 So my name is Mark Mudge and I am a pastor in Guatemala City and the most of you I know very well and I was a pastor here and served here for over a decade or served here over a decade but not only pastor for a few years. And so this is my privilege to be able to give a ministry update in this Sunday school hour. And so first I want to begin to read a few scriptures to talk about the great commission and the work, the focus of the work that we have in Guatemala. Then I'd like to take a few minutes to give a report about some of the things the Lord has done in the past six months because I was here six months ago. And so then we have a few videos of testimonies from people in Guatemala to be able to share with you. Hopefully everything will work out with videos with the, we've got subtitles on the video so you'll have to read fast in order to follow along. And then I'd like to have a little bit of time with Q and A. So we're going to try and do a lot in this hour and hopefully we'll be able to get through everything. So first off I'd like to express my thanks to you guys. Thank you for all your prayers. Thank you for all of your love. Thank you for the messages. Thank you for many of you coming to visit us in Guatemala. And it's a great joy to be back here with you all and to see you. I'm very thankful for your, particularly your prayers and also your financial support because we're able to be there because you guys are providing for us and sent us. And so we are very appreciative to be able to be here, to be able to see you guys again. So thank you, thank you for, it's important to remember that the fruit that we have there is also a fruit of this church. So we want to give praise and glory to God for the things that he's done. So let's begin to think about the Great Commission. In the work that we have in Guatemala we're focusing on church planting, discipleship and evangelism and we've been going through the Book of Mark and we've come to the end of Book of the Mark in our Sunday morning preaching series in Guatemala. And we've come to the resurrection and we've been thinking about what are the impact, what are the implications of the resurrection? What is the significance of the resurrection? And so last Sunday that was the Sunday morning sermon. And so some of the things we considered are the impact of the resurrection on what did it mean for Jesus Christ himself, what did it mean for our salvation and what did it mean for the world? And so some of those topics stolen, some of those topics from Albert Martin thought they were the simplest, clearest way to go to describe some of the implications of the resurrection. So what does the resurrection mean for Christ himself? What does it mean for our salvation and then what does it mean for the world? When we consider what does the resurrection mean for Christ? We think and we remember how he prophesied that he would rise for the death. We remember in John chapter 2 verses 19 to 21 around there where Jesus prophesied that if you destroy this temple I'll raise it up in three days. Well the resurrection tells us with great clarity who Jesus is and who he is in his perfection and in his person that he is God and he's worthy to be worshiped. He knows the future and the resurrection authenticates to all who he is and that his sacrifice has been accepted before the Father. So what does it mean for Jesus himself? We want to consider the stages of Christ's humiliation and exaltation. If you read the system of theology and you focus on Jesus Christ, one of the topics that system of theology will focus in on is how Jesus humbled himself by taking on humanity but then how he is exalted after his death in his resurrection, in his ascension and his sitting at the right hand of the Father and then his coming again and he'll come again bodily. So these four stages are referred to as Christ's exaltation. He's in an exalted intercessory place now. He's interceding for us before the Father and praying for us for our good before the Father now and he's doing this in his exalted state. So remember that his exalted state begins at the resurrection and continues in his ascension and then his sitting at the right hand of the Father and then his return, his bodily return. So what does the resurrection mean for Christ? It is his change from his humiliation to his state of exaltation. So it means a significant thing, a significant understanding of what happened to our Savior and where is he doing now? So when we consider the resurrection, what it means for exalts Jesus Christ. If you read in Romans chapter 1 verse 4, we can read a verse about that that describes Romans chapter 1 in verse 3 and 4, it says concerning his son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. So there's a great declaration that's taking place in the resurrection that he's declared in his person and to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness. So by the Holy Spirit and by the resurrection from the dead. You can see in verse 3 his incarnation, how he's born of the seed of David according to the flesh. It's part of his humiliation and then you can see his exaltation in verse 4 where he's declared to be the Son of God with power. So when we consider the resurrection, what does it mean for Jesus Christ as a great impact in me and Jesus Christ. And it's good for us to consider what does it mean for Jesus Christ and not just ourselves. Often when we think of the resurrection we think what does it mean for us? But first we should begin, well what does it mean for Jesus? Then when we consider what does it mean for us, it has great meaning for us. It is as an impact on our salvation. It's connected with 1 Peter 1 verse 3 because the same power that he rose, that God used to raise us from the dead, he employed this power in regeneration. So we're made alive, we're born again by that same work of God, that same power. So it has an impact in our regeneration giving and giving a new life, new desires, a new heart. But it also has an impact in our justification. Romans 4-25 reads and we can turn over there and be reading verses 24 and 25. Romans 4-24, but also for us, it shall be imputed to us who believe in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead and was delivered up because of our offenses and was raised because of our justification. So the resurrection is a great declaration from the Father that the work of Jesus Christ has been accepted, that the payment for sin was perfect and without blemish. The resurrection, when Jesus is raised for our justification, doesn't mean that the resurrection plays a part in the payment of sin, but rather that the resurrection. We must have faith in a raised person, a living person. We can't put our faith in a dead person. We are in union with him in his death, burial, and resurrection. So our union with him is part of our salvation. We must be made alive in order for his righteousness to apply to our account in an imputation. So his resurrection is the guarantee that his work on the cross has been accepted and it vindicates Jesus Christ before all. So the resurrection plays a part in our justification, in our regeneration, in our glorification. This is the aspect of the resurrection that many Christians think about when we think about the connection with our salvation, that he's been given a raised body and so will be given a raised body and we are a resurrected body and we read that 1 Corinthians 15 verses 12 to 20. So then all this is leading up to the resurrection, what does it mean for Jesus Christ? What does it mean for our salvation? And then lastly, what does it mean for the world? And that's the point I'm getting to. Let's read in Acts chapter 10 verses 39 to 43, how does it impact how Peter preaches the gospel of Cornelius and we read Acts chapter 10 verses 39 to 43, Peter says, And we are witnesses of all these things which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem when they killed by hanging out on a tree. Him God raised up on the third day and showed him openly, not to all the people but to witnesses chosen by God, even to us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. Notice his bodily resurrection. And verse 42, what does it mean then for great commission and ministry? What does it mean then as we go out and preach the gospel? And verse 42, and he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was ordained by God to judge the living and the death. To him all the prophets witnessed that through his name, whoever believes in him will receive remission of sins. You see what the resurrection means for ministry? It means in verse 42 that we have a great declaration that he'll judge the living and the death, that his exalted state that he's in, sitting at the right hand of the Father, his mediatorial lordship, him as Lord, that this victory is already won. He's already reigning as Lord, as mediatorial Lord. And so when we go out and we declare the gospel, whether in Guatemala or Orlando, we're declaring the victory belongs to Jesus Christ. And then he's already won. It's just a matter of time. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. And you'll bow now in salvation or you'll bow later in condemnation. But Jesus is Lord. So whether victory is won, so that when we preach and when we proclaim, we trust in him, that the resurrection is declared in a real historical event, that we can point to, that all of history points to, and recognizes, Buddha's dead, Muhammad's dead, Joseph Smith is dead, but Jesus is alive. And Jesus being alive, not only being alive as a person, but being in the exalted state as Lord means that we declare that the victory is already his. The authority is all for him, and he, we know he will judge the living and the dead, because he rose from the dead. Look at how Paul knew this truth as well in Acts 17, a well-known verse in verses 30 to 31, when Paul is preaching in the Areopagus, Paul says in verse 30, truly these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. You see the authority, it's a declaration. We're supposed to preach that to all men, the command of God, that they're to repent. And why? In verse 31, because he's appointed the day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he's ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by the raising him from the dead. You see how the exalted state of Jesus Christ plays an impact on how the Apostle Paul and the Apostle Peter think about ministry. They know the victory is already Christ, that he's won a great victory through suffering, and he has moved from a state of humiliation to exaltation, and that the resurrection gives the declaration that all will be judged by Jesus Christ. And so when we then think about ministry in Guatemala, we can trust our ministry here or ministry anywhere else in the world, that we can trust that Jesus Christ has all authority and all the glory and worship goes to him. So then how to connect those things practically? Well we want to glorify Jesus Christ by trusting him, by preaching the gospel, by continuing to work in the church plant, by discipling, by evangelizing there. And so I'm going to move now from the doctrine of the resurrection to about 15, 20 minutes of report of Guatemala. So what's happened in the past six months essentially? So when we think back, I came last July, and it's always a privilege and a joy to a high point of our year to be able to come and worship with you guys on these Sundays. So we usually come in February because it actually has some work opportunities, and those work opportunities pay for our tickets in order to come. So it's convenient for us to continually come back at this time. And the weather's nice too. The last September, we were able to have a conference, and we had a conference at the church, and many of the brothers were able to come from Cornerstone, Pastor Michael Preach, and the conference, and Edgar, and we had a conference over the, essentially, over a lot of charismatic issues. So what about apostles today? Are there apostles today, prophets, workers of healing ministries? There seems to be on the west side, there seems to be more charismatics and prosperity churches than on the east side. When I drive around on the west side, staying with Leah at her house, it seems to be more influential there. So it's very influential in Guatemala, and it's very helpful for the people to go over those doctrines once again. So Edgar came and preached the sermon about tongues. Pastor Michael preached about the Spirit's work in the public worship of God's people, and about what is true conversion, what are the fruits of true conversion from First Thessalonians. And he preached that sermon on a Sunday night. If you haven't heard it, I would recommend listening to that sermon, getting it off a YouTube or sermon audio. It's very encouraging to see the work of God and the people at Thessalonica in First Thessalonians chapter one. So then in October, we were able to have another baptism and membership service, and four more people joined as part of the Iglesia and Torcia. And today we'd like to be able to share some of their testimonies to you by playing them. We have them online. We're going to try and give you subtitles so that you can, those of you who don't understand Spanish can be able to read and follow along with the testimonies. So it's very encouraging to be able to hear from the people themselves what the impact of what Jesus Christ has done in their lives. So it's very, always that, you guys know it's a high point of the year to be able to have one of those services where you give glory to God for the work that He's done in the people's lives. In November, Ashley's grandfather passed away, and you guys know that Alex is a cousin. Alex Barera is a member of, oh, Ashley has conveniently passed out a gift to all you guys that's, it's got pictures of people in our small church, and so I'm supposed to refer to the card in order to, so I'm referring to the young man who visited you guys a few weeks ago on the upper right hand corner, and there's a picture of him. He's a member of our family, but also a member of the church, so very thankful the work that Lord has done in him. He had the same grandfather, obviously as a cousin of Ashley, and so it was very encouraging at the funeral to be able to see him, be able to preach the gospel, and using Ephesians. Ephesians is his favorite book, and so he's talking about Ephesians verses one to ten, verses as many of you know in treasure, so it was very encouraging to be able to see him take the initiative and the, to be able to try and communicate the gospel to his own family, so that Ashley's grandfather had a background in the church of God's seventh day, so it's a very, if you're familiar with that church, it's very legalistic, very, the gospel is not understood there, it's a very much a works-based system, so it's very helpful and very important to be able to preach the gospel at a funeral time like that, so it's really encouraging for me to be able to see now church members taking that initiative. I'm trying to prep him to share that same message in open-air preaching, so he's nervous, but he's preparing it, and God willing he'll preach that soon in an open-air setting, so I'm sharing that time and that testimony to be able to communicate that it's very encouraging to see somebody that you're discipling, taking up the same message. So then a change that happened since the last time is I've been able to do open-air preaching in Spanish, and I have a few different sermon seat, those we call them, or sermenets. Sermenet sounds worse in Spanish maybe, or in English maybe, but it's maybe a 20, 30 minute sermon on an open-air preaching, so I'll preach a few different texts. Romans 3 verses 9 to 26, and you remember this as the bad news and the good news, the bad news of who we are before God, and the good news of what Jesus Christ has done, where I'll preach Matthew 5 verses 1 to 10 about the beatitudes and what are the marks of our true Christian, or another text is Titus 3 verses 1 to 7. So 3 to 7 really focuses in on our depravity, what we were before Christ, and then how does he regenerate us and justify us. So just simple gospel sermons. It's very encouraging to me to be able to preach in Spanish, and for the brothers in the church to say, oh that was good, that was clear. So I kind of rely on them, I rely on Lee and Alex, they're bilingual, to be able to tell me, no that was not clear, you need more practice, don't preach, or yes, continue, that was good and clear. So I remember Alex was the first time I went with him, and I said I was going to preach in Spanish, he was like, oh no, I can see it in his face. And I said, well Lee said he was clear, and he looked like he still didn't believe me. So it was very encouraging to preach, and afterwards I said, yeah, it was clear. So that's very encouraging to me, trying to work on that for a long time, and to be able to get to that point. So praise God I'm able to teach in Spanish, like in Sunday school classes, do the call to repentance, those different parts of the liturgy or the parts or orders of parts of the service in Spanish, Lord's suffer in Spanish, conversations, Bible studies, but still I'm still waiting to make the jump on sermons until it's clear. It's the most important thing is serving the people, and so Lee has done a great job translating, serving, so we'll get more on the Rousses later, but what a blessing they've been. So then in moving on to January, in January it was a great joy to be able to go to Bolivia, and so they invited us to go preach. Some of the brothers in Cochabamba invited us to one of the pastors there, Pastor Harrison, son of Pastor Mateo, invited us to go and preach at a youth event. And so it was very encouraging to see maybe 100 youth come more than they expected. So people came from 16 hours, so yeah 300 youth, so when we use the word hoven in Spanish it's like a very wide term, it's not like teenagers, it's like anywhere's from 12 to 40 basically. If you think about it in the Bible, the Bible does the same thing and when it talks about young men, it talks about this age from. So if you're 39, be encouraged. You're still a hoven or you're still a young person. So it was a number of pastors came to this event, a number of maybe 300 youth came to this event, and it was very encouraging to see people drive 16 hours to come, and other people from various, I'm taking the buses from various places all over the country, and then we just said, I never preached so much in so short amount of time, and it was all we could do to counsel people, study, preach, and we were, Ashley had the opportunity to teach to young ladies. She taught about the fear, what does the fear of God mean, and then what's the role, we're using the book of Proverbs, what is the fear of God mean, and then what is the role of a woman, a godly woman. So I was with the guys using Proverbs 7, preaching about sexual purity, and then also about the fear of God, and how it's the fear of God is the heart of godliness, what's the difference between a Pharisee and a true Christian, well, the fear of God. The fear of God is the heart of godliness is what John Murray said. So it's a very important theme in how we walk every day as Christians. We, as in the preaching there, I was able to go through the various sermons in the book of Mark to talk about the connection with what Christ did and then the local church. It was very interesting to go to that theme, and the name of the conference was Living Stones from 1 Peter 2, and so to give you an idea, we preached on discipleship, evangelism, and how Christ sets the model of ministry for us today in the church. We preached on the parables and how what Christ preached about, the four soils, and how that helps us to be able to minister in the church. We talked about legalism from Mark chapter 7, and what is that, how that important that is for us in the church to understand that the threat of legalism. We talked about the rich young ruler, and after the rich young ruler, Jesus has a conversation with the disciples about who's the true, who's your true family. When Peter says, oh, I've left, we've left all to follow you, and Jesus encourages him saying, well, you've received in this life and become more fathers, mothers, brothers, lands than you can ever receive in this life. And so he talks about the true family is here in the local church. It's very interesting to think about the Gospels and then all of the things that Christ is doing for us in the local church. So it was a very encouraging time, very busy time to be able to see and a joyful time, to be able to see what the work the Lord is doing there. So the, yes, no, Pastor Michael's question is about whether we had problems going in with immigration, and 2017 we got, Lee and I got stuck in immigration, kind of immigration cell for 12 hours, and they tried to make us pay more money in order, it was, it's kind of corruption. It's kind of the way things work in Latin America, other countries. Many of you guys know that kind of stuff. So no, we were able to get in. I was glad because I had my Ashley was with me pregnant, and I was very thankful we were able to get in. We had, we did some of that immigration work beforehand, so we didn't wait to arrive in the country. But thank you for the question. So then picking up the pace a little bit, the, it's very encouraging to see some of the evangelistic opportunities that the church has had, whether through through funerals, through, we, we meet every other Sunday at our house after church. We have a lunch, discipleship time, study the Proverbs, go out and evangelize in the community. It's very encouraging to see the people participating in that, that work. It's encouraging to see the conversations with the many people have with their families as well, or people taking the initiative to invite their family members to go out to dinner with us in order for us to talk about the gospel. Like I can, I can tell by the demeanor and the purpose that some of the members have in the family, it's kind of like, yeah, let's, uh, let's go, let's go eat pizza with this family member. And we know it's a, those are the nicest evangelistic, easiest setup. You know, you have a nice dinner and you're sitting there talking about life with somebody and then you begin to go into the gospel. So it's very encouraging to see the discipleship in the, in the lives of the people we're using the book of, in last year, 2018, we did the inductive studies in the book of Romans, finished that up and now, and we began into Proverbs. We're still in the book of Proverbs. We're in chapter 18 still. And so we're going verse by book, verse to the book of Proverbs as a, using it as a form of a discipleship. We've studied books in the church in 2018 and beginnings of 2019, like distinct by design, understanding the roles of men and women in the home. What's the biblical role in the home? What's the biblical role in the church? What's the biblical role in the world of men and women? It's very needed in Latin America. There's great misunderstanding about the roles of men and women. We took, we studied the Church Why Bother. You guys did that maybe 2016. And so by Jeffrey Johnson, that has been a great blessing. It's like every chapter of that book about what is a biblical understanding of the ministry in the church was, is like needed and in our, and helpful in our local church. So then, right now, we're studying the book Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray. And so we're going over what is the work of Christ, what does it mean in his atonement and what is in the extent of the atonement, the perfection of the atonement, the nature of the atonement. And then it goes over what does it mean to have the, the work of Christ applied to our lives. It's been a blessing to see the growth in the lives of the people and in the lives of the members of the church. I could take all the people in the car that you've received and be able to talk about the growth and seeing in them in their lives has been very encouraging to us. The Rousses have continued to be one of the greatest blessings in our lives. It's such a joy to be able to go with another family from here and continually as the years go by we'll be thank God for them. Lee is preaching this morning. Pray for him. He's preaching in Isaiah 53, the verse is 6 to 12, it's the 13th hour's around there. And so it's a, it's an incredible blessing to see them be a pillars in the church and to see all the members have great respect for them and love for them, their faithfulness to preach the gospel, their faithfulness to the disciple that I don't worry about. Oh no, what's Lee going to say while I'm gone. And if you're watching Lee, I'm praying, oh, we're praying for you. And normally we're watching you breakfast because we're at different time and watch the Sunday school class. So it's very common for us because our houses are right next to each other. So it's very common for us to hear, if I turn off the YouTube channel for me to hear Pastor Rick continuing in the class from their house. So we both listen to it in our houses in the morning. So we're very thankful to be able to be here with you guys this week as well. And like I said, this Sunday is a highlight of our year to be able to come and worship Christ with you guys. So I'd like to be able to transition now to be able to share a few testimonies with you by video. And so these testimonies are at the time of the membership class and I want to be able to communicate by them speaking to you about the work that Christ has done in their lives. So we talked about the impact of the resurrection. And are you guys, are we ready with the videos? Okay, okay, okay. Well, we'll go ahead and we'll, well, these videos that we have on YouTube are some of them are in Spanish, some of them are in English. We try to do both. And we, so there's a beginning part of it. We made a little series where I'm talking about baptism. So we're going to go past me and just trying to go right to the testimonies of the people. And then I'll try and give a little explanation if it doesn't, if the subtitles don't match up it. So the first testimony is Renata. She's describing about our testimonies versus the same testimony. She felt like she had peace with God in her normal life before. She knew the importance of trusting in God and living for her. And she didn't have a conviction of sin. She thought her sins were normal. So she knew that Christ died and rose from the dead. But she didn't have a true change in her life. So she really thought it in bed basically was a really good front. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps her. So Gabby got to witness to her and what she felt really that she were to talk to her about her sin. And that really helped her to think about herself and her sin of Christian. So she started looking God's words. God has given her conviction over her sin. And to look to Christ to be forgiven. What his sacrifice truly meant on the cross. And how that sacrificed, how that should impact her own life. She now has the desire to study the word of God. And also to think about her sin. To teach them the word of God. God also been very merciful with their marriage. Before she would think that her husband could only talk about the Bible. And even that was kind of political. Irritated into her. And now they talk about other things but now it's the light for her to talk about the word of God and share that with her husband. She asked the Lord to help her to grow in humility. And to understand her sin. And to grow in all aspects of her life. It was really cold that day. It's been a great joy to be able for us to see Renata and her changed life because she's someone who came to the church basically as a Catholic and was attending because her husband was a Christian and the church and we met in her house to begin the first six months so we were afraid that when we would switch to a different location perhaps she wouldn't continue to come but it's been a miracle of God. As we prep the next video it's been a miracle of God to see the work of Christ in her life and to see her change from yeah it's been a great blessing. We know that it's been God who isn't changing her. You're in a home in which there was Christian influence. He thought in a erroneous way that by his prayers he would be right with God. So in a sense he thought that he's a Christian. And so he thought by living on Godly, what I'm called Godly life, he would gain God's faith. He wouldn't do anything immoral in front of people but his mind was very ungodly. He wouldn't think evil things with his enemies. So he would have preachers or people he would like to listen to that would help his ego and encourage him in that way. He moved to Guatemala and he started to hear biblical teaching that would talk about denial and very different than what he was used to. So he saw it through YouTube. So God broke his pride about five years ago. And he realized that this false gospel that he had heard wasn't really bad at all. So he saw heard preachers like Paul Washer and Tim Conway and they helped him to understand that that gospel was a deluded gospel. He started to go when he got to Guatemala, something, a church that appeared to be a sound doctrine but he wasn't really satisfied there so he started to look online to see if there was another God is sovereign and he lined up things. God has been merciful to him. I saw with my own eyes the the greatness of the Lord and he had been merciful to me. That could be able to please Christ. Here at the church I was able to really understand my condition before the Lord. In each discipleship in each service I am utterly thankful to God that God has given me that gift of salvation and to be able to hear the gospel clearly presented. I have a sinful man I am My only option is to have faith in Christ. Today he makes public his profession. But Christ gave his perfect life for me. Thank Christ. He's been a joy to see Hugo's faithfulness to be discipled and his faithfulness to preach the gospel with us and so we're praying the Lord continues to help him to grow and he's a good brother in the church. He's somebody who understands has a better understanding of doctrine and maybe the systematics of doctrine. Maybe that comes faster than him. He's a math teacher. Maybe I don't know if it comes together for math teachers. You can ask Josh. But as we prepare the final video the it's very encouraging to see his faithfulness and that especially the area of discipleship. So the last testimony we have is Astrid. She's someone who was invited by someone who was attending or someone who used to be a part of our church. She worked with them. So she brought the church just like if it was an outing every once in a while with her family. But they really didn't know anything about the Bible. She thought she was a good person. She had seen her but really hit the reality. We got you disobedient to her parents that she was more on her heart. She had a very world of life. And even living that type of lifestyle she still thought she was a good person. So she started she has a son and they started to go to a church but through going to this church to pray the prayer and so she thought she was Christian to pray the prayer. But after leaving the service that day she still was the same person. There was no change in her. In that church they wouldn't really preach the gospel. And so the preaching was more on personal experience and also about prosperity and anything that would make the people feel good. So they were there for a couple of months. So they would have these kind of like fastings for a period of time. And if you weren't part of those prayer meetings then you would lose the covering of God. So somebody from a co-worker she would share these experiences of her going to church about with this co-worker. And that co-worker was going to our church. One time she was wanting to go to some kind of tree on an all night vigil or something and he didn't give her permission to go do that. Like do the ask off from work and in the end they didn't give her the day's off because he was the the supervisor. So it was a little confusing to her. It's like wait, but he's evangelical. Why is he letting me go to a retreat? He would tell her I would I would prefer you go and go have fun with your with your son to have like a permission to go have fun with your husband and then to go to one of the retreats. So it was confusing to her. It's like, oh why is it that the retreats are forgotten? Why would you not? It's like it was a little confusing for her and they're not. So he wouldn't, so he anyway, so they didn't, he didn't give her permission for that. But it caused it to be that he was running thinking like, oh these are supposed to be for the previous day. So at the workplace this coworker was able to share a better doctrine with her to help teach her. And she really, really was ignorant a lot about the word of God. So him and his wife gave him an invitation to come to the conference about two years ago. And so they came, so for that she had to get permission. And ever since then she's continually paying for her and learned the true gospel. And through the law of God, she understood her sin. The commandments showed her her her wickedness. That how she was living her old life was she deserved help. But she didn't only hear those bad news, she also heard the good news. While Christ came and died for him, knowing that she didn't deserve it. That God the Father sent his son to suffer in my son's life. And to teach these the love of God that I personally wouldn't be able to give up my own for someone else. So through the gospel she understood her lost state. She can't say for sure. Only the grace of God to give her that new heart. And have faith in Christ. And only by his grace you can really have true repentance. Flip and sarcha have been a light to her life. Have the desire to learn more about his work. I want to follow his ways. I know that the way to follow Christ is not easy. In an easy way. I pray faith that God would give me the strength to fight against my sin. All that I do. I want to do it for the glory of God. God gave me a new heart. I'm thankful for the work he's worked in my life. I used to focus my self in the problems in my life. But in comparison to my problem with God those problems are nothing. And so through that through understanding the true gospel she understood what her real problem was. Those problems happen in life but now she's right with the Lord. And that makes everything all better. She also realized that everything that's happened in her life has to happen under the will of God. May God be glorified for the change that he has done in my life. Amen. For me this is kind of like introducing family to family. You know when I get to bring them here by video and let them speak. So we have maybe two minutes, two quick minutes. Two quick minutes for the question and answers. Is that you? You have a question? Oh you have the mic. Okay just I'm sorry we just have a very short time for Q and A. I kind of talked too long. It's a pastor's thing. If there's any questions. It's okay if no because we don't have time for him. No. I'm very open to be able to talk about any questions or comments that you guys have in the time, in the break time. But please forgive me for not organizing, not taking, administrating the time well to give you guys time for Q and A. But I'm open to those. Please talk to me in that in after church during the break. Okay let's go ahead and pray. Lord God we give you the glory for everything that you've done in the lives of these dear people. We recognize that we could not do that. We recognize we cannot change a heart. We cannot save a life. We cannot forgive sins. We recognize our inability to be able to change a soul. So we give you all the glory and praise. Now we're saving our souls but then how you, we see you continue to do that in a merciful way. You recognize you don't have to do that. You don't have to save a more sinner. But how kind and good you are to continue this work. Please help us to be faithful in the work that you've given us to do. Lord please help us to persevere. Please help the dear saints in Iglesia and Torcia to be able to persevere to the end. In your name we pray. Amen.