WEBVTT 05:27.100 --> 05:27.800 you 07:59.300 --> 08:04.300 Alright, welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church. Everybody please find your hymn books and grab a seat. 08:05.360 --> 08:07.360 First song we're gonna sing is song 08:07.880 --> 08:14.800 364. Song 364, Standing on the Promises of God. Song 364, on the 1st. 08:16.400 --> 08:26.880 Standing on the promises of Christ my King, through eternal ages let his praises ring. 08:26.880 --> 08:37.600 Glory in the highest I will shout and sing. Standing on the promises of God. 08:37.600 --> 08:38.720 Stand. 08:43.700 --> 08:52.300 on the promises of God my Savior standing. 08:54.800 --> 09:00.800 I'm standing on the promises of God. 09:00.800 --> 09:06.300 Standing on the promises they cannot fail. 09:06.300 --> 09:11.800 When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail. 09:11.900 --> 09:22.540 By the living word of God I shall prevail, standing on the promises of God. 09:22.540 --> 09:33.500 Standing on the promises, standing on the promises, standing on the promises of God, my Savior. 09:33.500 --> 09:39.820 Standing on the promises, standing on the promises. 09:39.900 --> 09:45.900 I'm standing on the promises of God. 09:45.900 --> 09:51.400 Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord. 09:51.400 --> 09:56.900 Bound to Him eternally by love's strong cord. 09:56.900 --> 10:01.900 Overcoming daily with the Spirit's sword. 10:01.900 --> 10:06.900 Standing on the promises of God. 10:07.400 --> 10:18.160 Standing, standing, standing on the promises of God my Savior. 10:18.160 --> 10:23.560 Standing, standing. 10:24.500 --> 10:30.580 I'm standing on the promises of God. 10:30.580 --> 10:35.860 Standing on the promises I cannot fall. 10:35.860 --> 10:41.620 Listening every moment to the Spirit's call. 10:41.620 --> 10:46.740 As my Savior, as my all and all. 10:46.740 --> 10:51.940 Standing on the promises of God. 10:52.200 --> 11:03.000 Standing on the promises, standing on the promises, standing on the promises of God, my Savior. 11:03.000 --> 11:14.440 Standing on the promises, standing on the promises, I'm standing on the promises of God. 11:14.440 --> 11:18.040 All right, good singing. Brother Jericho, please open us up with a word of prayer. 11:28.200 --> 11:32.380 Amen. Alright, next song is going to be song number 379. 11:32.380 --> 11:37.700 Song 379, Bringing in the Sheev. Song 379 of your hymn books. 11:37.700 --> 11:39.700 On the first. 11:40.600 --> 11:51.140 Sewing in the morning, sewing seeds of kindness, sewing in the noontide and the dewy eve. 11:51.140 --> 12:07.240 Waiting for the harvest and the time of reaping, we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves. 12:07.240 --> 12:08.540 We shall come... 12:08.600 --> 12:12.600 Come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. 12:12.600 --> 12:15.600 Bringing in the sheaves. 12:15.600 --> 12:17.600 Bringing in the sheaves. 12:17.600 --> 12:23.500 We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. 12:23.500 --> 12:34.000 Sewing in the sunshine, sewing in the shadows, fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze. 12:34.000 --> 12:50.000 By and by the harvest and the labor ended, we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves. 12:50.000 --> 12:51.500 We shall come- 12:51.500 --> 12:59.920 Rejoicing bringing in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves 13:00.700 --> 13:02.700 We shall come rejoicing 13:03.860 --> 13:05.860 bringing in the sheaves 13:06.620 --> 13:13.620 Going forth with weeping sewing for the master though the law sustained 13:14.860 --> 13:18.880 Spirit often grieves when our weeping's over 13:19.500 --> 13:27.500 He will bid us welcome. We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the she's. 13:27.500 --> 13:32.500 Bringing in the she's. Bringing in the she's. 13:32.500 --> 13:38.500 We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the she's. 13:38.600 --> 13:43.600 Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves. 13:43.600 --> 13:48.600 We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. 13:48.600 --> 13:51.600 All right, great singing. Now we're going to have some announcements. 13:53.600 --> 13:56.600 I mean, a funny story about the song, bringing the sheaves. 13:56.600 --> 14:01.600 My daughter was singing it at home and she's singing, bringing the sheets as in the laundry, you know. 14:02.800 --> 14:05.600 or bring the sheep, so it's kind of interesting. 14:05.600 --> 14:08.380 Anyway, welcome back to foundation Baptist Church 14:08.380 --> 14:09.840 Sunday afternoon service. 14:09.840 --> 14:11.400 Oh, there's one more funny story. 14:11.400 --> 14:13.600 She was practicing sewing at home, 14:13.600 --> 14:16.000 and then she's like, if you want to go to hell. 14:16.000 --> 14:16.840 Take the... 14:16.840 --> 14:19.100 Anyway. 14:21.100 --> 14:23.400 I can tell more, but the verse of the week, 14:23.400 --> 14:26.360 if you need a bulletin, please raise your hand, 14:26.360 --> 14:28.060 and Asher will bring one to you. 14:28.300 --> 14:31.500 By the way, I didn't say that when I go slowly, okay? 14:31.500 --> 14:34.200 Romans 13 verse seven says, that's the verse of the week, 14:34.200 --> 14:35.820 rendered therefore to all their dues, 14:35.820 --> 14:38.500 tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, 14:38.500 --> 14:41.300 fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. 14:41.300 --> 14:42.660 That's a very practical verse. 14:42.660 --> 14:43.740 Let's look at the inside page. 14:43.740 --> 14:46.340 Give us a follow on our social media platforms. 14:46.340 --> 14:50.340 We are over 900 subscribers on YouTube, so that's good. 14:50.400 --> 14:56.400 Service time Sunday morning at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4, and Wednesday night Bible study at 7. 14:56.400 --> 15:04.400 And we are going through the book of Acts verse by verse. And this Wednesday we'll be finishing up Acts 16 with the famous story of the Philippian jailer. 15:04.400 --> 15:11.400 Also we have Saturday morning sown winning locally here at 10.30 and Sunday afternoon sown winning at 1.30 p.m. 15:11.400 --> 15:17.400 Today we have 19 sown winners and 5 salvations. Praise the Lord for that. 19 sown winners is a very good number. 15:18.500 --> 15:25.780 Upcoming events, our fall picnic fellowship will take place on October 3rd at the park, 15:25.780 --> 15:26.780 at the local park. 15:26.780 --> 15:31.180 Please join us for some good fellowship and please see the sign up sheet at the front 15:31.180 --> 15:32.340 table. 15:32.340 --> 15:37.980 And then this coming Saturday we'll have our Notre Dame tailgate zoning. 15:37.980 --> 15:40.260 And then October 10th we'll be going to Pittsburgh. 15:40.260 --> 15:42.460 And both events are on godresource.com. 15:42.460 --> 15:46.500 So please RSVP so we can have a rough idea. 15:46.500 --> 15:49.000 of how many people are going. 15:49.000 --> 15:52.380 And please stay faithful in your tithe and offerings. 15:52.380 --> 15:54.300 If you flip on the backside, 15:54.300 --> 15:58.300 we have Brother Matt and Miss Rachel's wedding anniversary 15:58.300 --> 15:59.500 on the 24th. 15:59.500 --> 16:00.980 How many years is it? 16:00.980 --> 16:02.620 15 years. 16:02.620 --> 16:06.380 Awesome, let's sing happy anniversary to them. 16:06.380 --> 16:07.500 Ready? 16:07.500 --> 16:11.500 Happy anniversary to you. 16:12.000 --> 16:16.840 Happy anniversary to you. 16:16.840 --> 16:22.660 God bless you and keep you. 16:22.660 --> 16:27.040 Happy anniversary to you. 16:27.040 --> 16:27.640 Congratulations. 16:27.640 --> 16:28.700 Thanks for watching! 16:32.300 --> 16:34.700 All right, let's sing our third song. 16:37.700 --> 16:40.780 Alright, the next song is gonna be song 389. 16:40.780 --> 16:42.940 Song 389, hear him books. 16:42.940 --> 16:44.300 Bring them in. 16:44.300 --> 16:46.940 Song 389. 16:46.940 --> 16:48.660 Bring them in, on the first. 16:49.500 --> 17:10.820 Harked is the shepherd voice I hear, out in the desert dark and drear, calling the sheep who've gone astray, far from the shepherd's fold away. 17:10.820 --> 17:17.420 Bring them in, bring them in, bring them in. 17:17.500 --> 17:29.380 in from the fields of sin bring them in bring them in bring the wandering ones 17:29.380 --> 17:39.980 to Jesus who'll go and help this shepherd kind help him the wandering 17:39.980 --> 17:45.500 ones to find who'll bring the lost one 17:45.500 --> 17:53.340 to the fold where they'll be sheltered from the cold. 17:53.340 --> 17:58.380 Bring them in, bring them in. 17:58.600 --> 18:03.060 Bring them in from the fields of sin 18:03.840 --> 18:05.840 Bring them in 18:06.520 --> 18:08.520 Bring them in 18:09.080 --> 18:12.120 Bring the wandering ones to Jesus 18:14.360 --> 18:16.360 Out in the desert 18:17.080 --> 18:19.080 Hear their cry 18:19.480 --> 18:21.480 out on the mountains 18:22.240 --> 18:24.240 wild and high 18:24.640 --> 18:26.600 Heart is the man 18:26.600 --> 18:35.240 Master speaks to thee, go find my sheep, where'er they be. 18:35.240 --> 18:45.160 Bring them in, bring them in, bring them in from the fields of sin. 18:45.600 --> 18:56.100 Bring them in, bring them in, bring the wandering ones to Jesus. 19:53.700 --> 19:59.700 Alright, we'll be in Acts chapter 2 this evening. Acts chapter 2. If anyone needs a Bible, raise your hand. 19:59.700 --> 20:01.700 Now she'll give one to you. 20:02.700 --> 20:04.700 Acts chapter 2. 20:04.700 --> 20:09.700 Follow on in your Bibles. The whole chapter is going to be read. Acts chapter 2. 20:10.700 --> 20:12.700 Acts chapter 2 of the Bible reads... 20:13.100 --> 20:18.900 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place, 20:18.900 --> 20:26.580 and suddenly there came a sound from heaven of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 20:26.580 --> 20:31.460 And there appeared unto them clove and tons like as fire, and it sat upon each of them. 20:31.460 --> 20:37.100 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tons, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 20:37.400 --> 20:42.440 And they were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews devout men out of every nation under heaven. 20:42.440 --> 20:47.080 Now when this was noise abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded, because 20:47.080 --> 20:52.200 that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marveled, 20:52.200 --> 20:58.200 saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how here we every man 20:58.200 --> 21:03.640 in our own time wherein we were born, Parthians and Medes and Elamites in the Dwarves of Mesopotamia, 21:03.640 --> 21:05.400 and Judea and Cavadocia and Pond. 21:05.400 --> 21:11.820 Pontius in Asia, for again, Pamphylia in Egypt, and the parts of Libya about Cyrene and strangers 21:11.820 --> 21:17.500 of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak, and are tons, the wonderful 21:17.500 --> 21:19.020 works of God. 21:19.020 --> 21:24.380 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, what meaneth this? 21:24.380 --> 21:26.980 Others mocking said, these men are full of new wine. 21:26.980 --> 21:31.980 But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of 21:31.980 --> 21:33.400 Judea and all you 21:33.400 --> 21:38.100 That dwell at Jerusalem be this known unto you and hearken to my words 21:38.560 --> 21:42.840 For these are not drunken as he supposed seen his but the third hour of the day 21:43.400 --> 21:50.600 But this is what that which was spoken by the prophet Joel and it shall come to pass in the last day save God 21:50.600 --> 21:56.940 I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your young men shall see 21:57.400 --> 22:00.100 Visions and your old man shall dream dreams 22:00.900 --> 22:06.900 And on my servants and on all my handmaidens I will pour out in those days on my spirit, 22:06.900 --> 22:08.580 and they shall prophesy. 22:08.580 --> 22:13.100 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and then signs in earth beneath, blood and fire 22:13.100 --> 22:14.460 and vapor of smoke. 22:14.460 --> 22:18.540 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and noble 22:18.540 --> 22:19.540 day of the Lord come." 22:19.540 --> 22:19.900 Come on. 22:20.740 --> 22:19.900 Thanks for watching. 22:22.120 --> 22:19.900 See you next time. 22:20.100 --> 22:23.940 Then it shall come to pass that whoso shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 22:23.940 --> 22:28.420 Ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God, 22:28.420 --> 22:33.780 among by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, 22:33.780 --> 22:39.540 as ye yourselves also know, him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, 22:39.540 --> 22:42.900 ye have taken by wicked hands, have crucified and slain. 22:44.100 --> 22:50.500 whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should 22:50.500 --> 22:58.100 beholden of it. For David's speech concerning him, I foresaw the Lord's always before my face, 22:58.100 --> 23:02.100 for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice, 23:02.100 --> 23:05.620 and my tongue was glad. Moreover, also my flesh shall rest in hope. 23:06.000 --> 23:10.240 Because thou will not leave my soul in hell, neither will thy suffer the Holinessy corruption, 23:10.240 --> 23:14.880 thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt make me full of joy, wife, and 23:14.880 --> 23:15.880 countenance. 23:15.880 --> 23:20.160 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both 23:20.160 --> 23:22.960 dead and buried, and his supplicer is with us unto this day. 23:22.960 --> 23:26.880 Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him, 23:27.100 --> 23:31.900 that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne. 23:31.900 --> 23:36.380 He, seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul is now left in hell, 23:36.380 --> 23:43.500 neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses. 23:43.500 --> 23:47.740 Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father 23:47.740 --> 23:50.380 the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth 23:51.200 --> 23:56.140 This which he now see in here for David is not ascended into the heavens 23:56.200 --> 24:02.060 But he saith himself the Lord said into my word said thou my right hand until I make thy foes thy footstool 24:02.600 --> 24:09.880 Therefore what all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both 24:09.880 --> 24:11.300 Lord and Christ 24:11.600 --> 24:15.200 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter, and to 24:15.200 --> 24:18.540 the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 24:18.540 --> 24:23.440 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of 24:23.440 --> 24:25.600 Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins. 24:25.600 --> 24:30.680 You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, for the promises is unto you, and to your 24:30.680 --> 24:36.600 children, and to all that are far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 24:36.600 --> 24:39.600 And with many other words, did he testify and exhort Sane Sane? 24:39.600 --> 24:43.600 yourselves from this untoward generation. 24:43.600 --> 24:46.800 Then they that gladly received His word were baptized, and it seemed that they were added 24:46.800 --> 24:50.720 unto Him about three thousand souls, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine 24:50.720 --> 24:55.600 and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul, 24:55.600 --> 24:59.840 and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together 24:59.840 --> 25:04.720 and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted to them all men, 25:04.720 --> 25:09.680 and every man had need. And they continued, and they continuing daily with one accord, 25:09.680 --> 25:11.520 in the temple and breaking bread. 25:11.600 --> 25:17.200 from the house to house did eat their meat with gladness and sing on the heart, praising God and 25:17.200 --> 25:23.600 having favor with all people and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. 25:23.600 --> 25:25.600 Brother Eliud, could you pray us to the service? 25:38.800 --> 25:40.720 Amen 25:40.720 --> 25:46.800 So the title of my sermon is just lessons from Barbados. So kind of just a brief overview of 25:47.680 --> 25:52.640 How the trip went before we get started, but I think there's around 72 people 25:53.480 --> 25:59.180 That ended up going and there was over a thousand salvations like cameras like close to a thousand fifty 25:59.180 --> 26:05.160 But some people stayed like a week later, so I'm sure they got people saved. I don't know exactly how many so 26:05.700 --> 26:11.760 Over a thousand people and my opinion out of other places I went like I thought so winning is pretty hard there 26:11.760 --> 26:15.420 So I was pretty surprised like I went in like thinking it was gonna be just like Jamaica 26:15.420 --> 26:19.400 And I was like this is what I'm gonna do and then like from day one. I was like okay 26:20.260 --> 26:22.100 expectation reset 26:22.100 --> 26:24.100 because it wasn't 26:24.460 --> 26:26.460 Like Jamaica at all 26:27.340 --> 26:30.320 Even though it's you know still both in the Caribbean so 26:31.000 --> 26:36.660 Kind of a reason for that is I don't think there was a lot of opportunities for like how many people went like whereas Jamaica 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 You could kind of go anywhere 26:39.360 --> 26:45.040 In Montego Bay, and there would just be people walking around especially like lunchtime or after school 26:45.700 --> 26:48.700 Downtown Montego Bay, like me and my wife went there, 26:48.700 --> 26:51.700 and it was just like students everywhere. 26:51.700 --> 26:55.700 Everywhere you looked, it was just like groups of five, six students walking together, 26:55.700 --> 26:59.700 so you could just stop a group, and you know, five people would probably get saved, 26:59.700 --> 27:01.700 four people would get saved, and they would stay together. 27:01.700 --> 27:07.700 Whereas like in Barbados, it was more like there was just like one person, one or two people, 27:07.700 --> 27:11.400 and it was never like a large group, and it would just kind of like trickle. 27:11.600 --> 27:15.840 around, so you never really had the opportunity to get like a large group. 27:15.840 --> 27:20.480 And then if you did talk to like four people, like two of them would leave as you were talking. 27:20.480 --> 27:22.800 So it was like, Jamaica was different. 27:22.800 --> 27:27.080 You could start with two and end up with five or six, whereas here like a couple people 27:27.080 --> 27:28.080 would leave. 27:28.080 --> 27:31.800 So the people weren't as receptive as Jamaica. 27:31.800 --> 27:33.400 I kind of thought Jamaica, in my opinion. 27:33.900 --> 27:38.380 was on par with the Philippines. I know I've heard other people say they didn't like Jamaica as much, 27:38.380 --> 27:42.460 so I guess it could just be, you know, the luck that you have. But for me personally, 27:42.460 --> 27:47.180 I thought Jamaica was on par with the Philippines, especially with the students and just how much 27:47.180 --> 27:52.540 students there were. It was amazing. But there another reason is they have a lot of money. So 27:52.540 --> 27:56.780 like even if you go to the school early in the morning, whereas in Jamaica, they walk to school, 27:56.780 --> 28:01.020 here a lot of the parents drop them right off at the gate. Their parents have vehicles. 28:01.900 --> 28:05.900 And they also have buses, which I didn't see a bus in Jamaica, so the bus would just drop them off. 28:05.900 --> 28:08.900 Whereas, like, I'd never really seen a lot of people walk in. 28:08.900 --> 28:14.900 I got a few people say that were walking to school, but it would be very, like, you could go for 40 minutes before school started, 28:14.900 --> 28:18.900 and you might catch, like, five students walking to school. It wasn't like... 28:19.700 --> 28:22.100 Jamaica in that regard at all. 28:22.100 --> 28:27.900 So one person, we went to a mall and that was very difficult. 28:27.900 --> 28:30.300 Whereas here, like, you might not get as many people say, 28:30.300 --> 28:33.700 but people at least, like, be kind of nice and respectful to you 28:33.700 --> 28:36.800 and, you know, say they're not, even if they're not interested, 28:36.800 --> 28:39.500 they'll kind of say, like, hey, I'm not interested or I'm busy or whatever. 28:39.500 --> 28:40.300 Here, like... 28:40.300 --> 28:42.060 You could talk to me at the mall and be like, 28:42.060 --> 28:44.860 hey, we're handing out cards, got some YouTube videos on it, 28:44.860 --> 28:46.260 some Bible documentaries. 28:46.260 --> 28:47.540 Do you mind if I give you one? 28:47.540 --> 28:49.780 And they'll just act like you don't even exist 28:49.780 --> 28:51.220 and just walk by you. 28:51.220 --> 28:53.660 So it was very weird of how many people wouldn't even 28:53.660 --> 28:56.060 look at you and acknowledge you in the older crowd. 28:57.800 --> 28:59.000 They wouldn't even take an invite. 28:59.000 --> 29:04.080 So somebody that was at the mall, so they talked around 100 people they thought, and 29:04.080 --> 29:06.120 got three people to talk to them and got saved. 29:06.120 --> 29:09.980 So it was very low of trying to talk to people. 29:09.980 --> 29:12.320 But there's also large groups of people soul winning. 29:12.320 --> 29:18.160 So since there wasn't a lot of people around, it was a lot of downtime. 29:18.160 --> 29:22.200 Whereas Jamaica, there was just like, you can ask brother Brad, it was just like, go, 29:22.200 --> 29:24.800 go, go, and you were just done by the end. 29:24.800 --> 29:25.800 there was 29:25.800 --> 29:28.480 large amounts of time, you know, five, six minutes 29:28.480 --> 29:30.620 between talking to people because there just wasn't 29:30.620 --> 29:32.480 enough people to talk to. 29:32.480 --> 29:33.400 So it's kind of... 29:33.600 --> 29:36.600 an overview of kind of what I thought. 29:36.600 --> 29:40.600 And it has nothing in my notes, but since we already read the chapter and it's in here, 29:40.600 --> 29:43.600 there's a lot of people I never had it really in the U.S. much. 29:43.600 --> 29:47.600 I know some Baptists don't believe it, so I'm sure it is out there, 29:47.600 --> 29:51.600 but just soul winning with people I've never had too much opposition. 29:51.600 --> 29:54.600 But when I say, hey, Jesus went to hell, paid for our sins, 29:54.600 --> 29:58.300 in Barbados for some reason a lot of the students like... 29:58.400 --> 30:03.560 kind of rebutted that and tried to like go against it and say like I never heard that can you show me and you'd show 30:03.560 --> 30:05.560 Me they would have really believe it 30:05.800 --> 30:11.320 But you know in Acts 2 it says it twice right it says because thou would not leave my soul in hell and then in verse 31 30:11.320 --> 30:15.840 It says that his soul was not left in hell so obviously you know wouldn't make any sense 30:15.840 --> 30:21.320 I was like hey, I'm not gonna leave you in Indiana if you never went to Indiana right so you know 30:21.800 --> 30:26.800 That has nothing to do with my serum, but since it happened there a few times where people didn't believe it, 30:26.800 --> 30:31.800 I showed them and they still wouldn't really get it for some reason. 30:32.100 --> 30:39.100 Point number one for my sermon, the one thing I did like about Barbados is kind of just seeing how we need teamwork. 30:39.100 --> 30:43.600 So point number one is just we need teamwork, right? We can't do it alone and we need a team. 30:43.600 --> 30:47.600 Because obviously, like I said, it wasn't the greatest receptivity. 30:47.600 --> 30:52.600 Like I think overall for the trip between me and my wife, we had 35 people that got saved. 30:52.600 --> 30:59.100 Obviously we weren't there crazy long. The sole winning was pretty much like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then a half day Friday. 30:59.100 --> 31:00.100 The other half was... 31:00.100 --> 31:05.760 jet skis beach and then like a dinner with everybody and then Monday everybody 31:05.760 --> 31:10.480 pretty much got there like later in the evening. We ended up having to drive to 31:10.480 --> 31:15.560 Toronto to get like super cheap tickets like I paid like three hundred and some 31:15.560 --> 31:20.260 dollars for our tickets by driving to Toronto and it was direct whereas like 31:20.260 --> 31:23.000 from Cincinnati it would have been 31:23.100 --> 31:26.740 you know, like way more money and then also layovers. 31:26.740 --> 31:29.620 And then if you like Louisville, like Columbus, 31:29.620 --> 31:31.940 Indianapolis, like everywhere in the Midwest, 31:31.940 --> 31:34.340 like Detroit, the best is going to Toronto. 31:34.340 --> 31:35.500 So we kind of made two trips. 31:35.500 --> 31:38.220 We visited Niagara Falls and then Toronto 31:38.220 --> 31:40.180 and then flew out of there. 31:40.180 --> 31:42.020 So kind of if you're thinking about going on a mission trip, 31:42.020 --> 31:44.860 just kind of look around and you might be able to find 31:44.860 --> 31:47.740 like a flight that's way cheaper, half the price. 31:47.740 --> 31:50.420 And you know, it's a better option. 31:50.420 --> 31:51.100 So it's kind of something to think. 31:51.100 --> 31:56.320 about. But teamwork, the reason I think that is because obviously I said the 31:56.320 --> 32:01.700 soul winning was only really four days or three and a half days and there was a 32:01.700 --> 32:09.340 thousand salvations so if you took 72 talkers it would be 14 salvations per 32:09.340 --> 32:12.780 person which would be like three and a half people saved a day which obviously 32:12.780 --> 32:17.100 is very doable, very easy. If you divide it in half which obviously 32:17.200 --> 32:21.380 It wasn't really like a normal like you're partnered up and one person talking 32:21.380 --> 32:24.500 It's kind of like everybody's kind of talking everybody's going around talking with people 32:24.520 --> 32:28.820 so it was more so way more talkers, but even if you took the normal of 32:29.500 --> 32:35.040 One silent partner it would still be 28 salvations, which would be like seven people a day 32:35.040 --> 32:38.560 So obviously is very doable to reach a thousand salvations 32:38.560 --> 32:45.100 And you know for us as a church right like last year this year obviously we hover close to a thousand a little over but 32:45.200 --> 32:49.100 That's just four days, but because so many people went, 32:49.100 --> 32:50.420 it's like you really don't even have to hit 32:50.420 --> 32:51.860 like a crazy number. 32:51.860 --> 32:54.380 Whereas like in Jamaica, I think overall, 32:54.380 --> 32:55.820 it might have been the same or less, 32:55.820 --> 32:59.660 but like for my whole week trip in Barbados, 32:59.660 --> 33:01.900 it was like one day almost in Jamaica. 33:01.900 --> 33:05.080 So it was kind of like the difference for me personally, 33:05.080 --> 33:06.620 but just because so many people went, 33:06.620 --> 33:08.700 there was a large number that got saved. 33:08.700 --> 33:10.980 So if you look at verse number 14, 33:11.700 --> 33:15.540 In Acts chapter 2 we'll kind of see this in the Bible, the same thing, as these large 33:15.540 --> 33:20.900 groups can accomplish a great thing for God even if it's less receptive. 33:22.500 --> 33:26.660 I'm going to read beyond the turn there, but in Acts 1.15 it says, 33:26.660 --> 33:31.060 In those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said, 33:31.060 --> 33:35.500 The number of the names together were about 120. 33:35.500 --> 33:39.700 So kind of in the early church, you know, you have about 120 people. 33:39.700 --> 33:44.460 So it's kind of a background into where we'll be here in verse 14. 33:44.460 --> 33:45.300 In Acts 2 it says, 33:45.300 --> 33:49.700 But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said unto them, 33:50.500 --> 33:55.460 and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem be this known unto you, and hearken to my words. 33:58.900 --> 34:07.300 So here Peter standing up with 11, so you have 120 in Acts 1 here, he's standing up with the 11. 34:07.300 --> 34:14.100 And then if you skip down to verse 37, it says, now when they heard this, they were pricked 34:14.100 --> 34:19.060 in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, 34:19.700 --> 34:26.740 What shall we do? So here we see that it's Peter and also the rest of the Apostles and skip down to verse 41 34:26.740 --> 34:34.060 It says then they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day were added unto them about 34:34.740 --> 34:39.740 3,000 souls so we see here. Hey 3,000 people got saved and 34:40.020 --> 34:47.380 It wasn't just because Peter preached a great sermon Peters with the rest of the Apostles in Acts 1 you see about 120 so 34:47.700 --> 34:48.980 If you kind of do the math... 34:49.600 --> 34:54.240 And obviously, you know, a lot of people in the new IFB do soul-winning in larger groups 34:54.240 --> 34:55.640 and schools. 34:55.640 --> 35:02.120 But obviously, 3,000 salvations by one person, I don't think has been done that I know of, 35:02.120 --> 35:03.120 at least. 35:03.120 --> 35:09.880 But if you took 3,000 people getting saved by 120, would be about 25 salvations each 35:09.880 --> 35:12.520 in that day, which obviously is very doable. 35:12.520 --> 35:17.360 I mean, I've heard people in Bahamas, Philippines, Jamaica. 35:17.600 --> 35:24.560 Do that and even if you divide it in half with the 60 talkers, it'd be about 50 salvations, you know each for that day 35:24.560 --> 35:27.100 So obviously when you start to think hey, it could be 120 people 35:28.760 --> 35:33.680 Doing some soul winning, you know 50 or 25 salvations is very doable in a day 35:33.680 --> 35:39.460 And then obviously here it doesn't even say just saved it says baptized too. So like here it says 35:40.860 --> 35:42.700 With AI it says that 35:42.900 --> 35:48.740 If Peter had attempted to baptize 3,000 people by himself working non-stop for 10 hours 35:48.800 --> 35:52.040 He would have had to baptize five people every minute 35:52.660 --> 35:55.440 12 seconds per person without a single break 35:55.900 --> 36:00.800 So, you know, I'd be very difficult especially with this, you know 12 seconds person like 36:01.300 --> 36:03.660 You know, you'd have to really be going fast. 36:03.660 --> 36:04.860 Like, did you believe in Jesus? 36:04.860 --> 36:05.360 Yes. 36:05.360 --> 36:05.860 Boom. 36:05.860 --> 36:06.780 Get our next. 36:06.780 --> 36:08.340 You know, just one after another. 36:08.340 --> 36:10.660 But if you split the work with a team, 36:10.660 --> 36:14.500 it says, if only the 12 apostles baptized. 36:14.800 --> 36:21.400 Each apostle would baptize 250 people at a steady pace of one minute per person. 36:21.400 --> 36:26.400 That's roughly four hours of continuous baptizing per apostle. 36:26.400 --> 36:30.500 So, obviously, like A.I. said, it's doable in an afternoon, right? 36:30.500 --> 36:35.300 Even just the 12, but obviously there could have been even a couple other people out of the 120 that baptized. 36:35.300 --> 36:41.200 So, the more people you add, obviously the easier it is, but even just with the 12, you know, four hours. 36:41.200 --> 36:42.800 I mean, that's a lot more than 10 hours. 36:42.800 --> 36:47.520 non-stop 12 seconds per person right so obviously when you have a team of people 36:47.520 --> 36:51.800 this becomes doable whereas when you're by yourself 36:52.200 --> 36:57.240 you can't. And that's kind of what I've seen, right, in Barbados. If you would have went there by yourself, 36:57.240 --> 37:01.720 which some people have on cruise mission trips and things, like people said, hey, it was more receptive, 37:01.720 --> 37:02.980 I got more people saved. 37:02.980 --> 37:04.980 But, you know, like say in the 37:05.280 --> 37:11.180 university you went to, there might have been like 200 people that came in, like in the shift that we were there, because they kind of 37:11.180 --> 37:15.660 assigned you, since there's so many people, different areas every day. Like some day you're at the mall, 37:15.660 --> 37:20.160 some day you're in the school in the morning, like you were assigned where to go. But say you had like 37:20.200 --> 37:26.080 200 students walk by and there's like one and then two but there'd be like 20 25 37:26.080 --> 37:29.900 sole winners or so like there so like 37:30.000 --> 37:32.500 there's really not that many people to talk to, right? 37:32.500 --> 37:33.920 I mean, there's 20 people walking around, 37:33.920 --> 37:35.960 there's only a few people here and there. 37:35.960 --> 37:37.760 You're gonna have a lot of downtime, 37:37.760 --> 37:39.840 but obviously if it was just you and a partner, 37:39.840 --> 37:42.120 like you could probably have way more salvations 37:42.120 --> 37:45.320 because those 200 people would just be you talking to, right? 37:45.320 --> 37:47.280 But obviously a lot of people are gonna walk by 37:47.280 --> 37:48.360 as you're talking to somebody, 37:48.360 --> 37:49.960 you're not gonna reach everybody. 37:49.960 --> 37:53.360 So as a group, you're gonna get way more people saved, 37:53.360 --> 37:56.040 whereas individually, you could have got more saved 37:56.040 --> 37:58.000 by yourself, but less overall. 37:58.000 --> 38:02.520 So I think it's really important to you know like last time I preach it was about being selfish 38:02.520 --> 38:05.460 I was perfect going down there because it's like a lot of times like man 38:05.460 --> 38:09.860 I want to talk to that person, but you're like well. Maybe you know that person can talk to them 38:09.860 --> 38:12.900 I just talked to somebody and I kind of be selfless and let other people 38:13.080 --> 38:16.920 You know talk to people as well and not like I got to see everybody saved 38:17.000 --> 38:22.500 It's kind of perfect that I preached that before going down there because you know you got to be selfless sometimes when you're with other people 38:23.400 --> 38:27.820 So if you flip over to 1 Corinthians chapter number three 38:32.200 --> 38:34.200 So Proverbs 27. 38:34.600 --> 38:35.880 Verse 17 says, 38:35.880 --> 38:37.720 Iron sharpeneth iron, 38:37.720 --> 38:40.760 so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. 38:40.760 --> 38:42.640 So obviously, hey, when you're down there 38:42.640 --> 38:44.840 with a bunch of people, a bunch of good soul winners, 38:44.840 --> 38:47.280 people that wanna see people saved, 38:47.280 --> 38:49.760 even if you're not talking to people all the time 38:49.760 --> 38:51.680 and seeing tons of people saved, 38:51.680 --> 38:53.200 that iron's gonna sharpen you, 38:53.200 --> 38:54.200 and then when you come back here, 38:54.200 --> 38:55.480 you're gonna be a better soul winner, 38:55.480 --> 38:57.200 you're gonna wanna do more, 38:57.200 --> 38:58.960 because you're around people 38:58.960 --> 39:00.640 that are doing great works for God too 39:00.640 --> 39:01.800 and that have a zeal. 39:02.600 --> 39:05.880 you know, it gives you motivation to keep going 39:05.880 --> 39:07.500 because you hear their stories when, you know, 39:07.500 --> 39:10.360 no one's there to talk to, you know, you can talk to them 39:10.360 --> 39:11.720 and they'll tell you about different mission trips 39:11.720 --> 39:13.700 they've been on or crews that they've been on 39:13.700 --> 39:17.020 and things that they do and then it gives you motivation. 39:17.020 --> 39:19.320 You know, everybody's like, we're going to the Philippines. 39:19.320 --> 39:21.640 You know, like, man, like I want to go even more 39:21.640 --> 39:24.600 because so many people are going to the Steadfast trip 39:24.600 --> 39:27.480 in February, so, you know, not saying you guys have to go 39:27.480 --> 39:29.320 but that's a good thing to put on your calendar, right? 39:29.320 --> 39:30.280 February. 39:30.600 --> 39:35.600 I think it's February 12th through the 20th, so you guys buy your tickets. 39:35.600 --> 39:38.600 Because the sooner you buy the tickets, the cheaper they are as well. 39:38.600 --> 39:42.600 So in 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse number 6, it says, 39:42.600 --> 39:46.600 I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 39:46.600 --> 39:48.600 So here we see, hey, a team, right? 39:48.600 --> 39:51.600 There's one person planting, one person watering, 39:51.600 --> 39:56.600 and then you also have God in the equation getting the people saved, right? 39:56.600 --> 39:57.400 So. 39:57.600 --> 40:02.560 You know it takes a team to do it it says in verse number seven so then neither is he that planteth 40:02.760 --> 40:06.340 Anything neither he that watereth but God that giveth the increase 40:06.560 --> 40:11.680 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one and every man shall receive 40:11.880 --> 40:18.240 His own lay or reward according to his own labor for we are laborers together with God 40:18.560 --> 40:25.560 You are God's husbandry you are God's building so obviously hey we work together as a team we work together with God it takes 40:25.600 --> 40:28.600 a lot of people to do a great work for God. 40:28.600 --> 40:34.600 In Barbados, there was a time where that came to light, 40:34.600 --> 40:36.600 where, hey, somebody waters, somebody plants. 40:36.600 --> 40:41.600 And it was really quick, because I was doing some soul 40:41.600 --> 40:42.600 when I got some people to stay. 40:42.600 --> 40:45.600 It was like the best day we actually got in. 40:45.600 --> 40:47.600 The only day we got into a nice school, 40:47.600 --> 40:48.600 I don't know if it was a high school or what, 40:48.600 --> 40:52.600 we got into the school, and they just let you talk 40:52.600 --> 40:53.600 you talk to the kids or... 40:53.600 --> 40:58.280 or lunch for like an hour in the yard so it's just like the best soul winning 40:58.280 --> 41:02.560 because it's like groups and you know there's 70 soul winners there and 41:02.560 --> 41:06.480 there's you know a couple hundred students or whatever so you just get to 41:06.480 --> 41:10.400 go up and it's just like for an hour it's like unlimited salvations it's like 41:10.500 --> 41:13.000 the best hour of the trip. 41:13.000 --> 41:14.900 But I got some people saved, 41:14.900 --> 41:17.600 then I was like, well, I'll take care of the baby, 41:17.600 --> 41:19.200 let my wife talk to some people, 41:19.200 --> 41:21.600 because there's some younger high school kids too, 41:21.600 --> 41:22.700 or maybe it's middle school, 41:22.700 --> 41:24.500 but I was like, go talk to some of the girls 41:24.500 --> 41:26.100 that are younger and try to get them saved, 41:26.100 --> 41:27.400 I'll take care of the baby. 41:27.400 --> 41:28.400 And I was just holding the baby, 41:28.400 --> 41:29.400 and then somebody comes up to me, 41:29.400 --> 41:31.300 and they're like, just standing there, 41:31.300 --> 41:34.500 and I was like, hey, did anybody talk to you? 41:34.500 --> 41:35.800 I wasn't really planning on talking to anybody, 41:35.800 --> 41:38.400 I was just taking care of the baby, letting her soul in. 41:38.500 --> 41:40.860 And she's like, yeah, somebody talked to me. 41:40.860 --> 41:42.660 And I said, well, what happened? 41:42.660 --> 41:44.660 Did you believe what they said? 41:44.660 --> 41:46.780 Or what kind of happened? 41:46.780 --> 41:48.700 She's like, well, they told me everything, 41:48.700 --> 41:51.460 but I'm not really sure if it's really a gift 41:51.460 --> 41:52.860 or if you have to do something for it. 41:52.860 --> 41:55.340 So then I just talked to her and gave her verses 41:55.340 --> 41:59.300 off the top of my head and gave her different illustrations. 41:59.300 --> 42:03.700 And then I was like, well, do you believe now it's a gift? 42:03.700 --> 42:04.620 Or do you still think? 42:04.900 --> 42:07.100 you have to do stuff for it. 42:07.100 --> 42:09.300 And she's like, well now I think it's a gift 42:09.300 --> 42:10.900 and I believe you don't have to do anything for it. 42:10.900 --> 42:12.900 So then she got saved, but it's like somebody else 42:12.900 --> 42:15.100 just talked to her and then she just needed 42:15.100 --> 42:17.140 a couple more verses, some more illustrations, 42:17.140 --> 42:18.940 and then hey, she got saved. 42:18.940 --> 42:21.020 I wasn't even planning on going to her, 42:21.020 --> 42:23.220 but hey, it just shows that sometimes, 42:23.220 --> 42:24.340 and I've had it other times, 42:24.340 --> 42:27.420 there's one with brother Jared where I try to get 42:27.420 --> 42:30.780 the slave to listen, her dad or grandpa or whatever 42:30.780 --> 42:32.900 comes out and he's like yelling and all mad. 42:32.900 --> 42:34.500 and she's like, I can't talk. 42:34.500 --> 42:36.400 And then I see Brother Jared come, 42:36.400 --> 42:37.740 and Grandpa goes back in, 42:37.740 --> 42:39.300 and then he talks to her and gets her saved. 42:39.300 --> 42:41.840 So it's like perfect where, you know, 42:41.840 --> 42:44.640 if he wasn't there, she wouldn't have got saved, right? 42:44.640 --> 42:46.000 So sometimes it takes that. 42:46.000 --> 42:47.540 Like one person's doing something, 42:47.540 --> 42:49.640 then somebody else actually gets them saved. 42:49.640 --> 42:51.940 So it's awesome when that stuff happens. 42:51.940 --> 42:54.940 If you flip over to Exodus chapter 17. 42:58.700 --> 43:02.020 We're going to see an Old Testament example of people needing to work together to get 43:02.020 --> 43:02.860 something done. 43:05.700 --> 43:10.500 In Exodus 17 it says in verse number 8, 43:10.500 --> 43:15.300 then came Amalek and fought with Israel and Rephidim, 43:15.300 --> 43:19.380 and Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, 43:19.380 --> 43:22.460 and go out, fight with Amalek. 43:22.460 --> 43:23.620 Tomorrow I will stand. 43:24.500 --> 43:28.000 on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 43:28.000 --> 43:30.840 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, 43:30.840 --> 43:31.940 and fought with Amalek. 43:31.940 --> 43:36.440 And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 43:36.440 --> 43:39.280 And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand, 43:39.280 --> 43:40.420 that Israel prevailed. 43:40.420 --> 43:43.920 And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 43:43.920 --> 43:47.960 But Moses' hands were heavy, and they took a stone 43:47.960 --> 43:49.460 and put it under him. 43:49.460 --> 43:52.500 And he sat there on, and Moses and Hur stayed up his hand. 43:52.500 --> 43:57.760 hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side, and his hands were steady 43:57.760 --> 44:03.640 until the going down of the sun, and Joshua discomforted Amalek and his people with the 44:03.640 --> 44:04.640 edge of the sword. 44:04.640 --> 44:06.120 So here's a great example of teamwork, right? 44:06.120 --> 44:11.240 Because we always think of Moses doing these great things, but obviously Moses needed Joshua 44:11.240 --> 44:13.940 to lead these people so he could do what he needed to do. 44:13.940 --> 44:15.760 Then Joshua needed to choose out men. 44:15.760 --> 44:20.180 If those men weren't willing to fight or weren't there, Joshua couldn't lead anybody. 44:20.180 --> 44:20.500 you need a 44:20.500 --> 44:26.020 Moses, you needed Joshua, you needed the man, and then not only that but Moses needed Aaron and her 44:26.020 --> 44:30.020 to be there to help him because he got tired, right? I mean he didn't work out enough to 44:30.020 --> 44:35.140 to lift that up all night, right? So obviously without any of those people it wouldn't have 44:35.140 --> 44:36.980 worked, right? I mean if Moses wasn't... 44:37.300 --> 44:43.580 Holding up his hands Joshua would have lost and then if Aaron and her weren't there to help Moses 44:43.580 --> 44:48.020 Same thing if the men weren't there there'd be no one to help fight, right? 44:48.020 --> 44:51.100 so you need a team to be able to do a great work for God and 44:51.500 --> 44:56.400 Not just the leadership is the one that's doing the great things, right? 44:56.400 --> 45:00.320 It takes the men out there doing the work as well. So it's just a big team 45:01.200 --> 45:06.600 in order to get things done. So if you'd flip over to Ecclesiastes chapter 4 45:14.200 --> 45:17.000 Ecclesiastes chapter 4. 45:18.100 --> 45:25.700 Verse number 9, it says, 2 are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. 45:25.700 --> 45:32.260 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, 45:32.260 --> 45:39.860 for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat. But how can 45:39.860 --> 45:45.940 one be warm alone, and if one prevail against him, two shall withstand. 45:46.100 --> 45:50.300 him and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken. 45:50.300 --> 45:53.180 So hey, two people are better than one, obviously, 45:53.180 --> 45:55.220 and then if you have even more than that, 45:55.220 --> 45:56.500 the more the better, right? 45:56.500 --> 45:59.900 And if one person falls, somebody else can lift you up, 45:59.900 --> 46:01.420 whereas if you're by yourself and you fall, 46:01.420 --> 46:02.780 you're just done, right? 46:02.780 --> 46:05.540 So obviously, in Barbado, especially, 46:05.540 --> 46:08.220 hey, people aren't that receptive, 46:08.220 --> 46:10.740 and people don't look at you, people ignore you. 46:11.860 --> 46:14.100 Some dude is just screaming at me and like. 46:14.100 --> 46:18.340 going nuts and saying that he's gonna like call the cops on me and get me 46:18.340 --> 46:20.700 arrested or whatever and 46:20.800 --> 46:25.000 Going nuts, you know, it's like when there's other people around that are good soul winners that are seeing people get saved 46:25.000 --> 46:31.040 It keeps you motivated and you want to keep going right whereas if you're by yourself and that happens sometimes just like well 46:31.040 --> 46:31.800 You know what? 46:31.800 --> 46:35.000 Whatever I'll call it a day and we'll go back out tomorrow or something 46:35.000 --> 46:39.560 whereas when there's other people there and they're seeing people save it makes you want to try to 46:39.880 --> 46:46.200 Do good as well because you know, you're like, hey, this person's got ten salvations. I only got one like I I gotta go get better 46:46.200 --> 46:48.200 I got to do more. I can't you know 46:48.600 --> 46:52.240 just slack off, right? I gotta do more. 46:52.240 --> 46:53.740 And it's, especially when you go on the trip, 46:53.740 --> 46:55.740 it's always funny because it always ends up 46:55.740 --> 46:58.240 being like your group and then it's like a competition 46:58.240 --> 47:01.740 or it's like some car versus another car 47:01.740 --> 47:02.940 and another car or whatever. 47:02.940 --> 47:05.280 It's like, our car got the most people saved today 47:05.280 --> 47:06.120 or whatever. 47:06.120 --> 47:08.380 So it's like then the next day you have to try to beat them 47:08.380 --> 47:10.180 because they're bragging and like, you know, 47:10.180 --> 47:11.760 we're the best or whatever. 47:11.760 --> 47:13.120 So, but it is kind of funny, you know, 47:13.120 --> 47:16.520 it's usually always like that or whatever group you're- 47:16.600 --> 47:18.280 signed or whatever house you're in. 47:18.280 --> 47:19.980 And I think in Jamaica it was by house. 47:19.980 --> 47:22.800 It was like whatever house had the most people saved. 47:22.800 --> 47:24.500 Here it was like whatever vehicle. 47:25.500 --> 47:30.440 So you do want to try to have a friendly competition. 47:30.440 --> 47:34.440 So point number two is we need people to sole win 47:34.440 --> 47:37.400 everywhere because obviously people are going to hell 47:37.400 --> 47:38.460 all over the place. 47:38.460 --> 47:40.700 So if you guys would flip over to Luke chapter 10. 47:47.500 --> 47:52.800 So, I'm going to read a couple of verses as you get there. 47:52.800 --> 47:55.940 So if you guys are in Luke 10, I'm going to read from Luke 9-6. 47:55.940 --> 48:00.500 It says, and they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing 48:00.500 --> 48:01.500 everywhere. 48:01.500 --> 48:04.340 So, hey, the apostles and... 48:04.340 --> 48:05.000 And I'll see you next time. 48:05.300 --> 48:09.300 especially later on, Paul, like they're going through the towns and they're preaching the gospel 48:09.300 --> 48:12.740 and I like it says like everywhere right because that's where we're supposed to go is just 48:12.740 --> 48:18.500 all over and there's not enough people doing it so we need to do it right I mean it'd be nice if 48:18.500 --> 48:23.460 there was people already there in Barbados or Jamaica or wherever doing the soul winning and 48:23.460 --> 48:27.620 we didn't have to go because they're there taking care of it but since there's not we have to do 48:27.620 --> 48:31.780 it right I mean in Indiana it's not like there's an abundance of people going soul winning so then 48:31.780 --> 48:33.300 then it's just like we have to do it, right? 48:33.300 --> 48:37.300 So, same thing in pretty much every single city, every state. 48:37.300 --> 48:41.300 So in Mark 1, 38, you have to turn there, it says, 48:41.300 --> 48:44.300 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, 48:44.300 --> 48:48.300 That I may preach there also, for therefore came I forth. 48:48.300 --> 48:52.300 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, 48:52.300 --> 48:54.300 and cast out devils. 48:54.300 --> 48:56.300 So, obviously, hey, the same thing, like Jesus. 48:57.100 --> 49:02.480 the apostles, you know, the Apostle Paul especially is just the same thing over and over, going 49:02.480 --> 49:07.880 to town, town, town, city to city, and just preaching all over the place. 49:07.880 --> 49:10.080 So you guys are in Luke 10, look at verse number 1, it says, 49:10.080 --> 49:11.440 and these things, the law. 49:12.100 --> 49:17.300 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two 49:17.660 --> 49:22.380 Before his face into every city and place whether he himself would come 49:23.140 --> 49:26.180 Therefore said he unto them the harvest truly is great 49:26.180 --> 49:33.860 But the laborers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest 49:33.860 --> 49:40.100 So obviously hey the fewer the laborers there are the more the few laborers are have to 49:40.100 --> 49:43.900 do right? I mean if you have a big giant field and there's only two workers you 49:43.900 --> 49:47.780 got a lot of work to do but if there's 500 workers then there's less to do 49:47.780 --> 49:52.700 right? I mean it's way easier so the more people that are going the easier it is. 49:52.900 --> 49:57.100 But at the same time, there's nowhere near enough laborers. 49:57.200 --> 49:59.600 So no matter what, we're going to have to work pretty hard 49:59.700 --> 50:01.500 because there's a lot of people in the world 50:01.600 --> 50:03.540 and there's not many people going out so many. 50:03.640 --> 50:06.580 And it's like, you can knock doors every Sunday, 50:06.680 --> 50:09.140 and it's like you never see anybody else knocking doors. 50:09.240 --> 50:10.140 Right? 50:10.240 --> 50:11.680 I mean, sometimes I've seen a track here and there, 50:11.780 --> 50:13.980 but it's not like you're running out and seeing 50:14.080 --> 50:16.520 other Baptist churches everywhere just knocking doors 50:16.620 --> 50:18.080 and you're fighting over the doors. 50:18.180 --> 50:20.320 Like, no, our church is getting this door. 50:20.320 --> 50:20.900 And they're actually 50:20.900 --> 50:26.220 was one church that I went to in Michigan. I was at one Baptist church and then there's 50:26.220 --> 50:31.140 another Baptist church across town and the pastor ended up having to resign for like 50:31.140 --> 50:35.420 some sins and stuff so he probably wasn't the best dude but like I went to visit his 50:35.420 --> 50:39.300 church. I had a friend that was new IB that was going there and the pastor was my sonar 50:39.300 --> 50:40.300 partner and he's like. 50:40.300 --> 50:40.600 Thanks for watching! 50:41.100 --> 50:47.620 Asked he was like I got to ask you a question and he's like how come somebody from your guys church was soul-winning in our 50:47.860 --> 50:53.620 Area because there was a track from your guys church on one of the doors in our neighborhood and like you guys should be soul-winning 50:53.620 --> 50:57.420 On your end of town and I was thinking like this is weird like who who cares? 50:57.420 --> 51:00.460 You know what I mean? Like at least they're soul-winning, right? Maybe they live over here 51:00.460 --> 51:04.820 Like I don't know who it was like but it's just weird. I mean then like a couple months later the guy 51:05.420 --> 51:08.980 gets divorced and like found to be like in the sin or whatever and 51:09.100 --> 51:13.300 resigns, which is a bad attitude. I mean, if somebody still went right across the street 51:13.300 --> 51:16.500 and they're preaching the right gospel, it's like who cares? Like they should get saved. 51:16.500 --> 51:22.140 I mean, most people that get saved aren't coming to church anyway, so like really like what does it matter? 51:22.140 --> 51:24.580 I mean, it's like, you know, I mean maybe luck. 51:25.000 --> 51:28.600 Happen to be that that person is going to be like the most faithful faithful member 51:28.700 --> 51:34.000 But like the chances are they're not coming to church and they're not given tithe so it's like, you know 51:34.000 --> 51:40.300 I mean what what's the deal right? I mean they're going to heaven so you guys have flip over to Acts chapter 8 51:40.480 --> 51:43.080 And I'll read from Romans chapter 10 51:46.200 --> 51:48.680 It says in Romans 10-14, it says, 51:48.680 --> 51:52.600 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed, 51:52.600 --> 51:56.880 and how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard, 51:56.880 --> 51:59.760 and how shall they hear without a preacher, 51:59.760 --> 52:02.400 and how shall they preach except they be sent, 52:02.400 --> 52:04.840 as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them 52:04.840 --> 52:08.520 that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings 52:08.520 --> 52:09.720 of good things. 52:09.720 --> 52:12.520 So hey, people can't get saved without somebody showing them, 52:12.520 --> 52:13.020 right? 52:13.020 --> 52:14.100 People can't get saved. 52:14.400 --> 52:20.280 Without a preacher going to show them the gospel show them how to get saved and then you need somebody to send people right? 52:20.280 --> 52:22.700 I mean, there's not enough people being sent and 52:24.200 --> 52:26.200 There's definitely not enough 52:26.560 --> 52:34.000 Preachers out there right so in Jamaica and Barbados in the Philippines like probably every like lower 52:35.040 --> 52:39.980 Level country third world country or whatever it seems like they'd know the Bible like you'll be showing them a verse 52:40.600 --> 52:44.520 and you'll be showing them like John 3 16 especially and they'll all like start quoting it 52:45.080 --> 52:48.520 as you're going and it's kind of like in the Philippines especially like when I did the school 52:48.520 --> 52:51.720 preaching the first time was like you'd be giving them a verse and then they would just start saying 52:51.720 --> 52:56.500 the verses as you're saying it but most people aren't saved so 52:56.700 --> 52:59.260 You see this in the Bible in Acts chapter 8, the same thing. 52:59.260 --> 53:02.940 It's like people read the Bible, they know the Bible, and they're not saved because 53:02.940 --> 53:07.420 the Bible says, you know, how shall they hear without a preacher? 53:07.420 --> 53:10.500 Somebody needs to preach it to them even though they know the verses, they've heard it, they've 53:10.500 --> 53:15.860 read it, they don't know what it means because they haven't had somebody show or tell them, 53:15.860 --> 53:17.460 you know, exactly what it means. 53:17.460 --> 53:20.980 And we'll see that in the Bible in Acts 8.25. 53:20.980 --> 53:24.660 It says, and they, when they had testified and preached the word. 53:24.700 --> 53:31.940 of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. 53:31.940 --> 53:36.520 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise and go toward the south unto 53:36.520 --> 53:41.780 the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Geza, which is desert. 53:41.780 --> 53:46.880 And he arose and went, and behold, the man of Ethiopia, and eunuch of great authority, 53:46.880 --> 53:52.160 Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her... 53:52.700 --> 53:53.700 Treasure. 53:54.500 --> 54:00.800 Had come to Jerusalem for to worship was returning and sitting in his chariot read as I asked the prophet 54:00.800 --> 54:05.820 Then the spirit said unto Philip go near and join thyself to his chariot and 54:06.140 --> 54:10.500 Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet as I asked and said 54:11.100 --> 54:15.700 Understandest thou what thou readest and this is the best thing when you're going so winning down there 54:15.700 --> 54:20.740 It's like John 3 16 you're like for God so loved then they just start saying it and you're like hold up because you don't 54:20.740 --> 54:22.500 Even know what it means you have to 54:22.500 --> 54:28.020 Like just let me tell you, you know what it means first because they all tell you you got to live a good life 54:28.020 --> 54:33.680 Be a good person to go to heaven and then you're like for God to love the world and then they just start saying it and it's like 54:33.680 --> 54:38.960 Okay, you just said you have to live a good life. But then now what did you say when you quoted that verse, right? 54:38.960 --> 54:46.180 It's kind of crazy to think that people can know these verses by heart memory and in the Philippines not like just John 3 16 54:46.180 --> 54:48.960 It's like Romans 6 23 like they know these verses 54:49.700 --> 54:50.940 but they don't understand them. 54:50.940 --> 54:52.420 They think you have to repent of your sins, 54:52.420 --> 54:55.280 live a good life, be a good person, yet they know. 54:56.400 --> 55:00.040 these verses by heart. And you'll see that in verse 31, it says, 55:00.040 --> 55:04.240 And he said, How can I except some man should guide me? 55:04.240 --> 55:08.200 And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. 55:08.200 --> 55:12.440 So hey, you know, tons of people that are younger know these verses, 55:12.440 --> 55:15.880 but how can they know what it means unless somebody's gonna guide them, right? 55:15.880 --> 55:20.800 And in verse 35 it says, Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same 55:20.800 --> 55:21.760 scripture 55:21.760 --> 55:23.920 and preached unto him Jesus. 55:24.400 --> 55:28.240 So Philip had to explain the gospel to them, right? 55:28.240 --> 55:29.360 Philip had to get them saved. 55:29.360 --> 55:32.360 Philip had to show them all the stuff. 55:32.360 --> 55:34.400 But then not only did he get this guy saved, 55:34.400 --> 55:37.680 in verse 40 we'll continue with this trend. 55:38.200 --> 55:45.140 It says, but Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through he preached in all the cities 55:45.140 --> 55:47.800 till he came to Caesarea. 55:47.800 --> 55:52.380 So obviously, you know, hey, it is a lot of work to go to all the cities, preach everywhere, 55:52.380 --> 55:57.300 go to all the states, and go to all the countries, and do it all, but no one else is doing it, 55:57.300 --> 55:58.300 right? 55:58.300 --> 56:00.660 So that means that we have to do it because... 56:01.300 --> 56:03.300 If other people were doing it, we'd have to do it as much. 56:03.300 --> 56:06.300 But since there isn't, we have to do it. 56:06.300 --> 56:14.300 If you guys would, I'll have you guys flip over to Matthew chapter 7, 56:14.300 --> 56:17.300 and then I'll just read a few verses as you're turning there. 56:17.300 --> 56:21.300 It says in Acts 14, 6, it says... 56:22.200 --> 56:28.200 they were aware of it and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of like Haonia, and unto the region 56:28.200 --> 56:34.760 that lieth round about, and there they preached the gospel." So hey, they're fleeing to all these 56:34.760 --> 56:41.160 different cities and they're preaching the gospel, right? And the historian Mark 1615 56:42.100 --> 56:48.180 It says and he said to them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature 56:48.500 --> 56:51.640 So hey the Bible is clear and obviously we know these verses right? 56:51.640 --> 56:57.460 But it says to go to all the world and the reason is because even at Jesus time is the same as now 56:57.460 --> 57:01.320 There's not and anybody else really doing it all over right there is some 57:01.720 --> 57:05.380 Baptist churches here and there preaching or some individuals here and there 57:05.720 --> 57:10.060 But not enough so the the few people all over the world that are actually preaching they have 57:10.100 --> 57:13.940 to go to all the world because there are so many pockets all over the world that no one 57:13.940 --> 57:14.940 is doing it. 57:14.940 --> 57:15.940 Right? 57:15.940 --> 57:18.460 I mean, you wouldn't really necessarily have to go to all the world to preach the gospel 57:18.460 --> 57:22.900 if every single city had a good church that was doing soul winning, because then everybody 57:22.900 --> 57:25.140 would just do it in their area and then that's it. 57:25.140 --> 57:30.620 But since there's not, you have to go and preach all over the world because if you don't 57:30.620 --> 57:32.460 go no one is going. 57:32.460 --> 57:33.940 And it's kind of... 57:34.500 --> 57:39.100 sad, but it is the reality and that's why the Apostles they're going to all these different cities because 57:39.380 --> 57:45.320 There's no one in that town doing anything so they have to go and obviously it does cost a lot of money to travel right so 57:46.000 --> 57:50.720 You do have to work hard and it is kind of important to take your career serious, 57:50.720 --> 57:56.720 to try to make some money and to not just take job work and money serious. 57:56.720 --> 57:58.400 I know a big thing is, 57:58.400 --> 58:01.320 it's like the money is the root of all evil or whatever. 58:01.320 --> 58:02.800 But if you don't have any money, 58:02.800 --> 58:05.760 the sad reality is you're not going to be preaching the gospel all over the world, 58:05.760 --> 58:07.440 especially with gas prices now. 58:07.440 --> 58:13.880 So the sad reality is you do have to try to work and do things to- 58:14.000 --> 58:16.760 to make money because even just to come to church, 58:16.760 --> 58:18.640 I mean, just to have a vehicle and gas, 58:18.640 --> 58:21.040 especially when people drive in a lot of new 58:21.040 --> 58:23.640 Ivy type churches, they drive an hour, two hours. 58:23.640 --> 58:25.720 As gas and stuff gets more expensive 58:25.720 --> 58:27.920 and Trump's handing out these $5,000 checks 58:27.920 --> 58:29.680 and inflation goes up, right? 58:29.680 --> 58:31.920 So, you know, it's gonna cost a lot of money 58:31.920 --> 58:34.340 just to get to church, just to get to, you know, 58:34.340 --> 58:36.520 brother Jared knows when he goes to Alabama 58:36.520 --> 58:37.840 to do a soul winning marathon, like, 58:37.840 --> 58:39.800 it does cost money to drive down there. 58:39.800 --> 58:41.240 It's not like, they're not just giving 58:41.240 --> 58:42.000 the soul winners free. 58:42.000 --> 58:44.680 gas at the Love's gas station or whatever, right? 58:44.680 --> 58:46.860 So you do have to take stuff serious 58:46.860 --> 58:51.200 and try to have a good career because you have to, 58:51.200 --> 58:56.200 in most cases, fund these trips in order to be able to go. 58:56.340 --> 58:58.840 So there is an important part of... 58:59.300 --> 59:05.060 of trying to have money to do it. So if you guys are in Matthew chapter 7, this is point number 3, it says 59:05.780 --> 59:09.020 work salvation is sending people to hell all over the world, right? 59:09.020 --> 59:13.500 So a lot of people think different cultures and different things and like how do you know the right religion? 59:13.540 --> 59:18.700 It's kind of like well every single country you go to they believe in work salvation. So it's like pretty easy 59:19.420 --> 59:21.740 to see which one the right one is because the only 59:22.180 --> 59:27.180 thing that isn't work salvation is what the Bible says, right? It doesn't matter if you're in Jamaica, Barbados, 59:27.300 --> 59:32.940 Philippines like Canada, if you go to any other church like the Catholic Church or 59:32.940 --> 59:38.500 whatever it's you know Islam, Judaism, it's just work salvation. So you know it's 59:38.500 --> 59:42.420 pretty simple to figure out what's right it's just not work salvation because 59:42.420 --> 59:47.300 everybody preaches it. So Matthew 7 verse 22 59:47.600 --> 59:53.400 It says, Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy 59:53.400 --> 59:59.320 name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works? 59:59.320 --> 01:00:05.640 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:10.400 So here we see a group of people that say, 01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:14.400 hey, we prophesied in your name, we did many wonderful works, 01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:17.200 we cast out devils, right? So they did all this stuff. 01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:20.600 for Jesus and Jesus says, hey, like I never knew you. 01:00:20.600 --> 01:00:23.400 Because work salvation, doing good deeds, 01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:25.200 being a good person and doing this stuff 01:00:25.200 --> 01:00:28.400 doesn't make you saved and it doesn't, you know, 01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:29.700 give you everlasting life. 01:00:29.700 --> 01:00:30.900 So you could do all this great stuff 01:00:30.900 --> 01:00:32.400 and you're not gonna go to heaven, 01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:34.200 which, you know, obviously in Barbados, 01:00:34.200 --> 01:00:35.800 that's the big thing is, hey, you ask somebody, 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:36.600 how do you go to heaven? 01:00:36.600 --> 01:00:38.100 Believe in Jesus, be a good person. 01:00:38.100 --> 01:00:40.300 Believe in Jesus, follow the commandments. 01:00:40.300 --> 01:00:43.200 And, you know, one person I was talking to is two girls 01:00:43.200 --> 01:00:44.900 and that was a big thing is just, hey, 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:51.560 you shouldn't go around telling people and Barbados that they can just live however they want and still go to heaven because they're gonna do bad things. 01:00:51.560 --> 01:00:56.040 And it's like, yeah, I mean, obviously you shouldn't do bad things. I'm not saying you should. 01:00:56.040 --> 01:01:00.280 And most people that are doing bad things are doing it anyway, so it doesn't matter. But... 01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:07.800 That is what the Bible says. You can do bad things and that's why people like Samson, David, Saul went to heaven 01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:13.600 is because you can do bad things and go to heaven. I mean, obviously you shouldn't, but you know, if I do things against my parents 01:01:13.600 --> 01:01:19.200 doesn't change the fact that I'm their kid, right? I mean, nothing changes that. So, you know, just because you get offended at it 01:01:19.200 --> 01:01:24.400 doesn't mean like I'm going to not preach the Bible because you're offended. It's like, I didn't write the Bible. 01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:26.000 And I told that to a lady. It's like... 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:29.000 I showed a verse, and I can't remember what one it was, 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:33.320 maybe it was Romans 10, 9 or 10, 13 or something where it says, 01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:33.820 saved. 01:01:33.820 --> 01:01:36.200 Because it was weird because she believed, 01:01:36.200 --> 01:01:37.320 there was two people. 01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:39.820 One of them said you had to live a good life to go to heaven 01:01:39.820 --> 01:01:40.700 and believe in Jesus. 01:01:40.700 --> 01:01:42.800 The other one said it was everlasting life. 01:01:42.900 --> 01:01:46.400 But somehow you could lose it, and I can't remember. 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:48.400 I think it was like if you stopped believing or something, 01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:49.900 you could lose your salvation. 01:01:49.900 --> 01:01:52.400 And then the one that believed in work salvation, 01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:55.400 by the end she understood it, she got saved. 01:01:55.400 --> 01:01:57.400 She was on my side versus the other person. 01:01:57.400 --> 01:01:58.900 I was throwing the verse that said, save. 01:01:58.900 --> 01:02:00.900 And I asked, how long is that for? 01:02:00.900 --> 01:02:02.900 It's past tense with an ED. 01:02:02.900 --> 01:02:04.400 You guys are in university. 01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:06.900 When you're saved, past tense means it's done, right? 01:02:06.900 --> 01:02:08.400 And the one's like, yeah, it's over with. 01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:09.900 You have it. It's everlasting. 01:02:09.900 --> 01:02:10.900 And then the other one's like, well, 01:02:10.900 --> 01:02:12.340 if you don't believe. 01:02:12.340 --> 01:02:14.020 And I was like, and then she's like, 01:02:14.020 --> 01:02:16.060 you're telling me that I can stop believing 01:02:16.060 --> 01:02:16.880 and still go to heaven. 01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:17.720 I said, I'm not telling you nothing. 01:02:17.720 --> 01:02:18.920 I didn't write this. 01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:19.860 What does it say here? 01:02:19.860 --> 01:02:21.940 And then her friend's like, yeah, it's everlasting. 01:02:21.940 --> 01:02:24.000 And her friend just like calling her out. 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:25.460 And I was like, this is funny. 01:02:25.460 --> 01:02:28.060 But the one that said they believed in everlasting 01:02:28.060 --> 01:02:30.060 for some reason, like really didn't believe it 01:02:30.060 --> 01:02:31.780 and didn't even end up getting saved. 01:02:31.780 --> 01:02:33.100 So that was kind of weird. 01:02:33.100 --> 01:02:35.220 Cause I thought at first she was like, wow, 01:02:35.220 --> 01:02:36.100 she gave me the right answer. 01:02:36.100 --> 01:02:37.660 It's believe and it's everlasting. 01:02:37.660 --> 01:02:38.700 But then at the end. 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:40.800 She was the one arguing with the Bible. 01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:43.800 So I was like, man, this is kind of a weird situation here. 01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:45.800 But obviously the Bible is so clear on this. 01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.800 If you guys flip over to Acts chapter 16. 01:02:52.600 --> 01:03:00.520 I'm going to read Romans 11, 6. It says, and if by grace, then is it no more of works, 01:03:00.520 --> 01:03:05.960 otherwise grace is no more grace, but if it be of works, then is it no more grace, 01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:11.480 otherwise work is no more work. So obviously it's either, it can't be both, it's either free 01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:18.040 or it's not free. It's either of work or it's not of work. I mean, it can't be both. In Galatians 2, 16, 01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:23.920 It says, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:29.560 of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by 01:03:29.560 --> 01:03:33.560 the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law. 01:03:33.560 --> 01:03:38.920 And then, I love this end, it says, for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 01:03:38.920 --> 01:03:44.240 So not a single person, even the stupid pope, isn't going to be justified by works, even 01:03:44.240 --> 01:03:46.720 everything he does is wicked but even people look at that. 01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:52.060 is like, oh this great man of God and you know look at how like holy he is right 01:03:52.060 --> 01:03:56.140 he's got his dress on and you know whatever but you know like they put 01:03:56.140 --> 01:04:00.800 these people on a pedestal but it says for by the works of the 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:06.000 law shall no flesh be justified so even these high up ranking people and these 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:10.320 false religions they're not going to be justified by works and they don't believe 01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:13.880 in faith alone so they're going to hell I mean it's pretty easy people like think 01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:14.720 I think it's like this crazy thing. 01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:17.560 how do you know who's going to go to heaven and how do you know who's going to go to hell 01:04:17.560 --> 01:04:21.680 and you can't know and why would you judge people? It's like, because it's very easy. 01:04:21.680 --> 01:04:26.040 I mean, do you believe in works? Because here the Bible says, nobody's saved by works. So 01:04:26.040 --> 01:04:30.640 if you believe in works, you're not saved. I mean, it's not very complicated. So in verse 01:04:30.640 --> 01:04:35.360 21 in that same chapter, you have to turn there, it says, I do not frustrate the grace 01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:41.200 of God for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. So hey, if you 01:04:41.200 --> 01:04:42.800 could be righteous by the law than 01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:44.080 Why did Jesus even die? 01:04:44.080 --> 01:04:44.920 Why'd he come for? 01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:46.360 It doesn't make any sense. 01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:49.120 He would've just let you live your good life 01:04:49.120 --> 01:04:50.100 and you could've went to heaven 01:04:50.100 --> 01:04:52.080 and he wouldn't have had to suffer. 01:04:52.080 --> 01:04:55.200 I mean, it's kind of weird to think that Jesus 01:04:55.200 --> 01:04:57.600 would have to come down, die on the cross, 01:04:57.600 --> 01:04:59.940 and go to hell for everybody's sins, 01:04:59.940 --> 01:05:00.920 raise from the dead, 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:03.680 if you could just live a good life and go to heaven. 01:05:03.680 --> 01:05:05.080 It wouldn't make any sense. 01:05:05.080 --> 01:05:07.160 So in Acts 16, 28, 01:05:07.500 --> 01:05:14.820 It says, But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all 01:05:14.820 --> 01:05:15.820 here. 01:05:15.820 --> 01:05:21.080 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul 01:05:21.080 --> 01:05:26.700 and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Surs, what must I do to be saved? 01:05:27.200 --> 01:05:32.860 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved in thy house. 01:05:32.860 --> 01:05:38.260 So I love the word saved, and that's kind of what I'm going to do here, is kind of go 01:05:38.260 --> 01:05:41.340 through a bunch of examples of the word saved. 01:05:41.340 --> 01:05:43.960 So here it says, hey, what should I do to be saved? 01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:47.020 And then they tell them, believe, and you're going to be saved. 01:05:47.020 --> 01:05:51.700 So here's a definition. 01:05:52.100 --> 01:06:00.220 from Google AI. It says, in biblical and theological terms, saved, meaning to rescue, deliver, or 01:06:00.220 --> 01:06:05.860 make whole, is defined as the complete and permanent deliverance of a person from the 01:06:05.860 --> 01:06:13.820 power, penalty, and ultimate presence of sin through faith in Jesus Christ. So hey, AI 01:06:13.820 --> 01:06:14.820 AI even knows, right? 01:06:14.820 --> 01:06:16.100 I mean, AI's on fire. 01:06:16.100 --> 01:06:18.740 Like if AI, like... 01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:20.840 AI would know how to be saved. 01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:25.520 Like, AI could go to heaven if it had a soul, right? 01:06:25.520 --> 01:06:28.520 So I love Google AI. 01:06:28.520 --> 01:06:31.160 The sermon's sponsored by Gemini. 01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:35.880 You guys don't have to turn to these so you know them by heart, but hey, it says if you're 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:37.760 saved, it's over, right? 01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:42.760 You're rescued, you're delivered, you're made whole, it's permanent deliverance. 01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:46.640 So these verses are so clear, it says in Romans 10, 9, it says that, 01:06:46.640 --> 01:06:50.640 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine 01:06:50.640 --> 01:06:54.600 heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 01:06:54.600 --> 01:06:56.360 And verse 13 says, 01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:58.560 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord 01:06:58.560 --> 01:06:59.200 shall be saved. 01:06:59.200 --> 01:07:07.200 You guys can flip over to John 4 and it says in Acts 11, 14 it says, 01:07:07.200 --> 01:07:11.140 as, Who shall tell thee words whereby thou... 01:07:12.200 --> 01:07:17.240 all thy house shall be saved." Titus 3.5 it says, not by works of 01:07:17.240 --> 01:07:22.100 righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by 01:07:22.100 --> 01:07:28.340 the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Ephesians 2.8 it says, 01:07:28.340 --> 01:07:33.960 for by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift 01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:35.900 of God. So 01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:45.120 Here it says regular verbs, you add ed to show an action happened in the past. 01:07:45.120 --> 01:07:50.440 For example, walk becomes walked and save becomes saved. 01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:55.080 So hey, AI says it again, hey, when you add an ed at the end of a word, it means it's 01:07:55.080 --> 01:07:56.240 already happened in the past. 01:07:56.240 --> 01:07:59.120 If something happened in the past, it can't change. 01:07:59.120 --> 01:08:00.680 So when God says you're saved. 01:08:00.900 --> 01:08:05.580 Just like you walk, you walked, you already walked, you can't like not walk. 01:08:05.580 --> 01:08:10.180 If I said, hey I walked from here to the door, like there's nothing I can do to change that. 01:08:10.180 --> 01:08:11.380 I already walked there, right? 01:08:11.380 --> 01:08:12.860 I can't time travel. 01:08:12.860 --> 01:08:16.580 So if I become saved, it means I'm already saved, it can't change. 01:08:16.580 --> 01:08:18.340 So all these verses are just so clear. 01:08:18.340 --> 01:08:21.700 You're saved, saved, and then you can do the same thing with everlasting life, you can 01:08:21.700 --> 01:08:23.540 do the same thing with eternal life. 01:08:23.540 --> 01:08:28.100 There's just tons of different ways you can use it, but when it's saved, it's already 01:08:28.100 --> 01:08:28.900 done. 01:08:28.900 --> 01:08:30.300 I mean, it's just so clear. 01:08:30.300 --> 01:08:33.460 And then in John 4.13, it says, 01:08:33.460 --> 01:08:35.940 Jesus answered and said unto her, 01:08:35.940 --> 01:08:40.300 whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, 01:08:40.300 --> 01:08:44.260 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him 01:08:44.260 --> 01:08:48.220 shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him 01:08:48.220 --> 01:08:51.500 shall be in him a well of water 01:08:51.500 --> 01:08:54.180 springing up into everlasting life. 01:08:54.180 --> 01:08:55.140 So hey. 01:08:55.600 --> 01:09:00.000 The Bible is clear, hey, once you drink of that water that Jesus gives, it's everlasting life, 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:04.240 because you're saved, it's everlasting, it's eternal, and it never ends. 01:09:05.360 --> 01:09:11.200 You guys can flip over to Matthew chapter 19. 01:09:20.300 --> 01:09:24.900 So, the next point, I'm going to skip some verses I had for sake of time, but the next 01:09:24.900 --> 01:09:27.300 point is just money makes people less receptive. 01:09:27.300 --> 01:09:31.460 So, obviously money, like I said, it's good when you're a soul winner and you're using 01:09:31.460 --> 01:09:37.100 it for the good things and you're using it to go on mission trips, preach the gospel, 01:09:37.100 --> 01:09:41.140 but if you're not saved or you're using it for bad things, money can make you not go 01:09:41.140 --> 01:09:48.300 to heaven because when you have a lot of money, you're less interested in the things of God. 01:09:48.300 --> 01:09:54.200 And the Bible makes it clear in Revelation chapter 3 verse 17 it says, Because thou sayest 01:09:54.200 --> 01:09:59.780 I am rich and increased with goods, and I have need of nothing, and knowest not that 01:09:59.780 --> 01:10:04.680 thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. 01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:08.140 So hey, when you're rich, you have lots of goods, you might not know. 01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:12.280 things that you should write that I mean it'd be important to know that you're 01:10:12.280 --> 01:10:15.800 naked you're miserable right like all the stuff but when you have lots of 01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:21.980 money you don't even realize that so Barbados and some of the reasons some 01:10:21.980 --> 01:10:25.120 people thought it was less receptive was they thought they said it was one of the 01:10:25.120 --> 01:10:29.120 wealthiest in the Caribbean so I looked it up and it says Barbados is widely 01:10:29.120 --> 01:10:31.100 recognized as the wealthiest 01:10:31.300 --> 01:10:35.900 most developed and most stable nation in the East Caribbean. 01:10:35.900 --> 01:10:40.300 So Barbados consistently ranks among the highest in the Caribbean 01:10:40.300 --> 01:10:43.100 on the UN's Human Development Index, 01:10:43.100 --> 01:10:49.100 which measures overall wealth, literacy, life expectancy, and living standards. 01:10:49.100 --> 01:10:50.300 And, uh... 01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:54.320 their dollar is actually really good. Like for the US to Philippine money it's 01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:57.340 one dollar US is sixty dollars in the Philippines 01:10:57.340 --> 01:11:00.800 whereas in Barbados one dollar US is only two dollars. 01:11:01.200 --> 01:11:07.000 in Barbados is actually very close and it's actually been the same since 1975. 01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:12.400 Whereas the Canadian dollar fluctuates. Right now, $1.00 USD is like... 01:11:12.400 --> 01:11:17.200 or would be more. But I guess $1.00 Canadian is 70 cents USD. 01:11:17.200 --> 01:11:20.100 So I guess $1.00 USD is like $1.30 Canadian. 01:11:20.100 --> 01:11:22.600 So, you know, Barbados is actually really... 01:11:23.300 --> 01:11:26.000 Close to that, I mean, obviously a little bit less, 01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:27.600 but for a small little island, 01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:29.300 that's actually really, really good. 01:11:29.300 --> 01:11:32.100 So they're actually pretty smart, too. 01:11:32.100 --> 01:11:34.300 In Barbados, it says... 01:11:34.500 --> 01:11:44.500 In Barbados has historically supported robust public systems, including a 99% adult literacy rate, 01:11:44.500 --> 01:11:49.500 strong healthcare coverage, and well-maintained public infrastructure. 01:11:49.500 --> 01:11:55.500 So you know, 99% literacy rate is good, because I don't even know if you went down south like Mississippi or Alabama or something, 01:11:55.500 --> 01:11:57.500 like it probably wouldn't be that good. 01:11:57.500 --> 01:12:02.460 But for a small, little, tiny island, all it did up was only like 166 miles. 01:12:02.500 --> 01:12:03.940 he drove around the whole island. 01:12:03.940 --> 01:12:06.220 So like three hour drive with no traffic 01:12:06.220 --> 01:12:07.580 to get all the way around. 01:12:08.700 --> 01:12:12.060 So, you know, their economy's really good. 01:12:12.060 --> 01:12:14.180 And there was actually some people I got saved 01:12:14.180 --> 01:12:17.480 that were there and they were from Jamaica 01:12:17.480 --> 01:12:19.100 and they went there just for work. 01:12:19.100 --> 01:12:22.300 So, you know, there's a guy at the mall that got saved 01:12:22.300 --> 01:12:24.580 and he told me he's from Jamaica 01:12:24.580 --> 01:12:25.660 and was there just to work, 01:12:25.660 --> 01:12:27.200 because it's a better economy. 01:12:27.200 --> 01:12:29.220 And, you know, he got saved. 01:12:29.220 --> 01:12:30.500 Whereas like Jamaica... 01:12:30.500 --> 01:12:32.840 The kids didn't take school nearly as serious, 01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:34.460 and maybe it's just that people in Barrios 01:12:34.460 --> 01:12:35.780 weren't interested, but you talk to people 01:12:35.780 --> 01:12:37.260 and they say, I'm late for class, 01:12:37.260 --> 01:12:39.180 or I gotta get to class, I'm not trying to talk. 01:12:39.180 --> 01:12:42.400 Whereas like Jamaica, you could hear the school starting 01:12:42.400 --> 01:12:44.420 and they'd be like, everybody to class or whatever, 01:12:44.420 --> 01:12:46.840 and they would just talk to you on the street. 01:12:46.840 --> 01:12:50.480 They don't care, all day there's kids walking around. 01:12:50.480 --> 01:12:53.100 It's just like, you always have soul-wanting opportunities 01:12:53.100 --> 01:12:56.600 if people aren't taking the school nearly that serious. 01:12:56.600 --> 01:12:58.500 Whereas here it seemed like they actually do. 01:12:58.500 --> 01:13:09.060 take it pretty serious. So, you guys are in Matthew 19, I believe, right? So, Matthew 01:13:09.060 --> 01:13:12.660 19, verse number 16, it says, 01:13:12.660 --> 01:13:20.260 And behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I 01:13:20.260 --> 01:13:22.960 may have eternal life? 01:13:22.960 --> 01:13:25.120 So here we see somebody. 01:13:25.500 --> 01:13:27.500 that kind of has a bad question, right? 01:13:27.500 --> 01:13:28.500 Because it says, 01:13:28.500 --> 01:13:31.500 Good Master, what good thing shall I do 01:13:31.500 --> 01:13:32.500 that I may have eternal life? 01:13:32.500 --> 01:13:34.500 So the question isn't like, 01:13:34.500 --> 01:13:35.500 what do I need to be saved? 01:13:35.500 --> 01:13:36.500 Like the other guy, 01:13:36.500 --> 01:13:38.500 this is asking like, what good thing? 01:13:38.500 --> 01:13:40.500 So he's thinking about his works, right? 01:13:40.500 --> 01:13:42.500 He's saying, hey, what good do I have to do 01:13:42.500 --> 01:13:43.500 to go to heaven? 01:13:43.500 --> 01:13:44.500 Right? He's not thinking like, 01:13:44.500 --> 01:13:46.500 hey, what must I need to be saved? 01:13:46.500 --> 01:13:48.500 He's like, hey, what's some good works I can do? 01:13:48.500 --> 01:13:51.400 So he's already got a bad mindset from the beginning. 01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:54.780 And we'll continue in verse number 17. 01:13:54.780 --> 01:13:57.520 It says, And he said unto them, Why callest thou me good? 01:13:57.520 --> 01:14:00.840 There is none good but one, that is God. 01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.100 But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 01:14:04.100 --> 01:14:05.640 He saith unto him, Which? 01:14:05.640 --> 01:14:10.760 Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not 01:14:10.760 --> 01:14:14.320 steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, honor thy father and thy mother. 01:14:15.000 --> 01:14:17.640 And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 01:14:17.640 --> 01:14:20.040 And the young man saith unto him, 01:14:20.040 --> 01:14:22.600 All these things have I kept for my youth up. 01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:23.720 What lack I yet? 01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:25.480 So again, the guy at the beginning is asking, 01:14:25.480 --> 01:14:28.040 like, what good work can I do to go to heaven? 01:14:28.040 --> 01:14:30.920 And then Jesus is like, you need to, like, do all the stuff, right? 01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:33.560 Don't commit murder and to love your parents, 01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:35.240 love your neighbor as yourself. 01:14:35.240 --> 01:14:38.120 And then the guy still doesn't click and say, like, 01:14:38.120 --> 01:14:39.640 hey, like, I haven't done that. 01:14:39.640 --> 01:14:40.360 I've sinned. 01:14:40.360 --> 01:14:41.160 I'm not perfect. 01:14:41.160 --> 01:14:42.960 and you know. 01:14:43.000 --> 01:14:48.120 He says like hey, like I've done all that from my youth. It's obviously isn't true. It's like the same thing if you show somebody like 01:14:49.760 --> 01:14:51.000 Revelation 01:14:51.100 --> 01:14:55.120 And you're like, hey, all liars shall have their part in the lake which burned up a fire 01:14:55.120 --> 01:14:56.120 and brimstone. 01:14:56.120 --> 01:14:57.420 And they're like, I've never lied. 01:14:57.420 --> 01:14:58.420 It's like, what do you do? 01:14:58.420 --> 01:15:00.880 You're just like, all right, well, have a good one. 01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:02.440 You can't be saved at that point. 01:15:02.440 --> 01:15:07.900 So there's no point in Jesus continuing with them because he's already, step one is recognizing 01:15:07.900 --> 01:15:08.900 you've sinned. 01:15:08.900 --> 01:15:12.020 So if you can't get past step one, it's just a lost cause. 01:15:12.020 --> 01:15:16.980 So Jesus is trying to still get them to think, hey, you're not perfect, you've sinned. 01:15:16.980 --> 01:15:18.400 verse 21. 01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:24.640 It says, Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and 01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:29.080 give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come and follow me. 01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:31.440 So, that's a big thing to do, right? 01:15:31.440 --> 01:15:34.760 I mean, you kind of read over it, but if you're rich and you have to sell everything that 01:15:34.760 --> 01:15:40.560 you have and you have to follow Jesus, who's obviously doing a lot of work, some hard work, 01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:43.920 and He's going to be crucified and people are going to be trying to kill the apostles 01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:45.360 soon and everything. 01:15:45.360 --> 01:15:48.080 So it's actually a lot of ask here. 01:15:48.080 --> 01:15:50.680 And the dude again could say, hey, I can't do that. 01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:54.000 What else can I do? Like, I'm a sinner, I'm not perfect. 01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:57.000 But instead of doing that, it says in verse 22, it says, 01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:02.000 But when the young man heard that, saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:07.000 So again, instead of saying, hey, I'm a sinner, I need somebody to save me, I can't do that, 01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:13.000 you know, like, that's too much to ask, instead he just goes away and cries. 01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:16.000 He's sorrowful, right? I mean, he's not going to get saved. 01:16:17.100 --> 01:16:20.000 So Jesus in verse 23 says, 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:21.540 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, 01:16:21.540 --> 01:16:23.300 Verily I say unto you that a rich man 01:16:23.300 --> 01:16:26.440 Shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 01:16:26.440 --> 01:16:28.560 And again I say unto you it is easier 01:16:28.560 --> 01:16:31.360 For a camel to go through the eye of a needle 01:16:31.360 --> 01:16:34.500 Than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. 01:16:36.140 --> 01:16:38.940 So hey, obviously, that's a... 01:16:39.100 --> 01:16:44.100 Hard saying right I mean to think that like a camel going through the eye of a needle is easier than a rich man 01:16:44.100 --> 01:16:48.420 To go to heaven so obviously being rich can be really bad if you're not saved 01:16:48.420 --> 01:16:54.000 I mean they could cost you to go to hell right I mean some rich people get so messed up like Trump 01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:56.540 It's just like you got a vote to go to heaven. I mean man 01:16:57.100 --> 01:17:02.700 You know you better guys better register to vote and you get five thousand think about you vote you get 01:17:03.060 --> 01:17:05.160 $5,000 and you get to go to heaven. I mean man 01:17:05.700 --> 01:17:07.160 Right? That's crazy. 01:17:07.160 --> 01:17:09.600 So better sign up to vote. 01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:14.700 So number five is the young generations want the truth. 01:17:14.700 --> 01:17:18.500 So obviously, you know, we know this a lot, 01:17:18.500 --> 01:17:19.500 going out soul-winding, right? 01:17:19.500 --> 01:17:21.300 I mean, the young people want to get saved. 01:17:21.300 --> 01:17:24.000 The only thing that kind of, 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:25.100 and I haven't done it in a long time, 01:17:25.100 --> 01:17:26.700 but when I lived in Michigan... 01:17:26.900 --> 01:17:29.480 with Matt Powell's family, 01:17:29.480 --> 01:17:31.920 he used to go to these nursing homes all the time. 01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:33.780 So it's funny, because most older people 01:17:33.780 --> 01:17:35.760 don't want to get saved, especially at the door, 01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:36.860 but when they go to the nursing home, 01:17:36.860 --> 01:17:37.900 it's like the reverse. 01:17:37.900 --> 01:17:39.680 It's like they all want to get saved. 01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:41.760 So it's like, once they get to the nursing home, 01:17:41.760 --> 01:17:44.920 they're back at that receptive stage, like a circle. 01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:46.980 And we went to this nursing home, 01:17:46.980 --> 01:17:49.560 and it's the first time my brother ever went soul hunting. 01:17:49.560 --> 01:17:51.620 And we did five rooms. 01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:56.720 And then like Matt Paul's dad and mom did some other rooms and their brothers or whatever. 01:17:56.720 --> 01:18:00.720 But like, you know, my brother, every single room went to five of them and all of them got saved. 01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:05.200 We had five salvations and he was like, man, is it always like this? I was like, it's never like this. 01:18:06.080 --> 01:18:10.880 You know, but actually it was really good. But then once COVID happened, it was like, 01:18:11.440 --> 01:18:16.560 you couldn't get in anymore. So I stopped, stopped going. But it might be worth trying now, 01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:19.920 you know, the way is like you call the nursing home and like, hey, we're the church. Like we just 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:24.500 talk to the old people and give them some Bible stuff and usually they're just like, 01:18:24.500 --> 01:18:28.640 yeah come on in. So it's kind of nice like he would just call and get us in. 01:18:30.500 --> 01:18:36.100 They were really, really receptive, but overall, young people are the most receptive worldwide. 01:18:36.100 --> 01:18:40.580 I mean, they just want to know the truth, and they really want to get saved, and especially in 01:18:40.580 --> 01:18:45.860 these other countries. It seems like the older generations have already turned their back against 01:18:45.860 --> 01:18:50.180 God. They're already going down the Roman's one or something. They don't want to hear nothing. 01:18:50.180 --> 01:18:53.620 They don't care. They're not interested, but the young people want to know, and they're 01:18:53.620 --> 01:18:58.260 super interested. They want to get saved, and they love hearing the truth. So if you guys have 01:18:58.500 --> 01:19:01.140 over to Psalms chapter 78. 01:19:06.600 --> 01:19:12.840 And obviously even in our movement and things, you know, like, it's all young people, right? 01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:15.800 You go to these mission trips and most of the people there are younger. 01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:20.280 They're, you know, in their 20s, 30s, and they're doing great works. 01:19:20.280 --> 01:19:23.880 And like, it's kind of nice to see some people have like... 01:19:24.100 --> 01:19:30.780 Brother Marcel at steadfast like he has two kids that he brought with him on the mission trip and I can't remember their age 01:19:30.780 --> 01:19:34.020 But they're pretty young and they went like at the school 01:19:34.020 --> 01:19:37.020 We sit outside but like they're so young and small like that baby 01:19:37.020 --> 01:19:41.600 Just kind of like snuck into the gate and like they're getting people say they're trying to heal saved in the school and they had 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:44.720 Their first salivations on the mission trips is cool 01:19:44.720 --> 01:19:47.360 It's like they're like this tall again people say it and stuff 01:19:47.360 --> 01:19:52.100 They're like sneaking in the school and I was like if you could get them the same uniform that the students have 01:19:52.100 --> 01:19:53.860 like he'd get like boots on the ground, 01:19:53.860 --> 01:19:55.520 like he could just put him in the uniform, 01:19:55.520 --> 01:19:57.440 send him on the bus or whatever, 01:19:57.440 --> 01:19:59.860 and just like undercover like soul running all day, 01:19:59.860 --> 01:20:01.740 like at the school getting people saved. 01:20:01.740 --> 01:20:04.980 So once my baby gets older, that's what I'll do. 01:20:04.980 --> 01:20:07.620 I'll get her like the uniform they have in the Philippines, 01:20:07.620 --> 01:20:08.620 but all right, like your job, 01:20:08.620 --> 01:20:10.660 we're dropping you off at a different school every day 01:20:10.660 --> 01:20:12.860 and just go in the school and just get people saved 01:20:12.860 --> 01:20:15.340 and then come back or whatever, right? 01:20:15.340 --> 01:20:18.360 Just a joke, but it is, it is encouraging to see that 01:20:18.360 --> 01:20:20.100 like people, young people, even. 01:20:20.100 --> 01:20:26.500 even young teenagers can just do great works for God just right off the bat. 01:20:26.500 --> 01:20:30.060 Whereas in the old IB, a lot of them are getting older, right? 01:20:30.060 --> 01:20:32.700 A lot of them are boomers, they're not doing the work, they're not doing soul learning 01:20:32.700 --> 01:20:33.700 because they're just like... 01:20:33.700 --> 01:20:35.700 We went to one church and it was massive. 01:20:35.700 --> 01:20:39.400 I mean, why have we visited like a random church in a... 01:20:39.900 --> 01:20:47.820 our area and there's this massive church versus like rows of big you know like like say like this 01:20:47.820 --> 01:20:53.580 long or whatever and it was like 80 rows back you'd probably feel like 400 people in the church 01:20:53.580 --> 01:20:58.780 and we're sitting there there's like no one there and there was like six people and they were all 01:20:58.780 --> 01:21:00.500 like in their 80s 01:21:00.500 --> 01:21:02.500 That was all they had left. 01:21:02.500 --> 01:21:07.500 That church at one point probably had most of those things filled, but everybody just died off. 01:21:07.500 --> 01:21:12.500 They're not doing any work because they're all old and they never got replenished. 01:21:12.500 --> 01:21:17.500 But a lot of smaller old IV churches are like that, where it's just a lot of old people. 01:21:17.500 --> 01:21:22.500 It's sad that once they're gone, the church is just gone because no one's there. 01:21:22.500 --> 01:21:26.660 this one church, we were given a building, this pastor... 01:21:28.200 --> 01:21:31.760 had some stuff happen and he left the church, 01:21:31.760 --> 01:21:34.000 or we all kind of broke away from the church 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:35.520 and we were meeting at a park and stuff 01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:38.120 because there was a crazy new IFB guy 01:21:38.120 --> 01:21:40.880 that pretty much took over the church 01:21:40.880 --> 01:21:42.800 and showed up at the meeting with this big gun 01:21:42.800 --> 01:21:44.680 and this huge clip coming out the back 01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:46.880 and was like, you guys are greedy, a filthy lucre, 01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:48.960 and me and the pastor or whatever, 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:50.560 even though he wasn't taking a paycheck, 01:21:50.560 --> 01:21:52.120 and obviously I didn't get anything. 01:21:52.120 --> 01:21:53.260 But anyway, he took over the church, 01:21:53.260 --> 01:21:54.760 so we were just meeting at parks, 01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:56.040 and then this old, 01:21:56.040 --> 01:21:56.200 I 01:21:56.200 --> 01:22:02.040 B church had like six members that were all like super old and they just gave us a free building and 01:22:02.760 --> 01:22:04.980 We just like merged the churches or whatever 01:22:04.980 --> 01:22:09.260 So like it's kind of sad these churches at one time had a lot of people but you know 01:22:09.260 --> 01:22:14.800 The the older generations obviously dying off or you know, I don't know if they they quit church or whatever 01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:19.340 But the young people need to step up and take that place and the Bible 01:22:19.900 --> 01:22:25.660 puts a big emphasis on this younger generation in Psalm 78 verse 1. It says, 01:22:25.660 --> 01:22:31.820 Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 01:22:32.460 --> 01:22:37.260 I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark sayings of old, 01:22:38.380 --> 01:22:42.380 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us, 01:22:42.380 --> 01:22:47.380 Will we not hide them from their children? 01:22:48.100 --> 01:22:55.400 showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done. 01:22:55.400 --> 01:22:59.900 For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, 01:22:59.900 --> 01:23:05.400 which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children, 01:23:05.400 --> 01:23:10.800 that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born. 01:23:11.100 --> 01:23:20.900 who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments." 01:23:20.900 --> 01:23:28.800 So hey, the Bible's making a great point, right? That, hey, you need to be showing the generation to come, you need to be teaching things to the children. 01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:34.200 And it's kind of sad, you know, it seems like the boomer generation, the older generations, like, didn't do that. 01:23:34.200 --> 01:23:39.000 And that's kind of why, like, a lot of, at least in my family, it's like no one ever even really talked about God, like... 01:23:39.100 --> 01:23:44.700 I knew Jesus existed and stuff, but it wasn't like an emphasis on teaching the Word of God 01:23:44.700 --> 01:23:47.020 and all these things. 01:23:47.020 --> 01:23:51.960 You see the statistics about how many people used to go to church, and then now, it has 01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:55.960 to be just a big portion of that, is just the parents not passing it down, like the 01:23:55.960 --> 01:23:59.100 Bible commands of, you need to teach your children. 01:23:59.100 --> 01:24:03.820 And obviously the public schools, what people did is drop your kids off at the public school 01:24:03.820 --> 01:24:04.420 and they teach them. 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:09.880 But I mean the Bible wants you to teach your kids about God, teach other people's kids 01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:13.760 like hey when we go preach the gospel we're teaching other people's kids about God and 01:24:13.760 --> 01:24:20.440 saying hey like it's believed, it's a free gift and get in church, watch these documentaries 01:24:20.440 --> 01:24:23.320 and do great works for God. 01:24:23.320 --> 01:24:26.240 So if you guys have flipped over to 2 Kings chapter 12. 01:24:31.300 --> 01:24:33.700 So I'm going to read from Numbers 14 quick. 01:24:33.700 --> 01:24:36.260 It says, in verse 29, you have to turn there, 01:24:36.260 --> 01:24:39.940 it says, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, 01:24:39.940 --> 01:24:42.300 and all that were numbered of you 01:24:42.300 --> 01:24:46.540 according to your whole number from 20 years old and upward, 01:24:46.540 --> 01:24:48.580 which have murmured against me. 01:24:48.580 --> 01:24:51.580 So here, God's saying, hey, anybody 01:24:52.200 --> 01:24:56.360 20 years old and upward isn't going to make it in the promised land. 01:24:56.360 --> 01:25:01.400 So God's saying, hey, the older generation, you guys are punished, you guys are done, 01:25:01.400 --> 01:25:04.100 you guys aren't going to inherit the promises. 01:25:04.100 --> 01:25:07.640 And God is dealing with this old generation. 01:25:07.640 --> 01:25:12.920 It says in verse 30, doubtless, ye shall not come into the land concerning which I swear 01:25:12.920 --> 01:25:18.660 to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephaniah and Joshua the son of Nun, 01:25:18.660 --> 01:25:20.180 your little ones with 01:25:20.200 --> 01:25:26.900 which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which 01:25:26.900 --> 01:25:28.640 ye have despised. 01:25:28.640 --> 01:25:33.040 But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness." 01:25:33.040 --> 01:25:38.880 So hey, even great people like Moses didn't get to go to the promised land, and God said, 01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:41.760 hey, we're going to start over, we're going to have a clean slate. 01:25:41.760 --> 01:25:45.580 And it's crazy that the way God's talking to these older people, it says, your carcasses 01:25:45.580 --> 01:25:47.680 shall fall in the wilderness. 01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:48.180 It says. 01:25:48.200 --> 01:25:51.980 your little ones are going to get it but the land that you guys despise and 01:25:51.980 --> 01:25:55.680 that's a bad punishment right I mean you don't want to be in that group of God 01:25:55.680 --> 01:26:01.220 judging a whole generation and you know a lot of the older people in America 01:26:01.220 --> 01:26:04.440 seem like they're falling to this where like they just like especially with 01:26:04.440 --> 01:26:08.080 Trump you watch these crowds of him just saying the most blasphemous things 01:26:08.080 --> 01:26:12.960 there's just these boomers just like praising and clapping and like you know 01:26:12.960 --> 01:26:16.200 just like going nuts for Trump and it's like man you 01:26:16.200 --> 01:26:20.680 You guys are in danger of like, you guys are the ones bringing in the judgment of the Muslim 01:26:20.680 --> 01:26:21.680 hordes. 01:26:21.680 --> 01:26:23.400 I mean, you know, it's pretty easy to see. 01:26:23.400 --> 01:26:27.280 Like you read the Bible and you see the punishments that God has, and then you see the Muslim 01:26:27.280 --> 01:26:31.080 hordes coming in and these like Trump people are like, Trump's going to deport all the 01:26:31.080 --> 01:26:32.080 Muslims. 01:26:32.080 --> 01:26:37.360 And it's like, no, because God's judging you because you guys are too stupid to see 01:26:37.360 --> 01:26:42.800 that you turned your back on God and God's bringing that judgment of these, these Muslim 01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:44.160 hordes on you. 01:26:44.200 --> 01:26:53.540 you know, Trump is not going to save you. So in 2 Kings 12, verse number 6, it says, 01:26:53.540 --> 01:26:59.620 But it was so that in the three and twentieth year of King Josiah the priest 01:26:59.620 --> 01:27:02.700 had not repaired the breaches of the house. 01:27:02.900 --> 01:27:08.500 Then King Josiah called for Jehoiada the priest and the other priests, and said unto them, 01:27:08.500 --> 01:27:11.620 Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? 01:27:11.620 --> 01:27:16.760 Now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches 01:27:16.760 --> 01:27:18.140 of the house." 01:27:18.140 --> 01:27:23.680 So you know the old generation, even good guys like Jehoiada, you know, he allowed there 01:27:23.680 --> 01:27:26.620 to be breaches in the house of God, and the young guy... 01:27:27.100 --> 01:27:30.400 is having to say, hey, we need to fix the breaches. 01:27:30.400 --> 01:27:33.700 We need to get God's house in order. 01:27:33.700 --> 01:27:35.800 And, you know, obviously today... 01:27:35.900 --> 01:27:38.540 you know, the boomers have breaches all over the country 01:27:38.540 --> 01:27:41.100 or the country falling apart because they keep voting in 01:27:41.100 --> 01:27:44.140 just the stupidest pro-Israel people. 01:27:44.140 --> 01:27:46.380 And the same thing in the House of God. 01:27:46.380 --> 01:27:49.940 You have just all these old people and these preachers 01:27:49.940 --> 01:27:52.140 and a lot of the younger people too 01:27:52.140 --> 01:27:56.540 that they've allowed to have these fun centers 01:27:56.540 --> 01:27:59.740 and these pastors that are just lying and making up stuff. 01:27:59.740 --> 01:28:02.340 And there needs to be that young generation to come in 01:28:02.340 --> 01:28:03.900 and to repair the breaches of the House. 01:28:03.900 --> 01:28:08.940 of God and say, hey, we need to get back to the right Bible, the right doctrine, we need 01:28:08.940 --> 01:28:11.060 to preach the right things. 01:28:11.060 --> 01:28:13.500 And it's not just in America, it's all over the world. 01:28:13.500 --> 01:28:17.700 You go to every single country, you go to the Philippines and the Baptists, it's all 01:28:17.700 --> 01:28:21.300 repent of your sins and they're preaching false gospels. 01:28:21.300 --> 01:28:22.800 You know, it's sad because... 01:28:22.900 --> 01:28:25.500 People in the past have laid down a good foundation. 01:28:25.500 --> 01:28:28.300 There needs to be that young generation that comes in and says, 01:28:28.300 --> 01:28:32.900 Hey, we're going to repair the breaches that are everywhere, right? 01:28:32.900 --> 01:28:37.700 I mean, it seems like there's too much to even think that you could fix. 01:28:37.700 --> 01:28:42.900 But at the same time, you know, God could just wipe away a whole generation like he did with Israel. 01:28:42.900 --> 01:28:46.600 And you start from scratch and say, Hey, you guys can inherit the promised land. 01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:50.900 If you know, if there's enough people going out soul winning and doing great works for God, I don't see why. 01:28:50.900 --> 01:28:55.300 God couldn't do that for us and say hey you know we're not going to bring in the 01:28:55.300 --> 01:29:00.500 socialism from you know Trump or Memdani I mean both of them are socialists we're 01:29:00.500 --> 01:29:03.820 going to have some good people because you guys are doing good work and I don't 01:29:03.820 --> 01:29:08.000 want you guys to not be able to go on mission trips and to do things so you 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:13.300 know we're gonna I'm gonna allow you to have prosperity until you know we die or 01:29:13.300 --> 01:29:15.700 whatever so you know it's not necessarily that 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:20.480 things could just keep getting worse and worse if you live right. I mean the Bible is super clear, 01:29:20.480 --> 01:29:24.640 right? The Bible says, hey, if my people shall humble themselves, you know, God's going to heal 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:29.520 your land, right? I mean, if we all live right and we sow in and do the right things, there's no reason 01:29:29.520 --> 01:29:34.880 that God couldn't bless our state, our city, our country, or, you know, maybe it's not America, 01:29:34.880 --> 01:29:39.200 but maybe God, you know, turns everybody in the Philippines just getting saved. Maybe the 01:29:39.200 --> 01:29:42.720 the Philippines, we're all going to go and just move there and start churches or you 01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:44.000 know, Pastor Shelley, I think. 01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:48.440 says Bahamas, right? I mean, not necessarily that America has to be, but God could allow 01:29:48.440 --> 01:29:53.320 us to have a certain place that we can go and prosper, you know, and hopefully it's 01:29:53.320 --> 01:29:56.920 America because, you know, I mean, I already live here so I don't really want to necessarily 01:29:56.920 --> 01:30:03.640 move everything, but hey, Philippines is one, America is one A and Philippines is one B, 01:30:03.640 --> 01:30:09.720 so you know, if God allows the Philippines to be the place to go, but you know, the thing 01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:11.880 The thing is, if wherever you want to be... 01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:17.880 You just want to reach people and to change that area because the more people had a right to that area the better chance 01:30:18.120 --> 01:30:21.200 That God's gonna let it prosper right? I mean if you allow 01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:26.000 Indiana to become like California then you know it's not gonna prosper 01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:29.480 But if you go so winning and give people save and teach people the truth 01:30:29.680 --> 01:30:37.240 You know God could bless Indiana especially in America like just because America goes bad doesn't necessarily mean every state has to go bad because 01:30:37.720 --> 01:30:40.000 Obviously, you know different states are on different levels 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:45.320 and you know the more work that we do the better chance our area can be good 01:30:45.320 --> 01:30:49.000 right so obviously if you get everybody saved in your area you don't have to 01:30:49.000 --> 01:30:52.520 worry about your area being Sodom and Gomorrah because once you're saved you 01:30:52.520 --> 01:30:56.880 can't be a refurbished right so we'll close with a word of prayer thank you 01:30:56.880 --> 01:30:58.000 Lord for 01:30:58.100 --> 01:31:05.100 A great day in church. Thank you for allowing us to have great preaching and great leadership 01:31:05.220 --> 01:31:11.660 to keep us going strong and please keep us safe as we travel and just continue to let 01:31:11.660 --> 01:31:14.860 us do great works for you throughout the rest of the year. We love you and thank you and 01:31:14.860 --> 01:31:16.020 in Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 01:31:19.400 --> 01:31:21.400 Alright, amen. 01:31:21.400 --> 01:31:24.400 Last song is going to be song 392. 01:31:24.400 --> 01:31:27.400 Song 392 in your hymn books. 01:31:27.400 --> 01:31:29.400 A soul winner for Jesus. 01:31:29.400 --> 01:31:31.400 Song 392. 01:31:33.400 --> 01:31:35.400 On the first, 392. 01:31:40.200 --> 01:31:50.440 I want to be a soul winner for Jesus every day. He does so much for me. 01:31:50.440 --> 01:32:00.840 I want to aid the lost sinner to leave his erring way and be from bondage free. 01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:08.200 A soul winner for Jesus. A soul. 01:32:08.200 --> 01:32:25.160 winner for Jesus oh let me be each day a soul winner for Jesus a soul winner for 01:32:25.160 --> 01:32:36.160 Jesus he's done so much for me I want to be a soul winner and bring the 01:32:36.200 --> 01:32:46.080 laws to Christ that they His grace may know. I want to live for Christ ever and 01:32:46.080 --> 01:33:01.240 do His blessed will because He loves me so. A soul winner for Jesus. A soul winner 01:33:01.240 --> 01:33:04.200 for Jesus. Oh 01:33:04.200 --> 01:33:19.080 Let me be each day a soul winner for Jesus, a soul winner for Jesus. 01:33:19.080 --> 01:33:24.360 He's done so much for me. 01:33:24.360 --> 01:33:32.120 I want to be a soul winner till Jesus calls for me to lay my birth. 01:33:32.200 --> 01:33:45.400 I want to hear Him say, Servant, you've gathered many sheep, receive a story crown. 01:33:45.400 --> 01:34:00.200 A soul winner for Jesus, a soul winner for Jesus, oh, let me be today. 01:34:00.200 --> 01:34:16.900 A soul winner for Jesus, a soul winner for Jesus, He's done so much for me. 01:34:16.900 --> 01:34:17.900 Alright great singing. 01:34:20.200 --> 01:34:24.920 Alright, great sermon and this is type of the missionary, you know, report I want you here, right? 01:34:25.320 --> 01:34:29.240 Not that just, you know, help them paint their wall and have no results. So 01:34:29.880 --> 01:34:34.200 By the way, you know people don't have to hold any position title to do great works for God and you know 01:34:34.360 --> 01:34:39.500 We love DIY missions right do it do it yourself. And if you have any, you know mission ideas 01:34:40.200 --> 01:34:45.560 For example, Brother Brad went to the Philippines last year and we made him a specialized invite 01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:52.040 just for the Philippines. So let me know, maybe we can help out as a church. If the finance allow, we... 01:34:53.300 --> 01:34:55.500 We may even buy a plane ticket or whatever. 01:34:55.500 --> 01:34:57.220 So we'll do whatever we can. 01:34:57.220 --> 01:35:00.460 So if you ever want to go on a mission trip somewhere else, 01:35:00.460 --> 01:35:01.340 just let me know. 01:35:01.340 --> 01:35:04.300 We'll see how I can do to help you guys out. 01:35:04.300 --> 01:35:08.140 So yeah, great Sunday, and praise God for the salvation, 01:35:08.140 --> 01:35:10.900 and praise God for the 1,000 salvations in Barbados. 01:35:10.900 --> 01:35:12.600 And with that being said, let's pray. 01:35:12.600 --> 01:35:13.900 Thank you all for a great Sunday, 01:35:13.900 --> 01:35:16.380 and thank you for just souls being saved, 01:35:16.380 --> 01:35:18.060 and thank you for our salvation. 01:35:18.060 --> 01:35:21.300 We pray you'll keep motivating us to do great works for you. 01:35:21.300 --> 01:35:23.200 I pray this in Jesus name, amen.