Meet The Speaker || Pastor Randy Skeete

hi I'm Ellis in Colombia this is Melvin video productions coming to you live from Orlando East SDA church we've been here for the last two weeks we've been recording a powerful series of messages by pastor Randy skeet he's been preaching on salvation souls have come to Christ souls have been one for the kingdom and we've been very grateful and privileged to be able to record this series we took some time out of the preaching and we had a chat with pastor in the skit we wanted to find out who is he where did he grow up and what were some of the inspirations that he had as he was growing up take a look at this interview we did with pastor in the skit greetings at home or wherever you're watching us I'm very excited to have a special guest that we decided to talk to today I'm sure you've watched him preach you have heard about him you have visited him some way I'm talking to a special guest today and that's pasta Randy skit greetings pasta thank you very much pleasure to be here how are you no complaints at all wonderful it's been a privilege to have you in South Africa again I love coming to South Africa I really do one of my favorite places on the face of the earth it really is and I'm quite privileged to actually have recorded you this is the third time yes I believe the first time was in rixton yes and the second time was sentient and now I know East and I'm quite privileged to actually see you come to Southern Africa quite alright and but before we get into your travels into Africa I wanted to find out when this kid who is pasta really skating well I'm originally from a little island called Barbados okay in the West Indies the most easterly of the West Indian islands 21 miles long 14 miles wide so that's not a large population of possibly about 280,000 it's very heavily a very small very thickly populated a tourist place heavily British in its background it used to be called little England that's where I'm from and so my roots even though most of my life I've lived in the United States I'm an American but my roots are from the West Indies particularly Barbados my earliest years with my family we were Catholics okay and then my mother's somehow I think I recall the details then sometimes I think I don't but she heard about the Sabbath had never heard of it before and she found out somehow about Adventists and where they worship I believe a friend of ours was an Adventist okay and so we went to his church a long time ago and I'm just glad she took that stand even though she lost a husband because of that yes my father who was a merchant marine he sail the seven seas okay once he left home I was eight he came back I was 21 so you know how far and wide he sailed and he didn't like it in those days there wasn't facts on what's happened site so it took him weeks of months maybe to get a letter to find out my mother had made this very very important family decision so he did not like it he's a good man he was probably 11 12 yes and my brothers and sisters same thing so you've got family of with brothers who could sisters well I have three sisters I had one brother he passed about five years ago he was younger okay so we all came into the church all right under my mother's leadership we had no choice but now we're glad we had this was marvellous yes yes now from debaters how did you get into the u.s. well I I went first of all to school in Jamaica all right one year had a delightful time which time my mother's living United States so I just came to join her all right because I also wanted to attend awkward College okay you know back in the 70s and you know the Black Power movement civil rights movement that kind of thing so you know young black boys growing up seeing awkward yeah I wanted to go this why went then I left oak wood at a tremendous time at Oakwood College which is now Open University yes then went to Andrews Theological Seminary or the Theological Seminary at Andrews University yes also had a very splendid time there but from a child I always knew I had to be a preacher I did not need to tell awkward I handrim I needed to find out about that I always knew into that well just a childhood conviction most people have to Russell to find out what is it I should do I always knew I would be a priest you've got to tell me how did you always you know that now there's nothing scientific about you just have this conviction it's a conviction my all the sister tells me that while we were Catholics the local priest saw looked at me and saw potential in me to be a priest all right apparently that's one of the reasons why my mother pulled us out of the church okay in addition to the fact she was not satisfied with the level of Bible instruction so and when I would take aptitude tests it would come out preachy a teacher yes so I always knew okay I would be a preacher of some sort all right I began about fourteen because when I was growing up young boys were encouraged to preach in my church we had meetings on Selenites Mennonites and Sabbath so you could preach on Wednesday night or Sunday until you demonstrated a level of capacity or ability to speak at a young age I think I was probably 20 or 19 actually conducted a crusade at my home church so this was your first yes it's called love letter lectures that's what I call it yes and yes I remember the main I wish I could find that original flyer all right so all my life I've always known okay - tell us about some of the influences my mother around you that you'd say I think are all my existence or might not be is about without question and the lady at the church she passed away many years ago called sister Daniels she said she adopted me as a son I'd go to her house Thursdays or some day of the week for dinner and she was a very strong one of those all-time Christians when you saw them you saw Christian all right away she dressed you rent her house you stepped into the living room and you were you felt this is a Christians home something about the woman said Christian we've see very few people like that today yeah so she was an inspiration and my mother was the biggest inspiration and remains my mother has always been a Christian even when she was a Catholic she was very devoted to God hmm I've always seen my mother pray as a child all ways and she gathers to pray because my father was never home every night we'd gather around the bed praying and with every night we'd recite Psalm 91 he that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide so every night so I oh of course God is in a separate class you understand that yeah but I'm earthly level I go everything to another I study theology in English at the undergraduate level when you Testament theology at the seminary did you see yourself traveling the world obviously when I became a 7-day Adventist I began to admire the Apostle Paul and I said I'd like to do that that man just went please please please please and there were no planes back then long months long journeys on boat shipwrecks all sorts of things so that attracted me very much you know the Lord waited till I was a teacher yes out of the United States it was in Uganda camp meeting for the camp Allen Central Church I had a remarkable time I mean just a blessed time yeah the next year they invited me back and I went again okay but that time I also did a crusade in a town called moussaka in southwestern Uganda I can play that once fried annouce and I drove right down to Kampala and started to camp being and from then it has snowball all of the world yes but my favorite places are East and Southern Africa and Southeast Asia so from Ethiopia to South Africa Cambodia layoffs Thailand Philippines Malaysia Indonesia gospel tell us about why you're drawn into this I don't know that's another thing I don't know all right when the Lord puts convictions on you you can't explain them logically or scientifically that's all you know is this conviction is real that's all you know but I've always been drawn to that part of Africa and Southeast Asia Wow I mean I'd go anywhere the Lord sends me but if I don't go to Europe I don't cry if I don't go to South America I don't cry if I'm called I'll go but if I don't go to Africa the Lord and I have to talk and I must I must confess that with the previous series that we've done the preaching has been well received within Africa I hope so and I've spoken to one guy we're watching one of your videos in I think the past is originally from Africa well he's right in a certain sense historically yes yes one of my idol curiosities is to find out what tribe I'm from must be a West African tribe it looks like that's because in the slaves you came to that part of the world came from now let's talk about mission work in the world what are some of you highlights as you travel within these regions of mentioned when you say highlights what I mean something that really catches your eye and you're thankful to the Lord this experience the willingness of people to listen to the truth when it is spoken plainly yeah one of the great disservice is preachers do is to preach confusing messages in an attempt to please not upset the best thing you can do if an audience is to preach a direct message it need not be blunt it has to be direct there's a quotation for my favorite writer outside of the Bible she says in these fearful times just before price is to come the second time God's faithful preachers are to bear a still more pointed testimony than was borne by John the Baptist's a faithful responsible work is before them and those who speak smooth things God will not acknowledge as his own a fearful war is upon them and so I have learned to speak very directly speak the truth and let the truth do its work so I am always touched and amazed regardless of where I go and I tend to speak every night I don't take nights off which is unusual that's when I'm told and people always tell me no no no this won't work wherever I go Western countries Eastern countries third world first world second fourth fifth wherever I go the attendance is always remarkable every night but first I meet objections from the local leaders this will never work we need time to go this place I said look the might you can come come the night you can't come don't come someone else will come and so people demonstrate they love the truth they love the word and so it's very inspiring to absolutely know you've caught it from your favorites right otherwise how do you get to memorize all this content and have it the constant repetition people think it's magical it is not okay all people know their telephone numbers that's people who live in a city nor the city they know every left turn every right turn together the supermarket the drugstore their home the church they know they have memorized the map yes a woman knows where everything is in her kitchen you blindfold us you'll find them she has memorized a map of the kitchen people memorize a map of their if you know your house well you can walk through your house blindfolded you know so it's just a matter of desire most people don't want to if they admire you see which is fine daughters are what is admiring he want this imitating we're not admire Christ we are the enmity of Christ and so I've observed it is a lack of desire okay but let's let's dig a little bit down the repetition someone will say a repetition I know but how do you actually get to repeat because that's quite a big book well yes it really is quite says my same writer that which it first seems difficult by constant repetition grows easy how are soccer players so skillful they do the same moves over and over there is no other way basketball plays shoot baskets a thousand times a day I was talking to one golfer he said he'd hit 600 balls in the day to perfect his drive yes Amy for God's word you've got to be in it morning noon the night when you're driving you recite the Bible when you're brushing your teeth you recite the Bible when you're the bathroom you recite the Bible but you turn on the computer it takes 20 seconds to come on you recite it is all the time when you go to bed at night your head is on the pillow how much time does it take to fall asleep in that time all you do is either pray or recite passages it's like Joe who says I what am i necessary for but we have to value it first the Bible is not a book of poems to memorize and recycle the stage for a place the bite the words of the Bible are life take away God's Word you cannot resist sin you cannot grow you cannot get ready for the coming of Christ you can't do anything because the word is the power analyze rights if studied and obeyed the Word of God works in the heart subduing every unholy attribute and that same quotation she says the scripture are the primary agency in the transformation of character you cannot be a child of God and in either the neglect the Bible you can be a church member not a child of God the world was made by the word the universe was made by the word it is sustained by the word we are part of the universe we must be sustained by the word yes we're getting to the end of our interview posture but before we go into our listeners out there I wanted to ask you if you were to be normal because we know at some point if Jesus doesn't come what do you want to be remembered for a man who loved the Word of God and who loved Jesus loved to preach the truth and who loved Jesus that's all thank you so much faster for my privilege I would like to thank you for taking this time to talk to us today so may the Lord bless and we're really been privileged to talk to you my pleasure got doubly blessed to have viewers at home this is all we had pasta renderscript thank you so much for being with us and I hope to see you next time god you

Channel: MelVee Broadcasting Network

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Keywords: Randy Skeete, MelVee Productions, interview, Pr. Skeete's Story | GAP: Testimony #2, Soweto, Orlando

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Length: 15min 55sec (955 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 03 2015