Participants: Dan Walter
Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000446
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00:22 HELLO GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILY, THAT'S REALLY WHO YOU ARE.
00:26 IF IT WAS NOT FOR ALL OF YOU WHO PRAY FOR AND SUPPORT GOSPEL OUTREACH THIS MINISTRY 00:33 WOULD NOT EXIST SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING A PART OF THE GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILY, 00:39 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH MINISTRY, AND THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORLD. 00:42 TODAY, I AM IN THE STUDIOS HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH IN COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON 00:49 WHERE WE TAPE "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" STORIES 00:53 THAT REACH YOU ON A CERTAIN KIND OF A SCHEDULE. 00:57 WE ARE TAPING IN LATE SEPTEMBER IN 2012 SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DATES SOMETIMES, IN 01:05 TELLING OUR STORIES YOU HAVE A WINDOW IN WHICH TO RELATE WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT IS 01:11 HAPPENING AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 01:13 THE HAPPY THING FOR ME IS THAT I GET TO RECONNECT WITH MY FRIENDS AS WE SIT TOGETHER 01:20 HERE AND TALK ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GOSPEL OUTREACH AND HEAR THESE STORIES. 01:26 MY FRIEND TODAY AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO FORGET EACH OTHERS 01:30 NAMES BECAUSE WE ARE BOTH DANS. 01:34 I'M HAPPY TO WELCOME DAN WALTERS, BLESS YOUR HEART. 01:37 THANK YOU, IT'S A PLEASURE. 01:38 ALWAYS GLAD TO BE WHERE YOU ARE, BROTHER AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I LIKE WHEN I SEE YOU, 01:43 YOU ALWAYS BREAK INTO A BIG SMILE NO MATTER WHAT THE WEATHER IS AND WHEN YOU START 01:49 TALKING ABOUT YOUR MINISTRY AT GOSPEL OUTREACH, YOU DO SO WITH A LEVEL OF EXCITEMENT 01:55 THAT IS MAGNETIC AND CONSEQUENTLY I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY. 02:02 HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH? 02:04 I'VE BEEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS NOW. 02:06 WHY WOULD, AND FORGIVE THIS, THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE DISRESPECTFUL IN ANY WAY, BUT 02:12 WHY WOULD AN OLD GUY LIKE YOU AND ME WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH? 02:17 WELL, I GUESS ONE THING I'VE BEEN A MISSIONARY ALL MY LIFE AND WHEN I RETIRED IT WAS 02:24 STILL IN MY BLOOD. 02:25 I JUST COULDN'T HELP IT. 02:26 WELL AND I UNDERSTAND HOW THAT IS AND YOU AND I HAVING BEEN AROUND AS LONG AS WE HAVE, WE 02:34 KNOW A GOOD DEAL WHEN WE SEE IT. 02:36 YES. 02:37 AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ONE OF THOSE GOOD DEALS. 02:39 IT CERTAINLY IS. 02:40 WOULD YOU TELL THE FOLKS FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW, WHY THIS IS A GOOD DEAL? 02:46 WHAT REALLY ATTRACTED ME AFTER HAVING WORKED FORTY SOME YEARS OUT IN THE FIELD WAS THAT 02:52 GOSPEL OUTREACH USES THE LOCAL PEOPLE FOR EVANGELISM AND I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT IS 02:59 THE VERY BEST THING. 03:01 AND WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT LOCAL PEOPLE HE IS TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ALREADY LIVE THERE, 03:07 THEY KNOW THE LANGUAGE, THEY ARE A PART OF THE CULTURE AS I SOMETIMES SAY THEY ALREADY 03:12 LIKE THE FOOD, YES, AND SO THEY FIT RIGHT IN AND BE ACCEPTED AND UNDERSTAND HOW TO 03:18 COMMUNICATE IN A MORE EFFECTIVE WAY THAN SOME OF US IMPORTED FROM LONG DISTANCES. 03:23 AND THEY STAY LONGER. 03:25 BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL WELL THEY ARE THERE THAT IS THEIR HOME. 03:29 THAT'S IT. 03:31 YOU ALREADY MENTIONED IT IS MORE ECONOMICAL YES, TO HAVE THESE FOLK BECAUSE THEY ARE 03:35 ALREADY LIVING IN THAT ECONOMY AND IF THEY CAN GET SUPPORT BEING A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER 03:41 IN THEIR OWN HOME ECONOMY, IT'S ECONOMIZING FOR US IN EVANGELISM. 03:46 OH, IT HAS MANY ADVANTAGES. 03:48 WELL, I'VE ALREADY SAID, DAN WE ARE HERE TO HEAR STORIES ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN 03:55 GOSPEL OUTREACH AND YOU, AS EVERYBODY ELSE DOES, HAVE EXCITING STORIES TO TELL AND I 04:01 WANT TO GET RIGHT TO THOSE NOW. 04:03 WHERE DO WE START? 04:04 LET'S START WITH BABJI. 04:07 BABJI, A VERY INTERESTING MAN THAT I JUST MET THIS LAST TIME I WAS OVER THERE IN FEBRUARY. 04:16 YOU KNOW, IN INDIA THEY HAVE THE CASTE SYSTEM WHERE PEOPLE ARE BORN AT A CERTAIN LEVEL OF 04:22 SOCIETY AND THAT'S THEIR PERMANENT LEVEL. 04:26 HE WAS BORN A BRAHMAN WHICH IS THE HIGHEST CASTE. 04:29 BRAHMANS HAVE TWO SUBDIVISIONS, ONE IS THOSE WHO ARE COUNSELORS AND ASSISTANTS 04:39 IN GOVERNMENTS AND COUNSELOR TO THE KING OR WHOEVER IS RULING AND THE OTHER DIVISION 04:45 ARE THOSE WHO ARE THE HINDU PRIESTS. 04:48 BABJI WAS SELECTED AS A HINDU PRIEST CANDIDATE. 04:53 AFTER HIS PRELIMINARY EDUCATION, HE WENT THROUGH A SPECIALIZED COURSE FOR FOUR 04:59 YEARS TO BECOME A HINDU PRIEST. 05:03 WHILE HE WAS IN TRAINING, HE JOINED A CLUB THERE IN HIS TRAINING THAT IS A CLUB 05:16 DEDICATED TO THE DEFENSE OF HINDUISM. 05:20 AFTER HE FINISHED HIS TRAINING AS A PRIEST, HE DECIDED TO GO A STEP FARTHER IN HIS 05:26 EDUCATION AND HE WENT TO A UNIVERSITY TO TAKE COURSES IN ELECTRONICS. 05:32 THERE HE WAS BROUGHT INTO ANOTHER CLUB 05:36 AND THIS CLUB AGAIN SPECIALIZED IN DEFENDING HINDUISM. 05:43 DURING THE COURSE OF HIS STUDIES THERE, ONE OF HIS COLLEAGUES BECAME A CHRISTIAN. 05:49 WHAT CHRISTIAN I DON'T KNOW BUT FOR A BRAHMAN TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN THAT'S A NEVER, 05:55 NEVER, I MEAN BRAHMANS ARE BRAHMANS FOR GENERATIONS AND NOW FOR THIS FELLOW TO STEP 06:05 OUT AND BE A CHRISTIAN. 06:07 HORRIBLE! 06:08 AND SO BABJI DECIDED THAT HE HAD TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. 06:16 HE GOT HIS CLUB TOGETHER AND WENT TO WHERE THIS CHRISTIAN CLASSMATE WAS CONDUCTING SOME 06:24 EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS AND HIS BUDDIES RAN AHEAD AND STARTED A RIOT AND WHATEVER IN THERE, 06:31 THEY STOPPED THE MEETINGS AND WHEN BABJI GOT THERE 06:37 AN OLD LADY STOOD UP AND CONFRONTED HIM. 06:40 WHY ARE YOU STOPPING THESE MEETINGS? 06:45 AND HE RETORTED WE HAVE ENOUGH GODS WE DON'T NEED TO ADD THIS ONE. 06:49 BESIDES THAT, THIS GOD JESUS HE IS OF THE LOW CLASS AND YOU A BRAHMAN WANT TO WORSHIP A 06:57 LOW CASTE GOD? 06:58 NEVER! 07:00 AND SHE SAID IF YOU ACCEPT JESUS HE WOULD BE CAPABLE OF HEALING YOU AND SAVING YOU. 07:10 HE ACTED LIKE HE DIDN'T HEAR IT. 07:12 SHE SAID THAT TO HIM THREE TIMES, IF YOU WOULD BECOME A CHRISTIAN, JESUS COULD HEAL 07:19 YOU AND HE COULD BE YOUR SAVIOR. 07:23 WELL, WHEN HE GOT NOWHERE WITH THAT THEN HE TURNED AWAY FROM HER AND WENT TO CONFRONT HIS 07:31 OLD CLASSMATE. 07:34 WHEN HE CAME TO SEE HIS CLASSMATE, 07:37 HIS CLASSMATE WAS WEARING SOMETHING THEY CALL IT GAAYATHRA. 07:43 IT IS A STRINGED GARMENT SORT OF THING THAT THEY HANG AROUND THEIR NECK OR WHERE AND THAT 07:51 DISTINGUISHES THEM AS BEING PURIFIED AND LOYAL TO THEIR CALLING. 08:00 AND THIS FELLOW, THOUGH A CHRISTIAN STILL HAD HIS ON. 08:05 AND SO BABJI GLARED AT HIM, YOU'RE STILL WEARING YOUR GAAYATHRA AND YOU CALL 08:12 YOURSELF A CHRISTIAN AND THE CLASSMATE REACHED UP TO HIS NECK AND HE YANKED THAT THING 08:20 OFF HIS NECK AND THREW IT DISGUSTINGLY TO THE GROUND. 08:24 HE SAID THIS I TAKE OFF FOR JESUS CHRIST, THIS THING IS EVIL IT IS UNFIT. 08:37 AND BOY THAT HIT JUST BABJI WITH SUCH SHOCK, A BRAHMAN THROWING OFF HIS GAAYATHRA. 08:45 HE WAS SPEECHLESS AND SO FINALLY HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, 08:55 I'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING TO REPURIFY MYSELF. 08:59 NOW A BRAHMAN, TO PURIFY HIMSELF TO BE A PRIEST AND SO ON, HE HAS TO GO THROUGH ALL 09:05 KINDS OF CEREMONIES INCLUDING A CLEANSING BY FIRE. 09:09 JUST HOW THEY DO IT I DON'T KNOW BUT THEY GO THROUGH SOME PURIFICATION THING AND HE 09:14 THOUGHT, I WASN'T PURE ENOUGH, I COULDN'T DEFEAT THIS GUY. 09:20 I'M GOING TO HAVE TO DO MORE AND SO HE DECIDED HE HAD TO MAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO A PLACE 09:26 CALLED AYYAPPA THAT IS ABOUT 900 MILES AWAY 09:33 TO A CERTAIN TEMPLE THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO GO TO. 09:36 BEFORE HE COULD GO THERE, HE HAD TO DRESS IN ALL BLACK. 09:42 HE HAD TO FAST FOR 40 DAYS. 09:44 NOW FASTING DOESN'T MEAN COMPLETE NO FOOD, THEY WOULD EAT ONE SMALL MEAL PER DAY. 09:52 HE MUST EAT SPECIAL SOFT VEGETARIAN FOOD ALL THIS TIME. 09:59 HE COULD HAVE NO SEX, HE COULDN'T EVEN TOUCH 10:01 A WOMAN ALL THIS TIME. WHEN HE BATHED, HE HAD TO BATHE IN A FLOWING RIVER, 10:08 COULDN'T BE IN A SHOWER, NO TUBS. 10:11 HE HAD TO BE BAREFOOT ALL THIS TIME AND THEN TO TRAVEL HE COULD TRAVEL BY BUS, TAXI, 10:19 WHATEVER BUT STAY BAREFOOT DRESSED IN BLACK. 10:24 WHEN HE MADE THIS JOURNEY, FINALLY HE CAME TO THE END OF THE ROAD HE STILL HAD TO WALK 10:30 ANOTHER FIFTEEN KILOMETERS, THAT'S ABOUT NINE OR TEN MILES, UP THIS STEEP ROCKY 10:36 PATH UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS WHERE THIS TEMPLE WAS AND THEN GO THROUGH ALL THE 10:41 PURIFICATION, THIS AND THAT. 10:45 WELL HE DID ALL THIS AND THEN MADE HIS WAY HOME. 10:50 WHEN HE GOT HOME, SOME FAMILY MEMBER WAS GETTING MARRIED SO HE AND HIS FATHER WENT TO THIS 10:58 WEDDING AND AT THIS WEDDING THERE WAS AN OLD MAN ABOUT NINETY YEARS OLD AND AS THEY 11:07 WERE HAVING THE DEVOTIONAL PART OF THE CEREMONY, THEY WERE WORSHIPING A GOD CALLED 11:14 LORD VINYAKA, WE'VE GOT A PICTURE OF HIM HERE. 11:17 HE LOOKS LIKE A MAN WITH MANY ARMS AND WITH AN ELEPHANT HEAD AND EVERYONE WAS WORSHIPPING 11:26 THIS ONE, EXCEPT THE OLD MAN HAD HIS BACK TURNED TO THE GOD. 11:31 VERY DISRESPECTFUL. 11:34 YES, SOME OF THE OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS ASKED THE OLD MAN, WHY IS IT YOU ARE TURNING YOUR 11:39 BACK TO THE GOD? 11:42 HE DIDN'T ANSWER THEM. 11:44 BABJI HELD HIS PEACE FORTUNATELY, UNTIL AFTERWARD. 11:49 WHEN THE WORSHIP WAS OVER, HE ASKED THE OLD MAN WHY WAS IT YOU WERE SHOWING SUCH 11:53 DISRESPECT TO THE LORD VINYAKA. 12:00 AND THE OLD MAN SAID DO YOU KNOW WHO IS THE REAL GOD? 12:07 THE REAL GOD? 12:09 IF YOU DON'T KNOW, STUDY THE BOOKS AND FIND OUT AND IF YOU DON'T FIND OUT, YOU COME AND 12:18 SEE ME AND I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE REAL GOD. 12:23 WELL, THAT JUST LEFT A REAL QUESTION IN HIS MIND THEN. 12:26 WELL, HE WENT TO A CERTAIN TEMPLE WHERE THEY HAD THE FOUR BOOKS OF HINDUISM. 12:33 THEY ARE CALLED THE VEDAS AND HE READ THROUGH VOLUME ONE. 12:39 IT IS ALL WRITTEN IN SANSKRIT BUT FROM HIS TRAINING HE KNEW HOW TO READ IT. 12:44 HE READ THROUGH THE SANSKRIT VOLUME ONE, COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING, VOLUME TWO COULDN'T 12:50 FIND ANYTHING; VOLUME THREE HE FOUND OUT THAT THESE HOLY BOOKS INDICATED THAT THE REAL 13:06 GOD HAD NO SHAPE AND HE WOULD COME TO THIS EARTH AND BE BORN OF A VIRGIN WOMAN. 13:15 REALLY. 13:19 THEN HE WENT ON AND READ VOLUME FOUR AND HE STILL DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING MORE THAT 13:23 WAS THE ONLY INDICATION HE GOT. 13:25 HE WENT BACK TO HIS OLD HINDU TEACHER AND ASKED HIM, CAN YOU TELL ME WHO THE REAL GOD IS? 13:34 THE MAN REMAINED SILENT, HE WOULDN'T TELL HIM. 13:39 WELL, HE'D READ THAT THIS REAL GOD HAD NO SHAPE, HE WOULD BE BORN OF A VIRGIN, HE WOULD BE 13:51 THE ONLY SAVIOR OF MEN, BUT WHO WAS HE? 13:57 WHEN HE COULDN'T FIND ANY ANSWERS HE WENT BACK AND DECIDED TO FINISH HIS COURSE 14:01 IN ELECTRONICS. 14:03 SO, HE WENT BACK TO THE UNIVERSITY AND BEGAN HIS, TOOK UP HIS STUDIES AGAIN IN 14:09 ELECTRONICS BUT HE FAILED ALL OF HIS EXAMS. 14:15 THIS QUESTION KEPT COMING TO HIM, WHO IS THE REAL GOD? 14:21 WHERE CAN I FIND HIM? 14:22 WHERE CAN I LEARN ABOUT HIM? 14:26 FINALLY, HE DECIDED HE WOULD READ THE ENCYCLOPEDIA WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN PHILOSOPHER VERY 14:33 FAMOUS IN INDIA. 14:35 HE'D WRITTEN ELEVEN VOLUMES SUPPOSEDLY EXPOUNDING ON THIS REAL GOD. 14:43 BUT HE READ THROUGH ALL ELEVEN VOLUMES SPENDING EIGHTEEN HOURS A DAY READING, STUDYING 14:51 AND HE ONLY FOUND OUT THAT THE REAL GOD IS LIKE 14:55 A LIGHT OR LIKE A SOUND, SOMETHING INTANGIBLE. 15:03 BUT HIS MIND WAS JUST SO DISTURBED, WHO IS THIS REAL GOD? 15:08 I'VE GOT TO FIND WHO THIS REAL GOD IS. 15:14 IT GOT SO BAD THAT HE FINALLY DECIDED I'M GOING TO FIND OUT IF THE CHRISTIANS KNOW. 15:24 SO HE LOOKED UP A CHRISTIAN PASTOR, ASKED HIM WHO IS THE REAL GOD? 15:31 THE MAN SAYS, WELL, YOU NEED A BIBLE. 15:35 I DON'T HAVE ONE THAT I CAN GIVE YOU BUT I HAVE SOME MONEY AND I'LL GIVE THIS MONEY TO 15:42 YOU, YOU GO TO HYDERABAD, BIG CITY, TO A CERTAIN PLACE 15:49 AND THERE THEY ARE GIVING BIBLE STUDIES. 15:52 THERE YOU LEARN EVERYTHING. 15:55 SO HE WENT TO THIS PLACE IN HYDERABAD AND HE STUDIED WITH THE PEOPLE THERE AND AFTER 16:02 SOME TIME, THE TEACHER SAID, NOW I WANT ALL OF YOU TO BE BAPTIZED. 16:09 HOW MANY WANT TO BE BAPTIZED? 16:11 ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS PUT UP THEIR HANDS, BABJI DID NOT. 16:16 THE TEACHER ASKED, WELL ARE YOU ALREADY BAPTIZED? 16:22 HE SAID I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. 16:25 THEN THE TEACHER SAID WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE THEN? 16:29 HE SAID I CAME TO LEARN WHO IS THE REAL GOD. 16:36 AND SO THIS TEACHER THEN LOANED HIM A BIBLE. 16:43 HE DIDN'T HAVE ONE HE COULD GIVE HIM, BUT HE LOANED HIM A BIBLE TO READ. 16:47 BABJI STARTED READING IT BUT THE VERSION IN HIS LANGUAGE WAS WRITTEN IN LOW CASTE 16:55 LANGUAGE AND HE DIDN'T LIKE THAT, ME STUDY ABOUT A LOW CASTE GOD? 17:03 BUT ANYWAY, HE CONTINUED THERE WITH HIS STUDIES TO SEE IF SOMETIME SOONER OR LATER HE 17:08 COULD DISCOVER WHO IS THIS REAL GOD? 17:12 ONE OF HIS CLASSMATES DECIDED HE NEEDED TO HAVE SPECIAL PRAYER. 17:18 HE WANTED TO GO TO THE TOP OF A CERTAIN TOWER AND PRAY. 17:23 HE INVITED BABJI TO COME ALONG SO THEY WENT TO THIS TOWER AND THEY CLIMBED UP TO THE TOP OF 17:31 IT THERE AND THE CLASSMATE STARTED TO PRAY. 17:34 IT WAS A LONG PRAYER AND IT WAS A STORMY DAY AND PRETTY SOON IT BEGAN TO RAIN AND 17:43 THERE THEY WERE WITH THEIR BOOKS AND THEIR PAPERS IN THEIR HANDS AND BABJI WAS 17:48 WORRIED ABOUT EVERYTHING GETTING ALL WET AND ABOUT THAT TIME, THE CLASSMATE ENDED HIS 17:55 PRAYER, TURNED TO BABJI AND SAID BABJI , NOW YOU PRAY. 18:00 BABJI HAD NEVER PRAYED HE HAD NO IDEA AND SO HE STARTED TRYING AND HE STARTED 18:09 SOMETHING LIKE THIS: GOD, I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME BUT PLEASE STOP THIS RAIN SO IT 18:14 WON'T SPOIL OUR PAPERS AND BOOKS. 18:16 INSTANTLY THE RAIN STOPPED. 18:22 WELL, HE WAS RELIEVED THAT THE RAIN HAD STOPPED 18:26 BUT HE THOUGHT WELL MAYBE IT IS JUST GOOD LUCK. 18:30 HE CONTINUED A LITTLE WHILE MORE IN THE SCHOOL 18:33 AND THE WATER SUPPLY FOR THE STUDENTS WENT DRY. 18:38 SO THEY HAD TO GO A LONG DISTANCE TO WHERE THERE WAS ANOTHER WATER SUPPLY. 18:45 WELL, WHEN THEY GOT THERE, THERE WAS A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WAITING TO FILL THEIR 18:49 WATER CONTAINERS. 18:51 SO THEY JOINED THE LINE WAY IN THE BACK. 18:55 SOON THEY PASSED A PLACE WHERE THERE HAD BEEN AN OLD WATER SUPPLY, WHERE THERE WERE 18:59 FAUCETS COMING OUT OF THE WALL BUT THE FAUCETS WERE ALL OLD, NO WATER, SOME OF THEM WERE 19:06 BROKEN AND SO BABJI HAD AN IDEA. 19:11 HE PRAYED, GOD WE NEED WATER. 19:16 AND SUDDENLY WATER STARTED COMING OUT OF THESE OLD FAUCETS. 19:19 AMAZING. 19:20 AND SO THE STUDENTS TESTED IT AND IT WAS PERFECTLY GOOD WATER. 19:25 THEY FILLED THEIR CONTAINERS AND WENT BACK. 19:27 THEY CONTINUED FILLING THEIR CONTAINERS THERE FOR TWO DAYS THEN FINALLY WHEN THE OTHER 19:32 SYSTEM WAS REPAIRED AND PEOPLE COULD GET THEIR WATER NORMALLY, 19:37 THOSE OLD FAUCETS DRIED UP. 19:41 AND AGAIN HE THOUGHT THIS CAN'T BE DIVINE INTERVENTION OR ANYTHING THIS IS JUST SOME 19:49 GOOD LUCK THAT WE ARE HAVING HERE. 19:51 AND SO HE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW JUST WHAT WAS GOING ON. 20:01 HE STILL IS ON HIS QUEST. 20:03 HE IS STILL ON HIS QUEST, WHO IS THIS REAL GOD? 20:07 WHO IS THIS REAL GOD? 20:11 AND THEN HE WENT AND ASKED HIS TEACHER AGAIN, PLEASE TELL ME WHO IS THE REAL GOD? 20:22 AND THE TEACHER SAID, WE WILL PRAY THAT GOD WILL TELL YOU AND SO THE FELLOW STUDENTS AND 20:28 EVERYONE STARTED PRAYING BUT BABJI JUST COULDN'T GO TO SLEEP. 20:33 FINALLY, ABOUT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING HE DRIFTED OFF BUT AT FOUR O'CLOCK SOMEONE 20:39 GRABBED HIS SHOULDER, WOKE HIM UP AND SO HE TURNED TO THE FELLOW SLEEPING BESIDE HIM AND 20:45 SAID WHAT DID YOU WAKE ME UP FOR? 20:48 HE SAID WHAT DID YOU WAKE ME UP FOR? 20:50 I DIDN'T TOUCH YOU. 20:53 AND SO HE DRIFTED BACK TO SLEEP AGAIN 20:56 AND THEN SOMETHING HIT HIS OTHER SHOULDER, WOKE HIM UP. 21:02 AND SO HE ASKED THE STUDENT ON THAT SIDE, WHY DID YOU WAKE ME UP FOR? 21:06 THE OTHER GUY SAID, WHAT ARE YOU ACCUSING ME FOR I WAS SLEEPING OVER HERE. 21:11 SO, HE WENT BACK TO SLEEP AGAIN AND THEN THE THIRD TIME A HAND GRABBED HIM BY THE 21:18 SHOULDER AND WOKE HIM UP AND THAT TIME HE HEARD A VOICE AND IT SAID TO HIM PLAINLY, READ 21:27 JOHN 1:1-3, I JESUS AM THE TRUE GOD. 21:34 WOW. 21:35 LIKE THE VOICE SPEAKING TO SAMUEL, THIRD TIME. 21:41 WELL, BABJI WENT BACK HOME AND WHEN HIS FATHER DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD ACCEPTED CHRIST 21:49 AND HE WAS NOW A CHRISTIAN HE EXPELLED HIM FROM THE HOUSE, 21:53 DISOWNED HIM FROM EVER COMING BACK. 21:57 POOR FELLOW, WHAT COULD HE DO? 22:00 WELL HE HAD HIS DEGREES, HE WENT TO SOME SCHOOL AND BEGAN TEACHING SCHOOL AND THERE 22:06 SOMEWHERE IN THE CONVERSATION WITH FELLOW TEACHERS, 22:10 HE HEARD ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 22:15 BUT THEY SAID, THEY ARE OF THE DEVIL DON'T GET ACQUAINTED OR MIXED UP WITH THEM. 22:24 BUT AFTER SOME DAYS, ANOTHER ONE OF THE TEACHERS KNOWING HIS SITUATION THAT HE HAD BEEN 22:30 EXPELLED FROM HOME SAID IF YOU REALLY NEED TO GET AWAY FROM YOUR FATHER YOU NEED TO JOIN 22:36 THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 22:38 YOU'VE TOLD ME, THEY ARE OF THE DEVIL, THAT'S WHAT I HEARD BUT A LITTLE VOICE KEPT 22:45 TELLING HIM INSIDE YOU NEED TO GO JOIN THE ADVENTISTS. 22:52 AND SO HE TELEPHONED TO THE ADVENTIST HEADQUARTERS IN KURNOOL THAT'S THE NORTH 22:59 RAYALASEMA MISSION AND THE PRESIDENT INVITED HIM TO COME FOR AN INTERVIEW. 23:07 HE WAS LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES FOR GOSPEL OUTREACH AND SO HE ASKED HIM, ARE YOU KEEPING THE 23:12 SABBATH, HE SAID YES. 23:14 OF COURSE, THE ONLY SABBATH HE KNEW THEN WAS SUNDAY BUT ANYWAY, HE SAID YES, I DO. 23:20 SO HE WENT AND HAD THE INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT. 23:24 THE PRESIDENT ASSIGNED HIM TO BE A BIBLE WORKER FOR THREE VILLAGES AND GAVE HIM THREE 23:31 BOOKS: DESIRE OF AGES, GREAT CONTROVERSY, AND STEPS TO CHRIST. 23:38 DAN, I'M GOING TO INTERRUPT YOU BECAUSE TIME IS RUNNING OUT, I HAVE BEEN SO CAUGHT UP 23:44 IN YOUR STORY I DIDN'T INTERRUPT YOU BEFORE BUT I'VE GOT TO GET TO THE END OF THE 23:50 STORY OR I WON'T BE ABLE TO LIVE. 23:52 HE IS A BIBLE WORKER IN THREE VILLAGES NOW AND OBVIOUSLY HE IS SOON A BAPTIZED ADVENTIST. 24:00 NOT ONLY IS HE BAPTIZED ADVENTIST, YOU KNOW, IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, I MEAN THE 24:06 FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR HE BEING SUCH A POWERFUL VOICE TO THE HINDUS, BAPTIZED 284 24:20 HINDUS TO BECOME SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 24:22 AND HIS ROUTE OF BECOMING A CHRISTIAN HAS VERIFIED AND REVERIFIED THAT THERE COULDN'T 24:35 BE ANYTHING TRUER THAN THIS AND THAT HE KNOWS WHO THE REAL GOD IS. 24:41 HE GOES TO THE VEDAS AND HE SAYS, 24:43 LOOK HERE THE OTHER PRIESTS ARE COVERING THIS PART. 24:48 THE VEDAS THEMSELVES SAY THE TRUE GOD WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN, COMING TO BE OUR ONLY SAVIOR 24:56 AND NOW AS A CHRISTIAN I TELL YOU WHO THAT IS. 24:59 WOW. 25:01 AND HE IS NOW A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER WITH THIS TREMENDOUS KIND OF 25:06 EFFECTIVENESS IN HIS MINISTRY. 25:07 YES. 25:09 NOW, REMIND ME BECAUSE THAT WAS WAY BACK AT THE FIRST OF YOUR STORY, 25:13 WHERE IS HE WORKING NOW? 25:16 HYDERABAD IS OUR HEADQUARTERS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIA UNION. 25:22 BY TRAIN IT WAS ABOUT AN EIGHT HOUR RIDE SOUTH OF HYDERABAD, THE CITY OF KURNOOL. 25:31 AND HE IS OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER THERE AND IT SOUNDS LIKE IF HE HAS BAPTIZED 284, 25:37 YOU SAY, THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2012 ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE WORKING FOR ALL THEIR 25:43 FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS. 25:45 RIGHT. 25:46 AND THIS IS ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF THE WAY IN WHICH THE GOSPEL MULTIPLIES 25:54 THROUGH THESE GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKERS. 25:56 EXACTLY. 25:57 AN AMAZING STORY, A LONGER STORY THAN I THINK I HAVE EVER HEARD ON A GOSPEL OUTREACH 26:02 "ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS" PROGRAM BUT WORTH EVERY WORD. 26:06 SO THANK YOU DAN, FOR BRINGING THIS TO US AND I KNOW BY LOOKING AT THE NOTES YOU GAVE 26:11 ME, YOU'VE GOT OTHER STORIES IF WE JUST HAD TIME TO HEAR THEM AND EACH ONE, I AM SURE, 26:18 IS A MIRACLE LIKE THAT OF BABJI. 26:21 EVERY CONVERSION IS A MIRACLE. 26:24 THANK YOU DAN FOR BEING GOSPEL OUTREACH LEADER AND FOR BRINGING US THIS STORY AND 26:31 CERTAINLY YOU FOLKS WILL WANT TO KNOW EVERY DETAIL OF THIS. 26:34 I AM GOING TO ENCOURAGE YOU DAN, TO WRITE THIS UP IN A SHORTENED VERSION FOR THE 26:41 ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS NEWSLETTER SO THAT EVERYONE CAN HAVE THIS AND WE WANT YOU 26:48 TO KNOW YOU ARE VERY SPECIAL. 26:50 THERE IS THE ADDRESS: 26:51 ALL THE REST ON THE SCREEN. 26:53 BE IN TOUCH WITH THE VOLUNTEERS HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH AND FIND MORE ABOUT 26:59 THIS WONDERFUL MINISTRY. 27:02 FOR NOW, I'M DAN MATTHEWS. 27:03 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 27:17 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 27:20 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 27:23 THOSE PEOPLE ARE TOO FAR AWAY. 27:26 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 27:29 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV? 27:33 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH, MY HEAD HURTS. 27:37 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 27:39 I GIVE UP. 27:41 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 27:43 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 27:46 ACTUALLY, YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 27:47 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 27:51 WHERE? 27:53 ALL THE WORLD. 27:54 HOW CAN I GO? 27:55 I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 27:57 YOU CAN PRAY. 27:59 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 28:05 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 28:08 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 28:12 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 28:14 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 28:16 BE THE SPARK. 28:17 LIGHT THE FIRE. 28:18 FINISH THE WORK. 28:20 FINISH THE WORK. |
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