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Jeremy Zwiker

Christ In You

We pray, Father, that you will take our lives as holy yours.

And that everything that we do will be brought in you.

How many of you have heard about global north and global south when it comes to geography?

Now global north is everything that you see on top north of this black line, including the stripe.

Well, in 1960, global north, what is blue on the stripe, in 1960, there was 31% of all the baptisms of the Seventh-day Adventist Church were done in Global North, which concludes and is natural, that would be 69% in Global South.

Now the question is, how does it look in 2014?

Those people that don't know the statistic yet maybe you can guess What is the statistic of 2014 of baptism in the Adventist Church in Global North and Global South?

This is including, this is all of North America, it's all of Europe, it's all of Russia, and it's all of Australia.

3% of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is being baptized in global North.

It's quite a striking statistic, isn't it?

This is something that I learned at the GC in 2015 when they presented some statistics and I asked the secretary of the GC if he could send me this chart and his presentation and he was so gracious and he did and there's really interesting information in it but this brings a question how many of you have heard about the 1040 window?

1040 window is this window here And we talk, and rightly so, we talk a lot about it because it's really a missionary field.

It's so important because 1040 stands for 10 degrees north and 40 degrees south, is that right?

40 north and 10 degrees south of the equator.

That's like, this window is what the 1040 window is called.

And it's the place where there is least amount of Adventists.

And half of the population of the earth is in the 1040 window.

And comparatively, there's least amount of Adventists.

And we were just here in Turkey, flying through Turkey to come here.

It was the cheapest way to get to Munich from Athens, which was very convenient.

Istanbul has over 15 million people living there.

We arrived and we took a bus to the place where we were gonna go and we just drove for over an hour, not slowly, quickly, and just saw a city the whole time.

It was a city, it was, and it just expanded, expanded.

And you know how many percent are Muslim?

It's, It's, oh, and we just saw minarets all over.

It was like, I've never seen anything like it.

I've never been to such a city or to, and it was just really striking, And that there's such a huge need.

I mean, so many people have no idea about Christ and what He has done for them.

Yeah, but This is a place where there's the least amount of Adventists and there's so much work to do.

But, something, another statistic that I would like to show you is this.

These are the 13 divisions of the Adventist Church worldwide.

And, there are 13 divisions, and these are the 5 years from 2010 to 2014.

Now, can you guess which 1, which 3 divisions, these are the Baptists, yeah?

Which divisions are the 3 European divisions?

Put up your hand when you think this is this 1.

We have quite some Adventists still in Europe, but could it be that we have a huge problem in Europe with actually baptizing people, with actually having people to come?

And somebody called it the post-Christian triangle.

We are in 1 of the biggest mission fields on this planet.

1 of the most difficult mission fields of this planet.

You know, this is not an easy place to be.

It's not an easy place to win people for Christ.

And the hope, I believe, is in this what I'm going to be presenting and it has to do with the 3 last words that Jesus shared with all of his disciples when they were still united.

I have declared to them your name, and will declare it, that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.

And also, what I'm going to talk about is the message to the Laodiceans.

Now where do you find the message to the Laodiceans?

But this message to the Laodiceans is also combined with a mystery And it's not found in Revelation 3.

A message to the Laodiceans that is also a mystery, that is somehow, Yeah, a mystery.

Did you know there's more messages to the Laodiceans than just in Revelation 3?

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