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Alis, the crazy landowner who is always giving us trouble... he of all people, I originally thought would never come to the teaching. But he is not only coming, but he is understanding it, and he is getting it, and he is close to salvation (from what I can see). He will definitely be a Peter... with his "angry" style of talking, and his "don't think before you speak" attitude... wow, some of the things he says are really wacked, but he means well. (Just like Peter, "lord, lets build three tabernacles here...")
Also, his brother Morisin is really getting it (probably more so than Alis even). He is faithfully coming, genuinely concerned about his sin, and he is seeing the lack of truth in the established church (and Alis... we did a little blurb on infant baptism, and those two were actually second guessing their traditions... wow, what a break through!) They are seeing that there is nothing they can do to merit God's salvation, and they are waiting for the time... one question the other day after we taught on John 3 was, "if we are born again, can we sin and be an old man again, and then be reborn again?" I love it... eternal security will be preached right along with the gospel in a few weeks... and that is going to be the clincher. Knowing that they do not have to "perform" in order to maintain their salvation... all is on the shoulders of the Savior. How freeing that is going to be for them...
just like Tingon, who is still on a high. He left for 3 weeks to go around with the doctor and another couple guys for a "government fund raising time". He got them all together and was telling his testimony to them in one of the houses... he told me how it went, and he said, "the doctor and some of these other guys are super close to believing!" So, he is a tremendous testimony.
Our ol buddy Kliford, though, has all but disowned us. He has totally left us and we never see him anymore. He has not come to a teaching morning for 3 weeks now, has totally missed everything about the deliverer, and is off running his fool head off to all the other villages chasing after the dream of cargo. They are opening up these cargo houses all across this peninsula from the coast up to here. Every village is doing it, and so all the "head men" from all the other ones run off to "help' with the opening of them. The big "profet" guy that came to Yapang and prophesied that there would be 3 days of darkness, large earthquakes, tons of food, etc. (and said if it happened they would do the human sacrifice stuff) is still there. And it still isn't dark, and it still hasn't been earthquaky, and they are actually running out of food, so they sent a letter up here the other day asking Lengbati to carry down food because the "big man" is getting hungry. What a sham! What total blindness on the part of Kliford! BUT, we are not giving up on him... his time is coming. I believe God is going to bring him to a complete end of himself, and then he will come back with his tail between his legs (or as they say here, "after skinning my teeth") and he will be wanting the eternal life. We will see.
Lets see... Oh, there are a bunch of young guys from one line here that have been coming... they don't talk much, but they are faithful... answering the question correctly. They sit off to the corner, but they are interested. Pray that they will believe and that we can get to know them... they are tough because they are so "shy"... but we are finding an in with them now.
Lets see, oh, and Pot is still coming every day. He is very close as well to understanding. After the fight on New Years, some people didn't want us to shake their hands because they were "sinners"... but we did the message on why Jesus came... to call sinners, not those who are righteous. So we said, man, we are here for you guys... we are all sinners, in the same boat, if it were not for Jesus. We love you guys. Boy, that kind of interest just blows these people away... everything to them is performance based, not just unconditional love.
Another guy named Oki has been coming... another very quiet guy, but he is totally on board; totally getting it, and I am excited for him... pray that he will get saved as well. Some of the older guys who in the beginning were fighting about words and different phrases and such are actually coming around... they never mention words anymore... they are interested in the meaning of the Bible instead of how it is said. That is a huge step for some of these guys, and it is awesome to see the change.
So, there have been some bad things, but in the midst of the "glaring" difficulties and the "setbacks" (which are not setbacks, but in reality are used by our Father to draw all to himself), there are some glimpses of hope. Thanks for praying.
Your brother in Christ,
Jason
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