Useful for the Master - Part 10 — Jackie Pullinger

Imitating Christ So Others Will Believe

See? Because the others are waiting to see how the Christians behave. And when they see the Christians behaving like Jesus did, for as the Son of God, and had the merits of a son, and yet gave them up, and gave up, and fled to his father, and humbled himself and became a servant.

When they see us behaving like Jesus Christ did, they believe. They always did want to. They did. There are millions of people hoping it is true, and they will believe if we start behaving like Jesus.

Reaching the Poor Who Cannot Read

The poor of the world, I'm still reading those statements, the poor of the world are a major concern. The vast majority of the people yet to be evangelized are poor. I was sharing about this in a certain place, and saying, well, it's fine that we've got these luxury programs for all the yet-to-be-evangelized patients, so that they will be able to read the notes we prepare for them to understand about Jesus, so they can grow up and think, that's great, but in the meantime, what about the grannies?

Now, I'm not too sure about this. Is it true that there are quite a lot of grannies who can't read? Is that true? Not all grannies can read. A man came up to me afterwards, and he said, well, he said what you've said about all the people who can't read.

And he said, I want to tell you that a group of us have been praying for 10 years, and we've got a wonderful computer program for teaching people how to read. And I said, well, that's most interesting.

I suppose you're going to have to get the people who can't read together somewhere, and put them into a room with computers. You've got to get so far, it's taken us 10 years to work out the English program.

It wouldn't be too difficult, you could teach them to speak English first, so that they could learn the computer program, so they could get educated, so they could read the Bible notes, so they could grow up and do everything.

Making the Gospel Understandable Through Compassion

It's quite serious. Understanding. It's serious. No, really. But we are going to have to reach the poor. The grannies who can't read, who won't understand, if it's not Bible notes, if it's a person, you'll reach no value, Jesus.

You want to reach the poor? You want to reach the grannies who can't read? Very good, my dear. All these grannies crying together because they've got no sons. They have no sons, they're poor. Of course, they're not in the right.

So all these grannies living in these bed spaces, and we've got to start visiting the grannies, when we were very, very young, two persons, and pray for the grannies when they've got bad news. You don't necessarily push this first, but they believe in Jesus once they reveal, and then the next time they run along the other grannies.

They say, my wife's got the news. We pray for this one, she's got bad news. They queue up. They queue up. Because Jesus has touched them where they hurt. This is a fun way to preach the gospel. And it's a way that the poor will understand that Jesus touches them where they hurt.

Sodom, Neglect of the Poor, and Divine Judgment

I just want to read you, or I'll get you wrong. It's chapter 16. Do you think you know what Sodom did wrong to get destroyed? Now I'm pretty silly. Yeah, but you don't have to stumble towards Sodom. And know that it was a city that was destroyed.

And we will read to you now why Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 49. Now this is the sin of Josephus Sodom. She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed. They did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty, and did detestable things to the poor.

Therefore I give the way to Josephus. I just found that one the other day. I was shocked. What was thrown for another reason. She was destroyed because she was arrogant, overfed, and under-concerned.

And did not help the poor and needy. And here is the opposite. Here is the king. He was commended by the Lord. In Jeremiah 22, 16, it says, He defended the cause of the poor and needy. And so all went well.

Is that not what it means to know me? Is that the right? What a commendation. What a king. He defended the cause of the poor and needy. And so all went well. Stopped the poor. He comes to the poor. Or I should say, correctly, reached with the poor.

Because I must identify myself is that the others get reached too. Look for, you all know these persons very well. I'm sure in New Zealand, this has to be an off-putting one. This has to be one that you pray unto the other.

That person of the spirit service, or your or whatever or whatever. Jesus came after having the that person was of the spirit transplanted. He goes into the synagogue. And he lifts up the scroll of Isaac and says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.

Proclaiming the Spirit-Anointed Mission of Jesus

Because he has anointed me, churches, in ten years, in every major city in the world, twenty television stations, that we can be in the gospel. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Because he has anointed me to preach the truth.

It's when he studied. It is when he studied to be not so. I lift a bunch of papers to circus. Right? I say, what are the bunch of losers? I mean, right up until the end too. Still fighting for who's going to be class 3, assistant class 3.

Drop the chairs on the platform while I kill him. Struggling. Love them anyway. Another reason why I believe that the quickest way to reach the end.