[Music]
[Music]
[Car honking]
Hey, watch where you're goin'!
[Radio static]
[Speaking in foreign language]
--Carry the cross that was
hanging--and around the world.
--With his cross
planning to travel the country,
where people are
looking for help.
--On a mission from god.
But for those who cannot
leave their homes for lack--or
fear of looters--Arthur
blessitt came to them to pray.
For 30 years,
he's walked the earth,
carrying his 12-foot cross and
an unquenchable desire to spread
the word of Jesus Christ.
God bless you!
Sometimes people see me
carrying the cross and
they shout across the street.
Hey, you're a nut.
I say, don't
worry about it.
At least I'm screwed on the
right bulb.
God bless you, sir.
Peace be with you.
God belss ya.
People laugh sometime, and I
realize that probably I would
laugh at somebody carrying a
cross also.
God bless you, brother.
God bless you, friend.
Peace be with you.
People will say, but Jesus has
already carried the cross.
And I understand that.
I really do.
God bless you, friend.
God bless you.
Good morning, god bless you.
Peace be with you.
Anything I could pray for you
about today?
God loves you.
God bless you.
I never thought of ever making
a cross.
Never wanted to make a cross.
Never wanted to carry a
cross.
I had lived my life knowing
Jesus and sharing about Jesus
and the message of the cross,
but not a cross.
As I grew up I never owned a
cross.
Never wore a cross.
Was really never attracted to
the symbol of the cross.
Anything I can pray for
you about?
Just happiness, health and
happiness for my family
in Australia, yep.
Okay, I walked across
Australia, yeah.
I've been walking around the
world since 1969.
Where are you from?
Ghana.
Ghana, I carried the cross
through Ghana.
Uzbekistan, I've been there.
[Speaking French]
[Speaking Spanish]
I went through France in
1972.
I started in Hollywood,
California in 19--well, 1968,
I made the cross, in 69,
started walking around the
world.
And I've been through your
country.
Well, yeah, how you know
where I'm from?
Well, I don't know where you are
from but I've been through
every nation in the world.
Here I am in Tunis.
This is Denmark.
--Fields of Cambodia.
Bangkok, Thailand.
Macau, China.
[Inaudible]
Bali.
The south pacific.
Mongolia.
Babylon.
North Korea, Jesus did.
The island of Niue.
United Arab Emirates.
Beautiful day in [inaudible]
Somalia.
Jerusalem.
Yugoslavia, Japan, Lithuania,
Moscow, Christmas Island,
Norfolk Island,
lord howe island,
east Seymour,
spitsbergen, in case of
polar bears, easter island.
Here we are in the galapagos.
Mount Kilimanjaro.
Antarctica.
Bolivia.
Damascus, Syria.
Chile.
Okay, I think you
get the picture.
And if you haven't figured it
out by now, this is Arthur
blessitt.
At 68 years old, Arthur spent
the last 40 years carrying a
12-foot wooden cross through
315 nations, island groups, and
territories, 52 w*r zones,
through deserts,
jungles, mountains.
He's been arrested 24 times.
And Arthur estimates that he's
walked some 38,000 miles or
76 million steps.
For those of you playing at
home, that happens to be
the equivalent of one and a half
times around the earth
at the equator.
Well, I've just been dying
or living to have a Jesus cheer
in the heart of Amsterdam.
And as Arthur himself has
already pointed out, it's
almost conveniently easy to
write him off as some bizarre
oddity or maybe even sincere
wacko dragging christianity even
further into the
depths of irrelevant.
Give me a j.
E.
S.
If any of you penguins can
understand me,
Jesus loves you.
The maker of heaven and
earth.
The one that made you has
sent the cross to you.
Oh, hallelujah!
And in your own special way,
penguins, you too praise the
lord.
The guinness book of
world records has even inducted
Arthur into their fine annuls
for the world's longest walk,
right alongside the likes of
ahritta furman, who holds the
record for the greatest
distance walked with a milk
bottle on his head,
and Gary hatter, longest
lawn mower ride.
Yet, for Arthur, you do
get the feeling that carrying
a cross has a bit more
purpose than your standard-issue
Hollywood publicity stunt.
Calculating the number of
steps that I've taken, and the
load that I've carried, it has
been over 16 billion pounds
of weight on my feet step by
step.
But, many times I felt that the
greatest weight of the cross
has been within my heart.
As I see the injustice and
as I see the pain,
and as I see suffering, as I see
the hungry, as I see the
wars, as I have people
stopping that are suicidal,
people that are bound by
alcohol and dr*gs, I carried
their burdens in my heart.
And I pray for them.
And many times it's not sweat
running from my face, but it's
tears dripping as I see
the hurting, suffering, lost
world and god loving them
through the cross.
Now, for the sake of full
disclosure, I've known Arthur
for most of my life.
Yet even to me, he's always
seemed something of an enigma.
Disappearing on the road for
months, even years, then
suddenly popping back home like
a faithful hound dog
who's been forging
through the woods.
It had been nearly 20 years
since I last saw or had even
spoken to Arthur blessitt when
we bumped into each other
this past summer.
He had just got back from
Zanzibar, where I was surprised
to hear that he had finally
completed his mission
of carrying the cross through
every nation, major inhabited
island group, and
territory in the entire world.
And for the first time, the
enormity of what Arthur
had been doing all these years
made a real impact on me.
I soon found myself kind
of wanting to follow him around
with a camera,
wanting to discover
what made this guy tick.
Arthur, are you really making
a difference?
And why does it have to be a
big, giant cross?
I remember carrying the
cross out in the Jordan desert
before the first Gulf w*r
when the refugees were
fleeing out of Kuwait through
Iraq.
Many of them had been robbed.
Others had had everything taken
from them,
and r*ped, and terrible stories.
What's our message?
We don't have food.
We don't have--i mean, what can
we give them?
And I would stand and say, god
knows your name.
God knows where you are.
They needed that message as
much as they needed food to
eat or a passport home.
They related.
God cares for you.
And Jesus suffered.
And he lost everything.
You've lost everything.
But through his suffering,
his death at the cross, then
we are made rich by his mercy
and grace.
And they would sit there
crying and smiling.
Hello, there, sirs.
Give you a little card there
that reminds US that god cares
for US, that he loves US.
I believe that.
Yes, yes.
I'll believe it when I
see it.
I believe.
Amen.
I do too.
I don't.
I don't believe there is
a god.
So what motivates you
everyday?
Staying alive.
And then, whenever that day
comes because we are all getting
older, when our last
heartbeat comes, then
what do you think?
I think it's just like when you
go to sleep and you don't
dream, that's the rest of your
life right there, not dreaming,
just gone, you're gone.
Do you believe in Jesus?
I believe in god.
Yeah, yeah.
He loves you.
He cares for you.
But I am still hungry, you know.
I have nothing to eat.
Like the homelessness, the drug
addicts, all this [bleep] around
here, and she's talkin' about
that [bleep].
Can I give you one of
those?
God bless you, friend.
Jesus knows your name and he
loves you.
He cares for you.
He can give you a new life.
That's why he d*ed on the
cross.
For hope.
He brought peace that passes
all understanding.
At the cross, Jesus knew one
day you would be sitting on
this rail in the park and he
sent me by with the cross to
remind you to follow him.
That he loves you.
And not to give up.
Let the anger go and let the
joy of god come in.
[Speaking Spanish]
[Speaking Spanish]
Father, I lift up her son.
We trust him into
the care of Jesus.
Knowing that all power is in
your hand, we pray for your
comfort in our heart with the
loss of this precious child,
but may the love of god and
the peace of god
fill her life--
and his work and his modeling
and his travels and
his safety.
And I pray you would turn
everything around in his life
beginning this week in Jesus'
name.
Would you say lord Jesus,
come into my heart.
I want to know you, I want to
be with you.
Would you pray with me,
Richard, say dear god, would
you do that, Richard?
Dear god, I need you.
I open my heart, come in,
Jesus, I've had the cross on
my arm but I want it in my
heart.
Make me a new man in Jesus'
name.
Amen, amen.
One of the most important
missions I think that I've had
in this 40 year journey has been
reinterpreting the cross.
For centuries, muslims have
been in conflict with the
cross.
And yet I carried the cross
openly in every Muslim nation
on earth, through the smile,
through the love, through the
message that at the cross, the
worst of man met the best of
god and that god cares for
US, they saw it in a new way
or I would'nt be alive
today.
♪ This I know
♪ for the Bible
tells me so ♪
♪ little ones to
him belong. ♪
♪ They are weak, but
he is strong. ♪
[Children laughing]
♪ Yes, Jesus loves me
a lot of times I've walked
into a village, and either
in Egypt or Iraq or Iran or
wherever, and the children
come running up to the
cross, and they're
just little children.
They don't have any Christian
teaching or really hardly
any islamic teaching
or anything else.
It's a man carrying a big
board with a wheel on it.
And they come up and
they're sticking their toe
under it and making the cross
roll over their toe and then
they ride on it.
And I'm dragging them through
town.
And the people in that town,
they see the friendliness
of the cross.
It's now their cross.
[Singing in foreign language]
Regardless of your opinion
about a guy who walks around
the world with a giant cross on
his shoulder, the facts are hard
to ignore.
I mean, when you hear him
start telling some of
his stories, it's like how is it
that this guy is even still
alive, how is it he hasn't been
taken out by a jihadi sn*per or
wild animals or malaria or a
big old nasty green truck?
It was like god was
saying, blessitt, you got more
miles to walk, more
nations to go to.
I know that as I walk humbly
before him and seek to line my
life up with his will and
purpose, that I am totally
covered by his sovereign will.
Is there something truly
special about this man?
Could it be that, despite
appearances, he's like an old
testament character walking
around in modern day or at
least the closest thing to some
kind of a super prophet we are
likely to see in our generation.
As we look at history of
mankind, we see the walls,
the separation, and the barriers
that have been erected by
politicians, by governments,
and yes, even by religions.
But at the cross, we see that
all people are the same,
irregardless of their religion,
their color.
The first time that I was
arrested was for shaking hands
with a black man in Jackson,
Mississippi.
This African-American man, I
was talking to, I held his
hand, stood there praying
with him.
An angry arms pulled me back
and said in words I would'nt
use, what are you doing here
shaking hands or holding this
black man's hand?
And little did I know that I
would be holding hands of
every color all over the
world!
That's unbelievable.
You were arrested for
witnessing to an
African-American?
Yes.
I mean, the police, they said
what are you down
here from up north?
Are you some integration
agitator?
I said no, I go to Mississippi
college.
I was born in
Greenville, Mississippi.
Well, don't you know you're
not supposed to be shaking hands
with a black man?
And I said no.
I thought this was america.
I'm free.
I'm free to shake anybody's
hand I want to.
And they stuck me in the police
car and took me to jail.
I mean, I wasn't trying to make
any kind of statement.
I was just loving everybody
on the sidewalk, minding my
own business, and sharing the
love of Jesus, but then, no.
I will be back.
They said don't you ever come
back and do this again.
I said i'MMA be back.
I said you're not telling me
that I can't shake somebody's
hand and pray with somebody.
And it was the first time that I
knew all this kind of defiant
fire was in me.
I had never--i didn't know it
was there.
But i--this is not right.
This is not.
It was an awakening for me in
many areas.
Was Arthur's path even
more radical?
A road beyond mundane
religion on which all of US have
been called to walk.
Whatever the case, it soon
became apparent no one could
tell Arthur's story but
Arthur himself.
You know, and I'm just a sinner
saved by the grace of god
who's been on a journey
ordained by god.
And the people have welcomed it,
every Buddhist country, hindu
country.
And it is--i don't know.
This is my companion.
This very cross here I carried
over the hindu kush.
In Iraq, in Iran, Saudi Arabia.
Sudan, Somalia.
I've had so many, many, many,
many thousands of people that
come to the cross and they
touch it.
And then they rub themself.
They--and I say, oh, but it's
god that's holy.
I'ts not the wood, it's not this
wood.
But like, this wood is my
friend.
And if it could talk, it'd have
a lot of stories
to tell.
Every one of these chips
and bangs and bongs
on it has a story.
[Playing the cross by
katinas]
♪ Carry the cross.
♪ If you believe.
♪ Just take one step
then another. ♪
♪ Walking to your destiny.
♪ Carry the cross.
♪ For the world to see.
♪ Give your life
for another. ♪
♪ This is the Genevieve.
[Music]
First came to
Hollywood, California after
reading in the newspapers
about the hippie movement
that was happening on sunset
strip and then at Griffith park.
There were love-ins at
Griffith park.
And there I showed up
with my flat top haircut
and a suit and a tie.
And all of these hippies were
there smoking grass and
partying, and I started giving
out gospel tracts,
little pieces of paper with a
message of Jesus on it.
And I was talking to one guy
that seemed far out.
And he said hey, man, why don't
you get up there and tell
them all about it.
I stepped up on stage and
suddenly out of me came words I
had never shared or
spoken in my life.
How many of you want to get
high?
And everybody, yay.
I said then pray.
You go all the way to
heaven.
How many of you want to get
loaded?
And everybody cheered.
And I said then load up on a
little Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John.
And it changed my life.
Down the sunset strip in
Hollywood, California, any time
day or night and
find "his place".
"His place" is the home of the
minister of sunset strip.
And he's inviting you to visit
with Justin time and some
very special people.
A former biker chick, a
bike club president, a convict,
and a prost*tute in "his place".
Here's Arthur blessitt.
We welcome you to "his
place" here on sunset boulevard.
We know that you're going to
enjoy the testimonies that
are going to be shared here
around the table.
"His place" is kind of half
way between a church
and a night club.
That's a weird place to be.
I began full time walking
the streets of sunset, going
into the night clubs that
would let me in, and finally
bill gazarri let me have
what he called Arthur blessitt's
gospels at gizarri's night
club on sunset strip.
And from there, with andrae
crouch and Jimmy Owens singers,
we were packing that place and
sharing Jesus.
What brought you here to
sunset strip?
Well, about 8 months ago, I was
really deeply lost in sin and
prostitution, drug addiction and
just about
anything you can name
that was underhanded
I was into it.
Well, I was walk down Hollywood
boulevard and one of the Jesus
freaks from "his place" came up
to me and started rapping to
me and showed me a tract and
invited me over to "his place".
And we hitchhiked on over there.
And I got the lord that night.
Then I felt Jesus speak to me
and say I want you to put a
big cross on the wall.
And I didn't want to put a cross
on the wall.
But there that night, I
realized that yes, I had to
make a cross because Jesus
told me to.
When I got ready to lift the
cross up, I realized I didn't
have a wrench to tighten down
the bolt that held the cross
beams together.
So outside one of the hell's
angels came up on his
motorcycle, and I said, hey,
Tom, I had been going to
the hell's angels camp
and ministering there.
And I said have you
got a wrench?
I need to borrow a wrench.
He said yeah, man, I got a
wrench.
Came walking in our building.
And he said what do you need?
And I said right there, I need
that bolt tightened.
He said, what is that?
And I said that's a cross.
12-foot cross.
He said here, you take the
wrench.
You do it.
And about 3 days later I walked
through the building.
And I saw Tom standing,
looking up at the cross and I
walked up beside him.
And I said, Tom, what's
happening?
And he said, man, every time I
go down the street on my
motorcycle, there are crosses
all down the street
on all these churches.
I never saw them before.
And I realized it was my wrench
that tightened down the
center bolt, and
you said my sins put him there.
Tell me more.
For the first time, I then
realized the power of this real
life-sized cross.
And then, from time to time, we
took down the cross and we'd go
down sunset boulevard.
You see, we love to share the
lord.
We like to use what we call
reds.
Reds are these little
red stickers.
I mean, up and down the strip,
and they ask speed, grass--and
everything, so we got our reds,
we go up to somebody and hey,
man, can I turn you
on to some reds?
And they say far out.
And say okay, so we just wheel
off and stick them with a red.
You know, these reds got
glue on the back.
They'll fit on police cars,
phone booths, you know,
they'll fit--anywhere you can
stick these reds.
♪ I heard the lord
calling me ♪
♪ out of the sleep
and then we would come back
to "his place" and a crowd of
young people would follow US
back into our building where we
would have Jesus music jams.
And then I would preach at
midnight.
It was very strange because I
had been up preaching at a night
club called the cellar at
about 1 or 2 o'clock in the
morning.
As I got ready to go to bed,
Jesus spoke to me so clearly,
Arthur, take the cross off
the wall of the building, and
put it on your shoulder,
and carry it on foot across
america,
and identify my message where
the people are.
I was ready to do it.
I was ready to be obedient to
his call, but it conflicted
with, first my desire to be
on sunset strip.
I loved being the minister of
sunset strip, working with
the young people.
And I think the way god
rationalized it to me was the
sunset strip stretches around
the world.
[Siren wailing]
And suddenly I had
a prick of a pain
on this side of my head.
Very quickly, began to be numb
and partially paralyzed on part
of the ride side of my body.
The doctors were saying it looks
like you need brain surgery for
this aneurysm.
I said I'm supposed to leave
in two weeks to carry the cross
across america.
And I know they thought I
needed brain surgery for sure.
But they said you
can't lift anything heavy.
You can't exert yourself.
A strain could burst those
aneurysms in your brain.
And, laying in
bed, I said, Jesus,
what do you want me to do?
And he didn't speak.
Most of the time he does.
And it was very strange to me.
And I thought, why
aren't you speaking
to me, lord?
You called me to
carry the cross.
You said leave Christmas day.
Here I am with a brain
aneurysm and sick in bed,
and then I realized something.
He had told me what I was to do.
And now I thought my
circumstances had altered his
call.
And laying in that bed,
I learned a life lesson:
Circumstances
don't alter the call.
And I said I'd rather die in the
will of god than live outside
of it.
I got up out of bed, I flushed
the medicine down the toilet,
and less than two weeks
later, on Christmas morning,
put the cross on my shoulder.
It was difficult to speak.
It was difficult to walk.
But I thought, I'll die with the
wind in my face but I'm not gon'
die flat on my back in
some hospital somewhere.
Started down sunset boulevard
heading toward Washington,
DC.
[Music]
♪ I made this vow to you.
♪ Surrender all I do.
♪ You're the reason
I am here. ♪
♪ Precious gift to me.
♪ Your heart has
set me free ♪
♪ and I love you.
♪ The greatest sacrifice
♪ that stood the
test of time. ♪
♪ And with each
breath I take ♪
♪ I will give my life.
♪ One faith.
♪ One love.
♪ One hope.
♪ One touch.
♪ To change a life.
♪ The one left behind.
♪ One smile.
♪ One laugh.
♪ One cry.
♪ One step at a time.
Many people fear
the will of god.
I said god's calling me.
Oh, really?
He's--I'm afraid of what--
listen, get that
out of your mind.
If god speaks to
you, say thank you,
lord.
You've got a mission for me.
I'd rather live in the life and
will of Jesus than any other way
in the world.
And I'm 68 years old now.
I know I look like a teenager.
I feel younger than that.
See, every difficulty either
becomes a pile of stumbling
blocks or stepping stones.
And I look at life's struggles
as a stepping stone to grow.
And i'm, hey, I'm nearer to
the end than I was when I began.
♪ One faith.
♪ One love.
♪ One hope.
♪ One touch.
♪ To change a life.
♪ The one left behind.
♪ One smile.
♪ One laugh.
♪ One cry.
♪ One step at a time.
♪ One.
♪ One.
♪ One.
♪ One step at a time.
♪ One step at a time.
♪ One step.
♪ One step.
♪ One. ♪
[Booming sound]
[Sirens]
[Machine g*ns f*ring
and bombs exploding]
When I went overseas for my
first overseas cross walk,
it was to northern Ireland.
The ira controlled
zones of Belfast.
And I was carrying the cross
through the middle of that
fighting, going down through one
side and back through the other.
And there were a group
of men standing there.
And you--they said
you've crossed into our area.
Go back.
And I said no, we're carrying
the cross saying come to Jesus.
Jesus loves you.
He's the solution.
They said, this is our area.
If you cross that
next street up there,
we're going to nail
you to this cross.
And they had big
nails and a hammer.
And these were
tough looking men.
I knew it was one of those
moments that would define the
rest of my life.
I said, men, we'll be
there in just a few minutes.
We're going to pray.
We'll be at that block.
You've got to do
what you've got to do.
I've got to do what I got to do.
I walked up to the men.
And I had little round
Jesus stickers that say,
smile, god loves you.
And I started sticking them on
their shoulders and saying Jesus
loves you, he d*ed
on the cross for you.
We can have a prayer.
He can give you a new life.
And they just
looked in amazement.
And they said, didn't
you hear what we said?
And I said yes, I
heard what you said.
But I don't think you meant it.
And I just slapped
him on the shoulder.
I said, you guys look
like you're nice guys.
I said god loves you.
God--you don't have
to live this life.
You don't have to
behave this way.
There's something bigger.
I said, would you get on
your knees and pray with US?
They said, oh, just keep going.
Just keep going,
just keep going.
While Arthur was certainly
showing that he was not lacking
courage, his stories didn't
seem to helping too much in the
sanity department.
Sure, lots of missionaries had
spent times in dangerous places,
but add in a
12-foot wooden cross,
and it would only seem to make
things harder to get his message
heard.
Is a giant cross
really necessary?
As with most
questions you ask Arthur,
his answer comes
via another story.
We're here at the
hill of the crosses,
which embodies really the
heart and soul of Lithuania.
Three times this hill was
bulldozed down by the communists
to destroy the
hill of the crosses.
But each time, it
Rose again in faith.
We kept hearing about
the hill of crosses.
And I was very, very
interested in seeing this place.
But I was not prepared for it.
Because as I came upon it,
you suddenly see this hill,
and there are thousands and
tens of thousands of crosses.
But when you realize that it is
people under the oppression of
communism trying to
destroy any belief in god,
that every cross represented
some family's statement of
defiance, and I looked,
and I could only weep.
But there was a little
crowd of people around.
And they were
there, they had shovels.
An American had come
bringing the cross,
and they were ready to dig
a hole to put my cross up.
And i--no, no.
No.
And I realized that it was
part of the message of really
interpreting the
cross to people,
giving it a new definition.
All the crosses they'd
ever seen anyone bringing,
they were leaving.
But mine, they got the point.
He's carrying his.
He's going somewhere.
He's spreading a message.
And the next morning,
when we got ready to leave,
these people were all gathered
around and they were crying and
they were kissing me and they
were hugging US and they were
kissing the cross.
And they sent US off.
And it was a revolution.
Because I was the only one that
brought a cross and left with
the same cross that
they had brought.
So many people feel that
the cross is against them.
They look at the
cross and they think,
oh, the cross is against
my sexual orientation.
Or I've had an
abortion, or I drink beer,
or I smoke cigarettes.
And so god hates me.
The cross is the
sign absolutely,
clearly, indelibly
imprinted that I love you.
That's what the cross says.
I care.
I came down and I got involved
in this mess that some people
call life and became flesh.
And sacrificed himself with his
hands nailed to that cross with
his feet nailed,
with his side pierced,
saying, I'm with you.
I love you.
I care.
I learned many, many years ago
that the way to change the world
is letting Jesus come and
change US from the inside out.
We don't need a hand slap.
We don't need a pointed
finger of condemnation.
People know
they've got problems.
They know that
they are not perfect.
But they're
looking for a way out.
That is what real
conversion is all about,
is that if any
person be in Christ,
they are a new creation.
They're a new existence.
Christ who d*ed and Rose again
now lives in them and they're
changed.
There's no battle.
They don't want it.
They don't need it,
they don't desire it.
No.
They don't want to
turn to v*olence anymore.
They don't want to live the life
they've been living because they
have a new desire.
It's their nature has changed.
Now, some people have
obviously real hang ups.
There are some
people really hurting.
But you know what I noticed?
That even t*rrorists, even the
worst people that are K*llers,
that will fight, that have just
k*lled their neighbors across
the street, when you get, and
you start talking with them,
you find out that they
love their children.
There's so much beauty in them,
but there's a bad distortion.
And god can change that.
Where did you come from
to get to west Beirut?
Well, we were in Sweden.
And I read of the terrible
tragedies taking place here.
I was carrying the
cross across Sweden.
And we--my heart was broken.
We must come to pray for peace.
And so, we took a
plane to Tel Aviv.
And then I rented a car
and I drove to east Beirut.
When we got up
near Beirut airport,
all of a sudden--
[booming]
There was f*ring, tanks
f*ring, missiles going.
The whole place exploded
right in front of our car.
Joshua started screaming.
Daddy, daddy!
And I said, Joshua,
I'll turn around,
take you back to
Jerusalem, but I have to go on.
He put his head down, put
his hands over his head.
And then he looked, not at
me, but just straight ahead.
I said Joshua, if
we take off in this,
you may die, I may die,
but there's no coming back.
I mean, we can't decide half a
mile down the road to come back.
This is it.
And Joshua said,
daddy, let's go.
I cranked up the car and
we drove right into this.
[g*ns f*ring]
We were in the middle of w*r.
There were two
monks hitchhiking.
And so, we stopped
and picked them up.
And they said, we're at
the monastery up here in the
mountains overlooking Beirut.
Come up and spend the night.
Told 'em we were going to
carry the cross into Beirut,
and they said one of our priests
was k*lled today down there.
They will k*ll you.
And for supper, they
gave US the last rites.
And they--me and my son, Joshua.
And then we ate, I guess it
was like the last supper.
And so we laid down and
I'm looking out the window,
watching the bombs blast
and the tracer b*ll*ts f*ring
where we were headed tomorrow
morning.
I suddenly see a mosquito.
[Making buzzing sounds]
I'm telling you, if I
tried to make up a story,
I wouldn't make
up one this good.
I mean, I promise you, in heaven
they'll have a video of this.
But this mosquito's goin'
[Making buzzing sounds]
And I get my hand
ready to k*ll him.
And then I think, I'd like to
watch how a mosquito actually
bites you, what
they actually--i said,
they tell me i'm
going to die tomorrow,
so have a feast.
If you bite
Joshua, I'll k*ll you.
But if not, you can
have all of me you want.
So my hand's up there, and this
mosquito lands right here on the
little hairs on my arm.
And I'm watching.
And he moves
himself around like that,
gets his head up
and, boom, you know,
puts his little nose down
and goes...Starts shaking,
flips over on his back, dead.
I can't believe it.
I pick up his little legs,
lay him over by the little
candlelight that's burning.
He's still there
the next morning.
I mean, he's just dead.
And I'm thinking, wow!
And the lord spoke to me.
Tomorrow night, you'll
sleep in west Beirut.
He didn't say you'ill die.
He said you'll
sleep in west Beirut.
[g*ns f*ring]
Next morning we
get up, we go down,
the Israeli troops, no.
I mean, there's f*ring.
No, no, no way in.
My paper.
No.
And so, Joshua and I
went over by a building,
sat down.
Leaned our cross up
against a post and prayed.
And it looks absolutely hopeless
until I hear a voice saying,
what are you doing?
What is that?
And it was an Israeli man.
I said it's the cross.
And he said, did you walk
from Jerusalem to Cairo?
I said yes.
Two years ago, across the sinai.
He said I was a t*nk commander
and I brought you food and water
remember when all
those tanks came up?
He said, that was me.
I often wondered if
you ever made it.
What are you doing here?
I said, trying to get in to west
Beirut to pray for yasir arafat.
He said, man, we're
trying to k*ll him.
And he drew me a map
on a piece of paper,
and I still have that map.
And he said you go down here.
And then you get to
this, and you turn,
and he said it's two
blocks of landmines,
but that's the way in.
And he said, god have
mercy on your soul.
And he turned, tears swelled up
in his eyes and he walked away.
And we start walking fast.
Israeli soldiers are hollering.
You know, come back.
Come back.
And we walk in between
five fighting armies.
And I'm holding Joshua's hand
and we're saying--I'm saying,
you know, oh Joshua,
I said, which way
do you think we should go?
I don't know, daddy.
Pray.
I'm praying, daddy.
I'm praying.
And then we come up on a big
pile of dirt and steel and an
anti-t*nk barrier, stepped up
to the top and there's all these
g*ns pointed at US.
And a guy says what
are you doing here?
I said--he said it in English.
And I said carrying the cross.
We've come with good news.
And he said, if
you've got good news,
you're welcome.
We can stand all the
good news we can get.
Come on in.
And Joshua and I walked in.
Soldiers were rushing up to
US, they were trying to give US
cigarettes and drinks and tea.
They were so excited to see US.
This is Muslim west Beirut.
All of a sudden,
there's a noise,
and around the
building steps yasir arafat.
He has come to welcome US.
Peter arnett of CNN filmed it.
The evangelist Arthur blessitt
from Los Angeles described
himself as a follower of
Jesus, and the cross was for all
people.
Can I say a prayer?
Father, I pray in the name
of Jesus for your peace.
I pray for your
peace in all this land,
that there be no more k*lling,
there'd be no more death,
and that the dreams and the
hopes and aspirations of all
people shall be filled.
I pray for you to spare the life
of this man and blessing on all
the people, and oh god,
may know one else die.
We love you, we love you, Jesus.
And we thank you that you
brought US here through many
dangers, that we may stand for
justice and love and peace.
And may there be no one
else die in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Amen, amen.
Thank you.
Thank you a lot.
The people said you will
be sh*t carrying a cross.
No one wants you
with a cross there.
But that's, of course, not true.
We've been welcomed.
We're here for peace.
The god of Abraham
says let there be peace.
It's awesome to see how that
the people in the worst and most
difficult places are many of
the ones that have welcomed the
cross the most.
The people you would think would
want to reject you have seen the
cross going through
their b*ttlefield.
And instead of
pulling the trigger,
god pulled on their heart,
and they responded.
[Music]
Matt crouch, who is
directing this film,
has been trying to get me
down to the real hard stuff of
suffering and
what is really bad.
He says that in a movie, there
needs to be bad things and then
happy things.
When you're down in the jungles
and you go for just days and you
don't have toilet paper, there's
nothing but banana leaves,
and it's just bad.
The women would chew corn.
And there's a big pot sitting
in the middle of the village.
And every time they walk
by it, they go [spitting]
They spit, and they
give you this to drink.
It's chewed up
corn spit with juice.
They hand you to eat
the choice piece of meat.
A monkey leg, with the
leg--the hand still on it,
and the meat peeled back part of
the way back down to the hand.
And you really just
kind of shake hands.
You're holding this hand that
looks just like a little kid.
And as you bite in, you're
pulling on the tendons and the
fingers wiggle.
Oh, that's about
as bad as it gets, Matt.
Dangers and critters, you're
laying there at night on a
hammock, [making animal noises]
And it reared on its
legs and [squealing]
Just as the lady
opens the door,
I'm goin' oh, oh, eeh, oh.
As I was squatting there, I
saw the grass begin to shake.
And I know it was a
worm 'cause as a kid,
I fished and we
used it for bait.
I think the worst
toilet experience was,
again, Japan.
It's so high-tech.
Everything from perina to--and
bush master snakes that strike
you, and I didn't see any of it.
It was too much vegetation.
You punch this
button, then this button,
then this button.
I hollered Jesus!
And just jumped.
And this crocodile came right
over where I had been squatting.
When I looked at it, I
said, I can't eat it.
And the interpreter
said you've got to,
grandma cooked it.
So we punch this one--there's
a big flow of water just,
shoo, washes your whole bottom.
Boom, before it
even hit my stomach,
it was on the way up
faster than it went down.
And I had to just leap into the
house and start stripping off
my pants.
There was this juice.
It was like vomit.
It was pink.
It was like pink vomit.
And you punch this one,
and then there's hot air,
whoosh.
You look here and there are
all these people just
grinning at you.
And you know, this is what they
spit out that you're eating.
If you punched them
in the wrong order,
you didn't know
what you were getting.
It was awful.
It's getting up
relentlessly every day.
Every day.
You just--most of the time I
carried the cross from daylight
until dark.
And you're on a--you're walking
from North America to south
america.
You're walking across Africa.
And it is hot.
And you're sleeping
and you're itching.
I remember one time--maybe the
tough--i was going across west
Africa and I'd been walking
and there was a missionary guest
house, and you can go
there and you can just rest.
And I looked forward to
that for probably two months.
To just get in that
air conditioning.
I thought, I'll stay
there, like, maybe three days.
Maybe two days, I'll just
stretch out--i just want to get
where it's cool and just rest.
And I got there.
I was standing there with the
cross and I said I'm Arthur
blessitt.
I said, i'm
walking across Africa.
And they've been telling me
the last couple months about the
mission compound here.
And I said I'm willing to pay.
But they said that you
had air conditioning,
and I would love to get a room
here just--and rest up for two
or three days if
you didn't mind.
And they said, you know, we
only have missionaries.
It's not open for the public.
You know, we're not
a motel or anything.
Just missionaries.
And I said, well, I mean,
i'm--mercy, I'm a missionary.
I've been walking
from Sierra Leone.
That's like 2000
miles backed away.
I said, and I preach every day.
I said, I'm an
ordained minister.
And they said we
thank you so much,
but we just--you're just--we
just do regular missionaries.
We just can't let bypassers and
backpackers and whatever stay.
And I said thank you, thank you.
And I walked away.
And I was so hurt.
You know, I guess
even carrying the cross,
I'm not a qualified missionary.
I don't have a badge, I
don't have any card to say i'm
anything.
I'm just carrying a cross.
And as I walked on probably not
over half an hour down the road,
a car pulled over,
puegot, a white puegot,
and I won't forget it.
And this guy and lady
got out of the car.
And they said, wow, said,
we've been hearing about you.
Somebody called US and said you
were coming a month or so ago.
And then we heard
something at the school.
Said, we're school teachers.
Said, now, we're atheist.
We don't believe in god, but we
have a house just up the road.
And we have an air
conditioned room,
in one room.
And if you would, we would love
to have you stop at our house
and just stay as
long as you want to.
I said, are you serious?
And they said yeah.
They said are you okay?
Said, you look like
you've been crying.
I said, oh, I'm okay.
I said, I'm all right.
And they just moved out of their
bedroom and they fed me and I
rested.
And it was one of the most
moving things in the world that
here these atheists were the
ones that welcomed the pilgrim
with no credentials for
the mission compound.
[Music]
In arabic, there is a
word that the arabs use.
In sha'Allah.
Whatever god wills.
And when you get to that,
there is an incredible freedom.
It all has to do with
the way we look at god.
Is god our friend?
Does he love me?
Is he really with me?
Jesus said I will
be with you always.
Not conditionally.
Not based upon
our circumstances.
Always.
And when you know that, that
he is present no matter what is
going on in your life,
there is confidence,
there is lack of
fear, there is boldness,
and there is an assurance that
what he wants will come to pass.
So, when you can
accept that, then you're free.
I remember carrying the cross
in Italy after meeting with the
pope.
I was carrying the
cross to assisi.
And I was trying to just
walk in the spirit and life
like Saint Francis of assisi,
and had left behind all baggage,
and was cold and it was snowing
and sleeting and rainy and the
wind was blowing.
And in the night, I felt that
I might have hypothermia and
actually die.
It was so cold.
And I remember stopping.
Had the cross on my shoulder
and I looked up and I said,
lord, in the name of
Jesus, stop the rain,
stop the wind, stop the cold.
And, shoo, rain, the water
started pouring and the wind
blowing and the sleet started
coming down more than ever.
And I remember looking up and
I just said I love you anyway.
It'll take more than sleet and
snow and cold to quench my love.
This is what you
have for me tonight.
Hallelujah!
Crossing into Nicaragua, was in
middle of the civil w*r between
samosa and the
sandinista guerillas.
It was a very, very
expl*sive situation.
I had a four-wheel drive
vehicle that a friend of mine,
Mike oaten, was driving, and
another friend, Don price, had
come to spend, like, two
weeks with me on the road.
And Don said the people are
saying don't spend the
night here.
Anything along
this road at night,
they'll Rob, steal, k*ll.
And I said, I've
never run in my life,
and I'm not starting today.
About 2 o'clock in the morning,
there was a bam on the door.
Stepped out, and then
for the first time,
I saw half a dozen or so
gunmen raising their g*ns up,
pointing 'em at me.
I heard this man
saying, uno, for one.
And I thought, I know
how to count to three,
I don't know the word for fire,
but it went through my mind,
I'm not going to
die without a Bible.
I could see standing
around me now the gunmen,
their feet, and they're
pulling on my shoulder,
trying to get me to stand up.
And I get a little hole in the
box and I rip it open and I've
got my hand on a
Bible, and I'm so thrilled.
And then, I think I'll
give 'em all a Bible.
And I just fill my
arm up with bibles,
stood up with one in my hand,
and nobody was standing there,
and I look, and
probably 15 feet away,
there are six guys
laying on the ground.
And I think, wow!
And I walk up and I say,
would you like a Bible?
And then they run to this truck,
get on the back of that truck,
and the truck takes
off down the highway.
And I'm standing
there in shock, amazed.
And I said, wow!
Those guys I think were serious.
They were going to k*ll me.
What happened?
And then later, we noticed
outside that this whole village
of people had gathered, and they
were on their knees outside the
door, and they said,
we saw a bright light.
God was here.
Honestly, I was disappointed.
I was ready to die, and now I
got to do this all over again.
I was absolutely prepared, ready
to step into eternity and be
with Jesus.
And I realized that
god had preserved me.
It was--to me, it was
almost a sense of humor,
like the lord was saying, you're
not getting out of this so easy.
You've got a lot
more miles to walk.
You've got a
destiny to walk into.
It's not over now.
You haven't even
finished half the world yet.
I realized that, for
me, and for anybody,
the safest place to be
is in the will of god,
when you're in the will of god,
and he determines that you'll
make it, you'll make it.
In 1979, Arthur's view of the
sovereignty of god was put to
the ultimate test.
He found himself
facing one of the deepest,
most impenetrable
jungles in the world,
the Darien gap of
southern Panama.
Of course, it was
becoming quite clear to me that,
to Arthur, there are no tests,
only opportunities to experience
god in new and unusual ways.
Local m*llitary officials told
him that attempting to cross the
Darien was su1c1de.
No one had ever
made it through alive.
Undeterred, Arthur
recruited two faithful friends,
one an ex-green beret to
accompany him on the dangerous
journey and to help with the
heavy supplies that would be
crucial to their survival.
Less than one week
into the jungle,
both the friends turned back.
I think at the very moment that
the second guy decided to go
back was one of the
defining moments of my life.
It was a very alone feeling.
Not lonely, because I
knew Jesus was with me.
But very alone.
I had heard that I had to
have them in order to make it.
And now both were going back.
And I stood there in shock.
And I knew that
whatever was my destiny,
I had to go forward.
Jesus said walk from north
america to South America.
He didn't say take a boat
around the difficult place.
And I knew, for
me, I had to go on.
I could face even
death by going on,
but I could not face that
haunting agony that I would have
felt had I
stopped and not tried.
I knew when I
walked into that river,
that god knew
whether I would make it.
And to me, that was enough.
And it was a very awesome time
in my life because the only one
that spoke English was Jesus.
And I enjoyed his company.
And I enjoyed his presence.
And I knew that
from that day forward,
nothing, nothing ever would
detour me from trying to obey.
I may fail, but if I fail, I
will fail falling forward,
not sitting down,
not ruled by fear.
Now, the Darien jungle has steep
mount peaks going in almost
impenetrable mangrove swamps.
The rivers run straight
down from the mountains.
Steep cliffs on both
side of narrow rivers.
I would come upon a stream, you
would have to get down maybe 30
feet, maybe 50 or 75
feet with the cross,
sometime holding on to vines,
lowering yourself down to the
raging stream, get
the cross across,
and then try to go up a
steep ravine almost straight up.
And I would hang the cross up
on the vine or something,
pull myself up,
get it up higher,
pull up, and sometime,
you'd get almost to the top,
and everything would
break and you're falling,
and there's rocks down
below ya, and you're hollering,
Jesus, help me.
It's been a long hike over land
and then part of the way by boat
from yaviza.
But as we've been carrying the
cross and coming into the little
villages, people have
been taking the stickers,
and we've been sharing
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The lord seemed to have
stripped away my interpreter,
and my Spanish is very
poor, and it's just,
everything that is being
done is just god is doing it.
It's not by might nor
by power but by spirit,
saith the lord.
One of the most difficult things
for me has been to leave little
villages.
I could just stay
there, live there.
I so wanted them to see
the meaning of the cross.
None of them spoke English,
and it didn't seem like they
understood Spanish, they were
speaking their native language,
choco.
And I felt Jesus
tell me to do a drama.
And I took the cross and I
was doing the drama of the
crucifixion of Christ.
And the people
were looking at me.
And then I began to
weep as I thought,
oh, god, they
need to understand.
I so want them to see your love
and to see the love that the
cross represents.
And as I was
weeping, I looked out,
and people were crying.
And then I went up
to the children,
and I would say, Jesus, Jesus,
and they...I'd go--touch their
lips, Jesus, Jesus, and Jesus.
Yes, Jesus.
And then I got the
children saying Jesus.
And I'd point to the cross.
And then I would point up.
And then I would
point in the heart.
And before long, the
adults would say Jesus.
And when I left the next day,
I left with a great shout of
Jesus, and they were
shouting back Jesus.
There is perhaps no better story
to symbolize why Arthur does
what he does than to visit
the Plaza mayor in Madrid,
Spain.
It was 1972, and Spain was
still under the dictatorship of
Franco's fascist regime.
I didn't even know
what the Plaza mayor was.
I ask a news reporter.
I said, if you were carrying a
cross and you went to Madrid,
where would you go?
And he said, the Plaza mayor.
I said, the Plaza mayor it is.
I'll be there, and
I gave the date.
And then, as it got
closer and closer,
pastors began to tell me, wow!
This was the place
of the inquisition.
Over 100,000 people had been
martyred in the Plaza mayor.
And now, again, the suppression
and the battle to have any kind
of religious freedom was a
struggle that was going on in
Spain at this time.
I carried the cross
under these arches,
looked out, and
there was just about,
it was completely full, holding
about 20,0000 or 30,000 people
standing body to
body inside the square.
Pushed our way to the
center of the square,
lifted up the cross,
and I started to preach.
A hush went over the crowd.
And in the back,
the civil guardians,
the storm troops of Franco.
And then this
officer steps up and says,
you know, take the cross down.
Go.
And I said no.
I stand with those in the
past who have been martyred.
Whamo.
I was knocked down.
The cross fell down.
And one of the most amazing
stories of my entire life took
place before my eyes.
One of the pastors standing
nearby grabbed the cross and
started lifting it up,
and others rushed up,
grabbed the cross,
lifted the cross up.
I'm laying flat down,
trying to get my breath.
And then they start clubbing
these pastors who are lifting up
the cross, knocked them down.
And then other people in the
crowd come running up to keep
the cross up.
Lift it up, lift it up.
It was this thrust toward--and
they knew what was happening.
And yet, you could
hear the bam, the boom,
it was on one part
suffering, brutality,
and yet praise began to
fill the whole place.
I was drug by my heels to a
police car that was sitting
there and was
stuffed in the back.
And I looked back and
I just saw old ladies,
little kids, everybody
running to the cross,
trying to lift it up.
And these men b*ating
them to the ground.
And then the
police car drove away.
That was the last sight I saw.
All through the Plaza mayor, the
believers started giving their
testimony and
sharing about Jesus.
So instead of
having one preacher,
they now had multiple preachers
preaching all over downtown
Madrid.
The soldiers, so moved,
picked up the cross and stood at
attention facing the
cross in the Plaza mayor.
And then they were
going to let me go,
but they wouldn't
let the preachers go.
And I said, no, we all go.
We were all arrested together.
We all go or none go.
And finally, they said,
okay, we'll let everybody out.
We got to get this
done with, over with.
The people in the church were
praying and crying because they
knew their pastors may be in
jail for months or years because
of this riot.
And here we all come
in free at midnight.
It exploded.
Your ears were ringing.
It was like a miracle.
All 30 preachers and the
cross all out of jail.
This is looked back upon now
as one of the major historical
points in Spain was that day in
the Plaza mayor when the people
again were beaten
afresh, but not since.
There are now
witnesses, churches,
preachers, freedom of religion
and Spain has been beautiful.
It's one of the greatest things
that I've seen god do worldwide.
Many people have dreams and
visions of doing mighty things
for god and making an
impact in the world.
That was my prayer also.
And then Jesus said, lay it all
down and let your vision be no
bigger than the next
person that you meet.
And following that, it has
carried me around the world.
♪ I boast not of works.
♪ Or tell of good deeds.
♪ For not have I done.
♪ To merit his grace.
♪ Oh, glory.
The most important thing god
will ever tell you to do is the
next thing.
Just the next thing.
And so, it is living your
life in obedience and not
complaining.
Taking it one step at a time.
[Dottie Rambo
singing at the cross]
♪ I will glory.
♪ In the cross.
♪ In the cross. ♪
♪ Lest his suffering.
♪ All be in vain.
My wife and even my
children have often said,
Arthur can never be defeated
because no matter what happens,
he thinks god's in it and that's
the way god worked it out.
And so he's looking for the
golden opportunity in every
situation.
♪ In the cross.
Perhaps Arthur has indeed
learned the secret to a truly
dynamic life.
Yet, I can tell you the one
thing he never had to do over 40
years, and that's wrestle 140
hours of footage and interviews
into a 90 minute movie.
Yet, as Arthur told US one
amazing story after another,
more than we could
ever include in a movie,
something very
interesting began to happen.
The more we listened, the
more we found ourselves way more
interested hearing about what
the cross did to Arthur than
what Arthur did with the cross.
It was as if the
stories, you know,
didn't really seem
to matter anymore.
And to Arthur, that meant the
world because we were finally
beginning to understand.
I know people are
fascinated by stories.
But I'm not a walking story.
What moves me is my
relationship with Jesus.
And my relationship
with people, individuals,
one by one by one.
I wasn't walking to try to
find a w*r to go through.
Why was I going
through the Darien?
Because there were
people in there.
Nobody stops me on the road
and says tells me about a f*ring
squad.
Tell me about some
sensational story.
Around the world, you know what
the most common question is,
tell me, what do
you know about god?
Africa, South America,
India, the middle east,
what do you know about god?
And so, sometime I think
that the focus on the stories,
I think it's kind of
kindergarten because the real
message is the king of
kings, the lord of lords,
the lord god almighty
who created a universe,
who put people in it, who
created US for a purpose,
for a reason.
And it's helping
people find their purpose,
finding the real
meaning for their life.
♪ I will weep no more.
♪ For the cross
that he bore. ♪
♪ But I will glory.
♪ In the cross.
♪ Hallelujah!
♪ I will glory
in the cross. ♪
♪ I will glory
in the cross. ♪
Hello, god bless you.
Jesus loves you.
You speak English?
Si, yes.
Yes, yes.
And that's why we carry
the cross around the world,
to let people know
that god loves US.
Do you know that god loves you?
To be able to have carried the
cross and see the way that god
has opened the way, the identity
that people have felt with the
symbol of the love of god.
And just say dear Jesus, would
you say--come into my heart,
give me a new
life, forgive my sins,
I want to follow
Jesus, I love you,
lord.
Thank you.
It's all about loving him and
loving other people because the
way that one treats
the poorest person,
the most despicable person, the
person with the worst attitude,
the person who is
the most violent,
are deranged on earth, is
the way that you treat Jesus.
I know you've gone
through some hard times,
right?
But he loves you.
He loves you.
See, of all the people
to walk around the world,
I'm probably the least likely.
I never played
sports in my life.
I grew up on a farm.
I never graduated from college
because I couldn't pass the
foreign language.
If you were looking for
somebody who wasn't qualified,
see me there in the hospital bed
with a brain aneurysm two weeks
before I'm to start
walking across america.
I started out from here 40 years
ago and carried the cross around
the world and came back.
And if my coming
back was just for you,
Michelle, it was
worth the journey.
To be chosen to carry the
cross, it's indescribable.
I'm not worthy, most of all.
But my unworthiness does not
disqualify me from the call of
god.
And many times, it's the weight
of what I feel the cross is
inside is heavier than the wood
I bear because I feel the hurts,
the pains, the
fears, the bitterness,
the loneliness, but
the cross is good news.
Many times along the road, when
things are tough and sometime
when my body's ached and
sometime when my heart is broke,
I've walked on
another step just saying,
lord, I'll be your donkey.
I want to lift you up.
People will see you and know you
and love you and know that you
care and follow you.
Thank you for giving
me this privilege.
And that's what I
think I really am,
is I've been a
donkey lifting up Jesus.
[Faint sobbing]
And if there is any
glory, it is unto god,
not me.
I never really dreamed that I
would ever really live to see
the completion of this journey.
I figured I'd be wiped out by a
big Mac truck somewhere or blown
up somewhere.
And when I finished that
last step in Zanzibar,
I don't know, the realization
that even just sitting here
right now, talking about it,
it's millions of miracles.
It is, it is just the most
humbling thing to be identified
with Jesus.
It's all for you,
Jesus, I love you.
Thanks for calling me.
Thanks that you had mercy to
let me live to complete the
journey, and even
live to tell the story.
Your destiny, your
stations, your angels around me,
the blood of Jesus about,
and you brought US through,
and may you be
glorified, just glorified.
[Faint sobbing]
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I have deferred a few moments
of my time to a brother who was
not scheduled to speak
to you this afternoon,
but many of US have felt that
god would have him come and just
give a brief word of
greeting unto you.
He has walked all the way around
the world with this cross that
you see behind me.
Would you welcome our
brother, your brother and mine,
Arthur blessitt.
Praise the lord.
[Crowd applauding]
Let's do a great and mighty
and glorious Jesus cheer that
they'll hear all
over Washington.
Are you ready?
Give me a j.
E.
S.
U.
S.
What does that spell?
Jesus!
Who is the hope of the world?
Jesus!
Who is your lord?
Jesus!
Who are you going
tell the world about?
Jesus!
And what are you
going to do with Jesus?
Go, go, go!
Hallelujah.
♪ One step at a time.
♪ One step at a time.
That's all I can take, man,
that's what it's all about.
♪ One step at a time.
♪ Yeah.
♪ Whoa.
♪ Whoa.
♪ Whoa.
♪ Whoa.
♪ Whoa.
♪ One step at a time.
[Music]
♪ Ooh.
[Music]
[Music]
♪ Along the road
seems long. ♪
♪ Mundane, i'm
feeling slower. ♪
♪ How will I
make it time? ♪
♪ Oh, somehow,
stayed awake. ♪
♪ I felt this
open sign. ♪
♪ It will be all right.
♪ Though I'll trade.
♪ My ambition.
There's no substitute for
conflict because that smooths
the edges.
That gets you right
down to the nitty gritty.
Many people try to run from it.
I mean, what do you
expect at the north pole?
What do you expect in
Antarctica but snow?
There's no fighting against it.
You're in an airport.
The plane doesn't take off.
It's only one flight a day.
You're in there with
stinking toilets and maybe
50 other people.
There is no restaurant to eat.
You have to sleep on the floor.
You can get mad, you
can get frustrated.
You can scream, you can
pray, you can holler,
you can wallow in
your own misery,
or you can say thank you,
Jesus, we have 24 hours.
There's somebody
that has a need.
See, when you believe
in the destiny of god,
no matter what the
difficulties happen,
there's an opportunity.
My car breaks down, and I
start immediately thinking,
mmm, the person that's
a mechanic around here,
lord, send the worst one.
Send the person who
needs it the most.
And when that
mechanic comes, I'm ready.
We get to be buddies.
He winds up on his knees.
You enjoy the
circumstances god gives you.
♪ All through the night.
♪
♪ all through the night.
♪ One step is one step.
♪ Walk on, you'll
make it, take it. ♪
♪ Walk on, yeah.
♪ Hold on, it's worth it.
♪ Don't stop, you'll
make it, take it. ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah.
♪ Yeah.
♪ Walk in the light.
♪ Carry the cross.
♪ If you believe.
♪ Just take one step.
♪ Walking to your destiny.
♪ Carry the cross.
♪ For all to see.
♪ For the world to see.
♪ Give your life
for another. ♪
♪ This is the journey.
♪ Carry the cross. ♪
Cross, The (2009)
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