Your healthcare's not free! I'm telling you, I don't know about your government. Everything the US Government touches goes broke. It took over the Post Office, it's broke. They took over Amtrak, which is our train system, it's broke.
They took over the Mustang Ranch. The Mustang Ranch was a brothel on I40 in New Mexico, halfway between Dallas and LA, which was meant to provide prostitutes and liquor for truck drivers in the desert.
They got done-in for tax evasion, and the government looked at it and said: they're making millions. We're not going to shut it down, we're going to take it over to provide revenue for the government. They took over the Mustang Ranch, and it went broke. When you can't give away prostitutes and liquor to truck drivers in the desert, your business plan sucks! And God's the failure?
Let me ask you this: has God withheld the resource necessary to fix the world? It's within the power of 400 people to put a huge dent in it, a huge dent. You mean to tell me there's not a lot of government waste in New Zealand? Really? And God's the failure? No, someone buried something, that's the problem.
When I tell you stories like that, if I say: there's 400 people that have $1.27 trillion dollars, what is your immediate gut response? It's like flip, they should do something, right! Are you right? Yes? Are you wrong? Yes? It's none of your business what they do!
Here's my question: if 400 people could accomplish that, what could the top 400,000 do? What could the top 4 million do? What could the top 400 million do?
If you drove a car here today, I don't care what kind of car it is, you're in the richest 700 million people in the world. What are you doing about it? What would happen if all of these people pooled their resources; they said: we are going to unbury our talent, and use it for something? God is calling us to establish heaven on the earth, and part of doing that is being willing to unbury our talent.
According to the World Health Organisation, 16,900 children are going to die today of starvation - today! They're going to die today. There's another 16,900 that are starting to feel the final hunger pangs, and fixing to die tomorrow. And that's true the next day, and the next, and the next. 16,900 children are going to die today; what does your refrigerator look like? Could you not feed one?
Considering the New Zealand dollar is very powerful over the Chinese Yuan, or the South African rand, or - do you know what one New Zealand dollar can do when you send it overseas? Somebody buried something, and I think that someone is us.
Why couldn't, just because of this room, why couldn't that figure be 16,500 children by next year? I mean there's, I don't know, if you count everybody in the building there's probably 400 or 500 people here. Why can't we feed one a piece? What are we doing? Somebody buried something.
I was down in a place called Gore right, Gore! What a great name for a town; where do you live? I live in Gore. From my understanding - you guys live here, but my understanding, Gore is the richest city in New Zealand per capita; so per capita, they're the richest people in the whole place. The problem is it's the town next door to Gore, which I can't think of, is the poorest; so in New Zealand you have this situation where the richest people are living next door to the poorest people.
There is a friend of mine down there, who has become one of my heroes. Her name is Pam Highsted, and she looked at one of my teachings, and she got moved in her heart. She said: you know this is not okay; so she started an after school program for underprivileged children in the town next door. She said: please, you were the inspiration for this. Would you come and speak to these kids, which I'm horrible at speaking to kids. I don't even know what to say. I look at them, and I like tell them Hebrew words. I don't know what to do, so I said: yes, I'll do it, right.
Now let me paint the picture for you. It was in July, and it was one degree, it was blowing rain sideways, so I don't even know where to go. So I'm looking for the room, and its blowing rain, and its freezing, and a seven year old comes running by with no shoes on. I said: I'm going to follow him right, because he obviously knew where the room was, so I sort of followed him.