The Price to Become Fishers of Men - Part 3 — K.P. Yohannan

The Call to Become Fishers of Men

Jesus extends this invitation to you come follow me and I will make you fishers of men. You see he wants us to go into all the world preach the gospel and make disciples. It will be costly, but definitely worth the cost.

Today on the road to reality. We'll hear the rest of dr. Kp. Yohannan's message on the price to become fishers of men.

Spiritual Apathy Toward a World in Need

What has our Christianity done to us? We have no pain. No feeling about the reality of a world going to hell two billion people and I say this to you because the caller Christ still remains the same saying go into the whole world and preach the gospel.

The Cost of Gospel Advance in Acts and Philippians

And the book of Acts 30 years you beat them you put them in prison. You take the clothes off you starve them. Whatever they do It's gonna stop it. How brilliant we are to teach the book of Philippians.

We do a good job. But have you ever had that worse? He says ah You my brothers and sisters at Philippi. You love me so much. You are so in agony about my being in prison. Chain to these soldiers every four hours.

Lost all my freedom. Oh I got good news for you. Don't worry about it. I just want you to know. This imprisonment helped helped aided for the furtherance of the gospel. Can you say my? Changing the plan of my vacation to go to this land that land this place that place and embrace the inconveniences.

Helped to spread the gospel. Can you say my fasting every week for a couple of days and taking the resources For Bible to be printed and gospel to be sent out. Can you say my going to McDonald to get a hamburger and a cup of coffee?

Help me to share the gospel give 10 gospel tracks out. I Say this to you because Book of Acts you find the fulfillment of that verse. I will make you fishes of men, but it never happened without price that they will pay and one time a whole lot of Followers they said what on earth this guy is saying it is too hard.

Sacrifice in the Early Church

He's telling us to drink his blood and eat his flesh. It is too hard. No. They didn't want it. They walked away. I Am a lover of ancient history. When I was studying in college, that was a my favorite subject but then as a Christian worker a minister I Read and still read anything I can find on the ancient church history and I'm gripped.

Changed challenged and I weep when I read about the early church fathers. The early Years of the church how people left the limelight of All what they had the lectures everything walked away from all into the desert just to know God for nothing else how they went everywhere preaching and sharing the gospel and I'm gripped with the reality of people who left everything.

Everything of their home and luxury just like Christ left heaven and came to earth to suffer and to die. How they went all over the world like the Moravians. I was in East Germany now, it's not East Germany to speak at a conference while ago and Excited the same place the Moravians began their ministry and I heard the stories that really made me really really Convicted and they told the story about if there are ten Moravian families and They're praying together in a prayer group.

Moravian Prayers for the Unreached

They are praying not for their little problems. They're praying for the world. The Sikkim and Bhutan and Nepal and other countries and all these places and then their prayer is Oh God please send me to the mission field each one praying like that's a prayer and Finally the day come they cast lot which of the family will go to the mission field.

Well, I go to India and China and or wherever I'm going I go to the airport and get in the Lufthansa and go to sleep before I know it. I'm there but not then ah It's months and months of agony and when they leave their home the goodbye he said and the goodbye forever.

But then the ten families Names are written and put in the pot and one is pulled out all right, and the nine families It is said they all start crying. They start crying because each one Notly in their hours of praying together, but privately we are praying God.

Please pick me and my wife and children to go to the mission field but their names didn't get picked and the nine families would continue to pray and help those that one family that go to the mission field and Most probably they'll never come back alive.

Counting the Cost of Following Christ

Asking your forgiveness for the misunderstanding you will have about me tonight. Has this Jesus Christ you claim to be your Lord cost you anything flesh sin luxury. Do you realize we complain about a lot of stuff going on in this country but money and everything do you realize that half of The world actually live with the less than two dollars income per day.

I know I know It's not easy message. No. It was never my idea originally to have anything to American young people to go to mission field any of those things I am passionate about half of the world that never heard the name Jesus, but a few years ago During my endless travels in this country speaking to people The church I realized that I love America I love the church here and I care about the body of Christ here and I can do something small.

That is at least to touch the lives of young people and turn them around because I lost hope in the older folks generally speaking I Asked you the question What on earth is happening to us to our church.

You know what? I'm experiencing. I mean I told my office United States wherever a university a college come invite me to speak. I will pay my ticket and go and speak for them. I'm going to couple of them 5 ,000 10 ,000.

You know students universities in the reason why I believe the younger generation. Some of you older people listen to me close the young people under the age 22 or 20 today. Absolutely. Do not care nothing about lot of stuff.

They like the sound the music the movies and the flash stupid stuff. They're promoting on television here in America. They don't care about it. They are hungry for reality reality something what living for something what dying for that?

Is what Christ called us to offer all on the altar and unless you and I change our thinking you as a pastor. You as a leader you as a shepherd. Unless you could see in the middle of the night you are on your knees weeping.

Pastoral Intercession for the Lost

They can hear the sobbing sound because you're praying or the names of people that do not know the Lord church people backslidden and Indian Pakistan Burma and Albania and Mexico and these nations where people are dying without Christ and next morning your kid will not say one word to you.

But most probably that daughter that son Will say someday after 15 years somebody asked what made you to be a radical for Jesus and The son will say you want to know when I was 9 years old I heard Somebody weeping.

I thought what happened? I Couldn't sleep. I Caught up and sneaked and the crying was coming from the living room. So my dad He was weeping. It was a world map. Then I saw him not eating several days and I asked my mom.

Mommy said He's hurting. His heart is breaking for the people that did not know the Lord the people that backslidden in our church decided. When I grow up, I want this Jesus. When I grow up, I Want to live for him.

It was not theology. It was not lecture. It was not hot dog and ice cream and Alaska trip. No, it was a passionate a broken life That walked in the footsteps of Jesus. Oh How I wish that we become the answer to this nation and to the world, but it never happened never.

Embracing the Cross Through a Visible Christian Life

Unless we embrace the cross. When my son went to Nepal walking seven days. To go to a mission field. Somebody asked him Danny you can live in Germany. You can be in the United States. Why you're not you are here Nepal.

This is dead. This is nothing. Look at you. You are dying. What made you do this? My son never said this to me, but he told our missionary. I grew up in our home my sister and I. He saw our parents. What they live for?

Whatever they talked. We saw them behind the door. They never told me to go to mission field and not a perfect individual. I fail a million times, but all how I plead with you to stop playing games. Christianity is a call to come and die and so that This world around us before they die and go to hell hear about our Lord and I'm telling you let us not lose our privilege.

Let's press forward till the end before you know it. You will want to sing. I wish I was 18 again, but not possible. Not possible, but now we can live and live. So that his call come. Follow me.

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