[OPENING MUSIC]. 00:00:00.43\00:00:05.23 WELCOME TO GOSPEL OUTREACH OUR PROGRAM "ADVENTURES IN 00:00:05.27\00:00:10.34 MISSIONS". MY GUEST TODAY IS MARTY PHILLIPS FROM A GROUP 00:00:18.68\00:00:24.79 CALLED N PRAXIS. ACTIVE IN SOME AREAS THAT I HAD NEVER DREAMED OF, MARTY, AND I'M THRILLED TO 00:00:24.82\00:00:29.46 BE ABLE TO SIT HERE AT THE TABLE WITH YOU TODAY. 00:00:29.49\00:00:31.26 WELL, THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TO BE HERE WITH YOU IT'S A 00:00:31.29\00:00:33.93 PLEASURE. SO WANT TO START YOU WITH A REALLY OFF THE WALL 00:00:33.96\00:00:36.26 QUESTION. PLEASE. 00:00:36.30\00:00:37.77 WHEN I GO BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE IS ONE NAME THAT 00:00:37.80\00:00:40.80 I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY: MELCHIZEDEK. 00:00:40.84\00:00:42.70 MELCHIZIDEK, YES. 00:00:42.74\00:00:43.67 WHO WAS MELCHIZEDEK? 00:00:43.71\00:00:45.17 OK, I WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS WAS BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME BECAUSE IT 00:00:45.21\00:00:49.64 IS SOMETHING I'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON RESEARCHING. 00:00:51.68\00:00:53.48 I CAN TELL YOU WHO HE WAS ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION. 00:00:53.52\00:00:57.02 I'M READY. 00:00:57.05\00:00:57.69 O.K. 00:00:57.72\00:00:59.05 ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION, THIS IS A TITLE: KING OF PEACE. 00:00:59.09\00:01:03.69 MELCHIZEDEK. 00:01:03.73\00:01:04.46 I MEAN OF KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:01:04.49\00:01:05.86 KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, OK. 00:01:05.89\00:01:06.90 AND ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION THIS WAS SHEM. 00:01:06.93\00:01:08.23 REALLY? 00:01:08.26\00:01:09.63 YES, AND SO SHEM WAS THE KING OF SALEM AND ABRAHAM COMES TO HIM. 00:01:09.66\00:01:10.90 NOW SALEM WHAT'S THAT NAME? 00:01:10.93\00:01:11.57 PEACE. 00:01:11.60\00:01:12.23 OK. 00:01:12.27\00:01:12.93 SO HE IS THE KING OF PEACE. 00:01:12.97\00:01:13.57 RIGHT. 00:01:13.60\00:01:14.77 HE IS THE KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM THE CITY OF PEACE. 00:01:14.80\00:01:16.27 FROM THE CITY OF PEACE AND SO ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION IT 00:01:16.30\00:01:17.67 WAS NONE OTHER THAN SHEM, THE PATRIARCH WHO WAS THE ELDEST SON 00:01:17.71\00:01:19.57 OF THE ELDEST SON CARRIES THE TATUAR FROM ADAM AND IT'S ALREADY BEEN SEVERAL GENERATIONS 00:01:19.61\00:01:21.58 TO ABRAHAM. 00:01:21.61\00:01:23.18 THERE'S OTHERS IN LINE FOR AH, BLOODWISE IN HIGHER LINE TO 00:01:23.21\00:01:24.65 RECEIVE THE MANTEL FROM ABRAHAM BUT I MEAN FROM SHEM BUT SHEM PASSES THE BIRTHRIGHT WHEN 00:01:24.68\00:01:26.11 ABRAHAM COMES AFTER THE WAR, COMES TO SHEM GIVES HIM HIS 00:01:26.15\00:01:29.98 OFFERINGS, HIS TITHES AT THAT TIME ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION HE HAS A SPECIAL 00:01:30.02\00:01:35.06 CEREMONY AND PASSES THE BIRTHRIGHT TO ABRAHAM. 00:01:40.33\00:01:42.56 WHICH OF COURSE IS WHAT GOD HAD BEEN DOING WITH DREAMS AND 00:01:42.60\00:01:47.67 VISIONS WITH ABRAHAM ANYWAY. 00:02:16.33\00:02:17.17 EXACTLY. 00:02:17.20\00:02:18.40 GOD-SO THIS WAS THE EARTHLY AFFIRMATION OF THAT PROCESS. 00:02:18.43\00:02:20.54 INTERESTING. 00:02:20.57\00:02:21.90 THAT WAS THE EARTHLY AFFIRMATION ACCORDING TO JEWISH TRADITION. 00:02:21.94\00:02:23.57 DON'T BELIEVE A WORD HE SAYS. 00:02:23.61\00:02:25.91 IT COULD BE TRUE. 00:02:25.94\00:02:26.74 IT COULD BE. 00:02:26.78\00:02:27.64 WE DON'T KNOW BUT THAT IS JEWS BELIEVE. 00:02:27.68\00:02:30.11 THAT'S FASCINATING. 00:02:30.15\00:02:31.15 AND SO MUSLIMS WOULD BELIEVE THAT ALSO AS WELL. 00:02:31.18\00:02:34.22 THEY WOULD? 00:02:34.25\00:02:35.62 YES, BECAUSE THAT IS THE SAME KIND OF HERITAGE THAT THE JEWS 00:02:35.65\00:02:38.35 HAVE. EXACTLY THEY ARE BOTH SONS OF ABRAHAM AND EVEN THOUGH THEY COME FROM THE LINE IF 00:02:38.39\00:02:43.96 ISHMAEL, SURE, THEY REMEMBER A LOT OF THOSE EARLY -AND TREASURE 00:02:43.99\00:02:49.00 THEM- AND TREASURE THOSE EARLY STORIES. 00:02:49.03\00:02:51.27 SO WHO WAS MOSES' FATHER-IN-LAW? 00:02:51.30\00:02:53.77 JETHRO. 00:02:53.80\00:02:54.77 RIGHT AND HE'S GOT TO BE ANOTHER MAN OF PEACE. 00:02:54.80\00:02:57.61 HE IS AND HE ALSO COMES FROM THIS SIDE FROM ISHMAEL'S SIDE. 00:02:57.64\00:03:03.45 ABRAHAM HAS ISHMAEL AS WELL AS SIX OTHER SONS THROUGH KETURAH, 00:03:03.48\00:03:08.58 HIS SECOND WIFE AFTER SARAH DIES SO THE SONS OF KETURAH AND 00:03:08.62\00:03:12.59 ISHAMEL'S TWELVE SONS FORM WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS THE CHILDREN OF 00:03:12.62\00:03:13.92 THE EAST. AND JETHRO IS ONE OF THESE FROM THIS LINE. 00:03:13.96\00:03:15.46 SO WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING TO ME IS A PICTURE OF THE OLD 00:03:15.49\00:03:17.26 TESTAMENT THAT WE DON'T VERY OFTEN HEAR. 00:03:17.29\00:03:19.49 YES. 00:03:19.53\00:03:20.96 IT IS A PICTURE THAT SAYS GOD IS USING THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO 00:03:21.00\00:03:24.53 ADVANCE HIS CAUSE BUT HE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN EVERYBODY ELSE AND IS 00:03:24.57\00:03:26.53 ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN FREEING FAMILIES OF PEACE AND LEADERS OF PEACE AND PEOPLE WHO RESPECT, 00:03:26.57\00:03:28.54 REVERE, FOLLOW AND LOOK A WHOLE LIKE GOD IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. 00:03:28.57\00:03:30.54 EXACTLY. 00:03:30.57\00:03:31.97 WHAT I HAVE FOUND IS INTERESTING AND TO HELP UNDERSTAND I THINK A 00:03:32.01\00:03:33.48 LOT OF THE QUESTIONS OF: WELL WHY DOESN'T THE HINDUS OR THE MUSLIMS OR DIFFERENT 00:03:33.51\00:03:35.21 GROUPS UNDERSTAND MORE? 00:03:35.24\00:03:36.81 AND WHAT IT SEEMS TO ME IN THE GREAT TO USE THE TERM THAT WE 00:03:36.85\00:03:37.88 USE AS ADVENTISTS, THE GREAT CONTROVERSY PARADIGM. 00:03:37.91\00:03:39.31 GOD LIMITS THE GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT HE WINS THE OUTCOME OF THE 00:03:39.35\00:03:40.85 BATTLE AGAINST ALL ODDS AND SO GOD CHOOSES TO SHARE THE STORY OF SALVATION THROUGH 00:03:40.88\00:03:45.65 THE LINE OF ISAAC, THROUGH THE LINE OF JESUS, THROUGH PERSONAL 00:04:27.60\00:04:32.20 CONTACT. TO OTHER PLACES IF YOU TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD, MY PARENTS- I HAD BEEN IN 00:04:32.23\00:04:37.07 SOUTH AMERICA AND FOR EXAMPLE MAYBE IN AROUND '93 OR '94 ALL 00:04:37.11\00:04:42.18 OF A SUDDEN OUT OF THE JUNGLES OF PARAGUAY COMES AN UNCONTACTED 00:04:45.58\00:04:51.39 TRIBE AND THE LEADER OF THAT TRIBE HAD HAD MAYBE A HUNDRED VISIONS AND DREAMS. 00:04:51.42\00:04:55.36 HE HAD KNEW ABOUT THE SOON IMMINENT COMING OF THE GREAT SKY 00:04:55.39\00:04:59.83 GOD. HE WAS GOING TO COME TO TAKE PEOPLE BACK TO HEAVEN; THAT 00:04:59.86\00:05:03.53 THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO LIVE CLEAN LIVES. 00:05:03.57\00:05:05.00 HE EVEN HAD AN UNDERSTANDING OF SABBATH BUT HE SAID THERE IS 00:05:05.03\00:05:08.97 SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU NEED TO GO TO STILL LEARN 00:05:09.00\00:05:13.68 AND THAT WAS THE PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH JESUS. 00:05:13.71\00:05:16.78 SO GOD LIMITS AND THERE'S HUNDREDS OF STORIES AROUND THE WORLD-GOD LIMITS THE 00:05:16.81\00:05:21.08 PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH THE LINE OF ISAAC, THROUGH THE LINE 00:05:21.12\00:05:26.62 OF JESUS AND THEN THROUGH A PERSONAL MESSENGER WHO COMES WITH THE BIBLE OR TO EXPLAIN 00:05:26.65\00:05:30.26 THE BIBLE. 00:05:30.29\00:05:31.63 SO YOU ASKED THE QUESTION WHY DON'T MUSLIMS UNDERSTAND THE 00:05:31.66\00:05:34.60 PLAN OF SALVATION? 00:05:34.63\00:05:36.03 GOD LIMITED IT TO THIS OTHER LINE TO UNDERSTAND THIS BUT YOU 00:05:36.06\00:05:40.90 WILL FIND INCREDIBLE TRUTHS ALREADY PRESENT HELD BY THE SONS 00:05:40.94\00:05:46.01 OF ISHMAEL. THE OTHER SONS OF KETURAH AND THEIR SPIRITUAL 00:05:47.94\00:05:50.68 DESCENDANTS. SO LET ME JUST PICK ON SABBATH FOR A MINUTE. 00:05:50.71\00:05:52.75 YES. 00:05:52.78\00:05:54.32 I NEED TO CLARIFY FOR JUST A MINUTE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE 00:05:54.35\00:05:57.99 NOT MET MARTY, YOU ARE THE LEADER OF AN ORGANIZATION CALLED 00:05:58.02\00:06:01.79 N PRAXIS. YES. 00:06:01.82\00:06:02.82 WHICH GIVE US A QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU DO. 00:06:02.86\00:06:05.93 YES, WE SUPPORT UNDERGROUND HOUSE CHURCHES ACROSS AROUND 27 00:06:05.96\00:06:11.00 COUNTRIES. 00:06:11.03\00:06:12.47 WE HAVE AROUND 25-30,000 HOUSE CHURCHES IN THESE CLOSED 00:06:12.50\00:06:16.34 COUNTRIES THAT RECEIVE TRAINING ON A REGULAR ONGOING BASIS FROM PEOPLE WITHIN THEIR 00:06:16.37\00:06:20.84 COUNTRY WHO HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO DO SO. 00:06:20.88\00:06:22.78 SO YOU ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT A HUGE ORGANIZATION THAT TAKES 00:06:22.81\00:06:25.78 PEOPLE FROM TEXAS AND MOVES THEM TO THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:06:25.81\00:06:28.85 NO. 00:06:28.88\00:06:30.29 WE FIND A LOCAL PERSON IN THAT COUNTRY OR A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY 00:06:30.32\00:06:35.16 WHO HAS A PASSION TO WORKING FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE GROUP. 00:06:35.19\00:06:38.19 AND THE TERMINOLOGY THAT YOU USED WHEN WE FIRST TALKED ABOUT 00:06:38.23\00:06:42.00 THIS WAS THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR PERSONS OF PEACE. 00:06:42.03\00:06:44.90 ABSOLUTELY. 00:06:44.93\00:06:46.43 ARE THESE TYPICALLY MALE LEADERS IN THEIR COMMUNITY? 00:06:46.47\00:06:48.67 MALE LEADERS IN THEIR TRIBE? 00:06:48.70\00:06:50.14 IT IS INTERESTING A LOT ARE MALE BUT SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL 00:06:50.17\00:06:53.61 PEOPLE ARE WOMEN. 00:06:53.64\00:06:55.11 TWO BIG MINISTRIES ON NATIONAL LEVELS ARE LED BY WOMEN IN THE 00:06:55.14\00:07:00.25 MOST MALE ORIENTED SOCIETIES THESE WOMEN ARE RECOGNIZED AS PEOPLE OF PEACE AND THEY 00:07:00.28\00:07:05.35 LEAD VERY LARGE, I MEAN IT WOULD BE THE SIZE OF A UNION IN THIS 00:07:05.39\00:07:09.52 STATE, IN THIS COUNTRY OF THE NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST 00:07:09.56\00:07:12.53 THAT ARE IN THEIR MOVEMENTS. 00:07:12.56\00:07:13.56 OK, SO I WANT TO COME BACK AND PICK ON SABBATH. 00:07:13.60\00:07:15.46 YES. 00:07:15.50\00:07:17.00 LET'S ASSUME THAT IN YOUR WORK YOU ARE CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR 00:07:17.03\00:07:22.04 WAYS IN WHICH THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL OF GOD, HIS CHARACTER, ARE BUBBLING UP IN TRIBAL 00:07:22.07\00:07:28.51 SOCIETIES AROUND THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:07:28.54\00:07:30.98 YES. 00:07:31.01\00:07:32.38 WHERE DOES SABBATH FIT IN ALL THAT? 00:07:32.41\00:07:33.95 WELL, IT'S AMAZING WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IS THE GREAT CONTROVERSY 00:07:33.98\00:07:39.95 BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN IS PRESENT IN EVERY PEOPLE GROUP. 00:07:39.99\00:07:42.72 AND IN EVERY PEOPLE GROUP GOD HAS KEPT REMNANTS OF TRUTH AND 00:07:42.76\00:07:48.33 ONE OF THESE REMNANTS OF TRUTH THAT ARE FOUND ACROSS THE 10/40 WINDOW IS THE SABBATH AND 00:07:48.36\00:07:52.97 IT IS ONE THING I ACTUALLY HAVE A PASSION OF TRACKING. 00:07:53.00\00:07:56.50 O.K. 00:07:56.54\00:07:57.31 SO TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING. 00:07:57.34\00:07:58.77 WELL, I'VE FOUND GROUP AFTER GROUP THAT HAVE SABBATH REMNANTS 00:07:58.81\00:08:02.91 IN THE MOST CLOSED COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. 00:08:02.94\00:08:05.01 AND SO WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IS PEOPLE WHO ALREADY ARE KEEPING 00:08:05.05\00:08:11.05 SABBATH OR HAVE SOME IDEA OF SABBATH AS A DAY OF REST, AS A DAY SET ASIDE BY GOD, IT IS A 00:08:11.09\00:08:17.83 VERY LITTLE JUMP FOR THEM TO THEN TO UNDERSTAND THE PLAN OF 00:08:17.86\00:08:21.76 SALVATION. WHY? 00:08:21.80\00:08:22.70 WHY IS SABBATH SUCH A CORE LEAPING SPOT? 00:08:22.73\00:08:26.13 I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT THERE IS SOMETHING INCREDIBLE WITH THE 00:08:26.17\00:08:30.04 SABBATH THAT PASSES. 00:08:30.07\00:08:31.57 THERE IS SOME SPECIAL CONNECTION AND WHEN YOU REST ON THE SABBATH 00:08:31.61\00:08:34.68 IN THE WAY THAT GOD MEANT IT TO BE, YOU FEEL GOD'S SPECIAL REST AND SO THEN YOU HAVE 00:08:34.71\00:08:41.42 A HEART THAT IS MORE OPEN, I BELIEVE. 00:08:41.45\00:08:43.18 BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IN SOCIETIES THAT DON'T KNOW ABOUT 00:08:43.22\00:08:49.02 JESUS, ONCE THEY ACCEPT THE SABBATH THEN IT IS VERY ACCEPT EASY TO ACCEPT THE NEXT 00:08:49.06\00:08:52.76 STEP. 00:08:52.79\00:08:53.86 WHAT DO THEY SEE IN SABBATH THAT MAKES IT SPECIAL? 00:08:53.90\00:08:56.20 IT'S GOOD QUESTION AND I DON'T FULLY KNOW I CAN TELL FROM MY 00:09:00.97\00:09:04.84 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE SABBATH HAS BEEN IN MY FAMILY FOR 340+ 00:09:04.87\00:09:09.41 YEARS. MY FAMILY BECAME SABBATH KEEPERS IN THIS COUNTRY IN 1678. 00:09:09.44\00:09:12.81 WOW. 00:09:12.85\00:09:14.38 AND WE ARE PART OF THE VERY FIRST CONGREGATION IN RHODE ISLAND AND MUCH LIKE 00:09:14.42\00:09:18.59 THE STORY THAT I SHARED WITH YOU PREVIOUSLY MY GREAT, GREAT 00:09:22.42\00:09:26.36 GRANDFATHER BEFORE HE DIED CALLED HIS SONS AND HIS GRANDSONS AND HIS GREAT 00:09:26.39\00:09:31.07 GRANDSONS AND MADE THEM SWEAR THAT THROUGHOUT ALL THEIR GENERATIONS THEY WOULD 00:09:31.10\00:09:33.87 KEEP SABBATH UNTIL THE END OF TIME. 00:09:33.90\00:09:37.31 NOW THAT'S YOUR STORY. 00:09:37.34\00:09:39.74 THAT'S MY STORY. 00:09:39.77\00:09:41.11 HAVE YOU FOUND THAT STORY ELSEWHERE? 00:09:41.14\00:09:43.21 AND I HAVE FOUND THAT STORY ELSEWHERE. 00:09:43.24\00:09:45.21 LIKE-GIVE ME AN ILLUSTRATION. 00:09:45.25\00:09:46.92 WELL, I WANT TO HEAR. 00:09:46.95\00:09:48.65 I HAVE FOUND A SIMILAR STORY OF A TRIBE THAT I HAVE WORKED WITH 00:09:48.68\00:09:53.76 FOR NOW 15 YEARS AND THEIR TRIBE, THEIR EARLY ANCESTORS IN ABOUT THE 7THCENTURY- THEY 00:09:57.13\00:10:02.90 BECAME SABBATH KEEPERS MAYBE IN THE 4TH - 5TH CENTURY. 00:10:02.93\00:10:06.23 IN THE 6TH EARLY 7TH PART OF THE CENTURY OF THIS ERA PART OF THE 00:10:06.27\00:10:13.04 EMIGRATED. HE WAS THE SON OF THE LOCAL RULER OF THE KING OF HIS 00:10:13.07\00:10:16.98 COUNTRY. THE SON EMIGRATED-DECIDED TO LEAVE HIS FATHER'S COUNTRY AND HE LEFT ON 00:10:17.01\00:10:21.88 GOOD TERMS WITH HIS FATHER BUT HE JUST FELT -HAD ALMOST THIS 00:10:21.92\00:10:26.42 ABRAHAMIC CALL TO LEAVE AND TO GO TO SOMEWHERE ELSE. 00:10:26.45\00:10:29.36 UH HUH. 00:10:29.39\00:10:30.86 AND HE LEAVES ON THIS ABRAHAMIC CALL AND BEFORE HE LEFT HIS 00:10:30.89\00:10:34.73 FATHER MADE HIM SWEAR THAT HE WOULD TEACH THE SABBATH-ALWAYS KEEP SACRED THE SABBATH 00:10:34.73\00:10:39.20 DAY SO THAT HE WOULD HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD 00:10:39.23\00:10:44.57 AND THAT IF HE WOULD KEEP IT FAITHFUL AND TEACH IT TO HIS SONS AND TO HIS SONS SONS THE 00:10:44.61\00:10:49.24 SABBATH WOULD STAY IN THEIR FAMILY THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS TILL THE 00:10:49.28\00:10:52.78 END OF TIME. 00:10:52.81\00:10:53.52 THEN AT THE END OF TIME? 00:10:53.55\00:10:55.08 AND AT THE END OF TIME IF THEY WERE FAITHFUL TO THE SABBATH 00:10:55.12\00:10:56.62 THEIR FAMILY WOULD PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN THEIR COUNTRY AND IN THEIR REGION OF THE WORLD 00:10:56.65\00:10:58.39 TO BRING LAST DAY EVENTS TO A CLOSE WITH THIS VERY SPECIAL 00:10:58.42\00:11:00.46 MESSAGE AND THAT WAS PROPHESIED IN ABOUT THE LATE 6TH OR EARLY 00:11:00.49\00:11:01.99 7TH CENTURY. AND THAT FAMILY HAS ALWAYS KEPT THAT PROPHECY IN THEIR HEARTS TO THIS DAY. 00:11:02.02\00:11:03.79 AND THE GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN OF THAT 00:11:03.83\00:11:08.06 KING. 00:11:08.10\00:11:09.10 I KNOW HIS DIRECT ELDEST SON ALL THE WAY TO NOW. 00:11:09.13\00:11:15.40 HE IS ONE OF MY CLOSEST PERSONAL FRIENDS. 00:11:15.44\00:11:20.51 AND WE, GOSPEL OUTREACH, ARE WORKING WITH YOU, NPRAXIS, TO 00:11:25.01\00:11:30.09 MAKE SURE THAT THEY, THAT THAT MAN YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS TRAINED WELL TO TRAIN 00:11:36.22\00:11:40.53 OTHER LEADERSS IN HIS COMMUNITY AND IN HIS TRIBE AND IN HIS 00:11:40.56\00:11:44.80 COUNTRY. HE LEADS A TRIBE OF OVER 1 MILLION PEOPLE PROBABLY AROUND 20% OF HIS TRIBE 00:11:44.83\00:11:50.87 ARE ON THE VERGE OF ACCEPTING CHRIST RIGHT NOW. 00:11:50.91\00:11:53.21 WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PART OF THAT? 00:11:55.34\00:11:57.45 CAN YOU IMAGINE FOR JUST A FEW DOLLARS EVERY MONTH YOU CAN 00:11:57.48\00:12:02.62 ADOPT A WORKER AND IT IS JUST POSSIBLE THAT THEY MAY BE WORKING DIRECTLY WITH A TRIBE 00:12:04.72\00:12:09.89 AND WITH A FAMILY THAT THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, LITERALLY, WERE 00:12:09.92\00:12:15.26 CALLED BY GOD TO BE SABBATHKEEPERS AND YOUR ADOPTED WORKER WILL BE WORKING HAND IN 00:12:15.30\00:12:21.07 HAND WITH THEM. 00:12:21.10\00:12:22.14 WATCH THIS. 00:12:22.17\00:12:24.21 GOSPEL OUTREACH BEGAN A MISSION TWENTY YEARS AGO BY ASKING ONE 00:12:25.94\00:12:30.08 SIMPLE QUESTION. 00:12:30.11\00:12:30.71 WHAT IS JESUS WAITING FOR? 00:12:30.75\00:12:32.51 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH FAMINE, HUNGER AND STARVATION WHAT IS 00:12:32.55\00:12:37.79 JESUS WAITING FOR? 00:12:37.82\00:12:39.55 IN A WORLD FILLED WITH EARTHQUAKES, HURRICANES AND NATURAL CALAMITIES, 00:12:39.59\00:12:42.96 WHAT IS JESUS WAITING FOR? 00:12:42.99\00:12:46.23 THE GOSPEL TELLS US IN MATTHEW 24:14, "AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE 00:12:46.26\00:12:51.00 KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALLTHE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS AND THEN 00:12:51.03\00:12:55.94 SHALL THE END COME." 00:12:55.97\00:12:58.04 INSPIRED BY THOSE WORDS, GOSPEL OUTREACH BEGAN WITH ONE WORKER, 00:12:59.51\00:13:04.38 AND OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS HAS GROWN INTO AN ORGANIZATION WITH 2200 WORKERS IN 40 00:13:04.41\00:13:10.02 PLUS COUNTRIES. 00:13:10.05\00:13:11.52 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS AN INDEPENDENT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST LAY MINISTRY RUN 00:13:11.55\00:13:14.96 ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTEERS. 00:13:14.99\00:13:16.46 YES, YOU HEARD THAT CORRECTLY. 00:13:16.49\00:13:18.96 IT'S AN ALL VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION. 00:13:18.99\00:13:21.40 GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKS WITH THE ORGANIZED CHURCH TO SPONSOR 00:13:21.43\00:13:25.93 BIBLE WORKERS IN UNREACHED TERRITORIES. 00:13:25.97\00:13:27.47 NOW, YOU MIGHT ASK DOESN'T THIS TAKE AWAY THE CHURCH IS ALREADY 00:13:27.50\00:13:32.97 DOING WITH OVERSEAS MISSIONS? 00:13:33.01\00:13:35.01 ABSOLUTELY NOT. 00:13:35.04\00:13:36.54 DIRECT SPONSORSHIP IS JUST A PART OF THE EQUATION JUST AS 00:13:36.58\00:13:41.72 LARGE A PART IS STAYING INVOLVED IN THE WORK THE CHURCH IS DOING THROUGH MISSIONS OFFERING. 00:13:41.75\00:13:45.49 GOSPEL OUTREACH MAIN DESIRE IS TO RAISE FUNDS WHICH ARE SENT 00:13:45.52\00:13:49.66 DIRECTLY TO THE CHURCH TO PAY BIBLE WORKERS WHO HELP SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN THE 10/40 00:13:49.69\00:13:53.56 WINDOW. 00:13:53.60\00:13:55.20 NOW WHAT EXACTLY IS THE 10/40 WINDOW? 00:13:55.23\00:13:58.53 THE 10/40 WINDOW IS A REGION OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE LOCATED 00:13:58.57\00:14:02.60 BETWEEN 10 AND 40 DEGREES NORTH OF THE EQUATOR. 00:14:02.64\00:14:05.01 WHAT MAKES THIS REGION SPECIAL? 00:14:05.04\00:14:08.44 NINETY -SEVEN PER CENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, WHO 00:14:08.48\00:14:11.68 HAVE NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS, LIVE HERE. 00:14:11.71\00:14:14.58 NOW HOW EXACTLY DOES GOSPEL OUTREACH WORK TO REACH THESE 00:14:14.62\00:14:19.52 PEOPLE? WE DO THIS BY WORKING WITH THE CHURCH AS IT PLACES TRAINED INDIGENOUS WORKERS 00:14:19.55\00:14:23.83 IN NEW TERRITORIES. 00:14:23.86\00:14:25.19 SENDING OUT DISCIPLES JUST AS JESUS DID. 00:14:25.23\00:14:28.40 WE SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS LIKE PRABIR RUBIN. 00:14:28.43\00:14:31.13 PRABIR IS FROM INDIA AND WITH THE HELP OF OUR SPONSORSHIP; HIS 00:14:31.17\00:14:34.94 CHURCH CONFERENCE HAS SENT HIM TO THE SMALL VILLAGE OF MARUA TO 00:14:34.97\00:14:39.64 SHARE THE GOSPEL. THESE INDIVIDUALS HAD NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF JESUS AND THEIR LIVES 00:14:39.67\00:14:43.51 HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOREVER. 00:14:43.55\00:14:44.98 IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS THERE HAVE BEEN NINE ADDITIONAL 00:14:45.01\00:14:49.25 BAPTISMS DUE TO THE WORK OF PRABIR. 00:14:49.28\00:14:51.15 UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO, THE LOCAL MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH 00:14:51.19\00:14:54.36 HAVE BEEN WORSHIPING IN A HOUSE CHURCH. 00:14:54.39\00:14:56.56 RECENTLY, A NEW MEMBER NAMED ERISMA GAVE HIS LIFE TO GOD AND 00:14:56.59\00:15:00.96 DONATED A PIECE OF HIS OWN LAND TO THE CHURCH. 00:15:01.00\00:15:03.03 ON IT A NEW TIN CHURCH HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED. 00:15:03.06\00:15:07.00 IT STILL NEEDS SOME WORK BUT GOD'S CHURCH CONTINUES TO GROW 00:15:07.04\00:15:11.14 HERE IN INDIA. WHEN A BIBLE WORKER SPONSORED BY GOSPEL OUTREACH ENTERS A NEW 00:15:11.17\00:15:15.34 VILLAGE, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT IN THE FIRST YEAR AN ADDITIONAL 300 00:15:15.38\00:15:20.45 INDIVIDUALS WILL BE BAPTIZED AND COMMIT THEIR LIVES TO CHRIST. 00:15:24.59\00:15:26.15 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD THE AMAZING STORY OF GOD'S LOVE 00:15:26.19\00:15:28.62 ARE GETTING TO MEET JESUS FOR THE FIRST TIME. 00:15:28.66\00:15:32.73 NOW HOW CAN YOU HELP? 00:15:32.76\00:15:36.93 BIBLE WORKERS LIKE PRABIR RELY ON SPONSORSHIPS TO SUPPORT THEM 00:15:36.97\00:15:40.57 AND THEIR FAMILIES AS THEY SHARE THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD. 00:15:40.60\00:15:44.24 THIS IS WHY GOSPEL OUTREACH IS INTRODUCING OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER 00:15:44.27\00:15:48.98 PROGRAM" TOGETHER WITH THE CHURCH, WE IDENTIFY NEW WORKERS 00:15:49.01\00:15:53.62 IN AREAS THAT NEED TO BE REACHED. 00:15:53.65\00:15:55.12 WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED A REQUEST FROM PASTOR RON WATTS, 00:15:55.15\00:15:59.52 RETIRED SOUTHERN ASIA DIVISION PRESIDENT, FOR 10,000 NEW BIBLE WORKERS IN INDIA ALONE. 00:15:59.55\00:16:05.63 THE NEED IN THE REST OF ASIA AND AFRICA IS JUST AS LARGE WHERE 00:16:05.66\00:16:09.43 PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY TO HEAR GOD'S WORD AND THAT IS WHY IT IS OUR GOAL TO INTRODUCE A 00:16:09.46\00:16:14.20 MILLION NEW PEOPLE TO JESUS IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 00:16:14.24\00:16:17.91 ALL THAT IS REMAINING FOR THIS WORK TO BEGIN IS YOUR FINANCIAL 00:16:17.94\00:16:22.94 HELP. THE AVERAGE COST OF A BIBLE WORKER IS $150 A MONTH. 00:16:22.98\00:16:26.78 FOR SOME, THAT'S TOO MUCH TO SPONSOR ON THEIR OWN BUT 00:16:26.82\00:16:31.09 TOGETHER WITH YOUR CHURCH, SABBATH SCHOOL GROUP OR SCHOOL YOU CAN TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE 00:16:31.12\00:16:35.19 WORK BEING DONE AND SPONSOR A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER FOR A 00:16:35.22\00:16:39.23 YEAR. IN RETURN WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON THE EXCITING PROGRESS 00:16:39.26\00:16:43.70 OF YOUR WORKER SENDING YOU STORIES, PICTURES OF THE LIVES CHANGED BY YOUR DONATIONS. 00:16:43.73\00:16:48.94 NOW THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER PROGRAM" THERE 00:16:48.97\00:16:52.07 ARE THREE WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED: FIRST, YOU CAN BE A PRAYER PARTNER FOR GOSPEL 00:16:52.11\00:16:56.91 OUTREACH BY PRAYING FOR OUR BIBLE WORKERS. 00:16:56.95\00:16:59.85 SECOND, BECOME AN AMBASSADOR FOR OUR "ADOPT-A-WORKER PROGRAM" 00:16:59.88\00:17:03.12 BY TELLING YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ABOUT HOW THEY CAN MAKE 00:17:03.15\00:17:07.19 A DIFFERENCE TOO. AND FINALLY, SPONSOR A BIBLE WORKER. 00:17:07.22\00:17:10.16 CALL OR VISIT THE WEBSITE TODAY. 00:17:10.19\00:17:13.36 SO NOW THAT YOU KNOW A BIT ABOUT GOSPEL OUTREACH, AND NOW THAT 00:17:13.40\00:17:16.97 YOU KNOW WHAT JESUS IS WAITING FOR, THE FINAL QUESTION IS: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? 00:17:17.00\00:17:22.07 $150 WHERE DO YOU GET $150 EVERY MONTH? 00:17:25.81\00:17:30.88 STOP AND TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR BUDGET, LOOK THROUGH EVERYTHING 00:17:33.11\00:17:36.92 THAT'S THERE AND CROSS OFF A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE. 00:17:36.95\00:17:41.29 IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG BEFORE YOU GET $50-60 AND IF YOU CAN'T GET 00:17:41.32\00:17:46.09 TO A FULL $150 CALL TWO FRIENDS TOGETHER YOU CAN SPONSOR A 00:17:46.13\00:17:51.97 WORKER. MARTY PHILLIPS IS WITH ME-LEADER OF NPRAXIS TEACHING OR 00:17:52.00\00:17:57.07 TRAINING TRAINERS AROUND THE WORLD TO LEAD HOUSE CHURCHES. 00:17:59.17\00:18:04.15 HOW MANY HOUSE CHURCHES DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR MIND? 00:18:04.18\00:18:07.58 WE HAVE NEVER COUNTED EXACTLY BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T WANTED TO GET 00:18:07.62\00:18:12.69 INTO A NUMBERS GAME. 00:18:12.72\00:18:13.69 YOU SOUND LIKE A GOD AND DAVID ISSUE, YES O.K. 00:18:13.72\00:18:15.52 SO WE HAVE FELT WE SHOULD NEVER COUNT MEMBERS BUT WE KNOW THAT 00:18:15.56\00:18:20.00 WE HAVE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 25-30,000 HOUSE CHURCHES AND WE 00:18:20.03\00:18:24.53 KNOW THE AVERAGE HOUSE CHURCH IS 8-12 PEOPLE. 00:18:24.57\00:18:26.74 SOMETIMES THEY ARE BIGGER-15 BUT THEY ARE USUALLY NOT LESS THAN 00:18:26.77\00:18:31.41 8. THAT'S OUR AVERAGE SIZE. 00:18:31.44\00:18:32.77 SO HOW DID YOU GET INTO ALL THIS? 00:18:32.81\00:18:35.31 GOOD QUESTION. 00:18:35.34\00:18:36.68 I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A PASSION FOR THINKING HOW DO MOVEMENTS START. 00:18:36.71\00:18:42.35 EVER SINCE I STARTED COLLEGE AND STUDYING FOR THE MINISTRY I 00:18:42.38\00:18:46.99 WANTED TO KNOW WHAT MAKES QUICK MULTIPLICATION OF CHURCHES AND I 00:18:47.02\00:18:52.09 THEN SPENT ALL MY FREE TIME WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE READING MAYBE NOT STUDYING WHAT I WAS 00:18:54.20\00:18:57.77 SUPPOSED TO BE STUDYING BUT I WAS STUDYING HOW DO HOUSE 00:18:57.80\00:19:03.24 CHURCHES WORK. HOUSE CHURCH DYNAMIC. 00:19:03.27\00:19:04.74 MOVEMENT DYNAMICS AND I ENDED UP LATER WORKING WITH ADRA AFTER 00:19:04.77\00:19:08.78 IGRADUATED FROM SCHOOL AND EVEN BEFORE I GRADUATED AND I ENDED 00:19:08.81\00:19:10.78 UP WORKING IN A COUNTRY IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST REGION IN 00:19:10.81\00:19:14.05 AZERBAIJAN. AND IN THAT COUNTRY I WAS OPEN TO WHOLE NEW REALITY. 00:19:14.08\00:19:19.15 AT THAT TIME, I THOUGHT THAT MUSLIMS WERE PAGANS AND HAD NO 00:19:21.46\00:19:26.53 IDEA AND TODAY I WOULD BE VERY ASHAMED OF WHAT WE BELIEVED AT THAT TIME BUT GOD TOOK ME THERE 00:19:30.53\00:19:35.50 FOR A REASON BECAUSE I WAS INTRODUCED TO THE MOST WONDERFUL 00:19:35.54\00:19:40.44 MUSLIM PEOPLE AND EVEN THOUGH COMMUNISM HAD BEEN THERE FOR 70 YEARS, UH HUH, WHILE THEY 00:19:40.48\00:19:46.28 HAD NEARLY DESTROYED CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM HAD STAYED 00:19:46.31\00:19:51.92 STRONGER FOR WHATEVER REASONS I DON'T KNOW. 00:19:51.95\00:19:54.26 AND WHILE THEY WEREN'T MOSQUE GOING MUSLIMS, THEY HAD HELD THE 00:19:54.29\00:19:59.19 GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND ISHMAEL IN THEIR HEARTS. 00:19:59.23\00:20:02.50 AND SABBATH? 00:20:02.53\00:20:04.00 NOT SABBATH. 00:20:04.03\00:20:04.87 I WISH. 00:20:04.90\00:20:05.70 OK. 00:20:05.73\00:20:07.14 NOT SABBATH BUT THEY HAD-THOUGH WE DID FIND A LITTLE REMNANT OF 00:20:07.17\00:20:12.37 THE SABBATH CHRISTIAN SABBATH GROUP THERE THAT HAD STARTED 00:20:12.41\00:20:17.51 MAYBE IN THE 13TH-14TH CENTURY AH, BY WALDENSIAN MISSIONARY WORK, OH MY LANDS, AND 00:20:17.55\00:20:23.25 THEY EVENTUALLY ALMOST THE WHOLE CONGREGATION BECAME ADVENTISTS 00:20:23.28\00:20:28.36 BUT WE DID FIND A SABBATH KEEPING GROUP THERE. 00:20:28.39\00:20:30.49 FASCINATING. 00:20:30.53\00:20:31.29 THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF THAT COUNTRY. 00:20:31.33\00:20:33.09 SO SOMEWHERE IN THIS PROCESS THEN IN AZERBAIJAN YOUR WORKING 00:20:33.13\00:20:37.67 WITH ADRA, YOUR FUNDED BY USA DOLLARS AND YOUR-U.S. 00:20:37.70\00:20:41.57 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 00:20:41.60\00:20:42.64 OK, WELL YOU KNOW THAT WILL WORK. 00:20:42.67\00:20:44.31 SAME THING. 00:20:44.34\00:20:45.47 YES. 00:20:45.51\00:20:46.14 O.K. 00:20:46.17\00:20:47.61 AND IN THE PROCESS OF THAT YOU DECIDED YOU JUST DIDN'T WANT TO 00:20:47.64\00:20:49.24 DO THAT ANYMORE? 00:20:49.28\00:20:49.91 WELL, NO REALLY. 00:20:49.94\00:20:51.48 IT WASN'T REALLY ME BUT WHILE I WAS THERE I ALWAYS HAD A PASSION 00:20:51.51\00:20:54.98 AS I SAID FOR EXPERIMENTING WITH MOVEMENTS. 00:20:55.02\00:20:57.05 YES. 00:20:57.09\00:20:58.65 AND I EXPERIMENTED IN A CITY OUTSIDE OF MY AREA OF ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES WITH 00:20:58.69\00:21:02.89 ADRA AND IN THAT PLACE -NOT THROUGH MY DIRECT WORK BUT I 00:21:05.83\00:21:10.37 KEPT CHALLENGING THE LOCAL PASTOR. 00:21:10.40\00:21:11.80 THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. 00:21:11.83\00:21:13.10 HOW CAN YOU REALLY MAKE THE GOSPEL RELEVANT, MEANINGFUL AND 00:21:13.13\00:21:16.30 UNDERSTANDABLE TO THE AZERI PEOPLE? 00:21:16.34\00:21:18.11 AND GOD LED THAT CONGREGATION THROUGH AN INCREDIBLE PROCESS. 00:21:18.14\00:21:23.95 FIRST OF ALL, THAT CONGREGATION HAD AH, STARTED THINKING AND AS 00:21:23.98\00:21:29.02 THEY WERE PRAYING AND FASTING, WHAT CHANGES MUST WE DO. 00:21:32.12\00:21:35.22 THE COUNTRY IS IN WAR WITH A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY ARMENIA; THERE 00:21:35.26\00:21:37.23 HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT ETHNIC CLEANSING. 00:21:37.26\00:21:38.73 OUR CHURCH HAD BEEN WELL UP OVER A HUNDRED AND OUR MEMBERS HAD TO 00:21:38.76\00:21:39.89 FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES. 00:21:39.93\00:21:41.43 SO BASICALLY THOSE LEFT WERE AZERIS, JEWS WHO HAD BECOME ADVENTIST AND A FEW 00:21:41.46\00:21:42.86 GRANDMOTHERS WHO HAD NOT EMIGRATED BUT THERE HAD BEEN 00:21:42.90\00:21:44.43 HORRIBLE ETHNIC CLEANSING WHERE ANYONE WHO WAS SLAVIC OR CAUCASIAN BECAUSE THE COUNTRY 00:21:44.47\00:21:46.53 HAD BEEN FULL OF GERMANS, HAD TO FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES IF THEY HAD 00:21:46.57\00:21:51.64 NOT ALREADY BEEN KILLED. 00:22:10.69\00:22:12.06 AND SO IT WAS IN THIS SITUATION THAT THE LOCAL CONGREGATION 00:22:12.09\00:22:16.97 STARTED SAYING HOW CAN WE SHARE OUR FAITH IN THE MOST WORST OF 00:22:17.00\00:22:21.70 CIRCUMSTANCES. AND IT WAS IN THIS PROCESS THEY STARTED DISCOVERING INCREDIBLE THINGS. 00:22:21.74\00:22:26.84 THEY FIRST DECIDED THAT WE NEED TO SPEAK IN THE LOCAL LANGUAGE. 00:22:26.88\00:22:31.18 WE NEED TO SING IN THE LOCAL LANGUAGE AND-THEY WEREN'T 00:22:31.21\00:22:35.55 ALREADY DOING THAT. 00:22:35.58\00:22:36.12 THEY WEREN'T DOING THIS. 00:22:36.15\00:22:37.52 THEY WERE SINGING IN RUSSIAN, WORSHIPING IN RUSSIAN AND NOT IN 00:22:37.55\00:22:40.02 THE LOCAL AZERI LANGUAGE. 00:22:40.06\00:22:41.12 USING AMERICAN HYMNALS KIND OF THING. 00:22:41.16\00:22:43.06 THEY HAD AN OLD, OLD 100-YEAR-OLD HYMNALS NEARLY AND 00:22:43.09\00:22:49.20 SO GOD GAVE THE MOST INCREDIBLE GIFT OF MUSIC TO ONE OF THE LOCAL MEMBERS AND SHE EVERY 00:22:49.23\00:22:54.04 COUPLE OF WEEKS CAME WITH A NEW CHORUS AND THE WHOLE CONGREGATION JUST LOVED 00:22:54.07\00:22:58.37 THEM AND SHE WOULD TEACH THE CONGREGATION AND GOD WOULD GIVE 00:22:58.41\00:23:03.38 HER A NEW, A NEW PIECE EVERY MONTH OR TWO OR THREE OR FOUR WEEKS AND IT WAS JUST AMAZING 00:23:03.41\00:23:08.45 HOW THE CONGREGATION LEARNED. 00:23:08.48\00:23:09.92 IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR SHAVING OFF THINGS THAT COME FROM OUTSIDE 00:23:09.95\00:23:12.39 THEIR COMMUNITY-OTHER IMPACT FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AND LETTING THE HOLY 00:23:12.42\00:23:17.99 SPIRIT BUBBLE UP INSIDE. 00:23:18.03\00:23:19.86 YES, AND THEN THERE WAS VERY KEY THINGS: LANGUAGE ISSUES, LITURGY 00:23:19.89\00:23:24.93 ISSUES BUT THEN THEY FOUND THAT EVEN USING THE WORD CHURCH WAS A BIG FACTOR AND THEY 00:23:26.94\00:23:32.01 FOUND THAT THE LOCAL AZERIS, FOR EXAMPLE, EVEN THOUGH THERE HAD 00:23:34.88\00:23:38.41 BEEN COMMUNISM THERE WAS THESE BIG OLD GERMAN CHURCHES AND THERE WAS THESE BIG 00:23:38.45\00:23:43.45 ORTHODOX CHURCHES MUSLIMS HAD BEEN TAUGHT TO WALK AROUND THEM 00:23:43.49\00:23:47.56 THAT MAYBE YOU WOULD SEE AN IDOL INSIDE EVEN THOUGH NEITHER ORTHODOX NOR LUTHERANS 00:23:47.59\00:23:51.43 HAVE IDOLS THAT IS THE GENERAL CONCEPTION. 00:23:51.46\00:23:54.10 THEY THOUGHT THEY MIGHT FIND SOME. 00:23:54.13\00:23:55.30 AND SO YOUR TAUGHT THEN TO NOT EVEN WALK DOWN THE ROAD. 00:23:55.33\00:23:57.93 SO THEY TOOK DOWN THE SIGN THAT SAID, SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 00:23:57.97\00:24:03.84 CHURCH AND PUT UP PRAYER HOUSE FOR ALL PEOPLE AND THE CONGREGATION WENT FROM 00:24:03.87\00:24:06.81 20-30-40-50. 00:24:06.84\00:24:09.31 THEN THEY DISCOVERED THAT ONE OF THE MEMBERS, ONE OF THE OLD 00:24:09.34\00:24:13.58 MEMBERS OF THAT CHURCH HAD COME FROM MUSLIM BACKGROUND AND WAS FROM THE NEIGHBORING 00:24:13.62\00:24:17.75 COUNTRY OF IRAN. 00:24:17.79\00:24:19.19 SHE SAID, YOU KNOW THE QURAN IS FULL OF INCREDIBLE GEMS. 00:24:19.22\00:24:23.73 DID YOU KNOW THAT IT SPEAKS ABOUT JESUS EITHER DIRECTLY LIKE 00:24:23.76\00:24:27.86 25 TIMES AND BY REFERENCE ALMOST 93 TIMES AS JESUS? 00:24:27.93\00:24:30.40 AND THE CHURCH GETS EXCITED. 00:24:30.43\00:24:31.97 SHE STARTS LEADING THEM THROUGH. 00:24:32.00\00:24:33.54 CAN YOU TEACH US WHAT THE QURAN SAYS ABOUT JESUS? 00:24:33.57\00:24:36.64 WELL, JESUS IS BORN OF A VIRGIN BIRTH. 00:24:36.67\00:24:39.21 JESUS IS THE WORD OF GOD. 00:24:39.24\00:24:40.71 HE IS THE SON OF GOD. 00:24:40.74\00:24:41.88 HE DID THESE INCREDIBLE MIRACLES. 00:24:41.91\00:24:44.15 HE ACTUALLY CREATES EYES FOR THE BLIND AND SHE SAYS, DID YOU KNOW 00:24:44.18\00:24:48.58 THERE'S THIS INCREDIBLE POWERFUL STORY THAT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE THEY ARE QUESTIONING 00:24:48.62\00:24:53.52 THE AUTHENTICITY OF JESUS AND HE CREATES THIS BIRD AND HE BLOWS, 00:24:53.56\00:24:58.46 BREATHES INTO THE BIRD THAT HE MADE FROM CLAY AND THE BIRD 00:24:58.49\00:25:02.80 FLIES AWAY. WELL, WE SEE THE STORY FUNNY. 00:25:02.83\00:25:05.23 IT IS IN THE QURAN. 00:25:05.27\00:25:06.63 IT IS ACTUALLY A STORY THAT IS IN THE EXTRA BIBLICAL 00:25:06.67\00:25:10.47 LITERATURE, THE APOCRYPHA LITERATURE OF JESUS DOING THIS BUT WHEN A MUSLIM SEES THIS- 00:25:10.51\00:25:15.64 THAT JESUS HAS THE POWER TO ACTUALLY BREATHE INTO MUD IT 00:25:15.68\00:25:21.42 STARTS MAKING CONNECTIONS AND THESE ARE LIKE VERSES THAT HAVE BEEN HIDDEN TO MUSLIMS. 00:25:21.45\00:25:24.95 MUSLIMS HAVEN'T TRADITIONALLY SEEN THESE VERSES LIKE MANY TIME 00:25:24.99\00:25:28.52 CHRISTIANS, YES, WE'RE OBLIVIOUS TO MANY THINGS IN THE BIBLE. 00:25:28.56\00:25:32.89 AND SO SHE STARTED OPENING UP THESE INCREDIBLE PASSAGES AND 00:25:32.93\00:25:36.80 THAT THE QURAN TEACHES ABOUT SABBATH KEEPING AND THE QURAN 00:25:36.83\00:25:41.04 TEACHES ABOUT THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING AND THE QURAN TEACHES THERE IS AN IMMINENT SECOND 00:25:41.07\00:25:44.87 COMING OF CHRIST AND THERE IS A DAY OF JUDGEMENT. 00:25:44.91\00:25:47.54 THEY SAID, MAN, WE NEED TO USE THIS TO SHARE WITH OUR MUSLIM 00:25:47.58\00:25:52.01 FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS AND AS THEY STARTED DOING THIS IT WAS 00:25:52.05\00:25:55.55 INCREDIBLE. NOW WHAT YOU ARE TELLING ME IS THAT LADY, YES, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF 00:25:55.58\00:26:00.66 HER. 00:26:00.69\00:26:01.82 THERE IS THOUSANDS. 00:26:01.86\00:26:02.49 ALL AROUND THE10/40 WINDOW. 00:26:02.52\00:26:03.79 ALL AROUND THE 10/40 WINDOW. 00:26:03.83\00:26:06.29 GOSPEL OUTREACH IS HELPING TO FUND SOME OF THEM. 00:26:06.33\00:26:08.93 YES, BUT THOSE PEOPLE RIGHTNOW ARE TEACHING OTHERS TO TEACH 00:26:08.96\00:26:13.87 LIKE SHE HAS TAUGHT. 00:26:13.90\00:26:14.54 EXACTLY. 00:26:14.57\00:26:16.00 SO MAKE SURE THAT NO MATTER WHO IT IS THAT'S IN THIS LITTLE 00:26:16.04\00:26:20.21 HOUSE CHURCH THEY UNDERSTAND THE HERITAGE, THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL, EXACTLY, AND THE 00:26:20.24\00:26:25.28 PROMISE OF A FUTURE. 00:26:27.75\00:26:29.02 EXACTLY. 00:26:29.05\00:26:30.52 SECOND COMING IS COMING PRETTY QUICK. 00:26:30.55\00:26:32.49 COMING PRETTY QUICK. 00:26:32.52\00:26:33.79 SO, I ASKED TO START THIS OFF HOW DID YOU-WHO WAS MELCHIZEDEK? 00:26:33.82\00:26:36.99 YES. 00:26:37.03\00:26:37.79 WHO IS JESUS? 00:26:37.83\00:26:38.36 YOU'VE GOT FIVE SECONDS. 00:26:38.39\00:26:39.79 TO USE THE WORDS, I HAVE HEARD FROM FRIENDS WHO HAVE BECOME 00:26:39.83\00:26:45.67 FOLLOWERS OF CHIRST, THEY SAY HE IS THE ONE WHO HOLDS THE WORLD 00:26:45.70\00:26:51.41 IN HIS HANDS. HE IS THE ONE THE FIRST AND THE LAST THE BEGINNING 00:26:51.44\00:26:55.88 AND THE END. AND THAT'S IT. 00:26:55.91\00:26:57.35 IF YOU WANT TO HELP SPONSOR WORKERS WHO WILL TEACH THAT 00:26:57.38\00:27:02.92 SIMPLE TRUTH IN THE 10/40 WINDOW, PLEASE JOIN US. 00:27:02.95\00:27:08.02 THANKS FOR BEING HERE TODAY. 00:27:42.66\00:27:47.73 [CLOSING MUSIC]. 00:28:15.82\00:28:20.90