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Visit us online at passioncitychurch.com. Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, when Pearl Harbor was attacked in December of 1941, a scrawny shipyard

worker named Desmond Dawes was among the many people in America that was

disturbed by that and wanted to do something about it. And yet, as the 7th day

Adventist, he had sworn to never take a human life. However, he enlisted

anyway, but he just enlisted as a medic and resolved to step out of the field

of battle without a weapon, not even bringing a knife. And so his particular

battalion was sent to the Pacific Theater and they were placed on the island of

Okinawa, what charged with the almost impossible task of scaling a 400-foot

cliff and then taking it from Japanese forces that were embedded upon the

cliff's peak. And so they ascended that cliff and upon the top they were

bombarded by enemy fire, fierce fighting broke out that lasted a day and by

the end of it, there were multiple wounded in the American forces and they

were driven back all the way back to the edge and backed down that 400-foot

cliff. So that by the end of that day, only three people were left on top of

that mountain, the Japanese forces, wounded American troops and little Desmond

Dawes. And as US forces regrouped down at the base of the cliff, suddenly they

looked up and from over the edge they saw a body appear that was lowered by

rope back to the ground and it was a wounded soldier. And then it happened again,

and then it happened again, and it happened again. And slowly what people began

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