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The Call of Jesus

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Welcome to this lesson called
"Carry No Money".

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We are in Luke 10, looking at
the call Jesus has given us.

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As you will see, Jesus is 
very, very, very specific in the call.

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He is very specific in instructions 
He has given to His disciples

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and given to you and me.

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I know it's a little funny title
"Carry No Money",

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but it's, actually, very, very important
what Jesus is saying to us.

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So, let's start with reading from my book.

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"The next thing Jesus says in Luke 10
is very important for us to understand,

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especially those of us who are living
in the materialistic Western world

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where mammon (money)
is the biggest god of them all.

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We read in Luke 10:4, 
'Do not take a purse or bag or sandals;

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and do not greet anyone on the road."

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We are going to look at this now.

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Do not take a purse, or carry no money.

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We heard this, but many people
never stopped to actually think about it,

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what it is Jesus is saying.

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But, you have to understand,
what Jesus is saying,

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He did not just said it without thinking.
He said it with a very specific purpose.

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He said it for us to listen, to understand
and to obey.

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Jesus sent His disciples out 
without anything.

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He sent them out without anything.

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Why? Because He wanted to teach them
something.

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He also said that they should not 
greet anyone on the road.

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That is something we are going to
look more the next time.

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But, we read here that Jesus said:
Do not take purse or bag or sandals.

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Why? Why did Jesus do that?

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Why did He send people out
without... or not allowing them

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to take a bag, or purse, or sandals? 
Why?

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Because He wanted them to teach them
something.

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He wanted to teach you and me something.

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He wanted us to learn to be dependent
on Him

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and not on our money and what we have.

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If we look at the church today,
that is a big problem.

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It's a big problem in the church today
because almost everything in the church today

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comes down to money.

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In the churches we are so controlled 
by money.

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Controlled of what we have.

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But we should not be controlled
on what we have.

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We should be led by the Holy Spirit,

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not led by money.

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Let me read a longer part from my book
"The Call of Jesus".

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"Almost everything in our lives today
and in our churches in the Western world

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is centered around money.

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We are controlled by what we have
or what we lack.

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It is also money that, for many,
is the main factor

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when it comes to missions, 
church life, etc.

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If the money is there, we will do it,
and if not, then we will not do it.

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But, in the Kingdom of God,
money is not the problem,

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and money should never control
what we can do or cannot do.

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It is really important for us to learn
to be dependent on God

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instead of our money or lack of money.

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We often think we should really see
a breakthrough

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if we have a lot of money and that we
then could do so many things for God,

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as if our growth or our obedience
stands or falls with money.

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We think that if we have money,
we can do many things for God,

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but if we do not have money,
there is not much we can do.

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This is not how it should be.

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We should not be dependent or controlled
by money or what we have.

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Instead, we should learn to understand that 
God has all the silver and gold in the world.

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Everything belongs to Him, 
and with Him, we lack nothing.

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What is clear in the Bible is that
the lack of money is not the problem.

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The lack of workers is the problem."

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What I'm saying here is not so often
what I've heard people talk about it.

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But, if you think of it,
so many things in our churches

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is controlled by money.

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I met many people who say:
If I just had that money

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and do this and this,
I would go out and do this and this,

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like money is the problem.
Money is not the problem.

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Why? Because if you step out,
when you step out,

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when you serve God...

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He will take care of your needs.

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And I've seen that so many times.

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I remember when I started our journey

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we had many, many times, as a family,
had nothing,

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but we decided to go out
on the Word of God.

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And when we stepped out 
on the Word of God

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we saw that He took care of us.

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He provided our needs.

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It started with small things,
with food, and clothes, and many other things,

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He provided, but there we learned
to be dependent on Him.

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And then it grew, and grew, and grew,
and now it's bigger things.

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Let me come with a testimony.

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Some years ago... we have three movies,
as you maybe know,

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"The Last Reformation: The Life",
"7 Days Adventure With God" and

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"The Last Reformation: The Beginning".

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Many years ago, when we gave out
"7 Days Adventure With God",

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I remember I was sitting 
with my friend Robert

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and we were talking about
how to give out this movie.

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We talked about that we wanted
to give it out for free.

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And we agreed on that.
All our movies are for free.

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But then he said: But, if it's a free movie
and then people have to pay 5 $ in shipping,

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people would not feel it was free.

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So, he said: What about if we just
also ship the move out for free?

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And I looked at him and said: 
But if there is 10,000 people

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who want the movie like the last time,
that is 50,000 $.

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And we don't have 50,000 $.

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But there I felt God said: Do it.

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And I was nervous. We there felt
God said: Do it.

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Not only make this movie for free.
Not only give the movie out for free,

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but, actually, ship it out for free.

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But, it's 50,000 $
and we did not have 50,000 $.

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But if we go, if we do what He said,
He will take care of us.

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One week later I did a meeting,
a woman came to me,

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and I've never experienced before
like that.

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She came and said: Torben,
I feel God spoke to me

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that I should give you 50,000 $.

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Hallelujah! And we gave out the movie
and shipped it out.

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How many movies do I need to sell
to get 50,000 $? A lot.

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But this is what we do, also with the book.
If you don't have the money to get the book,

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then write to us in "The Last Reformation"
and we will give you code

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and you can download it right away.
You can read the book right away.

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We want it to come out.

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I have seen again, and again, and again,
that when we go out

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on Jesus' words, not only He's with us,
as we looked at last time,

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but He will also provide our needs.

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But we need to start to obey Him
and learn that in small things.

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So, we start slow, we start obeying
Jesus in small things.

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We start obeying Him the way
He said we should obey Him.

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Go out on His word,
find the person of peace,

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and then we will see that
everything in Luke 10 is correct.

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Also that He will take care of 
our needs.

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So, it's very important that we learn
to be dependent on Him.

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Now, I am in a place, because
I've learned that dependence on Him,

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if Jesus says something to me -
I do it.

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I don't ask: Yeah, but I don't have
the money to do it.

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I don't sit down and count
do I have the money to do this and this.

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No. If He has said: Go,
I go.

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Because then He will take care of us.

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The same is with you.

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If He says: Go,
then go and He will take care of you.

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So, when Jesus sent His disciples out
in Luke 10,

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it was also for them to learn this.

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The reason Jesus said:
Don't take this with you,

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because He wanted them
to learn to be dependent on Him.

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And I'm thankful that He taught 
me this,

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when I started this amazing life,
some years ago.

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It doesn't mean that I cannot have
money now

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and that it's always wrong to
have money with you.

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Because we also read this later,

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because later in Luke 22:35-37:
we read this:

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"Then Jesus asked them, 
'When I sent you out without purse,

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bag or sandals, 
did you lack anything?'

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'Nothing,' they answered. 
He said to them,

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'But now if you have a purse, take it,
and also a bag;

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and if you do not have a sword,
sell your cloak and buy one."

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So, here we see something
interesting.

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What Jesus said in Luke 10,
when He sent them out without anything,

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it did not mean
that the rest of their lives

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they are not allowed 
to have anything with them.

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No. He sent them out that time,
for them to learn something very important -

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not be dependent on what you have.

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Now we have more than we have
when we started,

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but I'm not dependent
on what we have.

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If I have more or less,
I'm not dependent on what I have.

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I'm dependent on Him.

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And this is, actually,
exactly what we do in our Luke 10 school.

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We have our training school.
And when we train people in our Luke 10 school

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and send them out on what we call
"The Luke 10 trip", we do like this.

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We send them out and very often
we send them out without money,

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without a place to sleep,
without a telephone,

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without a credit card,
without anything.

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Out with you.

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See you in three days.

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And we have done that again, and again, 
and again for many years now.

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And every time it's amazing.

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Every time the students come back:
Wow! I've seen it! I've experienced it!

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We did not have the money, but
then we prayed for somebody

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who got healed, and we shared Jesus,
and suddenly they said:

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Hey, do you want something to eat,
or we found some money on the way,

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or we did not have a place to sleep,
and then God opened the doors,

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and we slept there, and we slept there.
I have so many testimonies

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of people going out, led by the Holy Spirit,
going to a place, they find somebody

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who invites them home, open their home
and give them everything they can eat

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and everything they need.

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People go to hotel, pray for somebody
who get healed,

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and the owner of the hotel says:
Hey, come and stay with us for two days.

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We have so many amazing examples,
and that is one of the strongest things.

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One of the strongest things
when they are out on the Luke 10 trip,

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that is when they come home and
have learned this very, very important lesson.

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Seek first the Kingdom of God
and do His will,

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and everything else will be given to you.

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If we seek the Kingdom of God
and do what God has commanded us to,

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He will take care for the rest.

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Don't worry about clothes.
Don't worry about food.

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Don't worry about where to sleep.
Why?

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Jesus said: Look at the birds.
Look at the flowers.

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They don't worry. God will also
take care of you and me.

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And I am so thankful to God
that He, some years ago,

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took us on this journey where He,
the harder way,

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it's sometimes hard to learn
something new,

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but where He was teaching us
this important truth -

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that we can trust Him.

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That we need to trust Him.

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I would say the same to you.

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You need to be dependent on God
and not if you have a job or don't have a job,

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not if you have money or don't have money.

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not if you have food or don't have food.

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Learn to seek God and do His will
and He how He takes care of it.

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It's so sad to see many Christians who have 
never learned this very important thing,

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and if they suddenly lose their job
and stand in a crisis -

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the world is falling down.

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They have never learned to trust God.

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And I would say, especially in the time
we are in now.

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We have just entered in the end times
in a way none of us could have imagined.

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The world will never be the same again.

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It's a wake up call for all of us.

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We are going into a time where there
will be an economic crisis,

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like we have never seen before.
We are going into a time

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where there will be a control,
control, control and control,

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and if you owe money and do this,
and do this, and do this -

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it's not going to be easy for you
in the future.

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We are going into the time in the future

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where there will be a beast's mark
on your hand or your forehead

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and you will not be able 
to sell or buy things without it.

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We are going into the time
the Bible is talking about

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and we need to learn...

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to be dependent on Him.

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How do we learn it?

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By doing what Jesus said.

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But sometimes being sent out...

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without anything.

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Go out.

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Go out...

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and see how He takes care of your needs.

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This is important. I encourage you,
especially also with this chapter,

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take my book "The Call of Jesus".
If you don't have the money

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send an e-mail and we can
send a code to you.

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Get the book. Read the book.

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Because in this chapter
where I talk about the money thing,

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I cover so many more things.

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And it's very important for the time
we are living in.

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But until now we have looked
at the harvest that is ready

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and we need to believe that.

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We need to pray for the workers
to go out

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and then we need to go out
as lambs among wolves.

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And when we go out we will see
that Jesus is with us and take care of us.

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And we will also see how He takes care
of our needs.

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So, don't worry about those things.

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Go out on the Word of God.

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And again, I encourage you 
to get my book

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where there is many more testimonies
about this.

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So, look forward to see you next time,
where we are going to look

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at what Jesus has also said, when He said: 
Don't greet anyone on the road.

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Because that is also important.

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Because when we go out,
we don't go out just to go out.

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We go out not just to evangelize.

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We go out to find the person of peace.

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And when I say go out, it's not only
to go out on the street.

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It's also to go out in your school,
to go out in your work place,

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to go over to your neighbors.

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It's not only street we are talking about.

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But much more about that later.

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In the end of the book,
in the end of this video series,

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I will put it all together.
And when I put it all together

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I will share Luke 10 testimonies

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where you'll see how He's with us.
You'll see testimonies

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how He provides our needs
when we go out,

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you will hear testimonies
how to find a person of peace,

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how to sit in their house,
how to eat and drink what they serve.

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We will put it all together in the end
and I look much forward to that.

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See you next timer!

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God bless you! Bye-bye!

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