WEBVTT 00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:18.379 Well, I figured when I found out that some of 00:00:18.379 --> 00:00:20.019 our special guests that I'm going to introduce 00:00:20.019 --> 00:00:21.760 in a second were going to be up in the area, 00:00:21.899 --> 00:00:26.559 it would be important to have them to our house. 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:30.859 I've been preaching at y 'all here for about 00:00:30.859 --> 00:00:33.200 three months solid, and some of you are saying, 00:00:33.299 --> 00:00:37.259 all right, switch. But anyways, I'll be back 00:00:37.259 --> 00:00:40.579 in the pulpit here pretty soon. But I want to 00:00:40.579 --> 00:00:43.299 just spend a little time just introducing this 00:00:43.299 --> 00:00:45.560 couple, and I'm going to have them come. Phil 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:50.390 and Judy Jakewith, and they are... So how you 00:00:50.390 --> 00:00:52.509 know how I know them? They have been part of 00:00:52.509 --> 00:00:56.409 MFI for years. They are on the international 00:00:56.409 --> 00:01:02.630 apostolic team. They are the MFI. leaders and 00:01:02.630 --> 00:01:08.409 chairman over MFI Mexico. Phil is also the one, 00:01:08.409 --> 00:01:10.769 he's going to talk about that, that oversees 00:01:10.769 --> 00:01:14.090 and directs a lot of the work that we've been 00:01:14.090 --> 00:01:17.849 part of in Cuba. And so it's an honor today. 00:01:18.069 --> 00:01:20.430 They've been in ministry. We were just talking 00:01:20.430 --> 00:01:23.670 about it almost 48 years. The first 12 years 00:01:23.670 --> 00:01:29.030 or so, they were part of Newberg Rock. Point 00:01:29.030 --> 00:01:31.989 Church, where our friends Jeff and Karen Wells. 00:01:32.189 --> 00:01:35.150 Karen was in their youth group when they were 00:01:35.150 --> 00:01:37.510 youth pastors, and they've been on the mission 00:01:37.510 --> 00:01:41.230 field for now 33 years. They've done some amazing 00:01:41.230 --> 00:01:44.290 work in Mexico. Puebla is where they started. 00:01:44.329 --> 00:01:46.030 Now they've got other works. All their children 00:01:46.030 --> 00:01:49.709 are in the ministry. Two sons pastoring, a daughter 00:01:49.709 --> 00:01:52.209 and a son -in -law getting ready to pastor another 00:01:52.209 --> 00:01:55.840 church just six hours away, and a son. in Laos. 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:58.420 So every one of their children serving the Lord 00:01:58.420 --> 00:02:00.879 in great capacity. Eric's taken the church over 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.159 about six years ago. They have the fruit of ministry. 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:07.659 There's about, I'll let him give all the details 00:02:07.659 --> 00:02:09.740 of how many hundreds are in the network that 00:02:09.740 --> 00:02:12.240 he pastors and oversees in both countries, but 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:14.740 amazing man of God, not just a missionary. I 00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:16.819 want you to hear me on this. It's not just someone 00:02:16.819 --> 00:02:18.900 that's been sent. He has an apostolic gifting. 00:02:18.939 --> 00:02:21.219 So open your heart and let's receive them this 00:02:21.219 --> 00:02:23.479 morning. Would you welcome Phil and Judy Jake 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:25.099 with us? They come and say, Hello to the church 00:02:25.099 --> 00:02:40.379 this morning. Thank you. You may be seated. Thank 00:02:40.379 --> 00:02:43.539 you. Thank you, Pastor Brad and Jennifer for 00:02:43.539 --> 00:02:45.860 allowing us to be here. I don't know where she 00:02:45.860 --> 00:02:48.819 went. She was there somewhere. Thank you for 00:02:48.819 --> 00:02:51.439 giving us this opportunity to be in this wonderful 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:53.939 church. We've heard about it many times. We actually 00:02:53.939 --> 00:02:56.840 snuck into one of your services a summer three 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.300 years ago when we were at the hotel over here. 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:01.819 So we enjoyed it when we came. And it was so 00:03:01.819 --> 00:03:05.879 cool this morning to be in a real actual physical 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:10.439 building with people around. We haven't been 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.539 in a church service with live people since March 00:03:13.539 --> 00:03:18.560 4th. And so today was our first time. I'm sorry. 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:24.460 Where? Oh, that's right. We were at one other 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:27.919 one. I just told a lie, but it was accidentally. 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.360 Yeah, just in case they see it. But this one 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.479 really felt like home, you know, your robust 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.560 worship, and it brought tears to both of our 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.580 eyes. So, yeah, I'm supposed to give the rundown. 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:44.800 Because I know most of you don't know us, but 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.340 Pastor Brad told quite a bit of it. We left for 00:03:47.340 --> 00:03:51.819 Mexico in 1986 with five small children. We had 00:03:51.819 --> 00:03:54.020 twins that were nine, and they went down from 00:03:54.020 --> 00:03:56.439 there to our daughter, who is a year and a half 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:58.860 old. Didn't know Spanish. My husband knew some. 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.719 So it was a huge step of faith. Like, you know, 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.080 Abraham going to a country he didn't know, we 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:07.939 did that. But God has been really faithful. We 00:04:07.939 --> 00:04:10.240 taught marriage seminars. Well, my husband did. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.580 I didn't speak Spanish yet. And eventually planted 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:16.819 a church in 1990 in our living room. And God 00:04:16.819 --> 00:04:20.220 was just super faithful. It grew. The church 00:04:20.220 --> 00:04:24.300 now has, I think, 1 ,700 people in it. And then 00:04:24.300 --> 00:04:26.639 we've planted a number of churches besides that. 00:04:26.819 --> 00:04:29.860 So God has been really faithful. We had six children, 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.959 twin boys. This is when we were in Newburgh. 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.740 A year and a half later, we had our third son, 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.139 Eric. A year and a half later, we had our fourth 00:04:39.139 --> 00:04:44.579 son, Mark. four children under three for a whole 00:04:44.579 --> 00:04:47.660 month. They were all under three. And that was 00:04:47.660 --> 00:04:50.779 a crazy time. It's kind of a blur. Thankfully, 00:04:50.779 --> 00:04:54.819 I wrote in a diary. So somewhere it's all recorded. 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:59.480 I know it happened. And then we waited and decided 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.139 to try again. And finally, five years after our 00:05:02.139 --> 00:05:06.220 youngest, we had a girl. And then once we got 00:05:06.220 --> 00:05:10.269 to Mexico, huge surprise. had another boy. So 00:05:10.269 --> 00:05:13.069 we actually have six kids. They are all married. 00:05:13.709 --> 00:05:16.029 Like Pastor Brad said, they all love the Lord. 00:05:16.129 --> 00:05:17.990 Two of them are in business and four of them 00:05:17.990 --> 00:05:20.470 are in the ministry. And they have given us 21 00:05:20.470 --> 00:05:25.509 grandchildren. That's probably the thing I like 00:05:25.509 --> 00:05:27.970 to brag about the most. So they go from 20 years 00:05:27.970 --> 00:05:31.269 old down to three months old. So we have a lot 00:05:31.269 --> 00:05:34.009 of birthdays to remember every year, but we just 00:05:34.009 --> 00:05:36.370 love them and we're grateful that God has been 00:05:36.370 --> 00:05:39.089 so faithful. And before I turn this over to Phil, 00:05:39.149 --> 00:05:43.149 I just wanted to personally thank you for all 00:05:43.149 --> 00:05:47.750 you have done for us. You sent an enormous offering 00:05:47.750 --> 00:05:51.750 to help us in Mexico because when... The COVID 00:05:51.750 --> 00:05:55.009 hit. We couldn't be at the church anymore. Our 00:05:55.009 --> 00:05:57.230 people, most of them don't have a bank account. 00:05:57.449 --> 00:05:59.470 Many of them don't have a laptop or computer. 00:05:59.689 --> 00:06:02.790 They didn't know how to give online. So the funds 00:06:02.790 --> 00:06:07.529 dropped 75 % to 80 % overnight. And so we had 00:06:07.529 --> 00:06:09.949 all these people on staff and no way to pay them. 00:06:09.990 --> 00:06:11.970 I think the church ran out of money like after 00:06:11.970 --> 00:06:14.790 two months or something like that or two weeks. 00:06:16.170 --> 00:06:22.259 Yeah, it was bad. Your church stepped in and 00:06:22.259 --> 00:06:25.120 helped in that need, and we appreciate it so 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.180 much. Our staff really appreciates you. They're 00:06:29.180 --> 00:06:33.819 still eating. And also the huge effort in Cuba. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.399 I still remember meeting Anthony and Tina at 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:40.839 the airport in Havana. We had never seen them. 00:06:40.899 --> 00:06:42.699 We didn't know them at all. They didn't know 00:06:42.699 --> 00:06:45.079 us, and we're just kind of looking around, you 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:49.860 know, who looks kind of American here? And they 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:53.699 were such a joy. I mean, we loved them. I wish 00:06:53.699 --> 00:06:56.360 we could haul off with them and take them to 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.800 Cuba more. For one thing, they're both amazing 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.040 at math. And so at the end, when we had to figure 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:03.740 out where all the money went, they just stepped 00:07:03.740 --> 00:07:10.720 up and totally organized it. I was like, because 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.660 I'm not, I'm not good at math. And I thought, 00:07:12.699 --> 00:07:14.439 thank God, thank God, thank God for them and 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.709 bring them back the next time. So anyway, we 00:07:17.709 --> 00:07:20.509 want to thank them publicly for all they've done 00:07:20.509 --> 00:07:23.550 for Cuba and the church as well. Huge offerings 00:07:23.550 --> 00:07:26.430 that way. So we thank you, and we know God has 00:07:26.430 --> 00:07:29.149 seen it, and we know he's going to multiply all 00:07:29.149 --> 00:07:31.910 of that back to you at least 100 times over. 00:07:32.050 --> 00:07:34.430 So thank you. Thank you, pastors and congregation, 00:07:34.709 --> 00:07:39.649 for your love for the lost. God bless you. Good. 00:07:41.250 --> 00:07:47.879 The Lord. Thank you. It's a great privilege to 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.639 be here. We've heard of this church for many, 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.740 many years. Many, many years. Because we live 00:07:53.740 --> 00:07:55.819 3 ,000 miles away, we really don't get around 00:07:55.819 --> 00:07:59.019 to all the MFI churches. Actually, very few. 00:07:59.699 --> 00:08:03.540 But if you want to know how old I am, and I don't 00:08:03.540 --> 00:08:08.139 dye my hair still, but I am 68. And I do have 00:08:08.139 --> 00:08:10.339 some gray in there. I pull them out when I find 00:08:10.339 --> 00:08:13.319 them. I'm getting a little balder up on top. 00:08:16.430 --> 00:08:18.389 We're not going to talk about COVID today. I'm 00:08:18.389 --> 00:08:21.410 sure you're tired of hearing about it. But it 00:08:21.410 --> 00:08:23.829 is a real thing in our country. We've had several 00:08:23.829 --> 00:08:27.470 of our pastors die through this. And we've done 00:08:27.470 --> 00:08:31.610 two Zoom funerals. That's crazy. And I hear there's 00:08:31.610 --> 00:08:33.950 at least about 40 pastors that have passed away 00:08:33.950 --> 00:08:36.889 in the country of Mexico through the last... 00:08:37.470 --> 00:08:40.049 a bit here so i don't know what's happening in 00:08:40.049 --> 00:08:42.309 all the other countries but i i know in countries 00:08:42.309 --> 00:08:45.269 like ours we deflate the figures i think here 00:08:45.269 --> 00:08:48.169 maybe you're going up and and uh you know everybody 00:08:48.169 --> 00:08:51.710 has covid and if you have a cough but uh there 00:08:51.710 --> 00:08:53.730 they're just saying they died of pneumonia they 00:08:53.730 --> 00:08:56.230 died of old age they died of whatever and they 00:08:56.230 --> 00:08:58.809 don't even talk about covid so we don't really 00:08:58.809 --> 00:09:00.929 know other than the fact that we have families 00:09:00.929 --> 00:09:07.309 who can't even do a funeral If you put your loved 00:09:07.309 --> 00:09:09.190 one in a hospital, they take away your cell phone 00:09:09.190 --> 00:09:11.850 immediately, and that's the last you hear of 00:09:11.850 --> 00:09:14.549 them. And then you get this phone call saying 00:09:14.549 --> 00:09:18.210 your loved one has died, and we'll give you the 00:09:18.210 --> 00:09:20.990 ashes in two days. And that's it. They can't 00:09:20.990 --> 00:09:26.429 go do anything. Funerals are on Zoom. And it's 00:09:26.429 --> 00:09:28.909 crazy. It's crazy in other nations. It's crazy 00:09:28.909 --> 00:09:31.610 in Cuba right now. We can't get into Cuba. They 00:09:31.610 --> 00:09:34.710 can't come up our way. We got out of Mexico, 00:09:34.889 --> 00:09:37.730 not because we're essential business, but because 00:09:37.730 --> 00:09:40.269 we're American citizens. We just hope we can 00:09:40.269 --> 00:09:43.990 get back to Mexico. And we just hope that they 00:09:43.990 --> 00:09:46.769 will let us back in. But we'd been trying to 00:09:46.769 --> 00:09:48.590 get up for some time since I think the month 00:09:48.590 --> 00:09:51.429 of March. We canceled our trip in March because 00:09:51.429 --> 00:09:54.539 of all this. My wife has needed some medical 00:09:54.539 --> 00:09:57.000 treatment, and so we wanted to get some testing 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:01.460 and things done. In Mexico, they want to do surgery 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:03.460 on her back. She's got a couple of hernias and 00:10:03.460 --> 00:10:07.059 two of the discs. And then both of her hips are... 00:10:07.059 --> 00:10:10.919 They want to do three surgeries on her in Mexico. 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.279 So we're trying to figure out how to get not 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:16.299 only some healing, but avoid these surgeries. 00:10:17.299 --> 00:10:20.059 And so we've been up here for a couple of weeks 00:10:20.059 --> 00:10:22.889 in Los Angeles for a week getting some... advice 00:10:22.889 --> 00:10:25.610 and counsel and different treatments and up here 00:10:25.610 --> 00:10:28.169 as well. So that's one reason we're here. Just 00:10:28.169 --> 00:10:29.730 had a couple Sundays and we were in a church 00:10:29.730 --> 00:10:32.049 last week in Lincoln City. A couple that went 00:10:32.049 --> 00:10:34.169 with us to Cuba wanted us to come over there 00:10:34.169 --> 00:10:35.789 to their church. So we did get into that service. 00:10:35.850 --> 00:10:39.789 My wife forgot about that. But we did. But it's 00:10:39.789 --> 00:10:42.389 just been amazing. Three months of just, you 00:10:42.389 --> 00:10:43.870 know, we're used to traveling. We're used to 00:10:43.870 --> 00:10:46.389 be. being in a service every week, different 00:10:46.389 --> 00:10:48.710 church. A matter of fact, my granddaughter, when 00:10:48.710 --> 00:10:50.889 we turned our main church over to our son, she 00:10:50.889 --> 00:10:52.929 came up to us a few months later and says, you 00:10:52.929 --> 00:10:55.629 guys don't come to church anymore. And she's 00:10:55.629 --> 00:10:59.289 like, what, six years old? And my wife made the 00:10:59.289 --> 00:11:00.909 mistake of saying, well, it's because we've been 00:11:00.909 --> 00:11:02.889 visiting other churches. You've been visiting 00:11:02.889 --> 00:11:09.049 other churches? And finally, then we had one 00:11:09.049 --> 00:11:10.870 of our pastor's meetings in our church, and a 00:11:10.870 --> 00:11:12.730 bunch of the pastors were there. granddaughter 00:11:12.730 --> 00:11:15.889 was hanging out. She says, this is why we visit 00:11:15.889 --> 00:11:18.169 these other churches. We need to help these other 00:11:18.169 --> 00:11:20.830 pastors. We haven't left. We're still part of 00:11:20.830 --> 00:11:23.230 this church, you know, but it's interesting. 00:11:24.169 --> 00:11:26.750 Yeah, interesting days, interesting days, and 00:11:26.750 --> 00:11:29.750 I'm glad that I don't have to wear a mask this 00:11:29.750 --> 00:11:34.149 morning. Strange on the airplane, though. I'll 00:11:34.149 --> 00:11:35.929 tell you, those things itch, and you're there 00:11:35.929 --> 00:11:39.929 for hours. And my wife and I, we got aisle seats 00:11:39.929 --> 00:11:42.610 coming up. And the crazy thing is, on the flight, 00:11:42.649 --> 00:11:44.490 we thought the middle seat was going to be empty. 00:11:44.529 --> 00:11:46.529 But no, they put people beside us. And the lady 00:11:46.529 --> 00:11:49.129 beside Judy was coughing the whole way, pulling 00:11:49.129 --> 00:11:51.909 up her mask and coughing. And so Judy got back 00:11:51.909 --> 00:11:53.730 at her. She decided to take a half a sleeping 00:11:53.730 --> 00:11:56.950 pill because she needed to get some sleep. And 00:11:56.950 --> 00:11:59.090 I looked over at her, and she had her mask clear 00:11:59.090 --> 00:12:03.419 up here on her eyes. Her mouth was half open. 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.139 She couldn't breathe. I was half asleep with 00:12:07.139 --> 00:12:10.259 half a pill. I kept pushing the mask up because 00:12:10.259 --> 00:12:13.179 I tried to get some air. I looked over at her. 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:15.220 She's having a good time. I didn't wake her up. 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:18.960 I don't know. Anyway, we're still here. Bless 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.779 God. All right. I'm going to move right along 00:12:22.779 --> 00:12:25.279 so we can get into this message. I want to do 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:28.200 a little Bible study with you out of Matthew 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:30.940 9. Very familiar portion of Scripture, one of 00:12:30.940 --> 00:12:33.639 my favorites. I had a message years ago. As a 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:35.000 matter of fact, during these three months, I 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:36.379 don't know what Pastor Brad and all you guys 00:12:36.379 --> 00:12:38.220 have been doing, but I've been cleaning drawers 00:12:38.220 --> 00:12:42.019 and files. We're stuck at home. We've thrown 00:12:42.019 --> 00:12:45.440 away so many things. I have files and notes. 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.220 Ever since I was a teenager, started to preach. 00:12:49.659 --> 00:12:51.580 I had to go through all these things. Am I ever 00:12:51.580 --> 00:12:53.159 going to preach any of these things again? Am 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:54.700 I ever going to do these kind of classes again? 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.549 Am I ever going to do this? And I threw away 00:12:57.549 --> 00:12:59.769 all kinds of things. But one message I didn't 00:12:59.769 --> 00:13:03.070 throw away was called, we are on a mission. We 00:13:03.070 --> 00:13:05.309 are on a mission. And I began thinking about 00:13:05.309 --> 00:13:06.970 this whole, what we're going through and all 00:13:06.970 --> 00:13:10.330 the changes. And we're actually, we do Zoom meetings 00:13:10.330 --> 00:13:12.509 every Thursday morning with our pastors, our 00:13:12.509 --> 00:13:15.049 MFI pastors in Mexico. You know, I only did meetings 00:13:15.049 --> 00:13:17.610 every three months before. And then we traveled 00:13:17.610 --> 00:13:19.629 to their churches. And I can't travel to their 00:13:19.629 --> 00:13:21.649 churches, so now we're Zooming around the world. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.419 You know, we're not going to all these places, 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:26.259 but we have people from Honduras with us. We 00:13:26.259 --> 00:13:28.200 have people from Panama with us on our Zoom meetings. 00:13:28.779 --> 00:13:31.039 We have a branch church in Los Angeles, Hispanic 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:34.179 church there. They're on with us. And once in 00:13:34.179 --> 00:13:37.039 a while, we have a guy in Calgary, Canada. And 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:41.000 it's kind of interesting to do pastor's meeting 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.980 on Zoom. I can just, you know, I don't even have 00:13:42.980 --> 00:13:44.600 to get dressed. I don't have to take a shower. 00:13:45.980 --> 00:13:49.029 I do shave usually, but. because we did it at 00:13:49.029 --> 00:13:51.450 nine in the morning, but it's been very interesting, 00:13:51.549 --> 00:13:53.929 this whole trip we've been on. And so I began 00:13:53.929 --> 00:13:56.149 thinking about our mission, you know, how things 00:13:56.149 --> 00:13:59.289 are changing, and people ask us, okay, now, how's 00:13:59.289 --> 00:14:01.610 all this changing church, you know, in Mexico 00:14:01.610 --> 00:14:03.549 and in Cuba? A lot of people are asking about 00:14:03.549 --> 00:14:06.269 Cuba. Are they still having church? Well, in 00:14:06.269 --> 00:14:09.389 Cuba, hardly anybody has a cell phone. Well, 00:14:09.809 --> 00:14:11.610 there's hardly any internet. You have to go mainly 00:14:11.610 --> 00:14:14.470 to a park to find internet and pay a dollar and 00:14:14.470 --> 00:14:16.350 get a little card and then try to put some numbers 00:14:16.350 --> 00:14:18.830 in. And maybe it works for an hour. Maybe it 00:14:18.830 --> 00:14:21.110 only works for 10 minutes and then you're done. 00:14:21.789 --> 00:14:24.409 But they are starting to get a little bit of 00:14:24.409 --> 00:14:26.230 internet into some of the homes if you pay enough 00:14:26.230 --> 00:14:29.169 money. And so few of the pastors have it. My 00:14:29.169 --> 00:14:31.620 wife's starting to get a lot of requests. be 00:14:31.620 --> 00:14:34.580 on her Facebook page. I don't do Facebook. I 00:14:34.580 --> 00:14:39.419 tell Judy, whatever important piece of gossip 00:14:39.419 --> 00:14:42.039 I need to know, you just tell me. I don't want 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.879 to soar through all that. She's starting to get 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.019 a number of requests from Cuba to be her friend 00:14:49.019 --> 00:14:54.159 on Facebook. My wife in Cuba, Mexico is the same 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:58.620 way. Everybody thinks she's Mother Teresa. Well, 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:00.399 a lot better looking, and she's still alive. 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:06.159 But anyway. And they think I'm Santa Claus. Not 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:07.940 because I look like Santa Claus, but I'm always 00:15:07.940 --> 00:15:09.840 handing out money to buy buildings and stuff. 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:17.419 But anyway, this whole thing of being online 00:15:17.419 --> 00:15:25.250 and all this, it's just been crazy. We are still 00:15:25.250 --> 00:15:28.970 on a mission. I changed the title because people 00:15:28.970 --> 00:15:31.070 ask me, okay, now, how is this affecting getting 00:15:31.070 --> 00:15:32.950 people saved? How is this affecting church planting? 00:15:33.190 --> 00:15:34.970 You know something? We are planting churches 00:15:34.970 --> 00:15:39.970 online. families are starting to come in and 00:15:39.970 --> 00:15:42.750 listen to different ones of our pastors and watch 00:15:42.750 --> 00:15:45.110 their little Facebook thing they're doing every 00:15:45.110 --> 00:15:48.309 Sunday morning or their Instagram or their, what's 00:15:48.309 --> 00:15:49.850 the other one? YouTube. Others are using YouTube. 00:15:50.029 --> 00:15:53.049 Some are using all three. And people and families 00:15:53.049 --> 00:15:55.789 are starting to watch. And so they're getting 00:15:55.789 --> 00:15:57.649 their names and their addresses and they're collecting 00:15:57.649 --> 00:15:59.789 people as soon as we can get it. And some have 00:15:59.789 --> 00:16:01.860 actually gone out and visited people. put their 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:04.820 masks on, gone out an hour away, two hours away, 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.340 visiting a whole family, and said, as soon as 00:16:07.340 --> 00:16:09.440 we can, we will start a church in your home. 00:16:10.340 --> 00:16:13.820 And so God's not being held up by all of this. 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:18.799 The kingdom of God is not afraid of what's going 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.399 on. Jesus knows what's going on. And I think 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.179 we're probably going to progress even further 00:16:24.179 --> 00:16:28.909 and faster than we had any idea. Because we are 00:16:28.909 --> 00:16:31.830 into church planting. Our goal was to have, I 00:16:31.830 --> 00:16:33.250 don't know what, another 100 of them this year. 00:16:33.850 --> 00:16:35.330 And I don't know. I don't know where we're at. 00:16:35.470 --> 00:16:38.289 I mean, one of my friends has 7 ,000 people in 00:16:38.289 --> 00:16:40.289 his church. And I was introducing, he came on 00:16:40.289 --> 00:16:43.070 to Zoom and we're having him do some stuff one 00:16:43.070 --> 00:16:46.389 day. And so I introduced him and, you know, Pastor 00:16:46.389 --> 00:16:49.490 Kobo in this other city, he's got 7 ,000 people. 00:16:49.590 --> 00:16:51.049 And he gets on and goes, well, I used to have 00:16:51.049 --> 00:16:54.789 7 ,000 people. Now I have an empty building and 00:16:54.789 --> 00:16:58.909 a worship team. A camera. This is all I have. 00:16:58.970 --> 00:17:02.429 I don't know what I have anymore. And I think 00:17:02.429 --> 00:17:04.869 that's kind of where we're all at. But we are 00:17:04.869 --> 00:17:08.890 still on a mission. The mission hasn't changed 00:17:08.890 --> 00:17:11.289 just because the way we're having to do things 00:17:11.289 --> 00:17:16.269 have changed. The mission is still going. And 00:17:16.269 --> 00:17:18.650 so I decided I'm just going to pull these sheets 00:17:18.650 --> 00:17:21.450 back out and look all this back over again. And 00:17:21.450 --> 00:17:24.269 I want to read these verses. with you this morning. 00:17:24.349 --> 00:17:26.369 I don't know if we have it on the screen because 00:17:26.369 --> 00:17:30.410 I didn't bring a PowerPoint. But matter of fact, 00:17:30.410 --> 00:17:32.509 if I had the PowerPoint, I was going to change 00:17:32.509 --> 00:17:35.269 some things anyway. So let me try to find this 00:17:35.269 --> 00:17:36.710 on mine. I don't know if you have it up there. 00:17:36.750 --> 00:17:41.009 Matthew 9. If not, find your phone or your Bible. 00:17:41.089 --> 00:17:43.890 Matthew 9, 35. And I'm going to read from the 00:17:43.890 --> 00:17:46.490 New Living Translation. It says, Jesus traveled. 00:17:47.549 --> 00:17:50.210 And I think the old King James was Jesus went. 00:17:50.779 --> 00:17:54.859 But Jesus traveled through all, and I've kind 00:17:54.859 --> 00:17:57.940 of put different colors here in my phone on these 00:17:57.940 --> 00:18:01.500 words. Jesus traveled through all the towns and 00:18:01.500 --> 00:18:04.359 villages of that area. Didn't leave any of them 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:08.339 out. And we talk about church planting. And when 00:18:08.339 --> 00:18:13.059 I say we are on a mission, we. We are still on 00:18:13.059 --> 00:18:15.680 a mission. It's not just some weird missionary. 00:18:16.329 --> 00:18:18.109 took off, went to another country because he 00:18:18.109 --> 00:18:19.849 didn't know what else to do with his life. No, 00:18:19.869 --> 00:18:23.369 we, the body of Christ, we are still on a mission. 00:18:25.670 --> 00:18:27.970 And so it says Jesus traveled through all the 00:18:27.970 --> 00:18:30.390 towns and villages of that area. He's still traveling. 00:18:32.450 --> 00:18:34.609 He's still going to all the towns and the villages. 00:18:34.690 --> 00:18:37.190 He's doing it, what? By means of the church. 00:18:38.869 --> 00:18:42.049 Teaching in the synagogues, preaching, or here 00:18:42.049 --> 00:18:44.450 it says announcing the good news about the kingdom. 00:18:45.130 --> 00:18:47.130 And he healed every kind of disease and illness. 00:18:47.329 --> 00:18:50.309 So those are great things to preach about. You 00:18:50.309 --> 00:18:52.589 know, Jesus preached, taught, and healed. We're 00:18:52.589 --> 00:18:54.910 still doing that. How many of you know Jesus 00:18:54.910 --> 00:18:57.690 is still doing that 2 ,000 years later? Okay. 00:18:58.369 --> 00:19:01.849 And so I like to start with this verse because 00:19:01.849 --> 00:19:04.549 the other ones, we know them really well. I used 00:19:04.549 --> 00:19:06.549 to have a license plate on my van when we first 00:19:06.549 --> 00:19:08.450 left for the mission field. And we were able 00:19:08.450 --> 00:19:11.250 to get the letters instead of the numbers. We 00:19:11.250 --> 00:19:15.220 had the letters, Go Ye. Goyi, that was my license 00:19:15.220 --> 00:19:17.500 plate. I still have it. When we finally changed 00:19:17.500 --> 00:19:20.019 it, sold the van. But people would ask me, we 00:19:20.019 --> 00:19:22.559 drove all the way from Newburgh, Oregon, all 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.599 the way down to Mexico City that time with five 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:27.880 little kids pulling a 24 -foot trailer. It was 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.299 stupid. It was crazy. But it was cheaper than 00:19:33.299 --> 00:19:36.920 plane tickets, so, you know. When you're first 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:39.759 doing missionary work, you kind of go out sometimes 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.140 with the mentality, we're supposed to suffer, 00:19:42.259 --> 00:19:45.410 you know. And so make it as hard on your kids 00:19:45.410 --> 00:19:46.990 and your wife as you can, you know, because this 00:19:46.990 --> 00:19:50.250 is missions, you know. We signed up for mission 00:19:50.250 --> 00:19:53.309 field, so make it rough on everybody. Stay in 00:19:53.309 --> 00:19:56.029 horrible hotels, you know, which we did. Stay 00:19:56.029 --> 00:20:01.329 in some crazy hotels. But Jesus is still doing 00:20:01.329 --> 00:20:06.029 these things. He's still on a mission. I want 00:20:06.029 --> 00:20:07.849 to read another verse just here quickly. John 00:20:07.849 --> 00:20:11.279 20, verse 21. Jesus said to them, Peace be unto 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.339 you, as my Father hath sent me, even so send 00:20:14.339 --> 00:20:18.440 I you. See, Jesus came on a mission. Somebody 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:21.779 said God had one son, and he sent him out as 00:20:21.779 --> 00:20:24.500 an apostle, as a missionary. One son. We're about 00:20:24.500 --> 00:20:27.940 ready to lose our daughter. We talk about sowing 00:20:27.940 --> 00:20:31.000 seed. We're not going to lose her, but her husband 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.259 has been my assistant for about five years. I 00:20:34.259 --> 00:20:35.920 told him he could marry my daughter if he worked 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:46.130 for me for 14. But I, you know, poor Luis, he 00:20:46.130 --> 00:20:47.930 now had to get through dad. He had to get through 00:20:47.930 --> 00:20:49.869 five brothers because she was the last one to 00:20:49.869 --> 00:20:53.329 get married, the daughter. And so everybody had 00:20:53.329 --> 00:20:55.730 to interview him and interrogate him and work 00:20:55.730 --> 00:20:57.670 him over. Sometimes I had conversations for seven 00:20:57.670 --> 00:21:01.750 hours so he could get me squared away or whatever. 00:21:02.049 --> 00:21:07.190 And so he's been working for me and, but he's 00:21:07.190 --> 00:21:08.549 been wanting to plant a church. He trained to 00:21:08.549 --> 00:21:11.980 be a, lawyer, but there's just so much corruption 00:21:11.980 --> 00:21:14.440 and lying and things you have to do to be a good 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.400 lawyer. He wants to be a pastor. You don't have 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.359 to do very much lying to be a pastor and all 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:29.680 those things. He's planning to go out. I know 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.539 your pastor doesn't, but some exaggerate. Some 00:21:32.539 --> 00:21:34.380 pastors, how many people they have in their church 00:21:34.380 --> 00:21:37.259 and they're counting eyeballs instead of noses. 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:45.740 How many do you have? Well, it's always twice 00:21:45.740 --> 00:21:50.200 what you really have. But anyway, Jesus was sent. 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:54.640 And we're sending our daughter and our son -in 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:58.240 -law six hours north with three more of our grandkids. 00:21:58.519 --> 00:22:01.559 This is crazy. Grandkids get to the age where 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:03.400 grandma and grandpa, you're really having a lot 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:05.799 of fun with them. And then they get this missionary 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:07.880 vision, you know, get this church planning vision. 00:22:08.970 --> 00:22:11.009 I think Judy kept sowing that seed into them 00:22:11.009 --> 00:22:13.410 or something. I don't know, but they all leave 00:22:13.410 --> 00:22:17.230 us. So now we have kids all over the world. It's 00:22:17.230 --> 00:22:19.490 kind of fun, really, except we just don't get 00:22:19.490 --> 00:22:21.809 to see them very often. We were going to have 00:22:21.809 --> 00:22:24.750 a family reunion. We have 34 of us, 35 of us, 00:22:24.769 --> 00:22:26.650 I guess. We're going to try to have a family 00:22:26.650 --> 00:22:29.910 reunion this summer. Everybody wanted to do it 00:22:29.910 --> 00:22:31.670 in Mexico. Three years ago, we did it up here 00:22:31.670 --> 00:22:35.029 in your place. It was July 4th weekend. It was 00:22:35.029 --> 00:22:38.859 like, can you find nine rooms? In any hotel on 00:22:38.859 --> 00:22:41.640 July 4th weekend. And you guys had some rooms. 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:44.859 And so we did it here. Took over the swimming 00:22:44.859 --> 00:22:46.420 pool. The poor three other families that were 00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:48.980 over here. I don't know how they survived. All 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:52.799 the grandkids. But everybody wanted to come back 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:54.880 to Mexico this year. So we were going to do something 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:56.500 on a beach. Everyone wants to go to the beach. 00:22:56.579 --> 00:22:58.599 Wanted to do something in Mexico. Because we 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:00.799 have one family that lives in Laos. And there's 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:02.980 three grandkids there. It's just tough to get 00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:04.799 back. You know, we can't come back every year. 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:07.099 So, but this summer we were going to have another 00:23:07.099 --> 00:23:09.960 family vacation and this whole COVID thing hit. 00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:15.759 So that got put on hold. Yes. And anyway, it's, 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:17.400 that's the hardest part. The hardest part is 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.420 when you, you fall in love with your grandkids 00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:21.299 and then they take off and then you don't get 00:23:21.299 --> 00:23:25.019 to see them very often. But I guess we're never 00:23:25.019 --> 00:23:27.599 together. All of us on Christmas, never Christmas, 00:23:27.759 --> 00:23:31.619 never together. Good thing we had six kids, because 00:23:31.619 --> 00:23:34.140 some of you only had two or three, and you get 00:23:34.140 --> 00:23:36.039 those two or three. We always have two or three. 00:23:36.859 --> 00:23:39.059 Always get two or three for Thanksgiving or Christmas. 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:41.759 So good thing we had six, so we at least have 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:46.819 a good number for the holidays. Anyway, okay, 00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:50.859 I want to get back to Matthew 9, because my time 00:23:50.859 --> 00:23:52.799 is not only going by, but I really want to share 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:55.059 some things that I think will be... a challenge 00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:57.279 to you and an encouragement to you. And like 00:23:57.279 --> 00:23:59.019 my wife said, we thank you so much for what you've 00:23:59.019 --> 00:24:03.740 done for Cuba and for Mexico. And we're just 00:24:03.740 --> 00:24:06.160 trusting that it won't stop, that God will keep 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:09.940 prospering you as a church and as a body of believers 00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:12.200 and individuals and your businesses will prosper 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:15.079 and every seed you've sown will continue to multiply. 00:24:16.370 --> 00:24:17.990 Because it's really cool. I'm going to try to 00:24:17.990 --> 00:24:19.589 talk about Cuba a little bit here. But I want 00:24:19.589 --> 00:24:21.569 to get into this because Jesus travels. So the 00:24:21.569 --> 00:24:23.670 first word I want to just give you, we don't 00:24:23.670 --> 00:24:25.329 have this up on the screen. Maybe they can put 00:24:25.329 --> 00:24:28.190 it up. But I'm going to give you five M's, okay? 00:24:28.309 --> 00:24:32.329 Five M's of our mission. The first M is movement. 00:24:33.569 --> 00:24:37.119 Okay? Movement. Jesus traveled. through all the 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:39.880 towns and villages. And so we've, you know, traveled. 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:42.180 We've traveled weekends. Now that we've turned 00:24:42.180 --> 00:24:44.680 the main church over to our son, many weekends 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:47.220 we are driving an hour, two hours. It was nothing 00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:49.119 for us to drive from Portland to here today just 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:52.059 to be in church. We do that all the time. Two 00:24:52.059 --> 00:24:54.900 and a half hours, three hours, whatever. And 00:24:54.900 --> 00:24:57.980 just, you know, and then many times with 50 people 00:24:57.980 --> 00:25:01.400 or 60 people, 80 people on a Sunday morning because 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:04.700 these are new church plants. They're going to 00:25:04.700 --> 00:25:06.839 grow and they're going to reach cities and communities. 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:09.440 And because I believe that's the heart of God. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.480 I believe, you know, even with all this COVID 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.220 thing and we're doing all these home meetings 00:25:14.220 --> 00:25:16.420 now and small groups and small groups online 00:25:16.420 --> 00:25:19.920 and whatnot. I don't know. I don't know the future 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:22.039 of mega churches for sure. I don't know what's 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:24.240 going to happen with all these big buildings. 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:26.380 And, you know, what if all of a sudden they come 00:25:26.380 --> 00:25:28.900 up with another disease and this and that and, 00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:32.059 you know. and spread us all out even more. But 00:25:32.059 --> 00:25:35.599 they can't stop us from being in homes. They 00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:38.559 can't stop us from having small groups, at least. 00:25:38.740 --> 00:25:40.740 And so we're just going to keep moving forward 00:25:40.740 --> 00:25:46.220 in that area. My son in Guadalajara just called 00:25:46.220 --> 00:25:47.799 me the other day and says, Hey, Dad, this building 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:50.480 we've been renting is so expensive. And it's, 00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:52.180 I don't know what it is, $10 ,000 a month or 00:25:52.180 --> 00:25:54.940 something to rent this building. There used to 00:25:54.940 --> 00:25:56.460 be a couple of restaurants, and they developed 00:25:56.460 --> 00:25:59.039 a coffee shop there. And they're running close 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.720 to 350 to 400. Well, they were before all this 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:05.079 hit there. They've been going about four or five 00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:08.819 years and doing well in Guadalajara. But all 00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:10.740 of a sudden, this whole thing hits, and they 00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:14.700 had to start doing food distribution. Having 00:26:14.700 --> 00:26:16.740 a coffee shop, people are coming and buying coffee. 00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:20.720 They turned all the equipment into meals, preparing 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.259 meals, hot meals. They've done over 15 ,000 hot 00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:27.839 meals since March for free. And 200 meals a day. 00:26:28.339 --> 00:26:30.819 The people are out of work, and there's poor 00:26:30.819 --> 00:26:34.059 people that need help. It's just crazy, the things 00:26:34.059 --> 00:26:35.980 that are happening. But we're reaching people 00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:41.039 by giving them food. And probably we're doing 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.680 the same thing, passing out. We have people at 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:48.200 times lined up down the street waiting for a 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:50.380 package of beans and rice and all these different 00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:53.279 things that we can try to get to them. So it's 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:55.839 been an exciting, exciting journey, really, to 00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:59.740 see what God's doing. But I want to move on and 00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:02.579 try to get through this portion of Scripture 00:27:02.579 --> 00:27:07.579 because it's so... impacting to me even fresh 00:27:07.579 --> 00:27:10.599 today. All right. So Jesus is still traveling. 00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:12.579 He's still preaching. He's still teaching. He's 00:27:12.579 --> 00:27:14.220 still healing. And now we're going to get into 00:27:14.220 --> 00:27:16.240 the verses you're more familiar with. When he 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:18.579 saw the crowd. So this is 2nd and multitudes 00:27:18.579 --> 00:27:22.180 and old King James multitudes. He saw the multitudes. 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:25.059 He had compassion. That's the third word. Compassion 00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:28.859 is the right motivation. Motivation with love. 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:31.960 Compassion is doing something when you see a 00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:35.000 need. I don't have time to go through the Good 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.099 Samaritan. It's one of my favorite stories. I 00:27:37.099 --> 00:27:41.440 counted 40 verbs in seven verses in the Good 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.119 Samaritan. The story of the Good Samaritan. 40 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:48.619 action words in seven verses. You go through 00:27:48.619 --> 00:27:52.220 all of that. The guy was robbed. They came. They 00:27:52.220 --> 00:27:54.640 stole from him. They took from him. They beat 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:57.519 him up. He's laying there. One guy comes by. 00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:00.779 Sees. Walks away. Another guy comes. Sees. Walks 00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:04.150 away. after verb, after verb. Then the Samaritan 00:28:04.150 --> 00:28:06.089 comes, pours in oil and wine and picks him up, 00:28:06.130 --> 00:28:09.170 puts him on his donkey, takes him to the inn, 00:28:09.289 --> 00:28:11.470 which I would say is either the clinic in the 00:28:11.470 --> 00:28:14.289 natural or in the spiritual, the local church. 00:28:14.789 --> 00:28:17.529 And he paid the bill. You go through all the 00:28:17.529 --> 00:28:19.470 whole thing there, but the thing that motivated 00:28:19.470 --> 00:28:22.609 the good Samaritan said he was moved with compassion. 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:27.039 Moved with compassion. So that's why he did what 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:28.519 he did. The other two guys, the other religious 00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:31.740 guys, the Levite and the priest, they weren't 00:28:31.740 --> 00:28:34.740 moved with compassion. They just saw a mess there, 00:28:34.819 --> 00:28:37.319 a bleeding, ugly mess. And so they went the other 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:38.759 way. Maybe they were busy. Maybe they had to 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.539 get to church. I don't know. They were busy. 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.299 But this other guy, he sees the need and he steps 00:28:44.299 --> 00:28:46.319 in. Doesn't say he was a doctor. Doesn't say 00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:50.579 he was a nurse. He just did what he could. And 00:28:50.579 --> 00:28:53.920 so that's the right motivation. We do what we 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:59.299 can. And meeting people's needs. I'm just going 00:28:59.299 --> 00:29:03.099 to give a little bit about Cuba to you. When 00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:05.460 I turned the church over to my son, I was already 00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:07.980 prepared. I was prepared that I was going to 00:29:07.980 --> 00:29:10.480 have to go through this trauma of not being the 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:13.400 boss man every Sunday. Used to be all my kids 00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:15.099 worked for me. Now I'm having to work for my 00:29:15.099 --> 00:29:18.599 kid. Now my kid's my pastor. So you're going 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:20.480 through these changes, transitional changes. 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:23.339 But the thing is, I knew I had a lot of churches 00:29:23.339 --> 00:29:26.460 and we had a lot to do. And I wasn't worried 00:29:26.460 --> 00:29:28.609 about I'm going to be bored. because I always 00:29:28.609 --> 00:29:30.829 have a big vision, and there's always more to 00:29:30.829 --> 00:29:33.589 do in Mexico. And so I knew if I turned over 00:29:33.589 --> 00:29:35.769 the main church, I'd be traveling and visiting 00:29:35.769 --> 00:29:37.930 our other churches and things like that. But 00:29:37.930 --> 00:29:40.369 it was just right shortly after I turned the 00:29:40.369 --> 00:29:42.589 church over to him, we were having our January. 00:29:43.750 --> 00:29:46.069 Every year we would do a week -long kind of, 00:29:46.130 --> 00:29:47.789 we called it sanctification week, but it was 00:29:47.789 --> 00:29:50.589 kind of a week where we would have vision, and 00:29:50.589 --> 00:29:52.410 every morning we'd have prayer, and every night 00:29:52.410 --> 00:29:54.150 we'd have special meetings, and this would go 00:29:54.150 --> 00:29:56.279 on for a whole week. And so one of these early 00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:57.900 mornings, my wife and I were there, and it was 00:29:57.900 --> 00:29:59.200 like 6 in the morning. We don't have any air 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:01.519 conditioning. We don't have heat either. And 00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:04.299 in January, we can get really cold. We're 7 ,000 00:30:04.299 --> 00:30:07.920 foot sea level. And you can, you know, you don't 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:09.480 have any heat, but you can see your breath. You 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.220 know, you're freezing. Everybody's bundled up 00:30:11.220 --> 00:30:12.700 in blankets, and everybody still has to sleep. 00:30:12.740 --> 00:30:15.119 But you're trying to pray. And we're there, and 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.480 we're kind of kneeling there. And all of a sudden, 00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.799 God spoke to me. Have you ever had God really 00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:23.160 speak to you? I mean, you know he spoke to you 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:26.079 because it shocks you. You know, I know God speaks 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.119 to us on a regular basis. I hope you get Ramahs 00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:30.359 every day when you read your word and, you know, 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:31.920 we get prophetic words and all that. But there's 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.059 times when, maybe a few times in your life when 00:30:34.059 --> 00:30:35.880 God just shakes you because he says something 00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:38.119 you weren't expecting and it's gonna require 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:40.400 maybe some obedience and gonna, you know, some 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.519 sacrifices. And you're just, you're shocked and 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:44.240 you're like, is this really God or is this me 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:46.700 or is this the devil? And you're trying to sort 00:30:46.700 --> 00:30:50.660 this out. And God, it wasn't a loud voice or 00:30:50.660 --> 00:30:52.400 anything like that, but in my spirit, I just 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:55.599 felt God say to me, I want you to help the Cuban 00:30:55.599 --> 00:31:01.339 pastors buy houses for churches. Oh, I forgot 00:31:01.339 --> 00:31:03.259 one phrase. I want you to use your influence 00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:07.180 with pastors and business people to buy houses 00:31:07.180 --> 00:31:10.359 for the pastors in Cuba. I mean, I just sit there 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:11.859 praying. I wasn't even thinking about Cuba. I 00:31:11.859 --> 00:31:14.400 don't know what, I think I was half asleep. And 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.200 all of a sudden, boom. I hear this and I go, 00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:21.640 Judy's over there praying. Hey, Judy, I think 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.920 God just spoke to me. What? Okay. What did he 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.099 say? He wants me to buy houses for pastors in 00:31:29.099 --> 00:31:33.160 Cuba. And she kind of goes, oh, okay. And she 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:35.700 went back to pray. She's kind of used to me by 00:31:35.700 --> 00:31:40.079 now. I love the radical stuff. But then, you 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:41.420 know, I'm just kind of there. And then she kind 00:31:41.420 --> 00:31:46.420 of leans over and goes, how many? I don't know. 00:31:47.019 --> 00:31:49.880 He didn't say that, but I think, I'm kind of 00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:54.640 thinking maybe 20, maybe 20. Buy 20 houses. Well, 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:56.339 I gotta back up a little bit. We've been going 00:31:56.339 --> 00:31:59.420 to Cuba for 17, 18 years and preaching and helping 00:31:59.420 --> 00:32:01.059 them with different things, conferences, women's 00:32:01.059 --> 00:32:03.599 conferences and leadership things and family 00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:06.839 things and stuff like that. But the rules changed. 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.519 The laws changed recently in Cuba where instead 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:11.119 of the government owning everything, they were 00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:12.799 starting to turn things back over to the people. 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:16.029 And before, maybe you could only, trade your 00:32:16.029 --> 00:32:17.609 house with somebody. You couldn't really buy 00:32:17.609 --> 00:32:20.609 a house, buy property. So new married couples 00:32:20.609 --> 00:32:23.490 would just move in with their parents or the 00:32:23.490 --> 00:32:28.130 in -laws. You couldn't buy or sell a house. But 00:32:28.130 --> 00:32:30.089 they recently started letting them do that. So 00:32:30.089 --> 00:32:32.349 I started hearing that you could get houses pretty 00:32:32.349 --> 00:32:36.289 cheap because they've been dilapidated for 50 00:32:36.289 --> 00:32:38.970 years, 60 years, ever since the revolution. And 00:32:38.970 --> 00:32:42.529 the government was also not shutting down meetings. 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:45.059 Before, you could only have 15 people in a meeting. 00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:47.660 And they were allowing them to have church services. 00:32:48.859 --> 00:32:51.460 But it had to be in the pastor's home. It's like 00:32:51.460 --> 00:32:53.819 rent a building or build a church. You couldn't 00:32:53.819 --> 00:32:56.319 do that. But you could meet in the living room 00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:58.940 of the home. And they were letting them, even 00:32:58.940 --> 00:33:00.220 though maybe there were spies in the meeting 00:33:00.220 --> 00:33:02.039 or whatever, letting them just pack the place 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:04.380 out. And so pastors were starting to move walls 00:33:04.380 --> 00:33:07.339 and add on whatever they could do. They'd get 00:33:07.339 --> 00:33:09.180 some money together and put maybe a roof or put 00:33:09.180 --> 00:33:12.690 maybe a tarp out. side on their patio or something. 00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:14.670 And a lot of these places were growing to 100 00:33:14.670 --> 00:33:19.930 people in these houses. And so I found out that 00:33:19.930 --> 00:33:21.769 a lot of the people were still wanting to leave 00:33:21.769 --> 00:33:23.809 the country for one reason or another and were 00:33:23.809 --> 00:33:26.910 willing to sell their house very cheap. And so, 00:33:26.990 --> 00:33:30.130 you know, I'd heard about it, but I hadn't really 00:33:30.130 --> 00:33:32.349 done anything about it much. God just said, I 00:33:32.349 --> 00:33:33.549 want you to do this. And it's like, you know, 00:33:33.549 --> 00:33:35.490 then you start to argue. Well, God, I don't have 00:33:35.490 --> 00:33:38.039 a lot of influence. I don't know a lot of rich 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:40.000 people. You know, I'm not rich. Everything I 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.579 have, I put into the ministry. And, you know, 00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.180 you kind of have this thing going on. What can 00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:48.200 I do? Well, just use your influence. And whatever 00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:52.059 pastors or business people you meet, just help 00:33:52.059 --> 00:33:56.160 Cuba. The Cuban pastors buy houses. Oh, that's 00:33:56.160 --> 00:34:01.619 simple. Okay. Month later, we're sitting in a 00:34:01.619 --> 00:34:04.650 restaurant down in California. a couple of business 00:34:04.650 --> 00:34:06.829 people, some friends of ours, and they'd given 00:34:06.829 --> 00:34:09.230 us, you know, $2 ,000 before, a couple times 00:34:09.230 --> 00:34:12.190 maybe for our mission work and stuff. Good business, 00:34:12.250 --> 00:34:15.610 man, doing a lot of work. And we're sitting there 00:34:15.610 --> 00:34:17.570 eating, and the wife starts elbowing him and 00:34:17.570 --> 00:34:20.949 says, hey, tell him what we're going to do. Tell 00:34:20.949 --> 00:34:22.250 him what we're going to do. And he didn't want 00:34:22.250 --> 00:34:23.769 to say anything. He said, hey, where's the menu? 00:34:23.809 --> 00:34:26.309 Let's get some food, you know. Finally, she said, 00:34:26.369 --> 00:34:28.230 no, tell him what we're going to give him. And 00:34:28.230 --> 00:34:31.230 so he pulls out of his pocket the check, $25 00:34:31.230 --> 00:34:34.280 ,000. And I don't know if I've ever seen that 00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:40.880 many zeros after 25 before in my name. And he 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:42.699 says, you guys have been serving the Lord for 00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:44.920 many, many years in Mexico and on and on. And 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:46.880 we just want to bless you guys personally. This 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.019 is a personal offering for you guys. And just 00:34:50.019 --> 00:34:51.780 do whatever you want with it. And, you know, 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.760 if you need a new car, whatever you want to do. 00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:55.119 And so immediately your mind is kind of, wow, 00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:57.780 yeah, we do need a new car. A few other things. 00:34:58.940 --> 00:35:00.739 And then all of a sudden the Lord reminded me. 00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:03.789 What did I tell you about a month and a half 00:35:03.789 --> 00:35:04.929 ago? What did I tell you a month and a half ago? 00:35:05.250 --> 00:35:08.090 Use your influence with business people and pastors 00:35:08.090 --> 00:35:12.789 and buy houses for pastors in Cuba. And so I'm 00:35:12.789 --> 00:35:16.889 sitting here with this guy and I go, is it okay 00:35:16.889 --> 00:35:19.070 with you? I mean, thank you. Thank you, thank 00:35:19.070 --> 00:35:20.210 you. It's written my name and everything. It 00:35:20.210 --> 00:35:22.210 wasn't written in the ministry's name. Thank 00:35:22.210 --> 00:35:25.590 you so much. But is it okay if I do this? And 00:35:25.590 --> 00:35:27.409 I told him the story. I said, I think what God 00:35:27.409 --> 00:35:29.190 wants me to do, I think I'm supposed to buy houses 00:35:29.190 --> 00:35:34.070 in Cuba. And he says, it's yours. Do whatever 00:35:34.070 --> 00:35:36.789 you want with it. Buy a car. Do whatever you 00:35:36.789 --> 00:35:40.289 want. It's yours. And so I says, with your permission, 00:35:40.329 --> 00:35:42.690 I'd like to put it into Cuba. They released most 00:35:42.690 --> 00:35:44.269 of it. I think we had a few bills and put maybe 00:35:44.269 --> 00:35:46.869 3 ,000, 4 ,000 into some doctor bills we had. 00:35:46.909 --> 00:35:49.170 But we ended up giving instead of 10%, gave 80%. 00:35:49.170 --> 00:35:51.349 It was our money, right? He gave it to me. It 00:35:51.349 --> 00:35:57.030 was in my name. So in one sense, we sowed our 00:35:57.030 --> 00:35:59.860 first fruit. After God gave me this word. We 00:35:59.860 --> 00:36:03.159 sold this money that came to us. Indie Cube went 00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:05.280 down and bought the first house for $8 ,000 and 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.860 bought another roof for $2 ,000 and did some 00:36:06.860 --> 00:36:09.480 other stuff. And that was the beginning of a 00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:11.380 multiplication that is just blowing us out of 00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:13.559 the water. It's blowing me out of the water. 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:16.139 When Anthony and Tina, that's the biggest group 00:36:16.139 --> 00:36:18.500 we've taken down there, we dispensed out, what, 00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:20.800 over $80 ,000? You're the mathematician. It was 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:23.860 $80 ,000, $84 ,000, $83 ,000 something in four 00:36:23.860 --> 00:36:27.190 days. I think we bought eight houses or committed 00:36:27.190 --> 00:36:30.969 on eight houses and at least six major remodel 00:36:30.969 --> 00:36:34.230 projects and other four or five minor model projects. 00:36:34.869 --> 00:36:37.730 And it's just, you know, I still got $40 ,000 00:36:37.730 --> 00:36:39.750 sitting in the bank. I'm trying to get into Cuba 00:36:39.750 --> 00:36:42.849 because people gave money afterwards. We had 00:36:42.849 --> 00:36:45.510 pictures and photos and this team was amazing. 00:36:46.309 --> 00:36:48.130 And they're committed. I'm going to be meeting 00:36:48.130 --> 00:36:50.090 with a bunch on Tuesday night. They're committing 00:36:50.090 --> 00:36:57.019 another $90 ,000 for Cuba. Where is this going 00:36:57.019 --> 00:37:01.320 to stop? I don't know. So anyway, before I came 00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.059 up here, while I was sitting there for three 00:37:03.059 --> 00:37:04.659 months, I went through all my Cuban notes and 00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:06.219 threw away all kinds of photos and different 00:37:06.219 --> 00:37:08.539 things and finally kind of came up with some 00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:12.940 statistics and we've bought 69 houses in the 00:37:12.940 --> 00:37:17.000 last five to six years. Can you imagine? 69 houses. 00:37:21.019 --> 00:37:23.639 And I don't own any of them. None of them are 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:26.360 mine. Put them in the name of a Cuban pastor. 00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:27.940 You can't even put them into a ministry name. 00:37:28.019 --> 00:37:30.300 It has to be in the name of the pastor. And then 00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:32.880 we've done another 40 -some major remodels, $5 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:36.500 ,000, $6 ,000 and up, and another 36, I think, 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:38.500 minor remodels, which would be $2 ,000, $3 ,000. 00:37:38.579 --> 00:37:40.340 This would be like for a roof or something. So 00:37:40.340 --> 00:37:41.679 some of those have kind of doubled up. Maybe 00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:43.179 we bought the house for $8 ,000 or $9 ,000, and 00:37:43.179 --> 00:37:44.840 then we came back a year or two later and put 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:47.159 another $5 ,000 into it. So I figure a total, 00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:50.760 we have about 115 places for church in the last 00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:54.190 six years. Many of these are full with 100 people, 00:37:54.309 --> 00:37:57.809 150 people. Two of them already have 600 people 00:37:57.809 --> 00:38:00.670 before COVID. I don't know what they have now. 00:38:01.750 --> 00:38:03.929 Because they had to shut meetings down too for 00:38:03.929 --> 00:38:07.570 a few months. But some of these places are just 00:38:07.570 --> 00:38:12.230 growing by leaps and bounds. We figure that we 00:38:12.230 --> 00:38:14.949 have seating now on Sunday morning, 115 places, 00:38:14.949 --> 00:38:20.719 somewhere around 20 ,000 people. Seating for 00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:26.639 20 ,000 people. That's just one service. Some 00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:28.840 of them are going to double services. We could 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.880 go to 40 ,000 people and we haven't even spent 00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:36.820 $1 million. $946 ,000 or something. I don't know 00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:39.679 the exact figure. Not even $1 million and we 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:43.670 have seating for 40 ,000 people. The people have 00:38:43.670 --> 00:38:45.829 stepped up. Churches have stepped up. We've had 00:38:45.829 --> 00:38:48.289 people give us money from Malaysia. People have 00:38:48.289 --> 00:38:50.190 given us money from Nepal. People have given 00:38:50.190 --> 00:38:52.690 us money from Singapore. People have given us 00:38:52.690 --> 00:38:54.909 money from Canada. People have given us money 00:38:54.909 --> 00:38:56.949 from Mexico. People from the United States. It 00:38:56.949 --> 00:39:00.309 is amazing where all this money is coming from. 00:39:01.090 --> 00:39:03.349 And as I look at this thing, I'm going, wow, 00:39:03.409 --> 00:39:07.889 God has compassion on the Cuban pastors and those 00:39:07.889 --> 00:39:09.429 churches that have suffered for so many years. 00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:13.820 He is doing something in Cuba that none of us 00:39:13.820 --> 00:39:17.019 would ever imagine 50, 60 years ago when we had 00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:19.280 to hide under our desks. Anybody our age, remember 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:20.559 we had to hide under desks because they were 00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:22.239 going to bomb us. Remember, Russians had missiles 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.639 aimed at us. Some of you younger people don't 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:28.199 remember that. In school, can you imagine hiding 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:29.760 under a desk? I'm sure that's going to stop a 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:31.420 nuclear bomb. But anyway, that's what they had 00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:34.340 us do. Because there were missiles pointed at 00:39:34.340 --> 00:39:39.190 America. From Cuba. But it's amazing. And God 00:39:39.190 --> 00:39:41.510 gave me another word. He said, you are going 00:39:41.510 --> 00:39:46.110 to impact a nation, a whole nation. I was just 00:39:46.110 --> 00:39:49.670 like, wow, how are we going to do this? We're 00:39:49.670 --> 00:39:51.329 putting churches all over the country. I've driven 00:39:51.329 --> 00:39:53.090 from one end of the country to the other several 00:39:53.090 --> 00:39:55.710 times now. Flown to different places in the country. 00:39:56.070 --> 00:39:57.929 God has done so many things in the last five, 00:39:58.010 --> 00:39:59.989 six years. And I don't know where it's going 00:39:59.989 --> 00:40:02.989 to stop. I think we're going to do at least another 00:40:02.989 --> 00:40:05.489 hundred this year. Or within the next couple 00:40:05.489 --> 00:40:08.690 years. And anyway, let me just tell you. I wanted 00:40:08.690 --> 00:40:11.309 to read a definition of mission before. I know 00:40:11.309 --> 00:40:13.150 my time's gone. But I was going to read this 00:40:13.150 --> 00:40:15.250 at the beginning. Mission means the business 00:40:15.250 --> 00:40:20.650 with which an agent or envoy is charged. An operational 00:40:20.650 --> 00:40:23.869 task usually assigned by a higher headquarters. 00:40:24.630 --> 00:40:28.489 Such as going on a bombing mission. You know, 00:40:28.530 --> 00:40:30.989 on the service people. A sending or being sent 00:40:30.989 --> 00:40:34.809 for some duty or purpose. A group or committee 00:40:34.809 --> 00:40:37.590 of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct 00:40:37.590 --> 00:40:40.929 negotiations, establish relations, do religious 00:40:40.929 --> 00:40:43.869 work, or the like. I really love that definition. 00:40:44.750 --> 00:40:46.929 And then another one, which is sending a missionary, 00:40:46.989 --> 00:40:52.460 which is very interesting. I was wanting to read 00:40:52.460 --> 00:40:54.239 that at the very beginning because we are all 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:56.300 on a mission. Let me just finish up here because 00:40:56.300 --> 00:40:59.320 my time is gone. Multitudes, it says Jesus saw 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:01.639 the multitudes. That's the second M. Then he 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:03.300 had compassion, which is the right motivation. 00:41:03.699 --> 00:41:05.699 And then he says they're confused and helpless 00:41:05.699 --> 00:41:07.980 like sheep without a shepherd. You know, King 00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:11.619 James, they're dispersed or they're scattered. 00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:15.860 Well, are we scattered today with all this COVID 00:41:15.860 --> 00:41:18.599 stuff? Man, we are scattered sheep. But we're 00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:21.400 still discipling. We're discipling online. We're 00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:23.380 doing classes. We're offering classes for the 00:41:23.380 --> 00:41:26.460 new people that come online with us. And so we're 00:41:26.460 --> 00:41:28.699 still on the same mission. The harvest is still 00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:32.179 great. The crazy thing is the laborers are still 00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:37.460 few. The fourth M is more ministers, more ministers, 00:41:37.619 --> 00:41:40.440 more musicians, more everything. Children's workers, 00:41:40.579 --> 00:41:43.179 youth workers, people will volunteer to help 00:41:43.179 --> 00:41:46.320 passing out chickens. Whatever we got to do to 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:49.760 reach the people. I hope you saved me some chicken. 00:41:51.419 --> 00:41:54.599 So pray to the Lord who's in charge of the harvest. 00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:58.360 Ask him to send more workers into his harvest. 00:41:58.420 --> 00:42:02.960 So the fifth M is money. I'm an expensive missionary. 00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:10.280 I don't ever ask money for myself. You guys can 00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:13.059 cover my hotel today. You don't have to give 00:42:13.059 --> 00:42:15.079 me an honorarium. But if you help me buy one 00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:20.260 more house in Cuba, I'll love you forever. One 00:42:20.260 --> 00:42:22.980 more project in Mexico. We've got so many projects 00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:26.219 in Mexico that we're working on. And it's just, 00:42:26.300 --> 00:42:29.320 you know, vision and money are simultaneous terms, 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.539 they used to say. And we have a big vision. I 00:42:32.539 --> 00:42:35.519 think the vision is God's vision. He said we're 00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.579 going to impact a whole nation. I believe it. 00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.639 I'm just foolish enough to believe there's 12 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:45.820 million people in Cuba still. Several million 00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:50.119 have left. Still 12 million people. And God loves 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.739 every one of them. One of the main pastors we 00:42:52.739 --> 00:42:55.099 work with, he had a vision. There was a thousand 00:42:55.099 --> 00:42:57.380 pastors that fled when they had major persecution. 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.199 A thousand pastors fled Cuba. But this young 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:04.480 man, about 20 years old, he got a vision, and 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.280 God showed him his arms around the island of 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.940 Cuba. Cuba's bigger than you think. It's about 00:43:09.940 --> 00:43:13.699 as long as California in length. 50, 60 miles 00:43:13.699 --> 00:43:17.280 wide is all, but long. God showed him his arms 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:21.219 around Cuba. And he said, I love this island 00:43:21.219 --> 00:43:26.340 and all my pastors have fled. I want you to stay 00:43:26.340 --> 00:43:29.980 and raise up a work. And now he's raised up. 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:33.659 We have about 600 pastors and leaders all across 00:43:33.659 --> 00:43:36.699 the country that have been trained and ready 00:43:36.699 --> 00:43:39.400 to go. They're opening more churches than I can 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:42.739 buy buildings for. And it sounds cool. Well, 00:43:42.780 --> 00:43:46.000 you bought 115 buildings. They started 200 new 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:51.869 churches just last year. So the need is great. 00:43:52.130 --> 00:43:54.369 We need more workers. We need more business people 00:43:54.369 --> 00:43:56.650 involved. We need more churches involved. We 00:43:56.650 --> 00:44:00.809 need people to go and just donkey money. As soon 00:44:00.809 --> 00:44:04.769 as those borders open up, we got to get $40 ,000 00:44:04.769 --> 00:44:07.809 down there quick because there's more coming. 00:44:09.449 --> 00:44:11.690 And there's roofs and there's houses and there's, 00:44:11.690 --> 00:44:14.289 I mean, they need cars. They need bicycles. They 00:44:14.289 --> 00:44:17.570 need, I've bought horses. For pastors up in the 00:44:17.570 --> 00:44:22.289 mountains. I bought two horses for $570. And 00:44:22.289 --> 00:44:25.230 they're pregnant horses. Because they have to. 00:44:25.369 --> 00:44:27.210 There's no road that goes up into the mountains. 00:44:28.889 --> 00:44:31.210 And I told the guy. I said okay we're going to 00:44:31.210 --> 00:44:33.210 buy these pregnant horses. But now people have 00:44:33.210 --> 00:44:34.849 given money for this. People from the states 00:44:34.849 --> 00:44:37.610 gave $570. So here's what I want you to do. That 00:44:37.610 --> 00:44:39.550 first foal that you have. I want you to give 00:44:39.550 --> 00:44:43.389 it to another pastor. You've been given. Freely 00:44:43.389 --> 00:44:45.550 you've received. Now give that first foal away. 00:44:45.980 --> 00:44:47.860 You know what happened? That horse had twins. 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:52.840 I don't know if he gave both of them away or 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:54.860 what he did. Because I said, you give the first 00:44:54.860 --> 00:44:56.940 one away. The next time she gets pregnant, you 00:44:56.940 --> 00:44:58.960 can keep that one or sell it or whatever, live 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:00.940 off it. The third one, I want you to give away. 00:45:01.019 --> 00:45:02.559 The fourth one, you can keep. Fifth one, I want 00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:04.599 you to give away. I did that to both those guys. 00:45:04.699 --> 00:45:06.239 We figure in seven years, we're going to have 00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:10.300 40 horses for the mission for $570. Hallelujah. 00:45:11.340 --> 00:45:14.119 All right. There's more we can say, but God is 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:22.440 good. You know, it's a, I'm going to have you 00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:26.280 stay right here. It's a privilege to have a gentleman 00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:32.980 like this. And as you can tell, he's a real deal. 00:45:41.619 --> 00:45:48.920 He's given his life away. I had to convince him. 00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:56.420 to take some money for himself and his family 00:45:56.420 --> 00:46:00.260 because he gave everything away so that they 00:46:00.260 --> 00:46:06.440 could eat and have a salary as well. When I sent 00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:09.539 Anthony and Tina, I said, Anthony, this is going 00:46:09.539 --> 00:46:11.179 to be different than some of the stuff you've 00:46:11.179 --> 00:46:14.920 been on. It was the real deal. You're going to 00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:18.059 go in buses and you're going to be up early in 00:46:18.059 --> 00:46:20.730 the morning and go to bed late at night. And 00:46:20.730 --> 00:46:28.110 they did and they did. And he's a first class 00:46:28.110 --> 00:46:33.889 kingdom citizen, but he's been frugal and he 00:46:33.889 --> 00:46:36.469 serves the people of God faithful. It's my honor 00:46:36.469 --> 00:46:40.429 to have them here and to pray over them. We're 00:46:40.429 --> 00:46:42.489 going to bless them today with some first fruits 00:46:42.489 --> 00:46:46.269 money that we've received from you as part of 00:46:46.269 --> 00:46:50.019 our. Part of our assignment to sow money into 00:46:50.019 --> 00:47:02.760 the nations. Would you stretch your hand toward 00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:06.460 Phil and just, we know we have so many wonderful 00:47:06.460 --> 00:47:10.320 missionaries like this. We're not involved with 00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:14.139 people that are more concerned about themselves 00:47:14.139 --> 00:47:17.500 all over the world, from India to Cambodia. to 00:47:17.500 --> 00:47:23.039 Mexico, to Cuba, to Africa, all the places I'm 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:26.599 probably missing. These are the kind of people 00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:29.360 that we believe that God has given us relationship 00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:33.559 with that we're sowing into. So Father, even 00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:38.320 as I lay my hands now today, Lord, today is just 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:44.480 a great reminder. It's not about us. It's about 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:48.239 you. And Lord, you're worthy of spending every 00:47:48.239 --> 00:47:52.659 ounce of strength, every penny that we have on 00:47:52.659 --> 00:47:56.699 you for your mission. Because what you paid for 00:47:56.699 --> 00:48:00.639 with your blood, you paid for every soul that 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:07.019 would say yes. So Lord, take today. Lord, our 00:48:07.019 --> 00:48:12.960 little service. Bless it. Blow on it. Take the 00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:16.159 gift that we're gonna... Give in your name because 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.340 of what has been given here. And as a first fruits 00:48:19.340 --> 00:48:26.179 gift, bless it. Release it. Multiply it. Lord, 00:48:26.260 --> 00:48:28.059 thank you for letting us partner all over the 00:48:28.059 --> 00:48:30.659 world. Thank you for our missionaries. Today 00:48:30.659 --> 00:48:34.840 we're in the presence of one of many. We bless 00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.820 them. We bless their family. We bless their health. 00:48:38.139 --> 00:48:40.320 We bless their children and their grandchildren. 00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:49.969 We bless. the apostolic networks. Thank you for 00:48:49.969 --> 00:48:52.090 men and women in the trenches that have given 00:48:52.090 --> 00:48:58.429 their life. And we say, let their reward, Lord, 00:48:58.510 --> 00:49:01.909 be as much as it is serving you. Bless them. 00:49:02.389 --> 00:49:07.070 Honor them. In Jesus' name, we do. And we thank 00:49:07.070 --> 00:49:10.730 you for them. Amen. Amen. Give them a big hand, 00:49:10.769 --> 00:49:39.019 would you? Or call us at 541 -995 -8282.