Same way with our substance.  There is a substance, an essence—the word is anointing—but it’s individual.  It’s not corporate.  There is a substance, the essence of God that God has placed in each and every one of us that only you can step into.  I can’t step into Billy Joe’s anointing.  I can’t step into Richard’s.  I can’t step in my mom’s.

God has given me an anointing.  And when I step over into that anointing, then I am fulfilled in what the Bible calls the glory of God.

Now if you look very carefully—and I’m not going to make you turn there—but the reference of John 17 talks about Jesus in all of His glory.  And then He talks about going on, and this is the night that He knows, “My time has come.”  He’s going to be crucified.

And as He’s about to be crucified, He said, “God, the glory that you placed in me, the glory in me, now I transfer to them.”

There is a glory.  And we think of that word, and we think it’s only just of God.  But when Jesus went to the cross, that same glory that was in Jesus got transferred into us for our own individual anointing.  And that word is the essence of God, and it translates substance.

Now think about that.  He said right here, “These women ministered to Jesus out of their substance.”  Now I could try and sing like Adrian.  It wouldn’t work.  He could try and sing like me.  Jesus, help him!

But you know what?  It’s like when we see a baseball player hit a ball out of the ballpark.  He’s in his glory.

It’s like when we see this young man sing.  He’s in his glory.

What happens when you step into that realm that is your substance and you take that substance and you begin to minister?  Two things will happen.  You’ll either minister to the world and be of the world, or you will begin to minister to God and be of God.  But doesn’t He say, “You are of God, little children.”

Everybody has a substance, but how do they use it?  Realistically speaking, how did Elvis use his?  Realistically speaking, how do some famous basketball players use theirs?  They’re in their glory, but are they glorifying God with what God put in them to glorify Him?  Maybe, maybe not.

And I want to look at the way we fill ourselves and take our substance and give it back to God.  When God fills us with a certain amount of substance, what do you do with it?  You know, if you look at your neighbor—I want you to turn to your neighbor, and it’s a saying I do all the time—turn to your neighbor and say, “You’re full of it.”  Now turn to your other neighbor, and very passionately tell them, “And you’re full of it too.”

Now whether or not that’s a compliment simply depends on what they’re full of, because what you’re full of will eventually manifest.  So what you’re full of depends on what you put in on the inside.

Ankle-deep water, if your kids are afraid of the water, you put them in a little bit, a little dab on them, a little dab off of them, and if they get too frustrated you can take them right out of the water.  Correct?  And they’re not afraid because their head is above the water, right?

But slowly ankle-deep water is not fun anymore, and they want to go to knee deep.  But knee deep is a little harder.  It’s not quite as easy with all that resistance to kick and splash.  And you still can get back to the shore, right?  But it takes a little bit more effort.  So you’re getting a little bit more Word and you’re getting a little deeper, a little deeper.

And God says, “No, I want you to go into shoulder length.”  Now wait a minute.  It was a whole lot of fun in ankle deep.”  And you know what?  You could control ankle  deep.  If you didn’t like the way the anointing was going in your church and you still wanted to have control, you could just pull back from that anointing, and no one would ever even notice that you were just gradually taking your congregation right out of the water.  And you still maintained control.  And you know what?  You were still dignified.  You weren’t all wet.

And yet God is calling us to get out of the ankle and go into the knee-deep water.  And when you get into the knee-deep water, suddenly parts of you are in an area that’s unknown.  You don’t know what’s under there.  Sometimes it’s dark.  Sometimes it’s murky.  Sometimes it’s unknown.

Sometimes you could have the ability to be afraid. But, you know, as a pastor, you shouldn’t act afraid.  So you do it anyway, but inside you something is welling up that you can’t control.  So you try and cover it up with  something that isn’t the Word of God so that nobody notices that you’re in a little bit deeper than you want to be in.

And the only way to sustain yourself is back in the Word, life in the Word.  And so you get comfortable in the knee-deep water, and God calls you somewhere else.  He calls you to get in where the shoulder length is.  That’s still okay because your head is above water, right?  And when your  head is still above water, you’re still in control.  And when you’re still in control, that’s the problem-you are still in control.

And He’s saying, “Honey, take the plunge.”  Remember the Nestea iced tea commercial, where all of the sudden that person falls off and they take the plunge?  And then everything is submerged.  Take the plunge.  Because when you take the plunge and you submerge everything, all of the sudden there’s no turning back.  Yeah, it’s not so much fun anymore, and you’re not totally in control anymore.

JENNIFER: and she said, “Oh, I have that,” and so we started discussing that.  And I completely missed what you were saying about tonsillitis.  But I was taping the show for my husband because he works evenings, and when he came home we watched it, and we saw it together. And I just looked at him, and I jumped up, flew into my daughter’s bedroom, touched her.  Her fever was gone.  I came back, running into the living room, praising the Lord, and I woke her up to see that she was okay, because I had to move her from our bed to her bed.  And she said she was thirsty and she wanted some juice.

And I thought, “Oooh, you just had some before you went to bed and it burned your throat real bad.” And she said, “No, I want some.”  She drank it right down, it didn’t burn, the fever gone.  She is healed.

RR: Ah hah.

LR: God works on reruns too.

RR: Now did you hear her?  She said she was watching it live and she taped it for her husband.

LR: Hallelujah, what a good wife.  From Grand Rapids.  Jennifer, are you in Grand Rapids?  Is she there?  She’s gone.

RR: Oh, I think she’s gone.

LR: How exciting.

RR: Isn’t that wonderful?

LR: Wives are so good.

RR: Give yourself five.  Come on, give wives a good handclap.

LR: High five myself on that one.

RR: Cheryl, minister to us again in song, and then we’re going to begin to pray for the sick.  Just as the Lord leads you, Cheryl.

LR: Amen.  Hallelujah.

RR: Hallelujah.  Give her a welcome as she ministers in song.

Cheryl Salem: Thank You, Father.  Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, Father.

Cheryl Salem Sings:  “He’s a Healing Jesus”

RR: That’s why.  Come on, Lindsay.  ‘Cause He’s a healing Jesus. Like Cheryl just said, He’s a healing Jesus.  What testimony do you have, honey?  I’ve got lots of prayer requests tonight ’cause it’s prayer time.

LR: This one is so precious because my mother is Meemie to the grandchildren, and that’s thanks to Harry and Cheryl’s little boy, Roman.  We always called her Grandmama, and he said, “No, she’s my Meemie.”  And from then on, everybody picked up Meemie. And this testimony came in from a lady named Vivian, and she said

RR: It’s in Ohio.

LR: Ohio.  About four weeks ago Vivian had a stroke.  Her family took her to the hospital that Sunday morning, and at that point she did not have full use of her left hand or her arm, nor did she have her speech, it says.  Her granddaughters phoned in the Abundant Life Prayer Group since “that’s what Meemie always did for us.”

SPKM BILL NORDSTROM From the campus of Oral Roberts University and the City of Faith Health Care Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, today with special guests, Don Potter and Dino Kartsonakis.  Now the Oral Roberts Ministry presents Richard Roberts.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS That’s right.  No matter what it looks like, no matter what the devil is throwing at you, God, my Heavenly Father, can turn things around in your life.  And I want to welcome you to Richard Roberts Live, coming to you from Oral Roberts University, the City of Faith, the Miracle Healing Outreach Center right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  This is a miracle program designed to help you get your needs met.  I was studying my Bible last night and the Word of God told a tremendous story about how Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.”  They got into a boat.  They went out there on the waters of that sea of Galilee, when suddenly a storm began to stir up.  And Jesus had gone to sleep.  And  the disciples did not say what Jesus said.  They didn’t say, “Let us go over.”  They said, “We’re perishing.”  They said, “We’re going to drown.”  They said, “We’re going to die.”  And they went and woke Jesus up and said, “Jesus, don’t You even care that we’re about to perish in this great windstorm?”  You see, they forgot the words of Jesus, when Jesus said, “We’re going over to the other side.”  They said, “We’re going under.” Jesus stood up and there in that ship He rebuked the winds and rebuked the waves and He hushed the sea to sleep.  And those disciples looked at Him and said, “What matter, what matter of man, what manner of man is this?”  Jesus turned and said to them, “Where is your faith?”

And that’s the question that Jesus is asking you and me today, when are  you and I going to stand tall and use the faith that God has given us to go over and not under.  While the devil’s roar is going in your life, God is saying to you, let us go over, let us not go under.  And the ORU Orchestra and I want to bring this song to life of going over, “Let Us Go Over To The Other Side.” Hallelujah.

I’m going over to the other side.  Stay tuned for this message coming up just for you.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Welcome back.  If you just joined us, you’re watching Richard Roberts Live, coming to you from the campus of Oral Roberts University, the City of Faith and the Miracle Healing Outreach Center.  As you can see, we have begun construction on phase two.  And for your part in helping us with one square foot or however many square feet God lays on your heart to sow into this ministry, for your part in that we want to send you this magnificent Roberts Family Guide To Miracles For  The Rest Of Your Life.  It’s beautifully bound in leather.  It’s written by Oral, Evelyn, Richard and Lindsay Roberts, four authors in one book.

There you’re looking at a picture of it now.  And the way you get your copy is, not in any store because it’s not for sale.  You can’t buy it anywhere in America.  The only way you can get it is by helping us as we begin the construction now on phase two of the Healing Outreach center. We’ve been able to get the price of the construction down because we own the land and because we are doing the building ourselves. We’ve got the construction cost down to $40 a square foot.  Now that’s for the building itself.  The Journey in the Bible will come in after the building, of course, is built.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Don, if somebody would like to have you all you have to do is just call the Abundant Life Prayer Group — we’ll get the information to you.  (Amen)  You know, the Bible says, Don, if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and I want to tell you if you are sincere when you prayed with Don just a minute ago, then that thing in your life can be in the past.  Your life can be totally transformed.  And when you pick up your phone and call the Abundant Life Prayer Group — if you feel like you need further prayer we will pray with you again.  We’re concerned, we care. Before our program closes I want to offer you a copy of this book

– YOU CAN BE FREE. Nearly 100,000 people have written and asked for this book.  This book can help you.  It’s a survival manual. Not just for you but for your entire family. It’s serious business with us.  We need the healing power of God. Here is a man — he’s already given you his testimony, and what a powerful testimony it is.  But it doesn’t just stop with a testimony, he know is doing something with his life.  He has already won 15,000 young people to Jesus Christ through his witness.  And he is going to win thousands, and thousands and hundreds of thousands more while he is on this earth.  And I’ve got this word to say to you — God cares about you.  He loves you.  He is concerned about what you are going through.  And he wants to bring a miracle into your life.  Will you receive him today?  Will you receive his miracle?  Will you receive his power?  Will you receive his touch in your life?  Hallelujah.  I believe you will.  Get up and call the Abundant Life Prayer Group. Let us minister to you.  Don, God bless you for being our guest today.

SPKM DON STANLEY Thank you, Brother Richard, we love you.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Praise God for your life and for your testimony.  I’d like you to come and speak at ORU sometime, to our students.

SPKM DON STANLEY I’d love to come.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Will you do it?

SPKM DON STANLEY Yes.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS We’ve run out of time.

SPKM DON STANLEY I knew we would.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS We run out of time every day, but we’ve got tomorrow.

SPKM DON STANLEY I could stay here 2 weeks and not tell you everything.

SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Until we see you next time, no matter what it looks like, remember, God can turn it around for you. (APPLAUSE)

SPKM ORU SINGERS  SONG Turn_it_around SPKM BILL NORDSTROM Guests of the Richard Roberts program fly American Airlines, the official airline of the Oral Roberts Ministries.  Be sure to ask for your copy of YOU CAN BE FREE, a survival manual for those trapped by drugs or alcohol. It is free to those who write or call.  And TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE, the new aerobics video with Cheryl and Friends can be yours for a Seed-Faith gift of $25 to the ministry.  Just write Richard Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, or call 1 918 495-7777.  I’m Bill Nordstrom inviting you to join us tomorrow for another exciting program.  And remember, God can turn it around in your life.

OR:  Richard, right in the midst of this God sent a minister of the gospel across my path, Rev. Green in New Orleans.  You know our dear friend.  (Yes)  And he told me a story, really touched my heart.  He said there was this young man who wanted to be a success and he didn’t know how.  And there was one man in the city that was the most influential, the wealthiest, the most successful, but he couldn’t meet him.  And one day he was thinking about it and he went fishing and looked over and there sat that man fishing.  And he thought, “I wonder how I can meet this man?”  So he walked over and he said, “Mister, my name is so and so, can I fish by you?”  And the man said, “Well, son, sit right down here and be my guest.”  And after a while he said, “Sir, I’ve wanted to be successful all my life and you’re the only successful man I’ve ever met.  Would you tell me how to be a success?” The man said, “Yes, stand on your feet.”  And they stood up and the man promptly shoved him into the water and jumped in right in after him.  And he got him by the hair of the head and plunged him under and then pretty soon jerked him back up, and the boy was trying to get his breath.  He shoved him under again, pulled him up and the guy was trying to breathe. The third time he shoved him under and kept him under until he knew he’d better get him up or he’d drown.  And the boy was just gasping for breath and said, “Mister, why did you do me this way?”  He said, “Son, do you know how you felt when you thought you had only one more breath?”  He said, “Yes.”  He said, “When you want to be a success like you wanted that last breath, you will be a success.”  Somebody said, “Oral Roberts, how much do you want to send God’s medical presence to the nations?”  I said, “I want it just like that boy did who had one more breath or he would die.  I want to live. I want 20 more years in the gospel and I believe God’s going to give them to me.  I’m asking you to stand with me because God’s going to reward you.  You’re going to have favor with God.  When God looks down and sees these medical missionaries all over the earth and the healing teams with them and souls coming to God and the sick being healed, He’s going to look at the ones who sent them.  And I praise God for you.  I’m asking you for two months pledge, pledge this month and next month.  (applause)  Whatever amount God lays on your heart, it may be $50 in July, $50 in August, or $100 or it may be less, it may be more. But do it.  You can’t earn your way to heaven. You’re saved by grace. It’s a gift of God.  But you will be rewarded on your works.  Oh, what a joy it is.  You know, God said this because He believed in us.  (Of course.)  He believed we could do it.  He believed we would do it.

RR:  And He told you to believe it could be done.

OR:  Oh, yes.  When He told me to raise the $8 million, my stomach just turned over.  He said, “I want you to believe you can raise it, believe.”  And I tell you, I’m believing.

RR: Dad, I was sitting here thinking back over the years as you were talking. You know, there’s no group of people in the history of this country that have done what the partners of this ministry have done. I remember as a little boy how we had a farm and you’d pitch a tent and our partners would come from all over America and Canada and from foreign nations and how you would say, “We’re going to build a university, will you help me build dormitories, will you help me build classrooms, will you help me start with nothing?” And those partners, somehow, I don’t know how, but somehow that got in their soul. It got down in their gut where they live. And they said, “Yes, I’ll help you. I’ll sponsor a mattress. I’ll sponsor a, I’ll sponsor a door. I’ll sponsor some tiling, some carpet. I’ll sponsor the ceiling. Yes, I’ll help you buy books for your library. Yes, I’ll help you build that Prayer Tower.” You know, here we are this summer, we’ve been remodeling some of those original dormitories. And I was thinking of that. And I thought to myself, where else on the face of this earth are there a group of people like the partners of this ministry who have singlehandedly built a university? And I thought, where else on the face of this earth have partners, have men and women like you stood together to raise the only medical center of its kind where the doctors and the nurses are Spirit-filled, they have great medical abilities but they also know to pray? Where else on the face of this earth? (Applause) And I was thinking, there’s no other group of people, there’s no group of people on the face of this earth. You say, what are you trying to say? I’m trying to say what Paul the apostle said to the church at Philippi when he wrote in the 4th chapter, when he said, “Nobody communicated with me except you concerning giving and receiving.” There’s nobody that’s done what you’ve done. There’s no one who has built a university like what you have built through this family. There’s no one like you who has built a medical research center where prayer and medicine science are being joined together. Nobody has done it. Nobody has built a Healing Outreach Center with the Journey Through the Bible like you’ve built. And the good news is, it’s only in its first phase. There’s lots more to come. When you go through the Journey Through the Bible this summer or this fall or whenever you come to Tulsa, the first part is only done and you only get through Genesis. There’s the whole Bible all the way through Revelation to be done. But my point is, nobody has done what you’ve done. And I believe that the partners of this ministry are going to rise to the occasion because we are on the way now. We are not going to lose. We’re going to go over the top for God and the nations of this earth are going to be reached with the medical missionaries. Hallelujah!

OR:  Well, I can only tell you that when God said if I don’t turn it around He’s going to take me to heaven, that I’ve asked Him does He mean it literally.  I know you, do you remember what you said to me when I told you that morning that God had spoken to me?

ER:  Yes.  You said that God told you you were on the last rung of the ladder.  And I said, “Well, honey, that could mean 30 years.  It doesn’t necessarily mean that right now you’re on the last rung of the ladder and you may go tomorrow.”  But then when He spoke to you again and said, “I’ll give you one year to turn this around,” I asked you, “Does He mean literally one year in time as we think of time or in God’s eyes time may mean a different thing?  But why is He so urgent about this?”

OR:  Well, I can only reply in two ways, whether He means literally in 12 months, only He knows.  I know I’m going to obey Him.  But I think for sure He’s trying to get our attention. (Yes, yes.)  Because he’s not got the attention of the church. We as a church have neglected the nations.  There are only 50,000 missionaries in the whole world, only 400 medical missionaries in the whole world.  We have 480,000 preachers in the United States, 530,000 doctors in the United States, only 50,000 missionaries and 400 medical missionaries.  If it takes my life to get people’s attention, sobeit.  But if we obey, in fact, I believe we’re going to obey and God is going to let me live. (Applause) But the second thing is this, I believe God has said this because He’s concerned about the healing of the sick.  Jesus preached and He taught and He healed.  The signs and wonders must be restored to the gospel.  And God raised me up to take His healing power to the people in order to win souls and change lives.  Now I want you to think a minute.  Fifty-one years ago there was a 17-year-old boy lying dying with tuberculosis in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.  Three doctors, Dr. Shy, Dr. Craig, and Dr. King worked over me.  Finally they took me for prayer and God restored my life.  Don’t you think He is just as concerned about a 17-year-old boy with tuberculosis in Africa, in Asia, in South America, in some nations where the gospel is not allowed to go, where they are desperate for doctors?  Don’t you think He’s concerned about sick people everywhere?  Don’t you think God cares?  I think that’s what this is all about.  And, you know, I’ve only got two months before we open our medical school for the fall semester, 48 brand-new freshmen.  There are 192 in all four classes. I need your help.  I need you to make a two month Seed-Faith pledge and redirect some of your giving where you don’t know for sure it’s winning souls and healing the sick. Because this is good soil.  And He said if you planted in good soil you will get a hundredfold return and He will restore you seven times what the devil has stolen from you.  (Applause)  Pray about this.  I have a good feeling about it.  I feel so good about it.  I’m encouraged about it, and I’m asking you as my partner who stood by me.  I didn’t build all this.  I was just an instrument.  You partners have done this, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.  And God’s going to reward you, you can count on that.  And I’m asking you for a pledge for this month and next month, say $50 this month, $50 in August or $100 in July and $100 in August, or whatever amount, it’s smaller or it’s larger.  I’m talking to somebody who can sponsor an entire student.  I’m talking to some church that needs to redirect your missionary giving to where you know without a doubt that you will win souls and heal the sick.  My mailing address is Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Or Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In Canada, Oral Roberts, Toronto, Ontario.  And I tell you, I’d love to hear from you.  In fact, I must hear from you.  And God will put you in His reward system.

LR:  You know, one of the things the Lord spoke when He had Oral open up the school was that the students’ work would exceed Oral’s work and in that God will be well pleased.  Well, you know, you’ve got to travel a lot of miles and lay hands on a lot of people and pray for a lot of people to exceed Oral’s work. But this is one way that that prophecy can be fulfilled, because when we send out our teams, they’re going to all the nations where we can’t go as individuals.  One man or one woman can’t go to all those places.  But the more medical teams we send out, the more students we send out, the more healing teams we sent out, they’re going to infiltrate the entire world.  And that promise will be fulfilled then.  (Applause)

RR:  Well, dad, everything is on the line.

OR:  Pardon?

RR:  Everything is on the line.  We must do what God told us to do. And I’d like to just interrupt and say something.  I’m not saying this because my father is here, I’m not saying it because I’m his son.  I’m saying it because it’s true and the truth isworthy to be heard.  Here is a man who was dying with tuberculosis, his sister came in and said to him, “Oral, God is going to heal you.”  He was converted, received Christ because he saw Jesus’ countenance in his own father’s face, in my grandfather’s face, Ellis Melvin Roberts.  He was converted.  He was carried to a healing crusade where a preacher was preaching and praying for the sick.  His brother Elmer, my oldest Uncle Elmer, took him.  And God spoke to him in the back seat of that car and said, “I’m going to heal you and you’re to take My healing power to your generation.”  For more than 25 years he traveled the nations of this earth, more than 46 nations, preaching the gospel, winning many times more than a million souls a year to Christ.  All right, he did what God said.  Then God said, “You are to build Me a university.”  And as you look right now you can see this great campus.  You can see a university that’s unlike any university on the face of this earth, Spirit-filled young men and women, Spirit-filled faculty, staff and administration, students who are learning how to hear God’s voice and how to prepare themselves to go to the nations of the earth.  When God said, “Build me a university,” friend, you’re looking at it.  Then God said, “Build the City of Faith and put prayer and medical science together.”  He had no plan of building a hospital.  He was told to put prayer and medicine together.  But the other hospitals, for some reason, for some reason which only they know, they decided not to allow our medical students to do their clinical work in their hospitals. So we had to build our own hospital attached to the City of Faith.  But thank God, it’s over there.  Prayer and medicine are being merged together right there at this very minute while I’m talking to you.  (Applause)  God said, “Build the Healing Outreach Center and build a Journey Through the Bible.”  The first phase is open.  We’ve been talking to you about it.  And you say, well why are you telling me all this, Richard?  Why are you giving me this history lesson?  I’m doing it because here is a man who has said, “God told me to do this and I did it.  Now God told me to build a university and I did it.  God told me to build the City of Faith and I did it.  God told me to open the Healing Outreach Center with the Journey Through the Bible and I did it.”  All right, here is a man who has credibility in America.  If any man in the United States of America has credibility in what he says God told him to do and then he did it, then his name is Oral Roberts.  (Applause)  Now I’m not saying this because he’s my father.  I’m saying it because he’s a prophet of God. He is an evangelist.  He is an apostle.  He is a trailblazer, and God has said to him, (Applause) “Turn your medical school around.”  Now I think–there are many things that I love about my father–but I think the thing that I love most is the fact that he will die, he will die doing what Jesus told him to do.  He will be obedient.  And the Bible says, “Obedience is better than sacrifice.”  (Applause)  I’ve seen him make many personal sacrifices in his life, but that is no comparison to the obedience of God.  And here is a man who is willing to pay the price, who has been willing for many years, who continues to be willing, and is saying to God, “God, I want 20 more years.”  And when Oral Roberts says, “I want 20 years,” he doesn’t mean ten years of health and then ten years like a vegetable.  He means 20 years of health, 20 years of doing God’s work.  (Applause)  And God said to him, “You must do this.”  Now he’s a man who is obedient.  And you need to hear what he’s saying today because this not only can turn the medical school around and turn foreign missions around and put God’s medical presence in the earth, but, friend, as a direct result it can turn your life around.  It can turn your shattered life into a miracle and bring you the needs, get your needs met in your life.  And I’m serious about this. This is, this is something that is a mandate from God.

OR:  You remind me of–

RR:  They are one of those 34.

OR:  –yes, of a pastor down in Texas who heard about this and met his deacon board and they reexamined their whole missionary program.  And they found that in some places their money wasn’t winning souls and healing the sick.  Richard, you remember he flew up here with a $45,000 check from his church to sponsor one of the ORU medical students to be a medical missionary in a nation.

RR:  And he said, “This isn’t the last of the money you’re going to get, you’re going to get more than this project,” he said, “because I’m with you.  (Applause)

ER:  Honey, let’s get back to the point of why God wants this done and why He’s so urgent about it?  To me the whole result of why He said, “If you don’t turn the medical school around, I’m going to take you home,” the reason He said that is because He’s concerned about hurting medical people in there because a medical person opens up a country so that the other team can get in.  And as an example–let me tell you this–tell the people this.  You know the story and Richard and Lindsay.  But our people don’t know it.  I may have shared it on television once before.  We had a medical team of students who went to Africa a summer or two ago just for the summer and they took some singers and ministers, etc., a whole group of students went.  And they went to a little clinic in Africa.  Two of the young medical people had been examining the patients there because they didn’t have a permanent doctor.  And one night a young woman came in to that clinic and she was just as heathen as she could be.  She’d never heard of Jesus, but she was bleeding to death.  And the young doctors examined her and they said, “This woman has to have blood or she won’t live.” So they went around to all the team to examine their blood to see who had the kind of blood this woman needed, and it happened to be one of those medical students.  And he gave her a blood transfusion of his own blood and saved her life.  The next morning when she came to, they said to her through an interpreter, “Do you know what has happened to you?”  And she said, “Well, I know I’ve been very sick.”  And they said, “This young man right here gave you his blood and saved your life.  But the most important thing that you should hear is that two thousand years ago a man spilled all of His blood on a cross thatyour soul might be saved and you might have eternal life.”  And that young woman accepted Jesus Christ lying right there on the bed.  (Applause) Now that is the end result of what these healing mission teams can do. We who are at home can participate and help to open up a country.  We may not be able to go like the young doctor who will open it up, but if we give to this program the Lord will give–our reward will be just as great.  I really believe that.  Our reward will be just as great if we take a part in helping to open up a nation as the young doctor who was in there and helps to open it up.