Living in the Light of Eternity

Number three, implement decisions now. Take the actions and decisions you know are right and implement them in your life right now. Do not wait for some big revelation to appear to you in the night sky. Right now, begin to sacrifice, pray, fast, witness, repent, ask for forgiveness from others when you wrong them, whatever you know God has told you to do. As you walk with him, he will reveal more truths to you and shed more light on your path. The place to begin, as I said, is the word of God. But start right now to implement the meaning of the cross in your life. We're all at different places in our walks with the Lord. Something the Lord has called me to deny in my life may mean nothing to you. What you must do is take the knowledge the Lord has given you and do what you know to be the right thing. Number four, say no to your culture. Whenever the culture around you hinders your obedience to the voice of God and what he has shown you in his word, say no to it, no matter how impossible this seems. Daniel and his friends were taken captive into Babylon and offered the king's rich food as their daily provision. It was considered an honor to eat the king's food and drink his wine. The first portion of both had been offered on a pagan altar and animals were used that were ceremonially unclean. Daniel had every reason to say to himself, I'm in Babylon now and my captivity has not happened without God's knowledge. There's nothing wrong with eating and drinking what is set before me. But Daniel had a revelation that went beyond the culture in which he lived and he chose to remain true to that which God had revealed rather than to the culture. Daniel chapter one verse eight says, Daniel resolved not to defile himself. We must not conform to our culture if our obedience to the Lord is jeopardized in the process. We and not the culture in which we live bear the responsibility for our walk with the Lord. At the same time, every culture perceives needs differently. In India, for example, you rarely see pews or chairs in a local church. We sit on the floor to worship. It's part of the culture. In the West, we sit in pews or on chairs. Again, it is part of the culture. Floors or pews, neither is more spiritual. It is simply a matter of culture. Imagine for a moment that the leadership of a Western church decides that regular pews are not good enough but must be replaced with individual cushioned reclining rockers for more comfort. Now, that does seem a little outrageous. There's nothing wrong with worshiping God sitting in a pew, but there is no need to squander money on new seating when it can be better used to further the work of the Lord. We must learn to distinguish between the dictates of culture and what the Lord is asking of us. Number five, be persuaded in your heart. Ultimately, each of us must be persuaded in our own heart and begin to move and act where we are. Nowhere does the Bible say that all out commitment to Christ means we have to take our family to some remote jungle area and die there. The call of the Lord is different for each individual. One day you will stand before the Lord and be called to give an account for the things he asked you to do. The native missionaries who labor on the mission field are there because they heard God's voice telling them to go. They knew the troubles and trials before them. They saw the need, heard the call, and obeyed. We must live in the same reality. When we hear God's voice, we must act accordingly and do whatever it is he is asking us to do. A multimillionaire who owns a huge business may be more committed to Christ than a pastor who lives in a hovel. You must be persuaded in your own conscience that you are following the Lord's direction for your life. As a matter of fact, it may be more difficult to stay behind as a sender than go yourself. You are not on the front lines. You are living simply, working a regular job, remaining faithful to the Lord, and preserving your testimony before all your coworkers, taking the money you earn and giving it faithfully to support a missionary in China or India or Bangladesh, someone you have never seen for whom you are also praying as true sacrifice and living by faith. No one can dictate to you a certain standard of living or draw any kind of line, culture, or no culture. Each of us must be persuaded to live before the Lord as we are led by him. Number six, don't be motivated by guilt. Let no one intimidate you or condemn your actions. Check yourself if you hear yourself thinking thoughts like, I'd be a better Christian if I did this or that, or I feel bad about the house or car I own. If you're motivated to do something out of guilt, don't do it. God is not in the business of putting people on guilt trips to make them do something. He will call you on the carpet and ask you with love, are you living by my standards? But he will never condemn you. When Jesus spoke to Peter after his resurrection, he did not say, as we might've been tempted, you creep, I can't believe you denied me. I'm gonna get you now. No, from just one glance, Peter could tell that Jesus was saying something very different. Peter, I love you more than you could ever know. Forget the past, everything is forgiven. Now go and feed my sheep. Whatever you hear, whatever you read, whatever challenges you, remember that your resulting actions should never be generated by guilt, which is carnality. Purpose in your heart that you will never live by someone else's standard, but only by the principles you know to be true from the word of God and by the Holy Spirit teaching you daily as you are open to his leading in your life. Number seven, guard against false humility. Be on your guard for false humility, which is actually pride and condemning anyone else. It is easy to hear a book like this and think of so-and-so who really needs to hear this message. It's always easier to see the speck in someone else's eye than the beam in your own. But remember Jesus' sober warning. It's in Matthew chapter seven, verses one and two. Do not judge or you too will be judged or in the same way you judge others, you will be judged. And with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. No one can live a life that will satisfy everyone. We cannot be motivated to make changes in our lives simply because they will make us look good in our friend's eyes or because they will make our friends look bad. Pride can drive us to do stupid, unreasonable and downright sinful things. How grateful I am for the staff God has given us at our Gospel for Asia headquarters in Texas to describe our relationship. I would use the word family. Our work and lives are closely intertwined. We agonize for one another in prayer, come to one another's aid during struggles and rejoice together in victories, both in our own lives and on the field. It would be easy to begin comparing lifestyles, salaries and convictions. To a certain extent, that is the temptation among any group of Christians. But we must remember that our commitment to one another goes beyond the eight to five workday. We all serve the same master. We all have love for one another and we all live with the same profound commitment to see the lost reached. Everything else is incidental. We cannot expect each other to be perfect. We must keep our own consciences and walks with the Lord pure before both God and man. If we're following God's word, we have no reason to fear condemnation from others nor will we desire to Lord it over others as if we were more spiritual. Sometimes after I speak in a meeting, I feel troubled about what I said. Perhaps I was too strong, I think. Perhaps I made people feel guilty and will drive them to legalistic bondage. But this is not my motivation. My only desire is to stir up hearts to see the reality beyond our own narrow horizons. A world out there is dying and going to hell. All the Lord has asked me to do is share his heart and give some practical guidelines for becoming involved in his work, which I've tried to do. Someday we will all stand before him. Each of us is responsible individually for what we do with this information. Will we ignore it like the nagging alarm clock that wakes us up too early in the morning or will we do our part to help reach our generation for Christ? You are the one who has to live with yourself and the decisions you make. Chapter 16, what will you do? As I traveled around North America, speaking in churches and home groups, I have learned that it is valuable to close my message with a time of questions and answers. Not only does my audience have a chance to ask questions or share what's on their hearts, but I am provided with a wealth of information on the state of the church at large. On one such occasion in California, a young man stood up to ask a question. He was a university student searching for answers. I just finished reading your book, Road to Reality, he said. You say some hard things in that book. What I wanna know is how can I live out these principles that you talk about? I find it pretty hard to walk away from the comfortable life I'm so accustomed to living. Can you help me? As he spoke, I was already praying, Lord, give me some way to answer this young man. Your questions tell me something about you, I told him. You are troubled. You want desperately to do the right thing. You don't know what to do with this message or how to apply it. You know Jesus is asking you to sell out for him, but you're looking for some emotional confirmation, some happiness to support your thinking, but you aren't finding any, are you? There was absolute silence in the auditorium. I realized that this young student was really the spokesperson that day for many others facing the same struggle. You may be facing this struggle too. How will you apply the guidelines we have talked about? The stories of Abraham and Moses offer practical help as we consider paring down our lifestyles. I was browsing through a book on ancient culture recently with some fascinating insights into the city where Abraham came from. Sir Leonard Woolley, a British archeologist traveled to Mesopotamia in the 1920s and studied the ancient city of Ur. Through many excavations, Woolley and his colleagues learned that Ur was a very affluent society, a bustling port city through which many luxury goods traded hands, including precious stones, gold, timber, and ivory. Abraham, as his name was then, lived in the midst of this affluence, surrounded by his family and relatives. Ur was his hometown. His life was secure and comfortable. Yet he was different from those around him in one significant way. Everyone else was involved in heathen worship while Abram had a relationship with the living God. One day, God appeared to him and said, Abram, I want you to leave your father, mother, brothers, sisters, relatives, land, everything. Imagine what it must have been like for Abram to hear that. Then what, God? Where do you want me to go? I'll show you. Leave everything, even my parents? Abram's thoughts whirled in his mind. How can my family even begin to understand something like this? First of all, I worship a God who talks to me. They'll think my mind is gone. Besides, family ties here are deeply ingrained. They'll think I have no respect for them. Abram spent days wrestling with the call of God. What the Almighty had asked him to do was not easy. It went against everything Abram had been taught to value from childhood. It went against the very fiber of the community and culture. We have the advantage of knowing the rest of the story, of course, while Abram and those around him had no idea what was going to happen. There was no story in Genesis in which to discover the happy ending. One evening at dinner, Abram was unusually subdued. His face, pale and drawn, showed the strains of his inner struggle. It did not go unnoticed. What's wrong, Abe? Asked his father, Tira. You haven't been yourself tonight, or lately for that matter. Something's on your mind. Abram swallowed. His mind was made up. It was time to tell them. Father, I'm leaving. The words hung in the air and seemed to echo again and again in the heavy silence that followed. Finally, Tira spoke. You're leaving? Where are you going? All eyes were on Abram as they waited for his reply. I'm sorry, father. I just can't tell you. You wouldn't understand. All I know is that the God I worship has called me to leave everything here and follow God. I don't know Him. Would you please excuse me? Abram rose and walked out into the night air, glad for some relief from the intense atmosphere. His relatives and friends discussed Abram's announcement late into the night. The man has no respect for his parents. I'll tell you that much, steamed one. Abe is no dummy, said another. I think he must have found a better place than Ur where he can strike it rich. That's why he won't tell us. No, something is troubling him. You can see that plainly, a third responded. And he mentioned this God. Which one does he mean? And have you heard that this God talks? Abram says so. It makes me wonder if he isn't plagued with hallucinations. We'll have more time with him tomorrow. Tira broke in. Let's all get some sleep tonight. Obviously, to obey the call of God would have serious ramifications How could Abram walk away from Ur, from wealth and security and comfort, from his family and friends and home and wealth for the rest of his life, we're told? He lived in tents in a strange country, a pilgrim on the face of the earth. We find the answer in Hebrews 11, verse 10. He was looking forward to the city with foundations whose architect and builder is God. A little later in his life, when Abraham parted ways with his nephew, he allowed Lot to choose the most fertile pasture land to settle in. I'm sure Lot and his wife danced for joy at the sight of all they now owned. And I wonder what Abraham was thinking as he walked away. Later, the Lord came to him and said, Abraham, look up into the night sky. Do you see the stars there? I said just one word and they all came into being. So shall your descendants be. Abraham, I am your reward. Did Abraham know that Ur, the city of wealth and prosperity that he willingly left behind, would one day crumble into dust and be buried under the shifting desert sands? Did he know that thousands of years later, some British archeologist would bring his shovel and rediscover Ur with all its silver and gold? Obviously, Abraham knew nothing of what was to come, but he knew one thing. There was a much better place on which he set his sights. He, along with the other men and women of faith. Hebrews chapter 11. They were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. And then there is Moses and the life of luxury he willingly left behind in Egypt. Moses was raised in Pharaoh's courts as a prince. He had education, influence, power and wealth at his disposal, yet he chose to walk away from it all. Moses would have been more justified than the rest of the Hebrews in wanting the good things of Egypt, the tasty food, the comforts and the securities, where he had experienced them all to the fullest. When you think about his decision from a logical frame of reference, it makes no sense. I'm sure those around him felt the same way. Perhaps some of the Hebrew slaves said to him, what are you doing Moses? Don't you realize you could be the key to our freedom? Just lie low, don't rock the boat. Stay in the palace and someday soon we'll overthrow all these Egyptians. But Moses walked away from the luxury and privileges and chose to become a shepherd. How could he give up all he had? Again, we find the answer in Hebrews. It's in chapter 11, verse 27. Moses saw him who is invisible. Years later, as Moses led the people of Israel through the desert and endured years of hardship along the journey, what kept him going? He could say, I have seen him who is invisible. He remained faithful, following the cloud by day and the fire by night. He lived a life that looked beyond the pleasures of his day and focused on the eternal I am. The reason Abraham and Moses could walk away from this world and all its enticements was that they saw something that others could not. Eternity was stamped upon their eyes. One evening, not too long ago, I sat alone in a hotel room. The next day, I would be speaking in a missions conference about living with the reality of a lost world. It was late and I was tired, but instead of praying about the next day or going to bed as I should have, I switched on the television. An episode of Star Trek was just beginning. Now, I must explain to you that I have always been fascinated by the futuristic gadgets this show portrays. So I sat back and watched it from beginning to end. As I turned off the TV, I looked at my watch. It was 1130 and I was exhausted. I can't believe I did that, I said to myself. I have to get up early and speak tomorrow. I had wasted a precious hour that I should have used either praying or sleeping. Jesus stayed up all night, but he was praying. My body is not made of steel and I wear out if I try to go on just a few hours sleep each night. I was disappointed in myself. Then I realized the devil was using my mistake to waste even more of my time as I sat and wallowed in guilt and frustration. I knelt quickly beside my bed, buried my head in the pillow and said, Jesus, I know your blood is sufficient to forgive me and cleanse me from my wrongdoing. Will you please do it? The accusing voice of the enemy whispered into my mind, are you stupid? How many times have you said that before? But I knew in my heart I'd been forgiven. One more time I said, Jesus said he would do it. I went to bed with peace of mind and heart. I fell asleep quickly and woke the next morning feeling fresh and grateful for a brand new day that Jesus and I would go through together. My dear friend, we must make new decisions every day with the knowledge that this is a new day. We cannot mourn yesterday's losses or stand on yesterday's triumphs. Jesus told us that if we wanna follow him, we must take up our cross daily. As we continue to focus on eternity, we must allow ourselves to be crucified every day. As we do, we will see our human nature in its true state and see the need around us. I heard a story someplace from the pre-Civil War days of the South when sanitary conditions in certain places were poor. A plague came to one city and brought havoc. The city's death toll climbed. Hardly a home did not have sorrow or a vacant room. In one poor home, the disease came and did fast work. Each family member was carried out shrouded in a sheet, one after the other, until only the mother and her five-year-old son remained. He crept up into his mother's lap, his eyes serious. Mother, he said, father is dead. My brothers and sisters are dead. What if you die? What will I do? With that little face so close to hers, what could she say? She must be brave. She answered as quietly and calmly as she could. My boy, if I should die, the Lord Jesus will come and take care of you. That was quite satisfactory to him. The boy had been trained from his earliest years to know and love the Savior. He went back to playing on the floor. It's all taken care of, he thought. If mother should die, Jesus will come and that will be all right. His question proved prophetic. The disease reached his mother and soon she was carried away as well. He followed and saw where she was buried, then came back to the house. In the midst of the hustle and bustle, he was forgotten, left alone in the humble home. He tried to sleep that night, but could not. So he got up and dressed himself as best he could. He found his way to the cemetery where they had laid his mother. Finding the spot, he threw himself upon the fresh earth. Sleep came quickly. Early the next morning, a Christian gentleman was coming down the road from some errand of mercy that had kept him out all night. As he passed the graveyard, he saw the boy quickly imagining a heartbreaking story. My boy, he called out. What are you doing here? The boy raised himself and rubbed his eyes. Well, my father is dead. My brothers and sisters are dead. And now my mother is dead. But she said that if she died, Jesus would come for me. And he hasn't come. I'm tired of waiting. The man swallowed hard and then said quickly as he tried to control his voice. Well, my boy, I have come for you. The boy looked up at the gentleman with wide eyes and said, you've been a long time coming. As I speak these words, there comes before my eyes a vision. This vision is with me day and night. It never goes away and I do not want it to. The vision is of a great sea of faces from Africa, Turkey, Iran, the Middle East, Bhutan, Myanmar, Japan, China, India. In this great cloud of faces, eyes are searching and sad and cry out. You've been a long time coming. The fulfillment of this vision through world evangelization cannot be done by illusion or manipulating others to perform spiritual looking tricks. World evangelization can be accomplished only by those who have abandoned their lives, obeying what Jesus said, forsake all and follow me. It begins with an attitude of heart. Life is short. There is no sense investing our time, energy and finances in things that will soon burn up and be gone. Each morning as we awake, let's take a hard look at our lives in the light of eternity. We must ask ourselves, what are the essentials that I can live with? Time is running out. Hell is real. Heaven is real. Soon it will be too late. We must reach our generation with the gospel of Christ. World evangelism will be carried out by rational, sober-minded, unmovable soldiers of the cross. We're called to follow the example of Jesus who fixed his eyes on the cross that was before him and never turned to the right or to the left. Jesus' reason for living was reaping the harvest of souls. The decision to live with the cross on a daily basis is a choice you must make. We read our newspapers, listen to the radio, watch TV and see every day before our eyes, the poor, the unknown, the unheard millions who are dying. We respond in one of two ways. Either we choose to ignore what we see and know or we take up our cross and follow Jesus. My question to you is, how will you respond? It is your decision. No one can make it for you. I heard Billy Graham say once that the hardest thing for a person to do is to give away his money. When I first heard that, I thought, that statement makes no sense. How can that be said? How can he say that? But he went on to say that a person's money represents his ambitions, dreams, toil, priorities, time, activities, motives, security, everything. And it's hard for someone to give away his money without expecting a return here and now. It's easy to justify our own needs and comforts for that we seldom seek the counsel of the Lord. But when it comes to sacrificing and giving to extend God's kingdom, we have to pray about it. What a contrast with the Apostle Paul. When he gave his life to the Lord, one of the first questions out of his mouth was, what shall I do, Lord? It's right there in Acts chapter nine, verse six. This is the question we too must ask. What went through your mind when you heard Gisela's story back in chapter four? The 14-year-old renouncing a comfortable life for the kingdom. Perhaps it sounded extreme to you. Perhaps you had a hard time relating to her situation. But giving your life to the Lord is a daily choice, a daily taking up of the cross. Every day we must say to Jesus, Lord, today I'm yours, body, soul, spirit, wealth, children, spouse, all that I have, all that I am is yours. What do you want me to do today? How do you want me to live? Allow the Holy Spirit to take the word of God and weave it into the very fiber of your being. Allow him to guide you as you step out. Perhaps you have had an eye on a new pair of shoes or a suit or maybe a new recliner for the living room. Can you say, Lord, this money is yours and my time is yours, what do you want me to do? Then be still, let the Lord speak to you. Many years ago, I went to a barber who cut my hair for $12, including the tip. That was a good sum of money at the time to spend on a haircut, but he always did a nice job. I knew of another place that did it for three bucks, but I always had the feeling they would butcher my hair. At that time, the Lord was teaching me this principle. If one hair on your head that falls off is so important to me, you should know that I'm concerned about everything in your life. Is it too much for you to ask me what you should do with even $1 or one hour? I began to understand that bringing my life before the Lord was not an unbearable burden, but a privilege. So I took some time and prayed to the Lord about my haircut. Lord, I prayed. I've always made this decision with my rational mind. What do you want me to do? I considered my options. Basically, they boil down to $12 or three. God was giving me a choice to make in light of eternity. I decided to go to the butcher. It was not, as it turned out, a butcher at all. It was simpler than I expected. God did not holler in my ear, go to this one, but I did not have to hear an audible voice. Through the Holy Spirit, God speaks to us as clearly as he did in the days of the New Testament. Not through beating us on the head, but through giving us a choice. All we have to do is ask him daily, Lord, what do you want me to do? Sometimes sincere people go forward in meetings, repent of their sins, and surrender their lives to Jesus Christ. But when they walk away, nothing changes. Why not? There is no practical application. I'm asking that we begin to think in these terms. My life and all that I am belongs to you, Lord. We need to take what we know is true and apply it to every area of our lives. The Lord is concerned about every decision we make. It is my sincere prayer that as you come away from hearing this book, the devil will not take these thoughts and immunize you so that your heart is hardened to change. Everything I speak will mean nothing after you put this book down unless you do something practical about it. The choices and decisions you make will affect the course of your life forever. Some of you will sell your large house in order to purchase a smaller one and begin to live more simply. Some of you will sell your diamond rings and jewelry and give that money for missions. Some of you will take the money you're saving for the future and say, I will live by faith. There is nothing worse than death and my life is not mine anyway, it's his. Some of you will look at your new job in a new light. It will no longer be the most important thing in your life but a means to help you do what you can as you walk through this life to extend God's kingdom. One doctor tells me often, the reason I'm a surgeon is simply that I know I can help support missionaries who are winning thousands to Jesus. A carpenter tells me the only reason I work so hard at my job is so I can support the work of the Lord. Some of you will go to the mission field yourselves in obedience to the call of the Lord. You will choose to give up the comforts and conveniences that others enjoy choosing to live in another culture so that others can hear the gospel. Perhaps God has spoken to your heart to begin to support one of these needy brothers or sisters or perhaps he's asking you to give up your job, your dream of a comfortable lifestyle, that girlfriend or boyfriend and go to the mission field yourself investing a significant portion of your life for those who have never heard the gospel. The opportunities to bring in the harvest are plenty. Right now, millions in unreached lands are waiting to hear the gospel and thousands of missionaries are willing and ready to go. I do not know which decisions you will make. There are many to be made. You must begin where you are with your eyes on Jesus. Sit back and consider what you have heard. Take time to be quiet before the Lord and listen to his voice. The decisions you make must be rational and sober-minded. Then begin to implement God's call on your life now. Cut back on those unnecessary things in your life. The gum, the extra ice cream, the plans for buying another car. No, it does not feel good but you are beginning to pick up the cross. You're answering the call of eternity and the consequences of a decision like this will last forever. You will not regret it, I guarantee you. I cannot challenge you to do anything I have not done myself. When I began to make choices to live in the light of eternity, the Lord came to me with a sharp knife and said, son, here's the knife. You have to do the surgery on yourself. I can't do it for you. You will struggle with uncertainty, self-pity and sorrow. You will face criticism and misunderstanding from others. We are strangers and pilgrims on the earth just as Abraham and Moses were. But I know one thing, my eyes are fixed on eternity and the thousands of souls I wanna bring with me. I do not compare my life with someone else's. I compare my life with Jesus' command, forsake all and follow me. Jesus has never asked me to do something that he did not do. I will follow him. May the Holy Spirit give you the ability to see the vision of the faces of people crying out for life. May he give you his burden for souls who are perishing. Only he can tell you what you must do with your life, your time, your resources. All I can give you are examples and illustrations. I pray that each day, you'll make time to get to know him better and share his heart. Recently, I received two special letters from John and Sarah. My mom and dad support some missionaries, so my sister and I decided to support a missionary, wrote John. Sarah added, I am glad you've started this work. Please send us a missionary to pray for and support. It blessed me to read their letters and know that these children are already beginning to invest their lives in eternity. In my mind's eye, I look forward to that day when we will all see Jesus face to face. As believers from all times and places are united before his throne, we will offer him the praise he is worthy to receive. John and Sarah will be there, so will their mom and dad and multitudes of others who laid down their lives for the sake of the kingdom, whether by praying and sending others or by going themselves. As we worship our Lord, others will join us too, men and women from every tongue and tribe and nation, those for whom others prayed and gave and lived and even died. As we gather around God's throne, we will know beyond any doubt that no price was too high to pay to serve Jesus. It was worth it all. In this final hour, let us choose the cross and not turn back. My prayer is Lord Jesus, we thank you that in your grace and mercy you forgive and cleanse us, that you pick us up and motivate us to continue on our journey with you. Lord, we realize that we are not living in a neutral zone. We are living in the enemy's territory. The Bible tells us that the whole world lies in the lap of the wicked one. We are so aware, oh Lord, that the God of this world is our enemy. We know that the more we seek to please you, the more we seek to do your will, the more we pray, the more we reach out to the lost world, the more we accept the cross, the more we will be faced with the fiery darts of the evil one. And Lord, it seems so often that the battleground is in our minds. How often even daily we face discouragement, questions, doubts, concerns, agonies, misunderstandings, self-pity. How often we find ourselves wanting to get out of the battle, to run off and hide somewhere. How often we find our hearts getting cold. We know it's part of the struggle we're in. We're soldiers who sometimes get wounded and hurt and have to lie low when the bullets come straight toward us. Yes, Lord, we know that whether we stand or fall, we are still in your hands. Today we surrender our lives to you completely once again. We ask you to take absolute control of our hearts. Thank you, Lord, for encouraging and motivating us. Thank you for your love that fills our hearts. Thank you for giving us every weapon we need to continue in this warfare. Thank you for encouraging us and giving us peace. Thank you for filling our hearts with joy and giving us strength. Thank you for your great salvation. In Jesus' precious name, Amen. Hi, this is K.P. Yohannan. Hunger for reality is the mark of someone who follow the Lord closely. We are called to follow in his footsteps. And I believe his footsteps will take us to the most unreached, lost millions in our generation. Over 2 billion people live in the 1040 window that is in Asia that never had a chance to hear the name Jesus until now. Even though you personally may never go to these nations, you can pray for and support one or more of these native missionaries that are reaching the lost in their own countries. It takes about $6,220 per month to support one of these brothers. And you can begin to help support one of these workers with as little as $30 per month. Normally, each missionary planned at least one church during the first year of their ministry. 100% of the money you send will go to the mission field to help these brothers. When you call or write with your decision, we will send you the photograph and the testimony of the worker you pray for and support. You may call us on our toll-free line 1-800-WIN-ASIA. Let me repeat that. 1-800-946-2742. And I pray that you will take this opportunity to reach out and touch the lives of millions of people that are lost for eternity. And today we have the opportunity to live a life for Jesus following in his footsteps that will make a difference for eternity for so many. Thank you so much. May the Lord bless you.