Mark Gillmore: Have you ever been the last one to find out? Now some of us in this room are always the first ones in the know.

I had a brother, the next one, my next following brother. He seemed to know everything that was the cutting edge of going around in the youth group. I was always kind of on the tail end and never knew.

And it didn't bother me a whole lot. Maybe that's why it was that way. But, you know, when we're someone who, you know, you kind of expected they would tell you, they didn't tell you, and it was kind of something important.

When you're the last one to find out, you kind of question, do we have a relationship? Did you not want me to know? Did you not trust me to tell me?

Did you just forget about me? Am I just someone who is that unimportant? You know, there's some good things that someone should tell you.

And folks have been helping you in a conference like this. Things that you want to make sure that you know. Why didn't you tell me that?

Can you imagine the shock of never being told the gospel? How many of you are glad someone told you the gospel?

I'm glad that I had the privilege to be born into the home of a gospel preacher. And I had the privilege to literally hear the gospel every day on the couch of my mother from before I could remember. Do you know the incredible privilege that is?

That I literally could hear the gospel from my mother in my home. Some of you have encountered the gospel at another stage in life. My dad didn't hear it until he was 16 years of age.

And he heard it in a gospel crusade meeting. And that night he heard the gospel for the very first time.

And you know that night he received Christ as his Savior. That's kind of like my dad's life. When dad encountered truth, he received it.

And it changed his life. And I'm glad the gospel's reached you. Are you glad the gospel's reached you?

Think about the difference it's made. Maybe it didn't reach you in that huge changing way, but maybe it reached your dad like me. You know, my dad had two, he had, Well, he had a father who disowned him from before birth.

My dad didn't meet his physical father until my dad was 30 years old, and my dad had to go meet him for the purpose of making sure he heard the gospel. I remember that. How old was I at that time?

Maybe something like five or six years old. I remember dad going off to witness to his dad.

My dad had two stepfathers. Both were drunken men who didn't stay married to my grandmother, my dad's mom.

And my dad knew what it was like to stand on a couch out of fear of a drunken man coming through the door of a small trailer and wet his pants out of fear.

You know what? I don't have a clue of how that all feels. I don't know what it's like to have a drunken father, stepfather.

I don't know what it's like to have divorced parents. I don't know a lot of things, and you know why? Because my dad got saved when he was 16.

And it changed my world. And some of us live in a world, your world, that's been changed like that. Amen?

Aren't you thankful? And the gospel, when it reaches a heart or reaches a life or reaches a family, it changes. It changes generations.

And it changes everything. But my question to you today is, what happens to those who never hear the gospel?

It has that potential, it has that power, but what happens to those who never get to hear it?

Who never get changed like some of us in this room? Can you imagine someone standing before God on judgment day and on judgment day, they're standing before the judge of the universe, the one who created time, who's at the beginning and end of it at the same one. Aren't you glad that we know a God who is completely in control?

We just discussed our unique generation. Do you know that this generation hasn't caught God by surprise? That he's still God right now, and we can know him, and he knows the beginning from the ending, And we don't have to fear the time we live in.

I think a stronghold of fear is on this generation. And we can be completely free from that. But can you imagine standing before the judge of the universe and finding out that there was someone who died for my sins?

Who would have freely forgiven me at my request if I had known he offered that? You mean everything I went through in my lifetime could have been that easily forgiven? How come no one ever told me?

And I can't help but think that we might be standing there at that moment.

We're the jury. The judge is there and the judged are coming before God one at a time. My friend, if you stand before God, you won't stand there surrounded by your peers.

You'll stand before God one at a time. The books are opened and you're standing there and that man says, what? I didn't know.

And I think for a moment the attention of the jury of that courtroom will change because God will glance up at you and I standing there. And God isn't there to judge us. God isn't there to condemn us.

God isn't there. We're standing there. But God knows.

And what if the eye of that judge drifts across the courtroom and in the jury you're seated and that one on the stand says, how come no one ever told me? And the glance of God's eye settles on you.

And all of a sudden, you know, you were the one. I was supposed to tell him.

Do you think something like that could happen? A.B. Simpson, a great missionary statesman, and really he birthed a whole denomination for the purpose of world missions called the Christian Missionary Alliance Churches.

They've drifted from their distinctives, but he wrote this poem. He said, Oh, let us then his coming haste. Oh, let us end this awful waste of souls that never die.

A thousand million still are lost. A Savior's blood has paid the cost. Oh, hear their dying cry.

They're passing, passing fast away, a hundred thousand souls a day in Christless guilt and gloom. O church of Christ, what will you say when in the awful judgment day they charge thee with their doom?

That's what he's describing. I may have shared this in a previous conference, but there was a team of Fijian evangelists a South Pacific island, going up into the mountains, making sure that everyone on that island heard the gospel. Their intent was to get the gospel to every home, every hut on that island.

And they come to the high up in the mountains where everyone was afraid to go.

I guarantee you this, if you're going to be obedient to the Great Commission, you are going to say no to your fears.

And they came upon a dying chief who listened to two young evangelists, and this is what he said, I have waited my entire lifetime to hear this story. I always felt there was some sacred message like this, but no one ever came to bring us such words. How can I receive Jesus into my life?

He prayed a simple sinner's prayer and died two hours later. I see Cassandra de Leon here her brother right is out in the Indonesian islands and she shared with me this that the opportunities in those Indonesian islands are so open that her brother and his family can't even get to all the invitations they have and recently an older man said to him what took you so long to come here?

I was just, a year and a half ago, I was with Brother Godlove, and he and I were out among the pygmies of central Cameroon, and he had led this pygmy chief to the Lord, along with maybe about a dozen of his other men. And the pygmy chief said, God love, how come you haven't come back? Because you brought us the truth, and you have to teach us more.

And he reamed him out for not being there to teach him more. But this pygmy chief just passed away within the last 12 months. Aren't you glad the gospel reached him?

Just last January, we were in a village of Ngume, just a very typical African village. Red mud, brick buildings, red dirt. You could basically photograph this about a million times, and that's all the villages of Africa.

And in it, we were there for less than 24 hours. In it, the house that we were invited to stay in was the house of a man named Donald, who after the sun went down, came inside and said this, I've been going to the Catholic Church, and I've just been realizing they're not telling me the truth.

Can you tell me the truth? And Donald got saved that night. He was waiting.

That morning, a family gathered together, and we really have planted a church in his house and in his village. And Donald, God save, Brother Godlove is there. And he's going throughout that region of central Cameroon.

There's still some more regions of Cameroon that are waiting for that kind of work. You see, the gospel is a message that must be heard in order to be received and believed. He said, go into all the world and what?

Preach the gospel to every creature. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?

Faith comes by hearing. Now, you think about this. God has a gospel that's available to everyone.

And all it requires is that someone hear. Hear a message. Bring a message.

Tell a message. And receive it. Is it that difficult to get saved?

Is it that difficult of a mission that we have? Proclaim the gospel and get it to everyone who's alive and who's living. If you really dig into it, it's not hard.

You see the only means of salvation outside of Christ involves man's attempt to achieve his own righteousness you go to the muslim what's he trying to do pray his prayers so many times a day uh Michael Germi had failed in that and the imam said well to make up for all the prayers you missed you got to do all this and he says I'm not getting saved that way do you know how many muslims no, deep inside, I'm not getting saved the Muslim way.

They're falling short. In central Myanmar, the Buddhists, they have a very high standard of righteousness. They're trying to achieve their own works.

And if you compare some of their lists, it'll look a lot like Ten Commandments. And you can go to a Buddhist and say, well, how are you doing as a Buddhist? Are you going to obtain paradise?

And you get an honest answer and say, not so good. Pastor David is there in Mandalay, and he'll do that. You say, well, you know, God's got a standard of righteousness.

It's called the Ten Commandments. Let me give you those. How are you doing on that?

Not so good. Well, can I tell you about someone who achieved righteousness for you and offers it as a gift? And he's seen Buddhists come to the Lord.

Why? Because they know Buddhism doesn't give them salvation. The Hindu.

The Hindus are, India's an amazing country. That's, I think, the most beautiful place that I've ever seen. And you look at their Hindu temples and their holy hills and their gurus and it's just a tragic scene.

Most of us have not witnessed just raw idolatry where people are bringing food and they're lighting fires to, I don't know, a statue. I'm not even sure what it is. It's just like a little cave or a little temple and just to see raw idolatry is so heartbreaking.

There's probably weird-looking people, ladies walking around. They're probably prostitutes. And just to see all that, people coming up and just touching these things, it's just heartbreaking.

But just a year and a half ago at the Maha Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity that has ever existed happened. It was on the banks of these holy rivers up into Uttar Pradesh area. It was estimated 400 million people gathered.

That's more than the population of the entire United States. And they gathered to go into this water. Every 12 years, supposedly, this thing happens.

And inside that, the gods dumped holy water or cleansing water into this river. And every 12 years they take a bath for the express purpose to wash their sins away.

The largest gathering of humanity was not a Super Bowl. It was not to cheer on a team. It was to get sins washed away.

And Hindus know they need that. And we need to bring the message to them. The means of salvation provided by Christ.

Hear a message about someone who has achieved 100% righteousness on your behalf and paid 100% of your sin penalty and who offers acceptance before God as a free gift to anyone who will receive the message by simple faith in Christ alone. Isn't that amazing? How many of you believe that's true?

Say amen. Amen. That's the way.

Hear a message. Someone who offers everything, complete salvation as a free gift, received by simple faith, and one who did everything to save you alone. Let me ask you this.

What did you do to create yourself? What did you do to create yourself? Absolutely nothing.

Who made you? It's not we who made us. It is God.

He made you. He knew you would go astray, but he took responsibility to redeem you.

Because he made you. If God made us, knowing we'd go astray, and did not come up with a plan to redeem us, you could accuse him as being a bad God.

But he made you 100%, and he'll save you 100%. Amen? That's how good our God is.

And by the way if you place your life back in his hands he'll take care of your life 100% that's our God he's that good there is about 25% of our world that has lived in the most unreached areas of the world and there's about 2 billion people You can see the majority would live in Muslim context, sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan means below Sahara, so that's sub-Saharan Africa.

Then you have the top, Middle East. Then you have your Pakistan. Then you have, of course, the yellow there of Hinduism, some Chinese ancestor religions and more Islam in Indonesia.

Look at the red circle up there. About 25% of the world lives in these most unreached area groups. In other areas, it needs this, that if they're going to hear the gospel in those regions, someone from outside has to bring it to them.

The vast majority of missions, prayer, giving, and labors focuses on where Christians are already present. Only a tiny portion goes to those unreached regions of the world because they're not easy to go and to get there.

By the way talking about what God is doing at work in our world. There's a radio ministry that broadcasts out that direction. And you know that the potential listening audience of that ministry both in satellite and radio especially in that region of the world the potential listening audience is 2 billion people.

So in the midst of this it doesn't mean they're all listening. But they could listen. There's kind of three ways of thinking about the unreached.

One is called pluralism. That is that all paths lead to God. Christ's work itself is not necessary.

You don't need revelation. Just wherever you are if you're kind of true to what you believe then you're going to be okay. All paths lead to God that kind of thing.

That's called pluralism.

There's another view called inclusivism that says that Jesus is necessary. He is the only savior, but that work that he did automatically covers everyone. So you don't have to really know about Jesus to actually benefit from him.

That would be inclusivism. General revelation is sufficient. A third idea is called exclusivism, And that is that Jesus is the only Savior, but a personal choice of dependence on Jesus is necessary.

Knowledge of Christ's work is necessary. Special revelation is required. You have to find out a message that comes from the word of God.

Someone has to bring it to you. You know, the Apostle Paul said this, I declared unto you that which I also received. 1 Corinthians 15.

Do you know that no one ever comes up with the gospel message? It doesn't originate out of someone's thinking. Someone brings it to you, declares it to you, and then you pass it on.

The gospel isn't original with anyone. If your preacher's preaching an original message, you probably need to find another church. The word of God is a revelation brought to us, and we pass it on.

And that is what is, that's the goal. Now, of these things here, pluralism, inclusivism, and exclusivism, which one do you believe?

Which do you believe? Okay. What is it?

Exclusivism. Okay, I'm not here to necessarily prove that. We actually kind of agreed to that point.

But I want to ask you, do you really?

So you just said you believe that every that no one can be saved from hellfire unless they hear a message and someone brings that message to him. Do you really believe that. Because I think if you really believe that you couldn't live your life differently.

You know I mean right now if there was these apartments and these condos and stuff on the other side of Northfield if one of them was in flame I mean it was roaring. Could we just sit here and have a youth summit without like what's going on over there and being concerned about that. Like if that was health if that kind of fire was going on.

If if this is truly the destiny of a genuine lake of fire into which people are going and they have to hear a message in order to be delivered from it.

Wouldn't that change our lives? I'm going to talk to you about that. Question.

Here is a question. Is mankind in general simply innocent and in need of more or better instruction?

So, you know, what about those people out there in the middle of the bush out there, you know, and they've never heard it. If, you know, if they don't hear, you know, like, how can, you know, what's God going to do with them? I want to ask you this.

Is mankind just simply innocent? Would you agree with that? No?

Or, and if I just got them better instruction, if I just got the help that they need, they would just be okay. Well, what does Romans chapter 1, 18 to 20 say? It says, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.

It's actually the idea they hold down, they suppress the truth in unrighteousness. You know, missionaries go around the world. We might show up in a village like we did there.

And sometimes there are spiritual, religious, cultural forces that don't want the gospel to spread.

Like, it's good news. Why wouldn't you want everyone to know this? No, we don't.

A man who I led to the Lord in Africa in June of 2015, his name was Augustine, he said, as I was coming that night, there was a battle inside of me, something inside of me said, don't go.

He got saved that night, but there was a spiritual battle. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them, for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

So the condition of mankind is not simply better, that they just need better instruction, they're basically innocent. The actual truth is, is that the entire human race is under the wrath of God.

That they are worthy of condemnation, they are without excuse. Inside of man, there is an awareness of eternity and an awareness of a responsibility towards God. And man is accountable to that.

Romans 3 talks about how the nature of how lost mankind is. They are all gone out of the way. And then he talks about how the law of God comes in and all the world may become, what?

Guilty before God. The world is essentially guilty. So here's the critical question.

How can God send someone to eternal hell for not believing in Jesus when that person has never even heard of Jesus?

How can God send someone to eternal hell for not believing in Jesus when that person has never even heard of Jesus? And here's the answer. He never does.

People go to hell not because they never heard in Jesus. People, they go to hell because they're guilty sinners.

And God has commissioned us to get the gospel not to basically innocent, pure, good people. No, we're supposed to take the gospel to basically guilty sinners who need to hear of how their sins can be forgiven. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life.

No man comes unto the Father but by me. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name. What do you do with a name?

You say it. There's no other name to be proclaimed. There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.

And this is the record, 1 John 5. God has given to us eternal life. Thank God for that.

This life is in his son. He that has a son has life. He that has not the son of God has not life.

I don't know everyone here in this auditorium. Most of you have made very clear profession and choice to depend on Christ, but maybe someone is sitting in here and you've just been going along and you actually don't have Jesus.

And if you don't have Jesus, you don't have life. So here's the big picture. To all mankind, God gives witness to himself.

There's the witness of creation. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork. So God is declaring his goodness and his essence and his beingness through his creation.

Then there's the witness of conscience. In Romans 2, it says that this witness is in every man excusing, accusing, this inner sense of falling short is in every person. In whatever religion they're in, there is a conscience that bears witness to an accountability before God, a witness of conscience.

And then there's the witness of Christ. John 1 says this is the true light that lights every man that comes into the world. The word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

We behold the glories of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Jesus is that revelation. So here's the big picture.

The big picture is Jesus is actively working to draw men and women to himself.

He's the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

You know, you can't witness to someone Jesus didn't die for. You can't witness to someone Jesus doesn't love that much.

You can walk into some remote village, be the first one to speak of Jesus there, and you can say, I bring to you good news about someone who loves you this much. He died for you.

I tell you, that's one of the greatest privileges of life. I've had that privilege.

We talk about surrender being a bad thing. I want to tell you, surrender is a good thing.

If God calls you to missions, you're not surrendering to something bad. You're surrendering to the opportunity of a lifetime.

Here's a concept that is a problem we could say of a generation, and that is willingness to make sacrifices.

Willingness, we live in such a comfort zone. And let me say this, young people, you aren't facing any challenge that other generations haven't faced.

We might have different dimensions and different coverings to it but the challenges you face I face when I think of ct stud ct stud gave up comfort life he gave up materialism he had to get and he just and he went with it but one lesson that we're all going to have to learn is this that God calls us to make sacrifices that are for our good and for his glory and missions is an amazing opportunity to do that.

Jesus is actively working to draw men and women to himself. Just this morning I received a text from this man. This is Brother Shaktiman.

Shaktiman, that means strong one. Brother Shaktiman took a fall and his hip is broken. No longer is he that strong one.

But Brother Shaktiman is from up near the border of Bhutan in India. And when I met him just a couple years ago, and right now he's going to have a preacher's conference right there on the border, and Brother Shaktiman has been in Bhutan. Brother Shaktiman knows the language there.

He personally has spoken with people who are part of the royal family of the king of Bhutan, and in the royal family there are Bible studies in the palace.

Bible studies in what some have called the darkest you know most behind these walls that no one can cross Shaktiman has crossed them. And I want to tell you Jesus is being faithful to our generation. Someone's probably praying for Bhutan.

And those Bible studies are happening because of their prayers. Jesus is actively working. But Satan is actively working.

He is the one who has blinded the minds of them which believe not. I don't know that you and I understand the blindness of the Muslim mindset. They've been lied to.

But Muslims think we've been lied to. What do you do with that kind of blindness. Who's dealing with that kind of darkness.

Satan is actively working and God is piercing through that.

He's sending dreams and visions to Muslims in remarkable ways. The gospel is piercing through an incredible blindness. Satan is actively working.

And here's what I want you to understand is believers are actively responsible for who wins the battle.

You see, young people, you say, I've got a home in heaven and it's waiting for me and I can't. I think the older I get, the less connected to this world we become and more connected to the world to come. And youth has a more connection to this world and less connected to that which is to come.

But if God by his spirit could break you free from that strong connection to this life, surrender this life and live for the life to come. Amen. And then you realize why I'm here.

I am here to live as a light to those whose eternity is not mine.

And I'm here for one purpose to get the gospel to them. Give up this lifetime. That is the right thing to do.

Surrender it to the reason Jesus had it. Because Jesus had an earthly lifetime too. Now you're connected to him to do with your earthly lifetime what he did with his earthly lifetime.

Amen. To seek and to save the lost. That's why we're still here.

That's the opportunity of a lifetime. And you and I have a decisive role to play in it. The keys of the kingdom are in the hands of the church, Jesus said there in Matthew 16 to Peter.

In John chapter 20, Jesus said, Peace be in you as my Father has sent me, even so send I you. He breathed on them, received the Holy Ghost, That's the power of Christ's life in us to be that witness. And then he talks about sins being remitted and us being in the center of that.

So here's the real question. I gave you the question of the un-evangelized. Remember the question of the un-evangelized?

What is it? Say it with me. What happens to those who never hear the gospel?

But that's not the real question. Here's the real question. Here's the real question.

What happens when believers take responsibility for those who've never heard? That's the real question.

What does God do when we take responsibility for those who've never heard? We could talk about the day of Pentecost. On the day of Pentecost, the gospel literally went global.

Language barriers were left. And here is where those people were from who heard and no doubt received the gospel on that day. Paul had never been to Rome.

We had no record of someone going there, but Paul wrote Romans to believers in Rome. How did believers get to Rome? Very likely a part of the fruit of the day of Pentecost.

So God is at work in our world, and he wants us to be part of taking responsibility. I was with this man here in India. His name is Kumar.

He was supposed to be a Hindu priest. But at the age of 17, or as a teenager, he found a copy of the book of Mark on a sidewalk. He began to read it, could tell more of his story for the sake of time.

But by 17, he was believing. His parents forbid him to be baptized, but at 18, he got baptized. And immediately, his parents kicked him out of home.

He was destitute, just scraping together, laboring job. In 1995, he attended a conference in which he was challenged about those who'd never heard the gospel. And he promised God that he would plant 100 churches by 2020.

He would work, save money, go to some distant place, preach there for a month, plant a church, come back, work, and save his money. And he did that 11 times. And by 2007, he had planted 11 churches.

He was distraught because he had promised 100. He fasted and prayed for a period of up to six months and then God led him across the ministry of actually a fairly young American missionary. He was talking about the book of Acts and the multiplication of house churches and that kind of thing.

And he left that conference renewed with hope. And he started in his home region going door to door, found 14 open homes, trained them how to meet with God and trained them how to plant churches in other homes, in other villages. And in six months, he saw 100 open homes.

In two years, 432. In three years, 1268. Now pastors and deacons and overseers were being established.

He moved on to the next region. By 2022, he could track the planting of 993,000 house churches.

He was mapping every village in India with the intent of finding out, is the gospel there? If it's there, green dot. If a church that's nominal there, yellow dot.

If no church is there, red dot. And he was mapping his entire country of India.

You see, that's the real question. What happens when we take responsibility? William Carey took responsibility.

He put this out. He said, this commission was as extensive as possible and laid them under obligation to disperse themselves into every country of the habitable globe and preach to all the inhabitants without exception or limitation.

James Fraser was a man who, when he was in college, he was planning to be an engineer, And he came across a booklet written by a missionary out of China. He said this, more than half the people in the world have never yet heard the gospel. What are we to say to this?

If our master returned today to find millions of people un-evangelized and looked as, of course, he would look to us for an explanation, I cannot imagine what explanation we should have to give. He read that pamphlet and said, whoa, if that's true, I have to change. He finished his engineering degree, but he didn't go into engineering.

He was a classically trained musician as well, and he went off to CIM, down to a region of Southeast China where the Lisu lived. I won't tell this whole story other than to tell you this, that within the next 10 to 15 years, they got the gospel to every village. In fact, a recent update estimated that 75% of the Lisu are Christian.

He reached an entire people group because he took responsibility for those who'd never heard.

I wonder what we will say someday when our master says, why didn't you get the gospel to every creature? I wonder what we're going to say. Can you imagine if you were a parent and you told your kid, okay, I'm going out for a night, you and your wife.

We're going to go out for a night. Take your mom out. What I want you to do, I want you to vacuum the floor and then take the garbage out.

And maybe one other chore was thrown in there. And when we get back, I want you to have that done. Can you imagine one of the kids looking up at mom and dad?

They haven't even left yet. And they simply say, and what happens if we don't?

I mean, mom and dad haven't even walked out the door yet. And the kids are already planning on not doing what they were told. What would you do if you were a good parent?

Okay, I guess we're going to have to delay for about 10 minutes and take care of some business here.

Do you know that most of the church is basically saying that to Christ? Get the gospel to every creature. And what happens if we don't?

I mean, there's entire theological seminary classes debating on what happens to those who never hear.

Can you imagine? And then they debate the character of God. As if somehow he's a bad God because he requires everyone to hear a message of a free salvation.

And somehow that's something bad. When it's actually the most amazing, easy thing that ever could be done.

Folks, we're never going to put God in a theological box, a quandary, some dilemma. When we say, but God, what about those who never heard? It's not going to be like that.

It's going to be God flipping the question back on us and saying, that's why I left you here.

You mean there's some who haven't heard? Who's going there? You mean you haven't gotten the gospel?

You better get there. That's the responsibility. Isabel Kuhn said, I believe that in every generation, God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth.

It's not God who doesn't call. It's man who will not respond.

I want to tell you a story about a man Charles Cowman. He was a remarkable man. He didn't get saved really.

He grew up in a very protected environment. If you talk about the different environments we might be growing up in that would be very different. James Fraser grew up in a very remote rural environment in late 1800s America.

So in that sense his mind wasn't exposed to all the filth of the day. He still had a heart, but he didn't believe in Christ until he's like latter teens.

And when he did, he got on fire, maybe even 20. And he witnessed to everyone in his workplace. He had a list of 200 names.

And he witnessed to every single one of them over the course of several months. He was intentional. He got to every one of them.

And I can't remember now how many got saved, but dozens of them got saved. God calls him to Japan. And he has that kind of intensity that's in his soul.

Like, if God called me to do this, we're going to do this. I got the gospel to every person in my workplace. Now I'm in Japan.

And in Japan, he reads a book that came his way, written in the year 1900. It's called The Evangelization of the World in This Generation. It's written in 1900.

He gets it in 1910. The book is 10 years old. And as he reads that book, he reads statements.

He reads statements like this. He said, he reads statements, If the Christian church will give itself to this business of preaching the gospel, it has wealth enough and men enough to preach it in the next 15 or 20 years to every creature. He reads this, It has been in the power of those who hold the truth, having means enough, knowledge enough, and opportunity enough to evangelize the globe 50 times over.

He reads this, What hinders the immediate effort to plant the gospel in every nation and island and home in all the earth within the next few decades? Nothing but the faltering zeal and purpose of the mass of Christian believers now on the earth. Do we understand that this vast responsibility rests upon us?

That it is possible now as never before in the world's history to preach the gospel to all the nations? Do we mean God helping that this work shall be done before we die? This is the deep significance of the hour to this generation.

Samuel Zwemer said, I feel it now that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next 30 years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

The church has no need to wait even one day for the factor which is lacking to accomplish this work in one generation. God waits to give it. Christ is ready to baptize all hearts with the Holy Ghost and with fire so that all selfishness will be consumed with love and all money will be melted, reminted and stamped with the image and superscription of Christ.

Were this done, the unchurched and unsaved millions of the so-called Christian nations would be won to Christ and the unconverted millions who have never heard would hear the gospel within one generation.

The duty and responsibility of the church to preach the gospel to every creature within one generation is very clear. That's what he reads. So what does James Fraser do?

Well, James Fraser, excuse me, Charles Cowman, begins to pray, and God gives him a plan that would get the gospel to every home in five years in Japan.

So he begins, five years, every person, 58 million, every home, 10 million homes, a cost in our money today of about $2.6 million. He called it the Great Village Campaign.

He started it with $5 in his treasury.

Two missionaries, 10 native workers, walking 25 miles a day.

They encountered inaccessible mountains whatever. And they just kept going forward. At the end of four months they covered their first province one million souls, 900 saved.

The next province another million, 1200 saved. And they completed it by January of 1918 just over five years. He took responsibility and he got it done.

In this book Simeon Calhoun said. It's my deep conviction. I say it again and again that if the church of Christ were what she ought to be 20 years would not pass away till the story of the cross would be uttered in the ears of every living man.

The great commission can be accomplished. We could talk a bit about that. So here's a conclusion.

Getting the gospel to every creature is possible. Would you agree with that. This is a brief study I know.

But I believe it's biblical and I believe it can be proven in history. It's historical. It's also possible.

We could get the gospel to every creature. I believe God is doing that and we can join him in what he is doing. We are responsible to see that everyone hears the gospel before they die.

And when they hear many will believe getting the gospel to every creature is possible If that's the case, would you agree with this?

Getting the gospel to every teenager in America is possible. Would you believe that? Do you believe that it's possible to get the gospel to every teenager in America?

Could we do that? Do you think God's doing that? What if, what if we took responsibility for that?

What if God's calling you to take responsibility for that? What part could you play in something like that? And it was an obedience that was driven by the command of God and the love of God.

We could get the gospel to every teenager. I believe this about the current generation. I believe the current generation is wide open to the gospel.

I believe that they are without an anchor. They don't know what's truth and they don't know where to turn for it. Would you agree with that?

Look, we could step into the lives of young people that are searching for truth. And we know the one who is true.

Getting the gospel to every teenager in America is possible. How about this? Getting the gospel to every person in your family is possible.

Is that possible? Could you get the gospel to every person in your family? We heard a testimony last night about that.

Could you get the gospel to every person in your school? Could you do that? Absolutely.

Could you get the gospel to everyone in your workplace? Could you get the gospel to every person in your town?

Amen. Could youth lead that passion? Could you bring a spark with that intensity?

One thing I wanted to say in our conversation in the last hour was, the problem is not always with the youth. It's the preceding generation. We want our youth to lead our churches and get on fire, but our adults aren't.

And if someone doesn't take responsibility, it certainly should start with the adults. Can't we all be part of this? Getting the gospel to every person.

I want to invite you to go on and get a part of something that we've put together. And Fletcher Frost and myself in our Go Mission ministry is something called Go Steps. And Fletcher has been sending out this WhatsApp group that just gives ideas and then kind of gives a bit of an accountability to everyone.

Let's stay on this mission. You can sign up and join the conversation and be part of that. And the QR code is also in the lobby and be part of our go steps.

It's just the challenge to actually live out an intentional gospel witness on a daily basis with ideas along that line.

That's my challenge. To see what God will do. What will God do when we take responsibility?

That's where it gets exciting. Not can we do it. Is this task impossible?

Humanly, is it impossible? Sure. But is this a human endeavor?

He breathed on them and gave them the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost, when he's come, you will be my witnesses. We have the Holy Spirit.

We have what we need to accomplish the Great Commission in our generation. How will you respond? How will you take responsibility?