If you look at Matthew 13, look at verse 24, alright?
The Bible says another parable put he forth unto them, the kingdom of heaven is like unto
a man.
The Bible says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The Bible does not command us to come together in 2016.
The Bible commands us to come out from among them and be ye separate.
Be ye separate.
Many of the people on the list for Together 2016 are also on the list for another event
in September called the Gathering 2016.
Nick Hall who will be speaking at both events and is the organizer of Together 2016 said
the following.
I think God is already doing the wave.
I just think it's happening in different corners and we've been divided.
We got this movement here and this denomination here and that group here and they're all great
things but we don't even know about each other because we don't have the same name on our
sign.
And so on July 16th we're going to see all of these waves collide, Catholics and Lutherans
and Evangelicals and Charismatics literally rallying across the nation saying, you know
what?
We may not say the same things but we're on the same team.
We're lifting up Jesus and we're going to saturate this nation and that could change
the world.
As Nick so clearly said at the end, it is not to bring them to the mall but to send
them out into places from whence they came and to accomplish the mission that God has
for every individual.
You know just to be shoulder to shoulder with some of the finest voices of our time, the
gospel, the faith that we so strongly believe and love in the gospel message of Jesus Christ.
To see people from so many walks of life coming here and so many different age brackets.
And then to have some of the finest exponents, you know, for me to even start naming them
and to have some of the finest exponents, you know, for me to even start naming them
It's saying there's only one that's of God because there are also unclean spirits
and there are lots of them. I mean, look, are you going to deny the existence of unclean spirits?
Remember Jesus casting out the unclean spirits? What does the Bible say here?
If he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, so there's the Jesus of the Bible, then there's another Jesus
and Mormonism has another Jesus. Roman Catholicism has another Jesus.
Or if you receive another spirit. Now, is it possible that in the process of going to a church
that's preaching another Jesus, you might receive another spirit?
He says it's possible. He said, in fact, I'm afraid that it could happen.
He's saying, I know that when people go and hear preaching of another Jesus, they are receiving another spirit.
Look, if it's not the spirit of God, because there's only one spirit of God.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one spirit. Okay, I get that, but you know what?
You can receive an unclean spirit at an event like this. Together, 2016, you can receive an unclean spirit.
If they're not messing with us, hey, let them grow up with the terrorists. Let Jesus deal with it at the harvest.
That's what he's teaching us. He's saying the most important thing is the harvest.
What I'm most interested in, he said, I want you to know about the enemy and I want you to understand his strategy
but I also want you to understand your priority. He says your priority is the harvest.
It's to take care of the harvest. It's to go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in.
He says, I want you to be interested in the harvest. Go to Matthew 9, verse 36. We're done. We're done right here. Matthew 9, 36.
Someone said it this way. Let God's, let Jesus' last commandment be our first priority.
His last commandment was to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Matthew 9, 36 says,
but when he saw the multitude, he was full with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep, having no shepherd.
Then say at the end to his disciples, the harvest truly is by Jesus, but the laborers are few.
Pray, therefore, the Lord our harvest, that he will set forth labors into his harvest.
That's our priority. I'm not interested. I'm not, look, I'll be honest with you.
I'm not interested in calling out every false preacher and all these things.
If they're going to mess with us, we're going to mess with them. They want to fight with us, they'll have a fight on their hands.
But that's not our priority. Our priority is the harvest. It's getting people saved.
So here's what we learned from this parable. We learned about the enemy. He's real.
He'll wait till you're distracted. He'll wait till you're asleep. That's when he's going to attack.
We learned about his strategy. He's trying to, look, he's trying to get as many people in the kingdom of hell as much as we're trying to get them in the kingdom of hell.
The sad thing is that usually we're taking breaks and we're asleep while he's working away.
And our priority should be the harvest. We'll protect the church when we need to protect the church.
But our priority is and always will be the harvest of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life, and of some have compassion, making a difference,
and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
to the only wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Every single person in here has a job to do. And if you believe that Jesus Christ came the first time,
you believe he's coming the second time, you have to get out there and do the work that Jesus Christ said to do.
The Bible says that we are waiting for the signs of the times. Next thing, the Bible says the man of sin, the grape falling away.
But until we see those things, you know, we're to go out there and we're to preach the gospel.
And that's what we're going to be doing this weekend. And I just want to end it with this.
This soul winning marathon that we're going to be doing and all this work that we're going to be putting in this Saturday,
it's just a continuation of what Steadfast Baptist Church has been doing this whole two years.
You got to think about this. We started the church that week right before.
We went out knocking doors as soon as we came into town. That first day we got our water hooked up.
We got our stuff hooked up. The next day, Guinevere and I were out knocking doors.
The day after that, Jonathan Starnes, Ken Smith, and I can't remember one other person was out knocking doors with me that Saturday.
The next day was Sunday. We had church that week. We went out soul winning.
And every single week since the inception of this church, we have had people out there knocking doors and winning souls to Christ.
And the reason why we're so motivated as a church, even when we were smaller,
there's only four or five people showing up to soul winning while they're going out there preaching so hard,
is because we believe that we have been given the authority by the word of God and we have a job to do.
It's our job to go out there. God has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
And that's what this church is about. That's what it's always going to be about.
It's because we believe the Bible and the Bible says that he's coming.
And if he's coming one day, the Bible says, blessed is that man for when his Lord so come shall find him so doing.
I want steadfast Baptist Church to be a so find him so doing church.
And that's what it's going to be from from right now. This is not the beginning of a soul winning church.
This is just a continuation of a soul winning church. And God has blessed this church.
Look tonight we have 67 people. We started the church on a Sunday morning with dozens of people flying in from Oklahoma,
flying in from out of town, traveling in just to be a part and just kind of encourage the church and be a part of it.
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.