This Preacher Almost Lost His Life Because Of Jesus

In a whole country, they're facing a lot of persecution. They just want to take your life away from you. Your family members, they want what's good for you. Who wants your family to be saved more than you do? What do you think? You don't know? I came from the width, different background, which is I cannot tell. I don't know if it's your immediate family. I don't know if it's your extended family. But the hardest things for me was that. My question is very simple life. I came from the width, different background, which is I cannot tell. Which background I came from. And in our country, like once you leave them, you leave your religion, or you leave anything. Continue, receive the threat from them. And they just want to take your life away from you. Of course. And we're facing a lot of persecution there. So my question is this, like as you are a game member, things are different here. So which kind of persecution do you guys face here? Especially for you, like you was a game member. So how do people want to persecute you? So that is my question. So one of the biggest things for me, and the hardest things for me was that. To be able to walk away from my life, because my whole hood and my whole gang is my family. Like genuinely, my brothers from my gang, my cousins, my uncles. It's not like you're just turning away from people. You're turning away from your family members, right? But the beautiful thing is what I learned was Isaiah 54 verse 17, everybody knows this verse. It says, "No weapon formed against me shall prosper."

Weapons will form, but they will not prosper. So when you look at the world, it looks like Satan is winning, if we're being honest, right? Like persecution, wars, all kinds of stuff. But the beautiful thing is, it will not prosper. That's what I hold on to. You know, your family members, they have that hard posture because they want what's good for you. What they saw is, wow, this brother is turning to a cult because that's how they think Christianity is. You guys are 3% you had mentioned, right? In Pakistan, Middle Eastern countries, even less. So what they're seeing is you're turning to a cult and so that enrages people, right? But at the very core of that, you're going to have to live very peaceful. What happens is people see that, bro, and they change. My friends, they knew me. They knew me back then as just the bald-headed kid who was crazy, right? But little by little, they started to see, wait, he's not drinking anymore. He's not smoking anymore. He's not doing crazy things anymore, right? You don't want to go to the clubs and anything like that anymore. Rose just always at church and they saw peace inside of me, right? And I think that's what people are missing. Your family too, who exiled you, who cut you off, they have that heart to be like, I want peace. And what they thought their religion was going to give them in God's timing, God will show, right? Because if every religion led to Jesus, let's say, or led to God, then God would be a cruel dictator. Because if this religion or that religion led to God, he wouldn't have to kill his son the way that he did. Makes sense. He'd be like, oh, it's OK, they'll figure it out anyways. So who wants your family, what I'm saying is, who wants your family to be saved more than you do? Who do you think? You don't know? God, bro.

Of course, right? God wants your family to be saved more than you. So I don't know if it's your immediate family. I don't know if it's your extended family. But God, he died for everybody. He wasn't like, oh, I'll only die for these people, right? He died for everybody. So you have to believe that, hey, although they exiled me, we're not enemies. We have one common enemy. His name is Satan. You know that, right? But Satan loves to pit us against each other. See that brother, see that sister, see my mom, see my dad so that we miss the true enemy. Understand what I'm saying? So you have to look at them and go, I understand. I understand that there's a timing where we didn't believe, just like me and you. You're a Pakistan. I'm sure you weren't born Christian, right? You were raised in a way where whether it was Islam or whatever. I was Muslim for three years to Islam, right? So it's a cultural thing. It's ingrained in you. So you think people are just going to change overnight. It's impossible. But little by little, will God prevail? Yes, God will lead everybody's family members back to him in his timing. Bro, I'm living proof of that. Me and my father, we hated each other. And now I'm having vlogs with him and he's talking about raising kids. And I'm like, easy for you to say, you didn't do that, right?

Like, but when I see him, I see the change in him. And he said it. When I saw Johnny calm down, that did something to me that any no sermon could have done. Understand what I'm saying? So the more you move, bro, people are going to see you and go, wow. This brother, he's literally changed. He's completely peaceful and they're going to want that part. Understand? And then you give them Jesus after that. OK, amen. Alrighty, brother. Thank you, bro. requested always keep praying for the Middle East. to see you in Pakistan because many people like me, they are waiting for you, the young straight people, so I just pray that the Lord bring you in Pakistan. Yeah bro, pray for it, pray for it, amen, amen. [Music] [Music]