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Series Code: AIM
Program Code: AIM000675A
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00:15 HI THERE. 00:15 I'M DICK DUERKSEN. 00:17 WELCOME TO GOSPEL OUTREACH AND OUR PROGRAM ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS. 00:21 AND TODAY ONCE AGAIN I'M PRIVILEGED TO HAVE MARTY WITH ME. 00:24 MAN. 00:25 YOU'VE SEEN A LOT OF ME. 00:26 I HAVE BUT YOU KNOW EVERY TIME IT'S A CHALLENGE AND A NEW BIT OF INFORMATION 00:31 THAT'S BRAND NEW TO ME FOR SOME REASON. 00:33 WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY? 00:36 I DON'T KNOW. 00:37 I WAS THINKING MAYBE WE COULD TALK ABOUT SOME STORIES TO SEE WHAT GOD IS 00:40 DOING IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. 00:42 SO I WANT TO START THAT THEN WITH A STORY OF MY OWN. 00:45 PLEASE. 00:46 I'M IN A LITTLE TINY TOWN IN NORTHEASTERN INDIA. 00:50 I HAVE SPOKEN AT THE ASSEMBLY FOR A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST ELEMENTARY 00:55 SCHOOL. 00:58 NEXT DAY IM WANDERING AROUND THE TOWN, AROUND THE VILLAGE AND ONE OF THE 01:02 KIDS FROM SCHOOL SEES ME AND HE SHOUTS HEY YOU PASTOR DICK. 01:08 SO PASTOR DICK CAME OVER AND HE INTRODUCES ME TO HIS FATHER. 01:14 HIS FATHER RUNS THE HINDU IDOL MAKING BUSINESS IN THIS TOWN AND SO I GO IN 01:25 AND HIS FATHER SHOWS ME HOW HE MAKES THE WADS OF STRAW AND HOW HE PUTS THE 01:30 CLAY ON AND HOW HE LETS THEM DRY AND THEN HE LETS ME PHOTOGRAPH HIM PAINTING 01:34 EYES ON SOME OF THIS. 01:35 IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE. 01:38 AND ALL THE TIME I'M THINKING HERE IS HIS SON ATTENDING A SEVENTH-DAY 01:41 ADVENTIST SCHOOL AND SO PROUD OF WHAT GOES ON THERE THAT HE WANTS ME TO 01:47 MEET HIS DAD. 01:49 WOW. 01:50 THE IDOL MAKER. 01:54 SO HOW IS YOUR WORK LIKE THAT? 01:57 WELL I MEAN WE HAVE JUST SEEN GOD COME IN A VERY POWERFUL WAY IN TALKING 02:02 ABOUT INDIA AS YOU START WITH A STORY. 02:05 WE HAVE SEEN THAT PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH JESUS TAKE THAT 02:13 MESSAGE BACK TO THEIR FAMILY WHETHER THE DAD IS AN IDOL MAKER OR WHATEVER 02:17 HE IS. 02:17 WHATEVER YES. 02:19 AND JESUS COMES IN AND WORKS IN VERY POWERFUL WAYS AND WAYS THAT WE 02:25 WOULD USUALLY NOT EXPECT IN WAYS IN THE WEST TO COUNTER OUT THE POWER. 02:29 BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE SAY OH WHAT IS THAT IDOL. 02:32 WELL THOSE IDOLS ACTUALLY MANY TIMES HAVE EVIL SPIRITS ATTACHED TO THEM 02:36 ONCE THEY'VE BEEN DEDICATED. 02:38 VERY TRUE. 02:39 SO THAT IDOL IS DEDICATED AND THE BIBLE MAKES MENTION WHAT'S BEHIND THE 02:42 IDOL. 02:43 IT'S NOT AN EMPTY THING. 02:44 WHILE YES THE FORM IS EMPTY AND HAS NO POWER THERE'S USUALLY EVIL 02:48 SPIRITS OR MAYBE EVEN A LEGION OF EVIL SPIRITS THAT LIVE BEHIND THOSE 02:53 IDOLS AND TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE WITH A STORY. 02:56 THERE WAS A VERY SIMILAR STORY LIKE THIS. 02:59 A YOUNG MAN GOES FROM HIS VILLAGE FROM HIS TOWN. 03:03 HE GOES TO A CITY. 03:05 HE'S IN THE UNIVERSITY AND IN THE UNIVERSITY HE MEETS A YOUNG PERSON WHO IS ALSO 03:10 A FOLLOWER OF JESUS. 03:11 THAT FOLLOWER OF JESUS LEADS HIM. 03:14 WITHIN ABOUT THREE WEEKS OF HIM BECOMING A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST HE GOES BACK TO 03:18 HIS VILLAGE. 03:20 AND IN HIS VILLAGE HE GOES TO VISIT HIS UNCLE AND USUALLY YOU KNOW UNCLE CAN 03:24 MEAN SOMEONE WITHIN YOUR FAMILY RELATION. 03:26 YES, IT'S SOMEBODY WITHIN YOUR FAMILY. 03:28 HE GOES AND VISITS HIS UNCLE AS HE TELLS ME AND HIS UNCLE IS LIKE THE BIG 03:33 MAN OF THE VILLAGE. 03:34 AND HE IS SITTING THERE IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND HE WALKS IN AND HOW ARE YOU 03:39 UNCLE. 03:39 I'VE COME BACK FROM THE UNIVERSITY. 03:42 HOW ARE YOU DOING? 03:43 CAME TO PAY YOU MY RESPECTS AND SO FORTH. 03:45 AND THE UNCLE SAYS TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH SON I'M NOT DOING FINE. 03:49 YOU MIGHT BE BUT EVERY DAY I SPEND MY TIME RESOLVING PROBLEMS IN THIS VILLAGE. 03:54 EVERYONE IS FIGHTING. 03:55 IT SEEMS LIKE OUR VILLAGE HAS A CURSE ON IT. 03:59 BECAUSE HE SAYS, LOOK OUT THE WINDOW. 04:01 THEY WERE SITTING UP LIKE ON THE SECOND STORY OF HIS LIKE MAYOR'S OFFICE. 04:05 LOOK AT THE CHILDREN. 04:06 THEY'RE FIGHTING. 04:08 THERE ARE TWO SMALL KIDS 7, 8 YEARS OLD JUST BANGING ON EACH OTHER DOWN 04:11 THERE. 04:13 THE WHOLE TOWN, THAT'S A REPRESENTATION OF OUR TOWN. 04:15 AND HE SAYS I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING. 04:17 I'VE TRIED TO TALK WITH THE FAMILIES. 04:18 NOTHING IS RESOLVED. 04:19 THEY WILL BE RESOLVED THREE DAYS AND I JUST SPEND ALL MY TIME 04:20 RESOLVING SOCIAL ISSUES IN THIS COMMUNITY. 04:21 AND THE YOUNG MAN HE SAYS I HAVE A SOLUTION. 04:23 HE SAYS YOU THINK YOU HAVE A SOLUTION. 04:24 WHAT DID YOU LEARN AT UNIVERSITY HUH? 04:27 YES. 04:29 HE SAID YOU THINK YOU LEARNED SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW SON? 04:41 AND SO HE SAYS I'M NOT JOKING AND I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER THAT I LEARNED AT 04:47 THE UNIVERSITY. 04:48 I HAVE A SPIRITUAL ANSWER. 04:52 AND NOW THE UNCLE KIND OF LISTENS AND SAYS WHAT TYPE OF A SPIRITUAL ANSWER. 04:56 HE SAYS WELL I WORSHIP A GOD THAT I BELIEVE CAN RESOLVE THIS. 05:01 THE GOD THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH AND WHEN WE ASK JESUS IN HIS NAME 05:07 THIS WILL BE RESOLVED. 05:10 AND THE UNCLE SAYS, OH I DON'T THINK HE IS THAT POWERFUL. 05:13 AND THE YOUNG MAN SAYS HE IS. 05:18 HE SAYS WELL IF HE IS THAT POWERFUL, SEE THOSE KIDS STILL FIGHTING DOWN THERE? 05:22 FIX THEM. 05:23 IF YOU CAN HAVE THEM FIXED I'LL BELIEVE YOUR GOD. 05:27 SO HE SAYS TO HIS UNCLE LET'S PRAY. 05:29 YOU HAVE TO REPEAT WITH ME AND PRAY AND WE KNEEL DOWN IN YOUR OFFICE HERE. 05:33 AND HE SAYS KNEEL, WHY. 05:34 IF YOU WANT IT TO BE RESOLVED KNEEL WITH ME. 05:38 SO THE UNCLE DECIDES AND HE KNEELS DOWN WITH HIS NEPHEW AND THE NEPHEW 05:44 PRAYS AND THEN HE SAYS UNCLE YOU NEED TO PRAY THAT JESUS WILL REALLY 05:48 HAVE POWER. 05:50 YOU'RE THE HEAD MAN OF THIS VILLAGE AND YOU ASK HIM TO RESOLVE THESE 05:52 ISSUES. 05:53 IF YOU ASK HIM IT'S DIFFERENT THAN JUST ME. 05:55 YOU HAVE TO HAVE FAITH AND YOU WILL SEE THOSE TWO KIDS WILL STOP FIGHTING. 05:59 SO THE UNCLE SAYS WELL IF YOU'RE REALLY GOD UP THERE AND YOU'RE POWERFUL I ASK 06:05 IN THE NAME OF JESUS THAT YOU WILL RESOLVE THE SOCIAL ISSUES IN OUR TOWN. 06:10 AS HE IS SITTING THEN HE GOES TO LOOK OUT OVER THE WINDOW AND THE TWO LITTLE 06:16 BOYS--YOU GUESSED IT-ARE WALKING AWAY ARM IN ARM. 06:20 JUST ABOUT LIKE THAT. 06:22 THE FIGHT WAS OVER AND IT WAS DONE. 06:26 OH MY. 06:27 AND WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? 06:29 THE NEXT THING IT WAS THEY FELT-YOU KNOW NONWESTERN PEOPLE FEEL THINGS WE AS 06:35 WESTERNERS DON'T. 06:37 THEY IGNORE IT. 06:38 WE IGNORE AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD OR THE PRESENCE OF 06:41 EVIL IN A PLACE BUT THERE IS, THERE IS I'M COMMITTED. 06:46 AND THEY FELT THIS CHANGE HAPPEN IN THE COMMUNITY. 06:49 THEY FELT LIKE THIS PEACE CAME OVER THE COMMUNITY AND THE PRESENCE OF EVIL 06:55 LEFT. 06:57 AND SOON THAT WHOLE COMMUNITY BECAME A TESTIMONY TO THE POWER OF 07:00 JESUS. 07:01 AND NOW PEOPLE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 07:03 WHY AM I NOT FIGHTING WITH MY WIFE. 07:05 HOW COME MY UNCLE IS NO LONGER SO ANGRY AS HE WAS BEFORE. 07:10 AND SO THEY START COMING AND THE WORD COMES OUT THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN HE 07:14 PRAYED TO JESUS. 07:15 NOW THE MAYOR WANTS TO KNOW FROM HIS SON WHAT'S HAPPENED. 07:17 WHAT IS THIS? 07:19 WELL SOON THIS YOUNG MAN STAYED HOME FROM UNIVERSITY AND STARTED 07:24 TEACHING EVERYONE IN HIS VILLAGE ABOUT THE POWER OF JESUS. 07:30 AND SO MANY OF THE LEADING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY BECAME FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST 07:36 AND OTHERS. 07:37 BECAUSE THIS TOWN WAS ACTUALLY NOTORIOUS FOR THE SOCIAL ILLS IN THE TOWN 07:40 AND THE LEVEL OF VENGEANCE AND REVENGE KILLINGS AND SO FORTH IN THIS COMMUNITY 07:46 AND WHEN THIS CAME AND SO MUCH PEACE HAPPENED DIFFERENT VILLAGES ALL 07:50 AROUND STARTED COMING AND SAYING WHAT'S HAPPENED, WE WANT TO KNOW. 07:54 IF THIS COULD HAPPEN IN THIS COMMUNITY WE WANT IT TO HAPPEN IN OURS. 07:58 IT CAN HAPPEN IN OURS. 08:00 SO WE'RE JUST SEEING SO MANY OF THESE TYPES OF STORIES. 08:03 YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THAT STORY. 08:06 NOBODY IS HEALED, NOBODY IS BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DEAD. 08:09 THERE IS NOBODY WHO CAN TRICK A POSITIVE ANSWER TO THE PRAYER BECAUSE WHAT 08:18 REALLY HAPPENS IS THAT THE ENTIRE AREA IS BLANKETED BY THE PRESENCE OF JESUS. 08:24 YES. 08:24 AND YOU GET THIS PEACE. 08:25 YOU CANNOT TRICK PEACE INTO A PLACE OR A PERSON. 08:32 YOU CAN'T PRETEND THAT NOW THEIR WELL, NOW THEIR PEACEFUL. 08:35 NO THEY EITHER ARE OR THEY AREN'T. 08:37 THAT'S TRUE. 08:38 I LIKE THAT. 08:40 SO WHEN I WAS FIRST TOLD THIS STORY I MEAN THE YOUNG MAN HE HAD ONLY BEEN 08:43 A BELIEVER NOW LESS THAN A YEAR AND HE'S NEARLY CRYING AS HE IS TELLING ME 08:47 THE STORY AND IT'S JUST SO POWERFUL TO SEE THEM TELL THESE TYPES OF STORIES. 08:54 YES, SO I'M READY. 08:55 WHAT'S YOUR NEXT ONE. 08:58 DID YOU EVER HEAR OF THE STORIES FROM SOME OF THE ANCIENT GUYS YOU KNOW BACK 09:03 IN, NO NONE OF US. 09:05 THERE ARE SOME OLD STORIES ON TAPE LIKE ERIC B. 09:08 HARE. 09:08 I GREW UP WITH ERIC B. 09:09 HARE STORIES. 09:10 REALLY, ON TAPE. 09:11 ON TAPE YES. 09:12 MY MOM AND DAD HAD BOUGHT US ALL THE TAPES OF THESE DIFFERENT STORY TELLERS. 09:16 AND SO YOU HEARD THOSE AS A KID. 09:18 I DID, I DID. 09:20 DID YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY COULD STILL WORK TODAY? 09:23 I THINK IT PLAYED A ROLE FOR ME TO THINK THAT THOSE SAME TYPE OF THINGS COULD 09:27 HAPPEN BECAUSE I'VE SEEN GOD WORK. 09:30 IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE A MOVEMENT TOWARDS CHRIST AND IT STARTS BECOMING 09:34 VIRAL AND IT STARTS GROWING QUICK IT STARTS HERE. 09:38 IT STARTS ON THE KNEES OF THE LEADERS AND IT COMES WITH CONSECRATED PRAYER 09:43 AND IT'S REALLY ASKING GOD TO COME IN AND TAKE CONTROL OF THE SITUATION 09:50 AND PLANT HIS KINGDOM HERE ON EARTH. 09:53 HAVE YOU SEEN THAT HAPPEN HERE IN THE UNITED STATES? 10:01 THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 10:03 NO IT'S NOT A GOOD QUESTION BECAUSE I HATE THE REALITY THAT YOU HAVE 10:06 TO PAUSE. 10:08 YES. 10:08 WHAT'S WRONG WITH US? 10:13 I'LL TELL YOU. 10:16 I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH US BUT WE HAVE BECOME A BIT 10:20 INSENSITIVE I THINK TO THE WORKINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 10:21 WE'VE BECOME LAZY. 10:22 IT'S A LOT EASIER TO WATCH, I MEAN IT'S MY OWN NATURE. 10:24 YOU KNOW I WANT TO WATCH THE SERIES, I WANT TO WATCH THE TUBE. 10:30 I WANT TO DO THIS I WANT TO DO THAT AND WE GET DISTRACTED. 10:32 BUT I THINK THERE'S-SOMEBODY TOLD ME ONCE THAT GOD OR I MEAN 10:33 THE DEVIL HAS CONVINCED CHRISTIANS THAT THEY AREN'T TOO BUSY. 10:35 I THINK THIS IS IT. 10:36 I THINK ALSO THERE'S ALSO SOME OTHER TYPES OF FACTORS AS WELL. 10:38 FOR THERE TO BE A REALLY MOVEMENT AS I MENTIONED IN A PREVIOUS PROGRAM EARLIER 10:40 IS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE PEOPLE TIED TO LAND AND PEOPLE. 11:00 AND WHEN YOU MOVE A PASTOR WHETHER YOU'RE AN ADVENTIST PASTOR, A 11:03 BAPTIST OR METHODIST PASTOR YOU'RE USUALLY JUMPED ALL OVER THE PLACE. 11:07 OH YES AND YOU GO TO A PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE NO ROOTS. 11:09 AND YOU HAVE NO ROOTS. 11:11 AND FOR YOU TO REALLY HAVE A POWERFUL MOVEMENT FOR JESUS YOU HAVE TO HAVE A 11:16 MAN WHO IS TIED TO HIS LAND AND PEOPLE. 11:20 SO FOR ME IT'S A BIG DISSERVICE TO THE CHURCH TO MOVE A PASTOR AROUND, 11:23 JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUMP. 11:26 YOU CAN NEVER GET A MOVEMENT. 11:32 NEVER, NEVER, NEVER. 11:32 HUM. 11:33 AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE REFORMATION MARTIN LUTHER. 11:35 HE LOVES GERMANY, HE LOVES HIS PEOPLE. 11:37 NOTHING IS GOING TO MOVE HIM. 11:38 HE GOES AND WALKS TO GET THE RIGHT LANGUAGE. 11:41 GERMANY WAS A HODGE PODGE OF DIFFERENT DIALECTS. 11:44 RIGHT. 11:45 AND WHAT DOES HE DO. 11:46 HE BUILDS ONE DIALECT OUT OF ALL OF THEM. 11:49 HE GOES TO THE MARKETS ALL ACROSS THE GERMAN-SPEAKING DIALECTS AND HE MAKES ONE 11:54 UNDERSTANDABLE GERMAN THAT EVERY GERMAN CAN BE PROUD OF. 11:59 AND ONE GOD EVERYONE CAN WORSHIP. 12:01 AND ONE GOD THAT EVERYONE CAN WORSHIP. 12:03 SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE EARLY REFORMERS THAT WE AS ADVENTISTS READ A LOT 12:08 ABOUT, THESE MEN WERE MEN WHO LOVED THEIR LAND, LOVED THEIR PEOPLE AND 12:12 WERE DEEPLY SPIRITUAL. 12:14 I'M GOING TO STOP YOU FOR JUST A SECOND. 12:17 YES. 12:18 I WANT YOU TO WATCH A QUICK VIDEO AND REMEMBER WHAT YOU'VE JUST HEARD 12:20 MARTY SAY. 12:21 I NEED TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL HERE AT HOME. 12:27 WHERE IS THE 10/40 WINDOW ANYWAY? 12:30 THOSE PEOPLE LIVE TOO FAR AWAY. 12:33 SOMEONE ELSE CAN TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS. 12:35 MAYBE THEY COULD JUST WATCH TV. 12:39 NEARLY THREE BILLION PEOPLE TO REACH. 12:42 MY HEAD HURTS. 12:43 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO. 12:46 I GIVE UP. 12:48 WHAT'S THE POINT OF TRYING? 12:50 I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 12:53 ACTUALLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 12:56 AND JESUS ASKED YOU TO GO TO ALL THE WORLD. 13:02 WHERE? 13:02 ALL THE WORLD. 13:04 HOW CAN I GO, I HAVE COMMITMENTS. 13:08 YOU CAN PRAY. 13:09 YOU CAN VOLUNTEER YOUR TALENTS. 13:12 YOU CAN TELL OTHERS. 13:14 YOU CAN GIVE MONEY TO SPONSOR BIBLE WORKERS. 13:17 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR HOPE AND MEANING. 13:20 BUT THEY WON'T FIND IT WITHOUT YOU. 13:22 BE THE SPARK. 13:24 LIGHT THE FIRE. 13:26 FINISH THE WORK. 13:28 FINISH THE WORK. 13:31 BE THE SPARK. 13:33 SPARKS SHOW UP IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS AND SO I'VE GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU 13:37 MARTY. 13:38 YES. 13:39 WHEN I'M IN A COUNTRY THAT PEOPLE ARE HINDUS AND I LOOK AT A HINDU TEMPLE 13:45 IT'S HARD TO DECIDE WHERE TO PHOTOGRAPH BECAUSE THE WALLS, THE ROOF ARE ALL 13:50 COVERED WITH GODS EACH OF THEM PAINTED AND CARVED AND DESIGNED. 13:55 IT LOOKS LIKE TO SCARE ME. 13:57 WHAT'S GOING ON THERE? 13:59 WELL CLEARLY THERE'S A PRESENCE OF EVIL AND GOD IS NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF 14:05 SCARING PEOPLE. 14:06 NO HE NEVER SAID BE AFRAID. 14:08 IT NEVER SAYS BE AFRAID THOUGH MANY TIMES I THINK WE HAVE AN UNBIBLICAL FEAR 14:10 OF GOD AND DEFINITELY I THINK IT'S THE FOUNDATION OF ALL PAGAN RELIGION, 14:12 FEAR. 14:13 BUT JUST AS CHRISTIANITY HAS HAD IN THE SONS OF ISAAC, THE SONS OF JESUS 14:14 HAVE HAD A GREAT CONTROVERSY WAGING OVER THEM BETWEEN GOOD AND 14:16 EVIL, SO HAVE THE HINDU PEOPLE. 14:17 AND IT'S QUITE AMAZING THAT IF YOU GO BACK TO THE VERY BEGINNINGS BACK 14:19 ALMOST TO THE TIME OF ABRAHAM WHEN THE FIRST SCRIPTURES BEGAN TO BE 14:20 WRITTEN AND YOU GO BACK TO FOR EXAMPLE THE RIG-VEDA,VEDIC LITERATURE, 14:22 IT'S ACTUALLY A MONOTHEISTIC LITERATURE. 14:24 REALLY. 14:24 IT IS. 14:25 IT'S AMAZING. 14:27 NOW IT USES, LIKE THE OLD TESTAMENT, DIFFERENT NAMES FOR GOD BUT IT SAYS THESE 14:28 ARE ONLY EXPRESSIONS OF THE ONE TRUE GOD THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND 14:30 EARTH. 14:31 AND SO AS YOU LOOK IT'S AMAZING AND ACTUALLY SOMEONE IN THE MOVEMENT 14:33 THAT WE WORK WITH BEFORE WE EVER STARTED WORKING WITH HIM WE SPENT A COUPLE 14:40 OF YEARS WITH A HINDU PRIEST, A BRAHAM HINDU PRIEST STUDYING THE GREAT 14:46 CONTROVERSY IN THEIR PEOPLE AND IT'S JUST AMAZING WHAT HE LEARNED. 14:49 AND I MEAN HE'S AN EXPERT IN ANCIENT SANSKRIT AND ANCIENT LITERATURE AND HE 15:04 NOW WITH THESE NEW EYES HAVING SEEN THE GREAT CONTROVERSY IN OUR PEOPLE 15:19 HE SAYS LET ME FIND THE GREAT CONTROVERSY IN MY OWN PEOPLE. 15:36 SO HE GOES AND FINDS THE EARLY HISTORY AND HE LEARNED THAT THERE WAS 15:40 ORIGINALLY IN INDIA THE WORSHIP TO THE ONE TRUE GOD WITH A TEMPLE VERY 15:44 SIMILAR TO A JEWISH TEMPLE OR SYNAGOGUE. 15:49 AND IN IT THERE WAS ONE ALTER TO SACRIFICE TO THE ONE TRUE GOD OF HEAVEN. 15:55 WITH THE PASSING OF TIME THAT ALTER BECOMES AN IDOL-THE ALTER ITSELF. 16:01 THE ALTER ITSELF. 16:02 OKAY. 16:03 WITH THE PASSING OF THE TIME THEY PUT AN IDOL ON TOP OF THE ALTER. 16:07 NOW THEY HAVE TWO GODS. 16:09 AND THEY START BRINGING IN MORE REPRESENTATIONS OF WHAT IN THE BEGINNING 16:14 WEREN'T UNDERSTOOD TO BE GODS THEMSELVES BUT THE POWER OF GOD RESIDED IN 16:19 THESE FIGURES. 16:23 AND SO WITH THE PASSING OF TIME THEY WENT FROM WORSHIPING THE ONE TRUE 16:28 GOD OF HEAVEN TO WORSHIPPING MANY, MANY DIFFERENT EVIL SPIRITS. 16:32 AS THEY NOW LOOK BACK, WHAT DID GOD LEAVE, WHAT WERE GOD'S FOOTPRINTS IN 16:36 THEIR PEOPLE. 16:37 THEN THEY FOUND THAT THEY HAD EXPLANATION FROM THIS. 16:40 AND ACCORDING TO THEIR ANCIENT TRADITIONS IN THEIR OWN HOLY WRITINGS IT 16:44 TELLS THE FOLLOWING STORY. 16:46 THAT THERE WAS A GREAT WAR IN HEAVEN AND OUT OF HEAVEN GOD EXPELLED 33 16:51 MILLION EVIL SPIRITS THAT HAD NOT SIDED WITH GOD AND THESE CAME TO EARTH AND 16:57 MOST OF THESE ENDED UP IN INDIA. 16:59 THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE LIKE 33 MILLION GODS BECAUSE THESE WERE EXPELLED FROM 17:04 HEAVEN. 17:06 AND SO THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANY LONGER HOW TO WORSHIP THE ONE TRUE GOD OF HEAVEN 17:10 BECAUSE NOW THEY WERE KEPT UNDER SUBJUGATION OR UNDER FEAR OF THESE EVIL 17:15 SPIRITS. 17:17 SO WHEN YOU AND A GOSPEL OUTREACH WORKER GO INTO A HINDU ENVIRONMENT HOW DO 17:23 YOU COMMUNICATE THE GREAT GIFT OF SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST? 17:29 WELL THERE WERE PROPHECIES IN THE HINDU LITERATURE THAT ONE DAY THE GREAT GOD 17:34 OF HEAVEN, THE CREATOR OF ALL THE UNIVERSE AND OF MAN, HE WOULD APPEAR IN 17:39 THE FORM OF MAN AND HE WOULD COME TO TEACH US RIGHTEOUS LAWS. 17:43 REALLY. 17:45 YES. 17:46 AND SO THEY START TO EXPLAIN THIS STORY. 17:49 AND THIS IS THE HOPE. 17:51 AND SEE WE KNOW THE WORD IN ENGLISH, AVATAR RIGHT. 17:55 AND THIS IS THEIR UNDERSTANDING THAT THE GREAT AVATAR WOULD COME 17:58 FROM HEAVEN, THE INCARNATION OF THE CREATOR GOD AND HE WOULD COME TO 18:03 TEACH THE RIGHTEOUS LAWS TO HIS PEOPLE. 18:06 SO NOW THE STORY STARTS TO UNFOLD AND THEY SAID, DID YOU KNOW THAT THE GREAT 18:12 AVATAR THAT OUR PEOPLE ARE WAITING AND EXPECTING IS ACTUALLY ALREADY COME. 18:17 AND THEN THE PEOPLE GET ALL EXCITED. 18:20 AND SEE TO UNDERSTAND OUR MOVEMENT AS WORK AMONG THE BRAHMANS WOULD BE LIKE TO 18:25 USE TERMS THAT WE WOULD UNDERSTAND AMONG THE LEVITES. 18:27 BRAHMANS ARE THE PRIESTLY CAST AND THEY HAD BEEN SET APART BY GOD FROM THE VERY 18:34 BEGINNING FOR THE WORSHIP OF THE ONE TRUE CREATOR GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. 18:39 BUT THEY HAD LED THE PEOPLE ASTRAY AND TODAY THE HOUSE CHURCH MOVEMENT 18:43 THAT WE WORK WITH AMONG HINDU BRAHMANS IS CUTTING BACK TO THEIR HEARTS. 18:47 WE WENT ASTRAY. 18:49 WE DIDN'T FOLLOW WHAT GOD WANTED US TO DO. 18:53 IN THESE LAST DAYS WE HAVE TO CALL THE NATION BACK TO THE ONE TRUE CREATOR GOD 18:58 OF WHO WE WERE CALLED. 19:00 THE AVATAR HAS ALREADY COME AND THAT AVATAR IS JESUS CHRIST AND WE'RE 19:04 CALLING THE NATION BACK TO CHRIST TODAY. 19:07 AND WE APOLOGIZE, WE REPENT IN OUR HEARTS FOR THE SINS OF OUR 19:11 FOREFATHERS FOR HAVING TAKEN THE NATION INTO IDOLATRY. 19:17 WHERE IS THAT MESSAGE BEING SHARED? 19:20 IN THE COUNTRY OF INDIA. 19:22 REALLY. 19:23 SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A HOUSE CHURCH IN THE BRAHMANS YOU'RE TALKING 19:26 ABOUT BRAHMAN FAMILIES. 19:28 BRAHMAN FAMILIES. 19:30 WHO HAVE HOUSE CONGREGATIONS. 19:31 HOUSE CONGREGATIONS. 19:33 THAT ARE TEACHING THE TRUTH OF THE ONE GOD AND HIS SALVATION. 19:36 AND HIS SALVATION. 19:38 AND PULLING BACK TO THE GOD WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH. 19:41 AND SO NOW THEY OPEN THE BIBLE AND NOW IT'S NOT A FOREIGN GOD. 19:45 IT'S NOT THE FOREIGN, THE THING OF THE BRITISH. 19:47 IT'S NOW UNDERSTANDING HOW HE PLAYS INTO WHAT HAD BEEN PROPHESIZED TO THEM 19:53 AND HAD BEEN TOLD THEM. 19:54 THE GOD OF THE BRITISH. 19:56 INTERESTING THAT YOU WOULD USE THAT BECAUSE THAT GAVE THEM A PICTURE OF GOD, THE 20:01 ONE GOD, THE TRUE GOD, JESUS CHRIST, SALVATION, CROSS, EVERYTHING THAT WAS 20:06 INCORRECT? 20:07 THAT'S CORRECT. 20:09 I MEAN THAT-SEE THE BRITISH CAME WITH COLONIAL POWER AND THOSE WHO WERE 20:14 IN POWER, THE WHOLE NATION, THE WHOLE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT SUFFERED 20:17 GREATLY. 20:18 BECAUSE AS THEY TOOK THE POWER IN INDIA AND HAD THE BRITISH RAJ, THE BRITISH 20:24 EMPIRE. 20:25 THEY CHARGED MUCH HIGHER TAXES THAN THE LOCAL EMPIRE HAD DONE 20:29 ORIGINALLY. 20:30 AND SO THEY PUSHED THE COUNTRY INTO SIGNIFICANT POVERTY. 20:33 AND THEY DID IT BY A LOT OF HYPOCRISY. 20:36 THEY WOULD BREAK CONSISTENTLY THEIR COVENANTS OR THEIR 20:39 CONTRACTS AND SO I DON'T KNOW ABOUT DIFFERENT LANGUAGES IN INDIA BUT 20:47 BENGALI IS A MAJOR LANGUAGE AND IN BENGALI IT'S THE TRADITION IF YOU 20:50 SEE A CHILD BEING TWO FACED THEY TELL HIM DON'T BE BRITISH. 20:56 HUM. 20:57 AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF RESENTMENT. 21:00 SO JESUS AND CHRISTIANITY REALLY COMES OFF POORLY. 21:04 IT COMES OFF EXTREMELY POORLY. 21:07 AND SO NOW YOU SHOW UP AND YOU ARE ENCOURAGING AND THE BRAHMANS BUY IN THAT 21:14 THERE IS ONE TRUE GOD AND THAT JESUS IS THE AVATAR, THE PRESENCE OF THAT GOD 21:18 HERE ON EARTH. 21:21 WHY WOULD PEOPLE BELIEVE THEM? 21:24 BESIDES THIS POWERFUL-- IT MAKES SENSE TO THEIR GREAT CONTROVERSY STORY. 21:28 THEY HADN'T PULLED IT ALL TOGETHER. 21:30 AND THE PERSON THAT I MENTIONED HE PREPARED THIS WHOLE STORY THAT SHARES 21:36 THEIR HISTORY, THEIR SACRED HISTORY OF HOW GOD HAS WORKED AND CALLED THEM 21:40 BACK AND SENT MESSENGERS AND HOW THE EVIL ONE HAS TAKEN THEM DEEPER AND 21:44 DEEPER INTO IDOLATRY AND MORE AND MORE FEAR OF THE EVIL SPIRITS. 21:48 NOW SEVERAL THINGS HAVE HAPPENED IN INDIA IN DIFFERENT PARTS LIKE A BIG 21:52 PORTION, WEST BENGAL, THERE HAS BEEN A COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AND WHILE WE 21:57 WOULD SAY WHAT GOOD CAN COME FROM A COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, GOD'S HAND IS 22:02 IN EVERYTHING IN THE GOOD AND THE BAD. 22:03 THAT'S RIGHT. 22:05 AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED, THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT HAS SAID WHAT POWER IS THERE 22:09 IN IDOLS. 22:12 WHAT IS THERE IN THIS AND SO THIS HAS REALLY HELPED FORGE A MOVEMENT AS WE 22:18 HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE GREAT CONTROVERSY FOR HINDUS. 22:22 AND DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE COUNTRY ACROSS THE NATION ARE 22:26 SAYING HOW HYGIENIC EVEN IS IT FOR US TO POUR WATER ON A DIRTY IDOL AND THEN 22:32 DRINK THE WATER OFF THE DIRTY IDOL WHICH HAS BEEN A TRADITION FOR A VERY 22:36 LONG TIME. 22:37 OR TO SACRIFICE MILK AND THEN DRINK THE MILK THAT'S POURED OVER THE IDOL. 22:41 WE CAN GET SICK FROM THAT. 22:44 SO THERE HAVE BEEN MANY MOVEMENTS THAT HAVE PREPARED FOR THESE END 22:48 TIMES I BELIEVE AND THEN ESPECIALLY UNDERSTANDING THOSE REDEMPTIVE GEMS THAT 22:54 GOD HAS EMBEDDED IN WHAT WE WOULD THINK OF THE DARKEST OF PLACES. 22:58 SO THE-- I HAVE SEVERAL GOOD FRIENDS IN HINDU RELIGIONS AND IN HARE 23:05 KRISHNA, YOU KNOW KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS. 23:08 AND ONE THING THAT I'VE DISCOVERED IS THAT YOU CANNOT SUCCEED IN THE 23:14 HINDU COMMUNITY WITHOUT WORRYING THAT YOU'RE BEHAVIOR MUST BE 23:19 ACCEPTABLE TO GOD AND YET CHRISTIANITY, AS YOU AND I KNOW IT, AND THE PLAN OF 23:26 SALVATION IS THE ONLY THING I CAN DO TO BE SAVED IS TO RELAX INTO JESUS 23:31 CHRIST. 23:32 NOW LET ME JUST-- I WILL TELL YOU WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED FROM WHETHER 23:35 YOU'RE A JEWISH FOLLOWER OF JESUS, A MUSLIM FOLLOWER OF JESUS OR 23:40 SOMEONE WHO COMES FROM A HINDU BACKGROUND. 23:42 OKAY. 23:44 IN ALL OF THOSE WE COME, IN THE WEST, FROM A VERY SMALL CULTURE. 23:49 I MEAN THERE'S WIDE VARIANCE PERMITTED SO I CAN STILL BE AN AMERICAN. 23:55 I CAN JUST ABOUT DRESS ANYWAY I WANT AND NO ONE IS GOING TO CRITICIZE ME 24:00 TOO MUCH. 24:01 YES, THEY'LL LAUGH AT YOU BUT YOU'RE OKAY. 24:02 THEY'LL LAUGH AT ME BUT I'M NOT GOING TO BE EXPELLED OUT OF MY 24:04 COMMUNITY. 24:06 NOW IF YOU'RE A JEW IT'S EXPECTED CERTAIN RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL 24:12 RELIGIOUS FORMS. 24:13 IF YOU'RE A MUSLIM THERE'S CERTAIN CULTURAL RELIGIOUS FORMS AND IF YOU'RE A 24:16 HINDU OR A BUDDHIST THERE ARE CERTAIN CULTURAL RELIGIOUS FORMS AND WHAT 24:20 WE HAVE FOUND IS YOU NEED TO KEEP THOSE CULTURAL RELIGIOUS FORMS THAT DON'T 24:25 GO AGAINST THE BIBLE THAT DON'T BREAK ANY BIBLICAL MANDATE THAT DON'T BRING 24:30 IN LET'S SAY SPIRITISM OR SATANIC WORSHIP. 24:34 SO IF A HINDU BRAHAM HAS A LONG PIECE OF HAIR, IF HE'S DRESSED IN WHITE 24:41 CLOTHING, IF HE HAS A CAP ON, WE DON'T NEED TO CHANGE THAT. 24:44 THAT'S FINE. 24:45 IT'S FINE. 24:46 NOW IF HE'S GOING THERE TO PRAY TO AN IDOL, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT. 24:51 THAT'S NOW SOMETHING WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT. 24:53 NOW IN CHRIST THE IDOL HAS NO POWER OVER US AND WE DON'T NEED TO PRAY TO THE 24:58 IDOL. 24:59 SO THE FEAR IMMEDIATELY IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN ATTACK COMFORTABLY. 25:02 EXACTLY. 25:04 SO MAYBE THE BELIEVER WILL CONTINUE TO DO THOSE FORMS AND RITUALS THAT AREN'T 25:08 SATANIC OR SPIRITISTIC IN NATURE OR GO AGAINST A MORAL CODE OF GOD FOR THE 25:14 SAKE OF HIS COMMUNITY. 25:16 WHICH IS FINE. 25:17 WHICH IS FINE BECAUSE IF HE WERE NOW TO DRESS LIKE AN AMERICAN AND SING LIKE 25:20 A CHRISTIAN, AND GOD DOESN'T REQUIRE THAT, AND GOD DOESN'T REQUIRE THAT, 25:24 SO THEN HE'S A FOREIGNER NOW. 25:28 WHAT CAN HE SHARE WITH US IF HE'S DRESSING AND TALKING AND NOW 25:31 WORSHIPPING LIKE A FOREIGNER. 25:33 HE'S NOT OURS ANYMORE. 25:34 HE'S NOT OURS ANYMORE. 25:36 SO IF HE KEEPS HIS WHOLE THING, JESUS BECOMES VERY PROMINENT BUT WHAT MOST 25:42 PEOPLE WOULD EXPECT IN A CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE OF GOING TO CHURCH IN A 25:48 CHURCH THAT LOOKS LIKE A CHURCH AND ASSOCIATING, BECAUSE ALREADY CHRISTIANS 25:52 IN LET'S SAY IN INDIA ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOWER CLASS OR WHAT ARE CALLED 25:58 "NO CAST PEOPLE." 25:59 RIGHT. 26:01 AND SO MOST CHRISTIANS, THE TWO OR THREE PERCENT IN THE NATION THAT ARE 26:04 CHRISTIANS, COME FROM LOW CAST OR NO CAST AND SO IT'S A BIG SHAME FOR A 26:09 BRAHMAN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH PEOPLE THAT THEY SA BEFORE THE MISSIONARIES 26:14 CAME WERE DRESSED RUNNING AROUND NAKED. 26:18 BUT WHEN THE BRAHMAN IN HIS FULL INDIAN GARB AND FULL BRAHMAN LIFESTYLE 26:25 TALKS ABOUT JESUS AS SOMEONE I CAN TRUST AND MY SALVATION MY RELATIONSHIP 26:30 WITH MY GOD HAS NO FEAR, ABSOLUTELY HE HAS NO FEAR. 26:34 THAT DRAWS THEM BACK TO THE ONE CREATOR GOD AND THEIR CHRISTIANS. 26:40 AND THEY'RE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS AND THEY HOLD THE BIBLE IN IT'S SUPREMACY. 26:44 THEY'LL UPHOLD THE BIBLE AND JESUS CHRIST AND SALVATION IS SOMETHING 26:47 THAT COMES NOT BECAUSE OF WHO I AM BUT BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS. 26:57 THANKS FOR BEING PART OF GOSPEL OUTREACH. 27:34 [CLOSING MUSIC] |
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