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  JUST FOLLOWING JESUS
  by K.P. Yohannan
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of humility, compassion,
obedience, and passion for the lost, drawing from personal experiences
and reflections on the true essence of following Christ. It challenges
listeners to prioritize genuine love, humility, and obedience over
doctrinal disputes and cultural divisions, urging a focus on reaching
the lost world with the message of Christ.

Duration: 56:11

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of humility, compassion,
obedience, and passion for the lost, drawing from personal experiences
and reflections on the true essence of following Christ. It challenges
listeners to prioritize genuine love, humility, and obedience over
doctrinal disputes and cultural divisions, urging a focus on reaching
the lost world with the message of Christ.

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I began a radio broadcast called Spiritual Journey 27 years ago, not in
the United States, although I do have now a radio broadcast which is
half hour long, heard on 800 radio stations throughout the United States
and Europe and Australia, but I never intended for my time to be spent
preaching to Americans or Europeans, because we've got enough preaching
going on here. But the radio broadcast I'm talking about is that which
started called Spiritual Journey in India some 28 years ago. It started
with one native language, my own native language.

Now, of course, by hearing my accent, you know English is not my native
language. Although, when I first came to America, here in Dallas, Texas,
no matter what I said, people didn't understand what I was saying. They
were very gracious and they said, What did you say? Can you repeat that
again? Until a friend of mine, Richard Schaefer, who was in seminary
with me said, KP, don't get discouraged.

You speak English and they speak Texan. That kind of settled the issue
for me. But when I started the radio broadcast in my native language, I
never imagined what that will do in terms of the impact.

The one who trained me to do that happened to be, strange enough, an
American. David Maynes, Dr. David Maynes from Chicago and his wife
Karen. I heard Chapel of the Air and I was intrigued by the way they do
this broadcast.

It is very colloquial, very real, face to face. So David said, I can
train you. So I had him come to India.

I was sitting in the studio with a microphone and on the other side of
the glass is the engineer. Then he said, well, just imagine you are
talking to one individual in a room, in a hospital or somewhere. You
know what, I did everything in the world but I couldn't imagine because
I knew you have a 400,000 watt medium wave and you have multiple
millions of people listening to this thing.

It took me some time. So what I did, I devised a new idea. I took a
sheet of paper and wrote on it these words, please don't preach at me.

I am just one little human being sitting in a room. Would you just talk
to me? So I taped that sheet of paper on the microphone. So when I am
sitting in the studio, the big letters are just glaring at me.

It took me a few months and I got into it. As a matter of fact, that
radio broadcast that began some 28 years ago, 27 years ago now to be
accurate, now it is in 110 languages. We get over a million people
writing letters every year asking for more information.

We have hundreds of churches planted as a result of this broadcast. Of
course, I don't do all the 110 languages. Our missionaries who are well
trained in other languages just take up the script and do that.

But the thing I was going to say to you is that as I learn to talk to
people about the things of God, two things are learned. One, there is a
hard language. There is a preacher's language, Greek and Hebrew and
philosophy, and the high-powered language which I learned in my seminary
also.

But there is a colloquialism, there is a hard language that God deals
with. Then I found out that God is not really concerned about the 99,
but He is concerned about the one. So during those early days of
learning to communicate the truth, representing my Lord, I found myself
sometimes sitting in the studio looking at the microphone.

I would break down weeping right in the middle of the way. I had to
pause and the engineer stops and says, maybe you have to go back and
redo it again, because you don't want to be weeping on the microphone.
They don't know what is going on.

The reason was, I would be talking about a man who has abused his wife.
I read a letter. The wife is saying that he has been abusing me, he has
been beating me up, my kids are scared, I just don't know what to do, he
prays for me.

And I said, this is what I just read. Then all of a sudden it is like a
drama or a movie. My emotions, my mind, my eyes turn to the man.

And I say, how can you do this? Don't you understand what you are doing?
If you are a woman, how would you handle this? You see, all of a sudden
I forget the microphone, I forget the engineer, I forget everything
else. It is very, very deep, intensely personal. This has been a journey
of my life of 44 years of serving Christ.

I found out that in the early days, people said, Matthew 5, 6 and 7 are
the so-called Sermon on the Mount. But, if you read, you will find it is
not a sermon. Seeing the multitude, he called his disciples, and in my
language, I would say, he just sat on a stone that was higher than the
normal ground there, and he sat there, and they just came and sat there,
and he just talked to them.

That is what it says in the Bible. So what you read in Matthew 5, 6 and
7 is not sermon. It was conversation.

So, in my attempt to share with you today, my first choice would be, if
you and I could meet in some coffee shop, Starbucks or whatever coffee
shop, and just have a conversation, and talk about things of God. Often,
in our world, it is not all so practical. So here we are, a bunch of
people that, I mean, all of you are deeply concerned about the church,
about revival, about the nation, about what God is doing in the church,
and your part in the kingdom's work.

So I don't have any question about why you are here. And so, I stand
here, although it is not a big crowd here, I understand each one of you
represents tens of thousands of people in terms of influence and the
possibilities. So, the question often comes to us, are we crusaders of
some big ideals and ideas and visions, or are we the people that God is
invading and making our lives become the means for transformation and
change in our generation? Strange enough, one of the things that broke
me down emotionally, and I wept and wept, when I heard a particular
individual, known internationally, a mega Christian leader, who people
like me had high respect for, and looked up to him.

He wrote books on holiness, and living for God, and conservative
doctrines, and all these different things, and all of a sudden an email
comes to me from a responsible Christian leader saying that, I just want
you to know, his life entirely collapsed. Morally, family wise, and
every way. And I am not one of those spooky people looking for signs and
wonders and miracles and all these things.

Also, I have seen thousands of people get healed, and set free, and all
these different things. So I am not looking at these television
preachers who make big names. I am always looking for people who are
conservative, and radical, and sober minded in their walk with God.

And this individual happened to be one of those people that I respected
greatly. But then you find out this whole world fell apart. And it
really broke my heart and hurt me deeply.

And that's when I realized once again, the Lord speaking to me, you can
be the greatest preacher of doctrines and holiness, yet be lost. And God
is not going to change the world through doctrines. He is going to
change the world through humble, simple lives that walk with him.

Now, I am not a Catholic. I guess you figured that out, maybe. Although
in my readings and studies of the first nine centuries of the church, I
am more prone to abide with the orthodox saints, and the faith, and the
lonely journey they made, and the desert fathers.

And seek God for God alone, and not for healing, and money, and
miracles, and prosperity, and all those things. But Mother Teresa of
Calcutta, if you know her name or not, is a classic example of an
individual who was not alright in her head with some doctrines. But I
think she was one that walked with the Lord so close, her heart was so
pure.

I read a huge amount of writings about her, interviews, and what she
said, and all those things. Again, that tells us that one lonely life
that had a huge impact upon the nation of India, with over one billion
people, that when she died, the government of India, at that time,
fighting against Christians, going against everything we believe in,
decided they will take the carriage they used to carry the body of
Mahatma Gandhiji, the father of the nation. That was the, what do you
call it in English, the hearse? The only term that was used for Mahatma
Gandhiji, the father of the nation.

The next time in history ever it was used for Mother Teresa when she
died. Just to realize that it was the kind of life when this English
Guardian newspaper reporter came to Calcutta and asked Mother Teresa,
watching her bending down, washing and cleaning the wounds of a leper,
pus and blood oozing out of his leg, and she was cleaning it and
bandaging it, and then he said, I cannot do something like this for
$100,000 or pounds or something like this, and this little old woman
looked up and said, I can do it for a million. Then he paused, waiting
for what she was going to say next.

She said, but you don't understand. This is Christ. It is his wounds.

It is his pus and blood oozing out. This is what I'm doing for my
Christ. You see, we in the evangelical world, conservative and radical,
I told somebody yesterday, I even don't like the word revival.

There was a time I was in Dallas while I was going to seminary, I was
pastoring a Baptist church, an ordained clergy here, and every year we
had the so-called revival meeting. I got confused. Why we call it
revival meeting? It was something we were creating as a cultural reality
of what we were living with, but I don't know how much reality there is
when you talk about revival in terms of the biblical things we talk
about.

So, going back to the initial conversation I had with you, when we
started talking to you, you know, my brothers and sisters, maybe the
more important thing about this whole meeting is that Jesus didn't need
12 million people to change the world. He only needed 11 people. And out
of 12, Judas happened to be one of those people who didn't make it.

But he just had 11 people, and they were not perfect people. I mean, you
got Judas there, you got Peter here. They both denied Christ, if you
know it or not.

But one committed suicide, and one became the greatest leader of the
church, Apostle Peter, who opened the door for the whole world and
Gentiles for the kingdom and the church. What was the difference? Judas
had the privileges that Peter had. He was one of the people that went
out to heal the sick, cast out demons, and preach the gospel, because he
sent all of them out two by two.

But all through this learning, and getting his degrees, and his
information, and being tutored by God himself, he was not honest. There
was deception, the duplicity, the dichotomy, a pretense to be one of the
saints, but deep inside he was not that. But Peter, no matter how you
look at him, he was blasting off and making all kinds of blunders, and
crazy stuff he did, but his faith was sincere.

There was no deception in him. I mean, here we are, a bunch of people,
and I think God is always looking for people who are not necessarily
perfect people, who know all the answers, but honest, simple people that
he can show himself mighty on their behalf in the generation they live
in. And Judas didn't make it, not because of any other reason than his
faith was insincere.

And Peter made it simply because his faith was weak, and God could make
it strong. He was not insincere. And this is where the Western
Christianity, that no matter what you talk about revival, and all this
fancy stuff you talk about, I think there need to be individuals like
you, and even a minority, need to come to the place, we are not
following denominations, and doctrines, and agendas, we just want to
follow the humble, simple Jesus of the New Testament.

And for me, in my brief journey with the Lord, I found out that the
safest thing in the whole world is just to follow him, and learn more of
him. Gail Irwin, who is the author of Jesus Style, a book that I almost
insist everyone must read, that book called Jesus Style, talks about the
real Jesus of the New Testament, and is called an invitation for us to
follow him. And he has this illustration.

He says, you know, if I tell you to come to my house for dinner, and I
give you the direction, now this is where you go, this is the street,
and all these different things, and you get in the car, and you drive
along, and you just don't know what to do, especially a place like
Dallas, Texas. And then you get lost, and then you call and say, hey, I
don't know what to do, I'm running late, I don't know how to get to your
place. And then your host says, where are you? Oh, I'm, I'm, oh, ok,
this is the street.

Is there any building in issue? Oh, yeah, there is one. Ok, you wait
there. You just wait there.

And I'm going to come, and this is my car, this is the color of my car,
this is a license plate, and I will come there, then you just follow me.
So, for me it would be a very easy thing to say. You will say, hello,
1962 bug.

He cannot make a mistake. And so I come, and you are waiting there,
saying, oh man, I'm half an hour late, you know, and what. Then he says,
don't worry, you just follow me.

And then I go off, and I take off with my bug. There is no other car
like my car anyway. And you follow me, and you are not looking at the
street, you are not looking for the signs, you are not looking for any
particular landmark.

You are simply just following me. And finally, we get to my house. And
he says, man, I would have never made it.

I just followed you. And I think, during my radio interviews, which I do
quite a lot, people call me up and I talk to them from different parts
of the country. And I keep insisting on one issue.

That is, we have lost Christ of the New Testament. And we have followed
politics, agendas, and doctrines, and denominations. Roy Hurston, who
wrote Calvary Road, I never had the privilege to meet him in person, but
my wife had.

And when I was barely 17 years of age, I was given two books from
Operation Mobilization Leadership. One is Calvary Road by Roy Hurston.
The next one is True Discipleship by William Macdonald.

Then, of course, I was given a huge amount of writings by Watchman Lee,
and A.W. Chaucer, and Alan Redpath, and all those things, and Puritan
writers. All these people became my mentors. But Calvary Road is a
classic.

By the way, it is in 85 languages today. It's an 80-page booklet. If you
never got it, you must get it.

Next to the Bible, I say, Calvary Road and True Discipleship by William
Macdonald are two important books you should have. Now, Calvary Road
talks about revival. What is revival? It is nothing other than, less
than, more than, simply the life of Christ in these earthen vessels and
flowing through it.

It is not putting a new party in the government. It is not people
picketing 100,000 people for this right, that right, any of those
things. And God, unlike most Americans think, is not terribly worried
about majority.

No. He would destroy the whole world to save one family. Noah and his
family.

And God, in the words of George Worwer, is looking for a mighty minority
that he can show himself strong. And so, if that is our agenda, our
goal, our hopes, I think, our individual lives will make a difference.
And that's what I want.

And for me, it's been 40 plus years I've been serving the Lord and I
remember the day I turned 50. And I'm 60 now, by the way. He thought I
was 29.

That's not true. But this is true, by the way. I still can't sleep more
than 6 hours a day.

I'm nervous or paranoid, whatever reason. I do quite well, by God's
grace. But I remember the day I turned 50.

And I said, Lord, I want to talk to you. I want to hear from you. And I
spent the day with the Lord, alone.

Again, I wasn't looking for anything strange, you know, events to
happen. I'm just a simple disciple who reads the Bible and obeys the
Lord and keeps a clear conscience before God and before people. That's
all my life journey is.

And it was a strange experience that afternoon. It was an interesting
day when the Lord spoke to me. He said, Son, a few more years left.

Get to know me. I was actually expecting him to say, you know, you have
a lot more work to do. The world is going to hell, and I want you to do
this.

Humanly speaking, I live and dream and breathe one thing, that is
reaching the lost world and seeing people come to know the Lord and all
these different things. So the way the Lord spoke to my heart was, just
a few more years, Son, get to know me better. And it's been 10 years
since I heard him speak that kind of word.

Did my passion for the lost get diluted? No. It only increased. But the
key to all that we dream about is Jesus.

Nothing else and no one else. Why is it so important? Because having
lived in Western culture for all these four decades or being encountered
with it all these years, we can easily be drawn to various fights and
agendas. This issue, that issue, and all these different things.

And we will become the proponents or leaders of issues rather than
Christ himself. And that's where we need to be careful. Now, I'm also
looking at the clock and I realize that I just got through maybe the
introduction barely.

So if you're thinking, where is the Bible verse? Here it is. 1 John 2,
verse 6. 1 John 2, verse 6. This is kind of an application to what I've
been talking about. What does it mean to know him and follow him in our
individual life as we seek that? 1 John 2, verse 6. In my translation,
NIV, it says whoever claims to live in him must walk as he did.

Now that applies to you, applies to me. In the Living Bible, it reads
anyone who says he's a Christian should live as Christ lived. I don't
think even Greek and Hebrew and philosophy explain that.

I was listening to a dear friend of mine, Brother Sack, the other day
during my time of exercise. I don't know if you do this. I do push-ups
and all these things to keep me alive.

So I'm listening to these teachings. I heard him speak so many times.
Brother Sack was saying, you know, Jesus said, I am the light of the
world.

Then he turns to his disciples. Weak and frail and failing people said,
you are the light of the world. So right now, we are, you and I, we are
Christ for the people around us.

They can't see the Christ who died on the cross and buried and rose
again and is sitting on the right hand of the Father. But they can see
us. And again, it brings us to the place of realization that whatever
the Lord asked us to do, he simply said, follow me and I will make you.

So again, not that we are perfect people but as we follow him, he
transforms us and changes us. 2 Corinthians 3.18 The Holy Spirit changes
us and makes us to become more like Christ. So in our generation, people
who view us in our family, our children, our wife, husband, they see
Christ and his life through our life.

And that's what scripture says. Anyone who says he is a Christian should
live as Christ did. Is it possible? I believe it is.

Now, I did a teaching recently in India called Doing Spirituality. It's
a strange title, by the way. For us often, spirituality is God doing
some special thing like alien invasion.

Explosion all of a sudden. You know, everything changes and all of a
sudden the wicked, rotten sinner turns into St. Augustine. Microwave.

It's an amazing machine that ever made a thing. You just put something
in there, press a few seconds and it's steaming hot. It just doesn't
work like that in Christian life.

We want that. How do we learn to pray? Read E.M. Bowne's books, Power
Through Prayer. How do we learn to fast? Read Arthur Wallace's God's
Chosen Fast.

Good, but you will never do it. You can preach about it. You can make a
four point sermon and you can talk about it and think, oh man, this guy
really knows God.

But your alarm never went off one in the morning to wake you up to spend
two hours on your face. We learn to pray on our knees alone with other
people. Which means buffeting our body, bringing it into subjection.

We learn godliness not by memorizing theology and reading books, but by
saying no to ourselves and saying no to sin. And no to the things we
want that make us happy. And this is the missing jewel from the
Christian Western theology.

James says, yeah, you say you have faith? Wonderful. But show it through
your works. Works without faith is just useless.

Faith needs to be supported with our discipline, our suffering. And that
is not so easy. So the illusion that we have that we can have great
noises made about all these wonderful things and something is going to
happen, it is not.

Being spiritual and godly and being like Christ happens as it says in
scripture. He, about Christ says, learned obedience through suffering. I
used to be more black and white, put people on the spot kind of guy.

But all the years of my walking with the Lord I learned that I am weak,
everybody is weak. So I have no agenda to put you on a trip and make you
crawl into the hole and say I am a bad sinner. No.

But I want to ask you a simple question. When was the last time you
spent an hour or two alone with the Lord? When was the last time you
spent a few days in fasting? When was the last time you said, I am no
more going to get all the catalogues that comes to my house that tells
me to buy this, buy that, buy that, all this stuff. You see, you cannot
divorce spirituality from your doing things.

And there are some things in the scripture that we read about Christ as
we read through the four gospels that kind of stands out. I got about a
dozen of them but there is no way to go through all of them but I will
just mention them to you. As He was in the world, so we are now.

How did He live in the world? One you find in John 13 He said, I want
you to know I love you and I want you to love one another as I have
loved you. Until now, they saw how much Christ loved them and cared for
them. Now He says, I am going to leave and I want you to follow my
example.

And I think, especially in this culture where people fight over every
little dot you can imagine. I remember reading a book, a couple of
hundred pages, this guy wrote this book saying that if you are not
reading King James and only King James you are promoting false
doctrines. Now my problem is I hardly can understand kindergarten
English.

It is like Greek to me, I have no way to figure this out. I do have King
James Bible and I have studied it and all the different translations.
But the body of Christ is so divided over so many insignificant issues
that we call for revival and authenticity and the world is going to hell
and they can't see God's love in us.

And I never forget talking to a politician in India the guy has a PhD in
a high level position in the Indian government and he is a Hindu by the
way and he asked me the question Can I ask you a question? I said, yeah.
He said, you know the place I live in Bangalore there are so many
churches with so many different names and they all seem to be so
segregated one group cannot go to the other place but us Hindus we got
300 million gods and anyone can go to any temples no barriers but you
only got one God but everybody is all divided into so many groups he
said, how does that work? I never had anybody ask me that question by
the way so I said, yeah, you got a good question I mean, he said we got
300 million gods but we are one you got one God, you got thousands of
groups and then of course, this is a longer conversation he talked about
the court case going on between this group and that group and he had to
deal with some of those issues all these different things, all among
Christians and now, my brothers and sisters this I will tell you we need
to have conservative, godly doctrines there is no way we can negotiate
about certain doctrines the uniqueness of Christ the scripture
infallibility of the scripture salvation, Jesus is the only way there is
no two different ways and his call for us to be his but we fight over a
thousand things that are not at all significant and usually leaders are
doing the whole thing not the people and as people of God if we can
embrace the reality of Christ loving the prostitutes the drunkards, the
weak, the mean the one who was condemned by the religious crowd he loved
them all it is one thing to maintain our convictions it is another thing
to love them as Jesus loved I remember some years ago one night we were
going to bed my wife and I and I was talking about one of my staff
persons many many years ago by the way and I said I just don't know what
to do I had to get this person out of the office and she heard all this
usually your wife is the best person to correct you believe it or not
and she is a very sober minded, godly individual so she heard all my
complaining, murmuring about this individual and then she said very
calmly can I ask you a question? I know I am in trouble she said he
loves this brother so much have you ever considered the Lord saw you as
one individual that can help him and God God wants no one to perish no
one to lose have you ever considered to cooperate with God to make him
succeed I said to myself I hate when you preach at me like this but that
changed my paradigm completely I realized that my goodness I need to
work with my Lord to help him, to change him that changed my life
forever and that individual is still with me after 20, 80 some years
very much part of my life I can imagine life without him and I changed
more than he changed you see so much of our expectation for God has so
little to do with what actually he wants it is us, our righteousness
that we want to enforce and establish not his the second thing about our
Lord as he was in the world we must be it is his humility the only place
I think where Jesus talked about himself in Matthew chapter 11 when he
said take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am humble and humility
is not something that we put on saying I am weak and humble and simple
no, basically it is an attitude of heart attitude that when you meet the
least and the last and the nobodies you consider him to be more
important than you I come from my Indian background upper caste family
and we have so many castes and then you have the backward caste then we
have the Dalits so people who come from Brahmin background it is a DNA
within us that when we look upon other people you don't have to explain
to us what caste they belong to instantaneously, instinctively like a
bird that knows instinctively where to go we know that and what I am
telling you is what the Lord had to do in my own heart to find out when
I find a low caste or Dalit and many many years ago the Lord spoke to me
you want to leave the upper caste Brahmin who is waiting on appointment
with you and you bypass all of them and go to the least and the last and
embrace him and ask what do you want what can I do for you and I think
it is much easier to live with our equals buddy buddy or please our
superiors how do we treat the least and the last and the nobody one of
my recent books I wrote I dedicated that book to one of our brothers
here who cleaned the yard and cut the grass and cleaned the toilets he
is not in the senior most leadership team he is not sitting in decision
making basically nobody sees him he is a brother who has been behind the
scene as a servant of our servants so I dedicated the book to him and he
didn't know that, nobody knew that and I said Lord I want to dedicate
this book to someone it is a strange feeling what you have done to the
least of these my brothers you have done it for me, dedicate this book
to me I said Jesus that is great but the name is not Jesus Christ it is
somebody else someone who is so simple and humble and nobody that Jesus
lives in and lives through and I think we we genuinely lack humility but
we pretend to be humble and I think the real Christ in the New Testament
is not promoting himself or herself, just being real and one of the
marks of humility is that we don't pretend children can't pretend and
not because in my seminary days I did study psychology and counseling
somewhere I am not an expert in it but I can tell you one thing I am
convinced about don't underestimate other people's intelligence no
matter how you try to be humble and spiritual and pretend somewhere
along the line your spirit will give away who you really are if you
don't believe me, read Watchman's book Release of the Spirit you will
find it so just be honest, just be real I was talking to my brother here
who is the senior pastor of the church here and I said I love your
church, I love you and I like it because the times I have been there a
young man just stands up and no pretense he just says the way life is
and this kind of reality is what Jesus lived with and I think he calls
it for number three, John 11 you read this about the Lord's obedience
how he lived under absolute submission to his father he said I do
nothing of my own, my time is going to come and doing God's work in his
way and in his time is more critical than doing our way and I have a
book by the way Touching Godliness if you have not read a copy of that
please do get a copy of that it talks much about this living under
absolute submission to the authority God placed over us and number four
as he lived, we should live now you read Matthew's Gospel chapter 9 his
compassion, when he saw the multitude he was moved with compassion and I
am telling you whether you like me or not if you are not able to weep
over the people in Burma or the suffering in Iraq or India or Haiti
something that don't grip you you need to be concerned about where you
are when he saw the suffering and the abuse the Dalits and the forsaken
his heart broke if you are more concerned about window shopping and
trying to figure out your doctrines something is missing and may the
Lord help us and number five his passion for the lost there is no
question about it he described about his agenda the son of man came to
seek and to save that which was lost I do not know anyone that truly
came to know the Lord intimately and didn't have a desperate passion
concern for the lost world there are people who says to me you know what
I am called to be a teacher I am called to be a pastor you are called to
be an evangelist I say quietly, you are stupid I won't say it out loud
there is no greater teacher than Jesus himself there is no greater
teacher than Apostle Paul who said if cutting my throat and pouring my
blood out would save people I would do it by all means pulling some out
of fire and Jesus the greatest of all teachers went to the cross to save
sinners and one of the crisis we have in the church today with all the
revival and all the other stuff people talk about some two billion
people in our generation that do not know the Lord and on the way to
hell over a billion Muslims one of the strongest most difficult barrier
to break through some 180,000 people die every single day and plunge
into hell and we are still collecting few people to our Bible study
groups and our awana groups and our worship groups I just can't imagine
a church with 2,000 or 3,000 people can go through Sunday after Sunday
then all of a sudden the news breakthrough saying that 100,000 people
died in Bangladesh overnight in typhoon and they go on with life as if
nothing happened what on earth is wrong with them the crime of the
century is the preachers in the pulpit who do not understand the heart
of God do not believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven and there is
a hell that is waiting for people who die without him some years ago I
sent out a letter saying that if we have books sitting around that you
don't read you want to send it away so we can ship it to overseas for
libraries and all those things do you believe if I tell you within 3
months we had over 100,000 volumes people shipped to us here in Dallas,
Texas we have 13 or 14 or more full time Christian radio stations 24
hours teaching everything from extreme conservative teachings to the
most liberal things music from all spectrum every week we have a new
bible translation coming out with somebody's name what a dumb thing
going on in this country when half of the world have never seen one page
of the bible every telephone post is a church building how much more
stuff do you need how much more studies do you need before you
understand there is a world out there that never heard Christ's name and
then you claim and I claim we follow Jesus it is all an illusion as Paul
said they followed another Christ you travel with me to China or Bhutan
or Afghanistan or Bangladesh I can bet my life on it you may run into 1
in 100,000 pastors or missionaries who had anything more than his own
bible if lucky he has a whole bible like in Tripura they only have new
testament there is no old testament yet translated not printed you know
one of the enemies of true spirituality is all the bible study groups
going on in this country you say that sounds weird you know why it is we
are making more pharisees out of believers through this nonsense
approach to studying and studying without telling them stop it, kneel
and repent and do something about it and I do not know what the future
is maybe this economy, the collapse maybe will bring us to the place
that you are not going to go driving all over the world for window
shopping there is no gas to do that and I pray that God will wake us up
with the reality of the lost world and I do not think we need 5 million
people to do that I think we have enough people here if you will get
serious well you happen to be at the headquarter of Gospel for Asia here
in the United States and if what all I have been saying to you has any
meaning you can pick up materials to read further about it and one of
the passions we have is to see 100,000 workers trained and sent out to
reach these unreached nations and by the grace of God we see some 17
churches planted every single day among people that never heard the
gospel as a matter of fact I was on the telephone half hour prior to my
coming down to speak here and you know an incredible news every single
day I hear something that is exciting one of our film teams, we have 400
units team that go around and show the life of Christ among people that
are illiterate they never heard Christ and they were in Jammu and
Kashmir a thick population of Muslims and they were there for 2 weeks
and they said so far they have some 400 plus people came to Christ and
they just baptized 32 people the first day public baptism and a huge
opposition broke out and they went to the police saying what are we
going to do and they said the best thing to do you find a place, put a
cross on the top and gather all your people and start doing your worship
and that is the good news what I'm saying is how much God is working how
thirsty people are and the question is do we want to have a part in
reaching the lost world and that is what Jesus is all about and if that
be the case I encourage you to talk to our people at the tables and if
you want to pick up some of these missionaries to pray for them and
support them, you are welcome to do that again we have no intention to
turn this gathering into a fundraising system but normally speaking when
I'm in the United States or Europe traveling some places I don't back
out from telling people this is your call to pray and reach the lost
world and do as the Lord tells you to do alright, thank you for
listening it's been good to talk to you again your eyes, your face tells
me you are here because you mean business and may the Lord use our lives
to glorify his name let's pray and Lord, thank you for this time of
sharing and learning from you and the best I know I try to communicate
with my brothers and sisters what I felt you wanted me to say now Lord,
take these feeble words of mine and I pray that you will use it to bring
forth fruit fruit that will remain and thank you for your grace and ask
for your blessing upon us in Jesus' precious name Amen

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