HARVEST Sunday 25th September Church @ The Green 9:15AM

I have only father. I Lord's. That's how you have given us your word. That we can receive your word written into our hearts and Instagram mines and into our lives. And thank you that that would points us to your living word to your son, A Savior Jesus Christ and as we as we think on these words this morning that Dorothy has red, we pray that you would point us to him. in his name, we pray

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This is how Jesus defines a ton of life was looking Jones, gospel for a second. This is eternal life that they know you. The only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. Let me see, you know, go up to in this claim doesn't sound like you by tonight. If you think about it, it is, it is even more that I know, King Charles Well I'm going to get to do a sort of bikes this morning a little b s of a 7. We have a full and Kathy with us this morning but she's brilliant. I don't want to make sure that they have time to update us on that work. I do say that we have time for communion and maybe I'm officially to finish the service. It's time to get down to the ship sinks to have tea and coffee, say it's just two bikes today and this is it, he is writing to Christians who are pretty anxious and pretty confused. Why are they? Well, because some of the, some of that number have left, I left them. And they were saying some, some very, very different things to do. The things that the apostles had said they were trying to take people with them as well. If you want to know how I knew this, then catch me at the door at the end of town. Censor, I have a coffee and I'll show you some of a b. If Alexa is this, how I know there's some people had left. They left something very different things and this has left the Christians. Join his writing to you. Anxious and confused at this is really really important background. If you are studying this letter in your small groups or on your own between Sundays, because if you get hold of this, it makes it makes sense of the letter as a whole

Well, how we to tell really? Who actually knows God and who doesn't have a way to know? You have a way to be sure that we know God we should go with in. I mean, somebody's office legal it wrong.

I'm Jones. Major, major purpose of writing is to reassure these Orthodox Christians but perplexed Christians, he wants them. He wants them not to be anxious. Not to be confused, says 1 John 5:13. I write these things to you. Who believe in the name of the son of God so that you may know That you have eternal life. He's not releasing to you them, to tell him off. He's running to them, to encourage them and to give you give them a surance. So you might have noticed this in 21 and this this is something that carries All Men chapter 2 and 3. The rest of the letter, it's like, the author has two boxes and he's, he's getting a rope, a box, and he's twisting them together in one box is encouragement. He wants to encourage those who are Christians, but who are anxious. And the other box is explosia. It was to expose those who claim that they know God, but really, they are imposters need to do, but it went with me, just for a moment and just see if we can figure out which of these things in chapter two coming from which box. So there's two boxes. One is encouraged to encourage those who treated Christians. I want to expose expose those who claim to be bombs, which box of these things coming from. What do you think of this one? We know we've come to know him if we keep his commands. Courage, everyone agree. Good. Let's have this one. I know him.

But you see if anyone if Isis would love for. God is complete in them. This is how we know we are in him. He claims to live him in. He must live as Jesus dated.

Collapse. The time. I am their friends. I'm not writing you and you come on but an old one which you've had since the beginning. This all. Come on this. The message you have had you. Come on History. Seen in him and in you because the darkness is passing and the True Light is already Shining. Courage. It's quite easy. This game, isn't it? Anyone who claims to be in the light, but hates a brother or sister is still in the Darkness. Space. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the lights and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. Courage. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness, they do not know where they are going because the darkness has blinded them. We could go on but you see how it works. You got these two boxes and he's winding these things together. What does it mean for me? I wasn't mean for you. Well, if we just look up 10, things that go back to the first three, be great to do it with y'all. This, if you got time to hit 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 and 10 wrong with this one, we know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. I would let me ask you this kind of a personal question.

What would you say? What is your answer? Is anybody brave enough to give me their answer to this question? Oh, you keeping the commands and she's not a trick question. Weather.

This is sometimes here. And sometimes here, Is a work-in-progress. A, a trying hair? Yeah. You trying thing, you best.

To be giving it a go, but he's that is good enough. He knows that we're not going to be a hundred percent. Perfect perfect. He wouldn't have reminded us of the chance that if anybody does seeing. We have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ, the righteous one. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins. He's not expecting us to be perfect, but remember that? He's writing to Christians who are unsettled by the claims of others, and then not sure whether that, you really can say that, I know God says to them. Just have a look at your lives. The prefix. All you could keep in the commands of Jesus. All you loving your brother and sister in the church and if the answer was yes,

Then you can have great confidence, you can take courage, you can be assured. You don't need some kind of new spiritual experience with some specialty legal to go off with the group that the saying they knew Pizza. It's really really basic stuff. Jesus and John knows that the people he's writing to really all giving it their best shot. He wants them to be a short. It is important to get the logic of this the right way around. So he is not saying if you do these things then you are a Christian. A lot of people do you think that's as I think it's about living a good life, regardless of your commitment to Jesus. But what are you saying is? If you are a Christian, then you'll be doing these things. and if you are committed to following Jesus and if you're having an anxious Bowman's about whether you really truly know gone, John wants you to have a look at your life. And see well at 10 with you.

As I say, just a little seven bites this morning, should we pray?

Thank you, heavenly father that you will Grace. Is seen. In the coming of your son to give his life. On the cross. Four and forgiveness answered rule ass to you. And thank you that through him and through his resurrection and through the giving of his Spirit, we may indeed live lives like him. And we pray for that insurance in our lives. That John wanted to give this church. He was right in saying that we might have confidence. That we know you And that's through that confidence, we might serve him and through others into the life that he office. In Jesus name, we pray, and spend together as the musicians l. How you feel that one?

Golden Cassie Middle School TCM as well which is not scared to getting a 45 years ago that test Commission. In the next life, you have chosen to accept 15 minutes off the lights on in southern Africa, with based in South Africa. And we will look up yet. We going to have to press this button and We have very little time. So if you listen quick and we can speak, we we can get through this, just for comparison. Europe from where we are now is the top 10 country Beauty and we have a black screen and two helicopters, they will get people out of treason of ribs when they get cycling.

Is this what we have been doing for the last 20 years and still do Services? If you were here three years ago, when, I know, I got you a shins wincing that then. Right? Scary pictures bottom-left is. I was doing that this weekend actually put people in your life for a whole day. I would chop sticks on a site. Like I say, we go to the helicopters. This was a couple years ago every couple years ago. Cyclone we get some shoe issue with me, that was one that happened a couple years ago. I die. I'm just giving you ideas that they can draw a circle around it and how big it is and getting the whole British thing going. Again, just as the scale as best as I can do it. That's how big the store since then. So since we last came as a refugee vacuolation, this was a big things coming up from where we placed the song, making surgeon from Tanzania, which is today's top country that just come across the border into Playskool Palmer. 724 Walden had another website. Lots of really, really, really bad things that come out into the bush, into the mangroves 4 weeks, but just a primitive. So we could get in there to get some tape last night, we were asked to give up. So I continued up, I do want to spend a lot of supplies up, a few Personnel to help sort things out 90s, supplies fly up to the place, which is about an hour away, which is a distance of here to the middle of the Lakes. People, initially people would just almost recognized a lot. Globemaster in Afghanistan on a very, very small scale.

That's what we had said in school. I like people would get on daytime with just a bag of the worldly belongings. These people, they had stories. I do, I do I have slime videos of me with some, he was telling me some of the stuff. Anyway, the other end and I was as Refugee. So, come back again, before, Wednesday should be interesting, if I was given a briefing on by some guys that who I guess was about 3 or 4 years old. She is like, checking me out cuz this is one of those times again, when more people go to the plane than can get on. And later, I noticed that she real Why does adults the back the duel is Iowa, getting onto the back. Then I noticed that she realize that she was going to make it. She was at the wrong end of things. There's more people on the plane that we had seats cuz she's lucky, I'm not going to make it, but my daughter can leave. What was going on in town? Just north of that. Probably, just to let my daughter can live. Maybe I'll meet up with you on the next flight. Next day or the next week. Who knows her to be quiet? Desperation, it was going to hell. I told his people would just take someone out and leave them by the plane. We were on the ground as Shore as we can, you put them on and can you make a plan with him when when they when you go so I can just tell Dad what I've been through was corrected. When we got back to the ambulances, to take the injured people away, but her picture as a, I just take it on the plane. That was that was a big thing covid.

Farmed with ice. We are so busy. And we got we, we how we worked with local, other, local, or national organizations, must be nice with them. Get a whole bunch of supplies in, we took the helicopter out of the boxes and we put boxes on the most Vehicles has the wheels and the communities of these. Other than that, I'm doing a grave.

Let me be bounced off and I'm in South Africa. Since we are there and I'm free, and I'm basically what I'm doing, mainly is working in Primary Health Care in a Township close to where we lived just over the hill for my relive. That is a timeship, an informal assessment Field, House it. Scratch it up just over a hill and I'm looking in that in a mohawk and it will be take everything with us during the week. We set the time, we take a walk to the electricity and we set up in a church and church rooms and we see sick people and I'm on a little project that is cool Delroy and that the God he sees because the people that we see many of them are foreigners from Mozambique from Zimbabwe from Jeanie, which was and People, they come to South Africa, hoping to get a better life and they have no i.d., maybe no birth certificates. They have no rights in South Africa, they can't work. They don't get any funds. So they come with the kids and whatever and that and basically all a mental Clinic is to be the hands and feet of Jesus to really reach out to those people who don't get good health care from the government, but they need health care and maternity care in all those things. So we go and do that in the clinic. So, so there's a picture to Cletus at apostatize. Go to wooden church and then these three brick at houses. So we use those and we were both nurses and we got it. Hands. And then basically see them all with different illnesses. Kids adults pregnant ladies, we do Family Planning have chronic diseases acute disease of some very seriously ill people come along as well. We take all the lights, even there's no electricity, so I got to set up your lights and it does a storm have to try and get all the people in the wooden Church. Quickly sit and get soap to make you up from her past 5 in the morning. In a long line, down the road on a dirt road. I'm just some pics. If you can just go through these some pictures of the on the staff that I

That's the name of that. The time, she was told him. Should I, was he? So here you are? What does no doctor's visit? South Africa has a big shortage of doctors. So nurses are doing work, that doctors would do, see patients diagnosed them and treat them with a medication. So, you see, I don't see, see kids, During covid-19 Wiki and we did testing, it was huge and South Africa. Just like here, it was a massive lockdown, a lot of people that was Streetside us, they no longer allowed to sell their goods on the street so you can imagine, if you're only, livelihood is selling things on the streets and that's no longer allowed. How do you live? It was really terrible and obviously, the wearing of masks was enforced and it was, it was, it was not a good time and people suffered a lot and if you think in England was a lot of suffering but in Africa where there is such poverty, it was magnified, hugely difficult time, That's just a few more pictures of I do. Maternity care that we have pregnant ladies and we don't do both that but we do post-nasal. Cassie wants babies are born, they come and lay their babies and we call them and check that they growth and development.

This is one lady. I'll just quickly tell you about. So, this is a mozambican lady and she came to South Africa when she was 18 with a husband, and she already had one son came to a clinic and she was pregnant again and I come into him when I come into my said too. While I think it's more than one baby, I think you're having twins anyway. She started weeping and she was very upset, because she said, I only wanted one more baby anyway. I sent it to the hospital. Anyway, it was triplets triplets from us, and they live in one-room her and her full, poisoned her husband, they don't have income, but tough times. An exciting thing that's happened just recently which I just share with you is that since we've beaten them should I use? We've been like renting from different pastas and we moved to various different places and then finally know how we've managed to purchase a piece of land and what has finally started. But in Africa it's always a fight to land and even after we purchased the land and had papers and all that people came with us and on their brakes and they said they keep alarm from someone else and they're starting to build. It was quite a challenge. But now what has finally started, the sign is up and it looks like we're going to get to move probably towards the end of the year until our own premises will be converted containers into clinic. So it's exciting. And it was Alexa twice. So I do home bus and recently and was able to go on the scanning, cool baby. And then the baby afterwards. And then I do some home bus in the community as well and I'm just mostly, I we sometimes do both. So there's a room that I used this lady to live it in and I'll rock flat.

And then I will have that with Messi Adam from the trip. Smokepole mentioned earlier on the medical trips that I travel out. This was that on my woman's screening program that I went on but then we flew a plane and then transferred between the clinics in the helicopter. That is very interesting and we did screening of women. Okay, I'm in the final one. That is a picture of a hospital. She's not. So he's in that messy ass. We have quite a lot of them guest accommodation, and it's basically meant for missionaries who want to come to have relaxation, Reston me to do jobs, maybe doctor's appointments, and they can come and stay at MOSI, have in all rooms. Then I'm a part of the team that organizes that. So, and that keeps me out of Mischief at some reason, the end of my fly by. I still got my vehicle in two and a half years left in there, just for the future for us. It's kind of cement. When you when you become the poster boy, for the address here in jail, people who can do a whole bunch of things.

Exactly works. But since yesterday, the futurist, we are praying about how the people they know where we going to talk ourselves next week. Thank you very much.

We ask God, what you want to do, much want us to go and then he took a journey of more interesting things than we would have ever imagined and challenging at times. But what I'd like to say is that just for each of you to tell and yourself ready to say, to call me to tell me what you want me to do. And it maybe it's here right here while you are no birds, or it may be a big a challenge that he has for you approved. And you always just came from very face in the normal backgrounds and Johnny and I'm just telling you be open to going to hear what he wants to be like what his plans are to do this. So we must take to say thank you to Portage tire tracks, each individual ones about who helped the appositive, keeping us out there doing this would be very, very grateful.

Thank you. That's how I feel so many questions I want to ask you. I love that picture of the boy, with a bag of oranges, so big. He could hardly have Kathy. I think you need to come down for a copy of this. Check sent to see if you got any questions that you won't sound. So I told them about the shed, please.

So yeah, so then let me see you here again at the service down there in about three weeks sick.

Father, thank you for this, this calling that you have given support and Cassie and for the way that they have them so Faithfully served you in that cooling over the last couple of decades a load as they are here to rest and recuperate, send find Renu contact with family and friends Lord, we pray of these weeks next few weeks that you would that you would bless them that you get them some time to stop and see you enjoy people to enjoy you two, enjoy time away from what they usually do. We pray for them as they do return load for. I'm your protection for your strength and your courage and your joy in, I won't, you have cooled them to thank you for all the lives that they have. They have touched at 3. They work bringing wholeness and healing I know, we do offer you. I press for pulling for Kathy for the future. I load with you over these next next two years or so. I'm speak to them and give them your guidance as you have so Faithfully in the past I say we thank you for them and pray for your blessing upon them in Jesus name.