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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000615A
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00:00 [OPENING MUSIC].
00:14 HELLO EVERYBODY. 00:17 I'M DAN MATTHEWS OF COURSE YOU KNOW THAT, YOU'VE SEEN ME AROUND HERE AT GOSPEL 00:21 OUTTREACH A NUMBER OF YEARS NOW ACTUALLY. 00:25 AND I'M JUST SO BLESSED AND HONORED TO GET TO BE BACK WITH YOU AGAIN. 00:30 AND WHEN I SAY BACK, IT MEANS COMING TO COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON WHERE 00:35 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS HEADQUARTERED-HAS BEEN FROM THE BEGINNING AND AT 00:40 THIS PARTICULAR SEASON OF THE YEAR WE ARE HERE IN THE FALL OF 2015. 00:44 WE GET TO MEET PEOPLE WHO ARE FRONTLINE REPRESENTATIVES OF GOSPEL 00:49 OUTREACH AND THEY BRING US ACCOUNTS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING UNDER THE AUSPICES 00:56 OF GOSPEL OUTREACH TO CONTACT PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS SOULS WHO ARE WAITING TO 01:02 JUST BE WELCOMED INTO HIS KINGDOM. 01:04 I GET TO MEET PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE WORLD AND TODAY IS A VERY 01:11 UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. 01:13 I GET TO RECONNECT MY FRIEND MIKE PORTER. 01:16 MIKE, WELCOME BACK TO GOSPEL OUTREACH. 01:18 WE'VE, WE'VE HAD CONTACT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND MEDIA MINISTRY AND OTHER 01:26 PLACES OVER THE YEARS AND TO GET TO BE WITH YOU HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH IS A 01:32 SPECIAL TREAT. 01:33 AS I UNDERSTAND IT YOU ARE HERE AS A FRIENDLY ASSOCIATE OF GOSPEL 01:40 OUTREACH. 01:41 ABSOLUTELY. 01:43 WE'VE BEEN CONNECTED WITH GOSPEL REACH THROUGH VARIOUS WAYS WHEN WE'VE 01:47 SERVED IN OTHER MINISTRIES HERE AND THERE AND GOSPEL OUTREACH IS A WONDERFUL, 01:51 WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION THAT TRULY CONTRIBUTES TO SEEING WHAT GOD IS DOING. 01:57 AND I, I KNOW THAT YOU AND I HAVE MET HERE IN THE PAST WHEN YOU WERE WEARING 02:03 WHAT I LIKE TO CALL A QUIET HOUR HAT, THAT'S TRUE, AND WE'VE BORN WORN 02:10 OTHER HATS BUT REALLY IN GOD'S WORK THAT'S ALL THE SAME AND WE ARE HERE TO 02:19 JUST TRUST THE LORD TO SEE WHAT HE IS DOING, HOW HE IS LEADING AND HOW WE MAY 02:26 BE LED TO RESPOND. 02:29 LET, LET ME IN MY KIND OF HALTING WAY, EXPLAIN WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING 02:35 ABOUT HERE TODAY. 02:37 WE'RE IN A WORLD THAT COVERS THE GLOBE OF COURSE, AND WE MEET PEOPLE 02:46 IN ALL DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE- VARIOUS CULTURES, VARIOUS ECONOMIES, 02:53 POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND A VARIETY OF RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS AS WELL. 03:02 AND HERE IN 2015 WE ARE WELL AWARE THAT WE'RE A PART OF A WORLD THAT WE 03:09 GET TO BE INVOLVED IN AS A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND WE'RE ALSO AWARE OF OUR 03:19 JEWISH FRIENDS WHO ALSO ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, UNDERSTANDING SERVING HIM 03:27 IN THE WAY THEY UNDERSTAND AND THERE IS A LARGE SEGMENT OF OUR 21ST 03:34 CENTURY WORLD THAT PRIMARILY FOLLOW AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE ON 03:43 BELIEF AND FAITH AND EVEN CULTURE AS FAR AS THAT IS CONCERNED. 03:48 AND GOD HAS GIVEN YOU THE OPPORTUNITY MIKE, OF CONNECTING WITH PEOPLE IN 03:56 THE ISLAMIC WORLD WHO ALL OF US REALLY WANT TO SEE AS FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE 04:06 WORLD BUT EVEN CHILDREN OF GOD IF WE KNOW HOW TO LISTEN, HOW TO RESPOND TO 04:14 WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE. 04:17 NOW I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A FAIR INTRODUCTION TO WHAT WE ARE GOING TO TALK 04:20 ABOUT. 04:22 WELL CERTAINLY AS WE LOOK AROUND THE WORLD YOU'VE MENTIONED JEWISH PEOPLE; 04:27 YOU'VE MENTIONED FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM; YOU'VE MENTIONED CHRISTIANS. 04:30 WE COULD MENTION HINDU, YES, OF COURSE. 04:33 WE COULD MENTION BUDDHISTS. 04:34 WE COULD MENTION MANY GROUPS OF PEOPLE. 04:37 IT IS TRUE THAT THE JEWISH GROUP AND THE CHRISTIAN GROUP AND THE ISLAMIC 04:42 GROUP ARE CONSIDERED THE MONOTHEISTIC GROUP. 04:47 THE PEOPLE WHO, THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT, WORSHIP THE CREATOR 04:51 GOD-THE ONE GOD. 04:53 SO YES, IT IS BUT I SUPPOSE TODAY WHAT IS ESPECIALLY FASCINATING TO 04:58 LOOK AROUND US TO SEE THAT GOD SEEMS TO BE FINDING WAYS TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF 05:05 AMONG MANY PEOPLE GROUPS. 05:07 WELL AND THE REASON THIS IS APPROPRIATE FOR US TO DO THIS IN AN "ADVENTURES 05:11 IN MISSIONS" PROGRAM IS BECAUSE GOSPEL OUTREACH IS AWARE THAT MUCH OF THE 05:17 POPULATION OF THE WORLD IS ISLAMIC IN PERSUASION. 05:21 CERTAINLY AND WE DON'T WANT TO EXCLUDE OURSELVES, RIGHT, FROM THAT 05:26 POPULATION. 05:27 WELL, I THINK IF YOU CHECK IT OUT TO THE VARIOUS SOURCES WE WOULD SAY THAT, 05:35 THAT THE ISLAMIC WORLD IS PROBABLY MAKING UP 23-25 PER CENT OF THE EARTH'S 05:41 POPULATION-THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE. 05:44 AND I'M SURE THAT GOD IS JUST AS INTERESTED, MAYBE MORE, IN THE WORLD OF 05:51 ISLAM THAN HE IS IN ALL THE REST OF THE GROUPS. 05:54 SO THAT'S WHY I THINK IT IS FASCINATING TO FOLLOW a LITTLE OF WHAT GOD IS 05:57 DOING. 05:59 THE GOSPEL OUTREACH OR THE GOSPEL COMMISSION YOU CANNOT EXCLUDE 25 PER CENT 06:03 OF THE POPULATION. 06:04 WELL YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO READ IT THAT WAY THAT GO YE INTO ALL THE 06:07 WORLD AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF EVERYBODY EXCEPT MAYBE THIS GROUP OR THAT GROUP 06:12 BECAUSE -NO THAT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. 06:14 NO. 06:15 NOT AT ALL. 06:16 SO YOU HAVE, I GUESS I SHOULD SAY YOU'VE BEEN BLESSED TO WATCH AND 06:27 LISTEN AND TRY TO INTERFACE WITH ISLAMIC PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE SOME 06:33 INSTRUCTIVE THINGS TO CHALLENGE US WITH. 06:35 WELL, I THINK I SHARED HERE ONCE BEFORE WITH YOU HOW A FRIEND OF MINE GAVE 06:47 ME A HOLY QURAN. 06:50 IT WAS A GIFT AND HE TOLD ME THAT IF I CONTINUE IN THE SERIOUS NATURE OF HOW 07:00 I WAS LIVING MY LIFE AND I CONTINUED ON MY JOURNEY WITH GOD THAT I WOULD 07:05 BECOME A MUSLIM. 07:06 NOW THAT MADE A VERY DEEP IMPRESSION ON ME BECAUSE SINCE THEN I'VE DISCOVERED 07:12 THAT THE WORD MUSLIM REALLY MEANS ONE WHO SUBMITS OR ONE WHO SUBMITS 07:18 TO GOD OR ONE WHO SUBMITS TO ALLAH AND AS I STUDIED AND BECAME MORE AWARE I 07:25 REALIZED THAT A TRUE MUSLIM IS ONE WHO IS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS OR HER 07:31 WALK WITH GOD. 07:33 SO IN THAT SENSE I HOPE WE ARE ALL MUSLIMS- THAT MIGHT NOT SET WELL WITH 07:37 SOME CHRISTIAN PEOPLE AND SOME BELIEVERS BUT YOU KNOW WHAT WE REALLY OUGHT 07:43 TO ALL BE MORE SERIOUS ABOUT OUR WALK WITH GOD. 07:46 AND, AND THE CHALLENGE IN THAT IS THAT WE -I DO- HAVE A TENDENCY TO IMPOSE 07:58 MY OWN DEFINITIONS OF WHAT A WORD OR A CULTURE MAY STAND FOR OR MEAN WHEREAS 08:07 WE NEED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT AND UNDERSTAND A DEFINITION 08:11 LIKEYOU'VE GIVEN. 08:13 WELL, THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THE DEFINITION OF ISLAM TODAY IN THE U.S. 08:18 IS VERY TAINTED BY A LOT OF BAD THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AND IT IS 08:23 DIFFICULT TO SEPARATE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEAR ON THE NEWS AND SOME OF 08:28 THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING FROM WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST IS 08:33 TRUE ISLAM. 08:35 AND I WOULD THINK I COULD JUST SHARE WITH YOU A FEW EXAMPLES PROBABLY OF HOW 08:40 GOD IS CALLING AND TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO I BELIEVE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR 08:44 WALK WITH GOD. 08:45 AND THAT'S THE REASON WE WANT TO SHARE THIS WITH OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 08:47 AUDIENCE. 08:48 SURE, BECAUSE WE ALL NEED THAT MORE GENEROUS PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. 08:55 WELL, WE NEED A GENEROUS PERSCPECTIVE BUT IT HELPS US TO SEE THAT, THAT IT'S 09:01 NOT JUST OUR GENEROUS PERSPECTIVE IT SEEMS TO BE GOD'S GENEROUS 09:05 PERSPECTIVE, INTERESTING, BECAUSE HE IT SEEMS TO ME IS REACHING INTO THE 09:09 HEARTS OF PEOPLE. 09:10 NOW -AFTERALL IT IS HIS DOING ANYWAY. 09:13 WELL, HE CREATED ALL OF US SO WE ARE ALL PART OF THE HUMAN FAMILY AND IT'S BEEN 09:19 MY SPECIAL PLEASURE AND PRIVILEGE TO BE ABLE TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH 09:22 DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT GOD HAS USED IN CERTAIN WAYS THAT HE'S REACHED INTO 09:27 THEIR LIVES IN DIFFERENT WAYS. 09:29 AND SOMETHING THAT SEEMS TO BE A VERY COMMON DENOMINATOR IS GOD GIVES 09:35 PEOPLE DREAMS. 09:38 PEOPLE WILL HAVE DREAMS AND THEY WILL SOMETIMES EVEN SEE WHAT THEY 09:44 DESCRIBE AS A MAN IN WHITE. 09:48 NOW SOMETIMES THIS MAN IN WHITE WILL COME WITH MESSAGES. 09:52 HE WILL GIVE WARNINGS. 09:54 HE WILL GIVE TEACHINGS AND MANY OF THEM HAVE HAD YEARS OF EXPERIENCES WITH 10:02 THE MAN IN WHITE. 10:08 WOW. 10:09 NOW I THINK I AND ALL OF US, HAVE HEARD ACCOUNTS LIKE THAT BUT I THINK 10:21 YOU'RE HERE MIKE, BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT SOME MORE AH, DEFINITE INDICATORS. 10:30 WELL, MAYBE WE COULD JUST TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES, PLEASE, THAT 10:34 HELP. 10:35 YOU KNOW THERE IS ONE THAT I KNOW IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE IT'S A LONG 10:39 HISTORY OF A TRIBAL TRADITION THERE WITH THE FAMILIES HAD A LONG 10:47 HISTORY OF BEING WORSHIPERS OF GOD BUT THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN IN 10:54 THE FAMILY WHO ONE DAY HAD A DREAM ABOUT THE MAN IN WHITE AND THE MAN IN WHITE 11:03 ASKED HIM TO GO AND MEET HIM IN THE MAJOR CITY THAT WAS SOME DISTANCE AWAY. 11:10 THIS YOUNG MAN WE'LL CALL HIM FARUKI -HE TOLD HIS BROTHERS AND HIS FAMILY 11:18 ABOUT THIS DREAM AND THE BROTHERS JUST KIND OF BRUSHED IT OFF AND SAID 11:23 YOU KNOW MAYBE YOU HAD TOO MUCH PEANUT BUTTER OR TOO MUCH MUTTON OR WHATEVER IT 11:27 WAS BUT HIS MOTHER SAID NO MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING TO THIS. 11:32 SO SHE ARRANGED FOR HIM TO MAKE THE TRIP AND HE WAS JUST A YOUNG MAN LIVED WAY 11:38 OUT IN THE DESERT AND SO SHE FIXED HIM UP WITH FOOD AND A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY 11:43 AND SENT HIM ON HIS WAY. 11:45 SO THIS WAS A PERSISTING DREAM-IT WASN'T A ONE TIME THING. 11:49 FOR HIM IT WAS A COUPLE OF TIMES AND THAT WAS ABOUT IT BUT THEN HE DECIDED 11:53 WHETHER OR NOT TO FOLLOWUP ON IT. 11:55 O.K. 11:56 SO HE, HE FOLLOWED UP ON IT WITH THE URGING OF HIS MOTHER. 12:02 WHEN HE, WHEN HE WENT TO THE CITY IT WAS QUITE A JOURNEY BECAUSE HE HAD TO 12:08 WALK ACROSS THE DESERT FOR A DAY OR SO UNTIL HE GOT TO THE TRAIN, THEN HE GOT 12:14 ON THE TRAIN AND HE TOOK THE TRAIN AND THAT WAS ANOTHER LONG JOURNEY BUT 12:18 FINALLY HE GOT TO THE CITY AND HE STARTED LOOKING FOR THE MAN IN WHITE. 12:22 SO HE SPENT THE FIRST DAY LOOKING AND THE SECOND DAY AND THE THIRD DAY AND HE 12:27 WAS -HE JUST WASN'T FINDING HIM AND HE WAS RUNNING OUT OF MONEY AFTER 12:33 SEVERAL DAYS -OUT OF FOOD AND HE REALLY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH MONEY LEFT TO 12:40 BUY A TICKET BACK HOME. 12:42 SO HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HE FINALLY SAID WELL, I CAN'T FIND THIS 12:46 MAN IN WHITE SO I GUESS I NEED TO GO BACK HOME. 12:48 SO HE WENT TO THE TRAIN AND JUST AS HE SET HIS FOOT AT THE GATE THERE TO 12:56 GET ON THE TRAIN HE FELT A HAND ON HIS SHOULDER AND HE TURNED AND THERE WAS 13:04 THE MAN IN WHITE. 13:06 SO THE MAN IN WHITE TOOK HIM TO A RESTAURANT. 13:08 THEY HAD SOMETHING TO EAT AND HE BEGAN SHARING WITH HIM TRUTHS, TRUTHS OF GOD- 13:18 THINGS THAT THIS FARUKI HAD NOT HEARD BEFORE. 13:22 THEN HE SAID TO HIM YOU GO BACK TO YOUR PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE AND I WILL COME 13:31 THERE AND I WILL SPEND SOME TIME WITH YOU. 13:35 SO HE GAVE HIM SOME MONEY AND PUT HIM ON THE TRAIN AND FARUKI WENT BACK ON 13:40 THE TRAIN THE DISTANCE OF THE TRAIN WHERE IT ENDED HE GOT OFF THE TRAIN AND 13:44 WENT ON TO THE DESERT TO HIS PEOPLE AND SEVERAL DAYS LATER THE MAN IN 13:49 WHITE SHOWED UP AND HE STAYED WITH FARUKI AND HIS FAMILY FOR NINTY DAYS 13:57 TEACHING THEM. 13:58 WOW. 14:00 DAY BY DAY HE WOULD TEACH FARUKI THINGS AND THEN FARUKI WOULD SHARE WITH 14:03 THE FAMILY AND THIS WENT ON FOR THIS WHOLE TIME. 14:06 WELL THIS, THIS MAN EVENTUALLY BECAME AN OLDER MAN - I DON'T THINK HE WAS 14:14 QUITE 80 THEN BUT HE- RUB IT IN- HE BECAME AN OLDER MAN WE ARE ALL GETTING 14:20 THERE BROTHER, AND FINALLY HE PASSED AWAY BUT NOT BEFORE HE HAD MET THE MAN 14:28 IN WHITE A DOZEN OR MORE TIMES OVER THE YEARS INCLUDING SOME VERY 14:35 FASCINATING THINGS WHERE HE WAS ASKED TO DELIVER IMPORTANT MESSAGES HIGH 14:41 PEOPLE IN OFFICE AND SO ON FROM GOD. 14:46 NOW HIS GROUP HAS CONTINUED TO BE A GROUP OF BELIEVERS AND WE HAVE THE 14:54 FAMILY OF FARUKI -THEY CONTINUE TO THIS DAY TO HAVE RELATIONSHIPS AROUND, 14:57 ACROSS SEVERAL COUNTRIES. 14:58 THEY CONTINUE TO BE FOLLOWERS OF GOD AND INTERESTINGLY THEY ARE 15:05 FOLLOWERS OF THE MAN IN WHITE. 15:12 BECAUSE WHEN FARUKI ASKED HIM WHO ARE YOU, HE SAID I AM ISA OR JESUS. 15:20 ISA IS THE NAME OF JESUS IN THE QURAN AS ENGLISH IS IN JESUS AND SO ALL THESE 15:29 YEARS FARUKI HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF FELLOWSHIPING AND WALKING AND TALKING 15:35 WITH JESUS AND BEING TAUGHT BY JESUS AND IN TURN THEN TEACHING HIS 15:39 PEOPLE TO WHERE TODAY THEY ARE STILL HIS FOLLOWERS. 15:44 SO THERE IS NO QUESTION IN ANY OF THE MINDS OF HIS SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS 15:52 THAT INDEED ISA HAD BROUGHT THEM THIS MESSAGE. 15:57 ABSOLUTELY. 15:58 THIS IS THE, THIS IS BY THE WAY A MESSAGE THAT IS PROMINENTLY SEEN IN THE 16:05 QURAN. 16:07 ISA IS THE PRIMARY KEY PROPHET OF THE QURAN. 16:12 HE IS THE WORD OF GOD. 16:15 IS THE STORY OF FARUKI IN THE QURAN THEN? 16:19 NO, BECAUSE HE JUST DIED A FEW YEARS AGO. 16:22 YES, OF COURSE - FARUKI IS- RIGHT SO HE IS A MODERN PERSON BUT ISA ON 16:30 THE OTHER HAND IS ALL THROUGH THE QURAN. 16:33 SO ISA WAS BORN OFA VIRGIN MARY AND ISA WAS SENT FROM GOD. 16:39 HE IS THE LIFE GIVER. 16:40 HE IS THE WORD OF GOD. 16:42 SO IT WAS NOT ANYTHING ESPECIALLY REMARKABLE THAT THIS MUSLIM YOUNG BOY 16:50 WOULD BE INTRODUCED TO ISA. 16:52 THE PRECEDENT COMES TO ME AND MAY COME TO THE MIND OF SOME OF OUR VIEWERS- IS 17:02 JESUS CAME AND ASCENDED AND IN OUR TYPICAL UNDERSTANDING IS OUR 17:15 ANTICIPATION OF HIS RETURN AT THE END. 17:20 NOW I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO SUGGEST THAT HE COULDN'T HAVE DIFFERENT SCHEDULE 17:26 BUT FOR US TO EVEN ENTERTAIN THAT DIFFERENT SCHEDULE IS NOT COMMON IN 17:32 OUR UNDERSTANDING. 17:34 WELL, WELL LET'S JUST BE CLEAR THAT IT IS NOT ONLY THE CHRISTIANS WHO ARE 17:40 LOOKING FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 17:43 THERE ARE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD ISLAMIC COUNTRIES EVEN THAT ARE HAVING A 17:48 DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS BELONGS TO THE MUSLIMS OR 17:52 BELONGS TO THE CHRISTIANS. 17:54 REALLY? 17:55 SO IN THE LAST DAY THE MUSLIMS EXPECT JESUS TO COME AS WELL. 18:01 SO IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS, THAT'S SO DIFFERENT FROM HOW MANY 18:08 BELIEVERS LOOK TO THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS INCLUDING ADVENTIST 18:12 BELIEVERS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR THE SECOND COMING. 18:14 ARE YOU SUGGESTING MIKE, THAT WHEREAS AH, JESUS APPEARED TO THE EARLY 18:25 APOSTLES AND AH, PAUL -HIS EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD, ALL OF THAT WAS THE 18:36 LAUNCH OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WHEREAS THERE HAS BEEN A DIVISION AMONG 18:48 PEOPLE IN THE CHILDREN OF ESAU AND JACOB THAT THE LORD IN HIS MERCY AND LOVE 18:57 IS NOT GOING TO JUST HAVE THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BE THE RECIPIENTS- AM I 19:04 GETTING AHEAD OF YOUR STORY? 19:06 WELL, FIRST OF ALL LET ME JUST SAY I'M PRETTY SURE THAT JESUS DID NOT INTEND 19:11 TO START A CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 19:14 HE WAS A JEW. 19:16 HE CAME TO REVEAL GOD TO HIS PEOPLE AND THE APOSTLES, INTERESTING, 19:23 THEN PICKED UP FROM THERE AND CARRIED THAT WORK TO REVEAL GOD TO THE WHOLE 19:28 WORLD SO WHY WOULD WE THINK THAT GOD WOULD BE EXCLUSIVE ALL OF A SUDDEN? 19:33 HE IS NOT. 19:34 FOR SURE. 19:35 NO, IF ANYBODY WOULD EVEN SUGGEST THAT WE WOULD SAY NO. 19:39 WE WOULD JUST AGREE. 19:40 RIGHT BUT WHAT WE ARE SEEING THOUGH IS THAT GOD SEEMS TO HAVE STEPPED IT 19:45 UP. 19:47 WHILE HE DID VISIONS, HE DID HEALINGS; HE DID ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN THE 19:50 BOOK OF ACTS WE ARE SEEING NUMEROUS OF THESE DREAMS AND VISIONS. 19:57 ONE OF MY, ONE OF MY FRIENDS, AH, TELLS THE STORY OF HAVING AH, SEEN 20:05 THIS MAN IN WHITE 32 TIMES BEFORE HE FINALLY SAID, YES, I'LL BECOME ONE OF 20:11 YOUR FOLLOWERS. 20:13 NOW HAS THE MAN IN WHITE CONTINUED TO APPEAR TO THE DESCENDANTS OF FARUKI? 20:21 HE HAS, HE TO MY KNOWLEDGE HE HAS NOT BUT HE HAS APPEARED TO MULTIPLE OTHER 20:29 PEOPLE BECAUSE IT SEEMS MORE LIKE THIS -THESE VISIONS, THESE APPEARANCES 20:35 ARE SOMETHING THAT HELPS PEOPLE STEP ACROSS THE LINE WHERE THEY UNDERSTAND 20:37 WHO ISA IS. 20:38 THEY MIGHT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT HIM IN THE QURAN BUT THEY SOMEHOW THINK WELL HE 20:40 MUST BE FOR SOMEBODY ELSE BUT WHEN HE SHOWS UP AND SAYS NO I WANT YOU TO BE A 20:47 FOLLOWER, MY FOLLOWER THEN WHAT HAPPENS WE SEE THESE NEW FOLLOWERS THEN SHARING 21:00 WITH THEIR FAMILIES AND THE WORD EXPANDS TILL TODAY THERE ARE MANY 21:05 THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS OF JESUS ACROSS THE WORLD IN MANY COUNTRIES. 21:12 AND IS IT TRUE THEN THAT WE HAVEN'T KNOWN ABOUT IT FOR REASONS THAT IT WASN'T 21:23 TIME FOR US TO KNOW ABOUT IT YET? 21:26 WELL, WHEN IS THE LAST TIME THAT MOST OF US TALKED TO A MUSLIM? 21:31 HOW WOULD WE HAVE FOUND OUT? 21:34 HOW HE-IT DID IS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AMONG MUSLIMS. 21:37 IT IS BECAUSE IT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE COMMON TO SEE TO WHERE 21:42 PEOPLE MEET THE MAN IN WHITE AND THAT BECOMES A CATALYST FOR THEM THEN TO 21:52 UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT WHAT THE QURAN SAYS ABOUT THE MAN IN WHITE AND IT ALSO 21:58 SEEMS TO OPEN SOME DOORS TO WHERE THEY BEGIN LOOKING AT THE NEW 22:04 TESTAMENT BECAUSE THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE RECORD LARGELY OF THE MAN IN 22:10 WHITE AND OF JESUS MINISTRY. 22:12 NOW OF COURSE THERE IS A LOT OF THE STORIES IN THE QURAN AS WELL BUT THE 22:16 QURAN ACTUALLY REFERS IT'S READERS TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND TO THE 22:23 PSALMS AND TO THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS IF THERE IS A QUESTION THE READER 22:30 OF THE QURAN IS TO GO TO THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK. 22:33 AND IT IS FASCINATING TO SEE THAT THE PEOPLE OF BOOK IS A COMMON PHRASE 22:39 THAT IS FOUND MANY TIMES AND IT REFERS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT 22:45 THEIR WALK WITH GOD. 22:47 ARE AND MAYBE YOU DON'T' KNOW AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW JUST SAY SO, ARE THE IMAMS 22:56 WHO ARE THE TEACHERS IN THE MOSQUES PRESENTING THE MAN IN WHITE AS THE ONE 23:06 THEY SHOULD BE FOLLOWING? 23:09 SOME ARE. 23:11 I HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE IMAMS WHO ARE INDEED SHARING WITH THEIR PEOPLE 23:21 WHO THE MAN IN WHITE REALLY IS. 23:24 MY NEXT QUESTION IS MAY YOU THEN WITH THESE FRIENDS YOU IDENTIFY ARE 23:33 YOU ACCEPTED BECAUSE AS A FELLOW FOLLOWER OF ISA? 23:39 WITH THE IMAMS AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FRIENDS, ABSOLUTELY. 23:47 SOME OF THE PLACES WHERE THE MAN IN WHITE HAS MADE HIMSELF KNOWN FOREIGNERS 23:54 WOULD NOT BE WELCOME. 23:57 SO IT IS NOT EVERY PLACE THAT I WOULD PRESUME TO GO BUT THE MAN IN WHITE DOES 24:05 NOT SEEM TO HAVE ANY BORDERS. 24:07 HE IS ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE AND HE IS GOING EVERYWHERE. 24:13 AND THAT'S- I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO RESPOND TO THAT BY SAYING IT IS 24:20 INSPIRING OR WHATEVER IT IS MORE THAN THAT. 24:22 WHERE DOES MOHAMMED FIT INTO THAT OR DO YOU KNOW? 24:30 WELL, AS WE UNDERSTAND MOHAMMED AND WE WOULD NORMALLY SAY PEACE BE UPON 24:38 HIM AS A TERM OF RESPECT MOHAMMED PEACE BE UPON HIM WAS GIVEN THE QURAN AS IS 24:39 UNDERSTOOD BY MUSLIMS AS GOD'S WORD. 24:47 SO OBVIOUSLY IF IT IS GOD'S WORD IT IS CONSIDERED WITH VERY, VERY 25:00 HIGHLY. 25:01 WE WOULD SAY THE BIBLE IS GOD'S WORD BUT WE WOULD ALSO SAY THAT JESUS WAS 25:07 GOD'S WORD IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD-JESUS. 25:12 SO A MUSLIM MAY THINK OF THE QURAN ACTUALLY AS THE WORD OF GOD SIMILAR TO THE 25:16 WAY WE WOULD REFER TO JESUS AS THE WORD OF GOD BUT NOT MOHAMMED. 25:18 MOHAMMED IS NOT THE PRIMARY PROPHET AT ALL IN ISLAM IN THE QURAN. 25:29 ISA IS. 25:31 ISA IS, YES. 25:34 WELL, I THINK WHAT WE MAY HAVE ACHIEVED HERE TODAY MICHAEL, AND I KNOW YOU 25:43 HAD SOME OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS YOU COULD HAVE GIVEN US BUT WHAT WE 25:47 MAY HAVE ACHIEVED IS CHALLENGE OUR SOMETIMES CLOSED MINDS TO EVEN 25:57 CONSIDER THE UNITY OF BELIEF THAT JESUS INTENDED FOR HIS CREATION AND WHAT 26:08 I HEAR YOU SAYING TO ME AND TO OTHER FELLOW BELIEVERS IS LET'S KEEP 26:15 OUR MINDS AND OUR HEARTS OPEN TO WHOEVER WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF HEARING 26:24 ABOUT, LEARNING FROM BECAUSE JESUS IS NO RESPECTOR OF PERSONS. 26:32 WE ARE ALL HIS CHILDREN. 26:33 AMEN. 26:35 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. 26:37 I DIDN'T GET TO GIVE ALL OF YOU THE ADDRESS OF GOSPEL OUTREACH BUT IT 26:43 WILL BE ON THE SCREEN THERE AND IF YOU WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS I WILL 26:48 DIRECT YOU TO MIKE PORTER WHO WILL BE GLAD TO ANSWER YOU I AM SURE. 26:52 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR PRAYING ABOUT ALL YOU HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO TODAY. 27:32 [CLOSING MUSIC]. |
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