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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 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