book yeah Randy brought an ample supply of books and uh so you're welcome to dig in or you know if you want to use any of these books for Ministry or to give out to somebody you know now is your chance because they're there as many as you want for whatever you want to give um particularly this is an excellent book here written by David wit called God's grace movement it's about what the Lord has doing been doing over the last 10 years or more in India and U and then this one is called Fearless love also by David wit and about the work with the U Muslims and uh they're both very very encouraging books and these are a couple of mine here this is the last one that I wrote on James and Jude and um and of course the one that I wrote uh when I was kidnapped 40 years ago but um I met I first met David wit he was with voice of the martyrs and uh he actually worked with Richard warmbrand and um he was working with voice of the martyrs traveling around speaking in churches and then traveling around the world and um um into places where Christians were being persecuted and finding uh outstanding testimonies and so he showed up in Colombia and um I was getting ready to uh to fly out to Eastern Columbia and Ray Rising a wickliff missionary who'd been kidnapped by the gorillas also um wanted to go with us I found out afterwards that um wickliff had told him that if he ever went back out there to LOM malindo which is where you got kidnapped and where we are running some major radio stations that they would cancel us pening cuz they they didn't want to have him do anything risky and they didn't want to have to deal with any more kidnappings and um so he got in the plane and uh it was a dry season and the wind was really blowing strong the dry season wind will be you know 35 40 miles an hour and so when we got to out there I had a choice if I landed into the wind which is what you're supposed to do everybody would see the plane com in from town and we'd have people flocking out to the airp and they'd see Ray and then it would get back to wickliff and then we'd be in trouble so I I had uh uh two other people from voice of the martys in the plane with me and Ry and and then we'd sent David out by land with Alex and then the plan was to switch the passengers and then for me to keep going with David and with Ray and leave the other two out there to come back with Alex so I landed downwind in this 49 mph downwind uh situation which the the plane you know you have to had to keep the the air speed above 70 so you add 70 to 40 and that meant we hit the ground at 110 miles an hour on a Runway that wasn't all that long and so the minute we hit the ground I decid I was going to put the tail wheel down so to get some aerodynamic drag going and the minute I put the tail wheel down it like the whole plane jumped over one plane width and almost went into the trees so I'm standing on the brake trying to figure out what happened well put the tail wheel down on a root and it blew the tail wheel and so when the tail wheel came off the rim it threw the plane sideways well we got stopped and so now we um we're trying to fix this tail wheel and there was a little tire repair stop about a mile down the road and somebody had been in there in a spray plane and blowing the tail wheel and the old inter from the stay plane was sitting there in the it was one size too big but uh after we put about I think 11 or 12 patches on it we got it back into the on the plane and it delayed us by about an hour and so the next place we were trying to see a Colombian intelligence Captain to see if his Colonel would let him go with me to a secret meeting with the gorillas because we were trying to negotiate the release of some American hostages and so this Captain was out in the middle of the war and also you know taking him some books and Bibles for him and his man and somebody had built a cell phone tower right in the approach of the airport because if they built it any further out the gorillas would destroy it so for the second time that day I had to land downwind that same wind and so I gingerly you know put on the ground and then kept the tail in the air as long as I could and and uh gingerly set it down and my friend comes out to meet us and and um he says uh boy I'm sure glad you didn't land a few minutes earlier because we just shot a sniper down at the end of the runway who was sitting there with a brand new sniper rifle was going to shoot down whatever was the next airplane to land and he said you want to see the body you want to see the rifle I said no no no we don't need to see any of that so we went up to the to their command post overlooking the and David is in short pants and um and Ry was with me and so we're we're busy evangelizing this Colonel who didn't like the idea of his letting his intelligence Captain go with me to meet with the gorillas and the gorillas were attacking and so they had um two Cobra gunships sitting there and we were we were in the middle of evangelizing the crews when they scrambled them because the gorillas um had um put some bombs some launched some gas cylinders under some tanks that they had army tanks down the end of the runway and so there's a big shootout going on and the gorillas had managed to blow up a couple of tanks and so the they scrambled the helicopters and there's this awful firefight going on right at the end of the runway we just landed on and so um I said um and then the weather starts looking like it's getting worse and I said to David and Ray we got to get back and play and get out of here because if we don't if we get weathered in here or if Knight Catches Us here we'll lose the plane these guys won't be able to defend the the plane even if we park it as close as we can to the military base so we got in the plane and um over boosted the turbo to try and get the plane climbing as much as they can they were shooting at us as we were leaving but nothing hit us and we got out and uh into Bogota from the backside and it was clouded in your not supposed to fly instruments in single engine planes and so the controller was asking me what my visibility was and I was answering him which we're in the clouds going over major mountains and I'm saying well my visibility it's hard to say it's kind of progressive you know and uh so we got to where we were going and there's a big thunderstorm on one end of the field and the nearest alternate is like 45 minutes away and we'd have to go back through the clouds but the lady in the knew me and so she said I'll authorize you to land under your own under your responsibility but you'll have to land with the wind and so here we had a howling quartering Tailwind just howling blowing and I landed gingerly one one wheel and the next one and then the third one and then uh we stopped and turned off the Runway and the rain hit so so hard that we couldn't see anything we had to stay there parked for 15 or 20 minutes on the taxi way we we couldn't even see the taxi into the into the hanger and uh so anyway that was our first trip with David then of course I had to change the tail will when we got there and so my uncle u wrote me back and he said um How come every time I see a picture of you in your Airplane the tail wheel's off but then a few years later David started uh spirit of martydom and um Spirit of martydom is a very unique organization in that it is people oriented instead of project oriented and uh it's easy for big organizations to get so caught up in a project that they can ride rough shot over people and uh David isn't that way he he has a heart for the people and so he travels around the world looking for people that are being used by God in under very difficult circumstances under with a lot of risk and ask the Lord how to come alongside and be a service to those kind of leaders whether they're in really U difficult Muslim countries or Hindu countries or like in our case um guerillas terrorists and so he's been a a wonderful hope encouragement and uh so I want you to welcome David Whit well they they you know they say foxholes uh make Forever Friends right so that was a good bonding moment between Russell and I for sure and um you know Russell and I talked about it afterwards and and and Russell mentioned it last night because if your heart isn't in the place of contentment with him and if fear rules we would have been disqualified to go into there because there are a lot of risk factors going on obviously flying right to the war zone but because of that we have a great story God literally put uh ripped off and you know took a tail wi Tire to delay us an hour and 15 minutes so the perfect time me to come after the sniper so that the soldiers got all the Bibles that were in the plane and then we got to be a witness to the the generals there and the or the leadership there and then come back and tell the story that God's in control and uh and so today I hope to connect some of these parts for you because I I really appreciated last night's um teaching by Roy and that was just perfect Foundation I think of understand understanding the problem but then God has reversed that problem by the blood of Christ now has brought us his Essence his spirit so that we are a new people and now we're setting the captives free so I I I'm really pray and I want to just pray ask the Lord to bless the message uh from his heart to my my heart and mouth into your heart and into life transformation because that's why God brought us together so let's pray heavenly father I just thank you for your Divine appointment Lord that you out of your love out of your purpose has brought us together and that Lord you want to speak your heart and give your perspective for the global church for your congregation your people around the world that you're passionate about and so just help us now to understand what you're saying to re receive it and to grow from it and that there would be a great harvest from this time God ever forth in Jesus name amen you know I was thinking about we're here because of a Divine Romance of God's absolute love literally I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for God's love because I'm here because of a wedding between the youngest son of Russell Dylan uh married Ruthie the Veno all right and that's what got me up here and the and the marriage ceremony is the picture of God's love for his church and we are going to be married in Heaven by the way but we're married to the the groom Jesus and and so there's this and there's banquy marriage about to happen and we just had an amazing time and because of that then uh Randy and Jackie got inspired to take advantel this time and had this conference I mean that was a rare I I knew your faith is is Rock Solid and powerful and contagious that who who plans marriage with conference you know in on Easter week that yeah Kingdom people yeah so so and and then why are you here because the love of Jesus to meet people that you haven't met before I you know this is a newer Network for me and I love networks I'm involved in a lot of networks around the world that God's working as as Russell mentioned um I get to travel the world I've been to 56 nations in my lifetime and uh I could in any day you know during the year I could go to probably 40 plus Nations and have very legitimate credible work of some great people I know because I love working with leaders and leaders who are boots on the ground who God has cleansed their heart and they're not asking the question is it safe because that's not a kingdom question because you see when you're in the Kingdom the safety is in the will and Obedience of Christ and all the consequences of following Christ are to give him glory and the ultimate is our life given so that's wi glory for God and we get to be in heaven and everybody else can follow in the example and so that's the kind of leaders I work with who truly have a spirit of marom that really is our name of our ministry uh that we Encompass because of really the story that God did in my own uh life and and so God just and and really in that story I was captivated by Richard Sabina worm brand who I did get to know personally and the persecuted church and they became my teachers and you know how it is whoever teaches you whoever invests in you whatever you sew you reap and the persecuted church then is who I began to serve because they were my example and they were my teachers didal I know that I spent 14 years in youth ministry before going into serving the persecuted church for the last 26 years now so you know a life of Faith truly is of Life Adventure and uh and so as I was praying this this morning and today you know preparing for this the Lord just put upon my heart that the text I really want to give a global reported in God's heart and I think in the days that we're in is if you want to look to Luke 24:45 to3 uh 49 that we're going to work our way through of seeing God's heart and and really um what I believe he he's doing and and again this is a great place to start from where we left off last night because pride is the essence of self-righteousness and all of us in here I think in one degree or another that I've gathered are products that we've been saved from religious systems of self-righteousness into the Glorious abundance abundance of his love and Kingdom and I came and I immediately felt love for many of you it's a first time I've been some of the again I have never met het hetes um who in that community and love Jesus and and and and we haven't been going around talking about What doctrine or necessarily or what you know denomination what we've been going around we've just been talking about Jesus sa wor brand one time we were at her house and the conversation was kind of going a skew towards the problems and you know and the divisions and the politics and everything and she just had the depth of Love of few people I've ever met walking with Christ and she said with a gentle smile that was received so well she said you know shouldn't we just talk about Jesus isn't he just so much more pleasant and the rebuke immediately went to our heart and immediately we corrected our conversation and we went right back to Jesus and that's the way she was Sabina was the kind of person she would tell such a great story and had such love in your heart that you would get rebuked and feel good about it uh I mean that's the kind of love she she had and um so let's let's the look at then right the beginning there and in the context I know this being recorded I'm such a mover I'm like gonna try to stay behind this mic here that's difficult for me I like to move um so the context here in the scripture remember is the resurrection of Jesus is perfect on this week that that we think about this he had the road to EMAs and remember Jesus lays out that he is the Fulfillment of what the scriptures for he lays out he tells them starting with the law and the prophets how did you get catch that word all the scriptures not some all the scriptures talking about him and he's the Fulfillment of it think about that guys the Old Testament here that's Jesus and and and that's profound for us who grew up in Christian homes and very religious systems because it was Jesus plus not said directly but we we caught that and we thought the Old Testament was one system and then in New Testament is kind of another system and we kind of never work it out it's it's all pretty moral system and you just better be as good as you can work as hard as you can and and and with great hope Jesus made a way so in the combination we had pretty good hope right but that's that but that's not the that's not what Jesus comes through he G he he comes and set us free and this is and and this is Luke's account of the synoptics of the Great Commission and if you look at Matthew Matthew's focus is go and make disciples of all Nations which we love and and mark reiterates that go and preach the gospel to our creation and amazing but look Luke does something interesting he switches the focus from our responsibility and our response to Jesus's prophetic utterance and how it's going to happen so these are the words the plans of God himself through Christ so pay attention and it starts with then Jesus opened their minds so that they might have the understanding of the scriptures that's my story and I've heard it's your story too you see I I I'm a recovering Pharisee because I'm a PPK or I sometimes say a pppk a poor Presbyterian pastor's kid prob Frozen chosen and I think I'm proof that God could save anyone and so I grew up in you know good reformed tradition and and and a father who truly was though born again in the spirit and ultimately even touched by the Holy Spirit and and led and at 5 years old I accepted the the Lord at 12 years old I started a quiet time at 13 years old I had my call to Ministry into youth ministry which I ended up spending 14 years in uh later I was passionate about the Lord I've never been drunk never done drugs never hung out with wild girls I didn't have to rebel I was zealous for the Lord involved in evangelism and taught him many discipleship ways and came a youth pastor and had 1/4th of the high school coming to the my youth ministry and people responding to the gospel and in the middle of that 25 years old the I the Lord came and said you want to learn to do it my way because I was full of religion and I had and I was happy as a Pharisee but I I didn't have peace I knew there was something missing and I begin to go into this this Valley of seeking God say because all these kids were responding to the Evangelical gospel saying the sinner's prayer but their lives weren't being transformed and I knew there was more because I had a deep love for God and I just couldn't quite figure it out what was going on and so God began to strip me for seven years I was a harder case God had to take a full sevene sanctification in my case and during those times I I mean it that there were times that I was weeping and broken because I just said God whatever you want have your way and I and he began to show me the depravity of my own heart and he be to show me exactly what Roy was talking about last night that I was eating from the Tree of knowledge of good and Bad Evil eating eating the fruit of good judging those eating the the fruit of evil thinking I was better than them and God s it's the same tree of rebellion and I and I and I showed me pride and I was very opinionated very doctrinal very you know my you know my way and I was the judge of all things and and in literally seven years I don't have time to go into the details but but it was during that time that that was my moment and Jesus begin to open my Minds to the scriptures and and and through that time of seeing my own I was a newly wet and I began to that time to see how a horrible husband I was uh irritated and angry at times and my wife just didn't see the Brilliance of my direction and leadership in the home right and and my children who are young Toddlers and they didn't see my Brilliance either of of really my kingdom and and and I was in all this anger was coming up and frustration and and and and discouragement and difficulty at the same time trying to run a Ministry and um and I just thought whoa it's me and I and I said God let me and I and I began to see I was a I was a slave to to Evangelical Spirit-filled Christianity I know that sounds the weirdest thing in the world but see my pride again Roy hit on well last night my pride was still sticking along with my Christianity and um and so I I wasn't a broken person I was a past athlete discipline you know and so through that time I began to see the depravity of my own soul and I and I just cried out to God I didn't know if there was any Escape for a while I literally thought I was going to hell it's a long story because I I began to read the scripture for the first time I I couldn't keep it and uh and then one day later in is a scripture against that's my life verse that Roy mentioned last night I was dealing with all that pain in my life and all the missing the mark and and just not seeing the love although I spoke love as a pastor I I saw that I had no love and I mean it wasn't anything that I saw that the the essence of the maturity and the fullness of Christ was not in me so bottom line I came across one day i' read of me before of course but never with the eyes of the holy spirit with my eyes were open in Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified Christ and the Holy Spirit spoke to my spirit at that time and said what tense I said past tense I no longer live past tense but Christ lives through me present tense I said God I don't feel that I see my sin and my depravity right before me all the time and the Holy Spirit came sternly and said who are you going to believe your opinions and your emotions or my word for when two masters rule one will rule over the other you must choose and that day I said Okay God if that's your word that's what I'm going with and that day the old man died and the religion died yeah and I got set free of that drug H Allelujah yeah that's that's worth Applause to Jesus and and so and this is what I see that God's doing around the world in Greater ways than ever before this is holy spirit is coming and giving us illumination and of course in the scripture we see that it's the holy spirit that Jesus promises and we'll look at that for a second that be is giving us these deeper understanding Revelation working uh in maturity as his congregation today um and that's and the glory is in the world today God's Global church that's what God is doing he's opening up hearts and Minds like never in history in northwest Africa our director there is suu and he his uh comes from a tradition of of on his father's side chanic teachers uh so he was in line to be a chronic teacher and on his mother's side his grandfather was the chief of the fani and uh and and he and responsible for bring Islam for much of that area the fani tribe are in 28 nations of Africa the biggest tribe in Africa and the ones responsible right now for the slaughter of all the Christians in Nigeria so when he in 1997 was the Pinnacle of it because he his dad had taught him to seek knowledge he had read at that point the Bible through nine times and he said he loved the Bible because it was such great knowledge he had never gotten that kind of knowledge and then with his friends he would spurt off all these things from the Bible he would he wouldn't tell them it was from the Bible but they' go say to you are so wise and he just felt good about that was just filling his heart up he was a wise man and so he he really and the and the missionaries he had met he he was so touched by their lives and love and the conduct of their character that he was concerned about them going to hell so finally after his ninth reading of his relationship uh and this was in five years he read it he ultimately reads the Bible 10 times in five years twice a year and he goes to this missionary and he invites the missionary he says you are such lovely people he says you need to become a Muslim so you don't go to hell and he said why don't you become a Muslim and the the the missionary at that point goes well say do he says I can't become a Muslim because Islam's not true there's many mistakes in the Quran and sidu says at that point it was the first time he had gotten very angry he says if you're a white person he says you turn red but he says we black people we turn we turn blue and he saids I turned very blue that day he says I was very upset and uh and he said he went away from that house determined to show that missionary's wrong and all the mistakes in the Bible and so this time he went through the Bible his 10th time and he was going to prove the Bible wrong but this time now he says but when you go through the Bible he had to go by the standard he knew and it was the Quran his head because he knew the Quran inside down his head as he went through the Bible he said he began to get scared because he couldn't find the mistakes in the Bible and he begin to recognize the mistakes in the Quran and the and and and he and and he s and one of the major things he struggled with was he realized that in the Bible and the Quran actually goes line with this is that Satan is kicked out of from God's presence and Satan did one mistake and he was kicked out and then he read Adam and Eve and Adam and Eve were in the perfect Paradise of God and for one mistake they they were kicked out and he realized that he had made many mistakes in his lifetime many sins what's the chance of him getting into Paradise with his many mistakes when Adam and Eve and Satan were kicked out for one and he and began to be convicted of his sin and he knew he was in trouble so in great angst and difficulty because isini in Christ and never in the history of that area in Islam or in his crown had anybody ever left Islam and become a Christian so it was a huge battle but he knew he had to come to conclusion his heart wanted truth and so he went into a fast and prayer and during that time he had a dream and he dreamed and the Lord Jesus Christ came to him and said I am the way the truth and life say to come and follow me and that was the transformation of his life as he prayed Lord show me who you are are you the god of the Bible are you the god of the cron and that was 1997 and so you see God is opening up the eyes of the scriptures around the world uh Russell and I were just two mon in January in the P pi tribe it's a tribe about 100,000 down in Venezuela and On the Border region is one of the most dangerous regions of the world today and nefarious activities going on and illegal trade between you know Venezuela and Colombia and cartels and on and on it just goes on and on and um and so you have to be in to even work in that environment obviously you need to be led by the Holy Spirit and you have a clear calling and the payoff better be good right right to the to the degree you you you sacrifice and risk to the degree of the payoff you see what I'm saying and if it's just us going down there to you know Pat the on the back of a bunch of Christians just making them feel good I'm not sure if it's worth the risk right but you see what's happening in the Pro is this is the fir it was a Divine appointment just three years ago one of a guy a missionary had finished the translation of the pioa language New Testament some Old Testament he had been kicked out of Venezuela in 2008 and have completed that translation rest of the time by BR pre aorist to Mexico in all those years of vested they got to finally the completion of it and their mission organization told them that they couldn't print it because they had the reverse engineer it which they had already done and he was even part of that committee all the way and usually they would have to even go back to them to do it and and and on top of it they would have to uh commission print it themselves they would copyright it and they would sell it and um and so the TR you know some of these pioa Indians who have been part of that translation team begin to weep fin after 27 years God's word and our own language well lo and behold one of the guys helped at the end is a guy named Rick arianis who is on staff with us but 20 years before at his church local church in California they had started supporting this missionary and this missionary knew Rick's skill as IBM retired guy and to help them format the the everything and so he joined them in the last two months of of formatting got everything ready literally we were ready to print the Bible when they were given that word and Rick never gets mad and he was mad after this because he was there in the phone call so he immediately emails me and says hey David can we can s so help collect the funds and print this Bible in Venezuela and I thought well Russell's already there we we're already are trying to get 3 million Bibles into Venezuela which is our goal and vision right now so I said well why not that makes all the sense of the world to me and and the word got back to them they began to rejoice and in six and then I connected Tim Walker who's the missionary to to Russell and and and today Tim will even talk about that that's one of the greatest gifts his life is connecting with Russell because it opened up his since the Heavenly blessings in the pioa tri tribe and so we just two years ago we uh we were able to distribute uh Bibles to their tribe ultimately being 35,000 so one for every family and it started and and and continued to nurture a Revival there so we were there in January for their first conference and here they are 1500 leaders and and they they started 7 in the morning with their Bibles and their notepads and they hardly went to break one break they announced for 15 minutes they were back in five minutes I've rarely seen that kind of zeal and hunger for the Lord except in a few different places around the world like even in India I see that God is working a deep Revival you see God is opening their eyes to the scriptures and now even more before because although they hadd had a few Believers there and been growing in the faith for 40 years or so but it it hadn't stuck until the word of God had come and so it's a passion of spirit of Martin International is that everything we do is connected to the word of God we do practical help we do you know uh clean water clean message water plants we uh we we do uh agriculture at times in in North Africa and Asia in the Americas but everything we do is to the word of God and there's three ways we want to connect the word of God it's the printed word of God right here the Jubilee Bible is what we're getting out because it's such a clean great version in Spanish and English we have it but then in other versions of other languages wherever what's ever um translated and then second of all is the audio word of God um MP3 players on the radio the internet and then thirdly but and I think in some ways the most important too is the incarnational word of God it's you it's us preaching the word who you know how can they hear and let someone preaches how can some preach let someone s and so we're empowering these tribal people in remote areas around the world with the word of God so that they could preach and build up the word of God and so God is beginning to open their minds and their hearts and so then Jesus goes on to say and Jesus said to them I thus it is written so the next verse there thus it is written that the Christ the Messiah right must suffer and on the third day uh and on the third day uh rise from the dead and this uh and and the and that repentance for the Forgiveness of sins should be uh proclaimed in his name to all the nations starting in Jerusalem wow wow that's rich right there and you know one of the things that we have to remember as the church is aposta and we're in those days of apostasy of many uh believers who even are have been pillars of leaders and moving and and and leaders of movements and denominations and on and on is that where the cross is taken out and where there's no cross is no gospel all and a cross gospel is a powerless gospel but why I love the persecuted church is because where there is a cross and a crucifixion there's always a resurrected power it's our story we've been crucified Christ we no longer live but Christ lives through us and uh you know Russell um being captured in the five months you know and I hope most of you have read that book cap um you know um yeah rescue the captors that that was obviously his crucifixion and Russell told me you know he's a he's ultimately naturally introvert and he would hardly speak a word before being taken into the go into the jungle but after you know after that crucifixion experience and dying to himself uh God gave him a message and I'm I'm a witness of it he hasn't stopped talking yet because he has the message of Christ now and he's on fire and that's the resurrected power that was really the beginning of his ministry of effectual transformation in these very difficult and dangerous lands and and and Richard worm brand uh testified to that that you know he he he talked about that he wouldn't exchange his 14 years in prison for anything in fact he said that when he got out after 14 years in prison he said Lord thank you for 14 beautiful years in prison with you he said he wouldn't exchange it for anything he said because they are the most beautiful faces that he's ever seen the faces of Christ in prison uh I think of Abdu in marania marania where we work that's a the church that is um highly persecuted extremely small in numbers uh a few hundred True Believers and um Abdu last year was smuggling Bibles into uh the border and captured with Bibles and in martinia by the law it's apostate laws there there's 13 Nations around the world that have it on their books that if you leave Islam you're to be put to death and in marania if you're sharing the gospel it's 10 minimum 10 years in prison or put to death and Abdu was then put in prison and uh in in the lies of within 48 hours you're supposed to see a judge but the judge wouldn't see him we found out because the judge later we found out the judge wouldn't see him because the judge knew that the day and the moment he s saw him he had to put him to death and that was a problem because he knew this was going to cause an international incident would it would be the Christian West in human rights abuses against the Islamic East and it would be a major international incident so that judge didn't want to to explode and but the pro the judge had a problem and the problem was that his arrest papers Abdu had the worst on the ARR of papers because apostasy technically by the law and in the Quran and in marania because the Sharia law there is that you're the Muslim apostate Muslims is given three days to repent and come back to Islam and then uh and then after that if they don't repent they're put to death but he in his arrest papers it was unrepentant apostate and so that meant he needed to be he had to be killed immediately on that day and the only reason we knew this is because s s and I went to the Border we met with uh the his daughter got all the details went home s and I were uh praying interceding about it I got back to the United States s calls me the next day and says David says the Lord kept me up all night and he just re reminded me the way we treat the least their brother is the way we treat Christ and that when we visit those in prison it's Christ and he says I need to go into marania now this is a Muslim background believer in snagle and I said oh S I said that's really painful to me because the you're an asset and a value like I can't even describe of what he's leading in in synagog but I said say to the problem is as we're telling right now out of everybody I know in Africa you're the guy that could probably do it and so we had literally tens of thousands of people pray in our networks around the world it's a long story I can't even go into the details but bottom line sidu marches in in authority and confidence and power right into marania goes to the the goes to the prison after visitation hours the head guard is there they start talking he's from the a fani too they speak fani together his um his namesake his the guard's father is is sidu same name uh and s's uh father is Abdu with same name and um and and immediately s realized this is a cleanheart13 prison in my lifetime and they never let you bring your cell phone and let take a picture and I realized whoa God is moving here and and and the guard saw the love between uh sidu and Abdu uh Abdu thought there was no way he could ever get out and even the guard goes goes uh goes yeah it's you know the only there's only one law in Martin it's the law of money and say and and Mart and and Abdu says yeah see do um I I don't think it's going to be possible it's it be too much money and that we don't have that much money and S do full of the Holy Spirit not a guy full of riches but full of Faith he goes looks straight at Abdu he goes Abdu I don't care how much it cost the Lord Jesus is getting you out of prison and and and the guard was so inspired by this oh and then they went on to talk about how many people are praying and and and he told he told OB he said tens of thousands are praying and he talk about India I mean our indiaan network is over about two million and he said there are there tens of thousands of people praying and he goes really and and OB was just so touched by that to make a long story short the guard then at that point inspired said the only way that's going to work is if you meet the judge the two judges involved and the lawyer and he said I know them all and you don't speak their language you need me here's my cell number I'll take you tomorrow morning and the next morning that guard his own time took s to all the people involved and 10 L Days Later Abdu walked out of prison and today there is no record in Martini of him ever being arrested because God is sponged the whole thing Hallelujah [Applause] yeah that's God and that's Jesus going ahead of us and opening their eyes and mind and and and and convicting them in the scripture for repentance change of heart change of mind and that we we see the Maran we just had a team come back from from that area of the world and marania is coming on fire for the first time and God separating now the chaff and the we don't have time to go into it but there's a there's a there's a movement of Christ of Muslims coming to Christ and maturing in Christ first time in history never happened and we're getting to live in those days I think of brother Raju again uh we think of um you know in in in India again that that courageous Spirit of the word of God and of Christ and Raju last year was arrested for preaching Christ in India and India is gained extreme and persecution probably next five to 10 years India will no longer be a democracy and it be a Hindu Nation alone with even more extreme uh discrimination persecution against Christians so we we need to stand with our family there anyway Raju um just a crazy radical testimony he hated Christians persecuted Christians and then he got saved his family got saved his actually brother was martyred and then he ended up directly forgiving even those who murdered his his brother and there's just so many details of the story that I just don't have time but I just want to focus on this part of the story so he's preaching the gospel and the the police arrest him for preaching the gospel and they and and they say put him in prison and they want the you know the inmates to you know mess him up and you know make his life hard and and and so they put him in prison but but Raj was just full of Jesus and and and so he was excited he figured these guys had never heard about Jesus and and sure enough they got in there and said why are you in oh for preaching Jesus and he began to share the gospel with the the inmates and everybody was so hungry to hear it that they he began to disciple them well that made the police mad said why are you why are you preaching Jesus he says what do you mean I of all people why are you asking you arrested me for preaching Jesus and these people are asking me why I'm in prison so I'm telling them so they continue to move him around uh during the time so he got moved around from cell to cell and in 17 days that he was in prison he led 15 Indians to Christ and finally after 17 days they kicked him out because they they said you he had brought a bad Spirit to the to the prison and after he left they brought a Hindu priest to sweep out the spirits but now there he left 15 Believers in there and when I interviewed him two of them been released and they're coming to the house church he at and being discipled by him isn't that amazing so that's the courageous Spirit of Christ but Christ goes on and and look at the heart of what Christ says the message is that's going to go to all the nations that I think is profound to me is it's catch those words repentance for the remission or the Forgiveness of sins in his name Christ's name to all the nations that's that's a lot packed right there so when you think about repentance what do you what do you how do you define that think about that you just do in your mind but how how's repentance and you know a lot of times again the more popular day is more the Hebrew which is the turn around but the Greek uh here literally means to change one's mind so the message that Christ gave that to change one's mind for the forgiveness of sins wait so what do we change our mind about this should impact us greatly because if we follow that what happens there and going right back to the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil we to become for for have forgiveness we have to change our mind about our righteousness and change our mind about jesus' righteousness and we exchange lives because it's his power again Russell said it well how Grace is the power to ultimately accomplish what we can't do in our own flesh and that's what Christ does for us that he gives us his new nature and his new life and and so that's so God is changing the mind of us he's changing the mind around the world I think of AET who I uh in back in India who was RSS a train hated Christians and that's a radical uh militant wing of Hinduism growing in uh the nationalism and and religious fervor in India and um and so he and so he was part of the protection protection of the Hindu religion in India and they would go around and beat Christians and even kill them and this one and he shared his testimony with me and this one day this evangelist Pastor leader came to the this Village this Hindu 100% Hindu Village start preaching the Christ they heard about it he and two other buddies came uh and they literally took a machete and literally cut the guy to Pieces killed and he said he had no guilt and felt actually good about self-righteous that he was serving Hinduism but he said what happened in the next few days he couldn't get sleep and he was beginning to dream about and he began to think oh my God he thought I've done something wrong I must have disturb the gods and he begin to he to suffer in his soul and be convicted and this and this one Christian who he knew worked at this uh tea shop that he he knew they guy knew he he knew he's a Christian that guy knew he was RSS he came by and um and and the Christian greeted him friendly which caught him off guard because they're Arch enemies and he had Mis abused him and the Christian began to say I could say something I could see something's disturbing you what's wrong and the Chris he said the Christian treated him with such goodness and gentleness and love he said it disarmed him and he began to just tell the story about how last week he had come and he murdered this Christian and he thinks now he had done something wrong and he and he Rec confessed the whole thing and the Christians said there is a way you could cleanse your heart and mind it's through the blood of Jesus and he began to share that way and the and the guy just be to weep and right there in one week after killing a Christian he repented he changed his mind about his own righteousness and about the righteousness of Christ and India is the least reached nation in the world with over 1 1600 tribes and and and languages there and God is bringing a force to India like never before again gaining in this revival we see happening around the world and where is it happening you know again for our in I and we all see through a keyhole right I don't see everything but I'll tell you my perspective God is working among the tribal eth ethnic people remember that word there in Greek is ethnos every tribe God's passes every tribe every language shall be at the throne to bring him glory and that's what he's bringing he's bringing Proclamation we all feel the urgency we're at that latter times at end times but God has an absolute passion to bring forth the fruit of righteousness from every nation and so and and so what we see what Russell and I talked about and all the other directors everywhere the God's working is in the tribal people the remote people the the more uneducated people the more po impoverished areas and uh I was just talking to a brother I think I think Roy you and I are talking about right it's interesting how we talked about in the beginning days the the Revival and much of the Gospel was sent around cities right Jerusalem and and Rome and Athens and and all these major cities around around the world but now in this Latter day God is fulfilling his heart and and and remember God has a tender heart and God has a he gives favor right Grace is favor but he gives grace and favor in certain ways and in in certain days and who's this greatest favor from remember this the orphans the widows the oppressed the poor and the persecuted and when you consider the persecuted many times will qualify on all five of the that I just mentioned that gets God's attention and one of the reasons I'm so passionate it about the persecuted unreached areas of the world because they have never heard the gospel once and the few that God has now raised up in these latter days to be the mighty force of God's message of repentance for the Forgiveness of sins they're willing to pay the price but they lack the tools and yes I am not again sharing the gospel here in the United States and we need to share wherever we are because wherever we are is our our our our our our message but we got to have a heart for the tender things of God and when we when we are in unity of the suffering Church the crucified church we then share in their power we share in their faith and their love and their hope and that's why I think this is the days that God is forming in our heart a unity and a love because he's coming back for that unified empowered blameless spotless mature bride of sons of God and Daughters of God in fullness of authority and reflecting His Image and likeness that Jesus has returned That Glory because that's what he presents to the father amen and and so then one of the things that we point out is 40% just get in your your mind 40% of the world is unreached but that's rapidly being targeted right now I don't have time to go in details of all that's going on but there's some organizations now thinking even by 2030 or 2035 we will have down to around a thousand languages the question is do those thousand languages left still needed because there's major languages but it's it's coming down home stretch of getting the word and communication to these areas but just having in print as Russell could talk about as we talked about this is not the truth ultimately this is the truth about the truth and so it's it becomes then the the duty and the work of his church to walk in the operation of the Holy Spirit to bring forth the the the illumination of the demonstration that it's Jesus that opens the eyes of scripture but scripture is what prepares the soil for Revival and scripture is what sustains Revival and and maturity so that's why again scripture is key to the maturity and the walk in the call of Christ in these latter days so 3% less way less than 3% of all resources that by Christ money put into buildings in the offering human resources of full-time part-time workers go to the 40% most persecuted and least reached around the world and so one of our passions is let's change that portfolio because the return on investment is massive and you know remember Jesus came out of all people's Jews and Richard wor was told me he says and he said this way he says and I can tell you that because I'm a Jew and he said one one thing I'll tell you about us Jews is we're very frugal with our resources so you need to remember that you are in the pocket of a Jewish God and he will spin you well and I and I think that's profound that God will spend us well and that God wants us to to to live rightly to live soberly to live um with vision and so our our passion right now is some things that God's allowing us to do to to bring forth this message of repentance for the forgiveness of sin to in his name to all the nations as Mexico the vision is we're working towards is radio connection and Russell's really helped with our our our our um director down there for a thousand uh miles of unreached um tribal people in those mountains who have hid away for years because of the Conquistadors and the oppression of Spain coming in the the forc slavery and Force Catholicism and and and they're they're locked into spiritual occultism up there in the mountains and they live in fear and oppression and disease and it's on and on but as with the gospel is going into these tribes they're literally being set free one of the one of the tribes I talked to I said I it's a question I ask lots of times in interviews I've been you know I've interviewed hundreds of Believers through my lifetime um in in these restricted persecuted areas and these are cartel controlled areas very difficult in Mexico and anyway I asked this one tribe I said what's the main thing that changed and this tribe been controlled by Shaman Witchcraft and you know I've had many different answers this first I get this he said oh I said what what changed the most when you all receive Jesus and they said oh we got healthy I said what do you mean he says we were all diseased and dying off but when the gospel came in all of a sudden the the demons were cast out and we we got our health back and the first thing that usually happens when an Indian comes to Jes Jesus is they get healthier is it now that's practical help right and there's a lot of people argue right oh don't why do they need to bring the gospel you know bring them medicine and food well you know what they need them both and certainly God wants to meet to the physical soul but if we don't meet the spiritual Soul we've doomed them to hell and and and and and with help we always have to Proclaim and uh in Colombia uh you know Russell's done this amazing work of this radio array throughout Columbia in these remote areas and proclaiming the gospel and by God's grace right now we're trying to beef up some of those radio stations because the drug production is the highest it's ever been now in the history of Colombia and while the gospels touched so many lives and their work and we can go on about lives Chang there's still a raging battle and many stuck in the drug trade and violence and the cycle of it then in um Venezuela uh is Russ was sharing most of Venezuelans who identifies as Christians don't have a Bible and our Bible Smuggler down there has found there's been congregations that literally even the pastor didn't have a Bible or very few of the congregation and the Lord's beginning to change that and so we started out with one million Bibles more of Vin said no no no can not just one million God put it in the heart two million it went two million and then we just put three million and now they're just going the the gospels grown so much the last uh Ser was 15 million or 17 million right 15 million the last survey the government did in two years it went they did a survey two years before it was 9 million and they just redid the survey a few months ago it's now 15 million Venezuelans are identifying as Christians wow and guess what where do they get a Bible hallelujah [Applause] amen where do they get a Bible Well it's Jesus and his people they're willing to risk smuggling in we just even had two of our Smugglers arrested just a couple months ago and they got out but the government's now holding trying to hold 6,000 Bibles and God has some of the agents and that Russell's working on working on that I mean it's a constant battle for truth and righteousness but God's winning the battle and lives are being changed back in India their Vision now is for 1 million congregations they've grown since 2011 to they've planted now 880,000 congregations but the need is so great that they're just they they're just praying for godsize um work and you know P Pastor wor has a great quote I love this quote he says if something's believable man did it when it's unbelievable God did it so we like to pray unbelievable prayers and they've trained now that that years we've been able to trained 13,000 workers and uh there's a revival going on there like and across in in hundreds of of of U of ethnic groups now unreached ethnic groups and so God's beginning to transform the landscape and in Bangladesh our work there uh our directors just really passionate about getting God's word out and distributed and the largest Muslim gathering in the world is in Bangladesh every year about 46 million and um and they always put teams there in the midst of 46 million Muslims who are fundamental devout and they're just handing out God's word isn't that beautiful that's the spirit of Marty that's the spirit of Faith that's a transformed life because right where does Christ go now 48 we are his witnesses that word is martus says we are the his Witnesses of these things and so Christ is now giv the Great Commission but in a very unique way here he is commissioning with identity with purpose we're witness the word Mar in Greek is where we get our modern word mar martyr you hear the ring right most often translated as witness and so God has given the spirit of martus of witness of Martyrs we are his Martyrs that's why every believer in Jesus Christ is a leader kids girls as young as you are right now you are leaders don't let anybody tell you different young men you are leaders older men you are leaders older women you are leaders because Christ is in you the hope of glory and Christ cannot be a not a leader and a leader at the same time have you been crucified with Christ and he lives now or not make that decision because if he is the Lord of your life he is making you a leader he calls us to be salt and light in this world and he calls to be faithful unto death therefore have a mar to Credible witness unto death so that people see our lives they walk away they say surely there must be a God because that is Supernatural amen so Cala in India lost her husband last year we've had four um House Church PLS um martyred in our Network which is humbling to me because I've shaken the hand of all of them and we commission them every time and we take a martyr's vow in fact uh We've now commissioned 13,000 I said and we commission with Roman uh Revelation um two verse oh man Revelation 210 is it I uh but but it's this these words you can find it's in chapter two I like to quote Hebrews here somewhere in the Scriptures it says okay so anyway it's in Revelation to anyway I and we we haven't do this we haven't raised their hand to the right hand to surrender to Christ their hand on the throat to represent their death and we have and they pray uh the prayer of Revelation two be faithful unto death to receive that Crown of Life it's a beautiful moment of surrender and many times we say you don't know if you're going to be back next year or we'll ever see again what we'll see in heaven and they charge out of those graduations with a with a like a laser focus it's about Jesus and I I I haven't been more around a joyful passionate group of people in in India and so Kamala again lost her husband and um the Lord had prepared her and her husband was being threatened by the militants that they would kill him and so she he even prepared his his sons two sons and his wife had said I will be martyred soon but you are to carry on the work a week before she said the Holy Spirit spoke to her and said and and said to her I Am with You Be not Afraid and she said on that night it was uh the gunmen four gunmen came masked to the door her husband came to the door and four shots right to his uh chest and he died blood out right there in their home right at the door doorstep and I said Cala I said did you how what I mean what was the experience like what did you feel she said the Lord reminded me of his words that he is with me and to be at peace and I had peace Cala have you been able to forgive those Muslims who killed your husband she said I have no bitterness I never did even when it happened I knew it was God's calling and I said tell me about that she said well my husband was bu was killed on Friday I buried him on Saturday and I led the services on Sunday and all the people of our village ever since they've been saying what kind of God does that woman serve her husband's killed she forgives her enemies and she's going around with a smile and joy in her heart and she said more people are coming to Christ now my husband has been martyred and than when we did our ministry together and I was humbled I thought could you disciple me Cala power she's a Powerhouse I I almost thought she to be frank again let me dress the American mind because I was there too I I was thinking about my mind is she in repressing depression I said Cal was there any time of depression or or you know mourning she said she said no I've had such peace but except there was one night I wept through the night the Lord comforted me but that's the only time that I've had deep grief I'm like wow so and and I don't honestly I don't think that's human and I think for most people to be frank I don't want to I don't want to um delineate human suffering of pain guys if you've been through pain don't think that that's the normal experience necessary but I'm just saying what Christ can do and healing you know said of of Russell that it's amazing that he doesn't have PTSD for being a hostage and taking even other times and continue to do the work and Russell wonderfully has clearly said he believes the only reason for that is because the clarity of God's spirit in his mind and heart and emotions to keep him in in good mental health that is our protection and our hope and so last of all let's just summarize it here sending the promise of the father so the promise of the holy spirit because it's the holy spirit's job now it's illuminated into truth and righteousness when we talk about so much what Jesus has done Jesus lives our heart right it's technically the holy spirit it's with we're filled with him because the father Jesus at the right hand of the father and so and and Jesus sends that to know that we are Assurance we are sealed guaranteed as children of him isn't that amazing when you do good you realize it's impossible to do good without God Jesus clarified that right do you realize every good act you do was the design and authorship of Christ himself and the more good you do the more obviously he's doing a great work in you because it's impossible to be good without God you are Lov and you are designed and you are The Passion of Christ himself Again Luke recorded this remember Luke's recording of Jesus remembering is that Jesus was all about this message of repentance from his suffering was so that the world could be forgiven and engrafted back and brought to the father we are passionately loved so much that Christ died for us and we are the reward now of his suffering so I pray that that you would be drawn by the holy spirit this morning to Simply say God have your way this conference has been about just stirring you up for your calling we are in the latter days you have a purpose you have you're a part of God fulfilling his righteousness his glory here and around the world to repair and bring healing and wholeness to the bride of Christ that Christ is returning for now your question is is just seek the Lord know him that you might follow in him in obedience because a disciple there's three words it's simple guys if you study the scripture I promise you this is discipleship hear and obey right that is being a disciple because remember the faith comes by hearing and the hearing the word of Christ my sheep know my voice and I know them because I Lay My Life down there's 1600 times for word he there's only in in the King James Bible for read uh write down everything it's 65 times so what is the emphasis for a disciple is you hear I if I someone says they know Christ they're reading the Bible my question is okay that's great you're reading it what are you hearing and and if I really want to know a disciple I said what's what has the Lord spoken to you and I want to hear that they could tell me what the Lord speak to because if they can't tell me what the Lord speak to them I I don't want to judge them it's they're help they're helping me understand where they are they're really not born of the spirit of God because a child will know his father's voice amen and if you're in here today and not knowing or not sure of that voice then I'm telling you you're here because God wants you to know his father's voice he loves you he wants an intimate relationship he's jealous for you and that's why he forced you to get here in one way or another you're here for his glory and you're here to be engrafted with your family around the world because it's not there's no denominations in heaven so being a worm brand I was asked what do you think of denominations and she said well anything that even hints of the word demon in the word she said I like to stay away from so praise the Lord all right well let me let me wrap it I want to do some some Ministry together and for us to to now process this because I think the Lord's done some good work in our heart and we're here for each other and remember you're all leaders you're all priests this is a priesthood of Believers I don't know Jesus necessarily more than you or have more of Jesus it's we all have the same Jesus we're on different paths you know and again gu levels of maturity but we all have something to contribute of what we're hearing from God and speaking to each other from the youngest to the oldest and we need to practice that now and I want you to start opening up your hearts to what and ask these questions and I'm going to have you get in a little groups in a second but the first thing is with from this talk and tonight thus far with Roy and myself and you're about to be your socks be blessed Russell comes comes up because every time I hear Russell I get another Jewel and there's just there's depth and riches but for right now let's start processing what God's telling us what did you learn about God for what I just talked about again obviously in Luke uh 24 there but um even more in the stories what did God speak to you what did you learn about God his nature his heart second about where did you learn about yourself what is God revealing through the preaching of the word the teaching the and God's testimonies around the world and thirdly what is God now leading you to apply and Obey those are the three questions you're about to go through but let's pray and then um one other thing too is um I want to because this is what I teach you our staff I preach this all the time so I'm GNA tell you you know what the kingdom of God is there's three rules of it it's it's kind of difficult but so try to hold on to this here it is here's the first one it's relationships all right got the first one you know what the second one is relationships and you know the third one is relationships relationships with God and with each other there's one law it's the law of love when we go to judgment we will be judged for one thing how much we love God and each other so keep it simple it's relationships and so therefore what I'm after is I would really urge you to sign up for our newsletter we don't send letters out you don't give and this poor African 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because you're here and is this is the safety God that I've seen around the world and Reviving our persecuted brothers and sisters why there's so much joy is because when they have you they're safe even in the midst of persecution beating difficulty prison and and and death because father there is peace and the fruit of the holy spirit is is abundance so I just thank you Father for Lord speaking to us today and I just than for the young to the old Lord that you are producing leaders here you're producing a new generation in these latter days for your power to be demonstrated that we would be clothed on high with the power of the Holy Spirit Lord so Lord I pray for even more power to be released right now in each and every believer to receive from you what's most On Your Heart Lord to to heal their hurts because Lord you want to get P you want us get past our hurts because there's too many other hurting people around us and the sooner we get past our hurts Lord the more we can help others so Lord I pray for healing of Hearts right now just in the name of Jesus be released I pray for Faith to be released Lord on each and every person God of whatever they're facing their fear that it be filled up with your love and Lord I pray for now gifting and anointing Lord of confidence Lord upon the gifting the calling of every believer here because Lord you have equipped every believer here to be a part of the hold of the solution and the hope and to be confident in their calling and to go forth I thank you for the calling of the Nations even in here Lord I I know there's some you're you're speaking to and there's others Lord just the support of it we need all parts God the support units the sending units and Lord ultimately we need to stand with the the Nationals in these persecuted areas so we thank you for that that we send our love to them and support and that their stories and their heart has been heard today God and you are glorified so Lord lift up those who are suffering in difficulty today God that Lord you are accomplishing your work pray this all in Jesus name amen so let me orchestrate this so I want you guys to get in little huddles right now because let's worship it testify that's worship remember worship is anything that we bring to God to show that he is worthy of Our Praise he's worthy of our discussion singing is just one part of worship right but we're going to worship but we worship is a huddle of maybe three to five six just make natural groups so you can hear each other right where you're sitting kind of bring your chairs around each other go ahead and do that right now kind of make look around and make a natural group and and not too big because I want you guys to be able to hear each other and share and from Little to Old you're part and involved okay and again here's the first question and you guys could Dive Right In and keep it concise because we don't we want everybody to have a time to share and then I'll I'll remind you I'm going to give you about you know five seven minutes on each one but what did you learn about God today what did you learn about God and even last night so share what did you learn about God and then we'll move to the next question okay go ahead start start sharing