Why God Corrects You (And Why It Hurts) | Correction And Chastisment by Ps Wayman Mitchell

was ministering in Canada last week.

And Sergei Goliabov, who is the Russian overseer and pastor in Vologda, was there and had good fellowship with him.

It was always a great encouragement to see what God's doing in Russia.

And he's telling the story about the man that I call Russia's Larry Reed.

Now, some of you are too young to be able to connect with Larry Reed, but he's a man who, in the early days of our fellowship, was a heron addict, ex-convict, and he used to give us some very colorful revivals and such like.

And so I call this man the Russian Larry Reed.

He was here maybe a year ago last conference in the winter, and he spent nine years in Russia for drugs and violating the law.

And during that period of time, they concentrated on him to break him.

And he was a very stubborn, very strong-willed man.

He spent a long time in solitary confinement.

During those nine years, he was beaten repeatedly by the prison guards and the officials and And he was determined he would not let them break him.

So he has a star tattooed on each knee.

He's a hero among the convicts in that prison because those stars are a sign that he would not bow to authority.

So in the process of time, he wound up coming to Vilagda and meeting up with Sergei Golubov.

who is about as different from a drug addict and an ex-convict as you can get.

And he has to listen to this man.

Now, this man has some college.

He's very dignified and skinny, while the Russian Larry Reed has muscles all over him, probably from exercising in the prison because of that.

And he's there.

He comes to that place, and it dawned some to him.

He's listening to this guy.

I don't know what they call them there.

They used to call them the lames because they know nothing about it.

Addicts know nothing about the real world.

And so he has to listen to him.