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Series Code: JFAN
Program Code: JFAN000085S
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00:22 - Hello, and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now. 00:24 I'm Natalie Wood, and my husband, Jon, 00:26 is here with me today. 00:27 And we get to talk about how to reach an entire country. 00:31 Hello, love. 00:32 - Hi, darling. 00:32 How are you today? 00:33 - I'm doing great. 00:34 - You're looking good. 00:35 Sorry. - Sorry. 00:36 (laughing) 00:37 - You're looking good, I like your outfit. 00:39 - Oh, thank you. 00:40 This is a gift from our friends 00:42 that we're gonna share about their project today. 00:44 - Oh, and this shirt is a gift from that country also. 00:46 - Yes, so what project are we talking about today? 00:49 - Well, honey, this project is one 00:52 of the most impactive projects that we have. 00:55 - Wow. 00:56 - Well, instead of telling you about it, 01:00 I have a little video that I want show you. 01:02 And this kind of introduces you to the country, 01:06 to the scope of the project, 01:08 and to the solution to reaching that many people. 01:12 - Okay. 01:14 (upbeat music) 02:26 Wow, 264 million people. 02:29 - Yes, 17,508 islands. 02:33 - Wow, are all of those inhabited? 02:35 - Not all of them, about 6,000 islands are inhabited. 02:39 - That's still a lot, 6,000 is still a lot of islands. 02:41 - Oh, yeah, it's a huge number. 02:43 And they're spread... 02:44 From the East to the West is bigger, 02:49 they're spread out in a bigger area, 02:51 than the entire United States. 02:53 It's about 3,000 miles from one end to the other 02:55 and the United States is about 2,500. 02:58 So it's a huge territory. 03:01 - [Natalie] Yeah. 03:02 - And it's a little confusing 03:03 because the islands are... 03:06 I mean, the country is made up of all these islands. 03:08 It's not like a continent like Australia 03:10 or India where you've got a single landmass. 03:15 This is 17,000 landmasses. 03:18 And it kind of blends into the Philippines 03:20 and kind of blends into Malaysia. 03:22 And it kind of blends into the Solomon Islands, 03:25 New Guinea, Australia, 03:27 that whole area is kind of like this mix. 03:32 And it's hard to get a grasp of what it is. 03:34 So we've got the picture 03:35 or the video outlines the country of Indonesia. 03:40 - Alright, so we've got that picture up now. 03:42 - [Jon] Yeah, you can see like, for instance, 03:44 one of the the the center island 03:46 and kind of in the upper part in the center, that's Borneo. 03:49 - [Natalie] Okay. 03:50 - [Jon] And you can see that the country doesn't go 03:52 or the yellow line doesn't go around the entire island. 03:54 - [Natalie] Uh huh. 03:56 - [Jon] The north side of that island is actually part 03:57 of Malaysia which is on the peninsula over to the left. 04:01 And also it has a couple other countries in there as well. 04:05 - [Natalie] Wow. 04:05 - So it's confusing. 04:07 You can see of course, up to the upper top in the center, 04:09 you've got, a little bit to the right of center, 04:11 you've got, that's the Philippines. 04:13 - [Natalie] Right. 04:14 - So you can see how it all blends together. 04:15 And then the continent and the bottom right, 04:17 you can see that's Australia, 04:19 the northern part of Australia. 04:21 And then on the far right of Indonesia, 04:25 you can see this, like the islands cut in half. 04:27 - Right. 04:28 - The eastern part of that is Papa New Guinea. 04:30 - [Natalie] Right. 04:31 - Okay, so the island is Papua, 04:33 but the eastern side is like New Guinea. 04:35 So it's kind of hard to grasp what Indonesia is, 04:40 but it's this huge conglomerate of 17,000 islands. 04:44 - Wow, wow. (laughs) 04:46 And there's a lot of variety. - [Jon] Yes. 04:49 - I mean, with that much diversity in landmass, 04:52 there's got to be a lot of variety. 04:54 - Huge amount of variety, 04:55 variety in just the topography. 05:00 Some beautiful stuff like this terraced rice fields. 05:04 I got to go and visit some of these rice fields 05:06 and just blown away with the beauty that's there and, 05:09 you know, very agrarian at the way of life, 05:12 they still plant by hand, 05:13 they still harvest by hand, maintain it by hand, 05:16 build those terraces by hand. 05:18 But with all these different islands, 05:20 you can imagine there's a lot of different tribes, 05:23 a lot of different cultures. 05:25 And there's not obviously highways 05:28 to every inhabited island 05:32 because it's all water. 05:34 - [Natalie] Right. 05:35 - This is just a standard shot, 05:36 when you're driving down the road. 05:38 It's beautiful, green, luxurious forest around 05:41 with these cities here and there as you drive. 05:44 And there's a lot of, 05:46 I mean, a 264 million people. 05:49 It's a very inhabited, 05:51 one of the most densely inhabited countries in the world, 05:54 especially the central island of Java, where Jakarta, 05:57 the main city is. - Where Jakarta is. 05:58 - [Jon] Yeah, very densely populated. 06:00 - Okay. 06:01 I think we've got a picture of Jakarta. 06:02 - Yes. - [Natalie] Awesome. 06:03 - Coming up later. - [Natalie] Okay. 06:04 - But you can see with this tribal lady and her son. 06:08 You've got the modern, cheek, 06:10 western style, downtown family. 06:14 And then you've got the people that live in the jungle. 06:17 You've got people that are still with the old traditions, 06:21 the old tribal ways and stuffs like that. 06:23 You've got a large variety of people. 06:25 - Yeah. 06:26 - The common language is Bahasa. 06:28 - Okay. 06:30 - Okay, not only is Bahasa spoken. 06:31 In the Indonesia, it's the national language there 06:33 but it's also spoken in Malaysia. 06:35 - Right, and there's many Bahasa speaking people 06:37 in other countries around the world. 06:39 - Yeah, sure. 06:40 So just in the satellite footprint, 06:42 it covers all of Indonesia and Malaysia. 06:44 So you're talking almost 300 million people, 06:47 almost the entire population of the United States, 06:50 is covered by this one satellite. 06:53 - Wow. 06:53 - But it was only these islands, 06:55 you've got a huge amount of distance between churches, 06:59 you can imagine. 07:00 - Right, and I'm sure there's a lot of unreached areas 07:02 where there aren't even churches. 07:04 - No church, no missionary, 07:05 no believer, no witness. 07:07 - Wow. 07:08 - And so for them 07:10 to learn about the gospel takes a huge investment. 07:13 Somebody that's willing to go, 07:14 somebody that finds out about the needs, that where it is, 07:17 and then to sponsor them to go there 07:19 and provide for their living expenses, 07:22 transportation expenses, everything like that. 07:25 But with the satellite, you're covering all of it, 07:27 all at the same time. 07:29 - Right. 07:30 - And so it's penetrating in the areas 07:32 that would normally also be closed 07:34 to Christian outside influences. 07:38 - Right. 07:39 Nobody could go there as a Christian missionary. 07:41 - And not really witness. - [Natalie] Right. 07:43 - I mean they could but it's a risky endeavor. 07:46 - All right. 07:47 - And many people wouldn't listen to them. 07:49 Just because they see you, who they are, 07:51 see them walking, they'll close the door. 07:52 - All right. 07:53 - Now we have a project in Indonesia 07:55 that they are training and sending out-- 07:58 - Letter to evangelists? 07:59 - Uh huh, and they're having great success. 08:02 - Wow. 08:03 - But you can imagine even 08:04 where 10 or 20 letter to evangelists, 08:06 how're you gonna reach 6,000 islands? 08:07 How long will that take? 08:09 - Right, right, right. 08:11 - Well, in actuality we find that we need both. 08:14 We need the air force and the ground force. 08:17 - Right. 08:18 - And so when we work together, it's very impacting. 08:20 This is what we discovered in India of course. 08:22 - Right, right. 08:23 - Now it's easy to talk about the numbers and the-- 08:28 - The big picture kind of? - [Jon] Yeah. 08:30 - You know, the whole country. 08:31 - (laughs) Yeah all the islands 08:33 but it's important also to remember the individual. 08:36 - [Natalie] Right. 08:37 - You know the one person, that's so important to Christ. 08:39 - [Natalie] Right. 08:41 - He would've come to this earth, suffered for 33 years 08:43 and died on the cross for just one. 08:45 - Right. 08:46 - And so if that one know... 08:48 I first came to Indonesia back in 2007. 08:51 And I have to tell you a little bit of that story. 08:54 - Yeah but first, 08:56 you're in somewhere very close 08:58 to close to Indonesia, that we just talked about already, 09:01 for the first five years of your life. 09:03 - Yes. 09:04 - You were in Papua New Guinea. 09:06 - That's true. 09:07 - And so then, when you went there in 2007-- 09:09 - Uh huh 09:10 - What, it felt like? 09:11 - I felt like coming back home. 09:14 - Yeah. 09:15 - You know, when I was two months old, 09:16 my mom and dad took me to New Guinea (murmurs) highlands 09:20 where it was green, 09:21 it rained every single day at five o'clock. 09:24 It was just so beautiful and green and home for me. 09:30 Then we moved to California, 09:32 grew up throughout my life in California, 09:33 where it's dry all the time. 09:35 And you know, I love California but it's so different. 09:39 So when I went back to Indonesia, it's like, 09:41 "Whoa, this feels right." 09:44 It rains everyday, it's green, there's lots of water. 09:47 And I looked at the map, it's like, 09:49 "Oh yeah, it's same as where I spent the first five years 09:52 "of my life." 09:53 - Right. 09:54 - But the people are very friendly. 09:56 I just fell in love with the country. 09:59 - Right, so you're gonna share maybe a story from 10:01 that trip with us? 10:02 - Yeah. 10:03 When I first got in... 10:04 I flew in and got in about 11:30 at night. 10:06 I had to fill out the paper work for the visa. 10:10 Then I came out midnight, 10:12 everybody was gone except there's like seven 10:14 or eight taxi drivers. 10:16 - Wow. 10:17 - And they're like, "Where do you wanna go?" 10:18 Well, I had purposely not made any connections, 10:22 or made any plans of what I was gonna do 10:23 and where I was gonna go when I get to Indonesia 10:25 'cause I wanted an adventure. 10:28 - Okay. 10:29 - I wanted to experience this kind of raw with planning. 10:32 So I went there and I'd learned one thing, 10:34 I'd learned Jalan Jasa. 10:36 - Okay. 10:37 - Which is like the tourist backpack 10:39 or tourist street of Jakarta. - Okay. 10:41 - So I told them I wanna go to Jalan Jasa. 10:45 And so they said, "It's gonna be like about 50,000 rupiahs. 10:48 I'm like, "Oh wait, that's like seven dollars." 10:51 (laughs) So he took me down to Jalan Jasa 10:57 and then he says, "Where do you wanna stay." 10:59 I'm like, "I don't have anything planned." 11:00 He says, "Okay, I'll take you to the best." 11:03 And so he took me down to this little street 11:05 and it was packed so it didn't have any room. 11:08 So the one right next to it was four dollars for the night. 11:12 - Wow. 11:13 - And it was a bit of a dive. 11:15 The fan is going clank, clank, clank, clank all night. 11:18 There's no air-conditioning 11:20 and the fan went out halfway through the night. 11:21 So the next morning I moved to the best hotel, 11:25 which was a big increase in price to seven dollars. 11:29 - Okay, wow. 11:30 - (laughs) Fell in love with the place. 11:34 I went from there, went all the way to another city 11:37 where they're having this university, met a friend, 11:41 or somebody there that took me around that was videotaping, 11:44 getting it stocked for a family 11:47 that had lived for many years in that country. 11:50 Wanted stock footage so that they can start the ministry 11:53 to serve that country. 11:55 Anyway, so I spent two weeks there, traveled all around, 12:00 had the most amazing experiences. 12:02 The people are friendly, people are open, just loved it. 12:06 This is Raymond. 12:08 He is the director and founder of the TV satellite, 12:12 well along with his wife. 12:14 And here he was praying with one of the viewers. 12:17 And they had to drive like six or seven hours, 12:20 just to meet this viewer. 12:22 And he came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ 12:24 through this satellite ministry. 12:26 - Wow, praise the Lord. 12:28 - Oh yeah, they're getting all these kinds of testimonies, 12:32 and when this is from all over the country, 12:34 many of them, they haven't gone to visit 12:36 because it's almost impossible to get there. 12:38 - Right. 12:39 They have to take, you know, drive hours 12:41 and then take boat or take a bus 12:42 or even some of them in airplane and then a boat 12:45 or it's just a long, a lotta travel. 12:48 - Right, it could take several days to get there. 12:50 - [Natalie] Right. 12:51 - And then several days to get back. 12:53 - Right. 12:54 So how long has this satellite program been on the air. 12:58 - Okay, so it started in the spring of 2011. 13:02 - Okay. 13:03 - So, it's been on quite a number of years. 13:05 - Right. 13:07 - So we have a really good record of the impact 13:09 that it's having across the whole nation. 13:13 And this is one of the challenges that we have 13:15 because we're in a place up until now there's been, 13:19 very a select number of donors 13:21 that have been supporting the satellite. 13:24 And the way the world economy has been shifted, 13:28 they have or no longer able to keep up. 13:31 And so just in the last week or two, 13:36 we've had reports that they might go off the air. 13:40 - Right, because they were getting 13:42 for the behind on the payments. 13:44 - Yeah, and-- 13:45 - They hadn't been able to make payments 13:47 for the last few months. 13:48 And so the satellite company was like, "Give us money, 13:51 "get off the air, these are the choices." 13:54 - [Jon] Right. 13:55 - So they were getting to the point 13:56 where they were discouraged. 13:57 - [Jon] Right. 13:58 - And they were asking, "Lord, what do we do?" 14:00 You know, they've seen fruits from this, 14:02 they've seen lives changed from this, 14:05 they've had so many reports of lives changed. 14:08 And yet they were discouraged, 14:10 they had no way to pay the bills and had-- 14:15 - Yeah, you know, I've never seen-- 14:16 - And Lord are you done with this too? 14:17 You know, that's kinda what they are asking, 14:19 "Lord, are you done with this too?" 14:20 'Cause they'd done everything they can 14:21 to reach all of Indonesia. 14:23 - Right, right, right. 14:24 And you know, I've rarely seen anyone go through 14:27 as much opposition as they've gone through. 14:29 You know, whenever you try to do satellite... 14:32 We found them and we've seen others as well, 14:35 try to media that seems like setting a special fight that. 14:39 - Right. 14:40 - And so they've gone through just tremendous... 14:42 They used to live a very comfortable lifestyle. 14:45 - Right, and some of our viewers may remember 14:47 hearing their testimony. 14:48 - [Jon] Yes. 14:49 They've been on our show before. 14:50 - [Jon] Yes. 14:51 - And so it's just today 14:52 we wanna focus on the satellite, 14:55 because it deserves to be thought about. 14:59 - [Jon] Yeah yeah. 14:59 - The value and the possibility, 15:02 the opportunity that we have here needs to be shared. 15:06 - Right, I mean honestly, if that signal went off the air, 15:09 I would not sure I can live with myself. 15:13 Because now there are people, there are families, 15:17 there are individuals, there's congregations out there 15:20 that this their church. 15:22 - Right. 15:23 - They don't have a pastor, they don't have a church. 15:24 And so this is their church, 15:26 this is the way their spiritually fed 15:28 and it's physical off the air. 15:31 Then their left high and dry. 15:33 - Right. 15:35 - And so there's no reason for this to go off the air. 15:38 - Right. 15:39 - It's a very inexpensive way to reach the entire country. 15:44 - Right, I mean we were calculating it. 15:46 We broke it down by hour, I mean that's the simplest way. 15:51 And by hour is 10 dollars an hour. 15:53 - Yeah, that includes-- 15:55 - To cover the entire country. 15:56 - Yeah, that includes the satellite signal 15:58 and production costs. 15:59 10 dollars an hour to have a signal 16:02 that covers total, almost 300 million people, 16:05 6,000 inhabited islands, 16:09 17 or 18,000 islands including Malaysia and Indonesia. 16:14 I mean plus the certain part of the Philippines. 16:17 You got a lotta coverage out there. 16:20 - [Natalie] Right. 16:21 - A lotta bank for the buck. 16:22 I mean, very few people today are even willing 16:25 to work for 10 bucks an hour. 16:26 - Right. 16:27 (laughs) 16:28 That's true. 16:29 - And here you can reach a huge amount 16:32 of the world's population for 10 bucks an hour. 16:34 - Yeah, wow. 16:37 (laughs) 16:39 - So it's like we can't let this thing go, 16:42 we can't let this thing go. 16:43 Not only does it support people out... 16:45 I mean I know some churches that have a bigger budget, 16:49 monthly budget than this satellite 16:51 and this satellite reaching an entire 300 million people. 16:55 - [Natalie] Right. 16:56 - Of course, yet it's not gonna reach that many people 16:59 because you need a satellite down link 17:01 in order to receive the signal. 17:04 - Right, but there's that many people who could reach, 17:07 if they have a down link or if they have a receiving dish. 17:12 - [Jon] Or a friend. 17:13 - [Natalie] Right. 17:14 - Yeah, so the statistics are out 17:16 that there is 17 to 20 million households 17:20 that have this dish. 17:21 So you'll say in that country, 17:24 an average of five people per household. 17:26 You're talking 100 million people that could potentially... 17:30 Let say call them potential viewing audience. 17:33 - Right, and then what they're producing, 17:37 they also put it on the YouTube channel 17:39 so that is readily available for people. 17:41 And so then it's not just who might just watch by satellite 17:45 but it's also who's gonna watch by YouTube later. 17:49 But the satellite is so important especially 17:53 for those that don't have access to a church 17:55 and don't have access to-- 17:57 - [Jon] Internet. 17:58 - You know, the internet, exactly 17:59 - I mean there's places out there 17:59 that still don't get internet. 18:01 - Right, and they satellite. - [Jon] Yeah. 18:03 - But they don't have internet. 18:04 - Oh satellite is like a leapfrog technology. 18:07 The other thing is 18:08 that they're doing the Zoom bible studies in the evening. 18:12 They got two to 300 people joining them online, 18:17 doing bible studies, interactive bible studies. 18:20 - Wow, nice. 18:22 - And so this television, 18:24 this satellite is grown into all these. 18:26 And there's other ministries they do also. 18:28 Health ministries, they do bicycling ministries 18:31 with the super rich in downtown Jakarta. 18:33 I mean it's just really developed 18:36 but this is the main thing. 18:39 We can't let this go, we cannot let this go. 18:41 - Right. 18:43 - And, yeah. 18:46 Here is some more shots of the country. 18:49 You can imagine what 17,000 islands 18:51 is gonna be some beach shots, 18:54 this isn't the most beautiful beach, 18:55 they've got some amazing white sandy beaches in Indonesia. 19:00 But you can see here where near, 19:03 there's a drone shot off of one island. 19:05 You can see they're going out into the open ocean. 19:07 You can see way way way over the horizon, 19:09 there's another (murmurs) okay. 19:12 This is how far apart some of these islands are. 19:14 You know, it's like, that's not an easy drive 19:18 to church in the morning. 19:19 - No, no. (laughs) 19:20 They'll take all your morning or more taking across that. 19:23 - Yeah all day. 19:25 This the shot... 19:26 Now, we're just going through that video 19:27 that we saw at the beginning. 19:28 We're gonna show that video again at the end. 19:30 We're just going through shot by shot. 19:32 Just kind of like... 19:33 'Cause each shot that I put there, it has meaning to me 19:36 and it represent something that-- 19:40 - Is important. 19:41 - Yeah, exactly. 19:42 So here's another little town, that's a typical town, 19:45 you can see the satellite dish in the bottom left corner. 19:48 Okay, so there is one of our viewers right there. 19:52 And as a family, they're in the town at middle or nowhere. 19:56 - Right. 19:57 - Again, back to the individual, the people, 20:00 that's what it's all about, the individual. 20:02 It's a great technology but it's the individual 20:06 that really matters. 20:07 - Yeah, it's true. 20:09 - Again, more beautiful, amazing scenery. 20:12 My heart just soars when I see some of these shots. 20:15 And here is the city, the city of Jakarta, 20:18 huge number of people there. 20:20 You know, how do you knock on some 20:22 of those high-raised doors. 20:23 - [Natalie] You don't. - [Jon] Gated community. 20:25 - [Natalie] Yeah, they have a doorman, 20:26 they codes, security codes, you can't get in. 20:29 - But this is another secret of satellite, 20:32 and our viewers of course, 20:34 are watching us on possibly on satellite technology. 20:38 They'll understand that this is a technology 20:41 that even though it's mass, it's very personal, 20:44 very one-on-one, very intimate. 20:45 And it can go behind closed doors, gated communities, 20:48 it can go into the living room of somebody, 20:51 that's a secret that wouldn't be caught there talking 20:55 to a Christian. 20:57 - Right, right, right. 20:59 Or not alone going to the church. 21:00 - [Jon] Yeah. 21:01 - That's not gonna happen. 21:03 - And so this is a powerful tool to come in 21:06 and connect with people that are true seekers. 21:10 One of the most amazing stories that I heard that Sandy 21:14 and Raymond told me when they were on the show here, 21:17 was this lady was a Buddhist. 21:19 And she was asking Buddha, "Please show me the true God. 21:25 "I want to find the true God. 21:27 "Are you the true God or who's the true God." 21:30 And she prayed this for many nights and one night, 21:32 she had a dream. 21:33 And in her dream, she saw an image of Buddha come to her, 21:37 and tell her, "Jesus Christ is the true God." 21:41 - Wow. 21:42 - And she says, "But that's the Christian's God?" 21:45 And Buddha says, "Yes, but he's the true God." 21:48 And so she contacted our satellite. 21:51 She found our satellite on her TV 21:53 and she learned about the Christian God 21:55 through that satellite channel. 21:58 - Wow. (laughs) 21:59 Yeah, that's such a blessing. 22:01 - It's an amazing story, 22:03 I mean it doesn't fit into the normal-- 22:05 - Yeah, a kind of mind tweak. 22:06 - Yeah, the normal normal mode of what you'd expect Christ 22:09 but he'll use any methods to meet people where they are. 22:12 - Right, right, to bring them to truth. 22:14 - Yes, exactly. 22:16 Now this is the family, Raymond and Sandy. 22:19 They used to be quite wealthy but very unhappy. 22:22 Now, they are quite poor. 22:26 They've been quite poor for quite a number of years 22:29 but they're happy. 22:30 They have their family together, 22:31 they have their happiness, just a wonderful testimony. 22:34 - Yeah, they're serving God as a family. 22:36 - [Jon] Yeah. 22:37 - And they found so much blessing there. 22:39 - [Jon] Uh huh. 22:40 - That is just great, they just beam. 22:41 - Yeah, it wasn't long ago that 22:43 we were at a youth conference with them. 22:46 And they were the main speakers 22:48 and they gave workshop, breakout sessions. 22:52 - [Natalie] Yeah. 22:53 - So they preach like five hours a day. 22:55 - Yeah. 22:56 - For like four days straight and at the end, 22:58 they were going with this much power 23:00 and strength and passion as they did when they started. 23:02 - Because God was in it. 23:04 - Yeah, God is in... 23:06 This is what-- 23:07 - Because it's for God. 23:08 Because it's from God. 23:10 - [Jon] Yeah. 23:11 - And it's all wrapped up in God, 23:12 giving them the strength to that. 23:14 - Yeah, and now they all have these testimonies 23:17 of God coming through and working for them. 23:20 So I know God is in that ministry, yeah. 23:22 - Well, let's watch that video again 23:24 with maybe a little more awareness of what we're saying. 23:27 - Okay. 23:28 (upbeat music) 24:40 They're beautiful. - Yeah. 24:41 - So inspiring. - Yeah. 24:43 And what an opportunity we have to share in a mass scale. 24:48 You know, we have to pray for there to be workers 24:51 for people where they can connect with. 24:53 Church members around them and actual people 24:57 that they can talk to because it's that so vital 25:00 to our Christian experience 25:01 and to our work through this world to connect with people 25:05 but to send the seeds. 25:07 - [Jon] Yes. 25:08 - And especially to places 25:10 where there is no other witness. 25:11 - Yeah, and that's the key with the satellite ministry, 25:16 is that... 25:16 It's a seed-planting ministry. 25:18 - Right. 25:19 - You'll see little bit of return 25:21 but you're not gonna see the return that's actually 25:24 that you're gonna see it at the second coming. 25:26 - Right. 25:27 - We will never know who has impacted, 25:29 at what time in their lives, 25:31 by this kinda ministry until then. 25:34 - Right, and so we're really... 25:36 This is really an opportunity 25:38 to store up treasure in heaven. 25:40 - Yes, yes. 25:41 - Because we won't see the result. 25:43 And we will hear stories like this lady 25:45 that found the satellite 25:46 because of Buddha telling her in the dream. 25:48 But we won't see 100,000 baptism 25:52 or 100 baptisms even necessarily. 25:55 But God knows what's going on and he's using those seeds 25:58 to reaching to every single life that watches this. 26:02 And who knows when he brings things to mind 26:05 that they've seen on it, 26:06 what they even saw might be some passing sentence. 26:10 And he just uses it to reach them, what an opportunity. 26:15 - Yeah, and we're gonna get more of these testimonies 26:17 as time goes by. 26:18 - Right. 26:19 - But then it truly is a broadcast. 26:22 You know, when the sower goes out to sow, 26:25 he doesn't put seeds here and there. 26:27 He takes a handful, in the old testament times, 26:30 bible times, and he will scatter it. 26:33 - Right. 26:34 - Some will fall on good ground, some on bad ground 26:36 but the main thing is that he'll scatter. 26:38 - Right, well and even today. 26:40 There's a lot of things that are planted that way. 26:43 You know, wheat and corn are planted that way. 26:46 Now, and our personal gardens, 26:47 we might plant things differently 26:49 but grass seed is just thrown. 26:52 And so that picture of throwing out the seed 26:55 and letting God be the one who grows the plant 26:59 and brings in the harvest at the end is just, 27:02 it's a beautiful picture. 27:04 - Yes, but not only should we send our funds 27:08 to broadcast seed but we really need 27:10 to send our prayers in the seed to open the pathway 27:14 for the Holy Spirit to work with that seed that's planted 27:18 and make sure that they get watered. 27:19 - That's right, that's right. 27:21 I would like to invite you to pray 27:23 for this satellite program. 27:25 There is so much opportunity, 27:27 there are so many people that could watch 27:29 and could learn about the beautiful love of Jesus. 27:32 And we can see the treasure going ahead of us 27:36 to heaven by faith. 27:38 If you would like to sponsor this program, 27:41 10 dollars an hour is an amazing price 27:44 and you'd think about how many people it might reach. 27:47 You can contact us at Jesus for Asia, 27:50 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee 37315. 27:56 Call us at (423) 413-7321 28:00 or visit our website at Jesus4asia.org. 28:04 May God richly bless you, 28:06 until we see you next time on Jesus for Asia Now. 28:09 (soft music) |
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