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fourth year of having Rachel come to Life Bible

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Church and this year her husband got to come

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and Gordon worked for I'm gonna try to get this

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right if I get it wrong you just correct everything

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I'm saying and you have that freedom hallelujah

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but he worked alongside Reinhard Bonnke how many

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have heard of Reinhard Bonnke the great evangelist

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he was in part of his team and organizing Crusades

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back in the 80s is that correct yeah And so they've

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been in ministry 21 years He's ordained an assembly

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of God preacher, but God opened the door. This

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is he told this story at a conference I think

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Rachel told it to us last year the year before

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God opened a door through the Anglican Church

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for him to take really one of the great flagship

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churches of all England the Oxford Church and

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so the very center and hub of all Education and

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where the governments of the world send their

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brightest right there and that flagship church.

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He's placed Gordon and They begin to make some

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sweeping changes. The Holy Ghost is moving in

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the Anglican Church They're baptizing and getting

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people filled with the Holy Ghost It's a wonderful

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thing and it's a great privilege to have a great

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man of God come and share tonight So would you

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is welcome? Pastor Gordon Hickson as he comes

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And then tomorrow, Rachel's going to be talking

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about opening the gates of hope, the gate of

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heaven, the gate of glory, the gate of legacy

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and inheritance, also the gate of relationships.

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I'm talking a lot about understanding gates that

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are shut and gates that are open. So that'll

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be tomorrow, but tonight I'm going to be talking

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about opening the gate of nations. So Father,

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we just... Look to you tonight. We thank you

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for such a sense of your glory in this place.

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We want to still our hearts. Pray that you speak

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to each one of us. Lord, will you impart faith?

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Will you lift our vision to the horizons? Let

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us see and understand. Let us catch what you're

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doing. Jesus name. Amen. Well if you got your

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Bibles why don't you turn with me to Psalm 2.

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Well it's so good to be here. Just stay standing

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please just for a while. I just feel there's

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so much of God in this place. And I can't preach

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yet. I just feel, let's just wait on the Holy

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Spirit right now. I just have such a strong sense

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just during the worship that there are people

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here who desperately need a miracle. We sang

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it again and again. You're the God of the impossible.

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And I just feel we can sing it but we've got

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to receive it right now. And there's pain in

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this body. There's people who've come here believing

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God for a miracle. And if you believe in God

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for a miracle, I don't care whether it's for

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healing or a relationship or financial, whatever

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it is, if you believe in God for a miracle, He's

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here. He's here. If that's you, I just want you

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to lift your hand right up high. And I hope it's

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not everybody because the rest of you are the

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prayer team. If somebody's got their hand up

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close to you, come on, let's be family. Let's

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believe God's going to touch down. I don't want

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you to pray for them. I just want you to give

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them something right now. Father, right now we

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want to thank you. There is so much of you in

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this place right now. We declare you're the God

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of the impossible. And Father, we declare the

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release of your Spirit into every one of these

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situations. Come on, if you see somebody near

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you with their hand up, if there are people here

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who don't have somebody standing with them, just

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go and touch somebody who's got their hand up.

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Father, every place, Lord, just come and touch

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down. We just release. reconciliation where it

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is needed right now. We command reconciliation

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right now. We release healing. Be healed in Jesus'

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name. We break off every confusion of those of

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you who are totally lost in confusion. We break

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it off. We release that miraculous power of God

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right into your life right now. Receive it. Just

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draw it down from heaven. Receive. Receive right

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now. Just take hold of it. Just drink God in.

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Breathe in deeply. Just drink deeply of the Spirit

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of God. Jesus said, come to me and drink. Drink.

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Take hold of Him. Take hold of Him. Take hold

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of Him. And Father, we declare over every one

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of these situations, and we agree together tonight,

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that you're going to connect to every single

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person whose hand is up. We agree together that

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you're the God of power. the God of miracles,

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the God of healing, the God of provision, the

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God of guidance. Lord you're the Al Shaddai,

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you're the all -sufficient one for every single

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person here. So we thank you. We thank you. And

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I also felt just before I preach, I don't want

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you to sit through my message here tonight if

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you feel miles away from God. I don't want you

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to sit there just feeling miles away from God.

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There are people here tonight who are just desperate.

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You may well know God, but you just feel a long

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way away. You may not know God, but you're still

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far away. And hey, if that's you and you just

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feel a long way from God, I just want you to

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come, come to Him right here. Just come up the

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front. We're just gonna, we're just gonna pray

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for you that you'll just know the closeness of

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the Holy Spirit. Because so many of us here can

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just sense tangibly the presence of God. And

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if you're not feeling that right now, I just

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want you to come forward. We're just going to

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pray for you that you will just feel and sense

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the presence of God, that He's right there with

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you. It doesn't mean you're a bad person, it

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just means you've been through stuff. And that

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stuff, we're going to lift it off you right now.

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Just gather together in the middle. I don't want

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you to be separated, I want you to be close together.

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Just draw in together, right in together in the

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middle. I want you to be shoulder to shoulder.

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I want you to be part of the family. Just come

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in together. Just draw in. I want somebody to

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come and stand with them. Right now, don't think

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of anything else. Just lift your face to heaven.

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Lift your face to heaven and receive. Come on,

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no more shame. Just lift your face to heaven.

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He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. He

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loves you. Just drinking. Drinking His love.

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He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. He

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loves you. He loves you too. The Holy Spirit

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is right there for you. He loves you. Come on,

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He loves you. He loves you. He's right there

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for you. Just drinking. He loves you. He loves

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you. Your father loves you. He loves you. He

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loves you. He loves you. Oh, he loves you. Oh,

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he loves you. He loves you. Holy Spirit. He loves

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you. Just drink tea. Holy Spirit. Yes. Yes. Yes.

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Just drink it in. Drink it in. Drink it in. Thank

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you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

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Father, we want to thank you that the Lord is

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our shepherd. Lord, you come with a shepherd's

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heart tonight just to love every person here,

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just to draw us into that place of security and

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peace. Each one of those that's responded. We

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just commit them to you pray that that Envelope

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of love would just come around them that they

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would feel bound into the body bound into you

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in Jesus mighty name We'll give them a hug and

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you can go and be seated and hopefully you'll

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enjoy You'll enjoy it a little bit more tonight

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If I can have a little bit more monitor on here,

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that would be great. Well, God is good. He's

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so good. It's so good to be with you. I just

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feel that I'm part of the family. Rachel's been

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here four years and it's very easy to slot in

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to places where Rachel's been. God bless you

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guys. She sends her love but she's been struggling

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with this illness for about two months and her

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energy levels are slowly getting better and better

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but I just told her to rest tonight because she's

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going to be preaching tomorrow morning. But we

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want to do a series tonight and then the next

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two services tomorrow morning called Open the

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Gates 2008. Open the Gates. And tonight I'm going

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to be talking about opening the gate of nations.

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We've sung a lot tonight about nations. And I'm

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going to be talking about different things around

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the nations, but specifically focusing on the

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Islamic world, opening the gate of the Islamic

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world. This is a wonderful song. Some of you

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may remember last time that Rachel was here.

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She came with Helen, Helen Aza, who's part Egyptian.

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And earlier on this year in March, they both

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went back to Egypt and they went just north of

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or just south of Alexandria in Egypt. And they

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went to a prayer camp. Unfortunately, I couldn't

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find the PowerPoint that she had earlier on.

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But she had a PowerPoint showing this camp they

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went to in the desert. And they were just shocked

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to see this massive great structure in the middle

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of the desert. And they had about 10 or 11 ,000

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people there from all these Islamic nations just

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crying out to God. They streamed it live on the

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internet, and they entitled it Egypt for Christ,

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completely blatant. And they could have easily

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been arrested, but they just blatantly said,

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we're going to just go for it. And Rachel was

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just thrilled to see this right in the heart

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of Egypt, the mother of the Islamic world. They

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were just seeing the Spirit of God moving. And

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she's now got her two books, which are about

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to be published in Arabic. And she's just really

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excited. Helen's going to be going backwards

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and forwards into Egypt writing training material.

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And they just believe that those books will be

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used to help train people in prayer, train people

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in faith, and in aspects of breakthrough. So

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in Psalm 2, why do the nations conspire and the

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people plot in vain? The kings of the earth take

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their stand and the rulers gather together against

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the Lord and against his anointed one. Let us

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break their chains, they say, and throw off their

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feathers. The one enthroned in heaven laughs.

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The Lord scoffs at them, and he rebukes them

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in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath,

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saying, I have installed my king, my king, on

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Zion, my holy hill. I will proclaim the decree

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of the Lord. He said to me, you are my son. Today

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I have become your father. Ask of me and I will

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make the nations your inheritance, the ends of

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the earth your possession. You will rule them

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with an iron scepter and you will dash them to

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pieces like pottery. Therefore, you kings, be

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wise. Be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve

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the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.

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Kiss the sun. lest he be angry, and you be destroyed

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in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a

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moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

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You know, we just are people who are privileged

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to live in the end times, a time when God is

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busting open every power block that has stood,

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every stronghold that stood against the gospel

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is beginning to be dynamited. This last hundred

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years have been remarkable. 70 % of all the people

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who've ever been saved were saved in the last

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100, 110 years, since 1900. Phenomenal outpouring

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of the Spirit. But probably 70 % of all of those

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have been saved in the last 30 years. Incredible

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things have happened in the last 30 years. The

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body of Christ has just has kept on doubling

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and doubling. It took 70 years from 1900, it

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took 70 years for the body of Christ to double

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to 1970. But then it only took 22 years for the

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body of Christ to double again. And then it need

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10 years for the body of Christ to double again.

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So there is an exponential curve. There is an

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explosive force of the kingdom advancing across

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the world. We worked a lot with, I was the Crusade

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Director for Reinhard Bonnke. And in the years

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that I was with him, about five years, I worked

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a lot in Africa. Then I became his international

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director out of Africa. But when we were in Africa,

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we just watched God harvesting a combine harvester

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just going through Africa. And sub -Saharan Africa

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is today about 57 % saved. Phenomenal outpouring.

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What used to be the dark continent is now the

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lighthouse, or one of the great lighthouses of

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the world. Many of the presidents are now born

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again. just remarkable men who would just stand

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up and declare there are no other solutions for

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Africa. The only solution is Jesus Christ. And

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in fact, the president of Zambia addressed all

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the presidents of Africa and said to them, we

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have only one solution. With all the poverty,

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the things that are happening, famine, there

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is only one solution. And because of the desperation

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there, people are turning to the Lord all the

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time. Nigeria is exporting evangelists and church

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planters right around the world. The biggest

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churches in Europe are all led by Africans. The

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biggest churches in London are led by Africans.

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The biggest churches in Ukraine, Pastor Sunday

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Adelijah, are led by a Nigerian, Sunday Adelijah,

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and Henry Madhava, who is a Zimbabwean. All over,

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God is just releasing that lighthouse to touch

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the world. Rana Bonka has felt that he needs

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to keep on hammering through in Nigeria because

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so many Africans live in Nigeria. It is such

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a massive nation. Some of our greatest crowds

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have been there. Our biggest crowd was in Lagos.

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We had 1 .3 million people in one service. I

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mean, you can't even imagine. It's just a sea

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of faces for acres and acres. In fact, for kilometers.

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And they just put sound speakers all the way

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down. such a hunger for God in that nation, the

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power of God breaking through with such miracles.

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God has swept through Latin America and what

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was a stronghold of the Catholic world has now

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so many Catholics have come to faith. So many

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of them are watching God moving in a charismatic

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Pentecostal revival through Latin America. Then

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right throughout Asia, you see Korea that didn't

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even know the name of Jesus 150 years ago. Today

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has the largest churches in the world. Just extraordinary,

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the largest Pentecostal church, the largest Baptist,

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the largest Presbyterian church. I mean, all

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of these big ones, I think Cho Young -gi's church

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is now about 800 or 850 ,000 people. So God is

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sweeping through those areas. I worked for about

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five years with a man called Brother Yun. Some

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of you may have read his book called The Heavenly

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Man. And if you read that book, it's probably

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one of the most popular books in England at the

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moment. For two years running, it was the bestseller.

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Talking about the revival within China. But in

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1949, the curtain closed. Mao Tse Tung took over.

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Every church was closed or burned down. Every

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pastor was either killed or sent to a labor camp.

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Every Bible burnt. They literally extinguished

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the church in 1949, but they forgot one thing.

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They couldn't get rid of the Holy Spirit. And

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it just got driven to the grassroots. Now, what

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had happened was the body of Christ was about

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800 ,000 people in China, but it was completely

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locked by denominationalism. It was just completely

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frozen because a denominational spirit had locked

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it, and it was frozen. It just could not go anywhere.

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So God allowed this sweep right through to extinguish,

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annihilate every denomination, but the Holy Spirit

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was left. And within 50 years, only 50 years,

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it grew from that 800 ,000 to 100 million today.

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And not only that, they then had a clear vision

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from God to raise up 100 ,000 missionaries to

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be trained in China. At this present time, there

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are about 30 ,000 of those ones being trained

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to go as missionaries out of China, to go right

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through the Hindu, the Buddhist, and the Islamic

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world, all the way from China back to Jerusalem.

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They believe in China that the gospel went...

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out around the world finally reached them and

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their job was to complete the circle and bring

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the gospel back to Jerusalem. And so they are

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invading, one in four people are now speaking

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Chinese. They are invading that world. Right

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through the Hindu world, God is moving powerfully.

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500 million Dalit people, that is the untouchables.

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have given up Islam. They've publicly renounced,

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sorry, Hinduism, publicly renounced Hinduism.

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Doesn't mean that they're Christians. But there

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is a vacuum in India now where missionaries are

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needed in India to bring those 500 millions to

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Christ. And so many thousands are being swept

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into the kingdom right at this moment. There's

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tremendous turbulence, but God is sweeping through

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India in the same way that he swept through Africa.

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In the Buddhist world, it's the same. One Buddhist

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monk was raised from the dead, and having been

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raised from the dead, he then led about 200 other

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Buddhist monks through to Christ. That's caused

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quite a stir. That kind of breaks the normal.

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But you can see that God is on the move. We're

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living in that last moment of history. When God

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says, ask of me, I will give you the nations

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as your inheritance. The trouble is, the body

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of Christ don't tend to believe what God says.

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I remember the prophetic words back in the 80s.

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God says, I'm going to break down the iron wall,

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the communist wall, and I'm going to sweep through

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the whole communist block. None of us really

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believed it. And so in 1989, the body of Christ

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was not ready. And then suddenly down it came.

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The communist wall just opened up. But since

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then, people have got ready and they've taken

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the gospel right through the Soviet Bloc. Many,

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many thousands have been swept into the kingdom

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through the Soviet Bloc. But at that time, the

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prophetic word was this, I'm going to break down

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the iron wall of Islam, but I'm also going to

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break down the gates of Islam. And Islam will

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be discredited. And I think many people have

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just struggled with that, because to us, we kind

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of feel Muslims are the enemy. Tonight, I want

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to change your way of thinking. And I'm not going

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to apologize for it, but I'm going to talk about

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God's passion, absolute passion for Muslim people.

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And I want you to catch God's heart tonight for

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Muslim people. Some of you here may well find

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yourself going to reach Muslim people because

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this is one of the greatest, the most thrilling

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challenges of our time. David Duplessis back

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in the 60s prophesied that in these days, our

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days, God was going to open the eyes of millions

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of Muslims. The scales were going to be taken

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away and they would suddenly wake up to realize

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that they were in deception and that millions

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of Muslims would begin to start coming to Christ.

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We never believed it, but it's beginning to happen.

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I'm going to share stories today. Now, reading

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this Psalm, you've got to start looking with

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the eye of faith. Because unless you look with

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the eye of faith, you will never believe what

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God's doing. If you look at Europe right now,

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where I live, I live in Britain, you see the

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turbulence, the conflict, and the opposition

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of Islam. You see Muslims advancing rapidly right

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through Europe. You see England really in...

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in a significant danger of being overtaken by

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Islam. And unless you have the eye of faith,

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you'll begin to despair. Our God reigns. He sits

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enthroned in heaven. He sees these spirits conspiring.

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He sits enthroned in heaven and he laughs because

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he knows the end from the beginning. He knows

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there is about to be the most extraordinary breakthrough.

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Now we've got to be real. Romans 419 talks about

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how Abraham faced the facts that his body was

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as good as dead. We need to face the facts that

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Islam is strong and it's invading places right

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across Europe. But we've got to be fully persuaded

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that God is able to do what he's promised. He's

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able to break through and touch these precious

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people. I live in the city of Oxford, center

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of the universe. We are the center of the universe.

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I always used to think that Watford was, but

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now I know Oxford is. But seriously, Hitler chose

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Oxford to be his world government center. Why?

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Because out of Oxford, every nation's ideology

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is framed. People send their academics, send

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their politicians into Oxford. They are educated

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in Oxford. And then what happens to them in Oxford,

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it touches the nations. That's why Hitler chose

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Oxford. Now Islam in the early 80s also chose

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Oxford. I work now with a young man by the name

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of Sam, I won't give you his whole name. But

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back in the 70s, 80s, he was in one of those

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Islamic cells in Oxford, strategizing how to

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take Oxford for Islam so that it would become

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the center of Islam. And then it would affect

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all of the colleges and then export the ideology

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of Islam right across Europe and the known world.

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Now he got saved. Praise God. Some beautiful

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Waiwama went up to him, pointed a finger in his

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face and said, Jesus is the Prince of Peace and

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you need peace. And fortunately, she was wise

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enough to back off before she got hit. But this

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young man, Sam, went back to his hotel and said,

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God, you need to tell me the truth. I desperately

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need peace. Who is Jesus? And Jesus appeared

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in his room, physically, and just spoke to him

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and said, I am the way, the truth and the life.

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And Sam and I got together, we set up a thing

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called the Bible Channel, and we, from his bedroom,

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we began to create these... these TV programs

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in Arabic, and then in Urdu, and then in Farsi.

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We began to send them over satellite networks

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to cover the whole of North Africa, Middle East,

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and now into Central Asia, and particularly in

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Pakistan. And God is using him powerfully, apostolically,

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to reach many of the Muslims. But you see, right

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today, we are living in an Islamic attempt to

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take Oxford. Tremendous turbulence. And I have

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a group which pray with me every Tuesday called

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Mahabha. Mahabha means love. And we are just

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believing that God is going to turn things around.

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We're going to see significant strategic apostolic

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Muslims saved in Oxford. And then we will send

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them out to various nations around the world.

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I came to faith back in the 80s with Reinhard

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Bonnke. I was the mug who got sent into Islamic

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nations. I was a crusade director. And we had

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the prophetic word coming again and again. And

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God began to say to us, and virtually every prophetic,

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every time we had a prophetic gathering, he began

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to speak to us and said, I'm going to break down

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the iron gates of Islam. And I'm going to give

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you the treasures and darkness. We'll read that

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verse later on. It's Azhar 45, verse two and

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three. I'm going to break down the iron gates

00:28:06.069 --> 00:28:08.410
of Islam." And so Reinhardt began to start saying

00:28:08.410 --> 00:28:12.150
to me, come on, we need to go and touch these

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gates of Islam. And so he sent me to Mombasa.

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Mombasa was the entry point of Islam into Africa,

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totally closed Jericho of Islam. I went in there

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and I began to pray and pray and pray and I began

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to bind the spirit of Islam and try and start

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moving there. And then while we were praying,

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God just told us to shut up and to stop praying

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against Islam. And he said to us, listen, Islam

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has no power. He said, what has locked up this

00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:46.579
city is that there are two church leaders who

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hate each other and are constantly fighting.

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God said, get them reconciled and the city is

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yours. They were both Bible school students who

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came with the same passion to reach Mombasa.

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And the enemy, all he had to do was just get

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them fighting, and the spirit realm was paralyzed.

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And you see, Isaiah 59 says God's hand is not

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too short to save, but it's our iniquity. It's

00:29:09.170 --> 00:29:12.650
the body of Christ that stops God moving. Hear

00:29:12.650 --> 00:29:16.250
me. It is our fault that God doesn't move in

00:29:16.250 --> 00:29:19.990
places. We often think it's the pagans. God's

00:29:19.990 --> 00:29:22.829
hand is not too short to say if it's our iniquity

00:29:22.829 --> 00:29:27.569
and sin. And I got these two men reconciled and

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instantly the spirit of God began to move in

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the city. And what was a complete impossible

00:29:33.509 --> 00:29:36.509
city just opened up to the gospel. We saw thousands

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of Muslims saved. One of those leaders now has

00:29:39.450 --> 00:29:43.069
32 ,000 people in his church. And Mombassi is

00:29:43.069 --> 00:29:46.329
now becoming a Christian city. That was the first,

00:29:46.410 --> 00:29:50.730
my first. a mission into an Islamic base. Then

00:29:50.730 --> 00:29:54.430
I went to Malaysia. And in Malaysia, totally

00:29:54.430 --> 00:29:57.049
Islamic nation, I didn't really want to go there.

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I went to every other nation. Reinhardt sent

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me on walkabout to look for places where God

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was about to land. And I couldn't find the place.

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And eventually I rang Rachel from out in the

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far east somewhere. I said, God, darling, where

00:30:10.549 --> 00:30:13.910
do I go? And she said, God says, go to Malaysia.

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because that's where we need to go. So I thought

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I had no faith. I went into Kuala Lumpur. I bought

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a ticket to go in at lunchtime and out at tea

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time because I had no faith. But as I arrived,

00:30:26.670 --> 00:30:28.369
I said to them at the airport, where's the nearest

00:30:28.369 --> 00:30:30.329
church? And I walked to this Assemblies of God

00:30:30.329 --> 00:30:34.549
church and I said, can I see the pastor? And

00:30:34.549 --> 00:30:37.970
the pastor, Prince Gudaraknam, I asked to see

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him. And as I walked into his office, he looked

00:30:41.849 --> 00:30:44.190
at me and he thought he'd seen a ghost. because

00:30:44.190 --> 00:30:47.789
in his hand was a pen. He was just signing a

00:30:47.789 --> 00:30:50.710
letter. Dear Reinhard Bonnke, God has spoken

00:30:50.710 --> 00:30:53.910
to us that now is the time for Malaysia. Please,

00:30:53.990 --> 00:30:57.349
can you send your representative to see me? Actually,

00:30:57.369 --> 00:31:01.789
we had a prayer meeting. We just exploded. We

00:31:01.789 --> 00:31:04.240
just thought, wow, this is a God thing. Now,

00:31:04.380 --> 00:31:07.460
I went back to England to get Rachel, and I said,

00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:08.839
Dani, I hope you don't mind going to prison,

00:31:08.859 --> 00:31:11.119
but we're going to preach in Malaysia, because

00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:14.039
the YWAM has got locked up the year before just

00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:17.359
for preaching in the streets. And I didn't get

00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:20.440
his, it was Telex in those days, I didn't get

00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:24.480
his Telex saying that, please don't come. So

00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:27.220
I arrived, all the other church leaders had told

00:31:27.220 --> 00:31:30.099
him, don't let us come. I arrived and just said,

00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.599
guys, we're going to take this nation. And they

00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:35.539
said, sorry, you know, it's off. You're not doing

00:31:35.539 --> 00:31:39.000
anything here. So I was desperate. And it was

00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:42.039
that nation where God anointed Rachel. The Spirit

00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:44.859
of God fell on Rachel powerfully. Suddenly, in

00:31:44.859 --> 00:31:47.440
a moment, she transformed into this general of

00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:49.599
intercession. She began to go from church to

00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.079
church, mobilizing them. And what was impossible

00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:56.279
became possible. It was illegal to get a police

00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:58.960
permit for the crusade. We prayed. They gave

00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:01.480
it to us. It was illegal to get the stadium,

00:32:01.579 --> 00:32:05.960
even for Muslims. And we prayed, and they said,

00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:11.740
no way. We've got the Southeast Asia semi -finals

00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:13.599
of the football on those days. There's no way

00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:15.740
you can touch the stadium. So we got the Christians

00:32:15.740 --> 00:32:18.819
praying again, and they rang us and said, hey,

00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:21.180
we've decided to move the football. Now, when

00:32:21.180 --> 00:32:24.720
God moves the football, you need to believe there's

00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:31.359
revival on its way. 24 hours before we stepped

00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:34.220
into that stadium, they played their checkmate.

00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.380
They just said, no way are you allowed to bring

00:32:37.380 --> 00:32:39.480
Bonnke. You can have the crusade, you cannot

00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.619
bring Reinhard Bonnke to this nation. Well, hey,

00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.160
God knows those things are gonna happen. And

00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:48.279
a few weeks before that, we'd been preaching

00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:50.440
in a church and this man walked up to Rachel

00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:53.559
and he said, I've been looking for you." He said,

00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:56.140
I'm a member of the government. But he said,

00:32:56.180 --> 00:32:59.000
I've just been to Washington, and I met Christ.

00:32:59.460 --> 00:33:01.539
He said, I've given my life to Christ. He said,

00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:04.140
if you ever have any problems, come and see me.

00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:06.700
Here's my card. So I rang this man. His name

00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:09.220
was Dennis Ignatius. And I said, Dennis, it's

00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:13.200
a disaster. I said, we've got the crusade. We've

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.500
got all the publicity. People of thousands are

00:33:15.500 --> 00:33:18.299
going to come. But who's going to preach? Bonky's

00:33:18.299 --> 00:33:21.859
not allowed to come. And he just burst out laughing.

00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.819
And he said, you won't believe this. I've just

00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:28.559
been made the undersecretary of state for foreign

00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.400
affairs. He said, I'm in charge of every embassy

00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:33.819
and consulate right across Europe and in the

00:33:33.819 --> 00:33:35.880
United States. I'm picking up my phone right

00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:39.880
now to command the embassy in Bonn, Germany to

00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:44.700
give him a visa. Checkmate. Now, we've got a

00:33:44.700 --> 00:33:49.859
God that just sweeps through. If we stand in

00:33:49.859 --> 00:33:54.039
unity and stand in faith, nothing is impossible

00:33:54.039 --> 00:34:04.940
for the body of Christ. The final thing that

00:34:04.940 --> 00:34:07.039
brought me to faith was that in one city in northern

00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.420
Ghana, totally Islamic city, the mullah, that's

00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:14.539
the priest, was totally blind. He was like a

00:34:14.539 --> 00:34:16.820
normal human being, he needed healing. So he

00:34:16.820 --> 00:34:18.820
snuck in the back of the crusade. All the people

00:34:18.820 --> 00:34:22.219
were Muslims. He said, would somebody pray for

00:34:22.219 --> 00:34:24.480
me? And eventually he said, no, they weren't.

00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.000
You'll have to come up on stage. So he actually

00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.960
came up on stage. Reiner Bonnke prayed for him.

00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.400
He was instantly healed. Instantly healed. Both

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:35.900
his eyes totally opened. And Reiner Bonnke passed

00:34:35.900 --> 00:34:37.980
him the mic and just said, now who has healed

00:34:37.980 --> 00:34:42.119
you? And he said, I know today that Isa, Jesus.

00:34:42.349 --> 00:34:45.250
Isa is the word, the Islamic word for Jesus.

00:34:45.670 --> 00:34:48.550
Jesus Isa has healed me. And the whole crowd,

00:34:48.610 --> 00:34:51.250
about 80 ,000 people, began to chant, Jesus is

00:34:51.250 --> 00:34:54.429
the son of God. Jesus is the son of God. Now

00:34:54.429 --> 00:34:57.530
that's how quickly one miracle can open up a

00:34:57.530 --> 00:35:01.429
whole city. So I came to faith and ever since

00:35:01.429 --> 00:35:04.650
then I've had a passion to reach these people

00:35:04.650 --> 00:35:07.710
because I believe they are so precious. I want

00:35:07.710 --> 00:35:09.949
to very quickly look at the roots of Islam so

00:35:09.949 --> 00:35:13.099
that you can understand why These people are

00:35:13.099 --> 00:35:16.980
like they are. You see, Islam was birthed amongst

00:35:16.980 --> 00:35:20.980
the Arab people. Arabia was totally polytheistic,

00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:25.039
many, many gods. And Allah was the father of

00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:27.099
the gods. Allat was the mother of the gods. They

00:35:27.099 --> 00:35:32.480
had about 360 gods. And they were all kept. These

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.539
idols were kept in a place called the Kaaba in

00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:39.539
Mecca. Now, the caretaker of the Kaaba was Muhammad's

00:35:39.539 --> 00:35:42.869
father. And the sad thing is that Mohammed's

00:35:42.869 --> 00:35:47.190
father died before he was born. His mother died

00:35:47.190 --> 00:35:49.650
when he was only six years old. So here you have

00:35:49.650 --> 00:35:54.030
a young man who is very poor and he was orphaned.

00:35:54.409 --> 00:35:57.710
And deep inside him, he had a hatred of this

00:35:57.710 --> 00:36:01.929
place, the Kaaba, a hatred of polytheism. And

00:36:01.929 --> 00:36:03.849
you can see the influence right from his early

00:36:03.849 --> 00:36:07.050
years of the orphan spirit and the lack of the

00:36:07.050 --> 00:36:10.719
father's love. As he grew up a very damaged child,

00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:13.519
he was influenced by his encounter with Jews

00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:17.940
and also by Christians, Christians who came up

00:36:17.940 --> 00:36:23.260
from Yemen, and also by one Syrian monk who deeply

00:36:23.260 --> 00:36:27.119
influenced his life. His eighth wife was actually

00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:32.079
a Christian from Egypt. But he hated polytheism.

00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:35.119
And as a damaged young man with that orphaned

00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.679
spirit, he used to spend a lot of his time alone.

00:36:37.849 --> 00:36:41.409
And he, at the age of 40, was in a cave really

00:36:41.409 --> 00:36:44.829
praying and seeking God. And what he thought

00:36:44.829 --> 00:36:48.889
was the angel Gabriel appeared to him. And this

00:36:48.889 --> 00:36:51.710
angel told him to proclaim that there is only

00:36:51.710 --> 00:36:55.550
one God, Allah, and that Muhammad was to be his

00:36:55.550 --> 00:36:58.650
prophet. Now to give him his due, he actually

00:36:58.650 --> 00:37:01.150
went back to his wife and said that he'd had

00:37:01.150 --> 00:37:03.369
a demonic encounter. He really thought that that

00:37:03.369 --> 00:37:06.610
was a demonic thing. But his wife at the time,

00:37:06.769 --> 00:37:09.050
Khadijah, persuaded him there was some good mileage

00:37:09.050 --> 00:37:12.309
in this and she persuaded him to grab hold of

00:37:12.309 --> 00:37:16.369
that revelation and to run with it. But you see

00:37:16.369 --> 00:37:19.210
the whole thought about one God had been sewn

00:37:19.210 --> 00:37:22.090
into him by Christians. They'd been quoting to

00:37:22.090 --> 00:37:25.869
him Deuteronomy 6 .4 and Mark 12 .29 that the

00:37:25.869 --> 00:37:34.429
Lord our Lord, the Lord is one. Now that seed

00:37:34.429 --> 00:37:40.070
of deception grew in in Muhammad, and slowly

00:37:40.070 --> 00:37:43.630
grew amongst his friends. And he gathered in

00:37:43.630 --> 00:37:45.210
the next few years, about the next 12 years,

00:37:45.309 --> 00:37:48.969
about 100 disciples. And eventually, in the AD

00:37:48.969 --> 00:37:55.110
52, he fled to Medina. And he had about 100 followers,

00:37:55.190 --> 00:37:59.469
but the anger inside him of being rejected got

00:37:59.469 --> 00:38:02.090
fueled into a hatred. And he returned six years

00:38:02.090 --> 00:38:06.130
later to take hold of Mecca, and he killed so

00:38:06.130 --> 00:38:08.670
many people there. and he announced a jihad,

00:38:08.750 --> 00:38:12.929
a holy war, against all the infidels. He only

00:38:12.929 --> 00:38:17.210
died four years later, but the power of that

00:38:17.210 --> 00:38:20.829
demonic deception took root. And listen to me,

00:38:20.889 --> 00:38:24.789
listen to this. It only took 100 years, because

00:38:24.789 --> 00:38:27.429
of the power of that deception, to sweep all

00:38:27.429 --> 00:38:32.090
the way right through into India, in the East,

00:38:32.309 --> 00:38:35.730
and right the way through to Spain in the West.

00:38:36.369 --> 00:38:39.630
And it was finally halted by the French at the

00:38:39.630 --> 00:38:43.329
Battle of Tours. If they had not halted the Muslims

00:38:43.329 --> 00:38:46.349
at the Battle of Tours, England today would be

00:38:46.349 --> 00:38:50.469
an Islamic nation. Vive la France. Praise God

00:38:50.469 --> 00:38:53.250
for the French. You know, we were at war for

00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:55.789
about 100 years in England, but we just thank

00:38:55.789 --> 00:38:59.230
God for the French. But you see, at that time,

00:38:59.789 --> 00:39:03.130
the spirit changed its tactics and then began

00:39:03.130 --> 00:39:06.969
to start infiltrating instead of using vicious

00:39:06.969 --> 00:39:10.030
tactics of warfare, it began to change its tactics,

00:39:10.250 --> 00:39:12.730
began to use guerrilla warfare, and began to

00:39:12.730 --> 00:39:15.610
use politics and also ideology through universities.

00:39:16.530 --> 00:39:19.469
In Islam, there are only two words for territory.

00:39:20.250 --> 00:39:23.570
There is Darul Islam, land that has been taken

00:39:23.570 --> 00:39:27.570
by Islam, and Darul Harup, which means the land

00:39:27.570 --> 00:39:30.769
of warfare, land that has yet to be taken by

00:39:30.769 --> 00:39:34.030
Islam. That is the only concept of land, land

00:39:34.030 --> 00:39:36.690
that has been taken by Islam, a land that is

00:39:36.690 --> 00:39:39.809
yet to be taken by Islam. So we cannot be fooled

00:39:39.809 --> 00:39:43.849
by the peacemaking activities because behind

00:39:43.849 --> 00:39:47.349
it there is a spirit that wants to take territory.

00:39:48.010 --> 00:39:51.409
Now if you look at the Quran you realize that

00:39:51.409 --> 00:39:55.630
no documents were produced, no written documents

00:39:55.630 --> 00:39:58.829
were produced for about a hundred to a hundred

00:39:58.829 --> 00:40:02.670
and fifty years after Muhammad died. That's a

00:40:02.670 --> 00:40:06.349
long time to keep an oral tradition. 100 to 150

00:40:06.349 --> 00:40:09.050
years just passed from mouth to mouth to mouth.

00:40:10.670 --> 00:40:13.590
You've contrasted that with the vast amounts

00:40:13.590 --> 00:40:18.909
of biblical manuscripts, most of which they only

00:40:18.909 --> 00:40:21.969
started about three to five years after the resurrection.

00:40:22.369 --> 00:40:25.329
That is how close our manuscripts are to the

00:40:25.329 --> 00:40:28.829
fact of the resurrection. Islam can't show that.

00:40:30.030 --> 00:40:34.719
You see, Muhammad was illiterate. Most of the

00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:38.400
culture, they were illiterate people. What he

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:41.239
picked up though, were seeds of truth from Jews,

00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:44.400
seeds of truth from Christians. And so as these

00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.659
traditions were passed down, there were seeds

00:40:46.659 --> 00:40:51.059
of truth written into the Quran. And what is

00:40:51.059 --> 00:40:54.440
interesting is understanding that as you read

00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:56.760
the Quran, because you see that there are 97

00:40:56.760 --> 00:41:00.159
references to Jesus, he's called Isa, or to the

00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:03.460
Messiah, Masih, Isa Masih, Jesus the Messiah.

00:41:03.630 --> 00:41:07.369
And inside the Quran you will discover that they

00:41:07.369 --> 00:41:11.349
call Jesus the only one who is sinless. That's

00:41:11.349 --> 00:41:14.710
in the Quran. He is the only sinless one. He's

00:41:14.710 --> 00:41:16.869
the only one in the Quran who came by virgin

00:41:16.869 --> 00:41:20.849
birth. He is the only miracle worker and the

00:41:20.849 --> 00:41:25.130
only healer in the Quran. In the Quran he's also

00:41:25.130 --> 00:41:30.429
the word that came from God by the Spirit. He's

00:41:30.429 --> 00:41:35.030
also The one who is translated to heaven and

00:41:35.030 --> 00:41:37.809
hear this he was also in the Quran the one who

00:41:37.809 --> 00:41:41.590
is coming again as the Messiah But can you believe

00:41:41.590 --> 00:41:45.190
that all that truth had been spoken to him by

00:41:45.190 --> 00:41:49.050
Jews and Christians and he picked it up and He

00:41:49.050 --> 00:41:52.409
began to in and put that as part of that document

00:41:52.409 --> 00:41:55.250
So the seeds of the destruction of Islam are

00:41:55.250 --> 00:41:59.369
already inside their book The major conflict

00:41:59.369 --> 00:42:02.000
though was the cross It's always been the stumbling

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:04.000
block, it always will be the stumbling block.

00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.440
Because to a Muslim it's heresy to say that Isa

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:10.320
Masih, Jesus the Messiah, is the son of God.

00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:12.599
They cannot conceive that God would have a son

00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:15.360
and that he would secondly be crucified. It's

00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:17.780
just beyond their thinking. They cannot believe

00:42:17.780 --> 00:42:20.619
that God could ever do that. And they believe

00:42:20.619 --> 00:42:23.619
that all Christians are complete heretics because

00:42:23.619 --> 00:42:28.340
they have three gods. They have Jesus, they have

00:42:28.340 --> 00:42:30.789
the Father, and they have Mary. You see, they've

00:42:30.789 --> 00:42:33.789
got the whole thing wrong. They think our Trinity

00:42:33.789 --> 00:42:38.869
is the father, the son, and Mary. The concepts

00:42:38.869 --> 00:42:41.170
are very, very weird. They come to England and

00:42:41.170 --> 00:42:43.510
they think that we're a Christian nation. And

00:42:43.510 --> 00:42:46.969
they think that girls, booze, and drugs is Christianity.

00:42:47.889 --> 00:42:49.690
You know, they think that's how Christians are.

00:42:49.889 --> 00:42:51.909
They think that is what a Christian nation does.

00:42:52.010 --> 00:42:54.969
And so they really are offended by Christian

00:42:54.969 --> 00:42:59.170
nations. But you see, these are precious people.

00:42:59.469 --> 00:43:03.769
They have got 99 names for God. Most of them

00:43:03.769 --> 00:43:06.309
are Jewish and Christian names. But there are

00:43:06.309 --> 00:43:09.530
two missing. The two which are missing represent

00:43:09.530 --> 00:43:13.690
the wound of Islam. What is missing is the concept

00:43:13.690 --> 00:43:17.329
of the Father God and the concept of the God

00:43:17.329 --> 00:43:21.289
of love. Those two names are not in Islam. Now

00:43:21.289 --> 00:43:26.550
why is that? Because this deception was sowed

00:43:26.550 --> 00:43:30.230
into the Ismaili people. the Arabic people, most

00:43:30.230 --> 00:43:34.190
of whom descended from Ishmael. And if you know

00:43:34.190 --> 00:43:37.829
the story of Ishmael, born in the house of Abraham

00:43:37.829 --> 00:43:41.469
through Hagar, the servant girl. Ishmael and

00:43:41.469 --> 00:43:44.610
Hagar were rejected from the father's house.

00:43:45.130 --> 00:43:49.710
And if you look at that, you realize that Ishmael

00:43:49.710 --> 00:43:52.769
had that deep wound in him of being rejected

00:43:52.769 --> 00:43:55.449
by the father's love. He had lost the father's

00:43:55.449 --> 00:43:58.840
love and he'd also suffered rejection. deep deep

00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:01.639
wounding in him and it was passed down the generations.

00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:06.360
And that woundedness created the landing ground

00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:09.099
for the deception of Islam when it finally came.

00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:12.920
The people were waiting for that demonic deception.

00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:16.300
That is why it spread so quickly through those

00:44:16.300 --> 00:44:19.539
people. But it is also, not only their wound,

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.380
it's also their Achilles heel. And if you're

00:44:22.380 --> 00:44:24.699
talking to a Muslim, there's no point trying

00:44:24.699 --> 00:44:28.070
to debate theology, Muslim versus Quran. You've

00:44:28.070 --> 00:44:30.809
got to go straight for the Achilles heel. If

00:44:30.809 --> 00:44:33.449
you begin to talk personally in your testimony

00:44:33.449 --> 00:44:36.570
about how you personally have encountered the

00:44:36.570 --> 00:44:38.929
Father God, and you've experienced the love of

00:44:38.929 --> 00:44:41.429
God in your life, it's light years from their

00:44:41.429 --> 00:44:45.150
experience. They are longing for Father. They're

00:44:45.150 --> 00:44:47.510
longing for intimacy. They're longing to know

00:44:47.510 --> 00:44:49.670
love, but they can't because it's impossible

00:44:49.670 --> 00:44:52.469
in Islam. And so when you just talk to them about

00:44:52.469 --> 00:44:54.909
how you've encountered God like that, they get

00:44:54.909 --> 00:44:58.150
incredibly hungry. And they long for that experience.

00:45:00.349 --> 00:45:04.489
They are precious people. Muslim means one who

00:45:04.489 --> 00:45:07.510
is submitted to God. Muslim means submitted.

00:45:07.829 --> 00:45:09.829
One who is submitted to God. So when they're

00:45:09.829 --> 00:45:12.469
asking you, are you Muslim? Most of the missionaries

00:45:12.469 --> 00:45:14.110
I know working in the Muslim world don't say,

00:45:14.210 --> 00:45:15.869
no, I'm not a Muslim, because that's just an

00:45:15.869 --> 00:45:19.170
offense. They say, I am not a Muslim in your

00:45:19.170 --> 00:45:23.800
sense. I am Muslim as a believer in Isa. who

00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:26.119
you see in your book, the Quran. I'm a follower

00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:29.900
of Isa. I'm totally submitted to God in the form

00:45:29.900 --> 00:45:33.260
of Isa. And that begins to bring them to ask

00:45:33.260 --> 00:45:38.159
questions about Isa Masih. Now we're quite a

00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:40.960
divided body, the body of Christ, but Islam's

00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:43.480
also divided. There are many sects, many sub

00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:47.019
-sects. There's a large divide there between

00:45:47.019 --> 00:45:49.840
the Sunni Muslim and the Shiite. The Sunni Muslim

00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:54.710
represent probably one billion people. There

00:45:54.710 --> 00:45:58.170
are about 70 plus million Shiites, mainly in

00:45:58.170 --> 00:46:01.789
Iran, but all of them have the basic fundamental

00:46:01.789 --> 00:46:07.429
belief and basic Shahada, which means what they

00:46:07.429 --> 00:46:10.369
shout out from the minarets. There is no God

00:46:10.369 --> 00:46:15.170
but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet. They all

00:46:15.170 --> 00:46:19.829
have the same five pillars of religion, the ritual

00:46:19.829 --> 00:46:23.500
prayer to make a five times a day, the month

00:46:23.500 --> 00:46:26.619
of Ramadan where they all fast, the two and a

00:46:26.619 --> 00:46:29.500
half percent tax to the poor, the pilgrimage

00:46:29.500 --> 00:46:33.239
once in their lifetime to Mecca, and also the

00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:35.800
commitment to a holy war against infidels. Every

00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:38.139
one of them believed that as their background.

00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:43.119
But most of us misunderstand the Islamic world.

00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:46.079
We often think that they're Arabs, but most Muslims

00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:54.000
are Asian. 200 million Indonesian are Muslim.

00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:59.300
Vast numbers of Indians are Muslim. They're not

00:46:59.300 --> 00:47:03.000
rich. They are incredibly poor. They're not violent.

00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:07.099
The vast majority of Muslims are loving, peaceful

00:47:07.099 --> 00:47:09.280
family people. They're precious. I love them.

00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.239
They're wonderful family people. Most of them

00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.179
are not religious. They are just nominal Muslims.

00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.079
They're born, just as we're born in a Christian

00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:19.380
nation. They're born Muslim. That is the way

00:47:19.380 --> 00:47:23.489
they're born. And they are not unreachable. Most

00:47:23.489 --> 00:47:27.809
Muslims are reachable. You need to realize that

00:47:27.809 --> 00:47:31.090
one in every four people in this world is Muslim.

00:47:32.510 --> 00:47:34.869
One in every four people in this world is Muslim.

00:47:35.050 --> 00:47:37.650
Now, if you look with the eye of unbelief, you'll

00:47:37.650 --> 00:47:40.510
think, whoa, this is scary. The Muslims are coming.

00:47:41.010 --> 00:47:45.690
But if you look with the eye of faith, you think,

00:47:45.829 --> 00:47:51.079
wow, what a harvest. This is fantastic. dear

00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:55.179
old Napoleon, you know Napoleon? He was just

00:47:55.179 --> 00:47:57.280
a great man of faith, he wasn't a Christian,

00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:02.639
but he just had faith. And you know when he was

00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:05.639
being surrounded by the British and he gathered

00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:08.059
his soldiers together and he said, he said, men

00:48:08.059 --> 00:48:11.000
listen to me, the enemy are in front of you,

00:48:11.460 --> 00:48:14.360
the enemy are behind us, they are to the left

00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:20.840
and the right, come on men you cannot miss. Now

00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:24.179
that is the faith level you've got to have with

00:48:24.179 --> 00:48:28.980
Muslims. We cannot miss. There is just such a

00:48:28.980 --> 00:48:33.099
vast harvest out there. But what you have to

00:48:33.099 --> 00:48:35.300
understand, and I want to bring to your understanding

00:48:35.300 --> 00:48:38.420
tonight, is that the people and the spirit are

00:48:38.420 --> 00:48:42.239
two different things. The people are the most

00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:46.280
wonderful, wonderful people. The spirit is a

00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:49.639
spirit of antichrist. It is demonic. It is evil.

00:48:50.059 --> 00:48:52.619
And we've got to bind that spirit and release

00:48:52.619 --> 00:48:57.079
the people. It is a spirit that works through

00:48:57.079 --> 00:49:00.320
deception, through incredible sexual uncleanness,

00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:03.659
and through intimidation and fear. And I made

00:49:03.659 --> 00:49:05.539
a huge mistake. I used to send missionaries out

00:49:05.539 --> 00:49:07.920
all the time into the Islamic world. My biggest

00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.820
mistake was that I didn't deal with people in

00:49:10.820 --> 00:49:15.219
their personal lives. And I trained them in the

00:49:15.219 --> 00:49:18.440
Islamic. culture and train them to go and reach

00:49:18.440 --> 00:49:21.099
Muslims, but I didn't deal with deep issues of

00:49:21.099 --> 00:49:23.880
personal life. My best missionaries I sent out

00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:27.719
to Uzbekistan, within one year the wife was in

00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:29.679
adultery, within two years the husband was a

00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:32.280
homosexual because I hadn't dealt with sexual

00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:35.260
wounds of their past. They got taken out. I sent

00:49:35.260 --> 00:49:38.480
two girls to Egypt, both single. Within six months,

00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:43.500
both girls fell morally. If we don't deal with

00:49:43.500 --> 00:49:46.360
those areas of fear, and cleanness and openness

00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:50.000
to deception, then we are a sitting target. We've

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:54.139
got to live holy, pure, and know that every area

00:49:54.139 --> 00:49:56.980
of our life is in the light before we step into

00:49:56.980 --> 00:49:59.699
trying to reach Muslims. It is so important.

00:50:01.380 --> 00:50:06.539
Now what does the Bible say? Isaiah 45 says this,

00:50:06.699 --> 00:50:11.579
and this is a scripture that I've taken. And

00:50:11.579 --> 00:50:14.000
it's one that God has spoken to us. It was spoken

00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.800
to Cyrus, but God spoke to us about the Islamic

00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:20.239
world. And it said in Isaiah 45 verse 2 that

00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:23.659
he's going to subdue nations before him. He's

00:50:23.659 --> 00:50:25.880
going to strip kings of their armor. He's going

00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:30.639
to open doors before us. Gates will not be shut.

00:50:31.699 --> 00:50:33.380
And listen to this. He says, I will go before

00:50:33.380 --> 00:50:36.159
you and I will level the mountains and I will

00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:39.480
break down gates of bronze. and bars of iron

00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:42.679
and give you the treasures in darkness, riches

00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:46.940
stored in secret places. And I believe that the

00:50:46.940 --> 00:50:49.039
Bible is saying that strongholds are going to

00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:52.340
come down. These people are treasures in darkness.

00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:57.500
You know, when we start thinking about them and

00:50:57.500 --> 00:50:59.619
start praying about them, we often think that

00:50:59.619 --> 00:51:02.260
there's a huge stronghold that is holding them

00:51:02.260 --> 00:51:05.320
back. The stronghold, in my experience, is in

00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:08.860
the mind's and the hearts of Christians. It is

00:51:08.860 --> 00:51:11.860
not out there in the Islamic world. Most Christians

00:51:11.860 --> 00:51:15.000
are fearful of Muslims. When I worked in the

00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:16.739
town of Watford, which was my last city that

00:51:16.739 --> 00:51:18.960
I worked in, I had four churches in that area.

00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:21.559
I began to work with Muslims. I got to know the

00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:23.760
Muslim council very well. We had a reconciliation

00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:26.559
time with them, loved them, and they actually

00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:28.539
opened their hearts to us. I went and apologized

00:51:28.539 --> 00:51:31.400
to them for our attitude towards them. And they

00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:33.960
just literally opened up and asked us to help

00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:36.380
them teach their women English. asked us to help

00:51:36.380 --> 00:51:38.719
them look after the kids during the holidays

00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:41.400
and also asked us to open a prayer center to

00:51:41.400 --> 00:51:45.460
pray for their sick in the name of Jesus. I remember

00:51:45.460 --> 00:51:48.780
after 9 -11, I sent an email to all the churches

00:51:48.780 --> 00:51:51.239
saying, come on guys, we've got to love the Muslims

00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:54.019
because they're going to be terrified. Now most

00:51:54.019 --> 00:51:56.739
people wanted to kill them. I said, come on guys,

00:51:56.760 --> 00:51:59.739
we're going to give them flowers. And I got hundreds

00:51:59.739 --> 00:52:02.760
of flowers and I put them outside the mosque

00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:04.920
after their Friday prayers, called all the leaders

00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:08.219
and said, come on, join me, let's give all these

00:52:08.219 --> 00:52:11.420
Muslims a flower. And you know, not one single

00:52:11.420 --> 00:52:14.480
leader came. They were all terrified. Just five

00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:16.460
intercessors joined me, and we pressed a flower

00:52:16.460 --> 00:52:18.719
into every Muslim's hand and said, listen, we're

00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:21.300
true believers in Jesus. We don't hate you, we

00:52:21.300 --> 00:52:23.260
love you. You know, many of them just burst into

00:52:23.260 --> 00:52:25.539
tears. One guy just hugged me and he said, I

00:52:25.539 --> 00:52:27.820
don't care what church you come from, I'm coming.

00:52:29.179 --> 00:52:33.480
And literally, love, love, love never fails.

00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.699
And the sad thing is that the fear and the unbelief

00:52:37.699 --> 00:52:40.219
in the hearts of Christians has prevented us

00:52:40.219 --> 00:52:43.280
from touching the greatest harvest field in this

00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:47.739
world. That is why right now we're just strategizing

00:52:47.739 --> 00:52:50.260
to open up a prayer center for Muslims in Oxford

00:52:50.260 --> 00:52:53.920
to be healed. And we have this wonderful prayer

00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:58.920
center where we meet together every week, Mahaba,

00:52:59.019 --> 00:53:02.739
Oxford, praying for Muslims. Recently we baptized

00:53:02.739 --> 00:53:06.480
a couple of Muslims. One had given his life to

00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:08.860
the Lord when Jesus appeared to him. And his

00:53:08.860 --> 00:53:11.039
friends came and stabbed him through the heart.

00:53:11.139 --> 00:53:12.900
They held him down. They stabbed him through

00:53:12.900 --> 00:53:16.539
the heart. And he flinched as the knife came

00:53:16.539 --> 00:53:19.079
down. It went just past his heart through his

00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:23.920
lungs. Jesus just came, touched him, totally

00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:27.639
healed him. And he escaped from where he was.

00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:31.980
He's had such an encounter with God. He just

00:53:31.980 --> 00:53:35.780
knows God so closely. Another girl, Jesus appeared

00:53:35.780 --> 00:53:39.219
to her in a dream. And she walked past the church

00:53:39.219 --> 00:53:41.400
one day and she said, that's the man. That's

00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:44.099
him. He appeared in my dream. And she was led

00:53:44.099 --> 00:53:46.599
through to Christ. See, God's beginning to touch

00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:51.059
these ones. Numbers 14, verse nine. You've got

00:53:51.059 --> 00:53:54.480
to hear what the Bible says. It says, do not

00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:57.800
fear the people of the land. Their protection

00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:03.539
is gone. Their facade, it's irrelevant. God is

00:54:03.539 --> 00:54:07.780
with us. We've got to believe that. Romans 1

00:54:07.780 --> 00:54:10.940
.16 says that the gospel for us is the power,

00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:13.519
the dunamis, the power of God for the salvation.

00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:18.400
Not just of everybody, including Muslims. There

00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:22.860
is no defense against the gospel. No defense

00:54:22.860 --> 00:54:25.599
provided it comes with power as signs and wonders.

00:54:26.500 --> 00:54:29.320
I know that people will go out and preach the

00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:31.460
gospel, but if you don't come with signs and

00:54:31.460 --> 00:54:33.760
wonders, they won't believe you. You've got to

00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:36.480
come with signs and wonders. And all the way

00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.079
through Africa, we demonstrated the gospel with

00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:41.000
signs and wonders, and that's what brought them

00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:44.820
to faith. The leader of India, Gandhi, who was

00:54:44.820 --> 00:54:48.079
a Hindu, he criticized the body of Christ because

00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:50.599
he said, you Christians have in your possession

00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:55.820
a document with enough dynamite. to turn the

00:54:55.820 --> 00:54:59.000
whole world upside down and bring this war -torn

00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:03.019
world back to peace. But you treat it like mere

00:55:03.019 --> 00:55:07.280
literature. He was desperate for somebody to

00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:08.940
demonstrate the power of God. He was actually

00:55:08.940 --> 00:55:11.619
kicked out of a church in London because he was

00:55:11.619 --> 00:55:14.340
Asian. He was so offended by Christians because

00:55:14.340 --> 00:55:17.400
they would never give him what he saw was real

00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:19.780
in the Bible. He could have become a born -again

00:55:19.780 --> 00:55:23.670
spiritual Christian, but we failed. The gates

00:55:23.670 --> 00:55:26.329
of hell will not prevail against the church that's

00:55:26.329 --> 00:55:28.849
come to faith. And I believe that is what's going

00:55:28.849 --> 00:55:32.510
to happen. Now very quickly I just want to tell

00:55:32.510 --> 00:55:35.150
you about what God is doing. I'm going to close

00:55:35.150 --> 00:55:39.010
with this. More Muslims have come to faith in

00:55:39.010 --> 00:55:44.230
Christ in the last 30 years than the entire history

00:55:44.230 --> 00:55:49.510
of the Islamic world. Since 9 -11 1 .5 million

00:55:49.510 --> 00:55:54.840
Muslims have come to faith. In Algeria, 16 ,000

00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:58.659
Berbers have come to Christ in only 20 years.

00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:02.780
In Kazakhstan, 15 ,000 have been saved from just

00:56:02.780 --> 00:56:06.860
one church planting movement in only 15 years.

00:56:07.420 --> 00:56:11.579
In Kashmir, 12 ,000 Muslims have turned away

00:56:11.579 --> 00:56:14.699
from their militant jihad to become Christians.

00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:20.519
In another Asian country, 150 ,000 were saved,

00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:25.179
and 4 ,000 churches were saved in only 10 years.

00:56:26.579 --> 00:56:28.820
In a number of nations now, there are messianic

00:56:28.820 --> 00:56:33.739
mosques, totally Muslim, they take the shoes

00:56:33.739 --> 00:56:37.300
off, they look like Muslims, but they open the

00:56:37.300 --> 00:56:40.500
Bible, they teach people from the Bible, teach

00:56:40.500 --> 00:56:44.179
them about Jesus and the power of God. I know

00:56:44.179 --> 00:56:45.599
that many of the people who've been kicked out

00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:47.960
of Muslim nations who are now asylum seekers,

00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:50.519
are just desperate to discover the truth about

00:56:50.519 --> 00:56:53.119
Christianity. Friends of ours in Norway have

00:56:53.119 --> 00:56:56.519
led 300 Muslims to Christ in only 18 months just

00:56:56.519 --> 00:56:59.800
by loving them and bringing them into their culture.

00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:07.000
The Jesus film has now been seen by about five,

00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:10.719
it's been seen five billion times since only

00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:15.000
1979. That film is a very, very popular film

00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:17.940
amongst Muslims and now the passion is also being

00:57:17.940 --> 00:57:23.599
seen by so many of them. It's now in 863 languages

00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:29.500
and Muslims love to watch the Jesus film. I would

00:57:29.500 --> 00:57:33.260
say that today probably 90 % of Muslims have

00:57:33.260 --> 00:57:36.480
come to faith through a dream or through a personal

00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:40.119
encounter with Jesus. All the time, they're coming

00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:41.800
to Christians and saying, I've had a dream, I've

00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:43.400
had a dream, I've had a dream, I've seen him.

00:57:44.019 --> 00:57:48.360
And Jesus started this trend a few years ago

00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:53.440
by going to the first place in Islam where a

00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:56.000
missionary went in 1390, a man called Raymond

00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:59.139
Lowell. He went to reach Muslims in northern

00:57:59.139 --> 00:58:02.800
Algeria, a place called Boujia. He was martyred

00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:05.159
there. They threw stones at him and he was martyred.

00:58:05.219 --> 00:58:08.579
He was left for dead. Raymond Lowell on the beach

00:58:08.579 --> 00:58:12.179
but some Spanish mariners found him and they

00:58:12.179 --> 00:58:14.099
put him on the boat and they began to sail back

00:58:14.099 --> 00:58:18.460
to Spain. As they were sailing across to Spain

00:58:18.460 --> 00:58:25.519
this man suddenly stood up bolt upright suddenly

00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:28.440
faced towards the West and began to start going

00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:32.980
into a prophetic almost like a prophetic vision

00:58:33.239 --> 00:58:36.139
And he reached out his hand and he said, I can

00:58:36.139 --> 00:58:39.519
see an undiscovered continent. He said, peoples

00:58:39.519 --> 00:58:42.000
from around the world would come to that continent.

00:58:42.300 --> 00:58:44.639
They will be mixed together. And then the fire

00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:49.480
of God will hit that continent. And the gospel

00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:52.559
of God will just explode out to touch the whole

00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:57.320
of the world. He then died in the arms of Christopher

00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:00.659
Columbus's grandfather. Christopher Columbus's

00:59:00.659 --> 00:59:03.780
grandfather told his son, who told Christopher

00:59:03.780 --> 00:59:07.159
Columbus this prophetic word, who then was so

00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:11.960
stirred he set out to discover the hidden continent.

00:59:13.219 --> 00:59:17.019
There is a destiny in the states. There is a

00:59:17.019 --> 00:59:20.260
fire that has fallen and there is yet to be an

00:59:20.260 --> 00:59:23.780
explosion out of this continent to touch the

00:59:23.780 --> 00:59:26.769
Islamic world. But back a few years ago, God

00:59:26.769 --> 00:59:28.630
wanted to demonstrate how quickly he could do

00:59:28.630 --> 00:59:31.710
it. And he revisited Bougia. And in one night,

00:59:32.130 --> 00:59:35.050
every single family had a visitation from Jesus.

00:59:35.369 --> 00:59:38.469
Every family had a dream or encounter with Jesus.

00:59:38.670 --> 00:59:41.050
They came running out on the streets. The entire

00:59:41.050 --> 00:59:44.070
village was saved, the Kabili people. And the

00:59:44.070 --> 00:59:46.389
Kabili people now are the evangelists of North

00:59:46.389 --> 00:59:49.030
Africa. They've gone up into the Atlas Mountains.

00:59:49.130 --> 00:59:50.809
Many villages have been brought to faith through

00:59:50.809 --> 00:59:53.170
the Kabili people. You see, God can do it just

00:59:53.170 --> 00:59:56.599
like that. but he wants us to get in on the action

00:59:56.599 --> 01:00:01.139
and to enjoy the fun of this end -time harvest.

01:00:02.260 --> 01:00:04.780
Many of the top businessmen in the Muslim world,

01:00:04.940 --> 01:00:07.300
royalty and the upper -class Muslim families

01:00:07.300 --> 01:00:10.000
have Christian nannies because they want educated

01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:12.920
people to look after their kids. Most of these

01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:15.219
nannies are Christian. They come from India,

01:00:15.420 --> 01:00:17.119
they come from the Philippines, they come from

01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:19.099
those nations. They're educated because they're

01:00:19.099 --> 01:00:22.880
Christian. The girl who brought Rachel up from

01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.440
India, Wendy, who Rachel's parents picked up

01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:27.739
from a rubbish dump. They brought her to healing.

01:00:27.820 --> 01:00:30.340
They brought her to Christ. And then she taught

01:00:30.340 --> 01:00:34.039
Rachel about Christ as a young child. Rachel

01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:38.039
met her years later in England as the nanny to

01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:40.960
the princes and the princesses of the Prince

01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:45.780
of Abu Dhabi. From a rubbish tip to looking after

01:00:45.780 --> 01:00:48.059
the kings and queens of the future. That's what

01:00:48.059 --> 01:00:49.960
God's doing in these families. He's ruining them.

01:00:50.010 --> 01:00:53.849
because many of the sons know that Christ is

01:00:53.849 --> 01:00:57.989
alive. Satellite programs are beamed out right

01:00:57.989 --> 01:01:00.389
now, the one that I've been running, the Bible

01:01:00.389 --> 01:01:03.250
Channel, Satellite 7, the Miracle Channel. They

01:01:03.250 --> 01:01:05.590
are touching the whole of the Muslim world at

01:01:05.590 --> 01:01:09.070
the moment. Egypt, if you look prophetically

01:01:09.070 --> 01:01:13.650
in Isaiah 19, is called my people. God owns the

01:01:13.650 --> 01:01:16.469
mother of the Islamic people. He calls them my

01:01:16.469 --> 01:01:19.090
people. That is why Rachel's book is in Arabic

01:01:19.090 --> 01:01:21.550
now. That is why Helen is going to be going.

01:01:21.670 --> 01:01:23.389
Helen Azer, who was here last year, is going

01:01:23.389 --> 01:01:26.190
to go in and out of Egypt. They've been to the

01:01:26.190 --> 01:01:28.489
cave church there, where they have about 20 ,000

01:01:28.489 --> 01:01:31.829
people meeting in this cave. The underground

01:01:31.829 --> 01:01:35.449
church was multiplying it 100 % a year in Cairo

01:01:35.449 --> 01:01:39.610
and 600 % a year outside in the villages. It

01:01:39.610 --> 01:01:43.079
is exploding. The largest Christian, the largest

01:01:43.079 --> 01:01:47.739
Islamic nation of 200 million already is 25 %

01:01:47.739 --> 01:01:50.199
Christian because of the speed of conversion.

01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:54.179
The Islamic government are too embarrassed to

01:01:54.179 --> 01:02:00.380
give statistics. Now as we come to close, nothing

01:02:00.380 --> 01:02:05.099
is going to happen unless somebody takes the

01:02:05.099 --> 01:02:10.800
gospel. Somebody has got to be willing. to sacrifice

01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:13.480
and be sacrificed for the sake of the Gospel.

01:02:15.539 --> 01:02:17.659
The Gospel is exploding through the Muslim world

01:02:17.659 --> 01:02:20.619
because people have been sacrificing. A man we

01:02:20.619 --> 01:02:23.579
worked with, he had 18 attempts on his life.

01:02:23.880 --> 01:02:25.960
When they couldn't kill him, they killed his

01:02:25.960 --> 01:02:29.300
12 year old daughter. And he still kept on preaching.

01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:33.539
I believe God is challenging some of you. As

01:02:33.539 --> 01:02:35.440
we start talking about the gates of the next

01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:38.800
two days, God is challenging some of you. to

01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:41.539
say, come on, this is a nation of comfort, this

01:02:41.539 --> 01:02:44.320
is a nation of wealth, this is a nation where

01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:47.679
you have all sufficiency. Some of you have got

01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:50.539
to be willing to lay everything down. Some of

01:02:50.539 --> 01:02:52.639
you may well be called to the Islamic world,

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but I don't know whether it's here or it's there.

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It's not about crossing the sea, it's about seeing

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the cross. Some of you need to see the cross

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and be willing to sacrifice your life. and lay

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it on the altar. Because no sacrifice, no fire.

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Some of you are desperate for the fire of God

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in your lives. No sacrifice, no fire. You need

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to put your life on the altar. Tonight I know

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I've talked for a long time, but I just want

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to say a simple challenge out there. Let's just

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stand where you are. And I want you to consider

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seriously, what is my life worth? What am I doing

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with my life? If you want your life to count

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in this generation, you need the fire of God

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I'm just gonna simply challenge you you may not

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well be you may well not be called to the Muslim

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world But some of you are but some of you know

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that God is tugging your hearts You know that

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you know that you know that you're called To

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take the gospel to advance the kingdom, but if

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you want the fire of God in your life, you need

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to humble yourself the foot of the cross. And

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I'm just going to ask you to come and kneel at

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the front and just say, God, I'm willing to sacrifice

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and be sacrificed. I want the fire of God in

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my life. Let's just really cry out to him and

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say, God, I don't care what it costs. I don't

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want my life to be wasted. I so want fire. I

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so want your fire in this generation. God, will

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you come? Will you come? Will you come? Will

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you come? So Fathers, we come to a close tonight.

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We just bow at the cross. God, we want to empty

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ourselves of every area of compromise, every

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area of fear, every area of deception. every

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area of uncleanness. God will you do a deep,

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deep work. Holy Spirit will you come right now

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and draw those things out of us. If you are interested

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