What's incredible about this experience is the fact I had no idea before arriving for this convention what Cole was going to be talking about during his message. I was home with my wife and decided (before we left our house to drive to Roseville for this convention) that I would take a Raley's history book, wrap it up like a gift, put a personal note inside and then find an appropriate time to give Cole my wonderful gift to him.
How incredible that he starts off his message about the Norwegians of Minnesota giving him a gift. The Nordby's are Norwegians. So, after Cole was finished with giving his message, I went down and approached him at the front of the auditorium and I told Cole that I too was a Norwegian and I also had a gift for him. I also told Cole that his entire message was inside the gift. Cole smiled and thanked me for the gift. I asked Cole not to open the gift until he got home later that evening.......................do you think Cole waited until he got home to open the gift?
What's also incredible is the fact that Cole's message starts off talking about Kish's son Saul in 1st Samuel 9 and then makes mention of verse "6" being the scripture he wants to focus on.
Here are the numbers of interest: Charles Nordby had nine children and I was child number six. My middle name is "Samuel" In my note to Cole I state "My dad ran into a lot of jackasses in his life but he never ran into you." Was God asking me to go out on this night to seek out the lost "asses" and that is why I went to Roseville that night to give Cole my message and my gift?
Then at the end of my note/letter to Cole enclosed within my gift, I sign it "a son of Charles Nordby."
The Book of 1st Samuel, Chapter 9
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Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
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And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
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And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.
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And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
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And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
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And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can show us our way that we should go.
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God truly had a message for Cole that night. I am sure Cole has never forgotten this night. In fact, I would eventually be the Norwegian asking him to verify his story about Floyd Mullin he gave on this night. In my opinion, Cole is one of the biggest "christian" phonies I have ever met in my life. He's right up there with Chuck Collings.
And then the next day a grandson of Charles Nordby who didn't know what was given to Cole the night before, went up to Cole and asked him what he thought about the situation between Charles Nordby and Raley's. I know my note and gift must have really bothered Cole because Cole lashed out at Nordby's grandson by slandering Nordby---stating that Nordby was a liar, slanderer and doomed Nordby and his family to hell. Yeah right!!!
Free-time for shoplifting, Mr. Cole!
