May 15, 2025 • 71 mins
Dr. Todd Ahrend takes us deep into understanding the mission of God from Genesis to Revelation, revealing how we are called to prioritize reaching the 7,000 unreached people groups around the world with the gospel.
• God's mission begins in Genesis 12 when He promises to make Abraham into a great nation that will bless all nations
• Israel was meant to be God's "treasured possession," "kingdom of priests," and "holy nation" to show who God is to all nations
• Where Israel failed in their mission, Jesus prevailed perfectly, then established the church to continue reaching all peoples
• The five Great Commission texts together command us to go make disciples in every people group through the power of the Holy Spirit
• From approximately 17,000 people groups worldwide, about 7,000 remain "unreached" with no sustainable gospel witness
• The "1040 Window" contains most unreached peoples, dominated by Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and animistic religions
• Every Christian is called to be a "global Christian" by welcoming internationals, praying strategically, and supporting missions efforts
• We must shift our priorities from polishing our "rocks" (savings, safety, resume, relaxation) to participating in God's global purpose
You can find "The Abrahamic Revolution" by Dr. Todd Ahrend at the link below.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
In Revelation 7, john shares his vision of heaven,
with members from every tribe,tongue, people and language
standing in the throne roombefore the Lamb.
Yet today there are still over7,000 unreached people groups
around the world.
For the last six years, myfamily and friends have been on
a journey to find, vet and fundthe task remaining.
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Come journey with us to theends of the earth as we share
the supernatural stories of Godat work for the men and women he
has called to reach theunreached.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey friends, today we have an incredibly special
episode of the Unreached podcast.
We just hosted an event incollaboration with Bless at
Austin Ridge Bible Church, whereDr Todd Aaron came in to talk
to us about the mission of God.
This episode was recorded infront of a live audience and we
cannot wait for you to hear allthat God has for you today.
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So check this out with Dr ToddAaron.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Thank you for coming.
I was speaking at a church inAlabama and a guy picks me up
from the airport in his Priusand I'm like cool Prius says no
one, and him and his wife werein the front seat.
This is Birmingham, alabama.
And I'm in the back seat and Isay tell me about yourselves.
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He's like my name's Rick.
This is my wife, charlotte, andwe lived our whole life.
We retired and we lived ourwhole life so we could cruise
the world.
And I'm like you want to cruisethe world with retirement?
He's like yes, he's like wewent on our first cruise and we
just went on our last cruise andI was like what do you mean?
Your first and only last cruise?
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He's like Todd, first cruiseafter retirement.
I'm sitting by the pool on thecruise ship.
First day we're cruising thePanama Canal.
I'm reading a book.
I look up, there's a manfloating in the pool.
I throw my book, I sayCharlotte, I run, I jump in, I
pull the man to the side, Istart resuscitation.
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Todd, he'd been dead for 20minutes.
His wife's on the phone,doesn't even know.
First day of retirement, on ourfirst cruise.
I'm sitting by a dead man atthe pool and I look up and I say
, charlotte, is this what I gavemy life for?
People dying while I tan?
He said, todd, I'm 60 years oldand I don't know my purpose.
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And then we drove to the churchand I thought, wow, wow,
welcome to American Christianity.
Confusion, living for thingsthat are not appropriate for our
time, talent and treasureshould go.
And I said, man, what wouldhave happened if this man would
have been anchored in themission of God from his teenage
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years?
What if he grew up knowing themission of God and what his
purpose was?
And so it is imperative that weleave here this afternoon
knowing what is the mission ofGod.
What am I supposed to do withmy time, talent and treasures?
How do I give?
How do I live?
How do I raise my kids?
And so, if you had no knowledgeof the Bible and you picked one
up, the first 11 chapters isjust the introduction.
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The first 11 chapters is justthe introduction.
The first 11 chapters is justthe introduction.
You can reduce the first 11chapters into four words
Creation, fall flood nations.
You can reduce the first 11chapters of the Bible into four
words Creation, fall floodnations.
And as you turn to Genesis,chapter 11,.
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God has said fill the earth,fill the earth, fill the earth.
But listen to what happens tohumanity Now.
The whole earth had onelanguage and a common speech,
one language on planet earth.
As men moved eastward, theyfound a plain in Shinar.
They're supposed to be fillingthe earth with God's glory,
except they say come, let us godown and confuse their language.
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Come, let us build ourselves acity with a tower that reaches
to the heavens, so that we maymake a name for ourselves and
not be scattered over the faceof the whole earth.
This is direct disobedience.
God has said fill the earth,fill the earth, fill the earth.
Humanity says no thanks.
And so God comes down and hebrings confusion, judgment and a
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scattering.
And now, in Genesis 11, thenations are scattered.
We go from one language to 70languages.
God creates 70 languages inGenesis chapter 11.
Now, if you had no knowledge ofthe Bible and you got to Genesis
chapter 11, you should haveanxiety.
You should say man, what'sgoing to happen?
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How is he going to bring backall these nations under his
glory?
And all you have to do torelieve the tension of how is
God going to respond is turn thepage.
Genesis chapter 12 is where themission of God becomes clear.
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Genesis, chapter 12,.
The mission of God becomesclear.
God is going to pick a man.
From that man, create a family.
From that man, create a family.
From that family, create anation and from that nation,
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create a great nation that willbless all nations.
The man is Abram.
The family is Israel.
The Lord said to Abram leaveyour country, your people, your
father's household and go to theland I will show you.
I will make you into a greatnation.
I will bless you.
I'll make your name great.
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You'll be a blessing.
I'll bless those who bless you,and whoever curse you I'll
curse.
But here it is.
All the 70 nations that Iscattered in Genesis 11 are
going to be regathered under myglory.
Through you, all peoples of theearth are going to be blessed
through you.
I was a believer for a decadebefore I realized the importance
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of Genesis 12.
I had no idea.
Genesis 12, all of scripturehung.
The entire scripture can beencapsulated in what God's going
to do in Genesis 12, 1 through3.
This is so important that it'sgoing to be repeated four more
times in Genesis.
Abram second time Genesis 18,will become a great and mighty
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nation and all the nations onearth will be blessed Third time
.
Genesis 22,.
Abram, in your offspring, allthe nations on earth will be
blessed.
Now to Abraham's son, isaac,isaac.
Just like your father and yourfather's household, your
descendants will be as numerousas the stars in the sky and give
them all these lands.
And to your offspring, allnations on earth will be blessed
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.
Jacob, genesis 28.
Just like your father, isaac,and your father's father,
abraham, the mission of Godcomes to you.
Your descendants will be likethe dust of the earth and they
will spread out to the west, tothe east, to the north, to the
south.
Genesis 12, on repeat.
Here it is all nations on earthwill be blessed through you.
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This is where God's going.
The question is are you?
That's the only question.
I flew in from Fayetteville,arkansas, behind our house,
we've got three acres.
It's.
This is where God's going.
The question is are you?
That's the only question.
I flew in from Fayetteville,arkansas, behind our house.
We've got three acres.
It's mostly forest.
My kids take my good spoons andthey go back there and dig
Drives me bananas.
They take my good spoons.
And one day my daughter camerunning in.
She's like dad, dad, dad.
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I said what is itissy?
She says I just found anancient Indian arrowhead.
I held it.
I'm like, oh my gosh, this is,this is an ancient Indian
arrowhead.
She says I gotta clean it.
She gets in the sink, she clogsthe sink, she gets the water in
the sink, she grabs the Clorox,the magic eraser, her brother's
toothbrush and for 30 minutesshe starts cleaning this ancient
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Indian arrowhead and after 30minutes this is what I hear
starts cleaning this ancientIndian arrowhead and after 30
minutes, this is what I hear.
Are you kidding me?
That's all I hear.
I said what is it, camden?
She said Dad, this isn't anancient Indian arrowhead, this
is a rock.
She said I spent a half an hourpolishing a rock.
I said homeschool moment.
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I walked up to her.
I said Camden, the world offersyou a rock to polish.
God gives you a purpose topursue.
She wept God gives us a purposeto pursue.
The world offers you a rock topolish.
And Christians are polishingthe rock.
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Christians are polishing theirrock and God says are you going
to join me in my global, eternaland unfulfilled purpose to
reach all peoples?
My daughter spent 30 minutespolishing a rock.
Some of us spend 30 yearspolishing a portfolio, a resume
or a savings.
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From a man comes a family, fromthe family comes a nation.
From a nation comes a greatnation to bless all nations.
At the end of Genesis, when youcome to the end of Genesis, if
the family of Abraham was onthis back wall and took a selfie
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, you could all fit in theselfie.
There's 70.
There's 70.
Genesis, chapter 50 tells us 70members of Jacob's family.
Oh my gosh, that's a sign.
There's 70 languages.
God's going to use this familyto reach the languages.
God has to create them into anation, and so he has to
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hibernate them for 400 years.
A good Pharaoh says to thefamily of Jacob, the 70,.
He says Joseph and Jacob, bringyour family into Egypt, go to
Goshen, the choice land, andthere live.
Why does, in Genesis 50, godbring the nation of Israel into
Egypt?
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He has to grow them.
They have to become a nation.
They're 70 after 430 years.
When we changed from Genesis 50and we turned the page to
Exodus 1, we do it in a matterof seconds.
But turning the page fromGenesis 50 to Exodus 1 was 430
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years and now they don't number70.
Now they number 3 million.
Can't fit in a selfie.
3 million.
Eight pharaohs later.
The new pharaoh hates thenation of Israel, but God says
come out.
You're now a nation.
You're going to come out andrepresent me to all nations.
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I've taken you from a man to afamily, to a nation.
Come out Now.
I've raised you up, pharaoh.
I've shown you these sites thatmy name might be proclaimed in
all nations Genesis 12.
Here we go, let's go.
You're coming out.
They part the Red Sea.
There's three million.
They're walking through thedesert.
You're going to represent me tothe nations.
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Why us God?
Why who are we that you broughtus out of Egypt?
They need to know theiridentity.
Us out of Egypt.
They need to know theiridentity.
God tells them as they'rewalking across the desert, he
says this.
Then Moses went up to God andthe Lord called him from the
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mountain.
This is what you just say tothe nation of Israel.
You have seen what I did toEgypt and how I carried you on
eagle's wings and brought you tomyself.
Now, if you obey me fully andkeep my covenant myself, now, if
you obey me fully and keep mycovenant, this is who you are.
You are my treasured possession.
That means I own you and I moveyou where I want.
You are my kingdom of priests.
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What does a priest do?
You mediate.
I bless you.
You pass it on to the nations.
You're my go-between, you aremy treasured possession.
You are my kingdom of priests.
Go-between, you are mytreasured possession.
You are my kingdom of priests.
You are my holy nation.
You will wear Kadesh La Yahweh,holy, belonging to God, on your
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chest and you will show thenations Kadesh La Yahweh, come
and see who God is.
You will bear my name to thenations.
Lord, this is incredible.
We want a Kadesh La Yahweh, youto the nations.
We just have a problem we don'tknow who you are.
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We don't know what grieves you.
We don't know what you love.
We don't know what you long for.
I'm gonna give you the law it ismy grace to give you, so that
you may know me and KadeshlaYahweh me to the nations.
He says this I have taught youthese decrees and laws, as the
Lord, my God, commanded me.
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Observe them carefully, forthis will show your wisdom and
understanding Kadesh La Yahweh,holy, belonging to God, to the
nations.
You will tell the nations comeand see who God is.
This is unbelievable.
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We're a treasured possession.
We're a holy nation.
We're a kingdom of priests.
We have the law, god.
We don't have a place To tellthe nations to come.
I'm going to give you the landbetween the Nile and the
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Euphrates, the fertile crescent,the crossroads of the nations,
the pathway to the nations, andyou're going to have the land to
worship me in.
From a man came a family, came anation, came a great nation,
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and then they have the law, theyhave the land, and God just
gives them an extra little kiss.
He says, israel, I am going todwell in your midst.
Heaven and earth is going totouch in a place called your
temple.
It's where heaven and earthtouches.
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If anyone in all the worldwants to know who I am, they
need to walk to this temple.
I don't care if they're inEgypt, Morocco, spain or India.
They walk to this temple.
It took seven years to build.
Listen to what Solomon says.
As for the foreigner who doesnot belong to your people,
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israel, but has come from adistant land, for they will hear
of your name, we will bear inyour name.
We are Kadesh LaYahweh.
When he comes to this templeand he prays respond, lord, do
whatever they ask so thatGenesis 12 will be fulfilled, so
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that all the peoples of theearth may know your name.
My friends, it's working.
It's working.
They're bearing his name,they're in the land, they're
obeying the law.
The nations are coming.
The queen of Sheba travels1,600 miles from Yemen to
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Jerusalem to sit at the feet ofSolomon.
Solomon was greater in richesand wisdom than all the other
kings of the earth.
The whole world sought audiencewith Solomon to hear the wisdom
that God had put in his heart.
It's working.
Now picture yourself.
Picture yourself walking alongthe road with a fellow Israelite
and the fellow Israelite saysto you this you know, I don't
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feel a passion to bear his namefor the nations.
I don't feel called.
That's not really my heart.
The other Israelite would lookat you and say that doesn't
matter, it's your identity.
It doesn't matter how you feelabout bearing his name to the
nations, it's who you are.
Another Israelite says yeah, Ifeel the same way.
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I'm more of an entrepreneur,business person.
I don't want to bear his nameto the nations.
That's not really the age andstage that I'm at.
What are you talking about?
This is who you are.
It has nothing to do with howpassionate or how much of a
heart or if you get chills.
It doesn't matter how you feelabout bearing his name to the
nations.
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If you feel good about it,that's just a bonus.
But you are to bear his name tothe nations.
How you feel about it is a mootpoint.
This is your identity and it'sworking.
Declare his glory among thenations, his marvelous works
among all peoples, for great isthe Lord and greatly to be
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praised.
He is to be feared of all thegods, for all the gods of the
earth are worthless idols,buddhism worthless, hinduism
worthless, islam worthless.
It's working, my friends.
It's working.
From a man comes a family,comes a nation, comes a great
nation to bear his name,kadeshla Yahweh, among all
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nations.
And God gave Israel everythingthey needed to bear his name.
He has given them the law, theprophets, the temple, the
scriptures, the protection, thesacrifices, the Sabbath.
He's given them the spirit, thehymns, the Torah, the Psalms.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Something happens when Godblesses you.
We forget the blesser.
Israel forgot the blesser.
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They fell in love with theblessing and thought they were
the ones who brought it uponthemselves.
And God says this at the end ofthe Old Testament wherever they
went among the nations, theyprofaned my holy name.
Aren't you, kadeshla, yahwehAren't you holy, belonging to
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God.
Why have you forsaken him?
I had concern for my holy name,which the house of Israel
profaned among the nations.
Every morning, I fight againstsaying four words out loud.
I don't like saying these fourwords out loud because I just I
don't.
But my heart tells on me.
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The first word that I say comesout before I even hit the floor
with my feet.
I have this app on my phone.
I grab my phone from thedresser, I go in, I go into this
app.
It's connected to my bankingaccount and the first thing my
heart says in the morning issavings, check your savings.
And I go into my savings grow,grow, little guy.
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Get a comma in there.
And then I go downstairs.
I go downstairs, I make a cup ofcoffee.
My son comes up cup of coffee.
My son comes up from thebasement.
My other son comes up from thebasement.
My other son comes up from thebasement.
My other son comes up from thebasement.
My daughter comes up from thebasement, my other daughter
comes up from the basement.
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And I get all six of my kids ina circle and the second word
comes out Keep them safe, lord,keep them safe.
And then I go to work and athird word comes out Resume,
make me more famous than anyfriend I know.
And then I come home and thefourth word comes out Relax,
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kick your feet up, you deserveit, go play some golf.
Those four words savings,safety, resume, relax, it's what
the vast amount of Christfollowers are living for.
And God comes along and invitesus into his global, eternal,
unfulfilled purpose to reach allpeoples.
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And I say, lord, I am all in.
But does it affect these fourwords?
Yes, drastically.
Then have me excused, this justisn't really my calling, I
don't have a passion for it andthis isn't the right age or
stage.
And so I go to church, I titheand I don't celebrate Halloween
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and I think I'm doing okay.
Meanwhile, where Israel fails,jesus prevails.
Where Israel fails, jesusprevails.
The perfect Israel, kadesh,layahweh, perfectly bearing
God's name, holy, and he livesand teaches and dies and rises
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again, and he will spend 40 daysafter the resurrection, before
the ascension, and heestablishes something called the
church.
And now the church is themechanism God will use to reach
the nations.
He flips the script Israel wasto come and see.
Now the church is to go andtell.
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Israel was to say come and see.
Now we are to go and tell, andJesus will give us five Great
Commission texts.
Why five?
One would be enough.
Why five?
Each one builds on the other.
Now, the way we read the GreatCommission text in our Bible is
Matthew, mark, luke, john andActs, but that's not how the
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disciples heard them.
I'm going to give you the GreatCommission text in chronological
order, the way the disciplesheard them.
The first Great Commission textis John 20, 21.
As the Father sent me, I amsending you.
If all we had for our missionas a church was John 20, 21, and
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someone came up to you in thefoyer of your church and said
what's your mission, you wouldsay this I'm a sent one To where
.
He didn't tell me what are yousupposed to say when you get
there.
He didn't tell me how long isit going to take.
He didn't tell me what's yourgoal.
He didn't tell me how far areyou to go.
He didn't tell me If all we hadwas John 20, 21, we are to be
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sent ones.
But Jesus gives us other GreatCommission texts and, like
looking at a beautiful diamond,it shows itself off in different
angles.
The Great Commission texts tellus more.
The second Great Commissiontext in chronological order is
Luke 24.
This tells us where we're to goand what we're to say.
This is written Christ willsuffer and rise from the dead on
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the third day.
That's what we're to say.
That's called the gospel.
Christ lived, died and roseagain.
And you're to respond that isthe gospel.
And you're to offer this gospelto people from where All the
nations, lord, not just to theJews.
No, you want us to go to India.
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Yes, thomas, you're going toIndia.
Matthew, you're going to Egypt,james.
You're going to Russia, mark,you're going to Alexandria,
thomas, you're going to learnHindu and go to India.
Because this thing's going toall nations.
Because this thing's going toall nations, the third Great
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Commission text tells us exactlywhat the first two tell us.
If all we had was the first twotexts, we are to go and
proclaim the gospel to thenations.
And guess what?
The third Great Commissiontells us Exactly that it is a
summary of the first two.
Exactly that it is a summary ofthe first two.
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If all we had was the firstthree Great Commission texts and
someone says to you what's thegoal of missions?
You would say this worldevangelism.
But that's not the goal ofmissions.
What is the goal of missions?
Well, matthew 28 adds a layerto it.
World evangelization is not thegoal of missions.
What is the goal of missions?
Well, mark Matthew 28 adds alayer to it.
World evangelization is not thegoal of missions.
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You are to go and make disciples.
Do you know how much harder itjust got?
Sharing the gospel with theworld is easy.
Making a disciple from a newconvert is difficult Nine months
to grow a baby, 19 years to getthat baby out of your house.
You know how hard it is to makea disciple.
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Wait a second, lord.
You mean you want us to go toIndia, learn Hindi, declare the
gospel.
If they respond, teach themeverything you taught us.
How are we going to do this?
This is impossible.
It is, but I'm going to giveyou my Holy Spirit, and the
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fifth Great Commission textshows us the power and the
ability for us to do it.
My friends, this is the mostimportant thing.
I for us to do it.
My friends, this is the mostimportant thing I'm going to say
in 90 minutes.
If you want to know your mission, take the five Great Commission
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texts and key words in each,formulate a sentence and put it
on the mantle of your house.
Take all five Great Commissiontexts and the key words in each.
Three out of the five say go.
One of them says make disciples.
Four of them say gospel.
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Three of them say nations.
One of them says the HolySpirit.
All of them say proclaim.
One of them says the HolySpirit.
All of them say proclaim, speakor declare.
So, my friends, take those fivedifferent phrases, go make
disciples, speak or proclaimnations, nations, holy Spirit.
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And then formulate a sentence.
And then go do that.
This is your mission.
If you do this, you're notgoing to miss the mission of God
.
Why does he give us five GreatCommission texts?
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Does he give us five greatcommission texts?
Because there's a little Israelin us all.
There's a little bit of Israelin us all.
When I get that blessing, Ithink my kids belong to me.
I think my savings belong to me.
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I think my affluence belongs tome.
I think my savings belong to me.
I think my affluence belongs tome.
I think my time belongs to me.
I'll give God three percent.
Love you, lord.
Think about the New Testamentauthors and what they say to the
church.
Remember Israel was a treasuredpossession, a holy nation, a
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kingdom of priests.
Peter says this you, church,you people of God, you are a
treasured possession.
That means he moves you wherehe wants.
You're a kingdom of priests.
You bear his name to thenations.
You're a royal priesthood.
Paul the apostle wrote 13 NewTestament books.
He was the Jew to the core.
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He knew that temple was theholiest dwelling place of God.
He knew if you lived anywhere,you walked to that temple.
He knew to know who God is.
You go to that temple and hedoes something that is
astonishing to us and it'sastonishing to us.
You, when you show up in Laos,they can know God.
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The temple is there.
When you go to work at threeo'clock this afternoon now, your
coworkers, they can know whoGod is without coming to church,
because the temple's among them.
You are now bearing his name tothe nations.
Hey, paul, when did you get aheart for the world At
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conversion?
It's who we are.
Salvation equals an obligationto reach the nations.
Genesis 1 through 11, creationfall flood nations.
Genesis 12, the mission of Godbegins.
He creates Israel, blessesIsrael.
From a man comes a family,comes a nation, comes a great
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nation.
Where Israel fails, jesusprevails.
The church is now go and telland the conclusion is found in
Revelation 5, 9.
It worksesis 12 will befulfilled.
And I looked and there was agreat multitude and there was a
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scroll and jesus opened thescroll.
You purchase men for god fromevery tribe, language, people
and nation.
When I'm on a podcast andsomeone asks me what is the goal
of the church Community ofChrist followers making
disciples in every languagegroup, community of Christ
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followers making disciples inevery language group so the
question we have to ask whatlanguage groups do not have
communities of Christ'sfollowers and they get first
priority?
That's the question we need toask.
We don't just keep sendingChristians to help Christians
become better Christians.
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That's not the goal of missions.
The goal of missions is not tojust send Christians to help
Christians become betterChristians.
The goal of missions is thiswho doesn't have communities of
gospel, making disciplemovements?
And let's go there?
What's crazy?
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I have the list of everylanguage group that does not
have the gospel.
I have the list.
Not only do I have the list, Ican tell you where they're
located in Indonesia, vietnam,laos, cambodia and Saudi.
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Not only do I have the list, Ican tell you where they're
located, I even have how manythere are.
The Mandar, there's 30 million.
The Pong, there's 20,000.
The Fainoi there's 50,000.
I know where they are, who theyare, how many they are.
I know what they believe.
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They're Buddhist, they're Hindu, they're tribal, they're
animist, they're Confucius.
I have the list.
I know who they are, where theyare, how many there are, what
they believe.
The only thing I'm missing isvolunteers to go, that's the
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only thing we're missing Workers.
Where do we get this idea totake it to all language groups?
When Jesus gives us Matthew 28,.
He says go and make disciplesof all nations.
Now, in 2025, when we think ofthat word nation, we think, oh,
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India, China, Cambodia, Nigeria,but that's not what the word
meant.
The word ethnos in Greek, theword nation in ethnos in Greek,
means people groups.
Well, what's the differencebetween a nation and a people
group?
Are we just splitting hairs?
Well, here's a nation.
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This is Nigeria.
But Nigeria is made up of 455languages.
So we don't need a missionaryteam to Nigeria.
I need them to the houses, theYoruba, the Igboos.
I need them to the 455 languagegroups.
So we need to be makingdisciples in every people group.
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What people groups do not havethe gospel and how many people
groups in the world?
If there's 214 nations, howmany people groups in the world?
If there's 214 nations, howmany people groups?
There's roughly 17,000 peoplegroups.
Well, how many of those do nothave communities of Christ's
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followers making disciples intheir language?
How many of the 17,000?
.
Making disciples in theirlanguage?
How many of the 17,000?
7,000.
7,000.
National Geographic did a survey.
They found that one out ofevery 10 North Americans cannot
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point to North America on a map.
North America is virtually lastin locating geography.
That means if a North Americangot kidnapped by an alien and
had to take a space Uber home,they could not find their
continent.
Now we laugh about that.
But when Jesus says, for God,so loves the world, we in this
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room we're not goers, we'resenders and we have limited time
, talent and treasure.
So we better know what theworld looks like to best
allocate our funding, our giving, our praying, where our kids
are going to be mobilized to go.
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If the sender doesn't know whatthe world looks like, there's a
huge mission problem becausethe resources get totally
misappropriated.
So if, when you walked in, Ididn't give you a hamburger,
instead I gave you a map of theworld, and you sat down at the
table and I got up on stage andI said take out a pen top right,
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tell me how many missionariesin the world Top left, tell me
how many languages in the world.
Bottom right, tell me how manylanguages don't have the Bible.
Bottom left, tell me how manymissionaries in the unreached.
Top right, tell me how manyMuslim countries.
Top left, tell me how manyBuddhist countries.
Bottom right tell me how muchmoney goes to missions.
Bottom left tell me how manypeople groups are still
remaining without the gospel.
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How would you, as a sender,have done?
Would you have crushed it orwould you have been like we have
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to know the map.
1792, William Carey.
Before he left London to India.
Someone said to him, Carey, howdo you know God's will?
He said to know God's will youneed two things an open Bible
and an open map.
Your church probably does agreat job of opening the Bible.
How do they do on Sunday?
Opening the map, Praying forthe world, Sharing with you the
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unengaged people, groups,Challenging the young adults to
go, Pointing to where there's nogospel communities of believers
and providing a pathway to getthere.
Hey, if you're between 18 and25 on a Sunday morning, we're
inviting you to go to Laos.
It's a 13-year commitment.
The church has a pipeline toget you there.
Your parents have been prayingfor you to go Meet me in the
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foyer.
I know who they are, I knowwhere they are, I know how many
there are, I know what theybelieve.
I'm only missing one thing thevolunteers.
Where do we get this idea thatwe have to give priority to
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those without the gospel FromPaul the Apostle.
Paul the Apostle says this FromJerusalem all the way around to
Illyricum.
I have fully proclaimed thegospel.
Now there is no more work inthese places.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Paul.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Paul, paul, paul.
From Jerusalem to Illyricum,paul, there's only 8,000
believers.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum, there's 30 million people.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum, there's 30 million.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum.
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There's 30 million.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum, paul, there's only 8,000
believers.
But yet you say what?
I have to go to Spain, I haveto go to Spain, I got to go to
Spain, go to Spain, I got to goto Spain.
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What you can't find, paul, saysman, between Jerusalem and
Illyricum there are communitiesof gospels making disciples,
believers, but between Rome andSpain there's zero believers and
30 million people.
So Paul left the fruitful landof Jerusalem to Illyricum where
he was church planting, pickedup and started heading to Spain.
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He left a fruitful ministrybecause he knew the goal is not
just to send Christians, to helpChristians become better
Christians.
The goal is who are theunreached?
And we have to give thempriority.
What is the difference betweenthose who are reached and those
who are unreached?
The world is not made up oflost and saved.
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The world is made up of someonewho's reached.
Someone who's reached isHamburg, germany, a 22-year-old
girl.
She lives on the sixth floor ofher apartment.
She's not a Jesus follower, butif she wants to know the gospel
.
There's someone in herapartment complex that speaks
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German who has the gospel.
If she wants to know the gospel, she can go to a
German-speaking church twoblocks away.
She can check into the embassysuites in Hamburg, open the
drawer and there's a German NewTestament.
She's lost by her choice.
She's reached but lost.
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The unreached is a 16 to 19year old girl in Saudi Arabia,
riyadh.
She'll never meet anArabic-speaking Jesus follower.
She'll never hold an Arabic NewTestament.
She'll never go to an Arabicspeaking church.
She's unreached not even by herchoice, but by our choice not
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to go there.
So the world is not justreached and unreached.
The world is also lost thosewithout access and those with
access.
So you and I here's ourministry we need to reach the
reached In Austin.
Keep giving them the gospel.
Students at UT in the back,keep giving those people the
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gospel.
But we also need to givepriority to the unreached.
Five cruise ships simultaneouslysinking.
One is five miles off the coast, one is 10 miles off the coast,
one is 15, 20, and 25 miles offthe coast and the commanding
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officer of the Navy SEALssummons you to duty and says go
save the people.
You load up in the helicopterand you go to the first cruise
ship because it makes sense,it's the closest, you load
people up on the helicopter, youbring them back to the shore.
Now you have a decision to make.
You go back to the first cruiseship.
You don't have time to go tothe second cruise ship or third
cruise ship or fourth cruiseship.
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So you think, man, I got to goto the first cruise ship, come
back to base.
Go to the first cruise ship,come back to base.
Go to the first cruise ship.
Come back to base.
Sorry, rest of the cruise ships, but I can't fly over the needs
of the first cruise ship to getto you.
We don't have the time.
But now let's change thecommanding officer's command.
Same scenario five cruise shipssimultaneously sinking 5, 10,
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15, 20, 25 miles off the shore.
But now the commanding officersays to you this.
But now the commanding officersays to you this I want a
representative from every cruiseship on this shore looking at
the media telling them whathappened aboard their boat.
That changes the whole strategy.
Now we gotta go to the fifthcruise ship first, then the
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fourth, then the third, and nocruise ship is to be visited
twice before.
Every cruise ship is visitedonce.
The commanding officer has saidhe wants a representative from
every cruise ship.
So that means we have to flyover the needs of others because
the commanding officer hasissued his command he wants a
representative from every cruiseship.
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My friends, I'm here to tell youthis morning there is not one
cruise ship or five cruise ships.
There are 17,000 cruise ships,known as people groups.
My friends, I'm here to tellyou that this afternoon there is
not one helicopter for rescue.
There are hundreds of thousandsof churches that are rescue
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helicopters.
However, the vast amount ofrescue helicopters are crashing
into each other on the firstcruise ship while the others are
taking joy rides around theisland.
Nobody is saying who does nothave communities of disciples in
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their language and they getfirst priority.
Instead, we take our helicopter, we go to that first cruise
ship while sightseeing the treeson the coast of where they're
sinking.
Where are the parts of the worldwhere the unreached are?
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They're known as the 1040window.
This is where all thosecommunities who don't have
believers live.
There are more missionariesoutside of the 1040 window than
inside the 1040 window.
There's more taxi drivers inVegas than missionaries in that
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box.
There's more taxi drivers inVegas than missionaries in that
box.
That box is 62 countries.
The vast amount of those 82%who live in this box will be
born, will live and will die andnever shake hands with a
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believer.
And we need to be people of thebox.
How we give, how we live andhow we raise our kids point to
the box.
It points to the box.
It points to the box.
What makes the box so hard?
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It's made up of obstacles.
The tribal world very difficultto reach.
I mean so many 849 languages inPapua New Guinea alone.
If you go and you do missions,work in Papua New Guinea, you're
going to have to at least learntwo languages.
I heard this story from afriend of mine two weeks ago.
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He's in Papua New Guinea.
He's very close to being fluentin the language he's in the
tribe.
He can't talk spirituallanguage, yet he doesn't know
the words for it.
He can't talk spirituallanguage, yet he doesn't know
the words for it.
He's in a canoe.
He's in a canoe with five othertribal people and they're
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floating down the river at night.
They're coasting down the riverlooking up at the stars and the
moon.
One of the tribesmen says I seeyou stars, I see you stars.
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I know there's a God behind you, stars, but you don't have
teeth, you don't have a mouth,you don't have a tongue, you
don't have a tongue.
You can't tell me who this Godis.
I see you, moon.
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I know there's a God behind you, but moon, you don't have teeth
.
And moon, you don't have atongue.
And moon, you don't have teeth.
And man, you don't have atongue.
And man, you don't have a mouth.
My friend said Lord, let melearn quickly.
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We are the mouth and the tongueand the teeth.
The Hindu world very difficultto reach.
The Hindu world More gods inIndia than people in America.
Hinduism is the third largestreligion in the world.
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Christianity is 33% at first,islam is 33% at second Put those
in that order on purpose.
And then Hinduism is third atabout 15%.
India four out of five peopleare Hindu.
Christians are 2.3%.
Hinduism is the third largestreligion in the world.
And maybe God wants to use youto live and give and raise your
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kids to reach the Hindu world.
They're on your kids' soccerteams, they're in your offices,
they're in your communities,they're in your neighborhoods.
Have you welcomed them?
Have you reached out to them?
Have you said?
I'm going to start with theHindus in my backyard.
What about the Chinese world?
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We adopted a little boy fromChina.
I walked into the orphanage andI said to the orphan lady I
said, hey, my son, he's five.
What religion would he beraised here in China?
And she said if your son wasraised in China, he would have
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three religions, that he couldbe Confucius, taoist or Buddhist
.
All three of those have no wordfor God and maybe God wants to
use you to reach the Chineseworld, to pray, live and give to
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reach them.
What about the Muslim world?
Two out of every seven peopleare Muslim.
The founder of Islam is a mannamed Muhammad Ibn Abdullah.
He was born in Mecca, saudiArabia.
He thought there was over 300different gods.
He came across people who wereJews, he came across people who
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were Christians, and thesepeople began to sway him to the
one God concept.
It is said that he had a visionof an angel and the angel said
you are Muhammad.
There is one God, his name isAllah and you are his prophet.
You are Muhammad.
There is one God, his name isAllah and you are his prophet.
And Muhammad spent from age 40to age 63 teaching who God is.
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He denied the crucifixion, hedenied the divinity of Christ
and he denied the resurrection.
And for 23 years he traveled.
He traveled in this area andwhen he died of a fever at age
63, the green represents IslamAfter 30 years and then after
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100 years.
Every spring break we take twovans of university students from
the University of Arkansas andwe drive 24 hours to Los Angeles
.
We get the privilege of takingthese students to a Buddhist
temple, a Hindu temple, a Muslimmosque, and we expose them to
the world in LA.
We train them in how to reachBuddhists, hindus and Muslims.
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Then we send them back toUniversity of Arkansas and
unleash them.
And this last spring break I'min a mosque in Los Angeles and
the imam, the priest, is sogracious.
He's like come here, come here,and he takes me to this back
wall of the mosque and he sayslook, look, look, it's in Arabic
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.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is the map of the world,and the green represents the map
of the world.
And the green represents theareas of the world that are
highly Islamic.
The pink and red represents theareas of the world where
there's virtually no Muslims.
We're asking Allah to send ouryouth to the pink and the red.
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I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
I almost leaned in and said youknow what?
We could market this and callit the 80-80 window, and I could
really get this out to Moss allacross the US.
But I didn't.
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And maybe God wants to use youto reach the Muslims there and
here by raising your children tolearn Arabic and an expectation
that they would be churchplanters.
What else would you want themto do?
I mean, engineering Sounds solame.
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Yeah, my son he's.
You know, he's a lawyer.
We talked him out of being achurch planter to the Arab world
.
We're really proud of that.
You have obstacles in the 1040window the Muslim world, the
Hindu world, the Chinese world,the tribal world.
600 years before Jesus walkedthis earth, there was a Hindu
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named Siddhartha Gautama and hewas a Hindu to the core.
But he became disillusionedwith Hinduism.
He ended up thinking that itwas all a sham, it was fake.
So in 600 BC, he walks fromNepal to India to learn what
truth is.
My friends, had he gone west toJerusalem, he could have set
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with Jeremiah the prophet, buthe didn't.
He went south and he realizedthere is no God and there is no
soul.
Jeremiah the prophet, but hedidn't.
He went south and he realizedthere is no God and there is no
soul and he became enlightened.
He said and the language thatthey were speaking in India at
that time is the Pali language?
And how do you say enlightenedin the Pali language?
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Buddha, buddha, buddha.
And so Siddhartha Gautamadropped the name Siddhartha
Gautama and took on the nameBuddha, traveled from age 29 to
age 80.
Teaching people no God and nosoul.
And at age 80, someone put abad piece of meat in his
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beggar's bowl and he died offood poisoning.
And maybe God wants to use youto reach the Buddhists, both
there and here and here.
There was a woman born inVietnam.
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Parents came over, firstgeneration Grandparents were
Buddhist monks.
They moved to LA.
She raised Buddhists.
That's all she knew.
When the la wildfires hit a fewmonths ago, the buddhist monks
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went to her parents and madesure they were okay.
They're embedded in thebuddhist monk community in la.
She becomes an entrepreneur.
She gets invited on a podcast.
She's freaking out becauseshe's never been on a podcast of
this magnitude.
So she does what anybody doeswhen you're on an important
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podcast.
You google what do I say on apodcast?
She comes across something thatsays this If you don't know
what to say on a podcast, prayto God.
She says, oh my gosh, I gotnothing else to lose.
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She prays.
The podcast crushes God.
You must be real.
She does what she does everymorning and goes walking on a
trail.
But this morning, after thepodcast, as she's looking and
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scrolling through all that'sgoing on, with this going viral,
a young boy says ma'am, this isfor you, and keeps walking.
She's like who is this kid?
Never seen him before, neverseen him again.
He hands her this piece ofpaper.
She opens the paper it's apicture of Jesus.
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It's a picture of Jesus.
She kneels down and she saysGod, I want to know you.
And she finds a church andthree weeks ago she was baptized
.
Tammy, will you stand up?
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Thank you.
It's happening.
God is on the move, but we'rejust so busy managing our
blessings we don't look up tosay, can I join you?
We're so busy managing ourblessings that we don't look up
and say, god, can I join you?
We're so busy managing ourblessings that we don't look up
and say, god, can I join you?
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And we're so consumed withsending Christians to help
Christians become betterChristians.
We're just so consumed withthat and when anybody does
anything in missions, we're likewe're proud of you, whatever,
whatever you do, and no onestops to think, hey, what are
you going to be doing?
Where are you going to be goingand how are you going to be
reaching the unreached throughthis?
Instead, we're like go Do it.
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We're so excited when anybodydoes anything in missions that
no one stops to think what areyou doing and how is it reaching
the unreached?
Mauritania 99% Muslim.
Yemen 99% Muslim Maldives 99%Muslim Turkey 96% Muslim.
Thailand 85% Buddhist Cambodia83% Buddhist Myanmar 80%
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Buddhist Bhutan 75% BuddhistIndia 75% Hindu.
Nepal 75% Hindu.
Think about these stats.
But we're just so consumed withthat first cruise ship crashing
into each other.
Or have you seen the islands bythe cruise ships where they
crashed?
The islands are beautiful.
You should come with me to seethe islands.
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Every blue dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Christians.
Every blue dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Christians.
Every green dot represents50,000 Muslims.
Every green dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Muslims.
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Every green dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Muslims.
Every orange dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Buddhists.
Every orange dot represents50,000 Buddhists.
And every yellow dot represents50,000 Hindus and every yellow
dot represents 50,000 Hindus.
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So when someone says to me, todd, we're the top five most
neediest countries in the world,I say India, india, india,
india, china.
And how are we to live and howare we to give and how are we to
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raise our kids?
Based on being a sender inAustin man, what do I do?
How do I do it?
Well, we are all to be globalChristians.
No matter where you live, youare to be a global Christian,
someone who understands thetruth and needs of God's
unfulfilled purpose to reach allpeoples.
Now, what does it mean to be aglobal Christian?
It means that you welcome thenations around us.
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The nations are here Refugees,immigrants, international
students, people you work with.
Initiate with them.
I know Christians.
You're not going to believethis and that's okay, you're not
going to believe this.
I know Christians who don'thave someone from another
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country that they're ministeringto.
I know them.
I know we get so busy withsoccer practice we don't look up
and say Lord, use me.
Think about the amount ofuniversity students that are
studying here, ut in ourbackyard.
I mean holy moly.
One of the verses that I enjoy,acts chapter 17.
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You know you're standing inline at Starbucks and in front
of you is a Muslim from Tunis,tunisia, and it's like wow, how
did this guy get to Bee CaveRoad Starbucks in 2025, at 137,?
And I'm here too, and he's infront of me.
The dude is in front of me andhe's a Muslim from Tunis,
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tunisia, and I got six minutes.
He's a Muslim from Tunis,tunisia, and I got six minutes.
Excuse me, sir?
Yes, are you from here?
No, where are you from?
I'm from Tunis, tunisia.
I have no idea where that's at.
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What brought you here?
Well, I studied in London, gota master's and I work for this
tech company on Bee Cave.
I have no idea what the Muslimfaith is.
I've never even read the Quran.
Have you read the Bible much?
I don't know what the Bible is.
Can I get your number.
Maybe we can meet back here.
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I'd love to read the Quran withyou and you can read the Bible
and we can just talk about ourreligions.
I'm so curious.
Now, one of those books is adouble-edged sword piercing the
heart, and one of them is not.
I'm not going to tell you whichone it is.
Not only have you made a friend, but you're now initiating the
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gospel.
Not only have you made a friend, but you're now initiating the
gospel.
How did he get here?
From Tunis, tunisia, from oneman.
He made the nations who shouldinhabit the earth, and God
determined the times and theexact places where they're gonna
be.
He determined Starbucks.
137, b Cave Road, behind you.
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Why?
So that this Tunis man may knowhim, that he could meet a
temple and see the temple Of thetop 10 nations who are studying
at UT.
Just take the nations at UT andthe top 10 nations at UT and if
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you blow that out to America,here's the top 10 nations.
This is mirrored with UT.
Now take out the nations thatare not inside the 1040 window.
Leave only the nations in the1040 window.
Leave only the nations in the1040 window.
The unreached are in ourbackyards.
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I was at K-State.
Bear with me here while I tellyou a college story about a
friend I was at K-StateUniversity.
There's a student there namedAndrew I'm sorry, Spencer and I
say to Spencer I say Spencer,there's a thousand Christians at
K-State.
I said man, this is like in thefall I was speaking there.
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I said there's a thousandstudents at K-State.
I said Christians.
I said do you have anyinternational friends?
He's like Todd, I don't.
They live way over on the otherside of campus.
They're hard to get to.
I'm like, spencer, you'rewanting to cross an ocean, but
you can't even cross a campus.
I'm like get your fanny overthere and meet the international
students.
He's like okay.
So he tells me this story.
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He said, todd, it took me tillMay, but May 1st I was in the
student union and I saw aChinese student and I began to
talk to him and he became afriend and I was so excited I
said, oh my gosh, we got to befriends.
And the Chinese student saidsomething that was devastating
to me.
He said I'm a senior, I'mgraduating in May, I'm
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graduating next Saturday.
I was like wait, you're leavingme in seven days.
He gave him his number.
Spencer did and he said if youneed anything, text me.
And so what happened was Fridaynight, spencer gets a text hey,
man, this is me.
You know, can I get a ride tothe airport?
Spencer's like, of course.
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Spencer's like, of course.
He says, okay, I leave tomorrow.
At one, spencer pulls around thedorm, the guy brings out this
huge hockey bag.
They push it and push it, andpush it, they finally get it in
the SUV, they shut the trunk andthe Chinese person says I have
a second one.
Well, the Manhattan airport'sonly two miles off campus.
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And so what happens is they,they, they, they bolt it to,
they strap it to the top, thesecond one, the second hockey
bag.
And they're going to theairport and spencer's striking
up a conversation and he asked achinese student.
He says, hey, what's in thebags?
And the Chinese student says,oh, it's my souvenirs.
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And Spencer says man, you musthave a ton of friends back home
that you're taking gifts to.
And the Chinese student says,no, it's my souvenirs I brought
here to give to my Americanfriends.
I made none.
That's a tragedy.
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Are we welcoming the nations?
What about praying?
Are we people of prayer?
The way most people pray, theway I pray, is like it's me, and
then it's my wife, and thenit's my family, and then it goes
back to me.
That's sort of my concentriccircles.
If you were to ask Paul theApostle hey Paul, how do you
pray?
What do you start with?
He's going to say well, firstof all, pray for the kings of
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the world, just that they wouldleave Christianity alone.
If they leave Christianityalone, it will grow.
So, first of all, pray for thekings, prime ministers, the
dictators, for the kings, primeministers, the dictators.
So what I did was I puttogether a little prayer list.
I Googled 1040 window countriesand then I started, one by one,
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putting together the kings andthe princesses and the dictators
and the prime ministers.
And so now for Bible study.
I can be like, hey, you prayfor Benin.
You know what if in your Biblestudies or community groups you
said, hey, let's research the1040 window countries, let's
research the kings and thedictators and let's pray for
them, and all of a sudden yourheart starts to grow.
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Oh, my goodness, burkina Faso.
I had no idea the tragedythat's going on there.
I had no idea the king and'sgoing on there.
I had no idea the king and whathe's doing to the Christians.
And now you start to care.
There's an app, it's calledUnreached of the Day.
Every morning you can click onit and it will tell you.
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So this is today's Tells you anunreached.
It tells you who they are, ittells you where they are.
It tells you an unreached.
It tells you who they are, ittells you where they are, it
tells you what they believe andit tells you how many there are.
And so, in my family, what dowe do?
Well, at 10.02, at 10.02, myfamily's alarms go off A silent
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alarm you can set one right nowon your phone and we pray for an
unreached.
Why 10.02?
Because the nine words of Jesusthe harvest is plentiful, the
workers are few.
The harvest is plentiful, theworkers are few.
Therefore, have a conference.
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Therefore, have a conference.
Therefore, have a meeting.
Therefore, worship, no Pray.
Ask the Lord of the harvest tosend out workers into his
harvest field.
Now, that word send out is avery unique word.
It's actually this is the onlytime it's used in this context.
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The Greek word for send out isinteresting.
The Greek word for send out isekbalo.
Now, ekbalo might not mean muchto you, but ekbalo is the word
Jesus used to send out demons.
So when Jesus came acrosssomeone who was demon possessed,
he would say get out.
That's the intensity.
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That's the exact same word heinserts when he says pray, the
Lord would send out.
That means we're in our smallgroups, in our quiet time, in
our churches.
Lord, send them out.
Get them out now.
This is not a half-hearted yawn, lord.
If, when you want, now, let themouths, let the tongues, let
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the teeth be out, and thesenders, the senders.
What is a sender?
A sender is someone who is here, who is praying, giving,
welcoming.
You're not a second-classChristian if you're here and
you're a sender.
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Matter of fact, davidinstituted a rule in the
Israelite army the share of theman who stays with the supplies
and supplies the front lines,they will share alike in the
bounty.
You're not a second classChristian if you're here.
What is a sender?
A sender is someone who's awareof the map.
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They know the map.
They know where the unreachedare.
They know who they are.
They're giving their time,talent and treasure.
A sender is someone who's awareof what God's doing in the
world.
They're praying for Luke 10 too.
They're inviting others.
Oh, my goodness, you would makea great missionary to Laos.
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I'll take my two-week vacation.
We can go there and I'llintroduce you to the
missionaries they're inviting.
Behind missionaries are sendersmobilizing them and then, once
they're on the field, the senderis helping to care for them.
Hey, do you need homeschoolmaterials?
Do you need respite when youcome home?
Do you need a van?
Do you need a hotel?
Do you need Airbnb?
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How are you doing at being asender?
Are you aware of what God'sdoing in the world?
Are you praying?
Are you inviting others?
Are you helping while they'rethere?
Because guess what senders?
You got a lot of work to do,because 83% of the church has no
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clue what the Great Commissionis, 83% of Christians.
When you ask them what is theGreat Commission, they say this
love your neighbor as yourself.
That's close.
That's the Great Commandment.
We need the Great Commissionand what happens is we make the
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great commission the greatoption and then we completely
move it off our desk.
With the great omission in 1961, jfk stood up before the nation
and said this at the end of thedecade, I want to put a man on
the moon and I want him tosafely return.
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And at the end of the decade,three men boarded the space
shuttle, but it took 400,000 toget him there.
You might be on the spaceshuttle, you might be in this
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room, but everyone plays a part,thank you thank you for
listening to unreached.
Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
our sincere desire is that what you've heard today
will cause you to see themission of God differently and
your role in it more clearly.
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Also, share with your family,your friends, your church, your
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In Revelation 7, john shares his vision of heaven,
with members from every tribe,tongue, people and language
standing in the throne roombefore the Lamb.
Yet today there are still over7,000 unreached people groups
around the world.
For the last six years, myfamily and friends have been on
a journey to find, vet and fundthe task remaining.
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Come journey with us to theends of the earth as we share
the supernatural stories of Godat work for the men and women he
has called to reach theunreached.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey friends, today we have an incredibly special
episode of the Unreached podcast.
We just hosted an event incollaboration with Bless at
Austin Ridge Bible Church, whereDr Todd Aaron came in to talk
to us about the mission of God.
This episode was recorded infront of a live audience and we
cannot wait for you to hear allthat God has for you today.
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So check this out with Dr ToddAaron.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Thank you for coming.
I was speaking at a church inAlabama and a guy picks me up
from the airport in his Priusand I'm like cool Prius says no
one, and him and his wife werein the front seat.
This is Birmingham, alabama.
And I'm in the back seat and Isay tell me about yourselves.
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He's like my name's Rick.
This is my wife, charlotte, andwe lived our whole life.
We retired and we lived ourwhole life so we could cruise
the world.
And I'm like you want to cruisethe world with retirement?
He's like yes, he's like wewent on our first cruise and we
just went on our last cruise andI was like what do you mean?
Your first and only last cruise?
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He's like Todd, first cruiseafter retirement.
I'm sitting by the pool on thecruise ship.
First day we're cruising thePanama Canal.
I'm reading a book.
I look up, there's a manfloating in the pool.
I throw my book, I sayCharlotte, I run, I jump in, I
pull the man to the side, Istart resuscitation.
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Todd, he'd been dead for 20minutes.
His wife's on the phone,doesn't even know.
First day of retirement, on ourfirst cruise.
I'm sitting by a dead man atthe pool and I look up and I say
, charlotte, is this what I gavemy life for?
People dying while I tan?
He said, todd, I'm 60 years oldand I don't know my purpose.
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And then we drove to the churchand I thought, wow, wow,
welcome to American Christianity.
Confusion, living for thingsthat are not appropriate for our
time, talent and treasureshould go.
And I said, man, what wouldhave happened if this man would
have been anchored in themission of God from his teenage
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years?
What if he grew up knowing themission of God and what his
purpose was?
And so it is imperative that weleave here this afternoon
knowing what is the mission ofGod.
What am I supposed to do withmy time, talent and treasures?
How do I give?
How do I live?
How do I raise my kids?
And so, if you had no knowledgeof the Bible and you picked one
up, the first 11 chapters isjust the introduction.
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The first 11 chapters is justthe introduction.
The first 11 chapters is justthe introduction.
You can reduce the first 11chapters into four words
Creation, fall flood nations.
You can reduce the first 11chapters of the Bible into four
words Creation, fall floodnations.
And as you turn to Genesis,chapter 11,.
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God has said fill the earth,fill the earth, fill the earth.
But listen to what happens tohumanity Now.
The whole earth had onelanguage and a common speech,
one language on planet earth.
As men moved eastward, theyfound a plain in Shinar.
They're supposed to be fillingthe earth with God's glory,
except they say come, let us godown and confuse their language.
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Come, let us build ourselves acity with a tower that reaches
to the heavens, so that we maymake a name for ourselves and
not be scattered over the faceof the whole earth.
This is direct disobedience.
God has said fill the earth,fill the earth, fill the earth.
Humanity says no thanks.
And so God comes down and hebrings confusion, judgment and a
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scattering.
And now, in Genesis 11, thenations are scattered.
We go from one language to 70languages.
God creates 70 languages inGenesis chapter 11.
Now, if you had no knowledge ofthe Bible and you got to Genesis
chapter 11, you should haveanxiety.
You should say man, what'sgoing to happen?
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How is he going to bring backall these nations under his
glory?
And all you have to do torelieve the tension of how is
God going to respond is turn thepage.
Genesis chapter 12 is where themission of God becomes clear.
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Genesis, chapter 12,.
The mission of God becomesclear.
God is going to pick a man.
From that man, create a family.
From that man, create a family.
From that family, create anation and from that nation,
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create a great nation that willbless all nations.
The man is Abram.
The family is Israel.
The Lord said to Abram leaveyour country, your people, your
father's household and go to theland I will show you.
I will make you into a greatnation.
I will bless you.
I'll make your name great.
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You'll be a blessing.
I'll bless those who bless you,and whoever curse you I'll
curse.
But here it is.
All the 70 nations that Iscattered in Genesis 11 are
going to be regathered under myglory.
Through you, all peoples of theearth are going to be blessed
through you.
I was a believer for a decadebefore I realized the importance
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of Genesis 12.
I had no idea.
Genesis 12, all of scripturehung.
The entire scripture can beencapsulated in what God's going
to do in Genesis 12, 1 through3.
This is so important that it'sgoing to be repeated four more
times in Genesis.
Abram second time Genesis 18,will become a great and mighty
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nation and all the nations onearth will be blessed Third time
.
Genesis 22,.
Abram, in your offspring, allthe nations on earth will be
blessed.
Now to Abraham's son, isaac,isaac.
Just like your father and yourfather's household, your
descendants will be as numerousas the stars in the sky and give
them all these lands.
And to your offspring, allnations on earth will be blessed
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.
Jacob, genesis 28.
Just like your father, isaac,and your father's father,
abraham, the mission of Godcomes to you.
Your descendants will be likethe dust of the earth and they
will spread out to the west, tothe east, to the north, to the
south.
Genesis 12, on repeat.
Here it is all nations on earthwill be blessed through you.
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This is where God's going.
The question is are you?
That's the only question.
I flew in from Fayetteville,arkansas, behind our house,
we've got three acres.
It's.
This is where God's going.
The question is are you?
That's the only question.
I flew in from Fayetteville,arkansas, behind our house.
We've got three acres.
It's mostly forest.
My kids take my good spoons andthey go back there and dig
Drives me bananas.
They take my good spoons.
And one day my daughter camerunning in.
She's like dad, dad, dad.
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I said what is itissy?
She says I just found anancient Indian arrowhead.
I held it.
I'm like, oh my gosh, this is,this is an ancient Indian
arrowhead.
She says I gotta clean it.
She gets in the sink, she clogsthe sink, she gets the water in
the sink, she grabs the Clorox,the magic eraser, her brother's
toothbrush and for 30 minutesshe starts cleaning this ancient
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Indian arrowhead and after 30minutes this is what I hear
starts cleaning this ancientIndian arrowhead and after 30
minutes, this is what I hear.
Are you kidding me?
That's all I hear.
I said what is it, camden?
She said Dad, this isn't anancient Indian arrowhead, this
is a rock.
She said I spent a half an hourpolishing a rock.
I said homeschool moment.
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I walked up to her.
I said Camden, the world offersyou a rock to polish.
God gives you a purpose topursue.
She wept God gives us a purposeto pursue.
The world offers you a rock topolish.
And Christians are polishingthe rock.
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Christians are polishing theirrock and God says are you going
to join me in my global, eternaland unfulfilled purpose to
reach all peoples?
My daughter spent 30 minutespolishing a rock.
Some of us spend 30 yearspolishing a portfolio, a resume
or a savings.
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From a man comes a family, fromthe family comes a nation.
From a nation comes a greatnation to bless all nations.
At the end of Genesis, when youcome to the end of Genesis, if
the family of Abraham was onthis back wall and took a selfie
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, you could all fit in theselfie.
There's 70.
There's 70.
Genesis, chapter 50 tells us 70members of Jacob's family.
Oh my gosh, that's a sign.
There's 70 languages.
God's going to use this familyto reach the languages.
God has to create them into anation, and so he has to
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hibernate them for 400 years.
A good Pharaoh says to thefamily of Jacob, the 70,.
He says Joseph and Jacob, bringyour family into Egypt, go to
Goshen, the choice land, andthere live.
Why does, in Genesis 50, godbring the nation of Israel into
Egypt?
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He has to grow them.
They have to become a nation.
They're 70 after 430 years.
When we changed from Genesis 50and we turned the page to
Exodus 1, we do it in a matterof seconds.
But turning the page fromGenesis 50 to Exodus 1 was 430
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years and now they don't number70.
Now they number 3 million.
Can't fit in a selfie.
3 million.
Eight pharaohs later.
The new pharaoh hates thenation of Israel, but God says
come out.
You're now a nation.
You're going to come out andrepresent me to all nations.
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I've taken you from a man to afamily, to a nation.
Come out Now.
I've raised you up, pharaoh.
I've shown you these sites thatmy name might be proclaimed in
all nations Genesis 12.
Here we go, let's go.
You're coming out.
They part the Red Sea.
There's three million.
They're walking through thedesert.
You're going to represent me tothe nations.
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Why us God?
Why who are we that you broughtus out of Egypt?
They need to know theiridentity.
Us out of Egypt.
They need to know theiridentity.
God tells them as they'rewalking across the desert, he
says this.
Then Moses went up to God andthe Lord called him from the
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mountain.
This is what you just say tothe nation of Israel.
You have seen what I did toEgypt and how I carried you on
eagle's wings and brought you tomyself.
Now, if you obey me fully andkeep my covenant myself, now, if
you obey me fully and keep mycovenant, this is who you are.
You are my treasured possession.
That means I own you and I moveyou where I want.
You are my kingdom of priests.
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What does a priest do?
You mediate.
I bless you.
You pass it on to the nations.
You're my go-between, you aremy treasured possession.
You are my kingdom of priests.
Go-between, you are mytreasured possession.
You are my kingdom of priests.
You are my holy nation.
You will wear Kadesh La Yahweh,holy, belonging to God, on your
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chest and you will show thenations Kadesh La Yahweh, come
and see who God is.
You will bear my name to thenations.
Lord, this is incredible.
We want a Kadesh La Yahweh, youto the nations.
We just have a problem we don'tknow who you are.
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We don't know what grieves you.
We don't know what you love.
We don't know what you long for.
I'm gonna give you the law it ismy grace to give you, so that
you may know me and KadeshlaYahweh me to the nations.
He says this I have taught youthese decrees and laws, as the
Lord, my God, commanded me.
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Observe them carefully, forthis will show your wisdom and
understanding Kadesh La Yahweh,holy, belonging to God, to the
nations.
You will tell the nations comeand see who God is.
This is unbelievable.
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We're a treasured possession.
We're a holy nation.
We're a kingdom of priests.
We have the law, god.
We don't have a place To tellthe nations to come.
I'm going to give you the landbetween the Nile and the
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Euphrates, the fertile crescent,the crossroads of the nations,
the pathway to the nations, andyou're going to have the land to
worship me in.
From a man came a family, came anation, came a great nation,
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and then they have the law, theyhave the land, and God just
gives them an extra little kiss.
He says, israel, I am going todwell in your midst.
Heaven and earth is going totouch in a place called your
temple.
It's where heaven and earthtouches.
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If anyone in all the worldwants to know who I am, they
need to walk to this temple.
I don't care if they're inEgypt, Morocco, spain or India.
They walk to this temple.
It took seven years to build.
Listen to what Solomon says.
As for the foreigner who doesnot belong to your people,
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israel, but has come from adistant land, for they will hear
of your name, we will bear inyour name.
We are Kadesh LaYahweh.
When he comes to this templeand he prays respond, lord, do
whatever they ask so thatGenesis 12 will be fulfilled, so
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that all the peoples of theearth may know your name.
My friends, it's working.
It's working.
They're bearing his name,they're in the land, they're
obeying the law.
The nations are coming.
The queen of Sheba travels1,600 miles from Yemen to
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Jerusalem to sit at the feet ofSolomon.
Solomon was greater in richesand wisdom than all the other
kings of the earth.
The whole world sought audiencewith Solomon to hear the wisdom
that God had put in his heart.
It's working.
Now picture yourself.
Picture yourself walking alongthe road with a fellow Israelite
and the fellow Israelite saysto you this you know, I don't
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feel a passion to bear his namefor the nations.
I don't feel called.
That's not really my heart.
The other Israelite would lookat you and say that doesn't
matter, it's your identity.
It doesn't matter how you feelabout bearing his name to the
nations, it's who you are.
Another Israelite says yeah, Ifeel the same way.
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I'm more of an entrepreneur,business person.
I don't want to bear his nameto the nations.
That's not really the age andstage that I'm at.
What are you talking about?
This is who you are.
It has nothing to do with howpassionate or how much of a
heart or if you get chills.
It doesn't matter how you feelabout bearing his name to the
nations.
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If you feel good about it,that's just a bonus.
But you are to bear his name tothe nations.
How you feel about it is a mootpoint.
This is your identity and it'sworking.
Declare his glory among thenations, his marvelous works
among all peoples, for great isthe Lord and greatly to be
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praised.
He is to be feared of all thegods, for all the gods of the
earth are worthless idols,buddhism worthless, hinduism
worthless, islam worthless.
It's working, my friends.
It's working.
From a man comes a family,comes a nation, comes a great
nation to bear his name,kadeshla Yahweh, among all
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nations.
And God gave Israel everythingthey needed to bear his name.
He has given them the law, theprophets, the temple, the
scriptures, the protection, thesacrifices, the Sabbath.
He's given them the spirit, thehymns, the Torah, the Psalms.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Something happens when Godblesses you.
We forget the blesser.
Israel forgot the blesser.
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They fell in love with theblessing and thought they were
the ones who brought it uponthemselves.
And God says this at the end ofthe Old Testament wherever they
went among the nations, theyprofaned my holy name.
Aren't you, kadeshla, yahwehAren't you holy, belonging to
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God.
Why have you forsaken him?
I had concern for my holy name,which the house of Israel
profaned among the nations.
Every morning, I fight againstsaying four words out loud.
I don't like saying these fourwords out loud because I just I
don't.
But my heart tells on me.
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The first word that I say comesout before I even hit the floor
with my feet.
I have this app on my phone.
I grab my phone from thedresser, I go in, I go into this
app.
It's connected to my bankingaccount and the first thing my
heart says in the morning issavings, check your savings.
And I go into my savings grow,grow, little guy.
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Get a comma in there.
And then I go downstairs.
I go downstairs, I make a cup ofcoffee.
My son comes up cup of coffee.
My son comes up from thebasement.
My other son comes up from thebasement.
My other son comes up from thebasement.
My other son comes up from thebasement.
My daughter comes up from thebasement, my other daughter
comes up from the basement.
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And I get all six of my kids ina circle and the second word
comes out Keep them safe, lord,keep them safe.
And then I go to work and athird word comes out Resume,
make me more famous than anyfriend I know.
And then I come home and thefourth word comes out Relax,
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kick your feet up, you deserveit, go play some golf.
Those four words savings,safety, resume, relax, it's what
the vast amount of Christfollowers are living for.
And God comes along and invitesus into his global, eternal,
unfulfilled purpose to reach allpeoples.
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And I say, lord, I am all in.
But does it affect these fourwords?
Yes, drastically.
Then have me excused, this justisn't really my calling, I
don't have a passion for it andthis isn't the right age or
stage.
And so I go to church, I titheand I don't celebrate Halloween
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and I think I'm doing okay.
Meanwhile, where Israel fails,jesus prevails.
Where Israel fails, jesusprevails.
The perfect Israel, kadesh,layahweh, perfectly bearing
God's name, holy, and he livesand teaches and dies and rises
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again, and he will spend 40 daysafter the resurrection, before
the ascension, and heestablishes something called the
church.
And now the church is themechanism God will use to reach
the nations.
He flips the script Israel wasto come and see.
Now the church is to go andtell.
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Israel was to say come and see.
Now we are to go and tell, andJesus will give us five Great
Commission texts.
Why five?
One would be enough.
Why five?
Each one builds on the other.
Now, the way we read the GreatCommission text in our Bible is
Matthew, mark, luke, john andActs, but that's not how the
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disciples heard them.
I'm going to give you the GreatCommission text in chronological
order, the way the disciplesheard them.
The first Great Commission textis John 20, 21.
As the Father sent me, I amsending you.
If all we had for our missionas a church was John 20, 21, and
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someone came up to you in thefoyer of your church and said
what's your mission, you wouldsay this I'm a sent one To where
.
He didn't tell me what are yousupposed to say when you get
there.
He didn't tell me how long isit going to take.
He didn't tell me what's yourgoal.
He didn't tell me how far areyou to go.
He didn't tell me If all we hadwas John 20, 21, we are to be
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sent ones.
But Jesus gives us other GreatCommission texts and, like
looking at a beautiful diamond,it shows itself off in different
angles.
The Great Commission texts tellus more.
The second Great Commissiontext in chronological order is
Luke 24.
This tells us where we're to goand what we're to say.
This is written Christ willsuffer and rise from the dead on
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the third day.
That's what we're to say.
That's called the gospel.
Christ lived, died and roseagain.
And you're to respond that isthe gospel.
And you're to offer this gospelto people from where All the
nations, lord, not just to theJews.
No, you want us to go to India.
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Yes, thomas, you're going toIndia.
Matthew, you're going to Egypt,james.
You're going to Russia, mark,you're going to Alexandria,
thomas, you're going to learnHindu and go to India.
Because this thing's going toall nations.
Because this thing's going toall nations, the third Great
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Commission text tells us exactlywhat the first two tell us.
If all we had was the first twotexts, we are to go and
proclaim the gospel to thenations.
And guess what?
The third Great Commissiontells us Exactly that it is a
summary of the first two.
Exactly that it is a summary ofthe first two.
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If all we had was the firstthree Great Commission texts and
someone says to you what's thegoal of missions?
You would say this worldevangelism.
But that's not the goal ofmissions.
What is the goal of missions?
Well, matthew 28 adds a layerto it.
World evangelization is not thegoal of missions.
What is the goal of missions?
Well, mark Matthew 28 adds alayer to it.
World evangelization is not thegoal of missions.
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You are to go and make disciples.
Do you know how much harder itjust got?
Sharing the gospel with theworld is easy.
Making a disciple from a newconvert is difficult Nine months
to grow a baby, 19 years to getthat baby out of your house.
You know how hard it is to makea disciple.
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Wait a second, lord.
You mean you want us to go toIndia, learn Hindi, declare the
gospel.
If they respond, teach themeverything you taught us.
How are we going to do this?
This is impossible.
It is, but I'm going to giveyou my Holy Spirit, and the
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fifth Great Commission textshows us the power and the
ability for us to do it.
My friends, this is the mostimportant thing.
I for us to do it.
My friends, this is the mostimportant thing I'm going to say
in 90 minutes.
If you want to know your mission, take the five Great Commission
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texts and key words in each,formulate a sentence and put it
on the mantle of your house.
Take all five Great Commissiontexts and the key words in each.
Three out of the five say go.
One of them says make disciples.
Four of them say gospel.
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Three of them say nations.
One of them says the HolySpirit.
All of them say proclaim.
One of them says the HolySpirit.
All of them say proclaim, speakor declare.
So, my friends, take those fivedifferent phrases, go make
disciples, speak or proclaimnations, nations, holy Spirit.
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And then formulate a sentence.
And then go do that.
This is your mission.
If you do this, you're notgoing to miss the mission of God
.
Why does he give us five GreatCommission texts?
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Does he give us five greatcommission texts?
Because there's a little Israelin us all.
There's a little bit of Israelin us all.
When I get that blessing, Ithink my kids belong to me.
I think my savings belong to me.
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I think my affluence belongs tome.
I think my savings belong to me.
I think my affluence belongs tome.
I think my time belongs to me.
I'll give God three percent.
Love you, lord.
Think about the New Testamentauthors and what they say to the
church.
Remember Israel was a treasuredpossession, a holy nation, a
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kingdom of priests.
Peter says this you, church,you people of God, you are a
treasured possession.
That means he moves you wherehe wants.
You're a kingdom of priests.
You bear his name to thenations.
You're a royal priesthood.
Paul the apostle wrote 13 NewTestament books.
He was the Jew to the core.
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He knew that temple was theholiest dwelling place of God.
He knew if you lived anywhere,you walked to that temple.
He knew to know who God is.
You go to that temple and hedoes something that is
astonishing to us and it'sastonishing to us.
You, when you show up in Laos,they can know God.
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The temple is there.
When you go to work at threeo'clock this afternoon now, your
coworkers, they can know whoGod is without coming to church,
because the temple's among them.
You are now bearing his name tothe nations.
Hey, paul, when did you get aheart for the world At
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conversion?
It's who we are.
Salvation equals an obligationto reach the nations.
Genesis 1 through 11, creationfall flood nations.
Genesis 12, the mission of Godbegins.
He creates Israel, blessesIsrael.
From a man comes a family,comes a nation, comes a great
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nation.
Where Israel fails, jesusprevails.
The church is now go and telland the conclusion is found in
Revelation 5, 9.
It worksesis 12 will befulfilled.
And I looked and there was agreat multitude and there was a
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scroll and jesus opened thescroll.
You purchase men for god fromevery tribe, language, people
and nation.
When I'm on a podcast andsomeone asks me what is the goal
of the church Community ofChrist followers making
disciples in every languagegroup, community of Christ
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followers making disciples inevery language group so the
question we have to ask whatlanguage groups do not have
communities of Christ'sfollowers and they get first
priority?
That's the question we need toask.
We don't just keep sendingChristians to help Christians
become better Christians.
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That's not the goal of missions.
The goal of missions is not tojust send Christians to help
Christians become betterChristians.
The goal of missions is thiswho doesn't have communities of
gospel, making disciplemovements?
And let's go there?
What's crazy?
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I have the list of everylanguage group that does not
have the gospel.
I have the list.
Not only do I have the list, Ican tell you where they're
located in Indonesia, vietnam,laos, cambodia and Saudi.
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Not only do I have the list, Ican tell you where they're
located, I even have how manythere are.
The Mandar, there's 30 million.
The Pong, there's 20,000.
The Fainoi there's 50,000.
I know where they are, who theyare, how many they are.
I know what they believe.
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They're Buddhist, they're Hindu, they're tribal, they're
animist, they're Confucius.
I have the list.
I know who they are, where theyare, how many there are, what
they believe.
The only thing I'm missing isvolunteers to go, that's the
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only thing we're missing Workers.
Where do we get this idea totake it to all language groups?
When Jesus gives us Matthew 28,.
He says go and make disciplesof all nations.
Now, in 2025, when we think ofthat word nation, we think, oh,
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India, China, Cambodia, Nigeria,but that's not what the word
meant.
The word ethnos in Greek, theword nation in ethnos in Greek,
means people groups.
Well, what's the differencebetween a nation and a people
group?
Are we just splitting hairs?
Well, here's a nation.
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This is Nigeria.
But Nigeria is made up of 455languages.
So we don't need a missionaryteam to Nigeria.
I need them to the houses, theYoruba, the Igboos.
I need them to the 455 languagegroups.
So we need to be makingdisciples in every people group.
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What people groups do not havethe gospel and how many people
groups in the world?
If there's 214 nations, howmany people groups in the world?
If there's 214 nations, howmany people groups?
There's roughly 17,000 peoplegroups.
Well, how many of those do nothave communities of Christ's
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followers making disciples intheir language?
How many of the 17,000?
.
Making disciples in theirlanguage?
How many of the 17,000?
7,000.
7,000.
National Geographic did a survey.
They found that one out ofevery 10 North Americans cannot
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point to North America on a map.
North America is virtually lastin locating geography.
That means if a North Americangot kidnapped by an alien and
had to take a space Uber home,they could not find their
continent.
Now we laugh about that.
But when Jesus says, for God,so loves the world, we in this
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room we're not goers, we'resenders and we have limited time
, talent and treasure.
So we better know what theworld looks like to best
allocate our funding, our giving, our praying, where our kids
are going to be mobilized to go.
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If the sender doesn't know whatthe world looks like, there's a
huge mission problem becausethe resources get totally
misappropriated.
So if, when you walked in, Ididn't give you a hamburger,
instead I gave you a map of theworld, and you sat down at the
table and I got up on stage andI said take out a pen top right,
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tell me how many missionariesin the world Top left, tell me
how many languages in the world.
Bottom right, tell me how manylanguages don't have the Bible.
Bottom left, tell me how manymissionaries in the unreached.
Top right, tell me how manyMuslim countries.
Top left, tell me how manyBuddhist countries.
Bottom right tell me how muchmoney goes to missions.
Bottom left tell me how manypeople groups are still
remaining without the gospel.
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How would you, as a sender,have done?
Would you have crushed it orwould you have been like we have
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to know the map.
1792, William Carey.
Before he left London to India.
Someone said to him, Carey, howdo you know God's will?
He said to know God's will youneed two things an open Bible
and an open map.
Your church probably does agreat job of opening the Bible.
How do they do on Sunday?
Opening the map, Praying forthe world, Sharing with you the
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unengaged people, groups,Challenging the young adults to
go, Pointing to where there's nogospel communities of believers
and providing a pathway to getthere.
Hey, if you're between 18 and25 on a Sunday morning, we're
inviting you to go to Laos.
It's a 13-year commitment.
The church has a pipeline toget you there.
Your parents have been prayingfor you to go Meet me in the
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foyer.
I know who they are, I knowwhere they are, I know how many
there are, I know what theybelieve.
I'm only missing one thing thevolunteers.
Where do we get this idea thatwe have to give priority to
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those without the gospel FromPaul the Apostle.
Paul the Apostle says this FromJerusalem all the way around to
Illyricum.
I have fully proclaimed thegospel.
Now there is no more work inthese places.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Paul.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Paul, paul, paul.
From Jerusalem to Illyricum,paul, there's only 8,000
believers.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum, there's 30 million people.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum, there's 30 million.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum.
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There's 30 million.
Between Jerusalem and Illyricum, paul, there's only 8,000
believers.
But yet you say what?
I have to go to Spain, I haveto go to Spain, I got to go to
Spain, go to Spain, I got to goto Spain.
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What you can't find, paul, saysman, between Jerusalem and
Illyricum there are communitiesof gospels making disciples,
believers, but between Rome andSpain there's zero believers and
30 million people.
So Paul left the fruitful landof Jerusalem to Illyricum where
he was church planting, pickedup and started heading to Spain.
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He left a fruitful ministrybecause he knew the goal is not
just to send Christians, to helpChristians become better
Christians.
The goal is who are theunreached?
And we have to give thempriority.
What is the difference betweenthose who are reached and those
who are unreached?
The world is not made up oflost and saved.
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The world is made up of someonewho's reached.
Someone who's reached isHamburg, germany, a 22-year-old
girl.
She lives on the sixth floor ofher apartment.
She's not a Jesus follower, butif she wants to know the gospel
.
There's someone in herapartment complex that speaks
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German who has the gospel.
If she wants to know the gospel, she can go to a
German-speaking church twoblocks away.
She can check into the embassysuites in Hamburg, open the
drawer and there's a German NewTestament.
She's lost by her choice.
She's reached but lost.
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The unreached is a 16 to 19year old girl in Saudi Arabia,
riyadh.
She'll never meet anArabic-speaking Jesus follower.
She'll never hold an Arabic NewTestament.
She'll never go to an Arabicspeaking church.
She's unreached not even by herchoice, but by our choice not
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to go there.
So the world is not justreached and unreached.
The world is also lost thosewithout access and those with
access.
So you and I here's ourministry we need to reach the
reached In Austin.
Keep giving them the gospel.
Students at UT in the back,keep giving those people the
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gospel.
But we also need to givepriority to the unreached.
Five cruise ships simultaneouslysinking.
One is five miles off the coast, one is 10 miles off the coast,
one is 15, 20, and 25 miles offthe coast and the commanding
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officer of the Navy SEALssummons you to duty and says go
save the people.
You load up in the helicopterand you go to the first cruise
ship because it makes sense,it's the closest, you load
people up on the helicopter, youbring them back to the shore.
Now you have a decision to make.
You go back to the first cruiseship.
You don't have time to go tothe second cruise ship or third
cruise ship or fourth cruiseship.
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So you think, man, I got to goto the first cruise ship, come
back to base.
Go to the first cruise ship,come back to base.
Go to the first cruise ship.
Come back to base.
Sorry, rest of the cruise ships, but I can't fly over the needs
of the first cruise ship to getto you.
We don't have the time.
But now let's change thecommanding officer's command.
Same scenario five cruise shipssimultaneously sinking 5, 10,
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15, 20, 25 miles off the shore.
But now the commanding officersays to you this.
But now the commanding officersays to you this I want a
representative from every cruiseship on this shore looking at
the media telling them whathappened aboard their boat.
That changes the whole strategy.
Now we gotta go to the fifthcruise ship first, then the
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fourth, then the third, and nocruise ship is to be visited
twice before.
Every cruise ship is visitedonce.
The commanding officer has saidhe wants a representative from
every cruise ship.
So that means we have to flyover the needs of others because
the commanding officer hasissued his command he wants a
representative from every cruiseship.
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My friends, I'm here to tell youthis morning there is not one
cruise ship or five cruise ships.
There are 17,000 cruise ships,known as people groups.
My friends, I'm here to tellyou that this afternoon there is
not one helicopter for rescue.
There are hundreds of thousandsof churches that are rescue
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helicopters.
However, the vast amount ofrescue helicopters are crashing
into each other on the firstcruise ship while the others are
taking joy rides around theisland.
Nobody is saying who does nothave communities of disciples in
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their language and they getfirst priority.
Instead, we take our helicopter, we go to that first cruise
ship while sightseeing the treeson the coast of where they're
sinking.
Where are the parts of the worldwhere the unreached are?
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They're known as the 1040window.
This is where all thosecommunities who don't have
believers live.
There are more missionariesoutside of the 1040 window than
inside the 1040 window.
There's more taxi drivers inVegas than missionaries in that
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box.
There's more taxi drivers inVegas than missionaries in that
box.
That box is 62 countries.
The vast amount of those 82%who live in this box will be
born, will live and will die andnever shake hands with a
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believer.
And we need to be people of thebox.
How we give, how we live andhow we raise our kids point to
the box.
It points to the box.
It points to the box.
What makes the box so hard?
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It's made up of obstacles.
The tribal world very difficultto reach.
I mean so many 849 languages inPapua New Guinea alone.
If you go and you do missions,work in Papua New Guinea, you're
going to have to at least learntwo languages.
I heard this story from afriend of mine two weeks ago.
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He's in Papua New Guinea.
He's very close to being fluentin the language he's in the
tribe.
He can't talk spirituallanguage, yet he doesn't know
the words for it.
He can't talk spirituallanguage, yet he doesn't know
the words for it.
He's in a canoe.
He's in a canoe with five othertribal people and they're
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floating down the river at night.
They're coasting down the riverlooking up at the stars and the
moon.
One of the tribesmen says I seeyou stars, I see you stars.
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I know there's a God behind you, stars, but you don't have
teeth, you don't have a mouth,you don't have a tongue, you
don't have a tongue.
You can't tell me who this Godis.
I see you, moon.
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I know there's a God behind you, but moon, you don't have teeth
.
And moon, you don't have atongue.
And moon, you don't have teeth.
And man, you don't have atongue.
And man, you don't have a mouth.
My friend said Lord, let melearn quickly.
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We are the mouth and the tongueand the teeth.
The Hindu world very difficultto reach.
The Hindu world More gods inIndia than people in America.
Hinduism is the third largestreligion in the world.
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Christianity is 33% at first,islam is 33% at second Put those
in that order on purpose.
And then Hinduism is third atabout 15%.
India four out of five peopleare Hindu.
Christians are 2.3%.
Hinduism is the third largestreligion in the world.
And maybe God wants to use youto live and give and raise your
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kids to reach the Hindu world.
They're on your kids' soccerteams, they're in your offices,
they're in your communities,they're in your neighborhoods.
Have you welcomed them?
Have you reached out to them?
Have you said?
I'm going to start with theHindus in my backyard.
What about the Chinese world?
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We adopted a little boy fromChina.
I walked into the orphanage andI said to the orphan lady I
said, hey, my son, he's five.
What religion would he beraised here in China?
And she said if your son wasraised in China, he would have
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three religions, that he couldbe Confucius, taoist or Buddhist
.
All three of those have no wordfor God and maybe God wants to
use you to reach the Chineseworld, to pray, live and give to
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reach them.
What about the Muslim world?
Two out of every seven peopleare Muslim.
The founder of Islam is a mannamed Muhammad Ibn Abdullah.
He was born in Mecca, saudiArabia.
He thought there was over 300different gods.
He came across people who wereJews, he came across people who
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were Christians, and thesepeople began to sway him to the
one God concept.
It is said that he had a visionof an angel and the angel said
you are Muhammad.
There is one God, his name isAllah and you are his prophet.
You are Muhammad.
There is one God, his name isAllah and you are his prophet.
And Muhammad spent from age 40to age 63 teaching who God is.
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He denied the crucifixion, hedenied the divinity of Christ
and he denied the resurrection.
And for 23 years he traveled.
He traveled in this area andwhen he died of a fever at age
63, the green represents IslamAfter 30 years and then after
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100 years.
Every spring break we take twovans of university students from
the University of Arkansas andwe drive 24 hours to Los Angeles
.
We get the privilege of takingthese students to a Buddhist
temple, a Hindu temple, a Muslimmosque, and we expose them to
the world in LA.
We train them in how to reachBuddhists, hindus and Muslims.
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Then we send them back toUniversity of Arkansas and
unleash them.
And this last spring break I'min a mosque in Los Angeles and
the imam, the priest, is sogracious.
He's like come here, come here,and he takes me to this back
wall of the mosque and he sayslook, look, look, it's in Arabic
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.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is the map of the world,and the green represents the map
of the world.
And the green represents theareas of the world that are
highly Islamic.
The pink and red represents theareas of the world where
there's virtually no Muslims.
We're asking Allah to send ouryouth to the pink and the red.
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I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
I didn't do it, but I wanted to.
I almost leaned in and said youknow what?
We could market this and callit the 80-80 window, and I could
really get this out to Moss allacross the US.
But I didn't.
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And maybe God wants to use youto reach the Muslims there and
here by raising your children tolearn Arabic and an expectation
that they would be churchplanters.
What else would you want themto do?
I mean, engineering Sounds solame.
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Yeah, my son he's.
You know, he's a lawyer.
We talked him out of being achurch planter to the Arab world
.
We're really proud of that.
You have obstacles in the 1040window the Muslim world, the
Hindu world, the Chinese world,the tribal world.
600 years before Jesus walkedthis earth, there was a Hindu
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named Siddhartha Gautama and hewas a Hindu to the core.
But he became disillusionedwith Hinduism.
He ended up thinking that itwas all a sham, it was fake.
So in 600 BC, he walks fromNepal to India to learn what
truth is.
My friends, had he gone west toJerusalem, he could have set
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with Jeremiah the prophet, buthe didn't.
He went south and he realizedthere is no God and there is no
soul.
Jeremiah the prophet, but hedidn't.
He went south and he realizedthere is no God and there is no
soul and he became enlightened.
He said and the language thatthey were speaking in India at
that time is the Pali language?
And how do you say enlightenedin the Pali language?
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Buddha, buddha, buddha.
And so Siddhartha Gautamadropped the name Siddhartha
Gautama and took on the nameBuddha, traveled from age 29 to
age 80.
Teaching people no God and nosoul.
And at age 80, someone put abad piece of meat in his
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beggar's bowl and he died offood poisoning.
And maybe God wants to use youto reach the Buddhists, both
there and here and here.
There was a woman born inVietnam.
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Parents came over, firstgeneration Grandparents were
Buddhist monks.
They moved to LA.
She raised Buddhists.
That's all she knew.
When the la wildfires hit a fewmonths ago, the buddhist monks
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went to her parents and madesure they were okay.
They're embedded in thebuddhist monk community in la.
She becomes an entrepreneur.
She gets invited on a podcast.
She's freaking out becauseshe's never been on a podcast of
this magnitude.
So she does what anybody doeswhen you're on an important
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podcast.
You google what do I say on apodcast?
She comes across something thatsays this If you don't know
what to say on a podcast, prayto God.
She says, oh my gosh, I gotnothing else to lose.
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She prays.
The podcast crushes God.
You must be real.
She does what she does everymorning and goes walking on a
trail.
But this morning, after thepodcast, as she's looking and
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scrolling through all that'sgoing on, with this going viral,
a young boy says ma'am, this isfor you, and keeps walking.
She's like who is this kid?
Never seen him before, neverseen him again.
He hands her this piece ofpaper.
She opens the paper it's apicture of Jesus.
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It's a picture of Jesus.
She kneels down and she saysGod, I want to know you.
And she finds a church andthree weeks ago she was baptized
.
Tammy, will you stand up?
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Thank you.
It's happening.
God is on the move, but we'rejust so busy managing our
blessings we don't look up tosay, can I join you?
We're so busy managing ourblessings that we don't look up
and say, god, can I join you?
We're so busy managing ourblessings that we don't look up
and say, god, can I join you?
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And we're so consumed withsending Christians to help
Christians become betterChristians.
We're just so consumed withthat and when anybody does
anything in missions, we're likewe're proud of you, whatever,
whatever you do, and no onestops to think, hey, what are
you going to be doing?
Where are you going to be goingand how are you going to be
reaching the unreached throughthis?
Instead, we're like go Do it.
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We're so excited when anybodydoes anything in missions that
no one stops to think what areyou doing and how is it reaching
the unreached?
Mauritania 99% Muslim.
Yemen 99% Muslim Maldives 99%Muslim Turkey 96% Muslim.
Thailand 85% Buddhist Cambodia83% Buddhist Myanmar 80%
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Buddhist Bhutan 75% BuddhistIndia 75% Hindu.
Nepal 75% Hindu.
Think about these stats.
But we're just so consumed withthat first cruise ship crashing
into each other.
Or have you seen the islands bythe cruise ships where they
crashed?
The islands are beautiful.
You should come with me to seethe islands.
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Every blue dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Christians.
Every blue dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Christians.
Every green dot represents50,000 Muslims.
Every green dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Muslims.
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Every green dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Muslims.
Every orange dot represents acommunity of 50,000 Buddhists.
Every orange dot represents50,000 Buddhists.
And every yellow dot represents50,000 Hindus and every yellow
dot represents 50,000 Hindus.
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So when someone says to me, todd, we're the top five most
neediest countries in the world,I say India, india, india,
india, china.
And how are we to live and howare we to give and how are we to
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raise our kids?
Based on being a sender inAustin man, what do I do?
How do I do it?
Well, we are all to be globalChristians.
No matter where you live, youare to be a global Christian,
someone who understands thetruth and needs of God's
unfulfilled purpose to reach allpeoples.
Now, what does it mean to be aglobal Christian?
It means that you welcome thenations around us.
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The nations are here Refugees,immigrants, international
students, people you work with.
Initiate with them.
I know Christians.
You're not going to believethis and that's okay, you're not
going to believe this.
I know Christians who don'thave someone from another
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country that they're ministeringto.
I know them.
I know we get so busy withsoccer practice we don't look up
and say Lord, use me.
Think about the amount ofuniversity students that are
studying here, ut in ourbackyard.
I mean holy moly.
One of the verses that I enjoy,acts chapter 17.
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You know you're standing inline at Starbucks and in front
of you is a Muslim from Tunis,tunisia, and it's like wow, how
did this guy get to Bee CaveRoad Starbucks in 2025, at 137,?
And I'm here too, and he's infront of me.
The dude is in front of me andhe's a Muslim from Tunis,
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tunisia, and I got six minutes.
He's a Muslim from Tunis,tunisia, and I got six minutes.
Excuse me, sir?
Yes, are you from here?
No, where are you from?
I'm from Tunis, tunisia.
I have no idea where that's at.
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What brought you here?
Well, I studied in London, gota master's and I work for this
tech company on Bee Cave.
I have no idea what the Muslimfaith is.
I've never even read the Quran.
Have you read the Bible much?
I don't know what the Bible is.
Can I get your number.
Maybe we can meet back here.
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I'd love to read the Quran withyou and you can read the Bible
and we can just talk about ourreligions.
I'm so curious.
Now, one of those books is adouble-edged sword piercing the
heart, and one of them is not.
I'm not going to tell you whichone it is.
Not only have you made a friend, but you're now initiating the
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gospel.
Not only have you made a friend, but you're now initiating the
gospel.
How did he get here?
From Tunis, tunisia, from oneman.
He made the nations who shouldinhabit the earth, and God
determined the times and theexact places where they're gonna
be.
He determined Starbucks.
137, b Cave Road, behind you.
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Why?
So that this Tunis man may knowhim, that he could meet a
temple and see the temple Of thetop 10 nations who are studying
at UT.
Just take the nations at UT andthe top 10 nations at UT and if
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you blow that out to America,here's the top 10 nations.
This is mirrored with UT.
Now take out the nations thatare not inside the 1040 window.
Leave only the nations in the1040 window.
Leave only the nations in the1040 window.
The unreached are in ourbackyards.
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I was at K-State.
Bear with me here while I tellyou a college story about a
friend I was at K-StateUniversity.
There's a student there namedAndrew I'm sorry, Spencer and I
say to Spencer I say Spencer,there's a thousand Christians at
K-State.
I said man, this is like in thefall I was speaking there.
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I said there's a thousandstudents at K-State.
I said Christians.
I said do you have anyinternational friends?
He's like Todd, I don't.
They live way over on the otherside of campus.
They're hard to get to.
I'm like, spencer, you'rewanting to cross an ocean, but
you can't even cross a campus.
I'm like get your fanny overthere and meet the international
students.
He's like okay.
So he tells me this story.
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He said, todd, it took me tillMay, but May 1st I was in the
student union and I saw aChinese student and I began to
talk to him and he became afriend and I was so excited I
said, oh my gosh, we got to befriends.
And the Chinese student saidsomething that was devastating
to me.
He said I'm a senior, I'mgraduating in May, I'm
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graduating next Saturday.
I was like wait, you're leavingme in seven days.
He gave him his number.
Spencer did and he said if youneed anything, text me.
And so what happened was Fridaynight, spencer gets a text hey,
man, this is me.
You know, can I get a ride tothe airport?
Spencer's like, of course.
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Spencer's like, of course.
He says, okay, I leave tomorrow.
At one, spencer pulls around thedorm, the guy brings out this
huge hockey bag.
They push it and push it, andpush it, they finally get it in
the SUV, they shut the trunk andthe Chinese person says I have
a second one.
Well, the Manhattan airport'sonly two miles off campus.
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And so what happens is they,they, they, they bolt it to,
they strap it to the top, thesecond one, the second hockey
bag.
And they're going to theairport and spencer's striking
up a conversation and he asked achinese student.
He says, hey, what's in thebags?
And the Chinese student says,oh, it's my souvenirs.
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And Spencer says man, you musthave a ton of friends back home
that you're taking gifts to.
And the Chinese student says,no, it's my souvenirs I brought
here to give to my Americanfriends.
I made none.
That's a tragedy.
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Are we welcoming the nations?
What about praying?
Are we people of prayer?
The way most people pray, theway I pray, is like it's me, and
then it's my wife, and thenit's my family, and then it goes
back to me.
That's sort of my concentriccircles.
If you were to ask Paul theApostle hey Paul, how do you
pray?
What do you start with?
He's going to say well, firstof all, pray for the kings of
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the world, just that they wouldleave Christianity alone.
If they leave Christianityalone, it will grow.
So, first of all, pray for thekings, prime ministers, the
dictators, for the kings, primeministers, the dictators.
So what I did was I puttogether a little prayer list.
I Googled 1040 window countriesand then I started, one by one,
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putting together the kings andthe princesses and the dictators
and the prime ministers.
And so now for Bible study.
I can be like, hey, you prayfor Benin.
You know what if in your Biblestudies or community groups you
said, hey, let's research the1040 window countries, let's
research the kings and thedictators and let's pray for
them, and all of a sudden yourheart starts to grow.
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Oh, my goodness, burkina Faso.
I had no idea the tragedythat's going on there.
I had no idea the king and'sgoing on there.
I had no idea the king and whathe's doing to the Christians.
And now you start to care.
There's an app, it's calledUnreached of the Day.
Every morning you can click onit and it will tell you.
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So this is today's Tells you anunreached.
It tells you who they are, ittells you where they are.
It tells you an unreached.
It tells you who they are, ittells you where they are, it
tells you what they believe andit tells you how many there are.
And so, in my family, what dowe do?
Well, at 10.02, at 10.02, myfamily's alarms go off A silent
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alarm you can set one right nowon your phone and we pray for an
unreached.
Why 10.02?
Because the nine words of Jesusthe harvest is plentiful, the
workers are few.
The harvest is plentiful, theworkers are few.
Therefore, have a conference.
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Therefore, have a conference.
Therefore, have a meeting.
Therefore, worship, no Pray.
Ask the Lord of the harvest tosend out workers into his
harvest field.
Now, that word send out is avery unique word.
It's actually this is the onlytime it's used in this context.
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The Greek word for send out isinteresting.
The Greek word for send out isekbalo.
Now, ekbalo might not mean muchto you, but ekbalo is the word
Jesus used to send out demons.
So when Jesus came acrosssomeone who was demon possessed,
he would say get out.
That's the intensity.
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That's the exact same word heinserts when he says pray, the
Lord would send out.
That means we're in our smallgroups, in our quiet time, in
our churches.
Lord, send them out.
Get them out now.
This is not a half-hearted yawn, lord.
If, when you want, now, let themouths, let the tongues, let
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the teeth be out, and thesenders, the senders.
What is a sender?
A sender is someone who is here, who is praying, giving,
welcoming.
You're not a second-classChristian if you're here and
you're a sender.
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Matter of fact, davidinstituted a rule in the
Israelite army the share of theman who stays with the supplies
and supplies the front lines,they will share alike in the
bounty.
You're not a second classChristian if you're here.
What is a sender?
A sender is someone who's awareof the map.
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They know the map.
They know where the unreachedare.
They know who they are.
They're giving their time,talent and treasure.
A sender is someone who's awareof what God's doing in the
world.
They're praying for Luke 10 too.
They're inviting others.
Oh, my goodness, you would makea great missionary to Laos.
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I'll take my two-week vacation.
We can go there and I'llintroduce you to the
missionaries they're inviting.
Behind missionaries are sendersmobilizing them and then, once
they're on the field, the senderis helping to care for them.
Hey, do you need homeschoolmaterials?
Do you need respite when youcome home?
Do you need a van?
Do you need a hotel?
Do you need Airbnb?
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How are you doing at being asender?
Are you aware of what God'sdoing in the world?
Are you praying?
Are you inviting others?
Are you helping while they'rethere?
Because guess what senders?
You got a lot of work to do,because 83% of the church has no
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clue what the Great Commissionis, 83% of Christians.
When you ask them what is theGreat Commission, they say this
love your neighbor as yourself.
That's close.
That's the Great Commandment.
We need the Great Commissionand what happens is we make the
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great commission the greatoption and then we completely
move it off our desk.
With the great omission in 1961, jfk stood up before the nation
and said this at the end of thedecade, I want to put a man on
the moon and I want him tosafely return.
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And at the end of the decade,three men boarded the space
shuttle, but it took 400,000 toget him there.
You might be on the spaceshuttle, you might be in this
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listening to unreached.
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