Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Let's give you all a second to turn to that page.
258 begins,
Sinners Jesus will receive
number 258.
Let's receive us as we are.
258.
Left your voice on that first now.
Sinners Jesus
will receive
sound this word
of grace to all
through the
heavenly path with me.
All who live
for all who love
sing it all
and more again.
Christ
receive a
simple man.
Make the message
clear and plain.
Christ receive
a simple
man.
Come and he will give
you rest.
Trust him for his word
is clear and plain.
He will take the
simple land.
Christ receive a
simple man.
Sing it all
and more again.
Christ receive
a simple man.
Make the message
clear and plain.
Christ receive
a simple
man.
Now my heart
condemns me not.
You're the Lord
though I stand.
He who plants me from
our sky.
Satisfied in
everlasting land.
Sing it all
and more again.
Christ receive
a simple man.
Make the
message clear
and plain.
Christ receive
a simple man.
Christ receive
a simple man.
Even me
with all my sin
purge from every
sudden sin.
Heaven with him
I enter in.
Sing it all
and more again.
Christ receive
a simple man.
Make the
message clear
and plain.
Christ receive
a simple
man.
Amen. Great
start to our singing tonight. We want to go and ask
the Lord's blessing on the service. Good to have Pastor Aaron Thompson
here with us.
Your heavenly
Father and Lord we thank you so much for this great
missions conference and Lord we just ask
that you bless the services tonight.
Brother Chris with your
Holy Spirit Lord we pray that you just bless all the
rest of the events and all the rest
of the preaching that happens and
Lord we're so thankful
for this great church here Lord.
We pray that you just bless the service now. In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Amen. Back a few pages.
253.
He must be born again.
Him 253
begins the ruler once came
to Jesus by night.
Number 253
might be unfamiliar to some of you but if you know it
let's sing it out together.
Him number 253.
Sing it out now.
A ruler once came
to Jesus by night
to ask in the way of salvation
and light.
The Master made answer
in words true and plain.
He must be born
again.
He must be born again.
He must
be born again.
I
verily, verily
say unto thee
He must be born
again.
Ye children of men
attend to the
word so solemnly
uttered by Jesus
the Lord and let
not the message to you
be in vain.
Ye must be born
again.
Ye must be born
again.
Ye must be born
again.
I verily,
verily say unto
thee He must
be born again.
Oh
ye who would enter the
glorious rest
and sing with the ransom
the song of the blessed
the life everlasting
if you would obtain
ye must be
born again.
Ye must
be born again.
Ye must
be born again.
I
verily, verily
say unto thee
ye must be born
again.
A dear one
in heaven thy heart
can see see at the beautiful
game may be watching
for thee then
listen to the note of this
solemn refrain.
Ye must be born
again.
Ye must be born
again.
Ye must be
born again.
I verily,
verily say unto
thee He must
be born
again.
Good singing.
Alright, this time we'll just
quickly go through a couple of
announcements. If you don't have a
bulletin, put up your hand if you
don't have a bulletin, the one that has the schedule
on the back. I'm going to borrow yours,
sorry. But if you need
a, now you need one, so put up your hand.
So put up your hand if you need
a bulletin that has the schedule on the
back. This is the most important
thing. Don't
look at the soul winning times
like inside the bulletin. That's on a normal
typical week.
During the conference, the
only stuff that's happening during the conference
is just what you see here on the back.
So this schedule supersedes
the normal soul winning schedule.
And of course we've got the service
tonight and we're going to hear
from Brother Chris Segura once again
about Columbia
tonight. And then after
the service, if a few people
want to stick around, help out, tearing
down direct, tearing down decorations
and putting up the decorations
for tomorrow for Germany
Day. And I believe
that Mrs. Madison, are
you in charge of, who's
doing Germany Day?
Who is it? Catherine
Dickin. Okay, so Catherine Dickin
is the one to see here.
And so after the service, she can
give instructions and help you out. We're going to
be taking down the old decorations,
putting up the Germany stuff.
So tomorrow, we're going to have the
morning service right here, 10 30 a.m.
And we're going to have Brother Dylan
Oz preaching. Soon
to be Pastor Dylan Oz.
Okay, so it's just
a couple weeks, folks. He's
practically a pastor. And so
it's going to be great. He's going to get
ordained in about two
weeks and two days, I think, something like that.
And he's going to be pastoring
in Oklahoma City.
And so we're excited about that. I believe it's going to be
called Anchor Baptist Church.
And so praise God
for that. He's going to be preaching tomorrow morning because he
actually did missions in Germany.
So he's going to preach about his trip to Germany
and the soul winning that he did over there.
And then we're going to have
a little bit of a different schedule because we're going to have a soul winning
time at one o'clock
right here. So you can go get lunch, whatever.
Soul winning time meets at one
o'clock. And then
after soul winning,
we're going to be going to Papago
Park for the church picnic.
So this is the same
location for those of you faithful word people, you know
where this is because it's where we always
go for the church picnic.
College and Curry.
So if you're an out of towner, you might want to
write this down.
The corner of College and Curry
is where you're going because if you just type in
Papago Park, sometimes it can
take you to other parts of Papago Park because
it's like a huge park.
So you want to make sure that you're on the corner
of
College and Curry. All right. Just remember
College and then
Pastor Shelley's favorite spice.
And you're good to go.
OK. College and Curry.
Easy to remember.
And then
that it says three o'clock.
But here's the thing. You can get there
early for that. You can get there late
for that. That's just kind of a rough
time when people are probably going to start
ending up over there. But you can go there
before that. You can get there
after that. The food is actually
going to start being served more
like four thirty or five.
Actual like a dinner time.
So expect the food to start happening
at four thirty because we want to make sure
that we can get everybody served the food
and fed and everything and then back
here for church at seven tomorrow
night. And let me tell you something. This
German picnic is going to be something
special. OK.
This is really
high quality stuff.
OK. Lola I don't know why you laugh because you
helped make some of the food. So
you know she's just excited.
She just can't contain the joy over
there. OK. That's how I'm going to interpret
that. But let me tell you something.
This food
is going to be really
really high end stuff like
like if we put you on a plane
and
sent you to Germany
what you're going to eat tomorrow is
going to be better. And I'm not exaggerating.
OK. So these are going to be like
super duper ridiculously
authentic high quality
German pretzels.
OK. So this is probably going to
be the best pretzel you've ever had.
Not to build it up too much or anything
but it's true.
And then also we're going to have
bratwurst
and other stuff. A lot of cool
German stuff. I think we're going to be having some of the
what are they are they called
Gibbrandt Mandel?
Is that right?
Yeah. So which translates literally as
burnt almonds but they're not burnt. OK.
They're just like roasted
candied almonds. So we're going to have like some
desserts. We're going to have
pretzels. We're going to have bratwurst.
It's going to be really cool.
And so you're in for a treat tomorrow
with that.
And then we're going to be hearing in the evening
service from brother
Anselm Urban of course
about Germany
and the things that have happened over there
and the trials and tribulations as well
as the successes.
OK. But tonight we
got something really cool before the sermon.
I've asked brother Kevin
Rowe to come at this time and I've got your
microphone Kevin if that's what you're looking for.
I'm just going to wire you up with this.
But brother Kevin Rowe
has come up with this idea.
It's such a cool idea.
I thought it was cool when I first heard about it.
He successfully executed it with
several other church members.
So he's going to teach us
about this thing of
cruise ship soul winning.
OK. It's going to be good. Here we go.
Just go ahead and stick that in your pocket.
All right.
So I want to just talk briefly
about a Caribbean cruise mission trip
that I led last month. I think they handed
out an insert that basically shows the
itinerary and some of the
pictures from that. But basically this idea came
to me because I have a desire to get someone
to save as many countries as I can
and cruises are a cost effective way to do that.
And right now there are cruises that
you know there's thousands of cruise itineraries
that are available and they go to all
American continents including every
country at this year's conference
excluding Armenia.
And they even have cruises that loop around
the entire world you know if you had so
much time to do that.
But basically for the North American
cruises there's basically four options
and I want to kind of show you on the map here.
But basically there's you know
because you have a hub where the cruise
sends out from. Basically there's one option
where you can start from California
side and basically do
you know Baja California Mexico
somewhat of Central
America within a week. But since
that speaks Spanish and I don't speak Spanish
I didn't do that one. The other option is
basically Texas or Louisiana
a lot of those cruises go to Mexico
Belize a little bit of Central America
again I didn't choose that one.
The other option is pretty much Florida
which mostly will do these upper islands
you know Bahamas
Jamaica and some of the ones
you can go a little farther down with those
cruises but then you wind up
having at least one day of just
on the sea travel on the sea back
so within one week you would probably
only see maybe three islands
and so we went with option four where if you actually
fly in to Puerto
Rico which is very
good because it's an American territory you can
fly there cheaply for about three hundred dollars
and now you're surrounded by all these
countries and all these islands
and you can basically do many islands
in one week with very little
down time. Of course if you
had the time to do two week mission trips
you can do a lot of other cool things
for instance you can actually go from California
all the way to Florida through the
Panama Canal and do these really elaborate things
but we were just trying to do a one week
cruise and we were trying to do it
you know as many countries as possible for as cheap as possible
so you know with my
pretty much ideal itinerary found
which is the one that I chose
here's how it went down so you know the first day
we flew into San Juan Puerto Rico
we got there about two o'clock and we
Ubered from the airport
to the cruise terminal and what's
nice is that Puerto Rico is pretty much
the only you know Caribbean country
that even has Uber access so it's real cheap
real easy to do that we boarded
the boat pretty much like going through the TSA a second
time we put our bags
in the room and then we basically had
one of our first buffets and
so the big part about the cruise
is really the food right so
how the buffet works is basically there's a
buffet area on the boat that's open
from sunrise to sunset
and they have distinct menus for like breakfast
lunch dinner and then kind of snack times in between
and they have a bunch of different stations for different
types of food right there's like a Mexican
Indian Italian British you know
it's massive everything you could want is there
and then they also have like you know a salad bar
ice cream you know shop bread place
drink thing and everything's free
right all you can eat at all times of
the day everything's free except for like
cans and bottles you know you have to pay extra for that
and also
every day everything is new
right there's never the same thing twice
so after we ate we
left the boat cause this was like our first day we
went to a local mall called Plaza Las
Americas which happens to be the largest
mall in all of the Caribbean it's the second largest
mall in the Latin American
speaking world we figured that'd be a good place
to find some English speaking
people just cause it was a big mall right
it still wasn't that easy
though but we did get one person saved
in English and one person saved in Spanish
we only had a couple hours till the boat had to leave
so we went back to the boat and had
our first dinner and
so there's a separate outside of the buffet system
there's a separate kind of fancy dinner
system where you know once
per night you can sign up to this fancy
have reservations and you're basically
you know you're given a menu that has like
starters, entrees, desserts
and you can order as much as you want cause again everything's
free and you know some of the things we ate were
steak, lobster, prime ribs
salmon, beef wellington
and we all pretty much ate an absurd amount of ice cream
but I have no regrets
so
the basic itinerary
for the boat, the boat's basically
at each island from
8 am to 6 pm which leaves
about 9 hours per day during
the day and then overnight is when
the boat's going to the next one so pretty much
you wake up every morning and
you're in a new country so the itinerary
that I set was pretty much from 8 to 9
we'd eat breakfast while it's arriving
at port and then we'd walk or taxi to town
9 to 12 we'd go
soloing for about 3 hours
12 to 2 we'd go back to the boat and cool off
we'd eat lunch and then we'd go back out
2 to 4 we'd go out soloing for another 2 hours
and then you know
4 to 5 we'd go back to the boat
leaving a little time you know you want to leave a little buffer
in there and then normally
from there you know we'd pretty much shower
we'd eat at the dinner buffet
then we'd relax or do maybe a recreation
then we'd go to the fancy dinner
like a second dinner right
then you'd eat like your dessert
at the fancy place
then you'd go back to the buffet for the
post dessert dessert
and yeah so we ate a lot
it was great but because
we split the day in half like that
we were able to you know
as needed kind of take a half day off
like oh I'm not feeling good
I'm going to sleep in and
I'm going to start soloing after lunch
this or that and so we kind of alternated that
so we didn't go ultra hardcore
in this thing we probably did about 3 or 4 hours
of soloing per day you definitely could
do more like I said you have over 9 hours
on the island every day
but the thing is right the boat everything's
free so at any point you can just go back and
you don't really have to spend money in a country
you can just go get it all free at the boat
which is nice
so the next thing I want to describe is pretty much how a port city
works there's always going to be like a tourist area
which is going to be like a few blocks
or streets that are just you know
where everyone is trying to sell you stuff
so it's not a very good idea to preach there
just because all they want to do is sell you things
but outside of that you're pretty much going to have a business area
for all the locals where they shop
and then outside of that it's probably going to be the residential area
and either of those would be great for soloing
and now the ship can dock
either directly in the tourist area
or in like an industrial area
where you'll have to either walk for a half hour
or take a taxi
a taxi is definitely the better option
once you're in that tourist area you pretty much just have to walk
a few blocks in any direction
and you'll find great people to preach to
and obviously if you're organizing the map
you should plan all that on Google My Maps
so the second day was our first port
which was Phillipsburg St. Martin
and since it was our first day
we made a couple mistakes
we tried to stay out all day
we didn't kind of use that free lunch system
so we learned
and the second thing is we did walk
we did the far walk, we got blisters
so that's how running a mission trip is
you have to kind of be adaptable and learn on the fly
and the other downside though
is that because this was a Sunday
pretty much everything was closed
and I was really looking forward to St. Martin too
because like right a couple blocks from the boardwalk
is their main university
but it was all closed
we actually went and talked to like a security guard
but weren't able to really preach to anybody
but we did some soloing in the business and residential areas
and we got 16 people saved there
and you know
so we got better on a weekday
and I think this country still has a great opportunity there
so I definitely want to come back
and we wound up hanging out just on the boardwalk
and the beach, you know, tourist area
and they were both very nice
day three we went to St. John's in Tigua
and unlike St. Martin
here, you know, once you're off the boat
you're right in the action
so in the morning we went soloing in a residential area
but it was pretty much raining the whole time
so we were walking around with umbrellas
we got a few salvations in English, a few in Spanish
but after lunch, though, we went soloing
you know, just like right off the boat
just a couple blocks away
and they were just surrounded by what was apparently
when all the school kids got off their school
so everyone was just
the streets were packed with students
and kind of like what Caleb said, you know
preaching to the students is really like a cheat code
for missions, right, it's just like
you're going to get a bunch of salvations
so because of that, you know, most of us thought
this was the best island on the trip
right, Brother Mark said it felt like he was back in Fiji
a total of 26 salvations, most of which
were in the afternoon
so on day four, we went to Castori St. Lucia
now this is another one
where you want to taxi to the city, it's pretty far
we started off in the morning
the same spot the previous faithful word trip went to
was Derek Walcott Square
and a little background, you know, I had my honeymoon this year
in St. Lucia, and while I thought the country
was beautiful, you know, I personally thought
the soloing was kind of awful
while we were there, you know, we had a lot of people get really confrontational
about us and yell at us about eternal security
so I was kind of curious to see is it going to be better
this second time around
unfortunately it really wasn't
we had the same issues at this square
and, you know, this square had like two different
Jehovah's Witness stands set up
you know, it had a lot of like
17 Adventists we met
and just a lot of like Rastas I kept running into
that I was sure were demon possessed
and in my opinion, the Rastas are the worst of the three
but despite all that
we were still able to get a couple people saved
including a bus driver who gave us a free ride back to our ship
and then after that, you know, we tried different tactics
again, you gotta, if it's not working, you gotta change
right, so, tried a different tactic
we went to like a covered market where people were just like
selling produce, and we were pretty much just
selling to the stall people because there wasn't that many people
buying stuff, and so we had really
good success there, you know, there weren't really
I guess heretics buying produce, so
so we got
a lot of salvations are taking our total up to 21
but, you know, despite kind of a good number
of salvations, most of us
kind of ranked it pretty low because we all had pretty bad experience
at some point or another
just people being mean to us
but the next day though, we were in Bridgetown, Barbados
you know, and here we took the
just $2 shuttle to the city and
you know, there's large parks, a lot of people around
and unlike St. Lucia, you know, everyone's super friendly
and we had some really easy
salvations and
we also walked a few blocks to just like
a public beach, and it was really
like a lot of us said, it was one of the best beaches we've ever
been to, you know, the water was really clear, the sand was really
fine, it was really warm
but because we did that
you know, kind of on the fly
we kind of stayed out long
so we, you know, had a late lunch, we went back
and then afterward, you know, it was kind of too
late to go back out to the city with the bus
so then we just tried, we were in the industrial
area, we were like, let's just try
you know, going around to these businesses and just
reaching the industrial area, and we had a couple
of salvations there too, so even that worked out well
so, I think I'd rank Barbados
as the second best island, we didn't
run into all the school, you know, kids in
Antigua, this would probably be the best island
certainly it was, you know, the prettiest as well
so day six
you know, it was kind of our last
country, was
Rosio Dominica, I don't know how to pronounce it
this place, you know, was pretty rough in general
I think also we were, you know
with all these days in a row, pretty long
days, we were pretty worn out
so we didn't really stray super far
this day either, we stayed pretty much on the
main street, which was just like packed full of people
but because of that, everyone
was really busy, no one really wanted to listen to you
and, you know, I had a lot of people that were like
heckling me from across the street
I had a lot of like Rosses would come up and
break up conversations and kind of ruin
ruin it, but
we went up the street, we visited this botanical
garden and saw some nature as our
recreation, but because it was like
you know, not very receptive and
also it was like incredibly hot
we didn't stay off the boat for very long, it was
one of the few days we actually went to the boat like three
times, it was just so hot we needed
AC, so most
of us would pretty much rank
Dominica as our worst island
but we still had six salvations and our last salvation
today was kind of a really sweet
woman who was just like crying the whole time
so it was definitely worth it to us, you know
we still enjoyed it
day seven was basically the one day that we had that was
at sea, so we weren't on a country at all
but we tried to do
some of the things on the boat, the boat has like tons
of stuff to do and we didn't utilize
even a fraction of it, but we tried to find some of it
so we watched a few live shows
we played pickleball, we did axe
throwing, we had an archery competition
and obviously there's like ungodly
things to do on the boat, there's like a casino
but the boat's laid out in such
a way that you could pretty much spend the whole week
and never even see that stuff
we didn't even go near the pool or the bars
and stuff, so we didn't see
really anything that we shouldn't
and honestly you're going to see more
bad stuff just on the Caribbean island
than you are on the boat just because the Caribbean
is known for just kind of pot smoking and drunkenness
and everything else, so
guess you have to take that how you will
one of the things that I enjoyed on the boat though is that
all the workers had name tags
and the name tag said, obviously their name, but it said
like what country they're from
and pretty much the main countries they're from were India
Indonesia, Philippines, Zimbabwe
Kenya, and South Africa
so pretty all receptive countries
we didn't really do any preaching on them
on the boat because they're all working
but at the last day we didn't hand out
a bunch of YouTube cards, but one of the things I was
trying to do on the boat was pretty much
be able to greet everyone in their own language
I would just try to see their name tag and try to greet them
and I have a whole list
on them, but the funniest I thought was
Indonesian, you know, to say what's up
you say apa kebab, and the answer is
bike bike, so I thought that was fun
but anyway, day 8 was our last day
we got back from the San Juan Puerto Rico
this time we had to actually have all of our bags
so we just went to the same
same mall again
and we pretty much just like sat down at a table
with all of our bags around, and we tried a
kind of new strategy, you know, I can only speak three
sentences in Spanish, but
I would pretty much go up and use those three sentences with somebody
if they kind of answered them right
I'd kind of point them over and they'd
basically sit down at a table with us
you know, Lolo would preach to them and then they'd get
saved, so we actually had two salvations
entirely in Spanish like that, so it was a good
system, we got a few more salvations there
so just as an overview
you could see some of the countries we visited
were great, some, you know, not so much
but what's great about this format is that you
kind of get a little sample of each island, right
and if it's not receptive, well, you know, the next day
everything resets, you don't have to
go there again, and of course obviously if you find
a hidden gem, then a church can
transition and be like, hey, let's do a full
week long mission trip there
and I believe, you know, cruise is a
great first time mission trip, either
as a participant or as an organizer
because, you know, one of the key metrics that
we look for is just enjoyability
you know, we don't want people to come
get work to the ground and then never come
again, right, we want people to become lifelong
lovers of missions and
you know, this was easily like one of
our most enjoyable and kind of luxurious
mission trips, you know, we're
we all definitely want to go on a cruise again
and a little bit, you know, just
kind of the background, like finances, right
you know,
this is really a very cost effective
way, for the cruise itself, you know, I paid
$1300 for my wife and I
our flights were $300 each
and paid about $100 extra
on like Ubers and taxis, so pretty much it was
$1000 per person, Johnson
family also paid the same
and, you know, I should note obviously, like
it's a little more expensive if you try to have a single
cabin, they'll charge
you more, so you pretty much need to book with at least
two people, but that's really as
many people as you need and as brother Sigur
alluded to earlier, you know, a lot of people don't really
realize how expensive some of these trips can be
especially in the Caribbean, it's a very expensive place
especially with like food, but
here, you know, the best
food that you can get, it's all free
and you can easily spend, you know, $1500, $2000
if you had to pay for everything yourself
but, you know, here
you know, and even if you pay that $1500
you're probably in an Airbnb and you're probably eating
you know, ham sandwiches, you're not
eating, you know, steak, lobster and ice cream, so
but, you know,
obviously we're blessed to have such a generous church
who on a lot of these trips has paid a lot of those expenses
but without their help, you know,
some of those trips wouldn't be financially viable
just as like a solo person or two people
right, so maybe you go to a church
that can't do all that supporting
or maybe you just want to run a trip on your own, you know
a cruise is a great, you know, alternate
for that because it's all paid for just for one
flat fee, so even
you know, whether it's two people or 20 people, you know
it's all the same price and pretty much the
same way to organize it, and not to mention
you know, I think we all personally paid
for our ticket just with the food that we ate
so, um
the final thing is basically, you know, I think
the best thing about the cruise is that it's like, it's very
scalable, um
you know, I talk a lot with Raymond over the years about
just running trips and how this works
and you know, if I was running a cruise trip
and 100 people sign up, like
I'd hardly have to plan, but if 100
people signed up for a traditional trip, you know, it's kind
of a logistical nightmare, right, there's like
things like lodging, you know, like
yeah, there's hotels or Airbnbs and
while Airbnbs are cheaper, you know
Raymond's found out that if you just book too many at once
they just ban you for life, like, you know
so, it's kind of dangerous in that regard
um, and then also for instance
rental cars, you know, normally
with a trip like this, you know, if you're
all driving around, you need to have
one out of five people more or less sign
up to be a driver, and
you know, that sometimes they might have to put their credit
card on the line, their insurance policy on the line
and then they're driving in an unfamiliar
and maybe stressful environment
and you know, and I've done that in the past
and I've enjoyed it, like I enjoy driving, you know
left hand stick shift and
Nagaland, you know, on the left side of the road
and up, you know, that was all fun, but now obviously
not everyone, you know, may enjoy that and
uh, many people really don't want to be
pressured in driving, so, you know, a trip with no cars
is great and what's nice is that, you know
they drive you for you right on the boat
and you know, finally, you know, obviously
food's a big thing, you know, I know
you know, Raymond for instance, you know
on a couple of trips has kind of spent like a whole trip
just buying food and transporting
it to all the different Airbnbs and hotels and stuff
and I never really had a good chance to go soul winning
and you know, I think that's
that's not ideal, I like just leaving all the logistics
to the cruise line and just enjoying
kind of a stress free, but fruitful
mission trip and obviously it's not going to replace
traditional missions, but I think it's a
it's a good way, especially
uh, if you're just starting out or you just want to try
something and have very stress free
you know, and not have to deal with all the kind of admin
work that sometimes running a mission trip does
because there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that you don't really see
um, so kind of in closing
right, I think that uh, you know
I just hope you guys would consider
you know, this kind of new style of mission trip
you know, obviously I'm going to keep doing them
probably the Johnson's are going to keep doing them
uh, so hopefully you guys will come with us
so otherwise, thanks, God bless, right
yeah, I think it's such a great idea
uh, you know, it just
it's, it's tailor made for our philosophy
around here of common sense
missions and just the way
the way it works out and I mean the price
I mean a thousand bucks a person
it's pretty hard to plan a mission
trip for less than a thousand
bucks, I mean, and so that's
incredible and
I mean, do the math, they got like what, 80 some
people saved, right
five people go out there for a week
get 80 some people saved, that's
incredible results and I like
the idea of kind of sampling
all the different mission fields and then
later you can send a big group to the good ones
and whatever and I really
love what he said about how
you know, people that are in say
an old IFB church
where, you know, you're buying
tracts to hand out even locally
they're selling you the tracts, you know
nothing's free with the old
IFB, you know
if there's ice cream after
the service, you're paying for it, you know
and so the thing is
you know, if you're going to that type of
a church where, let's say you're going to an old
IFB church, you could literally just get together with a
buddy, you and one
just a couple of dudes could just be like
hey, let's get a week
off from work, we both got a thousand
bucks, you could do this
and it's like no excuse
not to do a DIY mission
trip, I think
it's great and you could get four
people, two people
six people, it's scalable
like he said, you're not going to be like whoa
there's too many people coming
and I've been to these ports, I've never been
on a cruise, you know, full disclosure
so I don't know what that's
like, sounds great though
but I've never done it, but I have
definitely been to these port
cities, because I've been on so many trips where the
ship is right there and I
see the people kind of getting off the ship and getting
on the ship and so I know exactly how
these cities work
and like he said, you
literally walk like
ten minutes and you're
out of the tourist area and you
are in that country
and you are deep into that country
after walking for ten, fifteen minutes
and it's like two different worlds
where everybody's poor
it's all the locals and whatever
you just get out of that tourist zone
but 99% of the people on the cruise
they're staying in that tourist zone
I've always found that
getting out of the tourist areas
is a more authentic experience
anyway, like whenever I travel to other countries
I'm actually more interested
in kind of getting the real life
than just seeing a bunch of
like, um, I want to
say, I never can think of a
good word for that in English
uh, you know, the sights I guess
you could say, and so I always want to
you know, see the real stuff
I, for me it's so much more fun
to go sit in someone's living
room in a foreign country and kind of
experience their house and their life
and their family and eat a home cooked meal
is way cooler than just
hey, let's go look at, you know, Mount Rushmore
or, you know, the pyramids or whatever
and so
I love this idea
I hope that people online are listening to this
I hope that you guys are listening to this
and realizing how this is something you could
probably successfully execute
with a week off work
and, you know, a thousand bucks
maybe fifteen hundred bucks, and you could really have
a lot of fun
and probably get a bunch of people saved
and do valuable recon
that you can then
tell us about, and tell other
soul winning churches about, and tell us
which islands are good
which ones are dead, that information
is gold, so
thank you very much, brother Rowe, really appreciate
that, let's just sing
one more song, and then let's
go ahead and get into
the brother Sigur's sermon, do we have one
more song?
Yeah, we can tally up the soul winning quickly
as well, any soul winning to report from today
that I could tally up quickly?
Alright, let me just mount this
Alright, yeah, boom
boom, boom, did you have something?
Okay
Okay, okay, I see that, alright
anything, oh, gotcha
Okay, gotcha
Alright
Got it
Alright, anything else from today?
Alright, very good, let's sing one more song
and then we will read our scripture
and hear from brother Sigur
Alright, you should find the insert in front of your hymnal with the hymn entitled
We Have a Story to Tell to the Nations
So we'll sing this out together
We have a story to tell
to the nations that shall turn their hearts
to the right
We have a story
to tell to the nations
that shall turn
their hearts
to the right
A story of truth
and sweetness
A story of peace
and light
A story of
peace and light
For the darkness
shall turn to
dawning
And with dawning to new
and bright
And Christ's great
kingdom shall come on earth
The kingdom of love
and life
We have a song to be sung
to the nations
that shall lift
their hearts to the Lord
A song
that shall conquer
evil
And shatter the spear
and sword
And shatter the spear
and sword
For the darkness shall
turn to dawning
And with dawning
to new and bright
And Christ's
great kingdom shall come
on earth
The kingdom of love
and life
We have a message to give
to the nations
that the Lord
the rain and the mud
has sent us
the sun to save
us
And show us that God is
love
And show us that God
is love
For the darkness shall
turn to dawning
And with dawning
to new and bright
And Christ's
great kingdom shall come
on earth
The kingdom of love
and life
We have a Savior
to show to the nations
who the path of sorrow
has run
That all of the world's
great peoples
might come
to the truth of God
Might come
to the truth of God
For the darkness
shall turn to dawning
And with dawning
to new and bright
And Christ's
great kingdom shall come
on earth
The kingdom of love
and life
This time we're going to read our scripture
Sounds like it's Matthew chapter 9
Matthew chapter
number 9
It's not Mark 9?
Matthew 9, alright
Matthew chapter number 9
and brother Nick will read
you follow along silently as he reads
Matthew chapter 9 starting in verse number 1
Matthew chapter 9 the Bible reads
And he entered
into a ship and passed over
and came into his own city
and behold they brought to him a man
sick of the palsy lying on a bed
and Jesus seeing their faith
said under the sick of the palsy
son be of good cheer
thy sins be forgiven thee
and behold certain of the scribes
said within themselves this man
blasphemeth and Jesus
knowing their thoughts said
wherefore think ye evil in your hearts
for whether is easier to say
thy sins be forgiven thee
or to say arise and walk
but that ye may know that the
son of man hath power on earth to forgive
sins then saith he to the
sick of the palsy arise
take up thy bed and go unto thine house
and he arose and departed
to his house but when the multitudes
saw it they marveled and glorified
God which had given such power
unto men and as Jesus
passed forth from thence he saw
a man named Matthew sitting at the
receipt of custom and he saith unto him
follow me and he arose
and followed him and it came to
pass as Jesus sat at me in
the house behold many
publicans and sinners came and sat down
with him and his disciples and when
the Pharisees saw it they said unto
his disciples why eateth your master
with publicans and sinners
but when Jesus heard that he said unto
them they that behold need
not a physician but they that are sick
but go ye and learn what that meaneth
I will have mercy and not
sacrifice for I am not
come to call the righteous but sinners
to repentance then came
unto him the disciples of John saying
why do we and the Pharisees fast off
but thy disciples fast not
and Jesus said unto them
can the children of the bride chamber mourn
as long as the bridegroom is with them
but the days will come when the bridegroom
shall be taken from them and then
shall they fast no man
putteth a piece of new cloth
unto an old garment for that which is
put in to fill it up taketh from
the garment and the rent is made worse
neither do men put new wine into
old bottles else the bottles break
and the wine runneth out and the bottles
perish but they put new
wine into new bottles and both are
preserved while he spake these
things unto them behold there came a
certain ruler and worshiped him saying
my daughter is even now dead
but come and lay thy hand upon her and
she shall live and Jesus
arose and followed him
and so did his disciples and behold
a woman which was diseased
with an issue of blood twelve years came
behind him and touched the hem of his garment
for she said within herself
if I may but touch his garment I shall behold
but Jesus turned him
about and when he saw her he said
daughter be of good comfort
thy faith hath made thee whole
and the woman was made
whole from that hour
and when Jesus came into the ruler's house
and saw the minstrels and the people
making a noise he said unto them
give place for the maid
is not dead but sleepeth
and they laughed him to scorn
but when the people were put
forth he went in and took her by the hand
and the maid arose
and the fame thereof
went abroad into all that land
and when Jesus departed thence
two blind men followed him crying and saying
thou son of David have mercy on us
and when he was come into
the house the blind men came to him
and Jesus saith unto them believe
ye that I am able to do this
they said unto him yea Lord
then touched he their eyes saying
according to your faith be it unto you
and their eyes were opened
and Jesus straightly charged them saying
see that no man know it
know it but they
when they were departed spread abroad his
fame in all that country
as they went on behold they brought to him
a dumb man possessed with a devil
and when the devil was cast out the
dumb spake and the multitudes marveled
saying it was never so seen in Israel
but the Pharisees said he
casteth out devils through the prince of the devils
and Jesus went about
all the city and villages teaching
in their synagogues and preaching the gospel
of the kingdom and healing every sickness
and every disease among the people
but when he saw the multitudes
he was moved with compassion on them because
they fainted and were scattered abroad
as sheep having no shepherd
then saith he unto his disciples
the harvest truly is plenteous
but the laborers are few
pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest
that he will send forth laborers into
his harvest
Dear heavenly father, Lord, thank you so much
for today. Lord, thank you for all the souls that were one
Lord, just please just be with us and fill
Pastor Brother Segura with the Holy
Spirit. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Amen.
So while I'm walking up here just want to say once again
thank you to everyone that's here
your support means a lot. Thank you to
Pastor Anderson again for having a vision for missions
a missions conference. I believe it's well needed
I think once again to all the workers that have
sacrificed all the way to two in the morning
and I can't thank you guys enough
Desiree I cannot thank you enough. Mrs. Madison
I cannot thank you enough. Everybody who's helped
I cannot thank you enough. I really do appreciate you
guys and it's amazing to see you guys work. Amen.
Alright so right now
Matthew chapter number nine
I want you to meet me in verse number thirty-five
and don't worry I got thirty minutes
amen. Thirty minutes.
Matthew nine
verse thirty-five says in Jesus
went about all the cities and villages
teaching their synagogues
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom
healing every sickness and every disease among the people
but when he saw the motus he was moved with compassion
on them because they fainted
and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd
they say he unto his disciples that harvest
truly is plenteous
but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest that he will send
forth laborers into
the harvest. And the title of my sermon is this
Prayer and Fasting
Soul Winning and Medellin
Columbia
Soul Winning and Medellin Columbia
So this is not a sermon that's going to be
telling you to go fasting
before or during or even after
you do a missions trip. Amen. So you can relax
alright. Because one of the most
important things of a missions trip
is not to fast. Enjoy the trip
enjoy the ice cream, the lobster and the
steak and all that good stuff that brother
Ro mentioned
but in regards to this verse
the reason I wanted to start out with this verse
is because this is the verse that
I thought of when I saw the multitudes
and one of the things that missions
will help you
it will help you get compassion
it will help you with humility, it will help you to appreciate
life. If you're going through a hard
time or you become an individual that constantly
complains and this seems to come
out of your mouth every week
man this sucks
you might be thinking too much of yourself
and get your eyes off yourself and let's put on the multitude
amen
and that's one of the things that when I went soul winning
in South Africa happened to one of the soul winners
you know they were in that mood where it's like
man work sucks, work sucks, I got to get out of here
I need a break. I'm like let's go to South Africa
I don't know man
I don't know if I need that right about now
well let me just fast forward
we went to South Africa, we started helping people
and sure enough he had to swim around the corner and walk
away from us because he broke down in tears
yeah we saw him
he's crying
you know when he saw the young kids, the unsaved
man it was a blessing for him to feel like he's finally
doing something and he realizes
true purpose of being here on this planet
and that's to preach the gospel to every creature amen
you know but as you see right
there it says that Jesus saw the multitudes
and he was moved with compassion
and I know there's a lot of people that are probably
listening online even people here that are
thinking man I would love to do these missions
trips I really want to go and
save people, I really want to go on these things
it's just the budget, it's just this, it's just
that, it's just whatever
you know but all I can tell you is hey you know what
pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest that he will send
four laborers into the harvest
what am I saying? I'm saying if you can't go
physically how about by
praying, by praying
and saying hey Lord
send people you know out there
if you can't send me or if I'm not the one to go
send people, raise up people
give people money
tax refunds, whatever
rich billionaire that gets saved, donates
a billion dollars to pay for word, we got you
hey
I just want to make sure that if it never happens
it ain't because of my unbelief right?
make sure it ain't you when we get to heaven
Lord what happened with that billion dollar prayer? I kept asking
well it's because of him, because of him, her, him in the back
with the arms all crossed
what am I saying?
let it not be you right?
but you don't have to go on a missions trip
you know just go to Luke 15 if you can if you can get there really quickly
if not stay where you're at
in fact if you have your Bible go to Matthew 17
go to Matthew 17 wait for me at verse
number 14
but for the rest of you guys that are fast enough to go to Luke 15
10 this is what it says
likewise I say unto you
there is joy in the presence of the angels of God
over how many sinners?
one
one sinner that repenteth
not believe this is talking about salvation
not just sin amen
because yes we love people
getting right with the Lord by man
rejoicing in the presence of God
who are those people doing the rejoicing?
well we know it ain't the angels
and I highly doubt it's the devils
or the devil
so the only people that are left are who?
God the Father
God the Son, God the Holy Ghost
and those have gone before us amen
hey this is how we keep heaven happy
keep winning souls you don't have to be in the mission strip
win them here and hey they'll be rejoicing
in the presence of heaven
that's what you should be doing
and not worrying too much about what you can't do
and worry about what you can do but in the same time
hey pray for people to go
pray Lord raise up these people
hey send them out there
I would love to go but if not me send someone
because this world is huge
and it hit me hard when I was in my hotel
and I believe we were like maybe on the ninth floor
I went to get breakfast
and they had breakfast on the ninth floor
and obviously they have like a big opening
where you can see the city
and I've seen pictures of Medellin
before I went there
and they were cool until I got there
then it was really cool
seeing how crazy
and I cannot describe it
I thought Dubai looked awesome when I was staring out the window
with all these fancy buildings
all these amazing looking buildings
I was like wow
that's insane what man can do
but when I got to Medellin
and I was looking all over the place
I was unbelievably impressed
just how many buildings
are just in this small valley
so many buildings
it just blew my mind and I was thinking
Lord, how in the world
are we going to reach all these people
look how many houses are out there
look how many buildings are out there
and I was moved with compassion
I was just like wow
it just woke me up
that we have a big job to do
there's so many people on this planet
we don't have time to waste on silly stuff
let's get refocused
recharge and go out there and reach
Amen?
I'll get into why it's called prayer and fasting in a second
don't worry
but if you're right there in Matthew 17
because maybe you are staying out there in YouTube land
or even here
you know what I am praying brother Segura
you know I am asking God to send me
on this planet because we know that God wants elders in every city
yeah I am doing those things
well yeah well great
you know then I guess the only thing I can say
is just keep doing it
but I also want to talk about something else
that we may have to do
if praying doesn't seem to be getting the job done
Matthew 17 14 says this
and it will come to the multitude that came to him
and certain men kneeling down to him and saying
Lord, have mercy on my son for he is a lunatic
sword begs for oft times he fall into the fire
and oft into the water
Jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him
and the child was cured from that very hour
then came the disciples to Jesus apart
and said, why could not we cast him out
and Jesus said unto them
because of your unbelief
so maybe you are praying
I am just doing a quick spot check
maybe you should ask yourself
if you are praying
with maybe even anything
if you are praying
if you are praying with maybe even anything
in your life and nothing seems to be moving
maybe you should ask yourself
are you just praying
or do you have an issue of unbelief
unbelief
because that is more than one time where Jesus said
hey listen according to your faith
according to what you believe
I am going to do this
are you telling me right now
that you believe I am able to do this
yes Lord I believe you are able to do it
and sometimes I do pray
because I need to slap myself
man do I even believe that God can do this
or it is going to do it
because I need to slap myself
and realize that God can do anything
but sometimes we get in those moments
where it is like man
I just don't know if God would do this
or even worse
could he do this
that is even worse to say that
but let's just get refocused
and maybe you are thinking to yourself
well I do pray because that is what I am thinking
to every nation
and I am wondering if they are thinking
that man should we even try to get the gospel
to all of Medellin
I mean it is huge
just from that hotel just looking
I was just blown away
took my breath away
I saw the multitudes and I realized wow
what a big job
and I am thinking man
it is going to take a miracle
to reach everybody in this city
yet the world
is not a big part of the world
but still it is a big job
when you are just able to look at everything
all at once
see here we are just here on the ground
we don't really see the homes or anything like that
but here you can see them just about everywhere
it was just unbelievable
but maybe you are saying to yourself
well I am praying I know for a fact I am praying
and I do believe God can do it
well that is great but then if you want me to bring up something else
I am just going to bring it up because this could be the issue
and it could be what?
you know you could have some sin
because you know sin does hinder
our prayers and really quickly let me just go over some
one of the things that God
obviously tells us will hinder our prayers
clearly is in Psalm 66 18
it says this if I regard
iniquity
what is iniquity? in simple words
iniquity means sin or wrongdoing
it is when someone does something
morally wrong
especially if they know
it is wrong but choose to do it
anyways
any questions?
we need to make sure we are not that person
that says yeah I know it is wrong
but I am still going to put on a dress
and tell my brother to put on a dress
so I can go piss off my church
that did happen
in case you are wondering
I just heard that
from somebody that doesn't like the church anymore
pretending like he liked being here
and then he does an interview and says
yeah I know it is wrong
but I was thinking of putting on a dress
and walking around Walmart with a dress
just to piss off Faithful Word Baptist Church
haha yeah
that is an example of iniquity right there
knowing it is wrong
and spending God's money
because every penny has a purpose
to go to Walmart and buy a dress
and you and your brother are going to put them on
and you are going to walk around in front of Faithful Word Baptist Church
just to piss us off
that is some iniquity right there
good night
but what does it say
if I regard iniquity
in my heart
the Lord will not hear me
so maybe you are praying
well are you doing something
you know it is wrong but you refuse to get it right
if so you need to get rid of it
it is not worth it
it is not worth hindering your prayers
the Bible says this
he that covereth his sins
shall not prosper
and forsaketh them shall have mercy
let me just explain what it is saying
saying sorry is not enough
that is confessing your sins
it says clearly and forsaketh them
they are going to have mercy
so maybe you live in Medellin
you are like man look at this city
we need to reach our people
but there is no way I can do it all by myself
well first thing you need to start out
is start praying
start praying and say God we need hope
send forth the laborers
into the harvest
it is a big city
and I can't do it all by myself
we just can't
we can have so many missions trips down there
and we are not even going to come close to knocking out that city
we are just not
and maybe you are saying well I am praying
but nothing seems to be happening
well let's do a sin check
let's make sure it is not that
and one of the things once again is iniquity
another thing is being an unforgiving person
let me just read really quickly
let them pray and forgive
if you have ought against any
that your father also which is in heaven may forgive your trespasses
but if you do not forgive
neither will your father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses
simple enough
if you don't forgive don't bother praying
I can't forgive this person
I have heard people say that
I can forgive but I can't forgive you for what you did
and I have heard people say
if you do this I will never forgive you
and I will hate you forever
well God will never forgive them
and probably hate them forever
and plus this person that said that
I don't believe is safe
and another one that we kind of
maybe forget about
is an improper husband wife relationship
1 Peter 3 says
likewise your husband dwell with them according to knowledge
giving honor unto the wife
as unto the weaker vessel and as being
heirs together of the grace of life
your prayers be not hindered
be not hindered
and it just blows me away
it blows me away when people can say
hey I know this person
he ain't having a good relationship with his wife
he ain't having a good time in his marriage
but the guy seems to be prospering
I'm going to be thinking
no it's kind of hard
it's kind of hard for you to say that
this man ain't prospering
or he has an improper relationship
with his wife
but yet we see
a lot of prospering
and hey listen I just confirmed that
he canceled the red hot preaching
alright he just canceled it
but never fear my dear brother Segura is here
let me just
let me just tell you what's better than a red hot
preaching conference
our red hot missions conference okay
and let me just explain this little verse
because this is one of the reasons why
I know there's nothing wrong
with Pastor Anderson this is why I can stand tall
and say that his marriage is doing phenomenal
phenomenal
and it's doing great
it's been perfect and guess what
I found out a long time that his marriage wasn't perfect
you know who told me?
you know who actually told us?
it was Pastor Anderson who told us
he told us behind this pulpit and said listen
don't have this crazy fantasy that your marriage is going to be picture perfect
if you marry the perfect guy
bad things are going to happen
but don't be a quitter and fix it
don't make excuses fix it
but I didn't need Pastor Anderson and Mrs. Anderson
to tell me hey our marriage is doing better than ever
you know
it's doing awesome it's doing phenomenal
he didn't need to tell me that you know why?
because of this verse
because of this verse because it says if you have an improper relationship
with your wife God's not going to hear you
your purse is going to be hindered
you're not going to prosper
it's just not going to happen
and when I look at his life I'm thinking
man if there's one person that's
prospering in this world is that man
over there but that would be
impossible if he had a super bad
relationship with his wife
it would be impossible to do that
and the stuff that I've seen is simple
this is stuff that happened while he's married
well let's start off before he got married
if he's such a horrible person before he got married
then why does the Bible say that he will give you
the desires of your heart? and I know Pastor Anderson
he wanted to marry a woman that's smart
loves God works hard
serves God and that's what he got amen
I guess God must love him
to answer that prayer
okay how about this one?
he wanted to start a church and I've said
are we doing good or what?
I think God answered that prayer didn't he?
and when did he start it?
at what age?
does anybody know?
24 can you confirm back there?
24 huh?
how long have you been married by the time it was 24?
4 years
let's just say 4 he got married in 19
alright he got married in 19
didn't I say he's not perfect?
I just wanted to prove it alright
I just proved it
in case you were wondering if I thought it was perfect
but all I'm trying to say is simple
he said Lord I want to start a church
because there's a need
he didn't just get a church
he got the best church on the planet
you think that's going to happen
if his prayers are being hindered?
you think that's going to happen
if he has an improper relationship like everybody's crying about?
sorry Robinson
I think you have an improper relationship
sorry McMurtry
I think you have an improper relationship
sorry all you bunch of losers
like Matt first I think you have an improper relationship
right? because you guys don't seem to prosper
no matter how hard you try
I think your marriage is screwed up
I think you and your wife need to talk
I think y'all need to get right with the Lord
because McMurtry likes to flex and be like
how long has I been in this ministry brother
let me tell you some stuff that I know
that's not a flex that's a red flag
I think you should know better
but you ain't prospering
nobody even knows who you are
you suck at YouTube, you suck at Rumble
do you prosper in anything?
don't even give me Omar first
does that guy even know where his church is at?
does anybody know if he even has soul winning?
last time I was trying to look up
does he have any soul winning videos?
any soul winning, I'll guarantee it
amen, you heard that?
zero soul winning
no organized soul winning programs
amen?
hey, I'm not gonna let you miss the Red Hot Preaching Conference
alright, it's about to get hot
so this bozo
Mark first
I'm trying to figure out
does he have any Bible Way to Heaven videos?
does he have anything out there?
you know the only video I found?
this video was labeled
Mark first soul winning versus NIFB
and it was him telling the story
how he went to the supermarket
who's heard this story?
he goes to the supermarket
and the guy behind the register
is a man in a dress
it's a tranny
so that motivates him to get him saved
he goes to his car
and gets a track
and he's praying
Lord, I don't want to get this person
but if I do, I'm gonna be ready
or something like that
so he ends up getting this tranny
to take care of his groceries or whatever
and he's like, hey
do that when you get a chance, okay?
I'll help you
amen
and he leaves
and here's his story
there are some people out there
you guys
who believe these people reprobate
I don't know if he's reprobating
only God knows because I never read Romans 1
well he didn't say Romans 1
I added that part
but that's what he says
I don't know if he's reprobating
I can't figure it out
I don't know what this NIV crowd is talking about
I'm gonna tell you right now
God is the only one who knows he's reprobating
and you know what, let's just say he is reprobating, right?
okay, well let's just say yes, he never gets saved
hey, the only thing that it cost me
was a piece of paper
but I did so with him, baby
I did so with him
woo, let's put that man on the cruise
and get him out there
right, baby
let's do this, that guy belongs on a cruise
for six months
so you're insane
I get these emails
oh, Pastor Anderson, you should step down
Pastor Anderson, you're a great man of God
for many years
Pastor Anderson, I've listened to you for
many, many years, you're a great man of God
but you have failed to
whatever, rule your house
but that's impossible, have you not read?
if you can't rule your own house
you won't be able to take care of the church of God
and that's he taking care of the church of God very well
it's impossible, you have a higher chance
of finding the Loch Ness Monster
than you do a great man of God
who sucks at parenting
it's just facts, suck it up buttercup
that's what the Bible says
but the fact that he's prospering
in many areas
hey, he wanted to be a good pastor
well, guess what
I'm going to answer that and then some
because he's the best pastor
you're like, that's how you feel
you stinking Kool-Aid drinker
well, let me tell you the facts, homie
everything he does seems to prosper
we just started rumble
and I'm not trying to say that these other
churches suck at rumble
but he surpassed these other churches
and we're late to the rumble game
facts
our worst channel is our YouTube channel
that we create whenever
there's that channel in 24 hours
a throwaway channel, a channel we don't care about
a channel we create just because people love YouTube
that thing gives more views
than people that have been on the internet with their channels
our crappiest throwaway channel
beats all these guys
I think they're having memory problems
Robin said
how many views do you get?
how many views do you get
what's the guy?
are you my friend? well that depends
okay
Jones
Jones only gets views because guess what
pastor Anderson prospers so much
other people prosper off of him
but
you want me to think that he has
this horrific, terrible marriage
but yet God
has allowed him to start a great church
God answered his prayer to have a smart
a wife that loves God
works hard, serves God
he wanted to be a good preacher, God took it to the next level
he's the best preacher
if he ain't, show me who is
sorry pastor manager, great preacher, but no
sorry bro, I'll be honest with you
sorry, no
great preacher, you're right there
he's a 10, you're a 9.5
I do love you man
hey
he wanted to get
one person saved
he gets people saved now in his sleep
who got saved from a video from pastor Anderson?
look at that
pastor Anderson was sleeping with his lovely wife
these people are getting saved
and he's just snoring
when he gets
to heaven, everybody's going to be like
that's your mansion? yeah, how come it grows every day?
social media
he's going to tell the apostle Paul
youtube, he's like, youtube?
he knows what
youtube is, I'm sure somebody told him by now
he wanted
to destroy the preacher of rapture
enough said, right?
but
but God ain't allowing
God is hindering his prayers
he wanted to start a great
soul winning movement
somebody almost got killed in the Bahamas
trying to copy our soul winning movement
copy on
there's nothing wrong with having role models
copy on, do your thing
he wanted to start
a great missions movement
what do we have here now?
the Red Hot
it was just born tonight
we're taking it to the next level
we're doing missions trips on cruises
baby
cruises have
existed since I've known them
but yet the other guys did nothing with it
yes man, we're doing something with it
oh, but God is hindering
his prayers
improper happens right relationship
whatever
believe what you want, it's going to be my
next youtube channel name
facts right?
listen
if you are an unforgiving person
God won't hear you
if you have iniquity in your heart, God won't hear you
if you have an improper husband wife relationship
God won't hear you
and if you're cold towards the Bible, God won't hear you
Proverbs 29
he that turneth away his ear from hearing the law
even his prayer
shall be abomination
notice it says here
here, you're coming to church but you're not here to hear
that's an abomination
I don't care how many of our haters claim
well God's answering my prayer
I just don't like listening to the NIB
I don't like listening to this and that
no, he ain't listening to you because you don't want to hear God's word
you don't want to hear his law, amen?
let me just finish up what Jesus said
hey, how about this kind goeth not out
but by prayer and fasting
so a city like Medellin
or any other city that's huge
that's like, it's going to take a miracle
to reach all these people
how about your sin?
then you know what?
there's only one thing left and I hate to bring it up
but it's fasting
it's fasting, let's take a look at an example
go to Jonah 3
I have to confess my sin
so the Lord can continue to help me
I am not going to make my 30 minute challenge
but I'm going for 35
so I'm going to quickly get to where I want to be
Jonah 3
obviously that's where Jonah preaches
and sure enough, he says hey, it's going to get destroyed
the king hears about it
he's like hey, this is what I want
he said that it caused it to be proclaimed
you know, throughout Nineveh
by the decree of the king and his nobles
saying let neither man nor beast
herd nor flock taste anything
let them not feed
nor drink water
but let man and beast be covered with cloth
and cry mightily
unto God
let them turn everyone from his evil way
and from the violence that is in their hands
who can tell God will turn and repent
and turn away from his fierce anger
that we perish not
and God saw their works
that they turned from their evil way
and God repented of the evil
that he said that he would do unto them
and he did it not
now I don't know how long they fasted
but let's just call it a day, this is one day fasting
right?
I'm not saying that God commands you to do this
I'm not even saying for sure that I know that
this is why God answered their prayer because
they were fasting
but I'll tell you one thing, God did answer their prayer
because they weren't just saying I'm sorry
they actually turned from their sins
and were serious
and when you fast, hey, it makes you a little humble
doesn't it?
maybe that's what they did, they're like hey, we're about to all die
it's worth a try
and those people that are in Medellin, you know what?
pray, you know what, get the sinner in life
but at the end of the day, if you fast, nothing works
you know what, it's better to try
than to die, just give it a shot
because if I were you, that's what I would do
if I was that broken and I just took a look at your city
just for one second
I was like, wow, look at all these people
the Bible was like, wow, look at all these buildings
but there it was, wow, look at all these people
good night, I feel bad for them
you know, they have no shepherd
they have no Pastor Anderson for them
good night
I'm like, what are we going to do?
but another person I want you guys to look at
is Esther, if you can't go to Esther 4
I'll just get to the part that I want to get to
if you can, go ahead and go to 16
there's a story of Esther, Mordecai says
hey, there's been an order, we're all going to die
Haman's trying to kill us all
then Esther says, hey listen, this is what I want you to do
go gather all the Jews that are present in Shushan
and fast ye for me, neither eat nor drink
three days, you know, three days
night or day
I also, my maidens will fast
likewise, and so will I go unto the king
which is not according to the law
and if I perish, I perish
and you know the story
God said to them, God answered her prayer
but she showed God she was serious
and she showed God she was serious
well not just fasting, but good night fasting
three days and three nights
I'll just read from Samuel 30.11
well it ain't funny, but it's an interesting story
it's about this guy that gets brought to David
that was captured, it was an Egyptian
and it said this, that they gave him a piece of cake
and figs, two clusters of raisins
and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him
for he had eaten no bread
and drunk any water
three days and three nights
and we know that David sometimes
you know, represents Jesus
and it almost reminds me of the story
of Nineveh, where you got this guy
who's literally not eating or drinking anything
for three days and three nights
and then comes David and saves him
I don't know if it's related
but it's an interesting story, I'm just throwing it out there for you
to look at
and obviously the person that fasted for sure
no food, no water for three days and three nights
I didn't know for sure he wasn't having fun
and it was super painful, that was the Lord Jesus Christ
for three days and three nights, where was he?
exactly, we know that hell is not a fun place
because look what it says in Luke 16
it says simply, Father, you may have mercy on me
and last word that he may dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool my tongue, for I'm tormented in this flame
hey, it's not fun
to be tormented
especially when you just want to cool your tongue
and you're dying of thirst
but let's get into some fun facts about Medellin, amen?
alright, enough about fasting
just throwing it out there, let's send everybody out there
if you're praying and you're right with the Lord
who knows, it doesn't hurt to at least try
a day of fasting
7am to 7pm, I don't know
or 7am to 7am, I don't know
but if I was in that country, if I was in that city
and no one's turning up a church
no man of God is stepping up
you know what, I'm just going to take it to the Lord
and be like, Lord, I'm going to pray and you know what?
I'm going to fast, but please don't tell no one
because he ain't going to hear it
that's just facts, but hey, Medellin
I'm going to start with the things that I like
I think these are things that we all should know about
and number one, starting with the weather
Medellin, Colombia, often referred to as
La Ciudad de la Iterna primavera
which means the city of eternal springs
enjoys mild, spring-like climate throughout the year
the average annual temperature in Medellin
is around 73 degrees Fahrenheit
hey, that was awesome when we were there
but, there is a problem
they have some pretty good storms down there
and we got soaked
we got soaked like jumping in the pool-type soap
it was really bad when it came to the rain
so this period is from April to May
where it rains really bad
and they can make someone in really hard
because nobody wants to talk to you
when it's pouring cold, you know, water from the sky
so avoid those months
April through May, please avoid them
don't go there if you're going to go
that is not the time to go
we went around June, I believe, and man were we soaked
so the weather is awesome
just don't go between April and May, amen
as far as religion, according to a 2020 survey
Roman Catholicism rules 57%
but it's not a whole bad thing
because they are easy to get saved
evangelical Christianity is about 50%
other religions about 3.4
that's seven day event, Jehovah's Witnesses
etc, etc
and like I like to mention
the cost was similar to going to Santo Domingo
it's about the same, 650 or something like that
for the flight
hotels, obviously we stayed at a really nice hotel
and we did that for safety
and we did that because they served breakfast
so it kind of saved a little bit of money
so we're going to have to go out there and buy it
and we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Suites de Medellin
why? Because it's really easy to get there
and I recommend this hotel all day every day
because it's safe, it's clean
you know, I don't know if they provide breakfast
oh they do, I was already on top
looking at the whole city, you know, it has a great view
and also at the restaurant at the base
there's restaurants you can just go and eat
so it's making life easy for me
because I don't really know much
or I didn't know much about the country, barely nothing
I barely even knew how to say the name
I kept saying Medellin, you know, next thing you know
it's Medellin, now it's Medellin
is it the last one Evelyn?
okay
finally got it right
Medellin
and so when it comes to what we did
is the first day
we just got there, went to eat
pretty much went to the hotel because it was dark
so we kind of figured okay let's go somewhere popular
some place that people like to check out
when they come to Colombia
so there was this place called Pueblo Escobar
and so we went there and obviously
it was a big thing about Pueblo Escobar
now here's the thing about Pueblo Escobar
not everybody likes them over there
so I was afraid to even mention them
it was just a popular area that people like to go to
sure why not, let's go check it out
obviously if he's building this town for people that are poor
poor people usually mean receptive
so we decided to go check it out
sure enough that was day one
the next day I just left it up to Dustin
Dustin kind of did a quick recon as best he could
but I knew hey this place
we don't really know anything about it
and what I like to do, I like to take people to places that I kind of know
where we can get something to eat
kind of know where we can go to the bathroom
but in this case I left it off to Dustin
he did the recon, he's like hey man I think I found a place
this park, I think it would be good, I'm like alright let's go
and it was what it was, all we can do is pray
but the one thing he felt to tell me was that it was 30 minutes
away from the hotel
and I was like hey 28 right, if I would have known that
I kind of asked him 20 minutes into the ride
like man how far is this place
he said 30 minutes, I'm like bro I don't feel comfortable
going 30 minutes away from the hotel because this is Columbia
and it's not exactly the safest place in the world
but oh well, we're 10 minutes away
let's see what you got, so we started going to this area
this park that he found, and while we're
like going there, we ended up seeing a school
so we saw this school and we're like whoa
they're just getting out, and I just said it
yo man, you can leave us here
so the taxi driver's like whoa, but that place is like 7 minutes away
so we're good, we're good, stop the car right here, no big deal
hey just let us out, here's the money, whatever
trying to pay him, get him to stop, so he stops, we get out
and I'm thinking hopefully these guys forgive me
so being the people that were with me
being the people that they are
as soon as we get out, I'm like yo guys, sorry
but I think this is a good spot, they were thinking hey
we're about to tell you to stop right here too, let's go to work
boom, everybody starts attacking all the students
and we pretty much were there from like 11 am
all the way to 5 pm
so we got some people saved, so it was so good
next day it was like hey where do you guys want to go
let's go back there, and the reason we decided to go back there
is because they did have a little strip where they were like
places to get something to eat, and those places where you
buy something, we'll let you use the bathroom
but the other thing that I also liked, it was the school
and another thing that I really liked is the school
had a police department right across it
so there were cops all
over the place, and I was happy
with that because I don't know if this area
was safe or not, so I'm like hey this is a perfect
spot, we got police, ain't nobody gonna
mess with us, and we got a school, plenty
of kids to talk to, and it's a busy street
so we were just going up to everybody that was just passed
by us and see if they wanted to get saved, and sure
enough that worked very well, it worked so good
that they wanted to go back to third day, I'm like
alright let's go back to third day, you know
so we went back to third day, from there 11 to 7 pm
same thing, kids get out, we started talking to the kids
but the principal was kind of getting a little bit upset
because we were just going up to the kids with no permission
and I could understand them, so we really weren't too
mad at them, but he told us hey I don't mind you guys talking
to the kids, but please do it off property because the
parents are getting mad, they're like hey these random
kids are just being approached by these people
with bibles, we don't even know who they are
well fair is fair, no problem, so we stayed out there
and he didn't tell us not to talk to the kids, he just
said no doing it on property because I'm getting in trouble
so it worked so well, it was what it was, we decided
to stay there again, so we didn't really go anywhere
and I'm thinking well do you guys want to do some recreation
I mean there's not really anything that I know of
except going to see some scumbag
you know dead billionaires ex-mansion
where there's a bunch of hippos
and they're like nah
we gotta get people saved, no hippos?
man I really wanted to see a hippo
but according to Netflix
hippos don't like Mexicans so I'm like nah
I don't really like them
some of you may know what I'm talking about
some of you may not
come ask me and I'll tell you
so anyways that's what our trip was so we went there
and that's kind of how it went, we just did that
then Saturday came and we all went home
and we lived happily ever after, so the bad
here's the bad, that place
is dangerous and it's getting
worse, the reason I like this
versus with Nineveh is because
last year in 2023
they averaged a murder
every 10 days
2024 right now from different reports
they averaged a murder every 6 days
6 days
and guess who it is
Gringos, they don't like
Gringos down there
and here's the other thing that I might as well bring up
Columbia is known as the world's
largest, I guess we can say it
whorehouse
prostitution is big down there
and that is not good
so the reason I wanted to use
Nineveh or Jonah's story is because
that place kind of made me think of Nineveh
where it's violent
sin, I don't know
I didn't say anything about prostitutes but
you can probably take it to the bank that
Nineveh probably had a lot of crime and that was
probably part of it but
the formula is there to try to save that city
and anybody that's in that city
just look at Jonah, you might want to learn from him
to do something about your high crime
getting worse
city because it ain't going to get better
from what they think because everybody's going
there to commit crimes and a lot of it
is obviously crimes
of fornication, prostitution
boredom, all that stuff
but would I recommend it?
I guess my answer is this
no
if you don't love souls, I don't recommend it
I don't recommend it
praise God, anybody that would want to go there
probably loves souls
because the reason that these people are getting killed
a lot of them is because they love cocaine
and they love prostitutes
and guess what
we don't love cocaine and we don't love
prostitutes so you shouldn't be afraid
to go there unless you're going there for the wrong
reasons
because if you love Christians and you love
people, you're the perfect person to
go to Medellin and you will
love it and you'll get a lot of people saved
now how many salvations did you get brother Chris?
I don't know, I stopped counting
but all I can tell you is that
there was a cool little idea
of bringing one of their national flags
and every time
we got somebody saved, we had a runner
that would keep an eye on all
the soul winners, like oh man they're bowing their heads
boom, just take off over there
get them saved and ask them for a favor
and we would just tell all these people
hey can you do me a favor, can you sign my flag
because I'm having a missions conference
I mean a red hot missions conference
and I would
love to have something to remember you
guys by
and that's what we decided to do, to run around
get all these people saved
and there's about 90 names on here
I don't know how many
if you want to clap, clap, I've never had nobody clap before
yeah, sure, sorry
Eric did the old
am I doing that good of a job?
alright, clap
but
it is what it is, this is why
I recommend you go
there's not going to be cool
activities out there, it's too dangerous for you to be
doing anything out there
if you're a gringo, you're a target, I'm just telling you that right now
if you have an
Apple Watch, oh you're going to get robbed
you better take it to the bank
and you might as well show up
looking presentable because if you show up
looking sloppy and you're a foreigner, they don't really like you
over there, they kind of have that
national pride where they want to look good, smell
good, so if some sweaty American
shows up with shorts and flip flops
oh, you ain't going to have an easy time
I'm just warning you
they have a little too much pride in their hearts
and I'm not attacking anybody here
if you're going flip flops, I'm just telling you to them
it's not a cool thing, they think that's for children
that's the way they see us
so be careful going down to Columbia
but if you do
I believe you're going to love it
and I'm just telling you, do what I did
go to the same hotel, you'll love it, take a cab
we'll figure out where that place was
that has a school and the police right across from it
and we thought about knocking doors
I thought about just walking a street or so
we did that and then we saw a bunch of
young guys in a group
drinking, we're like, we're out
because that's the one thing they tell you, watch out for
watch out for young people in groups
and if you're a gringo
you don't want them to see you
so we went back to the police area
and increased our chances of surviving
so the thing about
Columbia or Medellin
is it is a high crime area
but we didn't really see anything
and I guess if there's anything else
that's dangerous, it's man
if you get a taxi driver
and he thinks he's Vin Diesel
in Fast and Furious
just close
your eyes and enjoy the ride because that's exactly
what happened to us
and I always wondered how cool
it would have been to be in that patrol vehicle
where the pastor was being hauled off
to get deported because he's talking about
they were driving super fast
I don't need to wonder anymore
he thought it was cool because he's rolling
with 5-0, he's rolling with a po-po
with the police, I got this crazy cab
driver that thinks he's Vin Diesel and that's probably
why he shaved his head
and I'm like, this dude is going
to kill us, bro, and I'm just like, oh
man, he's like swerving, gonna live from
this guy's insane, he's honking at people
my my time, my my time
he's like, oh, good night, bro
he's coming like centimeters from hitting
people's side mirrors, I'm like, this guy is
crazy, he must be high off that
coca
did we get that coca cab driver?
hey, prayer and fasting definitely comes in
in that situation
because he made me so nervous I didn't want to eat for the rest of the day
but these missions trips are great
if you can do them, do them
come to Faithful Word
you donate to Faithful Word
your money is going to these
these people, hands down
you know, we're not a bunch of nobodies
that talk a big game but do nothing
we're the real deal
we're the real stinking deal
always have been
and always will
amen, let's pray, dear Father
we thank you so much for all that you've done, Lord
we cannot thank you enough for such a great pastor
such a great family, Lord, you are the
best and we want to just do our best to please
you, Lord, and we ask you, Father
to just help everybody do missions
in their lives before the life is over here, Lord
it's just a great blessing
to be able to go to these different countries
and get people saved and rescue the parishion
pull them out of the fire and we ask you, Lord
to do this for everyone who's your children
in their lifetime, in Jesus' precious name, amen
Amen, let's sing our psalms together
go to hymn 390, number 390
and we'll sing together
have I done my best for Jesus?
number 390 begins
I wonder have I done
my best for Jesus?
hymn 390
lift your voice on that verse together now
number 390
I wonder have I
done my best for Jesus
who
died upon
the brutal tree
to
think of his great sacrifice
at Calvary
I know
my Lord expects
the best from me
how
many are the lost
that I have lifted
how
many are the
chained I vow to free
I
wonder have I
done my best for Jesus
when
he has done
so much for me
the
hours that I have
wasted are so many
the
hours I've
spent for Christ so few
because
of all my lack
of love for Jesus
I
wonder if his heart
is breaking too
how
many are the lost
that I have lifted
how
many are the chained
I vow to free
I
wonder have I
done my best for Jesus
when
he has done
so much for me
I
wonder have I
cared enough for others
or
have I let
them die alone
I
might have helped a
wonder to the Savior
the
seed of precious life I
might have sown
how
many are the lost
that I have lifted
how
many are the chained I
vow to free
I
wonder have I done my
best for Jesus
when
he has done so
much for me
no longer
will I stay within
the valley
I'll climb
to mountain heights
above
the world is
coming now for want of
someone
to tell them of
the Savior's matchless
love
how many are the
lost that I have
lifted
how many are the
chained I vow to free
I
wonder have I
done my best for Jesus
when
he has done
so much for
me
Amen. Excellent.
Sing tonight. We are dismissed.
Amen.