All right, thank you so much pastor Anderson for this opportunity to preach tonight and it's a really great conference
I really love this mission conference, especially the first day was awesome to be here
just the great spirit and was so motivating and
Tonight obviously, I'm gonna preach about the country of Germany. We've heard a great sermon by
Brother Dylan Oz and he just kind of gave his his experience are going soul-winning in Germany
He kind of gave the the good side. I'm gonna give you the bad and the ugly side
I'm gonna give you the background about our sewing ministry in Germany and
You know thinking about our ministry in Germany
one thing really comes to mind which is the heavy persecution and oppression by Germany and the
resilience and strength of a group of
Spiritful Christians just serving God against all odds and that this is the title of my sermon serving God against all odds
and
You're here in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11. It says in verse 26
verse 26 and journeyings often and perils of waters and perils of robbers and perils by mine own countrymen and
Perils by the heathen and perils in the city and perils in the wilderness and perils in the sea and perils among false brethren
So the Apostle Paul is basically defending himself and the idea here is that you can really see who's legit
You can really see the character of a person by letting him go through
Persecution through stress, you know, if you want to test someone let them go through stress
Let them go through a test and do really see if they are legit or not, right?
So all these people leaving our church, you know, it's either because they are weak wicked or both
That's it
And you know what that group in Germany that is the real deal
These people are the real deal. They have stood the test
And I'm specifically thinking of my friend in Germany, you know
He has wife and kids and his house got raided by the police and she didn't even preach
He didn't even get up, you know, he was just psychologically supporting I guess because he wasn't a whatsapp group
That's it
You know and yet he is
So winning every week consistently every single week he's out there so winning and the city of for time
You know and I'm talking sometimes to him and he's like well
It was so great when I was goes going so winning twice a week and I'm like, dude
It's okay. If you just go once a week, it's okay
What you're doing is awesome. You know, you don't have to go twice a week
Like you have wife and kids you receive persecution without even any cause whatsoever being in a whatsapp group
You know, that's it
And
Not only that but at the same time in three different cities
Homes were raided of her brothers at the same time. So it was like a coordinated attack
coordinated raids in
January of this year, I believe at the same time three brethren got their houses raided, you know for hate speech or whatever and
Both our preachers brother Moses and brother Andy from Austria. They lost their jobs multiple times
You know, these people are really going through legit tests legit persecution legit
perils
And also just thinking of brothers who are coming to our soul-winning group, you know
They maybe go to a church that's just near them that
That they can reach by car or whatever and they were getting pressured in the church every time they go there
You know, why are you part of that group? Why do you go solving? Isn't that you know?
That's stressful going to a church where you want to be obviously among brethren and want to be encouraged
You know, we're here to have fellowship, right? But then people in Germany are going to a church and also
Attending our soul-winning marathons and they were getting pressured at the church, you know that can be stressful
Because you want to go to church to be at least once a week in your Christian bubble
You know and be among like-minded people, right?
And also just thinking of
You know my brothers and sisters in Germany who are leading a godly life in a crooked and perverse generation
Which is Germany, it's a crooked and perverse generation over there
You know that shows character and just to give you some stats from January
2022 to November of this year our soul-winning group in Germany had
638 salvations which is only counting salvations of our official soul-winning times official so in events
This is not counting salvations just from personal soul-winning
So it's it's probably like a thousand, you know, if you count all the personal soul-winning every week without
Plus of the marathons and other so winning events
It's probably like a thousand if not more and all the people that got saved through the Bible way to heaven online and everything
probably over a thousand and sixteen baptisms so far and
at least
131 sermons were preached in total
This includes sermons by brother Moses brother Andy by myself and obviously brother Dylan Oz and
brother Mateus from Poland who came and
Preach for us and baptized seven people this year
Covering 40 books of the Bible, you know, that's a that's a good amount of preaching. That's a that's a good solid
Good solid spiritual food that they were getting there
And I've counted seven full-length Bible documentaries that we translated from English into German fully dubbed
fully dubbed into German, you know, not just
Sometimes it's funny in Europe in some countries like in Poland. They don't actually dub their their movies
They just talk over the movie
but without any acting so you hear the you hear the English version and then it's like
Polish talking
But they don't really act I guess it sounds weird that's how they watch movies sometimes but we actually
You know fully reenacted the movies like with our voice
Seven at least seven full-length Bible documentaries that have also earned us persecution
So we're in this verse in verse 26
It says and perils by my own countrymen and that is especially true in a nation like Germany
That is a nation of oppression and I was kind of going back and forth about the sermon title
Should I call it Germany a nation of oppression or something?
But I wanted to focus on the people like on the work that has been done
So I think serving God against all odds is a better sermon title, but it could also be nation of oppression
At the same time though, even though all this oppression persecution is happening at the same time
Germany and Europe in general is known as the Christian Occident
So we have the Orient which is the East and the Occident which is the West
So Europe in general, especially Germany is known as the Christian Occident, which is just just really a a traditional cultural thing
It's not a religious thing anymore
Germany is not a Christian nation anymore. It's just a cultural traditional thing
And you know, we have this people in Germany. They are all against, you know, Muslim immigration and everything
You know, we are the Christian Occident, but then they probably don't go to church. Maybe some Protestant Church
Most of them obviously aren't saved. It's really just a cultural thing
But Germany really does have a long-reaching
Christian history that goes back you could say to the fourth century
so even very soon after Christ and
obviously back then Germany didn't exist in the way it exists today obviously, but even very soon after Christ there was a
Bible translation done into the gothic language and the people who translated
This Bible translation. It's disputed if that was one guy or a group
But they actually developed with the gothic script just for the purpose of translating the Bible into the gothic language
And I love this kind of facts because the Bible really stands above all history
Every time you check, you know, wordly history the Bible stands above it, you know, you can always find something
Also, it has Germany has a history of persecuting Christians, you know
The Catholics obviously the Lutherans they persecuted Christians
During Nazi Germany, there was no real religious freedom obviously in the German Democratic Republic
Which was socialism no religious freedom needless to say
so you turn to Psalm 1 turn to Psalm 1 and
this
History has left its mark on Germany
It has really left his mark
and in a sense that people
especially in Eastern Germany have turned away from the faith and when I started soul winning in
2018 I went soul winning in my hometown Golles, which is the easternmost town in Germany
Close to Poland and this was in the former German Democratic Republic
Which was a socialist state Germany was divided into West Germany and Eastern Germany and
I knocked on this lady's door and she was I was asking her if she was a Christian or something and she basically told me
I'm a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. So I'm asking her like are you interested or something or a Christian?
I'm a citizen of the German Democratic Republic
So she's basically saying no, I'm not interested in Christianity because I grew up in a socialist state
You know and this socialist state has turned many people away from Christ away from
You know religion in general, but most importantly biblical Christianity, obviously
and
Over a year of going soul-winning there. I had no salvation now that sounds pretty lame
So why I'm saying this in a missions conference, you know, we're about missions, right? No salvation is cool
But you know, it gets exciting though, it gets exciting if you stay with it
You know things always get exciting if you don't give up, but if you stay with it
You know, that's something you need to know just for your life in general
Like if you stay with something it will get exciting someday
So look at song one and we're gonna proclaim with a palmist the palmist who wrote these following words
It
Says in verse 2 look at verse 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law does he meditate
Day and night and he shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season
His leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper and what I want to focus here
It says that bringeth forth his fruit in his season
You know, there are seasons for plants to bring forth fruit
So we're gonna have a season in your life when you're bringing no fruit forth
When you're not getting anyone saved
But you need to get through that season and just stay with it and don't give up and don't die
You know you you need to stay alive as a tree and eventually you will bring forth fruit
You need to stay with it and it will get exciting
So then in 2019
I met a brother
In Dublin Ireland out of all places
It was a soul-winning event that originally pastor Anderson wanted to come to but obviously he was banned from that country
But I went to that event it still happened and I met a brother from Germany. Oh
Well, you're from Germany, too. That was kind of cool and
We basically started a group called Deutschlandseilngewiln, which means winning the souls of Germany
Basically, it was just us two. So it wasn't really something huge
And
We just went sewing together in different cities and I would meet up with him in Pforzheim and he would come to me to be all
it's and
eventually in Pforzheim
you know, we did start for some time a church plant and I'm gonna touch on that later and
Western Germany really
proved to be more receptive than Eastern Germany and part of the reason is socialism in Eastern Germany and
part of the reason and
Western Germany is just more Catholic especially southwestern Germany where Pforzheim is in
It's just more Catholic and you know, we get Mexican saved here and they are Catholics
so it's generally more more receptive and
My wife told me that when she was there in Pforzheim, she sometimes saw you know houses with some
Bible scripture over the door
You can sometimes see that here where Mexicans would have like some Bible verse on their house, you know
It's kind of the same thing. I
Don't see that in Eastern Germany at all
So then the group grew and faithful world listeners would join and
we organized successful soul-winning marathons and then in 2020 brother Moses joined and
He had this crazy idea to start preaching now. It wasn't even my idea. Where is he?
Okay
So brother Moses had this idea. Hey when we do a sewing marathon, you know, you could preach in German
I could preach in English. So he came up with this idea to preach the Bible and oh boy
That was a good idea. That was a crazy idea
you can turn to
Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 3
Jeremiah 4 3
I
Gonna read to you from Ezekiel 34 2 it says son of man prophesy against the shepherds of Israel
Prophesy and say unto them that says the Lord God unto the shepherds will be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves
Should not the shepherds feed the flocks and you know, that's the situation in Germany where pastors shepherds are feeding themselves
They are not feeding the flock
They're not giving good Bible doctrine they're not preaching the whole Council of God most of them are damnable heretics
They are some safe pastors in Germany. There are some old IFB churches in Germany praise God
but most of them are not serving God they're damnable heretics and they are leading people astray and
It needs new people to rise up men to rise up and preach the whole Council of God in a nation like that
Rebuke false prophets
So then in February of 2022
We had a great soloing marathon with nine solarums come out and had eight salvations
So almost one salvation for every soul winner. We had a great experience. It was one of the best events
that I've been to just great spirit and new people joined and
So many salvations and it's just a great experience to start something new especially the place like Germany starting something new and knowing
You know
Finally, you know people are actually going so winning and I'm sure there's some guy out there
I hope so, but you know, finally there's a group that you can even find online because back in 2017
I was trying to find a group online, you know, so winning Germany. I just typed it in nothing
So couple years later the dream came true we had a soul winning group
And
In that event in 2022
you know, I preached a sermon called woe to the sinful nation and
You turn to Jeremiah verse
Chapter 4 verse 3 actually, let me just read you that too
It says for that sayeth the Lord's to the men of Judah and Jerusalem
Break up your fellow ground and so not among thorns. So the idea here is
You need to break up the ground that has been all grown over with you know with thorns
With all all these weeds that you don't want to have you need to break it up and do something new, you know
Don't sow among thorns. Don't try to reform German Christianity. Don't try to reform the church or something
Just do something new. Just just get over with it burn all the thorns, you know, they need to go away and do something new
And
I'd like to compare that to Matthew 13 22
It says I'm just gonna read that to you
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that here with the world and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of
Riches choke the world and it become it and she becomes unfruitful. So the the word gets choked, you know, and
we don't want to we don't want to have our
Efforts choked, you know by by false Christianity
We don't want to try to reform the church or something. We just need to do something new
you know, just just get rid with the old stuff and do something new and
That is obviously just a cool experience, you know being in Germany, which is a heathen nation
It's not a Christian nation anymore and just doing something new
You know that is that it's very motivating and it always motivates me when I preach a sermon that hey, you know, I'm giving
Doctrine to Germany and it's it's something that is lacking
And
Germany German Christianity, I'm sorry as a whole is kind of thorns, you know, you just need to do something new and
Like I said during that sewing marathon
Appreciated sermon what of the sinful nation and I kind of knew that this would get me into trouble. I
Already knew that, you know
Because in Germany, there's this laws called folks for heads on which means like steering up the people, you know to to hate
Or something hate speech basically and I knew this existed, but you know what?
Preaching the Bible is always right. It's just right
And before that I'm just gonna go over a couple points, you know, just our history how everything started just to give you some background
Before that we translated the sodomite deception into German
We fully dubbed the whole documentary and that got us into trouble and brother. Moses did a great job with that
You know, he's really talented with
Dubbing documentaries he did a great job and
There were multiple articles written about the documentary and for some reason I got all the all the persecution
I didn't even do most of the work was mostly brother Moses
but then I got mentioned because you're basically
You're you're guilty if you're spreading hate, you know, you don't have to be the author if you're the one who's spreading it publicly
You're guilty and you can get charged
Then fast forward to
March 2022
My home where I lived with my dad's got raided, you know, police showed up and
I
lived with my dad at home and I just want to mention that because it's kind of cool I back in 2017 I
Sent an email to the church was asking. Hey, you know
Is it better for a single guy to stay with his parents or you know, is that okay to move out and brother Daniel writer?
He answered that email actually, I still have it and she was saying, you know, based on adverse
It's better to stay with your parents. I don't know you were like volunteering for the church or something and
I took that advice and I stayed with my dad and you know, it's not only
old people
Telling younger people to stay with her parents, you know, it's also a young guy like me telling you to stay with your parents until you're
Married, that's the right way, you know and you will get blessed and God blessed me
So
After I preached that sermon and before we did the sodomite deception translation and all that stuff
You know multiple articles were written and my employer got contacted and he showed me this this email on his phone like
It was like, you know come over here. Okay. Yes, sir. What's happening now? This is the day
So he showed me this email on his phone would set
Stop the hate six six six define irony. That was the email address
And he showed this email to me and said like your employee like he's spreading hate on Twitter
and he quoted this tweet where I said
LGBTQ let God burn them quickly and that then my employer was like
He
Didn't even say something was just like just whatever so like that was the coolest day in my life
Mmm
Then in March 2022, like I said police shows up so I wake up I wanted to go to work and
Police is in my room
You know and one of the police officers
He's like, are you on them or one? Yep
So did you like I don't know spread hate against homosexuals or something?
Yep
So here's the I don't know
What's the English word for that but the letter that said, you know, we're gonna raise your home, you know
This is what we're gonna do
Warrant yeah search warrant
So he showed it to me and obviously I couldn't resist like there are like I don't know at least five police officers not in my
room and
They took all my electronic devices, you know phone computer, whatever
Every storage media like hard drives discs everything they could find to do an investigation on something that is online
Everything we've ever done. It is publicly available
That's the reason why you're coming to my house cuz it's publicly available and you want to investigate
Like what are you talking about?
It's madness
And
So so this guy that first talked to me I know him back from high school
Like that was the weirdest moment in my life. I know the guy's name, you know, we had PE lessons together
And
In that year 2022 we saw a total of 134 people getting saved, you know, there was great results
Shortly after you know, March 2022. I don't know exactly the day. I don't remember
Pastor calls me and
So what you need to know is even before shortly before that
we were kind of adopted as a soul-winning outreach ministry by faithful word and
Pastor told me hey, you need to get out of there, you know get out of the European Union as fast as you can and
I'm like, okay
This is my ticket. I guess I'm just gonna leave so
Left everything behind and came to the u.s
Through Mexico jumped on a bus where the lady said Nogales. That's something I understood
So I just hoped it would take me to Nogales. So it did, you know
But
Yeah, that year was a successful year anyways
in
November 11. Oh, yeah on November 11
I'm sorry in November of that year. We had 11 soul winners and 24 salvation. That was a great event
24 salvations in one day
That's a great result
You don't have to go on a cruise ship and fill your belly with all that good all that good food
To get 24 salvations. You can do it in Germany. Sometimes it happens
But you can go on a cruise. I mean, it's that's cool
And at the end of 2022
I had this idea to maybe turn the soul-winning group into a church that so I brought it up to pastor and she was like
Yep, sounds like a good plan. So I was like, okay, I guess we have a church plan. No, that's cool. Amen
And uh, you know, obviously I made a plan, you know, how would this be viable? Can we do this?
What do we need to do legally? Do we have the people?
And this worked out for some time
Now we're back to a soul-winning group, which I think is the right decision
We should just stick with that and just continue going soul-winning in Germany
And I'm always saying we because I kind of count myself in it's uh, obviously something I care about but yeah
I'm not physically there, but I still care about our soul-winning group
It says in first Corinthians, you don't have to turn there in
Chapter 16 verse 9 for a great door and the factual is opened unto me and there are many
adversaries obviously if you try to
build a church plant in Germany
This is something where you were gonna have a lot of adversaries, you know, it's a great door that opened
But there are a lot of adversaries
we have
perils or opposition
by our own countrymen
You can turn to second Chronicles 16 second Chronicles 16
It says in Matthew 13
57 and
They were offended in him
but Jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honor safe in his own country and in his own house a
Prophet is not without out honor
Safe in his own country and in his own house, especially in Germany you will have
opposition you will have perils by your own countrymen
Especially if you want to start a soul-winning group, let alone a church plant where actually the Bible is preached
Everything in the Bible
We never had any problems with Muslims
Not once and in fact the almost the only people who ever let me in into their house were Muslims
They were super hospitable. They let me in, you know, we sat down drank our tea
You know, it's kind of awkward because we couldn't really communicate a lot but they were hospitable, you know nice people in general
Never had any problems with Muslims seriously only problems with Germans
And I
say we because
Back in Germany when I was going soul-winning eventually
I had a silent partner from my church that I was going to so yes, I went to church all the time, you know
When I got saved in 2016
I always went to church and you don't have an excuse to not go to church
You know don't say something like well, but you know, this isn't that just go to church
Just do it like you will survive even in the liberal church. I survived many years in a liberal church
I always prayed, you know that I would just learn something and be a blessing
you know, it wasn't great, but I survived and
And
Yeah with my silent partner sometimes we were let in by Muslims and I would kind of try to talk to them
But it wasn't really fruitful anyways, obviously
The only other people who ever let us in were Catholics. There was like this one like really a
very
Traditional type of Catholic couple they let us in and then they were like well
We're gonna ask or ask the father at church about what you told us or something
So I think like yeah go ask your daddy at church who dresses like mommy, you know, okay. I'll see I didn't tell him that
But it's kind of weird to say, you know, we're gonna ask the father
Young people are
Very receptive in Germany, you know, that's the good part very receptive especially in Eastern Germany
Polish people
You know Polish young people who are like kind of Catholic but not really they just almost always get saved
I mean, I had great results going soloing. They're just talking to young people
Old people super unreceptive and
There was this one story, you know journalists came to our church band in Pforzheim
And he he was asked by someone if he is saved and then he wrote his article and he was saying in the article
And then they asked me if I was saved like as if that was something like a crazy question
so obviously
Germans in general are kind of disconnected from Christianity, you know, but young people are receptive
We never had any problems with Muslims only with
Germans not the young Germans but German government obviously our own countrymen
Periled by the heathen you are there in second
chronicles 16 verse 10 it says in second chronicles 16 verse 10 and then Asa was roughed with a seer and
put him in a prison house for he was in a rage with him because of this thing and
Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time and what stood out to me when I read that verse a
a
King a ruler who is oppressing the seer who's oppressing the prophet who's oppressing Christians, you know, he's also
oppressive to the people
you know oppressing Christians is oppressing the people and
You kind of see that in Revelation chapter 12 where it jumps from the birth of Christ all the way to the
tomb to the tribulation
Where the devil is obviously trying, you know, he's trying to kill Jesus and he's
Persecuting whole mankind and kind of the picture there is that
Persecuting Jesus persecuting Christians is persecuting whole mankind
It's as bad
Because obviously as Christians we are truly on the side of people but truly on their side
We're in their boat, you know, we want to get them saved. We're not against them
But it's it's them not realizing that we're for them. You know, that's really it
Periled by the heathen, you know heathen rulers obviously being against us
Heathen like Sven Lehmann trying to stop us. Sven Lehmann is the queer commissioner of the German government
So Germany has a queer official
who has
millions of euros at his hands to
indoctrinate people
seriously, and
I pushed against this guy, you know, I called him out obviously and
Germany is a country that literally has a homosexual in their government
Infiltrating brainwashing people and it stayed sanctioned. He's given millions of euros
And
Obviously, you know these people who sued us
He's one of them
other government officials, you know, they're always
Trying to find some false witnesses or bearing false witness. You can turn to Acts chapter 6 if you can real quick
Acts chapter 6 I'm gonna start reading in verse 9
It says then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called the synagogue of the Libertines and
Cyrenians and the Alexandrians and of them of Cilicia and of Asia disputing with Stephen
Acts chapter 6
I started reading in verse 9
It says and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake then they suborned men
which said we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God and they stirred up the people and the elders and the
Scribes and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council and set up false witnesses
which said this man seeth not to speak blasphemous words against the holy place and the law and
So on so obviously they have to find some false witnesses
they have to bear false witness to condemn a righteous person and
we were
We were um, what's the word?
Basically
Media reported about us that we're
delegitimizing the state and
delegitimization of the state is actually something you can do in Germany like it's it's it's a crime
And I'm like, I told this one journalist who called me I told her it's like look
What we're saying is that the state should have the power to put sodomites to death
Okay, so we're saying the state should have the power but we're delegitimizing the state we're like doing the opposite
The both mayors of Pforzheim sued me so it's German cities they have like two mayors like a
head mayor and a deputy mayor
I don't know both mayor sued me because I call them out in a sermon because they are supporting a pride parade in Pforzheim
And
the the patron
or patroness of the pride parade is
the female Dean of the Protestant Church in Pforzheim
I mean, it's it's a church official being the patroness of a pride parade
And
You know what she said and in an interview she said
You can't just rent a space and just say whatever you want. I'm like, I'm like shut up
Yes, actually we can that's what we do
You can't just rent a space and like say whatever you want. I mean you can't just do that, right?
You know, how about she keeps silence
Isn't that what the Bible says that women are to keep silence in the church
Perils among false sisters
2023 is the year when a church sued a church for preaching the Bible. I'm not kidding a
Church
Protestant Church suing our church plant or people of our church, but I don't even know it whatever I'm here
So I don't care. I mean as far as I'm concerned, right? I mean nothing's happening to me
Suing us for preaching the Bible for anti-semitism or something. That is Germany my friend
You can go to Ezekiel 33
I'm gonna read to you from 1st Samuel 14 verse 6 and
Jonathan said to the young man that bear his armor come and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised
It may be that the Lord will work for us
For there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few and I was thinking of this verse, you know regarding our
Former church plant, you know, why would she even do something like that?
But obviously if you want to do something like that, it's like well we can try, you know, we can give it a shot
God can work something out and if it doesn't work out well, then it is what it is. We've tried us, you know, and
I I told
The people of our soul-winning group I told them look
We don't want to be like the like the apostles in the book of Acts for trying to get the Jews saved
Like if don't they don't want to get saved if they are against us, you know, whatever. Okay
We don't want to be
So stubborn, you know and just try to go to the Jews
So, you know if it doesn't work out, you know
We can just switch back to being a soul-winning club because soul-winning, you know that works in Germany
It's perfectly legal. You can go soul-winning
You can get people saved but obviously we'll have problems if you're preaching the whole Council of God, you know
So having a church plant in Germany
You know it it might not be as of now a hundred percent viable
But
You know, we're still preaching the Bible not only the gospel but
We're planning for Christmas like a Christmas party and you know brethren from our
Soul-winning club they they could take turns and preaching and have like a small preaching service. We can do stuff like that
Occasionally obviously and every month
We're still having soul-winning marathons like before and I'm still preaching every month every month in German life over YouTube
so we're still doing that, you know, but I think that's great and I
think
you know having come to the US is actually kind of a blessing because I can say everything I want and
Don't have you know consequences like oh hate speech and now you're getting sued and have to pay a fine of a thousand euros
You know and I can still be a blessing to people in Germany. You know, that's cool
and Ezekiel 33 verse 6 it says but if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and
The people be not warned if the swords come and take any person from among them
He has taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand?
So thou O son of man, I have set thee a watchman under the house of Israel
Therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me and when we're reading these verses
Obviously it kind of stands out that
a watchman or you could say a preacher has a very big responsibility, but also
What I notice is and I'm gonna call this spiritual oppression
You know people are dying or going to hell without even getting a warning
You know, that's the other part and these verses and and that's sad, you know, think about there are people who are dying
They're going to hell and they are not getting any warning at all
because preachers fail
preachers in Germany suck
They're not preaching from the housetops
You know Baptist churches exist
There are some good Baptist churches. I would even say but they are still kind of dead
Like show me the Baptist Church in Germany with a strong soul-winning program
Show me the Baptist Church in Germany where the whole Council of God is preached
And I'm saying preach from the housetops like yeah, maybe
Behind closed doors. They are saying everything
But not on YouTube because it would get them consequences
But you know
It's great that these churches exist because there need to be churches like that
That are kind of dead and kind of watered down for people to go to you know, who don't necessarily
Want to have all this persecution in their lives, you know
And we need to
break people free from
Spiritual oppression, you know people going to hell without getting a warning
We need to give them a warning people in Germany Germany need to get warned and men need to rise up in
Germany and bring true
spiritual liberty to people
and
They have to just not care about
Perils by their own countrymen, perils by heathen, perils by false brethren or sisters or whatever
They just need to serve God against all odds
And
You know our soul winning club in Germany. It's it's really a group of people
who
Been through a lot. I mean, I'm thinking of my friend who got his house raided
I'm thinking of two other brothers brother Moses. Um
Police also came to his home
You know and people losing their jobs, you know, they are still going soul winning every week consistently soul winning every Saturday
They're soul winning happening in Germany and they are not stopping and that is awesome
That is great, and they just need to keep doing what they're doing. You know consistency is the key
Just keep on soul winning
And I just want to say this in closing
Obviously, you know, you could ask yourselves. Well, how does that apply to my life?
You know, I'm here in the US what could happen here?
But what the Bible says is still true that in
Timothy 2 Timothy 3 verse 12 it says yea and all that live will will live Godly and trust Jesus shall suffer persecution
You know that is still true
You will still
Eventually suffer persecution and persecution can be very different for a lot of people
It can be different based on your personality can be different based on your circumstances
Obviously, you know a single guy getting persecuted in Germany
Having to leave everything, you know, that is still kind of easy in the sense that he doesn't have a family to care for, you know
but it's
Either way, it's still true that getting persecuted is something we should be happy about
Based on what the Bible is saying. We should leap for joy. That is what the Bible is saying
And you might be stressing. Well, how could I ever go through persecution? I don't think I can do it
But you just need to think about the fact that the Bible is saying in 1 Corinthians 10 verse 13
It says there hath no temptation taking you but such as has come to man
But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able
But will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it
So it doesn't really matter in what circumstances you are
You know if you have a big family if you have no family what your circumstances are
The the kind of persecution that God may bring into your life that God allows in your life is the persecution that you can endure
It's the persecution that you can endure. That's why it's happening. God allowed it in your life
So you don't need to stress about it and obviously that's easier said than done I know that
But you need to be mentally prepared meaning
Not just holding on to the things of this world
You can't be prepared for everything
but you can be prepared in the sense that you're not just holding on to the things of this world and
I thought of an illustration
You know
years ago, I was in a swimming team and
Our coach explained to us how you can dive through a whole swimming lane
you know from one end to the other and
If you have never done this it kind of seems impossible like how can I die from one end to the other?
But here's the trick what he told us you need to like once you feel like I don't have enough air
I can't make it you need to actually
Blow out you need to let go of air and it sounds extremely counterintuitive
Like this does not make sense
But it actually works like I've tried it and if you feel like I can't make it to the end
You know I can't dive to the end you need to blow out and to let go and you will make it to the end
So you need to let go of
some things in your life
You need to not hold on too tightly to the things of this world and you can make it
The Christian life is
counterintuitive and
Sometimes you need to serve God
against all
Arts, and you need to be able to let go of things and sometimes even people
You know and there are a lot of times when I prayed back in Germany
You know God if you want me to go to whatever place
You know I will leave this in that person
And I thought of specific people like got it if you want me to go I
Will go and I will leave them
That is God what God wants for you. You need to be mentally prepared. Yes. I'm gonna go
And I hope that you know what brother Dylan asked preach
And you know kind of the history and what we've been through what I've talked about that
That was would be an encouragement to you to serve God better and
To truly be blessed you know by not just reading the Bible, but living the Bible and
By serving God's even if everything seems to be against that let's pray
to God thank you for this wonderful conference Lord and
Lord I thank you for this opportunity to preach
Lord and I thank you for our soul-winning Club in Germany and that people are getting saved in fourth time and
All over Germany Lord. I pray that you would still bless our ministry and
Would allow us to continue
Doing this and please bless everyone in Germany who is so winning who's faithful to church
Bless the churches that are there who that are good churches Lord
And please stir up people in those churches to go soul-winning and serve you better Lord
And please bless every one of us when we go our separate ways in Jesus name we pray amen