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The fastest-growing church in the world today has taken root in one of the most unexpected and radicalized nations on earth.
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Muslim-background Iranians are leading a quiet but mass exodus out of Islam and bowing down their knees to the Jewish Messiah - with kindled affection toward the Jewish people.
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The Iranian awakening is rapidly-reproducing discipleship movement that owns no property or buildings, has no central leadership, and is predominantly led by women.
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This is their story.
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"So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai." - THE BOOK OF ESTHER
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The first thing is, in Iran, we know what country we are serving.
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We are serving the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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We know that if they get us, the first thing they will do
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to us as a women is rape us and then they will beat us
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and ultimately they will kill us.
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This is the decision that we have made
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that we want to offer our bodies as sacrifices.
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because I have this thought when I wake up
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that when I leave that door I might not come back.
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I've talked to my husband and we made an agreement that
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this is the decision of our lives
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so if we leave that door and we don't come back
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we accept that consequences of what happens.
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By rejecting a deal, that prevents Iran from getting a nuclear weapon
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and instead leaves Iran the option of
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installing more and more advanced centrifuges, shrinking their breakout time
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and that somehow is going to make
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our neighbors more secure.
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I think is kind of a...
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Well, it doesn't make any sense.
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Israel and Iran are staring each other down tonight across the expanse of Syria.
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Long-simmering hostility flared to light last night as the Israelis blasted Iranians fighters in Syria
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with their largest air strike since the 1973 war.
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I think Iran is a threat, I think is a very big threat.
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And, I think I did a great thing when I terminated the ridiculous Iran nuclear deal.
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It seems that you called the Ayatollah Khamenei the new Hitler of the Middle East.
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Absolutely.
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The Lebanese Shia paramilitary group has evolved from a ragtag militia
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to a military and political heavyweight.
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It's part of the so called axis of resistance against Israel
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referring to the alliance between Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and Iran.
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So there's still many questions about it.
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Israel has retaliated for an attack on its troops, by targeting what it says
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was Iran's military infrastructure inside Syria.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the air strikes were appropriate.
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In his words, Iran crossed the red line with wednesday's missile attack on Israeli forces in the Golan Heights.
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Israel warned that any further aggression will be met with overwhelming force.
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GOLAN HEIGHTS
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Right now we're in the Golan Heights, right where the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel meet.
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And the border of Jordan is within eyesight.
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This explosive and controversial plateau, I think, puts the issue of Iran
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and its contemporary geopolitical context
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into proper perspective in our generation.
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Because for the last number of years Iran has been pumping money
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and strategic weapons and fighters and infrastructure
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from the Himalayas all the way to the Mediterranean, across the expanse of the Middle East.
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While they've been fueling this massive movement of spreading Shia Islam all across the region,
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another movement has been growing up under their noses within Iran's borders itself.
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I believe what is happening in the church of Iran is going to become a measuring stick
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for the global Body of Christ.
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It's not something that we can from afar look on and admire.
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It's going to be something that's required of us to participate in.
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it's going to disrupt our lives.
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It's an invitation from Jesus to say yes to more.
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Because where we're headed, it's going to require more.
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What we have now is not enough.
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What we need is something that Iran right now is touching.
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And it's our responsibility, as the global Body of Christ, to say yes to this invitation.
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In the book of Revelation chapter 12 we get a picture, a description of what the end time church looks like.
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She is bruised and bloodied, but she is also triumphant and victorious.
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It says that the church at the end overcomes
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by the blood of the Lamb, the word of their testimony and by not loving their lives unto death.
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Today the church in Iran is already walking in that.
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And I believe that the Lord is going to take this issue of the testimony, the story, the witness of the church in Iran
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and thrust it into the heart of the global Body of Christ
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that we would follow in their footsteps and learn from them.
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I believe the Lord is putting their message on blast for us in this hour to prepare us for the days ahead.
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CHAPTER ONE
The Blood of the Lamb
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INDONESIA
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So this week we're here in Indonesia meeting with a group of leaders from the underground church in Iran.
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Because of security inside the country,
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they actually have to come outside of the country for more intensive training, gathering, equipping,
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refreshing and fellowship.
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Joel and I have been joining them for these gatherings for the last five years or so.
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I can say with certainty that no other person or group of people have impacted me more than the Iranians have.
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It's been a holy privilege to journey with them and it's been such an honor to
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know them and to get to know them deeper.
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We've met with the Iranian leaders in countries all over the world.
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This year it's quite fitting there were doing it here,
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Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world.
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We can't take people inside of Iran to meet them
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but we can take their stories out of Iran for people to hear them.
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I think it's significant and profoundly meaningful
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that we're learning and hearing about the fastest growing church in the world today
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here in the largest Muslim nation in the world today.
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For people outside of Iran,
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you know, people hear lots of stories
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about how the church is growing in Iran, etc.
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Is it true?
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In Iran?
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Yes. It's true.
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TEHRAN
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I'm sitting
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on my balcony right now
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it's
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3 o'clock in the morning
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in front of the lights of Tehran
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just looking at the city lights
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the skyline
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figuring out what's going to happen in the next few days.
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When I ask most westerners and I say you know
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"What do you picture when you think Iranians"?
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And the vast majority of people, you know, they say Ahmadinejad, the Mullahs, the Ayatollahs...
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You know, I see all of these angry Muslims shaking their fist chanting death to America, death to Israel and this sort of thing.
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And the reality is that in the country it's nothing like that.
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Today Iran is home to the fastest growing church in the world.
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It's almost entirely Muslim background.
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They have no denominational leanings or affiliation.
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They have no governmental recognition or legitimacy.
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They have no bank accounts. They have no 501(c)(3)'s. They have no centralized leadership.
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They have no Bible schools or seminaries.
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They own no properties or church buildings and they possess no assets.
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On top of that, while being Muslim background
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they are by and large aggressively and passionately pro-Israel.
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That is, they love the Jewish people.
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And on top of that
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it's predominantly led by women.
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What if I told you that Islam is dead?
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What if I told you that the mosques are empty inside of Iran?
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Iran that is known as the most radical nation in the world,
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exporting terrorism, exporting radical Islam.
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But when you go inside of the country, the mosques are empty.
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What if I told you that no one follows Islam inside of Iran?
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Would you believe me?
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But this is exactly what' happening inside of Iran.
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God is moving powerfully inside of Iran.
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The ruling class are the religious class
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and many of them are religious because that's where the high paying jobs are.
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But the majority of the people are just normal ordinary people.
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They love God, but they realize, they recognize that Islam is the problem.
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What if I told you that an evangelist for Jesus came inside Iran?
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What if I told you that the best evangelist for Jesus was Imam Khomeini, the Ayatollahs.
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You might be wondering "What do you mean?"
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"How is that possible?"
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Because, the Ayatollahs and Imam Khomeini
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brought the true face of Islam
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and when people in Iran saw the true face of Islam,
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they found out it was a lie,
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that it was evil, and that it was deception -
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because after forty years under Islamic law
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- a utopia according to them -
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they've had
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the worst devastation known in the history
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in the 5,000 year history of Iran.
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INDONESIA
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God commanded us in Matthew
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that we must go make disciples of the nations.
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So this is my honor
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that I'm executing His commands in Iran.
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The form of church planting in Iran is
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a very interesting topic because
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in Iran for many years
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we've seen persecution
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and what persecution did was
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destroy the church that weren't disciples
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and destroy the church that were about converts.
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So the seismic shift that's happened in the church of Iran is
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when all these church planters found out that
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converts run away from persecution;
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but disciples would die for the Lord in persecution.
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So the church planting method inside of Iran is
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we don't convert to disciple;
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we disciple to convert.
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So we take them on a journey
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from the beginning where God started
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to Christ
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where God
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fully reveals Himself.
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In Iran, we start a process
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called "Disciple- Making Movements" (DMM)
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to plant churches.
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I love DMM.
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It cuts off the hands of Satan.
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Because in a stealth way
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it starts to pull people toward salvation
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the same way Jesus said
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to be "wise as serpents but innocent as doves."
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If we look in the life of Christ, He started discipling people immediately.
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Just as the Lord discipled people from the first interaction
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in the DMM process we disciple people from the first interaction around God.
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So from the first interaction they learn how to
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thank God, they learn how to
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pray to God, they learn how to
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minister to each other.
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They learn how to read the Word.
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And know about the authority of this Word.
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They get messages in their vertical relationship with God.
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They get horizontal messages in the relationship with people.
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And they learn to evangelize all before they come to Christ.
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I think we use the term discipleship
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in a wonky and somewhat of a misguided way in the West.
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Meaning, when we say discipleship typically what we mean in the western context is
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I'm mentoring a believer to grow in Christ likeness and maturity
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but that's not necessarily what discipleship is.
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It's part of it for sure, but the thing is
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discipleship starts day one.
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Meaning, when you meet an unbeliever
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who has never heard the name of Jesus before
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and you start teaching him to obey the commands of Jesus,
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whether he knows Jesus' name or not,
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you are entering into discipleship with him right there in that moment.
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This is the pillars of DMM, because
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in the word "discipleship" is "discipline."
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So we're disciplining them or
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showing them how they must interact with God the same way
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Christ disciplined and corrected the disciples when they weren't interacting with God correctly.
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And this is why the gospel is spreading like a wildfire in Iran
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is because they believe discipleship starts the first second you come in contact with somebody.
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The disciple maker is someone who stewards the commands of Jesus
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and presses the teachings of Jesus as the central issue in every situation.
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This is why I think the church in Iran is so valuable
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for the church globally right now at this historical juncture.
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GOLAN HEIGHTS
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One of the things that, hits my heart about the church in Iran
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is the way in which I think the Lord is using the Iranian church to...
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To speak to the church in the West.
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We're here in an old bombed-out Syrian officers quarters that's been
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repurposed as a cattle pasture and see them all around us, maybe you'll hear them.
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And as, we kind of sit here it's...
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It kind of hits me as being ironic.
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It reminds me of Proverbs 14 forward says where there are no oxen
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or there are no cattle, you know, the stable is clean
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but with the oxen come the increase.
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You need a oxen to get the work done to create,
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you know, to have a harvest, but if you're going to have the ox then it's going to be messy.
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To see the harvest, to really and truly see the harvest come, it's...
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It's not going to be clean. It's not going to be tidy.
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There's going to be a mess.
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Oftentimes, it just doesn't come in the form that we think it'll come.
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So I remember a few years ago when
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Dalton, Anna and I were going to meet
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all of the underground Iranian leaders for the first time and
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beforehand, we had this sort of idea in our mind you know,
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these guys are the special forces, they're the cutting edge, they're leading
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the fastest growing church network in the world
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and in one of the most difficult restricted nations in the earth
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under intense persecution.
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And then we met them.
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ALI - the former hacker and meth cook; now ring-leader of the Iranian underground.
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MUHAMMAD - the former drug runner; now amateur comedian, professional businessman, and a father of the Iranian church.
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This is the glory of the Iranian church.
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The power of God being displayed among the broken, the dejected and the depraved.
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It's here in the brutality and the mess of human dysfunction that we see His wonder.
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FATMA - the former atheist and failed suicidist; now prophetic evangelist overseeing hundreds of churches.
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SHIRIN - the former Shia extremist; now apostolic church multiplier and disciple-making coach.
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Jesus can use anyone, anyplace at anytime
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and He is not afraid of the mess.
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They were just the most beautiful, glowing, even if I could say it, goofballs you know
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they're just fun, beautiful people.
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We instantly fell in love with them.
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What He's doing, this amazing things, is He's using regular everyday people just like you and me.
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And this is where Dalton looked at me and he said, "It's just like sheep among wolves."
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And he said that's the name of the film, it's going to be "Sheep Among Wolves."
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When we do DMM
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Jesus has gone faster than us.
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He has come in their dreams
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or He's come miraculously in their lives
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When we hear this, we know that Jesus has gone ahead of us.
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That's why in DMM the ultimate rule is
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see one, do one, teach one.
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That's what they've learned.
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So even if they're unbelievers, how do they become leaders?
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They're watching you. "Oh you want to see how to do it? Come with me on the street."
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Even if they're unbelievers. "Watch how I talk."
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Everything is foundational on prayer.
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We start with prayer, we find people of peace through prayer.
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We even find locations through prayer.
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When we have prayed and found a person of peace
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we start speaking to that person.
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And that person is free to tell anyone in his social circle (about our conversation)
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but usually they start with their family.
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They can begin engaging their family
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and if two others join them, we consider this
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the beginning formation of a church.
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This is all in the first week.
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In that first week that we began the DMM process with them
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when we first speak to them, find out their needs,
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and share the first story with them,
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we could have the formation of a church.
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For us it's not important how many people it is
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or how small it is.
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And in the beginning it's not important to us
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if we don't have a pastor overseeing, a teacher teaching
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or an evangelist evangelizing.
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From week one, the church that is forming
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is under the power and reign of the Holy Spirit from the start.
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It's so interesting to watch the process because
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the people in this budding infantile church
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don't even understand what's happening to them every week.
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They don't realize that God has begun
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discipling them from week one.
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THE DEAD SEA
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THE ANSWER FOR
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A BALM FOR
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THE RISING SUN
ANOINTED ONE
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FAITHFUL AND TRUE
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If you look at the twelve
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if we look at the tenets of Christianity, which is
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Jesus is the Son of God
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that He died on the cross
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and He was resurrected three days later,
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were the disciples technically believers?
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They were not
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And if we look in Matthew and in Luke with
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with Jesus sending out the seventy,
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those seventy were not believers
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and here they are
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exorcising demons, healing people and proclaiming the kingdom.
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When we talk about church planting in the West
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well, generally what we're talking about is a pastor or a teacher
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starting a community that's built around the pastor and the teacher, who listen to him
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give speeches for half an hour or an hour once a week.
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And this is foreign to the Iranians.
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This is foreign to the Afghan church.
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Because the expression of church planting
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in the Muslim world today is not planting churches, it's making disciples.
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If we look at Jesus' model, technically,
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He's letting unbelievers lead other unbelievers to Himself or the kingdom of God.
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Jesus didn't command us to plant churches
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He commanded us to make disciples.
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You can try to plant a church and you might make disciples
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but if you make disciples, you will plant churches.
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If your method is really from God, it should work anytime, anywhere, with anyone
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and it doesn't matter that you're an illiterate Afghan girl
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or you're a doctor, you know in the capital of Tehran.
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It should be as engaging to that doctor
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and as simple to that Afghan girl.
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So the implications of DMM is
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we could actually finish the Great Commission in our generation.
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HE'S THE WORD
OF GOD
INCARNATE
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THE FATHER
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THE ONLY WAY
THE HIGHEST NAME
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JESUS
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THE NINEVEH PLAINS
EASTERN SIDE OF MOSUL, IRAQ
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In 2014, ISIS blitzkrieg this entire region
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and then established the capital of their caliphate just a few kilometers to the west of here,
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just down there in Mosul.
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During that initial push to the east ISIS was halted at the bottom of this mountain,
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by the Peshmerga,
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that's the Kurdish military forces.
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The Kurds dug in and protected this Monastery and everything east of here,
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between here and the Iranian border.
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Then in October 2016 the Peshmerga began a campaign in which they effectively drove ISIS
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out of The Nineveh Plains and liberated the entire area around Mosul.
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We were here throughout that entire period providing emergency medical care during the fighting.
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As that campaign was raging and ISIS was losing ground something very, very important happened.
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The Iraqi Ministry of Defense made the decision to actually federalize
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Iranian-backed Shia militias
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incorporating them into the Iraqi Army.
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The Iraqi Security Forces today are now over 90% Shia.
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The majority of them are actually former members of this Iranian-backed militias.
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In 2017 those militias drove the Peshmerga out of the Nineveh Plains
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and took complete control of it.
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Sadly they actually used American tanks and weapons to do so.
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As the International Community sat idle and covered their eyes
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Iranian forces overran the Kurds who stopped ISIS.
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Iran has established an even more formidable foothold throughout the region,
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It was a tragedy.
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It was a travesty of epic proportions.
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This is just one example of what is happening all over the Middle East.
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Iran is sponsoring armed militias to fight the Sunnis and anyone else who gets in their way.
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As a result they now essentially control five capitals,
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they control Tehran,
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they control Baghdad in Iraq,
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they control Damascus in Syria,
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they control Beirut in Lebanon,
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they control the Sana'a in Yemen.
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They are heavily influencing the region primarily through a growing proxy war
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from the Himalayas all the way to the Mediterranean.
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ULUWATU
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When you're here in Indonesia there's a painful reality that just very quickly slaps you in the face.
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This in so many ways is the ends of the earth,
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yet this is the largest most populous Muslim nation in the world.
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Indonesia is tremendously far removed from Arabia
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and yet Islam the great counterfeit, has been wildly successful
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in thoroughly evangelizing this nation.
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The central issue that we're actually talking about
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is this issue of obedience.
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We're not talking about evangelism
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or missions or church planting.
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What we're actually talking about is this issue of obedience to The King.
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And I think the enemy understands the power of obedience
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which is why this great counterfeit of Islam was predicated,
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was built upon the foundation of complete surrender and obedience.
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And this is the heart of jihad, is to give everything that you have
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is to give all of body, all of your blood, all of your energy,
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all of your everything, all of your all
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for your lord to whom you are a slave.
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And the enemy is taken this issue of being a bond slave,
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which is lodged in the heart of the Gospel,
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and has taken that and built this entire demonic religion around obedience
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to a false god and false religion.
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And it's really a glaring, just example, of where we as the church in many ways have failed
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to take the gospel to the ends of the earth, whereas the counterfeit has been wildly successful.
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You know, we have a couple options here.
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We can either hate the counterfeit and respond of a place of anger
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and yet still be disobedient to our King,
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thus we bring him no glory and you move the ball no further down the hill so to speak.
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Or, we can love those who've been seduced by the counterfeit
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and we ourselves can give of ourselves unreservedly to our Lord
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who is the only way, the truth and the life.
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I believe that this is the issue that we need to recover in these days, before the return of the Lord
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and this is how the gospel of the Kingdom will spread
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across cultures and nations and languages and people groups.
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Is because of obedience to The One who is worthy of the adoration, worship and obedience of the nations.
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One thing that's very powerful in DMM is that
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it is an obedience-based discipleship
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where the ultimate authority is the Scriptures
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and every time you read the Scriptures, you must obey it.
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This is how people become conformed to the image of Christ
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and sanctified.
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They're just not reading the Bible for information.
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They're reading the Bible to get transformed
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and their expectation of when they read the Bible is transformation.
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And if transformation doesn't happen, they don't continue.
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If you do not obey what you
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were given that week and you do not share, you do not go forward.
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The end result of DMM is this
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is that one, you have the ability to stand alone;
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two, it's highly reproducible;
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and three, you're highly obedient to Christ.
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Think about it
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if a false gospel could spread this rapidly and multiply this aggressively,
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than the gospel can too but with greater force.
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Because the gospel far eclipses Islam's ability to replicate itself
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in the hearts of his followers and believers,
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because it's true.
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I have a story of a girl that was raped since she can remember
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and she reads Genesis chapter three, which is about the Fall
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and forgiveness of the Father
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and she said, "If God can forgive Adam and Eve after He's given them everything
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and just loved on them
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then I can forgive my father that raped me all my life".
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When you let the Holy Spirit lead, and trust Him
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that He will teach and preach and touch people in such
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a magnificent way that when you hear
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the stories, you just want to cry.
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If you're not crying in your church because
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the radical things the Holy Spirit is doing
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then there is a problem.
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Because people were so radicalized
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by what the holy Spirit was doing
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in the Book of Acts in the New Testament
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that they gave up everything.
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That's what's missing in the West.
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The power of the Holy Spirit that comes so deeply,
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intimately, and transformatively.
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The simple thing that strikes me
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as a difference between the church in Iran
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and the church in the West, the church where I serve
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is that we seem to believe that people can sit in a seat, in a congregation
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for really, really long time
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and maybe at some point in their life
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they'll begin to follow the Lord in a striking, in a significant of a way,
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that they might actually be and make disciples.
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It could happen.
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It's possible.
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But when I compare that to the church in Iran it seems as though
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in Iran a person
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comes to know the Lord in immediately.
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They're activated into
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being and becoming and making disciples
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to striking difference.
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If you want to know one of the key ways I think that we need to flip the script
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and learn from the church and Iran
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it's the timing
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or the time between coming know Jesus as Lord and Savior
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and actually becoming a disciple maker.
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CHAPTER TWO
The Word of Their Testimony
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Every day I ask the Lord
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what part of my testimony will help the person in front of me.
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The Holy Spirit shows me what part of my testimony I need to share with a woman,
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I tell that part of my testimony
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and I wait on what the Holy Spirit wants me to do next.
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I will talk about when I was raped
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or how I was beaten
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or how my father didn't love me
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or my suicide attempts.
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We're sitting in the room with all the leaders and I was sitting in the back
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just looking at everyone
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and one of the leaders leaned over to me and he said,
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"You know, the thing that's so amazing about all the people in this room
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is that just several years ago,
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despite all that they're doing now,
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everyone in this room was either a radical Muslim,
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they were addicted to drugs,
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suicidal,
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00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,799
or even in prostitution.
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00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:42,460
And when he said that I just choked up
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I mean just the thought of it just gripped me.
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00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,160
But then I actually heard their personal stories, I heard their testimonies
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00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,440
and it absolutely broke me.
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00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,319
I love these people so much.
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00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,800
Hearing how unique and personal every one of their stories are is...
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mind-blowing.
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00:37:02,460 --> 00:37:05,180
There's these common denominators across the board with all of them,
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00:37:05,260 --> 00:37:09,860
you know dreams, visions, miracles, healing, signs and wonders,
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00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:11,780
there's these common denominators.
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00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:16,259
But the thing that's unique is that in every single one of their lives
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00:37:16,260 --> 00:37:18,840
is this story of personal intervention
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00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:23,200
where the Lord interrupted their lives in a personal way that is
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00:37:23,420 --> 00:37:27,040
deeply connected to their own trauma, their own rape,
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00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,820
their own addictions, their own internal struggles,
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00:37:30,820 --> 00:37:32,300
their own family trauma,
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00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:34,780
it's, some of the stuff is brutal and horrific
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00:37:34,780 --> 00:37:36,880
but this is where Jesus
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00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,680
displaces Glory I think in the most beautiful way
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00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,319
it is amidst human brokenness.
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00:37:41,380 --> 00:37:44,380
And the thing that blows me away is that every single story
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00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,170
is so personal, so unique, so standalone.
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00:37:48,330 --> 00:37:50,450
And I think this testifies to the glory of God
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00:37:50,450 --> 00:37:52,450
that he's deeply personal
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00:37:52,620 --> 00:37:55,310
and he's after each human being
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00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,440
and he's after each individual heart.
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00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,820
And this, to me is one of the most powerful elements of this whole
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00:38:02,060 --> 00:38:04,029
story of the Iranian awakening.
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00:38:04,430 --> 00:38:06,859
Her story is so powerful because
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00:38:07,980 --> 00:38:10,860
she had the marking from the rope (around her neck)
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00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,650
when Jesus opened her noose. So I don't know how we can talk about it.
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Maybe we can talk about it.
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00:38:25,770 --> 00:38:27,600
I was 19 years old
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00:38:27,610 --> 00:38:29,870
and I was very depressed.
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00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,919
I was in the care of one of the most famous doctors in Iran.
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00:38:34,510 --> 00:38:36,240
Nothing he gave me worked.
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00:38:43,630 --> 00:38:46,250
I lived in my room by myself for four years.
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00:38:47,070 --> 00:38:54,160
I only left the room for cigarettes or something I needed
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00:38:55,390 --> 00:38:57,879
One day I left my house and made a new friend.
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00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:01,740
I didn't know him, but we became friends.
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00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:09,280
One day he asked me why I was like this, depressed.
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00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,520
So I explained my life to him.
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00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,200
Then he smiled at me.
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00:39:15,740 --> 00:39:17,100
He said, "Just that?"
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00:39:18,180 --> 00:39:21,319
He said, "My life is much worse than yours."
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00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:24,280
Then I said to him, "Well how are you like this?"
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00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,800
He said, "Do you really want to know?" I said, "Yes."
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00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,420
He said, "Tomorrow come to my store."
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00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,660
The next day I went to his store.
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00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:36,740
And he witnessed to me.
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00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:41,160
He said, "Anything you need is in this." And he gave me the Word of God.
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00:39:41,780 --> 00:39:44,880
I went home and wrestled with what I heard.
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00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:53,400
My house was very old.
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00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,160
The stones on the floor were loose and make sounds when they move.
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00:39:57,740 --> 00:40:00,299
Every time you walk, they make noise.
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00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,540
As I began to pray, "If you're real, prove Yourself"
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00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,420
Someone walked in front of me on four of the stones.
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00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:16,200
And the room filled with something so thick I couldn't breathe.
555
00:40:17,460 --> 00:40:21,520
Immediately after that I ran to my friend's store.
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00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,600
He said, " This is very normal."
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00:40:24,460 --> 00:40:27,460
"This is just the beginning. You're going to see much more than this."
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00:40:28,940 --> 00:40:31,260
And he witnessed to me in a complete way.
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00:40:33,220 --> 00:40:35,500
He said, "Do you want to receive this God that you just experienced?"
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00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,060
I was so excited to say yes.
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00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,420
And I gave my heart to Christ.
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00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:44,960
AND I'M HOLDING ON
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TO THE CORNER OF YOUR ROBE
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00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:57,540
'CAUSE THERE'S A POWER THERE
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00:40:59,820 --> 00:41:04,020
BEFORE THE GARDENER'S THRONE
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One of the things that I think surprises a lot of people when they first meet a lot of the leaders
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00:41:10,660 --> 00:41:14,700
in the underground church, is that the majority of them are actually women.
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00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,220
It's just overwhelming
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00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,940
when you see the number of women, young women.
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00:41:19,380 --> 00:41:24,860
Oftentimes even teenage women who are at the heads of significant disciple making movements.
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00:41:25,020 --> 00:41:27,620
Women who are willing to lay their lives down.
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00:41:27,780 --> 00:41:30,820
Women who have looked their husbands in the eyes
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00:41:30,820 --> 00:41:34,820
and said,"This message, this fire that I carry in my bones"
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00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:38,040
"is so significant that if it cost me my life"
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00:41:38,420 --> 00:41:40,500
"if it cost me my body..."
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00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,980
I AM NOT AFRAID
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00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:54,080
I AM NOT AFRAID
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00:41:56,340 --> 00:42:00,680
In Iran, women play one of the most critical roles in DMM.
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00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,600
In DMM it doesn't matter if you're male of female, old or young.
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00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,960
Any person at any age can do DMM.
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00:42:10,860 --> 00:42:12,760
This is one of the big problems in the past
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00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:14,840
when we did church planting by other methods.
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00:42:14,860 --> 00:42:17,140
People wouldn't accept a women as leader.
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00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,520
But in DMM we start by being their friends.
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00:42:20,820 --> 00:42:22,860
We see their problems
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00:42:22,860 --> 00:42:24,600
We pray
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00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,259
and God tells us what to say to that person.
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00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:33,500
Men ans women in Iran love this personality that is
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00:42:33,660 --> 00:42:37,740
very interested in understanding their personal lives.
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00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,860
And you can very easily tell your experience as a women, even to a man.
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00:42:42,540 --> 00:42:44,820
You can five testimony of your life to that man.
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00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,259
And even tell him how you were changed
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00:42:47,260 --> 00:42:49,100
and how God did this
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00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:51,540
How through these stories God came into my life
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00:42:51,660 --> 00:42:53,940
and how the God of these stories
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00:42:54,340 --> 00:42:56,100
changed my life.
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00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,000
This is how we start the relationship.
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00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,820
And this is how easy it is to speak as a woman.
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00:43:02,060 --> 00:43:03,540
And after a while
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00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:04,819
very easily
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00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:08,060
you can go deep with their families and their lives.
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00:43:08,580 --> 00:43:11,040
And because DMM is relational and not positional,
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00:43:11,060 --> 00:43:13,000
you just become their best friend.
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00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:19,140
THERE'S A BEAUTY IN OUR PAIN
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00:43:20,740 --> 00:43:25,879
EVERY NIGHT IS A BREAKING DAY
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00:43:27,220 --> 00:43:31,480
WE ARE COLOURED JARS OF CLAY
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00:43:32,420 --> 00:43:41,200
SO CARRY ON
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00:43:44,060 --> 00:43:46,880
When you think about the difference between the God of the Bible
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00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,980
and the god of the Quran...
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00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:52,280
The god of Islam, he is not personal.
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00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:56,200
He is great, he is big, he is almighty, but he is a distant.
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00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:57,200
He is not
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00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:00,200
not the god that gives you a hug, so to speak.
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00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,960
So when you hear these stories what they emanate
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00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,240
is how personal
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00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,320
this God was who was encountering them
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00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,720
so much so that not only does it break you because you hear their stories,
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00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:14,799
but it breaks you because you see in their stories
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00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,960
you see even Jesus' heart for you.
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00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,640
One of the significant truths that
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00:44:23,340 --> 00:44:26,900
the realities that exist in Iran, is that when you're...
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00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,540
When you're caught, you know carrying this Christian message
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00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,900
you can not only lose your life, but you can be raped.
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00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:35,620
And...
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00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:40,960
For a woman to say that this message is so important, this message is so significant
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00:44:42,220 --> 00:44:45,740
that I'm willing to look at my life in light of eternity
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00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,220
and recognize that Jesus has bought me at a great price
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00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:51,740
my body is not my own.
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00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,780
And if the cost that I have to pay
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00:44:53,820 --> 00:44:57,740
the price that I have to pay to see the gospel go forth in my nation
631
00:44:57,740 --> 00:44:59,740
is the laying down of my body...
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00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,200
I grew up in a military family.
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00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:07,660
My parents were in the army of the King, the Shah.
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00:45:11,140 --> 00:45:12,980
When my father retired
635
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,660
he went into business with a man who became his partner.
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00:45:17,540 --> 00:45:19,960
And he brought his friend to our house.
637
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:25,240
When I was five years old the man raped me.
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00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:32,980
He did this for many years. And I was afraid to tell my father.
639
00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:36,300
When my mother found out, she told my father.
640
00:45:36,340 --> 00:45:39,540
He started beating me from that day forward.
641
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,020
My father didn't stop his business with the man.
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00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,779
In fact, he invited him more to our home.
643
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:53,359
From that time on I hated men, I hated men's faces, and I hated men's bodies.
644
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,520
In that moment when he beat me, my relationship with my father broke.
645
00:45:58,540 --> 00:46:02,180
He was supposed to provide shelter for me and provided no shelter.
646
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,240
I learned from my mother, who was an atheist, that God does not exist.
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00:46:12,980 --> 00:46:15,400
She had trained me so well in atheism
648
00:46:15,420 --> 00:46:20,500
that I would prove my Quran teachers wrong at my Quran classes.
649
00:46:21,220 --> 00:46:24,740
In those days my depression became active and deeper.
650
00:46:25,860 --> 00:46:29,200
I took twelve pills a day for my depression.
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00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,780
For two years I couldn't cry or laugh
652
00:46:32,820 --> 00:46:34,980
because I was so high on there psycho-active drugs.
653
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:38,940
I tried - without success - to kill myself five times with pills.
654
00:46:40,740 --> 00:46:46,399
All the houses in the south of Iran have hooks on the ceiling for hanging fans.
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00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:50,120
So I decided to kill myself with a rope.
656
00:46:58,060 --> 00:47:02,160
GETHSEMANE
JERUSALEM
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00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,460
I ate all my pills. And I knew the pills would make me numb.
658
00:47:08,260 --> 00:47:10,340
But before I hung myself I said this to God:
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00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,380
If You actually exist, I want to physically touch You.
660
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,060
I put the rope around my neck and I jumped.
661
00:47:22,500 --> 00:47:24,880
Everything went black and I didn't understand what was happpening.
662
00:47:25,420 --> 00:47:28,260
And for four seconds, I saw Jesus.
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00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:31,740
I saw that I am on His shoulders
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00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,100
like a child that loves his father.
665
00:47:35,940 --> 00:47:38,340
And I always wanted to do this with my father.
666
00:47:46,460 --> 00:47:49,500
SO WIPE THE TEARS
AWAY FROM YOUR EYES
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00:47:49,860 --> 00:47:52,700
AND DRIVE THE FEAR
AWAY FROM YOUR MIND
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00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,480
YOU HAVE NO IDEIA
HOW SAFE YOU REALLY ARE
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00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,080
BELIEVE ME
WHEN I SAY ITS TRUE
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00:48:03,740 --> 00:48:06,240
I AM COMING
BACK FOR YOU
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00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,520
BABY IF YOU ONLY KNEW
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00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,720
HOW SOON
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00:48:13,220 --> 00:48:16,700
I said to Him, "Please don't put me on the ground."
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00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,400
And Jesus said, "I promise I will always protect you."
675
00:48:22,100 --> 00:48:25,779
He said, "I won"t even let a rock strike your foot,"
676
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,920
and repeated all of Psalm 91 to me.
677
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:36,480
I thought it was all only four seconds but when I came to I was laid down on my bed.
678
00:48:37,780 --> 00:48:41,740
When I stood up I saw that my noose was open on the floor.
679
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:44,680
And my neck was all black.
680
00:48:45,260 --> 00:48:47,680
After two years of not being able to cry, I cried for hours.
681
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,160
I knew that God was healing me right now through me crying.
682
00:48:51,020 --> 00:48:52,680
And everything in my past was finished.
683
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,200
In that moment I knew who God was and that it was Christ.
684
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,980
I stopped taking my pills that day
685
00:48:58,540 --> 00:49:00,220
and I slept like a baby at night.
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00:49:01,860 --> 00:49:03,960
TRUST THE FATHER
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00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:07,680
AND TRUST IN ME
688
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:10,700
AND ON HIS LAND
689
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,300
WE'LL BUILD OUR MANSION
690
00:49:15,060 --> 00:49:17,340
THAT WHERE I AM YOU
691
00:49:18,380 --> 00:49:20,900
WILL ALSO BE
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00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,420
WHERE I AM YOU
693
00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:27,259
WILL ALSO BE
694
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,160
When I buried my father, that man that raped me came to the funeral.
695
00:49:32,980 --> 00:49:34,880
He was looking for me and he found me in the crowd.
696
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,859
I tried to hide from him
697
00:49:39,180 --> 00:49:41,120
because I was afraid to see him.
698
00:49:41,580 --> 00:49:44,100
But the Holy Spirit said, "Don't be afraid. I told him to come."
699
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,259
"I want you to see him and forgive him."
700
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,060
And immediately my heart was healed.
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00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:55,300
Did you get your answer?
702
00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:02,779
IRAQ-IRAN BORDER
703
00:50:07,260 --> 00:50:10,760
This week we are on the Iraq Iran border
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00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,180
cross training Iranian and international leaders
705
00:50:14,180 --> 00:50:16,919
to learn from each other and to encourage one another.
706
00:50:17,220 --> 00:50:19,859
A big part of what we're looking at is this issue of
707
00:50:19,860 --> 00:50:22,160
structure and methodology
708
00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:24,979
associated with decentralized leadership.
709
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,520
Also the powerful role of women in disciple making movements.
710
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:33,379
So I love so many of these church planting movements that are rising up
711
00:50:33,380 --> 00:50:36,280
I mean, they're doing amazing things, planting churches
712
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,020
in cities all across the West that we would never expect.
713
00:50:40,300 --> 00:50:42,440
But when it comes to places like Syria,
714
00:50:42,580 --> 00:50:45,259
Tehran, Iran, Afghanistan
715
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,780
these traditional ecclesiological models, they don't often work
716
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:50,400
and we need to be creative
717
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:51,760
we need to be flexible
718
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,480
the Gospel doesn't change, the message doesn't change, the goal doesn't change
719
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,180
but if we can make followers of Jesus, if we can make disciples
720
00:50:59,180 --> 00:51:01,940
we will use any method and any model necessary.
721
00:51:02,020 --> 00:51:08,140
We need to return to the ancient paths and to recover apostolic leadership literacies.
722
00:51:17,580 --> 00:51:21,440
Iran is one of the only countries in the Middle East
723
00:51:21,460 --> 00:51:23,240
that's actually led by women.
724
00:51:23,260 --> 00:51:26,780
The percentage of women is 55% to 45%.
725
00:51:27,220 --> 00:51:29,299
in leadership and in believers
726
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:30,340
and I think
727
00:51:30,740 --> 00:51:32,020
God is saying something.
728
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,799
There's a feminist movement in the West right now.
729
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,180
A lot of it is revolving around sexual abuse.
730
00:51:40,340 --> 00:51:43,300
It's a good thing that it's being exposed and coming into the light.
731
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,680
A lot of it's also revolved around women's rights
732
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,380
equal pay, these types of things.
733
00:51:49,380 --> 00:51:54,360
I've lived in an area on the earth where
734
00:51:54,900 --> 00:51:57,240
women's rights...
735
00:51:57,240 --> 00:51:59,640
It's not even a real thing.
736
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:04,859
What's fascinating about what's happening in Iran right now is that the most powerful leaders are women.
737
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,640
But it's not in a bombastic humanistic way of
738
00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:13,140
I am just as good, I am just as strong
739
00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:15,560
in fact, they are the most gentle women.
740
00:52:15,620 --> 00:52:20,940
I see in contrast to what's emerging in the West
741
00:52:21,940 --> 00:52:25,520
there's so much humanism that
742
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,259
true freedom and Liberation can't come.
743
00:52:28,980 --> 00:52:31,140
There's a fence in bitterness
744
00:52:31,140 --> 00:52:34,839
that's really wiring and fueling this movement in the West.
745
00:52:34,980 --> 00:52:38,740
Whereas here, it's grace, forgiveness
746
00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:43,280
mercy and thankfulness.
747
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,500
SURELY
748
00:52:46,980 --> 00:52:50,340
GOODNESS AND MERCY
749
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,260
FOLLOW ME
750
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,560
FOREVER
751
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,380
One of the things that's problematic in the West
752
00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,020
the West doesn't understand man and woman
753
00:53:07,060 --> 00:53:09,120
is a complete picture of God.
754
00:53:09,780 --> 00:53:15,120
and you can't make one more significant or
755
00:53:15,980 --> 00:53:17,140
more important
756
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:18,799
it's like wich one is more important?
757
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,640
Is Jesus more important than God (the Father)?
758
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,960
Or is the Holy Spirit more important that God (the Father)?
759
00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:26,720
When you look at the Triune, it's a complete picture of God
760
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:30,419
and when you look at man and woman it's a complete picture of God
761
00:53:30,620 --> 00:53:33,080
And this is something that's happening in Iran
762
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:36,580
women are rising up, apostolic women,
763
00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:39,480
prophetic women, teaching women.
764
00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:43,280
The believing women in Iran are actually
765
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,300
some of the most powerful leaders probably
766
00:53:46,940 --> 00:53:48,300
in the world.
767
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,220
Because of the circumstances again, in which they live
768
00:53:52,380 --> 00:53:53,780
they....
769
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,000
They have to go deep in their faith
770
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,600
they have to be bold.
771
00:53:59,820 --> 00:54:01,580
They have to be strong.
772
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:05,740
Not in strength on their own but they have to lean into the strength of God.
773
00:54:05,740 --> 00:54:08,720
You know, God says "I have enough strength, it's your weakness I need"
774
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:13,279
and I believe that they've given Him their weakness and they are leaning into His strength.
775
00:54:13,380 --> 00:54:16,960
They are leading this movement inside of the country
776
00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:20,959
they are going out on the in the highways and byways and sharing
777
00:54:21,060 --> 00:54:22,680
Jesus with
778
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,160
prostitutes, with drug addicts with...
779
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:30,720
Everybody they come in contact with and that honestly takes courage
780
00:54:31,140 --> 00:54:33,339
and so they are courageous women.
781
00:54:33,700 --> 00:54:41,160
In Iran, women in the church are free to speak their mind.
782
00:54:41,660 --> 00:54:48,040
In Iran, women don't have to ask permission to do ministry.
783
00:54:48,700 --> 00:54:53,080
Because so many women in Iran have gone through so many hardships and pain
784
00:54:53,420 --> 00:54:56,140
it's made them very strong inside.
785
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,540
You know, I come from the West
786
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,080
and I come from where life is easy.
787
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,740
We live for our own
788
00:55:05,100 --> 00:55:09,259
pleasure, we live for our own comfort, we live for our own safety
789
00:55:09,620 --> 00:55:11,580
basically, we live for ourselves.
790
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,640
And these ladies...
791
00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:16,540
Live for Jesus.
792
00:55:17,060 --> 00:55:20,480
Meeting these ladies changed me.
793
00:55:20,780 --> 00:55:23,080
And when I see all of these
794
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,580
young and old women
795
00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:29,839
who are leading one of the most powerful
796
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:32,400
resistance movements in the earth
797
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:37,680
it's a Godly resistance movement against the oppression of Satan.
798
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:39,520
They're my heroes.
799
00:55:40,380 --> 00:55:43,140
WHO AM I
TO LEAD MYSELF
800
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,800
WHEN I COME TO KNOW
YOU'RE ALREADY LEADING ME
801
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:53,980
WHO AM I
TO LEAD MYSELF
802
00:55:56,500 --> 00:55:59,180
WHO AM I
TO LEAD MYSELF
803
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,700
WHEN I COME TO KNOW
YOU'RE ALREADY LEADING ME
804
00:56:04,420 --> 00:56:08,100
WHO AM I
TO LEAD MYSELF
805
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:16,380
A lot of Iranian women have a lot of emotional, physical, and mental problems.
806
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:21,180
From being poor, from being raped, from being beaten.
807
00:56:21,820 --> 00:56:24,360
When they become believers, God makes them very strong.
808
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,120
Because of this, they run hard.
809
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,240
Especially women who are addicts.
810
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,220
Because of their former pain, they run hardest.
811
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,120
Immediately they become leaders.
812
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:42,380
The area of the Earth where women are feeling the most oppression
813
00:56:42,380 --> 00:56:44,360
you get the most authority
814
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,020
you get the most influence, you get the most fruit.
815
00:56:48,500 --> 00:56:51,320
And even when we have versus like Second Timothy
816
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,520
women are still in submission to their husbands
817
00:56:55,540 --> 00:56:59,040
just like Jesus was still submitted to the Father
818
00:56:59,220 --> 00:57:00,859
but He still was God.
819
00:57:01,220 --> 00:57:04,620
He still moved, He still was able to minister.
820
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,359
We didn't say, "You know what?"
821
00:57:06,460 --> 00:57:10,260
"Because You're somewhat 'second in command,' You cannot."
822
00:57:10,940 --> 00:57:12,720
And the same is happening inside of Iran.
823
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:17,580
On one hand they understand the order of the church, you know
824
00:57:17,580 --> 00:57:19,900
they're you know in a very biblical way
825
00:57:19,900 --> 00:57:22,640
they're submissive to proper structure and order.
826
00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:24,859
But when it comes to what Satan's doing
827
00:57:24,860 --> 00:57:26,060
they are fierce
828
00:57:26,060 --> 00:57:28,640
they are fierce, you know, these are not like modern
829
00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:32,299
you know, just angry liberal women that are just upset about, no
830
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:36,620
there's a gentleness and a submissiveness that's beautiful
831
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:40,040
and it follows the biblical pattern, but when it comes what Satan's doing
832
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:41,800
no way, they won't have any of it.
833
00:57:42,060 --> 00:57:47,140
In DMM, a bad person can be a good leader.
834
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,880
It could be a woman who killed her husband, or sells drugs, or is a prostitute.
835
00:57:52,260 --> 00:57:54,740
We have a lot of women like this in Iran.
836
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:00,920
This is why there is an awakening inside of Iran.
837
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,540
I'm learning through DMM that everything has a reason.
838
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,740
If the women in Iran have this pain
839
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,279
it is because God has a plan for women in Iran to lead
840
00:58:12,780 --> 00:58:15,000
and to move DMM forward in Iran.
841
00:58:16,020 --> 00:58:16,720
Amen.
842
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:28,200
YOU WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE
843
00:58:29,740 --> 00:58:34,180
I WILL FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO
844
00:58:37,220 --> 00:58:39,720
INDONESIA
845
00:58:43,900 --> 00:58:47,020
I'm a PK, or a pastor's kid.
846
00:58:47,020 --> 00:58:50,440
I've been in and around the church my whole life.
847
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,260
I have a lot of affection for the body of Christ all around the world
848
00:58:54,260 --> 00:58:57,580
so many awesome experiences and great leadership.
849
00:58:57,580 --> 00:59:00,480
But if I'm honest I do see some coming shifts
850
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:04,880
in the way that we as leaders begin to operate particularly in the body of Christ.
851
00:59:04,980 --> 00:59:09,920
One of the things that I've learned from the leaders in the church in Iran
852
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,060
when they see a 19 year old, or a 20 year old, 21 year old
853
00:59:13,220 --> 00:59:18,680
begin to come to Faith, begin to to get passionate about the ministry of the Gospel
854
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:22,660
when they see that person they're visualizing that in a year's time
855
00:59:22,820 --> 00:59:25,640
that person could be leading a church.
856
00:59:25,980 --> 00:59:28,720
That's revolutionary in the way we think.
857
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:33,220
Traditionally if someone's passionate about ministry, maybe they go to some years of training
858
00:59:33,220 --> 00:59:37,520
they serve for 10 years in a row and then maybe at some point
859
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,960
20, 30 years down the road, they would lead an expression
860
00:59:41,100 --> 00:59:43,520
of Gospel Ministry somewhere.
861
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:47,259
I think what's exciting is where we see the church multiplying so rapidly
862
00:59:47,260 --> 00:59:50,560
we see this different kind of philosophy and perspective where
863
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:54,620
instead of trying to continue to build up the center of what we're doing
864
00:59:54,620 --> 00:59:59,540
they're actually beginning to see people as leaders and empower and release them to go run
865
00:59:59,540 --> 01:00:00,900
and build themselves.
866
01:00:00,900 --> 01:00:04,700
Where we're actually saying to people, "God has put a passion in you? Just run."
867
01:00:04,700 --> 01:00:06,120
"And go for it."
868
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,920
And I think that's one of the keys I see where the church is multiplying rapidly
869
01:00:09,940 --> 01:00:12,180
is that heart and that sentiment to say
870
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:16,360
"I see the work of the Lord in your life, I see the anointing on your life."
871
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:17,780
"Go for it."
872
01:00:17,820 --> 01:00:21,420
I have a challenge for the West, and this is my challenge:
873
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,040
What's your discipleship program
874
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,380
for a person like Samson if they came to your church?
875
01:00:28,860 --> 01:00:30,680
Would you make them a leader?
876
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:36,140
Samson wasn't just a leader; he was a hero of faith.
877
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:40,740
But I know many churches would say, "You have character issues,"
878
01:00:40,900 --> 01:00:44,200
"You have anger issues. You have lust issues."
879
01:00:44,540 --> 01:00:47,860
"Fix that first, and then I'll put you in leadership."
880
01:00:48,140 --> 01:00:53,200
But in DMM, we don't look at the outside, we're looking at the inside
881
01:00:53,220 --> 01:00:55,839
wich means we're looking at the hand of God.
882
01:00:55,860 --> 01:00:59,100
And in DMM you see the hand of God on people.
883
01:00:59,220 --> 01:01:03,060
This is why we have people like Samson and they're leading hundreds
884
01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:04,620
even thousands of people to Christ.
885
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:06,879
This is why we have prostitutes
886
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,780
who are leading hundreds of other prostitutes to Christ
887
01:01:09,780 --> 01:01:12,560
because Jesus knows what He's doing.
888
01:01:12,780 --> 01:01:14,840
When we give people that kind of permission
889
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,080
I think that's where we begin to see the fruit
890
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,140
begin to be born so rapidly.
891
01:01:20,140 --> 01:01:26,660
But here's the other thing, we have to be willing to go through the mess that producing creates.
892
01:01:26,900 --> 01:01:29,040
A graveyard has perfect order
893
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:31,620
but in nurseries there's life.
894
01:01:32,700 --> 01:01:37,180
The people that Jesus chose, I know for us it would be very hard to choose them
895
01:01:37,180 --> 01:01:39,379
because we're looking at the outside
896
01:01:39,460 --> 01:01:42,120
but the thing is, we need to look where God's hand is
897
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:46,000
and DMM is all about the Holy Spirit and who He has chosen.
898
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,780
So when we look at a Muslim context in terms of
899
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:58,240
you know, envisioning the advance of the Gospel in the Middle East
900
01:01:59,260 --> 01:02:02,960
the hardware, if we can use the the computer analogy
901
01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:06,180
the hardware that we have right now in the West
902
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,240
can't run the software of the Gospel in the Middle East.
903
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:14,640
In fact, I don't even think it can run in the U.S., I don't even think it can run in Europe, but
904
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:18,820
we're still perpetuating this model
905
01:02:18,820 --> 01:02:21,140
we're still selling the hardware.
906
01:02:21,260 --> 01:02:24,520
Even though we haven't quite realized in the West that
907
01:02:24,700 --> 01:02:26,319
our software doesn't run on it.
908
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:30,380
You know, I think you come to a place like this
909
01:02:30,660 --> 01:02:34,580
you know, a mosque in the midst of the Muslim world
910
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,420
and you start asking these questions, "How could the gospel take root here?"
911
01:02:38,420 --> 01:02:43,480
"How could we see a multiplication movement start here?"
912
01:02:43,820 --> 01:02:48,820
Where we can see leaders released now
913
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:53,540
at the very beginning, not five years into the thing.
914
01:02:53,620 --> 01:02:55,560
So there's this shift that we would begin to go
915
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,520
you know, I'm not afraid of things being a little disorderly.
916
01:02:58,620 --> 01:03:01,839
I'm not afraid of how people might perceive me or my ministry
917
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,380
I'd rather have life
918
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,340
I'd rather have new babies around the house
919
01:03:05,340 --> 01:03:10,180
I'd rather see people learn and grow by making mistakes early
920
01:03:10,180 --> 01:03:12,940
so that they can lead boldly and powerfully.
921
01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:16,760
Are people building churches, and there are lots of churches
922
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,300
and people joining churches in Iran?
923
01:03:19,300 --> 01:03:20,680
Or what does it look like?
924
01:03:20,780 --> 01:03:21,840
No.
925
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,420
They are destroying all the church buildings inside of Iran
926
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:27,560
And they are closing them all.
927
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,620
Is there is church, it is all underground.
928
01:03:39,700 --> 01:03:43,379
SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH
929
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:53,259
Saint Paul's Church is the oldest church structure in southeast Asia.
930
01:03:57,660 --> 01:04:03,640
Though the structure of the building remains standing, the Gospel itself never took root.
931
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:11,500
Today it is a tourist attraction for Muslims in a Muslim-majority nation.
932
01:04:12,660 --> 01:04:15,100
You know, the message is always been the same
933
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,339
the gospel message hasn't changed.
934
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:20,560
I think the methodologies overtime have to because
935
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:22,759
there's always change on the earth.
936
01:04:23,060 --> 01:04:25,240
And so we are standing in this
937
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:29,400
this church today, which is now a tourist attraction
938
01:04:29,860 --> 01:04:32,620
because at some point it became irrelevant.
939
01:04:33,180 --> 01:04:38,339
You know, and so I think we just need to evaluate how we're reaching people
940
01:04:38,620 --> 01:04:42,819
and we can't fall in love with the method, we have to stay in love with Jesus
941
01:04:42,820 --> 01:04:46,340
and then we have to do, we have to figure out how to connect with people.
942
01:04:46,340 --> 01:04:49,480
Because people want to, it's a connection with people, it's a relationship.
943
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:55,080
It's not a system, or a methodology, we just can't fall in love with methods or practices.
944
01:04:55,300 --> 01:04:57,440
It's about the person of Jesus coming
945
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:58,860
giving His life.
946
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:03,840
And this person knowing that there's a need inside of them
947
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:07,400
and He's the one that fulfills the need.
948
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:11,100
But sometimes these structures have created
949
01:05:12,500 --> 01:05:15,240
places that actually make it harder
950
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:18,740
even though the the intent was not that in the beginning
951
01:05:18,740 --> 01:05:22,399
and perhaps it was even something that was fruitful at the time.
952
01:05:22,860 --> 01:05:24,840
But there's seasons for everything.
953
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,660
So I think we continually have to evaluate how we're reaching people.
954
01:05:30,060 --> 01:05:35,640
I remember having a conversation with one of the leaders in the church in Iran
955
01:05:35,900 --> 01:05:39,520
and I was asking them, you know, what is the secret to
956
01:05:39,940 --> 01:05:43,880
to the power dimension that's flowing through the body there
957
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,500
the signs, the wonders, the supernatural things that they're seeing
958
01:05:47,500 --> 01:05:49,260
you know on a daily basis.
959
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:51,780
And his answer was
960
01:05:51,780 --> 01:05:54,020
not what I expected but really insightful
961
01:05:54,020 --> 01:05:58,840
and he talked about how the body, he used the living stones passage
962
01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,460
where we're living stones being fit together.
963
01:06:01,460 --> 01:06:04,760
And it's those living stones that become the habitation
964
01:06:04,980 --> 01:06:06,460
of Jesus in the earth.
965
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,140
And you know, he was saying how they do
966
01:06:09,140 --> 01:06:12,879
they go on a retreat and they'll be 80 people sharing two bedrooms
967
01:06:13,060 --> 01:06:15,960
And so all this Collision happens.
968
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:20,060
And the cool thing is they don't have anywhere else to go, so instead of like breaking off and
969
01:06:20,060 --> 01:06:23,660
starting another church, they stay together and endure
970
01:06:23,660 --> 01:06:26,279
the positioning of their lives
971
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,500
these living stones and they're fitted into an actual
972
01:06:29,500 --> 01:06:32,520
spiritual and physical structure,
973
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:34,520
a collection of human beings
974
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:39,640
that now become the habitation of Jesus in their region.
975
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:46,120
You know, if we did a case study on all of the places that the Gospel is advancing right now in the Middle East
976
01:06:46,740 --> 01:06:53,319
and we do a study of the kind of leadership structures that have been implemented at the foundational ground level
977
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:58,680
What we see is is that the leadership is decentralized
978
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:00,279
and it's distributed.
979
01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:07,700
Meaning it's not based around a particular model, is not based around a particular
980
01:07:07,940 --> 01:07:12,480
individual or skill set or gifting it's built around
981
01:07:12,660 --> 01:07:17,200
in Ephesians 4 framework of empowering everyone in the body
982
01:07:18,620 --> 01:07:20,560
to be all things to all men
983
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:25,480
with the fullness of the power of the Holy Spirit being manifest through all of us.
984
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:29,120
Now, when Paul was writing to the church in Ephesus he said guys look
985
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:32,540
the same grace that was given to me, to be an apostle
986
01:07:32,540 --> 01:07:36,720
is the same grace that has been given to each of you, to all of us.
987
01:07:36,820 --> 01:07:41,500
Which means if the same Grace that was available to make Paul an apostle
988
01:07:41,500 --> 01:07:44,500
if that same Grace is available for the entire body of Christ,
989
01:07:44,500 --> 01:07:48,000
that means that the entire body of Christ should have
990
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:52,640
the Yoke of leadership upon them for disciple-making,
991
01:07:52,780 --> 01:07:58,280
for the apostolic, for the prophetic, for the evangelistic, for the pastoral and for the teaching.
992
01:07:58,380 --> 01:08:03,100
But if we reduce the church to pastoral and teaching ministry
993
01:08:03,100 --> 01:08:05,400
and we sever the rest of it
994
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:09,980
and we just try to throw evangelism in or throw the prophetic in or throw the apostolic in,
995
01:08:09,980 --> 01:08:12,300
it's going to undermine
996
01:08:12,780 --> 01:08:15,940
the church's ability to actually be Church.
997
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:20,840
The paradigm shift when it comes to structures and even as we stand in this ancient churches
998
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:26,340
the realization that Jesus isn't looking to inhabit buildings.
999
01:08:26,580 --> 01:08:28,340
We've had buildings.
1000
01:08:28,460 --> 01:08:33,279
And obviously, as we look out on the nations and as we're standing in an old structure
1001
01:08:33,979 --> 01:08:35,660
It hasn't worked.
1002
01:08:35,779 --> 01:08:38,719
And so if we can begin to perceive the people
1003
01:08:39,020 --> 01:08:42,140
as the stones, the living stones.
1004
01:08:42,140 --> 01:08:47,460
The people as the structure that's gonna bring the habitation of Jesus in our midst
1005
01:08:47,460 --> 01:08:49,640
if we can believe that and buy into that,
1006
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:53,140
then we can commit to cultivating and developing
1007
01:08:53,279 --> 01:08:57,319
human structures of people, discipleship making movements
1008
01:08:57,319 --> 01:08:59,620
where we're bringing people together
1009
01:08:59,620 --> 01:09:05,300
understanding that is actually the pathway that brings the glory in the presence of Jesus.
1010
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:10,360
The software of the Gospel will not run on the hardware
1011
01:09:11,180 --> 01:09:14,000
of western church in the Middle East.
1012
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:18,840
We need to have different hardware to run the software and until that happens,
1013
01:09:18,979 --> 01:09:22,740
we are going to be unable to see the Gospel advance
1014
01:09:22,740 --> 01:09:28,660
and take root in an indigenous, autonomous way in the Muslim world.
1015
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:36,500
CHAPTER THREE
They Loved Not Their Lives Unto Death
1016
01:09:40,180 --> 01:09:44,760
JUDEAN WILDERNESS
OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM
1017
01:10:02,380 --> 01:10:06,820
The most mind-blowing aspects of the church in Iran in particular
1018
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:11,179
is that, central to their their theology
1019
01:10:11,540 --> 01:10:15,480
the Redemptive Theology and their understanding not only of
1020
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:21,320
who Jesus is, what he came to do, but what He will return to do.
1021
01:10:22,620 --> 01:10:27,200
Is a Covenantal Theology that has Israel at the center.
1022
01:10:27,420 --> 01:10:28,740
I mean, think about that.
1023
01:10:28,860 --> 01:10:32,400
I love the way the Lord loves to just flip the script.
1024
01:10:32,540 --> 01:10:37,640
You know in the natural when you ask most people, "What is the greatest existential threat to Israel?"
1025
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:39,640
And everyone's going to say Iran, and that's true.
1026
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:44,240
In terms of the potential ability to literally wipe Israel out its Iran.
1027
01:10:44,460 --> 01:10:48,280
But behind the scenes in terms of what's behind the curtains, what is God doing?
1028
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:52,620
The fact of the matter is right now God is raising up in Iran
1029
01:10:52,620 --> 01:10:55,559
one of the greatest fastest-growing movements
1030
01:10:55,700 --> 01:11:00,420
of former Muslims that are falling in love with not only the God of Israel,
1031
01:11:00,540 --> 01:11:05,320
not only Israel's King, not only Israel's Messiah, but they're actually falling in love with
1032
01:11:05,420 --> 01:11:07,980
the Jewish people, and as a result of this
1033
01:11:08,060 --> 01:11:11,620
you have a prayer movement, in Iran
1034
01:11:11,620 --> 01:11:15,780
that is crying out for and praying for the salvation of Israel.
1035
01:11:15,780 --> 01:11:18,120
I mean, this is something only God can do that.
1036
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:22,900
Iran and Israel or the Persians and the Jews,
1037
01:11:22,900 --> 01:11:26,099
have a very long history.
1038
01:11:31,300 --> 01:11:38,700
THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING
1039
01:11:54,340 --> 01:11:57,660
When you think about the political realities in the news
1040
01:11:57,660 --> 01:12:01,639
you see Israel and Iran as being arch enemies.
1041
01:12:02,020 --> 01:12:07,920
But you have this church that's growing in the underground in Iran, explosively
1042
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:12,800
and at the core, the center of their theology is Jesus on the throne.
1043
01:12:12,900 --> 01:12:16,900
Not just Jesus on a heavenly throne, but Jesus literally returning
1044
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:18,559
to this city,
1045
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:21,700
to return to Jerusalem to sit on a throne.
1046
01:12:22,060 --> 01:12:24,640
And holding that at the core of their theology
1047
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,960
think about how provocative that is.
1048
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:34,860
If the fastest growing church in the world today is growing in the heart of the Muslim World, in Iran
1049
01:12:35,220 --> 01:12:40,320
beloved I have believed that we're on the cusp of something very profound and very dramatic
1050
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:45,480
in the Middle East but globally as well, and this is going to have implications here in Israel.
1051
01:12:45,480 --> 01:12:50,799
We need to understand that dark, dark days are coming for the Jewish people,
1052
01:12:50,980 --> 01:12:53,500
for the state of Israel, for the land of Israel.
1053
01:12:53,500 --> 01:12:58,100
And that there is a mounting conflict and a mounting crisis that's going to culminate in
1054
01:12:58,180 --> 01:13:01,740
the humbling and the crushing and the breaking
1055
01:13:02,020 --> 01:13:07,300
of the strengths of this beloved people, that the Lord loves so much.
1056
01:13:07,500 --> 01:13:11,740
In order for the church to be mature in the generation of the Lord's return
1057
01:13:12,020 --> 01:13:17,300
we need to be full of mature, fervent, tested love for the Jewish people
1058
01:13:17,300 --> 01:13:23,920
that can endure the fires and the tribulation that's mounting on the horizon.
1059
01:13:56,140 --> 01:14:00,220
I love getting western believers together
1060
01:14:00,220 --> 01:14:02,580
with the underground believers, because
1061
01:14:02,660 --> 01:14:07,700
you know in the West we have wonderful theology of victory
1062
01:14:07,700 --> 01:14:10,480
we have theology of prosperity and all of these things,
1063
01:14:10,480 --> 01:14:14,780
we have good theology of healing and I love all of those things.
1064
01:14:14,940 --> 01:14:18,500
However, often times we are really weak
1065
01:14:18,500 --> 01:14:22,700
when it comes to a proper biblical theology of suffering
1066
01:14:22,940 --> 01:14:27,540
and we're definitely weak when it comes to a proper biblical theology of martyrdom.
1067
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,220
And this is why I think that we in the West too
1068
01:14:30,220 --> 01:14:32,880
are bought in to standing with Israel
1069
01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:37,380
or those who are antagonistic to it need to hear the witness of the church in Iran
1070
01:14:37,380 --> 01:14:40,740
because they're not saying that we should stand with them just on some political level.
1071
01:14:40,740 --> 01:14:46,200
In terms of spectrum I think that's the weakest and most shallow expression of solidarity
1072
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:50,700
acknowledging the legitimacy of Jewish presence and Jewish state in the Middle East
1073
01:14:50,700 --> 01:14:53,840
it's actually standing with them in future suffering
1074
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:57,940
when persecution breaks out during the future time of Jacob's trouble
1075
01:14:57,940 --> 01:15:01,280
and we enter into that season with them shoulder-to-shoulder.
1076
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:05,340
And the church in the Middle East desperately needs this.
1077
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:09,040
You look at the early church, they believed in martyrdom
1078
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:12,840
they believe that martyrdom was actually the greatest success.
1079
01:15:12,980 --> 01:15:18,179
If you were if you were martyred for the faith, this was the greatest example of bearing witness
1080
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:20,880
of bearing witness to who Jesus is, why?
1081
01:15:21,020 --> 01:15:23,780
Because it communicates something very powerfully.
1082
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:29,160
It says that I believe in the resurrection of the dead
1083
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:32,880
and because of what Jesus did for me, I will be raised up.
1084
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:36,000
That's the Gospel, that is the summation of the Gospel.
1085
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:37,560
And it's demonstrated.
1086
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:39,920
You can't demonstrate it any more powerfully
1087
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,920
than laying down, the one life that we have
1088
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,940
laying it down saying, "He's going to raise me up on that day."
1089
01:16:03,860 --> 01:16:06,839
We're here in Luxembourg meeting with
1090
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:10,040
our FAI family as well as the Maranatha family.
1091
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:14,620
We've been meeting in several different cities here in Europe
1092
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:19,760
with some representatives and leadership from the church of Iran.
1093
01:16:20,020 --> 01:16:25,640
One of the reasons we've come together is because we really want to look at what's happening in Iran
1094
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:28,700
and we want to learn from it.
1095
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:34,520
We're not just wanting to learn from their success in their ministry
1096
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:37,260
so that we can grow in success in our own ministry
1097
01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:41,480
but we're wanting to learn from the vibrant relationship
1098
01:16:41,740 --> 01:16:44,200
with the Lord that the individuals have.
1099
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:47,900
NEUMÜNSTER ABBEY
LUXEMBOURG
1100
01:16:48,500 --> 01:16:50,740
The most impactful thing that
1101
01:16:51,100 --> 01:16:53,400
he shared with me was a story about
1102
01:16:53,700 --> 01:16:57,800
his wife actually, something that his wife said that has really stuck in my head.
1103
01:16:58,060 --> 01:17:02,320
He talked about how years ago they
1104
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:05,220
had an opportunity to move to the United States
1105
01:17:05,580 --> 01:17:07,740
and live there, so they did.
1106
01:17:08,380 --> 01:17:11,800
And then after being in the United States for a short period of time
1107
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,880
his wife began to plead with him to take her back to Iran
1108
01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:18,440
which he felt like was crazy.
1109
01:17:18,440 --> 01:17:22,960
I mean who wants to move back to Iran under all sorts of
1110
01:17:23,140 --> 01:17:27,440
oppression, where the sharing of your faith could
1111
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:33,620
bring the end of your life or brutal incarceration or rape or all sorts of horrible things.
1112
01:17:33,620 --> 01:17:34,960
Who wants to do that?
1113
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:39,040
I mean who wants to move from the United States to Iran?
1114
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:41,060
She told him
1115
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:44,440
there is a satanic lullaby here
1116
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:49,320
and all the Christians are sleepy and I'm feeling sleepy.
1117
01:17:50,300 --> 01:17:53,540
And that, that little story...
1118
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:59,140
Disturbed me because this woman was discerning a threat
1119
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,660
to her faith that was a greater threat than
1120
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:05,140
the kind of persecution that happens in Iran.
1121
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,780
And that threat was spiritual sleepiness.
1122
01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:11,920
That is a more dangerous situation than persecution
1123
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:16,260
and had to ask myself the question, "Is that true? Is that true?"
1124
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:19,540
BRUSSELS
BELGIUM
1125
01:18:19,880 --> 01:18:23,840
It's impossible to come to Europe and not be confronted with this reality
1126
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:25,180
of dead religion.
1127
01:18:25,180 --> 01:18:29,960
As we've been bouncing around from city to city across this incredible continent
1128
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:33,480
and pondering, and wrestling with what the Lord is doing in Iran
1129
01:18:33,480 --> 01:18:38,440
I can't help but feel that the Lord wants to confront the dead religion in our lives
1130
01:18:38,440 --> 01:18:41,099
and He wants to do it through the church in Iran.
1131
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:44,820
Now historically when the Lord confronts the spirit of religion
1132
01:18:45,100 --> 01:18:49,760
What He does is he takes insignificant women and he puts them in the middle of the room
1133
01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:55,260
and He allows them to express themselves and their affection
1134
01:18:55,300 --> 01:18:59,760
and their love and their allegiance to Him.
1135
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:04,040
And He allows the confrontation, the collision of that thing to take place.
1136
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:07,800
I really believe the church and Iran is like a corporate Mary of Bethany that is
1137
01:19:07,940 --> 01:19:12,759
confronting all of the opposition in our own Hearts to giving everything that we have for the Lord.
1138
01:19:14,260 --> 01:19:17,180
CLAIREFONTAINE
BELGIUM
1139
01:19:18,620 --> 01:19:20,920
Actually, persecution keeps you clean
1140
01:19:21,380 --> 01:19:24,000
in the sense that, when you're in that persecuted state,
1141
01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:26,059
you're constantly
1142
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:27,700
leaning into God.
1143
01:19:27,700 --> 01:19:30,220
You're constantly running to Him as your refuge.
1144
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:33,380
When I look at the witness of Scripture
1145
01:19:33,380 --> 01:19:36,140
and I look at the witness of Christian history,
1146
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:37,840
what I see
1147
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:43,719
is that whenever ease and affluence and power
1148
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:46,620
is given to the church it seems to disease.
1149
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:49,460
And it does all kinds of damage.
1150
01:19:49,580 --> 01:19:53,320
Not only is it introduced the kind of motivational corruption
1151
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:55,040
that just diseases the church,
1152
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:57,940
but it just seems to produce lethargy
1153
01:19:58,020 --> 01:19:59,260
and indifference
1154
01:19:59,300 --> 01:20:01,300
It's through this pressure
1155
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:03,660
hardship and suffering
1156
01:20:03,680 --> 01:20:05,640
that people are coming to Jesus.
1157
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,100
I'd rather have them suffer and
1158
01:20:08,260 --> 01:20:10,140
and be under pressure and
1159
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:12,860
be under and authoritative dictatorship
1160
01:20:13,300 --> 01:20:15,140
and millions come to Jesus
1161
01:20:16,060 --> 01:20:19,560
and maybe even the whole country can come to Jesus
1162
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,740
than freedom
1163
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:23,980
openness and democracy
1164
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:26,420
and half those people come to Jesus.
1165
01:20:28,440 --> 01:20:34,440
What's in front of persecuted Christians frequently
1166
01:20:35,300 --> 01:20:36,440
is
1167
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,860
what the Gospel is all about.
1168
01:20:41,660 --> 01:20:46,920
And what's in front of affluent Christians in a free society
1169
01:20:47,020 --> 01:20:52,780
is not only that but a whole range of options for life
1170
01:20:53,100 --> 01:20:55,680
and for time and for use of money.
1171
01:20:56,620 --> 01:21:00,880
And that is a dangerous thing.
1172
01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:04,440
In Revelation, the only church
1173
01:21:04,440 --> 01:21:07,360
that was not critiqued by Jesus
1174
01:21:07,620 --> 01:21:09,599
was the first church [Smyrna].
1175
01:21:09,860 --> 01:21:11,200
And the first church,
1176
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:12,720
is the only church
1177
01:21:12,740 --> 01:21:16,620
that was truly under suffering and persecution
1178
01:21:16,620 --> 01:21:18,220
the whole time.
1179
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,680
I'd rather see millions of people come to Jesus
1180
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:23,480
than have freedom.
1181
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:28,140
I'd rather see millions of people come to Jesus than
1182
01:21:28,760 --> 01:21:30,540
democracy.
1183
01:21:30,980 --> 01:21:33,660
We're playing for eternity here, this is not
1184
01:21:33,700 --> 01:21:36,360
something temporal like, "OK the're free to
1185
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:38,559
not wear head scarf, they're free
1186
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,120
to choose theirs elected officials."
1187
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:43,540
If freedom was such a great thing for
1188
01:21:43,540 --> 01:21:45,540
the Kingdom
1189
01:21:45,740 --> 01:21:49,500
then why is America and Europe in the state that is now?
1190
01:21:49,980 --> 01:21:54,879
What's happening in Iran right now is they're experiencing God as being
1191
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:59,880
all sufficient in His ability to deliver people.
1192
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:03,420
Not necessarily out of their circumstances
1193
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:06,480
but in their soul find the deliverance
1194
01:22:06,480 --> 01:22:10,780
and life that goes far beyond having a nice life here on this earth,
1195
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:15,000
but a hope for something that lasts for eternity.
1196
01:22:15,260 --> 01:22:17,620
And to me, that's the difference.
1197
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:23,300
The church in the West is living for, "How can we make this life the best possible life?"
1198
01:22:23,740 --> 01:22:28,980
And the church in Iran is saying, "Forget this life, I'm living for the next one."
1199
01:22:34,540 --> 01:22:40,519
We can learn so much from the people in persecution like our Iranians brothers and sisters.
1200
01:22:40,520 --> 01:22:44,760
How they are doing? They have to do it, they have to do it, and it works.
1201
01:22:45,300 --> 01:22:47,440
It is decentralized
1202
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:53,520
it is a movement of brothers and sisters without big leadership.
1203
01:22:53,740 --> 01:22:56,320
They are led by the Holy Spirit
1204
01:22:56,320 --> 01:22:57,880
and they trust each other.
1205
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,100
Living relationship living unity
1206
01:23:00,100 --> 01:23:04,720
and it works, people are coming hundreds, thousands are coming to follow the Lord.
1207
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:09,780
And if it works in places of persecution
1208
01:23:10,440 --> 01:23:12,019
why don't we learn from them?
1209
01:23:12,020 --> 01:23:16,500
Why don't we start doing it here before the persecution for us is coming?
1210
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:21,000
Why don't we start now being trained in to do it the same way?
1211
01:23:21,100 --> 01:23:26,140
So the harvest is big and if we see that it works there why shouldn't it work here?
1212
01:23:26,140 --> 01:23:28,540
Let's start doing the same thing.
1213
01:23:28,540 --> 01:23:31,440
Not what the Iranians do, let's do
1214
01:23:31,580 --> 01:23:34,920
what Jesus did, He called them to the table.
1215
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,400
The Iranians do what Jesus did.
1216
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:43,440
Let's do what Jesus did and learn from the Iranian people how to do it.
1217
01:23:45,060 --> 01:23:50,060
For her, lethargy and indifference was a greater threat than persecution.
1218
01:23:52,620 --> 01:23:53,760
And it is.
1219
01:23:54,220 --> 01:23:55,580
It simply is.
1220
01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:58,660
LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
1221
01:23:59,220 --> 01:24:01,360
WITH A DOG IN THE FIGHT
1222
01:24:01,980 --> 01:24:04,820
TOOK THE WORLD BY SURPRISE
1223
01:24:07,480 --> 01:24:09,900
YOU WOKE THE WOODS FROM ASLEEP
1224
01:24:10,220 --> 01:24:12,540
BLEW THE WIND THROUGH THE TREES
1225
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:16,160
SHOOK THE DUST FROM THE LEAVES
1226
01:24:18,460 --> 01:24:21,100
EVERYTHING THIS IS GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING
1227
01:24:21,740 --> 01:24:26,420
THIS IS GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING
1228
01:24:32,920 --> 01:24:35,180
ALL THE REDS TURN TO BLUES
1229
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:37,880
ALL THE OLD TURNS TO NEW
1230
01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:43,060
If we're confessing with our mouths that Jesus is Lord
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we should not only begin to be like Him,
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01:24:49,480 --> 01:24:52,839
but it should change everything about our lives.
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01:24:53,220 --> 01:24:55,300
And when you're with these women
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01:24:56,140 --> 01:24:58,980
you can see, they've been with Him.
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01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:02,460
They're just fiery and fruitful, and
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01:25:03,460 --> 01:25:06,060
I couldn't honestly say that right now
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01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,520
In the environments I've been in that would be true.
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01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:12,740
I'm believing, we're praying, we're hoping
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01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:14,540
that that will be true.
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01:25:14,700 --> 01:25:18,519
I believe the Lord wants to deal with decisive blow to dead religion
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01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:20,460
in us and around us.
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01:25:20,460 --> 01:25:25,620
I believe that the church in Iran is the instrument that He wants to use in our generation
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01:25:25,620 --> 01:25:27,680
to catalyze this globally.
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01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:33,240
THE ONE WHO STAYS IN MY LOVE
WHO TAKES HIS LIFE AND GIVES IT UP
1245
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:36,280
HE IS THE ONE
WHO HAS ENOUGH
1246
01:25:36,940 --> 01:25:39,000
HE HAS EVERYTHING
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01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:46,620
I really do believe that meeting Jesus should change everything in our lives.
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01:25:46,820 --> 01:25:50,320
And if it's not, then I don't know if we know Him.
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01:25:51,180 --> 01:25:54,280
EVERYTHING THIS IS GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING
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01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:59,040
THIS IS GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING
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01:26:02,420 --> 01:26:07,460
THIS IS GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING
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01:26:16,440 --> 01:26:21,299
I think if we were to try to characterize the days that we're living in, we're living in days of
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01:26:21,980 --> 01:26:28,000
radical decentralization and the distribution of everything that possibly can be distributed.
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01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:31,599
You know back in the day information was controlled.
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01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:36,600
You know leadership, government, military, economy
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01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:40,660
everything was very controlled and centralized, and today everything's being decentralized.
1257
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:45,680
The center of everything is disappearing and going away and everything is being distributed.
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01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:47,220
BASTOGNE
BELGIUM
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01:26:47,220 --> 01:26:52,100
It's empower the average person to have access to information
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01:26:52,260 --> 01:26:54,920
in a way that has never been available in human history.
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01:26:54,920 --> 01:26:57,240
So in a lot of ways dictators,
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01:26:57,360 --> 01:27:01,240
they can try but they really can't hold on to power the way they used to be able to.
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Dictators may be able to hold on to power with, you know, an iron fist
1264
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,500
but they don't have the hearts of the people anymore
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01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:10,660
they can't control the hearts of the people.
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01:27:10,666 --> 01:27:12,770
We look at dictators and we say, "Yeah amen."
1267
01:27:12,770 --> 01:27:15,488
But the fact is, it's the same thing in the church.
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01:27:15,555 --> 01:27:20,155
The church structures in the West for a very long time have been very
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01:27:20,244 --> 01:27:23,000
centralized and very non distributed.
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01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:27,488
There have been historically, If we're honest, there have been dictators in the body of Christ
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01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:30,133
and their time is gone, their hour is over.
1272
01:27:30,244 --> 01:27:32,910
And the Gospel, it belongs to everyone.
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01:27:32,910 --> 01:27:36,288
It's a pyramid structure of a few people leading the many
1274
01:27:36,466 --> 01:27:41,422
and what we see in an age of distribution is that we see the many
1275
01:27:41,644 --> 01:27:44,800
distributing leadership among themselves very broadly,
1276
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:47,355
and I believe that's at the heart of Maranatha.
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01:27:47,422 --> 01:27:52,111
Maranatha is a decentralized fellowship of disciple-makers
1278
01:27:52,177 --> 01:27:55,133
and churches globally that are operating within this
1279
01:27:55,311 --> 01:27:59,376
this context of decentralization and distribution of leadership.
1280
01:27:59,444 --> 01:28:03,244
I believe in this final hour we're stepping into a period
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01:28:03,330 --> 01:28:08,260
when we will all share resources because we have a common goal.
1282
01:28:08,260 --> 01:28:11,550
It's no longer about this ministry has this kingdom
1283
01:28:11,550 --> 01:28:14,480
and this preacher has his particular platform.
1284
01:28:14,480 --> 01:28:18,080
If we don't lay down our ministries, lay down our platforms
1285
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:21,622
for the common cause of the completion of the Great Commission
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01:28:21,755 --> 01:28:26,350
then in my opinion, we're going to be swept to the side really just within a few years.
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01:28:26,350 --> 01:28:29,680
Maranatha is an Aramaic word that's actually a play on words
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01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:32,710
and depending on how you pronounce it, it means either
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01:28:32,710 --> 01:28:35,133
"The Lord has come", in the past
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01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:39,044
or "Lord come" or "the Lord is coming", in the future.
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01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:45,510
And this message of Maranatha, I believe what Paul is using it as is a way to centralize
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01:28:45,688 --> 01:28:48,600
the message and the thought life
1293
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:52,130
and the feelings, the emotions, the hope of the early church
1294
01:28:52,130 --> 01:28:55,750
around a centralized message while decentralizing
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01:28:55,750 --> 01:28:59,480
and distributing leadership of the of the heralding
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01:28:59,480 --> 01:29:03,311
and proclaiming of that message throughout the known world.
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01:29:03,577 --> 01:29:05,711
Maranatha means to me...
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01:29:08,155 --> 01:29:12,688
We all know the story of Zacchaeus sitting on this tree
1299
01:29:13,088 --> 01:29:16,532
this small guy no one taking care for.
1300
01:29:16,933 --> 01:29:21,680
But Jesus came and He saw him, He saw him
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01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:23,555
and said, "Come down."
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01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,022
"I have a little booklet for you, read it."
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01:29:26,088 --> 01:29:29,487
"At the end of the booklet there's a prayer, if you pray it you will go to heaven."
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01:29:30,044 --> 01:29:34,110
"And I invite you for next shabbat to come into the synagogue."
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01:29:34,110 --> 01:29:36,710
"I have a nice message, it will change your life."
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01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:38,420
No, He didn't.
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01:29:38,420 --> 01:29:41,111
He said, "Come down, I have to eat with you."
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01:29:41,844 --> 01:29:43,777
"I have to have dinner with you."
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01:29:43,844 --> 01:29:47,422
"I have to eat at your table, I want to sit at your table."
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01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:51,644
He visited him in his house and they had community
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01:29:51,755 --> 01:29:53,800
and Zacchaeus was changed.
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01:29:53,955 --> 01:29:58,288
I saw a message from a group of Iranian believers
1313
01:29:58,911 --> 01:30:03,533
were essentially they were bringing blessing and greetings
1314
01:30:03,777 --> 01:30:07,555
for a group of us who gathered to
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01:30:07,844 --> 01:30:11,800
align ourselves around the purposes of God and to celebrate
1316
01:30:11,977 --> 01:30:16,288
this incredible watchword, this cry
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01:30:16,466 --> 01:30:20,280
this prayer, this reality called Maranatha.
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01:30:20,280 --> 01:30:23,400
I seen this group of Iranian believers who are
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01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:27,177
using the same word, they're saying to us, "Maranatha, come Lord."
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01:30:27,311 --> 01:30:31,510
What hit me in the moment was that these guys really believed it.
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01:30:31,730 --> 01:30:34,843
If it's possible to sense something more than just what you can hear in your ears
1322
01:30:34,844 --> 01:30:37,680
with you know, your spiritual ears, what I was hearing was
1323
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:42,200
this Maranatha cry where they were literally asking the Lord to come now.
1324
01:30:42,266 --> 01:30:46,643
In the early church that was predominantly Jewish you would greet each other and say, "Shalom, Shalom."
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01:30:46,800 --> 01:30:51,970
But as the church became more and more gentile, Shalom didn't work as an appropriate greeting anymore
1326
01:30:51,970 --> 01:30:54,800
because how would a gentile and a Jew greet each other?
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01:30:54,933 --> 01:30:59,370
And so Maranatha became adopted as the way of expressing
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01:30:59,370 --> 01:31:04,200
your unity and the identification as believers in this Global Fellowship.
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01:31:04,333 --> 01:31:07,554
I believe this is at the heart of what the Maranatha family is today.
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01:31:07,622 --> 01:31:11,970
It's connecting believers all around the world together in a spirit of fellowship
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01:31:11,970 --> 01:31:14,510
and a spirit of loyalty and affection and love
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01:31:14,510 --> 01:31:17,440
that we would be knit and joined together for the growing up
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01:31:17,440 --> 01:31:20,465
and the maturity of the church before the return of the Lord.
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01:31:20,888 --> 01:31:25,355
And there's some movement coming of these little ones, that no one takes care for
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01:31:25,622 --> 01:31:28,440
and the Lord is telling them, "Come to the table."
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01:31:28,440 --> 01:31:30,200
"I want to sit at your table."
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01:31:30,200 --> 01:31:35,266
And they are inviting others on their table and they will be changed, they will be moved.
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01:31:35,377 --> 01:31:40,680
The big religion organizations, one day they will realize that there's a movement
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01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:42,355
they know nothing about it.
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01:31:42,466 --> 01:31:45,600
They know nothing about it because it's decentralized
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01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:48,533
it is a movement of the little ones.
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01:31:48,555 --> 01:31:51,880
I am a little one and I want to go with this little ones.
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01:31:52,020 --> 01:31:56,888
In the world there are many Zacchaeuses waiting at the back of the crowd to see Christ
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01:31:56,970 --> 01:32:01,022
But praise the Lord that our God was denied ans a "stone rejected."
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01:32:01,170 --> 01:32:04,755
In DMM all the stones that have been rejected and denied have a place.
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01:32:04,911 --> 01:32:08,130
I've rejected people because of the way they look.
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01:32:08,260 --> 01:32:10,511
But the Lord corrected my wrong judgment
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01:32:10,600 --> 01:32:13,111
and the person I don't think that God could ever use
1349
01:32:13,222 --> 01:32:15,240
is the one who is an apostle for Christ.
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01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:17,621
This is the power of the Holy Spirit.
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01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:20,022
And this is Maranatha.
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01:32:20,644 --> 01:32:21,666
Praise the Lord.
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01:32:23,222 --> 01:32:25,288
When Paul said Maranatha what he's saying is this
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01:32:25,355 --> 01:32:32,776
"The basis of our unity as believers doesn't have to be an a thousand-point theological doctrinal statement."
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01:32:32,955 --> 01:32:36,440
"Do you guys in Corinth believe that he came once for sin?"
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01:32:36,440 --> 01:32:37,620
They would say, "Yes."
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01:32:37,620 --> 01:32:41,220
"Do you believe coming again for judgment and to restore all things?"
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01:32:41,220 --> 01:32:42,240
They would say, "Yes."
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01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:44,933
And he would say, "Then we're brothers, Maranatha."
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01:32:44,933 --> 01:32:46,733
and they would say, "Maranatha" back.
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01:32:46,933 --> 01:32:51,066
The part of their Maranatha cry is even if you wait, even if you tarry
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01:32:51,266 --> 01:32:55,710
I'll lay my life down, I'll give whatever it takes because I know you're going to pick it back up.
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01:32:55,777 --> 01:32:59,733
If we would embrace this eternal perspective
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01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:01,933
what might we do?
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01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:05,888
I think the modern church, we've got the Hallelujah down
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01:33:05,955 --> 01:33:09,600
but I think we've forgotten the Maranatha cry of the early church.
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01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:11,220
We've lost that cry
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01:33:11,220 --> 01:33:14,022
"Come Lord Jesus! How much longer?"
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01:33:14,422 --> 01:33:17,133
And so to me Maranatha is a recovery
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01:33:17,222 --> 01:33:22,532
of the Maranatha cry that drove them, this urgency that drove that early church
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01:33:22,755 --> 01:33:26,044
to turn the ancient world upside down in just a generation.
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01:33:26,088 --> 01:33:28,040
And I think we're about to do it again.
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01:33:28,688 --> 01:33:31,177
WITH FIRE IN HIS EYES
AND HAIR LIKE WOOL
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01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:34,466
AND A VOICE LIKE A TORRENT
OF WATERS SO FULL
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01:33:34,977 --> 01:33:37,550
OUT OF HIS MOUTH COMES
A DOUBLED EDGED SWORD
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01:33:37,955 --> 01:33:40,333
HE'S COMING IN GLORY
HE'S COMING TO MAKE WAR
1377
01:33:41,022 --> 01:33:43,530
WITH FIRE IN HIS EYES
AND HAIR LIKE WOOL
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01:33:44,088 --> 01:33:46,911
AND A VOICE LIKE A TORRENT
OF WATERS SO FULL
1379
01:33:47,533 --> 01:33:49,930
OUT OF HIS MOUTH COMES
A DOUBLED EDGED SWORD
1380
01:33:50,466 --> 01:33:52,800
HE'S COMING IN GLORY
HE'S COMING TO MAKE WAR
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01:33:53,950 --> 01:34:02,487
MARANATHA COME LORD JESUS
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01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:05,400
RETURN TO US
1383
01:34:06,480 --> 01:34:14,910
MARANATHA COME LORD JESUS
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01:34:15,510 --> 01:34:17,977
RETURN TO US
1385
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:20,800
I BELIEVE HEAVEN WILL OPEN UP
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01:34:21,355 --> 01:34:24,040
AND THE SON OF MAN HE WILL COME FOR US
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01:34:24,533 --> 01:34:27,640
AT THE END OF THE AGE WE WILL BEHOLD THE KING
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01:34:27,911 --> 01:34:29,644
COMING ON THE CLOUDS IN ALL HIS GLORY
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01:34:29,866 --> 01:34:31,420
Look at the totality of Scripture
1390
01:34:31,420 --> 01:34:33,910
Genesis to Revelation and this whole story
1391
01:34:33,910 --> 01:34:36,711
this massive story of God's love for us and
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01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:38,866
His desire to redeem
1393
01:34:38,911 --> 01:34:41,422
all that fell apart in the first couple of chapters.
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01:34:41,488 --> 01:34:46,488
I think you can almost hear the cry from the garden of Maranatha.
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01:34:46,533 --> 01:34:50,260
Even from the second chapter, the third chapter of the Book of Genesis
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01:34:50,260 --> 01:34:55,266
is there a better word? Is there a deeper cry from the human heart than, "Come Lord"?
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01:34:55,777 --> 01:34:57,730
FROM BETHLEHEM
1398
01:34:58,466 --> 01:35:01,350
TO JERUSALEM
1399
01:35:01,955 --> 01:35:04,240
FROM GALILEE
1400
01:35:04,770 --> 01:35:07,111
OH TO BETHANY
1401
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:10,730
HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL
1402
01:35:11,111 --> 01:35:13,955
HE'LL ALWAYS BE
1403
01:35:14,460 --> 01:35:17,111
SO FAITHFUL
1404
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:20,066
AND SO WE SING
1405
01:35:20,844 --> 01:35:23,000
FROM BETHLEHEM
1406
01:35:23,622 --> 01:35:26,420
TO JERUSALEM
1407
01:35:27,088 --> 01:35:29,400
FROM GALILEE
1408
01:35:30,066 --> 01:35:32,309
OH TO BETHANY
1409
01:35:32,933 --> 01:35:35,733
HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL
1410
01:35:36,377 --> 01:35:39,044
HE'LL ALWAYS BE
1411
01:35:39,288 --> 01:35:42,376
SO FAITHFUL
1412
01:35:42,777 --> 01:35:45,111
AND SO WE SING
1413
01:35:46,288 --> 01:35:54,709
MARANATHA COME LORD JESUS
1414
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:56,733
RETURN TO US
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01:35:56,950 --> 01:35:58,800
"Maranatha" in the church in Iran
1416
01:35:58,800 --> 01:36:00,240
is believing what has happened
1417
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:02,800
that Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected
1418
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:05,820
and looking forward to Jesus coming back
1419
01:36:05,820 --> 01:36:07,288
That is our compass.
1420
01:36:07,510 --> 01:36:10,020
This is the place where we look at the world.
1421
01:36:10,020 --> 01:36:12,711
This is our frame of mind in the sense that
1422
01:36:13,133 --> 01:36:16,220
when we walk outside, we really don't care
1423
01:36:16,220 --> 01:36:19,330
If we get arrested, we're not upset if we get arrested.
1424
01:36:19,330 --> 01:36:22,933
What's fifty years in prison compared to eternity with Jesus?
1425
01:36:23,333 --> 01:36:25,554
I BELIEVE HEAVEN WILL OPEN UP
1426
01:36:25,933 --> 01:36:28,555
AND THE SON OF MAN HE WILL COME FOR US
1427
01:36:29,066 --> 01:36:32,330
AT THE END OF THE AGE WE'LL BEHOLD THE KING
1428
01:36:32,666 --> 01:36:35,911
COMING ON THE CLOUDS IN ALL HIS GLORY
1429
01:36:43,400 --> 01:36:45,066
Just two days ago
1430
01:36:45,466 --> 01:36:48,266
the head of the IRGC airspace division
1431
01:36:48,570 --> 01:36:51,177
boasted that Iran is capable building missiles
1432
01:36:51,311 --> 01:36:53,888
with a range Beyond 2000 kilometers.
1433
01:36:54,755 --> 01:36:59,150
He said quote, "We have the ability to build missiles with broader ranges."
1434
01:36:59,311 --> 01:37:02,532
"We don't have limitations from a technical perspective."
1435
01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:06,888
He also said, "There are many enemy bases within 800 kilometers of Iran."
1436
01:37:06,977 --> 01:37:10,333
"In other words, within striking distance of Iranian missiles."
1437
01:37:10,844 --> 01:37:15,000
He bragged that Iran does 40 to 50 tests per year.
1438
01:37:15,577 --> 01:37:19,755
As I'll talk about further, it is clear that the Iranian regime ballistic missile activity
1439
01:37:19,844 --> 01:37:22,133
has grown since the nuclear deal.
1440
01:37:23,177 --> 01:37:27,799
Iran has exploited the goodwill of nations and defiled multiple Security Council Resolutions
1441
01:37:27,977 --> 01:37:31,177
in its quest for a robust ballistic missile force.
1442
01:37:31,666 --> 01:37:33,911
The United States will never stand for this.
1443
01:37:34,177 --> 01:37:38,311
No nation that seeks peace and prosperity in the Middle East should either.
1444
01:37:38,555 --> 01:37:43,711
Iran has amassed the largest ballistic missile force in the Middle East today.
1445
01:37:46,570 --> 01:37:53,000
They provide funding and arms to Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Bashar al Assad, Hashd al Sha'abi, and others
1446
01:37:53,844 --> 01:38:03,930
President Trump cited the absence of missile constraints in the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) as one of its major flaws and a primary reason for withdrawing from the agreement.
1447
01:38:04,620 --> 01:38:13,510
Despite sanctions and mounting pressure, the Iranian regime continues to engineer, test, employ, and export their strategic weapons.
1448
01:38:14,244 --> 01:38:23,110
They are also demonstrating equal resolve to expand and accelerate their nuclear weapons program.
1449
01:38:23,970 --> 01:38:30,600
With or without nuclear weapons, they have cleary and definitely articulated their ultimate edgame.
1450
01:38:32,422 --> 01:38:36,977
All roads lead to Jerusalem.
1451
01:38:38,460 --> 01:38:40,260
... the Zionist regime [will see]
1452
01:38:40,260 --> 01:38:43,240
that the strategy for its elimination from
1453
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:46,888
the world's political geography has crystalized
1454
01:38:47,170 --> 01:38:51,933
and that the capacity to implement this strategy has also crystalized.
1455
01:38:52,244 --> 01:38:54,170
We are warning them:
1456
01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:58,840
"You are bringing yourselves closer to death."
1457
01:38:59,600 --> 01:39:01,844
The Israelis can rest assured
1458
01:39:01,977 --> 01:39:05,040
that this will bring about their elimination.
1459
01:39:05,550 --> 01:39:09,866
They should look for cemeteries outside of occupied Palestine.
1460
01:39:10,311 --> 01:39:17,200
I want everybody who hears me, all the powers,
1461
01:39:17,730 --> 01:39:19,732
I want them all to realize the new reality
1462
01:39:20,088 --> 01:39:24,349
regarding the missile force of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1463
01:39:25,066 --> 01:39:29,019
No technical obstacles are preventing us from increasing the range,
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the precision, or the destructive power of our long-range missiles.
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MOUNT OF OLIVES
JERUSALEM
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Because the church in Iran, I believe in the Lord's perspective is not just about
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raising up the fastest growing church in the world.
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I believe it's about raising up a resistance church in the heart of the Middle East that will lead
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by example for the rest of the nations around the Middle East
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when the final scourge and the final invasion,
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the final wave of persecution hits the Jewish people.
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01:40:08,466 --> 01:40:12,220
In Zechariah 14 it says that before He steps on this hill, the Mount of Olives
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that half of this city will go into captivity.
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That the houses will be pillage, the women will be raped, possessions will be stolen.
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We see that they're dividing up Jewish land and Joel chapter 3.
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01:40:23,333 --> 01:40:26,310
Matthew 24 says that when you see the invasion begin
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01:40:26,310 --> 01:40:30,220
get out of the city, don't turn back, don't go get stuff, don't turn around
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flee, flee to the mountains, get out of the city.
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These are a couple of, literally hundreds of passages that talk about
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a future calamity that will befall the Jewish people
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01:40:39,844 --> 01:40:44,666
on the soil upon which this age-old controversy began.
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01:40:44,822 --> 01:40:50,311
And when that happens, the nations around Israel are going to be called into account.
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Will they stand with the invaders and the persecutors
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01:40:54,370 --> 01:40:57,888
or will they stand against it and stand with the Jewish people?
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01:40:58,330 --> 01:41:03,150
Most people naturally think of Iran and Israel as mortal enemies
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and there's no question that,
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the Iranian regime is a tremendous threat to Israel.
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01:41:07,822 --> 01:41:10,733
But historically, when you look at Biblical history
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there were episodes where the Persian peoples were a tremendous blessing to Israel.
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And I'm convinced that those events in history, when Cyrus actually
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sends Israel out and gives them permission and commissions them
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to actually rebuild the temple in this sort of thing.
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I believe all of that is a powerful, was a powerful prophetic foreshadow
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01:41:31,640 --> 01:41:32,977
of the blessing,
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01:41:33,177 --> 01:41:38,755
the blessing that the Iranian people will be to God's covenant people in the last days.
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01:41:38,911 --> 01:41:41,420
I believe with the Lord is doing through the church in Iran
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01:41:41,420 --> 01:41:44,510
is a raising up a resistance church that's not only gonna
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01:41:44,510 --> 01:41:48,420
stand against the plans of the evil one for the extermination of the Jewish people
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01:41:48,420 --> 01:41:50,220
not only they're going to stand against it,
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they're going to be used as an agent to provoke the Jewish people to salvation during those days.
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And in those days what we're going to see is the same dynamics that we see in the Book of Esther
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01:42:00,440 --> 01:42:05,510
that what Satan meant for evil, God is using for good.
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01:42:05,550 --> 01:42:10,660
Don't you find it interesting how much hatred comes from Iran
1504
01:42:10,660 --> 01:42:13,200
but maybe not that much from Saudi Arabia
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01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:15,530
maybe not that much from Kuwait
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01:42:15,530 --> 01:42:18,770
or even Egypt, very powerful Sunni countries
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01:42:18,770 --> 01:42:22,440
but all the hatred, all the rhetoric comes from Iran.
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01:42:22,440 --> 01:42:25,355
Why? Because we have a spiritual destiny
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01:42:25,355 --> 01:42:27,349
of brotherhood, of family.
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01:42:27,866 --> 01:42:31,200
We were not created for this world.
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We were chosen to wage jihad.
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01:42:36,570 --> 01:42:40,288
We shall fight them on a global level, not just in one spot.
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01:42:41,022 --> 01:42:42,911
Our war is not a local war.
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01:42:43,688 --> 01:42:48,022
We have plans to defeat the world powers.
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01:42:49,044 --> 01:42:51,532
We are planning to break America,
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01:42:51,955 --> 01:42:53,680
Israel,
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01:42:54,155 --> 01:42:58,911
and their partners and allies.
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01:42:59,480 --> 01:43:06,133
Our ground forces should cleanse the planet from the filth of their existence.
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01:43:06,711 --> 01:43:09,550
This is the news that we receive inside of Iran
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01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:12,422
that Israel loves to kill the Palestinians and watch their blood run in the streets.
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01:43:12,570 --> 01:43:15,177
This is why many Iranians hate the Jews.
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01:43:15,266 --> 01:43:18,240
But God transforms our perspective on the Jews when we come to Christ
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01:43:18,266 --> 01:43:22,110
and we fall in love with the Jews.
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01:43:22,460 --> 01:43:25,710
We find out that what they learned was a lie,
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and we learn what the truth is.
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01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:31,088
But when they find the truth that is in the Word
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and that Jesus is a Jew, immediately transformation happens
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and they love the Jews.
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01:43:38,155 --> 01:43:43,022
You think about the role of the nations to provoke the Jews to jealousy
1530
01:43:43,222 --> 01:43:46,177
and I think that oftentimes is like an American
1531
01:43:46,288 --> 01:43:50,640
who is an Evangelical believer who comes to Israel to tour the land
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01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:54,577
and to be able to say to the Jewish people, "I love you and I love your land."
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01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:58,060
And I love it because you know, this is the place where my Lord
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lived and died and rose again, and He'll return to, and
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01:44:01,260 --> 01:44:04,355
I don't know that always strikes them as being provoking.
1536
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When I think of an Iranian
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01:44:06,822 --> 01:44:10,288
interacting with a Jewish person
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and saying, "I love you."
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"And I love your land because I believe it's the place that my Lord will come, Jesus will come."
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"And rule and reign, and for that reason, I will lay my life down for you."
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01:44:24,577 --> 01:44:26,600
I don't think provoking the right word.
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01:44:28,733 --> 01:44:33,733
Provoking almost minimizes what that might look like to a Jewish heart.
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01:44:33,844 --> 01:44:36,370
When you talk about provoking the Jew to jealousy
1544
01:44:36,370 --> 01:44:38,177
I don't know if it gets any better than that.
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I believe with all my heart that
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01:44:40,840 --> 01:44:43,440
the spirit of Islam, which is Haman,
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very soon is going to hang by its own neck
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and Iran is going to open the flood gates of the Gospel into Israel.
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CHRISTCHURCH
JERUSALEM
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Christchurch is the oldest Protestant Church in the Middle East.
It is situated in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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I believe with all my heart that
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Iran is like Esther.
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01:45:37,020 --> 01:45:39,310
She is going to go to the King
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01:45:39,310 --> 01:45:41,422
and ask for the freedom
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01:45:41,930 --> 01:45:43,177
of the Jews.
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01:45:43,480 --> 01:45:47,133
What Iran is literally going to do is
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they're going to bring the Gospel to free the Jews.
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01:45:50,822 --> 01:45:53,911
Imagine when their mortal enemies
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are transformed to their best friends
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trough the blood of Christ.
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01:45:59,666 --> 01:46:01,660
On the outside looking in
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01:46:01,660 --> 01:46:05,333
it sometimes appears as though Satan has
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01:46:05,555 --> 01:46:08,970
affected very strategic victories
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01:46:08,970 --> 01:46:12,711
I mean, because of the astounding success of Islam all over the Earth.
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01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:15,080
Even though it looks that way
1566
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:18,110
even though it looks as though the enemy is prevailing
1567
01:46:18,110 --> 01:46:21,330
and that his plots and his schemes are actually going to win
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01:46:21,330 --> 01:46:23,600
going to prevail over the purposes of God,
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01:46:23,822 --> 01:46:27,822
that is absolutely not the end of the story.
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01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:34,621
What we're seeing right now is the early stages of a profound plot twist.
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01:46:36,333 --> 01:46:42,177
The gallows that Haman built to execute his plan of genocide
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01:46:42,460 --> 01:46:48,511
was used as the instrument by which he himself was hung.
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01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:53,866
The noose that's about to be put around the devil's neck Is this:
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01:46:54,044 --> 01:46:56,530
The fullness of the gentiles coming in,
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01:46:56,530 --> 01:46:59,866
the salvation and the deliverance of the Jewish people
1576
01:46:59,933 --> 01:47:02,666
and the return of Messiah to Jerusalem
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01:47:02,711 --> 01:47:06,710
to establish His forever rule and His Forever reign
1578
01:47:06,710 --> 01:47:11,755
when He will wipe away all tears in vindicate every promise that was ever made.
1579
01:47:13,088 --> 01:47:16,350
The culmination of this great drama of the ages
1580
01:47:16,350 --> 01:47:20,288
is the devil hanging on his own gallows.
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01:47:20,377 --> 01:47:22,488
SOMEONE'S ON THE PROWL
1582
01:47:23,930 --> 01:47:26,511
TRYING TO TAKE US DOWN BUT
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01:47:27,444 --> 01:47:29,688
WE AIN'T GIVING UP
1584
01:47:33,755 --> 01:47:36,133
THE LIAR AND THE THIEF
1585
01:47:37,133 --> 01:47:39,370
COMING AFTER YOU AND ME
1586
01:47:40,733 --> 01:47:43,111
WE AIN'T GIVING UP
1587
01:47:46,977 --> 01:47:49,420
THE HARDER THE WIND WILL BLOW
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01:47:50,355 --> 01:47:52,330
THE DEEPER OUR ROOTS WILL GO
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01:47:53,955 --> 01:47:56,133
AND THE DEVIL IS GONNA HANG
1590
01:47:56,733 --> 01:47:59,240
THE DEVIL IS GONNA HANG
1591
01:48:00,022 --> 01:48:03,111
OH THE DEVIL IS GONNA HANG FROM
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01:48:03,533 --> 01:48:07,370
HIS OWN GALLOWS
1593
01:48:18,511 --> 01:48:20,755
THE WATERS TRY TO DROWN
1594
01:48:21,977 --> 01:48:24,570
AND THE FLAMES THEY SURROUND
1595
01:48:25,666 --> 01:48:27,777
WE AIN'T GIVING UP
1596
01:48:31,844 --> 01:48:34,066
EVEN THOUGH WE MAY TREAD
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01:48:34,970 --> 01:48:37,488
THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH
1598
01:48:38,911 --> 01:48:41,133
WE AIN'T GIVING UP
1599
01:48:45,377 --> 01:48:47,577
THE HARDER THE WIND WILL BLOW
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01:48:48,800 --> 01:48:50,770
THE DEEPER OUR ROOTS WILL GO
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01:48:51,311 --> 01:48:54,244
AND THE DEVIL IS GONNA HANG
1602
01:48:55,244 --> 01:48:57,480
THE DEVIL IS GONNA HANG
1603
01:48:58,377 --> 01:49:01,333
OH THE DEVIL IS GONNA HANG FROM
1604
01:49:01,800 --> 01:49:06,177
HIS OWN GALLOWS
1605
01:49:29,644 --> 01:49:31,880
IF YOU'RE STUMBLING IN THE DARK
1606
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:35,822
RUN YOUR HANDS AGAINST THE WALLS
1607
01:49:36,333 --> 01:49:38,821
FIND EVERY WINDOW AND EVERY DOOR
1608
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:42,600
THROW THEM OPEN
1609
01:49:43,177 --> 01:49:45,554
IT WILL FLOOD A BLINDING LIGHT
1610
01:49:46,466 --> 01:49:49,200
IT WILL CHASE AWAY THE NIGHT
1611
01:49:49,800 --> 01:49:52,622
EVEN IF YOU SHIELD YOUR EYES
1612
01:49:53,177 --> 01:49:55,969
LET IT POUR IN
1613
01:49:56,822 --> 01:49:59,330
IF YOU'RE STUMBLING IN THE DARK
1614
01:49:59,710 --> 01:50:02,711
RUN YOUR HANDS AGAINST THE WALLS
1615
01:50:03,377 --> 01:50:05,888
FIND EVERY WINDOW AND EVERY DOOR
1616
01:50:06,440 --> 01:50:09,333
THROW THEM OPEN
1617
01:50:10,111 --> 01:50:12,443
IT WILL FLOOD A BLINDING LIGHT
1618
01:50:12,866 --> 01:50:15,688
IT WILL CHASE AWAY THE NIGHT
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01:50:16,155 --> 01:50:19,177
EVEN IF YOU SHIELD YOUR EYES
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01:50:50,844 --> 01:50:53,133
THE HARDER THE WIND WILL BLOW
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01:50:54,040 --> 01:50:55,844
THE DEEPER OUR ROOTS WILL GO
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01:51:42,711 --> 01:51:48,577
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