So come into this place of Tormund.
This is the cry of people in hell.
See, people in hell would love for you to preach the gospel to their loved ones, right?
People in hell would love for you to preach the gospel to their unsaved mom, to their
unsaved dad, to their cousins, to their brother, and to their children, because people in hell
would love to go to heaven, hey, they request you.
for the good news to their loved ones.
But to us who are still living,
it's not too late to preach the gospel.
So I want you to notice the cries of people in hell.
The cries of hell is,
hey, I have five brethren that he may testify onto them,
lest they also come into this place of torment.
Nobody who goes to hell will wish
that other people will go to hell with them, okay?
Some people will say I'd rather rule with saving in hell than be with God in heaven
But saving is not ruling hell they will wish to go out
But by that time it's too late
But if you are safe and you die you go you go to heaven
You will wish that you will help people in hell, but it's too late
You will wish that you'll preach the gospel to them, but it's too late because you are heaven, right? So for us
who are still living on the earth,
it's not too late for us to preach the gospel.
John chapter five, look at verse 24.
Very, very, I say unto you,
be that heareth my word,
and believe it on him,
that send me half everlasting life,
and shall not come into condemnation,
but is, notice, passed from death unto life.
There's nothing wrong with remembering the past.
The Bible says multiple times,
we need to remember the days of both,
remember all the ways that God has led us
throughout all those years.
It can be a great reminder on how great God is.
It can motivate us to do more for God in the future.
But if you are only living in the past, then you are wrong.
What are you doing?
Today, in fact, God rebuked the church in Sardis and God said,
thou hast a name that thou livest and are dead.
So many Christians talk about the heydays of Christianity in the past,
and they will complain about what we have right now,
but we can still do great things for God right now, right?
We can remember the past.
It can motivate us.
We can learn from our past victories and failures, but don't settle.
we can always do more obviously numbers are just numbers right you know numbers
can change on seasons you know life in the areas but you know what we can learn
from this number is very easy like I said the more hours we spend the more
those we knock more people get saved it's that simple okay
So God has blessed our church tremendously, and we should really praise Him for what He has done,
and we should rejoice in the Lord. But let's also not settle, okay? If we live in chapter 3, look at verse number 12.
The Bible says, not as though I had already attained, either were made perfect, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend, that for which also I am apprehended of Christ, Jesus, notice verse number 13.
Brethren, I count on myself to have apprehended. The word apprehend means attained, achieved.
For getting those things which are behind,
and reaching forth on those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the price
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
So what Paul is saying that is,
hey, keep running the race, right?
The only time you should stop running the race
is until you die, right?
And when you go to heaven,
you're still gonna be working and praising God forever,
okay, so never stop working.
Keep running the race.
And many of you may not be used to that many people
guessing, right?
If you've been to some regular Baptist churches,
these members might seem a shock to you, right?
You know, these members might seem to be a shock to you,
but you know, we should make that the norm.
Don't be surprised on how great God is, okay?
Because these members, 800 salvages in a year
is almost unheard of in most Baptist churches.
Let's just be honest don't let that surprise you drink big right we need to go big okay because this is a soul winning church
You can you can see a clear difference between a church that emphasizes soul winning versus churches that do not right?
The members are drastically different
Right, but let that be the norm. This is a soul winning church
Let's let's do more for God. There are people in heaven who want to help people in hell, but it's too late
They want to give them a drop of water to cool their tongue
because they are tormented in hell,
but there are also people in hell who love to go to heaven,
but it's too late.
Somebody told me this, to us Christians,
the earth is the closest place that we can get to hell,
but to the unsaved, the earth is the closest place
that they can be to heaven.
Luke 16 verse
Verse number 27, the Bible says,
This is the cry of people in hell.
See, people in hell would love for you to preach the gospel to their loved ones, right?
People in hell would love for you to preach the gospel to their unsaved mom, to their
unsaved dad, to their cousins, to their brother, and to their children, because people in hell
would love to go to heaven, hey, they request you, they request you to cry about you to
But to us who are still living it's not too late to preach to preach the gospel
So I want you to notice the cries of people in hell the cries of hell is hey
I have five brethren that he may testify onto them lest they also come into this place of torment
Nobody who who goes to hell will wish that other people will go to hell with them. Okay?
Some people will say I'd rather rule with saving in hell than be with God in heaven
But saving is not ruling hell. They will wish to go out, but by that time it's too late
But if you are safe and you die you go you go to heaven
You will wish that you will help people in hell, but it's too late
You will wish that you will preach the gospel to them, but it's too late because you are in heaven, right?
So for us who are still living on the earth, it's not too late for us to preach
the gospel.
John chapter five, look at verse 24.
Very, very, I say unto you,
be that heareth my word,
and believe it on him,
that send me hath everlasting life,
and shall not come into condemnation,
but is, notice,
pass from death unto life.
There's nothing wrong with remembering the past.
The Bible says multiple times,
we need to remember the days of both,
remember all the ways that God has led us
throughout all those years.
It can be a great reminder of how great God is.
It can motivate us to do more for God in the future.
But if you are only living in the past, then you are wrong.
What are you doing?
Today, in fact, God rebuked the church in Sardis and God said,
thou hast a name that thou livest and are dead.
So many Christians talk about the heydays of Christianity
in the past, and they will complain about what we have right now.
But we can still do great things for God right now, right?
We can remember the past.
It can motivate us.
We can learn from our past victories and failures.
But don't settle.
we can always do more.
Obviously, numbers are just numbers, right?
You know, numbers can change on seasons,
you know, life, in the areas.
But you know, what we can learn from this number
is very easy. Like I said,
the more hours we spend,
the more those we knock,
more people get saved.
It's that simple, okay?
So God has blessed our church tremendously and we should really praise him for what he has done, and we should rejoice in the Lord
But let's also not settle. Okay, Philippians chapter 3 look at verse number 12
The Bible says not as though I had already attained either or made perfect
But I follow after if that I may apprehend that for which also I'm apprehended of Christ Jesus notice version 13
brethren, I count on myself to have apprehended
The wiper head means attained, achieved.
Paul was saying that he did not count himself
to have achieved the final stay.
But there's one thing I do for getting those things
which are behind and reaching forth
onto those things which are before.
I press toward the mark for the price
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
So what Paul was saying that is,
hey, keep running the race, right?
The only time you should-
Sure, foundation Baptist church.
If you happen to be in church, say amen.
Alright, let's all stand and go to number one hundred and eighty five my saviors love number one hundred and eighty five
Let's all stand
We're gonna sing it out with power church, okay, I stand
in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how he could love me a sinner
condemned dark see it out church how marvelous how wonderful my song shall
How wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
Second stand, though, the ladies are going to start, okay?
For me it was in the garden, he prayed on my will, but not on my will.
Y'all are doing a great job.
He had...
everyone on that chorus how marvelous how marvelous how wonderful and my song shall
ever be how marvelous how wonderful is my savior let's see if the guys can do a
better job on the third stanza guys he took my sins and my sorrow he made
He bore the burden to Calvary and suffered and died everyone in that chorus
How marvelous
How wonderful is my song shall ever be
How marvelous
How
Is my say
All right, the usher's on that and I'm just playing with you.
Fourth verse.
When with the ransom and glory
his face I at last shall see
twill be my joy through the age
to sing of his love for,
see it out church.
How marvelous, how wonderful is.
shall ever be. How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me. Amen.
Brother Andrew, can you praise him to his service, please?
Amen. Let's go to number 180. This is kind of an old IFB song, but I love it. It's a song I learned.
And how's Anderson College when I was there for college days and I love this song.
So let's sing it out like some good bus kids we are, right?
Number 180, isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
First stands, There will never be a sweeter story
Story of the Savior's love divine
Love that brought him from the realms of glory
Just to save a sinful soul like mine
Isn't love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
Always in love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful
It is true
One more time on that first verse
So the guys who don't know this can kind of learn it a little bit better
Firstanza
story of the Savior's love divine love that brought him from the realms of glory
just to save a sinful soul like mine see now church is in the love of Jesus
something wonderful wonderful
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Wonderful it is too.
Amen. Second stanza.
Boundless as the universe around me.
Reaching to the fallen soul away.
Saving, keeping love, it was that found me.
That is why my heart can truly say,
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He did me love of Calvary.
Sit out church, isn't the love?
Isn't the love?
Wonderful.
It is?
Wonderful.
Oh, isn't the love of Jesus something?
Wonderful.
Wonderful it is to me.
Man, at this moment you may be seated.
Evangelist Justin Zong is going to come up
and give some announcements.
Anyway, welcome to Shua Foundation Baptist Church, and I raise a hand if you need a bulletin and I also will bring one to you.
All right, let's look at the verse of the week,
James chapter three verse number 17.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,
full of mercy and good fruits without partiality
and without hypocrisy.
Obviously, I'm pretty sure I'm in this morning
against racism, and it's funny that the soul winning spot
we went this afternoon is full of single family,
black, displaced family places.
So, again, that's...
Pretty interesting, but we had a great time 11 soul winners and the six salvations that that that that brings our year to day to
499 okay, we are one away from breaking 500 so praise the Lord for that
And then if you want to look at the inside page, we are on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble, and X, so please give us a follow there.
And then service time Sunday morning at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4 p.m.
And once night Bible study at 7 p.m. this Wednesday we'll be going over Ecclesiastity, chapter number 6.
So when in time Sunday afternoon sir, so winning at 1 30 and Saturday morning so winning at 10 30 a.m
Please stay, you know on stay on track on your follow-up talk talk to the talk to a newcomer's about
Baptisms and church attendance and give away the Bible these are all for you to grab and give away
So don't forget to do that
Upcoming events, baby Josh, I was born two days ago at 6 24 p.m. So make make sure you congratulate
The Raleigh family and then please use the QR code for the wedding
Registrate that that's gonna take place in two weeks in Texas and then huh one week
Oh, it's closer than I thought is that a good thing. I guess it's a good thing and
Oh, yeah next Saturday, right?
This Saturday. Yeah, you're right. You're right. This Saturday
And then Pastor Anderson will be preaching for us on Friday, September 5th at 7 p.m.
They will not be a Wednesday night service that week and that week
Only and then we all have our annual fall fellowship at the local state at not a state park at a local park at 4 p.m
on September the 13th. I have a sign-up sheet on that table so please sign up your the side
and dessert and drink you want to bring. No alcohol please. Biblical food okay.
Yeah see the see the sheet at the table and the Dr. Phil Stringer the vice president from the
King James Bible Research Council will be preaching both services on Sunday November 30th
So make sure you invite people to that.
He's an expert on the King James Bible,
looking forward to that.
And then the Sony Marathon coming up,
September 19th to 20th is the Detroit Sony Marathon.
Please see the video I posted on the social media
for the details.
Please RSVP, let me know whether you're coming Friday
or Saturday or both, okay?
Just for ease of planning,
as well as the launch on Saturday.
The church will be providing the launch on Saturday, dinner will be on your own.
And then we'll have a church back here the next day.
So feel free to talk to people about carpooling,
maybe sharing a room just to save you guys some money.
If you are interested,
but some of you may want to stay by yourself anyway.
Winter Wonderland, Sony Marathon is December 27th.
And then two weeks from now,
August 31st during the Sunday afternoon service,
we'll have a men's preaching night.
If you are planning on preaching, please let me know.
So you're not, you know, caught off guard.
Let me know your topic.
Let me know your intention to preach so I can have an idea.
And then if you want to know how to be saved or needs to be baptized,
please see an usher or myself after the service.
If you want to look on the back page,
we have Ms. Hannah's birthday on this coming Tuesday.
So let's sing her birthday to Ms. Hannah.
Ready?
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday, God bless you.
Happy birthday to you, congratulations.
I have a thought, would it be better if for the future birthdays we have, you know, whoever
has the birthday come here, we've seen them, that would be more of an, more of an embarrassment.
Would that be a, would that be a better idea?
Maybe we should take, maybe we should take a vote.
All in favor raise your hand.
All right, that's not good.
That's why this is not a democracy, okay?
So anyway, yeah, again, if your information is not on there,
please let me know by writing on the back of the card
so I can keep your birthdays and the anniversaries recorded.
Just like make sure you write down the birthday
and the birthday and your name
so we can keep your information up to date.
So with that being said, let's sing one more song
and then we'll take up the offering.
Amen, let's all stand for this last song. Let's go in our binders
Let's go kind of towards the back to the song before the throne of God above
There's one of my favorite hymns
It reminds me of the salvation that we have in God that whenever he looks at us
He doesn't see any sin. He doesn't see our past mistakes
He just sees the blood of Jesus Christ one of my favorite hymns a beautiful song
Before the throne of God above, I have a strong and perfect plea.
A great high priest whose name is love, whoever lives and pleads for me.
my name is graven on his hands my name is written on his heart I know that while
in heavy stance no tongue can bid me hands depart
No tongue can bid me hand think about those words on that second verse when Satan
tempts me to despair and tells me of the guilt within. Upward I look and see him there.
Who made an end to all my sin
Because the sinless Savior died
My sinful soul is counted free
Forgot the justice satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
Behold him there, the risen Lamb, My perfect spotless righteousness,
The great, unchangeable I am, The King of glory and of grace.
One with himself, I cannot die. My soul is purchased by his blood. My life is hit with Christ on high,
with Christ my Savior and my...
God with Christ my savior when I sing that second stanza one more time a capella when Satan
tempts me to despair and tells me of the guilt within upward I look and see him there who made
Think about those words my sinful soul is counted free forgot the justice satisfied to look on him
and pardon me to look on him and pardon me you may be seated at this moment we're gonna have ushers
come up brother Kenneth can you pray for the offering please brother
We're going to be in Deuteronomy chapter 18 today, Deuteronomy chapter 18.
If you don't have a Bible, please raise your hand and an usher will hand you a Bible.
Deuteronomy 18 verse one says,
The priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel.
They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire and his inheritance.
The Lord is their inheritance, as he have said unto them.
And this shall be the priest do from the people,
from them that offer sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep,
and they shall give unto the priests the shoulder,
and the two cheeks, and the moth.
The first fruit also, of thy corn, and of thy wine,
and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep,
shall thou give him.
for the Lord thy God have chosen him out of all thy tribes
to stand to minister in the name of the Lord,
him and his sons forever.
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates
out of all Israel where he sojourned
and come with all the desire of his mind
unto the place which the Lord shall choose,
then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God
as all his brethren the Levites do.
which stand there before the Lord.
They shall have like portions to eat
besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee, thou shall not learn to do
after the abominations of those nations.
there shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his door to pass through the fire
or that use of divination or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch or a charmer or a
consultor with familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer for all the all that do these things
are an abomination unto the Lord and because of these abominations the Lord thy gods of drive them
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God, for these nations which thou shalt possess harken unto
observers of times and unto diviners, but as for thee, the Lord thy God have not
suffered thee so to do. The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the mist of thy
unto him ye shall hearken, according to all that thou
desires of the Lord thy God in horror, in the day
of the assembly saying, let me not hear again the voice of the Lord
my God, neither let me see this great fire anymore
They have well spoken at which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren,
like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth,
and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not harken unto my words,
which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him.
shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, how shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken.
be afraid of him. Brother Alex, could you please pray us into the service?
Amen. Thank you. You're there in Deuteronomy 18. The word Deuteronomy actually means second law,
and this is the law given a second time from the perspective of Moses. It is
written in first person. If you look here in verse 15, it says,
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy
brethren like unto me. That's referring to Moses. The prophet will be like unto
Moses. And you can see that it's a capital P because it's a
And Moses had seen God face to face, like Jesus Christ has seen him face to face.
And that's why Moses is a special kind of prophet.
And if you look in verse 16, he refers back to the day that they saw the Lord spoke to them in the mount.
And he said, they said, let not me hear again the voice of the Lord, neither let me see his fit this great fire anymore that I die not and the Lord said they have well spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto me and I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I command him.
So the people were terrified by the voice of the Lord that did not want to hear the voice of the Lord anymore and he said that he would send them a prophet like unto Moses and he would send the Lord Jesus Christ to fulfill the law.
Because the people did not want to hear it from the mouth of God. You know people will say like Pentecostals, oh God spoke to me or I saw God in a vision. Well these people actually heard God speak and they were terrified.
And so, you know, they didn't see a long-haired hippie guy that you hear these Pentecostals say that they when they see God
And so it was like the sound of many waters and this is the way the Apostles preached this
passage if you look in Acts chapter 3
Turn to Acts 3 chapter
verse 20
Says in Acts 3 chapter 20, he shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you whom the heaven must receive until the times of
Restitution of all things which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began
for Moses truly said unto the fathers a
Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me him
So he shall hear in all things whatsoever. He shall say unto you
and it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.
The ayah all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after as many have spoken likewise foretold of these days.
So it says there that all the prophets foretold of these days when Jesus Christ would come,
like being that prophet that they spoke that was foretold that was like on the Moses, it says all the prophets spoke of Jesus Christ.
In Acts chapter 10, 43, it says to him, give all the prophets witness.
I have that verse here, it says.
It says to him, give all the prophets witness that through his name,
whosoever believeth in them shall receive the remission of sins.
If you remember, Moses had offered himself as a sacrifice for the people and God did not accept that sacrifice because Moses was not a perfect sacrifice, he was not a perfect human.
You know, Jesus Christ was the only person who was ever perfect because he was God in the flesh, he never did anything wrong.
And so, Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Testament, he fulfilled the law.
people were looking for this prophet. If you turn to Acts chapter 7, Stephen also
preached about this. Acts chapter 7 verse 37 says, this is that Moses which was
said unto the children of Israel, a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up
unto you of your brethren like unto me, him shall you hear.
This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel,
which spake to him in the Mount Sinai and with our fathers,
who received the lively oracles given unto us,
to whom the fathers would not obey but thrust him from them,
and in their hearts turned back again unto Egypt,
saying unto Aaron,
make us gods to go before us,
for as this Moses which brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we want not what has become of him.
that he's that he is that profit that they spoke of in Deuteronomy 18 and you
like Aaron and the people turned away and didn't they say well we don't know
what happened to Moses if you remember Peter and Jay they all went fishing didn't
they and they just kind of did their own thing until he came back he said hey
feed mine lambs
And, you know, the things in the Old Testament were written for our admonition.
The reason that these things happened to them, the reason that they went and rose and played
and didn't obey the Lord when Moses went in the mount, and the reason that they gained
shade against Moses and the earth opened up and swallowed them alive into hell, the reason
that Miriam had leprosy and Aaron was stripped of his garments.
I mean, you think of these as pretty harsh punishments for the thing that happened, but
it is a picture of someone speaking against the Lord Jesus Christ and gain saying against
the word of God.
That's why God carried out these harsh punishments against the evil, you know, the people that
would do evil unto Moses because he was a special type of a prophet that God would use to show
people that the Lord, that he was sending his son the Lord Jesus Christ to be a prophet
And, you know, there's probably more comparisons of Jesus and Moses than any other person in the Bible that these can be.
Obviously, there's no perfect picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, you know, of a human being.
But Moses was set forth in the Old Testament as that picture.
And so, like I was saying earlier, Deuteronomy is the second law and it's in the first person perspective.
Turn to the end of Deuteronomy chapter 34.
Because people will bring this out and say that, well, Moses dies in Deuteronomy, how could he have written it?
Well, obviously, he didn't write the last chapter of Deuteronomy.
But it is given from his mouth where he is speaking these words.
He's speaking the words of the first 33 chapters.
And obviously it was pinned down several, you know, some time later.
It says in Deuteronomy 34 verse 5,
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Pior.
But no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day.
And Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eyes was not dim.
Nor was his natural force abated, and the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days,
so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Joshua the son of none was full of the spirit of wisdom for Moses had laid his hands upon him and the children of Israel
Harkened unto him as did the Lord command Moses and there arose not a prophet since in Israel
I'm sorry there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face
So there it's saying there arose not a prophet like unto Moses
So obviously this is written many years later because it would be weird if Moses just wrote down. Yep
There's nobody like me, you know like sports, you know foretelling of when he would die and then later on
So obviously this was read this last chapter was written by someone else
But that just goes to show you there that there was there did not raise up the prophet in the Old Testament like unto Moses
Because he is a he was a picture of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ
Turn to Psalm chapter 2, Psalm chapter 2 verse 2 the kings of the earth set
themselves and the rulers that take counsel together against the Lord and
against his anointed.
And then in Acts it says the same thing, but instead of that it says the kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.
So Christ means he was the anointed one. He was that anointed prophet. He is our high priest.
He was anointed to be a king. He's the king of kings and the Lord of lords.
And so he would come one day and be a ruler over his people on this earth.
One day the Lord Jesus Christ will rule and reign for a thousand years on this earth.
And if you think about Moses, Moses was drawn from the river he was taken from, basically
from his family and they were trying to force him to be a king because they didn't know
that he was who he was.
They called him Moses because they drew him out of the water.
They didn't know that he was a children of Hebrew.
And so they raised him as their own and they tried to make him a king.
And when he was 40 years old, he forcibly all that.
Just like when Jesus came the first time,
they tried to take him away and they tried to make him a king, didn't they?
And his time wasn't come yet to be a king.
He'd come to be the savior of the entire world.
The first time he came as the lamb,
the second time he's coming as the lion of Judah,
he's coming to clean house the second time when he comes back.
So people who are looking for this prophet,
if you turn to John chapter 1,
even the Pharisees knew that there would be
a prophet raised up like unto Moses,
and they were looking for that prophet.
John chapter 1, if you look at verse 20,
He confessed and denied not but confessed. I am not the Christ. This is John the Baptist speaking and they ask him
What then art thou Elias and he saith I am not art thou that prophet
So here they're here they're asking him or that are you that prophet?
Are you the prophet that's supposed to come then Deuteronomy 18 and he said answered and said no
And they said on them who art thou that we may give an answer to them that sentence what say a cell of thyself
And he said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
make straight the way of the Lord as the prophet Isaiah's.
And they were to our sin of the Pharisees,
and they ask him and said unto him,
why baptizes thou then if thou are not Christ nor Elias,
neither that prophet?
So they bring it up again, they're like,
well, if you're not Christ or Elias or that prophet,
then why are you baptizing?
What are you doing this for?
And so they were looking for this prophet that was prophesied in the Old Testament.
And John the Baptist was a picture of Elijah.
Because if you remember, the disciples asked Jesus, why then do the Pharisees say that Elias must come first?
Because it says in the book of Malachi, it says that Elijah will come
and turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.
And so just like Elijah came before Elisha, John the Baptist came before the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so John the Baptist then answered, he said, I baptize with water, but there standeth one among you whom ye know not.
He it is who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe latcheth I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Bethabera, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing, the next
day John seeeth Jesus coming unto him and say, Behold, the Lamb of God, which takeeth
away the sins of the world.
This is he whom I said, after me, comeeth the man who is preferred before me, for he
was before me."
You know, it's interesting that it says there stand one among you whom you know not.
Because if you remember in the Old Testament, they fed from that spiritual meat and they drank of that spiritual rock and it says that spiritual rock was Christ.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 10, Christ followed them through the wilderness and followed Moses as that rock and provided for them.
And there were those that believed not and knew him not. They didn't even know who was taking care of him.
They were looking for him to come way in the future.
But Jesus Christ was with them in the wilderness and they knew him not.
Just like the Pharisees knew him not.
When John the Baptist spoke of him,
they didn't receive it, they don't receive spiritual things,
and they didn't receive him.
But when John the Baptist saw him,
he leaped in his mother's womb.
But when he was just a tiny baby.
And when he saw him as a man, he said,
he said, behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world.
My sheep hear my voice, and they know me.
And I give unto them eternal life, the book of John says.
When you hear the word of God, when
you see people preaching in the name of the word of God,
you recognize that voice.
You hear the voice of the shepherd.
And John recognized that voice, even though he had not
seen Christ for a long time.
lept in his womb, in his mother's womb when he's there as a baby, but he had not seen him until
now, as far as we can tell. And so, you know, he may have seen him when he was like a tiny toddler
or something, but I doubt he remembers any of that, you know, but I digress. So, spiritual people
will receive the Lord Jesus Christ and will know his word. You know the words of the King James
And so turn to Revelation chapter 19.
He is our high priest. He is an anointed king. It says in Revelation 19 verse 16
And he had the vesture on his thigh and a name written, King of kings, Lord of lords, and then in Hebrews chapter 4 verse
14 through 16 it says, seeing then we have a great high priest that has passed into the heavens.
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession
for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities,
but what is in all points tempted like as we are without sin.
Let us therefore come under the throne of grace.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need
Just like Moses traveled with the children of Israel through the wilderness for 40 years and he was with them
Jesus Christ was a high priest that was touched with the feelings of our infirmity
He lived on this earth and he dwelled among us and he lived the life that we lived yet without sin
He Jesus Christ never sinned
And he knows the feelings of our infirmities and he's there where you can reach out to him in prayer and go boldly to the throne of grace and he will help you deal with your trials.
He will carry you through. He is there with you walking beside you in your trials.
You know, they were looking constantly for this great coming of a king, this Deuteronomy 18 prophet that would come.
Yeah, some people kind of like looking in the forest at the magnifying glass and looking at the shrubs,
when they don't see for the trees that Jesus has always been there, has always been there in the Old Testament,
watching over the children of Israel.
There to answer their prayers, they did not seek God the Father and they did not receive the blessings that they could have received.
Because I believe all the Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ that He was there with them.
And so they may have not had the same Holy Spirit that we have where we can pray, you know, in the name of the Holy Spirit to Jesus and he prays to the Father for us.
Obviously they would have to go now offer sacrifices and different things in order, you know, to have their prayer answered per se.
Rather than just praying to Jesus and him taking it directly to God the father
They would have to cleanse their hands from the things that they had done and then offer their prayer
But but anybody that called upon the name of the Lord would be saved just like just like today
You know they didn't they didn't have to cleanse themselves and say all my stops, you know smoking
You know Rebecca lighted off her camel right there smoking in the Bible. No, they're not and so
They didn't have to give up their sins before they came and received salvation.
It was for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Just like it was today, that's how it was in the Old Testament.
It said when Seth was born, people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Salvation has been the same today, yesterday, forever, just like our Lord Jesus Christ.
You know, that's why it's called in Revelation the everlasting gospel because it does not change.
So turn to Numbers chapter 12. Numbers 12 verse 6 and 9 says,
And he said, Here now my words,
if there be a prophet among you,
I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision,
and I will speak unto him in a dream.
My servant Moses is not so.
who is faithful in all my house.
With him I will I speak mouth to mouth,
even apparently, and not in dark speeches,
and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold.
Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak
against my servant, Moses?
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them,
and he departed."
So this is referring to the time that Miriam and Aaron
were, you know,
saying evil against Moses because he had an Ethiopian wife.
Presumably he had a black wife, you know.
So tonight's topic is slavery.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm not going to re preach the morning service.
So, you know, there was, they obviously,
they didn't like that he had an Ethiopian wife
and they gained shade against him.
And God smote Miriam with leprosy for saying that to him.
even his own sister.
And you know, Moses prayed for his sister and she was healed of her leprosy.
And so Moses saw God spoke with God face to face as Jesus Christ did.
If you turn back to John chapter 1,
I just thought of a verse in John chapter 1.
Because obviously, when I say that Moses saw God, he didn't look directly into the face of God.
God held his hand and covered Moses' eyes as he passed his hinders parts behind a rock,
and Moses saw the hinders parts of our Father and his face shown.
I find it there, it says...
Is it John 18? Yes, that's it. Good job, Brother Sheed.
So, I have this tiny print Bible because when I take it out,
soul went in and then boomers can't argue with me about what it says.
And so...
But up here, it's a whole Bible and it fits into my pocket nice.
But it says in John 1.18,
it says, No man has seen God at any time,
the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father,
he had declared him.
So it says there that no man has seen God at any time except for the only begotten Son,
except for Jesus Christ.
That was why Moses was allowed to see God the Father,
because Moses was a picture of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so in Exodus 20 verse 23, he said,
thou can not see my face, for there shall be no man see my face and live.
And the Lord said, behold, there is a place by me, and thou shall stand in a rock, and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by,
that I will put thee in the cleft of the rock, and I will cover with my hand while I pass by.
And I will take away my hand, and thou shall see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen.
So that right there is when Moses saw the Lord God the Father and so turn to Matthew chapter 11
So Moses spoke with God like Jesus Christ was able to speak with God because you because
Jesus Christ knew no sin and God delivered part of the word to him to fulfill the law.
And so it says in Matthew chapter 11, verse 27,
it says, all things were delivered unto me of my father,
and no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son,
and to he whomever the Son will reveal him.
And then Hebrews chapter 3, if you want to turn there, talks about the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But there, it talks about that Jesus Christ received things from the Father.
And that He would, and to He who shall be the Son, will reveal Him.
And so, Moses was that special type of prophet.
Where he received the word of God and then when he was in the mouth they rose and they played and they didn't you know
They didn't even mind the things of God Aaron made them a calf a golden calf and so
Like like when G like when Jesus arose and was and you know, and they they knew it
They didn't know he was alive yet again
They they just kind of arose and went and played and did whatever they did their own thing
And we sometimes in our life, we go out and we do our own thing and we don't think about that he walks beside us,
that he sees us and he sees the good and the evil, you know, the eyes of the Lord are in every place.
And so we need to have that burning in our hearts for God and we need to serve him with all of our heart
and we need to serve him like he's there with us.
Turn to Hebrews chapter 3.
Hebrews chapter 3 verse 1,
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heaven calling,
consider the apostle and high priest of our profession,
Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that appointed him,
as also was Moses faithful in all his house.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses,
in as much as he who have
So it's saying there that Jesus Christ is like unto Moses as a builder is to the man that build at the house.
We know in Colossians it says that all things were created through Christ Jesus.
You know God the Father spake the word and God and Jesus Christ created the things out of existence that are in the world today.
Because he is always eternally existed with the Father. There's a eternal sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ
We're God the Father God the Spirit and God or God the Son and God the Spirit are all three and one and have always existed together
And so
He says that Moses is like the house and then and it says in verse four
It says for every house is builded by some man, but he that built all things is God
So right there's a good verse that says that Jesus Christ is God because it says hey every every man or he says
He that buildeth all things is God
And you know you'll hear this stupid thing from atheists like well if a baker bakes the bread then who baked the baker sort of thing
You know like like they'll say well who created God and nobody created God God has always existed because he is God
Your human mind is not able to comprehend the mysteries of God
And so to have a human comparison and try to gain say and try to poo poo on the existence of God is from the mind of a fool.
Only a fool thinks like that.
So it says in Moses was very faithful in all his house as a servant.
for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.
But Christ as a son over his own house,
whose house are we,
if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
So it says there that Moses was a servant in the house.
But Christ as a Son in His own house, and that's whose house we are.
Our body is supposed to be a living sacrifice for the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are to live our lives to glorify God.
And we are to keep our bodies clean as the temple of God.
Turn to John chapter 8.
I want to show you another verse on the deity of Christ that He's always existed.
John chapter 8, if you look at verse 56.
John chapter 8 verse 56 through 58, it says,
Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and He saw it and was glad.
And then said to Jews unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old, and thou hast seen Abraham.
And Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.
Then they took up stones to cast him because Jesus hid himself and went to the temple going by it through the midst of them and so passed by.
So they wanted to stone him because he said that he was God. He made himself equal with God.
And so just like he appeared to Abraham, he was there with the children in the wilderness as that rock and he is with us today.
We cannot physically see him today, but we can call upon him and he is there.
You can call on him in your trial and he is there for you.
He is there to fight your battles beside you if your cause is just.
If you are being persecuted or you're going through a trial
and you need God to strengthen you and help bring you through.
He will give you that strength to carry you through.
That's why it's good to start your day in prayer. It's why it's good to start your day in Bible reading
You think you have a busy day and you got all this stuff to do and it's never gonna get done
God can make it get done faster if you give him the preeminence
If you give him the first part of your day, he can make the rest of your day go a lot easier
If you don't give him any of your day, he can make the whole day go a lot longer than it should
You know
I heard Pastor Anderson say one time he always tells God that he's in his room reading his
Bible. He's like, I'm reading my Bible. God, you don't have to put me in prison. So I have to read
my Bible, you know, because, because if you read your Bible, like you're in prison, I guess you
won't have to put you in prison. Right. And so when I'm in the car and I'm driving to work,
because I drive like two hours, I'm listening to Bible. I'm listening to preaching. I'm learning
songs. That's study time. I'm not just turning on the radio and listening to garbage.
You know, not listening to Glenn Beck, who's a Mormon,
or Sean Hannity, who's a Catholic,
or I don't know who the popular people are now.
Now it's all these bros on podcasts, you know,
that just completely went off the deep end now.
Conservatives used to be bad when I was younger,
and now it's just like completely gone their own way,
where they don't even have any respect for authority at all.
And a lot of what they call the alt-right,
there were people waving Nazi flags
at the state house yesterday.
And it's 2025, I've got to the point now
where I can't tell if they're liberals
making fun of Nazis or if they're actual Nazis anymore.
Like, it used to be the left was a parody of itself,
but the alt-right has become a parody of itself as well.
And so the world is so mixed up and needs Jesus Christ and has found all these physicians of no value and answers in other places that are not of God.
And that's why we have the identity politics today,
where people identify with a cult of personality.
They don't identify on values anymore.
People identify in their own personal value,
in their own race, in their own way of behavior.
It used to be people wanted to live their lives
and live a private life and do what they wanted to do
in secret, and now people wanna do it openly before you,
and they've caused their shame.
They glory in their shame and they do everything in your face now.
And so, turn to Hebrews chapter 3 again.
Hebrews chapter 3 verse 15.
While it is said today, if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.
For when some had heard did provoke, how be it not all that came out of Egypt by Moses,
but with whom was he grieved forty years?
Was it not with them that had sinned whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
To whom he swear should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not.
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
There were people that died in the wilderness because of unbelief.
They did not enter into the promised land.
They did not heed to the words of Moses.
People do not heed to the words of Jesus Christ today.
And how much sore of a punishment
when this book has been written down
and it's not just coming out of the mouth of the prophet.
It's written down and you can read it.
And you can read it every day if you want.
And people still don't harken to the voice of the Lord.
and you know the unsaved obviously will pay for eternity and hell for the
things that they do wrong but us as saved believers we need to harken to the
voice of the Lord so that we did not die in the wilderness of our life so we're
not wandering through our life aimlessly living for ourselves and that we
never live a victorious Christian life for Jesus. Turn to Deuteronomy 32
As I said earlier, Moses was not a perfect picture of the Lord Jesus Christ because he did sin, he did do things
that caused him as well to not be able to enter into the promised land. Deuteronomy 32, 51, verse 51 and 52.
Sorry.
Because he trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribacadesh
in the wilderness of Zinn, because he sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel,
yet thou hast seen the land before thee, thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
So God the Father said there to Moses that he would not enter into the promised land because of his sin,
because he smote the rock twice.
And, you know, he was only supposed to smite the rock once because it was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ dying for our sins.
And so Moses did not fulfill that picture. He did not honor God in the midst of the children of Israel.
And he lost that opportunity to go into the Promised Land.
And, you know, I think of how Jesus Christ, he became sin for us.
And he went to hell and paid our punishment for us. He died in our place.
And we have that young man Joshua who was able to enter into the promised land and you know in the New Testament the name
Joshua was translated to Jesus it would in Acts chapter 7 when he mentions it because it says that they went over
Into the promised land through the through the Jordan with Jesus, you know that was talking about Joshua
It wasn't literally Jesus with them, but if you think about it Joshua is a picture of of the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ
And he's taking us into that promised land
If we follow after him and we fight the battle, we're able to live victorious Christian life in that promised land.
Because no one person is going to be a perfect picture of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so sometimes it's multiple people that are pictures of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.
And sometimes it's, you know, like Elisha and Elijah, where John the Baptist is a picture of Elijah and Elisha is a picture of Jesus.
You'll have sometimes you'll have that where it's like where Joshua is also a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ
Because to him give all the prophets witness that whosoever believe in them should not perish but has the remission of sins
And so there's several comparisons of the Lord Jesus Christ and Moses I want to read some of them to you
You know Israel was not free Israel was in bondage during the time of Moses
Just like they were in bondage to the Romans during the time that Jesus Christ was born and
Number two the government called for the babies to be murdered Herod tried to kill Jesus Christ
He tried to kill him as a young baby and just as Pharaoh tried to kill Moses tried to kill off the children of Israel
They both spent part of their lives in Egypt, hiding from the wrath of Pharaoh.
Moses, because he had murdered a taskmaster,
but Jesus Christ because Herod tried to murder him,
so they had to hide the child in Egypt while he grew.
Jesus also had brothers and sisters,
half-siblings that attacked him.
The Virgin Mary was no longer a virgin.
After Jesus, he had several brothers and sisters,
half-brothers and sisters.
You know the Catholic Church lies about that and and so Miriam and Aaron also attacked Moses just like Jesus siblings attacked him
Moses prayed for Miriam to be healed of her leprosy just like Jesus healed lepers in
In the time in the time of the New Testament
They both fed a multitude miraculously, you know, they had the manna in the wilderness that they prayed and it came down every day
and so
Jesus fed the multitudes as well.
The winds and seas obeyed our Lord Jesus Christ when he's in the bottom of the ship and he's sleeping and he tells him to be still.
He tells the oceans to cease, or he tells the sea to cease, just like Moses was able to part the sea.
The winds and waves obeyed him through the voice of the Lord.
Moses had 70 helpers,
because you remember his father and
little Jethro told him that he did too much
and he needed to have all these helpers.
So Moses had 70 helpers just like,
and 70 elders just like Jesus had the 70 disciples.
He first had the 12 and then he had 70.
Moses, Jesus, and Elijah are
the only three people in the Bible who fasted for 40 days.
Obviously, it was probably
a miraculous thing with Elijah,
But God gave him that, you know, ability to do that, but you know, Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by Satan when he fasted because he was a picture of that prophet and the Lord was in the wilderness.
Satan came to tempt him because he wanted to stop that prophet. He did not want the law to be fulfilled.
He did not want people to have victory through our Lord Jesus Christ and he came to oppose him.
because he was the savior of the world.
And so, Moses and Jesus are the only two people
that have seen God the Father.
That's number 10.
They both heard an audible voice from heaven
and spoke with God.
They were both God's spokesmen to the people.
Just like Moses delivered the law,
Jesus came and fulfilled the law to the people.
They were both glorified.
And their face shone.
If you remember the Mount of Transfiguration,
Moses, Jesus, and Elijah are all there
and their face is shining.
And so they're both known for their humility and meekness.
Moses wasn't well-spoken.
It said he was mighty in deeds and of the Egyptians
when he was a young man.
But there's a difference between being a hard worker
and a good speaker.
And some people are really good at talking
and some people are really good at doing the work.
And so Moses was a guy that he went and got things done.
You think about that he murdered that taskmaster.
That probably wasn't the right thing to do,
but he got the job done, didn't he?
And, you know, when he went and he escaped into the wilderness, he saw who?
Who did he see?
He saw his future father-in-law's daughters at a well, and they were striving with the
male shepherds.
And he went and strove against those male shepherds and helped them and fought.
He was somebody that helped the weak, just like our Lord Jesus Christ.
He's a protector of the weak.
He's a redeemer of the oppressed.
That was why that was why he was a picture of this prophet, which is which was a picture of foretelling of the Lord Jesus Christ coming
They both prayed
Intercessory prayer where God wanted to kill the people and start he said I'm just gonna start over and make a nation out of you
Moses I'm tired and Moses offered himself and prayed and interceded for the people just like Jesus prayed and interceded for us
And so they both established a priesthood, and the priesthood of Jesus Christ is forever
after the order of Melchizedek, but Moses instituted Levitical priesthood under Aaron.
They both established a testament for the law that was, for the law was given unto Moses,
but grace and truth came by our Lord Jesus Christ.
And as I mentioned earlier, they were they were both taken by force and tried to make a king, but they but
Obviously the work of God had to be done first
Jesus always did that which was the will of his father
It was not Jesus Christ time to come and be a king over the children of Israel
And it was not Moses time when he was 40 years old to be a king
He will he will be glorified and he will he will be rewarded in heaven for forsaking Egypt
For the work that he did so turn to Acts chapter 7 the same Moses whom they refused saying who made the a ruler and a judge
The same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel
Which appeared to him in the bush
And so the stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner.
You know, whether God is a ruler and a judge or a ruler and a deliverer, that's up to you and how you view God.
Because if you just think of, oh God has all these rules and I don't want to follow all these rules, He's going to be a judge unto you.
And that's why people attack us and say, oh, don't judge.
You know, they only know Matthew 7.1.
Don't judge because they don't want
to be judged for their sin.
But it says there that God had sent the Lord, sent him
to be a deliverer.
He sent Moses to be the deliverer of their sin
so that they would not be in bondage to their sin.
He that sins is a servant of sin.
People don't want to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day.
They do it because they feel like they have to.
People that do heroin and do these horrible drugs,
they have a little bit of fun for maybe a month.
And it's 20 years of pain where they either died overdosing
doing that drug, or they're constantly craving
and they're constantly ruining their mind
to where they can't even live without that drug anymore.
They have pleasure for a season
and then pain the rest of their life.
If people would get their lives right, they would be delivered from their sin and they would have pleasure in their life.
God would deliver them from the power of their sin.
But people who are unsaved are blind and they're not able to receive that new man where they can have power over their sin.
So to them, it's just a judge and you know the law was supposed to be our school master unto Christ
To see that I've done wrong. I need a savior. I need somebody to save me from my sin
That's the point of the law other than you know
Fixing your life. It's that you need to see a need in your life that you need the Lord Jesus Christ
Because this 12-step program where you give up all your sin and get your life right it don't work
repenting your sins turn or burn salvation heresy does not work nobody
can reform their life in that way they may work it may work for a little while
like you know like military boot camp but as soon as you're off on your own and
you're on your own devices those people still have that old unregenerated mind
where they they think wicked thoughts and they do wicked things
Those people are hypocrites. They try to make themselves appear godly. They have a form of godliness denying the power thereof
and so
We as believers
We need to get we need to have that deliverance in our life from sin
We need to read our Bible and look for the Lord Jesus Christ and not just look at it like oh
It's the book of dues and don'ts and I just have to obey or I'm gonna get spanked
You should want to obey so that you can serve the one that saved you.
He loved you enough to die for you and save you from your sins.
And he's given you the power to live a victorious Christian life.
John chapter 7 it says the world cannot hate you, but it hateeth me because I testify of it that the works they're ever evil
When you read the word of God when you preach the word of God when you when you judge
Unsafe people they will hate you because they hate God the father
They hate the word of God
And they hate you because you're preaching the word of God unto them
First Corinthians 11 31 and 32 it says for we judge ourselves. We should not be judged
But when we are judged we're chasing of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world world
God the Father chasens us because he loves us and he wants us to do right
You know the the point of disciplining your children is so that they will do right because you love your children
And you want them to do right
It says that if you don't discipline your child you hate your child
you know when they do wrong and the unsaved are complete hypocrites in this
matter I want to say because they'll say oh I never spanked my child I never
disciplined my child they yell at their children they they talk bad about their
children behind their back I heard somebody today talk or not today
yesterday when I was out soul winning talk bad about one of their children at
the door and it's disgusting that to resent your own children to a complete
What is that?
And so they say, oh, well, they don't discipline their children.
It's like, well, you abuse your children emotionally,
and you neglect them emotionally.
You send them to school.
You don't care what happens to them.
You talk bad about them that you have to be with them all summer.
And it's an evil attitude to have towards your own children.
It's like the ostrich that sticks their head in the sand
and heartens their heart against their young.
and God has made these women that send their children off to school and send
their children off to everybody else and don't want to raise their children, God
has made them to be fools.
the father that does not turn his heart towards his children his children will
not turn their heart towards him and they will abandon the work that you've
done if you think you're gonna do a great work for the Lord and neglect your
children and you're gonna be like you're gonna be like Gideon kind of we're
getting had all these wives all these children and they just all went off the
wrong path or they were all killed by his bastard son is what actually happened
because he had a bimilec the bastard son that killed all 70 of his sons,
but you know I'm sure his sons weren't all 70 little Gideons either that God
would allow them to be destroyed, because how can you raise all these
kids with 10 different wives or however many he had? I don't remember if it was 10 or
seven off hand, I'm not reading it. I'm just kind of going off the fly here right now,
you know, talking about raising kids, because the world doesn't do that today,
they're hypocrites.
they try to act like what we do is wrong and it's completely upside down and if
we judge ourselves we wouldn't be judged if we would just do right and do what
the Lord said we would not be judged but people when they're judged they feel
scorned and they come after us and they score and they're scorners towards us
because they hate the Word of God just like they refused to Moses just like
And you know, what are we supposed to do with this info today, because it talks a lot about
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and it was that prophet that came into the world.
How do we apply this to our lives today?
And let me tell you, just as Moses was a servant in his house, we need to go out and serve
the Master today.
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
We need to go out in the highways and hedges and reach people for the Lord Jesus Christ.
And just like the people on the road to Emmaus had Jesus Christ walk with them,
we turn there actually, turn to Luke chapter 24.
Turn to Luke chapter 24.
Let me find my water real quick.
I want to show you how we can apply this to our lives.
Luke chapter 24 verse 13,
and be able two of them went the same day
to a village called Emmaus.
which was from Jerusalem, about three score furlongs,
and they talked together of all these things which had happened,
and it came to pass while they communed together and reasoned
Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
But their eyes were holding that they should not know Him.
So they're just kind of walking along after Jesus Christ has been crucified
and Jesus comes to walk with them and their eyes are holding where they don't know that it's Him.
And so he said unto them what manner of communications are these that you have one to another as you walk and are sad?
And one of them said, whose name was Cleopas, and answered,
said unto him, art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem,
hast thou not known the things which
are come to pass thereof in these days?
And then Jesus asked him, he said unto them, what things?
And they said unto him concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
which was a prophet mighty indeed in word before God
and all the people, how the chief priests and rulers
delivered him and condemned him to death,
and have crucified him.
But we trusted that he should have redeemed Israel
beside all this today as a third day since these things.
So they're bummed and they're walking around and they're sad
and they're talking about, well, we thought this Jesus was going to redeem Israel.
And, you know, sometimes you'll hear Christians talk like that today, won't you?
They just feel like there's no escape from the world that we live in, that it's just
evil all around us.
The rulers of the darkness of this world.
And it seems like there's no way out, but the Lord Jesus walks beside us in our sorrow
and we're able to talk to Him just like they were with Him on the road to Ammanus and they
don't even know they're talking to Him.
Right, and we're there and we're able to call upon him and talk to him in our time of sorrow and carry us through
And we know that we have a redeemer that will live again and walk upon the earth
Job said and so just like Job in his time of trial and like these men
We have our Savior walking there with us whether you know it or not and will you call upon him and ask him to help you in
Your time of need
Do you call boldly to the throne of grace in your time of need, or do you forfeit that peace?
And so these men, and then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all the prophets have spoken,
ought not Christ have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
And so he's saying hey Christ was supposed to suffer these things. He was supposed to die for our sins
And so this is not the time for us to be you know redeemed physically
This is not the time of the rap the rapture can't happen any minute now
You know we got the plates up here. They're all are you money in the plates happening any moment now, right?
And so I don't like what you said brother Elliot earlier about that being old IFB song. I'm claiming all the songs back
We're taking them all back
You know, just like Joshua took the children of Israel into the Promised Land, we will take
the things that Moses taught us into the Promised Land.
I will take the things that an old IAB taught me and take them into the Promised Land.
They want to go hide in their closet somewhere and go ahead.
I'm going to go out and preach it.
I'm going to go out and live a victorious Christian life.
And so this isn't the time for less church. This is the time for more church
This is the time for more soul winning in our country
This is the time when people are realizing that the things in our society are are wrong
Where our society cannot sustain on the path that it's on and people are finding all these answers in the wrong places
And they need to find their answers in this book and you need to show it to them
And if you want to show them who will
And so he tells him, he says, and he began beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded under them the scriptures concerning himself.
And so it says there he began at Moses because just like, like it said earlier to him, give all the prophets witness.
And so.
They drew nigh into the village whether they went as they and he had made as they he would go gone farther
So he's gonna go and they want to constrain him saying no say with us
And so they they say abide with us for it is torred evening and the day is far spent
And he went to tarry with them and it came to pass as he sat down and meet it took bread and
Blessed it and he break and gave unto them and their eyes were opened and they knew him and
He vanished out of their sight so they realized it was the Lord Jesus Christ
And when you in your life realize that the Lord Jesus Christ is there to help you,
but you can't see Him, you have to believe it in faith.
Are you going to take that faith and use that strength to carry on?
And is your heart going to burn within you and serve our Lord Jesus Christ?
Or will it just become cold?
Will you just forget what He did for you?
Will you just forget all the stories of the Old Testament?
Will you forget that rock of ages that's always with us
to strengthen us and to hide us in our time of need?
I read that part already, verse 32,
and they said to one another,
did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way,
while he opened the scriptures?
They rose up the same hour and went to Jerusalem and
the eleven gathered together in them that were with them,
saying the Lord has risen indeed and has appeared unto Simon.
And they told him the things that were done in the way and how he was known of them, breaking of bread.
And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, say it unto him, peace be unto you.
And you know, the reason I believe that Jesus just appeared to them is because he's there whether you realize he's there or not.
And so in his resurrected form he was he was able to disappear and just be there with them
You know as he was in the mount and they called upon him in the ship. He just appeared in the ship
He was he was able to do that because he was God. God is able to do all things
And so Jesus Christ is with us and when we go out soul winning when we go two by two
He's in the midst of us
He's here in church meeting with us, and when we have a sweet spirit in church when we preach the word of God
He's there with us
He's there with us when we eat and fellowship with other believers
And he's with you there when you're alone and it's just you and the Holy Spirit God is with you
And God is there to help you in your dark hour and will you push through your dark hours?
So that you can so that you can live and you can live for those mountaintops where Jesus Christ helps you succeed in your life
Turn to first Corinthians chapter 10. I alluded to this earlier, but I want to read it
First Corinthians chapter 10
Look at verse 1,
Moreover brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant
How that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea
And were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea
And did all eat the same spiritual meat
And did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock
That followed them and that rock was Christ
But with them of God was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
Neither be idolaters as some of them were as it is written that people sat to eat and drink and rose up to play.
Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Neither let us tempt Christ.
as some of them also were attempted and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Neither murmur as some of them were also murmured
and were destroyed of the destroyer. And now all these things that happened to them
were for our examples that
are written.
To our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come whereforth let him that think of he standeth
Take heed lest he fall hey take heed unless you fall take heed to the words of the Bible and
Take heed to these examples in the Old Testament of what happened to the children of Israel because they were written for our
Admonition because Jesus knows the good. He knows what you do
It says there when they rose, you know, when they rose up to eat and play or eat and drink and play,
they became idolaters, right?
And they, you know, they weren't worshiping the Lord.
They weren't thinking upon the things of the Lord.
We need to think about the things of the Lord during the day, like he is there with us.
We need to speak with him like he is there with us during the day, because he is there.
You need to have that faith and you need to remember you need to not just be an autopilot just doing your own thing
You know thinking about your video game saying about music thinking about weird, you know, just oddball things through the day
You know, and there's so many inventors of evil things in our world today.
It's easy to think about all the wicked, perverted things that people do today.
And they infiltrate your mind and don't let them, don't let the devil have a stronghold
in your mind where, where evil people live rent free in your mind and stop you from thinking
about our Lord Jesus Christ.
We need to give him the preeminence in our life, and we need to walk
Circumstantly as he is with us redeeming the time for the days are evil. Let's pray
Heavenly Father, thank you for this day of giving us Lord
I pray that you would help keep each person here Lord and that that we would be
a good temple, Lord, that we would be a living sacrifice for you, Lord, and that we would
present our bodies as the temple of God, Lord, and that you would be pleased with us, Lord,
and that we would not be overthrown like they were overthrown in the wilderness, Lord.
We love you, and in Jesus' name we pray amen.
Man, thank you for that sermon, Brother Andrew.
Let's all stand for this last song.
Let's go to number 238.
I'm sorry his sermon reminded me of the song 238 Christ liveth in me. It's a great song great principles
We could live by
Seat on that first stanza
Once far from God and dead in sin
No light my heart could see
But in God's word, the light I found, that Christ liveeth in me.
Sing it out, church!
Christ liveeth in me.
Oh, what a salvation!
this that Christ live within me second stanza as rays of light from yonder
live within me. Think about those words, church.
Christ live within me.
Oh, what a salvation is
As slay the flower within the seed, As in the comb, the tree.
So praise the God of truth and grace, His spirit dwelleth in me.
Christ liveeth! Christ liveeth in me.
Christ live within Christ live within oh what a salvation this that cry see
don't know and that fort stands up with all power with longing all my heart is
filled that like him
As on the wondrous thought I dwell, that Christ liveeth in me.
Christ liveeth in me, Christ liveeth in me, Christ liveeth in me, Christ liveeth in me.
Oh, what a salvee!
That Christ liveeth in.
Brother Justin, can you preach us,
pray us out to service please.