Good evening.
Well, I'm in California.
Just got back from India a couple of
days ago.
So, if you travel like this, you know,
the thing called jet lag.
So I woke up a while ago and
said, I am in San Diego.
It's been a good evening.
I think the time of worship was quite
significant.
You know, it's always a blessing to be
part of worship where people are actually worshiping
the Lord, not performing.
And I think it's been very, very good.
And the sister who sang that song from
whatever experience she had with the Lord is
quite significant.
I think he affirmed that.
So I've been here quite a few times.
And the pastor is a dear friend.
We love him and appreciate him.
And of course, I thought he was teaching
in Chicago.
Now I found out he's fishing.
But, you know, I spent a few months
of the year traveling, speaking here in the
United States and, you know, places like this.
But about 10 times of the year I
travel away to many nations that we have
our missionaries and serve in the Lord and
spend about 300,000 air miles a year
traveling.
So that kind of tells you I do
have a wonderful wife that loves the Lord
and two children, Danny and Sarah, both born
and raised here.
But they finished their studies and went off
to serve the Lord on the mission field.
And they both are married and have three
little grandchildren.
And it's a joy to serve him as
a family.
And you understand my English?
Thank you.
That's good.
So I want to spend these few minutes
this evening just to talk to you.
You do have a brilliant, wonderful teacher of
God's word here and several pastors.
So my attempt this evening is just to
have a conversation with you and talk to
you about some practical things that would make
sense.
You know, it's one thing to know spiritual
things.
It's another thing to actually walk in it.
And we are told not to be just
hearers of the word but doers of the
word.
For many unfortunate reasons, Christianity at large, it
seems spirituality is just knowing information.
And people are reading and studying.
For example, this evening you heard the announcement
about family, you know, your husband, wife, and
the raising children.
I mean, we are given an unbelievable amount
of information as to how to be something
that we are told about or we read
about, yet the journey to actually become that
individual, it is not an easy road.
You know, I remember some years ago when
I was speaking in California, in some church
after the meeting, a lady came to me
and said, would you please lay your hand
on me and pray for me?
And I said, lady, would you please tell
me what it is that you want me
to pray for?
Then she responded saying that, you know, my
problem is I have a demon of smoke
inside me.
Would you please cast it out?
Well, I never encountered anything like that in
my entire life.
So I kind of said, well, this is
interesting.
I said, lady, I can cast out demons,
but I cannot cast out flesh.
And I think it confused her.
You see, we blame the devil for everything
under the sun.
You know, the devil did it to me
and he tempted me and this and that
and the whole thing.
And I think the whole time the devil
is saying, don't blame me for stuff that
I have no clue about.
And often we don't realize the worst enemy
that we have to deal with is not
the devil and the demons, although they are
bad and mean, I agree.
It is our own self-centeredness.
Ever learning, but never coming to the place
of saying not to ourselves that we may
seek the face of God.
You know, I was just about to leave
for Frankfurt Airport just a couple of days
ago.
I was in Bombay and a telephone call
came on my cell phone from New Zealand.
A radio station did, you know, they said,
would you please talk to us for a
few minutes?
I said, I'd be glad to, of course,
you know, the airport, you know, all the
noise going on.
And I was trying to listen to what
they're trying to say.
They said, we'd just like to talk to
you about the recent flood that just took
place in Pakistan and what is going on.
Of course, you know, we were right in
the middle of that because we have work
in Pakistan, missionaries and churches.
And so I tried to respond to their
questions about Pakistan.
Then I said, you know, I just finished
talking to one of our senior leaders coordinating
the work in the flood relief and ministry
in Pakistan.
And I said, you know, the thing was,
while he was talking to me about it,
he just broke down.
He couldn't talk anymore.
And overcome by emotions when he said, just
found out over 1,800 people died within
hours.
Over 3 million children, they do not know
what they're going to do with it.
70% of the entire crops in the
country completely destroyed.
People are desperate and they do not know
the Lord.
There is no hope.
I want to ask you a question.
Didn't you read about it?
Didn't you see about it?
Well, the problem is that with our iPhones
and computers and laptops and stuff, we are
Google searching not to find out what is
going on in the world where multiplied millions
are dying and plunging into eternity.
We are consumed about which is the latest
stuff we can buy, cheaper or better, or
the vacation, all that.
None of those things are bad.
But the problem is if Christ will walk
on this earth today in San Diego, live
where we live, I think his heart will
be going out to find out where people
are hurting and dying with the father's love.
And he'll be on his knees weeping and
walking and doing everything he can to touch
and change lives.
My problem is that I'm too much preoccupied
with my own self-centeredness, my own life.
Please understand, I don't have any agenda to
collect some money from you or put you
on a guilt trip and bring condemnation on
you and then go to the next place
and do the same.
That's not it.
But my dear brothers and sisters, we need
to understand this as we say, as we
read in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, that since
one died for all, that is Jesus, he
died for you on the cross.
Now you found your life in him.
It says, therefore, you do not, I do
not want to live for myself.
We must live for him who died for
us.
Some years ago I was in Nagpur in
the central part of India at a pastor's
conference where we have these dear brothers gather
for a week of seeking God's face.
I met this young man some years prior
to that, a handsome looking young person who
actually came from an upper caste Hindu family.
And when he gave his life to Christ,
his parents simply booted him out.
He had to walk away with the clothes
on his back.
He ended up at a Bible college and
got his training, then went to the mission
field.
I knew him.
But this time when I saw him, there
was a deep scar on his forehead.
It looked like something horrible happened.
And of course, whoever did the stitching, they
did what I call a Mickey Mouse job.
It's just called bulging out and all that.
And I was so curious.
I said, what happened to you?
Before he would answer, the senior pastor standing
next to him said, well, he will not
tell you the whole story.
I will tell you the story.
Then he tells a story.
This young man, having finished his studies, went
to a mission field and started preaching the
gospel.
A few people came to Christ and he
would gather them to teach the Bible Sunday
mornings and try to continue to reach more
people for Christ.
And one Sunday morning, a group of men
came in a jeep with weapons in their
hand, chains and iron rods and knives.
And as these young believers, 10, 15 believers
witnessing, they began to beat up this young
brother.
And left him in a pool of blood,
saying that we are going to come back.
And if we find you here, we'll bury
you.
With those words, they got in their vehicle
and they left.
Hearing about this, the area leader of our
mission told him, brother, maybe this is not
the best place for you to be here.
They will come back.
And this is deadly serious.
And we recommend you move to another mission
field and continue your ministry there.
We will try to find a way to
take care of the people here.
To this, he responded as he was recovering
from the beatings he received in the hospital.
And he responded saying, you know what?
Whatever you tell me, I will do.
But may I request you, would you please
allow me to continue here?
Most probably, they will come back.
And then he said, you know, when I
was sent to this mission field, I was
told that this is a one-way ticket.
When you get there, know that if this
is the place, you must lay down your
life.
Keep in mind, heaven is a much better
place than the mission field.
You wait there in heaven for us and
we will come and see you later.
He said, those were the words spoken to
me when I left my place and came
here to serve God.
And if they come back to kill me,
I have no problem.
My life is not my own.
It's all given over to him.
I will be very happy to continue and
be here because my life is not my
own.
Now, obviously, you didn't hear that kind of
call or I didn't.
And this particular brother received the call.
But here is the principle.
That is, he saw his life not so
important.
Reminds me of Paul's life in Acts 20
when people say, oh, Paul, you don't want
to go there.
They're going to beat you up and cause
problems for you and you'll be abused.
He said, no problem.
I do not consider my life dear to
myself.
All I want is just to please him
and do what he tells me to do.
Christianity is a call from Christ to come,
die, and live.
If we seek to find your life, even
in spiritual things, you're studying and reading and
this and that, it is all to accumulate
more information and be a better husband, better
wife, and better parents, and better this and
that.
But we don't realize that as we know
him, we are called to continue, live a
life of abandonment and embracing death so that
others may find life through our life on
earth.
And I say this to you, it's been
43 years since the Lord called me to
follow him.
Life has not been easy.
It's a daily choice to say no to
myself and yes to him for the sake
of fulfilling his heart's desire for a world
that still waits and desperately waits in darkness,
not knowing what the answer is.
And Pakistan, when I heard this dear brother
telling the story and choking up, you know
what I said to myself?
Lord, I have a long way to go.
I heard the story.
I know what's going on.
But I was so preoccupied with so many
things that I didn't have the pain
and the tears.
And I said, Lord, I'm sorry.
Help me to understand you better.
So you may be thinking, wow, he said
so many things but didn't read the Bible
passage yet.
Well, I'll give you one.
Luke's Gospel chapter 12.
That's a long enough chapter.
But you know the story about the parable
of the rich fool.
The man was blessed.
He had plenty of money and his field
was doing well.
And now his problem is that he didn't
have money but he had too much.
And so he said, well, you know, what
I'm going to do is I'm going to
store it up and say to myself, take
it easy.
Do well.
And God said, you know, you fool.
This very night your life will be demanded
from you.
Then who will get what you have prepared
for yourself?
Then Jesus continued to talk about.
He says, don't worry about all kind of
stuff here.
Your clothes and food.
And I mean, I may add our language
here, the car and the new fashions and,
you know, the Nike Air and whatever else.
All the stuff here.
And I said, just don't worry about these
things.
Life is more than all this.
Anyone here heard about the name Keith Green?
Keith Green?
Some of the spiritual people heard his name.
When I came to America, you know, in
1974, those early years, Keith Green, of course,
you know, he went to be with the
Lord.
A powerful young man who knew the Lord
and served him.
I mean, he was a musician.
He wrote many, many songs.
And I will not attempt to sing any
of them tonight for you.
But listen to the words of this one
of the songs he wrote.
Do you see?
Do you see all the people sinking down?
Don't you care?
Are you going to let them drown?
How can you be so numb not to
care if they come?
You close your eyes and pretend the job
is done.
Oh, bless me, Lord.
Bless me, Lord.
You know, it is all I ever hear.
No one ache.
No one hurt.
No one even shed one tear.
It's all about us.
You know, in my own life journey, I
remember when I came to this country in
1974.
America is an amazing place, by the way.
When I first came to America, when somebody
said hot dog, I really believed Americans eat
dog meat.
We have hot rice, hot curry, and in
America, hot dog.
It took me a while really to be
convinced it was not, you know, dog that
you are eating.
Strange things happen to aliens when they come
here.
For the first two weeks, I was completely
spaced out, not on drugs, but the way
people look, the clothes, the highways, the cars.
I mean, it was an incredible place to
land, you know.
I remember those times.
But, you know, you get used to things
so fast.
I was in college and later went to
Germany and got married and all those things.
I was called to pastor a church there
in Dallas.
But to cut a long story short, within
the first early years of my life, I
found myself wanting to become like others, Americans.
You know, the first time I had Dr.
Pepper, I threw up.
I really did.
I said, I can't believe people drink this
stuff here.
But then I got used to it.
I liked it, as a matter of fact.
And when I came to the green room
today, I found out they had a bottle
of Dr. Pepper.
Whoever told them that, I don't know.
But then, you know, having married to a
girl from Germany, her parents have a good
heart to share the resources with their daughter
and their son-in-law.
So I didn't have to buy anything on
credit from the early days.
Whatever I wanted to buy, just pay cash
and buy it.
And life was quite easy.
Finally, I found myself with a library in
my home with books, thousands of books.
I may never read, but they look wonderful.
Sports, I have no clue about what people
do with sports here.
But I had sports magazines.
And, you know, Kmart and JCPenney was not
good enough.
I had to buy my clothes on Neiman
Marcus.
And it took me often half an hour
to dress myself, because I read a book
called Color Me Beautiful.
And analyzed my skin, and found out, you
know, summer, autumn, spring, and all that.
And I was, you know, I was preaching
several times a week.
And lost in the world of information, learning,
studying.
And keep in mind, eight years prior to
my coming to this country, I lived on
the streets of India and Nepal, these nations,
and weeping my eyes out, preaching and sharing,
getting beaten up and abused for preaching the
gospel.
But now, within a few short years, my
heart changed.
And I found I couldn't cry anymore.
I preached about missions.
I was very good in teaching the Bible
and praying the best prayers.
But my heart was cold.
And one day, the Lord, in His mercy,
said to me, Son, look at your library.
Seven most expensive leather-bound Bibles sitting on
the shelves.
And He said, half of the world have
never seen one page of the Bible.
What are you doing with your life?
You have cassette after cassette of music with
the best stereo systems you can get.
But, Son, there are 13 Christian radio stations
in Dallas, 24 hours airing anything you want.
There's not one radio station talking about me
for 1.5 billion people in the Indian
subcontinent.
Son, how much more stuff you need before
you understand my heart is aching and hurting
for the lost world.
Then I looked at my closet, the clothes
and the material things I was accumulating.
And it was no big news, but I
knew that half of the world would go
to bed with empty stomach and naked bodies.
Please understand, it was not guilt and condemnation
that put me down, but I realized, oh,
Lord, how short my life is.
Well, one of the strangest things happened during
that time.
That week, I remember I was sitting in
my comfortable, soft leather chair and my desk,
writing something with my favorite pen that I
got when I was in Europe called Montblanc.
I grew up writing with a real pen,
the ink pen, not disposable.
Of course, now I do use disposable also.
I get it free from the hotel motel
room.
One of the reasons I like to go
to motels, you know, I can steal everything
there.
But I remember sitting down and writing with
my fountain pen, and you wouldn't believe, who
would want to pay $600 for a pen?
He said, somebody dumb did it.
The weird thing, see, we are looking for
God to speak to us when somebody is
preaching a great sermon.
True, he will.
I mean, during singing, yeah.
But sometimes he speaks in ways that we
never even imagined.
I am not a spooky, charismatic weirdo.
I am a normal individual who reads God's
word and tries to follow him and walk
with him.
I am not looking for signs and wonders,
any of those things.
Although I have seen so many, you know,
God doing wonderful things.
I remember that afternoon, as I was doing
something, writing, it's a strange thing.
It's as though Christ himself walked up to
the table and began this conversation.
It's just out of nowhere.
So you like your pen?
I cannot respond.
Yeah, I do!
And the next thing I heard, so clear
in my heart, so, who is going to
use it 100 years from now?
I literally looked at this pen, and I
could hear the same question again.
So, who is going to use it 100
years from now?
And now I realized what
the Lord was trying to tell me.
And that was the turning point in many
ways.
When I fell on my face and said,
Lord, I am drunk with self.
Change my heart, dear Lord.
Help me weep.
All the spiritual talk and all the books
and all the stuff, it's all about me,
not about you.
And I say this to you, my precious
brother, my sister, God is not after your
house and your money and trying to get
you to do this and that.
For me, it was a journey of saying,
Lord, this is it.
And I told my wife, Gisela, I just
want to keep a couple of pants and
a couple of pairs of shoes and a
couple of ties.
And thank God I don't have to wear
those ties anymore.
And I said, let's once again be His
completely.
And I say this to you because 80
,000 people die every single day, especially in
the 1040 window region that never, ever heard
the name Jesus.
And if I don't care about it, if
you will not care about it, who will?
And the privilege the Lord gave me, and
I say this with all my heart, it
is linked my life with brothers and sisters
that said, like that young brother from Nagpur,
I will go and lay down my life.
And when they introduced me saying that we
got some 16,000 brothers and sisters scattered
throughout dozen nations, reaching the lost.
As a matter of fact, just a week
ago, I was talking to one of our
brother from Andhra Pradesh and he was gone
for a whole week traveling to different places.
I said, so Lucas, how did things go?
He said, oh, just wanted to know.
We just baptized 380 people this week.
I said, really?
He said, yeah, a lot more, but that's
all I could do.
They keep doing it.
And the number of people turning to Christ
from places that never had the gospel before
and responding to him, it is harvest time.
And I was saying, Lord, thank you for
the privilege you gave me to link my
life with these men and women that are
going out and preaching the gospel.
Romans 10 says, how will they call on
him if they never heard his name?
But how can they hear our Lord's name?
Unless somebody go and tell them Jesus died
for you.
He was buried.
He rose again.
Repent and believe in him.
Your sins can be forgiven.
There's a whole new world waits for you
and then heaven.
But how can they hear that unless somebody
go?
The last question, how will they go unless
someone send them?
So when God calls you to go and
share the gospel and tell someone, please understand,
it's a precious call.
Then God calls us also to help others
to go to China, to Bhutan, to Afghanistan,
India, Bangladesh, African nations, wherever.
We must grab that as a huge opportunity.
Say, Lord, I cannot go and live in
India or in Bangladesh, but Lord, I'm so
glad that I can link my life in
prayer and sending these missionaries to reach the
lost world.
So 100 years from now, what does it
matter?
Let me conclude with this story
that may be the closest thing to my
heart.
People ask me about where I was born
and raised.
I usually tell them, well, southern part of
India, but if you really want to know
the circumstances, the place I grew up, you
need to go and watch the oldest Tarzan
black and white movie you can find.
And I wore these clothes after I left
my home.
I grew up in this tiny village.
We have six brothers in my family.
I'm the youngest.
And my parents knew the Lord, but my
mother was deeply devout to the Lord.
A very short, fragile little woman, five feet,
two inches tall, very small frame.
The earliest memory of my mother, every morning
she would wake up, three, four in the
morning, and she would spend about two hours
or more on her knees praying.
I still can almost see her.
She has little head covering she'll put while
she's praying.
And then she'll wake up the whole family
for our morning family prayer.
And I was growing up.
I would hear her repeat this Bible verse
a thousand times.
Psalm 73, verse 25.
Whom have I in heaven but you, and
on earth I deserve no one and nothing
beside you.
I used to think, what's wrong with my
mother?
And I saw her often reading a Bible.
No other book she had.
And when I finished my high school, because
she led me to the Lord when I
was eight years old, when I finished my
high school, I felt the Lord wanted me
to go to the mission field.
So I remember one afternoon, when my parents
were both there, I said, if you would
allow me, I'd like to go to serve
Christ.
Before I could finish my sentence, she jumped
up from the bench she was sitting on
and said, Go!
I mean, it startled me.
It's like I was an accident or she
hated me, either one.
And with their blessing, I went off to
North India with a youth group for learning
and serving God.
And after two years, when I came back,
I remember my mother said, I want to
tell you a story that you do not
know.
And she was cooking in the kitchen, and
I was sitting there.
She said, do you remember the day you
came and said you want to go and
serve Christ?
And I said, you must go.
I said, yeah, I do remember.
She said, what you do not know, I
prayed all my life that one of my
sons would go and serve Christ.
But one by one, they went for farming
and business and all that.
And when you were born and growing up,
timid, shy, skinny, I kind of lost all
my hope that it's not going to happen.
But then she said, I decided to pray.
Three and a half years, every Friday, my
mother fasted, asking for one thing, asking, Lord,
just one of my sons, before I die,
call him to serve you.
And she was not thinking about me either.
And the day you came and said you
want to go, I knew the Lord answered
my prayer.
Well, now she was 84 in 1990, and
I was on the way to Seoul, Korea.
And I heard when I was in Bombay
that my mother was ill, taken to the
hospital, and canceled my trip.
And that weekend, early morning, my mother passed
away.
She was never sick, actually.
She had some heart condition that developed when
she was that age.
And funeral take place, and I need to
go back to America.
And so all my brothers and I, we
met.
My father passed away early in 74.
So we had this meeting, talk about our
mother.
And everyone was curious how much money our
mother left in the bank.
You see, according to our culture, when father
passes away, mother becomes the boss.
And she has six sons, and they all
take care of her.
And, you know, they're fairly well-to-do
people.
But we never saw her spending the money.
So by our calculation, especially, you know, one
of my brothers said, you know, there must
be a whole lot of money sitting in
the bank somewhere, because we didn't see her
spending any money, but she had all this
money.
And one of my brothers, answering to that
question or that curiosity, he pulled up this
old notebook, and he said, I found this
under the pillow of our mother's bed.
And then I was terribly curious, what on
earth?
And he started going through the pages.
He said, well, all I can tell you,
there's not a penny in the bank or
anywhere.
And one of my brothers said, well, what
happened to all the money?
Then he said, well, all I can tell
you is that pages after pages, scribblings of
our mother, names of young people studying in
Bible schools, people on the mission field, and
against their names, the amount of money she
was sending every month, but never telling anyone.
And I broke down and started weeping, not
because there was no money in the bank.
See, two years prior to her death, when
I was in India, when I went to
see her, she was wearing what we call
blouse, was torn from ear to ear and
stitched.
And I was so angry.
I said, mother, what madness caught in your
head?
The whole world will think that we don't
care about you.
You're putting shame and cow dung on our
face and head.
Can't you stop doing it?
Get some decent clothes.
You know, I was quite upset.
And she smiled this incredible smile, bright eyes.
She said, my little boy, you don't understand
anything.
Someday you will, my son.
And it was as though she walked back
from the room with her arms around me
saying, my son, now you know the story.
Yeah, I could have purchased a brand new
dress every month.
Anything I wanted.
But I chose to live this life so
that others may hear the gospel.
But that's not the end of the story.
The last thing he left with us, her
will, so to say, went like this.
When I'm dead and gone, the only thing
I will leave behind, it's my earrings and
the wedding ring and the gold chain my
husband gave me at the age of 19
when he married me.
I wanted to sell these items and give
the money to preach the gospel among people
that never heard my Jesus name.
I want to meet them also in heaven.
I did not know about you.
Look at your driver's license.
You can hide it wherever you want to,
but you know.
In another hundred years, I'm not here.
When was the last time you looked at
your driver's license and said, it's all shadows.
What am I doing with my life?
Following Christ is not something that makes you
the most happiest person in the world.
It may make you someone who will say,
I embrace the cross.
Well, how do you apply all this?
There are four things I will tell you.
One, there's a study done in the United
States about Christians a year ago, two years
ago.
Average believers in America pray less than eight
minutes a day and preachers less than 12
minutes a day.
Yet, the way you impact this world, change
your children's future.
Change this nation.
It is not by power and money and
programs and agendas, but rather on our knees.
Please, I plead with you, get to know
the Lord, and you will not unless you
spend time with him.
See, if our prayer and fasting is just
for us, we may not understand what Christ
is all about either.
Wherever I go, I tell people, get a
world map.
There's a 1040 window thing, what you're talking
about, or some two billion people that wait
to hear the gospel, and how do we
impact this world.
You can go to our website, gfr.org,
get prayer requests about Pakistan, India, these nations
that keep you praying for days without end.
Just take one day of the week for
fasting, along with your prayer life.
If physically you're not able to do it,
don't worry about it, but I can assure
you, if you can take a day of
the week to fast and pray, and by
the way, that will not kill you.
If you die, please let me know.
I can assure you.
Because so much is going on in the
world that God is calling us for serious
intercession and prayer.
I wish I had hours to talk to
you about that one area, but please ask
the Lord to give you grace.
If you can say 10 minutes a day,
15 minutes a day, half an hour a
day, an hour a day, you will be
amazed to find out that it is incredibly
more joyful than falling in love with a
girl or a boy once you know the
joy of being with him.
And then he tells you, my son, this
is what I am hurting about, my burden,
would you pray?
And he will talk to you.
Second, life, please keep it simple.
You know, materialism is the worst enemy of
your soul.
How much more stuff you need before you're
happy, never you will find enough.
Learn to simplify your life.
And my journey, some 35 years ago, when
I told you, I decided to keep a
couple of jackets, and this one of those
jackets, when it gets old and worn out,
I throw it away and get another one.
And I'm not saying you shouldn't have 10
jackets, that's not the issue here.
The issue is, learn to understand, I don't
need all this stuff, I can live simple,
and then touch the lost world.
The Lord gave me wisdom, I wrote a
whole book about it, wrote a reality, and
the whole bunch of materials are there, and
if you want to pick up any of
those materials, you can pay for it, or
if you want to steal, you can take
all you want also.
But they will have impact on your life.
Number three.
The third thing I recommend you to do,
is that some of you need to ask
the Lord, Lord, what do you want me
to do with the rest of my life?
And maybe the Lord is calling you to
give up everything, and serve Him somewhere.
But then, if you are young people, children,
we have a thing called school of discipleship.
Can you die to yourself for one year?
It's a one year school of discipleship for
young people, having finished the high school, and
they come and be with us, and their
lives are totally radically altered during the year
of learning and growing in the Lord.
We have some 140 some people on our
staff in Dallas, Texas.
It's a community, where they come and live,
because they have their housing and everything, and
then part of the time they end up
going to the mission field.
As a matter of fact, two young people
are leaving for a long time, hopefully some
years, this Wednesday, overseas.
And of course, that is not the number
one thing we do.
The fourth application I want to ask you
to do is this.
It's true, 99% of people here, you
aren't going to go overseas, China, India, to
live there.
But, today we have some 60 Bible colleges
scattered throughout the nations, training thousands of young
people from these nations.
And when they finish their three year training,
we send them out to plant churches among
people that never had a church before.
But we need people to pray for them
and help them.
Believe it or not, with as little as
$30 a month, you can help send out
one of those native missionaries, national missionaries, to
work among people that never had the gospel
before.
My mother is the classic example, and I
am certain, today she is with the Lord
saying, it was worth the journey, praying and
helping those missionaries to preach the gospel.
And you say, Brother KP, how do I
do it?
What do you want me to do?
Well, the Lord is speaking in your heart
to be part of something like this.
May I encourage you, when you go out,
stop at the table and get this card.
It's a blue stripe.
It simply says, yes, I want to help.
I will help native missionaries reach their own
people for Jesus.
I understand it takes about, you know, it
takes more than $30, but you become part
of the two or three people who together
do it.
Starting now, I will prayerfully help sponsor one
or two or three, whatever number of missionaries,
$30 a month.
And you can do that with a credit
card, whatever, also on the back of it.
And you don't have to give any money
to that, although we appreciate if you want
to do that.
And when you bring this card filled out,
you actually get the real native missionary, that
brother or sister, serving God on the mission
field.
By the way, every single day, we see
nearly 17 churches planted on the mission field
among people that never had the gospel before
through these native missionaries.
And you help them as long as you
can.
Usually within a year or two, they have
a church planted.
And within a few years, they become self
-supporting.
It is not a welfare thing you do.
But then you can support more missionaries.
I know a medical doctor who support, I
don't know, 50 missionaries or so.
And he told me, he said, KP, I
go to hospital as a surgeon every day
saying, God, this profession you gave me, so
I can send missionaries to the mission field.
I mean, he has more money than I
have.
But maybe you can support one missionary or
two or three or ten, whatever.
But I can assure you, 100 years from
now, you will have no regret for linking
your life through prayer, going, giving, sharing, whatever
you do.
And I say, may the Lord give you
understanding as you seek His face.
When I came to America, I heard this
guy, this man on television, his name is
George Burns, I think his name.
He had this cigar in his mouth.
I liked his look.
But I liked more the little song he
usually sings, and often he did it.
One of the lines is this, I wish
I was 16 again.
I was barely 17 when Jesus said, go
and serve me.
And now I'm 60.
A few more years left.
I wish, I wish I will have another
50, 60, 100 years to be His and
give all but I don't think I'll ever
be 16 again.
And I plead with you to get to
know the Lord.
Nothing really matters other than that.
And then He will say to you what
you must do.
And be willing to say no to yourself
and be willing to die.
It's worth the journey.
Let us pray.
Dear Jesus, thank you for this evening.
And for me, it's once again an incredible
delight and joy to be with my brothers
and sisters.
And now in flesh