[OPENING MUSIC]. 00:00:00.53\00:00:16.50 HELLO GOOD FRIENDS. 00:00:16.50\00:00:18.13 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS THE MOST EXCITING MINISTRY I CAN IMAGINE. 00:00:18.13\00:00:24.46 IN FACT, EVERY TIME I T TO SIT IN THIS CHAIR IN THIS S UDIO I 00:00:24.46\00:00:31.46 AM INTRODUCED TO A NEW EXPERIENCECEHAT I KIND OF SHAKE 00:00:31.46\00:00:39.26 MY HEADADND S S "R"RLLY," BECAUSE GOD HAS BEEN OPENINI D DRS OFOFPPORTUNITY THAT I'VE 00:00:39.26\00:00:46.20 NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE IN ALL MY LILI OR MY MINISTRY. 00:00:46.20\00:00:49.36 TO BE HERE IN THIS STUDIO AND GET T INTRODUCE TO YOU OTHER 00:00:49.36\00:00:57.10 PEPEOP W W ARE ASSOCIATAT WITITGOSPEL OUOUEACH IS A VERY CITING OPPORTUNITY FOR 00:00:57.10\00:01:02.63 ME, AND I TRUST A BLESSING FOR YOU AS WELL. 00:01:02.63\00:01:06.46 TUNED TO THIS PROGOGRAE, BECAUSE YOU U OK AWAYGIG YOU'REREOING TO 00:01:12.46\00:01:16.40 MISSAY SOMETHING. 00:01:16.40\00:01:17.80 I AM DELIGHTED TO RENEW FRIENDSHIP ON THIS PROGRAM PORTER. DEAR FRIEND MIKE 00:01:25.80\00:01:27.13 MIKE, YOU AND I HAVE OTHER TIMES, DIFFERENTS RCUMSTANCES.OTHER PLACES, 00:01:30.86\00:01:33.46 IN FACT, SINCE I LIVE IN SOUTHEHE CALIFORNIA AND GET TO 00:01:33.46\00:01:40.43 ASSOCIATE AROUND LOMAMAINDADANIVEVEITIT CHURUR WE'RE JUST NEXT DOOR T 00:01:40.43\00:01:45.86 TWHWHERYOU'VE BEEN LO AND BEHOLD I GET HERE TO GOSPEL OUTREACH ON THIS OCCASION AND HERE'S MIKE. 00:01:49.86\00:01:55.93 YOU REMEMBER I STARTED TALKING TO YOU ABOUT QUIET HOUR 00:01:58.70\00:02:02.00 MINISTRIES AND YOU SAID, "QUIET HOUR MINISTRIES IS A WONDERFUL MINISTRY THAT HAS HAD A 00:02:02.00\00:02:05.76 NG PARTNERSHIPIPITH GOSPEL OUTREACH." 00:02:05.76\00:02:10.30 YOU ARE BACK WHERE A LOTOTOF USE SIX YEARS AS CEO, BUT I'VE TO BE 00:02:14.90\00:02:20.96 NOW-THE FRONT LINE OF MINISTRY IN NORTH AMERICA WHICH IS 00:02:23.86\00:02:27.40 PASTORAL MINISTRY. WHERE A A YOU RIGHT NOW? 00:02:27.40\00:02:28.60 RIGHT NOW I'M PASTORING A CHURCH IN ELLICOTT CITY, MARYLAND. 00:02:28.60\00:02:32.06 IT'S CALLED THE BALTIMORORFIRST. 00:02:32.06\00:02:34.06 I KNOW WHERE YOUR CHURCH IS, BEEN THERE. 00:02:34.06\00:02:38.03 NOT IN THE CHURCH BUT I KNOW WHERE YOUR CHURCH IS. 00:02:38.03\00:02:40.36 HEHE WE ARE COCOECTING AT GOSPEL OUTRTRCH. 00:02:40.36\00:02:43.50 IT'S NOTOTEW T TO Y OF OUR VIEWERS, I KNOW, THAT QUIET HOUR 00:02:43.50\00:02:49.53 MINISTRIES AND GOSPEL OUTREACH HAVE BEEN SISTER R NISTSTES OPERATING FOR R MOST THE 00:02:49.53\00:02:55.76 WHOLE 2020EARSRS 00:02:55.76\00:02:57.06 I HAVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING MIKE IN BEING HERE AT GOSPEL 00:02:57.06\00:03:04.40 OUTREACH. I'VE BEEN COMING HERE TO SIT IN A CHAIR, EITHER THTH 00:03:04.40\00:03:08.26 ONE OR ONE LIKE IT FOFO1010R 12 YEARSRSOW. 00:03:08.26\00:03:10.10 IT HAS BECOME A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF MY LIFE, MY WIFE'S LIFE. 00:03:10.10\00:03:16.50 WEWERE SO HONORED TO BE GOGOEL OUTREACH VOVONTEERS AND TO GET 00:03:16.50\00:03:23.16 CONNECTED WITH THE E CITING STORIES GHT T OM THE FRONT LINE. 00:03:23.16\00:03:26.40 IS TIME BEININHERE AT GOSPEL OUTUTACH WE'VE BEEN INTRODUCED 00:03:26.40\00:03:32.46 TO DIMENSIONS OF MINISTRY THAT I'VE KNOWN ABOUT BEFORE AND WE'VE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT 00:03:34.53\00:03:40.60 BUT BEEN MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT THIS TIME AND THAT WORLD.ISTRY 00:03:49.56\00:03:51.83 IN THE MUSLIM BEING AWARE THAT ISLAM IS A GROWING RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY MOVEMENT IN OUR 00:03:51.83\00:03:57.90 WORLD IT'S VERY APPROPRIATE THAT THOSE OF US WHO HAVE COMMITTED 00:04:00.16\00:04:04.93 WORLD OF GOD'S PEOEOE E ANDHOW R KINGDOM BE AWARE THAT TOGETHER. 00:04:16.70\00:04:18.13 WE COMMUNICICAT NOW I LEARN THAT YOU ARE HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH BECAUSE OF THAT PARTICULAR 00:04:18.13\00:04:21.46 FOFOCUTHTHATSS COCONG PROMINENT AT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:04:21.46\00:04:23.46 YES IT IS. 00:04:23.46\00:04:24.86 FOR MANY YEARS IT SEEMS LIKE GOD HAS JUST PUT ME INTO SITUATIONS 00:04:24.86\00:04:30.53 WHERE I HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE REALLY, I'LL CALL IT THAT, OF BECOMING GOOD FRIENDS 00:04:36.80\00:04:41.60 WITH MANY Y SLIM PEOPLE. 00:04:41.60\00:04:44.46 IT'S BEEN A REAL INTERESTING JOURNEY FOR ME AROUND THE 00:04:50.36\00:04:52.13 WORLD.L PLACES BUT I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU HOW I KIND OF GOT 00:04:52.13\00:04:55.43 INTRODUCED. GOOD, , WANT TO HEARARHAT STORY. 00:04:55.43\00:04:58.10 IT WAS SOMETHING I DIDN'T EXPECT AT ALL. 00:04:58.10\00:05:00.66 I HAPPEN TO BE A PILOT AND A FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR. 00:05:00.66\00:05:04.13 IT'S BEEN ONE OF MY HOBBIES FOFOMANY YEARS. 00:05:04.13\00:05:06.56 I STARTED FLYING WHEN I WAS 16 YEAEARSF AGE SO MORE THAN 40 00:05:06.56\00:05:10.76 YEARS. WHEN WE WEWE LIVING IN A 00:05:10.76\00:05:16.83 COCOTRY IN ASISIA PERSON CAME TO MY O OFFE. 00:05:10.76\00:05:16.83 YOU WERE ADRA DIRECTOR? 00:05:19.93\00:05:21.40 YES, I WAS WORKING IN ADRA. 00:05:21.40\00:05:22.83 HE CAME TO THE OFFICE AND SAID "I WANT TO GET MY COMMERCIAL 00:05:22.83\00:05:29.53 PILOT LICENSE. KNKNOWHIS WAS S FORERE 1111 A BELIEVE ME ITITAS LONG BEFORE SO THERE'S NO 00:05:29.53\00:05:34.16 CONNECTION THERE. 00:05:34.16\00:05:35.50 THIS GENTLEMAN CAME, AND HE WANTED TO GET HIS COMMERCIAL 00:05:35.50\00:05:40.63 WRITTEN TAKEN CARE OF. 00:05:40.63\00:05:44.13 HE SAID WOULD YOU GIVE ME THE INSTRUCTION? 00:05:44.13\00:05:46.80 MYMYONVERSATATN WASSI USUALLY CR 00:05:46.80\00:05:50.13 THIS MUCH AN HOUR. 00:05:46.80\00:05:50.13 OH I ION'T WANT AN HOURLY 00:05:50.13\00:05:53.23 RATE, I WANT A FLAT RATE. 00:05:50.13\00:05:53.23 YOYOTETE ME HOW MUCH IT'SSGOINIY 00:05:53.23\00:05:56.00 YOYOTHAT AMOUNT OF MONEY 00:05:53.23\00:05:56.00 AND IF IT GOES TOO LONG THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM. 00:05:56.00\00:05:58.96 SO YOU NEGOTIAIAD. 00:05:58.96\00:06:00.96 YES. 00:06:00.96\00:06:03.36 NO, THAT'S TOO-I'VE GOT HAVE THIS-WE WENT BACK AND FORTH FOR 00:06:03.36\00:06:09.10 AWHILE. FINALLY WE CAME TO AN 00:06:09.10\00:06:14.63 AGREEMENT AND I SAID OKAY LL DO IT FOR THIS FLAT 00:06:09.10\00:06:14.63 AMOUNT. 00:06:14.63\00:06:15.63 SO WE DID. 00:06:15.63\00:06:16.50 WE MET EVERY WEEK FOR ABOUT SEVEN MONTHS. 00:06:16.50\00:06:19.90 WE STUDIED AND HE PASSED HIS COMMERCIAIA WRITTEN EXAM. 00:06:19.90\00:06:24.73 ONE DAY HE CAME TO ME WITH A GIFT, NEAR THE END OF O O TIME 00:06:24.73\00:06:30.33 TOGETHER. HE SAID "I HAVE A GIFT FOR YOU. 00:06:30.33\00:06:33.26 I SAID TO HIM, WHEN HE GAVE IT TO ME IT WAS JUST WRAPPED IN 00:06:33.26\00:06:38.66 SOME PLAIN BROWN PAPER, I SAID "S"SHOD D I EN IT NONO OR SHOULD 00:06:38.66\00:06:43.50 I WAIT?" HE SAID YOU MAYYOPENEN INONO 00:06:43.50\00:06:46.23 SO I OPENED IT AND IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL ARABIC AND ENGLISH 00:06:46.23\00:06:52.26 KORAN. HE HANDED THIS TO ME AND SAID "THIS IS A GIFT FOR YOU." 00:06:54.23\00:06:59.40 THEN HE SAID A FEW MOMO THIHIS THAT REALLY S SRTLELEME. 00:06:59.40\00:07:01.63 HE SAID "WE HAVE BEEEE TOGETHER NOW FOR THESE SIX OROREVEN 00:07:01.63\00:07:08.90 MONTHS AND EACH TIMEMEHAT T HAVAVGOTTEN TOTOTHER I HAVE REALIZED THAT THERE IS SOMETHING 00:07:08.90\00:07:13.33 SPIAL ABOUT YOU. 00:07:13.33\00:07:14.43 I SENSE THAT YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR WALK WITH GOD." 00:07:14.43\00:07:20.13 I SAID " "AM SERIOUS ABOUT MY WALK WITH GOD." 00:07:20.13\00:07:25.23 HE SAID "THAT'S THE REASON I'M GIVING YOU THIS KORAN BECAUSE I 00:07:25.23\00:07:31.23 KNOW IT WILL THEN HE SAID SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING." 00:07:34.60\00:07:36.60 HE SAID "AND M ME, IF YOU CONTINUE IN YOUR WALK WITH GOD AS I SEE YOU ARE, YOU 00:07:36.60\00:07:43.53 WILL B BOME A MUSLIM." 00:07:43.53\00:07:46.60 THOSE WERE HIS WORDS. 00:07:46.60\00:07:47.63 INTERESTING. 00:07:47.63\00:07:49.46 WAS THAT KIND OF AN "AH HA" MOMENT FOR YOU? 00:07:49.46\00:07:53.10 IT WAS KIND OF MAYBE I HAHA SOMETHING TO DO HERE DIDN'T EVEN 00:08:01.76\00:08:03.53 REALIZE.T I IT STARTED ME ON A DIFFERENT KIND OF A PATHWAY. 00:08:03.53\00:08:06.56 WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT IS I MADE SOME FRIENDS WITHTHOME E 00:08:06.56\00:08:11.33 HER PEOPLE WHO HAD ALSO B BN STUDYIYI ISLAM. 00:08:11.33\00:08:15.53 I DISCOVEREDEDUITE QUICKLY THAT THE WORD MUSLIM HAS A VERY INTERESTING MEANING. 00:08:15.53\00:08:22.26 IT MEANSNSNE W WHOUBMITS. 00:08:22.26\00:08:27.86 AND I DISCOVERED THAT TO BE A MUSLIM MEANS A PERSON WHO 00:08:27.86\00:08:34.80 SUBMITS TO GOD. THERE WOULD B B NOTHING WRONONWITH YOU BEING A 00:08:34.80\00:08:36.86 MUSLIM. WELL, YOU KNOW, HE SAID OU'LL BECOME A MUSLIM." 00:08:36.86\00:08:39.33 MUSLIM M MNS IN ARABICG I GUESS I AM A MUSLIM AND BECAUSE I AM 00:08:44.16\00:08:50.53 VERY SERIOUS ABOUT BEING SUBMITTED TO GOD. 00:08:50.53\00:08:53.00 THAT TO ME IS WHAT WE SHOULD ALL BE ABOUT. 00:08:53.00\00:08:57.56 THAT GOT ME ON A JOURNEY OF RECOGNIZING THAT THERE ARE MANY 00:08:57.56\00:09:03.86 PEOPLE IN GOD'S FAMILY WHO A A SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR WALK WITH GOD, AND D WANT TO BE SERIOIO 00:09:03.86\00:09:09.23 ABOUOUMY WALK WITH GOD. 00:09:09.23\00:09:10.63 I WANT TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS WITH PEOPLE OF MUSLIM FAITH WHO 00:09:10.63\00:09:15.50 ARE ALSO RY S SIOUS ABOUTUTTHEIEIWALKLKI. 00:09:15.50\00:09:18.80 WOW. 00:09:18.80\00:09:20.30 I MEAN YOU ARE CREATING A LOT OF INTEREST IN MY MIND I GUESS I 00:09:20.30\00:09:25.83 CAN SAY IT BEST. YOU SUDDENLY IN THAT MOMENT CHANGED FROM AN "US" 00:09:36.46\00:09:42.53 AND "THEM" KIND OF CONTRAST, WHICH I FEAR IS THE PREDOMINATE ATTITUDE IN THE WESTERN WORLD, 00:09:45.53\00:09:51.60 TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SHARING A WALK WITH GOD WITH SOMEBODY WE 00:09:57.30\00:10:03.33 DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND OR KNOW. 00:10:05.90\00:10:07.10 ANANI WOULD ADMIT THAT I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MUSLIMS.AID. 00:10:13.40\00:10:18.36 I DID NOT,T,NDND STILL 00:10:18.36\00:10:23.46 WILL BE E E FIRST TO ADMIT THAT I STILL DON'T KNOW 00:10:18.36\00:10:23.46 VERY MUCUCABOUT MUSLIMS. 00:10:23.46\00:10:25.53 BUT I'VE BEEN ON A JOURNEY I'VE COMOMTO UNDERERANDDSOMEMEH. LITTLE BY LITTLE BY LITTLE 00:10:30.70\00:10:34.63 IT IS TRUE THAT MOST PEOPLE, AND I'M AFRAID IN OUR COUNTRY OF 00:10:34.63\00:10:41.26 AMERICA WHWHH WEWEF COURSE A AREREATE,E,OST PEOPLE ARE VERY Y 00:10:41.26\00:10:46.63 RAID. IN MY Y NEHBORHOOD R RHT NOW I DISCSCOV A A I SEE PEOPLE 00:10:46.63\00:10:53.96 WALKING AROUND IN THE AFTERNOON FOFO THTHR WAWAS AND THEY ARE 00:10:53.96\00:10:58.10 COVERED. SO WHAT ISISY ROLE NOW? 00:10:58.10\00:10:59.46 TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR TO MY MUSLIM FRIENDS. 00:10:59.46\00:11:01.53 I NEED TO GO AND FIND OUT WHERE THEY LIVE AND GO VISIT THEM AND 00:11:01.53\00:11:03.53 LET THEM KNOW THAT IF THERE IS ANY PROBLEM AT ANY T TE THEY HAVE A A IEND IN THE 00:11:03.53\00:11:09.56 NEIGHBORHOOD. 00:11:14.53\00:11:15.96 REGRETFULLY, AND WE ARE HAVING OUR VISIT HERE IN THE GOSPEL 00:11:15.96\00:11:21.60 OUTREACH STUDIO IN OCTOBER OF 2013. 00:11:24.00\00:11:26.46 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WORLD WILL BE LIKE WHEN THIS PROGRAM 00:11:26.46\00:11:32.56 ULTIMATELY AIAI, BUT THE WORLD IN WHICH WEWEIND D RSELVES UP TITINOW IS A FRIGHTENING 00:11:32.56\00:11:38.76 WORLD. 00:11:38.76\00:11:42.00 WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE A BOMBING OR A 00:11:42.00\00:11:48.26 TERROR ATATCK. 00:11:48.26\00:11:49.56 IT'S SO DIFFICULT FOR US TO COMPREHEND THAT ANYTHING LIKE 00:11:49.56\00:11:55.33 THAT CAN HAPPEN WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE BY IDENTITY WALKING WITH GOD, BY NAME IDENTITY ANY 00:11:58.56\00:12:04.70 WAY. 00:12:09.76\00:12:11.83 SO WE SOMEHOW NEED TO, WELL I'LL JUST TUCK IN. 00:12:11.83\00:12:17.90 I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SITTING WITH SOME MUSLIMS AND 00:12:21.86\00:12:27.93 LEARNED THAT THE MISSION OF ISLAM IS PEACE IN THE WORLD TAUGHT IN THE KORAN. 00:12:30.43\00:12:36.26 EACH OTHER, TRUST EACHION OTHER, LEARN FROM EACHR OTHER, ACCEPT 00:12:47.33\00:12:53.66 EACH OTHER.W I I INK YOYOARE RIGHTT AT WE CAN FIND LOTS S EVEVENCECE TT ISLAM M A 00:12:53.66\00:12:59.73 RELIGION OF PEACE. 00:13:01.93\00:13:04.00 ALSO PASSAGES ININTHE E RAN THT. AND IT IS WHAT WE STRUGGLE WITH, 00:13:10.73\00:13:16.43 BECAUSE THERE ARE THE WAY THAT I HAVE COME TOTORIPS WITH THIS REALITY IS TO RECOGNIZE THAT IF 00:13:16.43\00:13:22.50 WE LOOK AT THE BIBLE WE WILL FIND IDENTICAL KINDS OF ISSUES 00:13:26.56\00:13:32.63 WHERE GOD HAS SAID IT'S TIME FOR A TIME OF JUDGMENT. 00:13:34.56\00:13:37.73 SO I THINK THAT WE NEED TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THATATES, 00:13:37.73\00:13:43.70 IN EVERY RELIGION T THE M M BEE ME TIMES WHEN VIOLENCE HAPPENS 00:13:43.70\00:13:49.53 OR GOD EVEN DICTS S OLENCE. 00:13:49.53\00:13:51.83 BUT WITH THE SITUATION WITH ISLAM IT'S A VERY OVERWHELMINGLY 00:13:51.83\00:13:59.40 HIGH PERCENTAGE, LIKE IN THE 80 OR 90 PERCENT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE 00:13:59.40\00:14:05.53 PEACACLOLONG BELIEVERS WALKING WITH GOD. 00:14:06.90\00:14:08.20 BUT THERE IS A SMALL PERCENTAGE DANANTHE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE 00:14:08.20\00:14:10.53 IS A SMALL PERCENTAGE BUT WHEN YOU HAVAVA SMALL RCENTAGE OF 00:14:10.53\00:14:16.63 SUCH A LARGE OUP OF PEOPLE THEREEARE A LOLOPE 00:14:16.63\00:14:22.63 WOULD CALL ISLAMISTS OR 00:14:16.63\00:14:22.63 FUNDAMENENLISTS OR PEOPLE WHO UNUNRTUNATELY DO NOTOTRERELM 00:14:22.63\00:14:29.16 WELLLL 00:14:29.16\00:14:30.56 BUT YOU WOULD ALSO SAY, I THINK, IN APPEALING TO ME AND TO OUR 00:14:30.56\00:14:36.70 VIEWERS WE SHOULD NOT GENERALIZE ALL MUSLIMS AS THAT WAY, THE SMALLELEPERCENTAGE. 00:14:36.70\00:14:42.93 THATATS MY PRAYER. 00:14:42.93\00:14:43.93 AND HERE IS HOW I WOULD SAY IT. 00:14:43.93\00:14:46.20 SAW IN IRELAND, LET'S GIVE AN EXAMPLELEOR RWANDA ORE A FEW OTHER PLACESESOR T T 00:14:51.46\00:14:57.50 CRUSADES, A FEW OTHER PLACES WHERE WE HAVE HORRIBLE EXAMPLES 00:14:59.86\00:15:05.00 OF WHAT CHRISTIANITY SHOULD NOT BE, I WOULD HOPE THAT ALL CHRISTIANITY WOULD NOT BE 00:15:05.00\00:15:09.86 JUDGEDEDN THOSE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED. 00:15:09.86\00:15:14.26 THEY HAVE HAPPENEN. 00:15:14.26\00:15:15.63 THEY'RE BAD. 00:15:15.63\00:15:17.00 BUT LETS JUST RECOGNIZE THAT THE SAME STANDARD SHOULD BE APPLIED 00:15:17.00\00:15:22.93 TO THE MUMUIM WORLD. 00:15:22.93\00:15:24.36 LET'S NOT JUST JUDGE ALL MUSLIMS AND PUT THEM ALL INTO ONE BAG 00:15:24.36\00:15:29.80 AND SAY THESE ARE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF TERRORIRIS. 00:15:29.80\00:15:32.56 YOU KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT'S THEIR ATTITUDE. 00:15:32.56\00:15:34.56 THEY JUST BELIEVE THAT ISLAM IS A RELIGION, IT'S NOT A GOOD 00:15:34.56\00:15:39.50 RELIGION, THEY ARE E T WALKING WITH GOD. 00:15:39.50\00:15:41.20 I'VE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT A MUSLIM BELIEVER IS WALKING WITH 00:15:41.20\00:15:47.23 THE GOD WHO CREATED THE WORLD. 00:15:50.76\00:15:52.33 THE GOD, THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM AND MANY OTHER OF THE PROPHETS 00:15:54.56\00:15:59.80 THAT WE WILL FIND IN THE KORAN AND IN T T BIBLE SCRIPTURES. 00:15:59.80\00:16:03.53 AT DO YOU,U,S A FOLLOWOW OF GOD, HAVE THAT YOU CAN SHARE WITH A 00:16:03.53\00:16:09.60 MUSLIM THAT ENCOURAGES THEM AND SUPPORTS THEM AND STRENGTHENS 00:16:15.76\00:16:20.66 THEM IN THEIR WALK W WH GOD? 00:16:20.66\00:16:23.00 THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS. 00:16:23.00\00:16:25.00 YOU KNOW BECAUSE GOSPEL OUTREACH IS ASSOCIATED WITH ADVENTIST 00:16:25.00\00:16:31.73 BELIEVERS AROUND THE WOROR WE HAVE A NUMBMB OF THINGS THAT WE DISCOVEVEWE H HE IN 00:16:31.73\00:16:36.90 COMMON. 00:16:36.90\00:16:38.30 WE AVOID THE FORBIDDEN THINGS SUCH AS ALCOHOL, AND PORK AND 00:16:38.30\00:16:42.86 SOME OF THESE THINGSGSHAT ARE CLEARLY NOT T LOWED. 00:16:42.86\00:16:45.30 WE HAVE THINGS IN COMMON. 00:16:45.30\00:16:46.66 BUT WHAT I FIND IS MANY FOUND D REY FOR THE TO DAY OF JUDGMENT. 00:16:54.33\00:16:58.00 THE HOPETHATATE WE ADVENTISTS ALSO ARE WALKING WITH GOD IN THE HOPE THAT WE WILL BE FOUND 00:16:59.23\00:17:06.00 READY TO FACE THTHEDAY OF JUDGM. 00:17:06.00\00:17:09.30 MUSLIMS ALSO LOOK FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:17:09.30\00:17:14.03 AND ADVENTISTS BY OUR VERY NAME LOOK F F THE SECOND COMING OF 00:17:14.03\00:17:18.93 JESUS. WHAT WE DISCOVER IN N E KORAN IS THAT JESUS, HE IS CALLEDEDSA IN THE KORAN, 00:17:18.93\00:17:25.70 IS THE KEY PERSON, THTHKEY Y GUGU. 00:17:25.70\00:17:29.53 WHAT WE FIND THAT ISA OR JESUS HAS DONE IS TO BRIDGE THE GAP. 00:17:29.53\00:17:35.96 HE HASASROUGUG PEAEA. 00:17:35.96\00:17:38.83 HE IS REPRESENTING A PART OF GOD IN BRINGING A REDEMPTION FACTOR 00:17:38.83\00:17:45.66 SO THAT HE TAKES OUR PLACECEO THAT 00:17:45.66\00:17:51.60 INSTEAD OF W WDERIRI ABOBO THTHJUDGDGNT WE ARE SURE 00:17:45.66\00:17:51.60 ABOUT THE JUDGMENT. 00:17:51.60\00:17:53.23 THIS IS THE GOOD NEWS THAT MUSLIMS REALLY ARE LOOKING FOR. 00:17:53.23\00:17:57.60 THEY ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT SAYS YES,I CACAFACECEUDGMENT UNAFRAID 00:17:57.60\00:18:03.50 BECAUSE ISA A S DONE SOMETETNG. 00:18:03.50\00:18:06.40 CAN WE, CAN YOU THEN APPROACH THE MUSLIM WALKING WITH GOD AND 00:18:06.40\00:18:12.46 SAY I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU? 00:18:16.90\00:18:18.36 ABSOLUTELY. 00:18:18.36\00:18:19.90 ABSOLUTELY. 00:18:19.90\00:18:21.10 AND IT'S NOT AN INSTANTANEOUS THING, BUT IF WE START LOOKING 00:18:21.10\00:18:25.36 THROUGH THE KOKON WE ND THAT ISA PLAYS SO PROMINENTLY. 00:18:25.36\00:18:29.70 HE IS THE LIFE GIVER. 00:18:29.70\00:18:31.03 HE IS THE RESURRECTION. 00:18:31.03\00:18:33.03 HE IS ISA AL MASIH. 00:18:33.03\00:18:34.66 HE IS THE MESSIAH. 00:18:34.66\00:18:36.30 THESE ARE ALL REFERENCES TO ISA. 00:18:36.30\00:18:38.36 AS WE START TO LOOK AT WHAT THE KORAN REALLY SAYS ABOUT ISIS WE 00:18:38.36\00:18:44.43 FIND THAT HE HAS A VERY, VERY SPECIAL ROLE THAT HE HAS IN PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.THE 00:18:56.06\00:18:57.06 HE CAME THROUGH THE VIRGIN BIRTH. 00:18:57.06\00:18:59.43 THE KORAN DESCRIBES FULLY THE VERY HIGH POSITION THAT MIRIAM 00:18:59.43\00:19:07.43 HAS, HIS MOTHTH. 00:19:07.43\00:19:10.20 SO YOU CAN BEGIN WITH THE COMMON RESOURCE OF THE KORAN. 00:19:10.20\00:19:16.23 IS IT THEN A SHORT OR A VERY LONG STEP TO THE PRINCIPLES IN 00:19:22.70\00:19:28.76 THE BIBLE THAT WERE THE BASIS OF WHAT WAS LATER WRITTEN IN THE 00:19:31.80\00:19:37.53 KORAN? RECOGNIZE THAT THE KORAN IS SEEN AS BEING GIVEN BY GOD 00:19:37.53\00:19:44.86 DIRECTLY Y A REVELATION. 00:19:44.86\00:19:47.16 IF WE WERE GOING TO MAKE A COMPARISON, PERHAPS WE WOULD SEE 00:19:47.16\00:19:53.23 IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD JESUS AS THE REVELATION OF GOD. 00:19:55.43\00:20:00.46 SO THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONONWHY THE HOLY KORAN ISISEVERED SO MUCH. 00:20:00.46\00:20:06.50 ITITS GOGOSPEAKING. 00:20:06.50\00:20:10.10 NOW THE KORAN, IT'S VERY INTERESTING, IT'S FASCINATING. 00:20:10.10\00:20:14.66 'S NOT ALWLWS A SHORT JOURNEY BETWEEN N E TWTW 00:20:14.66\00:20:18.53 ITITHOULULBE BUT IT'S NOT BECACAE IN MANY PLACES SOME PEOPLPLE VEVEORT OF 00:20:18.53\00:20:25.36 THTH IF F U HAHAEY HAVE QUQUTIONONTHATATOU C CSULT WITHTHEOPLE OF THE BOOK. 00:20:31.03\00:20:37.90 THAT IS PEOPLE OF THE 00:20:37.90\00:20:42.16 SCRIRIURES, , T TS BOOK. 00:20:37.90\00:20:42.16 SO IT'S ACTUALLY VERY CLEAR THAT THE KORAN AND THE BIBLE NEED NOT 00:20:42.16\00:20:48.23 BE E EN AS IN OPPOSITION TO ONE ANOTHER. 00:20:50.63\00:20:52.63 DOES THE AVERAGE MUSLIM KNOW THAT? 00:20:52.63\00:20:57.76 NO. 00:20:57.76\00:20:59.03 IN FACT, MANY OF THE COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BECOME KIND OF KNOWN 00:20:59.03\00:21:04.90 AS FUNDAMENTALIST COUNTRIES OR COUNTRIES THAT ARE DIFFICULT OR 00:21:08.00\00:21:11.66 HAVE VERY LILILE F FEDOM FOR CHRISTIANS TO OPERATE, BIBLES 00:21:11.66\00:21:18.03 ARE OFTENENVEN FORBIDDEN. 00:21:18.03\00:21:19.03 BECAUSE IT IS SEEN AS THE ENEMY TO ISLAM SOMEHOW. 00:21:19.03\00:21:24.53 BUT IN FACT T ERE IS SOSOUCH IN COMMON. 00:21:24.53\00:21:26.83 YOU KNOW, THE CREATOR GOD. 00:21:26.83\00:21:29.86 YOU KNOW WHAT WE REALLY OUGHT TO THINK ABOUT DOING MIKE. 00:21:29.86\00:21:34.56 WE OUGHT TO THINK ABOUTTDOING AD 00:21:34.56\00:21:42.53 KIND OF OPEN A KORAN AND 00:21:34.56\00:21:42.53 LOOK AT THESE IDENTITIES THAT YOU HAVE E FERENCED ABOUT JESUS 00:21:42.53\00:21:49.63 AND THE SECOCO COMING A A JESUS AND 00:21:49.63\00:21:51.96 THE VIRGIN BIRTH. 00:21:49.63\00:21:51.96 THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. 00:21:51.96\00:21:56.90 I HAVE A KORAN. 00:21:56.90\00:21:58.96 IT IS AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION WHICH I'M QUICKLY TOLD CAN'T BE 00:22:00.16\00:22:04.46 GOOD. 00:22:04.46\00:22:05.90 WELL, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF WHETHER IT'S GOOD OR BAD IT'S 00:22:05.90\00:22:09.06 JUST THAT IT'S NOT THTHKORAN. 00:22:09.06\00:22:10.06 YES. 00:22:10.06\00:22:11.06 BECAUSE THE KORAN IS THE ARABIC KORAN. 00:22:11.06\00:22:13.80 AND IT CAN'T BE TRANSLATED. 00:22:13.80\00:22:15.43 IT'S A REPRESENTATION. 00:22:15.43\00:22:16.80 IT'S AN ATTEMPT BY THE PERSON TO TRANSLATE IT, BUT IT'S NOT THE 00:22:16.80\00:22:22.30 ACTUAL KORAN. 00:22:22.30\00:22:23.43 BUT CERTAINLY PEOPLE MUST USE THE KORAN FOR THEIR HELP.GES.IT'S TRANSLAD 00:22:27.76\00:22:30.30 THE LARGEST ISLAMIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ISSINDONESS 00:22:30.30\00:22:36.36 DON'T GENERALLY READ ARABIC OR SPEAK ARABIC. 00:22:36.83\00:22:40.16 SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO RELY ON THE KORAN SOMEHOW PUT INTO THEIR 00:22:40.16\00:22:45.73 LANGUAGES. ABOUT SCHEDULING HERE ORIS WHATEVER, BUT WE NEED TO DO A KIND OF ELEMENTARYNOW 00:22:54.43\00:23:02.00 ININODUCUCON T TTHE E RANNFOR RR 00:23:02.00\00:23:08.90 VIEWEWS SO THAT WE ALL 00:23:02.00\00:23:08.90 HAVE A D DFERENT PERSPECTCTE ABABT THIS. 00:23:08.90\00:23:11.30 WE WANANTO HAVE A PERSPECTIVE THAT SAYS GOD ALL ABOUT CALLING 00:23:11.30\00:23:17.73 HIS PEOPLE ALL ACROSOS THTHWORLD TOGETHER. 00:23:17.73\00:23:21.26 WE'VE GOT THREE AND A HALF MINUTES. 00:23:21.26\00:23:23.26 I WAWA TO MAKE SURE THAT WE BRING AN APPEAL THAT YOU'VE JUST 00:23:23.26\00:23:29.30 TOLD ME A TO THEHEUSLIMS WHEN THEY UNDERSTAND THAHAIT IS ALSO GOD'S MESSAGE TOTOEOPLE.E 00:23:39.16\00:23:45.23 EXACTLY. 00:23:47.10\00:23:48.56 IN FACT, THE KORAN HAS A FASCINATING PASSAGE WHERE IT MENTIONS THAT THE SAME 00:23:48.56\00:23:54.16 LOLORDHO HAS GIVEN US THE REVELATION, THE REVELATION OF THE KORAN, HAS ALSO 00:23:55.20\00:24:01.13 GIVEN THE REVELALAON 00:24:01.13\00:24:03.10 THE OTHERER 00:24:01.13\00:24:03.10 WHERE E 'RE ESPECICILY INTERESTED RIGHT NOW IT'T' BECOME POSSIBLE FOFOTWENTY 00:24:10.83\00:24:16.56 SOMEMEHOUSUSD BIBLES, IN A ABIC, TO BE USED. 00:24:16.56\00:24:20.50 ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY PEOPLE FROM THE MUSLIM BACKGROUND ARE 00:24:20.50\00:24:26.53 JUST BEGGING TO BE ABLE TOTOAVE THE BIBLES TO WORK WITH THEIR 00:24:26.53\00:24:32.16 KORANS. WE HAVE VARIOUOUPEOPLE HERE AND THERE AROUND THE BIBLE SCRIPTURES.RINING E 00:24:41.16\00:24:43.63 THEY ARE SITTING DOWN TOGETHER. 00:24:43.63\00:24:46.00 THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE BIBLE. 00:24:46.00\00:24:47.63 THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE KORAN. 00:24:47.63\00:24:49.16 BUT OF PARTICULAR NEED RIGHT NOW IS TO HAVE A VEHICLE E BE ABLE 00:24:49.16\00:24:55.46 TO GET AROUND. 00:24:55.46\00:24:56.46 I'VE GOT TO SPEED THIS ALONG. 00:24:56.46\00:24:58.46 YOU'VE GOT TO WIND IT UP I KNOW, YOUR TIME IS UP. 00:24:58.46\00:25:00.73 OF TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND BIBLES THAT ARE AVAILALAE THAT'S 00:25:15.40\00:25:16.96 CORRECT.EACH.ILITY THAT'S A WHOLE MIRACLE STORY IN ITSELF. 00:25:16.96\00:25:19.70 IT IS. 00:25:19.70\00:25:21.13 TO DISTRIBUTE THESE BIBLES THERE ARE YOUNG MEN WHO ARE STANDING 00:25:21.13\00:25:27.86 BY TO START ON A JOURNEY TO DISTRIBUTE THESE BIBLES SO THEY CAN BE READ ALONG BESIDE THE 00:25:27.86\00:25:32.63 KORAN,N,ND THEY NEED A FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE THAT 00:25:32.63\00:25:39.63 CAN TRAVERSE UNCHARTED TERRRRORY TO FIND THE VILLAGES, THE ENCACAMENTS AND SO FORTH. 00:25:39.63\00:25:44.46 THEY DO. 00:25:44.46\00:25:45.46 SO IN ROUND FIGURES, 24 THOUSAND PLUS 35 THOUSAND. 00:25:45.46\00:25:49.53 MORE LIKE E THOUSAND. 00:25:49.53\00:25:53.10 OKAY, 60 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR BIBLES, THOUSANDS OF THEM TO GO 00:25:53.10\00:25:59.83 INTO THAT PART OFOFHE WORLD. 00:25:59.83\00:26:01.26 THESE YOUNG MEN HAVE BEEN CALLED OF GOD, THEY ARE READY AND THEY 00:26:01.26\00:26:04.46 NEED A GOGOEL OUTREACH WILL BE THE CHANNEL TO BROTHER MIKE AND 00:26:07.13\00:26:14.16 THESE WORKERS WHO HAVE FRONT LINE OPPORTRTITIES TO MAKE THIS 00:26:14.16\00:26:19.70 HAPPEN. WELLLLGOD IS THE ONE WHO IS MAKING IT HAPPEN. 00:26:19.70\00:26:21.70 HE IS ABSOLUTELY. 00:26:21.70\00:26:22.83 HE'S ON HIS THRONE. 00:26:22.83\00:26:24.10 AND HE CAN WORK UPON YOUR HEART, OUR HEARTS, ALL OF US TOGETHER. 00:26:24.10\00:26:27.33 PLEASE PRAY THAT GOSPEL OUOUEAEA SUPUPRTERS, SUPPORTERS THAT YOU 00:26:27.33\00:26:32.76 ARE ABABLEO O ET IN OTHER 00:26:32.76\00:26:36.80 PLPLES W WL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTITI. 00:26:32.76\00:26:36.80 THIS IS AN AWESOSOMEOPPORTUNITYT 00:26:36.80\00:26:40.93 SHOULD NOT BE MISSED. 00:26:36.80\00:26:40.93 THINK YOU AGREE WITH THAT. 00:26:40.93\00:26:44.46 YOU'VE S SEEN L THE INFORMATION ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH. 00:26:44.46\00:26:46.80 YOU U OW H H TO BE IN TOUCH. 00:26:46.80\00:26:48.36 PLEASE DO THAT SOON 00:26:48.36\00:26:54.60 WITH THIS PARTICULAR NEED BURNING IN YOUOUHEART AND 00:26:48.36\00:26:54.60 SOUL. 00:26:54.60\00:26:55.80 THANK YOU GOD FOR WHAT YOU'LL DO AND I WILL SEE YOU NEXT TIME. 00:26:55.80\00:27:01.73 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 00:27:07.10\00:27:11.70 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 00:27:11.70\00:27:18.56 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 00:27:18.56\00:27:22.26 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY. 00:27:22.26\00:27:24.90 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 00:27:24.90\00:27:27.33 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 00:27:27.33\00:27:31.00 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH. 00:27:31.00\00:27:34.70 MY HEAD HURTS. 00:27:34.70\00:27:36.60 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 00:27:36.60\00:27:38.70 I GIVE UP. 00:27:38.70\00:27:39.70 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 00:27:39.70\00:27:41.50 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:27:41.50\00:27:42.50 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:27:42.50\00:27:44.50 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 00:27:44.50\00:27:50.06 WHWHE? 00:27:50.06\00:27:51.06 ALL THE WORLD. 00:27:51.06\00:27:53.20 HOW CAN I GO? 00:27:53.20\00:27:54.20 I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 00:27:54.20\00:27:55.40 YOU CAN PRAY. 00:27:55.40\00:27:57.53 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 00:27:57.53\00:28:02.50 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 00:28:02.50\00:28:06.50 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 00:28:06.50\00:28:09.33 MILLIONSNSF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 00:28:09.33\00:28:12.26 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 00:28:12.26\00:28:14.43 BE THE SPARKRK 00:28:14.43\00:28:15.93 LIGHT THE FIRE. 00:28:15.93\00:28:21.73 FINISH THE WORK. 00:28:21.73\00:28:27.80