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Seeing others the way Christ does, next, on

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The Road to Reality, with Brother K.P.

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Johanan.

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So many people are tottering their way through

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life with little or no purpose, but the

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Bible tells us we don't have to live

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that way.

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There is a God-given plan for every

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life, and John's Gospel, Chapter 4, models this

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for us.

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I'm your host, Richard Bewes, and it's time

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once again for The Road to Reality, with

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K.P. Johanan of Gospel for Asia.

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K.P. takes us then to John 4,

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right now.

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Yes, it's where Jesus meets with a woman

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by a well site.

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K.P. will use this to encourage us

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to step into the way of Christ and

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see others the way He does.

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He begins with this startling reality.

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Nearly 200,000 people die every day without

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Christ and going into eternity.

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How does that affect the heart of Jesus?

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I want to know.

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I need to know.

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But the disciples, they are not getting it.

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In Matthew, Gospel, Chapter 9, the writer Matthew

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says, after three decades of the event, he

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was moved with compassion when he saw the

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multitudes, broken, helpless, harassed, sheep without shepherd.

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My question, why couldn't he say, We, along

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with Christ, we were so broken up, moved

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with compassion.

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No, they didn't understand that yet.

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He only could say, He.

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What happened on the face of Jesus that

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Matthew could not forget?

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After 30 years, he couldn't forget it.

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Did Jesus collapse and just wept and wept

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when he saw the suffering and the poor

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and the needy?

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Question.

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What is hindering me from understanding Jesus' heart?

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Or am I really following the Jesus of

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the New Testament?

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Or have I created a Christ of my

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convenience as Corinthians did, who smiles at me

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no matter what I do, where I go?

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What is wrong?

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And this is where I think Jesus is

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asking, Would you please stop and thinking about

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yourself and look away and see what I

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see?

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Keith Green was a dear friend who went

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to be with the Lord, a radical disciple

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of Jesus.

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He wrote many wonderful songs.

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He sang very well.

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And I will not attempt to sing any

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of his songs.

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But here is a couple of lines that

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will speak to us clearly what it's all

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about.

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Do you see?

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Do you see all the people singing down?

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Don't you care?

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Don't you care?

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Are you going to let them drown?

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How can you be so numb not to

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care if they come?

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You close your eyes and pretend the job

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is done.

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Oh, bless me, Lord.

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Bless me, Lord.

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You know it is all I ever hear.

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No one hates.

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No one hurts.

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No one even sheds one tear.

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And it goes on.

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But he cries.

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He weeps.

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But all I can think about is me,

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mine, my wife, my children, my health, my

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wealth, my future, my education.

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It's all about me.

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But Jesus says, look away.

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1974, I came to the United States to

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Dallas to go to seminary.

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North America does strange things to aliens like

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Someone who walked on the streets of India

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and Nepal for eight years weeping over the

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lost multitudes, getting beaten up and abused for

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the ministry.

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Now having come to America, without me even

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thinking about it, I was becoming normal.

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When I first came to America, I thought

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hot dog was dog meat.

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Hot curry, hot rice, hot D-O-G.

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But I learned my lessons well.

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I didn't have to borrow anything or buy

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no credit.

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Just pay cash and buy stuff.

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I began with the Kmart, the cheapest stuff.

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Neiman Marcus.

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You can buy a suit for $100.

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You don't need to spend $800.

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That's dumb.

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You can buy $5 and buy a plastic

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watch, which tells you more accurate time than

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an expensive Rolex.

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But I had to have a Rolex.

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Seventy expensive silk neckties, all from Europe.

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It took me sometime half hour trying to

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figure out what color fits me.

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Because I read a book, Color Me Beautiful.

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If you men don't understand what I'm talking

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about, please ask your wife.

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Different little pieces of clothes she's carrying around,

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matching, trying to figure out what to buy.

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Books with thousands of books in my library.

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Books I may never read, but they all

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look so wonderful.

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Ten acres of land.

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Brand new, beautiful house.

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Please don't misunderstand.

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I was not doing anything dumb on the

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streets.

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I was an ordained minister pastoring a church

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also at the time.

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Nearly three years went by.

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I found I couldn't cry anymore.

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My eyes were dry.

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Oh yeah, I talked about heaven, hell, missions,

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the lost world, suffering world.

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and I did it too.

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But it was all so objective.

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Nothing moved my heart anymore.

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And finally, I was so discouraged.

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I thought about walking away from the ministry

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itself.

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And that's when, by the grace and mercy

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of God, the Lord began to deal with

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I went to my room, just sat on

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the carpet, and I said, Lord, I'm lost.

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I can't cry anymore.

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It's all a profession anymore.

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I'm no more the person I used to

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be.

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I don't know what to do.

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I prayed before my congregation and meetings.

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Such praise that people were so moved.

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They thought it was the best praise they

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ever heard.

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But they were all carefully thought through words.

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And now I sit before Him and say,

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Lord, I just don't know what to do.

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I don't know what to tell you.

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I'm lost.

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If you know me, Lord, would you please

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talk to me?

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It was no more Jacob saying, my name,

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Father, it is Esau.

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He was clever.

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your name?

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I'm Jacob.

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I'm lost.

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I know it all in my head.

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But I'm lost.

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And that's when the Lord broke into my

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life.

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He made my heart soft and tender.

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I could cry once again.

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People thought I got eye disease.

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For two weeks, I couldn't stop crying.

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I was so in love with Jesus.

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If He asked me to jump off a

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building, I would have done it.

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Nothing, nothing I wouldn't do for Jesus.

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It was the most amazing discovery to love

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Him, to fall in love with Him.

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Nobody told me to sell my land, my

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house, empty my bank account, sell my clothes.

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Nothing, nobody, nobody.

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It was the greatest joy of my life

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for my wife and I to exchange everything

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we owned, including my clothes, except a couple

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of ties and a couple of jackets for

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the sake of preaching the gospel.

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And I beg of you to understand, I'm

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not promoting to sell your house, sell your

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clothes and sell your husband and wife and

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kids and cars.

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I'm not saying that.

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I have friends who are multi-millionaires who

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walk with God, who are used by God,

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who are more devout to Jesus than some

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poor people who say they have nothing but

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they're greedy and so bitter.

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I'm not talking about money here.

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It's my personal journey, how finally when I

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came to the place I realized that I

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didn't care about Him, my heart had to

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change.

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It was not external, it was internal.

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And the Lord will do the same thing

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for you.

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But you know what?

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Today, Gospel for Asia, we are in 10

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nations in the heart of the 1040 window,

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15,000 missionaries, 24,000 churches planted among

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people that never had a church before, 54

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Bible colleges with 9,000 plus students, three

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years of training.

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Every year we send 2,000 mission field.

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92 languages radio broadcast heard by multiplied millions,

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over a million people write to us every

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year.

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We produce over 100 million pieces of literature

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every year in 18 languages, just launching a

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full-time 24-hour, seven days a week

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television channel.

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And I could go on and on and

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on tell you, you know, all this came

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out of 28 years ago.

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I came to the place, I recognized, unless

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the seed falls into the ground and dies,

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died to my ambition, my plan, my cardinality,

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my self-centeredness, my lust, my dreams, my

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decisions, unless I am willing to lose it

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all, I will remain as I am.

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Nothing else will happen.

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My brothers and sisters, Jesus is not angry

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at you or me.

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No, he loves us.

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It is out of such love.

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He says, come away, my love, as Keith

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Green sang, come away from this mess.

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And that is the invitation, not of condemnation

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and judgment, rather out of love and faith.

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Why?

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Because he called you and me, not for

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time, but for eternity, to be with thee

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forever and ever.

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What we have here is but only for

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a few moments of time.

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Let's not forget that.

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With that invitation of love, we'll take a

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little break from our study, but we'll come

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back to Brother KP in just a moment.

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This is The Road to Reality from Gospel

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for Asia.

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Hey, listen, if you are aged between 18

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and 25 and want to grow in your

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walk with Jesus as well as impact unreached

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people for him, our school of discipleship could

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be just for you.

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You can take a precious year to grow

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closer to the Lord and help reach the

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world's most unreached with the gospel.

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To find out more, click to roadtoreality.org

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.uk or call 01904 643 233.

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I say that again, roadtoreality.org.uk or

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01904 643 233.

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Now, with the rest of his message from

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John's Gospel chapter 4, back to you, KP,

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once again.

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Now, Jesus said, I send you to a

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harvest you didn't work for.

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You know, one of the most amazing thing,

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Jesus said, I will build my church.

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That makes me so happy.

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I don't have to do anything.

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Jesus used, yeah, you just be faithful to

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me and I will do the rest.

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It's none of your problem.

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Fine, Jesus.

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But Lord, I read in the book of

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Acts, daily you added to the church thousands

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of people.

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In them, they changed the world.

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And the Lord says, yeah, daily they obeyed

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me.

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Therefore, I could do that daily.

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My brothers and sisters, how many of you

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traveled 2, 3, 4, 5 hours, 10 hours

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from this humongous country to get to this

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place?

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By plane, by car, by, I was going

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to say bullock cart and donkeys.

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No, you don't have those things here.

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How many gas stations, petrol stations you stopped?

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Now listen, how many people received that gospel

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tract from you?

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You know what?

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It is time we become little crazy, little

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extreme and radical, unafraid, unashamed, to say, I

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belong to Jesus.

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We need to learn to say, there's a

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hell, there's a heaven, there's a Jesus, time

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is running out, repent, whether they like it

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or not, we need to start doing that.

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Just a few days ago, another sad telephone

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call I received.

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One of our missionaries in Bangladesh who won

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nearly 100 people to the Lord, they were

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baptized, their church was born.

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As he was going in a bus, they

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stopped the bus, pulled him out of the

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bus and beat him to death right on

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the street.

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He left his 23-year-old wife and

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five-month-old child behind.

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You know what the sister said?

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I'm so sad, heartbroken, I lost my husband.

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He actually was one of our graduates from

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our Bible college in Dhaka.

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Then the sister, in the midst of her

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tears and sobbing and pain, she said these

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words, but I have a child, I will

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raise my child to take the place of

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my husband.

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Jesus is asking his disciples, see what I

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see and understand who I am and then

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you go and be mine and do exactly

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what I would do.

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I'm going after the cross.

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Willing to pay the price and you'll be

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willing to do that and that's exactly what

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Thomas did when he came to India.

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Finally he was killed for preaching the gospel

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and his tomb is still there.

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I do not know if you ever read

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the story of Adoniram Jetson.

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With this story I want to conclude and

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pray for you.

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Jetson was the first missionary from America to

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leave his country.

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But before he would take off to India

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and Burma, in 1810 he happened to fall

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in love with a young girl named Anne

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Nancy Haseltine.

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She was a daughter of a very rich,

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affluent businessman.

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So young Jetson asking permission from John Haseltine

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to marry his daughter writes these words.

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Listen close.

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I want to ask you if you're willing

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to part with your daughter early next spring,

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you may never see her again in this

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world.

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She will be subjected to terrible hardships and

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sufferings of a missionary's life.

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She will be exposed to the dangers of

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the ocean, to the fatal influences of the

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southern climate of India.

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She will have to face every kind of

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distress, degradation, insult, persecution, and possibly a violent

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death.

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Can you consent to all this for the

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sake of him who left his heavenly home

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and died for her and for you and

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for the sake of perishing immortal souls and

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for the glory of God?

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What a way to ask a father for

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his daughter.

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I got a daughter.

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He'll ask me.

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I'll tell him.

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Can you agree to all this in hope

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of soon meeting your daughter in the world

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of glory, wearing the crown of righteousness brightened

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with the acclamations of praise to the Savior

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from heathen saved through her sacrifice from eternal

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hell?

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That's a letter.

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The answer.

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Her father left the choice to her.

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This was her reply.

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I have decided to give up all my

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comforts and enjoyments here, sacrifice my affection to

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relatives and friends to obey the call of

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the Lord.

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As far as I know, no female has

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ever left the shores of America to spend

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her life like this.

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The Judson's labored for seven years before winning

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the first convert.

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After nine years, they had baptized only 18.

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Several of their fellow missionaries died.

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Others simply left the mission field.

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Judson himself was brutally imprisoned 17 months during

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a crackdown against all foreigners, barely surviving the

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horribly inhumane treatment.

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One night, while his raw and bleeding feet

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were hanging in elevator stalks, swarms of mosquitoes

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settled on his bare soles, producing excruciating torture.

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Then, not long after his release from prison,

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Judson's beloved wife, Nancy, died.

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Her constant life of sacrifice and service had

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finally taken its toll.

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Just a few weeks later, little Maria, their

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third baby, was suddenly taken from this world.

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Judson was left utterly alone in a hostile

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Buddhist land, almost shattered with pain and grief.

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Before him lay the prospect of a tiger

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-infested jungle, bat-infested houses, and a fever

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-infested climate and for life.

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Behind him lay an almost unimaginable trail of

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hardship and loss, but he did not leave

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off his mission work.

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He did not abandon his Bible translating or

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his preaching and teaching labors.

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How could he?

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Eternal souls are at stake.

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Who else could reach the Burmese as well

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as he?

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So he remained for 20 more years, returning

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to America only once, and that by necessity,

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not by choice.

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Judson's devotion for life was not in vain.

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On one occasion, during a great annual festival

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held at the Towering Golden Buddhist Pagoda in

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Rangoon, I've been there, he recorded that he

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had distributed nearly 10,000 tracts, giving to

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none but those who asked.

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Some came two, three months journey from the

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borders of Siam and China, saying, Sir, we

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hear that there is an eternal hell.

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We are afraid of it.

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Do give us a writing that will tell

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us how to escape it.

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Others came from interior country where the name

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of Jesus is little known.

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Are you Jesus man?

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Give us a writing that tells about Jesus

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Christ.

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For Judson, it was worth it all.

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Today, there are more than one million born

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-again believers in Burma.

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Jesus said, I'm sending you.

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It's exciting news.

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And to think that God could use little

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me as a part of His plan to

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reach the world for Him.

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Well, it's an honor.

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If you are aged between 18 and 25

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and want to grow closer to the Lord,

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be interested in our School of Discipleship, an

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opportunity to set aside a year to serve

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the Lord and to impact the unreached world.

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Go to roadtoreality.org.uk to learn more

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or call our office, would you, on 01904

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643 233.

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Again, visit us on roadtoreality.org.uk or

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call 01904 643 233.

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You know, we'd love to hear from you.

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So again, just turn to roadtoreality.org.uk

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and we'll lead you from there.

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This is Richard Buse saying, when we hear

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from you, leave it to us to give

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you the necessary tips for the next steps.

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Bye for now!