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God's Solution
00:03:24
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| His latest is to produce this film, The Streets Were My Father. | |
| And again, my friends, fatherlessness is the greatest contributor to crime, and God is the greatest solution. | |
| And if you're an atheist, you should be as firmly on board as any religious person. | |
| Because the issue isn't whether or not you have faith, it's whether or not you... | |
| Acknowledge the truth. | |
| Even if you think God is a magical potion, let us say somebody developed a magical potion and it solved most people's worst problems. | |
| Addiction of any type. | |
| And violence. | |
| Let's say it did. | |
| Wouldn't you advocate taking the magical potion? | |
| So you were saying, Lee Habib, That just as the church is led in the anti-abolition, in the pro-abolition, anti-slavery movement, they should lead in, and then I have to cut you off for a break. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Indeed. | |
| Look, it's up to us, and we can complain, but we're not complainers. | |
| I mean, we're doers. | |
| And the American church needs to grow, and it needs to grow by radical acts of love. | |
| And when people see those radical acts of love, and you'll see them in this film, you'll see radical acts of love so beautiful. | |
| A father forgiving the guy who killed his son and telling that guy he's his son because he knew that kid never had a father, the kid who shot his own son. | |
| And when you see radical acts of love and godliness, it makes you want to be godly. | |
| It makes you want to think about God. | |
| And it is an answer to your problem. | |
| And faith has always been the bulwark of American liberty. | |
| Liberty without faith is licentiousness. | |
| And the abolition movement, the civil rights movement, was led not just by Dr. Martin Luther King, but remember he was Reverend King and his daddy was a pastor. | |
| That civil rights movement was led by the cross and led by great Jewish and Christian religious leaders fighting for real justice, God's justice, not social justice, God's justice. | |
| And they're very different. | |
| They're very different things. | |
| Powerful stuff. | |
| It's interesting. | |
| It's a separate discussion for another time. | |
| If my child were murdered, would I embrace his murderer? | |
| I don't think I'd have that in me. | |
| But it doesn't mean anything. | |
| I'm just being open with you. | |
| I would say this, Dennis. | |
| The alternative is to be consumed by bitterness. | |
| And then you let the person who murdered your son own you. | |
| And in this respect, it's not that you're forgiving him. | |
| But you're letting go of it yourself, and it's very powerful for you and for that person. | |
| In any event, I'm just emoting with you, but your message is truly of overwhelming significance, and this is the type of film we need. | |
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Handing Hope
00:01:01
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| So it is now available at SalemNow.com, is that correct? | |
| That's correct, and I'm hoping particularly people of faith, This is a great proselytizing tool. | |
| We need people to join our churches. | |
| And if you simply hand this disk, buy some disks, and hand them to people without fathers. | |
| Hand them to strangers who may not believe in the power of God. | |
| And it's not going to be you proselytizing or you testifying. | |
| It's going to be these three men. | |
| And they're weeping in this film. | |
| And these are tough men. | |
| And these are gangsters and murderers. | |
| But they're human beings. | |
| And there was a reason that they became the way they became. | |
| And you'll find that out, and you'll discover the power of God to transform a life. | |
| And by buying this at SalemNow.com, buy a few discs. | |
| Buy ten. | |
| Hand them out to people through the year. | |
| And you'll get a thank you from those people, I promise you. | |
| You'll get a thank you. | |
| I agree. | |
| Keep up the great work, Lee Habib. | |