As usual, I start creating the pattern
I use plastic sheets and paper adhesive tape and I draw half
of the collar so it will be symmetrical
I cut it and copy on foam
Cut it again and after take a break
glue it the pieces with hot glue
Draw the borders and principal figures
I will glue them on the collar later
Copy the forms on paper
copy it on foam and then glue them on the collar
to create a 3D effect
I do the same thing with all the borders
then I create the gems with hot glue and a silicone mold
When I decided when the gems would be I glue them on it
and colour the piece with acrylics
I make the laces
using a fabric tape
gluing them with hot glue
For the headpiece I create the pattern as well
using a bald cap. Take the scotch
make a drawing, cut it
and copy it on foam
Cut all the pieces
and glue the pinces and the two halfs
Draw and cut the feathers
that I will glue on the headpiece
add borders with foam
For the cat ears I draw a square
with a round angle and glue the base
I glue the feathers on the headpiece as well
and start drawing the diadem
I draw different forms
so I create a 3D effect
When I glue details and gems on it
it's ready to be glued on the headpiece
Cut the upper part of the headpiece
and cut off the foam excess under the feathers
Finally I glue the diadem on
Add a border along the upper part of the headpiece and colour it
For the prosthetic I use a face casting
I have a video tutorial on how to create it
add plasticine and sculp the piece
Also for this part of the process
I have a video tutorial on how
to sculpt a prosthetic and how to create a mold
Add texture and blend the borders
with petroleum
Create a border for the mold
Add oil on the plaster part
and put plaster inside the borders
When it dries remove the mold
and use liquid latex to create the prosthetic
I have a video about it too
After few latex layers
I use talc to take it away from the mold
For the teeth I used Thermoform
a thermoplastic material that melts
and models with high temperatures, so using hot water
or a thermal gun
I take a little piece
And being careful not to burn
a take a bite of my teeth
Then I use smaller pieces to create
and stick the teeth
Create a texture
on teeth and gums
and use alchool colours
and teeth colour
For the make up I start using Pros-Aide
to cover my outer half brow
I used a disposable spatula
because it is very sticky and it's difficult to clean it
I do the same with the prosthetic
I put glue inside it and wait few seconds
Put it on the face
and I use a cotton fioc to help me
blending the edges
I try to minimize the edges as better as I can
I use translucent powder to mattyfing the glue
or the brush will stick on it
For the base I use the Drop foundation by Nyx on the skin and the prosthetic
for a good coverage I use
about 3 4 drops
For the concealer I use this one by Nyx
which is so pigmented and I used it on dark circles
on spots, on brows
and along the borders of the prosthetic
Fix it with a powder
I use the Alabaster Touch powder by Neve Cosmetics
For the eyes
I start applying a warm brown in the crease
I use the Daily Mood palette by Mulac
To create the cut crease I use
the Nyx white base on the lid
and to create the outer wing
Apply Velocy eyeshadow by Sugarpill
on the outer half part
of the lid
I apply Pika eyeshadow by Mulac
In the inner corner
from the Daily Mood palette
I use a light shimmer eyeshadow on the yellow
to create a vibrant yellow gold colour
I use Ink by Mulac
to fill the wing
and apply it in the crease
With the previous warm eyeshadow I do the countouring
and with a darker brown and a red eyeshadow
I create the shadows along the prosthetic
Blend the red along the lower lash line
Use the Nyx Vinyl eyeliner
along the upper lash line and to create the borders of the wing
adding few details on the prosthetic
Add more shadows
and apply a black pencil in the waterline
Apply mascara
and finally false lashes
In the lower lip I apply I Slay, Okay by Mulac
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D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES PRESENTS
TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION MARKS A BIG ANNIVERSARY
THIS FALL BUT WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE
TODAY?
WE'LL LOOK AT THE NEED TO BE "SEMPER REFORMANDA, OR
"ALWAYS REFORMING" TODAY ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
♪
WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM, A PRODUCTION OF
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES, WHERE WE ARE STANDING FOR
TRUTH AND DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
THIS YEAR WE CELEBRATE THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE
PROTESTANT REFORMATION, WHICH BEGAN WHEN MARTIN
LUTHER NAILED HIS 95 THESES TO THE CHURCH DOOR
IN WITTENBURG, GERMANY.
AT THE TIME, EVEN LUTHER COULD HARDLY HAVE KNOWN
WHAT HE WAS UNLEASHING.
BECAUSE OF THE REFORMATION, THE BIBLE
BECAME WIDELY AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE
CHURCH, AND THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF
THE WORD OF GOD CHANGED THE WORLD.
THE REFORMERS REDISCOVERED THE TRUTH THAT JESUS WAS
NOT MERELY LORD OVER SOME SEQUESTERED SPIRITUAL
REALM, BUT OVER EVERYTHING.
SO HOW DOES THAT AFFECT YOUR LIFE?
ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, WE WILL LOOK AT THAT
QUESTION.
YOU WILL SEE THE STORY OF A MAN WHO WROUGHT MAJOR
CHANGE IN AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION BASED UPON
REFORMATION PRINCIPLES.
AND WE WILL SHARE A NEW RESOURCE WITH YOU THAT
WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO SEEK TO DO GOD'S WILL IN EVERY
SPHERE OF LIFE.
IT'S A BRAND NEW BOOK FROM OUR MINISTRY CALLED MAKE
YOUR LIFE COUNT: DISCOVER GOD'S PLAN FOR THE REST OF
YOUR LIFE, AND JOHN RABE, ONE OF THE CO-AUTHORS WHO
IS PART OF OUR MINISTRY TEAM, IS HERE WITH ME TO
DISCUSS IT.
JOHN, WELCOME.
THANK YOU FRANK, ALWAYS GOOD TO BE WITH YOU.
GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE AS WELL; WE THOUGHT THIS BOOK
WAS IMPORTANT TO MAKE AND TO DO, WHY DO YOU THINK
IT'S NEEDED IN THIS TIME?
WE HAVE A REAL PROBLEM TODAY FRANK, WITH
CHRISTIANS FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
I THINK THE PROCESS OF SECULARISM IS PART OF IT,
JUST BIBLICAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS, BUT WE
HAVE A REAL PROBLEM WITH CHRISTIANS UNDERSTANDING
GOD'S WILL AND GOD'S DESIGN AND GOD'S PLAN FOR
EVERY AREA OF LIFE.
THEY HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF IT ON SUNDAY MORNING,
THEY HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF GOD'S WILL IN THEIR
SPIRITUAL LIFE, BUT WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT THEY VERY
OFTEN LACK A BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW GOD
RELATES TO ALL THE OTHER SPHERES OF LIFE INCLUDING
OUR WORK, OUR DAILY WORK, OUR LABOR IN THE LORD, THE
GOVERNMENT, THE WORLD OF SCIENCE, OUR FAMILIES, AND
SO WE WANTED TO PUT TOGETHER AN EASY TO READ
RESOURCE THAT WOULD HELP PEOPLE TO EASILY
UNDERSTAND GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY AND GOD'S
DESIGN AND CHRIST'S LORDSHIP OVER EVERY AREA
OF LIFE, HE DOESN'T JUST APPLY TO SUNDAY MORNINGS.
ONE OF THE REFORMATION PRINCIPLES WAS THAT THERE
IS NO SEPARATION IN LIFE FOR THE CHRISTIAN BETWEEN
SECULAR THINGS AND SCARED THINGS.
THE REAL CHALLENGE HERE IS APPLYING A BIBLICAL WORLD
VIEW TO THE SEEMINGLY SECULAR PARTS OF LIFE.
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH
DOING THAT?
THIS IS REALLY AN IMPORTANT POINT BECAUSE I
FOUND THAT MANY EVEN MOST EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS WHO
BELIEVE THE BIBLE STILL HAVE TROUBLE SEEING HOW
GOD RELATES TO ALL OF THEIR DIFFERENT AREAS OF
LIFE AND ALL THEIR DIFFERENT AREAS OF
EXPERIENCE.
IN THE REFORMATION, THEY RECOVERED THE IDEA THAT
THERE IS NO DIVIDE BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE
SECULAR, THAT THE THINGS OF GOD ARE EVERYTHING,
THAT ALL OF IT IS GOD'S CREATION, HE'S LORD OVER
ALL OF IT AND SO THERE'S NOT SOME SPECIAL SPACE OR
SOME SPECIAL PART OF LIFE THAT HE'S LORD OVER TO THE
EXCLUSION OF THE OTHERS.
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE'RE FALLING BACK
INTO THAT VIEW POINT IN A VERY SECULAR CULTURE.
I REMEMBER TALKING TO A GUY ONCE AND I THOUGHT
THIS WAS UNFORTUNATE, HE WAS ELDERLY AND HE SAID I
WASTED 50 YEARS OF MY LIFE BEING A DENTIST BUT NOW
I'M FINALLY LIVING FOR THE LORD.
WELL, HE DIDN'T MEAN THAT HE HAD JUST BEEN CONVERTED
AFTER HE RETIRED FROM DENTISTRY; HE WAS SAYING
HE WASTED HIS TIME AS A DENTIST.
AND MY FEELING ON THAT WAS, NO YOU'VE
MISUNDERSTOOD.
GOD WANTS DENTISTS, GOD HAS CREATED PEOPLE TO BE
DENTISTS AND CREATED PEOPLE TO BE PLUMBERS AND
CREATED PEOPLE TO BE COMPUTER SCIENTISTS AND
EVERY REALM OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE, BUT WHEN WE
SEE THIS THICK LINE, THIS BRIGHT LINE DRAWN BETWEEN
THE SCARED AND THE SECULAR THEN ONLY THE THINGS ON
THE CHURCHY SIDE ARE OF VALUE AND EVERYTHING ON
THIS SIDE BECOMES VALUELESS.
WELL, THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT ALMOST ALL OF OUR
LIVES ARE LIVED OVER ON THE "WORLD" SIDE OF THE LINE.
SO HOW DO WE MAKE MEANING OF THAT, EITHER WE SAY IT
HAS NO MEANING, OR WE RECOGNIZE THAT GOD HAS
INDEED ORDAINED ALL OF THE SPHERES OF DAILY LIFE,
INCLUDING THE ONES THAT USED TO BE CALLED SECULAR,
AND THAT HE HAS A DESIGN AND INTENTION FOR US IN
EACH OF THOSE.
RIGHT.
DUTCH THEOLOGIAN AND PRIME MINISTER ABRAHAM KUYPER
SAID THERE'S NOT ONE SQUARE INCH IN THE WHOLE
DOMAIN OF HUMAN EXISTENCE OVER WHICH CHRIST WHO IS
SOVEREIGN OVER ALL DOES NOT SAY MINE, IT'S ALL
UNDER HIS SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY.
WHAT DOES THE WORLD LOOK LIKE WHEN CHRISTIANS TAKE
THAT SERIOUSLY, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN WE BEGIN
TO APPLY THE WORD OF GOD TO ALL OF THESE SPHERES
THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS BOOK.
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IS POWERFUL REFORMATION, AND
THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT WE SAW HAPPENING BEGINNING IN
THE 1500'S BEGINNING WITH MARTIN LUTHER.
THE WORD OF GOD WAS BROUGHT TO BEAR ON EVERY
AREA OF LIFE, AND AS A RESULT, AMERICA IS ONE OF
THE RESULTS OF THAT HAPPENING, THAT WHEN
PEOPLE TAKE THE BIBLE SERIOUSLY AND USE THE WORD
OF GOD, APPLY THE WORD OF GOD TO EVERY SPHERE OF
LIFE, IT TRANSFORMS EVERY SPHERE OF LIFE AND SO JUST
AS A RESULT OF THE REFORMATION, YOU HAVE
WIDESPREAD EDUCATION AND WIDESPREAD LITERACY FOR ALL.
YOU HAD THE PROLIFERATION OF HOSPITALS TO CARE FOR
THE SICK WHO HAD BEEN NEGLECTED AMONG THOSE WITH
A NON-BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW.
YOU HAD A CHANGE IN POLITICS WHERE LIBERTY
BECAME VALUED AND WE RECOGNIZED THAT KINGS AND
RULERS WERE CORRUPT AND THAT THEY NEEDED TO HAVE
THEIR POWER CHECKED.
WHEN WE BRING CHRIST'S SOVEREIGNTY TO BEAR IN
EVERY AREA OF LIFE, WHAT WE SEE IS COMPLETE
TRANSFORMATION OF ALL THE AREAS OF LIFE.
ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE'RE OFTEN SO INEFFECTIVE
AND FEEL LIKE WE'RE BEATING OUR HEADS AGAINST
THE WALL IN DAILY LIFE IS BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T BROUGHT
THE MIND OF CHRIST TO BEAR ON EVERYTHING AROUND US,
WHEN WE DO, MAJOR TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS AND
THE WESTERN WORLD IS REALLY A RESULT OF THAT.
FRIENDS THIS BOOK AGAIN IS CALLED MAKE YOUR LIFE
COUNT: DISCOVER GOD'S PLAN FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
WE WANT TO SHARE THIS BOOK WITH YOU, AS OUR THANKS
FOR A GENEROUS DONATION TO THE ONGOING WORK OF OUR
MINISTRY.
IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY OF THIS BOOK MAKE YOUR LIFE
COUNT: DISCOVER GOD'S PLAN FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
OR CALL TOLL FREE:
OR GO ONLINE TO:
WHICH STANDS FOR MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT.
JOHN, THANKS FOR BEING WITH US, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE.
THANK YOU FRANK, ALWAYS ENJOY IT.
OCTOBER 31ST, IT MARKS THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF
MARTIN LUTHER STRIKING THE SPARK THAT LAUNCHED THE
PROTESTANT REFORMATION.
BUT THESE DAYS, MANY PEOPLE OFTEN DON'T EVEN
KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PROTESTANT.
DO YOU?
DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY GIVES US A CRYSTAL-CLEAR PICTURE
OF WHAT THE REFORMATION WAS CHIEFLY ABOUT, AND WHAT IT
MEANS TO BE A PROTESTANT, IN THIS PORTION OF HIS
MESSAGE, "THE REFORMATION: THEN AND NOW."
OCTOBER 31ST IS, OF COURSE, REFORMATION DAY.
IT IS THE BIRTHDAY OF PROTESTANTISM.
ARE YOU A PROTESTANT?
MANY PROTESTANTS AREN'T.
WHY THEY HAVE NO MORE IDEA WHAT THE REFORMATION WAS
ABOUT THAN THEY COULD EXPLAIN TO YOU THE SPECIAL
THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
THEY HAVE NO MORE IDEA WHAT THE GOSPEL IS THAN
THOSE THAT LIVED IN THE DEPTHS OF THE DARK AGES.
THEY ARE MEMBERS OF A CHURCH BY ACCIDENT OF
BIRTH, AND THEY ATTEND BY MERE HABIT, AND THEY WOULD
HAVE NO MORE IDEA WHEN THEY WENT INTO ONE CHURCH
WHETHER THE PREACHER WAS PREACHING THE GOSPEL OR
WHETHER HE WAS PREACHING THE ABSOLUTE ANTITHESIS TO
IT.
WHAT LUTHER REDISCOVERED WAS SIMPLY "GRACE."
AND IF ANYONE HAS THE IDEA THAT GRACE IS SOMETHING
THAT YOU EARN BY YOUR GOOD LIFE OR YOUR GOOD WORKS,
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GRACE IS.
GRACE IS THAT WHICH IS TOTALLY UNEARNED, TOTALLY
UNDESERVED, TOTALLY UNWORKED FOR.
IT IS FREE; IT IS GIVEN TO PEOPLE WHO DESERVE THE
VERY OPPOSITE.
IT IS HEAVEN GIVEN TO PEOPLE THAT OUGHT TO GO TO
HELL.
IT IS THE ASTOUNDING, AMAZING GRACE OF GOD WHICH
IS UNLIKE ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD.
AND WE SIMPLY TURN IT AROUND AND MAKE IT INTO
SOME KIND OF MERIT OF OUR OWN.
NOW IT SEEMS THAT THERE IS SOMETHING PECULIAR ABOUT
FALLEN SINFUL MAN WHICH MAKES IT SOME WAY
SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO HOLD ON TO GRACE
FOR TOO LONG.
BUT CHRIST, IN THE EFFULGENCE OF HIS GLORY
AND THE WONDER OF HIS GRACE, DIED ON THE CROSS
AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND OFFERS SALVATION FREELY,
GRATUITOUSLY, GRACIOUSLY TO EVERY UNDESERVING,
UNWORTHY SINNER WHO WILL BELIEVE IN HIS CROSS.
UNDESERVED, UNEARNED- THAT IS GRACE.
AND LUTHER CAME ACROSS THAT PASSAGE IN ROMANS
1:17, WHICH IS CALLED THE "BIRTH TEXT" OF
PROTESTANTISM.
IT IS CARVED INTO THIS PULPIT IN FRONT OF YOU:
"AS IT IS WRITTEN, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH"
ROMANS 1:17.
I THINK HE SUMMED IT UP SO VERY WELL WHEN HE PRAYED
THIS PRAYER.
THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PROTESTANT.
THIS IS WHAT IS MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN.
THIS IS WHAT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST IS.
HE SAID, "O LORD JESUS CHRIST, BE THOU MY
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BE THOU MY SIN."
THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN, TO HAVE
THE PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JESUS CHRIST CLOTH YOU
AS A WHITE ROBE, AS OUR SINS WERE ALL IMPUTED TO
CHRIST.
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IMPUTED TO US AND WE ARE
MADE FAULTLESS TO STAND BEFORE THE EYES OF AN
ALL-HOLY GOD.
SALVATION IS BY GRACE.
IT IS UNEARNED, UNDESERVED, UNMERITED.
IT IS PROVIDED BY CHRIST ALONE, AND IS RECEIVED BY
A SIMPLE TRUST IN HIM.
ARE YOUR TRUSTING IN YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, YOUR
OWN GOODNESS, YOUR OWN MERIT?
IF SO, YOU ARE RIGHT BACK WHERE THEY WERE BEFORE
ABRAHAM, BACK IN PAGAN DARKNESS.
THAT IS WHAT EVERY PAGAN RELIGION IN THE WORLD
BELIEVES.
BUT CHRISTIANITY IS THE GOSPEL OF GRACE FREELY
BESTOWED UPON ALL WHO WILL BELIEVE.
AS DR. KENNEDY EXPLAINED TODAY, THE HEART AND SOUL
OF THE GOSPEL IS THAT WE CAN BE JUSTIFIED BEFORE A
HOLY GOD THROUGH FAITH ALONE IN JESUS CHRIST'S
WORK ON OUR BEHALF.
AND THAT TRUTH WAS REDISCOVERED BY MARTIN
LUTHER AND OTHERS AS THEY PUT ASIDE THE ERRORS OF
MEN THAT HAD CREPT INTO THE CHURCH'S THEOLOGY AND
WENT BACK TO THE SCRIPTURES ALONE.
IN OUR OWN DAY, THE NEED TO BE SEMPER REFORMANDA,
OR "ALWAYS REFORMING" IS AS GREAT AS IT WAS THEN.
AS YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE, ONE MAN- AL MOHLER-
DISCOVERED THAT NEED FOR THE CORRECTION OF GOD'S
WORD IN ONE OF AMERICA'S LARGEST SEMINARIES.
AND LIKE MARTIN LUTHER, HE DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IS
THE OLDEST OF THE SIX SOUTHERN BAPTIST
SEMINARIES.
LIBERALISM SPREAD WIDELY ON THIS FACULTY, SO THAT
BY THE 1960'S, THE FACULTY WAS THOROUGHLY LIBERAL.
SOUTHERN SEMINARY WAS OUR MOST PRESTIGIOUS SEMINARY
AND LITERALLY, LITERALLY WE HAD 2 PROFESSORS WHO
WERE INERRANTISTS.
ONE STUDENT WHO GRADUATED FROM THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN THE 1980'S WAS ALBERT
MOHLER.
WHEN I ARRIVED HERE AS A STUDENT IN 1980, TO BE
HONEST, I HAD A DUAL EXPERIENCE.
ON THE ONE HAND, I WAS THRILLED WITH THE
INSTITUTION.
IT REALLY HIT ALL OF MY INTELLECTUAL INTEREST
BUTTONS.
BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF IT WAS THAT THEOLOGICALLY I
BECAME VERY MUCH AN ALIEN.
AS I BEGAN TO HEAR THINGS THAT I JUST KNEW WERE NOT
RIGHT.
BY THE TIME ALBERT MOHLER GRADUATED FROM THE
SEMINARY WITH HIS PH. D THERE WAS A BATTLE FOR
THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF THE BIBLE RAGING ACROSS
THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS DID NOT SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT
THEIR MONEY, GIVEN TO THE DENOMINATION WAS GOING TO
PAY THE SALARIES OF PROFESSORS HERE WHO WERE
UNDERMINING THE FAITH OF THE YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG
WOMEN WHO THEY WERE SENDING TO THIS INSTITUTION.
A MOVEMENT BEGAN AMONG THE CHURCHES TO APPOINT
CONSERVATIVE TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN SEMINARY WHO
BELIEVED IN THE FULL INERRANCY AND
TRUSTWORTHINESS OF THE BIBLE.
BUT THERE WAS VERY LITTLE THAT COULD BE DONE UNTIL
YOU HIRE A NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
AND SO IN 1993, THEY WERE ABLE TO INITIATE A SEARCH
FOR A NEW PRESIDENT AND GOD RAISED UP R. ALBERT MOHLER.
WHEN I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT, THAT WAS JUST
THE OPENING OF THE DOOR TO THE KIND OF REFORMATION
THAT HAD TO TAKE PLACE.
AND AS SOON AS I WAS NAMED, EVEN BEFORE I WAS
ELECTED, THE BATTLE STARTED.
THE SEMINARY HAD A STATEMENT OF FAITH CALLED
"THE ABSTRACT OF PRINCIPLES" THAT ALL
PROFESSORS WERE SUPPOSED TO ABIDE BY AFFIRMING SUCH
BASIC CHRISTIAN TRUTHS AS THE TRINITY, THE BODILY
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, AND THE NECESSITY OF FAITH
IN CHRIST FOR SALVATION.
I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT ALMOST EVERY ARTICLE IN
THE ABSTRACT HAD TO HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED BY
TEACHING IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER.
WHEN I WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT, AND FOR MANY
YEARS BEFORE THAT, I ENCOUNTERED A FACULTY WHO
CLAIMED AN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT OF INTERPRETATION OF
THE CONFESSION OF FAITH.
WELL, THAT MEANS THAT THE CONFESSION OF FAITH IS
ABSOLUTELY MEANINGLESS.
EVERY SINGLE FACULTY MEMBER HAS TO SIGN A
CONTRACT PLEDGING TO TEACH IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND NOT
CONTRARY TO ALL THAT IS CONTAINED THEREIN.
I KNEW WHEN I DELIVERED MY OPENING CONVOCATION
ADDRESS BACK IN 1993 THAT IT WAS, IN ESSENCE, A
DECLARATION OF WAR.
AND SO WHEN I WALKED IN THE CHAPEL FOR THAT FIRST
CONVOCATION, A GOOD NUMBER OF THE STUDENT LEADERS
ACTUALLY STOOD AND TURNED THEIR BACK TO ME AS I
PREACHED.
I PREACHED A MESSAGE ENTITLED "DON'T JUST DO
SOMETHING, STAND THERE," ON THE NATURE OF SOUTHERN
SEMINARY AS A CONFESSIONAL INSTITUTION.
I WALKED THROUGH THE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS OF
THE FACULTY MEMBER, AND THEN I WALKED THROUGH THE
CONFESSION OF FAITH.
AND I SAID, "IF YOU STAND IN THESE TRUTHS, THEN YOU
NEED TO STAY HERE.
BUT IF YOU DO NOT, YOU HAVE ALREADY HEARD BY THE
VERY WORDS OF THE CONTRACT YOU SIGNED THAT YOU SHOULD
NOT BE TEACHING IN THIS INSTITUTION."
DR. MOHLER'S COMMITMENT TO REFORMING THE SEMINARY
IGNITED A FIRESTORM OF PROTEST AMONG STUDENTS
AND FACULTY.
THERE WERE DAYS IN WHICH I HAD PROTESTERS IN THE
HALLWAYS, STUDENTS FOR UPWARDS OF 70 DAYS WITH A
VIGIL, AND A SIT-IN.
THAT DRAWS ATTENTION.
WE HAD TELEVISION CAMERAS ALL OVER THE PLACE.
WE HAD HELICOPTERS OVER THE CAMPUS EVERY TIME WE
HAD SOME KIND OF EVENT.
I WAS AMBUSHED BY REPORTERS SEVERAL TIMES A
WEEK.
I SAW SOMETHING HANGING FROM ONE OF THE TREES, AND
I TURNED TO MY VICE PRESIDENT, AND I SAID,
"WHAT'S THAT?"
AND A LITTLE AWKWARDLY, HE SAID, "THAT'S YOU."
I'D BEEN HUNG IN EFFIGY.
NOW I KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN DONE TO OTHERS BEFORE.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING I HAD CONTEMPLATED BEING DONE OF
ME.
BUT YOU KNOW, SOMEHOW THE LORD JUST USED ALL OF THAT
TO STEEL MY RESOLVE.
I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF AL DIDN'T FEEL THE NEED
FOR A FOOD TASTER FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS THERE, THE
FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS HE WAS THERE, BECAUSE I MEAN
HE WAS HATED.
IT WAS A VERY STRANGE THING TO COME HERE FROM
LIKE THE IDYLLIC SUBURBAN ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD, JUST
NORMAL FAMILY WITH TWO KIDS, TO BE VAULTED HERE
TO A DIFFERENT CALLING.
THERE WERE PROTESTS OUT IN THE FRONT LAWN OF OUR HOME
WHICH IS QUITE FINE TO A FOUR YEAR OLD AND A ONE
YEAR OLD WHO JUST ASSUME IT'S A PARTY, THEY DIDN'T
UNDERSTAND, THEY WEREN'T READING THE HEADLINES,
THEY WEREN'T WATCHING THE EVENING NEWS, THEY WEREN'T
READING THE STUFF THAT WAS GOING ON AND SO THEY WERE
REALLY PROTECTED FROM THAT.
MANY WERE THE DAYS EARLY ON WHEN AL WOULD COME HOME
FOR DINNER AND I WOULD JUST SEE THIS LOOK ON HIS
FACE, YOU COULD JUST TELL BY HIS DEMEANOR THAT SOME
OTHER SHOE HAD DROPPED, AND THAT SOMETHING ELSE
HAD HAPPENED.
ONE OF THE MOST SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY,
TURNED TO ME AND HE SAID, WE HAVE OUR OWN RIGHT
TO INTERPRET WHAT THE CONFESSION OF FAITH SAYS.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT, NOR DO THE TRUSTEES, NOR DOES THE
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, NOR DO THE
FOUNDERS OF THE INSTITUTION, HAVE ANY
RIGHT TO SAY, 'THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE MUST
BELIEVE.
THIS IS HOW EVERYONE MUST UNDERSTAND THESE WORDS.'
AND HE LOOKED TO ME AND SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU GONNA
SAY TO THAT?"
AND I SIMPLY SAID, "YOU'RE FIRED."
AND THERE WAS A BIT OF SHOCK IN THE ROOM.
AND, HE TURNED TO ME, AND HE SAID, "YOU'LL NOT GET
AWAY WITH THAT."
AND THE REASON FOR THAT, WHICH HE MADE CLEAR, IS
BECAUSE HE HAS A CONTRACT.
BUT YOU KNOW, HE JUST SAID THAT EVERYONE HAS THE
RIGHT TO INTERPRET EVERY TEXT FOR HIMSELF.
SO ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW, WE HAD TWO SETS OF RULES: ONE
SET OF RULES WHEN IT CAME TO THE CONFESSION OF
FAITH- YOU CAN INTERPRET IT ANYWAY YOU WANNA
INTERPRET IT- AND THEN ANOTHER SET WITH HIS
CONTRACT.
DR. MOHLER, BECAUSE WE HAD A MAJORITY OF THE TRUSTEES
WHO ELECTED HIM AS PRESIDENT HE WAS ABLE,
OVER TIME, TO SUBTRACT FROM THE SEMINARY MOST OF
THOSE PROFESSORS.
NOW HE DIDN'T HAVE TO FIRE, BUT ONE OR TWO, MOST
OF THEM LEFT.
90% OF THE PEOPLE BELIEVED IN THE INERRANCY OF
SCRIPTURE BUT YOU HAD SEMINARIES WHERE 1% OR
LESS OF THE PROFESSORS BELIEVED THAT INERRANCY
AND WE WERE ABLE TO TURN IT AROUND SO THAT NOW, AS
I SPEAK TO YOU, WE HAVE 6 SOUTHERN BAPTIST
SEMINARIES AND EVERY PROFESSOR IN EVERY
DEPARTMENT OF EACH OF OUR 6 SEMINARIES BELIEVES IN
THE INERRANCY AND THE INFALLIBILITY OF EVERY
PART OF THE WORD OF GOD.
IT'S SO HARD TO THINK BACK TO THOSE DAYS NOW BECAUSE
THIS IS SUCH A HAPPY PLACE AND WE HAVE SUCH A
WONDERFUL TEAM OF PEOPLE HERE NOW WHO WORK WITH US
THAT IT STRETCHES THE IMAGINATION TO REALIZE
THAT IT WASN'T ALWAYS THAT WAY.
WHAT HARDLY SEEMS POSSIBLE IS THAT THE LORD HAS
PROSPERED THIS INSTITUTION IN WHICH WE'RE NOW ABLE TO
LOOK AT ABOUT 4500 STUDENTS, ONE OF THE
LARGEST THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
YOU KNOW, I OFTEN TELL PEOPLE, THE LORD ALLOWED
ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD THE SEMINARY THAT
I WOULD WANT TO ATTEND.
AS WE SEE IN THE LIFE OF DR. AL MOHLER, A
COMMITMENT TO THE TRUTH OF CHRIST AFFECTS EVERYTHING-
FROM YOUR WORK TO YOUR FAMILY TO YOUR CHURCH.
YET SO OFTEN, CHRISTIANS FAIL TO UNDERSTAND THIS.
THEY FIND THEMSELVES LIVING INEFFECTIVE LIVES
BECAUSE THEY DON'T SEE HOW GOD'S TRUTH CONNECTS TO
EVERY AREA OF LIFE.
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GOD NEVER INTENDED YOUR FAITH TO BE SOMETHING
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MORNING WHERE IT NEVER TOUCHES ALL THE DAILY
ISSUES OF LIFE.
AS THE GREAT THEOLOGIAN ABRAHAM KUYPER PUT IT,
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WANT TO GLOSS OVER OUR DIFFERENCES.
FOR SOME, THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION- OR EVEN THE
IDEA OF "PROTESTANTISM" IS KIND OF EMBARRASSING.
BECAUSE TO BE PROTESTANT MEANS TO BE "IN PROTEST"
OF SOMETHING.
WHEN MARTIN LUTHER NAILED HIS 95 THESES TO THE
CHURCH DOOR IN WITTENBURG 500 YEARS AGO, HE WAS
DOING SO IN OPPOSITION- IN PROTEST- TO THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
IN OUR DAY, MANY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DIVIDE WOULD
RATHER ACT AS IF IT HAD NEVER HAPPENED.
SEVERAL EVANGELICAL SCHOLARS HAVE WRITTEN
RECENT BOOKS PROCLAIMING THE REFORMATION TO BE
OVER, AND EVEN ASSERTING THAT MUCH OF IT WAS ONE
BIG MISUNDERSTANDING TO BEGIN WITH.
IN A POSTMODERN ERA, SOME FIND IT HARD TO IMAGINE
ANY TRUTH CLAIM WORTH DIVIDING OVER.
BUT WHILE A DESIRE FOR UNITY IS OFTEN
COMMENDABLE, THE APOSTLE PAUL IS CLEAR THAT UNITY
CANNOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TRUTH OF THE
GOSPEL.
AND THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL, REDISCOVERED BY
MARTIN LUTHER AND THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM, IS THAT
WE WHO ARE SINNERS CAN STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT
SEAT OF A HOLY GOD ONLY CLOTHED BY FAITH IN JESUS
CHRIST.
JESUS DIED TO PAY THE PENALTY FOR OUR SINS ONCE
AND FOR ALL, AND HE LIVED THE PERFECT, RIGHTEOUS
LIFE THAT YOU AND I HAVE MISERABLY FAILED TO LIVE.
BUT BY FAITH- FAITH ALONE- IN JESUS CHRIST, WE ARE
SAVED.
AS THE APOSTLE PAUL TELLS US, "FOR BY GRACE YOU HAVE
BEEN SAVED THROUGH FAITH.
AND THIS IS NOT YOUR OWN DOING; IT IS THE GIFT OF
GOD, NOT A RESULT OF WORKS, SO THAT NO ONE MAY
BOAST."
TO BELIEVE THAT SALVATION IS BY FAITH ALONE AND THAT
IT IS THE WORK OF CHRIST ALONE IS WHAT IT MEANS TO
BE A PROTESTANT.
WE LOVE AND RESPECT OUR CATHOLIC FRIENDS, AND WE
STAND TOGETHER WITH THEM ON THE SANCTITY OF LIFE
AND MARRIAGE, AND AGAINST SECULARISM.
BUT WE ALSO DO NOT PAPER OVER THE REAL DIVISION
THAT WAS EXPOSED 500 YEARS AGO- THE DIVISION BETWEEN
THE TRADITION AND OFFICIAL TEACHING OF THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF THE
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Gelato Skip with Yoshi on NTSC-U/PAL - Duration: 1:29.
You want to position Yoshi about here, facing the beach.
I like to line up his shadow with the ring near the blender
But feel free to use a different visual cue (just don't get him stuck on the blender :P)
This part will take some fiddling around, but you want to position Mario roughly this high on the roof
The best visual cue I could come up with is the slanted texture next to Mario's left foot
I also sidestep to adjust my position, because jumping will make you mount Yoshi
Once you are set up, jump & quickly ground pound to get onto Yoshi
And once you clip, simply flutter into position over the shine (usually a brief tap backwards will do)
Now in real time
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Truths That Transform - A True Christian Statesman: William Wilberforce - Duration: 28:31.
D. JAMES KENNEDY PRESENTS TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
AMERICA HAS JUST BEEN THROUGH A DEEPLY
CONTENTIOUS ELECTION SEASON.
BUT ONCE AGAIN WE REMIND OURSELVES THAT OUR HOPE IS
NOT IN THE GOVERNMENT OR THE PRESIDENCY,
BUT IN ALMIGHTY GOD.
HIS LIVING ACTIVE WORD, THE BIBLE,
FOSTERS TRUE CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP- BUT HOW CAN
WE ENCOURAGE THAT QUALITY?
FIND OUT ON TODAY'S TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
THIS IS TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
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WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM,
A VIEWER SUPPORTED PROGRAM.
I'M FRANK WRIGHT, PRESIDENT OF
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES.
AT THE END OF ANOTHER ELECTION SEASON,
WE ARE YET AGAIN REMINDED HOW DEEPLY OUR NATION
NEEDS CHRISTIAN STATESMEN.
SUCH LEADERS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN.
BUT THAT WILL HAVE TO CHANGE IF WE ARE TO
CONTINUE AS A FREE PEOPLE.
THE DEEP CULTURAL TIDES THAT ARE WIPING AWAY THE
FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM IN THIS NATION WILL NOT SHIFT
EASILY.
BUT THE WORD OF GOD IS POWERFUL TO CHANGE
INDIVIDUALS AND TO CHANGE CULTURES.
LATER IN THIS PROGRAM, WE'LL TELL YOU HOW YOU CAN
PERSONALLY HELP MAKE THAT HAPPEN IN THE CORRIDORS OF
POLITICAL POWER.
AND YOU'LL BE ENCOURAGED BY SEEING TRUE CHRISTIAN
STATESMANSHIP IN ACTION.
BUT AS WE BEGIN, WE LOOK BACK TO THE FOUNDING IDEAS
OF OUR NATION.
JOHN ADAMS FAMOUSLY SAID THAT
HE SAID.
WE HAVE LARGLEY LOST THAT FOUNDATION
BECAUSE IT WAS SIMPLY
FORGOTTEN- REMOVED FROM OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
REPLACED WITH POLITICALLY CORRECT PROGRESSIVISM.
BUT DR.DANIEL DREISBACH,
A PROFESSOR AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN
WASHINGTON DC IS ONE OF AMERICA'S GREAT SCHOLARS
ON THE FOUNDING GENERATION,
AND I RECENTLY HAD A CHANCE TO TALK WITH HIM
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURAL FOUNDATIONS IN
THE VERY STRUCTURE OF AMERICA.
YOUR BOOK- READING THE BIBLE WITH THE FOUNDING
FATHERS SPEAKS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF SCRIPTURE ON THE
CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE FOUNDING ERA CERTAINLY
IN THE LIVES AND THE THINKING OF THOSE WHO GAVE
US OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT BUT ALSO IT SPEAKS TO THE
PROFOUND RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT OF MANY OF THE
GREAT LEADERS OF THAT DAY AND IT APPEARS IN THEIR
WRITINGS OVERWHELMINGLY, YES?
SO WE KNOW THAT IN THE POLITICAL LITERATURE THE
AMERICAN FOUNDING THE BIBLE IS CITED, QUOTED,
ALLUDED TO MORE THAN ANY OTHER LITERARY WORK OR ANY
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT OR CERTAINLY
ANY OTHER WRITER.
AND BY FAR, BY ONE ESTIMATE MAYBE A THIRD OF
ALL CITATIONS IN THE POLITICAL LITERATURE OF
THE AMERICAN FOUNDING IS TO THE BIBLE,
SO IT HAS A PROFOUND INFLUENCE ON THE LITERARY
WORK OF THE FOUNDING GENERATION.
THIS WAS A GENERATION OF AMERICANS THAT READ
THE BIBLE CAREFULLY.
THEY READ THE BIBLE FROM COVER TO COVER,
WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE IN THEIR WRITINGS THEY MAKE
REFERENCE AND ALLUSION NOT ONLY TO FAMOUS BIBLICAL
PASSAGE BUT OBSCURE BIBLICAL PASSAGES AND THAT
GIVES US A HINT THAT THEY KNOW THE BIBLE WELL.
WE FIND THAT THE FOUNDING GENERATION LOOKED TO THE
BIBLE FOR REASONS OF TRYING TO FOLLOW A MODEL
OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT, RIGHT?
THERE WERE AMERICANS WHO BELIEVED THAT IN THE
EXAMPLE OF THE ISRAELITES HAVING CROSSED OVER THE
RED SEA ADOPT A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT,
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
YOU MIGHT FIND THIS IN A TEXT LIKE EXODUS 18:21,
FOR EXAMPLE.
THEY SAW IN THE LAW OF MOSES MODELS FOR DUE
PROCESS.
SOME WOULD HAVE SEEN IN THE HEBRAIC EXPERIENCE
MODELS OF SEPARATION OF POWERS,
THE SEPARATION OF POWERS BETWEEN
PROPHET, PRIEST AND KING FOR EXAMPLE.
SO THEY SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE LOOKED TO THE BIBLE
FOR THESE KINDS OF MODELS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE
THOUGHT WORTHY OF EMULATION IN THEIR OWN
POLITICAL SYSTEMS.
OR AT LEAST THEY BELIEVED THAT THIS WAS EVIDENCE
THAT GOD ENDORSED AN IDEA LIKE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT
EVEN THOUGH THEIR FORM OF GOVERNMENT MAY NOT HAVE
BEEN MODELED EXACTLY ON THE MODEL THAT WE READ
ABOUT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
YOU'VE REFERRED TO WASHINGTON'S LETTER TO THE
STATES AS HIS FIRST FAREWELL ADDRESS IN WHICH
HE WAS ANTICIPATING THE RESIGNING OF HIS
COMMISSION AS COMMANDER AND CHIEF OF THE ARMIES.
IN IT WASHINGTON MAKES A REFERENCE TO THE FOUNDER
OF OUR RELIGION MAKING IT PRETTY CLEAR THAT WHEN HE
SAYS- RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE
SUPPORTS- BY RELIGION HE MEANS CHRISTIANITY, YES?
THAT CERTAINLY IS THE WAY I INTERPRET IT AND
READ IT.
SO WHEN WASHINGTON WRITES HIS LETTER IN JUNE OF
1783, REALLY SETTING THE STAGE FOR LEAVING HIS
POSITION AS COMMANDER AND CHIEF HE IS GIVING HIS
PARTING ADVICE TO THE NATION ON WHAT THEY MUST
DO; THIS FLEDGLING NATION, RIGHT?
AND IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF THIS SPEECH,
WHICH AT THE TIME HE WRITES HE THINKS THIS IS
THE LAST TIME HE'S GONNA BE COMMUNICATING TO THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHERE DOES HE GO?
HE GOES TO, THE PROPHET MICAH, CHAPTER 6, VERSE 8,
AND HE SAYS IF WE EVER HOPE TO BE A HAPPY NATION,
HE SAYS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO JUSTICE,
LOVE MERCY- STRAIGHT FROM THE TEXT OF THE PROPHET
MICAH, AND HE SAYS WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LEARN TO
IMITATE THAT AUTHOR OF OUR RELIGION REFERENCING JESUS
CHRIST AND THE VIRTUES AS CITIZENS WE'RE GONNA HAVE
TO LEARN TO IMITATE THOSE VIRTUES OF JESUS CHRIST IF
WE'RE GOING TO PROSPER AND FLOURISH AS A NATION.
MANY JUDGES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WRONGLY BELIEVE-
CONTRARY TO OUR FOUNDING- THAT RELIGION HAS NO PLACE
IN PUBLIC LIFE.
BUT IN FACT, THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE.
THE POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY IN PUBLIC
LIFE CANNOT BE OVERSTATED.
PERHAPS THE GREATEST EXEMPLAR OF THIS TRUTH IN
RECENT CENTURIES WAS THE GREAT BRITISH STATESMAN,
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE.
AS DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY REMINDS US,
WILBERFORCE'S SPECIFICALLY
CHRISTIAN OUTLOOK AND ACTIONS CHANGED THE WORLD
FOR THE BETTER IN PROFOUND WAYS.
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, NOT A NAME THAT IS A HOUSEHOLD
NAME IN AMERICA.
BUT OF COURSE, HE WAS BRITISH- BORN AND LIVED
HIS LIFE IN ENGLAND.
BUT OTHER MEN WHO WERE BRITISH ARE, PERHAPS,
BETTER KNOWN, SUCH AS, WILLIAM CAREY,
WHO WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE MODERN MISSIONARY
MOVEMENT.
AND DAVID LIVINGSTON, WHO WAS SCOTTISH,
A PART OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND SO IMPACTED AND
TRANSFORMED THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA.
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE WAS A REMARKABLE MAN.
HE WAS A MAN THAT HAD A FEW OUTSTANDING GIFTS.
AND ONE OF THOSE WAS HIS ABILITY TO SPEAK.
BUT YOU SAY, "HE WAS A GREAT MAN."
WELL, HE WAS, HE WAS A GIANT OF A MAN.
WELL, HE MUST'VE BEEN VERY IMPRESSIVE,
AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE WOULD LISTEN TO HIM
AND WHY HE COULD ACCOMPLISH SO MUCH.
DO YOU KNOW HOW BIG HE WAS?
HE WAS FOUR FOOT, ELEVEN, FOUR FOOT, ELEVEN,
HE WAS HUNCHBACKED, AND HIS HEAD WAS ALWAYS DOWN
AND TURNED SLIGHTLY SIDEWAYS.
THAT WAS WILLIAM WILBERFORCE,
WHO CHANGED THE WORLD.
ONE DAY, WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR PARLIAMENT,
HE COULDN'T SEE THE PEOPLE,
THE PEOPLE COULDN'T SEE HIM,
SOMEBODY SET HIM UP ON A TABLE.
AND A REPORTER WATCHING IT SAID,
"THEY PUT A SHRIMP UP ON THE TABLE.
BUT AS I LISTENED TO HIM, AND AS I WATCHED AND
LISTENED, HE TURNED INTO A WHALE, A GIANT OF A MAN."
HE HAD A FACE WHICH WAS CHERUBIC, BEAUTIFUL EYES,
AND A MOST WINSOME VOICE, AND A HEART THAT WAS HUGE,
A CARING HEART.
BUT HE WASN'T ALWAYS THAT WAY.
HE WAS BLESSED, HIS FATHER LEFT HIM A FORTUNE,
HIS UNCLE, HIS GRANDFATHER LEFT HIM A FORTUNE,
HIS UNCLE LEFT HIM ANOTHER ONE.
HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST WEALTHY PEOPLE IN ENGLAND.
HE HOBNOBBED IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS WITH ALL OF
THE GREATS.
HE WAS AN INTIMATE FRIEND OF THE PRIME MINISTER,
AND WITH OTHER EARLS AND KNIGHTS AND WHATEVER,
AND WAS VERY MUCH DESIRED IN ALL KINDS OF SOCIAL
ACTIVITIES.
HE WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN, THOUGH HE WAS AN ANGLICAN
AT THE TIME, BUT RELIGION MEANT NOTHING TO HIM,
REALLY.
HE WAS VERY WORLDLY, CHARMING, WITTY,
A FRIENDLY KIND OF YOUNG MAN.
THEN ONE DAY, HIS MOTHER SAID THAT SHE WOULD LIKE
TO SPEND THE SUMMER ON A TOUR OF EUROPE.
AND WILBERFORCE INVITED ONE OF HIS OLD SCHOOL
TEACHERS, WHEN HE WAS IN SCHOOL, TO GO WITH HIM.
AND THEY READ THE BIBLE.
AND OF COURSE THEY WOULD READ -AS EVERY HALF-WAY
EDUCATED ENGLISHMAN AT THE TIME COULD DO- THEY WOULD
READ THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT.
SO, THEY WERE GOING ALONG READING THE BIBLE.
NOW, THIS WAS THE VERY WORD OF GOD AND IT PIERCED
THIS YOUNG MAN'S HEART, AND HE WAS CONVERTED
TO CHRIST.
WHEN HE CAME BACK, IT CAUSED A GREAT SHOCK.
AND HE WENT TO SEE JOHN NEWTON,
BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT HE WAS
REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT, AND THAT WAS SLAVERY.
AND HE THOUGHT NEWTON OUGHT TO KNOW SOMETHING
ABOUT IT, SINCE HE HAD BEEN A SLAVE TRADER IN HIS
UNCONVERTED DAYS.
AND HE SAID, "DO NOT LEAVE YOUR POSITION IN
PARLIAMENT.
YOU WOULD BE DESERTING THE CALLING THAT GOD HAS
CALLED YOU TO."
AND SO, HE DECIDED TO STAY.
AND HE DECIDED, ALSO, THAT HE WOULD FIND THE GREATEST
CAUSE THAT HE KNEW ABOUT, AND HE WOULD GIVE HIS LIFE
TO THAT CAUSE.
AND THE CAUSE HE CHOSE WAS THE END OF SLAVERY IN
GREAT BRITAIN.
BUT THERE WAS HARDLY ANY PART OF ENGLISH BUSINESS
THAT WASN'T WRAPPED AROUND SLAVERY IN SOMEWAY OR
ANOTHER.
SO WHAT DID HE DO?
HE DECIDED TO GIVE A TALK.
HE SPEND TWO YEARS STUDYING TO GIVE THAT
TALK.
HE FINALLY STOOD UP IN PARLIAMENT AND SPOKE AND
HE WAS, BY THIS TIME, PROBABLY THE GREATEST
SPEAKER IN PARLIAMENT.
HE SPOKE FOR FOUR AND A HALF HOURS.
HE MADE HIS MOTION TO END THE SLAVE TRADE
IN GREAT BRITAIN.
THE MOTION WAS DEFEATED; ROUNDLY DEFEATED.
WELL, HE DID NOT GIVE UP.
HE CAME BACK THE NEXT YEAR, GAVE ANOTHER SPEECH,
ANOTHER MOTION DEFEATED.
THE NEXT YEAR, DEFEATED.
HE GAVE UP THE NEXT YEAR, CAME BACK THE FOLLOWING
YEAR AND GAVE ANOTHER SPEECH AND ANOTHER AND
ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER AND
ANOTHER AND ANOTHER.
FINALLY, THE VOTE WAS POSITIVE AND THE BRITISH
SLAVE TRADE ENDED.
BUT THAT WAS ONLY HALF OF HIS GOAL - IT WAS TO END
SLAVERY IN ALL OF THE BRITISH COLONIES.
SO HE SET HIMSELF TO THAT.
AGAIN, 25 MORE YEARS.
NOW HE IS AN ELDERLY MAN.
THERE'S STILL HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS OF SLAVES IN
BRITISH OWNINGS, BUT HE CONTINUED TO PRAY AND TO
WORK.
AS HE GREW OLDER AND OLDER,
HE CONTINUED TO PERSIST EVERY YEAR A SPEECH,
EVERY YEAR ANOTHER VOTE, EVERY YEAR DEFEAT.
FINALLY, HE WAS UNABLE TO CONTINUE FOR HEALTH
REASONS.
HE RETIRED TO HIS HOME IN LONDON.
AND IN THAT SESSION THEY HAD A GREAT DISCUSSION OF
THE SUBJECT, A VOTE, A MOTION WAS MADE TO END
SLAVERY IN ALL OF THE COLONIES OF GREAT BRITAIN
AROUND THE WORLD.
THE MOTION PASSED.
THERE WAS A GREAT OUTCRY OF JOY AMONG ALL OF THOSE
THAT HAD WORKED WITH HIM FOR SO LONG TO END THAT.
AND THEY SENT A RUNNER TO HIS HOME TO TELL HIM
BEFORE HE DIED THAT, AT LAST,
HIS GREAT CAUSE HAD BEEN WON AND THE VICTORY CAME.
AND OF COURSE, HE REJOICED IN THE LORD THAT THIS HAD
HAPPENED AND THAT A LIFETIME OF EFFORT HAD
SUCCEEDED.
MAY I POINT OUT TO YOU THIS: GREAT BRITAIN
ENDED SLAVERY WITHOUT A CIVIL WAR.
AND AT WESTMINSTER ABBY.
THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT ARE CARVED INTO THE MARBLE
WHERE HE HAS BEEN LAID: "IN AN AGE AND COUNTRY
FERTILE WITH GREAT AND GOOD MEN,
HE WAS AMONG THE FOREMOST OF THOSE WHO FIXED THE
CHARACTER OF THEIR TIMES BECAUSE TO HIGH AND
VARIOUS TALENTS TO WARM BENEVOLENCE AND UNIVERSAL
CANDOR, HE ADDED THE ABIDING ELOQUENCE OF A
CHRISTIAN LIFE.'" WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES
CHRISTIANITY MAKE?
THE ELOQUENCE OF HIS CHRISTIAN LIFE WAS
CREDITED WITH CHANGING ENGLAND.
DR. KENNEDY HAD A GREAT PASSION FOR CHRISTIAN
STATESMANSHIP, AND IT'S ONE WE SHARE TODAY.
HE RIGHTLY BELIEVED THAT THE REMOVAL OF CHRISTIAN
INFLUENCE FROM AMERICAN POLITICS WOULD PRESAGE
THE DOOM OF OUR NATION.
HE ALSO BELIEVED THAT CHRISTIANS APPLYING
BIBLICAL TRUTH THROUGH THE GOSPEL AND THE CULTURAL
MANDATE WERE OUR NATION'S ONLY HOPE.
THE TRUTH OF THESE THINGS IS NOTHING SHORT OF
SELF-EVIDENT IN OUR DAY.
IN A FEW MINUTES WE WILL SHARE WITH YOU HOW YOU CAN
HELP RESTORE A CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT.
BUT RIGHT NOW, TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THAT HAPPENED IN
ONE MANS LIFE.
A MAN INSPIRED BY DR. KENNEDY
AND ONE WHO CARRIES ON HIS LEGACY ON CAPITOL
HILL IN WASHINGTON D.C. TODAY.
JON JAY, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE FIRST SUPREME COURT
SAID THAT THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION,
AND IT BEHOOVES CHRISTIANS TO PREFER CHRISTIAN RULERS
FOR THIS CHRISTIAN NATION.
AS AN ENGINEER IN SOUTHERN INDIANA,
I SPENT VIRTUALLY EVERY WORKDAY AFTERNOON
LISTENING TO DR. KENNEDY AND HIS RADIO MINISTRY,
TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM ON THE RADIO AS I DROVE
HOME FROM THE POWER PLANT EVERY AFTERNOON.
AND SO, AT THE FEET OF DR. KENNEDY,
YOU MIGHT SAY, I WAS ENLIGHTENED AND ENCOURAGED
THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WAS DIVINELY
APPOINTED TO BE A SHINING CITY ON A HILL.
AFTER LEARNING FROM DR. KENNEDY ON HIS RADIO
MINISTRY FOR YEARS, DR. KENNEDY BEGAN A
CONFERENCE SERIES, THE RECLAIMING AMERICA FOR
CHRIST CONFERENCE.
AND THE FIRST ONE WAS IN EARLY 1994.
AND SO I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND AND
SAT THROUGH DOZENS OF GREAT WORKSHOPS ON VARIOUS
PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES.
BUT IN ONE OF THE PLENARY SESSIONS WHEN DR. KENNEDY
BROUGHT ALL OF THE CONFERENCE ATTENDEES
TOGETHER, HE GAVE US A CHARGE, YOU MIGHT SAY,
AND THAT CHARGE AT ONE POINT GOT VERY PERSONAL TO
ME.
LET ME TELL YOU THIS, MY FRIEND.
YOU CAN'T VOTE FOR CHRISTIAN RULERS IF
CHRISTIANS DON'T RUN.
HOW ABOUT YOU?
SOME OF YOU OUGHT TO BE IN OFFICE.
WELL, YOU CAN IMAGINE, AT THAT TIME I WAS
CONSIDERING THAT VERY THING,
AND IT SO HAPPENED THAT AFTER DR. KENNEDY,
YOU MIGHT SAY, CONFIRMED WHAT THE LORD WAS LEADING
IN MY LIFE, A FEW WEEKS LATER,
I ANNOUNCED A RUN FOR THE FIRST TIME,
FOR THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN
ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION OR THE FREE EXERCISE
THEREOF."
IT HAS BEEN CONCLUDED THAT THERE ARE TWO CLAUSES TO
THAT PORTION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
IT'S VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT THOSE HERE ON CAPITOL
HILL AS WE WORK DAY TO DAY TO TAKE A BREATH AND
REALIZE THAT WE ARE HERE FOR A MUCH HIGHER CALLING
THAN POSSIBLY JUST TO REPRESENT THE FOLKS BACK
HOME.
WE ARE SENT HERE TO MINISTER TO ALL THE PEOPLE
IN AMERICA.
SINCE HE HAD BEEN IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS,
HE IS IN A UNIQUE POSITION TO BE ABLE TO APPLY THESE
PRINCIPLES AND TEACH PEOPLE.
HERE AT THE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP,
WE'RE WANTING TO TEACH THINGS THAT GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNDERSTOOD.
IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS, WASHINGTON SAID,
"RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS" TO
OUR COUNTRY, TO OUR FREE INSTITUTIONS.
OUR DESIRE IS TO REINTRODUCE INTO THE
PUBLIC DISCUSSION, THESE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES.
I'M EXCITED ABOUT TAKING THE HELM AT THE CENTER FOR
CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP.
YOU KNOW, DR. KENNEDY WAS A DRIVING FORCE IN NOT
ONLY MY EDUCATION ON POLITICAL MATTERS AND
MATTERS IMPORTANT TO OUR CULTURE,
BUT HE ALSO ENCOURAGED US TO RUN FOR CONGRESS,
THOSE OF US WHO HELD A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW,
AS WELL AS A CONCERN FOR THE UNITED STATES.
ONE OF THE MISSIONS OF THE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN
STATESMANSHIP IS TO RAISE UP A MODEL OF CHRISTIAN
STATESMANSHIP.
WHAT DOES CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP LOOK LIKE?
WELL, WE'RE GOING TO TRAIN INDIVIDUALS WHETHER
THEY'RE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS,
MEMBERS OF THEIR STAFF IN ISSUES SUCH AS THE UNITED
STATES CONSTITUTION.
A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW OF FOREIGN POLICY,
FOR EXAMPLE.
A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW OF ECONOMICS.
WHAT DOES THE RULE OF LAW REALLY MEAN IN A BIBLICAL
CONTEXT?
SO THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN BE TRAINED IN STATESMANSHIP,
AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP.
WASHINGTON DC IS WHERE CHRIST'S LIGHT MUST SHINE,
AND IT CAN ONLY SHINE AS THE RESULT OF CHRISTIANS
BEING HERE, BEING THAT LIGHT OF CHRIST.
OUR GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER BEEN IN MORE NEED OF
BIBLICAL, CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE.
THIS PAST ELECTION CYCLE BROUGHT THAT TRUTH HOME
LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
IN 1995, DR. KENNEDY INVITED ME TO BECOME THE
FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE ORGANIZATION YOU JUST SAW,
THE D. JAMES KENNEDY CENTER
FOR CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP.
THEIR MISSION IS CLOSE TO MY HEART,
AND I'M EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU A VITAL NEW
PROJECT FOR BRINGING TRUTH TO THE CORRIDORS OF POWER.
HERE'S MY DEAR FRIEND JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY
TO TELL US HOW YOU CAN BE PART OF THAT EFFORT.
JENNIFER, WELCOME.
THANK YOU, FRANK.
MY FATHER, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY,
WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT BRINGING
BIBLICAL TRUTH TO BEAR ON EVERY AREA OF LIFE,
AND HE RECOGNIZED THAT IT WAS ESPECIALLY NEEDED IN
GOVERNMENT, SINCE GOVERNMENT IS PLAYING A
LARGER AND LARGER ROLE IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
WE HAVE JUST ELECTED A BRAND NEW CONGRESS,
WHICH WILL BE SWORN IN JUST TWO MONTHS FROM NOW.
THEY WILL MAKE CRUCIAL DECISIONS THAT WILL AFFECT
YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN FOR
YEARS TO COME.
NOW, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO INFLUENCE THEM IN THE MOST
POWERFUL WAY POSSIBLE.
WE, ALONG WITH EVANGELISM EXPLOSION INTERNATIONAL,
WHICH OPERATES THE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN
STATESMANSHIP, WANT TO PERSONALLY GIVE EVERY
MEMBER OF THE NEW CONGRESS A COPY OF THE NEW
D. JAMES KENNEDY TOPICAL STUDY BIBLE.
BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP IN ORDER TO DO IT.
FEATURING OVER 700 NOTES AND ARTICLES FROM MY DAD
ALONGSIDE THE MODERN ENGLISH VERSION OF THE
BIBLE, AND BOUND IN GENUINE LEATHER, THE
D. JAMES KENNEDY TOPICAL STUDY BIBLE IS A POWERFUL
TOOL FOR STUDY AND INSTRUCTION.
MY FATHER WAS WELL KNOWN FOR FEARLESSLY TACKLING
THE MAJOR ISSUES OF THE DAY,
APPLYING GOD'S WORD TO CURRENT EVENTS.
AND THIS BIBLE HELPS TO DO THE SAME THING.
I DON'T KNOW OF ANY STUDY BIBLE THAT COVERS SUCH A
WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES, FROM THE APOSTLES' CREED TO
WHETHER THE BIBLE TEACHES SOCIALISM,
AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.
THINK OF THIS BIBLE BEING IN THE HANDS OF EVERY
MEMBER OF CONGRESS!
YOU CAN HELP MAKE THAT HAPPEN BY GIVING A
GENEROUS DONATION TO THE WORK OF THIS MINISTRY.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
OR CALL TOLL FREE:
OR GO ONLINE TO:
WE'LL THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATION BY SENDING YOU
THE IMPORTANT BOOK, RECLAIMING THE LOST
LEGACY: THE FOUNDERS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
THIS NEWLY-PUBLISHED BOOK DETAILS THE ILLEGITIMATE
REMOVAL OF GOD FROM GOVERNMENT- AND HOW WE CAN
RECLAIM OUR AMERICAN BIBLICAL HERITAGE.
IT FEATURES CHAPTERS FROM CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE OF
ALABAMA, FRANK WRIGHT, AND MY FATHER, AMONG OTHERS,
AND IT'S OUR GIFT TO YOU AS THANKS FOR YOUR
GENEROUS DONATION TO HELP US GET THE
D. JAMES KENNEDY TOPICAL STUDY BIBLE INTO THE HANDS
OF EVERY MEMBER OF THE NEW CONGRESS.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
OR CALL TOLL FREE:
OR GO ONLINE TO:
IF THIS RECENT ELECTION SEASON HAS SHOWN US ANYTHING
IT IS THE REALITY THAT
ELECTING CHRISTIANS TO PUBLIC OFFICE,
WHILE IMPORTANT, IS NOT ENOUGH.
THOSE CHRISTIANS WE ELECT HAVE TO BE MATURE,
INFORMED, AND HAVE A WELL-GROUNDED BIBLICAL
WORLDVIEW.
AND FOR THE MOST PART, THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE
CASE.
TOO OFTEN THEY HAVE ABANDONED PRINCIPAL ON
VITAL ISSUES, BEING BLOWN ABOUT BY WINDS OF
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
WITHOUT A FIRMLY ROOTED UNDERSTANDING THEY HAVE
OFTEN BEEN SWEPT AWAY BY THE CULTURAL TIDE.
OUR CULTURE IS IN GRAVE MORAL AND ETHICAL DECLINE,
AND YET POLL AFTER POLL SHOWS PROFESSING
CHRISTIANS FEEDING THAT DECLINE BY LOWERING THEIR
STANDARDS IN VITAL AREAS SUCH AS GOD'S DESIGN FOR
SEXUALITY AND MARRIAGE, THE PROPER ROLE OF
GOVERNMENT IN LIFE, AND MANY OTHERS.
ELECTIONS ARE MAJORITARIAN EVENTS,
AND THE PROBLEM TODAY IS THAT THE MAJORITY OF
PEOPLE IN OUR NATION HAVE ONLY A WAVERING GRASP OF
RIGHT AND WRONG; WITH THEIR NOTIONS OF GOOD AND
EVIL ROOTED IN PERSONAL PREFERENCE RATHER THAN IN
TRUTH.
DEAR FRIENDS, IF WE GIVE UP OUR CALLING AS PEOPLE
OF THE BOOK.
WE BECOME JUST ANOTHER INTEREST GROUP ENGAGED IN
THE PURSUIT OF POWER.
THE BIBLE CLEARLY TELLS US NOT TO PUT OUR TRUST IN
PRINCES, BUT RATHER IN GOD.
WE HAVE COME TO A WATERSHED MOMENT IN
AMERICAN HISTORY.
WILL WE CHRISTIANS STAND UPON THE WORD OF GOD-
THE WHOLE WORD OF GOD?
OR WILL WE UNBIBLICALLY LIMIT THE SCRIPTURES TO
THE REALM OF PERSONAL MORALITY AND ETHICS.
ABANDONING THE PUBLIC SQUARE TO THE FORCES OF A
BRUTAL AND VORACIOUS SECULARISM.
THERE IS A BATTLE AHEAD- A BATTLE FOR TRUTH,
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND FOR THE VERY SOUL OF OUR
COUNTRY.
ELECTIONS DON'T DETERMINE THOSE THINGS,
AND THEY DON'T CHANGE THOSE THINGS EITHER.
GOD'S WORD DETERMINES TRUTH,
AND THE BOLD PROCLAMATION OF HIS TRUTH CHANGES
THINGS.
IT'S TIME FOR US CHRISTIANS TO RECOMMIT
OURSELVES TO THE LORD AND TO HIS TRUTH,
AND TRUST GOD FOR THE RESULTS.
THE SCRIPTURES REMIND US OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
WITH THESE WORDS: "THE KING'S HEART IS A STREAM
OF WATER IN THE HAND OF THE LORD.
HE TURNS IT WHEREVER HE WILL."
I'M FRANK WRIGHT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM;
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
NEXT WEEK ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
DEAR FRIEND, WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A WAR.
A WAR OF VALUES, A WAR AGAINST GOD AND HIS TRUTH
AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE NOW IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
I WOULD ARGUE THAT THE NEED FOR THIS MINISTRY,
IN THIS HOUR, IS GREATER THAN IT WAS WHEN DOCTOR
KENNEDY HAD LOOKED AT OUR NATION'S CAPITAL AND HAD
THIS IDEA FOR CREATING MINISTRY TO
POWERFUL PEOPLE.
THE NEED TODAY IS FAR GREATER THAN IT WAS THEN.
THAT'S NEXT WEEK.
TODAY'S PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR YOUR
GIFT TO THIS MINISTRY OF ANY AMOUNT.
PLEASE CALL, WRITE, OR LOG ONTO OUR WEBSITE TODAY.
THIS HAS BEEN A PRODUCTION OF
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES.
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DAY 7 - MissSassyKassie || Throwback Challenge - Duration: 3:39.
Welcome to day seven of the Biannual Bibliothon!
I'm your host, Kassie from the channel, MissSassyKassie.
And today, you guys have a chance to win
History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera.
But let's get on into this challenge.
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC: "Say No to This" by Lin Manuel Miranda
[SINGING] There's nothing like reading to be witty.
Someone under stress sees a book sitting pretty.
There's trouble in the air, you can smell it.
I'm sitting by myself, I gotta tell it.
I hadn't slept in a week, I was weak. I was awake.
You've never seen a college student more in need of a break.
Longing for a love story, the need to read ran rife.
That's when A Court of Mist and Fury walked into my life. I read.
I know Feyre's in love with Tamlin.
I'm so sorry he went a bit insane.
But I had hoped we might see more
of that dark and tattooed swain.
I read!
My Rhysand's doing real swell
being kind, being sweet, just being good.
Suddenly, we have been swayed
and now Rhysand's here to stay!
I stopped and stared at the book.
All I could do was look. I read.
She's confused sir.
I had a test the next week. I had to study.
But Feyre just ran away. She said,
"Rhysand, help sir.
Then I thought, God I should write my paper.
But the bond broke and I screamed as I read, they eloped!
Study?
Uh, keep reading?
That's when I began to pray, Lord show me how to say no to this.
I don't know how to say no to this.
Feyre started out so helpless.
Now, she has me saying, hell yes.
No, show me how to say no to this.
I don't know how to say no to this.
In my mind, I'm trying to go!
[ENSEMBLE] Go, go, go!
But I can't stop reading and I don't say no!
[ENSEMBLE] No, no! Say no to this!
No, no! Say no to this!
No, no say no to this!
-I wish I could say that was the last time.
I say it every time. It's really a past time.
A month into this semester, I received a letter from the dean.
Oh my God, this can't be good. I read...
Oh shit!
[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: "Say No to This" by Lin Manuel Miranda]
I hope you guys enjoyed day seven's challenge,
which was the Throwback challenge. I did the Bust a Rhyme challenge
that was hosted by Selena from OhxXxSnap13 a few times ago.
I think it was two times ago, now.
I'm so nervous to post it, because my voice is in it.
But Momo is glorious, so thank you so much Momo for being a part of this!
Today you have a chance to win History is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera. So make sure to link your videos
for the Throwback challenge down on this video down below.
It has to be done by 12am PST, technically tomorrow.
Which would be July 30th. So make sure to do it before then.
I can't wait to see what you guys have in store.
And make sure to join us tomorrow for the liveshow,
which is hosted on this channel.
And it'll be at the time, right here on the screen.
And we will be discussing Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh.
See you guys tomorrow. Bye!
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