1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,320 And I find it really annoying. I don't like evangelism. And every day when I go out to 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,760 preach the gospel or go to witness, I'm going somewhere I don't want to go to say something 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,960 I don't want to say to people who don't want to hear it. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:16,880 Ray Comfort, it's great to have you on Charisma to be able to talk about what God is doing around 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:24,320 the world in specifically evangelism and your new book, Why Jesus, is what we're going to be 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,680 talking about. And that's so important that Christians share their faith, share the faith in 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:37,600 the Messiah Jesus. And so tell me about why Jesus and why this is such an important book for today. 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:44,960 You use the word that we don't use, the word evangelism. If you want to cause any YouTube 9 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:51,360 video to flop or have an outreach, you use the word evangelism because most Christians are so 10 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:56,240 excited about evangelism as they would be with a root canal. And I understand how they feel. 11 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,760 I know I'm not excited about door knocking. When I was a brand new Christian, I went door knocking 12 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:07,040 and I had the door open in front of me and a woman was standing there. And I just in a sincere voice 13 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,400 said, I'm not a Jehovah's Witness. And she said, well, I am. So I have like a nervousness when it 14 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,720 comes to knocking on doors. And if someone said to me today, we're going to talk about knocking on 15 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:22,640 strangers doors, I'd freak out. And that's how people feel about evangelism. But we've got to 16 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:30,080 do it. Charles Spurgeon called it an irksome task. It's really annoying. And I find it really annoying. 17 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,480 I don't like evangelism. And every day when I go out to preach the gospel or go to witness, 18 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,640 I'm going somewhere I don't want to go to say something I don't want to say to people who don't 19 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,280 want to hear it. But there are certain keys that bring Goliath down to Zacchaeus that will bring 20 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,920 the mountain down to a molehill. So the fear doesn't torment us. And that's why the book was 21 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:53,840 published. Yeah. So I find that very interesting because you are known as somebody that is preaching 22 00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:00,640 the gospel out on the streets every day, all day. And that's what you're best known for, I believe. 23 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:07,360 And, you know, going over the asking people if they've been if they've ever lied or stolen or 24 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,560 cheated and, you know, by their own admission, they are a thief, an adulterer, you know, all these 25 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,040 different things. And so you're really you do a really good job of pointing out our need for a 26 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:23,360 savior. But you just said something that I think is eye opening. And you said you don't feel like 27 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:29,360 doing it. Never do. If you don't feel like doing it, how do you get up in the morning to do that? 28 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,760 Well, it's the same way a firefighter who arrives at a fire and he sees on the fifth story, it's in 29 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:40,320 flames as a woman screaming out for help. Got two kids clinging to her. She's going to be burned to 30 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:46,240 death within five minutes. He's not excited about climbing a 60 foot ladder with smoke and sirens 31 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:52,240 and a screaming woman and screaming children. He'd be probably be terrified. He'd rather be at home 32 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,640 with his wife, watching an old black and white movie, having a cup of coffee. But he's a 33 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:03,040 firefighter. So what he does is he ignores his fears and thinks about the fate of that woman 34 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,680 and her children. And that's what motivates him. That's what motivates me. You know, when I became 35 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:13,040 a Christian, I stopped saying not your will, but mine be done and swung it around and said not my 36 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,440 will, but yours be done. That's what a Christian is. Someone who's had a Gethsemane experience. So 37 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:24,160 the Bible actually likens Christians to firefighters in the book of Jude. I think it's 23, 24. 38 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:31,120 It says others making a difference, having compassion, pulling them from the fire. And the 39 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:37,360 key is that word or those words, having compassion. Charles Spurgeon said, have you no wish for others 40 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,640 to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself. Be sure of that. Was he saying you have to evangelize 41 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:47,280 to be saved? No, no. He was saying if you've got love in your heart, if you're a Christian, if the 42 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,800 love of Christ is within you, you will weep at the thought of the ungodly being swallowed by death 43 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,680 and ending up in hell. And so it's love that gets me out of bed and seeking and saving that which is 44 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:03,600 lost. I don't spend all day evangelizing. I go out twice a day to a local college. I've got a bike 45 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,320 with a platform on the bike and I take my dog and the dog wears sunglasses. I ride straight into a 46 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,640 college. College students come up and say, I love your dog. How does he wear sunglasses? How does 47 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:18,240 she wear sunglasses? How do they stay on? Do you have a dog? Would you like to be on YouTube? 273 48 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,800 million views. I'll ask if you think there's life after death. And I get these interviews and we put 49 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,800 them on YouTube and it gets the gospel out there. So I am very fortunate to have that platform that 50 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:34,640 motivates me to reach out to the lost. But we should all do it. Not exactly what I do, but we 51 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,240 should, when we go to the supermarket, take some gospel tracks and just leave them with the 52 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,480 attendant and say, you might like to read this when you've got a minute. That's all you have to 53 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,440 say and say, have a great day. And then you just pray that that person will read the words of 54 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:52,640 everlasting life. So every Christian has this moral obligation. We're like doctors with a cure to 55 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:58,480 cancer. You know, there's a crime that we commit when we don't save someone from drowning. If 56 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:03,360 someone's drowning and you let them drown, you just walk away when there's a rope right by your feet. 57 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:08,880 You're guilty of what the law calls depraved indifference. Depraved, as low as you can get, 58 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,600 and difference couldn't care less. And it seems that much of the church is guilty of the crime 59 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:19,520 of depraved indifference. We're saying, world go to hell. I don't care. Well, I care and I want 60 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,000 Christians to care. I love the words of D.L. Moody. He said, I'd rather set a thousand to work 61 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:30,880 than do the work of a thousand. And so our task as a ministry, Living Waters, is to equip Christians, 62 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,760 to show them how they can deal with their fears. We all have fears. I have fears. Every time I go 63 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:41,040 to get on my bike, I've got these negative thoughts coming to me. I just ignore them like that 64 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:46,400 firefighter. So I'm just going to go and do this because that's what I should do. Yeah. You know, 65 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:51,600 Ray, one of the things that I know a lot of people don't share their faith with is because of the fear 66 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:57,680 of not having the answers or getting stumped. You've been doing this for a long time. So I know 67 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:04,400 that you have some great strategies to help people to get unstumped. But could you tell us about a 68 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,360 time where you were stumped and then how you responded to that? Yeah, I remember I was open 69 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:15,600 air preaching at Huntington Beach and a gentleman went past and with a cry in his voice of just 70 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:21,840 absolute agony, he said, where was God when my wife died of cancer? And he just walked off. And 71 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:27,120 I wanted to grab that guy and say, let's have lunch. Let's talk about this because all around us 72 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:34,160 there is suffering, but suffering isn't an excuse to reject God. In fact, it's a very real reason 73 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,880 to accept the Bible and God because suffering substantiates the truth of scripture. You know, 74 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:45,280 if some, sometimes I meet people, say I'm an atheist because there's all this suffering. If 75 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:48,800 there was a God, there'd be no suffering. There wouldn't be earthquakes and floods and diseases 76 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,120 and cancer and pain and all these things. And I say, well, let me just share something with you. 77 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:58,080 If you purchased a brand new Toyota and you're raving about how wonderfully it was made, 78 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,720 and then you go through an intersection and you hit some pedestrians and all around you, 79 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,440 people are lying in agony and suffering. You don't say, look at the suffering. Therefore, 80 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:14,800 no one made the Toyota. That's a leap that doesn't make sense. It doesn't, it's just not coherent. 81 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:20,480 No, you don't say nobody made the Toyota because of the suffering. You say, oh, something went 82 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,880 terribly wrong. The brakes failed or something like that. And when we look around us, we see the 83 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:30,000 genius of God's creative hand. It's no such thing as an atheist. The heavens declare the glory of 84 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,600 God. We see those big puffy clouds, the blue sky, the rising of the sun, the setting of the sun, 85 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:41,920 the stars, the moon, all these things speak to us of the glory of God. The flowers and birds and 86 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:46,640 trees and sun, moon, stars, puppies, kittens, hummingbirds, the marvels of the human eye, 87 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,040 the miracle of childbirth, male and female and all these species. We see the genius of God's 88 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:56,240 creative hand. Everything is fearfully and wonderfully made. So we acknowledge that. 89 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,240 Everybody does. Even an atheist knows this. He denies it because he's sleeping with his 90 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,640 girlfriend and watching pornography. He doesn't like the thought of God's moral accountability. 91 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,000 So he denies God's existence like an ostrich or this head in the sand. 92 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,280 But when things go wrong, it's a leap of an illogical leap to say, well, look at all the 93 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:19,600 suffering. Therefore, no one made everything. No, we should just say, oh, something went terribly 94 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,960 wrong. And what went wrong is sin. We have disease, pain, suffering and death because of sin. 95 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,920 In Genesis, God created everything and it was perfect. It was good. No pain, suffering, disease 96 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:36,400 or death. But with sin, with evil came all these tragedies. So every time you see an earthquake or 97 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:43,760 a tornado or a flood or people dying of cancer, in fact, every day 150,000 people die. All these 98 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:49,120 are evidences. The Bible is true that we live in what's called a fallen creation. And yet God and 99 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:54,320 His great kindness has provided us a hope of the future. He's provided us hope and death through 100 00:08:54,320 --> 00:09:02,080 the gospel. And that's what we proclaim. Amen. So even if people were stumped, there is still, 101 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:07,600 you have the explanation of that's not part of God's design. Like, yeah, but you don't even need 102 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:13,840 to get stumped. I'll tell you why. And this is what helps me. I am, when I go evangelizing, 103 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:19,680 putting into practice two very important biblical principles. One is that I address the sinner's 104 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:25,120 will to live. Everybody has a will to live. God has written eternity upon their heart. And even an 105 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:30,640 atheist will lift up his eyes when I say something like this. So you're an atheist. Okay. I'm going 106 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,920 to say you're an atheist. Okay. You ever read the Bible? And he says, yeah, a little bit. I said, 107 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:40,880 do you know that in the Old Testament, God promised He would destroy death? And in the New Testament, 108 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:46,640 we're told how He did it. Do you know that? And he'll go, no. Is he interested? Of course, 109 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:53,760 he's interested, even though he's an atheist. Something in him says, oh, I don't want to die. 110 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:59,760 That's His God-given will to live. And so I said, let me share with you why the Bible says we die. 111 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:05,760 It says the wages of sin is death. God is paying you in death for your sins. Like a judge who looks 112 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:10,080 at a criminal who's committed multiple murders, but he keeps saying, I'm a good person, judge. 113 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,320 The judge says, I'm going to show you how serious your crime is. I'm giving you the death sentence. 114 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:19,760 This is your wages. This is what you've earned. And I say to this atheist, sin is so serious to 115 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:24,720 a holy God, He's given you the death sentence. You're on death row and your death will be evidence 116 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:29,840 to you that God is deadly serious about sin. So I'm addressing His will to live. And often when 117 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,800 I begin an interview for a YouTube channel, I'll begin like this. You're afraid of dying. 118 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:40,400 And the person will often say, yeah, a little bit. I say, what do you mean a little bit? It's massive. 119 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,960 It's a horror beyond words. Someone's going to take you, put you in a box and bury you six feet 120 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:50,320 under the ground. It's horrific. So you know, the Bible says we're all haunted by the fear of death 121 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:55,440 all our lifetime. Book of Hebrews chapter two. I said, it's a haunting feeling, isn't it? They go, 122 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,560 yeah, it is. And I know what they're thinking. They're thinking, well, how does this guy know? 123 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:05,200 I haven't told my mom, I haven't told my boyfriend, my girlfriend, but I'm terrified of dying. I think 124 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,840 about it all the time. It really does haunt me. And so I say, let me share the gospel with you. 125 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,880 Let me tell you why we die, because we've sinned. Go through the commandments and say you've sinned, 126 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:20,160 you've earned your wages. And here's the gospel. Jesus Christ has abolished death and brought life 127 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:25,520 and immortality to life through the gospel. We broke God's law. Jesus paid the fine. Now God can 128 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:30,480 legally dismiss our case. He can grant us everlasting life as a free gift and I share the gospel. 129 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:36,880 So that's the first string to my bow. The sinner's will to live. God's placed eternity upon his heart. 130 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:43,200 And I tap into that. I'm not getting into apologetics. I'm getting into his will to live. 131 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:50,560 And secondly, I address his conscience. Every single sane human being has a God given conscience. 132 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:55,920 It's like a judge on the courtroom of the mind that agrees with the commandments. In fact, 133 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:02,480 the Bible says it. Hebrews 2 verse 15 says, which show the work of the law, that is the moral law, 134 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:08,160 the 10 commandments written upon their hearts, the conscience bearing witness, the conscience, 135 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:14,080 the word conscience means with knowledge. So when I get to the commandments, what I do is I go 136 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:19,440 through them knowing that on the inside there is this little judge on the courtroom of the mind 137 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:24,640 saying, yes, that's true. It's wrong to lie, wrong to steal, wrong to commit adultery. And so I do 138 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:29,280 what Jesus did and address that conscience. And I do it by saying, do you think you're a good person? 139 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:35,600 And I go through the commandments. That will to live is so powerful and it's such an untapped 140 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:43,280 untapped weapon that we can draw upon. Think of a waitress in her restaurant looks up, she says, 141 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,360 three men come in and they're, they're obviously wheeling and dealing a lot of money. They're 142 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,840 wearing three piece suits. There's little cases on the table. Does she feel intimidated? She 143 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,440 doesn't want to butt in because they're talking big business. No, she's walks up and says, 144 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:02,320 can I take your order? Why is she so bold? Well, she has what they want. She knows that they want 145 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:07,520 food. And so she's bold in that knowledge that they want food. And you and I have what the world 146 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:12,480 wants more than anything. Right at this free moment, there are literally, and I don't think 147 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:18,720 I'm exaggerating, millions of people in these torture chambers called gyms, sweating their 148 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:24,240 hearts out, lifting weights that are too heavy for them or drinking green slime because they 149 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:31,440 want to extend their lives just a little. We have everlasting life. We're not religious. God forbid 150 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:36,320 that anyone call me religious. I'd rather be called stumpy than religious. We have found the 151 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:43,600 source of everlasting life. And in Christ, we have life. And if they only knew what we had in Christ, 152 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,720 this is what Jesus said to the woman at the well. He said, if you knew who it was that was speaking 153 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:54,480 to you, you would ask of him and he would give you living water. And so like that waitress, 154 00:13:54,480 --> 00:14:01,920 you and I have to be bold with the knowledge that we have what this world wants. Amen. You know, 155 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:07,600 Ray, a lot of the questions that we have in this life, Jesus is the answer, but there's questions 156 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:13,440 that people have that the rise of artificial intelligence, you know, since the last time you 157 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:22,080 and I talked, artificial intelligence has become more and more an issue. And we have, people are 158 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:27,760 questioning about the end times with this and how does this connect to the future? What is our 159 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:36,640 response and how is Jesus the answer? Well, while the world might have their hearts fail for fear 160 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,960 of that which is coming upon the earth, it doesn't really worry me. I'm not really concerned about 161 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:47,280 all these different things. I love artificial intelligence. I use chat GBT if I'm going to 162 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,680 prepare something. I thought, well, where do I go with this? I don't take it word for word. I just 163 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:58,240 say, give me 10 points on the woman at the well. What can I learn from it? Within seconds and it 164 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:03,520 sparks thoughts in me that I'm not had before. And so I actually love it. I'm not concerned about 165 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:09,120 it taking over the world. God's in control. And Jesus said, when you see these things coming to 166 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:15,520 pass, lift up your heads, rejoice because the end is near. And so we need not be like the world and 167 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,600 be fearful of that which is coming upon the earth. And a lot of things to make us fearful. There's a 168 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:24,000 huge increase in cancer which terrifies the world and terrifies even us as Christians. 169 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:31,920 There is Middle East wars going on that have the potential for nuclear war. There's inflation 170 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:36,960 that's eating away at the paycheck. All these terrible things. We should use them to drive us 171 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:43,360 to our knees and to get closer to God because there are storms. And Jesus warned that the Christian 172 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:48,160 and the non-Christian will both have storms. The wise men build his house on rock. That's the 173 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:53,360 teachings of Jesus. And the foolish man ignored the teachings of Jesus. And he was likened to a man 174 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,640 who built his house on sand. So when those storms come to the Christian, we can still rejoice. We 175 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:06,560 have got a podcast and tomorrow I'll be interviewing a lady who got a kidney stone. And she went into 176 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:11,120 hospital, septus said it and they removed her hands and her feet. And she's got little kids and a 177 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:16,560 loving husband. And she's coming in and I met her a while ago. Another lady in Texas had the same, 178 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:21,200 exactly the same thing happen. Both those women are rejoicing that God is in control. 179 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:28,800 I've got a friend who's going through terrible suffering but there's always Romans 8 28 for the 180 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,800 Christian. All things work together for good to those that love God and are called according to 181 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:39,920 his purposes. So I love the words of Spurgeon when it comes to trials. He said, faith may swim 182 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:46,080 where reason may only paddle. No matter what comes to us, we trust God. And that trust is 183 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:50,160 our salvation. We say, Lord, I've got you by the hand. You've got me by the hand. You're going to 184 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:56,640 take me through this dark period of time. Wow. So we don't need to fear the future. We don't need 185 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:02,640 to fear technology. We know that God is with us in all things. And you mentioned cancer is on the 186 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:10,240 rise and a very prominent person just came out with a cancer diagnosis and that would be King Charles. 187 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:18,000 Whenever you and I had talked before, you were getting ready to have this amazing outreach to 188 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:26,880 London, to the United Kingdom with these incredible tracks that look like the new notes that, 189 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:31,920 or the bank notes that King Charles was on. But it had the plan of salvation on that. 190 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:39,120 How did that go? And tell us a little bit about King Charles as well. Because before you told us 191 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:43,840 that some people were considering him the Antichrist. What are we looking at now? 192 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:52,080 Yeah. Boy, I really have no idea about prophecy. Whatever unfolds, I just say, thank you, Lord. But 193 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,080 it's just all over the place. For the last 50 years, all these different names of who the 194 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:00,720 Antichrist might be, I have no clue whatsoever. But I do see a lot of signs that are happening 195 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:07,200 to tell us we're living, definitely in the last days, especially with Israel and what's happening. 196 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:13,440 In fact, I've just written a book called Volatile, in which we see where God, through Ezekiel, named 197 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:18,080 the nations that will attack Israel in the last days. Very exciting, because only God knows the 198 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,520 future. We can't even tell what's going to happen with the weather tomorrow. It's just an estimated 199 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,840 guess. Someone says they know the future, just move to Vegas and you'll make billions by just 200 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,640 saying the dice is going to be a seven. We just haven't got a clue. And it shows us only God knows 201 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,440 the future and he's given us the future in his word. So it's substantiated as being his word 202 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:41,360 and the promise of everlasting life is therefore credible. So Charles has got cancer. I've just 203 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:46,800 made a video and it's for our channel. I'm not even sure. It's called Just Witnessing YouTube. 204 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,600 And the name of the video is, I hated doing this video and you're going to hate it too. 205 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,680 I don't know if that'll stir people up to watch it, but it's about cancer and how it's on the 206 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:02,080 increase, especially for young people. It's terrifying because there seems to be no real 207 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:07,680 answer. They can't seem to hold back this terrible thing. However, Charles has got cancer and has 208 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:13,280 made people think about it. So there's a good coming out of it then. With the outreach we did, 209 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:19,040 let me tell you about my friend Mark Spence who's on our podcast. Very intelligent guy, loves the 210 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:25,200 Lord with a passion. When I told him about the outreach to London for the King's coronation, 211 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:30,720 he was in an office with me and he poo-hired it, walked out and said, it's just not going to work. 212 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:37,680 And he went on the outreach and in the podcast, and this was so moving, he actually broke down in 213 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:44,960 tears and said, I was wrong. He says, I've never ever experienced anything like happened in London. 214 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,200 He said, I'm going to keep talking about it till the day I got to be with the Lord. And he said it 215 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:57,680 with tears rolling down his cheeks. And that's because I read in 1953 when Queen Elizabeth was 216 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:04,640 coronated, she promised before God and before the world to uphold the biblical truth of salvation 217 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:11,360 by grace through faith without works. That's what she said, the Protestant affirmation that eternal 218 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:16,160 life comes through trusting alone in Jesus without works, by grace through faith and that not of 219 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:22,160 yourselves. And I thought, Charles is going to do this in front of the whole world. And so we printed 220 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:28,000 these tracks with Charles on it and we had, I think, 16 million printed and we had them printed in 221 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:35,920 Australia and in Europe and in the US. And in one day, 22,000 people gave out those 16 million 222 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:42,240 tracks. And it was just wonderful. And Mark was saying, and so our whole team was saying in London, 223 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:47,760 people were running around saying, wow, can I have more? They looked on them as valuable 224 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:53,920 memorabilia with a perceived value because of what it was. So we're doing the same thing with the 225 00:20:53,920 --> 00:21:00,160 Olympics. With Charles, there was this contention from some Christians that Charles is the 226 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,920 Antichrist and you shouldn't have his picture on the front here. And they were really offended by 227 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,160 it. That's not going to happen with the Olympics. Everybody loves the Olympics. In fact, 228 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:16,400 three billion people tune into the Olympics. That's 3000 million. So for our first print, 229 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:24,800 we're getting 12 million printed and we've got the million euro, the Olympic million euro being 230 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:30,160 printed in Europe. And in Britain, we've got one pound. Then we've got in Australia, we've got a 231 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:35,200 dollar, Australian dollar, Olympics dollar, and the United States also. And these are completely 232 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:39,200 free. You just pay for the shipping and people that want them, we want people to take advantage 233 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:44,160 of this whole Olympics thing by giving out these tracks around the time of the Olympics when they'll 234 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,480 be seen as memorabilia and they can get them free of charge. You'll get information about it by 235 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:56,880 going to livingwaters.com forward slash Paris, livingwaters.com forward slash Paris. And you'll 236 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:03,440 see the tracks there and you'll see how you can get them. Very cool. So are you going to be able 237 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:10,400 to go there this time? Nope. No. And it's because I'm in my seventies, my wife's in my seventies. I 238 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:15,920 don't want to leave her for a week with a crazy dog. I've spoken in a thousand churches and for 239 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:21,120 years I have left her behind and I really at this stage of our life just don't want to leave her. 240 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:26,960 And there's a huge team going and I'll have a video there to encourage people that they'll show 241 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:32,160 in the meeting that they're having, the other convention. So I would love to go, but I've got 242 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:38,560 other priorities. Amen. Those are good priorities and you definitely need to keep those straight 243 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,720 there too. But you've got a great group of people that are working with you. You've got a wonderful 244 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:49,600 team that does your videos and helps you get the gospel out there in ways on the streets, but in 245 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:57,200 the modern day marketplace of YouTube and all these other venues where things are getting out 246 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,560 there and sharing the gospel. Ray, how can we be praying for you and Living Waters? 247 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:07,120 Yeah, just pray that God continues to bless the YouTube channel. I think back to the Crusades 248 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:11,840 that they used to have, combined church crusades, say 50 years ago, they would take two years to 249 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,560 pull together because getting churches to combine was like herding cats. They cost millions of 250 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:21,680 dollars. You get 60,000 people in the stadium, most of whom were churchgoers or Christians. 251 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:27,520 But today with a poke of a button, we can reach literally millions. Our YouTube channel, 252 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:33,920 we've got two channels, Just Witnessing is just on 20 million views and Living Waters YouTube, 253 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:42,800 273 million views. So it's just a matter of pushing a button after we create a video 254 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,120 and seeing it watched around the whole world. In fact, we've even got a new channel called 255 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:52,640 Living Waters Hindi channel. It's in Hindi and it's not going anywhere because we don't know how to 256 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,840 contact people in India. So if anyone's got any contacts in India, contact our ministry because 257 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:03,760 this is great potential to reach that huge market. Ray Comfort, thank you so much 258 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:12,160 for sharing about why Jesus is the answer to life's most important questions. And thank you 259 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:17,200 for putting this book together. Thank you for taking the time to share about that and other 260 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:34,000 things during this conversation. God bless you. Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity.