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Welcome to this lesson 14 "Do Not Move From House To House".
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I'm very excited about going through this series with you,
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where we are going to look at what Jesus has called us to.
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Today we want to continue and we have come to chapter 14
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in my book "The Call of Jesus" - "Do Not Move From House To House".
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I want to start with reading this:
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"We are all called not only to preach the Gospel and see people saved,
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but also to help people grow into strong disciples.
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We should not only see one person saved here and there,
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we should see whole households come to Christ."
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And that is so true. We, you and me, are called,
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not only to preach the gospel, and not only to see one person saved here and there,
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but we are called to make disciples, and we are called,
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as we read again, and again, in the Book of Acts,
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to see whole households come to faith.
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And we need really to change our mindset. We need to renew our mind.
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We need to come away from the sinner's prayer.
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We need to come away from that mindset that
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we should just lead one person to Christ there, and one person there,
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and then we move on.
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No, we need to make disciples.
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We need to preach the full gospel
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and we need to see households come to faith.
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And we need to grow them up.
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And we need to see them become strong in Christ.
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The truth is many of the things we do in our churches today...
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we don't find in the Bible.
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And many of the things we find in the Bible we don't do today.
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And we need to be ready to change.
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We need to stop doing it our way, as I said many times,
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and then do it the way Jesus has called us to do.
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And I truly believe in the call Jesus has given us.
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Why? Because He has called us to do it,
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and because we are now starting to see amazing fruit.
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We, the last years, have seen households come to faith.
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And this is just the beginning.
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But we need you out there.
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The harvest is truly ready, but the workers are few.
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We need you.
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Until now, we have been looking at different things in Luke 10.
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We've looked at how the harvest is ready and the workers are few,
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and we should pray the Lord of the harvest to send out workers
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and I hope you are praying that. God, send out workers.
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But then He sent out also, as lambs among wolves,
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to go out to find that person of peace.
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And when we find that person of peace that is ready to receive
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we should eat and drink what they are serving, as we looked at last time.
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And then we should stay there.
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Because this is the next thing Jesus is saying in Luke 10:7.
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"Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you,
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for a worker deserves his wages.
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Do not move around from house to house."
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So, Jesus has not only called us to go out and find a person of peace,
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sit down and eat and drink what they serve,
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but He has called us to stay there and not to be too fast to move on.
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Why? Because our job is not only to preach the gospel.
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Our job is not only to say: Hey, congratulations! You are saved! Goodbye!
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No, our job is to obey Jesus.
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And it's to make disciples.
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To build them up, to see them become strong and...
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...to see the whole household come to faith.
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And that is the thing.
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When you come in and find the person of peace and you see one person give their life to God,
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that one person, if you work with him, you can much, much easier and very fast
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not only see him come to faith, but the whole household come to faith.
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But you need to be aware of that.
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In the beginning, when I started to evangelize,
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I was very often out, and I met one person there who got saved,
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and "goodbye" and I moved on.
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And I did not spend the time with him and use his relationships, somehow,
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to reach the whole household.
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But now I do it and I see so much more fruit.
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And I was too fast to move on, so I did not build them up to become strong.
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And another thing, I didn't recognize the five-fold ministry.
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Maybe you have heard a lot of teaching already about the five-fold ministry,
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the apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, teachers,
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but I almost guarantee you, much of what you've heard - it's not correct.
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I've heard a lot of teaching about those gifting, years ago,
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but it was just wrong. It was put in a box. it was like...
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The evangelist said: No, no, I don't need to follow up on people.
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I'm not a pastor. And the pastor said: I don't need to evangelize
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because I'm not an evangelist. And the teacher said:
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I don't need to take care of people because this is not my gifting.
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It was not meant like that.
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No, we are all called to obey Jesus. So simple.
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We are all called, as disciples, to obey Him,
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and if there is a need, we do something about that need.
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So, don't say: Hey, I'm a pastor, I don't need to find a person of peace.
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No. If you are a disciple, you need to obey Jesus, no matter what your call is.
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When that is said...
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God has given different callings to help to equip each other,
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so we together become strong, so we together see more fruit
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in what Jesus has called us to.
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Ephesians 4:11-16: "So Christ Himself gave the apostles,
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the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and the teachers,
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to equip His people for the works of service, so we the body of Christ
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may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith
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and in the knowledge of the Son of God to become mature,
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attaining to the whole measure and the fullness of Christ."
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So, here we read that Christ Himself has given apostle, prophet, evangelist,
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shepherd, teachers - people who have different ministries.
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Their gift is to equip the saints, so we all can do ministry,
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so we all can be built up and become mature in Christ.
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If those giftings are not working the way they are supposed to work,
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and working together...
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we will not the same way come into our ministry.
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We will not the same way grow up and become mature,
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because those giftings are not working.
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If we look at churches today,
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in many churches today we don't see those five-fold ministry working
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and working together.
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And therefore we see a church today
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which is very immature, we see a church today
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where many people never come into ministry. Why?
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Because we don't use the gift the way Jesus has given us,
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and use it the right way.
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So, we are all called to follow Christ.
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We are all called to obey the call He has given us.
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But, we are different.
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And for some people, to find a person of peace, is much more easier
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than to others.
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For some people to follow up on a person of peace
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comes much easier than to others.
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For some people to lay doctrine and teaching comes much easier
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than it does for others.
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And if we together, as different giftings, equip the saints,
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and together do what Jesus has called us to do,
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it's going to be so powerful.
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It's going to be so powerful and we are going to see so much more fruit.
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In our Luke 10 training school we have, we always talk about the five-fold ministry.
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And what we often do there, to illustrate how we think different
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and how this different DNA in us
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is that we ask people to sit down where they think they belong.
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So, those who are prophets sit there.
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Those who see themselves as evangelists sit there.
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Shepherds and teachers, they sit different places.
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And then I ask them a question. If I ask the prophets:
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What is the most important thing we need in the church today?
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He will often say: Oh, to hear the voice of God.
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We need to be led by the Holy Spirit, to hear the voice of God.
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And that is correct.
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If I ask evangelists the same: What is the most important in the church today?
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Oh, we need to reach the lost. We need to reach the lost.
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People out there are getting lost. We need to come out of the church
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and reach the lost. And that is correct.
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If I ask the teachers: What is the most important in the church today?
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Oh, we need sound doctrine. We need sound doctrine.
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We need to build people up, give them sound doctrine,
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so they are building on the Word of God.
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And we need to be careful with wrong teachings.
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Sound doctrine. Sound doctrine.
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If I ask the shepherds the same: what is the most important in the church today?
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What do we need most?
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We need each other. We need to take care of each other,
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and take care of those who are struggling.
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We need to come together and help each other and be strong together.
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If you look at just those four - we need it all.
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We need it all. Try to imagine if those giftings
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could all work together, together with the apostle
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who can do a little of everything, and tries to bring them together,
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if we can work together, we will be strong.
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Try to imagine you had a team you are walking with
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and one of them, in that team, he was very, very evangelistic,
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he can easily and faster go in and find that person of peace and go to that house.
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Hallelujah! But...
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If he's very strong evangelistic, he needs somebody on his side
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who is helping him to lay a foundation, who is helping him to stay and nurture
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those people and build them up and be there longer time,
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so they can build up and become strong.
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We see that relationship in the Bible, in Acts 8 we see that Philip,
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the evangelist Philip came to Samaria. He was preaching the gospel,
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he was casting out demons, he was healing the lame,
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and many people got healed, and people came and heard it,
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and many people repented and got baptized.
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And it was beautiful.
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But when the apostles, when the other giftings heard about it...
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they came there to help Philip.
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Help Philip where he was missing.
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And that gave Philip the freedom to move on,
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so Philip could come to the eunuch and do what he needed to do there.
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And that is the thing. If we, as believers, can recognize the different giftings,
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and can work together, we would set each other free.
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Those people who are very strong evangelistic,
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they can go in and find that person of peace.
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But they don't need to follow up and take much time to nurture them,
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to lay a foundation, to teach all of them. Why?
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Because there are other people who can do that.
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So, that sets the evangelist free to move on.
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And that does that those people who were reached with the gospel,
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now will be build up and become mature in Christ,
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as we read about in Ephesians 4.
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And I truly, truly believe that. And this have been my heart for years.
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But now I'm starting to see it come together.
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The 18th of October 1999, that is now over 20 years ago,
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20 years ago I got a very, very strong prophecy
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and I want to share this with you, because this prophecy
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impacted my life, but this prophecy is not only for me.
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It's for all of us out there.
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This was the word I received.
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"You are going to drive out demons. You are an evangelist.
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You are going to break down strongholds in people's minds and teach my Word.
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'I'm going to teach you to teach My Word', says the Lord.
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You are going to learn strategy and develop plans on how to set people free.
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I am going to train you.
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You are going to go out from My body and back to My body.
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Many evangelists have gone independent, but you will walk with an apostolic team.
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Remember Philip and the apostles' relationship and how people would get saved daily?
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You will experience miracles, and you will move forward like a big swinging axe.
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You will win homes and entire cities for the Gospel,
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and you will experience the power of the world to come."
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This was a very, very strong word I received that time, 20 years ago.
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And that time, when I received it, I've never healed the sick,
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I've never cast out a demon, I've never led a person to Christ.
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We have never led a household to Christ.
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We have never done what we are seeing today.
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Today, we have seen a lot of miracles.
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We have cast out a lot of demons. We have healed a lot of sick.
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We have baptized thousands of people.
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We have seen households come to faith.
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We are starting to see...
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what that word was all about.
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But I want to admit something. When I heard that word...
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I thought: Wow! Amazing! I am going to be a super evangelist!
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I am going to be a super evangelist who is standing on a platform
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and preaching to thousands and thousands of people.
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That was what I thought at that time.
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Because I did not see the full picture.
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But now, 20 years later, I see the full picture.
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And I see it all comes together.
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Actually, a few years ago, I've got this prophetic word.
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"You are going to lay down a DNA in a new generation,
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a DNA that is going to go from generation to generation.
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You are going to raise people up from nothing to spiritual giants,
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and they are going to win homes and entire cities for the Gospel."
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Hallelujah! Can you see it?
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There things start to come together.
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No, it's not me. It's not about one super evangelist
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who's going to do it, because one man cannot do it alone.
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No, I was just going to be used, among others, to lay this DNA
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down in a new generation, to raise people up
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from nothing to spiritual giants,
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and they are going to win homes and entire cities for God.
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Not me. Not one person. But this DNA.
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This teaching I'm giving you, the call of Jesus,
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what we are sharing here, this DNA,
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when you choose to obey it,
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will not change only your life, but people around you.
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Together we can see homes come to Christ.
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And many homes make a city and we will see cities come to God.
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So, now I see it. Now we see the fruit of it.
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And one thing that's very, very important is that we need to learn to work together.
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We need those different gifts work together.
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Otherwise we are not going to see it.
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I remember many years ago in Denmark, i met a young girl who had problem in her knee.
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She could not play football. I prayed for her and she got healed.
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I met her later. Her mom came and the rest of the family.
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That girl got baptized and received the Holy Spirit and her life got changed.
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Her mom was still in the Lutheran Church, she was not born again yet at that time,
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but now she was open, because she saw her daughter healed and her life changed.
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So I asked mom: Hey, can we come to your house?
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Gather friends and family, I will come to your house,
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we will sit down and we will share how your daughter got healed,
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we will share the gospel and pray for them.
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But that woman who has been a member of the Lutheran Church for many years said:
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No, no, no one wants to come to my house.
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Why? Because for years I have invited my friends to church and no one wanted to come.
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And I said: I understand why no one wanted to come.
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If you invited me to a Lutheran church I also wouldn't want to come.
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But now we didn't invite people to church. We invited people to your home.
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A home where they've been many, many times before.
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So, for them to come to that home one more time will not make a big difference for them.
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So they will come.
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And she gave it a chance. She wrote an e-mail to 17 of her friends.
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Invited them over one evening, where I would be there,
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and we will tell about how her daughter got healed, and then we will pray for them.
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Out of those 17 friends 16 came and she was so surprised.
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She was like: how can that happen?
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And now we went to her home.
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Person of peace. We see it. We were sitting there, eating and drinking.
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In the living room we started to preach the gospel. We saw God came.
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At one time I prayed for a girl who got filled with the Holy Spirit,
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fell down and a demon left her. I was sitting on the floor
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and casting out a demon: Come out! Come out in the name of Jesus!
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Everyone was sitting like this and looking. It was so powerful
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and everyone saw God that night. God came.
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Many, many, many things happened. And it was an amazing evening
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I'm never going to forget.
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And this is what I've been talking about in the book.
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Find one person, and suddenly you are in a household with a lot of people.
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But, after that evening, I was too fast. I moved on.
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There were other things I needed to do.
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So, I moved on and it never became what God wanted it to become.
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I was too busy. I was working alone. If I knew at that time what I know today,
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we would have seen so much more fruit out of that household.
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What I should have done, instead of doing it alone,
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I should have brought other giftings, other people with me,
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who could help to follow up.
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And already there arrange a meeting few days later,
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and a meeting a few days later, so we could start to follow up on those people.
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But I was just: Adios! Bye-bye! And I have already moved on to another home.
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Not knowing that Jesus said I should have stayed there.
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If I knew at that time what I know today, we would have seen so much more fruit.
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And that's why we talk about the five-fold ministry, because we need this.
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You need it. We need everyone out there.
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In my book "The Call of Jesus", I talk much more about the five-fold ministry.
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I want to talk more about it later, where I will, in the end of this video series,
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put it all together and talk about how it works.
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But if we can work together, if you not only obey the call of Jesus,
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but find somebody around you, find people around you
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who are strong in those areas where you are not strong,
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and then do it together, you who are very, very strong evangelistic,
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you who know how to go out and find the person of peace,
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you need to take people with you, who will have some of the other gifts,
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who can help to follow up, who can help to lay a foundation.
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We need each other, and if we can come together and work together,
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obey Jesus together, we will not only lead one person to Christ here and there,
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but we will lead one person to Christ, then we will go to his home or her home,
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then we will gather friends and family, like I did,
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then we will share the gospel, we will heal the sick,
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we will cast out demons, we will see people repent
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and get baptized in water and the Holy Spirit. But that is not all.
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Then we will have people who there, in their house
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will be able to continue meeting with them,
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who will continue to give milk to those who are now born again,
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so they can grow up and become strong.
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Who can help them to hear from God, who can help them to read the Word,
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who can help them to reach other people.
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And if we do it like this, we will not only see one person saved.
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We will see households saved.
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And those households, those people will move on
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and reach new households, and they will move on and reach new households.
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And it the end we will not only have many households who have come to Christ.
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We will see whole cities come to Christ, exactly as God spoke about,
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as we see it in the prophecy.
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So, I want to encourage you...
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yes, we are all different, yes, we have different giftings,
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and yes, we need each other. We do not only need a super evangelist.
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We need everyone who wants to obey Jesus.
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We need you who are more into the Word and love to teach.
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We need you who are more shepherd kind,
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who love to just sit down and take care of people, and help people.
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We need you who can hear from God. We need all the giftings,
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no matter how old or young you are - we need all of you out there.
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And when you and me together will do this -
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Hallelujah! We are going see amazing fruit.
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As I said before, later I'm going to talk more about the five-fold ministry,
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I'm going to put it all together. And I encourage you also -
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read my book, if you can.
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If you don't have the money, send an e-mail and we will send you a code
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and you can read the book for free, because in the book,
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when we talk about the five-fold ministry, I'm sharing so much more,
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I have so many more examples of how it looks, and so on.
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So, this DNA, as we have talked about, this DNA we read in the call of Jesus,
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I believe is from God. And I believe that we will see whole households
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come to faith. So, I encourage you, start where you are.
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Start praying God to send out more workers.
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Start to go out yourself as lambs among wolves.
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Start to find a person of peace, but also, try to bring people with you,
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who are different than you. Bring people with you.
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If you are not strong evangelistic, find somebody who is strong evangelistic.
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If you are very strong evangelistic, then find other people who are not so strong
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in that area, but strong in other areas.
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Because none of you is called just to go out and
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"see people saved", see people ask Jesus into their hearts,
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and even repent, get baptized and receive the Holy Spirit, and then move on.
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That is not the call Jesus gave us.
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The call Jesus gave us is to make disciples,
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to see them grow up and become strong in God.
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So, I really encourage you, you who are seeing this,
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who are maybe very fast in moving on -
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stop doing it.
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Take people with you.
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Take people with you who have those gifts you don't have.
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And then, don't just move on, but see community starts,
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see new house fellowships start,
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see how they will grow up and become strong,
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and how it will go from generation to generation.
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God bless you! See you next time! Bye-bye!
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