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Missing the Point · That KEVIN Show

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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the bowels of the city that never sleeps kevin.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome in, Kevin McCullough, glad to have you here. It
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  Speaker 4: is That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com, and I hope that your
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  Speaker 4: fall is going to be full of good things. I
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  Speaker 4: think of the fall, you know, back to school, finally
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  Speaker 4: done with all the kind of the unstructured stuff of summer.
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  Speaker 4: which is kind of a joy to someone like me
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  Speaker 4: who really loves his routine. But one of the things
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  Speaker 4: I'm always excited about here is that we are back
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  Speaker 4: to sending Bibles to people who need them. And we're
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  Speaker 4: back to it, I say, because we did a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of it in the summer. But when we come
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  Speaker 4: back from the last couple of weeks of August, Bible
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  Speaker 4: League has actually done something kind of interesting in those
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  Speaker 4: last two weeks. They've kind of shut down all of
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  Speaker 4: their corporate activity. And for two weeks, they've sought the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: I think some of them have fasted. I think many
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  Speaker 4: of them have prayed. They've, as a staff, come together.
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  Speaker 4: They've talked about what the Lord is leading them as
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  Speaker 4: an organization to do. And then they launch what he
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  Speaker 4: has led them to do for the next year. And
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  Speaker 4: so as we are just, you know, at the beginning
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  Speaker 4: of that, we are always excited to help be some
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  Speaker 4: of the first people that send Bibles out in the
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  Speaker 4: calendar year of the fiscal year of Bible League International.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm so appreciative of their prayerful approach to what
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  Speaker 4: they do. They never for a minute think that it's
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  Speaker 4: in their power. They never for a minute think it's
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  Speaker 4: all about them. They know that this is a work
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  Speaker 4: of God and they want to align themselves with what
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  Speaker 4: he's already doing so that it is that much more
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  Speaker 4: effective getting the Bible into people's hands. Michael Woolworth is
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  Speaker 4: a member of the Bible League. He's on staff there
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  Speaker 4: and he's a big advocate and he's been doing this
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  Speaker 4: for a number of years and always comes and sees us.
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  Speaker 4: And Michael, we're so grateful this year on this expanded
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  Speaker 4: platform to be in 400 cities across the country and
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  Speaker 4: to be able to say, hey, let's tell the whole
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  Speaker 4: country about Bible League. In the past, we've done it
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  Speaker 4: just in the New York market for many, many years.
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  Speaker 4: And that audience by itself, we've always been responsive in
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  Speaker 4: this cause. But now to get to have the expanded
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  Speaker 4: welcoming in of the country on a nationwide basis. We're
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  Speaker 4: just so grateful to be able to have them here.
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  Speaker 4: And lots of new places are hearing us Anchorage, Alaska, Greenville,
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina, Columbus, Ohio, Reno, Nevada. I mean, throw a dart.
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  Speaker 4: We're in someplace new every time. And it's, and it's
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  Speaker 4: exciting to see. And we're thankful because those of you
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  Speaker 4: who have been giving, you have been giving from all
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  Speaker 4: over the country as well. We've had gifts from just,
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  Speaker 4: just about every region of the country. So thank you
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  Speaker 4: for those of you that have stood with us already
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  Speaker 4: and 1,600 Bibles towards an ultimate goal of a little
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  Speaker 4: more than 10,000. And just knowing that every time we
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  Speaker 4: send a Bible out, about 12 people end up coming
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  Speaker 4: to know the Lord that did not know him previously
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  Speaker 4: is the kind of lifelong record of Bible League in
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  Speaker 4: terms of what they've been able to track. And that's
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  Speaker 4: a conservative estimate. That's an estimate they're safe in telling people,
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  Speaker 4: we feel good about this number. We don't feel like
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  Speaker 4: it's an exaggeration at all. And if you follow that
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  Speaker 4: number through, Michael, that means that our listeners in sending
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  Speaker 4: 1,600 Bibles thus far are on the verge of reaching
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  Speaker 4: nearly 20,000 people with the gospel. And if we add
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  Speaker 4: another 8,800 Bibles to this mix, we're going to see
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  Speaker 4: some real amazing stuff that God does in the days
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  Speaker 4: and weeks to come. So it's an exciting thing. And
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  Speaker 4: we're excited that you're back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's great to be back, Kevin. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful that you share our enthusiasm. You share the
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  Speaker 1: burden that we have to make sure these Bibles reach these,
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  Speaker 1: you know, empty waiting hands all over the world. It's
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  Speaker 1: year 88 for Bible League. And Kevin, I've said this before.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot do what we do. without listening families like yours.
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  Speaker 1: And again, grateful that they have a host that calls
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  Speaker 1: them out to live out who they are in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord every single day. And this is an opportunity for us.
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  Speaker 1: As you say, we got a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: jump on this campaign. We spent a few weeks in July,
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  Speaker 1: took a little bit of a pause. We're back to
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  Speaker 1: tackle the remaining 8,000 that are needed. And each one
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  Speaker 1: of these is a precious soul, right? Members of our
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  Speaker 1: spiritual family who have said, Yes to Jesus. God has
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  Speaker 1: them planted in places where they simply cannot access the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: But again, as I love to say, enter this listening
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  Speaker 1: family call by call, click by click. We're doing something
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  Speaker 1: about it. Let me give you a little bit of perspective.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you go back to the year 2020 when
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  Speaker 1: we were all learning to navigate COVID restrictions. Bible League
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  Speaker 1: reached about 1.7 million people that year. Fast forward to
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  Speaker 1: the year 2025 last year. There was a 60% increase
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  Speaker 1: between those two points in time, right? A 60% increase.
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  Speaker 1: That tells you what? That God is at work in
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  Speaker 1: his world through his word. We can tell you with confidence,
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  Speaker 1: as many as nine of 10 new believers in different
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  Speaker 1: parts of the world, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and
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  Speaker 1: Latin America, crave what they cannot get. And that is
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  Speaker 1: a Bible. And so, again, we're doing something about it
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  Speaker 1: for the princely sum. of only $ 5 a Bible. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: let me come into this hour thanking some of your
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  Speaker 1: wonderful listeners. William of Verona, Pennsylvania said, I'm in at
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  Speaker 1: 20 Bibles. Sherwin of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey said, I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: A $ 200 gift for 40 Bibles. And then Doreen of Glendale, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: one of those out and about there, right? A $ 500 investment,
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  Speaker 1: enough to fill the waiting hands of of 100 believers
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  Speaker 1: that we know by name at Bible League. And again,
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  Speaker 1: that's how it happens. $ 5 sins a Bible. Kevin, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a Bible for Bible match, meaning that every gift made,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this segment, this hour is going to be
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  Speaker 1: matched by friends of Bible League who say, look, we've
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  Speaker 1: got an opportunity here to meet this incredible need. And again,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of size, they said what? We want to double it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and friends, because of that, then there is incumbent
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  Speaker 4: upon us to be somewhat urgent about this. We don't
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  Speaker 4: want this match to dry up and go away and
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  Speaker 4: not to have maximized the potential good that it is.
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  Speaker 4: If God moved in someone's heart to be generous and said,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to challenge your people and we're going to
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  Speaker 4: match everything that they do, I don't think anybody is
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  Speaker 4: listening by accident. I don't think that anybody is here
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  Speaker 4: by mistake. I think that God is sovereign and I
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  Speaker 4: think that he works his will out in ways that
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  Speaker 4: the best glorify him and bring about his purposes, which
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  Speaker 4: means you're not an accident, which means you're not an
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  Speaker 4: accident in being here today. It's not an accident that
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  Speaker 4: you're hearing about this. So would you consider asking yourself
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  Speaker 4: the question, how many Bibles should I be giving, knowing
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  Speaker 4: that they will be doubled right now? 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673. And Michael,
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  Speaker 4: one of the things I've said over and over again
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  Speaker 4: that I appreciate about Bible League is that it's not
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  Speaker 4: just this part of the world or that part of
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  Speaker 4: the world. You guys are addressing the needs of Christians
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  Speaker 4: globally from all different corners that are asking, can you
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  Speaker 4: help get me a Bible? They all have two things
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  Speaker 4: in common. They all want a Bible. And for a
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  Speaker 4: variety of reasons, none of them can get one. And
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  Speaker 4: Bible League is answering that question.
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  Speaker 1: Well, more than 100 praying for Bibles right now. First
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  Speaker 1: in Rwanda in Africa, Kwame, a 50-year-old Christian, lives near
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  Speaker 1: the Ugandan border. He lost family and friends in the
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  Speaker 1: Hutu-Tutsi conflict back in the 90s. Kevin, I know you
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  Speaker 1: remember that. Became a believer about two years ago. Was
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  Speaker 1: trained to share Christ through Bible League's Project Phillip study.
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  Speaker 1: What is that? We put a face and a name
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  Speaker 1: to our global strategy. What is that? It's a Bible study.
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  Speaker 1: Christianity 101, the Gospel of John paired together. And this man, Kawabi,
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  Speaker 1: has led 92 Rwandans to Christ. He's praying that they'll
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  Speaker 1: soon have Bibles in the Swahili language. And then Andrea
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  Speaker 1: is 25, another part of the world. She lives in
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela near the capital of Caracas. When a friend shared
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  Speaker 1: the gospel with her, she became a believer. Her entire family,
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  Speaker 1: part of a religious cult, has shunned her. But Andrea
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  Speaker 1: is one of these that's been trained to share Christ.
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  Speaker 1: She's led 20 to the Lord. She's praying for Spanish
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  Speaker 1: language Bibles. And so, you know, Kevin, I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you there's a lot of reasons why there's a shortage
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  Speaker 1: of Bibles. You know, again, you've covered these corrupt governments,
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  Speaker 1: majority religions that push back. There's remoteness. There's poverty. But really,
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  Speaker 1: it's God at work, right? Moving so quickly around the
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  Speaker 1: world through spiritual awakenings. And again, Christians saying, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to wake up to following the Lord, right? It's created
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  Speaker 1: this incredible need for Bible. And there's 120 right now
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  Speaker 1: that could benefit from your generosity today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 4: Alright, welcome back. Kevin McCullough, it's Tuesday. It's kind of
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  Speaker 4: a mopey gray Tuesday in New York. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: where you are, but here we've had kind of like
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  Speaker 4: just miserable cloudy weather all day. And you could feel
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  Speaker 4: it from the moment that my kids got up today
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  Speaker 4: because it was back to school day for the McCullough house.
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  Speaker 4: And it was just like, you know, dad's up trying
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  Speaker 4: to be joking, trying to get them laughing. Nope.
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  Speaker 8: Nope.
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  Speaker 4: School and gray weather, and it's just going together. So
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  Speaker 4: happy fall, everybody. Welcome in. It's That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com.
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  Speaker 4: Dave Watson is back with us. This is the part
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  Speaker 4: of the show where we ask, how do we live?
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  Speaker 4: How do we live in light of the events that
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  Speaker 4: are going on around us? How do we live in
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  Speaker 4: the light of the culture that is around us? Oftentimes
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  Speaker 4: a culture that despises God, hates his word. looks at
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  Speaker 4: us with a very cross eye, if at all. And
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  Speaker 4: Dave Watson, we started yesterday, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel
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  Speaker 4: on Staten Island, we started yesterday with a look at
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  Speaker 4: Lamentations and what you referred to historically as the nation
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  Speaker 4: of Israel's kind of 9-11 from the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, very much so.
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  Speaker 9: I think we might want to say our Our 9-11
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  Speaker 9: is there, you know, August 15th because it happened to
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  Speaker 9: them first.
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  Speaker 8: But it certainly reflects the same circumstances. The writer says
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  Speaker 8: in Lamentations 3, verse 17, my soul is barrette of peace.
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  Speaker 8: I've forgotten what happiness is. And he goes on to
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  Speaker 8: say my endurance has perished. so has my hope from
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  Speaker 8: the Lord.
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  Speaker 10: The circumstances that had occurred, the destruction of Jerusalem that
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  Speaker 10: Jeremiah was an eyewitness to, which Jeremiah had warned about,
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  Speaker 10: just sucked the wind right out of him.
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  Speaker 8: Worse than that, it It sucked happiness. It sucked peace.
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  Speaker 8: And it sucked hope right from him. And I think
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  Speaker 8: some of our listeners today, Kevin, could probably relate to that.
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  Speaker 8: Something has happened. A phone call has come in about
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  Speaker 8: a diagnosis. Someone has gone through something horrible, something that
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  Speaker 8: you can't believe. And they feel like they got punched
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  Speaker 8: in the gut and had the wind knocked out of them.
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  Speaker 4: And you kind of point out that there's kind of a–
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  Speaker 4: cycle that Jeremiah works through in the rhetoric in verses
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  Speaker 4: 16 or 15 through 18. You talk about where he
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  Speaker 4: places blame. You talk about how we should respond and
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  Speaker 4: what the result is. But can you walk us through that?
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  Speaker 8: Sure, sure. So Jeremiah initially blames God. You know, verse 15,
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  Speaker 8: you filled me with bitterness. You did it. You know,
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  Speaker 8: you gave me wormwood and you've given me this sour,
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  Speaker 8: sour thing to have. You know, we often hear people say, well,
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  Speaker 8: you know, if life gives you lemons, you know, make lemonade. Well,
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  Speaker 8: it's Jeremiah was making wormwood out of that. But he,
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  Speaker 8: in a sense, comes to his senses. He's lost his hope.
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  Speaker 8: He's lost his peace. He's lost his happiness because of
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  Speaker 8: the circumstances. But then he goes into a confession of
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  Speaker 8: hope in Lamentations 3, 19 through 22. And there's something
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  Speaker 8: very interesting about Lamentations 3, is that it is a
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  Speaker 8: Hebrew acrostic, which means that every verse begins with a
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  Speaker 8: set of consecutive letters through the Hebrew alphabet. letter alpha
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  Speaker 8: or aleph, the second set of three verses, all the
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  Speaker 8: way through. And it's set that way so that you
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  Speaker 8: can remember it. And Jeremiah writes this down so that
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  Speaker 8: he will remember this. He will keep this in mind forever,
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  Speaker 8: because this is not going to be the only difficult
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  Speaker 8: circumstances he faces. Now, I wouldn't tell you that you
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  Speaker 8: need to memorize all of Lamentations 3, But I would
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  Speaker 8: tell you, verses 19 through 22 are worthy of our
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  Speaker 8: of our putting in memory where he says, remember my
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  Speaker 8: affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. My
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  Speaker 8: soul continually remembers it and is bound down within me.
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  Speaker 8: And then he says in verse 21, but this I
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  Speaker 8: call to mind and therefore I have hope. What does
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  Speaker 8: he call the mind that gives him the hope? The
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  Speaker 8: steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercy never
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  Speaker 8: comes to an end. They are new every morning. Great
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  Speaker 8: is your faithfulness. Great is your faithfulness. Powerful, very powerful thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and how many times have we sung that song
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  Speaker 4: in the modern church era and not ever even known
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  Speaker 4: what it was in response to? You know, because lamentations
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  Speaker 4: isn't exactly on the top of all the, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Bible study request lists for small groups.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm going to a small group with lamentations.
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  Speaker 4: Well, exactly.
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  Speaker 8: You'd be the only person.
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  Speaker 4: But considering what you've just explained to us and how
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  Speaker 4: the circumstances that they're going through kind of mirror, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what we felt on 9-11, what Israel felt on October 7th,
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  Speaker 4: what ancient Israel felt on August 15th, back when this
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  Speaker 4: was being written. That puts that verse, verse 22 and
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  Speaker 4: verse 23, into steep contrast into what he has just
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  Speaker 4: said in the lines before.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and what strikes me is it's a series of choices.
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  Speaker 8: He remembers his affliction, and he wants everybody to remember
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  Speaker 8: it and commiserate with him. And we can certainly understand it.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want to make.
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  Speaker 8: Light of it. But then in verse 21, he makes
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  Speaker 8: a choice. He says, but I call to mind God.
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  Speaker 8: And therefore, I have hope that the steadfast love of
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  Speaker 8: the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end.
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  Speaker 8: They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. It's
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  Speaker 8: a choice that we have to make. You know, we
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  Speaker 8: certainly need to be around people on this coming 25th
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  Speaker 8: celebration of 9-11 and be there for them and be
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  Speaker 8: there for our city. But we also need to make
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  Speaker 8: sure that we are a voice. That helps everybody make
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  Speaker 8: the choice, the choice to call the mind and therefore
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  Speaker 8: have hope that there is a God, that he is
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  Speaker 8: filled with this steadfast love and it never ceases and
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  Speaker 8: his mercies never come to an end. And the sun
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  Speaker 8: came up this morning. You can be sure that his
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  Speaker 8: mercies are new every morning. And we proclaim great is
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  Speaker 8: your faithfulness. great is your faithfulness. It's almost as if
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  Speaker 8: Jeremiah is at a sunrise, perhaps looking over the ruins
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  Speaker 8: of Jerusalem. And as he's at the sunrise, he sees
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  Speaker 8: the sun comes up, comes up with tears in his eyes.
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  Speaker 8: He's reminded of that this God loves us. This hurts
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  Speaker 8: right now, but this God loves us, and this love
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  Speaker 8: never ceases. This God is a merciful God filled with mercy.
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  Speaker 8: And this stuff happens, this renewing of these incredible attributes,
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  Speaker 8: they're true every morning. Every morning that I get up,
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  Speaker 8: even though as I'm looking out wherever I am, I'm
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  Speaker 8: seeing the destruction of the city I love, there's a sunrise,
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  Speaker 8: and it dawns on him. And he proclaims, great! Is
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  Speaker 8: your faithfulness important?
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  Speaker 4: He uses a phrase here, steadfast love. How is that
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  Speaker 4: to be understood? And we may not have time to
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  Speaker 4: complete this thought today, but what is the difference in
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  Speaker 4: that and say, other uses of the word love that
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  Speaker 4: appear in the Old and New Testament?
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  Speaker 8: You know, this is a unique word. It's the Hebrew chesed.
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  Speaker 8: I wish I was Jewish and I could say it
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  Speaker 8: right for you. But it speaks of God's loyal, royal love,
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  Speaker 8: and it's a relationship love. It's a deep, personal relationship, love. And,
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  Speaker 8: you know, it is found throughout the Old Testament. You know,
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  Speaker 8: when you start looking at this particular word, when you
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  Speaker 8: start running this word, you'll find it some 250 times
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  Speaker 8: in the Old Testament. And over half of those times,
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  Speaker 8: 127 of them, I think, it's found in the Psalms.
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  Speaker 8: It is a go-to concept for the psalmist, and it
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  Speaker 8: should be a go-to concept for us, that our God
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  Speaker 8: is this God who is steadfast love. He loves us
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  Speaker 8: with a love that doesn't change. He loves us with
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  Speaker 8: a love that is so deep it's almost hard to understand.
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  Speaker 8: And he's loyal to us with this love. It's a love, really,
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  Speaker 8: that God is unique in expressing. We can partake in
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  Speaker 8: it a little bit. But like in Exodus 34, 6, when
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  Speaker 8: Moses wants to see who God is, God passes before him,
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  Speaker 8: putting him in the cleft. And it says there, the
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  Speaker 8: Lord passed before him and proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord,
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  Speaker 8: a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and watch
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  Speaker 8: this word, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. The
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  Speaker 8: steadfast love almost always, not always, but almost always is
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  Speaker 8: tied to that idea of God's faithfulness. God doesn't quit
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  Speaker 8: on us. He doesn't give up on us.
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  Speaker 11: He Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Powerful.
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  Speaker 4: Powerful place to pause for today as we're looking at
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  Speaker 4: lamentations in light of the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Dave Watson,
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  Speaker 4: thank you. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks so much for having me.
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  Speaker 12: I'm Kevin.
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  Speaker 8: God bless. You got it.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin McCullough coming right back. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 12: Stick around for more of That Kevin next.
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  Speaker 1: Here he is from.
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  Speaker 11: New York, That Kevin, Kevin McCullough. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 4: It's That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com for all things related to
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  Speaker 4: someone who desperately needs it but can't get it, who
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  Speaker 4: would desperately like to have a copy for themselves but
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: have no means of getting one for themselves. where they
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  Speaker 4: live and where they are at. And friends, that's why
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  Speaker 4: we want you to be part of what God is
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  Speaker 4: doing here. We are sending his word to as many
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  Speaker 4: as we can, but hopefully a little more than 10,000
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  Speaker 4: people this fall, because that's the list. That's the names
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  Speaker 4: of people that Bible League knows personally who have completed
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  Speaker 4: their initial Bible study, Project Philip Bible study program that
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  Speaker 4: have now requested a copy of the scriptures for themselves,
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  Speaker 4: which is an amazing thing. in and of itself when
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  Speaker 4: you think of it. But you call that number 1-800-937-9673.
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  Speaker 4: You can get a Bible to them. And if you
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  Speaker 4: call this hour, if you call in the next 10 minutes,
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  Speaker 4: every Bible you send will be matched Bible for Bible.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a lot of good reasons why you should
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  Speaker 4: do it right now. Not the least of which is
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  Speaker 4: you're putting the truth of God's word into somebody's hands
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  Speaker 4: and heart and mind and life and family who desperately
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  Speaker 4: want it. Michael Woolworth is back with us from Bible League.
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  Speaker 4: And Michael, this is always something that's impressive to me.
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  Speaker 4: The countries that Bible League goes to are really, really,
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  Speaker 4: in some cases, it's very hard to imagine what you
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  Speaker 4: guys do. And yet you're able to accomplish it because
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  Speaker 4: of God's grace and his protection, including really tough places
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  Speaker 4: like China.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me take you to China as I do that.
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  Speaker 1: Let me say thanks to Debbie of Dunnell in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Michael, Kevin, I'm in at 10 Bible's. Kathy
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  Speaker 1: of Elizabeth, Colorado said, I'm in at seven Bibles. And
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: then David listening in New Jersey said, count me in
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  Speaker 1: a $ 100 tax deductible gift for 20 Bibles. We're closing
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  Speaker 1: in on 2000. As you say, Kevin, our goal, a
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  Speaker 1: little ambitious, but we want to be at just north
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  Speaker 1: of 10,000 by the time we wrap up at the
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  Speaker 1: end of September. You know, as I recollect where things
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  Speaker 1: ended last fall, as we did a little bit in
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  Speaker 1: the summer, took a little bit of a pause, came back.
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  Speaker 1: Your listeners knocked out 9,900 Bibles. We were able to,
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, to be able to share
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  Speaker 1: that with waiting believers, I mean, to say, look, your
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  Speaker 1: Bibles are coming. There's no greater thrill that we have
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  Speaker 1: at Bible League than to say the Bibles, they're as
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  Speaker 1: good as they are. But yeah, Kevin, you're right about China.
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  Speaker 1: China is one of these difficult places where the gospel
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  Speaker 1: is truly making an impact today. You and I talked
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  Speaker 1: about the Bible access list, you know, Bible League joining
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  Speaker 1: with other Bible agencies in the last couple of years
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  Speaker 1: to look at 88 countries where we know the needs
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  Speaker 1: are the greatest. We identified where the greatest restrictions are.
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  Speaker 1: China is on that list. My colleague, Chow, tries to
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  Speaker 1: share with us how we can pray effectively as North
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  Speaker 1: American Christians, right? Praying for brothers and sisters in China.
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  Speaker 1: As you listen to this, Listen to what he doesn't say. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: he's not saying we're praying for your pity or for
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  Speaker 1: your protections today, an airline ticket out of a place
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  Speaker 1: where the government is antagonistic toward the gospel. What's he saying?
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  Speaker 1: This is Chow, and he's in China.
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  Speaker 5: If I have one minute for American brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 5: I just beg them to pray for China, for the
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  Speaker 5: supply of the Bibles, and for God, we are opening
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  Speaker 5: the door for the Chinese people to have the opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to hear the love of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what the greatest need is. Boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: He's a pastor there. He speaks both Mandarin and English.
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  Speaker 1: And again, Kevin, he's saying, look, we covet your prayers.
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  Speaker 1: We cherish prayers you make on behalf of believers here.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what Christians are up against. In
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  Speaker 1: the Yunnan province, this is in southwest China, just north
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  Speaker 1: of Laos, right? There's 12,000, they call them grid officers.
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  Speaker 1: They monitor 90% of the villages reporting religious activity. to
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  Speaker 1: the authorities who come down hard on Christians. Think about
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  Speaker 1: these flock cameras, which are now kind of capturing our
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  Speaker 1: attention here in America, right? They use facial recognition technology.
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  Speaker 1: They do data monitoring, right? Essentially making it impossible to
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  Speaker 1: buy a Bible online or to even access the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God online. That's what's happening right now in communist China.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of those praying for a Bible right
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  Speaker 1: now is Nuon, a former atheist in China near Beijing. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: she fell seriously ill. There was a Christian named Min,
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  Speaker 1: one of her neighbors who nursed her back to health,
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  Speaker 1: shared Christ with her. Today, she's a believer. She's praying
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  Speaker 1: for a Bible in Mandarin. And, you know, stories like
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  Speaker 1: that are not in short supply. My other colleague, a
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  Speaker 1: woman by the name of Milan, talks about first generation Christians.
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  Speaker 1: These are people, listen, their bloodline, if you will, is
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  Speaker 1: not steep in Christianity. These are first generation Christians who
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  Speaker 1: are being able to open up their Bibles and read
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  Speaker 1: the precious promises of God. This is Milan and she
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  Speaker 1: is in communist China.
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  Speaker 13: There are about 4 million people who accept Christ each
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  Speaker 13: year in China. But the large majority of these Christians
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  Speaker 13: do not have a Bible of their very own. For
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  Speaker 13: many groups, there is only one Bible for the 10
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  Speaker 13: people who attend. There are even some groups that do
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  Speaker 13: not have a Bible at all, but they gather to
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  Speaker 13: encourage one another with the scriptures they memorize. When these
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  Speaker 13: Bibles arrive, there are tears of joy everywhere. This means
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  Speaker 13: that our families receive a Bible. They are able to
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  Speaker 13: begin reading the Word of God together. And they are
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  Speaker 13: the first to build a legacy of following Christ through
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  Speaker 13: reading His Word.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you're in Beijing, China, Kevin, New
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  Speaker 1: York City. I'm in the Chicago area. I know you've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of listeners, Colorado, Arizona. You know, as believers,
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  Speaker 1: we all desire the same thing, right? We want to
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  Speaker 1: love the Lord with every fiber of our being. We
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  Speaker 1: want to obey Him in every circumstance. We want to
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  Speaker 1: make Him known and essentially enjoy Him forever, right? And
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  Speaker 1: that's the same thing that Christians are praying for in
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  Speaker 1: communist China. Kevin, I've got a Mandarin Bible with me
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  Speaker 1: here in studio. I know your listeners can't see it,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll describe it. Basic black cover, Bible League translated
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  Speaker 1: this maybe 40 years ago, right? millions have come to
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  Speaker 1: Christ using this Bible. They're reading this today. And I
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  Speaker 1: opened this, I see what? The beautiful Mandarin print. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not fluent in Mandarin. I don't think you are, Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: So this Bible means very little to the two of us,
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  Speaker 1: but to the Christians that we're talking about right now
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  Speaker 1: in communist China, they would give absolutely anything for what
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  Speaker 1: we're holding today. And that's why we're here doing this kingdom.
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  Speaker 4: 800-937-9673, 1-800-YES-WORD or thatkevinshow.com. Click the Bible League banner at
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  Speaker 4: the top of the page, thatkevinshow.com, 800-937-9673. Here he is
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  Speaker 4: from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough. Welcome back. It
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  Speaker 4: is That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. We are excited to be
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: kicking off the final leg of the campaign to help
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  Speaker 4: get Bibles into the hands of those who need them.
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  Speaker 4: But we have a long way to go. We're wanting
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  Speaker 4: to raise about another 8,000 plus Bibles. here in the
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  Speaker 4: next few weeks. And friends, we can't do that without you.
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  Speaker 4: But that's how many people Bible League knows by name
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  Speaker 4: that need Bibles where they are. Michael Woolworth is back
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  Speaker 4: with me. And Michael, these are in countries all over
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  Speaker 4: the planet, but they have a couple of things in common.
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  Speaker 4: Every person on the list desperately wants a Bible. Every
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  Speaker 4: person on the list cannot get one. And the reasons
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  Speaker 4: why they cannot get one vary from country to country.
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  Speaker 4: Some of it's geography. Some of it's economics. Some of
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  Speaker 4: it is political. Some of it is religious persecution. Some
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  Speaker 4: of it is under strain of death if they end
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  Speaker 4: up with one. And yet, this is still what they
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  Speaker 4: want more than any other thing in their life. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what they're asking for when they could ask for
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  Speaker 4: any number of things. So the idea being that we
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  Speaker 4: want to fill this need and Bible League International, who
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  Speaker 4: is the world's expert on how to do this, has
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  Speaker 4: been doing this for 89 years, also knows that when
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  Speaker 4: we give a Bible to one of these believers who
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  Speaker 4: is asking for one, that most likely it's going to
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  Speaker 4: create more believers, like times 12. And then we're going
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  Speaker 4: to need to give more Bibles. down the road. But
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  Speaker 4: that's okay. We'll take that problem because that means the
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  Speaker 4: gospel is going forward. It means that God is changing lives.
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  Speaker 4: It means He's calling all people to Himself as He
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  Speaker 4: promises He will do in God's Word. And I can't
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  Speaker 4: think of a better way to do that than help
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  Speaker 4: people get His Word.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and again, it's happening because of people like Shirley
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  Speaker 1: of Flower Mound, Texas, said, I'm in at 10 Bibles.
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  Speaker 1: Eleanor of Edison, New Jersey, said, Michael, Kevin, count me
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  Speaker 1: in at 30 Bibles. And then Paul of Breezy Point,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: New York, said, I want to be a part of this,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: a $ 300 investment. enough to fill the empty waiting hands
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  Speaker 1: of 60 believers that we know by name at Bible League.
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  Speaker 1: And Kevin, again, we got a little bit of a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: jump on this summer and fall effort, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: Back in July, I did a little bit of a pause.
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  Speaker 4: We're back.
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  Speaker 1: Almost 2,000 Bibles have been taken care of. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of in the same spot we were when
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: we look back at the calendar year 2025. We took
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a pause, came back. And when
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  Speaker 1: we were all said and done, Kevin, this listening family
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: sent 9,900 Bibles. bibles i can't say enough about people
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that again i know there's a sacrifice happening somewhere in
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: your budget right to be able to put bibles into
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the empty waiting hands of believers even half a world
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  Speaker 1: away so really it's incumbent upon us at bible league
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  Speaker 1: to give you a glimpse into the lives of those
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  Speaker 1: believers do you want to take you to bangladesh this
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  Speaker 1: is only a few miles from uh where all this
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  Speaker 1: flash flooding you know the death the the devastation is
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: happening right there at the tibet uh the Tibet-Nepali border.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the country we're talking about is Bangladesh, 90%
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  Speaker 1: Sunni Muslim. You know, Islam is the state religion there.
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  Speaker 1: To be, you know, Bangladeshi is to be what? It's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to be probably a Sunni Muslim, right? Christianity makes up
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: about 1% of the population. My colleague Fariz talks about
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: what Christians are up against in that community. But stay tuned,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: pay attention to the end of this, because what he
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: also says is, is very encouraging.
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  Speaker 14: This is a 90% majority Muslim country with a population
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  Speaker 14: of 162 million people here. Where Islam is the state
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  Speaker 14: religion and where Christians are very poor and marginalized. Anyone
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  Speaker 14: who comes to Jesus as their Lord and Savior are
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  Speaker 14: easily persecuted. The faith of the Christians here is real.
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  Speaker 14: No one could fake their Christianity. The cost is too great.
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  Speaker 14: Our success is growing. It's growing because we are preaching
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  Speaker 14: the real Jesus here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're preaching the real Jesus. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: hide behind some spiritual life there. It's when you follow Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: there's a price to pay, right? I want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about one of our colleagues, Kevin, a man by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Pastor Abenas. He's been reaching Muslims in
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  Speaker 1: the hilly region of his native Bangladesh, but not without
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  Speaker 1: harsh opposition. He and two other pastors were leading a
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  Speaker 1: baptism service. Forty people had come to Christ, all of
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  Speaker 1: these former Sunni Muslims. You can imagine they were singing,
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  Speaker 1: they were praising God. There were professions of faith. They
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  Speaker 1: would share a meal at the end of that. All
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, there's a ruckus at the door.
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  Speaker 4: Who is it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's extremists. They stormed the pulpit. They kidnapped this pastor, Abenas,
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  Speaker 1: two of the other pastors. They used an electric baton
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  Speaker 1: to leave permanent burns all over his body. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this man has paid a price. They demanded a ransom payment.
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  Speaker 1: That's something that happens a lot in these Muslim-majority countries.
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  Speaker 1: When that didn't come, they finally let these pastors go,
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  Speaker 1: promised that they would bring death to them at some point.
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  Speaker 1: We're not even sure what that means at this point
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  Speaker 1: for these men. But, you know, when I talked to
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Abanas, I said, Pastor, how do you stay encouraged? Again,
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  Speaker 1: in a Muslim-majority country where Christianity makes up about 1%
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  Speaker 1: of the population, he says, Michael... He said, we take
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  Speaker 1: to heart what Paul says in Galatians. He says, let
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: us not grow weary in doing good for in time
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  Speaker 1: we will reap a harvest. Jesus talks about that harvest
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: in Matthew 9. And he's saying that there's a harvest
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  Speaker 1: of hundreds of people in that village right now coming
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  Speaker 1: to Christ. You know, several of those include on and
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  Speaker 1: he's a baker displayed across in his shop. Guess what?
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: It was destroyed. But he's still following Jesus. Samara is
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: a single woman who suffered a fractured eye socket after
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: being beaten by radicals. And then Yasmeen, another member of
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  Speaker 1: this congregation, her name means a joyful heart. She helps
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  Speaker 1: women and orphans, Kevin, but she yearns to read the Psalms.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: That's her desire. And again, in a country that just
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: fiercely opposes Christianity, this woman is hated simply because she
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  Speaker 1: bears the name of Christ. But she's looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: the day that she'll have a Bible and she can
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  Speaker 1: read the Psalms for herself.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's no better encouragement in my experience than what
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: we find in the Psalms. And that's why Christians have
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: looked to them for years. Friends, let's do that. Let's
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: put that encouragement in her hands. 1-800-937-9673.
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  Speaker 14: 1-800-937-9673.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: I think of Psalm chapter 1. Blessed is the man.
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  Speaker 4: Literally means blessed. This is the good life. The man
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  Speaker 4: who is, who is, who is blessed has the good life.
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  Speaker 4: This is what he does. He delights in me and
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: my words delight in him. That's exactly what she's wanting
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: to do. But in order to do that, you need
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the word of God in her hand, in her language,
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: in her heart so that she can what delight in
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: God's word. It's very, very practical. We just need to
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: get the Bible to her.
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  Speaker 14: 1-800-937-9673.
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  Speaker 4: And every Bible you give right now is going to
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  Speaker 4: be matched Bible for Bible. They cost $ 5 each. How
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  Speaker 4: many can you do? $ 300 gift would supply 60 Bibles.
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  Speaker 4: But right now, because of the match, it would turn
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  Speaker 4: Final few minutes today. Friends, grateful to have you with us.
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• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Michael Woolworth is back with us. And Michael, Bible League
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: is active in something else called church planning. Tell us more.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Well, in parts of the world where there's not an
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: abundance of churches, Bible League is there to come alongside
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: church planners, men like Tomas in Ghana, Africa, to say one.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Here's resources to grow your church to the glory of God. Oftentimes, Kevin,
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these churches, they exist in extreme poverty.
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  Speaker 1: When you identify as a believer in places where they're Muslim-dominated, right,
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  Speaker 1: you You often give up access to jobs and services, education.
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  Speaker 1: And so, again, there's a price to pay. And so
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  Speaker 1: Bible League has provided church planter training, not only because
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  Speaker 1: it's the right thing to do. It's absolutely necessary as
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  Speaker 1: people come to saving faith. There's a temptation to want
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  Speaker 1: to blend sort of their old religion with the precious gospel.
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  Speaker 1: My colleague, Jason, was in Ghana, Africa, has this to
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  Speaker 1: say about what he discovered on church planter training.
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  Speaker 15: The importance of church planter training, it can't be understated,
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  Speaker 15: especially in places like Africa where syncretism, which is the
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  Speaker 15: mixing of your old beliefs, your ancestral beliefs with this
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  Speaker 15: new introduction to Christianity. It's very easy to want to
• 37:51
  Speaker 15: hold on to both. And for people coming to Christ,
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  Speaker 15: it's difficult to say, I'm going to do away with
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  Speaker 15: everything that my family's done and totally embrace Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's talking about Ghana, Africa specifically. It's a Francophone country.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: That's where French is spoken more and more. But Pastor Tomas,
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  Speaker 1: not only an ordained pastor, Kevin, he's a licensed snake handler.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: He risks his own safety to capture reticulated pythons. It's
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: an interesting element to the story. I took some Salem
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  Speaker 1: host to Indonesia, I don't know, several years ago. You
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: were on that list. You politely declined. The timing wasn't right.
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  Speaker 1: But You know, a week before we left, a reticulated
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  Speaker 1: python actually swallowed an elderly woman whole. I mean, this
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: is the realm of this pastor, oddly enough, right? Rescuing
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: reticulated pythons from harming people. But anyway, he's also a
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: church planter. And again, he's in a part of Africa, again,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: where there's a blending of the syncretism where people take
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  Speaker 1: different elements of their past religion. They're tempted to carry
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that on into their walk with the Lord. And again,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Bible League is there to provide good direction for these congregations. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: three of those among Tomas's congregation praying for Bibles. Abraham
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  Speaker 4: He's married.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: He has three children. He was tortured by the Islamic
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  Speaker 13: Welcome back.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you had a great weekend. Kevin McCullough, glad
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  Speaker 4: And we do have a very important show coming up.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to talk about the news of the day,
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: some of the news over the weekend, and I've got
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  Speaker 4: a couple of other things that are on my mind
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  Speaker 4: that I've really been bothered by so much so that
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: I wrote an entire column about one of them. And
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: one of them has to do with, I don't know, friends,
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: if your pastor has done the same. My pastor a
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: few weeks ago made mention that there are some polls
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  Speaker 4: that are showing that Gen Z in particular, young men
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  Speaker 4: and young women are on a much more accelerated level
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  Speaker 4: attending church again for the first time in like three generations.
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  Speaker 4: at a higher level than almost any time in those
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  Speaker 4: past three generations. Young men, and by young I'm saying
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  Speaker 4: like under 29 years of age, it's like 40 plus
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  Speaker 4: percent of young men are now saying that they're going
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  Speaker 4: to church at least once a month and that it's important.
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  Speaker 4: The women's number is up to 39 percent, both of
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: which are just ginormously skyrocketed over where they've been over
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: the last few years. And yet... Even though Gallup and Barna,
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: two separate organizations, kind of noted that growth, Time Magazine
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  Speaker 4: felt it was important to take out a whole 2,000-word
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  Speaker 4: article to try to just poo-poo the whole thing. And
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: they didn't really answer the data. They just kind of
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: proof-texted what they wanted, and they got cranky responses from
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  Speaker 4: people that don't really want to see young people going
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  Speaker 4: to church. We'll break all this down, but it was
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: an interesting weekend, and I'm grateful that you're with us.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: And I'm grateful to have Michael Woolworth back with us
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: because we are talking about, for the next few weeks,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: something that we started talking about in July, took a
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: little bit of a break, and now we're back. But
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: we're back with a vengeance because in this show today,
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: every Bible that gets sent through Bible League to people
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: that need it is going to be matched by one
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  Speaker 4: special challenge. In this show today, Every Bible we raise
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  Speaker 4: will be matched Bible for Bible. And I'm always excited
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: if I get word like that. I just want us
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  Speaker 4: to maximize the good that can be done from it.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: But Michael Woolworth, welcome back. I know that it may
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: seem weird to listeners, but we started this journey with
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: you in July. And then I want to kind of
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: like pull the curtain back and let people see. Bible
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: League takes a couple of weeks at the end of
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: their fiscal year. And you guys pray and you seek
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  Speaker 4: the Lord. and you set goals and you say at
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: the end of August, which is the end of your
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: fiscal year, where do you want us to go Lord
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  Speaker 4: this year? You, you kind of dedicate the whole year
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  Speaker 4: to him. You kind of consecrate and say, we want
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  Speaker 4: our effort to be your effort and we want to
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  Speaker 4: do the work that you call us to do. And
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: then now it's the beginning of September. And now we,
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: we reemerge with hopefully his leading and his plan all
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: in place and And that's what you guys do. But
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: that's why we take that little bit of a break,
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: because Bible League is actually seeking God and saying, what
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: would you have for us? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin, great to be with you today. You've been a
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: great friend of Bible League for more than 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: I say this, you ask your listeners without any hesitation
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of what God is doing through
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the ministry of Bible League. This is now our 88th
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: year of ministry, and I can't say enough about this
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: listening family. You know, when we've come and we've shared
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: what God is doing in his world, we said, look,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: our prayers are being answered, right? We pray the gospel
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: would take grip all over the world, right? To the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: far reaches of the globe, it's happening, but it's not
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: enough for us to celebrate that, right? We've got to
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: meet the need for the word of God, for believers
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  Speaker 1: that we know by name at Bible League. And again, Kevin,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: as I say, this is year 88 for Bible League.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, you know, as we speak in a small
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: village in Africa, there's a woman hearing about Jesus for
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: the very first time through the ministry of Bible League
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  Speaker 1: in a war-torn city in the Middle East, right? A
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: father is is finding peace through God's word while wanting to,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: you know, raise his children to know and love Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: In Southeast Asia, there is, you know, a young student
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: who's discovering God's plan for her life. It's a plan
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  Speaker 1: that's filled with what? Purpose and hope. And all of
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  Speaker 1: this is happening.
• 46:43
  Speaker 11: Why?
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Because the joy that comes to a new believer, right?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: It's not confined to a border. It isn't stopped by
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: a checkpoint. It doesn't need a passport, right? And again,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: since 1938, Bible League has been on a mission to
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: engage people in the precious word of God in every
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: corner of the earth. You know, we've reached about 100
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  Speaker 1: million people in that time, Kevin, about 100 million people
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  Speaker 1: reach with the gospel. We're on track this next fiscal
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: year to reach, I should say, give out our one
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  Speaker 1: billionth Bible or biblical resource. Now, I'm going to mention
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: three people praying for Bibles here in a moment. But,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: you know, Kevin, just the practicality of having a Bible, right?
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: You come to Saving Faith, you know, there's a book
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: that will tell you about the God who loves you, right?
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: You know, I love Elizabeth Elliot, the late Elizabeth Elliot.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: She said, you know, life has an easy formula for
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: the believer. She said, you look back and you thank God, right?
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: And then she said, you look forward and you trust God.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: That's all you need to do, according to the late
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Elliot. And she said, you know, the will of
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: God is not something you add to your life. It's
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: the course you choose. And when you understand that, you're
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: able to say things like what? I will sacrifice immediate
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: pleasure for greater rewards in the future. If all of
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: this will bring honor to the Lord. But Kevin, again,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: we minister all over the world. We're here today to
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: tell you. The gospel that we pray would reach the
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: far reaches of the globe. It's happening. It's happening in
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: places like China, South Africa, and the Middle East. Three
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: fellow believers right now praying for Bibles. Washi is in China.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: She's in her mid-30s. She and her husband are rice
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: paddy farmers. They have two children. They want to raise
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: them to know and love Jesus in a country that
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: is very antagonistic toward the gospel. Again, Washi is praying
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: for a Bible. Mabel is in her 20s. She's in
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: South Africa. They're in the country, they should say the
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: continent where Christianity is growing in the greatest numbers in
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the world. She became a believer after her husband was
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: killed by terrorists in that country, right? She's praying today
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: for a Sangha language Bible. Then Babar is in the
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Middle East. He's in his 30s. He's among thousands of
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: former Muslims who are now following Christianity. And again, as
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I think about God's will, Elizabeth Elliot, look forward, trust God, right?
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Proverbs 31 says what? Speak up for those who have
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: no voice. Stand up for those with no rights. Defend
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the poor and the needy, especially those in the household
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  Speaker 1: of faith. Kevin, that's why we've come together to do
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: this kingdom work. There's not only an incredible need for
• 49:05
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• 50:03
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  Speaker 6: When it came time to give out Bibles, the Bible presentation,
• 50:11
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  Speaker 11: From New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin McCullough, glad to have you with us. I just
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  Speaker 4: got an email just early this morning. I think it
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: came in at about 3.30 a.m. And it was from
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  Speaker 4: a man who had been listening to my show, That
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Show. And he was pretty upset about some stuff.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't like it, for example, when I tell people
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  Speaker 4: that God can love them and do things for them.
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  Speaker 4: And if they pray, that that's a positive way of
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  Speaker 4: going about it. He doesn't like the fact that I
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  Speaker 4: actually believe that God answers prayer. He thinks that prayer
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  Speaker 4: is just psychological mumbo jumbo and doesn't really make much
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  Speaker 4: of a difference. And then he ended his email with this.
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  Speaker 4: He said, and by the way, I've been all over
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  Speaker 4: the world many times over. Those $ 5 Bibles aren't going
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  Speaker 4: to do a thing in most African and Middle Eastern countries.
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  Speaker 4: If anything, they'll mean more brutal deaths. Friends, this is
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: a listener to my show, a show in which I
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: discuss every day the biblical truth of how believers should
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: be living. He listens to my show. He knows where
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: I stand on this. And yet there's something about these
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  Speaker 4: Bibles that he's wrestling with in his own spirit. It's
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: not that he's wrestling with the lack that our listeners
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: want to do good by sending them things that they need.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: It's not that he's wrestling with someone wanting to send
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  Speaker 4: food to somebody or to build a house for somebody
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  Speaker 4: or to do any other number of needs that might
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  Speaker 4: be met. It's the sending of the Bibles that irritates him.
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  Speaker 11: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to point this out for a specific reason.
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  Speaker 4: It's the sending of the Bibles that answers the direct
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  Speaker 4: request of the person on the other end of the spectrum.
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  Speaker 4: Not the cranky listener, but the desperate receiver of the
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  Speaker 4: Bible who is just so desiring to have a copy
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: of Scripture for themselves. And I find it interesting that
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  Speaker 4: the one thing that those people want is Is the
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  Speaker 4: one thing that irritates the person who doesn't see the
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  Speaker 4: value of biblical truth or the help, the practical help
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: it can be to their life or to their spiritual walk.
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  Speaker 11: And.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: This particular listener admitted that he's, you know, elapsed Catholic,
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: grew up Catholic, but he just doesn't think that prayer
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: works and he doesn't think that missionaries or Bibles are
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: important and that anything will happen. And he just thinks
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: that if God is really even there, that he's completely
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: hands off and just we're just all on our own
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: down here. Well, I respectfully disagree. And friends, I hope
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  Speaker 4: that you will as well, because every Bible that we
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: send is introducing 12 new people to the truth. that
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: Bob's wrestling against, that he's fighting against. And I want
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: to pour gasoline where the fire goes. That's what I
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: want to do. That person agreeing with me in the
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: background there is Michael Woolworth. And Michael, I shared that
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: letter with you before we went on the air today.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't think it's by mistake that this person
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  Speaker 4: is wrestling with this issue of all the issues to
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: be wrestling with. There's all kinds of things you could
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: legitimately be upset about. But the fact that we're sending
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: Bibles to people, and the truth is we're only sending
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: Bibles to people that have asked for them that have
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: gone through the Bible league Bible study and want one
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  Speaker 4: for themselves. And they, they don't want one for themselves
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: just to hoard it to themselves. And almost all the
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: instances that you've told us about, they're asking for Bibles
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: so that they can tell other people about what they
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: have found in their faith relationship with God. But I just,
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: I want that to kind of just sit with people
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: because I got that email on the day that we
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: started with that. We, received notice that for the next
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: 10 minutes, we're going to get every Bible matched. Do
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: you think there might be some spiritual warfare going on there?
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: That there's someone fighting against this at the very moment
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  Speaker 4: that someone's heart is saying, no, I want to double
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  Speaker 4: the impact of what you're doing. I think that might
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  Speaker 4: be the case. And so, friends, if you're listening, what
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  Speaker 4: I would ask of you is, will you help demonstrate
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: the joy there is in bringing God's truth to the
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  Speaker 4: people that ask for it and allow this matching gift
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  Speaker 4: challenge that's on for the next 10 minutes to double
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  Speaker 4: the number of Bibles we give and to just in
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: a very kind way, in a very loving way, say
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: to Bob, Bob, there's something more here that you're wrestling
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: against and it's not just the Bibles. Anyway, Michael Woolworth,
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: a bit of a lengthy introduction, but I just feel
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  Speaker 4: very convicted about that. Why would somebody be fighting? If
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: the Bible is a nothing book, if it doesn't make
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: a difference, if it's just a volume of Dr. Seuss
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: or something, Then what do you care if people receive it?
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: What's the anxiety underneath that? Is it not a spiritual
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: journey that maybe that person's on for themselves? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I did tell Bob I'm going to pray for him
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: every day this year. And he may get tired of
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: me praying for him. He may get tired of me
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: talking about him, but I'm going to pray for him.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: I'm going to pray that God makes himself real to him.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: But that is what we're talking about. Getting the Bible
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: into the hands of people who really do understand that
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: their relationship with God is kind of hinging on being
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: able to get to know that God better.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm thinking there's a part of you, Kevin, that's
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: thrilled that this man took the time to write. How
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: many listeners would just tune out, right? And you never
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: know what they're thinking, right? And here's a man that
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: put into words what he's wrestling with right now. This
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: word that we're speaking of is what? It's living, right?
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: It's life changing. I mean, this is scripture rooted change
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: that we're talking about. It's not motivational, you know, speaking that,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: you know, it strikes at, you know, somebody's funny bone, right?
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: This is life-giving change that comes. A life is never
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: the same, right? And then there's a joy that follows
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: as they open that Bible, they begin their walk with Jesus,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: even in the difficult parts of the world. So, you know,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for Bob, and again, taking the time to
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: put his thoughts into that email to you, Kevin. Yeah,
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: it's interesting that that's coming on day one and we're
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: kind of regrouping and tackling this big goal of blessing
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: just north of 10,000 waiting believers that we know by
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: name at Bible. I want to take it India before
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: I do that. I want to say thanks to Shirley
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: at Flower Mound, Texas. She said, Michael, Kevin, I'm in.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Eleanor of Edison, New Jersey said, count me in a
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: gift of 150 Bibles, I should say $ 150 to take
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: care of 30 Bibles today. And then Paul of Breezy Point,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: New York said, Michael, Kevin, count me in a $ 300
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: gift today again to take care of 60 waiting believers.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: And Kevin, this Bible for Bible match means that anybody
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: who gives really in the next few moments as we're
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: together for this segment, their gift will be doubled and
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: will bless waiting believers again that we know by name.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: At Bible League.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: So that phone number is 1-800-937-9673. In case you would
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: like to get your gift matched, call right now. 1-800-YES-WORD, 1-800-YES-WORD,
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: or give online at ThatKevinShow.com. Because if you give online
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: at ThatKevinShow.com. it will be matched as well. Everything's time stamped.
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: We can accurately match those Bibles that come in, but
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: we need you to call right now. 1-800-937-9673. 1-800-YES-WORD. 1-800-YES-WORD.
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: And you were talking about going to India.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tell you about Vishnu in India. This
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: is the world's most populated country. China held the top
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: spot for a number of years, but with all of
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: their Restricted family policies. India is now atop that list.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: 1.5 billion people call India home. This is the land
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: of Gandhi long gone are the days when Gandhi promoted
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: a nonviolent Hinduism. I mean, the party in power right now, Kevin,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: has said what? There's no room for Christianity within the
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: walls of India. There are anti-conversion laws on the books
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: in 26 states within India that will say what? You
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: tell somebody what Jesus means to you, we can throw
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: you in jail. In fact, it was about a year ago, Kevin,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: a partner of Bible League, a pastor in his wife
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: and their four children ranging from five to 13 years
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: of age were all taken out to a reservoir and drowned.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: They wanted to make a, essentially brought false charges against
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: this pastor who he was forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: That is, of course, against the law in India. It
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: was not true, but they've paid an incredible price. People
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: like Vishnu are doing that as well. You've got this
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: audio clip from my colleague, Bobby, there within the walls
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: of India. He talks about people are coming to saving
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: faith in the midst of all of this chaos that's there.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: And I tell you what, these Bibles, they're making an
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: incredible difference.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: People whom we have written off, they are responding to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: the gospel. So that itself is a miracle. And it
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: gives us great encouragement to share the gospel, even to
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: the worst of sinners. And someone opened God's word, someone
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: told them, someone cared for them. And that's how their
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: lives was changed.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: 1-800-937-9673. Every time you give a Bible through Bible League,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: you're encouraging the next Vishnu to be able to share
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: the gospel. And we want you to be able to
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: be able to do that and to do it to
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: the maximum. That's why we've got this matching challenge. It's
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: on right now for the next 10 minutes, every person
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: that gives your number of Bibles will be matched. So
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: someone gave earlier, you mentioned Michael $ 300, that's 60 Bibles.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: If you give $ 300 right now, that's going to magically
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: become not magically, but through this challenge, it will become
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: 120 Bibles. For those that are needing them. And we
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: just we just want you to participate and maximize the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: opportunity to do good. You hear me talk about this
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: a lot on the show. We have an opportunity to
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: do good. We should do it. If we have an
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: opportunity to do the maximum good, we absolutely should do it.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: Because that is doing the most good that can be
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: done in that moment. And this is a maximum good opportunity.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: Every Bible will be matched for any that you give
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: in the next 10 minutes.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 15: 1-800-937-9673.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: 1-800-937-9673.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: Please go and be as generous as you can right now.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: Stick around for more of That Kevin. Next time.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: Here he is from New York.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 11: That Kevin.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: Welcome back. It's That Kevin Show. Thatkevinshow.com. That's where you
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: can also go to make sure that someone who desires
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: having a Bible in their language, in their dialect, in
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: their hands, for their family, for their minds, for their hearts,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: you can actually get it to them. Click the Bible
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: League banner at the top of the page. And if
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: you do so right now, If you give a gift
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: right now, every Bible you will give right now will
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: be matched Bible for Bible. So please make that call
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: 1-800-YES-WORD or go to thatkevinshow.com and click the Bible League
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: banner at the top of the page. The phone number
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: is 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673. You can also go on thatkevinshow.com and
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: click the Bible League banner at the top of the homepage,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: thatkevinshow.com and click the Bible League banner at the top
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: of the homepage or just call 1-800-YES-WORD, 1-800-YES-WORD, 1-800-937-9673. Michael
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: Woolworth is back with us. And Michael, there's some question
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: as to whether or not, you know, people really need
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: Bibles on the planet. And you were part of a,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: the Bible League was a part of a study that
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: really did a conclusive amount of work on defining just
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: how great that need was.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: You know, as we do that, take you to the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Bible access list. Let me say thanks to Linda of Dallas, Texas,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: listening today. She said, I'm in for 20 Bibles. Keith
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: of Hewitt, New Jersey said, Michael, Kevin, count me in
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: a $ 100 tax deductible gift for 20 Bibles. And then Steve,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: fill in the waiting hands of believers all over the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: world from St.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: Paul.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: A gift of $ 75 for 15 Bibles today. Yeah, you know,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: we've always known that people need God's Word, right? The
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Bible access list, something that the Bible League entered into
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago with other organizations you would recognize,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Voice of the Martyrs, Open Doors. There's several others, again,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: that you would recognize, Biblica. We got together and we said, look,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: let's study 88 of the world's countries. Not every country
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: is what we've would call under-resourced, right? There are places where,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: you know, Bibles are in, you know, plentiful supply and
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: easily accessible, right? But there's plenty of places where that's
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: not true. And so, Kevin, we sought to do a
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: couple things. Number one, identify where are the restrictions the greatest?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Where is it the toughest for a Christian to find
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: a Bible? And then secondly, where's places of opportunity today?
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: Where are there the most Christians waiting for a Bible.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: If we had a Bible to give today, they would
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: gladly take it, right? And so we partnered together with
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: these organizations We found out that Bible League serves in
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: 24 of the top 25 countries where there's shortages. So, again,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: it was great to find out that in God's providence,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: you know, we're not shooting in the dark. We're where
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: we need to be as an organization. Let me have
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: my colleague, Toby, speak to the restrictions. He's on the
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: continent of Africa, the part of the world where Christianity
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: is growing in the greatest numbers. But it's also the
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: part of the world where there are an incredible number
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: of restrictions, Kevin.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 16: Yeah, Michael, one of the things that really became clear
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 16: to us was just how huge the opportunity is that
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 16: God's given us right now to get his word into
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 16: more people's hands and hearts. And that Toby, who works
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 16: with our teams in Southern Africa, was telling us that
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 16: again and again, he's having to tell the partners, slow down.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 16: You know, pace yourself on how you're doing the programs
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 16: because we can't get you the materials quickly enough to
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 16: meet the need that you're seeing. And some of the
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 16: other peers of his from South Asia and from East
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 16: Africa nodded and said, yes, this is we're having this
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 16: exact same experience. challenge of we can't get materials quickly enough.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 16: We can't get enough Bibles. We can't get enough Bible
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 16: study booklets to meet the need and the demand that's
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 16: there in our countries. With just the staff and the
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 16: teams that we have today, we could do twice as
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 16: many Bibles, twice as much material, maybe three times. And
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 16: the others all agreed, yes, this is what we're seeing
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 16: in country after country all around the world.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: The phone number is 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673. thatkevinshow.com and click the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: Bible League banner at the top of the homepage.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my colleague, Rob Bullock, I mean, Rob met with
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: some of our partners in Greece. They came together to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: find out, you know, where's the need? Is it to
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: sort of hold back? No, it was what? We need
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: more Bibles. If we had double the amount of Bibles
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: in our possession today, we could meet the need for
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: waiting believers all over the world. Hey, let me, while
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: we're on the topic of restrictions, let me just tell you,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: the top countries where the restrictions are greatest. Number four
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: is North Korea. Probably no secret there, right? Yemen, number three.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Number two, Afghanistan. The country with the greatest restrictions in
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: the world falls on the continent where Christianity is growing
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: in the greatest numbers, and that is Somalia. And then
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: speaking of the shortage, Rob just addressed that. Again, the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: places where there's an incredible need, all of these have
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: more than 10 million Christians waiting there. Number five is China.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: Four is India. Three is Ethiopia. Two is Nigeria. Number
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: one in the world with a significant number of Christians
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: waiting for Bibles today, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: And so there's this myth, Kevin, that Bibles are available everywhere.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: The Bible access list tells us what? That is not true.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: And again, it tells us that we're not shooting in
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: the dark. Bible League serving in 24 of those top
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: 25 countries. And so there is an opportunity there. Before
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: we go to break, though, you've also got this clip
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: from Toby that just talks about the incredible challenges with
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: filling those empty waiting hands.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 17: These men and women go through a lot to ensure
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 17: that the gospel is being shared and people are being reached.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 17: In the past experience, a lot of shipment delays due
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 17: to some countries that intentionally frustrate scriptures getting in. And
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 17: we convert your prayers for that.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: They intentionally frustrate the process of getting the Bibles to them.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 4: Sounds like spiritual warfare to me. And friends, that's where
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: you and I can play an active part in God's
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: work by helping them get the Bibles. The phone number
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: is 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673. You can also go on thatkevinshow.com and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: click the Bible League banner at the top of the homepage, thatkevinshow.com,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: and click the Bible League banner at the top of
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: the homepage. Or just call.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: 1-800-YES-WORD. 1-800-YES-WORD.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 7: 1-800-937-9673.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: Here he is from New York. That Kevin Kelly.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 11: Here he is, from New York, That Kevin. Kevin McCullough.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: Welcome back. It's That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. We are in
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: the midst of trying to supply Bibles to those who
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: need them, to those who cannot get them, and to
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: those who desperately want them. You may not be in
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: any of those categories, but the people that we're trying
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: to help are. They check all three boxes. They want
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: a Bible, they can't get one, and they really want
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: to have it for themselves, but to also share with
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: their friends and to bring other people to Jesus Christ.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: It's really an amazing thing that the Bible League has
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: been doing for almost 90 years in which every Bible
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: that goes out ends up impacting about 12 people for
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: the cause of Jesus. So it's really, really a powerful
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: way to invest in the kingdom of God. Michael Woolworth
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: is back with us. And Michael, it just strikes me
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: That every day during this campaign, we have people to
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: thank because they've given Bibles. And then there's people that
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: are actively praying for those Bibles to be sent. Well,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: you know what?
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: If you can't give today, you know, feel no guilt.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, I really mean that. But pray for those
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: who have the means to give because we've said together
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: as two ministries, let's get it done for just north
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: of 10,000 waiting believers today. that we know by name
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: at Bible League. Kevin, I'm grateful for people like Deborah
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: of Rutgersville, New Jersey. She said, I'm in. Maria of
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: Morris Plains, New Jersey said, count me in, Michael and Kevin.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: And then friends listening in Shepherdsville, Kentucky today saying we're
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: in at a $ 150 gift, enough to put Bibles into
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: the empty waiting hands of 30 believers today. And again,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: above all today, my prayer at Bible League, I tell
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: you my affiliates at Bible League, my colleagues would share
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: in this, Our prayer above all is what God would
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: be glorified in these stories. Every one of these stories
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: of redemption and transformation, he gets the glory for that.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: We take absolutely no credit. We've seen this happen too
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: many times to think that, you know, we can take
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: the credit for it. This is scripture rooted joy and
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: change when a life has changed and they're never the same.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: And there's this incredible joy that follows when they can
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: open up the pages of Scripture, read about the God
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: who loves them. So again, take heart. The gospel is
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: going forth. And again, we get to be a part
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: of it today for the princely sum of only $ 5
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: a Bible.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: If you want to participate, the phone number is 1-800-937-9673. 1-800-YES-WORD.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: It might be easier to remember. 1-800-YES-WORD. But the number
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: is 1-800-937-9673.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 8: 1-800-937-9673.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: Or go to thatkevinshow.com, thatkevinshow.com. Top of the page, click
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: the banner, and you're right there on the giving page,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: and you can decide how many Bibles you want to give.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: And if you do it right now, it's going to
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: be doubled. Not that you're going to pay for them.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: Someone else is going to come alongside and match that.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: But if you're going to do 20 Bibles, that's a
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: $ 100 gift. Someone else is going to come along and
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: do 20 Bibles in matching your 20 Bibles. So that's
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: 40 Bibles that get to go out because you made
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: the gift today. Right now, 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673, or thatkevinshow.com. And
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: I made mention, Michael, that there are people actively praying
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: for Bibles right now. Where are they praying from?
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, as we talk about the work of
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: the Great Commission, you know, your part in that today
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  Speaker 1: can be as simple as what? It's sending a Bible, right,
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  Speaker 1: to waiting believers. You know, I'm thinking of the four
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  Speaker 1: types of soil, right, that Jesus talks about. In Matthew 13,
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  Speaker 1: the parable of the sower, Kevin, he talks about, again,
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  Speaker 1: the different responses to the word of God. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the seed is sown, if you will. It falls by
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  Speaker 1: the wayside. That's those who have hardened hearts, right? They're
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  Speaker 1: refusing to hear this precious gospel. There's the stony places
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  Speaker 1: where that seed falls. That's the shallow faith. It lacks root,
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  Speaker 1: so it dies, right? That word falls among the thorns, right?
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  Speaker 1: Too many worldly distractions. The life and the wealth choke
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  Speaker 1: the word, if you will. It doesn't have a chance.
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  Speaker 1: in the lives of these people who have no time
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  Speaker 1: for it, right? And then Jesus talks about the good ground,
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  Speaker 1: the faithful disciples who hear, they understand, they obey the word,
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  Speaker 1: and it produces a great harvest. Well, the harvest is here, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about this Bible access list. When
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  Speaker 1: we began engaging in that work about two years ago, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: we could say with confidence at that time, there are
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  Speaker 1: 100 million, 100 million waiting believers in the world today
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  Speaker 1: that are, again, praying for God's precious word. In two years' time,
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  Speaker 1: that has increased by 20%. We can tell you today
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  Speaker 1: with confidence, Bible League, Voice of the Markers, Open Doors,
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  Speaker 1: we can tell you that it's increased to about 120 million.
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  Speaker 1: God is truly at work in His world through His Word.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you three of those praying for
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  Speaker 1: Bibles right now. Augustine is 30. He's in Albania, a
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  Speaker 1: former atheist, now leading a Bible study with 20 believers.
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  Speaker 1: They need Bibles. Siam is in Nepal, the country that's
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  Speaker 1: being ravaged by these flash floods right now. He's a
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  Speaker 1: former Hindu. His family has shunned him now that he
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  Speaker 1: follows Jesus. He speaks the Nepali language. He's praying for
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  Speaker 1: a Bible. And then one more, Maria is in Colombia.
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  Speaker 1: She's widowed. She has two children, one of those with
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  Speaker 1: cerebral palsy. She's just now learning to read and write
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  Speaker 1: in Spanish. She's a believer. Maria is praying for the
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  Speaker 1: precious word of God. Kevin, I'm sharing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: needs today. It's 50 Bibles here, 500 there. But I
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  Speaker 1: also want you to hear from one of our partners.
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  Speaker 1: I call him a hero of the faith. The man
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  Speaker 1: has suffered incredibly as he ministers in South Asia. But
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  Speaker 1: Ramesh talks about what your gifts are doing today in
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  Speaker 1: his part of the world.
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  Speaker 18: Because of your kind help, we are able to do
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  Speaker 18: the great work for the Lord. Sometimes you may not
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  Speaker 18: know what is happening here. You may not see with
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  Speaker 18: your eyes, but God is doing great work. Through your donation,
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  Speaker 18: through your prayers, God is doing great work. So we
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  Speaker 18: want to just say thank you so much for your
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  Speaker 18: loving kindness and what you are doing for God's work
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  Speaker 18: in this land.
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  Speaker 1: Well, to hear Mike Woolworth say thanks, please know it's genuine.
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  Speaker 1: But boy, there is a man that is taking those
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  Speaker 1: gifts that you send in Christian faith, believing that what
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  Speaker 1: God says in Isaiah 55 is true. What my word
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  Speaker 1: will go forth, it will accomplish my purpose. And then
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  Speaker 1: in Christian love, right? We're told over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: it's not enough just to say, I care. Do something right.
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  Speaker 1: And Ramesh is telling you it's making an incredible difference.
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  Speaker 4: So right now, friend, we need you to just go
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  Speaker 4: to the phone, make a call and give as many
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  Speaker 4: Bibles as you can. And it's going to be matched
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  Speaker 4: Bible for Bible 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-YES-WORD, 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-YES-WORD. Or maybe you're
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  Speaker 4: the kind of person that prefers to just go online
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  Speaker 4: and do it all yourself. You can go to thatkevinshow.com,
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  Speaker 4: click the Bible League banner at the top of the page.
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't take more than about two minutes to either make
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  Speaker 4: the call or to go online and to complete the form.
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  Speaker 4: Either way, you're going to be sending Bibles and no
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  Speaker 4: matter how many you send, they're going to be matched
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  Speaker 4: Bible for Bible. So if you can give a 500
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  Speaker 4: or 300 Bible gift right now, that would be what? $ 1, 500.
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  Speaker 4: That's going to be doubled and it's going to become
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  Speaker 4: 600 Bibles just because of your generosity. So We want
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  Speaker 4: you to maximize the amount of good that can be
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  Speaker 4: done right now because this challenge is in front of us.
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  Speaker 4: Someone was generous enough to offer to match. Let's be
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  Speaker 4: brave enough. Let's be bold enough to take advantage of
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  Speaker 4: that offer and to send as many Bibles as we can. 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673,
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  Speaker 4: or go to thatkevinshow.com. Stick around for more of That Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Serving it up with a no-drink minimum.
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  Speaker 12: It's That Kevin Show.
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back. That Kevin Show. Thatkevinshow.com. And hello
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  Speaker 4: to those of you in Anchorage and Columbus and Miami
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  Speaker 4: and San Diego and Reno and Greenville. For all the
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  Speaker 4: new listeners that are joining us, appreciate the fact that
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  Speaker 4: you are with us today. Michael Woolworth, the fun part
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  Speaker 4: of this is to see people respond and to know
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  Speaker 4: that those Bibles are going.
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  Speaker 8: To go out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kevin, praise God. All these, what do you got,
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  Speaker 1: 400 new affiliates, right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just something along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: Something along those lines. I mean, it makes sense when
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  Speaker 1: I look at this list of people to think, OK,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where these folks come from, right? Well, they're
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  Speaker 1: part of this expansive, this expansive listening family. Gregory of
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  Speaker 1: Bull Shoals, Arkansas, said, I'm in at 20 Bibles. Rhonda
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  Speaker 1: of Brooklyn said, Michael, Kevin, count me in. 10 Bibles. Nita,
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  Speaker 1: listening in Louisiana today, said, I'm in. Count me in.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a part of this. Again, we
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  Speaker 1: have a goal to bless 10,800 waiting believers that we
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  Speaker 1: know by name at Bible League. We're closing in on 2,000.
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  Speaker 1: And again, we're there because of people like Gregory, Rhonda
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  Speaker 1: and Anita. But keep us moving forward today. I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up the hour today. Maybe just talking about women.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we gosh, reach we've reached 100 million people
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  Speaker 1: in the course of our nine decades in ministry. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: about 60 percent of those are women. Right. Most of
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  Speaker 1: those are women. I think of women in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah found out what nothing's too hard for God.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Esther, God can turn nobody into somebody. Rahab, your past
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. God can use anyone. You know, Hannah found
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  Speaker 1: out what God answers. And of course, Mary said, let
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  Speaker 1: it be to me according to the word, to your word.
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  Speaker 1: And there's many other women there in the Bible. You know,
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  Speaker 1: these two women are waiting for Bibles today on the
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  Speaker 1: continent of Africa. This is where Christianity is growing in
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  Speaker 1: the greatest numbers. Dali lost her husband's and about 30
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  Speaker 1: extended family members to the Rwandan genocide 30 years ago. Today,
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  Speaker 1: she's a believer. She's forgiven those who's murdered her family
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  Speaker 1: after reading the words of Christ on the cross. 92
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  Speaker 1: adults in her village of 300 adults. Kevin, a third
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  Speaker 1: of those adults are now following Jesus because they look
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  Speaker 1: at Dally, they see the grace and the gumption in
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  Speaker 1: her life, and they say, you know what? I want that.
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  Speaker 1: Lally's the former village witch doctor in Madagascar, became a
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  Speaker 1: believer after somebody introduced her to the hope of the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: She read the account of Zacchaeus in Luke 19. She's
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  Speaker 1: led 200 families, 2,100 adults and children to him in
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  Speaker 1: the remote rainforest area of Madagascar, Africa, where no bookstores
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  Speaker 1: or Amazon.com exist, right? But again, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: hear the audio clip of people like Christine. God has
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  Speaker 1: her situated there on the continent of Africa. I met
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  Speaker 1: her when I was in Tanzania not too long ago.
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  Speaker 1: What a beautiful spirit. I think you'll enjoy hearing this clip.
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  Speaker 1: The woman is Christine. She's a follower of Christ, has
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  Speaker 1: an incredible burden to reach women in that part of
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  Speaker 1: the world.
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  Speaker 19: First, I will introduce myself as Christine. I'm born again,
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  Speaker 19: and I'm happy for the books that you have given us.
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  Speaker 19: And the Bible has helped us to become women with
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  Speaker 19: an empower. So we can teach the young women how
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  Speaker 19: they can stay. Also, we can teach them to read
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  Speaker 19: the Bible because that's simple language for them to read.
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  Speaker 19: We have Swahili Bible, and also we have English Bible.
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  Speaker 1: So we are very happy.
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  Speaker 19: Very happy, and we are asking God to bless you
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  Speaker 19: as well as us.
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  Speaker 4: Friends, make the call 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673, or go to thatkevinshow.com.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like she's truly thankful, and that's the response
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  Speaker 4: every time a Bible League Bible hits the hands of
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  Speaker 4: someone who's been wanting one. Like, there's so much joy.
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  Speaker 4: They may dance. They may say they're happy. They may cry,
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  Speaker 4: but they're all experiencing joy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I witnessed somebody who what? Who just clutched the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: She held in her hands the book that would tell
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  Speaker 1: her about the God who loved her. And Kevin, I
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  Speaker 1: was there in that room when she read her very
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  Speaker 1: first scripture. What was it? It was, I'm a new
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  Speaker 1: creation in Christ. The old is gone. The new has come. Hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: that's thrilling to be there when they read that very
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  Speaker 1: first scripture.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Friends, make the call 1-800-937-9673, 1-800-937-9673, or go to thatkevinshow.com.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.