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🗓️ 25 March 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Well, each of us have our own unique struggles in life, and each of us know what it's like |
| 0:08.9 | to meet times in life when we find ourselves out of gas. |
| 0:13.2 | So how do we keep pressing on when we feel completely depleted? |
| 0:17.5 | This reality is certainly true inside Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the |
| 0:21.6 | U.S. and home to 6,300 prisoners, a place reserved for only murderers, rapist arm robbers, |
| 0:28.2 | and habitual felons, where the average sentence in Angola is 88 years with 3,200 people in |
| 0:34.6 | one place serving life sentences, 90% of the inmates will die here. |
| 0:40.9 | Warden Burlcane led this place for years. |
| 0:43.5 | He was an outspoken Christian and a man with a near mythical reputation for turning Angola, |
| 0:48.7 | once known as the bloodiest prison in the South and to a model facility. |
| 0:52.9 | Pastor John preached in Angola's chapel on November 20th, 2009 to about 800 prisoners. |
| 0:57.8 | He preached on John 6 on Jesus' feeding of the 5,000 in his walk on water. |
| 1:02.6 | Here's one of my favorite clips from what is one of my favorite sermons all time on the |
| 1:06.4 | goodness of Jesus when it feels like we have run out of gas for life. |
| 1:11.3 | Here's Pastor John. |
| 1:13.4 | So far, he's done this miracle, the miracle of multiplying the loaves, the point of the |
| 1:19.7 | loaves being, let your eyes run up the beam of glory to see the one who, with a simple |
| 1:25.6 | word and a prayer, can feed 5,000 people with little basket full of food, see him, love |
| 1:31.2 | him, know him, make him your treasure. |
| 1:33.8 | That's what I hope is happening in your heart now. |
| 1:37.6 | So let's go to verses 16 to 21. |
| 1:40.4 | When the evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat and started |
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