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In ministry and missions across the world where

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you can see people and you wonder, I

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wonder what's really happening in that mission.

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I wonder where the money goes to, and

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I don't see much happening.

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When I was there, it just absolutely astounded

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me, the ministry that's going on.

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And you'll hear them say this morning, every

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day in India right now, through Gospel for

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Asia, five and a half new churches are

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starting.

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That's every day.

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And I want to highly recommend him to

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you, and all the things at the back.

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There won't be any hype, you know, we

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never hype anybody for money.

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They don't.

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I just want you to open your heart,

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and if you feel like you're helping to

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support a missionary, you can begin just to

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fill that card out, we'll give you more

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information at the end.

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You can actually get a picture of who,

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and they've got hundreds and hundreds of missionaries

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that are there.

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Four thousand young men in Bible college right

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now, getting ready to come out.

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Four thousand to start new churches.

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So just hold on to that, and I

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want you this morning to relax.

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You will be challenged for the next hour.

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Now, K.P., we're going to give you

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55 minutes.

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You've got all 55 minutes.

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And he's going to just challenge your heart,

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and we'll have some time at the end.

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David will come, and we'll have you sign

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up and get some books and stuff, and

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all that kind of stuff.

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So let's give a great welcome this morning

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to K.P. Yohanan from Gospel for Asia.

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Good morning.

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Our coming here is a miracle, really.

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Dallas to Tampa, this was the only flight

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that was not canceled.

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Our flight and all the other flights were

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canceled.

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We came from Dallas, Texas to Tampa yesterday.

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And we realized the Tampa-Dallas flights are

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canceled, except the one that we are supposed

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to go back with tonight.

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The Lord is really wonderful.

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And originally we thought we would come to

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Orlando, but when the office called and checked

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the prices, it was too high.

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So they decided to make the drive an

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hour and a half longer.

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So that was God's plan.

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Had they booked the flight to Orlando, all

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the flights were canceled.

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So the Lord knew what He was doing,

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so this is nice.

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David Carroll, my associate, is with me here.

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We have some 40, 45 people that work

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in Dallas.

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That's our U.S. home office of the

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mission.

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David used to be a CPA, still is

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a CPA, from California.

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Had his own business.

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Seven years ago, the Lord called him to

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sell his home, sell his business, walk away

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from everything with his wife and kids to

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serve the Lord.

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And he's in Dallas serving the Lord with

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us, and we travel together often when I'm

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here in America to speak.

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And about seven, eight times a year, I

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travel in and out of the United States.

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We have quite a lot of countries we

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work in in the Asian part of the

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world.

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And I'm here three, four weeks, then I

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leave and come back.

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So I don't necessarily spend all my life

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in America.

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The little time I'm here, I travel like

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this to speak.

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My wife, Gisela, she left yesterday from Dallas

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to Burma, that's Myanmar, for about a week

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or so for the graduation of the Bible

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School students in Burma.

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In the last four years or so, those

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graduates from our Burmese school planted 350 churches,

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and 75 of them became self-supporting, and

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they're supporting 75 missionaries through their offerings with

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a lot of poverty and struggle that they

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delivered.

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And I have two children.

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Daniel is 22 years old, my daughter Sarah,

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she's 18.

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They both finished their studies in the United

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States high school.

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Then the Lord called them to go to

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India to serve the Lord.

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So they went to India to study in

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the Bible School, and my son is in

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North India now, and my daughter is just

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finishing her Bible School this year.

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So that is a brief little news about

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us generally.

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If anyone here wants to give your life

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to serve the Lord, on behalf of multiplied

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millions that do not know the Lord, like

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with David Carroll, we have 10-15 positions

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open in Dallas with our home office.

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You will be a missionary.

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Please talk to us about it if you

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think about giving your life to serve the

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Lord.

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Retired people, young people, writers, graphic artists, computer

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people, anyone with no skill also, but all

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you need is a broken heart and a

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fervent attitude to be used by the Lord.

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You understand my English?

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Thank God.

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That is good.

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I want us to look at a Bible

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verse in 2 Corinthians 3

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.18. 2 Corinthians 3.18.

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And after that you want to turn your

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Bibles to John's Gospel chapter 4.

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But we all, with unveiled face, beholding up

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in a mirror the glory of the Lord,

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are being transformed into the same image from

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glory to glory, just as by the Spirit

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of the Lord.

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Just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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The Holy Spirit does two things.

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Throughout our life.

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One is He takes the mirror, which is

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the Word of God, and in it He

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shows us Jesus Christ, the glory of the

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Lord.

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So we see what Jesus is like.

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Secondly, He changes us to become like the

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one we are looking at.

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The Pharisees studied the Bible, memorized the Bible.

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They were expert theologians, PhDs in all disciplines

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in theology.

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Yet they missed it all.

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Jesus said, you study the Bible so hard,

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you search in it day and night, thinking

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by knowing you will find life.

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But Jesus said, but they testify of me.

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But you people will not come to me.

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All you want is information and knowledge.

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You will never come to me.

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Because for you to come to me, you

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have to give up everything that you are

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holding on to, and renounce, and be broken,

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and be humble, and change your ways.

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But you will not give it up.

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That can happen.

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That is happening in our evangelical churches.

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Knowledge pops up, but love edifies.

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My dear brothers and sisters, of all the

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countries on planet earth, the believers in America

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have more information on theology, and worship, and

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all the things of the Bible than any

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other people on planet earth.

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For example, I tell you, in India where

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I come from, almost 1 billion people, we

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don't have one Christian radio station in the

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entire country.

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In Dallas, Texas, where we come from, we

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have 13 full-time radio stations blasting the

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gospel 24 hours.

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You want to hear soft, mellow, nice, old

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hymns, you can hear it.

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you can hear it.

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You want to hear the worship songs, like

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this morning we had, you know, the Integrity

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of Maranatha and all, you can hear that.

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You want to hear songs that blows your

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brains out?

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That too is there.

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You want to hear preaching?

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John MacArthur, Jr., Chuck Sundor, Chuck Smith, all

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the fantastic teachers, conservative, wonderful preachers, and you

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have every denomination, and they are preachers completely

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off the wall also, you know, send me

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your money, I'll send you oil to put

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on your head, hair grow out, and all

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kind of funny things.

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those Chinese brothers showed me a stack of

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color photographs of people being baptized in the

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icy waters in the middle of the night

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in mainland China.

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They said, Brother KP, if we would do

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it in the daytime, we would be arrested

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and persecuted.

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And then they said to me something more

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sad.

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They said, you know, we have thousands of

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congregations, underground churches all over mainland China, millions

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of believers, simple poor people, churches with 800

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,000, 900,000 believers even.

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And they said, these congregations are lucky if

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they have two Bibles with the name of

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the entire congregation.

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I was so amazed by that.

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I said, what did they do?

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They said, with the Bibles we get, we

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tear 10, 20 pages into one family, next

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10 pages to the next family, and we

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tear the Bible into pages and they copy

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and bring it back.

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We hear radio and they read the Bible

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slowly, and we will copy the Bible after

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we hear it on shortwave radio.

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How many Bibles do you have in your

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home?

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I mean, Christian bookstore?

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Anywhere in the United States you can just

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go, abundant of them.

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There is not one Christian bookstore in the

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mainland China, not even one.

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Average believer that goes to this church, hearing

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my brother teach here, you've been here 2

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-3 years, I can tell you, you qualify

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to be a Bible college professor in many

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parts of the world.

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Do you lack information?

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Do you lack understanding?

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Do you lack music?

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No, as a matter of fact, we are

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spiritually fed so much, that our heads are

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so big, that we can't walk anymore, it's

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so wobbly.

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What we need is this information, go down

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to our feet, so we can walk.

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And so, it is not that we don't

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know, it is we are not really longing

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to see the face of Jesus and to

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be like Him.

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In all your learning, all your study, my

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prayer is that everyday you will say, Lord,

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today I want to be like You.

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We are called to worship Jesus as God,

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but also to imitate Him as a man.

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He is a forerunner, it says in Hebrews.

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What is Jesus like?

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And that's what you see in this mirror.

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You know, these words we sang this morning,

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Forever I love you, forever I will stand,

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nothing compares to the promises that I have

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in you.

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You, you, think about those words.

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There is another chorus that we usually sing

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in our prayer meetings.

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Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in

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His wonderful face, all the things of earth

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will grow strangely dim, in the light of

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His glory.

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In John chapter 4, we see our Lord,

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what He is like.

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And this is the story of the Samaritan

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woman that you read and study and you

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heard from, I'm sure, many times.

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In this we see Jesus, the way He

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is, so we can imitate and we can

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walk in His footsteps.

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John chapter 4 verses 13 through 38 is

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the passage where we find Jesus hungry and

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thirsty, His disciples coming back with food and

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telling Him to eat and the response Jesus

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gives to them.

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Verse 31, In the meantime His disciples urged

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Him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

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But He said to them, I have food

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to eat that you do not know.

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Therefore the disciples said to one another, Has

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anyone brought Him anything to eat?

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Jesus said to them, My food is to

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do the will of Him who sent Me

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and finish His work.

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Do you not say, There are still four

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months and then comes the harvest?

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Behold, I say to you, Lift up your

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eyes and look at the fields, for they

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are already ripe for harvest.

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And he who reaps receiveth wages and gathers

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fruit for eternal life, that both he who

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sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

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For in this the same is true.

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One sows and another reaps.

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I sent you to reap that for which

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you have not labored.

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Others have labored and you have entered into

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their labors.

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I come from the part of southern India

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where my people are farmers, rice farmers.

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And I have a little boy growing up

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in my home, our farm.

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The harvest time comes, it is crisis.

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Nobody is worried about vacation, drinking, eating, sleeping,

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long hours, nothing like that.

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It is around the clock.

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You know why?

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Harvest is a fixed time.

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You wait one week, two weeks, longer.

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Until rain comes, something happens, the entire crop

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is destroyed.

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And the whole year we have to suffer

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if we didn't get the harvest in.

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Harvest is a fixed time.

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And Jesus, using daily events of life, teaching

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His disciples.

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He didn't have classroom and church building like

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this to teach them.

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He taught them about what He is about

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through daily life events.

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And He takes food and drink issue and

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teaches them eternal truth.

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And this is one of those incidents.

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He teaches them, first of all, the urgency

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of the hour that they are living with.

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He lived with perpetual emergency, urgency.

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Jesus, all night long praying, all day long

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working.

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I must work while the day is still

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here.

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Night is coming when no man can work.

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The urgency of the hour.

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How is He doing that?

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He was hungry.

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Very thirsty.

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When they came with the food, He said,

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I lost my appetite.

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You don't need Greek and Hebrew to explain

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this.

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You don't need the simple English.

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The disciples said, my goodness, did someone bring

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Him something to eat?

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He said, no, no, no.

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My food is to eat and be satisfied,

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do in the will of my Father.

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How would He explain something like that?

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It's kind of weird.

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They don't understand this.

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He said, alright, you can understand it if

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you can lift up your eyes and look

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away and see what I see.

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You say four months of harvest.

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Now is the time.

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It is all ready for harvest.

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You know, I remember coming back from Bombay

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one time reading the English newspaper called Indian

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Express.

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On the front page, there was a black

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and white picture of a little boy laying

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on the sidewalk of Bombay Street.

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Beside him lays a female dog.

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As I looked close, I couldn't believe it.

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That boy, four or five year old boy,

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was drinking milk from that dog laying beside

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him.

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And the caption reads, this dog is his

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mother.

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I never saw anything like that before or

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since.

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I was amazed.

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Then the three column article explained about the

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story.

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Over 100,000 children live on the streets

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of Bombay not knowing who their parents are.

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Five million people live in the largest slum

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of the world, the Bombay streets.

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And their fate, their suffering.

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Say, you were with me in Bombay and

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you decided that together we will go and

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meet the little boy.

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If you found the boy and ask him,

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what can we do for you?

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What kind of things he will ask for?

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Will he say to you, listen, the rags

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I'm wearing with holes all over, give me

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a new piece of cloth that I may

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wear?

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Would it be, I never held a toothbrush

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in my life in my hand, give me

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a toothbrush and a toothpaste?

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Would it be, I never washed my hair

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with soap or shampoo, let me experience that?

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Or would it be, I never laid my

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head on a soft pillow, covered my body

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with a clean bedsheet, I never slept on

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a bed in a home, help me experience

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that?

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Or would it be, take me to the

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school, I never learned ABCD?

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I don't think so.

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He will simply say, you want to help

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me?

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Thank you.

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Give me some food, that I don't have

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to live on the streets like this, and

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die like so many of my friends.

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That request he makes, he calls the basic,

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of the basic, of the basic essential to

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life.

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It is on Haggadah and M&Ms and

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all the soft drinks and funny things and

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vitamins and all the stuff he talks about,

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the basic of the basic, a piece of

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bread and a glass of water.

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And Jesus takes that, the basic of all,

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to survive.

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Says, even that is not important to me,

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compared to the reality I just encountered.

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This woman I talked to, someone who is

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lost without the Father's love, going into hell

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and forever.

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That realization, consumed, destroyed, eliminated my very appetite

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for even food and drink.

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A few years ago, my wife came to

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me to our dial-up office and gave

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me a letter to read and said, please

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read this letter.

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And then she turned and said, oh by

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the way, don't speed read, that kind of

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makes me angry a little bit.

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I didn't know what the letter was about,

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so I went to the room and sat

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down on my nice chair and began to

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read the letter.

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When I finished reading, I was no more

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sitting on my chair, I was on my

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knees weeping.

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The letter was not written by her.

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The letter came from one of our native

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missionaries from the mission field, from Haridwar, by

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river Ganges.

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That particular time, 35 million Hindus went into

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the river during that week, washing themselves in

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the river Ganges for the forgiveness of sins.

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They never heard about the blood of Christ

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that can wash their sins away.

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And one of our missionaries working during that

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time came by Haridwar writing this letter.

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He said, as he was coming home that

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evening, he saw a young Hindu woman sitting

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by the bank of river Ganges weeping uncontrollably

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and pounding upon a chest.

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And he said, I went to her and

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asked, why are you crying?

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What happened?

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And she explained, we are very poor people.

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My husband is sick.

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He cannot work anymore.

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My sins are so many that nobody knows

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about.

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For the forgiveness of my sins and solution

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to the problems of my home, I have

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given the best offering I can give to

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God of Ganges.

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My only child, my baby boy, six months

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old, my son, I threw him into the

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river.

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In this paragraph, I began to explain to

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her, the missionary wrote, that your sins are

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forgiven.

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Two thousand years ago, Jesus died for you.

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God is not mad at you.

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He didn't make you poor.

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He loves you.

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I explained the gospel to her.

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He said, finally, she wiped her tears and

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looked straight into his eyes and simply said,

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but why didn't you come to me half

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hour sooner?

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I didn't have to kill my child.

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It is too late.

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It is too late.

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And she went back crying again.

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And that was another opportunity.

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I made a pledge one more time to

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my Lord.

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As long as I am alive, till the

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last second of my life, every finder of

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my being, every penny that you give to

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me, everything I am, I will give completely

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to see the lost one to you, Jesus,

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that they will not have to kill themselves

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and throw their babies into the rivers to

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find salvation.

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You realize, my precious brothers and sisters, in

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America, we have an ordained minister for average

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every 40 to 50 people living in this

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country.

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If you take the ordained ministers and the

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singers and teachers and Bible schools, students and

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radio preachers, but for Bihar, 22 million people,

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not one missionary working among them.

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Afghanistan, 17 million people without one church in

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the entire nation.

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25,000 villages in Sri Lanka without a

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church.

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500,000 villages in the land of India

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without a missionary, without a church.

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It is not peace time.

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Don't you ever think.

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Yesterday I was told, Hey, listen, you think

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you'll be comfortable and at ease and peace

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in your palace?

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Don't you ever think like that.

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This is emergency time.

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And Jesus lived with such urgency because of

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the lost people around Him that He didn't

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do anything for Himself but He gave His

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life.

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Do we understand the emergency?

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Now is the time.

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20 years ago, living in Dallas, Texas, the

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Lord broke my heart.

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I write a lot about it in my

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books.

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One day He asked me a question, Son,

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some 60,000 people die every single day

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and plunge into hell.

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What are you doing with your life?

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A fancy house, library with books I may

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never read but look fantastic, Newsweek, Time Magazine,

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70 neckties, expensive suits, Rolex watch, all the

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stuff, material things.

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I was gathering for myself while I was

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in the seminary and preaching and teaching in

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a local church in Dallas, Texas.

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And I realize all of a sudden in

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my own self-centeredness, I was seeking everything

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for myself.

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My heart was breaking for the lost world.

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And Jesus is trying to teach His disciples

548
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,280
this is a time of crisis.

549
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,800
The world is waiting and they're perishing.

550
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,980
So then He tells them you must become

551
00:24:00,980 --> 00:24:02,520
unselfish in your thinking.

552
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,420
Lift up your eyes He says.

553
00:24:05,780 --> 00:24:07,260
You will see what I see.

554
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,500
I do not know if you remember the

555
00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:10,300
name Keith Green.

556
00:24:10,380 --> 00:24:11,660
Anyone remember the name Keith Green?

557
00:24:11,780 --> 00:24:13,660
He was a crazy fellow, strange human being.

558
00:24:14,260 --> 00:24:16,780
But a radical soldier of Jesus who died

559
00:24:16,780 --> 00:24:17,900
and went to be with the Lord in

560
00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:19,080
a small airplane crash.

561
00:24:19,340 --> 00:24:20,720
He was a close friend of our ministry.

562
00:24:21,420 --> 00:24:25,020
He wrote many songs and one of his

563
00:24:25,020 --> 00:24:27,020
songs, the words go something like this.

564
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,060
Don't you care?

565
00:24:29,060 --> 00:24:30,400
Don't you care?

566
00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:33,900
All the people singing down and goes on

567
00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:36,820
to say, bless me Lord, bless me Lord.

568
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,680
It is all I ever hear.

569
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,360
No one ate, no one hurt, no one

570
00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,180
even shed one tear.

571
00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:48,000
It's all bless me, bless me, bless me.

572
00:24:55,760 --> 00:25:00,490
When I was 16, I gave my life

573
00:25:00,490 --> 00:25:01,910
to serve the Lord to go to North

574
00:25:01,910 --> 00:25:02,190
India.

575
00:25:03,810 --> 00:25:05,890
2,000 miles away from my home.

576
00:25:07,490 --> 00:25:09,390
And one of the place I went to

577
00:25:10,230 --> 00:25:13,350
serve the Lord was called Boondi along with

578
00:25:13,350 --> 00:25:13,810
others.

579
00:25:16,290 --> 00:25:17,930
That is the first place I was beaten

580
00:25:17,930 --> 00:25:20,570
and abused for preaching the gospel without any

581
00:25:20,570 --> 00:25:20,950
mercy.

582
00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:27,440
A few years later, a young man who

583
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,900
went to one of the Bible schools and

584
00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:30,700
got his training felt the Lord was calling

585
00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:31,580
him to go to Boondi.

586
00:25:32,300 --> 00:25:34,900
The leader told him, brother, this is a

587
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,200
dangerous place for you to go.

588
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:38,440
You don't want to do that.

589
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:39,820
He said, no, no, the Lord is calling

590
00:25:39,820 --> 00:25:40,340
me to go.

591
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,820
So in the end, he went to Boondi

592
00:25:43,820 --> 00:25:45,400
believing the Lord is calling him to plant

593
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:46,640
a church in that place.

594
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,500
Stoned hard Hindus.

595
00:25:51,530 --> 00:25:53,670
He rented a small room for a few

596
00:25:53,670 --> 00:25:54,430
dollars a month.

597
00:25:55,610 --> 00:25:59,770
And one night, as he was sleeping, somebody

598
00:25:59,770 --> 00:26:02,230
busted the door open and he found himself

599
00:26:02,230 --> 00:26:04,670
surrounded by a group of men and a

600
00:26:04,670 --> 00:26:08,090
tall turbaned Rajput just pulled him up by

601
00:26:08,090 --> 00:26:08,590
his leg.

602
00:26:09,650 --> 00:26:12,710
And he said, young fellow, we can tear

603
00:26:12,710 --> 00:26:14,290
you apart like we do with a chicken.

604
00:26:15,730 --> 00:26:17,430
Why have you come here to preach about

605
00:26:17,430 --> 00:26:17,870
your God?

606
00:26:18,090 --> 00:26:19,310
We got plenty of Gods.

607
00:26:19,430 --> 00:26:20,330
We don't need your God.

608
00:26:20,570 --> 00:26:22,190
You better leave this place tomorrow first thing

609
00:26:22,190 --> 00:26:22,610
in the morning.

610
00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:24,990
And this young brother got frightened.

611
00:26:26,830 --> 00:26:28,730
And he ran back to a mission station,

612
00:26:28,890 --> 00:26:31,450
told our leaders they are going to kill

613
00:26:31,450 --> 00:26:31,650
me.

614
00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:33,970
You see, a few years prior to that

615
00:26:33,970 --> 00:26:36,270
a brother called Dwararajam, southern part of India,

616
00:26:36,370 --> 00:26:37,770
went as a missionary to that part of

617
00:26:37,770 --> 00:26:39,890
the country and within a week they killed

618
00:26:39,890 --> 00:26:40,150
him.

619
00:26:40,910 --> 00:26:43,110
And he was the first martyr in that

620
00:26:43,110 --> 00:26:47,130
state for preaching the gospel during that particular

621
00:26:47,130 --> 00:26:47,550
time.

622
00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:50,810
And this young brother said I cannot go

623
00:26:50,810 --> 00:26:51,050
back.

624
00:26:51,190 --> 00:26:51,790
They will kill me.

625
00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:53,850
And the leader said, we told you this

626
00:26:53,850 --> 00:26:54,410
is going to happen.

627
00:26:55,270 --> 00:26:57,370
Our senior most brother said to him, son

628
00:26:57,850 --> 00:26:59,910
did Jesus ask you to go to Boondi?

629
00:27:00,450 --> 00:27:01,710
He said, I know he told me to

630
00:27:01,710 --> 00:27:02,310
go to Boondi.

631
00:27:02,430 --> 00:27:03,490
But they came.

632
00:27:03,670 --> 00:27:04,410
They will kill me.

633
00:27:07,780 --> 00:27:09,600
And this brother said are you sure?

634
00:27:09,940 --> 00:27:10,820
The Lord called him.

635
00:27:10,940 --> 00:27:11,960
He said, you know I have been praying

636
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:13,600
for over a year during the Bible school

637
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,320
time and I know the Lord put the

638
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:16,260
burden upon my heart.

639
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,600
And our brother said to him, son you

640
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:20,560
go back to Boondi.

641
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:23,940
They may come back to you.

642
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,100
They may kill you.

643
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,960
But remember, heaven is a much better place

644
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:29,520
than Boondi.

645
00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:32,880
If they kill you you go and wait

646
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:33,460
there for us.

647
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:34,180
We will come later.

648
00:27:35,340 --> 00:27:37,300
He knelt down and the brothers laid their

649
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:38,880
hand on him and prayed for him and

650
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:39,600
sent him back.

651
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,400
Sure enough they came back to him and

652
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,060
said, now why have you come here?

653
00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:45,140
You are going to make us murderers.

654
00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:48,020
He heard all the mighty speeches and everything.

655
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,460
He said, look, the sooner you can do

656
00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:51,760
your job, it is better for me.

657
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,360
Heaven is a much better place than your

658
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:55,020
Boondi anyway.

659
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,280
What can I do with a fellow like

660
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:57,520
that?

661
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,580
Yes, he faced some persecution.

662
00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:02,940
But God used him.

663
00:28:04,020 --> 00:28:06,180
A few years later, I get a telephone

664
00:28:06,180 --> 00:28:07,360
call here in United States.

665
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,240
Brother K.P. I said, yeah, this is

666
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:09,720
me.

667
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,160
Brother, we want you to come to Boondi.

668
00:28:13,580 --> 00:28:14,360
I said, what?

669
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,500
I want to put the phone down.

670
00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:20,600
Because I remember how I was beaten up,

671
00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:22,300
you know, my time in Boondi.

672
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:23,460
He said, no, no, no, brother.

673
00:28:23,820 --> 00:28:26,140
We want you to come and inaugurate the

674
00:28:26,140 --> 00:28:27,360
church we have in Boondi.

675
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,680
Now I am hearing a wonderful story.

676
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,360
Next, the following month, I took a flight

677
00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:36,420
to Delhi and went by train on to

678
00:28:36,420 --> 00:28:36,780
Boondi.

679
00:28:37,140 --> 00:28:40,620
And there, a beautiful church with over hundred

680
00:28:40,620 --> 00:28:42,700
uncles and children and their wives and everybody

681
00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:43,540
worshipping Jesus.

682
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,760
And it's when heaven came down on earth.

683
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,680
And it was a glorious day when it

684
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,380
was all over.

685
00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:50,820
He took me and said, uncle, this is

686
00:28:50,820 --> 00:28:52,220
the man who said he stared me like

687
00:28:52,220 --> 00:28:52,580
a chicken.

688
00:28:53,460 --> 00:28:55,360
And that is his friend, that is his

689
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,440
wife, and on and on like that.

690
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,000
I was absolutely amazed.

691
00:29:00,220 --> 00:29:01,500
You know how that could happen?

692
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,200
Jesus said, unless you love me more than

693
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:13,260
father, mother, son, daughter, your own very life,

694
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,180
you cannot be my disciple.

695
00:29:15,540 --> 00:29:19,260
What is hindering us from taking this world

696
00:29:19,260 --> 00:29:20,540
to the feet of Jesus?

697
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,460
It is our own self-centeredness.

698
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,600
I want even spiritual things, everything for my

699
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,520
self.

700
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,620
Hussain and Salsal, two of our brothers, Muslim

701
00:29:34,620 --> 00:29:36,960
converts from the religion of Islam.

702
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,960
They went to the Bible school, got their

703
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,560
training, went to a community to preach the

704
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:41,840
gospel.

705
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,740
Strong Islam community.

706
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,600
They began to preach the gospel.

707
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,060
Led several dozens of people to Christ.

708
00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:51,820
During the day, they preached.

709
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,080
Night, they will teach the new believers.

710
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,320
One morning these two brothers were going about

711
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:58,000
their ministry.

712
00:29:58,460 --> 00:30:00,120
A group of men came and met them.

713
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,540
The leader stepped forward and said, So, you

714
00:30:02,540 --> 00:30:03,200
are Hussain?

715
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,280
You are Salsal?

716
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:05,740
They said, Yes, we are.

717
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,800
You came to tell us about your Jesus?

718
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:08,460
Yes.

719
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:10,640
No more conversation.

720
00:30:11,660 --> 00:30:15,000
The leader pulled out a long dagger, a

721
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,400
knife, and stabbed in the heart of brother

722
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:17,840
Hussain.

723
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:19,800
He fell in a pool of blood.

724
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,480
Salsal grabbed him, holding him, weeping.

725
00:30:22,780 --> 00:30:25,740
They stabbed him six times, believing they both

726
00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:26,180
are dead.

727
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:27,460
These men ran away.

728
00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:31,680
Salsal survived, but Hussain died on the spot,

729
00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:35,580
leaving a young wife and two little children

730
00:30:35,580 --> 00:30:36,140
behind.

731
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,640
A few weeks later, hearing the news, her

732
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,940
father, Hussain's father-in-law, a Muslim from

733
00:30:45,940 --> 00:30:49,260
a distant village traveled, came and saw his

734
00:30:49,260 --> 00:30:53,000
daughter and said, My daughter, thank God the

735
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:53,740
devil is dead.

736
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,880
Now, you come home with my grandchildren.

737
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:02,120
This young girl replied, Father, you don't understand.

738
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,200
You don't understand, Father.

739
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,100
The Jesus my husband loved, I love him

740
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:09,360
too.

741
00:31:09,860 --> 00:31:13,140
The people that he loved, I minister to,

742
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:14,560
I love them, Father.

743
00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:16,180
I cannot come home.

744
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,900
I must continue the ministry my husband started

745
00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:21,340
and died for.

746
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,540
They were amazed, this man.

747
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,100
Two more weeks he stayed with her during

748
00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,420
the time she led him to the Lord

749
00:31:31,420 --> 00:31:34,080
Jesus Christ, and he was baptized publicly.

750
00:31:34,940 --> 00:31:36,020
What did that take?

751
00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:38,040
A whole bunch of knowledge?

752
00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:39,520
Wonderful worship?

753
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,140
All good.

754
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,480
But a radical commitment to abandon the desire

755
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,360
to preserve my own life.

756
00:31:53,110 --> 00:31:57,870
Jesus calls for such radical commitment and abandonment.

757
00:31:59,670 --> 00:32:02,790
And my dear brothers and sisters, living in

758
00:32:02,790 --> 00:32:05,730
a country like this, what a blessing, what

759
00:32:05,730 --> 00:32:08,730
a privilege, what a freedom, what opportunity.

760
00:32:09,270 --> 00:32:12,610
But those much is given, much shall be

761
00:32:12,610 --> 00:32:13,530
required.

762
00:32:14,090 --> 00:32:17,190
In the midst of my self-centeredness, my

763
00:32:17,190 --> 00:32:20,870
affluence, my seeking things for myself, I remember

764
00:32:20,870 --> 00:32:21,690
those days.

765
00:32:22,350 --> 00:32:25,010
Contemporary Christian music, my favorite thing.

766
00:32:25,670 --> 00:32:29,170
I can hear beautiful music on stereo 24

767
00:32:29,170 --> 00:32:31,030
hours, but I was not satisfied.

768
00:32:31,470 --> 00:32:33,470
I hear one song that I like from

769
00:32:33,470 --> 00:32:35,750
my favorite artist, the next thing I do,

770
00:32:35,970 --> 00:32:37,550
I go to the bookstore and spend the

771
00:32:37,550 --> 00:32:39,930
money to buy the entire cassette just for

772
00:32:39,930 --> 00:32:41,890
the one song, like you do today.

773
00:32:43,070 --> 00:32:45,170
But when the Lord broke my heart and

774
00:32:45,170 --> 00:32:47,210
said, son, what is this all about?

775
00:32:47,750 --> 00:32:48,870
Don't you care?

776
00:32:49,790 --> 00:32:52,770
Millions are perishing for eternity and you live

777
00:32:52,770 --> 00:32:54,130
such a life of self-centeredness.

778
00:32:55,510 --> 00:32:57,890
I remember it was not a guilt trip

779
00:32:57,890 --> 00:32:58,730
or condemnation.

780
00:32:59,190 --> 00:33:03,050
I simply prayed a prayer borrowed from a

781
00:33:03,050 --> 00:33:05,890
missionary and the prayer went like this, Jesus,

782
00:33:06,310 --> 00:33:07,950
I cannot change my heart.

783
00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:09,530
Would you please change me?

784
00:33:09,530 --> 00:33:13,710
Take eternity and stamp on my eyes.

785
00:33:15,210 --> 00:33:16,710
My heart changed.

786
00:33:17,990 --> 00:33:23,910
Twenty years ago and I remember for two

787
00:33:23,910 --> 00:33:26,810
years living in America until then, every time

788
00:33:26,810 --> 00:33:28,550
I went to the store, I would buy

789
00:33:28,550 --> 00:33:32,730
the expensive deodorant soap that I loved, the

790
00:33:32,730 --> 00:33:35,230
habit I learned from Europe, a dollar fifty

791
00:33:35,230 --> 00:33:37,210
cents every time you buy that piece of

792
00:33:37,210 --> 00:33:37,950
deodorant soap.

793
00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:40,610
But when the Lord broke my heart, immediately

794
00:33:40,610 --> 00:33:43,330
I switched without any pain and agony to

795
00:33:43,330 --> 00:33:43,770
ivory.

796
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,600
Thirty-five cents ivory, I don't like that

797
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:48,840
soap.

798
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,380
I don't recommend you to buy that.

799
00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:53,860
But the reason I did that, I can

800
00:33:53,860 --> 00:33:56,700
tell you, the difference between dollar fifty cents

801
00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:59,620
and thirty-five cents meant hundreds more people

802
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:01,500
to read for the first time in their

803
00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:04,020
life, Jesus died for me, I don't have

804
00:34:04,020 --> 00:34:04,640
to go to hell.

805
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,679
Some of our missionaries working in northwest of

806
00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:10,460
India, they are distributing gospel tracts and open

807
00:34:10,460 --> 00:34:10,860
air preaching.

808
00:34:11,780 --> 00:34:13,540
A Hindu man came up in his late

809
00:34:13,540 --> 00:34:17,560
fifties, got a tract in his native language.

810
00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:19,699
On the street he was reading it.

811
00:34:19,820 --> 00:34:21,760
For the first time in his life, reading

812
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,360
about a God that loved him enough to

813
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,219
die for him and willing to save him.

814
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,159
A Hindu brahmin.

815
00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:31,520
You know what the problem was?

816
00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:34,159
He was running away from his home to

817
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:37,139
commit suicide having cancer in his body.

818
00:34:38,219 --> 00:34:40,360
He was leaving his home not to bring

819
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,940
shame to his family he was going to

820
00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:42,520
kill himself.

821
00:34:43,020 --> 00:34:45,320
On the street now he reads about Jesus.

822
00:34:45,780 --> 00:34:47,159
There is a prayer he could pray at

823
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:48,820
the end of the booklet and right on

824
00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:50,900
the street he cried out to Jesus to

825
00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:52,380
forgive him and come into his life.

826
00:34:52,580 --> 00:34:54,580
He felt something happening to him.

827
00:34:55,739 --> 00:34:56,440
He didn't kill himself.

828
00:34:56,700 --> 00:34:57,500
He went back home.

829
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,000
Next day went to the hospital and said,

830
00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:00,440
Doctor, would you please check me?

831
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,260
The doctor said, Listen, you got cancer.

832
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,420
There is nothing more we can do for

833
00:35:03,420 --> 00:35:03,600
you.

834
00:35:03,940 --> 00:35:05,340
Please, you know, live the rest of the

835
00:35:05,340 --> 00:35:05,640
time.

836
00:35:05,860 --> 00:35:07,940
He said, No, no, doctor, please check me

837
00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:08,640
one more time.

838
00:35:08,980 --> 00:35:09,880
So he persisted.

839
00:35:10,220 --> 00:35:10,940
They checked him up.

840
00:35:11,220 --> 00:35:12,780
They were totally shocked.

841
00:35:15,230 --> 00:35:15,810
What medicine?

842
00:35:16,250 --> 00:35:17,810
There is not a trace of cancer in

843
00:35:17,810 --> 00:35:18,190
your body.

844
00:35:18,690 --> 00:35:20,270
He pulled the booklet out of his pocket

845
00:35:20,270 --> 00:35:22,070
and said, Doctor, this healed me.

846
00:35:22,690 --> 00:35:23,550
They thought he went cuckoo.

847
00:35:25,230 --> 00:35:27,250
He went to a mission station, explained to

848
00:35:27,250 --> 00:35:28,270
a brother what is happening.

849
00:35:28,630 --> 00:35:30,750
They explained him more about Jesus.

850
00:35:31,030 --> 00:35:32,050
The man began to weep.

851
00:35:32,150 --> 00:35:32,690
He said, Oh!

852
00:35:33,190 --> 00:35:37,710
Now I know this Jesus is my God.

853
00:35:38,690 --> 00:35:40,150
He was so overjoyed.

854
00:35:40,430 --> 00:35:41,310
And he said, You know what?

855
00:35:41,970 --> 00:35:42,750
I am a landlord.

856
00:35:43,090 --> 00:35:43,850
I have plenty of money.

857
00:35:44,350 --> 00:35:46,110
I have plenty of people in our village.

858
00:35:46,470 --> 00:35:49,110
Would you come and make all my people

859
00:35:49,110 --> 00:35:49,510
Christians?

860
00:35:51,090 --> 00:35:52,490
He couldn't figure this out how this thing

861
00:35:52,490 --> 00:35:52,810
works.

862
00:35:53,750 --> 00:35:55,730
Two of our missionaries went within, began to

863
00:35:55,730 --> 00:35:59,550
preach the gospel and 10, 20, 30, 40

864
00:35:59,550 --> 00:36:01,050
people wept.

865
00:36:01,130 --> 00:36:02,450
We began to come to Christ.

866
00:36:02,590 --> 00:36:03,310
We began to baptize.

867
00:36:03,410 --> 00:36:04,830
The man gave the land, the money, the

868
00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:06,530
whole thing to build a beautiful church.

869
00:36:06,810 --> 00:36:08,290
The first church in that village.

870
00:36:08,490 --> 00:36:09,950
Worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ.

871
00:36:10,250 --> 00:36:11,490
How did that all happen?

872
00:36:12,250 --> 00:36:16,070
Through one gospel tract that cost less than

873
00:36:16,070 --> 00:36:18,090
what you and I pay for a chewing

874
00:36:18,090 --> 00:36:18,990
gum.

875
00:36:20,690 --> 00:36:23,770
See, once we decide to live a life

876
00:36:23,770 --> 00:36:27,150
in the light of eternity, everything changes.

877
00:36:27,690 --> 00:36:30,970
Everything we look at, we have a different

878
00:36:30,970 --> 00:36:33,010
glass on our eyes.

879
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,760
Just a week ago, a call came from

880
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,360
one of our leaders in mission field and

881
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,300
said, Sir KP, we have good news for

882
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:44,420
you.

883
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:45,300
You wouldn't believe it.

884
00:36:45,460 --> 00:36:47,900
I said, our school went out for a

885
00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:52,700
week outreach and they planted 36 churches during

886
00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:55,920
this week in villages where there was no

887
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:56,600
worship before.

888
00:36:56,860 --> 00:36:58,620
I said, can you explain that again?

889
00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:00,140
I said, it is too good to be

890
00:37:00,140 --> 00:37:00,380
true.

891
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,060
And they began to explain how the Lord

892
00:37:03,060 --> 00:37:07,020
was doing such enormous work in these regions

893
00:37:07,020 --> 00:37:08,540
where people are coming to Christ.

894
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,180
Pastor from this church when he was in

895
00:37:11,180 --> 00:37:15,220
India, Gail Irwin, 1200 workers in one part

896
00:37:15,220 --> 00:37:17,380
of India in the last few years, over

897
00:37:17,380 --> 00:37:21,500
600 churches and mission stations planted by those

898
00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:23,240
brothers who were giving their life.

899
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,320
And one brother was telling me his legs

900
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,500
got tired after baptizing 135 people one after

901
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:31,620
another in the river one Sunday morning.

902
00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:33,640
That's quite a few people to be baptized.

903
00:37:34,860 --> 00:37:35,500
But you know what?

904
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,160
This is harvest time.

905
00:37:37,540 --> 00:37:39,620
This is the time the Lord is working.

906
00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:47,780
I want to just ask you to pray

907
00:37:47,780 --> 00:37:54,620
that prayer, Lord change my heart, make me

908
00:37:54,620 --> 00:37:58,600
real, stamp eternity on my eyes.

909
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,560
Maybe the greatest influence I had in my

910
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,000
life was my own mother.

911
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:10,320
When I told her at the age of

912
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,000
16, I want to go and pray to

913
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:12,360
the Lord.

914
00:38:12,740 --> 00:38:14,860
Without even asking one question, she said, please

915
00:38:14,860 --> 00:38:15,080
go.

916
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,820
I thought she didn't like me anymore.

917
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,520
After two years of my life in North

918
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,500
India, skin and bones and tired and worn

919
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:26,420
out, as I came back, traveling 2000 miles

920
00:38:26,420 --> 00:38:29,660
by train to see my parents, the first

921
00:38:29,660 --> 00:38:31,120
time she saw me, she started weeping.

922
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,500
The next day she said, son, I want

923
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:34,100
to tell you something.

924
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:35,240
Nobody in the house.

925
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:36,560
I was in the kitchen.

926
00:38:36,740 --> 00:38:37,260
She was cooking.

927
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,180
She said, you are one of my six

928
00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:40,500
boys.

929
00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:41,800
You are the youngest of you know.

930
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,220
I prayed to the Lord that one of

931
00:38:45,220 --> 00:38:46,780
our sons would become a missionary.

932
00:38:47,620 --> 00:38:49,140
But one by one, they went to business

933
00:38:49,140 --> 00:38:51,360
and done all these different things.

934
00:38:51,780 --> 00:38:55,760
And after you came along, shy, withdrawn, timid,

935
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:57,440
I lost all my hope.

936
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,340
Then I decided I will still pray.

937
00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:05,260
Three and a half years my mother prayed

938
00:39:05,260 --> 00:39:08,460
every Friday fasting only drinking water.

939
00:39:09,540 --> 00:39:11,620
Three and a half years, every Friday fasting,

940
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:12,960
one prayer request.

941
00:39:13,180 --> 00:39:15,920
Jesus, call one of my sons to be

942
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:16,280
a missionary.

943
00:39:18,620 --> 00:39:19,820
And the day I went to my mother

944
00:39:19,820 --> 00:39:21,300
and said, I want to go and pray

945
00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:23,240
to the Lord, she knew the Lord answered

946
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:24,020
her prayer.

947
00:39:25,220 --> 00:39:26,240
And she told me the story.

948
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:27,120
I never knew that.

949
00:39:28,460 --> 00:39:31,600
The memory of my mother, early morning, 4

950
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,260
o'clock, 4.30, she would get up,

951
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,880
all my life I remember, spend an hour

952
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,380
or more in prayer on her knees when

953
00:39:38,380 --> 00:39:39,340
she would wake up the rest of the

954
00:39:39,340 --> 00:39:40,780
family for family prayer.

955
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,740
No wonder all her sons came to know

956
00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:46,460
Jesus Christ.

957
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,240
1990, I was on the way to South

958
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,060
Korea to speak in a mission conference and

959
00:39:53,060 --> 00:39:54,900
I stopped in India when I heard the

960
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:56,560
news my mother was sick and taken to

961
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:56,960
the hospital.

962
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,540
So I cancelled my trip and went to

963
00:39:59,540 --> 00:40:02,020
the hospital and spent that week with her.

964
00:40:02,740 --> 00:40:05,260
That weekend, my mother died at the age

965
00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:05,720
of 84.

966
00:40:06,780 --> 00:40:09,340
My oldest brother called his younger brothers, including

967
00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:12,720
me, and said, now our mother is gone,

968
00:40:13,580 --> 00:40:15,160
you may want to know what all she

969
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:16,840
wanted us to do after she is dead.

970
00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:18,920
One of my brothers, who is a businessman,

971
00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:20,840
immediately said, I want to know how much

972
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,900
money our mother left in the bank.

973
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:25,540
And my brother said, there is nothing in

974
00:40:25,540 --> 00:40:25,900
the bank.

975
00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:27,860
He said, what happened to all the money?

976
00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:30,060
Because all of her sons believed there must

977
00:40:30,060 --> 00:40:31,500
be a large amount of money sitting in

978
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:33,060
the bank because they were giving her money

979
00:40:33,060 --> 00:40:33,700
all her life.

980
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,120
And he pulled out an old, worn out

981
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,280
little booklet, scribbling all over it with pencil,

982
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:42,960
filled with names.

983
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:45,760
And then he said, if you really want

984
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:46,800
to know what happened to the money, I

985
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:47,260
will tell you.

986
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,500
We found this under her pillow and in

987
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:53,560
it she had the names of deaf and

988
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,540
poor young people that went to the mission

989
00:40:55,540 --> 00:40:55,980
field.

990
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,220
She was sending money secretly every month to

991
00:40:59,220 --> 00:41:00,120
support those missionaries.

992
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,260
And quite a lot of young people studying

993
00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:05,440
in Bible schools that she was helping month

994
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,060
after month and she never told anyone what

995
00:41:08,060 --> 00:41:08,560
she was doing.

996
00:41:10,180 --> 00:41:13,340
And I began to cry because I remember

997
00:41:13,340 --> 00:41:15,020
one time when I came back from America

998
00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:19,620
I saw my mother wearing a blouse which

999
00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:22,000
is our native clothes with stitches on there.

1000
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:23,680
And I was so angry.

1001
00:41:24,140 --> 00:41:26,440
I said, Mother, what is wrong with you?

1002
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:27,160
Are you mad?

1003
00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:29,300
You've got six boys.

1004
00:41:29,460 --> 00:41:30,880
All of them are well to do people.

1005
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,580
Our community will think we don't take care

1006
00:41:33,580 --> 00:41:33,960
of you.

1007
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,760
It's a shame upon our family and your

1008
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:37,240
sons.

1009
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:39,480
Why can't you buy some new clothes?

1010
00:41:39,740 --> 00:41:40,600
Don't you have money?

1011
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:41,400
You've got everything.

1012
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,680
You can buy a new dress every month.

1013
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:44,700
Why is this?

1014
00:41:45,220 --> 00:41:46,880
And I went on and on and all

1015
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:47,060
this.

1016
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,660
And in the end she smiled with her

1017
00:41:50,660 --> 00:41:53,080
face and said, See son, you are too

1018
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:53,300
young.

1019
00:41:53,380 --> 00:41:53,920
You don't understand.

1020
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,440
I have plenty of clothes you do not

1021
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:58,180
know nothing about.

1022
00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:01,380
She never answered me.

1023
00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:04,200
But now I get the answer.

1024
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,420
Yes, she could have bought any number of

1025
00:42:08,420 --> 00:42:10,360
clothes, anything she wanted, any fashion.

1026
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:11,520
But she refused.

1027
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,520
She stayed wearing all the clothes so that

1028
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,220
her money can be sent to support missionaries

1029
00:42:18,220 --> 00:42:20,380
on the mission field preaching the gospel.

1030
00:42:21,820 --> 00:42:24,940
And finally my brother said, You want to

1031
00:42:24,940 --> 00:42:27,460
know the last will our mother left?

1032
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,180
It's what she said before she died.

1033
00:42:33,220 --> 00:42:36,040
When I'm dead, the only thing I will

1034
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:40,160
leave behind is my earrings, my wedding ring,

1035
00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:42,620
and the gold chain my husband gave me

1036
00:42:42,620 --> 00:42:43,840
the day he married me.

1037
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,400
I want you to sell these and take

1038
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,620
the money and give to preach the gospel

1039
00:42:49,620 --> 00:42:51,440
to those that never heard it.

1040
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,700
Those jewelry, the last thing she would leave

1041
00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:57,140
behind.

1042
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,540
If my mother could talk to me now,

1043
00:43:02,140 --> 00:43:03,860
what kind of thing she would say?

1044
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,060
Son, now you are older, you understand a

1045
00:43:08,060 --> 00:43:08,540
little better.

1046
00:43:08,540 --> 00:43:11,870
It is worth it, son.

1047
00:43:12,570 --> 00:43:14,990
It is worth it to walk on the

1048
00:43:14,990 --> 00:43:15,690
narrow road.

1049
00:43:16,190 --> 00:43:18,690
Let others do whatever they want to do.

1050
00:43:18,970 --> 00:43:21,370
You choose to walk on this narrow road.

1051
00:43:21,870 --> 00:43:25,790
Time is no more there for us to

1052
00:43:25,790 --> 00:43:27,230
take rest and be at peace.

1053
00:43:27,570 --> 00:43:30,130
No, it is time to do all.

1054
00:43:31,350 --> 00:43:35,890
You know, something that is very sobering, if

1055
00:43:35,890 --> 00:43:37,550
we care to think about, is this.

1056
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:41,160
A hundred years from now, what does it

1057
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:41,420
matter?

1058
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,320
America is a strange place that you can

1059
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,360
put new nose, new ear, new hair, all

1060
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:47,540
kind of new things and make you look

1061
00:43:47,540 --> 00:43:47,780
younger.

1062
00:43:48,380 --> 00:43:51,220
This is a wonderful country for that, but

1063
00:43:51,220 --> 00:43:53,880
you can hide your driver's license as long

1064
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:54,700
as you want.

1065
00:43:57,060 --> 00:43:59,800
But you see, my dear sister, my dear

1066
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,240
brother, a hundred years from now, what does

1067
00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:02,620
it matter?

1068
00:44:03,180 --> 00:44:04,900
What happened to your dream car?

1069
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:06,660
The dream fashion?

1070
00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:09,320
The catalogs that are now piling up in

1071
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,040
your bathroom, you can more time look into

1072
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:12,960
the catalogs than for the business you are

1073
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:13,420
there for.

1074
00:44:16,980 --> 00:44:18,900
The new house you are dreaming to buy.

1075
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,580
And all the stuff that you are gathering,

1076
00:44:24,020 --> 00:44:25,800
and then you go for roommate sale, garage

1077
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,800
sale, yard sale, all this stuff, to get

1078
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,420
rid of things, to buy new things.

1079
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:35,640
And all the amazing things you need to

1080
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:36,120
live.

1081
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:37,640
But a hundred years from now, what does

1082
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:38,060
it matter?

1083
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:39,300
It means nothing.

1084
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,000
You go around looking at fancy hairdos and

1085
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,980
all kind of nice clothes and things, everybody

1086
00:44:43,980 --> 00:44:45,500
is looking at him, nobody is looking at

1087
00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:45,740
you.

1088
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:47,740
Everybody thinks somebody is looking at them.

1089
00:44:47,940 --> 00:44:50,420
This is a hopeless, deceptive world.

1090
00:44:51,380 --> 00:44:54,440
We are strangers and pilgrims on this earth,

1091
00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:57,920
following the son of God who said, son

1092
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,680
of man has no place to lay his

1093
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:00,980
head.

1094
00:45:00,980 --> 00:45:03,800
And we are not here forever.

1095
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,540
And that is the kind of mindset Jesus

1096
00:45:07,540 --> 00:45:08,420
lived with.

1097
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,760
This world is not my home.

1098
00:45:12,620 --> 00:45:14,120
And he had one thing on his mind,

1099
00:45:14,980 --> 00:45:18,780
others, others, others that do not know the

1100
00:45:18,780 --> 00:45:19,540
Father's love.

1101
00:45:19,980 --> 00:45:23,760
How do you translate this into reality?

1102
00:45:24,420 --> 00:45:28,420
Jesus himself spoke to his disciples, I am

1103
00:45:28,420 --> 00:45:31,060
sending you to reap that on which you

1104
00:45:31,060 --> 00:45:32,280
bestowed in all labor.

1105
00:45:32,660 --> 00:45:34,880
Today we are 10,000 missionaries on the

1106
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:35,360
mission field.

1107
00:45:36,380 --> 00:45:38,640
Or 4,000 young people between the age

1108
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,940
of 18 and 25 studying, getting ready to

1109
00:45:40,940 --> 00:45:41,660
go to the mission field.

1110
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:43,620
You know when they graduate, what we do?

1111
00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:45,400
We lay our hands on them and say,

1112
00:45:45,860 --> 00:45:47,760
brother, we are sending you with a one

1113
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:48,140
-way ticket.

1114
00:45:48,860 --> 00:45:51,040
When you get to the mission field, is

1115
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,280
the Lord so fit to give your life

1116
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,260
as a sacrifice?

1117
00:45:58,100 --> 00:46:00,540
Remember, heaven is a much better place than

1118
00:46:00,540 --> 00:46:01,500
the mission field you go.

1119
00:46:02,220 --> 00:46:03,480
Be faithful till the end.

1120
00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:05,660
You will receive the crown of life.

1121
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,040
A lot of tears, a lot of embracing,

1122
00:46:08,180 --> 00:46:08,900
a lot of emotion.

1123
00:46:09,460 --> 00:46:13,460
But today, continually, every day we hear of

1124
00:46:13,460 --> 00:46:16,340
our missionaries, other missionaries being killed on the

1125
00:46:16,340 --> 00:46:17,600
mission field for preaching the gospel.

1126
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,700
These are difficult days.

1127
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,680
But these men and women, they are going

1128
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:23,600
out preaching the gospel.

1129
00:46:24,140 --> 00:46:25,240
How is it possible?

1130
00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:27,120
I tell you how it is possible.

1131
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,300
Someone like you, living in a country like

1132
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:32,780
this, or in Canada or Europe, somewhere says,

1133
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:34,920
brother KP, I cannot be in India.

1134
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:36,160
I cannot be in Bhutan.

1135
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:37,320
I cannot go to Burma.

1136
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:38,660
I cannot be in China.

1137
00:46:38,940 --> 00:46:42,480
But I can link my life through prayer

1138
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,440
and help so that these missionaries can go

1139
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,220
forth and preach the gospel.

1140
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,160
Punjab is a place I spend a lot

1141
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:50,760
of my time.

1142
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,360
I remember one of our brothers, a Sikh

1143
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,680
convert who went to a village to preach

1144
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,560
and he found this family looking so sad,

1145
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:00,980
like somebody died in the family.

1146
00:47:01,140 --> 00:47:02,760
He said, you people look so sad.

1147
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:03,320
What happened?

1148
00:47:03,740 --> 00:47:04,860
They said, look, that's a buffalo.

1149
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,140
The only way for us to make our

1150
00:47:07,140 --> 00:47:08,660
living is to milk the buffalo and sell

1151
00:47:08,660 --> 00:47:09,640
the milk and make a living.

1152
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,260
Our buffalo is sick and dying.

1153
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:12,360
We don't know what to do.

1154
00:47:12,780 --> 00:47:14,960
And our missionary, first time in that village,

1155
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:16,820
he said, I will pray to Jesus.

1156
00:47:17,420 --> 00:47:18,820
My Jesus can heal your buffalo.

1157
00:47:19,380 --> 00:47:20,820
And they said, please talk to your God

1158
00:47:20,820 --> 00:47:22,720
and if he can help us, we will

1159
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:23,320
be very happy.

1160
00:47:23,740 --> 00:47:25,280
And he went and laid his hand on

1161
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,340
the sick and dying buffalo and said, Jesus,

1162
00:47:27,660 --> 00:47:28,860
if you ever need to do a miracle,

1163
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:29,780
it is the right time.

1164
00:47:31,220 --> 00:47:32,640
This is my only chance.

1165
00:47:32,940 --> 00:47:34,680
If you please do something, I can plant

1166
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:35,280
a church here.

1167
00:47:35,820 --> 00:47:36,900
See, the Lord is gracious.

1168
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:38,880
And the buffalo jumps up.

1169
00:47:39,740 --> 00:47:40,520
Totally healed.

1170
00:47:41,220 --> 00:47:43,380
The whole family now totally amazed.

1171
00:47:43,660 --> 00:47:44,520
They heard the gospel.

1172
00:47:45,060 --> 00:47:47,180
That day the entire family gave their life

1173
00:47:47,180 --> 00:47:47,680
to Christ.

1174
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:49,900
Then more families joined the family.

1175
00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:51,960
And within a month time, he had a

1176
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:53,420
glorious church established.

1177
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,120
And we sent the money to buy the

1178
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:55,540
materials.

1179
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,700
About $5,000 he sent to buy the

1180
00:47:57,700 --> 00:48:00,180
materials and everything to build the church today.

1181
00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:02,200
People worshiping Jesus Christ.

1182
00:48:02,460 --> 00:48:05,380
And we named the church the Buffalo Church.

1183
00:48:08,660 --> 00:48:10,320
And this is every day!

1184
00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:12,180
Harvest is taking place.

1185
00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:15,000
There are four things I will ask you

1186
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,580
as a practical step.

1187
00:48:18,740 --> 00:48:19,640
Things you can do.

1188
00:48:19,700 --> 00:48:20,620
You know, a lot of times you hear

1189
00:48:20,620 --> 00:48:21,380
preaching and teaching.

1190
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,140
You know, you go home and you say,

1191
00:48:24,180 --> 00:48:25,200
it was nice and this and that.

1192
00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:25,360
No.

1193
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,820
Today I want you to do something.

1194
00:48:29,620 --> 00:48:31,600
This is given to you very practical.

1195
00:48:31,980 --> 00:48:37,180
One, you please decide to take one day

1196
00:48:37,180 --> 00:48:40,600
of the week to fast and pray for

1197
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,320
people in our generation that do not know

1198
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:43,960
Jesus Christ.

1199
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:47,380
Over 2 billion people still waiting to hear

1200
00:48:47,380 --> 00:48:48,600
about the Lord Jesus Christ.

1201
00:48:48,940 --> 00:48:50,460
You say, Brother KP, I have no feelings

1202
00:48:50,460 --> 00:48:50,920
for it.

1203
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,360
I hear about Rwanda, 100,000 people dying

1204
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:53,800
overnight.

1205
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:54,800
I don't care about it.

1206
00:48:55,220 --> 00:48:56,800
In Sri Lanka people dying, I don't care.

1207
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,420
Bangladesh, I have no feelings.

1208
00:49:00,220 --> 00:49:01,500
It shall be given to you.

1209
00:49:02,140 --> 00:49:02,640
Ask!

1210
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:03,780
Jesus!

1211
00:49:04,420 --> 00:49:06,800
Break my heart with the things that break

1212
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:07,320
your heart.

1213
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:09,400
He will answer your prayer.

1214
00:49:11,570 --> 00:49:14,150
So it will not be carnal reasoning and

1215
00:49:14,150 --> 00:49:15,030
fleshly work.

1216
00:49:15,030 --> 00:49:16,230
It will be His grace.

1217
00:49:17,090 --> 00:49:18,910
Take one day of the week to fast

1218
00:49:18,910 --> 00:49:21,170
and pray for some country, some people do

1219
00:49:21,170 --> 00:49:21,530
something.

1220
00:49:21,890 --> 00:49:23,690
And by the way, get a world map

1221
00:49:23,690 --> 00:49:24,610
put in your house.

1222
00:49:25,090 --> 00:49:27,570
World map will help you to think about

1223
00:49:27,570 --> 00:49:28,050
the world.

1224
00:49:28,550 --> 00:49:32,250
God want us to become world Christians, not

1225
00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:33,170
worldly Christians.

1226
00:49:34,570 --> 00:49:35,990
So you will not say, I don't know

1227
00:49:35,990 --> 00:49:37,230
where to get a world map, Brother KP,

1228
00:49:37,330 --> 00:49:37,770
I have no time.

1229
00:49:37,950 --> 00:49:38,870
I brought it for you.

1230
00:49:40,250 --> 00:49:42,990
World map with a shaded part with 1040

1231
00:49:42,990 --> 00:49:46,030
windows, 2 billion people living without knowing the

1232
00:49:46,030 --> 00:49:47,650
gospel, how to pray for these people.

1233
00:49:48,050 --> 00:49:49,150
And I want you to get a world

1234
00:49:49,150 --> 00:49:50,430
map like this, put in your house.

1235
00:49:50,730 --> 00:49:53,030
In Dallas, 20 years ago, when the Lord

1236
00:49:53,030 --> 00:49:55,030
touched my heart, every room in my house

1237
00:49:55,030 --> 00:49:56,750
world map and all kind of maps came

1238
00:49:56,750 --> 00:49:56,890
in.

1239
00:49:57,090 --> 00:49:58,990
Even our shower curtain is made of world

1240
00:49:58,990 --> 00:50:01,110
map, plastic, K-map.

1241
00:50:01,270 --> 00:50:03,870
Take a shower, pray for Burma, Bhutan, Afghanistan,

1242
00:50:04,050 --> 00:50:06,770
Mongolia, India and Sri Lanka.

1243
00:50:07,010 --> 00:50:09,110
You can pray and you know what?

1244
00:50:09,750 --> 00:50:11,030
Listen, be crazy.

1245
00:50:11,630 --> 00:50:13,990
Be crazy sometimes for Jesus sake.

1246
00:50:14,430 --> 00:50:15,350
Do things like this.

1247
00:50:15,570 --> 00:50:17,410
Let your children learn about the countries of

1248
00:50:17,410 --> 00:50:19,310
the world and they will live with the

1249
00:50:19,310 --> 00:50:21,350
world upon their heart, not about their own

1250
00:50:21,350 --> 00:50:23,710
little ice creams and hot dogs and all

1251
00:50:23,710 --> 00:50:25,610
this funny stuff they waste their life about.

1252
00:50:26,370 --> 00:50:29,170
Second, some of you want to lose half

1253
00:50:29,170 --> 00:50:30,630
a pound more, add one more day to

1254
00:50:30,630 --> 00:50:31,170
your fast day.

1255
00:50:32,270 --> 00:50:34,010
You know, some people cannot fast because of

1256
00:50:34,010 --> 00:50:34,530
health reasons.

1257
00:50:34,730 --> 00:50:36,130
I am not promoting everybody has to do

1258
00:50:36,130 --> 00:50:36,250
that.

1259
00:50:36,430 --> 00:50:38,750
Second, simplify your life.

1260
00:50:39,170 --> 00:50:41,390
You know my sister, you are dreaming about

1261
00:50:41,390 --> 00:50:42,630
the diamond ring and all the jewelry.

1262
00:50:42,830 --> 00:50:43,910
Listen, He loves you anyway.

1263
00:50:43,990 --> 00:50:44,950
Don't worry about it.

1264
00:50:45,410 --> 00:50:48,050
Brother, the car you are driving, you got

1265
00:50:48,930 --> 00:50:50,850
old car, lay your hand on it and

1266
00:50:50,850 --> 00:50:52,250
pray Jesus will make it run again.

1267
00:50:53,630 --> 00:50:56,770
And I drive a 1962 Volkswagen Bug.

1268
00:50:56,890 --> 00:50:58,110
It is running by miracle.

1269
00:50:59,790 --> 00:51:01,570
I am telling you, I am not recommending

1270
00:51:01,570 --> 00:51:03,070
you buy old Volkswagen Bug.

1271
00:51:03,130 --> 00:51:04,230
It is not the best thing on the

1272
00:51:04,230 --> 00:51:04,630
main road.

1273
00:51:04,930 --> 00:51:08,470
But whatever you have, listen, ask the Lord

1274
00:51:08,470 --> 00:51:10,470
to set you free from the pool of

1275
00:51:10,470 --> 00:51:11,570
materialism.

1276
00:51:11,790 --> 00:51:13,530
When I gave up on Neiman Marcus and

1277
00:51:13,530 --> 00:51:15,290
Rolex and all the funny stuff, I said

1278
00:51:15,290 --> 00:51:16,550
to my wife, I want to keep couple

1279
00:51:16,550 --> 00:51:18,190
of ties, couple of jackets and couple of

1280
00:51:18,190 --> 00:51:19,410
shoes and few trousers and few shirts.

1281
00:51:19,670 --> 00:51:19,970
You know what?

1282
00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:22,030
20 years, I still didn't do the same

1283
00:51:22,030 --> 00:51:22,250
thing.

1284
00:51:22,490 --> 00:51:23,610
I don't look that bad, do I?

1285
00:51:24,590 --> 00:51:25,270
Do I look bad?

1286
00:51:25,390 --> 00:51:25,530
No.

1287
00:51:26,030 --> 00:51:26,590
I look awful.

1288
00:51:26,630 --> 00:51:27,530
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

1289
00:51:28,930 --> 00:51:31,050
What I am simply saying, listen, this thing

1290
00:51:31,050 --> 00:51:33,010
here, in couple of years time, this tie

1291
00:51:33,010 --> 00:51:34,650
will go back to this string tie.

1292
00:51:35,490 --> 00:51:37,050
I am not going to give it away.

1293
00:51:37,170 --> 00:51:37,630
I will keep it.

1294
00:51:37,650 --> 00:51:39,010
It will come back in style again.

1295
00:51:40,470 --> 00:51:44,290
This world, this society is so crazy enticing

1296
00:51:44,290 --> 00:51:46,470
us with sales and all kind of things.

1297
00:51:46,770 --> 00:51:48,470
Some of you spend half hour trying to

1298
00:51:48,470 --> 00:51:49,850
color coordinate because you don't know what to

1299
00:51:49,850 --> 00:51:50,130
wear.

1300
00:51:50,450 --> 00:51:51,590
If you want three or four pieces, you

1301
00:51:51,590 --> 00:51:52,650
can put anything you want on you.

1302
00:51:52,770 --> 00:51:53,390
That's all you have.

1303
00:51:54,730 --> 00:51:56,230
Half of the world go to bed with

1304
00:51:56,230 --> 00:51:57,170
empty stomach.

1305
00:51:58,350 --> 00:51:59,070
Something sober.

1306
00:52:00,590 --> 00:52:00,950
Seriously.

1307
00:52:00,950 --> 00:52:07,570
Jesus said you cannot serve God and mammon.

1308
00:52:08,070 --> 00:52:08,910
He didn't say devil.

1309
00:52:09,550 --> 00:52:11,930
Devil is not your enemy in your walk

1310
00:52:11,930 --> 00:52:12,390
with God.

1311
00:52:12,730 --> 00:52:16,150
It is your own self-centeredness for material

1312
00:52:16,150 --> 00:52:18,090
things, comfort and ease and luxury.

1313
00:52:19,130 --> 00:52:21,330
The measure in which you are willing to

1314
00:52:21,330 --> 00:52:25,690
give up the love of materialism the same

1315
00:52:25,690 --> 00:52:27,910
measure you will know the reality of walking

1316
00:52:27,910 --> 00:52:28,410
with Jesus.

1317
00:52:28,410 --> 00:52:30,150
Some people like me say that.

1318
00:52:30,350 --> 00:52:30,970
But that is true.

1319
00:52:31,850 --> 00:52:33,690
Now, what must you drive?

1320
00:52:34,150 --> 00:52:34,970
I can tell you.

1321
00:52:35,530 --> 00:52:38,290
Some people must drive BMW, Mercedes-Benz or

1322
00:52:38,290 --> 00:52:39,730
have nice house.

1323
00:52:40,050 --> 00:52:41,350
That's nobody's business.

1324
00:52:42,110 --> 00:52:43,930
Each one is called to do different.

1325
00:52:44,070 --> 00:52:45,550
I have people that are now friends who

1326
00:52:45,550 --> 00:52:47,990
are millionaires who serve God and give the

1327
00:52:47,990 --> 00:52:49,850
resources and touch the lost world.

1328
00:52:50,090 --> 00:52:52,150
It is not that poverty is going to

1329
00:52:52,150 --> 00:52:52,890
make anybody spiritual.

1330
00:52:53,030 --> 00:52:53,990
That is not what I am promoting.

1331
00:52:54,770 --> 00:52:55,830
But you make your decision.

1332
00:52:55,830 --> 00:52:58,430
Third, if God is calling you to give

1333
00:52:58,430 --> 00:52:59,730
your life to serve Him somewhere in the

1334
00:52:59,730 --> 00:53:01,130
world don't hold back.

1335
00:53:01,430 --> 00:53:02,190
Give your life away.

1336
00:53:02,350 --> 00:53:03,090
It is worth it.

1337
00:53:03,530 --> 00:53:04,070
It is a privilege.

1338
00:53:06,190 --> 00:53:08,930
Lastly, this is one of the main reasons

1339
00:53:08,930 --> 00:53:10,350
I spend some of my time in this

1340
00:53:10,350 --> 00:53:16,130
country, calling people to give their life to

1341
00:53:16,130 --> 00:53:18,970
join their life with others on the mission

1342
00:53:18,970 --> 00:53:20,590
field to reach the lost world.

1343
00:53:21,510 --> 00:53:23,630
How will they hear the gospel without a

1344
00:53:23,630 --> 00:53:23,890
preacher?

1345
00:53:23,890 --> 00:53:25,990
How will they preach except they descend?

1346
00:53:26,430 --> 00:53:27,730
The little card that is given to you

1347
00:53:27,730 --> 00:53:30,210
as a fourth application, this card if you

1348
00:53:30,210 --> 00:53:32,630
take it out just for a second this

1349
00:53:32,630 --> 00:53:37,830
is not a plea or a persuasion or

1350
00:53:37,830 --> 00:53:42,510
a business proposal or manipulation or anything to

1351
00:53:42,510 --> 00:53:43,850
make you give anything.

1352
00:53:44,650 --> 00:53:46,650
I am one before the Lord I can

1353
00:53:46,650 --> 00:53:47,910
tell you, I don't care if you give

1354
00:53:47,910 --> 00:53:50,230
one penny or one billion, it matters nothing

1355
00:53:50,230 --> 00:53:50,570
to me.

1356
00:53:50,930 --> 00:53:52,770
I represent my Lord and I want to

1357
00:53:52,770 --> 00:53:54,370
do it in such a way that honors

1358
00:53:54,370 --> 00:53:54,770
Him.

1359
00:53:55,210 --> 00:53:57,290
This card if you look at, is simply

1360
00:53:57,290 --> 00:54:00,430
to help you to take the fourth step

1361
00:54:00,430 --> 00:54:03,850
and the fourth application that is joining your

1362
00:54:03,850 --> 00:54:06,410
life with at least one or more native

1363
00:54:06,410 --> 00:54:07,650
missionaries on the field.

1364
00:54:08,190 --> 00:54:09,910
Four thousand now getting ready to go to

1365
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the field, but someone must send them.

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If nobody is going to pray for them,

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wipe their tears and help them to go,

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they can go to the mission field.

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It says they are starting now I will

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prayerfully help sponsor one missionary with $30 a

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month or $60 or $90 and then underneath

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your name and your address and on the

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back of the card if you turn the

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card around you can simply see a native

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missionary is a person working full time on

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the mission field and all these different things

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talks about how it works.

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If you look here just for a second

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Brother Dave and I, we brought with us

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some 300 missionaries like this that do not

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have any help today to get to the

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mission field.

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These are precious brothers and sisters from many

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00:54:51,190 --> 00:54:53,950
of these Asian countries who will go to

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the most unreached areas like Haridwar, Bihar in

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00:54:58,850 --> 00:55:01,470
Bhutan where no one ever went to some

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of these villages with the gospel.

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And what I am asking you to do

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if the Lord is giving you the grace

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would you fill out this card saying Brother

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KP, I will support one missionary or I

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00:55:11,710 --> 00:55:12,610
will support two missionaries.

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00:55:12,690 --> 00:55:14,810
My wife and I began to support four

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00:55:14,810 --> 00:55:16,530
missionaries when our kids were so small.

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00:55:16,750 --> 00:55:18,330
They used to pick up beer cans and

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aluminum cans from the streets and sell them

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and bring the money.

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00:55:20,950 --> 00:55:22,910
So we were helping these missionaries giving $30

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a month in four different countries.

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Even today those brothers are planting new churches

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in the unreached areas we still support them.

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00:55:30,090 --> 00:55:32,070
And I ask you, if the Lord is

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giving you the grace, at least one or

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00:55:34,010 --> 00:55:35,890
more some of you can support more than

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00:55:35,890 --> 00:55:36,830
two or three missionaries.

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Mark how many you want to support.

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When you fill this card and bring it

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00:55:40,410 --> 00:55:42,730
to the table, we will give you a

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00:55:42,730 --> 00:55:44,570
missionary to take home with you today put

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00:55:44,570 --> 00:55:46,590
in the refrigerator and start praying for them

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today.

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This is your missionary planting church.

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00:55:49,930 --> 00:55:52,930
You join with them reaping a harvest where

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00:55:52,930 --> 00:55:54,150
you bestow no labor.

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00:55:54,430 --> 00:55:55,070
It's a privilege.

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00:55:55,670 --> 00:55:57,730
So my prayer and request is that you

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fill this card out, bring it and get

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00:55:59,650 --> 00:56:00,010
your missionary.

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00:56:00,150 --> 00:56:01,570
Some people say Brother KP, I don't have

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any money with me no checkbook with me,

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00:56:03,510 --> 00:56:04,010
no problem.

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00:56:04,310 --> 00:56:05,750
If you have the money to give the

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00:56:05,750 --> 00:56:08,270
first month support or cash, please bring it

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00:56:08,270 --> 00:56:08,730
with the card.

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00:56:08,870 --> 00:56:10,550
But even if you don't have any money

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00:56:10,550 --> 00:56:12,870
with you, you still can get your missionary

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00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:14,910
by bringing the card and picking up a

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00:56:14,910 --> 00:56:15,210
missionary.

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00:56:15,970 --> 00:56:18,690
And 100%, 100% of your money you

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00:56:18,690 --> 00:56:19,990
give, go to the mission field.

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00:56:20,170 --> 00:56:22,610
Nobody take a penny out for postage or

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00:56:22,610 --> 00:56:24,330
salary, life, nor hidden agenda.

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00:56:24,670 --> 00:56:27,770
It is all very clean and very open

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00:56:27,770 --> 00:56:28,610
the way we operate.

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00:56:29,370 --> 00:56:32,030
Now Christian television is funny.

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00:56:32,670 --> 00:56:34,330
In America I see that some people say,

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00:56:35,010 --> 00:56:36,130
we need to hear from you today.

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00:56:36,790 --> 00:56:37,890
If I don't hear from you, I have

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00:56:37,890 --> 00:56:38,550
to go off the air.

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00:56:39,350 --> 00:56:40,890
And I usually talk about the television.

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00:56:41,190 --> 00:56:42,270
Would you please go off the air?

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00:56:43,670 --> 00:56:44,610
Leave me alone!

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00:56:46,570 --> 00:56:50,110
I understand there is a tremendous amount of

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00:56:50,110 --> 00:56:50,690
manipulation.

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00:56:52,890 --> 00:56:55,850
Guilt trips, building projects, all kind of projects

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00:56:55,850 --> 00:56:58,870
all kind of tricks used to get people

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00:56:58,870 --> 00:57:00,310
give and give and give.

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00:57:01,090 --> 00:57:02,150
What are they doing?

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00:57:02,490 --> 00:57:03,730
Building their own empire.

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00:57:04,330 --> 00:57:05,370
I am not part of it.

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00:57:05,470 --> 00:57:06,410
I am sad for it.

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00:57:06,810 --> 00:57:08,690
And therefore people are a lot of times,

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00:57:08,830 --> 00:57:11,250
sincere godly people deceived and tricked in a

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00:57:11,250 --> 00:57:13,330
lot of games people play.

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00:57:13,730 --> 00:57:16,190
And I want you to know, if you

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00:57:16,190 --> 00:57:18,870
seek the Lord, He will talk to you

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00:57:18,870 --> 00:57:20,290
what you must do.

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00:57:21,170 --> 00:57:23,050
Don't go by carnal reasoning.

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00:57:23,630 --> 00:57:25,050
And our heart desires this.

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00:57:25,530 --> 00:57:28,170
When time is over, someday when we stand

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00:57:28,170 --> 00:57:31,550
before the Lord, there will be multiplied millions

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00:57:31,550 --> 00:57:34,010
and millions that no man can number.

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00:57:34,530 --> 00:57:37,810
All of us together, the missionaries, the believers,

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00:57:38,310 --> 00:57:41,950
us, all of us, through our eternity, rejoicing

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00:57:41,950 --> 00:57:45,490
for the privilege the Lord gave us to

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00:57:45,490 --> 00:57:48,590
be like Jesus while we lived on earth.

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00:57:48,970 --> 00:57:53,090
And He calls us, come, follow in my

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00:57:53,090 --> 00:57:53,570
footsteps.

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May the Lord speak to us.

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Thank you.

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David.