Miracles, Missionaries, and the Promise of Resurrection

In that interim of about two weeks, I got an email from three seminaries in South America, Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, where they're training pastors, new pastors to start brand new congregations, and you know what it said in that email? It said, we heard about this mission central place. Could you help us? We've got 21 new men that are gonna start 21 new churches. 21 new churches, but they don't have any funding of any kind. Could you help? I emailed right back. I said, I can't do a thing. But our boss, he can do anything. [00:37:55] (46 seconds)  #21NewChurches

In two weeks, I got the telephone call from that attorney down in Ames. Little Myra passed away, and he said, I'm handling her estate, and I handled the sale of her dad's farm, and you're gonna get the proceeds from the sale of the dad's farm. And he said, I've got in my hand the check of the proceeds from the sale of that farm. How much do you think it was? $2,100,000. Exactly what we needed. You know what that's called, honey? Do you know what that's called? A miracle. [00:39:56] (44 seconds)  #DivineProvision

And that's why it's time to wake up because there's a lot of people that have forgotten that God is a God of miracles. The Bible's under attack. I see it today. The bible, that's just an old book of fables and tales. I want you to know, does the bible represent the word of God? No. It is the word of God. When you open this book and you read this book, this is truth. This is the truth. [00:41:07] (33 seconds)  #BibleIsTruth

And I think that's important we understand that because will there be any people in heaven other than believers in the Lord Jesus? What do you think about that? You think there's gonna be people in heaven other than believers in the Lord Jesus? That correct let's all say it together. No. Only people who believe in the Lord Jesus, and that's clear in the Bible. [00:41:40] (27 seconds)  #HeavenForBelievers

I want you to know we'll know one another because Jesus told the story of the rich man and Lazarus. The old rich man, he was so rich, and he fared sumptuously and had a lot to eat, and the old beggar Lazarus, he sat at the door and ate from the crumbs that fell from the rich man's plate. And dogs even licked his old wounds, and they both died. You remember what happened? The rich man was in hell, and Jesus said he looked up and saw Abraham, and there was old Lazarus right in the arms of Abraham. Wow. And Jesus said, the rich man said, send missionaries to my family so they know about this hell. [00:44:03] (47 seconds)  #LazarusAndTheRichMan

``That's my my resurrection stone at Mission Central right next to our barn. That's what's on my stone. You know, at 84 years of age, I'm getting close. One young boy said to me, missionary Gary, you're older than dirt. Well, I tell you, every day we're one day closer, but I want you to know what's written on there is not a bible verse. It's simply a saying. Now listen carefully. If you're asleep, wake up now. I want you to hear that. What's carved on my resurrection stone are these words. Oh, how quickly this life is past. Only those things done for Christ will last. [00:45:58] (52 seconds)  #OnlyThingsForChristLast

What a wonderful Christian man from Sioux City. He owned a sign company. I went to see him before he died. Four days before he died, he had cancer. You know what he said to me? He said the greatest thing that ever happened to me in this life is when I got this cancer. He said, I know so many people, and hundreds of people came to see me because they knew I was dying. And he said, I had a chance to witness to them how I'm not afraid of dying because I know where I'm going. Ain't that something? [00:48:01] (34 seconds)  #WitnessInSuffering

I can't thank you enough for allowing me to come and be with my family here. And whether you like it or not, you're part of my family, and we're gonna be together forever in our real home in heaven. And my little old mom, who when she was three years old, had her right eye removed, and after that, she lived ninety four more years with one eye. And when I introduce my mom to you, you know what? She's gonna have two eyes, and I'm gonna have ten fingers. Everybody got it? We're gonna be put back together perfect. [00:59:12] (38 seconds)  #ResurrectionReunion