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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood
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and my husband
John is with me today,
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as we bring you a miracle story
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and a vision to
expand the Kingdom of God
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into an unreached place.
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Hello love.
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- Hi darling, how are you?
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- I'm doing fine.
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I'm very curious about
where we're going today.
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- Well we are going to a
place that we have been before
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for quite a number of years.
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We're going to
see a miracle story
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and this is what i love
about our Bible workers is that
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they just keep
doing amazing stuff,
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where God keeps doing
amazing stuff through them.
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- Yeah, that's the
more accurate way to put it.
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Everything is because of God.
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- Oh absolutely.
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Yeah.
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Our breathing, right?
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And then the next part
we're gonna go to a place
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that has no
Adventist presence whatsoever.
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- Oh okay.
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- 12.5 million people
and so I am so excited
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because it's not often you get
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to do something that historic.
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- Right.
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That's for sure.
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- Yeah.
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And so as a as a JFA family,
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our donors, our supporters,
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our people whose
hearts are there that pray.
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We're gonna hear two
miracle stories today
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and with tremendous potential.
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- Okay
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- And the thing that kind
of ties these stories together
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is that the first
story is coming from a place
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where little over 10 years ago,
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there was basically no work.
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And they had this one state and
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the eastern half of
the state had lots of work,
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lots of Adventist presence.
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The western half of
the state had nothing.
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Do you remember that?
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And so they bifurcated the state
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and they sent a pastor,
the secretary and the president
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into that place.
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Three people for
like 10 million people.
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And they requested
JFA for 10 Bible workers.
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and by faith we
stepped out and said yes,
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and here 10 years later
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they've got 10 or 20
different meeting houses,
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churches with several hundred,
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probably over a thousand
people meeting every sabbath,
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worshiping God.
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- Yeah.
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From nothing?
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- Yeah from
nothing to established work
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and today that's one of
the reasons why today's story,
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because it's from that area,
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is so special to us.
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- Right.
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Wow.
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- Yeah.
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So we're talking
about Rajkot, right?
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- Yes.
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- Okay, yeah.
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I love that place,
those people are so sweet.
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That was the place
where I was greeting them all
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as they were leaving the
church and they got in the line
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and then after I
would greet them,
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they would go back
and get back in the line
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so I could greet them again.
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And I was like,
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"You guys, this is not
according to the plan."
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But anyway we had
a great laugh over it
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when I realized that
I was seeing them again.
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- Yeah, they just loved you.
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They've seen me several
times but they loved you.
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- I'm really excited
because this is the first time
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and my family has been
with me in North India.
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- Rajkot is a hundred kingdoms.
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(bright music)
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- Bye-bye.
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(bright music)
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- Happy to be here...
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(speaks in foreign language)
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(bright music)
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- So this is from this story
that we're going to be talking
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this next video
is from that place.
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- Okay.
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- To kind of
understand the power
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and the miracle
level of the story,
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we have to understand that
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there's a strong
caste system in India.
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It's not legal,
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but it's inbuilt
into the religion.
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So everybody
thinks along caste lines.
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Now caste as you know,
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there's four major castes
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and then there's the outcastes.
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And the highest caste of
all that is the Brahmins.
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They're the leaders,
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they're the spiritual
guides, the spiritual leaders.
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And the majority of
the Christian church
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is from the lower caste
or even from the outcaste.
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- Right.
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- And so it's
been very difficult
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to reach the Brahmin caste.
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Because for two reasons,
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number one, they
already have their religion.
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And number two, they
won't even drink a cup.
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- It's been used by a low
caste or an outcaste person.
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- Exactly.
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- Especially outcast.
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- I mean we think
there's racism in America.
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- Yeah, it's a touch point.
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But this is
even within the race.
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- The religion.
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So it's built
into that religion.
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So the idea of a
Brahmin coming to Christ,
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number one he's breaking caste
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which means that he'll
get cast out of his village,
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be thrown out of his village.
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- Yes, usually.
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Excommunicated from his family.
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- Right.
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- Not allowed to even
associate with them anymore
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and if he's allowed to live.
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- Yeah.
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- And so this is a
major serious thing.
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And so the story
you're about to hear is just,
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well anyway we should
just show the the video.
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- Yes.
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Okay.
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- His name is
Maheshdafda from Dharba Tolukah.
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It's a very fanatic area.
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And it's hard to work for
the Lord in that particular area
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because people are
actually in the idol worship.
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But today we will hear from him
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about how he
could bring other people
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for for the glory of God.
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(speaks in foreign language)
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- Actually nearby his village,
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is another
village, and he went there.
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Madubai Mohonbai
Stimali is living there,
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and actually they are
from Brahmimn community.
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They are the highest
post in the caste system
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so they never come to the Lord.
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But they were
suffering too much.
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He had three daughters two sons.
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Mother was lame.
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And they were
actually undergoing
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a very critical
financial problem.
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And he uh met our
brother Maheshdafda
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and they started
praying together.
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And actually first
people were mocking on him
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because what prayer will do?
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But after some time,
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the family came out
from the financial problem.
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His two sons got
job in a private company
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and they helped his family.
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And the family which
were actually suffering
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last so many years,
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they got a
knowledge of real God.
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His mother is literate,
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so she started
reading New Testament.
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Then they believed
and they gave a big feast
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to their family
members and their relatives
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and nearby 60 people were there.
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And they all openly declared
their faith on Jesus Christ.
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(in foreign language)
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And it was actually great day.
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That same day, 12
people were baptized.
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Whole family was baptized.
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All got New
Testament and all became
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the first Advent believers
in that particular district
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because Sunday
worshipers are there
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but we didn't have
the Adventist believers
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in that particular district.
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He got the chance
actually to meet his relatives
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from the same Brahmin community.
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And he goes there
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and he preaches the word of God.
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And the converted family
told their their relatives,
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"At least one
time hear Maheshdafda.
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At least one time.
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And you hear what he's saying
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and which kind of God is there
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and how God is working,
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how prayer is working."
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And because of that,
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he is able to
reach some five or six
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other Brahmin
community families.
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So thank you, Mahesh
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for you're work.
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(in foreign language)
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He's saying that it is
God's work and God's Word.
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- So, isn't that
an amazing story?
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- Yeah.
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- I mean this family
instead of hiding it,
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instead of
worshiping God in secret,
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they called a whole
family get-together,
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like a family
reunion through a party.
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- Yeah.
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- And told
everybody about their--
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- Straight out, they
were gonna be serving Jesus.
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- Yeah and then say you
need to hear what is prayer,
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how does it work?
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Who is this God?
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How do we serve Him?
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All this kind of
stuff, you just hear him once.
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And this is amazing.
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- Yeah, wow.
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What a blessing.
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To think about how this
family was hurting so badly,
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and then because of prayer
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they saw God
answer their prayers--
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- Yes.
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- And then they came
to know the true God.
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- Yeah and it just reminds me
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that we serve a living God.
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A real God.
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- And he cares about every
single one of our problems.
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Every single one of our issues.
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- Yes.
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And he was working,
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I believe He was
working with that family
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before they became converted.
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And so Christ is striving
with every soul on the planet.
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- Right.
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- And it takes a
human to come and connect.
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Make that connection.
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And so it's a beautiful thing.
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Very beautiful thing.
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- Yeah, wow.
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And God is
protecting them many times
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like we said before the video,
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there's so much anger in
the community and in the family,
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when someone decides
to become a Christian.
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And it's such a
blessing that God
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is protecting them from that.
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Opening the doors for
more people to learn about Him.
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- Yes exactly.
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So see why I was
excited about this story.
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- Yeah, it is a miracle.
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and it's beautiful.
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- Yeah, absolutely.
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- Wow, all right.
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Well now we're gonna
talk about an opportunity
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and also a miracle.
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- Yes.
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- So we're going
to the north now,
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we're leaving Rajkot
and going to the north.
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- Yeah, now Rajkot
is already in the north,
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but now we're gonna go to
the northern most part of India.
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- Okay.
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- You know how India
has that kind of, like that?
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Well we're going up there.
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- Okay.
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- And people are
familiar with the state already,
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the name of the state.
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They may not
recognize it as an area in India
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but it's Kashmir.
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Everybody knows about
Kashmir clothing, Kashmir wool.
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- Right.
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- This is where this is from.
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- Okay.
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- So we're going to Kashmir.
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And the reason why
this is so exciting is that
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you remember that we have
been talking about Punjab.
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- Right.
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- Where the entire southern
half of the state of Punjab
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had no Adventist
presence whatsoever.
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- Right.
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- And so through our
donors and our supporters
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we've been able to
project 20 new Bible workers
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into southern Punjab.
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- Right.
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- And they already have
brought somebody to the Lord.
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Now this happened
just right here in 2020
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when this project started.
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- Right.
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- Well the president of that,
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they call it the
North India section,
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okay, that section is over
Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.
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- Okay.
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- Okay, so he's talking to me
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and he is telling
me about the north.
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Of course
whenever people go touring,
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the large percentage
of them go up to the north
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because you can rent
motorcycles and you can go up,
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touring up those roads
way up through the Himalayas
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and you know it's
like a real adventure.
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And so he had
been talking to me.
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He started
telling me about the north
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and come to find out,
there's no work up there.
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There's no Adventist believers
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in the entire state of Kashmir.
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- Wow.
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Did there used to be?
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Were there ever?
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- Back 40 years ago,
they had started something
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but there wasn't
enough support for it.
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People got and
leaders got moved around
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and it just kind of dissipated.
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So basically that 40
years ago, those few members
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were all that there was
in the history of Kashmir.
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- And so in Jammu,
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which is on the
southern side of Kashmir.
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It's like another state kind of,
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I don't know.
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- Section anyway.
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- Yeah.
00:15:45.37\00:15:46.71
- The state.
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- Yeah gospel outreach
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has been sponsoring five
Bible workers in that area.
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- Okay so
there's some work there?
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- There's some work there.
00:15:54.75\00:15:56.02
But this is like uh
300 kilometers north
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and separated by
massive mountains.
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I'm gonna show you some
pictures of these mountains,
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they are the some of
the biggest in the world.
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And there's a
city in in a valley.
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It's a beautiful
green valley surrounded
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by these massive high mountains,
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with Pakistan to the west
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and mountains all
the way to Everest,
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all the way
through Nepal to the east.
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I mean just hundreds of
miles of massive mountains.
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And right in this green valley
is a city called Srinagar.
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So we were working to put
Bible workers into south Punjab.
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- Right.
00:16:36.16\00:16:36.99
- And we went up there,
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I went up there personally
and met the president.
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And it was Pastor Kishore Gill.
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- Okay so this is
his picture with you?
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- This is his picture with me
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and we went through
some amazing experiences.
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I went back later with my
photographer Jonathan Hill
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and we spent a few
days touring south Punjab.
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Love those people.
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Wonderful people.
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And then later he said,
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"Look this is the story of
what's happening in Kashmir."
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And you have to read this.
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Okay, this is
from Pastor Kishore.
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He says, "I've mentioned
that Mr Faz and his family
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were the first converted
Adventists from Srinagar in
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2017. And the way he
got converted is that
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he used to spend
his winters in Jammu.
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with the Gospel
Outreach Bible workers.
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He was helping the church there
00:17:24.97\00:17:26.68
but he was living his
summers up there in Srinagar.
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Recently he's decided to spend
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his winters up in Srinagar also.
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Over the last four years,
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he and his family
have been witnessing
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and they've got
10 other families
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that are joining the faith also.
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- Wow, that's neat.
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- And he's been mentoring
and training six other young men
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to be Bible workers.
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- Wow.
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- Okay, so now for the first
time in the history of Kashmir
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we've got seven people ready
to step out and do Bible work.
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- Wow.
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- I've never been up there.
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I want to go.
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But I wanted to
get a sense and a feel
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for what it was like up there.
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So then I
purchased some stock footage
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of the Kashmir area
and especially Srinagar,
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the main city there.
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The main city has about
1.2 million people in the city.
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And it's got a
beautiful lake right there,
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so a lot of tourists go
up there and go on the lake.
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They've got like vegetable--
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- Like a floating market?
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- Yeah, floating
market on the lake.
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And so we're
gonna just like go there
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but first we wanna
check out these images.
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Now this first image is
we're coming from the south
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and you can see this
beautiful green fertile valley
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and beyond it
these massive mountains.
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They just go on forever.
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And right in the middle,
a little bit to the left,
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a little bit up you
see a little red dot.
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That's where Srinagar is.
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And you go down lower
you see maybe some rivers
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and then you see those
little kind of gray dots around,
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those are all
villages, individual villages.
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So the vast majority of
the population of Kashmir
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is in this valley.
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Because the rest is
just super mountains,
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I mean tall mountains, okay.
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And so this picture is coming
from Pakistan from the west,
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there's that
mountain range there
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and then there's this
valley in which Srinagar is in.
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And that's the city
where that family is
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and our seven Bible workers,
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I'm calling them
ours now, are living.
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- Wow.
00:19:39.44\00:19:40.68
- Yeah, okay now this
is a closer up shot of,
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you can see Srinagar down there.
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And then this is
kind of an overview
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of the mountains looking east.
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Wow that's towards Everest.
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But Everest is on
the other end of Nepal.
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So it's a long ways away.
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- Right, so it's not
visible to the naked eye?
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- No, not in this image.
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Now this next image,
this is coming from the north
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towards Srinagar,
you can see we've got
00:20:04.93\00:20:07.47
these white cloud
snow cloud mountains
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and this next shot
is looking straight down
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from that
position that it was at.
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This is glacier.
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So it's just an amazing
place to to have a presence
00:20:17.98\00:20:22.68
of the gospel.
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And I'm excited about that.
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Right, it's very needed.
00:20:30.76\00:20:32.46
Okay so now we
have this little video,
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it's just short little thing.
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One and a half
minutes that I put together,
00:20:37.67\00:20:39.40
just to get a feel
for the people, the place.
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It kind of motivates our
prayers a little bit more.
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- Right.
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(downbeat music)
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- So the last shot of
the slow pan over the city,
00:22:16.53\00:22:21.14
that's Srinagar, so
you can see how populated
00:22:21.14\00:22:24.01
it actually is,
00:22:24.01\00:22:25.37
so many people there.
00:22:25.37\00:22:26.71
- Wow.
00:22:26.71\00:22:27.94
- So this is the
power of the Bible worker,
00:22:27.94\00:22:30.08
is that they're already there,
00:22:30.08\00:22:31.45
so we don't need
to send them there
00:22:31.45\00:22:33.31
and they don't need to
learn a new language and--
00:22:33.31\00:22:36.08
- Or culture.
00:22:36.08\00:22:36.99
- Culture especially.
00:22:36.99\00:22:38.45
So while we're here
sitting in our homes,
00:22:38.45\00:22:41.96
the Gospel can still advance.
00:22:41.96\00:22:44.79
- On the other
side of the world.
00:22:44.79\00:22:45.86
- Yes we can have an impact.
00:22:45.86\00:22:48.26
We can hasten the day.
00:22:48.26\00:22:49.60
- Right.
00:22:49.60\00:22:50.83
- So I'm excited.
00:22:50.83\00:22:53.00
So the last, you
know Ellen White,
00:22:53.00\00:22:55.14
the one of the
founding members of our church,
00:22:55.14\00:22:58.97
the last few years of her life,
00:22:58.97\00:23:01.18
I don't know if it's
years or months or what
00:23:01.18\00:23:03.38
but she was in a house just
below the St. Elena Hospital,
00:23:03.38\00:23:08.38
and they would
look down there at night
00:23:09.58\00:23:11.02
and they would
see lights in the room
00:23:11.02\00:23:13.52
and those were actually
angels conversing with her.
00:23:13.52\00:23:16.99
And she said herself,
00:23:16.99\00:23:18.63
she says, "I hear
voices in the night.
00:23:18.63\00:23:20.96
They are saying,
advance, advance, advance.
00:23:20.96\00:23:23.93
Press the battle to the gate."
00:23:23.93\00:23:26.07
So in other words there
are still victories to be won.
00:23:26.07\00:23:29.67
This is our chance to increase
the population of heaven.
00:23:29.67\00:23:34.51
- You know brings tears to
my eyes to think about that
00:23:34.51\00:23:36.61
because there's so many people
out there that don't know.
00:23:36.61\00:23:41.05
So many people.
00:23:41.05\00:23:42.92
- That don't even have
an opportunity to know.
00:23:42.92\00:23:45.29
- Right, and
that sense of urgency,
00:23:45.29\00:23:47.76
do we really have
that sense of urgency
00:23:47.76\00:23:50.23
that it's like you know
this advance, advance, advance.
00:23:50.23\00:23:54.13
It just brings tears
to my eyes thinking about
00:23:55.33\00:23:59.10
how many people there are
in this world that don't know
00:23:59.10\00:24:01.90
and don't really
have opportunity to know.
00:24:01.90\00:24:04.54
- That's the key is
they don't have access
00:24:04.54\00:24:07.14
to that knowledge.
00:24:07.14\00:24:08.71
- But thank the Lord,
He's opening this area.
00:24:08.71\00:24:12.18
And He's giving us an
opportunity to be a part
00:24:12.18\00:24:14.48
of sending workers there.
00:24:14.48\00:24:15.85
- Yes absolutely.
00:24:15.85\00:24:17.25
- What a privilege.
00:24:17.25\00:24:18.35
- That's huge to make heavens,
00:24:18.35\00:24:20.69
to make history in heaven.
00:24:20.69\00:24:22.79
Now I know you said you call
it bringing tears to your eyes
00:24:22.79\00:24:26.09
but honey we
had to stop the show
00:24:26.09\00:24:28.20
because you were
you were weeping.
00:24:28.20\00:24:30.17
And I know that I do
more of the traveling,
00:24:30.17\00:24:35.17
you get to sit here
and see the finances,
00:24:36.37\00:24:40.01
with the great need and
the resources that we have
00:24:40.01\00:24:43.38
and I know that
your heart is to see
00:24:43.38\00:24:46.92
the advance of
the gospel speed up.
00:24:46.92\00:24:50.85
- Yeah.
00:24:51.99\00:24:53.22
- Because the way
that we're going now
00:24:53.22\00:24:55.36
it's not
keeping up with the pace
00:24:55.36\00:24:58.13
of what our opportunities are
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.30
and if we're really
talking about eventually
00:25:00.30\00:25:03.60
of the world knowing
about Jesus before He comes,
00:25:03.60\00:25:08.27
we've gotta go all in.
00:25:08.27\00:25:12.07
- Right, we've gotta be urgent.
00:25:12.07\00:25:14.74
We've got to take the the
burden that God has given us.
00:25:14.74\00:25:18.18
So I mean it's
really humbling actually
00:25:18.18\00:25:21.62
to think that God shares
His burden for souls with us.
00:25:21.62\00:25:25.02
- Yes.
00:25:25.02\00:25:26.55
- And He's willing to let
us taste a little bit of that.
00:25:26.55\00:25:28.66
I can't imagine what He feels.
00:25:28.66\00:25:30.86
It touches my heart when I
think about this particular area
00:25:30.86\00:25:34.36
or that particular area
but He's got the entire world
00:25:34.36\00:25:37.47
and He's looking at
all of it all at once
00:25:37.47\00:25:39.27
and He sees my gospel,
00:25:39.27\00:25:43.44
my voice, my heart has
no representative over here.
00:25:43.44\00:25:47.94
No representative over here,
00:25:47.94\00:25:49.34
there's one person there,
00:25:49.34\00:25:50.48
there's three people there,
00:25:50.48\00:25:51.81
He has thousands of people.
00:25:51.81\00:25:54.05
Like He told Elijah,
00:25:54.05\00:25:55.52
"I have thousands that
have not bowed the knee."
00:25:55.52\00:25:58.25
Like yet how many
more can there be?
00:25:58.25\00:26:00.49
How many more can there be?
00:26:00.49\00:26:02.22
- Yes, and that's a
topic for another show
00:26:02.22\00:26:04.59
because I want to
talk about some people say,
00:26:04.59\00:26:06.76
"Well you know there will
be people in heaven that have
00:26:06.76\00:26:09.80
never heard the name of Jesus.
00:26:09.80\00:26:11.67
So then why do we
need to go as missionaries?
00:26:11.67\00:26:13.47
Why do we need to work hard
00:26:13.47\00:26:14.70
because there'll be
people there anyway?"
00:26:14.70\00:26:16.57
- Right.
00:26:16.57\00:26:17.94
- And I believe that
there's three groups,
00:26:17.94\00:26:19.57
one group would
be there in heaven
00:26:19.57\00:26:21.28
whether they heard
the name of Jesus or not.
00:26:21.28\00:26:23.58
Another group
will not be in heaven
00:26:23.58\00:26:26.05
whether they hear
the name of Jesus or not,
00:26:26.05\00:26:28.45
but the third group
will not be in heaven
00:26:28.45\00:26:31.59
unless somebody tells them about
00:26:31.59\00:26:33.02
a sin pardoning
loving savior and they change
00:26:33.02\00:26:36.12
and they accept Him.
00:26:36.12\00:26:38.39
That's the group.
00:26:38.39\00:26:40.10
- Yeah.
00:26:40.10\00:26:41.26
- And who's to say
who's in which group.
00:26:41.26\00:26:44.27
those are the people
that we're going for.
00:26:44.27\00:26:47.64
- We have no idea
which group they're in.
00:26:47.64\00:26:50.31
So we can't say it's
not important to send
00:26:50.31\00:26:53.48
the gospel somewhere
because it's inconvenient
00:26:53.48\00:26:55.91
or it's
expensive or it's you know.
00:26:55.91\00:26:58.41
- It's life and death.
00:26:58.41\00:26:59.51
- Right, right.
00:26:59.51\00:27:00.68
We have to say,
00:27:00.68\00:27:01.95
we have to try to
send the gospel everywhere,
00:27:01.95\00:27:04.22
knowing that it's
only by His Spirit
00:27:04.22\00:27:06.02
that anything is
gonna happen anyway.
00:27:06.02\00:27:08.42
- Right.
00:27:08.42\00:27:09.66
- But if we don't open
our hearts to His Spirit
00:27:09.66\00:27:12.49
and let Him use us
wherever He chooses,
00:27:12.49\00:27:14.50
in whatever way He chooses
then we're closing the door.
00:27:14.50\00:27:18.70
And that's not safe
other people for eternity
00:27:18.70\00:27:21.97
and maybe on ourselves.
00:27:21.97\00:27:23.67
- Right.
00:27:23.67\00:27:25.17
But here we have a chance
to make history for heaven.
00:27:25.17\00:27:27.31
- And friends,
friends for eternity.
00:27:27.31\00:27:30.21
- Absolutely.
00:27:30.21\00:27:32.18
- And have more people to cast
their crowns at Jesus' feet,
00:27:32.18\00:27:35.28
that will be amazing.
00:27:35.28\00:27:37.05
- It's gonna be a good day.
00:27:37.05\00:27:38.42
It'll be a great day.
00:27:38.42\00:27:40.09
- Yes.
00:27:40.09\00:27:41.72
- Well if you would like to
help make history for heaven,
00:27:41.72\00:27:45.46
make friends for eternity,
00:27:45.46\00:27:47.46
you can contact
us at Jesus for Asia,
00:27:47.46\00:27:49.76
PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee 37315.
00:27:49.76\00:27:54.27
Call us at 423-413-7321
00:27:56.07\00:28:00.24
or visit our
website at jesus4asia.org.
00:28:00.24\00:28:03.81
May God richly bless you
until we see you next time
00:28:03.81\00:28:07.12
on Jesus for Asia Now.
00:28:07.12\00:28:08.52
(bright music)
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