1 00:00:00,992 --> 00:00:04,090 Alright. It's great to be back here. We 2 00:00:04,090 --> 00:00:05,782 we... Elena and I get here 3 00:00:06,156 --> 00:00:06,656 sporadically 4 00:00:07,347 --> 00:00:09,492 every couple years or so about our history 5 00:00:09,492 --> 00:00:11,740 with the church goes back a long ways, 6 00:00:12,218 --> 00:00:14,612 particularly through friends. I russell and mimi me 7 00:00:14,612 --> 00:00:16,687 we've have known a long time, and many, 8 00:00:16,846 --> 00:00:20,145 many others and so it's a delight to 9 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:22,052 be back with you. And 10 00:00:22,426 --> 00:00:24,174 the last couple years, it's been 11 00:00:25,127 --> 00:00:26,104 good to meet 12 00:00:26,414 --> 00:00:29,152 get to know, pastor Austin and 13 00:00:29,531 --> 00:00:31,449 and to get get to know him a 14 00:00:31,449 --> 00:00:32,429 little bit better 15 00:00:32,808 --> 00:00:33,208 and 16 00:00:34,406 --> 00:00:36,185 see if I could get my little papers 17 00:00:36,899 --> 00:00:38,177 so I can say on here. 18 00:00:39,616 --> 00:00:40,015 So 19 00:00:42,253 --> 00:00:45,050 we've really appreciate then Pastor Austin had asked 20 00:00:45,050 --> 00:00:45,550 me 21 00:00:45,864 --> 00:00:49,217 via email if I if I would, share 22 00:00:49,217 --> 00:00:51,851 a a sermon. And part of that will 23 00:00:51,851 --> 00:00:54,107 be a elaine will share a little bit 24 00:00:54,246 --> 00:00:56,412 later in that. But let me just say 25 00:00:56,412 --> 00:01:00,334 first, we are so thankful for first present 26 00:01:01,346 --> 00:01:02,164 here in 27 00:01:02,698 --> 00:01:03,994 Griffin for the 28 00:01:04,782 --> 00:01:08,067 role you've had with us prayer and partnership 29 00:01:08,203 --> 00:01:10,511 for many, many years. And I'm I'm serious 30 00:01:10,511 --> 00:01:12,659 when I say that, you know, we're we're... 31 00:01:12,897 --> 00:01:15,384 We were 20 years in Turkey. Some will 32 00:01:15,384 --> 00:01:17,537 you remember that. But we've been 3 and 33 00:01:17,537 --> 00:01:19,712 a half years in Belgium. It's an 34 00:01:20,169 --> 00:01:22,403 interesting story. I won't go into all that. 35 00:01:22,881 --> 00:01:23,381 But 36 00:01:23,930 --> 00:01:26,865 We really believe that we could not see 37 00:01:26,865 --> 00:01:29,666 the things happening that we are without your 38 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:30,380 prayers 39 00:01:30,848 --> 00:01:33,716 for us and and giving and partnership. Thank 40 00:01:33,716 --> 00:01:34,991 you so much. And we... 41 00:01:36,824 --> 00:01:39,692 Others, many other churches and individuals have a 42 00:01:39,692 --> 00:01:42,254 part in that too. So, we wanna thank 43 00:01:42,254 --> 00:01:42,811 you for that. 44 00:01:44,242 --> 00:01:44,742 So 45 00:01:45,595 --> 00:01:47,400 next week starts the 46 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,359 20, 24 47 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:51,760 a limp summer Olympics in Paris. 48 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,640 If you're like a elaine and, we'd love 49 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:55,140 to 50 00:01:55,694 --> 00:01:58,730 enjoy different events, including the opening ceremony. Right? 51 00:01:58,970 --> 00:02:01,207 And and so we're we're looking forward to 52 00:02:01,207 --> 00:02:02,486 that next Friday, 53 00:02:03,125 --> 00:02:05,530 and a hundred years before that, 54 00:02:06,406 --> 00:02:08,952 there was also an Olympics in Paris, 55 00:02:09,748 --> 00:02:11,442 and many great athletes 56 00:02:11,976 --> 00:02:13,305 emerge from that 57 00:02:13,664 --> 00:02:14,703 1 in particular, 58 00:02:15,982 --> 00:02:19,338 years later achieving greater notoriety, and that was 59 00:02:19,338 --> 00:02:20,158 a Scottish 60 00:02:20,537 --> 00:02:22,855 runner for the country of of for Uk, 61 00:02:23,349 --> 00:02:26,554 and named Eric Little. And his life was 62 00:02:26,610 --> 00:02:27,110 immortal 63 00:02:27,485 --> 00:02:28,042 through a, 64 00:02:28,997 --> 00:02:29,735 a film 65 00:02:30,190 --> 00:02:31,065 that was done, 66 00:02:31,781 --> 00:02:34,104 like, 25 year in the early eighties. 67 00:02:34,820 --> 00:02:36,491 How many of you have heard of or 68 00:02:36,491 --> 00:02:39,117 seen that film? Chariot it's of fire. Okay? 69 00:02:39,689 --> 00:02:41,546 The older folks are 70 00:02:42,004 --> 00:02:44,080 waving their hand, but it was, 71 00:02:45,357 --> 00:02:46,715 it's a tremendous film, 72 00:02:47,513 --> 00:02:48,971 and I just 73 00:02:49,523 --> 00:02:51,910 watch that, and I... It's I'm almost in 74 00:02:51,910 --> 00:02:52,410 disbelief 75 00:02:53,183 --> 00:02:54,001 that the 76 00:02:54,377 --> 00:02:56,286 director and producers. As far as I know, 77 00:02:56,684 --> 00:02:58,355 we're not evangelical Christians. 78 00:02:59,008 --> 00:03:01,401 Just a guy that had a, the his 79 00:03:01,401 --> 00:03:03,873 other works were not anything along that line, 80 00:03:04,033 --> 00:03:06,426 and then this comes up. And I don't 81 00:03:06,426 --> 00:03:08,180 know. I'm sorry, but I just see it 82 00:03:08,180 --> 00:03:08,474 as 83 00:03:08,995 --> 00:03:09,314 1 84 00:03:09,875 --> 00:03:11,395 just, a gift of god, 85 00:03:12,115 --> 00:03:14,194 of the the the idea of faith that 86 00:03:14,194 --> 00:03:16,514 comes out of that and many other things. 87 00:03:16,675 --> 00:03:17,495 But I 88 00:03:18,129 --> 00:03:18,687 It's a little 89 00:03:19,403 --> 00:03:21,735 little side note, but I was a 90 00:03:22,191 --> 00:03:24,899 early, a young missionary in Turkey when it 91 00:03:24,899 --> 00:03:26,891 came out in the early eighties, 92 00:03:27,464 --> 00:03:29,399 And I'd come down with hepatitis 93 00:03:30,016 --> 00:03:31,771 at that time and that we had a 94 00:03:31,771 --> 00:03:33,605 conference scheduled out of the country. 95 00:03:34,403 --> 00:03:37,169 So our entire team flies away 96 00:03:37,526 --> 00:03:39,589 and I'm left there by myself in this 97 00:03:39,589 --> 00:03:40,065 istanbul. 98 00:03:40,779 --> 00:03:43,396 And but 1 good thing, we we had 99 00:03:43,396 --> 00:03:45,713 a Beta Max machine. I don't know some 100 00:03:45,713 --> 00:03:47,468 of you remember that. It was... The 1 101 00:03:47,468 --> 00:03:48,904 we had it just come out of the 102 00:03:48,904 --> 00:03:51,935 size of a small car, and we had 103 00:03:51,935 --> 00:03:53,791 it in in our room and a little 104 00:03:53,849 --> 00:03:56,414 beta cassette you put in but somebody had 105 00:03:56,414 --> 00:03:59,199 given us this cassette of chariot of fire. 106 00:03:59,915 --> 00:04:02,223 So, of course, I watched in our team 107 00:04:02,223 --> 00:04:04,632 before they left watched it. But then 108 00:04:05,581 --> 00:04:08,210 the missionary community was really tight, and they 109 00:04:08,210 --> 00:04:10,760 heard I had this, and they came over 110 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,239 1 by 1, So I think I watched 111 00:04:13,239 --> 00:04:15,008 the film. I remember I'm bedridden. 112 00:04:15,381 --> 00:04:18,816 I think I watched it 25 times. But 113 00:04:19,204 --> 00:04:21,506 it would be my favorite even if I 114 00:04:21,506 --> 00:04:22,617 only saw it once, 115 00:04:23,173 --> 00:04:24,443 and it just some great 116 00:04:24,999 --> 00:04:27,399 great principles come out of that. And Pastor 117 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,360 Awesome it was so gracious. I wanna show 118 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,839 a couple clips real brief. And then from 119 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,319 there, I'll I'll tie that into the message. 120 00:04:42,899 --> 00:04:43,670 I've decided 121 00:04:45,221 --> 00:04:46,175 I'm going back to Chime. 122 00:04:47,130 --> 00:04:48,482 The commissioner have accepted. 123 00:04:52,001 --> 00:04:52,400 Moving. 124 00:04:53,597 --> 00:04:54,874 I've got a lot of running to do 125 00:04:54,874 --> 00:04:55,113 first. 126 00:04:57,507 --> 00:04:57,747 Jenny. 127 00:04:59,753 --> 00:05:01,265 Jane, you've got to understand. 128 00:05:04,845 --> 00:05:06,277 I believe that God made me for a 129 00:05:06,277 --> 00:05:06,675 purpose. 130 00:05:08,359 --> 00:05:08,994 For China. 131 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:12,329 He also made me advice. 132 00:05:13,917 --> 00:05:14,711 And when I run, 133 00:05:15,584 --> 00:05:16,798 A seal pleasure 134 00:05:18,787 --> 00:05:20,066 To get it up with you the hold 135 00:05:20,066 --> 00:05:21,025 and of content. 136 00:05:22,703 --> 00:05:23,343 You were right. 137 00:05:25,181 --> 00:05:26,140 It's not just fun. 138 00:05:28,226 --> 00:05:28,964 To win 139 00:05:29,738 --> 00:05:30,613 is the honor of him. 140 00:05:33,558 --> 00:05:33,876 Jenny. 141 00:06:09,140 --> 00:06:10,836 So what does the power come from 142 00:06:11,213 --> 00:06:12,749 To see the race to hanging 143 00:06:13,684 --> 00:06:14,242 from within? 144 00:06:37,967 --> 00:06:38,364 Jenny, 145 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:41,237 believe god for this. 146 00:06:43,535 --> 00:06:44,881 He also made me fast. 147 00:06:46,941 --> 00:06:47,917 I would run 148 00:07:02,587 --> 00:07:04,276 Yeah thank you, austin. So 149 00:07:04,744 --> 00:07:08,835 this was... It's a powerful scene about how 150 00:07:09,053 --> 00:07:11,447 he's talking about that he loves to run 151 00:07:11,447 --> 00:07:12,165 and he said God. 152 00:07:12,816 --> 00:07:14,031 Made me fast 153 00:07:14,564 --> 00:07:17,424 and to not use that gift would be 154 00:07:17,424 --> 00:07:19,013 to dish honor god. 155 00:07:19,904 --> 00:07:22,459 And I'm I'm I'm drawing out of 1 156 00:07:22,459 --> 00:07:25,173 word out of that, and that's that word 157 00:07:25,173 --> 00:07:28,047 fast and talking about how God had gifting 158 00:07:28,047 --> 00:07:29,977 him and made him fast physically. 159 00:07:30,853 --> 00:07:31,991 But I wanna talk 160 00:07:32,765 --> 00:07:35,894 today a little bit more about how God 161 00:07:35,952 --> 00:07:39,220 himself works fast, not just in individual lives, 162 00:07:39,457 --> 00:07:42,574 but in in our society and in our 163 00:07:42,629 --> 00:07:42,787 country, 164 00:07:43,501 --> 00:07:44,001 and 165 00:07:44,389 --> 00:07:46,623 you know, it's interesting when I think of 166 00:07:46,623 --> 00:07:49,654 god moving working in our lives. I normally 167 00:07:49,654 --> 00:07:50,872 think of slowness. 168 00:07:51,584 --> 00:07:53,975 You know how a holy spirit work your 169 00:07:53,975 --> 00:07:57,004 life at years, it he's producing the fruit 170 00:07:57,004 --> 00:08:00,207 of the spirit, A wonderful thing. It and 171 00:08:00,207 --> 00:08:02,836 it it continues our our whole life until 172 00:08:02,836 --> 00:08:05,146 we die. He's always at work. Of course, 173 00:08:05,306 --> 00:08:07,732 you can make a case that the lengthening 174 00:08:07,790 --> 00:08:10,041 of that work is sometimes our own 175 00:08:10,417 --> 00:08:10,736 you know, 176 00:08:11,452 --> 00:08:15,137 stubborn or dis disobedience, but he will complete 177 00:08:15,369 --> 00:08:18,006 what he has what has begun, what he 178 00:08:18,006 --> 00:08:19,225 has begun. But 179 00:08:19,764 --> 00:08:22,641 I wanna look, take another tact if you 180 00:08:22,641 --> 00:08:23,975 will and look at 181 00:08:24,572 --> 00:08:25,709 cases where 182 00:08:26,562 --> 00:08:27,836 Gone moves fast. 183 00:08:28,394 --> 00:08:30,384 And I think that's encouraging to just see 184 00:08:30,384 --> 00:08:32,946 another attribute of Gone. And we look in 185 00:08:32,946 --> 00:08:34,614 the old testament of Ne my, 186 00:08:36,044 --> 00:08:39,595 he and his labor built that wall and 187 00:08:39,714 --> 00:08:42,692 the whole wall around Jerusalem after the exile 188 00:08:42,751 --> 00:08:44,909 in just over 50 days, 189 00:08:45,388 --> 00:08:45,888 Even 190 00:08:46,587 --> 00:08:49,737 secular sources I understand look at Neo My 191 00:08:49,873 --> 00:08:52,339 as a study in leadership. How how he 192 00:08:52,339 --> 00:08:53,214 did or hal God. 193 00:08:54,089 --> 00:08:55,203 Excuse me, worked through him. 194 00:08:56,173 --> 00:08:57,209 And then new testament, 195 00:08:58,324 --> 00:09:01,032 Jesus says in John 04:35, 196 00:09:01,829 --> 00:09:04,298 do not do not say there yet 4 197 00:09:04,298 --> 00:09:04,617 months. 198 00:09:05,349 --> 00:09:07,575 And then comes to harvest behold, 199 00:09:08,291 --> 00:09:10,041 lift up your eyes and look on the 200 00:09:10,041 --> 00:09:10,541 fields 201 00:09:11,154 --> 00:09:12,745 that they are white for harvest. 202 00:09:13,953 --> 00:09:17,217 Believe Jesus is saying there. That harvest that 203 00:09:17,217 --> 00:09:20,482 mission field, that harvest is always there ray 204 00:09:20,482 --> 00:09:21,698 ready to be 205 00:09:22,327 --> 00:09:23,519 tapped into Ready, 206 00:09:24,154 --> 00:09:27,014 God is ready, and he's using us, 207 00:09:27,650 --> 00:09:30,350 and he can act fast in in situations 208 00:09:30,350 --> 00:09:31,883 you never think to 209 00:09:32,833 --> 00:09:33,712 see that happen. 210 00:09:34,431 --> 00:09:36,508 And then I've been... Also new testament. I've 211 00:09:36,508 --> 00:09:37,168 been re 212 00:09:37,547 --> 00:09:40,036 recently reading in the book of acts. A 213 00:09:40,036 --> 00:09:43,218 paul's missionary journeys. Okay? Read a many times, 214 00:09:43,457 --> 00:09:46,455 but a second or third look at it 215 00:09:46,653 --> 00:09:49,040 What I saw was, Paul on the first 216 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:50,790 second, third missionary journeys, 217 00:09:51,585 --> 00:09:53,119 he went into a culture 218 00:09:53,748 --> 00:09:57,167 that was radically different from Jerusalem in and 219 00:09:57,246 --> 00:09:57,723 J. 220 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,824 He went to the G Roman world. Now 221 00:10:00,824 --> 00:10:03,622 can you believe this? He went to Be 222 00:10:03,622 --> 00:10:06,248 preceding Antioch, he went to icon then later 223 00:10:06,248 --> 00:10:08,714 on to Cor and philip. And if you 224 00:10:08,714 --> 00:10:10,783 look at it, by the time he left 225 00:10:10,783 --> 00:10:12,788 2 weeks later in he city, 226 00:10:13,585 --> 00:10:15,498 there there were churches established. 227 00:10:16,215 --> 00:10:19,244 So the core of Jewish people believe, they 228 00:10:19,244 --> 00:10:20,335 always had this 229 00:10:20,853 --> 00:10:21,172 connection of, 230 00:10:22,208 --> 00:10:25,077 gentile god fears, then and and by time 231 00:10:25,077 --> 00:10:27,867 he left, all these cities had the beginning 232 00:10:27,867 --> 00:10:30,512 of a church. I just kinda marvel. I 233 00:10:30,512 --> 00:10:33,778 forgot that it really happened that quickly. So 234 00:10:33,778 --> 00:10:35,713 that's a reminder of how 235 00:10:36,424 --> 00:10:38,584 how God can move an amazing way. So 236 00:10:38,745 --> 00:10:40,524 I I just wanna give a quick 237 00:10:40,985 --> 00:10:41,485 scan 238 00:10:42,504 --> 00:10:44,745 in our own history, United States. 239 00:10:45,719 --> 00:10:48,273 Of of how god has moved fast. 240 00:10:48,831 --> 00:10:49,331 And 241 00:10:49,709 --> 00:10:51,167 I wanna look at the term 242 00:10:51,624 --> 00:10:54,426 revival. Now it's not a just holding a 243 00:10:54,426 --> 00:10:55,720 tent meeting or 244 00:10:56,172 --> 00:10:57,997 someone come to speak for a couple days, 245 00:10:58,156 --> 00:11:00,560 you know, it could be that. But 246 00:11:01,108 --> 00:11:03,900 revive. I'm here's a kind of a definition 247 00:11:03,980 --> 00:11:06,952 I thought of, a revival is 248 00:11:07,729 --> 00:11:10,042 a sovereign decision on God's part. 249 00:11:10,934 --> 00:11:12,871 To reach down to his world 250 00:11:13,408 --> 00:11:16,441 and to create a spiritual renewal many times 251 00:11:16,441 --> 00:11:18,995 are all times and answered to believer prayers. 252 00:11:19,963 --> 00:11:22,345 And I wanna add another little part to 253 00:11:22,345 --> 00:11:22,845 that 254 00:11:24,012 --> 00:11:25,306 when it's a a really 255 00:11:25,758 --> 00:11:26,814 great revival 256 00:11:27,282 --> 00:11:30,618 the secular world can't miss it. It's so 257 00:11:30,618 --> 00:11:31,118 huge 258 00:11:31,730 --> 00:11:33,556 that they have to take notice. 259 00:11:34,192 --> 00:11:34,692 And 260 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:36,840 this is not to say, 261 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:40,840 we're always we're we're evan analyzing. We're d 262 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,040 decipher. We're reaching out to others. That continues 263 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,528 all the time. But when God chooses to 264 00:11:46,528 --> 00:11:49,260 do a revival, he can accomplish more 265 00:11:49,796 --> 00:11:53,078 in that revival time than many years of 266 00:11:53,078 --> 00:11:55,629 our work, But it's his sovereign choosing to 267 00:11:55,629 --> 00:11:56,027 do so. 268 00:11:56,983 --> 00:11:58,577 Our our part is in there as well. 269 00:11:59,215 --> 00:12:00,591 So I wanted to 270 00:12:02,489 --> 00:12:03,679 look at a couple, 271 00:12:04,155 --> 00:12:07,329 3 great awakening in our society. The first 272 00:12:07,329 --> 00:12:07,829 1 273 00:12:08,139 --> 00:12:11,085 happened even before our country founded. The first 274 00:12:11,085 --> 00:12:11,983 great awakening 275 00:12:12,359 --> 00:12:13,735 was in 17 276 00:12:14,270 --> 00:12:16,602 32 to 17 45 277 00:12:16,835 --> 00:12:20,754 2 main proponents were Jonathan Edwards and George 278 00:12:21,235 --> 00:12:24,446 Field, and so great was this impact that 279 00:12:24,605 --> 00:12:26,114 I don't know about you, but it... When 280 00:12:26,273 --> 00:12:28,179 I was an elementary school here in Georgia, 281 00:12:28,576 --> 00:12:30,959 we we we read about him and went 282 00:12:30,959 --> 00:12:31,991 both of them together. 283 00:12:32,641 --> 00:12:33,696 Great thousands 284 00:12:34,068 --> 00:12:36,209 came to faith from New England all the 285 00:12:36,209 --> 00:12:38,904 way down to to our here, to Georgia, 286 00:12:39,221 --> 00:12:41,705 in a great great impact in our lives. 287 00:12:41,865 --> 00:12:42,583 And in fact, 288 00:12:43,460 --> 00:12:46,434 you can make a case that the American 289 00:12:46,891 --> 00:12:47,391 revolution 290 00:12:48,024 --> 00:12:49,859 may have come out of that. Why? 291 00:12:50,498 --> 00:12:54,090 Because believers many believers came to faith. Their 292 00:12:54,090 --> 00:12:56,186 lives were emboldened. They had courage 293 00:12:56,499 --> 00:12:58,196 and they may may have led 294 00:12:58,575 --> 00:13:00,331 some of them to be 295 00:13:01,847 --> 00:13:04,343 a force to in in the American 296 00:13:04,721 --> 00:13:04,881 revolution. 297 00:13:05,934 --> 00:13:08,571 So that was the first great awakening. 298 00:13:09,130 --> 00:13:10,808 And with all revival, 299 00:13:11,208 --> 00:13:13,146 it doesn't go on forever. 300 00:13:13,525 --> 00:13:13,925 There's 301 00:13:14,578 --> 00:13:15,477 little tri 302 00:13:16,253 --> 00:13:17,927 out of that that continue, 303 00:13:18,644 --> 00:13:22,174 thankfully. And then the forces of, disbelief 304 00:13:22,631 --> 00:13:26,165 and and evil continue their way. So 305 00:13:26,855 --> 00:13:29,395 so it was in the 17 hundreds by 306 00:13:29,395 --> 00:13:31,380 the time we get to 1800, 307 00:13:32,269 --> 00:13:34,422 people were saying that our country was heading 308 00:13:34,422 --> 00:13:37,874 to a direction of, un unbelievable and secularism. 309 00:13:38,490 --> 00:13:41,122 And then we have the second great awakening. 310 00:13:41,681 --> 00:13:42,674 And this 311 00:13:43,128 --> 00:13:44,264 awakening was 312 00:13:44,639 --> 00:13:46,389 perhaps even greater than the first, 313 00:13:47,025 --> 00:13:49,729 and 1 name in particular stands out. There 314 00:13:49,729 --> 00:13:53,481 were many was evangelist char Charles Finn had 315 00:13:53,481 --> 00:13:55,866 had a had a great impact there. What 316 00:13:55,866 --> 00:13:57,615 what were some of the things that happened 317 00:13:57,615 --> 00:13:58,172 out of that? 318 00:14:00,171 --> 00:14:01,861 America's first pioneer 319 00:14:02,392 --> 00:14:05,249 movement, foreign missions happened out of New England 320 00:14:05,249 --> 00:14:06,439 during during that time. 321 00:14:07,885 --> 00:14:09,578 Other things were the 322 00:14:11,227 --> 00:14:14,903 the, the the denomination of methodist baptist press, 323 00:14:14,983 --> 00:14:18,254 and they started reaching out to Appalachia and 324 00:14:18,254 --> 00:14:19,610 kent Kentucky and Tennessee, 325 00:14:20,248 --> 00:14:21,285 frontier camp meetings. 326 00:14:21,940 --> 00:14:24,579 Many, many people came to faith. Can you 327 00:14:24,579 --> 00:14:26,819 think about what our country would be like 328 00:14:26,819 --> 00:14:29,220 if that had not happened? It it it 329 00:14:29,220 --> 00:14:31,392 churches were formed on the front here. It 330 00:14:31,392 --> 00:14:32,665 it was... It made a it made a 331 00:14:32,665 --> 00:14:33,222 big difference. 332 00:14:34,097 --> 00:14:35,926 And from there... Oh, and perhaps the... 333 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,804 Let me check my notes here. And perhaps 334 00:14:38,804 --> 00:14:40,577 the biggest thing of all was 335 00:14:41,031 --> 00:14:43,337 coming out of that. Now again, it lasts 336 00:14:43,337 --> 00:14:46,335 in many years was the ab evolution of 337 00:14:46,534 --> 00:14:49,884 slavery and with that, the the American Civil 338 00:14:49,884 --> 00:14:53,234 war and more than a million lives were 339 00:14:53,234 --> 00:14:55,308 lost total on both sides. 340 00:14:55,866 --> 00:14:57,815 But we think about that 341 00:14:58,272 --> 00:15:00,263 and God's subsequent working, 342 00:15:00,901 --> 00:15:03,664 it's it's hard to believe there our country 343 00:15:03,864 --> 00:15:05,937 it could have been splinter in a hundred 344 00:15:05,937 --> 00:15:09,526 ways, and God somehow cape kept our country 345 00:15:09,526 --> 00:15:10,026 together 346 00:15:10,483 --> 00:15:11,223 and and 347 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,484 unified. And I I'm... I just just intrigued 348 00:15:14,484 --> 00:15:16,872 by history. What what if we had been 349 00:15:16,872 --> 00:15:18,862 splinter, What would have happened in War war 350 00:15:18,862 --> 00:15:19,362 2 351 00:15:19,738 --> 00:15:20,795 with these 2 352 00:15:21,822 --> 00:15:23,753 empires that would that were not 353 00:15:24,525 --> 00:15:27,068 were not good things, basically. But our country, 354 00:15:27,386 --> 00:15:30,566 particularly Us played a an unbelievable role in 355 00:15:30,566 --> 00:15:31,559 that So 356 00:15:32,496 --> 00:15:33,853 that was an incredible thing. 357 00:15:34,492 --> 00:15:34,971 And then, 358 00:15:35,610 --> 00:15:37,685 from the second awakening, we moved forward, 359 00:15:38,244 --> 00:15:39,942 okay, 2 tri tri. 360 00:15:40,654 --> 00:15:43,054 God continues to work in a great way, 361 00:15:43,695 --> 00:15:46,095 not quite like the initial revival, and then 362 00:15:46,095 --> 00:15:46,995 you have the 363 00:15:47,455 --> 00:15:48,195 of disbelief 364 00:15:48,575 --> 00:15:49,029 and 365 00:15:50,750 --> 00:15:52,290 just lack of faith secularism, 366 00:15:52,670 --> 00:15:55,389 so that was continuing. And so you... We 367 00:15:55,389 --> 00:15:56,930 we fast forward to 368 00:15:57,803 --> 00:15:59,636 War war 1 and World war 2. 369 00:16:00,354 --> 00:16:03,782 And world war 2, our our soldiers came 370 00:16:03,782 --> 00:16:04,282 back 371 00:16:04,739 --> 00:16:07,641 from War 2. And some of them 372 00:16:08,014 --> 00:16:11,589 were, red dedicated their lives. Some were became 373 00:16:11,589 --> 00:16:13,575 came to faith, and they had been in 374 00:16:13,575 --> 00:16:16,212 the orient, and they had been in in 375 00:16:16,371 --> 00:16:19,235 Europe, and they went back as missionaries, 1 376 00:16:19,235 --> 00:16:21,939 of the greatest forces in missions that we 377 00:16:21,939 --> 00:16:22,678 have seen 378 00:16:22,989 --> 00:16:24,820 will happen right after War war or 2 379 00:16:24,820 --> 00:16:26,889 and a... So in kind of a weird 380 00:16:26,889 --> 00:16:30,074 way, that's what caused a lot of missionaries 381 00:16:30,074 --> 00:16:30,711 to go out. 382 00:16:31,364 --> 00:16:33,282 And and from there, and I'm really proud 383 00:16:33,282 --> 00:16:35,780 of this, the Wick Bible translators. 384 00:16:36,559 --> 00:16:39,116 I don't think there'd ever been an f 385 00:16:39,116 --> 00:16:42,649 organized effort to go out to bible tribes 386 00:16:42,649 --> 00:16:44,190 and to translate the Bible 387 00:16:44,570 --> 00:16:46,009 into their language. 388 00:16:46,490 --> 00:16:48,970 And and that happened in in 19 thirties, 389 00:16:49,210 --> 00:16:50,009 19 forties, 390 00:16:50,502 --> 00:16:53,278 Wick bible bible translators. So the Billy graham 391 00:16:53,278 --> 00:16:53,675 movement, 392 00:16:54,389 --> 00:16:54,944 as you know, 393 00:16:55,737 --> 00:16:56,927 crusade around the world, 394 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,381 the a para church group called the navigators. 395 00:17:00,676 --> 00:17:02,744 You might... Maybe you know them, maybe you 396 00:17:02,744 --> 00:17:05,709 don't, But they... His Dawson T 397 00:17:06,163 --> 00:17:06,775 contribution was 398 00:17:07,213 --> 00:17:10,480 1 man in disciples 1 or woman, or 399 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,472 or 1 or 2. In other words, don't 400 00:17:12,472 --> 00:17:13,370 let people 401 00:17:14,558 --> 00:17:16,943 you know, really show attention in the disciple, 402 00:17:17,261 --> 00:17:19,089 you know, And some people think that 403 00:17:19,804 --> 00:17:23,086 that idea has become a little bit forgotten 404 00:17:23,142 --> 00:17:25,864 today. But that was a contribution of a 405 00:17:25,864 --> 00:17:28,492 the navigators. And my our group campus crusade, 406 00:17:28,890 --> 00:17:31,677 we we would similar navigators. We would do 407 00:17:31,677 --> 00:17:32,177 evangelist 408 00:17:32,570 --> 00:17:34,490 disciples ship would go out to the to 409 00:17:34,490 --> 00:17:38,570 the world. In in our campus crusade in 410 00:17:38,570 --> 00:17:39,549 house terminology, 411 00:17:40,344 --> 00:17:44,165 we call that win build send. Okay? When 412 00:17:44,165 --> 00:17:46,235 people to Christ, build them in their faith 413 00:17:46,235 --> 00:17:47,986 and then send them out to reach others. 414 00:17:48,638 --> 00:17:48,876 So, 415 00:17:49,591 --> 00:17:52,770 campus Crusade has had a unique role as 416 00:17:52,770 --> 00:17:53,985 well. And then 417 00:17:54,836 --> 00:17:57,141 passage that was right it mainly after war 418 00:17:57,141 --> 00:17:59,225 too. Then time moves on. And then we 419 00:17:59,225 --> 00:18:00,043 hit a period 420 00:18:01,214 --> 00:18:03,363 in the late sixties and all of a... 421 00:18:03,523 --> 00:18:05,447 A lot of us live through this. When 422 00:18:05,447 --> 00:18:07,669 it seems like we were coming apart at 423 00:18:07,669 --> 00:18:10,685 the seams. There was the Vietnam war, and 424 00:18:10,844 --> 00:18:13,264 I remember as younger teenager 425 00:18:13,641 --> 00:18:15,792 every night would watch the news and find 426 00:18:15,792 --> 00:18:18,661 out how many Americans died in battle that 427 00:18:18,661 --> 00:18:21,066 night. That'll be that day. And that was 428 00:18:21,066 --> 00:18:22,899 every day seeing that and all of a 429 00:18:22,899 --> 00:18:25,768 sudden protests broke out around the country. Some 430 00:18:25,768 --> 00:18:28,493 of the young protesters were killed by by 431 00:18:28,493 --> 00:18:28,812 the 432 00:18:29,450 --> 00:18:30,348 you know, government 433 00:18:30,964 --> 00:18:31,442 soldiers, 434 00:18:31,921 --> 00:18:33,435 and it it was a it was a 435 00:18:33,435 --> 00:18:36,167 crazy time. We had the hippie movement 436 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:37,858 mountain California, 437 00:18:38,397 --> 00:18:41,455 and with that increasing in morality and 438 00:18:41,993 --> 00:18:44,391 and and and drug use was happening at 439 00:18:44,391 --> 00:18:45,110 the same time. 440 00:18:46,082 --> 00:18:46,558 And 441 00:18:47,431 --> 00:18:50,207 so it looked like... Oh, and then maybe 442 00:18:50,207 --> 00:18:52,214 the the touchstone of everything 443 00:18:52,666 --> 00:18:53,990 was a 19 6 444 00:18:54,910 --> 00:18:57,490 Democratic to convention. Now I don't mean to 445 00:18:57,630 --> 00:19:00,670 highlight whatever party it just happened that if 446 00:19:00,670 --> 00:19:02,764 you were there and watch that then it 447 00:19:02,764 --> 00:19:06,679 was unbelievable. You're thinking, where our society continue. 448 00:19:06,918 --> 00:19:08,196 This is like crazy. 449 00:19:08,756 --> 00:19:09,256 And 450 00:19:09,730 --> 00:19:12,210 So that that was 19 68. And then 451 00:19:12,210 --> 00:19:13,970 all of a sudden, all of a sudden, 452 00:19:14,929 --> 00:19:15,650 God showed up. 453 00:19:16,450 --> 00:19:18,623 And you can almost put it on the 454 00:19:18,623 --> 00:19:21,654 year 19 70. God showed up. What happened. 455 00:19:21,893 --> 00:19:24,467 Well, in the Hippie movement, out in California, 456 00:19:25,163 --> 00:19:26,838 who would have thought? Many of them came 457 00:19:26,838 --> 00:19:28,924 to faith in Christ you can make a 458 00:19:28,924 --> 00:19:30,857 case for had they not 459 00:19:31,313 --> 00:19:33,064 been a part of that. They wouldn't... Maybe 460 00:19:33,064 --> 00:19:34,576 you could say they wouldn't have been open. 461 00:19:35,133 --> 00:19:35,372 But 462 00:19:36,582 --> 00:19:38,892 this is... It it made many of them 463 00:19:38,892 --> 00:19:40,667 came to faith in Christ and a whole 464 00:19:40,963 --> 00:19:43,115 denomination came out of that Calvary Chapel. 465 00:19:43,832 --> 00:19:45,917 So that... And then what what else was... 466 00:19:47,349 --> 00:19:48,542 When else was going on. 467 00:19:49,815 --> 00:19:51,167 So from from that, 468 00:19:52,773 --> 00:19:55,555 a revival revival started breaking out in our 469 00:19:55,555 --> 00:19:59,370 colleges, as very seminary in Kentucky. They... Many 470 00:19:59,370 --> 00:20:01,858 students came to faith. They canceled classes, 471 00:20:02,257 --> 00:20:04,735 and the students went across the country to 472 00:20:04,735 --> 00:20:06,813 tell what what had happened in them. My 473 00:20:06,813 --> 00:20:08,971 remember some kids in my neighborhood and had 474 00:20:08,971 --> 00:20:11,139 had come and in making Georgia tell him 475 00:20:11,139 --> 00:20:12,014 telling about that. 476 00:20:12,889 --> 00:20:15,435 And then in campus crusade that I'm familiar 477 00:20:15,435 --> 00:20:16,151 with and, 478 00:20:16,867 --> 00:20:17,400 it just said 479 00:20:17,998 --> 00:20:20,868 evidence of what happened. In in 19 68, 480 00:20:21,107 --> 00:20:22,144 19 69, 481 00:20:22,542 --> 00:20:25,652 the young people joining our staff, it was 482 00:20:25,652 --> 00:20:28,558 very encouraging it was about, 200 483 00:20:28,855 --> 00:20:31,803 or 02:50, something like that, starting in 19 484 00:20:31,803 --> 00:20:34,607 70, a thousand joined. For the next 3 485 00:20:34,607 --> 00:20:36,760 years, a thousand a thousand a thousand. It 486 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,712 was just an indication of what God was 487 00:20:39,712 --> 00:20:42,902 doing. And from what I call this, the 488 00:20:42,902 --> 00:20:45,384 third grade away kidding. Because I believe it 489 00:20:45,384 --> 00:20:46,837 is an awakening. It's a 490 00:20:47,291 --> 00:20:47,791 revival 491 00:20:48,324 --> 00:20:50,151 in the same way as the the other 492 00:20:50,151 --> 00:20:53,440 2 I mentioned. Jimmy Carter and Chuck C, 493 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:55,440 made the terms born again, 494 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,519 vernacular language. 495 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,812 Everybody, that was be talking about that. What 496 00:21:00,812 --> 00:21:03,197 it... About born again? A person can come 497 00:21:03,197 --> 00:21:05,502 to have her a relation of Christ. We 498 00:21:05,502 --> 00:21:07,967 have the beginning of contemporary Christian music. 499 00:21:08,539 --> 00:21:11,888 Amy Grant, Michael W Smith, and and that 500 00:21:11,888 --> 00:21:13,563 that has continued to today. 501 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,571 Any any branch of music you look at 502 00:21:17,963 --> 00:21:19,795 you could have pop, rock, 503 00:21:21,309 --> 00:21:22,105 country, of course, 504 00:21:22,583 --> 00:21:24,597 and and even heavy metal 505 00:21:24,987 --> 00:21:27,233 all of them have a little sidebar 506 00:21:27,605 --> 00:21:30,620 with Christian contemporary Christian music in it. I 507 00:21:30,779 --> 00:21:32,842 I don't know that we've ever seen anything 508 00:21:32,842 --> 00:21:34,454 quite like that. And then you get to 509 00:21:34,454 --> 00:21:34,775 sports. 510 00:21:35,894 --> 00:21:36,134 And, 511 00:21:37,494 --> 00:21:38,954 say you're watching a 512 00:21:39,575 --> 00:21:42,670 a game with the Scc a local team 513 00:21:43,027 --> 00:21:43,527 And 514 00:21:44,141 --> 00:21:46,129 the the star and they won the star 515 00:21:46,129 --> 00:21:48,594 of the game, they won the they they 516 00:21:48,594 --> 00:21:51,138 won, and the reporter will come up to 517 00:21:51,138 --> 00:21:52,625 them, that 1 individual 518 00:21:53,299 --> 00:21:55,285 tell us tell us what happened How to... 519 00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:57,587 How were you able to do so well. 520 00:21:57,746 --> 00:21:59,175 And and you know I'm going with this, 521 00:21:59,493 --> 00:22:01,978 the the the the the athlete will say, 522 00:22:02,298 --> 00:22:04,455 well, first, I wanna give praise to my 523 00:22:04,535 --> 00:22:07,571 Lord Jesus Christ for what he did. And 524 00:22:07,571 --> 00:22:10,218 and and, of course, the the sports reporter 525 00:22:10,218 --> 00:22:12,766 can say nothing, but just let him speak, 526 00:22:13,005 --> 00:22:14,676 and it... It's a great testimony in it. 527 00:22:14,995 --> 00:22:17,558 Some people think that was the case years 528 00:22:17,558 --> 00:22:18,513 and years earlier. 529 00:22:19,310 --> 00:22:21,222 I I don't see it. I I see 530 00:22:21,222 --> 00:22:23,851 it was something incredible God... God was doing 531 00:22:23,851 --> 00:22:25,625 here. And then Hollywood, 532 00:22:26,893 --> 00:22:29,685 more, probably more believers in Hollywood than we've 533 00:22:29,685 --> 00:22:31,360 seen it a long time. And you wanted 534 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,455 to point out might be Mel Gibson 535 00:22:34,550 --> 00:22:35,109 producing the, 536 00:22:35,906 --> 00:22:38,468 the film that passion of Christ. And then 537 00:22:39,264 --> 00:22:40,457 and then I grew up and macon in 538 00:22:40,537 --> 00:22:42,684 Georgia and I. It it was... It alone 539 00:22:42,684 --> 00:22:45,015 had a revival love its own. I was 540 00:22:45,015 --> 00:22:47,755 talking in in Houston last month with a 541 00:22:47,815 --> 00:22:49,434 a person that's in his seventies, 542 00:22:49,815 --> 00:22:52,535 and he was involved a little bit with 543 00:22:52,535 --> 00:22:56,052 the high school ministry in Macon. And, you 544 00:22:56,052 --> 00:22:58,201 know, I I watch this as a non 545 00:22:58,201 --> 00:22:58,519 believer, 546 00:22:59,394 --> 00:23:01,463 what God was doing in people's lives in 547 00:23:01,463 --> 00:23:01,781 macon. 548 00:23:02,274 --> 00:23:03,865 I I... They were in all the all 549 00:23:03,865 --> 00:23:07,205 the school assemblies and churches. And so as 550 00:23:07,205 --> 00:23:08,716 your... I I just knew, Wait a minute. 551 00:23:08,875 --> 00:23:10,489 I was going to church, but 552 00:23:10,959 --> 00:23:13,513 they're acting, like, I'm a second class and 553 00:23:13,513 --> 00:23:15,749 not nothing toward me, but just they're so 554 00:23:15,749 --> 00:23:18,383 vibrant and exciting. And I I was just 555 00:23:18,622 --> 00:23:21,191 it caught my attention. And later had a 556 00:23:21,191 --> 00:23:24,221 impact in college. My first freshman year. I 557 00:23:24,221 --> 00:23:25,817 remembered what I was hearing and that had 558 00:23:25,817 --> 00:23:27,731 an impact for me. And I just... And 559 00:23:27,731 --> 00:23:29,859 1 1 little analogy I have to show 560 00:23:29,979 --> 00:23:32,070 share was our student body president 561 00:23:32,684 --> 00:23:35,151 at Stratford Academy in macon Georgia. 562 00:23:36,106 --> 00:23:37,873 They allowed them to come to all the 563 00:23:37,873 --> 00:23:39,869 schools and share this. Well, he was... He 564 00:23:39,869 --> 00:23:41,944 had came to faith in Christ. And if 565 00:23:41,944 --> 00:23:43,860 you go back that far, you might find 566 00:23:43,860 --> 00:23:46,356 this interesting. He he was given his testimony 567 00:23:46,908 --> 00:23:49,301 and he said he referred to a product 568 00:23:49,301 --> 00:23:52,731 back then called Deputy Do, and he said, 569 00:23:53,209 --> 00:23:55,442 deputy do a little gel. You put on 570 00:23:55,442 --> 00:23:57,693 your air and he said yeah. And that's 571 00:23:57,693 --> 00:23:59,930 me. Religion was like that. A little bit 572 00:23:59,930 --> 00:24:02,885 was enough, but he was saying now in 573 00:24:03,125 --> 00:24:05,605 Christ that, you know, that's not the case. 574 00:24:05,843 --> 00:24:08,171 He was loving God. And so 575 00:24:09,657 --> 00:24:11,961 so there we go. God did an incredible 576 00:24:11,961 --> 00:24:14,600 work. And how how do we how do 577 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,247 we respond to this? We can't conjure up 578 00:24:17,303 --> 00:24:19,450 revival. Oh, you know, I'm gonna make it 579 00:24:19,450 --> 00:24:21,855 happen, but I think the first step is 580 00:24:21,855 --> 00:24:22,414 is prayer, 581 00:24:23,212 --> 00:24:23,690 obviously, 582 00:24:24,089 --> 00:24:26,163 in second chronicles 07:14. 583 00:24:26,403 --> 00:24:27,302 If my people 584 00:24:28,014 --> 00:24:30,255 Her call by my name shall humble themselves 585 00:24:30,255 --> 00:24:32,575 and pray and seek my face and turn 586 00:24:32,575 --> 00:24:33,694 from their wicked ways. 587 00:24:34,255 --> 00:24:35,910 I will hear from heaven 588 00:24:36,585 --> 00:24:39,288 forgive their sin and heal their land. So 589 00:24:39,288 --> 00:24:41,912 first thing is prayer, you probably could come 590 00:24:41,912 --> 00:24:43,819 down with a list of 7 or 8 591 00:24:43,819 --> 00:24:46,718 different things that you could do subsequently 592 00:24:47,409 --> 00:24:50,029 to help revival take place. But I I 593 00:24:50,029 --> 00:24:50,688 just wanna 594 00:24:51,220 --> 00:24:53,943 simply have number 2 is take action 595 00:24:54,316 --> 00:24:55,928 is to take out. You could be, 596 00:24:57,286 --> 00:25:00,242 you could be taking action by going low 597 00:25:00,242 --> 00:25:01,815 to the, I don't mean that to be 598 00:25:02,094 --> 00:25:02,594 p 599 00:25:03,211 --> 00:25:06,006 negative. But those that don't have the... That 600 00:25:06,006 --> 00:25:07,603 are going through a rough patch in their 601 00:25:07,603 --> 00:25:11,275 life in in and they need somebody's help. 602 00:25:11,848 --> 00:25:14,553 Physically and even spiritually. It could be moving 603 00:25:14,871 --> 00:25:15,371 out 604 00:25:15,746 --> 00:25:16,621 in your neighborhood. 605 00:25:17,019 --> 00:25:19,406 Those people you know and helping that maybe 606 00:25:19,406 --> 00:25:20,462 sharing the faith 607 00:25:21,254 --> 00:25:23,731 and helping them or even getting them in 608 00:25:23,731 --> 00:25:25,809 a home group or a bible study. Now 609 00:25:25,809 --> 00:25:28,046 it could be moving up, and that means 610 00:25:28,046 --> 00:25:30,854 to the leaders of like here in your 611 00:25:30,854 --> 00:25:31,332 town or, 612 00:25:32,048 --> 00:25:34,198 the city counts are a school boards. It 613 00:25:34,198 --> 00:25:36,665 could be trying by faith to make to 614 00:25:36,665 --> 00:25:37,223 make a. 615 00:25:38,352 --> 00:25:40,024 Impact in that in that area as well. 616 00:25:40,263 --> 00:25:41,479 And then if you 617 00:25:42,014 --> 00:25:42,832 if a person 618 00:25:43,208 --> 00:25:45,278 absolutely can't find their spot. 619 00:25:46,009 --> 00:25:48,074 To make a difference, and I'd encourage you 620 00:25:48,074 --> 00:25:50,299 to follow a henry at Black bees advice 621 00:25:50,299 --> 00:25:53,492 in that book experience Gone. He said, see 622 00:25:53,492 --> 00:25:55,876 where god's at work and then just jump 623 00:25:55,876 --> 00:25:57,784 in and have a part in it. So 624 00:25:57,784 --> 00:26:00,247 that'd be another another thing we could do 625 00:26:00,819 --> 00:26:03,051 to make an impact. But we feel like 626 00:26:03,051 --> 00:26:06,478 god is moving fast in Belgium. We really 627 00:26:06,478 --> 00:26:09,598 do. In Belgium this country of you draw 628 00:26:09,598 --> 00:26:11,924 a line through it. The top part is 629 00:26:12,297 --> 00:26:13,590 Dutch and fl 630 00:26:13,964 --> 00:26:16,607 people. They're more dramatic. And the south part 631 00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:17,138 is 632 00:26:18,107 --> 00:26:20,650 French speaking. They're more Latin kind of people, 633 00:26:20,888 --> 00:26:22,319 But it's it's 1 country. 634 00:26:23,114 --> 00:26:25,181 We're not as... We're... Elena I live in 635 00:26:25,260 --> 00:26:28,483 Ant in the Dutch part. And we all 636 00:26:28,543 --> 00:26:30,861 what we know there is, they're very friendly 637 00:26:30,861 --> 00:26:33,758 and they love Americans. And they're still appreciative 638 00:26:33,817 --> 00:26:35,895 for what we did in war war 1 639 00:26:35,895 --> 00:26:38,470 and 2. Which is really encouraging. And the 640 00:26:38,470 --> 00:26:41,429 young people know English so well. Some have 641 00:26:41,429 --> 00:26:43,349 no accent. I mean, the accent they have 642 00:26:43,349 --> 00:26:46,069 is American accent because they're watching Netflix. 643 00:26:46,565 --> 00:26:48,484 And things like that. And they pick it 644 00:26:48,484 --> 00:26:51,204 up quick. And so anyway, so that's the... 645 00:26:51,525 --> 00:26:53,365 That's the top part and the south part 646 00:26:53,365 --> 00:26:55,365 is french part, where we'll get it there 647 00:26:55,365 --> 00:26:57,614 eventually. But I ask a Elaine would come 648 00:26:57,614 --> 00:26:59,309 up and wants to give you a short 649 00:27:01,361 --> 00:27:03,593 kinda summary of what's going on in Belgium. 650 00:27:03,832 --> 00:27:03,992 Yeah. 651 00:27:07,506 --> 00:27:09,731 Thank you. And as Ra said, thank you 652 00:27:09,731 --> 00:27:12,329 so much for your partnership in Belgium and 653 00:27:12,449 --> 00:27:14,282 how you are making a difference in the 654 00:27:14,282 --> 00:27:15,318 lives of the Belgian. 655 00:27:16,434 --> 00:27:17,731 We have really 4 656 00:27:18,188 --> 00:27:19,861 of our ministry there in Belgium. 657 00:27:20,754 --> 00:27:23,811 We first went there just to start 658 00:27:24,430 --> 00:27:26,768 with the leaders of the city, the 659 00:27:27,307 --> 00:27:30,599 section of our ministry, called leader impact. And 660 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:33,076 it's helping the leaders of a community make 661 00:27:33,076 --> 00:27:35,414 an impact in their community 662 00:27:35,953 --> 00:27:37,951 for the gospel and for the health of 663 00:27:37,951 --> 00:27:38,750 the community. 664 00:27:40,199 --> 00:27:42,501 It as we went there, we didn't have 665 00:27:42,501 --> 00:27:45,041 a lot of connections with the community. We 666 00:27:45,041 --> 00:27:46,414 didn't know Ver many 667 00:27:47,184 --> 00:27:48,319 individuals there either 668 00:27:48,708 --> 00:27:51,094 And the couple that had invited us invited 669 00:27:51,094 --> 00:27:53,161 us there. They were leaders in the community, 670 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,308 but they too did not have a lot 671 00:27:55,308 --> 00:27:56,581 of Christian connections. 672 00:27:57,234 --> 00:27:59,234 So begin to pray and for that reason 673 00:27:59,234 --> 00:28:01,634 we did the dub of the Jesus film 674 00:28:01,634 --> 00:28:02,994 an order that we would be able to 675 00:28:02,994 --> 00:28:05,409 meet some of the leaders and also have 676 00:28:05,409 --> 00:28:07,726 a tool for the communication of the message 677 00:28:07,726 --> 00:28:08,285 at Christ. 678 00:28:09,244 --> 00:28:11,881 In the course of that time, we god 679 00:28:11,881 --> 00:28:14,689 brought to our across our path, some leaders 680 00:28:14,689 --> 00:28:15,407 in the city. 681 00:28:16,046 --> 00:28:17,961 1 of those was a young man who 682 00:28:17,961 --> 00:28:20,035 had started a media company, 683 00:28:20,528 --> 00:28:21,346 worked with, 684 00:28:21,801 --> 00:28:23,869 in the finance area of a orbit of 685 00:28:23,869 --> 00:28:26,835 a company. But on his spare time, he 686 00:28:27,464 --> 00:28:28,602 He felt like 687 00:28:29,298 --> 00:28:31,929 individuals in the city needed to hear the 688 00:28:31,929 --> 00:28:33,603 gospel in their own language. 689 00:28:34,081 --> 00:28:36,647 So many Christian films they would take it 690 00:28:36,647 --> 00:28:38,740 upon themselves to dub those films 691 00:28:39,275 --> 00:28:39,833 into fl. 692 00:28:40,709 --> 00:28:43,258 And as Ralph mentioned, that's the language of 693 00:28:43,258 --> 00:28:44,771 the upper part of Belgium, 694 00:28:45,263 --> 00:28:47,732 but Fl is quite different from the Dutch 695 00:28:47,732 --> 00:28:48,529 of the Netherlands. 696 00:28:49,086 --> 00:28:51,577 It's like us listening to the 697 00:28:51,954 --> 00:28:53,807 English of the Scottish 698 00:28:54,357 --> 00:28:56,825 than the English of the Americans. If you've 699 00:28:56,825 --> 00:28:59,450 ever listened to Scott, you can't quite figure 700 00:28:59,450 --> 00:29:01,065 out exactly what they're saying 701 00:29:01,853 --> 00:29:04,643 But there... But what was... What they saw 702 00:29:04,643 --> 00:29:06,578 with that was that 703 00:29:06,955 --> 00:29:09,108 the people needed to hear it in their 704 00:29:09,108 --> 00:29:10,718 own language. So he helped us with the 705 00:29:10,877 --> 00:29:13,190 Jesus film, but then as a leader in 706 00:29:13,190 --> 00:29:13,690 his 707 00:29:14,546 --> 00:29:17,816 organization, his company, he also said I really 708 00:29:17,816 --> 00:29:20,703 wanna get involved with leader impact. I wanna 709 00:29:20,703 --> 00:29:21,203 help 710 00:29:21,581 --> 00:29:24,136 the people in my community know how they 711 00:29:24,136 --> 00:29:26,850 can have a personal relationship with Christ. So 712 00:29:27,009 --> 00:29:29,005 Frederick started a group there the second. 713 00:29:29,739 --> 00:29:31,737 Groups that we had were in the city 714 00:29:31,737 --> 00:29:33,974 of Ant. Fred is in the city of 715 00:29:34,134 --> 00:29:34,453 Lu. 716 00:29:35,332 --> 00:29:37,190 And we involved a lot of 717 00:29:37,983 --> 00:29:39,919 individuals and 1 individual that 718 00:29:40,455 --> 00:29:43,827 really love being involved and was so effective 719 00:29:43,885 --> 00:29:44,385 in 720 00:29:44,922 --> 00:29:46,756 administering to others was a young man named 721 00:29:46,916 --> 00:29:49,712 Cad. Could do is actually Brazilian in background, 722 00:29:50,268 --> 00:29:52,277 but is a member of our church and 723 00:29:52,889 --> 00:29:55,510 has a real passion for the community that 724 00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:56,225 he's a part of. 725 00:29:57,114 --> 00:29:59,587 So Cad do has all started leading groups 726 00:29:59,587 --> 00:30:02,400 as well in Belgium, The groups are 727 00:30:03,096 --> 00:30:06,047 designed not just to bring Christians to begin 728 00:30:06,047 --> 00:30:08,140 to grow and ask questions about their faith, 729 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:10,079 Ask more questions 730 00:30:10,539 --> 00:30:11,819 about their faith, but also, 731 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,099 it's designed to bring in non believers. 732 00:30:16,075 --> 00:30:19,134 And Frederick and Ka are both now 733 00:30:19,515 --> 00:30:21,775 have ongoing groups. And 1 of the things 734 00:30:22,475 --> 00:30:24,315 some of the non believers have said in 735 00:30:24,394 --> 00:30:27,199 Frederick group is You know, I really appreciate 736 00:30:27,199 --> 00:30:30,221 doing this because we're asking about what's important 737 00:30:30,221 --> 00:30:32,074 in life. We're not just 738 00:30:32,464 --> 00:30:34,865 dealing with normal things in life. We're asking 739 00:30:34,865 --> 00:30:36,384 about what's really important. 740 00:30:37,105 --> 00:30:38,804 Because 1 of the 741 00:30:39,184 --> 00:30:40,644 foundations is 1 of the 742 00:30:41,198 --> 00:30:43,193 series that will take them through and foundations, 743 00:30:43,433 --> 00:30:45,449 deals with the questions of personal 744 00:30:45,827 --> 00:30:47,583 professional and spiritual growth in life. 745 00:30:49,431 --> 00:30:51,579 So please just continue to pray. We... When 746 00:30:51,579 --> 00:30:53,647 we went there, 1 of our major prayers 747 00:30:53,647 --> 00:30:55,397 was the prayer that was mentioned earlier, 748 00:30:56,127 --> 00:30:58,032 We prayed the Lord to Harvest to raise 749 00:30:58,032 --> 00:30:59,857 up laborers for the harvest field. 750 00:31:00,413 --> 00:31:03,031 And we saw that here he has already 751 00:31:03,031 --> 00:31:04,404 rated at that Cad do 752 00:31:04,794 --> 00:31:07,108 and Frederick, and then there are 2 women. 753 00:31:07,508 --> 00:31:08,806 1 was a former 754 00:31:09,742 --> 00:31:12,775 consulate general... Assistant consulate general for the Caribbean. 755 00:31:13,269 --> 00:31:14,484 And the second woman 756 00:31:15,017 --> 00:31:15,493 is 757 00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:18,194 works with the church and works with the 758 00:31:18,353 --> 00:31:19,783 Eu writing articles, 759 00:31:20,514 --> 00:31:23,234 on whether or not the laws, the new 760 00:31:23,234 --> 00:31:25,154 laws that are passed within the Eu have 761 00:31:25,154 --> 00:31:27,014 a compliance with Christianity. 762 00:31:28,049 --> 00:31:30,830 But both individuals have a passion for the 763 00:31:30,990 --> 00:31:34,407 European Union commission an area they both live 764 00:31:34,407 --> 00:31:37,439 in Brussels and We're just asking God now, 765 00:31:37,757 --> 00:31:39,820 what else do you wanna do that we 766 00:31:39,820 --> 00:31:41,114 can help 767 00:31:41,645 --> 00:31:43,788 the individuals in this community come to faith? 768 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,220 Just a few more 769 00:31:46,839 --> 00:31:49,079 details about some of the other opportunities that 770 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:49,960 God has given. 771 00:31:50,759 --> 00:31:52,200 As a result of coming there, 772 00:31:53,253 --> 00:31:55,952 We had a group from Indiana contact us 773 00:31:55,952 --> 00:31:58,016 and say, you know, we'd really like to 774 00:31:58,016 --> 00:32:00,794 help reach out to campus students. Can we 775 00:32:00,794 --> 00:32:03,828 come to Belgium? And help you. And since 776 00:32:03,828 --> 00:32:05,894 we had been say, Lord, please write about 777 00:32:05,894 --> 00:32:07,643 laborers for the harvest build, we couldn't say 778 00:32:07,643 --> 00:32:08,438 no you can't call. 779 00:32:09,710 --> 00:32:11,321 We, of course, we would love for you 780 00:32:11,321 --> 00:32:13,395 to come. And over the past 2 years, 781 00:32:13,555 --> 00:32:15,331 they have sent over 50 students 782 00:32:15,789 --> 00:32:17,406 that came for week 783 00:32:17,719 --> 00:32:20,037 times and 3 week times, 784 00:32:20,756 --> 00:32:22,694 and we now have 2 785 00:32:24,032 --> 00:32:25,570 individuals who are leading 786 00:32:25,964 --> 00:32:28,753 the group in Lu and the group in 787 00:32:28,833 --> 00:32:31,144 Ant. So we have 2 campus ministries that 788 00:32:31,144 --> 00:32:32,281 have kind of spawned 789 00:32:32,658 --> 00:32:35,398 from the upper opportunities that all of these 790 00:32:35,612 --> 00:32:38,070 individuals have come and helped us with. And 791 00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:40,687 during the past year or just the past 792 00:32:40,687 --> 00:32:41,535 year, they had 793 00:32:42,131 --> 00:32:44,518 conversations with over 200 students during their time. 794 00:32:45,074 --> 00:32:46,449 And of those 200 795 00:32:46,745 --> 00:32:49,701 conversations, they probably had conversations with another hundred 796 00:32:49,701 --> 00:32:51,290 students where they were able to give a 797 00:32:51,290 --> 00:32:52,878 clear presentation of the gospel. 798 00:32:53,831 --> 00:32:56,476 So we're trusting that God will continue 799 00:32:56,944 --> 00:32:59,497 to give us more students to interact with 800 00:32:59,497 --> 00:33:00,694 the students in Belgium. 801 00:33:01,173 --> 00:33:02,790 1 really special 802 00:33:03,487 --> 00:33:06,073 example of God's... Concern for the Belgian people 803 00:33:06,288 --> 00:33:07,981 was with 1 of our students 804 00:33:08,832 --> 00:33:09,945 named Sherry Sherry... 805 00:33:10,819 --> 00:33:12,091 Was Chinese background, 806 00:33:12,504 --> 00:33:14,582 and been adopted by a family in America. 807 00:33:16,340 --> 00:33:17,080 She was 808 00:33:17,699 --> 00:33:19,697 on the campus looking for students and she 809 00:33:19,697 --> 00:33:22,827 met a Chinese girl. Well, this Chinese girl 810 00:33:22,827 --> 00:33:25,221 had been adopted by a family in Belgium. 811 00:33:26,099 --> 00:33:28,813 And that girl started talking with Jerry as 812 00:33:28,813 --> 00:33:29,531 she said you know? 813 00:33:30,423 --> 00:33:33,231 I just always wanted to have someone 814 00:33:34,084 --> 00:33:35,278 talk to me about this. 815 00:33:36,074 --> 00:33:38,700 But as a result of her adoption talking 816 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:40,966 about her adoption she also was 817 00:33:41,341 --> 00:33:42,932 talked with her about what it meant to 818 00:33:42,932 --> 00:33:45,397 be adopted and to become a child of 819 00:33:45,397 --> 00:33:48,440 god. So she we're trusting that this young 820 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:48,940 girl 821 00:33:49,398 --> 00:33:52,110 understanding how concern god was for her. Sent 822 00:33:52,110 --> 00:33:53,727 her somebody from America, 823 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,400 to help her understand what her adoption was 824 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,119 truly about. 825 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,460 And then the last sector that we are 826 00:34:02,773 --> 00:34:05,156 seeing god open up is the sector among 827 00:34:05,156 --> 00:34:07,403 the youth like the 828 00:34:07,777 --> 00:34:11,128 young life, but it's called Shine ministry. And 829 00:34:11,128 --> 00:34:11,786 in Cheyenne 830 00:34:12,240 --> 00:34:14,305 ministry, we had a chance to train a 831 00:34:14,305 --> 00:34:16,315 few students on using this 832 00:34:17,641 --> 00:34:19,174 bracelet where they talk 833 00:34:19,563 --> 00:34:21,729 very similar to our colored bracelets 834 00:34:22,181 --> 00:34:24,878 has a heart a division across and a 835 00:34:24,878 --> 00:34:25,592 question mark, 836 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:27,756 God loves you. 837 00:34:28,315 --> 00:34:29,214 Were separated. 838 00:34:31,508 --> 00:34:34,482 Jesus has the answer in. What will you 839 00:34:34,620 --> 00:34:37,262 decide? Or what those represent. So if there's 840 00:34:37,262 --> 00:34:39,569 any young people here that would like 1 841 00:34:39,569 --> 00:34:41,478 of these to use with your friends, 842 00:34:42,289 --> 00:34:43,567 come to me and I'll be happy to 843 00:34:43,567 --> 00:34:46,280 give you 1. So thank you so much 844 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:46,780 for 845 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:50,213 the prayers for making a difference in Belgium 846 00:34:50,432 --> 00:34:50,932 for 847 00:34:51,884 --> 00:34:54,222 praying for labor as we've prayed for labor 848 00:34:54,281 --> 00:34:57,158 and really for the future of the part 849 00:34:57,158 --> 00:34:59,235 that you will play in this amazing country. 850 00:35:02,449 --> 00:35:02,690 Yeah. 851 00:35:03,650 --> 00:35:05,569 So just to wrap it up. Thank you 852 00:35:05,569 --> 00:35:06,309 for your 853 00:35:06,849 --> 00:35:07,730 listening and 854 00:35:08,289 --> 00:35:11,570 what sharing. But for Belgium, you could pray 855 00:35:11,729 --> 00:35:13,242 Matthew 09:36, 856 00:35:13,401 --> 00:35:15,710 the 30 and I think Elaine mentioned, raise 857 00:35:15,710 --> 00:35:18,358 up labor for the as the... 1 of 858 00:35:18,358 --> 00:35:21,075 the challenges of Belgium Belgium is they... They're 859 00:35:21,075 --> 00:35:22,773 making it really difficult 860 00:35:23,712 --> 00:35:25,150 for it to get people in. 861 00:35:25,804 --> 00:35:27,001 Take people from, 862 00:35:27,958 --> 00:35:30,510 internationally, it's really, really, really hard. 863 00:35:31,068 --> 00:35:31,467 And 864 00:35:32,185 --> 00:35:35,216 so we wanna see Belgian raised Belgium raised 865 00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:37,785 up. But you could pray to send people 866 00:35:37,785 --> 00:35:40,818 in and then creative ways for them to 867 00:35:40,818 --> 00:35:43,053 get accepted by the Belgium government. 868 00:35:44,091 --> 00:35:46,684 So that's a major request. And then 869 00:35:47,304 --> 00:35:49,244 then who knows in our countries 870 00:35:49,944 --> 00:35:52,824 facing some challenges as well, societal, 871 00:35:53,144 --> 00:35:56,106 politically in many areas and maybe maybe God 872 00:35:56,106 --> 00:35:58,407 will be gracious and give us AAA 873 00:35:58,407 --> 00:36:01,635 fourth great awakening perhaps. Right? So 874 00:36:02,154 --> 00:36:03,592 may... I may I could just close in 875 00:36:03,592 --> 00:36:06,730 prayer. Yeah. Have many father, thank you for 876 00:36:06,789 --> 00:36:07,929 a chance to 877 00:36:08,308 --> 00:36:08,808 share 878 00:36:09,267 --> 00:36:11,286 about what you're doing, and 879 00:36:11,997 --> 00:36:13,610 reminders of your great 880 00:36:13,984 --> 00:36:16,925 power in our in our past history that 881 00:36:16,925 --> 00:36:19,867 continues to today, and we look to you 882 00:36:19,867 --> 00:36:22,665 and ask you for you. Be, your gracious 883 00:36:22,665 --> 00:36:25,210 hand to be at work individually in our 884 00:36:25,210 --> 00:36:26,904 lives, in our families, 885 00:36:27,279 --> 00:36:30,477 and then our society our country. And to 886 00:36:30,477 --> 00:36:33,024 the world, thank you that America's has been 887 00:36:33,024 --> 00:36:35,093 such a beacon of hope to the whole 888 00:36:35,093 --> 00:36:37,733 world and Thank you. Pre please continue to 889 00:36:37,733 --> 00:36:40,835 send workers from here and other countries around 890 00:36:40,835 --> 00:36:43,499 the world. Thank for this wonderful time. With 891 00:36:44,353 --> 00:36:46,584 at first perez Griffin today. We praise you, 892 00:36:46,743 --> 00:36:48,098 and thank you. And your name, we pray. 893 00:36:48,416 --> 00:36:48,576 Amen.