Telling The TRUTH
102613 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. Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings, he will not stand before unknown men. Proverbs 22-29, New King James Version. That is a very, very wonderful statement because I have seen people who excel in their work and I realize that when that happens to them, they get to be with people who are well known. And as a result of that, sometimes they become well-known simply by rubbing shoulders with the folk whom everybody respects. Excel in your work. Do a good job whatever you have to do. Do it with all your might, the Bible says. And when you do that, know that God will bless. He will honor and he will reward you for what you have done if you were doing it for his glory and not yours. So humble yourself. Put yourself at God's disposal. Read the Word of God. Pray consistently. Get other people who believe the Bible totally true to pray with you and then to gather, determine how you can best get people to hear the good news of the saving power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be diligent. Excel in doing good work. There's work to be done. There's a world to be won and people like you have the opportunity of going from where you are to where you ought to be to really communicate the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's totally up to you, will you? Prepare your outside work. Make it fit for yourself in the field and afterward build your house. Proverbs 24, 27, New King James Version. Put things in proper perspective. Line them up and do things first. That are first. God is telling us what to do and how to do it. He says to prepare your outside work. Do the job that you have been hired or called or commissioned to do and then make it fit for yourself. Make it all that can be. Do it with excellence. Do it with the diligence that God will enable you to accomplish for his glory. And then when you make it fit for yourself in the field outside, when you are doing okay out there after you have accomplished that task, then and only then should you concentrate on your need for a house, a dwelling place, a home. Again, putting things in perspective helps you accomplish much. So, line things up this way. First pray. Then read God's Word. Next fellowship with others and consistently communicate Christianity. Share God's plan of salvation with those who need to know the Lord Jesus. Because when you do, you can share the good news of the saving power of Christ with everybody everywhere with whom you come in contact. The wisdom of Solomon given to him by the Lord is very evident in Ecclesiastes 3, 9 and 10, New King James Version. Listen. What prophet has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. The question is, where is the prophet? What good is it? What will you accomplish? And then we find out that when God gives the task, we are to be occupied until we accomplish the task, until we finish the job, until we do the work. There is work to be done, and as we have said so often, there is a world to be won. But it happens one person at a time, sharing with another person until that person grasps the gospel, until that person understands that Jesus Christ died for our sins, that he was buried, that he rose again until it becomes personal. And when you and I do that laboring, do that work, do that sharing, God uses it, and he will multiply your ministry personally. Read the Word of God. Pray with other believers, and then share Jesus Christ with those who need him today. Tell them to admit that they have sinned, to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, to confess him publicly. Let them know that if they will confess with their mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in their heart that God raised them to dead, they will be saved. For several weeks it has been our privilege to take people on a tour of the life-sized replica of the Old Testament tabernacle. And as we have, people are amazed at the craftsmanship that they see in the replica. God always did things with excellence, and he had the right people at the right place, at the right time to accomplish his purpose. Jeremiah 10-9-B, New King James Version, says, "The work of the craftsmen, and of the hands of the metalsmith, blue and purple are their clothing. They are all the work of skillful men." Skillful men can accomplish wonderful things. I like to watch skillful people at work. My dad was a very skillful person. He was a multi-talented individual, and God entrusted to him an artistic ability, and he did something about it. God used his hands to accomplish things that were just wonderful in the furtherance of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. My dad grew cartoons that were published in literally thousands of church bulletins. My dad designed signs that were on the highways that were seen by thousands of people. My dad was a craftsman, but he was dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ. I've always wanted the abilities that God gave him. But God gave me different abilities, so I want to use what he has given to me to bring honor and glory and praise to the Lord Jesus. What are you doing with what you have been given? Are you doing it well? When Jesus was ready to expand his ministry, he chose 70 people, and he sent them out two by two with explicit instructions. Listen to Luke 27, New King James, "And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the labor is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house." Jesus, in essence, is saying when you go someplace, stay put and don't wander away and don't wander in the wrong direction, but understand that I am going to provide for you while you are there. You are laborers. You are working for me and you are worthy of the wages you will receive from the food they are going to provide for you as you do my work going where I send you. When God sends you, know that he has a plan that is exactly the way he wants it to be performed. So make certain that you are reading the Word of God and then doing what the Word of God says to do. Pray diligently, consistently, read the Word, and do what the Bible says to do and do it with somebody else. Get a partner, a prayer partner, a share partner, and then go with God's good news. Tell people, for God so loved the world that he gave, his only begotten son, that who believes in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life. Recently, we had the opportunity of endeavoring to teach some inner city people some teenagers how to share their faith. But we first said, before you can share, you have got to know Jesus personally. And five of the eight really didn't know the Lord, but came to know him and they were willing to take the gospel to people to do the work of an evangelist. Listen to John chapter 6 verses 28, 29, New King James. Then they said to him, "What shall we do that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God that you believe in him, whom he sent." In other words, you have got to believe on the Lord Jesus before you can share your faith with anyone. It has to be personally yours. But once we do that, once we acknowledge Christ as our Savior, as our forgiver and as a giver of eternal life, this can then be our privilege to take that message to people who need the Lord. Will you pray? Read the word of God. Again, get someone to pray with you, to do the work with you, and to go with you to those who need to know him, whom to know a right is life eternal. So are you willing to go? Jesus said, go into all your world and share the Gospel with everyone, everywhere. John 9-4, New King James Version, is one of the most sobering scriptures I have ever seen. Listen, I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming when no one can work. Do you get that? What we do, we do now. What we must do is to get the Gospel to people while we still can. The night is coming. We don't know when the curtain will fall. We know that it will. We certainly know that everybody who doesn't know Jesus Christ is headed into an eternity that is forever away from God into outer darkness. Meanwhile, we have got to let our light so shine that others will see our good works and they in turn will glorify our Father in Heaven. We need to tell people how they get to Heaven to admit they have sinned, to believe on Christ, to confess Him publicly, and then they need to hear it over and over until they believe. We are not to stop short simply because we have told someone one time, but consistently share God's good news with people who need to know Him. Pray diligently with other believers, read the Word of God together, and then go with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Someone is waiting for you to go tell them the truth. Will you do it? It's totally up to you. (upbeat music) 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 Golden 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. (upbeat music) 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 Sunday Schools 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. It started back, we are in Teen Missions International, started that. 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 for those, and you'd build orphanages that would hold 500 children, and that would be a pretty good size orphanage that would hold 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 a bush and build a little plywood building, take two of our graduates from a Bible school and put them out there, and they gently 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 die of 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. 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 that's been a friend of our ministry, said, "Bob, do you want a church out there where these orphans are? I'll give you the money to build a church." Well, I was so excited that we were going to build a church. And then Teen 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. Teen 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 Teen Missions, we've been there many years, and they're all about, "Well, what kind of churches are going to be?" And is it Methodist? Is it Baptist? 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've just made some enemies. So finally, after a while, didn't know how do we ever get ourselves in this mess, and then we're going to decide, "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 wished I had, 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 schools? Ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. And the wonderful thing is that the 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 callosockeys 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 Sunday school 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 we can get there and get the literature there 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 Borneo, 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 on the 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 buy 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 writers. A fantastic group of musicians that play instruments, and sing, and present the story. And they have been across the area here this week, and they'll be at Triple T tonight at 727. And you who are listening who are in driving distance don't miss the circuit writers, and learn more about the motorcycle Sunday school mission tonight. Bob, tell us about how the circuit writers 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 43 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're going to be here at Triple T, is that the evening? Tonight, yes, tonight. They were here last week, they'll be here again tonight, and we're thrilled and excited and delighted that we've been able to be out among a lot of the people in the Tri-State in this last week, and then they'll be leaving Monday morning. They'll be in a couple of churches God willing tomorrow, and then they'll be moving up toward the Fort Wayne area from here. And they've been out sharing, and God is blessed abundantly, and we want you to know that Triple T Christian Youth Ministries ties 10% of what God sends in to our general fund to the Motorcycle Sunday School Mission, our 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 pictures of the actual facilitators, and some of the kids running, and when they hear the roar of the motor 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. So you are really missing it if you don't come tonight to hear and see the circuit writers. Anything else you want to tell us that we can really appreciate all that Triple T has done to help 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 writers that we have are nationals who already know the language and the culture, and they're on motorcycles, so it's 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 them more needy mission fields in the world today. In fact, in Madagascar, one of the circuits is called the Triple T, or the Tilling 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, because you will see firsthand a video about it, and you'll learn how it works, and we'll give you the opportunity of actually investing your time and talent and treasure to make this happen. One of the sunny schools that we are sponsoring is the Steven Dickman Memorial Sunday School. It's in Madagascar right now, but it's going to be moving someday to Zimbabwe, because that's where Steven 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 Steven's name on it. Well, thank you for listening about anything else you want to share in the next couple of minutes. 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. [Music] Every Saturday at 7.27 pm, you are invited to attend a live youth event at Triple T, 13,000 US-41 North at Booneville and Harmony Road, midway between I-64 and Evansville Regional Airport. Every first Saturday, a good news club for ages 6-9 is available in a separate room. For more information, call 812-867-2418 or visit www.tripletchristianyouth.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 US-41 North, Evansville, Indiana, 477-25. 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