Title: God's Love for a Little Jungle Pastor Meta: Paul shares a powerful story of how God in His providence allowed him to be able to help a poor pastor. The incredible thing to realize about the love of God for this little jungle pastor is that if God loves him that much, He also loves you that much. If God will go out of His way to provide for this believer, then He will do the same for you. God will move people from an entirely different nation and spend all sorts of money to meet your needs. Tags: love,God,pastor,book,preacher 1 00:00:00,489 --> 00:00:02,360 I'll never forget, 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:04,749 I had flown into Peru, 3 00:00:04,749 --> 00:00:08,039 and some people had given me some money to buy pastoral libraries. 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,179 And I flew into Peru, 5 00:00:10,179 --> 00:00:11,490 and got there real late. 6 00:00:11,490 --> 00:00:15,059 About go to my sleeping quarters about 2am, 7 00:00:15,059 --> 00:00:16,539 after going through customs and everything. 8 00:00:16,539 --> 00:00:17,930 But something just... 9 00:00:17,930 --> 00:00:18,939 I couldn't sleep. 10 00:00:18,939 --> 00:00:20,900 I had to go the book store the next day. 11 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:21,840 I didn't know why. 12 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,420 'Why should I go to the bookstore in Lima?' 13 00:00:24,420 --> 00:00:26,210 But I just knew. 14 00:00:26,210 --> 00:00:28,070 "I gotta go to the bookstore tomorrow." 15 00:00:28,070 --> 00:00:30,119 Well, you've got several days, you can do that later. 16 00:00:30,119 --> 00:00:32,910 "No, I've got to to go now!" 17 00:00:32,910 --> 00:00:34,970 I remember, I took a taxi there. 18 00:00:34,970 --> 00:00:37,660 And got there too early and the doors weren't even open. 19 00:00:37,660 --> 00:00:42,210 It's the one good bookstore there in Peru. 20 00:00:42,210 --> 00:00:46,940 And I walk near the store and I see this little man. 21 00:00:46,940 --> 00:00:49,820 And I could tell he was from the jungles of San Martín, 22 00:00:49,820 --> 00:00:52,230 because I had worked there before. 23 00:00:52,230 --> 00:00:54,180 And I see him sitting there on the curb, 24 00:00:54,180 --> 00:00:55,920 kinda looking around, 25 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,460 and I set down beside him. 26 00:00:57,460 --> 00:00:59,410 I said, "¿Cómo estás?" 27 00:00:59,410 --> 00:01:01,230 You know, what is going on? Where are you from? 28 00:01:01,230 --> 00:01:02,890 And he started telling me and we started talking 29 00:01:02,890 --> 00:01:05,659 about places I had been, where he'd been. 30 00:01:05,659 --> 00:01:08,079 And I said, "What are you doing all the way in Lima?" 31 00:01:08,079 --> 00:01:10,950 Well, it took me three days to get here. 32 00:01:10,950 --> 00:01:13,689 Back of trucks and buses. 33 00:01:13,689 --> 00:01:15,039 And I said, "What are you doing here?" 34 00:01:15,039 --> 00:01:18,869 He goes, "I'm pastoring, I've become a pastor." 35 00:01:18,869 --> 00:01:24,729 And he goes, "My church gathered up some money, 36 00:01:24,729 --> 00:01:26,799 for me to come buy some books." 37 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:29,530 When he said that my heart just broke. 38 00:01:29,530 --> 00:01:31,770 Because I knew that the money they gave him 39 00:01:31,770 --> 00:01:36,200 wasn't enough to buy a tract in that store. 40 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,530 I set there and said, "Oh that's good." 41 00:01:41,530 --> 00:01:43,490 So the door finally opened and we went in. 42 00:01:43,490 --> 00:01:44,829 And I went in and I just started, 43 00:01:44,829 --> 00:01:47,490 I knew what pastoral libraries I needed to buy, 44 00:01:47,490 --> 00:01:49,399 and things I needed to get for poor pastors. 45 00:01:49,399 --> 00:01:53,229 So I'm just heaping it all up in piles and going along, 46 00:01:53,229 --> 00:01:55,770 and I think I had two guys helping me there in the store, 47 00:01:55,770 --> 00:01:57,200 get all of the books together. 48 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,229 And I watched that man out of the corner of my eye. 49 00:01:59,229 --> 00:02:04,100 And he'd go to one book shelf and you would see him look. 50 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:06,149 He'd go to another, 51 00:02:06,149 --> 00:02:11,550 and then finally he went to a little place where they sold Chick Tracts, 52 00:02:11,550 --> 00:02:13,840 and I saw him pick out about four. 53 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,280 And just the look at his face. 54 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,060 You know and he walks up to the counter. 55 00:02:18,060 --> 00:02:22,290 It was like the greatest day of my life. 56 00:02:22,290 --> 00:02:25,910 He walks up to the counter, 57 00:02:25,910 --> 00:02:27,120 he bought them. 58 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,090 He is just kinda standing there and I walked over to him. 59 00:02:30,090 --> 00:02:32,470 I said, "Hey, how is it going?" 60 00:02:32,470 --> 00:02:35,720 He didn't even say anything. 61 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,010 He was just broke. 62 00:02:37,010 --> 00:02:39,430 I said, "What books did you get?" 63 00:02:39,430 --> 00:02:45,980 He goes, "I didn't get any books." 64 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:54,020 And I said, "Do you know where I'm from?" 65 00:02:54,020 --> 00:02:55,460 He said, "No." 66 00:02:55,460 --> 00:02:57,290 I said, "I'm from the United States." 67 00:02:57,290 --> 00:02:59,190 "Do you know how far away that is?" 68 00:02:59,190 --> 00:03:00,870 He said, "No." 69 00:03:00,870 --> 00:03:05,460 I said, "About six thousand miles." 70 00:03:05,460 --> 00:03:09,290 I said, "Do you know how much my plane ticket cost?" 71 00:03:09,290 --> 00:03:12,050 And he was like looking at me like, 'Why are you saying this to me?' 72 00:03:12,050 --> 00:03:15,040 I said, "Do you know how much my plane ticket cost?" 73 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,120 He said, "No." 74 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,170 I said, "About $800." 75 00:03:19,170 --> 00:03:22,380 "Do you know when I got here?" 76 00:03:22,380 --> 00:03:23,700 He said, "No." 77 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:25,950 I said, "2am this morning." 78 00:03:25,950 --> 00:03:28,700 "Do you know that I couldn't sleep?" 79 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:33,360 He said, "No... I didn't know you couldn't sleep." 80 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,290 (Laughter) 81 00:03:36,290 --> 00:03:39,260 And I said, "Do you know why?" 82 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,800 He said, "Why?" 83 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,790 Now you're looking at a man that if he held five dollars in his hand 84 00:03:45,790 --> 00:03:49,360 he wouldn't know what to do. 85 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,950 I said, "A few months ago, 86 00:03:53,950 --> 00:04:02,700 God raised up a group of people in the United States, 87 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:05,820 and they gave me money 88 00:04:05,820 --> 00:04:11,220 and then I bought a plane ticket for $800, 89 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:13,000 and I flew in a plane here. 90 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,298 And I landed here last night, 91 00:04:16,298 --> 00:04:19,509 all the way from the United States. 92 00:04:19,509 --> 00:04:21,349 And I couldn't sleep all night, 93 00:04:21,349 --> 00:04:22,909 and so I got in a Taxi this morning 94 00:04:22,909 --> 00:04:26,300 and I made my way down here. 95 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:28,210 Do you know why? 96 00:04:28,210 --> 00:04:30,770 He said, "No." 97 00:04:31,390 --> 00:04:35,110 "To buy you every book you're ever going to need." 98 00:04:35,110 --> 00:04:40,469 I said, "Do you realize the love of God..." 99 00:04:40,469 --> 00:04:42,939 I love that because if God loves him that much 100 00:04:42,939 --> 00:04:43,969 He loves me that much! 101 00:04:43,969 --> 00:04:44,990 He loves you that much! 102 00:04:44,990 --> 00:04:46,150 Just think about that. 103 00:04:46,150 --> 00:04:50,330 God moved people from an entirely different nation. 104 00:04:50,330 --> 00:04:52,400 God spent all kinds of money, 105 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,430 bought a plane ticket, 106 00:04:53,430 --> 00:04:54,930 for one reason: 107 00:04:54,930 --> 00:05:00,030 a little Indian in the middle of the jungle. 108 00:05:00,030 --> 00:05:04,720 And if you say, "coincidence" you're a blasphemer and a fool. 109 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,729 God did that for him. 110 00:05:06,729 --> 00:05:08,909 Isn't that wonderful? 111 00:05:08,909 --> 00:05:12,620 We've got such a good God! 112 00:05:12,620 --> 00:05:14,689 Wonderful God! 113 00:05:14,689 --> 00:05:16,560 [Clapping] 114 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,069 Just got a wonderful God! 115 00:05:21,069 --> 00:05:26,060 And that's what missions is about. 116 00:05:26,060 --> 00:05:28,169 It seems like we go to the mission field 117 00:05:28,169 --> 00:05:31,979 and we jump completely over the church 118 00:05:31,979 --> 00:05:33,889 to do our own thing with the lost. 119 00:05:33,889 --> 00:05:35,620 You ever realize that? 120 00:05:35,620 --> 00:05:39,489 I see missionaries and mission groups doing this all of the time. 121 00:05:39,489 --> 00:05:42,409 Jump right over the church 122 00:05:42,409 --> 00:05:45,879 to go do something with the lost. 123 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:49,370 My thing is the bride of Christ. 124 00:05:49,370 --> 00:05:54,840 If we help the bride become beautiful and strong in those countries. 125 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:57,529 She'll take care of the lost. 126 00:05:57,529 --> 00:06:00,849 She'll take care of the lost. 127 00:06:00,849 --> 00:06:03,289 We need to pour our lives into the church 128 00:06:03,289 --> 00:06:08,310 because that's the only place God's determined to get glory for Himself.