WEBVTT 00:01.740 --> 00:07.310 Like everyone else, you're scared of dying, but the power of death has been 00:07.310 --> 00:15.970 blown apart and you live forever if you soften your heart. 00:16.670 --> 00:22.950 This evening of ministry was taken to over 100 cities starting in the fall of 1982 00:22.950 --> 00:24.230 after the crash. 00:24.870 --> 00:27.670 And over 300,000 of you came to see it. 00:27.670 --> 00:29.930 There's been tremendous fruit. 00:30.090 --> 00:32.050 I've seen lives changed by it. 00:32.770 --> 00:37.690 And I'm anticipating the Lord really speaking into many more lives through this 00:37.690 --> 00:39.950 opportunity to bring it to you in this manner. 00:40.430 --> 00:45.490 So listen with an open heart and ask the Lord if He has something for you. 00:46.650 --> 00:51.450 Alright, I want to share with you a few minutes before we show you Keith's video 00:51.450 --> 00:57.170 because the Lord has been so good to me and I know there are many of you that are 00:57.170 --> 01:02.090 sitting out there that could say the exact same thing, that God has shown you 01:02.090 --> 01:06.930 tremendous grace and tremendous mercy in moments that have been beyond your 01:06.930 --> 01:07.470 control. 01:08.030 --> 01:12.150 And the plane crash that happened two years ago was definitely something that 01:12.150 --> 01:13.630 was beyond my control. 01:14.290 --> 01:17.230 Some friends of ours were visiting from California. 01:17.570 --> 01:21.810 They were on their way to start a church in Connecticut and they had promised their 01:21.810 --> 01:23.630 children a plane ride when they got to Texas. 01:23.630 --> 01:27.310 We were leasing a plane for Keith's tours, so we had one there. 01:28.070 --> 01:32.510 And it was starting to get dark and these friends of ours had six children, 01:32.930 --> 01:34.310 so they took all their children. 01:34.790 --> 01:38.310 Keith took two of our children, our oldest son Josiah, who was almost 01:38.310 --> 01:41.650 four, and Bethany, who was two and a half. 01:41.990 --> 01:45.410 And they all piled in the station wagon and went up to the airstrip. 01:45.870 --> 01:48.330 We said bye, you know, be back in a few minutes. 01:48.690 --> 01:49.610 I stayed home. 01:50.390 --> 01:54.210 I had a one-year-old daughter that stayed home with me and I was pregnant with my 01:54.210 --> 01:54.990 fourth child. 01:55.630 --> 01:58.130 I had just found out just a few days beforehand. 01:59.190 --> 02:02.930 And they took off and I fully expected to see them all back in just a few minutes. 02:03.150 --> 02:08.770 I went out to my office to do some work and what seemed just like a short time 02:08.770 --> 02:10.430 later, the phone rang. 02:10.670 --> 02:13.570 And one of the girls from the office said, Melody, the plane went down. 02:14.050 --> 02:16.810 Tell Keith, because, you know, he'd want to know. 02:17.330 --> 02:20.250 She said, I'm calling an ambulance, but I wanted to call you first. 02:20.250 --> 02:22.990 And I had no idea what that meant. 02:23.130 --> 02:24.330 The plane went down. 02:25.090 --> 02:29.930 All I did was get my car keys and get in the car and try and get to the site of the 02:29.930 --> 02:31.450 crash as soon as I could. 02:31.870 --> 02:33.090 And I didn't know what to expect. 02:33.270 --> 02:37.550 I could see a thin stream of smoke that was rising up over the hills. 02:37.870 --> 02:41.390 So I knew there had been some kind of a fire, but I didn't know what extent. 02:41.590 --> 02:46.230 I didn't know how big of a fire or what I'd find when I got there. 02:46.410 --> 02:48.450 It was hard to get there. 02:48.450 --> 02:52.390 I had to find neighbors to let us through their backfield. 02:52.650 --> 02:56.130 And I can remember knocking on these people's doors, one of the fellas, 02:56.350 --> 02:57.870 and said, can we get through your field? 02:57.950 --> 03:00.370 And these people came out, and I got in their pickup truck. 03:00.550 --> 03:03.890 We're bumping along the backfield, and they're kind of looking at me. 03:04.010 --> 03:06.050 I'd never seen them before in my life. 03:06.070 --> 03:08.430 And I said, my husband's in that airplane. 03:09.310 --> 03:11.350 And I couldn't even form the words. 03:11.410 --> 03:13.270 All I kept thinking is, my children are, too. 03:13.670 --> 03:16.010 And I couldn't even say that out loud. 03:16.050 --> 03:17.350 That was too much. 03:17.350 --> 03:19.770 I just kept saying, well, my husband's in that airplane. 03:20.490 --> 03:23.670 And we got to the area where the plane had crashed. 03:23.770 --> 03:26.170 It was an area of uncleared woods. 03:26.350 --> 03:30.990 I was lifted over a barbed wire fence, and I just started literally stomping 03:30.990 --> 03:31.910 through the woods. 03:32.390 --> 03:34.910 And my dress was tearing. 03:35.030 --> 03:35.670 I had sandals. 03:35.770 --> 03:37.230 They kept falling off my feet. 03:37.330 --> 03:38.570 I didn't know where I was going. 03:39.170 --> 03:40.750 I couldn't see anything. 03:41.330 --> 03:44.790 I didn't know what direction to go, but there were others walking with me. 03:44.790 --> 03:52.210 And when I arrived at the site of the crash, I just saw a huge area of burnt 03:52.210 --> 03:52.970 woods. 03:53.190 --> 03:56.050 It was now cleared from where the plane landed. 03:56.410 --> 03:57.950 The fire was over. 03:58.710 --> 04:00.170 And I walked over. 04:00.310 --> 04:02.770 I went from here to there to the airplane and looked. 04:02.850 --> 04:06.370 And all it was was just this charred heap of nothing. 04:06.970 --> 04:08.870 You know, the top was totally off. 04:08.970 --> 04:10.390 Everything was just burnt. 04:10.510 --> 04:12.090 There was part of a wing over there. 04:12.090 --> 04:18.330 And I kind of looked around and said, Well, did anyone get out? 04:19.110 --> 04:23.110 And they said there were several people there before I had arrived. 04:23.250 --> 04:25.370 And they said, No, no one got out. 04:25.410 --> 04:26.550 I said, Is it our plane? 04:26.970 --> 04:28.730 And they said, Yes, it's our plane. 04:29.210 --> 04:30.330 Do you know who was in it? 04:30.930 --> 04:35.750 And it was at that moment, just two years ago last week, that I realized that my 04:35.750 --> 04:40.730 husband and two of my children, our pilot who had worked with us for a 04:40.730 --> 04:46.470 couple of years, and another family and their six children, they had all gone to 04:46.470 --> 04:47.170 be with the Lord. 04:47.850 --> 04:52.950 And it was one of the most awesome moments of my whole life, just standing there and 04:52.950 --> 04:59.370 realizing that, just looking at that and saying, just trying to let the reality 04:59.370 --> 05:00.130 sink in. 05:00.370 --> 05:02.850 And it took a while for the reality to sink in. 05:03.550 --> 05:05.210 There was nothing else to do. 05:05.210 --> 05:10.050 I just went back home and made a phone call to a dear friend, Leonard Ravenhill. 05:10.770 --> 05:14.150 And I remember I got him on the phone and I said, Leonard, there's been a crash. 05:14.210 --> 05:15.470 And he said, Yes. 05:15.570 --> 05:18.990 And I said, Well, Keith and the children have gone to be with the Lord. 05:19.290 --> 05:21.650 And he just said, Oh, no. 05:21.850 --> 05:23.370 And he says, I'll be right there. 05:23.390 --> 05:24.050 And he hung up. 05:25.390 --> 05:29.950 And from that moment on, I just experienced such an outpouring of God's 05:29.950 --> 05:30.250 grace. 05:30.250 --> 05:36.190 My living room was filled with different leaders of different ministries that had 05:36.190 --> 05:37.990 heard the news and come over. 05:38.550 --> 05:43.690 And we all just sat there staring at each other and just couldn't believe it. 05:43.850 --> 05:44.850 I couldn't believe it. 05:47.250 --> 05:49.170 And God just carried me through. 05:49.270 --> 05:50.350 That's all I can say. 05:50.490 --> 05:54.350 I know that it wasn't anything in my own strength, because I didn't have the 05:54.350 --> 05:55.830 strength to go on. 05:55.830 --> 06:00.270 And I had never considered myself a super spiritual person. 06:01.130 --> 06:04.230 And here I was, and I was in shock. 06:05.090 --> 06:06.470 And not only that, I was pregnant. 06:06.830 --> 06:12.150 And it took me several months, probably two or three months, to even know 06:12.150 --> 06:15.430 what I really felt like, because I was so sick from being pregnant. 06:16.490 --> 06:18.150 And God's grace just sustained me. 06:18.230 --> 06:20.490 I know there were times when I wasn't hanging on. 06:21.110 --> 06:23.590 I was just... I didn't want to get up. 06:23.590 --> 06:28.010 I didn't, in my heart, if I could have just laid down and said, that's it, 06:28.090 --> 06:29.890 I quit, I would have. 06:30.450 --> 06:34.470 And yet, there was something in me that was saying, no, you can't do that. 06:34.950 --> 06:38.810 And God's strength was there in such a powerful way. 06:39.990 --> 06:47.470 I found out later that it was only 20 seconds between the time of takeoff and 06:47.470 --> 06:49.130 the time that the plane crashed. 06:49.610 --> 06:52.070 That really wasn't very much time at all. 06:52.070 --> 06:58.070 It didn't give anyone on the airplane time to prepare, to get right with the Lord if 06:58.070 --> 07:01.590 they weren't right, to go and say, oh, there's that brother that I've 07:01.590 --> 07:01.950 offended. 07:02.610 --> 07:06.190 Yes, Lord, I'll do the thing you've been asking me to do for the last three years. 07:06.250 --> 07:06.890 I'll do it now. 07:07.090 --> 07:08.250 Just get me out of this. 07:08.610 --> 07:09.410 There wasn't time. 07:09.870 --> 07:11.370 It happened so quickly. 07:12.290 --> 07:18.310 And I'm convinced, probably, when the plane started to go down, they weren't up 07:18.310 --> 07:18.850 that high. 07:18.850 --> 07:22.410 Maybe they thought they would walk out with some bumps and bruises. 07:22.850 --> 07:26.210 And that may have happened if the plane hadn't exploded. 07:26.350 --> 07:26.890 But it did. 07:26.950 --> 07:28.570 It was on full tanks of gas. 07:28.710 --> 07:31.570 They had just brought it back from the airport. 07:32.410 --> 07:34.970 And it just exploded on impact. 07:35.850 --> 07:42.250 And there was a ball of fire, 150 feet, that went up in the air that many people 07:42.250 --> 07:42.670 saw. 07:43.110 --> 07:44.570 And so it was just instantaneous. 07:44.870 --> 07:45.530 That was it. 07:45.670 --> 07:46.710 And they were with the Lord. 07:47.790 --> 07:51.230 It really made me reevaluate so much of my own life. 07:51.450 --> 07:54.770 So many of my own priorities and the things that I've been doing. 07:55.010 --> 07:58.850 I've been in full-time Christian service, really, since I've known the Lord. 07:59.130 --> 08:02.970 We got saved and just, you know, kind of went crazy for Jesus. 08:03.190 --> 08:05.730 And we were dragging people in off the beach and off the streets. 08:05.970 --> 08:07.570 And we were writing for CBS. 08:07.950 --> 08:09.750 Keith and I, we had a three-bedroom house. 08:09.930 --> 08:13.150 And we had a check coming in the mail every Friday from CBS. 08:13.150 --> 08:16.170 We didn't have to do anything for, but write songs. 08:16.170 --> 08:18.250 No office hours, nothing. 08:18.890 --> 08:21.570 And so we had money and we had a place. 08:21.970 --> 08:23.370 And God just started to fill it up. 08:24.350 --> 08:26.390 And He did fill it up. 08:26.810 --> 08:28.970 That was really the beginning of the ministry. 08:29.310 --> 08:33.550 But God so radically changed our lives when He came in and moved on our hearts. 08:33.910 --> 08:36.790 So from the very beginning, we were very involved. 08:37.170 --> 08:38.410 Just very involved. 08:38.890 --> 08:43.590 And yet I had to look back over my life and say, Lord, you know, have my 08:43.590 --> 08:45.410 priorities been right? 08:45.610 --> 08:48.070 Have I been walking with you the way I need to? 08:48.370 --> 08:52.090 If I would have been in that airplane, and I've said that to myself many times, 08:52.250 --> 08:54.450 would I have been ready to meet the Lord? 08:54.710 --> 08:55.810 I could have gone. 08:56.190 --> 08:56.890 I didn't. 08:57.570 --> 08:59.170 And it's really made me stop and think. 08:59.230 --> 09:02.470 And I've done a lot of soul-searching over these past two years. 09:02.710 --> 09:05.010 And a lot of changing my priorities. 09:05.630 --> 09:09.230 And getting my life right in a more solid way. 09:09.230 --> 09:13.770 I was walking with God, but He showed me areas that He said, Okay, let's tighten up 09:13.770 --> 09:14.950 here and tighten up there. 09:15.070 --> 09:17.230 What about this and what about that? 09:18.350 --> 09:22.610 So the Lord's constantly doing that with us as Christians. 09:22.810 --> 09:27.210 He's constantly showing us things that He wants us to respond to. 09:27.250 --> 09:28.530 Because we love Him. 09:28.790 --> 09:32.430 Not because there's this big club that's coming out of heaven. 09:32.870 --> 09:35.710 And if we don't obey, He's going to hit us over the head. 09:35.770 --> 09:39.030 No, that's not the kind of relationship God desires. 09:39.030 --> 09:40.950 That's a legal relationship. 09:41.170 --> 09:43.510 He's looking for a relationship of love. 09:43.690 --> 09:44.450 A love relationship. 09:44.650 --> 09:48.550 You love someone, it gives you pleasure to do things for them. 09:48.650 --> 09:50.730 It gives you pleasure to please them. 09:51.110 --> 09:53.070 You want to do what's going to make them happy. 09:53.710 --> 09:55.990 And it's a self-sacrificing love. 09:56.270 --> 09:58.410 And it's not because somebody's making you do it. 09:58.550 --> 09:59.890 It's not because you have to. 10:00.410 --> 10:01.750 It's because you want to. 10:02.150 --> 10:04.430 And it's because it's the best thing to do. 10:05.650 --> 10:10.710 So, I know that many of you have relationships with the Lord. 10:10.870 --> 10:11.530 You're Christians. 10:12.210 --> 10:15.430 You may serve Him to one degree or another. 10:16.330 --> 10:20.830 And I believe that this evening, the Lord's bringing a message for all of 10:20.830 --> 10:21.170 us. 10:21.550 --> 10:23.230 To re-evaluate our lives. 10:23.330 --> 10:30.090 To take a look at our lives and say, God, am I living according to what you 10:30.090 --> 10:30.830 have for me? 10:30.990 --> 10:33.090 Or am I planning my own life? 10:33.610 --> 10:36.790 God, are the things that I'm doing right now pleasing to you? 10:36.930 --> 10:39.430 Are they things that you've called me to do? 10:39.550 --> 10:42.530 Things that I know for sure you've asked me to do? 10:42.630 --> 10:46.650 Or are they things that I feel like doing and I'm just kind of hoping you're going 10:46.650 --> 10:47.190 to bless them? 10:47.290 --> 10:48.970 Because, you know, they're okay things. 10:49.810 --> 10:51.630 We all need to do that as Christians. 10:52.430 --> 10:55.630 And hopefully tonight will be a time of challenge. 10:56.490 --> 10:57.630 And re-evaluation. 10:59.010 --> 11:02.550 And just seeking that relationship with God. 11:02.550 --> 11:05.350 I sat out under the trees the other night. 11:05.570 --> 11:06.570 It was a beautiful night. 11:06.810 --> 11:10.330 And I was looking up at the stars and thinking, God, it's so beautiful. 11:11.050 --> 11:16.870 And it's so hard to grasp who you are and who I am in relationship to you. 11:17.230 --> 11:18.750 And I'd had a busy day. 11:19.350 --> 11:23.210 Just going from the time I woke up to the time I had gone to bed. 11:23.290 --> 11:25.690 There was just one thing after another. 11:26.790 --> 11:31.030 And when I sat there in peacefulness, I thought, You know, the most important 11:31.030 --> 11:33.810 thing is my relationship with Jesus Christ. 11:34.290 --> 11:39.010 Because if someone came and dropped a bomb on last day's ministries, or blew up the 11:39.010 --> 11:43.190 house, or I didn't have this to do, or that to do, what we go to heaven with, 11:43.210 --> 11:47.330 the only thing we take to heaven with us, is the relationship that we've built with 11:47.330 --> 11:47.650 Him. 11:48.430 --> 11:50.810 And that's our most valuable possession. 11:51.690 --> 11:56.370 And it's the only thing worth fighting for and worth going for and spending our 11:56.370 --> 12:01.150 energies in, is our relationship with Him. 12:01.670 --> 12:04.490 I visited Asia this last October. 12:04.770 --> 12:07.070 I took a tour of ten different countries. 12:07.470 --> 12:14.410 I spent a month and I would call it a brief overview of these countries because 12:14.410 --> 12:16.970 I wasn't in any one of them long enough. 12:17.770 --> 12:21.390 But, you know, two, three days, four days, that kind of thing. 12:21.390 --> 12:27.570 I walked through the refugee camps on the border of Kampuchea in Thailand. 12:28.150 --> 12:31.850 Some of those camps have since been shelled and just, they're flat now. 12:32.710 --> 12:37.110 And watched the little babies that were really malnourished. 12:37.670 --> 12:43.470 And just watched the women, you know, trying to take care of their children in 12:43.470 --> 12:43.810 this... 12:43.810 --> 12:48.230 I mean, the mud was so thick and it was all... there was no sanitation. 12:48.590 --> 12:50.170 There were some little huts out and back. 12:50.170 --> 12:56.230 But, I mean, the mud was just, you know, nothing you'd want to walk in or 12:56.230 --> 12:57.490 have your children play in. 12:58.110 --> 12:59.790 And I went to Calcutta. 13:00.110 --> 13:04.270 I couldn't get in and out of my hotel room without women coming to me with their 13:04.270 --> 13:06.870 children and asking for money and begging for food. 13:07.610 --> 13:12.370 I visited Japan with Calafi and his wife and stood in that railway station, 13:12.510 --> 13:17.770 Shinjuku, and watched the people just droves upon droves of dark hair just 13:17.770 --> 13:18.950 coming down those stairs. 13:19.650 --> 13:21.570 And God gave me such a burden. 13:22.250 --> 13:27.370 He gave me such a burden for another part of the world that I had never seen. 13:27.430 --> 13:29.170 And I'd always thought it'd be strange. 13:29.390 --> 13:30.270 How do you relate? 13:30.390 --> 13:31.310 You go to another country. 13:31.450 --> 13:33.090 It's really going to be different. 13:33.590 --> 13:35.650 And it is, to a certain extent. 13:36.090 --> 13:40.850 But I found that the things that we had in common were so much more than the things 13:40.850 --> 13:42.170 that were different about us. 13:42.510 --> 13:49.210 That common bond of humanity and being creations of Jesus Christ and knowing that 13:49.210 --> 13:52.350 God loves all of them just as much as he loves all of us. 13:53.430 --> 13:59.350 And being able to talk... I went to a Vietnamese refugee camp in Hong Kong and 13:59.350 --> 14:04.930 went into a little stall, I guess you'd call it, where this man and his wife and 14:04.930 --> 14:05.830 his children live. 14:06.450 --> 14:12.210 And I spoke with him for a few minutes and he was talking about how he had been on 14:12.210 --> 14:17.110 the boat for three months and then how they ran out of food and his baby was only 14:17.110 --> 14:22.490 three months old and his hopes of someone sponsoring him into Australia or New 14:22.490 --> 14:24.250 Zealand to get out of that camp. 14:24.330 --> 14:27.790 It was a very terrible situation, although I've heard it's a lot better now 14:27.790 --> 14:28.650 than it used to be. 14:30.550 --> 14:32.570 And there wasn't a barrier. 14:33.110 --> 14:35.490 There wasn't anything I felt like I needed to break through. 14:35.630 --> 14:39.670 Maybe a little bit of language to minister to him, but that was it. 14:39.670 --> 14:43.990 There was that heart that went out, the heart of Jesus. 14:44.350 --> 14:49.670 And I think as we expose ourselves to some of those things, not be afraid of going. 14:49.870 --> 14:53.790 Not be afraid of what would I say or what would I do, but trust the Lord to put that 14:53.790 --> 14:58.730 love in your heart because it's his love that we wouldn't be so afraid. 14:58.950 --> 15:00.290 There are so many needs. 15:00.750 --> 15:06.510 And the most terrible thing I saw when I was out in Asia and I saw some pretty bad 15:06.510 --> 15:12.330 things, was the lack of Christians, the lack of people to do the work. 15:12.810 --> 15:13.890 Just the lack. 15:14.250 --> 15:20.030 I went to a base in Madras, India, and there were maybe 12 people there to 15:20.030 --> 15:22.690 reach this whole city of millions and millions of people. 15:23.570 --> 15:25.270 And do you know of any other people around? 15:25.370 --> 15:29.730 Well, there's a scattered few, but their arms are not being lifted. 15:30.170 --> 15:35.050 And we have so much in America to give and so much to share. 15:35.190 --> 15:39.770 God's blessed us so richly that I know I had to search my heart. 15:39.950 --> 15:43.870 When I went five days into the trip, I was in my hotel room in Manila and I 15:43.870 --> 15:45.810 said, Lord, do you want me to come? 15:46.390 --> 15:50.310 Because already my heart had been won by the people I'd seen. 15:50.410 --> 15:52.750 I said, God, do you want me to go back and get my kids and come? 15:52.870 --> 15:57.550 And he definitely told me at that time, no, I don't want you to. 15:57.810 --> 15:59.490 I have other things for you to do. 15:59.610 --> 16:01.010 This is part of it tonight. 16:01.830 --> 16:06.490 But I had to ask because the need is so, so very great. 16:07.270 --> 16:11.710 So, as we show you Keith's video tonight, I really want you to watch with an open 16:11.710 --> 16:12.170 heart. 16:12.630 --> 16:16.930 Keith and I had just come back from a trip to Europe when the video was taken. 16:17.750 --> 16:20.890 And God had just placed that fresh burden on our heart. 16:21.210 --> 16:26.430 And of course, Europe is nothing compared to Asia in the area of human physical 16:26.430 --> 16:27.170 suffering. 16:27.170 --> 16:33.090 And yet in the area of just the spiritual darkness and the lack of Christian 16:33.090 --> 16:36.270 witness, it's desolate. 16:37.150 --> 16:39.330 And the Lord so impressed our heart. 16:39.690 --> 16:41.590 I'm blessed that we have this video. 16:41.850 --> 16:46.070 I think it's a miracle, really, because Keith didn't like to be taped. 16:46.450 --> 16:49.370 If he was here tonight, we would not have the cameras up. 16:52.290 --> 16:57.270 But somebody was at a festival and they were taping all the artists of a record 16:57.270 --> 16:57.730 company. 16:58.150 --> 17:03.030 And the guy that was doing the taping just felt like he was supposed to tape Keith. 17:03.650 --> 17:06.710 And it wasn't until after the crash that we knew we had this tape. 17:07.110 --> 17:09.970 So, I think that God just sovereignly planned it that way. 17:10.290 --> 17:12.490 That we had it to show you and to show others. 17:12.810 --> 17:17.350 I met people in Asia that were there because they had seen this video. 17:17.350 --> 17:20.270 Because they had come to a memorial concert last year. 17:20.650 --> 17:22.930 And they were serving on the mission field the next year. 17:23.590 --> 17:27.010 So, listen and watch with an open heart. 17:27.350 --> 17:28.410 And let the Lord speak to you. 17:28.430 --> 17:29.970 I want you to enjoy the tape. 17:30.250 --> 17:31.730 I think that it's powerful. 17:32.010 --> 17:33.310 There are some neat songs on it. 17:33.630 --> 17:35.970 Keith asks you to sing along in some of them. 17:36.070 --> 17:37.490 And please feel free to do that. 17:38.030 --> 17:40.810 So, I will be back right after that. 17:40.830 --> 17:41.130 Okay? 17:41.290 --> 17:42.030 God bless you. 18:49.580 --> 18:53.560 So many times I've tried to tell you. 18:53.880 --> 18:56.360 But I don't think you've been listening. 18:57.300 --> 19:00.900 There's nothing I want to try and sell you. 19:01.420 --> 19:03.060 Because His love is free. 19:04.520 --> 19:08.160 You're so proud of saying you're a seeker. 19:08.160 --> 19:11.400 But why are you searching in the dark? 19:12.100 --> 19:17.560 You won't learn a thing until you soften your heart. 19:26.320 --> 19:30.600 The message is oh so very simple. 19:30.920 --> 19:33.940 You gotta be like a child to see. 19:33.940 --> 19:40.280 Because Jesus said let those little children come unto me. 19:41.580 --> 19:44.520 You try to make things too complicated. 19:45.020 --> 19:48.340 But you really don't have to be so smart. 19:48.740 --> 19:53.440 You won't learn a thing until you soften your heart. 20:04.540 --> 20:11.900 Well, if just this once I could show you your empty life. 20:12.020 --> 20:16.700 I know you would follow Him right now. 20:18.300 --> 20:23.420 Well, I know it sounds just too good to be true. 20:24.240 --> 20:28.000 But if it lives in you, you'll never die. 20:28.160 --> 20:29.340 You'll never die. 20:29.540 --> 20:30.780 You'll live forever. 20:31.240 --> 20:32.720 You'll never die. 20:32.760 --> 20:33.680 You'll never die. 20:33.680 --> 20:36.620 Take care of it forever now. 20:41.460 --> 20:46.140 You tell everyone to keep on smiling. 20:46.460 --> 20:49.220 Your outlook on life is so positive. 20:49.920 --> 20:56.000 But deep down inside you're searching for a reason to live. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.340 Like everyone else you're scared of dying. 21:00.340 --> 21:04.200 But the power of death has been blown apart. 21:04.320 --> 21:11.540 And you'll live forever if you soften your heart. 21:13.460 --> 21:15.040 You'll never die. 21:15.220 --> 21:16.360 You'll never die. 21:16.660 --> 21:17.860 You'll live forever. 21:18.240 --> 21:19.520 You'll never die. 21:19.800 --> 21:20.880 You'll never die. 21:20.980 --> 21:26.320 Take care of it forever now. 21:32.520 --> 21:33.860 You'll never die. 21:34.120 --> 21:35.160 You'll never die. 21:35.340 --> 21:36.700 You'll live forever. 21:37.140 --> 21:38.640 You'll never die. 22:15.480 --> 22:21.320 For those of you who weren't here this afternoon, I just wanted to share a few 22:21.320 --> 22:29.520 things about what the Lord's been doing on my heart and my wife's heart concerning 22:29.520 --> 22:31.060 the needs of the world around us. 22:33.560 --> 22:36.140 There was a man that lived 2,000 years ago. 22:37.080 --> 22:39.500 And I know you're thinking, I'm going to talk about Jesus. 22:39.660 --> 22:41.540 Well, I am in kind of an indirect way here. 22:42.420 --> 22:45.280 The person I want to talk about tonight is a guy named Paul. 22:46.920 --> 22:49.360 He used to be called Saul before that. 22:50.820 --> 22:55.260 Always seems like when people found the Lord, they got their name changed, 22:55.340 --> 22:55.620 you know. 22:56.380 --> 22:57.280 Jacob to Israel. 23:00.600 --> 23:01.680 Simon to Peter. 23:04.740 --> 23:05.900 Judas to mud. 23:12.960 --> 23:17.020 My wife and I just came back from a trip overseas visiting missionary bases. 23:17.880 --> 23:22.460 And it opened our eyes to a couple of facts. 23:24.240 --> 23:27.600 One of them was, God's not an American. 23:29.440 --> 23:30.880 He's not even a Republican. 23:36.060 --> 23:41.660 But God's... God's world belongs to Him and He loves everybody the same. 23:42.800 --> 23:44.380 That's an amazing thing to realize. 23:47.020 --> 23:52.460 That He loves an old drunk in the streets of Calcutta right now, passed out, 23:52.520 --> 23:53.960 as much as He loves Ronald Reagan. 23:56.580 --> 24:01.320 And He loves you and every other person, whether they're known or forgotten. 24:04.480 --> 24:09.680 And His heart goes out to the masses, for it says in the Bible, the Word of God. 24:11.300 --> 24:16.180 It is not God's will that any should perish, but that all should come to 24:16.180 --> 24:16.560 repentance. 24:20.510 --> 24:23.310 And I run into people and I say, what are you doing for the Lord? 24:23.390 --> 24:26.330 And they go, well, I'm a banker for Christ, you know. 24:27.030 --> 24:28.690 I'm a lawyer for Jesus. 24:28.850 --> 24:29.950 I'm a student for Jesus. 24:30.230 --> 24:32.570 I'm a biker for Jesus. 24:32.870 --> 24:39.210 Everybody's, you know, you put a dove or a fish on your shirt, then you can 24:39.210 --> 24:40.350 Christianize it, I guess. 24:42.610 --> 24:48.590 But as I traveled around and I saw whole nations of people, where there was only 50 24:48.590 --> 24:50.650 or 100 believers in the whole country. 24:53.170 --> 24:59.270 What I saw was, it's either God's will for it to be this way, or it's gotta be 24:59.270 --> 25:00.350 somebody else's fault. 25:00.470 --> 25:02.410 It's either God's fault that the world isn't being won. 25:05.390 --> 25:07.170 No, there's no fault in God. 25:08.030 --> 25:10.230 And I already told you what His Bible says. 25:10.710 --> 25:12.350 It's not His will for any to perish. 25:13.810 --> 25:16.130 But there's a little command found in the Bible. 25:17.750 --> 25:24.290 And that little command says, Go ye into all the nations and preach the gospel unto 25:24.290 --> 25:27.230 every creature and make disciples of men. 25:30.050 --> 25:32.890 And we like to think, well, that was for the disciples, you know. 25:33.050 --> 25:34.170 That was for the apostles. 25:34.810 --> 25:36.070 That's for the missionaries. 25:36.150 --> 25:37.930 That's for old ladies that can't find husbands. 25:38.910 --> 25:41.070 That need to bury their troubles on the mission field. 25:41.990 --> 25:43.470 That's for humanitarians. 25:44.530 --> 25:46.330 That's for real Christians. 25:46.490 --> 25:48.350 I mean, really, you know, really. 25:48.430 --> 25:52.390 They're so spiritual they can't stay in society, so they gotta go overseas and 25:52.390 --> 25:54.910 bury themselves in some tribe somewhere down the Amazon. 25:58.390 --> 25:59.750 But I'll tell you what, folks. 26:00.490 --> 26:02.230 The world isn't being won today. 26:04.150 --> 26:06.150 Because we're not doing it. 26:07.150 --> 26:08.490 It's our fault. 26:09.410 --> 26:13.310 This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls 26:13.310 --> 26:13.890 on the earth. 26:15.490 --> 26:19.870 And nowhere in the world is the gospel so plentiful as in the United States. 26:21.210 --> 26:21.770 Nowhere. 26:23.610 --> 26:27.250 And I don't want to see us stand before God on that day and say, but God, 26:27.330 --> 26:29.130 I didn't hear you call me. 26:31.150 --> 26:32.830 Here's something for all of you to chew on. 26:33.290 --> 26:34.550 You don't need to hear a call. 26:34.670 --> 26:35.690 You're already called. 26:36.410 --> 26:41.870 In fact, if you stay home from going into all nations, you'd better be able to say 26:41.870 --> 26:44.950 to God, You called me to stay home, God. 26:45.010 --> 26:46.130 I know that as a fact. 26:47.890 --> 26:52.890 I want to see the hands of everybody here that's heard a definite call from God not 26:52.890 --> 26:55.690 to go into all nations and preach the gospel. 26:55.790 --> 26:56.370 Raise your hand. 26:57.730 --> 26:58.170 One. 27:00.230 --> 27:00.670 Two. 27:07.190 --> 27:07.630 Two. 27:08.490 --> 27:10.130 It might be three or four that I missed. 27:13.290 --> 27:17.030 Well, the rest of you are called unless God tells you otherwise before you leave 27:17.030 --> 27:20.770 on your airplane trip or hitchhike across the ocean or whatever you're going to do. 27:21.570 --> 27:23.850 Now, don't go out and sell everything and leave tomorrow. 27:25.370 --> 27:26.310 Get some training. 27:27.970 --> 27:30.190 You don't need a college degree necessarily. 27:32.810 --> 27:34.710 Sure is a good reason to go to college though. 27:34.830 --> 27:37.770 I know so many kids that go to college, they don't even know that God's told them 27:37.770 --> 27:38.030 to go. 27:38.330 --> 27:39.250 They don't know why they're there. 27:39.350 --> 27:41.790 Everybody else in church is gone and mom and dad wants them to go. 27:41.850 --> 27:42.690 That's good enough for them. 27:43.510 --> 27:45.010 I'll tell you what, it ain't good enough for Jesus. 27:46.130 --> 27:49.850 He wants you to be in His army and He wants you to take orders from Him. 27:50.890 --> 27:52.550 And sure, He wants you to submit to your parents. 27:53.610 --> 27:57.550 But He wants you to find out what your Father in Heaven has to say first. 27:58.210 --> 27:59.590 What does He have to say for you? 28:00.110 --> 28:02.010 If you don't hear anything, know this. 28:02.350 --> 28:04.030 You are called to go. 28:10.910 --> 28:12.670 There's a rule in the armed forces. 28:13.270 --> 28:18.530 Always obey the last order you got until you get new orders from command 28:18.530 --> 28:18.790 headquarters. 28:19.150 --> 28:23.410 The last order I got in my Bible was go! 28:48.080 --> 28:53.540 Jesus commands us to go. 28:55.460 --> 29:02.320 But we go the other way. 29:03.960 --> 29:11.000 So He carries the burden alone. 29:12.380 --> 29:19.680 While His children are busy at play. 29:20.200 --> 29:23.960 Feeling so called to stay. 29:24.960 --> 29:35.220 Oh, how God grieves and believes that the world can't be saved. 29:36.680 --> 29:45.260 Unless the ones He's appointed obeys His command. 29:46.020 --> 29:53.920 And His stand for the world that He loved more than life. 29:54.860 --> 30:00.460 Oh, He died and He cries out tonight. 30:06.460 --> 30:11.340 Jesus commands us to go. 30:12.340 --> 30:19.780 It should be the exception if we stay. 30:21.780 --> 30:28.660 It's no wonder we're moving so slow. 30:30.100 --> 30:36.700 When His church refused to obey. 30:37.700 --> 30:41.600 Feeling so called to stay. 30:42.480 --> 30:52.800 Oh, how God calls as He storms the great judgment of fire. 30:54.700 --> 31:00.740 So He can gain His greatest desire. 31:01.540 --> 31:07.460 Cause He knows that the souls of the lost. 31:08.520 --> 31:14.300 Can only be reached through us. 31:15.120 --> 31:18.980 Where His hands and His feet. 31:39.580 --> 31:41.120 Would you sing it with me? 31:42.260 --> 31:44.100 But only if you believe it's true. 31:45.420 --> 31:46.940 Jesus commands us to go. 31:48.580 --> 31:50.480 But we go the other way. 31:51.980 --> 31:54.560 So He carries the burden alone. 31:55.300 --> 31:57.900 While His children refuse to obey. 31:59.120 --> 32:00.860 Feeling so called to stay. 32:02.040 --> 32:02.620 Sing it with me. 32:02.680 --> 32:04.040 Jesus commands us to go. 32:06.560 --> 32:11.000 Jesus commands us to go. 32:11.640 --> 32:12.940 But we go the other way. 32:13.380 --> 32:19.040 But we go the other way. 32:20.360 --> 32:22.160 So He carries the burden alone. 32:22.600 --> 32:28.040 So He carries the burden alone. 32:29.020 --> 32:30.680 While His children refuse to obey. 32:30.680 --> 32:36.680 While His children refuse to obey. 32:37.780 --> 32:41.320 Feeling so called to stay. 32:43.040 --> 32:53.040 Oh, how God calls as He storms the great judgment of fire. 32:54.040 --> 33:01.140 So He can gain His greatest desire. 33:02.120 --> 33:07.900 Cause He knows that the souls of the lost. 33:08.760 --> 33:14.600 They can only be reached through us. 33:15.360 --> 33:19.040 Where His hands and His feet. 33:24.740 --> 33:26.340 Jesus, sing it. 33:26.880 --> 33:29.520 Commands us to go. 33:30.340 --> 33:31.480 It should be the exception. 33:32.220 --> 33:34.840 It should be the exception. 33:35.580 --> 33:38.200 If we stay. 33:38.800 --> 33:40.700 It's no wonder we're moving so slow. 33:41.200 --> 33:47.060 It's no wonder we're moving so slow. 33:47.540 --> 33:49.220 When His children refuse to obey. 33:49.220 --> 33:55.220 When God's children refuse to obey. 33:56.680 --> 34:00.120 Feeling so called to stay. 34:18.620 --> 34:20.940 I don't know what you think a Christian is. 34:23.260 --> 34:27.900 I've known so many people that think a Christian means going to church a lot. 34:29.420 --> 34:30.840 You may have heard this before. 34:31.060 --> 34:34.440 But going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonald's 34:34.440 --> 34:35.440 makes you a hamburger. 34:39.400 --> 34:41.140 Saying a prayer don't make you a Christian. 34:41.280 --> 34:42.740 People in every religion pray. 34:44.460 --> 34:46.720 Even praying to Jesus doesn't make you a Christian. 34:46.820 --> 34:49.600 He says, many shall come in that day and say, Lord, Lord. 34:50.740 --> 34:52.760 He says, depart from me, I never knew you. 34:54.640 --> 34:58.160 Having the gifts of the Spirit or looking like you've got them doesn't mean you're a 34:58.160 --> 34:58.420 Christian. 35:00.880 --> 35:05.220 Jesus said, many shall come in that day and say, Lord, did we not cast out demons 35:05.220 --> 35:08.180 and heal the sick and raise the dead and all kinds of stuff. 35:08.560 --> 35:11.040 And He'll say the same thing, depart from me, I never knew you. 35:11.940 --> 35:12.880 You know what a Christian is? 35:12.900 --> 35:14.380 I've got a really good definition. 35:15.620 --> 35:17.700 Someone who's bananas for Jesus. 35:23.500 --> 35:29.580 Someone who loves the Lord thy God with all his heart, all his soul, all his mind, 35:29.900 --> 35:30.880 and all his strength. 35:31.540 --> 35:32.920 Don't forget the second part. 35:33.560 --> 35:37.980 And he loves everybody else as much as he loves himself. 35:41.100 --> 35:42.540 Paul goes even further. 35:43.080 --> 35:46.500 He prefers that others get served before him. 35:48.820 --> 35:51.960 An unquenchable, undeniable love. 35:52.760 --> 35:54.100 That God puts in our heart. 35:54.760 --> 35:59.680 And that love doesn't just stay within the borders of the United States. 35:59.920 --> 36:02.040 Or in the borders of our own denominations. 36:02.400 --> 36:04.220 Or in the borders of our own church. 36:05.460 --> 36:08.100 But it's so large and it's so explosive. 36:08.800 --> 36:11.140 It explodes everything that gets in its way. 36:11.960 --> 36:15.140 With gentleness and power from the Holy Ghost. 36:21.750 --> 36:25.190 I've got a good, what they call, an acid test for you. 36:26.410 --> 36:30.370 If people can't tell that you're changed, you're not. 36:31.530 --> 36:36.010 If people can't see that you're born again, you're probably not. 36:37.510 --> 36:41.910 If your mother doesn't know that Jesus lives inside of you, she probably knows 36:41.910 --> 36:42.710 better than anybody. 36:45.390 --> 36:46.590 If Jesus isn't born again, you're probably not. 36:46.590 --> 36:48.970 And he isn't showing in your clean, spotless bedroom. 36:50.330 --> 36:56.210 And he isn't showing in the way that you deal with people. 36:58.590 --> 37:01.230 And your Christianity leaves a lot to be desired. 37:02.710 --> 37:05.370 And sure, there's people that go to the ends of the earth that aren't Christian. 37:07.350 --> 37:13.190 In fact, the Mormon church sends their young people for two years out of their 37:13.190 --> 37:14.390 lives to the mission field. 37:14.390 --> 37:18.190 Every single Mormon youngster goes for two years to the mission field. 37:21.310 --> 37:24.750 How come we can't even match that? 37:25.430 --> 37:28.790 How come we can't send our young people for six months? 37:29.730 --> 37:31.310 How come it's a special breed? 37:32.330 --> 37:35.010 But you're going, Keith, what about the lost in America? 37:36.090 --> 37:37.690 What about the lost in America? 37:37.690 --> 37:39.250 Hey, don't worry. 37:39.670 --> 37:47.130 If God makes it clear to you to go, which I think he already has to many of 37:47.130 --> 37:52.170 you this weekend, there will always be enough people who won't obey the call to 37:52.170 --> 37:54.410 stay around and witness here. 37:55.190 --> 37:55.730 Don't worry. 37:56.270 --> 38:00.470 You're going, but Keith, I need to keep my secular job and keep sending my 50 bucks a 38:00.470 --> 38:01.230 month to World Vision. 38:01.430 --> 38:02.370 If I don't, who will? 38:02.450 --> 38:02.950 Don't worry. 38:02.950 --> 38:07.450 There will always be enough people around that won't obey the call that will send a 38:07.450 --> 38:09.910 check rather than their bodies as living sacrifices. 38:10.630 --> 38:12.310 There will always be enough people. 38:12.790 --> 38:15.370 Now, I'm not saying everybody who doesn't go is disobedient. 38:15.890 --> 38:19.150 I'm just saying about 99.99% are. 38:20.110 --> 38:21.250 That's what I believe. 38:21.750 --> 38:23.190 I've seen the world, folks. 38:23.990 --> 38:25.730 And I've seen that it's lost. 38:26.250 --> 38:29.270 And there's billions of people out there that don't know God. 38:29.830 --> 38:32.650 Now, either it's his fault or ours. 38:46.710 --> 38:48.430 Do you see? 38:49.130 --> 38:50.450 Do you see? 38:50.650 --> 38:53.090 All the people sinking down? 38:53.890 --> 38:54.930 Don't you care? 38:55.410 --> 38:56.370 Don't you care? 38:56.930 --> 38:59.190 Are you gonna let them drown? 38:59.970 --> 39:02.350 God's calling and you're the one. 39:05.710 --> 39:08.210 How can you be so numb? 39:08.690 --> 39:11.210 Not to care if they come? 39:13.470 --> 39:18.850 You close your eyes and pretend the job's done? 39:24.420 --> 39:26.160 Oh, bless me, Lord. 39:26.400 --> 39:27.560 Bless me, Lord. 39:27.800 --> 39:30.020 You know, it's all I ever hear. 39:30.980 --> 39:32.000 No one aches. 39:32.320 --> 39:33.220 No one hurts. 39:33.800 --> 39:35.780 No one even sheds a tear. 39:36.540 --> 39:37.840 But he cries. 39:37.920 --> 39:38.540 He weeps. 39:38.780 --> 39:39.660 He bleeds. 39:39.840 --> 39:42.760 And he cares for your needs. 39:45.000 --> 39:47.680 And he keeps soaking it in. 39:51.080 --> 39:53.360 Can't you see it's such sin? 39:55.560 --> 39:59.700 Because he sends people to your door. 39:59.980 --> 40:02.500 And you turn them away. 40:02.780 --> 40:07.200 While you smile and say, Oh, God bless you. 40:07.600 --> 40:08.500 Be at peace. 40:08.920 --> 40:12.000 And all heaven just weeps. 40:14.220 --> 40:18.000 Because Jesus came to your door. 40:20.200 --> 40:23.290 You've left him out on the streets. 40:29.580 --> 40:30.820 Open up. 40:31.500 --> 40:32.300 Open up. 40:33.000 --> 40:34.960 And give yourself away. 40:35.560 --> 40:36.780 You see the need. 40:37.000 --> 40:38.210 You hear the cries. 40:38.980 --> 40:40.960 So how can you delay? 40:40.960 --> 40:42.940 God's calling. 40:43.380 --> 40:44.140 And you're the one. 40:44.700 --> 40:46.820 But like Jonah, you run. 40:47.800 --> 40:49.840 He's told you to speak. 40:50.140 --> 40:52.580 But you keep holding it in. 40:55.160 --> 40:58.200 Oh, can't you see it's such sin? 41:00.260 --> 41:04.460 The world is sleeping in the dark. 41:04.780 --> 41:07.300 That the church just can't fight. 41:07.500 --> 41:10.060 Because it's asleep in the light. 41:10.960 --> 41:13.080 How can you be so dead? 41:13.580 --> 41:17.340 When you've been so well fed? 41:19.340 --> 41:22.500 Jesus rose from the grave. 41:24.360 --> 41:27.600 You can't even get out of bed. 41:30.720 --> 41:33.840 Jesus rose from the dead. 41:36.100 --> 41:40.600 Come on, get out of your bed. 41:42.060 --> 41:46.620 Come on, get out of your bed. 41:56.800 --> 42:00.180 How can you be so numb? 42:00.560 --> 42:03.100 Not to care if they come? 42:03.700 --> 42:09.120 You close your eyes and pretend the job's done. 42:09.680 --> 42:14.920 You close your eyes and pretend the job's done. 42:15.720 --> 42:17.980 Don't close your eyes. 42:18.080 --> 42:21.720 Don't pretend the job's done. 42:28.110 --> 42:29.390 Oh, come away. 42:29.730 --> 42:30.890 Come away. 42:31.370 --> 42:34.170 Come away with me, my love. 42:34.170 --> 42:34.730 Oh, yes. 42:35.030 --> 42:37.470 Come away from this mess. 42:37.790 --> 42:41.370 Come away with me, my love. 42:46.230 --> 42:47.770 Do you see? 42:48.270 --> 42:49.290 Do you see? 42:49.810 --> 42:51.890 All the people sinking down? 42:52.810 --> 42:53.650 Don't you care? 42:54.370 --> 42:55.210 Don't you care? 42:55.950 --> 42:58.430 How you gonna let them drown? 43:57.140 --> 44:01.700 Open your eyes to the world all around you. 44:01.940 --> 44:03.320 Open your eyes. 44:03.960 --> 44:05.500 Open your eyes. 44:05.880 --> 44:09.840 This world is much more than the things that surround you. 44:10.340 --> 44:13.880 You must arise and open your eyes. 44:14.300 --> 44:16.980 Sometimes we're too busy to share. 44:18.440 --> 44:22.220 But Jesus wants us to care. 44:23.320 --> 44:23.760 Care. 44:24.700 --> 44:28.940 Open your arms to the naked and shivering. 44:29.400 --> 44:30.800 Open your arms. 44:31.440 --> 44:32.720 Open your arms. 44:32.840 --> 44:34.740 We need a little less taking. 44:35.100 --> 44:37.220 A whole lot more giving. 44:37.580 --> 44:39.240 We're so safe and warm. 44:39.520 --> 44:41.540 We can open our arms. 44:43.540 --> 44:45.900 And love a little bit stronger. 44:47.600 --> 44:51.240 And pray a little bit longer. 44:52.400 --> 44:53.240 Longer. 44:53.760 --> 45:00.940 Jesus says if we love someone in his name, we're loving him. 45:02.260 --> 45:09.040 Jesus says if we touch someone in his name, we're touching him. 45:10.880 --> 45:13.640 And we need to show them the light. 45:15.020 --> 45:19.120 And we've got to pour out our lives. 45:19.280 --> 45:20.700 Our lives. 45:20.700 --> 45:24.740 Open your hearts to the ones who are desperate. 45:25.940 --> 45:27.000 Open your hearts. 45:27.700 --> 45:29.180 Open your hearts. 45:29.580 --> 45:31.420 They may never repay you. 45:31.760 --> 45:34.000 But their souls are worth it. 45:34.060 --> 45:35.960 But their souls are worth it. 45:36.180 --> 45:37.700 Just open your heart. 45:38.280 --> 45:41.020 Jesus loves all men the same. 45:41.740 --> 45:46.180 So we've got to go out in his name. 45:46.440 --> 45:47.640 His name. 45:48.640 --> 45:55.560 Jesus says if we love someone in his name, we're loving him. 45:56.900 --> 46:03.940 Jesus says if we touch someone in his name, we're touching him. 46:05.520 --> 46:12.010 Jesus says if we feed someone in his name, we're feeding him. 46:12.890 --> 46:13.370 Listen. 46:14.650 --> 46:15.450 Jesus says. 46:15.750 --> 46:17.190 Jesus says. 46:17.970 --> 46:20.350 Jesus says it's him. 46:23.950 --> 46:28.490 Open your eyes to the world all around you. 46:28.850 --> 46:30.050 Open your eyes. 46:30.610 --> 46:32.930 Open your eyes. 46:50.960 --> 46:54.300 I think the message tonight has really been clear. 46:56.580 --> 47:00.960 And I want to give you a chance to respond to that before we leave. 47:01.620 --> 47:08.140 I'm not saying that you will be responding to, yes, I'll go to Africa tomorrow. 47:08.420 --> 47:09.540 Okay, I'll pack my bags. 47:09.700 --> 47:11.360 I'll be down at the Greyhound station. 47:12.000 --> 47:18.020 But what I think God is saying tonight is that we need to be available to him. 47:18.580 --> 47:20.960 To do whatever he asks us to do. 47:21.080 --> 47:24.280 To go wherever he asks us to go. 47:24.300 --> 47:29.300 Wherever that might be and whatever that might mean to us personally. 47:30.660 --> 47:32.620 You may end up on the mission field. 47:32.760 --> 47:34.160 You may end up in YWAM. 47:34.800 --> 47:36.520 Not necessarily, but you might. 47:37.380 --> 47:41.000 I just heard a report from Lauren Cunningham. 47:41.080 --> 47:42.720 He's the founder of YWAM. 47:43.120 --> 47:46.600 About a girl who was called of God to go to Mombasa. 47:48.640 --> 47:51.080 And she prayed before she left. 47:51.080 --> 47:52.640 And God gave her a scripture. 47:52.860 --> 47:57.200 It said, to live is Christ, but to die is gain. 47:58.120 --> 48:03.340 And she went to her parents and said, Mom, Dad, God's given me this scripture. 48:03.500 --> 48:06.680 I know I'm called to go, but promise me one thing. 48:06.700 --> 48:11.540 If I don't come back, that you'll bury me in Africa. 48:12.900 --> 48:16.320 And the father reports that he wept for two days. 48:17.000 --> 48:20.180 And then he went to her and said, okay, I'll agree to that. 48:21.080 --> 48:24.880 And the day that she was scheduled to come home for her Christmas leave, she was 48:24.880 --> 48:26.440 buried in Mombasa. 48:27.160 --> 48:29.900 She had contacted cerebral malaria. 48:30.540 --> 48:33.920 Something for which there is no cure except for the hand of God. 48:34.220 --> 48:37.920 They fasted, they prayed, and the Lord chose to take her home. 48:39.040 --> 48:42.640 And about a year before that, she sat in one of these audiences. 48:44.940 --> 48:47.740 So, there may be a cost. 48:48.580 --> 48:52.000 And you shouldn't be too quick to count it. 48:52.200 --> 48:54.120 I mean, that is always a possibility. 48:54.840 --> 48:59.000 That the Lord may call you somewhere where there's disease or famine or war. 48:59.500 --> 49:00.940 And it will affect you. 49:04.260 --> 49:07.060 But, Keith and the children were not on the mission field. 49:08.160 --> 49:13.280 You know, if we let fear dominate us, then we're never going to even leave our 49:13.280 --> 49:13.860 house. 49:14.260 --> 49:16.840 You're going to say, well, they shouldn't have been in a small airplane. 49:16.840 --> 49:18.180 What if it was a car wreck? 49:18.680 --> 49:20.060 Should we not drive in cars? 49:20.200 --> 49:21.620 What if they got hit in the crosswalk? 49:21.740 --> 49:22.900 Do you not cross the street? 49:23.800 --> 49:28.520 There are costs that we need to count just by living and just by serving Jesus. 49:29.660 --> 49:33.120 So, maybe that's not the way to start out. 49:33.800 --> 49:37.580 A challenge to go to the mission field is to say you might die. 49:38.120 --> 49:39.140 But it's possible. 49:40.100 --> 49:41.220 It's very possible. 49:41.740 --> 49:42.850 We all will someday. 49:44.160 --> 49:45.980 That's the way the world is. 49:45.980 --> 49:47.120 Because death is a reality. 49:47.400 --> 49:48.760 It's just we don't know the time. 49:48.940 --> 49:50.260 We don't know when it's going to happen. 49:50.600 --> 49:54.920 But it's going to happen to all of us, one way or another, some place or another. 49:56.620 --> 49:59.760 And we just need to be doing what we know God's told us to do. 49:59.840 --> 50:01.480 So, when He comes, we're ready. 50:02.920 --> 50:07.800 So, maybe many of you haven't ever thought that you could go to the mission field. 50:07.980 --> 50:09.920 Or that God could use you in that way. 50:09.980 --> 50:13.220 Or that you'd have to go to four years of college before you could do something like 50:13.220 --> 50:13.420 that. 50:13.460 --> 50:14.120 You don't have to. 50:15.980 --> 50:16.200 It's possible. 50:16.320 --> 50:18.620 Like Calafi said, there are short-term outreaches. 50:19.080 --> 50:21.080 But this is to say, Lord, I am available. 50:21.440 --> 50:23.120 Maybe I've never considered this before. 50:23.280 --> 50:26.800 This is something that I want to say in obedience to you. 50:26.920 --> 50:31.080 If you call me to do anything or go anywhere, I will obey. 50:31.360 --> 50:32.300 I will respond. 50:32.820 --> 50:33.740 And I'll do it. 50:36.660 --> 50:38.400 So, I'm going to ask you to respond. 50:38.520 --> 50:41.240 Those of you that feel that God has spoken to you. 50:41.680 --> 50:46.000 And you can honestly say, Lord, I'm yours and I'm going to do whatever you 50:46.000 --> 50:46.760 ask me to do. 50:47.440 --> 50:49.760 Whatever that is, just stand up right now. 50:50.280 --> 50:51.340 We're going to pray together. 50:58.090 --> 51:03.210 As you can see, hundreds stood to commit themselves to the Lord that night. 51:03.990 --> 51:08.370 And I believe that there are many more of you that are watching this right now. 51:08.510 --> 51:09.830 That God has spoken to you. 51:09.870 --> 51:10.610 And that he's touched. 51:11.150 --> 51:13.390 And that he's asking for a commitment from. 51:13.990 --> 51:16.430 Now again, this isn't a commitment to me. 51:16.770 --> 51:19.010 But it's between you and the Lord. 51:20.270 --> 51:27.470 And what I want to do is pray for those of you that feel that you can say honestly to 51:27.470 --> 51:27.750 God. 51:27.870 --> 51:31.010 God, I will go anywhere that you ask me to go. 51:31.150 --> 51:33.790 I will do anything that you ask me to do. 51:33.810 --> 51:36.210 No matter what that's going to cost me. 51:36.970 --> 51:37.910 I want to pray. 51:38.510 --> 51:41.550 And you close your eyes and just agree with me in prayer. 51:41.790 --> 51:46.470 If you can agree, then just say a similar thing to the Lord in your own words. 51:46.890 --> 51:48.210 And then I'll pray for you. 51:50.810 --> 51:55.250 Lord Jesus, I commit myself to you 100%, God. 51:55.350 --> 51:58.630 I'm willing to go anywhere that you ask me to go. 51:58.790 --> 52:02.250 I'm willing to do anything that you ask me to do, Lord. 52:02.310 --> 52:04.250 No matter what the cost, God. 52:04.410 --> 52:06.450 I ask that you prepare me, Lord. 52:06.870 --> 52:09.370 And I ask that you guide my steps, God. 52:09.550 --> 52:11.630 And I ask this in your name, Jesus. 52:12.230 --> 52:12.550 Amen. 52:13.510 --> 52:18.830 Now, Lord, I want you to bless those who just committed themselves, God. 52:19.070 --> 52:22.790 And I want to ask that you would direct them specifically, Lord. 52:23.050 --> 52:27.030 That you would show them their next step, Jesus. 52:27.490 --> 52:30.190 That there would not be any confusion in their life. 52:30.470 --> 52:33.890 But that they would have clear marching orders from you, Lord Jesus. 52:34.010 --> 52:37.530 I ask that you would use them beyond their wildest dreams, God. 52:37.530 --> 52:42.870 That you'll anoint them and empower them to do things that they never dreamed they 52:42.870 --> 52:43.910 could do, Lord Jesus. 52:44.230 --> 52:46.390 For your glory and in your name. 52:47.030 --> 52:47.350 Amen. 52:48.970 --> 52:53.990 There's a scripture in 2 Chronicles that has been a great encouragement to me. 52:54.210 --> 52:56.170 And I believe it will encourage you, too. 52:57.030 --> 52:57.790 It says, 53:07.590 --> 53:11.850 And every time the Lord asks me to do something that I think I can't do, 53:13.070 --> 53:16.330 He reminds me that my heart is completely His. 53:16.610 --> 53:18.270 So He will strongly support me. 53:18.490 --> 53:22.590 And He will strongly support you as you endeavor to do His will. 53:23.290 --> 53:25.730 So believe that, because it's true. 53:25.890 --> 53:30.530 God will anoint you and give you every good thing that you need to carry out His 53:30.530 --> 53:32.150 will as you walk with Him. 53:33.060 --> 53:38.690 There are some things that you can do to help you to understand more of the needs 53:38.690 --> 53:39.270 of the world. 53:40.030 --> 53:45.410 And you should familiarize yourself with the organizations that are working in 53:45.410 --> 53:45.830 missions. 53:46.530 --> 53:52.210 And find out just where you fit in and how you could maybe hook up with one of these 53:52.210 --> 53:56.170 organizations and serve the Lord somewhere in another country. 53:56.930 --> 54:01.330 If the Lord has laid a particular burden on your heart, possibly you've always had 54:01.330 --> 54:08.130 a desire for India or Africa, the things of those countries interested you, 54:08.390 --> 54:09.950 well, maybe that's from the Lord. 54:10.290 --> 54:12.970 Do everything you can to find out about those people. 54:13.050 --> 54:16.290 Go to the library, read everything you can get your hands on. 54:16.910 --> 54:20.810 And allow the Lord to speak to you through the desires of your own heart. 54:20.970 --> 54:21.590 He'll lead you. 54:22.230 --> 54:27.350 I want to thank you for taking this time and allowing us to share a little bit of 54:27.350 --> 54:28.270 your life tonight. 54:28.270 --> 54:30.110 God bless you.