Fill them with your word and God bless the service in your name. Amen
All right the title of the sermon tonight is Bible boot camp basic training Bible boot camp
Camp basic training so I didn't want to come with a super complicated sermon tonight
I just wanted to preach something simple
You know and sometimes it's good to just preach something simple and hopefully you guys can get something out of this
And I just want to say thank you again for all the hospitality that we've gotten since we've been here
thanks for giving us rides everywhere brother Chris and
We just appreciate the spirit of this church and everything's been great and I can just tell this church is going to go
Big places amen so all right, so we're we're in a second Timothy to
Look at verse
1 says thou therefore my son be strong in the grace
That is in Christ Jesus and the things which thou has heard of me of many witnesses
The same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also
Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ no man
the warth entangled himself in the affairs of this life that he may please him who have chosen him to be a soldier and if
A man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned except
He strived lawfully the husband then the laborer must be first partaker of the fruits
Consider what I say give and the Lord give thee understanding and all thanks. Let's pray order
Thank you so much for Lord the wonderful time
We've had here in Boise and Lord
I just pray that you just be with me as I preach
Filling with the Holy Ghost and Lord I pray that the congregation here would be edified by the preaching of your word in Jesus name
All right, so
If you want to be of this where I talked about
You know becoming a mighty man or a mighty woman of God right and how you don't just you know get saved and all of a
Sudden you're just mighty in the scriptures. You're the best sell winner
There's things that you know, you're not a prayer warrior necessarily right off the bat
And you know obviously when you got saved
You probably haven't read the Bible cover to cover and me and I don't know who's read the Bible cover to cover in here
Or anything like that, but the road to becoming a mighty man or a mighty woman of God is
To you got to get the basics down first, right?
So the you know in the military you got to go through what's called basic training and even the officers have to go through basic
Training everybody has to get that foundational
Training to become like a real soldier and in the military has to do certain things
To become a soldier they have to learn how to March they have to learn how to take orders
They have to learn how to salute and all those things and it's not much different for a Christian
We have to learn how to be strong in the faith how to be a good soldier
Just like it's talking here and to be able to endure harness
How are you gonna endure harness if you've never gone through the training before if you don't know what you're doing?
So it's just like the same thing if you start a new job
I mean I wasn't in the military so I don't know exactly what boot camp is like I've seen movies
I've seen you know
I've seen like news clips and stuff like that or you know, they're getting yelled at and screamed up
You know the Christian boot camp isn't exactly like that so I
Won't be calling you maggots anytime soon or anything like that
So I'd be thankful for that but you know, if you started a job you have to go through orientation, right?
In most places have to put you to the orientation where you're sleeping through the first
You know three days and you're just like so tired from having to fill out all those forms
but then once you fill out the forms and you get and you get on board with the orientation then you have to
Start the on-the-job training, right?
And nobody just jumps into a job that they've never done before and just knows how to do it
I mean some people are naturals of things obviously, but you know, nobody is just a hundred percent
Dialed in from the day. They start a new job. That's the same thing with Christianity
You have to learn to walk
You have to learn and take baby steps to get to where you're gonna where you're gonna be a mighty man or a mighty woman
of God amen
So again, let's look at the scriptures here
It says thou for my son thou therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus
And the things which thou has heard of me
Among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men
Who are able to teach others also now
This is Jen Paul the apostles talking to about Timothy here who is a pastor, you know, and obviously
He's being told to train other men to do the same thing
Look, you can be trained to to teach other people also, you know
It's not just the pastor that trains people. It's the people in the congregation that train people also
It's not just one person's job. Now, obviously the pastor takes the oversight of those things
But you have to be willing to to learn so that you can teach others also too. That's how it exponentially grows
You know God builds the church and but he needs faithful people
To be able to attend and to do the things that he wants to do, right?
It says no man war that warth entangle themself and the affairs of this life
Then he may please him who have chosen him to be a soldier
So if you're if you're entangled in the things of this life
You're not gonna be pleasing God because he's called you to be a soldier and you're supposed to endure hardness as a soldier
Right, it says that if a man also strive for masteries yet. He is not crowned except he strive
Lawfully, so look God wants you to be a soldier for him, right?
And you know, we're not looking for GI Jane, right?
You don't have to shave your head ladies or anything like that, right?
But look he wants you to be a soldier in his army
Jesus Christ is looking for a few good men, right? He's looking for a few good ladies to serve in his army
Right. It says he's called us to be soldiers, right? So soldiers
Go into battle, don't they? So but you don't go into battle straight out of boot camp
I mean generally you don't you still have other chains that you have to do afterward
Because really the the boot camp is just about getting you into shape, you know, making you grovel at the
The feet of the
People that are in charge of you, right?
They want to break you down and get you fit to serve in the battle
So I'm just gonna give you five basic things to help you become a great soldier in the Lord's army tonight. So
Number one, what's the number one thing? I mean, I believe the number one thing is Bible reading
And then the first thing you gotta to do is just get in this book and start reading it
Okay, whether you start in Matthew whether you start in Genesis whether you start in John
I mean, I think John's a good place to start because it's the easiest book in the Bible to understand
But some people would say well, I think you should start in Genesis and go all the way through
Some people say you should start in Matthew because it's the New Testament. That's what we follow. Okay, that's fine
Whatever you do just get into it. Right, right a lot of people start
Start reading to Matthew and then don't get past the first few chapters
Some people start reading in Genesis they read Genesis 1-1 a lot
They read Genesis chapter 1 a lot of times a lot of people love Matthew 1 and Genesis 1
It probably the most read chapters in the Bible
I would say but you know, you have to keep going and just like God, you know
He expects us to keep reading his word, right? Do you think he wants us to know the whole Bible? Yeah, okay
Yeah, of course he does. So I'll turn over first Peter 2 to
You
See ya and when you start out as a baby Christian, you know
God doesn't expect you to know the deep things that he teaches in the Word of God
You gotta you gotta start somewhere. Where'd a baby start baby start with milk, right?
So little Jethro, he he wouldn't be able to eat a steak dinner tonight. What do you he couldn't go to?
You know get a Fort Worth ribeye tonight and sit down and eat that pity
He'd have he has to drink milk to get this and God expects us as Christians as baby Christians
To drink milk first. You got to drink the the milk of the word
So first Peter 2 2 says as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby
So God expects you first of all as a baby Christian
To start drinking that milk start reading the Word of God
And he's and and what's what's more milky than John the book of John teaches you how to get saved teaches you
That it's by faith alone, right that it's eternal security
Those are some good things to know those are good things to get
Rounded in and rooted in turn over to Hebrews 5 verse 12
Hebrews 5 verse number 12
Now I know you all ate pizza just a little while ago and you're kind of feeling that like that pizza hangover
But you guys you guys need to wake up a little bit. All right
All right, Hebrews 5 12. Let's go for when for the time you ought to be teachers
You have need that one teach you again
Which be the first principles of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat
For everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he's a babe
But strong meat belongs to them that are a full age
Even those who by reason of the use of their senses exercise to discern both good and evil. So
strong meat the Fort Worth ribeye
Any kind of strong meat belongs to those that are a full age
You got to have teeth to chew on me, right?
And you got a not and babies don't have teeth until they get a little older, right? So in order to eat the strong
The strong words of God
That you got to be past the baby stages
So you shouldn't be trying to you know teenagers a lot of times want to be grown up or little or kids
They want to be grown up and they have brothers and sisters that are older than them
They want to try to hang with the big dogs, right?
But the thing is is that that's you know, you should just be your age do what you're supposed to do and and grow
In a right order because see a lot of people like to just watch YouTube videos and that's their source of Bible readings, right?
they'll sit there without a Bible in front of them and watch video after video after video and you think that that is a
Supplement for reading God's Word. Well, it's not
Okay. I like to watch YouTube videos. I like to watch internet preachers. I like to watch
anybody that you probably like to listen to write as long as it's not Sam gift, but
You know, I like to watch it too, but you know, you got to put some time in this book right here
Yeah, you got to put your time in in the morning. You got to put your time in in the evening
Okay, and if you can fit some stuff in between that's good, too. So turn over to
Let's see
Joshua chapter 1
See because what happens if you skip the milk and go right to the meat
If you don't have any teeth to eat the word, you know, the strong meat of God's Word
What's gonna happen to a baby if they eat a piece of steak?
They're gonna choke right what's the number one thing that people choke to death on in restaurants anybody know that
So who said steak you're not right
What's another guess yeah bread bread no, it's not bread water. No. No, it's not water. It's not milk mozzarella stick
Oh
Somebody say peanut butter
So, you know what it is it's it's it's a hard-boiled eggs
So when you eat a hard-boiled egg and you try to you know
You just gets caught in your throat and you try to take a drink of it. Then it gets caught in your throat and people were
too
Ashamed to tell someone they're choking to death on something. So they'll just go to the bathroom and die, you know
But seriously, that's the number one thing people took them that is not part of the sermon whatsoever, right?
So Joshua chapter 1 verse 8
The Bible says this book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night
That thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein
For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success
So what Joshua one of the greatest leaders of all time in the Bible? He said you shall meditate in the day and night
Right day and night. So sometime in the daytime sometime in the nighttime and you know
You can read the Bible cover to cover seven and a half minutes in the morning
Seven and a half minutes in the evening that I mean how much time do you spend doing other stupid stuff?
Let me just think about that for a second seven and a half minutes
You're probably on Facebook for longer than seven and a half minutes, aren't you?
You're probably on YouTube for more than seven and a half minutes
But in seven and a half minutes, what's seven and a half plus seven and a half anybody a math wizard in here?
Fifteen so fifteen minutes a day that gets you through the Bible cover to cover in one year
Fifteen minutes a day. That's pretty easy to do isn't it? I mean you take a 15-minute break at work
That's break time. Oh, I'll eat my sandwich
Give him the Word of God
Take all every opportunity, you know in the morning time before you do anything. We get a cup of coffee sit down
Read seven and a half minutes of the Word of God if you can't get seven half minutes in just do five minutes
You don't do five ten fifteen, right? That's easy math, right?
What morning time lunch time evening time
Sometimes we're working real hard. It seems like it's hard to just fit God's Word in there
But that shouldn't be so for Christians, especially for Christians in this
This church right here
15 minutes is the bare minimum
That should be the bare minimum
so
So what happens if you read it for a half-hour day? How many times you gonna read the Bible cover to cover?
Two times so if you read a half hour
That's two times to the Bible in one year
If you're a moderately quick reader now, if you're just like if you read like me, then it might take you a little longer
anyway, I'm just kidding, but
Yeah, I mean seven half minutes in the morning seven half minutes in the evening. That's not a long time
That's one time through the Bible half hour per day. That's two times through the Bible. So what if it's an hour?
Four times
Hours a long time to read so you might have to break that up
You know the Bible it's it's tough to read an hour straight sometimes, but you know a hardened soldier can do it
So build your way up to stuff like that. I mean and obviously that might not be a sustainable model for you, you know, but
You young men in here that want to be pastors someday, you know start reading now get that prerequisite out of the way
So pastor Mendez requires ten times to the Bible to be considered not a novice in Bible reading
So if you've read the Bible cover to cover ten times
Then you're already got one of the checklist out of the way then
You know, of course you have to get married you have to have children and things like that
So don't put the cart before the horse guys, but you know get that Bible reading done
Matthew chapter 4 for I'll just read that for you
And if you want to flip there you can it says but he answered and said it is written man should not live by bread alone
But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, so does he want you to read almost all the words?
Or does he want you to read all the words every word? That's what he wants. So cover to cover
You can do it make a Bible reading plan for yourself
Yeah, you know there's apps out there that you can just say I want a one-year Bible and you can just read
Your one-year checklist and then you're done. You got it done, but don't stop there
You don't want to stop at one time through just keep going, you know
Read the Bible one time cover to cover every year number two tonight
prayer turn over to Philippians chapter 4 verse 6
And what are we talking about we're talking about things that will help you to become a good soldier for Jesus Christ
Number two prayer
Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 says be careful in nothing but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving
let your request be made known unto God and
The peace of God was passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus
So you're not supposed to be careful for nothing. It's not about don't be full of care
Don't be worried about everything all the time in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving
Let your request be made known unto God, you know, look you don't just pray one time. That's it
Yeah, I mean you should be praying on a regular basis
You shouldn't be praying and calling on the name of the Lord in a daily on a daily basis
I'm not saying to be saved you do that one time right? That's called being born again, but
You call upon you should be calling upon the name of the Lord multiple times a day. You know, are all your needs met
Or you just trying to fix everything by yourself?
You know God wants us to
Continue in prayer turn over to 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 1st Thessalonians chapter 5
They're like, oh brother and this is so basic stuff
I mean you came all the way over here to Vancouver watch from Vancouver watching to teach us basic stuff
Yeah, you need the basic stuff. That's the problem. That's where that's where our Baptist churches have gone off the rails
They just don't even stick to the main things the the basic things that you need
Let's see first Thessalonians 5 7 says pray without ceasing
Pray without ceasing and everything give thanks for this is the will of God
In Christ Jesus concerning you. So if you pray without ceasing
Is that you know?
Does everybody pray without ceasing?
So like baby it says that's the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you
So, but but really what it's saying though is that you should not stop praying prayer life going because you know
What are you even doing this for if God is not the one that does everything for you?
You know what? I mean? God wants to hear from you
He's so he's so what do we teach in some way that he becomes your father John 1 12, right?
It says but but as many as receive him to them gave you power to become the sons of God
Even to them that believe on his name once you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
God becomes your father and he wants to hear I mean, do you think there's your dad won't hear from you?
You're I mean you're your dad here on the earth
Of course, so, I mean, I don't know what everybody's situation
For me, but maybe he's heard the gospel, you know, I don't want to hear the gospel anymore for me
But in general most dads want to hear from their children, right and you know
Most people most dads are gonna give their children the things that they need and the things that they want
Sometimes we have way more than what we need, you know, the Bible says with food and raiment
We should be content there with but who here has more than food and raiment
Almost everybody. I think everybody
All right
So God gives us way more than what we deserve way more than what we need
And you know, he wants us to pray to him turn to James chapter 4 verse 2 James chapter 4 verse number 2
James 4 2 says you lost and have not you kill and desire to have and cannot obtain you fight in war
Yet you have not because you ask not see a lot of times the things that we don't we don't have things because we don't
Ask God, you know instead we fight in war with each other and you know, I don't kill people generally, but
Anyway, you know we have not because we ask not we ask and receive not because you ask a miss and asking a message
Just asking for things that God doesn't want you to have you're asking for something. That's ridiculous
I'll please God give you the new Lamborghini that I've been asking for for so long
That's asking a mess. Please God. Let me win the lottery this time. I promise I'll stop playing the scratch-off tickets
That's not that's that's a dumb thing to ask for. Yeah, he doesn't want you to play the scratch-off games in the first place
So you because it says that you may consume it upon your lust
He's not interested in hearing about the things you want that you want to consume upon your lust
You know, please give me every single new DVD that comes out on blu-ray
That's a dumb thing to ask for, you know, you're asking a mess. What does God want to hear?
He wants to hear the things that you need. He wants you to tell me love him. You tell God you love him
Sometimes you're probably should if you love God, you should tell him sometimes right or tell him thank you
Says with Thanksgiving, you know, we should be thankful to God for the things that we have
And a lot of people in this world are not thankful
And that's it's an epidemic in this country people not being thankful for the things they have
They just whine because they don't have the things that they want
You know, that's what happens when you give everybody things for free, you know
It's a sad sad state in America. So number three tonight
Soul winning so you got to get the basics down in soul winning. So we're learning here, right?
Who's still learning about sewing I'm still learning about sewing
The Bible says in Proverbs 11 30 says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that wins souls
Is wise so do you want to be wise?
Of course you do and if you win souls the Bible says you're wise. All right, turn to mark or turn to jude 122
Or just jude 22
I'm gonna read I'm gonna read for you in mark chapter 16 verse 15 mark 16
Verse 15 and he said unto them go you to all the world and preach the gospel
unto every creature
So God wants us to preach the gospel to everybody that we see
Everybody that's willing to listen now
I walked up to a guy's door and knocked on it and all sudden this doors the windows slid open and he said
um
You know, basically, what do you want? He's like, oh, we're just in my new church. He's like one. I can't go anyplace
I'm I'm uh, I've got health problems
It's like all right. Well more importantly going to church, you know, if you were to die today, would you go to heaven?
He's like, I don't want to listen to your questions. I'm gonna die sin anyway
And he's just like I'm not interested in answering your questions. All right
Have a nice day some people don't want to hear you know
What's worse than someone is about to die that just rejects the gospel the guys, you know
So I said earlier not to just throw out the reprobate card the guy's old
He's about to die and his last chance just walked up and knocked on his door
And what's he tell me? I don't want to hear what you have to say. I don't want to answer your questions
You know, that's wicked
and that guy is a reprobate all right, unless somebody comes to his door and
Tomorrow is that gonna happen? Probably? No
This is the only church that I know of besides, you know, who knows that's going actual real soul-wanting here
Yeah, and when's the next time you're planning on knocking the doors right around the corner?
Well, maybe you'll do it soon, but he said he's on his deathbed
And he doesn't want to hear the gospel, but see we got to know what to say to people
We got we were talking about this earlier
You got to know when to shut down a conversation to you know, why keep pushing with someone that's being like that, right?
You know, sometimes we get too pushy
You know, but as you go soul-wanting as you become a trained soldier as you get better at soul-wanting
You're gonna know like I was with Robert and I never got soul-wanting with before and sometimes, you know
I've been out doing it for so long. I can read people really quickly
And you know when they start walking away and the door starts shutting as you're trying to talk to them
That's a pretty good sign. They don't want to listen to you, you know
But I just said yeah that person wasn't interested and he picked up that you know
He's like, you know, I read the body language, you know
He didn't want to hear
But you know, those are things that you learn as you keep going. You're not gonna pick up everything right away
Now look, I still don't know everything
I'm not saying I do but the more you go soul-wanting the better you get at reading people, you know, the less you're gonna be
Rambling on with someone that is clearly not interested, you know, and some people just aren't interested
Don't try to kick that door open when you don't need to if they say no, I'm not interested
That's the time we say, okay. Thank you. Have a nice day and walk off
That's God's clue to tell you they're not interested
You know and we shouldn't be just shoving the Bible down people's throats, right?
You walk up you say hey, can I show you from the Bible what it says how to get to heaven and they say no
Thanks. All right. Have a nice day. Just that simple
You but you know you see their situation you feel bad for them
But you know if they wanted to hear the gospel they would have said yes
And people do say yes, you know, but you want to get to the next door
That's gonna be receptive, right?
You know if you and think about this if you're keep beating down that door trying to get them to listen to you
Someone else is going to be going to hell because your time's up and you wasted on somebody that said no
I don't want to hear in the first place. You understand what I mean? I mean, that's just
A common sense thing that you learn out. So I mean so you're in jude 122 or jude 22
It says that some have compassion
Making a difference and others saved with fear pulling them out of the fire
Hating even the garments spotted by the flesh
now
Having compassion is making a difference, right?
And it says with others saved with fear pulling them out of the fire. Sometimes you have to tell people look
You're gonna go to hell for all eternity
You're rejecting the gospel right now because sometimes someone will let you talk and then at the end they just say no
Or they say no, I don't want to pray with you right now or whatever
That's the time to warn people and tell them, you know, and obviously you're at their door. So
Having a little tact while telling someone they're going to hell is kind of important, you know
And I don't know, you know, you'll find a balance there. Well, just telling someone they're going to hell
It's not an easy thing to do as a new soul winner, you know, you're just like
There is a tadpole way to do it, you know, just I mean what I usually say to someone is I usually say
Like hey, you know, I know I'm at your door and I'm your guest here
But and I just said I just I'll just say I just care about you and I don't want you to go to hell
And the Bible says if you don't believe in Lord Jesus Christ, you will go to hell for all eternity
You know think about those things or you know something along those lines and usually people take that pretty well, you know, not everybody does
You might be like Robert over in Vancouver guy just started swinging on them for no reason, you know
So hopefully that never happens to you guys. That's honestly don't be afraid of that. Right because that is
I've never seen that happen before
So that's a very rare deal and usually it's Bobby brother Chris the ones they want to hit brother Chris
He won't be so nice though, all right, so moving on let's go to church attendance so number four
And turn over to Hebrews chapter 10
Hebrews chapter 10
Verse number 24
You know that the
Schedule is kind of different here right now. It's like you don't know
You know, I mean you're trying to make it known as fast as you possibly can it might not be an afternoon service
No, that's gonna change
Eventually, it's gonna be a rock-solid time. You'll have a Wednesday night service or Thursday night service or something
But for now when the doors are open this that's what you should be here. There was 45 people here this morning
There's not 45 people here tonight because you know
Some people just don't find it that important to be of all services
You know, it's just the way it is
But look at Hebrews 10 24 says and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as a manner of some is but exhorting one another
And so much the more as you see the day approaching
So the closer we get to the day of Christ the closer we get to when Christ comes back and returns
It says we're supposed to be going to church more
Right because the assembling of ourselves together is going to church, you know, people will go
Where does it say to go to church in the Bible? I just had somebody
Comments on one of my youtube videos about that and like where does it say that it's like right here
In Acts chapter
2 it says when the day of Pentecost is fully come they're all it with one accord in one place
What do you think that was talking about? But they were all gathered together
In one place. What are we doing right now?
Are we all gathered together in one place? Are we all in one accord for the gospel?
We're all here have received the knowledge of the truth that remaineth no more sacrifice for sins
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries
So God doesn't take it lightly if you just skip church for no reason
That's what he's trying to say
You're not supposed to forsake the assembling of yourselves together in a church service
No, God wants you to love and provoke each other to good works
How are you gonna love and provoke each other to good works if you're not here?
You know, maybe the sermon that preached was something that you needed to hear
But you decided to stay home and play Nintendo instead
Or you decided to go to the movies instead or you just said, you know
This church stuff is just going to be a little too much
You know, they just expect us to be there all the time
I don't expect you to be here all the time
God expects you to be here all the time because he says to not forsake the assembling of yourselves together, right?
So it's God. It's not me. Don't get mad at me. I'm just telling you what God said, you know
you're supposed to be a church and
This church, you know, you're you're fortunate
I guess in a way you only have one service next week so you can go fishing or whatever you want afterwards, right?
We have three services a week in our church right now, so you don't have we don't have downtime
So you got the left you got more downtime than we do
So, you know be fortunate with that, but you I'm sure you want to strive to have more church services
All right, right. I mean, that's the way that's the way you're gonna grow
You're not going to grow just one service a week and obviously that's going to take off as these
go by here
but
God wants you the Bible says in Psalm
122 one it says I was glad when they sent him to me. Let us go into the house of the Lord
Are you glad to go into the house of the Lord or you dread them? You know, you're not too far along here right now
So you shouldn't be dreading it already. You should be happy to come to church
And you know, don't forget the feeling of having to be in a lame Church. Don't forget the feeling of just sitting through
Sermon after sermon of grace grace grace money money money grace money grace money money money grace
Funny story money grace
That's exactly what it is we're gonna do, you know, we just finished our series on grace
And next week we're gonna start a new series on more grace
That's what that's basically what those church services are like they're super lame or get now we're gonna do a seven week series on tithing
Give me that money
Sermons on time and I've heard quite a bit of them, you know and people hate sermons on tithing
But they are necessary
Amen that's a basic thing
So, um, you know, we should be attending church. We should be reading our Bible. We should be praying
We should be so many and look the more you do it the less basic you're gonna be
You know in two years from now if I ever come back here again, but I hope I'll get to but if I come back here
Again, I'm expecting to see a bigger church
I'm expecting to see more talkers and more silent partners. You know, that's just how it works
That's how God grows churches, you know, you guys
Become experts in soul winning God's gonna build this church
You know, but here's the thing. So pastor minutes does have a series and he does who's watched that
Okay, anybody that's not raising their hands should watch it
If you go so on you should I mean you're you're in what church is this again?
Verity Baptist Church. Yeah, so pastor this is your pastor. So don't you think you should learn how to go so anyway pastor minutes goes
He's his soul. My plan is excellent. He's an excellent soul learner. Don't tell him I told you that
But he is he's good
So and he taught me a lot of things
Just going with him a few the few times that I've got to go with him. So when he taught me a lot of things
And you know, you should watch that series you can print off
You know, I'm sure he's probably gonna do some kind of a training
Program with you. So but to know what to say what to do how to how to fold the invites into the door
I don't know if you notice brother Robert
But when I fold those invites in someone's door, they always face. We'll see where there's one right here
This is something that will take pastor minutes off just saying I'll give you a little tip here
So when you put the when you put this in the door he wants this to face out
So like when you stick in the handle, it should be sticking out like this if it's sticking out like this. No, that's bad
So
Anyway, that's and that's just something that's like his type-a personality, but I'm the same way when it comes to stuff like that
It's just when I see someone do it. I just like
But you know people don't know now, you know now you're without excuse
So
But okay. So on to the last one here church work church work
Want the last thing here turn to Romans chapter 12
Romans chapter number 12
Romans 12 look at verse number 11
It says not slothful in business fervent in spirit serving the Lord
so
What is what does it mean to be slothful means to be lazy is to be sluggish. It's someone that doesn't want to work
It says but followers of them, oh, excuse me, that's not where I was that not slothful business fervent in spirit
serving the Lord so
What what am I talking about? I'm talking about church work. So
There's things that need to be done. You know, this house has been opened up to you to be used as a church
Do you help clean up afterwards? That's church work, you know, some people think it's just so wanting
Oh, well, I showed up and I went so long
But
You know, did you help clean up did you pull the goat heads out of the floor so that you didn't like that didn't have to
step on when he was not
Anyway
The help out do what you can, you know many hands make light work. Have you ever heard that saying before?
It's true, you know
So when the service is over if everybody just buzz saws through everything folds up the default of the chairs on
Okay, pull up the chairs clean up all the stuff, you know make sure that you know
Your stuff's all picked up. That's church work that is included in church work
You know the Levites, you know, they got paid by the tithes and offerings, right?
But they lived off those things. So, you know, but what did they do?
They did physical work around the house of the Lord, you know, so so church work isn't just a spiritual part
It's physical labor, too
And so you see a piece of paper laying on the ground bend over pick it up
You know just stuff like that can help your church immensely. You don't even know and I'll tell you, you know, I've told
Brother Dylan knows my pet peeves about walking into the church building and seeing like styrofoam cups or anything
Use and stuff like that that kind of stuff just drives me nuts
Or someone said something about the coffee cup being on the pulpit or something
That drives me nuts when I walk in I see someone's like coffee cups sitting on top of the pole
But I don't know why it just does, you know, because God wants things done decently and in order then, okay
He doesn't want to look like Hurricane Katrina hit the church building before the service starts now during you know
During the services, obviously people are gonna make messes and stuff like that. I'm not talking about that
I'm talking about when it's time to clean up when it's time to have the church looking nice
Is when the visitors are walking in the door right when they walk in it looks like and the kids are swinging from the
Chandeliers and the parents are talking and not paying attention what their kids are doing and there's papers and garbage all over the place
They're gonna walk in and go
Not coming back here again
You know
You don't want to put that impression on people and obviously you're already gonna have a hard enough time getting people to come here because
It's in a house. They're gonna pull up. They're gonna where's the sign out?
You know, obviously that's gonna get fixed at some point
Good idea for a flag out front one side. What was it one side?
Oh, yeah, the whole world may know and then you have that on one side on the other side the church verse
Then people know they'll have you can see the flag flying forever. Don't let that flag hit the ground brother
So Hebrews chapter 6 verse 12 Hebrews chapter 6 verse 12, I'm almost done
Hebrews 6 verse 12 says that you be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and
Patience inherit the promise
Promises that so that God doesn't want you to be slothful. He doesn't want you to be lazy
He wants you to follow those who through faith and patience inherit the promises now
What who are we supposed to follow people like Moses people like Samson, you know, and then people amongst us you see that person has
You know that they're not lazy. They're doing all the things, you know that God wants them to do you follow that person
Don't pick the lazy, you know bomb that doesn't help out around here to follow
Nobody talked to me before the service. I promise you that but I'm just saying in general, okay
You know don't fall don't be a lazy person and don't follow someone. That's a lazy person all someone
That's doing what God wants them to do. All right, and then turn over to Colossians chapter 3 verse 23
Colossians 3 verse 23
Says it whatsoever you do
Do it heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men
There's ultimately who are you working for when you're doing church work?
You're working for the Lord
you know, so so you should do everything that you do as
Like you're doing it unto the Lord because you are doing it for the Lord because if you're doing it for someone else besides the
Lord then you're not doing it for the right reasons
If you're doing it to be seen of men or to give praise of people you already got your reward
So do your church work the things around this around the church?
You know as you would do it to for God because that's what you're doing it for anyway
Proverbs turn over to Isaiah 40 verse 31. I'm going to read for you in Proverbs 16 verse 3
Proverbs
16 verse 3 says commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established
So if you commit your works unto the Lord, you know what people do all kinds of different works in this world
Yes, you know they give the all these different telethons and they you know
Boy Scout cookies and Girl Scout cookies and just all this other junk
There's so much, you know, people are always passing stuff around it at work
Oh, you know support my kids football team with their cookies or you know, just any kind of fundraiser. There's fundraisers going on
24-7 who's been hit up with fundraisers before big time, right? It's always this time of year
You got to just don't answer your door
You know, don't put the no soliciting sign up for a couple months
the football teams will be coming around knocking on your doors, but
You know commit your works unto the Lord out under none of the things that just don't matter
You know, I don't ever give money to charity unless it's for God's house
Because that's still that we're the ones that are doing the charity, you know, I don't give to like, you know
Needles on wheels and things like that. Not that I don't think it's not that I think that's necessarily a bad thing
I'm just saying that I just put my money into the local church
Because I know that what we're doing with that money is what matters and then right going so money getting people saved
That's where that money goes and it's a lot more valuable to get someone's soul saved than it is
You know to make sure they gotta be in the last week or whatever. I mean obviously
Doing good works in those areas are good, too
I'm not saying that I'm just saying that the I don't give to anything but like be able to ring the bell
What is that the Salvation Army? I don't give them a dime. First of all, they preach the false gospel. Yeah
Okay, repent of your sins lordship salvation. I'm not gonna give a dime to them
I'm gonna give it to my local church. But anyway, you're in Isaiah 40 verse 31 slaps not the last verse
But it's one of the last verses
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as Eagles
They shall run and not be weary
They shall walk and not faint see if you commit your works unto the Lord. He's gonna take care of you
He's gonna lift you up
He's gonna make sure that you have strength to get through the from day to day and look I I get tired
I get weary. I was gone on last night brother Chris was like, hey, man, you want me to take you back to the room?
It's like man. I'm always doing that now
I'm always tired, but
Sometimes you just gotta stop and say God give me the strength to get through now
What's it say if you wait upon the Lord, he'll renew your strength, you know
The little kids are gonna get tired the young men are gonna get tired, but an old man like me
I'm gonna keep going because God's gonna give me the strength to keep going then keep working for him and doing what's right
Turn to Galatians 6 nice the last verse will turn to
And yeah, I know this sermon was very basic all right, but I was meant to be
so
You know, it's not always gonna be some complicated
You know
You know some people just want the
Latest and greatest that they've never heard before. You know, sometimes it's just good to teach the Bible straight
You know, let's get the basics down right good relation 6 verse 9
So let us not be weary in well doing for a new season we shall reap if we faint not I
Was gonna make one this one of my points, but it kind of goes along with the verse in Isaiah 40 verse 31
You know if you faint not God's gonna make sure that you read
So that's the number one thing. We've had people quit in our church
We have people quit within the first few months of our church starting people that we thought we're gonna still be there
They're gone. They're completely out of church
And it will happen here
There's gonna be people that will fall off
You know, I don't know who they are
But
You know you gotta be willing willing to keep working and not to faint
Count on the Lord for your strength and you know
Your your family's gonna persecute you your friends are gonna your old friends are gonna persecute you
People are gonna think you're weird
Cuz you go and knock on people's doors
They'll go are you what are you a Jehovah's Witness? No, I'm a Baptist. That's what I am
Yeah, I go knock doors because the Baptists are the ones that are supposed to be knocking the doors the Christians the real Christians
I don't believe the right things
It's not crazy. That's what the Apostle Paul did. He went daily from house to house
You know, he went everywhere preaching the gospel and to go house to house. This is daily and in every house
You see stops. He ceased not to preach and teach Jesus Christ, right? So
That means he had to go to their houses, right?
They had to knock on the doors if they had doors. I don't know if they had doors
Because they're on the med train. I don't know that door jams maybe curtains rustle their curtains
Anyway, but you know, I know like I said, this is the basic sermon but you know, they're good things
Hopefully you wrote some of this stuff down and you don't forget you need to be in your Bible day and night
Okay, even if you're just reading it for a short amount of time at least you're reading it
Get through the Bible cover to cover
You know, and then you can say long now. I'm a toddler
You know you get to three and three is pretty bad still but you know
I'm just kidding. But the thing is the more you read your Bible the more you're gonna know and
You know the more you go so wanting the better you're gonna get
The better the more comfortable you're gonna get the more you go to God in prayer
The more he's gonna answer your prayers because he's not gonna answer prayers that you don't give to him
You know work for the Lord, he's gonna renew your strength don't quit and
Anyway, let's have a word of prayer and ask God blesses as we go home Lord. We thank you so much for your word
And we ask Lord that you would just bless and put your mighty hand on this church
Lord help the people not to quit or help the people to be grounded and rooted in your word
And I pray Lord that you'd help them to be a people of prayer
Lord and they wouldn't forget to call upon your name and just pray Lord that you bless of this church mightily Lord
And Lord that the next time I come here
It's increased in spiritual knowledge