1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 1: Let us pray. The Lord is my light and my salvation. 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm twenty 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: seven one. Thank you Lord for saving me from the 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: darkness of my sins that led to death. I was 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: lost until you shine your glorious light into my darkness 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: and revealed your truth. Joy entered into my heart once 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: I found you and gave me strength. You are the 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: strength of my life. I can live without any one 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: or anything but you. You are my provider, protector, provision, deliverer, 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: and soon coming King. There is nothing any one in 12 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: this world can do to make me afraid when I 13 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: know you are surrounding me. You defeated my enemies on 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: the cross, and I declare that victory over my circumstances. 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: I refuse all fear in Jesus' name. 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 2: Amen. 17 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer for more 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay 19 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: tuned to pray dot COM's Sunday service. 20 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for tuning in to Pray TV. I'm me 21 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 2: em Vice president Dirk Smith. Be sure to follow our 22 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 2: eem channel here in the app to hear inspiring global 23 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: stories of God's power moving through ordinary people just like 24 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 2: you and me. You can also leave as a testimonial 25 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: of how this content is impacting your life. We'd love 26 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 2: to hear from you. For sixty years, EEM has published 27 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 2: printed and distributed Bibles and Bible based materials into thirty 28 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 2: plus eight and in twenty plus different languages. As a 29 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 2: result of seven couples. They were in their twenties, no 30 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: children yet, young marrieds, and they make the decision to 31 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 2: pursue souls for Jesus to travel to a foreign land 32 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 2: where they've never been, in a foreign language that they 33 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 2: didn't know, only to find out that nobody behind the 34 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 2: Iron Curtain as it was called at the time, had 35 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 2: Bibles in their language. The power to change the world 36 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: right here. So Gwen Hensley, who really started em came 37 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: back and said, we have to change what we're doing. 38 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 2: We have to provide God's word in people's languages. And 39 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: people joined forces. There was amazing partnership, people paying to 40 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 2: get the printing press up and going, and we stand 41 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: on their shoulders. Who would have thought what started as 42 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 2: a smuggling operation where they were thrilled to get one 43 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: hundred Bibles across a border. We're now driving tractor truckloads. 44 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: We're printing. In those very countries that forbid the Bible 45 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 2: from being distributed, We're actually putting their people to work 46 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: and they're printing the Bible. We're putting Bibles in public 47 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: schools in the Nation of Ukraine, not at I requests, 48 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 2: at their requests schools, and they're teaching the Bible as curriculum. 49 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 2: It's happening in Hungary, It's now happening in Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria. 50 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: It's spreading like wildfire. In Matthew twenty eight, Jesus's call 51 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 2: to us is to make disciples. See, we believe providing 52 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: someone in God's word is the first step in making disciples. 53 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: Like our tagline says the Bible, we want everyone to 54 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 2: get it. Thanks for watching EEM on Pray TV. 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But you 75 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: know what, it wasn't just twenty twenty was it? We 76 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 2: could have said twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and 77 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 2: we're still in it. It's still happening now. What was 78 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 2: exposed in twenty twenty was in COVID fear. Fear, we 79 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 2: as his disciples, were exposed. We are scared to death, 80 00:05:53,360 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 2: to die, petrified of it. Man, we lock down, we 81 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 2: covered up, we owe my word. We were in bunkers 82 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 2: and it's still happening. We're still scared of it. As 83 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 2: I travel around this country, it's amazing to me the 84 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 2: fear that I see absolutely freezing human beings and those 85 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 2: that proclaim to be all in disciples of Jesus the Christ. Now, 86 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 2: this is the only numbers I'm going to show you, 87 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 2: just for frame of reference. This is our distribution. If 88 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 2: you don't know what he Em does and you're standing here, 89 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: sitting there, going who is this guy? I work for 90 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 2: an organization ministry that publishes prints and distributes Bibles and 91 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: Bible based materials last year into thirty five different countries, 92 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 2: twenty six different languages, all free of charge. And these 93 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 2: are by requests. It's not like we're out knocking on 94 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 2: doors and saying, hey, would you like a These are 95 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: requests that are pouring in. So this is what we've 96 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: experienced twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two in our distribution. Now, 97 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 2: those are the only numbers I'm gonna show you, because 98 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: that's the what that doesn't really matter. What matters is 99 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 2: this Why why is that happening? Because that's the deeper question. 100 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 2: What causes requests? Like that to skyrocket in a part 101 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 2: of the world that we're blessed to serve. In very 102 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 2: familiar passage, Paul to the church in Rome before he 103 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 2: ever even visited him, and he says this, knowing all 104 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: these things, and again we have to understand the Paul 105 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 2: that we're talking about here. This is the older Paul. 106 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: He's at the end of his journey. He's been through hell, 107 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 2: and he says, in all these things, what are these things, man, 108 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 2: the shipwrecks, the beatings, the prison, I mean, name it, 109 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 2: all the things that he's been through. We are more 110 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 2: than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am 111 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 2: persuaded focus on that word. I am persuaded that neither 112 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 2: this is interesting death nor life, death, nor life, nor angels, 113 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 2: nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 114 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 2: nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing. We'll 115 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 2: be able to separate us from the love of God 116 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 2: that is in who Christ Jesus our Lord. Now that's 117 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 2: an easy passage to read through, and we get all 118 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 2: warm fuzzy, But I want to be real today. I mean, 119 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 2: we're all adults in here, all the kids left right, well, 120 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 2: some are still here let's be real. In the ESV, 121 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 2: that says I am sure. In the NIV it says 122 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 2: I am convinced hope. Oftentimes we misuse the word hope. 123 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 2: We say, man, I hope something good is gonna happen 124 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 2: to me. Like man, it's a wish. See hope in 125 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 2: the dictionaries, defined desire accompanied by expectation of or belief 126 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 2: in fulfillment. I believe it's gonna happen, firmly believe it's 127 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 2: gonna happen, to expect with confidence trust. I'm gonna to 128 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 2: meet I'm gonna call her esther, not her name. I 129 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 2: met esther first time in Greece in two thousand and sixteen, 130 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 2: when all the refugees were pouring in, which it was 131 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 2: really nice to see Ibraheim on screen, by the way, 132 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 2: saw him in May while I was over there, when 133 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 2: all the refugees were pouring into Athens from the Middle East, 134 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 2: Essa and her husband and daughter were part of that group. 135 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: Came in. She met Christians who attended to her physical needs, 136 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 2: gave her food, gave her clothing, gave her a place 137 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 2: to stay, and taught her about Jesus. When she was 138 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 2: persuaded or convinced, and I love this. Next picture, she 139 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 2: decides to put Jesus on in baptism. But she's a 140 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 2: babe in Christ, not quite ready to get rid of 141 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 2: the hijab, not yet. Some traditions are still hanging on. 142 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 2: But she knows this, She knows she needs Jesus. And 143 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 2: she becomes a disciple now today because she is persuaded, 144 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 2: and that persuasion grows and turns into transformation, which happens 145 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 2: inside of a scripture tells us that if we let 146 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 2: it in, if we let the spirit in, he's going 147 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,559 Speaker 2: to transform us. Now today, she and her husband and 148 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 2: her daughter are back in their Middle East country, which 149 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 2: is a very dangerous country in the underground church, teaching 150 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 2: people about Jesus. Now, why why choose that? She could 151 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: have stayed in Greece. Lots of them stayed in Greece. 152 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 2: She could have gone on to Western Europe. Convinced, persuaded. Sure, 153 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 2: she's not keeping that to herself. No way. Hope, it's hope. 154 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 2: We have the hope. Once you meet Yasser and his 155 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 2: beautiful wife Zara. Now I love Yasser is Afghanistan and 156 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: Afghani from Afghanistan. He's an unusual Afghani because he's real tall, 157 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 2: very tall. I usually like hanging around Afghani's because they 158 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 2: make me feel tall. But I love Zara. Zara is 159 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 2: one of my spiritual heroes. They come over to Greece 160 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 2: and Zara gets a hold of one of the New 161 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,719 Speaker 2: Testaments that we've been providing in Farsi. She picks it 162 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 2: up and she begins reading it. When Yaser comes back 163 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 2: to their little apartment and he sees this New Testament 164 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 2: sitting on the table and he picks it up and 165 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 2: he says to Zara, you either have to stop reading 166 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 2: this and throw this out, or I will have to 167 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 2: kill you or divorce you, which divorce in their nation 168 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 2: would be death because there would be no community. She 169 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 2: would have no one. Now. I love Zara's words. Her 170 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 2: response back to Yaser her husband not I won't not 171 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 2: a defiant nope, not doing it. Her response, I can't. 172 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 2: I can't put this down. I can't stop. It's a 173 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:37,719 Speaker 2: have to was Yaser tells me the story. One day 174 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 2: he comes in and she's not there, and he thinks, 175 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm gonna prove her wrong to pick 176 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 2: this thing up. I'm find all the faults in it, 177 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 2: so he picks it up and he starts reading it. 178 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 2: He says, Dirk, the words consumed me. I couldn't put 179 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 2: it down. I could not put it down. And now 180 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 2: today they are both leading a church in Greece, bringing 181 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,839 Speaker 2: refugees in by the thousands. And I'm gonna go back 182 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 2: to this picture. You don't recognize this guy, maybe not, 183 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: but I do. That's ya, sir, who is baptizing Esther. 184 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 2: That's transformation. That's hope, having a hope that says, I've 185 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 2: got to share this with you. I cannot keep this 186 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: to myself. You have to know you can't live in 187 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: this fear that you're in again, Paul, for me to 188 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: live is Christ and to die is gain. If this 189 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 2: is one of these verses again, I want to I 190 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 2: want us to be real. I read this and I think, yeah, 191 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 2: isn't that great? But can I say that? Can I 192 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 2: say for me to live is Christ? That my life 193 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 2: is consumed with the advancement of Jesus Christ. It's easy 194 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 2: to put this in Pauline terms and listen to Paul 195 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 2: say these words, but what about us? Can I actually 196 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 2: say that? And do I feel that way? If I die? Great? 197 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 2: I don't know what to choose. I love the image 198 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 2: of the caterpillar that becomes the butterfly. Think about that. 199 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: You get this worm that many of us would just crush, 200 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 2: smush because it's nasty, it's eating our plants, got little 201 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 2: holes in plants. Got to get rid of that thing. 202 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 2: Spray and form. We're doing everything we can to get 203 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: rid of them, because they're just kind of and they 204 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 2: just crawl, they don't do anything. They're not pretty, and 205 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 2: then they get in this cocoon and they transform and 206 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 2: they come out of that cocoon and they're beautiful. People 207 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 2: have butterfly gardens, you don't see them have worm gardens. 208 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 2: Love butterflies. How beautiful they are and they fly and 209 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 2: they're free. How many butterflies would choose to go back 210 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 2: into the cocoon or choose to go back to being 211 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 2: the worm? Once they're transformed, there's a freedom and they're beautiful. 212 00:16:53,920 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 2: They're completely different. If we're in Christ, we're a new creation, 213 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 2: we're different, we're changed. There should be the old and 214 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 2: now the new, and it should be a marked difference. 215 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 2: But how many of us like crawling back in that cocoon, 216 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 2: like getting back into that thing? It's kind of nice 217 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 2: and warm in there. Safe. No wind was blowing me around. 218 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:33,719 Speaker 2: You have to decide where I was going to land. 219 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 2: One of the things that keeps us very very busy 220 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 2: at EM is the request for Bibles in public schools 221 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 2: that started in Russia, believe it or not, then it 222 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 2: moved to Ukraine right before the war broke out. In 223 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 2: the nation of Ukraine, we'd put Bibles in over three 224 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 2: fourths of their public schools. They're teaching a they are 225 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 2: teaching an elective that is called Christian Ethics. It's an elective, 226 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 2: but over ninety five percent of the students take the class. 227 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 2: And they started making this offering across their entire nation 228 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 2: because they noticed, h this is interesting. Where we're offering this, 229 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 2: the test scores are going up and the discipline problems 230 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 2: are going down. Rocket Science right. This has spread and 231 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 2: has now gone to Croatia. We've done over a million 232 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 2: books in the schools in Croatia. We are just finishing 233 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 2: up a project right now, second half of a project 234 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 2: in the nation of North Macedonia. Four hundred and fifty 235 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 2: thousand children's Bibles going into their schools. It's in Romania, 236 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:56,119 Speaker 2: it's in Bulgaria. It's spreading because people are looking and 237 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 2: they're realizing, Hey, this works, this is hope. Now when 238 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 2: I tell that story or I tell that part of 239 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 2: the work that e in that we're blessed to be 240 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 2: a part of. What do you think? The most common 241 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 2: statement made to me is you're saying it right now 242 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 2: in your head, so I'll help you. Wish we could 243 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 2: do that here in the US. Sure, wish we could 244 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 2: do that here in our country. What are you doing 245 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 2: for the US, That's what people say to me, And 246 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you doing for the US? I'm 247 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 2: busy in Europe. We're in the parable of the sower business, 248 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 2: which really should be called the parable of the soils, 249 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 2: and it's really all about the soil. Nothing is said 250 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 2: about the sower other than he so the seed. It's 251 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 2: about the soil. Do we really want this to happen 252 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 2: in the US? Be careful what you pray for. Met 253 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 2: with a couple here in Dallas about three months ago, 254 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 2: sitting at dinner with them. She says, man, I am 255 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 2: praying for this to happen in the US, And I 256 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 2: said are you? I am too, but you better be 257 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: careful what you pray for Do you know what's caused 258 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 2: the soil to be churned up? Over there? See we Americans. 259 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 2: And I'm not casting any I'm not throwing anything at 260 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 2: you here, because if I didn't work right I did, 261 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 2: I wouldn't know European history either. I was horrible in 262 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 2: history in school. But look at their history. It's been 263 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 2: churned up and churned up. And that churning up is pain. 264 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 2: It's wars, it's hostile takeovers. It's awful. It's not knowing 265 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 2: where the next meal is coming from. It's happening right now. 266 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 2: I look over and I see that Ukrainian flag and 267 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 2: my heart just hurts. I'm headed there in November. I'm 268 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 2: going to be in Ukraine from November fourth through the twelfth. 269 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 2: Their soil is churned up. Now, why is it not 270 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 2: happening here? LifeWay Research did some research recently and now 271 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 2: ask this question, how often do you read your Bible? Now? 272 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 2: The interesting thing is who they surveyed among Protestant church goers. 273 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 2: Now what qualified this group of Protestant church goers? You 274 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 2: must go to church at least twice a month, Okay, 275 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 2: twice a month. Now, that's that's really the eighteen Because 276 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 2: new research that just came out from an organized nation 277 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 2: shows that we as American Christians average seventy five percent 278 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 2: of us go once a month. So if they're going 279 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 2: twice a month, man, they're the eighteen I mean, these 280 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 2: are the all in people. How often do you read 281 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 2: the Bible every day? Thirty two percent. Now what's shocking 282 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 2: to me is the bottom one of this group. Wouldn't 283 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 2: you think the rarely and never would be zero twelve percent? 284 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: Let that sink in. People are going and doing what 285 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 2: you're doing right now, sitting here, and they rarely or 286 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 2: never crack open their Bible. And we wonder why our 287 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 2: nation is going to hell in a handbasket? What are 288 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 2: we doing? Whose fault is that? It's our fault, that's 289 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 2: on us. Where do we spend our time? Because that's 290 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 2: the one thing you hear, isn't it. Well, I just 291 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 2: don't have time to read my Bible. Oh just I'm 292 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 2: so busy and just average average. And this is not them, 293 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 2: this is me. I just turned the big six to zero. 294 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: All of us in our fifties and sixties, that's us, 295 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 2: that's us two and a half hours a day. Can 296 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 2: you even fathom reading your Bible for two and a 297 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 2: half hours a day. Does that just make you go, Man, 298 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 2: I've never done that in my life. We have time, 299 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 2: We have the time, all right. You heard my bio. 300 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 2: I'm not a preacher. I don't have a theology degree. 301 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 2: I've got an NBA. So I've got a business idea. 302 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 2: I'm looking for investors. You ready, here's the business idea. 303 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: I'm gonna come here to Dallas and teach you pitiful 304 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboy fans how to be true rabid fans because 305 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 2: you just don't know how. I mean, you never see 306 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 2: that star anywhere. You don't see it on vehicles, you 307 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 2: don't see it on sure. You never see people, you know, 308 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 2: just raving lunacy about the Cowboys. And they've ever talk 309 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 2: about the Cowboys. They never talk like they're really a 310 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 2: good team, when really they haven't won a Super Bowl 311 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 2: in forever. I'm an Eagle fan, by the way. Sorry, 312 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 2: I come by it naturally. I was born there in Philadelphia, 313 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 2: so I bleed green. A little bit of me bleeds green. 314 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 2: But I'm gonna come here and I'm gonna teach you 315 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 2: poor pitiful Cowboy fans how to be Cowboy fans, right, 316 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 2: I heard some of the last what a dumb idea? 317 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 2: You don't need help with that? If I could teach, 318 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 2: if I could come in and hold seminars how to 319 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 2: shut you people up, then that would be doing something 320 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: you don't need help, paying big money to go to 321 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 2: a stadium, or making sure you get out of here 322 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 2: on time to go see that noon game, or talking 323 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 2: about it over to lunch or around the water cooler 324 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 2: and the armchair quarterbacking it and coaching for the coach 325 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 2: and man knowing all the player stats, and you got 326 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 2: it all down, then pray, tell if we don't need that, 327 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 2: why do we need evangelism seminars? Why do I need 328 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 2: you or anybody to teach me how to talk to 329 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 2: someone about the person who has transformed my very existence 330 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 2: on this planet. That makes no sense unless unless I'm 331 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 2: not being transformed. If it's just a club, then why 332 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 2: talk to people about it? If it hasn't changed my existence? 333 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 2: And you heard my story. My wife, who some of 334 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 2: you knew, went home, Thank God. Als is a horrible disease, 335 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 2: horrible disease, but she knew where she was going. She 336 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 2: went peacefully, she went with full confidence. And when you 337 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 2: know that this is not home. We all have an 338 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 2: end date, you know, like the GBD on your milk. 339 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 2: We got that stamp somewhere on us. We're all going. 340 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,959 Speaker 2: If we know that, why aren't we sharing with people 341 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 2: how to have the hope and to not be scared 342 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 2: to death of it? You know, was pretty traumatic. How 343 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 2: many of you remember your birth? What you don't? There's 344 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 2: a trauma time. Why are we afraid of death? It's 345 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 2: the other scene. We're in eternity. You do know that 346 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 2: we're in it. That's just the next scene. I am 347 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 2: the Way, the Truth, the Life, Jesus says the I'm it. 348 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 2: Do I believe this? That's the real question. Do I 349 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 2: believe this is Jesus the Way, the Truth and the 350 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: life for me? Or is it my four to one 351 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 2: k or is it my spouse? Or is it my children? 352 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 2: Or is it my job? Or is it the Republican 353 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 2: Party or the Democratic Party? Or is it my country? 354 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 2: One nation under God? Come on? What a joke? Is 355 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 2: Jesus the Way, the Truth and the life for me? 356 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 2: What kingdom do I live in? You see, that's the challenge. 357 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 2: We are both human and spiritual. God made us that way. 358 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 2: But Jesus comes and he tells us, you've heard this, 359 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 2: it's a very physical. Nope, I tell you this spiritual. 360 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 2: You've heard this physical. I tell you this spiritual. Where's 361 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 2: my house built? When? Not if trouble comes? I mean, 362 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 2: if you'd have told me that at sixty years of age, 363 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 2: i'd just said goodbye and I had to spend four 364 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 2: years of my life taking care of my wife as 365 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 2: she died with als, and that she would be gone 366 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 2: at age fifty three, I'd have said, you're crazy. You're crazy. 367 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 2: It's not if trouble comes, it's when. It's when it happens. 368 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 2: If I'm not standing on solid ground, if I'm not 369 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 2: living in the right kingdom, then guess what. My kingdom 370 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 2: falls apart. And I got news for you. I don't 371 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 2: live in this kingdom. Man. My kingdom is good and 372 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 2: yours is too, and it's never gone away. But I 373 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 2: got to build my house. There is Jesus my savior? 374 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 2: Or is he my Lord? Where's he both? Sometimes we 375 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 2: get enamored with the savior part. I want the fire insurance. 376 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 2: I want to be saved. Who doesn't want to be saved? 377 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 2: But I don't like somebody telling me what to do. 378 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 2: Telling me how to live. Where is my hope? Where 379 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 2: is it? My last story? Yasser, you've met Bart Rabinski, 380 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 2: my r VP of European Operations on the far left. 381 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 2: And then Massoud, who Yaser and Masoud live in Greece. 382 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 2: Met them in twenty sixteen. They were serving in a big, 383 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 2: gigantic hall spaghetti for there's about six hundred Middle East 384 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 2: refugees in this hall and they're feeding them dinner. And 385 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 2: I see these guys. I know they're both from Afghanistan, 386 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 2: and I see them serving next to each other. And 387 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 2: you can tell their friends because they have fun. I 388 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 2: mean they're in fun. I mean they, you know, noodle 389 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,040 Speaker 2: to flick a noodle at each other, you know, and 390 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 2: they're laughing and they're so and they're flicking a noodle. 391 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 2: And so afterwards I go up to them and I 392 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 2: I'd met both of them, and I said, okay, you 393 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 2: guys are obviously friends. You're both from Afghanistan. I said, 394 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 2: were you friends in Afghanistan when you lived there? And 395 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 2: Yasser goes, oh no, no, no, no, no no no. 396 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 2: I said, oh really, he said, yeah, I'm seite he's 397 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 2: Sunni good. You moaned a lot of people have to 398 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 2: go google that a fourteen hundred year old Holy war 399 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:41,959 Speaker 2: arch enemies, What has the power to break down a 400 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 2: fourteen hundred year old Holy war, new peace treaty, new ambassador. 401 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: How many of those have come and gone? One thing 402 00:32:51,960 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 2: Jesus the Prince of Peace. And now today these two 403 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 2: guys sit side by side teaching people about Jesus, sharing 404 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:14,000 Speaker 2: with them the hope and the cure that cured the 405 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 2: hatred within their souls that had been bred and had 406 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 2: been taught. I think we got a little of that 407 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 2: in this country. Got to see masud in May told 408 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 2: me a beautiful story. Anaheatha is his wife, and I 409 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 2: didn't I'd never heard the story. We're sitting to dinner 410 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 2: and he says, Dirk, you know Anahita And I said, yeah, 411 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,040 Speaker 2: I know on Ahaita. He said, you know she's my 412 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 2: cousin and I said, yeah, I knew that. He said 413 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 2: it was an arranged marriage in my country. And he 414 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 2: said I really didn't want her, and I said really. 415 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 2: And Brooke was with me. This is my marketing director, 416 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 2: and she was she was shocked. She was like, wow, 417 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 2: we're getting some inside inside information here. Heasi, I really 418 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 2: didn't want her. He said, but it was arranged, so 419 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 2: I was committed. I'm a good Muslim and I'm going 420 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 2: to take care of her. And I did took care 421 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 2: of her, and I would have taken care of her, 422 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 2: he said. But Dirk, when I became a disciple of 423 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 2: Jesus and I fell in love with Jesus, and Jesus 424 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 2: began transforming my life. I can remember the day I 425 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,319 Speaker 2: looked at her and I said, you are. 426 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:43,799 Speaker 3: Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. 427 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 2: That's beautiful. That's transformation. To have that come from within 428 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,360 Speaker 2: and to see them today, they are a powerhouse for 429 00:34:54,400 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 2: the Lord. Persuaded? Am I? I persuaded? Have I gone through 430 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 2: things and in my life does it drive me further 431 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 2: away from God? Or does it take me closer to him? 432 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 2: Am I persuaded? That he is the answer, That Jesus 433 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 2: is the answer. My hope is built on nothing less 434 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 2: than I knew you guys could finish that. Yeah, But 435 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 2: is it is that where my hope is built? Because 436 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 2: if it is, this is gonna show it. And when 437 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 2: struggles happen, people are gonna go, Man, I want what 438 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 2: they got? How are they hand on it? You know why? 439 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 2: It's the request for Bibles in Ukraine is skyrocketing last 440 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 2: year and that one language alone went up forty percent. 441 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 2: Do you know why? Because the believers who are traveling 442 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,879 Speaker 2: with non believers are looking at them saying, you're going 443 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 2: through the same hell I'm going through. Why are you 444 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 2: handling this with a peace that passes understanding? And they're 445 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 2: telling them about Jesus, what an opportunity we have. I 446 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:22,959 Speaker 2: love the flags, but you know what, we're missionaries right here. 447 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 2: Unless you live a monastical existence, which means you're off 448 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 2: living a monk's lifestyle in a cave somewhere. God is 449 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 2: putting people in your path every day for you to 450 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 2: love on, for you to preach the gospel to through 451 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 2: your actions, not necessarily your words, because when the transformation 452 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,600 Speaker 2: happens and the assumption from Jesus to us his disciples, 453 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 2: his all in disciples is now. Since you're all in, 454 00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 2: go do this, Go make disciples, get after it, and 455 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 2: do it with a huge smile on your face, because 456 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,319 Speaker 2: you know where you're going and you know what you have. 457 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 2: Do you know what I possess? I have the cure 458 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 2: for als, I do. I got the cure for cancer, 459 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,799 Speaker 2: I got the cure for depression. I've got the cure 460 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 2: for anxiety. I've got the cure for infidelity. I have 461 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:58,879 Speaker 2: the cure for everything. His name is Jesus. But we've 462 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:04,799 Speaker 2: got to give up and rest there. And when we do, 463 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 2: Katie bar the door, the church will expand and explode 464 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 2: the way Jesus intended for it to, and this place 465 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 2: will be standing room only because you will be loving 466 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,239 Speaker 2: people everywhere. Everybody you come in contact with, You're gonna 467 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 2: be loving on them, and you're gonna be taking care 468 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 2: of them, and you're gonna be telling them. Let me 469 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 2: tell you about Jesus. I had lunch with a friend 470 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,360 Speaker 2: of mine the other day, dear friend. So when I 471 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 2: tell this story, very close friend, he says to me, 472 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 2: He says, you know, Dirk, I know you don't like 473 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 2: hearing things like this. You don't take compliments. Well, but 474 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you whenever we get together for lunch 475 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 2: and I see you said, and not in a bad way, 476 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 2: you said. Somehow though Jesus comes up, He's like, and 477 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 2: it's and it's kind of good. I like, you know, 478 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,920 Speaker 2: because it's encouraging to me. He said. I'm an all 479 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:14,160 Speaker 2: in disciple of Jesus. But man, I just can't do that. 480 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 2: I just can't talk to people about Jesus. And I 481 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,239 Speaker 2: looked at him and I said, first off, you know 482 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,520 Speaker 2: I love you, right He said yeah. I said, no, No, 483 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,799 Speaker 2: I need to hear you say you know that I 484 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 2: love you. He said, I know you love me. Why, 485 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 2: I said, because I'm about to get really harsh. He said, okay. 486 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,479 Speaker 2: I said, you need to stop saying that. He said, 487 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 2: stop saying that I can't talk to people about Jesus. 488 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,200 Speaker 2: I said, nope, you need to stop saying you're an 489 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 2: all endisciple for Jesus because you're not. That's not possible. 490 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,400 Speaker 2: If I am an all in disciple of Jesus Christ 491 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:09,040 Speaker 2: and he has transformed my life, it is absolutely impossible 492 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 2: for me to not tell you about him in some way, 493 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,919 Speaker 2: shape or form. And I don't mean be some bright light. 494 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 2: That's why Jesus said, you're light. You're the light of 495 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 2: the world. You're the salt of the earth. Light. Think 496 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,440 Speaker 2: about it. Nobody walked in here and said, ooh, the 497 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,120 Speaker 2: lightning in here is just perfect. But if it had 498 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,879 Speaker 2: been too bright, we just said, oh, man, that is bright. 499 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,960 Speaker 2: Can we turn those down? Or if it's too If 500 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 2: it's not there, we're tripping. Turn the lights on. I 501 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,680 Speaker 2: can't see I'm falling. Think about salt. How many of 502 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 2: you sit down and eat your meil and go The 503 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 2: salt in here is perfect, It's just perfect. But if 504 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,839 Speaker 2: it's too salty, you're spitting it out. We can't be that. 505 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:55,719 Speaker 2: But we can't be non existent. We gotta be We 506 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 2: gotta be persuaded, We got to be sure, got to 507 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:04,880 Speaker 2: be convinced, and we have to share the hope of 508 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:10,919 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Thanks for watching EM on Pray TV. I'm 509 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,560 Speaker 2: EM vice president Dirk Smith, and I invite you to 510 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,280 Speaker 2: follow the EEM channel to stay updated on the latest 511 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,400 Speaker 2: stories and leave a testimonial of how this content is 512 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 2: impacting you. You can find season one and season two 513 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,120 Speaker 2: of our podcast, The fifty five to eleven Podcast, directly 514 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 2: on our channel. We're also offering a free thirty day 515 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:35,359 Speaker 2: prayer guide covering several of the nations we serve. That 516 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,040 Speaker 2: guide is available for download at the top of the 517 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,800 Speaker 2: EM channel, and we would love for you to join 518 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,400 Speaker 2: us in prayer. If you are interested in giving a 519 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,360 Speaker 2: gift for God's word, you can do so by tapping 520 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,080 Speaker 2: the give button at the top of our channel. Your 521 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,920 Speaker 2: gift allows Eem to provide Bibles in thirty plus nations 522 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,759 Speaker 2: and twenty plus languages. Five dollars gets a Bible into 523 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 2: the hands of somebody hungry to know God in their 524 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,680 Speaker 2: heart language. Thanks again for watching, and we can't wait 525 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,759 Speaker 2: to share more inspiring stories with you. 526 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 4: Therefore, go and make the disciples of all nations, baptizing 527 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 4: them in the name of the Father and of the 528 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,920 Speaker 4: Son and of the Holy Spirit. 529 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 5: Those who teach enough cheech U sina odem raised to 530 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:50,279 Speaker 5: chie him yat sam is sinnam is ved. 531 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,360 Speaker 2: No matter where they are read. What looked like mere words, 532 00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 2: bound within different covers in dozens of languages, is in 533 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:08,440 Speaker 2: fact timeless truth. God's spirit enables these words to have 534 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:12,840 Speaker 2: the power to move nations, offering faith in the face 535 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,879 Speaker 2: of despair and hope in the face of the impossible. 536 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:23,319 Speaker 2: For those who desire to live not by bread alone, 537 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,600 Speaker 2: we are here. For those who yearn for the light 538 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,520 Speaker 2: of the world, we are here. We are here to 539 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,160 Speaker 2: provide the Word of God for the eternal good of 540 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,520 Speaker 2: all humankind. Join us in bringing the Word of God 541 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,600 Speaker 2: to the world, and you can help us in delivering 542 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,840 Speaker 2: hope to millions of individuals in Eastern Europe and beyond. 543 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:52,440 Speaker 2: Visit EEM dot org to learn more, give and get involved. 544 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,799 Speaker 6: Thanks for watching EEM on Pray TV. 545 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,319 Speaker 2: I'm vice president Dirk Smith, and I invite you to 546 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,000 Speaker 2: follow the EEM channel to stay updated on the latest 547 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,160 Speaker 2: stories and leave a testimonial of how this content is 548 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:13,160 Speaker 2: impacting you. 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Your 558 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,680 Speaker 2: gift allows EEM to provide Bibles in thirty plus nations 559 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,480 Speaker 2: and twenty plus languages. Five dollars gets a Bible into 560 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,879 Speaker 2: the hands of somebody hungry to know God in their 561 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,399 Speaker 2: heart language. Thanks again for watching, and we can't wait 562 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,520 Speaker 2: to share more inspiring stories with you. 563 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,800 Speaker 7: The podcast The Bible in a Year with Jack Graham 564 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,399 Speaker 7: is a moving and inspiring biblical audio experience that will 565 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,480 Speaker 7: help you master wisdom from the world's greatest book. 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