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Egypt was the most important country for the

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evangelization of the whole Arab world.

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We praise God for missionaries.

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Some of them have laid down our lives.

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One of our OM workers was shot dead

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in Turkey.

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Another was murdered in Afghanistan.

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Another one was shot dead at a clinic

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in Lebanon.

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But many missionaries struggle to learn the Arabic

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language.

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And we live in a real world.

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And in the real world there are problems.

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And after they learn the language, begin in

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ministry, one of their children gets extremely ill

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and they return home.

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I can give you ten other reasons why

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missionaries return home.

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You have been given one of the greatest

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gifts God could ever give a man in

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this day and age.

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You have that gift.

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If you speak Arabic, please raise your hand.

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Seldom do I get 100% response in

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my invitations.

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You are halfway there.

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You are halfway to the mission field.

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And we are praying that as a result

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of the Holy Spirit working among us, others

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will make the commitment to go the rest

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of the way.

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And I celebrate with all my heart what

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Arab people from Egypt are already doing in

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the Muslim world.

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We in OM have been here for a

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half a century.

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Our biggest target was Turkey.

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And it was Afghanistan.

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Because I had heard there are already many

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believers in Egypt.

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And originally I thought OM is not needed

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in Egypt.

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They have plenty of believers.

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We go to Iraq.

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We go to Syria.

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But a team came here around 1964 driving

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through, I think, from Libya.

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And they fell in love with this country.

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And they also discovered that many were not

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sharing their faith.

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Though they lived next to people of a

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completely different persuasion, they did not share their

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faith.

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And so our work was also born here.

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And it's not time to talk about it.

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Instead, I want to show a very short

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video.

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From a brother that was called out to

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minister in music and traveled with me around

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the world.

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It's an amazing story.

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He may have been here before Bill Drake,

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but I hope he'll return to Egypt again.

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And so we created this short video about

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the 10-40 window.

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That's this area of the world around the

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Mediterranean, 10 degrees to 40 degrees.

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So if we can have the lights down,

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and I hope...

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I was so excited when I discovered Brother

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Mafdy's vision for Christian literature.

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I was even more excited when he said

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he was going to reprint my old book.

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Over 100,000 copies of this book in

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many languages.

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But I think it was 15 years ago.

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So I started re-reading it.

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And I realized what I wrote then is

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just as relevant in this year, 2019.

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I've written many books.

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But this is the only book that is

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100% about the challenge of missions.

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I am more known in my ministry for

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preaching about radical discipleship and radical grace.

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And we'll be talking about that in the

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next two days.

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But I've never lost the focus to reach

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the whole world with the gospel.

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And God prepared me for difficult places.

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Where not many responded.

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Like Turkey and Afghanistan and Iraq.

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But he gave us this command, this challenge.

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That everybody in the world should have the

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gospel at least once, whether they respond or

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not.

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One of the books we're distributing here is

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one of the most influential books in my

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life.

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Oswald J.

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Smith, The Challenge of Missions.

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He'll be telling you more about that book.

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And this is one of his famous quotations.

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Why should so many people hear the gospel

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over and over again when others never hear

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it even once or read it even once?

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Sharing our faith in some countries.

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Where there are certain forces in strong power.

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And that includes London where I live.

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Where we have one million people from Asia.

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You can guess the background of many of

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these dear friends from Pakistan.

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And we've been working among these people for

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50 years.

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Many have come from Egypt to work with

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our team in London.

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And the response has been small.

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And often people don't want the message.

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But our joy is not firstly getting results.

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Of course we want results.

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But our joy is being obedient to God.

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Our meat is to do the will of

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God.

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I get so discouraged in my personal sharing

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which I've been doing all the time for

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60 years.

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And of course they want to argue with

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me.

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I was living in Nepal.

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Sharing my faith.

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There were very few believers when we were

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living there.

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I had one of the first pastors conferences.

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Only 15 pastors.

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We now have over a thousand pastors.

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Hundreds of thousands of Nepalese have turned to

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Christ.

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We're going to be talking a lot in

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these days about this world in which we

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live.

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We're going to talk about the nations of

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the world.

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We're going to deal with some of the

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false ideas.

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I read one of them just 20 minutes

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ago in an email.

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It comes out of America.

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And it said the 20th century was the

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great century of missions.

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Will the 21st century be the great century

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of omissions?

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Of missing.

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Not doing missions.

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I don't know what he's thinking of.

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Maybe he's thinking about American missionaries.

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There are less of those coming long term.

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But we want to think globally.

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We want to include what the Nigerians are

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doing.

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We want to include what the Brazilians are

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doing.

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We want to include what the Indians are

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doing.

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What the Filipinos are doing.

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What the Egyptians are doing.

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And let me go on record and you

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can write it in your tablet.

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The 21st century is the greatest century of

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global missions.

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And it's because almost all the major nations

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of the world are now involved in missions.

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Nothing to compare with it in the 20th

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century.

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And I'm a 20th century character.

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And that was a great century.

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I'm not worthy to tie the shoelaces of

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many of those great missionaries.

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But it's so simple to understand.

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Because that was a great century and great

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things happened.

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This is a better century with greater things

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about to happen.

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And your amazing movement that many people don't

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even know exists is part of that great

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21st century global explosion.

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But you know I live in England.

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I lived in Europe 60 years.

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I started in Madrid.

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I learned Spanish.

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I sent other people to this part of

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the world.

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But God sent me to the Soviet Union.

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And I made a stupid mistake.

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I was still a young Christian, a young

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missionary.

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So I was arrested by the KGB and

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accused of being an American spy in the

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Soviet Union.

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It looked like an all expensive holiday in

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Siberia.

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In other words, a prison camp in Siberia.

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After two more days of interrogation with the

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police, they decided I was a religious fanatic

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and I must be removed from the country.

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That failure changed the course of my life.

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Because my vision at that time did not

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include Western Europe, Germany or Britain.

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It was not in my thinking.

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It was only Turkey and Afghanistan and hard

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places.

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But because of that failure, I went for

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a day of prayer.

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And God met with me.

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He gave me the name Operation Mobilization.

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My wife's father had been killed in the

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war.

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I was very aware of the war.

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I was born as that war was born.

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God gave me this vision for free Europe.

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That they would send hundreds of workers to

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Asia.

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But they would start first in Samaria and

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give everybody in Europe the gospel at least

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once.

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No one had ever heard of us.

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But God moved me to Great Britain as

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I turned the work in Spain over to

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Spaniards.

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God had especially prepared students at Cambridge and

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Oxford University for this radical message of discipleship

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and missions.

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A book came out last year recording the

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history of what God did at Cambridge University

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in sending out so many workers.

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200 of us came together.

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And tried to reach 25 million people with

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the word of God in one summer.

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And we sent from Madrid our first teams

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across North Africa and to Egypt.

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The next summer, 2,000 came together.

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We started to send trucks full, whole vehicles

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full of workers from London and Brussels all

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the way to New Delhi and Bombay.

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Then God surprised me and sent my wife

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and our three children to live in Bombay

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and be in India for a number of

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years.

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I wanted to give just a little bit

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of my history that I hope will help

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you understand what I try to share in

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these days together.

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I'm a little bit crazy as a speaker

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because I challenge people to write me personally,

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to email me personally and I will read

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it personally and I'll pray for them and

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I'll probably send them some books and films

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as a gift and in some cases I

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will be following them the rest of their

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life.

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So you can imagine as an old person

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I stepped out of all leadership in OM

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17 years ago you can imagine what's keeping

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me busy.

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Some days especially when stuck on an airplane

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I just have seven or eight hours non

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-stop praying for people all over the world.

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I've only been to 100 countries but I'm

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in touch with people from about 150 countries

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corresponding with Egyptians for 50 years and some

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of them even come to my home in

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London and visit me and so I hope

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you will also take that challenge.

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Now I have one of my helpers with

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me, Ray Aimee I don't know where he's

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sitting.

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Is that to visit you in London or

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to write you?

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Don't all come on the same day.

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But I want to introduce Ray Aimee who's

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helping me.

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He lived in Egypt many years he'd love

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to meet you and if you know English

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he will give you the English film of

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my life story.

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This is not about me but about God

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answering my questions.

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This is not about me but about how

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God answered my prayers.

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You'll travel with me to Mexico then we'll

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be in Madrid then you'll be with me

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in Nepal then you'll hear my wife share

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who never speaks in public but she's on

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this film then we'll be on our ship

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then we'll be in Singapore and meet the

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present director of OM Lawrence Tang, a Chinese

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brother and my dream is someday this film

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will be in Arabic at least in the

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subtitles but right now it's only in English

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some of you very young people you are

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anti-DVD DVD old people for

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you we have this little memory stick George

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Verwer memory stick it's the same film but

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Ray will interview you and if you don't

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know English you are not getting it you

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can pray for the Arab edition I'm known

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for promoting learning of English even though

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I don't like English I prefer Spanish Spanish

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more rhythm I like rhythm but French is

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my favorite because I love the dance and

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French they make me dance but unfortunately English

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is being spoken all over the world English

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is one of the keys to global evangelism

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but you have a very special language because

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to be a missionary to the Arab world

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and look at the size of the Arab

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world from the western Sahara over on to

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Saudi Arabia and the Gulf I've had the

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joy of being in all of these countries

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and so you don't necessarily need to know

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English but we have this problem in OM

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boy meets girl love he doesn't even speak

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my language he's speaking English it's amazing how

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quickly the girls learn English when they fall

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in love with an English fellow I

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have parents all over the world upset with

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me they're upset with me because they think

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I promote international marriage and

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many countries I will not give the names

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they don't want their children marrying people from

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other inferior countries but

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you know when you get a ship and

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you got 400 people living on that ship

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for a year or two things happen this

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was not the vision God gave me in

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the beginning this was not the vision and

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now over one I'm sorry over 1,000

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couples have met each other on OM there

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are thousands and they all believe in big

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families they almost all believe in big families

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thousands of children they're all a much better

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color than I am and when I meet

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these children of course they don't pay any

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attention this old man they're usually playing their

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computer games and I stop them and I

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say look at me little boy if it

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wasn't for me you would not be here

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suddenly there's a revival and some of those

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children later go to OM teen street and

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they join OM we

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have hundreds of second generation that are getting

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involved in global missions I'm so excited about

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it one of my own

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grandsons he thought he's in a Christian home

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he must be a Christian and he told

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people he was a Christian I'm not an

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atheist I'm not a Hindu never read his

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Bible there was no spiritual reality but he

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as a young man was a very gifted

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welder they put steel together welders the ship

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needs welders this is an old ship it's

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rotting underneath our feet so he got accepted

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by the ship and then he had to

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go through that OM training course and one

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of our leaders spoke about the need to

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get into the word of God the first

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time in his life he got into the

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word of God he joined the ship he

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saw tough men in the engine room who

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radiated the life of Jesus and it spoke

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to him and

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he listened to a strong message on the

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internet and God broke him and he was

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born again the Bible says except you be

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born again you'll never enter the kingdom of

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God there might even be someone here this

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evening you've been in a Christian home you

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say you're a Christian but have you been

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born again it may not be in a

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dynamic special emotional way it may be in

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the quiet of your own home but you

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put your faith in the Lord Jesus and

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what he did for you on the cross

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as a personal experience on the film I

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share how that happened to me and tomorrow

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I will also share that I was also

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in a home where we just presumed that

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we were believers even though my Dutch grandfather

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was an atheist and it's a miracle that

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I ever found Christ as a young man

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that led to the birth of Operation Mobilization

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we're going to look at many scriptures in

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these opportunities together but I want to start

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with Psalm 67 we'll read the whole chapter

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Psalm 67 please read only in Arabic go

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ahead read please some

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people ask well where do you find this

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message about missings where do you find that

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in the Bible yeah where do you find

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the message about global missions we

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have a missionary Savior the Lord Jesus himself

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said as the Father sent me so send

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I you that is not just for those

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of us who become missionaries with that name

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you don't need that name in some countries

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it's not acceptable the Bible says we're also

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ambassadors of Jesus if you're talking to someone

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and you tell them I'm an ambassador of

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Jesus they'll be quite surprised you can try

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it try it on the bus I love

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to travel on the buses all over London

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so many special things can only happen when

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you get older if you live in London

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when you're old like me all transport is

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free I go the whole nation free of

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charge on the bus in London itself the

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trains are free the subway is free this

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is why so many Arabs are coming to

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London especially the Saudi Arabians we have an

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outreach in Switzerland among Saudi Arabians that's one

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of my favorite countries when my grandson worked

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in Switzerland he worked on the ship for

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two years he gave him the prize he

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got a prize Swiss wife now he's got

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three Swiss children I've got three Swiss great

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grandchildren if you think grandchildren are a problem

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wait till you get the great grandchildren so

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here we have this amazing psalm it's a

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missionary psalm may God be gracious to us

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and bless us and make His face shine

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on us and I say this with all

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my heart He wants to bless you in

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these days He wants to bless you and

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we're all different and He loves each and

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every one of us in our counseling of

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the young people who came on OM many

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thousands we found many young people were struggling

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does God really love me especially if they

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had some physical problem or educational problem maybe

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at a young age they already did something

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really stupid or maybe they were too young

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to do something really stupid could God love

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me and we had the joy from the

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word of God to show thousands of young

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people how God loved them and when they

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believed that God loved them they could take

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that next step that God would use them

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God would use them with their struggles their

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weaknesses their disabilities one man who traveled the

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whole world with me he typed my letters

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he sang in my meetings he was completely

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blind he could see nothing but God used

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him and we celebrate the greatness of God

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let me tell you a story that I

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heard from another preacher that really helped me

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you will not forget this story it's about

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a family in a thunderstorm we have lots

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of those in America we have some in

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England big thunder and lightning and the family

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in this thunderstorm even the older people were

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a bit nervous then they realized their little

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girl little 70 year old was alone up

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in her bedroom they ran up the stairs

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they opened the door they thought she would

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be hiding under the bed the little girl

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was looking out the window another flash of

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light are you ok they are worried are

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you ok big smile she said I'm fine

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I think God is taking my picture God

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is taking your picture he's got the biggest

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selfie camera in the world you are his

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son you are his daughter you are important

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with him because you've been cleansed by the

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blood of Jesus Christ and even when you

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sin and when you fail he sees the

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Lord Jesus precious blood for you and I

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just thank God for this message of radical

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grace and blessing from God's word I've

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known something of it every single day since

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I was born again in the spirit of

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God let us read the

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other verses and bring this to a close

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so that your ways may be known on

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earth and your salvation among the nations so

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God wants to bless us so that we

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in turn can bless the nations and I

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want to challenge you especially you young people

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to get out of Egypt as quickly as

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possible get some training in Egypt and I

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think you have that kind of program and

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then get to some of these surrounding countries

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even if it's just short term and when

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you come back here you will find a

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greater sense of purpose and reality in what

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you do here whether it's a doctor an

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engineer or an IT specialist whatever you do

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it's so wonderful to see so many young

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people there are bible verses just for you

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let no man despise let no man make

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fun of your youth but be an example

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of the believers in my own hometown after

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my conversion to Christ many of the Christians

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after just one year of the power of

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Jesus after just one year of living for

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Jesus the word went out that George Burwell

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was an example of Jesus in the local

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town when I was 18 I spoke at

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my high school I went back Christmas break

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from university and spoke at this big high

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school hundreds

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came to the meeting and I shared the

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gospel I was just learning to preach but

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I shared John 3 verse 16 and I

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asked people to stand and believe on Jesus

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and 120 stood in that meeting including my

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own father the son of an atheist I

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was 18 years old at 19 God sent

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me to Mexico by the time I was

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20 when I left university and went to

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Moody Bible Institute in Chicago I had seen

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hundreds of answers to prayer I had become

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saturated with the word of God and I

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learned how to pray of course I had

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to continue to learn and I failed and

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sometimes I sinned but I knew Jesus and

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I knew from the word of God if

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we confess our sin he's faithful and just

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to forgive us and cleanse us from all

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unrighteousness you can be an example as a

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young person we're not talking perfection we're not

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saying you won't be criticized if nobody's criticizing

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you it's because you're probably not doing anything

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and I pray with all my heart that

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this stays together which will be days of

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specific steps of faith to be more totally

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radically committed to Jesus and the nations will

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feel the impact of what's happening here you

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have a nation very close to you where

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they love to meet you they're not so

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into Arabic how many have never heard of

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Ethiopia you've heard of Ethiopia raise your hand

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in the Bible wasn't there an Ethiopian man

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I never met him and we have seen

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amazing things God working in Ethiopia O.M.

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doesn't even work there but the ship visited

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there in the 70s and Haile Selassie said

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it's one of the greatest things that ever

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happened the O.M. ship and he brought

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the captain and all these people to his

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palace if you landed in the airport in

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those days everywhere there were communist signs communism

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was ready to take over Ethiopia that young

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man who went to Ethiopia in the early

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70s I sent him back there again a

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few months ago because I have literature projects

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there I have Bible projects there my key

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contact was killed in a car crash my

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key friend contact was killed in a car

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crash so my friend went and

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when you land in the airport everywhere you

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can look for advertisements for evangelists and preachers

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coming to Ethiopia and the leader is a

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professing follower of Jesus and tens of thousands

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tens of thousands of Ethiopians have been coming

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to Jesus of all different backgrounds God has

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been blessing the nations as it says in

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this psalm I encourage you to read more

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of the psalms I close with this verse

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I believe God has put on my heart

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it's a key verse one of the key

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verses for this conference it's from the book

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of Matthew very important verse in my life

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seek ye first the kingdom of God and

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His righteousness and all these things shall be

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added unto you tomorrow I'm going to tell

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a story of how relevant that was in

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my struggle with girls and women even after

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I became a Christian and

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through making that verse an important verse in

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my life and setting me free from all

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this romantic buzz that was always in my

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head and in my eyes and then gave

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me this amazing wife and in a few

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months we celebrate 60 years of serving the

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Lord Jesus the first thing in this conference

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isn't missions it's certainly not us speakers it's

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not us the speakers it's even not one

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another praise God for the fellowship the first

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thing God Himself let us seek God in

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that morning prayer time in our private prayer

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time let us never neglect the word of

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God no matter where we are no matter

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how busy we are let us never neglect

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the word of God and I encourage you

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not just to read the scripture to meditate

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on the scripture to memorize the scripture and

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now in my senior years when I walk

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to the station and I walk over to

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the bus place I try to walk four

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miles every day or six kilometers and often

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I'm just quoting the word of God many

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of those verses I learned before I was

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21 God's word is sharper than a two

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-edged sword and one of the reasons in

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Germany and England where I'm often ministering that

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the churches are often not doing anything and

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they're losing their young people is because theologians

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30, 40 years ago they told us the

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Bible is not the word of God all

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this Noah and the Ark and the Virgin

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Mary this is mythology and they're in one

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seminary one theological institution they didn't even read

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the Bible they read theological books about the

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Bible proving that the Bible was not the

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word of God and then we wonder why

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50 years later in Europe we are suffering

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so much in the body of Christ and

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you can be sure that some of this

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has invaded Egypt as well in India where

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I've lived it's one of the most destructive

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forces in the church and I understand the

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struggle it's not easy to believe that all

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these people are lost that Jesus is the

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only way I don't want to believe

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that but the Bible says Jesus said I

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am the way the truth and the life

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no man cometh to the Father but by

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me and there are other verses that are

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very very strong and I embrace it by

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faith and I love those last verses of

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Romans 11 who has understood the mind of

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God do you have questions about some of

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these things do you struggle with doubts as

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I do about some of these things stop

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trying to find the total answers to everything

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embrace mystery embrace uncertainty realize

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the greatness of God someday we will be

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with him and we will understand all things

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let's get as many people to go with

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him in every nation of the world let's

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pray our father we thank you for your

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word we thank you for the hard passages

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that convict us that challenge us that challenge

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us Lord we seek you together in these

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days in our prayer times in the study

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of your word that we may be permeated

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by the reality of your Holy Spirit but

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we ask in the glorious name of Jesus

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Amen Hallelujah