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Ep. 172 - How Living Waters Made History at King Charles’ Coronation · The Living Waters Podcast

1:04
Emeal Zwayne: So okay, then let's, let's jump into it.
1:06
Emeal Zwayne: So, Mark, you guys get to London.
1:08
Emeal Zwayne: I mean, throw in whatever you want as well.
1:10
Emeal Zwayne: But my main question is what was the atmosphere like?
1:13
Emeal Zwayne: I mean, was was the place buzzing people?
1:16
Mark Spence: Okay, well, i need to back up a little bit because I feel like I need to and I don't want to get emotional.
1:22
Mark Spence: But I have to apologize to Ray, because I remember being in Daniel's office telling Ray that this is not gonna work and this is the most amazing thing that I've ever been a part of.
1:41
Emeal Zwayne: Welcome to the Ben Stein dad joke challenge, where an Arab tells a dad joke and a Ben Stein voice, and the challenge is that none of us hosts on the Living Waters podcast laughs.
1:51
Emeal Zwayne: This includes the Arab guy who's telling the dad joke.
1:54
Emeal Zwayne: I really believe that we can definitely get through this without any of us laughing.
2:01
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Why do fathers take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing In case they get a hole in one?
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Ray Comfort: Sorry, we're not supposed to laugh.
2:13
Ray Comfort: Yeah, that was actually good.
2:14
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: I like that easy dear man, are you left?
2:16
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Dear math, grow up and solve your own.
2:22
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: This isn't going so well.
2:29
Oscar Navarro: That was hilarious.
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: What did the janitor say when he jumped out of the closet supplies?
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Why do?
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: why do seagulls fly over the ocean?
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Because if they flew over the bay, we'd call them bagels.
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Oh.
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Emeal Zwayne: Okay, I'm done Because I thought we would make it and I thought I got to get a lot because we probably won't crack.
3:07
Emeal Zwayne: Oh, oh, what tears my eyes guys, what is it about Ben Stein?
3:12
Emeal Zwayne: I mean seriously wait, do we?
3:17
Ray Comfort: Everybody knows who Ben.
3:20
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, we did, we did, it was out of.
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Oscar Navarro: Somewhere expelled that's right Oh.
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Emeal Zwayne: Like a documentary yeah, but he was famous for advertisements before you were born and always Fairs day.
3:34
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, I'm more you know in a movie too.
3:37
Ray Comfort: What is it?
3:41
Emeal Zwayne: But I do want to listen to him.
3:42
Emeal Zwayne: As soon as I hear his voice, it's the most boring.
3:45
Oscar Navarro: do you remember winning Ben Stein's money?
3:46
Oscar Navarro: It was a TV show, Oh yeah, yeah, seriously.
3:49
Ray Comfort: So you knew all about who Ben Stein.
3:51
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, of course.
3:52
Emeal Zwayne: Is that a comedy, or it?
3:53
Oscar Navarro: was.
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Oscar Navarro: It was like a trivia game.
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Oscar Navarro: He was the host and you would win Ben Stein's money if you got the question.
4:00
Mark Spence: I bet it was more the executive producer's money or the well, yeah, unless he was the executive producer.
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Emeal Zwayne: No, but man, he had something about this.
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Emeal Zwayne: The Stein that's.
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Oscar Navarro: Clear eyes, yeah ah.
4:13
Emeal Zwayne: But it Yeah yeah, I mean he made basically he.
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Emeal Zwayne: He became famous and made a living off of being Monotone voice.
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Ray Comfort: Like us, it's a caricature of anything makes you laugh.
4:28
Ray Comfort: You know, when you someone's drawn with massive ears that you never noticed They had before and a caricature, it just makes you smile, yeah.
4:35
Mark Spence: Oscar, he's a lawyer, did you know that?
4:37
Mark Spence: Is that what he was?
4:38
Emeal Zwayne: by trade, by trade, yeah yeah, ray, did you send him some stuff or something?
4:43
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah we saw him at that event.
4:44
Ray Comfort: You got his contact info, i think he gave me his home address, which is very nice.
4:47
Emeal Zwayne: Did he respond.
4:48
Emeal Zwayne: Okay, so what is it I?
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Ray Comfort: can't remember.
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Emeal Zwayne: Speaking of a movie, what is it?
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, boring people and all that other good and funny, cute stuff perfect.
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Ray Comfort: What perfect, perfect.
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Ray Comfort: There are dead jokes and there are dad jokes.
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Ray Comfort: They were dad jokes, they good.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, i got more, really good ones The sock one was pretty good in my life.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, oscar, you blew it because you said a really good one before we came on.
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Ray Comfort: Wait, what was it About us memory improvement?
5:18
Emeal Zwayne: Okay, we have a comment.
5:22
Emeal Zwayne: This is from prodigal, son X.
5:24
Emeal Zwayne: It only gets better.
5:28
Mark Spence: Hang other people.
5:32
Oscar Navarro: We haven't gotten there yet, but it will get better He meant to put the word can.
5:36
Ray Comfort: I cannot get better.
5:38
Oscar Navarro: Hey, that needs to be your next mug.
5:42
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Oh yeah, that's a good idea.
5:45
Emeal Zwayne: You know that's how this was birthed.
5:46
Ray Comfort: I think, yeah, we have no idea what we're doing, all right, Hey, there could be a new closing, because we need one.
5:51
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, every single one of you are the best, and I truly enjoy Ray's accent, haha.
5:58
Emeal Zwayne: Thank you, guys for bringing us such edifying content.
6:05
Emeal Zwayne: Listening to you guys makes me feel like I'm right there with you.
6:08
Ray Comfort: God bless you guys so a comment on our YouTube channel where it said I think was an atheist.
6:12
Ray Comfort: He said Ray's accent is Putrid.
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Emeal Zwayne: Putein, yes, that's a good way to put it.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, thank you, prodigal.
6:21
Emeal Zwayne: Son X, you have returned.
6:24
Emeal Zwayne: I Don't know where you went, but he's back.
6:28
Emeal Zwayne: That's very encouraging.
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Emeal Zwayne: Oscar, we were talking about prodigal sons earlier.
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Oscar Navarro: Because we talked about my departure.
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Emeal Zwayne: Oh, oh, that's right.
6:37
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, friends, you don't know that.
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Emeal Zwayne: But Oscar, yeah, he was a traitor.
6:43
Ray Comfort: That's not.
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Ray Comfort: Here's a turncoat.
6:48
Oscar Navarro: You don't know, i had took a job and left the ministry, and it was only about 10 months, wasn't quite a year I was no longer at the ministry and then I repented.
6:56
Oscar Navarro: I saw my wicked ways And I came back and since their fourth there on, they call me the prodigal son.
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Ray Comfort: Yeah, or Benedict Arnold, arnold, those people that you work for think they're the pigsty or not?
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, he has returned friends.
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Emeal Zwayne: All right, this podcast is brought to you know his podcast.
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Emeal Zwayne: By defender of the faith.
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Emeal Zwayne: Ten weird facts about the coronation and this is fitting because we're gonna be talking about that, ray 500 thousand in print half a million.
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Ray Comfort: Yes, no, no, no no 500,000.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yes, you're right, what's not seriously, what sounds better?
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Emeal Zwayne: because I always, when I'm about to write something, i'm always wondering should I say 250 million, or should I say quarter of a billion?
7:45
Emeal Zwayne: which sounds more impressive?
7:46
Emeal Zwayne: I don't know It's weird, i was always stuck with that.
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Ray Comfort: It depends on you, on your perception of a million.
7:52
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, why are we trying to impress people anyway?
7:54
Emeal Zwayne: defender of the faith.
7:55
Emeal Zwayne: 500 thousand Ray, but be honest though, that's not really what you would have wanted to print.
8:02
Ray Comfort: No, no, i'm gonna be honest, because I'm normally a liar.
8:05
Ray Comfort: Very true, i wanted to go for a million.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, hmm, so you compromised.
8:11
Ray Comfort: I can't buy a nice guy.
8:14
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, friends, this is a great book, lots of good insights, and you'll hear more about all that kind of good stuff here and a little bit.
8:22
Mark Spence: I thought we did not send those to England.
8:23
Mark Spence: Did we send any of us?
8:24
Ray Comfort: No, we didn't we were going to, but the logistics was insane.
8:27
Mark Spence: But people were handing those out.
8:29
Emeal Zwayne: Where did they get that?
8:29
Emeal Zwayne: Wait what?
8:30
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, Where are they now?
8:32
Ray Comfort: Yeah, oh, i know where they got them, because the 500,000 went out to people in the US.
8:35
Mark Spence: They must have filled suitcases for them and took them with them.
8:38
Mark Spence: I have some good video of them hanging out Really.
8:40
Oscar Navarro: Oh, that's great.
8:40
Oscar Navarro: I saw some.
8:41
Oscar Navarro: I saw some of those books over there.
8:43
Ray Comfort: Yeah, yeah, seriously.
8:44
Ray Comfort: We tried to get a warehouse to put them in and we thought we've got this like I don't know how many pallets it was like 40 pallets a box And how did we put them?
8:52
Ray Comfort: How do we store them, you know?
8:54
Oscar Navarro: yeah, it was just a nightmare.
8:55
Oscar Navarro: So to be clear, because not many people who listening may know we Clarifier we recently had a huge outreach for the coronation, which was in London, and because of that we Coronations that the coordination of King Chalet.
9:08
Oscar Navarro: So Ray wrote a book called Defender of the Faith.
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Oscar Navarro: 10 weird facts about the coronation.
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Oscar Navarro: Thanks to you, i know Oscar we printed 500,000 of them and they were made freely available, right And with free shipping.
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Oscar Navarro: With free shipping, all 500,000 are out in the world somewhere and now, yes, all in the United States For for Christians to hand out to their non-believing friends.
9:31
Oscar Navarro: I think it's a great book.
9:32
Ray Comfort: I wouldn't suggest they hand them out.
9:33
Ray Comfort: I would suggest they throw them out, like right?
9:37
Emeal Zwayne: No, we like, we just did we did.
9:38
Ray Comfort: We went around the local Neighborhood and toss them up.
9:41
Ray Comfort: Drivers put a rubber band around them and an easy just had a ball, Oh that was fun, Although I had some pretty bad throws Yeah but you were stopping and people on the side of the running out and give them to them.
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Emeal Zwayne: It was just some people can get some wet books on their lawn, but I tried, arabs don't.
9:57
Emeal Zwayne: They don't do baseball throws.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, so oh, thanks for qualifying Oscar.
10:02
Oscar Navarro: Yeah, and then there was a track And then yeah, yeah, well, we're gonna talk about that.
10:06
Emeal Zwayne: We're gonna talk about that.
10:08
Emeal Zwayne: Defender of the Faith.
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Emeal Zwayne: 10 weird facts.
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Emeal Zwayne: There are a lot of weird facts, right?
10:12
Emeal Zwayne: Yes, really weird facts.
10:13
Ray Comfort: Can you tell us one or two?
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Ray Comfort: The sub title was given to me by Oscar I didn't have that And it's more appealing.
10:20
Ray Comfort: And they were weird things.
10:22
Ray Comfort: The orb I mean Wendy, i'd never heard of an orb until I had seen one just floating around the neighborhood.
10:29
Ray Comfort: There's an orb crap.
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Ray Comfort: There was a gold ball that was encrusted with hundreds of diamonds and pearls and sapphires that Charles holds there.
10:38
Ray Comfort: I would love to sell it and give the money to the poor and use the rest of the gospel tracks.
10:42
Ray Comfort: I wonder what it's worth that orb.
10:45
Ray Comfort: It's a lot.
10:47
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, you know that's where we've talked about.
10:49
Emeal Zwayne: Oh, we talked about it on the live stream, but the beef eaters Oh, i found out why they were called beef eaters.
10:57
Ray Comfort: There's no reason.
10:57
Ray Comfort: Are you just talking about people like you know?
10:59
Ray Comfort: No, they were Henry VIII's guards.
11:01
Ray Comfort: That's why they look really old fashioned, and they used to eat beef Love it.
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Ray Comfort: So he called them beef eaters, really.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, that's where I know I saw a beef eater say that he doesn't know why they're called beef eaters.
11:10
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, that's just ignorant.
11:12
Ray Comfort: We know everything Got a snipe.
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Ray Comfort: Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.
11:15
Ray Comfort: That's nice, exactly what I was thinking.
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Emeal Zwayne: Those listeners that have been with us know exactly what that means.
11:20
Emeal Zwayne: All right, yeah.
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Emeal Zwayne: So yeah, they guard those things in the tower.
11:24
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: I think of London, i got the beef, You go there they got piles of beef Leave my burger alone.
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Emeal Zwayne: Thank you, touch it.
11:32
Emeal Zwayne: Beef eaters Yeah, they would have done well in those commercials back in the day.
11:36
Emeal Zwayne: Remember those commercials?
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Emeal Zwayne: Where's the beef?
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, where's the beef Mark?
11:39
Emeal Zwayne: do you remember those?
11:39
Emeal Zwayne: I'll tell you what.
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Ray Comfort: They weren't actually called beef eaters.
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Ray Comfort: They were beef eaters because they had feet they walked around on.
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Ray Comfort: They just wanted to be feeders.
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Emeal Zwayne: Oh man, but Mark, remember a little grandma Where's the beef?
11:53
Mark Spence: Yes, Oh yeah, of course.
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Emeal Zwayne: And then that was what you would call a viral campaign.
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Ray Comfort: It was iconic.
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Ray Comfort: Yeah, wendy's.
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Ray Comfort: What was the kind of Wendy's?
12:01
Ray Comfort: Yeah?
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Emeal Zwayne: Members, you'd be driving around Where's the beef?
12:03
Emeal Zwayne: And then they'd show this giant bun and it had like a tiny little piece of meat in the middle.
12:08
Emeal Zwayne: Where's the beef?
12:08
Emeal Zwayne: They're for glasses.
12:09
Emeal Zwayne: You know, denny's is brilliant.
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Emeal Zwayne: They do the square patty.
12:13
Emeal Zwayne: Why is that?
12:13
Emeal Zwayne: I think so you eat Wait that's Wendy's, not Denny's.
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: I say Denny's, yeah, wendy's.
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Emeal Zwayne: So you get a bite from any side.
12:22
Ray Comfort: You know, i wanted to produce a circle, i wanted to produce a square egg.
12:25
Ray Comfort: A, what A square egg, so it doesn't roll around.
12:28
Ray Comfort: Because when the eggs laid, the shell is apparently very soft.
12:31
Ray Comfort: So if you could somehow strap a square box to a chicken so it laid it would lay it square.
12:38
Ray Comfort: That would be great because it would sit it up on the table when you want to get it.
12:42
Emeal Zwayne: You really did contemplate, though, how like a way to do that.
12:45
Oscar Navarro: Of course, of course Now, the chicken wouldn't stay still.
12:48
Ray Comfort: Wait weren't you looking at?
12:49
Emeal Zwayne: when don't we see something about square?
12:51
Ray Comfort: watermelon two years ago.
12:52
Ray Comfort: They do have square watermelon.
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Ray Comfort: They contain them in a square thing, so watermelon grows in square.
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Emeal Zwayne: So it grows in square.
12:58
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, so it sit up instead of rolling around Yeah.
13:01
Emeal Zwayne: All right friends, also, don't forget to check out the Living Waters podcast Mug.
13:06
Emeal Zwayne: Notice, it's only in second place today I've kicked it down a little bit And the evidence study Bible at livingwaterscom.
13:13
Emeal Zwayne: All right guys, no more delays, shenanigans.
13:16
Emeal Zwayne: No more shenanigans and delays The London Outreach.
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Emeal Zwayne: Okay, you guys were there and I'm the one buzzing with excitement right now because, honestly, i haven't even hardly talked to you guys.
13:28
Emeal Zwayne: I know I haven't seen you since getting back.
13:29
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, we just got back.
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Emeal Zwayne: This obviously is posted a little while after the coronation, but all I've heard from you guys is this was unbelievably amazing.
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Emeal Zwayne: I mean, mark, even this morning we were texting and you're just like yeah, so first of all before you get there.
13:50
Emeal Zwayne: Let's start with how this was even conceived.
13:52
Emeal Zwayne: So, Ray, do you even remember how this all came about?
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Ray Comfort: Yeah, absolutely.
13:56
Ray Comfort: It started back in 1982 when I saw I think it was 82, diana and Charles get married worldwide on television.
14:03
Ray Comfort: I sat and watched them And I watched the Archbishop of Canterbury say marriage is a type of Christ and the church And I thought, now preach it.
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Now you can preach the gospel.
14:16
Ray Comfort: You have a license to actually say Christ died for our sins.
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Ray Comfort: We're going to have everlasting life as a free gift of God, and that's what God's love was expressed in the cross, et cetera.
14:24
Ray Comfort: I was going to say blah, blah.
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Ray Comfort: And I was so frustrated that he had a worldwide audience of literally hundreds of millions.
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Ray Comfort: He had a license to preach the gospel.
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Ray Comfort: He could have done it in two or three minutes, but he didn't.
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Ray Comfort: And so when this came up, i thought Charles is going to be crowned.
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Ray Comfort: And I studied what happened with Queen Elizabeth in 1953 and saw that she just did so many things which is so biblically based, symbolic of the Bible, laying a hand on the Bible, turning to uphold the biblical truths of salvation by grace, through faith, carrying the scepter, like David carried and like Solomon carried the orb, which is a picture of Christ having ruled over the whole earth.
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Ray Comfort: So many other things.
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Ray Comfort: The sword is a sort of mercy, speaking of the cross, the sort of justice, the sharp sword speaking of the judgment of God, and I thought wouldn't it be great to do a gospel track with Charles's picture on the front or the gospel on the back and give them away to the millions they're going to pack.
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Ray Comfort: London Made a video for you guys, sent it to you and straight after I sent it I received an email from a gentleman who said he just said what are you working on?
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Ray Comfort: And I sent him the video and he sent the ministry $200,000.
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Ray Comfort: Sent someone else the video, they sent $50,000, somebody else and they sent $100,000.
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Ray Comfort: So I thought I'd better send the video to as many people as I can.
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Ray Comfort: And then from there things just exploded, in the sense that we thought we were going to print 3 million tracks, which is a breathtaking amount.
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Ray Comfort: that ended up being 16 million.
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Ray Comfort: We thought we had something like 2,000 workers that were going to help us give out tracks in England and throughout the US ended up being 21,000.
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Ray Comfort: We sent our team from you guys and the camera crew to London to film it all, to give out tracks, to have a seminar, and it just went wonderful.
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Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah.
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Emeal Zwayne: So that's 21,000 workers all across the globe in different countries that we're getting, because we had Australia, canada, australia I said Australia, New.
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Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Zealand, both Australians, both.
16:11
Emeal Zwayne: Northern and southern Australia.
16:12
Emeal Zwayne: All over, right, yes, all over, probably the Commonwealth countries, 21,000 people.
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Oscar Navarro: Yeah, so the numbers we brought in about $530,000 in donations, the total amount.
16:23
Ray Comfort: We didn't even have to go to our regular donors.
16:26
Oscar Navarro: Yeah.
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Oscar Navarro: It was such a good amount Which helped cover the cost of 16 million tracks being printed, 500,000 books being printed hardcover books being printed, plus being able to host a conference for a couple hundred people in London right before the outreach.
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Oscar Navarro: And Did you say a couple hundred thousand?
16:44
Oscar Navarro: Couple hundred thousand, what?
16:44
Oscar Navarro: I thought you said a couple hundred people, oh, a couple hundred people Couple hundred people in London sort of an equipping I think there were about 400 almost there.
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Ray Comfort: I was going to correct them, but I didn't like them too publicly.
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Oscar Navarro: A couple hundred, a few hundred.
16:57
Ray Comfort: Yeah, a few hundred, a few hundred.
16:58
Ray Comfort: There were hundreds, there were millions.
17:01
Oscar Navarro: And there were less than a billion people at that conference.
17:03
Ray Comfort: That's often here we've got.
17:05
Ray Comfort: This TV station has a potential audience of six billion people.
17:08
Oscar Navarro: There's two listeners, there was potential.
17:10
Ray Comfort: There's only three billion, six billion eyes, so we had that wonderful conference, or whatever you call it reception.
17:17
Ray Comfort: Yeah, it was just a time of exhortation and encouragement which everybody loved.
17:22
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, i mean, let me just put this into perspective.
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Emeal Zwayne: Think of a local church with an evangelism team And, seriously, if five people come out, the leaders are like whoa, this is a revival.
17:34
Emeal Zwayne: About 400 people came together, flying in from all over the world, 21,000 around the world, 400 together in London, coming in from all around the world to London.
17:45
Oscar Navarro: And honestly, all around the world.
17:46
Oscar Navarro: I mean, i met people from Australia, Finland, africa.
17:50
Oscar Navarro: What was the country that that young lady was from?
17:53
Oscar Navarro: New Zealand, it was just off of Madagascar somewhere.
17:55
Oscar Navarro: Some small little island off the coast of Madagascar Loves listening to the podcast.
18:00
Oscar Navarro: So sorry, i can't remember the name of the country.
18:02
Oscar Navarro: All over the world, yeah.
18:05
Emeal Zwayne: And that's in London, but just to have a team that size.
18:08
Emeal Zwayne: And then you've got 21,000 all over the world.
18:11
Emeal Zwayne: Given amount I mean this is set.
18:13
Emeal Zwayne: This is like we're on fire already, but we're like a blazing inferno right now.
18:17
Ray Comfort: We don't know how many came from Great Britain to London.
18:20
Ray Comfort: We lost count.
18:21
Ray Comfort: It was originally 1800 and the figures got messed up on our website So I couldn't find it.
18:26
Ray Comfort: So there were literally thousands came from around the country, from churches, to give out those tracks.
18:31
Oscar Navarro: Because we send out the tracks and the thousands And I'm telling you, on Coronation Day, every single street I turned and walked down, there were people handing out gospel tracks.
18:42
Mark Spence: I love it, You know I cannot tell you how many people I bumped into that were all by themselves, yeah, and they loved the podcast and they had no idea about the reception.
18:56
Ray Comfort: Yeah.
18:56
Mark Spence: Which surprises me.
18:57
Mark Spence: I think they would have come to that.
19:00
Emeal Zwayne: I think, wait, you mean there were more there that didn't come.
19:03
Oscar Navarro: There were so many people, i would say, about half the people I ran into on the streets were not at the reception.
19:08
Oscar Navarro: What?
19:08
Ray Comfort: Yeah, easy.
19:08
Ray Comfort: Miguel said we had not too many people give our SVPs to the reception, so they kept the number at about 400.
19:15
Ray Comfort: And so a lot of people couldn't get in A lot of people couldn't come because it was filled up.
19:20
Ray Comfort: I didn't realize that.
19:20
Ray Comfort: A lot more people than that.
19:23
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, so okay, then let's.
19:25
Emeal Zwayne: Let's jump into it.
19:26
Emeal Zwayne: So, mark, you guys get to London.
19:28
Emeal Zwayne: I mean, throw in whatever you want as well.
19:30
Emeal Zwayne: But my main question is what was the atmosphere like?
19:32
Emeal Zwayne: I mean was was the place buzzing people?
19:35
Mark Spence: Okay, well, i need to back up a little bit because I feel like I need to and I don't want to get emotional, but I have to apologize to Ray, because I remember being in Daniel's office telling Ray that this is not gonna work and this is the most amazing thing that I've ever been a part of, and I'm sorry, ray, for doing that.
20:00
Ray Comfort: And Mark, when you sent that text to me, i actually wept because I remembered that You're saying this is the greatest experience in my life.
20:11
Ray Comfort: I'll never forget it, to the moment I got to be with the Lord.
20:13
Ray Comfort: I wept because it was so sweet to me after you saying this just isn't gonna work, hmm.
20:20
Mark Spence: Yeah, well, boy, which we didn't have cameras going.
20:24
Mark Spence: It was a surreal moment because I met people from all sorts of backgrounds and Christian denominations that came together to link arms to share the gospel with people, and People that have never done this before, well, that have never stepped out of the boat, and It was crazy, it was absolutely crazy.
20:56
Mark Spence: People, the, the energy and the excitement that people had to share their, to share their faith.
21:03
Mark Spence: For the first time I felt like I was a part of history.
21:06
Mark Spence: I felt like God allowed me to go into the front lines and and experience and see something That was part of the early church, as they went into Their Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth and it people I talked to that They did not care that nobody came with them, that nobody went with them.
21:28
Mark Spence: People that spent all the money they had to get a plane ticket and Sleep in wherever they could sleep, and that we had a host up there for the Romanian church that so kindly opened up their church.
21:42
Mark Spence: That's Pastor George.
21:43
Mark Spence: Is that Pastor George?
21:44
Mark Spence: and Julia who organized the event?
21:47
Mark Spence: I mean, i don't even know what to say that these people?
21:50
Mark Spence: I was so encouraged, yeah, as I was out handing out the different tracks and seeing the books and people engaged in conversations And I saw somebody open air preach for the first time and they've never opened air preached before.
22:03
Mark Spence: Yeah, it wasn't the best a message, you know, it was really kind of sloppy, but it so it provoked me, you know, within me, and I and I went up to a guy and I said, hey guys, listen to this episode.
22:16
Mark Spence: Right now.
22:16
Mark Spence: I'm like hey.
22:18
Mark Spence: Can and can.
22:19
Mark Spence: May I may I borrow your microphone?
22:21
Mark Spence: He looked at me and he said he was wow that this is such an honor.
22:25
Mark Spence: You know I love your podcast and and everything else.
22:28
Mark Spence: So I then began to preach for an hour and a half and then finally a camera crew came by, like within the last 20 minutes, you know or so, and they got it on camera the last 20 minutes or so, but yeah, i rounded.
22:40
Oscar Navarro: I rounded the corner again, walking around just people everywhere running in the to people handing out gospel tracks.
22:46
Oscar Navarro: I'll get into some of the people that I got to meet, but I round just to pause.
22:50
Oscar Navarro: But then I want you to pick up.
22:51
Oscar Navarro: I round this corner and I hear somebody on a microphone and I'm like, well, i know that voice and I go over there and there's Mark, he's got this Persian guy, egyptian guy, Ferris he was Egyptian.
23:06
Oscar Navarro: And then this tall English blok English guy He was his name.
23:09
Mark Spence: Is Danny with easier hecklers, or?
23:11
Oscar Navarro: they're my hecklers.
23:12
Mark Spence: I invited them up and we shared a microphone, but I held on to the microphone.
23:15
Mark Spence: Oh, and by the time I was done, they both were very antagonistic.
23:21
Ray Comfort: They were really have it on, especially, especially when you say we have it on camera, that's for a television program.
23:26
Emeal Zwayne: Yes, so mark real, real quick.
23:27
Emeal Zwayne: Was this a local Group that was open air preaching, or were they a part of?
23:32
Mark Spence: our out there.
23:32
Mark Spence: It was a single guy that came by himself with a microphone and a speaker.
23:37
Emeal Zwayne: Speaker, and he came from the US, or no?
23:39
Emeal Zwayne: No, he was an Englishman.
23:42
Oscar Navarro: I didn't hear him preach, i took over his microphone?
23:44
Ray Comfort: I'm not sure, but somebody else had borrowed his microphone that preached for the first time Got it And then I grabbed ahold of it.
23:51
Mark Spence: But Danny who came on up, he was so antagonistic, he was so angry, he was an atheist And I allowed him to speak into my microphone as I held it And then he was just going off and off and off.
23:59
Mark Spence: I've never seen a man roll his eyes so fiercely.
24:03
Oscar Navarro: Wow, danny would roll his eyes By the time we were done, he said.
24:06
Oscar Navarro: I just want to say thank you.
24:09
Mark Spence: I just want to say thank you Wow.
24:12
Mark Spence: Because, I've never come across a Christian like you before.
24:15
Mark Spence: Usually we come across people that are Christians, that are yelling at us but they're not ready and willing to engage in dialogue.
24:22
Mark Spence: I've never encountered something like this before And I want to say what you're doing out here is a really good thing.
24:28
Emeal Zwayne: Did they get that on camera?
24:29
Emeal Zwayne: They're all on camera.
24:31
Oscar Navarro: Well, and a moment that you didn't see.
24:33
Oscar Navarro: If you remember, he kind of asked a question to you of like what kind of a God would blah, blah, blah, blah, blah?
24:40
Oscar Navarro: And your response to him was by what standard are you judging God on?
24:46
Oscar Navarro: And he took a moment and he sit.
24:49
Oscar Navarro: His response back was like you know what?
24:51
Oscar Navarro: I need a minute.
24:52
Oscar Navarro: I need a minute to think about this, and so he pulls back and then the other guy steps forward and starts asking you questions And I watched him.
24:58
Oscar Navarro: He was like on his phone.
25:00
Oscar Navarro: I don't know what he was doing, but it looked like he was looking something up.
25:03
Ray Comfort: Yeah, Richard, help me.
25:04
Ray Comfort: No, what would Dawkins say?
25:07
Oscar Navarro: We're looking some stuff up.
25:08
Oscar Navarro: and then at one point he seemed to and again I don't know what he was doing on his phone, but it looked like he was curious about something.
25:13
Oscar Navarro: And at some point he puts his phone away and he just kind of crosses arms and he sat there with his chin in his hand and just thinking and contemplating And then was like, looked at you and was like, okay, i'm going to go.
25:24
Oscar Navarro: And then he said whatever you said to you and he left.
25:26
Mark Spence: I'm going to gracefully back out of this conversation.
25:28
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, how cool would it be if one day, this guy gets saved and his testimony is a guy hit me with this question lovingly, gently, intelligently, and I just realized what am I doing?
25:40
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, what standard am I using?
25:42
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, i'm an atheist, i don't believe in any absolute standard, and yet I'm applying one to God.
25:47
Emeal Zwayne: Where do I get?
25:49
Oscar Navarro: on.
25:49
Oscar Navarro: I remember his thing.
25:50
Oscar Navarro: It was because you brought up Adam in the fall and he said what kind of a God would tempt a son and then accuse him afterwards of falling?
25:59
Oscar Navarro: That was it.
25:59
Oscar Navarro: And then your response was by what standard are you basing that?
26:02
Oscar Navarro: by what standard are you judging God on?
26:04
Mark Spence: Yeah, and he kept saying you know, there are so many kids that are suffering, so many kids that are suffering, they're suffering, they're suffering.
26:10
Mark Spence: Where's God?
26:10
Mark Spence: God was at the same place when his son was suffered, when his son died at the hands of cruel people.
26:17
Mark Spence: But since you have such a heart for the children, how do you feel about abortion?
26:20
Mark Spence: Wow.
26:21
Mark Spence: And he said well, i think it's up to the woman to choose.
26:24
Mark Spence: And I said so.
26:24
Mark Spence: Let me get this straight.
26:25
Mark Spence: Everybody can choose, but God by what standard?
26:29
Mark Spence: So it was very, and it's very important for those of you that are listening if you are inclined to open your preach or to engage in some sort of an apologetical sword fight, to always get back to the gospel.
26:40
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Yeah, they know it.
26:41
Mark Spence: Because, before you know it, you're 30 minutes in you have a whole new crowd and nobody's heard the gospel.
26:45
Mark Spence: All they see is you arguing, And if you're not arguing towards the cross, well then you're just arguing.
26:50
Mark Spence: So I made it my aim to always pull away from our discussion, preach the law in the gospel and get back to the questions.
26:55
Ray Comfort: That was learned from Santa Monica.
26:57
Ray Comfort: We used to tap each other's ankle.
26:59
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Yeah.
27:00
Ray Comfort: It's a propensity to get caught into apologetical arguments, and if we saw a brother on the box doing that, we'd go past and just tap his ankle and say oh remember, we're here to preach the cross.
27:10
Emeal Zwayne: Well, it's so key And one of the benefits of open air is the fact that multiple people are listening in And you've got people that are coming in and out, so you might have someone new who just walked in.
27:21
Emeal Zwayne: So you always want to try to get back to the gospel.
27:23
Emeal Zwayne: So, okay, mark, so you had that experience.
27:27
Emeal Zwayne: I mean, i've known you for a very long time and we've served the Lord together for about 25 years, like in ministry, and I don't think I've ever seen you like this moved by something.
27:38
Emeal Zwayne: God did something in you man.
27:40
Mark Spence: Yeah, no, it was really special.
27:42
Mark Spence: I wish that you guys could have been there to see it somehow be lifted up, experienced and come on back.
27:49
Mark Spence: The travel itself can be very difficult.
27:51
Mark Spence: It can be very hard, but the ministry was absolutely amazing.
27:56
Mark Spence: Everywhere I turned around there were people.
27:58
Mark Spence: It seemed like there was a road to Emmaus experience with everybody.
28:03
Mark Spence: Everybody had a story And when given the opportunity, they wanted to share it, but they weren't interested in the fellowship as much as they were interested in sharing the gospel with other people.
28:12
Mark Spence: People that were excited to meet us and to talk to us, but when given the opportunity to turn around and to hand out tracts, they wanted to be all a part of that.
28:22
Emeal Zwayne: And what a fitting occasion.
28:24
Emeal Zwayne: I mean right, ray?
28:25
Emeal Zwayne: I mean you've talked about it and you've said basically the whole world was going to church and everyone's gathering to really wait outside of an event where something's happening, where the gospel is being talked about.
28:35
Emeal Zwayne: I mean they quoted out of Colossians about who Christ is and his preeminence, and it was just, it was amazing.
28:46
Mark Spence: I'm on my way back, coming back, i sat next to a lady who was invited to the coronation and she sat in Westminster Abbey.
28:54
Mark Spence: She was in her early 80s, she's from England and she was coming out to the United States for something.
29:00
Mark Spence: But she gave me her phone number to come visit her because I'm going back to England in two weeks for a couple of weeks.
29:06
Mark Spence: But she gave me, allowed me to hold on to and I took a picture of every page.
29:09
Mark Spence: It was the program for the coronation and I sent it to you, ray.
29:13
Mark Spence: That's what those 50 pages are.
29:14
Mark Spence: Listen to some of these words, if I may.
29:16
Mark Spence: These words are the words.
29:18
Mark Spence: Everything is scripted that day for the coronation.
29:21
Mark Spence: The Archbishop of Thyatira in Great Britain says The Lord, protect you in all your ways and prosper all your work in his name.
29:29
Mark Spence: The moderator of the free churches group says The Lord, give you hope and happiness that you may inspire all your people in the imitation of his unchanging love.
29:38
Mark Spence: The General Secretary of England says The Lord, grant that wisdom and knowledge be the stability of your times and the fear of the Lord your treasure.
29:47
Mark Spence: The Cardinal of Archbishop of Westminster says May God pour upon you the richness of his grace, bless you and keep you in his holy fear and prepare you for a happy eternity and receive you at the last, until a mortal glory, wow.
30:02
Mark Spence: The Archbishop of Canterbury says And the blessing of God Almighty.
30:05
Mark Spence: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be with you and remain with you always, amen.
30:09
Mark Spence: And then it just goes on and on.
30:11
Mark Spence: And this one part The Lord, grant the King a long life that his years may endure throughout all generations.
30:17
Mark Spence: Let him dwell before thee forever.
30:19
Mark Spence: Oh prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness that they may preserve him.
30:23
Mark Spence: So shall we always sing and praise thy name, amen.
30:26
Mark Spence: Point the coronation, the entire coronation is pointed back upon the word of God, the person of Jesus Christ.
30:33
Mark Spence: And I'm thinking to myself, as I was reading through this, like nowhere else in the world, are you going to see this and to hear these words?
30:42
Mark Spence: Right?
30:43
Mark Spence: And I, when I got grabbed ahold of the program and I was looking through all of the words written out, i was thinking what a treasure this item is.
30:51
Mark Spence: And this woman says I can't stop reading through all the words that were spoken.
30:56
Mark Spence: Wow, how did she get in there, mark?
30:59
Mark Spence: I mean, she was invited.
31:00
Mark Spence: She was invited in to, is she just?
31:02
Emeal Zwayne: a commoner.
31:03
Emeal Zwayne: I don't know, she was the Queen of Pompeo.
31:05
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Yeah, Well, and.
31:07
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah.
31:07
Emeal Zwayne: Oscar you've been waiting.
31:09
Emeal Zwayne: I want to hear what you got too.
31:12
Oscar Navarro: Yeah, i mean I really don't have much to add to what Mark is saying, but my observations and some standout moments is kind of what he said.
31:19
Oscar Navarro: It was less about us being there and more about seeing how many people answered the call.
31:26
Oscar Navarro: Because of Ray, your vision not just your vision for London, but your vision for this ministry, your vision for the church to become more evangelistic that started 30, 40, 50, 180 years ago And all that you do and all that God is doing through the podcast, the TV show and the YouTube.
31:43
Oscar Navarro: I mean I met a sweet family with teenage girls there from Ireland.
31:48
Oscar Navarro: I met teenagers that backed packed from Finland.
31:52
Oscar Navarro: By the way, that's the creatures, Yeah they knew you Shout out to the creatures.
31:58
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, they're our friends.
31:59
Emeal Zwayne: That's their last name Creature.
32:01
Emeal Zwayne: Creature, not creatures.
32:03
Ray Comfort: Creatures, I was going to say the only one who preached the God of the creatures.
32:05
Ray Comfort: I met a couple.
32:05
Ray Comfort: They're the ones that picked us up.
32:07
Emeal Zwayne: Remember it took us around Ireland.
32:09
Ray Comfort: That's right.
32:10
Ray Comfort: And he sent me a video of you and I.
32:12
Ray Comfort: They've watched a dozen times.
32:13
Ray Comfort: They can't stop looking at it.
32:14
Ray Comfort: Oh yeah, I'll produce.
32:15
Ray Comfort: I'm going to show you later.
32:16
Ray Comfort: That's right, It's so funny.
32:19
Oscar Navarro: He was from the US and I can't remember what country she's from, but they're engaged and they rarely get to see each other and they decided that this would be their trip, where they get to spend some time together, which is to go and to preach the gospel and to hand out tracks like that was how they're going to spend this trip together.
32:34
Oscar Navarro: You know Over and over again.
32:36
Oscar Navarro: Just met some incredible a guy from Greece who came by himself because he gave us a hard time.
32:42
Oscar Navarro: He said every time we quote the Greek word on our podcast, he says we butcher it.
32:49
Oscar Navarro: I apologize, perfectly.
32:53
Ray Comfort: We should call him every time we want to call him.
32:54
Ray Comfort: He said it's.
32:56
Mark Spence: Augustine.
33:00
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, he's wrong.
33:01
Oscar Navarro: It was amazing and, like I said, turning the corner.
33:04
Oscar Navarro: Everywhere I went on the streets it was just one person after another with the million dollar bill pound tracks, handing them out to people, men and women near retirement age, in their middle age, young kids, high school, college, just every age group you know answered the call to preach the gospel.
33:24
Oscar Navarro: And think about not only the tracks that were handing out, but think about how much prayer was poured over.
33:30
Oscar Navarro: This trip was poured over.
33:32
Oscar Navarro: Those tracks was poured over the people that were that the tracks were being handed to.
33:36
Oscar Navarro: And to add to sort of what you were saying, mark, in regards to reading what the Church of England had prepared, i got to speak to you know, we're out there looking for interviews for the TV show and there's like this vicar, he's got his white thingamajig on and he's staring at the Abbey.
33:54
Oscar Navarro: And I walk up to him and I'm like hey, would you want to do an interview?
33:57
Oscar Navarro: And he said yes.
33:58
Emeal Zwayne: Wow.
33:59
Oscar Navarro: And so I got to do an interview with the vicar from the Church of England.
34:02
Oscar Navarro: It was really interesting.
34:04
Ray Comfort: It was a great accent.
34:05
Oscar Navarro: He did have a great accent.
34:07
Oscar Navarro: yeah, He knew very little about the gospel, though, which is crazy.
34:11
Emeal Zwayne: This guy you know went to seminary.
34:13
Oscar Navarro: He is a professional preacher, quote unquote in the Church of England.
34:18
Oscar Navarro: And I ask him what is the gospel?
34:20
Oscar Navarro: And he goes oh well, you know, the gospel is God's love for us, it's God's way of healing us, of empowering us, of offering us grace and power in this life and reconciliation with each other.
34:35
Oscar Navarro: And he waxes on and on And at the end, when he's done, i go.
34:39
Oscar Navarro: And what about our reconciliation to him?
34:41
Oscar Navarro: And he's like oh well, yeah, you know, in a way That small thing Yeah.
34:46
Oscar Navarro: And then I ask him you know about the substitutionary atonement?
34:49
Oscar Navarro: And right at the end he says something like well, you know that makes me feel uncomfortable.
34:55
Oscar Navarro: You know, god's wrath being poured out on his son makes me feel like he's a vindictive God And I got to go.
35:01
Oscar Navarro: He left.
35:02
Oscar Navarro: And he left the interview, which is really unfortunate, but it's also a great example on how the Church of England has lost a sense of the gospel.
35:16
Ray Comfort: And how the God of this world is blinded to the minds of those that believe, not to the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
35:21
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, and you know my prayer is for God to do a revival.
35:26
Emeal Zwayne: You know you think about the fact that Wesley and Whitfield came out of the Church of England.
35:30
Emeal Zwayne: You know, And man.
35:32
Emeal Zwayne: May the Lord cause a revival.
35:34
Emeal Zwayne: We had a good friend say as we were texting, ray and I were texting and they were like man, how wonderful would it be if the book and the tract got into the hands of King Charles and his family and they all came to Christ.
35:49
Emeal Zwayne: Oh, it could be this morning and say he's reading the tract and I was like where's Ben when you need him, when we need him.
35:55
Ray Comfort: Can I just say something about the tract?
35:57
Ray Comfort: I think it's got an incredibly long life, and the reason for that is for the world, this was a tremendously heartwarming experience.
36:05
Ray Comfort: This whole thing outside of what the Christian experienced was like a light and darkness, in the sense that the world is just so full of bad, bad news And this was good news.
36:14
Ray Comfort: And it's like and I aged myself by saying this but if someone gave me a million dollar bill with the Beatles on it, it would take me back to the joy I had of the experience of hearing them for the first time.
36:27
Ray Comfort: And so this tract has got a long, long life, and so Christians should still keep giving them out.
36:33
Ray Comfort: Oh, i watched the coronation.
36:35
Ray Comfort: Yeah, thanks for that.
36:37
Emeal Zwayne: And again, the reason why I think it was such a brilliant idea is because who in the world is going to throw one of those away?
36:42
Emeal Zwayne: I mean, this is, you know, people love mementos from certain places or, you know, from certain occasions, and it's not just that it's got King Charles picture on it and it's it looks like currency.
36:52
Emeal Zwayne: It's really well done.
36:54
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, i mean, brad and Ashley did an extraordinary job.
36:58
Emeal Zwayne: It's really quality, even the paper.
37:00
Ray Comfort: People believe what a bread nicely is.
37:03
Emeal Zwayne: But I'm not sleep, but I'm not sleep.
37:04
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah a brat is our wonderful Oh Brett's are wonderful webmaster here and does so many other things.
37:13
Emeal Zwayne: And then Esli is a brilliant graphic artist.
37:18
Ray Comfort: I mean she's been doing stuff for Disney for a long time, yeah.
37:20
Emeal Zwayne: I know that she's really good And she does the best caricatures I think I've ever seen, so, anyhow.
37:26
Emeal Zwayne: So here's what I want to do.
37:27
Emeal Zwayne: I want to.
37:28
Emeal Zwayne: I want to get to the reception mark.
37:31
Emeal Zwayne: I want you to talk a little bit about that and what happened there, and then I want to wrap up with talking about what we're going to do next, because, if you don't think, this affected us friends wow, now listen, why are we talking about all this?
37:43
Emeal Zwayne: All of you are thinking, ok, this already happened.
37:45
Emeal Zwayne: Who knows when you're and look at the date on this, because this may be years later.
37:48
Emeal Zwayne: You're listening to this.
37:49
Emeal Zwayne: We're doing this to stir your souls.
37:53
Emeal Zwayne: If you weren't moved by Mark's reaction, you may not be a human being, because that was that was powerful, and we want you to catch a glimpse of what God can do when you decide to be an instrument in His hand.
38:09
Emeal Zwayne: And guys, honestly think about it.
38:11
Emeal Zwayne: What's being asked of us?
38:12
Emeal Zwayne: Be an instrument?
38:13
Emeal Zwayne: What's an instrument?
38:15
Emeal Zwayne: It just sits there, you know, like ready to be picked up and used, and that's what we're talking about being used by the Lord.
38:22
Emeal Zwayne: This doesn't have to happen during one big single occasion in another country.
38:27
Emeal Zwayne: They are lost all around you all the time.
38:30
Emeal Zwayne: There are enough special occasions in the US taking place where you can go, and so do it.
38:35
Emeal Zwayne: All right, mark reception.
38:37
Mark Spence: People literally had to take planes, trains and automobiles in order to get to this place that was in the middle of nowhere.
38:44
Mark Spence: It really was, yeah, our outside of London.
38:47
Emeal Zwayne: Really it was remote.
38:48
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, there's nothing near it.
38:52
Mark Spence: Why did I think the?
38:52
Emeal Zwayne: reception was like five minutes from like ground zero.
38:55
Oscar Navarro: Well, when you look on a map, it's only a millimeter away from the end.
38:59
Emeal Zwayne: That's what it was.
39:01
Mark Spence: But seeing the people come, continually come and then fill up this room was so amazing.
39:07
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: It was standing room only.
39:09
Emeal Zwayne: Speaking of Phillip.
39:10
Emeal Zwayne: Phillip was there, wasn't he?
39:11
Emeal Zwayne: Ray Ray's brother.
39:14
Ray Comfort: Oh, my brother, Yeah, phillip, and his wife Shirley.
39:16
Ray Comfort: He's had me mystified for a long time.
39:18
Ray Comfort: He was the first ever to give away coronation tracks.
39:21
Ray Comfort: Wow, he asked for the money when he was in Sydney.
39:23
Ray Comfort: That's amazing And I didn't even know if he's a Christian, which is just weird.
39:26
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, amazing, awesome.
39:28
Mark Spence: We showed our film What Is It?
39:29
Mark Spence: and Phillip came up to me The last half of the film at least.
39:33
Mark Spence: I stood there with Phillip and we watched it, and it was after he had said, oh, this is so well done, he's just excellent, just excellent, just really excellent, and he's so proud of you, ray right, yes, i mean, he wears a name tag that says Phillip Comfort on it.
39:47
Mark Spence: He's self-made and he wore walking around and he wanted to address everybody and say a word, but we didn't dare give him a mic.
39:58
Emeal Zwayne: So yeah, so it's in a remote place and people are just yeah.
40:02
Mark Spence: Yeah, and then we all got up there, went after the next one, we began to talk and teach a little bit, we showed the film and Mark taught, I taught and then.
40:11
Mark Spence: Miguel, head MC John Harris.
40:13
Mark Spence: John Harris, yeah, he gave pointers on how to handle gospel tracks, how to engage in conversation, and we could have probably went on for another few hours.
40:21
Emeal Zwayne: How long did it go?
40:22
Mark Spence: It was at least three and a half hours.
40:24
Mark Spence: What, yeah, it was long.
40:26
Mark Spence: I didn't realize that It could have been a lot longer.
40:28
Mark Spence: Wow, yeah, people were.
40:30
Mark Spence: Was it too long?
40:30
Mark Spence: It was not too long.
40:32
Mark Spence: No, people wanted more People wanted to become a little bit.
40:34
Oscar Navarro: That was a highlight.
40:35
Emeal Zwayne: And so were you guys meeting a lot of people that love living waters.
40:38
Emeal Zwayne: In the fall of the ministry, Yes, but not only that.
40:40
Mark Spence: There were a lot of people that were really wanting to become equipped.
40:44
Mark Spence: Yeah Right.
40:45
Mark Spence: I had instead in my head thinking that all of these people are already equipped, they're already inspired, that's why they're there and they just want a fellowship.
40:52
Mark Spence: No, when slides were going, john Harris was showing the different slides on how to handle tracks.
40:57
Mark Spence: It was like every hand went up to take a picture of the different slides.
41:00
Mark Spence: Wow, and then coming by and just going how do I get this material?
41:03
Mark Spence: How do I get this material?
41:04
Mark Spence: How do I become equipped?
41:05
Oscar Navarro: Yeah, so I think that's a good thing.
41:07
Oscar Navarro: On three things we can learn from the early church on evangelism, but I mentioned the beginning.
41:12
Oscar Navarro: I actually have five, but I only have time for three.
41:14
Oscar Navarro: I can't tell you how many people afterwards were coming up to me.
41:17
Oscar Navarro: What were the other two?
41:19
Ray Comfort: What were they with pin?
41:19
Oscar Navarro: and paper.
41:20
Emeal Zwayne: You were at the top of the top of the top of the top.
41:21
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, what were the other two?
41:21
Emeal Zwayne: Very smart.
41:23
Oscar Navarro: But to your point, yeah, they were so excited about being around living waters members and us And that was really encouraging.
41:31
Oscar Navarro: But more than that, they were there to be equipped.
41:33
Oscar Navarro: They were so excited for information download, which was awesome.
41:37
Oscar Navarro: I love that They're hungry.
41:39
Mark Spence: There was such a sacrifice for them to be there And therefore I think that that allotted each person to be like a sponge, that they were just holding on to everything that was being said Give me something.
41:48
Mark Spence: And then, like I said, out on the streets, a lot of individual people, not with other people, not with a spouse, not with a friend, not with their child, they're just by themselves trying to handle tracks, handing them out.
41:59
Mark Spence: And it wasn't like they were being timid about it either.
42:01
Mark Spence: It was like no, here, take this, you've got to read this, you've got to read this.
42:05
Oscar Navarro: Take this So many college students that just went by themselves.
42:09
Oscar Navarro: Wow, They're like I just came by myself.
42:11
Oscar Navarro: I'm just here to hand out tracks.
42:12
Emeal Zwayne: Well, you know, when we got sent the video, i don't know who sent it, if it was Brad or one of our team members.
42:18
Emeal Zwayne: If someone sent a video of our team being mobbed by people like wanting tracks and even one lady's like give me two, give me two.
42:26
Emeal Zwayne: People just waiting.
42:27
Emeal Zwayne: And I just started, i teared up because I thought, lord, all these people have the gospel in their hands.
42:34
Emeal Zwayne: They're not going to throw this away.
42:35
Emeal Zwayne: It's going to be sitting in their house for years.
42:37
Emeal Zwayne: Other people are going to read it.
42:38
Oscar Navarro: They're children and the grandchildren.
42:40
Emeal Zwayne: And so it was so, so moving, and so you guys met a few podcast listeners.
42:46
Mark Spence: Oh, so many people love the podcast.
42:47
Mark Spence: Really, i can't believe it.
42:49
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Even the dad jokes.
42:50
Mark Spence: However, there was one guy that came up to me and he said I love everything about the podcast except for when Easy tells us jokes.
42:58
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: No, he's an anomaly, because everybody else wasn't here, everybody else loves the dad jokes and loves the camaraderie and jokes.
43:04
Mark Spence: I am honestly shocked.
43:05
Oscar Navarro: I'm honestly shocked on how, and so blessed because to me we get on here, we goof off, we have so much fun talking about the Lord.
43:13
Oscar Navarro: I feel lifted up and encouraged.
43:15
Oscar Navarro: And then I am so blown away when I get around other people and they are so lifted up and encouraged by the podcast And to see just them understand our inside jokes, tell us whether they're team Easy or team.
43:28
Ray Comfort: Oscar when it comes to coffee.
43:31
Oscar Navarro: You know.
43:31
Oscar Navarro: For them to repeat back to us stories that we've told are like Hey, you know, you said this thing, i can relate, or I was in that moment before.
43:38
Oscar Navarro: There's just like relational currency that's being built and listener for you, for you, listening man, we, we so appreciate you.
43:46
Ray Comfort: We love you and we're so thankful for.
43:49
Oscar Navarro: when we get to meet you face to face, it honestly means a ton.
43:51
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, it's crazy.
43:52
Emeal Zwayne: I was at a church in another state and this lady walks up to me.
43:55
Emeal Zwayne: Never seen her in my life.
43:56
Emeal Zwayne: She goes Hey, tea kettle's Wayne.
43:57
Emeal Zwayne: Oh boy, this thing's getting around.
44:00
Emeal Zwayne: But yeah, mark, to serve that brother who doesn't like the jokes, i'm going to keep telling them because he needs sanctification, trial and tribulation.
44:08
Emeal Zwayne: So Ray and I were here in the meantime doing the live stream.
44:12
Emeal Zwayne: I got about an hour and a half of sleep that afternoon just to take a little nap, which was a big mistake because I was.
44:17
Emeal Zwayne: I was exhausted, but we had so much fun.
44:21
Emeal Zwayne: We had a great time.
44:22
Ray Comfort: Little panic.
44:22
Ray Comfort: just as we're beginning, We cut across to Ben and then we hear our tech guys say we've lost the tower.
44:29
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, like they lost the signal there.
44:31
Ray Comfort: Yeah, there's no signal from London.
44:33
Emeal Zwayne: Like they shut down all the towers and the signals And I thought, great, we've got four hours of me and easy.
44:38
Ray Comfort: Yeah, but away without a Ben price or without.
44:40
Ray Comfort: The guys come from London.
44:41
Ray Comfort: But they got it back.
44:42
Ray Comfort: I was just thrilled.
44:42
Ray Comfort: And then, just as we're going to start, there was issues of copyright YouTube going to shut us down because there's music being played that they can hear and stuff like that.
44:51
Ray Comfort: But it really worked out good.
44:53
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, I mean, Ben was just a breath of fresh air He is.
44:56
Emeal Zwayne: He's just on, you know, like all of the impersonations He was doing, Trump and King Charles and Arnold, and yeah it was.
45:04
Emeal Zwayne: it was really great.
45:06
Oscar Navarro: I gotta say, out of all the guys I invited to work out with me while we were in London, ben was the only one that showed up.
45:10
Oscar Navarro: Really, mark Brad Gale.
45:15
Emeal Zwayne: All right, brown's time is a ticking and we've got to tell you about what we're going to do.
45:19
Emeal Zwayne: Yes, 2024 will bring us the Olympics, and where a?
45:29
Ray Comfort: In Paris I think Paris, i love London that Paris is the most wonderful city in the world.
45:33
Ray Comfort: It's just wow.
45:34
Ray Comfort: What about Belfast?
45:35
Ray Comfort: It's all right.
45:37
Oscar Navarro: It's just something about.
45:38
Ray Comfort: Paris We've been there a number of times the, the multiculturalism, the, the The Lou, the Eiffel Tower, lou, the, all those things.
45:47
Emeal Zwayne: Alan, we can't forget Alan, yeah it's just so, it's.
45:50
Ray Comfort: It's so exciting that that so many people are gonna come three billion people watch the Olympics.
45:55
Ray Comfort: Wow and so I am, i am.
45:57
Ray Comfort: It's like London on steroids, because the Coronation of the King Charles was huge, but the whole world didn't follow it There are a lot of countries that just weren't interested, but with the Olympics the whole, yeah.
46:11
Ray Comfort: Well it's when they say three billion people, they're not talking, kids don't watch it So that it's like almost the whole world of it.
46:17
Oscar Navarro: I grew up watching the Olympics.
46:19
Oscar Navarro: I grew up watching the.
46:20
Emeal Zwayne: Olympics?
46:20
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, that was like a thing in our home and you didn't even have a TV.
46:22
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, we watched.
46:24
Ray Comfort: Yeah, we would just draw pictures on those little magnetic things for that, Yeah and so we're going to create tracks that are going to be so exciting for people.
46:32
Ray Comfort: They're gonna hold on to them, and I've got lots of little thoughts, like Just a little all your thoughts are a little, yeah, a little.
46:40
Ray Comfort: Just that we're gonna print a card for Paris that this we haven't even talked about this.
46:44
Ray Comfort: It just says free Olympic Collectibles or whatever free Olympics.
46:49
Ray Comfort: I can't get the right word, but people are gonna be lining up for them because they're there for the Olympics and these, these are gonna be their heroes.
46:56
Emeal Zwayne: So yeah, it's super.
46:57
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, that's what we're doing.
47:01
Emeal Zwayne: So I mean, Mark, you took French for 40 years and don't even hardly know a word.
47:08
Emeal Zwayne: I was the same too I.
47:09
Emeal Zwayne: I took.
47:10
Ray Comfort: French for three years.
47:11
Ray Comfort: No and I and I see I did and I said something to a Frenchman and he learned turn around.
47:16
Ray Comfort: This is like 30 years after, after the fact.
47:18
Ray Comfort: But I, after three years of studying French, that teacher said, oh, this isn't the French, they speak in England.
47:24
Ray Comfort: This is just learning.
47:28
Oscar Navarro: Spanish in high school French with your New.
47:31
Emeal Zwayne: Zealand.
47:32
Ray Comfort: It's gonna be super exciting, Yeah, yeah we're very excited.
47:35
Emeal Zwayne: So, again, make sure to check the date on when you're listening to this.
47:38
Emeal Zwayne: This may be three, four years down the line, but this is gonna be in 2016 for the Olympics.
47:43
Emeal Zwayne: We're so excited 2016.
47:45
Ben Stein (voice) - EZ: Did I say?
47:48
Oscar Navarro: In the world so we got a time machine, yeah, just like your outfit.
47:58
Ray Comfort: Man, i missed it.
47:59
Ray Comfort: I missed the outreach to Paris, but it's 2016.
48:02
Emeal Zwayne: The thing is is, i said 2016, my brain I said no, no, no, 2024.
48:06
Emeal Zwayne: And I said say 2024 and look at what.
48:08
Ray Comfort: I sounds like you've got someone living in there, i think so All right, friends.
48:11
Emeal Zwayne: Well, that does it for us.
48:12
Emeal Zwayne: We're so excited, so people should subscribe to our newsletter.
48:15
Ray Comfort: Yes living waters newsletter so we can update you when we've got things worked out.
48:19
Oscar Navarro: That's how you do that you go to living waters calm and subscribe to the newsletter.
48:23
Oscar Navarro: We will debt.
48:24
Oscar Navarro: That will be the first place anybody hears about signing up and being a part of the outreach for Paris.
48:30
Ray Comfort: Yeah, absolutely, we'll keep you posted and it's from July to August is 26 days of the Olympics.
48:37
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, and 2024 2024, 2016,.
48:41
Oscar Navarro: Please don't go there in 2016, there'll be nothing there, but also call me if you have a time machine.
48:46
Oscar Navarro: We need to talk.
48:47
Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, let's travel.
48:48
Emeal Zwayne: All right, friends, that does it for us.
48:50
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49:00
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49:01
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49:04
Ray Comfort: Where we have no idea.
49:08
Emeal Zwayne: Where we have no idea what we're doing.