Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope with Rick Warren.
Speaker 1: We are so glad you're here with us today. We're
Speaker 1: going to continue our series called The Keys to a
Speaker 1: Blessed Life. And in these messages, Rick walks through Jesus'
Speaker 1: Sermon on the Mount and shows us how to live
Speaker 1: a truly hopeful and purpose filled life. All right, now,
Speaker 1: here's the final part of the message, your ministry of mercy.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a famous story about President Abraham Lincoln's
Speaker 2: mercy that after the Southern States were defeated by the
Speaker 2: Northern States in the Civil War in America one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty years ago, President Lincoln spoke to a crowd
Speaker 2: in Washington, d c. From the balcony of the White House,
Speaker 2: and he was laying out how his plan for reconstruction.
Speaker 2: And at the end of his speech, a very famous
Speaker 2: senator from Iowa, whose name was James Harlan, shouted out, and.
Speaker 3: What do we do with the rebels?
Speaker 2: What do we do with these confederates who had started
Speaker 2: this whole war in the first place. And the unmerciful
Speaker 2: crowd shouted back, hang them, hang them, hang them. And
Speaker 2: what was interesting and this famous story is that Lincoln's
Speaker 2: youngest son, Tad, who was at eleven at the time,
Speaker 2: was standing next to him and he said, looked up
Speaker 2: at his daddy. He said, no, Daddy, no, Papa, no,
Speaker 2: not hang them, hang on to them, hang on to them.
Speaker 2: And Lincoln grinned at his eleven year old son and
Speaker 2: he said, that's it to Tad's got the answer. We're
Speaker 2: not going to hang them. We're going to hang on
Speaker 2: to them. And that is mercy number five. A fifth
Speaker 2: way to show mercy is to be kind. The Bible says,
Speaker 2: to those who offend me, be kind to those who me.
Speaker 2: You have probably noticed that the verbal attacks on Christians
Speaker 2: are going up in our society.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed this?
Speaker 2: And it's increasing, and people are taking slurs at Christians
Speaker 2: and potshots at Christians and being attacked.
Speaker 3: Like never a foreign America.
Speaker 2: And there are a lot of groups pushing anti Christian
Speaker 2: agendas today because we represent a barrier, and the barrier
Speaker 2: is we hold on to what God's truth is, and
Speaker 2: we say, sorry, God's truth is God's truth, and we
Speaker 2: just have to follow God's truth. As Peter said, we
Speaker 2: must obey God rather than men. And so these attacks
Speaker 2: are going up.
Speaker 3: What are you supposed to do with these people, these people.
Speaker 2: Who are offensive. I remember turning on the TV one
Speaker 2: time and hearing a well known comic, well known comic
Speaker 2: using very blasphemous and very vulgar terms as he read
Speaker 2: through the purpose Driven Life and made fun of God,
Speaker 2: not of me, but of God. And I sat there
Speaker 2: and I thought, now, Lord, what what would be my
Speaker 2: response to this guy? Because you know, obviously he's not
Speaker 2: hurting me, but he certainly is offending you. And and
Speaker 2: it just came in to me. I am to be
Speaker 2: kind to those who are offensive.
Speaker 3: You see.
Speaker 2: The problem today is this whole idea of culture war
Speaker 2: is you got to decide whether you want to win
Speaker 2: the argument or win them to Christ. And you've heard
Speaker 2: me say this, for you can't. You don't ever make
Speaker 2: a point, you don't get across your point by being cross.
Speaker 3: You've got to You've got to just say.
Speaker 2: I'm more interested in winning them to Christ than I
Speaker 2: am in winning the argument. Let me give you an
Speaker 2: example of why we ought to be kind to those
Speaker 2: who offend us. One Timothy, Chapter one, Paul gives his
Speaker 2: own life as an example. Even though I once was
Speaker 2: a blasphemer there are plenty of those in our world,
Speaker 2: and a persecutor of Christians and a violent man. He said,
Speaker 2: I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.
Speaker 2: That's the key. Realize they're acting in ignorance and unbelief.
Speaker 2: I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst
Speaker 2: of sinners, Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an
Speaker 2: example for others who would believe on him and.
Speaker 3: Receive eternal life.
Speaker 2: You see, if you'd lived in Paul's days, you probably
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to be very interested in being kind to
Speaker 2: those who offend you. You wouldn't be interested in being
Speaker 2: kind to Paul. He was persecuting Christians, he was attacking Christians,
Speaker 2: he was throwing Christians in jail. And that he said,
Speaker 2: I was shown mercy so that I could come to
Speaker 2: Christ and then my life would be an example to others.
Speaker 2: Jude Chapter one makes it even clearer Verse twenty two
Speaker 2: to twenty three, show mercy to those who have doubts,
Speaker 2: and really some translation, they show those who disbelieve he's
Speaker 2: talking about. He can say, show mercy the atheists, show
Speaker 2: mercy to those who have doubts. Save others by snatching
Speaker 2: them from the fire. One more for Jesus, show mercy
Speaker 2: to them while being careful that you aren't contaminated by
Speaker 2: their sins. In other words, we're to avoid sin, but
Speaker 2: we are to love everybody. That's the way we show mercy.
Speaker 2: Now let me give you two more. And these last
Speaker 2: two you have probably never ever considered as acts of mercy,
Speaker 2: but Jesus taught that they were acts of mercy, and
Speaker 2: even quote Sosaiah six to six and both saying, the
Speaker 2: reason you don't get this is keys. You don't understand
Speaker 2: the full meaning of mercy. So let me give you
Speaker 2: two more. A sixth way that you can practice your
Speaker 2: ministry of mercy this week is this, build bridges of
Speaker 2: love to the unpopular. Build bridges of love to the unpopular.
Speaker 2: There are people in your circle, people who live on
Speaker 2: your street that nobody wants to hang out with, people
Speaker 2: who you work with that everybody tells the joke behind
Speaker 2: their back. They may have those quirks, or they may
Speaker 2: have a different lifestyle, or they may have a different
Speaker 2: belief system, or they may have a different religion, or
Speaker 2: they may dress differently because of their culture or whatever.
Speaker 2: But they're not on the in crowd. They're not popular,
Speaker 2: they're the outcast. And this is a facet of your
Speaker 2: ministry that's often overlooked. Building a bridge of love to
Speaker 2: the unpopular is what I call premeditated mercy. Now, you
Speaker 2: often think when I say premeditated, you think a premeditated murder.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying premeditated mercy involves intentionally building friendships with
Speaker 2: people people who don't have friends, and intentionally building friendship
Speaker 2: with people who are unbelievers, And intentionally building friendships with
Speaker 2: people who seem on the edge or are not as
Speaker 2: loved or as accepted in the mainstream because of their religion,
Speaker 2: their lifestyle, their looks, or whatever. Now, why does God
Speaker 2: want us to build bridges of love to the unpopular
Speaker 2: and specifically to unbelievers. Because you cannot win your enemies
Speaker 2: to Christ. You can only win your friends. And before
Speaker 2: somebody's going to accept Christ, they've got to have a
Speaker 2: bridge to Christ. And before they want to know is
Speaker 2: Jesus credible? They want to know are you credible? And
Speaker 2: before they know Jesus is their friend, they want to know,
Speaker 2: will you be my friend? And long before anybody comes
Speaker 2: to Christ, somebody's got to befriend that person. You cannot
Speaker 2: win an enemy to Christ. You must win them to yourself.
Speaker 2: Before you win them to Christ, she must become a friend.
Speaker 2: That's an act of premeditated mercy.
Speaker 3: Here's a good example of it. Matthew.
Speaker 2: Chapter nine the Bible says Matthew, who is one of
Speaker 2: the twelve Disciples, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to
Speaker 2: be his dinner guest.
Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: But then it says, along with his fellow tax collectors
Speaker 2: and many other notorious sinners. Now, if you're in the irs,
Speaker 2: I apologize to you.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit different today. You may be unpopular,
Speaker 2: but you aren't a notorious sinner if you are a
Speaker 2: tax collector. But in those days, here's why tax collectors
Speaker 2: were considered notorious sinners. They were allowed to skim whatever
Speaker 2: they could get. So a tax collector, for Rome could
Speaker 2: come in and say, you know, Caesar would say I
Speaker 2: want one denari from every household, and the tax collector
Speaker 2: could come in and say I need tendinary from you,
Speaker 2: and you had no recourse. There was nobody to appeal to.
Speaker 2: You had to pay it. It was like extortion. Then
Speaker 2: he could pocket nine and pass on one, and so
Speaker 2: the worst job, the most unpopular job, because they were
Speaker 2: all cheats.
Speaker 3: They were crooks.
Speaker 2: There were swindlers, were the tax collectors, and they were
Speaker 2: right out there along with you know, prostitutes and lepers.
Speaker 2: And they didn't have drug pushers in those days, but
Speaker 2: that kind of level of people that everybody despised. So
Speaker 2: it says Matthew invites Jesus and his disciples to his
Speaker 2: dinner as his dinner guest, along with all of these
Speaker 2: people of the ill repute, his fellow tax collectors, and
Speaker 2: many other notorious sinners. The Pharisees, that's the religious leaders.
Speaker 2: They were indignant. Why does your teacher eat with such scum,
Speaker 2: they asked his disciples. And when he heard this, Jesus replied,
Speaker 2: healthy people don't need a doctor.
Speaker 3: Sick people do.
Speaker 2: Go learn the meaning of this scripture, and he quotes
Speaker 2: HOSEA six six.
Speaker 3: I want you to be merciful.
Speaker 2: I don't want your sacrifices, for I've come to call sinners,
Speaker 2: not those who think they're already good enough. Now follow
Speaker 2: me on the logic. On this, the Pharisees are attacking
Speaker 2: Jesus for hanging out with the wrong crowd. And Jesus says,
Speaker 2: you know what your problem is, guys, you don't understand
Speaker 2: the true nature of mercy. Why because they thought mercy
Speaker 2: was simply forgiving people and helping people who need help.
Speaker 3: No, no, forget.
Speaker 2: Mercy also includes building bridges of love to the unpopular.
Speaker 2: And Jesus says it here. He says, I'm going to
Speaker 2: a party, and I'm going to a party with people
Speaker 2: that nobody wants to hang out with, the ill repute,
Speaker 2: the unpopular, the fringe, the negative, the criminals, the riff raft.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to a party. Jesus says, why
Speaker 2: because I understand mercy and you don't. And you don't,
Speaker 2: and he says, go learn the meaning of Hosea.
Speaker 3: Six to six.
Speaker 2: Now, I want you to notice this because it's got
Speaker 2: a lot of truth in here. It says Matthew invited circle.
Speaker 2: That word invited. Question, when was the last time you
Speaker 2: invited unbelievers for dinner? That's an act of mercy. When
Speaker 2: was the last time you invited? Have you ever had
Speaker 2: any notorious sinners in your home.
Speaker 3: Besides you? Besides you?
Speaker 2: You want to be merciful. Now we're getting where the
Speaker 2: rubber meets the road. Do you even have any close
Speaker 2: unbelieving friends?
Speaker 3: Do you? If you don't, you're not like Jesus. The
Speaker 3: problem is, the.
Speaker 2: Longer you are a Christian, the more you tend to
Speaker 2: hang out with other Christians, and the fewer non believing
Speaker 2: friends you have.
Speaker 3: How do you expect the good news to get out.
Speaker 2: If you don't have any friends who are unbelievers and
Speaker 2: you're not inviting them over for dinner. If you're not,
Speaker 2: you don't understand what mercy is all about. Jesus says,
Speaker 2: go learn the scriptures.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Notice it says Matthew invites these quote riff raft, these unpopular,
Speaker 2: the non loved people of society over for dinner, and
Speaker 2: it says the religious people are indignant.
Speaker 3: I want to warn you.
Speaker 2: That if you truly listen, if you truly begin to
Speaker 2: live a life of mercy, the moral and the political
Speaker 2: legalists will criticize you. They will attack you, and they
Speaker 2: will get mad at you. Why they did with Jesus.
Speaker 2: It wasn't It wasn't the riff raff of life that
Speaker 2: disliked Jesus. It was the religious people because he hung
Speaker 2: out with the wrong crowd. It's like a Democrat hanging
Speaker 2: out with Republicans, or a Republican actually having Democratic friends
Speaker 2: for dinner, or another religion or another lifestyle, or someone
Speaker 2: who is involved in some kind of sin you totally
Speaker 2: disagree with. If you begin to live a life of mercy,
Speaker 2: you will be criticized. This is a motivation behind much
Speaker 2: of the criticism that I get. Why because I make
Speaker 2: friends with a lot of different people. I have friends
Speaker 2: who are Muslims, and I have friends who are Jewish
Speaker 2: and Mormon and Buddhists. I have friends who are atheists.
Speaker 2: I have friends who are gay. I have friends who
Speaker 2: are all kinds. I spend when I'm not at Saddleback,
Speaker 2: I spend most of my time usually speaking to groups
Speaker 2: that I totally disagree with. Why Because I'm practicing the
Speaker 2: ministry of mercy, and Jesus hung out with people who
Speaker 2: were different than him. This is the motivation. Now they've
Speaker 2: come to him. The Pharisee said, why do you hang
Speaker 2: out with this scum? You know, let me ask you
Speaker 2: who's the socially unacceptable group in your circle?
Speaker 3: By the way, they called him scum.
Speaker 2: Anytime you use a put down or humor against somebody else,
Speaker 2: you are being unmerciful. Now, Jesus wasn't afraid of guilt
Speaker 2: by association for two reasons.
Speaker 3: He knew who he was, and he knew what his
Speaker 3: mission was. He knewho he was.
Speaker 2: He didn't need the approval of pharisees. He knew exactly
Speaker 2: who he was, and he knew his mission to seek
Speaker 2: and to save that which is lost. And if you
Speaker 2: know who you are, you don't need the approval of
Speaker 2: the legalist. You don't need the approval of the critics.
Speaker 2: You don't need the approval of the self righteous who
Speaker 2: set them out as jury and judge on your life.
Speaker 2: You do what Jesus did. You go have parties with
Speaker 2: people in order to win them and love them and
Speaker 2: share the good news and show mercy. And Jesus says
Speaker 2: to all these guys, go learn the meaning of mercy.
Speaker 2: When they accuse him of guilt by association. Then number
Speaker 2: seven one more, And this one's going to surprise you too.
Speaker 2: Jesus taught that to have a ministry of mercy, you
Speaker 2: must value relationships over rules. You must value relationships over rules. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're a rule keeper, that just creates all the
Speaker 2: wrong ways, And particularly if you're in the HR department,
Speaker 2: and you have policies and procedures. Jesus would say, put
Speaker 2: people before policies, put people's needs before procedures, put relationships
Speaker 2: before rules and regulations. He would say, choose love over law.
Speaker 2: Let me give you a very important and sightful incident
Speaker 2: Matthew chapter By the way, look at this verse up
Speaker 2: on the screen. Romans twelve thirteen ten says love is
Speaker 2: the fulfillment.
Speaker 3: Of the law.
Speaker 2: So if you're doing the loving thing, it's genuinely for
Speaker 2: their benefit, not yours. For their benefit, you're doing the
Speaker 2: right thing. Now look at Matthew chapter twelve. Here's another
Speaker 2: time Jesus has a run in with the legalist Pharisees.
Speaker 2: Another time, Jesus was talking walking through some grain fields
Speaker 2: on the Sabbath, and his disciples were hungry, so they
Speaker 2: began to pick some grain and eat it. Now some
Speaker 2: Pharisees saw this, these religious leaders, and they protested, your
Speaker 2: disciples are breaking God's laws by harvesting grain on the Sabbath. Okay,
Speaker 2: they're rule keepers, But Jesus said, haven't you ever read
Speaker 2: what King David did when he and his soldiers were hungry.
Speaker 2: He went into the house of God. That's the temple,
Speaker 2: and there he ate the holy bread, the consecrated.
Speaker 3: Bread reserved for the priest.
Speaker 2: Then Jesus says to the Pharisees, you would not have
Speaker 2: judged these innocent men talking about his disciples if you
Speaker 2: knew the real meaning of scripture.
Speaker 3: I want you to be merciful. I don't want your sacrifices.
Speaker 2: There it is again, he quotes Hosiah six six for
Speaker 2: the second time, for I am the Lord of the Sabbath.
Speaker 3: Now get this.
Speaker 2: The Pharisees come and say, you're disciples are breaking the law.
Speaker 3: The Jewish law.
Speaker 2: Says you can't harvest grain on the Sabbath, and they're
Speaker 2: harvesting grain.
Speaker 3: And Jesus said, wait a minute, they're hungry. They're hungry.
Speaker 2: I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made
Speaker 2: for man, not man for the Sabbath. And he's saying, here,
Speaker 2: I put love before the law. I put people before procedures.
Speaker 2: I put relationships before rules and regulation. He says, you
Speaker 2: guys don't get it because you don't understand the meaning
Speaker 2: of mercy. He says, I want you to go and
Speaker 2: read that scripture. If you knew the real meaning of
Speaker 2: the scripture. I don't want your sacrifice, I want your mercy.
Speaker 2: Then you wouldn't have a problem with the disciples picking
Speaker 2: some grain on the Sabbath.
Speaker 3: They're hungry.
Speaker 2: I want to dare you to do something very risky
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 3: Not pitt gran on the Sabbath.
Speaker 2: But I want to dare you to commit an act
Speaker 2: of premeditated mercy with one of these categories. Yes there
Speaker 2: is at tension. Yes there is a tension between mercy
Speaker 2: and personal responsibility.
Speaker 3: Yes there is. But I have personally decided that if
Speaker 3: I'm going to air, I'm going to err on.
Speaker 2: The side of being too gracious, too merciful, and too forgiving,
Speaker 2: because if you're going to air, that's the side I
Speaker 2: would rather err on. Does that make sense? Let me see,
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Rick, can you go? Can't you just
Speaker 2: go overboard on mercy? Absolutely you can. Jesus did. It's
Speaker 2: called the cross. On the cross with arms outstretched, he says,
Speaker 2: I'm doing this to be merciful, Father, forgive of them.
Speaker 2: They don't know what they're doing. That is the most
Speaker 2: over the top example of mercy ever. He let them
Speaker 2: beat him, whip him, scourge him, spit on him, put
Speaker 2: a crown of thorns on him, and he never retaliated.
Speaker 2: He absorbed every one of the blows. And then what's
Speaker 2: his response?
Speaker 3: Father?
Speaker 2: Forgive them? They don't know what they're doing. Like Paul says,
Speaker 2: I was ignorant and unaware of what I was doing.
Speaker 2: Can you go overboard on mercy? Yes, you can look
Speaker 2: at the cross. It's way way way overboard. Maybe you've
Speaker 2: never accepted God's mercy to you. The Bible saysn't tied
Speaker 2: us three five. It is not by works of righteousness
Speaker 2: as we have done. We talked about that last week.
Speaker 2: But according to his mercy, he has saved us, the
Speaker 2: Bible tells us in Hebrews four sixteen. Let us approach
Speaker 2: the throne of Grace with confidence, for there we will
Speaker 2: find mercy, mercy, and grace to help us in our
Speaker 2: time of need. If you haven't accepted the grace and mercy.
Speaker 3: Of God, you need to do so today. Now.
Speaker 2: I want us to close a little bit different way today.
Speaker 2: I want you to bow your heads right now, but
Speaker 2: I want you to keep your eyes open. Okay, So
Speaker 2: if you'll bow your head and keep your eyes open,
Speaker 2: so you can look at your message, notes. And what
Speaker 2: I want to do is I want to end by
Speaker 2: asking you to consider some personal application questions and then
Speaker 2: doing something about it. In these seven areas of how
Speaker 2: do I be merciful? So I'm going to ask you
Speaker 2: a question, and next to each of these numbers, I
Speaker 2: want you to write down an initial, just the first
Speaker 2: initial of a person that you're thinking about. Okay, so
Speaker 2: number one, how do I be merciful? Be patient with
Speaker 2: people's quirks? I want you to write down who has
Speaker 2: irritating quirks that I need to be patient with this week? Now,
Speaker 2: nobody's going to see this except you, but you can
Speaker 2: just write down the first letter of their name. Who
Speaker 2: has irritating quirks that I need to be patient with
Speaker 2: this week?
Speaker 3: Write down a name?
Speaker 2: Number two, who around me is obviously hurting that I
Speaker 2: could help this week?
Speaker 3: Can you write down a name? Can you write down
Speaker 3: an initial?
Speaker 2: If you can't think of anybody who's obviously hurting around,
Speaker 2: it means this you're not paying attention. It means you're
Speaker 2: so wrapped up in yourself you can't even see the
Speaker 2: people around you who are hurting. Okay, how about number three?
Speaker 2: The third one? Give people a second chance. Who do
Speaker 2: I need to give a second chance to. This may
Speaker 2: be tough for you, but this is the ministry of mercy.
Speaker 2: Who do I need to give a second chance? To
Speaker 2: write down an initial, first initial of somebody. You can
Speaker 2: use this later on this week. Number four, do good
Speaker 2: to those who hurt me? Who has hurt me? That
Speaker 2: I could do good too? Who has hurt me that
Speaker 2: I could do good to? Number five, I am to
Speaker 2: be kind to those who offend me. Who offends me?
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a comedian, maybe it's a politician, Maybe it's somebody.
Speaker 2: But you can write down a name, maybe somebody close
Speaker 2: to you, who offends me that I should start praying for.
Speaker 2: Who offends me that I should start praying for rather
Speaker 2: than just being offended by them. Maybe if you're close enough,
Speaker 2: you could be kind to them. Number six build bridges
Speaker 2: of love to the unpopular.
Speaker 3: Who's the outcast?
Speaker 2: Who's the unpopular person that I could build a bridge
Speaker 2: of love to? Who is the outcast or unpopular person
Speaker 2: I could build a bridge of love to at work
Speaker 2: in my community, at the soccer games, here, at church anywhere.
Speaker 2: And then number seven, who is an unbeliever I could
Speaker 2: invite over for dinner in the next two weeks, just
Speaker 2: like Matthew did. Who's an unbeliever that I could invite
Speaker 2: over for dinner in the next couple weeks and then invite
Speaker 2: them to church. This, friends, is your ministry of mercy heaven.
Speaker 2: They Father, Your word convicts all of us. And as
Speaker 2: I look at these seven things, I think of lax
Speaker 2: and faults. Weakness is in my own life. And I
Speaker 2: pray that rather than just hearing the word, we would
Speaker 2: do something about it. Give us the courage to be merciful,
Speaker 2: Give us the courage to this week to do radical,
Speaker 2: premeditated acts of mercy in Jesus' name.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 1: Such a great message from Pastor Rick today, and I
Speaker 1: hope you were just as encouraged as I was. Once again,
Speaker 1: here's Rick.
Speaker 3: Hello everybody.
Speaker 2: This is Rick and I have just returned from Amsterdam
Speaker 2: where I was at a conference where we had over
Speaker 2: six thousand church leaders pastors from all.
Speaker 3: Around the world.
Speaker 2: Literally one hundred and forty nations came to Amsterdam for
Speaker 2: a week of training where we were teaching them about
Speaker 2: the good news of Jesus Christ and more important, how
Speaker 2: to share the good news of Jesus Christ and help
Speaker 2: finishing the task around the world in the next ten years.
Speaker 2: That is the goal to get the gospel to every
Speaker 2: person in the world in the next ten years, by
Speaker 2: twenty thirty three, which is the two thousandth birthday of Christianity.
Speaker 2: And you know what was the most exciting to me
Speaker 2: is that people came to me from all around the world.
Speaker 2: Like I said, one hundred and forty nations and said,
Speaker 2: I listened to Daily Hope every day in Kazakhstan, in Bhutan,
Speaker 2: in Bolivia, in Namibia, on every continent. I heard time
Speaker 2: and time again, Pastor Rick, the Word of God is
Speaker 2: changing my life. Friends, That's what Daily Hope is all about.
Speaker 2: And for me, since I get your letters and I
Speaker 2: love to read your letters and I love to hear
Speaker 2: your stories, but to be face to face with about
Speaker 2: six thousand people who were listening to Daily Hope on
Speaker 2: a regular basis and hearing how it's changed their lives
Speaker 2: and influence their ministries, it just makes me want to say,
Speaker 2: to all of you who pray for this ministry and
Speaker 2: all of you who support this ministry, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you, thank you for your prayers, for
Speaker 2: your gifts, for your support you're making a difference. When
Speaker 2: you get to heaven. You're going to meet people in
Speaker 2: heaven who've come to Christ because you prayed and because
Speaker 2: you gave.
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