PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | Episode 37 – How Can We Change the World – Part 3
Episode 37: How Can We Change the World – Part 3
Rocky: Welcome to the podcast, FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy: Hello again, ladies. I hope you have received your Above Rubies by now. The new magazine has been sent out across the nation. It's Above Rubies # 96, and I know you have already been blessed if you have got it. If you haven't got it and you're on the mailing list, it may have gone astray so don't hesitate to call, and if you are not on the mailing list, do contact us. You can email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and send your name and address, and we'll be so happy to send it to you. I know you're going to be very blessed by this new issue that we have now sent out across the nation and are continuing to send out across the world. Some of you are listening in other countries, and you have to wait a little bit longer for your magazine but don't worry, it is on the way.
We started last week talking about how can we change the world. Dear mother, you, in your home, hidden away with your children, you can change the world. We are looking at different areas of how we, even as wives and mothers in our homes, can change the world.
Last week, we found out that God wants us to not only be courageous but to be VERY courageous.
He not only wants us to be righteous but UNCOMPROMISINGLY righteous.
He not only wants us to avoid evil but to ABHOR AND HATE evil.
He not only wants us to shine our light but to GREATLY shine in this dark world.
He not only wants us to be fruitful but to be EXCEEDINGLY fruitful.
This is how we change the world. Not by being normal, not by being average, but by being above the average, over the top, more than as usual. So we are going to continue to find out more things in the Word of God that are more than the ordinary.
No. 6. WHOLEHEARTEDLY OBEDIENT
This one is, we are to not only be obedient, but the Bible tells us we are to be WHOLEHEARTEDLY obedient. You see, nothing in the Word of God is normal. It's all more than normal.
Let's have a look at some Scriptures, shall we? I'll read a couple from Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy 11:3 says: “If you shall hearken diligently,” Notice that, not just hearken but hearken DILIGENTLY, “unto my commandments, then I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, and I will send grass in thy fields of thy cattle that thou mayest eat and be full.”
We go over to Exodus 15:26 and God speaks again: “If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God and do that which is right in His sight and will give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, as I have brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth thee.” That phrase is the wonderful phrase Jehovah Rapha, I am the Lord that healeth thee.
These wonderful promises come when we diligently hearken to the Lord. Now, the DILIGENTLY HEARKEN in those Scriptures is a very famous word. I'm sure you know it. I'm sure you've heard of the shamar. That is perhaps the most important Scripture to the Jewish people in the whole Bible, and they call it the shamar. It's Deuteronomy 6:4. It says: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.”
This is what they call the shamar. Why do they call it the shamar? The very first word “Hear . . . Hear O Israel” is the word shamar. Now what does shamar mean? It means “to hear intelligently, to hear attentively and with obedience, to give undivided listening attention.”
The shamar is not a casual hearing. It is a very intense listening. We are listening with all our ears open and what we hear we are going to embrace and obey.
In Exodus 15:26, there were two words there about hearing and obeying. Firstly, shamar and then secondly, “if though wilt give ear.” That's another Hebrew word, azan, and it means “to pay attention with obedience.” Very similar, but both of those Hebrew words include hearing and obeying. We truly can't experience true obedience until we learn to really listen. Now, this applies to our own lives. It's only as we truly listen to the Lord, not listen just to hear some words, but listen to embrace and obey, that the Word will become effective in our lives or that we will really receive the promises that the Lord gives. This is what we really need to understand, lovely ladies, that obeying is combined with hearing.
At the moment, I am reading a wonderful book, maybe some of you have already read it. It's the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I've had it by my bedside for so long, and at last, I'm getting to read it. I have so many wonderful books by my bedside. In fact, I have about three huge piles all waiting to read. Sometimes they wait for about a year before I get to them. I have so many books, but I am loving this book about the life history of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
He was a great theologian; he was a gifted theologian. This is how he started out. He learned to dissect the Word, and he was a very intelligent theologian. As he grew in God, he found that that wasn't the greatest way to really hear from God. He learned that the greatest way to hear from God was to RECEIVE. I love that. I've really been embracing that myself since I read it. He said it changed his life.
He has passed on now. Of course, he was assassinated by Hitler, but when he read the Word, he didn't read it to dissect it, to work it out, to see what does this really mean? No, he learned to read it and receive it, just receive the words into his very being. He said, when somebody talks to you who you love, you don't dissect their words. No, you just receive them because you love them.
It's the same way with God. When we read His Word because we love Him, we receive His words; we let them come into us. As we receive them into our being, we can obey them. This is how we have to have our shamar. “Hear,” that's the word. Hear with undivided listening attention, ready to obey.
Ladies, not only do we have to get into the habit of making this our own lifestyle, we have to teach this to our children. In fact, I believe that one of the very first things that we ever teach our children is teaching them how to hear. Most people think that the first thing you have to teach your children once they have understanding is to teach them how to obey. Yes, that's a very important lesson and one we start pretty soon in their lives, but it's not the first lesson.
The first lesson is how to hear. If we don't teach them how to hear, they are not going to learn how to obey. Even with our little toddlers, we have to first teach them this lesson. Let me give you an example. Perhaps you're going to teach your little child to put his toys away, so you say to him, “Peter, I want you to put your toys away. Now what did Mommy say?” You're going to get your child to repeat the words so you know he has listened to you. When you speak to him, you speak to him face to face.
This is important even with our older children. We don't yell some command from another room and tell them to do it, because they may not have heard. We must always make sure our child hears what we say because if they hear, then we must expect obedience because that's what we teach them from the beginning.
We talk to our little one, “What did Mommy say? Put toys away.” Ok, so now we do it, so you teach them that the moment they have heard you speak those words, they've got to jump into action. You may have to help them do it at the beginning. You show them, “This is what you do the moment you hear Mommy speak, you do what she says.” You gradually teach them this, and you make sure it happens. It will take a little bit of practice, but every time, you make sure they hear, you look into their eyes, you speak to them face to face. You can get right down on your knees to your little ones to talk to them, and they get it, and you get them listening with all their ears. They hear and then they obey.
That is what true hearing is all about and what true obedience is all about.
TRUE HEARING RESULTS IN ACTION!
That's what we've got to get into our children. We teach them, of course, that they have to do it right away because . . .
DELAYED OBEDIENCE IS DISOBEDIENCE!
Now, when God gave the shamar, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God,” then immediately, it goes on to give a mandate because God is getting their attention. He tells them this is what He wants them to do: “Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children and thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thy liest down and when thou risest up.”
There's also another word. There's another Hebrew word that is very important in regard to hearing. That word is in 1 Samuel 15: 20-23. This is in the story of Saul when God told him to destroy all the spoil, but Saul didn't listen to the words of the Lord. He did half of it or maybe 90% but he kept some back. That wasn't good enough because God demands whole-hearted obedience, complete obedience, not half-hearted or half-way.
The prophet came to Saul and said: “Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord.” Because you'll remember that Saul's excuse was, “Well God, I didn't destroy all the animals because I kept some back for sacrifices.” That wasn't what God said. God said, “I want you to destroy all.” He went on to say: “Behold, to obey is better than to sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams, for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” That word “hearken” is the Hebrew word qashab, and it means “to prick up the ears.” Do you notice again this intensive listening? “To prick up the ears, sharpening them like an alert animal.” That's what happens out in the wild when an animal hears a sound. His ears prick up. He’s listening. You'll notice that even with your own dog, if you have a watchdog, they'll hear a sound before you ever hear it, and their ears go up. They are listening. This is the kind of hearing that God wants us to have, and it's all in the context of hearing and obeying.
This is such an important lesson to teach our children. Young mothers, you're in the throws of teaching your little ones and bigger ones to obey, but hopefully, you're doing a good job while they're little so when they get older, it will be a part of their lives. It will become their habit to obey. This is why it's so important to get it right while they're little. To make sure you do it right by teaching them to listen and then teaching them that when they hear you speak, they immediately obey.
WHEN YOUR CHILDREN LEARN TO LISTEN, THEY LEARN TO OBEY!
WHEN THEY LEARN TO OBEY YOU, THEY LEARN TO OBEY GOD!
WE ARE NOT ONLY TEACHING THEM HOW TO OBEY US. WE ARE PREPARING THEM AND TEACHING THEM HOW TO OBEY GOD!
Now, in the Bible, it talks about two different kinds of ears. In the New Testament, it talks about swift ears. In James 1:19: “Let every man be swift to hear.” That's that same kind of hearing, having the ears alert and ready and awake and listening. It also talks about dull ears where Paul had to challenge the Hebrews: “You are dull of hearing.”
Now, darling ladies, what kind of ears are you training your children to have? Are you training them to have lazy ears, dull ears, defiant ears, resistant ears, gullible ears? Or are you training them to have obedient ears? This is what we have to do, to give them this kind of training which is so important. It's amazing, isn't it, how today, even in the church, there must be thousands and thousands and thousands of believers who go to church every Sunday, and I guess I have to put myself in this place too. It's easy for all of us to do this . . . we can hear a great message; it's powerful; it's challenging and yes, we are listening, and we can even get convicted about it, but we go out of church and nothing changes. Our lives don't turn around. We are still the same as when we come into church next Sunday.
I wonder why that is. Is it because we have dull ears, resistant ears, or our ears have got into the habit of listening but not obeying? That's a dangerous thing. It’s a dangerous thing in our walk with God. It's amazing how we can hear so many wonderful sermons, they're all so powerful, they're all so good, they should revolution our lives, and we hear them, but we don't really obey them. Is that a result of our training that we've got used to hearing but not obeying?
That's why we have to train our children. That they will grow up with ears that are trained to obey, not only to obey us. So that when they read the Word and when they hear the Word at church, they will be responsive; they will immediately obey because that is the habit. It goes along together with listening.
That's what we've got to get, lovely ladies, and that's the kind of hearing God wants us to have, not just hearing but wholehearted hearing. Not just obeying when it suits us but obeying wholeheartedly. It's easy to obey when it's easy to obey. We all do that, when it fits in with our lifestyle, when it's easy. When it's hard, when it cuts across our lifestyle, when it causes us to turn around, are we still willing to obey? That's the challenge, but may God help us to be those who wholeheartedly obey.
No. 7. RICHLY FILLED WITH GOD’S WORD
God does not only want us to read His Word but to be RICHLY filled with His Word. Here again, there's another adjective. Are you getting the picture, dear ladies? It's not just ordinary, it's always above the ordinary.
We are not only to be reading the Word of God but to be filled with it. Not only filled with it, but RICHLY filled with it. Now, the word richly in the Greek is the Greek word, plousios, and it means “copiously, abundantly.” Now, that's the opposite to scarcely, barely, isn't it?
Where are we ladies? We will start with our own lives first. How much does God's Word fill our lives, and our hearts, and our minds? Are we filled richly? Some of you may have little ones all around you and you say, “How on earth do you expect me to be filling myself richly with the Word of God? I've hardly got time to pick up the Bible. Don't you know that I've got four little children under four.”
Don't worry, I had four under four. I had three under three at one time. I know what I'm talking about. I remember starting off in my young years. I came to the Lord as a child, but when I was 18 years of age, I completely and wholeheartedly dedicated my life to God and began to seek Him with all my heart. I began to set aside three hours a day to spend in the Word and with the Lord and in prayer. Those were glorious times in my life, but then I fell in love and got married and then children came along.
My first baby came along and then 17 months later, two babies came along. Surprisingly, I had twins. I didn't know until the very moment I had them. Now that seems hard to understand today, doesn't it? Way back in my day, they didn't have ultrasound, and my story was rather different. My husband and I were out on the mission field, and I conceived the twins while we were in the Philippine islands. I came back just before it was time to give birth to these babies. I was still thinking it was one baby, although I have to admit I wondered what I had inside me because whatever was inside me was hardly moving. I don't think there was much room for them to move. I realized I had something big inside me, and I wondered, how am I going to get his baby out?
Anyway, we got back from the Philippines to New Zealand, and I was 8 months, and I went to the doctor, and he said to me, “Well, everything looks fine,” never detected twins. He said to me, “I'm off to England, so when you're ready, just go into the hospital.” Back in those days, I didn't know anything about home-birthing. I went into the hospital on a false alarm; they still didn't detect twins. Can you believe it? I went back home again, and on my due date, I went in, started labor, and while I'm in labor the nurse is listening to the heartbeat with the old doppler and said, “That's strange, I can hear two heartbeats, well, maybe it's just an echo, so we will wait and see.”
Here I am, in labor. I gave birth to my daughter Evangeline, and they felt my tummy, “Yes there's another one” and that was the first news that I had that I was going to have twins! About five minutes later, I gave birth to Stephen, her twin brother. That was all a great surprise, so here I was now with three little babies in 17 months. My eldest was only 17 months. We had just got home from the Philippine islands. We were living out of suitcases, and it was pretty raw living, and I had no help.
Oh my, I certainly wondered what was happening to me in those days. I was overwhelmed. I was so tired it was like a pain, but I got through, and they were still wonderful days. Because things are difficult, challenging, painful, doesn't mean to say that they are terrible. They were glorious days, wonderful days; I would go through them all again.
I didn't have time now. I was used to having three hours a day just in the presence of the Lord and in His Word. Now, all I had was three babies needing my attention from morning till night and through the night. I hardly had time to get into the Word, so I had to learn to get what I could. I would put the Bible up on my window sill above the kitchen sink at Psalms or Proverbs where I could look up and get a Scripture. I'd have a Bible in the toilet (you do have to go there frequently), and there I could read another Scripture, just getting something to fortify my soul and to strengthen me.
I could read maybe a little bit perhaps while I was nursing the babies. It was more difficult as I was nursing twins and watching a little 17-month-old. I would just get the little bit as I could. Life was not all that season. That season passed. Then I did have four under four, and then others later, but still, as your children grow and then another one comes along, then you have older children who are able to help, so you don't stay in that same overwhelming season. Then, as time goes by, you can find more time, and you try to grab those little times that you can.
Some of you, your children are older. You've got more time to spend where you can get into the Word. I find a wonderful thing is having Family Devotions with your whole family. We have it morning and evening in our family, right up to this day. We still do this every morning and evening. Now, of course, my children are grown. Often, I'll get up early, five or so, and spend time in the Word, but perhaps, even if I haven't done that, I'm not going to miss out because every morning and every evening we are going to be sitting around the table listening and receiving the Word.
When my husband reads the Word, I open my ears and my heart to receive, just receive it into my soul so that its dwelling in me richly. It's important to make this happen in your family. Because not only is it important for you to get it, you have the responsibility to get the Word of God richly into your children's minds and hearts and mouths. We have the responsibility. It's not the Sunday school's responsibility or the church's responsibility. No, it's the responsibility of the parents. Perhaps you're already doing this, but if you're not, seek to make this happen in your home and establish this.
We have used different things over the years. When our children were teens, we would take a chapter of a book and read through a chapter every evening. Now, we use the Daily Light. It is wonderful. I really recommend the DAILY LIGHT ON THE DAILY PATH. It's a devotional book that is only the Word of God, and it has Scriptures for every morning and every evening. It's so easy. If your husband is not familiar with taking Family Devotions or reading the Word, he never grew up doing this or it's foreign to him, well, this is the answer. All you have to do is go the date, open the book and there's the Scriptures. There's not many, just a few, so it's not too many for the family.
You can get this book from my webpage, aboverubies.org. Look up the Daily Light on the Daily Path, and you can order it. We love it; we use it every morning and every night. My husband doesn't only read the Scriptures. He asks questions. He keeps it exciting and alive, and this is very important to do.
The latest copy of the Daily Light on the Daily Path is one that I put together about a year or so ago. At the beginning of every month, it gives you ideas on how to make it exciting, how to keep your children on their toes, how to keep them alert as you read the Scriptures. It's so easy to get into a dream. Even I can do this. In fact, even this morning, I got up pretty early this morning and came to devotion time and closed my eyes and was meditating on something my husband read, and I think I nearly went off to sleep. My husband asked me a question and oh dear me, “Sorry darling, what was that? Can you please read it again?” I guess I would have stayed in my dreamlike stupor if he hadn't asked me a question. I was pulled back into it again. But all of us can do that, and our children do it so easily. It's good to ask questions and have ideas of things to do to keep your children on their toes.
Sometimes my husband will read the wrong word, and if we don't notice it, he's saying, “Hey, were you listening? Did I read it correctly?” He might have to read it again, then we have to check what was the word he read wrongly. That's just one little idea. We have so many different ideas that you can pick up to make it exciting in your family. This is a wonderful way for you, as a mother, to receive the Word, and you're getting it into your children's lives.
I'd love to ask you a question. Does God's Word dwell richly in your children's lives? Or do they just have a little bit of it? I'm so amazed that when I meet so many young people today who are growing up in the church, they truly know little of the Word of God. They don't know much at all. It's scarce in their lives, instead of it filling them richly.
This is our responsibility, both personally and then our responsibility as a parent to our children. Let's do it, shall we? Let's be families who fill our children richly with the Word of God. This is the same thought that comes out in the shamar. Remember in Deuteronomy chapter 6, that's the next thing after loving God with all our hearts, we are to teach His word diligently to our children. Not only to teach the Word to them but to teach it diligently to them. The Amplified version of Deuteronomy 6 says: “You shall wet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate and teach and impress them diligently upon the minds of your children.” Now that's not ordinary teaching, that's intense teaching. That’s diligent teaching, to get it into them, so it's penetrating into their lives. It's getting right into the very depths and making it a part of them. What did Jesus say? He said: “If you continue in my Word, then you are my disciples indeed.” It's not some of the Word, it's continuing in the Word.
No. 7. BOLDLY PROCLAIMING GOD’S TRUTH
God doesn't want us to only speak out His truth, but to BOLDLY speak out His truth. If we read through the Acts of the apostles, I have listed here a load of Scriptures of examples of the early church and how they boldly spoke the Word of God, and they did that in the face of persecution.
Paul prayed in Ephesians 6:19: “That utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth BOLDLY to make known the mystery of the gospel.” Again, when he was writing to the Philippian believers, in Philippians 1:20. Paul's speaking: “According to my earnest expectation, and my hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed but that with all BOLDNESS, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Paul is not only speaking boldly here, but he's saying that even in my body, that I will boldly proclaim Jesus and Him crucified. He was saying those words, and in the Acts, these early believers, they were all speaking out boldly, not in good times like we have here in America, where we have freedom to speak the truth and speak the gospel, but they are doing it in the face of persecution. They could lose their lives. They were willing to lay down their lives to speak the truth, yet we are scared and afraid to speak out truth, to stand up for truth in a land where we have freedom of speech.
Oh yes, we can receive ridicule, negativity, and perhaps even quite a bit of rejection, but what's that? We are not losing our lives; we are not suffering in torment; we are not in prison; we are not being tormented; we are not being tortured for our faith like so many millions of Christians are across the world. We think of North Korea, where there are up to 50 or even more million Christians who are in prison suffering or even being tortured for their faith. We know nothing of that, yet we stay silent.
We are trying to change the world. I beg your pardon, we are not going to change the world while we be silent. We are not going to change the world while we only speak among ourselves. No, we are only going to change the world as we speak out boldly, when we are unafraid to speak out against that which is evil.
Why are we being overpowered today? Why has abortion, right up until the third trimester, become legal? Why is homosexuality legal today? When you think about it, how can it even be? It has happened in our society today, yet these people are a minority in our society, and they have changed the laws of our land. Why? Because they speak out boldly.
Now they are changing completely our education system. This whole homosexual agenda is now in our schools, even in our early grades. They have it in the system. Dear ladies, you've got to get your head out of the sand. Yes, it's in our education system today. At the end of last year, my husband and I were speaking at an Above Rubies' Family Camp. We had two high school teachers there with their families. These were homeschooling families, but both these men were teachers at highs schools. One brother got up and he said, “Please pray for me. I am at a high school where I am the only Christian, and the agenda of the school is completely to the left, and extreme socialism.”
He said the transgender agenda is to be motivated; in fact, he has two students in his class who are changing from one gender to another, and he is expected to applaud them and have the class applaud them and encourage them in what they are doing. He said they are not allowed to, in their school, use the personal pronouns of he and she. This is happening all over the nation. How is this happening? Because these people are speaking out boldly, even though they are a minority.
Why did the early church turn the then known world upside down? The Bible says, because they were not afraid to speak, even though they did it knowing they could be killed. They were laying down their lives. What does it say in Revelation 12:11: “That they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Well, it's easy to say that Scripture, isn't it? We are not facing that at this time. We do not know what's ahead in the future, but may God help us to be strong. May God help us to be bold now while we have time, while we have a season when we can speak freely, even if we are ridiculed, even if people say things against us. That's not losing our lives. Goodness me. Really, let's be ready to speak out.
I am amazed at our Above Rubies' retreats. We always have a special session, it's the last session of the retreat, and we open it up for testimonies. It's one of my favorite times, and it's so amazing to hear the glorious testimonies of so many women and what God is doing in their lives and changing them. I am amazed sometimes as women who have been extreme feminists and now share how God has changed them, and they are back in the home and embracing children.
Nothing is impossible to God; He does such wondrous things. That's why, lovely ladies, when you take out Above Rubies, and I hope you take out the Above Rubies magazine. Maybe you only get one copy just for yourself. Oh my! Do you think you could stretch your vision a little more, and get a few more magazines to share them with others? Put some in a plastic back in your handbag and take them wherever you go.
Put them in the waiting rooms if you're going to a doctor or dentist or hairdresser or hospital room and take them out at restaurants and supermarkets. There they have a restroom and a little baby changing table, and you can pull it down and pop in an Above Rubies, waiting for the next mother who comes. Let's take out the message. Let's be bold to take it out. Don't differentiate who you give it to. Sometimes you think, I could give it to some like-minded friends. I know this homeschooling mother, she would love it. Of course, she'll love it, but don't differentiate. Give it to whoever you come across. Let the work of differentiating be the Holy Spirit's work. You don't know who God will change. You will be amazed. God does things beyond what we could ever think and often the most unlikely person God can turn around and change their lives. I've heard so many testimonies of the most unlikely people, many times at our Above Rubies' retreats. I look at these beautiful mothers, and I see this beautiful mother with all her children, and she looks as though she's just lived this heavenly life. She gets up to give her testimony, and I'm nearly fainting on the floor because she's lived this most terrible life and what she has been through you can hardly believe, yet God has saved her and redeemed her and restored her and brought her back to His glorious ways. Let the Holy Spirit do the work, and you just sow the seed.
Another way you can get the message out, ladies, is to do it through your social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Now, I believe that social media can be such a waste of time, and I am amazed how many young mothers with little children around them still have time to do social media. They don't have time to get into the Word, but they still have time to do social media. A lot of it is a waste of time and junk, but you can use it for good. If you are on Facebook or you're on Instagram, or you're on Twitter, use it for the glory of God. Be bold to proclaim His truth, His ways. Be bold to expose evil when you come across it. Be a voice. You, as a mother in your home, can be a voice to hundreds as you send it out on your social media. Use it wisely. You can go to my Above Rubies Facebook and my Above Rubies Instagram, and you can take those words, and you can share them. Send them out to others. Don't just leave them there.
Keep spreading the Word. We've got to get this word out to mothers, to encourage women to come back to God's plan, back to building their marriages, and back to embracing their families and their home and building godly, strong homes. Use my posts and pictures to send out to your friends. Write your own and send them out. Don't waste time on social media but use it for the glory of God.
Last year, we had some pretty amazing movies. Did you go to see Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer? That was the most powerful and amazing movie to expose abortion. It was done so incredibly. It doesn't show you graphic pictures of aborted babies, but it is done through the court trial in such a way that the message comes across. This movie, you may have missed it, but it's now out on DVD. I would please encourage you to get it. You can go to the Internet and order it. Put in Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer. Get it. Not only watch it yourself, invite friends in to watch it with you. Invite neighbors in to watch it with you. Share it with others. Use it as a tool to get this message out.
It was very sad that, although the weekend this movie came out it was in the top ten in the nation, movie theaters would not continue playing it. It was too powerful. Now that the DVD is out, we have a responsibility to get this message out. Be bold. Come on now, precious ladies, I want you to order that movie and use it to really speak into people's lives all around your circle of friends and enemies and whoever you want to get it out to.
Another one is Death of a Nation. That was directed by Dinesh D'Souza, and it's out on DVD now too. It's so powerful. This exposes what's really happening in our nation, and you really need to get it. It's a documentary but a very powerful, fast-paced, action documentary. Your young people must see it. Your young people, if you have teens, must see Gosnell. They must see the Death of a Nation. They are important movies for them to see and I'd encourage you to get them and watch them. Show them to your young people. Get your young people to invite their friends in to watch to get the message out.
There's another couple of DVD's, too. They have been around for some time now, but they are still good if you have never seen them. One is Indoctrination. Maybe you need to be writing these down. Don't forget, first one is Gosnell, The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer. The other one was Death of a Nation, directed by Dinesh D'Souza, then there's Indoctrination. That's an expose of the public education system, which is very powerful and worth seeing if you never got to see it. The other one is Agenda: Grinding America Down. That's a very good DVD too. Get these tools and use them.
We are going to carry on next week.
“Dear Father, I thank You for this opportunity to open up Your precious Word. Thank You for showing us that You don't want us to be normal but above the normal. Help us, O God, to shine brightly, to speak boldly, to, O God, be the people You want us to be in this hour, proclaiming Your truth and revealing You, not only to our children, our families, but to all those we come in contact with. We ask it in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.”