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Welcome to the Willow Ridge Sermons podcast. This is

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Well, good morning.

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Well, thank you. I appreciate you.

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Hey, if you've got your bible, and I hope you do, I want to invite you to

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join me in Luke, chapter five.

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That's where we're going to be this morning. Now,

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I'm asking permission for something that I've already

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planned.

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All right, so I would like to this

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morning's, message to look, honestly, a little bit

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different, I think, than any sermon I've ever preached.

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definitely any message, that I've done here at Willow

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Ridge in the last, eleven years, that I've been

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the pastor here. And the reason for that is,

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in the last two weeks, I've had the privilege and the

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honor, to travel to India. We've, had some wonderful

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speakers that have come in and filled the pulpit during this

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time. but me, along with several others

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from our church, Brent Hawkins, Josh Nix,

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along with Mike and Gwen Vaught, along with, Wayne

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Van Ham. so if you don't recognize who Wayne Van Ham is,

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but you recognize the last name, that is Joel Van Ham's

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dad. he lives up in the state of Washington. And he

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made this journey with us for some strategic reasons,

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to go to India. And for the last two weeks,

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we've been there, we've been touring around India. This is

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my fifth trip, that I've done, by far, the

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most impactful trip that I've been on. We, did

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a lot of traveling in India. We saw a lot of

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people, met a lot of new friends

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and partners in the ministry, and had the opportunity to share

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the gospel with a lot of different people, than we normally

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would, encounter to kind of give you. If you're

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looking at or you're thinking about. And you can picture

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the country of India, we flew in on

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their west coast, to a city, a

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large city. You've heard of this city, I'm sure, named

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Mumbai. And so we were there overnight

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twice. And then we flew from

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Mumbai, to a city, named Jaipur,

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which you've heard me talk about before. that's where our ministry

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partners run their base ministry out of. It's where our

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bible college that we sponsor, our church planning

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network that we sponsor, and our preschool

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through 12th grade school that we sponsor as

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well, is located in Jaipur. Which is located in

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the state of Rajasthan. So that's up in the north. That's

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in the desert, heading toward the mountains of what's there. We were

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there for several days, and then we hopped on,

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planes repeatedly and flew down

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to the south. And so we flew from there to

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a state known as Andhra Pradesh. And we'll talk

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a little bit about the dynamics of Andhra Pradesh here in a little

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while. Spent a few days there. and I'll be honest with you, I

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was kind of used to, Jaipur and what Jaipur looks like, what

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Jaipur feels like. all the aspects of

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Jaipur got down into andra, and it was a

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change of scenery, change of cultures, change

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of languages, but just a wonderful welcoming

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of God's people who were there. We spent several days there,

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and then we stayed in a city known m as

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Kakinata, which is there in Andhra Pradesh. And

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then we moved over for just

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a brief time, literally. Our flight arrived in a state

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known as Kerala about around 1030. We

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made an hour and a half journey to, our hotel, where we slept

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for about 5 hours, woke up, toured a hospital,

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and then flew to Mumbai to start our journey home. So I'll be

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honest with you. We weren't in the city long enough for me to even remember

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that city's name. but I know that we were in the state

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of Kerala. And so what I'd like to

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do this morning is take some time to share with you some of the

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details, about our trip that we were on, some things that

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God showed us, that God taught us, talk about our

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plans a little bit for the future, and how, if you're

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interested, you can connect with that. but I

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believe and hold, too, that what we do on Sunday morning is

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very special when we open up God's word. And so

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what we're going to do, kind of like, for the last, maybe like, 20%

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of my time up here on this, on, on the stage preaching this

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morning, is to connect all the things that we saw, to an

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encounter of what we see in God's word, because we always want to

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hold, true to the teaching of God's

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word and what's there.

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with all that said, I want to say this,

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hands down, was the most grueling mission

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trip that I've. That I've ever been on physically.

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it was tiring. I share some of you saw

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my post of, I believe it was like 46

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hours that it took us to get home,

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traveling in India. And around India,

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air travel, layovers, buses. It was a lot. So a

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typical indian trip, to India will take us. We bring

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a team over and just go to Jaipur. round trip

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total from, to get here, to there.

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And then from there back to here is about 60 hours,

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which is a lot. but this trip, in

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airtime, in travel time and all those things, I want to say I

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haven't done all of the math, but my preacher math lands me

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somewhere between, like, 100 to 110 hours. and it was

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grueling. It was a lot.

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the second thing physically is it got hot quick. All

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right. somebody asked me, what was the temperatures like there. Honestly, in

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Jaipor, they're very comparable from where we've been now.

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Jaipor in May and June will get up very,

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very hot beyond what we're used to. but right

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now it was fine. We were operating in temperatures in the low

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nineties. relatively speaking, it's a

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desert environment, and so it's drier than even what we're

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used to when it lands. Kind of like June, July, August,

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for us. So it's bearable, and we can do

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that. But, then we flow down, to Andra. And we

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landed in Andra. And last Sunday, we had the opportunity to visit

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two churches. Had the opportunity to speak at two churches

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there. And it's like I'm watching, like, my

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phone in the temperature gauge from where you

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guys are. I think last week, y'all had, like, 47

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degrees. and it was just beautiful. we heard about

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that. while I was preaching,

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I looked down at my phone, and solid. Got a notification that

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it was 107. And with the heat index,

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it felt like 117. Right. So

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I got done preaching, and then we went to another church and preached

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again. And Sam looked at me. Sam, you know, pastor

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Sam. He's spoken here before, our missionary pastor

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that we partner with. And he looks at me and he's like,

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do you think you can handle this? And

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in that moment, that was like calling out a

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preacher's pride. I was like, yeah, I can

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do this. I can do this. and so had the opportunity to

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go there, but just physically, just, it was a hard

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trip, but it was very, very, very

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good. Very good.

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spiritually, it was emotionally,

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it was hard. It was hard. We

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met some people with some wonderful stories. And I want to share

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here in just a moment some of the stories with

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you guys. We saw places and people, that we heard

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about, that we knew about,

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but we'd never encountered before.

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I've had the privilege in gospel work to

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visit South America, Africa,

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the Caribbean,

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areas in Mexico, in

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Zimbabwe, and never in

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my life experienced some of the things that we experienced while we were

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there. So this is part that's a little bit different. What I'd

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like to do for, the next section of the

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message is share with you guys some pictures,

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and I promise not to make this feel like

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grandma's, you know, slideshow from

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her 1964 trip somewhere.

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Okay. but just to help you guys put some faces,

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and things with the ministry, so we can go ahead and throw up the

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first picture that we have here. so that

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is me and Mike vought there, if you couldn't tell by the names on the

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back of our shirts, as they made us jerseys. So

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this is that fellowship mission school. this is a school that we work

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with, that we partner with, and we partner with them

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specifically as they help to. It is a christian school

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fellowship mission school. There's bible verses all over the

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kids. you've got hindu kids reading bible passages.

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Right. The teachers and leaders are praying for

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them. and so what we've tried to help them do over the

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last several years as a church is help them

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establish their credibility, through educational

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things that we've been able to come alongside and partner with them with.

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But also, in athletics, their schools aren't that different than ours.

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Right. If you've got a good volleyball team there, a good

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cricket team there, it helps in bringing more kids in. More kids

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mean more opportunities to share the gospel. And so they've come

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to us and said, we'd like to introduce them to more sports,

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and specifically sports that other schools aren't offering.

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So last year we came, we introduced them to the sport of

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basketball. And we'll. We'll meet somebody in just a second to see

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him. but then also, Sam, in getting to know

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Mike, if you know Mike Vought. You know Mike Vought loves Jesus and

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pickleball intensely. And so, Mike was

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like, you ever heard of pickleball? So they had a badminton court. So Mike brought

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this gear over there for them. And so Mike taught

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them a little bit about the game of pickleball. And then he

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looked at me and like, all right, bo, let's play.

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So you can't tell, but on the left hand side is a kid

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named Anoush. I met Anoush last year. Anoosh

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has got a great personality. He laughs up. He cuts up all the time.

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And so we started playing, and in

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his broken English, Anoosh started talking

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trash,

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so I did, too.

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And Mike had a great serve

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in a noosh. They play badminton. So

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Pickleball's not completely foreign to concept to

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him, and he hits it to a noose, and a

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noose turns on that thing, man, and he sends it spinning to

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me. And I went to hit, and I caught it with the

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bottom of my paddle and went straight into the net. And this is

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where, you know, like, our languages, our cultures are different,

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but there are some things that just communicate. Anoush looked

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at me, he dropped the paddle and went like this.

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Well played, sir. Well played. so that was

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part of what we have there. Picture. Ah.

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Number two, I want to introduce you to a lady named lady,

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Laud. Makes me look like I play power forward in the

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NBA, right? Yeah,

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I like laud. Laud, she was very specific. I asked

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her what her name was, and she spelled it for me, and she said, I found

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out in her breaking. And she tells me that I found out in English,

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that lad is boy. Right? So

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make sure that you say my name is Laud, because I'm not a boy. All right?

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So this is laud, and laud

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works there at the school. If, you've been there, you know, she's the lady that

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brings us tea, all the time. So it's crazy. It's 110

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degrees outside sometimes, and they're bringing you scald and hot tea, and you're

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just drinking as you sweat it out, immediately.

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but this time, I heard her story for the first time. You

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see, when Laud came to know the Lord, Laud couldn't read,

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but her daughter could. And someone gave her daughter a

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children's story Bible. And she said, I want to learn

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to read. And so she began, her daughter began to teach her how to read

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English by reading a children's story Bible.

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And years later, through the process of all that God

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was doing in her life, she gave her life to Jesus Christ through

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reading the children's Bible. And now she works at

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the school, and she's able to support and provide for her family, which is

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very important for her. She has a son and a daughter

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because the rest of her family has rejected her. The

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rest of her family won't help her. The rest of her family doesn't care

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about her because she walked away from the hindu faith,

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and she walked into a relationship with Jesus Christ.

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And so when I see this picture, I'm

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reminded that so many people all over the world that the

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choice to follow Christ is not

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simply a, choice of how does this impact

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my eternity, but in a very real

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way, impacts them beyond

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what we could fathom or what we could comprehend.

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And so she said. She said, can your church

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pray for my family, that they would come to know

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the Lord? And I said, absolutely.

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So I want to challenge you to look at this precious

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lady, to lock her face into your mind, and we'll pray

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at the end, but to pray for laud L

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encouragement in the faith. We'll see the next

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one. This is coach V there

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on the left, there's Brent.

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Y'all giggled at that, right? I don't know why. and then there's Wayne

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van Ham in the middle. And so they went and they worked with coach V to teach

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about, nutrition and

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stretching and different things that he could do with his basketball team.

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Coach V is one of the basketball players. And

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I show you this picture because this is part of what we do.

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Coach V is the basketball coach who's there. Coach V is a

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Hindu. If you only staffed a christian

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school with christian teachers, then you couldn't have a

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christian school because there'd be no teachers.

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So the leadership at its core level is

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Christians, but you have teachers there who are

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not. And coach V is one of those teachers who

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is not a Christian. And for me, this is an important

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piece of what we see of, why we go to do what we do. Because

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what happened about eight months ago, the first time Brent

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went to India, is he became friends with Coach

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V as we went there to work, to do basketball. But the gospel

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is more than basketball. And they formed a friendship.

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They formed a relationship. And through

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abilities to communicate online, they've never

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stopped communicating. Weekly, they

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communicate. Coach V asked questions. And Brent

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shares. And I show you this picture, because

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on the very last day that we were there, Coach V had been asking more and

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more spiritual questions, more and more questions about what we believe,

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more and more of these things. And Brent went and pulled him to the side, into

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the room. He said, can I share the gospel with you? And he shared the

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gospel with him. Now, Coach van

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did not get saved that day, but what we

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know happened in that moment. If

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seeds have been scattered, then

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what happened in that moment with Brent sitting down

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one on one in a room was a hard pouring

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of water and fertilizer on what had already been sown before.

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And so I want you to look and remember

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his name. I think I'm pronouncing this correctly. We just

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call it coach V. It's coach Va Bob. And I want

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you to remember to be able to pray for him. I

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think he's like 27 years old,

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but it's the realization for him. If

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Jesus Christ becomes his lord and savior,

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his family becomes done with him. Right.

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So I want you to pray for him as well.

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All right, the next picture. So really quick before we go there.

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Jump back 1 second. Real quick. So all of these places have

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been in Jaipur. Okay. This has been up in the north. This has been what I'm

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used to, what I'm comfortable with, what I know really well, know the

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places, know the roads, all of those things.

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What you're going to see moving forward is going to be in Andhra Pradesh and

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Kerala, and I hope to distinguish between the

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two. So let's go ahead and jump to the next one.

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So this is the girl's home that, the ministry

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has, which is outside of

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Kakinada in the state

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of Andhra Pradesh.

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About 16 girls ranging between the ages of

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five and 20 that live there in this

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girl's home. This is out more in the

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villages than in the city.

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And these girls, just some special, some

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sweet girls. If you see some that maybe look younger than five, there are some

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workers who come there, and those are their daughters. But those

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are a large majority of the girls, that we find there.

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You see standing back in the back. If you don't know who, who Sam is, he's

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standing beside Josh. that's Sam back

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there. And then the rest of us who were able to make

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this part of the trip are there. I asked

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Sam, I said, how do

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these girls end up here?

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Cause their parents died. It was because

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financially it was too difficult. We're in an area with

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great poverty and great suffering of what's

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there. And he said this.

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He said, some.

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But most,

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most of these families view

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these girls. And here's the word that he

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used as an

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inconvenience. And so

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they don't want them, and so it's

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easier to give them away,

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but it's more profitable if they can be trafficked.

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And when we hear of these, we take these

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girls in

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as a dad

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of a daughter, especially

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to sit there and to encounter a group of

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girls who were looked

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at not as a blessing and as a

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joy, but as an

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inconvenience, blew my

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mind and rocked my heart.

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We were able to eat with these girls. they had a group of pastors that came

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in, and I was able to speak with the pastors for a while and do like a little

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revival encouragement thing for them, and that was

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fine. But being able to sit down with these

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girls and we had a meal with them,

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and then we played games with them.

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They don't do pin the tail on the donkey. They do draw a

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tail on a dog,

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right? So they brought out, a dry

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erase board and they drew a picture of a dog without a tail. And then they

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blindfolded each other and spun them around. And we got to go and do

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that. And then we got to go and do that. And they laughed at us

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as these awkward, large american guys are trying

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to get there and do that. Then we went

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into another room and they played musical

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chairs. Sam looked at me while they were playing

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musical chairs and he said, do you have

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100 rupee on you? and just let me pause 1

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second. I want to make sure that I've got the right calculation on this.

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I've, still got my money conversion app. I said, yeah, I've got a

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couple hundred rupee notes, which is about a dollar.

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And he said, give me one

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of them. I was like, okay. And he

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said, whoever wins this game, I want you to go.

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And we're going to award them a prize of like, is that okay? He's like, yeah, it's

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fine, it's fine, it's fine. So with one of these little girls, she

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won and presented her the

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rs100. And she got

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so excited. Dollar 20.

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She got so excited. And like, held on to that,

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that hundred note. And

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then because we wanted to give some more things out, I believe in the

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ministry of candy. And so I travel with, with

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candy. and so we took lifesavers and we

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took, Werther's originals, right?

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Which I'm m like the old man pulling out the hard candy

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out of my pockets, you know. And we gave them around there. And

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the girls are eating these and just loving it, loving it, loving it. But it came time

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for us to go. And I noticed this little

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girl, like, as we said

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goodbye, we took a picture. That picture was taken right before we

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left. it's the girl, you see, not the

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girl with like the yellow tan cover on, but

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the girl like standing right in front of me to my

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left in that picture. Okay. And she's just kind of

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backing up after her pictures.

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And the moment we got on our bus, she took off running.

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And then I watched her and she ran down

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the road like a kid handed a

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$100 bill. And she went down

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to this little convenience store so that she could

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take that dollar. $0.20 for us

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and experience that. Just a

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powerful, powerful moment.

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Next, I want to show you the next picture.

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This group of people are

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known as the Yonadula

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tribe, the Yondua tribe.

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They live in a village

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known as East Godavari.

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If you take the translation of the Yonaduwa

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tribe, their language,

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what that means is they are the people of the

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trash.

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In total, there's about 75 of

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these people.

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The only place for them to live is

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around trash dumps, specifically

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medical waste dumps,

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three different ones in their area where they

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can support themselves. They go into

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these medical waste facilities, oftentimes without

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shoes on, to collect plastic

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so that they can recycle the plastic.

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I asked, how much money does that bring in? Like,

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what is this? What is this amount of,

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finances that they earn from doing this job?

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A job I would not want. A job you would not want.

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And what I found out was, for every two

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pounds of

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recyclable plastic that

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they collect, what

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that earns them is five cent.

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Five cent.

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Go weigh a plastic bag

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and see how much that weighs.

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And then what I want you to do is I want you to imagine how many

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plastic bags that have been filled

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with body parts and feces

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and blood would we want to

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collect in

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order to make $0.05.

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But it's their only option,

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and so that's what they do. This man in the

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white shirt, his name is Pastor Benny. Benny

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Babu. He pastors a church

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down the road. He started the ministry that cares for these people, that

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seeks to share the gospel with them. And let me just

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tell you, if all 75 of these people start

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coming to his church, I would guarantee you the

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giving does not increase.

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There's no earthly benefit for

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him to care for these people, which are known

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as the untouchables,

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other than for the kingdom of God.

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And so he cares for them and shares the

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gospel with them. Let's go to the next

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picture. So this

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is the side of their house. So the government has built

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them. The structure we're in, there's three of these structures.

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These are the structures they have to live in. I think you can

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tell, that there's a mountain of trash right

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there. I asked how we could pray for

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them, and they said, pray for us. In this way, the rainy season

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is coming, and when it rains

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there, imagine, like, when we had the big flood.

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Hundred year, thousand year, million, I don't know, million year flood,

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right? That's what it rains, like, for two months.

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So you remember how your yard got flooded?

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Well, what happens here

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is all of the waste from this

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medical waste facility right here

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gets wet. And then it works like water does with

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gravity and fills their

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home every day

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with the disease and the filth that is

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found in there. Go to the next

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picture. If

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it's not enough, I don't know if you can tell, but over to

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the right, to get rid of the trash,

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the government burns the trash.

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So it's the filth that I'll stand

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in. It's the filth that I'll

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touch, and it'll become

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the filth that I breathe

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over and over and over again.

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Let's get to the next picture.

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This is me standing in the waste

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facility back at them. And

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this is their home.

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They're all illiterate.

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They're not given an opportunity to go to school.

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They're not given an opportunity for

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betterment for themselves.

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This is their reality.

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I was asked if I'd pray and say a few words when

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we first got there. And so I'm

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standing in their home. Dirt

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floor, trash all over the place.

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And I'm sharing with them, and I'm praying with them.

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And y'all know this. Like, I move.

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And so when I can't move, I move my

494
00:24:14.788 --> 00:24:17.684
feet, and I feel something underneath

495
00:24:17.708 --> 00:24:20.558
my shoe. I'm, Like, m that's

496
00:24:20.590 --> 00:24:23.574
weird. I'm talking. I'm praying. Like,

497
00:24:23.598 --> 00:24:26.590
there's times, and you probably know this, like we're up here communicating, but there's a thousand

498
00:24:26.646 --> 00:24:29.574
thoughts going through our mind. I'm like, what in the world is this

499
00:24:29.598 --> 00:24:32.330
underneath my foot? And I get done,

500
00:24:32.426 --> 00:24:34.822
and I move my foot to the side just like that.

501
00:24:35.882 --> 00:24:38.142
And I realize that I'm standing on a syringe

502
00:24:39.642 --> 00:24:42.572
now. there's no needle still attached to it. It's laid

503
00:24:42.612 --> 00:24:45.476
flat. My shoe kept me from where I

504
00:24:45.484 --> 00:24:48.132
needed to be. But I'll look

505
00:24:48.172 --> 00:24:50.832
out and see the bare feet

506
00:24:51.532 --> 00:24:54.484
of most of the children and the bare

507
00:24:54.508 --> 00:24:56.552
feet of most of the women who are in the room.

508
00:24:58.072 --> 00:24:59.532
And that's the reality.

509
00:25:04.712 --> 00:25:06.492
I knew that existed,

510
00:25:09.592 --> 00:25:11.732
but my mind couldn't fathom it.

511
00:25:14.192 --> 00:25:15.572
Let's go to the next one.

512
00:25:17.272 --> 00:25:19.372
While we were there, this truck came in

513
00:25:20.872 --> 00:25:23.272
filled with waste.

514
00:25:25.932 --> 00:25:27.352
It struck me,

515
00:25:29.572 --> 00:25:31.992
that's hope for them.

516
00:25:33.892 --> 00:25:36.852
Think about that. That's

517
00:25:36.892 --> 00:25:39.516
hope. That's more

518
00:25:39.564 --> 00:25:42.396
money. That's an opportunity to

519
00:25:42.404 --> 00:25:45.284
buy food. Every day when

520
00:25:45.308 --> 00:25:46.912
that trash truck comes

521
00:25:48.512 --> 00:25:51.264
filled with the filth that comes

522
00:25:51.328 --> 00:25:53.928
out of whatever

523
00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:55.932
medical place is around there,

524
00:25:56.992 --> 00:25:58.652
that's hope for them

525
00:26:00.032 --> 00:26:02.688
on this earth. That's

526
00:26:02.760 --> 00:26:04.972
all that they know.

527
00:26:06.752 --> 00:26:08.252
Let's go to the next picture.

528
00:26:10.592 --> 00:26:13.484
We had an opportunity to give

529
00:26:13.508 --> 00:26:16.472
out blankets, candy,

530
00:26:16.932 --> 00:26:19.412
and food. These

531
00:26:19.452 --> 00:26:22.268
blankets. I should have done better with my notes. I appreciate

532
00:26:22.300 --> 00:26:23.392
y'all's kindness.

533
00:26:24.892 --> 00:26:26.556
$3.59

534
00:26:26.604 --> 00:26:29.580
rs299. We're able

535
00:26:29.596 --> 00:26:32.308
to give them to them so that they can use them for a

536
00:26:32.340 --> 00:26:35.340
million different things. That's their bed, that's their

537
00:26:35.396 --> 00:26:38.152
cover up, that's their shade from the sun.

538
00:26:38.752 --> 00:26:41.332
And to see the smiles on all the faces.

539
00:26:41.832 --> 00:26:44.408
But amazingly, not a bum rush toward

540
00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:47.440
them, right? Able to give them

541
00:26:47.456 --> 00:26:50.332
some candy, a blanket,

542
00:26:50.832 --> 00:26:52.132
and a bag of rice.

543
00:26:55.232 --> 00:26:56.572
Let's go to the next one.

544
00:27:27.852 --> 00:27:28.832
Next one.

545
00:27:32.352 --> 00:27:33.372
Look at that.

546
00:27:35.272 --> 00:27:37.812
The universal symbol of unhappy.

547
00:27:39.032 --> 00:27:41.888
It's after they've been fed. It's

548
00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.704
after some candy. More lifesavers, more

549
00:27:44.728 --> 00:27:46.432
werthers. I, looked over at this one kid,

550
00:27:47.492 --> 00:27:50.072
and he had his werthers opened,

551
00:27:50.612 --> 00:27:53.188
and he had his lifesaver opened,

552
00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:54.792
and he was doing this.

553
00:27:58.192 --> 00:28:00.960
Not sure which one I want to go with and commit to, right?

554
00:28:01.136 --> 00:28:04.088
So I'm just going to keep doing this, keep doing this, keep

555
00:28:04.120 --> 00:28:06.440
doing this. And then Josh and

556
00:28:06.456 --> 00:28:09.400
Brent, we were there, sat there and

557
00:28:09.416 --> 00:28:11.612
teach them some games, taught them paper, rock, scissors.

558
00:28:12.672 --> 00:28:15.456
I got a video of that. I don't have that with me. But you would have

559
00:28:15.504 --> 00:28:18.048
thought, like, the newest PlayStation rolled

560
00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:20.692
out. These kids became kids.

561
00:28:21.572 --> 00:28:24.112
They didn't become trash collectors. They became kids.

562
00:28:24.692 --> 00:28:27.604
And they played a game. There's a bunch of

563
00:28:27.628 --> 00:28:29.908
old coconut shells on the side.

564
00:28:30.100 --> 00:28:32.940
And Josh and Brent went back into the medical

565
00:28:32.996 --> 00:28:35.254
waste, area, and they found, like, a

566
00:28:35.278 --> 00:28:37.774
bucket, and they went and grabbed the

567
00:28:37.798 --> 00:28:40.526
bucket. And

568
00:28:40.694 --> 00:28:43.542
very unfairly, Brent made

569
00:28:43.582 --> 00:28:46.554
Josh be the basketball goal. As

570
00:28:46.578 --> 00:28:49.474
Brent taught these kids, who had never played basketball, how to

571
00:28:49.498 --> 00:28:52.146
shoot coconut shells at Josh's

572
00:28:52.194 --> 00:28:55.090
face. Josh just

573
00:28:55.146 --> 00:28:57.342
smiled for Jesus while he did it, right?

574
00:28:58.082 --> 00:29:00.866
And then they taught him, hm, how to play cornhole with

575
00:29:00.994 --> 00:29:03.898
coconut. Right? So they're out there and they're doing

576
00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:06.582
this, and show them all these games that we could do.

577
00:29:09.482 --> 00:29:10.862
And they smiled.

578
00:29:13.302 --> 00:29:16.230
We were there for an hour, and

579
00:29:16.246 --> 00:29:19.134
we shared the gospel with them, and they

580
00:29:19.158 --> 00:29:19.922
smiled.

581
00:29:22.342 --> 00:29:23.802
I'll show you the next picture.

582
00:29:25.142 --> 00:29:28.014
So this is Wayne right here, and I'll

583
00:29:28.038 --> 00:29:30.566
explain in a minute what he's doing, but there's a man right

584
00:29:30.614 --> 00:29:32.642
here named Pondu.

585
00:29:33.982 --> 00:29:36.922
I heard Pondu's blind in one eye.

586
00:29:37.802 --> 00:29:39.782
And I don't know. What I got to see is

587
00:29:40.762 --> 00:29:43.022
I'm not a doctor, but filled with

588
00:29:43.522 --> 00:29:45.222
infection and just

589
00:29:46.802 --> 00:29:49.650
never seen an eye like this in my life. But I

590
00:29:49.666 --> 00:29:52.450
noticed he had on a pair of sandals. I mean, his

591
00:29:52.466 --> 00:29:54.906
sandals were busted, they were broken. And he had a

592
00:29:54.914 --> 00:29:57.908
bandana tied, around his foot. And he was kind of limping. What's there?

593
00:29:58.044 --> 00:30:00.636
And I said to one of the pastors, I said, hey, what's going on with his

594
00:30:00.668 --> 00:30:03.532
foot? He says he's got an infection in

595
00:30:03.556 --> 00:30:05.912
his foot, and we can't get the

596
00:30:05.936 --> 00:30:08.816
infection cleaned out. So

597
00:30:08.848 --> 00:30:11.496
the reason why Wayne was on this trip with us is to be

598
00:30:11.528 --> 00:30:14.426
some medical eyes and ears. Wayne's, been a

599
00:30:14.458 --> 00:30:17.442
nurse for years. He served in the army as a medic and

600
00:30:17.466 --> 00:30:20.464
retired from there for years. And, most

601
00:30:20.512 --> 00:30:23.312
recently. So he lives in the Washington area, but pretty

602
00:30:23.336 --> 00:30:26.256
close to Portland, Oregon. And he serves on two boards that

603
00:30:26.288 --> 00:30:29.160
work with homeless clinics in the area of

604
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:32.192
his town. And I said, wayne, you'll have some expertise, man. I would

605
00:30:32.216 --> 00:30:34.840
love for you to come and go on this with us. And so

606
00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:37.912
Wayne came to kind of help process through some things, and I

607
00:30:37.936 --> 00:30:40.936
looked at him, and I was like, hey, man, you want to do some medical stuff here really

608
00:30:40.968 --> 00:30:43.872
quick? And he got giddy.

609
00:30:44.056 --> 00:30:45.740
He's like, absolutely.

610
00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:48.420
So come to find out,

611
00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.380
Pondu has diabetes

612
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:54.728
and no. No

613
00:30:54.864 --> 00:30:57.776
diabetes medicine. And so

614
00:30:57.808 --> 00:31:00.180
Wayne stepped in. Look at the next picture.

615
00:31:01.800 --> 00:31:04.688
So Wayne got on our bus and took him down to a

616
00:31:04.704 --> 00:31:07.568
pharmacy that's there. And he had the

617
00:31:07.584 --> 00:31:10.100
guy take off his bandage and

618
00:31:10.520 --> 00:31:13.432
his shoe. And here's what Wayne realized

619
00:31:13.496 --> 00:31:16.220
really quickly. I don't have gloves.

620
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:20.400
And his excitement to get all of the antibiotics

621
00:31:20.520 --> 00:31:23.392
and the creams and the wraps and all the things that are

622
00:31:23.416 --> 00:31:25.670
needed, he forgot that he didn't have gloves.

623
00:31:27.610 --> 00:31:29.910
And he's like, so here we go.

624
00:31:30.610 --> 00:31:32.590
And he dove in,

625
00:31:33.330 --> 00:31:35.190
and he cleaned his foot,

626
00:31:36.570 --> 00:31:39.026
got all of the dirt the best he could off of his

627
00:31:39.058 --> 00:31:41.826
foot. The wound,

628
00:31:41.938 --> 00:31:44.818
Wayne thinks, is a diabetic ulcer that's on

629
00:31:44.834 --> 00:31:47.410
his foot. Put the creams that was

630
00:31:47.450 --> 00:31:50.180
there, cleaned it, bandaged it some more,

631
00:31:50.330 --> 00:31:53.272
wrapped it, showed other people there how to do that, other people how to clean it, other

632
00:31:53.296 --> 00:31:55.976
people how to do these things. Gave him some

633
00:31:56.008 --> 00:31:57.820
antibiotics that he's going to need to take.

634
00:31:59.140 --> 00:32:00.560
did all of those things.

635
00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:04.440
So I told you these people were untouchables, right?

636
00:32:05.500 --> 00:32:07.560
So he can't go to a hospital.

637
00:32:10.300 --> 00:32:13.132
People around aren't going to touch him because he's dirty, he's

638
00:32:13.156 --> 00:32:14.520
filthy. He's untouchable.

639
00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:21.168
Wayne's like, I want to touch, and

640
00:32:21.184 --> 00:32:23.820
I want to care, and I want to love.

641
00:32:24.760 --> 00:32:27.660
When we got there, this man sat in the very back corner,

642
00:32:29.040 --> 00:32:31.944
kind of hidden. The last to get food, the last

643
00:32:31.992 --> 00:32:34.872
to do anything. And so let's

644
00:32:34.896 --> 00:32:37.832
jump to the next picture. This is when

645
00:32:37.856 --> 00:32:40.504
we left. All

646
00:32:40.512 --> 00:32:41.060
right.

647
00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:45.160
He is a

648
00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:49.260
real person made in the image of

649
00:32:49.300 --> 00:32:51.800
God, who is not untouchable,

650
00:32:52.820 --> 00:32:55.000
but who has value and purpose.

651
00:32:56.940 --> 00:32:59.040
And might not be a follower of Jesus,

652
00:32:59.820 --> 00:33:02.572
but he's heard the gospel and

653
00:33:02.596 --> 00:33:04.596
he felt the love of Christ

654
00:33:04.748 --> 00:33:07.572
physically. And so we pray for

655
00:33:07.596 --> 00:33:08.360
Pandu

656
00:33:11.150 --> 00:33:13.530
next. We got three more pictures.

657
00:33:14.390 --> 00:33:16.770
And then I promise the message is brief,

658
00:33:17.670 --> 00:33:19.250
so let's jump to the next one.

659
00:33:20.310 --> 00:33:22.890
Our last day, we went to a dialysis clinic.

660
00:33:25.590 --> 00:33:27.810
This is a lady, she's 46 years old.

661
00:33:29.830 --> 00:33:31.370
She's in stage five.

662
00:33:32.510 --> 00:33:35.425
She will die. She is

663
00:33:35.457 --> 00:33:38.369
not a Christian. When her husband

664
00:33:38.409 --> 00:33:40.829
found out that she was sick, he left.

665
00:33:41.809 --> 00:33:43.389
Her son has no job,

666
00:33:44.769 --> 00:33:47.309
and we're now in the state of Kerala.

667
00:33:48.049 --> 00:33:50.969
Let me explain to you the medical care in

668
00:33:51.009 --> 00:33:53.921
India. It is free. Medical care

669
00:33:53.945 --> 00:33:56.937
is free. I don't know if you know this or not, but

670
00:33:56.953 --> 00:33:59.869
there's a lot of people in India, right?

671
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.992
So you think our emergency rooms are

672
00:34:03.016 --> 00:34:05.472
crowded? You can go to their

673
00:34:05.536 --> 00:34:08.080
emergency rooms and have to wait for

674
00:34:08.120 --> 00:34:10.920
weeks to be seen. Now, there's no

675
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.872
bill, but ten to 14 days of

676
00:34:13.936 --> 00:34:16.900
waiting will wear on someone.

677
00:34:17.640 --> 00:34:20.584
And then when they can see you, you cannot get necessarily the care

678
00:34:20.632 --> 00:34:23.240
that you need. You see, the care is saved

679
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.048
for those with power, those with money, those

680
00:34:26.144 --> 00:34:29.030
with influence that can get these things. And ladies like

681
00:34:29.070 --> 00:34:31.606
this are never going to be worth and

682
00:34:31.638 --> 00:34:34.250
valued at that. So,

683
00:34:35.030 --> 00:34:37.926
this dialysis unit of this hospital, which is a

684
00:34:37.958 --> 00:34:40.890
private christian hospital, which means it gets no funds,

685
00:34:41.310 --> 00:34:44.250
zero funds from the government to operate,

686
00:34:46.030 --> 00:34:48.638
functions. And no one

687
00:34:48.694 --> 00:34:51.562
pays who goes there either because they can't

688
00:34:51.586 --> 00:34:54.586
afford it. Let's go to the next

689
00:34:54.618 --> 00:34:55.270
picture.

690
00:34:57.290 --> 00:34:59.750
So these were the four individuals who were there,

691
00:35:00.770 --> 00:35:03.670
went through, heard their stories, prayed for each one of them.

692
00:35:04.370 --> 00:35:07.042
According to Wayne, he thinks these two men

693
00:35:07.106 --> 00:35:09.786
closest to the, to the camera stand a

694
00:35:09.818 --> 00:35:12.490
chance because of the

695
00:35:12.530 --> 00:35:15.258
swelling that is happening in the bodies of the last

696
00:35:15.314 --> 00:35:16.790
two. Do not.

697
00:35:18.270 --> 00:35:21.254
They will die because

698
00:35:21.302 --> 00:35:24.046
of what the illnesses that their body is

699
00:35:24.078 --> 00:35:27.006
facing. Every day this group of people gets

700
00:35:27.038 --> 00:35:29.990
prayed for every day, this group of people

701
00:35:30.030 --> 00:35:32.950
that comes in there, share the gospel all in

702
00:35:32.990 --> 00:35:35.862
told every person that comes in there.

703
00:35:35.886 --> 00:35:38.398
Over the course of the month, there's 174 different

704
00:35:38.454 --> 00:35:41.166
individuals that receive dialysis treatment.

705
00:35:41.278 --> 00:35:44.106
They can treat up to twelve people during a day. And they

706
00:35:44.138 --> 00:35:46.970
work their best to make sure that the men and women

707
00:35:47.010 --> 00:35:49.546
who come in get the proper amounts of treatments that they need

708
00:35:49.578 --> 00:35:52.578
over course of a month. So

709
00:35:52.594 --> 00:35:55.202
it's not just one, but if your body requires multiple times a

710
00:35:55.226 --> 00:35:57.970
week, then that's what they do. The cost for

711
00:35:58.010 --> 00:36:01.002
each one of these treatments is $10 every time

712
00:36:01.026 --> 00:36:02.910
they get hooked up to dialysis.

713
00:36:04.050 --> 00:36:06.706
There's four dialysis machines. You can see them right

714
00:36:06.738 --> 00:36:09.546
there. You can buy a dialysis machine in India for

715
00:36:09.578 --> 00:36:12.392
$9,000. They can are

716
00:36:12.416 --> 00:36:15.352
praying right now for six more dialysis machines so that they can

717
00:36:15.376 --> 00:36:18.312
see more and more people. Once a month, they gather

718
00:36:18.376 --> 00:36:21.016
together. Everyone who has received this

719
00:36:21.048 --> 00:36:23.728
dialysis treatment and who is alive and who is healed

720
00:36:23.824 --> 00:36:26.784
gathers once a month for an opportunity to

721
00:36:26.832 --> 00:36:29.768
share the gospel with them and to do all these things. And so

722
00:36:29.784 --> 00:36:32.210
a wonderful ministry. who are there?

723
00:36:34.070 --> 00:36:36.090
Let's go to the next one.

724
00:36:40.370 --> 00:36:42.510
So, when you're on a mission trip

725
00:36:43.450 --> 00:36:46.190
in a country that's restricted in sharing the gospel,

726
00:36:46.970 --> 00:36:49.030
and someone says to you,

727
00:36:49.770 --> 00:36:52.002
hey, would you like to participate in a

728
00:36:52.026 --> 00:36:54.754
baptism in the Bay

729
00:36:54.802 --> 00:36:57.234
of Bengal on a Sunday

730
00:36:57.282 --> 00:37:00.242
morning? Like, you don't think about the answer to

731
00:37:00.266 --> 00:37:03.062
that question, like, absolutely, I

732
00:37:03.086 --> 00:37:06.006
do. Right? So we go out there,

733
00:37:06.158 --> 00:37:08.760
and we're standing there on the shore. and there's two

734
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:11.622
pastors who are there. this is Jesse,

735
00:37:11.726 --> 00:37:14.590
who was baptized. Sam baptized her.

736
00:37:14.710 --> 00:37:17.686
Jesse is 18 years old, getting ready to go to

737
00:37:17.718 --> 00:37:20.342
college to become an engineer. And her brother

738
00:37:20.406 --> 00:37:23.246
Stephen, who I believe is 16 years old,

739
00:37:23.358 --> 00:37:24.970
got baptized as well.

740
00:37:26.650 --> 00:37:29.218
And it was a wonderful, wonderful,

741
00:37:29.354 --> 00:37:31.842
wonderful time of celebration. This is in Andhra

742
00:37:31.866 --> 00:37:34.802
Pradesh, but

743
00:37:34.826 --> 00:37:37.362
I want you to notice there's two things

744
00:37:37.546 --> 00:37:39.030
happening in this picture.

745
00:37:41.810 --> 00:37:44.590
The baptism and celebration are happening.

746
00:37:45.570 --> 00:37:47.590
But who else sees what else is happening?

747
00:37:48.770 --> 00:37:51.378
Anybody? What's happening in the

748
00:37:51.394 --> 00:37:52.110
background?

749
00:37:54.130 --> 00:37:56.590
Fishing. Fishing.

750
00:37:57.410 --> 00:38:00.350
Now, there was not a bass tracker

751
00:38:00.650 --> 00:38:03.562
or pontoon boat to be seen, right? There

752
00:38:03.586 --> 00:38:06.442
was not a motor on any of these boats. They

753
00:38:06.466 --> 00:38:09.290
were not of fiberglass or whatever they're made out of.

754
00:38:09.330 --> 00:38:11.354
Now, these were wooden

755
00:38:11.522 --> 00:38:14.458
boats that were put together with

756
00:38:14.514 --> 00:38:17.314
big old oars, with men and women out

757
00:38:17.362 --> 00:38:19.984
there working these things. And it

758
00:38:20.032 --> 00:38:22.880
struck me, standing out there, it

759
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.840
struck me in that moment. What's happening are

760
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.648
two things. Number one is a celebration

761
00:38:28.704 --> 00:38:31.592
of life is what's happening. And that's what I thought I went

762
00:38:31.616 --> 00:38:34.528
there to see. But then, number two, what I saw is a

763
00:38:34.544 --> 00:38:36.860
battle for life happening in the background.

764
00:38:37.520 --> 00:38:40.416
There's a celebration of life and a battle for life taking

765
00:38:40.488 --> 00:38:43.200
place in this one picture.

766
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:46.312
And it's the beauty of what we go with and

767
00:38:46.336 --> 00:38:49.254
what we see on the international mission field

768
00:38:49.342 --> 00:38:51.886
where we can go and we can see men and women and

769
00:38:51.918 --> 00:38:54.862
children, many of whom do not have access to the

770
00:38:54.886 --> 00:38:57.710
gospel, much less have never heard of the gospel.

771
00:38:57.790 --> 00:39:00.726
And you see someone who could be. Who could be

772
00:39:00.758 --> 00:39:03.318
cast out from their family, and they're like, no, no,

773
00:39:03.334 --> 00:39:06.164
no. It is greater, to

774
00:39:06.212 --> 00:39:09.080
walk with Jesus than to experience

775
00:39:09.420 --> 00:39:12.140
the success and the power and the

776
00:39:12.180 --> 00:39:15.096
authority that this world has to offer. Offer. I

777
00:39:15.128 --> 00:39:17.620
would rather have Jesus than that.

778
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.660
We're going to connect that to scripture here in just a second.

779
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:30.184
What's next? What's next? Here's what we're going to

780
00:39:30.192 --> 00:39:31.780
do before may

781
00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:35.552
ends. So we're an exploratory team to

782
00:39:35.576 --> 00:39:38.380
go and kind of see what this would be like. Okay.

783
00:39:38.720 --> 00:39:41.586
Nothing, has been set in stone, written on paper, or anything like that. But

784
00:39:41.610 --> 00:39:44.552
what I'd like to do do is I'm going to hold an interest meeting that

785
00:39:44.568 --> 00:39:47.048
will communicate both here on Sunday morning and

786
00:39:47.096 --> 00:39:49.752
through email for

787
00:39:49.808 --> 00:39:52.752
any individuals who may be interested on going on a

788
00:39:52.768 --> 00:39:55.256
medical mission trip, either to

789
00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:58.224
Jaipur in the north or to

790
00:39:58.264 --> 00:40:00.404
Andhra Pradesh and Kerala in the south.

791
00:40:01.584 --> 00:40:04.280
We just want to gauge some interest to see if there's any of

792
00:40:04.312 --> 00:40:06.792
you who would be interested in doing that.

793
00:40:06.848 --> 00:40:09.528
Now, it is a medical mission trip, so that means, number

794
00:40:09.576 --> 00:40:11.924
one, we need medical people to go.

795
00:40:12.704 --> 00:40:14.944
We need doctors, we need nurses, we need

796
00:40:14.984 --> 00:40:17.864
technicians. We need anyone

797
00:40:17.904 --> 00:40:20.678
who works paramedics, anyone who works

798
00:40:20.766 --> 00:40:22.854
in the medical field. We need you to go.

799
00:40:22.974 --> 00:40:24.834
Okay. But

800
00:40:26.654 --> 00:40:29.198
you don't have to solely be

801
00:40:29.366 --> 00:40:32.310
working in the medical field in order to go, okay.

802
00:40:32.462 --> 00:40:35.438
And we can talk about that more in the meeting, and I can share

803
00:40:35.486 --> 00:40:38.350
what that looks like. So, if you're here today and you're like,

804
00:40:38.422 --> 00:40:41.254
but I'm not a doctor or nurse. I don't work in that

805
00:40:41.294 --> 00:40:44.238
world, that's fine. That's fine. There could still

806
00:40:44.326 --> 00:40:47.094
be a place for you on this. But if you are

807
00:40:47.134 --> 00:40:49.354
here, if you are here

808
00:40:50.454 --> 00:40:52.966
and God's kind of tugging at you and you just want to kind of have some

809
00:40:52.990 --> 00:40:55.710
more information about some things, we'll sit

810
00:40:55.742 --> 00:40:58.534
down one day after, one of our church services on a Sunday

811
00:40:58.574 --> 00:41:00.982
morning, we'll gather for about 30, 45

812
00:41:01.038 --> 00:41:03.850
minutes, and be able to share with you what all's.

813
00:41:03.950 --> 00:41:06.906
What all is going on and what that could look like for you. Okay?

814
00:41:07.006 --> 00:41:09.952
and so we'll get those details out, but here's

815
00:41:09.976 --> 00:41:12.952
the question. And this is, we're gonna look at Luke five starting in

816
00:41:12.976 --> 00:41:15.140
verse four here in just a moment. Okay?

817
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:17.700
But why do we do these things?

818
00:41:19.040 --> 00:41:21.740
Why do we do these things? Why do we go to these places?

819
00:41:22.520 --> 00:41:25.432
Why do we care for these people? What is

820
00:41:25.456 --> 00:41:28.288
our motivation? And I think

821
00:41:28.304 --> 00:41:31.296
that's important. What is our motivation

822
00:41:31.368 --> 00:41:34.356
for doing this? Because

823
00:41:34.428 --> 00:41:36.940
we're not just a good works

824
00:41:36.980 --> 00:41:39.820
group. That's not

825
00:41:39.860 --> 00:41:42.756
what we are. There's lots of reasons why

826
00:41:42.788 --> 00:41:45.516
we could go and do these things. And

827
00:41:45.628 --> 00:41:48.316
I'm going to tell you, when we pulled up to

828
00:41:48.348 --> 00:41:50.600
that trash dump

829
00:41:51.060 --> 00:41:52.840
where those people were living,

830
00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:56.820
I looked at Brent and I was like, I can't

831
00:41:56.860 --> 00:41:57.880
do this, man.

832
00:42:00.560 --> 00:42:02.020
I can't do this.

833
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:05.140
And he's like, yeah, you can.

834
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.160
And I just got out, and I wanted to be like, okay, you,

835
00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.888
you, you. Okay, your

836
00:42:12.944 --> 00:42:15.928
new last name is Nix, all right? And so you're gonna

837
00:42:15.944 --> 00:42:18.600
go with Josh, all right? And you, you,

838
00:42:18.640 --> 00:42:21.552
you. Your last name is Hawkins,

839
00:42:21.616 --> 00:42:24.448
all right? So you're gonna go with him. And we're just. Now, here are the

840
00:42:24.464 --> 00:42:27.278
Van hamsters. Jacob and Ella just got some new cousins, all

841
00:42:27.294 --> 00:42:30.278
right? And so we're just going to have these pieces, right?

842
00:42:30.294 --> 00:42:32.942
Y'all go with Wayne, and then the rest, y'all are

843
00:42:32.966 --> 00:42:35.558
ours. Emm M and Grayson, you just lost your bedrooms. All

844
00:42:35.574 --> 00:42:37.410
right? This is what we're going to have.

845
00:42:39.550 --> 00:42:40.930
But why do we do this?

846
00:42:42.630 --> 00:42:45.622
And there's no better example to look at than

847
00:42:45.646 --> 00:42:48.410
Jesus ministry. So I'm going to read verses

848
00:42:49.190 --> 00:42:51.210
four through eleven of Luke, chapter five.

849
00:42:52.520 --> 00:42:55.464
And when he had finished speaking, he being Jesus,

850
00:42:55.512 --> 00:42:56.740
he said to Simon,

851
00:42:58.520 --> 00:43:01.496
put out into the deep and let down

852
00:43:01.528 --> 00:43:04.336
your nets for a catch. And

853
00:43:04.368 --> 00:43:07.368
Simon answered, master, we toiled

854
00:43:07.424 --> 00:43:10.400
all night and took nothing but at your word,

855
00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:13.272
I will let down the nets. And when they had

856
00:43:13.296 --> 00:43:16.168
done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets

857
00:43:16.184 --> 00:43:19.102
were breaking. They signaled to their partners

858
00:43:19.166 --> 00:43:21.690
in the other boat to come and help them.

859
00:43:22.110 --> 00:43:24.902
And they came and filled both the

860
00:43:24.926 --> 00:43:27.406
boats. So they began to

861
00:43:27.438 --> 00:43:30.422
sink. But when Simon Peter saw

862
00:43:30.486 --> 00:43:33.294
it, he fell down at Jesus knees, saying,

863
00:43:33.342 --> 00:43:36.170
depart from me, for I am a sinful man, o lord.

864
00:43:37.030 --> 00:43:39.710
For he and all who were with him were

865
00:43:39.750 --> 00:43:42.250
astonished at, ah, the catch of fish they had taken.

866
00:43:42.890 --> 00:43:45.498
And so also were James and John, sons of

867
00:43:45.594 --> 00:43:48.550
Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.

868
00:43:48.930 --> 00:43:51.786
And Jesus said to Simon, do not

869
00:43:51.818 --> 00:43:54.794
be afraid. From now on, you will be catching

870
00:43:54.842 --> 00:43:57.770
men. And when they had brought their boats

871
00:43:57.810 --> 00:44:00.790
to land, they left everything

872
00:44:01.610 --> 00:44:02.870
and followed him.

873
00:44:05.050 --> 00:44:07.618
Chelsea, can we jump back to the baptism

874
00:44:07.674 --> 00:44:08.350
picture?

875
00:44:10.390 --> 00:44:12.690
When I'm standing there, that's all I thought about.

876
00:44:13.830 --> 00:44:16.510
That's all I thought about. There are

877
00:44:16.550 --> 00:44:19.130
boats and all the things that were there.

878
00:44:19.470 --> 00:44:21.850
People who are doing the work of their business.

879
00:44:23.230 --> 00:44:25.570
Then there was work of Christ being done,

880
00:44:26.070 --> 00:44:28.838
the work of what's there, you

881
00:44:28.854 --> 00:44:31.390
know, whether you're in

882
00:44:31.430 --> 00:44:33.910
India or

883
00:44:33.950 --> 00:44:36.374
America or

884
00:44:36.422 --> 00:44:39.366
anywhere in between, this

885
00:44:39.438 --> 00:44:41.010
world is filled,

886
00:44:42.030 --> 00:44:44.450
filled with people looking for hope.

887
00:44:45.550 --> 00:44:48.422
And they think they know where they can

888
00:44:48.446 --> 00:44:51.118
find it, but they

889
00:44:51.134 --> 00:44:51.770
can't.

890
00:44:54.190 --> 00:44:57.182
Previously in this passage of scripture, getting into chapter five, we see that

891
00:44:57.206 --> 00:45:00.054
Jesus is teaching, and more and more people are coming

892
00:45:00.102 --> 00:45:03.038
toward him because they hear his message of hope, and they so long for

893
00:45:03.054 --> 00:45:05.966
it. You see, there are people in India

894
00:45:06.038 --> 00:45:08.570
and United States and every country in between

895
00:45:08.950 --> 00:45:11.902
when they're searching for their hope. And anything that is Christ. And Christ

896
00:45:11.966 --> 00:45:14.838
alone is putting their hope in the equivalent of a

897
00:45:14.854 --> 00:45:16.650
trash truck backing up every day.

898
00:45:17.870 --> 00:45:20.766
Every day. But we see

899
00:45:20.878 --> 00:45:23.010
the picture of this is what's there.

900
00:45:24.430 --> 00:45:26.690
India is very different. Very different.

901
00:45:27.230 --> 00:45:29.570
But yet the pursuits are the same.

902
00:45:30.550 --> 00:45:32.650
They have their temples. They have their gods.

903
00:45:33.510 --> 00:45:35.998
We have our temples. We have our

904
00:45:36.014 --> 00:45:38.942
gods. You see, the message of

905
00:45:38.966 --> 00:45:41.610
why we do this is because we know where hope comes from.

906
00:45:42.110 --> 00:45:44.890
We know that hope is found in Christ and Christ alone.

907
00:45:45.470 --> 00:45:48.014
We know that hope isn't found in a trash truck and a trash

908
00:45:48.062 --> 00:45:50.982
pile. We know that hope isn't found in a temple

909
00:45:51.006 --> 00:45:53.902
to a made up God. And I hope that.

910
00:45:53.926 --> 00:45:56.118
We know that hope is not found in a

911
00:45:56.134 --> 00:45:59.108
401K or in a travel

912
00:45:59.164 --> 00:46:01.996
sport or in a degree that we can

913
00:46:02.028 --> 00:46:04.680
earn or a car that we can obtain

914
00:46:05.460 --> 00:46:08.388
or the ideal of a relationship with

915
00:46:08.404 --> 00:46:11.132
a person on this earth other than Christ and Christ

916
00:46:11.196 --> 00:46:13.932
alone. This world is filled with

917
00:46:13.956 --> 00:46:16.948
people looking for hope. And they think they know

918
00:46:16.964 --> 00:46:18.320
where to find it, but they don't.

919
00:46:19.380 --> 00:46:22.380
Number two, what we see in this passage of scripture

920
00:46:22.540 --> 00:46:25.332
is Jesus is different. Jesus is

921
00:46:25.356 --> 00:46:28.260
different. When we were getting there, most of the boats

922
00:46:28.300 --> 00:46:31.124
are coming out of the water. When I come

923
00:46:31.172 --> 00:46:34.156
off of the water, I stick my fishing

924
00:46:34.188 --> 00:46:37.172
pole in the back of my truck, and I go

925
00:46:37.196 --> 00:46:39.900
home, and I watch a group of

926
00:46:39.940 --> 00:46:42.596
individuals pull nets out and

927
00:46:42.628 --> 00:46:45.468
mend them and care for them. This is

928
00:46:45.484 --> 00:46:48.412
their livelihood. Most of what they're

929
00:46:48.436 --> 00:46:50.160
catching during this time is sardines,

930
00:46:51.390 --> 00:46:54.342
massive, massive nets that

931
00:46:54.366 --> 00:46:56.690
they would work in these very small boats,

932
00:46:57.430 --> 00:47:00.422
paddling as they would pull these in and

933
00:47:00.446 --> 00:47:03.350
then going through, one by one, removing all of

934
00:47:03.390 --> 00:47:06.358
these fish and working and caring for it.

935
00:47:06.374 --> 00:47:08.870
And I was imagining this passage of scripture.

936
00:47:08.990 --> 00:47:11.926
Imagine working hard. You're taking care.

937
00:47:12.038 --> 00:47:14.930
You're mending your nets. You're doing all that you need to do.

938
00:47:15.630 --> 00:47:17.050
And I walk up.

939
00:47:17.990 --> 00:47:20.890
Me, I'm not a fisherman.

940
00:47:21.390 --> 00:47:24.368
And if, you're a fisherman and you fish here, let

941
00:47:24.384 --> 00:47:26.928
me just say, like, your method and their method ain't the

942
00:47:26.944 --> 00:47:29.488
same. Jesus is a

943
00:47:29.504 --> 00:47:32.020
carpenter, and he's a teacher,

944
00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:35.296
and he goes up to fishermen and says, now, let's

945
00:47:35.328 --> 00:47:38.260
go back out. I got an idea.

946
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:41.740
And Simon didn't want to,

947
00:47:42.900 --> 00:47:43.960
but he did,

948
00:47:45.780 --> 00:47:48.532
and he did. And out of

949
00:47:48.556 --> 00:47:50.440
respects, he let down his nets.

950
00:47:51.860 --> 00:47:54.164
And what happened in that

951
00:47:54.212 --> 00:47:57.100
moment of what he saw is.

952
00:47:57.140 --> 00:48:00.120
Jesus is different. Jesus is different.

953
00:48:00.500 --> 00:48:03.228
Jesus is different than any God that they would try to

954
00:48:03.284 --> 00:48:06.004
find and create for themselves in Hinduism.

955
00:48:06.132 --> 00:48:09.052
And Jesus is different than any God that you and I

956
00:48:09.076 --> 00:48:11.660
try to settle for. He's different.

957
00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:14.860
His kindness, his compassion, his love,

958
00:48:15.560 --> 00:48:18.296
the essence of his very nature is

959
00:48:18.328 --> 00:48:21.272
different in the reminder, in the

960
00:48:21.296 --> 00:48:23.752
power of the truth of God's word, of who he

961
00:48:23.776 --> 00:48:26.736
is. But the third thing we see from this

962
00:48:26.768 --> 00:48:29.584
passage of scripture is that Jesus

963
00:48:29.632 --> 00:48:32.456
demands a response. When

964
00:48:32.488 --> 00:48:35.340
you encounter who Jesus is,

965
00:48:36.100 --> 00:48:38.332
you encounter more than an intellectual

966
00:48:38.396 --> 00:48:40.364
agreement. You

967
00:48:40.412 --> 00:48:43.204
encounter who he

968
00:48:43.372 --> 00:48:46.116
is at your core, at your

969
00:48:46.188 --> 00:48:48.556
spirit. And Jesus

970
00:48:48.708 --> 00:48:51.700
demands a response. And we see

971
00:48:51.740 --> 00:48:54.548
that from Simon Peter. He fell at his

972
00:48:54.604 --> 00:48:57.396
feet like Isaiah,

973
00:48:57.346 --> 00:49:00.252
in Isaiah, chapter six, as

974
00:49:00.276 --> 00:49:01.680
he's before, God

975
00:49:02.780 --> 00:49:05.440
responds to God's holiness

976
00:49:06.100 --> 00:49:09.040
by seeing Isaiah, by seeing his sin.

977
00:49:10.180 --> 00:49:12.484
And that's what we see in Simon Peter that he

978
00:49:12.532 --> 00:49:15.160
acknowledges here in the presence

979
00:49:15.780 --> 00:49:18.124
of Christ. He

980
00:49:18.172 --> 00:49:21.172
acknowledges his sin, but then

981
00:49:21.196 --> 00:49:24.076
what does he do? It's, you see, we're really good, I think, at

982
00:49:24.108 --> 00:49:27.068
doing that. We're really good at

983
00:49:27.124 --> 00:49:30.062
acknowledging that we're not perfect. We know

984
00:49:30.126 --> 00:49:32.510
that, and we think that that's

985
00:49:32.550 --> 00:49:33.130
enough.

986
00:49:37.710 --> 00:49:40.294
But Jesus called him into

987
00:49:40.342 --> 00:49:43.206
relationship. He called him to follow

988
00:49:43.278 --> 00:49:43.890
him.

989
00:49:48.430 --> 00:49:51.370
And when they had brought their boats to land,

990
00:49:53.230 --> 00:49:54.770
they left everything

991
00:49:56.610 --> 00:49:57.870
and followed him.

992
00:49:59.890 --> 00:50:01.310
Peter counted the cost.

993
00:50:03.490 --> 00:50:06.030
Simon Peter knew that if I take this step,

994
00:50:07.930 --> 00:50:09.590
that means that I leave this behind.

995
00:50:11.650 --> 00:50:14.490
And he said, it's worth it. It's

996
00:50:14.530 --> 00:50:17.394
worth it. And so he

997
00:50:17.402 --> 00:50:20.098
followed Jesus. He followed

998
00:50:20.114 --> 00:50:22.782
Jesus. He didn't perfectly follow

999
00:50:22.846 --> 00:50:25.654
Jesus, but he

1000
00:50:25.662 --> 00:50:26.690
followed perfection.

1001
00:50:30.670 --> 00:50:33.566
And then in this, Jesus changes our

1002
00:50:33.598 --> 00:50:36.574
motivation. Jesus says,

1003
00:50:36.622 --> 00:50:39.534
look, the disciples are going

1004
00:50:39.542 --> 00:50:42.030
to go. They're going to plant churches. They're going to heal

1005
00:50:42.070 --> 00:50:44.810
people. They're going to perform miracles.

1006
00:50:45.390 --> 00:50:47.370
They're going to see dead people come to life.

1007
00:50:48.230 --> 00:50:50.550
They're going to see an international movement of

1008
00:50:50.590 --> 00:50:51.610
Christianity.

1009
00:50:53.790 --> 00:50:55.890
They're going to be a part of things special.

1010
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But what is their motivation?

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00:50:59.750 --> 00:51:02.010
Is it so that people will have a better tomorrow?

1012
00:51:03.390 --> 00:51:05.890
Is it so that people who are hungry today

1013
00:51:06.230 --> 00:51:08.670
will go to bed not with the pains of

1014
00:51:08.710 --> 00:51:11.450
hunger, but with a stomach that is full?

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00:51:12.510 --> 00:51:15.166
Is there motivation simply because a man who's got a

1016
00:51:15.198 --> 00:51:18.156
sore on his foot could

1017
00:51:18.188 --> 00:51:21.116
find physical healing from that? All

1018
00:51:21.148 --> 00:51:23.240
of those things are good things.

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00:51:23.860 --> 00:51:26.604
They're good things. But what Jesus

1020
00:51:26.652 --> 00:51:29.600
says is like, look, if you follow me,

1021
00:51:30.340 --> 00:51:33.228
here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna become

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00:51:33.284 --> 00:51:36.060
fishers of men, and we're gonna

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00:51:36.100 --> 00:51:38.524
use giving out candy to little

1024
00:51:38.572 --> 00:51:41.508
kids, and we're gonna use healing

1025
00:51:41.564 --> 00:51:44.250
sores on diabetic men's

1026
00:51:44.290 --> 00:51:47.210
feet. And we're going to use visits to

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00:51:47.250 --> 00:51:49.242
girls homes where they've been

1028
00:51:49.426 --> 00:51:52.402
devalued and abused by every

1029
00:51:52.506 --> 00:51:55.498
male in their life. And the ladies are going to come

1030
00:51:55.514 --> 00:51:58.298
in there and care for them, and guys are going to get to show them

1031
00:51:58.354 --> 00:52:00.510
what a godly man looks like.

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00:52:02.570 --> 00:52:04.510
But that's not the ultimate motivation.

1033
00:52:06.290 --> 00:52:09.270
The ultimate motivation is

1034
00:52:09.310 --> 00:52:12.170
that, is that

1035
00:52:13.150 --> 00:52:15.534
you see, that

1036
00:52:15.582 --> 00:52:18.330
man on the boat

1037
00:52:19.630 --> 00:52:22.582
probably caught 40 pounds

1038
00:52:22.606 --> 00:52:23.490
of sardines,

1039
00:52:27.230 --> 00:52:29.290
but God caught something greater.

1040
00:52:31.230 --> 00:52:33.250
And Jesus has asked for, I would make you

1041
00:52:33.850 --> 00:52:36.842
listen. This isn't a message, and I want to be careful

1042
00:52:36.866 --> 00:52:39.786
with this. This isn't a message where at the end of

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00:52:39.818 --> 00:52:42.602
this, I'm like, all right, if you don't go to

1044
00:52:42.626 --> 00:52:45.466
India, you don't love the Lord. That's

1045
00:52:45.498 --> 00:52:47.946
not it. There's some of

1046
00:52:47.978 --> 00:52:50.630
you that God may call to go with us,

1047
00:52:50.930 --> 00:52:53.858
and we'll celebrate that. But there's some

1048
00:52:53.874 --> 00:52:56.778
of you that God might not call. But

1049
00:52:56.794 --> 00:52:59.742
if you follow Jesus, if

1050
00:52:59.766 --> 00:53:01.410
you say that you're a Christian,

1051
00:53:02.830 --> 00:53:05.310
then the motivation of your

1052
00:53:05.350 --> 00:53:07.982
heart in all that we

1053
00:53:08.006 --> 00:53:09.770
do and all that we are,

1054
00:53:11.190 --> 00:53:13.742
is to love the Lord your

1055
00:53:13.766 --> 00:53:16.730
God, with all your heart,

1056
00:53:17.550 --> 00:53:20.046
with all your mind, and with all your

1057
00:53:20.078 --> 00:53:20.770
strength,

1058
00:53:23.070 --> 00:53:24.970
and love your neighbor as yourself.

1059
00:53:26.730 --> 00:53:29.710
And yes, we serve

1060
00:53:30.410 --> 00:53:33.230
and we clean feet and we feed,

1061
00:53:33.850 --> 00:53:36.778
but for something greater. Do, you know

1062
00:53:36.786 --> 00:53:39.706
who Jesus is? Do you know what a

1063
00:53:39.730 --> 00:53:42.722
relationship with him looks like? Do you know what it

1064
00:53:42.738 --> 00:53:44.774
means to step out of death into darkness?

1065
00:53:45.994 --> 00:53:48.774
Do you know that he paid the price for your sins?

1066
00:53:49.234 --> 00:53:52.106
That he died on the cross and then he rose

1067
00:53:52.130 --> 00:53:54.906
again? That's the

1068
00:53:54.930 --> 00:53:57.410
motivation to see more

1069
00:53:57.442 --> 00:54:00.254
jesses and more stevens

1070
00:54:00.954 --> 00:54:03.866
and more lads, and

1071
00:54:03.890 --> 00:54:06.018
the prayer that coach

1072
00:54:06.066 --> 00:54:08.774
V's and Pondus

1073
00:54:09.514 --> 00:54:12.214
will come to know Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.

1074
00:54:13.234 --> 00:54:14.494
Would you pray with me?

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00:54:17.254 --> 00:54:19.194
God, I thank you so much for today,

1076
00:54:20.814 --> 00:54:22.994
Lord, in the grace that this church

1077
00:54:23.494 --> 00:54:26.342
gives to be able to have

1078
00:54:26.358 --> 00:54:29.326
the time to share these things. Lord,

1079
00:54:29.350 --> 00:54:32.310
I thank you for that moment on the beach. We looked out and we saw

1080
00:54:32.502 --> 00:54:34.234
men who were catching fish

1081
00:54:36.974 --> 00:54:39.074
and saw men who were catching souls.

1082
00:54:41.734 --> 00:54:44.662
God, I pray. I pray

1083
00:54:44.718 --> 00:54:47.606
for lad. Lord, I pray that she

1084
00:54:47.630 --> 00:54:49.554
would be strengthened in her faith.

1085
00:54:50.334 --> 00:54:53.198
Lord, I pray that there would be those around her to support her,

1086
00:54:53.246 --> 00:54:55.974
encouraging her, or that while her

1087
00:54:56.014 --> 00:54:58.478
earthly family has rejected

1088
00:54:58.526 --> 00:55:01.198
her, her family in Christ has

1089
00:55:01.246 --> 00:55:04.120
received her. And, Lord, I,

1090
00:55:04.088 --> 00:55:06.840
pray that in the tears

1091
00:55:06.920 --> 00:55:08.420
of her loneliness,

1092
00:55:09.830 --> 00:55:12.050
Lord, that Jesus, you,

1093
00:55:13.110 --> 00:55:15.970
you and you alone would be enough.

1094
00:55:17.470 --> 00:55:19.250
God, I pray for coach v.

1095
00:55:20.550 --> 00:55:23.450
I pray for the seeds of the gospel that were sown.

1096
00:55:24.230 --> 00:55:27.206
God, I pray that you would work in the power of

1097
00:55:27.238 --> 00:55:30.222
your spirit. And that, Lord. That he

1098
00:55:30.246 --> 00:55:33.118
would respond to the truth of the gospel that's been shared with

1099
00:55:33.134 --> 00:55:35.874
him. God, I pray

1100
00:55:35.922 --> 00:55:38.790
that he will move

1101
00:55:39.890 --> 00:55:41.190
from being a friend

1102
00:55:43.130 --> 00:55:44.630
to a brother in Christ.

1103
00:55:47.530 --> 00:55:49.190
God, I pray for Pondu.

1104
00:55:51.250 --> 00:55:53.750
Lord, I pray for healing

1105
00:55:54.930 --> 00:55:56.870
for the sore that is on his foot.

1106
00:55:58.290 --> 00:56:00.430
Lord, I pray that in his limited

1107
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:04.180
educational capabilities, Lord.

1108
00:56:05.640 --> 00:56:07.740
That he would be able to care for

1109
00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:10.540
that wound in the way that he needs to.

1110
00:56:12.120 --> 00:56:14.620
Lord, I pray for all those ladies,

1111
00:56:15.520 --> 00:56:18.020
Lord. The two that were in there who were pregnant,

1112
00:56:19.520 --> 00:56:21.740
the ones who were caring for the kids,

1113
00:56:23.040 --> 00:56:25.900
Lord. And all of those beautiful kids gathered

1114
00:56:27.540 --> 00:56:30.320
in that shelter that they call home.

1115
00:56:31.700 --> 00:56:34.080
Lord, I pray for relief for them

1116
00:56:35.180 --> 00:56:37.040
as the rain season comes,

1117
00:56:39.140 --> 00:56:41.160
Lord. As the floor of their home

1118
00:56:42.380 --> 00:56:43.560
will fill

1119
00:56:46.060 --> 00:56:48.400
with filth and decay,

1120
00:56:51.140 --> 00:56:53.930
blood, feces.

1121
00:56:56.790 --> 00:56:58.130
Word that isn't that,

1122
00:57:00.150 --> 00:57:01.970
Lord. An earthly,

1123
00:57:04.270 --> 00:57:06.606
earthly glimpse of hell that we could not

1124
00:57:06.638 --> 00:57:07.370
fathom.

1125
00:57:09.950 --> 00:57:12.490
Lord. That the truth of the gospel that they've heard,

1126
00:57:14.430 --> 00:57:16.622
where there is an

1127
00:57:16.646 --> 00:57:17.530
eternity

1128
00:57:19.810 --> 00:57:20.910
without that.

1129
00:57:23.130 --> 00:57:26.070
But, Lord, that it's possible through Christ and Christ alone.

1130
00:57:27.650 --> 00:57:30.442
And we're beyond their ability

1131
00:57:30.506 --> 00:57:33.466
to theologically understand, Lord.

1132
00:57:33.498 --> 00:57:35.550
That their hearts would be receptive

1133
00:57:36.250 --> 00:57:37.870
to the truth of the gospel.

1134
00:57:39.610 --> 00:57:42.470
Lord, we pray for all of our missionary partners.

1135
00:57:44.230 --> 00:57:47.158
Lord, I pray for Darryl and

1136
00:57:47.174 --> 00:57:50.166
his family, Lord. In the work

1137
00:57:50.198 --> 00:57:52.210
that you're using them for in the Philippines,

1138
00:57:53.870 --> 00:57:56.222
Lord. They see situations like what we saw

1139
00:57:56.286 --> 00:57:59.166
often, Lord. And give

1140
00:57:59.198 --> 00:58:01.770
them the strength to endure and to persevere.

1141
00:58:03.630 --> 00:58:05.890
Lord, we pray for Hans and brandy

1142
00:58:06.670 --> 00:58:07.890
in Toronto,

1143
00:58:09.770 --> 00:58:11.070
Lord. As they minister

1144
00:58:12.530 --> 00:58:15.306
to all of the millions of Muslims

1145
00:58:15.338 --> 00:58:16.910
who've gathered in that area

1146
00:58:18.090 --> 00:58:19.950
to share with them the hope of

1147
00:58:20.650 --> 00:58:23.186
Christ, the truth of the

1148
00:58:23.218 --> 00:58:26.026
gospel. God, we pray for

1149
00:58:26.058 --> 00:58:28.954
them as they're back here in South

1150
00:58:29.002 --> 00:58:30.430
Carolina for this time.

1151
00:58:31.850 --> 00:58:34.826
Lord. As Brandy's dad continues his earthly battle

1152
00:58:34.858 --> 00:58:37.840
with cancer, Lord. And we see

1153
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.280
that the end is near for

1154
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:42.860
him on this earth.

1155
00:58:43.560 --> 00:58:46.408
But, Lord, we celebrate for what

1156
00:58:46.424 --> 00:58:49.336
is in store for him as he crosses

1157
00:58:49.368 --> 00:58:52.216
that finish line and

1158
00:58:52.248 --> 00:58:53.740
his faith is made sight.

1159
00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:57.500
God, we pray for the Stotmans

1160
00:58:58.600 --> 00:59:01.140
as they gather this morning

1161
00:59:02.420 --> 00:59:03.920
in Salt Lake City.

1162
00:59:04.806 --> 00:59:07.484
M in an area of this

1163
00:59:07.532 --> 00:59:10.220
country filled with lostness like no

1164
00:59:10.260 --> 00:59:13.196
other, to share the hope of the

1165
00:59:13.228 --> 00:59:15.836
gospel with people who think.

1166
00:59:15.988 --> 00:59:18.960
Who think that they are followers of Jesus, but they're not.

1167
00:59:20.940 --> 00:59:23.800
And, Lord, we pray for the words

1168
00:59:24.300 --> 00:59:26.320
that Dustin will share this morning.

1169
00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:30.608
Lord, give him the

1170
00:59:30.664 --> 00:59:33.648
power of your spirit to speak truth

1171
00:59:33.664 --> 00:59:36.584
of the gospel. Lord, may they

1172
00:59:36.632 --> 00:59:39.632
be encouraged, regardless of the size of the crowd

1173
00:59:39.736 --> 00:59:41.540
or the amount of the offering.

1174
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:46.328
God, we pray for all of those at Black

1175
00:59:46.384 --> 00:59:47.406
Mountain children's home

1176
00:59:47.406 --> 00:59:50.326
m

1177
00:59:50.326 --> 00:59:52.620
who have so many boys and girls there

1178
00:59:54.630 --> 00:59:57.590
whose parents have

1179
00:59:57.630 --> 01:00:00.366
left them, deserted them, have been

1180
01:00:00.398 --> 01:00:03.358
imprisoned. And what they have

1181
01:00:03.374 --> 01:00:06.134
to do, Lord, is go and show love to

1182
01:00:06.182 --> 01:00:08.650
kids who don't believe in love,

1183
01:00:10.150 --> 01:00:12.370
Lord. Soften those kids hearts.

1184
01:00:13.430 --> 01:00:16.030
Save them, transform

1185
01:00:16.110 --> 01:00:19.010
them the power of the gospel.

1186
01:00:21.090 --> 01:00:23.470
God, what a privilege and honor it is

1187
01:00:25.370 --> 01:00:28.030
to be able to stand along beside

1188
01:00:29.970 --> 01:00:32.810
these Sam and

1189
01:00:32.850 --> 01:00:35.618
Susan, Jacob and

1190
01:00:35.634 --> 01:00:38.434
Amala, these brothers

1191
01:00:38.482 --> 01:00:41.290
and sisters of faith linked arm in

1192
01:00:41.330 --> 01:00:43.922
arm, all for the pursuit of the

1193
01:00:43.946 --> 01:00:46.732
gospel. God, I pray if there's

1194
01:00:46.756 --> 01:00:49.276
anyone here and they do not know

1195
01:00:49.308 --> 01:00:52.172
you, Lord, I

1196
01:00:52.196 --> 01:00:54.680
pray that today they would stop trying to find their hope

1197
01:00:56.900 --> 01:00:59.412
in the things that the nets of this world will

1198
01:00:59.436 --> 01:01:02.356
catch. And they'll

1199
01:01:02.388 --> 01:01:05.276
find their hope in Christ and

1200
01:01:05.308 --> 01:01:08.148
Christ alone. It's in Jesus name we

1201
01:01:08.164 --> 01:01:09.840
pray. Amen.

1202
01:01:13.970 --> 01:01:16.954
Thanks again for listening and be sure to check back next

1203
01:01:17.002 --> 01:01:19.858
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1204
01:01:19.874 --> 01:01:22.810
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1205
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