This is Sid Roth saying, I have a
vision.
Now is the set time to blow the
trumpet in Zion.
Blow a trumpet in Zion.
Sound it on the mountain.
Blow a trumpet in Zion.
Shalom Mishpochah.
Shalom, family.
Mishpochah, it's a Hebrew word, it means family.
And we're the Mishpochah, the family with a
Jewish heart.
Made up of Jewish and non-Jewish people
that are one new man.
Messiah Yeshua.
Messiah Jesus.
Getting ready Mishpochah to blow the grandest shofar.
The grandest trumpet in Zion.
We want everyone everywhere to hear the good
news.
We want everyone everywhere to be red hot
for the Messiah.
But the truth of the matter is that
most of us don't even know what red
hot for the Messiah means.
We're our role models.
Here in this unreal moment in history called
21st century America where the average person lives
like a king of former generations.
Where we don't know what persecution is for
the gospel.
Where we have more Bibles per square Christian
than any country that has ever existed.
We have more tapes, more teachings, more Christian
television, more Christian radio, more church buildings.
But something is missing.
And I have a gentleman on the telephone
that knows what's missing.
His name is Kevin Turner, president of Strategic
World Impact.
He works in three areas, war zones, disaster
areas, and where Christians are being persecuted.
I've caught up with him at his base
right outside of Sudan, Africa.
And he's there with his family, his wife
and his three children.
His daughter, we found out yesterday, almost lost
her life.
And she pleaded when they wanted to get
on the first plane out of there.
Dad, I want to stay here.
Kevin, you were talking about a third world
country that some Americans said, what can we
pray for you?
What did they say?
They were actually being asked.
This was actually in Vietnam with, of course,
massive persecution from the Communist Party there of
any type of what they would call unsanctioned
church activity.
In other words, where the Holy Spirit is
moving.
And it was so amazing because they were
being asked if they wanted the envoys to
bring back a message of, should we have
the American church pray for open borders and
that everything would open up for you?
And in fact, almost in horror, they said,
oh no, no.
Pray instead that we have opened heavens.
And in that response, you see the difference
in why the church is growing in Vietnam
like wildfire.
And why it's stagnating in America.
Because what they realize is that it's about
a spiritual blessing.
In America, we have this mentality of I
will have it and I will have it
now.
I will have heaven on earth.
I will not have delayed gratification.
I will not endure hardship.
I will not suffer loss.
The average Christian in America, if I tell
them that my daughter was attacked and we
stayed, they look at me as if I
am a horrible father.
Because I would subject my family to that.
And instead, what we have is we have
the blessing of the presence of Jesus comforting
us.
And you know what me and my wife
did?
And some people might almost find this unbelievable.
But we gathered hands in our bedroom and
we prayed.
And we said, Jesus, you've loaned these children
to us.
And we give them back to you.
And God, you know our hearts would be
utterly broken.
But if you see fit that their lives
be taken, then we give all glory to
you.
Now to some people that's incomprehensible.
But when you meet the King of glory
and the way that he's touched my heart,
no price in my hand I bring, simply
to the cross I cling.
I love him.
Mishpochah, you're not listening to a man talking
theory.
You're listening to a man that because of
his work for the gospel in these areas
that are terrorist-based, there have been contracts
for his life.
Tell me about one circumstance.
Well, we actually were up in an area
in northeastern Sudan where Osama Bin Laden had
his hideout, terrorist training camp, for two and
a half years.
We actually showed, in fact, CBN, Christian Broadcasting
Network, played the video.
We showed the Jesus film on the wall
of Bin Laden's former compound.
We were sharing it there in a Muslim,
in an Islamic training school.
Sharing the Jesus film on the wall there.
It was utterly divine.
And because of our continued work in this
heavily, this fundamentalist Islamic area, of course it's
aroused attention.
And the Saudis, our wonderful friends, have, they
backed the money, they put up half a
million dollars for a jihad faction group.
Does it bother you when, I know you
said that tongue-in-cheek, but does it
bother you that the U.S. is such
friends, so much to speak in bed with
Saudi Arabia?
You have no idea.
And working so much in the Middle East,
I know, see, and learn so much of
the, if you want to call it the
conspiracy, against America.
And when I mean against America, I mean
because they can't differentiate between a born-again
believer and Madonna who wears a cross and
then dances nude.
They don't understand the difference.
And so a target against America, in their
mind, is a target against Christianity.
And that was the same reason that three
Yemeni terrorists came to take up this half
a million dollar fatwa that was put on
my head, this contract, and kill me.
Well, for five years working in this area,
we have been reaching out to this other
Muslim tribe that's unreached, and we've built great
friendships with them.
And in the midst of that, they spared
my life.
Because while I was out there with my
family, these three terrorists came through the desert
coming to kill us.
They had our ID badges, they knew what
they were, they knew my name, the whole
shot.
And they were captured by this Muslim tribe.
Well, the two of them were interrogated and
beaten so bad that I couldn't meet with
them, but I did meet with one of
the three.
This man was in a hut with his
blindfolded arms tied behind his back, and they
let me meet with him way out in
the desert.
Now, why did one Muslim tribe beat up
these terrorists?
Well, because they wanted to know what they
were about, and as they were trying to
find out, they found out that they'd come
to kill me.
And I'm their friend.
And to them, they're thinking, hey, wait a
second, this guy has spent five years on
the front lines with us, risking his life
bringing food, medicine, and help to us.
He's actually prayed for rain, and in the
midst of a four-year famine, it rained
in 20 minutes.
I mean, we have seen incredible, miraculous things
where we've joined hands, we walked outside of
a Bedouin hut, they said their greatest need
was rain.
And I said, look, I know the rainmaker.
I said, please, we're going to go pray.
I had a small team, my wife was
at my side.
We walked out from this Bedouin hut after
drinking a big slug of camel's milk, and
we joined hands, not a cloud in the
sky, it's about 120 degrees, four-year drought.
We joined hands and said, Jesus, glorify yourself.
And if it be your will, send rain
on these people.
Within 10 minutes, the sky was clouding over,
growing black.
In 20 minutes, there was such a hellacious
downpour, our truck got stuck several times just
trying to get back out to our base.
So, let's take you back to that hut.
These terrorists, Muslim extremist terrorists, well, I shouldn't
say extremist terrorists.
A terrorist is always extremist.
They were sent there to kill you.
Your Muslim friends caught them, beat them up,
and you now are in front of one
that was sent to kill you.
What happened?
Well, he's there blindfolded, and I'm asking him
questions, and he said that he had come
to kill an enemy of Islam.
He didn't know that it was me asking
him the questions, and finally I said, do
you know who's questioning you?
He said, no.
I said, I'm the man you were sent
to kill.
He immediately began to tremble, and I put
my head on his hand, and I said,
I want to explain to you the difference
between Islam and Christianity.
In Islam, you're taught to hate and kill.
In Christianity, we're taught to love and lay
down our lives.
And I said, I can't let you go,
and I can't keep you.
That's not in my power.
But the power I have right now, I
give.
I said, in the name of Jesus Christ,
I forgive you of this sin, and I
beg God to forgive you now in Jesus'
name.
This man began to utterly weep.
He was begging in Arabic, crying out for
mercy.
One of the men smashed him in the
forehead with his AK-47, and they began
to stomp on him because he was crying,
and they pushed me out of the hut.
I began to scream and holler.
I said, stop beating this man.
Stop.
He hears me pleading on his behalf when
he had been sent to kill me.
When I went back into the hut, he
was on his knees, and he staggered, was
crawling on his knees, and his arms were
tied behind his back.
When he did, he fell forward.
No arms to stop him.
His forehead landed on the tops of the
sole of my shoe.
Then immediately the Lord spoke to me.
He said, surely the Lord will make your
enemy a footstool.
Instantly, I realized that Jesus loved this man
so much that he allowed him to come
to try and kill me so that there
in a mud hut in Sudan, I could
lay my head on his hand and pray
the Holy Spirit touch him and share the
gospel with him.
And I thought, God, this is how you
set Paul the apostle free.
This is how you desired to seek and
save that which was lost.
And I thought, Jesus, you'd send a terrorist
to kill me just so he could be
blessed and hear the message of good news.
And over and over again for the last
15 years of my life, I've seen one
miracle after another by just simply walking with
Jesus.
It's amazing.
You're listening to Kevin Turner, president of Strategic
World Impact.
I'm speaking to him at his base just
outside of the Sudan area in Africa.
Kevin, why did you do this special teaching?
We call it Kevin's Teaching that we're making
available this week.
Well, it was a burden that was on
my heart and I believe, of course, put
there by the Lord.
I call it compliance of principle.
And it's this infection that has seeped into
the church.
And what scares me is the fact that
we've been inoculated and we can't even get
the disease anymore.
And now we're blinded.
It's not simply that we turn a deaf
ear.
We don't even hear it anymore.
And basically, I just challenge the believer to
say, what does discipleship truly mean?
Could it be so radical as laying down
your life?
And it's about compliance, living your life in
simple compliance to the letter of the law
or living your life in principle through love.
There's a Puritan proverb that says, love binds
without a cord and it rules without the
sword.
We're out of time, Mishpochah.
Kevin's Cassette, let's call it that, is available
for a donation of $10 or more.
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or cold?
Only red hot makes it, according to the
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This teaching will put a fire in you.
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