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United Prison Ministries

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Participants: Jason Bradley (Host), Richard Bland

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00:01 Stay tuned to meet a man who loves to go to prison
00:03 but he's never incarcerated.
00:05 My name is Jason Bradley
00:07 and you're watching Urban Report.
00:30 Hello, and welcome to Urban Report.
00:32 Today my guest is Brother Richard A. Bland.
00:34 And he is the founder of
00:36 the United Prison Ministries International.
00:38 Welcome to Urban Report, Brother Richard.
00:40 It's happy to be here with you, Jason.
00:42 Pleasure. Pleasure to have you.
00:44 So tell us about United Prison Ministries International.
00:47 How did it get started and what's its function?
00:51 Well, it got started in 1980.
00:53 My wife and I, we came from California.
00:56 And we really came to California to get involved
00:58 in opening a chain of health restaurants
01:01 but the Lord changed the story there
01:04 and we were invited to a prison.
01:06 And from that, I took with me about
01:08 200 Spirit of Prophecy Books that I've read so far.
01:11 And the next day, the Chaplain asked me
01:13 for a 1000 of them.
01:15 So I took them that and that's when it started.
01:17 So since that time, we've been going out,
01:19 I've been in to 71 countries of the world.
01:21 So my wife and I, like I said, we started out,
01:24 and now we've given away over 71 million books of Bible
01:27 and Bible lesson to men and women in prison,
01:30 not just in the United States, all over Russia,
01:32 all over Romania.
01:33 I've been to India six times,
01:35 China about five times, we just came back from Indonesia,
01:41 Philippines, you know.
01:42 Wow. Africa.
01:44 You are traveling the globe and spreading the gospel.
01:48 Now you've recently came out with a new Bible Study
01:53 or Bible Study guide.
01:56 Tell us about that and what's unique about it.
01:59 Well, what's unique about this,
02:01 after doing over 25 million Bible lessons
02:03 that we've graded in our office over the time,
02:07 I asked the Lord, I said, "Lord,
02:08 give us a set of Bible lessons
02:11 where all the answers are out of your Bible only."
02:14 So what we did, we took 25 of the most asked question
02:17 in the world that people want to know
02:19 and we put it together,
02:21 and the Lord gave us the Bible text to go with it.
02:24 And what's so unique about it, Jason, is that
02:26 anybody's got a Bible.
02:28 Don't care what church they go to,
02:30 they can get the answers out of their Bible.
02:33 Yes. Yes.
02:34 So they know when they're doing their research,
02:36 and they go to the scripture,
02:38 and they read it for themselves.
02:40 Because, you know, what happens a lot of times
02:42 is it's a generational thing
02:44 so people are whatever denomination they are
02:48 because their grandparents were that denomination
02:52 and they haven't done the research for themselves
02:55 to see what, which way to go?
02:58 But when they open the Word of God
02:59 and they study and they write down the answers
03:02 and learn for themselves,
03:04 then they can make an informed decision.
03:06 We've always, we started out, always now,
03:09 all of our Bible lessons is what the Bible says.
03:11 We always believe in going by the Book.
03:14 But we never design our own Bible lessons
03:17 until just recently.
03:18 And after about a year and a half
03:20 of prayer and fasting, we came up with this here,
03:23 that you see right here.
03:25 And on top of...
03:26 Let's turn to the subject.
03:27 The first one's stress,
03:29 Bible answers from their Bible,
03:31 "Don't stress, defeat loneliness,
03:33 healing the sorrow, living with hope,
03:36 health and nutrition, survival, addiction free."
03:39 All these are answers out of their Bible.
03:41 Or also gentle ways improve your marriage,
03:44 take control to quit smoking...
03:46 The people don't have to go through
03:47 these 773,692 words in the Bible.
03:50 They can go right here and get the answers quickly.
03:53 Wait a minute, how many words?
03:54 773,692 words in the Bible. Oh! you know?
03:58 Everybody know there are 66 books,
04:00 everybody knows there's 1,189 chapters,
04:03 everybody knows there's 31,173 verses.
04:06 But when you look at the 7,73,692 words
04:09 and 5 million letters
04:11 that's a whole lot to find your answer.
04:13 But we put it together so you can go right to it.
04:16 So if you have a money problem,
04:17 we give you nine texts how to solve that problem.
04:20 If you have hope in times of trouble...
04:21 It's designed for everybody
04:23 and I don't care what religion you belong to
04:25 if you own a Bible, you must get
04:28 what the Bible says.
04:30 Now what are some of the other topics
04:31 that are covered in there because as you flip
04:34 past page 2 and 3,
04:36 you get into like a question and answer type of format?
04:40 Yes, what we did here...
04:42 The first 15 subjects
04:44 are just the Bible text of how to find...
04:48 Like I said, to take control to smoke,
04:50 I want to quit smoking.
04:51 Well, we've just come up with nine Bible texts
04:53 that you can go to.
04:54 So you can look at it real quickly.
04:56 Then the next 10, you write out the answer,
04:58 for an example, about where sin came from.
05:02 Most people really miss that first question,
05:05 who committed the first sin.
05:07 Ninety nine percent of the people will say
05:10 alimony but the Bible says something else.
05:13 And we didn't let them know that
05:15 what they think they heard in Sunday School
05:18 or wherever Sabbath School, it's not true.
05:20 The devil committed the first sin,
05:22 'cause they go to the Bible for their answer.
05:24 Then the very next one happened, when people said,
05:26 what happens when a person dies?
05:28 The Bible gives them the answer,
05:30 you listen to me.
05:31 Then the next one, they got to write out the answer,
05:33 who wrote the Ten Commandments.
05:35 Most people think that somebody else wrote it,
05:37 but when they read, they're going to find out
05:38 in their Bible who wrote it.
05:40 Then they're going to find out in their Bible
05:42 what day is the Lord's Day out of their Bible.
05:45 And what day is the Lord's Day?
05:46 Well, the Bible will tell you. I don't give any secrets out.
05:49 That's why they need to get these lessons
05:51 so they can get the answer for themselves.
05:52 They need... Yes.
05:54 But according to the Bible the Lord's Day
05:56 is the Sabbath, right?
05:57 The Seventh Day Sabbath.
05:59 So now the fourth Commandment, "Remember the Sabbath day,
06:01 keep it holy," six days.
06:02 That's exactly right.
06:04 "You can do all the labor you want, but the Seventh day
06:05 is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God."
06:07 Yes. You got it correctly.
06:09 And the reason, but see at the very top is,
06:11 everyone knows is, always pray and ask for guidance
06:15 when you do these lessons.
06:16 So it's the Holy Spirit that leads them.
06:18 Like I said,
06:19 there's no other comments in here at all.
06:21 It's all strictly out of their Bible.
06:23 I don't care what kind of Bible that they have,
06:25 whether it's a Muslim Bible, a Catholic Bible,
06:27 or a Jehovah's Witness Bible,
06:29 I don't care what kind of Bible it is.
06:30 It's going to give them the answer out
06:32 because we did research on this to make sure that
06:35 we got to 25 most asked questions
06:38 that people will know all over the world,
06:41 and now we got to get this translated now
06:44 into other countries.
06:45 So are these going into the prisons?
06:47 Are these studies making it into the prisons
06:50 and if so, how is it impacting the inmates and the officers?
06:54 Okay, you asked a good question here on that.
06:57 Just recently, as you know a particular prison
07:02 with the latest prison, she told me, she said,
07:07 "You know, my son said..."
07:08 And she's a minister by the way.
07:10 She said, "My son came to me and says, 'You know, Mom,
07:16 Sunday is the Sabbath.'"
07:17 She says, "Son,
07:19 you have to go back and look, it's wrong."
07:20 She said, "Because the Bible gives the right day
07:23 in the book there."
07:24 And so he says, "Well, that's not what I was taught."
07:27 She said, "But the Bible is correct.
07:29 Go by what the Bible says."
07:31 And one prison just recently
07:33 until we changed to this style of Bible Lesson,
07:35 400 guys have graduated in the last two months
07:39 and this Bible Court because they're now going
07:41 by what the Bible says.
07:42 Well, most people don't realize people in prison
07:45 don't take people's word anymore.
07:46 They don't care none about your church,
07:48 they didn't trick so law so they say,
07:51 I want to know the truth.
07:52 And the Bible is the only one that would give you the truth.
07:55 And that's the reason why we went to the Bible
07:57 to get the Bible to answer on every question.
08:00 And these are the 25 top questions
08:02 that you want to know.
08:04 Such as about your health. What should I eat?
08:07 The Bible tells you that.
08:08 Who should I marry? The Bible tells you that.
08:10 When should I worship?
08:11 The Bible tells you that.
08:13 Do you listen to me? All in the Bible.
08:14 And so this is why it's designed for that.
08:16 And we made in such a way that instead of it costing
08:20 what most people think, this 25 Bible Study,
08:23 most people say, "Well, 25 Bible study,
08:25 should at least cost four or five dollars."
08:26 No, we made it available.
08:28 And they get a box of a 100, a dollar a piece.
08:31 That's four cents a Bible Study,
08:33 they're getting their answers.
08:35 So that's why everybody needs to call this number.
08:39 And what number is that?
08:41 Area code 205-755-4744.
08:46 That's 205-755-4744.
08:50 Or they can go to the website upmi.org.
08:54 You know? Upmi.org.
08:57 That's United Prison Ministries International.
08:59 And if you know anybody in the prison
09:01 anywhere that's in prison, let them contact us.
09:05 Now we send the materials to the prisons free.
09:07 This is why we have people like yourself that,
09:09 then people that's going to hear,
09:11 this to donate to the ministry
09:12 because that's all what we do.
09:14 We give free material.
09:15 Every dime you send us is tax deductible.
09:17 Even if you get a box for yourself is tax deductible.
09:21 'cause we don't sell anything, you see?
09:23 So you're getting a tax deductible
09:24 to give to your neighbor, to your friend.
09:26 And we admonish whoever you are, get it
09:29 and give it to your pastors.
09:31 We admonish that to give it to all the pastors
09:34 because they need to know exactly
09:36 what the Bible is saying.
09:37 Now you talked to me earlier before we came on the program
09:44 and you were discussing like
09:45 how you can give it to your doctor,
09:47 you can give it to your dentist,
09:49 you can try and put it in different offices
09:53 so that people can study the Word for themselves
09:55 you might reach other people as a form of ministry.
09:58 Yeah, the reason why we did that because
10:00 see, every Christian has a responsibility.
10:04 If they would read this Ezekiel 3:17, 18, and 19,
10:10 where God, commands every Christian
10:13 that they are there
10:16 because He's put them there to work for Christ.
10:19 And it also says that we are watchmen.
10:21 And it says in the 18 verse,
10:24 if I don't share the Word of God with you
10:27 and you yourself are lost, I'm going to be lost too.
10:32 You know what I say?
10:34 So I am as every person that is here in this program,
10:36 be sure to read Ezekiel 3:17, 18, and 19
10:43 because that's what turned my life around.
10:44 That's why I don't pass up anybody anymore.
10:46 I used to pass up some people.
10:48 Some people I give the gospel to, some I didn't,
10:50 until I read that text because it said
10:52 if a person is...
10:54 Do not hear the Word of God because I didn't tell them
10:57 and they are going to hell, I will go too.
10:59 That is simply what it says.
11:01 Now what about...
11:04 You were talking about
11:05 how it impacts the inmates, right?
11:07 How does it impact the officers?
11:10 Oh, my!
11:11 Well, number one, once it impacts the inmates,
11:14 then the officers are impacted.
11:15 How?
11:17 Because the inmates are acting different,
11:18 the officers are seeing their lives change,
11:20 and then the officers' lives being changed too
11:22 because the Word in the prison now,
11:24 if you want the blessing, pass out
11:25 what the Bible Studies Lesson.
11:27 That's going to the whole prison system
11:29 in America now.
11:30 If you want the blessing, pass out
11:31 what the Bible Studies Lessons, you see what I mean?
11:34 And if you care, you will share.
11:36 And that's goes to everybody.
11:37 If you care about your neighbor,
11:39 if you care about the people in your community,
11:41 you will share the Word of God.
11:43 And it's simple, you don't have to sit down now
11:45 anymore with a Bible study.
11:47 In fact, we admonish you,
11:49 once your pass is out, keep your mouth shut,
11:51 and let the Word of God do the talking.
11:54 And the reason for that, Jason, you'd look at your thumb.
11:57 There are over seven billion people in the world
12:00 with a different thumbprint as yours on that small space.
12:04 Can you imagine how different, how special we are,
12:07 just that small space?
12:08 So therefore, since like we are different
12:11 in the way we are,
12:12 then we have to go to God for ourselves
12:14 and that's what this Bible Lesson does.
12:16 It'll send you to the Word of God yourself.
12:19 And Bible says, "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good."
12:22 But I can't find out
12:23 through your relationship with Christ
12:25 that I have my own
12:26 personal relationship with Christ...
12:28 Exactly, you've got it. In order to find out.
12:30 Well, that's amazing.
12:32 So what differentiates your Bible Study
12:37 from some of the other ones that are circulating?
12:39 Well, like I said, this is the only one
12:41 we ever heard of in the world where all the scriptures
12:45 or when all the answers are from the Bible.
12:48 We don't give any comment in this at all.
12:51 In fact, at the end of the book,
12:53 the Bible Lesson here,
12:55 we even have all the well-known stories
12:57 of the Bible that you can find.
12:59 But, you know, we're not knocking any others.
13:03 But I'm just telling you if you want results
13:05 because I myself, I used to get Bible Study.
13:07 And I said, "Well, that's that person's opinion."
13:09 Because they have a little footnote.
13:11 This here has no footnotes, it's only God notes.
13:14 And the lives have been changed
13:16 because I didn't know that.
13:18 I didn't know that.
13:20 They call me and say, "I didn't know."
13:21 I said, "What did you didn't know?"
13:23 "I didn't know that I was born in sin and shaped...
13:26 I didn't know that I could not quit smoking."
13:28 I said, "No, you can't quit."
13:30 "This is what I thought I'd quit."
13:31 I said, "No, you can quit."
13:33 I said, "Just like no more that I can go
13:35 35,000 feet in the air.
13:37 Can I jump 35... They said "No."
13:39 But I can go 35,000 feet high. They said, "How?"
13:41 I said, "By getting into an airplane."
13:43 With Christ get in your life, you can do it.
13:45 Christ have to do, you can't do it.
13:47 You listening to me? So it's impossible.
13:49 That's why Christ does not fix up sinners,
13:52 He replaces sinners. You're listening to me.
13:55 See I used to think that I could do better.
13:57 I had a temper, I could do better.
13:58 I can't do better. God has to come in my life.
14:02 And that's what He told Nicodemus in the Bible.
14:04 Nicodemus was a great theologian,
14:07 you see what I mean?
14:08 He knew everything but he went to Christ.
14:11 And Jesus said, "You know what your problem is,
14:12 you must be born again."
14:14 He said, "How can I be born again."
14:15 And He says, this is what happens.
14:17 So if you look in the Bible,
14:19 about four Bible texts will help you.
14:22 I mean Psalm 51:5 will say, "You were born in sin."
14:25 Psalm 58:3 says, "From your birth,
14:28 you came out lying in your mother's womb."
14:30 And then you look at Galatians 5:17, 18, 19,
14:33 it tells you all those sinful attributes
14:35 that you were born with.
14:37 Then you look at the Galatians 5:22, 23,
14:40 it says that once you're born again
14:42 you'll have love, joy, peace, long suffering.
14:45 It's just lets you know the difference.
14:47 So you know who you are by your action.
14:49 Fruit of the Spirit. Fruit of the Spirit.
14:51 Exactly right.
14:53 I've known you for a couple of years now.
14:55 Yeah.
14:57 And I've seen how passionate you are
15:00 about spreading the gospel and about prison ministry.
15:04 Where does that come from?
15:07 And where does your passion for prison ministry come from?
15:12 And how long have you had that burning desire?
15:15 Well, if you've seen the lives changed
15:19 that we've seen changed, my wife and I,
15:21 you will be passionate about it too.
15:23 It's been amazing. It's amazing.
15:26 We didn't plan to do this. We had no dreams of doing this.
15:30 But let me tell you what happened.
15:31 We started out with about 200 prisoners
15:35 at the first meeting that we were invited to, Long story.
15:38 And then I told the chaplain
15:39 I want to talk to about 10 at first
15:42 because I want to study with them
15:44 and give them what we knew.
15:46 From those, we started out with 15 Bible students
15:49 and we gave them the Word of God.
15:51 And we said, "Now what could that mean?
15:53 Would you think that every prisoner's brave."
15:55 And so they said, "Well, steal it."
15:57 All of us steal. I said, "Okay."
15:59 I said, "Now, let me show you how you steal now.
16:02 If I should give you a dollar to give everybody in the studio
16:05 and you don't give that man over there
16:06 his dollar, you've stolen."
16:07 They said, "That's right."
16:09 I said, "Now if I gave you the Word of God,
16:10 everybody you come in contact with,
16:12 if you don't give it to them, you're stealing from them."
16:14 They said, "Yes."
16:16 So from those 15, in six months time,
16:18 we were grading 18,000 Bible Studies.
16:21 That's what made it explode.
16:23 Did you hear what I just said? Wow!
16:24 From those 15,
16:27 they told the guards, they told their family members,
16:29 they told other prisoners and it spread in 27 states
16:32 within six months time.
16:33 And that's what hooked us. Wow!
16:35 And I said, "Lord if this is what you want us to do,
16:37 this is what we'll be willing to do it."
16:38 Wow!
16:40 So have you ever been incarcerated yourself?
16:45 No.
16:46 But although I've been in many prisons,
16:48 I've been in Russian prison, I've been in Romanian prison,
16:51 Indian prison, African prison.
16:54 In fact, one year, that's why my wife told me
16:57 that I should slow down.
16:58 In 2012, I went to Africa nine times in one year,
17:04 flying back and forth.
17:05 And it's about wore me out. See?
17:07 Now how long was that flight?
17:09 Well, it's about a 12-hour flight.
17:11 You know, going there and doing it twice.
17:13 And now every month of the year I was back and forth.
17:15 That was 18 times, you know going around and forth.
17:17 And it's just too much.
17:19 And one time I should've slow down
17:20 but it was, the needs, it's so great.
17:22 Yes.
17:23 Because see I have gone on...
17:25 we service every prison in Russia.
17:26 We are the first people that ever put Bible Lesson
17:29 and a Bible in Russian prison in 1991,
17:33 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995.
17:36 We went over there, and Romania,
17:38 all over the country.
17:40 And we were invited by the leaders
17:41 of those countries too, by the way.
17:43 Wow! Which is unheard of.
17:45 Of which was unheard. Yes.
17:47 And in our Bible Lessons were printed
17:49 on the communist press too.
17:51 Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. Oh, yes.
17:53 Your Bible lessons were printed on the communist press.
17:56 That's right.
17:57 We got a film to show that, Persia and Romania is there.
18:00 I said, "Look we don't have our..."
18:02 He said, "Look, you provide the,
18:06 what it takes, you know, and we'll print them."
18:08 And they printed. All we did was provide the money.
18:10 Wow! So the Lord...
18:12 And see that goes to that, you know,
18:14 God can open doors that no man can shut,
18:16 and He can shut doors that no man can open.
18:19 Well, we got to remember this, Jason,
18:21 God is the one that said
18:22 the gospel has to go to the whole world.
18:23 And it's going to go.
18:25 See because He said so.
18:27 So the point is
18:29 do I want to go along or with Him.
18:30 Do I want to have the joy ride with Him
18:32 'cause He's going to go, see?
18:34 And that's why amongst the people that's listening,
18:37 be sure to read Ezekiel 3:17, 18, and 19.
18:42 And put your name there 'cause God is talking to you.
18:44 And that you won't pass up anybody, on the way here,
18:48 on the way if you've stopped at a rest stop.
18:51 A bus load of people who are singers
18:55 of a different nationality, they passed by,
18:57 and I gave them one of these.
18:58 Do you know, the young man about 19, 20 years old,
19:02 I gave him a box of a 100
19:04 because I was so impressed by their people.
19:06 He turned around to give me enough money
19:08 to buy 400 of them back, cash money.
19:11 Just kids, he is not more...
19:13 well, he was about 20 or 21 years old.
19:16 See because they had a family group
19:17 I think 11 of them,
19:19 and I got the tape they gave me.
19:20 And I said, "I was just impressed to get my book."
19:22 And he came back and gave me a roll of money.
19:24 Wow! So it's the lowest program.
19:27 And if you want some blessing, pass out these lessons.
19:31 You're listening to me?
19:32 Just remember that I was there.
19:33 And I would suggest this.
19:35 I tried it with my Dentist
19:37 who I didn't think was a Christian.
19:40 No, he never talked religion to me,
19:41 anything of this nature.
19:43 So one day I asked, well as soon as I go there, I said,
19:45 "Doc, what do you think of this?"
19:46 He said, "Let me look at it."
19:48 I said, "I like to put in your office.
19:50 So let me look at it."
19:51 Then he came back, he said, "You know, you can."
19:53 He said because it's not about a church,
19:56 it's about what the Word of God is.
19:58 So I put a rack in his office at my expense,
20:01 just a $100 worth.
20:03 And do you know just a week ago,
20:05 Thursday he gave me $1,250
20:09 because I got a letter, it's in your bag right now,
20:12 I'll show you at the end of the show where he said,
20:14 "It was such a blessing to his patients
20:17 that come in there."
20:19 And he loved the way that it was done.
20:21 Exactly right.
20:23 I have another dentist, that is not even my dentist,
20:27 who saw this, he was so impressed
20:28 he got $10, 000 worth of the stuff.
20:32 So I will suggest if you know any doctor's office,
20:36 make it your personal gift for the Lord,
20:40 to get a rack of this, and just put it in there,
20:43 and you'll see how they'll be blessed.
20:45 And what are some other ways that people can get involved
20:48 with UPMI ministries?
20:51 Well, it's according to what they want to do.
20:53 You know, number one, we want to put this
20:56 in two and a half million prisons
20:58 in the United States in the next few months now.
21:00 So therefore, we need two and a half million dollars
21:02 worth just to do that.
21:04 So there are three ways you can help prison ministry.
21:07 You can pray.
21:09 You can pay.
21:11 And you can go.
21:12 You're listening to me? Pray, pay, and go.
21:14 Pray, pay, and go.
21:15 Now very few people are really qualified
21:17 to go into prison ministry because prisoners have
21:20 the sharpest mind you have.
21:21 So we admonish you to go through certain training
21:25 to do that, you see what I mean?
21:27 But we need all the prayers we can get
21:29 and we need all the fun that you want to send
21:32 that you can be a blessing.
21:33 Remember the blessings come by giving not by receiving.
21:38 So if you want more money, give more.
21:41 You're listening to me? The more you give...
21:43 And we found out most of our donors over the years
21:45 have said the reason why we give to prison ministry
21:47 because we are giving to people
21:50 who God has send must get the gospel,
21:54 and we're not getting the personal benefit back,
21:56 you see, for it because
21:58 and other people got to realize this.
21:59 And as I think I've said this before on this show,
22:02 you got to remember out there, audience,
22:04 when a person get out of prison,
22:06 they do one of two things,
22:07 they either gonna look you up or stick you up.
22:09 And if they don't have the Word of God
22:11 they have no choice but to stick you up.
22:13 And I would suggest for your own benefit,
22:16 let's give them the Word of God,
22:18 so they can look you up instead of sticking you up.
22:20 Make sense? Yeah.
22:21 When they get out there, either they're going to have
22:22 crime or Christ.
22:24 It's got to be one of them.
22:25 And in prison they study crime or Christ.
22:27 See.
22:29 It is not three categories in prison.
22:31 Either you're talking with your buddy about more crime
22:33 or you're instead talking to him about Christ.
22:35 And that's why we provide them with spiritual material
22:37 so they can lead them to Christ.
22:39 Now we have a secret that the devil can't give them.
22:43 You know what it is?
22:44 Only the Word of God can give you peace.
22:46 That's what we get them.
22:48 So when they're frustrated, I go and say,
22:49 "Let me tell you something. If all the money you got,
22:51 all the drugs you've been selling,
22:52 and all the robberies have been stealing,
22:54 how you feeling?"
22:55 "Terrible."
22:56 I said, "You want peace of mind?"
22:58 I said, "Come and see my God
22:59 because only God can give you peace."
23:01 Devil can give you everything else
23:02 this world has got, but that, you know they don't.
23:04 Everything else.
23:06 Everything that he gives is a false.
23:08 That's right. It's a counterfeit.
23:09 But he can't give you peace.
23:11 It won't be true peace.
23:13 No he can't give you peace.
23:14 He'll give you a happy hour but not peace.
23:17 See peace is when you got to love, joy, peace,
23:21 long sufferings, the fruit of Spirit.
23:22 That's the only time you have peace.
23:24 And that's what's makes us so excited.
23:27 So what are some specific needs that you have as a ministry?
23:34 Well, specific needs now, it would help us
23:38 if everyone started passing out the lessons
23:41 so they won't be coming to prison.
23:43 See, and remember, this does not only changes
23:45 people life in prison,
23:47 it keeps those from coming from prison.
23:49 All the crime, all the things that's happened,
23:51 you can't do that when you've got
23:52 the love of God in your heart because you can't do that.
23:55 This shows you how that you can be an aid to society,
24:01 a blessing to society.
24:03 See all the crime that's going on
24:05 and all the things that's going on,
24:07 it's because people don't have Christ in their life.
24:10 And out of their Bible,
24:12 they can find how to stop crime.
24:15 And we want to stop it.
24:17 And so that's why we turn the prisoner now,
24:19 send this lesson back home.
24:20 That's why it is so economical, by the way,
24:22 because we have someone to give us 80 percent subsidy.
24:26 Otherwise we couldn't do this,
24:28 there's no way in the world it could be done.
24:29 But we had, people said,
24:31 "Look I want to put my money where my mouth fits.
24:33 I want to stop crime."
24:35 I said, "Well, listen, well, we have people have to have
24:37 a source very economical.
24:39 Otherwise we couldn't give it away."
24:41 And so that's why we need all the blessing
24:44 that they want to give to the ministry.
24:47 And that's why I would suggest that...
24:49 but first everyone is saying this.
24:51 I would suggest that first get a copy yourself,
24:55 get a copy.
24:57 I wouldn't have to say anything else.
24:59 In fact, the smallest amount we are selling down I think
25:02 because the post is so high.
25:04 If they get 20 of them, I think we've now got
25:06 the special of 20 of them for $25 because of the postage.
25:09 But if they get a box of a 100, you know,
25:10 they don't even have to pay the postage now.
25:12 Well, get it yourself, and then, you be the judge.
25:16 And again like one of the things that I like about it
25:20 because that's actually my copy right there.
25:21 Oh, is it? You want it back.
25:24 Do they have a picture they can show it on the screen?
25:27 Yes, in fact, we do have a graphic
25:29 that we can put up on the screen
25:30 of this Bible study here.
25:34 Within this one study alone, there's 25 different lessons
25:38 covering 25 different topics.
25:40 That's correct.
25:41 And the reason why those particular 25 copy...
25:44 I mean subjects is because we did a survey
25:47 of what do people want to know now.
25:50 Now there are many questions but we just took the top 25
25:54 and went to them for the Bible for the answer.
25:56 That's the reason why when we first got this printed,
25:59 the first group of people of a particular church,
26:02 I think it was the Church of Ghana.
26:04 They got these lessons
26:05 because it benefits anybody that has a Bible.
26:08 See that's what they're directed for.
26:10 It's not directed for any other group.
26:12 But if you have a Bible and that's what would changes
26:15 the lives of men is the Word of God.
26:18 And this is all about the Word of God.
26:20 We have over 500 Bible texts that's in that lesson.
26:23 Do you understand what I'm saying?
26:24 Over 500.
26:26 What it does? It points them directly.
26:28 These are about 500, it's not what about they,
26:31 let's not compare them when you look at
26:33 there are 31, 173 Bible texts
26:35 is quickly you're going right to what you want to know.
26:38 And that's what we have there. Yes, and directly to the Word.
26:42 That is not opinion-based, it's factual,
26:44 from the Word of God.
26:46 In fact, there's no comment in it at all.
26:48 The only thing that's not there that's in the Bible
26:50 is our address how to get more.
26:53 That's it.
26:55 Everything else is out of the Bible.
26:58 See UPMI is not in the Bible.
27:01 And the great thing about that is
27:03 because when you're giving a study
27:05 and they're going directly to their Bible,
27:08 they can't argue with their Bible
27:09 with what the Word of God says.
27:11 You know, by you saying that, Jason,
27:13 reminds me of a lady calling me,
27:14 she said, "I'm in tears.
27:17 I was taught this by my Bible is saying this.
27:19 What do I do?"
27:21 I said, "Well, what do you want to do.
27:22 Make a choice.
27:23 Do you want to go by what somebody told you
27:25 or what your Bible says?"
27:27 She said, "I have to go by what my Bible is saying."
27:29 And that's what we want people to do
27:31 because that's what salvation is,
27:33 is what God has said to you, not what He said to me
27:37 because all of us has different gifts
27:39 like all of us have different thumb prints,
27:40 like I mentioned earlier.
27:42 So may God bless you.
27:43 So whatever you can do, let people go by the book.
27:47 If you want blessing, pass out What the Bible Says Lessons.
27:49 Amen. Well, thank you so much for joining us.
27:52 Thank you for your passion and for spreading the gospel
27:55 of Jesus Christ around the world.
27:56 And thank you for joining us.
27:58 Well, we've reached the end of another program.
28:00 Join us next time.
28:02 And remember, it just wouldn't be the same
28:03 without you.


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