on winning souls and we just have a discussion about that. Proverbs 11 30 says, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that wins souls is wise. Why should we win souls? Because Jesus told us to. Matthew 28, 18. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, all powers given unto me in heaven and earth, go you therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you, and learn with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen. Now, the reality is that most Christians have never personally led anyone to Christ, and this is, you know, it's a real problem, you know? You can ask believers and churches and that, you can say, by a show of hands, show me anyone that's personally led anyone to Christ, and it's very few, very few have been able to do it, and I think maybe it's because they don't know how to win the lost, or intimidated, or in some way feel that they're not up to it, you know, and they've got to leave that to the pastor, but it's not so. And although there are many programs like Way of the Master, E3, and many other studies on evangelism, we still fall short of winning friends and souls to Christ. Our life should be consumed with that, I think. We want to go one day and stand with the Lord, and the Lord looks at us and says, who did you bring with you? We're going to come there alone, and we've left the whole world to die behind us. It's gone to hell in a hand basket, and we're safe. You know, how does that look? You know, so I don't think that that's how we should do. We should do our best to win the lost. The most valuable thing for God is human souls. He can make gold, he can make the world, he can make anything else, but one soul, once it's lost, will never be reprinted. The value of a human person, you've got your own tongue print, eye print, fingerprint, you can't even count the cost of that. If God loses one person, he's lost for eternity. There's only one of you. So the most precious thing that we can do for God is to help bring lost souls to him. And that's what our main concentration should be on. But how do we become effective soul winners? Well, number one, you're going to need the supernatural power of God to do that and to be effective on earth. You are not going to win this war against the flesh and demons on this earth without the power of God. I can tell you that now. You don't wrestle against flesh and blood. You know, you wrestle against other things. We are always against the forces of darkness, always clashing with them, and always pushing them back. Acts 1 verse 8 says, but you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you, Jesus said to the disciples, and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth. The word power is from the Greek word dunamis, where we get our word dynamite from, okay? You shall receive dynamite power for what? I mean, the disciples had prayed for the sick and they were healed. They had ministered in the streets. They had cast out demons. And Jesus was saying to them, but you shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you. They must have wondered, what is he talking about? You know, we've done all these miracles. You know, we've witnessed, we've cast devils out, we've done incredible things. And the reason why you're to receive dunamis power is in that same scripture, which says, you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the world. That's why you need dunamis power. Jesus said, I'm going to give you something extra you haven't got. Yeah, but Lord, we've done so many things. No, something you don't know about. A dynamic power to win the lost. Because you're not going to win the lost unless you have that dunamis power of God's Holy Spirit in your life. And you can rout the enemy with the power of God. And you can drive out devils in the name of Jesus to win people to the lost. You're not going to do it. You're going to be utterly ineffective. I don't know what your theology is, and it doesn't matter, but for me, it was a secondary experience. I was born again in a maximum security prison in 1985, where I had a 30-year prison sentence for five armed robberies, one of them a bank robbery. And I was lost, and Christ found me there. And I really gave my life to Christ. It's a long story that, that's another day's story. But I couldn't witness out of a thousand men in a maximum prison. It's Sodom and Gomorrah times three. You understand what I'm saying? I wasn't a good witness, you know? I'd argue with guys, or try to, and then if I can't win the argument, I win the fight. We're like, trying to talk to these guys, you're getting nowhere, and the guy's getting slim with you, you just put your Bible down, or listen, you know. The gang leader of the prison, his right-hand man, once pulled me aside like Hugh Constantine. He said, hey, Brute, you're supposed to be a Christian. You build a fence one day and you break it down the next day. He says, it shouldn't be like that. He's telling me how to be a Christian. He's not even a Christian. You know, because I couldn't convince anybody. You know, I just, you know, intellectually, these guys are clever, some of them. You know, they'll wrap you around their little finger in two seconds, and you're just like, okay, now, it's not gonna punch you in the nose or talk like that again. So, I just ran away from me, you know, so they thought there was some fanatic, you know? So, anyway, I knew that. Then I read a tract on what I'm telling you now, okay? Nothing new under the sun. And I read a tract, and I was, I talked to God about this, and I realized, I don't have this dunamispa. I'm not winning salts. We're making no difference whatsoever. And the cults in prison are immense and strong and well-trained. Can't believe it, you know? And I knew I didn't have that power. And when I read that, I said, God, I've got to have this. I was determined to have what God had promised us. You know, that I was determined by faith to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and to walk in the power of God. So I really prayed about it, you know, and I trusted God for it, you know, and then no bells rang and no whistles blew and, you know, I stood in, the only place you're ever alone is in the shower in the prison. And I stood there and I tried to talk in tongues and whatever. I didn't even know what I was doing, you know. I didn't feel any difference, but I was determined to receive this. You know, and nothing happened for about three days. But I walked as if I had the power. And then I was speaking to three guys in a workshop, some gangsters, you know, from Mayfair, and I'm speaking to them, you know, and suddenly I feel out of my belly's flowing rivers of living water. I feel like a river's running out of my belly. And what is going on? I know that's scripture. I feel the power of God in me, you know? These guys are stunned. I'm talking stuff that they're actually listening to me now. They're like looking and listening, and I'm going, what is going on? I can't believe what I'm feeling. And as I'm speaking, I'm speaking with power and not of my own strength. They rang the bell for us to go be searched, and I walked away. They were still standing and frozen in the same spot, like not moving. Something had changed and it did. We started to, I started to win souls. And the guy who was with me, who brought me to Christ, we started to walk in the power of God. And we started to win souls now without, you know, trying to force it, just talking to people about Christ. We had power now. People listened to us. We could overcome their arguments by faith. You know, we're so skilled at it. You know, we just, the guy's talking nonsense to you. You just actually don't even listen to him. You just wait till he's finished and by faith you answer him. And it's the right thing that comes out of you for that person. And he flattens his arguments. You think, I didn't even know what I just said. You know, I didn't even know that that was in the Bible. Some of the stuff we were saying. And we started to win souls and bring guys to Christ. So what strategies did I learn as a young Christian? 2 Timothy 2 verse 15. Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. You have to sharpen your weapons. When you get born again, you get a little sword, a little butter knife, and small shields. As you increase your faith, your shield grows. As you learn to use the word of God, your sword becomes great. You see, you start to grow. You come from a child and you start growing the things of the Lord until you become a mighty warrior of God, that God can deploy you in any battlefield, anywhere, under any situation, and we will crush the enemy. You understand? That's where we need to grow to. But too many Christians got little, little shields like this small, they hold them like this and a little butter knife, and they're trying to fight the legions of darkness. And what does the enemy attack you? Arrows. Ephesians 6, Psalm 91, raining arrows down on you, and a hail of arrows of defeat, discouragement, depression, suppression, everything just hits you as a Christian, and now you're totally useless again, wounded. We got no shield, we got no sword that's good enough to fight back. So I had to learn to read and study on different methods of evangelism, I had to do that. And then I tried to get knocked down. Believe me, don't worry about that. I tried and it flattened. And I'd have to go back and say, what did I do wrong now? And learn again and try again a different method, you know, until we started to find methods and situations that work. For example, the Way of the Master is fantastic in South Africa, where you've got like 70% of the population claiming to be Christian. But if you're talking to a no Christian who's never read the Bible and never heard the Ten Commandments, it's not going to work. You know, he's never heard it. Isn't that what you're talking about? We have to change tactic with that type of situation. In the army, there were boards that said, train hard, fight easy. You know, and we trained so hard for like a brutal year of training, you know, and the most brutal training, you never know mercy at Armageddon, getting crushed all the time. And you just think, you know, how much of this can I actually take? But you know, the next year when we fought the war, We lived. All of us got wounded. We lost no one in battle. We fought major battles in 1981 against Russian-backed forces because of our training. And it's the same as a Christian. You need to be highly trained in the things of God and meet principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual weakness in high places, because you will. You'll defeat the low-ranking demons, they'll send a higher one. You defeat them, they're going to send a higher one. Don't be afraid about it. When we see the enemy, we lock our shields down and we attack them. We don't wait for them to attack us. We charge the enemy. It was said of the Templar Knights, you know, that they were so well-trained and so full of faith that during the Crusades, when they'd see an army of 200 of them would be riding in companies, they'd see 50,000 Muslim soldiers, they'd just battle-charge them. They wouldn't even think about plans. They'd just turn towards them and go straight for them and defeat them. We've got to have that same heart in the Christian faith. You know, we are afraid of nothing. We fear naught but God. Nothing, animal, beast, human, nothing. We need to grow to that as Christians. We cannot have this weak insipid Christianity that's being shown to this world. Who wants to be a Christian? The Christians cry more at work and are more afraid of the future than the world. You've got no hope. You know, we're smoking, drinking. I remember when I used to smoke in prison, you know, and then Oak said to me one day, I think you need Christ more than me, actually. You need help. I don't smoke. I'm going now. You know, we can't blow our testimonies. We've got to be good examples. All right, okay, so we got to train hard, always training, always, you know, Dr. Hammond will do meetings or the previous church was in, I'd always go back to the training, the basic training again. I can teach it myself, but I constantly go back, do it again, do it again, do it again, retrain, regroup, recalibrate, nothing wrong with it. We constantly on the edge of the kingdom. We never growing slack. You look at the seals or any of those soldiers, they constantly retraining. When they're not fighting a mission, they back doing house clearing, training, redoing the training again. You know, you never stop training as a Christian. You keep on, you keep up in the top row fighting for the Lord. All right, number two, many who do street outreach tell people that Jesus loves you, and Dr. Hammond was speaking about that. Now, that's quite offensive to some men who don't want to be told that another man loves them, because that was me in the past. You know, you're telling me another man loves you, and I'm like going to punch you in the teeth now. You know, what are you talking about? I don't feel uncomfortable about that straight away. You don't know who God is. You don't know Jesus is God. You don't understand that. And here you're coming along and you think now you're going to make me say I love Jesus. No, it's actually offensive to a lot of men. And who is Jesus to them anyway? You know, Jesus loves you brother. It's like looking for a hiding nugget away. But the scripture actually says in John 3, 36, he that believes on the Son has everlasting life. And he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. Not the love of Christ. You're lying to that guy now in the street, that unsaved guy. You're lying to him. You know, rather tell him, do you know that the wrath of God is abiding on you? And if you die without Christ, you're going to go 57 days below our feet into the place of torment, and you're going to hell for eternity. Now you're telling him the truth, aren't you? That's the truth. Because you say Jesus loves you and he thinks and he looks at you and he goes, OK, well, now I'm really interested in another egg loving me. I'm going now, you know, and he walks on the corner and a car hits him and he gets he dies and he goes straight down to the place of torment. OK, and he's going to say, but you told me Jesus loves me. What am I doing here? If Jesus loves me, why am I in hell? It's madness. That's not what the Bible says. It says, not the love of God, the wrath of God abides on him that doesn't believe in the Son. That's what's abiding on him. Not anger, extreme anger of God. That's wrath. The extreme anger of God is upon you, but you can escape through Jesus Christ and what Jesus did for us. That's what we got to tell. Tell them the truth. Stop lying to the world. Making the gospel sound like it's a slow motion in the cornfields walk through the cornfields. You know? So we gotta tell people the truth, and we gotta witness correctly, or else we're getting these terrible Christians that come into the, they're not even born again. We have these Christians that are half believers, you know, waiting to see what God's gonna do for them now. I mean, have we lost our minds? Okay, so we've gotta start preaching the proper gospel. We found that when doing outreach, you know, some things we've learned from overseas preachers and Indonesian guys who used to work in the fields there and that, that when doing outreach, it's better to start a conversation with someone like this. Like, we'll go knock at the doors in Parklands on the worst blocks. We say, okay, where's the worst block we can go to? Ask Frankie. Frankie, I mean, we go, where's the worst block we gotta go to? We talk to the people, where's the worst block? I go, that one, all the drug lords are there. So that's where we go, yeah, why not? Let's go there. So we go in there, we're coming through the gates, and we go to doors and we knock on the doors, any door, knock on the door, say, hi, we're a Christian church, we're coming to pray for people, can we come pray for you guys? Nine out of 10 of people are gonna say yes. I'm talking mainly about the foreigners that have come over, okay, from Africa. Nine out of 10 people say, they're like, you say I'm a Christian church, we say Christian church so they don't think we're Jehovah's Witnesses. They say, yes, come inside. No, they can see they're in trouble. Everybody's in trouble. And when we come in there, say to them, are you Christians? They say, yes, but I'd say they're not Christians. There's no evidence of Christ there. There's no love, peace and joy in this person or righteousness in this person's life. You can just see they're absolutely terrified. They've got no job. They've got no money. They're living here. They don't know how they're going to survive. You know, and then I'll say to him, are you Christian? Everybody's a Christian. No, they're not. Don't assume people are Christians at all today. And then we lead them to Christ first. We explain to them how to give their lives to Christ. We're gonna talk about that just now. You know what I mean? And then they often cry pools of tears on the floor. They believe, but the devil believes and he's not gonna have it. Just because you believe, he's not gonna get you to heaven. Once they get properly saved, you see that utter conversion in their lives. You know, and one cried a pool of tears on the floor. You know, now they got saved. They've been hearing the gospel their whole life, never got saved. We're making a terrible mistake in the presentation of the gospel of Christ to this world. We've got to do it right. Okay, so we find it's very effective doing it like this. Even in the street, if you go in the street, and we do like McDonald's there in a table view where all the people are waiting for work. Do that, walk around, walk to people and say, can we come pray for you guys? Everybody says yes. They line up, and then you give them the gospel. And then you pray for them. And then we pray for miracles for them. We say, what do you really, you know, how can God really help you in your life at this time? And we've seen so many, the one little girl said to us, she's very poor. She says, I'm desperate to go to university. So we prayed, why not? We have the power of God. I didn't see her for a couple of weeks. And then we saw again, she came running to us. She says, I'm in university. I want to tell you that. One of them couldn't have a child. We prayed for the child, for the couple to have a child, and I didn't see them for years, actually, and I was back in that area again, and I knocked at that door, and I'd forgotten that I'd ever been there before, and they said to me, do you recognize us? And I said, no. And they said, come inside and look here, and they brought this little child, this toddler out, and they said, you prayed for us. We are, you know, now we're in church, we're serving God. We're a powerful church. We have the whole army of God behind us, all the resources of God behind us, and we have His name. You know, we can minister to a broken world. You know, we have that. They did a movie called The Men in Black once, I don't know if you remember. These were guys fighting against the aliens and they were like the special forces. We are the men in black. We fight the demons. We have the power of God. We have his name. We can bring answers in life everywhere we go. We take those words blocks. We start there, we get a couple of converts and we say to them, listen, we're gonna come and have a meeting on Tuesday night, is that okay? Bring your friends. And you come there and there's a couple of people there on Tuesday night. You're actually climbing over the guys fighting in the street out there, you know what I mean? That's how it starts. Then we start having a meeting there with a couple of them. And while you're talking, the door opens and the head comes and you say, come join us. And then when you next look, the whole room's full. And they're all giving their lives to the Lord. And then you've got to start two cells in the same building, again, the same complex. And then it's three, and then it's four, and they are packed. And then three weeks later, all the drug lords are gone or saved. And that you change the atmosphere of the entire blockyard. You change it. I want to tell you, those cell groups or something, those Wednesday night, I mean, you've got new Christians taken there because everything's going down. Witchcraft, everything's, all things are on the table here tonight. But we don't care. We've got the power of God. We have the answer of God. You're gonna see people healed. You're gonna see people delivered. You're gonna see people get born again. Everything, you're gonna pray for the sick, they're gonna get healed. You're gonna see all the power of the gospel in these frontline cells. You can start a church like it. You start one cell, two cell, three cell church. It's so easy. It's so easy. It's not hard, I'm telling you, none of this is hard. This world is dying, and they are afraid. You intend to win an argument on the street, don't do that. Take the power of God to them. Say, I want to pray for you and your family. Trust the Holy Spirit to help you, and you'll see some incredible things. All right, another aspect of everybody in the world that you're gonna meet, everybody in the entire world, okay, that you're gonna meet has a chink in their armor, a weakness, a fear. And if you understand that, and I'm not gonna use the word exploit it, but you can use it, everybody, okay? And there's no one on this earth that's complete. And if you address their problem, they're gonna listen to you. You can talk about any other junk to them, they're not going to listen. Touch their source port, they'll listen. The divorced woman who's crying there at work, and you come up to her and you say, can I pray with you? You know, I see you going through a really hard time. I've never, ever seen someone say no. Never. If you try to witness her before the divorce, she won't listen to you. But she's dying. So you go in that door. And I'm telling you, you've got minutes and you're leading it to Christ. He's weeping, they're crying, and you say, you know, we're gonna ask the Lord to help, you know, you want to put your trust in Jesus, whatever, don't get saved. You've got to look for, you know, we stopped this brazen attitude you got with people, you know, look for the weaknesses in them. Everybody has got a weakness or a fear. A tough soldier, some soldiers you can't talk to about the Lord. They don't want to listen to you. That's Christianity's sissy to them. So you've got to come with a different man. So like some are scared of ghosts, can you believe it? So now what am I going to talk to him about? I'm going to talk to him about ghosts and the power of Christ over the ghosts. Now I sit in there listening because you are addressing the greatest fear in his life. He's listening, he wants to know how to overcome it. You see, so everybody's, I mean, this world's terrified. So it's nice to talk to somebody a little bit before you pray for them, how are you doing, where are you going, try and find out what's happening. We were ministering to this young colored lady in her house, and she was duck, she wasn't listening, she was saying duck. Thin lips, mmm, bitter face, you know? And I said to the Lord in my heart, I said, Lord, what do I say to this woman? And then I just felt like saying to her, how's your son doing? When I said that, she felt, oh, he's lost, he's on drugs. Two minutes later, she's giving a life to God. I wasn't getting anywhere else. You see, the Holy Spirit knows. We got to work by the Spirit of God. You understand what I'm saying? And talk to people in the power of God and with the love of God. And I want to tell you, God will open, he will say things that will absolutely flatten them and you'll think, where did I even get that from? So everybody can be spoken to or touched. You understand what I'm saying? Not all will give their lives to Christ, but they will have an encounter with Christ through you that they will never forget. Maybe they only get saved later, but that's our job, is to bring them to that meeting, you know, that they find Christ, you know, that they can see Christ through you. All right, we should always have a sound bite. Okay, a quick reaction to any religion that's against Christ, where you just, sometimes you gotta just run your guns out and blast the enemy out the water. You know, they're getting clever now, and you're trying to witness, and they're disturbing everyone. You gotta be able to take it out. So you've got to find out what is your strongest opposition in the areas that you're going to. Is it maybe the Muslim faith or is it something else or another religion? You need to have a sound bite that can actually fix that situation very quickly, to stop their mouths sometimes. So one day, I went to go visit someone in our church, and a surprise visit, and they were having a braai, and there were a lot of people there, and the lady came and she said, I'm so glad you're here. We're getting taken out by this guy inside here, this atheist, this clever whatever he was, you know, he was just holding sway there in the party, you know, in the braai, at the braai area, you know? And so she said, I'm so glad you come, please come to help us, you know? So I went in there, and he's this real arrogant character, you know, and I said to him, can I ask you a question? He said, yeah. I said, how much of all knowledge do you have in this world? I see you're quite a clever guy, I said, you know, I can see he's clever. How much of all knowledge do you have? If all knowledge is 100%, like everything about every subject, okay, how much do you have? And he stayed, he sat there looking at me, and he thought, I think I've said maybe 10%, which is a big chunk, you know, that's a lot, you know. So I said to him, well, is it possible that God can live in the 90% you don't know about? And he was flattened. He looked like an absolute fool. Even his own wife said to him, now here's what you're going to say. Because he looked stupid. He didn't know what to say. He was absolutely flabbergasted. Because to say there's no God, you've got to travel from this part of the universe to the end, that way, this way, downwards, up, examine everything in the entire universe and come back and say, I've been everywhere in the world and there's no God. I mean, that's what you've got to do. That's what the fool has said in his heart. There's no God. You know, so, you know, it's a soundbite. It just stopped his mouth straight away. And that was him shut up for the rest of the night, you know? And, you know, for Muslims or two, you know, I've got lots of things that I'll say to Muslims, if things, if I need to deal with the situation, you know, I could say, how many miracles are there recorded in the Quran that Muhammad did? And they're not. They'll tell you that quite openly. So I said, how many did Jesus do? No, he did a lot. So I said, well, rather follow Jesus than Mohammed, then, doesn't it, do you think? I think that's a better deal. Because he's doing all the miracles, I'm going there. You know, little things like that, you know. So there are a lot of other ways you can do that. So you've got to find out, you know, Jehovah's Witnesses, you know, they don't believe in the power of God. You know, so I take it there. I said, Tim, listen to me now. Why don't you pray in the name of what your God you believe in? And then I'm going to pray in the name of Jesus. I'm going to cause that stinking devil right out of you in Jesus name. I said, why don't you pray for me first? They won't. No, they won't. No, they won't. He starts pushing the other one and says, let's go now, you know. We've just cleared the field. Now we can argue two hours about the Trinity, or we can argue on all the things that they are well-trained in because they have sound bites too. Just take him into the power of God, he's totally got no rudder. They have a form of godliness, but deny the power there. They don't have the power of God. So when you take in there, they're like swimming now, you know? And I say to them, listen, when you're sick, come see me. I'm going to pray for you in Jesus' name. Because there's always an older Jehovah's Witness and a younger one in the law, in their religion. So then they'll say, no, they're leaving now. I say, no, come back, come back. I want to pray for you guys. Let me pray for you. You can pray for me. You can pray whatever you like. They won't. I'll take them to Elijah's, to the power of God. And they cannot. War's won. Off they go. All right, so, you know, we've got to have soundbites. I went to, my friend of mine is running an underground church in Muscat in Oman, and he phoned me one day and he said, in 2014, whatever, and he said he's been running this underground church in Muscat and they're all backslidden. Can he pay for me to come up for a week to speak to the church? I said, sure, cool. I'm coming. Anyway, so in the lounge, because it was still very badly forbidden church there, you know, and people had to park down the road to come in and whatever. But anyway, the first day that I was there and I had the chance to speak to them, there were like nine nations in the room, they're all expats, you know, from different nations. But I hammered them, man, you know, so you've got to, you know, Charles Finney said that, you know, you find out the sin of the congregation you're going to, that's what you preach on the first night. What's that big sin there? Drinking, is it? Well, we're going to hammer you tonight, sir. We're going to bring that hammer down. Is it they're all wealthy and slack? Well, we're coming in there, that door now, you know what I mean? You come in through that door. So I went into Corinthians 5, 17. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, He's a new creature. Old things are passed away, all things have become new. And I said, if, are any of you actually saved yet? You know, you do nothing for Christ, you don't serve Him, apparently you don't come to meetings. Are you even saved, any one of you? Have any of you changed? And I gave them a hard message. And you know what, they all repented. Afterwards they all came forward and we committed their lives and we had a huge revival and that church grew very strong. But I'm saying you've got to find out the right thing to say. In Sri Lanka, you know, I was in Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka's Buddhists and Hindus in the north. I've never preached any of them. So we thought we were going there to be taught by other people how to do this. And when we got there, the guy just said to me, I'm not preaching. I said, who's preaching? He said, you are. I said, what are you talking about? I don't even know what's going on here. I've never spoken to a Buddhist in my life type of thing. Now I've got nothing. Okay. Dark night, we're walking through these, we come to these little places and there's some people there. I've got nothing. I've got nothing. I don't know what I'm going to say to them. Not a clue. Now, I'm doing what, I'm trusting the Holy Spirit. Because you can. You can talk to kings and rulers and not know what you're gonna say. Didn't God say that? So now I'm flying blind. I have no idea what I'm gonna say. And they've got all these people coming in from the dark, sitting there in the rain, it was a terrible situation. And then the translator said to me, okay, you can start now, I still don't know what I'm gonna say. But this is by faith. By faith, I stood up and I said, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He translated. And then I'd explain to them what happened in the garden and how we got thrown out the garden. And there'd been a terrible genocide in Sri Lanka in the north in 2011. The Buddhists had killed all the Hindus and raped all the women, okay, in 2011, which I didn't even know about. Yeah, these people are really damaged what's left. You know what I mean? And so I was sitting outside the garden, a tsunami had just hit the place. There was a boat stuck in the sand outside our hotel. You know what I mean? And I said, outside the garden, there were tsunamis, war, poverty, everything they're going through. But I didn't plan it. And then I said, you know, that we can be, have a relationship with God again, like it was in the garden. and through Jesus Christ. And then I said, they need to forsake all the other gods. And anyway, I presented the gospel. Well, they were not saved. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Then we went from there late at night to a Buddhist house, sorry, to a Hindu place. I didn't know what I was gonna say there. So they put me on the, there's a lot of people in this house. I tried to bring a message and they wouldn't listen to me. They just ignored me. They just carried on talking to each other. So the two ladies that were with me said, say what you said at the last meeting. So I said, hey, shut up. Everybody quiet. They kept going, they all looked at me. In the beginning, God created, I used the same thing. It worked like a bomb. Everybody goes, for two weeks, I had to preach the same message. I couldn't do it anymore. I was saying to the girls, I can't do it anymore. I've got to preach this. They said, no, no, no, no. You've got to do it. Because if I preach that message, we won everybody. It was crazy! The minute I deviated, they didn't listen to me. They just stopped listening to me. So God gives you the key. You need to have enough faith to step into the realm, even of the greatest intellectual that you can meet, and speak to him by faith. God will help you. God will help you. I'm telling you something and you will see how God deals with these people, you know, or convicts them or whatever, you know, and we've got to trust the Spirit of God. You have the same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead within you. You know, so who can stand against us? If God before us, who can stand against us? You know, and another thing, if you're in trouble, if you ever get into trouble, like it's going down now, the meeting's getting hectic, people are shouting at you and whatever, lift Jesus up. Whoever, you know, is lifted up, Jesus said he will draw him near to. It works like a bomb. You just say, sorry, I don't want to stop this argument now. Let me just tell you what Jesus did for me. Now, it's embarrassing to bare your soul like this. Your ears go red and your face goes red if you're like me. Because now you're talking like a person or something. Just can I tell you what Jesus Christ did for me and how he changed my life? And then I tell them what Jesus did for me and how he's changed my life. It's quite embarrassing to open yourself like that, but you're lifting his name. All your enemies collapse. All the whole fight collapses around you. Now they're either looking for a way out and thinking, I'm gonna get out of here, I can't hear this stuff, or they're listening. But it defeats all your enemies. If you tell them about Jesus, you lift Jesus' name up and you make him what he's done in your life, because no one can argue with your testimony. It's your testimony. Somebody said that about the Jehovah's Witnesses. They said to me, the Jehovah's Witnesses don't have a testimony. It's true. They'll tell you what day they joined the Jehovah's Witness, on that date. But there's no robbers, murderers, harlots amongst them. Have you noticed that? They go to all the nice houses and knock on the doors. They're not in prison, not there. Can't get any money out of the people. You know, they've got no testimonies of people that are utterly transformed by God, and that's another way of dropping them. Can I just tell you what Jesus Christ did for me? And they're in a zone that they don't want to be in, you know? So, testimonies, we've got to trust God. All right, I know I've got to stop soon. All right, so I love this testimony that I heard on the radio one day, and I heard it not in here at second hand, from a top gun pilot in America on CCFM. And he told a story that really impacted me and I use it everywhere. He says that one day he was on duty at an airport up in North America, whatever, with the latest fighter jets outside. Christian guy, loves God. And he said there was a lot of mists on the mountains outside and a Cessna plane got into trouble up in the mountains in the mists. He lost his instruments and he couldn't find the airport. He was terrified. He was saying, help me, please. I don't know where I am. I don't know where he's up, where he's down. I don't know where I am. I don't know where to land. And they said to this Top Gun pilot, they said, can't you just go fetch him in your, I think it was F-14s that day or whatever. So he just jumped into it and he said, I switched my plane on, went up, put my radar on, found him in the mist, came up, drove up next to him, throttled back, you know what I mean, waved to him on the radio, spoke to him and said, listen, I'm gonna put my lights on the back here, and then I'm gonna go in front of you and take you down to the airport. And he said he did that, and he brought the plane down safely, and the guy landed. And he said when the guy landed, he came and he hugged him, and he cried, and he said, thank you for saving my life. And the fighter pilot said that we should be, that is Christians, you need to be the state-of-the-art fighter plane that God can deploy anywhere, under any circumstances, under any conditions. You know, God should be able to take you, and there's a problem over there, and put you straight there, that you can sort that out. and know that you can sort that out. You have all the weapons of God, army of God, power of God will deal with it. How many Christians would say that? We're so afraid of the world. We have all the weapons and ability to fulfill God's will. I'll give you an example. This happened Tuesday night, this Tuesday. I'm working here in Mowbray and Longstreet. There's a school, mostly black kids, big school, hundreds of kids. We were working opposite the road, and I had my wife with me because I was going to take her to breakfast. I was just checking my sight. She was sitting in the car outside. I was inside. My phone rang. She said, you better come out here quickly. So I went outside there. And look, all these kids are standing on a wall of hundreds of kids. It's their break time. There's a woman manifesting here, a young girl, inside, slithering along the floor like a snake, screaming with, there's only one helper that they've got, the teacher out there with all these kids, trying to control this. This girl's going insane, screaming full of demons. The kids are, just a whole wall of hundreds of kids are standing there watching this, this going down. So I see the situation, you know, I think, well, how can I get in here to get in, to get to this girl? I'm trying to find a way through the fence, but there wasn't, I walked a little bit around the corner and wherever I'm going, this chick's going as well. So in the end, I thought, well, look, I can't get in here. So we are the state of the art fighter planes God can place in here. I rebuke that if I commanded to come out of him in Jesus' name in front of that whole playground, everybody standing there in Jesus' name to come out of that woman. Then she starts to go like a snake, you know what I mean? She's acting like a snake and that. And I say, I feel this great compassion that's not of me. come upon me. Supernatural compassion flow through me and I speak the name of Jesus and tell that thing to get out of it now. Boom! The thing gets out. She lands up on the floor in front of all these kids. It's like a huge light and darkness clashes. She lies on the floor. She's like knocked out, you know? Like Jesus had to go and pick somebody up, you know? Sometimes you're like knocked out, you know? And it's like the whole place is stunned. What has just happened here? You're absolutely asleep almost. So I say to, because I can't get in, I say to the woman, is there any Christians here? And somebody needs to go to that school sometimes, I'm telling you, I don't think there are many Christians. She said, I am a Christian, but you didn't look like one. She said, I said, pick her up. So she picked her up by the hand and she came back to life. And I said, we'll take her in, you know? And so they like picked her up. She wasn't stopped or manifestations. And then Christine said, my wife, she said she saw walking with a teacher back again. And we were gone and we left. I mean, we just, nobody said thank you or anything. Nobody acknowledged it. But we are God's people and he can deploy us in any situation, anywhere to deal with the enemy. And so the world needs powerful Christians that are not bound by sin or afraid and have terrible fear in you and are fully equipped to defeat the enemy and drive him from the battlefield to fulfill God's will. We need warrior Christians in these last days. And we are to be enforcers of Christ's victory on earth. Christ won the victory. Demons are rebels. And they take back the areas that we've already won. And they're only taking back because we're letting them. You know, and we need to do something about it. The darkness should fear us, not us fear the darkness. You need to be that Christian that walks into a room that every devil tries to get out the room. Doesn't make fun of you and say, look at the Christian that's funny Christian that's coming here and they're all laughing at you. The presence of God needs to enter into that room. All of them should say, we ambassadors of the kingdom. We are ambassadors of the greatest kingdom that will never be destroyed, you and I. We carry God's authority and power, and the armies of God behind us, resources of God are behind us everywhere we go. When you walk in a room, every devil should be saying, I'm getting out of here, and they get out. Not the other way around. Okay, so quickly, problems with leading a person to Christ. The emphasis must be to place our trust in Christ, repent and accept that Jesus Christ is Lord of our lives. We've seen way too many Christians where Christ is not Lord of them. It's easy to believe. The devil believes. You're not going to heaven. You can't, you know, Romans 10 verse nine in the King James says this, and I say King James, it doesn't say it in all the translations, but it says it correctly, that if we shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, it doesn't say if you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, because people that accept Jesus as Savior and not as Lord will say Jesus Christ is a cruel oak. Jesus Christ is Lord, but He's not Lord of them. Am I right? God, they go do whatever they want. They live their lives like they like. They don't go to church, they don't do this, they don't do that, but they believe in Jesus and speak well of Him. They're as lost as the prostitute that walks the streets at night. Because without Christ being Lord of you, you're not His. You are Lord of your life. So if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart, God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. You've got to have those two things. And I think because I was an ex-soldier when I heard this, I understood that. That when I gave my life to Christ, it's His now. I own nothing. I've got nothing. I belong lock, stock, and two smoking barrels to the Lord. And so does your business, and so does your family, and so does everything that pertains to you belong to Christ. And we are not preaching that anymore. So we've got guys that think they can do, listen to the music they want to, go down to the local tattoo shop and get some tattoos, when your body belongs lock, stock and barrel to Christ. And to go to the tattoo shop, you've got to have Christ then sitting next to you saying, hey, Brie, that's a better tattoo you got on you over there. We lost our minds. You know, who thought that we could do what we want? You know, everything to the glory of God. You know, we've literally got one or two tattoo places in our area, one of them's called the skull box, and the other one's called the hell something. And that's where the Christians are gonna get their tattoos. I mean, have we lost our minds? How did we not understand the gospel? You know, your life for his life, for your life. He gave his life to buy your life, lock, stock, and barrel. You are His, we are owned by Him. If Christ tells me tomorrow, you're off to the jungles of Bornea, I don't even have to, we go. It's just obedience. He says, go to the deepest, darkest Africa, you go. You don't even look twice. Don't think about it. Think about it. He's going to do what the Lord tells you to do. How have we not understood that's the Lordship of Christ in our life? Doesn't Jesus say, many call me Lord, Lord in that day. And you'll say he never knew them. I mean, because you don't listen to it. You know, and so we've got to, you know, when people come to Christ, we've got to let them understand that when they confess their mouth with their mouth, the Lord Jesus, that they're confessing that Christ is Lord of them. And you often lose people right there. They don't want to. But I'm not going to compromise. You know, but they know now. You know, they'll walk away and they'll know how to be saved. Don't try and make things easy for people. Else we've got this terrible Christian church nowadays where people are not born again and people are lost and they don't know they're lost. You know, and we've got to be careful about that. Another problem quickly is that we witness without closing the deal. I think Peter spoke about that as well. When you're witnessing to someone, you're talking to them. How do you know if the Holy Spirit's working? There's an immediate change in that person. There's a softness on them. They're listening to you. They're listening to every word you're saying. They're often emotional. God's got them. The Spirit of God's got them. But now what we do is we say to them, okay, I'll see you at church on Sunday. The devil's taken them out before they get there. They didn't come to church on Sunday. You've got to close the deal now. Take them to Christ now. If they're in a public place, say, can we, can I go pray with you over here? And then you lead them to Lord now. It's a big mistake Christians are making, you know? Okay, I'll invite him to cell group the next day. The devil steals that word out their hearts. You know what I mean? So we need to close up. You don't know how much trouble God, the Holy Spirit, and the angels of God have got to get to that person to you at that time. How many things have happened behind the scenes to get that person to you? You know? And will you take them home? Can God trust you to take you to the whole job? Or are you going to drop the ball? And I've dropped the ball before, so I'm not pointing fingers at all of us. We learn. You know, we learn not to do that. take the person to Christ, you know? And there are many ways of doing that, and you can look it up. I'm not gonna go through it, because I think our time's marching now. The Romans' Road to Salvation, where you can, you take Romans 3.23, you mark it as number one in your Bible, and that goes on to Romans 10.18, and that goes to Romans 6.23, and you can lead them through the steps of the Roman road. You can download it off the internet. Okay, keep it in your Bible on how to lead somebody to Christ. And it's very effective and very good. But as I say, we need to make that challenge to people and bring them to Christ. And go expecting to lead people to Christ. I mean, we do, it's so funny. We take people, our first time outreachers sometimes, and people are nervous, but in a couple of minutes, you can learn how to do it. And then it's not hard. And people get saved. So I'm convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither presence nor the future, nor any past, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus Christ our Lord. And you pray with that person, you bring them in. All right, I'm gonna end with this. Ask God for a heart for the lost. And I think it was a song that said, as we look all around us, all the fields are ripe. They ripened unto harvest, yet so quickly comes the night. Christian must get busy, there's so much work to do. Here's an urgent task awaiting you. Souls are crying, men are dying. Won't you lead them to the cross? Go and find them, please help to win them, win the lost at any cost. Check your fold, my Christian brother, see if all your children are in. Are there some still straying in the blackened fields of sin? You must go out and win them, go quickly without delay. Soon the trump of God shall end the day. Go out and win, rescue from sin. Day's almost done, battle's almost won. Souls are crying, men are dying. Win the lost at any cost. And somebody said, God will cross a million men to find one person, one person that will step up because the laborers are few and the harvest is ready.