Engage

How To Deal With Tragedy

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Participants: Jay Rosario & Daniel McGrath (Host), Valmy Karamera

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Program Code: E000022


00:20 Hello again. My name is Jay Rosario.
00:22 your host for the Engage Program,
00:24 which is a series dedicated to address the challenges
00:28 that young adults all over the world are having
00:31 that are pursuing a Christian experience with God.
00:34 Joining us today is my good friend Dan McGrath.
00:36 Dan, how is it going? Good, Jay.
00:37 Thanks for having me again.
00:39 Dan, so what are we talking about this time?
00:41 Well, today our program is gonna be something
00:44 that is a very, very sensitive,
00:46 very pertinent topic on how to deal with tragedy.
00:49 There are many people in the world
00:50 who have experienced hardship and pain
00:53 that they don't know how to deal with it,
00:54 and they're--they're longing to find relief.
00:57 And so we've invited our friend Valmy here.
01:01 Somebody who we believe can talk to this subject.
01:04 Valmy, it's good to have you back here.
01:06 Good to be here. Good to see you again.
01:07 Hello, good to see you, Valmy.
01:08 Good to see you, Jay. How are you?
01:10 So, Valmy, Dan and I have had the privilege of working
01:13 with you and sharing out with you, and taking with you.
01:18 but there are many people that probably have had
01:20 the privilege of meeting you, and now you're good friend,
01:24 but you also have an amazing journey
01:27 that the Lord-- that the Lord has kind of
01:30 taking you step-by-step up there.
01:32 Tell us a little bit, where do you come from?
01:34 Tell us a little bit about your childhood?
01:38 My name is Valmy Karamera.
01:40 And I'm currently a student at Andrews University.
01:44 I'm doing my graduate studies there.
01:47 I'm originally born in Rwanda in Central Africa.
01:52 And my father worked as a physician
01:55 at one of the largest hospital in Rwanda
01:58 and my mother worked for an oil company
02:01 that was in the country.
02:02 I'm the only child, but not spoil child.
02:06 So Rwanda, what language they speak in Rwanda?
02:08 Rwanda, today they speak three languages.
02:11 One is a dialect, which is Kinyarwanda,
02:14 another one is French, another one is--Bonjour.
02:16 Bonjour certainly. Another one is English.
02:20 So they speak three languages now, yes.
02:22 So you're born there and so your parents--
02:25 What was--what was life like in Rwanda there at the time?
02:28 I think as a young person, I had the privilege,
02:32 I think when I looked back I think my parents
02:36 had been able to go through school.
02:40 We could, we never go hungry, you know.
02:44 I think life was good as a young child.
02:47 And growing up, not only as the only child
02:51 but I think I also had good parents,
02:53 but, you know, no marriage is perfect.
02:55 I think they had their shortcomings.
02:57 But overall when I look back
02:59 I think it was a great childhood.
03:02 And I did my grade school there
03:07 and we were doing it in French and Kinyarwanda as well.
03:11 At that time English had not become
03:13 one of the major languages of the country, yes.
03:16 So what was--what was going on in Rwanda during that time?
03:21 I would say, the tipping point started--
03:25 when you look at, you studied the history of the country.
03:27 It goes all way back into 20s,
03:30 the colonization and all these things.
03:33 And--but I think more recently
03:36 I think the--the catalyst of the event started in 1990
03:44 when--before 1990, there were people
03:48 who were kicked out of the country
03:50 and particularly they were coming from one tribe
03:53 and they were not allowed to be in the country
03:55 and so they formed a military group
03:59 and they attacked the country.
04:00 And those who are--us who are in the country and others,
04:05 of course, because we shared the same tribe
04:09 as those who had left the country,
04:11 it was a challenge staying in the country.
04:14 And things, I think culminated into 1994 genocide.
04:19 And I think if you speak to anyone
04:21 who doesn't know Rwanda, they know one thing,
04:23 they know about genocide.
04:25 And unfortunately my parents passed away.
04:28 My mother particularly passed away in the genocide.
04:31 My father passed away shortly before the genocide.
04:33 And when I looked back it is amazing, Jay.
04:36 It's amazing how the providence of God works
04:39 because I grew up not attending church at all.
04:44 And my parents never attended church.
04:46 So no religious background at all?
04:47 No religious background. We were called--
04:50 "officially we were Catholics."
04:51 But everybody is Catholic,
04:53 you know, you're born Catholics.
04:54 That's way it is, you know,
04:56 sort of like what happens
04:57 in the North America and South America.
04:58 North America, yeah, very similar.
05:00 So we really rarely went to church.
05:03 And so, buddy, it is interesting
05:05 when I looked back that in 1994, it was the genocide.
05:08 But 1993 about a year before the genocide,
05:13 I don't know what got into my mother but she decided
05:16 that she would take me out of the country
05:17 to go study out of the country.
05:20 And so she took me to Uganda
05:23 which is the neighboring country
05:25 and there I continued to pursue
05:28 my grade school education,
05:30 but she returned back to Rwanda.
05:32 And so it's unfortunate that in 1994
05:34 when she had returned on of those streets,
05:37 she passed away in the genocide,
05:39 just also shortly after my father's death.
05:42 And so since then from that time I was an orphan,
05:47 but we had such a way, large extended family
05:51 so they took me in.
05:52 Because families in Africa, they are communal.
05:56 You know, it's--your uncle becomes your father suddenly,
05:59 you know, your aunt becomes your mother,
06:01 so it's very communal.
06:02 So they took me in. Yes.
06:05 So when you went to Uganda,
06:06 you found people that you can,
06:09 that they still loved you, they accepted you,
06:11 they still provided you niche that was safe with love--
06:15 I mean, I think nothing can replace your parents, for sure.
06:18 But interestingly this way, this way I started my life
06:22 started intersecting with Christianity,
06:25 with religion because the aunt where I stayed at the house,
06:30 they were Pentecostals.
06:31 So they started taking me to,
06:33 you know, to church, you know.
06:36 I even one time tried to cast out demons out of someone.
06:40 It is an interesting story because when that demon
06:42 started to speaking, I jumped like five feet.
06:45 You ran away. I was so scared. Wow.
06:48 So--but that way I started
06:50 interacting with-- with Christianity,
06:54 even though it was a different form.
06:57 And so going to church, prayers, and things like that,
07:02 you know, at the young age-- but for some reason,
07:07 I think he did that what he had to do
07:09 which was introduce me to this concept
07:12 of going to church, praying, and all these, yeah.
07:15 So how old were you when your parents passed away?
07:17 I was, I think, 11 or 10 around that age.
07:22 Wow. Yeah.
07:23 And I would imagine-- 11, 12.
07:25 At 11, 10, 12 years old, I'm sure that must have had
07:28 a significant impact on your life.
07:31 And wow, so it's quite a miracle
07:34 that your--that you-- your life that you're healthy
07:36 and Lord is definitely using you.
07:38 So how did you end up here?
07:42 How did you end up here? A very good question. Yeah.
07:45 Like I said, we had a large extended family.
07:48 And at the time of genocide, my mother was in the States,
07:53 my grandmother was in the States.
07:55 And so after the genocide, she came back to Rwanda
07:58 and she stayed there for about four years
08:01 and at this time I was studying,
08:02 what we called high school in our country
08:05 which is called senior school.
08:08 So after I was in the mid of my,
08:11 what you called not high school,
08:12 but technically high school back home.
08:14 She decided that we would move
08:17 to North America to come to America.
08:19 So that's how me and my grandma.
08:21 Actually I came, me and my grandma.
08:23 And so you can imagine the, just the age difference alone.
08:27 And I was this little boy accompanying my grandma.
08:30 And so we journeyed to the land of opportunities,
08:33 you know, the great America.
08:35 And so that's how we ended up here.
08:37 The land of milk and honey, right?
08:39 That's what we call.
08:40 So how did you feel when you arrived in this country?
08:42 Was it severe culture shock or you like okay,
08:46 this is a mistake I want to go back home
08:47 or how did you feel?
08:48 You know, I think the first experience I had
08:50 was just picking out of the airplane
08:53 and look down on the ground and everything is white.
08:58 You came during winter?
08:59 I came during winter.
09:00 So I'm wondering, why is everything so white on ground?
09:04 You know, this is not the country I imagine going to.
09:07 And then we landed in Chicago at O'Hare
09:10 and coming out of the airport,
09:11 it was in the mid of the winter
09:13 and I was just wearing a, you know, a T-Shirt, a shirt,
09:16 and they asked me if they could give me a jacket.
09:20 My aunt came to receive my mother's sister,
09:23 she was staying in Indiana.
09:25 So they came to receive us at the airport.
09:27 She asked me if she could give me a jacket.
09:29 I said, "I don't need a jacket."
09:31 Until I went outside the O'Hare Airport then it hit me.
09:35 You need the jacket? Yeah, jacket.
09:37 Because I started hearing some physiological changes
09:40 in my ears, you know, so I needed a jacket.
09:42 So that was my first experience.
09:44 And of course, the culture shock and everything,
09:46 forming new friends and everything, you know,
09:49 going through school.
09:50 And so it was-- it was a time to adjust.
09:54 Now, you said, you grew up
09:58 in a non-religious home-- Absolutely.
09:59 You know, probably for all intents
10:01 and purposes, you would say you were Catholic,
10:02 but never went to church. Yeah.
10:04 So when you came here, you know,
10:06 you weren't religious,
10:08 you were probably more evolutionist, weren't you?
10:11 I think the concept of evolution started,
10:14 it's happening when I was in school,
10:18 when I was being introduced to this because in--
10:22 in grade school and, other years of high school back home,
10:25 we were introduced to the concept of evolution
10:28 even though we are not even taught about God.
10:30 But--because beneath all these,
10:33 now I was getting into my teenage years,
10:35 I was in my teenage years at this time when we came.
10:39 I was studying to really search my life.
10:42 You know, what is this mean?
10:44 You know, here I was, I had parents,
10:46 I had a good loving family, and suddenly in a moment
10:51 of a twinkling of an eye, I just loose all that we had,
10:54 everything--the house, the parents,
10:55 everything that was dear to me.
10:57 And then it changes drastically,
11:00 why? why? How do I explain that?
11:02 So trying to make sense of all these.
11:05 And so I think that draw for me to start to search,
11:09 you know, so I remember at the end
11:10 of my high school year sitting in the biology class,
11:14 I had always wanted to do medicine.
11:15 My father was a physician and so I thought
11:18 I would emulate his steps and I loved sciences.
11:21 And so I started, at the end of my high school year,
11:24 I was in the class seated in the biology class
11:27 and my teacher came up,
11:28 this time it was a biology class,
11:30 and so he started introducing the concept of evolution,
11:35 the plate tectonics, you know,
11:36 how they are formed and all these.
11:39 And also looking at the evolutionary years
11:42 and looking at the cycle of the baby in the womb,
11:44 and looking at all these.
11:46 And he started suggesting the concept of evolution.
11:49 So in my mind sitting there searching the "Why" of life
11:54 because in my academic pursuits,
11:57 there was also these desire to know
11:59 the "Why" of life and the "Why" of suffering.
12:01 And so I started seeing possibly,
12:04 a possibility of this concept explaining,
12:08 providing answers to my existential needs,
12:12 to my, you know, fundamental questions of the life.
12:15 So another one, you began to consider
12:18 the deep fundamental philosophical questions
12:21 through this class? Absolutely. Wow.
12:23 And this was in my high school.
12:25 So wasn't at a church, it wasn't at the Bible study?
12:27 Absolutely. High school.
12:28 It was in high school. It was in high school.
12:29 Because, you know, we all come from
12:31 different culture backgrounds
12:32 and we have a different life experiences.
12:36 And we--At some point we are--we try to make sense,
12:39 what does it mean for me, you know,
12:41 if I'm to carry on this life?
12:43 What does it mean for me?
12:44 And I was at that stage where I was asking the question.
12:47 "What does this mean for me?"
12:49 You know, and not to mention, at this time,
12:51 I mean, almost pretty much throughout high school
12:53 I was smoking like a pack almost every day.
12:55 Yeah, you know, one thing God spared me,
12:58 I wasn't, I didn't drink.
13:00 And so that was, it was weird to find
13:02 someone who smoked but never drink,
13:05 you know. And so trying,
13:07 you know, I'm wrestling also with this habit of smoking.
13:09 Trust me, it's not a good thing, you know.
13:11 But also I want to quit.
13:12 I want to make sense of the suffering.
13:14 So I'm in the midst of all these
13:16 and then this concept of evolution is introduced to me.
13:19 And how--how did you go from that
13:23 to being a converted Seventh-day Adventist?
13:26 It's a very interesting story, how God, you know,
13:29 moves and shapes things to meet us where we are.
13:33 And so at the end of the high school,
13:35 I had applied to one of the local universities
13:39 which is University of Windsor in Canada.
13:42 And I applied to attend the school
13:44 and in my third year,
13:46 I remember seated in an evolutionary class.
13:49 As a biology major I had,
13:52 I was required to take an evolutionary class.
13:54 It was one of my degree requirement.
13:57 And I remember sitting there
13:59 and the professor was always
14:00 making fun of all Christians, you know.
14:03 And I feel that this is affirming
14:06 also my beliefs, my-- this evolutionary belief.
14:09 But the more I continue to ask the question,
14:14 you know, but where do I come from?
14:16 What is the meaning of my life?
14:18 Where am I hating, you know?
14:20 How should I behave even my life?
14:22 You know, the mind continued to ask these questions.
14:24 For example, because I experienced death
14:27 at an early age, so I had to ask
14:29 what happens to people when they die?
14:31 You know, where are my parents?
14:33 Am I going to see them?
14:34 Can I communicate to my parents now?
14:36 You know, because I had such a bond with my parents.
14:39 Can I communicate to them?
14:41 And so throughout these series of asking questions
14:45 and then I had to sit down and ask,
14:47 "Can evolution honestly answer the question of death?"
14:52 You know, because here is a theory
14:55 that says that it promotes life.
15:00 You know, it promotes life by eliminating
15:03 the weakest of the societies.
15:05 You know, that's what evolution claims,
15:07 claims to promote life.
15:08 And so, but if evolution promotes life
15:12 but then why does it kill also
15:14 those that it seeks to promote, you know.
15:17 For example, if you in a wheelchair,
15:20 wheelchair will not favor you.
15:22 You know, because it doesn't want to pass on those genes.
15:25 You know, so how could you say you promote life,
15:29 but at the same time you neglect that life?
15:32 So that felt, seem like an inhalant
15:36 fundamental flow in evolutionary theory.
15:39 The second thing also, I think this is a benefit
15:41 source of science, studying science
15:43 and I found that, for example,
15:47 that I can say that I'm a evolutionist, right?
15:51 And say that, "Things are moving
15:53 from order to disorder."
15:55 That's what science says,
15:57 the second law of thermodynamics in physics.
16:00 "The things are moving from order to disorder,"
16:03 but evolution says, "The things are moving
16:06 from disorder--" To order. "To order."
16:08 So which is backwards? Which is a contradiction again?
16:12 And this is on a scientific ground.
16:14 It's not even a religious experience,
16:16 it's on a scientific ground.
16:18 So these are some of the loopholes in the theory.
16:21 And then in my third year, as I said I was studying
16:25 this class evolutionary biology and we took about
16:28 two weeks as the professors defending this that if--
16:32 the eye has to have evolved.
16:34 Because one of the questions that people pose on evolution.
16:39 How could eye evolve?
16:41 You know, the eyes considered
16:42 as this irreducible complexity.
16:45 You cannot take out one element
16:47 of the eye and have the eye.
16:49 You know, so there is the eye,
16:51 there is the flagella, there are many other things.
16:52 You look at DNA, how it replicates itself.
16:55 And though this looking at them
16:57 for a scientific ground, it didn't make sense
17:00 that all these could have come by probability.
17:02 So then all of these academic scientific insights
17:08 that you were getting, it was kind of losing--
17:11 you're losing faith in the idea
17:14 that we came here by chance.
17:15 Came here by chance.
17:16 And you began to possibly ponder
17:19 the existence of God. Is that correct?
17:21 It's not that sometimes I had doubt.
17:23 I had to say that, God doesn't exist.
17:25 It's not I had completely eliminated
17:28 the possibility of God,
17:30 but it was favoring, certainly the other--
17:34 The other option wasn't more credible. More credible.
17:37 So how did you go from beginning to doubt
17:41 the sophisticated evolutionary explanations
17:45 to believe in God?
17:48 You know-- Human version. Yes.
17:50 Talking about how God moves people.
17:54 I had friends at school, at a university,
17:57 sixth grade university, they invited me at their group.
18:00 And that's how they reached me.
18:01 They invited me to school-- to church.
18:03 And I remember, I seated in a church
18:05 and there was a downlink series
18:07 and a preacher was talking about Daniel 2.
18:10 Wow, wow.
18:11 So you-- so in other words, you went,
18:13 you are at school? University? Yes.
18:15 And you were invited by--
18:17 By a student, a fellow student and say,
18:19 "Can you come to our Bible study?"
18:21 And so I went to the Bible study
18:22 and next his invitation was to our church. Okay.
18:25 You know, and so remember it's on the silence search.
18:29 I'm searching, why death? Why life? Why suffering?
18:35 You know, and so when that preacher explained Daniel 2,
18:39 it was interesting because I say,
18:41 "If there is a God, who can predict 500 years from now."
18:45 And exactly the details happened.
18:47 This is the God I want to give my life to,
18:50 because it makes much more sense. That's right.
18:53 And so I went to a local library,
18:56 tried to actually verify what the history of Daniel 2.
19:00 Is it what Daniel says, "Did it happen?" you know,
19:02 you look at, you know, Babylon,
19:04 Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome.
19:06 Did it happen historically?
19:07 I mean, you go to history and it happen
19:09 exactly the same way.
19:11 You know, and so looking at all these,
19:13 it stared affirming, you know,
19:15 the credibility of God and more than that,
19:19 but also the credibility of the Bible.
19:21 Yeah, I know, I like, you know,
19:23 the fact that you've kind of showed us
19:25 how your life has moved from, you know, Africa to here.
19:28 You know, it show us how to deal with the tragedy
19:30 and you've spent a little bit of time on evolution
19:32 and these things and how they connect.
19:34 I like the fact that you bring out
19:36 that that God perhaps allowed these things to happen.
19:39 You go through this experience
19:40 to ultimately lead you to your conversion.
19:43 But what can you, what can you tell
19:45 somebody at home who, you know,
19:48 has experienced tragedy or lost or someway
19:51 that's really, really struggling with that.
19:54 What encouragement you have for them?
19:56 I think, one thing is to find the source of comfort.
20:02 What is the source of comfort?
20:03 You know, we reserve too many things,
20:06 you know, some reserve to drinking,
20:07 some reserve to alcohol, some reserve to smoking,
20:11 others reserve to food, and things like that.
20:13 And so the question is,
20:16 if I'm a Christian, who do I turn to?
20:18 Do I turn to God? You know, and if--
20:20 as the Bible says that all things workout for the good
20:23 for those who love God, you know.
20:25 If truly everything that happening around my life,
20:28 if God is in control, I must have the faith
20:32 that truly God is in-charge of my life.
20:35 But also coming to that point,
20:36 finding the ultimate source of my comfort.
20:39 You know, I remember like Revelation 4,
20:41 you know, where Jesus reveals Himself and He says,
20:44 "I am the beginning."
20:45 And actually in Greek word is the word "Archaic."
20:48 I'm Archaic, the foundation of everything that ever existed.
20:52 And so it is finding the ultimate certainty in life.
20:56 You know, if that foundation, which even the philosophers
20:59 have been searching for, is Christ.
21:03 And so the response--I don't want to sound mechanically,
21:07 but in reality, it is only Christ that it provides
21:11 the source of comfort for our lives.
21:13 So when you discovered some of these truths,
21:16 Daniel 2 et cetera, particularly the nature of man
21:20 and death and not only the nature of man and the death,
21:22 but also the hope of the resurrection.
21:25 How did you feel with the trauma of losing your parents
21:29 and the discovery that your parents
21:33 are resting in that, there is hope for the few.
21:37 How did--tell me a little bit about that?
21:38 How did you feel?
21:40 I think when you find this grand theme,
21:43 particularly of the Great Controversy,
21:46 finding that there is a war even just beyond ourselves.
21:50 If that, it gives you a framework,
21:52 you know, to think where you are in this particular
21:54 grand scheme of life where am I,
21:57 and how God is working through my life,
21:59 and how God is in?
22:01 So for me, it provided hope that knowing
22:04 that God is in control of everything.
22:07 You know, not only is He-- did He create me?
22:11 But also by a relationship with Him,
22:14 my life finds meaning.
22:16 And that's the most important thing even to any young person.
22:20 Life finding meaning, finding meaning in life,
22:23 you know, and that meaning in life
22:25 can only be found in Christ.
22:27 You know, having that relationship with Christ.
22:29 But also understanding, where is the life headed?
22:32 You know, you look particularly as a Adventist,
22:34 we look at prophecy, and it gives us
22:36 with clear details of where life is headed.
22:39 And look at the events that happening in the world.
22:41 And so for me, if that provided
22:43 more certainty not only in the Bible,
22:46 but also in the existence of God.
22:48 And, of course, looking how God has led in my life.
22:52 You know, looking the prayers that have been answered.
22:55 All these goes more to affirm
22:58 that God's leading in my life, yeah.
23:01 So, Valmy, this is a quite fascinating journey
23:06 that you've been on. Yeah.
23:07 And I think, you know, at one point you probably
23:11 had a lot of frustration and anger,
23:13 and many of us who probably been angry at God
23:16 at some point because, you know,
23:17 God has allowed us to experience these things.
23:20 You know, what is a good outlet for that anger
23:23 and that pent-up emotion?
23:25 You know, what's the healthy way to get rid of that?
23:29 I think once you've, of course, found God
23:31 and you have this relationship with Him is service.
23:35 Serving-- Service?
23:36 Serving others, serving others.
23:39 You know--you know, we build this animosity,
23:42 this hatred towards other.
23:43 It is the nature of evil to build that animosity.
23:48 But I remember Ellen White, I think, in Evangelism she says,
23:51 "The greatest way to resist the evil
23:53 is through aggressive service." Wow.
23:56 You know aggressive service.
23:58 So with so much hatred and all these if we build on it,
24:02 the best way is to serve others.
24:04 Do an evangelistic series. Give a Bible study.
24:07 Do something to reach you to,
24:09 and reach humanity to point them
24:11 to a greater person than themselves,
24:13 to point them to someone like Christ
24:16 who can transform their lives,
24:17 like He has transformed our lives.
24:19 That is the greatest way we can let these things go.
24:21 That I think is a revolutionary idea.
24:24 Because, you know, when something bad happens to us,
24:26 we tend to revel in that experience
24:28 and wish that it happen to somebody else
24:29 who didn't happen at all, but you're saying
24:31 take the focus off ourselves
24:34 and intensely focus on serving somebody else.
24:38 Yes. And you look at also, it is the mono Christ to used
24:41 because when the disciples of John came to Jesus
24:45 and they told Him that John the Baptist has just been beheaded.
24:51 Christ told His disciples, you know, drop everything.
24:54 Let's go.
24:55 They went to a mountain to retreat themselves.
24:57 But as Jesus was headed out into the mountains,
25:00 when He turned around,
25:02 He saw a multitude followed Him
25:04 and that's when He told His disciples,
25:07 tell them to sit down.
25:08 That's the story of feeding the 5,000.
25:10 So even though Christ was pained,
25:12 John the Baptist was His cousin,
25:14 even though He was pained
25:15 by the death of John the Baptist,
25:17 even though He was one esteemed
25:19 above all men, bone of women.
25:22 Christ didn't go just to pray,
25:25 you know, ask God why this happened.
25:28 Instead of doing that He resorted to service,
25:31 to minister to others, and then you realize
25:34 that at the end of feeding the 5,000, Jesus sends now,
25:37 after serving He sends the disciples
25:39 and the multitude away and He starts praying.
25:42 And after prayer that's when He comes walking onward.
25:46 So you find that also it is an example
25:49 that Christ left for us
25:51 that when confronted with tragedy in life,
25:53 when confronted with this anger, these emotions.
25:57 The best way to lead them out is to serve. Yes.
26:01 Wow, that's a--as you said that is quite revolutionary.
26:05 I can resonate, you know, very, very, very little
26:09 with Valmy's experience because I just recently lost my father,
26:11 but I wasn't as close as you were to your father
26:15 and I can definitely see his heart.
26:18 I can definitely say that sometimes
26:20 it doesn't make sense.
26:22 Sometimes there aren't any answers.
26:24 I think when you look at scripture you find Psalms,
26:27 you find the Minor Prophets,
26:29 even inspired prophets in writing, God why?
26:32 Why? He makes us look forward.
26:34 Yeah, even at the cross
26:35 when Jesus was hanging at the cross,
26:36 Jesus said, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
26:39 And I think, it does give us hope
26:41 and that one day when the answers will be revealed.
26:45 Valmy, thank you so much for being here with us,
26:47 sharing this very touching story,
26:49 and Hallelujah for what God has done for your life.
26:52 I think, it is feeding to end on these notes
26:55 because as we are all searching
26:57 for this ultimate hope in life,
26:59 if you look at scripture, throughout scripture,
27:01 the emphasis is on the second coming of Christ.
27:04 The most verses in the New Testament
27:07 are dedicated to the second coming of Christ.
27:09 Even in the Old Testament,
27:10 it was dedicated for the first coming of Christ.
27:13 So the coming of Christ is the ultimate hope.
27:16 Amen. So those that are viewing,
27:18 remember that Jesus is coming again. Till next time.


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