by going to the Lord in prayer this morning at Warrior Club. I'm happy to hear that. That's the way it should be. We're going to go ahead and begin. The bell would have rung if I turned up the sound, so I'm going to ask Daniel Lee to do his bit by introducing things with the pledges. Please stand and pledge with me the pledge to the Christian flag. I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, whose kingdom is in heaven. One Savior, Christ is mine, He is in heaven, come ye again, with life and dignity to all nations. Pledge to the Bible. I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God's holy Word. I will make it a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. I will write it certainly in my heart, that I might not sin against God. It's this verse. Hebrews 6.19. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, a hope for assurance at best. Hebrews 6.19. It's this mission statement. As citizens, we glorify God in all that we think, all that we say, and all that we do. I believe in the inspiration of the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, the creation of man by the direct hand of God, the incarnation and virgin birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Thank you. Now, if you guys have the Bible, please open to 2 Peter 3. If you don't have one, see the screen. Near the end of your New Testament, so almost at the end. 2 Peter 3. All the way through verse 1, And every one of you will read verse 2, I'll be reading verse 3, and everyone will be reading verse 4, and so on. Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle. in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminders. That you may be mindful, all together, that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and at the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior. Knowing this first, that stoppers will come in the last days, walking according to their own love. And saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they will fully forget that by the word of God the heavens were uphold, and the earth standing on the water and in the water. By which the world that then existed perished. being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth, which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition upon godly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but in longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with a fervent heat. Both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, one manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and good godliness. Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, be it on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by them in peace, without spot and blameless. And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you. as also in all his epistles, speaking of these things in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked. but grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and forever. Amen. Amen. Good. I appreciate that, Daniel. You may go ahead and take your seat. Announcement for only the student council members. McBorough has now arrived in first floor. So after this chapel meeting, you guys will all take at least one box of pepperoni and bring it to Mr. Ackley's room. Thank you. So it's good to have teamwork working together. All right. How are you doing? Doing all right? See, I have a thumbs up from Zeke, so that's good. You know, this morning we read 2nd Peter chapter 3. Were you paying attention as we took turns reading? I know some of you might have just been thinking about the next verse, and that's okay. As we look at this book of 2nd Peter, here's a book written to people who are having a hard time. Life is tough. They are suffering. And so Peter says, Cheer up. It's going to get worse. Everything's going to burn out. The world is going to go on fire. And so what we see in this verse is here are persecuted Christians. Christians suffering because they believe on Jesus Christ. And Peter is writing to them and he's saying, look, you have a hope. And we talk about our hope, Hebrews 6, 19. and anchor that, well, our hope is Jesus Christ is indeed truly coming back. And because he is coming back, what should we do? We obey the scriptures. That's what Christians do. And as Bible-believing Christians, we know not everybody believes the Bible. There are people that are called scoffers. People that maybe once claimed to be Christians. People who say, you know what? Jesus said he would come back. How long has it been? It hasn't been one year. It hasn't been 10 years. It hasn't been 1,000 years. We're working on 2,000 years. Where in the world is he? Is Jesus truly going to come back? And so scoffers are going to deny Jesus comes back. But he says, remember this. In the past, God judged. God sent the flood in Noah's day. God judged. That happened in the past. And people forget that willfully, choosing not to know. But in the future, God will judge. There was judgment in Noah's day. the earth was wiped out. There will be an Armageddon. There will be a time of judgment when God does judge those who rejected Him. And so God's going to judge them. As you read 2 Peter 3, you might have been kind of like, oh, is this a great commission? All these people are going to be burned up. The heavens, the earth, they're going to go away. The elements ended. The earth is going to end. The end is near. It's nearer than it was yesterday. We don't know when Christ will come back. We know he's coming back. And we know there will be a time of judgment. And so because God will judge by fire, Jesus will come in his own good time. No one knows the day or the hour. He's coming as a thief in the night. In the new heavens and the new earth, Things will be better. God will rule in righteousness. You won't have to make a choice between Trump and Harris if you're an American. It's going to be so much better, right? Sorry. America has an election next month. All right. What we're saying, though, is there's going to be a righteous ruler. Jesus Christ is going to be on David's throne. And so today. Now, as a Christian who may be suffering, who may have a hard time, what do you do? Live blamelessly. Live patiently. Wait for Jesus to come back. Serve God acceptably. Be faithful. Rightly divide the scriptures, because sometimes it's hard to understand, right? He says all, you know, all is complicated. Well, that's true. Study in any way. It's the word of God. But obey the scriptures. Share the good news. Because when the time of judgment and fire comes, we want to take as many people as we can with us to Jesus. We don't want our neighbor, our brothers or sisters, our families to go to hell. We don't want them to be burned. And so because of all that, because Jesus is coming back, you and I need to share the good news. You don't have to go to hell. God loves you. Yes, you're a sinner and you're a terrible person. People don't like to hear that. It's true. You're a sinner, but God made a way for even sinners like you to go to hell. And so our theme this morning for Missions Emphasis Week, you see the bulletin over there? What is the first word? It says move. Missions Emphasis Week. What's the first word? Can you read it? See. See the field wider to harvest. So what we are going to look at this morning is eight billion people. Very quickly. Eight billion people. and billions upon billions of these eight billions will go to hell unless they hear the good news. Billions upon billions of these people know not Jesus. They may be ignorant. Some of them may never have heard the name of Jesus. Some of them may believe bad things or wrong things about Jesus. We need to tell the truth. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And so we come to bring good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people, that unto us is born in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord, who lived a perfect, sinless life, fulfilled all righteousness, obeyed all God's rules, and died on the cross for your sins, for mine, so you and I can go to heaven. So we're going to look at these fields, at these people all around the world. Whether in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, or here in Asia. Billions going to hell unless Christians like you and me do something. And so what do we do? After we see the need, we pray. because that's what Jesus told us to do. So you see the next one, see, pray. We're going to have a prayer time. Elementary students will go upstairs and your teacher will lead you praying for maybe lost people at your church or at your home or other lost people that you know about. And so we will pray secondary. We will pray here and we'll spend some time doing that. And then after lunch, secondary students, we will go. What we're going to do first of all is we're going to see how other people have seen and prayed and went. We are going to Songshil University and we are going to see about how people have done missions for hundreds of years. I think we'll be able to see the Luther Bible and some other things. which is excellent because October the 31st is Reformation Day. All right, so we will go. We will see how this has been done in the past. So that's the plan for our mission conference for today. Tomorrow, once again, we'll start here at 845, and we will see the Word of God. We will see from second grade are going to be the children telling us about God's work. And so we will look forward to that presentation. I will give a short conclusion at the end. And then we will once again pray. And then tomorrow afternoon after lunch, secondary students are going to go and share the gospel. The plan is to go to Guanax. Wednesday, we are going to Come here, see the bus, get on the bus, pray, see, pray, and get on the bus and go to NAMI. NAMI outing, that will be our field trip, our outing. So that's the plan for this week, Thursday and Friday. Parents will see your teachers and hear about how you did for sport. Not quite missions, but maybe you've been praying about those meetings. All right? So that's the plan for this week. But you know, as we do this, as we prepare to look at the fields, it's good for us to sing about this. So I'm going to ask you to get out your hymnals, those red books. It will also be on the screen if you need it. But you will see there on the screen or in the hymnal, hymn number, I think it's 260. Sewing. Sewing in the morning. It's a couple of different numbers depending on the camera. So 260. Yes, it is 260. So hymn 260, we're going to sing all three verses. This is about sharing the gospel and about Not only telling the word, but living, so that people want to come to Jesus. So sowing in the morning. Let's go ahead and stand to sing. 260. Sowing in the morning. There we go. It's a real bigger nest. Oh Harvest and the time of reaping, we shall now rejoicing, waiting in the sheaves, waiting in the sheaves, waiting in the sheaves. All right, good singing. As we sing the second, we're going to come to the chorus again. And let's do it just a little bit different to see if we're paying attention. All right? You see bringing in the sheaves? First time, girls bringing in the sheaves. See bringing in the sheaves second time? Boys bringing in the sheaves. All right? Girls, boys. Then all together we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves. So girls, boys together. Got it? And then just to see if you're paying attention, we'll switch. Boys bringing in the sheaves. Girls bringing in the sheaves. Together bringing in the sheaves. I know that's complicated. but we'll see if you're paying attention bright and early Monday morning. Second verse, sewing in the sunshine, sewing in the shadows. Sewing in the sunshine, sewing in the shadows. Boys! Girls! Altogether! Girls! Boys! Together. Do it again on the third. All right, boys first. Girls. Together. My knees. Together. All right. Good singing. Be seated. Was that so hard? Did we do that? Yeah, but that was the last song. All right. Good singing. Bringing in the sheaves. What are the sheaves? What in the world are we talking about? That's a good question, isn't it? Open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 9. Matthew chapter 9, and we're going to read this morning in verses 35 through 38. You know, in the Bible we've got three times in the New Testament where Jesus said, you know what? There's a harvest. There is a harvest that must be gathered. One of them is here, one time is here in Matthew. Another time is in Luke, and we've also got it in John. And what we see is in John chapter 4, Jesus has just spoken with the woman at the well. Here is a Samaritan woman, a foreigner, someone that most Jews would avoid. Someone that most men would avoid. Someone that most of us would not associate with, right? And Jesus comes to this woman, and shares about himself, that if she believes in him, he will give her rivers of living water, that he will give her life. His disciples come back, and Jesus says, the fields are white to harvest. So the field there started with the Samaritan woman, then the people there in Saipar, there in Samaria, and he was talking about people in that village, people in his time around him. In Luke, we are in Luke chapter 10, and in Luke chapter 10, there's another harvest. And Jesus says, you know what? I'm doing something. I'm preaching, I'm teaching, I'm healing, I'm serving to save. But there's one of me. And there are many of you. Guys, many people can go many places. One person can go one place. 70 of you, 72 of you, two by two, go out. And he says, go into the heart. Now this is the third time here in Matthew 9. Look at verse 35. So Jesus goes all about the cities and villages. So here he is in the promised land coming to his people. And here are people everywhere in these cities and villages. Where does he go? He goes to church. He teaches in the synagogues. Where does he go? What is he talking about? He's preaching what? The gospel. The good news of the kingdom. Say, repent of your sins. Believe in me. I'm the fulfillment of the law. So preaching the gospel of the kingdom. And what else was he doing? Healing the sick. Every disease among the people. That's Matthew 9.35. Verse 36. When he saw, what? The multitudes. The crowd. Many, many, many people. When he saw the multitudes, what does he do? He was moved with compassion for them. How many of you came in on the bus this morning? Raise your hand if you came in on the bus. You know what? I can't see you. Stand up if you came on the bus. I know, it's embarrassing. Stand up if you came on the bus. If you came on the bus this morning. All right. Annabelle, how many people were on the bus? Was it full or empty? Jewel, full or empty bus? So you don't even see what's around you. Okay. Mrs. Landry, full or empty bus? About three other people. Three other people. So you had it to yourself. Nice. Very full. Empty. Empty. Okay, so we have some empty buses, we have some full buses. All right, keep on standing. If you came on the subway this morning, stand up. Keep on standing. All right, Peter, all right, yes, all right. All right, Peter, you came on the subway this morning, empty or full? I was suffocating. So in that suffocating subway, How many people were in your car? 20, 30, 50, 100? I couldn't breathe. Closer to 200. All right. You could hardly breathe. Mr. Kim, you came in on the subway. How many people were in your car? I would say 150. 150? Just in one car? So you were standing remotely, right? All right. Jeremiah, how many were in? Keep on standing. It's not that bad. Jeremiah, how many people were in there? I was dying. You were dying. I'm glad you made it. All right. And so, let's see, did I miss anyone? Rosebell, how many people were in your train, in your subway? It was not, everyone sat down. Oh, you had to see, lucky lady. All right. Irina, in your subway, probably similar to Jeremiah's and Mrs. Sadler's, right? Hard? Hard to stand, hard to breathe. All right. Yes. How about you? We'll start here. Guy, then girl. June? Too many? Too hot? Because too much hot air, right? From all those people breathing. A lot of people in yours, too. All right, thank you. So the point is, so as you looked around the subways and you saw all these souls with all their hot, heavy breathing and all the heat and all the perhaps the bad garlic breath or whatever all around. I like garlic, but you know, it's a strong smell. That's not an answer. All right. People, people are people, right? And were you filled with heart of love for these people? Did you give one thought about whether the people around you were going to heaven or going to hell? Did you care? Did you have some compassion? Maybe you said, you know, if only these people had come later, they could have more room. I could have more room. But, you know, you have compassion. Because if you're having a hard time breathing, maybe they're having a hard time breathing because of you too, right? They were weary. I mean, how many of you, as you looked around the subway or the bus, saw people kind of snoozing, their eyes were nodding, Their heads were nodding. Their eyes were closed. They were weary. They were scattered. You know, the subway's taking people all over. Like, jeez. Without a shower. As secondaries, we go in the buses this afternoon to Someshel. Look around. Are there people going to heaven? Someshel's not happy. Are people going to heaven? people going to hell. Again, assuming we don't have a bus accident that day, they may not go today, but that's their final destination. Notice, Jesus had compassion because he saw people. When you see people, do you see them? Not as a problem, not as an annoyance, but as someone precious that God loves. Jesus looks on these people and they're like sheep without a shepherd. What does that mean? They're helpless. Sheep cannot, they don't have a bazooka or a knife to defend themselves against wolves or bears. All they have is a shepherd. sheep without a shepherd die, because there's no one to protect them, no one to feed them, no one to take care of them. And so Jesus looks at these dying sheep, these people who have no one that cares for their souls. They've got rabbis, they've got priests, but these people are care about religion, they don't care about people. And sometimes that happens, unfortunately. And so Jesus says to the disciples, so what's taking place here is Jesus is doing what? He's looking. He's seeing people. He's seeing me. He's seeing hurt. He's seeing vulnerability. He's seeing weakness. He's seeing sickness. Remember, he's healing sickness and diseases. He sees their body needs. He sees their soul needs. He sees it all. He's out there preaching, teaching in the synagogues. He's caring about their souls. He's preaching the gospel. He wants them to go to heaven. He doesn't want them to go to hell. And so what we see here briefly, because I do know that we do have some time concerns here, is we do want to see these fields that are white to harvest. Here in Matthew 9, 35 through 38, what do we see? Here is Jesus Christ. As John 20, verse 31 says, these things have I written unto you, that you might know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. And so here's the Christ, the Son of God, here on earth as a man. And what is he doing as a man? He is obeying all of God's will because God the Father sent God the Son. And he's doing everything God the Father told him to do. He's doing everything that we find in the Bible. See, come here. Can you carry? Is that a big book or a small book? Is it light or is it heavy? Do you think it has many rules or just one or two? Many books, many rules, right? Thank you. And Jesus says, everything God tells me to do here, yeah, check it out. I fulfilled all of the rules. Now, none of us have done that. We've come to rule one and we break it. We've come to rule two and we break it. I mean, for most of us, that's, maybe we try to do one and two and mess up on three. But none of us have kept all the rules. All of us have broken many of these rules. And that means that we are doomed to die. We're going to hell. But Jesus sees us with this Broken rule book with all these broken rules going to hell and he says I love you Remember God so John 3 16 for God so loved the world that he did what? He gave his only begotten son That whosoever believeth in him believes in Jesus Christ Shall have will have guaranteed 100% shall have what? everlasting And so before Jesus died, he shows his love, he shows his compassion. We just saw that in Matthew 9. Here were people that Jesus was healing, people Jesus was helping, people that Jesus cared for their souls. He sees these people as sheep without a shepherd, and he says, I love you. I want to help you. And because I cannot be everywhere in one body. 70. You go. You go. You go. You go here. You go there. You go all over. You tell everyone in the country. We can't believe on Jesus Christ. The Messiah has come. Tell everyone. And they come back and they say, we told everyone. And Jesus says, good job. That's Luke 10. Jesus loves crowds. So when we feel... subway again. All right. Deep breath. Let's go. Jesus runs into the multitude. He goes into the multitude. He ministers to the multitude. He loves the crowd. He has thousands come to hear him preach. He loves the crowds. He loves them. He cares for The crowd, but he also likes the individual. So he's going to say, you know what? I love you guys. All right, Joseph, come on. I love you, too. And it's the individual, Moses or Roosevelt. Even the sleepers in the back row, I love you. And so he loves us as a crowd. He loves us as individuals. Right, Samuel? Good. Maybe not sick. All right, so he loves us. Whether we're by ourselves or with a husband or wife or brothers or sisters, he loves us. And so he has compassion. And so what does he do? He heals and he preaches and he restores not only sick bodies, but sick souls. And so he says, stop. Stop your sins. Repent, believe on me, and you will be saved. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. We need to see those around us. See them not as nuisances or problems, even if they are. See them as people God loves. And that's you. Because God loves them, you should love them too. So what does that mean? If we see people as God sees them, we kind of need to know something about them. Jesus knew these were sheep without a shepherd. He knew their physical condition. You know, he didn't cause the blind man to grow a third ear. You know, he gave the blind man sight. For the layman, you know, he didn't give him plastic surgery. He healed the legs. That makes sense, right, Jule? Right? He healed the disease, not something else. Good doctor. I remember a time we took my wife to the hospital. And the doctor could not figure out what was wrong with her. We actually had to take her to Korea, where they diagnosed her and treated her. Jesus was a good doctor. He knew what was wrong. He knew them. And so he could give the right medicine. And the good shepherd cares for his sheep. So look at the 8 billion people in the earth. And there are many, many people who do not believe in Jesus Christ, right? Recently, there was a conference that studied the world, that did a survey. And this was called, the name of the survey was the State of the Great Commission. State of the Great Commission. the current status of the Great Commission. So Jesus said, go into the world and preach the gospel to every single person. All right, that's been going on for 2,000 plus years. How are we doing? Has everyone heard? Does everyone have the Bible in their own language? How many people know, all right, quick question. How many languages are there in the world? Anyone? Anyone want to guess? Irina. Multiply it by 10 and you're on the right track. Hajin? You're on the right track. Hajin said 1,000, but actually we need to continue multiplying. Any other one? Shiloh. Not quite a billion. We've got eight billion, so a billion, that might be a little bit much. I think I saw a hand over in secondary. Was there someone over there? How many languages are there? God did a good job at the Tower of Babel. Huh? I heard someone say something. 7,000 languages. Guess how many have Bibles? drop a zero, a little over 700. 700 Bibles, 7,000 languages, roughly. When you think about religion, people who believe in Jesus Christ, what is out there? What do people believe? What is their What is their belief about God or how to be saved? Here is the way things looked in 1900, a little over 120 years ago. In 2000, 20 years ago, 25 years ago, a couple of years ago, right at the eve of COVID, and what they think it'll look like in 2050. All right? All right. Fastest growing religion on the face of the planet is what? Islam. We had 12% in 1900, 21, one out of five in 2000. Almost one quarter a couple years ago. That is explosive growth. We're expecting one out of three people on the earth will be a Muslim in about 20 years. if things continue the way they are. So what do Muslims believe? One God, they're on the right track. He named Allah, wrong track. Mohammed is his prophet, no he wasn't. Jesus lived and was a prophet, right? Jesus never died, wrong. Jesus was only the son of Mary by natural means. Raw. That's Islam. Hinduism. This is in India mostly. 12% in 1900, 13% in 2000. This is kind of static. It's basically the same because Hinduism is not a religion that evangelizes. It doesn't try to make more. Thirdly, Buddhism. Some of your friends, some of your neighbors might be Buddhists. We start out with about 8% in 1900, dropped to 7 in 2000, going down 6.8 a couple years ago, and continuing to decline. So here in Japan, China, Korea is where many of the Buddhists are, a few in India as well. How about the nuns? People who say, I don't know what I am. I don't really know what to believe. I'm secular or, we start out with, that's not a 2%, that's a .2% in 1900. In 1900, most people were like Christian or Muslim or something else. By 2000, 10% of people said, I don't know what I am. I don't know if there's a bell. 20, 20, 20, it's 11. And actually this is going down because people are going into different, they don't stay here. They tend to go in one direction or another. Finally, how about those who say they're Christians? Again, this is those who name the name of Christ. They might include Catholics who had some false teaching. This is just, Big, big Christianity, not just those who believe that Jesus is the only one. We had 34% of the population in 1900. 32 in 2000, 32, 34. So what is Christianity? Like Hinduism, it's just kind of holding on. And you say, that's terrible. We should be, it should be 50 or 70 or, why aren't there more Christians? What was the population in that? Less than a billion. So 30% of, say one billion, is 300 million. 30% of a billion people is many, many more Christians. So there are many, many more Christians than there were in 1900, but there are also more non-Christians. Do you understand what that is? Do you see where we're going? So the percent, so if we have, here we have 30 students, right? If I have 30% of 30, that would be what, nine students? Do I get that correct? 2% is 3, 6, 9, so 9 students out of 30. Is that right? Okay, more or less. But if I have 300 students, 9 is a small number, but what would be 30% of 300? We would have 90 students. You see the math? So 9 in 90, there's more Christians, but they're the same percent, same out of every 10 or 100 or so. Does that make sense? You know you've got a free math class. And hopefully the math teachers will back me up on what I just said. Did that sound mostly right, Mr. Kim? Yes, sir. OK, good. All right, so quickly, I don't want to take too much longer. So what we see is the way that people practice religion, the world is actually more religious today than it used to be. In Africa, it's about 50-50 between Islam and Christianity. That's the big religions in Africa. In Asia, we've got many things. We've got the Buddhists. We've got Christians. We've got Islam. We've got Confucianism. We've got other things as well. So there's a lot of different kinds of things going on where we live. In Europe, in the past, it was Christian, often Catholic, sometimes Protestant. But more and more, it's becoming agnostic or secular. And we also see Muslims have started to go there from other countries. Latin America, so down in South America. This was largely Catholic Christian. You know, they would venerate Mary and do some other things we would not. So they have a Catholic history. North America has a Protestant history that recognizes Jesus as the only way to God. But increasingly in North America, they're more agnostic or nuns, not committed to anything. There's more Buddhists, more New Age, and Muslims are increasing in North America as well. In Oceania, which includes Australia and places like that, we have a Christian history, growing agnostic and Buddhists with just a few Muslims sprinkled in. Okay, so this is again from the state of the recognition. Again, I don't want this just to be a statistics class, but I want to see what are we looking at when we look at our neighbor. When we look around us and we pray for the Lord to send laborers into his kingdom. Mazan. That's basically North Africa and the Middle East. As we said earlier, it's the fastest growing. One of the reasons it's fastest growing is because Mazans have kids. If you have parents with 5, 10 kids, and their kids become Muslim, that's natural growth. And many of the places where they are heavily Muslim have many kids. So I said Christianity is growing steadily. We have more Christians, same percentage. Islam is basically all exploding. Many, many Muslims. Middle East, North Africa. Nigeria is actually going to have the fourth largest Islamic population by 2050. Right now, when we talk about the most Muslims, there's Indonesia, there's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh right now. The way things are going, Nigeria is going to swish past, and so the new order will be Pakistan, India. Pakistan and India switching there. And Indonesia slipping to third place in Nigeria, running up to fourth. I think they're like ninth now. Hinduism. We have this in India. It's also big in Nepal. The Indian Dyspora. In other words, people were born in India and they moved to go get a job or to get an education. But in India, there's actually fighting between Hindus and Muslims. And so this causes difficulty. And so there are extremists, Hindu nationalists, in power in India that have made it against the law to become a Christian. There are anti-conversion laws against Christianity in India. So there are many Christians in India, but they are fighting. And some of them are dying. They are being killed. Pastors have been killed here. So laws have been passed. And what we find is, as I said earlier, people don't become Hindu. They are born Hindu. It's in the family. They don't try to give it to the neighbors. With secularism, most of this comes from Christians. People who were born in a Christian family, maybe people like you, you go to church, you see things, and we see that this is increasing in Europe where people have heard the gospel, North America, and Latin America. And what we find is that many people leave Christianity. Why? Because they didn't know Jesus. They knew about Jesus, but they did not trust Jesus for themselves. And so if they were a Christian because their mom and dad were, or if they are a Christian because they wanted to help people, or they're a Christian because they see someone they like as a Christian, sometimes other Christians do bad things. And people say, that person is a Christian, did something bad, so I don't want to be a Christian. That's why David got in all kinds of trouble in the Old Testament. David did something bad. And Nathan told David, you have caused God's enemies to blaspheme. You've given them an excuse not to believe in God. And so this number is actually becoming smaller, I said. Why? Because the places where there are more of these unbelievers, these secular people, they're not having kids. You know, places like Korea, where nobody has any kids. They don't get married, they don't have kids, they're hoping to have more. Because often, religion is in the family. And so in Europe, people don't get married or have kids. You don't have more of them. North America, fewer kids, fewer elites. It's just the way it works. And so the birth rate is falling. Africans and some Asians, not Koreans, but other Asians, are having more kids. So Africa and Asia make sure that Christianity is growing and Islam. And so again, when we talk about secularists, we are not assuming that they're atheists. Atheist means they say no God. Secularists just mean I don't, I'm not a part of that group. They're just unaffiliated. And so places with growing secularists or unaffiliated, China, Japan, America, Vietnam, Russia, and Korea. Yes, Korea is part of this. Christianity here in Korea has stopped growing. To the same extent that it grew before. Almost done now, two more. Buddhism, one and two. As we look at the field, what do Buddhists say? This is a religion of the East. It started here in Asia, right? In India. And so there in India, you've got it in the East, it's in the South, it's Southeast Asia. We've got two different groups of Buddhists. The Theravada and Mahayana. Pardon me if I'm mispronouncing. And of course, it's the second one, where we are, that are mostly here in Peru, the Maha Yantra, Buddhist. So this religion, Buddhism, is actually growing in North American Europe, in the Middle East. But the way it's growing is people from Japan, Korea, or other places go there, and they take Buddhism with them. And sometimes they bring converts, but usually that's the way it happens. Right now, Korea is number eight for having the most Buddhists, percentage-wise. By 2050, the number of Buddhists, like the number of Christians, are going down. India is expected to go from number 9 to number 7. So the purpose of going through these things is not to give you a math class or a religion class. It's to help you to understand what the world is. Remember, Jesus said, look unto the fields that are watered by this. Here are what the fields are. Here is, you could say they're the kind of sheep they are. They're in this fold. They might be in the Buddhist fold. They might be in the Muslim fold. They might be in the secular fold. And these are shepherdless sheep. They are people that are going to be destroyed unless someone tells them about Jesus. I'm going to repeat with you a phrase. I want you to participate with me. It's something that we often said in chapel when I was in college. It's a call and response. The first thing is I say, the most sobering reality in the world today What is the most sobering reality in the world today? The most sobering reality in the world today, and then you say, is that people are dying and going to hell. That's the most sobering reality. People are dying today. And these people that are dying, many of them are going to hell. That is sobering. That is serious. We should care about that. We should pray about that. How do we pray? We pray, Lord, save me. We pray, Lord, send forth laborers. We pray, Lord, use me. All right? So I'm going to say this. You do the response, all right? So are you ready? Why don't we go ahead and stand up just to make sure everyone's awake. Everyone with me? The most sobering reality in the world today is? People are going to hell today. Let's say it one more time together. The most sobering reality in the world today is? People are going to hell today. Today. They're going to hell today. Let's end where we began, Matthew 9, 35. Let's look at Jesus. Look at Jesus' example. In Jesus' example, what we have here, Matthew 9, 35 through 38, then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But, but, when he saw the multitudes, when he saw all these people, when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were mutilated and scattered. like sheep having no shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Notice the last sentence there, verse 13. Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. It's about 945. We're going to pray. Elementary is then going to dismiss to go upstairs to have some prayer time with your teacher and then have your day. Secondary, we are going to take, let's take 10 minutes, a little bit longer than normal. If you need to use the restroom, get a drink, whatever. Then meet back here at 5 till 10. So we're not having the bells today. I left those off because We're doing things differently. So if someone wants to put up a walk, a clock with 10 minutes or something after I pray, then I have 10 minutes. Lord willing, be back here by 955 and do our prayer session. And my prayer is that our prayer time will be one that will move the hand of God to change our hearts, to open our lips, but also to touch souls that are going to die. That's right. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Lord, we do pray that thy kingdom would come. We've heard about how Jesus is going to return. And when He returns, He will come as the Lion of Judah, not the Lamb. He will not come meek and mild. He will come with the sword in His mouth, with the rod in His hand, to execute judgment and righteousness. And Father, knowing the terrible day of the Lord, knowing the righteous judgment of God on the wicked, Lord, help our hearts to be moved with compassion. Help us to love the lost. Help us to pray for them. Help us to speak to them about Jesus and his love. Lord, give us a heart for missions, a heart for the lost, a heart full of love for yourself and others. We pray these things in Jesus' name. All right, first the elements.