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 send forth the good news to their loved ones.
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 on to 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, past from death unto life.
There's nothing wrong with remembering the past.
The Bible says multiple times,
we need to remember the days of vote,
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?
Philippians 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 verse number 13
Brethren, I count on myself to have apprehended the what apprehend means attained achieved what was saying that he did not count himself to have
Achieved the final state, but there's one thing I do
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 was 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 get sick, 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 unsafe, 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 send
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 unto 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 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, 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 vote,
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 word apprehend means attained, achieved.
Paul was saying that he did not count himself
to have achieved the final state.
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 higher calling of God in Christ Jesus.
So what Paul was 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, when you go to heaven, you're still going to be working and praising God
for ever. Okay. So never stop working. Keep running the race.
And uh
Many of you may not be used to
Dominate people you're saying right if you've been to some regular Baptist churches these members might seem a shock
Right, you know these members might seem to be a shock to you
But you know we should we should make that the norm don't be surprised on how great God is
Okay, because these members
800 salvage using 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 commented
in hell.
But there are also people in hell who will love to go to heaven.
Alright, welcome back to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
If you're happy to be in church, say amen.
Amen.
Alright, let's all stand and go to number 144.
This is one of my favorite songs.
A Mighty Fortress is Our God.
Sing it out now.
A mighty fortress is our God.
A bold word never failing.
Our helper, he amid the flood.
A world is prevailing.
Doth seek to work as woe, his craft and power great, and arm with cruel hate, on earth is his ease.
Second stanza, did we in our own strength confide our striving would be lucy?
We're not the right men on our side, the men of God's own choosing.
The Prince of Darkness, Christ Jesus it is,
He must win the battle.
Third stanza.
And though this world with devils failed,
should treat, we will not fear, for God had willed,
His truth to triumph through.
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him, his rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure, one little word shall fail him, that word above all earthly power.
No thanks to them, I bid it with the spirit and the gift of our Lord.
Lohim, who with us sided, led good and kindred gold.
Amen. Brother Rashid, can you pray us into the service, please?
Heavenly Father, Lord, please bless the service, Lord, bless the preaching name of these persons.
Amen. Never eat White Castle for the service. Let's go to number 143.
Blessed Assurance. This is one of my favorite songs. Talks about eternal security.
See it out with power on that first stanza.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine.
Hair of salvation, purchase of God, born of His spin.
washed in his blood see it out church this is my story this is my song
praising my Savior all the day long this is my story this is my song praising
day long. Perfect summation, perfect delight. Visions of rapture now burst from my sight.
whispers of love sing it out church this is my this is my song praising my
savior all the day long this is my story this is my song praising my
The hey, let's spice it up a little bit on the third stanza the ladies are gonna start and then the men are gonna join
Okay, third stanza ladies
perfect
All this
Good job ladies
All right now just the men watching
Looking up
Filled with his goodness, love.
Everyone on the chorus, this is my story, this is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long, this is my story,
this is my song.
praising my savior all the day long you may be seated at this moment we'll have
dicks evangelist Justin song come up and give us some announcements all right
dictator is here all right if you if you don't have a bulletin please raise your
hand and then I'll show will bring one to you keep your hand raised until you get
a bulletin
And let's look at the verse of the week, Psalm 85 verse number 10.
The Bible says, mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
It's a great verse telling us that, you know, God's mercy and God's justice are not contradicting each other, okay?
Both can coexist.
And it's evident at the cross mercy and truth have met each other and if when you look at the inside page
We are a church plan from shoe foundation Baptist Church in Vancouver, Washington
Pastor Thompson is the pastor. I'm the evangelist and the location leader. We are on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble and X
so please give us a follow there.
Service times on the morning service at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4 p.m.
and Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m. This Wednesday we'll be going through
Ecclesiastic chapter number five. So please join us if you are able to.
So many times Saturday morning at 10 30 a.m. and Sunday afternoon at 1 30 p.m.
This afternoon we have seven soul winners and three salvations.
There is a lot for that.
And we are almost, you know,
we are so close to 500 salvation.
So let's see if we can hit it this coming week.
Let's look at the upcoming events.
Please use the QR code for the baby registry
as well as the wedding registry.
If you want to know any more detail about the wedding,
please let Brother Rashid know.
And then Pastor Anderson will be preaching for us on Friday, September 5th.
So we will not be having a Wednesday night service that week only.
We'll basically moving the Wednesday night service to that Friday night on September 5th.
And then please save the day for the Fall Fellowship at the local park on Saturday, September 13th.
That's where we're gonna have a lot of fun, fellowship, food and games.
And we have a volleyball net.
They have a basketball court.
We can have some grill out and stuff like that.
So I will let you know more information on the WhatsApp
group.
And then Dr. Stringer will be preaching for us on Sunday,
November 30.
He'll be preaching both services.
And we might have a Q&A session after the sermon.
So please join us for that.
Also spread the word so we can hopefully pack this building.
And then so many marathon coming up
The choice on the marathon on September 19 and 20, I posted the video on the social media already, if you want to know all the details about the address and the time, please let me know if you're planning on going, please let me know if you're only coming on Friday, Saturday or both, okay, please let me know, even though nobody really RSVP, but please do that, if you...
If you're physically here, please RSVP, okay?
And then we'll finish a year up with the Winter Wonderland
Songwending Marathon on December 27th.
Also, Emmanuel Baptist Church up north is hosting
the Notre Dame Tailgate Songwending on Saturdays
when they have games.
So let me know if you're planning on going.
And then August 31st during the Sunday afternoon service we'll have a man's preaching night.
If you are a man and if you want to preach please let me know.
I need to know you are preaching as well as your sermon topic.
And this afternoon we'll have Brother Andrew preaching for us.
Let's see if you want to know how to be saved or needs to be baptized,
please see an outro on myself after the service.
And we have a tub capped at 88 degrees Fahrenheit, okay?
Don't ask me why 88 because I like that number.
So it's nice and warm for you.
And let's look at the backside.
We have no birthdays coming up this week.
If your information is not on there, please write it on the back of the communication
card and drop it in the offering play when it comes by.
With that being said, let's sing one more song before we take up the offering.
Let's all stand for this last song and it's going our binders should be at the right smack dab at the beginning through
Tribulation, this is a song that brother Steven played on the way to the summoning last week
And I loved it almost had me in tears and I said I'm gonna teach this to the church think about those words
Though it is dark in this world of sin Though evil prospers it shall not win
First tribulation then with a shout Will be caught away for his rats poured out
Sing it!
Ten thousands of saints he'll judge the earth for his righteous namesake
Through tribulation though we must come There's not can separate us from
Let's try it one more time on that first stanza
Though it is dark in this world of sin Though evil prospers it shall not win
First tribulation
then with a shout will be caught away for his rats poured out the Lord will
come with ten thousand of saints he'll judge the earth for his righteous
namesake through tribulation
We must come there. There's not can separate us from his love when sorrows increase
be not dismayed all must be fulfilled before that day the man of sin we will surely see
the sun and moon darkened and we shout the lord
He'll come with ten thousands of saints, He'll judge the earth for His righteous namesake.
Through tribulation though we must come, There's not can separate us from that last
old time seemed dire these trials purify us with refining fire when these come
to pass redemption is nigh he'll catch us away in the blink of an eye no
will come with ten thousand of saints he'll judge the earth for his righteous
namesake through tribulation though we must come there's not can separate us
from one more time on that last verse acapella we must trust in him
Though time seemed dire, these trials purify us with refining fire.
When these come to pass, redemption is nigh.
He'll catch us away in the blink of an eye.
See it out now.
The Lord will come with ten thousand saints.
for his righteous namesake through tribulation though we must come there's
not can separate us from amen you may be seated ushers come up and who's
offering for the Stephen can you pray for the offering please
Genesis chapter 29 we're going to be in Genesis 29 tonight if you don't have a Bible
Please raise your hand and I sure will hand you a Bible
Genesis 29 says then Jacob went on his journey and came into the land of the people of the east and he looked and
Behold a well in the field and low there were three flocks of sheep lying by it for out of that well
They warded the flocks and a great stone was upon the well's mouth and thither were all the flocks gathered and they rolled the stone
from the well's mouth and watered the sheep
and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
And Jacob said unto them, my brethren, once be,
and they said, of Heron are we.
And he said unto them, no ye laban the son of Nahor.
And they said, we know him.
And he said unto them, is he well?
And they said, he is well.
And behold, Rachel, his daughter, cometh with the sheep.
And he said, lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered
together.
Water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
And they said, we cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, until they roll the
stone from the well's mouth.
Then we water the sheep.
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept
them. And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother,
and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from
the well's mouth, and warded the flock of Laban, his mother's brother. And Jacob kissed Rachel.
and lifted up his voice and wept and Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother and that he
was Rebecca's son and she ran and told her father and it came to pass when Laban heard the tidings
of Jacob his sister's son that he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him
to his house and he told Laban all these things and Laban said to him surely thou art my bone and
to Jacob, because thou art my brother, shes thou therefore serve me for naught? Tell me,
what shall thy wages be? And Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder was Leah,
and the name of the younger was Rachel."
Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored, and Jacob loved Rachel and said,
I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said,
it is better that I give her to thee than that I should give her to another man,
abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto
him but a few days for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my
wife, for my days are fulfilled that I may go in unto her.
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast, and it came to
pass in the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went
in unto her, and Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpha his maid for a handmaid, and it
came to pass that in the morning, behold, it was Leah, and he said to Laban,
What is this thou hast done unto me?
Did not I serve with thee for Leah,
wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
And Laban said, it must not be so done in our country
to give the younger before the firstborn.
Fulfill her week, and we will give thee this also
for the service which thou shalt serve with me
yet seven other years.
And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week,
and he gave him Rachel, his daughter,
to wife also, and Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilha, his handmaid to be her maid.
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah and served with
him yet seven other years.
And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb and Rachel was barren.
And Leah conceived and bear a son, and she called his name Reuben.
For she said, Surely the Lord have looked upon my affliction, now therefore my husband
will love me.
that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also,
and she called his name Simon.
And she conceived again, embarrassed son,
and said, now this time will my husband be
Joined unto me because I have borne him three sons. Therefore was his name called Levi
And she conceived again and bear a son and she said now will I praise the Lord?
Therefore she called his name Judah and left barren dear heavenly father Lord
Please bless his service and please have brother Andrew just edify us Lord
We love you and protect us from wicked people in the name of Jesus Christ
Amen. Thank you for coming this afternoon. You're there in Genesis 29. I want to read Psalm 84
real quick, a little part of it. It says in Psalm 84 verse 5 through 8,
The rain also filleth the pools.
They go from strength to strength.
Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer.
Give ear, O God of Jacob, see law.
I think of the man Jacob as a strong man,
a man that had power with man and with God and prevailed.
He was a man that wrestled his brother in the womb and
held his foot and said,
no, he's trying to keep him from getting out first,
but he got out first, didn't he?
He wasn't always the top dog,
but he was always in the fight and he stayed in the fight.
God said that and when he was 97 years old,
he said Dallas had power with man and with God and is prevailed.
And so, and it says there in verse 8, it says,
Oh God of Jacob.
You know, the Bible talks about the God of Jacob more than it talks about any other name in the Bible probably in the Old Testament.
It mentions Abraham, sometimes Isaac, but usually it mentions it with Jacob.
He was a man that had a great spirit and was greatly endured against the things that were bought against him.
And so we see in this story here,
That he's up he's up at the well's mouth, right and and they're waiting and they're just waiting for all the shepherds to gather together
Sometimes soul-winning feels like that you're waiting for somebody. Hey, where is this guy? He's like 15 minutes late, you know
And you're all waiting there together so we can roll the stone off the well's mouth, right?
But Jacob he's he just power. He's his power lifting that thing off. He says hey nuts doll this we're gonna go
We're ready to go and you know if you can do something, right?
nobody else is doing it then and put your strength to it and do it. You know
there's there's no there's no law against doing good. And so nobody and but
people will try to stop you if you try to do right. And if somebody's trying to
stop you from going to church, somebody's trying to stop you from going
out someone is because they want to stop you from doing right because it
exposes their weakness that they're not doing right.
Men love darkness rather than light because the light reproves their deeds that their deeds are evil.
And so people like to see the righteous fall because they don't want their deeds to be reproved.
And so if you're taking flack for coming to church, if you're taking flack for taking a stand as a Christian, that's because you're over the target.
You know when you're when you're getting ready to bomb a target
They're the anti-tent the anti
Aircraft guns are just boom boom boom everywhere trying to get you out because they don't they don't want you to hit that target
and so
That's why my eyes are on the Lord
I look to him for my encouragement and the Lord says,
bless it as the man whose strength is in me.
If my strength is in my flesh, I'm going to fail.
The arm of flesh will fail you,
but Jesus Christ will never fail.
God will never fail you.
Look at Genesis 29 verse 10 if you're still there in Genesis 29.
It came to pass, Jacob saw Rachel,
the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother,
and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.
that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother
So here he is serving his mother's brother
He's serving their family and you know Jesus said that the greatest among you he would be as a servant and Jacob was that servant
Jacob served his brethren for 20 years. He served seven for Rachel
He served seven or for letting then he was tricked and got lay and he said well serve another seven for Rachel
And then he served another six to get his flocks and to get everything
that all his wealth that he gained.
And people didn't do him right always.
They changed, Layton changed his wages 10 times.
And it could have been easy for Jacob to just say,
well, nuts to all this.
I don't wanna do this anymore.
and just give up. But he didn't give up. He kept fighting, even though he wasn't the son that was given the birth, right?
Originally. He kept fighting. He kept going on and serving God, and he became the father of the patriarchs.
You know, when we think of the children of Israel, we think of Jacob.
Because he was the father, and we think of Abraham and Isaac.
You know, we don't think of, like, oh, Esau was supposed to be.
You know, he was the best.
And people say, oh, Esau was a hairy man.
And I'm a hairy man.
I say, well, that's because he had everything going for him.
That's why he was a hairy man.
Esau had everything going for him and threw it all away,
threw away as he despised his birthright.
You know if you can't grow a beard and you think you're like Jacob you think you're a smooth man
That's you know, that's that's a self-burn right there. That's not a compliment to you
That you are not masculine enough to grow beard. No, I'm just kidding and so
You know my ancestors were French. So that's you know
Sometimes it's just genetic but sometimes that you know I shaved every day for wrestling when I was 13 because I wrestled and so
Yeah, we have to shave whether you got hair or not and eventually it grows in thick
If you just keep at it you keep shaving it
And so, you know, and one thing I liked about wrestling as a child,
I'm going to get off a tangent here.
One thing I liked about wrestling as a child is I was good at it,
because I had a brother that was a year younger than me,
and we wrestled all the time.
We would throw each other out of trees
and just try to kill each other.
And, you know, anything you could think of in the 90s,
you know, of wrestling with your brother.
But we're wrestling out against flesh and blood
as Christians, right?
But.
And when you get older, you don't wrestle your brother as much, but you still have that
psychological warfare, right?
You remember when we used to wrestle, you know?
And you remind him of what happened when you were younger, but, you know.
It's good. It's good to have that experience. It's good to have conflict in your life
And it's not good to cause conflict obviously
But conflict will make you stronger as a person when people come against you and try and try to wrong you and
You endure and you live a Christian life and you do what you're supposed to it makes you stronger
Your only as big is what it takes to stop you the Bible says that thou faintest in the day of adversity
Thy strength is small
And Jacob endured and he had great faith and he had a great work because he did not faint in the day of adversity.
And so, we think of John chapter 4. Turn to John chapter 4 real quick.
Because this is obviously not the same well that the woman at the well would have been at.
That we're talking about in the story here.
John chapter 4 verse 11.
And the well is deep, for when saught thou living water?
art thou greater than our father Jacob,
which gave us the well,
and drank thereof himself,
and his children, and his cattle?
So there this woman at the well,
several hundred years later,
she remembers Jacob.
Jacob gave us these wells,
and turned to Genesis 26.
Because I want to show you who built
all of these wells that the children of Israel had.
Genesis 26 verse 18 and 19, it says,
and Isaac digged again the wells of water,
which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father,
for the Philistines had stopped them
after the death of Abraham.
And he called their names after the names
by which his father had called them.
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley
and found there a well of springing water.
So after Abraham died, the Philistines had stopped all these wells up and Isaac had went around and
digged all these wells back up so that they would have water. And it says they're his servants.
And you know, it's safe to say at this time that Jacob is probably 30s and his 30s and 40s helping
his father dig these wells as a servant to his father. You know, and obviously his father had
servants that he paid that also helped. But he called them by the names that his father called them.
And, you know, we need to get back to the old paths as Christians.
We need to call sin sin.
We need to call a spade a spade if it hair lifts the devil.
We need to preach the word of God the way it was preached and the way that the prophets
of old preached the Bible.
Not just tailor it to today where we try to make everybody happy.
You know, I think of the racist doctrines of the Mormon Church, how they magically changed them all in 1973.
Well, that's funny. You just became less racist right after the Civil Rights Movement ended, you know.
And as a Baptist, we're not racist. If you're racist, that's of your flesh.
You're glorying in your own flesh.
God's house is a house of prayer for all nations
But isn't it funny all these false religions will change their their beliefs as soon as soon as the times change and
These truths in the Bible are timeless
And we will not change we will not back down from what the Bible says
And so they they remembered that Jacob had given given them these wells that he had helped dig these back up
that they were from Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Their fathers of old had
gave them the woman at the well this well that she's and she said to
Jesus, art thou greater than our father Jacob? Like how are you gonna get water
with that? Because she didn't know that he was talking about everlasting water,
right? And so turn back to Genesis 29. Look at verse 14.
And Laban said unto him, surely thou art bone of my flesh, and he abode with him in the
space of a month.
And Laban said unto Jacob, because thou art my brother, shouldest thou for it serve me
for naught?
Tell me, what shall thy wages be?
And then looked down in verse 18, and Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve thee seven
years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
And Laban said, it is better that I give her to thee
than that I should give her to another man,
abide with me.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel,
and they seemed unto him but a few days
for the love he had to her.
And you know, I think of this
as like your early Christian life, right?
When you first get saved, you're excited about it,
and you want to tell everybody.
And what you get less excited about it
is more people strive against you.
that's the flesh. As a believer you should get stronger as you prevail
against your enemies, as you prevail against the world. Jesus has given us
victory over the world. And so people get in a comfort zone and they just
they're not excited about it as they were when they first got saved. And so
and you know when you work for your earthly boss sometimes it feels like
And Laban here saying, well, you're my flesh and my bone.
He says, well, I should pay you something.
And you'll see people get promoted
because they're just flesh and bone, right?
Or because they're nepotism, right?
The boss's idiot son that comes in and fires you,
who doesn't know the job at all, you know,
or has like the position that he knows nothing about
just because he's related to the person
that owns the company.
And so that's out there.
You know you as a Christian even more so you're you're working for your earthly father or your heavenly father
I'm sorry your heavenly father. You're working to glorify Jesus Christ
And, you know, nothing makes people more mad in this world than a life well lived, to be honest.
Just to be honest with you, if you want to make people mad, I mean, you could probably go out here and boar,
like these idiots do out here in front of our church.
But if you just live right, work right, keep to yourself, do what you're supposed to do, people will be mad at you.
I don't know why, but they will.
And so, you know, that's just the way that the world works.
and and you either become stronger because of it or you compromise and you
say well I don't want to be the weird one at family reunions that gives
everybody the gospel you know I don't want to have strife with with my homo
relative or whoever you know because everybody has one nowadays there's so
much false religion out there that it seems like everybody has a reprobate you
know cousin or distant relative
Oh, they're going to be mad if you preach or you pray at a family gathering.
Well, make them mad and get them out of there, pray.
Say an extra long prayer if you think it's going to make them mad.
No, don't pray until the food gets cold.
That's not right either, so.
And so it says, and Laban gave his daughter Leia a zilba for his handmaid, and it came to pass that in the morning
This is in verse 24 it says, behold it was Leia and he said to Laban, what hast thou done?
Did I not serve thee for Rachel?
Wherefore hast thou beguiled me? And so he's saying, hey you tricked me you gave me Leia instead of giving me Rachel
And you remember Jacob had deceived his father out of the out of giving. He saw the birthright, didn't he?
And so sometimes what you reap is what you sow,
and sometimes you reap more than what you sow.
And so, here he has to work another seven years,
and so he says, and then so Laban said to him,
it says, it must be done so in our country
to give the younger before the firstborn, fulfill her week,
and we will give thee also for the service,
which thou has served me yet seven other years,
and Jacob did so and fulfilled her week,
and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
And so there we see the first time he's changing his wages in this seven years and so
People are going to change.
People are going to say, well, you go to an old IFB church
and you do a good job, and you're in the program
and you're helping out, and they're
going to say, well, I don't like you
because you listen to Pastor Anderson or something like that.
Or they'll call you, visit some other church.
And I've had a pastor call me, we visited a church,
and he said, hey, I just want you guys to know,
I don't like Pastor Anderson.
And I'm thinking, I didn't even bring him up.
How do you know that I will you know, so they're like looking at my Facebook to see if I'm like worthy to visit their church
Well, I'm on vacation and then calling me up to fight with me because like they don't want they he says
I just want you to know I'm not post-trib. I'm like, okay. I didn't think you were since they had a Hiles Anderson guy in there
You know I'm visiting. I'm pretty sure of your post-trib. They cut you off
You don't get the Hiles Anderson tour group coming through your church, but you know
You don't even, you don't even get to have soul winning in the building, do you brother Justin?
If you, you know, once they find out, once they find out that you're associated with the new IFB,
you are, you're a pariah unto them.
And so,
when you do right, you're gonna bear the reproach of the Savior, aren't you?
And so,
what I found with those people is it's just best to just treat them nice and
they hate that even more they want you to be mad because you you know and tell
them you know everything is wrong with old IVB I don't care they they're all
setting their ways they're not like what you know the Bible says in Job it
says how forcible are right words so why what
Well, what we're proved is arguing have why would I just argue with somebody that just wants to argue right?
And that's what a lot of people want when they come to you and they want to fight
They just want an argument and they want you they're wrong and they want you to be wrong and
It's a place of strength to be sure and what you and be mature and what you believe and not just
mindlessly argue with people
And when they despitefully use you pray for them do good to them that hate you
That makes them it makes them even matter. You want to make them mad just do good under them pray for them
And so
Jacob served for 20 years
for for Laban and it says turn to Genesis 30 verse 29 and he said unto him
Thou knowest that I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me, for it was little,
which thou hadst before I came.
And it is now increased unto a multitude, and the Lord had blessed me since my coming.
And now shall I provide for my own house also?
And he said, What shall I give thee?
And Jacob said, Thou shall not give me anything, for thou wilt do this thing for me.
and I will pass through all thy flock today,
removing from thence all the speckled and spotted,
and all the brown cattle among the sheep,
and the spotted and speckled among the goats,
and of such shall be my hire.
And so shall my righteousness answer for me in time to
come when it shall come for my hire before thy face.
Everyone that is not speckled or spotted among
that shall be counted stolen with me."
And Laban said,
Behold, I would,
might be according to thy word.
And so Laban said, Hey, that sounds good.
You get all the speckled and all the ring
strike and the spotted and speckled cows,
or not cows, cattle,
which was sheep and goats.
And so he says, Hey,
that sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
Well, when God blesses Jacob with all that cattle,
they don't like that.
And Jacob said, Jacob said right here, he said,
my righteousness shall answer for me.
And so let your righteousness answer for you.
The best revenge sometimes is a life well lived.
And so your righteousness will answer for you.
And you don't have to go out and argue with people
that you don't like because.
The best thing you can do, my dad, my dad is not a safe person.
The best thing he had told me that he can do is he always gave me bad relationship advice.
But, you know, he, you know, he was like, I was a young man and he thought I wanted to be like him when he was a young man.
So he was, he said, because he would tell me, he's like, well, Andrew, when I was your age, I had two girlfriends.
And obviously that's not right at all.
And that's the bad part of the advice.
That's not good advice.
But he did give me some good advice.
He said, if somebody's really crazy
and they're really making you hurt
and they really want to make you sad,
he said, the best thing you can do is ignore them.
Just don't answer the phone, don't open the door.
He said, don't chase after people that just want you to hurt
and just want to make you miserable.
The best thing you can do is ignore them and move on.
And you know sometimes as young people we wear a heart on our sleeve and we just let people get to us
Don't we will let everybody get our go and
Don't let people get your go
Let God have control of your life. Let
Let you have control of your spirit and answer slowly so that you're not
Putting yourself in these situations
Because when you're all your relationships when you're younger that you think it's a really big deal
They're not really a big deal when you get older all your high school friends that you have all your elementary school friends
You won't even hang out with those people several you know years later
And a lot of those people will just try to hold you back
Because they'll be like, oh, you've changed.
You're not the same as what you were when we were in school.
You're about this now.
And you teach all this hate and all this stuff.
They're just going to hold you back.
You don't have to be friends with them just because you
sat next to them in class somewhere.
And so don't let people hold you back.
And don't argue with foolish people.
Turn over to Genesis 31, verse 41 because eventually, actually, I want you to look in verse 1 first.
Because it says, and he heard the words of Laban's son saying, Jacob had taken away all that was of life.
I'm sorry.
Taking away all that was of my fathers and of that which was our fathers
He had gotten all this glory and Jacob behold the countenance of Laban, and it was not toward him as before
And so you'll find this sometimes with people at work
Their countenance is not towards you as it was before is it you know something when they find out you're a Christian
And that's why I smile and nod and wave to everybody at work
Because I don't want them to think oh his countenance has changed. He's different today
You know it's you're fighting a spiritual battle if when people hate you
And so the best thing to do is just act happy and not not let them bother you
You know and now you don't have to be best friends with the people that hate you
But you should still do good to them
You should still smile and still greet them, you know, do you greet your brother and only you say, oh, hey
I'm up here here, but you don't greet any young greet the visitors
You don't greet anybody else, you know your people at work that you go to that your friends
You'll talk to them and you'll be nice to them
But you'll brush somebody off that that you don't like at work and make it miserable for them to be there
You know eventually if you have your foot in your neighbor's door for too long
They're gonna hate you if you if they're just a nuisance to them
And so don't, it shouldn't be like that among Christians.
And like I said earlier, we fight not a spiritual battle,
but sometimes we fight psychological warfare.
Sometimes being nice to people that are mean to you,
it's going to bother them.
If you feed and water your enemies,
it's like heaping hot coals on their head.
You know, you buy the guy at work who don't like you a soda if he's diabetic don't buy him a soda
but you know like if you buy if you buy him a soda and treat and treat him nice and and just you know
Treat him like everybody else that you like
Eventually, he's either gonna be you know, he's gonna become worse or he's gonna leave you alone
And if he becomes worse on his own God will deal with him. You won't have to deal with him
Everybody that I thought was a problem at my other jobs,
they're not a problem in my life anymore.
And so why would I make myself miserable over at that day
when, you know, 10 years ago,
somebody at work made me miserable, who cares?
You know, I'm still living the Christian life now.
I'm still serving God now.
Why get mad temporarily over something
that's not even gonna matter 10 years from now?
And we get mad about sin in our country and we get mad when we preach because this stuff matters and it's going to change the course of
History if our nation becomes wicked. And so there's righteous anger and then there's yourself anger where you just please yourself
We should bear the reproach of Christ and and and by doing that, you know
You may have to show righteous anger sometimes
Don't be angry just for the sake of being angry
So, verse 41 of Genesis 31, if you're still there,
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house,
I serve thee fourteen for thy two daughters,
and six for thy cattle,
and now has changed my wages ten times,
except the God of my father,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac had been with me.
Thou surely hath sent me away now, empty.
God hath seen my affliction and the labors of my hand,
and rebuked the lester, uh,
yesterday night." So there we see that God rebuked
Laban for the thing that he did to Jacob.
Jacob just served humbly and did what he was supposed to do,
even though his wages have been changed 10 times.
Some people won't come to work if they don't get paid.
You're right, you know?
And so, he had his wages changed 10 times,
and he still kept that and still did what he was supposed to do,
You know those that oppress the poor God's going to deal with them
He's you you as if you were a poor person and
You don't have a lot of money and somebody steals money from you God will deal with those people God will see your affliction
And God will bless you a hundredfold in heaven for the things that you lose on this earth for his his name's sake
God will bless you in due time but he also says that I'll bless you in
persecutions because you're gonna be persecuted and have
opportunity to reap those rewards in heaven later. And so we also think of
Leia, she was hated by Jacob wasn't she, but God blessed her with a lot of
children because he saw that she was hated, he saw her in her affliction and
she prayed and she received many children.
And so don't give up just because something bad happens to you.
You're only as big as what it takes to stop you.
Verse 51 of Genesis 31,
and Laban said to Jacob,
Behold this sheep and behold this pillar,
which I have cast betwixt me and thee.
This heap be witness and this pillar be witness,
that I will not pass this heap to thee,
and thou shall not pass over
this heap and this pillar unto me for harm.
The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, the God of their father,
Judge betwixt us.
And Jacob swear by the fear of his father Isaac,
and then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount,
and called his brethren to eat bread, and they did eat bread,
and they tarried all night in the mount.
And early in the morning, Laban rose up and kissed his sons and daughters,
and blessed them, and Laban departed and returned unto his place.
Sometimes you're going to have to have a heap between you and somebody else because you have to have separation.
You have to have holiness in your life. You can't just strive constantly with people who want you to do wrong.
Eventually you have to cut them off. And that's what happened here.
They said, well, we've come to an impasse where we cannot agree on what it is that we have to do to get along.
says the furniture on you know on her so it's basically like a like a saddle
right it says the furniture that was on the camel and so she hid it underneath
ever that she stole it but if layman is worshipping false gods and you worship
the true God eventually you're gonna part ways there's no way to mix those two
things together eventually it doesn't work and you're just you're making them
worse and you're making you worse by trying to make it work
And so that's why you know, that's also why the Bible says man is a heretic after the first and second admonition reject
If you're out soul winning when you stand there and just keep going and going and going with something
I have a 40-minute discussion with somebody at the door one
You're missing people that want to hear and want to be saved and you're not getting to them
But you're just making that person worse. They're not benefiting from that
And you're making them feel like the things that they say have a place that I don't
respect that they're false beliefs. So I'm not going to sit there and entertain.
We're not going to have a conversation where five minutes I speak, five minutes
you speak, and it's a debate at their door. Cut it off and leave.
I mentioned it earlier, Job 6 says, how forcible are right words, but what
doth your arguing reprove? And you know, I think about when I was a young man,
people wanted me to go to Hiles Anderson College and learn underneath the
And this was like 2008. This was before he got caught being a pervert.
And so I could have went to those people and said, he's a pervert, he's a devil, he's not saved.
And they would have chased me out of there, you know, because that was like their sacred calf back in the days.
And so I just showed, hey, this is what he teaches. I showed some of the things he taught.
You know, and so they wanted to argue with me about what he taught about and I said watch someone
I still want to go there. I don't want to you know
I don't want to put myself under somebody that I don't agree with and I think you can respect that but they didn't
Respect that because how forcible or right words when somebody teaches the garbage that Jack Scott taught
Then and then they and then you tell it to them
They feel like they have to cut you down in order to stop you from from criticizing him and I was told that I wasn't even saved
to criticize such a good man of God is Jack Scott,
is what I was told in 2008.
Well, I wasn't told that in 2012 when he got caught.
And when he got caught, there were people like, oh, he fell
in sin like King David.
And so just totally flip the script
and want to forget about it.
It's like a revisionist history.
But those people will still be bitter against you
because you were right.
Because you did right even though you didn't, you know,
They didn't know you were right back then. They still have all their negative feelings about you that they had from back then
And they couldn't be wrong, right? So they just keep they keep assigning those negative feelings to you
and so
You're not going to get ahead with some people just because of the way that they treat you because of the way that they think about you
And so the best thing that you can do is just live right and and separate yourself from them
You're going to have to separate from holiness or separate for holiness.
You're going to have to separate from people that are trying to make you live an unholy life.
But you're also going to have to separate from people who don't want you to do right
and don't want you to serve God.
Because some people just want you to just do the minimum that they do.
And they're happy with that.
And when you try to do more, it exposes that they don't do what they're supposed to be doing.
And every job I've had, there's people like that,
where if you do your job and you do really good,
they don't like you because you do a good job.
And it exposes that they don't do their job.
And so, I've had cases at...
Older jobs that I had before where people had said like well, you're doing all this work. No, but what about them?
What are they doing? You just you just want to
What what about you send a carry everybody all the time? I'm like, I'm not carry
I'm not trying to carry everybody. I'm just trying to keep busy and keep my hands clean because you know
There's a verse
I think I have it here later. It says in Job 17 verse 9. It says the righteous also shall hold on his way
And he that clean hands shall be stronger and stronger by doing your job and doing good at your job
You become stronger and stronger
You don't rely on a weak position where you answer three emails and prove free to spreadsheet every day
You know and then how are you gonna find another job where I can just be lazy and just do it?
Well, if you work hard and you're always you're always abounding and trying to better yourself
You don't have to worry about it because you're always gonna have a job somewhere where you can do where you can work hard
And so you're always there's always gonna be a place where you can serve God if you work hard
And so, but people just want to do the minimum and you know the servant is not above his master
Right, and so people get underneath of a bad leader and they just they become bad as well sometimes
That's just the nature of of human of humans is that we we don't want to try it
We don't want to rock the boat. We don't want to turn the world upside down for Christ
We just want to live our comfortable life and just the coast right
And I'm a very chill guy, I don't like to, you know, I don't like to argue with people.
And so, and I feel like that probably makes people want to argue with me more because
I am chill, you know.
And I don't see it, but I've had several people come up to me and say I look like Adam Sandler and that's probably why people want to fight me and why people don't like me is because they come and they're yelling at me and I just have this stupid look on my face because that's just my face.
You know, some people have the rest, you know, they have the perpetual look on their face where they're always angry, right? They're even tempered, they're mad all the time.
but you know I always just kind of have this stupid look on my face and that makes people even
matter when they're trying you know when they're trying to yell at you and call you names and
you're just kind of like you know like hey my dad was a Vietnam Vets I heard it all brother
you ain't gonna say you ain't gonna say nothing to me that my dad didn't threaten me with in the house
you know and so I learned I learned how to to roll with the punches and how to how to you know
obey and do right even when the when your authority's not doing right
And so it's easy to forget sometimes that Jacob's an old man in this story, right?
Because Jacob was 77 when he left for Heron, and he was 97 when he's breaking it off with Laban.
And so sometimes we just think of he's a young man, he's got his whole life ahead of him.
But as you get older, you start feeling like you have less time and you kind of feel like you've just done all you've done for nothing.
And, you know, the boomers are a good example of this.
A lot of them don't want to leave their jobs.
They just want to sit in their jobs
and they don't want to retire.
And they feel like it's all for naught.
And the slightest hint of adversity at work,
they're just like, it's nuclear.
Like, they just go from normal to, you know,
and maybe the lead that was in the gasoline in the 90s,
you know, that's why they say there was more crime
in the 90s.
It's because there was lead in the gasoline,
it was aerosolized, people braided it in,
it makes them crazy.
And that happened in the Roman Empire too.
They had off a lead plates.
They thought it was like gold.
They had the lead plumbing.
And so maybe there is a reason that some of them
are a little more crazy than your average person.
But when you get to the end of your life
and you feel like you've done nothing with your life,
it kind of makes you bitter towards other people
is what happens.
And so, and sometimes you look at all your accomplishments and you look at the things that you have and you look at what your neighbor has and they have more than you.
You know, people can just, you know, go out and stream video games and they got millions of dollars now.
You know, my brother used to have my grandma watch him play video games when he was eight years old.
You can make millions of dollars having people watch you play video games now.
You know, and if that's what you like if that's what interests you it would be easy for you to just look at everybody else
And be bitter and the internet allows you to do that more than ever because you could look at everything that everybody else has and
You're not focused on Christ. You're not focused on your own life for making your own life better
You're just thinking about everything that you don't have
be like Jacob and work and and be quiet and do the way you're supposed to do
and in due time God will lift you up because where where he wrestles and
turn to Genesis 32 and when we read this I want you to think about the the fact
that Jacob lived to be about 147 but he was 97 years old when this happened
And you wonder how God touched him and the hollow of his thigh was about a joint.
Well, he's 97 years old.
You move wrong or your thigh is going to be out of joint.
And so it says, but God's all powerful and God was able to do that.
It says in verse 24, it says, and Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
When he saw that he prevailed not against him
He touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint and he wrestled with him
And he said let me go for the day break it and he said I will not let the go except thou blessed me
And he said unto him what is thy name and Jacob and and he said Jacob and he said
Thy name shall no more be called Jacob at Israel for as a prince has thou power with God and with men and
has prevailed
And Jacob asked him and said, tell me I pray thee thy name.
And he said, wherefore is it that I'll just ask after my name?
And he blessed them there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,
for I have seen God face to face.
And my life is preserved.
And you know, later on when Jacob met Pharaoh, he said,
few and evil have been the days of my life
compared to my father's.
You know, he was 130 years old when he met Pharaoh
when his son was second in command in Egypt.
Joseph was the second in command in Egypt.
Jacob brings all of his family over. Things are finally starting to go right for Jacob where he doesn't have to fight anymore
Because he's had to he's had to fight for everything that he got up until this point
He had and he's wrestling with God here as he's as he's wondering if he's gonna cross back over into Canaan and his brother
Is going to kill him because he hasn't seen his brother for you know
several like maybe over 40 years at this point or something I think it was
45 or so when he left, you know after he had tricked his brother
And so he thinks he's going to have to fight his brothers.
He crosses back over into Canaan.
But God gave him grace and he was
able to not fight with his brother.
And he had power over man and he prevailed.
And so don't think about your temporary circumstance
of how you're going to get through
and how you have all these great plans of how
you're going to provide and what you're going to eat
and what you're going to drink.
Think on the kingdom of God first and his righteousness
Don't concern yourself with the temporary, and don't give up because of the temporary.
How stupid would it be just to give up because of something that temporarily happened, and
then you're in heaven for all of eternity, and you don't have as great a reward because
you just gave up because you got washed up, and you say, well, I'm not going to serve
God anymore.
God loves you, and God wants you to serve him, and God wants to give you great rewards.
And so, I want to read this as well, Genesis 49 verse 2 and 3, because here we see when
Jacob said, he said, that were at the beginning of my strength, I want to read this real quick.
Gather yourselves together, hear ye sons of Jacob, and hear unto Israel your father.
Ruben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency
of my dignity, or the excellency of power, unstable as water, thou shalt not excel,
because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and thou disfilesest it, and he went up to
So think about Reuben was his firstborn and he defiled it by committing adultery is what he did
but
Instead of being the firstborn and getting the blessing that Joseph had the only thing Reuben out was a sandwich named after him, right?
And so imagine having that legacy that you have nothing other than now, you know Reuben sandwich, right and so
but
Reuben was the beginning of his strength.
If you remember when he marched back over to meet Esau,
he had Leia out front with the older sons,
which is obviously what was going on.
Sometimes it's funnier just to say
he had the wife he liked in the back,
you know, because he had Rachel in the back,
but Rachel had all the small children
and Leia had the bigger children
that could actually defend themselves.
So that's why they were out front,
in case they had to fight,
in case they would have had to fight Esau.
And so he wanted, you know, he wanted the younger children to be able to hightail it out of there, you know, with his younger wife, if that's what happened.
And so, Reuben was the beginning of his strength, and as an adult, as a father, as a man, you need to pour the Bible and you need to pour your spirituality into your children.
You need to raise up the next generation to serve in your stead.
just like Isaac trained Jacob and they built and they built all those wells and he trained him to be a man of the planes
you know and his
Brother Eastall was a man of the forest right he liked to go out and hunt and be by himself
Well, Jacob learned how to help people he learned how to do what was right and we don't think of him as being a strong man
but he was and
You know, I think that's just because of some old IFP preaching. They'll be like, oh, he's always this really strong guy and
Jacob was kind of a sissy. He was a mama's boy because mama liked him better and so that's I don't believe that one bit
But I've heard that preached a lot and I think that's where that comes from
and so, you know, it's good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth and
and turn to Psalm 127 says
Psalm 127 verse 3
Low children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Arrows are in the hand of a mighty man.
So are the children of the youth happy as the man that hath his quiver full of them.
They shall be not ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate."
So there we see that the children of the youth are like arrows in the hand of a mighty man.
You have to have a direction for your children.
You want them to live and walk in truth.
And you have to give them that direction.
They're not going to find it on their own.
They're not going to find it at Vacation Bible School while you're in the other building
somewhere or something.
They're going to have to have their own walk with God and they're going to have to learn
from you.
They're going to lean on you when they're a small child and eventually they're going
to grow up and have their own walk with God.
They're going to see whether you invested in them or if you just wanted to be by yourself
and wanted to be left alone, and eventually they'll just be like that.
They'll just want to be left alone and want to do their own thing if you don't invest
in them.
So Lamentations 325, the Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seek
of him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke and his youth.
He sit at the loan and keep a silence
because he had borne it upon him.
Working hard will keep you out of a lot of trouble.
You know, when you're not doing what you're supposed to
and you're just idle,
that's the time that you're gonna get in trouble.
That's the time you're gonna be browsing the internet
for stuff that you shouldn't be looking at.
That's the time you're gonna be watching whatever,
YouTube or streaming service you watch
and you see dumb stuff that you shouldn't be watching.
It's been when you're just idle or when you're in now
Help us with the phones. You can just scroll through reels all day long and there's all kinds of garbage on there, isn't there?
They call it what they call it doom scrolling where people are just like, you know
Like ADHD like they can't get off their phone. They can't get out of bed. They just scroll scroll scroll
And so
It's good for a man to work when he's young
And I was, I was the younger of my, you know, my dad had me when he was, or my mom and dad had me when my dad was like 38.
So all my cousins were like way older than me.
But then all my aunts and all my uncles, you know, were way older, like, like ancient, like my grandma's age.
you know, on my mom's side.
So I would go around and ride my bike around town
and see if any of them needed help
or wanted to do anything.
And hey, you get a lot of snacks that way too.
Helping out your, you know,
you get to do crossword puzzles and eat snacks
that you don't have at your parents' house.
And, you know, you work too,
because you do stuff for them.
And sometimes you don't always work the most efficient way,
but at least it keeps you out of trouble.
My grandma had me cut a shrub that was about this high
and about the same wide out of her yard with an ax.
And shrubs, however big they are,
that's about how big the roots are down in the ground too.
And they're big and not,
and like, you know, nearly and like just in the ground.
And I was there forever just trying to do it
because my grandma wanted it done.
And my grandma always says, if it was up to her,
she would just do the entire yard with asphalt.
She didn't like to be out in the yard.
She didn't want to mow the yard.
She didn't want to do anything with it.
And so we would help, because we're young,
and because we can do it.
Somebody told me the other day, when you get old
and you get down on the ground, you got to pick something up.
You got to have a plan of how to get back up.
And so, but if you have younger children, you have younger people to help you, that's your plan.
You go ask them to do it for you.
And so it's good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.
And you know, turn to Romans chapter 15, because the Bible says that we're supposed to bear the yoke.
ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves, let everyone
please his neighbor for his good to edification, for even Christ please not himself, but as
it is written, the reproaches of them that reproach thee fell on me, for whatsoever things
were written the fourth time were written for our learning, that we may be patient and
So you need if you're strong you need to fill in for where people aren't strong
If you can do something and it's not getting done. I see it seeing a need is a call to service and
As a Christian you need to answer that call you need to step up and do what what?
You need what needs to be done, what is lacking in the churches.
If you see somebody and we need a piano player,
if you see that and you need to learn how to play the piano,
if you're younger, it's hard for us older people to learn how to play the piano.
But if you're younger, you need to think about that.
You need to have a plan of how you're going to be a piano player.
Or you need to have a plan of how you're going to help straighten up the church.
You're going to help clean the church.
And it's nice that we have children to help clean the church.
And so we're training up the next generation to do the seemingly menial tasks.
But the Lord sees that and it's very precious to the Lord to see children doing the work of the Lord.
and so you will become stronger and stronger as you fill in the gaps you you
know the arm of flesh will fail you but we serve a God that's got broad
shoulders and if you trust in the Lord and you wait on him to renew your
strength he will lift you up
You may not be a great song leader and I'm not I can tell you that that's the pie
I said I told brother Justin when we started stress
I'm a lousy song leader and I what and I wasn't song leader when we started
I didn't I didn't lead songs, but I've done it in the past that I couldn't even I didn't even know how
There's any of this work
I figured it out within the first few months of this church starting because I I still didn't know one time
We were at a church church brother Justin you remember we were in Rochester. I was up there and I'm just
And brother Justin said, he said, don't do that.
He said, that messes me up.
He said, just sing.
And I was like, OK, so I just sung.
I didn't do any of this.
But I think I was right-handed over there, too.
And so I could not do it right-handed at all.
Over here, the piano's on the left side, and I'm left-handed.
So I can do this pretty easily over here.
I don't know for some reason, I'm not coordinated enough for a bike trip.
That's why you don't see me up here with both hands because I would fall over probably is
what would happen.
I'm not coordinated enough to do both.
And so I'm nobody.
We're all nobody, but to some extent we're all replaceable, but don't be replaced.
Be in your place. Don't be replaced
Because I don't want to give you an out by saying that we're all replaceable because then you say okay watch
I'll show up and it's like no, I don't know what we're saying. You're all replaced and so
But you know, that's why it's why I try to be it's why I try to be here as much as I can because I love the Lord
And I want to serve the Lord
And so be in your place on Wednesday nights three to thrive
Make it a habit because when you get older and you have children you're gonna want to have them in all three services
And so if you don't go now when you're when you're just you are you gonna take them when it's the burden to bring to get
Everybody in the van and take them to church and then I got to feed everybody. Well, that's what that's what you're supposed to do
You're supposed to bear
I had it there. You're supposed to bear the infirmities of the week.
And so turn to 2 Corinthians 12 verse 7 through 11.
So another person we think of
is the Apostle Paul.
And, you know, Jacob served for a long time, and it seemed like he didn't prevail, he didn't have a whole lot, but God said that he prevailed and had power with man and with God.
And people probably looked at Jacob back then before, you know, he was the patriarch, and they just, you know, Laban just kind of thought, well, I'll just take advantage of him.
He's my nephew, he'll work for me, he ain't got nothing else good going for him.
And, you know, people probably took advantage of the Apostle Paul as well and didn't think
of him as, they didn't think of him as the Apostle Paul, believe it or not.
You know, at first they kind of thought, well, this is the guy that was killing all of us.
So I don't know if we want him here or not, right?
And then later on, people, you had younger people show up and they said, I said, oh,
who's this guy?
Who's the weird guy that writes all the letters basically is how they acted towards the Apostle
Paul.
And they just said, let him come here and say that, right?
People back then probably didn't think of the apostle Paul like we think of him.
Like that he filled in the gap for where the apostles didn't go and reach the Gentiles like they were supposed to.
And God had to meet him on the road and make him an apostle.
And he was the least of the apostles and probably did the most in the book of Acts of anybody.
And people probably didn't think of him like that because they didn't get to read all these letters.
They didn't get to read the hindsight's 2020.
And so just because you're nobody, just because you're nothing doesn't mean God can't use you to do great work.
Don't do nothing just because you're nobody.
2 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 7,
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations,
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me,
lest I should be exalted above measure.
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me and he said unto me my grace is sufficient for thee
For my strength is made perfect in weakness
Most gladly therefore while I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities and reproaches and necessities and persecutions and distresses for Christ's sake for when I am weak
Then am I strong?
When you're weak when you realize you can't do it and you pray to God you ask God to help you do it
That's when you're strong
That's a place of strength when you wait patiently upon the Lord for your hope and for your comfort and you don't trust in your own strength
And there's going to be a lot of people that did really good in their own strength and when
they get to heaven, they're not going to have great rewards, because guys won't say,
well, you got all your rewards in another life.
You have the selfie stick out and everybody sees how great you are, that was your reward.
You fed that homeless guy, that was great.
The old internet did not need to see it.
And so, a lot of people, you know, God is a lamp to our feet, right?
But a lot of people, they're not looking at their feet.
They have their selfie stick up here.
And you know, they want to show you all the great works that I've done.
Look at all this good stuff I'm doing, look how great I am.
Some people, you know, every time they go out sold one because it's recorded.
And I'm for keeping numbers.
I'm for all that.
You know, I'm not saying don't take numbers.
But I'm saying the people at the door probably don't appreciate you taking their picture just you know
I don't know maybe they do maybe ask them if they hey
Can I have a picture first not just whip it out and and be recording people?
That's just me, you know, but I don't like it when people stand out here to record so
but
You know, this is a new phenomenon.
They did not have all this when I started soul winning
and when I started going out and when I was young,
I was told, hey, just shut up and serve
and be a blessing to the church that you're at
because we didn't have all these new IP churches.
And so we don't need a culture of celebrity young people that are all also great
And I have this great thing to say you have people now that they don't even like you know
You have all the reels right now
You have people that professionally watch reels and just comment like they have like three words at the end of the
Real that they want to comment and you just see there and you're like what are they doing in this video because they're just
Sitting there watching the video that you're watching and then they have some stupid thing to say about it
You know as a young person you don't have to have a stupid thing to say about everything that comes up
You know, you need to be quiet and you need to serve God and you need to bear the yoke in your youth.
And that's probably not popular, but that's what I was told to do when I was younger and I didn't like it either.
But I did it.
And so it says...
I am become a fool and glory and you have compelled me so that Apostle Paul is saying here and you're saying,
well, hey, you guys have compelled me.
He said, I got to tell you about the stuff that I've done because you guys all brag about what you've done.
So he says, let me just tell you.
But then he says, for I ought to be commanded of you, for in nothing am I behind the very cheapest of Apostles, though I be nothing.
You know, not a self-deprecating opinion of yourself, but don't just think that you're
the best thing since sliced bread, and that everybody needs to hear your opinion on everything.
And unfortunately, that's just the culture we live in, is where people don't have to
be famous anymore, they just get on the internet and say whatever they want, and you have to
listen to it.
And we don't have the separation that we used to have where if you disagree with somebody you can get away with them because people just follow people and obsess about people on the internet.
And it's crazy. I've never seen this in Baptist churches. Like if you don't like somebody, if you don't like a preacher, don't watch them.
You know, if they're a bad preacher, don't fill your mind with the garbage that they're teaching.
And so sometimes it's good that the preachers in our movement rebuke those people because we fellowshiped with them at one point
And it's good to say hey don't fellowship with this person because this is what they teach
But as a layman like I'm not gonna get up here and tell you everything that I've seen wrong in the entire world
You know and it's not my place to rebuke pastors our rebuke Jack Scott because he was a devil
He should never been a pastor, but
You know, we know that now though. So I didn't I wasn't just at his church trying your your devil
You didn't get down from there
You know out there with my microphone in front of first back shame shame shame shame like the idiots out here today, right?
You know following people to their car shame shame shame
I'm gonna tell him that my name's Shane Shane. No, okay, you're saying it wrong now
So
You know, don't don't be a bozo. That's all I'm saying. It's like don't don't attack people for no reason
And if you have a good reason to attack somebody don't maybe just don't do it
Maybe let God take care of it
Finally my brother and this is Ephesians 6 finally my brother and be strong in the Lord and the power of his might
Put on the whole armor of God
That you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood
But against principalities and against powers and against the rulers of the darkness world against spiritual wickedness in high places
Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may withstand in the evil day having done all to stand
Do everything that you can to stand in that evil day when when something bad happens in your life
You need to stand on the promises of God
You need to have hope and comfort and patience in the word of God and wait on the Lord to renew your strength
Keep going to church. Keep going soul winning. Keep reading your Bible
Pray till the light breaks through
He will answer you
Don't don't give up on in the dark times don't give up and just quit serving God because of your circumstance
Do you believe that Jesus has all power or not? What do you believe?
Do you think the Lord is slack?
Do you think he's got alligator arms like when the bill comes and you can't you just can't reach the bill?
You think God has alligator arms when it comes to his promises like he just his arms slack and he just can't fulfill his promises
Or do you believe in the power of Almighty God? Do you believe?
What Christ said turn to Matthew chapter 28 and we'll be finished
We're going to read the great commission Matthew chapter 28 verse 18
Jesus came and spake unto them saying,
all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Ghost,
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you,
and lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the world, amen.
Jesus is with us always.
He's there with you when you stumble.
He's there with you to lift you back up.
you need to wait upon the Lord and you need to serve in quietness and renew
your strength. The Bible, you know, we think of at the beginning what we read
it says they went from strength to strength. Jacob was a man that went from
strength to strength and prevailed because he didn't give up. He didn't let
his circumstances control his life. He was 97 years old and God said Dallas
And better is the end of the thing.
When you get to the end of your life,
you're going to look back and you're
going to wish you would have done more for Christ.
You're going to wish you were stronger in your youth,
because it's harder to be stronger as you get older.
And are you going to be weak?
Or are you going to be like the guy that just
didn't want to follow anymore?
What was that?
Starts with the D. Apostle Paul said.
But that should not die at your fees that your fees was the one that had the premise but deem us deem us
That's for sake of me. Yes, couldn't think I want to say dimus for some reason
But yes deem us deem us that forsaken me having loved this present world
Or are you gonna be like Caleb standing at the bottom of that mountain and saying as I was in my years?
So am I now to even go in and come out are you gonna have strength or are you gonna go do what God wants you to do?
We're gonna have that old man strength
Think of that's you know, there's that stupid country song
I'm not as good as I once but it was but I'm as good once as I always was and I can always go out one more time
I can always go out so one and one more time
I can always read my Bible one more time
I always keep going and wait on the power of the Lord and wait for him to renew my strength
Well, I can just give up and just oh when am I gonna go soul winning it went how long since I went soul winning
I went yesterday. What it went today, but we'll talk about that
Thank you all all everybody out went out soul in a good day. So let's bow our heads in word of prayer
Have my father. Thank you this day
We love you and we did we hope that you would help renew our strength Lord and that we would we would serve you Lord and
That we would not have a high opinion of ourselves or that we would have a high opinion of you Lord and that we would treat people
The way that we want to be treated because of our respect for you Lord
Not because of our not because of our own personal gain or because of our own interests Lord
Just help us to be the Christians that we should be we love you and in Jesus name we pray man
Let's go to number 142 this is a song that I learned at 1st Baptist Church of Hammond a great hymn old-time religion
We're gonna start on the chorus
Sing it on that chorus.
Tis the old time religion. Tis the old time religion. Tis the old time religion.
It's good enough for me. It was good for our mothers. It was good for our mothers.
It was good for mothers. It's good enough for me. Tis the old time religion. Tis the old time religion.
old time religion tis the old time religion it's good enough second stanza it has saved
our fathers it has saved our fathers it has saved
Father's and it's good enough for chorus tis the old-time religion tis the
old-time religion tis the old-time religion and it's good enough for me
makes me love everybody makes me love everybody makes me love everybody it's
old time religion tis the old time religion tis the old time religion it's good enough
for me it will do when I'm dying it will do when I'm dying it will do when I'm dying
and it's good enough for me
tis the old time religion tis the old time religion tis the old time religion and it's good enough for me
it will take us to heaven it will take us to heaven it will take us to heaven and it's good enough for me
tis the old time religion tis the old time religion
Is the old time religion it's good enough for me, but Jared keep raise up the service, please