The Call of Jesus
Welcome to this chapter four, called "Two and Two".
This is out from the book "The Call of Jesus", finding the person of peace.
For you, who are maybe new here, we are going to go
through this chapter, by chapter, by chapter.
And I'm going to give you some teaching and some tools,
so you, together with me, can obey the call Jesus has given us.
And its's written here: Finding the person of peace.
The whole goal is learn to find the person of peace.
We are all called to bear fruit.
And to bear fruit is not to stand on the platform in a church,
or to stand on a platform in Africa.
To bear fruit is to find that person of peace,
find that person Jesus has called us to.
And we can all serve Him.
We are starting to get a lot of feedback on my book,
and I want to read what one wrote on Amazon.
The time is now and only now!
Torben is known for his kickstarts;
getting Christians activated on the streets,
telling people about Jesus with signs, wonders, and healing following.
This book describes the kickstart method, based on Luke 10,
and amazing testimonies and practical information
to get us all out there manifesting the Book of Acts."
And I want to say that, the goal of this book is really to give you simple tools,
to help you to go out and manifest the Book of Acts;
go out and continue living the Book of Acts with signs and wonders,
being led by the Holy Spirit, not only going out on the street
and preaching the gospel on the street, but going to the homes.
And I really believe that the greatest evangelists are not always those
who speak loudest, but those who have right hearts.
If you are mom with kids, come on, God wants to use you.
You don't have to be a young guy, able to go out on the street.
God wants to use you to reach your neighbor.
And it's time to obey Jesus' call.
It's time. Jesus is coming back for His church.
And He's coming back for a church that is very different
from the church we see today, that is just a big institution.
He will come back for a living, organic church,
led by the Holy Spirit, where everyone is bearing fruit in its everyday life.
I want to start reading something from Luke 10:1:
"After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also,
and sent them two by two before His face
to every city and place where He himself wanted to go."
Here we read that Jesus took the seventy and He sent them out
to places He wanted to go, out in the harvest.
And He sent them out two by two.
That is what we are going to look at right now, in this chapter.
Why did He send them out two by two?
I think, one of the main reasons is discipleship.
Discipleship is something that we, in the church, have lost.
Just take Jesus' words there.
Where do you know any churches who train the people
and actually take them and send them out two and two,
like Jesus has commanded them to do?
Very often we don't train people and we don't send them out
to the harvest, two and two.
We come together and we want the harvest to come to us.
But that was not what Jesus said.
He called us and He sent us out two by two.
I want to read this from my book, from this chapter four:
"One big advantage when it comes to discipleship is
that by going out two by two, we can learn from one another.
When we talk about discipleship, we need to understand
that it should not only occur on a platform in a church.
Discipleship also needs to happen in everyday life.
It is something we can live out, together,
and although there are some things you can teach from a platform in a church,
there are many things you will never be able to teach or show from that platform.
In order to learn these practical applications that can not be taught
or shown from a platform in a church,
you will need to leave the church and go out into real life in order to learn it and live it out.
Although the church can teach some things, there is a difference between teaching it
and actually showing how to live it out in the real world."
What we need to understand is that we can teach some thing
from a platform, we can teach some thing in the church,
but when it comes to live it out in the real life, to obey Jesus,
we need to leave the church and we need to be out there,
and we need to do it. We need to do it.
And if you do it two and two, it is often so much easier.
Why? Because if you are two and two you can help each other.
Two and two, one take the pressure away from the new person.
It's like... We call it kickstart. When we kickstart people.
Some years ago I started to take people out on the street to kickstart them.
I took somebody with me and said: Come with me.
I want to show you how to heal the sick.
I want to teach you or show you how to preach the gospel.
And by taking people out on the street
and showing them how to do it,
in very, very short time their lives were changed
and they started to do it themselves.
This is something you can teach out on the street.
You can teach them two by two, but you cannot...
you cannot teach it just from the platform.
I can stand on a platform and say to people: Hey, Jesus said we should heal the sick.
Jesus said we should preach the gospel. Jesus said... And it's good
and we need to do that, but... It's not enough.
You would end up with a lot of knowledge, but no obedience.
We need to leave the church.
We need to come out of the church.
Like Jesus did it and sent people out two and two,
so they can start to train each other.
I want to read something from my book.
"I have seen thousands of lives getting changed through being kickstarted and discipled.
By taking someone out and spending only one hour with them,
and by teaching and showing them how to obey Jesus' commands
by the power of example, it has changed not only that person's life,
but the lives of many other people around them.
This is because when someone is first kickstarted and taught how to step out
and share Jesus, or to heal somebody in the name of Jesus,
they learn to apply this into their everyday life
and to live it out wherever they are.
And this form of discipleship is something we just started doing a few years ago,
and we are now seeing hundreds of thousands of people being healed,
and ten thousands of people coming to faith and being baptized as a result of this.
It is so effective because it is not only about learning how to share Jesus
or healing the sick, it is about discipleship and actually becoming like Christ.
It is about teaching people, by the power of example, how to live out this life together.
And this kind of discipleship is something you do not experience if you do it alone,
so this is why many people prefer also to go out on the street with somebody else."
I want to stop here and continue talking.
Try to imagine if you have never before gone out on the street.
Try to imagine you have never shared the gospel before.
Try to imagine you have never prayed for healing before.
You have never baptized somebody in water.
You have never cast out a demon.
And maybe it's like that.
And then you are told: Go out and do it alone.
It's just not easy.
It is very, very difficult if you have never, never ever done it before.
But then imagine, I will say to you: Come with me.
Come, come, come. Stand beside me.
I will help you. I will show you how to do it.
And we will walk out together and I would say: Stop, this is how you pray for somebody.
Now put your hand there. Okay, just pray like this.
Or, this is how you share the gospel.
Now I will show you how you baptize somebody.
Sit down, take your hands and then, die with Christ, up with Christ,
in the name of Jesus.
If I would be at your side, or somebody else would be on your side,
first thing, it will take all the pressure away,
you would not feel the pressure anymore because it's not on your shoulder alone.
And if you do something wrong, you would know that person beside you would help you.
And by being with somebody else, in very, very, very short time
you would learn to do all of this without big pressure and burden,
and then, when you have done it one time, two times, three times, four times,
you can do it alone.
And now, not even you can do it alone, you can even start to show other people
how to do the same - by you saying to them: Come, come with me.
I will show you how to do it.
And this is what we need to do.
And this is what has been lost many places in churches.
Many of you have been sitting in churches for many years
and no one has ever took you by the hand and said: Come with me.
Let me show you. Let me teach you. Let me disciple you how to do it.
And if we start to do that again, everything else Jesus is saying in Luke 10,
I'm going to talk about, will come so much easier. Why?
Because you are not in it alone. You have people to help you.
And this is what Jesus has called us to do.
Discipleship is not happening in the church, on a platform.
We can teach in a church, we can do things,
but it's not there where it's happening.
You need to step out of the church, go out in the real life,
and there live it together with somebody.
Jesus said: Come and follow me and I will make you fishers of men.
He said: Come and follow me and I will make you fishers of men.
What did He do? Did He rent a church building and then said:
You who follow me, meet me every Sunday at ten o'clock and I will teach you
about fishing men. No.
Did He set up a seminary and met two times a week? No.
Did He stand behind the pulpit to teach them how to fish men? No.
He showed them.
He showed them how to fish men.
He used the power of example, discipleship, showed them how to do it.
And when He then in Luke 10 sent them out to do it,
it was not so far from them. Why? Because they already walked with Jesus
and have already learned, by walking with Jesus
and seeing what it was all about.
And this is what it should be, how it should be.
So, when we look at the call of Jesus and what Jesus is saying in Luke 10
and what He has called us all to do,
in the beginning it can seems impossible. You could think:
I cannot do that.
I cannot live the life Jesus has called us to do.
But you know, it's not impossible. Why?
First, Jesus would never called us to do something He would not give us power to do.
So first, He has given you the Holy Spirit.
I'm going to talk about the Holy Spirit later.
If you don't have the Holy Spirit, then don't go out already now.
Don't start all of that now.
Go to www.TLRmap.com, find somebody near you
and let them pray for you to receive the Holy Spirit.
But not only He has given us the Holy Spirit,
He has given us people to go out with.
He has given us the body, the church,
where we can live this life together.
And also, on our map, www.TLRmap.com, you can find people near you
who are stronger than you are and they can kickstart you,
they can help you to take some of those steps, and that is so important.
And yes, it's not only about going out on the street,
but going out on the street can be a good training in the beginning.
But what we are going to look at later is that much of what Jesus is saying
actually is not out on the street. It's in the homes.
Going from place to place, from home to home.
And this is what we are going to talk much more about later.
What then if you don't have anyone to go with?
I want to say: I didn't. I did not have anyone.
I have never had anyone taking my hands and practically show me what to do.
So, it was difficult, but it was not the excuse.
It was not the excuse. Why?
Because we still have the Holy Spirit and God is still with us.
And even I did not have anyone to show me how to do those things,
I still learned by just stepping out, and then, now, I'm helping other people
to do the same.
In this chapter in my book I also come with many other examples
of how it is important to be two and two. One example.
If you decide on Monday: Hey, I want to go out on Wednesday.
I really want to go out on Wednesday. And you then call somebody, a friend,
and say: Hey! Shall we go out on Wednesday? And the friend says:
Yes, let's do that. Let's go out on Wednesday. And it seems like a really, really good idea
on Monday that you want to go out on Wednesday.
But then you come to Tuesday and you get a little cold feet.
And then you come to Wednesday morning and you are nervous,
and suddenly it's not a good idea anymore.
But what happens? You still go out. Why?
Because you have made an appointment with somebody
and you are accountable to that person.
If you are alone, there are so many, many more excuses for why not to go out.
And therefore I encourage you to try to find somebody near you,
find somebody you can connect with
and then together start to go out,
and maybe even take this series, see it together,
maybe take the book and read the book together with them,
so you are two persons.
Why? Then you can be accountable to each other.
And then, when I go deeper in the book and talk about some of things He wants us to do,
you will have a person you can say: Let's do it.
Yes. On Wednesday: Okay, let's do it. And then you are doing it on Wednesday.
Or you go out together and you help each other.
And that is also one of the strongest things with being two.
So, let's serve Jesus together.
The harvest is ready, as we are going to look at.
But the workers are few.
The harvest is ready. We need you out there.
Let's pray that God will send you out. Let's pray that God will put you together
with somebody you can do it together with,
and then share this video.
I will go through it step by step, by step, by step, and giving you tools
so you know exactly what to do when you go out there
two by two, or you go out there alone.
Until next time, God bless you! Bye-bye!
The Call of Jesus