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DINANGATS GREET NEWS OF DELIVERER

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Men stood up proclaiming that they`ve been deceived by the enemy and are headed for destruction.

February 20, 2008

by David Bell

Week three of the evangelistic teaching among the Dinangats in Papua New Guinea was a real eye-opener. Day after day men stood up to proclaim that they have been deceived by the enemy and are being led to destruction.

"The power of God's Word is breaking up the ground and starting to take root in their hearts," wrote Jeremiah and April Markley. "They have learned a lot this week, and I constantly watch and listen with amazement as after every lesson different men are getting up and praising God for the truths they are learning!"

"It's quite the challenge to reduce what God has done each week to a few paragraphs," Ralf and Elli Schlegel wrote to their supporters. "So much is happening in the hearts and minds of the people. Everyone is still coming every morning to the teaching and soaking in every word."

On Thursday the missionaries made the first mention of God's promise of a coming redeemer.

"When you were talking about all the punishments I was feeling very cold," Epenang said, "but then when you mentioned the coming Deliverer I felt all warm inside!"

On Friday, one man asked if Satan was allowed to do his own thing or if he has to follow God's thinking. After the missionaries tried their best to answer the question, Basa, one of the literacy teachers, stood and walked to the front. He listed God's attributes and then slammed his foot on the ground, threw his arms open wide and shouted that Satan has nothing on God.

The missionary team is encouraging the people to ask questions and the people are responding.

"When a man dies can his spirit come back and haunt us?" "Can we ask the spirits of the dead for help?" "Does God use the spirit of a dead person and put it in a newborn baby to give him, or her, a spirit?"

This week the people are learning about Cain and Abel, Noah and the ark and the tower of Babel.

Please pray that the eyes and hearts of the Dinangat people will continue to open to God's Truth and that they will come to love the Deliverer and place their faith in Him.