i'm pastor stephen brooks welcome today
to our online
internet around the world church service
i am so happy that you're here today
and i believe that the holy spirit will
share with you today
the anointing of the word that will
produce the victory
and the joy and the peace that christ
has made available
for you praise god get ready to receive
god's word today
we're going to begin in hebrews chapter
11 verse 1 we're going to first receive
the tithes and offerings
we're going to bring them into the
storehouse of god
and we're going to honor god with our
finances
hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 now faith is
the substance of things
hoped for the evidence of things
not seen now remember we walk by faith
not by sight that's what faith is you
you're walking by faith
not just a random like oh i hope it no
it's a faith in god's word it's a faith
in what god said
so this faith is the evidence of things
not seen
verse 6 but without faith it
is impossible to please him for he who
comes to god must believe that he is
and that he is a rewarder of those who
diligently seek him now
as you bring your tithes and offerings
into the storehouse
of the lord i want you to give in faith
exercising your faith using your faith
just like a mechanic can use a a
screwdriver
or a wrench and achieve a desired result
i want you to use your faith i want you
to use the tool of your faith
for increase in your finances
see while we obey the principles of
god's word
of tithes and offerings the tithe being
10
of all that you earn of all that comes
into you
that 10 and the giving of offerings
while we obey those principles
we also want to do it in faith
in other words don't just give a tithe
or an offering
and then think well that's that's all
there is to it god will bless me
he will bless you and you need to use
your faith
so that you get the maximum results in
other words on purpose
be using your faith for increase on
purpose
be using your faith make application of
your faith
and say father i'm a tither i'm a giver
and you are increasing me and lord this
will be the greatest year of my life
financially
i'm going to be able to give more i'm
going to be able to do more than i ever
have before so do you see how you can
use your faith
you can give evidence of your faith by
speaking
those faith-filled statements such as
i am blessed to be a blessing and this
year
i will be a greater blessing than ever
before so you're using your faith
and you're calling those things forth
a greater increase praise god hallelujah
but without faith it is impossible to
please him so as you give your tithe
as you bring an offering into the
storehouse of the lord
do so with great faith saying this is my
year for increase
i am going from one level of financial
glory to the next
level of financial glory we go from
glory to glory
we go from faith to faith the faith that
you had for your budget last year
go from faith to faith go to a new level
so that you have increase
and that you expand and increase whoa
praise the lord amen you're using your
faith
as you used your faith for salvation as
many of you have
used your faith for the baptism in the
holy spirit
as many of you have found the promises
of god's word include divine healing
oh and you use your faith for healing
and you've received
received and received use your faith
for financial increase and you will
receive
in that area as well be sure to honor
the lord
through his commandments of the tithe
and offerings
and then use your faith and just watch
as god will bless you
in greater greater portion and
proportion than what you've experienced
before
use your faith be bold about it the
bolder you are
with your faith the greater results
you'll get whoo praise god
praise the lord now as you're bringing
your tithes and offerings
into the storehouse of the lord if you
would like to mail them in you prefer to
mail them in
please send them to stephen brooks
international
p.o box 717 moravian falls
north carolina our zip code here is
28654
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and from any place in the world praise
the lord
hallelujah there's many options online
in which you have available to give
when you visit our website there on the
home page is the link called
giving and or give it says and you can
click on the red heart
it'll take you right to our giving link
praise the lord
let me pray for you heavenly father as
your people are
obeying you in this sacred area
of giving as they're working your
principles of seedtime and harvest
tizen offerings sowing and reaping
father
let their faith be alive for increase
let their faith be active for the
blessing to flow
thank you father god that you're lifting
your people up in this area of finances
to be a greater blessing you are
blessing them
and father they have such a heart to
give and i thank you that you are
increasing them in this area because
it's more blessed to give
than to receive there's so much joy in
giving
and so father we thank you for the
increase so that we may experience
greater avenues of giving and
new dimensions of joy now father we give
you praise
bless your people in jesus name
we all agree and say amen praise god
now let's take our bibles today and
let's move over to the gospel of luke
chapter 19. praise the lord
luke chapter 19 we're going to start in
verse 11
and we're going to get to verse 13 we're
going to camp there a little bit today
praise god let's pray heavenly father as
we go into the message today
we ask the holy spirit what anoint our
spiritual ears
to hear and understand in our spiritual
eyes to see
the truth and to walk in the light of
the truth
and the joy to enjoy the peaceful
fruit of righteousness that it produces
when we obey your word
now father we give you praise thank you
father that your word is a lamp
and to our feet it's a light unto our
path we enjoy
walking in the light of your word thank
you father in jesus name
we all agree and say amen praise god
luke chapter 19 let's start in verse
11. thank you jesus
now as he heard these things he spoke
another parable
because he was near jerusalem and
because they thought the kingdom of god
would appear immediately
well we know of course that that
immediate situation was not going to
arise the way they thought it would they
thought at that time
jesus would step in with a physical
kingdom
that now he is going to display himself
as the king
and the invading
roman conquest of the nation of israel
will be
dispelled and they will have their land
back
and they will have uh every tribal
uh basically every tribe restored and
functioning the way it should
and they'll have their temple all to
themselves well
without you know out having the romans
staring down and looking at them
and they'll be able to get things
the way it was intended to be done
praise god they just thought this is it
this is it
but you know what the kingdom is
is first and foremost within the kingdom
of god is within
now there will be a physical kingdom
when the lord does come to rule and
reign upon the earth
and that's during what we would call the
millennial reign the millennial
basically meaning a thousand you're
going to read about that
in the book of revelation the latter
parts of the book of revelation as well
as isaiah
chapter 11. but jesus
he goes into a parable to give insight
into
how this is actually going to unfold
therefore he said
a certain nobleman went into a far
country to receive for himself a kingdom
and to return so he called 10 of his
servants
delivered to them ten minus and said to
them
do business till i come
now some translations such as the king
james version
says occupy till i come in other words
stay here and continue on
both translations are accurate they're
both correct
do business or in other words occupy
stay here
and do business till i come
and we know that most of them did and we
know that there was one
who didn't who got into fear got into
the
paralysis of too much analysis
maybe that one just watched the news too
much
read too many newspapers and he just
shut down
and he got the wrong focus because of
fear
and uh he just froze and he didn't bring
any increase and the lord was very
displeased with that servant
but i today want to talk about where
your focus should be praise god
i could launch into the current events
that are shaking the nation and
affecting
you know many people around the world
particularly those in america
well pastor stephen what do you think
about what happened in washington dc
well i i have to say that while many
give their opinions
i was there my wife and i were standing
right in front
of the capitol building we saw what was
happening on the back side
we saw what was going on on the front
side well pastor stephen what were you
doing
we're doing what we went there to do
which was pray
i don't always announce from the pulpit
the prayer operations that we undertake
here
but we were in dc just a couple of weeks
ago
and we were in dc uh dc for that whole
thing we were there the day before
and you know we were just praying just
standing there
seeing what unfolded but just standing
there praying praying in the spirit
praying for our nation praying that the
destiny
that god has for this nation not be
destroyed
because we love this country and we want
to see god's will done
and we're just praying praying
praying praying praying just praying
when you when you see the things that
are taking place
and all of the things going on all of
the deception and so forth
all you can do is pray just pray pray in
the spirit pray in tongues praise god
the night before we were there on the
lawn of the capitol praying well i think
we were out there till
i don't know maybe 10 o'clock at night
until our feet were so cold
you can't even feel your toes i couldn't
feel my feet pastor kelly the same way
we were there with other intercessors
and we were just praying well now pastor
stephen i want a full rundown what did
you see what happened
well there's plenty of people that are
willing
and happy to dissect that and talk about
that
and uh and you know you're going to go
in the big circle and you're by the time
you've talked it all over you're going
to end up right back to where you
started from in the sense where
you might have some more information but
still the situation
remains what it is so we need to always
pray
but i think that there's something that
we need to be very much aware of
which is where should my focus be
especially in the times where there's a
lot competing for your focus
there are things pulling that would
scream and want to demand your attention
watch me
listen to me do you see what's happening
over here uh
the truth is for myself uh many times
i'm not only aware of it
so often the lord has me there but i'm
there to pray
but still as i pray i still have to make
that shift
to get the higher focus which is that of
the kingdom focus
i'd like to talk a little bit about that
today
now some years back dr wade taylor he
laid hands on me
and dr taylor is in heaven now he lived
this life out
he's in heaven but when he laid his
hands on me and he prayed for me he said
stephen
he said i transfer my mantle to you and
he said i transferred the mantle
he'd carried he told me he carried 18
different mantles
but he said i'm transferring my mantle
to you and the mantle
of walter butler and of ivan spencer
and of john valette now walter butler
traveled to over 100 nations he was a
prophetic teacher
ivan spencer raised up a tremendous
bible college
he was very charismatic he was the
founder i believe of elam bible college
which had a very good focus on
kingdom perspective in other words
global ministry and then you had john
fullett and
there's not too many people in the
modern era
era that would know about john phillip
because he was what was known as a
mystic saint and although he did speak
on some very large platforms he was
never what you would call the evening
speaker
he's not the one that's going to get
people shouting and all that he was a
teacher he was a prophetic
teacher so although he was not that well
known he did speak in large conferences
but he would be more of like the morning
speaker
and he was very happy in his place of
being the morning speaker he knew he was
not the
you know whoop him up type person that
was not his anointing
but when he did speak uh
people really loved him because they
knew he had spent time with god
and he was he was a tremendous teacher
but it always had a prophetic
element to his teaching but i i bring
this up because i want to share
something today about
where our focus should be because john
fullette
went through something in the 1950s that
many of you
are kind of like working your way
through right now
let me see if i can set the context john
fullette
in the mid-50s
but particularly it was actually the
latter 50s
he saw the global threat of communism
he uh he understood the fear that was
sweeping over america now remember in
1957 the russians they put up sputnik
and that was blasted all over the world
through
radio and newspapers covered it
everywhere and it sent
a shockwave of fear through america like
you wouldn't believe because they
thought
we're all going to get blasted by you
know nuclear weapons
and it's over and they thought that
they've got they've got a satellite up
in space they're way ahead of us
and they're they're going to destroy us
all they're going to they're going to
sweep the world with communism
and the the american way that we know is
finished it's over
and so john fullett was feeling all of
that
and and seeing it i mean this is real
that they showed footage of the spa
you know of course the russians were
very proud of that so yeah they're
showing
their video footage of you know the
rocket launch and all of that stuff and
then
you know the signals and not only that
americans could see it
go over they could see the thing just
like if you're on a clear night
any night on a clear night you can go
out you can see the international space
station go over
now it's like a little dot going by but
you can see it
and all the other various satellites
that you see going over
so it it struck america with a lot of
fear and
uh people like in the church were like
hey is this it
have we finally run out of time is this
the end of the age
well jesus gave a parable to recalibrate
people's focus
and um we need that we need to get our
focus recalibrated
john fullett said that in light of all
of this going on
and the fear sweeping america and many
even in the church saying
god is this it have we each have we
reached the end of the age
he said lord would you talk to me about
this
what's going on how should i how should
i um
view this so he got alone with the lord
got quiet which is what i would
encourage many of you to do
i think when you hear what i'm going to
share today i believe it will resonate
with you while we're aware
of what's going on we need to know what
is the main focus
so he you know it's not like he read the
news or
excuse me watch news or stuff like that
because he was he was a recluse he never
married
he was totally devoted to the lord
you're talking about a person that just
pretty much
lived this extremely simple life prayed
all the time was in the word all the
time
and that's all he wants to do so he got
himself real quiet
he said lord i'm aware of that stuff out
there but what would you say
what's going on right now are we are we
really
at the end and so this is what the lord
showed him
he said the lord took him back to when
he was a young boy
about the age of six and
brought back to his memory something
happened
on a certain day let me tell you what
john said happened
he said it was early in the morning it
was a saturday morning
and it was real early like five o'clock
in the morning
and his mother and father uh got him up
now remember they're all early risers
back then anyhow
so awoke him and his sister he and his
sister they're only like a year apart so
they're both
you know real young kids and the father
and mother said
now listen today it's saturday and uh
they don't
told little john and his sister uh your
your
your mother and i the father said your
mother and i were going into town
it's saturday this is our only
opportunity and you know this was back
in the olden days where
it's not that old it's 1950s but they
lived in a rural area
so if you're in a rural area and you
want to go to town where you go in the
town so they said we're leaving this
morning
to go in the town we will be gone all
day there's things we have to do
but we will be back before
it's nighttime and they said you know
the chores that you have to do just like
you would normally do
but because we're gone you're gonna have
to also do some of our chores
so you'll be very busy all day so we
want you to get all of these things done
and we'll be back later they said
okay so little john said you know he's
like six years old and
you know the parents left and when they
left uh they
they had some breakfast for them and
stuff like that so they ate their
breakfast
and it's time to start the morning
chores you know you gotta milk the cow
or you got you kind of got to do the
basics and
take care of the farm animals and you
know run around do all the stuff you're
supposed to do
and then the sun comes up it's just a
beautiful day not a cloud in the sky
and he said there was actually like a
joy he and his sister had
knowing that mom and dad are gone
they're gone all day
and so it gave them a little extra time
while they did their st
their chores to kind of do you know have
a little more fun
uh to do the things kids like to do you
know play around a little bit here and
there and
john fullett said there was a robin that
had laid the eggs you know of course
there in the nest you could see the
beautiful blue eggs and he just loved
looking at that so
knowing that mom and dad were away he
could just take a few extra minutes to
look at that so all his
fun little things he was wanting to do
was able to do it and uh you know run
through the flowers or whatever it is
so he's still getting stuff done but
he's
uh he's just enjoying things well you
know before you know it
lunchtime rolls around and his parents
had left some lunch out
uh for he and his sister so they they
ate their lunch they took a break from
their work
and they ate their lunch they enjoyed
that but there's there's chores to do
there's still work to get done
before mom and dad get home and back out
they go
and they're starting to work through the
afternoon but you know
little john said that he realized that
as a young child
while the morning had kind of gone uh by
it seemed like kind of slow
and you know launched you could take
your time and you could lay down in the
grass and look up at the blue sky
and think about how beautiful it all is
he said the once you got into the
afternoon the latter afternoon
he said it seemed like everything
started going real real quick
uh what's happened to the time we still
have to get this done he told the sister
we still have to get this done
and so they're hurrying they're hurrying
and then
the sun starts to set it starts to go
down and they're watching
as the sun now goes down below the
horizon
you can't even see the sun anymore but
there's still radiance of that light
coming over
and they're like we've got a hurry it's
going to be dark soon and he said a
feeling
swept over him and his sister both like
you know what i really miss
mom and dad i i really miss mom and dad
i hope they get back soon
why because now dark is starting to come
in
and john flett said as a little child he
remembers how
during the daytime the trees were so
beautiful but at night
as the darkness starts coming in
suddenly the trees they don't look
pretty they
they look hideous they it looks like
evil creatures and
the branches look like you know you know
arms that are trying to grab you or
reach you
and he's seeing all of this and it's
like as darkness is coming in
it's just like the he's like oh this is
not good i sure wish mom and dad would
be
would get back so he's trying to finish
up the last few things
and right when the last
rays of light were just about to be
completely gone he looks and over the
hill comes mom and dad back in the
carriage
woo he said i was so happy my sister and
i were so happy all they're back
and right right when they got to the
house complete darkness
and they went inside of the house safe
and secure
and he said as a little child he said i
can't even express how happy my sister
and i were
knowing that mom and dad were back and
we're inside the house
the doors closed we're safe and secure
everything is all right
now and the lord told him
i gave you full recollection of that
brought that all back to your memory
because i want you to know that until i
come back
you need to keep working and keep
working and keep doing all the things
that i've assigned you to do
until you can't do any more and at that
last moment i'll come back
whoa praise god pastor stephen where
should my focus be
well this is your focus you need to be
involved in kingdom business
all out kingdom business yes we're aware
of the shakings we're aware of all of
that uh
we we see it we hear it you can feel it
in the air
where should our focus be though a
higher focus do
kingdom business until he comes back
until you can't do any more
and at that point god steps in praise
god but we've got a lot to do and we can
still do a lot
oh pastor steve is all over well we live
in very interesting times but we
still have assignments and we must be
about the father's
business jesus said do business kingdom
business
till i come praise the lord
please go with me now to matthew chapter
24. we're going to do kingdom business
regardless of what's happening and as
you'll see that as you're on focus
you'll be in faith you won't be in fear
you'll be protected
and you'll be walking in the wisdom of
god and you'll be going upstream
like the salmon even if other things are
going downstream
you'll be going upstream whoo praise god
we're now in matthew 24 let's go to
verse six
and you will hear of wars and
rumors of wars see that you are not
troubled for all these things must come
the past
but the end is not yet for nation
will rise against nation and kingdom
against kingdom and there will be
famines pestilences and earthquakes in
various places
all these are the beginning of sorrows
now most translations usually 9 out of
10
are going to translate this more
literally from the greek
and that would actually be the word
labor pains
all these all these difficulties all
these troubles in the earth
are the beginning of labor pains
i wish that i could tell you that in the
earth things are going to get better
but that's not what the bible says it's
going to get more difficult
now in the midst of this difficulty
we're going to continue on with the
kingdom focus
but yes there will be these difficulties
there's
labor pains now remember when a woman
goes into labor to deliver a child
the closer you get to that delivery the
the closer those pains come and the more
intense
they come so it used to be
go decades back go a few centuries back
sure
there could be an earthquake we'd have
some earthquakes here and there
we'd have some natural disasters here or
there
but now there's all kinds of disasters
and now there's all kinds of moral
depravity
all of these signs are being fulfilled
and it's going to continue
like labor pains more calamities getting
closer and closer
and not only getting closer and closer
but they're going to be
getting more intense more intense
until there is this birthing
pastor stephen how far can we go with
this when will this end
it'll end when verse 14 is completed
verse 14
and this gospel of the kingdom will be
preached in all the world as a witness
to all the nations and then
the end will come whoo praise god
so pastor stephen where should our focus
be well
according to what jesus said in the
gospel of luke he said
in that same chapter luke chapter 19 he
said the son of man has come to seek
and to save that which was
lost that's where our focus should be
the son of man has come to seek and to
save that
which was lost and so we need to go
after
the lost we need to have the right focus
this gospel of the kingdom will be
preached in all the world as a witness
to all the nations
now the word nations
you could translate it as gentiles
you could also look at it more closely
because in the greek is the word ethne
yes it is gentiles
those outside of the covenant of god
gentiles but it's ethnic in the greek
and that's actually
where we get our english word ethnic
from or ethnic
groups there are
in the eyes of god three classes of
people
on the earth not four not ten
not one not a hundred three and i can
show that to you very quickly in
scripture
please look with this look at this with
me first corinthians chapter 10
first corinthians chapter 10 verse 31
therefore whether you eat or drink
or whatever you do and that that's
really something to consider
or whatever you do do all to the glory
of god
praise god give no offense
here we go give no offense either to
the jews or to the greeks
who are the greeks the greeks are a
representation of the gentiles
all of these people that are out there
in the world that don't know god
give no offense either to the jews or to
the greeks
or to the church of god
well pastor stephen are you jewish no
well then you must be a gentile no
i'm in the other category the moment
you come into christ then you are
in the church praise the lord so we have
we have those three
we have the jew we have the greek
which would be the nations of the world
the gentiles and we have
the church of god praise god
now we need to talk about reaching
the lost praise the lord do business
do business do kingdom business till i
come
in the midst of all of these things wars
and trouble nations rising against
nation
famines pestilences we have certainly
seen that
we need to stay on task these these
labor pains are going to continue around
the world
with intensity with a closer frequency
just when you think well maybe we'll get
past that and get a breather vote
something else comes so we need to be
aware of that
but we're going to still stay on verse
14 and this gospel of the kingdom
see we're doing kingdom business we'll
be preached
in all the world as a witness to all the
nations
and then the end will
come praise the lord so
just like john fullette when he was a
little child
going around staying busy when till the
parents came back
we need to be just like that we've got a
lot to do until the lord comes back
we've got to stay busy
by the way how many of you know he is
coming back and there will be a time
when we can't work anymore
but until then until then we're going to
keep on going
we're going to push the spiritual gas
pedal all the way to the floor
hallelujah pastor stephen i drive an
electric vehicle i don't have a gas
pedal we're going to push it all the way
to the floor also
whoa praise god in our efforts to spread
the gospel
far and wide oh we have so much to do
praise god
now again this gospel of the kingdom
will be preached in all the world as a
witness to all the nations
nations the greek word ethnic
referring to all of these various ethnic
groups
when it is saying the word nations here
don't look at it like the nation of
canada
the nation of america the nation of
switzerland that's not what that's
referring to
it's referring not only to these
geographical areas but to these ethnic
groups
that make up all of these various
nationalities praise god
right now we have 17
400 ethnic groups that are in the world
today
okay 17 400
ethnic groups that are in the world
today
are you ready for some wild statistics
here we go out of the 17
400 ethnic groups 7
400 not people 7 400
ethnic groups are unreached
pastor stephen what do you mean by
unreached
i mean that in these unreached ethnic
groups
there are less than 2 percent
christians or in some cases
there is actually no exposure at all
to christianity so we're talking two
percent or less and usually it's less
extremely minimal maybe even one percent
but we're saying it has to be at least
below two percent
that means 98 percent of the others
don't know they don't know anything
about the gospel
we have 7 400 ethnic groups
that are unreached less than two percent
know about christ or they have no
exposure to christ
at all out of the seven thousand four
hundred
ethnic groups the 50 largest
now remember this is just 50 out of 7
400
but out of those 7 400 let's just look
at the 50 largest ones
the 50 largest ones they comprise
1.48 billion
souls that are
unreached let's read the scripture again
and this gospel of the kingdom will be
preached in all the world as a witness
to all the nations
and then the end will come pastor
stephen that's been done
absolutely not it has absolutely not
been done
no missiologist would ever acknowledge a
crazy statement like that
who are missiologists they're the ones
that are missionaries but specifically
the theologians that study
missions unreached people groups and
compile data and statistics
they help us pinpoint the areas of where
we need to send the gospel to
as well as continuing to send it already
to areas where
it's going but especially to unreached
areas
so these are statistics that do not lie
they're accurate
1.48 billion souls
that are unreached every group
out of this 50 every group
of the 50 every single one of them is
larger than
10 million praise god what if we could
just get one of them
this means that out of these 50
groups not one has a church
not one not one has a church that's been
established
that is capable of taking the gospel
throughout that region
not one praise the lord
out of the 50 largest ethnic groups that
are unreached
23 of them are muslim
18 18 of them are hindu
six of them are buddhist and the
remaining few percentages
would be uh a mixture or
or something where there would just be
no particular god that's worshipped at
all
just people that are not serving god
that don't know god
now let's give a few examples of
some of these unreached people groups we
have
the sheikhs of bangladesh
136 million of them
and they're unreached they are unreached
less than 2 percent
have ever heard the gospel or in some
cases some of them have never heard it
at all
they've never even heard the name of
jesus
never they've never even heard the word
gospel they don't know what a bible is
they don't even know what it looks like
they've never heard the book of genesis
they don't know anything they don't know
anything completely unreached
136 million shaikhs of bangladesh
the brahmanas of india 61
million brahmanas that are
unreached praise the lord
the yadavs of india 62 million
unreached the java
pasir lore of indonesia 37.4
million unreached and i love going to
indonesia
and all of the beautiful islands of
indonesia but with all of those islands
thousands of them you're going to have a
lot of people spread out
and you know there's people out there
with no internet
uh no newspaper no telephone and
they're just out there and you know uh
they may have some electricity
but they're doing pretty good to have
that unreached
37.4 million of them
most of these people that i've just
mentioned have never
once in their entire life ever
heard the gospel
never have never have what are we going
to do about that
pastor steve i'm ready to get out of
here
i understand that i understand the
pressures we're under
i unders i understand the corroding of
our liberties
i understand the not just national
the global decay of morality
and the confusion where people can be so
confused
they don't even know what gender they
are they they in their mind
can't even such confusion and deception
sweeping over the earth i bet we still
have a job to do
because let me tell you there are those
that are on this planet
if we can get the gospel to them they'll
take it
they'll take it like a hungry fish hook
lion and sinker
and we are fishers of men
we're going to get them we're going to
get them praise god we're going to have
the higher focus yes we're aware
we're aware and many of you are aware
you're very well informed
the audience that i speak to is a very
well informed audience
but my friends while we are aware of
these things and
it does move us to pray about these
situations
we're going to stay on target on the
main target which is that we must occupy
we must do kingdom business until he
comes
um praise the lord
and until he comes we've got to stay
busy not only that
we need to expand increase and take it
seriously
and as we do we'll see that god is with
us refreshing us
blessing us helping us despite all the
difficulties
well pastor steven we got challenges we
have enemies the lord will prepare a
table before you
right in the presence of those who would
try to oppose you
he'll bless you he'll refresh you you'll
be able to sit at the table and eat
and then continue on doing all that god
has called you to do
stay on target stay on task
praise the lord praise the lord
now out of these
50 large groups comprising
a total of 1.48 billion souls
81 of them
are either hindus muslims
or buddhists and those 81 percent
do not even know a christian
they've never met one they have never
met a christian
pastor stephen how can that be well when
you get out in the world and travel
you see as you remove yourself from a
western perspective
you see it's a pretty big planet and
what we can get so called up in
the other side of the world they already
know what's going on they don't even
know what's going on
they're just trying to grow some rice
they're trying to
dig some potatoes out of the ground and
cook another meal they're just trying to
live
they have no clue no clue
now here in america of course
if you meet a muslim in america most
most muslims in america
have met a christian buddhist in america
some of them have yes majority of them
have met christians
but these in these other areas most of
them are falling into what's
what the um those that study missions
would call the 1040 window
it's the latitude and longitude of an
area
that is vastly unreached with the gospel
of the lord jesus christ
this is why on every message i preach
from this pulpit or through television
or through any platform where i have the
opportunity to present the gospel
i will always extend
an invitation for salvation for the lost
to receive christ because you never know
who's watching
oh pastor stephen i'm saved you don't
need to share that again that
that invitation is not for you we know
that you're in the ark of safety
it's for those who don't know it's a big
world
there are over 2 billion 2 billion
who have never heard the gospel present
it in a clear
and understandable way there are 1.5
that are completely unreached but 1.5
billion that are completely unreached
but we can add another half billion in
there
who is still have never had enough
exposure to hear presented in a way
where they can make
a clear logical decision
let me tell you right now with that
gospel presented yes
there will be those that say this this
is what i've wanted all my life thank
god yes i'll take christ now
um praise the lord
praise the lord we're going to do
business kingdom business
until he comes past if we're out of time
no we're not out of time because he
hasn't come yet
we're going to keep going and look at
look at this not only are we going to
keep going
we're going to expand in a greater level
and god's going to bless you right in
the midst of chaos
right in the midst of depravity
right in the midst of a world
gone crazy we're going to keep preaching
the
uncompromising gospel that salvation is
in christ
and that christ is the only mediator
between
man and god he's the only one
that you can get your life right with in
the eyes of god it's through
god's son christ jesus praise god and
we're going to preach it all over the
world
we're going to continue to preach it all
over the world as well as sharing
messages from the word that build
up the faith of god's people so you can
be strong in faith and do
exploits that god has called you to do
and has pre-ordained that you would
accomplish before you were ever born
you're not leaving this planet until
your assignment is done
woo and you're going to get it done
hallelujah
my friends the only reason people fail
believers fail is because of broken
focus
i'm not saying we shouldn't be aware of
things we are and we we pray
and as we do that we're still going on
the main thing
the main thing there are multitudes that
have never heard the gospel
and we are we're going to extend
ourselves
as far as we can verse 14 and this
gospel of the kingdom will be preached
in all the world as a witness
to all the nations to all the nations to
every one of those ethnic groups
right now on this planet
we have certain ethnic groups
that have no bible
in their language of their mother tongue
sixteen hundred ethnic groups alone
that don't even have a bible in their
language
well pastor steve we should just give
them an english bible they they can't
read it
well we should read it to them they
can't understand it
that's like somebody giving me a bible
in in greek
well i i could i could work my way
through some of it i've had some greek
in college i could at one point i was
pretty good but because that's not
really something i
put all my emphasis on there's gonna be
a lot i don't know but if you give me
something in russian i'm lost well you
should just figure it out
i can't i don't know how i can't read it
can't i can't understand it well
we'll read it to you that's not going to
help me at all i need my own bible
in my own native lang tongue and my own
mother language which for me is english
they don't have it sixteen hundred
ethnic groups that don't have a bible
well how we're going to reach them we're
going to have to get that figured out
i believe a lot of that is going to go
over into the area of the supernatural
where we're going to see the signs and
wonders that are going to help us
not only do all we can naturally but
this is going to be
expedited by the power of the holy
spirit as we go into certain areas
there will be supernatural wisdom given
as well as
the ministry gifts of the spirit in
order to get this accomplished a whole
lot faster
thank you jesus yes there is a gift of
tongues
for those that we would call
missionaries or apostles
that sometimes they can go into areas
and they either learn the language
extremely fast
and some have got it instantly some have
gone into certain
countries and it's not it's not just a
language to give a message and then and
then leave it's
for those often that stay there and they
just they just pick it up
or sometimes they've got it instantly
where they can just fluently speak it
that's by the holy spirit and of course
when we have situations like that
now we're moving a whole lot faster than
you know you know like a four-year
language class just to be able to speak
it
and then you know another 20 years to be
able to get a good translation
uh you know over to them no we can move
a whole lot faster
when the holy spirit is directing and
helping
us praise god and we can we can depend
upon the holy spirit to lead us in
these areas now pastor stephen these
statistics that you have given
of these 1.5 billion unreached ethnic
groups
all of those precious souls and another
half billion
that also really haven't really had any
exposure they've had it they've had a
little bit more than these others
that are unreached but still you you
in those areas we could still have 70
percent totally lost and don't know
christ
pastor stephen what do all these
statistics mean what does it mean
it means that our focus
should be on being engaged
with our efforts and our hearts and our
prayers and our giving
for kingdom business
kingdom business let me tell you if you
get involved in
the kingdom business you'll never run
dry
you'll never run dry and if you ever
have any challenges
god will take you over them praise the
lord
because when you have a heart for the
lost your focus is in the right place
when you love
the lost i know some christians that
they couldn't give
they wouldn't give a flip about the loss
they don't even think about them they
all they want
is to keep living maybe in their idea
what they call an american dream
just you know as long as we're okay who
cares about anybody else
and they're so self-engrossed in their
own life
that they don't even think about these
precious souls
that don't know christ and listen if you
don't know christ as your lord and
savior
you'd die lost in your sins
i don't care who you are i don't care if
you're
a jew i don't care if you're a gentile
it doesn't matter who you are
if christ is not your savior there is
no taking away of your sins there's no
propitiation of blood
to cover your sins to wash the sins away
christ is the only one who has dealt
with humanity's
sin problem he fixed that problem
at calvary at the cross there in
jerusalem
he hung on the cross and died
as an innocent man who would never
sinned
so that all of our sins could be placed
upon him
so that he could bear them for us whoo
so that we could be free but you have to
put your faith and trust
in him if you're watching today's
message and you don't know christ as
your lord and savior
and you think pastor stephen i'm outside
of god i don't know god i have no
covenant with god
then my friends you're in big trouble
you need the lord you need the lord see
i
i look at politics and i see
i see democrats i see republicans i see
corruption on both sides
what is the solution they all need
christ because you have a lot of
maybe even what we would say
conservative republicans they don't know
they don't know the lord they're not
saved they use profanity
they cheat on their taxes they're
involved in insider trading which is
illegal
unlawful but they do it anyhow they're
lost in their sins too and they need to
be told that
they need to get their lives right with
god
christ is the answer praise the lord one
day jesus will come
and he will run and govern this planet
the way that
only he can the perfect way that only he
can
justly and fairly
it's going to be a beautiful thing it's
going to be a beautiful thing
hallelujah praise god but my friends
until that day comes
until that time comes we have to stay on
task
we have to keep doing what was shown to
us in the parable
a parable that displayed the truth that
one day he will come back but until then
we have to stay busy so i want to bring
you back
to what i believe the lord showed me was
a focus for this year
found in the book of isaiah chapter 54
verse 1.
sing o barren you have not born break
forth into singing
and cry aloud you who have not labored
with child
for more are the children of the
desolate than the children of the
married woman
says the lord this is a year of
production and producing for you
verse 2 enlarge
enlarge the place of your tent pastor
stephen i'm ready to pack up my tent
and move to a remote area of the
canadian wilderness
i'm ready to go to alaska
well that that to me sounds like you're
abandoning the kingdom focus well i want
out of here pastor steven too risky too
dangerous for me
the safest place to be is in
the will of god and in that will is
included the kingdom focus
the kingdom focus of advancing the
gospel
if you're not into that you're in a
dangerous place
praise the lord i would ask you today to
reevaluate
where your focus is at don't let
anything allow your kingdom focus to be
broken
praise the lord enlarge the place of
your tent
and let them stretch out the curtains of
your dwellings do not spare
lengthen your cords and strengthen your
stakes for you shall expand
to the right and to the left it is time
for your expansion and your
increase why
because you you are going to be vitally
used by the
lord in this movie of the spirit
woo hallelujah that you can be the
spearhead
that helps to move the kingdom message
forward praise god i see it happening in
your life
praise the lord
thank you lord jesus glory to god
glory to god hallelujah
it is a time to go before the lord and
get
the focus the heart of god get the
priorities of the lord
right in your life and as you do
everything else will fall in order
when you have the divine order
everything else lines up
praise the lord please do not set your
priorities
by the news although we need to be aware
of what's going on
but you must not set kingdom priorities
by
natural worldly circumstances or events
why they're changing all the time
they're changing all the time and as
like i said and like jesus said in
matthew 24
it that negative stuff is just going to
increase
so you need to stay on task praise the
lord
hallelujah let this year be the year of
the greatest
increase of your walk with the lord your
nearness to the lord
the provision of the lord the peace of
the lord than anything you've ever had
in your life before this is a year of
growth
and increase and expansion
hallelujah now say in the name of the
lord
i receive the mandate
for the kingdom focus to take the gospel
to be a part of that and whatever my
role the play is
so that we take it to every ethnic group
on the face of the earth in jesus name
amen can you imagine
when you're in heaven one day and people
come up to you
and say thank you for your giving and
your love of the gospel
your love for christ and your love for
me although you never knew me
and you never even saw my face on the
earth
yet you had a heart for me and i'm here
because you were involved in whatever
in the various role that you played to
get the gospel
to me so i wouldn't spend the eternity
in hell but i could spend eternity in
heaven with god
somebody cared enough to pray for you
and to give and to have a heart for the
kingdom so
that somehow in some way it was preached
to you
and you heard it i don't know what
format or how
but you heard it and you received it
and now here you are saved serving the
lord
aren't you glad you're saved thank you
jesus
but one day to meet all of these
precious people praise god
thank you jesus and as we send the
gospel out
let me just say this trust me they're
listening
they're watching these messages go into
communist countries
these messages sometimes i don't even
know how they do
but they go into areas where it's banned
or forbidden
and people are listening and we're going
to continue
to spread the good news of jesus
it is the greatest assignment in the
world and to be
participating in it
is the highest it's the highest
area of kingdom activity the most
important thing you can
you can do why when this is all done
and we go home to be with the lord
you're going to have those christians i
call them outer court christians
i'm talking from like a temple
perspective they just live their life
in the outer court you know just happy
they're saved
and you know it's wonderful that's
wonderful but never really having an
interest in god or what's on god's heart
what's important to him
so maybe maybe they even get caught up
in social
justice issues but you can be
you can be a social justice warrior and
rescue this
and rescue that but if we don't get them
the christ
they're lost they're lost so the
preaching of the gospel
and the spreading of the gospel is the
priority
praise the lord praise the lord thank
you jesus
lord's really grabbing hearts right now
praise god
praise the lord if you're watching and
you don't know christ as your lord and
savior
you want to receive him now and his
eternal life
within your heart pray this right now
say lord jesus
i come to you as a sinner but you died
on the cross for sinners jesus
save me right now wash me with your
precious blood
write my name in your book of life
i receive you by faith as my lord
and my savior and my king jesus
in your name i pray amen and amen
praise god praise god praise god
he has heard that prayer he has answered
that prayer you're now
safe in his hands you belong to him
now serve him and live for him and
you'll see the goodness of the lord
all the days of your life praise god
praise god forever
my friends this is a time for you to go
forward
yes there can be frightening moments we
could see things that could be shocking
we could see things that yes put us on
our knees in prayer
but we must keep going forward we must
keep going forward with the gospel
with the gospel praise the lord because
there are those
that they'll do anything to hear it
there are those that want it
we're going to get it to him the
fragrance of the lord i smell the
fragrance of the lord
praise god let's take holy communion
i want to invite you to grab some
unleavened bread if you don't have one
of these little wafers that
you know i buy these in christian
bookstores or you can order them you
know over the internet
this is a little bitty wafer you get a
saltine cracker get something like that
i mean if you don't have that get a
cheese it do do what you can do
and join us as we take holy communion
i have some grape juice here grab you
some grape juice
praise god if you don't have grape juice
you've never taken communion before
uh use a temporary substitute
okay just get what you can get you know
dr pepper i'm not saying keep using that
but just get something so that you can
take communion with us
praise the lord hallelujah let's pray
father
we thank you for the grape juice the
bread we bless it
and through this prayer we sanctify it
we set it apart as holy
this is now the body and the blood of
christ our precious savior
father father as we receive the body of
christ
we thank you for a clear focus we thank
you for our focus to reach the lost
and as we do this you're going to bless
us
you're going to bless us thank you
father as we take it
to the jews they need christ
they need christ jesus yeshua is their
savior
and so many don't know it father as we
take the gospel to the jews
as we take the gospel as paul said to
the greeks a representation
of the gentile world father we just
thank you we thank you we thank you
for so many that will receive father
your son
so as we receive the body of christ
that our focus be crystal clear thank
you father
god that we must be busy
with the kingdom we must be occupied
with kingdom business
of reaching the lost father we thank you
in jesus name
amen let's receive
because of your love for god and your
love for his commandments
and his directives and your love for the
lost
you will have rewards waiting for you
you will have eternal rewards
waiting for you and when the other
christians who are there
who had no interest in these things
in the kingdom mandate when they see
when they see what's going on with your
life and the rewards
that will be passed out they'll be like
boy did i ever did i ever not
use my time wisely but you are using
your days wisely
and you're going to see the glory of the
lord in your life
as you take this kingdom initiative and
you keep it at your as your focus
you're gonna have a long life and the
lord will impart
healing healing into your body why he
he needs you up and about your kingdom
person
you're reaching the lost he'll give you
the strength
that you need praise god hallelujah
glory to god
father thank you for the blood of jesus
and as we receive the blood of christ
father we know that the devil satan he's
the accuser of the brethren
he is our adversary he works through
people to do foolish
hurtful evil things unlawful things
father we thank you our fight is truly
not against flesh and blood
but against principalities powers rulers
of the darkness of this world wicked
spirits and
these higher realms
but we thank you father god that we're
safe in you we thank you father god we
bless
and we curse not thank you father god we
pray and we intercede
we thank you father we're not doormats
either we think you're that we're strong
the righteous are as bold as lions but
it's a bold love
a bold faith to reach out and love to
reach out in love we thank you father
god
we thank you father god for the right
balance
that right balance that wisdom of your
spirit thank you father god
we give you praise hallelujah hallelujah
thank you for the blood of jesus washing
away all sin father we have committed
any sin
we ask that you would forgive us washes
with the blood of christ
and we thank you father our sins and our
iniquities
you remember no more we thank you that
we are clean through christ's precious
blood
father we receive the blood of jesus now
and we give you praise
in jesus name amen let's receive
glory to the lord i see that your
time of expansion and increase is at
hand
now believe it use your faith and say
yes it is
praise god and then
occupy till he comes be very
occupied in kingdom business
and all that you do will prosper and be
blessed
my friends thank you for watching today
i look forward to seeing you back
next time