Welcome to this lesson, I am so excited about this lesson this is a very important and practical
lesson where I am going to give you some tools how you can obey Jesus in what he has called
you to and today I'm going to try and put everything together you have learned in the
pioneer school until now, and give you those tools so you can start to obey Jesus in what
he has said in Luke 10 so you can start to preach the gospel and heal the sick, so you
can start to see people repent and be baptised in water and the Holy Spirit so it is a practical
lesson where I am going to give you some simple tools and share a lot of simple testimony
and encourage you to take the next step and come in a live the life we read about in the
book of acts. So God bless you
Welcome to the pioneer school and welcome to this lesson, I really look forward to sharing
this word with you today, today I'm going to be very practical I'm going to give you
some simple tools today, if you do this simple I am going to talk about today it's not
only going to change your life but it is going to change those around you it is going to
create a movement that is going to change the world because this is so simple at the
same time this is so powerful and it is all about obeying Jesus and what he has commanded
us to do and I could tell a lot of stories of what God has done the last weeks and I'm
going to tell you more when I'm going through the teaching this time, but we have been in
turkey, we have been in Sweden, and God has done a lot of things and I hear so many testimonies
from the pioneer school, and I believe that this lesson and the next lesson is going to
come out, is going to change so much around the world and it is going to change around
the whole world because God is spreading this 'yesterday I got three interesting emails'
almost at the same time' and I think this is so exciting what God is doing, there was
one from Canada who wrote to me that she was so excited about the pioneer school and she
speaks French and she want to translate the pioneer school into French for the French
speaking places, at the same time somebody wrote to me from Russia he wanted to translate
the pioneer school into Russian ….almost at the same time I got an email …somebody
ask if I wanted to get the pioneer school translated into Chinese, because he has some
contacts and they would try to work on that. And I'm so excited because at the same time
I got those three emails with those three important languages French, Russian and Chinese
and I believe that God is doing something incredible all over the world and this is
just starting and I believe today when I am going to be very practical is so important,
and the next time where we are going to end the pioneer school. Last time I spoke about
Luke 10 and I am going to go through that again and I'm going to go through the church.
If I very quickly go through it, we have the church the most simple form is to love God,
love your neighbour and make disciples, this is what Jesus has called us to the two greatest
commandments 'love God and love your neighbour, and the great commission go out make disciples,
this is what we need to do, but the problem often is we put that in a box where it becomes
everything has to have a building, it has to have staff, professional people who are
able to do it who have an education so it only become a few people who actually do it,
we have a programme always the same no matter where you are because it is built on the same
system and money, and budget and as I said before the church as I have quoted also in
my book 'Christianity started out in Israel as a fellowship, so Christianity was a fellowship
it was a movement, it was a revival Christianity led by the Holy Spirit but then it moved to
Greece and became a philosophy then it came to Italy and became an institution and it
moved to Europe and became a culture and it came to America and became an enterprise a
business, but as I said before if we make a business out of a body because the church
is a body then it is prostitution and Jesus is not going to come back and get a prostitute
he is going to come back and get a bride. A bride that is holy a bride that is obeying
him and because of that I believe we are standing in front of one of the great reformations
of the church where we are going to see everything change where everything is going to come back
to what it was supposed to what we read about also in the book of acts revival Christianity
where people were led by the Holy Spirit, where they obey Jesus, where people did not
just ask Jesus into their heart they did a lot of other things but where there was deep
repentance from sins and baptism in water the same day and baptism with the Holy Spirit.
But all of that changed through the church history with the catholic church, and then
we got the reformation but it was only a small change here and there and this is the foundation
we built on if we are Baptist, Methodist, the background we have are building somehow
on our church history, so this is some of the things I have been speaking about in the
pioneer school and last time I spoke then about Luke 10. And I am going to go through
that again and this time be very practical and share a lot of testimony out of Luke 10
how this is working but before I am going to start I want to pray because this is important,
this is a really important message everything Jesus is saying about Luke 10 is everything
about the church history …the box, the system. It is so important; it is so difficult for
people to understand if the Holy Spirit is not dealing with them. But for all of those
who the Holy Spirit is dealing and working with them they will just experience this as
life this is setting people free. But I will pray, God I thank you for everything
you are doing I thank you for all the testimonies that is happening through the pioneer school
thank you because you are letting this out through the whole world, and thank you because
we are building your church Jesus, and we want to be part of it and I pray that you
will help us today and that you will help me today to share this word, help me to be
led by your spirit, com Holy Spirit and open our eyes, heart and ears of everybody who
is hearing this message so they are able to receive it, it is going to become life for
them it is going to help them to obey you Jesus and come in and live the life we read
about in the book of acts. Amen Yes, Luke 10. Jesus send his disciples out,
and he sent them out and then he said to them afterwards, go out make disciples of all other
nations, and baptising them and getting them to obey everything I have just commanded you,
so because of this Luke 10 is not only for those disciples at that time because it is
also for us today who is disciples, and it is also for people we are going to disciple
in the future. In Luke 10 Jesus starts saying the harvest is plentiful and ripe...so the
harvest is plentiful…the harvest is ready…it is ready for harvest and he is also saying
as I spoke about that last time when he sent them out in matthew 28 he is talking about
'we have all power and anointing …so as I said last time, they have the anointing,
the harvest is not the problem, the problem is not that we need more anointing, more power'
if we have the Holy Spirit we have it all 'no' the problem is that the workers are
few and because the workers are few Jesus has called us to pray the lord of the harvest
to send out workers. And it is standing there in Luke 10; 2 and
it is good for to remember that every morning two minutes past ten, every evening two minutes
past ten then pray this simple prayer; God I pray that You are going to send out workers
to the harvest because when you remind yourself of that every day to pray God to send out
workers he is going to do it, he is going to change something and we see it in Denmark
right now we see a big, big change. I just got a few testimony a few days ago from a
friend who is living in another city and when I read this testimony I was like 'woo this
is amazing he wrote this to show that it is important that we don't give up after praying
one time but we have to continue praying until things happen. And he share this testimony
because some people was in the city here in Denmark and there they met one who was selling
telephones, selling out on the street, and they met her and asked her if she had something
they could pray for and they told her about God and then she said 'no' actually I
am healed, but then she said something interesting' she said…a few weeks ago I was selling telephones
in another city in Denmark somebody came to me and talked to me about God and prayed for
me, 'I had a problem in the back' it became a little better but I was not healed' but
then a few days later I was in another city and somebody also came and spoke to me about
Jesus and prayed for me and it became better' and then a few days ago I was in this city
and two different people came to me and asked me and both prayed for me and when the last
one prayed I was completely healed. and he shared that testimony to show that it is important
to continue praying, but for me that testimony is also amazing because now you can to go
many bigger cities in Denmark and there is a chance you are going to meet someone out
on the street who is talking to you about God and who is praying for sick people. And
it was unheard of just two years ago' three years ago or maybe one year ago. A few years
ago there were a few, few people who was out on the harvest that way but now in Denmark
if you go to that, or that, or that city….there is big chances that somebody is going to stop
you and pray for you and you are going to experience healing, and it is amazing how
this has developed in such a short time and more and more people start to come in to the
harvest and we are not only talking about it has to be out on the street because it
has to be an everyday life, when people are shopping, when people are singing in a gospel
choir when people are at work or different places, so it is important to pray the lord
of the harvest to send out workers, but after Jesus said we should pray that, he said 'I
send you out as lambs among wolves' so we not only pray he also send us out, but he
is with us, we are out there among wolves and because we are among wolves it is important
we are wise it is important we are led by the spirit' also but we should not be afraid,
why? Because he is with us, another thing he said 'God will provide all your needs'
and then he has commanded us to find a person of peace 'find somebody who is ready to
receive Jesus or who wants to hear more' find somebody who wants to hear what you are
saying 'find somebody who will not only discuss with you and talk about a lot of things
and really don't want to hear and I think it is important those things and when you
find some of those persons of peace then don't be eager to invite them to your church stay
at their house, eat and drink what they serve, of course heal the sick and preach the gospel
and then when you find somebody again, another person of peace who doesn't want to receive
the message then brush the dust off and move to the next one, this is what Jesus has commanded
us to do and I can share some testimony just for the last weeks, from turkey, in turkey
I have two experiences of a person of peace, I have experienced that this shows what God
is doing. Turkey
And I can tell one story 'we were in Ankara a big city there and we were out to training
and equipping people and making disciples but then I was walking with my son 'Sonny'
and he was helping us evangelise and praying for sick people and then suddenly we got lost
me and Sonny' we were together with somebody who spoke Turkish who could translate for
us but suddenly our translator was gone, and we were lost there, and like…'hey…where
are all the rest? So there were only me and him and ….what shall we do? We need somebody
to translate for us because people don't speak English there, so we just wanted to
find somebody who could speak English….or we could also say we want to find a person
of peace….I want to find that person who spoke English or I was thinking in my mind
that person Jesus wants me to find so I was going around saying 'excuse me do you speak
English? Do you speak English?....do you speak English? And I was going around looking, I
was looking for somebody who could translate for me the same way I normally look for somebody
who is ready to receive of course normally I don't ask them excuse me do you speak
English, I ask them other questions to find out who is the person of peace, but then I
ask a lot of people maybe 20 – 30 people and I found somebody who spoke English and
I….'you speak English… 'Yes'…and are you good to English? ….and he was good
to English, so I was like 'yes! So I started to ask him 'are you sick? Do you have pain?
because we are out here to pray for sick people, and he said 'no, no, no but my heart is
I don't believe in religion, I don't believe in God and I was thinking in the beginning
like, 'o' yes …we find somebody who spoke English and it was an atheist, but what
I have learned is 'don't always listen to what they say….because there is sometimes
a reason for saying what they are saying, and he said he was an atheist, and he was
only an atheist because he didn't know what it was all about 'I felt that very clear,
so I said to him, 'yea you are an atheist but this because you have not met God, if
you meet God would you then continue to be an atheist and he looked at me like….'what…you
me meet God? What do you mean? You cannot meet God, 'yes of course you can' and
I shared a lot of testimony and when I was sharing a lot of testimony two girls came
and I wanted to demonstrate for him that this was not just words. So I said to the two,
'can you help me two seconds? And translate for me, he said yes…and I stopped those
two girls and I said 'can you help me? And he translated for me to those two girls but
none of them was sick and none was open so we let them go and then he looked at me and
said do you really believe what you are saying? And I said yes of course I believe, and he
said 'I want to see that he said, 'I said ok then you have to help me, you have to translate
for me….he said 'ok' I will translate for you…. and then he took my arm and said
'come with me….and he took me to a bench where there were sitting a lot of people and
'he said 'excuse me ….I didn't know what he said…but….he went around finding
people who were sick and then he found someone and said 'come…'this man has a problem
in the back' now you do it, and it was so amazing to experience that moment that setting
and I was like 'wow' interesting 'I prayed for this guy and nothing happened'
I prayed again and nothing happened' and my friend he start to smile …but I didn't
give up so I prayed again the third time and nothing happened and now he started to smile
and laugh …and I was like 'please God what is happening and I'm praying again
the fourth time and this time he was completely healed! And my atheist friend he didn't
laugh any more 'and he was like…'what! 'Real!stand up! What! What!!….bend down…stand
up! Where did it hurt? You don't hurt anymore? And he started to check this guy and got him
to do a lot of things….stand up…and bend down and everything….and when he saw that
he was healed he was like 'what is happening? So he took my arm and said 'more! And he
draw me again and he just took me from people to people at one time we find a big group
of ten young people where we saw five got healed, one after the other and I shared the
gospel with them and he translated everything and then afterwards he said to me 'what
can I do to get what you have? Now he has fallen away….he is not an atheist anymore
he has fallen away from that belief that he was an atheist, and now he asked me 'what
can I do to get what you have? And it is so interesting because Jesus said heal the sick
and preach the gospel …if I was doing a lot of preaching only to him, it would never
would have convinced him because he was really an atheist, he didn't want to have anything
to do with God or religion, but when he saw people get healed, it opened his eyes and
suddenly he asked me 'what can I do to get what you have? And I took him through the
gospel and it really touched him. But then he had to go because he was with somebody
but the day after he called me again and said Torben can we meet again I have some other
friends who want to meet you and who need prayer so the day after we met at the same
place and he came with eight friends and two of them got healed and you can see it in the
video we made from turkey that two people got healed there then I invited them to burger
king and because there was burger king just beside where we were standing and we sat down
I sat down there with eight people and I shared the gospel for everybody, and after we shared
the gospel we went to the church where we had a gathering there we need to meet with
some other people and out of those eight people there were six people who followed us, and
the reason I invited the people to the burger king before the church was that there I could
get the chance to share the gospel with everybody because when I said 'now we need to go to
church' there was two people who left us who didn't want to go to church and it is
always like that, sometimes it is ok to invite people to church, I don't say we cannot
do that, but it is much easier to gather people if we meet at a public place or in a house
or in a place where people are used to coming. But I came to the church with six people,
one person a person of peace became six persons, him and six friends in a church and we were
there and I took them in the basement one after the other and prayed for them and it
was so interesting because they were so like the atheist the guy who have a t-shirt on
with 'angel' who was smoking and playing poker' another guy have a t-shirt on with
a picture of Satan where he stands…'God is busy' can I help you? and it was so interesting
'when I prayed for them' with the guy with the t-shirt with Satan I was praying
and the Holy Spirit touched them and I was just looking into the eyes of Satan who was
looking out of that picture and I was like….'leave him…leave him! In the name of Jesus, and
God did a lot of things and three people are going to get baptised
The one I found and two friends are ready to receive Jesus and get baptised. So it was
an amazing day and it just goes to show, this is what God wants us to do, when I was out
there that day I was looking for one person, one person who could translate for me but
also a person of peace, I was looking for that person who God wanted me to meet that
day, and when that person came he said he was an atheist, but I did not become afraid
like I spoke about last time when this is in Luke 4 where he went to Samaria and met
the woman, he was not looking at the outward things, he was not looking at a Samarian woman
he was looking inside and saw the harvest was ready and there was a person of peace.
So it is all do with how we view things and I saw this atheist a bold buy with a big beard
and outside you would not think of him as a person of peace and because he says very
clear that he is an atheist he didn't believe in God but he was the door opener into his
friends he was the door opener into that network and God is starting and continuing building
in that so when I say 'don't take people to church it's not like you are not allowed
to do it, it's not like you are not allowed and it has to be in the house, or it has to
be that, it is just important to be led by the spirit and do what is effective, and for
those people it was effective to meet at burger king first and then to the church where they
could meet other people. Other times it is effective to do other things.
So it was one story I had from turkey, another story was an amazing story, it was a guy from
Iran who came and this guy from Iran I got in contact with he came with eight family
members who got baptised in water and it was an amazing day and here again you just see
that Jesus is the same as we read in the book of acts he is alive, the Holy Spirit is alive
the kingdom of God is not in words only, it's not building and programmes and staff and
budget it is life, it is revival Christianity and it came so clear with this guy from Iran
because his story was that three years ago he died, he died in an accident and he came
out of his body and his brother came there running and kneeling down beside his body
then a lot of shadows came and there came more and more and more shadows came and in
the end it became so dark there he could not see himself and his brother anymore but then
a light came, and when the light came all the shadows disappeared and then he woke up
in his own body. And later he was driving a taxi and in the back of the taxi he found
a bible and a Jesus movie and he saw it was Jesus who came to him and he gave his life
to Jesus but in the beginning he didn't know other Christians so he experienced often
problems and things he didn't understand, the Holy Spirit touched him, he experienced
he got dreams from God where God in a dream showed him what he needed to know and through
that God worked in him. But he wanted to get baptised and many of the others was not baptised
in the Holy Spirit and water also we met, and God led us together we met, we were normal
afternoon sat down in a private house or apartment shared the gospel, prayed the Holy Spirit
pour all over them, the people who were not baptised with the Holy Spirit got baptised
with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues. His father, he fall down with a lot
of heart pain' really terrible pain in the heart, and suddenly he got up and ran into
the toilet and vomited and that demon left him…and he was so happy and he got free
and eight people got baptised in water and it was so strong and I'm going to put up
a video with the testimony with his testimony where you see it and I want to say if we start
to obey what Jesus has commanded us to, we are going to experience a totally new life.
The life we are living today is built on those things Jesus is saying and it became so much
clear a few days ago, because few days ago, I can share the story, we were in south Africa
and there God spoke to us that we were going to experience some changes in the family,
changes that is going to be good for us as a family, later God spoke to me that it was
time to expand and we were in England where the people there got a dream about us that
they saw a new house with a big wide windows and how God want to give us a new place and
it came to me that we need more space, we need more room, I'm making this video here
in our basement in a house we have rented but I cannot follow up on all the emails anymore
I cannot follow up on all the invitations. I cannot follow up on everything that is happening
anymore so I need some people to help me to work with us, and because of that I need more
room, I need more room for office, I need more room to do the TV programmes and everything
God is saying, so we were looking for another house to rent in this city and we don't
know so many people in this city because we have only been here a few years and last year
we have been travelling a lot and we were looking for another house and suddenly we
were like….'we cannot find another house…almost every time we found another place to rent,
it was like the door closed like, the Holy Spirit hinder us in it so last week we were
so confused and we were like 'what is happening and my wife she was ready to move, she had
been packing over a month in faith because she knew it was God had something new for
us so she had been packing without knowing where we should go so last week we were praying
and we said God what shall we do? What shall we do? God why is that? And we need another
place and we also need workers to work with us, because this is also a problem we need
the right workers to help us to expand and do what God has said we should do and suddenly
God spoke to us…I'm never going to forget it, it was so amazing, God spoke 'move to
this city! And suddenly he said we should move to another city, in Denmark, a big city
two hours from where we are living, and we were like….move to this city'…but…'woo….and
we know a lot of people there and we have friends there, many years and we know many
Christians in the churches there, but we are always like…no we are living here…and
this is where we should stay…now and we are moving around in this area….and suddenly!
Move to this city? A big city in that area! But it just became clear and I was like 'wow
and I suddenly saw …ideas were coming to me…visions how we could work, if we did
this, if we did this we could expand that way so I went on the internet to try to find
a house to rent not in our city now, but in 'that city and I went and there was two
houses that was ready that was good we could use for private house and for ministry for
everything and I was like 'woo it was really expensive it was like, to just take over the
house you would have to pay about 17 thousand dollars just to take over the house 100.000
Danish krone, but we don't have 100.000 Danish krone, we would never have 100.000
Danish kroners…we were like..ok what shall we do…then we also found a house that was
cheaper that was also good that we could use that was even better in many ways but we didn't
have any money, we didn't have money for the expensive house or the cheap house but
we just felt like 'this is God' then we went to bed. When I woke up in the morning
I was taking my telephone and I was looking at my bank account just to see what was happening
and there I got a shock! I was like….'there is something wrong here! there is something
I have never seen before! What is this? And I was really in shock because there was one
more digit than normal and then I went in and that day there was somebody who had given
us 100.000 Danish kroners and I was like 'wow' I just knew it was God now' this is God,
this guy …I have never seen him, I have never met him, he didn't know anything about
the ideas and what God had been saying to us the day before, moving to the house and
I had never experience us being given that amount of money before and I was like …..wow
this is God…so we went there, we saw the expensive house but it was not that, and we
saw the cheap house and it was just God and we saw ..This is God! This is God and now
we have rented it and now in three weeks we are moving, and we don't need to wait half
a year to move things, if God says this is what we need to do we do it, so in three weeks
we are going to move to another city, so when I am finished with the last lesson on the
pioneer school, then we are packing everything together then we are moving to another city
and it is going to be a new beginning for us and now already we have different couples
who are with us who are going to help us and it is really going to be a new beginning for
us as a family and there is an airport only 15 minutes where I am living, where we are
going to be and it is going to be so much easier for me to travel in future. And again
it became so clear because somebody said to me later when they heard it, yea Torben but
they also have not received you in this city you are in now, and suddenly I saw it, wow
because we moved to this city a few years ago but it is like people in this city have
not received us, the Christians have not received the message but the other city, now we have
so many people say 'you are the answer to our prayer we have been waiting for you, we
have been praying for something will happen in the city and now you are coming we want
to work with you, and I see that city they are receiving us.
It is so different in a stronger way in this city than the one we have been in, but this
is also what Jesus is saying when he said 'brush the dust off' when you come to
a city and they will not receive your message, then brush the dust off and go to the next
city, it's not only people we are talking about it is also cities, and this is what
we also experienced last week, and then go to the next, go and god will provide your
needs, we went there and as soon as we got out eyes on this and say this is what God
is saying now, he is supplying our needs, not before because then we have done something
wrong, but when we do what we are supposed to do God is doing what he has called us to
do. So everything Jesus is saying here is not only theology, this life and this is what
we are living on today the vision he has given us and this is for everybody and when you
start to obey those simple things and do this you are going to experience the same amazing
testimony as I can tell from just the last three weeks and it was just some of the testimonies
so this is what Jesus has said. I want to share some testimonies about a person
of peace and brush the dust off your hands. I found a person of peace some years ago a
woman who got saved a woman baptised in the Holy Spirit and she started to use her house
and out of that there is like 20 people who is gathering now and many people start to
get saved there and I came there and helped them and work with them and she also have
a brother and she invite me one day because she wanted me to talk to her brother about
God and I sat there and I talked to the brother but I felt that he is just not ready to receive
so I shared what I could share and then I continued to the next one and other people
so I did what Jesus said and in the mean time I found a lot of other people of peace who
was ready to receive, one year later I came back to the same person and this time we had
a gathering where he was there and I ask people why they were there and they said 'we have
seen your video and want to get kick-started and want to do that …and he said…'I
want to have Jesus'…I cannot live….I tried to live this life …I'm living in
sin, I need forgiveness ..I want Jesus, I want what my sister has and it was so strong
because this was the exact same person a year later, and I saw him, he repented, he got
baptised in water and baptised with the Holy Spirit, his life got changed that day but
if we had continued working with him that day talking, talking, talking, talking, talking
….the year before that he was not ready to receive it had not helped him, it had not
helped him maybe did the opposite, maybe like …no.. don't want to hear anymore' but
because we are listening to the spirit we shared something and let the Holy Spirit work
in him and went to other people and then suddenly he was ready to receive, so sometimes people
have to go through a period of time where they lost their job where they experienced
bad things, and they suddenly wake up or they are going to go through a time where they
heard about things before there is a period where God is working through, in us so when
I said sometimes when we should brush the dust off and go to the next it does not mean
they are cursed forever' it just means 'let them be, let the Holy Spirit work in them,
pray for them work with other people in the meantime and then when you come back later
you will experience the same person who is suddenly ready to receive, another person
of peace have a small, small, small idea small led by the holy spirt can end up with amazing
things. A short time ago, a few years ago I was on the internet, Christian internet
website to find an article and as I was looking for that article and suddenly I saw somebody
who was asking a question about God in a forum or something and I just saw it for a moment
and thought 'ok' it was not why I was there … and continued to find that article
and then I felt the Holy Spirit said …'person of peace go back…because when you start
to pray and look it is easier for the Holy Spirit to lead you and there I experienced
'go back' suddenly I forgot what I was doing with finding the article and instead
I was trying to find that question again, and I found that question and I wrote to that
girl who was asking the question her name was Dorte …hello Dorte I saw your question
on the website, has anybody answered you? and she answered later 'no' you are the
first one and I was surprised you asked because it is eight months since I wrote that question…and
then I was like 'ok and then I start to write to this girl. I didn't know who she
was, and she didn't know who I was, she said she believed in God and was a Christian
but could mean a lot in Denmark because everybody is a member of the state church and call themselves
Christian in some ways so I asked her 'have you ever experienced God? And she said 'yes
actually I have' but I have never told anybody, many years ago there was a guy on TV who was
praying for the sick through TV 'I used a hearing aid and I laid my hands on when
he was praying 'nothing happened but the day after everybody started, I had to speak
very loud so I went to the doctor to get my hearing aid checked and I found out that I
was healed…I didn't need to use the hearing aid anymore and I haven't used it since
and she didn't know who I was so I wrote "is that me? And I sent a link….from a
TV programme many years ago where I prayed for the sick through TV and many people got
healed and she wrote back 'yes! Yes yes! It's you! And I asked her 'shall we meet?
Where do you live? And she was living only 15 minutes from where I was living so it was
like so clear…it was God who led me to go back and find this woman, this girl …I met
with her, I met with her boyfriend, we sat down shared the gospel, they repented, they
got saved, they got baptised in water, they got baptised with the Holy Spirit.
And Dorte was really a person of peace, she is not a big super evangelist but she was
a girl who was a 'door opener' into her network into her family and this is what we
need to find, we don't need to find super evangelists we need to find the right person
and she was the door opener into that network so a few days later because of what happened
with her I got in contact with her sister on Facebook and her sister had become a Muslim
and because I knew Dorte could write to her sister and she write to me and I asked her,
I don't understand 'what can get a Danish girl to become a radical Muslim? I don't
understand that? And she wrote something back and I could see that she had only met religion
'the Lutheran state church' and it was the only thing she knew about Christianity
that way, so I wrote back 'but what you need is Jesus in life, and I sent my book
to her 'Christian disciple or slave? She read that book and she got saved she came
to us and we baptised her sister, now she was not a Muslim anymore and I just want to
show how we baptise because in Denmark it is often cold and it is not always we can
baptise outside. So what we did was we found in our garden a barrel where rain water was
coming down and we used that to baptise people and it is fine, people can jump up and come
down and then they can sit there and down with the head and up again. Sometimes we can
take water in it and sometimes if it is really cold take it in under the shower fill it up
and baptise people there it just needs to work, to be practical, and she got baptised
in that. And then we started to disciple them and because we not only took them to a church
and let them sit on the bench and do nothing but instead disciple them… a few weeks later
'Dorte and her boyfriend Philip wrote to me that 'hey…tonight 'Dorte's other
sister and her husband want to repent and get baptised in water and the Holy Spirit
so tonight we are going to baptise them and I was like 'yes…amazing just do it, and
they have been Christians a few weeks and there they baptised them and there they spoke
to them in the evening after they had done it, and they said oo it was so amazing we
baptised them and after they came out of the water we sat down in the living room and prayed
and the Holy Spirit came over them and they started to speak in tongues and I love that
because this is discipleship and I asked them 'how did you baptise? I wanted to know where
because they didn't have what I baptised people in so they said 'no' no we didn't
have that but we baptised them in a garbage can' and I was like 'what! Yea but, because
in Denmark we have garbage cans like that,( and they look almost like this ..) so they
took one of those in, cleaned them, found that they were big enough, put water in it,
tubs of water could come out also and there they baptised in that, and I was like 'an
amazing picture' …'out with the garbage …up with the new man!
Later her other brother repented, got saved because that family started to pray really
intensely for the other brother and suddenly he wrote to me 'I've been sleeping the
last two weeks, I'm a sinner …I need forgiveness …and he got saved his girlfriend got saved
and so on and his mother and brother got baptised and a lot of things happened and I think 9
people out of her got baptised and they started to meet as their own church in the beginning
there but now they are working different places …all of that started out of finding that
one person, but it end there because Dorte and her boyfriend Philip got married and I
got the chance to marry them, later her other sister who was a Muslim got married to her
friend and I married them later the same year her brother got married and I married them
so in one year we have three weddings and I married all of three couples and now I know
the whole family because we have met them at their wedding. All of that started because
I knew what I was looking for 'a person of peace' and at one time it was my church
that fellowship 'Philip, Dorte is like a big daughter to me, she is amazing girl, Philip
is my best friend, Philip is the one who is sending the pioneer school out to people he
is the one who is sending he pioneer school email out to people. So this is Philip and
all of that started because, instead of going around not knowing how to look and what to
look for, I took Jesus word and started to obey it, start to pray and start to ask 'who
is the person of peace? 'Who is the person of peace I am going to find? And it is so
clear here because I found a person of peace if I had in the beginning invited them to
a church and everything have to be in a church, they have never been in a free church before
so I was not sure if they would come but I am sure that her sister who was a Muslim would
not come to a church because she didn't need to meet religion in a church, she needed
to meet Jesus but when they didn't have experience and salvation of Jesus, they are
open to any place to be together with their brothers and their sisters and I think it
is so clear to show what church is, church is a living organism, church is to find a
person of peace and out of them, one person other people get saved other people and then
it is spreading and suddenly it is spreading to a new person of peace and out of that a
lot of other people get saved and so on, and so on, and so on another example about staying
in their house was a girl I met some years ago got healed on her knees and saved, baptised
in water and with the Holy Spirit. Her mother was in a state church, a believer but had
not come through yet in the baptism of the Holy Spirit but I got in contact with the
family because of the daughter got saved, and I said to the mother, let's have a gathering
in your house and invite some friends and family and I will come and talk about Jesus
and she said to me 'no, no, no nobody will want to come, I had come in the state church
and I had tried to invite my friends for years and nobody would ever go with me to church
and I said 'but this is different you are not inviting them to a church now, you are
inviting them to a house, your house, where they have been many times before, so for them
to come to your house and meet me is not a big step, because…yea…they have done it
before, they have been there before and she said "ok…ok I do it but…I don't think
that is going to bring people. But she wrote an email how her daughter had
got healed, how she met me, what had happened, how I am going to come and pray for people
and talk about God, she sent an email out to 17 of her friends …there came 16, out
of 17 there came 16 that evening and she was totally shocked and we had one evening everybody
was sitting in the living room and at one time there was a girl who was set free from
a demon, and I was sitting down, saying…. 'Come out! Come out in the name of Jesus!
And then I looked around…. And I saw everybody was sitting like on their chairs……..shocked….like
in their chairs in the first row ….and looking at what was happening? And I was….'hello
everybody…..'Hey….'this is a demon' this is what we read about in the bible …..Then
I just continued….'come out! In the name of Jesus! And she got set free from a demon.
And the bible came alive for everybody there because they saw it first-hand and God started
to work in them and do a lot of other things and this is what we can see if we start to
take those simple things Jesus is saying we will experience amazing things, we will experience,
and maybe you don't have a garbage can to baptise or have this, but people who got baptised
in turkey got baptised in a bathtub so it's not so much how you do it is just to do it
so this is the simple things Jesus has commanded us, so what should you do?, what should I
do? We should obey those things, we should get our eyes open, understand we have it,
we should pray God to send out workers, then we should go out ourselves, when we go out
we will see God provide, we would pray and seek for that person of peace. Until we find
that person of peace we are going to find a lot of other people who's not ready to
receive, then we just shake the dust off our hands and go to the next, maybe you should
stop or meet 100 people before that one, but when you find that one it can open a lot of
doors like Dorte it became my family, it became my friends, it became our church one person
of peace. So it is important we do those things, there
is always more we shall do, this is what Jesus said we shall do and (here I have written)
we shall, because what shall we do? When we then find those person who is ready to receive
or who want to hear more? What shall we do when we find them? 'we should help people
to repent' unto repentance (this is what I have written here) so when we find people
we should help them repent and believe in God they cannot repent if we don't talk
about it, they cannot repent from their sins if we don't talk about sin? And therefore
I have taken time on the pioneer school on how to share the gospel where I show how to
share it that is why I have been talking about all the things on the pioneer school when
it comes to preaching and healing and kick-starting because now we need to do it, not just theology,
but lessons, time to do it. So we need to help people to repentance because they cannot
do it themselves, we need to baptise them in water or you need to baptise them in water.
I want to show you an example that makes it clear that it is up to us to do it; it is
up to you to do it. Try to imagine I meet a guy who wants to get saved, who is ready
to repent and who want to get baptised, if I say to this new guy who doesn't know much
about it but he just heard the gospel and want to get baptised. If I say to him….ok
go and get baptised and see you later….bye, bye… if I just say to a new person go and
get baptised …see you later, how much of a chance is there of him getting baptised?
I believe almost zero' because he would not go and baptise himself he would not be
able to do it, he wouldn't know how to do it, he wouldn't know what it is all about.
But we of course would not say something like that to people, we would not say go and get
baptised yourself because we know that to get baptised is they need people to baptise
them, they need somebody more, they need us, because they cannot just go and baptise themselves.
But it is the same with all the other things…repentance…that we have to ….go and repent, no, we shall
go and sit down with them take them through the commandments show them what sin is. Give
them the bad news before we give them the good news so they know what sin is so they
can repent and they can experience forgiveness, we need to help them to repent because they
cannot do it alone we need to baptise them because they cannot baptise themselves and
we need to baptise them with the Holy Spirit, these are the three simple steps we need to
do when it comes to salvation so you need now to find people who don't have those
three simple things and you need to help them to do it, maybe the person you need to find
is already in the church, if you know people who is in the church who are not baptised
with the Holy Spirit, if you know people in church who are not baptised in water then
do it, then do it, don't wait, do as Jesus commanded you to do it, then find them, sit
down with them and get it done. This is what he has commanded us to do, get
it done, and when we see people around us repent, baptised in water, baptised with the
Holy Spirit, we do the next thing we help them to obey Jesus or on other words we 'kick-start
them' so when we have found that person of peace that person we need to see get saved
now and work with we tell them to repent and baptise them in water and with the Holy Spirit
and then we help them to obey Jesus by sitting down with them and going through those things
with them or let them go through the pioneer school, it could be a good beginning if you
don't know how to go through those things, but go through those things with them, share
the word with them what Jesus commanded them to do and then you kick-start them, not only
kick-start them to heal the sick, kick-start them in preaching the gospel, kick-starting
them in baptising people in water, find a person of peace, baptise them in water and
everything….you need to learn them to do everything, to kick-start them and baptise
them with the Holy Spirit. This is what we need to do, and suddenly we have more people
who are obeying Jesus, who go out and find a person of peace who see God is with them
who grow, who heal the sick, who preach the gospel, who is helping to repentance to water
baptism with the Holy Spirit and praying, then send them out, to do the same, and send
them out and do the same… and that is how movement is going to explode.
And again if you have not tried it before then try it, I know but, many out there need
to be kick-started themselves but I was just in Sweden with somebody who had not been kick-starting
healing the sick but suddenly there was a need so I said to him now you have to go and
kick-start him, but I've not done it myself' it doesn't matter I said …so he took somebody
out 'just as I told him to do it' and he said to the other, now you pray and that
person got healed so he kick-started somebody before he was kick-started himself and afterwards
he could do it himself and that is why we don't have any excuse we need to obey Jesus.
I just want to show a little video clip because when I was in turkey and you have to see that
'The kingdom of God in Turkey' you see a lot of things in the video, one of the things
you see is we were in a shop and we prayed for one with a bandage on the hand and he
got healed and then there was a girl with me who was translating with me, now I said
it is your turn and prayed and she prayed and he got healed on his foot afterwards,
and I asked her 'have you ever done that before? She said 'yes I prayed before but
nobody had got healed before, but why didn't people get healed before? Because she was
in that environment and I told her how to do it and she just did it and the other one
got healed it created faith in her before, she hoped that something would happen, she
thought suddenly it is going to happen and it happened and she prayed for many other
people who got healed but I want to show a short picture a short video clip from there
because there was a young guy who was eight years old and the father asked if I could
pray for his son because he wanted to get baptised with the Holy Spirit and I was like….he
was only eight years old and I was like….yea ok let's pray…it was really strong because
I just take his hand, lead him through like a prayer of repentance and then I pray for
him that the Holy Spirit work and I pray in tongues I continue praying in tongues and
praying for him and what you are going to see is that when I continued praying in tongues,
suddenly the Holy Spirit come over him and it is so strong because you just see it in
his mouth and look at his face when you see this video because suddenly you can see the
Holy Spirit come and he started to say the first words and you are going to see that
(now..video cli) so here you can see, how I did it and if you have not done it before
try to do the same, take their hands get them to relax pray a prayer with them of salvation,
'God come with your Holy Spirit, come and set them me/them free, come and save me I
want the Holy Spirit, and just pray with them it's not their words it's their heart,
pray with them and then speak in tongues over them, pray for them and you will see how the
Holy Spirit is coming over them. So somehow this is what Jesus says and what
we should do, we should go out in the harvest we should find a person of peace, you can
also pray God to lead you, I think it is also important …have your eyes open, pray every
day, come into that life 'who do I have to look for' who is the person of peace
and suddenly like me you find 'woo! There was one there, or the one who was translating
for me there was one there or like the one we baptised there, the one from Iran, just
pray….be open, come into this and do what Jesus has said there help them to repent,
help baptise them in water, baptise them with the Holy Spirit, help them to obey Jesus,
if you cannot do this alone then find some other people this is what it is all about
you don't need to do it alone find one, two other Christians should know, sit down
with them, go through this teaching and then say 'let's do it! and start to do those
simple steps, when you do those simple steps then Jesus he is going to do what he came
to do then Jesus will build his church and often we are so focused on building church
and what is church? But Jesus has not commanded us to build churches, he has commanded us
to do those things, and then Jesus will build his church and this is what is interesting
because church is a living organism like with Dorte it became there what we are seeing with
many people. Sometimes we meet a few people and they start the house church and it became
a new house-church fellowship, some start and somehow it stop growing and grow into
new groups who is already there, churches already there, other times it splits up and
it goes into more groups, it is so different from time to time because we should not control
it, but let the Holy Spirit take it the way it is going.
We are not called to build churches, we are called to make disciples to do those things
and then Jesus will build his church and those people and let it grow the way he wants it
to grow, don't focus so much on 'o they belong to us and they belong to them, 'no
just do those things make disciples and Jesus will build his church. I want to challenge
you, one day Jesus is going to come back and you are going to stand in front of him, and
he is going to ask you 'what you have done with those things he has given you' what
you have done with the calling. And sometimes he is saying some radical things for example
Luke 6; 46 why do you call me Lord if you don't do what I say? And if you see of the
judgment, many people are going to be surprised because somebody took what Jesus had given
them and buried it down and they didn't obey Jesus words. And it is so important that
we don't just 'don't care' it is so important that we do something about it and
one day in the future we are all going to stand in front of God, in front of Jesus but
I want to challenge you and I said imagine that you are going to stand in front of me
instead in a few months and I want to challenge every one of you on the pioneer school and
I will give you two months from today on, in two months I'm going to send a letter
out to everybody on the pioneer school, I'm going to do that again and again, and I will
ask you 'what have you done? What have you done with those simple steps? I want to see
some results' and let's imagine I am going to meet you in two months now, so from today
two months on I want you to obey this and do those steps 'start now!
Then what will you do? Then you will start..ok what do I have to work with? Ok…do I have
some friends or somebody who is a Christian I can do it together with? Then you will meet
with them, you will share the reformation with them, then you would start to do it together
then you say, who do I know who is not baptised in water and in the church, …my friends?
Who are not baptised in the Holy Spirit …who will not repent? Then you find them …you
sit down with them, you go through the teaching you can take one of the lessons on the pioneer
school about the baptism in water with them and when they see what it is all about then
they can get baptised. When you go through the Holy Spirit and you pray for them they
receive the Holy Spirit, so you look now, who do you have, who do you know who need
those steps? Who do you know who need to kick-start and then you will get them, you will get to
talk with them and you will kick-start them and when you meet people who will not receive
then just brush the dust off and then go to the next one who might want to receive, so
you will start to disciple Christians, you will also start to go out to find a person
of peace, and you will pray for the lord to send more workers, you will pray for God to
lead you to the person of peace and then you will go out and you will find people and you
will start to meet them in places and you will start to focus and on one thing alone
(this) do that the next two months…'you are not allowed to focus on the church, forget
about church for the next two months, and focus on making disciples, as Jesus has commanded
you, make disciples to get Christians to obey Jesus and reach new people and obey in Jesus,
do that, and if you do that your life will change the next two months and many people
around you will change the next two months. If I come back after two months and then say
to you 'now…I want to hear what have you done? What has happened the last two months?
You will then say …'ok, ok…we have…three people we have….no Christian who we have
baptised in water …two we have baptised in the Holy Spirit…amazing…one of them
had got kick-started and another need to get kick-started ..we have also met with people
of peace…we have met' with them in the city and we are working in two of them now
there is one who got saved and we are working with him now, and his networks and we are
discipling him to obey Jesus and we are also meeting sometimes in the evening and praying
with Christian friends so on and so on and so on, so what you have done the last two
months is so different from what you are doing today maybe, what you have done is so different
from time to time, from places to places, sometimes you are out in the street evangelising,
other times you are sitting in a café sharing the gospel, other times you are sitting in
a private home talking about baptism in water, other times you are baptising, other times
you are meeting in another private home praying together with your friends about those things
other times again you are meeting early in the morning before people are going to work
where you are praying with your friends other times you are meeting late in the evening
with two other people and confessing to Jesus sins, so it is so different what you are doing
during the week it is all at different times it is different places you meet it is different
what you are doing from place to place, and after two months people have been changed
around you and you are changed, you are living a total new life and I will say "do you
love it? And you will say "I love it! This is what I have been longing for! My whole
life' then I will say "what you have done the last two months is church' and you will
say 'what? This is church….'yes but! …but we didn't meet in a building 'yes
but this is church….yea but we didn't have staff…but we didn't have the same
programme….time, after time, 'this is church….'yea but we didn't have a budget….this
is church…this is church….."church is to love God, love your neighbour and make
disciples, so you don't need a meeting, you don't need a programme, you need to
obey Jesus do what he has called you to do, to meet people and help them to obey Jesus,
kick-start them, when you do that you are church, you are doing what is church what
Jesus came with yea maybe you are doing that and at the same time coming to a building
on Sunday you can do that …I don't say that you are not allowed to do that but take
the next two months focus on what Jesus has called you to and then in two months write
to me, just send a short email with a summary of how many got kick-started? How many have
got baptised and repented, baptised in water, baptised with the Holy Spirit, how many have
you started? Find a person of peace, have you started a new church out of that or has
it become like people got saved and started from the traditional church who was already
there …just let it grow the way it is growing this is church.
But what about eldership? The bible says there is eldership in the church….there is more,
'and I want to say yes there is in Titus Paul is saying that he let Titus stay behind
to order what they were lacking in to appoint elder in every city. So, but they didn't
start with an appointing elders they started with making disciples because a new saved
person cannot be an elder, people have to grow up and they have to go a certain time
to see who is the elder who has experience in to do those things to see how things is
growing and this one of the problems I did some years ago because when we started to
build churches and live like this, I was so much into the religious system because of
my glasses and I started to announce, 'we are the real church' we have an eldership
here 'I am a pastor, and we started with those things and in many ways it is crazy
to do that because I was just together with some new saved people and disciple them, but
I thought in my mind-set, 'I have to start with those things to be a real church, but
no real church in the first church started with those things because everything was pioneer
work. You don't start as an elder, you don't
start with those things, you start with this, you start with making disciples and then see
how it grows natural and suddenly you may end up with a bigger group where there is
elders working and training out of their house and then the fivefold ministry come and help
them so it doesn't become religion so it doesn't become what we see today, they came
and equipped them, 'comon you have to continue…..you have to grow like this…so forget church,
forget what you think church is, do those things the next two months and we are going
to see a movement that is going to change the world in a few years if every Christian
just start to do those simple steps the world is going to get changed, you want to obey
Jesus then it is time to practice what you have learned through the pioneer school, when
I talk about those things not only to get a lot of theology …now it is time to do
it, find someone to help you and start to do it.
Next time I am going to end the pioneer school up, I'm going to send yous out also and
share an important thing and look forward to that and see what God is going to do and
now I will pray now, God I am excited, I am excited about this message, I am excited about
the simple calling you have given us Jesus, it is so simple what you have called us to
Jesus everybody can do it, it is not for a super evangelist, it is not for a few select
people it is for the whole body it is for everybody Jesus, Jesus I pray that this teaching
would help people here to not be deceived by only hearing the word but this simple teaching
is going to help them to do it, God I pray that you are going to send them out as workers
in the harvest you are going to lead them and help them to find the person of peace
they are going to see and repent baptise in water and Holy Spirit then they are going
to kick-start them Jesus and show them how to obey You Jesus so they both go out and
do the same and so on, and so on and we are going to see a great movement all over the
world Jesus and thank you that when you say go out you are with us Jesus so I pray for
those people who are receiving this teaching help to open their eyes help them to see who
is the first person they need to go to who is the person of peace that is in their life
they need to reach as the first one, come with your spirit I ask you in the name of
Jesus. Amen Exciting…. I look forward to hearing a lot
of testimonies two months from today…start doing this simple thing and I am going to
continue next week and my wife Lene is now going to sing a song and we will see you later
God bless you. Will you still remember…..
Spend time with me..I'm guiding you
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