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61 - Never Go Empty-Handed · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clearly explained.
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  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: Hi there, and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Johan Toot, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I've started this amazing series called Effective Evangelism.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I've been covering a lot of good stuff and basically sharing on, you know, first of all, the importance before we know how we can effectively win souls for Jesus, you know, we need to understand the importance, the need for soul winning.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: The whole reason why Jesus came was that no one should perish, but all should come to repentance.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's why God gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so the whole reason why Jesus came was to restore that which was lost.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: There was the unity, the oneness with God the Father, so that God couldn't be in us again and we could be in him again, so that he could restore us to the Father, that he could make peace and reconcile us to the Father by the atonement and the forgiveness of our sins by his blood and his grace.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so we could be restored and be back in relationship with God again.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: And so he wants that for all people all over the world, for whoever.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: There is no one excluded, no one excluded, you know, to receive the gospel because that's the reason why Jesus came.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so, how will they hear if nobody preaches?
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, how will they believe if they do not hear, and how will they hear if nobody preaches?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so it's so important that each and every one of us walks out the Great Commission in 28, Matthew 28, 19 and 20, you know, that he sends us to make disciples of all the nations and to baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and to teach them to do everything that He has teached us, you know, and so that's also to go out and preach the gospel and heal the sick and cleanse the lepers and raise the dead and cast out demons, amen.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_01: And we have received freely, so we should give freely.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_01: And so basically, I've been sharing on that importance.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, I've been sharing on my personal testimony how you know God called me to draw a lot of large crowds for the kingdom of God as an evangelist.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_01: He anointed me as an evangelist to win souls for Jesus by the masses, like huge, mute, multitudes of people.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been sharing on my process to get there, and you know, and what I found out if I was trying to learn from other evangelists, you know, how they did it, you know, to find out.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, and I discovered that they were applying the gospel on people that already heard the gospel in most of the times.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so, yeah, there were people that you know accepted Jesus for the very first time, but the harvest was minimal.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: Even if you had like 5,000 people in front of your stage to accept Jesus, 4,500 already did that another 50 times before, you know, because that was how they preached it.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like if you you were backsliding, you know, if you need to recommit yourself, you know, if you just to get more people in front of the altar so they could say, look at the harvest that we have, you know.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so um, I don't say that all of them did that or did that on purpose, it was just the way of the time.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but you know, I want to reach people that never heard the gospel before.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: I want to reach people that never set one foot into church, that are not acquainted with the gospel, they're not acquainted with the name of Jesus, you know, only they maybe used it as a curse in their mouths, but not, you know, to glorify his name, you know.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: And so um, I was that that is what I am aiming for.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now that doesn't say that all the other things are not good, it's just that God showed me that for me, for what I my heart was burning, that just wouldn't cut it.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: I need to get out of that old system, the old ways that everybody's applying, and I need to get a new concept, new systems.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm a person thinking outside of the box, and so I do things that maybe can shock the body of Christ, and maybe people can disagree with or judge or whatever, you know.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: But my heart always is and always will be to serve God, to be obedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you know, when He speaks to me, when He shows me things, you know, and I'm not afraid to try them, even if I go flat on my face, even though you know I will find out like man, man, I've tried it, but this ain't working.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't I don't mind because I am trying to do whatever God called me to do, you know, with the best, you know, effort that I can.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: I want to have excellence for the kingdom of God.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, if you don't try, you can go to school your whole life to be taught to be a carpenter, but you are not a carpenter until you hit the first nail into the wall.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: As long as you don't go and do it, you can scream and shout about what you have, who you are and what you have done.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, once you start to show it, you know, when you start to do it, then you will become it.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: And so I can say that I'm an evangelist and then I'm not, you know, preaching the gospel to those who never heard the gospel, then you know, I'm just shouting to the crowd.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm preaching to the to the crowd, you know, that I'm I'm preaching to the people that already know him, you know.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm not seeking for hallelujahs or amens, I'm seeking for souls for the kingdom of God.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, um then I shared on how you know um I saw that you know when you go somewhere empty-handed, especially the places where I go, you know, I go to the slums, I go to rural areas, you know, I go to small, you know, villages, you know, villages where nobody else ever comes, you know, and you know, where they don't even have running water, you know, I go to those places where nobody else goes and nobody else comes, you know, and you go there, you know, and if you go there, you know, and preach the gospel to them, you know, you I found out that if you go empty-handed, you don't get their full attention.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: But when you come to bring them something they need, then you have their full attention.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so I shared on how I went for the very first time to a favela in uh Brazil and I was preaching the gospel on the corner of the street, which had a little bit of an impact.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: And then I came back a few days later with my pickup full with food parcels, and then I draw the whole favela almost empty, you know, around that car, and I just didn't have enough to give to those people, which really broke my heart.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: But that's another story.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you know, people, you know, um, I shared on Jesus, you know, when he was preaching the gospel, you know, and then he gave them food, you know, he gave them bread, you know, and fish.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: And then the next day, you know, uh they came to seek Jesus.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus says in uh John 6, verse 26, he says, Most as surely I say to you, you seek me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, people came because they needed something, and that's the whole reason why they came.
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  SPEAKER_01: They needed something in the physical and the natural.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so that was the reason why they came to listen to Jesus, because this is just you know how humans are.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: They need something tangible, you know, to get you, to give you their full attention.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: And so in the time that we live today, it's not different.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: You have to give them something.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've left off there, uh, you know, and I'm gonna continue in this one.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: Father God, thank you so much for this teaching, and uh I pray that people receive the importance and the need of soul winning and they will learn how they effectively can reach people for the kingdom so that we can multiply ourselves and that your name can be glorified, Father.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much in the name of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so, with what do you attract people that you normally would not attract?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: With what would you win those that you would normally never win?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: How can you reach those that you can never reach with something that they need, something that they need.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you want to reach, you know, out if you want to reach the unsaved people, the lost brothers and sisters, if you want to reach out to them in the world, you better not go empty-handed because you're not gonna get their full attention.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: You're just not gonna get their full attention.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: You can do, man.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we have gospel trucks driving all over the world, and so uh, you know, we have those trucks just pulling up somewhere in a village on a square in a park or whatever, and they just you know open the stage and put the speakers out, you know, and all that stuff, you know, and just we sometimes in some places we give away like popcorn, you know, and cotty cannon, you know, and that kind of stuff.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we have some clowns, you know, maybe sometimes we even have like this um how you say that um those jumping pillows, you know, and stuff like that.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: And so just to draw the attention of the kids, because when you draw the attention of the kids, then the parents will come along, amen.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, we we we do that stuff and sometimes do like a little skit, you know, like a little drama or something, you know, and and you know, when people walk by and they see it in some stand and something not, and something like that.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: The moment we say that we're gonna give them something, that they can win a prize, whether it's gonna be a cell phone or tablet or television or refrigerator or whatever, the moment we say that they can win that, bam, everybody stands still, you know.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: People just draw, you know, like I want to win that.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, what do I need to do to win that?
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I have their full attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, so you don't go empty-handed, you get to give them something that they need to get their attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the system that really, really works well.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: Because people are so busy and consumed in their own little world, they won't give you their attention if you don't have nothing to give to them, you know, and so they won't listen to what you say.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so look what it says in um Matthew 25, 34.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 25, 34, Matthew 25, 24.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: I love this, it's something so man.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: All these red letters, they just they suck me, you know.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm forgetting that I'm teaching here.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just go back to where I'm teaching.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, so it here says in Matthew 25, 34, then the king will say to those on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: For I was hungry and you gave me food.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: I was thirsty and you gave me drink.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was a stranger and you took me in.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was naked and you clothed me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was sick and you visited me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was in prison and you came to me.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: And then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or thirsty and give you drink?
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: When did we see you a stranger and took you in or naked and clothed you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: And the king will answer and said to them, Asurely I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I love this, you know, the least, you know.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Just that touches my heart because the least of his brethren, brethren, you know, if you just, you know, if you go somewhere and you give them something they need, whether it's food, whether it's drink, whether it's clothes, you know, whether to see them, you know, love on them, you know, and just give them something they need, be there for them, you know.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Man, Jesus says, You have done that to me.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's already a reason why you should do that, amen.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: But he says, it's powerful, you know.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: It says that it's not enough to tell people that God loves them.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like James says, you know, what use is it if somebody is hungry, thirsty, or naked, and you tell them, you know, go be warm and be filled, you know, and be blessed.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: You don't give them what they need.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: It has no that's like faith without works.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't reach people, it doesn't bless people bless people, and it's not the gospel.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: The gospel is that you come there, and it's not like, you know, many people tell me, you know, um, it sounds like you are buying them.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: What I'm buying is their attention.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not buying them.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm not saying to them, listen, you know, I've got a television here and I'm gonna give away.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you're gonna accept Jesus, I'm gonna give you the television.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I am buying them.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's not what I do.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: I draw the crowd by giving them something they need in the natural.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: For example, you know, I gave a crusade in um Brazil where we gave away um I believe it was 20,000 food parcels in one event.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: And so if I would set up my stage on that big parking lot, and I wouldn't mention to the people in the village, everywhere we went, through the city, to the marketplaces, the stations, and everywhere, if we wouldn't mention to those people, listen, you know, we have this event and we're gonna give a food parcel, you know, for free.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you come to the event, we're gonna give you a free food parcel.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: This is a ticket, and with the ticket you get the food parcel.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: If we wouldn't do that, I wouldn't have not even 50 people in front of my stage.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: But now we said we're gonna give food parcels.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you, we had over 20,000 people standing on that square.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: Over 20,000 people because they could get something.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: And now they were standing there hours in the heat of the sun waiting for them to receive their food parcel.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: It was like in the time of Jesus, you know, they were all day sitting there and waiting, you know, hoping to get some food.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: And Jesus was just teaching them and teaching them and teaching them.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: We had music, we had dance, we had all that stuff, you know, and then people were just waiting patiently.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, I went on stage and preached the gospel to them.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: And thousands of them came to the front and accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and many, many healing signs and wonders happened.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: People were filled with the Holy Spirit.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: We have given thousands and thousands of Bibles and of my book, Good Enough, in Portuguese.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we we we had such an amazing drawing of people coming from all over the place.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: They came from all over the place because it was in a remote place where we had the festival, where we had the event.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and then we blessed 20,000 people with food parcels, and it was a huge, great success.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: And the Lord showed me that this is the way you should preach the gospel.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: This is the way that you can reach the unreached.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: This is the concept that I'm gonna give to you.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: God loves us to be kind and generous to others, not just words, but also in actions.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so I have a few minutes left in this study, and I just want to, you know, show you this concept that God gave me that is called Festival de Vida, and it means basically festival of life.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so we do some countries where they don't where they're not Spanish speaking, we do call it sometimes festival of life, but our brand is festival de vida.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: That is the concept that God gave me.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: And I launched a website, I've launched, you know, this whole concept there.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm not using any Christian terminology whatsoever on these festivals.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody, even if you go to the website, if you go to the socials of that festival, the Vida, you don't find any Christian terminology.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: We don't say so many people accepted Jesus on this event, you should come in the next.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: We don't talk about that.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: We don't say this God, this pastor, this bishop, this prophet, this evangelist is coming.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's those those terminologies are not used.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: And we don't say worship this, worship that.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: We don't say in collaboration with this church and that church and that church, nothing.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: Now, you know, I can tell you something.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: I have so many unbelievable ministries that told me that they don't want to work with me because they cannot promote their own church, which is a shame on you, you know, because it's not about you.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: They ask me what's in it for me.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Well, what do you mean, what's in it for you?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, what's in it for the kingdom, man?
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we are not in it for us, we're in it for the kingdom.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm telling you, the very first I'm gonna share on this, and it's really gonna bless you.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: The very first crusade, real crusade with a stage and everything, I did in a in a slum also in Brazil.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I did two nights.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: And the first night I just had music and everything, you know, and we were just worshiping the Lord and all that kind of stuff, and nobody came.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like I had maybe 25 people, 30 people in front of my stage.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: The second day I gave away 1,500 food parcels and it was packed.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: And all, I mean, all of them accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's just like I've seen what works and what does not work.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yes?
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so God gave me this uh this concept, you know.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: In John 6.26, Jesus says, Most as surely I say to you, seek me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and you were filled.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: And so people will come, you know, uh when you give them something that they need.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Now you need to find out what they need in the place where you go, the country where you go.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and if you go to Rodeo Drive with a bag of rice, nobody will come and listen to you.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: You need to give them like a minimum a coochie bag or something for them to come to listen to you.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm telling you, what is it that would make them come all the way to you and then by the thousands and take the time to listen to what you've got to say?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so for us, you know, to give some examples, you know, we give away food parcels in Brazil, but we also give away motors and cars, you know, we're in Panama.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: In Panama, we gave away brand new cars and motorcycles, you know.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um in Colombia, we give away motorcycles, we give away cars, we give away refrigerators, you know, in Mexico, you know, in Venezuela, we give away cars, we give away food parcels, but we give we give away a lot of stuff.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: So wherever we need to give, we we have given chicken, you know, even a lot of chickens, you know, we have given away, you know, or goats and that kind of stuff.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever people need, where you go, we we offered them that that what they needed.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so this concept that God gave me, this festival de vida, you know, it's basically it's a cultural festival.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: And what do we do in this cultural festival?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing ungodly.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not that there's no alcohol.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I can't stop people being drunk when they come to the event.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody's welcome, but we don't sell alcohol.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we don't sell food or things like that, but still, you know, when we do this festival, especially in South America, a lot of those uh small um business people see an opportunity and put their stand there and start to sell hot dogs or whatever, you know.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Or we don't stop that, just do what you want to do, you know.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: But we don't use any Christian terminology.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: We give a cultural festival, we we uh hire a local famous singer or band or rapper, whatever that doesn't sing things that are ungodly, and then we have local folklore that will glorify the country, and then we have dance groups, you know, theater and things like that.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so we put this festival, this cultural festival program, and we promote that in the world.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: We use influencers, we use billboards, we put it on buses, you know, and everywhere, you know, and we fly in the streets, and nobody's talking hallelujah, amen, Jesus, praise the Lord, and not nothing.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a festival, a free cultural festival, and it draws tens of thousands of people from all over the land, from all over the country, they come to those festivals.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: People that are not looking for Jesus, they don't know that they are looking for Jesus, people that maybe have never heard about Jesus, maybe there are some, I mean, always 20% of the people are Christians, also the people that help you to set it up, you know.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: But there is, I mean, 80% people from the world that you would never ever reach just by this old way, old school way.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: You will never reach them.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: But in this way, people come to this festival and they can win a car, they can win a motorcycle, they can win a television, they can win an iPhone, they can win whatever they can win.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we have all these prices that we give away, mattresses, you know, you cannot it doesn't matter what it costs because Jesus paid with his precious blood.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: The most expensive that ever was paid, you know, to save you and me was the blood of Jesus.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing in this world could pay for your salvation but the blood of Jesus, and so he went to buy.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: You and me with his precious blood out of every tribe, tongue, and nation.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: And now whatever it has to, whatever it need whatever is needed, whatever means we need to win those souls for Jesus that has bought them with his blood, you know, to win them for the kingdom of God.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: The whole reason why Jesus came, who cares how much it costs?
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: Whether it's gonna cost 10 euros a person, 50 euros a person, a thousand euros a person, or one euro or a dollar a person, you know, it doesn't matter how much it costs as long as we reach them for the kingdom of God, like really reach them with the true gospel and really win them, you know, with a very effective way.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: And so, man, we are drawing people.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: When I started to do this very first festivals of life, nobody wants to do.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: I just worked with like one pastor here or one pastor there.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: All the other ministries said, no, that's a cultural festival, that's not of God, you know, that's not the way we do it in church.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_01: No, because you don't think outside of the box, you think in your own religious mindset, you know, like you know, it all has to be, you know, holy.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: But what we are doing is holy.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus went there where the hookahs were, he went there where the where the where the tax collectors were, you know, and the and the sinners were.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: He went there, you know, where people were broken, were lost and rejected.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: He went to the poor, he went to the humble, he went to the afflicted and the brokenhearted, he went to them.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: And how did he went to them?
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly as they were, he just went to them and he didn't judge them, he didn't condemn them, he didn't come there, you know, with his whole with his whole congregation, you know, and telling them all they need to go to church or anything like that.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: No, he just came there and tell them, told them, you know, that there is a better way.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: That he came to bring them good news.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: He came to draw their attention with love and compassion, you know.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so, why should we do it any different?
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, they didn't want to do that, they didn't want to work like that, you know, but I just start doing it anyway because if God spoke it, I'm gonna do it anyway, amen.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so I started this concept, Festival de Vida, you know, and the very first one at this, that's hit it off, bam, packed.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then the on the other one, and the other one, and the other one.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: We have done festival, the Vida Festival of Life in Pakistan.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, like 100,000 people, 90,000 people, or something like that came.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Unbelievable, man.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: We were baptizing people, you know, on the rooftops, man.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: I can tell you stories and testimonies.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: We have seen, we have, we see so many people come to the Lord that never heard the gospel of the good news of the gospel through this concept.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: And man, it's really, really successful.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: And you can apply that same concept, but then in the small.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: The same concept.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: You can go and talk with your neighbor and bring something for them.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: You can go and do outreach on the street and then truly reach out to them by bringing food to the homeless, bringing a sandwich.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that many people already do that, but don't just go and bring them the bread, also preach and teach the gospel to them, amen.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: Lead them to the Lord.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, we can apply that system in the small, the same system that I apply in the big, we also do it smaller with the trucks, and then we do it smaller one-on-one.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: When we go out to the streets in Brazil, we go to the homeless and we bring sandwiches, man.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: We give away thousands of sandwiches every year.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: And we just go there and just give them a sandwich, give them a bottle of water, a piece of fruit, maybe a blanket, maybe a tent, slippers, or whatever they need.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: And we just talk with them, no matter what kind of state they are, you know, and we just share the gospel with them.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: We will love them, you know, and we get their attention because we don't come empty-handed.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: Just come there and said, Hey, can I talk to you for a second?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, I'm too busy, let me go.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: But say, Hey man, do you want something to eat?
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, you got something, yeah, sure.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: And then I have the connection and I can talk with them.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's an amazing system, it's an amazing concept, and we should do that.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: Never go empty-handed, you know, and then show them that God really loves and cares about them and bring them something.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Not to buy their souls, but to get their attention.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: So, man, my time is up, and uh, I will continue in the next episode, you know, of effective evangelism.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: I got a lot of Bible verses to share on, you know, how God calls us to make an impact and how we can make that impact, you know, and how we can disciple people and all that stuff.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna go into all of that in depth.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: So please stick around and I hope to see you again in a new episode of One Gospel.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
• 26:29
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