 You know, I'm setting up front and I don't realize how many people are here If I was in Russia, I say God is good and you say God is good indeed So the Lord or he has risen indeed. I Am old an older couple that reminds me of verse and Psalms 71 18 it says I Guess it was David He said I was once was young but now I'm older and gray and I qualify pretty good You know, I'm almost there and I'm 81 years old. So I may be the oldest one here, but he says Lord don't take me till I tell the next generation the younger generation of your glory or your holiness and of your power I Don't want to talk about that. Just briefly a brief testimony when I was 35 years old I was a senior engineer with General Motors and I'd worked hard to get that position Oh, I also owned owned a lot of farmland and a backhoe business going and I was driving Day and night to make money Money was my goal and I had a lot of benefits could drive a new car every year stocks and bonds with GM and At 35 I made a total commitment of my life to Jesus Christ Not only that I Failed the Lord twice One time I was driving from one General Motors plant to another there was an older engineer With me and I felt I should talk to him about the Lord now I was a Christian at that time, but I didn't know anything much about the Holy Spirit You've Vladimir talked a lot about the Holy Holy Spirit But I felt I should talk to the older man about the Lord and I I didn't do it I put it off and he died that night massive heart attack. I felt bad but not bad enough on our farm we We boarded horses. We had a racehorse barn and there was a young man Had a very beautiful horse. He came out every night to ride his horse one night. He came out With a friend to ride the horse and I was doing something on the farm and I felt that same thing talked to him about the Lord and I put it off I thought he's here every night and I got to finish what I'm doing and I didn't talk to him about the Lord Those two young men that night got drunk Stole an airplane if you can imagine trying to steal an airplane and take it off at night But they did they didn't even get to the end of the runway got off the ground put it on his back killed him both well, I started to think That wasn't my brain telling me that That was the Holy Spirit speaking to me and I really felt bad three men had died and I should have talked to them about the Holy Getting right with the Lord, you know unless you're born again You're going to hell if you're not born again And I felt so bad about it that I've prayed on my knees with tears in my eyes hands raised to the heavens and I say God if you will forgive me I Make a vow that the rest of my life I will obey the still small voice of the Holy Spirit no matter how much it cost me financially or Where it takes me in the world now? You know, I had worked a two-job driven hard to get to where I was financially and the Lord put me to the test just like when Jesus told a rich young ruler to sell everything you have give it to me and and follow me The Lord spoke to me to sell my farmland. I sold it and we gave the money to the Lord And then sell your stocks and bonds with GM give me the money We did that and I said Lord I've given you everything I have and he said no you haven't he said you have a paid up life insurance sell that and your cash in and give it to me and I did Now that was not easy to do all of that, but what happened? God led me out of General Motors and quitting my job after at that age and getting up at the top in engineering It was not easy when I walked out of all the security I had the retirement the insurance and everything and I felt the Lord said get one year of Bible training and follow me Now my only hobby I ever had was flying airplanes I love to fly and I could fly about anything. I love to do acrobatic flying first hour I soloed I looped it six times now Anyway, there was a mission called worldwide evangelization crusade and One of the larger interdenominational missions They had a pilot that was killed in a crash named Don Collins and they were praying that God would send him a pilot and God led me from engineering to that mission I had no idea until I got there They were praying for a pilot and I ended up a jungle pilot a missionary Pilot flying in the jungle in West Africa and we have what we called medical evangelism We would fly into the villages treat the sick people and Then those that could not be treated. I would fly them to the hospitals Of course our first thing was preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ first number one If you save them physically and to go to hell, that's no good, you know, that's no good now Something happened. I I want to say this is resurrection Sunday. I Don't want to talk about that and this story is really touching to me and I'm gonna try to talk without breaking down But I was in an accident in Liberia West Africa 200 miles back in the jungle and It was not an accident with Christ in the airplane I was electrocuted by a generator of welder I fell into some very high I stumbled fell into some very high power and It knocked my heart into what they call fibrillation and Fibrillation your heart no longer beats like this it quivers and I couldn't breathe and Bible school students came there my shield ones is there my wife was there mother missionaries were there well, and and I They carried me in the house laid me down. I went totally paralyzed. I could not even move a finger Totally paralyzed. I couldn't talk Struggling for every breath. I told my family. I loved them right at last. I knew I was dying and as I was dying The Holy Spirit came upon me in a way that I had never Experienced I don't have the words in English to tell you how Beautiful it was beautiful is the best I can get in English But I've laid there, and I knew death was right there, and I thought I Wondered how it would be to die now in John 1125 26 Jesus said this I am the resurrection and the life He that believeth in me shall never die. This is a resurrection Sunday right today. I never understood that verse because there's another Place it says it's pointed and demand wants to die and after that the judgment now I I couldn't quite understand that. I thought we do die But I understand it now because When I could no longer fight for life fight for breath. I died But I did not die. It was like it started about right here, and I Exited I went out. I didn't feel death. I didn't feel anything that I died I died and when I went out up at an angle about like that There was I felt it was the Lord it might have been an angel probably was an angel dressed in white I knew they were waiting upon me and I Knew that I didn't speak with them with my mouth anymore. I spoke with them with my mind And I said I called him Lord. I said Lord or Jesus. I'm ready to meet you But people are going to hell, and I pray that you'll give me a little longer to preach And I know That is only the reason why I'm here today is because of Jesus Christ died for our sins rose again and Defeated death hell and the grave and it's so important and I asked for longer to present that message to the lost Hey, ma'am praise the Lord now I Went from paralyzed it was when he said I will give you a little longer It was ping just like that Millisecond my spirit my body joined again. I went from couldn't breathe Because when your heart is not beating right You can't breathe. I didn't know that before that But it but anyway I Went from that and I started shouting I couldn't talk before I Started shouting a verse out of Corinthians first Corinthians chapter 15 47 or something I don't know but anyway Oh death where as I sting oh grave where as I victory and then I said I've came to the edge of death And I've looked in and I've seen nothing but glory in Jesus now. That's what he did for us We don't have to fear death now. I Don't know if anybody ever fears death or not But it can be the best time you ever had in your life now There used to be a guy named Paul Harvey and he said the rest of the story Now I told you and this is for you young people. I want to say this We're not here by accident today We're on our 6,000 mile trip From week in Mid-Northern we live in the Mid-Northern part of Indiana We were going to go to a different place this morning according to our plan But in Indiana the Lord spoke to me to go to this church today And I felt the Lord wanted me to give this testimony and especially for the young people now Young people Seared listen listen and listen. I was young once but now I'm old but I Made a total commitment of my life to Jesus Christ when I was 35 older than most of you and What happened? God sent us to a mission, which you couldn't even make your needs known that scared me to death and we had to live trusting God and praying and God it worked and You know We ended up blessed of the Lord and The quick rest of the story is when I was much much much older and Back home and Midwest Representatives for our mission the Lord told me in a still small voice put a resume back in with General Motors and Tell them a high high price that they can get you if they want you and I did and even at a high age they hired me and Then God gave me four inventions One of my inventions alone saves General Motors $3,500 a day 365 days a year now I had to sign away my my patent rights but with those those they did give me more money and And God has blessed us and we have more than what I gave him gave away or more if I'd have stayed on the other job and Had my land, but God restored that and then God blessed me with a wonderful wife here Esther and This was one of the most difficult things I ever did Obeying the still small voice of the Holy Spirit now my first wife passed away fairly young Live by myself for a while and the Lord spoke to me in the still small voice to call Esther and Proposed to her sight unseen I had I had seen her before but I have so many years I couldn't think of how she looked and the Lord blessed Bless me and I called her up and proposed. Yeah, she wasn't impressed at all But anyway, God is good young people give 100 percent To the Lord when you're young and my life has been so exciting We've seen thousands of people come to Jesus Christ We've seen millions of dollars come in for support to the ministries We've been involved in and we serve a faithful God. He's a risen son of the God but He is doing things today like they did in the book of Acts and and we thank him I can't get into any more of that, but I love you all and God