SAYS:
WOULD ANYBODY WANT YOUR HEART WHEN YOU FINISH YOUR COURSE?
AMERICANS HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO HEAR AND SEE AS THEY USED TO
ARE YOU WILLING TO ENDURE SUFFERING FOR THOSE BEHIND YOU TO HAVE SAFE PASSAGE TO BRING THE GOOD NEWS?
Dunamis International Gospel Center’s IMFFC2021 (Day 3 Evening Session)
- Dr Roberts Liardon
Author, God’s Generals
- David Livingstone
In the 1800s, David Livingstone was touched by God. He had a burden and he declared himself a minister of the Gospel, the world calls him the great African explorer, when you read his writings, he declared himself, ‘I am a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ first before anything else’. His heart was to come to Africa when the known part of Africa in those days were the coastal nations. David Livingstone came to this continent and within one week he was bitten by a lion. I don’t know how many Americans will survive that moment. David continued his exploring mission. If something bit you, will you still obey? I don’t know if the quality of Christian determination is at that level maybe here it is, it is a rare thing, the Americans think the call of God is a negotiation, they think if I am going to preach for you I will be in this city and have this much money but God does not hire those kinds of idiots, either you die or say yes or you are not hired. Americans have lost the ability to hear and see as they used to. He comes to Africa and gets bitten by one of your great lions, the American lions are all fat in the zoo, they don’t do anything but sit there so we can look at them, yours run around and they will have you for lunch if you are not careful.
The Americans are scared of the African animals but I like them. he leaves his life for Africa, he goes to a village and stays there for a year ministering the Gospel, doing miraculous things. They liked him, he ministered for over a year without one convert, a hundred years later, a man named Bonnke shows up in that town, he comes to the platform and begins to preach and thousands started getting saved, he walked up and said I heard the Lord say this is the fruit of Livingstone, sowing seed with no results.
Ministers, can you labour with no results, stay happy and motivated?
Can you continue when things don’t look well? Livingstone stayed for over a year and in that crusade, over fifty thousand (people) were born again. Some of our labour we do not see or feel with our hands but we will meet the harvest of our labour on the other side on the day of arrival. There will be men and women who will say thank you for coming to our town. Many ministers must stay motivated. Maturity says the scriptures alone motivates me not the atmosphere or the reaction.
Livingstone died In this great continent, by this time the African people declared him African, he was not the right colour, he didn’t have the right hair or accent but they knew that he loved them, he came to this continent to bring the Gospel to map out the path by which the missionaries can come and bring the Gospel to the interior and bring information to the British government to stop the slave trade, that was his heart. When he died, the British government said we want his body, those that he died with had a problem, do we give the British our African friend’s body or do we keep it. They came up with a solution, they removed his heart from his chest because he loved you so much that his heart must remain on the soil of this continent, till this day, his heart remains in this continent.
Would anybody want your heart when you finish your course?
Will anybody say I want his heart?
If that is not part of your experience then you do not live as strong as you should have.
They brought his body to Britain and buried his heart in Africa. An African followed his body to ensure they treat him correctly if not they will bring him back. They looked at his body and were confused because on both arms were scars, they read his journal and couldn’t figure out what the scars were, they called the black man to explain why he had scars, he said, he made blood covenants with every Chief as he went through Africa so that the missionaries behind him will not be in danger or trouble.
Are you willing to bear the scar for the sake of a soul?
Are you willing to endure suffering for those behind you to have safe passage to bring the good news?
Livingstone goes down in my book as one of the great old-time missionaries, he lived his whole life here and they declared him an African. They loved him so much they took his heart and buried it in Zambia close to a tree they named Livingstone. I have been to the grave the British had for him, it is beautiful but I think the heart grave is the most important part of who Livingstone was.
- Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor, was also British, why so many British? Because in those days, the British were in revival. Hudson Taylor goes to China when China was also on the Coastal Nations and many of the foreign nations had abused the Chinese people, there was a conflict so the missionaries could not go into the interior of China but Hudson didn’t want to stay where it was easy, he wanted to go to where the Gospel was little or nonexistent and make it grow. That is a Missionary, an Apostle, the conflict began, the leaders told him to be quiet so he kept fussing.
Why is it that every great man has been kicked out at least once from a place? It seems that every great man at one time gets in a conflict and even if they don’t want it to happen, the Passion of Christ pushes them to not settle in the comfort of backsliding compromise. Hudson separated himself from the missionary group that sent him, he goes to the interior and changes world missions. First, he dressed like a Chinese man, he grows a ponytail, he put down his fork and knife and picks up chopsticks, he began to speak the Mandarin language and all of a sudden the Chinese realized that Mr. Taylor lived among the people, he didn’t live on the top part of the society, he got a little house right in the middle of all the Chinese people. Any of them could kill him but they watched him, he lived like them and when he left, Christianity had grown by forty percent in China. He changed missions because he didn’t care about changing a culture, he took on the culture of the people but he wanted you to find the Jesus of his heart and he did well.
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