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The Call of Jesus
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Welcome to this lesson 7 called
"Believe that the Harvest is Ready".
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Last time we talked about how
the harvest is ready, the harvest is plentiful,
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as Jesus is saying In Luke 10.
And what we also see in John 4.
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But we need to believe it.
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It's not enough to just hear about it.
We need to believe that the harvest is ready.
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I will start with reading from John 4
this time. Let me read here again.
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Jesus is saying this (John 4:35):
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"Do you not say, 'There are still four
months and then the harvest will come?'
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Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes
and look at the fields,
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for they are already white for harvest!"
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So, what I want us to understand is
that we need to believe this.
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It's not enough to hear that the harvest
is ready, that the harvest is plentiful,
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as I talked about last time.
We need to believe it.
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And then we need to act on it,
and then we need to experience it.
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I want to share more testimonies.
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I can share so many, many, many
testimonies about this,
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how important it is,
that we not only hear about it,
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but that we believe it or act on it,
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and how the harvest is ready,
as Jesus is saying.
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The best way to teach somebody
something is to show it.
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And we tried to show you out there
through our videos
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and through testimonies,
through our moves,
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that the harvest is ready.
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We tried to show people at our
kickstart weekends and training,
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that the harvest is ready,
the harvest is plentiful, as Jesus is saying.
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But now we need to start to believe it.
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One testimony I can share,
it's many years ago now,
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but it's a good testimony still,
which shows how important it is
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how we look at the harvest.
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Some years ago I went to Poland.
I first came to a church there,
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a big church, and I was telling testimonies
about what God was doing in Denmark,
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and all over the world. And they were like:
Wow, it's so beautiful! It's so beautiful,
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Torben, what God is doing in Denmark,
and all over the world, where you've been.
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It's so beautiful what God is doing
there, there, there and there.
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But, but, but, but, but...
Then it always comes the "but".
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Buuut... This place is not ready.
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The grass is always greener on the other side.
But this place... No, no.
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And they said: No, no. Here in Poland
people don't want that. No.
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It's beautiful in other countries,
but in this country people are not ready.
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No, no, you cannot just go on the street
and share Jesus.
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You cannot do all of that because
the harvest is not ready here.
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I've heard that so many times.
I almost get tired of that.
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I get tired of hearing pastors and
leaders always blame the harvest
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for why things are not happening.
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Blame the harvest for why there is no
newborn believers in the church, for example.
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I've never heard yet,
a really honest pastor.
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It could be nice one day to come to a place
and meet a very, very honest pastor
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who says something like this:
Welcome!
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Welcome, welcome, welcome
to our church!
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As you can see around us,
we don't see any people come to faith.
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And the reason is, not because of the harvest,
because the harvest is ready.
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The reason is that we are so lazy.
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We are so lazy, and we don't go out,
and we don't do what Jesus has said to us.
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I've never heard that, but...
That is more the truth...
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then to say that the harvest is the problem.
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Because, as we read last time,
the harvest is not the problem.
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The problem is the workers, and
we are going to look more about that later.
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But here I came to that church in Poland.
They came with same excuses again and again.
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You cannot do it here in Poland.
They are too religious.
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Sometimes they say they are too non-religious,
or they are too rich or too poor.
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And they just said: You cannot do it.
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Have they tried it? No.
They haven't.
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But they know. They know it still.
They tried, but not the way I do it.
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The next day I went to McDonald's
with some of the young people in the church.
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And there I sat in McDonald's and I asked
some of the young people:
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Hey, have you ever experienced God?
Yeah, yeah. Have you? Yeah.
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Do you want to experience God?
And they said: Yes.
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Do everything I tell you the next ten minutes
and you will experience God.
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Are you ready? And they said: Yes.
Come, let's stand up. Let's go out.
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And I took them out. I kickstarted both of them
in ten minutes and they got so excited
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because they experienced this,
and they were on fire.
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What happened?
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They just kept doing. Kept doing.
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And that night we spoke with a young girl
who got healed.
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The next day in church that young girl
came to the church
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with her big brother, small brother,
and her parents,
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and they all gave their lives to Christ,
got baptized with the Holy Spirit
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and God transformed their lives.
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And it was a big, big, big testimony
for the whole church. Why?
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Because the leadership, the pastors,
before that said: No, you cannot do it.
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You cannot do it, you cannot do it,
people are not ready,
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the harvest is not ready,
you cannot do like that in our city.
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And then we went out and did it.
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And their eyes opened.
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And that is the problem. We sit in our
small cages, we sit in our little box,
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filled with fear, and with crazy ideas,
ideas that the harvest is not ready,
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ideas that we cannot go out and
ideas that we cannot share Jesus
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to our neighbors, to our friends,
out of our homes, in our homes.
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All of that is lies.
And we need to brake out of that
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and we need to understand
what Jesus is saying,
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because His words are the truth.
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Another example from Poland.
I traveled around Poland
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and then I came to a man called Michael.
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He was the pastor of a small, small church.
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And he did not have much faith,
when it came to the harvest.
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How did I know that?
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Because what the hart is full of
is running over.
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And his words were just like:
No, no, nothing is happening in my church.
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Nobody wants to receive the Holy Spirit.
No one is open for healing,
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no one wants deliverance,
no one wants to go out. My church...
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And he was just full of unbelief,
when it came to his own church.
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And I came there and I tried to encourage
him: Come on, Michael.
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God can do it. God can do it.
I've seen it there, there and there.
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But he just kept going.
No, no, my place, oh...
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And he had so much unbelief.
What your heart is full of - is running over.
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But I had a meeting in his church
and I took a woman in his church,
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who wanted the Holy Spirit.
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Michael has never seen one person
in his church receive the Holy Spirit.
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I took that woman up and then I called
Michael up
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and instead of me praying for her,
I took that woman there, Michael there,
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and said: Michael, now you pray.
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And there Michael prayed
and that woman received the Holy Spirit
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and spoke in tongues.
And what happened?
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Michael's eyes were opened.
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The harvest in his church did not change,
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or, the people around him, in the city,
did not change.
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Michael changed.
His eyes were open
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from that one experience,
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as I call it, he got kickstarted there.
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One year later I received a message
from Michael and this is what he wrote to me.
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I will read it here.
He wrote:
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"Torben, I would like to share
something with you.
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This year, eight persons in our church
have been baptized with the Holy Spirit,
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and they're all speaking in tongues now.
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When you came to us,
you showed us something very important,
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and this started something inside of me
and it has just grown and grown.
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God is good, and we now expect
even more things to happen.
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God bless you." Michael.
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Hallelujah! I have seen so many
testimonies like this, the last years.
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Don't build on your experience.
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Never build truth on experience.
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Why? Experience can change over night.
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Build on the Word of God.
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What did Michael do?
Michael has been building on his experience
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and his experience was: no one wants
the Holy Spirit, no one is open,
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and he came into a very negative
way of thinking.
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But what happened that day I came?
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His eyes got open.
He learned something very, very important.
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Instead of building on his experience,
lack of experience, bad experience,
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he got that one kickstart and he started
to believe what the Word is saying.
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And the next year everyone in the church
was filled with the Holy Spirit,
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eight people there, and it just started
to grow, grow, grow,
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and it has grown since
and keeps growing.
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And this is the same with you.
Don't build on your experience.
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Build on the Word of God.
The Word of God is the truth.
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Not your experience.
The harvest is ready, like Jesus is saying.
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I want to read more from my book:
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"When a Christian is awakened and starts
to live the life God has called them to,
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they will see that the harvest is truly ready,
as Jesus says it is,
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and this is what I call revival.
The problem is not the harvest.
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No, the problem is the workers,
but we can do something about that.
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Think about what would happen
if the whole body of Christ
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had their eyes opened so they could
start living life the way Jesus has called us
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to live it. If this happened, the world
would be changed in a few years."
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Hallelujah! I love it! I love it!
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If you who see this just start
to believe this,
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and lead four or five people to Christ,
and lead them experience the same,
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in a few years the world would be
changed. It can go so fast.
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If we start to see it and teach it
to other people
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and we all start to lead people
to Christ in our everyday life.
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We don't need one super evangelist.
One super evangelist cannot do it.
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We need a husband.
We need a wife.
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We need you who are older.
We need you who are younger.
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We need you to see that where
you live the harvest is ready.
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Your neighbors, your workplace,
people around you.
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When you start to see the harvest
the way Jesus is saying it,
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and start to believe it,
and act on it...
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this will be a normal life for you,
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where you also start to lead people to Christ,
heal the sick, cast out demons,
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baptize people in water
and Holy Spirit.
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I want to continue reading from my book.
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"So, believe what Jesus is saying.
The harvest in your city is plentiful and ready,
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waiting for you. We are not talking about it
being ready in three months
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or three years. It is ready today.
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The harvest is not the problem
and will never be the problem.
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It is time to open your eyes
and to see this.
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Take Jesus' words and meditate on it.
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Pray that God will open your eyes
to see the truth.
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When you start believing
what Jesus is saying here,
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you will act on it
and end up experiencing it.
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Then you will also be able to testify
together with us and many others
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that the harvest is truly ready and
plentiful, just like Jesus is saying.
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Wow, what amazing news!"
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And this is what I'm saying.
When you start to take these words
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and believe it, and then act on it,
you will, together with us,
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and many other people, start to testify
it's the truth.
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The harvest is plentiful.
The harvest is ready.
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Don't say there is still four months
and then the harvest will come.
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Like Jesus says: Behold, I say to you,
lift up your eyes and look at the fields.
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They are ready, white for harvest.
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Behold, lift up your eyes.
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I really encourage you to take this,
believe in it and start to act on it.
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It's not enough you just have faith in it.
Faith without actions is dead.
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If you say you have faith,
you need actions.
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True faith lead to action.
So, the first, you start to believe it,
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or you hear it first, and then you
believe it, but then you need to act on it.
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And when you act on it you will see
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that this is the truth.
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And I also say: Stop, stop praying
like the harvest is not ready.
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Stop confessing. Stop saying:
Oh, there is still four months.
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Or, the next year.
Or, in two years.
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Stop being used by the enemy,
by saying those lies
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and bring lies and fears to other people.
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We have so many people who are speaking
so negative about the harvest.
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They make themselves blind because of
their unbelief.
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Yes, we will still meet people out there
who don't want to listen.
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And there are people where we just
need to take the dust off our hands and feet
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and move on, like Jesus is also saying.
It's something we are going to look at later.
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But for those people out there
who are ready,
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for those people who want God,
they are many and they are so ready.
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I want to say with my book
"The Call of Jesus" and with this video series,
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we want to help you.
We are here to help you.
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I am here to help you.
Yes, maybe some of you have bad experience,
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but maybe it's because you've did it
the wrong way.
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And that's why you have bad experience.
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We are here to help you
to give you those good experience,
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so you can start to see that
this is the truth.
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And again, the best way to show
the truth, to teach the truth,
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is by experiencing it.
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The best way to teach is by
showing it.
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So, one thing I encourage you to do,
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if you've never been out
praying for somebody who got healed,
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never baptized somebody and
lead somebody to Christ,
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go to www.TLRmap.com
and find somebody near you
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who can help you, who can take you out
and show you that the harvest is ready,
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give you good experience, and then
you start to see it,
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and you start to believe it,
and then you start to act on it,
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and then you start to see the fruit.
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Another way, if you can,
join the kickstart weekend.
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We have so many, many, many, many
testimonies from people
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who came to our kickstarts,
and it transformed their lives.
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I remember one guy, he came from
Slovakia, he came to Holland.
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He has been in church 40 years.
In 40 years he has never healed the sick,
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cast out a demon or led one person
to Christ.
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He came to our kickstart weekend
and he got kickstarted.
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He understood that the harvest was ready.
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The harvest in his country did not change,
but he changed.
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He came home. In 40 years he had not led
one person to Christ.
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The next year he baptized eight people.
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There were eight more
than the first 40 years.
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But he kept learning, he kept growing
and the next year he baptized 107.
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What happened?
Did the harvest changed in his country?
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No, he changed.
And he keeps changing.
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He keeps learning.
He keeps growing.
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So, the first step, what you can do,
go to TLRmap.com,
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find somebody near you and experience
first hand that the harvest is ready.
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Next step, if you can, come and join
a kickstart weekend.
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I really encourage you to go to
TLRmap.com,
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join the kickstart weekend near you.
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The third thing, just go and do it.
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Just go and do it.
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Just go out. Start.
That's what how I did it.
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I did not have anyone to show me.
I read Jesus' words: Harvest is ready.
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Okay, if the harvest is ready,
we need to believe that
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and then we need to act on it,
and now I can confirm it -
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the harvest is truly ready,
like Jesus is saying.
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So, act on it.
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And then, of course, pray God
to set you free from those lies.
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As I said, I know many people
who have been sitting in church
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for 20 years, 30 years...
nothing has happened.
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If that is you, then it's really, really
the time that things start to happen.
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It's really time for you to come out
of that box, to come out of that fear
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Satan put in your life, and to understand
that the harvest is ready,
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the harvest is plentiful,
and then do something about it.
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Believe it and act on it.
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If you don't have people around you,
then just do it yourself.
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About the book "The Call of Jesus",
there is so much more I'm saying
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about this in my book, I come with
so many more testimonies
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about how the harvest is ready,
and how we should look at the harvest,
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and how to work with this.
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I encourage you to get the book.
You can get it on Amazon
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or you can get on our website
thelastreformation.com.
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You can get the book as a e-book,
as a print, hard copy book,
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and I encourage you to get the book.
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If you don't have the money
you can send an e-mail to us,
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to The Last Reformation,
mail@thelastreformation.com
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and we can give you a code
and you can get it for free as an e-book.
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God bless you!
See you next time!
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Share the video and let's see a revival.
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Let's see that people start to believe
that the harvest is ready
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and do something about it.
Bye-bye!