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 Good morning, everyone.

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 If you'd like to keep your Bibles open there at Matthew 9,

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 we'll be going through that text in just a moment.

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 I moved from the country to Newtown, inner west,

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 to start studies at Moore College at the beginning of 1996.

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 I remember one of my first impressions was how many people there were,

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 in Sydney, that is.

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 See, I grew up on a farm, 120 acres between five people,

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 so my personal space consisted of about 25 acres.

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 But next door to us was a national park of about 80,000 acres,

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 and I used to play in there as well.

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 But when I used to start to work in there,

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 I could go for days without seeing a single soul.

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 In fact, there were certain areas of the park where I'd worked

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 that if you did see a single soul, it was very odd, very suspicious.

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 In fact, they were drug dealers or they were poachers or something like that.

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 It was really weird to see people in some areas of the park.

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 It wasn't one of those national parks which was flooded with tourists all the time.

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 And so in the middle of winter, you could be a whole week and not see a single soul.

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 And so I've got 80,000 acres all to myself.

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 And if I ever did find a single soul, I'd be more than happy to spend the day with them.

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 And moving from that kind of environment to Sydney,

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 I was immediately struck by the number of people and how close everyone was to you.

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 One of my first impressions, walking down King Street, Newtown,

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 and pulling up at a set of lights, pushing the button.

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 I believed you had to push it six times because apparently I'd changed the lights,

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 but it turned out that that was actually just a myth.

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 That never works.

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 It took me 10 years to work that one out.

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 Standing there waiting to cross the road and all of a sudden this bloke comes straight up and

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 right beside me.

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 Like we're touching.

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 And I'm thinking, is there no more room here?

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 I have never stood that close to someone without giving them a hug or having a conversation with them.

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 And so I did.

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 I put out my hand and introduced myself to this guy, completely ignored me.

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 He just looked at me and then looked away and then the light went green and poof, off he went across the road.

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 It was a weird experience for me.

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 Kind of like standing in a lift in those early days.

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 We didn't have lifts in Narrabri.

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 Or traffic lights.

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 Standing in a lift.

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 It was completely odd for me to have all these people crushed in on me.

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 And we're standing there in total silence just looking at the numbers.

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 Waiting for our turn to come.

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 So that we could exit.

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 No one saying anything to anyone.

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 Kind of like an awkward prayer meeting where you're looking at the watch just hoping someone either prays something or this thing shuts down real soon.

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 After 16 years of Sydney, it's changed me.

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 I don't care if someone stands beside me at the light so they don't say anything anymore.

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 I'm really grateful when no one speaks to me in the lift now.

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 There are few things I think more tiring than constant exposure to people.

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 It is even more tiring when you are constantly serving them or ministering to them.

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 Mothers with little children have certainly got something to say about that.

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 I think there's no one more tired than I know than mothers with little children.

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 Living in Sydney means that we are surrounded.

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 We are, in fact, we see hundreds of people every day if not thousands.

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 And we are certainly mindful of millions more.

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 Especially a rush hour on a train.

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 Constantly exposed to people.

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 Natalie and I went to the zoo yesterday.

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 Took the girls to the zoo.

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 We normally go on a Friday on my day off.

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 But we went yesterday.

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 The whole time there I'm thinking it's going to be busy.

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 It's going to be busy.

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 It's going to be busy.

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 And it was busy.

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 I mean, I knew it would be.

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 But you couldn't even get in to see the big cats.

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 I mean, what's the point of going to the zoo if you can't stand there and gawk across at an animal that could potentially eat you and would love to if it wasn't for the glass there?

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 And you could sit there and poke at it and annoy it a little bit.

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 I mean, what's the point of going to the zoo if you can't get to the big cats?

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 Well, I suppose you could if you were patient enough with people to stand in line and wait your turn.

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 I wasn't.

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 I am weary of constant exposure to people.

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 I'm looking forward to long service leave.

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 And more exposure to people in school holidays in Queensland.

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 And so is our society, weary of the constant exposure to people.

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 It's evidenced in a number of ways, but especially in the withdrawal into the comfort and the privacy and the security of our domestic caves.

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 We treat our homes like fortresses that visitors may approach only with great care.

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 The market for domestic security systems continues to grow.

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 Bars are appearing on windows.

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 Suburban fences, which came down in the open and accommodating 50s and 60s, have gone back up in the last 30, 40 years.

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 Entertainment and recreation facilities are being installed.

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 We phone for pizza.

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 We can shop from our computers.

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 We minimise the need to go out as we retreat further and further away from people into our domestic caves.

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 And the great irony, of course, is that loneliness is skyrocketing as we retreat more and more into our domestic caves.

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 The other problem linked with that is the emotional burnout from overexposure to people is the emotional exposure to people with issues.

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 That is particularly heightened for us in the media.

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 Once upon a time, news of hostility on the other side of the world would take weeks, months even, sometimes even years before we would hear about it.

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 Now, a few shots are fired in some distant country and we know about it by the nightly news.

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 And we're already tired from people.

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 And as we see it again, these issues in the world, our compassion dries up in the face of human need.

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 Worse still is that we seem to be called on to be compassionate again and again and again and nothing ever seems to change.

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 We see the ads on TV of starving children and so we get one, two, three World Vision kids and yet the ads keep playing.

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 There are always starving children and so we harden ourselves a little bit more to the needs of people.

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 It's much easier to theologise about evil and suffering than to weep over it or to do something about it.

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 Now, desensitisation to human physical and psychological need flows over into their spiritual need.

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 This month we're focusing on local and global impact and I want to ask the question, is local and global impact even a possibility?

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 Is it even a possibility?

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 The need is enormous.

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 Over 55 million people die every year.

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 55 million people.

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 And the vast majority of them into a Christless eternity.

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 So many are lost.

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 So few are actually saved.

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 And yet how many times has the gospel been preached?

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 How many leaflets have we put in letter boxes?

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 How many children have sat through scripture classes?

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 How many mission teams?

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 How many doors are knocked?

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 And we are told here in Matthew 9 that the harvest is plentiful.

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 Is it?

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 Is it really?

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 See, I think Jesus was in danger of overexposure to people too.

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 Look at there in verse 35.

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 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.

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 Wouldn't it be great to have a couple of Jesus amongst us?

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 According to one Jewish historian, there were 204 villages and towns in Galilee that Jesus went amongst.

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 And each of these villages and towns had a population of at least 15,000 people.

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 And so even if the actual figure was less than the estimated 3 million people, there was still a significant population called here in Matthew 9, the crowds.

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 And if Jesus was to speak in two of those villages and towns a day, it would take him four months to get through them all.

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 Apart from the sheer energy needed to keep up with that pace, there is an enormous emotional drain of serving so many people.

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 The crowds, the masses.

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 And yet what is Jesus' response to the masses?

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 Verse 36.

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 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd.

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 See, people without Christ are like sheep without a shepherd.

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 They will soon run out of pasture and they will die.

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 Or they will get lost or they will get caught in a bush and they will die.

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 In the meantime, they harassed, they are bullied, they are bruised, they are beaten, they are helpless, they are exploited, they are adrift.

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 They are moving as a flock, as a big crowd, but knowing not why or where.

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 See, the unbelievers you know, your neighbours, your friends, your colleagues, may not on the surface appear to fit that description.

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 But do not be misled by the shell of assurance, of self-assurance.

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 See, if you see them with the eyes of Christ, you will realise, you will recognise, you will see sheep without a shepherd.

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 Behind the sinful behaviours lie frustration and exploitation and despair and hopelessness.

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 We are so often confused by the shell of self-assurance when we look at people.

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 In the same way, you would be confused on a Friday afternoon, seeing a sheep standing in the water of a dam.

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 Late night, the sun's falling down and you think, there's a sheep after a whole long week of grazing.

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 Is there taking in the water views, watching the sunset.

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 When in actual fact, it's stuck in a dam.

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 And if I don't go in and rescue it, it will die.

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 It's not enjoying the water views.

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 It's not about when you see a sheep.

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 But it's not about a thing.

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 It's not about a thing.

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 And Jesus' response is compassion because he sees the need.

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 And the word means to be moved within one's stomach, to have a gut-wrenching feeling of pity towards someone.

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 it's to have your stomach turn

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 and your emotions moved in the face of human need

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 do you remember the last time you felt that?

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 do you remember the last time when you felt such strong pity?

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 I suspect if I grab my baby Amelia now

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 and took all her clothes off

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 and in this cold building later on the floor there

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 and you heard a scream

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 I imagine you would feel the pity in that moment for her

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 and repulse at me for doing it

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 see I remember one such time

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 I remember the baby of a couple that I married

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 who had surgery on his heart which went really wrong

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 it was serious surgery but it was supposed to be routine

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 and I remember sitting in the room with the doctors

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 and the parents and the grandparents

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 when the specialist said

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 we're sorry but your son has got a 50-50 chance of survival

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 I felt like pulling a coin out of my pocket and flicking it

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 I don't like 50-50

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 they said we're doing all that we can

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 but we just don't know what the outcome will be

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 and the tears just flowed

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 parents, grandparents and even the doctors

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 I remember going with them and standing beside their baby's bed

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 I remember the tiny lifeless body

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 filled with cables and tubes

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 so that mum and dad could only just touch the toes

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 I remember the parents

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 they weren't even able to hold their child

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 I remember the desperate situation

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 I remember the knot in my stomach

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 I have to ask myself

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 do I feel that pity

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 for my unbelieving neighbours

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 and friends and strangers

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 and I think that my friends is our first need

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 is it not from this text

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 our need is to feel compassion

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 because of their need

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 if we misdiagnose the condition

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 we won't be pleading for the right solution

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 our need is to have the compassion of Jesus

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 compassion is a work of grace in our hearts

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 it's not the product of works

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 it is the product of prayer

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 earnest prayer at the throne room of God

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 fill me with compassion

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 give me love

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 have you become desensitised

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 to the crowd of shepherdless sheep

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 around five years ago

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 in this country

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 64% of the population

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 had a nominal adherence to Christianity

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 less than 25% of those people

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 actually went to church regularly

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 that is less than 16% of the population

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 went to church regularly

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 and even if we assume

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 that the 16%

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 who attended church regularly

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 we were committed to Christ

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 that means there's a full

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 which I think is a fairly wild assumption

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 there is a full

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 84% of our fellow citizens

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 who make no pretense

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 of knowing Christ

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 at 149.32 seconds

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 on Wednesday afternoon this week

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 the population of our country

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 was 22,893,569

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 84% of that is about 19 million people

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 19 million sheep without a shepherd

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 that's the need

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 these people

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 no matter how good they are

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 or how bad

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 are not saved

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 19 million sheep

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 without a shepherd

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 19 million who cannot know

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 the ultimate meaning of life

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 they cannot have

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 a purified

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 clean conscious before God

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 and without Christ

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 they have no eternal hope

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 there is the need

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 and our need is to feel compassion

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 because of their need

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 and as we begin mission month

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 we need to be praying for compassion

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 more than anything else

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 when confronted with the crowds

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 Jesus doesn't just see hopelessness

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 and need though

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 he sees potential

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 see it there in verse 37

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 then he said to his disciples

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 the harvest is plentiful

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 but the workers are few

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 you see Jesus saw an amazing potential

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 the harvest is plentiful

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 the metaphor changes here

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 unbelievers are not just sheep

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 who are in trouble

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 they are also wheat

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 that can be harvested

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 you see we need to see

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 with the eyes of Christ

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 to not only see the lostness of people

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 but also to see

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 with his eyes

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 to see the expectancy

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 and the hopefulness

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 of the harvest

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 do you look at your neighbours

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 and your colleagues

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 and your friends

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 and your classmates

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 with the real sense

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 that here is a potential follower

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 of the Lord Jesus

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 it has probably been so long

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 since the Lord has used most of us

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 to lead a person

00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:34.139
 from unbelief to faith in Christ

00:18:34.140 --> 00:18:35.460
 that we actually wonder

00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:37.020
 whether there is any potential left

00:18:37.020 --> 00:18:40.320
 we still know

00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:41.580
 that there is a terrible lostness

00:18:41.580 --> 00:18:42.000
 in the world

00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:42.880
 and we still feel

00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:44.060
 some compassion

00:18:44.060 --> 00:18:45.200
 when we let ourselves

00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:46.020
 think about it

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 but potential

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 we wonder

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 could there ever be

00:18:51.180 --> 00:18:52.200
 a harvest time

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 in my life

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 after so many years

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 of fruitlessness

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 well the answer

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 is

00:19:00.579 --> 00:19:02.259
 resoundingly

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 yes

00:19:02.980 --> 00:19:06.640
 when Jesus said

00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:07.620
 in Luke 18

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 that it is hard

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 for rich people

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 to enter the kingdom

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 the disciples responded

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 well who then

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 can be saved

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 it seemed

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 at that moment

00:19:15.539 --> 00:19:16.519
 for the disciples

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 that Jesus

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 was taking away

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 all potential

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 for harvest

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 for them

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 but actually

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 what he was doing

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 was laying

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 a new basis

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 for the potential

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 he answers them

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 what is impossible

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 with men

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 is possible

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 with God

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 you see

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 notice here

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 in Matthew 9

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 whose harvest

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 it is

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 it is his harvest

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 he is the

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 lord

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 of the harvest

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 the king

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 of the harvest

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 the boss

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 of the harvest

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 and it is

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 his

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 harvest field

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 it is his

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 paddock

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 and it is

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 his crop

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 it's not ours

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 and if we are

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 going to have

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 a harvest time

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 at St Paul's

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 it will not be

00:20:01.360 --> 00:20:02.799
 because there are

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 so many competent

00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:04.920
 communicators

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 it won't be

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 because we

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 door knock

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 ten times more

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 than we do now

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 it won't be

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 because we have

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 organised ourselves

00:20:12.700 --> 00:20:13.299
 well

00:20:13.299 --> 00:20:14.980
 the harvest we want

00:20:14.980 --> 00:20:15.779
 is impossible

00:20:15.779 --> 00:20:17.000
 for us

00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:17.860
 to do

00:20:17.860 --> 00:20:21.960
 new birth

00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:22.640
 birth is a miracle

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 you see my friends

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 in case you are

00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:25.860
 confused

00:20:25.860 --> 00:20:26.680
 or a bit

00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:27.200
 cynical

00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:28.960
 our goal

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 is not

00:20:29.660 --> 00:20:30.940
 a big church

00:20:30.940 --> 00:20:32.180
 our goal

00:20:32.180 --> 00:20:32.840
 is not

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 impressive

00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:34.940
 statistical

00:20:34.940 --> 00:20:36.079
 charts

00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:37.000
 our goal

00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:37.720
 is to see

00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:38.319
 God

00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:39.120
 do

00:20:39.120 --> 00:20:40.340
 the impossible

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 through failures

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 like

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 me

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 and you

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 that is the way

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 it has happened

00:20:51.140 --> 00:20:51.700
 in history

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 and that is how

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 it will happen

00:20:52.860 --> 00:20:53.200
 again

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 in God's

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 time

00:20:54.180 --> 00:20:54.759
 he will

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 perform

00:20:55.280 --> 00:20:55.780
 the miracle

00:20:55.780 --> 00:20:56.580
 of harvest

00:20:56.580 --> 00:20:57.880
 and it will

00:20:57.880 --> 00:20:58.820
 be marvellous

00:20:58.820 --> 00:20:59.759
 in our eyes

00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:02.860
 what then

00:21:02.860 --> 00:21:03.500
 should we do

00:21:03.500 --> 00:21:05.380
 should we

00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:06.000
 begin with

00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:06.860
 training sessions

00:21:06.860 --> 00:21:07.720
 to multiply

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 the number

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 of evangelists

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 should we

00:21:09.840 --> 00:21:10.380
 develop a

00:21:10.380 --> 00:21:11.240
 major recruitment

00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:11.820
 strategy

00:21:11.820 --> 00:21:12.220
 should we

00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:12.840
 build a few

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 strategically

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 placed

00:21:14.320 --> 00:21:15.160
 bible colleges

00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:16.020
 or should we

00:21:16.020 --> 00:21:16.600
 begin by

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 establishing

00:21:17.100 --> 00:21:17.780
 two or three

00:21:17.780 --> 00:21:18.360
 international

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 foundations

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 to help

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 pay for

00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:20.699
 everything

00:21:20.699 --> 00:21:20.979
 that we

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 want to

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 do

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 at some

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 point we

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 may need

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 to do

00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:25.319
 all those

00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:25.819
 things

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 but get

00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:28.419
 this point

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 they are

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 secondary

00:21:31.199 --> 00:21:31.959
 steps

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 considerable

00:21:34.859 --> 00:21:35.559
 effort

00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:36.299
 needs to be

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 poured

00:21:36.919 --> 00:21:37.519
 into the

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 primary

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 step

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 action is

00:21:41.199 --> 00:21:41.699
 demanded

00:21:41.699 --> 00:21:42.399
 and Jesus

00:21:42.399 --> 00:21:43.259
 calls for it

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 in verse 38

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 asks the

00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:46.779
 lord of the

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 harvest

00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:47.839
 therefore to

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 send out

00:21:48.360 --> 00:21:49.299
 workers into

00:21:49.299 --> 00:21:49.960
 his harvest

00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:50.380
 field

00:21:50.380 --> 00:21:52.500
 in sync

00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:53.100
 with his

00:21:53.100 --> 00:21:53.940
 compassion for

00:21:53.940 --> 00:21:54.480
 the lost

00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:55.799
 Jesus calls

00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:56.559
 us here to

00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:57.460
 beg

00:21:57.460 --> 00:21:58.799
 God

00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:00.620
 to plead

00:22:00.620 --> 00:22:01.460
 with God

00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:02.519
 to send out

00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:03.160
 workers into

00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:03.720
 the harvest

00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:04.200
 field

00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:07.799
 you see I

00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:08.620
 still remember

00:22:08.619 --> 00:22:10.879
 the gut

00:22:10.879 --> 00:22:11.500
 wrenching

00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:12.000
 pity

00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:12.899
 and sorrow

00:22:12.899 --> 00:22:13.399
 that I

00:22:13.399 --> 00:22:13.919
 felt for

00:22:13.919 --> 00:22:14.619
 that baby's

00:22:14.619 --> 00:22:15.000
 dad and

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:15.519
 mum as we

00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:16.519
 stood around

00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:17.199
 that hospital

00:22:17.199 --> 00:22:17.559
 bed

00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:19.059
 I used to

00:22:19.059 --> 00:22:19.519
 go to the

00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:20.259
 hospital and

00:22:20.259 --> 00:22:20.819
 sit with

00:22:20.819 --> 00:22:21.299
 them and

00:22:21.299 --> 00:22:21.899
 pray with

00:22:21.899 --> 00:22:22.899
 them most

00:22:22.899 --> 00:22:24.179
 days and

00:22:24.179 --> 00:22:24.959
 cry with

00:22:24.959 --> 00:22:25.299
 them for

00:22:25.299 --> 00:22:25.919
 most days

00:22:25.919 --> 00:22:26.799
 I remember

00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:27.879
 pleading with

00:22:27.879 --> 00:22:29.159
 God like I

00:22:29.159 --> 00:22:30.019
 have never

00:22:30.019 --> 00:22:30.879
 pled with

00:22:30.879 --> 00:22:31.339
 God

00:22:31.339 --> 00:22:33.119
 I remember

00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:33.539
 on one

00:22:33.539 --> 00:22:34.019
 occasion

00:22:34.019 --> 00:22:36.000
 being barely

00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:36.939
 able to

00:22:36.940 --> 00:22:38.460
 hold it in

00:22:38.460 --> 00:22:39.400
 as I

00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:40.140
 walked through

00:22:40.140 --> 00:22:41.000
 the hospital

00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:42.559
 foyer out

00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:43.220
 to the car

00:22:43.220 --> 00:22:44.519
 park and

00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:45.100
 I remember

00:22:45.100 --> 00:22:45.880
 opening my

00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:46.580
 car door and

00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:47.200
 hopping in my

00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:47.779
 car and I

00:22:47.779 --> 00:22:48.279
 could not

00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:48.820
 hold it in

00:22:48.820 --> 00:22:49.380
 any longer

00:22:49.380 --> 00:22:50.440
 I remember

00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:51.920
 grabbing hold

00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:52.820
 of the steering

00:22:52.820 --> 00:22:53.580
 wheel and

00:22:53.580 --> 00:22:55.299
 sobbing and

00:22:55.299 --> 00:22:56.640
 pleading with

00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:57.900
 God to

00:22:57.900 --> 00:22:58.840
 save

00:22:58.840 --> 00:23:03.779
 pleading with

00:23:03.779 --> 00:23:04.220
 him to

00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:04.840
 save

00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:06.740
 life and

00:23:06.740 --> 00:23:07.279
 I remember

00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:08.079
 by the time

00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:08.699
 that I got

00:23:08.699 --> 00:23:10.319
 home pleading

00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:11.379
 with God all

00:23:11.379 --> 00:23:12.279
 the way home

00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:13.559
 in such a way

00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:14.359
 that my shirt

00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:15.319
 was wet with

00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:15.939
 tears

00:23:15.939 --> 00:23:23.339
 the word here

00:23:23.339 --> 00:23:23.720
 is to

00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:24.159
 plead

00:23:24.159 --> 00:23:27.359
 it's to

00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:27.720
 beg

00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:32.039
 that the

00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:32.579
 Lord of the

00:23:32.579 --> 00:23:33.319
 harvest will

00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:34.500
 cast out

00:23:34.500 --> 00:23:35.319
 workers

00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:37.500
 begging God

00:23:37.500 --> 00:23:38.299
 to throw

00:23:38.299 --> 00:23:39.720
 workers out

00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:40.299
 into the

00:23:40.299 --> 00:23:40.880
 paddock

00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:41.960
 literally

00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.880
 the begging

00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:46.299
 is linked

00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:47.019
 with compassion

00:23:47.019 --> 00:23:47.880
 it comes out

00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:48.500
 of compassion

00:23:48.500 --> 00:23:49.420
 it is the

00:23:49.420 --> 00:23:49.940
 action that

00:23:49.940 --> 00:23:50.660
 follows the

00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:51.180
 feeling of

00:23:51.180 --> 00:23:51.740
 compassion

00:23:51.740 --> 00:23:54.539
 isn't it

00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:55.480
 strange though

00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:56.279
 for a thing

00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:56.920
 to plead

00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:58.420
 for God

00:23:58.420 --> 00:23:58.960
 to raise

00:23:58.960 --> 00:23:59.720
 up workers

00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:01.060
 it is

00:24:01.060 --> 00:24:01.960
 strange that

00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:02.660
 the farm

00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:03.360
 hands

00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:04.320
 should be

00:24:04.320 --> 00:24:05.200
 told to

00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:06.380
 beg the

00:24:06.380 --> 00:24:07.440
 owner of

00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:08.220
 the farm

00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:09.160
 to send

00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:09.680
 out more

00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:10.420
 workers into

00:24:10.420 --> 00:24:11.160
 the harvest

00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:13.500
 surely

00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:14.920
 Jesus doesn't

00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:15.560
 mean to imply

00:24:15.560 --> 00:24:15.960
 that God

00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:16.720
 doesn't know

00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:17.300
 that there's a

00:24:17.300 --> 00:24:17.779
 shortage of

00:24:17.779 --> 00:24:18.500
 harvesters

00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:19.660
 or surely

00:24:19.660 --> 00:24:20.080
 he doesn't

00:24:20.080 --> 00:24:20.539
 mean that God

00:24:20.539 --> 00:24:21.420
 doesn't care

00:24:21.420 --> 00:24:22.140
 whether the

00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:22.980
 harvest comes

00:24:22.980 --> 00:24:23.519
 in

00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:25.519
 why then

00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:26.059
 are the

00:24:26.059 --> 00:24:27.240
 farm hands

00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:27.879
 told to

00:24:27.879 --> 00:24:29.139
 beg the

00:24:29.139 --> 00:24:29.859
 farmer for

00:24:29.859 --> 00:24:30.579
 more help

00:24:30.579 --> 00:24:33.139
 I think

00:24:33.139 --> 00:24:33.859
 something very

00:24:33.859 --> 00:24:34.420
 important is

00:24:34.420 --> 00:24:35.039
 happening here

00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:36.299
 there is one

00:24:36.299 --> 00:24:37.139
 possible answer

00:24:37.139 --> 00:24:37.740
 and it may be

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:38.779
 the only answer

00:24:38.779 --> 00:24:40.099
 certainly the only one

00:24:40.099 --> 00:24:40.720
 that I could come

00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:41.180
 up with

00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:43.700
 God has

00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:44.440
 willed

00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:45.420
 that his

00:24:45.420 --> 00:24:46.660
 miraculous work

00:24:46.660 --> 00:24:47.559
 of harvesting

00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:48.660
 be preceded

00:24:48.660 --> 00:24:49.779
 by this

00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:50.240
 kind of

00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:50.559
 prayer

00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:55.980
 before he

00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:56.339
 does a

00:24:56.339 --> 00:24:57.220
 great work

00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:58.339
 he moves

00:24:58.339 --> 00:24:59.039
 his people

00:24:59.039 --> 00:24:59.899
 to pray

00:24:59.899 --> 00:25:01.819
 greatly

00:25:01.819 --> 00:25:02.460
 for that

00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:02.879
 work

00:25:02.879 --> 00:25:06.859
 I wish

00:25:06.859 --> 00:25:07.200
 I could

00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:07.759
 say that

00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:08.379
 I've always

00:25:08.379 --> 00:25:09.139
 been faithful

00:25:09.139 --> 00:25:09.679
 to this

00:25:09.679 --> 00:25:10.119
 call to

00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:10.460
 prayer

00:25:10.460 --> 00:25:11.659
 to my

00:25:11.659 --> 00:25:12.440
 great shame

00:25:12.440 --> 00:25:12.940
 I have

00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:13.319
 not

00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:17.839
 but I'm

00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:18.279
 convinced

00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:18.720
 that the

00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:19.379
 really great

00:25:19.379 --> 00:25:19.779
 issues

00:25:19.779 --> 00:25:20.819
 before us

00:25:20.819 --> 00:25:22.259
 will be

00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:22.579
 settled

00:25:22.579 --> 00:25:23.019
 on our

00:25:23.019 --> 00:25:23.599
 knees

00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:26.720
 that doesn't

00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:27.019
 mean we

00:25:27.019 --> 00:25:27.359
 don't do

00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:27.660
 anything

00:25:27.660 --> 00:25:28.160
 except

00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:28.619
 prayer

00:25:28.619 --> 00:25:31.579
 it does

00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:32.139
 mean

00:25:32.139 --> 00:25:33.579
 it does

00:25:33.579 --> 00:25:34.160
 mean

00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:35.559
 that we

00:25:35.559 --> 00:25:36.039
 should do

00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:36.399
 nothing

00:25:36.399 --> 00:25:37.000
 without

00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:37.579
 prayer

00:25:37.579 --> 00:25:41.480
 it is

00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:41.940
 true that

00:25:41.940 --> 00:25:42.500
 God often

00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:43.359
 uses means

00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:44.639
 it is also

00:25:44.639 --> 00:25:45.180
 true that

00:25:45.180 --> 00:25:45.579
 we often

00:25:45.579 --> 00:25:46.299
 focus on

00:25:46.299 --> 00:25:46.779
 the means

00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:47.279
 and forget

00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:47.779
 the really

00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:48.440
 significant

00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:49.180
 work must

00:25:49.180 --> 00:25:49.740
 be God's

00:25:49.740 --> 00:25:50.060
 work

00:25:50.060 --> 00:25:51.539
 otherwise

00:25:51.539 --> 00:25:52.160
 it will

00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:52.880
 all come

00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:53.440
 to naught

00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:55.740
 Jesus'

00:25:55.980 --> 00:25:56.600
 compassion

00:25:56.600 --> 00:25:57.779
 issues in

00:25:57.779 --> 00:25:58.279
 prayer and

00:25:58.279 --> 00:25:59.000
 in a call

00:25:59.000 --> 00:25:59.720
 for us

00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:00.220
 to pray

00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:02.140
 and it

00:26:02.140 --> 00:26:02.539
 may be

00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:02.840
 that if

00:26:02.840 --> 00:26:03.380
 we fail

00:26:03.380 --> 00:26:03.980
 to pray

00:26:03.980 --> 00:26:05.140
 it is

00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:05.660
 because

00:26:05.660 --> 00:26:06.039
 our

00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:06.640
 compassion

00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:07.640
 is

00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:08.500
 defective

00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:11.700
 or it

00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:12.200
 may mean

00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:12.480
 that we

00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:12.640
 are

00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:13.380
 compassionate

00:26:13.380 --> 00:26:15.299
 but we

00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:15.660
 are

00:26:15.660 --> 00:26:16.240
 naive

00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:18.039
 and we

00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:18.240
 have

00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:19.299
 misdiagnosed

00:26:19.299 --> 00:26:19.839
 the real

00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:20.519
 problem

00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:23.400
 that is

00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:23.880
 we don't

00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:24.200
 clearly

00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:25.019
 understand

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:25.819
 the

00:26:25.819 --> 00:26:26.259
 utter

00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:26.819
 plight

00:26:26.819 --> 00:26:27.319
 of the

00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:27.680
 lost

00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:29.680
 lost

00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:30.320
 and if

00:26:30.320 --> 00:26:30.740
 this is

00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:31.440
 the case

00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:32.100
 if we

00:26:32.100 --> 00:26:32.539
 don't

00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:32.920
 truly

00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:33.779
 understand

00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:34.060
 the

00:26:34.060 --> 00:26:34.400
 utter

00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:34.840
 plight

00:26:34.840 --> 00:26:35.140
 of the

00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:35.519
 lost

00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:36.660
 we

00:26:36.660 --> 00:26:36.920
 will

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:37.360
 throw

00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:38.660
 all of

00:26:38.660 --> 00:26:38.880
 our

00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:39.539
 efforts

00:26:39.539 --> 00:26:40.340
 or the

00:26:40.340 --> 00:26:40.680
 vast

00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.500
 majority

00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:41.980
 of our

00:26:41.980 --> 00:26:42.519
 efforts

00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:44.160
 into the

00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:44.840
 secondary

00:26:44.840 --> 00:26:46.019
 solutions

00:26:46.019 --> 00:26:47.759
 even the

00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:48.420
 best

00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:49.080
 secondary

00:26:49.080 --> 00:26:49.720
 solutions

00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:50.220
 that we

00:26:50.220 --> 00:26:50.900
 can find

00:26:50.900 --> 00:26:51.960
 and we

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:52.539
 will spend

00:26:52.539 --> 00:26:53.120
 our time

00:26:53.120 --> 00:26:53.840
 arguing

00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:54.399
 over

00:26:54.399 --> 00:26:55.099
 the

00:26:55.099 --> 00:26:55.639
 best

00:26:55.639 --> 00:26:56.319
 secondary

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:57.079
 solutions

00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:57.500
 that we

00:26:57.500 --> 00:26:58.199
 can find

00:26:58.199 --> 00:27:01.579
 while not

00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:02.359
 pleading for

00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:02.959
 the primary

00:27:02.959 --> 00:27:03.619
 solution

00:27:03.619 --> 00:27:04.859
 pleading for

00:27:04.859 --> 00:27:05.339
 God to

00:27:05.339 --> 00:27:05.759
 do his

00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:06.159
 work

00:27:06.159 --> 00:27:09.179
 and so

00:27:09.179 --> 00:27:09.579
 my friends

00:27:09.579 --> 00:27:10.240
 we begin

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:10.939
 mission month

00:27:10.939 --> 00:27:11.939
 2012

00:27:11.939 --> 00:27:12.399
 and the

00:27:12.399 --> 00:27:12.699
 global

00:27:12.699 --> 00:27:13.399
 task is

00:27:13.399 --> 00:27:13.899
 huge

00:27:13.899 --> 00:27:14.939
 the needs

00:27:14.939 --> 00:27:15.839
 seem endless

00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.539
 the local

00:27:16.539 --> 00:27:17.199
 task is

00:27:17.199 --> 00:27:18.000
 huge too

00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.399
 forget about

00:27:19.399 --> 00:27:19.879
 the global

00:27:19.879 --> 00:27:20.480
 task

00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:21.740
 the local

00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:22.379
 task is

00:27:22.379 --> 00:27:22.740
 huge

00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:23.960
 I want

00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:24.359
 to talk

00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:24.640
 about

00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:25.039
 harvest

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:25.539
 time here

00:27:25.539 --> 00:27:25.839
 at St

00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:26.180
 Paul's

00:27:26.180 --> 00:27:26.720
 because if

00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:26.980
 we are

00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:27.799
 not engaged

00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:28.720
 in harvest

00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.339
 time here

00:27:29.339 --> 00:27:29.640
 at St

00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:30.240
 Paul's

00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:30.940
 I want

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:31.140
 to be

00:27:31.140 --> 00:27:31.740
 frank with

00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:31.940
 you

00:27:31.940 --> 00:27:32.720
 we will

00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:33.220
 never be

00:27:33.220 --> 00:27:33.500
 truly

00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:34.339
 engaged

00:27:34.339 --> 00:27:34.779
 with harvest

00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:35.180
 time in

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:35.460
 Africa

00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:38.319
 we will

00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:38.940
 never be

00:27:38.940 --> 00:27:39.579
 truly engaged

00:27:39.579 --> 00:27:39.980
 with harvest

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:40.380
 time in

00:27:40.380 --> 00:27:40.680
 Africa

00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:41.799
 in fact

00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:43.039
 I said

00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:43.420
 to you a

00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:43.740
 number of

00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:44.200
 months ago

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:44.680
 one of the

00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:45.279
 signs of a

00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:45.700
 declining

00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:46.359
 church is

00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:46.599
 that we

00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:47.200
 actually put

00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:47.940
 our efforts

00:27:47.940 --> 00:27:49.240
 into harvest

00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:49.720
 times in

00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:50.380
 Africa and

00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:51.680
 everywhere else

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:52.380
 rather than

00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:53.020
 our local

00:27:53.020 --> 00:27:55.580
 local harvest

00:27:55.580 --> 00:27:59.320
 we have a

00:27:59.320 --> 00:28:00.040
 mission objective

00:28:00.040 --> 00:28:01.000
 of 500 in

00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:01.680
 attendance by

00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:02.600
 the end of

00:28:02.600 --> 00:28:06.200
 2012 and

00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:06.660
 our mission

00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:07.560
 objective is

00:28:07.560 --> 00:28:08.360
 not to steal

00:28:08.360 --> 00:28:08.940
 sheep from

00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:09.640
 someone else's

00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:12.800
 paddock but

00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:13.580
 for lost sheep

00:28:13.580 --> 00:28:14.240
 to find their

00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:14.580
 shepherd

00:28:14.580 --> 00:28:18.140
 our objective

00:28:18.140 --> 00:28:19.540
 is for people

00:28:19.540 --> 00:28:20.580
 to be rescued

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:21.859
 by the Lord

00:28:21.859 --> 00:28:22.639
 Jesus so let

00:28:22.639 --> 00:28:22.939
 me be

00:28:22.939 --> 00:28:23.379
 absolutely

00:28:23.379 --> 00:28:23.939
 frank with

00:28:23.939 --> 00:28:24.960
 you if

00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:25.379
 by the

00:28:25.379 --> 00:28:25.779
 end of

00:28:25.779 --> 00:28:27.539
 2014 we

00:28:27.539 --> 00:28:28.359
 have 600

00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:29.059
 people in

00:28:29.059 --> 00:28:30.599
 services every

00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:32.139
 Sunday but

00:28:32.139 --> 00:28:32.839
 our records

00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:33.639
 show that we've

00:28:33.639 --> 00:28:34.319
 only baptized

00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:35.279
 people in the

00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:35.839
 last three

00:28:35.839 --> 00:28:36.240
 years about

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.359
 20 people in

00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:38.000
 the last three

00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:38.740
 years I would

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:39.500
 sit back and

00:28:39.500 --> 00:28:40.779
 say we have

00:28:40.779 --> 00:28:41.960
 not succeeded

00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:46.980
 I will not

00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:47.579
 call it a

00:28:47.579 --> 00:28:48.180
 success

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:51.380
 even though it

00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:51.880
 will look like

00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:52.799
 it

00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:56.039
 let's pray

00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:56.759
 about harvest

00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:57.140
 time at

00:28:57.140 --> 00:28:57.880
 St Paul's

00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:59.740
 I don't know

00:28:59.740 --> 00:29:00.460
 what God will

00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:00.940
 do amongst

00:29:00.940 --> 00:29:01.420
 us I don't

00:29:01.420 --> 00:29:02.360
 know if

00:29:02.360 --> 00:29:04.019
 2012 or

00:29:04.019 --> 00:29:04.600
 13 or

00:29:04.600 --> 00:29:06.460
 14 is the

00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:07.299
 season of

00:29:07.299 --> 00:29:08.120
 harvest amongst

00:29:08.120 --> 00:29:08.620
 us it may

00:29:08.620 --> 00:29:09.880
 not be I

00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:10.460
 know as your

00:29:10.460 --> 00:29:11.319
 pastor that I'm

00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:11.859
 not broken

00:29:11.859 --> 00:29:12.559
 enough yet and

00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:12.919
 I'm not

00:29:12.919 --> 00:29:13.559
 yielding enough

00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:14.039
 yet and I'm

00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:14.659
 not compassionate

00:29:14.659 --> 00:29:15.480
 enough yet and

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.240
 I'm not praying

00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:18.359
 enough yet maybe

00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:19.579
 we have to wait

00:29:19.579 --> 00:29:23.819
 until 2025 but

00:29:23.819 --> 00:29:24.480
 maybe not

00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:28.019
 firstly we must

00:29:28.019 --> 00:29:28.659
 pray for our

00:29:28.659 --> 00:29:31.500
 own hearts I

00:29:31.500 --> 00:29:31.819
 read an

00:29:31.819 --> 00:29:32.619
 interesting article

00:29:32.619 --> 00:29:33.339
 this week that

00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:34.259
 said atheists

00:29:34.259 --> 00:29:36.379
 give to need

00:29:36.379 --> 00:29:37.339
 because of

00:29:37.339 --> 00:29:39.399
 compassion and

00:29:39.399 --> 00:29:40.399
 Christians are

00:29:40.399 --> 00:29:41.159
 motivated by

00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:42.640
 doctrine or

00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:43.519
 reputational

00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:44.500
 concerns

00:29:44.500 --> 00:29:48.320
 atheists give

00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:48.900
 because they're

00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:49.480
 moved in the

00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:50.120
 gut with

00:29:50.120 --> 00:29:50.940
 people's needs

00:29:50.940 --> 00:29:52.279
 we do it

00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:52.800
 out of duty

00:29:52.800 --> 00:29:58.540
 and our

00:29:58.540 --> 00:29:59.120
 praying can be

00:29:59.120 --> 00:29:59.700
 the same

00:29:59.700 --> 00:30:01.820
 turn up to

00:30:01.820 --> 00:30:02.580
 prayer meetings

00:30:02.580 --> 00:30:04.460
 run through the

00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:05.019
 prayer sheet

00:30:05.019 --> 00:30:06.360
 for this next

00:30:06.360 --> 00:30:08.220
 month we

00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:09.500
 pray for global

00:30:09.500 --> 00:30:10.319
 mission because

00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:11.200
 we ought to

00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:13.519
 rather than

00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:14.140
 pleading with

00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:15.039
 God because

00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:16.779
 of the vast

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:18.480
 needs rather

00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:19.039
 than because of

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:19.619
 compassion

00:30:19.619 --> 00:30:22.779
 and so pray my

00:30:22.779 --> 00:30:23.480
 friends that our

00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:25.339
 hearts my heart

00:30:25.339 --> 00:30:26.980
 senses the need

00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:28.220
 feels the

00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:28.839
 compassion

00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:30.140
 sees the

00:30:30.140 --> 00:30:31.519
 potential and

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:33.000
 stays fervent in

00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.079
 pleading with

00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:36.299
 God to throw

00:30:36.299 --> 00:30:38.240
 out worker after

00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.259
 worker after

00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:40.379
 worker into the

00:30:40.379 --> 00:30:41.139
 harvest field

00:30:41.139 --> 00:30:44.819
 secondly pray for

00:30:44.819 --> 00:30:45.919
 persons you know

00:30:45.919 --> 00:30:46.759
 outside of

00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:48.819
 Christ that they

00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:49.639
 might come to

00:30:49.639 --> 00:30:50.199
 their shepherd

00:30:50.199 --> 00:30:51.859
 there is a power

00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:52.919
 at our disposal in

00:30:52.919 --> 00:30:53.659
 prayer that we have

00:30:53.659 --> 00:30:54.779
 only begun to tap

00:30:54.779 --> 00:30:56.199
 and I'm praying that

00:30:56.199 --> 00:30:57.299
 all the members of

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:59.159
 our church apply

00:30:59.159 --> 00:31:00.039
 themselves to

00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:01.019
 prayer this month

00:31:01.019 --> 00:31:03.400
 to pray to

00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:05.079
 plead earnestly

00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:07.000
 as if your

00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.039
 nearest and

00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:09.500
 dearest were

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.660
 desperately ill

00:31:10.660 --> 00:31:12.740
 amen