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The Call of Jesus

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Welcome to this intro video
where I'm going to talk about my new book

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"The Call of Jesus".

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And I'm going to talk about 
the new video series I will make.

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Together with my new book
"The Call of Jesus"

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I will do a new video 
for every chapter in the book

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where I'm going to share a little
from the chapter and help you

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to obey the call Jesus has given you.

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The new book "The Call of Jesus"
is 26 chapters,

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so beside this intro video

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I will come out with 26 new videos.

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One every second or third day.

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And I truly believe that this cannot
only transform your life,

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but also many people around you.

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Yes, when we understand that
we don't need

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to stand on a platform in Africa

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or stand in a church,
behind a pulpit, to bear fruit,

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it will change everything.

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Yes, you need to understand that
your home is your church,

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your kitchen is your platform,

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your bathtub is where you can
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and so on, and so on.

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Our life, everyday life is where 
we should bear fruit.

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The harvest is ready,
but the workers are few,

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or the workers don't understand this.

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The world is getting crazy right now.

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The world is getting shaken right now.

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We have the coronavirus,
we have new laws,

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we have conspiracy theories,
we have fake news,

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we have fear, fear, fear.

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What is happening right now?

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What is the truth about all of this?

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How will all of this end?

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There are so many questions right now

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and it's sure that the world is never
going to be the same again.

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The world is changing,
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The church, as we know it,

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as we have it now,
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The church needs to change.

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But God is still in control.

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And one thing is for sure - that Jesus 
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And the answer is that you and me
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that we really start to be serious 
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that we start to obey Him
and the call He has given us.

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Do you know what?

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This is a very exciting time
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It's very exciting time to live in.

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Why? People are getting shaken.
That is correct.

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The Christians are getting shaken.
That is correct.

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But that is good. Why?

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Because then we find out where
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We find out where we have our hope.

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Do we have our hope in Him
or do we have our hope in the government?

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Do we have our hope in our health?
Do we have our hope in our system?

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What are we building on?

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Many places right now the laws
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so even right now many churches
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They cannot have the big gatherings 
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so they have to come and meet
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When I hear that, I can just think:
Wow! This can only be good.

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Why? Because the harvest is ready
and it's time for us to wake up.

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It's time for us to start to live
the life Jesus has called us to.

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Some years ago I wrote two books.

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One of them is this book
"The Last Reformation".

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It was about the church and how we, 
as a church, need a reformation.

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That we need to come out 
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we need to come back to the life 
we read about in the Book of Acts.

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The book "The Last Reformation"
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my testimony, how I came out of it
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I have a quote in the book 
"The Last Reformation", and that is:

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Christianity started in Israel
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a movement of believers
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healing the sick, casting out demons.

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It started as a body, a living body,
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Then it came to Greece 
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Then it came to Rome
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Then it came to the rest of Europe
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And then it came to America
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So, it started as a body
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But if you make a business
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is that not prostitution?

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And this is what we have done. 
We have prostituted the body of Christ.

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We have come so far away from
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And in this book "The Last Reformation"
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that we need to come back to the simple,
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away from the megachurches,
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and powerful things where people
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Because megachurches cannot stand
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The megachurches, 
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are not suitable for the future.

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And we see it already now with the virus,

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that many laws have been changed,
many things are happening

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and many churches need to shut down.

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So "The Last Reformation" is about the church 
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It's about that we need a reformation
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I wrote another book called
"Christian, Disciple or Slave".

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This is not so much about the church,

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but this is about what a disciple is.

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About what it costs to follow Christ.

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And that we, if we want to follow Him,
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and take up our cross, for us to be able
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That we need to be born again.

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It is not enough to have faith in God.

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It's not enough to come to a church.

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It's not enough to read the Bible.

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We need to be born again
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We need to follow Him.

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In this book I talked about how
Jesus never used the word "Christian".

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It never came out of His mouth,
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but He used the word "disciples".
Disciples.

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And I talked about what a disciple is
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that a disciple is like an apprentice.

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And many people have been blessed
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"The Last Reformation" and
"Christian, Disciple or Slave".

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But now, now I'm out with a new book,

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"The Call of Jesus",

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where I'm taking a step further,

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where we talk about what actually is
Jesus has called us to,

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that is it He wants us to do,
how is it He wants us to obey Him.

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What is Jesus' call for you,
what is Jesus' call for me,

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and how do we obey Him.

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And what you see is that Jesus
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to get a nice church building,

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invite people to come to us every Sunday,

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and there we will sit and wait
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and then share the gospel with them.

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He has never called us to do much 
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I started writing this book
two and a half years ago,

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"The Call of Jesus",

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but then so many things happened
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We started to see amazing fruit
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We started to be so busy,
people got born again,

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we sent out teams,
new house fellowships started.

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We saw thousands of people
born again and start to follow Christ.

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And it has grown all over the world.

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And we have been so busy.

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But January last year we suddenly 
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It was crazy and 
our foundation was shaken,

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like many of your foundations are being
shaken right now.

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It was just in a different way
I experienced it.

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Last year, January last year,
we were suddenly all over the news.

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And we experienced so much persecution,
so many government agencies came after us.

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And it was so surreal to stand in.

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It was like standing 
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It was like reading a book
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who experienced persecution,
but now it happened to me.

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Now it was in our country,
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And when all of these crazy things happened,

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like undercover journalist came
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threats, all over the news, like I was almost
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in the newspapers, and so many more
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And it ended up that we needed to
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And we came to America, where we are now,
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And they have now changed the laws
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and make if very difficult for me,
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to obey what Jesus has called us to.

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But do you know what?
God is still in control.

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And on the way here to America
I felt God spoke to me.

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I felt He said: Torben, you are a pioneer
and I am training you.

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You are experiencing this now because
you are going to help my church

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to be ready when this is going to happen
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My church will not be ready
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and it will come to everyone.

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And therefore, I felt He said:
Torben, I've let you go through those things

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to help my church and to train them,
to wake them up,

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because what you experience now
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Wow! How little did I know that 
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Like I got shaken that time,
many is getting shaken right now

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and you feel a little of it,
and this is just the beginning.

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When me and my family came to America,
we came with eight suitcases.

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We left everything behind, 
our training center, our family, our friends,

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but when I landed in America I felt God said: 
Torben, now it's time to finish your book.

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I've been working on that book
two and a half years, as I said,

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but I didn't have time to really finish it,
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Now you need to take the time,
you need to finish the book.

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And now it is here,
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Do you believe that is a coincidence?

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No way. No way.

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This book is here to prepare the church
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It is here to help us to come back
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and to obey the call He has given all of us.

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The future is going to be very different
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It's a new time.
It is a new beginning.

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God wants us to be ready for this future.

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He wants us to understand
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It's time to start with small groups.

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It's time to go back to homes.

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It's time to come away from big, fine,
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where people are sitting
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The churches are all going to die
or compromise that day persecution comes.

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We are all called to follow Jesus.

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We are all called to serve Him.

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We are all called to do ministry.

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Not only a few.

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Not only a few pastors or a few leaders.

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We are now standing in front of
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a harvest we have never seen before.

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And I believe that is happening
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And I want to say, the great harvest
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is not going to be one super evangelist,

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but it's going to come from all of us,

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when we, as His body, 
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starts to obey the call Jesus has given us.

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And I am so excited about this.

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As I said before, I will together 
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do one video for every chapter.

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That is 26 chapters - 26 videos.

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And I hope you are ready for it.

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I hope you are ready to get this book.

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You can get it on Amazon right now,
or you can order it through our website,

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as a print or an e-book.
Get the book already.

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Read it together with this video series.

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And then together, let's start to obey
the call Jesus has given us all.

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I want to say, if you don't have the money
to buy the book, send an e-mail

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and we can give you a code, because 
I want this book to come out to everyone.

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We need this book to come out.
We need people to come back

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and obey the call Jesus has given us.

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The text on the back cover of the book
is this. I want to read it for you.

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The words of Jesus still have the power
to transform the world and set people free.

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Unfortunately, the problem we have seen
over the last 2,000 years

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is that religion and the traditions of men
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far away from the simple truth
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"The Call of Jesus", by Torben Sondergaard,
is a forceful reminder

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of the simple yet powerful and transforming
Call that Jesus gave to all.

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Through Jesus' words in Luke chapter 10,
Torben brings clarity and revelation
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is that Jesus called us to. He shows in 
a simple way how we can obey Jesus' call,

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and experience the same fruit the church
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The harvest is ready 
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This Call, if you choose to obey it,
will transform not only your life

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but also the lives of those around you!

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Jesus is calling you!

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Will you answer His Call?

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Everyone out there, I hope you are ready
to say "yes" to the call of Jesus.

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Share this video, share the news
and let us obey Jesus' call

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and see a revival we have never
seen before.

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As I said before, this call,
if you choose to obey it,

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if you choose to obey it,

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will transform not only our life,
but also the lives of those people around you.

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Jesus is calling you.

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Will you accept His call?

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See you next time.
God bless you! Bye-bye!

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The Call of Jesus