field. I thought it was longer than that. Seems like we supported him for so long, but just since 2020. So he went right in the middle of the pandemic, but, uh, so be praying for him as he travels on, but thanks for coming. Good evening, Dillon Baptist church. I thank you so much for the privilege. It is to be here tonight. And I thank you so much for the privileges to give an update about how good God has been to us and what all he's been doing in Brazil. So as, uh, I call it pastor Cornyn. Yeah, okay. I'm gonna call him Pastor Cornyn. That's new for me. I've been calling Brother Cornyn for so many years. But I like that now. Pastor Cornyn was telling us we arrived in Brazil at January 2020. Excited to be able to start off the whole year in Brazil. So technically I arrived in December 31st of 2019, but I wanted to start off to say I've been in Brazil from 2020 onward. And as I arrived, I was so excited. I got my documentation all taken care of, and I got a chance to start working with the church that I was going to be helping at while I was in language school. And it was great to start up language school, and I attended for a whole full, well, yeah, about six classes. And then about right at that time, COVID hit and shut everything down. So I had my documentation. When you arrive to Brazil, you have to get a visa first. But once you get a visa, upon arrival, you have 90 days to be able to turn that visa in to the federal police. And once you turn the visa into the federal police, they'll certify it, and they'll say, OK, your visa is valid for however long your visa is. But you have 90 days upon arrival to turn it in. So my first month there, I showed up within the first two weeks or so. to validate that visa, to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. And as I get there, I see a giant line. We wait in that line for a couple hours, and finally we get to the front, and they say, what are you doing? You have 90 days for this visa. You see, we have hundreds of people in backlog. Can you come back a little bit closer to the end of the 90 days, and then we'll be able to process all your information then? OK, I can do that. I come back at the end of the 90 days, and they say, we can't do it anymore because everything's closed because of COVID. OK, well, here's a piece of paper. This paper says, because we're having technical difficulties, and this is a new path that no one's ever experienced before, you show this paper, you can come back to here, and we'll start you off exactly as if nothing's ever happened, and we'll waive the 90-day requirement for everything. Coming up here in a month or two, I have to go up north, because that's where I was going to meet the pastor that I'm working in the missionary planting team to start a new church in the state called Bahia. And I said, will I be able to do that there? There's a federal police there in Salvador. Salvador is the fourth largest city in Brazil. It's the capital of Bahia. Can I go to the federal police there and do it? And they said, yes, that paper is good anywhere where there's a government a government agency. So you can take that up there and do it there. So we got a chance to travel up to the northeast area in Bahia and got a chance to work in a city called Lauro de Freitas, right out in the suburbs of Salvador. And so we got a chance to start the church there. And as months went by, we realized that the federal police weren't opening up. They opened up in Sao Paulo about a month ago, but they still haven't opened up here. But I still have the paper saying that they will certify anything I do. So finally, they opened up about a month later. I walk in there and I show them that piece of paper and get all my information and let them know that I can get my visa certified. And he said, what is that piece of paper? It's basically an IOU for being able to do this, right? He goes, that piece of paper doesn't mean anything to us. That's trash. Wait, no, no, no. So how do I get my visa certified? Well, it's expired now, so you can't do anything about it. So I traveled back to Sao Paulo and said, you gave me this paper. I remember it. He goes, yeah, but we've been open for about two or three weeks now, and you still haven't came back here, so we can't use that paper anymore here either. So what do I do? Well, you have to start the whole process over again. Wait, the whole process? Like from America? Yeah. Okay, so just go back to America and then you can come back here. But if this is expired, isn't that illegal? Technically, yes. So how long will it be until I come back to Brazil? Five or six years. So I'm not going back to America. So how do I do this? Well, I guess you got to find someone to do it for you. I called my church. They sent all my information in to the federal police. They got all the documentation and the background check and the visa applied. They sent it back down. And they said, we can't take that. It's not certified. OK, so I go again. I pay the money, get it to the federal police, get it certified, and get it brought down. They said, we can't take that. It's in English. When you do it here from this side, it has to be in Portuguese. You get it translated. So I have to pay the money again, get the information, get it translated, get it certified. And they tell me that, well, the translation's good, but the translator isn't certified. So I get fingerprinted, send it to the federal police, get it certified, get it translated, get the translation certified, get it shipped back down here and turned in exactly the way they want it. And they say it's expired. Once you get the documentation, you only have three months until it expires. Finally, I hire a lawyer who knows people and with a little bit of incentive can get documentations. faster to the federal police. So we do it one last time, and finally they said we'll accept it even though it's expired, thanks to the lawyer. And now I can say I'm legally in Brazil, allowed to work there, but I can tell people I know what it's like for two years to be an illegal immigrant. So I was an illegal immigrant for two years, hiding from the police. I hope they don't take my car records. I'll get deported. But God has been good, because while we were doing that big headache, we were still working, reaching people, passing out gospel tracts, telling them about the love of Jesus, and God has been blessing and building His church. So I wanted to be able to get up this video, and it talks about a little bit of what was happening while the church was being built, and what God was using us to do there. So, by the time, would you be able to play that video? In churches and for all my prayer warriors around the world, this is your missionary Nathaniel Hudson serving the Lord in Brazil and wanted to be able to give you an update about what God has been doing during my first term on the field and what he's allowed us to do in planning Northeast Baptist Church. When I arrived in Brazil, I began partnering with Brother Leland Johnson. a missionary serving in the northeast area of Brazil in the state of Bahia, a town called Laros Freitas. There we were able to start the church plant and an old security warehouse which we have been able to do renovations to be able to turn that security warehouse into a sanctuary of God. We've seen many people come to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, follow the Lord in believers' baptism, get discipled, and added to the church. During this time, we were in the middle of the pandemic, which caused the church to slow down in our growth. But through it all, the Lord continued blessing, providing, and the church began growing. Brother Leland, because of complications of family's health, had to return to the United States. But in his absence, Brother West Paula took leadership of the church. And now we are partnering with him. continuing forward and the church is continuing to grow. We're averaging about 60-70 in attendance every Sunday and seeing new visitors come in from soul winning efforts and from the church members inviting and telling their family members and friends about a place that was preaching the gospel clearly. As I return to Brazil for my second term, I'm so excited to continue serving the Lord in the areas that he's opened up for us. To get a chance to see some of the youth accept the Lord and be discipled. Working with the young men of the church and seeing them be discipled and and growing in their faith, to be able to help with the junior church and being helped with the youth programs, and to be able to see Bible clubs where we see neighborhood kids being able to come to the church and hear the Word of God and be able to follow up and speak with their parents and just to see how God has continued working in lives and transforming lives. We're so excited because this year a plot of land was donated to the church in the next town over about 20 minutes away, which gives us another opportunity to be able to plant another gospel preaching church. So we are going to be starting up in 2020-25, evangelizing that area with gospel tracts, holding meetings and doing our best to be having Bible clubs in the area to let the word out that another Baptist church will be planted there in the city of Obranches. I want to thank you all for your participation in the ministry in Brazil. I want to thank you so much for your giving and your prayer support for having a part in the work that is happening here in Brazil. It is a pleasure to represent you as your missionary in Brazil. but to God be the glory for everything he's allowed us to be able to do there. I ask that you would continue praying for us there in Brazil. First of all, as we mentioned in the video, Brother Leland, he ended up having to come back, but to God be the glory, he was able to take up a position here in the States as a director of the Caribbeans for another mission board. But although his heart was to be in Brazil full-time until God called him home or until Jesus returned, During that time of COVID, his wife ended up getting COVID and had a rare reaction to it. So the COVID virus, the fever attacked part of her brain and she began being paralyzed. And from that area, she's not 100% paralyzed, but every time she moves her lower extremities or puts weight upon it, she collapses and just has agonizing pain. She's bedridden and wheelchair bound right now. So in Brazil, there was nothing that they could do about it. They went through all the doctors. In Sao Paulo, there's a hospital called Einstein Hospital. And Einstein Hospital is known as the best hospital in all of South America. But even there, there was nothing they could do. It was a new virus. They had no idea how to treat it. So they found a clinic here in North Carolina. North Carolina area that would be able to treat it because they found a couple cases that were similar to hers. And so with that door opening up and the opportunity to be able to continue planting churches near the Caribbean and helping out other missionaries in the Caribbean. So he believed that there was a Lord moving him to be able to come back to the state so she could be with that support system of her family, be with the doctor that could help treat them better, and that could be still involved in missions, planting churches in different areas. But right now, as a single missionary, we don't believe it's the wisest thing to be planting a church by myself without any accountability or any support, so I still partner in working with Brother Wes Paula. Wes Paula was a missionary in Mexico for many years until the Lord pricked his heart about coming to Brazil. And we met him in Sao Paulo and he was able there starting a church ministry called Macedonia Baptist Church. And from there he came up north to be able to plant a church and being able to part them together. So and it was right at that time it was perfect the Lord's will that he would be able to take the leadership of that church. So the same thing I was doing with Brother Leland, now I'm doing with Pastor Wes, and we're still partnering up to be able to continue planting the church, and the church is going forward. He's still there right now preaching away, and when I get back in October, we have a plan to be able to start moving and adjusting to be able to plant the church in Abranches. Abranches is about 25 minutes away, not that far from the church, but it's farther than any of our people can get to. So how we plan on working it is right now I live right across the street from the church, but I'm getting rid of my apartment and I'm going to be able this winter to be finding an apartment near where we're going to be planting the church so I can be there on that ground full time. So this time of deputation is mostly geared of getting the funds ready to start that work over there. They say they need about $30,000 to build the entire church, but they said half of it's going to have to be put into the foundation. So everything that's coming in right now, we said we're going to split it 50-50. I could be able to put in everything to the foundation to get the concrete put in, to put the rule bar in. And if the foundation is taken care of, we can start holding meetings before the rest of the church is even built. Just getting a tent out there and then start having Bible clubs in that area and passing tracts out and meeting once or twice a week. Just letting them know that we're building a church there. So everything that's coming in through this furlough up until I leave in October is geared toward the foundation of the church. So to God be the glory, I have about 70% of it already raised. He's been blessing this furlough. I've been on furlough for about three months right now, and I'm headed back October 1st. And if the Lord continues blessing in this path, they should meet the goal by October 1st. So I'm just excited about that. I'm excited to be in missions. I'm excited about planting this next church. I'm excited about seeing more people come into the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. God is so good, and he's allowed you and I to be his vessels, to work for him, to be his representatives. As the church of Jesus Christ, we're Jesus' hands and feet here on Earth. That means we're also Jesus's voice. So when our mouths are closed to the gospel, and sometimes we're too busy for it, the only Jesus many of them are ever gonna see is us. And that should prick our hearts. It should change our outlook. It should change our perspective and our attitude for how we interact with lost people. So as I was thinking about that, we have this passage that's known, a great mission passage, Matthew 9, chapter 36. Many of us could probably quote it. But we started called the Project 936. Me and my girlfriend, soon to be fiance, Lord willing, if God continues blessing, we tried to pray at nine o'clock at night, 936, not every night, but almost every night, trying to mark that time to pray that God would send forth laborers into his harvest. The one prayer request that Jesus Christ gave to his church, the one prayer request that Jesus asked us to pray for. But that prayer request came from a perspective that Jesus had. Let's look at the scripture tonight. And let's turn there, Matthew chapter 9, 36. Matthew 9, 36, but before we read God's word, let's have a word of prayer. Father in heaven, we thank you so much for your word. We thank you so much for your goodness. We thank you so much for Jesus Christ, the great example he is for us. We thank you so much for how, dear Lord, through the Holy Spirit, your word, and we could be transformed into the likeness of Christ. Well, Father, as we see the example of Christ here in the scriptures, Father, I ask that you would help us to emulate it in our day to day. Father, we pray the Holy Spirit, the Lord would convict us, teach us, or just remind us to remember to have the same love and compassion Christ had. Father, we ask that you, dear Lord, will please just use your word tonight and ask that the Holy Spirit will speak to someone, encourage someone, dear Lord, maybe motivate someone. Father, I ask that Nick Hudson will be forgotten about and Jesus Christ will be uplifted, and we pray this all in the name of Jesus, amen. See in Matthew chapter 9 we find Jesus Christ as he's arriving into his town and he sees the man sick with the palsy and we know that they bring him to Jesus and he sees their faith and he tells them to ride take up that bed and walk and the Pharisees see him doing his work and and telling him to carry his bed on the Sabbath. And they begin to ask questions to snare him. And we see how Jesus begins as he hears about the young woman, the daughter of the certain ruler who was dying and she was sick. And he goes to be able to heal her. And the woman with the issue of blood begins to touch him. and she is healed and from there you see he arrives and he heals the young girl and who they think is dead and he raises her and from there we see he kills the blind man and he touches the deaf's mouth and the deaf see and he goes about teaching about the kingdom. In verse 35 we see, and Jesus went about in all the cities. and villages, teaching of their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, healing every sickness and every disease among people. But when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. So pray ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. I find something miraculous that Jesus Christ saw something that moved him. See, Jesus Christ saw something that stirred in his spirit. See, Jesus's perspective gave him a concern that touched him. To be stirred, to be moved is to be stirred up, to be overwhelmed, to be overtaken with strong emotions. Not just emotion of sorrow, but emotion to meet their needs. Jesus' experience with them firsthand the hardship of their conditions. the sad state that they were in, the hurting people that he saw around him. He was teaching in their synagogues and saw that they had need for biblical truth. He was preaching the gospel of the kingdom and saw that they had no hope and they had need for salvation. He was healing them and saw their physical needs and infirmities, and he saw the broken and hurting people. And we saw the state that they were, He looked out upon the multitudes, and in my truly belief, he was moved with compassion because he realized because the omnipresent God of the universe indwelled a mortal man and became limited by time. As Jesus was walking on this earth, he was no longer in every place and every moment and every time. He entered into our time. So that means he couldn't do it all at that statement. Every last one of them had a need, and he couldn't touch them all at that moment. Every last one of them had a sickness, and he couldn't touch them all at that moment. Because he was, because he has been dwelled in human flesh, he was now limited as he limited himself. So he sees this multitude of people who throw on him And the work, the need, is great. The need was great. And as they came to him with their problems, he saw the multitude and they're just like sheep. You know, some of you guys have worked with sheep and animals. They're helpless creatures, aren't they? They fall in the ditches, they'll walk into your gate, You correct them and lead them in the way, and they'll walk right back into the same trap and get dirty and messed up again. That's what we are. Lonely, helpless sheep. But when he sees a man in that state, it moved him with compassion. Why did he have such a strong emotion? Because just like Jeremiah said, his eye affected his heart. What he saw moved him, stirred him. But sometimes I wonder, as Christians, as those who are representatives of Jesus Christ, who are those who are his hands and feet, those who are Christ-like little Christ, the name Christian means, what stirs us? What moves us? Are we touched when we see the state of the lost? Are we touched and moved when we see the condition of those who are lost without Jesus? Who need to have biblical truth? Who are lost without hope of salvation in the gospel? When we see their infirmities physically, but they need to be healed spiritually as well. And did we see how that we must work because the night cometh when no man could work, that time is a factor for each and every one of them? Does it move us or does it annoy us? Does it move you or do you ignore it? Does it bore you? Many times, I find Christians, as we look and hear about what God is doing in places and how we could be a witness to others and how we can reach people for the gospel, it becomes old hat. And the cause of Christ and the cause of evangelism bores many Christian. It's a lost and dying bore, you. So many people get emotionally stirred by things that are temporal nowadays. Most people get so stirred by things that are physical that the spiritual and eternal just bores them. We're caught up in politics, which is a good thing. We should have a voice. But if we're more excited about who's going to be in the White House, then we're more excited about people being in God's house. Our priorities are up. We're caught up in sports, and I'm not against sports. I love sports. But yet we're quick to cheer and root and holler about our team who is winning, but we forget to show excitement about we're being on the winning side because of Jesus. Many of us, we get so interested in finances, in our businesses, and that we neglect to invest and heavenly things, we neglect to invest in the souls of man. What moves us most is what we're most invested in. You know, I was noticing that sometimes the stock market drops and I hear it on the news and people begin to panic. And I think, wow, that must be terrible. But it doesn't really move me. You know why? Because I'm not invested heavily in that. I mean, I got a savings account. Besides that, that's not yielding much. So my passion and my enthusiasm for seeing the stock markets climb up and drop down, interesting, but it doesn't move me because I'm not invested there. And sometimes that nonchalant attitude is what many Christians have about the things of God. Whoa, we're having a revival meeting, and we saw these young people in the Bible study get saved, and we saw these people come to church, and that young man gave his life to Christ, and that young man's called to preach, and they're out soul winning, and we met a man on the corner, and he accepted Christ as their Lord and Savior, and we're like, okay. I'm glad that happened, good on him. Good job. Well, did the Seahawks win? Yeah! The Seahawks won. That man came to Christ. Good. You see where you're invested? You see where your intention is? What moves you is what you're most invested in. That's why someone can preach the word of God, and they can see it, and we think, yeah, good thing. I'm glad that's happening. Amen. I agree with it. We accept it. We know it's true. We believe it. But it doesn't move us. When Jesus saw their state of these people, it moved him, it pricked him. He had a concerning perspective that caused him to have compassion for people. Seeing the needs of these people didn't just move him to sympathy and empathy, but compassion. And we know the difference between those. You know, sympathy, you feel for that person Something that's happening to that person, I feel for them. Sympathy isn't bad. Empathy is better. Because empathy, I walk a mile in that person's shoes. I understand what is happening. Sympathy is God looking down from heaven and having pity on us poor sinners. Empathy is Jesus before the foundation of the world saying I'm gonna go and be like him. But compassion was the incarnation. Why? Because sympathy is a feeling of loneliness for someone's position or state. Empathy is that relatability to that person in that situation, but compassion is a concern that produces a desire to take action. And Jesus didn't just look and say, no, that's bad, they're going to hell. He didn't think, man, I could probably relate to them there. No, he left his throne in heaven. came unto this earth in the likeness of sinful flesh, in the form of a servant, and in all ways was tempted as we were without sin. And he was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Jesus had compassion. See, Merriam-Webster defines it this way. Compassion is a sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with the desire to alleviate it. A desire to alleviate it. So it's one thing for me to feel bad. It's one thing to relate. It's another thing for me saying, I gotta do something about that. When Jesus saw the multitudes, he wasn't moved with sympathy, empathy, compassion. Something needs to get done about this. Something needs to get done. When I think of compassion, I remember Jesus saying in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Now, we know in the Good Samaritan, we know that story. What happened? The man comes down to Jericho. He gets fell upon by robbers. They beat him up and leave him there dead, and they take everything he has. And then what happens? Two people come by. Remember who those two people were? priest and other was a Levite. There we go, yeah. Priest and Levite. Priest would have been from the tribe of Levi and he would have been representing of the temple and he would have been teaching in the temple and doing the sacrifices for the people. And the Levites would have been the separated tribe of Israel who served in the temple, who served for the things. The Levites never had an inheritance because their inheritance was the Lord. So they would serve as, they would be minstrels, and they would sing, and they would wait on the priests, and they would be the ones helping and taking care of the temple, and cleaning, and they would be the ones doing the organizing, and orchestrating things in the synagogues, and relating things back to the temple priests. So the Levites were important, too. But when a priest passed by, he saw the man, and the Bible says he just kept moving. And when the Levites saw the man, the spiritual man saw him, they kept moving. And it wasn't for the good Samaritan, the outcast, the person that the Jews hated because of their race, who had compassion, a desire to alleviate this affliction that this man was in. And I remember thinking, oh man, those priests and Levites, what terrible people. But I'm reading into the Bible. Bible didn't say they were terrible people. They weren't sinners. Did they break a law? No. Did they break the Mosaic Law? No. Were they hypocrites? Technically not. As far as we know, if I'm reading that they were bad people, I could read that they were good people. Maybe they walked by and had sympathy. Oh, that poor man. Oh, he's bleeding. I can't touch him, but man, you know, I feel so bad for him. But what can I do? That's possible. Maybe Levi had empathy. Oh, I remember seeing this happen before. Oh, I remember one time I was robbed. That's terrible. Oh, this should never happen to people. This is such a terrible thing. I know how he feels. Man, that's hard. But neither one of them had compassion. Neither one of them had a drive to alleviate this state, that I have to do something about the state of this man. Not only do I see this need and it pricks my heart, and it means something has to be done, but now I see his need, it pricks my heart, I feel something needs to be done, and you know the person who needs to do something about it, I have to do something about it. I have to go out of my way. I have to stop my journey. I have to get off my donkey. I have to pick this man up and put him on his donkey. I have to pour my supply and my resources, my wine on his wounds to dress him. I have to take him to the inn. I have to take out some money. I have to put it on the counter. I have to give the instructions. And then I have to come back afterwards to make sure if there's anything wrong, I have to take time for this person, go out of my way, sacrifice, and do a little extra. Why? Because something needs to be done, and if they have compassion, that means I need to do something. That's the type of feeling Jesus had as he saw these people, as he was healing them, but they kept coming, and as he was teaching them, and they kept coming, and as he was there preaching the gospel, and they kept coming, and now there's so much work to be done, but the laborers are few. And as he, God Almighty, knows the feeling of man, because he was just like man incarnated here, so he can't do everything in one instant moment if he was unveiled to human flesh. So what can we do? He looks to his disciples for the answer. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labors are few. Pray. Pray. Get down on your knees before an almighty God, and if I can't reach everybody at this time, if I can't go there at this time, if I can't do this right here at this way, and I know that there's something I need to do, I must have this compassion on these people, we have to pray. The Bible tells us in 1 John 3, 1 John 3, it says, Hereby proceed with the love of God, that he lay down his life for us. And we, us, we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath the world's goods, and seeth their brethren have need, and shutteth up their bowels of compassion for him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? Sometimes we have compassion. God pricks our heart about our need to be involved to sacrifice our time, to sacrifice our resources, to do a little extra to help that person know Jesus, to walk with God, to get discipled, to be encouraged in a way, to go out of my comfort zone and speak to somebody who isn't like me, who doesn't talk like me, maybe doesn't smell like me. Trust me, work with children's ministry, that happens a lot. But take some of my time to invest in him. Some people feel that compassion, But the Bible says some people shut up his bowels of compassion from him. That means when the Spirit begins to prick your heart about being more involved in outreach and evangelism and discipleship and teaching, sometimes we go, nah, Lord, I don't wanna do that. I would never do that. How much did you answer God's prayer request today? If you ain't praying for the harvest today, if you're not praying that God would work in your life and use you to be able to be a blessing to someone else, you're shutting up your bowels of compassion for people and you're becoming callous to the needs of people. You're becoming callous to the lost and dying. And you know what? We're starting investing that compassion and that excitement and emotion in things of this world and investing them in sports and politics and new cars and fun activities and entertainment, and then we can just get excited about things we see on the Instagram and social media, and the things of God, now that we're callous to it because we told God, stop pricking my heart about it so much, and now I shut those bowels of compassion up to it, I'm callous and it doesn't affect me, so now I don't have to pray. You know, sometimes that amazes me. Compassion requires involvement, and involvement requires sacrifice. Sacrifice of time, comfort, priority, but sacrificing time in prayer. Because the more I pray for people, the more my heart begins to burn. The more I pray for the lost and dying, the more I have a desire to alleviate it. The more I'm praying for them, the more I put them as priority. We have to get back to praying for the lost, praying for the more laborers to go forth. But lastly, something that excites me, chapter one, verse 10. He gives them a prayer request and tells them to pray. But you know who he sends? The prayers. He tells his disciples to pray. Chapter 10. And when he had called unto him 12 disciples, he gave them powers of unclean spirits, and cast them out, that they heal in all manner of sickness, in all manners. And now, in the name of these 12, he sent out his prayers, prayer warriors. You know, the ones who God sends out are the ones who move with compassion. You know, the ones who are moved with compassion first have a compassion for prayer, have a compassion to be before the throne of grace, to take the inner seed for this lost and dying world, that they would pray that God would win souls, that they would pray that God would lead them, that pray that the Holy Spirit would prick their heart, that pray that they would be convicted about their sin, that they would pray that they would repent and turn to Jesus Christ. Those who are before God on their knees are the ones who God raises up and tells them to go forth, because now I've been praying for more labors, and now you get to be the laborer. Many of us aren't praying because we know that God might answer that prayer request with your life. Well, I don't want to pray that God will save him because maybe God will prick my heart about telling him about Jesus. And I don't want to say anything. Wear his hands and feet. The best Bible gospel tract that the old person will ever look to or read is your life. I love gospel tracks, I keep them with me at all times. I love them. I found these ones at the parchment and I decided, I don't think it's stealing if it's a gospel track, so I can take them. I don't think that's stealing, is it? No, it's not. So I saw these at the parchment and I was like, these are my favorite tracks, I'm taking these. So I keep them with me. But this doesn't have any more power than my life. Hey, I love you. And I know a God who loves you more. My life is more of a witness than a gospel track is. And the touch of capacity that you can have for another could be the greatest impact for eternity. Do you have that compassion? Do you have that perspective? Or are you shutting up those bowels of mercies? The Bible says finally, 1 Peter 3, be ye all of one mind. having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous, not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing, but contrary wise blessing, knowing that ye are unto called that ye should inherit a blessing. You know, when I have compassion, when I take that extra step for others, just the greatest blessing that a Christian can ever have. You know what the best part about it is? The Christian becomes Christ-like. And the way Christ was moved with compassion for the lost, the Christian is as well. So Christian, I'm gonna ask you today, how's your perspective? God causes children to be laborers, to labor. A lot of times we get stuck lawyering. You know, a loiterer, someone who loiters. They stick around, they stand around, but they don't really do much. Sadly, most Christians fall in that half. He sends us to go forth with the love of Jesus Christ and the gospel of salvation. The world's starving for genuine love and compassion. And the same one who commands us to pray is the same one who sends us to go. If you got the perspective of Christ, Pray that you have the compassion of Christ. And pray that you will heal, heal, heed his commandment as he sends forth laborers into his harvest. Brother Bill.