Gospel for Asia presents Christ's Call.
Follow my footsteps with K.T. Yohannan, President
of Gospel for Asia and author of over
100 books in India and the U.S.,
including the bestseller Revolution and World Missions.
We now join K.T. as he speaks
live at a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
When I first came to America, nobody knew
what I said.
I didn't know what they said, in Dallas.
And then I figured out I spoke English,
they spoke Texan.
But you know, here, you know, the amazing
thing is that the opportunity you have as
a fellowship, and I have no illusion.
I know you people, some of you drive
from the end of the world to get
to this church.
And the reason you do that is because
the Word of God is taught here.
When you realize in America, we have one
ordained minister for every 200 people.
In northern Bihar, 22 million people without one
missionary, one Christian.
That many people that never heard the name
Jesus.
In Afghanistan, 17 million people, the entire nation,
not one church in the entire nation of
Afghanistan.
Turkey, with some 44 million people, maybe less
than 200 Christians in the entire country.
India, where I come from, we have one
billion people population.
What is the population of America you have?
250 million, that's right.
I mean, just imagine how many times big
the nation of India is.
And half of India, about 500 million people,
still waits to hear the message of salvation
for the first time.
By the way, unless you listen to me
today and think deep, this is going to
be, and if you are looking for some
emotional high and some fantastic experience, forget it,
it's not going to come.
You got enough teaching, but I am here
to tell you that the call of Christ
is not just to be informed, but do
something about it.
I mean, one year I traveled 200,000
air miles speaking to God's people in America.
At the end of my trip, I decided
I will never again travel and speak, because
I saw that Christianity is so filled with
shallowness and plastic and lukewarm, it was just,
feed me, help me, take care of my
religion.
And information has become spirituality for more people.
Just think about the number of Christian books
you have.
Think about the number of tapes you purchase.
I mean, by the time I finish speaking,
they will have cooked out 200 audio tapes
that you will be getting.
I don't know what you do with it.
I mean, just look at your church, just
one little church here.
I mean, it's not little, but it's big
enough, but the bookstore, the tape, the program,
the ladies meeting, men's meeting, kids meeting, all
kind of, I mean, you are bombarded with
information.
You get enough spiritual information in one week,
that over in China and India, people don't
get in 5 years.
When I was in Mainland China some time
ago, the Chinese brother showed me photographs of
baptism service taking place in the middle of
the night in the icy waters, because if
they are caught publicly, they will go to
prison and be killed.
And something more shocking they told me was
that, Brother KP, we have thousands of churches
all over Mainland China, and those congregations are
lucky if they have two Bibles to the
name of the entire congregation.
I said, repeat that please.
They would say the same thing.
I said, what do you guys do?
Oh, they said, we get a Bible, we
are so glad, we tear the pages, 10
pages to one family, 20 pages to the
next family, 20 pages to the next family,
they take it home, they copy it, they
bring it back, then they swap it.
Keep on circulating.
And they hear the shortwave radio, Bible read,
through transwave radio broadcast, they copy the Bible.
You realize 1.3 billion people in the
entire nation, there is not one Christian bookstore?
In Dallas where we are, there are over
12 full time Christian radio stations every day,
bombarding the gospel of all kinds, and here
you got 7 or 8 of them, one
you got plugged into your church here.
But I'm telling you, do you realize that
if you came to the church for 6
months, you are qualified to be a theologian,
a Bible school teacher overseas, average Christian here.
You know so much, how blessed we are.
But let's not fool ourselves because you got
people coming here, large numbers, you got nice
buildings, let's not fool ourselves, that don't mean
we are impacting the world.
Nearly 3 billion people live on planet earth
that never heard the name Jesus.
Yesterday I went through your catalog of your
pastor's teaching and I was so glad to
see in the entire catalog, there are 2
-3 messages he spoke about hell.
That is a change.
Average American congregation never hear a message on
hell, because we don't believe in it anymore.
I tell you what, many years ago I
went through a crisis in my life.
The crisis was this, I wish I could
believe there is no hell.
He said, Brother KP, that sounds strange.
Why is that?
Because I was so getting desperate.
If hell is real, I must do something
more than what I was doing with my
life.
And I want to believe there is some
other way to heaven than through Jesus.
After all, hell is not real.
But I tell you what, I went through
the Bible, just like you read, and came
to the conclusion, hell is real.
There is a place and hell is not
for a vacation for 2 years, 10 years,
like you put prisoners for murdering for 10
years, 20 years, no sir.
Hell is forever.
And after 10 billion trillion years, those in
hell will scream, saying, I want to die,
I want to die.
That's all.
Not even for a drop of water, they
just want to die.
And the answer comes again and again and
again.
You shall never die, you will never die.
That is the fate of multiplied billions on
planet earth.
And you and I say, Jesus, I love
you.
And I tell you what, if we can
believe what we say we believe with our
lips, it will revolutionize our life, it will
turn our lives upside down.
When I was in Sri Lanka, just a
while ago, in Colombo, a man told me,
Brother KP, I tell you a story that
you may want to remember.
I said, I want to hear stories.
How many of you heard about the tens
of thousands die in Sri Lanka over the
Tamil Eelam, or the fight between Sinhalese and
Tamil, two people groups, like you had in
America long time ago, the civil war, North
and South, that is going on.
And blood is flowing on the streets.
The Tamils, this particular ethnic people, they want
freedom for their own.
And they train Guralas, freedom fighters.
You know how they do that?
They recruit people to strap bombs on them,
human bombs.
And they go and kill themselves while trying
to get more rights for their cause.
There is a lady sitting at that time
in Colombo government prison, a 28 year old
young girl, young woman.
She was a medical doctor, trained in England,
practicing as a doctor.
Her parents were killed by the opposition party,
the Sinhalese.
She gave up her profession, her job, everything.
She went to the jungles and learned to
shoot and kill, and she carries around her
neck, on a necklace, cyanide capsule.
Thousands of these Tamil tigers, they call, killed
themselves suicide.
That is a part of their life when
they are caught by the soldiers.
Before she could take the cyanide, she was
captured and she was in prison.
That is the time when I was there.
And somebody went to visit her and talk
to her, you know, knowing that she is
going to be killed the next day.
This is what that young doctor said, I
am so glad that I am in prison.
Even through my death, if our party, our
cause can be furthered even one step, I
am grateful for that.
If that is the commitment for something that
is so hopeless, what kind of commitment I
have?
When I went through this crisis of faith
in my life, that is not a joke.
And finally I said to myself, this is
serious.
And then with that, something else happened.
I realized, I ain't going to be here
for a very long time.
That's American talk.
Now, so that you will not think this
guy is telling stories, he didn't teach or
preach, let's look at a Bible verse.
Book of Psalms 103 verse 15.
And as I read this thing, I want
you to look at it closely and seriously.
Psalm 103 verse 15.
As for man, his days are like grass.
He flourished like a flower of the field.
And the wind blows over it and it
is gone.
And its place remembers it no more.
That means, your life, it's not talking about
some other guys living in England, or Germany,
or India, or Dallas, Texas.
I am talking about you.
Your life is like grass that you see
out there.
It comes up in the morning, your life,
and flourishes like a flower.
You look wonderful, put all your nice makeup
on you and go to the special place,
get your hair cut, cost you $25, $30
or $30,000.
And you make your nose big or small.
I mean, you are 100 years old, but
you look 20.
You know, the so-called American midlife crisis,
I don't know what that is.
Get a newer car, new fashions, all these
things, a new house, everything.
I mean, you are never satisfied with stuff
to make you look nice and acceptable and
all the stuff.
I mean, it all looks nice, but you
know what?
The wind.
And says, it's gone.
Well, ok, ok, it is gone.
But the sad thing is this, man, and
it's place remembers it no more.
The house you lived in, the car you
drive, all the clothes you purchase, all the
diamond ring, all the fancy stuff, I mean
the antiques you collect, and the house, the
business, and the bank account.
And none of that stuff will remember you.
You are gone.
And life goes on, and the trees still
live on, the buildings still be there, but
you are not here.
But how we need to realize we are
headed toward eternity, and that is not thousand
miles away from now, it is next minute.
And Jesus lived like that.
Beyond proof, in the New Testament, 1 Peter
2.21. I can read it for you,
don't have to turn to that.
1 Peter 2.21. To this you were
called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you
an example that you should follow in His
footsteps.
He left this example, He suffered for you,
leaving you an example that we should follow
in His footsteps.
This I will share with you, very candidly.
The reason why we in America, with all
the teaching, all the music, all the stuff
going on, our lives are shallow, still struggling
with sin, and struggle in our private thought
life with things that you know not pleasing
God, and the struggle of raising your children
in a godly way, and the lack of
victory in your life, lack of authority of
God in your life, seeking to please men
rather than God.
Ever so busy, we cannot be quiet.
In the car, in the shower, in the
room, everywhere we go, we have to be
kept busy, because we are restless people.
Why is it?
It is simply because we do not want
to accept the cross of Christ into our
life.
Cross means self-denial, giving up our own
wishes and dreams for the sake of the
cross, for the sake of Calvary, and that
is what we are missing here.
That is the reason, with all the stuff,
we miss so much of reality.
But how do you plug into reality?
All what I am telling you can be
just words.
But let me tell you, my wife just
came back from North India, and I was
there, visiting the mission field, and she met
with one of our leaders who coordinates the
work in North-Western India, and she was
telling about the Faridabad slum.
The largest slum of the world is in
Bombay.
Five million people live there.
Slum, how can I explain it?
There is no dirty place in America that
can be compared with the slum.
The water from the sewage flows through this
muddied wetland.
Millions of people live there.
Their house is made of little plastic pieces
that are stuck up on these sticks they
collect from the street.
They sleep on the damp mud floor.
That is their home.
And the kids are playing in the sewage.
And they die there.
Hundred thousand children on the streets of Bombay
alone, not knowing who their parents are.
Don't alienate that from you.
I never forget, when I was coming back
from Bombay, looking at the newspaper, on the
front page, a black and white picture of
a boy, about four or five years old
boy, laying on the sidewalk, beside him a
female dog, and you look close, the boy
is drinking from this dog, its milk.
And the caption reads like this, this dog
is his mother.
And explain about the hundred thousand children on
the Bombay street, not knowing who their parents
are.
I tell you what, I speak your language.
I learned English.
I am not a snake or a rat
or an elephant or a donkey or a
monkey.
No sir, I am a human being.
You are more educated lawyers and doctors from
India and China and America than you can
imagine.
But these kids, these people on the Bombay
streets or Calcutta or Faridabad are not animals,
they are human beings just like you.
It is by the grace of God you
are born in this country, that I was
born in a Christian home.
You didn't ask to be born here.
To those much is given, much shall be
required.
I am telling you, you are not satisfied
with all the beautiful full stereo music coming
through the radio from ten stations here.
You have to buy that new CD just
for yourself.
You are not satisfied with the library books,
you must get books for yourself, because it
is a private individualistic society.
You are never satisfied with all the teachings,
but not realizing half of the world never
heard the name Jesus, they have never seen
one page of the Bible.
Where will we learn?
When will we learn?
What does it take for us to learn?
Call a Christ for us is as the
Father hath sent me, so send I you.
You are my hand, you are my leg,
you are my eyes, you are my ears,
you are my tears, you are mine.
Go into the world and touch the poor,
the needy, the lepers, the dying and the
hurting, and the ones going to hell, and
grab them, and rescue them.
That is the call of Christ.
If pastors keep high side teaching and the
church is only making you a better Christian,
a better family man, a better father, a
better mother, I am sorry for you, that
is only the beginning.
The call of Christ is to die, not
to live.
I can assure you that.
This one missionary who was employed by the
government of India, making big money, a beautiful
wife, two beautiful children, living in Delhi in
the capital city, he heard the call of
God for the slum people.
He took his wife and kids, went to
the slum.
Our leader said to my wife, Andy, if
you just walk on the edge of the
slum, you have to close your doors, you
cannot breathe, it is so dirty, so stinking,
pollution, open sores and bodies.
Yet in that one small slum, over 5000
families live.
And the missionary took his wife and kids
and decided he will live among those slum
people in that little hut, sleeping there, eating
their food and if need be dying there
for the sake of him who left all
and gave his life to reach the lost
and this world, including you and me and
our children, our family.
It was not easy.
It was deliberate embracing of the cross, not
forced upon him.
Within a few months time, he was able
to baptize quite a lot of people and
the church was born right in the middle
of that slum.
People coming half naked, children with a bloated
stomach, hungry and dying, but now come and
sit on the dirt floor, clapping hands and
worshipping Jesus.
You know what?
They are looking not for a better, healthy
future here, they are looking for something far
beyond and glorious beyond all this.
And that is the call of Christ that
he put upon our life.
But you know what?
This is of a truth.
My wife can tell you this and Braskeek
can tell you this too.
Having travelled quite a bit, lived in America
quite a bit, it is not my choice
to come to America.
No sir.
I come here because I want to obey
my Lord.
The 2-3 weeks I spend here to
travel, like to speak, then I jump back
to China or India or some other place
and come back again to do the speaking.
So this is one of those little halls
I have to be here to speak to
you.
The reason I come here is this.
Soon, very soon, soon, very soon, listen to
me, time shall no more be.
You ain't going to be here, but you
will face the Lord of Glory face to
face.
A man called me from Houston, Texas some
time ago, answered, Brother KP, I read your
book.
And he started weeping.
I thought I told him something terribly bad.
Then he would catch himself and keep talking.
He said, Brother KP, I am over 60
years old and I am just a broken
hearted.
He said, I am a believer, I know
Jesus, but soon my life will be over
here and I stand before the throne and
I realize if only I could invest my
life today, millions of people from China, India,
Bhutan, Burma, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, all these
places, from every tribe, every kindred, from every
nation, people that never, never, never heard the
name Jesus will be there.
And oh, I just thought about that.
And I am so grieved that I wasted
so much of my life.
Finally, he said, KP, sorry for weeping like
this of you, sorry for being so emotional,
but I am just calling to ask you,
is there anything I can do, anything I
can do to become real and touch the
lost world?
I said, you know, the first thing is,
you must, by the grace of God, make
a decision that, Lord, I want approval from
you and no one else.
So much of Christian work originates in the
flesh and carnality.
Lord, I only want your approval.
I said, make the commitment to the Lord.
Walk with Him with the purity of heart
and integrity and holiness and honesty.
Even if you do nothing in the world,
that is more important.
Secondly, I said, if God is speaking to
you, take your resources.
If you cannot go to India or China,
the best thing you can do, live a
simple life and give your resources to reach
the lost world.
And he asked me more questions.
Within a couple of weeks' time, he sent
a check to our office for $235,000.
That money was to go to buy the
Life of Jesus film in eight different languages
for illiterate, the tribal, the poor, the suffering
people in the slums and the unreached areas.
Our missionaries took this and began to go
and preach the gospel.
A year went by.
I told my people on the mission field,
would you please do a study because we
have a very serious accountability system set up
as to see what is happening on the
mission field.
I said, I want to know what is
happening with that projector, with that film and
what God is doing with that project.
They wrote a report back and I was
shocked.
The report said every month, no less than
100,000 people come to the Lord Jesus
Christ by watching the Life of Jesus.
And I said to myself, man, this guy,
what a privilege, what a privilege the Lord
gave him in this side of life.
He could have said, the Bible says you
take care of your wife and children and
you be a nice family man and nice
guy.
So I am going to put my money
in the CD, Doody, whatever account and take
care of me.
That is the way Indians talk.
No sir, no sir.
But I am pleading with you.
So that demons will not deceive you right
now and take your thoughts somewhere else.
I am not here after anything from you.
A man from Florida called me up a
few years ago and said, KP, I want
to send a cheque for the ministry.
I said, what are you talking about?
He said, one million dollars.
I said, can you repeat that?
He said, one million.
Being so curious, I said, where did he
get the money from?
Because I am not supposed to ask that
because it is private.
Because I know the guy, he lived in
a frame house, drive an old pickup.
And he said, KP, nobody knows about this
thing.
It is inheritance we got through my wife
and we looked all over America to find
a mission, preaching the gospel in the 1040
window or places where no one ever heard
the name Jesus.
And we came to the conclusion after one
year of search that Gospel of Asia is
the place to really invest this kind of
money.
I said, look Chuck, if this is all
the money you have, I cannot tell you
send it.
You give me three days to pray.
I told our office staff to fast and
pray.
I was in Akron, Ohio to speak at
a mission conference and I was going up
the elevator and the Lord very clearly asked,
I can hear now.
Clearly he said to me, are you listening?
I said, yes Lord.
You are going to call Chuck today?
I said, yes.
Tell him all he can take from him
is the money you need for the project
you are praying about.
And we were praying for a project of
a trading center in India to train workers.
It cost about less than $300,000.
And I said, Lord, it's not fair.
I want that money and him and his
wife, children, everything.
No, I didn't argue.
I said to him, this is funny, we
could use $10 million that day.
And I went back to the office and
told Chris Davis, our office manager, I said,
Chris, I'm sure the Lord spoke to my
heart.
This is it.
He said, fine.
So I called him up and said, Chuck,
I'm glad for your money, but I can't
take all the money.
The Lord told us we can only take
this much money from you.
And I said, I can give you other
mission organizations, name and address.
If you want to call and give it
to your money, that's fine.
But just for us, this is what we
have to do.
A lady from another part of America gave
me a huge diamond ring.
I grabbed that thing.
And she said, I want this to be
used for printing gospel tract on the mission
field.
I take it to Dallas, gave it to
Chris to sell it.
She appraised it $20,000.
The thing was, wow.
And that night I couldn't go to sleep.
Somebody troubling me and my conscience.
The first thought, send the ring back, send
the ring back.
Devil, I repeat you.
And the boy said, I ain't the devil.
It's me, it's me.
And I said, Lord, you mean that money
can be used to reach millions of people,
gospel tracts.
The Lord said, I understand, send that back.
Next day I went to the office and
said, Chris, don't argue with me.
I just understand.
I'm a spooky maybe, but I have no
rest.
You need to send this ring back.
She said, what?
She said, now you brought this thing in
your pocket.
Now I have to insure this thing and
send it back, send it back.
And of course that night I said, Lord,
what am I going to say to this
lady?
She's going to think we rejected her thing
because we don't think it's worth anything.
The Lord said, tell her, I see your
sacrifice as Abraham did.
It is yours to keep now.
I'll tell you what to do with it
later.
And I wrote the letter with my own
hands.
A year later when I was there to
speak in a mission conference, I saw this
lady.
Then I learned the story.
As a young girl, she left the United
States with her husband to the mission field
in South America somewhere among the tribal people.
Her husband died on the mission field.
The only thing she ever had was the
ring handed down to her from her parents.
Alone living in a one room house back
in America as an older woman now, loving
Jesus, her and God.
And I said, Lord, I am grateful that
you gave me the heart to listen to
you.
I am not after anything from you, but
I am so concerned.
I am so concerned when I see a
church like this and the appearance of affluence
and the nice things and all the stuff
you have.
I pray you will not forget a world
out there that do not know Jesus and
they are going to hell and forever.
If one man went to hell and cried
out for a drop of water to cool
his tongue, it is not one, it is
multiplied millions.
And the tears would be forever, I want
to die, but there is no death.
And Jesus, my Lord, died for them and
I cannot sit and be at peace.
That is how I became a crazy maniac
radical and I have one thing on my
mind, to live for him and challenge you
to come along to walk on this narrow
road.
I have two children, my Danny and my
Sarah, 20 year old boy and 17 year
old girl.
From the day they were born, my prayer
was, Lord, please save them and call them
to be your workers.
When they finished the high school, they both
took the flight and went on the mission
field now serving God in India.
My son is in a place where I
was beaten up and stoned and persecuted numerous
times.
And I said, Lord, if he must be
killed and martyred on the mission field, I
will be the first one to jump up
and down thanking you for the privilege you
gave us to give our life for you.
American Christians, my brother, my sister, are you
godly enough to keep the alarm clock, to
wake you up, to weep over the lost
world, to fast before the lost world and
for God?
I know those are strong words.
Unless you are sensitive to the Lord, you
can easily misunderstand.
I am here to put you on a
guilt trip or a misunderstand obedience for legalism
and bondage.
I am telling you, I am telling you,
a day soon coming, you will regret and
repent.
Too late it will be over the wasted
life we spend for ourselves here.
The world out there that do not know
Jesus and our priority number one, number one
must be, Lord, I love you.
As a result of that, I give all
to touch the lost world.
And where is the lost world?
The 1040 window.
Nearly 2.7 billion people in India, in
Iran, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, part of Africa,
in Bhutan, in Bangladesh.
That's where people that never heard the gospel
and that's where you put your radio broadcast
on.
That's where you should spend your money on.
Many of you are praying for the lost
world.
Many of you are giving to touch the
lost world.
May God give you more grace to do
more.
Conclusion.
Some applications.
One, I would encourage you to get a
world map.
People ask me all over the country, KP,
where do you buy this map?
Oh, we just got one done.
This is the first church, first meeting that
we are offering.
What is new about it?
This tells you how to pray for the
lost world.
Color coordinate, whatever coordination you want to do,
put it in your house.
NBC, CBS, newspaper, magazine, whatever radio news you
hear about Rwanda, Bangladesh, whatever.
Hey, listen.
Let the news become prayer letter for you.
Ask God to break your heart with the
things that break His heart.
His heart is breaking over the slums.
The 100,000 died in Rwanda.
And the blood flowing situation, the cruelty in
Sri Lanka, or Afghanistan, or Bangladesh, that's where
His heart is.
And you look at the world with you
and your children.
And if you came to a house in
Dallas, you take a shower in our shower,
the shower curtain is made a world map.
When you take a shower, you can go
to Burma, or Mongolia, or Afghanistan.
Hey, listen.
Be a radical, all out, crazy individual for
Jesus.
You can be.
Don't try to keep up with the Jones
next door.
That Jones is not going to make anywhere.
Yes.
And so, I'll plead with you.
Get a world map.
By the way, this map, I don't know,
shops sell them for 15, 20, whatever dollars.
We are trying to give all the materials
for whatever we can give you.
It's about $5 apiece.
You can buy your own map and put
it in your house.
Your children, your husband, wife, you look at
the world and say, Lord, I prefer Afghanistan,
Bihar, or Pakistan, or whatever.
So become a world Christian, not worldly Christian.
Second, live simple.
That means, you know, there was a time,
and I say this not out of great
pride or joy, I'm broken over this thing
and I think about it.
There was a time, I was living by
the lake, 10 acres of property, 3,200
square feet house, A grade lumber I bought
from Arkansas just to build a house, best,
most expensive carpet, the most expensive items you
can buy in America.
Money was sent through my father-in-law
and all that in Germany so I can
buy all this stuff.
And clothes for Neiman Marcus.
I mean, that's no fun.
And I lived like that for two years
of my life.
But finally, when Jesus said to me, Son,
how can you live like this with the
dry eyes and the stone of heart when
the world is going to hell?
He didn't condemn me.
He didn't beat me up on my head.
It was His love.
And I said, Lord, stamp eternity on my
eyes.
My life immediately began to change.
Not that selling my property and my house
and my cars and my clothes made me
any spiritual nonsense.
If poverty and having no money means you
are spiritual, Bangladesh, Africa, India, more spiritual people.
I have friends who are millionaires who are
living for God and giving all to serve
and reach the lost world.
It is not, you know, we give here
out of abundance.
In India, in Burma, in Pakistan, other places,
they give their little rice they have to
cook for their children.
One meal a day, that's all they may
have.
They take out one handful of rice and
put it aside for mission work.
They give out of nothing and sacrifice.
Hey, live simple.
You don't need another diamond ring, a new
car, a new house.
Hey, listen, how much you need?
Trim down your life.
Simplify your life.
Let no one dictate to you what you
should do.
Let Jesus tell you and you follow His
instruction.
If I were to tell you how to
do it, I recommend you to read this
book, Wrote Reality, Coming Home to Jesus, the
Unreal World.
And I wrote this book as a result
of that long journey, one year, and thousands
write to me, said, Brother KP, read the
book.
We save now thousands of dollars every month
that we are wasting.
How to simplify your life, you may want
to get and read the thing.
It's not free.
If you don't have any money, you can
take one free also.
It's about six dollars.
But third, take one day of the week
to fast and pray.
Some of you need to lose half a
pound, add one more day.
Remember I told you about art of following
the Lord, learning to walk on an arrow
road, the cross.
Hey, the cross is not somebody saying, hey,
here is a man, take your cross.
Nobody dump cross on you.
You go after it.
You wake you up in the middle of
the night to pray for the Lord.
You decide to fast, not to lose weight,
but for Afghanistan, India, whatever God put upon
your heart.
You know what?
We are trying to save America by marching
to Washington instead of fasting and praying for
two months.
I'm challenging you to find a way to
spend one day of the week to fast
and pray.
Fourth, if God is calling you to go,
go somewhere to give your life and serve
God.
But finally, the most important thing I want
to conclude with next two, three minutes is
this.
Most of you never make it to India,
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, none of those places.
But Romans 10 says, all those who call
upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.
But how will they call on Him?
They never heard His name.
How will they hear without a preacher or
a missionary?
How will they preach except they be sent?
The skip and linear, when I first met
them, began to support several native missionaries, people
from India and other countries.
They pray for those missionaries in their family
prayer time.
Every month they send the money they can
send to support those missionaries.
And each missionary plant at one church per
year on the mission field.
Your greatest investment in this side of life
for eternity.
And today I ask you, if the Lord
is speaking to you not out of guilt
or because of any other reason, I tell
you God is not in any trouble, I
am not in any trouble either.
It is our privilege.
There is a card given to you in
the bulletin.
Would you please pull it out?
If you don't have one, you can get
it when you go out from the service.
Look at this card.
I care about the lost and forgotten millions
of Asians.
I will help native missionaries reach their own
people for Jesus.
Starting now, I will prayerfully help sponsor one
missionary or you can support more than one,
$30 a month or whatever money you want
to put there and name and address.
And in the back of the card it
explains the logic and how it is done.
To send an American overseas to a missionary,
it takes $70,000-$80,000 per
year.
It takes less than $1,000 to keep
a native missionary full time, a whole year
preaching and planting at least one church because
they live simple, they live like their people
in all these unreached areas.
So I would encourage you, like many of
you are already doing, would you please, please,
today decide, Lord, I want to be a
sender of one of those missionaries as a
tangible way of living for you and reaching
the lost world.
All you need to do is fill your
name and address and there is a medical
doctor that supports 80 missionaries.
He and his wife and kids from Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
And my wife and I support four missionaries.
My kids used to go and collect beer
cans, Pepsi Cola cans from the streets and
sell them, bring the money to us so
we can support those missionaries also.
Now they are on the mission field.
And I ask you, please do not rush
and walk away from this meeting.
Ask Jesus, ask Jesus, because he said, what
you have done to the least of these,
my brothers, you have done it for me.
We have brought with us hundreds of these
missionaries.
We have 2,000 missionaries who are ready
to launch out to the mission field to
reach the lost.
They cannot go unless we help them.
When you fill this card out, bring to
the foyer outside, here left side, everywhere there
are tables.
When you bring your card, say, Brother KP,
I want to support one or two or
ten missionaries.
We will give you your missionary to take
home with you today.
Yeah!
Put in the refrigerator in your Bible, start
praying with your family.
I tell you, I can't tell you the
joy that comes when you look at the
four pictures beside our dining table in Dallas
and look at their faces and see what
God is doing to them.
Our life is mixed with them, their life
with us.
And you can do the same.
You will hear from us every month, the
envelope that comes, tell you about how you
can send your support to the missionary.
And 100% of all the money you
send, go to the mission field.
Nobody takes one penny out of it for
anything.
All our people in Dallas, 45 people, they
raise their own support.
We don't take anything out of this.
And you can be sure that go to
the mission field.
And I wish the Lord, and I pray,
would help you to know what He is
asking you to do from your heart, and
He will speak to you.
Would you please ask the Lord about helping
and praying for these missionaries right now on
the field.
Let's pray.
Father, thank you for the opportunity to share
with my brothers and sisters.
My feeble words, O Lord, take what is
of you and change us.
Jesus, would you please remember your servants, their
wives and children on the field, some of
them going hungry, the suffering they go through.
Speak to hearts, Lord, that not only we
commit our life to you without any reservation,
but we will love them, pray for them,
and help them.
Jesus, we love you so much.
We love you.
Amen.
To those who've never heard of me.
But strange words and distance, and my color
of skin.
Make it hard for me to go to
this.
But thousands of voices have been stirred.
They are there and they know the right
words, and I hear them say, Here am
I, send me, send me, send me.
I will lay my life down if you'll
send me.
Here am I, send me, send me, send
me.
Satan has millions bound, won't you send me,
send me.
Barely breathing on a bed of straw.
Badly beaten for obeying God's call.
To tell them about Jesus' love.
When he's able, will he go back then?
To tell a raging crowd of angry men.
Cause this time he may not return.
He whispers in my ear and my heart
burns when I hear him say, Here am
I, send me, send me, send me.
I will lay my life down if you'll
send me.
Here am I, send me, send me, send
me.
Satan has millions bound, won't you send me,
send me.
Worshipping in heaven before God's throne.
From every tribe and nation God has called
his own.
They heard and received Jesus' love.
They might have never heard if no one
went to them with God's holy word.
But how can they go unless they're sent?
Pray that we will not remain content now
that we've heard them say.
Here am I, send me, send me, send
me.
I will lay my life down if you'll
send me.
Here am I, send me, send me, send
me.
Satan has millions bound, won't you send me.
Here am I, send me, send me, send
me.
I will lay my life down if you'll
send me.
Here am I, send me, send me, send
me.
Jesus can set them free, won't you send
me, send me.
Send me, send me.
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