you
Back to Sherr Foundation Baptist Church. If you're happy to be in church, say amen.
All right, let's all stand and go to number
377 rescue the perishing
Thank God for those people were saved today. We went out we rescued the perishing
See that with power church that first stands a rescue the perishing care for the dying
Snatched them in pity from sin at the grave
We pour the airing wands lift up the fall and tell them of Jesus the mighty
See that church rescue the perishing care for the dying
Jesus is merciful
Jesus will save on the second though they are sliding him still he is waiting
waiting the pen in in child to receive plead with them earnestly plead with
them gently he will forgive if they only be seen out church rescue the
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will say on the third, down in the human heart.
Crushed by the tempter, feelings like buried with grace can restore.
Touched by a loving heart, awakened by kindness.
Cores that are broken will vibrate once more.
See it?
Rescue the perishing care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will save on their forth.
Rescue the perishing duty.
Strain for thy labor the Lord will provide.
Back to the narrow way. Patiently win them. Tell the Pro-Wanderer a Savior.
See it out, church. Rescue the perishing. Care for the dying. Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will save. Amen.
Brother Wade, can you praise him to the service please?
Amen. Let's go to number 375. Work for the night is coming. Work for the night is coming.
It's a great song. Let's sing it on that first stanza. Work for the night is coming. Work through
Work when the day goes brighter, work in the glowing sun.
Work for the night is coming, when man's work is done.
On that second, work for the night is coming.
Work through the sunny noon, fill bright his hours with.
Rest come sure and soon. Amen. Give every flying minute something to keep in store. Work for the
night is coming when man works no on that last church. Work for the night is coming under the
while their bright things are glowing work for daylight flies work till the
last beam faded faded to shine no more work while the night is darkening when
man's work is or amen you may be see at this moment have evangelists just in
Welcome back to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
Raise your hand if you need a bulletin,
and Alisha will bring one to you.
Again, if you wonder what in the world is this shirt,
Brother Brett will explain that for me,
because I really have no idea.
It's a Filipino garment, so yeah, looks pretty.
I feel like Imperial wearing this.
So anyway, so verse of the week is Matthew chapter five verse number sixteen
The Bible says let your light so shine before men that they may see all good works and glorify your father
Which is in heaven with all the recent events and one thing we do know that we can take away is we should just preach
Harder on same be more vocal about what we believe not fear in death
Okay, so let our light so shine before man that people will know what we believe you know people will know
the true biblical stance on all the topics.
So let's look at the inside page.
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service time Sunday morning at 11 Sunday afternoon service at 4 p.m. and we'll
have Brother Breastdoc and preaching for us talking about his mission trip to
the to the Philippines in the past two weeks and then Wednesday night we'll
have a Bible study in the book of it in the book of Nicholas Asti's chapter
number nine and then so many times Sunday afternoon at 1 30 and this coming
Saturday we will not have a local so many time
There will be a logo sometime, but like most of us will be in the Detroit area, okay?
So, basically, we'll meet on Friday at a...
at a parking lot and then we'll go sunwinding at a park for about two hours and then on Saturday
we'll go sunwinding in the neighborhoods you know AM Sunwinding, launch PM Sunwinding so that will
be in Detroit this coming weekend please see the video for detail I'll be driving back Saturday
afternoon to preach here so yeah please join us if you're able to please please RSVP through email
Um, and then Dr. Stringer will be preaching both services on Sunday, November 30.
Looking forward to that, and, uh, please help us with the cleaning of the church building right after the service.
That will be hugely, hugely appreciated.
So I think we have two salvations this afternoon a little bit of a rougher neighborhood
But please you're still thankful for the salvations. So we are so close to 1,000 salvations
So let's you know keep on going and just finish the year strong
Let's look at the backs page. We have birthdays coming up. We have we have Miss Linda's birthday on
Wednesday right one Wednesday, so we will sing happy birthday to Miss Linda ready
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, God bless you, happy birthday to you.
All right, 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 to number 136, Master the Tempest is Raging.
Love this song.
Sing it on that first. Master the Tempest is Raging.
the billows are tossing high the sky is or shadowed with blackness no shelter or
help is nigh. Carousel not that we perish how can style lie asleep when
is threatening a grave and the angry deep the winds and the waves shall obey my will peace be
the wrath of the storm Tassi or demons or men or whatever it be no water can
swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and sky
Peace be still, peace be still, they all shall sweetly obey my will, peace be still.
On that second stands a master with anguish of spirit, I bow in my grief today, the depths
Awaken and save, I pray.
Torments of sin and of anguish, sweep o'er my sinking soul.
And I perish, I perish, dear master.
O hasten and take control.
Quiet on that chorus.
The winds and the waves shall obey.
be still, whether the wrath of the storm tossee, or demons, or men, or whatever it be, no water
can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies, they all shall
still they all shall sweetly obey my will peace peace peace stay on that
dirt stands up master the terror is over a yellow man sweetly rest earth son in
Linger, O blessed Redeemer, leave me alone no more.
And with joy I shall break the blessed harbor,
And rest on the blissful shore on that chorus.
The winds and the waves shall obey my will,
Whether the wrath of the storm tossee, or demons, or men, or whatever it be,
no water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies.
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
still they all shall sweetly obey my will peace peace peace still hey man you
may be sit at this moment have ushers come up and get ready for the offering
but the Miguel can you pray for the offering please
John chapter 4 we're going to be in John chapter 4 tonight if you don't have a Bible raise your hand
I usher will hand you a Bible John chapter 4 verse 1 says
When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John
Though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples he left Judea and departed again into Galilee
And he must needs go through Samaria then come if he to a city of Samaria, which is called Shinar
near the parcel of the ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
Now, Jacob's well was there.
Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey,
sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.
Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
For his disciples were gone away unto the sea to buy meat then say of the woman of Samaria on to him
How is it that thou being a Jew ask if
Ask if drink of me which am a woman of Samaria for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans
Jesus answered and said unto her if thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that say up to thee give me to drink
That would have asked that would have asked of him and he would have given
the living water. And the woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well
is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our Father Jacob,
which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle?
whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water
that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him
a well of water springing up into everlasting life. And women saith unto him,
Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband.
For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast
is not thy husband.
And that says thou truly.
And women sayeth unto him, sir.
I perceive that thou art a prophet, our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father.
Ye worship, ye know not what, ye know...
What we we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews
But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the father and spirit and in truth
For the father seek of such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit
And in truth the woman sayeth unto him
I know that Messiah's cometh which is called Christ when he is come
He will tell us all things she is sayeth unto her
that speak unto thee and he and upon this came his disciples and marveled that he talked with the woman yet
No man said what seeketh thou or why talkest thou with her and the woman then left her water pot and
Went her way into the city and sayeth to the men come see a man
Which told me all things that ever I did is not this the Christ
Then they went out of the city and came unto him in the
Meanwhile, his disciples prayed him saying,
Master, eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat
that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples, one to another,
have any man brought him ought to eat.
Jesus saith unto them, my meat is to do the will of him
that sent me and finished his work.
Say not ye.
there are yet four months, and then come of harvest. Behold, I stand to you, lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest. And he that repeth receiveth wages,
and gather fruit unto life eternal, that both he that saweth, and he that repeth, may rejoice
together. And herein is that saying true, one saweth, and another repeth. And I sent you to reap
other men labored and ye are entered into their labors and many of the Samaritans of that city
believed on him for the sayings of the woman which testified he told me all that I ever did
so when the Samaritans were come unto him they besought him that he would tarry with them and
he abode there two days and many more believed because of his own word and said unto the woman
not because of thy saying, for we have heard him ourselves
and know that this is indeed the Christ,
the savior of the world.
Now after two days, he departed thence
and went into Galilee, for Jesus himself testified
that a prophet have no honor in his own country.
Then when he was come into Galilee,
the Galileans received him,
having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem
at the Feast, for they also went unto the Feast.
So, Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was
a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him and besought
him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.
The nobleman saith unto him,
Sir, come down here, my son, my child, die.
Jesus saith unto him, go thy way, thy son liveth.
And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him,
and he went his way.
And as he
was now going down, his servants met him and told him saying,
thy son liveth, then inquired he of them the hour when he began
to amend, and they said unto him, yesterday at the seventh
hour, the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at
the same hour in which Jesus said unto him, thy son liveth,
and himself believed and his whole house. This is again the
second miracle that Jesus did when he was come out of Judea.
into Galilee. Heavenly Father, Lord, just please help Brother Brett to preach us a good sermon,
Lord, and fill him with holy spirit. Hedify us, Lord. We love you. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
I think my streak is going to continue of not finishing sermons. The whole time I was in the
Philippines, I never finished my sermons. I told them 50 minutes max, so I'm going to start my timer.
It was not on my notes I'm going to use Google Gemini.
Justin thinks that's reprobate for AI, but.
I'm a this shirt or what this is called. It's a baron. It's like really famous in the Philippines instead of wearing like shirts and
Ties like we wear here that this is what they would wear for like a fancy occasion a wedding
Preachers wear it or like any of the politicians
Attorney so like anything we're like we would say wear a suit and tie like this is what they would wear
so I think Christian said
culture of
appropriation or something, some people say that, but I see an Obama wearing one,
Trump wearing one, Trudeau wearing one, so if they can do it, I should be able to, right?
So I guess a background on it, it's a formal garment, but it's made out of like the expensive ones
pineapple leaves, so it's a hand-woven fabric made from fibers of pineapple
leaves. The process is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming, so
they extract the fibers from the leaves and then they
They wash it they dry it and then they remove like the stickiness out of it
And then once they dry it they have to knot it together and then
They hand it's hand loomed into a delicate translucent fabric
that creates the
characteristics of a
Yellowish tinge and a fine silk like texture the uneven thickness of the fibers gives the fabric a unique
uh, streaky appearance.
And, I think nowadays some of them are made with different fabrics, I'm not exactly sure
if this is pineapple leaves or not, it doesn't say on it, but that's like the most expensive
ones.
And when I went to the store, I was sending some to Justin because some of them are like
400 bucks, 500 bucks, which over there is a lot of money because they make like 10 bucks
of American a day for like minimum wage at some places, some it's like 6 dollars a day.
their currency like 20,000 50,000 for just one shirt so that's why it's the
politicians the attorneys the rich people that get to wear it but then they
have to hand make it so they hand
embroider the designs in it so that's why you're not supposed to wear like a tie
with it because it's considered disrespectful to the person that made
the outfit because it's supposed to be like the design is supposed to be like
the replacement of the tie so like if you wear a tie you're taken away from
the hand design of the material so you're never supposed to wear a tie with it
and you're not supposed to tuck it in
But they take a lot of effort into doing it.
So anything, if you see like a Filipino president, a politician, Senate hearing, things like that,
they always wear this.
And it is nice because it's so thin that like when you're there, like the air can pass through and you're not dying of heat.
So...
Anyway, we'll start with the sermon in John chapter four.
So the title of my sermon is just Lessons from the Philippines.
I spent a lot of time trying to come up with a clever title,
and I couldn't really think of anything.
So I was like, I'll just set it with this.
I was already behind on Justin's supposed to be a week in advance,
and I was like, I can't come up with anything.
So I'll go with that title.
But lesson number one is obviously pretty simple.
It's just that the Philippines is just ready for harvest.
So, if you look at verse number 35 in John chapter 4.
It says, say not ye, there are yet four months,
and then cometh harvest.
Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes
and look on the fields for they are white already
to harvest.
So obviously, the Philippines is definitely,
if you follow anything, new IFB,
it's definitely white on the harvest.
If you watch Pastor Stuckey's numbers,
I think they just preached at a school
where they preached like 3,000 kids
and got like 1,000 salvations.
the other day he posted on Facebook, so it's like video game soul winning there, so that's pretty cool.
You come here and it's like you're lucky to get one and there it's like a hundred you're like,
you don't even want to turn the number in because you're like they're not going to believe me, but it is crazy.
So we had a lot of like one-on-one and small groups and then also school preaching, so a breakdown of
that would we had a hundred and sixty kind of one-on-one or like small group
salvations
and then three hundred and twelve school salvations and then
four hundred and seventy-two uh... total that we counted but
Realistically, I think it's actually a lot more than that.
I would say this is probably a low number.
Because a lot of times you're preaching to five people,
and you're counting two of them, or you're counting three of them.
It's hard to keep track of every single one.
So there was one time I preached a group of six,
and I didn't even count any, because there was one guy that
was kind of being a little distracted or whatever.
But I'm sure a lot of them got saved.
I'm sure it's even higher than this, but this is a, in my mind, a conservative number which is still very good.
And then I also got to preach at two different churches and just a ton of travel.
So, like, we laughed.
Wednesday we left our house in Cincinnati Wednesday at like 2 a.m. or
something like that and then we drove to Chicago and then wade at the airport
because we've got there like five hours early because you never know how the
traffic is and then flew from there to South Korea and then from South Korea to
Manila and then we got there at like 10 o'clock at night and our flight didn't
leave to go to the other island until the next morning so we just hung out at
and then finally landed on Friday, their time was our 12 hours ahead, so we landed there Friday
and then we got off the plane and this pastor of this old FB church there he picked us up at the
airport and then we got as soon as we got picked up at the airport we dropped our stuff off at the
church and then went check in the hotel and then went to a school and then I was so tired but we
And I didn't count any salivations there, but a lot of them prayed and everything, so hopefully a lot of them understood and got saved, but I'm not exactly sure with that class because we were not prepared for anything.
We got out the plane so hopefully they got saved but then Friday evening we went out soul winning at a park
And we had 31 salvations at a park and then also people from that church went soul winning too
And got people saved and everything, but I didn't count any of their numbers
So they also came out with us and then Saturday. There's a guy that I know that's new IFB
that lives there, that I've done a lot of stuff with.
So he came out with us for a little bit Saturday
and then another new IVB group, a wife with her husband
that my wife knows from her town
and they did a little soul winning on Saturday.
So we had 48 salvation Saturday and then Sunday.
The church was a 12 year anniversary at the church we went to.
They got it picked us up and he had like a big preaching conference day and it was a
long day because we got there I think at like 9 a.m. at the church and the church
service started at 10 a.m. and we didn't leave the church until it was dark like
we were there all day.
And I think I went home to show us what I went back to the hotel and took a quick shower and came back and then it was like church all day.
It was like I preached and then there's another guy who preached so two services in the morning two at night.
Then they had all these Bible college awards and awards for the kids and special music and it.
I didn't understand half of it because it's in a different language, so for me too, it was a long day.
But it was a lot of fun to see that people were be willing to be there just for so long.
But we didn't get to do any soul-winning that day.
And then Monday, we kind of just had like a free day,
and my wife got to save a couple of her cousins.
So we didn't get to do any soul-winning at the park.
You know you can get like a hundred salvation somewhere and it's nice but then when you get like
three of your own family that are close to you like those are obviously very important so
even though it's three it sounds not too good but it was you know for us it's important ones
and then Tuesday went to a school and the schools are crazy receptive they're they're very nice so
it was
Awesome because they let us preach as long as we wanted like they're just like you can go in and they had no time
Like we told them like 10 15 minutes
But like we pushed it the first class and they never said anything so like we just kept pushing it
So like I would give a full gospel presentation like every analogy I could think of is like
Minimum at least 20 minutes. My wife said I went too long, but I'm gonna say 20 minutes
I didn't keep track though, so it could have been like 40, but at least 20 minutes
And then she would do it like an overview give a couple verses and then overview everything and
She probably she spent 15 20 minutes to in her language
Going over everything and pretty much given a whole nother gospel presentations. They had back-to-back
presentations one in English, which they understand English well because like
All the stuff on the board and on the stuff they learned in school is all in English.
And then they also had their own language.
So we had a card that Pastor Stuckey made.
And it was very good for how to keep track of the Salvation.
think I have one here. So there's five questions. So the first question was on a
scale 1 to 100. What percent are you sure that you're going to go to heaven? So
you can put like 1% to 100. And that was the first question. The second one is
what does a person have to do to go to heaven? The third one is have you change
your mind today? And then fourth is if a person believes in God but does not believe
Jesus paid for their sins, would they go to heaven?
And then the last one is like if a person does like a big sin, stops going to church, does something really bad,
could they lose their salvation pretty much?
So we gave those to all the students and a lot of them, pretty much all of them, I'd say like 90-some percent,
put that they changed their mind.
Put that if a person believes in God, but doesn't believe Jesus paid for their sins that they they got that question
Right that somebody if they just believe God exists. They wouldn't go to heaven unless they believe Jesus paid for their sins
So the most people said that they changed their mind that they believe they had to believe in Jesus
To go to heaven not just God and they answered the last one right that if a person does a big sin
They wouldn't go to heaven
or that they still would go to heaven, that they wouldn't lose their salvation.
But then there was a lot of them were like the percent for one to a hundred, they put like 99%
and then they would answer number two, they would write in like believe in Jesus or trust Jesus or
something. So they answered four questions right, the first one they would just put like 99%, like we had like
10 that said that and then like a bunch put like 80% or like just stuff on it so I asked
pastor stocky kind of what he thought but he said he gets that a lot too or they answer
everything correctly.
then they put like a lower percent on top because he said that they're not too
prideful to be like hey like I'm a hundred percent sure they're they're
gonna say 99 80 because they don't want to like brag or whatever so he thinks a
lot of them a lot more get saved than we believe because they ask everything
perfectly but they're just putting 99 percent or 80 so hopefully plenty more
got saved but the only ones that we counted said a hundred percent and then
And then they change their mind and a person has to believe you just paid for their sins to go to heaven and then they can't lose it.
So, I mean, that's pretty hard to answer all those correctly when you just get saved because like, you know, when we go with soul winning door to door,
you don't grill somebody with that many questions either.
So, for them to answer all of those correctly and 100%, in my opinion, they're about as solid numbers as you can get.
Yeah, so that went good on that day. We started doing that and we had a hundred nineteen salvatians on Tuesday between the school
I think that was all school
And they let us preach as long as we wanted Wednesday
We got to do school as well, and that was a hundred and eighteen
That day and like we couldn't even we never finished the school like we went and like we would do like a quarter of the school
And it was just all day like one day we got there at like
8 a.m. and left at 4 p.m. when the kids left and like we still had like half the
school left to do because we just spent so much time in the classrooms but then
towards the end of the week they had a lot of stuff going on in the school with
like a sports week so they couldn't let us in the schools they were doing other
things like sports activities and games and whatever so
Thursday, we can only get in a classroom where there's like a Baptist preacher guy that goes in each class
from different churches in the area and every single Thursday they get to go and preach in the class for an hour about whatever
Topic they want and it's every single Thursday. So it's like a Bible
Study for each class from a Baptist church and they I think it was like 10 pastors or 12 pastors
They go every single Thursday and we went there and we gave the same surveys and it's kind of cool because everybody else
90 some percent said they changed their mind answered pretty much everything right
But this place was different where most people said they didn't change their mind but answered everything right
So a lot of them actually were saved which was cut way different than the other schools
So that was nice that you know our salvation count wasn't high because a lot of people already were saved which is so great
So we only had 24 that day between the two classes we did and then
a little bit at the park as well.
And then Friday we got to go to school for half a day
and then the park, we had 94 salvations.
Saturday, 25 and then Sunday on the way back
we went to Manila and had nine there
at this big giant mall.
So overall I think it was really good
but I think it was like a big learning experience
where like if you especially had more people
you could do way better because you could finish a school
be able to preach in different schools and in different classes whereas
we can only finish like a quarter of the school or half the school depending if
they let us go all day or half the day.
So that's kind of a brief summary of how things went and then we had a
a super long travel back. So travel time
is insane especially when you got to drive six hours just to get there and
then be there four hours early. It's like two days two and a half days travel.
So
Obviously the Philippines is white under harvest and you know super accepted everybody you talk to wants to listen
So it's kind of a summary of how things went
So if you guys keep your place in John chapter 4, but turn to Luke chapter number 10
So
In Luke chapter number 10, it says after these things the Lord appointed, in verse number 1,
Luke 10, 1, it says, after these things the Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two
before his face in every city and place, whether he himself would come, therefore he said unto them,
the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest
Like we talked about, right? The Philippines is just super receptive.
Pretty much everybody you talk to will listen. Most people end up getting saved out of it.
But, you know, the laborers are few, right? You know, if you had 100 people there preaching in
the Philippines, you'd have thousands and thousands like Pastor Sucki is doing all the time. But even
You know, a lot of pictures you see from Pastor Sucki
is still not a huge group.
I mean, imagine if you had 100 people every week,
or 200 people, or 300 people, or 400 people.
You know, I mean, they got 1,000 people saved,
and like, maybe not everybody's in the picture,
but it's like 15 people in the picture, or 12 people.
So, you know, the more people you can have,
the more laborers, the more people that are gonna go.
And obviously, like, if you can go for a week,
or two weeks, you can see 400 people saved,
or 500, or whatever.
But imagine if people living there,
and would we get more Zellis for sole wanting?
People are there every single week.
And...
You know the more people that live there that are there all the time that are getting serious about soul winning
Can make a huge difference right and same thing here the more laborers that we have here in Indiana
The more people you can get saved the more you can do
And God needs you to work for him right and God's not like Donald Trump where he's gonna send you back
Once you like the fields right because we're talking about the fields are wide into harvest here
Right, they always talk about in the news. They're sending the field workers back
Well God if you're working the fields, he's not gonna send you back
You're good to go. So, if you guys would turn to Acts chapter 2, and I'm going to read Ezekiel 22, verse 30, just for a sake of time, quick.
before me for the land that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
So even though we talk about hey, the laborers are few,
it would be better if you could have a hundred people, two hundred, three hundred, huge amounts
of people out in the harvest and a
large group of soul-winning, but God can still use you if you're one or two or
just a small group of people.
As you know the Bible says he sought for one man and couldn't even find that.
But in Acts 2 we're going to see
that, you know, thousands of people could get saved with a small group of people.
And Acts 2.40, it says, and there were, and with many other words, did he testify and exhort saying,
save yourself from this untoward generation, then they, that gladly received his word, were baptized in the same day.
Verse 41, sorry.
Same day, they were added unto them about 3,000 souls.
So as you hear, the early disciples right throughout soul-winning,
Peter preaches a great message.
So you've got a small group out there soul-winning,
and there's a good sermon preached,
and 3,000 people get saved with their group,
and they're small.
effort there that they did, but in one day there was added 3,000, about 3,000 souls.
So obviously a small group of people can do a great work, and obviously Pastor Stuckey
is doing a great work all the time, and then there's other churches there and missionaries
that are doing a great work, and it's not a huge group of people, it's not 1,000 people
or 5,000 people, it's a small group.
And even if you're by yourself, you can do a great work just alone.
You don't need a huge army, which obviously if you do have an army, it's better.
But you can still do something yourself.
There's no excuse that you could do as much as anybody else in the whole Bible.
There's no excuse, especially now with technology, we can do anything.
So lesson number two.
other men labored to make it receptive though because the Philippines is very
receptive but it's not by accident because if you look at Asia, Asia is not
receptive overall, right? Like you got China, you got North Korea, you got South
Korea, like those really aren't places where you just think of like this huge
Christianity and just forefront of the gospel, right? So why is the Philippines
I'm going to read two verses where you flip back to John 4.
It says, in 1 Corinthians 15-58, it says,
Therefore my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much
as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
And in Galatians 6-9, it says, and let
and let us not be weary and well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."
So obviously there's lots of work that has been done in the Philippines and the people that went
there and laid down this foundation, their work isn't in vain. And in John 4 we're going to see the
same thing that
your labor is not in vain. It says in John 4.36 it says,
and he that reapeth receiveeth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal,
that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together,
and herein is the same true, one soweth and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that, whereon ye bestowed no labor.
Other men labored, and ye
are entered into their labor.
So obviously it's easy to go to the Philippines, right?
And you could say, oh man, I got, you know,
500 people saved, 1,000 people saved, 2,000 people saved,
depending how long you go, right?
If you went for a month or two months or three months,
or if you moved there and did souling every day,
it's easy to say, man, I'm so great,
I've done so much for God, right?
But in reality, other men labored
and we're just entering into that labor.
And especially with the Philippines,
America and American missionaries of the past
And there are the reasons you can go there and get 500 people saved or 400 people saved,
because America is the reason the Philippines is receptive. I know America now doesn't seem so
receptive, but America, in my opinion, is the reason that the Philippines is great.
An example of this is going to be here and where my wife's from, it's, I think the island
is Panay Island, but I just always consider it Ilo Ilo, but I think that's like a state
or whatever of that island.
But either way, that island, it's heavily influenced by America.
extensive and multifaceted, transforming its political, social, and economic landscape.
This influence began with the American occupation in the early 1900s,
following the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War.
The Philippines was a U.S. territory for nearly 50 years from the...
I think it cut off here.
But they took away the islands from the Spanish in the 1998,
and then the US granted it independence in 1946.
So for around 50 years, the Philippines is a US territory.
So it says that America.
changed the political administrative of the Philippines as the United States
established a civil government in Iloilo replacing the Spanish colonial
administration. A key aspect of it was the setup of provincial government which
provided an elected provincial governor and other officials. This was a
significant step towards local government.
although it was under American supervision,
and then the first governor was Martin Delgado,
who surrendered to American forces.
So America is kind of establishing our type of government,
our type of society, our type of political system
in the Philippines and overseeing it.
So at first it kind of seems like the Spanish are running it,
they're probably the ones putting people in charge
whereas America goes in and puts local people in charge
and they oversee the thing.
putting an American-style government in place, and then also the economy. It says under American rule,
Ilo Ilo's economy went underwent major shifts. The city was already a major port.
But it saw a significant improvement and then they dredged the river and made it pretty much a huge port to where by 1916 the port of Ilo Ilo was clearing more ships than Manila,
which Manila is a huge city of just millions and millions of people. It's a capital city in the Philippines.
Crazy and then they also built the infrastructure and they constructed roads railroads
To move agricultural products and sugar and different things from the interior of the island to the port
And then probably the biggest thing that in my opinion is this the education and social changes the American
period brought about sweeping social and cultural changes primarily through the
introduction of a new public education system English
as a medium of instruction.
The American-led public school system
introduced English as the primary language
of instruction replacing Spanish.
American teachers.
were instrumental in this effort.
The establishment of institutions like Central Philippine University
and Elo-Elo marked the beginning of a new educational era.
And then also, because of that, there was a rise in Protestantism.
American Protestant missionaries were active in Elo-Elo
establishing the first Protestant and American hospital in the country.
The Elo-Elo Mission Hospital and founding Protestant churches
such as Jarl Evangelical Church, this introduced religious diversity to a prominent Catholic
region, and then also public health, America built lots of
colleges that taught stuff for health and nursing and hygiene, sanitation, nutrition,
improvements in public health and welfare. So, all I had to say, what does it say?
Well, if America didn't go there, they wouldn't even know English.
So, you wouldn't even be able to go somewhere in there.
But, Elliot could go because they're Spanish, so he could still get people saved there.
But, I couldn't go, right? Because the only reason...
Pastor Stucky, me, other people can even go there
and get people saved is because somebody went there,
they laid the foundation, they did very hard work
of a complete Catholic nation and brought in Protestantism
but also brought in the English, taught it in the school.
So now you can go there soul-winning
and everybody knows English.
But it took the hard work of somebody to go there
and teach somebody who'd never probably even heard of English
in the 1800s or early 1900s.
completely changed the whole education system to where everybody's learning English now.
So now we can read that benefit, what, 120 years later or whatever, that now everybody knows English,
but if you go there the older generation doesn't really know English that well.
So obviously it took lots of time for the society to change, but now everybody knows English.
You go there and everything in the classrooms English, but it started here,
What's taught in the school? So you still go there now and it's still English taught in the school even though English is technically their third language because they have it
Local dialect a national dialect in English is the third language
So but English is the one taught in the school and it goes back from when it was an American colony. So obviously
You know these people probably went there and they a lot of them will get to later were
Baptists is very heavily influenced so people went there and did all this hard work and they might have not have seen
as much seeds, right? They probably didn't go there and see 500 people saved back in 1900 when it was a Catholic country.
But if they went there and they're preaching the right gospel, they're trying to translate the Bible,
they're doing all this good work, they labored and then we get to enter into that labor and
reap what they did. But I couldn't get anybody saved if it wasn't for them.
So it's easy to look and say, hey, we're so great. And the same thing in America, right? You can go get somebody saved, but
How many people do you have to start and go to Genesis and say,
here's what the Bible says? Pretty much everybody already knows a little bit about the Bible.
They know who Jesus is. They know he died on the cross. So somebody had to lay that foundation
down and somebody else labored to get you that. So, you know, you got to think also as well for us,
if we're doing works for God and doing works that
we might not be able to see what is going to become of what we're doing, because if you probably told
American people in the 1900s and said, hey, you're over here teaching English, you're teaching the
Bible, you're bringing Protestantism, Baptists here, and you say, hey, a hundred years from now,
you can go to school and a thousand people are going to get saved. They might not even believe
you, right? Because they probably didn't see those numbers back then, but because of their
I don't know how rewards work in heaven, but I would assume that they would have to get some
sort of reward for laying down the foundation to even make it possible to go there and do all
this great stuff because they really did a great job. So you guys can, I think you're still in John.
four, but if you're not, you can flip there. I'll read for you from Psalms 126-6. It says,
he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him. So obviously in our lifetime we're going to bring our sheaves with us,
we're going to rejoice, but the point of all what I said, just take away from it that even if you
don't see as much as you thought you would in your lifetime, you didn't get as many people saved,
the next generation, two generations, three generations,
your work might come to pass and, you know,
somebody's gonna reap from that down the road, right?
Because you could technically get one person
saving your whole life and that person's the next
Steven Anderson or Jack Hiles or whatever.
It could be just a good soul winner or missionary.
So even if, like, you know, in your mind, like, man,
I didn't do as much as I thought.
You don't know who you're necessarily getting saved
or like maybe you didn't get them saved,
but you gave the gospel to somebody.
That person was already saved
and they get on fire to start soul winning.
So, you know, a lot of things can happen
that we don't necessarily see in our lifetime,
but you know,
The Philippines I just think is a great example of tons of people doing lots of work, and I don't know what percentage of them were saved,
but I'm sure a lot of them were doing these great works, and then now we're reaping that.
And I'm sure that we can do the same thing that, hey, 20 years from now, 100 years from now, 500 years from now,
people will have benefited in the future from what you're doing today.
You know, never get discouraged even if you go soul-winding and no one gets saved for a long time
because you don't know down the road how that's going to impact people.
So, the next thing that I learned, lesson number three, is the impact a woman can have.
So, if you're in John chapter four, it says in John 4.25, it says,
When he has come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee, and he.
And upon this came his disciples,
and marvel that he talked with the woman,
yet no man said, what seekest thou,
or why talkest thou with her?
The woman then left her water pot
and went her way into the city,
and saith unto the men, come, see a man
which told me all things.
That ever I did is not this the Christ so so far we see hey Jesus talking to a woman the woman leaves everything
And she goes to town and she's spreading the gospel, right? So she's telling other people right away
about
Jesus and trying to bring and get other people saved so if you look down to verse 39 it says and many of the
Samaritans of that city believed on him
for the saying of the woman, which testified, he told me all that ever I did.
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them and he abode there two days.
And many more believed because of his own word and said unto the woman,
For we have heard him ourselves and know it that this is indeed the Christ the Savior of the world
so because of this woman preaching and going out and saying hey, you know come listen to this man and
even they asked Jesus to be there for two days and
Many people ended up believing because this woman went out and got pretty much
You know, I don't know exactly but a large majority of this city saved so
You know this reminded me of my wife during the trip because it's funny
lots of people I posted a video and I think it was Brad and
Brother Eric from faithful word and they're like, oh, maybe Jared commented, too
but they're like I don't even think I've heard her talk before and
And she is preaching super hard there.
And obviously, it's more natural because it's her native
language, right?
Because English would technically be your third
language.
It's like the local language, Tagalog, and then English
would be a third language.
And she preached harder than I do because she got her
teaching degree.
So she's used to teaching in the classes there.
And the kids.
you know listen super good and she would ask them questions and get like the whole class
at the same time to answer the questions and she would tell them when she first started she's like
you need to be a hundred percent sure you're going to go to heaven because if you're 99 percent
sure you're going to go to heaven you're going to go to hell because you're not a hundred percent
sure so she would get them really to listen and to be serious about hey being a hundred percent
sure and putting all of your trust and knowing for sure because if you're 99 percent sure you know
That's not going to cut it.
You got to be 100% sure you put all your trust in Jesus.
And she just preached super hard.
And she actually deserves probably way more credit than I do.
But I just thought of the story of, hey, hundreds of people
got saved, and the vast majority of the credit
is probably her, because she did a great job.
And, you know, especially the younger kids because like there's times where like on the slide where you have these younger kids like groups of four, maybe 10 year old kids or 12 year old kids and they would just sit and just listen to her.
And obviously I could never do that because obviously, you know, that's kind of inappropriate, right?
In my mind, some people do it, but I try not to talk to too little kids, you know, because, you know, it's all appearance of evil, right?
But she can do it, so she'd talk to them,
and four kids would get saved,
and I would never be able to reach.
And obviously we were only there for a week,
but just looking at it like, man,
if she was there for a long time,
she could probably get the whole island saved, right?
Just like the story where this lady
is getting the whole city saved.
So it's kind of, anybody can do it, right?
Cause some people look at like,
oh, the pastor needs to get people saved,
or the men.
go out soul winning but really women can reach different groups of people
and women can reach people that men can't reach or that it's inappropriate for men to talk to
and I think that women can do just as big of a work for God as any man
and I I mean honestly you could even say probably a woman if she if you really did
do some great work she could be just as good as any apostle right because I mean
what's stopping anybody from going soul-winning right there's nothing and
obviously with kids and stuff it's it's harder but you know I've seen people on
on mission trips were
This other guy, his name is actually Steven Anderson too and he's a new IV but it's not
Pastor Anderson.
But he went to Jamaica, him and his wife and they had two babies that they had in a stroller
and they both preached and stuff.
So obviously it's encouraging to see, hey, women can do great things and obviously they
can raise the next great preacher and obviously it's impossible to know how rewards work.
you know, have just tons of rewards. It's not just a men thing that, oh, men get the rewards,
men do whatever. Honestly, women can just have as many rewards as men, maybe more depending on how
it is when, hey, if you raise the next great preacher and you do this great stuff, you know,
I don't know how it works, but obviously keep your head up and remember that, that, hey, you can do
great things for God too. It's not just the preacher, it's not just the men. The women can do great
When my wife said the stuff about 99% sure going to heaven a thought of this verse in Jude 1 23
It says an other save with fear point them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh
So I'm pretty laid that guy
And, you know, I'm very nice, but obviously there's some people you need to save with fear.
And she did a great job of that of, hey, like, you need to be sure you're going to go to heaven
because you could end up in hell. And this might be the only time, obviously, that you might ever get to hear a clear gospel presentation.
So you want to take it serious, right? And obviously we're out soul-winning. Some people need that.
Or, hey, you know, you deserve hell.
and some people need you to focus on that point a little more than others but you know save some
people with fear and obviously I'm going to run out of time here unless I got like a million points
but the next one is willingness to listen they just very willing to listen
and I kind of touched on this the sermon before I left so I'm just going to read one verse
about this and kind of skip this point.
But an X4 force is how be it many of them
which heard the word believed
and the number of the men was about 5,000.
So obviously you need to be able to hear
and you need to be willing to hear to get saved.
And if you don't hear, you're not willing to hear,
you're never gonna get saved.
And obviously a lot of people who go to the door,
they're too busy, they don't wanna listen,
they got stuff going on.
But if you're not willing to hear,
you're never gonna get saved.
But the people in the Philippines
are very willing to listen.
And the same thing with Jamaica.
The kids are very willing to listen.
But the older people aren't as much.
You know, same thing with Jamaica.
Like the older people, they kind of argue more.
They're more stuck in their ways.
But the younger generation is very willing to listen.
So, but I'm not going to.
Keep belaboring that point. So in lesson number five the younger generation is turning to God
Same thing in Jamaica. So it's kind of weird a lot of these other places the younger generations turning to God
in the older generation
It's kind of stuck in their ways, but the younger generations in a lot of these countries are so the Philippines some
Statistics right now. It says according to a 2020 census
combining all Christian categories, so any Christian type category.
which is probably very loose, but regardless, as 91.5% of the population of the Philippines is considered Christian.
79% of that is still the Catholic Church, and then 13% belong to Protestantism or other denominations,
but to still have 91.5% of your overall population identify as Christian is crazy.
And it says in the future, I looked up, and I don't know how you'd figure this out,
they project from a Pew study. It says projected changes in the global Christian population by 2050.
It says that they project 92% of the Philippines is going to be Christian.
With the country holding the distinction of the world's fourth-largest Christian population according to a Pew Research Center,
although the percentage is expected to be slightly decreased because they project that Muslims are going to go up to 6% or something like that in the Philippines.
So higher, but they still project by 2050 that
143.55 million people in the Philippines will be considered Christian and then it's
going to be the predominant Christian nation in Asia
So obviously that's crazy to think like 92% because America's considered Christian and I have a statistics
Down later we'll get to but it's not 92% anymore. So if you guys would flip over to second Chronicles second Chronicles
So in Second Chronicles, we're going to see kind of this theme of, hey, the younger generation can turn to God.
And I think the Philippines is a great example of this, also Jamaica, the Bahamas as well, from what I hear.
But in Second Chronicles 31-1, it says, Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty.
years, and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and locked in the ways
of David his father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left, for in the
eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David
his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high
places and the groves.
the carved images and the molten images and he break down the altars of Balaam
in the presence of the image and the images that were on the...
on the high above them. He cut down
and the groves and the carved images and the molten images and he breaking pieces
and made dust of them
and stowed it upon the graves
of them that had sacrificed unto them and he burnt the bones of the priest upon
their
altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
So obviously we see this guy, hey, this next generation is coming in and he's serious, right?
He's burning the bones of the priests and he's just turning back to God and he's just like David, right?
He's trying to do what's right for God.
And obviously it's hard for me to speak to the older people because they don't speak English as well,
but the guy I was with that's new IFB, who's a good guy, his name's Kirby.
And, you know, he talked to a couple older people and he said, like, you go up to them
and he said, they're not, they tell them, I'm not interested, I'm Catholic.
So they're deep into their tradition.
Same thing in Jamaica, you would go to people and they'd be really deep into their...
pot, smoke, and religion, whatever.
I can't remember what it's called now,
but they're weird religions they got there.
And the youth though is very receptive
and they're willing to listen.
Even though, like, you talk to people,
what religion are you, Catholic?
And it's like, they're gonna get saved.
Like, they don't even know, like, what Catholic.
teaches pretty much like they're just like as soon as you tell them it's a gift
it's eternal eternal means forever a gift means free and you just go over that a
bunch of times they're just like there's no they don't argue with it just like
yeah it's true like they just believe it the older generations not like that
they're stuck in their ways but the younger generations hey if God says it
it's true I believe it so it's very encouraging to see that whereas in America
on the other hand
You see kind of the complete opposite.
It says in America in the early 1970s,
over 90% of the American adult population identified
as Christian.
So that's why I looked up the Philippines
in the projected future, because America was 90%
in the 1970s.
So I thought, well, is the Philippines
going to go down at all?
So they actually projected to be the same, if not half
a percent higher.
But it says as of early 2025 between 62% and 69% of American adults identify as Christian.
So America's went from 90%, which is like pretty much what the Philippines is now, but
now we're down to 62 to 69%.
And then I looked up what they project America will be in 2025, and it says they project
But, and then 42% of people will be unaffiliated, identify as unaffiliated with anything.
So America is projected to be down to 47% from 90%.
The Philippines is projected to be like 91.5% to 92%.
So America is going downhill, we're going the wrong way.
The youth is not turning to God.
The Philippines is the opposite.
been Christian recently for a long time, but now they're willing to get saved and a lot of
Baptist churches are there and they're doing great works for God and they're, you know, turning
to the right ways of salvation. So I'm going to skip the rest of that point. We're going to go to
hard one to want to live there because it's just life is hard there I mean
lesson number six just life is very difficult there because like I said
earlier the pay is very low so the Philippines average pay per day is about
seven to eleven dollars US as the daily minimum wage varies by region the
dollars and thirty seven cents for the whole day eight hours of work to eleven dollars a day
Well other regions like a the beak hole region has a lower minimum wage of about six dollars and seventy four cents for the whole day
So you're talking about like less than a dollar per hour, but it's not easy work like
I seen a guy who was walking through a rice field where it's like mud, water, and he's
carrying big bags of rice or whatever in the hot sun for $1 an hour.
People complain about America, but obviously here it's way harder.
So life is definitely very difficult there.
But if you guys would flip over to Luke 21, so even though life is hard there, there's
Obviously, there is some benefit, and it's nice to obviously be able to have money in
America, because like Justin talked about this morning, he said, you know, the first
thing you got to do with your money is give some to God, right?
But it is kind of nice to work, if you get a nice paycheck, and then you give it to a
church, and then they go out and do a soul-winning trip, a soul-winning mission trip, it's kind
of nice to be able to like partake in that, right?
If you worked and you're making six dollars a day, like, you know, you give your tenth of that, like, you're not really, in your mind, like, you're not really contributing much to, like, a huge mission trip or a huge thing, right?
So, I'm sure it could be discouraging, but in Luke 21, it's actually kind of the opposite of, like...
What we would kind of think or at least I would think mentally because in Luke 21 1 it says and he looked up and saw the rich
Men casting their gifts into the Treasury and he saw
Also a certain poor widow casting in their two mites and he said of a truth
I say to you that this poor widow has cast in more than they all
For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God, but she have her
tenury have cast in all the living that she had so obviously you know we would
probably be considered the rich people right cast in our gifts but you know
people in the Philippines even though they don't have much even though they
put a little bit in God can see that as hey these people are actually given more
than you know the rich people right so obviously that's kind of
A good way to look at it, because I'm sure it could get discouraging, especially in
my mind, so I just like knowing you give money to a church and something good happens out
of it, right?
But obviously, when you're not making a lot of money, like this poor widow, she could
say, like, what's the synagogue or the temple or whatever things she's given it in?
What are they going to do with it, right?
God looks at the heart and says, hey, this lady gave all her living.
She gave more than anyone else.
So good thing she did it, right?
So you never want to, God doesn't necessarily look at what you do as like,
you know, you got to give $10,000 to the church to do a mission trip to be right with God.
but what you have as long as you are giving what you're supposed to you're doing the commandments
even if it's a little bit he's going to look at that and bless that more than some you know if
Elon Musk gave a million dollars to a church tomorrow or whatever right like you know he's
going to look at the whole picture not just the amount of money because in our mind it's always
easy to just look at the amount of money right the guy who's got the name on his wall at the
at the local bible college that's the guy that's right with god but that's not really how god looks
So, we're going to skip a little bit here again, you guys can go to Luke chapter 14.
So, I'm going to read just one verse here, I had more verses but I'm going to skip them for a sake of time.
So, I'm already over my 50 minutes.
Verse number five, it says,
Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he had promised to them that love him.
So obviously, you know, God says he chooses the poor of this world that are rich in faith, and obviously that's part of the reason that the Philippines is so blessed that, hey,
They're poor, but they're rich in faith.
They're willing to believe.
And America's the opposite, right?
We're rich and we're not willing to believe.
So obviously there's positive and negatives to both.
The positives here are that you have money,
you can do mission trips, you can do lots of stuff for God
because there's planes, cars, travel, great churches.
People in the Philippines, they leave
to go work in other countries
and they want to make more money.
the sacrifices, they don't have any money.
But there's good soul winning.
The heavenly rewards are crazy.
So, you know, there's positive and negatives,
and like I told people there,
hey, you just have to think about,
you could do more work for God than,
get more people saved than probably 99% of the world
if you stay in the Philippines and get people saved.
Most of the people there that are younger,
that have, you know, good options with their work,
they leave and go work in other countries.
they go work on ships and stuff like that.
But if they are willing to sacrifice all the other things,
you could do a great work for God there
because it's so receptive and so many people get saved.
So I'll...
I lied to you guys, I'm going to be so over time.
We're going to skip that Luke thing too.
I'm going to, because I want to get to this point,
because this is the best point.
So, lesson seven is there's a major Baptist influence
in that, especially that area of the Philippines.
So, I talked about kind of just America.
work over in that area overall with the economy, the political system, and different things.
But there was a huge influence of Baptists also in that mix, and it's huge in that area.
So America are more specifically American Protestant mission efforts.
Baptist into the Protestant thing I talked about earlier, but Protestant
mission efforts following the Spanish-American War of 1898 brought
Baptist to Elo-Elo-Philippines with the arrival of Eric Lund in 1900. This led
to the establishment of the Convention of the Philippine Baptist Churches in
Elo-Elo City and the founding of institutions like Central Philippine
universities there, the Central Philippine University was actually started by Baptist missionaries.
So, following the transfer of the Philippine administration to the United States in 1898,
the Philippines opened to Protestant mission work.
The first Baptist missionary, Eric Lund, arrived in the Philippines in May 1900.
And like I talked about, he founded the convention of the Philippine churches.
And the first organized union of Baptist churches in the Philippines was founded in 1900 with its
headquarters in Jaro Ilo Ilo City. And they established the American Baptist Missionaries
Jaro Industrial School, which was founded in 1905.
which became the Central Philippine University nowadays.
And they also established a hospital in 1927
by the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society.
They also started a Baptist Institute, Baptist Bible Institute in 1923 to train Filipino church workers.
And it all centered around the main city on the island where we went, the Iloilo City.
became a central hub for American Baptist missions work leading to the development of local leaders
and establishing churches, schools, and hospitals across the region. And then now recently in 2022
they started a national Baptist day in the Philippines. It's observed the second Thursday
of January each year. This day is recognized to honor the contributions of Baptist in nation
Observence was officially declared, they have the act or whatever.
the law number, which took effect on July 23, 2022.
The act emphasizes the importance of Baptist
in establishing Christian schools and churches
that contributed to the betterment of society.
So every single year now in the whole nation of the Philippines,
they have a Baptist day.
This is because of all the different things
that these people did.
In the past, too, like we talked about,
establish and lay the foundation down.
which is why it's so easy to go somewhere in there.
Because everybody knows Baptist because they literally
have a whole holiday, like we would have Thanksgiving
or Fourth of July, like there's National Baptist Day,
a national holiday that they have there.
But, it didn't start.
like that. It started off Catholic, Americans went there,
Baptists went there, and they laid a huge foundation,
and there's a church there called IBC that's a huge
church that all the Baptist preachers
all over, they all know this IBC, and I believe
I could be wrong, but the guy's definitely American missionary, but I'm pretty sure
He was sent out by Hiles Anderson, the guy.
So he's a good preacher.
I know a guy from Mount Baptist that went to that church,
and he said it was an awesome church.
And everybody talks really highly of it.
I've never been there yet, but they're
doing great works for God, and they're
training lots of people.
And they're actually sending missionaries all over the place,
Baptist missionaries.
So if you guys would flip over to 1 Corinthians 9,
I'm way over time here, six minutes so far.
thing that we're going to do, the last place we're going to go. So, a summary of, you know,
what we should do with our lives.
here and why it's important to take sacrifices.
In 1 Corinthians 9-22, it says,
to the week became I as weak, that I might gain the weak.
I am made all thanks to all men,
that I might by all means save some.
And this I do for the gospel sake,
that I might be partaker thereof with you.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all but one receive at the prize
So run that ye may obtain and every man that strived for the mastery is temperate and all things
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible crown
So, you know, it's always definitely hard to go on a mission trip, right?
It's definitely not fun to be on an airplane for that long sitting at the airport going through customs a bunch of times
and you know we had trouble with the water was cold that the hot water thing was not working
and it was a nice area a nice resort is my wife's walk and she said we should stay there but
it was like a beautiful place but the AC didn't work there I don't know how it was brand new they
just built it like two years ago the AC didn't work right the water was cold every day there
obviously the food's different there you know you see lots of stuff where you're like this is
But, you know, obviously, seeing people say it makes it worth it, right?
And just like the Bible says here, hey, you do it for the gospel's sake, you do it to
obtain a good crown, and lots of things go wrong on mission trips.
You know, it's funny, I always think, when we went to Jamaica...
You know, we were lucky as Brad, me, my wife, Raymond in a place, and then Sister Lola from Faith A Word, and Brother Kevin too, and we both had a room.
We were lucky because we were married, so they gave us each a room.
And, but the room, the bed, like the guy was cheap and he had like, when you buy like a
new bed, they have like a whole, obviously like a, what do they call it, like the plastic
wrap or whatever, right, that you'd cut off and put the bed there and then you'd have
like a normal bed.
But the guy was too cheap, he didn't want to take it off, so like, this bed was like
as if you went to the store and it was all wrapped with this plastic, so like every time
You know, you were laying in like some sort of plastic and it was super loud and super annoying.
But, you know, it's obviously not comfortable to sleep on at all.
And we were lucky though because Sister Lola like got on the guy and she was like, hey, we need to cut this off.
And, you know, it was good after that.
But like you go on these mission trips and there's always just these weird things that you're like, man, this is definitely not something that I want to deal with.
The only place you're going to go to get that many people saved is Jamaica's, the Philippines, the Bahamas, and whatever.
And obviously, lots of things can go wrong.
Pastor Boyle at his church, you know, when they went to the Bahamas, they got held up at gunpoint and robbed and all types of stuff.
But...
the gospel spreads, you get lots of eternal rewards.
So it is worth going.
I definitely recommend it, but just be prepared.
There's lots of things that, you know,
it definitely not used to when you go to these places,
but at the end of the day, like, you're gonna like it.
And the more you go, the more you're gonna enjoy it.
So hopefully you guys...
Took something out of it and hopefully you guys one day decide to go on some sort of mission trip or a cruise mission trip or whatever.
So we can close with a word of prayer.
Thank you Lord for a great day in church and for letting us be able to have the freedom to go out soul winning.
And please just continue to bless everybody as they travel home and to bless our church.
We love you and thank you and in Jesus name we pray and amen.
servant brother Brett let's go to number 384 in the service of the king number 384
we're gonna stay seated I am happy in the service of the key
I am happy. Oh so happy. I have peace and joy that nothing else can bring in the service of the King, in the service of the King.
Every talent I will bring.
I have peace and joy and blessing in the service of the King.
Second, I am happy in the service of the King.
I am happy, oh, so happy.
Through the sunshine and the shadow,
I can sing in the service of the King.
in the service of the King.
Every talent I will bring
a happy sin, joy and blessing
in the service of the King.
On that third,
I am happy in the service of the King.
I am happy, oh, so happy.
possess to him I gladly bring in the service of the King in the service of
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