Free Indeed

Putnamville Correctional Facility - Indiana

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Participants: C.A. Murray (Host), Lemuel Vega (Host), Lorenzo Reid, Tyrone Nelson

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00:01 Hi, I'm C.A. Murray.
00:03 And this is Free Indeed, a different kind of ministry.
00:07 The men and women that you will meet
00:09 in this particular program
00:10 have found Jesus in very trying circumstances.
00:14 They're gonna tell you their story,
00:16 their own personal journey of their walk of faith.
00:20 We haven't changed their music,
00:22 and we haven't changed their words,
00:23 because it's their personal testimony.
00:26 It's their walk of faith with Jesus Christ.
00:29 You will find, as they have found
00:31 that in Jesus you can indeed be Free Indeed.
00:54 There is something about that sound,
00:56 it's very final, very frightening.
00:59 Today, we're at the Putnamville Correctional Facility.
01:02 You're going to meet two very unique individuals.
01:06 First Lorenzo, he's been in 20 plus years
01:09 and yet he's still has a love for life
01:13 and a love for Jesus.
01:14 He wrote a song that we're gonna hear today
01:16 called "Keep on Pressing."
01:18 Then we're gonna meet the irrepressible Tyrone,
01:21 spend some time in prison with Lamuel.
01:25 Lamuel is out, Tyrone is still there.
01:27 Yet he's got a very strong, very powerful,
01:30 very pertinent message for you this day on Free Indeed.
01:35 Our next speaker is Mr. Lorenzo Reid,
01:37 and we are in a prison in Central Indiana,
01:40 and you have been 20 years in prison
01:43 for something that you say that you did not do,
01:46 but there is freedom indeed
01:47 and I pray for one day the gates will be open for you.
01:50 What would you share with people in the world they think
01:52 that all this glitter is really worth holding onto
01:55 giving their young lives to come to places like this?
01:59 You're correct. I am--
02:00 I have been in course already for 20 years
02:02 for crime I didn't commit.
02:04 But basically is I think what happened is all the things
02:10 that I thought that I got away with, you know,
02:13 I'm a former drug dealer, you know,
02:17 at age of 14, I went out
02:19 and started selling drugs to support myself
02:24 and try to enhance my music career.
02:28 Basically selling drugs became a habit to me, amen.
02:34 Just it became a habit just like a habit
02:36 form just like I got addicted
02:38 to it just like a person get addicted to using drugs.
02:43 All of the, I got addicted
02:45 to like the materialistic things
02:47 and I thought that it'll make me happy.
02:50 It didn't make me happy,
02:51 in fact it made me depressed, amen.
02:56 But, you know, the thing about it is--
03:00 materialistic things really can't make nobody happy
03:02 you know, I said, I just want to let you know
03:03 that and you know, when I finally got
03:06 of course they raided for selling drugs or whatever,
03:12 they placed this murder on me that,
03:15 I didn't know, I didn't know anything about,
03:17 I don't know anything about it now,
03:20 hopefully soon I will be vindicated.
03:22 But that's you know,
03:23 what got me through all of these,
03:25 all these, these, these 20 years
03:27 I've been you know, waking up everyday,
03:29 knowing that I'm innocent.
03:31 What got me through it is God.
03:33 I'm gonna keep real with you --
03:35 I'm no good, I'm not gonna come up here
03:37 and act as if I'm holy savior, or I'm saved, you know,
03:40 I'm just, I'm just, you know,
03:42 I wasn't an angel out there.
03:43 You know, but God is good,
03:46 I can say that God is good.
03:47 He is good and He has got me through this.
03:51 That's the only way I got through it--
03:52 is with God, you know, praise.
04:04 There are those who feel not, not there
04:09 Many times disrespected, don't be discouraged
04:17 Keep on pressing
04:23 Even when the sky is gray
04:28 And I'm looking for a sunny day
04:33 I've made up my mind to keep on pressing
04:39 Help me out Pressing
04:43 Keep on pressing Pressing
04:48 And I know what's going on Pressing
04:52 You got to keep moving
04:55 Pressing on Moving on Pressing on, pressing
05:02 No, about to fill in time Pressing
05:06 No one to call on Pressing
05:11 You got to believe Pressing on, pressing on
05:19 It's now the love once that's true loves
05:24 Didn't get the chance to save but you see him again
05:31 Keep on pressing
05:37 I have been to many storms
05:42 Nothing that can hold me down
05:46 No need to worry
05:50 Keep on pressing
05:55 Pressing
05:56 God want to see me and to be free
05:59 Pressing Trying to get the best of me
06:04 Pressing, I'm only human when I got the strong
06:09 Pressing on, Pressing on Pressing
06:15 Why sing when no one heard Pressing
06:19 Keep must spirits up Pressing
06:23 I got so far to go
06:26 Pressing no one praise the lord
06:31 Keep on Keep on, keep on,
06:34 keep on, You can't move it Pressing
06:40 Keep on, keep on, keep on Pressing
06:44 Pressing us Pressing on
06:49 Keep on, keep on, keep on
06:51 When you really get to go on through
06:52 some hard time you think about,
06:54 think about what I've gone through.
06:56 And if I can give a smile,
06:57 I could still smile after 20 years of being in course
07:00 and waiting for some I didn't do,
07:02 I can walk around here
07:04 and still respect those who disrespect me, amen.
07:07 You know, when I still, you know,
07:08 I could still have a smile on my face and still,
07:11 you know, give a smile when it's needed
07:13 those who out there that's going through some,
07:15 they could smile and they can you know,
07:17 you have that's a power of God.
07:18 Thank you Lourenzo.
07:19 God bless you,
07:21 Pressing on, pressing.
07:32 Then our next speaker is going to speak truth.
07:37 He's gonna speak saying that it is fools goal.
07:42 The prison ain't a cakewalk,
07:45 Tyron, would you come up here, please?
07:51 Now I want you to know that Tyron and I,
07:54 we go like,
07:57 way back, way back to the old school.
08:03 And we've been down this journey
08:06 but God through His providence I was allowed to go home.
08:11 But Tyron wouldn't
08:13 and he spent many, many years in a penitentiary.
08:17 Tyron, you know, on this journey
08:19 there is a lot of people out there in society
08:21 they think oh, I know,
08:22 I'm won't get caught but prison like nothing,
08:25 it ain't not you know, big deal,
08:27 what would you share with them people in the neighborhood,
08:30 they still skipping and hopping thinking
08:31 it its like no deal up in here.
08:33 I thought the same way, you did.
08:35 I didn't think the consequence,
08:36 didn't think about consequence.
08:38 At what age did this drama begin to start and fester you like--
08:42 Seventeen, and then what happened at 17.
08:44 Seventeen I was, I was given 50 years.
08:47 Fifty years for what?
08:49 Fifty years for murder.
08:50 Fifty years for murder.
08:51 And what happens when you go up
08:52 in a joint at the 17 year old,
08:55 50 years 'cause you was re cool on the street with that pistol.
08:57 I was cool going to in the back gate of Michigan City.
09:00 Here my two tone date in Stacy Adams clothes on,
09:03 have a Sergio Valente jeans on,
09:06 I'm saying it bad deal we worn them kind of tight,
09:09 but I didn't take and none of it.
09:10 Yeah, I didn't take nothing of it.
09:13 And what about the shoes, were they little tall.
09:15 There was long.
09:16 There was long and I went to the back gate
09:18 and I go down Main Street of Michigan City.
09:22 I thought I was super fly.
09:24 And then I heard. Amen, amen.
09:29 I'm gonna can't do whistling at me,
09:32 they can't be whistling at me, yeah.
09:34 But there was whistling at all of us, amen.
09:36 Didn't care, didn't care who he was,
09:39 what we represented, how two off he was.
09:44 Not me and a few these guys
09:46 right here right now can remember.
09:49 You can remember the riots,
09:51 the every other day somebody getting stabbed,
09:55 somebody working on a chase it,
09:56 it makes saving your life.
09:59 Oh, topper you going out like this.
10:01 On topper you when I first went into Michigan City
10:04 I want to wreck that next day.
10:07 And a brother that came here
10:08 wouldn't use to talk cash when we come here.
10:11 He said man they've been nothing none to me.
10:14 I'm gonna kill me or somebody.
10:16 I was out there watching away, I'm a watching T.V out away.
10:20 And I heard some scream, the shot was right here.
10:24 He screamed, and screamed
10:26 and I'm saying here listen the police here,
10:29 I know it because I hear, amen.
10:31 And when he come up first two guys came out.
10:34 And then when he come out I knew what it happened,
10:38 they had raped it, and I had made up
10:40 my mind then that look here,
10:43 there are some tougher guys in the penitentiary than me.
10:45 I was chained down
10:47 after I went through my little thing,
10:49 I said, I'll be tough,
10:50 I got to fight I'll be tough, but it don't work.
10:54 You loose time, you loose years,
10:57 I went two to three superintendents
10:59 before I got off locker,
11:01 I was on strip cell naked, sprayed with maize,
11:06 beat down they had sticks now like this at Pilkington,
11:10 sticks like this they called them walking tall sticks.
11:13 You've seen the movie, well those sticks exist.
11:17 And they will whip you like wet rugs.
11:20 Have respect for yourself,
11:23 because if you don't have respect for yourself,
11:26 nobody will.
11:28 Now Tyrone let me ask you a question,
11:31 you, your life is different today, different.
11:35 And today it ain't about the gangs
11:37 and it ain't about the drugs,
11:39 you've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, yes.
11:43 You had a second chance on the street, right.
11:46 What would you share with the young people
11:47 out there today facing
11:49 that peer pressure of that drama?
11:51 That peer pressure when they come to you
11:53 and tell you manage to do lie or let's rob a bank,
11:57 I had all these happen to me
11:58 when I got out 98 after 17 year.
12:01 I did a lot and then it lay to a primo
12:04 and then it lay to a pie
12:05 and then it lay to a 250000 house been smoked up
12:08 with the car like Escalade 2. I'll say,
12:11 give it to Jesus right away, give it to God.
12:14 How do you do that?
12:15 You give it to Him, you surrender,
12:17 God don't chase, He's chasing you now, amen.
12:20 He's chasing you like the police chase you.
12:22 He wants you, I want to be needed
12:24 and I needed to be wanted out down the street.
12:26 So I did everything that I could
12:28 but God was already there, not that He remove.
12:33 How did that change happened in your life,
12:35 so you had a second chance after 17 years
12:38 and then things went wrong
12:40 and you found yourself in the county jail.
12:42 Facing a 112 years for forgery and fraud
12:45 and I was talking to my mother on the phone
12:47 who can't read or write, but she is so gifted
12:49 because God blessed her with a tongue,
12:51 God blessed her with the vocabulary to speak to him
12:55 when she pray she spoke you, she spoke you,
12:58 she actually will spoke you
12:59 and when she told me on the phone,
13:01 she said Tyrone,
13:02 God wants to you to hang this phone up right now
13:04 I'm talking to her on a phone in the county jail click.
13:08 She said hang it up right now,
13:09 go up to your cell get on your knees
13:11 and ask for forgiveness.
13:13 I said, right now momma I don't want to let it go.
13:16 Right now she said, now Tyrone now.
13:18 And I hung the phone up,
13:20 went upstairs and I start praying.
13:22 Honestly I've start praying and then it became sincere,
13:25 then snaps start coming out of my nose,
13:27 then I cover myself with the horse blanket
13:29 that they give it, for a blanket.
13:31 I cover myself up and I just shook and cry
13:33 and I said God please forgive me,
13:35 just please forgive me.
13:36 Three weeks later,
13:38 I thought I had a death in a family,
13:40 they say Tyrone your attorney is down here,
13:42 he need to see you, this is 2 o'clock in the morning,
13:44 you don't get calls like this.
13:45 And I went down there and he say,
13:47 Tyrone, he say,
13:49 if I can get you out this morning,
13:50 can you stay out of trouble, I said what?
13:54 He said if I can get you out this morning,
13:55 can you stay out of trouble?
13:56 I said, yes, I could stay out of trouble I sure can.
14:00 And God drop all charges,
14:03 all forgery charges, all fraud charges,
14:06 released me He is the key, He is the master key.
14:11 And I say, if you're in trouble
14:13 use that key to get through doors,
14:15 to get through anything.
14:16 When I'm fallen off my square here,
14:19 I call Lonny, and I will say,
14:22 I am a good guy at heart, I was a bad guy back
14:25 then because I was protecting myself.
14:28 But I am a good guy now, you all see me around here,
14:30 I'm a comedian, I love to laugh, amen.
14:33 Stress is number one,
14:34 laughter is a number one reliever of stress for me.
14:37 Now speak about half stepping with God.
14:40 If you half step with God, if you half step with God,
14:43 he's is gonna get you, devil go and get you
14:45 if you're take eyes off him
14:47 and don't give it to him everyday, amen.
14:49 You gonna sink like Peter did, you're gonna sink,
14:51 you got to keep the faith everyday.
14:53 Everyday, Tyrone, thank you so very, very much,
14:56 God bless you. Thank you, all right.
15:02 I pastured in New York City for 30 years,
15:05 right in the heart of Harlem,
15:07 preached a 117 funerals in a five year period,
15:12 that's about one funeral every 18 days.
15:15 And every time I saw a grieving family
15:19 I wondered if that person had given their heart to the Lord,
15:24 because it doesn't make any sense to sit here
15:27 and sing and clap and pray and feel good.
15:33 And then at judgment time not be right with Jesus.
15:38 So that's why 3ABN has partnered with Christmas
15:40 Behind Bars to, to bring you Free Indeed
15:44 and to take it around the world,
15:46 because we truly believe in the words of John 8:36,
15:50 "If therefore the Son shall make you free,
15:53 you shall be free indeed".
15:57 I'm reading just a couple of verses
15:58 Matthew Chapter 10,
15:59 rather Mark Chapter 10 verses 17 through 22,
16:04 this is a story of what we call the rich young ruler,
16:08 Father God speak now to us,
16:13 give us Your words and Your spirit
16:16 and help us not to be just hearers of the word.
16:20 We want to do the word,
16:22 because it's in doing the word
16:24 that we are made like Jesus, amen.
16:29 We've heard some powerful, powerful testimonies tonight.
16:34 And I just want to add this little bit
16:36 from the words of the rich, young, ruler.
16:38 The Bible says, I'm in Mark Chapter 10,
16:41 we pick up a story at verse 17,
16:45 "Now as He was going out on the road.
16:49 One came running, knelt before Him".
16:52 Now this posture of kneeling mean,
16:54 this guy is serious, he is not playing,
16:56 he is on his knees.
16:58 So he knelt before Jesus and asked Him,
17:00 "Good teacher what shall I do
17:02 that I may inherit eternal life?
17:06 So Jesus said to him, why do you call me good?
17:11 No one is good, but One, that is God.
17:16 You know the commandments."
17:18 So he send right back to the commandments.
17:21 "Don't commit adultery, don't murder, don't steal,
17:26 do not bear false witness, do not defraud,
17:31 honor your father and your mother.
17:35 And he said to him, teacher all these things
17:40 I've done from my youth".
17:44 Verse 21 says, "Then Jesus looking at him, loved him.
17:49 Aren't you glad that even
17:51 when you come to Jesus even as a Smart Alec.
17:55 When He looks at you, He looks at you with love.
18:00 Everybody else in the world
18:03 can look at you with hate and scorn,
18:05 but when you come to Jesus you always find love.
18:13 Now think of this before I finish this text.
18:16 This fellow is a rich, young, ruler.
18:22 Now in the world can you do any better than that?
18:26 He's rich so he has got all the money,
18:30 he's young, he got all the time and he's a ruler.
18:35 So he can tell people what to do,
18:37 you, you in the world
18:38 you don't get that's the trifecta.
18:41 That's, the home run, he is rich,
18:45 he is young, and he is in charge.
18:50 Now, when he came to Jesus he,
18:52 he really expected Christ to commend Him.
18:56 He expected Jesus to say to Him,
19:00 man I gotten to tell you.
19:03 You rich, you young, and you in charge
19:09 and so when Jesus gave him
19:10 a list of things in the commandments,
19:13 his response was got dead-- happened to it in all my life.
19:20 I got dead.
19:22 So now he is expecting Christ to say,
19:24 I got nothing for you
19:25 'cause you're perfect enter into the kingdom.
19:29 And he is accustomed to hearing that,
19:31 because that's what you hear
19:33 when you're rich, young ruler.
19:35 When you're big shark,
19:37 people laugh at your jokes,
19:39 you know, they're not funny, but they're laughing,
19:45 they're cracking up because you're a rich, young ruler.
19:48 When you're a rich, young, ruler
19:49 people hang around you not because they want you,
19:54 they want what you got.
19:58 Oh, you know folk like that,
19:59 I know I'm not taking people who are not familiar with that,
20:01 people will hang around you
20:03 and I'll use this term suck up to you, amen.
20:07 And kiss up to you as long as you got,
20:12 what's you got,
20:13 because they want some of what you got.
20:20 Isn't it interesting,
20:22 that in this world they don't want you,
20:26 they want your stuff.
20:29 You come to Jesus,
20:31 He don't want your stuff, He wants you.
20:37 He's gotten stuff, He don't need your stuff.
20:40 He wants you and you know what?
20:41 Yourself as long as you got stuff,
20:45 you got friends.
20:47 Come on say, amen, amen.
20:49 You can't say amen, say ouch.
20:54 As long as you got stuff you got friends
20:56 and when your stuff runs out, so do your friends.
21:03 And when you look around and you're,
21:05 I'm gonna invent a new word, stuff-less,
21:11 the only person that still there is a man called Jesus.
21:16 The same thing He told that woman at the rock,
21:18 I got some stuff that you know not off.
21:23 And if you take master you're never thirsty again.
21:30 Let me say this parenthetically,
21:34 everybody that tells you about yourself,
21:39 tells you that the sun doesn't arise
21:41 and set on you,
21:43 puts you in your place is not necessarily your enemy.
21:49 And everybody that makes over you
21:51 and tells you the great thing in the world
21:54 and loves up to you and pushes up on you
21:57 and tells you how good you are is not necessarily your friend.
22:03 See a friend is a person
22:05 who tells you the God's honest truth in love that's a friend.
22:12 Good or bad rich or poor,
22:13 black or white, thick or thin, ugly or pretty,
22:17 truth is what you need.
22:19 And when you go to Jesus
22:20 you always get the truth, amen.
22:23 Always, that's why don't ask Jesus to tell you
22:30 about yourself or show you about yourself
22:34 unless you're ready to see the truth,
22:37 because all God got is truth.
22:39 He's not going to sugarcoat it,
22:41 He's not going to play with it,
22:42 He's not going to spin it, He's not going to soften it,
22:45 He's going to give you the truth,
22:46 the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
22:51 So don't ask unless you're ready for the truth
22:53 and the young man said,
22:54 what must I do to be saved.
22:57 Come on say, amen.
23:00 So Christ give him a list, and He said I got that done
23:06 in all my life and then Lord said,
23:10 well, if you really want to be perfect,
23:14 if you want to be one hundred percent,
23:18 sell everything, sell it all.
23:24 Now Christ wasn't saying you have to be poor,
23:29 Christ was reading his heart, amen.
23:33 And Christ knew,
23:34 his issue was his bank account.
23:38 So Christ cuts through everything
23:40 and gets to his personal issue,
23:43 your issue is money.
23:45 Your issue is your status in the community.
23:48 Your issue is your car
23:50 and your boat and your home, that's your problem.
23:55 So if you want to be perfect,
23:57 if you want to be one hundred percent on my side
24:01 get that out of the way.
24:03 Sell it all, take up your cross and follow me.
24:10 And reason we know Christ hit it dead on
24:13 because the Bible said,
24:16 he made a u-turn
24:19 and walked away sorrowful, why?
24:24 Because he had a lot of stuff.
24:28 Bible says, He had great riches
24:30 and he wasn't willing to give it up.
24:35 You see each of us got something.
24:39 I would say when I was pastoring everybody got stuff,
24:43 I got stuff, you got stuff, all God's children got stuff.
24:51 And Jesus knows precisely what your stuff is.
24:56 And that's what He's calling you let go.
24:59 If you ever want to be one with Jesus,
25:02 if you want to be moving in the realm of perfection,
25:06 if you want to be totally on Christ side,
25:08 you pick the one thing that you love the most,
25:12 pick the thing that identifies you,
25:15 that's makes you are what's you are
25:17 and you lay it at the altar.
25:20 Even if you don't know what it is, Jesus does.
25:25 So in your prayer you ask Him Lord
25:27 is there anything between me and You,
25:30 is there anything I value more than You,
25:32 is there anything I price more than You,
25:34 I give it to You.
25:36 Now you may, Christ may turn around give right back to you.
25:40 I know a person who gave his money to the Lord
25:46 and the Lord turned right around gave it all back to him.
25:50 But He used it in the cause of Christ.
25:52 You know why?
25:54 'Cause Christ saw that, He could trust him with it.
25:59 And if Jesus can trust you with it,
26:01 He'll give you the world.
26:04 He will and the reason we don't have the world
26:08 because He can't trust us with it.
26:10 And some, you know, you try to get the world,
26:14 got you in a trouble.
26:18 That's the truth about the rich young ruler.
26:21 Now what's the truth about you,
26:22 what's your thing?
26:25 The moment you lay it on the altar,
26:28 you're right with God
26:29 and you'll be surprised what God will do for you,
26:33 with you, to you and through you,
26:38 through the power of Jesus Christ.
26:40 But you got to love Him enough.
26:41 There is the book in our closet,
26:43 there is a book called "Living God's Love."
26:46 Actually out of print now
26:48 and it simply says this 200 some pages
26:51 when you boil it all down it says this.
26:56 "Sin is a failure to love Jesus enough".
27:04 If you love Him enough He says to those who received me
27:11 I give the power to become sons of God.
27:16 John 1:12, if you love Him enough all power is yours
27:24 and you can live victoriously
27:26 and even when it get a little hard
27:29 and the boys get on your nerve,
27:32 you can ride above over that in the power of Jesus,
27:40 amen, amen, God bless you.


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