TRAVEL TO DAGESTAN

THERE ARE DOZENS OF PEOPLE GROUPS IN DAGESTAN THAT ARE UNREACHED OR LEAST REACHED. RUSSIANS ONLY MAKE UP ABOUT 5% OF THE POPULATION, BUT RUSSIAN IS THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE. (OF COURSE A HOLD OVER FROM SOVIET DAYS). 91% OF THE POPULATION IS MUSLIM, AND THESE MUSLIMS BEGIN TO BE A LITTLE MORE AGRESSIVE. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF UNREST IN THE COUNTRY OVER THE LAST YEAR, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A MILITANT ISLAMIST GROUP CALLED SHARIAT JAMAAT.

WE ARE GOING TO TRAVEL THERE TODAY. IT WILL SIMPLY BE A FACT FINDING TRIP AND WE WILL NOT VENTURE FAR INTO THE COUNTRY. IT ALWAYS IS STRANGE TO ME THAT HERE TRAVELING FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY IS LIKE TRAVELING FROM STATE TO STATE IN AMERICA. SO THE TRIP IS ABOUT 150 MILES AND WILL BE LIKE TRAVELING TO SOUTH CAROLINA. KINDA.

OUR GOAL WILL BE TO GET A FEEL FOR THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE, AND TO BEGIN TO SEE IF THERE IS A WAY TO OPEN UP ROUTE FOR THE KINGDOM THERE. OUR GOAL WILL BE A SMALL TOWN CALLED KIZLAR WHICH IS RIGHT ON THE BORDER. WE MAY OR MAY NOT STAY OVERNIGHT. HOPEFULLY, WE WILL RETURN TONIGHT.

GOOD SPURGEON STUFF TODAY:

"Your heavenly Father."—Matthew 6:26.

God's people are doubly His children, they are His offspring by creation, and they are His sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call Him, "Our Father which art in heaven." Father! Oh, what precious word is that. Here is authority: "If I be a Father, where is mine honour?" If ye be sons, where is your obedience? Here is affection mingled with authority; an authority which does not provoke rebellion; an obedience demanded which is most cheerfully rendered—which would not be withheld even if it might. The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way. Yield your bodies as instruments of righteousness, because righteousness is your Father's will, and His will should be the will of His child. Father!—Here is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it. Father!—Here is honour and love. How great is a Father's love to his children! That which friendship cannot do, and mere benevolence will not attempt, a father's heart and hand must do for his sons. They are his offspring, he must bless them; they are his children, he must show himself strong in their defence. If an earthly father watches over his children with unceasing love and care, how much more does our heavenly Father? Abba, Father! He who can say this, hath uttered better music than cherubim or seraphim can reach. There is heaven in the depth of that word—Father! There is all I can ask; all my necessities can demand; all my wishes can desire. I have all in all to all eternity when I can say, "Father."

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