4. Crisis On The Horizon: An Overwhelming Surprise by Martin Smith Presented in NZ & AUS 2026

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>> Hello everybody. Good afternoon.

So I'm not used to speaking so in front of a lot of people and my English is not my first language. So please bear with me if I do maybe get my tenses wrong or struggle to think because sometimes I think in Afrikaans and then I try to express it in the in English.

So just before I start with what I wanted to share a few people have asked me a short version of my testimony. So I just wanted to show you because if you've gone through now from last evening up until what Walter just finished showing us, maybe some of you think, "Yeah, but what do I do now?

I've been so far down a wrong path. God can never look at me again." Well, I grew up a Christian, but after school I thought I was a Christian, but I loved the world. I loved the things of the world, especially music. Now I couldn't play any instruments, but I could play other people's songs

and mix them together and have big parties right through the night. Sometimes right through a weekend without sleeping. And I did that for many years and then I met my wonderful wife. And she also joined me. So, this is just to show you a quick few pictures of the life we had. And there she is. So, she also was a DJ.

And even on our wedding day, she didn't wait long until everybody had to listen to what she wanted them to listen to. Yeah, and there's a So, that's just a quick [laughter] browse through memory lane. And that those times, we called it underground clubs. It's not mainstream. It's not where you go to see people