IS THE DVD BY DAVE HUNT, "FAITH" SO IMPORTANT?

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Dear Kerugma Supporter,

In the last Kerugma Bulletin Marina announced Dave Hunt’s DVD - “FAITH”.

You may well ask why, after 20 years, we are only releasing the DVD now? And why the viewing of this DVD is so important?

Let me explain the reason for our only releasing the “FAITH” DVD 20 years after filming it. I also want to explain why I believe that it is of the utmost importance that each one who has not yet had the opportunity to watch this DVD, will be able to do so as soon as possible.

R99.95.
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R99.95
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The New Thought Movement
Kerugma Productions was founded because of an eight-volume series of DVDs in Afrikaans that we started to produce in 1995 regarding “Die Toronto ‘Herlewing’ – ‘n Kritiese Evaluering” (“The Toronto ‘Blessing – A Critical Evaluation”). In this series we show how the soil in the Christian world was being prepared over some time in order for the Toronto “Blessing” to spread so effectively through the churches. Since then it continues to spread, albeit in some instances, in different guises. Part of the dynamics behind this phenomenon is the influence of the New Thought Movement that formed the foundation for the Word of Faith Movement that became part of Christianity through an ecumenical compromise. We carefully explained that fact in the “Toronto” series and hence the continued and far-reaching influence of “Toronto Blessing” in the lives and thoughts of many Christians in many churches. In the DVD “FAITH”, Dave Hunt also explains the New Thought Movement extensively. We will say more about that just now, but that is why the message of “FAITH” is even more relevant today than when preached by Dave Hunt all those years ago.

Kerugma Productions introduced to Dave Hunt.
Kerugma Productions is a faith mission which depends solely upon the Lord’s provision through his children for everything that is necessary. It was in this manner that the Lord provided in an amazing way, so enabling us to buy one of the first broadcast-quality digital cameras soon after Kerugma was founded. Shortly after that someone mentioned to us that the well-known American Christian author, Dave Hunt, would be visiting South Africa. As we were living in Cape Town at the time, I emailed Dave Hunt to ask if it would be possible to film the messages he would deliver in this city upon his visit to our country. He responded by inviting me to film every message of his prolonged tour. It was arranged for him to preach during July and August 1999, beginning in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and on to Johannesburg, Welkom, Pietermaritzburg, Durban and along the coast down to Port Elizabeth and then Cape Town. After that, the concluding message would be in Pretoria.

I was pleasantly surprised and very grateful for his invitation and benevolence. Very few international speakers would welcome those unknown to them to oversee the filming and production of DVD’s of their messages. However, when I started to budget for this filming I soon realized that it wouldn’t be possible to film all of the messages. The DVCAM cassettes used for the camera, alone, would have cost a small fortune to purchase. Then one would also have had to take into account the flight tickets, accommodation and other travel costs.

However, at the time that Dave Hunt would have been in Johannesburg, I had to go to Johannesburg for the demonstration of an edit suite. It would have been impossible to not have had an edit suite with which to edit all the filming. This was at the beginning of the digital era. At that stage there was still only one edit suite in the world that could effectively edit the DVCAM footage of this camera. But this edit station was very expensive. The company that marketed it, informed us that another edit suite, less than half the price of that one, had just been released by a new manufacturer. The Lord provided through a wonderful donation from one of his children so that we were in a position to apply for the necessary financing for this unit. Thus it was arranged that I could attend a video exposition where this edit suite would be demonstrated during the time that Dave Hunt would be presenting his services in Johannesburg. The person who drove Dave Hunt and his wife from Johannesburg to Welkom, offered me a lift with them. And so the Lord provided for me to also film the messages there.

During the trip to Welkom I had the opportunity to learn to know Dave and Ruth better. Dave by occupation, was a chartered accountant. During his vacations he often took part in outreaches at university campuses. While they were living in Paris, France, they smuggled Bibles into communist countries to the persecuted church with the ministry of Brother Andrew, Open Doors. In this way they used every possible opportunity to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. For him it was just normal that a child of God would always be busy obeying the commandment of our Lord Jesus in Matthew 28:19. With reference to his upbringing, he said that his father held family devotions twice every day.

When I asked about all the Christian books that he had written, he said that he had walked into a Christian book store at the age of 40, for the first time in his life. Although he started writing earlier, he only fully committed himself to his writing career after his retirement. And that, not because he just wanted to write books, but because he felt that the Lord wanted him to address certain very pertinent issues in the church. Out of his dedication came the book, “Seduction of Christianity” which is possibly one of his most well-known writings. Because of his books he was asked to speak in churches and at conferences and other gatherings all over the world.

He also said that Dr. Andrew Murray was his favourite Christian writer. At one stage of his life he had a deep hunger to know more about the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer. That led him to the reading of the works of a sixteenth century writer, William Law. This made such an impression on him that he wanted to share what he read with others. The problem was that the old English that Law used, as well as his writing style, made his works inaccessible to the modern reader. Therefore he wrote and published William Law’s book in modern language, in 1967 as “The Power of the Spirit” by William Law, Edited by Dave Hunt (Christian Literature Crusade). But then he discovered that the South African author, Andrew Murray, had also translated William Law’s book into modern English, in 1896. And so he discovered the book: “The Power of the Spirit” Selections from the Writings of William Law and edited by Andrew Murray (Bethany Fellowship, Inc). The two books were basically identical. That inevitably led Dave to read more of Andrew Murray’s books.

My personal impression of Dave Hunt was that, next to Richard Wurmbrand, he was certainly the most humble man I ever met. When I asked him if I could not film his personal testimony of how he learned to know the Lord Jesus to add to one of the DVDs, he became very quiet. He just said that it should never be about him or his personal experience, but only about the Lord Jesus Christ. He waived the idea by saying that we must rather speak about the Lord Jesus and not about him that people should be drawn to Jesus through him rather than to write about him.

After filming the services in Welkom, I returned to Cape Town to wait there for him for the services to begin in Cape Town. When we met again he told me about one of the services they had led in the coastal areas. He stated that of all the services scheduled to be filmed, that one should have been the one. While in Cape Town he and his wife referred time and again to that service and every time said that they wished that one had been filmed.

During the services in Cape Town I had the opportunity to introduce Marina and our three children to the Hunts. At this time Ruth asked me if I am following them to Pretoria for the concluding service. I then explained to her that I would very much like to do so, but sadly it would not be financially possible. After that she approached me again about it. I really felt embarrassed but although I really wanted to go, there was just no way that I could afford it. Should I have to explain to her that I had no salary, pension or any other income? Was it not enough to say that our family lived by faith and the Lord did not provide for this? Marina and I of course prayed much about it, but it was not possible and we just had to accept it.

Someone who attended that service phoned me afterwards to tell what a wonderful service it was. That person then said, “You should have been here to film it!” Up until today I regret that I had not had the opportunity to film that meeting. It feels as though the opportunity has been lost forever.

Thus there are many things that we do not understand. Through the years there were so many opportunities like this for filming that we just could not afford to do. Currently there are many archaeological tours in Bible countries that, were we able to visit, we could film for the enjoyment of many viewers. We do not fully know the reasons why, but we are rested in the assurance that God knows all things and so we trust in His provision for our every need. At this stage it is enough for us to know that our lives and finances are in His hands.

Thus there are different projects that we started off during the years that are still incomplete because of financial shortages.

WHY ARE THESE DAVE HUNT DVDS RELEASED ONLY NOW?
Shortly after Dave and Ruth Hunt left Pretoria, the edit station was delivered. I immediately started to work on the first video. But right from the start we experienced a very strange problem. Every now and then bright coloured digital blocks appeared on the screen. And when the video was finished and the master was recorded on a DVCAM tape, these blocks were all over the video. And when repeating the recording on another tape, these blocks were again dotted around in different places. The edit station went back to Johannesburg for some testing and came back with the assurance that the problem was solved. But it was exactly the same. After a lot of struggling, I took the edit station to Johannesburg myself. The problem could not be solved. For a whole year I could not release one video, so wasting much time trying and testing one thing after the other. In the end, to do a test, they sent me a demo model of the actual edit station that could edit DVCAM. After a process to learn to use it, I managed to release a video. After all this lost time and struggle, it felt like a real breakthrough! The company in Johannesburg then made us a very generous offer. They offered us this edit station at the discounted price of a demo model as well as a discount of the full price of the non-working station. It was an appealing offer and a solution to the problem, but it would require double the amount of money over and above the first one. We prayed about it and in the end the Lord worked in the heart of one of his children to contribute a large part of this money for Kerugma.

All of this meant that our editing was delayed for more than a year. And after that it seemed that we would never catch up. You see, in the meantime the filming and editing of the Parliament of World Religions came in December 1999 as well as many other projects and before we could wink, our actual work started, namely the filming and editing of the Exploring The Lands Of The Bible series that is still continuing today.

DAVE HUNT “FAITH” DVD
One of the projects that was not completed over all these years, was the series about and named, the Toronto “Blessing”. The most important volume in the series, Volume 8, still has to be done. Through the years we are praying for the money to do this. It is a most important Volume without which the message of the previous volumes cannot be fully understood. Together with that, the book about the baptism and fulfillment of the Holy Spirit in the light of the Toronto “Blessing” phenomenon, has to be released. Both the book and the three-hour long DVD are going to take a long time to complete. We have to plan for that time, but then we have to know that we have the necessary funds to work on that continuously.

Since we started to release the Toronto Series, many people asked if it wouldn’t be possible to do it in English also. Well, as said, the DVD by Dave Hunt, “FAITH”, that we could only now release due to the aforementioned circumstances, carefully explains the New Thought Movement and the influence it has, for example, in the way Christians think and speak today without even realizing the influence of this cultic doctrine in their lives. The effect of that deception is that many Christians have a fear of discerning that someone is in error or to speak the truth in love when they know that what is being said or taught is contrary to the Word. Therefore they are unable to rebuke or admonish anyone because they fear to speak “negatively” into these situations.

They believe that we should only speak “positively” because they believe the lie that “life and death” lies in the power of the tongue. Is that what the Bible teaches? James 3:1-12 is very clear about how the Christian should learn to keep his tongue in check. We should not slander. But we need to rebuke and admonish. One of the deceptions that has spread like leaven in the churches today is that Christians are small “gods” who, like God, have creating power that can be released by the power of our words. Like when God said, “Let there be light”, Christians can so called speak “life or death”. Therefore many Christians live in fear that they may be as “witch doctors” as though what they say is going to happen.

Like earth worshippers who regard trees and chairs not as trees and chairs, but as things that threaten them and can speak to them, nothing is any longer normal for these super “gods”. They are over sensitive to everything they or others may say. They are no longer able to use normal expressions such as: “I am now dead tired”. They believe that when using an expression like that, that they speak death on themselves and thus their words have potentially poisonous effects. And when they hear anyone else say such a thing, they feel they must immediately rebuke that person, cancelling out the “effect” of his words.

If it was true that man as image bearer of God was equal to God with the same creating power, it would make no sense that he would speak death over himself. God never did that.

The fact is that man is neither God, nor a small “god”. Please watch the DVD by Dave Hunt, “FAITH” to learn more about the origin of these lies that have trapped so many children of the Lord. Please also avail yourself of former Word of Faith pastor, Bill Randles’, testimony DVD “Truth Versus Mystical Experiences”. This special testimony will be most beneficial to you. It is also available on the Kerugma website.

And so this is the reason why we are only now releasing the last of the 12 DVD’s by Dave Hunt and to encourage you to acquire Dave Hunt’s “FAITH” DVD and to also kindly give the DVD to others you know would benefit from and enjoy the message.

May our Lord Jesus, bless you.

Naas le Roux

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