A Word to Followers of Jesus in Jerusalem, Israel — George Verwer

Father in heaven, we do love you Lord. We thank you for what you're doing through George and Thank you Lord for his sacrifice for dream. Lord the family we ask your blessing on them Lord. We want to hear what you have to say to us this evening.

We asked especially for George Lord that Your word should go forth through him from here from Zion from Israel to the ends of the earth.

Bless him make him a blessing in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. I'm so happy to see these young Young lads we say in England sitting here in the front row. Because a lot of the churches I go to just before I preach the people that age walk out.

Isn't that an irritation? And I understand that because so many of the speakers, you know are boring and they want to get the kids out. So they don't have to suffer. But I just want to say a little word to you in the front row here that following Jesus.

Following Jesus as the Adventure of a Lifetime

It's not the same as going to church. Going to church is good. Sometimes it's boring. But following Jesus is the most exciting thing you can ever do and here's my testimony. I started this when I was only 16.

I've never had a boring day. I'm an old man. Now. I have grandchildren your age. I've never had a boring day. Here's another thing. It's a lot of fun. Don't think if I become a radical disciple of Jesus and really start to get serious about my faith.

Then I'm no longer have any fun. I don't understand the fun thing because underneath it all. I'm a very serious person and I want to reach the world with the gospel and it's life and death. It's heaven or hell.

But there's a fruit of the Spirit which is love and joy. The joy must be tied in with with what God does and I don't know if you'll understand this phrase but for a while as a as a Christian in the early days, I didn't understand what it was to be fully human and When you're fully human, you'll have fun because you'll laugh at yourself.

You'll laugh at others. I mean, I think of some of the people here. I mean, it's really just a look at them you know, you could you could just start laughing and God has a sense of humor you read the Bible carefully.

God has a sense of humor. So I've had all these years all over the world. I've been in 80 countries. I've had fun. I've cried as well. Another thing it's a great adventure and I'm finding the younger younger generation.

Quite a few of them. They're more interested in adventure than their parents. A lot of the parents were really quite boring never did much. And we don't want to judge him for that, you know God has a saves all kinds but Following Jesus is an adventure and so I hope I hope that I get some of you on our ship and I hope you'll all follow Jesus because there's so few I Promise as long as I'm alive every time you email me.

I'll send you a free book a music CD. Who knows if you go into missions, I'll send you each one of you hundreds of dollars. Just got to tell me where to send it. So we're glad you're here. All the rest of you are excluded from those offers.

But we're glad for these young lads. I don't know where the young girls are in this movement. But maybe this is what happens here in Israel. I'm so excited about tonight the thing that gets me excited next to Jesus is seeing old friends really and To see so many one at a time is enough.

I had Victor Samaja yesterday afternoon. I had Roger Elbel for lunch. Very tasty. I had George Khalil from Nazareth, you know, I remember when I first met him carpenter from Nazareth and his wife. Yesterday we had supper together in the YMCA a couple of days ago.

A man took me to have a meal in the King David Hotel. I had bream. That's a fish. 100 of these Israeli, you know shekels. Wow, the King David Hotel. This has been a very special trip, and I hope I can be a better ambassador of Israel.

When I go from here, I know Nathan will be and we're just excited about this this little opportunity To be with you. I want to read Psalm 67. I've been at a businesspersons conference of business people from all over Europe.

Most of the speakers were Israeli people and I was the foreign speaker and It was I think it was quite a balance because they all talked about Israel. And I talked about all the rest of the world and we got the balance.

Then we had a lady from the Knesset come Jewish lady last night and Pay tribute to us and told us about this new Department of the Knesset which their whole thing is to build partnership with Christians so you'll want to meet her and have a time of prayer over there with her in the Knesset or wherever they have their prayer and It's exciting these are difficult days for planet earth if you think things heat are heating up here with what the Hamas becoming the political Leaders over there.

Believe me globally. It's heating up more than here and Don't don't just be aware of what's happening here. I wonder how many of you are following the dafur. The dafur crisis of the Sudan raise your hand.

It's the largest single genocide going on in the world in these past few years. They've been other genocides the Tutsi and the Hutu that was 700 ,000 and I know people here, especially Palestinian people.

And I sympathize with them. I simply try to sympathize with all who think they're suffering. But people who think they're suffering here. They often don't know what's going on in the rest of the world.

There's almost no comparison to all the suffering you've gone through here which is a lot to me every every bomb is one bomb too much every Death is one death. The dafur have had two and a half million people displaced in one year and There's nowhere to go.

They're starving. They've had 200 ,000 slaughtered and before and this is Muslim killing Muslim just so you understand this is in southern Sudan. They have peace there, you know after two million dead.

They have peace. This is Arab background Muslim killing black African Muslim Second-class citizens 200 ,000 dead this is on the news again today. But the UN the USA all the great nations we should all be humbled the whole world should be humbled that we cannot do better with these global crises and The fact that Muslims who I love are not that concerned about 200 ,000 Muslims who got slaughtered in dafur and it's going on tonight.

Most of the women get raped first. They also this particular militia. There are many malicious. They like to behead so many are beheaded first that is just one of probably ten major hotspots on planet Earth right now and I believe as believers as Believers in Jesus you have to be different than the rest of the people in Israel the rest of the people in Israel.

They will mainly be concerned about Israel. They'll be concerned about their family about their little turf about their economic situation and true of Palestinians as well and They're just human beings if they don't know the spiritual revolution of first Corinthians 13.

The whole message of love which there are seeds of in the Old Testament like hey Old Testament verse Love your neighbor as you love yourself. And if I ever got into a synagogue, that's what's when I'd preach on right out of the Old Testament.

But the average person has not experienced this revolution of love. It's also true of the average Christian. So we're not lifting up Christians saying they're all always better than Jews or better than Muslims.

It's not that simple is it but people who know this revolution of love they are different and They are concerned About other people in other nations they're concerned about the issue of human rights. Some of you got my business card on the back of my business card.

Are seven areas that I'm giving a time to children at risk abused women. Extreme poor 20 live in extreme poverty, you know, very little of that. In West Bank or in Israel proper extreme poverty, you know a lot about poverty.

But the kind of poverty I've seen in Kenya 1 million people Living in a total slum where in Britain you'd be in trouble if you kept your dog there. Children at risk abused women the extreme poor the HIV AIDS patient 42 million infected.

When will God's people start to get a little concerned about this HIV thing? Does it have to be like your brother your sister your child die? This is not a homosexual thing. That's 20 years out of date this is going among people of all different so-called sexual orientation and It really is moving fast.

A lot of people have HIV. They don't even know it because there's denial is denial in the part of the church part of the government. And so it spreads it's horrendous people who can't get water. That's a surprise praise God the church is beginning to give drinking water as well as the water of life the unborn the whole crisis of the slaughtering of the unborn and then Mr. Planet who I brought with me the environment and I would appreciate your prayers as I've got very involved in these Issues and the opportunity to speak on radio and television and some very large churches 5 ,000 people last weekend alone.

The Whole Counsel of God and the Calling of Every Vocation

The priority for me is still the whole Council of God. It's winning people to the Lord. It's seeing the church built up and transformed, but I believe these areas that I just touched on it's all part of building the kingdom and One of the things I'd ask you to do you're probably already doing it is affirm believers.

Affirm them as first-class citizens no matter what job they do. Do not allow this divide between those of us who are called missionaries. Or, you know full-time pastors we praise God for such people that's my calling.

But I know now that the business people have supported me all these years. That they're together. We're together. They're just as much part of the kingdom and I'm just so convinced We need to honor business and professional people and if you're in that category many of you are I honor you.

Your job is important to God your job is important to God. It may be much harder to see than my job. My job is easy to see and it's important. You know, I've never liked that. I've never liked that hardly for a day, but other jobs.

But you know if it wasn't for those people in the other jobs Characters like me we wouldn't be doing much because they're supplying the prayer. They're supplying the finance. They're holding the rope.

Now that's not the only thing they're doing that's a great mistake if we think business people professional people. The main thing they do is work so they can give their money to characters like us. That is the old paradigm.

That's out their work as well as part of the kingdom and We can dream dreams. We can pray prayers and we can see how people in the political world people in the business world people in the sports world.

People in the world of arts that was a real transformation and I'm indebted to dr Schaefer for helping me understand the place of the arts the place of music in the kingdom not just Christian music all kinds of music Part of the kingdom and I think in some ways in your powerful culture here in Israel.

That you you can experience these things quicker than some people in other parts of the world just so many gifted people so many Intelligent wonderful exciting people from all over the world and in Israel is such a miracle such a miracle and It doesn't mean there's not a lot of pain and that the road ahead will be easy.

Psalm 67 and the Blessing of the Nations

Here's my Psalm. Psalm 67 missionary Psalm. May God be merciful and bless us and let's just say, you know, I haven't primarily come here tonight to get a blessing. I'm not here primarily recruiting for OAM or trying to get your money or something.

I'm here just as God's servant and I do apologize for not coming here before now. I don't know why I Don't understand it. Oh, I'm got so big I had to give so much of my time to finding the finance and the recruits.

I think previous visits here were discouraging for me for whatever reason. But the truth is I don't know why I haven't come here. More often I think the fact that I am Overwhelmingly committed to this whole giant part of the world from Morocco all the way to Indonesia and those special people.

That probably was a factor, but I think it's too complicated for me to understand. But he brought me here now and he's always forgiving me for my stupid mistakes. So I believe he wants to bless us tonight.

He wants to bless you. I know it's not easy to sit through maybe a long meeting. I'll try to be short and Maybe reward you at the end. I don't know we can go get an ice cream or something, but He wants to bless us.

He wants to bless you in your marriage. He wants to bless you in your business. That blessing sometimes comes only after a time of suffering and testing. But I believe God wants to bless. May his face shine with favor upon us.

Whoa, that's beautiful, isn't it? May your ways be known throughout the earth. You're saving power among people everywhere. I wonder there may be a Jewish friend here and many of you a Jewish background.

How do they handle that Psalm? You're saving power among people everywhere. Maybe I'll ask one of you after the meeting to the really dedicated Jews have full assurance of salvation. That they'll be with God in heaven.

They moment they die. From what I've studied they don't seem to have that so I don't know what keeps him going. I don't know what they do with this Psalm. You're saving power among people everywhere. May the nation's praise you.

Oh God. Yes, may all the nation's praise you. How glad the nation's will be singing for joy. Because you govern them with justice and direct the actions of the whole world. May the nation's praise you.

Oh God. Yes, may all the nation's praise you. Then the earth will yield its harvest and God our God will richly bless us. Yes, God will bless us and people all over the world will fear him. Now you may feel that the church here in Israel is growing a little slow or maybe you're hyper optimist.

You think it's growing fast. But I think it's important to realize we are part of the whole church throughout the whole world. So we rejoice with those that rejoice the fact that 20 of all the people in Brazil are praising and worshiping Jesus.

We rejoice in that and With a little more action we could get a lot more Brazilians to Israel unless maybe their passport any Brazilians here. They're one of the greatest missionary forces in the world today.

I just spoke to 1 ,000 Brazilian leaders. This message that I just read on the back of the card only the message takes 40 minutes. Ninety percent stood up to say I want to be a good Samaritan. I want to be a good Samaritan.

It was based on the Luke 10 the Good Samaritan. And I just believe with all my heart though. Your priority is Israel and some of you may be prioritizing on Arab people some on Jewish people some on hippies and new age Jews, which I all I heard about never even hardly knew they existed until Janice Parachuted into London and took over one of our prayer meetings.

I never thought I'd get back but that was a joke and now she's going to Thailand and We got a lot of amazing people in OM other people don't even know about them like the hidden heroes they know about George Burr look I'm boring next to some of these new ones that are coming along and It's exciting and I believe though you have your priority.

We honor you for that. In your prayer life in your conversation in your heart. You can take in other nations. I took in Iraq in a major way before I ever went to this part of the world. Iraq was almost number one in my life at 20 years of age and then if Ghanistan and then Turkey and Though at that time I studied Israel it seemed to me at even at that time.

You know, there was something happening here. Compared to countries where the church did not even exist. It didn't exist in Afghanistan. It barely existed in Turkey. Turkey, by the way is a good relationship With Israel, which is quite amazing.

And now after all these years of working in Turkey There are maybe 2 ,000 believers in the nation. There are believers also among the minority groups, but I'm talking about the majority people. So I'd like you tonight as hard as it is as you're all so focused on your own work and vision and country.

I'd like you to travel with me in my globe. You can choose either this globe or my global jacket. This is brand new. I don't want to have this morning. I sold and this one is for sale after the meeting.

It doesn't look very good on me. It's sort of Sort of hangs and we know the world's not flat It it really looks a lot better on I mean global people. And we do we sell quite a few of our extra extra large ones and those people look so beautiful when I get to heaven.

I want to put one on. I want to put one on DL Moody. Have you ever heard of DL Moody? You know what a secular? Encyclopedia said about DL Moody. Overweight American evangelist who depopulated hell by 2 million souls.

It's not bad. So don't worry too much about the weight thing get on with a soul winning. So we want to visit some of the countries and I want to share with you my top 10. I'm a big into music. I listen to the top 10 classics and the top 10 Pop songs sometimes and so I got my own top 10 the top most impossible.

Praying for the World’s Most Difficult Nations

Difficult nations in the world now. I know in missy illogical circles and they do run in circles sometimes a missy ologist. We're supposed to now talk about people's groups. But as I'm ministering in ordinary to ordinary churches ordinary people I find they don't relate to the people's group thing.

They're reading in their newspaper about Israel. They're reading about Afghanistan. They're reading about Turkey. They're reading about nations. So I'm back talking about nations, but I want to honor the people's group concept and the push tongues and the Various types of people.

I think the Druze who are you all around us here? They're a special people's group. My wife's sister was gonna marry a Druze, but really they're his parents weren't really too keen. Marrying this little gal from Texas.

And so anyway, she married another Muslim instead you can pray for her. People said well. Where's that? It's Texas American women. They're looking for Omar Sharif. Yeah, and every time they see anybody who even looks near Omar Sharif.

Boom, they marry him. Most of the marriages don't go too well, but. Some of you thought your husband was Omar Sharif and you're married and going on happily praise the Lord. Top ten number one North Korea.

North Korea is one of the most impossible difficult nations in the world now. North Korea In. With a microphone. But North Korea. Where is it? Dear me? I got it caught in the wire here. Okay, there's North Korea.

North Korea is a little different than the other nine. Because it does have a fair number of Christians in comparison, but it's still a small number of persecution. Summer in prison. There's very little freedom of expression.

There are other fanatical elements about North Korea that put it on my list. But I want you to pray for North Korea. We know all the Koreans here pray for North Korea. But we want the rest of the world to join in prayer.

There are some slight rays of hope. People are getting in there. People getting in there on business. Some believers are getting in there, but it's a tough challenge. Second country is Tibet. I used to live in Nepal.

Haven't been there in a long time either. Maybe 20 years and I used to live there in Nepal and just north and thousands and tens of thousands couple hundred thousand now follow Jesus in Nepal. When I lived there was a few tens of thousands if that.

But north of Nepal is Tibet and let me just take my survey see if you're doing better in Israel than the average country. How many of you are already praying for Tibet. Your people of prayer? You've read Operation world.

Something similar you're praying for Tibet. All those who praying for Tibet raise your hand. Okay, that wasn't too encouraging. Let's try something else lest we get depressed. How many are willing you're willing to pray for Tibet raise your hand?

This is always the way it is with God's people. There's so much better at being willing than they aren't ever doing anything. That's so encouraging so God bless you, but I would ask you to pray for Tibet.

How can you compare Tibet with a place like Israel? There is no church in Tibet. I heard of one Catholic Church in a village left over from decades ago. I've heard of some believers now. We've been pushing Tibet now a lot for the last few years.

I met a girl at Moody Bible Institute just ten days ago. She said she's going to live in Tibet this summer with some nomads. God is answering prayer for Tibet. Now is the hour for Tibet and I believe I believe.

Maybe this is why the Lord didn't bring me here all those years or I made a mistake. But I believe the hour has come when the church in Israel needs to send out more missionaries. If the if the passport is a problem, you know, I mean this groups here.

They they you know not far from there. They just print their own passports. But somehow, you know that might not be the best way, but I want to encourage you to be creative and When we do maybe you can't go because you don't have the right passport.

But maybe God will lead you to someone who does have the right passport and you can be the sender. But wouldn't it be wonderful if the Israeli church could send a Missionary or two to Tibet to see the church born in that country.

The third nation is a tough one. But this isn't a message just for tonight. It's a message. I share all over the world. But the third nation is Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is probably the strongest nation almost in the world against the gospel against the Bible.

Against Christians, they even throw foreigners just showing a Jesus film throw him in jail. We have Koreans there, I think he had to flee the country for a while he's back. We know of no, we know there are Saudi believers.

But they they're they got to keep a low profile if they want to stay alive. So let's love these people and let's make sure that with the environment you live in here that no. No hatred comes into your heart toward to people who are thought of as enemies of Israel.

This is not where we are as God's people. You can have your little political section of your head and you keep that stored up there and that's all right. You have your little private thoughts in the bathtub but as far as reality We need to love our Enemies we need to love her.

That's so basic. That's not something like radical. I was fanatic anti-communist already at 17 years of age. I almost joined Anti-communist, you know league in America. They tried to recruit me. I Spoke avidly against communism.

So did Billy Graham my spiritual father. But as a baby Christian, I loved communists. I couldn't wait to meet the first communists and Love them and share about Jesus. And so soon as I got to Europe, what do you think I did?

What do you kids think I did? I Smuggled Bibles into the Soviet Union. I was so young. I Didn't know how many of you ever heard of God's smuggler brother Andrew God smuggler. Have you read that comic?

Yeah tonight. You've got brother George God's bungler. I Tried the same thing but due to my own stupidity, do you ever do anything stupid you need to work on that? Due to my own stupidity. I got arrested by the Soviet secret police on the third day in Rovno Ukraine.

I had front-page Pravda coverage. American spy arrested in Rovno. This really wasn't what we had planned. I Can tell you those very men that interrogated me the love of Christ just flowed out toward those men.

One of them ended up singing hymns with us one of our captors ended up singing hymns and We launched at that time though I failed the largest single smuggling operation in the history of Eastern Europe not Russia brother Andrew was handling more Russia, but our guys based out of Vienna.

We're handling all the rest of Eastern Europe. We're talking about millions of pieces of literature during those Cold War days. Smuggled in brought in we had people beat up. We had vehicles confiscated.

But God's hand was on it. But the first effort was a failure. And I think that's one of the things that helped me the most in my life to understand that though I was a failure God could use me. Yeah, in fact later on a book came out called failure the backdoor to success.

Have you seen that one? That's been such a blessing to me that book. I sent a lot of books by the way for these meetings, but they they didn't arrive. What's new? But when you get them you you give everybody a free book.

I probably sent them to you know to the wrong person. But this wonderful book. The truth is I never read the book and the cover just really touched my heart. The failure failure the backdoor to success.

Loving Enemies and Spiritual Warfare

So what am I saying tonight. I'm asking you. I'm asking you To love even Hamas. I'm asking you to pray for those people and we know Terrorism is never acceptable. There's a lot of things that aren't acceptable, but as believers.

Hatred is not acceptable now for a believer to be in the army and have to fight. That is one of the most difficult things, but I've never become a pacifist and I believe defending One's nation and being in the army to defend that nation.

That is possible for a Christian to do. Some Christians don't believe in that. I honor them as well. But I believe with all my heart we are in a revolution of love and there's no exception except Satan himself and all his angels and I believe.

Much more that's happening here is linked with principalities and powers then is linked with little people. Running around the streets with guns and bombs and the Word of God says, you know in Ephesians 6 we are battling principalities and powers and We need to reread that chapter and pray in the light of it.

So Saudi Arabia love them pray for them. There are believers. They're sharing their faith. Tent makers can get into Saudi Arabia. With most passports not all passports. It's a walk in the park to get in.

It's not a walk in the park to get anything done and so you can get really discouraged there. The fourth nation is Libya. We've had quite a few people there over the years including prison. Did you know that Libya has less than 12 believers.

You think you got a small church, huh? Less than 12 believers in the nation. Did you know that through prayer? Gaddafi and his son have changed. Did you know that? No, they're not born again running down the street waving a gospel banner.

You know, it takes time for these heavyweights. But they've changed their viewpoint and they're welcoming even Americans back in big numbers who not that many long ago. We're dropping bombs and they repaid these giant sums of money in regard to that Pan Am crash.

These things are not a coincidence. These things are not accidents that are born out of the secular mind. These are our God and his sovereignty working in his mysterious ways among kings and those in authority are we not told to pray for those people and.

So today we have a new open door in Libya and it's in my top ten. Tunisia is number five. Tunisia is a much more liberal place. Let us pray that it doesn't tip the scale and go the other way in the present, you know 12 were killed two days ago in Libya in the riots in connection with the cartoons.

Tunisia, I don't think it's had that. Used to be considered the Paris Tunis the Paris of North Africa. Tunisians are coming to Jesus there now may be even a hundred believers. Not many, huh? See in Israel, you ought to be able to pray better for these places because at times you feel a little bit outnumbered, right?

But these countries are really Really forgotten. And then my sixth country is Turkmenistan. Central Asia basically is wide open. Kazakhstan Azerbaijan. Tajikistan, you know, you got to be careful. There's one exception.

Turkmenistan is totally different than all the other states fanatically anti-christian. No missionaries even even they're watching even to let tent makers in. There are a few there. Turkmenistan the leader of the country's like a megalomaniac.

Think he thinks he's God. Turkmenistan is in my top ten. No other Central Asian nation is in that ten. By the way, I have a runner-up ten. I have another runner-up ten. I have 40 nations in my notebook all trying to get into the top ten.

Every one of those 40 nations. Would have less than 5 of the witness That Israel has for our Lord Jesus, you know, you have a long way to go here. What are you gonna say of those other 40 nations that would have less than 5

I think of how many Christian agencies here how many gospel people come here to give their testimonies? One of the biggest television networks in the world. Beams up out of Jerusalem the God Channel. You may not know much about that channel.

That is huge. Joyce Meyer on the God Channel. She's no more in India than Billy Graham. Much less some of the other superstars of that very unique ministry. And so I tell you Israel has had a lot of witness.

Of course, that doesn't mean they respond easily. Does it you ever pray for Japan? Japan is not in my top ten. Japan has less than 1 Japanese people do not respond. Lots of missionaries in Japan. Lots of churches.

Most of them are small. They've tried every strategy on planet Earth. Even David Young He Cho. I had time with him a couple years ago when I preached in his little church in Korea. 700 ,000. They don't all come at once but his prophecies concerning Japan have not come true.

Which is true most of these different prophecies and forgive my negativism I got to work on that but in Japan would be a little bit like Israel a lot. There's quite a lot of witness their churches, but the people.

Just the prejudice the complexity. It just doesn't happen. I Wonder how many Israeli missionaries you've sent to Japan. That would be a tremendous a Tremendous change. How many of you at least pray for Japan.

Big country you pray for Japan. That's a lot better than that Tibet thing. The seventh country is Afghanistan. Afghanistan was put on my heart reading Oswald J. Smith's book as a baby Christian. Afghanistan tucked away.

Between Iran and Pakistan there's Afghanistan. There's still no functioning church there. That's why I feel my life is just loaded with failure. People can say great things about OM and write great stories, but it and I'm thankful I don't want to be unthankful, but this is not what I've been aiming at so I'm hoping I'm praying that in my senior years with my Coworkers and the whole body of Christ.

I may see the dreams that I've never seen. We have a lot of people in Afghanistan now. There's no lack of people there. But they're all in humanitarian work in order to even stay in the country. They are seeing a little response, but it's a really tough place and There are Afghan believers now some of them are dead.

They meet in secret they study the Word of God. I've heard different numbers somebody even saying maybe more than a thousand throughout the whole nation. I find it hard to believe but I hope so, but Afghanistan is still in my top ten.

And Iraq is still in my top ten. It may fall out because so many are coming to Jesus in Iraq and his new churches his Christian bookstores. There's whole containers of books and Bibles getting in there.

It's wide open right now, but dangerous. Wide open, but dangerous. So not many want to go and we pulled our OM teams out of Iraq it just got too dangerous. We get the parents on the phone. We got the churches on the phone.

It's easier for independent people to go. We're in we're in Kurdistan. We're in the Kurdish part of Iraq. That's safer and The Kurds of my people's groups if I were into the people's groups thing the Kurds would be my top ten.

Kurds are coming to Jesus. There are now new Kurdish churches, of course, they're Kurds in Turkey and Iran as well not much happening among them. I'm speaking about Iraq. So my seventh nation by the way, if a year from now you send me this list these ten nations.

You get ten free books. Just tell me where to send them. So it's good to see some of you writing it down. It proves that you at least got the spiritual kindergarten in terms of the discipline life. So the seventh nation is Iraq the eighth nation.

That was the eighth. Sorry the ninth nation. I always need someone like that in the meeting because they don't have it written out. Yeah Iraq is the eighth. The ninth nation is Somalia. It was Sudan. Sudan has slipped into my next group.

Because the number of believers in southern Sudan has gone from 7 to 70 Now talk about the sovereignty of God. I Find it hard to fellowship with believers who are not into mystery. So that's okay.

We'll still have a chat. These guys and and people that have the answer to everything. It's just it's just it's just ridiculous to me. How can you explain southern Sudan two million dead? Two million dead.