Feb 25, 2016
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0:00very personal for Ted Cruz Monday and Middle Tennessee pastor
who changed the Cruz family showed up a rally in Murfreesboro it
was the first time the texas senator had seen the pastor in decades
it was an unscripted moment like few others on the presidential
campaign trail Monday in Murfreesboro Tennessee Ted Cruz looked
into the audience for a man changed his family's life I was told
pastor Galen while he is here is that right I haven't seen brother
while since I was a kid
0:41brother while at my dads the Lord gathering standard cruise
tells the
0:48story of his wayward father who had left the family in Canada
so I'm really glad
0:55to be here in Tennessee the pastor who helped change the Cruz
family nearly
0:59four decades ago and Houston was later embraced by the
Republican candidate
1:04outside the campaign bus and cold brother Wiley is now living
in nearby
1:09Lebanon Tennessee and for a few minutes on Monday the man who
baptized the Cruz
1:16family caught up with that little kid from all those years ago
is now running
1:21for president I grew up in the US and nominal country and I
mean in nominal
1:32catholic catholic that will go to church once a year so I
basically didn't know
1:37the Lord I came to the United States basically was totally away
from
1:44religion of any kind then I was very heavily addicted to
alcohol even to the
1:53point that in 1974 towards the end of 1974 I left my wife and
child my sunday
2:00was three years old came to Houston and I've been in Houston
for about four
2:07months and they claim that had sold me a computer
2:12his name was Darul Ehsan invited me to a Bible study had
nothing else to do I was
2:18alone in Houston so I went to this day I don't know what the
Bible study was
2:23about but what impressed me was being that Bible study they had
a time of
2:29prayer and everybody shared prayer requests they all had these
speeds that
2:34the Bible calls that be such a process all understanding I
didn't understand
2:38that but I knew I needed
2:40well anyway as I was leaving but he lost son gave me a little
booklet called for
2:47Spiritual Laws and says
2:49says to me what did you read it could you come back next month
so I go back
2:54the next Monday first thing to say sees that you read the
booklet what you think
2:58and I said well that's too easy
3:01can't be that easy well they were no Christians he didn't know
how to answer
3:05and instead of turning me over to the person who led the Bible
study she said
3:12less than could you come tomorrow our pastor is going to be our
home at seven o'clock good you can't sure so the next day I went to
the very last songs home
3:30at seven a blog and they are met
3:32pasture gate on widely the pastor Oakley Road Baptist Church
and I spend four
3:38hours arguing with this man of God well I Metro feel good by
the providence of
3:44God that may you know it's a strange thing for a little country
boy who the
3:49panhandle of Texas and a little rain delay and farm and the
last of family of
3:55nine that would ever allow me the privilege of making a genius
from cuba
4:01and become a part of his life and so it's a good journey along
the way to see
4:06how God works and play somebody who's nobody and putting them
in touch with
4:13somebody that can help to change our world and I just gave him
such a hard
4:19time for four hours but you know kaelin while it wouldn't give
up 143
4:24conversation to head of me every time I'm talking it and we'll
work our way
4:28through the Old Testament the New Testament and we didn't write
it in new
4:33book of the Bible but he could have after that night was over I
remember
4:39that last question I asked otherwise
4:43I said what about that man up in the mountains of Tibet was
never heard about
4:48Jesus we're very wisely rather widely didn't go down that road
because if he
4:53had gone down chasing down a rabbit we would argue for another
two hours it
4:58took me straight in the eyes and he said via have a clue about
it the one thing I
5:03didn't know what about you
5:05you've heard now what you gonna do with Jesus. the question hit
me like a
5:09sledgehammer and the Holy Spirit hit Raphael he felt when you
need to sinners
5:14prayer in your life then different every cent just
revolutionized my life that
5:20day I had that encounter with the Lord that they that brother
wisely spend four
5:25hours with me I wouldn't give up on me and I think got so much
for that
5:29persistence that he would not be late goal on day I had
surrendered my life to
5:34price that was on a Tuesday, April 15th, 1975 at eleven o'clock
at night
5:43glorious they never forget it a long while he's my spiritual
father who knows
5:49where I would have ended up from that night April systems 1975
sharing the
5:55gospel with my dad
5:57by passing on the good news not only did you transform his life
not only did you
6:03transform my mother's but it transformed my life to transform
the lives of my
6:09children girls I never would have met the daughter of
missionaries my wife and
6:14best friend in the world
6:16there's a very good chance my mother never would've become a
Christian is a
6:19very good chance I never would have heard the gospel my girls
would not be
6:23raised in a Christian home and the impact of one faithful
servant spreading
6:28the Good News ripples for generations
6:38hard not to be overwhelmed thinking how different my life would
have gone my
6:44family's life children's life would go on heading out shared
the gospel and
6:50the power of doing you know it's like like ripples in a pond
and he goes out
6:57now now and touches in time hundreds and thousands and
thousands of lives
7:02that next Sunday I was baptized by Galen Wiley and then I got
on a plane and went
7:08back to my wife and son and I try to explain to her what had
happened in my
7:14life came home when God humble people real well and he's done a
good job and
7:21my friend Rafael Cruz for his sake of our son dead who had just
turned four he
7:27decided to give me another chance
7:30very very skeptical so we sold our business in Canada and moved
to Houston
7:35Texas but praise God by the time that was four and I had just
become a
7:39Christian I would spend time at night before he went to bed
reading him that
7:45first children's Bible that I had brought with him
7:49pray with him and he was immersed in the Word of God by the
time he was four when
7:55he was eight he also surrender his life to Jesus cried to a
summer camp that
8:03they Road Baptist Church was conducting we had a camp every
year
8:09a barge a range of Houston and it came to camp I became a
Christian when I was
8:16a few years later at that that summer camps where I gave my
life to the Lord
8:21God did wonderful woman playing so little kid got a year later
nine years
8:28old he was in nineteen eighty I was very involved with an
organization called the
8:33religious roundtable and together we mobilize millions of
Christians to help
8:38elect him I considered the greatest presidents Abraham Lincoln
Presidential
8:42alright so every day our conversation around the dinner table
was why we had
8:48to get rid of these socially progressive Jimmy Carter and
replace him with the
8:53Christian constitutional conservatives like ronald reagan so my
sons dad got a
8:59dole so conservative politics from a Christian worldview when
it was nine
9:04years old
9:05every day for a year we were able to have him in Christian
schools to junior
9:12high and high school he graduated from second bob this school
high school in
9:18Houston and so he has a foundation and the Word of God
9:22you know be four my son made the decision to run for president
he was
9:27praying about this decision for over six months and that
decision was made on our
9:34knees the whole family on a Sunday it was a decision based in
prayer I said
9:40Lord if this is the path we're meant to go down when I asked
the open the doors
9:45shine the light and if it's not then God I asked you slammed
the door in my face
9:51make it abundantly clear this is not meant to have our prayer
is not God let
9:58us win this race but help us to seek your face help us for you
I'd love to be
10:04seen through through our walk through through what we're doing
so when people
10:08look at the challenges today I understand the despair I
understand the
10:12hopelessness but I believe in the american people with all of
my heart I
10:17believe in this country and if we can simply rise up and
believe again and our
10:23sales believe again in the blessings God has placed on this
nation we can renew
10:28this country that have brighter days ahead I think Christians
need to vote
10:34according to conviction hysteria boating according to
tradition and that we both
10:40for men and women that upholds the principles that we uphold
my son has
10:47slipped out I think his whole life when he was 13 we
introduced him to an
10:53organization called the Free Enterprise Institute so now he's
just 13 he's
10:59reading autumn smears on a log on me says hi second last year
in Milton
11:05Friedman under federal lease papers on the anti federalist
papers and adjusting
11:09Mersin all these economic and political philosopher state
where basically the
11:14foundation of the framers so he was very immersed in old that
concept religious
11:21liberty has been a pack
11:23for my entire life he has repeatedly has been fighting for
religious freedom in
11:29America I have fought for decades
11:31fought to defend religiously and and we're seeing right now
with the Obama
11:37administration and assault on religious liberty where the
freedom of believers
11:42to practice our faith is under assault from the federal
government and Hillary
11:46Clinton is fully committed to continuing that assault he was
Solicitor General
11:51for five and a half years during that tenure he tried nine
cases i jus Supreme
11:58Court he has tried more cases at the UE Supreme Court than any
lawyer in the
12:04history of the state of Texas and the majority of those cases
were cases
12:09defending religious liberty
12:12there are few if any decisions more important that a president
makes than
12:16judges here she points or supreme court justices where one
justice away from a
12:22radical 5 justice liberal majority that would tear down our
freedoms listen we
12:27have an activist court right now we have a court that it is
attempting to
12:31redefine marriage it is lawless and illegitimate it is
fundamentally wrong
12:35and yet as dangerous as this court is today one more liberal
justice you'll
12:40see five justices ordering the Ten Commandments taken down all
across this
12:44country where one justice away from the supreme court ordering
veterans
12:49memorials across this country taken down ordering the crossbar
Star of David sand
12:54blasted off a tombstone where one justice away from the
Supreme Court
12:59concluding that the Second Amendment doesn't protect an
individual right to
13:03keep and bear arms at all that the federal government can take
away our 2nd
13:07Amendment right to protect ourselves we're one justice away
from the supreme
13:12court saying that the world court and the United Nations has
the power to bind
13:17our justice system and a takeaway you less sovereignty all of
those are cases
13:21I fought and won
13:22on as Solicitor General of Texas and all of those are very
much hanging in the
13:27balance
13:27you have my solemn commitment that every justice I point to
the court will be a
13:33principled constitutionalist who'll be faithful to the law and
will not impose
13:38his or her policy agenda from the bench he truly feels like a
servant of we the
13:47people the Bible teaches principles of servant leadership see
who would be
13:51first with the last Jesus washed the feet business I
13:59so many people in politics
14:02it's all about them and what that leads you to do is it leads
you to make the
14:07wrong decisions if
14:10your self-worth
14:13is defined by being an elected official when that becomes
their self definition
14:18their self-worth they're terrified to lose it which means they
will never rock
14:22the boat they will never make the hard decisions they will
never do what we
14:25need to do to actually fix the problems because it might mean
they lose their
14:28job my self-worth has nothing to do with being elected a
senator elected
14:34president United States my self-worth comes from being a
creation of God
14:39Almighty Jesus Christ shed his blood for me
14:45there can be no greater self-worth then God sent His only
beloved Son to die
14:53most of the politicians in washington are accountable to the
lobbyists and
14:57special interests in Washington and eighty governs their
decisions because
15:01that's who they hold themselves accountable at the end of the
day
15:05accountable first and foremost I believe we need a strong
leader that can turn
15:11our nation whose God is real he's not phony baloney since when
he's talking is
15:20real he is truly a believer who understands the constitution
who
15:26understands what makes America great
15:29lot of problems while he made his announcement to run for
president
15:37Liberty University think for God to be able to bless us and
take us back to a
15:42place of blessing we're gonna have to have a leader who can
lead to a place of
15:47all 14 I think senator Bruce I saw his dry this hunger for
solid principles
15:54solid ideas point forward in our country that we talked about
it I support on a
16:02per cent and I think senator cruise accepted by the leader of
a man of his
16:07word and the men that believes that we can turn our nation
back to
16:12righteousness so before my son left high school he was
passionate about the
16:18Constitution he was passionate about the declaration about
free markets limited
16:22government about the rule of law and that passion became like
firing his
16:28bombs I don't want to look my daughters
16:3110 20 30 years and have lost this country
16:40and I don't want to look them in the eyes and and no I might
have been able
16:44to do something to stop it easier path I decided to stay home
I decided not to
16:53rock the boat I couldn't respect myself too far if I did stand
up and there will
16:59be some 90 my son Ted will not compromise his principles in
washington
17:04is that fire today
17:07I said wars over thirty years ago Ted Cruz is the man to lead
our nation or
17:14we've been back or we need people to keep the promise not
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17:20candidate keep the promise to keep the promise is responsible
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