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60 - Why Traditional Crusades No Longer Work · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I've started this series called Effective Evangelism, and we have been covering a lot of stuff.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Basically, I'm I already have been uh teaching on the need for soul winning, why it is important for us to go out and preach the gospel and then win souls for the kingdom of God so that we can make disciples out of them and so they can go and do exactly the same so that we can reach this world, this fallen world, with the good news, and so that Jesus can come back in all his glory.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so in the previous episode, I've been sharing on how my personal experience was, you know, I knew I was called as an evangelist, and you know, um, and I was winning souls, you know, and um like one-on-one, I was winning souls, you know, like little groups of people, you know, and I was, you know, um looking for ways to gather more crowds and to get more people to listen to me, but not Christians.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: Because I have seen a lot of Christian events which they call crusades, and I didn't feel that you really could have like a lot of um fruits there, if you could that you could have like a lot of profit for the kingdom of God.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: There was not a lot, there was not a large harvest.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I can preach in a place and get all people that are saved saved again.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I can get people come to the front and accept Jesus again and you know, recommit again, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: I can get a lot of people easily in front of my stage for that kind of stuff.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not that's not what God called me to do.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I God called me to reach those who have never been reached before, people that don't go to church, you know, people that don't know Jesus, never heard the gospel, you know, to reach those people for the kingdom of God because those people need to know that there is a savior that loves them and has no hopeful future for them.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: They need to know the truth because the truth will set you free.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: And so I shared on my personal testimony when I went for the very first time, uh, you know, to do like some kind of mini event in a uh favela in uh Brazil.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: And um I, you know, it was very uh terrifying to go in there, I have to be honest, you know.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: But then I knew that just no God called me to go, and so I'm going anyway.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was standing on the corner just with a speaker, you know, and just preaching the gospel, just like it seemed like I was preaching into thin air because you know there were not a lot of people there, and um there were a lot of children uh jumping around, playing around, you know, and uh saying things that I don't didn't understand everything that they were saying.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: But then, you know, there was this uh there were a lot of uh people, you know, drunk and violent, you know, and shouting a lot of profanity, and then there was uh some guys that were selling drugs, you know, in front of me.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: And after I preached the gospel, you know, I had about 20 people come to the front, you know, they came from everywhere suddenly, and they came to the front to accept Jesus, and then one of these guys that was really drunk was healed from a huge lump on his side, and so he accepted Jesus, and then that set something in motion, and then I also was allowed to pray for those guys who were dealing drugs, you know, and then they gave their lives to Jesus.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, a lot of amazing things happened, but yet there was not that amazing crowd that the Lord showed me in my prison cell when I was preaching into the mirror, and so I was just I said, Lord, you know, how do I get more people in front of my stage?
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been sharing on me studying all kinds of huge ministries, evangelical ministries that is like you know, um, people there that are called evangelists, you know.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I've been studying their ministries, and man, they did amazing stuff.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, really, really amazing stuff, huge examples, you know, and man, what a powerful and anointed message they shared on the gospel, you know, like nobody else can, you know, like an evangelist can, nobody else can, amen.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so, uh, you know, um that really, really uh blessed me.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and you know, they had a lot of crowd, they drew a lot of crowd.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: But I started to notice something while I was studying those things, you know, it was that most of those tent gatherings or you know, in stadiums, you know, all over the world, and also within the United States and so on and so forth, you know, um I noticed that most of those people were acquainted with the gospel.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: Whether they were spirit-filled Christians or came from some religious Christian background, I cannot say, but what I can say is that most of them shouted Amen, hallelujah, you know, took out their Bibles, you know, and stood up and worshipping with their hands in the air and all that kind of stuff.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: And I just started to think, you know, how is that possible?
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: If those people never went to church, if those people don't know about Jesus, if those people for the very first time hear the good news of the gospel, then how is it possible that they are so acquainted and sound so familiar with Christianity?
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so I came to the conclusion that most of those events, crusades, so-called crusades and tent gatherings and everything, they were held for mostly Christians.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so they were preaching the gospel to the people that already heard the gospel and most of them already believed the gospel.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: Now I don't say that there were no people for the very first time and accepted Jesus as the Lord and Savior because it happened, you know, and there were a lot of healings and miracles, and so yeah, it's amazing.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: But I felt that God had called me for something else, there where nobody else had preached the gospel before, there where people never heard about the gospel.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Just as Paul says, you know, in Romans 15.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: He says that he says in verse 20, I have, and so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build an anonymous foundation, but it is as it is written, to whom he was not announced, they shall see, and to those who have not heard, they shall understand.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, and I feel the urge to go there where Jesus is not preached yet.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I do preach on conferences, we hold a lot of events and conferences, we do a lot of leader conferences as well, you know, and I preach in front of the body of Christ on many occasions and in many places, and also through social media and television, satellite, and all that stuff, podcast, radio, and so on and so forth.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: In my own church, I preach in front of believers to disciple them, to teach them who they are in Christ Jesus and how they can apply that in their lives, because that's also one of my responsibilities as an evangelist.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: But when I go out, my aim is to preach Jesus where Jesus has not had yet has been preached.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I was studying all that stuff, you know, there was, you know, a lot of Christians, well-known preacher comes to town, healing and miracle, uh, crusade, you know, worship, band, this, that, you know, all come.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then all those local churches they join hands and they all come to these events.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: Which is amazing to have a mass gathering of all brothers and sisters, man.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord, we are one body, and we we need to unify.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: We do that not enough.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: We need to unify a lot more.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but we do draw large crowds, but the crowds are Christians, and so I didn't want to be that kind of evangelist.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so, nothing uh, you know, uh bad about how God used them because he did use them.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, way more than he ever has used me until now, but you know, it's just that I felt the urge to go where nobody ever heard Jesus.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: So, Father God, thank you for this teaching, and I pray it's gonna be a blessing for those who hear.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: And um I give you all the honor in Jesus' mighty name.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, so you know, for me personally, if I think about a crusade, if you study history, you know, a crusade was, you know, that those men would go into enemy territory and then win that land, you know, take in that land or that country.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: And so they were on a crusade, you know, to take in the land from the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if I think about a crusade, then I think about you know, taking territory from the darkness and win it for the kingdom of God.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: Go there when you where you can make profit for the kingdom of God, where you can bear fruit for the kingdom of God, you know, um, there where it's needed.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so, yeah, you have ministries that get the low-hanging fruit, which is amazing.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: Please pick those.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: I want to pick those that are high up and you can hardly reach, because that's the thing that God called me to.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so we need to pull people out of darkness and bring them into the light.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: And so then God showed me how to attract people who are not interested in church.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: He showed me how you can draw people that never, you know, listen to a worship band, don't even know what it is, you know, or they don't they don't come, you know, for some evangelists or anything like that.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: And so in the early years, you know, when people did 10 crusades and things like that, it drew a lot of flocks of people because there was nothing else.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: There was no radio, or maybe there was radio, but there was no television, you know, there was no iPhones and things like that.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there was not so much distraction as now.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you can walk through some of the streets and it looks like a carnival.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's only lights all over the place, you know, all impressions and sounds and noises and a lot of crowds and people like that.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: You can shout on the on the corner of the street and nobody will even hear you or see you.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody, everybody would just ignore you.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_01: Because there's so much distraction, there's so much sound, there is so much, you know, there is so much um noise in the world.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: And so people are being overwhelmed by that.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the enemy in this fallen world tries to give us so much to do and so much to be uh uh distracted by, you know, whether it's gonna be television, whether it's gonna be, you know, on all those social media platforms, whether it's gonna be, you know, but by all kinds of impressions, you know, and what's coming on on uh you know from this world.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's all to distract us so we can't hear.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: We are distracted.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: We don't we don't focus on that inner voice, we don't focus, you know, on hearing other so you know if I would do like a tent crusade in the middle of a city like that, just put the tent there.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: A few people might, you know, be curious and come to take a look, but most of the people don't even bother.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, healing, miracle, whatever.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: They don't even bother.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, man, I've seen it so many times.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Theo Osborne, you know, I'm from the Netherlands.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Theo Osborne, you know, in uh the early years, you know, I believe it was in the 60s, you know, he he kept a uh crusade on uh the Mali field.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how you say that in English, but anyway, it's a it's a it's a big piece of a big field in the middle of the city uh, you know, of where I was born in Den Haag.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's called Holland Wonder.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so he was there doing this mass crusade, and people came from all over the country.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was announced by radio that this, you know, um uh this American evangelist evangelist came to town and that there will be a lot of healings and wonders and miracles and things like that.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so this guy came, and you know, um the Pentecostal uh you know evangelical gospel was not really had broken through already in our country, so it was more traditional.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: And um, but there was nothing to do in the Netherlands, you know, there was not so much as that there is now.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so when they heard that this guy would come from the United States, you know, to go and to have healings and miracles and things like that, people were curious, they wanted to know about that, and so they came from all over the country and they they said it was like almost a hundred thousand people on that field, which is never happened again after.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: Never.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so he was there, you know.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my very first pastor, you know, he's the son of the guy that was translating T.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Osborne, and so they started their ministry in the Netherlands after that, and so you know, the the gospel started to become more known in the Netherlands, also.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but this guy came and he dropped people came with their chairs and everything, and there were a lot of Christians out of a lot of churches, but it was also a lot of non-believers, and many people came to the Lord, and there were a lot of signs and wonders.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: It was amazing.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: It was amazing.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: Now, just like two or three years ago, you know, around 22, 23, I don't remember anymore, this tent they had set up on that same field and called it, you know, um healing and miracle service and whatever, and whatsoever.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so there were no people whatsoever on that same field with the same approach.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: No people whatsoever.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because of the zeitgeist, the time that we are living in.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people are not drawn to that anymore.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: People don't give attention to that anymore.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's not new, it's not something like, oh, you need to come and see.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's people don't like, what is that?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Healing miracle, that's not for me.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's something, you know, like very spiritual, something strange.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to go there.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so it doesn't really attract people.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: That doesn't work anymore like it worked in the old days, you know, and so they even did a Holland Wonder 2.0, which was like a laugh.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, you know, there were just people coming from church to check out what was going on there.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: They did it inside, not even outside, and they called it Holland Wonder 2.0.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: That wasn't 2.0, that was 0.1, you know.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that was really not, you know, what happened when Theal Osborne came to the Netherlands.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because that system doesn't work anymore.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I found out.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: That system does not work.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we are overwhelmed by the things of the world.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: So why would anybody come, you know, to an evangelistic event, to a crusade, you know.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: People that go there are people that know Jesus, and then they don't even go there with big crowds like that anymore, you know.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so they only go if there's some famous preacher coming and they're like, oh, we want to hear them, you know, and they come and just to see what he's gonna bring, you know, and they glorify that preacher instead of you know glorifying Jesus.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: But that's another thing, and so there are a lot of nice things maybe happening and all those kind of events, you know, that they do like that old system, you know, but it's minimal.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: They're just it's just minimal, minimal harvest.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so just a handful at a time, but you know, and it's still great because every soul counts.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, Jesus left 99 to get the one, amen.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so don't get me wrong, it's still amazing, but the harvest is plentiful.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's what Jesus says.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: He says, pray to the Father for more laborers, because you know the harvest is truly plentiful, but the laborers are few.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: There is a harvest that is truly plentiful.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: The fields are white and ripe to be harvested, but with this kind of ways and methods, we are not gonna make it.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, we are not gonna make it.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: So, how do you do that?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: How do you get thousands of unbelievers to the same place in front of your stage and get them to listen to you?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: How would you do that?
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because the way that we are moving now will take us forever to reach the whole world with the good news of the gospel.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so please don't get me wrong, it's not only the massives, the the the masses, it's also, you know, the one-on-one that is very important.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, just as important if you reach 100,000 at one time, you know, you reach one at one time.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's just as important.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: So you and I, as normal Christians, you know, disciples of Jesus, we should go out and win souls one-on-one.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know, just your neighbor, those guys who are, you know, on the gym, you know, or you know, your colleague on your work, you know, that person in the supermarket, you know, uh, when you go to a restaurant, the waiter or the waitress, you know, you get those people to know the gospel of the kingdom.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't preach to them like you know the Bible says this, that.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you just share them, you know.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know that you are precious, you know that God loves you, you know that God has an hopeful future for you.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: There is a God who knows you and created you, and he has a hopeful future for you.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know that?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you know, you know that you are very precious, that you're a very special person.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and God has something for you that you can only even imagine for yourself.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, or just you know, level with them where they are and where they're standing, and just speak words of life over them and just start to mention Jesus, that just start to mention Jesus within your conversation, you know, and see if you either can sow in their hearts or maybe you can even draw them into the kingdom.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, you have to be you're an ambassador of the kingdom of God and you speak on behalf of Christ, like God is pleading through you, you know, be reconciled to God, and so it's a very important task for each and every believer.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, now we're talking about reaching a lot of people at one time, drawing large crowds, the vision that God is giving me when I'm in was in my prison cell.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so God gave me this concept, and I've been applying this concept for years, and I'm telling you, it works.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: It works.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: And now, other ministries, the ministries that were rejecting me, ministries that said that is not of God, that said this is never never gonna work, you know, that's not a biblical way, and blah blah blah.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: All those people that had a lot to say now all come to me because they want to work with me or they want to learn from me so they can apply it as well.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord, amen, because that's what we want.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: We want as many people as possible to do the same thing so we can, you know, get a profit for the kingdom of God, you know.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, there are always people, you know, to try to promote their own kingdom, you know.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh well, it's between them and God, amen.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so let me go back to the very first time I was in the slum in Sao Paulo preaching with a small speaker on the corner of the street.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: I preached the gospel.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: I preached the gospel of the kingdom, you know, and a lot of people passed me by while I was preaching, and then in just in the end, just a handful of people came to me.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was frustrated about that.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and I mean every soul matters, you know, but when you go out to win, you know, like you want to win a lot of souls, and you know, just have a few, you know, you're uh I am a person that I can rejoice over the few, but then I also in the same time I can think, why didn't I get that crowd?
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know, why didn't I get more people?
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: And that is really something that could frustrate me.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: But then a few weeks later, you know, I went to the same slum, you know, it wasn't a few weeks later, it was a few days later.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: I went to the same slum, and I had about a hundred food parcels that we had made with little bags.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: We put rice in it, flour in it, oil in it, all that stuff.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and I put that in a pickup, and I drove into the drove into the slum in the favela, and I just stopped there.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I wasn't even out of my car already.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: People came from all over the place running to the truck.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I I can tell you it was like you know, a swarm of people that came to the truck when I came with the truck and all the plastic bags in the back of my truck, and then the Lord showed me.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: It was like a lightning, you know, bolt struck me from heaven, and the Lord showed me, and it says here in James 2, because I had now suddenly their full attention.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: I had their full attention, and it really just it just really touched me, and the Lord showed me in James 2.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: In James 2, verse 15, it says this.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: It says, if a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warm and filled, but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Does also faith by itself, if it hath not have works, is dead.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: And so, the moment I stood there and I saw all those people, the Lord gave me a vision.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: And he told me, if you're gonna tell people that I love them, that I have a hopeful future for them, that I gave my son for them, that he is the way, the truth, and the life, and that they can live a life that they can, they, they, they, they, they couldn't even dream of, you know, that I've so Much more for them that they can have for themselves.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you go there and tell them that, don't go empty-handed.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: Show them that I love them.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: Come to their need, come to their aid in whatever need they have, whether it's gonna be food, whether it's gonna be clothes, whether it's gonna be water, whatever it is, come to their aid, and then you will have the full attention, and then you can just sow the kingdom into their hearts, and you will have um profit, you will have fruits.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, uh it doesn't make no sense, you know, to go to all those places uh empty-handed and just start shouting about Jesus who wants to bless you and wants to prosper you if you do not give them what they really need.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was for me, it was like a revelation.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Jesus also gave food in addition to teaching.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Look what it says in Mark 6.34.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Mark 6.34.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, this is really gonna bless you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mark 6.34.
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  SPEAKER_01: It already is blessing me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll have to talk about those stories, man, all those things, how it all happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here it says here 634.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, just a page back.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus, when he came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep, not having a shepherd.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he began to teach them many things.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: When the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him and said, This is a deserted place, and already the hour is late.
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  SPEAKER_01: Send them away that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: But he answered and said to them, You give them something to eat.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: And they said, Shall we go to buy two hundred denarii word of bread and give them something to eat?
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  SPEAKER_01: So he says, You give them something to eat.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then so Jesus, you know, told them that they needed to give food to those people.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: And now look what it says in John 6.23.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just watching my time, John 6.23.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, I will continue this in the next episode, but this is really, really, really good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: John 6 23.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: So here it says, then uh, well, let's read from 22.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the following day, when the people who were standing on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there except the one which his disciples had entered, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but his disciples had gone away alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: However, other boats came from Tiberius near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
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  SPEAKER_01: When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they also got into boats and came to Kepernaum seeking Jesus.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when did you come here?
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus answered and said, Most assuredly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because the Father has set his seal on him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, they didn't come to Jesus because the signs and the wonders, because of the teaching he gave and the gospel that he was preaching.
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  SPEAKER_01: They came because he gave them something, he gave them food.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: And then the people came to him because they wanted to receive food.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus says, I'm telling you, man, you are coming, you know, you're seeking me, not because you saw all those things and you heard the gospel, but because you re because you ate bread and you were filled.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, even in Jesus' time, they didn't come for all that stuff.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Man, this is powerful.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: This is a clue, this is a key.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: So my time is up, but I'm gonna come back in the next episode and we will continue this.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I hope you were blessed and I hope to see you then.
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  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
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