1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,300 In a moment's time. I'm going to reveal to you just 2 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:05,200 who this preacher is. But before I do that, I need to 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,600 let you know, some kind of bad news for some crazy reason. 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,500 Right at the end of the interview, Skype decide to chop 5 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:15,500 the preachers head in half and I try to fix it, but there's no 6 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,200 way around it. You'll see what I mean, but I'm 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:19,800 sure it's not going to ruin the interview for you. 8 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:21,600 One bit. You're going to really enjoy 9 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,700 this a sit back, relax because we're about to take you out of 10 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:28,900 your comfort zone, real well. And well, thank you very much 11 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:31,500 for joining me today. A ray went up. 12 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:33,400 When I got the, the message from Jen. 13 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,400 I was nearly as excited as when my wife said. 14 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,900 Yes. So, this is question number one. 15 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:46,800 And are you a good person? Yes, I'm incredibly are morally, 16 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,300 perfect. Yeah. 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,800 So, do you think the church is who don't actively do open air 18 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,800 evangelism. Do you think that they possibly 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,100 might miss out a little bit? Well, if they want to reach the 20 00:00:58,100 --> 00:00:59,800 last, you know, open-air Avenger. 21 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,500 A just like 121 evangelism, but there's 100 people and if you're 22 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:07,200 in a urine, our Lifeboat and you're trying to say people and 23 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,900 you figured out a way to pull antennas time rather than one 24 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:14,100 with just one hand, you could get an orange pulling 10 at 25 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:18,100 once, take advantage of it. Paul said, If by all means, I 26 00:01:18,107 --> 00:01:23,400 might save some so open-air preaching as a wonderful way to 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,500 reach the lost when I open air preach items down on a street 28 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:32,300 corner and holler it passes by with a One of those flowerhorns. 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,300 What we do is we gather a crowd who willingly stand and listen 30 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:40,800 to the gospel. And the way we do it is through 31 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,500 giving away money, which is kind of strange, but it's like water 32 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:46,600 running uphill. It's very unusual natural and so 33 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,100 people come to see what's going on. 34 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:51,500 So yeah, churches would grow with their grab hold of the 35 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:53,500 Great Commission and actually see what it says. 36 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:56,800 It says, go into all the world and preach the gospel. 37 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,600 To, Every Creature d.l. Moody said, Other set of 38 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:05,400 thousand to work than do the work of a thousand and you can 39 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,400 set a thousand to work by training them up on how to 40 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,600 conquer their fears and how to open air preach in a way. 41 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,000 That's not obnoxious. And that's the way I believe, we 42 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,100 can reach the world. The same way, the apostles 43 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:18,400 didn't book of Acts and d.l. Moody also said, let's love them 44 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,800 into the Kingdom. So exactly what you say. 45 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:23,100 We need to be Winsome when we do that. 46 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:27,300 So that was one of my other questions and so I don't want to 47 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:30,300 fly to you in any way, but really, you've been a A big 48 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:32,900 inspiration in my life. There's a Street Preacher. 49 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:35,100 When me and my wife first got married, we didn't have a 50 00:02:35,108 --> 00:02:37,700 computer and we didn't have the internet. 51 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:40,600 So I'd work in a school. As a classroom assistant, 52 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,300 helping a young lad with autism. And then in my lunch break, I 53 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:47,000 would go out to the school computers, and I'd literally 54 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,900 just watch video after video of you doing. 55 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:52,600 You your open-air stuff. I found live streams and all 56 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,500 these these different kinds of things. 57 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:58,400 But see you, well, know, for doing the giving away money sort 58 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,300 of things to draw a crowd. But you also had some other 59 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:02,800 sorts of ways of getting a crowd. 60 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,400 Would you like to share some of them over the years? 61 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:08,000 Oh, look, I've tried every means me, Apostle. 62 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,100 Paul said, by all means save some it probably didn't think 63 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:17,400 that people do what I did. But every needs, you know, we 64 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,200 give away teddy bears at Christmas little stuff, be as to 65 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,900 people who answer trivia and a friend of mine called from a 66 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:27,300 place called Costco that sell wholesale stuff and he said 67 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:28,900 there's a six-foot teddy bear here. 68 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:30,300 Do you want us to buy? Buy it. 69 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:33,800 Bring it back was so big. I couldn't fit into my car. 70 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:37,000 But we dragged it along to Huntington Beach and it didn't 71 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,500 get a crowd. And I've used many things to try 72 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:42,600 and get a crowd. I've had guys dress up as 73 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,700 pallbearers where the corpse would put a corpse on the 74 00:03:45,708 --> 00:03:47,600 ground. Not a real corpse, a living 75 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,600 person with a sheet over them or sometimes we get a dummy and 76 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,500 light down and because there's nothing that attracts people, 77 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:56,400 like a terrible accident. There's a next time. 78 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,200 People go. What's going on over there. 79 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,300 Don't look, it's horrible. Where Wilbur tractors and 80 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:04,200 nothing attracts like a funeral. So if you've got a corpse lying 81 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,100 on the ground with a sheet over, it was six pallbearers, wearing 82 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:10,900 sunglasses and that people come around and it's very easy to 83 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:13,100 preach the gospel. When you start with death. 84 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:14,800 So do you think there's an afterlife? 85 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,000 So you have used the funeral many times and many different 86 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,100 ways to reach the crowd, the getting the way money is just an 87 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:23,200 answer to trivia in Alaska crowd. 88 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,900 How many of you know The capital of France rhymes with Aris and 89 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:30,800 begins with P. That's a clue. 90 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:34,600 And people say parents. See that's that you must be 91 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,100 University student here. What's your name? 92 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:38,400 Fred, Fred? That's right. 93 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,100 Here's a dollar and you and it's fun. 94 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:44,000 It makes people laugh and and then you say, Hey, sir, you've 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,900 got it answering questions. Do you think you're a good 96 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:46,500 person? This is. 97 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:48,700 Yeah, really good. You want to go for five dollars? 98 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:50,700 If you're a good person. I'll give you $5. 99 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:53,800 If not, I'll give you $5. Anyway, pin it with sport, jump 100 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,500 up on the box up again. Crab listens, he's thrilled to 101 00:04:57,508 --> 00:04:59,500 be there. It's created Goodwill giving 102 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:04,400 away money and and they hear the gospel and without compromise. 103 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,400 So I suppose then out of all the people that you've interviewed 104 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,200 and all the people that stepped upon the Box. 105 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,200 Are there any that really sort of you've never been able to 106 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,700 forget about and they've really sort of glued into your mind? 107 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,600 Well, I forget about everybody sometimes I see someone of 108 00:05:20,608 --> 00:05:23,200 interview and I've never seen that person before my life. 109 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,600 It's probably because I do to us read day and just gets a blur 110 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:27,900 after a while. Yeah. 111 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:29,300 Yeah. When I'm on anyone's got a 112 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:34,700 humble heart, it just endears me to them and you know what? 113 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:38,000 I say to someone. What do you think happens after 114 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,500 someone dies? And they say, oh, I don't know. 115 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:42,900 I said, you think about it and they say, yeah, all the time. 116 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,000 Are you afraid of dying? Yes. 117 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:51,000 And immediately I'm indeed that person because their honesty and 118 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 they are the ones that I remember the ones that are the 119 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 drink and the Spool like a drought and like a man of desert 120 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,400 who's been giving him water. That's really thrilling. 121 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:02,500 That's great. And I looked at the faces that 122 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:04,600 you have on all of your thumbnails because we're 123 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,300 interested by faces and you want to know more about it. 124 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:12,000 And yeah, the very yeah. Hey pretty girl does wonders at 125 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,700 10. Yeah. 126 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:15,300 There's only one pretty girl. Is my wife. 127 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:17,600 She's behind the camera. Yes. 128 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:23,000 I agree with you and my wife. Hey, sweetheart, I will choke. 129 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,100 I've been all of my Smokey in. Englishness now, so let's go 130 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:32,000 back to open it for each. Anyway before we both get in 131 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:41,200 trouble, and she's called Emma. Hi Ray, he is not. 132 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:42,800 Yeah. Yeah. 133 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:47,600 Yeah, she's coming, Richard. Yeah, and anyway, so let's talk 134 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,200 about. So we've got George Whitefield. 135 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,700 We've got and we've got Charles Spurgeon. 136 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:55,400 We've got John Wesley. These guys, they preach to tens 137 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,300 of thousands of people in the opener. 138 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,000 In fact, George Whitefield, I believe it's in one of his 139 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,200 biographies. It says he spoke to 80,000 140 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,600 people wonder, I mean, these are massive numbers. 141 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:08,600 And we read that we think wow open-air preaching back then was 142 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,200 really blessed but people might perhaps see the open air for 143 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,400 each were talking about before the megaphone and and he's not 144 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,500 really engaging anyone. There's no winsomeness about him 145 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,200 and they say does it still work today? 146 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:23,500 What would your sort of response be to that Ray? 147 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:27,600 Oh, yes, the average good open-air preaching to reach and 148 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,300 it got open-air situation and reach more than the average 149 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:33,900 Church thousand twelve months, you know, sometimes I've been 150 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:35,600 open it preaching, a get a good English. 151 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,900 Nicola and people pack around I preached open air and UCLA 152 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:43,400 University number of years ago to about 200. 153 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,900 Young people stayed for two hours World fully. 154 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:50,900 There was no need a rope around them and times like that. 155 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:54,200 It just absolutely highlights in my life to reach so many people. 156 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,100 We're not proselytizing in that sense. 157 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:59,200 We just want to tell people how they can find everlasting life. 158 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,400 So there's no, there's no task more noble than an open-air 159 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:05,600 preaching. Reaching somebody. 160 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:07,600 People. And I think if there are pastors 161 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,700 and people watching this, I think open-air preaching is the 162 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:13,700 best tool ever to improve your preaching, because somebody's 163 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:15,600 going to stick around. If you're dull. 164 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,400 You've got it, you've got to win them Avenue, and you've got to 165 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,300 keep them engaged. That's why that's, why you've 166 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:23,700 got to be a little bit on the edge with open-air preaching. 167 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:26,000 If you listen to me, do one-to-one. 168 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,600 I say hello. How are you? 169 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,900 And just sweet? Nice open-air preaching. 170 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,299 There's something different. There's a different Dynamic. 171 00:08:33,299 --> 00:08:36,900 Now if you don't do that. One of the great opening 172 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:39,900 approaches that may be Tozer said, you're liable to be hit by 173 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:41,700 an apple. If you try and be nice and you 174 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:46,100 have been here, don't do it. He says just get on the edge and 175 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:48,100 Jesus was on the edge every time you spoke. 176 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:49,900 There was a division in the crowd. 177 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:52,200 People yelled thing that they wanted to kill him. 178 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,800 The first sermon, he preached and lot of the wonderful truths 179 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,000 we have in scripture as because someone in the open are called 180 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,700 out something to him and he answered them, but we missed the 181 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:05,300 passion when you read scriptures that must have been taking 182 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:07,200 place. Jesus preached in the open here 183 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,300 and tells himself was saved by an open-air preacher. 184 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:12,100 A German man who couldn't speak English. 185 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:14,500 Well, so, and you never know someone watching. 186 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:17,400 It's now. Yeah, you could say could be the 187 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,400 next toes are listening. It's wonderful. 188 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,300 Yeah, so can I just say something about pastors? 189 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,000 If I can get past us together? That's what I'd say to them. 190 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,700 I said, I can, I was in a prayer meeting many years ago and into 191 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:34,900 church prayer meeting and I could guess. 192 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,700 What person went to watch a church by how they prayed? 193 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:44,000 If someone said father? I knew they went to John steals 194 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,900 church because that's how John Steele prayed. 195 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:49,400 Father. And so we imitate our pastors 196 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,200 because we hear them so much and if a pastor just preaches on 197 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,100 Prophecy and sanctification and glorification and all the 198 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:58,800 allocations and doesn't preach evangelism. 199 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,200 He'll reproduce of his own kind. Mmm, without a concern for the 200 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,100 loss. And so, if you want your people 201 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:07,100 to be on, I forgot and see your church. 202 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:10,500 Grow. Join a Racquetball Club. 203 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:13,500 Join a tennis club join something when you rub 204 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:17,500 shoulders, with the ungodly and witness to people regularly and 205 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:22,200 testify as a pastor, what happened from your pulpit and 206 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,200 say, you know, I was playing golf last week and I met this 207 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,900 atheist and he said such as I said to him and I share the 208 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:29,600 cross 1, this is a thanks for sharing. 209 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:34,500 They going to say one Pastor condescends to the lowly tasks 210 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:37,400 of evangelism. And you'll eventually reproduce 211 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,400 of your own kind, your sheep will begin to have a Lambs 212 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,100 because you're a Shepherd, strange metaphor. 213 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,700 You're a shepherd and you're an example to the flock and what 214 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:51,900 you do and so pastors, do that, get a, get a Zeal for the last 215 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:54,900 that consumes you and your reproduce your own kind and your 216 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:57,200 own flock. Now, I could really get us in 217 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,000 trouble. Now quoting Spurgeon, but he 218 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,800 said, how can a man how can a pastor or a preacher say is 219 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,100 called to preach indoors, but then refused to go Outdoors. 220 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:08,600 We see, I mean, we look at Leonard Ravenhill, Paul Washer, 221 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:12,300 many of the best preachers. We get indoors started out on 222 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:15,200 the streets and still kept going out in the streets. 223 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:17,700 I met Steve Lawson two years ago. 224 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:19,300 I got to chat to him a little bit. 225 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:23,100 And again, he said he started out open-air preaching and but 226 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:25,200 I've got tremendous respect for you Ray because you've kept 227 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,400 doing it all the way through which is wonderful really. 228 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,900 Well. I can't stop because I care 229 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:32,700 about the Lost. Yeah, never. 230 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:34,200 I got some weight open-air preaching. 231 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:35,500 I'm going somewhere. I don't want. 232 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,800 Go to say something. I don't want to say to people 233 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,200 who don't want to hear it, but I can sit and watch an old black 234 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,400 and white movie on Sunday afternoons, while people to go 235 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,100 to hell. How could I do that? 236 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,200 And so the love of Christ, constrains me and helps me 237 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,100 overcome my fears. So, yeah, I counted a privilege. 238 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,600 I mean, I've spoken in the most glorious churches with a padded 239 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,000 pews and great sound systems, and great. 240 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,500 Honorariums are nice people and out to dinner afterwards, but 241 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:03,000 give me an open-air day any day far. 242 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,500 Rather open-air preach to unsaved people and go. 243 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:10,100 Mashed potatoes, just down-to-earth and wonderful, and 244 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,100 I'm going to stay with it and I hope I die. 245 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:13,100 Open your fridge. Yeah. 246 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,600 Sorry, tell me then Suppose there is a young man who's 247 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,000 watching this and he's thinking, you know, Ray Comforts really 248 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,900 inspired me a lot. I would love to be an open-air 249 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:24,000 preacher, but I'm kind of nervous. 250 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,700 How do I get started? What advice would you give to 251 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:29,200 that person? Well, I'm nervous, every time, 252 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,400 every every zaccheaus becomes a Goliath, whenever I get a 253 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,500 witness one-to-one or open-air preach, but But I think Satan is 254 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:40,700 the father of lies and his greatest light is to tell you, 255 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:44,200 you can't do it to paralyze you with fear while you've got to do 256 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,900 is do what David did. He ran at Goliath? 257 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:53,000 He didn't stand there and go. Here are them and you got to do 258 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,500 the same thing with your fears run at it. 259 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:56,900 Don't wait. Don't think too? 260 00:12:56,900 --> 00:12:59,100 Deeply overcome your fears in the way to do it. 261 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:03,800 Is this an analogy I use is, could I have to get you to jump 262 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,400 into a pond? That's filled with big chunks of 263 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,400 ice. So cold that you die within 264 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,700 three minutes. They know what side of your 265 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:13,300 four-year-old, boy, four-year-old boy, found that 266 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:16,800 pain is only three feet tall and it's four feet deep and he's 267 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,500 drowning. What would you do? 268 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,100 You should jump in and say You would forget about the coldness, 269 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:24,500 it forget about your flesh, should just jump in and save 270 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:28,700 them because love does that the Bible says perfect love casts 271 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:32,100 out all fear granted the Waters of personal evangelism, 272 00:13:32,100 --> 00:13:38,100 especially open-air preaching, icy, icy cold, but the way to 273 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:41,000 overcome them as let love do its thing in your life. 274 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,600 So if you've got a problem with fear, Don't Pray For Less fear. 275 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,300 Pray for more love because that's the problem. 276 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:51,000 It's love that motivates me. It always Is love, that helps me 277 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,700 to conquer my fears. Love for God, and love other 278 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:56,000 people. And so love is incredibly 279 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,400 powerful. Get a firefighter running in to 280 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,500 save some person on a Butte burning building. 281 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,300 What? Because he cares about them. 282 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:06,000 That's why he's a firefighter. And so, he ignores his fears 283 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:09,000 because he's not thinking about himself, but the other person 284 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,900 and that's the key to reaching the lost. 285 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,100 But, yeah, so, just going back to the young person again, those 286 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:17,900 suppose, the they don't have any friends who do open-air 287 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:19,700 preaching. The church doesn't do it. 288 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:22,200 How did they get? Started like what would be a? 289 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:26,200 I'm going to tell you a little secret. 290 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,300 I would father grow. Our father, go open-air 291 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:32,500 preaching by myself, are rather go open it, preaching by myself 292 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:36,800 and with someone else, why? Because I'm making an idiot of 293 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,700 myself. Nobody knows me. 294 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,300 I can just walk off. But if I laugh at dry up or 295 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:45,800 whatever with friends that have brought with me, that makes me 296 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,700 feel like a fool. So, when I go up and I 297 00:14:47,708 --> 00:14:50,800 preaching, I did it for 12 years almost every day by myself, so, 298 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,400 I'm kind of used to it, but I wouldn't wouldn't worry. 299 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:55,900 If you have to go by yourself, and all you do is get a little 300 00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:58,900 soap box and stand on it and then just begin asking the 301 00:14:58,900 --> 00:15:01,200 trivia. And the second time you do, 302 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,100 it'll be harder than the first. And Surrey, just tell me then 303 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,600 rumor has it that you are never call anywhere in public without 304 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,500 having a few tracks on you. And you said, if anyone ever 305 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:16,600 catches you out in public with you'll give them a thousand 306 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:17,700 dollars. Is that true? 307 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,700 Absolutely said it again and again and again and it can never 308 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:23,300 happen. No one ever. 309 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,400 I find me in public without a gospel tract because I've got 310 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,700 John 3:16 and a sinner's prayer tattooed on my chest. 311 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:30,600 Now. I'm just kidding. 312 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:36,800 I really do always carry tracks with me and that's because I can 313 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,500 give them to strangers. And I've learned something very 314 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:44,500 important about myself and that is I'm a coward and I will make 315 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:47,300 provision for the flesh. Let's say, I got a, what's 316 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:50,600 called a Home Depot store, where they sell in California and 317 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,300 throughout the US men's stuff, like Hammers and stuff. 318 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:56,600 Like that, I'll walk through that place with tracks and my 319 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,500 pocket and this is what I'll say to myself. 320 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:00,800 Oh, that guy looked at me. Oh, he's gone. 321 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:04,500 Never mind. I got out of it. 322 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:08,100 So I had to realize that's what I'm like, so I actually take the 323 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:11,700 tracks and have them in my hand when I go into that store. 324 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:14,900 So when that guy looks at me and goes me or not, I scuse me, sir. 325 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,800 You get a million dollar bill and he takes it like that good. 326 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:21,700 No excuses. No provision for the flesh. 327 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:23,600 What have you got any tracks? Sonya. 328 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,700 Now, do I dare test you? Yes, it has to be in public, but 329 00:16:27,700 --> 00:16:30,500 hang on let's say well technically. 330 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:33,100 Yeah. Yeah. 331 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:35,100 Has to be in public. But oh, yeah. 332 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,500 Do you like a cowboy? You've got use a million-dollar 333 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:41,800 bill? Well, it's actually glued to the 334 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,400 inside of my phone. Yeah, that's cool. 335 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,200 I didn't know if you'd have it on you, but I just remember, 336 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,000 hearing you tell a story about one day. 337 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,400 Someone came to you and you're in the swimming bass and there's 338 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,100 someone approaching said, give me a Thousand dollars and un and 339 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:58,400 then pull them out. He sent shots, which yeah, they 340 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,600 can parts of that Joe and that is that if I have a million 341 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,800 dollars on me or gospel tract, the person who asked the 342 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,900 question, I was MIA thousand dollars. 343 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,099 I forgot to tell that part. Right? 344 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:11,200 Okay. Well, typical evangelist always 345 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,700 trying to get money. So we're talking about the for 346 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,099 about House of. If you like the Lord's blessed, 347 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:20,900 Living Waters hundred million views. 348 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:23,400 Yeah. That's right. 100 million or A 349 00:17:23,408 --> 00:17:25,800 hundred billion views, a hundred million views on the channel, 350 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:26,800 your prophesied. Yeah. 351 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,300 Yeah. Yeah, not very good at math. 352 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:32,300 Yeah. I'll just think for the 353 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:35,200 evangelism. Yeah, and but yeah, so you've 354 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,100 got this this vast Ministry. Many people expect her asking 355 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:41,400 for your time. You get in preaching 356 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,000 engagements, all these different things. 357 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,700 But the same time. You're a family, man. 358 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:48,600 You've got a wife, you've got children, grandchildren, and how 359 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,900 do you get that balance? And you've got Sam? 360 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:52,800 Yes, you've got the gorgeous dog. 361 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:58,000 But how do you how do you get that balance, right, you know 362 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,000 because I've just got a newborn son and I just find myself seen 363 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:03,900 the needs vast that the Titanic is going down. 364 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:06,900 Those people who are lost and I want to give as much as I can 365 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:10,300 sir Ministry, but at the same time, I don't want to neglect my 366 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:12,500 family responsibilities. Right? 367 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:20,000 Well the key was made was to marry my kids off real quick and 368 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,700 they're doing fine. Yeah. 369 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:25,400 You saying, I hear what you're saying? 370 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,500 And so it's very important that you do not neglect, your 371 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:32,700 responsibilities to wife and your child, you know, you can be 372 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:37,500 a successful preacher, but you failed if you fail to take care 373 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,700 of your family, so there has to be that balance and God will 374 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:42,800 give you wisdom. You know, you say honey. 375 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,000 I've spent the day with you. Would you mind if I go out for 376 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,300 an hour and just give out tracks at a local mall or something 377 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:49,800 like that? I want to go out and preach and 378 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:51,900 and if she's a Godly wife, she'll sail. 379 00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:53,300 Thanks for the time, you spent helping. 380 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,700 And out and I'll be praying for you while you're out there. 381 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,400 And I'm sure that what your wife will do that because she's 382 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,100 gorgeous and she's a great camera woman. 383 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:06,500 You know, I'm glad you're on the other side of the camera right 384 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:09,800 now, Rea your to you too. Charlie for your own good. 385 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:12,800 Suppose. One final thing. 386 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:14,700 If I ever did, I'd love to do this. 387 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,200 But if I ever flew over to California to Huntington Beach, 388 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:20,900 would I be able to preach alongside you in the open air? 389 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:23,200 Would you? I would be absolutely. 390 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,900 Honored. I got to tell you something. 391 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:31,100 I checked out your YouTube channel before I did this and I 392 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:34,100 was very impressed with your thumbnails with the titles for 393 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:36,100 the views you're getting. And I think it's wonderful and 394 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:38,700 you've got a great personality and I think I'd be honored. 395 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:41,000 I'd sit at your feet, listen to you preach. 396 00:19:41,100 --> 00:19:43,500 And let them know they are white. 397 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:46,200 So come over and have a meal with us at the ministry, will 398 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,600 give you a tour and then we'll go up and preaching together. 399 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:52,700 I would love that. Really, there's a man called 400 00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:55,800 Vinny Commons. Train me is an opener for each. 401 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,200 He started young and then really it s to U. 402 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,600 Re I really wouldn't be here if it wasn't the Lord's really used 403 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,700 here in my life. And I'm sure many lives. 404 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,400 So remote. After we might have to get that 405 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,900 sorted out at some point. I'd really love to do that. 406 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,200 And if you're watching this now at, leave it in the comment box 407 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,100 if you'd like to see that Ray comfort and and Joker be 408 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:18,300 preaching that be awesome. Yeah, if you'd like to see the 409 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:22,200 full 45-minute interview I had with Ray Comfort, click this 410 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,300 link now and if If you like to see what race face looks like, 411 00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:28,600 not just half but the full thing then do check out his YouTube 412 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:29,100 channel here.