SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Tell the one thing about the people when they went…. you said the ancillary buildings, but when Richard got off the plane they started taking pictures, all the way through the entire crusade, till the end of the crusade. And as he left they gave him this photo album of everything that went on. And one of the buildings that he’s talking about had how many stories filled with people with closed-circuit TV?
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, one of the buildings next door that’s owned by the church is an 8-story building, 8 floors, and every room on every floor was filled with people watching on closed-circuit television. As I understand it, they had 79 remote television setups for people to watch via closed circuit television. See, the church only holds about 20,000 but they had an additional 30,000 the first night and an additional 40,000 in all of the other properties that they own, plus there were people standing in the street. Is that that picture book? Bring it on in, Kathy. They had people standing in the streets. I don’t know if these pictures will show up. It’s better seen on the video.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS This was absolutely hard to believe when I saw it. When you see this building it….. how many stories high again?
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS One is eight stories and one is eleven stories.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS One is eight stories and one is eleven stories and all this is is buildings with gigantic rooms in it with closed-circuit television to take care of the overflow of the crowd. Then when all those buildings were filled up, they put a closed-circuit TV monitor in the street and then the people lined all the way out the street. It was miraculous. (APPLAUSE)
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS It’s hard to see these snapshots on television. It’s hard to see snapshots to look right on television. You will see it lots better tomorrow and the next day or two because you can’t see the balconies.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Each one of these areas here has balcony areas that go all the way back in the back of the building.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Honey, turn the page there.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS It’s almost hard to conceive how that many people can get into an auditorium. It’s absolutely phenomenal.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Now there’s a pretty good view of the crowd itself.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS Where’s the one where they’re all in the street? I wish you could see this.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Here it is, here it is.
SPLR LINDSAY ROBERTS We’ll find a better way to show this. These people are all out in the street on closed-circuit TV monitors watching….
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Watching a big television. And these are some of the rooms on this side…. these are some of the rooms of overflow where they have thousands and thousands in one room and in other rooms in an 8-story and an 11-story building over there. It’s absolutely amazing. And I’ll tell you a little secret tomorrow that Dr. Cho shared with me about the future in Korea. I won’t share that today so you be sure and watch tomorrow. (APPLAUSE) Tomorrow I’m going to share a special interview that I did with Dr. Cho. It will be a dream come true and I know it’s of the Lord, but I’ll be sharing that with you tomorrow so don’t miss tomorrow’s program. In a moment though I’m going to take you down to the Church on the Rock in Rockwall, Texas. Yesterday on our Sunday morning program my dad was preaching a message on the rich young ruler.
Now the rich young ruler, Lindsay, in that particular scripture where Jesus and the rich young ruler had a conversation, is one of the most misunderstood passages from the Bible. There are many people who have taken that scripture and said, “You cannot have money and serve God.” SR01 That’s not what Jesus said. Jesus said, “You cannot serve money and serve God.” ( RR_Matthew_06:24 ) God’s not against you having money. He just does not want you to put your trust in your money, in your possessions, but put your trust in God. And after that conversation, after the rich young ruler went away sorrowfully because he had his trust in the money, after that then Peter asked a question. He said, “You know, Lord, we’ve left all. What’s in it for us?” And some people say, “Well, that’s a terrible thing to say.” I disagree. I think it’s a great question to ask, for Peter to say, “What’s in it for us?” And Jesus explained what was in it. A hundredfold blessing, with persecutions, and everlasting life, eternal life. And while my dad was preaching at the Church on the Rock, he did something very, very unusual in the form of an explanation and right now I want to share that with you. So go with me to the Church on the Rock and this is from our Sunday program “Expect a Miracle” just yesterday on our Sunday program. Here is my dad Oral Roberts at Larry Lea’s Church on the Rock. ROLL-IN of OR at Church on the Rock from EAM dated 5-10-87. (APPLAUSE)
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