Edward Aljian: An Important Reminder - 45 min. talk

[50gumbys]

I live in the north end of eastern Australia.

When I first moved here, public speakers were dear brothers who lived off the land, worked with their hands, strong men.

I found however, that I missed the beautiful talks that I had had the privilege to hear when I lived in the south.

Over the years - who'd a thunk it!

These brothers became wonderful speakers !!!

(oh - yeah, and my parents changed from being narrow minded people when I was in my teens, to profound thinkers when I grew older)

 

Anyway, I SO appreciate talks that are posted on the Broadcast site.

It has made me feel to much a part, a closeness with witnesses all over the world.

It's like we are being drawn together in love.

 

Thank you for posting this.

 

[patkatt1]

On 8/3/2017 at 4:39 AM, Vido said:

You will just please need to scroll down until you get to brother Aljian's talk.....

 

Brother Vuyani... I cannot seem to open this mp3 format, to get the transcript... I am here in the states....do you have it in another format...If not I understand.. Thanks!

[Omoyeme]

Brother Aljian gave the concluding talk at this year's convention recently (in May) l. I'm looking forward to hearing his discourse/seeing the video!

 

[DLM]

This talk was so eye-opening for me. Another talk that I really appreciated was "What is Faith?" That was a morning program. I know Heb.13 tells us what it is but I wanted an explanation "in one word or less!"  😊

 

Edited July 5, 2018 by DLM

[Tortuga]

Here is the current link to this talk. It's a really good talk to watch again and again...

 

https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=share&prefer=content&applanguage=E&locale=en&item=pub-jwbrd_201601_10_VIDEO&docid=1011214

[Tortuga]

Here is a transcript for the talk

 

Edited April 30, 2021 by Tortuga

[McKay]

This remains my favorite talk on all of JW Broadcasting. It's a reminder I need to give myself often.

 

In fact, I'm going to watch this again right now.

[Susan Cook]

On 1/23/2016 at 7:42 AM, Tortuga said:

When he was talking about Uriah,  it reminded me of all the innocent victims of someones wrong actions. When I read the account of Uriah again, I noticed he wasn't the only one that died when he was put at the front of the battle, there were several innocent victims.

I think of the 36 men that died at Ai because of Achan's sin. Those 36 men went into battle knowing they were doing the right thing, they were following orders and were probably sure they had Jehovah's blessing, yet they died.  Their families no doubt wondered if they died because they had done something wrong, but they were just innocent victims of Achan's sin. 

I think of these accounts and realize that sometimes we may be doing all of the right things but are just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On a larger scale even..  when David took the census and Jehovah forced David to choose the discipline.. how many died again? Just checked .. 70,000!

[WilliamChew]

A formatted transcript with headings can be found here.

Edited April 30, 2021 by WilliamChew

[WilliamChew]

This part about life in Bethel is interesting. Encouraging to read about the trials Bethelites face too in balancing their life.

 

7.3. Prison life vs Bethel life
Many years ago, I remember a member of the Bethel family telling me that in some respects, life at Bethel was more difficult than the many years they'd spent as prisoners in Germany during the Holocaust.

 

Edited May 1, 2021 by WilliamChew