Our heart would break and what breaks yours that we give
everything for the Kingdom. Father God Hosanna to you. Lord
Jesus this morning. We pray in Jesus name and everybody said.
Come on let's get one more hand before we sit down praise you
Lord God Hallelujah.
We serve a big amarti and a glorious God. Hey one here just
is changing lives all around the world wanted to grab a seat this
body. It's my great pleasure to introduce this morning Ronnie
Haber Ronnie is.
An amazing man of God and.
He's going to share a lot about his story in this morning. So I
don't want to steal any of these Thunder good friend of mine and
I've known him back since I think back in 2006. I think I
went over to Borneo and.
Ronnie is Is running an orphanage over the middle of
Borneo and God challenged him to build a an orphanage for 1000
kids and schooling for 2000 and I've been over 5 times and it's
just amazing. Back in the 1800s, or the man by the name of George
Miller, who are who decided to do something for the often kids
in England and he gathered them together and and he would get
his team and they would pray for everything they need.
And God would miraculously supply every time every time
they needed something that would prey and would provide that and
from that came the care of children right across the whole
world and I reckon Ronnie is a cross between George Miller.
And Robinson Crusoe.
And if you have a look at some of the photos on the back there.
After the service, you'll see. They've got to cut everything
from catching in East Malaysia. All the way into the middle of
Borneo and the four wheel drives loaded up with all the roofing
on and get involved, and out hours in the slogan for the mod
12 hours and if and the great thing about Ronnie like me, he's
in the Aussie with that. Heritage, which gives him a can
do attitude. No matter what nothing is going to stop him
and. I have a little something is 5 ounces. I get to A to A.
The border crossing and they get denied because they got
too much stuff and they haven't paid, hundreds of
thousands of dollars in taxes to get it through they'll just
drive for another 8 hours to another border crossing to get
everything through and just an amazing story. What he's done
a great man. If I so why don't we stand as we welcome Ronnie
Haber and just honor in Misty comes running come through?
Good on your end thank you. Thank you good morning.
Everybody Slamat Young. We say it our place, there in the
jungles fantastic to be here.
And yeah, Roberts pass robber now for a long time and Mary Ann
and he's been. He says already 5, * 5 times, Mary Ann sent him
over to us and 5 times. I sent him back to here. So I don't
know when he's going to get the message right now, it's really
great and we love people coming over to give us a hand K and I
can't do this by ourselves. We have no intention and doing it
ourselves. You know it's God's projects. God's work and he uses
the body of Christ to do it.
To complete it so fantastic, God is so good I just want to pray
before I open up the word of God can, we do that.
Father you're so good I just want to thank you. That you're
here with us. Lord and we need you. Lord every moment of every
day. We can't do without you we can, but we just make such a
mess of it. Lord we so need you and we just want to thank you.
That Lord that you're always, there to help us Lord to provide
whatever we need load guard to Lorde. The love that we need
every day, but you also look God. One us to share that love
with people around us. So I ask you that you impart within our
something fresh something new.
This morning but as we open up your word Lord that it will your
word is truth in its life. Lord God and we just want to ask you
that you'll help us Lord Jesus to understand who we are, and
you and whatever responsibility is in this world that so
desperately needs you so thank you. Jesus for everything we
give you all praise and glory in your wonderful name, Lord Amen.
Amen now I'm one of those old-fashioned guys who has still
real Bible right, I made the mistake a couple of years ago,
or almost made a mistake. A couple years ago in a church
here in Australia with my son was in church and and I was the
first time that I saw so many people with their handphones and
they were playing out for playing with their handphones.
While I'm preaching so almost center everybody look. You want
to play with your phone. Go and stand outside. We're now
bringing the word of God, so afterward, I didn't sort of.
I didn't so then at the end of it. Nathaniel came over. He goes
that was good dad but I said, Yeah, but I got really annoyed
with so many people there playing with their phones and he
goes what does it yeah? I just saw them flicking on their
phones and doing this and that and I guess that the Bible is on
the phone. I said really they've got a Bible on the phone. You
guys are dead. You really need to come out of the jungle a bit
more often. I think so. I've still like my bio 'cause I've
got my notes in there and all that sort of stuff, so I still
like that at our place in the jungles of Borneo. You know,
some of the kids already some of the kids that are full time is
now the night kids adults now.
And they've got a hand phone as well in hand found now you find
in the in the remote this region to Borneo now as well, but we
still I still want them to bring their own Bible, so that they
can know where the where the books are so they can put notes
in there and that sort of thing, so they're not allowed to bring
their hand phone. So it's forbidden. They still use. They
have open not in our church so there, you go here, you can have
your hand phones right? Yes, praise our Lord ego.
Where I want to read from Romans chapter one first bit why?
Because this is impacted my life so much and I just want to
quickly share with you before, I get into about Borneo why this
is impacted me. So much in Romans Chapter. One says this
first 14. This is Paul writing for have a great sense of
obligation to people in the both in a civilized world and the
rest of the world that the educated an undereducated like
so I'm eager to come to you in Rome II to preach the good news
now in some translations and my first translation it, said this.
I owe a debt to people in both the civilized world and the rest
of the world to educate and undereducated alike. I over
debts now. Paul wasn't talking of course about money. It wasn't
anything to do with that right. But what he's saying is was this
that pull his name was Saul 1st and he was on his way to
remember. He's a Pharisee and he's a real fanatic Pharisee and
he went through all the the heads of the guys there in
Jerusalem. To ask permission to be able to go to Damascus and
get these horrible Christians unite they bring him back to
Jerusalem, so they could be tortured and killed there. So
you hated the church absolutely hated. The church, he hated
hated. The Christians that that was his tasks. He made that is
surprising thing in his life is to get to those people and to
eradicate to annihilate them and so he got permission from the
head of the head of the synagogue there and he was on
his way to Damascus, an on his
way. Damascus there almost to Damascus Jesus knocked him off
his horse right remember and so there. He meets with Christ and
there, his whole entire life changed around, he needed no
more convincing of anybody who Jesus was. He knew that I often
say to my kids into people that I meet over there. It's not good
enough to just know about Christ. You have to meet with
Christ. Once you meet with Christ. You will never, ever be
the same again never be the same
again. You can't write once you meet with Christ. He met with
Christ and attorneys life upside down inside out. And he then all
of a sudden you know became a great disciple. A great disciple
for Christ, then sharing the love of God with people around
him. Now the love of God. Jesus forgave all the sins that sold
Paul had committed in the past. All those horrible things that
he done to the church to every Christian that he gathered
together to be purchased owned
or whatever. You know, he was forgiven and so he understood
the unconditional love of Christ
wow. That changed him and then and then that's why he says. I
owe a debt. I'm indebted to mankind to the educated
uneducated the Greeks the Romans
everybody. He says I am indebted to them, so I have to now share
this love. This unconditional love that God has blessed me
with poured within me. I have to share that now with mankind that
is my task that I have to do now. People let's all of our
time if you are a Christian if you have Christ in you?
Then he gives us that responsibility to share that
unconditional love that he has for us to share that with the
rest of mankind where ever they are whoever they are makes no
difference. I don't know how you became a Christian, you know, I
I became a Christian and a very radical way, haven't got too
much time to share that with you, but I tell you what I'm
thinking for all these years. When I lived in Holland for 10
years from 8 to 18 and it was brought up as a Catholic and
lots of things happened in my life in the past there.
My parents split up when I was young, and it was a scandal in
the family in a scandal in the whole neighborhood and all those
things us kids cop that a lot and we had all sorts of things
happen in my youth years, Windows 18. I was out of there.
I wanted to come back to Australia to the promised land
there and that's where I found out that people are people the
same everywhere right. No different, really, and so, but
you know, and I'm thinking why am I feeling this way. What is
it about me? Why am I thinking? You know if this is life you can
have it? It's so boring.
Something's missing and so I thought it was because it wasn't
married so I got married and I was happy and I had a couple of
kids and we were happy and then this terrible feeling came back
again and then I thought it's because probably I'm not wealthy
like all my friends who got everything until I started to
work three jobs work 19 hours a day slept 3 hours a day money
coming in be able to buy lots of things and then this horrible
feeling came back again and then I thought it's probably 'cause
I'm not. I don't believe in anything but who do I believe in
Buddha? Mohammed Krishna, who is God Jesus.
So I went to Jesus first because I remember as a Catholic kid.
You know at school. I'll never forget at the Catholic school in
when Gratton Victoria there. We had to go to confession
regularly and so at during school hours. Go to confession
and so then everybody went into the confession box and so the
teacher said. Hi run, it's your turn to go in the confession box
set aside nothing to confess you guys get in that confession box
and confess so I thought.
I've got in the confession box and I thought I've got nothing
to confess So what do I confess I just made up a whole pack of
lies and then I told the priest that and it's really have to say
so. Many Hail Marys and do this and that and then I got out, and
I thought. I just like to the guy. I've now I've I've got
something to confess. But I wasn't going to go back into the
confession box anyway. So I asked can't. the Lord that way.
I wanted to know if Jesus was real. I wanted to know if he
loved me or was he somewhere else or was he busy with other
people or did you actually care
about us? And there when I bought a Bible I made it deal
with God, and I bought a Bible and read it from cover to cover
and there. God was speaking to me as I'm working in a textile
factory, having 30 machines to care for making material there
while during that time. I'm reading the word of God in the
words were jumping out these will work I couldn't put the
book down. And then somebody invited me to come to a home
group of long story, but but in that home group. When I went
there. I thought the first time I met them. These people are all
Philips that we're doing exactly the same thing is what you were
doing this morning. Worshipping God Happy Clappy people. You
know all this for Jesus and I thought when I came in there
with my wife. A third arm. I couldn't see so fruit loops.
Here then one of them Colts. No, I don't want to be here. But you
know something was so evidente there that I've been that I
believe that they had that I
didn't have. And that was this incredible love, they seem to
have for one another. This incredible love. They seem to
have for this guard that they believed in and so as a result
of that. You know I wanted what they had. I wanted this Jesus
that they believed in and after the 4th week coming back every
time wanting more, and more learning more and more there. I
gave my life to Christ. I ask people said I don't know how
this works. I don't know what I have to do can you please help
me? How do I receive this Jesus? I've got on my knees and they
laid bare hands on my head on my shoulders and they prayed and I
tell you what Jesus Sept me. That night set me. I got up and
I just knew that I knew there was a new creation.
I knew that God had a plan and a purpose for my life and it
wasn't meant to be a boring life. I meet so many Christians.
Today they say to me, they have a boring life as a Christian.
How could you possibly have a boring life as a Christian? When
you see the plight of the world
today? I said, I just knew that I knew that my life was not
meant to be boring. That God had a plan for my life and I knew
also in one Corinthians. Chapter 6 verse 20. It says that he
bought us purchased us by going
to the cross. So I understood that my life is not mine
anymore. And actually was his because he bought me so I'm not
here for myself. I'm here for him. I'm here to surrender
everything to him. Everything I have who I am what I have been
given it's all his.
So I'm here now to do his business. What Scott business
business business. Yes, God Business God businesses. People
people people. People people that are lossed people that are
saved mankind. Jess what Paul says here I owe a debt to
mankind. This incredible love that I have received from the
king of Kings is not just meant for me, but it's meant for
mankind and I've got to get it and we've got to get it out
there as much as possible so that they too, will know there
is a God who who created them and loves them.
So as a result of that you know, we ended up on the mission
field. A lot of things happened in between. My wife died in a
car accident. Both my children. Almost died as well. There were
supposed to die, according to the neurologist, he said. You go
to the morgue. Identifier wife and then go to ICU and then say
goodbye to your children right and so I'm member going to the
Morgan Thinking God. I don't understand. This my wife for 8,
1/2 years. When I became a Christian for 8, 1/2 years was
Cher hell at their house because she went that way in the world
and I went that way with Jesus.
And we clashed like anything.
And I would tell my wife that you need to have Jesus in your
life darling and the more I would share that with her. The
more she just disliked God Church in anything because she
saw that the church took me away from her, but which was not the
case. But obviously something else was brewing, there going on
the enemy was not going to let go just like that. And so for 8,
1/2 years. Many people told me divorce are you got no life like
this. We do nothing together anymore. Nothing we just lived
in the same house and I'd say to people. No way I am not going to
divorce, I made a promise and the promise was in good times
and in bad times. This is a bad time. But I've gotta stick it
out. My flesh wanted to run for it. Yes, my flesh wanted another
relationship. Absolutely, but my spirit did not want I couldn't I
didn't want to, I made that
promise. And so I never did and God on at me for that and my
wife came to the Lord as a result of that. I believe in and
then for 18 months. We had a awesome time together going to
church going to homegroups you name it. We did it together had
my wife back in my family. My kids, loves my kids with porn
between the 2:00. You know on my days off. I take him to church
or home groups and on her days off take up to the pub and to
have friends and yeah, all sorts of things so then.
And so here I I had to identify my wife there at the Morgan. I'm
remembering same God. I don't understand. There's a lot of
things we don't understand right even in a walk with God, we
don't understand. But I've learned you don't need to
understand everything. God is still God he's your father. He
loves us so much. You know, so no point in trying to workout
figure out why, why why 'cause you're never going to get the
answer for that. You're just going to have to trust God with
that, so I just think God. I don't understand, but I just
don't. I understand but I'm so grateful that I had 18 months
with her like this and I'm so grateful God that that I know
where she is now and so then I went to the ICU and there's
seeing my kids in the neurologist, said look mate. I
am so sorry but they're not going to make it their own life
support system, but they're not going to, but if if they do,
make it. They're going to be vegetables for life and they're
going to be here for 6 months. At least but you know, we had
people from all overcome and they lay their hands on my kids,
innocent child of the most high God be healed in Jesus name.
You know after 6 weeks, not one, but both my kids were released
from hospital healed healed.
I knew that if God can do this. I mean neurologist, said to me
miss table. We I've been a doctor for many decades and I've
seen things in my life that I can't explain but this with your
kids at talked a lot.
I I said, we haven't done anything you definitely help
from somewhere else so he acknowledged guard at intervene
and I knew that if God can do this? He can do anything
anything. We sing it. We read it. We say it. We pray it. But
we gotta live it as well. Right bit more difficult deliver them.
But he can do anything now why he didn't rescue my wife.
Why didn't he Christy my wife you're risking my kids? Why did
he do it with my wife well again. I don't know, but a lot
of people. Ask me questions. Why does God allow this on? Why
doesn't he do then why I said I don't know I'm not God, but
later on when I get to heaven. I'm going to make Garden Ice Cup
of coffee and I'm going to ask him. Lots of questions right.
But maybe I'll get the answer. Maybe not, but the thing is this
we don't need to always know. He is God he purchased our lives
where his he can do whatever he
wants. Because he purchased our lives by going to that cross so
as a result, a anyway again long story. I married again after
that. I wanted another wife and my kids. Another mum so my my
kids have got 2 months went down here and I've got 2 wives went
up there and went down here and so with that God challenged us,
one day. We had everything but God challenged us. I want you to
pack up cell up all your stuff you know, we had a wonderful
house great jobs and my wife and I'm a new wife and I great job
so beautiful has one of those
home beautiful homes. Paid off, we had no debt at all. We had
new car and we could go on a world tour every year. We have
plenty of everything and then God challenged us to pack up
cell up and follow him, which we did. And so everybody thought we
were crazy by doing this. This is financial crisis. Many years
ago as well. In Australia and so, but we just knew that if God
says something you got 2 choices you either do it or you don't.
And so many times, God is asked me to do things in my life,
yeah, so many times that I've never done before ever and then
you guys are wanting to do this and I got caught up never done
this before, but trust me.
I just want you to do it and then I've learned that you can
argue all you like you can argue all you like. But if you don't
do it, you know what you're going to miss out, but not just
you. A lot of other people are
going to miss out. But as you do, I buy God step out in
faith and trust. God then God will actually a lot of people
then will actually be blessed as a result of you stepping
out in faith and being obedient to God and so we did.
And we went to Barber college up in Townsville to prepare us
and then we said guard we go anywhere. And so a door opened
up in born here and we go to Bonnie at Pelham do, I have
'cause? I just forgot to look.
12:00 o'clock was it, but is 2137 it said oh that's
Say I need to come out of the jungle a bit more often.
Praise the Lord I'm so glad that you are such patient people and
you know. Very graceful right so anyway, we ended up in Borneo,
going to Borneo Borneo. The 3rd largest island in the world. You
know it made up of 3 countries. The 1/4 of the island is E
Malaysia and then you have a little bit of a between the 2
states of Malaysia. You've got Brunei and 3/4 of the island is
Kalimantan, which belongs to Indonesia and so we started off
including 1st in Malaysia, the capital of Sarawak and their
started the plan churches in Sarawak, an in Cali Montanas
well. 'Cause we wanted to bring the Gospel message to these
tribal people. The tribal people RNA mists that they called I
acts the direction under the direct umbrella is 400 different
tribal groups of people and so they're all enemies. They
believe in a spirit in a tree in the spirit in the sand in the
spirit and everything else. And they worship the spirit every
day, they're very hacking up put it very spiritually minded the
physical world to them is not really that important. But the
spiritual world is very
important but. Very opposite to the western culture here and so
when they get up in the morning. They first think will will live
spirits be upset with me today or will they receive my gift.
Ings my offerings and so there will put food near the tree for
the spirit of the tree and they will go to the River and put
some food there for the spirit of of the River and their own
kids got nothing. They're going to food that can find their own
food and the skinny scrawny.
Build with worms, you name it, I've got that not important, but
the spirit has to be has to be offered to and so when they go
to bed at night. They think have I appease the spirits enough.
Today, if their child is sick or or dies. They don't put it down
too because the malnourished because you're not looking after
them. No, it's because obviously I didn't sacrifice enough to the
spirit of health or with their rispetti fails. They think it's
their fault because they obviously haven't sacrificed
enough to the spirit of the
harvest. And so there constantly aware of this and then at each
village of every tribe has their own witch. Doctor Who Lords it
over as well. And this witch doctors great power over people
and he has some where he wants them is the wealthiest person in
the in the tribe because you know they pay in whatever he
wants in order to get something
done. And so terrible situation and so as we were going there
and planting churches and people are coming to the Lord as a
result, which is awesome to see you know, people coming to
Christ, receiving the Lord planting a church there coming
to church doing away with all their spirits and everything and
then seeing that happen was awesome. But what we didn't see
was that there were there came a change with all this all the
kids that were neglected if you're a twin well your demon
possessed so buzz off in their
jungle. Left there on your own if you were an orphan well get
away from here, we haven't even got enough to look after our own
kids and so they they would just be neglected often and so, if
you were strong kid. You would make it in the jungle. But if
you are weak you become sick and then you would just die.
And then we saw these girls 1112 years old and they were just got
their first periods and then they get married off by the
witch doctor not by the parent. The witch doctor will determine
whether your daughter needs to be married off to somebody else
and then they see that this witch doctor, then marriage your
daughter off to a guy is already already 5060 years old, and has
3 or 4 wives already once
another version. And you have as a parent nice say you get a
couple of Pigs in exchange for
your little girl. The first winning that I went like that,
man I wanted to grab this girl, because she was crying crying
crying crying throughout the whole thing 'cause you knew what
this meant for her life.
And I wanted to grab and run for it, but I knew that if I did
that come after me and allowed me head off you know, some
people said to me years ago, or you work, amongst the former
head under so, said nola they still headhunters. Today, the
more remote if you go the more primitive. They are the more
likely. They blocked your head off just a little thing and so
as a result of that. We just realized you know, I just said,
God I just wet before Gardner said God all these kids.
I mean, how could we possibly do something about this and then
God just clears anything, said bring 'em in I said bring him
into Watt bring him into your house. I said, I can't bring him
into I can't even I can barely afford to look after my own
family. I don't have the means and you go. You bring him in. I
look after the rest. So we started 7 girls come in first
and they were just like our own kids. We love them and we feed
them clothe them send him to school and at the end of the
month I had to pay the bills.
You know what God it organized somehow for somebody to put some
extra money in their account. I don't even know where it came
from. But just enough, not too much not too little just enough
to be able to look after these girls well when that happened.
We said God. This is awesome, and so I said, Well, you know,
God if you can do with seven surely you can do a 30 girls,
and we have 30 girls come into a house. I do not recommend it to
anybody to have 30 girls in years. Honestly, I've learned my
lesson with that one. One
bathroom 30 girls. You can never use the bathroom ever's Voice
that one second thing is girls never shut up there. Always
cackling away. Men are like a chicken ring in Aurora turkeys.
Oh my goodness, even in this link to Cackle away, not a good
thing, but anyway. That's what happened at the end of the month
enough extra money turned up in her account. Not too much. Not
too little just enough to pay the bills for these 30 girls so
we seek God Awesome.
If you can do a 30 surely you can do with 70. Now, the
landlord didn't want us to have anymore kids in our house. So
you thought 30 girls was a little bit too much so we
started to look for land anyway. Long story short 'cause I said,
God we can do this. I'm sure we can do this. I'm sure that you.
You want us to have 70 kids. But then God Challenge me look. I
want you to prepare a place for 1000 kids thousand neglected
kids and build schools for 2000. So I had never sent never have
still don't have a sense. I don't have any money, you give
money I spend it. I'll never be
a good businessman. Businessman need money in order to make a
business right? Well, I don't have a business like that. You
give me money. I spend it. You know, so more kids come in well.
God just in large is that on there in their account.
Sometimes I know where it comes from sometimes I don't know
where it comes from doesn't
really matter. He's the one he provides right so whether
connect cause. People say, Yes, brother, but you're always
relying on the West. I said excuse me. Yeah, you know if
there's a financial crisis, then boy you're going to be in big
trouble. I said look you got it all wrong. I go to him how he
then does it is up to him up to him if he wants to drop a bag of
money out of the sky right now on our property go for it. I
believe we can do that. You can do anything but I want him to
tell me where he's going to drop it because I want to find it not
somebody else. It was meant for us, then right so but God often
uses people and to do it. And so now we got 636 hundred and
something kids now and from all all sizes and some of them being
with us for 20 something years. We've been there 25 years now,
so their adult summer adult. Now they're having getting married
together, having their own families. So we've got now 44,
grandchildren there, so the second generation coming through
which is awesome to see we've got 300 hectares of property in
the middle of nowhere.
But God brought us to in the most miraculous way that we got
that now got about 90 buildings there with schools primary
school at secondary school clinic were huge workshop. We're
building a airstrip right now as well as so many other buildings
because we still every time. More and more kids come of
course, more and more bedrooms. You need more and more
classrooms. You need more infrastructure more water supply
more electricity more sewerage system more everything I had no
idea. That God was ever going to use me that way. I'm not an
engineer or an architect or a builder or whatever. You know, I
just did a little bit, but I'm learning now. Over the years how
we should do it and not do it and all that sort of thing, so
God is bringing me all sorts of people from all sorts of trades,
bringing them all together at our place, getting the job done
absolutely awesome, who would have thought of that not me. But
guided and I'm so grateful that we've got a place there in the
middle of jungle where kids can come too, and be set free
remember I remember so vividly.
One day when we were having our every Friday. We have fasting in
the evening. We don't we don't have a meal in the evening, so
everybody. Even the 3 year olds. Everybody comes and joins and we
fast. We don't eat. And while we normally would be eating. We
pray we pray for the nations. We pray for all sorts of situations
and so busy with that. I want the kids to learn, you know that
the world is full of people in need, and so not just them. But
the the world's in need. Now they've got Jesus day to our
debt as they too need to now start praying and interceding
for others. And so they do and they love to do it and so as we
were there. I just felt the Holy Spirit, saying, You know, I want
you to ask these kids something and I said have you have got a
grand father or grandmother? Who used to be or still out? Which
doctors and the number of kids put up their hands and I said
look come forward and I want to pray with you and then I send
and who of you kids have a mother or father that were or
still are a witch doctor and a number of kids put up their
hands and said come forward and some of their kids that had
grandparents with which doctors they also had parents which
doctors. So they came forward and then I said, and who of you
is supposed to be the next witch doctor in your tribe and a
number of kids put up their hands and I would be shocked and
I said, Do you want to be the witch doc then go no dead? We
want we love Jesus? We don't want nothing to do with any
witch doctor anymore. We want to follow Jesus. I said, OK, well.
I want to pray with you guys and I want us all to pray. I want to
break this curse over your lives. I'm going to break this
hereditary curse right now in Jesus name and as we did that
this one girl come up to me shows power, so you guys.
I don't think Jesus can rescue me, I said why would you say
that she goes because when I was a baby the witch doctor put me
in his arms and lifted me up and he offered me up to the spirit
world. I don't think Jesus can rescue me from that right, I
said. Oh, yes, he can. And that's why he brought you here
and we're going to pray right now that this curse of your life
will be broken in Jesus name and that you will know who you are
in Jesus. Well, we did. We prayed she screamed. She carried
on and all of a sudden something
was broken. And she was set free and then she knew that she knew
that she was a child of the most high God and for her to she knew
that God had a wonderful plan on the purpose for her life right
awesome. And she's now a mum herself got a beautiful child
and she loves. the Lord and shares the gospel with whoever
she comes across so awesome to see that and then another kid
came up to me goes my dad, he said. My father when you were
still alive. It was a witch doctor, he said then many years
ago when I still little.
He said in our tribe, there in their village as as everybody
was busy this stranger walked in a guy walked into their village
and my father being the witch Doc. You grabbed a knife and he
went over to the guy and he stabbed him to death and he
dragged the body in the middle of the of the village put him in
a barrel of water, but fire on it, and started to boil 'em, but
everybody had to come out all the children order all the
youngsters and all the adults will have to come and view. This
well and so they were seeing. This guy being boiled in the
middle of the village.
And if you didn't come, he put a curse. Upon your life so
everybody came and so they also viewed this guy being boiled
there and then at 4:00. I don't know how long then they said he
said, OK, now you eat.
And so they had to eat a little bit of the men and drink. Some
of us blood. They demonic ritual. There go through. They
call it suck D if you eat some of your enemies meat and drink.
Some of their blood. Then you become supernaturally stronger
than your enemy like I said it's a demonic reachable, but but
then I thought when the kid was sharing that with me. I thought
Oh my goodness. You are, which is never, ever guess that you
went through that I got kids have already killed other kids
eat another kids not because they're cannibals, but be cause.
They've done this ritual.
You See and so then I thought God I am so grateful that you
that you got us to get out of Australia to come here to set
this village up in the middle of nowhere, so that these kids got
somewhere to go do and find out that there is a God who loves
him and wants to set them free from this bond each.
You see all these kids. Now I all worshipping God like you are
now they know who Jesus is every morning at 5:30. We have a
prayer meeting. Even the 3 year olds, they come. They separated
into 2 holsters your little ones go there and each little. One is
Leeds in prayer. Every morning is a different kid. That will
lead in prayer. And the other teenagers as well. Leading
prayer and then and then read chapter out of the word of God
and then explain What does this mean for us today, we start?
With the word of God, our days are so important, and through
that so many kids are meeting Jesus that way. Not knowing
about Jesus meeting Jesus and now they understand this
wonderful unconditional love of God that they have to now share
it with so many people around them You know, I've got 44
teachers in my school and all my teachers are all.
Teachers that have come through entered into our ministry when
they were young and grow grew up in our ministry send him off to
universities around the Indonesia and they've come back
and then our our teachers ministering. It's not a job.
It's a ministry to the next generation. One of my boys is a
doctor now MD. There couple of our kids are now nurses and
administrators and accountants and you name it. We've got all
sorts of people there now or some to see got so many of 'em
that just sent.
20 of them to Surabaya to Barber College, there next week. Three
more going to Jakarta. The Barber College. We already have,
I don't know how many and Barber College now and I'll send I
think 30 something to universities around the country.
I don't know how we do it. People say where do you get all
that money from us it? I don't really know I said, I don't? I
don't say look here. This is how much money. We've got so these
this is the amount of people that we can send off I just send
them off. And then God provide
some air. Always done that way, and you will always do that
because I know he's the dad of all these kids of us all he
wants to change their lives. He wants the very best for us.
Right as we are a billion to him and he will provide.
Right we just have to trust in him. He knows so we go all over
the place now so we have all our buildings built according to
Australian standards, but our road system and everything so
get busloads of government officials they come and and
view? How come everything works here? Why does the electricity
work and why does the plumbing work and why? Does everything
work here but when they come in the 1st is assigned there, you
are entering a miracle zone proceeded own risk.
And then the first two roads their meat is Jerusalem. Rd in
Bethlehem. Rd airway and so they're all gone word.
But then I say, Well, the presence of your God is here. In
this place. You know, God is on so many miracles around the
place they already. And then and so a lot of people are in from
other religions. They say to one another don't mess with those
people on that property because their God is with them. I said
first time I heard that isn't really is that what they're
saying praise the Lord. Let him share it around a little bit
more. You don't want to mess with them. 'cause you want to
mess with me. You mess with their guard right. We had one
day we had this enormous grasshopper playground that add
up. Everything in the entire region there or the rice
paddies, fruit trees or the vegetable gardens ate it all up.
Millions of these horrible things came destroyed
everybody's rice patties. The government had to step into in
order to try and rescue some of these people there were
starving. But if you would have flown over flown over, there
over the over the whole area there, you would have seen all
this. Baroness and then the middle of it smack in the
middle. This green Patch and that green patches is our
property. Where they did not come and they did not eat
their vegetables and there are fruit trees or nothing
and the people and their ego? How is that possible?
Well, I mean he's our God right trust in him be obedient to him,
he will look after you.
Right so awesome to see as we go out to the tribes now with their
Medison box and their Bible and we go out and we try and fit in
with all the people over there and we try to not offend.
Anybody cause when you offend them. They don't want to listen
to what you have to say so. I want them to also know that
there is a God who loves them right and so, so important. So
don't offend them. So we sleep with their sleep. We bathe with
their Bae then we eat what they eat and drink what they drink. I
we've had lots of delicacies delicacies to eat over the years
since we've been there one day I
was in this tribe. And they made this meal and there was so poor
that people that made his meal and so it had a baller. I see in
a ball of this super stuff with some green long things in there
and some blobs of meat. And I put a spoon of this rice on my
plate and spoon of this super stuff on my rise and we said
Grace and I started to eat and and I assume lumps of meat on my
plate and I'm picking away at the first bit of meat and I'm
thinking well delicious. It's not, but disgusting. It wasn't
either was just edible but I thought. Oh no flavor at all but
anyway. What is it lots of bones a little bit of meat. But
anyway, I'm picking away and eating it up with the Verizon
the vegetables. And then I wanted to start on the second
bit of meat and as I touched it and rolled over on my plate and
to my horror, I realized when I was eating. I was eating arets
because the second bit was the head of the rat still intact.
The snout that deep is still in there. The eyes are still in its
socket. And here's the reps head staring at me, it looked as
though there etc. Staring at me and I'm going to all God.
I don't know about you, but I mean, my whole body reacted you
know, everything that already was in my stomach came back and
sat here and wanted to come out and I said, God help please. I'm
going to throw up and I'm going to offend. Everybody here
they're not going to listen want to listen to what I have to say
if I throw up their food that have just cooked for me and so I
started to think a pray and think about their trees and
colorful, flowers and my wife eating spaghetti at home or
anything to get my mind off what I just saw it and so I pushed
ahead in pull it apart.
Start picking away at all the other stuff and I and have any
finished a whole plate and had
all stayed down Hallelujah.
Amen. Who?
Do you say grace before you eat here? I sure hope you do?
Well, I found that Grace takes on a whole new meaning over
there. When we say. Grace we mean every single word of it. Oh
God have mercy on us. We're about to eat. Now, Lord Bless.
This food now and if there's anything still alive in my
plate, then kill it now in Jesus
name. Oh man I had to twice. I ended up in hospital deck with
food poisoning. But I'm still around and I still got
everything. So it wasn't that bad after all, really, and then
one day we went to a tribe called the Ivan Ivan tribe.
Lovely people have huge tribe more over 1,000,000 people. But
every tribe. Every village has there about 30 to 50 families
and so we were there talking to the tribal Chiefs about whether
the properties wanted to know is it more beneficial to receive
Jesus individually or corporately and so we were
discussing that. And then after a couple of hours sitting on the
floor there and I'm saying to the one of the tribal team said
look. I'm so sorry but I'm asking to go to the toilet so
could you tell me where the toilet? Is he said. Yes, you go
through that door outside I sit outside to the left or the right
is the toilet because no you don't understand. You said
outside anyway, you like. I said right here, but do you have to
do a number one or #2? I'm going to tell that to you. You know
that's private you guys now. I just want to warn you if you
have to do a number 2. You must take a stick with you, I said,
What do I want to stick for you said the pigs in the jungle are
really impatient. They don't always wait until you're
finished so you gotta hit them
off here. I got really well true one day I was minding my own
business in the jungle there with my stick and I barely set
the squat there and I could hear this noise behind me and I
thought already a pigment, but praise God. I had my stick. So I
turned around to give it a hit over the head. But there was no
pig. Instead, they were all these kids watching me.
I said go away, I am doing something private here and one
of the bigger boys. He said, you, Mister. You don't
understand. I said, what he said. We think like this as skin
color chocolate color and #2 chocolate color as well. But you
white men white skin. We want to know if your number 2 is white,
as well, and we want to see it before the pics get added.
I thought there was rather logic really thinking and I said it's
not it's chocolate color just like yours that go away and
leave me alone. Yeah, you're laughing. I was not laughing.
Then I can assure you. I wanted to get out of there and
never come back again.
But you know what I used to look at situations like this. I still
don't like you know, I still don't like doing stuff like
that, but really I don't really care anymore, why because?
Because these people, You look in their eyes you know that they
are so horribly last.
They need Christ and so Jesus remember he went to the cross
willingly for us. He willingly went through all that Porcher
and then to the cross willingly for us. Now he's asking us go
out until all the world and make disciples of all nations.
So what really if we have to eat a bit of dog rat snake, whatever
or we have to swim amongst the poo in the River there in order
to get to the people to share with them. The unconditional
love of Christ really.
Are we ready for that people?
Because we've got a good thing going here in Australia. Hey
good life here man, but do you know? How many of our brothers
and sisters are in areas in the world? Who are doing a tough?
We've actually their wives. Their husbands their children
have been killed and they're still going for the Lord.
While serving God there.
They're being tortured being imprisoned.
And they're still going for Jesus why? Because I know he
purchased them. Their lives belonged to him allies belonged
to him people.
Hey man, So all of us.
If we have Jesus in US were all debt is just like Paul.
We owe men kinda dead, meaning before you breathe your last
breath make sure that you step out and do what God is ask you
to do, but to get this word out to as many people as possible.
Before it's too late. My wife was 31 when she died. She didn't
know she was going to die, that up, but that day. I didn't know
either. If I had known that we would have done things
differently. None of us know when it's our last day.
Napoule even in jail second second. Timothy the last Pokey
ride. He says, I've I fought the good fight. You know, I've I've
done it and you could look back on his life and he was satisfied
with what he did done for Jesus. Now we do, I hope before we die
before we breathe air. Last week and also say the same thing. I'm
satisfied with what I've done for God everything that I have
Lord is all yours, anyway, you
purchased a Sleiman. Hallelujah let's pray father. Thank you so
much look odd.
Thank you so much that you.
A challenging us this morning again.
Understanding to understand the card that we are all debtors.
If we have Jesus in US?
As he's gone to the cross and
purchased our lives. Everything that we have and everything that
we are is all his.
So our bodies are his our thoughts mind. Past present
future family possessions. Everything all belongs to you.
Lord I pray that each one of us here. Local you know where we're
at with you. You know everything about us. You know is through
and through Lord God. I just ask you that you will.
Help us to realize that.
That you didn't just come for us, but you came from mankind.
Can you give us now that responsibility to get this word
of love and Salvation out to as many people as possible?
What a privilege thank you god bless my brothers and
sisters here less this church the leadership. Look, I thank
you that there are light in this world.
Touching peoples lives changing them, bringing them to you.
Thank you so much father continue to use them greatly
help them look out to continue to trust you for more and more
father, I thank you.
Thank you God for the souls that are coming here as a result of
the light that they're shining the love of God that their
shining out. Less than now in Jesus name we pray Amen.
Isn't it great this great God
that we serve? I meant people I just want to share quickly with
you. This tax of photos out there. There's so many things
that I could have shared with you so many testimonies that I
could have given you about the kids that we've rescued kids
that are almost dead when they came to our place kids that
nobody wanted anymore. Get sad cancer kids had all sorts of
diseases were tossed aside and now they're serving and loving
Jesus and going with us to the tribes to open new churches to
share God's love with them, so they have a look at all that
stuff. It is also a book that I write a number of years ago,
an just about all that I last week. I came across a church
that I was sharing and they said great testimony brother
really great, but we don't believe in miracles.
We don't believe in miracles, I come there across that so
much. Today, Christian said. Don't even believe that God
still does miracles today.
I don't know which Bible Reading, but anyway. That's why
we read this right. This book to show that God is still alive and
he still the same today as he was yesterday and he still does
miracles and if you don't believe that you need to come to
our place, and you need to see them yourself right, but read
this book, then you know this is a great book to read for
yourself, but also to give out to people around it's almost
Christmas now, so great gift to give to people around so you
can. There also I've got a Chinese version so we translate
in Chinese also in Dutch but.
I haven't got them with me, but I got a few left of the Chinese
ones. So there there as well. A great gift to give to somebody
and then lots of newsletters. The four different ones. Take as
many as you like to hand out to anybody. Everybody don't take
him then toss them in the bin but take him and do something
with them. It's about our work, but also snippets about how you
how God is challenging you as an individual and also the church
corporately. I love the body of Christ and I wanted to be
healthy and strong you know, God wants us to be a healthy and
strong church. Body of Christ, so there there, you can take as
many as you like also the stacks of kids that you can script you
on little ones big ones, and even leaders their church
planters. There you can sponsor him if you want to. But if you
do you can pick the card with your home and just fill out one
of these the yellow form here with the child's name on the top
and your details on the bottom and if you want to sponsor more
than one two five or 10. Whatever just put him on the
back. You don't need to do one for one, so there there and then
also my wife and.
Myself You can sponsor if you want to, but if you don't. But
that's fine as well. But you can take a card as a prayer card, so
you don't forget not for your dartboard. But for your prayer
board alright so you can take that as well. If you want to
sponsor us do, but do one of these then as well, and then you
can take the photo as well. Even if it's properly and so, if you
also want to come out to our place, and help us. Please do
just like Robert came with a couple of people over several
times and there were an absolutely blessing. Some people
say to me aren't you better off with the money then.
That we send the money instead of coming over yes or no money
is always welcome. But I tell you what you know your church
benefits from this as well. When you send people over we
benefit definitely, but your church as well and individually
as well. And so we need all sorts of people only teachers
too are able to teach our teachers to be a bit more
creative. I need medical stuff. I need people look at
administrators. Rob helped us a great with some of the admin
over there as well as other things. Did you do other things
as well? Yeah. I'm sure you do?
And lots of things you know in their workshop always building
building side. I need mechanics. I need the electricians,
carpenters plumbers concrete as you name it. I need cooks and
cleaners and people who just want to love kids share stories
with them read with firm do art and craft with anybody.
Is I I get 84 year olds to come to our place for awhile?
84. In it, so people say arm. I'm already in nearly 70 icon
known as too old for that, well rubbish if I can if we received
4 year olds and then you can do it as well. So you're Welcome to
come. The only condition is this don't be a pain in the neck. If
you're a pain in the neck. We send you back right if you
happen to be still single and you're looking for a husband and
wife we can help you over, there with that as well.
But we have a new policy over there, I've read it to our
kids have made it to our kids as well. That Jacob had to
work 7 years for Rachel and then when he married her
work. Another 7 years. So 14 years. He had to work for
Rachel. We have that policy at our place now as well. You
find your bride or groom there, you're stuck there for
14 years and you're not allowed to have 2 wives.
Then, like somebody pointed out alright God bless you,
everyone God bless you.
Haggle with that is that good.
I've been there 5 times it's just amazing and there are so
many miracles high and I remember one day I was there for
the young guys. I think they're in their late teens early 20s.
They were playing soccer down in the village and I borrowed the
and had been told draw slowly drive carefully going into what
young boys are like I think that won that game and they come back
on a high and four of them crammed in the front of the cab
and they come off the road 'cause I were probably hurting
along a bit. On the gravel right there and hidden embankment for
even went out through the Windscreen. The other one was
still in the car. The car, then flip over over the top of them
miss them and crashed and over, there when they brought them
into the training center 2 of them are totally knocked out
blood everywhere. And I was looking. We're all praying and
I'm thinking I was proud, but I think they got back please.
They look pretty bad and took him to the hospital and then
look good, but 3 days later on Sunday. They're all standing up
there at church at least the same 4 boys and it was just
amazing and Ronnie's getting into them. They had to stand up,
and apologize to the rest of the ministry that direct the Utd and
they sort of didn't. I didn't and really sort of got up and.
Play Bath, but I just saw. How did they survive they were
gone when I saw them and they're just miracles
happening just before you go and we got time for one more
story.
One more story there's so many stories make sure you buy. One
of these and there's also this DVD that has up there as well
till the story running about.
When you
But somewhere and the Holy Spirit told you to follow
the guy in the boat.
OK, this is a number of years ago, where 50 women and children
were all decapitated. And in their hands and feet were cut
off. This is a time you know where there was a bit onslaught
between people from another island and the day except with
terrible terrible time so but we plan to go to this tribe reboot
tribe, and we're going to do abcd. So we had a date planned
already this is what we're going to do this? How will approach it
from Lola and as we're doing that this guy came out of his
canoe out of the River.
On the left hand side and he walked straight up to me and he
says. You come with me, he said. With this news that you have now
you don't just go with anybody over there 'cause you still have
hostile tribes. There so I didn't fancy sort of ending up
in the soup over there with some try. But I just felt the Holy
Spirit, saying drop what you were doing today or plan today.
I want you to go with this guy, so me and my guys, we've got
into the canoe and there was a very narrow can never forget
because I'm not really a big person, but I could barely get
my backside in that thing and.
As a squeezed in there and he had the tribal chief had this 2
horsepower engine on the back and we put it up. This major
River and they went into another River in the young. Another
River and it was a maze of these waterways in the jungle and all
of a sudden, it started a little bit eerie because a lot of the
trees were overlapping one another. I was starting to get
darker as we were going in there and then all of a sudden this
huge Idol appear that they carved out of Iraq. You know
real demonic face on it, and it was smoldering underneath them,
and then on the right hand side
another one would. And I'm thinking Oh, God did I hear from
you correctly. Lord wasn't supposed to go with this guy. I
don't want to end up in the soup. Lord I have so many things
that I still want to do for you today. You know men have great
faith right am I afraid
sometimes absolutely. But anyway, I'm there in this canoe
and I'm thinking.
Who are these people load? What am I supposed to share with them
You can't just open up 'cause it their tribal people men might
understand a few things but the women and children. Definitely
not there, only understand things that they can relate to
in their own culture on their own village and so I thought,
What do you want me to say you have to speak to them in picture
form I can't just open up the word of God Say Jesus the Lamb
Of God, who takes away the sins of the world because they don't
even know what a lamb is right.
I've never seen a land never heard of a lamb there are no
lambs there. Now you could say Well, a lame is an animal with
four legs and ahead and goes barrel like this, but they have
no understanding of lamp so I often say Jesus the pig of the
world. It takes away the sins of the world that big of God, who
takes waves and so some Westerners. They come with me
***** You can't say that that's blasphemy, said no. It's not
they know nothing about a lamp. They know everything about the
pig. They buy their bride with their peak. They sprinkle the
blood from the Pico make offerings with the bigger do
everything with the peak. The pig is it so for now, it's the
peak of God later on when they?
Every day when they receive Jesus then we can introduce
Alama can bring a toy or something and plan and then
slowly show them what a lamb is so and if you can't handle that
go away. Go home anyway. So we're off and I'm thinking God?
What do you want me to share it wasn't prepared for this day and
we went on for hours and finally we come to this Lake and on the
other side of the Lake were all these tribal people watching
waving and I said to the trouble teacher said that look. They're
expecting you. He said no. They're expecting. You said how
could they be expecting me, I didn't even know it.
Coming here a couple hours ago. How could they be expecting me,
said oh news like this travels fast in the jungles here and our
3rd grade is that good news or is that bad news and I'm looking
to see if I could see this big bonfire. There praise God. There
wasn't. But you know what later on. When I got there. Later on,
I hurt that it wasn't just one tribe there were tribes.
Many tribes had come together becaus they heard that somebody
is coming to share with them a better great spirit. They knew
nothing about and they were all saying to one another. No
wonder. No Wonder Olds Terrible. Things are happening to us
'cause we haven't sacrificed anything to this great spirit
and so they're all wanted to come and know about this great
spirit? Who is this great spirit and so when hundreds of people
were sitting there on the floor and then all of a sudden the
tribal chief appointed to me, so it's OK, you come now stand Up
is a comfort front.
You speak. So I got up and I thought God I got nothing I got
nothing. You know, I stood there and I'm you know, I don't know
for how long I stood there and I sort of got 2 options here, one
run for my life, I don't even know where to run because I
don't even know where I am and so, but that wasn't an option.
God brought me there for a reason. And so I said, God I
haven't got a picture. You gotta give me something and so then I
remember the disciples that were standing in front of the sand.
Hedron and Jesus said. Don't worry what you will have to say,
I will give you the words. the Holy Spirit will give you the
words to speak so I grabbed in
the spirit. The hand of God and I said, Alright, Lord. Thank you
that you'll give me the words to speak and I made the first step
forward and the first step forward to go out the front. The
first step God gave me a
picture. I learned something then God never pushes us or
pulls us into submission or hits us with a 4B2 information right.
But he waits for us to be obedient to him. He waits for us
to trust him to obey him to step out in faith and do? What is
asked you to do and when I got out there I didn't even
introduce myself, but I said, You know, there is a great
spirits who created the heavens
and the earth. He created everything, including you and
me, and this great spirit. I said, You can't see him. I said,
but if you could to just imagine, we put him over here
here is the grade spirits and this great spirit created you
and me, so that we can have fellowship with him. He loves us
so incredibly much and all he wants is that we acknowledge him
and that we worship him and follow him. This great spirit
represent eternal life. Joy happiness all the great things
in life that him.
I said, but there's also an evil spirit and this evil spirit,
often you cannot see him either.
Many times so but just imagine he's over here. This gray this
evil spirit over here.
And this evil spirit represents death.
Death and war and jealousy in all the hard things in life.
That's him and as it did you know that every time every time
we bow down to the spirit of the River. We actually bound out
him. We spare down to the spirit of the tree in the spirit of the
son and the spirit of everything else. We're actually bowling
down to this evil spirit. Here have their backs turned to the
great spirit. You created us and this great spirit when he sees
us do that. He grieves because he didn't create us so that we
can follow him, but he created us so that we can have
fellowship with him. I said Ann as a result of in grieving so
much. I said he sent Lonely Sun to the earth and he sacrificed
him by nailing him to the cross so that you if you will now
receive him. But you will never have to make another sacrificed
ever again. Well, the people were so stand at this news
stands. And I said, You know what year somebody shared with
me? What I'm sharing with you today and I made a decision I
said. I made a decision to receive him and to do away with
them. I did away with them and I received him the Great Spirit,
who created me. And today as I'm sharing this with you, I cannot
make that decision for you.
You have to do that yourself.
You can receive him and do away with him. You cannot add
him to your collection here at his either him or them.
You have to do that yourself, so I invite you if you want to
receive this. Jesus this God. This great spirit and do away
with those birth come forward and we're going to pray. I had
no idea what was about to happen. But the old generation
first ran forward followed by the rest ran forward fell there
in front of my feet then started to weep great spirit. We did not
know we were allowed to do this we did not know that you
existed, please forgive us,
please forgive spirit. I they crying then I'm standing there
hovering over them and I'm crying there with them. And I
couldn't do anything I could pray with him, I couldn't say
anything. God was
Was working in this in this tribes life? A judge was birth
that moment and then I stood there. Not thinking God. I could
have missed this opportunities so badly. I couldn't talk. I am
busy today. I've already planned my day. I'll come back. Some
other day, the people were ripe for the picking today was the
day. Somebody had to come there and it happened to be a white
man with a long nose. He chose me to go. I'm nothing to admire.
And then I thought how many more of these tribes are just way
somebody to come and share with them as well that they don't
even know that there is a great
spirit. A God, who loves them.
And then I thought how many in our streets in our schools and
our workplaces and matter where you are really how many are
thinking. There's no hope anymore in this world.
And yet we have that we have that hope if we have Jesus in
us, we have that hope and we had to share it with them, not to
keep it for ourselves. God wants us to go into all the world.
And preach the good news.
Why? Because he loves mankind and he wants to give everybody
that opportunity so?
Not just for me for *******