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Series Code: JFAN
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00:21 Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:23 I'm Natalie Wood, 00:24 and my husband Jon and I would like to share something 00:26 a little different with you today. 00:28 You know, honey, normally we focus on 00:30 one of the projects of Jesus for Asia, 00:32 where we've talked about the overview of Jesus for Asia, 00:35 but today we want to share something a little different. 00:38 Yeah, we want to kind of go behind the scenes 00:39 or not behind the scenes, but look at the reason 00:43 why we're doing what we are doing. 00:45 Look at the biblical foundations, 00:48 the underpinnings, 00:49 the theology of missions really. 00:52 Okay. 00:53 And you've given the study a title. 00:54 Yes. 00:55 It's part one of... 00:57 The reason why I've chosen this title is that, you know, 01:01 when we were first doing this mission work, 01:03 we were having a wonderful time and being blessed 01:05 and enjoying, taking the gospel to people 01:08 that have never heard the gospel before 01:10 and realizing the Lord was in this 01:13 and we're realizing a blessing of the Lord's presence 01:15 as He open doors and allowed us to overcome obstacles 01:19 in taking the gospel. 01:20 We were like, why isn't more people doing this, 01:23 and started to realize and started to feel like the... 01:27 We didn't hear much about missions, 01:29 we didn't hear too many sermons about missions 01:33 and the call to go 01:34 and things like that in our churches 01:36 and I started thinking, 01:37 you know, is missions really in the Bible 01:40 or is that just something I like to do. 01:41 You know, of course... 01:42 Or is that just like one text, you know, Matthew 18, yeah. 01:46 Yeah, the great commission "go ye into all the world," 01:48 is that the reason why we are doing it 01:49 or is there more to it and so also as I started, 01:53 as we started getting involved with missions 01:55 and foreign missions specifically. 01:58 We started reading the Bible a little bit differently, 02:00 because the burdens that we felt 02:03 in seeing the need, seeing people, 02:06 I mean it's one thing to hear about a lost people 02:09 that have no access, I guess, 02:10 it's another thing to see them and another names 02:13 and make friends there 02:15 and the burden starts to become a lot more personal, 02:18 lot more real. 02:19 Right and when you see, 02:20 and you have a chance to be a part of telling them. 02:23 Then that becomes even more real 02:25 and more of a burden, 02:26 because then you know the kind of joy 02:28 that the other people are missing out on this. 02:29 Yes, especially when their eyes light up, 02:31 you know, when they get this, wow, God loves me. 02:33 Wow! 02:35 You know, that's awesome. 02:36 And so, I started reading the Bible... 02:38 As I was reading the Bible, 02:39 I started seeing more of these themes in the Bible 02:42 that I've never seen before, so looking at the Bible, 02:45 reading the Bible through a missional 02:48 what they call hermeneutic or putting on missions' glasses 02:52 and reading the Bible with a missions' mindset. 02:55 You know, lot of times we read the Bible 02:57 from different mindsets like a salvational mindset. 03:00 You know, we read the Bible to see Christ and His... 03:03 in the way that He has laid out through the Old Testament 03:07 and the New Testament for me to find salvation 03:09 to connect with God 03:11 and to have that the blessing of God in my life 03:13 of His presence in my life. 03:15 We read the Bible for that purpose, 03:17 but when we start reading the Bible 03:19 from a missional purpose, 03:21 all kinds of stuff start coming out, 03:23 and it's very rich and very fruitful, 03:25 and very encouraging and very exciting, 03:28 and so I started thinking, it seems as though... 03:33 Theology in North America Christianity 03:36 seems as though it's got a little bit of a blind side 03:39 towards this angle of the Bible 03:42 and theology, our theology 03:44 that's come out of that. 03:46 Missions is not really part of it. 03:49 We hear the command to go and so therefore, okay, 03:52 there is something we have to do, 03:53 but where is it in our theological bedrock, 03:57 shall we say, there is a blind side there. 03:59 It's more optional. Exactly. 04:01 Missions is a very optional thing. 04:06 Yeah, optional, short term, you know, 04:09 all those kinds of... 04:11 minimum, minimizing type of words apply to mission. 04:14 It's not expected, you know, there are some churches 04:17 where missions is expected thing 04:19 in of growing that person. 04:21 In most churches, Adventist Christian Churches today, 04:26 it's not expected, 04:27 it's something that you do if you want to, 04:30 but it's not really a part of, we don't groom our children 04:34 or youth going through schools to be missionaries. 04:36 We groom them to have good jobs and so I was struggling... 04:41 Which is sad, you know, Mrs. White had a statement 04:44 that I read one time that says 04:45 "We're to raise our children to be missionaries 04:47 to the isles of the sea, 04:49 and it's like we've completely lost that concept. 04:53 Do we have to go to Mrs. White to find those themes? 04:56 No. You know, and that's what... 04:57 And that's what we are doing today. 04:59 So let's go ahead and get started. 05:01 Well, after reading through all this stuff, 05:03 I've started seeing stuff come alive in the Bible. 05:06 Start seeing patterns of the Bible, 05:07 just amazing and I realize, I need to write a book. 05:13 And the title of this book as we think okay, 05:15 you've got missions and you've got the gospel. 05:18 You've got the gospel and you've got missions. 05:20 But after reading through 05:22 what we are gonna talk about today... 05:24 And, you know, and other places in the Bible. 05:26 Yeah. 05:27 I believe that missions and the gospel go together. 05:30 Okay. 05:32 And the title of the book 05:33 if I ever get around to writing it, 05:35 it's gonna be the centrality of missions 05:38 in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 05:41 So that's kind of the title of the show, 05:43 is that missions is actually central 05:46 in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 05:48 Okay, and this is one of the studies 05:50 that you have done. 05:51 Yes, yes. 05:52 Okay, so we are gonna start out in Matthew 24. 05:56 We're gonna be talking about Matthew 24 and 25 today. 05:59 That's correct. 06:00 So in one half hour show, 06:02 we're gonna go through two big chapters in the Bible. 06:04 Okay. 06:05 But what we are gonna do is we're gonna step back 06:07 and kind of do an overview. 06:08 We're gonna look at it from a bird's eye perspective. 06:10 I know that many of our viewers 06:12 are familiar with those two chapters, 06:14 but we're gonna do a brief overview. 06:16 Matthew 24, as you know, 06:18 is starting out with the Temple Mount. 06:22 The disciples show Jesus these massive stones 06:24 and they say, you know, 06:25 isn't this something to be proud about. 06:28 And Jesus is like well, 06:29 actually let me tell you a little bit of what's coming. 06:33 None of these stones are gonna be standing, yeah, 06:36 in a very short time. 06:37 And so they're like, what's gonna happen 06:40 and what's gonna be the sign of your return 06:42 and so he goes into this amazing 06:44 and beautiful prophetic thing 06:46 that kind of blends and goes back and forth 06:49 that has dual applications 06:50 between the time of the disciples' lives 06:54 and the sweeping earth's history 06:56 up until today and beyond. 06:59 And so, he starts out with 07:00 nations shall rise against nations, I mean, nation... 07:03 Those are prophecies of doom, and destruction, and gloom. 07:07 Yeah, and pestilences and wars, and all these kinds of things. 07:11 But then he says something very interesting, 07:12 he says those things are not the end, the signs of my end. 07:15 The end is not yet, yeah. 07:17 The end is not yet. Yeah. 07:18 So what is the sign of Jesus return? 07:22 Matthew 24:14. 07:23 Which is... 07:24 "And this gospel of the kingdom 07:25 shall be preached in all the world 07:28 for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come." 07:31 Right, exactly. 07:32 So that's kind of in the middle. 07:33 Right. 07:34 I mean, he starts out with all these prophecies 07:36 and then he goes to that and then there is more. 07:38 More sweeping prophecies. 07:40 But that, even that in itself is a sweeping prophecy. 07:43 So when you see I believe, 07:45 when we see the challenges in the world 07:48 getting enveloped with more and more strife 07:50 and bloodshed, 07:52 that's not so much a sign of Jesus coming. 07:54 That's just a sign that the world is getting worst. 07:58 Then we should be more serious. 08:00 Absolutely, and the true sign 08:01 is taking the gospel to the world. 08:03 So what that means is that the world will continue 08:06 to get worse and worse and worse 08:08 until the gospel is preached to the whole world. 08:12 And that's a scary thought. Yeah. 08:14 Well, you consider it scary but the truth is that 08:17 there is a lot of opportunity out there for us 08:20 to get involved with God's work. 08:21 And so it's a blessing thought too. 08:23 There is a lot of, lot of blessings in store 08:26 just awaiting, and so you look at... 08:27 So we're in the prophecies... 08:30 Yeah, you get the big sweeping prophecies 08:32 and then you start into the personal application 08:36 because you go from the big sweeping prophecies 08:38 and can you imagine the disciples sitting there 08:40 listening to... 08:42 Yeah, all those persecution and... 08:45 You can imagine how they felt like, 08:47 in fact I think in John where one of the disciple says, 08:49 "Lord, now are you gonna set up your kingdom. 08:52 Now that You've risen from the dead 08:54 and You've done all this miracles, we believe You. 08:56 Now you gonna set up your kingdom." 08:58 And so in their mind they are like, 09:00 no we want You to come like soon, 09:04 like in a couple of months. 09:07 Yeah, get this done. 09:09 Yeah, and we can go to heaven and so I can imagine 09:12 that their fear and their trepidation just increased 09:16 as Jesus started to say about all these sweeping prophecies, 09:20 and so they are thinking how are we gonna survive this. 09:24 And so I believe Jesus answers that question. 09:27 Okay. 09:28 And how to survive the end times. 09:30 He starts from the introduction, 09:31 then goes through this big sweeping prophecies, 09:34 and then he turns it personal. 09:35 He makes it personal, then goes to Matthew 25, 09:40 and Matthew 25 is totally different. 09:42 And this is a thing that kind of threw me off 09:44 for a while because it's so different from Matthew 24. 09:48 It seems like it's two different sermons... 09:50 Yeah. 09:51 But then you read and he didn't go anywhere else 09:53 and his audience didn't change, 09:54 and it wasn't like there was a night in the middle. 09:57 Nothing, it was like, he is just continuing on. 10:00 There is no break between 24 and 25. 10:03 So all of 24 and all of 25 is one sermon. 10:06 So what's the link between the end time 10:09 because he's talking about future end times in Matthew 25 10:13 with all these three parables. 10:15 And I believe is that Jesus is making 10:17 a personal application responding to the question, 10:20 how are we gonna survive these end times? 10:22 Okay, so in Matthew 25, we have three parables... 10:26 We got the virgins... 10:27 Right. 10:28 Ten virgins, and then we go into the talents, 10:31 and then the final one is the sheep and the goats. 10:33 Which is kind of a judgment scene. 10:35 Exactly. Okay. 10:36 But there is a little bit of judgment of in all of that. 10:37 In all of them. Yeah. 10:39 So, but I believe that all of Matthew 25 10:43 is summarized in Matthew 24:45, 46. 10:47 So the whole chapter is in those two verses 10:50 and he uses the entire chapter of Matthew 25 10:52 to unpack those two verses. 10:54 So we're gonna look at that, but this is the transition 10:57 Matthew 24:44 says, "Therefore be ye also ready." 11:05 Okay and the question that automatically comes up is... 11:08 How? How? 11:10 How do I be ready? Okay. 11:13 So let's go ahead and look into answering that question. 11:17 Okay, but you notice that it's not get ready, 11:20 it's be ready, so... 11:22 Being is like staying or a continual... 11:26 Yes, exactly, so how do I stay 11:28 in a continual state of readiness. 11:31 Verse 45, let's look at verse 45. 11:34 "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, 11:36 whom his Lord hath ruler over his household, 11:39 to give them meat in due season." 11:41 But who is he talking about, 11:43 let's identify some of these items. 11:45 Terms, some of the terms, okay. 11:47 Yeah, so first of all servant. 11:50 Servant was the servant of the Lord, 11:51 so we would think it's somebody serving the Lord 11:54 so in a gospel perspective 11:56 that would be the church members, 11:59 they're those that claim Christianity. 12:01 Exactly, so the servant in this verses is the church 12:04 or even me. 12:05 Right. Personal application. 12:07 Exactly. Okay. 12:08 So then the next term in there is the Lord, 12:11 who is the Lord and I think that's pretty easy. 12:13 Yeah, it would be God or Christ. 12:15 Yes. So the Lord is Christ. What about the householder? 12:18 What is God's household? 12:21 Well, normally we think of God's household 12:24 as those that actually claimed Him already, 12:26 but in Ezekiel 18:4 it says, "all souls are mine" 12:32 and he is very specific about that 12:33 so we've interpreted this 12:36 as the household being the whole world. 12:39 Yeah, you know, I've known people 12:40 that grew up their whole lives 12:42 and met Jesus when they are in their 20's 12:44 and they recognize the man 12:46 that they accept as having been with them since they were born 12:51 and seeing how the evidence of God working 12:54 in other people's lives that never accepted Christ. 12:58 So I believe that God is working 12:59 and claims every soul on the earth as His. 13:04 Candidate for the kingdom. Actually know who he is. 13:06 If ever. 13:07 So the household I believe is the whole world. 13:10 Okay. Okay. 13:12 So what's the job of the servant? 13:13 To give them their meat in due seasons 13:16 so give, to give, so that's like the job, yeah. 13:21 So what is the meat in due into season then? 13:23 Well, meat is something that you are eating 13:25 and in other places and scripture we learned 13:27 that that's like spiritual food, 13:28 it's the physical name 13:30 is applied as spiritual food also, 13:32 so that would be something that 13:34 people need to survive to know God. 13:36 Okay. 13:37 So present truth... 13:39 Oh, there you go. Due season... 13:40 Meat in due season would be... 13:41 Due season would be timely 13:43 or when they needed or in the present. 13:45 Before they die. Right. 13:48 So it will be the gospel before they die. 13:51 Right. 13:52 So meat in due season or present truth. 13:53 Okay. 13:54 So then verse 46 of Matthew 24 says... 13:58 "Blessed is that servant, 14:00 whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing." 14:03 Okay. 14:04 So what should the church or you and I be doing 14:09 when Jesus comes the second time? 14:11 Giving the gospel to the world. 14:13 Wow! 14:16 So that's how to survive the end times. 14:18 Yeah. 14:20 So what does Matthew 25 have to do with all of these? 14:23 All right, so let's go into Matthew 25. 14:25 The first parable in Matthew 25 then is... 14:28 The ten virgins... 14:30 Five of them had enough oil 14:32 and five of them didn't have enough oil. 14:35 But they all had some oil, and they are all virgins. 14:38 Right, so they had the proper doctrines, 14:40 they had the truths... 14:42 They were unspotted from the world, 14:44 so these are church members 14:46 that have a measure of the Holy Spirit. 14:49 So these are people that are not out in the world, 14:52 these are people that are in Christ 14:54 and have accepted salvation, 14:57 and they have received Christ and the Holy Spirit. 15:00 Okay. 15:01 So what's the difference between the five? 15:03 Some had more... 15:04 Some just had more. And some didn't. 15:06 That's the only difference. Right. 15:08 Was that an important difference? 15:09 Oh, yeah, because that was out of darkness 15:11 for those that didn't. 15:13 Okay, so is it important for me 15:15 and for you to have that extra oil? 15:17 Yes, I think it's vitally important. 15:19 Okay, so the question then that comes out of this parable 15:23 is how do we get more oil? 15:25 That is a good question. How do we get more oil? 15:28 How do we get more oil? 15:29 Yeah, that's a life or death question. 15:31 And the truth is I've heard a lot of sermons 15:34 preached about this particular parable, 15:37 and they come up with a lot of, 15:39 you know, good ways to get more oil, 15:41 get more of the Holy Spirit 15:42 but what I'm interested is in this context, 15:46 in this sermon what does Jesus say 15:49 is the way to get more oil in the your lamps. 15:52 Okay. 15:53 You would think that if he is telling you to have more oil 15:57 that then he would then tell you how to have more oil. 16:00 Okay. And I think... 16:02 So I'm assuming then the next parable. 16:04 Yes, we look at the next parable, 16:06 the talents of how to get more oil. 16:08 All right. 16:09 Now you notice there is a lot of similarities here. 16:12 You have a Lord, you have servants. 16:15 The Lord is gone for a long time 16:17 and the servants have something 16:19 and then there is a judgment in the end when... 16:21 The Lord comes back. Exactly. 16:23 And so the Lord gives these people the servant, 16:25 he give them some talents. 16:27 Now the talent we think, you know, what's a talent, 16:29 that's like was that a quarter, you know, dollar? 16:33 It's not much but in the old times 16:35 a talent was actually worth about working man's wage 16:39 for his entire life. 16:41 Wow! That's a lot of money. 16:43 A huge amount of money, you know, million, 16:44 billion dollars something I don't know, one of those. 16:47 Depends on what kind of job you have obviously. 16:49 Obviously, yeah, but let say a billion dollars, 16:51 so it's a significant amount of money 16:53 that they were given. 16:54 Even the guy with one talent, that's huge. 16:56 That was still significant, yeah. 16:58 And so you look at the... 17:00 what these servants did with the money 17:02 while the Lord was gone. 17:03 Two of them invested, one of them kept it safe. 17:06 He says, you know, I'm going to keep this thing safe 17:09 and I value it, it's so valuable, 17:11 I'm gonna hang on to it 17:13 and nobody else is gonna steal it from me. 17:15 So he kept the faith. He kept what was given to him. 17:18 He kept those doctrines. 17:19 He kept it with him the whole time 17:22 and when the Lord came again, 17:26 he was able to give it to Him, say, 17:27 this is what you gave me, I hung on and I stay faithful. 17:32 But the lord said... 17:35 Out of darkness. Out of darkness. 17:37 "You wicked and slothful servant! 17:39 Wicked and slothful servant, yeah. 17:40 So what did the other two servants do? 17:43 They actually invested theirs. 17:45 And what happened to their investment? 17:47 It doubled. Yeah, so they grew. 17:49 So the one that had two will have two more, 17:51 and the one that had five had five more, so it grew. 17:54 So what's the lesson here that when we invest, it grows. 18:00 So it doesn't matter how much we start with, 18:02 if we invest, it grows. 18:03 Exactly, so then putting these things together, 18:06 in the first parable we had the oil. 18:08 So do we invest the oil in the trade market, 18:11 in the stock market, I mean, how does this work? 18:13 Where do we invest in? 18:15 That's the next question. Right. 18:17 And that is a good question also. 18:19 Yes, which I believe is answered 18:21 in the third parable. 18:23 Okay, the parable of the sheep and the goats. 18:25 Yes, and what is the deciding factor? 18:27 Remember, the deciding factor between the wise 18:29 and the foolish virgins was who had more oil 18:32 or who had the extra oil. 18:34 The deciding factor between the foolish 18:37 and the good servants was who invested 18:40 and who had more a return on what he had been given. 18:43 Right. 18:44 Okay, so then what is the deciding factor 18:46 in the final scenario, 18:48 the final scenario, the Lord comes 18:50 and He separates the sheep from the goats, okay. 18:53 And the only dividing factor is, 18:57 Inasmuch as he have done it 18:58 or not done it unto least of these my brethren 19:01 and you have done it or not done it to me. 19:03 The least of this my... 19:04 Brethren. So he is talking about people. 19:08 Right, brethren, people. 19:10 So what you've been given, when you're given salvation 19:14 is the Holy Spirit connection with Jesus, 19:17 and the Holy Spirit helps you to unlock the riches 19:19 of the treasury of heaven in the Bible, in the Word. 19:21 The truths. 19:22 And now the question is what do you do with that? 19:25 What do I do with that? 19:27 Do I keep it for myself as my own personal blessing? 19:30 Do I start to invest it and I have to invest it into... 19:34 Other people. Exactly. 19:36 Especially the least. 19:39 Those that know the least, 19:40 that we think of the least which in my mind 19:42 that's the unreached. 19:43 Those that have no access to the gospel. 19:46 There are 6,000 people groups 19:50 that technically have no access to the gospel. 19:52 There is over 2 billion people in the world today 19:55 that have no access to the gospel. 19:57 In other words, they are living in a people group 19:58 or a society or a place 20:00 where they don't have access 20:02 to even know that the gospel exists, 20:04 that Jesus Christ exists. 20:06 And so those, we don't know their names, 20:09 we don't know who they are, they're unreached. 20:11 We don't speak their languages, where there is no missionary; 20:14 there is no portion of the scripture 20:15 or of any other religious truth... 20:19 Yeah, these are the people 20:20 that I think we think of the least, 20:22 and these are the ones as we invest into their lives 20:27 then what happens? 20:28 Then we receive more, 20:30 in return our connection with God is increased. 20:33 Exactly, because think about it, 20:35 like if I'm going to go share with somebody 20:37 that's never heard a gospel before, 20:39 all of a sudden I feel like... 20:40 Or even if I'm going to share with someone who may have. 20:43 I mean, even if it's my neighbor next door. 20:45 That's right or my family. 20:46 My daughter, my son, Lord, help me. 20:49 Right, we have a reason to be connected to Him. 20:52 We have a reason, ask for more of the Holy Spirit, 20:54 and then when we see Him work through us to reach somebody, 20:59 it's like a feast, that's like my faith grows, 21:02 my spiritual life grows, my connection 21:04 and my capacity for the Holy Spirit 21:06 and for service grows. 21:09 Sounds familiar? Yeah. 21:12 And this goes along perfectly with Matthew 28 21:15 where it says, "Go into all the world, 21:17 and lo, I am with you always." 21:19 Right, that promise is contingent upon the going. 21:23 Right, the promise of His presence. 21:25 So the moral of the story is of this Matthew 24 and 25 is... 21:30 That we need to make the mission, 21:32 God's mission to the world our top priority, 21:36 especially seeking the least of this until He comes. 21:42 And whether we live or die before He comes, 21:46 we'll be prepared for the end times. 21:47 Yeah. Exactly. 21:49 We'll be prepared for His coming. 21:51 Yeah. 21:53 Seek ye first the kingdom of God 21:55 and His righteousness and all these other things 21:58 including preparation for the end times, 22:00 including preparation for Jesus' second coming, 22:04 including life spent in heaven. 22:07 All these things will be added unto you. 22:11 That's powerful. Yeah. 22:13 And every time we go through it, 22:15 it just strikes me again how powerful it is. 22:18 Yeah, so you can see how all of Matthew 25, 22:20 all three parables is contained packed up 22:23 in those two little verses Matthew 24:45 and 46. 22:28 Right. 22:29 The servant, you know, he is jobless... 22:30 Giving present truth... 22:31 Giving present truth until the Lord comes, 22:34 and so that's our job. 22:36 As we see the beauty, as we see the joy, 22:38 as we the experience the joy, 22:40 but we still look around the world 22:42 and there is still so much pain and poverty 22:44 and suffering in the world today 22:46 and that's like you wonder why, why is there so much, 22:51 but we felt in this quote 22:52 which kind of puts it all into perspective. 22:55 "The Lord saw that it was essential for us 22:57 to be surrounded with the poor, who in their helplessness 23:00 and need would lay claim to our ministration. 23:04 They would be an aid to us 23:06 in perfecting Christian character, 23:08 for in providing food for their tables 23:11 and clothing for their bodes, we would cultivate 23:14 the attributes of the character of Christ." 23:17 Wow! Wow! 23:19 So helping others isn't just a nice thing for them 23:24 or even just a nice thing for us to do, 23:26 it's actually part of perfecting Christian character. 23:30 Becoming like Christ. 23:32 So the church, you and I, we need that, 23:34 we need to open our eyes to the poor, to the poverty, 23:38 to the areas of the world that have great need, 23:40 not only physically but spiritually. 23:43 Which is the purpose of Jesus for Asia 23:45 as we started out the show talking about, you know, 23:47 we do all these projects in Asia 23:50 not just because it's a good thing to do 23:53 but because it's part of becoming like Christ. 23:57 Exactly, and so what we do here in North America 23:59 and the purpose of the show isn't primarily to raise money. 24:04 It's to engage people with this process 24:07 that Christ has set up to prefect our character. 24:11 So that's what's so exciting 24:12 because as we travel around in Asia 24:16 and we see these huge needs 24:18 and we document them and we write the stories 24:21 and we take the film, 24:22 and we bring them back and share them with our friends 24:25 and our family, and whoever wants to be interested 24:28 in this kind of stuff, they see the need, 24:30 they get involved and they get to partake in that joy. 24:33 So I've got this little video that we put together, 24:35 just a brief overview of the different projects 24:38 that we have just in JFA. 24:41 There's a lot of different ways and different ministries 24:43 where people can get involved with, 24:44 but this is what we have with Jesus for Asia. 25:49 You know, I get so excited about all this stuff 25:51 what God is doing in the world 25:53 and still the huge possibilities 25:56 of what, you know, 25:58 God has laid out of smorgasbord of needs in the world 26:01 that we can get involved 26:03 and you can almost pick a place and go there. 26:06 When we see this kind of video and we think wow, 26:09 a lots happening overseas but when you go overseas, 26:11 it's hardly anything happening compare to the need. 26:15 Those are just one, you know, one little spot here and there. 26:18 It's not the entire country, 26:20 it's not the entire people group, 26:21 it's not the entire language. 26:23 Exactly, so there is so many more opportunities 26:25 for more people to get involved 26:26 for more funds to be supporting those that have, 26:30 that are involved that have gone. 26:32 You know, a lot of them will say that we can do such more, 26:35 even our own church denominations, 26:38 the leaders they say, we're doing stuff 26:40 but if we had more means, we could do so much more. 26:43 And so, I just want to close with saying. 26:46 This is exciting, this is God's plan, 26:47 and it's scripturally based and it's solid in his heart, 26:51 and Jesus' theology of the process 26:54 of receiving salvation 26:56 and then investing that into others, 26:58 and as we do that it grows. 27:00 So as we go, His spirit grows with us and in us 27:05 which of course our own Danny Shelton, 27:09 you know, he compacts all of that 27:11 into that one little statement. 27:13 The blessing is on the go. 27:14 That's right. It truly is. Yes. 27:19 Well, it's been an interesting show. 27:20 I hope you've enjoyed this little study with us, 27:23 and I would like to challenge you to look in the Word of God 27:26 and see the places where God talked so strongly 27:31 about His heart for the lost, for the other nations, 27:35 for the kindreds and, you know, sometimes you read a verse 27:39 and it's like, wow, He really said that, 27:42 He really said that about these other peoples, 27:45 and it's powerful, 27:47 and it's a challenge to all of us. 27:49 If you would like to help Jesus for Asia 27:51 move forward with these projects to the glory of God 27:54 and the spreading of His name in Asia, 27:56 please contact us or you can send 27:58 your tax deductible love gift to Jesus for Asia, 28:01 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315. 28:06 Call us at 423-413-7321, 28:10 or check out our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:13 God bless you until we see you again next week 28:16 on Jesus for Asia Now. |
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