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#20250917 - A Burden for the Mission Field - Matthew 28:19-20 & 2 Tim 4:1-6 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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I just want to start out by saying a huge thank you to you
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all. We've always been well supported
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by you. We've always had encouragement
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and postcards and emails and, and and support and everything
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from you. I've, I have never felt alone
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while we were over and and and out there.
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And I just wanted to say the God, we've always known he's
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been with us and we've always known that you've been with him.
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And, and I wanted to start out by just saying a huge thank you
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for all that you've, all that you've done for us.
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And Thailand is a, is a difficult place to minister.
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It's a, it can be a very discouraging place to minister
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it sometimes, but I've never, I've never had to do so
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wondering about my foundation, wondering if we've been
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forgotten or anything like that. We've always felt you guys there
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and so huge thank you. So also we have T-shirts back
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there. It's actually this T-shirt we're
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selling. Or if you're on my support team,
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just let me know and we'll just give you 1.
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I just wanted I, I brought a mostly just to say thank you
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for, for taking care of us and, and letting us and for just
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helping us to reach out to, to, to Thailand.
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I want to talk, I want to start out this talking a little bit
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about Thailand. So Thailand is it's a Buddhist
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country, it's 92% Buddhist if you can imagine that 92% after
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that is Muslim, 5% and then who knows whatever else.
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And then you get down to touch to Christians where we are 1.2%
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of the people out there, 1.2% little bitty group.
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Christians are very rare out there.
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And of that 1.2%, the vast majority are Catholics.
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So it's like, and, and it's traditional Catholic.
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Basically it's people who you know, they're not kneeling in
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front of Buddha, they're kneeling in front of Mary or
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some other statue, right? A lot of times that's what you
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get out there. The next biggest group out there
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is the Church of Christ who will let you know that they're the
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one true church, followed by the 7th Day Adventist, which is
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huge. Also another one true church.
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And then and and and then you get down so you can see what I'm
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saying. It's getting down smaller and
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smaller and smaller to people who read the word, people who
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are following what the what what the gospel is.
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The missionaries out there and the non denominational churches
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have a huge influence as does shoot as the whole, the whole
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missionary world is majorly influenced by the the health and
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wealth movement, Heidi Baker, Bethel, all that kind of stuff.
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It's inundated. Missionaries are inundated with
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that kind of stuff. So the chances in Thailand of
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actually meeting a Bible, believing Bible following
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Christian, it's practically impossible.
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It's very, very difficult to, to find someone out there.
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Like Thailand's been called the graveyard of missionaries.
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If you can imagine that the graveyard emissions, that's
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where we are. And even calvaries have, I've
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watched calvaries come and calvaries go right through,
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through, through Thailand. There's us in Bangkok and then
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there's another Calvary up in Chiang Mai, a wonderful church,
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awesome pastor up there. Chiang Mai is in northern
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Thailand and there's a lot of missionaries up there because
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they can get into Laos and, or I mean get into China and Burma
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and they, they do a lot of stuff up there.
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So this other church which is up there is pretty big, but has
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almost zero ties in it. It's almost all Chinese and
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Western missionaries basically. So it's, it's, it's a very,
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Thailand is a very difficult place to minister.
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And I'm going to go into that. I'm going to discuss a little
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bit about why that is and a little bit about the history
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there. But before I did that, I want to
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get into, I want to show you guys some photos of what it
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looks like out where we are. And so if we could pull up like
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the first of the photos, there we are.
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OK. So there, there we are.
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There is my wife Irena and Ben and Tashia.
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Ben and Tasha just went to school.
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Actually, this is in Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
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So I, I couldn't find a group photo in Thailand for some
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reason, But they're they're off going to school.
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And and that's, that's my wife Irena, who you just prayed for.
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So let's go to the next one. Here's our little group.
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This is just from this just recent, a recent meeting we had.
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We're a tiny church and, and this is actually, I mean,
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especially compared to American churches, but for an emerging
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country, for emerging like the very front lines, that's
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actually not bad. That's, that's fairly normal for
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for a place where they've never heard the gospel.
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Go ahead and go to the next one. So this is cool.
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So you can see how wide our church is.
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That's nudie. She's this little Cambodian girl
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who actually lives there. She lives in the church along
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with some like single. It's a place where we house
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single moms and and students and that kind of stuff.
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And I'll explain why in a minute.
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But you can see how it's just this little thin building and
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that first floor is where we have our, our, our worship
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services. And then it goes up like 4
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floors where, where, where people live there.
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So go ahead and go to the next one.
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So this is the second one. We've turned the 2nd floor or
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the second floor. We've turned the 2nd floor into
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like a podcast room or, or a place where we can present
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videos and make videos. This is huge.
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And this is turning, and I'm going to talk about that in a
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minute too, but it's turning into one of the biggest ways
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we're able to to do outreach. Go ahead and go to the next one.
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And then on the rooftop, we have chickens.
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So this is this. We actually use the eggs to feed
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the the kids. The kids can have the eggs from
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there every day. Although I have to say, we had
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to get rid of the chickens just a little bit ago because they
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were bringing rats, right? So here's what here's what our
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house looks like. We're on a we're on a soy, which
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is which it's a Thai, a little side street is called a Soy OK.
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And one side is a big St. called Ronkum Hang, named after King
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Ronkum Hang. And then the other side is a
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clong. It's a it's a canal where river
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taxis are cruising up and down on the canal.
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Right in the middle you have a spirit house, which is where the
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Thais will take a so they'll, they'll, they'll put like a
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little like a little house and there's little people in there.
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And that's where the spirits live.
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And our ancestors or whatever spirits were living there when
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they built the buildings, that kind of thing.
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But you'll go out there and you'll find drinks and food and
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cats eating the food and all that kind of stuff out there.
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So there's a spirit house in the middle when you come to when you
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come to our street, you have to you, you walk in and, and
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there's a giant arch over the entrance to our street and it's
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got like a huge dragon because the other side of the street is
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a Chinese temple. So I don't know if they made the
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street or we're actually our churches on the grounds of a
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Chinese temple or what. I don't know.
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But it's definitely the front. It's like it's the front lines
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right there when you walk in, on the left side is a statue of a
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horse and it has a scarf around it.
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And on the other side is a statue of a of a elephant and
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has a scarf because they believe that there's spirits in there.
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And So what you'll do is when you walk around town, every now
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and then you'll see like a tree. And if it's wrapped with
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scarves, it's because it has it has spirits in it.
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So let's go ahead and go to the next one.
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Oh, about the rats, it's OK because one of the girls who are
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living there, she eats rats. So she doesn't.
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It's not a problem. Those are not from our house.
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But she's not afraid of rats at all.
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To her, she'll kill them. She takes care of business for
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us. But we did have to get rid of
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the chickens. OK, go ahead to the next foot.
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So here's our little group, just such a sweet little group.
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This is when we did an outreach and there's Josie.
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I put this one to Josie. If you guys, she's on the left
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and she's in Kiev right now and during a tough situation out
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there, I bet. So go ahead to the next one, OK?
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One of the ways we do outreaches is every OK in, in, in Thailand
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when it's Easter, when it's Christmas, it's kind of surreal
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because like here Christmas, everything shut down.
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Not in Thailand. It's just a normal work day,
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right? Although every mall has
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Christmas stuff in it and they're singing, you know, deck
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the halls and all this, you know, the, the, the weather
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outside is frightful, which it's not.
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And, and even though they're singing that nobody knows what
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Christmas is. So what we'll do is we'll, we'll
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do an outreach on the street, Christmas, Easter and Songkran,
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which is basically where the whole country has a water fight.
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So water gun fight for the whole country.
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We'll do it every year And and we'll do we'll invite the kids
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in. We'll, we'll put food out on the
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street. Go ahead and go to the next one.
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I think we have. Yeah.
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So or we'll put we'll, we'll do ice and we'll do hot dogs and
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we'll say Souq Sanwan Christmas, Merry Christmas.
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Come on in. We'll invite people in, share
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the gospel, hand out gifts, explain how Jesus is, is the
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greatest gift of all. And that's, those are the ways
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we do it. Go ahead to the next one.
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And then afterwards, of course, you know, big thing in Thailand
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and churches and all is just eating together Thai style where
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you gather, you know, you'll have you'll order all kinds of
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food and everybody shares all the food together and it's Thai
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food. So it's awesome.
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And I think that's the last one, right?
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Oh, there we go. All right.
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So ministry in Thailand, What's that like?
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Ministry in Thailand is it's a slow burn.
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It's it, it's a long term thing. There's, there's, there's a big
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question that missionaries have a lot.
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For example, it's and, and, and the question goes like this.
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For 200 years, missionaries have been going to Korea and there's
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a lot of Christians in Korea. For 200 years, missionaries have
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been going to China and there's a lot of Christians in China.
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For the same amount of time, 200 years they've been going to
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Japan, No Christians in Japan and for and same thing in
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Thailand, 200 years they've been going to Thailand, almost no
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Christians in Thailand. Why?
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What's the difference between these two countries and these
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two countries? And, and the consensus is, I
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mean, it could be just the Lord wants to move here and he's not
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moving here yet. God's timing, I don't know, but
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one thing that's different is Korea and and China are very
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kind of facts based. They want to, to kind of,
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they're willing to argue to get to the truth.
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They're willing to, to, to come in and kind of get in your face.
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Chinese especially very willing to get into your face and come
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to an understanding. Thailand and Japan are not like
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that. They value agreement.
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They value harmony. They don't like a, a kind of a,
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of a challenge too much in that way.
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Remember in Acts 17. So remember in Acts 17 where
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Paul, he's going and he's, and he's going to talk to the, you
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know, Epicureans and the Stoics and he goes to the Areopagus and
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he has, and, and they're like, what is this babbler?
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What does this babbler have to say?
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And, and, and he says this thing and they laugh at him and it
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goes back and forth. That's very Greek, right?
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And that's actually our tradition because the Romans
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came out of the Greeks in Europe came out of the Romans.
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And that's our culture. That's, that's what we're used
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to. And in fact, when I was in
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Russia, I mean, they'll, they'll get in your face and in Russia,
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they'll be like, why, Why are you so stupid that you follow
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this thing? And you have to have, you have
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to have very thick, you have to have very thick skin to minister
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in Russia, Thailand, You have to have very sensitive, you have to
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be very, very sensitive because you can't, you'll just scare
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people away, right? And so it's, it's a very, it's
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a, it's a very different world. One of the girls in the church
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gang brought a good example. She brought this guy and he
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comes in and he's been going to church with us for a while.
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And he's still Buddhist, but he's still coming and he's still
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listening. And I asked him once, I said,
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hey, so you're Buddhist, right? And he's like, yeah, what do you
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guys? I mean, do you believe in God?
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Do you, do you, do you believe that there's a God?
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And he's smile, shrug, but he's done.
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He's not going to say he's not going to tell me.
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And I said, so do you believe in like, what do you think?
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You know, what do you think happens after you die?
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And in Thailand, it's a very strange question to ask.
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They don't want to think about that.
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So just asking. And he's like, I don't know,
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where do we come from? Evolution.
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They all know evolution. The people I talked to,
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definitely they've been trained in evolution.
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But you say, so where did the world come from?
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Shrugs. I don't know.
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It's that, it's that kind of a, it's, it's, it's that kind of a,
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of a, of a approach that you have to let me go this way.
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So Thais, they're Theravada, they're Theravada Buddhist.
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There's Buddhism and there's Theravada Buddhism.
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So, right, Theravada Buddhism is a very special kind of Buddhism.
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It's it believes so, so it holds on to Buddhism, but it also
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believes in spirits and the rocks and the trees and, and
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there's spirits everywhere and it's a constant battle to try to
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please the spirits. That's where the focus is.
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When I was talking to this guy, Ging, the one who brought him
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said Dave, we don't ask those questions, right?
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That's those are the questions that that we don't go.
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Instead, they're busy trying to please the spirits or trying to
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fulfill these things so they can they can have good luck, right?
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So a tie is raised as a Buddhist and they will go.
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They will they didn't usually reason their way into going.
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It's not because they thought they read a book or something
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and they decided to follow Buddhism.
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Buddhism is in everything. It's in the military, it's in
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the schools, it's in everything you do and everywhere you go.
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And so it's just absorbed, right.
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So I had a girl once, for example, she she, she was, she
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asked me, she came up, she said, Dave, if I become a Christian.
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And this is the kind of thinking that you have to work with.
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If I become a Christian, who's going to feed my parents?
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And I'm like, well, I mean, what do you mean?
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You know, I mean, you're a Christian.
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We're supposed to take care of our parents.
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She's like, yes, but I can't go to the temple anymore.
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And I'm like, wait, your parents are at the temple?
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And so you go through this conversation, you find out her
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parents are actually dead and she goes to the temple to feed
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her parents. And so she has to go there and
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she has, she goes there and she brings food and she brings
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whatever and offers it to her parents.
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And she's afraid that if she's Christian, she can no longer go
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to the temple and no longer feed her parents.
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And so you get into this. It's a, it's a long, confusing
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trudge trying to, you know, you need to talk about salvation.
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But before salvation from what right and salvation from you
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know, and, and is who's going to judge?
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And is there sin? What is sin?
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Why do I have to? Why do I have to worry about
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sin? What about my parents?
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What about this? And so again, it's a long, long,
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it's a long thing. Now, if you're, if you're a Thai
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and you want extra good luck, What they will do is every now
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and, and you, or, or if you want to fulfil your obligations,
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they'll shave their head, put on an orange robe and become a monk
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for sometimes a month, sometimes a few months, sometimes a year.
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I don't know. It depends on, on, on, on what
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you need. But it's, it's, it's constantly
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trying to manage the spirit. You're trying to manage your
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spiritual situation by doing things now.
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Nobody really understands the goal of Buddhism.
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And do you guys, do you guys, does anybody here like, have you
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guys ever studied Buddhism? Does anybody know what's the
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goal of Buddhism? What's the goal?
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Yeah. So.
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So here's the goal. So Buddhism says life is pain,
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right? Life is pain, and it comes from
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your desire to your desires of things, your desires for love,
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your desires for food, your desires for things.
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And so as long as you have this desire, you will experience
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pain. This is what Buddhism says, OK.
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And so in America we, you know, like like Hollywood, Hollywood
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Buddhism thinks, oh, it's great because then you can die and you
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can be resurrected and you can die and then you can be
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reincarnated and you can do as much as you want.
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In real Buddhism, the reincarnation thing is a curse.
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It, it, it's something that because you failed and the goal
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is to stop being reincarnated. In fact, in real Buddhism, the
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goal is to start rejecting more and more of the world and more
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and more of your desires until finally you, you separate from
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the world and you cease to exist.
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And now you've become a Buddha. The goal of the Buddhist, the
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real goal, if you know, if you've like actually follow it,
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is to stop existing, right. But Thais don't live like that
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because they're humans. They're just like us.
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And so the goals are to just normal, like I want, I want a
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girlfriend or I want to have nice things or I want to be
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happy or I want to have friends. And so, so you can see the
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contradiction, whereas Buddhism says don't do this.
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We're using Buddhum to do this. But they don't see a
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contradiction. Even the chants like like if you
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ever, if you ever stop by a temple, you hear, you'll hear
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them chanting. It's like, and it's a mind
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numbing. It's, it's, it's trying to, to,
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to, to, to to keep out. It's, it's just, it's just, it's
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just a, my a separation and a mind numbing thing.
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But when a Thai person becomes a believer, they become the most
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wonderful believers, servants loving when, when, when the seed
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like when, when you have a chance to spend enough time with
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them so they can absorb the gospel and they start to think
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and they start to ask and a root starts to go down and the light
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starts, starts to turn on. The fellowship is so sweet.
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The servants hearts the love for one another.
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And it's, it's just so beautiful.
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And this is my favorite thing. This is why I'm more than happy
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to spend 1112 years there when a tie gets saved and they see
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these, they see the truth of a God who loves them and the, the
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desire to share it with their family is overwhelming.
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So how have we made these inroads?
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So, so the problem is how do you spend enough time with them so
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that they can absorb it and you don't scare them away, right.
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So we've, we've been doing two things.
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First of all. We, you guys saw the, the place
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where, where we've, you know, for years we've had a place
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where people can live. And so the, the, the agreement
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is this, you guys can come and you can live in the church for
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free. And so we have single moms and
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students and we had couch surfers for a while.
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We had Europeans, European hippies just like coming in and
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staying in the place until they brought bed bugs and we had to
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put a stop to the hippies. But, but before that they would
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come. And our one rule was you have to
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go to church. And we had some of the best
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conversations out of that. Europeans, I was amazed at how
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little they know about Jesus Christ.
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They know about candles, they know about churches, but and
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they know, you know some of the big things.
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But the but how salvation happens very, very rare.
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So what we get is we get ties living in the place and it's
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good. It, it does it's good two ways.
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On the one side they're able to, to, you know, plug in and Start
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learning and start growing. And on the other hand, it makes
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us a safe place in the neighborhood.
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So in the neighborhood, you know, we're the only white
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people there and we're a little bit scary, right?
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Some kind of some white guy usually in Thailand, it's not
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for a good reason. And so we're a little bit, we're
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a little bit nervous about us, but since there's Thais living
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there and they can meet people and we have like a big cross on
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the on. We have a big white cross that
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lights up the whole neighborhood at night.
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It's like the only light on the street is our cross, which is
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pretty cool. But because of that, we're,
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we're, we're safe and it's been able to, you know, we've been
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able to, to, you know, we've been able to put those, those
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roots down. And that's one of the things I
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wanted to say. If you guys support us, you pay
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for that place and you pay for, we've got three kids living
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there. Well, two kids living there now,
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John and Nudi Cambodians. And we had another little girl
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recently, Sarah's most beautiful little girl.
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And we have some, another couple ladies who are staying there as
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well. So you support that.
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And that's one way we've been getting to know people.
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Now the second thing came along with COVID, which again the C
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word, I get it, Thailand was locked down hard, right?
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Really, really locked down. And so we couldn't, we couldn't
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do a lot of things. So we decided to, we again start
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putting our ministry online and we started doing videos and we,
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we, I would do it, it would go interpreted and then we would
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put it on YouTube and then on Facebook.
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Because in Thailand everything runs through Facebook.
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We would pay to send it out all over Thailand.
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And so next thing you know, I mean, I think one of the last
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few I did, we'll put one out and we'll get like 5000 likes,
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right? Which in Thailand is unheard of
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for a Christian. It's a, it's a Christian thing.
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And, and the thumbnail goes out and some guy like, well, the
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thumbnail of this guy saying, repent, be baptized, follow
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Jesus and we'll get 5000 likes on that.
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And I, I realize everywhere else that's nothing, but in Thailand
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about Christianity, that's a big deal.
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So that's, that is one of the things that I really want to.
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That's what one of the things that we raise support for us to
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be able to, to, to push that out because sadly, the town square
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now the town square, it used to be, you could go out to the town
23:40
square and share the gospel in places.
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The town square now is in your hand, it's in your pocket, it's
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the phone and it's safe for ties, especially because there's
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no, it's not, it's not like a confrontational type of thing.
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It's not a challenge. They can ask questions, they can
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turn it off if they want or whatever.
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So that's, that's a little bit about Thailand.
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That's about the ministry that we've been doing Thailand.
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So I want to kind of expand it now and we're going to actually
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get into the Bible study, the Bible study portion of this.
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Let's go to Matthew chapter 28, verse 19.
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And I want to, so I've been doing missions for the like 25
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years. I was a missions pastor here for
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10 years, right? And I have a concern over the
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years that I've been watching growing and something which has
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been on a burden which has been on my heart.
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And I want to share that. And we're going to, we're going
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to read verses 19 through 20, the last verses it says this.
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Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing
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them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them to observe all things that I've commanded you.
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And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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Now, this is the most missionary verse of all.
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It's like everyone knows it's typical, right?
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The, the, the mission pastor is going to go up and talk about
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Matthew 28, you know, predictable.
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But The thing is, everyone knows this has the go verse, right?
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It's and, and, and a lot of people walk away with this just,
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yeah, go, go, go. We need to go.
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But I have some bad news. These verses are barely
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happening in the world right now.
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And I'm not talking about people going there are people going all
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over the place. I'm talking about the rest of
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the verses, teaching them to observe all things, right?
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Making disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
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the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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So now we get to the problem. In this world, there are 1.6
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billion Buddhists across Asia, and that's just Buddhist, right?
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I don't even know how many Hindus are there.
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Probably maybe another billion, maybe.
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I don't know, right. And then how many, how many
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Muslims are there? Billion maybe, I don't know
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Hindu, I mean, is Shinto, Zoroastrians, Europeans who
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become pagans Again, this is the issue that we have.
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This is this is what's going on out there.
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Did you know there are places in this world where there is
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absolutely no representation of Jesus Christ at all?
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If you walked into a village and you said, hey, do you know
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Jesus, they'd be like, maybe he's in the next village.
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I don't know. He didn't live here.
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They would have no idea what you're talking about, right?
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There's places where they have no idea that there's one God to
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them. There's thousands of gods,
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right? There's places in this world
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where there are no Christians to be salt and light, nobody to
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point to Jesus, no radio, no videos, no church on the corner,
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nothing. And I remember when I got saved,
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right? And, and maybe you guys went
27:05
through the same kind of thing like me.
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So a lot of us, we get saved through a crisis.
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Me, my, you know, my girlfriend. I don't even want to go into it,
27:14
but it was a bad deal with a girlfriend.
27:15
My, my heart was broken. And my mom, who had always
27:19
shared the gospel with me and raised me up to be a Christian,
27:21
just told me, Dave, you need to get to a church.
27:23
You need to, you need, you've been making other people first.
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You need to make Jesus Christ 1st.
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And she was right, But I had someone to tell me to go to, to,
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to Jesus, someone to tell me to go.
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These other people, they don't have that right.
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Maybe you reason things through. Maybe you, you know, you, you
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didn't have to go through a hard time.
27:44
You, you're one of the ones who like, like I have this friend,
27:47
he was watching Jeopardy on TV and this lady goes, hi, my name
27:52
is whatever. And my goal is to read through
27:53
the Bible in a year. And he goes, huh, that's a
27:56
pretty good idea. He read the Bible, got saved and
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became a pastor actually, which is cool because of some lady
28:04
which you'll high 5 in heaven someday.
28:07
But The thing is again, the best these people can do when, when,
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when one of these people in one of these places can do say for
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example, their father passes away or they lose their job or
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everything gets ruined or you know their their family, who
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knows? The best they can do is get some
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incense. Put it in your hand.
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Stand before a stone. Just stand before a stone who
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can't hear. He can't, can't help them.
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It's a it's a blind. It can't give them a future.
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It can't give them comfort. It can't, it can't do anything.
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The best they can do is stand in front of this and just hope that
28:48
something goes OK or hope that some spirit is going to help
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him. And those spirits are not going
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to help them. The Spirit should hang out in
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those places, right? I try to remember sometimes and
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by the way, it's not when, when, when, when they don't have an
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opportunity or when they're when they're not giving their life to
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Jesus. It's not because they rejected
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Jesus for the 50th time or they laughed at it.
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It's because they've never heard they've never been given an
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opportunity. They would some people would
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accept Christ if we would just tell them about it, right.
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So chapter 28 is, you know, not happening for them yet.
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And I remember, I mean, sometimes I, I try to remember
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what it was like before I was a believer.
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And, and when I do this, like what a horrible, lonely,
29:41
directionless, lost time. And I'm so thankful for my mom
29:45
who was there to, to, to just share the gospel with me and to
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point me in the right direction and the church that was there
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Calvary to, to pick me up and, and the people who were there to
29:55
mentor me and bring me in. I'm so thankful for that.
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And when I think of other people who don't have that, it breaks
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my heart. So I want to go a little bit
30:05
further. And, and so this is the bad news
30:08
is when I say this is not really happening, but I want to give
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you a little bit worse. Like it, it's even a little bit
30:13
worse than that. People say, surely, Dave,
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there's missionaries going into these places, right?
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And, and we've got huge organizations like YAWAM and
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they're doing all kinds of crazy stuff and they're going places.
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Well, if you take the world, get this, if you take the world like
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a map, there's a little section over here called the 10:40
30:30
window, right? And that and half.
30:32
And, and that's like latitude, latitude, longitude 1040.
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I don't, I don't really know exactly, but half of the world's
30:38
population lives in this square, then half of the world's
30:43
population lives everywhere else, right?
30:45
Think about that. Half of the world is in this one
30:48
tiny section. The percentage of missionaries
30:51
that goes to that half of the world that, that 1040 window of
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all the missionaries, 4 percent, 96% of the missionaries is going
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to the whole rest of the world, which I mean, I guess the Lord's
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sending them, the Lord's calling them.
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And yes, go where you're called. Definitely go where you're
31:13
called because you're going to be used, but follow the Lord
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wherever you go. But I just wanted to kind of
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share that to, to share a little bit of reality that that there's
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whole huge sections when again, nobody knows anything.
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Now I have having a little bit, little bit more bad news.
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There was a ban who's fallen now, but his name is Ravi
31:37
Zacharias. And and while he was alive, he
31:41
said a few things which are very, very wise.
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And he was talking about Thailand when he said this.
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He said in Thailand, missionaries were instrumental
31:52
in building the school system, right.
31:54
So missionaries basically built the school system in Thailand.
31:59
Missionaries also built the healthcare system in Thailand,
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the first hospitals, the whole care for the, you know, for, for
32:06
people, all that kind of stuff. That all came from missionaries
32:08
as well, right? The, the first printing press,
32:14
the information, the news, all that stuff that came from
32:16
missionaries also. So he says basically Thais are
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educated, they're healthy and they're informed on their way to
32:25
hell. And I thought that was a very
32:28
interesting way of putting it right.
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Matthew 28 is not is commanding us to do what go right.
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We all know that part go into the nations baptizing them in
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the name of the Father and the son of the Spirit, teaching them
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to observe all things right. These are the things that we
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should be doing. But unfortunately he's not the
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things which are happening. And a lot of times it when
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missionaries go out, they're doing a lot of things, just a
32:57
lot of busyness and even local, like, you know, a lot of stuff,
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a lot of good things being done. But Matthew 28 is still not
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happening. So in Thailand, missionaries are
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doing the, the, the big things are trafficking, stopping
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trafficking. A lot of missionaries are out
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there stopping trafficking because Thailand is one of, you
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know, it's Thailand. It's it's it's known for, for
33:21
it's one of those sex sex trade capitals of the world.
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Missionaries go and they work in that they were also work doing
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family counseling and they help because there's a lot of family
33:31
problems and they come out and they bring psychology and
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they're working to help families get together.
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OK, great. They go out and they do
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agriculture. They help with the poverty
33:41
because there's a lot of poverty out there.
33:43
These are the main things. In fact, I saw get this.
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I saw an article a little while ago about a mission organization
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that was they, they, they spent $1,000,000 a $1,000,000 on this
33:57
project in Thailand. And they were trying to cure
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poverty and help people, help people, you know, get out of
34:03
poverty. And so they, they were doing
34:05
agriculture. They were teaching them how to
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rotate crops, how to fertilize, how to they, they, they brought
34:13
out some tractors and it was a great thing.
34:15
And the article talked about like, you know how how you know,
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it made a huge impact, right? But I'm reading through there
34:23
and I was wondering, I wonder how many people got saved.
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Article didn't mention it. Article didn't even seem
34:31
concerned about it. It was just the fact that some
34:35
people are being healthy and some people are doing stuff.
34:37
And I got to say, I got to tell you what I bet happened and I
34:41
don't know this for a fact, but I bet you they did help them
34:45
make more money. They did help them with their
34:47
farming. And those ties put a spirit
34:50
house, a brand new spirit house right in the middle of that
34:52
field. And the local temple got more
34:55
and they smiled and they wired and they said thank you.
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And it was a very great situation.
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But I doubt that that there was any long term impact in Thailand
35:04
because Thailand is a long term process, right?
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These things, these, these helping with the poor, these
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counseling, these, all these things, these are things that
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are good things. They're great things.
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But these are also things that the United Nations can do
35:24
poorly. But it's things that non
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Christians can do. What is something that only
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Christians can do, teach, baptized, tell about Jesus
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Christ? And if we're not taking this and
35:39
translating it into this, then we're doing exactly what Ravi
35:42
Zacharias was talking about. OK, wanted to share a little bit
35:48
more news about about what the mission field looks like right
35:52
now. There are some good godly
35:55
people, wonderful believers who want to go and they feel the
35:59
call. Maybe the Lord is calling him
36:01
and saying, hey, you know, they're, they're getting some
36:03
place on their heart. Maybe they want to go to the
36:05
10:40 window, or maybe they, they want to go do something
36:10
right now. They're talking to their pastor
36:12
or they're talking to whoever and they're just, they're
36:14
excited, they're idealistic, they're close to God and it
36:17
would be wonderful to have him on the field, right?
36:21
A lot of times what happens 1st, and it's good counsel, is
36:24
caution. We need to, we need to slow
36:27
down. We need to go about this wisely.
36:30
And that's true. You do need to be wise.
36:32
I don't want people just rushing out and taking big risks and
36:36
doing something stupid, going into debt or whatever.
36:38
You know, it's crazy. But unfortunately what we do is
36:41
we start thinking man's methods of doing things.
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Let's send them to the professionals.
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We need to send them to the mission organizations, right?
36:51
Well, let me tell you a little bit about mission organizations.
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Mission organizations are a representation of the American
36:59
church. They're made-up of all the
37:01
churches that get together and and send people.
37:03
It's non denominational and they come together.
37:06
So the mission organizations are a good example of the American
37:10
church. American Church is not a very
37:13
healthy church. In fact, it's, it's, let's just
37:18
say the American church is what Calvary came out of.
37:21
A lot of people are here because we left the tradition area, the
37:25
traditional churches, we left it.
37:27
We wanted to go somewhere where we're studying the Bible, where
37:30
we're going line by line. We want to know what the word
37:33
says. And then what happens is when
37:35
someone wants to, when they, when they've been fed and
37:38
they're close to the Lord and they want to go on the field, we
37:40
send them right back to the world and we send them right
37:43
back to lies organizations. So here's kind of an example of
37:45
what happens. First missionary experience.
37:48
You, you want to go, you start to step out on the field, right?
37:52
First thing that happens if you get a huge burden placed on your
37:55
back, huge, that missionary burden.
37:58
If you're, if you're say a Baptist or Methodist or one of
38:02
those groups, they're going to require you to go to college,
38:04
right? So you're going to have to go to
38:05
seminary. You're going to need to get a
38:06
degree four years, you're going to go to seminary, which a lot
38:09
of people call cemetery because it's a great place to die,
38:13
right? I, I knew, I knew a guy, he had
38:15
two degrees. I met him on the field.
38:16
He had two degrees from seminary and he didn't really even know
38:20
the Bible at all. And I was like, wow, dude, 2°
38:23
you must know the Bible. And he's like, I know how to I
38:26
know how to do a church, I know how to run a Sunday school.
38:29
I know those kind of things. I was like, OK, so if you don't
38:32
go through, if you're like like us, if you're non denomination,
38:35
you go through one of those like a standard mission organizations
38:38
like I went through when I went to Russia year many, many years
38:41
ago. What they'll do is they're going
38:44
to first of all, make you go to their to the training six
38:47
months, few months at which you're going to have to pay for,
38:50
of course, while you're training.
38:52
They're going to teach you counseling, psychology,
38:56
counseling. They're going to teach you team
38:57
dynamics. They're going to teach you
38:59
missionary methods. They're going to have deep
39:01
discussions about things like, hmm, maybe we shouldn't use the
39:05
word sin when we speak to to Asians.
39:08
We should use face and shame. And we shouldn't say like
39:12
you're, you're, you're sinning against God.
39:14
We should say you're making God lose face.
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And then these are the things that you're going to learn,
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which is I, I don't agree with that.
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You're going to learn how to, oh, you're going to learn how to
39:26
raise support, which is good because if you're going to go on
39:29
the field, you're going to have to go with a four O 1K health
39:33
insurance, disability insurance, money for sabbatical, money for
39:38
conferences, right? And they're going to take 20% of
39:42
what you make right off the top. So this is this.
39:45
In fact, I heard. So I, there was a, there was a
39:48
family that was going to Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, right?
39:52
They're going to go do ministry in Eastern Europe and they had
39:55
to raise $15,000 a month to go over there, 15 grand in order to
40:02
go there. And before you leave, you know
40:04
what they do before you leave, you have to have a whole year.
40:07
You have to have like raised one whole year before you go.
40:10
So they're walking out the door over to Eastern Europe before.
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I don't know how much that is. That's a lot of money.
40:15
Right. Meanwhile, while the Christians
40:18
with our faith, while we're, you know, building up and going the
40:21
wise way that the professional tell us to go, hippies are
40:25
cruising all around Eastern Europe hoping you're trusting
40:27
the universe to provide for them.
40:30
And they're playing guitar and doing and living free.
40:33
While Christians are being burdened by this is how it
40:37
works. This is how it happens.
40:38
And you know what else? When they get overseas, what
40:41
happens? So, so you raised your money and
40:43
you go and you land, you're excited.
40:45
Let's finally I got here. Let's do ministry.
40:47
They tell you no, your first year is only language learning.
40:51
You're not allowed to do any ministry.
40:53
You can do none for one year, only language, right?
40:57
And a lot of people will defend that.
40:59
You know, a lot of people think that's wise and having the
41:01
language definitely huge. It's a big part.
41:05
Now some, some of the organizations say for two years,
41:08
but I can't tell you how many times I've seen missionaries
41:10
come out, they get their money, they do their stuff, they get on
41:14
the field, they go through their language, something comes up and
41:17
they go home, right? Or you know, I mean, life
41:22
happens and they go home. These are the kind of things
41:25
that just they, they, they, they raise.
41:29
This is the burden that's on me. And this is one of the things
41:32
that I felt a burden to just share with you guys.
41:34
And what, what's it's like out there, right?
41:38
What we need on the field are people like you guys, people who
41:43
have been learning the word line by line, verse by verse, precept
41:48
upon precept. What we need are people who can
41:51
keep their eyes focused on Jesus even in the middle of all the
41:55
other stuff, right? It's like, it's like an Oasis
41:58
here. And I'm telling you, we like
42:00
like first thing I do, I land. And today I met with a couple
42:03
brothers. It, it, it, you know, we went
42:05
and had food and we're talking the word.
42:06
We're doing iron, you know, iron, iron against iron, iron
42:10
sharpening iron, right? This is very rare, very rare.
42:14
That's what we need. We need people like that out on
42:17
the field. So this is going to lead me to
42:18
the second verse. We're going to second Timothy,
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chapter 4. We're going to read verses one
42:25
through 6. All right, and while you're
42:31
going there, I just want to say most, most missionaries and most
42:38
people who who have not been going line by line, verse by
42:41
verse, who don't have the foundation, they're like boats
42:44
on a wave. They're getting thrown around
42:47
and all the stuff that's happening, all the the latest
42:49
ideas, all the latest politics, it it really beat you down.
42:54
We need people who know these verses.
42:57
All right, so second Timothy chapter 4 verses one through 6
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says I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus
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Christ who will judge the living in the dead.
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It is appearing in his Kingdom. Preach the Word, be ready in and
43:14
out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering
43:19
and teaching, for the time will come when they want, will not
43:22
endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires.
43:25
But because they have itching ears, they will keep up for
43:27
themselves, teacher, and they will turn their ears away from
43:30
the truth and be and be turned aside to fables.
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But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do
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the work of an evangelist, Fulfill your ministry.
43:43
All right, Now, again, I realize this is a very common verse,
43:48
right? It's very again, you know, in
43:50
fact, most people usually when they read this verse, they're
43:53
focusing on verse 3 where it says, you know, talking about
43:56
itching and itching ears. And it is, it's like it says,
43:59
don't get distracted by the itching ears, stay focused, do
44:03
those things. But what I want to pay attention
44:05
to is that where it says this, preach the word, share the
44:09
gospel, tell people that Jesus is returning, warn them about
44:15
Jesus. Warn them that the judgement is
44:17
going to happen. And then without Jesus, you will
44:20
perish. Reprove, rebuke, do so with
44:25
long-suffering. Thailand is the land of
44:29
long-suffering because it's like I said, it's, it's a long road
44:32
and you will see no fruit for a very long time, right?
44:37
Verse 5, watch, endure afflictions, evangelize, fulfill
44:42
your ministry. And I I realize he's talking to
44:44
Timothy. Jeremy is a pastor and it's and
44:47
it. And not everybody is a passion.
44:48
Not everybody is a missionary. But actually, yeah, you kind of
44:50
are. We're priests and kings.
44:51
Everyone is wherever we are. And what we're looking for is
44:54
for stubborn people. People who are stubborn to
44:59
follow Jesus, stubborn to bring it into their job.
45:02
Stubborn. I'm going to put it on my shirt.
45:05
I'm going to put it on the back of my car.
45:06
I'm going to talk about it wherever I go.
45:08
People are stubborn to make Jesus a part of everything that
45:13
they do, right? We have people like, you know,
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like, like when, when I look at these verses, it reminds me of
45:21
of Sharon Malcolm. You guys support Sharon Malcolm?
45:23
This church supports this is a woman who is a single woman
45:28
living in Peru, which is a very male dominated place.
45:31
Every week she gets on a canoe and goes miles up the river and
45:35
plants churches all over in the in the jungle, right?
45:39
And a lot of people, I mean, she's planting churches.
45:41
Wait, wait, wait. A woman planting churches, well,
45:44
she hands them over to pastors and she gets out of the way is
45:46
what she does, right? And if you want to pat, if
45:49
someone else wants to do it, fine, go ahead and do it
45:51
yourself. But that's what she's doing.
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She's stubborn and she's going to do it.
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I respect this woman so much. And then there's people like, I
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mean, like, so there's Paul and Wendy, we also supported here.
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I think they came back already. This is old 70s hippie couple
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decided that they're going to go and they're going to go to
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northern Iraq after the war was done.
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And they started, they started like a little Bible study.
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The imams come and they shut it down.
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So then they open up a, a bookstore, which happens to have
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Christian books and in the Muslim imams, they come and they
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shut it down. So they open up a coffee shop
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and, and they invite people to come and we're going to have
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we'll, we'll, we'll learn English using the Bible verses.
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And he told me he was like, Paul's all dude, they're going
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to totally shut us down. And when they do, we're going to
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do CPR next. So he's already planning.
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So, so like where they, where they, where they teach, you
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know, they teach you how to do that.
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He's already planning for the next one.
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These are the kind of people that that we're looking for.
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Byron and Emily were just, they're going back out on the
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field. Byron and Emily, I remember when
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they had to leave Donetsk because it was going to get
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bombed, right? And so they had, so they're like
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homeless. They, they got their, their city
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got bombed. And now they're having to wonder
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around where they're going to go next.
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And they end up in Zaparosa, which also now doesn't exist,
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practically, also very, very bombed.
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And now. And so they were here for a
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while, and now they're going back.
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Stubborn, gonna serve. And everywhere they go, it's
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always a church and a Bible study and people, this is what
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we're looking for. We need to remember.
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And whatever we do and whatever job we're doing, wherever we're
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working, whatever we're doing, we need to remember what matters
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the most. It's your relationship with
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Jesus Christ. What do we need to teach?
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What do we need to share? We need to remember that we're
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always on the mission field. Wherever you are, you have a
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responsibility to bring that light to be that salt, right?
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If you're going on vacation, you man, make it a make it a mission
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trip. If you, if you work in a
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cubicle, put some, put your Bible on the desk or something,
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anything, you have to push it out.
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But you do have to be light and you do have to be salt.
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You know, if you're retired, I heard that there's some
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countries begging retirees to come out.
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Just go and live there for a little while and, you know, and,
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and, and start a Bible study or just witness to the to the lady
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who works in your house or whatever you're going to do.
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Watch and do afflictions. I like that.
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And do afflictions. Wow, evangelize, support those
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who do be a part of the work. You guys, you guys know Hibby or
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Nathaniel, Nathaniel Hibbs. Nathaniel Hibbs has been
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ministering in Italy for a while on next to nothing.
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He his, his support needs to be raised, but he's still doing it.
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He's not going to walk away. He's staying strong.
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Those are the kind of people I, I love that I love hearing about
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stubborn to, to, to, to do it. Paul is calling us to get in the
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game. He's calling us to participate
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and do and be a part of it. So I realize also that here
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there's sometimes people who don't know the Lord and who have
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never made a decision for the Lord and who are just even
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trying to figure this out in the first place.
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Following Jesus Christ is a deadly serious decision.
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Yes, when we follow the Lord, it brings peace.
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Yes, when we follow the Lord, it brings wisdom, it brings
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blessings. It turns our life around.
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It does all these good things. That's that's true.
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But when we follow Jesus, we do so primarily because we are
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sinners and we have no chance when the judgement comes.
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When the judgement comes, we are lost unless except for the fact
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that Jesus Christ died and he, God gave us that opportunity.
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This is the gospel. This is the good news is that we
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are not going to be separated from God and go to hell forever.
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That's the good news. You have a way out, right?
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And I think we need to remember this first.
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It's, it's, it's, it's above the problems, it's above the job,
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it's above everything. We have salvation, we have a
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relationship with the living God that's incredible.
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That alone is incredible. So afterwards, if, if you, if,
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if you don't know that if you're kind of thinking about it,
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wondering about it, you're going to have to speak to a pastor,
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you got it, or, or someone next to you because especially in a
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group like this, they know the word.
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Ask somebody find out where you stand, if you're planning on
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going on the field, if you maybe you've ever considered missions
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and you've ever thought, you know, I'd love to be a
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missionary. I'd love to go over or do or or
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like with with our brother here. Go do outreach local, right?
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Do, do outreach. There are, there are, there are
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people being shipped in here and people be moving here from all
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over the world. The opportunities to, to, to
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reach out to people are amazing. If you want to do that, talk to
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me, talk to a pastor here, talk to JJ find out how to get
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plugged in, but make sure that when you do it, you keep your
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eyes on sharing the gospel. You do good, but you do eternal
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good, right? You mean you change lives
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eternally. That's what matters.
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So I'm going to go ahead and pray.
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Father, I just, this is heavy on my heart and I'm afraid that we
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can get distracted by doing good because it's good.
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We can sometimes make that a focus because it is a righteous
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thing to do righteous things. Lord would help us to never
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forget that our primary goal is is worshipping you, knowing you,
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sharing you. It's all about you, Lord.
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You are the king. You were the one who died for
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us. You were the escape.
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You are the brother who's you're the brother who gave his life
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for us. Lord, help us to remember that
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people need you and that without you they have nothing.
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Lord, but hopelessness and lostness and filling with all
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kinds of things help us to remember, even though we don't
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see them because they're on the other side of the world, that
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there are people who are lost. Father, if there's anyone here
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today, I pray that You would. If there's anyone here today who
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doesn't know you, I pray that you would speak to their hearts
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and that You would help them to realize the seriousness standing
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before you in their sin. Help them to realize that this
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needs to be avoided at all costs.
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Help them to reach out to you and help us to be there for
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them, to encourage them, and to share the gospel with them and
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to lift them up. Lord, we thank you for this.
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Please bless Thailand. Please bless the wonderful,
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wonderful believers in our church and the other ones
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scattered all over through Thailand.
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Some of my favorite people, Lord, I pray to you, bless them.
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And we just thank you for this church, this Oasis.
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And I thank you for the the way that you've taught, reminded us
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to go line by line through the word, reminded us to worship you
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and, and to know the word better.
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Lord, we thank you for these things and your holy name, Amen.
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