RIO MISSIONS SUNDAY

Say it to your feet, are you ready to raise your hands and worship Jesus? Come on, let's sing it together. And there was no way until you made one. Brace upon grace, hallelujah. And even though I don't deserve it, you did it. Even though I could run it, you gave it. Lure my mind that you give me, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you. I'm just grateful for you. Oh, how must you be right here on my side, God, I'm just grateful for you. God, I'm just grateful for you. Oh, oh, yeah, there's only one, you gave it for me, oh my God, oh my God. And even though I don't deserve it, you gave it. Even though I could run it, you gave it. And you said, who am I that you keep me, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you. God, I'm just grateful for you, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you. God, I'm just grateful for you, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you. God, I'm just grateful for you, oh my God, I'm just grateful for you. God, I'm just grateful for you. God, I'm just grateful for you. Yeah. Can you lift up your hands today? If you can't think of anything you can't forget, just be grateful. God, you'll be in church with you, lift up your hands today, lift them all. You're all eating all through my head, 'cause you gave me tears as a chance as a chance as a chance as a chance. ♪ One giving all that I ask ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me tears of the trend ♪ ♪ And I believe in the coming from itself ♪ ♪ With the heart of the air ♪ ♪ She also gave me hope for my hands ♪ ♪ The truth in me can't stop the change ♪ ♪ Every day has to take ♪

♪ And I know ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave all of us ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me tears of the trend ♪ ♪ And I believe in you ♪ ♪ What is this ♪ ♪ Who am I that you give me ♪ ♪ The truth in me can't stop the change ♪ ♪ 'Cause you know you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave all of us ♪ ♪ You gave me tears of the trend ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me tears of the trend ♪ ♪ And who am I that you give me ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ You gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ 'Cause you gave me hope for you ♪ ♪ I'm just free ♪ ♪ I wanna go out the place ♪ ♪ I wanna say I'm true, boy ♪ ♪ I'm just free ♪ ♪ I know I'm just free ♪ ♪ I'm just free ♪ ♪ I'm just free ♪ ♪ I'm just free ♪ ♪ I'm just free ♪ ♪ I'm just free ♪

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Open door, after open door. Here it goes, so get ready for another word. 'Cause another one is on the way. Here it goes, after here it goes. Open door, after open door. Here it goes, so get ready for another word. 'Cause another one is on the way. [Music] Rushing wind and living water. God of sizing, God of wonders. If you will, if one can stop it. 'Cause you're working it all for good. Yeah, you're working it all for good. Here it goes, after here it goes. Open door, after open door. Here it goes, so get ready for another word. 'Cause another one is on the way. Here it goes, after here it goes. Open door, after open door. Here it goes, so get ready for another word. 'Cause another one is on the way. Another one, another one. Yeah, another one is on the way. Another one, another one. Yeah, another one is on the way. Another one is on the way. 'Cause another one is on the way. Here it goes, after open door. Here it goes, after open door. Here it goes, after open door.

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And now you dance, you will again And you dance, you will again And another one is on the way Another one is on the way Here it comes, after miracle Open door, after open door Here it comes, so get ready for another one 'Cause another one is on the way Here it comes, after miracle Open door, after open door Here it comes, so get ready And another one is on the way Jesus, come on, give me some praise in the house today, amen? Thank you Lord, how many of you believe there's a miracle on the way today? How many of you came today expecting God to work a miracle in your life? He'll never disappoint, amen? There's power and expectation. When we come with faith believing, God, you're going to open doors. God can open doors that there's no way that any of us could ever open, amen? And I believe today He's going to do that very thing. This is an incredible day to be in the house of the Lord. Can I hear an amen if you're glad to be here? Find somebody and tell them you have a miracle coming your way. Come on, and believe it, say it. Say it and believe it by faith. You have a miracle coming your way in Jesus' name, amen? Man, it's good to see all of you in the house of the Lord today. Thank you so much for being here. Guys, listen to me, help me welcome everyone visiting for the very first time. Revolution Church, come on, let's give it up. I met several people here from out of state, just met a pastor from Indiana,

missionary, been doing it on the mission field for a long time. We have a lot of people visiting and we're so grateful for each one of you. Also, I want to say thank you to the regular attendees that show up every weekend. Amen, give yourself a hand-glap. Yep, yep, yep. Good to see everybody again in the house of the Lord. If you are visiting, there's a connect card. It's in the seat back either in front of you or right behind you. If you'd grab that, fill it out, turn it in. You can drop it off in one of these buckets as you're leaving. We'd just like to know you're here and be praying for you. We're glad that you've chose to worship with us today and visit with us. Another thing I want to say is that if you make Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior today, which would be absolutely incredible, make sure before you leave, you let us know that. We have a team out in the foyer and they have Bibles to give you. We're going to hand you a Bible and inside of that Bible is going to be next steps. Talk about water baptism, discipleship, how you can walk with us on that journey. So make sure you grab your Bible today. We'd love to hand you that. Lots and lots of things going on at Revolution Church this weekend. And what I would say is if you want to keep up, make sure you're going to our church app or the website because honestly, sometimes I don't even know what's happening. Somebody will say, what happened today? And it's like, I don't know, tell me because I hadn't been to the church app. But let me tell you three things I know of that's happened just in the last few days. One, Wednesday night, the youth, the children, our Christian academy, several people came together put 300 boxes for Thanksgiving together and handed them out to our community. Praise the Lord. Amen, because that's you, that's you guys giving. These families now are going to have turkeys and all the fixings and all that good stuff.

And it was awesome. Connie and I, we showed up here. We were about 15 minutes till time to give out. And they were lined up from the pavilion all the way out to the highway. We couldn't even pull in the front entrance. So we come around the back entrance and slipped in. But it was awesome and Connie was just sharing with me. She said, there's a huge need in our community for food. And we know gas prices are high, food's high, there's a need. And I'm grateful for a church who really ministers to the community. So thank you for doing that. That was one of the big things that happened over the last few days. And then Saturday we had a marriage event here at the church. Church, the place was transmitted. We we cried we talked and left very encouraged So that was that was awesome and then last night or yesterday after noon There was a father-daughter dance here in the auditorium and it was phenomenal If you if you didn't get a chance to see the pictures online check them out It was absolutely incredible. I will tell you one thing. There was a I did see a picture of my oldest son He's got a daughter. He was here to dance with with her and he was back here in the stadium seats all by himself Looking at his phone. I think he was watching the Kentucky, Tennessee game And it's like oh no not during the father daughter dance you weren't doing that worry But to his credit he said that his daughter was running around with one of her friends and gave him a yasset Yeah, good excuse, but it as far as optics it didn't look good right Anyway good to see you again here at the house of the lord and revolution church You're here today For you're getting ready to to really be blessed because this is mission Sunday It's the Sunday one time a year where we really focus on foreign missions and what's going on globally and throughout the world and The one ministry that that I know of that's doing the most of any ministry I know of is Rio missions and today you're gonna get to hear from the founder

Which is also my older brothers pastor Ronnie hep early. He's gonna be coming and sharing a report on what's going on globally And it's incredible. You guys are gonna love the fact that you're part of that But today I'm gonna ask you to really pray ask ask the Lord What can I do to support foreign missions? We know what the great commission is Matthew 28 18 19 Jesus said to go into all the world and preach the gospel Preaching the gospel is one of our foundational things that we focus on preaching the gospel making disciples and serving our community One way that we can preach the gospel is by sending someone to some of the darkest places on planet Earth and This ministry Rio missions go they they actually go there and so it this morning Connie and I were sitting at our table It's a it's breakfast time. It's our quiet time We're sitting there and we just prayed together and said Lord. What do you want us to do for foreign missions? and The Holy Spirit spoke to both of us and I'm very grateful that we have a church app because we're able to take take our phone out and Give there at at our kitchen table You can give it in person. You can put it in an envelope drop it off in the buckets You can do it online through the church app or website any way that you choose to but I would just ask you to date To just pray and ask the Lord. What would you want me to do? So right now, I'm going to pray and we're going to move on with the rest of the service so if you would let's stand and Something that we just like to do is as as we talk about offerings We realize that's worship. So right now. I want us to worship the Lord With our giving father. We thank you for an opportunity Lord to give to support the kingdom of God Lord and support What you're doing and right now we ask you to take our offerings We present them at the feet of Jesus and Lord We ask you to take these offerings and multiply God let the blessings of the Lord be on them so that the work out in the mission feel God Can be done and God it can be extremely fruitful. We're grateful for that We're grateful father for each person who supports this ministry and we pray God blessings upon Rio missions in Jesus name Come on everybody said help me now. Hey, man. God bless you guys Good morning church family, I'm Lisa. This is my dear friend Sherry and we want to welcome you to the service today We're so glad you chose to worship with us. Let's get started with all the information

fam foster and adoptive ministries what a wonderful program near and dear to our heart absolutely you guys have been supportive to us it is foster and Adoptive ministry if you are at all interested in fostering adopting or supporting families who do like you and Jamie sure have us Please come at six o'clock tomorrow night get some information about that. I think you'll be You'll be very interested to know ways that you can support these families for sure same as um basil tree that is a blessing and a reward that we can't explain if you have blessed a child with Angel tree gifts starting next Sunday before service or after service the ladies will be out in the foyer Please bring your gifts so that they can get those ready to go to bless these children at Christmas I'm so excited about that. Absolutely, and we've done that almost every year. Isn't it such a blessing? It is it really is and so I hope We also know that we have a lot of information all the time, so please go to our website or our Church Center app. We can get all your information there, and we have a wonderful prayer team we saw. - Absolutely. - They are just powerful prayer warriors, and they've been praying for you all week, and if you have a specific prayer or need prayer today, they will be down there during the last song at the altar, or you can go see them, and we have that pray for you after service. So, it's so important. We are so glad that you're here today. Please enjoy the rest of the service. (upbeat music) ♪ Going into the brothels ♪ ♪ Putting your life on the line ♪ ♪ Or rescuing all of us children ♪ ♪ From the sex trafficking crimes ♪ ♪ You never had a second thought ♪

♪ Just being God's hands and feet ♪ ♪ Pulling us out of the clutches ♪ ♪ Of an evil enemy ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ There won't any waiting to be rescued ♪ ♪ Praying that someone cared ♪ ♪ The church started on a mission to redeem the children ♪ ♪ That were hurt and scared ♪ ♪ With God's help, we will fight this battle ♪ ♪ Do it all we can to save a life ♪ ♪ United with our church family ♪ ♪ We will fight this fight because of you ♪ ♪ Our lives have been changed forever ♪ ♪ Because of you ♪ ♪ We have been redeemed ♪ ♪ You restored ♪ ♪ And led us to the Father ♪ ♪ We now have heard this and a dream ♪ ♪ Because of you ♪ ♪ We're forever grateful ♪ ♪ Because of you ♪ ♪ Whoa, as a whole ♪ ♪ You thought we were worth saving ♪ ♪ Now we have a place where we ♪ ♪ Feel like we belong ♪ ♪ Life shattered by the sins of others ♪ ♪ At the hands of an evil plan ♪ ♪ All hope was lost ♪ ♪ But you weighed the cost ♪ ♪ And together you took a stand ♪

♪ How could we ever thank you ♪ ♪ For the sacrifice you have made ♪ ♪ Without hesitation ♪ ♪ You came running to our aid ♪ ♪ With your help we will make a difference ♪ ♪ We will rescue redeemer store ♪ ♪ Helping all the ones who are broken ♪ ♪ United will always walk because of you ♪ ♪ Our lives have been changed forever ♪ ♪ Because of you ♪ ♪ We have been redeemed ♪ ♪ To restore ♪ ♪ And let us to the Father ♪ ♪ We now have purpose ♪ ♪ And a dream ♪ ♪ Because of you ♪ ♪ We're forever grateful ♪ ♪ Because of you ♪ ♪ Hope has a hope ♪ ♪ You thought we were worth saving ♪ ♪ Now we have a face ♪ ♪ Where we feel like we belong ♪ ♪ You thought we were worth saving ♪ ♪ Because of you ♪ ♪ Hope has a hope ♪ ♪ A hope ♪ (audience applauds) - Lulu, yeah, what a honor to be with you guys today. Lots went on since the last time I was here a year. an airplane than you do at home and it's been wild and every time I come every year in November,

I try to remember what has happened since the last November and it's almost more than what you can wrap your mind around. But since the last time I was here, I was over Southeast Asia for the Church of God, Cleveland denomination. Also, I passed her in towns and we do missions and chaplaincy and prison ministry and a lot of that. So what happened through working in Southeast Asia, we begin to see and understand the sex trafficking industry is rampant there and Southeast Asia has a place called the Golden Triangle and the Golden Triangle is where a lot of those countries come together and it's the the meth capital of the of the world. It's the the heroin capital of the world and the the sex trafficking capital of the world. It's a it's a crazy crazy place and the majority of those countries in that area are less than 1% Christian. And so when there's no Jesus, anything goes. And so since I was here last, I stepped down from being the superintendent of Southeast Asia and I was able to talk the officials into putting my administrator over Southeast Asia. And and then I became the director of the R3 initiative and the R3 gospel initiative in countries that aren't communists are it's the R3 initiative in countries where they don't want you preach in the gospel. Communist socialist countries, Muslim countries, some of the Hindu countries, it's just the R3 initiative, leave the word gospel out. And so I'm here and going to give a report of the return on investment. I look at you guys as stockholders. You've helped me build churches and raise up pastors and plant churches all over the all over the globe in the last several years. And so what I'm here today is primarily to talk about trafficking, to talk about the R3 initiative and R3 initiative is rescue, redeem and restore and rescue includes prevention. And I know that it's rampant here in the United States, but if you can imagine what's going on in the United States and then multiply it by a hundred. And so rescue is about protection, education and and prevention. And and we're doing that and going to be doing it more and more in the United States in and in Tennessee. We've partnered with several organizations you can look these up on the web. Project Justice is a Southeast Asia organization. There's another organization that we're in in the process of connecting with. They're out of central North Central Thailand. And the name of their organization is Destiny Rescue. And these people have been chasing us down. Natalie Grant, the Christian singer, some of you all know who she is. She's got an organization called Hope for Justice and Hope for Justice and and Rio is going to be doing an event in the Bristol area. Just had four people caught and charged yesterday. I think it was with sex trafficking in the in the Bristol area. Highway 75 is a pipeline and 40 is two and a lot of these

places God has helped us connect to. So we got Hope for Justice, Project Justice, Destiny Rescue. There's a another organization that primarily it's a previous CIA and and FBI folks, military folks here in the United States and they do the extraction for the most part. And then we got people around the world that are part of this and it costs somewhere in the neighborhood on the average about $750 to and do the preliminary things with a young child. And so as you saw in the video, this was a pastor's wife here in Tennessee wrote that song about what we do, and we put it to music. The first little girls you saw with their faces blurred, they are in an undisclosed country where it's illegal to do what we're doing, and where the last time I was there, since I've been here last, we had people hiding in closets and hiding under the bed. They called us at the motel, said, "Don't get anywhere close to here." And we were gonna have a big party and not a groundbreaking, gonna have a dedication service to the building that we built, and just to celebrate what God had done and what he was doing. And I mean, can you imagine, you're rescuing eight-year-old little girls that have been brutally abused numerous times daily for months, and some of them even years, and you've got people that are hiding in closets and hiding under the beds that have went in there

that are helping what we do. And one of the, we just broke ground on a place in Honduras, and Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, where these countries meet, there's a pipeline that comes up through Central America and it ends up in Mexico. And when it ends up in Mexico, the cartels get involved. And a lot of the cartels are already involved in these areas. And I can tell story after story after story, but I'm here to give a report, a stockholders report, if you will, and to share with you what I feel like the Lord's placed on my heart. And I just want to say thank you. This is, I'm not being facetious without your all's help. We built 35 church buildings in the last couple of years in the country with 78 years of civil war, had a 7.7 earthquake and unprecedented flooding. And in the middle of all of that, they started conscripting and drafting the young older teenagers and young adults. And so they're going across from Myanmar into Thailand. And we had just built a two-story building in the area where they're coming across into. And God, the refuge, if we specialize in anything, it's refugees. And God, I mean, those people know they need help. That's why we're so involved in prison ministry and people are watching from prison today. And where the dark is the darkest,

is where the light shines a brightest. And that's where God uses us to the greatest extent. And so I just sent word day before yesterday to a son in the faith in Bangkok. I said, we can't build buildings fast enough. We can't buy houses fast enough to house the people that God has put in our path. And I called my son in the faith and I told him, I said, hey, rent this building. And we've got a girl in his church that we help build. Everybody say, we help build. We help build a church. We help train this pastor. And this pastor has got a little girl leading worship in his church named Lovely that we help bring out and help partner with ministries. They brought her out of a orphanage. And this girl today is a worship leader and is gonna be the house director of our first safe house that in a rental house that I just sent word to rent in Bangkok, Thailand, which is the epicenter of all of this. And so, hallelujah. Let me tell you a lovely story. A buddy of mine, we partner with everybody all over the world. A buddy of mine in Chattanooga has a ministry, him and his wife Kay and Terry Harris. They have a ministry called Forward Housing and it's about the next step for children when they age out of orphanages. Well, when you're in the third world

and you age out of an orphanage, food, lodging, everything you need, it can be very, very tough, especially if you don't have family. And this little girl, they had brought a little boy out of Northern Thailand. and she's chasing the van. And she's saying, what about me? What about me? And she's gonna be our first director of a safe house in Bangkok. Hallelujah, hallelujah. 12 hours ago, she was leading worship in a church that we built with a pastor that we trained. And she's a little girl that we helped raise up, and we're doing it all over the world, but especially in Southeast Asia. One of the things, I've got some pictures that besides the video, and I'll talk about prisons a little bit, and this one here is in Honduras, if I'm not mistaken. We've got two safe houses being built right now, in one in Honduras, one in Chiang Rai. We've got multiple wells being drilled as we speak. We've got walls and concrete, and the initial site work that we're doing, some of the boys that are doing it are boys that have been raised up through our ministry. Honduras, we've got a lady, a lady pastor, and she's a hero, and she's married to a doctor, she's a lawyer,

she's a district pastor, she's the lady in this next picture with the darker color dress. Her name is Tesla Padilla. Tesla, we had her in here this summer. She's gonna be in for the Super Bowl, talking about trafficking in the United States. And as we continue here and abroad to push back, they live in the ghetto. That's the national overseer of the church of God in Honduras. At the groundbreaking, we've got a great piece of property that's been donated to it. This is a building in an undisclosed country that we can't talk about that is ready to start moving the children in as we speak. We finished it and God has just allowed us to do all kind of incredible things. One of the things that have happened recently, I just got back. I've been a couple of weeks back from Uganda and Kenya, and we were in 20 prisons in two weeks and ended up with 2,542 decisions for Jesus. And Hallelujah. And some of you may ask what's that got to do with trafficking? Well, the most at-risk children I know are children in prison with their mamas. In Uganda, the children stay with their mamas until they're 18 months old, and then the government puts them out.

If they've got family good, if they ain't got family good, if there's some, it can be very, very weird. And in Kenya, the children stay with the mothers until they're four years old, got one prison and Uganda has got about 4,000 inmates in it, lady prison, and they've got 38 pregnant women in the prison right now. Those children will be born, and the first thing they're gonna see is prison bars. And we'll live there until they're 18 months old. In that prison, they've got 48 children that are already living there. In Nairobi, Kenya, in a maximum security prison, Longada, right outside of Nairobi, we've got a prison that we built. We, everybody say we again, we built a baptismal pool, and so the ladies could be baptized, and we wouldn't have to continually be bringing water in, and water trucks and plastic swimming pools. And so anyway, in this prison, they have the maximum security prison, and then they have the remand prison. And remand in Africa means convicted, and convicted means condemned. And so they call these the condemned ones. And you might be in prison four or five years before you go to trial. And we just helped a boy in Kakamega,

you saw a picture in Kakamega, we just helped a boy in Kakamega from Uganda, Kakamega, He just went to trial after five years being in prison. He was released because he was innocent and we helped him get back home to Uganda. And that just incredible. But these ladies that I was talking about, until they go to court, they're not convicted or condemned. And after, and so they call that the remand prison for whatever reason, so a remand prison is a prison where they've not been to court yet. And if they're condemned, that means they've already been sentenced. And I could go on and on about the children and the need there. And while I was there two weeks ago, one of our partners over there gave me a piece of property up close to the Rift Valley in Northern Kenya in a place called Kitale. You can Google all these places and look at them. And we went up to look at the property while I was there. I had an afternoon off one day and we ran up through there. And we're gonna build a safe house there for these at-risk children. And what we begin doing more and more the last little bit is targeting at-risk children,

whether they be from orphanages, whether they're in prison, whether they're on the street. And this picture right here is one of our projects. In Myanmar, 78 years of civil war, bombing the people there, the military, or bombing the tribal people, killing the folks. It's the craziest thing. It's a genocide and everybody knows it. It's 78 years of war. And we're bringing in, we're building, a batch buildings, what we're doing, we've got a program called Project 127, which is close to my heart. For $1,000, we build onto the church building that we've already built. And then we give $50 a week, I mean a month to each child or each widow woman. And Project 127 is from James 127, which is pure religion and undefiled, is visiting the fatherless and the widows in their affliction. And God's just blessing it. Every day, every day the gospel's being preached. This next picture for the widow ladies that have a home now that come off the street that are helping in the work of the ministry in the church with the pastor and his wife. And this is the pastor, he's a Kachim tribesman. I love those folks.

That's the water filter. This is the church. We built that church for $10,000. We gotta put a ceiling in it and gotta put tile. But he's took money and built six of these little shacks to put these folks in as part of the Project 127. And that's one of the projects that I'm heavily involved in. Another project, I just told Pastor about it just a minute ago, I'm a diamond medallion. I'm a million miler with Delta. I fly all kinds of airplanes. I don't fly first class. I get bumped up a lot, thank God, because I've got so many miles and so many things and this, that and other. But one of the big things, if I don't go to these places, nothing happens. Somebody's got to go. Somebody's got to see the need. Somebody's got to share the vision. Somebody, and for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000 a month, little better than $1,000 a month, I can pay my airfare. For a couple of thousand dollars a month, I can pay all my travel expenses. Food, lodging, the airfare. And some trips, I may have 12 or 13 different flights. And so I'm just telling you how to move the needle. I'm all about the ROI. ROI is a return on investment.

We have to make things happen. We have to be good stewards of what God gives us and we got to move the needle. And so we're always looking, how can we do more? How can God use us more? Where is the biggest need? Where's the most fertile soil? Where are the people that are in the greatest darkness and where can we make the biggest difference? And so the prisons, 2,542 people. (congregation applauding) 20 prisons, and when you go in a prison where the people smell like animals, this prison right here, this front photo, I can't describe to you the stench in these prisons with open sewer. I can't, when a fly lands on you in one of those prisons, you want to either kill the fly or keep something covered up to where it ain't biting you because you know where it's come from. You don't want it on you. And I mean, I know that's pretty raunchy, but that's the way this prison right here, the ladies' prisons, when you walk in a prison, when the girls don't have underwear, they don't have soap, they don't have toilet paper, they don't have toothbrushes and toothpaste, when you walk in a prison, and you say, "I'm here to tell you that Jesus loves you,"

and you start handing out bloomers and used braziers and whatever you can get your hands on when you ain't got nothing. Them gals love you, and they're there to hear what you've got to say, and this is what we do. And it's the greatest need on the planet, and the children are the greatest need on the planet times 10, and that's where we're targeting. I've just got 24 acres of property that was made available to me, and Ecuador, Ecuador is passed, in my opinion, Columbia as the cocaine trafficking king of South America now. We, I got 24 acres, we're gonna be able to safe house. Anytime you've got drugs, the big money is people, and when you're trafficking people, the really big money is children, and so you've got organ trafficking, you've got whole mass graves of little children that have had their organs harvested. You've got whole, you've got mass graves in Central and South America. I talked to a guy connected to the cartels recently, and up through the pipeline of Central and South America and into Panama, we're converting our mission house we have on the Costa Rica border that we built a couple years ago, Rio did. In Panama, we're converting it to a safe house for children and talking to government officials all over the world. It's huge, and as I share with you what I feel like the Lord's put on my heart,

I wanna say thank you for, for partnering with us, and I wanna ask you to go another, another lap or two, go another year or two. I'll be 70 years old in, in March. (chuckling) Hey, it's 70 years old. If somebody had told me 20 years ago that I'd be engaged in the most important thing that I've ever done in my ministry, and the most significant in the, we've bought slaves in Sudan, we've worked with, we've done everything that can be done in ministry and been happy about it, been super successful, all over the world and here on. And if somebody had told me that it's 70 years old, would be climbing a new mountain, I'd tell you that you're out of your mind, I'm gonna retire one these days. I'm gonna hunt with my boys, and I'm gonna ride my motorcycle. I've been, it's getting harder and harder, to even find time to get on a scooter to enjoy the wind in my hair. But what I'm saying is, some of the needs that God has allowed us to be a part of. In Zambia, 57 acres just came available. People are giving us property all over the world and saying we wanna safe house here. There's a need here. We can convert this, we can use this. We can do this and we are and we will.

We got 18 projects right now. If we had the money, 18 safe houses. I told you about Ron, my spiritual son in Bangkok. I just told him, day before yesterday, I said rent the house, put lovely in there to run the house and start rescuing these little girls. now, if you ever walk through the the red light district in Manila, Philippines, if you ever walk through the red light district in in in Bangkok, Thailand, if you ever walk through these places and you see what's going on, it messes you up. I mean it's you can't I can't describe it. I remember my first time in Vietnam, I'm going to the airport on a on a Friday or Saturday night and for like a mile and a half brothel after brothel after beer joint after beer joint after beer joint and the girls are standing outside waiting at every one of those and and I'm on the way to the airport. Well the people that have just flown in there that are coming into town, they're going by that too. I'm leaving but they're coming and and so as we talk about doing things together and as I think about being in God's perfect wheel and you know the bible talks about the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God. I think I'm in God's perfect wheel pastry. I'm trying my best if I'm not, I want to know. I want to figure it out, I ain't got time to waste. I don't I'm not going to you know hills and ain't high enough to die on, keep me away from them. And then the 16th chapter of the book acts real quickly. What had happened is Paul, Paul wrote two-thirds of the New Testament. He's just been on a mission trip and and this first missionary trip he went through Asia Minor. That's where Turkey is now. I've been through there and and and they had planted churches and good ministry happened. Paul and Barnabas come out of the church at Antioch, they lay the hands on them, sent it forth and and and God used him mightily. John Mark, he bailed out on him. He was young and inexperienced and he quit and then as a result the next time that that Barnabas and Paul were going to go back to the second for the second missionary journey and that's what happens in Act 16 when they started to go back. They had a big contention, a big disagreement because John Mark was a cousin or an FU-1 of Barnabas and Barnabas's name means son of consolation. He's given everybody extra chance and Paul ain't got time to waste time and Paul says I'm going and I don't want to take Mark and so Mark and Barnabas, they went a different direction and Barnabas wasn't a writer and Paul

was a writer and so we got two-thirds of the New Testament tells about what happened with Paul on his next trips and the letters that he wrote to Thessalonica and to Philippi and Ephesus and all that we have those those letters today that gives us direction. So in the book of Acts Luke wrote the book of Acts and Luke is telling what's going on here and down in the in the six verse they said now when they, everybody say they, when they had gone throughout Frigia and the region of Galatia and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia. Isn't that interesting? They were forbidden. God closed the door. God gave them a revelation. I don't want you to go to back to Asia. They're there to go back to Asia. They're there to encourage the people. They're there to stir up the fire and the Bible says in verse six they were forbidden but the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia. After they were come, verse seven, to Magia, they say, they intended, they made an effort to go into Bithnia but the Spirit suffered them not. Isn't that interesting? The door is shut and it's slammed shut and it's padlocked and the only way to go to Asia at this time was for Paul to kick the door down and he would have been out of the will of God. And verse eight said they, everybody say they again. They passing by Magia came down to Troas and Troas is on the Aegean Sea looking towards from Asia Minor in Turkey area looking towards Greece and Greece is in Europe. The gospel had never been to Europe at this point. There was no converts in Europe and it said a vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him, requested from him. revelation. I don't want you going back to Asia. I've got bigger things for you to do. I've got darker darkness. I've got bigger opportunities for you. And the Holy Spirit forbid him to go, and he would have been completely out of the will of God if he had done what he wanted to do. And here they are. They got a confirmation. So when revelation comes, you don't just jump off the deep end. You wait for God to let you know without a shadow of a doubt that you're in the right place. You're doing the right thing. You're with the right people. And this revelation become a confirmation when he had the dream. And look at this. Verse 10 says, after he, everybody say he. So we've been talking about they and them and he. And Luke is the one telling the story. After he, Paul had seen division immediately. We. Everybody say we. Immediately, we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering, knowing without a shadow of a doubt that this was God's will. This was what God was orchestrating. This is where we're supposed to go. This is what we're supposed to do. And this affects us today.

If it hadn't have been for we endeavoring, if it hadn't have been for our intention to hear the voice of God and do the will of God, we would be evangelized by Japan and China and Asia. Now God had his eye on Europe. This is why we need to be evangelizing those people because it wouldn't have took very much at all for them to hurt the gospel before we did. And it said, and after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called for us to preach the gospel unto them. And in the next three, four verses, you'll see we, we, we, we. Luke partnered with them. Luke caught up with them there. At Troas, Luke ended up instead of talking third person and talking about they and them began everything from here on through Lydia and through the Philippian jailer and everything that happened in the next one, the first converts in Europe, the first church in Europe, all these first happened because the Holy Spirit guided them and gave them revelation and then confirmation and then you see these, these people as they begin to obey and it become we in us, we in us, we in us. I want you to stand if you will. They know such thing as days and thens in the body of Christ. They ain't gonna be a Baptist gate of heaven. They ain't gonna be a church of God. They ain't gonna be a Rio gate or door at heaven. There's not gonna be a assembly of God or, or a Nazarene or, or, or, or some denominational deal. It's all about we in us, the body of Christ. And we have hit home runs for the cause of Christ, not just last year, but multiple years. And you and I together and our teams together are still knocking home runs and God's still using us. And some of the greatest darkness that I've ever seen in my life is the darkness in these places where the, the Word of God hasn't been. 100% of these orphans, 100% of these traffic little girls and boys, 100% of these children become Christians. 100% of the widow women that we bring in and show them the love of God put a roof over their head and feed them. 100% of them become Christians. Hallelujah. And it's because we care. It's because we care. It's because we're making a difference. It's because of your sacrifices and my sacrifices. Everybody can't go, but you can give. pray and together we're seeing fruit like we've never seen before the Bible says that we're sin of bounds grace much more about you get in a service with a bunch

of little girls that have been trafficked and all they know is is wickedness and darkness and your guts get ripped out you think about your little granddaughters I've got two great granddaughters and you go from having your guts ripped out to the power and the presence of God thicker and richer and sweeter in the same setting I'm about half crazy pacer I know what I always have been you know what my name was all through school wild man that stuff will make you crazy it makes you go places where you know that you might not come back out and I if God be for us who could be against God's on our side thank you for allowing me to give you a stockholders report thank you for sacrificially giving and you folks that are watching online especially you folks that are behind bars I could tell you stories of building chapels in worse prisons in the world and the pastors who weren't saved are pastoring on the outside today I could tell you about Hugo Al-Kazar and Lima Peru that was married and in the Lurygoncho prison you type in Lurygoncho prison it's the worst of the worst of the worst 16,000 inmates in a prison built for 1600 when they had a prison right one time I was there in the prison right and they locked the door on the outside they locked the door on the inside and they're shooting having to shoot out between the gangs and I'm in the inside with 600 inmates with two officers with Billy sticks and no weapons and they're playing soccer and they getting to find over soccer game and it ends up the greatest thing in the world and 300 of them after it was all said and done laid in the floor and cried their eyes out and swabbered and snotted and surrendered their life to Jesus that's what I'm talking about you folks that are watching sometimes you have to know darkness intimately to really appreciate the light some of you folks that think you went too far I'm telling you they ain't no too far with Jesus I could tell you all kind of stories of friends of mine I could tell you about the enemy or the government throwing dynamite over the walls during one of their big interactions and killing 29 people and them being afraid to come in because it was was so dangerous and I could tell prison after prison after story after

story but pastors that were raised up and and trained in prison and surrendered her life to Jesus and now are on the outside Carlos Pinto and Panama I can go on and on and on I'm telling you Jesus is a miracle worker if you need something from Jesus he's here today our altar workers if y'all would come on up and stand here in the front if you've got a need my god will supply all my needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus if you've got a need if you've got a problem I know the problem solver if you got an issue in your life if you got a besetting sin if you've got an addiction if you got something that is hindering you from doing and being what God wants you to be I'm telling you he's no different here than he is in Castro Castro prison or or Laurie Gancho or Kiao or God loves you. He loves us. I want you to bow your head and close your eyes. If there's somebody here that's got a desperate need with eyes closed and heads bowed, I've got a desperate need. God has to move in my situation, or things ain't going to turn out very good. Anybody would raise their hands and say, "I've got a desperate need in my life. I've got a desperate need in my circle of influence. I've got a desperate need in my family. You that are online, I've got a desperate need. And if God don't help me, things ain't going to turn out too good." Right where you're at. I'm telling you, God hears you. I've got a desperate need. If that's you, I want you to find your way out of your seat and come up and come to this,

come to this altar and let these men and women of God pray with you. Don't be backward, whether you, whether you raise your hand or not. If you've got a desperate need, you need God to intervene on your behalf. I want you to step out real quickly. Real quickly, right where you're at. If you're incarcerated, I want you to get down on your knees right now. Get a hold of the bars and just get down on your knees, steady yourself as you get down, but hold those bars and say, "Jesus, I need you to help me." Or if you don't help me, things ain't going to turn out good. I've got a desperate need. Anybody else would say, "God, you've got to move on. You've got to help me. I'm surrendering. I'm turning it all over to you. Would you help me? I've got family members that need you. I've got issues that have to be addressed." Whatever they are, I'm going to pray and then we're going to change here as the worship team is going to sing. Father, in the name, it's above every name. Lord, let miracles happen in this altar this morning. Lord, I'm going to ask you to touch somebody. I'm going to ask you to do something that men can't do. I'm going to ask you to do something that a check or a $100 bill won't take care of. I'm going to ask you to move on behalf of people that are desperate for a touch of God. We need you, Lord. Touch us, help us to know where the greatest need is on the planet and help us to get there.

Lord, we'll do our best to make a difference there. We love you. Thank you for loving us. Thank you for this church. Thank you for their vision, for the world of angelism. Helping hurting people in the name of Jesus. Amen. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] The sound of your church awakening Help my heart to keep up with the heavens Where the angels seek 24/7 breaks You're more than enough to get through my wrath Teaching me my day more than a fade And that's all I really need My soul sings in the morning I love that King and He loves me All that I'm compelled to bring Is my every tale of three Your mercy is new every morning I come alive as you're calling And all that I'm compelled to bring

Is my every tale of three Your hell's not scared of Sunday Even only leads to empty praise What really makes darkness run Is when the saints are rising crazy And quiet my day and Tuesday and Wednesday To know you, to love you, to choose you first On Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday To see you behold you in worship Singing, Hallelujah, holy, holy Glory to the King of Kings And Hallelujah, holy, holy My glory belongs to you And my soul sings in the morning I love that King and He loves me All that I'm compelled to bring Is my every tale of three Your mercy is new every morning I come alive as you're calling And all that I'm compelled to bring Is my every tale of three My every day of three My every day of three And it is all I have to give you It is all I have to give I give my life as an operating love Hallelujah, holy, holy Glory to the King of Kings And Hallelujah, holy, holy My glory belongs to you

Hallelujah, holy, holy Glory to the King of Kings And Hallelujah, holy, holy My glory belongs to you Hallelujah, holy, holy Glory to the King of Kings And Hallelujah, holy, holy Glory to the King of Kings And Hallelujah, holy, holy Glory to the King of Kings ♪ I can't get up ♪ Is my everyday offering. Well... Would we just thank you for your mercy, that it's new every morning? Would we offer our lives to you in worship? Would we just pray as we go out this week, that we would be bold for claiming your word, and that we would be alive in the dark places, Lord? Would we thank you for the testimony that we heard this morning, of people coming to you and being rescued? Lord, I just pray a blessing on everyone here this morning. And for those that don't know you, they would come to know you and see your goodness and faithfulness. We'll be thanking for everything you've done for us. And as well as in Jesus' name, amen. Hey church family, thanks for joining us today online. We really appreciate you being here with us. We view you as an extension of our church family. We really value you, so we would love to hear from you. If you have any questions or need any information about our church, please go to our website, reach out, we have emails,

phone numbers available, and we will connect with you. Thank you again for joining us. We look forward to seeing you next week. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)