["Pomp and Circumstance"]
All right, good morning.
Let's find our seats and take our song books.
Let's go to page number 377, 377.
We're going to sing Rescue the Perishing, Care for the Dying.
377, you want to find your seats and take our song books.
377, sing it out on the first.
Rescue the Perishing, Care for the Dying.
377, sing it out on the second.
Here he is, waiting, waiting.
Love heaven through child to receive.
She'll be with her word of sleep.
Read with him gently.
He will forgive what they only believe.
Rescue the Perishing, Care for the Dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will sing.
Down in thy human heart,
Christ, child, and temper,
With his love there,
We the priests can restore.
That's right above us.
Waken by kindness,
Forts that are broken,
Librant are sworn.
Rescue the Perishing,
Care for the Dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will sing.
377, sing it out on the last.
Rescue the Perishing,
Duty demands it.
Praying for thy labor,
The load will provide.
Back to the narrow way,
Faith shall be rendered.
Tell them who want her,
The Savior has died.
Rescue the Perishing,
Care for the Dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will sing.
Amen. Good to see you.
Let's begin with a word of prayer.
Let's bow our heads together.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you
for allowing us to gather together today.
Lord, I pray that you'd bless this morning
and all the events that are going to happen today.
I pray you'd be with the preachers today,
pray you'd be with the soul winning, the fellowship.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right, well let me just go over some quick announcements
as far as the plan for today.
We're going to have a real short singing service
and we're going to get Pastor Thompson
up to preach for us this morning.
So we're going to sing a song
and when we're done singing
we're going to have the Bible reading
and then Pastor Thompson's going to preach for us.
So whoever's doing Bible reading,
make sure you're ready to go after the second song.
And then just want to remind you about the event.
So we're having preaching.
As soon as Pastor Thompson's done,
I'll come up here.
I'm going to give you some instructions.
I'll remind you again after the sermon,
but what we're basically going to do
is we're going to divide into two groups.
We're going to put all the singles
in the back of the auditorium
and all the couples in the front of the auditorium.
All right, what we mean by that is singles,
what we mean is if you're here by yourself.
So even if you're married but your spouse isn't here,
just go to the back and we're going to partner you up
and send you out, give you maps and all that, send you out.
So after the service we're going to put the singles in the back,
put the couples, we've got men assigned
that are going to be helping you get partnered up
and things like that.
In the break room we've got some pastries
and snacks and things,
so if you want to go by there
and grab something on your way out.
We also have, of course, waters and things like that.
So let's go ahead and go to page number 378,
just one page over,
and we're going to sing Passion for Souls 378.
And if you know this one, help me sing it out.
Let's learn together, 378.
378, sing it out on the second.
378, let's sing it out on the last as well.
Let's sing it out on the last as we prepare for the Bible reading.
I'm trying to give a subtle hint to our Bible reading
to get in this position.
378, sing it out on the last.
Let's sing it out on the last as we prepare for the Bible reading.
In Galatians 6, 9, I'll read that for you while you're turning there.
It says,
Let us not be weary in well-doing,
for in due season we shall reap
if we faint not.
So we're supposed to not be
worry in well-doing.
And is it well-doing to go get people saved?
Amen. Amen.
So, we shouldn't
It says we faint not.
And the Bible has a theme
talking about not fainting.
And it's, you know, when you think of fainting
you think, oh, you know, I'm fainting.
No. Look, when you work in construction
who works in construction here?
There's never been days when
you know, and of course everybody has different jobs
but my job is construction right now.
And there's been some days when I'm out in the hot sun
and I feel faint.
And that's what he's talking about. You know, you feel faint
you feel like quitting. You feel like stopping.
Right? You get tired and you're like,
oh man, I just want to just be done.
Right? I've been out on
asphalt for 14 hours
and your feet get hot, you feel cooked
you know, no water is helping
you just feel faint, you just want to quit.
But God doesn't want us to quit
and He has ways
to help us out in that area.
So we can get burnt out
in our Christian life. We can get to the point
where we say, you know what, I really don't feel like going soul winning today.
You know, and as you do it
for years
you feel that way more often than you did
when you first started.
When I first started soul winning, like, all the time
I was always excited to go
and I was like, what's wrong with you guys?
Let's go, you know.
But as I've been doing it for years now
more often
I'm not saying all the time, but sometimes
I feel like not going.
Who feels like not going sometimes?
Obviously, some people don't feel like going.
And obviously, if you're super
sick, you probably shouldn't go and cough on people's
faces and things like that, right?
But, let's see,
you're in Mark 631, it says,
And he said unto them, Come ye apart
into a desert place and rest
awhile, for there were
many coming and going, and they had no
leisure so much as to eat.
So the apostles and
the Lord Jesus Christ were working so hard
they didn't even have time to stop and eat.
And Jesus said, come ye apart
into a desert place and rest awhile.
Sometimes it's okay to take a rest, you know that?
On our missions trips, you don't
have to go for 12 and a half hours a day
to be right with God.
You can go for 4 or 5 hours
on a missions trip and still be just as
right as God as anybody else.
And sometimes
we get to where we're pressuring
people to feel like, hey,
you're not doing enough. Now obviously if someone goes
on a missions trip and they're like, well, I went for 30 minutes
so I'm going to go on vacation, that's ridiculous.
But,
obviously,
people get ultra-spiritual and they're like, you're not
doing enough. You're not, you know, like people like
Doug Trowbridge, right? You're just not as
spiritual as I am because I love
souls, you know? And everybody
knows, if anybody
knows, that Doug
Trowbridge is a clown, right? And obviously
he's probably a psychopath reprobate.
You know, these people that get ultra-spiritual
and they think that they act like they're
so much better than you, in reality
they're probably not even really getting people saved.
Look at Gary Kirkway, for instance.
Anyway,
so the key to not quitting,
turn over to Isaiah 40 verse
28. Isaiah 40
verse number 28.
God has the answers
for everything. When you feel like
quitting, this is some
good verses to go and just meditate on.
Isaiah 40 verse 28
says, hast thou not known,
hast thou not heard
that the everlasting God,
the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth
fainteth not?
Neither is weary. There's no
searching of His understanding. See, God
doesn't faint. God never gets tired.
But He knows that we do sometimes.
Now look at what it says. It says,
He giveth power to
the faint, and to them that have no might
He increases strength.
Even the youth shall
faint and be weary, and the young
men shall utterly fall.
Now I take this kind of verse to heart
because I'm not a young man anymore.
I'm not a youth anymore.
So I see kids running around
and, you know, young men can
work, usually do a little more than
I can, a lot more than I can.
But, you know, God is the one that gives
me strength. God is the one that pushes me
through to keep going soul-winning
and to keep walking those triple-decker
apartment complexes,
right? You know, the older
you get, you look at those triple-deckers
and you're like, oh man, it's
going to be a rough soul-winning day.
But, you know, it says
even the youth shall faint and be weary
and the young men shall utterly fall.
But they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up
with wings as eagles, and they shall
run and not be weary. They shall
walk and not faint.
So what's the key to not fainting,
to not quitting?
Well, it's to wait upon the Lord.
And see, you know,
I know a lot of people think that it's just like
they that pray and wait for God
to answer their prayers,
but that's what it's talking about.
But also, have you ever heard someone say,
hey, who's your waiter?
Is there a waiter in the house or whatever?
You know, we have people that wait
upon, waiting upon someone
is also doing things for them, isn't it?
So, and maybe
I'm wrong about this, but it says He
giveth power to the faint to them that have
no
might, he increases strength,
but they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength.
When you're working hard for God, you know God's going to
renew your strength, even though you're weary.
You keep working for God, and He's going to take
care of you. He's going to make sure that you don't faint.
So the
key to not fainting in your soul-winding ministry,
get your strength from
the Lord. Don't get your strength
from yourself. There's times when I get super tired,
I've worked a long week, I've
worked four 12-hour shifts in a row or whatever,
and then it's time to go soul-winding.
And I'm exhausted.
Sometimes I'll just say, I'll just stop
because I know I'm
feeling faint, and I just say, Lord,
give me the strength to get through today.
Give me the strength to get through tomorrow.
Give me the strength to write my sermons
for this weekend. You know what I mean?
When you're in the ministry, and guys that are
in the ministry understand this, there's
times when you feel faint. There's times
when you need the Lord to give you
the strength because you just can't go any further
without Him. Amen? And if you ever feel
like quitting soul-winding, just remember
this, God's going to give you the
strength to keep moving on.
Even the young children will
faint, but God will give you the
strength and increase your
strength for you. Because God's
going to carry you through when you get weary.
Look at Matthew 9
verse 35, Matthew 9
verse 35. This is my longest point.
Matthew 9 verse 35.
Because, quite frankly,
a lot of people quit.
They do. I mean, we started this church and we're running
about, I don't know, 80, 90
people right now.
But we'd be running a lot more if all the people
that didn't quit stayed there.
We've had whole families leave.
But you know what?
It's funny, when one family leaves, another family
comes, like the next week.
And not everybody quits because,
you know, not everybody leaves the church because of bad things.
Sometimes people just move away, right?
But God, it seems like God always
brings another family along
as soon as that family leaves.
So, it's pretty interesting.
Matthew 9, 35 says,
And Jesus went about all the cities
and villages, teaching in their synagogues
and preaching the gospel
of the kingdom, and healing every
sickness and every disease among the people.
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved
with compassion
on them because they fainted
and were scattered abroad
as sheep having no shepherd.
And yet, the Lord Jesus Christ, he cared
about the people and had compassion
upon them because, why? Because they fainted.
And they were as sheep
having no shepherd.
Then saith he unto his disciples,
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers
are few.
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send
forth laborers into his harvest.
You know why the laborers are few?
Because people faint.
Because people quit.
And, you know, God is looking for laborers
and, obviously, we have a whole room filled with laborers today.
But, look, there's going to come a time
in your Christian life when you're going to feel like
quitting.
When all the persecution happens
with your family and your friends and your work
and just, look, the devil wants to put you
in his pressure cooker.
He wants to put you in his compactor.
But, see, look, God's going to
renew your strength, amen?
So, number two,
we have this ministry.
Don't hide it, okay?
You're going to want to keep a ribbon
in 2 Corinthians chapter 4.
2 Corinthians 4-3 says,
But if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost.
So, the worst possible
people to hide the gospel
is who? Who's the worst
possible people you can hide the gospel from?
The lost people, right?
So, he's saying if it's
hid, it's hid to them that are lost.
And it says in verse 4,
In whom the God of this
world hath blinded the minds
of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the image of God,
should shine unto them.
So, the last possible thing we want to do
is stop preaching
the gospel to the lost.
If it's hid,
it's hid to them that are lost.
Right?
We have so many times, but there's other times
when we are out and about
and you run into people
and you think, I know that some people
that are soul owners think, I should give this person
the gospel. And then sometimes you don't.
Right?
Well, we're hiding the gospel from the lost.
Just because it's not your
scheduled soul winning time doesn't mean
you can't just stop and give someone else the gospel
in your daily life.
See, people come across your past
and you know, when you get that
that, I don't know if it's that
inner conscious voice that you have, you say
I should give the gospel
to that person, you should listen.
Because a lot of times when you do listen
that person gets saved.
So, and obviously
the God of this world is
blinding the minds of them
that believe not.
See, salvation's a miracle.
It really is, because the devil blinds
the minds of them that believe not.
And we're the ones
that are supposed to shine the light
of the gospel to them.
In 2 Timothy 2, 25
it says in meekness, instructing
those that oppose themselves
if God paired venture will give them
repentance to the acknowledging
of the truth.
And that they may recover
themselves out of the snare
of the devil who are taken
captive by him at his will.
So the devil has people that
he has snared.
And everybody has their own snare that they're
involved in. You notice when
you're soul winning sometimes that they just have this
one particular thing that they don't want to give up.
And they won't get saved.
Why just think
that God wants
me to do good works?
No matter how many scripture verses you give them
they just won't let that go because they want
to be in charge of their own salvation.
They don't want to trust the Lord
Jesus Christ only for their
salvation. They want to trust the Lord Jesus Christ
and themselves. Which
their faith is made void
if they do that, right?
So look, eternity is on the line here.
It's heaven or hell.
And this ministry is not a game.
It's not a game that we play.
And the old IFB have played
they've resorted to playing games like
the bus ministry, right?
The bus ministry isn't
soul winning, just so you know.
And you might be able to win souls in the bus
ministry. Look, I've been part
of the bus ministry. I've been part of junior church.
I've been part of all this.
I've even been an altar worker.
You know? I know, I know I'm
wicked, right? But look, sometimes
sometimes people come up
to the altar, they do get saved if they have someone
that gives them a right gospel.
Now I'm not advocating
for altars. Obviously we don't do altar calls
at our church. Because the Bible
doesn't say anything about doing altar calls
in the New Testament, does it? I don't think
it says anything about doing altar calls necessarily
in the Old Testament either, but anyway
that's neither here nor there.
But you know the thing is
door hangers aren't soul winning.
See, the old IFB's replaced
real soul winning
and replaced it with games and candy
for kids. And that the
soul winning bus ministry
is, so if you look
on a website at a church
and you say, hey, I'm going to go visit this church,
they have soul winning.
What does the soul winning end up being?
It ends up being the bus
ministry, doesn't it? Hey, go knock
doors and try to get kids to come.
Lure them with your candy.
I don't know who came up with that.
But it works. It does
work. And look, you can get kids saved
obviously. And I'm not knocking
that. I'm just saying that that's not what
soul winning is. Soul winning is
when the Bible says, and daily in the temple
in every house, they
cease not to teach and preach
Jesus Christ. That's soul winning.
Going to the door. Jack Hyles
said it really good. He said we need to get
back to the doorstep.
And that's what this movement is doing is we're getting
back to the doorstep.
I'm really sick and tired
of these Jehovah's Witnesses. People think
we're Jehovah's Witnesses when we come to the door.
And we need to take that
back and stop
letting people think we're Mormons.
And make sure you realize
that they realize you're a Baptist when you come to the door.
And that when
they're like, oh, hey, the Baptists
are coming again.
They're not thinking that Jehovah's Witnesses
are coming again with their little slow walking.
Right?
We're Baptists!
You know, if they're going to get sick of us, I want them to be
sick of the Baptists coming to their door
and not the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons.
Amen?
So number one was don't quit. Number two was don't
hide it. Number three, we have this
ministry. We need to let it shine.
Turn back to 2 Corinthians
4-5.
We were at a door the other day. I think it was me and brother Mark.
And they were like, oh, you're not Jehovah's?
You're not Jehovah's?
No, we're Baptists!
I don't think we said it emphatically
enough when we went to the door.
Anyway, look at
verse number five.
2 Corinthians 4-5 says,
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ
Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants
for Jesus' sake, for God who
commanded the light to shine
out of the darkness of your
light to shine out of the darkness
has shined in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge of the
glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. But we have
this treasure in earthen vessels
that the excellency of the power of God
may be of us, or
may be of God and not of us.
So just like God
commanded the light to shine into
the darkness, He commands us
to be a light in the world and
shine into the darkness of this world.
The darkness of men
where sin
creeps around. You know, darkness
is obviously a picture
of sin and
God wants us to shine our lights
into the darkness.
Now you say, Brother Aaron, what are you talking about?
It's the light of Jesus. It is the light of Jesus
but the light of Jesus is in these earthen vessels
and we need to shine that light
forth. Look at Matthew chapter
5 and while
you're turning there, I'm going to read John 3
verse 19.
John 3 19 says,
See, the darkness hates the light.
They don't want to be reproved of their sin
but Jesus told us very specifically
in Matthew chapter 5 verse number 13
says,
Let your light
so shine before men
that they may see your good works
and glorify your Father
which is in heaven. So first of all,
you've got to understand, you've got to be a little salty,
right? We can't be without salt.
If the salt's lost its savor, it's
good for nothing but to be cast
out. Look, if you're not a soul, then you're really
good for nothing to God, to be honest with you.
That's what the Bible is really saying there.
And it also says, you're the light
of the world. We have the light of
Jesus within us, right?
And we need to shine that light
forth to the people that are lost
because the devil has them taking
captive at his will. And we need
to shine that light forth. And you
know what? I believe in lifestyle evangelism.
Your life
should match what your
message is preaching.
So, look,
if you're at work and you're just living wickedly
at work and you're cussing like a sailor,
do you think that
co-workers are going to want to hear the gospel that you're preaching to them?
No.
Don't be afraid, pastor. I'm sorry.
I mean, I was being a little facetious there
when I said I believe in lifestyle evangelism. But look,
your life should match what you're
preaching. If you're living like the
devil and then you're trying to give the gospel
around everybody, then they're not going to want to hear
your message. You've got to be salt.
You've got to be light, right?
So,
number four, number one
was don't quit. Number two was don't hide
it. Number three, let it shine.
Number four, we have this ministry
don't let it be quenched. Look at verse
number eight in 2 Corinthians chapter four.
Verse number eight
says, we are troubled on every side
yet not distressed.
We are perplexed, but not in despair.
Persecuted,
but not forsaken.
Cast down, but not destroyed.
So, what's the Bible
saying? We are going to go through trouble
as Christians. We're going to go through
executions. We're going to be troubled.
We're going to be perplexed at times.
We're going to be cast down. We're going to be
persecuted. And look,
the apostle Paul goes on to say here, and I'm
not going to read all the verses, but
he actually was, people were trying
to literally kill him.
People stoned him. He was
shipwrecked. He went through all these
things. He was beaten with rods.
And, you know, he bared the marks
of the Lord Jesus in his body.
He took some beat downs
in his lifetime. Now we don't,
we're not going through that right now. Our persecutions
are light in comparison
to what the apostle Paul went through.
But, you know, our persecutions
are from family members
saying you're in a cult.
You're in a cult. I can't believe you're going to church again!
Right?
Who's heard that? Yeah.
So, you know, those persecutions
comes from your old friends.
You know, they'll call, they'll
message you every once in a while on Facebook.
Do you really believe that all fags should burn in hell?
Yeah!
You know, and slowly but surely
they stop posting on your Facebook page, don't they?
Or they just
delete you, you know, whatever.
But our persecution's pretty
light. But we do get
persecution and sometimes that pressure
from a family member can be
pretty intense.
Your own family. You know, but the Bible's very
clear that Jesus said
he came not to bring peace.
Turn over to Luke chapter 12, verse
number 51.
He said, I didn't come to bring
peace, but to bring a sword.
Luke 12,
Luke 12, 51.
Luke 12, 51 says, Suppose ye that I am
come to give peace on earth?
I tell you, nay,
but rather division.
For from henceforth there shall be five in
one house divided, three against two,
two against three. The father
shall be divided against the son and the son
against the father, the mother against the
daughter and the daughter against the mother, the
mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and
the daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law. And Pastor Anderson
used these verses
a couple weeks ago and he said the daughter-in-law
against the mother-in-law, that happens
a lot anyway, doesn't it?
But what's the point
here? Is that there's going to be divisions
even within your own family members. Sons
against dads.
Those verses in Deuteronomy chapter 13
it says, will your hand be the first upon them?
Sometimes that division is the husband
and wife.
He said even if it's your wife
that you're supposed to be the first.
I mean that's crazy, right?
To have to kill your own wife?
But that's how God
divides things.
He's not just a gray
area God. He's black and white.
Okay? So
in 1 Peter 5-8
we saw
those verses last night
but ultimately the persecution
comes from the devil himself too.
1 Peter 5-8 says, be sober.
Be vigilant because your adversary the
devil as a roaring lion
walketh about seeking whom he may
devour. See he wants
to devour you as a Christian.
He wants to wreck your life.
He wants to kill you.
He wants to divide your family.
He wants to eat you up. It says,
whom resisteth steadfast in the faith
knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished
in your brethren that are in the world.
He's resisting the steadfast
in the faith. The ones that are
standing strong. The ones that are going
soul winning. The ones that are living godly in Christ
Jesus. The ones that are reading their Bible.
The ones that are praying. The ones that are
free to thrive at church.
He wants to resist the steadfast.
Right?
He wants to resist you because he wants to devour you
and he wants to trip you up and make you fall.
He wants to make you faint. He wants to make you
quit. And he wants to destroy you.
See the devil he hates
his own children too.
See God loves his children but the devil hates
his children. He turns against
his own children and has them killed too.
Because ultimately he doesn't care about anybody.
He doesn't care about his own children.
He props them up and puts them in high places
and lets them destroy themselves and
other people because that's ultimately
what he wants to do in the first place.
But since we have this ministry
just know this that
the things that we're doing in this movement
are not going unnoticed by the devil.
New false prophets
are being revealed every week.
We had to kick some clown out of our church
named Sebastian
that he's going around and still
trying to cause problems in
other churches. Causing problems with
faithful word Baptist.
Look if that guy text messages you
just ignore him. He's a clown.
He just wants the attention. So just
know this that he's a
he's a heretic. He's a modalist
and he's what else is he?
He's a flat earther.
Strike three you're out
man.
But we had to kick him out and look
evil men shall wax worse and worse
right. Look
where Jesus went
just think about all the times that Jesus went
places and then some demon started manifesting
himself in front of him. I mean look
the demons are going to come into our
churches. The demons are going to come and try to plant
and supplant themselves into our
movement. And look don't just
it's been talked about a lot I know this but
don't let that discourage you.
Don't let that you know keep
your ranks like Pastor Major was saying last night.
Keep your ranks and just let
that guy be anathema maranatha
right. So
but we have this ministry you know
we have you know have you ever noticed this also
that like the reprobates always seem to find
each other in the churches.
Right and they seem to find husbands
and you know husbands and wives
right. So you got Tyler Baker
and his wife and then
Dominique and Wendy right.
How do they find each other?
You know how do they find each other like
Garrett and Neo. Now Neo I
knew for a long time that she was wicked
but I hope I thought that maybe she got
shored up or something but apparently that wasn't
the case. But you know
how do they find each other? It's like a fag right.
Fags can find each other in a room
anytime. It's like they
just have this fag sense about them
that they just know who the other fags are right.
It's weird and it's the same
thing with the reprobates. The reprobates find each
other too and they collude together
and now look at them all they're like the Legion
of Doom in their
in their little Facebook group or
whatever they're in. Not Facebook
but what's the Whatsapp right.
The other Whatsapp
group and they're just look they're
they're irrelevant.
We got to just keep going soul winning and doing
the things that we do and just you know
don't don't marvel
because the devil's people
manifest themselves of angels
of light right. They try to
masquerade like they're one of us.
They try to pretend like they're one of us but
eventually the mask comes off
and we find out who they are
but God reveals those things
in his time. So just don't get discouraged
about things like that.
Number five
number one was don't quit
number two was don't hide it. Number three
let it shine. Number four
don't let it get quenched.
You know and the thing
is about these fags
before I move on though
is that you know
they always find each other
not just the fags but the reprobates
but you know
persecution also comes from churches.
Before I move on to my next point I forgot this part.
Persecution comes
in our own churches so
not our churches but
churches like there's people here that go to a church
that's not a new IFB church
right. So just a little
story about what happened in Boise.
So Boise has been
a miracle of God also
and you know the thing is
what ended up happening is that
people are saying
at these churches in these different towns
you know they'll call up and say hey
you know what time are your service times
and they're like do you listen to Steven Anderson
and they're like oh yeah
and they're like okay you're not welcome here.
That's what's happening.
They're saying
you know where'd you go to church last week
well I live streamed something. Oh yeah
who were you listening to Steven Anderson
and then they say don't come here.
That's how the Boise church
basically started and
that's what they're doing. They want to try
they're dividing the lines right now.
They're dying
on the vine. Their churches are dying
and what's really weird to me
is that they'll just kick out soul winners.
You know they're like all the people
that are soul winning and bringing
life into their church are like hey we got to
get rid of this guy because they
just want to keep doing the same stuff that they're
doing. They want to still have one
person over here that believes in repent of your sins
one person over here that's Calvinistic
you know they don't want to divide
like you should they don't want
the new IFB in their churches because
the new IFB is injecting life into
their churches and they're saying
hey you know that guy's a pedophile
why don't you kick him out of the church
and they don't like that kind of stuff they don't like to be
told what to do. It's really funny to me that they'll
kick out a person that's a soul winner
they'll say hey you can't come back here
but
they'll let some fag stay into their church
they'll let them be in the
sound booth or they'll let them
be the song leader wearing his lavender
shirt or whatever. We had a guy
like that at one of the churches that we went
to the last church before we started this church
there was a fag song leader
and he went to Golden Calf
Bible College or whatever
his name was Justin Gillen
and Justin Gillen
he got caught with 280
child pornography
things and he was
the principal at a school
a Baptist school over
in I think it was in Oregon City
okay
caught by the feds
and you know how they caught him
the fed whatever the
federal agent typed in
I think seven year old boy
and that's how they found him
and they linked back to what he was looking
at and he was looking at seven
year old boys. And that
guy was at our church
but they would rather have us leave
the new IFB
any people that were in their church they'd rather
have us leave than that faggot
and you know what I said look he's going to do it
again and when
he does that's going to be on you
so
months later
he was married too by the way and had
like two kids. His wife
caught him not too long after that
with
he was looking up
incestuous
things about his you know
young children
you know father daughter weird stuff
right
so finally he kicked him out
of the church
but you know someone that's a soul winner
they'll just let them stay there
I mean they'll just kick them out
and let the fag stay there. It's weird
it's a strange anomaly that's going
on in Baptist churches
but you know thank God that some people
in Boise have bound together
and we can give you know Pastor Mendez can give
him some structure that they can have their own church
because those churches have kicked him out
there was a guy there that was
going to a church and he said
you know the pastor just basically said
you can't even bring your own converts
to church so the people
that they were getting saved they wouldn't even let the converts
come to church that's pretty crazy
that's getting crazy but the thing is
is that just like Samson you know
Samson was a spirit filled man of God
at times in his life and you know
when the lion was roaring against
him what did he do he rent
that lion like it was a kid and basically
the old IFB is like this it's like that
dead lion that dead carcass
on the ground and we just got to get the
honey out of it and we need to do our own
thing right we just got to be like
the bees getting the honey out of it and just
leave that carcass alone so
moving on to my next point we have this ministry
start soul winning as soon
as possible after being saved
so there's a lot of new saved people
that join this movement all the time
and we need to understand
that soul winning is a big deal
look we have this ministry you can take the ministry
back to your hometown you can
start your own soul winning ministry and obviously
the best thing is to be in a
good church but if you're not in a good
an area where there is a good church
start soul winning anyway
okay and look maybe God
will grant you a church
of your own at some point
so just
a little story about how
the church you know do you think it was an accident
that the church got started up in Vancouver
do you think that just it just happened
no
there was people that were being faithful
in soul winning and we
bound together as a big group
and you know that's how it got
started basically
and so once this church has started
kicking all the people out it was just
like it's going to be in Boise you know
you know God just rose
up a leader and it happened to be me
I didn't know it was going to be me but
that wasn't really the plan at first
honestly it wasn't
but when we realized
so we had someone that was supposed to come be the pastor
there and it didn't end up happening
it didn't end up handing out at that time
so someone asked me hey do you want to be the
what do you think about you are you
are you willing to do it
and I was like let me pray about that
but then
the next day I was talking to another friend of mine
who goes to my church now and
he's like you need to step up
and I was like okay
so you know
and I just like okay I will
and so you know this is
after the Orlando this is after
post Orlando right pastor
is looking for a building you know the last
thing he wants to do is start a new church up in
you know up in Vancouver Washington
but I watched a video that pastor Anderson
made it was it was called how to
other ways to start churches or something like that
and I'll tell you what God spoke
to my heart in that
you know it was just it wasn't even like a
message this is just how you start other churches
and I thought this this could be the way
you know because look we were
all about to move away and look
I would have been willing to move away that's fine
you know but I think
that God wanted a place
up in that Vancouver Portland area
so that people those people wouldn't
all have to go to hell too
and look we've had over we've had over a
thousand safe people there
since we've started that ministry up there
well over a thousand I don't know the exact number
off the top of my head but that
wouldn't have happened if
God's people had to bound together and
said hey we're going to do this thing together
and look turn
to let's see
turn to
1 Samuel chapter 22
Pastor Jimenez mentioned this
in his message I thought was a really
good point 1 Samuel
22
verse
number 2 it says and everyone
that was in distress and everyone that was
in debt and everyone that was
discontented gathered themselves unto him
and he became a captain over them
and there
with and there were with him
about 400 men
so David when he you know was fleeing
from Saul you know he had all
these he had all these men that came
and gathered themselves together they were the
discontented they were the ones
that were in debt
you know it's kind of like it's kind of like
how these new satellite
churches are starting it's like you got all
these people that are discontented and they're
and they're unhappy because their churches
are just spiritually weak
and that the pastors have no spine
they'll tell one person salvation
by faith and they'll tell the next person repent of your
sins or whatever but
you know these people gathered themselves to
gather together under a captain
who was David right so
that's kind of how these new
churches are starting you know
and look at Atlanta Georgia
25 30 guys
boom pastor Dave Burzins
goes down and starts that church there
how about Orlando Florida
there was people that were already
soul winning down there you know Lake
the Lakeland soul winners
and what happened
so pastor Boyle he ended up not being able
to stay at the church he was at
just shows up on a Wednesday night
and there's like what 20 30 people there
starts a church right there
see the churches
are popping up and we're places where people
are doing the work already
we're the people have already gathered
themselves together and they're just waiting
for their captain to come and
start the church right
that's what's going on that's how we're
going now obviously there's two ways to start
a church there's one way where
you know you have a man of God that's sent out
he's already qualified and
he goes and starts a church like
down at Pure Word Baptist Church down in Houston
right but there's
other ways to start churches and the way that these
satellite churches are starting is because
there's a group of people that are already
there they're already soul winning
so this is what I see a lot on
online and on YouTube and things
where people are like send somebody
over here are you doing the work
are you bound together with other
believers are you doing what
you should be doing or are you just
not having your ministry
you're like oh I'll just wait
to go soul winning you know and bind together
with other believers when
somebody comes that day is never going to come
if you think if
you're not already doing something that God's just
going to just send somebody to
Timbuktu or wherever
you're at Po-Dunk-Holla
you know he's
not you know there's got to be some people
that are bound together you know and sometimes
there's a like in Vancouver
we have a special thing
there because we have people
that travel from long distances to get
to our church obviously that's not
something that you can do forever
but we have our services designed
so that people could come
and just spend a whole day with us to go
home and they're still at home
at a reasonable hour
so but God is doing a great work
right now with these satellite churches
and with these new church plants that's why
there's so many popping up and hopefully there's
double what there is this time
at this time next year
there's like over there's like somewhere around
20 churches or something I'm starting to lose track
but that's a good thing
like I'm sitting there trying to count all the different
pastors and all the different satellites
and it's getting crazy right
but if you start soul winning
early look if you're in the new
IFB and you're not soul winning
you need to get into plugged into a program
if you don't have a good church to go to
then you need to find one
and if you can't find one move
but you don't have to necessarily move
if you have a big group of people
just say hey we got 25 people
over here we're already soul winning
we're already doing the work send us somebody
and I'll tell you what God is going to send
a person to you he really will
look the part of the story
I didn't tell you about is that
I started listening to Pastor Anderson
and Pastor Hermanos' sermons
and I was just like hey I'm just going to go down
and ask him for a pastor
I'm just that stupid
I'm just going to go down to Phoenix
I'm sure nobody else has ever done that before
right
please send us a pastor
but that's kind of how it all started
I was just like hey I'm just going to ask
sometimes if you ask God
for things he's going to give you the desires of your heart
if he knows you're going to do
what he wants you to do
but if you're just sitting there
you know watching YouTube videos
hoping that some pastor is going to start a church
in some small
town out in the middle of nowhere
of a new IFB church
people ask all the time hey will you start
a church in like Stanfield, Oregon
or you know I'm just making up
you know whatever
that town has like 3,000 people
it's not going to happen
you know what's
what's the plan we're trying to send the people
to the biggest populations that we can right now
and then you know eventually
the smaller areas will get
people but you know Boise Idaho
is not a huge place
but like the surrounding areas around it
it is pretty big it's the biggest city
in Idaho
how is the biggest city in Idaho getting
a church how did that happen
well there was a bunch of people
that were bound together and they said hey pastor
will you send somebody over here
and he looked at the situation
there's 25 people 30 people that don't have
a church to go to but they're all going solo
and they're all trying to go to church
and God said hey
I'm going to give you what you want
so let me move on
so I didn't even get to my fifth point here
Acts chapter 9 verse 19
but in 2 Corinthians 4 verse 13 it says
we have the same spirit of faith
according as it is written I believe
and therefore have I spoken
we also believe and therefore speak
see Paul went immediately soloing
and that is an example
to us as believers that we should
immediately go soloing
obviously Paul had special revelation
he pretty much had the God
God spoke through the Holy Ghost
to Paul and he was able to go
soloing right away
but look even if you're just going as a
silent partner which is what you should start as
you should still
try to go immediately
sometimes people will come to our churches
and I know they're not going soloing
you know they're not going
and then when they come they're like oh I'll go next time
why?
go now go while you have the chance
you're already at a new IFB church
so you just happen to be visiting
why don't you go soloing with them
you know take your kids with you
that's the other thing
there's a lot of ladies that take their kids
out soloing with them and it's kind of tough sometimes
but look
God's going to bless you when you take your kids
out soloing with you
he's going to bless you when you're out soloing
and doing the work
Acts 9 says
when he had received meat he was
strengthened
then was Saul certain days
with the disciples which were at Damascus
and straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues
that he is the son of God
but all that heard him were amazed and said
is not this that he that
destroyed them which called
on this name in Jerusalem
and came hither for that
intent that he might bring them
bound into the chief priest
but Saul increased the more in strength
and confounded the Jews which were
dwelt at Damascus
proving that this is very Christ
see it didn't take Paul long
to get out and start soloing
and before long he was already confounding the Jews
and smoking them
look you should be able to get out there
and destroy a Jehovah's Witness
you should know your Bible
but look at the beginning you're not going to be able to do that
so don't try
you don't want to try to contend with the Jehovah's Witness
when you don't know the Bible
but once you start to know the Scriptures
look once you start soloing all the time
you're going to memorize the Scriptures
because you're going to say them so much
but first you've got to take that step of actually going
alright
number six this is the last point
we have this ministry
exponential growth
exponential rewards
okay and we've got to think about
the things we've got to consider
the rewards right
God didn't say that we had rewards just so we wouldn't
try to plug into that reward
system right
you have reward cards for probably all different types
of things in your purses and wallets today don't you
you know why do you go to
Dutch Brothers and have that
little card punched on your card
so you can get the tenth one for free right
but God's reward system is way
better than any reward system
that you can get at like
I don't even know what the reward systems are
there's all different kinds of ones there's gas rewards
obviously coffee's
a big one
what's that Jamba Juice does Jamba Juice have a
rewards program I don't know
anyway but God's program
is way better 2 Corinthians 4
17 says for our light of
affliction which is but for a moment
worketh for us a far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory
while we look not
at the things which are seen but at the
things which are not seen for the things which are
seen are temporal but the things which are not
seen are eternal
so we need to look ahead
and see the things that are eternal
sometimes we just live our life day to day
and we live our lives in the flesh
but those rewards that we
have to look forward to
those things are things that we don't see but
you know you can still look at
those things and
redeem that time in Ephesians 5
15 it says see then that
you walk circumspectly not as
fools but as wise redeeming
the time see how do you
walk circumspectly not as
fools but as wise you've
got to redeem that time
and look people that are older
they have a harder time soul winning did you
know that the older you get
the harder it's going to get
so while you're young redeem
the time because look
we got a kid in our church that's 12
years old and he's winning souls already
praise the Lord
you know kids you can
win souls did you know that
you know I look
creepy walking up to a little kid in
an apartment complex
they get scared
people get scared at the door when I walk
out to their door I'm like
that big towering person in the middle of their doorway
you need to get saved
you need
Jesus
but a little kid
when you walk up to little kids and you're 6 foot 8
I mean they get freaked out
so kids you can be a help
when we're out and there's kids
nobody's going to stop another little kid
from giving their kid the gospel
generally I mean there are some weird
people out there but
kids you can be effective in the kingdom of God
you can be a soul winner just like anybody else
and Zechiah
at our church we sick him
on all the kids at the apartment complexes
go get those kids saved and he gets
people saved all the time
every week pretty much
so look and when you're older
it's harder those 3
apartment complexes get harder don't
they guys so
how many 90 year old people
do you see out soul winning
not very many I don't think
I don't know that I've ever seen a 90 year old person
out soul winning
so let me tell you this I mean there is no
retirement program in God's
God's kingdom really
but the thing is that our bodies are going to
catch up with us
there's going to be
there was a guy that came soul winning one time and he had had a hip surgery
and so I said well hey
I'll just wheel you around
and so I literally I wheeled him around in a wheelchair
the whole time on a soul winning marathon
and it got hard
but imagine having to wheel
yourself
you got to redeem the time now because
the thing is you might not always have
your health and you might not
always have the ability
to walk and climb stairs and I mean
soul winning is hard work
you beat the brakes off your shoes don't you
I mean I've had
I've bought the exact same pair of shoes that I had
last time I went soul winning I was just talking to
this brother of fan earlier
you got to have a nice pair of soul winning shoes
because if you don't
then your feet are going to hurt
but you know you want those shoes to last you for a while
so you know if you're going to spend a lot of
money on something in your wardrobe I mean you can
get your coat at the Goodwill or whatever
but you should have a nice pair of shoes to go soul winning with
amen
but anyway so we have an exceeding
weight and eternal weight
of glory waiting for us
and the Bible says
in 1 Corinthians 2
9 it says but as it is written
eye hath not seen nor ear
heard neither have entered into the heart
of a man the things
which God hath
prepared for them that love him
see God's prepared a great place
for us in heaven the Bible says in
John 14 one says let not your heart be
troubled you believe in God
believe also in me in my
father's house or many mansions if it were not
so I would have told you I go to prepare
a place for you and if I go to prepare
a place for you I will come again and
receive you unto myself that where I
am there you may be also
the Lord Jesus Christ has a great
place that he's preparing for us
and look how do you get those
rewards soul winning
and obviously it's not just the only thing
that you get rewards for but soul winning
is the main thing and look what's the
greatest reward you can have in heaven
seeing people that you love in heaven
with you seeing people in your family
in heaven with you
so be careful before you just sever complete
ties with family members that are
unsaved look just because
they don't like you or your religion
doesn't mean that they're reprobates
ok so try to
you know obviously we know
which ones are reprobates and which are
if they're a fag they're obviously a reprobate you know that
just cut ties with them forever
but you know the thing is
is that you want to see those people
in heaven with you you want to
see your friends
in heaven with you right
so that greatest
reward that you can have in heaven
is your friends and your loved ones
there with you but even the people that aren't
your friends you know you're gonna
when you get to heaven you're gonna see faces
of people and you're like hey
I remember you from somewhere
like yeah you got me saved
thank you and that's a
that's a great reward amen
but we you know in 1 Corinthians
2 9 it says as is written I have not
seen nor ear heard neither have entered
into the heart of man
the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him
look it hasn't even entered into our hearts
you know I used to wonder like what's
heaven gonna be like well it's never entered
into my heart I don't know I don't know
and Paul wasn't even allowed to come back
and tell people what heaven was like
so it's
it's far beyond the scope of what we
can think or dream of because it
says it's not entered into our hearts
so we have this ministry
nobody can take that from us
so what I would say to you is that
you need to make sure that you make
that ministry yours as much as you
possibly can obviously we need to be sent
out from a local church that's
the best way to do it
but look do you think God
if you don't have a church in your area do you think
God still wants you to go to Soul Lane
of course he does so that's the thing
that you should take away from this sermon if you take away
anything out of it at all
is that you need that you need to make sure
that that ministry is you consider it yours
we have this ministry
it's given to us
and that we need to take that
back take that back to your home
I don't know where everybody's from here
some people are already in great churches
don't quit
you know some people are in
a church at least you're in a church
and they're not kicking you out stay
there and be a blessing as long as you can
if you can't handle it if you can't
contain then leave and go to
another one that you can't
alright because sometimes that
repent of your sins or whatever it is
that they're saying that just ridiculous
you know the
seminal Indian
what is it the seminal Indian
somewhat of a prophet
you know if your church starts
talking like that and you just can't handle it anymore
you need to go to a church that you can serve in
amen
so anyway let's pray Lord we thank you so much
for
just the fact
that you've given us a ministry Lord
and I ask that you would help us Lord
to keep it in mind to not quit
Lord and
that we know that we have this ministry
and no matter what nobody can
take that away from us I pray that you would help us
as we go out to preach the gospel today
to be fruitful and Lord
that we might see some saved today in Jesus' name
amen