Telling The TRUTH
113013 Telling The Truth 28 Minute Program
[music] You're listening to "Telling the Truth" from Triple T. Christian Youth Ministries, "Telling the Truth to and through Teenagers." Here is Triple T. Founder and President George Dumes. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." This is Paul's promise to the Thessalonians. May I reiterate it directly to you in a very personal way? Therefore, we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power. 2 Thessalonians 1-11, New King James Version. Prayer changes things in people. And because you are listening, I believe that God wants us to pray for one another. I am praying for you. Hopefully, you will pray for us as we continue to share God's glorious gospel with every person we possibly can, including you. And I hope that you will take the gospel seriously. Understand that God has sent His Son through the Virgin Mary. Jesus lived perfectly, died for us, was buried and rose again, and He wants that message to be shared with people everywhere. I can't go where you can go, but you can take the gospel to people who need the Lord where you live. First, pray. Read God's Word, fellowship, and pray with other believers, and then take God's plan of salvation to people who need Him. Paul is writing his first letter to a very special person. Listen to Timothy, "My true Son in the faith, grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord." First Timothy, 1-2, New King James Version. Grace, God's grace, mercy, God's unfathomable mercy, and His peace, the peace that comes from God our Father. Peace doesn't come from outside. It comes from God inside you, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord. Question, "Is Jesus Christ your Lord? Have you admitted that you have sinned? Have you turned to Jesus from your sins? Have you believed on the Lord Jesus? Are you telling other people you believe, and they can too? Are you praying constantly? Are you reading God's Word faithfully? Are you fellowshipping with other believers consistently? Are you taking the gospel to people you know who are having spiritual difficulties, or who may not even know Jesus Christ? You can, if you will. It's up to you. There are people waiting. You know the good news, you've heard it. Now will you share it? Someone's waiting. Have you heard people arguing about things that they shouldn't even talk about? Do you know folk who are listening to lies? Do you know people who are sharing false thoughts and words? If so, pray for them. Take a listen to 1 Timothy 1, 4, New King James Version. Nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies which cause disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith. The opposite of disputes and arguments and false presentation is God's edification and explanations of what God is doing to give honor and glory to Him and to help people. How is your faith today? Is it implicitly placed in the Lord Jesus Christ? Are you talking with Him consistently? Are you reading the Word of God every single day and letting God speak to you? Then are you fellowshipping with others who are believers and together are you praying for those who don't know the Lord? And are you determined to take the gospel to them? Do it today. Again, somebody is waiting. If you don't tell them, who will? You're only one, but you are one. Do what you need to do, and someone can be reached by you. Now, the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith. 1 Timothy 1, 5, New King James. Does that apply to you? It can, if you'll allow it to. I want to share an opportunity with you. At this time tomorrow on this same station, I will present God's plan of salvation. We call it the ABCs of the Gospel. You can tell people to listen. You can share Christ by doing that yourself, and you can jot down the ABCs if you haven't already. If you would like printed copies, you can write to us, and we will send some directly to you. Listen to the address at the end of the broadcast today. Meanwhile, understand that God loves you, and He wants you to love others. Love of the pure heart from a good conscience and sincere faith. If you will do this, then there are people you can reach just by asking them to listen in tomorrow. Will you? Pray for them, and share this opportunity with other believers. Read the Word of God. Let God speak to your heart to help you reach out. Put your faith into action. Remember, tomorrow. And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 1, 14, New King James Version. Can it be said of you? The grace of God is magnificent. His promises are in God's ABCs. Listen. Admit you have sinned. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3, 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6, 23. Live on Christ, for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3, 16. Confess Christ publicly, that if you confess with your mouth, the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart, that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes under righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. 10, 9, and 10. That's the way to heaven. It's God's way. You can spend forever with Him. If you haven't believed on Him, you can. Now is the time. Today is the day of salvation. Listen to 1 Timothy 119, New King James. Having faith in a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith, have suffered shipwreck. Has that ever happened to you? Have you been shipwrecked? A lot of things happened to us. Some not pleasant at all, but few of us have suffered a literal shipwreck, as Paul did. Having faith in a good conscience, God wants us to make sure that we are confessing Christ, because if we do, He is faithful, and just to forgive us of our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Some have rejected the faith, the faith of God. But in Jesus Christ who died for us, who was buried, and who rose again on the third day, to give us life that lasts forever. Yes, Christ came to save sinners, and the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord. If you have received Him, share it with those who haven't. Pray with those who have, and together, go with the gospel to others. If you will do this, Christianity will be communicated, the gospel will be furthered, and people will be born into God's forever family. It's up to you. Have you been placed in a position of leadership with your local congregation? If so, you need to listen very carefully to 1 Timothy 3, 8 and 9, New King James Version. If this is not you, then share it with someone who is in leadership. Likewise, deacons be reverent, not double-tongued, not given much wine, not greedy for money, holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. Those are very explicit and specific things. Reverent. Reverence toward God and His Word. Not double-tongued. Not saying one thing while thinking another and hoping you won't be found out. Not given to wine. Drinking alcohol is a no-no for every Christian leader, I believe. And I admonish you not to drink. Not greedy for money. So many people try to get anything and everything they can at someone else's expense. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. Too many leaders fall into the money trap. Don't be one, please. Holding the mystery of faith with a pure conscience. If you think right, you will do right. Every Saturday at 7.27 p.m. you are invited to attend a live youth event at Triple T. 13,000 US-41 North at Boone Building Harmony Road, midway between I-64 and Evansville Regional Airport. Every first Saturday a good news club for ages 6 to 9 is available in a separate room. For more information call 812-867-2418 or visit www.tripletchristianyouth.org. Experience an ongoing impact every Saturday at 7.27 p.m. at Triple T US Highway 41 North at Boone Building Harmony Road and daily building toward Triple T's 2500 consecutive Saturday, God willing, December 28, 2013. Reaching for the stars. Visit www.ttchristianyouth.org for a complete calendar or call 812-867-2418. God's Word says do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings. He will not stand before unknown men. That's Proverbs 22-29, New King James. With us today is Robert M. Bland. Bob Bland is the Founder, Director of Teen Missions International, AIDS Orphans and Street Children, Third World Ministries, and right now a very, very exciting new ministry, Fairly New, that's called the Motorcycle Sunday School Mission. It's operating in Africa in several nations with over 120 plus Sunday schools, and it's about to begin in just a couple of weeks in Indonesia, in the country of Barnio. And we're excited about it because Triple T Christian Youth Ministries has the opportunity of sponsoring 12 of the individuals in Africa, the first one in Barnio and on into the future. Bob, how did this whole idea about the Motorcycle Sunday School come about? Well, thank you, George. It's good to be here at Triple T, and we certainly appreciate all that Triple T is done to help in the ministries of Teen Missions and in the Motorcycle Sunday School Mission. We started back -- we are in Teen Missions International, started out. We've been running now 43 years. We have bases in Sub-Saharan Africa. We have 10 bases over there, and because we are there, that's where the AIDS epidemic seems to be the worst, and we fell into that because you're there and children are dying 17 million people have died since the 70s of AIDS just in Sub-Saharan Africa. And that isn't the bad news. The bad news is they left 13 million AIDS orphans. Time magazine did an article two or three years ago said if you were to build orphanages and you'd build orphanages that would hold 500 children and that would be a pretty good size orphanage that old 500 children. You'd have to build 80,000 of them just to hold what is there now. So we have what we call rescue units, and we go out in the bush and build a little plywood building, take two of our graduates from our Iowa School and put them out there, and they generally work about a five-mile circle. And we start with helping them medically. We're not doctors, nurses don't pretend to be, but you don't have to be to hand out malaria medication. More orphans, three times as many AIDS orphans die of malaria as they have AIDS. And so we're trying to do that, and they get cuts, and they get blood poisoning, and even since they have no parents, and sometimes there's little kids out there by themselves, they can die even of diarrhea. And we wondered if there really were that many kids out there, and so we did a survey in Zimbabwe, picked a point out in the country, did a five-mile circle, sent our staff to every hut to count the orphans. In the five-mile circle, there were 600 AIDS orphans. There were four households where the oldest living person was ten years old. And you say how do they live? They don't. They die by the hundreds, because of a lack of malaria medication, mostly. And then we try to help them get them in school, because none of the AIDS orphans are going to school. In Africa, if you don't have a uniform, you can't go to school. And here's an AIDS orphan that's starving to death, and where would he get a uniform? If he had anything to buy anything, he'd buy something to eat, or try to find something to eat. And then we're trying to help them grow gardens so they don't starve. So we got involved in that. Then I became concerned about their spiritual welfare, and we just might reach out to these kids spiritually, so they can come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. And so we did this, and my idea was we probably need a church at each place. Well, a very godly lady, a Methodist lady, who's been a friend of our ministry said, Bob, you want to a church out there where these orphans are, I'll give you the money to build a church. I'm so excited that we're going to build a church. And then Team Missions is an inter-denominational organization. We've worked with every denomination that most people could name, and a lot of them that they can't name. So having worked with all those, the word got out. Team Missions, the inter-denominational organization, is going to build a church. And it immediately was who is going to pastor it. And it just all of the various communities around that new Team Missions, we've been there many years, and they're all what kind of church is it going to be? And is it Methodist? Is it Presbyterian? You go down the list. Is it Charismatic? Is it Non- Charismatic? All of these denominations. And so we found ourselves in quite a country because we've got people that if we choose any one of them, we just made some enemies. So finally after a while, didn't know how do we ever get ourselves in this mess. And then inside, well that's it because it's going to cause so much difficulty. We're not going to build a church. And we're going to build a Sunday school. So I didn't realize that at the time I wish to hand, but a Sunday school is so much non-threatening. And the other thing is that there's some other people of different religions that if the minute you put the word church up over the door, they aren't even allowed to come into your building. But because it's a school, a Sunday school, or a Saturday school, or a Thursday school, they can come. And we've had scores of children from other backgrounds that have come and come to saving knowledge of Christ in our Sunday schools. And right now, how many countries are you in in Africa with the Sunday school? Ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. And the wonderful thing is that people that run these Sunday schools are BMW graduates. BMW is not a car. It's Bible Missionary Work Training Center. And all across these countries in Africa, these training centers are there, and these people who are part of the culture, there's no language barrier, there's no cultural barrier. They are trained for two years in the Bible Institute, and then one year is an intern, and then they are taught how to ride a motorcycle. And tell us about how the motorcycle Sunday school thing works, Bob, sort of like the old-fashioned Methodist horseback? Just like the old-fashioned circuit writers of the Methodist Church, we still do circuits, but we have calisockeys rather than horses, and they do six Sunday schools in the week, and they'll do one on Wednesday and go to another village on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and generally two on Sunday, Monday is their day off to do their laundry, and things like that, and Tuesday is the day that they work on their cycles, because they have to be repaired constantly, because the roads are so so bad, and then, of course, get their Sunday school lessons together and Wednesday they start the circuit over again. And so they ride the motorcycles back into the bush, back into the place where there's no other way to get there except to walk or to go on horseback, and there's not horses around, and then they have the material for the motorcycle on the back, I mean a material for the motorcycle on the back of the motorcycles, is that right? That's how it works. Yeah, we have a box on the back of the motorcycle, and we've got a waterproof container there that we put the Sunday school literature in, and so that's how it works as well. And how many Sunday schools are there now in Africa? We have 126 Sunday schools worldwide. How many are exactly in Africa? I would say probably about a hundred of those are in someplace in sub-Saharan Africa. Okay, and then the door has opened now to Indonesia, and I think starting in the country of Barnio, so tell us how that came about. That's a very, very fascinating story. Well, Borneo is just a needy place, and it's the wiles of Borneo, and up in northern Borneo, that's about the only way we can get there is on a motorcycle, and there are villages there, and so we are running started six Sunday schools, or six a circuit of six, and we have two of them operating now with the national people that are running it and starting the Sunday schools. And the wonderful thing is that there is a big goal, and the goal is to, by December the 13th of 2013, to have 213 of the Sunday schools in different places around the world, and we have a group on the road right now that's talking about this, they're called the Circuit Riders, a fantastic group of musicians that play instruments and sing and present the story. Bob, tell us about how the Circuit Riders came together. George, these mostly kids are from our Bible school, and they really are. We've been in ministry with Teen Missions International for years. I think this is the best group we've ever had. I'm so impressed with them. They're really great kids that love the Lord, and they are just super talented, and they're four of them that play banjo, and that's kind of unusual for young people today, and they sing very, very well. And they've been out sharing and God is blessed abundantly, and we want you to know that these stories ties 10 percent of what God sends in to our general fund to the Motorcycle Sunday School Mission, or AIDS, Orphans, and Street Children. And so if you would like to have a part of all this, we invite you to make a contribution, and you can come tonight and learn a whole lot about it, and we'll give you a full-color brochure about the Motorcycle Sunday School Mission that has some of the kids running, and when they hear the roar of the Motorcycle, the kids come out of the woodwork of their huts and are ready to come to Sunday School, or Monday School, or Tuesday School, or Wednesday School, or whatever it might be, and it's a really, really thrilling thing. Actually, it's Wednesday School, Thursday School, Friday School, Saturday School, and Sunday Sunday twice. Anything else you want to tell us that we can run work, not only here in this area, which they've done for so many years, but are now working all over the world through supporting bees. The good thing about this, and I've been in missions for a number of years now, is it's affordable, and people can adopt a Sunday School for $79 a month. They can name it, and we have six Sunday schools in the circuit, so you multiply that by six, which is $474, and that will support that circuit, and because the circuit riders that we have are nationals who already know the language and the culture, and they're on motorcycles, so that's the biggest expenses buying the gasoline, because it's $8 a gallon, but we can make it on that budget, and they're really reaching people, and they're all over the world, not only Africa, but Madagascar. We have 24 Sunday schools running now in Madagascar, and Triple T is backing some of those, and to me, this is one of the more needy mission fields in the world today. In fact, in Madagascar, one of the circuits is called the Triple T, or the Telling the Truth Circuit, and we're thrilled about that, plus the others that we have in other African nations, and now coming into Barnio, and we're thrilled about it, and if you all who are listening would like to have a part of all this, give us a call, our best of all, come tonight, and learn a whole lot about this, and you'll learn how it works, and we'll give you the opportunity of actually investing your time and talent that's going to happen. One of the Sunday schools that we are sponsoring is the Stephen Dickman Memorial Sunday School. It's in Madagascar right now, but it's going to be moving someday to Zimbabwe, because that's where Stephen worked with teen missions, and he went to be with Jesus, and we are delighted that this Sunday school is named after him. We have a banner at Triple T with Stephen's name on it. Well, thank you for listening, and Bob, anything else you want to share? Well, I just want to say thank you to Triple T and for helping working not only here in Evansville and the Tri-State area, but literally all over the world through the motorcycle Sunday school mission. Well, we're excited about it, and we believe with all of our hearts that Christ through you can change the world. Experience an ongoing impact every Saturday at 7.27 p.m. at Triple T U.S. Highway 41 North at Booneville, New Harmony Road and Daily. Building toward Triple T's 2,500 consecutive Saturday, God willing, December 28, 2013. Reaching for the stars. Visit www.TTTChristianYouth.org for a complete calendar or call 812-867-2418. [Music] Every Saturday at 7.27 p.m. you are invited to attend a live youth event at Triple T, 13,000 U.S. 41 North at Booneville, New Harmony Road, midway between I-64 and Evansville Regional Airport. Every first Saturday, a good news club for ages 6 to 9 is available in a separate room. For more information call visit www.TrippleteeChristianYouth.org [Music] For your free copy of The Telling the Truth newsletter call 812-867-2418. 812-867-2418. Or write Triple T, 13,000 U.S. 41 North, Evansville, Indiana, 477-25. Tune in to Telling the Truth next week at this same time on this same station. [Music]