANK.
- 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.130
- - WE HAD TO CONTROL THESE RIVERS, AND MY JOB
- 00:31:32.150 --> 00:31:36.140
- WAS TO CARRY SEAL TEAM ONE WHO WAS, THEY HELPED
- 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:39.260
- TRAIN ME AND I WAS INJURED HERE IN VIETNAM
- 00:31:39.280 --> 00:31:43.020
- WORKING WITH THE NAVY SEALS.
- 00:31:43.040 --> 00:31:45.100
- BUT I WAS A GROUND WATER BLACK BERET.
- 00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:47.210
- WE WERE A SMALL GROUP, MUCH SMALLER THAN THE
- 00:31:47.230 --> 00:31:49.140
- SEAL TEAM. VERY SMALL GROUP.
- 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:51.190
- AND HAD A VERY HIGH K.I.A., KILLED IN ACTION.
- 00:31:51.210 --> 00:31:56.030
- AND BECAUSE THIS RIVER IS SO STRATEGICALLY
- 00:31:56.050 --> 00:31:58.090
- IMPORTANT TO THE CAUSE OF THE WAR AT THAT TIME, IT
- 00:31:58.110 --> 00:32:00.200
- WAS OUR JOB TO INTERDICT ANY TRANSPORTATION OF
- 00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:03.280
- ARMS, AMMUNITION OR PERSONNEL BY THE
- 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.230
- ENEMY ON THIS WATERWAY.
- 00:32:05.250 --> 00:32:08.040
- AND THIS PLACE HAS A LITTLE CANAL RUNS UP IN
- 00:32:08.060 --> 00:32:11.180
- HERE, I DON'T REMEMBER HOW FAR BACK IT GOES NOW,
- 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.140
- BUT RIGHT ON THIS CORNER ON JULY THE 23, 1969 THEY
- 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.240
- OPENED FIRE IN THE WORSE FIRE FIGHT I'D BEEN IN.
- 00:32:19.260 --> 00:32:22.080
- THEY WERE COMING AT US FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE
- 00:32:22.100 --> 00:32:23.290
- RIVER, AND I GOT HIT IN A SMALL WAY.
- 00:32:24.010 --> 00:32:26.170
- AND IT WAS NOT AN INJURY THAT WOULD DEBILITATE ME,
- 00:32:26.190 --> 00:32:30.060
- BUT IT TOOK ME OFF THE RIVER FOR THREE DAYS.
- 00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:32.180
- SO ON THE 23 MY FIRST INJURY FOR WHICH I
- 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:36.020
- RECEIVED A PURPLE HEART, BY THE WAY.
- 00:32:36.040 --> 00:32:37.170
- I WOULD COME BACK TO WHERE WE'RE SITTING RIGHT
- 00:32:37.190 --> 00:32:39.040
- NOW, ONLY WE WOULD BE BEACHED UP AGAINST THE
- 00:32:39.060 --> 00:32:41.280
- RIVER BANK THERE IN THAT FIBERGLASS RIVER BOAT,
- 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.240
- AND WHEN WE BEACHED THAT BOAT, I KNEW SOMETHING
- 00:32:45.260 --> 00:32:48.160
- WAS WRONG. I WAS SITTING IN THE GUN TUB OF THAT BOAT.
- 00:32:48.180 --> 00:32:52.240
- I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
- 00:32:52.260 --> 00:32:54.080
- I COULDN'T SEE THEM, HEAR THEM, SMELL THEM, BUT
- 00:32:54.100 --> 00:32:56.240
- AFTER ENOUGH MONTHS IN COMBAT, YOU DEVELOP A SIXTH
- 00:32:56.260 --> 00:33:00.090
- SENSE. I CAN'T DESCRIBE IT BUT EVERYBODY
- 00:33:00.110 --> 00:33:03.040
- THAT'S BEEN THERE KNOWS IT.
- 00:33:03.060 --> 00:33:05.240
- I REACHED DOWN BY MY RIGHT FOOT, AND IN THIS
- 00:33:05.260 --> 00:33:09.000
- GUN TUB I WAS STANDING IN THERE WAS A TRAY FILLED
- 00:33:09.020 --> 00:33:11.210
- WITH WHITE PHOSPHORUS HAND GRENADES.
- 00:33:11.230 --> 00:33:13.180
- THEY'RE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A COCA COLA CAN.
- 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.140
- AND IT'S REAL SMOOTH.
- 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:19.040
- IT'S NOT LIKE THE PINEAPPLE SHAPE YOU SEE.
- 00:33:19.060 --> 00:33:21.080
- IT'S EASY TO IDENTIFY THEM BECAUSE OF THE FEEL.
- 00:33:21.100 --> 00:33:23.250
- I DIDN'T EVEN LOOK DOWN, I DIDN'T TAKE MY EYES
- 00:33:23.270 --> 00:33:25.190
- OFF THIS, I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG.
- 00:33:25.210 --> 00:33:27.290
- I PICKED UP THE GRENADE AND I PULLED THE PIN
- 00:33:28.010 --> 00:33:30.170
- AND I DREW BACK. THE REASON I WAS GONNA THROW IT
- 00:33:30.190 --> 00:33:31.280
- WAS YOU SEE ALL THIS DENSITY OF BRUSH?
- 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:35.060
- IT BURNED DOWN THAT HIGH BRUSH.
- 00:33:35.080 --> 00:33:37.050
- IT WAS JUST EXACTLY LIKE THIS.
- 00:33:37.070 --> 00:33:38.230
- THERE'S NO WAY TO DESCRIBE IT BETTER THAN
- 00:33:38.250 --> 00:33:40.070
- WHAT'S BEHIND ME, WHAT'S TO MY RIGHT HERE.
- 00:33:40.090 --> 00:33:42.140
- THEY COULD BE LAYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT AND
- 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.170
- YOU COULDN'T SEE THEM FOR YOUR LIFE,
- 00:33:44.190 --> 00:33:46.090
- AND I HAD TO SEE THEM.
- 00:33:46.110 --> 00:33:48.020
- AND I DREW THAT GRENADE BACK RIGHT BESIDE MY
- 00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:51.220
- HEAD, AND A SNIPER SOMEWHERE, I DON'T KNOW
- 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.180
- WHERE, HE MAY HAVE BEEN ACROSS THE RIVER,
- 00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.000
- AND HE OPENED FIRE.
- 00:33:58.020 --> 00:34:01.200
- THE BULLET GOT THERE BEFORE THE SOUND DID.
- 00:34:01.220 --> 00:34:04.030
- SO NOBODY COULD IDENTIFY IT.
- 00:34:04.050 --> 00:34:06.030
- CONFUSION OF THAT EXPLOSION, NOBODY'S
- 00:34:06.050 --> 00:34:09.010
- LOOKING TO SEE WHERE-- NO ONE KNEW IT WAS EVEN A
- 00:34:09.030 --> 00:34:12.090
- SNIPER TO START WITH.
- 00:34:12.110 --> 00:34:14.080
- I WENT TWO MONTHS IN THE HOSPITAL BEFORE
- 00:34:14.100 --> 00:34:16.190
- I FOUND OUT THAT I WAS HIT BY A SNIPER.
- 00:34:16.210 --> 00:34:19.000
- TWO MONTHS BEFORE I WAS EVER TOLD WHAT
- 00:34:19.020 --> 00:34:21.040
- ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME.
- 00:34:21.060 --> 00:34:23.090
- AND WHEN I DREW BACK TO THROW, ALL OF A SUDDEN
- 00:34:23.110 --> 00:34:26.120
- MY WHOLE WORLD CHANGED. RIGHT THERE.
- 00:34:26.140 --> 00:34:29.210
- MAGNIFICENT EXPLOSION OF WHITE, LOOKED LIKE WHITE
- 00:34:29.230 --> 00:34:33.230
- SMOKE CAME OUT. 5.000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
- 00:34:33.250 --> 00:34:37.110
- THAT'S ENOUGH TO MELT THE ENGINE OUT OF YOUR CAR,
- 00:34:37.130 --> 00:34:39.230
- TWICE THE HEAT NECESSARY.
- 00:34:39.250 --> 00:34:41.180
- IT WAS RIGHT HERE MATT. RIGHT THERE.
- 00:34:41.200 --> 00:34:45.180
- AND WHEN IT BLEW, WELL MY FINGERS CAME OFF
- 00:34:45.200 --> 00:34:49.010
- EXCEPT FOR THAT FINGER.
- 00:34:49.030 --> 00:34:50.140
- I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE, GOD, THAT'S MY PREACHING FINGER.
- 00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:52.280
- BUT THESE FINGERS AND THUMB WERE INSTANTLY,
- 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.060
- THE THUMB CAME OFF WITH THE BULLET, I'M SURE.
- 00:34:55.080 --> 00:34:58.210
- IT WAS HANGING BY A TENDON.
- 00:34:58.230 --> 00:35:00.050
- THESE FINGERS HANGING BY TENDONS.
- 00:35:00.070 --> 00:35:01.180
- BUT THE GRENADE EXPLOSION CAUSED BLOOD, SEVERED THE
- 00:35:01.200 --> 00:35:04.030
- ARTERY IN MY WRIST DOWN HERE, DEEP INSIDE.
- 00:35:04.050 --> 00:35:07.100
- AND I WAS SHOOTING OUT BLOOD.
- 00:35:07.120 --> 00:35:10.080
- MY DNA IS ON THIS RIVER BANK, MATT.
- 00:35:10.100 --> 00:35:12.160
- MY SKIN IS UP HERE SOMEWHERE.
- 00:35:12.180 --> 00:35:13.250
- I TELL PEOPLE MY EAR IS THERE TOO, I CAME BACK
- 00:35:13.270 --> 00:35:15.110
- LOOKING FOR IT. BUT IT'S RIGHT HERE.
- 00:35:15.130 --> 00:35:18.180
- IT'S AMAZING I FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE TO TALK ABOUT IT.
- 00:35:18.200 --> 00:35:23.100
- I DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT, IT'S NOT SO FRIGHTENING
- 00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:26.190
- OR, I COULDN'T EVEN FAKE BEING CONCERNED.
- 00:35:26.210 --> 00:35:31.030
- I'M HAVING TOO MUCH FUN WITH YOU GUYS.
- 00:35:31.050 --> 00:35:33.000
- [MUSIC]
- 00:35:33.020 --> 00:35:36.150
- - OUR STORY CONTINUES.
- 00:35:36.170 --> 00:35:38.020
- WE'RE HERE IN HO CHI MINH CITY IN VIETNAM, AND
- 00:35:38.040 --> 00:35:42.000
- WE'RE IN FRONT OF WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE OPERA HOUSE.
- 00:35:42.020 --> 00:35:46.270
- AND IN THE EARLY 90'S, WHAT HAPPENED HERE DAVE
- 00:35:46.290 --> 00:35:50.150
- THAT REALLY KIND OF HELPED KIND OF DEFINE
- 00:35:50.170 --> 00:35:55.260
- YOUR IMPORTANCE OF YOUR SECOND PHASE
- 00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:58.170
- OF YOUR LIFE'S WORK?
- 00:35:58.190 --> 00:36:01.110
- - ON THESE VERY STEPS WAS THE BEGINNING
- 00:36:01.130 --> 00:36:04.100
- OF A NEW ERA FOR US IN VIETNAM.
- 00:36:04.120 --> 00:36:08.080
- I HAVE AN NGO, AND WE WERE SCHOLARSHIPPING
- 00:36:08.100 --> 00:36:11.280
- THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN, STILL DO TO SOME DEGREE,
- 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.000
- THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN FROM THE SIXTH GRADE
- 00:36:15.020 --> 00:36:16.230
- THROUGH GRADUATION.
- 00:36:16.250 --> 00:36:18.160
- IT SO IMPRESSED THE GOVERNMENT, THEY BECAME
- 00:36:18.180 --> 00:36:20.060
- MY FRIEND. I'VE SPOKEN TO ALMOST EVERY
- 00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:21.210
- PUBLIC SCHOOL IN SAIGON. PEOPLE FIND THAT IMPOSSIBLE
- 00:36:21.230 --> 00:36:24.130
- TO BELIEVE BUT I'VE DONE IT.
- 00:36:24.150 --> 00:36:26.100
- AND THEY MADE IN THIS VERY BUILDING ONE OF THE
- 00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:29.270
- LARGEST UNBELIEVABLE CELEBRATIONS I'VE SEEN IN
- 00:36:29.290 --> 00:36:33.250
- MY LIFETIME, HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL VIETNAM
- 00:36:33.270 --> 00:36:37.130
- CHILDREN PUTTING ON THE BIGGEST DANCE SHOW, THE
- 00:36:37.150 --> 00:36:40.040
- BIGGEST PROPAGANDA YOU'D ALMOST THINK, EXCEPT
- 00:36:40.060 --> 00:36:42.080
- WHILE PEPSI COLA WAS HERE, FORD MOTOR COMPANY
- 00:36:42.100 --> 00:36:47.130
- WAS HERE, ALL THESE NGO'S THAT WERE HERE, NIKE, THE
- 00:36:47.150 --> 00:36:51.220
- MINISTRY OF DAVE ROEVER HAD THE LARGEST SUPPORT
- 00:36:51.240 --> 00:36:56.030
- FOR THE CHILDREN OF VIETNAM OF ANY OF THOSE
- 00:36:56.050 --> 00:36:58.230
- GIGANTIC COMPANIES.
- 00:36:58.250 --> 00:37:00.210
- AND THIS BUILDING WAS FILLED WITH THE POLITICAL
- 00:37:00.230 --> 00:37:03.290
- FIGURES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, AND WE CELEBRATED.
- 00:37:04.010 --> 00:37:07.160
- I MEAN IT WAS FILLED, COMPLETELY FILLED.
- 00:37:07.180 --> 00:37:12.070
- AND ACROSS THE FRONT HERE, AND WE HAVE
- 00:37:12.090 --> 00:37:15.070
- PICTURES TO SHOW YOU, IT WAS HONORING ROEVER
- 00:37:15.090 --> 00:37:19.010
- EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, WHICH IS ONE OF
- 00:37:19.030 --> 00:37:21.160
- THE MOST POWERFUL NGO'S IN THE COUNTRY NOW.
- 00:37:21.180 --> 00:37:24.260
- I'M NOT SURE I'VE MAINTAINED MY NGO STATUS
- 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:27.050
- AT THIS POINT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE IT FOR
- 00:37:27.070 --> 00:37:29.200
- WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW, BUT I COULD NOT BELIEVE
- 00:37:29.220 --> 00:37:33.190
- AMBASSADORS WERE HERE FROM ALL OF THESE COUNTRIES, BUT DAVE
- 00:37:33.210 --> 00:37:37.030
- ROEVER WAS SITTING NEXT TO THE VICE
- 00:37:37.050 --> 00:37:39.010
- PRESIDENT OF VIETNAM.
- 00:37:39.030 --> 00:37:40.240
- I CALL HER THE ROSE OF VIETNAM, AND SHE WAS
- 00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:43.030
- HOLDING ONTO MY ARM, AND I WAS FEELING HER JUST
- 00:37:43.050 --> 00:37:45.260
- SQUEEZE MY ARM WITH EMOTION BECAUSE THEY WERE
- 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:50.050
- SAYING THANK YOU FOR LOVING THEIR CHILDREN.
- 00:37:50.070 --> 00:37:53.020
- JESUS SAID LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME.
- 00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:54.280
- DON'T DENY THEM.
- 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:57.000
- IT'S THROUGH CHILDREN -- EVEN SAMSON SPOKE TO A LAD.
- 00:37:57.020 --> 00:38:01.110
- WHAT'S HAPPENING?
- 00:38:01.130 --> 00:38:03.030
- AND THE LAD GAVE HIM THE NEWS OF WHAT'S GOING ON?
- 00:38:03.050 --> 00:38:04.280
- A CHILD SHALL BRING FORTH THE GOOD NEWS.
- 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.010
- AND I KID YOU NOT, THAT WAS MY INTEREST IN THIS
- 00:38:08.030 --> 00:38:10.180
- COUNTRY AT THIS BUILDING JUST TAKING OFF AND
- 00:38:10.200 --> 00:38:13.110
- FLYING OFF EVER SINCE.
- 00:38:13.130 --> 00:38:15.280
- - YOU KNOW, SOME CASE SOMEBODY JUST TUNED IN,
- 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.170
- WE'RE IN HO CHI MINH CITY.
- 00:38:19.190 --> 00:38:21.140
- IT'S KIND OF MORE KNOWN MAYBE TO SOME AS SAIGON.
- 00:38:21.160 --> 00:38:25.080
- SO HO CHI MINH CITY IS WHERE WE ARE, AND DAVE,
- 00:38:25.100 --> 00:38:30.170
- THIS OPERA HOUSE KIND OF ALMOST REPRESENTS WHAT WE
- 00:38:30.190 --> 00:38:36.050
- HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AS PHASE TWO OF YOUR LIFE.
- 00:38:36.070 --> 00:38:41.060
- YOU CAME HERE ONCE WITH A GUN TO TRY TO HELP THE
- 00:38:41.080 --> 00:38:46.060
- SOUTH VIETNAMESE.
- 00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:47.290
- YOU CAME LATER, AFTER YOUR INJURY AND RECOVERY,
- 00:38:48.010 --> 00:38:51.130
- TO HELP THE CHILDREN, TO SCHOLARSHIP CHILDREN.
- 00:38:51.150 --> 00:38:55.230
- BRING US UP-TO-DATE.
- 00:38:55.250 --> 00:38:57.170
- WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATUS OF WHAT ALL OF THE
- 00:38:57.190 --> 00:39:02.040
- DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS UNDER DAVE ROEVER AND
- 00:39:02.060 --> 00:39:06.130
- WHAT YOU ADMINISTRATE AND WHAT YOU TAKE CARE OF,
- 00:39:06.150 --> 00:39:08.220
- WHAT THE LATEST STATUS?
- 00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:10.180
- WHAT ARE YOU ACCOMPLISHING NOW THAT
- 00:39:10.200 --> 00:39:13.060
- YOU WANT THE PEOPLE OF THE TBN AUDIENCE
- 00:39:13.080 --> 00:39:15.170
- TO KNOW ABOUT?
- 00:39:15.190 --> 00:39:17.090
- - FOR ONE THING, THROUGH MISSION VIETNAM -- AND I
- 00:39:17.110 --> 00:39:19.270
- SERVE ON THAT BOARD.
- 00:39:19.290 --> 00:39:21.130
- I CREATED IT UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE BOARD --
- 00:39:21.150 --> 00:39:24.120
- HAVE BUILT AND RE-ESTABLISHED, RESTORED
- 00:39:24.140 --> 00:39:27.150
- BUILDINGS THAT WERE ONCE CHURCHES, OVER 30.
- 00:39:27.170 --> 00:39:30.290
- IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE ONLINE BIBLE COLLEGE
- 00:39:31.010 --> 00:39:33.260
- IN THE COUNTRY.
- 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:36.040
- WE SURPASSED, A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, THE 59.000
- 00:39:36.060 --> 00:39:40.000
- MARK OF ENROLLED STUDENTS IN THIS COUNTRY, ONE FOR
- 00:39:40.020 --> 00:39:42.150
- EVERY DEAD G.I.
- 00:39:42.170 --> 00:39:44.200
- THAT WAS ONE OF MY ULTIMATE GOALS AND MADE IT.
- 00:39:44.220 --> 00:39:47.100
- - AND NOW YOU HAVE LIKE 70.
- 00:39:47.120 --> 00:39:49.110
- - YEAH, WE'RE ABOUT 70.000 AT THIS POINT AND
- 00:39:49.130 --> 00:39:51.150
- STILL GROWING WORLDWIDE.
- 00:39:51.170 --> 00:39:53.250
- IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS
- 00:39:53.270 --> 00:39:57.060
- COUNTRY, FOR THE RED CROSS, HUNDREDS OF
- 00:39:57.080 --> 00:40:00.010
- BLANKETS AND WHEELCHAIRS AND BOATS FOR WHEN THE MI KONG
- 00:40:00.030 --> 00:40:06.150
- DELTA FLOODS AND THINGS THAT HAVE EVOLVED
- 00:40:06.170 --> 00:40:10.140
- OUT OF ALL THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.
- 00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:13.020
- ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROJECTS AT THE HOSPITAL,
- 00:40:13.040 --> 00:40:16.290
- YOURS TRULY, NOT BEING MEDICALLY ORIENTED EXCEPT
- 00:40:17.010 --> 00:40:20.160
- FOR THE FACT THAT I AM A MEDICAL -- I DIDN'T EVEN
- 00:40:20.180 --> 00:40:23.110
- KNOW WHAT A CATHETERIZATION LAB WAS,
- 00:40:23.130 --> 00:40:26.240
- BUT I FOUND OUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ONE
- 00:40:26.260 --> 00:40:28.200
- ANYWHERE IN VIETNAM.
- 00:40:28.220 --> 00:40:30.030
- - I'LL TELL YOU LATER.
- 00:40:30.050 --> 00:40:31.250
- - OKAY. WELL, IT'S NOT THAT KIND OF CATH.
- 00:40:31.270 --> 00:40:33.160
- THIS IS A HEART CATH.
- 00:40:33.180 --> 00:40:35.270
- OH, YOU ARE FUNNY.
- 00:40:35.290 --> 00:40:37.110
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:40:37.130 --> 00:40:39.120
- BUT THE HEART CATH, WE PUT IN A TOSHIBA DIGITAL
- 00:40:39.140 --> 00:40:41.050
- IMAGING CATHETERIZATION LAB AT THE HOSPITAL.
- 00:40:41.070 --> 00:40:44.000
- THE PLAQUE IN THAT BUILDING STATES THAT IT
- 00:40:44.020 --> 00:40:48.080
- WAS A $14.7 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT.
- 00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:52.100
- AND OUR MINISTRY PAID IN FULL IN CASH, NEVER
- 00:40:52.120 --> 00:40:54.270
- BORROWED A DIME, FINISHED THE PROJECT, AND WE SAVE
- 00:40:54.290 --> 00:40:56.290
- ABOUT 300 LIVES A YEAR.
- 00:40:57.010 --> 00:40:58.280
- THAT'S THOSE THAT WOULD HAVE DIED, NOT TO MENTION
- 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.290
- THOSE WHOSE LIVES ARE IMPROVED.
- 00:41:02.010 --> 00:41:03.220
- SO THAT GAVE ME A FELLOWSHIP WITH MY -- IT
- 00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:07.280
- USED TO BE MY ENEMY.
- 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:09.160
- I DON'T LOVE COMMUNISM ANY MORE THAN THEY LOVE
- 00:41:09.180 --> 00:41:11.110
- CAPITALISM, BUT PEOPLE CAN LOVE PEOPLE,
- 00:41:11.130 --> 00:41:13.090
- AND I LOVE THE PEOPLE OF VIETNAM.
- 00:41:13.110 --> 00:41:16.140
- I DON'T CARE WHAT THEIR POLITICAL VIEWS ARE.
- 00:41:16.160 --> 00:41:18.180
- I LOVE THE PEOPLE OF VIETNAM, AND THE REASON I
- 00:41:18.200 --> 00:41:21.270
- THINK I'M DIFFERENT FROM A LOT OF MY VETERAN
- 00:41:21.290 --> 00:41:24.100
- FRIENDS BECAUSE I MADE IT A POINT TO COME BACK AND
- 00:41:24.120 --> 00:41:27.070
- BUILD THE BRIDGES THAT WERE BURNED DOWN, AND
- 00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:30.060
- TODAY, I HAVE THE UNCANNY BENEFIT TO DO WHATEVER
- 00:41:30.080 --> 00:41:33.190
- JUST ABOUT ANYTHING I WANT TO DO IN THIS
- 00:41:33.210 --> 00:41:35.280
- COUNTRY WITHOUT INTERFERENCE, AND MY
- 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.130
- PARTNERS, DAN DANG, AND HE GREW UP IN THIS
- 00:41:38.150 --> 00:41:41.160
- COUNTRY AS A YOUNG LAD AS A BOAT PERSON; ENDED UP
- 00:41:41.180 --> 00:41:46.090
- ALL THE WAY IN OMAHA, NEBRASKA, HAD TO LEARN
- 00:41:46.110 --> 00:41:49.080
- ENGLISH, GO TO SCHOOL AND GRADUATED WITH A MASTER'S
- 00:41:49.100 --> 00:41:51.050
- DEGREE IN BUSINESS.
- 00:41:51.070 --> 00:41:53.040
- AND GOD PUT HIM AT A RADIO SHACK ON MY
- 00:41:53.060 --> 00:41:55.150
- PARKING LOT IN FT.
- 00:41:55.170 --> 00:41:57.080
- WORTH, TEXAS WORKING FOR TANDY CORPORATION. HE'S A MIRACLE.
- 00:41:57.100 --> 00:42:01.190
- HE TOLD HIS FATHER HE'D FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS.
- 00:42:01.210 --> 00:42:03.160
- THEY LEFT VIETNAM NOT KNOWING IF
- 00:42:03.180 --> 00:42:05.010
- THEY'D EVEN SURVIVE.
- 00:42:05.030 --> 00:42:06.080
- ALMOST EVERYBODY ON THEIR BOAT DIED.
- 00:42:06.100 --> 00:42:09.210
- HE LIVED, HIS FAMILY LIVED.
- 00:42:09.230 --> 00:42:11.220
- HE ENDED UP IN THAT RADIO SHACK. I WALKED IN.
- 00:42:11.240 --> 00:42:13.090
- HE SAID, YOU'RE DAVE ROEVER!
- 00:42:13.110 --> 00:42:14.230
- I SAID, YES I AM. WHO YOU ARE?
- 00:42:14.250 --> 00:42:16.060
- HE SAID, I'M DAN DANG.
- 00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:17.180
- YOU CAME TO DA NANG.
- 00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:19.000
- HE SPOKE WHEN WAS A STUDENT THERE, AND YOU
- 00:42:19.020 --> 00:42:20.130
- SAID YOU CAME WITH THE M-16.
- 00:42:20.150 --> 00:42:22.110
- NOW YOU COME BACK WITH A JOHN 3:16.
- 00:42:22.130 --> 00:42:26.120
- - DANIEL, COME HERE, DANIEL.
- 00:42:26.140 --> 00:42:28.030
- SO DANIEL, STEP IN HERE.
- 00:42:28.050 --> 00:42:30.100
- - THIS IS THE MAN. HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD.
- 00:42:30.120 --> 00:42:32.210
- - SO YOU ARE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH A LOT OF YOUR
- 00:42:32.230 --> 00:42:36.200
- VISION, YOUR DREAM, YOUR GOAL BECAUSE OF DANIEL
- 00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:39.040
- HERE, BECAUSE OF HIS ABILITY TO CONNECT.
- 00:42:39.060 --> 00:42:42.250
- WHAT IS YOUR MISSION STATEMENT, IN ESSENCE, NOW?
- 00:42:42.270 --> 00:42:48.130
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
- 00:42:48.150 --> 00:42:50.110
- - COMPASSION LEADS TO CONVERSION.
- 00:42:50.130 --> 00:42:53.270
- HOW CAN YOU WIN A CITY, A COUNTRY, A POLITICAL
- 00:42:53.290 --> 00:42:56.060
- SYSTEM, HOW CAN YOU WIN ANYTHING YOU DON'T LOVE?
- 00:42:56.080 --> 00:42:58.090
- - RIGHT.
- 00:42:58.110 --> 00:43:00.130
- - AND DAN AND I PUT IT IN OUR HEART TO PARTNER
- 00:43:00.150 --> 00:43:03.030
- TOGETHER ALL THESE YEARS, HE WORKS WITH THE
- 00:43:03.050 --> 00:43:05.050
- MINISTRY TODAY.
- 00:43:05.070 --> 00:43:06.110
- HE'S OVER ALL THE ROEVER CORPORATION; ROEVER
- 00:43:06.130 --> 00:43:08.260
- EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, R.E.A.P.
- 00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:11.050
- OUR UNIVERSITY IS CALLED GLOBAL REAP.
- 00:43:11.070 --> 00:43:13.150
- HE HEADS UP THAT UNIVERSITY.
- 00:43:13.170 --> 00:43:15.100
- HE'S ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MEN I'VE EVER
- 00:43:15.120 --> 00:43:17.000
- KNOWN, AND HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD IN DA NANG
- 00:43:17.020 --> 00:43:18.210
- WHEN HE HEARD ME TALK.
- 00:43:18.230 --> 00:43:20.070
- AND HE SAID I'LL FOLLOW IN
- 00:43:20.090 --> 00:43:21.170
- MR. ROEVER'S FOOTSTEPS.
- 00:43:21.190 --> 00:43:23.080
- I WALKED INTO THE RADIO SHACK THAT HE'S MANAGING
- 00:43:23.100 --> 00:43:25.070
- SOME FOUR HUNDRED AND SOME ODD RADIO SHACKS AT
- 00:43:25.090 --> 00:43:27.140
- THAT TIME, A BIG MUCKITY MUCK WITH TANDY
- 00:43:27.160 --> 00:43:31.110
- CORPORATION, AND HE LOOKS UP AND SAYS, I TOLD MY
- 00:43:31.130 --> 00:43:34.080
- FATHER I'D FOLLOW IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS.
- 00:43:34.100 --> 00:43:36.040
- I POINTED AT MY OFFICE DOOR AND SAID, THERE IT IS.
- 00:43:36.060 --> 00:43:38.210
- WOOP, THERE IT IS. YOU MADE IT, BUBBA. YOU MADE IT.
- 00:43:38.230 --> 00:43:42.030
- AND I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THERE, HE DIDN'T KNOW I WAS THERE.
- 00:43:42.050 --> 00:43:45.020
- - WHERE DID YOU GET THAT PHRASE THAT YOU JUST USED?
- 00:43:45.040 --> 00:43:47.250
- WITHOUT COMPASSION...
- 00:43:47.270 --> 00:43:50.190
- - COMPASSION LEADS TO CONVERSION.
- 00:43:50.210 --> 00:43:52.220
- - WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?
- 00:43:52.240 --> 00:43:54.060
- - I WAS MENTORED UNDER BILLY GRAHAM FOR NINE
- 00:43:54.080 --> 00:43:55.260
- YEARS TRAINING ME IN MASSIVE EVANGELISM.
- 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:58.040
- I SPOKE ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
- 00:43:58.060 --> 00:44:00.060
- AT THE BIG CRUSADES AND HAD MONDAY NIGHT TO SHARE
- 00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:02.070
- MY STORY, AND DOCTOR...
- 00:44:02.090 --> 00:44:05.250
- HOW CAN I SAY ANYTHING BETTER?
- 00:44:05.270 --> 00:44:09.050
- I DON'T WANT TO CALL HIM DOCTOR, BILLY IS MY
- 00:44:09.070 --> 00:44:11.250
- FRIEND, BUT OUT OF RESPECT DR. GRAHAM, BUT
- 00:44:11.270 --> 00:44:14.110
- BECAUSE OF DAN DANG, BECAUSE OF HIS
- 00:44:14.130 --> 00:44:17.020
- WILLINGNESS TO BE USED BY GOD, HE WALKED AWAY FROM
- 00:44:17.040 --> 00:44:19.140
- A HUGE INCOME WITH TANDY TO SETTLE FOR A
- 00:44:19.160 --> 00:44:23.230
- MENIAL INCOME BECAUSE I'M NOT A STRONG
- 00:44:23.250 --> 00:44:26.250
- CORPORATION FINANCIALLY.
- 00:44:26.270 --> 00:44:29.010
- WE DON'T HOLD MONEY.
- 00:44:29.030 --> 00:44:30.200
- IT COMES, AND BEFORE THE DAY'S OUT, IT'S ALREADY SPENT.
- 00:44:30.220 --> 00:44:32.130
- I DIDN'T EVEN GET A CHANCE TO SEE THE
- 00:44:32.150 --> 00:44:34.040
- FACE ON THE DOLLAR.
- 00:44:34.060 --> 00:44:35.240
- HOLY COW, AND DANIEL, HE GAVE HIMSELF.
- 00:44:35.260 --> 00:44:40.140
- STILL TO THIS DAY, I'VE NEVER KNOWN A DAY LIKE HIM.
- 00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:42.250
- HE WORKS 80-90 HOURS A WEEK, TRAVELS.
- 00:44:42.270 --> 00:44:45.040
- HOW MANY COUNTRIES THIS YEAR?
- 00:44:45.060 --> 00:44:46.190
- JUST OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD.
- 00:44:46.210 --> 00:44:48.000
- - THIS YEAR SO FAR ABOUT SEVEN.
- 00:44:48.020 --> 00:44:50.010
- - SEVEN COUNTRIES THIS YEAR.
- 00:44:50.030 --> 00:44:51.200
- - ESTABLISHING OUR GLOBAL REAP UNIVERSITY. WE ADDED 450.
- 00:44:51.220 --> 00:44:56.060
- - YES, SIR. SOME OF THEM FROM CONGO.
- 00:44:56.080 --> 00:44:58.290
- - CONGO.
- 00:44:59.010 --> 00:45:00.150
- - 420 YESTERDAY.
- 00:45:00.170 --> 00:45:02.000
- - 420.
- 00:45:02.020 --> 00:45:03.210
- - RIGHT HERE IN VIETNAM, WE HAVE 420 STUDENTS.
- 00:45:03.230 --> 00:45:06.070
- - THAT WERE REGISTERED YESTERDAY?
- 00:45:06.090 --> 00:45:08.160
- OR WHILE WE WERE HERE.
- 00:45:08.180 --> 00:45:10.190
- WELL, WE'RE, LIKE YOU SAID, OVER 70.000.
- 00:45:10.210 --> 00:45:13.060
- PEOPLE CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
- 00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:14.200
- THEY COME TO THE OFFICE SAYING, YOU'RE LYING,
- 00:45:14.220 --> 00:45:16.010
- YOU'RE EXAGGERATING. THEY SEE THE
- 00:45:16.030 --> 00:45:17.210
- STACKS OF TESTS THAT HAVE TO BE SCORED.
- 00:45:17.230 --> 00:45:20.260
- 70 POUNDS PER STACK COVERING THE WHOLE FLOOR.
- 00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.270
- THEY SAY, YEAH, WE BELIEVE YOU.
- 00:45:23.290 --> 00:45:25.280
- IT'S HUGE, AND IT'S GROWING EVERY DAY, AND
- 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.160
- VIETNAM HAS BEEN THE CATALYST FOR THIS
- 00:45:28.180 --> 00:45:31.180
- WORLD-CHANGING ONLINE UNIVERSITY THAT'S GOING
- 00:45:31.200 --> 00:45:33.290
- INTO COUNTRIES THAT NOBODY -- WE'RE RIGHT IN
- 00:45:34.010 --> 00:45:37.080
- THE MIDDLE OF BOKA HARAM, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF
- 00:45:37.100 --> 00:45:40.040
- NIGERIA, NIGERIA, MATT.
- 00:45:40.060 --> 00:45:42.150
- RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF BOKA HARAM WITH OUR
- 00:45:42.170 --> 00:45:44.020
- SCHOOL FLOURISHING.
- 00:45:44.040 --> 00:45:46.030
- IT'S A GOD THING, AND IT STARTED IN VIETNAM.
- 00:45:46.050 --> 00:45:48.110
- [MUSIC]
- 00:45:48.130 --> 00:45:56.140
- [MUSIC]
- 00:45:56.140 --> 00:46:04.030
- - ON THIS RIVER, I CRAWLED OUT ON THAT SIDE,
- 00:46:04.050 --> 00:46:08.080
- AND I'M ON MY KNEES.
- 00:46:08.100 --> 00:46:10.120
- I'M LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE.
- 00:46:10.140 --> 00:46:11.200
- I FELL OVER BACKWARDS. THESE OTHER GUYS COME UP.
- 00:46:11.220 --> 00:46:13.090
- YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING THROUGH MY MIND?
- 00:46:13.110 --> 00:46:14.250
- PHILIPPIANS 1:12.
- 00:46:14.270 --> 00:46:16.120
- I WOULD YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND BRETHREN THAT
- 00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:19.090
- THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED UNTO ME HAVE FALLEN OUT
- 00:46:19.110 --> 00:46:23.160
- RATHER TO THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL.
- 00:46:23.180 --> 00:46:27.090
- VERSE NUMBER ONE CAME TO ME.
- 00:46:27.110 --> 00:46:28.210
- THAT'S NUMBER 12. VERSE 12.
- 00:46:28.230 --> 00:46:30.010
- BUT IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE VERSE THAT CAME TO ME.
- 00:46:30.030 --> 00:46:32.110
- AND I'M LAYING THERE THINKING THIS SHALL
- 00:46:32.130 --> 00:46:35.070
- TURN TO MY SALVATION.
- 00:46:35.090 --> 00:46:37.230
- VERSE 19, THIS SHALL TURN TO MY SALVATION THROUGH
- 00:46:37.250 --> 00:46:42.120
- YOUR PRAYER AND THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT OF
- 00:46:42.140 --> 00:46:44.150
- JESUS CHRIST THAT ACCORDING TO MY EARNEST
- 00:46:44.170 --> 00:46:47.200
- EXPECTATION AND MY HOPE IN NOTHING I SHALL BE
- 00:46:47.220 --> 00:46:51.010
- ASHAMED, BUT WITH ALL BOLDNESS AS ALWAYS SO NOW
- 00:46:51.030 --> 00:46:54.210
- ALSO CHRIST, NOW LISTEN, SHALL BE
- 00:46:54.230 --> 00:46:57.290
- MAGNIFIED IN MY BODY WHETHER IT BE BY LIFE OR
- 00:46:58.010 --> 00:47:03.060
- BY DEATH, FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST
- 00:47:03.080 --> 00:47:06.230
- AND TO DIE IS GAIN.
- 00:47:06.250 --> 00:47:09.050
- AND THAT "LIVE IS CHRIST" STARTED PLAYING OVER AND
- 00:47:09.070 --> 00:47:12.250
- OVER, TO LIVE AS CHRIST, TO LIVE AS CHRIST,
- 00:47:12.270 --> 00:47:15.280
- TO LIVE AS CHRIST.
- 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.170
- THE HELICOPTER IS LEAVING, TO LIVE AS CHRIST.
- 00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:19.210
- THEY'RE PUTTING ME DOWN, THEY'RE ARGUING OVER
- 00:47:19.230 --> 00:47:21.240
- WHETHER I'M GONNA LIVE OR DIE, TRY TO HELP ME OR
- 00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:23.140
- NOT AT THAT LITTLE FIELD HOSPITAL, TO LIVE AS
- 00:47:23.160 --> 00:47:25.280
- CHRIST, TO LIVE AS CHRIST.
- 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:27.180
- THEY GET ME TO THOMPSON AIRPORT AND GET ME ON AN
- 00:47:27.200 --> 00:47:31.270
- AMBULANCE AND TAKE ME OVER TO THE HOSPITAL,
- 00:47:31.290 --> 00:47:33.220
- IT BROKE DOWN IN THE TRAFFIC, THE
- 00:47:33.240 --> 00:47:36.060
- AIR-CONDITIONING BROKE, IT WAS HOT, I'M STILL
- 00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:38.260
- SMOLDERING, TO LIVE IS CHRIST, TO LIVE IS CHRIST.
- 00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:42.000
- IT GOT ME INTO THE HOSPITAL, PUT ME ON A BIG
- 00:47:42.020 --> 00:47:43.210
- C-141, FLEW ME TO JAPAN, AND THERE I ASKED THEM
- 00:47:43.230 --> 00:47:48.260
- FOR A MIRROR. TO LIVE IS CHRIST WAS NOW FADING.
- 00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:53.010
- AND IN JAPAN, I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR THEY BROUGHT ME.
- 00:47:53.030 --> 00:47:57.070
- I SHOULDN'T HAVE ASKED THEM,
- 00:47:57.090 --> 00:47:58.110
- THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT IT.
- 00:47:58.130 --> 00:48:00.110
- AND I HAD MY LEFT EYE, AND WHEN I LOOKED UP,
- 00:48:00.130 --> 00:48:02.020
- I SAW THIS SIDE OF MY HEAD WAS SKULL, AND I THOUGHT
- 00:48:02.040 --> 00:48:05.140
- SHE'S A TEENAGER. SHE DOESN'T DESERVE THIS.
- 00:48:05.160 --> 00:48:10.250
- I CAN FIX THIS.
- 00:48:10.270 --> 00:48:13.280
- THEY WALKED AWAY WITH THE MIRROR, THEY WALKED AWAY
- 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:15.190
- WITH MY HOPE.
- 00:48:15.210 --> 00:48:17.070
- AND I'VE SAID IT MANY TIMES, HOPE IS THE LAST
- 00:48:17.090 --> 00:48:19.160
- LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST SUICIDE.
- 00:48:19.180 --> 00:48:21.020
- THAT DAY I DECIDED THAT I WOULD KILL MYSELF AND GET
- 00:48:21.040 --> 00:48:23.280
- ME OUT OF HER MISERY.
- 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.040
- I DIDN'T WANT HER TO SEE ME IF I LIVED THAT LONG.
- 00:48:26.060 --> 00:48:28.210
- I DIDN'T WANT HER TO COME TO THE MORTUARY.
- 00:48:28.230 --> 00:48:30.290
- THEY WOULD TAKE ME HOME.
- 00:48:31.010 --> 00:48:32.090
- I KNEW THAT. NO SOLDIER LEFT BEHIND.
- 00:48:32.110 --> 00:48:36.100
- I DIDN'T WANT HER TO EVER SEE WHAT I'D TURNED INTO,
- 00:48:36.120 --> 00:48:38.260
- A MONSTER. SO I PULLED THE TUBE.
- 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:41.270
- I DIDN'T HAVE A GUN OR KNIFE, AND I THOUGHT
- 00:48:41.290 --> 00:48:44.070
- SUICIDE, GOD YOU'LL SURELY ACCEPT IT.
- 00:48:44.090 --> 00:48:46.080
- IT'S OKAY FOR ME, ISN'T IT.
- 00:48:46.100 --> 00:48:49.030
- TO LIVE WAS NOT CHRIST ANYMORE.
- 00:48:49.050 --> 00:48:52.140
- I CAN'T SAY I WAS THAT SELF-CENTERED.
- 00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:55.090
- I WAS FRIGHTENED AND I HAD DRUGS IN ME.
- 00:48:55.110 --> 00:48:57.180
- I'VE NEVER DONE DRUGS IN MY LIFE.
- 00:48:57.200 --> 00:48:59.160
- I LAUGH AND TELL EVERYBODY I COULD HALLUCINATE ON
- 00:48:59.180 --> 00:49:01.140
- HALF DOSES OF THE SAINT JOSEPH ASPIRIN FOR CHILDREN.
- 00:49:01.160 --> 00:49:04.260
- I'D NEVER DONE A DRUG AND I WAS CONFUSED.
- 00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:07.130
- AND BY THEN, I CAN'T TELL YOU THE PAIN.
- 00:49:07.150 --> 00:49:09.280
- GOD DOESN'T EVEN LET ME REMEMBER IT.
- 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:11.290
- I JUST KNOW IT WAS THERE, BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU
- 00:49:12.010 --> 00:49:13.120
- WHAT IT FELT LIKE.
- 00:49:13.140 --> 00:49:14.270
- AND SO I PULL THAT TUBE OUT, AND I LAID MY HEAD
- 00:49:14.290 --> 00:49:17.060
- BACK AND I WAITED TO DIE.
- 00:49:17.080 --> 00:49:19.260
- AND THIS IS WHERE THE HUMOR OF THE ALMIGHTY
- 00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:22.180
- COMES SCREAMING THROUGH. I GOT HUNGRY.
- 00:49:22.200 --> 00:49:26.110
- I'M NOT DYING, I'M GETTING HUNGRY.
- 00:49:26.130 --> 00:49:28.000
- I THINK I'M STARVING TO DEATH. I WAS HUNGRY!
- 00:49:28.020 --> 00:49:30.080
- YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE HUNGRY AND WANT TO
- 00:49:30.100 --> 00:49:32.120
- DIE AT THE SAME TIME.
- 00:49:32.140 --> 00:49:34.100
- YOU CAN'T WANT TO DIE AND BE HUNGRY AT THE SAME
- 00:49:34.120 --> 00:49:36.200
- TIME BECAUSE HUNGER MEANS YOU WANT TO EAT BECAUSE
- 00:49:36.220 --> 00:49:39.210
- YOU WANT TO LIVE.
- 00:49:39.230 --> 00:49:41.010
- WELL, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LIVE, YOU DON'T WANT
- 00:49:41.030 --> 00:49:42.100
- TO EAT, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO LIVE.
- 00:49:42.120 --> 00:49:43.230
- WHY WAS I HUNGRY?
- 00:49:43.250 --> 00:49:45.140
- AND I STARTED THINKING HOW DO I PLUG THIS TUBE
- 00:49:45.160 --> 00:49:48.290
- BACK IN? IT WAS MY FEEDING TUBE.
- 00:49:49.010 --> 00:49:51.030
- I PULLED THE WRONG ONE. I PULLED OUT LUNCH.
- 00:49:51.050 --> 00:49:53.290
- LIFE IS NOT FAIR, IS IT? HOLY COW.
- 00:49:54.010 --> 00:49:57.220
- AND I'M BACK WHERE IT STARTED HERE AND CAN
- 00:49:57.240 --> 00:50:00.160
- LAUGH ABOUT IT.
- 00:50:00.180 --> 00:50:02.040
- AND I WANT PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU GUYS
- 00:50:02.060 --> 00:50:03.230
- WATCHING, YOU NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING, SUICIDE
- 00:50:03.250 --> 00:50:07.000
- IS NOT THE SOLUTION.
- 00:50:07.020 --> 00:50:08.100
- LOOK WHAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED.
- 00:50:08.120 --> 00:50:09.250
- [MUSIC]
- 00:50:09.270 --> 00:50:16.230
- - AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WATCHING RIGHT NOW THAT
- 00:50:16.250 --> 00:50:18.270
- NEED TO HEAR ME. THEY NEED TO HEAR ME.
- 00:50:18.290 --> 00:50:24.040
- SUICIDE IS NOT THE SOLUTION.
- 00:50:24.060 --> 00:50:26.060
- WHAT IF I HAD PULLED THE RIGHT TUBE?
- 00:50:26.080 --> 00:50:28.090
- THE CONSEQUENCES, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A
- 00:50:28.110 --> 00:50:30.270
- MOMENT, BUT THE CONSEQUENCES WERE
- 00:50:30.290 --> 00:50:34.030
- AMAZING, IF I HAD SUCCEEDED, AMAZING LOSS,
- 00:50:34.050 --> 00:50:38.290
- AMAZING LOSS.
- 00:50:39.010 --> 00:50:41.060
- NO GRAND BABIES, NO BABIES, NO LOVE OF MY WIFE.
- 00:50:41.080 --> 00:50:44.040
- I WOULD NEVER KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BOUNCE BACK.
- 00:50:44.060 --> 00:50:47.110
- I'M A RESILIENCY COACH FOR THE U.S.
- 00:50:47.130 --> 00:50:49.210
- MILITARY TODAY, ALL FOUR BRANCHES.
- 00:50:49.230 --> 00:50:52.010
- IT'S A PROGRAM CALLED THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLDIER
- 00:50:52.030 --> 00:50:54.180
- FITNESS PROGRAM, AND I'VE BEEN CONTRACTING WITH THE
- 00:50:54.200 --> 00:50:57.020
- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENDANTS SINCE 9/11.
- 00:50:57.040 --> 00:50:59.270
- AND HONESTLY, I WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD THE
- 00:50:59.290 --> 00:51:02.250
- OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE THOSE LIVES THAT WE'VE
- 00:51:02.270 --> 00:51:05.120
- INTERVENED IN -- I'M NOT TAKING CREDIT FOR MYSELF.
- 00:51:05.140 --> 00:51:07.240
- IT'S A GOD THING.
- 00:51:07.260 --> 00:51:09.230
- BUT IF I HAD SUCCEEDED, LOOK WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST.
- 00:51:09.250 --> 00:51:13.140
- I FOUND PASSION THAT REPLACED DEPRESSION.
- 00:51:13.160 --> 00:51:18.020
- THE PASSION REPLACED DEPRESSION.
- 00:51:18.040 --> 00:51:22.130
- I FOUND A REASON TO LIVE, AND I FOUND IT IN CHRIST.
- 00:51:22.150 --> 00:51:26.010
- I FOUND HIM AT TBN.
- 00:51:26.030 --> 00:51:28.200
- JAN CALLED, "I WANT YOU ON TBN." SO I WENT, AND
- 00:51:28.220 --> 00:51:32.120
- SHE ASKED ME THE HARDEST QUESTION OF ALL, AND LIKE
- 00:51:32.140 --> 00:51:34.180
- A GOOD LAWYER, I DON'T ASK QUESTIONS I DON'T
- 00:51:34.200 --> 00:51:36.290
- ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER TO, ESPECIALLY ANSWERS OF
- 00:51:37.010 --> 00:51:39.190
- THIS CALIBER LIKE, OKAY, GOD, I KNOW DIDN'T DO
- 00:51:39.210 --> 00:51:42.190
- THIS TO ME.
- 00:51:42.210 --> 00:51:44.210
- I KNEW WHAT HAPPENED, I KNEW WHEN IT HAPPENED, I
- 00:51:44.230 --> 00:51:46.180
- KNEW WHERE IT HAPPENED, AND I KNEW WHY IT
- 00:51:46.200 --> 00:51:49.180
- HAPPENED EXCEPT FOR ONE THING; I DIDN'T KNOW WHY
- 00:51:49.200 --> 00:51:53.180
- GOD DIDN'T STOP IT FROM HAPPENING.
- 00:51:53.200 --> 00:51:55.040
- HE DIDN'T DO THIS TO ME.
- 00:51:55.060 --> 00:51:57.010
- THIS IS WAR.
- 00:51:57.030 --> 00:51:58.200
- SOME LITTLE VIET KONG GOT A MEDAL, I DID, TOO.
- 00:51:58.220 --> 00:52:00.260
- HIS IS ON HIS CHEST, MINE'S IN MY HEAD.
- 00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:03.020
- [LAUGHING]
- 00:52:03.040 --> 00:52:04.210
- THAT'S WHERE I WEAR MY MEDAL IS IN MY BODY.
- 00:52:04.230 --> 00:52:06.230
- BUT YOU KNOW, I GOT TO TELL YOU, GOD DIDN'T STOP
- 00:52:06.250 --> 00:52:10.130
- IT FOR A REASON, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHY, AND I
- 00:52:10.150 --> 00:52:12.190
- WOULDN'T DEAL WITH IT BECAUSE I WAS WILLING TO
- 00:52:12.210 --> 00:52:15.140
- TRUST GOD WITH WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW, AND THAT'S
- 00:52:15.160 --> 00:52:18.100
- WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN TODAY.
- 00:52:18.120 --> 00:52:20.100
- IF YOU DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, THAT'S OKAY.
- 00:52:20.120 --> 00:52:22.160
- TRUST GOD WITH THAT.
- 00:52:22.180 --> 00:52:24.070
- TAKE THAT LEAP OF FAITH AND SAY, WHATEVER IT IS,
- 00:52:24.090 --> 00:52:26.030
- GOD, I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, BUT I WILL SOONER OR LATER.
- 00:52:26.050 --> 00:52:28.060
- AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
- 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:30.240
- I UNDERSTOOD THAT NIGHT ON THAT TBN SHOW.
- 00:52:30.260 --> 00:52:33.270
- JAN LOOKED AT ME AND SHE SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW WHY
- 00:52:33.290 --> 00:52:36.100
- GOD LET YOU BE SCARRED, MAIMED AND BURNED, DON'T YOU?
- 00:52:36.120 --> 00:52:39.060
- MISS JAN, I DON'T KNOW WHY GOD LET ME BE
- 00:52:39.080 --> 00:52:41.050
- SCARRED, MAIMED AND BURNED.
- 00:52:41.070 --> 00:52:42.210
- SHE SAID, BECAUSE HE COULD TRUST YOU WITH THE SCARS.
- 00:52:42.230 --> 00:52:49.200
- JUST LET IT SETTLE. LET THAT SINK IN.
- 00:52:49.220 --> 00:52:55.030
- HE CAN TRUST YOU WITH THE SCARS.
- 00:52:55.050 --> 00:52:58.250
- WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A LIABILITY WAS A LIBERTY.
- 00:52:58.270 --> 00:53:01.130
- WHAT I THOUGHT WAS CONDEMNATION WAS CONFIRMATION.
- 00:53:01.150 --> 00:53:06.090
- SO I LEARNED TO DEAL WITH IT, AND SINCE MY SUICIDAL
- 00:53:06.110 --> 00:53:10.050
- TENDENCIES WERE SO POWERFUL THOSE 20 YEARS,
- 00:53:10.070 --> 00:53:14.020
- I GOT TO TELL YOU THE GOOD NEWS.
- 00:53:14.040 --> 00:53:16.030
- THAT NIGHT, ON TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK WITH
- 00:53:16.050 --> 00:53:18.280
- JAN CROUCH, WHEN SHE SAID, HE KNEW HE COULD
- 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:21.270
- TRUST YOU WITH THE SCARS, AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I
- 00:53:21.290 --> 00:53:24.290
- LIE NOT, 28 YEAR LATER, COMING UP ON 29, I'VE
- 00:53:25.010 --> 00:53:29.130
- NEVER THOUGHT OF SUICIDE AGAIN, EVER.
- 00:53:29.150 --> 00:53:32.170
- IF SUICIDE COMES TO MY MIND, IT'S IN HELPING
- 00:53:32.190 --> 00:53:34.150
- SOMEONE THAT'S DEALING WITH IT.
- 00:53:34.170 --> 00:53:36.170
- AND NOW, AS A RESILIENCY COACH, I'M SENT ALL OVER
- 00:53:36.190 --> 00:53:40.030
- THE WORLD; SAUDI ARABIA,KUWAIT, OMAN,
- 00:53:40.050 --> 00:53:42.120
- QATAR, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, AFGHANISTAN,
- 00:53:42.140 --> 00:53:45.140
- IRAQ, SYRIA, BOSNIA, KOSOVO, SOUTH KOREA.
- 00:53:45.160 --> 00:53:47.090
- HOW LONG SHOULD I GO ON?
- 00:53:47.110 --> 00:53:49.080
- THE COUNTRIES ME SEND ME TO HELP STOP ONE
- 00:53:49.100 --> 00:53:52.170
- SPECIAL OPERATOR FROM TAKING HIS LIFE -- IT
- 00:53:52.190 --> 00:53:55.040
- COSTS A MILLION DOLLARS TO TRAIN HIM AND A
- 00:53:55.060 --> 00:53:57.180
- MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO MAINTAIN HIM.
- 00:53:57.200 --> 00:54:00.190
- THEY CAN'T AFFORD HIM TO TAKE HIS LIFE, SO THEY
- 00:54:00.210 --> 00:54:03.200
- SEND ME, AND WHY ME?
- 00:54:03.220 --> 00:54:06.210
- BECAUSE I'VE BEEN DOWN THAT ROAD, AND I FOUND
- 00:54:06.230 --> 00:54:09.050
- THE ANSWER IN JESUS.
- 00:54:09.070 --> 00:54:13.160
- - SHARE THE GOSPEL FROM INSIDE THE STATE OF
- 00:54:13.180 --> 00:54:17.220
- VIETNAM RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF THE FLAG OF VIETNAM.
- 00:54:17.240 --> 00:54:22.010
- JUST THE SIMPLEST FORM OF THE GOSPEL.
- 00:54:22.030 --> 00:54:25.080
- - I WALKED UP THESE STEPS A COUPLE YEARS AGO
- 00:54:25.100 --> 00:54:28.220
- WITH 50 VIETNAM VETERANS, AND AS WE APPROACHED THE
- 00:54:28.240 --> 00:54:30.160
- TOP OF THE STEPS, SUDDENLY, WE ALL HIT THE GROUND.
- 00:54:30.180 --> 00:54:33.120
- WE HIT THE GROUND.
- 00:54:33.140 --> 00:54:35.190
- A MACHINE GUN WENT OFF, WE THOUGHT.
- 00:54:35.210 --> 00:54:38.070
- IT WAS A BAND THAT WAS BEATING THEIR DRUM AND
- 00:54:38.090 --> 00:54:41.110
- ECHOING IN THAT CHAMBER SO LOUD WE ALL THOUGHT IT
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- WAS MACHINE GUNFIRE.
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- WE'RE DUCKING FOR COVER.
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- THAT'S CALLED POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER.
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- I WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING, I BELIEVE THAT
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- COMING HERE TODAY IS FOR THE SAKE OF VIETNAM THE
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- BEGINNING OF AN OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW CHRIST.
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- AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING THIS, HAVE EVEN THE
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- SLIGHTEST INKLING OF THE MIRACULOUS THINGS THAT
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- ARE TAKING PLACE AS YOU WATCH, YOU HAVE MISSED IT
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- IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IT, BUT IF YOU SEE IT, I WANT YOU
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- TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR VIETNAM.
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- HE DIED FOR EVERY NATION ON EARTH, EVERY TONGUE AND TRIBE.
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- YOU ARE INCLUDED, AND IF YOU'RE OF THE VIETNAMESE
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- PEOPLE, EVEN MORE SO TODAY TO I EXTEND TO YOU
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- THE HAND OF HOPE IN JESUS CHRIST WHEN DIED FOR OUR SINS.
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- LISTEN, THE PENALTY OF SIN IS DEATH.
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- IT IS EXECUTION.
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- BUT WHEN JESUS CAME, HE SAID, I'LL PAY THAT
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- PENALTY FOR YOU.
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- HE DID IT, HE SATISFIED THE DEMAND OF GOD FOR
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- SACRIFICE, AND TODAY, I STAND HERE A FREE MAN
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- TELLING YOU HOW TO BE FREE IN JESUS CHRIST.
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- BELIEVE ON HIM, AND YOU SHALL BE SAVED, AND YOUR
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- GOVERNMENT, AND YOUR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
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- AND YOUR PRESIDENT, AND YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR CHILDREN.
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- GOD BLESS YOU. I LOVE VIETNAM. I LOVE YOU, MATT CROUCH.
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- YOU'RE THE BEST GUY I'VE EVER COME ACROSS, BROTHER.
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