said how come you didn't wait? only three months left. i said, because it never would have happened. i would never have gotten to kiss her. thank god the lord took you to china brother. [laughter] [laughter] well he backed up there just a little bit there, but we thank the lord for the way god worked in both of our lives in bringing us together. and i couldn't help but pick this picture out to show you, the making of a man of god. oh yes, a prophetic voice for this age. and i think if you ever heard him speak you know exactly what i'm talking about. thank the lord we became ambassadors for christ. what on earth are we doing? well we're doing exactly what god wants us to do. i will never forget after we were married we went down to chattanooga, tennessee and dr. lee roberson gave jack his first doctorate.

four of them are earned and the rest are honorary degrees. from some of the greatest colleges in america. yes they are jack and then hershey, pennsylvania. see all the people there in front had come forward to accept christ as their savior but we were running about 10,000 people. i'm going to stop here just a moment. over 51,000 for the week. yes jack. do you want to tell what happened at hershey, pennsylvania? oh three guys with masks came in and lo and behold i got threats. i had eleven threats in those days from communists and mafia men because their drug dealers got saved and wouldn't see it anymore. and lo and behold i was in the room and these calls kept coming through that night, we're going to kill you. so i called the desk and i said something is going on here. they said well they're not calling through the desk. they're calling from some other place to your room. well god got us through that and there were so many things. that one town there.

we had many and i'll go into that in just a moment here jack. ok. but you know friends something that jack and i would like to do we would sign the bibles after the service was over. i don't care if there were 10,000 we wanted to meet many of them and look who came forward so often too get on our laps. i love the children. oh what a blessing that was. well the lord laid it on jack's heart to do something a little more expansive than crusades, extend our ministry around the world. new television format: jack van impe presents. the bible does say go into all the world and here we are in belgium and we are reaching around the world. that's where his parents originated, from belgium. well here we are going around the world. right there on the left in israel. we were in 50 countries as i mentioned. the one on the right israel, the one on the bottom, the philippines. we were there for a whole month.

personally with jack van impe presents. now you know what friends? we reach more people in one night than in a lifetime of crusades. how wonderful that is. and then we were so blessed because the angel awards came to our ministry and they presented to us...we also flew out to be with some of them at their conferences...24 angel awards. how grateful we are and humbled we are by all of that. jack, you know god has blessed you so tremendously and he's studied so very, very hard. you know that on our program. thank you jack. oh i'll tell you i was sold out to jesus. we held 800 full length church crusades, eight to ten days apiece. then we went to the big meetings like billy graham because the crowds were

with 10,000 per night and we preached to 10 million during those days. and through all of these things plus television we have come to the point where we have 2 million 980 thousand souls. if god gives us another 20,000 by next year there will have been three million conversions for christ and what a thing it's been. and i love the lord and i will that i have for as much time as i have left. now the muslims have given us four death threats, but god is watching over us... amen. watching over us... amen. and i'm going to preach until god calls me home. one of the most alarming threats we ever received was in kansas city, kansas. three men came to me one night and said we want to receive jesus. and i said the service starts in five minutes. there are thousands of people here. don't you care about it?

we found out those three were there to take my life and it's easy to pick off a man from the congregation if you have some kind of weapon. well the police got concerned and get this, this is a revival meeting. everybody had to pass through metal detectors for the next four nights to see if they had guns on them. a revival meeting! and then philadelphia, the second hundred birthday of the on but again the threats were there...this time from the communists. they were going to destroy our nation. and it wasn't in the newspapers. they were telling the world what was going on. they came from all over the world, communists. they were there. it was loaded. the police filled the place and they had a goal to kill two jacks...jack hyles of indiana and jack van impe. but god was with us thank the lord.

but we've had some frightening times though we've had a lot of fun too rexella. yes, yes. i remember when we were in flint, michigan with dr. parrot of the nazarene church and i always played my accordion first. and i just had bought a new suit and it was tight on me as my boy scout uniform was earlier in the show. when i bent over to pick up the accordion the entire back end ripped wide open and i'm standing in front of the choir and they're all laughing. [laughter] and i grab my raincoat, and that was the first time i preached that way. i probably needed an umbrella too. but then i was with dr. masteller in hackensack, new jersey, and boy the crowds were there and i was really warming up. and i was preaching on the rich young ruler. and i said, because he wouldn't come to christ, he played the part of a fool. but it didn't come out that way. oh dear. i didn't give an invitation that day.

had to go on and say folks that was a slip of the tongue. we've all had a slip of the tongue some time or other jack. well you know we had a special blessing as we would travel around, actually the world, we even took what you're going to see right now into other countries with us, here they are, fenica: chosen friend. she was a stray and we took her in. this is our first little fenica, and my how we loved her. she travelled so great with us around the world. here's such a sweet kitty and we got her from the humane society. and this is the one that we have now. the other two have passed away and this one that had four kittens on our patio and couldn't help it. i had to take her in and find homes for the kittens. rexella one time we were late. i had to stick the cats underneath the pulpit when i was preaching to 5, 10,000 people. those cats were the most religious ever in the history of america.

we've had so many things happen to us, but how good it is that even when we walk through the valley of the shadow i will fear no evil for thou art with me. i was never frightened jack even when we were on the platform, on a plane or wherever we were going and we prayed so often together about some of the threats that we had and how wonderful it really was. and i'm going to go on and show this next picture also. oh yes, how i praise the lord. i want to say, the last thing on my list here of course to thank the lord is that we have a message that jesus came to die for us. oh this should be the one thing that we are praising the lord for as we gather around the table. thank you for our wonderful savior the lord jesus christ and jack we go around the world now giving that message.

world and i'm telling you we are praying that by next june or at least in the next year we will hit the three million mark for people having come to jesus and it was because of your prayers, your sponsorship that it's all happened. what a time we're going to have together in heaven soon because jesus is about to return. every sign is here! amen. alright jack and the one thing we never bypass and that is giving people an opportunity to accept the lord. now if you're watching this program and it's been a little bit different but the one thing i do want to ask you and we never would overlook this... have you ever opened your heart to the lord? do you have peace in this troubled world? everything is sort of going wrong everywhere in the world, but jesus is the answer. i trust that today you can thank

thank him for eternal life. thank him that one day you're going to be with him. will you pray this prayer with jack and open your heart to the lord if you haven't? jack. heavenly father, we come in that precious holy name of jesus. jesus, the savior of the world. jesus who suffered so horribly as they beat his brow with their fists, and as the blood flowed from his wounds and yet that blood was to save us for the blood of jesus cleanses from all sin. thank you jesus for saving us and for shedding that blood for every human being in the world who will receive it. right now will some of you look at the cross in your mind and say jesus, i want you, i want you.

apply the blood and cleanse me, wash me, save me. i pray it in your holy name jesus. amen. amen. oh my if you accepted the lord as your savior you have great reason for being thankful. you're ready for heaven! how good it is that jesus is in your heart. write to me. there is my address. i'll send you this little booklet, first steps in a new direction. and you know what jack always uses on our program is our offer of the week. our brand new offer...the jack van impe prophecy bible. oh my what a wonderful gift this is and we thank the lord that, thank the lord that he has given us his word. take a look at the promo please. presenting the third edition of the jack van impe prophecy bible, this beautiful, burgandy, leather-bound edition has been created exclusively for the friends of jack van impe ministries.

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wonderful, wonderful thought, and i'm grateful for this: we may not know what the future holds, but we can trust the one who holds the future. we'll look forward to being in your home again next week and until then remember god cares for you, so do we so very, very much.

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