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- [Narrator] Coming up, a devout Muslim.

- This is where I could find peace.

- [Narrator] Who wanted toroot out the terrorists.

- It was a natural fit for me to be

working against extremismat the same time.

- [Narrator] Soon, she'scourted by the president

and the FBI.

- I really felt that I wascontributing to my country

and to my faith.

- [Narrator] So why did her Imam say

she was doomed for eternity?

- They told me I wasgonna hang from my hair

for an eternity in hell fire.

- On today's "700 Club".

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- Welcome folks to thisedition of "The 700 Club".

A radical breakthrough inthe treatment of Alzheimer's,

well maybe not.

The FDA has approved a newdrug to fight the disease,

but at what cost?

The drug is astronomically expensive,

even worse, there's noproof that it works.

Medical reporter LorieJohnson explains why.

- Biogen's new Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm

is a monthly intravenous infusion

with an annual cost of$56,000 before insurance.

Still, questions lingerabout its effectiveness.

One study showed no effectiveness at all.

The other showed a slightreduction in the rate of decline.

While this limited evidence

prompted an independent advisory committee

to discourage approval,

the FDA still gave the okay.

- What's important about thisis that there was, of course,

some controversy

and very complicated sets of data

that many people haddifferent opinions about.

But importantly, the FDAactually approved this today

under accelerated approval.

- [Lorie] Alzheimer'sexpert, Dr. David Perlmutter

is concerned about significantbrain bleeding and swelling

detected in trial participants.

And the fact that Adulhem isfor people with mild symptoms.

- It's actually designed to be used

in people who have what's called MCI

or mild cognitive impairment,

which to be fair is a harbingerfor future Alzheimer's

but this should not be construed

as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

- [Lorie] The drug claims to remove

amyloid plaque in the brain,

but Alzheimer's researcherDr. Dale Bredesen

says that substance is simply a barrier

protecting the brain from attacks.

- The big problem here isthat people have equated

amyloid with Alzheimer's.

These are two quite different things.

The amyloid is a response

to the what's inducing the Alzheimer's,

whereas Alzheimer's is the disease,

and just getting rid of amyloid,

that's not getting rid of Alzheimer's.

- [Lorie] Bredesen says thebest way to reverse the disease

is by identifying and treatingthings attacking the brain

like metabolism, pathogens, and toxins.

- Medical reporter Lorie Johnson is here.

Lorie, why do you thinkit's such a mystery?

I mean, Alzheimer's is a horrible disease.

Why don't you think the FDAcan understand what Bredesen

and his associates are saying?

- Well, it's a great question

and it all boils down to thedesire for a drug, one drug

that people can take apill or get an IV infusion

that addresses this very complex disease.

What Dr. Bredesen discovered

is that there are many differentcauses for Alzheimer's,

many different things thatcontribute to it, dozens of them

and he has developedthis test people can take

to see which one of these they have,

and then address these differentthings through a protocol

or lifestyle changes.

So it's a complicated disease,

there's not just onething causing Alzheimer's.

- He was trying to getapproval of his techniques

and they wouldn't give it to him.

They said, you've got to give us a pill.

So if can't get a pill,we're not gonna approve it,

but the FDA gave acceleratedapproval on this other.

Now, what does accelerated mean?

- Accelerated approval is for

diseases a lot of peopleare suffering from,

for which there's reallyno treatment or cure.

And so the idea is,

even if there's thetiniest whisper of hope,

put it on the market, let peoplestart taking it right away

and continue to test it.

The problem Pat, is that when people say

an Alzheimer's drug works,

a lot of times what they're saying

is it works to remove amyloid plaque.

But listen, hear me, justbecause you remove amyloid plaque

does not mean your memory comes back.

And so the best case scenariofor removing amyloid plaque

is that for a very short periodof time in a very few people

the progression of the disease slows down,

but it doesn't stop theprogression of the disease

and it certainly doesn'treverse the symptoms.

But with the BredesenProtocol we are seeing that.

The complete halt ofsymptoms and in many cases,

the reversal of the Alzheimer's symptoms.

If people want to know moreabout the Bredesen Protocol,

go to our website, cbnnews.com,there's lots of information.

We've had Dr. Bredesen on the program

many times as you know.

- Last question

he says essentially Alzheimer's

is the same inflammation that causes

so many of these other diseases,

is that is that what it is?

It's inflammation.

- Absolutely, inflammation in the brain.

And there are a lot of different things

that cause inflammation, Pat.

He identified dozens of them,

some of them have to do with diet,

some of them have to do with infections

like bacterial infections,like Lyme disease

or viral infections, like herpes.

Other things can cause this inflammation,

toxins that we're exposedto in our environment.

And some people are at greater risk

if they have this APOE 4 gene,

some people have one,that raises your risk

of Alzheimer's about 33%.

If you have two of these genes,

then you have about a 75% chanceof developing Alzheimer's.

So there are ways to sortof silence these genes

to kind of make them notexpress themselves in people.

So this is why somepeople have Alzheimer's

and others, they often have thegenes, but you can, as I say

kind of turn off those geneswith the Bredesen Protocol.

It's very fascinating, very exciting

but it does require a lot of work

on the part of the patient,

and a lot of people don't like that,

they'd rather take a pill.

But remember,

this was the same situationwith type two diabetes.

When doctors figured out what causes it,

eating too much sugar,

that's how they used to treat patients.

They told them to stopeating sugar, and it worked

until they developed insulin.

And it might be the same typeof thing with Alzheimer's.

We can treat the symptoms now,

if we can stop doing whatis causing Alzheimer's.

- Lorie thank you for that.

Folks don't wanna tell you,

I just finished a book aboutRonald Reagan and you know,

he slipped into a later decline,

but two things happened to him.

Number one, he got shotand he got shot badly

and he was in near death,lost almost all of his blood,

there was a double shock.

The second thing is later on,

he was out riding in anuntried horse down in Mexico,

and the horse gotspooked and began to buck

and he didn't just buck,he bucked frantically,

so much so that Reaganwas thrown off the horse

and hit his head.

They didn't think therewas anything wrong,

and then later they found ahematoma at The Mayo Clinic

and he had to have that operated on.

So those two things,

the next thing you knowhe's got Alzheimer's.

But people have just ignored that,

especially that fallwhere he hit his head,

I was sure that was what did it,

but the two shocks to his system

triggered that terrible declinethat he had this great man.

When he knew he was going into the area

that he'd never return,

but we don't know yetbut thank goodness for

Bredesen and these otherdoctors who were saying, look

there is a way to get around this thing,

but you don't do it with one pill.

Well in other news, the fake media did it,

they shut down the theorythat the coronavirus

came from a lab in Wuhan.

But guess what?

A secret report and aformer Secretary of State

are now giving that theory credence

for calling for more investigation.

Efrem Graham has that.

- Pat, the possibility of a lab leak

as the source of the coronavirus pandemic

was gaining traction longbefore the media got on board.

The Wall Street Journalreports, a government lab found

that the theory was plausibleand worthy of investigation

as early as May of 2020.

The Journal citing a secret report

by the Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory in California

which reportedly presentedcompelling reasons

to follow up on the theory,

the virus escaped froma lab in Wuhan, China.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

recently stating the theory was ignored

despite the warning signs

- There was too muchof a tendency early on

to dismiss this possibilityof a laboratory leak.

Some of the evidence wasright in front of our faces.

So we know that there wereState Department diplomats

who inspected, so tospeak, that laboratory

and came back and said

that the safety practiceswere substandard.

- [Efrem] Three Wuhanlab researchers fell ill

with COVID-like symptomsin November of 2019.

Pat, back to you.

- I know, if you're like Iam, you're sick of hearing

about the Institute of Virology

and gain of functionresearch and all this stuff.

But the truth is,

the media just didn't wantto give Donald Trump a break.

And when he began to bring forth this,

they just poo-pooed it.

But they covered it up.

And that's the big story theycovered up what was clear

to people like Condoleezza Rice and others

who had gone and investigated.

It was clear that it was a manmade

manipulation of a virus,

and it came out of thatInstitute of Virology in Wuhan.

And if you're with me, I'msick of hearing about it.

But nevertheless, whatwe gotta ask the media

is we start acting like reporters

and stop acting like partisansagainst President Trump,

Efrem.

- Pat, Vice President Kamala Harris,

working to stem the flood of migrants

at the Southern US border

during her trip to Latin America Monday,

delivering a strong message in Guatemala.

- I want to be clear

to folks in this region whoare thinking about making

that dangerous trek to theUnited States Mexico border.

Do not come,

do not come.

The United States willcontinue to enforce our laws

and secure our border.

- That message is unpopularwith some Democrats.

New York Representative,Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

calling it disappointing.

The number of detentions at the border hit

a 21 year monthly high in April.

Harris arrived in Mexico last night

for the second half of hertwo-day trip to the region.

A surprise win in amayoral race in South Texas

has some Democrats fearingthey're losing their grip

on the Hispanic vote.

Voters elected Republicancandidate Javier Villalobos

in McAllen, a town with Hispanic majority

and a bastion for Democrats.

His message on improving the economy

apparently connecting with residents,

about 25% of whom live in poverty.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott says

the victory shows Hispanicvoters are receptive

to populous Republican messages,

Pat.

- If you remember your history,

there was a president namedLyndon Baines Johnson,

and he got to be Senatorby an amazing election,

and there was a judgedown in McAllen, Texas

who was in charge of keeping the ballots

and LBJ would be counting and he said,

I have a hundred votes downand the next thing you know,

from miraculously out of McAllen

and that particular districtcame a hundred more ballots.

And then, they would count some more

and he would be down 50, and he would say,

well, I'm down 50,

and suddenly they willdiscover 50 more votes.

It was the most crookedthing you ever saw,

but to see that particular county

it was Farr County, Ibelieve was the name of it,

to see that now turning Republican

is in itself a great victory

for the Republicans in the state of Texas.

Efrem

- Pat, a cyber security breakthrough,

the Justice Department seizingmillions of dollars in ransom

paid to a Russia-based cyber gang

and warning other cyber criminals,

this is just the beginning.

CBN's Jenna Browder bringsus the story from Washington.

- The Justice Department

was able to recover $2.3 million in ransom

paid by Colonial Pipeline toRussia-based of Dark Side,

about half the full amount.

Still though, the federalgovernment is warning businesses

to be on high alert andto take extra precaution.

- Today, we turned thetables on Dark Side.

- [Jenna] Our newtaskforce scoring a big win

against ransomware hackers.

- We deprived a cyber criminal enterprise

of the object of their activity,

their financial proceeds and funding.

- [Jenna] The hack shutdown pipeline operations

for six days, leading topanic buying and gas shortages

up and down the East Coast.

Colonial ultimately paid $4.3 million.

The Justice Departmentrecovering the equivalent

of $2.3 million in Bitcoin.

The FBI using the criminalgang's private key

to access their cryptocurrency wallet.

- This is a first, as far as I know,

how they did it.

- [Jenna] These attacksbecoming more and more common.

The nation's largest meat supplier,

JBS targeted just last week

and the Solar Winds attackon US government entities

highlighting vulnerabilitiesand Russia's involvement.

The Biden administrationis warning businesses

to act now to protect themselves.

- Pay attention now,

invest resources now.

Failure to do so, could be the difference

between being securenow or a victim later.

- The Biden administrationis also making plans

for a response to the Russian government

for harboring these cyber criminals.

President Biden is expected

to meet with VladimirPutin next week in Geneva.

In Washington, Jenna Browder, CBN News.

- And the government once again

did recover half of what they paid.

Pat, back to you.

- In a couple of days

we're gonna bring you

what should be done to theinfrastructure of America

to harden our grid,

against not just cyberattacks, but solar failures

and electrical impulsesthat could come about.

If our grid goes down,we're in serious trouble.

So we're gonna tell youon this program precisely

what needs to be doneand how much it'll cost.

At least I hope we can getthose figures for you, Terry.

- Well, up next.

What happens when the pink bagladies invade a strip club?

See for yourself how these brave women

are rescuing dancerstrapped in the sex trade.

Plus, this devout Muslim

worked to stamp out Islamic extremism.

So why did her Imamlabel her an extremist?

You have to see it to believeit, that's coming up later.

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- This is a story you mightnot hear any place else.

These ladies boldly enter strip clubs

armed, what with?

Little pink bags.

This group of determinedladies is on a mission

to save women trapped in the sex industry

one life at a time.

What a great story thatCharlene is going to share

of the Pink Bag Ladies.

- The faith-based group Cherished

operates on the belief that every woman

is special and loved.

Given that mission,

the women of this nonprofit ministry

are dedicated to helping thoseinvolved in the sex industry,

offering value, hope and a way out.

- Once you are in the sex industry,

you don't receive a lot ofrespect from other people,

whether that be yourclients or your managers,

or even your coworkers.

- [Charlene] Nearly 10years ago, Carlie Gabbert

felt the call to help womendancing in strip clubs.

- One day I was drivingdown the interstate

on an overnight trip,

we drove past the strip club and you know,

my first thought was to look away,

and God really just kind of said,

why don't you minister to those ladies

instead of looking away from them?

- [Charlene] After a time of prayer,

she became involved with a ministry called

Established Footstepsof Hampton, Virginia,

joining it's Cherished branch.

It focuses on makingfriendships with these women.

She found many performjust to make ends meet.

- A lot of times they're in school

to become a police officeror a nurse or a doctor.

A lot of them have a secondjob as an insurance rep or,

you know, as a nurse's aidor a dental assistant or,

you know, they work in a restaurant

and you can make some pretty quick money.

- I was like desperate,

I had, no, my savings were run out

and had nobody to help me.

I didn't know anybody here.

- [Charlene] Once a month,Gabbert and her team

visit dancing in strip clubs,armed with love and gifts.

- So what we do, we go into the clubs

and we have these little pink bags,

and sometimes the ladies will say,

oh the pink bag ladies are here.

And so we go in and they justhave small gifts in them,

like a lipstick or a nailpolish, something like that.

They do have our contact card.

So it just says,

it says loved, valued, cherished.

And then on the back, itsays, do you need a friend?

And so they can contact us

on a phone number or on a website.

- [Charlene] Also included,notes of encouragement,

countering what many inthis industry receive.

Beforehand, we just writenotes and the Lord prompts us

to put a scripture or a specific prayer,

and that note is really,

has been really wonderfulin our outreaches.

Oftentimes the ladies willpull it out and they'll say,

how did you know I needed this right now?

- [Charlene] Prayer, also a big part.

- We can actually circleup inside of the club,

like right there inthe middle of the club,

and pray in a circle and everyonewill pray and then we hug.

And it's just amazing.

It's kind of like kickingSatan in the face,

which is wonderful to me.

- [Charlene] Transforminglives in the process.

- We have had ladies leave,

we have had ladies cometo church regularly,

we have had ladies kind ofrecommit their lives to Christ.

- Elena, a rape survivor

grew up attending a Christian school.

She encountered the ministrywhile trying to get work

at a strip club.

Instead of a dancing job,

Elena received an unexpected blessing

from a volunteer from Cherished

- Just quoting scripture,

we're quoting scripture back and forth,

she's like, you know theword, you know that word,

I said, you know what?

It was in me.

- [Charlene] Elena, nowworking as an interpreter

at a vaccine location, credits Cherished,

other ministries and her church

with helping her find peaceand wholeness through God.

- My spiritual level has grownand grown and grown and grown

and grace, thanks to God's grace,

and it's keeping me even the times

that I'd never even acknowledged Him.

- [Charlene] Now offeringthis hope to others.

- I'm gonna tell you,

there's a way out andGod will do it for you,

'cause he did it for me.

Look at me, I'm here, I'm alive.

And we're here to helpeverybody else to survive.

- [Charlene] While the pandemic's impact

has led to more women seekingwork inside strip clubs,

Gabbert sees it as a mixed blessing,

and an opportunity to helpmore women like Elena.

- So a lot more peopleare in need of extra money

and so on the one hand we'veseen new ladies dancing,

on the other hand,there are less customers

because the customers aretrying to save their money

and also with the restrictionson capacity in the clubs,

that makes a difference as well.

- [Charlene] It all leads tothe goal of helping more women

find healing that only God can provide.

- Really, it's just the Holy Spirit.

We are just willing, and the Lord uses us

and he's the one that actually

does that work in their hearts.

- [Charlene] Charlene Aaron, CBN News.

- You know, one of the mostfamous women in the Bible

was a prostitute whose name was Rahab.

She hid the spies as theywent in to look at Jericho.

And actually, when you goback at the lineage of Jesus

Rahab is in there.

So, you know, the Lorddoesn't condemn people,

he lifts them up and wantsto bring them to healing.

And I just think this ministry

that goes out to help thesewomen is very important

and when you see what'sout there and you realize,

you know this isn't the only place,

these ones that are trafficked,

the thing that I would like tosee done as soon as possible

would be to decriminalize prostitution,

so that these women are not,

I mean, they may be trafficked,

they may be brought infrom some foreign country,

they may be subjected to terrible torment,

and yet if they find out about it,

the police sometimes arrest them

and accuse them of breaking the law.

That is not a good thing.

We need to make it easyfor them to come out

and not afraid that they'll go to jail

if they confess what's been done to them.

And as far as those pimps

and people who are trafficking in women,

and this is not justthese in the strip clubs,

but across the country,

I think there's no penaltytoo severe for them.

I think it's horrible.

And we have 1 million people a year

that are being trafficked, 1 million,

young men and women whoare being trafficked

throughout our world,

and most of them endedup in some degradation

and we need to help them wherever we can.

Terry.

- Up next, a Muslim womanis doomed for eternity,

at least that's what her Imam said.

So what was her crime andhow did she save her soul?

You're about to find out.

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- Okay.

Well, here's one for you,

hanging from her hair inhellfire for all eternity.

That was hideous punishment.

What was her crime?

She simply removed her head covering.

So after 22 years in Islam,

why is she no longer afraidof her eternal destiny?

Take a look

- In Islam, God is not a father.

God is the ultimate judge.

And he sits apart from us,

judging absolutely everysingle thing that we do.

- [Narrator] Hedieh's parentsimmigrated from Iran to the US

in search of the American dream.

They found it.

Hedieh grew up among the wealth

and opulence of Beverly Hills,

but she says it wasn't enough.

- It never was fulfilling.

I actually felt really guilty about

having what the world would describe as

just about everything and yet being sad.

And I always wondered whatwas that space in my heart

that made me feel empty.

- [Narrator] While in college at UCLA,

she hoped religion would fill the void.

Her dad pushed her to Islam

and her boyfriend tookher to a local mosque.

- It was somewhat of an extreme mosque,

and they had all theseprinciples about politics

and what it would be like to

turn America into a Muslim nation

and very, very anti-Semiticand I thought to myself,

oh, this is terrible,

I don't want anything to do with this.

If this is religion, Iwant nothing to do with it.

- [Narrator] Repulsed by Muslim extremism

and still wanting to know God,

she joined a different branchof Islam called Sufism.

- A mystical practice inIslam, which is all about

love and harmony and finding a

personal relationship with God,

and I thought, okay, this is perfect.

This is where I could find peace,

and where I can find thatrelationship with God.

- [Narrator] After law school Hedieh began

writing reports on Muslim extremism.

Her work led her to the FBI

and a career workingwith government agencies

combating terrorism.

- It was a natural fitfor me to be in Islam

and in these communities,

and studying them

and working againstextremism at the same time.

I really felt that I wascontributing to my country

and my faith.

- [Narrator] She gotmarried and had a daughter.

For years Hedieh maintaineda strict adherence

to Islamic law.

- It was this neverending attempt to control

your fleshly desires, your behavior

in an effort to draw closer to God.

You're always afraid of whathe's gonna do to judge you

and it's not about love at all.

You were constantly praying toa God that didn't answer you.

- [Narrator] Eventually,she became frustrated

that despite her efforts,

Islam gave her no assurance of salvation.

- What they were telling me

is the most importantgoal I had in my life,

I didn't know if I was ever gonna achieve,

and that weighed on me extremely heavy.

And as I grew older, andas my daughter grew older,

this heaviness was intolerable.

- [Narrator] Then one dayafter 22 years in Islam,

Hedieh took off her head covering.

- Her Imams said her eternaldestination was now certain.

- They told me I wasgonna hang from my hair

for an eternity in hell fire

'cause I took my head cover off.

So despite the uncertainty ofnot being promised salvation,

because I'd done this one thing

to decrease my external religiosity,

they said I was gonna spendan eternity in hell fire.

And that was unacceptable.

And I left Islam.

It was devastating.

It was, it was devastating.

I felt that I had nobearings underneath me.

I felt really, really lost.

- [Narrator] Hedieh longedto have God in her life.

While online, she watched avideo of a Christian pastor

who spoke about havinga relationship with God

through Jesus.

She was moved and confused.

Soon after, she prayed a desperate prayer.

- I was on my knees,

I was in ritual prayer form of Islam

down with my head on theground and just crying

and saying, can you pleasereveal yourself to me,

because I am so utterlyconfused on who you are.

And it was in one of thoseprayers in my bedroom

that I audibly heard the voice of Christ.

And he said, Hedieh, it's me.

And it was, it was extraordinary.

To this day, I can tell youas if it happened yesterday.

I knew from that moment on,I would never be the same.

- [Narrator] She continuedwatching the pastor online,

and started reading the Bible.

- The Bible came aliveas the Quran never did.

I could hear God speak to me

and I knew he was speaking directly to me

'cause he was the Quran as an example

of why the Quran was not correct

and why his word in the Bible was true.

I got to a point where I was like,

I have to accept that Jesus is Lord,

I have to accept that he has saved me.

And I was praying one day

and I just felt the Lord say to me,

daughter, you don't haveto be afraid anymore.

- [Narrator] Hedieh was soon baptized

at the church she had watched online.

She says she now has arelationship with God

she never thought possible.

- And I catch myself all the time,

when I'm struggling, where he's like,

daughter, just walk with me.

And it's just his way oftelling me, don't be afraid.

I have plans to prosperyou and not to harm you,

to give you goodness,

to give you a life filledwith love and with joy,

and don't be afraid.

- [Narrator] She shares her journey

about receiving the loveof God through Jesus,

in hopes of reaching otherswho long to know him.

- He's been with me the whole time.

I wonder at times I ask him why

I had to experience certain things,

but he's used all of mypast in order to do it,

and it wouldn't have beenpossible 25 years ago,

it wouldn't have been possible

with that girl in Beverly Hills to do

what he's calling me to do now.

And so I am forever at his feet.

- What an amazing testimony.

You know, the thing about Islam,

you could ask any personin involved in Islam,

do you have an assuranceof your salvation,

that if you die, you knowyou're going to Heaven?

And not one of them can say yes, because

in Islam there is noassurance of salvation.

And it's a question of kismet,

I mean, what is your fate?

And it's just terrible.

But you know the Lord said, look,

I have come that they might have life

and have it more abundantly.

And if he hears my word andbelieves on him that sent me

has everlasting life and shallnot come into condemnation,

but is passed from death into life.

The Lord gives to peopleassurance of salvation.

I know whom I have believed

and I am persuaded that he is able

to keep what I have committedunto him against that day.

That's what the Lord says.

That's what is said in the Bible.

I know whom I havebelieved and I am persuaded

that he can keep what Ihave committed unto him.

Now, if you don't know that,

I don't care whatreligion you happen to be,

you could be Catholic,you could be Protestant,

you could be Islamic, you could be Sufi,

you could be whatever,

but God offers you salvationbecause he loves you.

And he died on the cross and he died once,

and he's not going to take it back.

And if you believe in him,

you can have everlasting life.

Hedieh had no knowledge of that early.

She thought because of one external thing

that she had beencondemned to all eternity,

because she took her head covering off.

I mean, can you imagine that?

Telling some woman that ifyou cut your hair short,

you're going to hell.

I mean, that's horrible.

But those rules orregulations were set on people

and along the way, Paul wroteto the church, he said, look,

these things have a show of will worship

but they have no effectin really controlling

the desires of the inner man.

But when the Holy Spirit comes,

he makes you into a new creature.

It isn't that you have to try to

please God with what you do,

but if you let God within you

he will fulfill the law through you.

Now would like to know salvation?

You wanna to be sure if youdie, you're going to heaven.

I can guarantee it, guarantee it,

because I stand on thepromise of the word of God.

Now, what do you have to do?

Number one, you have tobelieve in Jesus Christ,

died for your sins.

Number two, that he rose from the dead.

Number three, that he will be your savior

and take your sins away.

And you're going to turn away from sin,

and you're gonna turningyour life over to him.

Right now, I'm gonnaask you to pray with me.

Don't be afraid.

Pray these words very simply,

Lord Jesus Christ,

that's right,

pray it from your heart and mean it.

I am a sinner, Lord.

I know it, you know it,

and God Almighty the father knows it.

But I know Jesus that you died for sinners

and you died for me.

And so Lord, right now,I come to you humbly

and I confess that I believethat you died for my sins

and that you rose again from the grave

that I might have everlasting life.

Come into my heart Lord Jesus,

live your life in me

and I will live for you

and I will serve youall the days of my life.

Thank you, Lord.

If you prayed with me,

Father may the power of Godcome into people's lives now.

May they sense the Holy Spirit

and may they know the joy ofhaving their sins forgiven,

in Jesus' name.

Amen.

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Terry.

- Well, still ahead, protectyourself from getting hacked

without being a computer expert.

Find out how you can ward offdigital disruptions yourself.

And later on, Pat heads to the hot seat

to tackle the issuesthat matter most to you.

Brad writes, there is a megachurch

that serves alcohol on Sunday morning

and at their Bible studies.

Is this a good way to grow the church?

Stay tuned, we've got another round of

Your Questions andHonest Answers coming up.

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- Welcome back to "The 700Club" for this CBN Newsbreak.

Rick Warren of SaddlebackChurch in California

is stepping down from hisposition as lead pastor

- For 42 years Kay and Ihave known that this time,

this day would eventually arrive

and we've been waitingon God's perfect timing

to begin the process.

- The 67 year old said it's time

for a new generation to take over.

He will continue to serveuntil a successor is in place.

Wilberforce University graduatingclasses of 2020 and 2021

had extra reason to celebrate

during this year's commencement.

The school's president announcedthe school forgave all debt

for 166 new alumni.

- Your accounts have been cleared.

- The oldest privateHistorically Black College

says this was possible due to scholarships

from secret donations.

I wanna remind you, youcan always get the latest

from CBN News by going to our website,

it's cbnnews.com.

Pat and Terry are back withmore of today's "700 Club"

it's all coming up right after this.

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Okay.

This first one comesfrom Reighven who says,

my mother has put me through so much hurt

throughout my life.

She has promised to stop her wrongdoings

but never kept that promise.

How can I get healingand let go of the past

no matter how bad it hurts?

- Well, what you gotta do isjust turn it over to the Lord.

I'll tell you what, if youwill fill yourself with Jesus

and with the word of God,

there's a lot of forgiveness.

And the Bible says when you stand praying,

if you have ought against any, forgive

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And somehow there's got to be a release,

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You read the word and as youpray, forgive and say, Lord,

I ask you to take this away from me

and he'll do it, all right?

- Okay, this is interesting.

This is Brad who says thereis a mega church in Ohio

that serves alcohol(mimosas) on Sunday mornings

and encourages their small groups

to serve alcohol at their Bible studies.

The pastor tells his people to quote

have a beer with people

so they can put people atease and witness to them.

Is this a good way to grow the church?

- Look, you're servingmimosas in the morning,

what if you've got analcoholic in that service

and suddenly he is condemned forever?

Paul said, look,

if meat causes my brother to offend,

I'll eat no meat while the world stands.

And I think to offer that,but at the same time,

you know if you've got a person who

is a little worried about the gospel

and you know he wants to have a beer,

well you can always have oneand you don't have to drink it,

just have it beside youso he feels comfortable.

There isn't anythingwrong with that, you know,

but the idea of servingliquor during a church service

is just an, it's anabomination in my opinion.

Because you know, again,the communion was wine

and it was bread andwine and they drank wine.

So you know that, you know,

there are a lot of confusionsin relation to alcohol,

but I just think that to start a service

when you've got alcoholics,

and the potential you candestroy somebody's life

that is a sin, all right?

- This is Amber who says

my son said Peter was the first Pope.

I find that questionable.

Please tell me your thoughts.

- I don't think that theyhad a Pope in those days.

He was a disciple of theLord and that was it.

But the Pope has claimed thathe holds the chair of Peter

and that Peter was giventhe keys of the kingdom

and he holds the keys and therefore

it was a grab of papalauthority in the early days

when the nations were in chaos

at the fall of the Roman Empire.

And the Roman church wantedto show its authority

and it became the leader of the,

the so-called Roman Catholic Church,

it was an Eastern Orthodox Church.

And he wanted to claim the chair of Peter

that gave him his authority,that's where it came from.

But you know, beyond that,

Peter was not a Pope, trust me.

- But there weren't Popes then.

- There were no popes, I mean, the Pope

what it means papa is a father,

but Peter, Peter wasa servant of the Lord,

a humble servant,

and that's what we're supposed to be.

We're supposed to be servants,servants of the Lord.

Terry.

- Well, that's all thetime we have for today,

but thank you for yourquestions and Pat, your answers.

You know, the average adultmakes 35,000 decisions a day.

Our modern world has givenus more and more options

and information, and with somuch spinning in our brains,

is it any wonder that somany of us are stressed out?

So what's the solution?

Well, Kary Oberbrunner saysall we need is to become

unhackable.

- [Narrator] Kary Oberbrunneris the CEO of Igniting Souls.

As a writer, speaker, and coach,

he helps people go from dreaming to doing

and learning how to avoiddigital distractions

is the first step.

- And your brain gets hacked

anytime you get sidelinedor sabotaged in life,

because you're basically saying,

I don't feel like I'm in control anymore.

- [Narrator] Kary explainshow to achieve greater focus

to fulfill our goals inhis new book, "Unhackable".

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- Hi Kary, it's nice tohave you with us today.

In what ways,

what do you mean when yousay we're being hacked?

- Yeah, Terry, basically the word hacked

means when someone or some thing

gains unauthorized accessto a system or a computer.

And so a lot of us think aboutbank accounts getting hacked

or computers getting hacked, smartphones,

but in reality, think back tobiology class and when you do,

we realize that our bodiesare made up of systems,

circulatory, respiratory, pulmonary,

and our brains are like super computers.

And so essentially whensomeone or something

gains unauthorized access to our brains,

we are getting hacked.

And today with technology,

although technology is not the enemy,

it certainly makes it moredifficult to be unhackable.

The average person touches,clicks, wipes their smartphone

2,600 times a day.

- So we need to be ableto manage all of that.

You say these disruptionslead to decision fatigue.

How does that affect us?

- Yeah, we wake up, you know,

every single day that we're alive

that God gives us that gift with energy,

and the problem today is thatwe have, like, you mentioned

35,000 decisions thatthe average person makes.

Just food alone, accordingto Cornell University is 226.

So, you know, you go toThe Cheesecake Factory,

you open up your menu andthere's hundreds of choices.

Well what happens is,our brains were not wired

or created in such a way tohandle all these decisions.

I mean, back in the day it waslike chicken or beef, right?

But what happens then iswe literally get drained

and we see this at the end of the day,

a lot of adults say I'm running on fumes,

I'm going on empty,

I feel like I'm drained,these types of things.

And so what happens is

we go through what'scalled decision fatigue.

A lot of successful people

are now automating their decisions.

So you saw this withcertain CEOs years ago

where they said,

I'm only going to wear thiswardrobe every single day.

Because they said theydidn't want to spend

their decision power on essentiallynon-important decisions.

What we can do, Terry,for all your listeners,

something that we can dois something very simple,

which is called closingopen decision loops.

So think about it,

if people right now wrotedown all the decisions

that are kind of open in their minds,

maybe run to the grocerystore, get a landscaper,

all these things thathave not yet been decided,

it's just like a computer,

when you have too manytabs open on your browser,

it sucks up the mental RAM essentially.

And so, you know, it says in the Bible,

here we are on this amazing show,

you know, it says, let youryes be yes and your no be no.

Instead of having, well maybe, well maybe,

the moment you keep doingall those open loops,

you leak your mental energyto live in those what ifs.

And as a result, you reallycan't show up filled up.

- So one of the things that you say

that we can do to deal withsome of this decision fatigue

is to do, delegate, dump.

What does that mean?

- Yeah, well, there's afourth one called delay

and we crossed that out.

Because here's a great exercise

that I encourage all my clients,

you write down all thedecisions that are undone

and by the way, the worddecide is very cool,

it means to cut off, to cut off or kill,

and it's the same suffix

as genocide, pesticide, insecticide.

In other words, decide is final

and it's cutting off the other options.

And what you do, Terry

is you essentially writedown all your decisions

and then what I do is Iput, do, delegate or dump,

and literally I'd take those decisions

and say I'm gonna dothat one, meaning I do it

or I'm gonna delegate it,meaning someone else does it,

or I'm gonna dump it,which means no one does it.

Don't put all your decisions for delay,

because again, it willchew up that mental energy

and you will get hacked.

And we know that peoplethat get hacked in life,

their brains, they really aren'tpeople who make an impact.

In other words, no one makesit to the end of their life

and says, you know what?

I lived a great lifebecause I was distracted.

It says in scripture to look on the Jesus,

the author and finisher,you oughta fix your eyes.

And so the Bible is fully,

you know, whether it'sNehemiah building the wall,

the scriptures are full ofpeople who were focused.

- Exactly.

- And that's what we're.

- Well, you can learn more,

all of you who are listeningfrom Kary Oberbrunner

in his new book, it's called "Unhackable",

lots of wisdom and it'savailable in stores nationwide.

Thanks for being with us Kary, Pat.

- Well thank you.

We leave you with thesewords from Proverbs.

The fear of the Lord isthe beginning of wisdom,

and the knowledge of theholy one is understanding.

And by tomorrow, our dear friends

they Oaks are gonna to be with us,

and you don't want to miss it,

we'll see you then, bye bye.

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