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Proverbs chapter 24 verses 11 and 12.

Rescue those who are being taken away to death.

Hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

If you say, behold, we did not know this.

Does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?

Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay man according to his work?

So I read these verses when I was hiking in the mountains of Nepal and seeing people who, for generations, have never heard the gospel.

I was talking to people and village after village.

And when I would ask people, what do you know about Jesus?

Or have you heard about Jesus? And they would say, who's that? They had no knowledge of Jesus of who he is and what he has done, how God is made a way for them to be saved from their sins. And so for generation

after generation, these are people who are,

in the words of Proverbs 2411 being taken away to death. They are perishing every single day for

lack of knowledge. They've never heard the good news of the gospel.

And there are millions upon millions of people like that in the world.

Approximately 2.8 billion, actually, people in the world who have little to know

knowledge of the gospel.

And Proverbs 24 makes clear that God is calling people to rescue them, to pull them back from

death, to take the gospel, the good news of his love to them. And then verse 12 says,

if you say, behold, we did not know this, does not he who weighs the

heart perceive it? Like, we cannot say that we didn't know there were people in the world

who didn't know the gospel. Like, I'm sharing this with you now. I know this in my life. You know

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