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I have prayed this morning to you, who

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are my sisters, we will be willing to

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meet with the Lord Jesus, because I believe

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that God has given us a most amazing

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privilege, but a most wonderful responsibility.

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Surely there has never been a time such

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as this in which we find ourselves living,

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when anything can happen any moment, when the

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world sweeps forward and wonderful things just come

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into the news and into our very lives.

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But at the same time, you and I

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have this challenge, not only to meet the

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time, but to meet God in those times.

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And it is something of this that has

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prompted me and made me accept this invitation

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from World Vision to come out.

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You will find that I do not know

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very much about the outside as a western

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civilization.

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My life has been lived away in the

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middle of China, and when we came out

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from China itself, I went to live on

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a little island for most of us, and

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that has been my interest, my life.

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There I believe God put my life.

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But I haven't been able to just sit

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on that small island in the all around.

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From every point there are these terrific challenges.

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And just to emphasize to you, not in

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just a theoretical way, but in a way

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of fact, these places that to you are

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Southeastern Asia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, China, Formosa,

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Japan, Korea, and those, that area represents a

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terrific challenge.

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Because you see, dear sisters, their young people

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are way ahead of yours.

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They're more clever, they read more, they do

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more, they're far more energetic, they don't expect

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to be spoon-fed, they know where they're

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going and they're going to get there.

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And as I see it, just in the

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way in which they live, and now I

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come and see the way you live, friends,

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you're on the losing side.

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And the challenge is for Jesus Christ, because

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I truly believe that only in Christ is

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there freedom, or can we keep and hold

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our freedom, or can we get anywhere of

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any value at all.

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So you'll find that this morning is not

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just a talk, a sort of little story,

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it is a challenge from my own heart

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to yours.

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That's why I ask that we, as women,

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should meet together.

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Because although I have never really lived a

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woman's life as you have, I've never had

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a home, I've never had a husband, and

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I never have had children of my own.

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But I have brought up more children than

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I suppose any of you have ever thought

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of.

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And so there has always been in my

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life the problem of eating, and wearing clothes,

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and room enough for the family, and what

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to do with the next one, and how

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to settle their quarrels, and being alone without

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a father.

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And all these things have brought into my

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life and into my heart not just ideas,

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I'm not going to give you tips on

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how to manage your family.

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I would that you got what I have

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got, the love of Jesus Christ, so that

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you will pass on that to your children.

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Of the patience that only he can give,

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so that in your home, in spite of

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all that turmoil and confusion, you will be

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perfectly happy.

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And spread a sort of comforting feeling because

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of that patience through the people who you

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have to live with.

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I'm going to read one verse.

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Now I will explain, it is not because

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I do not believe the middle of the

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verses, these two that I'm leaving up, but

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they don't just happen right this morning to

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come into our talk.

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And the verse is the 17th verse of

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the fifth chapter of 2nd Corinthians.

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Now if you know your Bible, I hope

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you do, these words won't be the same

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because mine is Chinese, sorry that's all I

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read, but I will turn it round as

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I understand it from Chinese to you.

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A person inside Christ is new.

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That person's old affairs are behind that person's

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back.

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Everything is changed.

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A person inside Christ.

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You and I right now are inside this

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building.

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We as individuals, as persons, are inside our

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clothes.

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And so there is a sort of limit,

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isn't there?

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We just don't do as we please in

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being in this building.

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We are consigned by these walls.

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And in our clothes, well we're just not

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quite as free as we would be without

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them.

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We are inside.

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And I believe in the same way, in

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theory, in spirit, you and I have to

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get inside of Christ so that although we're

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limited, we're limited by Him, by His love,

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by His patience, by His great almighty mercy

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and salvation.

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We're inside of Jesus Christ.

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This person then has to do something.

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It says a person inside Christ is new.

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Now friend, I do not believe that you

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and I, when we believe on the Lord

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Jesus, we join a church or we get

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confirmed or baptised, we gradually become a little

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nicer, our tempers are a little better and,

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well, altogether we're just going forward, aren't we?

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The Bible doesn't imply that.

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A person inside Christ is, and this is

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present, new.

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And so you and I, if we really

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believe in Jesus Christ and we are willing

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to get, as it were, inside of Him,

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to listen to His voice, to do as

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He asks, we are new creations.

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Right now.

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We don't have to wait till we get

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to heaven.

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We don't have to wait till we've got

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a little better, a little older, or done

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a little more good work.

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This is entirely through faith and trust in

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our wonderful Jesus Christ.

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And now this new creation does something.

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Immediately throws overboard all the old ideas.

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Are all your old ideas out?

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Friend, do you still read those same silly

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books?

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Still dream the same silly dreams?

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Well, when we were girls in our teens,

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we dreamed dreams, but we shouldn't be dreaming

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dreams of when we are fourteen.

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We should be acting.

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We should be living in reality.

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Romance is for youth, not for age.

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We should have gone forward.

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We should have thrown overboard those things which

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we know as we grow older are of

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no value.

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A person inside Christ is new and all

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the old affairs are behind His back.

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Before I went to China, I was connected

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with the stage.

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That's what I went up into London.

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That's what I left my home for, to

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go and study for the stage.

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And so all my friends knew how interested

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and taken up I was with the theatre.

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And then after I was paid and I

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went to China, of course this all went

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and I forgot all about it.

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But as I was on my way back

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from Red China to Great Britain, twenty or

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more years had gone by and suddenly the

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thought came into me, now what am I

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going to do?

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I suppose my dear aunt and my relations,

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they were all Russian, were next invited

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to the theatre.

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I just didn't know.

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You know, dear friend, no one's ever asked.

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No one ever invited.

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You see, they didn't.

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I had no question as to what I

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was going to say.

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They knew the very attitude that I took,

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the very way I walked in.

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I was a new creation.

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I hadn't just gone to China and grown

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up.

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I hadn't become a missionary.

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Oh no, I looked at things in a

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different way.

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And now the girl of twenty had grown

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up and she was looking at things in

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a different light.

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Friend, are you looking at things in a

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real square right in the light of Jesus

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Christ?

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Because you are a new creation in him.

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And then as the old affairs, the old

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things you know that really don't count, do

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they?

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Everything's changed.

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Oh, you don't move house.

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You still have to sweep the old floor

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with the same old broom.

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You still have to cook the same kind

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of dinners because your family liked that kind

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of cooking.

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But it's new.

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You live a new life.

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You're new.

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You talk in a new way.

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You've joy in your heart.

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You live a new life because Christ is

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yours and you are his.

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And friend, it doesn't have that we alter

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the place where we live or our circumstances

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are either better or new.

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It is as we are inside of Jesus

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I lived in the middle of China for

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nine and a half years in one of

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the miserablest places on earth.

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You could have walked right round our city

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in twenty minutes.

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That's how big it was.

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You could have seen everybody.

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There were five shops.

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They all sold the same thing.

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They had five or six things for sale,

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nothing of which I wanted to buy, simply

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because every single one of those five things

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was something to do with idols.

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Paper to burn to idols.

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Incense to burn to idols.

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Candles to burn to idols.

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Belts to tie around cow's neck.

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And rope to tie up your cows with

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to the post of your door.

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Now what did I want those for?

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So there were no shop gazing, no shopping.

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But friend, I lived in that little city

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and I can honestly tell you God gave

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to my heart a most amazing joy in

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watching one by one the men and women

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of that small city and the people outside

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come and find Jesus Christ as their savior.

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Not because I could preach wonderful sermons because

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they didn't come to listen if I but

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because they saw living in an inn just

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outside the city gate somebody who was a

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new creation.

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And this afternoon I pray that to you

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something of this challenge will come into your

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heart that you may go out to do

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what God wants.

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Because if we leap over in the same

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chapter to the 20th verse we read this

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and therefore or so this person becomes Christ's

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representative.

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You and I inside Christ representing him.

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We're not out just to talk about our

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own affairs or even the affairs of our

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church or our family.

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We are there to represent the Lord of

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Glory and friend it's the greatest the most

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glorious privilege and something that fills us with

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joy.

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And now I would like to give you

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all as it were mixed up you'll find

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something that represents to me the mission field

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and your and my part in it.

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Because this isn't a call to the mission

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field you can't just get up and run

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off can you?

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No you've got your family and you're as

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it were tied down and you have responsibilities

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to those families.

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But I truly believe that every single soundly

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born again child of God that is those

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who have the witness of Jesus Christ in

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their heart should be doing something for the

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kingdom of God.

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We should be new creations representing him somewhere.

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Now where that particular place is I wouldn't

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know in your case I could only know

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in mine.

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I only know that as we get inside

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of him seek to find out his will

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he never asks us to do something we

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can't.

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He never tells us to go to somewhere

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he knows we cannot go.

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He doesn't put us if we're he is

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a great almighty God and he I believe

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in that great plan just made the place

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that you and I should fit perfectly in.

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When I was a little girl in school

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this was a little country school outside in

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a few miles from the city of London.

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There were I suppose about 200 odd little

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girls beside myself and I was the only

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one in that school among those little girls

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with this colored hair.

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This old black knob.

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You know I hated it.

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We do because we don't like being different.

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Every other one of those little girls had

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sort of golden colored or fair hair or

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some other color and I don't know the

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colors you'd call them but anyway they were

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not like mine and I didn't like this.

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And so there were many tears shed over

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what the boys in the school called old

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black knob oh golly what.

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The Lord Jesus must have a purpose somewhere

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in giving you this black hair.

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And then the next thing was that the

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rest of the family and of course all

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those other little girls they didn't stop being

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little.

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They grew up and I just stopped in

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the middle.

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But I didn't and nobody seemed to be

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able to add any more inches on.

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And so the tears went and I didn't

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realize until years later when one day I

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was walking up the main street of a

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port city in China.

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Tianjin.

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And all of a sudden my heart began

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to beat and I began to feel warm

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and excited all over and I looked all

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around and I said well why my hair's

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the same color.

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I could see everything.

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I was the same size as all of

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them.

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And when I went up into inland China

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into a place where they had never seen

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anybody from the outside.

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Friend I am positively sure that had some

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rather tall nice looking girl with pretty golden

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or yellow hair had gone there they'd have

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chased her out.

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Oh but they didn't chase me out.

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The rest of me was the same as

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them.

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Friends don't worry that God is going to

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ask you to do something you can't.

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He is love.

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But he does ask us to do something

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that we can't.

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Stand as his representative straight honest uncompromisingly true

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where he has put us.

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And then not only ourselves find joy but

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our family and those we love and I

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truly believe our nation.

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Now I went to China as you know

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as a girl in my 20s and for

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those first few years I lived in a

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little tiny mountain city right down not far

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from the Yellow River and God opened wonderful

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doors filled my heart with amazing joy and

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did things that I had never dreamed he

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would ever do for anybody let alone me.

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I lived my first year with an old

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scotch lady and although we had planned to

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have in this small city the first mission

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station we didn't.

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We had a mule inn and this was

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because we found that that was the best

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way to get the people in.

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From that mule inn came the first Christians

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who were mureteers who traveled over the mountainside

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and had to spend the night in the

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inn.

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And then after the old lady Jeannie died

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I accepted a job under the national government

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which I then knew nothing about.

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All I knew was that every single woman

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around me had bound feet and now this

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custom of binding little girl's feet was against

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the law and the government needed somebody to

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go out and stamp this custom out in

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those mountain villages and this opened to me

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a most wonderful door.

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The villages were mine, the hamlets were mine

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I could knock on any door day or

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night and go in.

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Now I was supposed by uh because I

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was earning my living uh through being an

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official of the government to stamp out foot

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bindings and explain the evils of growing and

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smoking opium and I did well I earned

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my money but I had gone to China

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for Jesus Christ and so to me the

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first the most important thing of all was

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that they knew Christ and I discovered in

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a most amazing way that although you could

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talk you could make laws you could make

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rules and you but it didn't go where

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love went.

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I wonder to how many of us we

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are going to learn that as we get

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inside of Christ it isn't following a law

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it isn't making rules it is allowing the

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Lord Jesus to pour his love through you

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so that oh there will go something to

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that other person or persons that will draw

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those seedings in a different way whereas a

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law says you must or you mustn't and

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the heart of man just resists whereas love

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draws.

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I remember going out into a small village

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to find a man who had bought which

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of course you could do in those days

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a little girl of four years old.

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His intention was that she should be later

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on the wife of his son.

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She'd never had her feet bound so he

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proceeded to order his wife to bind the

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little girl's feet up.

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I went found out and he had to

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unbind them.

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I fined him meant a lot to a

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man who had very little money.

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Some week later I had an idea I

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ought to go to that village again.

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He'd gone back and bound them up so

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I dragged him in.

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He served two months in prison.

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The moment he was left out he went

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back and did the same thing all over

441
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again and this time I went out and

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he came in again and went through a

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very horrid sort of punishment that was on

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in China in those days which means that

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the person the prisoner is dragged through the

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street absolutely naked and anybody can come out

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and throw what they like at them.

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It's a horrid thing and this man had

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this and yet at the end of he

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went back and bound up his little daughter

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-in-law's feet and I didn't know what

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to do.

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I prayed, I pleaded with the Lord.

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So hard, so cruel and then one day

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in an entirely different place and standing preaching

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the gospel in the middle of a fair

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a man shot his hand up and he

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said, can I believe on your that dear

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God?

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Yes brother, come out here and kneel down

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and I'll tell you how to worship my

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God and there with the tears streaming down

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his face he recognized Jesus Christ and as

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he got up he said, would you come

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to my village with me?

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You've been there four times.

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What am I going to come to your

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village for?

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And as I looked at the man here's

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the baby who'd gone through all that that

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now love had drawn and I went to

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his village with him and had the wonderful

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privilege of unbinding for the last time the

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little daughter-in-law's feet.

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Friend, I wonder to how many of us

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we're going to realize that God is a

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great loving God but then God is also

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a just God and so as the time

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went on to me there were terrific challenges

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and the district became so big and so

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complicated that I now believed that God would

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have me long and pray and seek to

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draw somebody as a fellow worker.

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There was only one Christian from the outside

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in the area that was me and so

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I prayed and I pleaded with the Lord,

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would you challenge somebody?

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Would you draw somebody?

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Would you bring them right here?

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And then together we will climb mountains for

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you.

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But no one came and I got rather

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disappointed and wondered why if this God is

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a God of love if he's a God

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of justice why doesn't he answer our prayer?

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Is that what you are?

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Friend perhaps you've prayed and you've prayed for

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something you've pleaded with the Lord and you

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still haven't got the answer to your prayer?

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Well I believe it's because of two or

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00:27:04,610 --> 00:27:05,210
three things.

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One you might not be praying in his

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will.

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He might not want to answer in the

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way in which you expect and so you

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00:27:13,450 --> 00:27:17,110
have to let that prayer down and as

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00:27:17,110 --> 00:27:18,790
it were put it on one side.

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A person inside Christ is new and perhaps

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it's an old affair.

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That is something that's nothing none of your

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00:27:25,690 --> 00:27:28,290
business and God is never going to answer

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it.

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Should we get inside of his will and

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his power and find out if we're really

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00:27:34,170 --> 00:27:34,950
praying right?

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And then it may be that in his

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plan he isn't ready and that he has

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still a way to draw you.

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That's I believe what happened to me because

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although disappointed and frustrated and wondering why if

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he was a God of love he didn't

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answer my prayer and send somebody.

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I was to find before long something that

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was to fill my heart with a wonderful

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joy as that I would have never planned

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or even dreamed of planning.

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I walked down the street of our little

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city one day and I saw sitting on

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the side of the road an ordinary mountain

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00:28:22,410 --> 00:28:22,870
woman.

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Leaning against the woman's knee was a little

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child and on looking at the child I

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00:28:31,010 --> 00:28:34,070
discovered it was dirty and it was sick

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00:28:34,070 --> 00:28:37,610
and so I went to tell the woman

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to take it from the street and wash

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00:28:41,090 --> 00:28:42,810
it and love it.

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00:28:43,810 --> 00:28:47,850
I learned on talking to the woman she

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00:28:47,850 --> 00:28:51,410
was there for one purpose to sell it.

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00:28:52,610 --> 00:28:53,990
I bought it.

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00:28:55,530 --> 00:28:57,690
Now I didn't buy the child because I

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then loved children or I didn't love the

542
00:29:01,590 --> 00:29:03,490
child because then I loved China.

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00:29:04,590 --> 00:29:07,430
I bought the child because I believe God

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00:29:07,430 --> 00:29:10,210
was asking me to and although I cannot

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00:29:10,210 --> 00:29:13,150
explain all that went on in my heart

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00:29:13,150 --> 00:29:15,850
this morning all I know is this that

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00:29:15,850 --> 00:29:18,490
I was positively sure that I had got

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00:29:18,490 --> 00:29:19,190
to do this.

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00:29:19,990 --> 00:29:21,430
Now dear friend I'm going to tell you

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00:29:21,430 --> 00:29:27,470
I am a woman as much as you

551
00:29:27,470 --> 00:29:31,530
are the same kind of woman as you

552
00:29:31,530 --> 00:29:34,830
are women and deep down in my heart

553
00:29:34,830 --> 00:29:37,290
there was going on the battle that went

554
00:29:37,290 --> 00:29:39,970
on in your heart one day and what

555
00:29:39,970 --> 00:29:43,150
I wanted was what most of you have

556
00:29:43,150 --> 00:29:44,110
already got.

557
00:29:44,770 --> 00:29:45,750
I wanted a husband.

558
00:29:46,590 --> 00:29:47,670
I wanted a home.

559
00:29:48,290 --> 00:29:49,990
I wanted babies of my own.

560
00:29:50,830 --> 00:29:53,490
Belonging inside us as women is for security.

561
00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:55,190
It's for love.

562
00:29:56,030 --> 00:29:59,270
Inside us God has created a great heart

563
00:29:59,270 --> 00:30:02,390
and it is made to pour out love.

564
00:30:02,830 --> 00:30:04,930
Now I do not believe that our husbands

565
00:30:04,930 --> 00:30:07,050
and our brothers possess this in the same

566
00:30:07,050 --> 00:30:07,370
way.

567
00:30:08,130 --> 00:30:10,870
God has given to us this privilege and

568
00:30:10,870 --> 00:30:12,290
I wonder to how many of us are

569
00:30:12,290 --> 00:30:13,790
going to use it in the right way.

570
00:30:14,590 --> 00:30:16,710
The world has taken a hold of this

571
00:30:16,710 --> 00:30:19,450
and it brings it down into the dust.

572
00:30:20,210 --> 00:30:22,210
It makes it sexy and filthy.

573
00:30:22,730 --> 00:30:25,730
It throws it on the screens in films.

574
00:30:25,930 --> 00:30:30,250
It writes dirty, sexy, horrible books and mother

575
00:30:30,250 --> 00:30:30,810
to die.

576
00:30:31,590 --> 00:30:35,110
Something that God gave you is clean and

577
00:30:35,110 --> 00:30:38,570
pure but only as you keep Jesus Christ

578
00:30:38,570 --> 00:30:41,670
in your life and I believe that this

579
00:30:41,670 --> 00:30:43,190
is what you and I have to pass

580
00:30:43,190 --> 00:30:44,270
on to our children.

581
00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:46,630
That they too might be clean.

582
00:30:47,350 --> 00:30:50,270
That those things that the world says are

583
00:30:50,270 --> 00:30:53,030
the done thing shall in your home be

584
00:30:53,030 --> 00:30:55,610
turned out and if you've got sexy books

585
00:30:55,610 --> 00:30:57,510
in your home mother, burn them.

586
00:30:58,630 --> 00:31:00,590
You have no right to be a mother

587
00:31:00,590 --> 00:31:04,910
and not be able to throw out that

588
00:31:04,910 --> 00:31:08,070
book that you don't agree with that is

589
00:31:08,070 --> 00:31:10,470
under your daughter's pillow or bed.

590
00:31:11,590 --> 00:31:14,170
My children might not be my own children

591
00:31:14,170 --> 00:31:17,590
but I have watched what they read.

592
00:31:18,130 --> 00:31:22,570
I know where they go even today and

593
00:31:22,570 --> 00:31:26,770
I challenge you as mother to teach your

594
00:31:26,770 --> 00:31:28,070
children truth.

595
00:31:30,090 --> 00:31:35,770
I bought the child because I believe God

596
00:31:35,770 --> 00:31:36,690
asked me.

597
00:31:37,290 --> 00:31:39,450
That in spite of all this battle that

598
00:31:39,450 --> 00:31:43,930
was going on in here God had come

599
00:31:43,930 --> 00:31:47,450
in and I wonder to how many of

600
00:31:47,450 --> 00:31:50,410
you you've made your up your mind of

601
00:31:50,410 --> 00:31:51,370
what you're going to do.

602
00:31:51,770 --> 00:31:53,310
You've planned it all out.

603
00:31:53,430 --> 00:31:56,410
You've organized it all and this morning God

604
00:31:56,410 --> 00:31:59,330
is going to challenge you because that plan's

605
00:31:59,330 --> 00:32:00,390
not going to work mother.

606
00:32:01,310 --> 00:32:03,270
That organizing isn't your business.

607
00:32:04,370 --> 00:32:07,010
What God has given to you and me

608
00:32:07,010 --> 00:32:10,530
in this heart of ours is a love

609
00:32:10,530 --> 00:32:14,530
for truth and honesty and purity which you

610
00:32:14,530 --> 00:32:16,730
and I should be instilling into our children

611
00:32:16,730 --> 00:32:19,890
and I am sick of listening to filthy

612
00:32:19,890 --> 00:32:26,540
conversations in ladies waiting rooms even on planes

613
00:32:26,540 --> 00:32:30,820
and there are times when I just blush

614
00:32:30,820 --> 00:32:33,640
with shame because beside me is a young

615
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:34,020
man.

616
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,820
Women get down to earth and be clean.

617
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,740
Talk about things that are clean.

618
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,560
How can you expect your children to be

619
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,380
clean if you're not?

620
00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:47,800
A person inside Christ is new and the

621
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,940
old affairs should be behind our backs.

622
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:53,740
Throw out some of this silly nonsense and

623
00:32:53,740 --> 00:32:55,420
be truthful and straight.

624
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,560
Read some good books.

625
00:32:57,220 --> 00:32:58,380
Read the word of God.

626
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,060
Learn how to pray.

627
00:33:00,740 --> 00:33:03,380
See what God wants you to do and

628
00:33:03,380 --> 00:33:05,120
then you will find it will be poured

629
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:06,460
out onto these you love.

630
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,040
You'll know where they go.

631
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,880
They'll love you and you'll love them and

632
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,920
God will be in contrast.

633
00:33:16,260 --> 00:33:19,520
To me this little girl was the beginning

634
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:24,580
and as the months and the years went

635
00:33:24,580 --> 00:33:28,820
on there came into my life and into

636
00:33:28,820 --> 00:33:32,160
my heart these who were to be my

637
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:32,580
family.

638
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:38,840
Now they haven't all grown up and done

639
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,940
what I would have liked.

640
00:33:41,540 --> 00:33:44,160
I do not believe they've all done maybe

641
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,300
what God would have liked but I have

642
00:33:48,300 --> 00:33:50,200
been terribly proud of them.

643
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,540
From that one little girl there came during

644
00:33:53,540 --> 00:33:58,360
those first few years five and then as

645
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,680
the five came my heart sort of longed

646
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,540
for all those lonely children out in the

647
00:34:05,540 --> 00:34:10,420
mountainside and the door being opened God gave

648
00:34:10,420 --> 00:34:15,080
courage, wisdom, understanding and love to receive.

649
00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:17,920
Not everyone that was left on my doorstep

650
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,780
but everyone that I believed God wanted me

651
00:34:21,780 --> 00:34:22,179
to take.

652
00:34:22,940 --> 00:34:25,239
When the war came I had got 40

653
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,420
and then during the war there came down

654
00:34:29,420 --> 00:34:30,980
from the north 40 more.

655
00:34:32,219 --> 00:34:36,100
These boys and girls were not just orphans

656
00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:40,100
they were my sons, they were my daughters.

657
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,179
I loved them and they loved me and

658
00:34:44,179 --> 00:34:48,000
then when the enemy came and we were

659
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,500
swept out across those mountains and the yellow

660
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:56,420
river to make a new home miles and

661
00:34:56,420 --> 00:34:59,120
miles away from where we lived in the

662
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,380
province of Shintse.

663
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:06,300
I sometimes with breaking heart watched them go

664
00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:09,320
out to earn their living, watched the boys

665
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,540
have to go and join the army, watch

666
00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:13,300
the girls have to go and do war

667
00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:17,220
work but always with a sense of pride

668
00:35:17,220 --> 00:35:20,740
that these were the boys who one day

669
00:35:20,740 --> 00:35:23,040
were going to stand for Christ somewhere.

670
00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:25,680
These were the girls who were going to

671
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,800
be straight and true where one day I

672
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,360
would not be able to go for Jesus

673
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,640
Christ and mother this is what I believe

674
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,100
God gave them to me for.

675
00:35:38,580 --> 00:35:40,540
Not that I might just love them and

676
00:35:40,540 --> 00:35:42,820
spoil them, let them do what they like

677
00:35:42,820 --> 00:35:45,660
and twist me around their finger but that

678
00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:48,160
I might love them with the love that

679
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:49,600
Jesus loved me with.

680
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:56,340
To make them straight, honest, true, Chinese citizens

681
00:35:56,340 --> 00:35:57,180
for Christ.

682
00:35:58,420 --> 00:36:01,760
I did not expect what you ought to

683
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,440
expect from yours because there were not the

684
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,100
privileges of that where we lived that you

685
00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:12,440
can give to your children but I truly

686
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:17,080
believe that God expects all that you can

687
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,300
give and pour out on this your child

688
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:24,380
and your family that God might be honoured

689
00:36:24,380 --> 00:36:27,480
in your family and that your child one

690
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,300
day might be his witness as you I

691
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:33,040
pray today are here.

692
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:39,340
And then we were separated and down between

693
00:36:39,340 --> 00:36:42,020
us comes an iron curtain.

694
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,000
Some of us happened to be on one

695
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,180
side and some on another side.

696
00:36:50,020 --> 00:36:53,080
This was not of our own choosing, this

697
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,840
was simply because of what had happened and

698
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,380
we had just got to make the best

699
00:37:00,380 --> 00:37:03,220
of it and see how God was going

700
00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:07,380
to prove us, test us and use us.

701
00:37:08,220 --> 00:37:13,380
And in those early days when China had

702
00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:17,440
become red, there were times when my heart

703
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,400
broke, when I've laid out on the floor

704
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,840
and pray to die, the hopelessness of it

705
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:29,140
all, the aching heart, the misery, the cruelty

706
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,700
as they stripped us bit by bit of

707
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:35,140
everything we possessed.

708
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,540
Mother keep your freedom and give it to

709
00:37:38,540 --> 00:37:39,420
your children.

710
00:37:40,020 --> 00:37:43,740
I plead with you get Christ because only

711
00:37:43,740 --> 00:37:46,080
in Christ is there freedom.

712
00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:51,320
There is no freedom outside of Christ and

713
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,000
only in this book is there truth.

714
00:37:56,060 --> 00:37:59,440
May you never have to watch what some

715
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,500
of us who are mothers had to watch

716
00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:09,020
in that today you willing to be inside

717
00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:13,220
of Jesus Christ can be his testimonies and

718
00:38:13,220 --> 00:38:17,060
keep that freedom not only in your own

719
00:38:17,060 --> 00:38:19,560
lives but in the lives of others.

720
00:38:22,890 --> 00:38:27,070
And then as we came out, out to

721
00:38:27,070 --> 00:38:31,950
something that we didn't know, no money, no

722
00:38:31,950 --> 00:38:36,150
clothes, no future, no hope, no nothing.

723
00:38:37,010 --> 00:38:39,410
And I would like you to try and

724
00:38:39,410 --> 00:38:43,010
realize just what you would do if you

725
00:38:43,010 --> 00:38:45,430
were suddenly lifted from your home and thrown

726
00:38:45,430 --> 00:38:48,250
out with absolutely nothing.

727
00:38:49,030 --> 00:38:49,810
Who are you?

728
00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:51,990
You know your name but nobody's going to

729
00:38:51,990 --> 00:38:52,530
believe it.

730
00:38:52,530 --> 00:38:54,790
You've no proof of who you are, you've

731
00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:59,130
no money and probably you don't understand all

732
00:38:59,130 --> 00:39:01,810
that everybody says around you and that you've

733
00:39:01,810 --> 00:39:04,430
come from a different part of that particular

734
00:39:04,430 --> 00:39:05,950
land to everybody else.

735
00:39:07,270 --> 00:39:10,010
And then perhaps mother you will pray for

736
00:39:10,010 --> 00:39:12,930
some of these young people who are facing

737
00:39:12,930 --> 00:39:15,230
up to these sort of problems and if

738
00:39:15,230 --> 00:39:17,350
you think you've got problems with your young

739
00:39:17,350 --> 00:39:21,630
people then you have a way of stopping

740
00:39:21,630 --> 00:39:25,370
those problems from coming into being something like

741
00:39:25,370 --> 00:39:25,690
this.

742
00:39:26,150 --> 00:39:29,850
We didn't choose to be refugees, no more

743
00:39:29,850 --> 00:39:32,070
than you will one day when you may

744
00:39:32,070 --> 00:39:34,070
become a refugee if you don't get Christ.

745
00:39:35,570 --> 00:39:37,230
We were made them.

746
00:39:38,950 --> 00:39:42,370
And so here out on this side are

747
00:39:42,370 --> 00:39:47,490
these hundreds and hundreds of young people who

748
00:39:47,490 --> 00:39:50,790
don't know who they belong to, who don't

749
00:39:50,790 --> 00:39:52,670
know anything of the place where they were

750
00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:53,050
born.

751
00:39:54,150 --> 00:39:58,650
No roots, nothing to hang on to.

752
00:39:59,970 --> 00:40:04,530
Longing for something that we believe is only

753
00:40:04,530 --> 00:40:06,450
to be found in Jesus Christ.

754
00:40:07,650 --> 00:40:12,210
I came out, breaking my heart for my

755
00:40:12,210 --> 00:40:15,550
family, for my home and all I knew.

756
00:40:16,430 --> 00:40:19,030
It was all now behind an iron curtain

757
00:40:19,030 --> 00:40:20,390
and didn't belong to me.

758
00:40:21,570 --> 00:40:23,510
And I went to a little island for

759
00:40:23,510 --> 00:40:23,830
Moses.

760
00:40:25,210 --> 00:40:28,470
I wasn't very happy, I didn't know what

761
00:40:28,470 --> 00:40:31,630
to do and I thought well I suppose

762
00:40:31,630 --> 00:40:32,950
I could preach a sermon.

763
00:40:33,470 --> 00:40:35,370
Oh well I'll just put up my name

764
00:40:35,370 --> 00:40:37,690
and I'll fill in here and there for

765
00:40:37,690 --> 00:40:39,990
some minister if he's sick or goes on

766
00:40:39,990 --> 00:40:40,510
a vacation.

767
00:40:41,790 --> 00:40:45,570
And one evening I was down in the

768
00:40:45,570 --> 00:40:49,510
Baptist church taking the place of the minister

769
00:40:49,510 --> 00:40:50,310
who was sick.

770
00:40:51,810 --> 00:40:54,370
And at the same time something was happening

771
00:40:54,370 --> 00:40:58,650
outside, not very far from that very church,

772
00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:01,710
that was to alter my life and give

773
00:41:01,710 --> 00:41:03,870
me an entirely new idea of things.

774
00:41:04,530 --> 00:41:06,890
Fill again my heart with love and start

775
00:41:06,890 --> 00:41:09,690
me off all over again and give me

776
00:41:09,690 --> 00:41:12,110
courage even to come out here.

777
00:41:14,780 --> 00:41:17,680
We have a bus station and down the

778
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,060
edge of the bus station runs a long

779
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:20,860
wooden seat.

780
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,060
On that bus station the cleaner who was

781
00:41:25,060 --> 00:41:28,500
sweeping the floor noticed that somebody had left

782
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:31,140
a paper parcel.

783
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,620
And he, looking at the paper parcel as

784
00:41:36,620 --> 00:41:40,120
he swept the floor, saw it very very

785
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,700
gently move occasionally and he decided it was

786
00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:44,180
a chicken.

787
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,160
This is because we don't carry chickens and

788
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,520
ducks around dead where we live, we carry

789
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:51,440
them around alive.

790
00:41:52,180 --> 00:41:53,780
And so he thought well now if I

791
00:41:53,780 --> 00:41:56,640
keep my eye on that parcel then that

792
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:57,800
chicken will be mine.

793
00:41:59,140 --> 00:42:02,260
And so when two or more hours had

794
00:42:02,260 --> 00:42:05,880
gone by he went over and picked up

795
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,940
the chicken believing that the person who owned

796
00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:10,540
it had gone on a bus.

797
00:42:14,020 --> 00:42:18,480
But to his utter horror and amazement when

798
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,920
he took it in his hands it wasn't

799
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,460
a chicken or a duck, it was a

800
00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:28,160
little baby, a newborn baby, just born, picked

801
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,740
up, put in the parcel, paper and rolled

802
00:42:30,740 --> 00:42:31,000
out.

803
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,620
You can imagine what it was like.

804
00:42:35,380 --> 00:42:37,340
Well he was very frightened and he took

805
00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:39,620
it out to the police station and the

806
00:42:39,620 --> 00:42:42,620
policeman said oh I don't want it, oh

807
00:42:42,620 --> 00:42:44,240
I can't do anything with it, I've got

808
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:45,960
nowhere to put it, nothing to feed it

809
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,680
on, you know, I'll tell you what I'll

810
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,720
do, I'll give you a list of names

811
00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:55,780
and you go and visit these people and

812
00:42:55,780 --> 00:42:57,380
one of them will take it in.

813
00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:02,220
And so a police officer and the little

814
00:43:02,220 --> 00:43:05,180
cleaner from the bus station with the baby

815
00:43:05,180 --> 00:43:07,540
in the parcel did the round.

816
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:09,900
Nobody wanted it.

817
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:16,500
And then somebody said I don't want it,

818
00:43:16,820 --> 00:43:18,300
in fact I've nowhere to put it and

819
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:20,000
nothing to feed it on but have you

820
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:26,870
ever heard of it?

821
00:43:26,990 --> 00:43:28,990
And do you know one day in the

822
00:43:28,990 --> 00:43:37,740
paper I read that she just laughed and

823
00:43:37,740 --> 00:43:39,480
you take it along to her.

824
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:43,000
And so they came to my door.

825
00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:47,440
I was not in but my landlady who

826
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:48,820
was not a Christian and not a very

827
00:43:48,820 --> 00:43:52,260
nice woman opened the door and they said

828
00:43:52,260 --> 00:43:54,020
here's a parcel for that woman who lives

829
00:43:54,020 --> 00:43:55,080
in your back room.

830
00:43:55,560 --> 00:44:01,170
Oh yes, well just lay it in there.

831
00:44:01,890 --> 00:44:05,350
And so they went in, put the baby

832
00:44:05,350 --> 00:44:09,970
in the kitchen, let themselves out and went.

833
00:44:10,890 --> 00:44:12,170
I came home.

834
00:44:12,890 --> 00:44:14,330
I didn't go to the kitchen, I've nothing

835
00:44:14,330 --> 00:44:15,510
to go to the kitchen for.

836
00:44:16,010 --> 00:44:17,050
I go to bed.

837
00:44:17,710 --> 00:44:20,050
But when I am laying comfortably in bed

838
00:44:20,050 --> 00:44:23,230
I can hear on the other side of

839
00:44:23,230 --> 00:44:25,950
the wall my landlady talking.

840
00:44:27,090 --> 00:44:30,250
I tell her two important looking gentlemen came

841
00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:32,850
this evening with a gift for you and

842
00:44:32,850 --> 00:44:35,310
because you weren't in I told them to

843
00:44:35,310 --> 00:44:36,410
put it in your kitchen.

844
00:44:37,510 --> 00:44:39,310
Oh thank you very much I'll see it

845
00:44:39,310 --> 00:44:39,650
tomorrow.

846
00:44:40,470 --> 00:44:43,230
Oh I wouldn't wait until tomorrow because it

847
00:44:43,230 --> 00:44:44,810
looked to me like a nice watermelon.

848
00:44:45,450 --> 00:44:47,490
And you know if you leave watermelons in

849
00:44:47,490 --> 00:44:49,050
your kitchen rats will come.

850
00:44:56,350 --> 00:45:03,010
And I a little irritated and crossed the

851
00:45:03,010 --> 00:45:07,870
yard because I don't like spiders and rats

852
00:45:07,870 --> 00:45:08,690
in my kitchen.

853
00:45:09,770 --> 00:45:11,450
And that's what happens if you leave food

854
00:45:11,450 --> 00:45:11,810
there.

855
00:45:12,530 --> 00:45:17,630
And oh looking down I found in the

856
00:45:17,630 --> 00:45:21,510
washbowl the baby and it was still alive.

857
00:45:22,810 --> 00:45:24,970
And I said oh lord no.

858
00:45:25,670 --> 00:45:28,650
Oh no I've already brought up two families

859
00:45:28,650 --> 00:45:29,670
for you.

860
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:33,240
Now what do I do with this?

861
00:45:36,010 --> 00:45:39,610
And I truly believe that God's Holy Spirit

862
00:45:39,610 --> 00:45:42,870
put into my heart the fact that only

863
00:45:42,870 --> 00:45:46,390
down the road was a heathen woman with

864
00:45:46,390 --> 00:45:48,290
a newborn baby.

865
00:45:49,010 --> 00:45:50,730
I didn't even know which house.

866
00:45:51,610 --> 00:45:54,050
But I went out down the road and

867
00:45:54,050 --> 00:45:57,780
I knocked on the right house and a

868
00:45:57,780 --> 00:46:02,920
little heathen woman sat dropping her baby's milk

869
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,540
into the mouth of this poor dirty little

870
00:46:06,540 --> 00:46:07,000
thing.

871
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,840
And the tears streaming down her face she

872
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,240
suddenly looked up and she said if it

873
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:16,740
still breathes when I've nourished it shall we

874
00:46:16,740 --> 00:46:17,480
wash it?

875
00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:19,540
Yes.

876
00:46:20,820 --> 00:46:23,100
And as I took it back in my

877
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:26,120
hand after it had been washed now wrapped

878
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,240
around in a piece of cloth I said

879
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:31,360
Lord Jesus what do I do?

880
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,460
I have nothing to feed newborn babies on.

881
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,400
And I know where to put newborn babies.

882
00:46:39,340 --> 00:46:41,400
Oh said the Lord Jesus you were going

883
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:42,920
home to bed weren't you?

884
00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:44,680
Well why don't you go?

885
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,260
It's awfully late at night.

886
00:46:47,140 --> 00:46:48,140
I did.

887
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,380
And the baby came too.

888
00:46:52,180 --> 00:46:53,800
Hasn't died you know.

889
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:54,860
They don't.

890
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,260
Little lives are very strong inside them.

891
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,140
And another door is open.

892
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,220
Oh Lord I'm nearly 60.

893
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:06,320
I don't want to start a new family.

894
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,600
This is the time when I sit on

895
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,440
the sofa and put my feet up.

896
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,260
Oh no says the Lord you're not the

897
00:47:13,260 --> 00:47:14,860
time hasn't come to put feet up on

898
00:47:14,860 --> 00:47:15,240
sofas.

899
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:19,220
Eh because you see oh well this is

900
00:47:19,220 --> 00:47:20,000
just the beginning.

901
00:47:20,980 --> 00:47:25,020
They have come and they have come and

902
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:27,080
in the same way as the first family

903
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,380
came and God looked after them and poured

904
00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:33,340
out love so this one has come too.

905
00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:37,720
And then in the most amazing and wonderful

906
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:43,720
way God does as we go forward and

907
00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:45,920
trust him I come out.

908
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,200
You know who I leave this new family

909
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:48,680
with?

910
00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:50,320
Well the old family.

911
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,300
After all they're grown up and they should

912
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:54,940
be doing something shouldn't I?

913
00:47:54,940 --> 00:47:57,800
Well you take care of this new family

914
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:02,000
and then we'll have three families and we

915
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,280
will all praise the Lord together.

916
00:48:05,460 --> 00:48:11,520
Friend I wonder is God speaking to us?

917
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,300
Shouldn't we be doing something for Jesus Christ?

918
00:48:15,940 --> 00:48:18,700
It isn't as he asked me but is

919
00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:19,680
he asking you?

920
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,580
I believe dear friend that to many of

921
00:48:23,580 --> 00:48:25,360
you God has got to teach you how

922
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:26,000
to pray.

923
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:28,340
Do you really know how to pray mother?

924
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,120
Pray so that your heart is burdened and

925
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:32,900
it's breaking.

926
00:48:33,860 --> 00:48:36,000
Pray not only for your own sons and

927
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,420
your own daughters but others.

928
00:48:38,860 --> 00:48:40,720
Pray for the young men and the young

929
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:42,680
women who today know nothing of Christ.

930
00:48:44,540 --> 00:48:46,320
I wonder how many are going to accept

931
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,100
that challenge.

932
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:48,600
Pray for my babies.

933
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,460
I don't know who they belong to but

934
00:48:51,460 --> 00:48:53,820
I know they belong to me now and

935
00:48:53,820 --> 00:48:55,540
I'm going to pour all the love I

936
00:48:55,540 --> 00:48:57,520
can get from God on them.

937
00:48:57,980 --> 00:48:59,340
But would you pray for it?

938
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,940
Pray for the thousands who we probably don't

939
00:49:01,940 --> 00:49:04,220
know anything about and will never be able

940
00:49:04,220 --> 00:49:04,940
to find.

941
00:49:06,220 --> 00:49:10,240
Pray for the men and the women who

942
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:12,260
are gonna die without Christ.

943
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,840
And I don't know about you mother but

944
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,540
have you ever prayed for the women of

945
00:49:17,540 --> 00:49:17,960
Russia?

946
00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:24,300
All the degradation, all the stinkingness of sin.

947
00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:28,400
Woman I believe communism came from hell.

948
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:31,880
I don't care who you are I know.

949
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,960
I hate it with every breath I breathe.

950
00:49:37,020 --> 00:49:40,160
Because it is the enemy of Jesus Christ.

951
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,340
And mother is in your house pray it

952
00:49:43,340 --> 00:49:43,740
out.

953
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,860
If it's in your family pray it out.

954
00:49:47,940 --> 00:49:50,220
If it's in your nation pray it out.

955
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,780
You lose every shred of freedom once it

956
00:49:53,780 --> 00:49:54,480
gets a grip.

957
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,060
And have you ever prayed for the women

958
00:49:58,060 --> 00:50:00,440
who through no fault of their own have

959
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:01,320
got to live under it?

960
00:50:01,420 --> 00:50:02,400
The women of Poland?

961
00:50:03,060 --> 00:50:04,420
The women of Russia?

962
00:50:05,220 --> 00:50:07,220
The heartbreaking women of China?

963
00:50:09,590 --> 00:50:14,170
And as you in your freedom rejoice and

964
00:50:14,170 --> 00:50:15,750
watch your children grow.

965
00:50:16,510 --> 00:50:19,510
Break your heart for the women who can't.

966
00:50:20,670 --> 00:50:22,950
I believe God is going to ask some

967
00:50:22,950 --> 00:50:25,510
of us that although we might be busy

968
00:50:25,510 --> 00:50:28,590
he's going to expect more of us.

969
00:50:29,150 --> 00:50:30,810
We're going to do a little more for

970
00:50:30,810 --> 00:50:33,530
Jesus Christ and maybe a little less for

971
00:50:33,530 --> 00:50:34,090
ourselves.

972
00:50:35,530 --> 00:50:37,690
Because you know dear mother God isn't going

973
00:50:37,690 --> 00:50:41,110
to ask for all those dustings of chairs.

974
00:50:42,070 --> 00:50:44,550
He isn't going to ask for about all

975
00:50:44,550 --> 00:50:47,130
the time that was spent on doing that

976
00:50:47,130 --> 00:50:48,290
one particular thing.

977
00:50:48,970 --> 00:50:50,550
There is not one of us here who

978
00:50:50,550 --> 00:50:53,610
hasn't at least 5, 10 or 15 minutes

979
00:50:53,610 --> 00:50:54,530
to give to God.

980
00:50:55,590 --> 00:50:57,350
You're not all that hard work dear friend.

981
00:50:58,050 --> 00:50:59,690
I come from the east and I know.

982
00:51:00,970 --> 00:51:03,130
We work out there and if you think

983
00:51:03,130 --> 00:51:04,890
you work well I'm sorry but you don't.

984
00:51:05,530 --> 00:51:06,330
Oh no you don't.

985
00:51:06,510 --> 00:51:07,710
Not according to our set.

986
00:51:08,610 --> 00:51:10,330
Where we have got to do every single

987
00:51:10,330 --> 00:51:13,170
thing and yet we do far more for

988
00:51:13,170 --> 00:51:14,270
our God than you do.

989
00:51:14,810 --> 00:51:15,710
Will you wake up?

990
00:51:18,660 --> 00:51:23,560
Laziness, selfishness, self-willedness, jealousy and criticism is

991
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,100
there instead of something which should be love

992
00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:28,740
and joy and peace.

993
00:51:29,140 --> 00:51:30,380
Throw them out dear friend.

994
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,720
Throw overboard these old things that shouldn't be.

995
00:51:33,860 --> 00:51:34,800
Stop criticising.

996
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:36,400
Get out and pray.

997
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:38,940
Stop picking holes in your neighbour.

998
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:40,980
Pray for us.

999
00:51:41,860 --> 00:51:43,200
Do a good deed for us.

1000
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,620
God put you and I on earth not

1001
00:51:50,620 --> 00:51:53,640
just to eat, drink and mind your own

1002
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,780
business but to love and pour out love

1003
00:51:57,780 --> 00:52:01,240
and to go out as his representative in

1004
00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:03,300
a world that is sick with sin.

1005
00:52:04,980 --> 00:52:06,920
God might ask us to go and do

1006
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:07,480
something.

1007
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:08,820
Where?

1008
00:52:09,020 --> 00:52:09,280
How?

1009
00:52:09,420 --> 00:52:09,880
I don't know.

1010
00:52:10,340 --> 00:52:12,260
I don't know you enough to even suggest.

1011
00:52:13,140 --> 00:52:14,760
All I know is that my God is

1012
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,520
love and he longs that love should be

1013
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:18,100
poured out.

1014
00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:23,060
A person inside Christ is new and that

1015
00:52:23,060 --> 00:52:25,880
new creation belonging to God does what God

1016
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:26,580
tells them.

1017
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,600
It may be back in your own home,

1018
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:35,300
in that office, in that school, wherever God

1019
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:37,120
has put you as he has put me

1020
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:41,140
but it will be for his glory and

1021
00:52:41,140 --> 00:52:43,420
it will be so that he can give

1022
00:52:43,420 --> 00:52:47,020
us an understanding and what I call a

1023
00:52:47,020 --> 00:52:52,600
vision of what to pray for and how

1024
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:53,280
to pray.

1025
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:58,080
And this morning to us shall we accept

1026
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,720
the responsibility that God has given to us?

1027
00:53:01,780 --> 00:53:03,160
There used to be a saying when I

1028
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:04,400
was a little girl, I don't know whether

1029
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,900
it still goes, the hand that rocks the

1030
00:53:07,900 --> 00:53:09,800
cradle rules the world.

1031
00:53:10,420 --> 00:53:14,960
Mother, you have a tremendous power.

1032
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,080
You hold in your hand a future president

1033
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:23,840
or a future great woman for God or

1034
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:24,560
the reverse.

1035
00:53:25,620 --> 00:53:27,020
Don't blame your government.

1036
00:53:28,340 --> 00:53:30,980
Don't blame the times in which you live.

1037
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,220
Don't blame your church or your minister if

1038
00:53:34,220 --> 00:53:37,240
something goes wrong in your child's life or

1039
00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:37,900
in yours.

1040
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:39,440
Blame yourself.

1041
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,740
God gave to you and me this morning

1042
00:53:42,740 --> 00:53:43,340
power.

1043
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,160
The power that I have tried terribly hard

1044
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,480
to tell you if only in a story

1045
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:50,800
that I claim.

1046
00:53:51,420 --> 00:53:54,000
I claim for my children the power of

1047
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:54,360
God.

1048
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,940
They shall be what you want Lord.

1049
00:53:57,420 --> 00:53:58,940
They shall tell the truth.

1050
00:53:59,540 --> 00:54:02,660
They shall be those witnesses for you where

1051
00:54:02,660 --> 00:54:04,120
I cannot stand.

1052
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,880
And may you be as proud of your

1053
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,040
children today as I am proud of mine.

1054
00:54:10,660 --> 00:54:12,800
Not because they have done what you or

1055
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,760
their father wanted but because they have done

1056
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:16,900
what God wanted.

1057
00:54:17,540 --> 00:54:22,000
Mother, one of the last places I visited

1058
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:26,340
in Red China not so very long ago

1059
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:31,060
was a filthy, stinking, horrid prison.

1060
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,300
It was to see what was once a

1061
00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:35,380
pretty little girl.

1062
00:54:36,380 --> 00:54:37,860
She is my daughter.

1063
00:54:38,780 --> 00:54:42,300
She has already been there for nine whole

1064
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:42,820
years.

1065
00:54:43,820 --> 00:54:47,180
I'm terribly proud of my girl in prison.

1066
00:54:48,260 --> 00:54:50,100
She needn't be there of course.

1067
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:53,160
And then you say why doesn't she get

1068
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:53,480
out?

1069
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:58,280
She refuses to bow to any but Christ.

1070
00:54:59,220 --> 00:55:00,500
Mother, are you going to be as proud

1071
00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:01,480
of her as I am?

1072
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:03,240
I won't.

1073
00:55:04,180 --> 00:55:06,900
If you want to be, give your girl

1074
00:55:06,900 --> 00:55:07,060
her.

1075
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,520
She might not find the husband you long.

1076
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,260
She might not do what you hoped.

1077
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,200
You will break your heart over the longing

1078
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:20,000
for her and for the love that you

1079
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,000
want her to endure.

1080
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,700
But you'll be so proud because you will

1081
00:55:25,700 --> 00:55:28,620
know God has chosen her and you will

1082
00:55:28,620 --> 00:55:31,020
know that in that filthy prison there is

1083
00:55:31,020 --> 00:55:34,960
at least one witness for Christ that only

1084
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:36,920
death will wipe out.

1085
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:44,740
Mother, I stood one day on an open

1086
00:55:44,740 --> 00:55:49,880
market square which is now the execution ground

1087
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:51,680
in the middle of a very large city

1088
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:53,980
in the southwest of China.

1089
00:55:55,140 --> 00:55:59,300
I stood with a group of men and

1090
00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:04,860
women and we're breaking our hearts because in

1091
00:56:04,860 --> 00:56:07,060
the middle of that market square are our

1092
00:56:07,060 --> 00:56:10,260
sons and our daughters, 15 of them.

1093
00:56:11,420 --> 00:56:15,220
They're only just over 20 and they are

1094
00:56:15,220 --> 00:56:16,440
there to die.

1095
00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:19,280
Friend, they don't shoot them in red China,

1096
00:56:19,380 --> 00:56:20,380
they chop off their head.

1097
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:23,080
Mother, wake up!

1098
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:25,540
Communism is evil, it's wicked.

1099
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,580
Let it in and you will go with

1100
00:56:28,580 --> 00:56:28,820
it.

1101
00:56:30,460 --> 00:56:31,620
You shut up!

1102
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,060
Communism came from hell.

1103
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:39,880
Speak Chinese and go and live in Peking.

1104
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,780
Go to Peking and live there.

1105
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:44,820
Enjoy yourself.

1106
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:47,280
Get caught in a prison and you'll know

1107
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:48,420
what I'm saying is true.

1108
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:50,100
Women, wake up!

1109
00:56:50,740 --> 00:56:51,720
Listen to the truth.

1110
00:56:53,420 --> 00:56:57,020
I stood on the market square and I

1111
00:56:57,020 --> 00:56:57,500
watched.

1112
00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:59,700
Did you watch your son die, woman?

1113
00:57:00,780 --> 00:57:02,040
Did you watch your son die?

1114
00:57:03,500 --> 00:57:05,020
Because I did.

1115
00:57:11,630 --> 00:57:12,810
Get up and say so.

1116
00:57:13,690 --> 00:57:14,470
I defy you.

1117
00:57:17,050 --> 00:57:17,610
Get up!

1118
00:57:29,020 --> 00:57:33,300
A person inside Christ is new and only

1119
00:57:33,300 --> 00:57:36,040
in Christ is there truth and unity.

1120
00:57:36,940 --> 00:57:40,420
Friends, as we pray, would you let God

1121
00:57:40,420 --> 00:57:41,180
challenge you?

1122
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:43,840
Would you let God speak the truth to

1123
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:44,160
you?

1124
00:57:45,060 --> 00:57:46,620
Would you take it from the heart of

1125
00:57:46,620 --> 00:57:49,120
Clarice Hayward who defy anybody?

1126
00:57:49,660 --> 00:57:51,240
The communism is of the devil.

1127
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,220
Only in Christ is there freedom.

1128
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,680
I'm willing to die sooner than give in

1129
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,460
and not defy anybody, whoever they are, wherever

1130
00:58:01,460 --> 00:58:05,900
they are, to defy Christ.

1131
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:18,750
Women, this is the truth and today you

1132
00:58:18,750 --> 00:58:23,330
give to your child what you choose, lies

1133
00:58:23,330 --> 00:58:24,050
or truth.

1134
00:58:27,010 --> 00:58:30,270
Shall we bow our heads and shall we

1135
00:58:30,270 --> 00:58:34,870
before the great almighty God ask him to

1136
00:58:34,870 --> 00:58:37,810
speak to us and show us truth?

1137
00:58:39,050 --> 00:58:40,550
I'm not here to argue.

1138
00:58:41,550 --> 00:58:43,690
I love the Lord Jesus Christ with all

1139
00:58:43,690 --> 00:58:46,770
my heart and I hate the ideology of

1140
00:58:46,770 --> 00:58:50,410
communism with every breath I breathe because I

1141
00:58:50,410 --> 00:58:54,890
know it is evil, it is stinking, it

1142
00:58:54,890 --> 00:58:58,710
is sick, it is devilish and I long

1143
00:58:58,710 --> 00:59:01,630
for you who are mothers, the freedom that

1144
00:59:01,630 --> 00:59:03,150
only Christ can give.

1145
00:59:04,190 --> 00:59:06,170
And as we pray, would you give yourself

1146
00:59:06,170 --> 00:59:06,650
to him?

1147
00:59:07,150 --> 00:59:09,610
Would you ask him to teach you how

1148
00:59:09,610 --> 00:59:10,070
to pray?

1149
00:59:11,190 --> 00:59:12,730
Would you ask him to teach you how

1150
00:59:12,730 --> 00:59:13,210
to give?

1151
00:59:14,130 --> 00:59:15,630
Would you ask him to teach you the

1152
00:59:15,630 --> 00:59:16,990
right sense of values?

1153
00:59:17,690 --> 00:59:19,870
The things of earth count for nothing.

1154
00:59:20,430 --> 00:59:22,250
It is your soul and Christ.

1155
00:59:23,350 --> 00:59:24,190
Shall we pray?

1156
00:59:27,290 --> 00:59:31,910
Dear loving heavenly father, you who are love,

1157
00:59:32,870 --> 00:59:36,910
you who are peace, you who came down

1158
00:59:36,910 --> 00:59:40,530
from heaven to die on Calvary that men

1159
00:59:40,530 --> 00:59:45,850
might live, break our hearts before thee, that

1160
00:59:45,850 --> 00:59:48,470
we may know that only in thee is

1161
00:59:48,470 --> 00:59:51,710
truth, only in thee is peace.

1162
00:59:52,590 --> 00:59:55,450
Oh God we cry to thee this morning

1163
00:59:55,450 --> 00:59:59,510
for thy love that it may pour through

1164
00:59:59,510 --> 01:00:02,050
our hearts that we might be willing to

1165
01:00:02,050 --> 01:00:05,450
get inside of you and become your new

1166
01:00:05,450 --> 01:00:10,950
creation, that over and through us there may

1167
01:00:10,950 --> 01:00:13,890
be thy holy spirit in such a way

1168
01:00:13,890 --> 01:00:16,790
that we can go out and spread it

1169
01:00:16,790 --> 01:00:17,370
to others.

1170
01:00:18,350 --> 01:00:20,970
Oh God we bring these we love to

1171
01:00:20,970 --> 01:00:25,890
thee, we bring our sons to thee, how

1172
01:00:25,890 --> 01:00:28,790
we long that they might be straight, true,

1173
01:00:29,570 --> 01:00:31,570
loving men for thee.

1174
01:00:32,310 --> 01:00:35,750
Oh God break our hearts for them that

1175
01:00:35,750 --> 01:00:37,150
we may give them thy truth.

1176
01:00:38,170 --> 01:00:41,730
We pray thee for our daughters, for our

1177
01:00:41,730 --> 01:00:46,190
little babies, oh in thy love Lord teach

1178
01:00:46,190 --> 01:00:49,770
us how to pray, give us strength, courage

1179
01:00:49,770 --> 01:00:51,870
and wisdom to put their feet on this

1180
01:00:51,870 --> 01:00:58,340
thy book that they might go out straight,

1181
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:04,280
firm, true, men and women whom others will

1182
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,500
look up to and trust because we've not

1183
01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:09,860
only loved them but given them truth in

1184
01:01:09,860 --> 01:01:10,260
thee.

1185
01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:16,180
Oh Lord Jesus hear our prayer, we pray

1186
01:01:16,180 --> 01:01:19,620
thee today for the women who in their

1187
01:01:19,620 --> 01:01:24,560
thousands behind those iron curtains break their heart.

1188
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,960
Oh God to those who are mothers break

1189
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:32,080
and pour upon us so much love that

1190
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:33,480
we can pour out to them.

1191
01:01:34,420 --> 01:01:37,100
We think of those lonely mothers in China,

1192
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:42,320
we think of the mothers through Russia, we

1193
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,800
think of those in Poland and Hungary.

1194
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,440
Oh God we truly know you love them,

1195
01:01:49,740 --> 01:01:52,200
then teach us how to pray for them

1196
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,320
and in spirit stand by them.

1197
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,000
We pray thee for the young people who

1198
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:00,440
know nothing of thy love.

1199
01:02:03,590 --> 01:02:07,230
Lord Jesus may we get moved and alerted

1200
01:02:07,230 --> 01:02:10,990
and challenged that they to know today might

1201
01:02:10,990 --> 01:02:12,350
know thou art God.

1202
01:02:13,010 --> 01:02:15,410
There is a Jesus who loves them.

1203
01:02:16,310 --> 01:02:20,570
We are on this side pleading and praying

1204
01:02:20,570 --> 01:02:21,250
for them.

1205
01:02:22,390 --> 01:02:27,250
Lord Jesus as today we stand in freedom

1206
01:02:27,910 --> 01:02:31,530
give to us as women courage to stand

1207
01:02:31,530 --> 01:02:34,970
and keep our freedom and God teach us

1208
01:02:34,970 --> 01:02:37,550
how to pray and to work and to

1209
01:02:37,550 --> 01:02:41,150
do and to be and to give that

1210
01:02:41,150 --> 01:02:43,990
this land might retain its freedom.

1211
01:02:44,910 --> 01:02:47,630
God we pray thee keep Australia free.

1212
01:02:48,270 --> 01:02:52,090
All we plead with thee show us truth

1213
01:02:52,090 --> 01:02:55,570
and keep these my sisters free.

1214
01:02:56,650 --> 01:02:58,470
May they never have to know what we

1215
01:02:58,470 --> 01:02:59,070
have had.

1216
01:02:59,710 --> 01:03:01,690
May they never have to watch what we

1217
01:03:01,690 --> 01:03:02,530
have watched.

1218
01:03:03,130 --> 01:03:06,850
Oh Lord let them keep their babies and

1219
01:03:06,850 --> 01:03:09,170
we plead with thee keep their freedom.

1220
01:03:10,210 --> 01:03:12,690
We ask this because we know thou art

1221
01:03:12,690 --> 01:03:15,490
a God of love, a God of justice

1222
01:03:15,490 --> 01:03:18,530
and a God of peace and that one

1223
01:03:18,530 --> 01:03:21,270
day we shall stand with ease we laugh.

1224
01:03:22,510 --> 01:03:28,190
Who will come from behind iron curtains into

1225
01:03:28,190 --> 01:03:32,190
the freedom and liberty of your love to

1226
01:03:32,190 --> 01:03:37,010
give thee honour to give thee all that

1227
01:03:37,010 --> 01:03:41,730
is thy due of glory and praise and

1228
01:03:41,730 --> 01:03:45,530
we will thank thee and praise thee for

1229
01:03:45,530 --> 01:03:46,570
Jesus sake.

1230
01:03:48,010 --> 01:03:48,310
Amen.

1231
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:56,680
Dear friends I pray that this morning God

1232
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:59,140
in his own way will speak to you.

1233
01:04:00,020 --> 01:04:03,480
To us who are mothers we have already

1234
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:04,860
broken our hearts.

1235
01:04:06,260 --> 01:04:09,040
I pray that to you that will never

1236
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,660
be this same kind of experience.

1237
01:04:12,380 --> 01:04:17,620
That to you who are free you might

1238
01:04:17,620 --> 01:04:21,560
remain free and that as a new creation

1239
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:25,060
in Jesus Christ you will be willing to

1240
01:04:25,060 --> 01:04:31,120
go out as his and his alone representative.

1241
01:04:31,740 --> 01:04:36,980
That somebody through you might find Jesus Christ

1242
01:04:36,980 --> 01:04:40,800
and the joy that will fill your heart

1243
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:45,960
will then flow onto theirs and you will

1244
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:49,240
know that God has done for you what

1245
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:53,260
you ask and I know the joy as

1246
01:04:53,260 --> 01:04:56,180
it spreads to your family and through your

1247
01:04:56,180 --> 01:05:00,580
family to those fellowships and those churches and

1248
01:05:00,580 --> 01:05:04,540
out into this your nation and your people

1249
01:05:04,540 --> 01:05:07,860
and may God bless you and may you

1250
01:05:07,860 --> 01:05:12,820
never have to experience the heartache the sorrow

1251
01:05:12,820 --> 01:05:17,540
the loneliness of the mothers of China of

1252
01:05:17,540 --> 01:05:20,440
the young people of China who are not

1253
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:21,360
free.

1254
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,800
The following story was given by Gladys Alwin

1255
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:28,040
before her address in the Albert Strait Methodist

1256
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:28,520
Church.

1257
01:05:31,500 --> 01:05:35,200
To some of us there had been given

1258
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:44,410
great joys but also great heartaches and there

1259
01:05:44,410 --> 01:05:47,610
was a time when some of us wondered

1260
01:05:47,610 --> 01:05:51,070
how we would be able to stand some

1261
01:05:51,070 --> 01:05:54,010
of the testings and the trials that God

1262
01:05:54,010 --> 01:05:57,350
was putting us through but I wonder how

1263
01:05:57,350 --> 01:05:59,170
many of us have really come down to

1264
01:05:59,170 --> 01:06:02,570
rock bottom with Jesus Christ and been able

1265
01:06:02,570 --> 01:06:05,910
to prove that he and he alone can

1266
01:06:05,910 --> 01:06:08,270
hold and does hold.

1267
01:06:11,620 --> 01:06:15,540
When the red authorities came in to take

1268
01:06:15,540 --> 01:06:20,340
over China some of us were in a

1269
01:06:20,340 --> 01:06:25,640
very large university city in the west and

1270
01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:30,180
in that particular city and there were quite

1271
01:06:30,180 --> 01:06:34,300
a number of universities but in one section

1272
01:06:34,300 --> 01:06:39,480
of one of those universities there were 500

1273
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:45,340
students and to each one of those students

1274
01:06:45,340 --> 01:06:51,480
the life in the university represented learning a

1275
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,320
future a hope they were there for the

1276
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:59,080
same purpose as our young people go to

1277
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:02,880
our universities here in these lands of yours

1278
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:08,760
and to each one of those students there

1279
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:12,940
was handed out by the authorities a large

1280
01:07:12,940 --> 01:07:16,500
form much larger than this piece of paper

1281
01:07:16,500 --> 01:07:21,400
on it there were rows and rows of

1282
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:24,800
questions I could tell you those questions if

1283
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,160
I wanted to I know them but the

1284
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:30,780
student has to sit down and answer them

1285
01:07:30,780 --> 01:07:35,080
all now they're very confusing some of them

1286
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:38,500
are embarrassing and many of them the student

1287
01:07:38,500 --> 01:07:42,560
does not know the answer but he's got

1288
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,960
to find an answer that's what he's there

1289
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:49,580
for and so as you go down and

1290
01:07:49,580 --> 01:07:53,760
down and down perspiring and worrying you can

1291
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:59,640
almost miss a little row of words right

1292
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:03,860
along the bottom of the form so small

1293
01:08:03,860 --> 01:08:10,780
looking so unimportant but the most important question

1294
01:08:10,780 --> 01:08:17,660
of all and as near as I can

1295
01:08:17,660 --> 01:08:21,500
give it to you back from Chinese into

1296
01:08:21,500 --> 01:08:26,620
English this is what it says and at

1297
01:08:26,620 --> 01:08:32,180
this moment right now what position are you

1298
01:08:32,180 --> 01:08:39,080
in if for put a circle if against

1299
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:43,300
put a cross now you're not asked are

1300
01:08:43,300 --> 01:08:45,420
you a Christian they're not as clever as

1301
01:08:45,420 --> 01:08:51,319
that or as stupid maybe no what position

1302
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:56,319
means just what manner are your thoughts and

1303
01:08:56,319 --> 01:09:01,859
your heart in if for is for the

1304
01:09:01,859 --> 01:09:07,700
government and to you who have had no

1305
01:09:07,700 --> 01:09:13,319
indoctrination this needs just a little explaining I

1306
01:09:13,319 --> 01:09:15,720
suppose to you it would be quite easy

1307
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:20,420
oh put your little dot why I didn't

1308
01:09:20,420 --> 01:09:23,479
put that government into power and I may

1309
01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:27,160
not agree with it but I can't help

1310
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:30,540
it being there and after all God who

1311
01:09:30,540 --> 01:09:32,600
is God must have allowed them to get

1312
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:36,200
that power so I suppose I better just

1313
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:41,180
put my little dot and be full now

1314
01:09:41,180 --> 01:09:45,180
friend be very careful with your thoughts do

1315
01:09:45,180 --> 01:09:47,180
you really believe it's as easy as that

1316
01:09:48,140 --> 01:09:50,460
do you believe in men who deny God

1317
01:09:50,460 --> 01:09:53,760
you're going to stand for men who say

1318
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:57,480
Christ never lived you're going to stand for

1319
01:09:57,480 --> 01:10:01,520
men who everything they touch flows with blood

1320
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:07,940
cruel and horrible are you going to put

1321
01:10:07,940 --> 01:10:11,060
a dot going to have courage enough to

1322
01:10:11,060 --> 01:10:13,800
put your cross and go outside them and

1323
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:16,880
defy them friend it takes an awful lot

1324
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:22,460
of courage they're only students remember of all

1325
01:10:22,460 --> 01:10:26,820
500 students every single one had begun their

1326
01:10:26,820 --> 01:10:31,800
educational life in a Christian school in the

1327
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,860
old days there were no others if they

1328
01:10:34,860 --> 01:10:38,200
had ever been sick then they had been

1329
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:41,620
attended to in a Christian hospital because in

1330
01:10:41,620 --> 01:10:43,440
the same way in the old days there

1331
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:46,760
were no other kind of hospitals only those

1332
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:50,160
opened and kept by the missionary but that

1333
01:10:50,160 --> 01:10:51,780
doesn't mean to say they were all Christians

1334
01:10:55,750 --> 01:11:00,350
when the authorities took in the papers and

1335
01:11:00,350 --> 01:11:05,750
counted them there were 300 circles or little

1336
01:11:05,750 --> 01:11:15,080
dots there were 200 cross 200 boys and

1337
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:19,460
girls in their late teens or early 20s

1338
01:11:19,460 --> 01:11:24,120
had dared to defy the government well we'll

1339
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:29,660
see and so the authorities they called their

1340
01:11:29,660 --> 01:11:33,820
circolites as we call them together and in

1341
01:11:33,820 --> 01:11:37,120
a large place than the university campus they

1342
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:40,420
gave them a talk they gave to those

1343
01:11:40,420 --> 01:11:48,370
students all the power necessary except take life

1344
01:11:48,370 --> 01:11:51,390
that means they weren't to kill anyone but

1345
01:11:51,390 --> 01:11:53,850
they had got within the next six weeks

1346
01:11:53,850 --> 01:11:59,210
to pull those Christians over on to their

1347
01:11:59,210 --> 01:12:04,190
thoughts and so for the next six weeks

1348
01:12:04,190 --> 01:12:11,450
other people outside watched nasty little teasing hurried

1349
01:12:11,450 --> 01:12:16,090
little tricks all those things that do happen

1350
01:12:16,090 --> 01:12:21,610
when young people are filled with fear and

1351
01:12:21,610 --> 01:12:26,710
then the forms were handed out again and

1352
01:12:26,710 --> 01:12:29,730
this time when they were taken and counted

1353
01:12:29,730 --> 01:12:33,690
the authorities from whom we know all this

1354
01:12:35,190 --> 01:12:40,830
discovered there were fewer circles there were more

1355
01:12:40,830 --> 01:12:47,190
crosses and so they said well now how

1356
01:12:47,190 --> 01:12:51,530
on earth did they manage that here we

1357
01:12:51,530 --> 01:12:54,990
gave them all the power possible they could

1358
01:12:54,990 --> 01:12:57,630
do exactly what they like except kill them

1359
01:12:57,630 --> 01:13:02,450
but they hadn't managed to pull one over

1360
01:13:02,450 --> 01:13:06,410
into our circle but those on the side

1361
01:13:06,410 --> 01:13:09,430
of the cross had managed to pull some

1362
01:13:09,430 --> 01:13:14,090
of our people into their plan and purpose

1363
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:17,860
and so they set out to find out

1364
01:13:17,860 --> 01:13:21,540
how this had been done and they discovered

1365
01:13:21,540 --> 01:13:26,040
that if you had gone at we'll say

1366
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:29,120
eight o'clock in the morning across that

1367
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:33,280
very lovely university campus you would have found

1368
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:38,340
groups of boys and girls these students with

1369
01:13:38,340 --> 01:13:40,880
their bibles under their arms and probably a

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01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:43,820
packet of books in the other hand making

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01:13:43,820 --> 01:13:48,660
their way to some place where behind a

1372
01:13:48,660 --> 01:13:52,680
lecture hall door or down a passage or

1373
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:57,040
in some corridor of the little group met

1374
01:13:57,040 --> 01:14:01,480
they read from this the word of god

1375
01:14:01,480 --> 01:14:06,260
and they prayed and they poured out their

1376
01:14:06,260 --> 01:14:08,800
hearts to the great god and they worshipped

1377
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:13,560
another awful day was going to begin and

1378
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:16,380
they would fail this god whom they loved

1379
01:14:16,380 --> 01:14:19,000
and whom they knew loved them unless he

1380
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:23,500
poured out help and strength and courage to

1381
01:14:23,500 --> 01:14:26,560
them well all went well for two or

1382
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:30,420
three days and then are the other side

1383
01:14:30,420 --> 01:14:34,300
found us and they appeared behind the lecture

1384
01:14:34,300 --> 01:14:38,480
hall doors and down the corridors and so

1385
01:14:38,480 --> 01:14:43,360
there was only pandemonium there could be no

1386
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:48,740
bible reading and no prep and so the

1387
01:14:48,740 --> 01:14:54,420
christian students decided to go at seven and

1388
01:14:54,420 --> 01:14:56,920
again all went well for a little while

1389
01:14:56,920 --> 01:15:01,300
until the other side went and so the

1390
01:15:01,300 --> 01:15:05,860
christian students decided to go at six and

1391
01:15:05,860 --> 01:15:09,600
again two days went by and the other

1392
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:12,060
side went and broke up their little groups

1393
01:15:12,060 --> 01:15:16,220
and prayer meetings and so they went at

1394
01:15:16,220 --> 01:15:20,620
five and by the end of that six

1395
01:15:20,620 --> 01:15:25,040
weeks the authorities themselves discovered that many of

1396
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:31,560
those boys and girls were spending two two

1397
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:35,040
and a half three and at the most

1398
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:39,320
four hours a night for sleep that at

1399
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:42,000
all costs they had an hour with god

1400
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:47,080
before the day began so the authorities said

1401
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:50,520
oh well that soon settles well if it's

1402
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:54,600
this bible reading of this praying business we'll

1403
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:59,440
soon settle that divide them up separate them

1404
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:04,520
and so out into that very lovely university

1405
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:10,100
campus there was sent one christian student accompanied

1406
01:16:10,100 --> 01:16:15,860
by 10 communist students and for the next

1407
01:16:15,860 --> 01:16:20,540
three months all contact with the outside world

1408
01:16:20,540 --> 01:16:24,520
from that one little christian had got to

1409
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:28,560
be made through 10 others who were against

1410
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:30,880
him or her in every way and on

1411
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,920
every point and to those of us who

1412
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,780
watched we nearly broke our heart it was

1413
01:16:36,780 --> 01:16:41,000
so unfair it was so cruel the 10

1414
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,320
they could take it in turns to eat

1415
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:47,480
to sleep and to study and the little

1416
01:16:47,480 --> 01:16:52,200
christian was only one and we pleaded with

1417
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:55,720
the lord to let them free or to

1418
01:16:55,720 --> 01:17:01,120
some way comfort and help we were not

1419
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:03,580
allowed to speak to them or even to

1420
01:17:03,580 --> 01:17:07,140
see them and then there came a day

1421
01:17:07,140 --> 01:17:12,240
when the authorities did not again hand out

1422
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:16,060
forms but when some of us found ourselves

1423
01:17:16,060 --> 01:17:20,180
lining the city streets and a few of

1424
01:17:20,180 --> 01:17:23,600
us found that we had very important places

1425
01:17:24,350 --> 01:17:27,380
and we were stood all along what was

1426
01:17:27,380 --> 01:17:31,740
once a market square which had now been

1427
01:17:31,740 --> 01:17:37,220
turned into an execution ground and our hearts

1428
01:17:37,220 --> 01:17:40,420
just failed us and we said oh lord

1429
01:17:40,420 --> 01:17:43,580
oh but crept it isn't what we think

1430
01:17:43,580 --> 01:17:48,120
and then we awoke to discover that standing

1431
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:51,800
in a long line all down the middle

1432
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:56,700
of the market square were these 200 odd

1433
01:17:56,700 --> 01:18:02,120
boys and girls and they're there not to

1434
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:05,300
put a name a sign or a name

1435
01:18:05,300 --> 01:18:08,860
on a piece of paper there to answer

1436
01:18:08,860 --> 01:18:13,520
in person over on the other side of

1437
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:16,840
the market square was a man with a

1438
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:22,800
paper the list of their names why the

1439
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:26,180
first name on that list happened to be

1440
01:18:26,180 --> 01:18:29,180
the name of a girl i do not

1441
01:18:29,180 --> 01:18:35,280
know a pretty shy little thing who i

1442
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:36,820
could tell you all about if i wanted

1443
01:18:36,820 --> 01:18:40,320
to born in one of those lovely courtyards

1444
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:44,920
up in peking come at the end of

1445
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:48,520
five big brothers who'd all of course gone

1446
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:51,500
to school a little sister wanted to go

1447
01:18:51,500 --> 01:18:54,980
to school too and the only school around

1448
01:18:54,980 --> 01:18:58,280
was a christian school and so in the

1449
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:02,680
christian school she had found jesus christ and

1450
01:19:02,680 --> 01:19:05,920
drawn in one by one the five big

1451
01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:10,420
brothers and then mother and then father and

1452
01:19:10,420 --> 01:19:15,040
then the servant even to the tradesman who'd

1453
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:19,640
come to the back door a lovely shy

1454
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:23,440
little thing always away in the back somewhere

1455
01:19:23,440 --> 01:19:27,680
never quarreling or arguing one of those rather

1456
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:33,980
dividend pretty little things 17 years old jong

1457
01:19:33,980 --> 01:19:39,680
hwa young stand forth answer in person what

1458
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:44,020
position are you now in she was away

1459
01:19:44,020 --> 01:19:46,400
a long down almost at the end of

1460
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:51,760
that last and as we watched we could

1461
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:55,800
see this rather slim little thing coming very

1462
01:19:55,800 --> 01:19:59,820
calmly and quietly up past all of her

1463
01:19:59,820 --> 01:20:03,600
fellow students and we said oh lord it's

1464
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:07,780
so unfair she's so small and so weak

1465
01:20:07,780 --> 01:20:12,240
why didn't you choose someone bigger and better

1466
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:18,040
and more capable but he evidently hadn't and

1467
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:21,160
before long here she was standing up all

1468
01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:26,940
alone facing thousands of people because to these

1469
01:20:26,940 --> 01:20:30,980
sorts of things in china every household has

1470
01:20:30,980 --> 01:20:35,900
to send at least one representative and for

1471
01:20:35,900 --> 01:20:38,400
the moment it looked as if she was

1472
01:20:38,400 --> 01:20:43,100
swaying perhaps she's going to cry perhaps she's

1473
01:20:43,100 --> 01:20:45,380
going to faint or give in it's just

1474
01:20:45,380 --> 01:20:49,380
too much for her simple little hat but

1475
01:20:49,380 --> 01:20:53,120
oh no in just two minutes with a

1476
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:56,680
little toss of her head she had absolutely

1477
01:20:56,680 --> 01:21:00,940
command of the situation and this is exactly

1478
01:21:00,940 --> 01:21:06,420
what she said sir when i went for

1479
01:21:06,420 --> 01:21:11,440
my three months indoctrination i thought jesus christ

1480
01:21:11,440 --> 01:21:15,940
was real i thought this book was true

1481
01:21:17,480 --> 01:21:22,760
sir i returned from my three months indoctrination

1482
01:21:22,760 --> 01:21:28,760
i know jesus christ is real i know

1483
01:21:28,760 --> 01:21:34,100
this book is true and calmly putting the

1484
01:21:34,100 --> 01:21:38,460
bible under her arms down she got and

1485
01:21:38,460 --> 01:21:43,100
walked slowly calmly back into her place in

1486
01:21:43,100 --> 01:21:49,360
the last one by one by one each

1487
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:52,620
in their own and separate and different way

1488
01:21:52,620 --> 01:21:57,960
they took their stand and friends they died

1489
01:21:58,440 --> 01:22:03,960
right there tonight that they died doesn't matter

1490
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:06,880
to you how they died is beside the

1491
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:09,720
point to you the challenge is do you

1492
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,840
believe your god is real do you believe

1493
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:16,560
this bible is true then friend you've got

1494
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,860
to prove it to somebody away with all

1495
01:22:19,860 --> 01:22:23,960
your nonsense all your nervous ideas all your

1496
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:27,760
little plans and organising that keep you tied

1497
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:30,820
down all the conventions that you're afraid to

1498
01:22:30,820 --> 01:22:33,920
break all the habits that you've got into

1499
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:39,920
i believe my god is real i believe

1500
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:43,060
this book is true and dear friend i

1501
01:22:43,060 --> 01:22:46,020
pray that to every single one of you

1502
01:22:46,020 --> 01:22:49,620
tonight that little girl will not have died

1503
01:22:49,620 --> 01:22:53,180
in vain that the testimony from a little

1504
01:22:53,180 --> 01:23:01,260
chinese student in the Sichuan university might ring

1505
01:23:01,260 --> 01:23:07,320
over this earth for truth and freedom that

1506
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:11,560
you might have courage to stand where god

1507
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:15,460
puts you for the purpose that he asked

1508
01:23:15,460 --> 01:23:20,800
that somebody might know that god is real

1509
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:24,540
and the word of god is true