WEBVTT 08:30.000 --> 08:52.320 Foundation Baptist Church everybody please take a seat and grab a hymn book. 08:52.320 --> 08:57.200 First song we're going to be singing tonight is song 236. 08:57.200 --> 08:58.200 No Not One. 08:58.200 --> 09:03.760 Song 236 in your hymn books. 09:03.760 --> 09:04.760 No Not One. 09:04.760 --> 09:05.760 On the first. 09:05.760 --> 09:11.960 There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. 09:11.960 --> 09:16.560 No not one, no not one. 09:16.560 --> 09:21.520 None else could heal all our souls diseases. 09:21.520 --> 09:26.000 No not one, no not one. 09:26.080 --> 09:30.840 Jesus knows all about our struggles. 09:30.840 --> 09:35.440 He will guide till the day is done. 09:35.440 --> 09:40.280 There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. 09:40.280 --> 09:44.920 No not one, no not one. 09:44.920 --> 09:49.800 No friend like him is so high and holy. 09:49.800 --> 09:54.560 No not one, no not one. 09:54.600 --> 09:59.240 And yet no friend is so meek and lowly. 09:59.240 --> 10:03.880 No not one, no not one. 10:03.880 --> 10:08.680 Jesus knows all about our struggles. 10:08.680 --> 10:13.240 He will guide till the day is done. 10:13.240 --> 10:18.040 There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. 10:18.040 --> 10:22.720 No not one, no not one. 10:22.760 --> 10:27.400 There's not an hour that he is not near us. 10:27.400 --> 10:32.080 No not one, no not one. 10:32.080 --> 10:36.600 Or sin or find that he would not take him. 10:36.600 --> 10:41.200 No not one, no not one. 10:41.200 --> 10:45.880 Jesus knows all about our struggles. 10:45.880 --> 10:50.440 He will guide till the day is done. 10:50.440 --> 10:55.080 There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. 10:55.080 --> 10:59.640 No not one, no not one. 10:59.640 --> 11:04.400 Was here a gift like the Savior given? 11:04.400 --> 11:09.000 No not one, no not one. 11:09.000 --> 11:13.720 Will he refuse us a home in heaven? 11:13.720 --> 11:18.280 No not one, no not one. 11:18.280 --> 11:23.000 Jesus knows all about our struggles. 11:23.000 --> 11:27.640 He will guide till the day is done. 11:27.640 --> 11:32.280 There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. 11:32.280 --> 11:36.840 No not one, no not one. 11:36.840 --> 11:38.840 All right everybody, good singing. 11:38.840 --> 11:40.480 Brother Wade, could you please open us up 11:40.480 --> 11:41.640 with a word of prayer? 11:41.640 --> 11:43.680 All right. 11:43.680 --> 11:45.880 Heavenly Father, I would thank you 11:45.880 --> 11:48.120 for this afternoon's service Lord. 11:48.120 --> 11:52.520 Please bless us and what we love and praise you. 11:52.520 --> 11:53.480 Amen. 11:53.480 --> 11:57.600 All right, next song we're gonna be singing is song 311. 11:57.600 --> 12:01.080 Song 311 in your hymn books. 12:01.080 --> 12:06.080 Song 311, All for Jesus. 12:08.640 --> 12:09.480 On the first. 12:10.600 --> 12:15.600 All for Jesus, all for Jesus. 12:16.280 --> 12:21.280 All my beings, rants and pairs. 12:21.680 --> 12:26.680 All my thoughts and words and doings. 12:27.040 --> 12:32.040 All my days and all my hours. 12:32.200 --> 12:37.200 All for Jesus, all for Jesus. 12:37.640 --> 12:42.640 All my days and all my hours. 12:42.920 --> 12:47.920 All for Jesus, all for Jesus. 12:48.200 --> 12:53.200 All my days and all my hours. 12:53.200 --> 12:58.200 Let my hands perform his bidding. 12:58.720 --> 13:03.720 Let my feet run in his ways. 13:04.080 --> 13:09.080 Let my eyes see Jesus only. 13:09.480 --> 13:14.480 Let my lips speak forth his praise. 13:15.120 --> 13:20.120 All for Jesus, all for Jesus. 13:20.460 --> 13:25.460 Let my lips speak forth his praise. 13:26.100 --> 13:31.100 All for Jesus, all for Jesus. 13:31.660 --> 13:36.660 Let my lips speak forth his praise. 13:36.660 --> 13:47.120 Since my eyes were fixed on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside. 13:47.120 --> 13:58.740 So enchain my spirit's vision, looking at the crucified. 13:58.740 --> 14:08.340 All for Jesus, all for Jesus, looking at the crucified. 14:08.340 --> 14:18.820 All for Jesus, all for Jesus, looking at the crucified. 14:18.820 --> 14:29.860 Oh, I wonder how amazing Jesus, glorious King of Kings, 14:29.860 --> 14:40.660 Dines to call me his beloved, lets me rest beneath his wings. 14:40.660 --> 14:51.460 All for Jesus, all for Jesus, resting now beneath his wings. 14:51.460 --> 15:00.980 All for Jesus, all for Jesus, resting now beneath his wings. 15:00.980 --> 15:05.460 Alright everybody, good singing now for some announcements. 15:05.460 --> 15:08.660 Welcome back to Show Foundation Baptist Church. 15:08.740 --> 15:12.180 If you need a bulletin, please raise your hand and I shall bring one to you. 15:12.180 --> 15:15.700 The verse of the week is 1 Corinthians 13 verse number 6. 15:15.700 --> 15:20.340 Rejoice is not in iniquity, but rejoice in the truth. 15:20.340 --> 15:23.700 Of course we should desire truth and Christians should be honest people. 15:23.700 --> 15:30.020 And on the inside page, please give us a follow on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble and X. 15:30.020 --> 15:35.220 We have service time Sunday morning at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4. 15:35.220 --> 15:37.780 For the general will be preaching for us today. 15:37.780 --> 15:41.780 And then we will have Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m. 15:41.780 --> 15:49.220 This Wednesday we'll be going through, you know, the majority of Acts chapter number 4. 15:49.220 --> 15:56.420 We have sowing Sunday afternoon at 1 30 and Saturday morning sowing at 10 30 a.m. 15:56.420 --> 15:59.540 Today we have 14 sowingers and six salvations. 15:59.540 --> 16:00.660 Praise the Lord for that. 16:00.660 --> 16:02.180 Again, great salvation number. 16:02.180 --> 16:03.780 So let's push on the baptisms. 16:04.580 --> 16:09.540 Um, upcoming events will have a baby shower right after the service today. 16:09.540 --> 16:09.780 Okay. 16:09.780 --> 16:14.420 Again, today, not next week is today because you've seen all this stuff and all the things. 16:14.420 --> 16:19.780 So today and please participate in the, you know, in the games, you know, especially the men. 16:19.780 --> 16:20.100 Okay. 16:20.100 --> 16:27.540 So, um, and, uh, we'll have, uh, we'll meet at a different location next Sunday at a hotel 16:27.540 --> 16:28.580 conference room. 16:28.580 --> 16:29.780 The address is below. 16:29.780 --> 16:32.020 I will post again on the summoning group. 16:32.020 --> 16:33.220 We'll have morning service. 16:33.220 --> 16:36.260 We'll go to a place for lunch and then we can have so winning. 16:36.260 --> 16:38.660 There'll be no afternoon service for that day. 16:39.700 --> 16:40.580 Uh, alone. 16:40.580 --> 16:42.340 We have so many marathon coming up. 16:42.340 --> 16:43.940 May 23rd is the Indy 500. 16:43.940 --> 16:44.740 So many marathon. 16:44.740 --> 16:45.940 That's next Saturday. 16:45.940 --> 16:51.380 We'll meet here at the, at the church building and then we will shuttle you guys to the, uh, 16:51.380 --> 16:52.980 parking lot at the racetrack. 16:52.980 --> 16:54.820 We'll be going around the racetrack. 16:54.820 --> 16:59.780 Last year we walked a lot, you know, eight, 10 miles, whatever, and we smelled turkey 16:59.780 --> 17:01.060 like, you know, with the street food. 17:01.060 --> 17:02.420 So wonderful time. 17:02.420 --> 17:03.220 A lot of people. 17:03.780 --> 17:09.620 So again, if you are coming, just, just exercise discretion on bringing younger kids because 17:09.620 --> 17:14.340 we'll be going to, you know, massive crowds, you know, so just be aware of that. 17:15.220 --> 17:20.580 Um, and then Gary is on May 30th, Chicago state university is on June 8th. 17:20.580 --> 17:21.780 That's a Saturday. 17:21.780 --> 17:24.100 And then St. Louis is June 27th. 17:24.100 --> 17:27.780 Hopefully we can have, we can get a good group so we can support the church over there. 17:28.420 --> 17:32.340 They are coming here in September, July. 17:32.420 --> 17:33.380 Or something like that. 17:33.380 --> 17:35.700 They will come, uh, also. 17:35.700 --> 17:38.580 So we'll, so we are swapping soul winning team there. 17:39.140 --> 17:40.180 So there's that. 17:40.740 --> 17:44.580 Uh, please go to the God resource.com for so many events throughout the world. 17:44.580 --> 17:47.940 You can RSVP and you know, you can see different events over there. 17:48.500 --> 17:49.460 And then man's preaching. 17:49.460 --> 17:54.420 I is, uh, on the 31st, not next Sunday, but the following Sunday. 17:54.420 --> 17:57.780 If you want to preach, please let me know prior to that. 17:57.780 --> 18:01.300 And, you know, I, you know, you know, I need to know your sermon topic and so on, 18:01.300 --> 18:02.100 so on and so forth. 18:02.420 --> 18:05.860 If you have never preached before, this is a good chance for you to preach, 18:05.860 --> 18:09.060 you know, as much as not preaching any heresy, just, you know, start basic. 18:09.060 --> 18:13.540 If you have, you know, if you, if you've never preached before, just stay, just start, 18:13.540 --> 18:16.260 just stay basic and preach basic sermons. 18:16.260 --> 18:20.900 And that's a great, uh, you know, time for you to practice because you got to start somewhere. 18:20.900 --> 18:21.140 Right. 18:21.140 --> 18:22.980 So that's a good opportunity for you. 18:23.860 --> 18:29.540 You know, like even though, you know, even though, you don't want to go to, you know, 18:29.540 --> 18:34.340 even though you don't desire to be a pastor or something like that, you know, still a great 18:34.340 --> 18:37.620 tool to have because what if you want, you know, what if you need to fill in for, 18:38.580 --> 18:42.820 for your preacher or something, or you travel to places that, you know, you know, if they need 18:42.820 --> 18:46.020 a preacher, you know, again, that's a great, you know, tool for you to have. 18:46.900 --> 18:50.420 Um, let's see, let's flip on the backside. 18:51.220 --> 18:52.900 We have birthday coming up. 18:52.900 --> 18:55.060 Zayden's birthday is on Wednesday. 18:55.060 --> 18:56.340 How old will you be? 18:56.340 --> 18:56.580 Where? 18:57.220 --> 18:57.700 Five. 18:57.700 --> 19:01.140 So let's sing a birthday to Zayden. 19:01.140 --> 19:01.860 Let's do this. 19:02.500 --> 19:05.940 Happy birthday to you. 19:07.140 --> 19:10.740 Happy birthday to you. 19:12.020 --> 19:14.580 Happy birthday. 19:14.580 --> 19:16.740 God bless you. 19:18.180 --> 19:21.940 Happy birthday to you. 19:22.740 --> 19:23.220 All right. 19:23.380 --> 19:28.260 Also, I have an anniversary on Indy 500 sewing marathon next Saturday. 19:28.260 --> 19:33.060 So, uh, yeah, let's sing happy anniversary to me and my wife. 19:33.060 --> 19:35.620 I believe it is the sixth year. 19:36.580 --> 19:38.180 Six years, something like that. 19:38.180 --> 19:38.740 All right. 19:39.460 --> 19:45.140 So let's sing happy anniversary to you. 19:45.140 --> 19:49.460 Happy anniversary to you. 19:50.020 --> 19:51.860 Three to you. 19:52.980 --> 19:57.460 God bless you and keep you. 19:58.740 --> 20:02.580 Happy anniversary to you. 20:02.580 --> 20:03.080 All right. 20:06.900 --> 20:07.140 Okay. 20:07.140 --> 20:08.980 I think that's all the announcement. 20:08.980 --> 20:11.460 Let's sing one more song and then we'll take up the offering. 20:11.460 --> 20:19.060 All right. 20:19.060 --> 20:22.580 Next song is going to be song 473. 20:22.580 --> 20:23.380 Ship the boy. 20:24.420 --> 20:26.500 473 in your hymn books. 20:29.220 --> 20:32.580 Song 473 on the first. 20:33.700 --> 20:39.620 I was drifting away on life's pitiless sea. 20:39.620 --> 20:45.220 And the angry waves threatened my ruin to be. 20:45.220 --> 20:56.340 When away at my side, there I dimly described a stately old vessel and loudly I cried. 20:58.020 --> 20:59.140 Ship ahoy. 21:01.060 --> 21:02.180 Ship ahoy. 21:04.100 --> 21:06.580 And loudly I cried. 21:07.540 --> 21:08.900 Ship ahoy. 21:10.740 --> 21:20.020 Twas the old ship of Zion, the sailing along all aboard her seen joyous. 21:20.020 --> 21:28.340 I heard their sweet song and the captain's kind ear ever ready to hear. 21:28.340 --> 21:34.420 Call my will of distress as I cried out in fear. 21:34.500 --> 21:36.820 Ship ahoy. 21:38.100 --> 21:40.100 Ship ahoy. 21:41.140 --> 21:44.660 As I cried out in fear. 21:44.660 --> 21:46.660 Ship ahoy. 21:47.860 --> 21:59.860 The good captain commanded a boat to be lord and with tender compassion he took me aboard. 21:59.860 --> 22:02.740 And I'm happy today. 22:03.700 --> 22:12.260 All my sins washed away in the blood of my savior and now I can say. 22:14.100 --> 22:15.300 Bless the lord. 22:17.060 --> 22:18.180 Bless the lord. 22:20.260 --> 22:22.740 From my soul I can say. 22:23.860 --> 22:26.100 Bless the lord. 22:27.060 --> 22:33.300 Oh soul sinking down these sins merciless wave. 22:33.300 --> 22:39.380 The strong arm of our captain is mighty to save. 22:39.380 --> 22:42.420 Then trust him today. 22:42.420 --> 22:45.380 No longer delay. 22:45.380 --> 22:50.820 Board the old ship of Zion and shout on your way. 22:51.460 --> 22:53.940 Jesus saves. 22:53.940 --> 22:55.940 Jesus saves. 22:55.940 --> 22:59.940 Shout and sing on your way. 22:59.940 --> 23:01.940 Jesus saves. 23:01.940 --> 23:03.940 All right good singing. 23:03.940 --> 23:05.940 Usher's could you please step up. 23:05.940 --> 23:09.940 Brother Matthew could you please pray for the offering. 23:09.940 --> 23:11.940 Heavenly father thank you so much for today. 23:11.940 --> 23:13.940 Please bless this offering. 23:13.940 --> 23:15.940 Let it go further your gospel. 23:15.940 --> 23:17.940 In your name we pray. 23:17.940 --> 23:19.940 Amen. 23:47.940 --> 24:09.940 All right we'll be in second Timothy chapter two this evening. 24:09.940 --> 24:11.380 Second Timothy chapter two. 24:12.340 --> 24:13.380 Whole chapter will be read. 24:14.420 --> 24:15.780 Sing in Timothy chapter two. 24:16.500 --> 24:22.980 Thou therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus and the things that thou has 24:22.980 --> 24:25.460 heard of me among many witnesses. 24:25.460 --> 24:30.100 The same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also. 24:30.100 --> 24:33.380 Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 24:33.940 --> 24:38.180 No man that worth and take on himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him 24:38.740 --> 24:43.140 who have chosen him to be a soldier and of man also strive for masteries. 24:43.700 --> 24:46.820 Yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully. 24:46.820 --> 24:50.740 The husband men that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits. 24:50.740 --> 24:55.140 Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. 24:55.140 --> 25:00.740 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel. 25:00.740 --> 25:06.660 Wherein I suffer trouble as an evildoer even unto bonds but the word of God is not bound. 25:06.660 --> 25:12.500 Therefore I endure all things for the likes sake that they may also obtain the salvation 25:12.580 --> 25:15.380 which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 25:15.380 --> 25:21.780 It is a faithful saying for we be dead with him we shall also live with him. 25:21.780 --> 25:24.740 If we suffer we shall also reign with him. 25:24.740 --> 25:27.140 If we deny him he also will deny us. 25:27.700 --> 25:32.180 If we believe not yet he abided faithfully he cannot deny himself. 25:32.180 --> 25:38.740 Of these things put them in remembrance charging them before the Lord that they strive not about 25:38.740 --> 25:42.980 words to no profit but to the subverting of the hearers. 25:42.980 --> 25:47.060 Study this show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed 25:47.060 --> 25:51.540 rightly dividing the word of truth but shun profane in vain babblings. 25:52.180 --> 25:58.980 For they will increase unto more ungodliness and their word will eat as doth a canker of whom is 25:58.980 --> 26:04.980 Hymenaeus and Philetus who concerning the faith have erred saying that the resurrection is passed 26:04.980 --> 26:07.940 already and overthrow the faith of some. 26:07.940 --> 26:13.700 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal the Lord knoweth them 26:13.700 --> 26:20.340 that are his and let every one that name and name of the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 26:20.340 --> 26:26.660 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of wood and of earth 26:26.660 --> 26:29.220 and some to honor and some to dishonor. 26:29.220 --> 26:34.100 If a man therefore purge himself from these he shall be a vessel unto honor sanctified 26:34.100 --> 26:38.580 and meet for the master's use and prepared unto every good work. 26:38.580 --> 26:46.820 Flee also youthful lusts but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace within that call on the 26:46.820 --> 26:48.740 Lord out of a pure heart. 26:48.740 --> 26:54.100 But foolish and un-learned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strife. 26:55.220 --> 27:01.300 And the servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men apt to teach, patient 27:01.300 --> 27:05.380 and meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God, 27:05.380 --> 27:09.140 paraventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth 27:09.780 --> 27:13.300 and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil 27:13.300 --> 27:15.460 who are taken captive by him as well. 27:15.460 --> 27:17.140 Brother Christian, could you please stand to service. 27:31.300 --> 27:34.100 Amen. 27:38.820 --> 27:39.540 Howdy church. 27:40.980 --> 27:45.460 Look down in your Bibles of 2 Timothy chapter 2 verses 3 and 4. 27:47.220 --> 27:50.660 Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, 27:50.660 --> 27:54.100 no man that warth entangle with himself with the affairs of this life, 27:54.100 --> 27:56.900 that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 27:57.620 --> 28:02.020 Today we'll be talking about what it takes to be a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 28:02.020 --> 28:04.180 My sermon title is A Good Soldier. 28:04.180 --> 28:07.860 And if you're not already aware, I think most people in this room are, 28:07.860 --> 28:10.260 that when you got saved you were enlisted in God's army. 28:10.980 --> 28:11.700 You're a soldier. 28:12.500 --> 28:16.340 Now the Bible describes what type of soldier you should be and it's a good soldier, 28:16.340 --> 28:18.660 meaning that there's different types of soldiers. 28:18.660 --> 28:21.060 You can be a slothful soldier. 28:21.060 --> 28:22.420 You can be a bad soldier. 28:22.980 --> 28:25.060 But the Bible commands us to be a good soldier. 28:25.860 --> 28:26.660 Right? 28:26.660 --> 28:29.940 Meaning, you know, we're to fight the good fight of faith. 28:29.940 --> 28:30.420 Right? 28:30.420 --> 28:32.660 We're at war, good warfare. 28:32.660 --> 28:32.900 Right? 28:33.620 --> 28:37.940 Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God 28:37.940 --> 28:40.820 and bringing in captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 28:40.820 --> 28:40.980 Right? 28:40.980 --> 28:43.140 We're supposed to be repenting of our sins. 28:43.140 --> 28:44.340 We're supposed to be going to church. 28:44.340 --> 28:45.860 We're supposed to be going out soul winning. 28:45.860 --> 28:46.260 Right? 28:46.260 --> 28:48.740 Supposed to be following the law of God, being a good soldier. 28:48.740 --> 28:48.980 Right? 28:48.980 --> 28:51.460 Enduring hardness as a good soldier. 28:51.460 --> 28:52.020 Right? 28:52.100 --> 28:57.060 Some of the things that God commands us to do puts us in tough situations. 28:57.060 --> 28:57.300 Right? 28:57.300 --> 28:58.580 Out soul winning and stuff like that. 28:58.580 --> 29:00.420 Going to a church that we go to. 29:00.420 --> 29:00.820 Right? 29:00.820 --> 29:01.700 We get persecution. 29:01.700 --> 29:03.060 We have to endure that hardness. 29:03.060 --> 29:03.380 Right? 29:03.380 --> 29:06.100 Sometimes our families, we get persecuted from them. 29:06.100 --> 29:06.660 Right? 29:06.660 --> 29:09.780 For going to the church that we go to or believing the things that we do. 29:09.780 --> 29:10.260 Right? 29:10.260 --> 29:12.820 We have to endure that hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 29:13.540 --> 29:18.820 And most of my sermon is going to be about being a good soldier, bad soldier, 29:18.820 --> 29:19.460 stuff like that. 29:20.020 --> 29:23.620 And there's a good example of the National Guard being good soldiers. 29:23.620 --> 29:24.180 Right? 29:24.180 --> 29:28.260 And my first point is serving others and how we should be, you know, 29:28.260 --> 29:29.860 a good soldier serves others. 29:29.860 --> 29:30.580 Right? 29:30.580 --> 29:32.500 They endure hardness for others. 29:32.500 --> 29:32.980 Right? 29:32.980 --> 29:38.980 And then soldiers in the National Guard, I'm just going to give a list of things that they do. 29:38.980 --> 29:41.380 You know, being a good soldier, serving others, serving the communities. 29:42.980 --> 29:45.700 You know, disaster relief and emergency response. 29:45.700 --> 29:46.340 Right? 29:46.340 --> 29:49.140 When I was a kid, Hurricane Katrina, when that came in. 29:49.700 --> 29:56.180 Leveled New Orleans, the levees, they collapsed and the civilians were going out trying to rescue 29:56.180 --> 29:56.740 other people. 29:56.740 --> 29:56.980 Right? 29:56.980 --> 30:01.380 And then the National Guard came in being good soldiers and were leaving that. 30:01.380 --> 30:01.620 Right? 30:01.620 --> 30:03.460 They were cleaning up the dead bodies. 30:03.460 --> 30:03.780 Right? 30:03.780 --> 30:08.340 They were rescuing small children, families from the ruins of their houses and stuff like that. 30:08.340 --> 30:08.580 Right? 30:08.580 --> 30:09.940 They endured hardness for those things. 30:10.580 --> 30:13.780 They also like fight wildfires, stuff like that. 30:13.780 --> 30:14.020 Right? 30:14.020 --> 30:18.980 They're not only just like their first duty is to protect and serve and, you know, 30:18.980 --> 30:19.940 fight wars. 30:19.940 --> 30:20.420 Right? 30:20.420 --> 30:24.740 But their secondary duties is to, you know, help protect and serve. 30:24.740 --> 30:24.900 Right? 30:24.900 --> 30:28.180 They're there to serve the community, help us, stuff like that. 30:29.620 --> 30:30.740 Turn to Matthew 14. 30:35.060 --> 30:36.660 Keep your place in 2 Timothy as well. 30:37.860 --> 30:39.300 We'll be going back there. 30:39.300 --> 30:41.700 And Philippians 2, as you're turning now, read, 30:42.260 --> 30:45.860 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 30:45.860 --> 30:49.940 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being the form of God, 30:49.940 --> 30:54.980 thought it robbery, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no 30:54.980 --> 31:00.500 reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. 31:01.380 --> 31:06.020 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death, 31:06.020 --> 31:07.380 even to the death of cross. 31:07.380 --> 31:07.620 Right? 31:08.180 --> 31:11.220 The Lord, Lord Jesus Christ is the best example of a good soldier. 31:11.220 --> 31:11.460 Right? 31:11.460 --> 31:14.340 He, you know, he, even though the cross, right? 31:14.340 --> 31:15.220 Even to death. 31:15.220 --> 31:15.460 Right? 31:15.460 --> 31:16.100 He served us. 31:16.100 --> 31:16.260 Right? 31:16.260 --> 31:17.140 That's how he served us. 31:17.140 --> 31:18.580 He took our place. 31:18.580 --> 31:18.820 Right? 31:19.860 --> 31:21.780 And he made himself with no reputation. 31:21.780 --> 31:22.820 He humbled himself. 31:22.820 --> 31:23.300 Right? 31:23.300 --> 31:27.780 A good soldier of Jesus Christ and that endures hardness is a humble soldier. 31:27.780 --> 31:28.020 Right? 31:29.060 --> 31:37.540 You know, and, you know, sometimes it's, you know, enduring hardness is coming to church, 31:37.540 --> 31:37.780 right? 31:37.780 --> 31:39.220 Driving to church, waking up. 31:39.220 --> 31:39.780 Right? 31:39.780 --> 31:41.700 And the Bible commands us to come to church. 31:41.700 --> 31:42.260 Right? 31:42.260 --> 31:46.340 In Hebrews it says, not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together as the manner of some is, 31:46.340 --> 31:47.940 but exhorting one another. 31:47.940 --> 31:50.500 And so much the more as you see the day approaching. 31:50.500 --> 31:51.060 Right? 31:51.060 --> 31:54.740 You're being a good soldier and doing hardness by coming to church for the person next to you. 31:55.460 --> 31:55.860 Right? 31:55.860 --> 31:58.020 You're encouraging and exhorting one another. 31:58.020 --> 31:58.260 Right? 31:59.140 --> 32:02.420 You know, let's say, you know, half the congregations doesn't show up to church. 32:02.420 --> 32:02.660 Right? 32:03.220 --> 32:05.380 You know, that could discourage our evangelists. 32:05.380 --> 32:06.420 It could discourage one of you. 32:07.140 --> 32:07.780 Right? 32:07.780 --> 32:09.540 It's important that we show up for one another. 32:09.540 --> 32:10.980 We endure hardness for one another. 32:11.460 --> 32:19.300 And in Matthew 14, starting in verse 13, Jesus is talking about serving others. 32:19.300 --> 32:22.660 Well, he commands his disciples to serve one another, or serve the masses. 32:23.620 --> 32:27.780 Starting in verse 13, when Jesus heard of it, John the Baptist was just killed. 32:27.780 --> 32:28.820 This is what he's hearing. 32:28.820 --> 32:32.740 He departed thence by ship into a desert place apart. 32:32.740 --> 32:36.180 And when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot of the cities. 32:36.180 --> 32:36.820 Right? 32:36.820 --> 32:40.100 In verse 14, and Jesus went forth and saw the great multitude 32:40.100 --> 32:42.980 and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. 32:43.540 --> 32:48.820 So Jesus, when he saw the masses, right, he became a servant. 32:48.820 --> 32:49.060 Right? 32:49.060 --> 32:49.940 He healed the masses. 32:49.940 --> 32:51.380 He had compassion on them. 32:51.380 --> 32:54.980 And he didn't just have compassion and be like, well, good luck. 32:55.620 --> 32:55.860 Right? 32:55.860 --> 32:57.140 He actually went out there and healed. 32:57.140 --> 32:57.300 Right? 32:57.300 --> 32:58.660 He ministered to those people. 32:58.660 --> 32:59.220 Right? 32:59.220 --> 33:03.620 And then see the contrast of the disciples in Matthew 14, 15. 33:03.620 --> 33:06.660 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him saying, 33:06.660 --> 33:09.700 this is a desert place, and the time has now passed. 33:09.700 --> 33:12.900 Send the multitudes away that they may go into the villages 33:12.900 --> 33:14.820 and buy themselves victuals. 33:14.820 --> 33:15.380 Right? 33:15.380 --> 33:17.460 So the disciples are trying to send these people away. 33:18.020 --> 33:20.900 Whereas the Lord Jesus Christ is ministering to these people. 33:20.900 --> 33:22.020 He's healing the sick. 33:22.020 --> 33:22.520 Right? 33:23.940 --> 33:26.180 And the disciples basically just want to get rid of them. 33:26.740 --> 33:26.980 Right? 33:26.980 --> 33:30.100 They look at the masses like, how can we take care of these people in a desert place? 33:30.660 --> 33:30.980 Right? 33:30.980 --> 33:32.820 How can we do this? 33:32.820 --> 33:38.500 And then verse 16, but Jesus said unto them, they need not depart, 33:38.500 --> 33:40.340 give thee them to eat. 33:40.340 --> 33:40.820 Right? 33:40.820 --> 33:44.100 And then Jesus with the fish and the bread, they feed the masses. 33:44.100 --> 33:44.660 Right? 33:44.660 --> 33:47.860 And notice this, he tells them to serve them. 33:47.860 --> 33:48.180 Right? 33:48.820 --> 33:50.180 Even though it's uncomfortable. 33:50.180 --> 33:50.420 Right? 33:50.420 --> 33:52.020 So they're enduring hardness. 33:52.020 --> 33:52.260 Right? 33:52.260 --> 33:54.980 Because their Lord had commanded them, they're enduring hardness, 33:54.980 --> 33:57.060 serving these masses, feeding the masses. 33:57.060 --> 33:57.380 Right? 33:59.380 --> 34:02.100 So Jesus wants you to be inconvenienced. 34:03.140 --> 34:03.540 Right? 34:03.540 --> 34:06.980 He doesn't want you to have a real comfortable life serving all the time. 34:06.980 --> 34:07.300 Right? 34:07.300 --> 34:10.660 He wants you to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 34:11.300 --> 34:11.620 Right? 34:12.740 --> 34:14.100 Preaching a sermon. 34:14.100 --> 34:14.500 Right? 34:14.500 --> 34:16.260 I'm enduring hardness. 34:16.260 --> 34:16.500 Right? 34:16.500 --> 34:20.820 Because I never saw myself up here being a preacher. 34:20.820 --> 34:21.460 Right? 34:21.460 --> 34:22.660 As an unsaid heathen. 34:22.660 --> 34:22.820 Right? 34:22.820 --> 34:23.700 This is a little uncomfortable. 34:23.700 --> 34:25.540 I'm an extrovert and it's still uncomfortable. 34:25.540 --> 34:25.780 Right? 34:27.140 --> 34:28.740 It's enduring hardness as a good soldier. 34:29.780 --> 34:31.700 You know, you're inconvenienced by others. 34:32.260 --> 34:32.500 Right? 34:32.500 --> 34:33.220 That's what it is. 34:33.780 --> 34:34.900 Or part of it at least. 34:35.460 --> 34:36.660 Turn back to 2 Timothy. 34:38.180 --> 34:38.740 Chapter 2. 34:43.060 --> 34:45.540 And then starting in verse 7, consider what I say. 34:45.540 --> 34:46.900 And this is Paul talking to Timothy. 34:46.900 --> 34:48.100 So consider what I say. 34:48.100 --> 34:52.740 So take heed and the Lord will give the understanding in all things. 34:52.740 --> 34:56.900 So the things he's about to say to Timothy, or he's writing to Timothy, 34:56.900 --> 35:00.180 he wants him to take heed so you can have understanding in all things. 35:00.180 --> 35:04.020 Verse 8, remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead 35:04.020 --> 35:05.060 according to my gospel. 35:05.780 --> 35:09.300 Wherein I suffered trouble as an evildoer even unto bonds, 35:09.300 --> 35:11.540 but the word of God is not bound. 35:11.540 --> 35:15.940 So because Paul is enduring, he's being a good soldier of Jesus Christ, 35:15.940 --> 35:16.900 he's preaching the gospel. 35:16.900 --> 35:17.380 Right? 35:17.380 --> 35:18.340 He's in bonds. 35:18.340 --> 35:18.740 Right? 35:18.740 --> 35:20.820 He's in prison while he's writing this epistle. 35:21.620 --> 35:21.860 Right? 35:21.860 --> 35:25.540 He's enduring hardness and he's exhorting Timothy to do this. 35:25.540 --> 35:26.020 Right? 35:26.020 --> 35:30.020 And then in verse 1 of the chapter, he tells him what he should be trusting in. 35:30.020 --> 35:30.660 Right? 35:30.660 --> 35:34.420 Thou therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 35:34.820 --> 35:39.380 In the context of this chapter is a physical salvation. 35:39.380 --> 35:39.940 Right? 35:39.940 --> 35:43.540 He's commanding us to be a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 35:43.540 --> 35:43.940 Right? 35:43.940 --> 35:46.260 And we're trusting in the grace that is in Jesus Christ. 35:46.260 --> 35:48.500 We're not putting our trust in our own strength. 35:48.500 --> 35:53.940 We're not putting our trust in our money, our belongings, right? 35:53.940 --> 35:54.820 Our families. 35:54.820 --> 35:54.980 Right? 35:54.980 --> 35:57.780 We're putting our trust in the grace that is Jesus. 35:57.780 --> 35:58.180 Right? 35:58.180 --> 35:59.540 And then we're going to succeed. 35:59.540 --> 36:04.020 And it says in verse 2, and these things that thou has heard of me among many witnesses, 36:04.020 --> 36:08.500 the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also. 36:08.500 --> 36:09.460 So why are we doing that? 36:09.460 --> 36:13.140 Why are we enduring hardness as a good soldier? 36:13.140 --> 36:13.380 Right? 36:13.380 --> 36:14.260 For others. 36:14.260 --> 36:14.740 Right? 36:14.740 --> 36:19.540 So we can teach others so that they can teach others so they can endure hardness. 36:19.540 --> 36:20.980 And so on and so on. 36:20.980 --> 36:21.460 Right? 36:21.460 --> 36:25.300 That's how we got, you know, Paul 2000 years ago to now. 36:25.300 --> 36:25.540 Right? 36:26.260 --> 36:29.220 Good soldiers preaching the gospel, holding fast. 36:29.220 --> 36:29.460 Right? 36:30.260 --> 36:38.820 And then verse 3, thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 36:38.820 --> 36:39.380 Right? 36:39.380 --> 36:41.700 That's the enduring, the hardness. 36:41.700 --> 36:42.500 Right? 36:42.500 --> 36:44.260 And then go down to verse 11. 36:45.300 --> 36:50.820 It is a faithful saying, for if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. 36:50.820 --> 36:53.620 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. 36:53.620 --> 36:56.500 If we deny him, he will also deny us. 36:56.500 --> 37:00.100 So in verse 1 is telling us to trust in the grace of Jesus Christ. 37:00.100 --> 37:04.740 And then if we don't, right, if we deny him, he'll deny us that physical salvation. 37:05.460 --> 37:05.700 Right? 37:07.140 --> 37:11.140 It is a faithful saying, for if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. 37:11.140 --> 37:16.020 So if we are willing to die for it, right, if we're willing to sacrifice the things around us, 37:16.020 --> 37:18.020 right, the Lord will come through. 37:18.020 --> 37:23.460 He has to, because in verse 13, if we believe not, yet he abided faithful, 37:23.460 --> 37:25.380 he cannot deny himself. 37:25.380 --> 37:25.940 Right? 37:25.940 --> 37:28.980 And a lot of people say this is talking about a spiritual salvation, 37:28.980 --> 37:31.460 but it's really talking about a physical salvation. 37:31.460 --> 37:31.860 Right? 37:31.860 --> 37:36.260 It's talking about, it's talking, or Paul is talking to Timothy, a saved individual, 37:36.260 --> 37:38.660 about enduring as a good soldier. 37:38.660 --> 37:38.900 Right? 37:38.900 --> 37:41.460 Enduring hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 37:41.460 --> 37:44.980 So if we believe not, yet he abided faithful, he cannot deny himself. 37:44.980 --> 37:48.260 So we're trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, he's going to come through. 37:48.260 --> 37:48.660 Right? 37:48.660 --> 37:54.900 If we're putting our trust in him, right, just like Meshach, Abednego, how do you say it? 37:55.780 --> 37:57.300 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 37:57.300 --> 37:57.540 Right? 37:57.540 --> 37:59.220 I didn't grow up Baptist, so you can tell. 37:59.220 --> 37:59.540 Right? 38:00.980 --> 38:01.460 Right. 38:01.460 --> 38:03.700 They're trusting that the Lord will deliver them. 38:03.700 --> 38:03.940 Right? 38:03.940 --> 38:05.380 When they're being thrown into the furnace. 38:05.380 --> 38:05.620 Right? 38:06.660 --> 38:07.620 And the Lord came through. 38:07.620 --> 38:08.900 The Son of God showed up. 38:08.900 --> 38:09.220 Right? 38:09.220 --> 38:10.340 He abided faithful. 38:10.340 --> 38:10.740 Right? 38:10.740 --> 38:11.540 He will save us. 38:11.540 --> 38:12.820 He will deliver us. 38:12.820 --> 38:13.220 Right? 38:13.220 --> 38:15.380 And even if we die, we're still delivered. 38:15.380 --> 38:15.700 Right? 38:15.700 --> 38:16.500 We're going to heaven. 38:18.660 --> 38:19.540 He can't fail us. 38:20.100 --> 38:20.420 Right? 38:20.420 --> 38:23.700 We've already overcome this world through the Lord Jesus Christ, 38:23.700 --> 38:25.540 his death, burial, and resurrection, believing on that. 38:25.540 --> 38:25.780 Right? 38:26.420 --> 38:28.340 And then verse 19, 38:29.300 --> 38:33.540 Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal, 38:33.540 --> 38:38.580 the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every one that nameeth the name of Christ 38:38.580 --> 38:39.700 depart from iniquity. 38:39.700 --> 38:40.420 Right? 38:40.420 --> 38:41.460 That's our job. 38:41.460 --> 38:41.860 Right? 38:41.860 --> 38:44.740 We're supposed to endure hardness by departing from iniquity. 38:44.740 --> 38:45.460 Right? 38:45.460 --> 38:50.340 Sometimes it's, you know, waking up in the morning, you know, having to pray is a challenge for a lot 38:50.340 --> 38:50.900 of people. 38:50.900 --> 38:51.140 Right? 38:51.140 --> 38:52.740 It's a challenge for me sometimes. 38:52.740 --> 38:57.860 When I'm waking up, I only have like 10 minutes, 10 to 12 minutes to get ready. 38:57.860 --> 38:58.180 Boom. 38:58.180 --> 39:00.660 I'm like, no, I need private time with the Lord. 39:00.660 --> 39:01.220 I need to pray. 39:01.220 --> 39:02.420 I need to do it in hardness. 39:02.420 --> 39:04.020 I need to repent of my sins. 39:04.020 --> 39:04.420 Right? 39:04.420 --> 39:07.380 I need to bring into captivity every thought, right? 39:07.380 --> 39:08.900 Into the obedience of Jesus Christ. 39:09.940 --> 39:16.900 And then verse 19, verse 20, but in a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, 39:16.900 --> 39:20.500 but also wood and earth and some to honor and some to dishonor. 39:21.540 --> 39:21.780 Right? 39:22.740 --> 39:25.540 The foundation of God is the word of God and it's standard. 39:25.540 --> 39:25.780 Sure. 39:25.780 --> 39:26.500 We can trust in that. 39:26.500 --> 39:27.860 We can trust in the promises. 39:27.860 --> 39:28.100 Right? 39:28.740 --> 39:32.180 But this verse here is like, let's say like a church. 39:32.180 --> 39:32.820 Right? 39:32.820 --> 39:36.100 There's some that are gold and silver in this church. 39:36.100 --> 39:36.580 Right? 39:36.580 --> 39:38.580 And then there's some that are wood and earth. 39:38.580 --> 39:41.540 There's some that are dishonorable and there's some that are honorable. 39:41.540 --> 39:41.780 Right? 39:41.780 --> 39:46.020 There's some that are going to do more for Christ and there's some that is not going to do more. 39:46.020 --> 39:46.500 Right? 39:46.500 --> 39:51.620 And if you want to be that gold and silver, if you want to be that good soldier, in verse 21, 39:51.620 --> 39:55.460 if a man therefore purge himself of these things, he shall be a vessel unto honor, 39:55.460 --> 39:59.780 sanctified and meet for the master's use and prepared to every good work. 39:59.780 --> 40:00.980 So the Lord wants us to work. 40:00.980 --> 40:02.500 He wants us to repent of our sins. 40:02.500 --> 40:02.740 Right? 40:02.740 --> 40:04.660 He wants us to be that gold and silver. 40:04.660 --> 40:04.900 Right? 40:04.900 --> 40:05.780 In this church. 40:05.780 --> 40:07.460 He doesn't want us to be that wood and earth. 40:07.460 --> 40:07.940 Right? 40:07.940 --> 40:09.300 You don't want to be a useless Christian. 40:10.100 --> 40:10.580 Right? 40:10.580 --> 40:11.860 You want to be actively soul winning. 40:11.860 --> 40:13.860 You want to be participating in the work of God. 40:13.860 --> 40:15.860 You want to be enduring hardness as a good soldier. 40:16.020 --> 40:16.520 Amen. 40:18.260 --> 40:23.380 And verse 24, and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men 40:23.380 --> 40:28.100 apt to teach and patience in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves. 40:28.100 --> 40:33.620 If God pre-adventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and that they may 40:33.620 --> 40:39.060 recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will. 40:39.060 --> 40:45.140 The only way to not be taken captive by the devil is to trust in the grace of Lord Jesus Christ. 40:45.140 --> 40:47.700 That's the only way to endure as a soldier. 40:47.700 --> 40:48.420 Right? 40:48.420 --> 40:49.700 We can't do it ourselves. 40:49.700 --> 40:51.140 We have to be trusting in Jesus. 40:51.940 --> 40:54.340 And a good soldier serves others. 40:54.340 --> 40:54.740 Right? 40:54.740 --> 40:56.420 They're inconvenienced by others. 40:56.420 --> 40:56.920 Right? 40:57.780 --> 40:59.300 Some of the examples in this room. 40:59.300 --> 40:59.940 Right? 40:59.940 --> 41:01.620 Like we're helping one another get to church. 41:02.180 --> 41:02.340 Right? 41:02.340 --> 41:04.020 That's enduring hardness for one another. 41:05.460 --> 41:07.300 Brother Brad, brother Brad's a good example. 41:07.300 --> 41:10.020 He'll go around picking the people up, taking people to soul winning. 41:10.020 --> 41:10.520 Right? 41:11.220 --> 41:13.540 Some people rent vans and stuff like that. 41:13.540 --> 41:18.100 They spend their own hard earned money to go encourage other people, exhort other people. 41:18.100 --> 41:19.620 They travel around and stuff like that. 41:20.420 --> 41:22.180 That's a good testimony. 41:22.180 --> 41:23.220 That's a good soldier. 41:23.220 --> 41:23.720 Right? 41:24.260 --> 41:26.100 Turn to Luke 14. 41:27.780 --> 41:29.060 And we're done with 2 Timothy. 41:33.540 --> 41:39.940 My first point was serving others as a good soldier. 41:39.940 --> 41:40.420 Right? 41:40.420 --> 41:41.860 That's part of enduring hardness. 41:42.260 --> 41:46.420 Also, and then my second point is excuses to not be a good soldier. 41:46.980 --> 41:47.220 Right? 41:47.220 --> 41:51.060 A lot of people give a lot of excuses of why they're not going to church. 41:51.060 --> 41:52.260 Why they're not going soul winning. 41:52.260 --> 41:53.860 Why they're not repenting of their sins. 41:53.860 --> 41:54.360 Right? 41:55.060 --> 41:58.980 Even like why they're not at home taking care of their children. 41:59.700 --> 42:00.200 Right? 42:00.980 --> 42:06.020 In Luke 14 verse 16, Jesus talks about these excuses. 42:06.020 --> 42:07.940 He gives a parable that said, 42:07.940 --> 42:33.860 So this man right here in verse 18, he's giving an excuse about his house. 42:33.860 --> 42:34.020 Right? 42:34.020 --> 42:34.660 His possessions. 42:34.660 --> 42:36.980 They're giving them the way of serving the Lord. 42:36.980 --> 42:37.220 Right? 42:37.220 --> 42:38.500 He's making an excuse. 42:38.500 --> 42:38.980 Right? 42:38.980 --> 42:40.500 We can't be like this person. 42:40.500 --> 42:40.900 Right? 42:40.900 --> 42:46.020 We can't let our house, our vehicles, our jobs, our money, our mammon get in the way 42:46.020 --> 42:46.980 of serving God. 42:46.980 --> 42:47.380 Right? 42:47.380 --> 42:50.180 That's a quick way for God to take that stuff away. 42:50.820 --> 42:51.320 Right? 42:51.860 --> 42:53.060 You need to endure hardness. 42:53.060 --> 42:54.580 You need to make some sacrifices. 42:54.580 --> 42:55.140 Right? 42:55.140 --> 42:58.420 Even if, you know, like even like an unsaved heathen. 42:58.420 --> 42:58.660 Right? 42:58.660 --> 43:01.540 They have to make sacrifices for certain things. 43:01.540 --> 43:02.040 Right? 43:02.660 --> 43:05.860 We, the much more as servants of God, as good soldiers. 43:05.860 --> 43:06.020 Right? 43:06.020 --> 43:07.060 We don't want to be a bad soldier. 43:07.060 --> 43:08.500 We want to be a good soldier. 43:08.500 --> 43:12.100 We want to be, be willing to sacrifice these things. 43:12.100 --> 43:12.420 Right? 43:14.180 --> 43:19.860 And then verse 19 and another said, I have bought five yogaksan and I go to prove them. 43:19.860 --> 43:21.540 I pray they have me excuse. 43:21.540 --> 43:22.420 Same deal. 43:22.420 --> 43:23.140 Right? 43:23.140 --> 43:24.980 I can't let my chickens get in the way. 43:24.980 --> 43:25.220 Right? 43:25.940 --> 43:30.180 I can't just show up to my, I can't not show up to the second service because my chickens 43:30.180 --> 43:30.900 are going to die. 43:30.900 --> 43:31.220 Right? 43:31.220 --> 43:32.900 Well, the chickens are just going to have to wait. 43:32.900 --> 43:33.140 Right? 43:33.140 --> 43:34.020 They're just going to have to die. 43:34.660 --> 43:36.820 Honestly, they're stupid birds anyway. 43:36.820 --> 43:37.140 Right? 43:37.780 --> 43:39.300 I appreciate the eggs and stuff. 43:40.020 --> 43:43.300 I appreciate the work my wife has put into it, but they're birds. 43:43.300 --> 43:44.740 They're stupid birds. 43:44.740 --> 43:45.060 Right? 43:45.060 --> 43:46.900 They're a lot more, they're a lot of work honestly. 43:46.900 --> 43:51.540 But you know, and it's not like I don't really care about them really. 43:51.540 --> 43:51.860 Right? 43:51.860 --> 43:52.580 I want the eggs. 43:52.580 --> 43:53.540 I want the meat. 43:53.540 --> 43:53.780 Right? 43:53.780 --> 43:56.260 They're a lot of work butchering those chickens is a lot of work. 43:56.260 --> 43:57.860 It's a lot of enduring hardness. 43:57.860 --> 43:58.100 Right? 43:58.100 --> 43:58.820 I got to stand there. 43:58.820 --> 43:59.700 My back is hurting. 44:00.500 --> 44:01.780 I really hate those things, man. 44:03.380 --> 44:06.740 And you know, I, and when I first started coming here, they did get in my way. 44:07.220 --> 44:08.500 I was making an excuse. 44:08.500 --> 44:10.740 And that's a bad soldier. 44:10.740 --> 44:11.300 Right? 44:11.300 --> 44:15.380 That's a quick way to lose all that work that I put into those stupid birds. 44:16.420 --> 44:16.660 Right? 44:17.540 --> 44:19.300 Matthew 6.24 reads, 44:19.300 --> 44:23.700 No man can serve two masters for either we hate the one, yeah, hate the one, 44:23.700 --> 44:27.700 and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. 44:27.700 --> 44:29.700 He cannot serve God and man. 44:29.700 --> 44:29.860 Right? 44:29.860 --> 44:31.220 You can't serve your stuff. 44:31.220 --> 44:31.460 Right? 44:31.460 --> 44:32.500 You can't be a man. 44:32.500 --> 44:35.860 You can't let these things take over your life so you're not serving God. 44:35.860 --> 44:36.100 Right? 44:36.740 --> 44:37.780 You'll despise God. 44:37.780 --> 44:38.900 You'll hate God. 44:38.900 --> 44:42.900 You'll be like getting in the way of your money in your own mind. 44:43.460 --> 44:43.940 Right? 44:43.940 --> 44:44.740 You don't want that. 44:44.740 --> 44:47.220 You want a good relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. 44:47.220 --> 44:47.460 Right? 44:49.860 --> 44:53.060 And I, yeah, like I said, I despise those chickens. 44:53.060 --> 44:54.820 They get in the way all the time. 44:55.780 --> 45:00.260 Luke 12.15, Jesus is like, he hammers this. 45:01.060 --> 45:04.020 And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of covetousness, 45:04.020 --> 45:07.620 for a man's life consists of not in the abundance of things which he possesseth. 45:07.620 --> 45:07.860 Right? 45:09.300 --> 45:11.540 I own a pretty good property. 45:11.540 --> 45:11.780 Right? 45:11.780 --> 45:12.420 A big house. 45:12.420 --> 45:13.380 It takes a lot of work. 45:13.380 --> 45:14.020 Right? 45:14.020 --> 45:15.860 I can't be putting my trust in that stuff. 45:15.860 --> 45:16.340 Right? 45:16.340 --> 45:20.420 I'm trying to become more self-sufficient where we're not relying on the electric company 45:20.420 --> 45:23.300 and for the heat and the lighting and stuff like that. 45:23.300 --> 45:23.620 Right? 45:23.620 --> 45:24.980 But I can't be putting my trust in that. 45:24.980 --> 45:25.140 Right? 45:25.140 --> 45:29.940 I got to be putting my trust in the Lord as a soldier, a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 45:30.660 --> 45:31.060 Right? 45:31.060 --> 45:32.340 Because God will take that stuff away. 45:32.980 --> 45:34.420 I mean, how many tornadoes do we have? 45:35.300 --> 45:36.340 There's a year already. 45:36.340 --> 45:37.540 He could just wipe that away. 45:38.100 --> 45:39.860 Shoot, buddy's house burned down. 45:39.860 --> 45:40.100 Right? 45:41.380 --> 45:43.540 I mean, like, my house could burn down. 45:44.340 --> 45:46.180 God could take that hedge of protection away. 45:46.180 --> 45:46.980 Boom. 45:46.980 --> 45:48.020 Just to get me right. 45:48.020 --> 45:48.260 Right? 45:48.260 --> 45:48.820 I don't want that. 45:49.860 --> 45:52.980 I want to be as comfortable as possible, but also endure hardness. 45:52.980 --> 45:53.220 Right? 45:55.300 --> 45:57.300 I want to leave an inheritance to my children. 45:57.300 --> 45:57.700 Right? 45:57.700 --> 45:58.980 I don't want God to take that away. 45:59.700 --> 45:59.940 Right? 45:59.940 --> 46:01.540 Because I'm not enduring hardness for others. 46:01.540 --> 46:04.260 I'm not enduring hardness for the Lord Jesus Christ. 46:04.260 --> 46:04.740 Right? 46:04.740 --> 46:06.260 I should be willing to die for him. 46:06.260 --> 46:06.500 Right? 46:07.460 --> 46:12.500 Luke, or Matthew 621, for where your treasure is, there where your heart be also. 46:12.500 --> 46:12.820 Right? 46:12.820 --> 46:15.780 I don't want my, we don't want our hearts on the things of this world. 46:15.780 --> 46:18.020 We want our heart pointing toward God. 46:18.020 --> 46:18.500 Right? 46:18.500 --> 46:20.820 We want to have God, the focus, right? 46:20.820 --> 46:24.100 Of our marriage, of our friendships, of our workplace. 46:24.100 --> 46:24.420 Right? 46:24.420 --> 46:26.820 And when I'm in the work, Christ is on my mind. 46:26.820 --> 46:27.300 Right? 46:27.300 --> 46:30.740 When my boss comes up and asks me to do something. 46:30.740 --> 46:30.980 Right? 46:31.780 --> 46:32.740 The Lord is on my mind. 46:32.740 --> 46:33.620 I know he's watching. 46:34.260 --> 46:34.500 Right? 46:35.060 --> 46:36.980 I'm going to do exactly what my boss says. 46:36.980 --> 46:39.460 Imagine if I gave my boss a bunch of excuses like these guys. 46:40.020 --> 46:40.260 Right? 46:40.260 --> 46:41.460 How long would I work there? 46:42.180 --> 46:42.900 He'd get rid of me. 46:43.700 --> 46:44.020 Right? 46:44.020 --> 46:46.340 We can't do that to the Lord Jesus Christ either. 46:46.340 --> 46:46.660 Right? 46:48.660 --> 46:50.580 Yeah, no one would look at me like, what is wrong? 46:50.580 --> 46:50.980 What? 46:50.980 --> 46:51.860 Are you serious? 46:51.860 --> 46:53.860 Like, because you bought some oxen? 46:53.860 --> 46:56.980 You can't, you can't, you can't, you can't do your work. 46:56.980 --> 46:57.220 Right? 46:58.260 --> 46:59.380 Look down at Luke 14. 47:00.260 --> 47:04.340 And another said, I have a married wife and therefore I cannot come. 47:04.340 --> 47:07.540 We definitely do not want our family getting in the way. 47:07.540 --> 47:07.780 Right? 47:07.780 --> 47:10.660 And skip down to verse 25. 47:10.660 --> 47:11.860 Jesus talks about this. 47:11.860 --> 47:13.700 And there were great multitudes with him. 47:13.700 --> 47:18.180 And he turned and said unto them, if any man come to me and hate not his father 47:18.180 --> 47:24.260 and his mother, or and mother and wife and children and brother and and sisters, 47:24.260 --> 47:27.860 yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 47:28.500 --> 47:32.980 And whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 47:32.980 --> 47:33.220 Right? 47:33.860 --> 47:37.220 If you want to be the disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, 47:37.220 --> 47:42.100 you need to be willing to sacrifice these things for the work of God. 47:42.100 --> 47:42.580 Right? 47:42.580 --> 47:43.620 To endure hardness. 47:44.500 --> 47:47.060 That doesn't mean we, I actually hate my wife. 47:47.060 --> 47:49.940 But in comparison to my love for the Lord Jesus Christ, 47:49.940 --> 47:54.020 the only reason why I have Kelly, my wife, is because the Lord gave her to me. 47:54.020 --> 47:54.740 Right? 47:54.740 --> 47:56.660 So I love him that much more for giving me 47:57.620 --> 48:00.980 a wife like Kelly or my son like Cooper or Lyra or Miriam. 48:00.980 --> 48:01.540 Right? 48:01.540 --> 48:02.740 I love them. 48:02.740 --> 48:06.420 I love the Lord Jesus Christ of the much more. 48:06.420 --> 48:07.940 And I want to serve them. 48:07.940 --> 48:09.860 I want to serve them also. 48:09.860 --> 48:10.260 Yea. 48:10.260 --> 48:12.580 But I want to serve the Lord Jesus Christ more. 48:12.580 --> 48:12.820 Right? 48:13.860 --> 48:15.220 I don't want that stuff getting in the way. 48:15.780 --> 48:18.020 I do not want the Lord taking away my family. 48:18.020 --> 48:18.500 Right? 48:18.500 --> 48:22.340 And he will punish me if I'm not going to do her hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 48:22.980 --> 48:27.460 And then a lot of Christians let that stuff get in the way. 48:27.460 --> 48:27.700 Right? 48:27.700 --> 48:28.660 They worship family. 48:28.660 --> 48:31.700 They put that idol, their family, in the way. 48:31.700 --> 48:31.940 Right? 48:31.940 --> 48:32.980 That's unacceptable. 48:32.980 --> 48:36.180 We're not, as Christians, we're not to have idols. 48:36.180 --> 48:37.780 And we don't want to idolize our family. 48:37.780 --> 48:40.420 We don't want to idolize our homes, our possessions. 48:40.420 --> 48:40.660 Right? 48:43.380 --> 48:45.540 And then Luke 14 verse 21. 48:46.500 --> 48:49.140 So that servant came and showed his Lord these things. 48:49.140 --> 48:51.620 Then the master of the house being angry and said to the servant, 48:51.620 --> 48:57.940 go quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor and the maimed 48:57.940 --> 48:59.540 and the halt and the blind. 48:59.540 --> 49:04.660 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou commanded and there is room. 49:04.660 --> 49:08.100 So because, you know, there's so many slothful servants, 49:08.100 --> 49:11.620 because there's so many people giving excuses, this room isn't full. 49:11.620 --> 49:12.500 It's never going to be full. 49:13.380 --> 49:13.620 Right? 49:13.620 --> 49:15.220 Because there's not enough people so many. 49:15.220 --> 49:15.780 Right? 49:15.780 --> 49:17.700 And that's what this is about because in verse 23, 49:17.700 --> 49:19.060 And the Lord said unto the servant, 49:19.060 --> 49:24.180 Go out in the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 49:24.180 --> 49:28.340 For I say unto you that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. 49:28.900 --> 49:29.380 Right? 49:29.380 --> 49:31.780 He's going to come down on these men that are making excuses. 49:31.780 --> 49:32.340 Right? 49:32.340 --> 49:37.860 Excuses for why, you know, let's say like I lose my job because I go to this church, 49:37.860 --> 49:38.900 because I preach at this church. 49:38.900 --> 49:40.420 I go soul-winding and stuff like that. 49:40.420 --> 49:40.920 Right? 49:41.620 --> 49:43.300 Am I going to blame the Lord Jesus Christ? 49:43.940 --> 49:45.300 Or am I going to do with that hardness? 49:45.700 --> 49:48.180 I'm going to do with that hardness. 49:48.180 --> 49:48.680 Amen. 49:49.620 --> 49:52.420 You know, I don't want, I want to be at that supper. 49:52.420 --> 49:52.660 Right? 49:52.660 --> 49:56.180 I want to be rejoicing in heaven because I finished my race. 49:56.180 --> 49:56.580 Right? 49:56.580 --> 49:58.020 As a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 49:59.220 --> 50:00.580 I don't want to blame the church. 50:00.580 --> 50:03.300 I don't want to blame Jesus Christ because I lost my job. 50:04.020 --> 50:04.500 Right? 50:04.500 --> 50:06.260 Become a backslidden nobody. 50:06.260 --> 50:06.760 Right? 50:07.140 --> 50:10.660 Proverbs 10, 5, he that gathereth in the summer is a wise son, 50:10.660 --> 50:13.540 but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causes shame. 50:13.540 --> 50:16.580 We don't want to be a son of God that causes shame. 50:16.580 --> 50:16.740 Right? 50:16.740 --> 50:20.180 But not enduring hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 50:20.180 --> 50:21.860 We want to go out on the highways and hedges. 50:21.860 --> 50:22.820 We want to preach the gospel. 50:22.820 --> 50:25.860 We want to be consistent with these things, repenting of our sins. 50:25.860 --> 50:26.360 Right? 50:27.700 --> 50:32.740 And then point three, good soldiers are not cowards. 50:34.500 --> 50:36.660 Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 20. 50:41.700 --> 50:43.300 Good soldiers are not cowards. 50:43.540 --> 50:53.540 Right? 50:53.540 --> 50:54.900 Starting in verse 1. 50:54.900 --> 50:59.780 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies and see as horses and chariots 50:59.780 --> 51:03.300 and people more than thou, be not afraid of them. 51:03.300 --> 51:07.940 For the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 51:08.500 --> 51:09.700 So verse 1. 51:09.700 --> 51:10.740 When we see the enemy come. 51:10.740 --> 51:10.980 Right? 51:10.980 --> 51:13.300 When we see the protesters, we should not fear them. 51:13.700 --> 51:14.980 We've got to fear the Lord more. 51:14.980 --> 51:15.220 Right? 51:15.220 --> 51:16.500 You've got to trust in the Lord. 51:16.500 --> 51:19.460 Otherwise, I mean, what's going to happen? 51:19.460 --> 51:20.020 Right? 51:20.020 --> 51:21.540 The Lord's going to come down on us. 51:21.540 --> 51:21.780 Right? 51:21.780 --> 51:23.540 He's not even going to take away that hedge of protection. 51:23.540 --> 51:24.260 It's likely. 51:24.260 --> 51:24.500 Right? 51:25.140 --> 51:26.500 We don't want that to happen. 51:26.500 --> 51:27.220 Verse 2. 51:27.220 --> 51:31.940 And it shall be when ye are come nigh into the battle that the priest shall approach 51:31.940 --> 51:34.980 and speak unto the people and shall say unto them, 51:34.980 --> 51:38.340 Hear O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies. 51:38.340 --> 51:41.380 Let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble. 51:41.380 --> 51:43.780 Neither be ye terrified because of them. 51:44.500 --> 51:50.500 For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you. 51:51.300 --> 51:53.940 Now, just like in 2nd Timothy chapter 2. 51:53.940 --> 51:54.180 Right? 51:54.180 --> 51:55.300 We're trusting in the Lord. 51:55.300 --> 51:56.980 He has to abide faithful. 51:56.980 --> 51:57.300 Right? 51:57.300 --> 52:00.420 If we're trusting in him, he's got to abide faithful to us. 52:00.420 --> 52:00.820 Right? 52:00.820 --> 52:01.780 And his promises. 52:01.780 --> 52:02.900 He will deliver us. 52:02.900 --> 52:04.900 He will give us that physical salvation. 52:04.900 --> 52:05.380 Right? 52:05.380 --> 52:08.660 When our families are coming down on us, when they're making their threats. 52:08.660 --> 52:09.220 Right? 52:09.220 --> 52:11.140 If they're calling CPS and stuff like that. 52:11.140 --> 52:11.860 Abide faithful. 52:12.500 --> 52:12.820 Right? 52:12.820 --> 52:14.420 Because he's going to abide faithful to you. 52:14.420 --> 52:16.660 But if you deny him, he's going to deny you. 52:16.660 --> 52:17.060 Right? 52:17.060 --> 52:20.340 Those fears that you have will come to fruition. 52:21.060 --> 52:21.780 If you let them. 52:21.780 --> 52:23.300 If you don't trust in the Lord. 52:23.300 --> 52:24.500 Skip down to verse 8. 52:24.500 --> 52:27.140 And the officers shall speak further unto the people. 52:27.140 --> 52:31.300 And they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? 52:31.300 --> 52:37.380 Let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's hearts faint as well as his heart. 52:38.020 --> 52:40.340 A good soldier is not a coward. 52:40.340 --> 52:40.660 Right? 52:40.660 --> 52:42.580 We do not want cowards in our midst. 52:42.580 --> 52:42.820 Right? 52:43.460 --> 52:44.500 Because it's going to spread. 52:44.500 --> 52:46.500 A little leavened, leavened the whole lump. 52:46.500 --> 52:46.980 Right? 52:46.980 --> 52:49.540 If one man, you know, the protesters are a good example. 52:49.540 --> 52:49.860 Right? 52:49.860 --> 52:51.780 That happened and people feared. 52:52.500 --> 52:53.220 Right? 52:53.220 --> 52:55.700 Not just at this church, but other churches around. 52:55.700 --> 52:55.860 Right? 52:55.860 --> 52:56.500 They all noticed. 52:57.060 --> 52:58.100 They all got fearful. 52:58.100 --> 53:01.060 And they all started persecuting the ones that were defending this church. 53:02.340 --> 53:03.060 They got fearful. 53:03.060 --> 53:04.020 That fear spread. 53:04.580 --> 53:05.080 Right? 53:06.340 --> 53:10.420 And in Deuteronomy, chapter 20. 53:10.660 --> 53:12.100 We're going to remove these people. 53:12.100 --> 53:12.340 Right? 53:12.340 --> 53:14.740 We don't want to be around these people because they're going to leaven the whole lump. 53:15.380 --> 53:16.100 Right? 53:16.100 --> 53:21.860 A good soldier is not a coward like these people. 53:21.860 --> 53:23.060 If you're a coward, just get out. 53:23.060 --> 53:23.940 Just leave. 53:23.940 --> 53:24.180 Right? 53:24.180 --> 53:25.380 Because you're not going to last anyway. 53:27.540 --> 53:30.340 Romans 8, if God be for us, who can be against us? 53:31.300 --> 53:31.860 Right? 53:31.860 --> 53:33.860 It's, you know, I get it. 53:34.500 --> 53:35.620 You know, because I'm a man. 53:35.620 --> 53:38.660 I get the carnal, the ideas. 53:38.660 --> 53:38.980 Right? 53:38.980 --> 53:43.860 Of seeing the fear of the sodomites and all these things happening. 53:43.860 --> 53:45.940 You know, the government might come down on us one day. 53:45.940 --> 53:46.180 Right? 53:47.780 --> 53:50.020 But God, he created all of it. 53:50.020 --> 53:50.180 Right? 53:50.180 --> 53:51.220 He created all these people. 53:51.220 --> 53:53.220 He can just as easily destroy them all. 53:53.860 --> 53:54.100 Right? 53:54.660 --> 53:55.940 He's going to protect us. 53:55.940 --> 53:56.740 Right? 53:56.740 --> 53:58.500 Just believe the promises in the Bible. 53:58.500 --> 53:59.300 It's just that simple. 53:59.940 --> 54:01.460 Walk in the Spirit, not in the flesh. 54:02.260 --> 54:02.980 Right? 54:02.980 --> 54:03.860 Be a good soldier. 54:06.580 --> 54:07.940 Turn to Colossians, chapter 3. 54:09.540 --> 54:15.460 I made a good sermon this morning on lying and bearing false witness. 54:17.940 --> 54:21.940 We shouldn't be using our fears and excuse to lie. 54:24.260 --> 54:26.740 In Colossians, chapter 3, verse 9, 54:26.740 --> 54:31.460 lie not to one another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds. 54:31.460 --> 54:37.860 See how lying is, you know, being in the flesh. 54:37.860 --> 54:38.420 Right? 54:38.420 --> 54:41.380 Walking in the old man, the old man with his deeds. 54:41.380 --> 54:41.780 Right? 54:41.780 --> 54:42.980 That's what lying is. 54:42.980 --> 54:43.460 Right? 54:43.460 --> 54:46.340 So, you know, let's say like soul winning, for example. 54:46.340 --> 54:46.500 Right? 54:46.500 --> 54:48.180 We shouldn't be lying and soul winning. 54:48.180 --> 54:48.500 Right? 54:48.500 --> 54:49.700 To get out of situations. 54:49.700 --> 54:50.900 It doesn't matter what it is. 54:50.900 --> 54:51.860 Lying is a sin. 54:51.860 --> 54:52.740 This is that simple. 54:54.740 --> 54:58.660 And we should be fearing God to the point where like he might destroy us on lives. 54:58.660 --> 55:00.420 You know, we see it as a small sin. 55:00.420 --> 55:00.820 Right? 55:00.820 --> 55:04.660 But in Proverbs 12, 22, lying lits are an abomination of the Lord, 55:04.660 --> 55:07.220 but they that deal truly are his delight. 55:07.780 --> 55:11.540 Proverbs 19, 5, a false witness shall not be unpunished, 55:11.540 --> 55:14.100 and he that speaketh lie shall not escape. 55:14.100 --> 55:14.820 That's terrifying. 55:15.620 --> 55:15.940 Right? 55:16.980 --> 55:19.860 If I catch myself in a lie, I'm immediately repenting that stuff. 55:20.580 --> 55:20.820 Right? 55:20.820 --> 55:24.740 Because the Bible says that I shall not escape. 55:24.740 --> 55:25.140 Right? 55:25.140 --> 55:26.820 I shall not be unpunished. 55:26.820 --> 55:27.620 I don't want punished. 55:28.260 --> 55:28.420 Right? 55:28.420 --> 55:29.780 I'm going to ask for mercy. 55:29.780 --> 55:32.500 Lord, give me a lesser punishment. 55:32.500 --> 55:33.860 Have mercy on me. 55:33.860 --> 55:34.100 Right? 55:34.900 --> 55:38.820 We don't want to be walking in the flesh and lying and being cowards. 55:38.820 --> 55:38.980 Right? 55:38.980 --> 55:41.060 We want to fear the Lord, not fear man. 55:42.020 --> 55:46.660 That's what a good soldier endures hardness, endures that fear. 55:46.660 --> 55:47.140 Right? 55:47.140 --> 55:49.220 Before I, you know, when I was sitting over there, 55:49.940 --> 55:51.380 Brother Stephen was reading the Bible. 55:51.380 --> 55:51.620 Right? 55:51.620 --> 55:53.380 I was like, man, I got to get up there. 55:53.380 --> 55:53.700 Right? 55:54.340 --> 55:56.980 I was fearing, you know, getting up here and preaching again. 55:56.980 --> 55:57.220 You know? 55:58.020 --> 55:59.300 I'm still not used to it. 55:59.300 --> 56:00.180 You know what I mean? 56:00.180 --> 56:01.300 Public speaking. 56:01.300 --> 56:01.780 Right? 56:01.780 --> 56:02.980 That could be a fear. 56:02.980 --> 56:04.260 That could be a fear of yours. 56:04.260 --> 56:04.740 Right? 56:04.740 --> 56:06.340 But you need to endure hardness. 56:06.340 --> 56:06.580 Right? 56:07.140 --> 56:07.780 You need to start. 56:07.780 --> 56:08.660 We need more preachers. 56:09.300 --> 56:10.100 This is that simple. 56:12.100 --> 56:13.860 The Lord commands you to do it. 56:13.860 --> 56:14.100 Right? 56:14.100 --> 56:15.460 He wants you to preach his word. 56:15.460 --> 56:20.180 He wants you to endure hardness as a good soldier, not a bad soldier. 56:20.180 --> 56:20.580 Right? 56:20.580 --> 56:22.740 You don't want to sit back because you're afraid. 56:22.740 --> 56:23.060 Right? 56:23.060 --> 56:23.460 Amen? 56:28.340 --> 56:31.940 And then 1 Corinthians reads in 10.13, 56:32.660 --> 56:36.260 There hath no temptation taken you, but such as common demand. 56:36.260 --> 56:40.500 But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. 56:41.060 --> 56:46.500 But will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 56:47.300 --> 56:47.860 Right? 56:47.860 --> 56:51.460 So we might be, you know, our flesh, our old man, right? 56:51.460 --> 56:55.140 Our corpse might be afraid. 56:55.140 --> 56:55.540 Right? 56:55.540 --> 56:57.780 But the Lord will give us a way to escape. 56:57.780 --> 56:58.900 And that's not lying. 56:58.900 --> 56:59.540 Right? 56:59.540 --> 57:01.220 Trusting in the Lord is the way to escape. 57:01.940 --> 57:02.260 Amen? 57:03.860 --> 57:05.460 That you may be able to bear it. 57:05.460 --> 57:08.260 You know, I was pretty fearful sitting there. 57:08.260 --> 57:08.500 Right? 57:08.500 --> 57:10.660 But up here, I'm just kind of like, yeah, all right. 57:10.660 --> 57:10.980 All right. 57:10.980 --> 57:11.460 Here we go. 57:11.460 --> 57:16.980 Just next verse, expound, next verse, expound, because I'm trusting in the Lord. 57:16.980 --> 57:17.220 Right? 57:17.220 --> 57:18.340 I'm trusting in his word. 57:18.340 --> 57:19.700 Just expounding on his word. 57:19.700 --> 57:21.540 That's what this is, really. 57:21.540 --> 57:22.420 It's not my opinion. 57:22.420 --> 57:23.300 I didn't come up with this stuff. 57:24.100 --> 57:24.500 Right? 57:24.500 --> 57:26.740 I didn't believe this stuff for, you know, most of my life. 57:28.580 --> 57:29.620 That's not my opinion. 57:30.580 --> 57:30.820 Right? 57:30.820 --> 57:31.940 We don't want to be cowards. 57:31.940 --> 57:33.780 We don't want to be making excuses. 57:33.780 --> 57:34.020 Right? 57:34.020 --> 57:36.100 We don't want to be putting things before the Lord. 57:36.100 --> 57:36.420 Right? 57:36.420 --> 57:37.620 So we'll take those things away. 57:37.620 --> 57:40.580 We need to endure hardness as a good soldier. 57:40.580 --> 57:42.340 A good soldier endures hardness. 57:42.340 --> 57:44.260 That's what it is. 57:44.260 --> 57:44.660 Right? 57:44.660 --> 57:46.820 You endure that hardness. 57:46.820 --> 57:50.660 Point number four, good soldiers fight for the innocent. 57:52.740 --> 57:53.860 Turn to Luke 17. 57:56.820 --> 57:58.420 Good soldiers fight for the innocent. 58:00.820 --> 58:04.340 There's a story in the news. 58:04.340 --> 58:07.140 I'm not sure if it's like, I'm pretty sure it was Indiana 58:07.860 --> 58:12.180 about this FedEx guy that kidnapped a little girl. 58:12.180 --> 58:14.740 I think she was seven years old, about Cooper's age. 58:14.740 --> 58:14.980 Right? 58:15.620 --> 58:19.380 And there's a recording of what took place in that FedEx truck. 58:19.380 --> 58:19.860 Right? 58:19.860 --> 58:23.380 This monster, this pedophile, took this little girl, 58:24.340 --> 58:27.620 and, I mean, doing what pedophiles do, he rapes her. 58:29.060 --> 58:29.380 Right? 58:30.020 --> 58:32.580 And the recording is basically her begging for her mother. 58:34.820 --> 58:37.220 And that story was all over the news. 58:37.220 --> 58:38.020 Right? 58:38.020 --> 58:40.180 And then people would be talking about it, 58:40.980 --> 58:42.740 and they'd be like, well, you don't know the full story. 58:44.020 --> 58:45.620 And it's like, what do you mean? 58:46.900 --> 58:49.220 What is he, like, just listening to the record? 58:49.220 --> 58:50.740 Like, what, how? 58:52.340 --> 58:52.580 Right? 58:52.580 --> 58:55.380 And he got convicted by a jury of his peers. 58:56.260 --> 58:56.580 Right? 58:56.580 --> 58:57.780 I don't think they're his peers. 58:57.780 --> 58:58.420 Right? 58:58.500 --> 59:02.180 His peers are disgusting sodomites, false prophets, 59:03.540 --> 59:04.420 children of Satan. 59:05.060 --> 59:07.540 That monster should be killed immediately. 59:08.980 --> 59:12.660 We shouldn't be making excuses and just abandoning the innocent. 59:12.660 --> 59:12.980 Right? 59:12.980 --> 59:15.380 And putting these people in prison and keep that. 59:15.380 --> 59:17.220 I think he's getting the death penalty. 59:17.220 --> 59:18.100 Thank God. 59:18.100 --> 59:18.340 Right? 59:21.620 --> 59:23.940 But yeah, the story's been on my mind for a while 59:23.940 --> 59:25.540 because it's like people talk about it, 59:25.540 --> 59:27.620 like the unsafe talk about it sometimes. 59:27.620 --> 59:29.700 Like these, like weak men. 59:30.740 --> 59:32.180 It's like, what are you doing? 59:33.220 --> 59:35.860 Like, you're making excuses for the monsters of this world. 59:36.900 --> 59:42.420 And at the same time, I led this man to the Lord. 59:43.780 --> 59:44.580 His name is Tom. 59:45.860 --> 59:46.500 Right? 59:46.500 --> 59:49.140 And I, you know, preached to him. 59:49.140 --> 59:51.300 He said he believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. 59:51.940 --> 59:54.420 He, you know, he believed it was eternal and stuff like that. 59:54.420 --> 59:56.020 And then I find out months later 59:56.020 --> 01:00:00.260 that he has been convicted three times as child molestation. 01:00:00.900 --> 01:00:01.140 Right? 01:00:01.140 --> 01:00:04.100 This monster, right, is a reprobate. 01:00:04.740 --> 01:00:04.900 Right? 01:00:04.900 --> 01:00:06.020 He was trying to get close to me. 01:00:06.980 --> 01:00:07.620 Right? 01:00:07.620 --> 01:00:09.380 My family, our church. 01:00:09.380 --> 01:00:10.100 That's what he was doing. 01:00:10.740 --> 01:00:11.140 Right? 01:00:11.140 --> 01:00:12.260 A child of Satan. 01:00:12.260 --> 01:00:13.060 Right? 01:00:13.060 --> 01:00:16.820 That stuff wouldn't happen if good soldiers actually 01:00:16.820 --> 01:00:18.420 preached from the pulpit like Baptists, 01:00:19.220 --> 01:00:22.020 like Baptist churches actually preached against these people. 01:00:22.020 --> 01:00:22.420 Right? 01:00:22.420 --> 01:00:23.940 That they should be put to death. 01:00:23.940 --> 01:00:25.140 Not allowed in churches. 01:00:25.700 --> 01:00:25.940 Right? 01:00:26.580 --> 01:00:29.380 There's a church, Faith, what is it? 01:00:29.380 --> 01:00:30.660 Fairview Baptist Church. 01:00:31.620 --> 01:00:32.820 Let's see if I can open this link. 01:00:33.780 --> 01:00:38.020 And this article is called Pedophiles in the Church. 01:00:38.020 --> 01:00:38.340 Right? 01:00:38.340 --> 01:00:39.380 This is a Baptist church. 01:00:41.620 --> 01:00:45.540 This pastor, I was asked recently to give counsel to a believer outside of our fellowship, 01:00:45.540 --> 01:00:48.820 struggling to know how to relate to a person in their church, 01:00:48.820 --> 01:00:51.860 formerly convicted of sexual crimes against children. 01:00:51.860 --> 01:00:53.060 This person has already been convicted. 01:00:53.860 --> 01:00:55.140 Found guilty of this. 01:00:55.140 --> 01:00:55.380 Right? 01:00:56.980 --> 01:00:58.340 But now repents. 01:00:58.340 --> 01:01:01.700 Sexual crimes have increased in our days of sexual perversion, 01:01:01.700 --> 01:01:06.980 and it is important that we know how to navigate such situations with grace and wisdom and love. 01:01:08.020 --> 01:01:08.260 Right? 01:01:08.260 --> 01:01:11.460 He's giving an excuse of why he has a pedophile in his church. 01:01:15.220 --> 01:01:18.900 And how many Baptist churches do we know of that have like a pedophile section in their church? 01:01:19.940 --> 01:01:20.260 Why? 01:01:20.260 --> 01:01:23.460 Why would you do that? 01:01:23.460 --> 01:01:25.620 Maybe you don't believe in the reparated doctrine, right? 01:01:25.620 --> 01:01:29.700 But you have convicted pedophiles in your church around children. 01:01:29.700 --> 01:01:31.060 Well, they're not, they're separate. 01:01:31.060 --> 01:01:31.540 Right? 01:01:31.540 --> 01:01:33.220 They shouldn't be anywhere near the children. 01:01:33.220 --> 01:01:34.660 They shouldn't be anywhere near you. 01:01:35.780 --> 01:01:36.660 That's disgusting. 01:01:36.660 --> 01:01:38.820 Why would you want a person like that around you? 01:01:39.380 --> 01:01:39.620 Right? 01:01:40.340 --> 01:01:43.140 Even believing that, you know, God can forgive them, it's like, yeah, 01:01:43.860 --> 01:01:45.780 God forgave you, but you go that way. 01:01:45.780 --> 01:01:46.260 Right? 01:01:46.260 --> 01:01:47.620 You stand over there. 01:01:47.620 --> 01:01:47.860 Right? 01:01:48.820 --> 01:01:50.020 I don't want you anywhere near me. 01:01:50.020 --> 01:01:50.740 Right? 01:01:50.740 --> 01:01:56.260 And this was, this is obvious to any like person that like, any person. 01:01:56.260 --> 01:01:57.140 This is obvious. 01:01:58.340 --> 01:02:01.700 Because I was an unstate even, and I didn't want my children going to public schools 01:02:02.340 --> 01:02:09.060 with transsexuals, these weird like, these cross-dressing like Bible study, 01:02:09.060 --> 01:02:11.300 or not Bible study, but book reading things. 01:02:11.300 --> 01:02:12.660 Like what is going on? 01:02:12.660 --> 01:02:15.460 Like why are we not arresting these pedophiles and killing them? 01:02:15.460 --> 01:02:15.700 Right? 01:02:16.260 --> 01:02:20.020 I don't know how many times I've seen where there's like a woman taking advantage of 01:02:20.020 --> 01:02:23.220 several teenage boys or underage boys. 01:02:23.220 --> 01:02:23.700 Right? 01:02:23.700 --> 01:02:25.220 And then I get like community service. 01:02:25.860 --> 01:02:26.820 No, put them to death. 01:02:27.380 --> 01:02:27.620 Right? 01:02:27.620 --> 01:02:29.380 They should be put to death immediately. 01:02:29.380 --> 01:02:30.180 Right? 01:02:30.180 --> 01:02:31.460 Obviously after a trial. 01:02:31.460 --> 01:02:31.700 Right? 01:02:31.700 --> 01:02:35.940 After that trial, after a speedy trial, fair trial, put to death immediately. 01:02:35.940 --> 01:02:36.180 Right? 01:02:37.380 --> 01:02:37.940 Doesn't matter. 01:02:37.940 --> 01:02:39.780 Woman, man, you're a weapon baits. 01:02:39.780 --> 01:02:40.020 Right? 01:02:40.020 --> 01:02:43.060 You're disgusting, wicked, sodomites. 01:02:43.060 --> 01:02:43.220 Right? 01:02:43.220 --> 01:02:43.860 That's what you are. 01:02:44.660 --> 01:02:47.540 Luke 17 verse 2, this is what Jesus says. 01:02:47.540 --> 01:02:52.340 It were better for him that a milestone were hanged about his neck and he casted the sea 01:02:52.340 --> 01:02:54.820 than that he should offend one of these little ones. 01:02:54.820 --> 01:02:56.820 This is how Jesus feels about these people. 01:02:56.820 --> 01:02:57.060 Right? 01:02:58.020 --> 01:02:59.220 They should be put to death. 01:02:59.940 --> 01:03:00.420 Right? 01:03:00.420 --> 01:03:02.980 They should be a milestone is a rock. 01:03:02.980 --> 01:03:03.300 Right? 01:03:03.300 --> 01:03:07.140 You tie a milestone, a rock with a rope around their neck. 01:03:07.140 --> 01:03:09.860 You throw them in the nearest body of water and be done with it. 01:03:09.860 --> 01:03:10.980 Let the ocean crush them. 01:03:11.620 --> 01:03:11.860 Right? 01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:12.580 Let them drown. 01:03:13.860 --> 01:03:14.580 Praise the Lord. 01:03:15.220 --> 01:03:17.300 I'm very thankful our Lord is a just God. 01:03:18.660 --> 01:03:19.140 Right? 01:03:19.140 --> 01:03:20.900 And good soldiers, right? 01:03:20.900 --> 01:03:22.020 They fight for the innocent. 01:03:22.020 --> 01:03:22.260 Right? 01:03:22.260 --> 01:03:24.900 They stand up and they actually speak out against this. 01:03:24.900 --> 01:03:25.140 Right? 01:03:25.700 --> 01:03:29.380 And you know, with this Tom guy, this child molester. 01:03:29.380 --> 01:03:29.700 Right? 01:03:29.700 --> 01:03:32.900 I had people come to me and say, well, you don't know the same words. 01:03:32.900 --> 01:03:33.940 You don't know the full story. 01:03:33.940 --> 01:03:38.260 I'm like convicted three times with child molestation. 01:03:38.260 --> 01:03:39.380 It's not just one time. 01:03:40.340 --> 01:03:40.660 Right? 01:03:40.660 --> 01:03:44.420 And I know of another church with my family goes to the church. 01:03:44.420 --> 01:03:44.980 Right? 01:03:44.980 --> 01:03:47.380 They have a convicted pedophile there. 01:03:47.380 --> 01:03:49.060 This is rampant in churches. 01:03:49.060 --> 01:03:49.700 Right? 01:03:49.700 --> 01:03:51.220 They have a convicted pedophile there. 01:03:51.780 --> 01:03:52.020 Right? 01:03:52.740 --> 01:03:54.980 Because he had child pornography on his phone. 01:03:54.980 --> 01:03:55.780 He still has it. 01:03:57.540 --> 01:03:58.420 Why is he in your church? 01:03:58.420 --> 01:04:00.980 And the whole church is like, no, when you get this guy out 01:04:00.980 --> 01:04:04.420 and then the false prophet pastor is like, well, no, God, that's grace. 01:04:04.420 --> 01:04:04.740 You know? 01:04:05.380 --> 01:04:06.580 It's like, what are you doing? 01:04:06.580 --> 01:04:07.460 Just leave the church. 01:04:08.260 --> 01:04:09.220 That's disgusting. 01:04:10.180 --> 01:04:13.540 Jesus says, kill them, drown them, kill them all. 01:04:14.100 --> 01:04:15.300 Every single last one of them. 01:04:16.020 --> 01:04:18.900 That FedEx story was just gut-wrenching. 01:04:18.900 --> 01:04:20.340 That little girl is no longer alive. 01:04:21.380 --> 01:04:23.540 Her last moments were that monster. 01:04:25.620 --> 01:04:30.580 And it's because men, good soldiers, or not good soldiers, men, Christian men, 01:04:30.580 --> 01:04:32.740 they haven't stood up in the past against this stuff. 01:04:32.740 --> 01:04:34.020 They haven't preached against it enough. 01:04:34.740 --> 01:04:37.780 That's what I believe because Baptist churches are filled with pedophiles. 01:04:38.580 --> 01:04:38.900 Why? 01:04:39.620 --> 01:04:40.260 Sodomites. 01:04:42.020 --> 01:04:42.660 It's disgusting. 01:04:43.460 --> 01:04:47.540 We should not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. 01:04:49.380 --> 01:04:51.220 So my first point was serving others. 01:04:51.220 --> 01:04:53.620 That's part of serving others too, kicking these people out. 01:04:53.620 --> 01:04:53.860 Right? 01:04:53.860 --> 01:04:56.740 We should be protecting the congregation. 01:04:56.740 --> 01:04:57.220 Right? 01:04:57.220 --> 01:05:00.580 Thank God we have a church like this that does not allow these people in. 01:05:01.140 --> 01:05:01.380 Right? 01:05:03.380 --> 01:05:05.140 Be thankful you have a church like this. 01:05:07.060 --> 01:05:08.180 It's a blessing. 01:05:08.420 --> 01:05:10.020 Thank God for Pastor Thompson. 01:05:10.020 --> 01:05:12.820 Thank God for Evangelist Justin that we have this church. 01:05:12.820 --> 01:05:15.620 Because I would not go to a church that has pedophiles in it. 01:05:15.620 --> 01:05:16.260 It's not going to happen. 01:05:17.780 --> 01:05:18.500 Right? 01:05:18.500 --> 01:05:20.820 That leaves me with very few options, unfortunately. 01:05:22.340 --> 01:05:23.060 Which is sad. 01:05:24.100 --> 01:05:28.020 You think Calvinism and free will Baptists are a problem, but it's like, 01:05:28.660 --> 01:05:30.980 yeah, they believe some heresies, but there's some saved people in there, 01:05:30.980 --> 01:05:32.820 but then they have pedophiles in there. 01:05:32.820 --> 01:05:34.980 It's like, well, that church is no good. 01:05:34.980 --> 01:05:35.700 I can't go there. 01:05:35.700 --> 01:05:40.260 Like, we're past the point of railers and fornicators and adulterers in 1 Corinthians 5. 01:05:40.260 --> 01:05:41.780 Like, I can't, no. 01:05:41.780 --> 01:05:44.260 It's never going to happen at this church. 01:05:44.260 --> 01:05:46.740 And if it does happen at this church, I'd find a new church. 01:05:47.620 --> 01:05:48.020 Right? 01:05:48.020 --> 01:05:50.260 It's just something that I'll die on this hill. 01:05:50.260 --> 01:05:51.220 These people deserve to die. 01:05:55.060 --> 01:06:01.620 And then my second point was excuses not to be a good soldier. 01:06:01.620 --> 01:06:01.700 Right? 01:06:01.700 --> 01:06:03.700 We should be trusting in the Lord. 01:06:03.700 --> 01:06:04.020 Right? 01:06:04.020 --> 01:06:05.940 We should be trusting in the Lord. 01:06:05.940 --> 01:06:06.420 Right? 01:06:06.420 --> 01:06:09.460 We should be enduring hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 01:06:09.460 --> 01:06:12.020 We shouldn't be putting our trust in our belongings. 01:06:12.020 --> 01:06:12.420 Right? 01:06:12.420 --> 01:06:14.980 We shouldn't be putting our idolizing our family. 01:06:14.980 --> 01:06:15.540 Right? 01:06:15.540 --> 01:06:17.300 Or, you know, Israel. 01:06:19.620 --> 01:06:22.100 We shouldn't be putting those things before God. 01:06:22.100 --> 01:06:22.500 Right? 01:06:22.500 --> 01:06:26.900 Shouldn't be blessing God where that blessing belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ and his people. 01:06:26.900 --> 01:06:27.400 Right? 01:06:28.020 --> 01:06:29.380 We shouldn't be idolizing these things. 01:06:29.380 --> 01:06:30.820 We shouldn't be making excuses. 01:06:31.380 --> 01:06:32.260 You know? 01:06:32.260 --> 01:06:33.700 Or we shouldn't be cowards. 01:06:33.700 --> 01:06:33.940 Right? 01:06:33.940 --> 01:06:35.460 Good soldiers are not cowards. 01:06:35.460 --> 01:06:35.700 Right? 01:06:35.700 --> 01:06:36.420 We're not liars. 01:06:39.380 --> 01:06:41.620 And like I said, if you're a coward, you're not going to last. 01:06:42.340 --> 01:06:42.740 Right? 01:06:42.740 --> 01:06:45.620 You don't want to be that wood and earth Christian. 01:06:45.620 --> 01:06:46.020 Right? 01:06:46.020 --> 01:06:49.140 You want to be that gold and silver Christian. 01:06:49.140 --> 01:06:49.460 Right? 01:06:49.460 --> 01:06:54.020 You want to look down and have God look down at this church and just see gold and silver, 01:06:54.020 --> 01:06:56.260 gold and silver, gold and silver, gold and silver. 01:06:56.260 --> 01:06:56.500 Right? 01:06:57.300 --> 01:06:58.420 That's what we want in this church. 01:06:58.980 --> 01:07:02.020 And that's – and that is in part those gold and silver 01:07:02.420 --> 01:07:07.460 enduring hardness for those wood and earth Christians. 01:07:08.740 --> 01:07:09.140 Right? 01:07:09.140 --> 01:07:12.260 Edifying one another, exhorting one another, actually showing up. 01:07:12.260 --> 01:07:12.500 Right? 01:07:12.500 --> 01:07:13.380 You have to show up. 01:07:14.580 --> 01:07:16.340 That's like the bare minimum for a Christian. 01:07:16.340 --> 01:07:17.460 You show up for church. 01:07:17.460 --> 01:07:18.980 You show up for soul-wanting. 01:07:18.980 --> 01:07:19.620 Right? 01:07:19.620 --> 01:07:22.260 Maybe show up for some marathons. 01:07:22.260 --> 01:07:23.300 One or two of them. 01:07:23.300 --> 01:07:23.540 Right? 01:07:25.460 --> 01:07:26.980 We have a great plethora of them. 01:07:27.620 --> 01:07:28.100 Honestly. 01:07:28.260 --> 01:07:31.860 I find myself just not being able to sleep on weekends. 01:07:33.540 --> 01:07:37.140 Then my final point, I pretty much hammered on that. 01:07:37.140 --> 01:07:39.380 Good soldiers fight for the innocent. 01:07:41.380 --> 01:07:43.300 We never want to let our guard down in this church. 01:07:43.940 --> 01:07:44.660 Right? 01:07:44.660 --> 01:07:51.540 We should – I mean, I kind of – maybe I didn't do my due diligence with Tom like I should have. 01:07:51.540 --> 01:07:55.380 And like maybe I should probably figure out why he's homeless and why he doesn't want to get – 01:07:56.340 --> 01:07:58.180 like why – he doesn't want to get a place to live. 01:07:58.180 --> 01:07:58.420 Right? 01:07:58.420 --> 01:07:59.620 Because then he gets a background check. 01:08:01.540 --> 01:08:02.100 Right? 01:08:02.100 --> 01:08:05.060 Maybe the Lord wanted me to learn a lesson there. 01:08:05.060 --> 01:08:05.300 Right? 01:08:06.260 --> 01:08:08.500 And I had that hedge of protection around me. 01:08:08.500 --> 01:08:09.380 Thank God. 01:08:09.380 --> 01:08:09.700 Right? 01:08:10.500 --> 01:08:10.980 Thank God. 01:08:10.980 --> 01:08:13.620 I was like – no, I don't want to boast myself, but like, yeah. 01:08:14.260 --> 01:08:16.900 I think I'm a pretty good soldier most of the time. 01:08:16.900 --> 01:08:17.460 Right? 01:08:17.460 --> 01:08:18.740 I believe that hedge of protection. 01:08:18.740 --> 01:08:20.500 I believe God protected me through there. 01:08:20.500 --> 01:08:23.620 He actually delivered my family and our church from that. 01:08:23.620 --> 01:08:29.140 That had to bring that monster in here so you can get our names and look at our children. 01:08:31.620 --> 01:08:33.620 Pretty much meant that monster dies. 01:08:34.820 --> 01:08:35.380 He's disgusting. 01:08:35.380 --> 01:08:36.420 He sat in my vehicle. 01:08:36.420 --> 01:08:37.780 I gave him rides all around. 01:08:39.860 --> 01:08:40.660 It's disgusting. 01:08:41.380 --> 01:08:45.460 And don't be like this Fairview Baptist Church where you're just making excuses. 01:08:45.460 --> 01:08:50.260 Where the whole congregation wants the pedophile out, but the pastor doesn't. 01:08:50.900 --> 01:08:51.220 Right? 01:08:51.220 --> 01:08:52.420 What does that say about the pastor? 01:08:53.620 --> 01:08:59.140 It makes me wonder if he's the same type of person. 01:09:00.420 --> 01:09:03.940 If the whole congregation wants that person gone, the pedophile, the child of Satan, 01:09:03.940 --> 01:09:08.820 the obvious child of Satan in the room, wants that person gone and the pastor doesn't, 01:09:10.900 --> 01:09:12.820 the pastor surely doesn't love the flock. 01:09:14.100 --> 01:09:15.460 He's surely not protecting the flock. 01:09:16.660 --> 01:09:17.700 He's putting them in danger. 01:09:18.260 --> 01:09:19.060 Why? 01:09:19.060 --> 01:09:20.180 Makes me wonder. 01:09:20.180 --> 01:09:21.940 And I started listening to the sermons. 01:09:23.620 --> 01:09:25.300 Trying to figure out what he is. 01:09:25.300 --> 01:09:25.540 Right? 01:09:26.340 --> 01:09:29.140 There's a lot of false prophet Baptists out there. 01:09:29.140 --> 01:09:29.940 A lot of Judas's. 01:09:32.260 --> 01:09:32.580 Yeah. 01:09:32.580 --> 01:09:34.820 We want to be a good soldier for the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:09:34.820 --> 01:09:36.580 We don't stop making excuses. 01:09:37.540 --> 01:09:39.380 We want to endure hardness as a good soldier. 01:09:39.380 --> 01:09:42.900 Because whether you like it or not, once you got saved, you're in the Lord's army. 01:09:43.460 --> 01:09:44.180 Right? 01:09:44.180 --> 01:09:46.100 I think there's like a little children's song on that. 01:09:46.100 --> 01:09:48.980 I didn't grow up Baptist, but I think I heard it once or twice. 01:09:48.980 --> 01:09:53.060 Where I was enlisted in the Lord's army and stuff like that. 01:09:53.060 --> 01:09:53.940 I thought I was cute. 01:09:53.940 --> 01:09:54.180 Right? 01:09:55.620 --> 01:09:57.780 Maybe I should have my kids grow up with that. 01:09:57.780 --> 01:09:58.820 Instead of what I grew up with. 01:10:00.660 --> 01:10:01.220 But yeah. 01:10:01.220 --> 01:10:03.460 Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 01:10:03.460 --> 01:10:04.580 Be a good soldier. 01:10:04.580 --> 01:10:05.060 Right? 01:10:05.060 --> 01:10:06.340 Don't be that wooden earth Christian. 01:10:06.340 --> 01:10:07.860 Be that golden silver Christian. 01:10:08.660 --> 01:10:09.780 It's pretty simple stuff. 01:10:09.780 --> 01:10:11.300 You just have to read the Bible. 01:10:11.300 --> 01:10:12.100 Right? 01:10:12.100 --> 01:10:13.460 Divide the word of truth. 01:10:13.460 --> 01:10:16.020 Trust in that sure foundation that is the word of God. 01:10:16.580 --> 01:10:17.220 Right? 01:10:17.220 --> 01:10:18.100 Read your Bibles. 01:10:18.100 --> 01:10:18.580 Learn it. 01:10:18.580 --> 01:10:19.380 Apply it. 01:10:19.380 --> 01:10:19.700 Boom. 01:10:20.660 --> 01:10:21.780 It's pretty simple stuff. 01:10:22.420 --> 01:10:25.700 I, you know, this is such a blessing to have the word of God. 01:10:25.700 --> 01:10:27.060 Because I have a blueprint for my life. 01:10:27.780 --> 01:10:28.660 I never had that. 01:10:29.380 --> 01:10:29.700 Right? 01:10:29.700 --> 01:10:34.740 It's such a blessing to like, you know, see these characters of the Bible come to life in my life. 01:10:34.740 --> 01:10:37.300 Where I'm like, wow, he's going through the same things. 01:10:38.500 --> 01:10:40.020 He's having the same struggles. 01:10:40.020 --> 01:10:40.260 Right? 01:10:41.460 --> 01:10:42.980 Endure hardness as a good soldier. 01:10:42.980 --> 01:10:44.020 Like Joseph. 01:10:44.020 --> 01:10:44.500 Right? 01:10:44.500 --> 01:10:46.740 This morning about fleeing fornication. 01:10:46.740 --> 01:10:47.300 Right? 01:10:47.300 --> 01:10:50.020 I wish I had that story drilled in my head when I was a kid. 01:10:50.660 --> 01:10:50.900 Right? 01:10:52.180 --> 01:10:54.900 That's a good, that's a good, that's a good story. 01:10:54.900 --> 01:10:55.780 Or Leviticus. 01:10:55.780 --> 01:10:56.260 Right? 01:10:56.260 --> 01:10:58.740 I wouldn't be scarred all over my body then. 01:11:00.180 --> 01:11:00.980 A good blueprint. 01:11:02.020 --> 01:11:02.820 You need to read it. 01:11:02.820 --> 01:11:03.940 You need to apply it. 01:11:03.940 --> 01:11:05.700 You need to be a good soldier and endure hardness. 01:11:06.260 --> 01:11:07.780 You need to trust in these promises. 01:11:08.580 --> 01:11:08.820 Right? 01:11:09.460 --> 01:11:10.180 Amen. 01:11:10.180 --> 01:11:11.300 I said in a word of prayer. 01:11:12.580 --> 01:11:18.420 Heavenly Father, let us have a blessed fellowship with the baby shower and 01:11:18.420 --> 01:11:27.540 and please bless the brother, brother Stockton and sister Stockton and their child birth and 01:11:27.540 --> 01:11:33.300 their child rearing and let them have a good healthy baby when they, when they're born. 01:11:34.260 --> 01:11:37.700 And let us trust in your promises and be a good soldier for you. 01:11:37.700 --> 01:11:41.300 Let's not be a wood and earth Christian, but a gold and silver Christian. 01:11:42.020 --> 01:11:42.580 We love you. 01:11:43.300 --> 01:11:45.860 Please be with us in your precious son's name. 01:11:45.860 --> 01:11:46.180 Amen. 01:11:48.420 --> 01:11:51.380 All right. 01:11:51.380 --> 01:11:51.940 Amen. 01:11:53.220 --> 01:11:59.060 Last song we're going to be singing is a very fitting song, song 412 in your handbooks. 01:12:00.260 --> 01:12:06.340 Song 412 onward Christian soldiers song 412. 01:12:09.300 --> 01:12:11.460 412 on the first. 01:12:11.620 --> 01:12:32.580 Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war with the cross of Jesus going on before 01:12:32.900 --> 01:12:33.700 war. 01:12:34.180 --> 01:12:48.020 Christ the royal master leads against the foe forward into battle. 01:12:48.900 --> 01:12:51.700 See his banner go 01:12:52.500 --> 01:12:53.300 onward. 01:12:53.300 --> 01:13:10.820 Christian soldiers marching as to war with the cross of Jesus going on before 01:13:10.820 --> 01:13:13.940 war. 01:13:13.940 --> 01:13:17.540 The sign of triumph 01:13:22.900 --> 01:13:30.580 on then Christian soldiers on to victory. 01:13:30.580 --> 01:13:40.740 Hell's foundations quiver at the shout of praise. 01:13:42.660 --> 01:13:53.700 Brothers lift your voices loud your banners raise onward. 01:13:53.700 --> 01:14:09.860 Christian soldiers marching as to war with the cross of Jesus going on before 01:14:10.820 --> 01:14:12.020 war. 01:14:12.020 --> 01:14:20.020 Oh, like a mighty army moves the church of God. 01:14:21.380 --> 01:14:29.220 Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod. 01:14:31.140 --> 01:14:34.020 We are not divided. 01:14:34.180 --> 01:14:48.180 We won in hope and doctrine won in charity. 01:14:48.980 --> 01:15:08.340 Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war with the cross of Jesus going on before 01:15:08.340 --> 01:15:09.540 war. 01:15:09.540 --> 01:15:17.540 Onward then ye people join our happy throng. 01:15:19.380 --> 01:15:27.300 Blend with ours your voices in the triumph song. 01:15:28.020 --> 01:15:36.980 Glory, laud and honor unto Christ the King. 01:15:38.100 --> 01:15:46.740 This through countless ages men and angels sing. 01:15:46.740 --> 01:16:06.500 Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war with the cross of Jesus going on before