Gv1321 World Missions in 1993 — George Verwer

Reborn Vision and Servant Leadership

If any movement is to go on and be a powerful force for God, the vision of the movement must be reborn in each generation. What we did in the 60s or 70s or the 80s will not count for much in the 90s. It will help.

We need a good foundation. And we had people go ahead of us, like Billy Graham, and others who helped us in our foundation. But we've got to plan ahead, think ahead, pray ahead. And that's why we plot on with these youth leadership training programs and many other similar programs.

Of course, the best program we can get for you to develop your leadership ability is to get you into one of our campaigns, Like Love Europe, where you're sort of forced into on-the-job training. A lot of it, of course, will be servanship.

Being a servant is the key to eventually being a leader. A leader is a servant. If you know Chua Wee Han's book, just had a letter from him a few moments ago before I came here. But if you know his book, it has a terrific, terrific emphasis on being a servant leader.

You might refer to it later on. Let's just pray again. Lord, I need your help. I got 24 hours of material on my heart and an hour to share it. So we need operation condensation. We just pray. Lord, I know I'm so unrealistic and I just need to give what you want for tonight and then cast everything else upon you.

Lord, you've shown us it takes years. It takes years to train up Christian leaders. But we got to start somewhere. And maybe for some people tonight is a start. Increase our vision. Oh, Lord, teach us what it is to appropriate that which is our inheritance in your son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Deliver us from playing games with your word, saying one thing, practicing something else, singing one thing, practicing something else. Lord, we would know the reality of consistency in our walk with yourself.

We thank you that it's possible. We thank you. There's a great army of witnesses have gone on ahead of us demonstrating the consistent life. And we're trusting you and looking to you as we have this time together in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen. I want to look at a number of scriptures together. That's the authority has been the authority for our fellowship. I can assure you that we in Operation Mobilization do not think we're the greatest mission society of this generation and that we're not running around patting ourselves on the back for the great things that we've seen God do.

Because we are very aware of our own needs. I'm sure that in the long run, it would be very difficult for the best of us to probably live up to some of your expectations. Especially if you've already developed a sort of storybook fantasy view of what the Christian life is all about, which a lot of people do.

I don't know how it happens, but it happens. Billy Graham said life at its best is filled with sadness. It's not all blessings. It's not all answers to prayer. It's not all name it, claim it, moving mountains for Jesus, flying around spiritually like some kind of spiritual Concord.

There are the heartbreaks. There are the disappointments. There are the setbacks. Before the meeting, I was talking with a brother just about Afghanistan. We have 33 years praying for Afghanistan. We have not seen significant breakthroughs.

There have been cracks. There have been individuals saved. Praise God for every one of them. But we have not in any way seen the fulfillment of this vision for Afghanistan, one of the countries that burned upon my heart the most.

Isaiah's Vision of God's Holiness and the Missionary Call

I want us to start off in our sharing this evening in the book of Isaiah. I know I can get stuck there because it's such a great passage, chapter 6, but I'm going to try to just share that and move on to some other passages.

I'm using the New International Translation. In the year that King Uzziah died, chapter 6, verse 1, I saw the Lord seated on a throne high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings.

With two wings, they covered their faces. With two, they covered their feet. With two, they were flying, and they were calling to one another. Thank you. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full of his glory.

At the sound of their voices, the doorposts and thresholds shook. The temple was filled with smoke. Just imagine this experience. Woe is me, I cried. I'm ruined. I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it, he touched my mouth and said, See, this has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away.

Your sin is atoned for. Amazing, way back here in the Old Testament. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I. Send me. And he said, Go and tell this people, the ever-hearing, never-understanding, the ever-seeing, but never-perceiving.

Make the heart of this people callous. Make their ears dull, and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts. And turn and be healed.

And I said, For how long, O Lord? Many, many, many people have felt the call of God upon their lives studying this passage of Scripture. Many people. We don't believe it's an accident that we're here together tonight and this weekend.

Prayer as the Heart of World Mission

Thousands of people are praying for this meeting, praying for me. I have at least 100 ,000 prayer partners. If you want to understand the secret of OM and the secret of what God has done, you only have to understand what God does through prayer.

Prayer is where the action is. If you're not in a life of prayer, you're not in the action, you're in deception. Doesn't mean God isn't using you. Doesn't mean you're not a Christian. Just means you're not in the heart of the action.

The heart of the action is in the prayer closet, in the prayer meeting. The heart of the action is when you fall at the foot of the cross, and realize how little you can do in yourself, and begin to believe God for the impossible.

It's a scary thing to think of 100 ,000 people suddenly releasing their prayer power in the direction of the Quintet. Some of you more emotional types may start to fly before the meeting is over. God answers prayer.

When we look at this passage, we first of all are exhorted, we first of all catch the vision of God himself. And in this first message of this conference, we want to emphasize God himself. We want to urge you to get to know God.

I'm still on that road. It's still the greatest goal of my life. I feel so unspiritual and so far from God at times. But I take him at his word, and I continue to hunger and thirst for greater reality and fellowship with God.

I read the writings of men like Tozer and Andrew Murray, and a host of other people who seem to walk so powerfully with God. I realize I have a long way to go. Have you made God the number one goal in your life?

It seems to me that so many other things are crowding for number one. Money, career, friends, romance, husband. It's considered the normal way to live, is to chase after all these things. Even though we have so many decades and centuries of history proving that these things do not satisfy the deep longings of the human heart.

I'm reading a book by a brilliant social scientist, sociologist named Paul Johnson. I don't know if he's a Christian. But this man has just in his book totally exposed the degradation, even of much of the major philosophy that has guided Europe for many, many, many years.

By pointing out the lives, the ugly, terrible and sinful lives of people whose philosophy was taken into our universities and many of our institutions 20, 30, 40, 50 and more years ago. The greatest priority for all of us here in this world should be to know God.

Salvation is the beginning of really knowing God. Though some people may seek God for many years before they come to know Christ. We believe out among these unreached people's groups that are our priority target.

There are people seeking God. And God is moving upon our hearts to go to some of these people to give them the gospel because there's a vacuum in their hearts. Because they're seeking God and what a wonderful thing it is when we meet some of them and they quickly respond to the message.

God's Holiness, Human Sin, and Grace

Knowing God. As Isaiah had his experience with God, he especially, immediately saw God's holiness. Verse 3. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full of His glory. Have you got a glimpse yet of the holiness of God?

I had a terrific problem with pornography as a young Christian. I thought I'd never make it. It seemed so absurd. It was so embarrassing. One of the things that helped me get over that, though I struggled for it, just like an alcoholic, I had to be careful of it all my life.

One of the things that really made the difference is to come to grips with the holiness of God and how God hated evil thoughts and sin. And yet, at the same time, we'll talk about that in a few minutes, to capture the reality of the grace of God, the forgiveness of God, the mercy of God.

You'll probably hear me use the word balance. I know it's not probably your favorite word. It's got a bit of a whimpish tone to it, balance. But whatever term you use, the fact is if you are going to run God's race long term, and that's what this conference is about, it's not soldiering for a summer.

It's surrender for a lifetime. If you're going to run the race long term, you have to find that balance. So when we talk about the holiness of God, it's brought into balance as we realize the mercy of God, the grace of God, the love of God.

Some people are very loose and sort of very free. They think they know something of the grace of God. They may be even taking the grace of God in vain. That's spoken about in the New Testament. They need perhaps a greater challenge about the holiness of God.

But other people that I've met, because of their emotional background, because of sometimes a wrong relationship with their own father that's affected their thinking, they don't need another message about the holiness of God.

They need a message about the mercy of God and the grace of God, the patience of God. There have been Christians that have actually committed suicide with the wrong view of the holiness of God. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty.

The whole earth is full of His glory. After he saw that and got that vision of the holiness of God, of course the obvious next step was that he saw the sinfulness of himself. Woe to me, I cried. Woe is me, I cried.

I'm ruined, for I'm a man of unclean lips. I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King. Can you say that? My eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty. So he saw the holiness of God, he saw the wickedness of his own heart, and then he experienced, we don't have time to go into detail, the cleansing, the renewing, an experience of God's mercy.

And one of the seraphs, verse 6, flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongues from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, See, this has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away, your sin atoned for.

Because of that message, because of Jesus Christ, as far as I can remember, every single night for 38 years I've gone to bed with a clear conscience and a clear heart. There were a couple of nights when it was really difficult, many nights where it was really difficult.

But the Bible says the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin. The Bible teaches us in great passages like 1 John 2, verse 1, what to do with sin. Our first goal is to sin not, and if we sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ, the righteous, so we know how to handle sin.

And if you are to be a leader in God's work, you must know how to handle sin, to repent of it, to deal with it, to grow strong in your battle against it. And here's a good passage to start with. You experience that cleansing.

It's interesting, it speaks about a live coal. It speaks to me about pain. With it he touched my mouth. Have you ever had a live coal in your mouth? Dare to say that would bring quite a response. It's amazing the illustrations in the Word of God about fire.

Spiritual Fire and the Fullness of the Holy Spirit

Has anyone ever walked up to you and said, Hey, are you on fire for Jesus Christ? I'd like to do it tonight. I've got to get each one of you in a corner. First thing I do is ask you if you're on fire for Jesus Christ.

The next thing I do is ask you to start to touch any part of my jacket, and whatever nation you touch, I pray that you go there. But I don't think we should get into that. It says in the book of Hebrews, our God is a consuming fire.

We remember Elijah when he challenged false prophets and the fire of God came down. Our first burden in Operation Mobilization isn't to get you out in evangelism. Of course we are committed to that. Our first burden is to see you experiencing the reality of God, the grace of God, the holiness of God.

You can explain it in many different ways. The fullness of the Holy Spirit. Speaking about the Holy Spirit, Billy Graham said, I don't care how you get it, just get it. You'll find that's a motto in O .M.

It's in O .M. people from different churches who are actually fighting over the Holy Spirit come together to work under the anointing and the filling of the Holy Spirit to take the gospel to the ends of the earth.

And we were told 30 years ago it just would never work. You're never going to get such a mixed multitude to work together. It's all going to be over. When I came here 30 years ago to Britain, it's going to be all over in one or two years.

Here we are in the midst of our 30th anniversary. I hope you'll get a copy of the booklet published right here at the Quinta. Because God is faithful. Because God uses ordinary people. Because prayer works.

Because God is no respecter of persons. And because it is possible when people are experiencing the grace of God, the fullness of the Lord Jesus and His Holy Spirit, they can work together even though they be of different backgrounds.

Even though they may have different ways of expressing things. And whenever we express anything, there will be some of our own human straw. Anything you get from me, there will be some verver mud factor in it.

Some of you probably feel my accent is a bit of a mud factor. 30 years in the country, I haven't even learned a language. I should be ashamed. God in the book of Revelation says, Be ye hot or be ye cold.

If you are lukewarm, I'll spew you out of my mouth. How many of you have taken that as your favorite verse? Nobody. I've never met anybody who took that one as their favorite verse. There's not many preachers who will even preach on it.

It's the most scary verse in the Bible in some ways. Be ye hot. Can you say that you're on fire for Jesus Christ tonight? His love, His grace, fellowship, a knowledge of Him, His power. Be ye hot or be ye cold.

Revival, Lukewarmness, and the Church's Witness

Be lukewarm. Just come back from America. In America, everybody thinks the big problem is abortion. Everybody is going around on the abortion thing. I agree with a lot of it. I believe abortion is a terrible problem.

Other people believe the greatest problem is militant homosexuality. People with Clinton as president, some people are just preparing to jump off the cliff with an umbrella instead of a parachute. And the people are just going bananas in the wrong sense.

And there's so many negative things being stated. And in this country, there's plenty of it as well. I don't believe the great enemy is from without. I don't believe the great enemy is the abortion clinics, crime, drugs, promiscuity.

All those things are factors and serious things that Christians have to look at. I believe the enemy is within the church. Lukewarmness, broken relationships, lack of love, lack of honesty, integrity, and reality.

And all the things we read about through the whole of the New Testament. If the church came into revival and biblical faith under the lordship of Jesus Christ, it would impact every single area of society.

I'm not saying we'd suddenly take over the government and everything would be rosy because that's not the way it is in this world. But there would be huge changes on every level. There was a famous Methodist pastor years ago in New York.

Quite a very dignified man. And it's amazing how Methodism started as a wildcat operation. O .M. has got some real similarities to it in some ways if you study history. And ended up as such a very, very well-organized, dignified church.

And this guy was a very famous pastor in New York City. And he met another wildcat. A movement that came out of the Anglicans and the Methodists many years ago. Named, you may have heard of him, General William Booth.

If you want to read a wildcat book, read The General Next to God. What an amazing... Booth was a little hesitant about this man Samuel Logan Bringle, this Methodist pastor. He wanted to join the Salvation Army.

He finally accepted and put him through an intensive year of boot camp. Shining shoes was the big thing they allowed you to do in the Salvation Army in those days in the first year. And other major ministries like cleaning toilets and sweeping floors.

And if you've never had the privilege of doing some of those things for Jesus, you ought to get into it as soon as possible. He proved himself as a man of the Spirit. Later won tens of thousands of souls to Jesus Christ.

He once in his book Resurrection Life and Power gave this definition of spiritual fire that we're talking about. What is fire? It is love. It's faith. It's hope. It's passion. It's purpose and determination.

It's utter devotion. It's divine discontent with formality. Ceremonialism, lukewarmness, indifference, sham, noise, parade, and spiritual death. It's singleness of mind, consecration unto death. It's God the Holy Ghost burning in and through a humble, holy, faithful man.

Radical Commitment and Spiritual Warfare

Twenty-nine, thirty years ago two men sat in my meetings here in Britain. One was the son of a very wealthy businessman, Keith Beckwith. The other was a young business, up-and-coming business entrepreneur with the Phillips Corporation.

Caught the vision, left that job. They made a commitment of their lives radically to Jesus Christ like we're talking about tonight. And within two or three years they were in heaven. It's not a game. It's not a game.

L .E. Maxwell said world missions is total war. What we are going into is a spiritual equivalent of Sarajevo. A spiritual equivalent of southern Sudan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Kampuchea. A spiritual equivalent of what's been going on in Northern Ireland for decades.

What's been going on in Angola and Mozambique. Parts of the world that we should all be concerned about. Spiritual warfare is real. And it's not just for a few people who somehow decide to be missionaries or decide to be in some kind of special ministry.

Spiritual warfare is for every believer. There's no option. You're all in spiritual warfare. But you have to decide whether you're going to be knocked all over the place for the next five or ten years and be one more spiritual nothing.

Or whether you're going to become a soldier of Jesus Christ. And be able to follow in the steps of men like Booth or Bringle or thousands of others, praise God, who even from this country alone have gone out to share the gospel of Jesus Christ across the world.

What a challenge. I think I can say with integrity and honesty, in the midst of much struggle, that this whole vision, this whole burden of the word of God, burns upon my heart today as much as it did thirty years ago when I first landed in Dover.

Because the word of God is true. Because Jesus Christ lives in us. And though we are weak, though the old man perishes, the new man is renewed day by day. Fire. Tongues. Off the altar. Live coal on the mouth.

And then the purging, the cleansing, the renewal. And after that the calling and the response. Here am I. Send me. How many of you have already responded to a call or to guidance? I like the word guidance better because some people are looking for an emotional call.

But how many of you? And if OM people, just for a moment, some of you are with OM, if you could keep your hands down. But among our visitors and our young new trainees, how many of you have already responded to some kind of strong work of God in your heart toward world missions?

Would you raise your hand? Just be honest. No hands go up. We'll understand it. But I'd like to know. How many are more or less already moving in that direction, even though it may be in much weakness?

Put your hand up high so I can see it. Okay, thank you. How many of the OMers have already made such a commitment? Raise your hand. Not everybody on OM is moving in that direction. Thank you. Because the truth is, at this present time, there seem to be more people moving toward the mission field.

Even though it isn't that many, there seem to be more people moving toward the mission field than we have the prayer power and the finance power and the sending power. That's why I'm pushing this book all the time, serving as a sender, to get them there.

And we don't want to deceive you in our challenge to get involved in long-term missions or short-term, that it's going to be easy, because it's not going to be. Or that if you sign on the dotted line, we've got some program, we just plug you into it, and automatically, a couple of years from now, you're church planting in Turkey.

No. In fact, if there's anything I'd like to say to young candidates in God's work, it's what Billy Graham said to me when I was a baby Christian in a message. It's going to be rough, it's going to be tough.

And if you don't develop spiritual fight, spiritual stickability, to handle those disappointments, to handle those setbacks, to handle those discouragements, you won't make it. And that doesn't mean God won't use you.

Praise God for Plan B, right? Some of you are already in Plan B. Praise God for Plan C, Plan D. Somebody came up to me and said they were well on. What should they do? I said, praise God for a big alphabet.

The mercy of God, the grace of God. Study that passage on your own. Pray about what God is attempting to do in your own life. I've often thought that if people who get exposed to OM, I think of all the people that we're speaking to all over the country, with all the different things going on, just a small number, come to this conference.

Many things are going on in the church this weekend. It's just one little tiny thing. And among all the things going on, very few of them have anything to do with World Missions. World Missions is not even in the top eight things on the checklist in the average church.

I think we're now down... I think we've dropped down the last couple of years. We're just behind the parking lot, the new parking lot, World Missions. You may say that's unfair. I minister to our churches, and I love the local churches, for 30 years up and down this country.

World Missions generally is just token commitment. That's why often God has to raise up people almost outside of the church, as in my case, saved in a Billy Graham meeting. Though I was, from the moment of my conversion, forced myself to get back involved with local fellowship, and went to a local church in my community.

Just before I went to Mexico, I had a little bit backward. I was already going. But I went to the church, and I said, I'm going to Mexico, and I want you people to pray for me. And they were so merciful.

Many of them signed up on the spot to pray for me, and some of them have prayed for me for 35 years. Acts 13 makes it very, very clear. And as I go around the country, I'll be in a nearby local church on Sunday, well, not so near, over in Chester.

I try to again and again emphasize that the ownership of world evangelism must largely be in the hands of the local church. But for the church to have that ownership, it must be biblical, it must be renewed, and of course it's got to have a world vision.

Mobilizing the Local Church for World Evangelism

It's got to have a world vision. One of the ministries, maybe some of you should get involved in, is helping us mobilize the church. We can't send everybody to the front lines immediately. Maybe some people are going to come up to Bill Drake, and go, hey man, what are you doing here in Britain?

Why aren't you playing that music in outer Mongolia or Siberia? That's pretty cool. But God has raised up Bill Drake to stir the church. He's in evangelism as well, on the continent and other places. But God has raised up Bill, together with that evangelistic ministry, to stir the church, to call young people to radical surrender to Jesus Christ.

And we hope some of you will catch a vision for the same thing. Turn with me now quickly to the New Testament, to the book of Acts chapter 1. I wanted to look at Matthew 9, but we don't have time. But you probably know the passage.

The harvest is plenteous, the workers are few. Then what did Jesus say? Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, he'll send forth workers. It's brilliant. And we'd like you to go from here, with a vision to pray for workers.

I had this thought, I don't know if it's 100 correct. It's just a thought from my heart. That one of the only ways we're going to see the people we need to see this summer, because recruiting is not getting any easier, and we need those people in Love Europe, not to fulfill our quota, but to reach men and women with the gospel, in Albania, in Eastern Europe, in France, all these countries that are upon our hearts, right here on this jacket, over my heart.

And the only way I believe it will happen is what I call operation multiplication. We've had this conference some years with over a thousand people. So if they all came, that would be a thousand recruits for Love Europe.

That never happened. But I tell you, a lot of people have made decisions in these Leaders Weekends. Here there may be a hundred new people. And so my vision, my hope, as I was thinking about this today, was if each one of you would make a commitment to be a mobilizer for the Lord, and to somehow spiritually recruit ten other people.

If a hundred people here would catch the vision to recruit ten, that's not really that hard. I arrived here in February 1962. I was nobody. I had opposition. OM was nothing. And by June, I had 90 people.

I'm not asking you to recruit 90. Because all my life I've been listening to some of my leaders have this favorite record when I throw them a challenge. I'm not George Verwer. You know, it's like something new.

Well, boy, I haven't heard that before. Say that again. You're not George Verwer. So I'm not asking you to recruit 90. And I wasn't alone. There were a little team of us. We took meetings. OM has phenomenal credibility in Great Britain.

We have so many open doors. We have so many friends. We need a few new enemies. If you meet someone, send me their address. Because enemies stir things up. And when they stir things up, other people get excited.

And especially if they don't like the guy, then they join us. Just fight him. That is not the best way to get recruits. And we did get a few in those early days, somewhat along that line. What a beautiful thing.

If a hundred people would go from here to put into practice what you learn here about leadership in terms of motivating others, challenging others. You might give information or some degree of challenge to 50 or 60 people.

That is not that many in the next few months. And maybe of that 50 or 60 you contacted, 10 would come. I tell you, that's where it's at. When you start taking ownership, you start getting involved. You go up to a literature table not to look at what piece of literature you might like to read.

That's okay. But you go to a literature table, and we've even got video cassettes now to help spread the vision. And you think, what tools are there on this table that can help me to be a mobilizer, a shaker and a mover for the kingdom of God in 1993?

I get excited about this. I mean, I get too excited to get some of my wife's nerves. She said to me some time ago, look, I want to really be honest with you, looking at you makes me feel real tired. So I'm on the road for about nine days, and I'm giving her a little bit of a rest.

Acts 1:8 and the Priority of Unreached Peoples

Acts 1 .8, the final words of Jesus Christ before he ascended into heaven. Let's look at it. In the word of God, very, very clear. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and the ends of the earth.

Now take this. This is not me. Don't let me be a hindrance to what God wants to say. This is the final instruction of Jesus before he went to heaven. And surely the church of Jesus Christ should take this with great seriousness.

That's what we want you to do. Now as we look out across the world, we notice that certain countries have really a lot of witness. Britain is one of those countries. That doesn't mean we don't need to work here more.

I just visited our work, Luke, on the way up here in Hell's Zone. We had a last minute meeting there. I even gave an invitation. Quite a few people raised their hand and asked the Lord to do a new thing in their lives.

I love these spontaneous meetings. It saves on stamps, correspondence, and phone calls. Just zip in. I want to try it in the palace someday when I really get bold. But as we look out across the world, as we study nation after nation, we realize that places like Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, also Argentina, Kenya, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, I could add a number of other countries, have had a lot of the Gospel.

The Church is established. And if the Church would come alive more in those countries, they could complete the task in one sense. In the other sense, the task is always ongoing. Now we want to work in those countries, but we want to get our priorities right.

And we feel the priority should be places that have far, far less witness. Like France, Belgium, just across the channel. And places that have even less than that. Because I've been involved in France for some 33 years.

Other countries, as we go just a little further, the Church doesn't exist. Can you grab that? So the next time somebody tries to pressure you to only consider England, and how dare you consider leaving England when there's so many needs here, we've got people sleeping in the street, on the embankment, and we've got people without jobs, and we're constantly hammered about these social needs in Britain.

So that if you come in the middle of it, talking about world evangelism and other nations, you feel almost like some kind of a traitor. A tiny percentage of all British manpower and money, only a tiny, tiny percentage, is at present going into world missions.

And I believe we need some people that say, this isn't right. This is disobedience to Acts 1A. This is not God's original intention that some people hear the Gospel again and again and again. Now we're going to have Christian radio.

Soon we're going to have more Christian television. I'm not saying it's wrong. But if some are allowed to hear the Gospel again and again and again, and they've got Bibles in every other shop around the nation, what can we say of those that have never had a Bible, never had a Gospel, never heard the name of Jesus Christ, and in some cases, a church not even existing?

I pray, I ask of you, I know I can't move you through some kind of an emotional message. I am not trying to do that. I'm a naturally emotional person. But I beg of you to search the Scriptures and see if these things be so.

Read some of these great books like Priority 1. Examine the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, who in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John gave that great commission, not once, not twice, but three and four times.

Though in John it uses different wording. This is biblical. Some great men are known, and I just received another book on this subject, for showing how right from the book of Genesis, our God is a missionary God.

It's not some new thing that suddenly world missions is important. Our God is a missionary God. We even see Abraham leaving everything, terrific wealth, family, friends, leaving everything and going, not even hardly knowing where he was going.

That's a little bit like Operation Mobilization, but a little better organized now, and with the age of the computer, there's a chance that you might actually get where you're planning to go. Ye shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the uttermost part of the earth.

You'll find a book on the book table, it's very old to people who are into world missions, called Operation World, and the new edition will be out this year. But it'll be six or seven months, and it's worth getting, that old edition.