Sermon
Receiving Instructions - Ps Francisco Pablo
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Welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast, where we bring God's Word to you weekly.
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We pray what you hear will bring clarity to your situation and open doors in your life.
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Enjoy the message.
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The hearts, Jesus' heart is for all the nations of the world, every single one of them.
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And we're excited what Jesus is doing.
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And just as a confirmation, I mentioned a week or so ago about a move of God happening
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in Iran.
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Just to confirm, a few of you guys had mentioned to me this morning that in Iran it was mentioned
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about, there were about 75,000 mosques.
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Well, 50,000 of them are empty.
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Jesus is moving.
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Jesus is moving.
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And predominantly, He's moving through women who are just tired of the persecution.
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And they're preaching the gospel and they're just fearless.
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Praise God.
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That is something really, really exciting.
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Anyway, we have another nation that's going to be represented today, El Salvador.
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It is an incredible nation.
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It's suffered its own persecution over the years and the people within.
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But God has been raising people up such as pastors Francisco and Celia to do an incredible
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work in the face of adversity.
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When they first went back after I don't know how many years, it was tough.
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The gang wars and danger that was there.
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In fact, when I was with you in 2012, it was scary, man, I tell you.
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But now they have a new president and he is dealing with the situation.
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And when we went in this time last year, in fact, this time last year, we were with you
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guys over there and it was safe as anything.
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God was just there and we went to tourist places at night, eating pupusas.
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It was wonderful.
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And praise God.
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So anyway, what we're going to do, we have a presentation or an interview that was filmed
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with Romano Pastor Paco from El Salvador, Rodriguez.
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We got this thing going.
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That's about all the Spanish I know.
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I think that was Spanish, wasn't it?
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It was.
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But we're going to have the presentation then straight after that, Pastor Francisco
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and Celia to come up at that time to say a few words if that's possible.
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That would be great.
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Here we go, I might have to dim those lights as well.
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Great.
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Thank you.
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I was born in El Salvador, Central America, and I just grew up in a different way of,
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you know, how children is growing just today.
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I started working from the age of five.
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Is going to the coffee plantation and help people over there or my mother or my brother
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just is helping them to working.
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When I started working in San Salvador, I just, it was very dangerous over there because
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we couldn't get out from in the morning.
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But you don't know if we're going to get back again.
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So that why it was very, I can say risky, you know, living in El Salvador.
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And then I have my high school with, you know, I have to go to learn a little bit sewing
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and then I just pay my study with doing some work in that way.
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And then we met Celia in San Salvador.
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It was selling a very powerful car.
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We met Celia in San Salvador and we just got married.
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And then we had our kids and then we, and I decided to come apply for to come to Australia.
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The place where we were living, it was so dangerous because I was the place where most
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of the guerrillas people was there.
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So but we were, I think we were very, at that time, now I can say, at that time I can say,
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you know, I was very lucky, but it's not lucky as I was in, I think now the God was making
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his way because we left the day before they attack in the place where we were living.
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But we left on 1990 and from the time we come to Australia, it was, it was really good.
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Something that I just believe now that God was preparing for us to come.
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Even at the very beginning was we were coming over here with no English.
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Now we is able to speak another stem and that our life, it really changed.
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I just believe God made his word in our life here.
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In 1992 was agreement between guerrilla and the government and they agreed with the peace,
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you know, agreement.
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They become with the peace agreement.
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So and it will change, it changed a little bit, no more fighting between army and the
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guerrilla.
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It was a little bit more better.
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But I think at the time the gangs start coming to El Salvador because the U.S. government
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start sending people to El Salvador, the people who commit crime in the U.S.
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Well I just believe we just came to this, to the Logan City Christian Church in 2004
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and February 2004.
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And at that time, during that time, we just, it came one man from U.S.
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I can't remember his name because I was new and this man called people just, you know,
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for a prayer.
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And he grabbed me and then he went to grab Celia and he prophesied to us, he said, you
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will be working with people with your own language.
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But we were surprised because he didn't know us, you know, and then we speak Spanish.
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But it was a big surprise for us when he said that because I didn't, I was not looking for
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that, you know, I was looking just to come to the church and sit down and stay there.
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Not just to go for, you know, for mission or to do something as a ministry with our
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own people.
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I can't really remember when Pastor Roe went to Uganda, but the thing is, one night he
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just wake up and God spoke to him about the mission in El Salvador.
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And from that time when he came back to Australia, he spoke to us and he said, he said, just
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God spoke to him at that time and he was thinking that we were called just to go and ministry
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our people over there in El Salvador.
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So it was a really, you know, exciting, but at the meantime, it was something that I didn't
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know how to do it.
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Celia didn't know, but we were willing to go.
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We went to El Salvador in 2007 on December, but we really started in 2008 over there when
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we left Australia.
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We didn't know what to take it.
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We just got two suitcases and just we went off, you know, and we didn't know where, how
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we were going to do there, but seeing the way we were going, just God was giving us
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instruction how to do it.
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Well, we started the church over there and we had to go and see people.
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And we, most of them probably were living in the places where, you know, it's not for
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many people just to go.
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But the thing is, we every day, Celia and I, we was visiting them and talking to them
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about God and inviting them because we already planned.
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We had to do every two week service because we didn't have a building or a place where.
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But the thing is, people, they were so happy to receive us.
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And when our first service in the land, you know, under the tree, in the Middle East coffee
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plantation, many people came.
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It was very amazing because seeing in that way, sometimes we think God doesn't work
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in that way, but God prepared everything.
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When He sent you somewhere and you don't know how to do it, you don't know where you can
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go, God is already prepared this place or the hard people to receive you there.
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In this case, we didn't have where to go or where we're going to buy the land or we're
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going to stay.
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But my brother, he went over there to the place and he didn't know, Celia and I, we're
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going to El Salvador for a mission.
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And he, one day he decided to go to the place and bought three lots, you know, three pieces
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of land and where the church is now.
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And he said to me, I was thinking of you because I thought you was coming to El Salvador one
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day and I thought to buy this one or to hold this one for you.
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And then at the time I start waking up or thinking how God is good, is working in my
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brother's life, just to be able for him to, you know, to buy or to hold this land for
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us.
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You know, I think God has prepared people, my brothers, hard just to hold the land for
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us.
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Where we started over there in the church in 2008, the beginning, but we already spent
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one year with our building just going in the middle of the coffee plantation, you know,
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and having a meeting there.
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The only one that we have or where we bought was an 80 chair and to put them over there
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and the children was helping us to put them together and to wait for the people.
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And the thing is, one year without, you know, building, just start thinking how we can,
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we're going to do this, how are we going to do that?
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Sally and I, we were having some, a little bit rough time when I said Sally and I, because
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we were waking up, but the season, the season, the rainy season over there is six months
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and the summer season is six months.
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So we were most of the time, you know, under the rain and it was a little bit difficult
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at the time, but I just think it's worse.
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It's really good just to see now how God was moving in that way.
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You know, he is molding us the way as a missionary, you know, to be able to understand that it's
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not easy, but it is possible.
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And the second time we went to Salvador, we spent 18 months over there.
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It was longer.
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And then we were able just to start retaining wall and the wall we built, you know, most
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of the time I can say it's not in one way, but the thing is, it was the building was
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up, you know, people was able to work with us and the building just went up.
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In one, I can say in one year, but constantly everything it came to the point that the building
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now is really good.
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I can say it's probably, it can be probably around 250 people in the church.
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And we just built a church and now we have some children church next to the church.
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And also we have the house that we built when we go over there, we have our own house just
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to sleep so we don't have to pay somewhere else just to go for, you know, when we go
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to mission.
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Everything is running okay now.
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Ladies is still, you know, preaching over there and they, and they just, I just believe
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they're capable just to continue preaching that.
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Yes, today is very important for me to acknowledge all of you brothers and sisters here at the
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Logan City Christian Church.
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Well, with United World Ministries, you know, I just thank you for that because all, all
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this time you've been supporting us and I just believe this is the mission is for all
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of us, some of us, some of us, some of us we can, we can go, some of us maybe we can
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do mission here.
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It's just been praying and supporting people just to go over there.
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But for us, it's been so great and I just thank, I just thank all of you for your support.
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When God work, God just put your heart to help.
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And it's so many thing to do in El Salvador, you know.
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If you can still supporting us, it should be great, you know, especially for prayer,
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maybe with us and praying for us.
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And I just believe your support is going to be really great.
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Okay.
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Why don't we welcome pastors Francisco and Celia.
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These guys, the steps are the same height both sides so it doesn't matter.
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I can honestly say that this man and woman of God, what you see is what you get.
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They're genuine, they love people, they're just great people.
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We happen to be related now too with your daughter, our son married and share the same
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grandchildren but God is doing a wonderful thing.
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So I'm going to hand over to Celia.
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We love you guys, you guys are very special, very, very special.
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Well, when we are, when the preacher says we're going to talk about missions, everybody
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says here we go, they are going to ask for money again.
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But mission is not just money.
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You know that when we, the first time when we go, money is the thing that we didn't
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carry, no money with us.
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But we were happy and we know that the Lord was going to provide for us.
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We were not worried about what, where we were going to live or for food or anything for
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our needs.
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We were not worried about money at all.
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And you know the Lord is faithful and he provides for us.
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You know that going for a mission, if somebody doesn't have a call, don't last long.
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Because we don't know, for example, if we don't have much, we have to use what we can.
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As you saw in the photos that they were on the video, those photos ask for the children's
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church.
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You know the children's church?
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Kids sitting on the floor and we think, oh well, we need a children's church and we have
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to use what we have.
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We have some little block of wood and in an occasion some rocks.
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Kids sit on the rocks and we have to make it possible.
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As soon as the time was passing, we were able to get some chairs.
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So we sat on the chairs.
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And then we used anything that we had.
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At the beginning we didn't have electricity, so we had services early.
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Nothing at nighttime.
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And if we have something at nighttime, we went to have home groups at home because there
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was no light.
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But when it was going to start raining, we said, oh, we need to put some ceiling because
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we have walls, walls all around, but we didn't have roof.
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No roof.
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So we start putting the roof on top so we can get inside without getting wet in the
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rainy season.
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Because over there when it rains, there are storms, no showers, storms.
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So we need to be covered.
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After that we decided that we need some electricity.
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But before putting some electricity, we have to put the doors and something on the wall.
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We didn't have windows, but we have the screen on the wall, on the window to protect.
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So we put that on and then we can put electricity.
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So we can start having services at night.
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So we were using whatever we can as we can and we were not complaining about not having
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electricity, not having money, not having a place, not having chairs.
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No, we didn't complain about that.
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We were using what we have.
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And the Lord was providing slowly, this first, this next, and this now.
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So it took us some time to build the church, but now we are happy with the church that
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we have.
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So it's going to use what the Lord provides and his guidance, his protection.
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And the money he provides for us too.
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So it's good to work in the mission.
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Anyone is welcome, if you want to go over there.
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And it's going to be great.
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Thank you.
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We've decided we're going to get Willy to interpret into Ukraine so that his congregation
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can hear.
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Thank you, Willy.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Buenos dias, hermana Cecilia, hermano Elvira.
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Buenos dias, hermana Cecilia, hermano Ernesto.
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Dios le bendiga.
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Okay.
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I've just been so grateful to be here today, just presenting this interview, even the speech
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that you saw already.
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I just remember the day we went, two weeks before we went.
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I asked Pastor Rob, how can I do this over there in El Salvador?
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He said to me, God will lead you, he will guide you where he want you to do.
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And then said, well, wow, I wasn't expecting that.
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I wasn't expecting that because I saw he was going to give me some, you know, I got this
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study here.
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This is here for you just to go through.
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Okay.
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And it was a little bit hard for me at the time, but you know, yes, God made his way.
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So we're going to go to Acts 13.47.
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We're going to see some story over there, how God lead people just to go, you know,
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and the people who really need to become safe at the time.
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I'm going to read Acts 13.47.
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Even I'm going to start from 46.
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Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, it was necessary that the word of God should
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be spoken to you first, but since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting
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life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
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47.
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For so the Lord has commanded us, I have said you light to the Gentiles that you should
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be for salvation to the end of the earth.
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47.
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Well, in verse 47, the Bible said command.
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He said the Lord has commanded us, and when he said command us as his children, we need
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to obey what he said to us to do it.
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We need to respond.
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Now we can respond that.
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I'm sure we are now obedient to God.
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I got some examples, these two men, they were very obedient to God.
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Abraham, he was known as a father of the faith.
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He was believing at the time that God has a purpose for him.
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You know, he already said, okay, God, I go.
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He being asking to take his children to obey, even he gave his own son.
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And you all know the story of that.
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He went to the mountain and he was preparing something for the sacrifice.
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But you can see that at that point there, it was obedient there.
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Are we obedient to God?
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We need to obey God.
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The other man was Moses.
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He always saying something like Francisco sometimes said, I don't speak Spanish, I don't
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like to do this because they're not going to understand me.
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Moses was the same.
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At the time, probably many people around him, around Moses didn't see the potential that
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he had.
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They see the potential in Moses, but God already saw that.
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We're going to read in Isaiah 6-8.
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We need to become disponible for God.
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We need to be disponible for God.
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We need to be a by-law for him.
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Let's go Isaiah 6-8.
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The Bible said, I also, I hear the voice of the Lord saying, saying, who shall I send
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and who will go for us?
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And I say, here I am, send me.
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You know this man, this Moses, he was already putting himself available to that call.
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So how put ourselves now at this time available for God?
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At this time, even at that time when Moses was, God is always looking for people to be
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able to go and be able to warn the people in the world and become, and be repent, and
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become to repent before God.
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When God call us, I just believe we need to respond because he's like our father, you
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know, biological father.
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When they call, we need to go.
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And when God send us or give us a call to be a visionary or preach in the shopping center,
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he send us with something there when we need to be able to use it.
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First of all, we can say to people, God bless you.
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And some people become surprised because they never hear someone bless them.
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See that is a calling from God to us just to go and preach the gospel.
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At the same time, we're not going alone.
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We go already the power from God.
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And he always with us.
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He put words in our tongue, we are able to speak.
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I'm going to read Acts 1-8.
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And the Bible says, but you shall receive the power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
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you and you shall be witness to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria and to the end of
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the earth.
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My brothers, what this verse is speaking about the Holy, the power of the Holy Spirit.
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So obedient is the key words in this mission here.
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Because to be obedient is open the door to the Holy Spirit to come and work in us and
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give us a power.
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We really need to listen the voice of God.
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You know, sometime in the world too many voices around.
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We need to identify which voice is from God.
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I just mentioned in the interview, you know, many of us can go, but many of us can stay.
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Everything is still doing the mission.
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For those one who stay here, you know, pray, it's very important for us to cover, you know,
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wherever we go over there.
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You know, everywhere we can go and speak to people, it must be a very successful something
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to do the very successful work.
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Because we know we are flesh, yes, yes, trying to become our self higher.
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We just come in with the with the power of the Holy Spirit who guide us to speak.
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I just got a little bit story there.
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You know, Philip, when he went to speak with the Ethiopian man.
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I think I'm going to read this one, okay.
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We're going to go to Acts 8.26.
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I'm going to read this one to 26 to 40.
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You will be able to see how God worked through Philip, you know, but Philip was able to hear
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the voice and obey what God was saying to him.
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Okay, now, now, angels of the Lord spoke to Philip saying,
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Arise and go toward to the south along the road which was which go down from Jerusalem
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to Gaza.
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This is this is the desert.
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So he stayed sleeping.
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Now he arose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia of great authority under Candace
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the Queen of Ethiopia, who has charged all the treasury and has come to Jerusalem to
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worship was returning and sitting in his chariot.
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He was reading Isaiah the prophet.
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Then the spirit said to Philip, go near and overtake this chariot.
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So Philip ran to him and here he was reading the prophet Isaiah and said, do you understand
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what you are reading?
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See there, this is a big point there.
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We need to go to the precise time when God said, just go.
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And he said, how can I unless someone guide me?
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And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.
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The place in the scripture which he was reading, he read was this.
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He was led as a ship to the slaughter and his alarm before each share is silent.
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So he opened not his mouth.
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In his humiliation, his justice was taken away and who will declare his generation?
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So the angel answered Philip and said, I ask you of whom does the prophet say this?
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Of himself or someone else?
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Then the Philip opened his mouth and beginning at this scripture, preached Jesus to him.
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Now as they went down the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, see here
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is water, what hinders me from being baptized?
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So when we hear the voice of God and be able to obey his voice, everything was smooth over
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there even the man was ready to be baptized.
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In his heart he was already saying God, I like you.
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And then Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you may.
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And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.
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See how good it is, how joyful can be for us when we go and speak to people.
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And they received the message with that open heart.
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You know at the same time God sent us, but at the same time God is working in the people
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heart to receive.
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Now when they come up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught Philip away so that
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the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing.
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How good was that, you know, even for Philip, the feeling that he had that someone was safe
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at that time.
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Even though this man saw Philip just taking away, but this man didn't sit along the road,
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on the sides of the road, didn't sit there.
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This man, this eunuch, didn't sit on the sides of the road and stay there.
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And he just saw, but he just continued, he said, the Bible said he just went walking
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and rejoicing, you know, just looking for the next one that God was preparing for them
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to preach.
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But Philip was found at our sorts and passing through the, through, he preached in all the
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city till he came to Caesarea.
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See this man here really took the gospel to his own country, now is Ethiopia.
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So we really need to answer or we really need to hear the voice of God able to go and walk
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because the angel spoke to Philip because he already knew, you know, there is someone
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there who really need God.
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Let's do it.
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Let's go to Acts 9, 18.
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My brothers and sister, the turning point for us as a church, as a missionary is obedience.
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For us it is very important to be obedient to God.
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God has a word for us that we can deliver to them.
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God was preparing this man, especially this man.
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This man, his name is Ananias.
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He was going to have an encounter with Saul of the Tarsus at that time.
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You know, but even Ananias was saying, Lord, do you know this man is having so many trouble
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to you saints?
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He have a letter from the very high authority.
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And he can kill you people.
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But God said, this man is going to, I'm going to use this man as a vessel for the, it's
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going to be good for me.
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I'm going to read from Acts 9, 17.
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And the Bible said, Ananias went his way and entered the house, and lying his hand on him,
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he said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has
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sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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19.
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Immediately, they fell from his eyes, something like a skull, and he received his sight at
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once, and he arose and was baptized.
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As a Christian, we can have so many things, we can have so many questions.
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Questioning God.
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20.
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It looked like Ananias was saying, God, what happened here?
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You know, you sent me to see this man?
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And even I think he said to God, God, he can kill me.
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Let's go to the same chapter, but in number 10.
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Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias.
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To him the Lord said, in a vision, Ananias, and he said, Here I am Lord.
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So the Lord said to him, Arise and go to the street called Stride and inquire at the house
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of Judah, for one called soul of Starsus, for behold, he is praying there.
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In the vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming and putting his hand on him so that
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he may receive his sight.
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Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man.
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How much harm he has done to you, sign in Jerusalem.
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And here he has authority from the from the chief priests to ban all who call on your
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name.
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But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before
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Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.
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For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name sake.
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And Ananias went his way and entered to the house.
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And the Bible said he put his hand on him and started praying.
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And see how God was preparing Ananias.
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And you can see this man here, soul of Starsus, now is apostle Paul who wrote the first part
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of the New Testament.
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Because of him we hear the good news.
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Because Paul already was making sell a Bible for God.
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And that's why we have the Gospel, that's why we have Christian today.
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Because the first man was able to be obedient and go.
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He already recognized the power of the Holy Spirit in him, able to walk and just talk
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to people.
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My brothers and sisters, I just believe you all have a big potential before God.
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Sometimes ourselves we feel just a little bit, maybe I cannot do that, I can't do that,
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sometimes too hard, or this one here, how can I do that?
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I just believe today is the day for we all must hear the voice of God and say, God, I'm
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here.
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Use me.
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Use me.
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We need to become a by-law for God.
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We must give ourselves to God.
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How many people we will be able, how can I put it this way, how many people over there
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are waiting for you just to go?
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Or how many missionaries over there is be able to hear?
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I support you through my prayers over there because God will protect you wherever you
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go.
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I just believe today too that God is speaking to us.
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What is to desire today in your heart to be obedient to God and say, God, I'm here?
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How many of you would you like to go for a mission?
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How many?
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How many of us are ready to go for a missionary work?
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It is good when we acknowledge that because God start working in our heart, putting something
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there, His power to prepare us to say, God, I'm just going to serve you alone.
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I just say thank God for this.
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Thank God for this church because we already have a church that is able to go to the nation
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and preach the Gospel.
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So we must be able for God.
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Amen.
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I'm just going to ask a call if anyone need a prayer in that direction, the missionary
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or something that God has put in your heart to serve him in the way as a missionary or
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someone to be intercessor even here.
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I'm just calling you if you want to pray.
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To be able to pray because you know God start in your heart doing something new just right
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now.
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If you need any prayer for sickness or something there, I just believe God will heal you.
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But it's okay.
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If not, it is okay.
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I just say God, thank you for my brothers and sisters that you've been keeping them well
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and healthy.
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And I just this way how we can just serve better to you God.
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Thank you everyone.
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That's been the message.
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I hope you just take it.
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Amen.
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God bless you too, Willie.
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Let's hear it for Willie as well.
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Let's put on the spot for Pastor Francisco.
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These guys, when the scripture says, we might come over here a bit.
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When the scripture says that those that forsake all and leave their lands and their families,
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that is a very real thing.
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And I've witnessed Pastor Francisco and Celia, their own personal life and their families
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when they've been over there for 18 months and the family, new family with children,
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grandchildren coming along and missed out on quite a lot.
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They missed out on a lot of things that the average Aussie wouldn't miss out on.
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So your rewards are great in heaven, but I also believe your rewards are here as well.
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But the mission over there is thriving.
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It's really, really powering on.
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And especially in a time when the gospel is a little bit difficult in places to preach,
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but it's moving ahead powerfully.
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Thank you for your commitment and your service to the Lord's work to see the Christian church
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growing.
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Amen.
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Especially in El Salvador.
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God bless you.
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God bless you.
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Thank you.
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Amen.
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Well, we're going to receive an offering for the mission.
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Mission El Salvador has been operating since 2008.
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And I do remember the call you left with two suitcases, a lot of tears and no money in
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the bank.
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But see, the thing is a vision already incorporates the finances.
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Oh, come on.
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We can get a better response than that.
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The vision that God gives already has that waiting.
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And in faith, they left their home and went to already find out when they got there, the
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brother had already purchased three parcels of land.
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And as they went onto that land and started clearing it by hand, a member of the council
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noticed that they were doing it tough and asked them, would you like one of our machines
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to come and clear it for you?
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And so the council came and cleared the land with a machine.
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And then people started coming and helping putting a fence around the place.
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I mean, this is what was already waiting.
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And I believe there are many people here this morning that you have a calling, whether it
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be here in Australia or overseas, that the provision's in the going.
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It's just like the, you know, the Philip, he went and it was already their way.
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The Ethiopian was there waiting.
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I know in this congregation here this morning, there's some of you that have spoken to me
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about a calling, that you're called to go somewhere, do something, but the calling doesn't
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happen in the waiting.
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It happens in the doing and actually going.
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And I want to encourage you there.
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Something that came to me just quickly before I close is that some have said to me, I've
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done my bit in missions, I just want to sit, chill and, you know, relax.
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But do you know in this nation of Australia, there are many nursing homes, aged care facilities
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that are crying out for Christians to share the gospel.
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They're crying out for them.
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And let me encourage you, if you feel the call to do that, I don't think you have to
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pray about that one.
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I think you just come and see me and we can help line it up for you.
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And you'll never be so fulfilled in your life when you're out there doing what God's called
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you to do.
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We realize there is Pastor Betty has made it known to us, there's no retirement in ministry.
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Amen.
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Can I get an amen on that?
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There's no retirement in ministry.
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We're in it for the long haul.
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There are no exit clauses in your calling.
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We're here to the end.
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Let's take as many souls to heaven with us, you know, to honor our Jesus, what He did
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for us.
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So we're going to receive an offering this morning.
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And look at this young guy here.
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He's nearly as tall as me and I'm standing on the stage.
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Praise the Lord.
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How tall are you now?
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You don't know.
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That must be a different measurement I'm not familiar with.
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But anyway, if you have an offering to give this morning into the mission, why don't you
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come out and knock yourself out?
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What do you reckon, Kai?
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Praise the Lord.
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We're really excited about the future of El Salvador.
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Pastor Francisco, thank you for sharing that and encouraging us to keep our minds focused
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on missions also.
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You know, in life we watch the news, we do life and we can forget about the things that
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really matter as well.
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And that is going out and preaching the gospel and supporting what actually is needed out
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there.
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And so we are very, very grateful again.
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We thank our Ukrainian family.
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Pastor Vasily, if you can give us a wave.
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He's the pastor of the Ukrainian church.
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Could you stand up for just a minute?
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This is the pastor.
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So we're about to go into the back room and share a meal together.
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And I do believe there's some yummy Ukrainian food too.
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I'll be the first.
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I'll be the first to eat it.
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Amen.
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Father, we thank you for today.
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We thank you Lord God for this mission of El Salvador.
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You know, can I just share something?
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We are believing God to raise about 10 grand because they believe in God in the mission
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for a really good projector, data projector, computer, a little bit more sand equipment
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because they're going to be opening up the church in the area of a, what would you call
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it, a cinema?
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Because when we set up a little screen there, when I was there one time, people came from
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everywhere and so what an opportunity to play evangelistic videos in Spanish and people are
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just going to come just bring the popcorn I say and it's just all going to happen.
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And then we have a very capable pastor to lead people to Christ.
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And so we just believe in God for about the 10k, was it?
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$10,000.
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$10,000 is not a lot of money.
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Just ask, just ask John, he's loaded.
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Okay.
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Can we believe together?
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Father, we believe in you for that money.
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Lord, to just come and do what you call them to do.
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We know that that facility is going to be opened up and used to bring many, many more
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souls into the kingdom of God.
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And in the name of Jesus, we all say, Amen.
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Amen.
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God bless you and have a wonderful day, but we're going to go into the back room.
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Yeah, I'll talk to him in a minute.
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God bless you and chow down.
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