YP Address—Dave Mearns
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It's good to see you all.
You're all tired. I'm not going to work you very hard tonight. Might work you a little harder tomorrow morning though.
I'm just going to have a short message and then most of you are not going to get to Malawi.
So we're going to try to transport you there for a little bit and I think that'll.
Maybe make you appreciate the circumstances that you have, even if you don't appreciate them now and you might in an hour or so. So I'd like to start by singing.
The last verse.
Of #46 in the appendix.
I was thinking of these last two lines of that verse.
That I may undistracted be to follow, serve, and wait for thee #46 if somebody could start that.
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So 2 verses turn with me.
To Mark's Gospel.
Mark's Crossbow Chapter, Chapter 3.
Mark's Gospel, chapter 3.
This is the Lord ordaining the disciples and he says this, and I've spoken on this many times, the first part but not the second part. We're going to look at the second part tonight. So we read, we read here in the 14th verse it says he ordained 12, that they should be with him.
That is the purpose that He called his disciples. That is the purpose He calls every one of us here. He wants our company.
We enjoy having, we enjoy having company. We enjoyed our company a few minutes ago in the basement. We understand the concept. The Lord chose these just so that He could have our company. Just think in your mind, how much today did you focus on?
Granting that desire that the Lord had of having your company, you got up this morning.
He was waiting for your company. Maybe he had it all day with some of you. Maybe he didn't have it at all with any of you.
But that's why He, that's why he ordained these disciples. That's why he saved us. But over and above that, what does it say?
The ordained 12.
That they might be with him, That he might send them. That he might send them.
Now turn over to John's Gospel, Chapter 20.
John Charles Gospel, chapter 20, verse 21.
Then said Jesus again.
And said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you, as my Father hath sent me, Even so send I you.
Just like you think about that for a moment. I was, I was talking to an older person just this past.
Week something has been elderly wanting to go home and wondering why they were left here.
Wondering why they were left here.
So we shared they weren't left here, they were sent here.
Everyone of us here has been sent.
Every one of us we have been sent.
Sometimes it takes some time for us to to understand that concept, but.
The concept of being sent, I'm not talking about in our lives that we're sent through our lives. I'm talking about it on a daily basis. You got up this morning, you were sent.
This morning I don't know what with a brother came to me.
A couple hours ago just came over to me and he.
His hand, my shoulder said 3 words. I'm not going to tell you what they were. And he walked away and it was a tremendous encouragement. 3 words he was sent.
He was sent.
We're going to look at.
Some slides.
That.
Concept of being sent to Malawi is a much, much bigger concept, but every one of us has been sent.
Some time ago.
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I came to tell you this because.
I'm so so impressed more and more how much my life is affected by this book.
It's there was an older brother used to come to Montreal and he was talking to a bunch of us young ones and he said to us.
As we were standing around, he's a bright man, but he held up his Bible. He said there is nothing in this world, nothing in this world that we should know more than this book.
He was hired to make bank mergers. Very bright man.
And that's what his advice was to us young guys as he held up his Bible. There is nothing.
In this life that we should know more about.
Than this book so the power of it I I came out of the bank some time ago and there's a.
There's a homeless guy outside the bank. We don't have this and it falls much. They're in the big cities, but not in Smith Falls. They just don't see that. And he was hungry and he wanted a little bit of cash. And you can't fix everything. I kept walking and I'm getting to my truck and I felt the Lord was saying maybe you should deal with this one. So.
I.
Take a deep breath and he starts to walk up the street. And when he gets to my truck, I said, hey, I want to go for something to eat. Yeah, that would be great. So he hops in the truck. We drive over to a fast food. On the way over, I said, you know, you've got a story and I've got a story. Let's share each other's stories.
And he said sure. I said, you know, you can decide who goes first. He said, yeah, sure. So we get to the restaurant, we get our sandwiches. We go sit in the booth, and he looks at me and says I'll go first. I said sure, that's fine. And.
He said you're going to think I'm really strange. You're going to think I'm really, really weird. I said try me.
He said no, it doesn't matter what you think, he said. You're going to think I'm really worried.
He said I am what they call a Christian.
And if you don't know what that is, that is someone who has put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
I just about fell off my chair. I didn't say a thing. I thought I'm just going to let him go. I'm just going to see him where he's going to go with this. So I sat there. He said I never knew my parents. I was an orphan.
I went from foster home to foster home to foster home and every one of them were Christian homes and the Bible was read to me and he said I came to know Christ as my savior.
He said I got married, had four kids.
So I got in with a bad crowd at work and I started to drink and I immediately became an alcoholic and he said it destroyed me. I lost my job.
Then I lost my house, I lost my wife, I lost my four kids. That addiction went to other addictions. I lost everything. I became a derelict on the street. But he said three weeks ago.
God I'm listening to this like this is my dime.
I'm expecting I'm going to take this guy and give him the gospel and I'm hearing the story. You couldn't make a story like this up, You couldn't he, He says.
Three weeks ago, God put it in my heart to start to read my Bible again. And he says it's real. It's absolutely real. It's the only thing that's real in my life. He says someone who has just started to help me with my addictions, but I'm now back in the Bible and I'm so thankful. And then he started to give me a short gospel. Well, that was as far as I wanted him to go. I said, hey.
You're talking to a brother in Christ. Pray for this guy. His name is Gary Horn, but I tell you that.
To show you the power of the word of God, here's a guy that's absolutely destroyed his life and God puts it in his heart and says, hey.
Start you read your Bible again. And it was so real to them. As I'm sitting there in the booth and my jaw's down here, I'm listening to this story and he's telling me the need for me to read the Scripture.
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Young people, I tell you that because.
This man was sent. He was sent for me. I thought I was sent to him. He was sent to me. Everyone of us has sent, every one of us on a daily basis. Get ahold of that when you wake up tomorrow morning that you're sent and the Lord has something very special. Well, we're going to look at these.
Most of you are not going to go.
It would be nice if you could go, but at least you'll be able to go tonight. So this is this is Malawi, just to give you.
An orientation.
Mozambique is right there, then you have Malawi, then you have Zambia, then you have Angola, and straight across the ocean is Brazil right here. So there's Malawi. It's landlocked.
When I was there, I flew into.
Into a long way and we took a trip up here to the top. This time I'm going to fly in there again. I'm going to take a trip up to the top and then back down to the bottom. This is the area where the hurricane was, where there's 60 some people in one assembly that lost their homes or in the area that lost their homes and 50 some in another area totally devastated.
I'm going to go through these these quickly. There's a lot of them, a lot of single pictures of people that are just people I communicate with, so I won't spend any time on them. We hopped in the in the rig. We headed off down the road. 3 hours later, we blew an engine.
And this was where we thought we were going to spend the night. There's our engine all over the ground. This is typical for Malawi. It was actually very nice. We rented a rig.
Which had no first gear. Third gear you have to had to hold it in.
But it worked for us. It could carry passengers, which I was. I was very thankful for.
I don't know if we got any sound here.
Looks like we don't.
These are just brothers that I traveled with that.
Helped us with with some translation. I'm not going to give you the names. This is Brother Augustine. I'll take you. For those of you who are working and are not real happy with your job, I'll take you to I'll take you.
A gravel quarry. So this is a mountain here. All rock out of that mountain.
With a crowbar and a sledgehammer, they break these rocks. Now this is this is a four person operation. Two guys, 2 girls. This is their job. And from those rocks.
They make gravel.
There's the finished product.
I.
Anybody want to sign up?
Just to.
The girls are not going to get it off the hook.
People said she was going faster. That was only because I was taking her picture.
This is this is the living for these four that's making gravel. And on our way back, they were loading, they were loading a truck, a dump truck of gravel, no shovels. They were loading it with their hands. The four of them loading the Scrabble into this truck. And I'll add if you, if you want to buy a dump truck load of these rocks, it's way cheaper and you can make your own gravel.
This is Malawi.
There's the finished product when we were there.
There was some flooding, some storms.
I'll just show you this video. I'm not in a boat here, I'm on the road.
This this storm completely took out the crops that were all planted. So it's very, very difficult. We went by a market. People were standing in the market up to their knees in water, their tables all destroyed, their little huts all destroyed and that's.
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Something that just happens and they they kind of pick up and.
They build when they can.
A very, very difficult place.
Let's go here.
This is the assembly of rumphi.
I took this picture for any of you who are builders to see how they make their trusses.
So you don't have a button core that goes all the way across.
They just scab them in. This is one of the meeting rooms.
These bricks here, I'll, I'll show you a, there's a, there's a close up of the bricks. The they make the bricks out of the clay. It's the same clay they grow their crops on and it's the same, it's the same mud that they laid the bricks in. So they lay the they lay the bricks in mud.
And if they have a little extra money, they will scrape out a little bit of the mud into the cracks and point in a little bit of cement just to hold up. And they have to quickly get a roof on it. They don't get it on quickly. The rain comes and the whole thing washes down and it's just a pile of mud. So that's what the people are dealing with in the South that have lost their homes.
There's a number of brothers here that I took their picture. I'm not going to give you any.
Any names for these? These are just brothers that I communicate with.
Some of them are younger, some of them look older, but they are younger.
There's a joyful news calendar. This brother, we it's one of the main brothers in that assembly. We took him out to a restaurant.
He hadn't eaten for three days. He's got a family, five kids, been working the land for three days.
Was very hungry.
We sat around, there's five of us. We left the food on our plates. He.
He ate all his own food. He ate our food, too. When it was all done, there were no bones. All gone, everything. They don't get to eat meat. Very much this, Brother James. You might pray for him.
Very dear brother, but runs a very, very tight ship like so many of them.
Umm, I took this because we provided a meal there and they were just doing the cleanup after.
I haven't seen that kind of cleanup done around here.
This is a very nice meeting room. It was provided by the brethren here. It's got a cement floor, but.
That's how they clean it. I'm going to Fast forward here. This is what the crops looked like when I was there.
In the rainy season, they get lots of moisture. The crops show tremendous promise. The problem is all their.
They need a lot of fertilizer and all their fertilizer comes from Ukraine. So this year there's no fertilizer. So Fast forward here a couple months and.
Crops did very, very poorly, even though they had a very good start.
As soon as the rain stops, that's what it looks like everywhere. I took this for some of the guys that are contractors back home. This is just a pile of bricks. If they don't cover them, what happens? The rain hits them and it just starts stirring the mud.
These are these are things that of course we would not experience over here. This is Brother Joseph, one of the, one of the main brothers there. This is a brother that does some translating for us. I'm going to, I'm going to put some singing on here. And you'll notice that there's a brother that sings a line of a hymn and then everybody else sings and then he sings another line and then everybody else sings.
And wherever you go, that's what happens. And the reason is most of them can't read. So a brother sings a line and that way they know what it is. So you'll listen to this. And that's how the singing is done pretty much everywhere.
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This, incidentally, is the meeting room.
If it rains, too bad. This is the meeting room.
This this assembly.
They they suffer a lot of persecution. This man here, his name is Christopher He.
The village where he is and the village where his family are, and there's a few families, they, they have headmen. And when a headman dies, they vote for another headman. And they voted for him to be the next headman. And he said, you know, I've been saved. My head man is up in glory. I'm not going to be the head man. And because of that, they've all turned against him.
Very, very difficult for this civil assembly to to function, hard for them to buy food, hard for them to get anything like fertilizer. Just pray for this assembly. And this brother, his name is Christopher.
I.
I thought maybe for some of the sisters here we could go through.
A Fellowship Lords Day.
So this is an assembly of there were sixty people there and they put on a meal for us. We had meetings in the morning and then they put on a meal in the at noon and then we had meetings in the afternoon. So the way that happens is they build 7 fires and they they cook. They cook the.
Sister. Oh, no.
There's a bunch of sisters, there's some 5 gallon pails of rice. They're going through the rice to pull all the bugs out of it and all the little stones and then they'll cook it. And they killed, they killed a goat here, which was next level for us. The goat, of course, has been lifting weights for the last several years. So it's very, very tough. This is what the sisters go through. They're going to do a meal.
Here's them going through that rice.
They tell you to eat very, very slowly. I eat fast and I didn't pay attention and I bit down on a little Pebble. It's no fun.
Rice is something that it wouldn't get very often because they just have pretty much corn.
That's the skin of the goat.
I'm not sure how they cut it. They cut it into bite sized pieces. It couldn't be chewed, it had to be swallowed whole.
It's sort of fascinating to watch the way they they load the plates up.
The sky with his hand, he's just, we've got some beans there, so he's just taking the beans out and loading them on all the plates.
They don't worry too much about hygiene.
This was a novelty for these young folks who of course don't never see crayons or anything.
Is 10.
I took this picture.
Umm.
This sister's a widow a couple of years ago, her not even a couple of years ago, but her husband got into some financial straits and he hung himself, main brother in the assembly. She has a very, very tough time. These two boys are two sons. This one here was just in an accident and I, I took this picture. Well, here's the next one. Here's the accident he was in. There was six people.
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He was the only one that was was alive after it the other the other five were killed and I.
I pondered that and I took that picture because.
Not too long ago my brother my brother passed away and I I drove. After he passed away. I drove to where we were both brought up in Montreal and I thought I was going to park.
At my old high school, I hadn't been there for years, went and parked at my old high school and I just reflected on my life.
And how so many different ways my life could have gone.
And I was looking, I was looking at this, at this accident, and I thought, you know.
So many of my peers, they made shipwreck.
In fact, that high school I was at was a high school I was kicked out of. And as I sat there and I just realized the grace of God reaching down and picking me up. And I I say that because I'm, I'm at the other end.
You young folks are all in a position where you have your life ahead of you if the Lord leaves us here and the enemy wants you to shipwreck your life.
And I dare say in a company like this, there are going to be some that do it.
That's a very sad comment to make. I remember the young people in Montreal, they got together and gave me the Bible treasury when I turned 21 and I still have the card.
55 signatures on it, and there's four of us that are gathered to the Lord's name now.
Out of 55 Very, very sad. The enemy wants every one of us here to shipwreck our life.
You know, just have a sense that the Lord hasn't just picked you up for for you to be.
In his company. But he sent you, He sent all of you, He sent me. We've all been sent. And if we could just get a hold of that in our souls, it's such a help. All these young guys that you're going to see at this stage of their life, they have a sense that they're being sent. There's so many people. Have a good start.
So many people I've just gone through Second Chronicles in my own my own private reading and so many kings. Ted, you brought your No, it was Dawn brought before us a Jehoshaphat. Lovely story.
Not sure what happened here, lovely story, but Jehoshaphat didn't have a good end. And there's so many kings that that had so many kings that had a good start, but they had a bad, bad ending. And I look at you young folks, so many of you here, a good start. The Lord wants you to finish and he wants you to finish well, not just to have a good start. A lot of these guys.
You'll see these young guys, they've all had a tremendous start and our desire is to see them go on. It's really my purpose in going to places like this that I go to.
I took this picture.
Just to show you, it is a fishing village and it's in one spot.
There are some fishermen they have.
You see all the little kids running around with these, these fish that are dried and that's the protein they have. They either have this or they have termites.
That which is their basic.
Protein.
I'll show you also.
Their fishing boats are dugouts. That was fascinating to me. Logs that are dugout.
There's a fishing net and a dugout.
You can't go in the water there if you go in and you come up with parasites. So you have to be very careful.
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This is a typical breaking of bread.
Um, most of the places there's no wine, so that would be Coke.
You'll notice they're singing. This is the same place. You'll notice the same thing though. There will be a brother single line and then the rest of them.
I took a picture of this Melissa named this little guy when she was over there seven years ago. So I took his pictures. His name's Asher. His brother's name is Green. I communicate with him probably every day. These young guys, they all communicate with me.
If anybody wants a pen pal, come to me and I'll give you numbers of some of these guys. These are just the families in that one assembly.
This brother here, the Tweak. Oh, he's a good translator. He's also a Barber. He did my hair. My wife didn't like it.
They just do one cut. Not everything comes off.
And speed up these.
Ever seen those folks before?
Tim and I have really enjoyed traveling together. We've come to a point where we're not going to travel anymore, not because we don't like it.
We came to the conclusion it would be better for the Saints in Africa at different places to get.
Instead of one visit with two of us. So it's not that I will never travel with anybody else, but we're probably not going to travel together.
There's a meeting room. I took this, I took this picture. Just, I know we're roughing it here, but that's the bathroom for this meeting room. That's the, that's the front of it.
The the next picture.
Is the other side of it.
That's the bathroom for the assembly.
There's not even a hole.
There's brother Daniel Cabbage, He lives up in the north. Very earnest evangelist. Much blessing through him. I'll spend some time with him next week.
This is in his compound. He has a wall around his place. He provided a meal for us before we went to the meeting room for some meetings. Much the same as what you saw before. This was the one meeting room that had chairs.
Pray for these dear ones, life is hard.
This brother is much younger than I am.
They they, they work. Everybody works the land. Doesn't matter what if you have a job somewhere else, you work the land. And that land is just a little bit that's around your house. You put in a little bit of corn if you can.
Those that have a little bit of intuition that maybe have a little bigger piece of property, they can put a little bit more and they might even be able to sell a little bit, but for the most part they just provide for themselves.
This brother does a bit of evangelizing with a motorcycle.
That's his father.
These are brother brethren from Tanzania that came down. They came. Actually it's three widows and a widower that came down on their bicycles and we didn't have a visa to cross the border, so they came down to be with us in the northern part of Malawi. This is just them taking off on their bicycles.
As I say, if you can walk, you work a hoe. If you're 3 and you can walk, you work a hole. If you're 60 like this person, you work a whole. That's for anybody who doesn't know what a mosquito net is, That's what it is. You pretty well need one just to keep the mosquitoes from from. If you get bitten by a mosquito and it's got mold and it's touched in with somebody that has malaria, you're going to get malaria. So we whenever.
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Go over, I start taking medication for it a few days before, which I'll start tomorrow and I'll be there. I'll take it all the way through the time there and then a month afterwards.
Just undo that. That nasty thing, you tuck it all the way around your bed and you crawl in there and you listen very closely that there might be a mosquito in there. And if you turn on your flashlight and you try to get them, and you may be able to get some sleep.
A typical That's a ritzy hotel room. Actually, this was this was a village.
Much better off than the others. Had a pump for the well instead of just a hole for the the buckets to be lowered down.
Those open wells are a hazard. Children fall down in them. A lot of brethren have lost children in the wells.
There's difficulties there that.
We don't experience here this brother just before I got there took a second wife.
The the pressure for taking a second wife is.
There is so much work to do that a wife will put pressure on her husband to get another wife just to help out with the workload. It's not something we'd experience here. There are brethren that have two wives that were, that were saved after they have the two wives and they're providing for their two wives and their families. But of course, after you're saved, take a second wife and this brother is in a position where he's committed adultery, one of the main brothers.
Actually, but tremendous load of work took another wife. Just pray for them for their challenges that they have that are much, much different than ours.
Again, these are just brethren and I communicate with.
I just to show you how any money we take over, we buy corn.
You can.
You can get a sack of corn.
This sack that the guy has, they'll put three of those 5 gallons buckets of corn into that sack.
And that will cost about $22.00 and it'll it'll last a family of six or eight for both.
A month and 1/2.
Which is the staple diet that they don't, they really don't have have have food. They don't have don't have meat, but they have they do have corn and when they grow it, that's what they eat. If they don't have it, we somebody got to buy it for them. They just load it into the truck when we drop it off at the brethren at their houses. So that would be about 80 lbs.
And that's all they would have.
They would grind the corn into powder, they would add water, they would cook it, and that's all they have, day after day after day.
It's a ritzy thing when we come there and buy them.
Rice or they have a little bit of meat or to go to a restaurant and the restaurants are a facade they give you and it's only in the big cities they give you this, this menu, and it's meaningless. A whole long list of things in the menu. All they have on, all they serve is chicken and fish or chicken and rice. I guess they have rice and chicken too. But that's all. That's all there is.
And that's a big thing for them to be able to go out and have some of that. So we would buy that.
For them when they, when they would have a fellowship, Lord's Day or any other day that we would have a meal during the day.
I'll skip through these quickly.
For those of you who have.
Have read jungle doctor, that's a baobab tree.
That one's about 800 years old. There's a mango tree.
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When it is in season, they do have some mangoes.
Give you some.
Know the hymns, but three newcomers? They still sing it that way. Somebody sings the first line, and as you see, there's a few of them there. They're able to read.
That's what the brethren in the South are waiting for the grass to grow so that they can put that on their roof. So they have them. It's not quite grown yet. They have the bricks, but they they do not have the roofs.
That's a, that's a carpet for the meeting room. It's just, it's sacks of the corn. There's some more, there's some more mortar that's been tucked in, just about half inch of it, mud taken out and they put a little bit of that mortar in the bricks.
That's a meeting room. A brother that was more well off, he had a house. He donated that. They took the walls out from inside and they have a meeting room there.
On our way up to Chitipa.
It's very mountainous.
And they don't have any runaway truck ramps for when the brakes fail. So if the brakes on a truck fail, they just jackknife.
So this guy, Jack Knight right in front of us and the car started to pile up and they'll get piled up. You can't call tow truck, so they'll be piled up for weeks.
And there's the truck and people were getting out of their cars, They're going into the woods. They were coming out with with trees to try to winch this truck off the road.
It was, it was a sight to behold. What the trucks doing there, I don't know. There, there's, there is a highway, this is the highway that goes right up through Malawi. And there's trucks that go from South Africa trying to get up through Malawi to the north. And that's what these trucks are doing. But some of them, of course, don't make it.
It's very difficult. I'm going to move ahead here. That's brother Harold from the South.
He has.
A very good evangelist, a very good teacher, has a little better circumstances than most of the rest of them. I'll travel with him when I, when I go there. He doesn't know the language in the North, but he'll be able to translate for me at least in the South, and we'll get another couple of brothers to translate in the North. He will, he will minister with me as well. They expect any visitor, of course, to.
Be on deck all the time, but this is a brother that.
Well has been a help and is well able to be a help.
We did. We did go to, there's a, there's a Congolese refugee camp in Malawi which has 58,000 people in it and there is an assembly in that refugee camp. So we got to get to that little assembly.
There's all their little huts.
There's the breaking of bread. People are all behind me.
This is this is just grinding corn for our noon meal.
Sometimes you look at a plate load of stuff and you think, wow, how am I going to get that down? I was sitting there looking at a plate load that Well, I'll tell you, it was the sisters. They thought at one assembly as we left, they thought they'd, they'd do something special for us and they'd get us a fruit salad and they gave us a lovely fruit salad and it was just laced with big chunks of.
Greasy fish. Cold fish.
I kind of looked at it and you know, there's three things you need if you're going to do some traveling like this. You need a strong stomach, you need a weak nose and you need a sense of humor.
But I was sitting there looking at this and I looked up at the brother and he was looking at me and he just looked at me and he says, brother, smile and eat.
So you smile and eat.
This was lovely in the refugee camp. This lady came out with this poster seven years before she took a picture with my daughter Melissa. She showed that to me, so I was delighted to see that.
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Brother William.
This is probably the main brother in that refugee camp.
I'll show you some of these. This is because for some of the kids to see.
Kids are all hungry.
I.
They line up in a line and.
Their hands are washed before they eat.
Loaded up with food.
I.
Sorry.
For these kids.
They'll they'll get a meal maybe once every three days.
They share a plate.
This brother gave me a message for my local assembly. We are very happy to see you.
You sleep.
David and the sister Ellen and we have paid that wish if his body brings you back.
Past our own greetings to your friends and relatives, mainly the brethren in Canada and the Americans so.
I didn't know I had this on here. There is a.
There is perhaps a few pictures of the cyclone that took place.
How old are you? I needed to come up this time.
It's really been devastating to the brethren's homes there.
That's not swimming, that's being swept away. It's it happened very quickly.
No.
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I do have a video of them pulling all the bodies out. It's not very pretty. I'm not going to show it. This is a funeral though with lined up with caskets.
I want to turn to one more verse before I pray. Maybe we can have the lights.
Matthew's Gospel.
Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 9.
Matthews Gospel, Chapter 9, verse 36.
When you saw the multitudes.
He was moved with compassion on them.
Because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep, having no shepherd.
And you saith unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous.
But the laborers are few.
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will.
Here's our subject that we started with.
That he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
We started by.
By speaking about how everyone of us is sent.
I mentioned the brother coming to me, putting his hand on my shoulder, saying 3 words. Tremendous encouragement he was sent.
I think that brother I took out to give the gospel to he was sent.
I think of those that labor in a place like this.
Those are different areas that were sent, but here the Lord says.
Pray ye, therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. That's not just Malawi, that's going to to a brother or a sister and putting your hand on their on their their shoulder and just giving them an encouraging word. You know, this morning I was watching.
You perhaps sought to. I was watching.
Josh as he went through the Sunday school and then he started to to have the kids say their verses.
And you may have noticed one of the little girls that are versed perfectly and then she was so concerned that her sister would say it perfectly. She went over there and she was trying to help her sister because she wanted her sister to get a treat too.
You know, her sister didn't get the treat and she sat down. You may have noticed two drippy tears coming down still a girl's face. And I thought, you know, that's such a lovely example of care.
I know who she is, she's 7.
Little Sister's 3.
The care that she had for her sister, how are we doing with that care with one another? How are we doing with it?
The Lord wants us to have that cure.
He wants us to have a sense in our souls that we're sent. We're not just left here. We're not just floundering to see what we're supposed to be doing, whatever it might be. No, we're sent. Everyone of us were sent.