Hello, and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood,
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and I have my special
guest Gayle Haberkam with me
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again this time.
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Some of you may have seen that
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we did a
previous episode with her,
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and if you haven't seen it yet,
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please go to our
website Jesus4asia.org
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and you can find it on there.
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If you don't find
it, please contact us.
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Anyway I just... We
have a lot of stories.
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Last time we talked
a lot about the people
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and how they live,
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but this time we
have a lot more stories.
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And before we
get into the stories
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I want to share one of Gayle's
favorite verses with you.
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And that's in Psalms 126:5-6,
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"They that sow in
tears shall reap in joy.
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He that goeth forth and weepeth,
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bearing precious seed,
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shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing,
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bringing his sheaves with him."
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And, Gayle, I know
that you are excited
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to bring the sheaves to Jesus.
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Yes.
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You were out
there doing whatever
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it takes to save these
people and you just love them.
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Yeah, the Lord has
just helped me fall in love
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with the Karen people
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and dedicate my
life to help them.
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Now for those who
didn't watch last time,
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you're working in
the mountains in Thailand
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with the Karen people.
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Yes, it's deep in
the jungle, it takes...
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If we can't take the short cut,
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it would take us four and
half hours on the bad roads
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to get there.
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Okay, so four and half
hours on the bad roads.
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I know in the previous episode,
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we showed some pictures
and video about the roads.
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So again if our
viewers didn't see that,
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you might want to
go and check those out.
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But we want to start out
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with some stories
of some of the people.
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And this person, this picture,
this person does not look like
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they want to be seen.
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Yes, this story is amazing.
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His name is Malawe,
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and Malawe lives right
in the village of BeYoTa.
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He lives in an old,
old, house falling apart
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because he's addicted to opium.
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And we had never
seen him much before,
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he stayed away from us
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and all our
religious activities.
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But one day he come
to us and shocked us
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because he said, "I
want to get off opium,
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will you let me live
with you and help me."
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And so of course we would so.
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We wanted to make
sure he really meant it
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and would put
forth every effort,
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so we asked him
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if he's really
gonna want to do this,
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will he obey us
and let us help him.
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And he said he would,
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then because he will do that
we would do all in our power
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whatever it takes to
help him get over this habit.
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And so we told him, you
need to get off the opium,
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smoking, alcohol, and coffee.
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Because they're all addictive.
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Yes, they all
just ate each other
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in strengthening the bad habits,
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so he was willing to do that.
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So we started, we
took him out of BeYoTa
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because it's easy for the people
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to get the opium
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if they can get
their hands on any money.
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And so away from that influence,
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but he only lasted
about a day and a half,
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not even two days
when he wanted to go back.
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He'd gotten
through the bad effects,
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right away you get terrible pain
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in your arms and legs,
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and blood
pressure goes up or down.
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But we had helped
him and prayed for him
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all through that time
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and then suddenly
he wants to go back,
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and if we don't take him,
he'll get on to some tower.
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He knows where to go,
he'll climb that mountain,
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he's got to go back.
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So my heart felt
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because I thought he just wants
to get another dose of opium
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and because I know it's far
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from being out
of his system so far
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so, but we had to take him
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because I wasn't
just going to let him.
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He probably really
doesn't know how to get back.
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So we went back
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and when he got
back to the village,
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it was like he just came alive,
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he had never really
known his children before
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and he just wanted
to see his little girl.
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And now suddenly
he notices his family
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and it's so wonderful
to see him just playing
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and interacting with
this little girl here
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and his little boy,
and he did stay with us.
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And as far as I know,
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he hasn't gone
back on opium since.
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Praise the Lord.
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And so it's
just quite thrilling,
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this is a picture of his family,
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he just come back to me
and he says, "I try to pray.
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I can say a few words."
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And I say, "Well,
that's what's helping you
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stay strong."
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And he says, "I can work harder
than I ever worked before.
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I'm working harder than
all the other villagers."
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He was working on
the road with them
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so he's just
this brand new person.
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That's really neat.
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And here he is,
his face is radiant.
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When really at first he
wouldn't even look at me,
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he would cover his
face and shrink away.
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But now he's bathed,
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BletJhaw has given him a haircut
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and he is radiant.
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Yeah, that's
wonderful. It's so rewarding.
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Yes, and you got to
introduce him to Jesus.
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Exactly, he said,
"It's your prayers.
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It's your prayers."
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And then he's...
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Even now I've talked
with some people there
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and he's wanting us
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as soon as we get
back to go to his house
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and have worship
and pray with them.
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Wonderful. Wonderful.
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And it just
leads me to this quote
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because just when you see
the light breaking through
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and people changing,
there is nothing like that joy.
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You would travel any road,
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you would get stuck
on any mountainside,
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and you would have the leeches
and face the wild elephants,
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you would do it a
hundred times over
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because when you see that
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they're turning
their hearts to God,
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everybody needs to do
that and experience it.
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Christian Service, 269,
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"The Christian knows no drudgery
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in his heaven-appointed work.
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He enters into
the joy of His Lord
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in seeing souls emancipated
from the slavery of sin,
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and this joy repays
him for every self-denial."
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So you can testify to that. Yes.
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Very strongly. Yes,
time and time again.
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Okay, so this
picture is of that village?
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Yes.
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The village name is Nedlikwee,
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it means a goat
village or the goat pond.
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And this village
is very, very dirty.
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The people don't know God
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and they really,
really have poor health habits
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and as many sicknesses.
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So we went with our medicine,
we had five objectives.
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One was to help them
clean their village up.
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Teach them about health.
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We wanted to give them
gifts of cleaning supplies
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that they would need
to keep their families
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and their house clean.
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And cook one good meal a
day in the evening for them
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and, of course,
last but not least
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teach them about God.
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First, this picture. Okay.
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Yes, so we moved
into an available house,
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somebody had died
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and it was a large
house perfect for us.
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And so we cleaned that
up and this is our outhouse,
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we had no privacy.
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Those walls are...
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That's all wrong.
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Yeah, it's like there's a
hint that there's walls there.
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It's very old.
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So we moved down
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and we right away
bonded with the children
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because we just
love the children.
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And so we spent
some time with them
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by just singing and with
them and then we went about.
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This is a young
man that came with us,
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he is BletJhaw's brother-in-law
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and he's a good
cook, a fantastic cook.
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So he kind of took
care of the cooking,
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which was nice and we
helped him in any way we could
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and we brought in all the food.
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Okay.
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That's all the vegetables
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and this is the
rest of the food.
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Yes, because we are
going to stay there a week,
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so I had to feed
them six good meals
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and so we had that
planned out and here we start.
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Cleaning? Yes.
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So we helped and
joined in with the cleaning.
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We would sweep under the houses.
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There's so much dung
from all the animals,
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the pigs, and cows, and
chickens and each house,
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we helped them
clean under their house,
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everything out
from under the house.
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And that took
us a couple of days
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to do a good job with that,
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and the people all
worked and helped us
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and even some of the men
started clearing off the bank
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that was going down the length
of the village on the left side
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and it started looking good.
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And the old men
were getting a stick
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and moving the
leaves out of the ditch
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and burning them
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and the village
started looking much nicer.
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So they had pride
in their village then.
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Just started taking pride in it.
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And then came the night
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we were going to give the gifts
and the people were so excited.
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All 13 households were there
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and after we had
the evening meal,
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we presented everybody
with the basin, the washbasin,
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laundry soap, bar
soap, shampoo, toothbrush,
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toothpaste, dipper,
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and this kind of thing
and they were so happy.
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They now had
the things to clean.
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We had worship
with them every night
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and then teach them who is God,
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and why do we worship God,
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and about
angels to simple things
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and they were interested.
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Wonderful.
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And then you started
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seeing their
laundry out on the line?
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Yes, as soon we gave the gifts
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we would see they
had cleaned their clothes
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with the soap not just water
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or just throwing
them over the line.
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And we could see
the children also,
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the parents who
had give them bath
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and they would come to worship
after the meal, all clean
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and where they put the clay
on their faces and very sweet.
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The people really did cover.
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And so they needed
to do this firebreak
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and they kept asking us,
"Will you go and help us?
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Will you come with us?"
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So we decided
it's a good idea to go
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because we can form
a bond of friendship
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with these people so we went.
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And the men
were worried about me
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because I am older and
usually the women at my age
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do not
participate in any of that
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because, you know,
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they don't take care
of their health like I do.
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So they don't understand
that I can do that so...
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And their bodies are broken
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from working so
hard their entire lives
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and not taking
care of themselves.
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That's exactly true.
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They're hurting all
over, they've got arthritis,
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and they cannot do it.
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Many of them are hunched. Right.
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They have back
problems like crazy.
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We have a lot of low back
pain, neck, and shoulder pain.
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Knees are all gone out
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and so they have
a really hard time
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when they get older.
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But then there's you.
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So anyway I went with
them and BletJhaw told them,
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assured them that I was
strong and I could do it.
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So we climbed, and
climbed, and climbed
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and we could have
lost a couple of times
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and went up the jungle path
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and actually I like to climb up.
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I can go for ages uphill,
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it's downhill I
have a hard time with,
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it just gets very steep.
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Yeah.
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So when we got to the top,
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our job was to
cut limbs of trees
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and use their branches to sweep.
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And so some of the
men would go with machetes
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and cut down the
weeds and the small trees
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and then the whole rest of us
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would go along
sweeping off the leaves,
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and with so many
people it was just amazing
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to see that a path is
getting clear really wide.
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So fast. Path.
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And very well. Wow. Yes.
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And so being a part of
that group was really fun.
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We got, some people
got caterpillar stings
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and BletJhaw cut his
finger on a weed stem,
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and I fell down this
escarpment on my bottom.
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For quite a ways really fast
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because I would go
downhill, this is really steep.
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And so the
people are really kind,
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they're not gonna laugh,
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they just want to
help, and it's kind of funny
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because I cannot keep on my feet
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when is that steep
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and they've already cut
the weeds and the branches
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so there's
really nothing to stop.
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And I just had my
old flip-flops on,
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some of the others had the boots
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but anyway we got
down to the bottom.
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So you had fun
working with them?
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Yes, we did and when
we got to the bottom,
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we drunk out of
this stream with a leaf
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and it was really neat
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because then they cut
the banana branches down,
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laid them down for a tablecloth,
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and then the women had
some chilies and rice cooked,
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and we all sat
around those leaves,
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that's the next picture.
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And we ate our rice
and chilies together
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and then we continued our work.
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Everything is
steep, it's either up,
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or sideways, or down.
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And so that Tuesday
was a really good fun day
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to laugh and
talk with the people.
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Yeah, it was very worthwhile.
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People come to me later and say,
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"You worked in the mountain,
you weren't even paid."
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And I say, "I was paid
by knowing the people."
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They are very, very
fun to work with them.
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So they came back hungry
from working in the fields
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so you have the
meal ready for them.
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Yes, and everybody
came more than ever before
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and we had enough
food for everybody
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and it was our very best meal
that we had served that day.
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And then after the
meal we had worship
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and it was our very best worship
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because we had
introduced them to God,
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and the angels,
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and we had
talked about the Bible,
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and the importance of it
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and the last one I
wanted to tell them
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how Jesus died to save us.
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And, you know, the
Spirit of Prophecy says
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that He will put into
our mouths the very words
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that are needed
to reach the hearts.
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And because I hadn't
had a lot of time to prepare
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and I wanted to make
this just so powerful
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with the Holy Spirit,
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but God says He put
into our mouths the words
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and so, that worship,
I started it by saying,
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"Think about the
person that you love the most.
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Your very best friend,
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the person that
means the most to you."
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And then I said, "Would you
be willing to give up your life
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to save them?
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If something happened,
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would you be willing
to die for that person?"
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And, you know,
there were like oh.
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And then I said
after that sunk in,
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I said, "Now think of
the person you hate the most,
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the person that you
like the least in your life.
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And do you have
that in your mind?"
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And they say, "Yes."
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And some of the men were going.
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They want to do
something bad to them
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and then I said,
"Would you be willing to die
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for that person?"
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And so you see the
comparison to Jesus
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what He did for us and
what we don't like them
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and all of us we
don't really know Jesus
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and what really He did
for us but He died for us.
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So then we went through
that the story of Jesus' death,
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and then about heaven
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and how
beautiful heaven will be.
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And after every
worship we did a health talk
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and talked about teeth,
and talked about cleanliness,
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and water inside and
out, and then the last time
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we just went over all
the eight natural remedies
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just the ones that
they needed the most,
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I didn't do all eight.
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But the ones
they needed the most
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and then after
the worships we sang
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and they've never
heard music like that,
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and we couldn't have
done it with just two of us.
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But BletJhaw's brother-in-law,
and him, and I, you know,
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BletJhaw played the guitar,
and we'd all sing in Karen,
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and we'd sing in English,
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and the people just
didn't want us to stop.
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They just listened and kept on,
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we just sang as much
as we could and then...
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So is this the picture from
that village of all the people?
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So then, after all
that the last thing
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that we did was to give
out t-shirts to everyone,
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and they were thrilled,
and we took this group shot.
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It is very
rewarding because as we left
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they were all standing
out there waving to us and...
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So as I said goodbye
to these simple people
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and thinking about how
blatant the devil works
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in the villages
and in that area.
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I think but yet, you know,
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I think these people are
much nearer to the kingdom
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than people in
America which have luxury
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and they have
everything they want
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and they're
focused on their vacations
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and their material things
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and don't have a
burden to use the knowledge
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that they have to help others.
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They know more about Jesus
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than any of my people
out there in the jungle.
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And so it makes
me very sad to think
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that Americans
are not sharing that
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and going out
because you can touch
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any of my jungle mountains
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and there's villages
of Karen people out there
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that don't know
God, know nothing
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and need so much help.
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And if I know that
much about my area,
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my little tiny area of
the world, it's in India,
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it's in all these
other countries as well.
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So as Seventh-day Adventist,
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we need to be the
most prominent in all areas
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to teach about God.
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Going and sharing. Yeah. Yes.
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The great commission,
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that's part of why
we're doing this show,
00:17:08.76\00:17:10.86
that's to share that
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there are still needs out there.
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There are still a
lot of people out there,
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they're beautiful
people, they just have no idea.
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I don't know that
somebody that loves them enough
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to die for them
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even though they're
acting like they hate him,
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you know, by sinning.
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Yes.
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But, you know, they don't know
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and what gives
me encouragement is
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to read some things
Mrs. White talks about.
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God understands the heredity,
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the characteristics
and the habits of people
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and where they come
from and He can save them,
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even though they
haven't had the opportunities
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that we have.
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And so I know that
if I just keep going
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and press on and reach
as many people as I can,
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God can save them.
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When the Holy Spirit comes
down at the end of the times
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that many people will come
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because God
knows their simplicity
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in their hearts. Right.
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Yeah, and they're
coming out of such darkness
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and such lack of
light, you know, it's darkness
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but it's also
that they don't know,
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the light isn't there.
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Yeah.
00:18:14.96\00:18:15.99
And how many more
places like you said.
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How many more places
are there in the world
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all over the place?
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So, yeah, I really...
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If we all wake up and go,
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it would just
be, let Jesus come.
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Yeah.
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And I know that the next picture
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that you have to share is
very special to your heart
00:18:31.01\00:18:33.61
because it is a longer
term, the planting situation.
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Yes, shows how long you
need to work with these people
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so that they know just
enough doctrines of the church
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and change their life enough
00:18:43.65\00:18:45.15
so that they can really
be Seventh-day Adventists.
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Because six years ago,
00:18:47.96\00:18:49.92
we got a call by
JawHtu, a village,
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WaSuTah, it's just
five kilometers away
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that somebody shot
themselves in their right ear
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and they lay dead.
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And so I think,
oh, what do I need,
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a blood pressure cuff
and as we go in the truck
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and then when we
got to the village,
00:19:04.64\00:19:05.91
you probably heard a lot
of people heard this story
00:19:05.94\00:19:08.41
because it's awesome.
00:19:08.44\00:19:10.11
And we got there
and the man was not dead
00:19:10.15\00:19:11.81
but he was slumped in the corner
00:19:11.85\00:19:13.18
and the blood
gushing out of his ear
00:19:13.21\00:19:15.42
and they took his blood pressure
00:19:15.45\00:19:16.95
and he had a faint pressure
and he was breathing so I said,
00:19:16.99\00:19:20.52
"Would you get the truck quick,
00:19:20.56\00:19:21.79
we need to take
him to the clinic."
00:19:21.82\00:19:23.39
And clinic is two
hours of bad road away
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and they can't do
surgery or anything
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not much more than I do
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so then you have to get in truck
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and go to Omkoi
which is two and a half
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some hours away,
00:19:33.74\00:19:35.54
that's a small
hospital, doesn't do surgery.
00:19:35.57\00:19:37.54
So they put you in an ambulance
00:19:37.57\00:19:39.57
and take you to Chiang Mai,
which is another several hours.
00:19:39.61\00:19:43.08
So at the time I saw
that man go and we left.
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I knew medically speaking
he would die that we went home,
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BletJaw and I, we
prayed for that man.
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In three weeks he came
back and he did not die,
00:19:52.49\00:19:55.76
they had taken this
much of his skull out
00:19:55.79\00:19:57.83
and had removed nine bullets
on his head and he was alive.
00:19:57.86\00:20:02.90
So he... And he
wasn't paralyzed.
00:20:02.93\00:20:04.70
No. Wow!
00:20:04.73\00:20:07.30
That was a total miracle.
00:20:07.34\00:20:08.80
Yeah, and the doctor said
00:20:08.84\00:20:10.51
he would not be able to work
in his rice garden for a year
00:20:10.54\00:20:13.27
and he worked in
it after six months.
00:20:13.31\00:20:16.28
So we've been working with him
00:20:16.31\00:20:17.65
ever since at
the time he did that,
00:20:17.68\00:20:19.41
his little girl
had cried so much,
00:20:19.45\00:20:21.58
he thought she would
die so he said to himself,
00:20:21.62\00:20:23.85
"If I live, I
won't do opium again."
00:20:23.89\00:20:25.82
Because it's the opium
00:20:25.85\00:20:27.32
that brings you
highs and lows in your life
00:20:27.36\00:20:30.36
and a lot of them commit suicide
00:20:30.39\00:20:32.23
when they get depressed.
00:20:32.26\00:20:34.30
So he came back and stayed
off of opium for a long time
00:20:34.36\00:20:36.70
and we started
worships with them
00:20:36.73\00:20:38.40
because they're so grateful.
00:20:38.43\00:20:39.80
When you save somebody's life,
00:20:39.83\00:20:41.24
they want to know
the God you worship.
00:20:41.27\00:20:43.51
The medical field
just builds a bridge
00:20:43.54\00:20:45.31
to the people's hearts and love.
00:20:45.34\00:20:47.41
We're not there
just to have a clinic
00:20:47.44\00:20:48.94
and all the medicine, no.
00:20:48.98\00:20:50.25
We're there to reach the
hearts and that's what does it.
00:20:50.28\00:20:52.98
So we study with
them for a long time
00:20:53.01\00:20:57.12
and then he went back on opium.
00:20:57.15\00:20:59.22
He just didn't
have any backbone.
00:20:59.25\00:21:01.12
He went back on opium
00:21:01.16\00:21:02.26
and, oh, I cried and
cried trying to just plead
00:21:02.29\00:21:06.76
with the Lord, bring him back
00:21:06.80\00:21:08.76
because that's a miracle.
00:21:08.80\00:21:10.27
God wants to save that man.
00:21:10.30\00:21:12.37
So then he come to
us like a mile away
00:21:12.40\00:21:14.87
he come to our house nest,
00:21:14.90\00:21:16.20
"Please help him get off opium."
00:21:16.24\00:21:18.67
So we did, we
worked with him again
00:21:18.71\00:21:21.18
and he got off opium
00:21:21.21\00:21:22.81
because he
wanted to be baptized.
00:21:22.84\00:21:25.28
And so, as soon
as he was off of it,
00:21:25.31\00:21:27.88
we had the baptism
00:21:27.92\00:21:29.22
that was after
six years of studying
00:21:29.25\00:21:30.92
with that family, he
and his wife were baptized.
00:21:30.95\00:21:34.62
Wonderful.
00:21:34.66\00:21:35.76
So it was a
real, real lovely time.
00:21:35.79\00:21:39.53
But the people
really need your prayers
00:21:39.56\00:21:41.63
because it's so easy
for them to go back on opium
00:21:41.66\00:21:46.03
and to back on their old habits.
00:21:46.07\00:21:47.94
And so as we pray for them,
00:21:47.97\00:21:51.37
the Lord can do they just
need a personal relationship
00:21:51.41\00:21:53.61
with Jesus.
00:21:53.64\00:21:54.91
And so I'm really excited
00:21:54.94\00:21:57.11
because last year I
met a Karen young man
00:21:57.15\00:22:00.25
that works with
the Karen people here
00:22:00.28\00:22:03.55
in America.
00:22:03.59\00:22:04.59
He is the leader
for the Adventist Karen,
00:22:04.62\00:22:07.29
he's the church
planter and very talented
00:22:07.32\00:22:10.26
and he consented to do
evangelism in my village
00:22:10.29\00:22:13.90
at the end of this year.
00:22:13.93\00:22:15.43
And so he's planning to come,
00:22:15.46\00:22:16.97
and he knows the
area, he knows the people.
00:22:17.00\00:22:18.60
It's the first time that
somebody else can come in
00:22:18.63\00:22:22.24
and show the people
because my desire is,
00:22:22.27\00:22:24.54
they see BletJaw
and I and we're obeying
00:22:24.57\00:22:27.04
but now they can see more people
00:22:27.08\00:22:28.91
that are happy as they
obey and really, you can do it.
00:22:28.94\00:22:33.15
You can just
forsake these old habits.
00:22:33.18\00:22:35.38
Right.
00:22:35.42\00:22:37.09
And then the next thing
that encouraged me so much is
00:22:37.12\00:22:39.32
there's a couple that
we've also been studying with
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and they are not doing
opium, or alcohol, or tobacco,
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and they sell their pig.
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And they told us this
lovely young couple that
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when we come back,
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when I come back
from America this time,
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they want to be baptized.
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So I'm looking forward to God
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willing to
another beautiful baptism.
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Every soul is worth it. Yes.
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Everything you
have to go through,
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all those bad roads,
all the people that you help
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that will never turn to Christ.
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It's worth it anyway
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because there's
a chance they will.
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Exactly, and God says
in the Spirit of Prophecy
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that when we're working for God,
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He considers
everything a success.
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Wow. Yeah.
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And He's the one
that does everything,
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it's not me.
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He does everything, He
supplies all our needs,
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and we have full confidence
to totally depend on Him.
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And when those people,
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you know, they
come to you or whatever
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and they're so dirty
and you see where they live
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and they're, you
know, it's just like,
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they're the least
of the least, you know.
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And then you see
what they can become
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when they let
Jesus into their life.
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That's really, really special.
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And then when they know
that they are no different
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than the king of
Thailand, we're all the same,
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God loves them just as
much as all these people
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they think are so important.
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And that's a
neat thought for them
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because they're forgotten...
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The Karen
people are a forgotten,
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downtrodden, traumatized people
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but through it
all they've become...
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They are the kindest, sweetest,
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loving people
that you can't help
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but fall in love with them
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and just do all
you can to help them.
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Yeah, and I know
one of the things
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that's a burden on your heart
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and I would like
to ask our viewers
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to pray for also is for
the audio Bibles for them
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because many of
them are illiterate,
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they can't read.
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Yes, and so they
need the Bible in a format
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that they can understand.
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Yes, that is gonna
be the salvation of
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so many people
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and I know that there
are S'gaw Karen audio Bibles.
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And somehow the devil is
trying to block me from it.
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In the past we had somebody
donate about six of them
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and we've given them
out, they're just solar ones,
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so that it's hard
to get enough power
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from the sun to play it.
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Especially in the rainy season.
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Yes, so I need to get
and I will spend any money
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and work to get
audio Bibles for everyone
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because I feel like
that's the only hope.
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They can't stay off opium,
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they need to really
get a grip on the Lord.
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And as they listen,
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God will work to
help them understand
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and speak to their hearts.
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Right.
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Well, Gayle, I know
you have a couple of quotes
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you want to share
right here at the end also.
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It's amazing how
fast our time goes.
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Right.
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I talk a lot
about this for hours,
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but a couple of quotations
that means so much to me
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and are so powerful to
all of us to do our best
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to reach the lost.
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What would we want
other people to do for us
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if we were in their
shoes and didn't know?
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That people don't
know, they need Jesus,
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we have to go to them.
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And so what should we
be willing to sacrifice?
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Here it says in Review
and Herald, Jesus about Jesus,
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"His suffering, his agony,
his death was counted by him
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as nothing
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that souls might
be rescued from sin."
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I think that's really beautiful
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and then comes
the admonition for us
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which is can be,
make you tremble.
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"If we are not willing
to make special sacrifices
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in order to save souls
that are ready to perish,
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how can we be counted worthy
to enter the city of God?"
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So this brings tears to
my eyes because this is true.
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We've forgotten our
first love as a church
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and we are not
missionary minded.
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We're not going out
to the one lost sheep
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of the ninety and nine.
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We want to stay
in the fold of safety
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where everything is easy
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but that's not what
God is asking us to do.
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And if Jesus was
willing to do anything,
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everything He went through
He would have done for one.
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Yes.
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What are we
willing to do for them?
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And for me, if I think
I'm going to be in heaven
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how much do I owe the Lord
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to lead up my
brothers and sisters
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and how terrible if
they come to me and said,
00:27:01.08\00:27:02.92
"You were right there
and you didn't tell me."
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I don't want
that happen to anyone.
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No.
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How would you feel if it was you
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and someone came and said,
00:27:11.93\00:27:12.99
"You were right there
and you didn't tell me."
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And then they said,
"And now I'm eternally lost."
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Wouldn't it be better
if they came and they said,
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"You came and you
told me and I'm here
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and I get to see
Jesus face to face."
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Wouldn't that be better?
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I just want to invite you,
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if the Lord has impressed
you to get involved in any way.
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You can give
for Gayle's project,
00:27:35.82\00:27:37.32
you can pray
for Gayle's project,
00:27:37.35\00:27:38.99
you can tell others.
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We need mission's advocates here
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in America too.
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But if the Lord
has impressed you
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and you would like to give,
00:27:46.63\00:27:47.60
you can give your
tax-deductible love gift
00:27:47.66\00:27:50.10
at Jesus for Asia,
00:27:50.13\00:27:51.77
PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
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Call us at 423-413-7321.
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Or go to our
website at Jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless you
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as we work together
to rescue the perishing
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so that Jesus can come soon.
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