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59 - Comfortable Christianity Won’t Save Souls · The One Gospel Podcast

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to One Gospel, bringing you the full truth of God's Word, clearly explained.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ready to take notes?
• 0:16
  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 am your host, Joan Toot, and as always, I am excited to share the Word of God with you.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I've started this teaching called Effective Evangelism, and I've been covering a lot of stuff already.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: I really want to recommend you to go back to the first episode of this series and just follow it from the beginning because we are building up.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: But I've been sharing mainly in the beginning on the importance, the need for winning souls.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: And man, I've been covering a lot, and I really believe that it has been a blessing already for a lot of people because you would be surprised how many people in the body of Christ, you know, are not aware of the emergency, the necessary, the urgency, you know, of winning souls for Jesus.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_01: Well, this was the whole reason why he came, so that no one would perish, but all should come to repentance.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so God doesn't want anyone of us to perish.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't want anyone to die without knowing Jesus, you know, and be lost forever.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't want anyone to be oblivion, you know, on the fact that they need a savior and that that savior is Jesus, you know, who has a hopeful future for them and thoughts of you know of peace and and not of uh evil, you know.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: And so, man, the world needs to know.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so I I really believe that whatever he whispers us in our ears, we need to shout it from the rooftops.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I also believe firmly that it's almost impossible that if you had an encounter with love, you know, if you had an encounter with the greatest love of all times, you know, our Lord Jesus, if you had an encounter with the Lord and you you received his goodness, you received his spirit, you received his nature, you know, he did all that for you and pulled you out of the pit and placed you into his wondrous light.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you had an encounter with Jesus, for you to stay silent about that.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: Don't share that with other people because you're afraid what they might say, what their response might be.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe they can reject you or ridiculeze you or whatever.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: You know, maybe you are, you know, in some public building where you work, you know, for the government or whatever, you know, where you're not allowed to talk about Jesus and then you just stay silent because you're afraid you might lose your job.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: Who cares about your job if God is your source?
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, never be ashamed.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, if you are ashamed about me in front of people, I will be ashamed about you in front of my father.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's strong, that's strong language.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: But Jesus wants us to be proud of the fact that we belong to Him, that we are now with Jesus and no longer with the devil.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so we should, man, I how can you I would never stay silent about that.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: Never.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know, because nobody's gonna tell me what I'm gonna, if I can, if I can talk and proclaim the love of my life.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: I proclaim the love of my life wherever I am, whether they're gonna like it or not, you know, if they kick me out, then kick me out.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: If they're gonna fire me, then fire me.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: But Jesus is my Lord and my savior, he is the only way, the truth, and the life.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: No one comes to the Father but by him.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: He loves me so much that he gave his life for me, he died for me, he went into death, into the grave, and then he rose again on the third day.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: He took upon him all my sins, my iniquities, weaknesses, sicknesses.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: He took everything upon him so that I might be free.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: He became sinned so that I could be the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: Now, who are you to tell me not to talk about the love of my life?
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: I will talk about the love of my life, and you know, and he loves you also unconditional.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: Only difference between you and me is that you don't know and don't believe, and I do know and I do believe.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: And he wants you to believe also, but I'm not gonna shut up never, ever in my life.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so, really, man, I okay, anyway, I wanted to just share uh show you this uh this book that I have here.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's called Living in the Fullness, the ABC of the Gospel.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: I believe it goes really well with the teaching.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's not all about it's not like I'm teaching on this book.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's just that, you know, once we understand that we are in the fullness of God, the you know, the the A is how to get into the fullness, then the B is okay, we're now in the fullness.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: And then once you understand that you're in the fullness, then how you can apply that, how you can walk in that uh, you know, uh in the world that we're living in, and how you can let people to the Lord, how you can baptize them, how you can pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, how you can cast out demons, how you can heal the sick, you know, and so I'm I'm sharing that based, you know, on the word of God and giving you all these tools and these tips.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's not the holy grail, you know.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm sure I don't cover everything that's covered uh that that you can cover on it, but it's basic and it will really help you to get the right tools.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: And so you can get that for free.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: Make sure you're gonna catch your copy ASAP.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, in the link below, you can see how you can download it also if you want it immediately on your tablet or something like that.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: So, Father God, thank you so much for this teaching.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your goodness and your kindness, and thank you, Lord, that you have called us to be a light in the world and the soul of the earth and to multiply ourselves for your kingdom.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: I give you all the praise in the mighty name of Jesus.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so in Romans 15 20, I left off in the first in the previous episode.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, here it says, and Paul says, And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: But as it is written, to whom he was not announced, they shall see, and those who have not heard shall understand.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so Paul says, you know, I take I take more pleasure in going in places, to places, areas, you know, where Jesus was not yet preached.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't go over and over and preach over and over to exactly the same people.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and this is a big mistake that we make in the body of Christ.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I am not judgmental, it's just fact stating.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: In the body of Christ, people have the tendency to go back to the place where they were successful before.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: And they go there over and over again to share the same gospel over and over again to the same people over and over again, which is not what we should do.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I mean, if we have churches, we all come together and we, you know, for me, church is celebration.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: We come together with our brothers and sisters, first of all, you know, to celebrate the fact that we are children of the living God, then to celebrate each other because we are one body, you know, to be a blessing for others and to be there and see them, you know, and spend time together and have fellowship together, and then we receive a word of God and encouragement or whatever, you know.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm not gonna build my relationship based on what the preacher is preaching.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm building my relationship on my in my community with the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, and I'm sitting at the feet of Jesus and I myself, you know, are teaching about Him, you know, and uh finding out who He is, who I am, and how I can apply that in my life, and so on and so forth.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: So, yes, I can be encouraged, and yes, I can receive amazing stuff, but I'm not depending on the preacher, I'm depending on Jesus, amen.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: But I go to church, you know.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean I'm a senior pastor of a church, but I don't know, I'm not always there because I have a traveling ministry.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: But I go to church, you know, to celebrate the fact that I'm a child of God together with my brothers and my sisters and to have fellowship.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so that you go there over and over again, that's totally fine.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm talking about, you know, just having, you know, um going to those same places where you've already been to preach the gospel, not to maintain church, but to preach the gospel, you know, like having all these conferences constant, constant with the same people.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: The same people just keep coming and you just keep preaching the gospel to the same people, to the same people.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I'm not talking about teaching people about healing or teaching people about this or teaching people about that, or you know, or discipling them or whatever.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about preaching the gospel to win souls for Jesus, to go over and over again to the same people and just keep preaching the gospel, preach, keep preaching the gospel.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: They already heard the gospel, it's time to move on.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so I take pleasure in going there where I know other people didn't go yet.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I cannot fully get that 100% done as I desire in my heart because I am depending on other people also, you know, when I do what I do.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so there is always a portion of people uh attending my festivals where you know there they are Christians.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so let's say that 20% of them are Christians, uh, you know, but then 80% are atheist or you know, Hindu, Muslim, or whatever, you know, they're have other belief systems or they don't believe at all in anything, you know, a lot of broken people, lost people, you know, and people that are uh completely immersed in the world, partying and all that stuff, you know, and and we draw everything from every level of society, and uh, you know, and so and that's those people have not been reached yet, and that you will never reach them with the way that we do that in the body of Christ.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: You will never reach them, and so I love to go to the homeless, the outlaws, I love to go to the orphans and the widows, you know, the broken and rejected.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: They're the they who have nothing to give but only to receive.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: That are the people that I really love to go to.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I man, I've been preaching in front of multi-millionaires and billionaires.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, people that have so much money they don't know what to do with it.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and all they are interested in is when I'm gonna invest in the kingdom, what's in it for me.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they think in percentages, they think in like, you know, finances and all that kind of stuff, you know, and that really doesn't bless my heart.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure it doesn't bless that of the Lord's also.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know, because you know, you don't do not invest in the kingdom of God because you want to make money.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: You invest in the kingdom of God because you want to be obedient.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: You want to you want to show God that you are a good steward of that what he entrusted you with, and you want the kingdom to be built and be advanced as fast as possible, to win as many people as possible, disciple as many people as possible as possible, that can win as many people as possible, so that Jesus can come back in all his glory, amen.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Not so that you can have more money on top of all the money that you already have.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's not I always tell those people, you know, I said, listen, you know, with all due respect, but you're already making money, so why would you want to make more money, you know, if it comes to the things of the kingdom?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: The kingdom is not about making money, the kingdom is about making the making disciples, the kingdom is about winning souls for Jesus, the kingdom is about, you know, proclaiming Jesus to the world that we are living in so that no one would perish, but that all would come to repentance, no matter the cost.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Because Jesus gave himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: God gave his most precious that he had, that was his only beloved son, and then Jesus gave himself to die for us.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so who cares, you know, what it costs to reach those people, to win them for the kingdom of God.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: But you should be surprised that those people that have so much money, they're very reluctant to give to these kind of events, to these kind of festivals, where the where there literally are people being saved for eternity.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: They don't go to hell but be in the presence of the Lord forever.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: The whole reason why Jesus came.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: And they call themselves Christians and they don't want to give to that, but they want to give to a building project, they want to give to, you know, like an orphanage, you know, or a hospital and things like that.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I always tell them, listen, you know, with all due respect, but you know, you can give to an orphan, which is totally amazing.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: But if you do not teach them about Jesus and who he is and that he died for them, and you lead them to the Lord so that they can become children of God as well, then you have been feeding them, you have given them school uh education, you have given them a job and a career, you know, and you have given them a life here on this planet, and then they die and they are lost forever.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_01: What point is that?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: That's a waste of money, man.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: You should win them for Jesus.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: So if you have an orphanage, then make sure that they're gonna be discipled during the whole time you're taking care of them so they'll be led to the Lord, amen.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: Then it's a good investment.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: And so, yeah, I don't want to go into that, but I've been preaching for a lot of people with a lot of power and a lot of money.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: I've been from people from the government, police systems, armies, you know, I've been preaching for a lot of different kinds of people, and I love them and I bless them, you know.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: But just seems that they don't understand the importance of winning those, you know, who have nothing to give, and that it costs money to do that.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, but I love to win those people that have nothing to give because there is nothing in it for me.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing in it for me.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: If I if I go and preach the gospel to them, there is nothing in it for me.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: They can't give me anything.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: The only thing they can give me is saying yes to Jesus.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's the only thing they can give me.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: And man, that's what it's all about.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like that, of course.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gathering treasures in heaven.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, praise the Lord.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: I can't wait to see what those treasures are.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, but um, for here on this planet, physically, it only will cost me.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: Every time I go out, it will cost us a lot.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: But I know that it's not in the money, it is in winning them over for King Jesus what it's all about.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been to places where no other preacher would go.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen horrific places around the world.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: I have I've been with preachers going to places and then they said, We don't go.
• 13:42
  unknown: I'm telling you, man.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: Or, you know, we went to a place in Africa one time, you know, and it was a very dangerous area.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, these people there, we were on their marketplace doing three-day crusades, and and they told us the first day, you cannot come back, otherwise, you have a serious problem.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: Don't come back here.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: And the the the leaders didn't want to go back.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going for Mickey Mouse, I'm going for the King of Kings, man.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going in the name of Jesus, of course I'm going back.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: What do you say?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: I went back, man.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, by the hundreds they came to the stage to accept Jesus as the Lord and Savior.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: You see, I'm gonna do it anyway, no matter the cost, amen.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: But whether I'm gonna share one-on-one or in large numbers, I have one message and one message only, and that is that Jesus is alive and he loves you and he loves me.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and he wants you to believe on him, to receive him so that you can become his child.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that message of unconditional love, you know, that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father but by him.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: You need Jesus.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if you feel empty, feel broken, feel depressive, if you feel that you are missing something in life, if you feel that your life wasn't worth, isn't worth anything, you know, if you have if you deal with feelings, you know, of not being good enough, unwanted and rejected and all that stuff, you know, if you really tried it all yourself to make it and you always come out short, you know, and so on and so forth, you know, I've got the answer for you, and his name is Jesus.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus is the answer.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's this beautiful song that Jesus is the answer for the world today.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: Apart, and there's no other.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus is the way.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: He is the way, there is no other way.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Buddha is not the way, Hare Krishna is not the way, Mohammed is not the way, the things of the world are not the way, you know, money, power, career, success, you know, it's not the way.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: Your husband is not the way, not the way, your wife is not the way, you are not the way, I am not the way.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: No one comes to the Father but by me.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: We need to have Jesus.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's very simple and it's the only truth.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, one of my very first crusades, because I was called as an evangelist, you know, I mean that's the point I wanted to make a long time ago.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: But I didn't I didn't know what an evangelist was until people told me you're an evangelist, you know, and so when I started to discover what an evangelist is, you know, I because if I'm an evangelist, I want to know what my task is, amen.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so I've got this amazing teaching about the gift of an evangelist.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I will share also on one gospel, but you know, basically it's a messenger of good news, amen.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I love good news, and I love to share good news, I love to make people happy.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know about you, man.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: I love to make people happy.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to make people sad, I don't want to make people cry, I don't want to make people feel bad, I don't want to, you know, give you know bad vibes to people.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't say that I never do that, and if I do, I repent from it.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: That's not what I want.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: I really want everybody to be happy, you know.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so I love to share good news.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so um I wanted to do that, you know, with the vision that God has given me.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I was reaching people there, here, reaching people there, but never that big crowds that you know God showed me the very first day that I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so one of my first crusades overseas was in 2016 in a slum uh in a favela in Sao Paulo.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Now, God just had called me.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: He he had said to me four words in 2016 concerning ministry.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: I already was doing mission trips, I already was preaching, I always went to prisons, you know, and you know, teaching here and preaching there and all this kind of stuff, doing a lot of outreaches and evangelism.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: But that God really called us to start our own ministry that was in 2016.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: He said forward, and then we started the One in Him Foundation, and um never knowing where that all would go, and man, that's too much to share just in even one episode.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: But we started the One in Him Foundation, and we just started to do what God told us to do, and so He told us to go to Brazil, and uh we were never in Brazil before, Brenda and I.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so we came to Brazil the very first time, and uh, you know, we met some people, and then they brought us to a favela in Sao Paulo.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: Man, you know, I mean the slums, uh like you have you have some reasonable houses the higher you go, but like in the beginning of the favelas, you know, until like more or less a quarter, until a half of that, it's really, really terrible how people live.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, there is trash and there is debris everywhere, you know.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_01: There's human, you know, uh exposed disposers or whatever you call that.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's and man, the the water is like full with trash, you know.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's like there's no normal electricity or anything like that, man.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Houses of cardboard, houses of you know, just very thin slices of wood, you know, all you know with grew uh fungus on it and all that, man, really terrible.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so I got in there, you know, and there was a lot going on.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there was violence, man, people were fighting and shouting and shouting profanities to each other, you know, children on barefooted, you know, walked around on these dangerous roads full of debris and and trash, you know, from building constructions and things like that, you know, like the real trash that you can't use anymore, you know, and we just saw them walk around on their bare feet, and there were, you know, they were dealing drugs in front of my eyes.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: Just where I was standing to preach, there they were dealing drugs to people.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I've got nothing to do with that, you know.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: But so anyway, I just I just put that speaker on the ground, you know, in the middle of that uh favela, and I took the mic and I just started to preach Jesus.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now I had about 50 children walking around me, you know, like up and down, and there were just a few adults, you know, and they were dealing drugs, they were drunk, fighting, shouting, or whatever, you know.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: It was just one big chaos.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then for the rest, there were not a lot of people that you know I uh saw, uh, you know, and standing there to hear me.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so it was terrified, you know, but yet it was amazing to do it because I really felt, you know, like you know, who goes to them to share the gospel to them, who's going into these areas, you know, and just forget about himself, denying himself, you know, and just go there, you know, and share the gospel with them so they might know the same savior that I know and have the same blessings in their life that I have.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, sharing the gospel there was an amazing experience.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: But um when I did an altar call, I was surprised.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: I say altar call so you don't you understand what I mean, but I asked people to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, when I when I said, you know, are there any people here that want to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior that don't that want to turn away from their old lives, from the old wicked ways, you know, just you know, come to me and I will pray with you.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: And then so one person came, you know, and then another person came, you know, and then people came from out of the buildings, you know, and from the rooftops and everything, you know, they were all listening there.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: And so they came up out of all cracks and corners, you know, and draw a little bit to me.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: So let's say that I had about maybe 20 people there in front of me, which was a lot already, you know, and so I led them to the Lord, and then you know, I went to this guy who was very aggressive and drunk, you know, he had a big lump on his side.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: I went to him, I prayed for him, he was instantly healed, gave his life to the Lord.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Then I prayed for the guy that was dealing drugs, you know, and then I heard that they were a few days later they were arrested, and then they were released and stopped dealing drugs.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, that was also a miracle.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, I really uh touched a lot of people there, and it was really amazing.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yet it was not the big crowds that God has shown me in a vision, and so that was my very first uh impression, you know, and um then I thought.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: By myself, you know, how I'm gonna get more people to listen to me?
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: How how I'm gonna draw more people and that will come and listen to what I've got to say.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because that is not an easy task, I can tell you.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, until now, many people that I had led to the Lord were one-on-one or in very full small settings, and that was amazing.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: But if you want to keep doing that, you know, just keep doing it.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, with that rate, it's gonna take a long time for Jesus to come back because we have hundreds of millions of people all over the world that don't know about Jesus.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so if we just reach them one-on-one, which is amazing, if all the body of Christ would do that, we have millions and millions of Christians.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: So if if all of that would do that, then it would already be a you know a good rate.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: We really would get a lot done.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, since not everybody is doing it, you know, and just a few, then those few need to reach more people to balance out what other people are not reaching.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, with that rate, we wouldn't like reach the whole world with the goodness of the gospel.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of work to do, and so I needed, I wanted to have more people, more people, more people to get to listen to this message at the same time, so that I could have more impact, you know, in the time that I was leading one to the Lord, I could lead a thousand or ten thousand or a hundred thousand to the Lord.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but for us to win people one-on-one is a normal Christian lifestyle.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: You and I, we are called to lead people to the Lord, you know.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, it's not about, you know, earning anything with God or being blessed by God, good enough, more, you know, favored or whatever.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's just normal Christianity.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: You are a child of God and you should share the gospel with everybody that you meet, you know.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: And if you have the chance to lead somebody to the Lord, you should do it immediately.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: And don't think about, you know, no, I don't know, you know, it's not my calling, I'm not an evangelist.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: No, you are called to win souls for Jesus, to go and make disciples of all the nations.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: So why are you calling me the Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so, but I knew that I was called to do more, to lead to reach large crowds in, you know, in one event.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: I just didn't know how.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I have uh studied a lot of other ministries, and I've studied a lot of those so-called crusades of very big ministries.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not even gonna call names, but just ministries that are reaching like a million people in one event, which is like mind-blowing if you even think about that, you know, and and people that have stadiums, had stadiums full with people.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: I've studied all those videos, I've thought I've read all those books, and I've been, you know, seeing, you know, what they were doing, and I found this one truth in all of that, and that is that most of those crusades, so-called crusades, those massive, massive gatherings, you know, there were Christian events.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: Because, man, you know, imagine a stadium full with a hundred thousand people, and then the preacher says, All right, everybody, take out your Bible, and then everybody takes out his Bible.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: Why would a non-Christian who has never been in church in his whole life don't know about Jesus had a Bible with him?
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: Or they should have given them when they went inside the hundred thousand, hundred thousand by hundred thousand Bibles.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: But most of those people were Christians, you know, and then you know, they come on stage and there is like an ocean of people, you know, the visions that God has given me that made me cry when I saw this amazing, amazing crowd of people, you know, and then they kind of get on stage and they say, Hallelujah! And everybody, hallelujah! And I'm like, why would a person that don't know Jesus shout hallelujah?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't even know what it means, amen.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: And so I I discovered that there were a lot of Christian parties.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: Now my time is up, and I will continue in the next episode where I left off.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: So, man, make sure you stay tuned in because I've got a lot to share on this and I really believe it's gonna bless you.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: All right, see you next time.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
• 26:00
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