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62 - Why Old Evangelism Fails · The One Gospel Podcast

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word, clearly explained.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I'm excited to share the word of God with you.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I have been sharing on uh this in this series Effective Evangelism, and I got drawn into sharing my testimony concerning the concept that God has given me, and you know, uh about how I can win those unreached to get those people that never heard of the gospel and win them over for the kingdom of God.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I've been sharing on the importance, you know, uh the need for winning souls.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I always say it like this because I do understand that we need to make disciples, and we are making disciples in every way we can.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so to make disciples is, you know, the end goal so that they would go and make other disciples, amen.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: So disciples make disciples, make disciples, make disciples, so we all would go and start doing what God says that we can do it.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: We all would go and preach the gospel, win people over for the kingdom of God, disciple them, so they would go do exactly the same, and so that Jesus can come back in all his glory, amen.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: But the reality check is that you know there are no disciples if we don't first win them for Jesus.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so we first need to win them for Jesus.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_01: And once we win them, once we can make once we have converted them and they have become a born-again Christian, then we need to disciple them ASAP so they can go and start and do the same thing.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: But first we need to win them.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, without, you know, without fish, the aquarium stays empty, right?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: So without fish, without you know, uh souls, there are no building blocks for the church.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: And without building blocks, you know, there is no church.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then without the church, we don't need a pastor, amen.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so, first we need to win souls for Jesus because that's the whole reason why he came, so that no one would perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: And then those people that you know we win for Jesus, we need to disciple them and they go out and preach the gospel.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: And so, my intention with this series is to teach you how you can effectively evangelize your world that you are living in.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: And whether it's gonna be on a stage or one-on-one, you know, uh these principles, these principles that I'm gonna teach you, they work in every uh way because it is the one-on-one, the great commission that he called us to do.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's for each and every believer, you know, and it's not only for the evangelists, but of course, I am an evangelist, and so I am sharing also my personal process and personal journey, how I got to the point where I'm reaching these crowds, you know, like by the tens of thousands, that never heard the gospel, and I win them over for the kingdom of God.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: And it's amazing, it's supernatural.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: I've never seen it before, I've never heard it before, the way that we are doing that.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not to boast, it's just, you know, that there is a new anointing, there is a new time, you know, a new anointing on evangelists, you know.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that there are new systems, there are new ways, you know, of reaching the people with the good news of the gospel, because the old ways don't work anymore.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so, and the time is ripe, the five the fields are white and ripe to be harvested, and so God calls us, you know, to go think outside of the box, take actions, just start going and doing what he called us to do.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: And he's called you to do this, and he called me to do that, and so we all go and do what God called us to do, and we all together rejoice, amen.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so basically, I shared on you know, my very first uh time that I went to the slums, preached the gospel, had nothing with me, and then uh had a few people came to the Lord, then I came back with some food parcels, and just like it was swarmed with people, you know, and I realized that man, this is a tool that I can use to draw the attention of the crowds.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so we did that the very first time.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we did it with a two-day crusade in a slum where I had the first night nothing to give, no people.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: Second time, 1,500 food parcels, 2,000 people at least, you know, and everybody came to the Lord, and then I did a bigger one.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: I did it with 20,000 food parcels, and it was packed.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: There were more than 20,000 people there, and so I started to apply that in Brazil with the food parcels, which really worked really, really well.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: But then, still, also, you know, with I which I with I what I didn't like was that I still was, you know, even though I was drawing them with the food parcel and anything, I still was playing worship music, you know, and we still announced it as a crusade.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: And so, healing and miracle crusade, and there were a lot of healings, a lot of miracles, a lot of amazing things happened, you know, but it just didn't feel right yet.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: So the concept was there that I never should go empty-handed, etc.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: etc.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: And then God gave me this vision on organizing a cultural festival, nothing ungodly, but a cultural festival where we do not use any Christian terminology to give away that we are gonna preach the gospel to them, so that we can draw people that would never come if they knew that it was a Christian festival.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: They would never come if they knew that the gospel is gonna be preached, if Jesus is gonna be preached, they would never come because either they hate God and hate Jesus or they are disappointed and damaged by church or whatever it is, you know.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: They have their resentment against that, they are not looking for it.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's darkness that pushes them away from it, you know.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's like don't want to hear that, you know, it's just like we were before we knew Jesus, you know, like church or God or the Bible, what is that?
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want to know nothing of that, you know, and so and and you know, we cannot make it attractive for them because of how the world has a picture of the church.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: The the picture that the world has of a church, you know, it's like the picture that I have of a church, you know, it's it's not fun, you know, just sitting on my knees, you know, confessing all my sins, saying, hell Marys, and maybe God forgive me, maybe not.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do nothing anymore, I can't not live anymore, I'm not free anymore, you know, and I just have this church, you know, that I really don't want to be in, you know, and so for me personally, you know, that was the picture that I had of church, very religious idea that I had of church, you know.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so it's not attractive for people.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot make it attractive in that kind of way.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: You also should not come become like the world because we are in the world, but we are not of this world.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: And Paul says, you know, I, you know, I'm not talking about getting out of the world because, you know, if I couldn't have, you know, contact with the broken, the lost, you know, and the the adulterous and all that kind of stuff, you know, I need to get out of the world because the world is full with it.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's he talked about the people in the church that lived like that, he needs to distance himself from, but you know, the people outside, you know, he looked, he said, you know, I have become a Jew with the Jews and a Greek with the Greeks, with the under the law for those who are under the law, but not under their law, but under the law of Christ, you know, and without the law for those who are without the law.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: Not that he was committing sins or agreeing with their sins, but he just leveled with them so he could reach them and win some of them for the kingdom of God.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_01: And so we need to use wisdom, amen.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so, anyway, what I wanted to say is that I did I do these cultural festivals called Festival the Vida, and I'm gonna share a little bit on that, and we're gonna see also what the Bible says about these things that I'm sharing.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: Father God, thank you so much for this word.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: I pray that people will receive it and they will be blessed by it, and that they will learn a lot how they can effectively evangelize this world, Father.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your wisdom, thank you for your Holy Spirit.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: I give you all the praise in Jesus' name.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I introduced my concept, I made a small cartoon video that explained the concept.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: I also builded a website.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't build it, but I let somebody build it.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: We build a website, you know, social media, and you know, nothing there gives away that this is any Christian festival whatsoever.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's just the hype of a festival of the vida that gives away a lot of prizes, that has amazing famous artists, that has uh, you know, folklore, you know, where they celebrated celebrate the country because every country has beautiful treasures, you know, and we show them in videos and we make like we make it like a real festival where everybody feels welcome, everybody feels accepted, it's completely free.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: We even arrange the transportation for you, you know, they can registrate all officially how you should registrate when you go to a festival, you know, and then you get a ticket, and with the ticket you can win a prize, you know, and so you get all this information, we put the influences, etc.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: etc.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so we give this free cultural festival that draws the crowds from all you know all areas of life, from you know, from people that are very, you know, on the bottom, like broken, addicted, you know, or drunk or whatever, you know, and then you know, people that have you know regular jobs, you know, and people that are like more high-end or whatever.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: We draw everybody because it's this cultural festival, and people like to party, right?
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I launched that concept, I had a lot of resistance from the body of Christ.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: I mean a lot of resistance.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: People just they made me out of the devil, it's not of God, and it's not right, you cannot do that, etc.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: etc.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: etc.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: And say, well, if you got a better way, tell me please, so we can do that.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: But nobody has a better way.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: They their idea is if we're gonna give the crusade, we're gonna tell everybody in the church to bring somebody that is not a believer.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: That ain't working.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Even if 5% would do that, then still you have 95% that don't bring nobody.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: If if that would work, then why don't they bring every week a non-believer to your church?
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: Why is not your church multiplying double up every week?
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because if I have a hundred people in my church and they can bring somebody that is not a believer and they can bring in the next week, I've got 200 people.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so they can bring every week, they can bring somebody that is not a believer.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: Whether it's a family member, a friend, a neighbor, a colleague, but it ain't working.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, a lot of people don't even want to take the effort.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: Or they feel uncomfortable, they're afraid to be rejected and don't know how what to do or whatever, nobody taught them.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: And second of all, the people that they ask us say, I'm not gonna go to church, what I'm gonna do in church, you know.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you're gonna come with me to a crusade.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: What is a crusade?
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they have healing, healing miracles.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, that's not for me.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, they have the amazing worship band.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: Worship, what is worship?
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it doesn't work.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: So that system doesn't work.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just like a little bit of impact, but not, you know, for all the effort that you put in, it's not enough.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: For me, it's not enough.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so this system the Lord gave to me, and I applied this system.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: But I just had a few pastors that were heroes in my eyes that said, you know, I don't care what they say, you know, we don't need their help.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: We are gonna do it.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna help you to set that up in that country.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so we did that, we did that, man.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna give you some.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: I wanna I wanna give you an example.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: I want to say I want to give you some examples, but I'm gonna give you one, and then we're just gonna continue this teaching because I have so much testimony to share on.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: But I was not too long ago, I was in Africa, Uganda, and we were in a Muslim area, and there was a lot of crime and also a lot of witchcraft there, a lot of violence, a lot of prostitution, a lot of gambling and drugs, and all that stuff.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, real gangsters, you know, like um armed gangsters, you know, and I mean they pull the trigger without a blink of their eyes, you know, and so um another huge world-famous evangelistic ministry gave in that field, in the old way, a crusade, paid a lot of money for it, and he could only fill like maybe a quarter of the field.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: There was space for 40,000 people, and maybe he had like seven, eight thousand people, and he said it was very successful, and a lot of churches were involved, and there was a lot of promotion that he could come that he would come to to the city, and that you know is gonna be a healing miracle crusade, blah blah blah blah, you know, and just drew just like you know, a few thousand people.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: Amazing, but most of them from church.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I came with my concept, this bishop that I'm working with, he said, Listen, all the people that I normally work with to organize it, they don't want to, they don't want to do it.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: So it's all it's just gonna be me, and I don't know if this is from God, yes or no.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Well, you go and read your Bible and you come back to me.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: And he read the Bible and he realized, man, I really need to repent and change my thinking because you know I have been seeing and doing it wrong all along.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: I believe that Joan is right, I believe that this can be something supernatural that's gonna change everything, that's gonna change the whole way we do these kind of things.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: And so he said, I'm gonna put all my effort and all my energy in it and to put it and to do it exactly as you have given me the concept.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so they worked for three or four months, they had a thousand uh guys mobilized, they went into all the cities and villages and places and streets everywhere, flying, you know, festival de vida, festival de vida, festival de vida.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: And people ask, what is it?
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's a festival, free festival.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna give away prizes, we're gonna give them motorcycles, we're gonna have, we're gonna have this singer, we're gonna have this band, you know, we're gonna have, you know, we're gonna have this uh dance group, you know, and people that knew about all those people, nothing Christian, no, no Christian terminology, nothing.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so we were reaching a lot of people that said, Oh man, we want to come to this festival, and so we put in buses and all this kind of stuff, etc.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: etc.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: And nobody wanted to work with this bishop together to do this, to organize it.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: So he used all his own sources, you know, we financed it, but he used the manpower to say it like that, to put everything in place.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: When I arrived together with him on the scene on the night of the festival, it was packed.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Man, there was a place for 40,000.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: I believe maybe we had 50.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: It was people who were standing outside, nobody could fit in no more.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: It was packed with people.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, packed, packed, packed, packed, packed.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: Those gangsters walked around with the guns to protect the festival, you know, and there was a group of people that came to us that says, no, that she is the boss of, you know, like all these women here, there are prostitutes, you know, and they are so excited about this festival.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, they didn't know yet what we were gonna do, but that we were that we came there to give away prices, motorcycles, and all that kind of stuff, and that we came there.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: We had a box on stage with money in it, and so that people could come into the box and then just grab as much notes as you could, you know, and man, that drew a lot of people.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so, and we had these dance groups, you know, and theater, you know, and everything.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: It was amazing, and then you know, and then the singer, you know, he just gave away like a little like a little tip, you know, and then everybody was like, Wow, I mean, those people in Africa, they can be excited.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: I love those people in Africa, I really love them because they're so excited and so happy.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: And so they were just having the time of their lives, and then the moment came, and I knew this is the moment, now I need to get on stage because I always I'm not gonna say I'm gonna go on stage then.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna see when is when I feel that this is the moment, and I felt the moment was there.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: I just went on stage and I told him, you know who paid for all of this?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know who paid for all of this?
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: His name is Jesus, and bam! I started to preach the gospel.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, people went crazy, and there were a lot of people also in the back that drew back, that started to walk away.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Because you know, you start to preach the gospel, not everybody wants to hear it.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: Not that not everybody's open to receive, but most of them were open to receive, and you know, they have given me numbers, and I'm not too much in the numbers always because you know God knows how many exactly, and that doesn't really matter as long as we reach them, amen, by the multitudes.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean it doesn't matter if it's like 5,000 or 6,000, God will know.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: But they said that 18,000 people that night came to registrate themselves to receive a Bible and a book, my book, uh good enough, that we give away or free on these events.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: So when I did that altar call, there was no space to call them to the front.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: We they just needed to stand on the place where they were, you know, lift up their hands and give the heart to Jesus.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then if they did that and truly accepted Jesus, they'll go to the site to registrate themselves so we can give them aftercare, we can disciple them.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: And it was a massive success.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: And so the next day we had a baptism event and we had over a thousand people to be baptized, you know.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: His church like grew instantly, you know, and we had these study guides, one basic study guides, and we, you know, started to offer them to disciple them, you know, and to give them the sure foundation in Christ Jesus.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: It was a massive success.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so this pastor, you know, he was so joyful, he said, You have lit on the fire again in my heart.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: This is what it's all about.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: This is really something that you received from the Lord.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: He says, and I want to give myself to do this here with you in Africa.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: Wherever I can.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: He says, and you know something?
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: All those bishops and pastors and prophets and all those people that were saying, No, we don't want it, they all came to me and said, We want this.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Because you cannot deny that this was from the Lord.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that was powerful, you know.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: And this concept really is amazing, and I really believe we did something, you know, out of there.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: But most of those leaders they ask always, so what's in it for me?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, well, because their name and their ministry will not be promoted, but neither is ours.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody knows who I am.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna get on stage say, My name is Johan Tut, I'm an evangelist from Johan Tut Ministries, one and in Foundation of the Netherlands, and this is my Instagram.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: I don't say that kind of stuff.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: They don't even know who I am.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: I just come to preach the gospel.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's not about me.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: My name is not on flyers, my name is not on posters.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: I do that in the Christian world, but I don't do that when I go out to win the unreached, amen.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so they cannot promote themselves, you know, or just work the church system.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: So they have no control on what really will happen.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: So they ask, okay, what's in it for me, what's in it for me?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so, first of all, we get to work as one body, you know, for the glory of God.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: And this is what it's all about, that God says, you know, that we should work as one body.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: So 1 Corinthians 12 it says, 1 Corinthians 12 it says, in verse 4, it says here, there are diversities of gifts, but it's the same spirit, and there are differences of ministries, but it's the same Lord, and there are diversities of activities, but it's the same God who works all in all.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one to profit for all.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so we get to work as one body that will glorify God.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: I need you, you need me.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: So together we can do the Great Commission.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: We can do what God called us to do.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, 1 Corinthians 12 20 says, but now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so we can work as one body.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I'm getting leaders together, pastors together from all different kinds of denominations.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like I have in Venezuela, I had leader conferences where I had a thousand pastors of all different churches and denominations from all over the country.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: I had that in Colombia, you know, I had that in Mexico.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm drawing those people.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: I have that in Pakistan.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: They come and work together, people that normally would never work together, but we can be one body, and this is what God called us to do.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then, second of all, we bear much fruit for the kingdom of God.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: In John 15, 8, Jesus says, By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you will be my disciples.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: So we get to bear fruit for the kingdom of God, which it's uh that that is what it's all about.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's all about that.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we are called for.
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  SPEAKER_01: John 15, 16 says, You did not choose me, but I choose you and appointed you that you should go and that you should bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we have been appointed to bear fruit for the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, third of all, new comforts will be added to your church, and your church will get built and grow and multiply, and you can disciple and take care of all those people.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: In Ephesians 2.19, it says, I'm just checking my time, Ephesians 2.19, here it says, Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so we get to build together this building, this holy building, this church, the body of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so when we reach those people on those festivals, they will be added to your church, and then your church can grow and we can build the body.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's in it for you also.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then last but not least, you and we get to fulfill the great commission.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the great commission is that Jesus said that all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go therefore, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you, and lo I am with you even to the end of this age.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the Great Commission, and we get to fulfill that together.
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  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that what it's all about?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, our and now people get more and more and more involved, and it's really, really amazing that we can do this, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yes, it costs a lot of money.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I really want to encourage you if you are not a partner with our ministry and you want souls to be one for Jesus, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want you to consider to become partner with us because we use like 80% of what we receive in donations to win souls for Jesus through this great amazing open-air crusades, the trucks that we have driving all over the world, and then also, of course, to disciple other people and make things like one gospel possible for people to be discipled and be equipped to go and do the work of ministry themselves as well.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so I really want to encourage you to consider that if you want to be, you know, partner with us.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm telling you, it costs a lot of money, but you know, if the Lord builds the house, then he will also give you the materials, amen.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so he is my source, and I'm just go and do what he called me to do, and he will provide, you know, and and man, who cares what it costs and how much it costs, as long as we are reaching those people, because as I said, God gave his only begotten son, who gave himself and bought us with his blood out of every tribe, tongue, and nation, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if we already thought that we were worth his precious blood, then how much is it worth for us to reach them that he gave himself for?
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm sharing a lot and I'm really excited about this, you know.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: But God doesn't want anyone to perish.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, he says, Go, and all we need to do is go, and then he will provide for whatever we need to go and do the same.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so Jesus drew, look, in Luke 12, verse 1, it says, An innumerable multitude of people had gathered together so that they trampled one another.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus drew large crowds to listen to him.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: We also can draw large crowds to listen to us.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: But even if we do not draw large crowds, you can at least draw one, you can draw two or five, you know, in your family, on on birthday parties, on weddings, you know, funerals, you know, and all that other, you know, obligated uh things, events that you need to go to, you can draw those people and preach the gospel to them.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, we can we can reach the same things and the same works, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says in John 14, 12, he says, you know, um, that he who believes in me will do the works that I do also, and greater works do these than these because I go to my father.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now, in the next episode, I will share on the 5,000 uh principle that the Lord gave me, and uh man that really blessed me and uh really hit it off.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now there's no longer 5,000, it's like the biggest crusade that I gave was about a hundred thousand people, and I believe that the Lord is gonna place me in front of millions of people.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I want to do it the way that God called me to do it and when I'm ready for it, amen.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so as soon as I've got more partners, then surely I will get more people in front of my stage as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyway, this is one of what I wanted to share now, and my time is up, and I really hope to see you in the next episode of One Gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye.
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