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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000622A
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00:15 HELLO GOOD FRIENDS. 00:25 SO HAPPY TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN. 00:26 I'M HERE AT GOSPEL OUTREACH WHERE WE PRODUCE THIS ADVENTURES IN 00:30 MISSIONS PROGRAM AND YOU GET TO HEAR FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS OF HOW GOD IS 00:37 LEADING IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD. 00:40 AND THAT INTERESTS US. 00:42 WE ARE A FAMILY OF PEOPLE WHO PUT A GREAT DEAL OF EMPHASIS ON MISSIONS AND 00:50 HOW WE DISCOVER THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING AMONG PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT WAYS, 00:56 UNUSUAL TO US SOMETIMES. 00:58 AND TODAY, I THINK, IS AN INTERVIEW LIKE THAT. 01:02 I HAVE WITH ME TODAY MIKE PORTER. 01:04 GLAD YOU'RE HERE MIKE. 01:06 A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. 01:07 GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER. 01:09 AND I WILL RESIST TALKING TO YOU ABOUT WHERE YOU'VE BEEN AND WHAT'S BEEN GOING 01:15 ON AND ALL OF THAT KIND OF THING WHICH IS VERY INTERESTING AND WE'D ALL 01:18 LIKE TO KNOW BUT WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE AMAZING WAYS THAT GOD 01:27 SEEMS TO BE WORKING ESPECIALLY IN THIS 21ST CENTURY. 01:31 WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SHARE WITH US? 01:33 WELL IT IS JUST AMAZING DAN TO SEE HOW GOD SEEMS TO BE WORKING IN WAYS 01:39 DIFFERENTLY THAN IN THE PAST. 01:41 THERE ARE LARGE PEOPLE GROUPS WHERE WE HAVE JUST NOT SEEN A LOT OF 01:45 ACTIVITY. 01:48 IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'VE BEEN UNREACHABLE ALMOST AND YET WE'RE SEEING THAT SOMEHOW 01:55 GOD IS STEPPING IN THROUGH DREAMS AND VISIONS AND OTHER MEANS AND JUST 02:01 SAYING, I'M HERE, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY SON, TO JESUS. 02:08 THEY USE DIFFERENT TERMINOLOGIES MANY TIMES. 02:11 SOMETIMES THE STORIES ARE SUCH THAT THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT SON SHIP PER SE. 02:17 IT'S JUST A MAN IN WHITE. 02:19 WHEN YOU SPEAK OF LARGE PEOPLE GROUPS THAT'S NOT FOREIGN TO US WHO HAVE 02:26 SOME CONTACT WITH MEDIA TODAY. 02:29 BUT YOUR TALKING ABOUT GREAT RELIGIOUS COLLECTIONS OF PEOPLE LIKE 02:38 HINDUS AND OF COURSE THERE ARE BUDDHISTS AS WELL AND MUSLIMS, THAT KIND OF 02:46 PEOPLE GROUP? 02:47 WE ARE. 02:48 WHERE WE'VE WORKED FOR YEARS. 02:49 WELL AND THE ISSUE FOR MANY OF US IS WHEN I THINK OF A MUSLIM AND YOU THINK 02:56 OF A MUSLIM THE MEDIA HAS PRETTY MUCH TOLD US WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO THINK. 03:01 YES, THEY DEFINE FOR US. 03:02 AND IT'S ALL ABOUT ISIS AND IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ATROCITIES, IT'S ALL ABOUT 03:08 THINGS THAT ARE NOT GOING WELL. 03:11 BUT MY POINT TODAY IS THAT THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN THESE GROUPS THAT GOD IS 03:19 REACHING TO WHO ARE VERY VERY SADDENED BY THE WAY THAT CERTAIN GROUPS OF 03:29 PEOPLE ARE HIJACKING THEIR RELIGION. 03:33 AND YOU KNOW I THINK WE CAN IDENTIFY, AS CHRISTIAN BACKGROUND PEOPLE, WE LOOK 03:40 TO PLACES IN THE WORLD WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN CONFLICTS AND WE SAID IT 03:45 WAS CREATED BY CONFLICTS BETWEEN RELIGIOUS PEOPLE, BETWEEN CHRISTIAN PEOPLE, 03:49 PROTESTANTS, CATHOLICS AND OTHER KINDS OF GROUPS HAVING CONFLICTS THAT END 03:54 UP IN YEARS AND YEARS AND GENERATIONS OF WAR. 03:57 YOU KNOW I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR VIEWERS. 04:01 I KNOW BECAUSE OF MY CONNECTION WITH YOU BUT I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING, 04:06 HERE YOU ARE A NORTH AMERICAN AND YOU'RE WORK HAS BEEN IN NORTH AMERICA 04:12 BUT HOW DO YOU HAVE THIS AWARENESS THAT YOU'RE TELLING US ABOUT? 04:18 WELL YES I'VE BEEN IN NORTH AMERICA BUT I'VE BEEN OUTSIDE OF NORTH 04:23 AMERICA ABOUT AS MUCH BECAUSE I DID LIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOR A NUMBER 04:29 OF YEARS. 04:30 I DID LIVE IN THE SOVIET UNION FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. 04:35 I DID LIVE IN ASIA FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE THAT 04:41 GOD PUT ME IN TOUCH AND PUT ME IN AREAS WHERE LARGE GROUPS OF MUSLIMS 04:47 LIVED. 04:48 SO CERTAIN MUSLIM PEOPLE HAVE TAUGHT ME A LOT. 04:51 THEY'VE BECOME YOUR NEIGHBORS THEN. 04:53 THEY'RE MY NEIGHBORS AND MY FRIENDS, ABSOLUTELY. 04:55 SO I HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF RESPECT FOR OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 05:00 AND I THOUGHT MAYBE WE COULD JUST TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF 05:03 THE WAYS GOD'S, YES WE WANT TO HEAR. 05:06 WHAT DO YOU KNOW, YOU ARE CERTAIN YOU HAVE EVIDENCE THAT GOD IS WORKING? 05:12 WILL CLEARLY GOD IS WORKING INSIDE OF LARGE PEOPLE GROUPS. 05:17 THERE ARE LARGE MOVEMENTS THESE DAYS THAT ARE LEARNING ABOUT WHO JESUS 05:23 IS. 05:24 INTERESTING. 05:25 WE CALL HIM IN THE KORAN, THAT'S OF COURSE AN ORIGINAL WORK WRITTEN IN 05:31 ARABIC, THERE IS A PERSON IN THE KORAN CALLED ISA AND HE IS THE ONE WHO WAS 05:41 BORN OF A VIRGIN, MARY, AND IS NAME IS ISA. 05:47 SO THAT IS JESUS. 05:48 THE KORAN IS VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS. 05:51 HE IS THE MAIN PRINCIPLE PRIMARY HERO OF THE KORAN, ISA IS. 05:58 AND ISA HAS APPEARED TO PEOPLE IN THIS DAY AND AGE. 06:04 WELL. 06:06 AND MY CURIOSITY, YOU FORGIVE ME, WERE YOU IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTRY 06:13 LONG ENOUGH TO ALSO MASTER SOME ARABIC SO YOU COULD READ THE KORAN IN ARABIC? 06:20 ABSOLUTELY NOT. 06:22 AND I WOULD SAY IN THE ARABIC WE WOULD SAY, SHWAY SHWAY, JUST A LITTLE BIT, 06:27 OF ARABIC. 06:29 UNFORTUNATELY IT'S NOT AN EASY LANGUAGE TO MASTER. 06:33 BUT YOU COULD PICK OUT ISA. 06:35 WELL CERTAINLY, CERTAINLY. 06:36 OKAY. 06:37 BUT WE HAVE STUDIED, WE'VE TAKEN THE TIME TO STUDY AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND OUR 06:41 MUSLIM NEIGHBORS AND OUR MUSLIM FRIENDS AND THE HOLY BOOK THE KORAN. 06:46 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT ONE OF THE GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT WE GOT TO 06:52 BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH. 06:54 IT ALL KIND OF STARTED MANY HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO WHERE THEY WERE FOLLOWERS 07:00 OF GOD, WORSHIPERS OF GOD. 07:01 BUT ONE DAY A YOUNG MAN, AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE, BUT THERE WAS 07:08 A YOUNG MAN IN THE FAMILY AND WE'LL JUST CALL HIM FERUKE. 07:12 HE HAD A DREAM AND THE DREAM SAID THAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE 07:20 MAJOR CITY NEAR WHERE THEY LIVED. 07:23 IN HIS DREAM HE SAW A MAN IN WHITE. 07:27 THIS MAN IN WHITE APPEARED TO HIM AND SAID MEET ME IN THE MAJOR CITY. 07:34 AND FERUKE TOLD HIS BROTHERS AND HE TOLD IS MOTHER ABOUT THIS DREAM. 07:38 THE BROTHERS JUST KIND OF LAUGHED AT HIM AND SAID YOU KNOW YOUR JUST, YOU 07:44 KNOW YOU HAD TOO MUCH SOMETHING TO EAT. 07:48 BUT THE MOTHER SAID NO LET'S LISTEN. 07:50 YOU KNOW HE'S A SPECIAL SON. 07:52 THERE MAY BE SOMETHING TO THIS. 07:55 SO SHE FIXED HIM UP WITH FOOD AND SOME MONEY AND SENT HIM ON HIS WAY. 08:01 NOW THIS WAS NOT A SMALL JOURNEY. 08:03 THEY LIVED OUT IN THE DESERT SO HE HAD TO WALK FOR QUITE A LONG DISTANCE 08:11 LIKE 30 KILOMETERS OR SO YOU KNOW, SEVERAL, SEVERAL, SEVERAL, A GOOD 08:17 BIT OF WALKING THAT HE TRAVELED ACROSS TO WHERE HE COULD REACH THE TRAIN. 08:21 ONCE HE GOT ON THE TRAIN THEN HE HAD A DAYS JOURNEY TO THE CITY AND HE BEGAN 08:26 LOOKING FOR THIS MAN IN WHITE. 08:29 EVERYWHERE HE WOULD GO HE WOULD TRY TO FIND HIM. 08:31 HE WOULD CHECK HERE AND CHECK THERE AND HE JUST, YOU KNOW DAY ONE WENT BY 08:35 AND DAY TWO WENT BY AND DAY THREE WENT BY AND HE WAS HAVING NO SUCCESS. 08:41 HE RAN OUT OF MONEY, HE RAN OUT OF FOOD AND HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH 08:44 MONEY TO BUY A TRAIN TICKET HOME. 08:49 BUT HE THOUGHT WELL I'LL SEE IF I CAN SOMEHOW GET BACK ON THE TRAIN. 08:55 WHEN HE WAS AT THE TRAIN STATION HE FELT A HAND ON HIS SHOULDER, TURNED 09:00 AROUND AND THERE WAS THE MAN IN WHITE. 09:02 THE MAN IN WHITE TOOK HIM TO LUNCH AND THEN HE SAID, I'M GOING TO MEET YOU IN 09:10 YOUR COMMUNITY BACK HOME, BACK HOME IN THE DESERT. 09:12 SO YOU GO ON BACK. 09:13 HE GAVE HIM SOME MONEY FOR THE TRAIN TICKET AND SENT HIM BACK. 09:15 AND THEN A FEW DAYS LATER THE MAN IN WHITE SHOWED UP. 09:17 JUST HERE HE IS? 09:18 HE WAS JUST THERE AND HE STAYED WITH THE FAMILY FOR 90 DAYS. 09:20 EACH DAY HE WOULD MEET WITH FERUKE. 09:22 HE WOULD TEACH FERUKE TRUTHS OF GOD AND THEN FERUKE WOULD SHARE THEM 09:27 WITH THE REST OF HIS FAMILY. 09:46 HE WAS VISIBLE TO THE WHOLE FAMILY? 09:48 YES, YES. 09:50 HE STAYED WITH THEM. 09:52 BUT HE CHOSE TO TEACH ONLY FERUKE AND NOT OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY? 09:56 THAT WAS THE PRIMARY WAY THAT IT WORKED. 09:58 FERUKE OVER THE YEARS, BY THE WAY HE DID PASS AWAY A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, NOT 10:05 VERY MANY YEARS AGO, AN OLDER MAN BY NOW, HE HAD A WHOLE LIFE OF INTERESTING 10:11 EXPERIENCES WHERE MAYBE A DOZEN OR MAYBE 17 OR 18 TIMES HE MET WITH THE MAN 10:17 IN WHITE AT DIFFERENT TIMES ALONG THE WAY. 10:21 BUT THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE, HE NOW TEACHES. 10:24 FERUKE WAS THE MAIN TEACHER FOR HIS PEOPLE SO HE WAS THE PATRIARCH, HE 10:30 WAS THE LEADER FOR HIS CLAN. 10:33 THEY HAD A BIG DEBATE, AS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE MAN IN WHITE TAUGHT THEM 10:39 WAS TO HONOR GOD'S HOLY SABBATH. 10:44 NOW THEY HAD SOME TRADITIONS BECAUSE THEY KNEW ABOUT THE SABBATH BUT 10:48 THEY HAD KIND OF LOST THEIR WAY. 10:52 SO FERUKE BROUGHT THIS BACK TO THEM. 10:55 WELL, IN MORE RECENT TIMES THE FAMILY, THE TRIBE, HAD COME IN CONTACT WITH SOME 11:04 OTHER CHRISTIANS AS WELL. 11:06 AND THEY HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS AND THEY ACTUALLY HAD A BIG COUNCIL 11:11 ABOUT WHETHER THEY WERE GOING TO GO WITH SUNDAY OR SABBATH WORSHIP. 11:15 THEY SETTLED ON STAYING WITH SABBATH ALL BECAUSE THE MAN IN WHITE, LONG 11:23 AGO, HAD INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO THESE PEOPLE AND INTRODUCED THEM TO 11:27 GOD'S TRUTHS AND REINTRODUCED THEM TO A MORE COMPLETE 11:31 UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE GOD WAS LEADING. 11:34 AND BY THE WAY, JUST SO IT'S NOT SEEN AS A FOREIGN IDEA, THE KORAN IS CLEAR 11:41 ABOUT THE CREATOR GOD WHO CREATED THE WORLD IN SIX DAYS AND RESTED ON THE 11:46 SABBATH DAY. 11:48 THERE'S EVEN A LITTLE COUNCIL IN THERE, A CURSE IF YOU FAIL TO KEEP HOLY 11:55 THE SABBATH. 11:56 SO THIS TEACHING OF THE MAN IN WHITE TO FERUKE AND HIS RELATIVES, HIS WHOLE 12:09 TRIBE, MADE A SPECIFIC IMPACT SO THAT IN MORE RECENT TIMES THE ISSUE OF 12:20 THE SABBATH HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT POINT OF FAITH AND TRUST IN FOLLOWING THE 12:27 MAN IN WHITE. 12:28 IT IS ENTERING INTO THE REDEMPTIVE NATURE OF THIS MAN IN WHITE, WHAT HE 12:30 OFFERS. 12:31 IT'S THE SALVATION AS WE REST ON THE SABBATH IN HIM. 12:33 TREMENDOUS TO SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. 12:35 HERE WE ARE MIKE IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND THIS IS, I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER 12:38 WORD, THIS IS A FASCINATING STORY. 12:55 HERE WE ARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 12:58 ARE YOU HERE TO TELL US THAT THERE ARE REMNANTS OF THIS STORY STILL EXISTING 13:05 SOME PLACE IN OUR WORLD? 13:07 WELL THIS TRIBE IS A TRIBE THAT SPREADS ACROSS SEVERAL COUNTRIES. 13:12 IT'S LARGE, A MILLION OR THEREABOUTS. 13:16 AND SO THE WORK OF THIS MAN IN WHITE COMING TO FERUKE THEN PASSING THE 13:24 MANTEL TO HIS OFFSPRING ARE CONTINUING TODAY TO LEAD A GROUP OF PEOPLE, 13:33 SPREAD ACROSS THESE COUNTRIES, WHO ARE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS. 13:37 NOW I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO SHARE SOME THINGS WITH US ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE GROUPS 13:41 HERE AS WELL. 13:43 BUT HERE WE ARE IN FELLOWSHIP, IF I MAY, WITH OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 13:50 VIEWERS, ABSOLUTELY, AND WHAT IS THE POINT WE WANT TO MAKE WITH THEM AS WE 14:01 ARE RECOGNIZING THE DIVINE INTERVENTION INTERCESSION THAT BEGAN WITH FERUKE. 14:09 WHAT ARE WE WANTING TO SAY TO OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILY? 14:13 WELL CAN I JUST SAY, ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, WHEN YOU WALK INTO THE WALMART AND 14:19 YOU SEE SOMEBODY WITH THEIR HEAD COVERED AND YOU WONDER WHO IS THIS, OR YOU 14:28 SEE YOUR NEIGHBORS OUT TAKING A WALK IN THE COMMUNITY, FIRST THING WE 14:35 AS ADVENTIST BELIEVERS ARE IDEALLY SUITED TO BEFRIEND THESE PEOPLE. 14:42 YOU KNOW, YOU CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE TO COME AND LIVE IN AMERICA 14:50 WHEN THE NEWS EVERY SINGLE DAY IS ALL ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE ISLAM IS AND ALL 14:56 THE TERRIBLE THINGS THAT ISIS IS DOING. 14:58 OKAY, LET ME TRY AND SUMMARIZE WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID. 15:01 I'M JUST SAYING WE'VE GOT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THESE PEOPLE AND LET THEM KNOW. 15:04 AND YOU GOT TO LIVE NEIGHBORS WITH THESE PEOPLE FOR A PERCENTAGE OF 15:09 YOUR LIFE. 15:10 CERTAINLY. 15:12 AND YOU'RE SAYING TO US AS A GOSPEL OUTREACH FAMILY, AS WE INTERACT WITH THE 15:24 PEOPLE OF OUR WORLD, WHOEVER WE ARE WHEREVER WE ARE AND WE SEE THOSE FOLKS 15:31 WHO ARE EVIDENTIALLY FOLLOWERS OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH, THAT WE ARE TO 15:40 TREAT THEM WITH PARTICULAR FRIENDSHIP, ABSOLUTELY, BECAUSE AND I'M ADDING 15:45 THIS NOW, BECAUSE THEY ARE POSSIBLY SOMEHOW DESCENDANTS OF FERUKE AND 15:55 HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE MAN IN WHITE. 15:57 WELL EXACTLY BECAUSE ANYBODY, ANYBODY WHO IS A FOLLOWER OF ISLAM 16:03 OBVIOUSLY HAS THE FATHER ABRAHAM AND WE'RE ALL CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM BUT 16:10 YOU AND I, OBVIOUSLY SINCE WE'RE NOT JEWS WE'RE TECHNICALLY NOT, BUT WE 16:15 ARE BY THE SPIRITUAL NATURE AND SO ARE THE FOLLOWERS OF ISLAM. 16:21 BUT OUR JOB, SEE DAN, IS TO, IS TO LOOK FOR PEOPLE, LOOK FOR DIVINE 16:27 APPOINTMENTS WHERE GOD INVITES US TO FOLLOW UP ON INTRODUCING ISA TO THE 16:34 PEOPLE OF ISLAM. 16:36 YOU HAVE BROUGHT US A SPECIAL CHALLENGE AND SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. 16:43 I WANT TO GO RIGHT NOW TO A LITTLE INTERLUDE IN OUR PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN 16:50 PREPARED ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN BY CHILDREN. 16:54 SO YOU WATCH. 16:55 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 17:01 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 17:04 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY. 17:07 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 17:10 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 17:13 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH. 17:15 MY HEAD HURTS. 17:17 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 17:19 I GIVE UP. 17:21 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 17:23 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 17:25 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 17:28 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 17:33 WHERE? 17:34 ALL THE WORLD. 17:35 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 17:38 YOU CAN PRAY. 17:40 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 17:45 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 17:49 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 17:51 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 17:54 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 17:56 BE THE SPARK. 17:58 LIGHT THE FIRE. 18:00 FINISH THE WORK. 18:03 FINISH THE WORK. 18:06 BE THE SPARK. 18:08 WELL, KIDS AS CUTE AS THAT COULD LIGHT A SPARK WITH ANYBODY. 18:13 EVEN YOU I HOPE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATING WITH GOSPEL OUTREACH. 18:18 MIKE PORTER, YOU HAVE STOPPED ME HERE TO THINK ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT 18:27 WEREN'T ON MY AGENDA AND I THINK THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING THIS HOPING TO PUT 18:34 THIS ON THE AGENDA OF SOME OF OUR FELLOW BELIEVERS. 18:38 NOW WE'VE BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE WITH THE STORY OF FERUKE, BUT YOU TOLD ME 18:43 THAT THERE ARE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO HAVE A SABBATH TRADITION. 18:49 WELL IT IS TRUE THAT WE'RE DISCOVERING PEOPLE GROUPS HERE AND THERE AND ONE 18:56 PARTICULAR GROUP THAT SOME OF OUR LEADERS DISCOVERED JUST FAIRLY RECENTLY. 19:02 IT'S A GROUP THAT SAYS YES WE HAVE SABBATH TRADITIONS IN OUR ISLAMIC TRADITIONS 19:08 BUT THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHY. 19:11 THEY KNEW THAT THEY DIDN'T DO HEAVY WORK, THEY DIDN'T DO THEIR MAIN BUSINESS ON 19:17 SABBATH AND THAT WAS STILL PART OF THEIR WAY OF LIVING. 19:23 BUT WHEN OUR WORKERS OUR FRIENDS STARTED TALKING WITH THEM THEY WERE AMAZED 19:31 TO FIND OUT THAT THEY HAD THESE TRADITIONS. 19:34 AND WHEN THEY ASKED THEM, WELL WHY DO YOU DO THIS, WELL WE REALLY DON'T KNOW 19:39 IT'S SOMETHING ABOUT CREATION. 19:42 THEY REALLY HAD LOST TRACK OF WHY THEY DID THIS. 19:47 SO SOME OF OUR FRIENDS SIMPLY SAID WELL I THINK I MIGHT KNOW AND THEY TOOK 19:54 THEM TO THE KORAN AND THEY WALKED THROUGH THE KORANS TEACHINGS ABOUT THE 20:00 CREATOR GOD WHO RESTED ON THE SABBATH DAY AND MADE SABBATH HOLY. 20:06 SO THEY TOOK THEM THERE. 20:07 AND THEN FROM THERE THE DISCUSSION CONTINUES BECAUSE THEY REALIZED THAT 20:11 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT GOD PROVIDED, IT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH ISA 20:18 AND FROM THERE THEY WERE ABLE TO GO THEN TO THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHINGS AND 20:24 UNDERSTAND THE ONE WHO TAUGHT A LOT ABOUT THE SABBATH. 20:28 SO YOU ARE INTRODUCING TO SOME OF US, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE IDEA THAT THE 20:37 KORAN TEACHES MUCH OF WHAT WE WHO CHOOSE AND SEEK TO FOLLOW JESUS HAVE BELIEVED 20:47 ALL THE TIME AND IT'S THERE FOR THEM BUT THEY NEED SOMEBODY TO HELP THEM 20:52 UNDERSTAND. 20:54 WELL REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE ETHIOPIAN GENTLEMAN WHO WAS RIDING ALONG IN 20:58 HIS CHARIOT. 21:00 HE IS READING THE BOOK OF ISAIAH AND GOD INSTRUCTED PHILLIP, THE LOWLY DEACON 21:07 BY THE WAY, TO GO TO SPEAK TO HIM. 21:12 AND THE QUESTION WAS DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE READING. 21:16 WELL HOW CAN I WITHOUT SOMEBODY TO EXPLAIN IT TO ME. 21:21 SOMETIMES GOD USES PEOPLE, GOSPEL OUTREACH PEOPLE TO GO AND EXPLAIN THINGS LIKE 21:27 THIS. 21:28 SOMETHING THAT HAS JUST KIND OF GOTTEN LOST IN HISTORY. 21:30 IT'S GOTTEN LOST IN CHRISTIANITY AS WELL BUT IT STILL IS PART OF GOD'S 21:36 REVEALED WORD. 21:37 IT'S PART OF HIS PLAN. 21:38 IT IS PART OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND IT IS PRIMARILY ABOVE EVERYTHING 21:45 ELSE IT POINTS US TO RESTING IN JESUS. 21:49 IN OUR LIMITED TIME MIKE YOU'VE ALSO INDICATED WHILE THIS IS A MODERN 21:58 DIVINE PHENOMENA AMONG MUSLIMS, THERE ARE SOME WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPENING 22:04 AMONG HINDUS AS WELL. 22:06 WELL IT'S TRUE. 22:07 YOU KNOW THE GOSPEL OUTREACH PEOPLE ARE WORKING IN A LOT OF PEOPLE 22:12 GROUPS. 22:13 AND GOSPEL OUTREACH STARTED ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO AND IT HAD AS ITS GOAL TO 22:20 WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT HAD NO CONNECTION TO GOD. 22:24 NOW THAT TAKES IN A LOT OF PEOPLE. 22:28 SURE. 22:30 BUT THE DEFINITION HAS BEEN REFINED OVER THE YEARS TO WHERE A LOT OF 22:36 GOSPEL OUTREACHES WORK NOW IS WORKING WITH OTHER BELIEVERS OF ONE SORT OR 22:41 ANOTHER. 22:42 AND IN SOME RESPECTS EVEN WE WOULD SAY THAT'S THE CASE WITH MUSLIMS BECAUSE 22:47 MUSLIMS ARE CLEARLY PEOPLE OF GREAT FAITH PRAYING FIVE TIMES A DAY. 22:52 BUT ADVENTISTS HAVE A PARTICULAR OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH IN 22:57 COMMON TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND WORK TOGETHER WITH OUR MUSLIM 23:01 BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 23:03 IN THE HINDU WORLD ONE OF MY GOOD FRIENDS WAS INVITED TO COME AND MEET 23:11 THE CHIEF HIGH PRIEST. 23:12 NOW HE DIDN'T KNOW WHY HE WAS GOING TO GO SEE HIM. 23:17 HE WASN'T DRESSED PROPERLY OR ANYTHING BUT HE SHOWED UP AND THE CHIEF PRIEST 23:23 SAID, SO WHAT IS YOUR FAMILY NAME AND HE TOLD HIM. 23:25 AND HE SAID, OH THIS IS THE FAMILY NAME OF THE FOUNDER OF THIS VERY 23:32 FAMOUS HINDU GROUP OF PEOPLE. 23:35 SO HE WAS SUDDENLY TREATED AS ROYALTY LIKE HE WAS REALLY REALLY SOMEBODY 23:39 VERY SPECIAL. 23:40 AND THE PRIEST SAID WE WANT YOU TO TALK TO US. 23:44 WELL MY FRIEND IS SCRATCHING HIS HEAD YOU KNOW, HE'S SAYING WELL YOU 23:50 KNOW WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT. 23:52 HE'S PRAYING QUICKLY TO GOD SAYING YOU KNOW WHAT SHOULD I TALK TO THESE 23:55 PEOPLE ABOUT. 23:56 HE DIDN'T KNOW THEM AT ALL. 23:57 HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE THERE. 23:59 HE WASN'T DRESSED FOR THE OCCASION BECAUSE YOU KNOW HE WAS SEEN AS A VERY 24:04 HIGHLY REVERED TEACHER BECAUSE OF HIS CONNECTIONS WITH HIS FAMILY NAME. 24:10 SO WHEN HE, HE STARTED ASKING SOME QUESTIONS. 24:13 HE SAID WHAT IS THE GREATEST DESIRE AMONG THE HINDUS. 24:19 AND THE ANSWER WAS, WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE COMING OF THE CREATOR GOD. 24:24 REALLY. 24:26 AND HE SAID LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HIM. 24:30 HE ALREADY CAME. 24:31 HIS NAME IS JESUS. 24:33 HE ALREADY CAME. 24:34 AND THEN HE OPENED THE DOOR AND BEFORE THE DAY WAS OVER HE HAD SEVERAL 24:39 HUNDRED PEOPLE SITTING THERE LISTENING TO HIM SHARING ABOUT WHO JESUS 24:46 IS. 24:47 SO UNBEKNOWNST TO US THERE HAS BEEN A PRINCIPLE WITHIN HINDU LIFE AND 24:55 TEACHING ABOUT CREATOR GOD? 24:58 ABSOLUTELY. 25:00 THERE IS A CREATOR GOD. 25:01 YOU KNOW WE ALWAYS SAY THAT THE HINDUS HAVE TEN THOUSAND OR WHATEVER THE 25:04 NUMBERS ARE OF GODS AND SO WE KIND OF DISMISS THIS AND SAY WELL YOU KNOW THEY 25:10 MUST BE WHATEVER WE THINK THEY ARE. 25:13 BUT MY FRIEND GOT TO THE POINT AND HE SAID WAIT A MINUTE, THEY'RE LOOKING 25:18 FOR THE GOD OF CREATION TO COME TO THE WORLD AND HE SAID, GUESS WHAT, THE GOD 25:26 OF CREATION ALREADY CAME ABOUT TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO IN THE PERSON OF JESUS 25:30 CHRIST. 25:31 HE IS HERE FOR YOU. 25:33 EVEN AS YOU HAVE CLARIFIED THAT IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT JESUS IS THE SUPERIOR 25:44 PROPHET, YOU'RE SUGGESTING THAT EVEN AMONG HINDUS THERE IS AN AWARENESS OF A 25:51 SUPERIOR GOD OF CREATION. 25:54 ABSOLUTELY AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR HIM TO COME. 25:59 MIKE, IF YOU COULD SAY IN TWO SENTENCES WHAT YOU HOPE OUR GOSPEL OUTREACH 26:05 FAMILY GLEANS FROM THIS WHAT ARE THOSE TWO SENTENCES? 26:11 THE REASON GOSPEL OUTREACH EXISTS IS TO TAKE THE GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION TO THE 26:18 WORLD. 26:19 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS CONSTANTLY SEEKING TO PUT PEOPLE IN CONTACT IN 26:26 PLACES WHERE THEY CAN SHARE THIS GOOD NEWS. 26:30 WE NEED MORE PEOPLE. 26:32 WE NEED MORE WORKERS DESPERATELY. 26:34 RIGHT NOW WE COULD PUT, WE COULD PUT 300 WORKERS IN PLACE TOMORROW IF WE HAD 26:40 THE FUNDS. 26:42 THANK YOU MIKE. 26:43 GOD HAS USED YOU TO GIVE US SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS 26:50 CONSIDER. 26:51 SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING WITH US IN THIS PROGRAM ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS AND 26:58 MAY GOD LAY HIS LOVING HAND UPON YOU TO IMPRESS YOU WHO YOU OUGHT TO BE IN 27:05 GOSPEL OUTREACH TODAY 27:55 [CLOSING MUSIC] |
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