WEBVTT 05:42.400 --> 05:43.000 you 08:17.200 --> 08:26.880 your seats and grab a hymn book first song we're gonna sing is song 217 he included me song 217 08:29.700 --> 08:43.460 2 17. He included me on the first. I am so happy in Christ today that I go singing along my way. 08:44.180 --> 08:56.100 Yes, I'm so happy to know and say Jesus included me to Jesus included me. 08:56.900 --> 09:07.840 Jesus he included me when the Lord said whosoever he included me 09:10.140 --> 09:13.700 Jesus included me yes 09:14.220 --> 09:20.920 He included me when the Lord said whosoever 09:22.220 --> 09:24.220 He included 09:26.800 --> 09:35.520 Gladly I read whosoever may come to the fountain of life today. 09:35.520 --> 09:43.800 But when I read it, I always say Jesus included me too. 09:43.800 --> 09:48.000 Jesus included me. 09:48.000 --> 09:54.800 Yes, He included me when the Lord said who. 09:54.800 --> 10:13.600 whosoever he included me. Jesus included me, yes he included me, when the Lord said whosoever 10:13.600 --> 10:16.880 he included me. 10:17.400 --> 10:25.840 Ever God's Spirit is saying, Come, hear the bride saying, No longer roam. 10:25.840 --> 10:34.120 But I am sure while they're calling home, Jesus included me too. 10:34.120 --> 10:45.400 Jesus included me, yes, He included me, when the Lord said, Who? 10:45.400 --> 10:50.600 Whosoever he included me. 10:50.600 --> 10:54.600 Jesus included me. 10:54.600 --> 10:58.800 Yes, he included me. 10:58.800 --> 11:06.880 When the Lord said whosoever he included me. 11:07.400 --> 11:14.920 freely come drink words the soul to thrill oh with that joy they my heart do 11:14.920 --> 11:27.440 fill for when he said whosoever will Jesus included me too Jesus included me 11:27.440 --> 11:35.400 yes he included me and the Lord said who so 11:35.400 --> 11:53.280 He included me. Yes, He included me. Yes, He included me. When the Lord said whosoever, 11:53.280 --> 11:56.280 He included me. 11:56.280 --> 11:59.280 Alright, great singing, Brother Jeric, can you please open us up with a word of prayer? 12:08.500 --> 12:18.900 Amen. All right. Turn to song 219. My burdens rolled away. Song 219 in your hymn books. 219. 12:20.180 --> 12:22.020 On the first. 12:23.000 --> 12:27.960 I remember when my burdens rolled away. 12:27.960 --> 12:33.000 I had carried them for years, night and day. 12:33.000 --> 12:38.500 When I saw the blessed Lord and I took him at his word, 12:38.500 --> 12:43.500 then that was when my burdens rolled away. 12:43.500 --> 12:47.900 Rolled away, rolled away. 12:48.700 --> 12:53.700 I am happy since my burdens rolled away 12:53.700 --> 12:55.700 Rolled away 12:59.100 --> 13:04.540 I am happy since my burdens rolled away. 13:05.340 --> 13:09.980 I remember when my burdens rolled away. 13:10.500 --> 13:15.460 that I feared would never leave night and day 13:15.460 --> 13:21.140 Jesus showed to me the law so I left them at the cross 13:21.140 --> 13:25.940 I was glad when my burdens rolled away 13:25.940 --> 13:28.940 rolled away 13:28.940 --> 13:30.940 rolled away 13:31.400 --> 13:41.900 I am happy since my burdens rolled away, rolled away, rolled away. 13:41.900 --> 13:48.140 I am happy since my burdens rolled away. 13:48.140 --> 13:53.360 I remember when my burdens rolled away. 13:53.360 --> 13:58.340 That had hindered me for years, night and day. 13:58.500 --> 14:09.000 As I saw the throne of grace, just a glimpse of Jesus' face, and I knew that my burdens rolled away. 14:09.000 --> 14:14.400 Rolled away, rolled away. 14:14.400 --> 14:19.500 I was happy since my burdens rolled away. 14:19.500 --> 14:21.900 Rolled away. 14:24.800 --> 14:30.960 I am happy since my burdens rolled away. 14:30.960 --> 14:36.080 I am singing since my burdens rolled away. 14:36.080 --> 14:41.360 There's a song within my heart night and day. 14:41.360 --> 14:46.720 I am living for my King, and with joy I shout and sing, 14:46.720 --> 14:50.280 Hallelujah, all my burdens rolled away. 14:51.600 --> 14:56.600 Rolled away, rolled away. 14:56.600 --> 15:01.600 I am happy since my burdens rolled away. 15:01.600 --> 15:04.600 Rolled away. 15:07.500 --> 15:12.500 I am happy since my burdens rolled away. 15:13.500 --> 15:14.580 All right, good singing. 15:14.580 --> 15:16.100 Now we're gonna have some announcements. 15:20.500 --> 15:24.900 All right, welcome back to Shul Foundation Baptist Church on the afternoon service and 15:25.620 --> 15:28.340 everything else was back on besides 15:29.800 --> 15:35.240 So I mean the landlord should be taking care of it tomorrow or Tuesday but 15:35.240 --> 15:39.240 let's look at the verse of the week Romans 1 16 says for I'm not ashamed of 15:39.240 --> 15:43.760 the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that 15:43.760 --> 15:48.600 believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek we have to remind ourselves 15:48.600 --> 15:53.200 that the gospel is powerful you know salvation is powerful and let's look at 15:53.200 --> 15:56.480 the inside page we have Sunday morning service at 11th on the afternoon service 15:56.480 --> 15:57.720 at four and once. 15:57.800 --> 16:04.680 Bible study at 7 p.m. This Wednesday we'll be going through the entire chapter of Acts 14. 16:04.680 --> 16:09.560 And we have soul winning Saturday morning here at 10 30 and Sunday afternoon soul winning at 1 30 p.m. 16:10.280 --> 16:17.240 And upcoming events. Again we had a great Purdue soul winning yesterday with 51 salvations 16:17.800 --> 16:21.720 and we have our fall picnic coming up October 3rd. 16:22.200 --> 16:27.800 Also, next week we are going to La Paz. That's a small town swimming marathon. 16:27.800 --> 16:30.920 Please see Brother Jared if you want to go. 16:30.920 --> 16:34.040 And then we'll still have our local swimming time here. 16:34.040 --> 16:38.440 And then the following week, September 5th, is the Detroit Swimming Marathon. 16:38.440 --> 16:40.440 And then Notre Dame follows. 16:40.900 --> 16:45.300 So please RSVP and go to our website and Godresource for more details about it. 16:45.300 --> 16:48.740 Also, next week during the afternoon service we'll have a man's preaching night. 16:48.740 --> 16:52.500 So if you plan on preaching, please let me know, okay? 16:53.620 --> 16:56.100 Please let me know by Friday, you know that would be the best. 16:56.100 --> 16:59.140 So please let me know so I can figure out how many people are actually preaching. 17:00.980 --> 17:03.940 You can read the rest on your own and of course today is... 17:05.100 --> 17:11.980 Brother Rashid and Miss Linda's anniversary and he actually you know bought cupcakes for you guys so we get to 17:13.100 --> 17:16.560 Partake some partake those pop cupcakes 17:18.060 --> 17:22.380 After the service and depends on how long you know, brother Brad wants to preach so 17:23.100 --> 17:26.560 Yeah, I think that's about it. Let's sing one more song 17:30.700 --> 17:34.500 Alright, number 247. 17:34.500 --> 17:37.000 Saved, saved, saved, saved. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.400 Number 247. 17:39.400 --> 17:40.700 Saved, saved. 17:47.100 --> 17:55.100 I found a friend who is all to me 17:55.100 --> 18:02.100 His love is ever true 18:02.100 --> 18:09.100 I love to tell how he lifted me 18:10.300 --> 18:18.800 And what His grace can do for you, say. 18:19.100 --> 18:26.100 by His power divine. Save to new life sublime. Life now is sweet and my joy is complete for 18:29.300 --> 18:36.300 I'm saved, saved, saved. He saves me from every sin and harm. Secures my soul each day. 18:47.100 --> 18:56.140 I'm leaning strong on his mighty arm. 18:56.140 --> 19:03.100 I know he'll guide me all the way. 19:03.400 --> 19:11.080 Saved by His power divine, Saved to new life sublime, 19:11.080 --> 19:19.120 Life now is sweet and my joy is complete, For I'm saved, saved, saved, 19:19.120 --> 19:26.400 When poor and needy and all alone. 19:26.600 --> 19:31.800 And love he said to me. 19:33.900 --> 19:41.300 Come unto me and I'll lead you home 19:41.300 --> 19:48.700 To live with me eternally 19:48.700 --> 19:49.900 SAFE 19:50.100 --> 20:00.420 by his power divine save to new life sublime life now is sweet and my joy is complete for 20:00.420 --> 20:06.260 I'm saved saved saved 20:06.260 --> 20:08.580 Alright great singing ushers please come up 20:12.300 --> 20:15.000 But the Mac, could you please break the offering? 20:25.000 --> 20:25.500 Amen. 21:09.600 --> 21:15.440 Hey, good afternoon. We'll be in the book of Philippians. Turn to chapter 2. Philippians 2. 21:28.200 --> 21:31.080 Philippians 2 reads if there be therefore any 21:31.640 --> 21:38.400 Consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies 21:38.880 --> 21:41.480 Fulfill ye my joy that ye be like-minded 21:42.240 --> 21:49.800 Having the same love being of one accord of one mind let nothing be done with strife or vain glory 21:49.960 --> 21:54.540 But in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves 21:55.320 --> 21:56.200 look not 21:56.200 --> 22:01.760 every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 22:01.760 --> 22:08.560 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, 22:08.560 --> 22:14.460 thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took 22:14.460 --> 22:16.560 upon him the form of a servant. 22:16.900 --> 22:25.680 was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death 22:25.960 --> 22:27.960 even the death of the cross 22:28.300 --> 22:30.200 wherefore God also 22:30.400 --> 22:36.720 hath highly exalted himself and given him a name which is above every name, that at the 22:36.720 --> 22:43.520 name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under 22:43.520 --> 22:49.640 the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of 22:49.640 --> 22:51.120 God the Father. 22:51.120 --> 22:58.320 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, 22:58.700 --> 23:04.460 but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 23:04.460 --> 23:11.260 For it is God that worketh in you both to do both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 23:11.820 --> 23:15.400 Do all things without murmurings and disputings. 23:15.400 --> 23:21.440 that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst 23:21.440 --> 23:28.040 of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world, holding forth 23:28.040 --> 23:34.840 the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, 23:34.840 --> 23:36.720 neither labored in vain. 23:36.720 --> 23:42.280 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith. 23:43.000 --> 23:51.080 I rejoice and rejoice with you all, for the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with 23:51.080 --> 23:52.920 me. 23:52.920 --> 24:02.120 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good 24:02.120 --> 24:04.920 comfort when I know your state. 24:04.920 --> 24:10.320 For I have no man like-minded who will naturally care for your state. 24:10.800 --> 24:15.680 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ. 24:15.680 --> 24:22.280 But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the Father, he hath served with me in 24:22.280 --> 24:23.640 the gospel. 24:23.640 --> 24:30.580 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 24:30.580 --> 24:35.740 But I trust in the Lord, that I also myself shall come shortly. 24:36.900 --> 24:44.760 Yet, I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in 24:44.760 --> 24:52.360 labor and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. 24:52.360 --> 24:59.800 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that 24:59.800 --> 25:00.920 he had been sick. 25:01.300 --> 25:05.420 For, indeed, he was sick, nigh, unto death. 25:05.420 --> 25:12.420 But God had mercy on him, and not only him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow 25:12.420 --> 25:14.260 upon sorrow. 25:14.260 --> 25:21.720 I sent him, therefore, the more carefully, that when ye see him again ye may rejoice, 25:21.720 --> 25:23.960 and that I may be the less sorrowful. 25:25.300 --> 25:29.780 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation 25:30.860 --> 25:38.580 Because of the work of Christ he was nigh unto death not regarding his life to supply your lack of service 25:39.180 --> 25:41.920 Toward me brother Dustin. Would you pray a sim, please? 26:10.300 --> 26:16.980 Amen. So, the title of my sermon tonight is Selfishness. And if you look at Philippians 26:16.980 --> 26:19.660 chapter 2 verse number 3, it says, 26:19.660 --> 26:28.220 As let nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem 26:28.220 --> 26:30.460 other better than themselves. 26:31.000 --> 26:38.080 look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 26:38.080 --> 26:45.240 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, 26:45.240 --> 26:51.200 thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, and took 26:51.200 --> 26:55.840 upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. 26:56.300 --> 27:04.800 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." 27:04.800 --> 27:11.000 So hey, the Bible here gives a great, you know, examples and stories and tells us, you know, 27:11.000 --> 27:13.500 that we should esteem other people better than ourselves. 27:13.500 --> 27:20.600 And it used Jesus as an example of somebody who, hey, he's God in the flesh, you know, he has all power, 27:20.600 --> 27:24.300 but yet he took no reputation. He was as a servant, right? 27:24.300 --> 27:31.100 humble themselves and even died for everybody. So, you know, Jesus is the ultimate example, 27:31.100 --> 27:35.100 but you know, a lot of people in today's society especially, it's a big thing, right? Everybody 27:35.100 --> 27:41.980 wants to be selfish and think about themselves and how they can get ahead and, you know, 27:41.980 --> 27:46.260 prosper and get rich and everything's about me, me, me, right? So if you guys would flip 27:46.260 --> 27:49.800 over to Romans chapter 15 I'm going to read a couple verses. 27:51.200 --> 27:54.120 as you guys flip over. 27:54.120 --> 27:55.360 But in Luke 9.20 27:55.800 --> 28:03.240 3 it says, and he said to them all, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself 28:03.240 --> 28:06.400 and take up his cross daily and follow me. 28:06.400 --> 28:10.840 So over and over, hey, the Bible is using Jesus as an example of somebody who's not 28:10.840 --> 28:19.280 selfish, who's the ultimate example of selflessness and somebody we should look to. 28:19.280 --> 28:22.960 And here the Bible says, hey, if you're going to follow Jesus, you've got to deny yourself, 28:22.960 --> 28:23.800 You can't be. 28:23.800 --> 28:26.160 selfish and think about yourself. 28:26.160 --> 28:28.920 And in Galatians chapter 6 verse number 2 it says, 28:28.920 --> 28:34.320 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 28:34.320 --> 28:38.600 So over and over the Bible is putting something, hey, think about other people, take other 28:38.600 --> 28:42.160 people's burdens and deny yourself, right? 28:42.160 --> 28:46.100 Because once you start to just think about yourself and to be selfish, 28:46.200 --> 28:49.080 things go downhill fast. 28:49.080 --> 28:51.680 And Romans 15 verse number 1. 28:52.300 --> 28:58.180 It says, We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not 28:58.180 --> 29:00.020 to please ourselves. 29:00.020 --> 29:07.180 Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good edification, for even Christ pleased 29:07.180 --> 29:08.520 not himself. 29:08.520 --> 29:13.500 But as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproach thee fell on me. 29:13.500 --> 29:19.500 So again, hey, we see the Bible says not to please ourselves, to please your neighbor, 29:19.500 --> 29:20.300 think about your neighbor. 29:20.300 --> 29:22.340 to think about other people. 29:22.340 --> 29:24.020 And then it talks about Jesus again, right? 29:24.020 --> 29:29.260 It uses Jesus as an example again that even Jesus didn't come here to please Himself 29:29.260 --> 29:31.180 and to do everything He wanted to do. 29:31.180 --> 29:38.100 He came for others and to obviously die for the sins of the world and everything He did 29:38.100 --> 29:39.900 was for other people, right? 29:39.900 --> 29:42.220 So if you flip over to 1 Peter chapter 2. 29:49.600 --> 29:55.600 1 Peter chapter 2, we're going to see the same thing. 29:55.600 --> 29:57.440 Obviously, there's so many examples in the Bible 29:57.440 --> 29:59.600 you could never go through them all. 29:59.600 --> 30:03.040 All the stuff Jesus did was examples 30:03.040 --> 30:04.400 of how not to be selfish. 30:04.400 --> 30:07.840 So in 1 Peter 2, 21, it says, 30:07.840 --> 30:09.840 for even here on 2. 30:10.000 --> 30:14.600 were ye called, because Christ also suffered for us, 30:14.600 --> 30:18.600 leaving us an example that we should follow in his, 30:18.600 --> 30:20.160 or follow his steps. 30:20.160 --> 30:23.900 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, 30:23.900 --> 30:26.920 who when he was reviled, reviled not again. 30:26.920 --> 30:29.040 When he suffered, he threatened not, 30:29.040 --> 30:31.600 but committed himself to him that... 30:31.700 --> 30:37.620 30 And judgeeth righteously, 30 Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the 30:37.620 --> 30:41.180 tree, 31 That we being dead to sin should live unto 30:41.180 --> 30:44.740 righteousness, 32 By whose stripes ye were healed. 30:44.740 --> 30:50.740 So, hey, Jesus is an example for us, and you know all these bad things happened to Jesus, 30:50.740 --> 30:51.740 right? 30:51.740 --> 30:55.780 He was beaten, he had to go to hell for three days and three nights, he died on the cross, 30:55.780 --> 30:59.220 people mocked him, you know, his whole life. 30:59.700 --> 31:03.180 lived on the more poor end, he wasn't some rich guy, 31:03.180 --> 31:05.880 lived in a mansion and doing all of the pleasures 31:05.880 --> 31:06.940 of this world. 31:06.940 --> 31:11.100 He pretty much suffered his whole life and did it for us. 31:11.100 --> 31:13.740 And he did all that for an example 31:13.740 --> 31:15.940 that we should follow in those steps. 31:15.940 --> 31:17.060 And obviously, 31:17.400 --> 31:23.400 you know, none of us like to be threatened and suffer and, you know, none of us have been beaten yet or went to jail. 31:23.400 --> 31:27.400 But all of those things are examples of being selfless, right? 31:27.400 --> 31:33.400 Because if you go to some foreign country and you're locked up in jail, you know, you didn't do that for your benefit. 31:33.400 --> 31:39.400 Or if you go to a foreign country and the food's terrible and the accommodation's not good 31:39.400 --> 31:45.400 and you spent thousands of dollars to get you and your family there, like none of that is benefiting you. 31:45.400 --> 31:46.400 Right? 31:46.400 --> 31:49.960 You know, it's like people at the door, it's like sometimes they want to get you by slamming 31:49.960 --> 31:54.560 the door in your face or not talking to you or whatever, but like none of that affects 31:54.560 --> 31:55.560 me, right? 31:55.560 --> 31:58.400 If I'm at the door and somebody slams the door in my face, it's like doesn't affect 31:58.400 --> 31:59.800 me because I'm still going to heaven. 31:59.800 --> 32:00.960 I'm there for you. 32:00.960 --> 32:02.840 I'm not doing it to be selfish. 32:02.840 --> 32:04.080 I'm doing it to help you, right? 32:04.080 --> 32:04.320 So... 32:04.900 --> 32:08.060 Obviously, Jesus' whole life was like that. 32:08.060 --> 32:12.900 He just did everything for others and a lot of people didn't reciprocate that. 32:12.900 --> 32:18.260 And obviously, even millions of people throughout history have always hated Jesus, right? 32:18.260 --> 32:22.840 But he still suffered for them and did things for them and just the ultimate example of 32:22.840 --> 32:24.160 not being selfish. 32:24.160 --> 32:27.580 Because a lot of us, if you knew you were going to go to another country and everybody's 32:27.580 --> 32:32.500 going to hate you and they're going to try to kill you and none of them wanted you there, 32:32.500 --> 32:32.900 We would. 32:32.900 --> 32:34.740 just say like, oh, we're not going to go, right? 32:34.740 --> 32:38.060 But Jesus still went and even did it all the way 32:38.060 --> 32:40.340 to go into hell, which none of us 32:40.340 --> 32:42.300 are ever going to have to do that if we're saved. 32:42.300 --> 32:45.140 So at least we know for sure we're never 32:45.140 --> 32:46.460 going to have to suffer that part. 32:46.460 --> 32:49.780 But He's the ultimate example. 32:49.780 --> 32:52.580 And if you guys have followed 1 John chapter 3, 32:52.580 --> 32:54.900 I'm going to read a couple other verses as you turn there. 32:56.200 --> 33:00.040 In 2 Corinthians chapter 8 verse number 9 it says, 33:00.040 --> 33:03.040 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, 33:03.040 --> 33:08.040 That though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor. 33:08.400 --> 33:11.900 that ye through his poverty might be rich. 33:11.900 --> 33:14.100 So obviously, hey, Jesus was rich. 33:14.100 --> 33:14.800 He's in heaven. 33:14.800 --> 33:16.900 He's got everything he's got. 33:16.900 --> 33:18.200 He could do whatever he wants. 33:18.200 --> 33:19.400 He can have whatever he wants. 33:19.400 --> 33:20.700 He's got all power. 33:20.700 --> 33:23.500 But yet he became poor for us, right? 33:23.500 --> 33:26.600 And obviously, there's probably some people here, 33:26.600 --> 33:29.100 or some people that are saved and doing soul-winding, 33:29.100 --> 33:31.900 that hey, maybe they could be the next, you know. 33:32.400 --> 33:36.320 person that events a computer or whatever and becomes super rich and run these 33:36.820 --> 33:41.660 Companies and be a CEO and make it to the NBA or the NFL or you know 33:41.660 --> 33:44.660 There's tons of things people can do but yet, you know 33:44.660 --> 33:48.540 Jesus was way richer than any of those people but he became poor 33:48.540 --> 33:54.620 So even if you could be the next NBA player CEO or president, you know, obviously 33:55.300 --> 33:58.800 It's better just to be a poor and to serve God, right? 33:58.800 --> 34:02.800 You don't want to do some sort of job to be super rich and to be selfish. 34:02.800 --> 34:06.300 You want to, obviously, if you can make money and serve God, 34:06.300 --> 34:09.300 there's nothing wrong with that, but you don't want to forsake God 34:09.300 --> 34:12.300 and just try to be a crazy rich person, 34:12.300 --> 34:15.800 because you never see a multi-million dollar CEO 34:15.800 --> 34:19.800 that's serving God and doing mission trips and soul winning, right? 34:19.800 --> 34:23.300 It's usually the people that are more in the middle class or... 34:23.300 --> 34:28.260 poor and that are serving God because you know if you work too many hours it's 34:28.260 --> 34:32.140 very difficult to do everything and Elon Musk you hear him he's like sleeping in 34:32.140 --> 34:35.740 the office and he never goes home it's like very hard to go to church when 34:35.740 --> 34:38.260 you're sleeping in the office or so winningly you never leave the office 34:38.260 --> 34:39.900 and 34:40.100 --> 34:44.260 You know, we don't want to be like that and have this mentality of trying to be rich because 34:44.260 --> 34:49.660 Jesus Himself, God in the flesh, He became poor to serve the world. 34:49.660 --> 34:55.780 And Ephesians chapter 5 verse number 1, it says, Be followers of God as dear children 34:55.780 --> 35:01.980 and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given Himself for us, an offering 35:01.980 --> 35:06.500 and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. 35:06.500 --> 35:08.100 So obviously, hey, the Bible. 35:08.100 --> 35:14.060 puts a huge emphasis over and over on Jesus was the ultimate example of not being selfish 35:14.060 --> 35:20.820 and loving people and sacrificing himself and obviously is an offering for our sins. 35:20.820 --> 35:26.420 So you guys are in 1 John 3, look at verse number 16, it says, hereby perceive we the 35:26.420 --> 35:33.900 love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives 35:33.900 --> 35:34.900 for the brethren. 35:34.900 --> 35:36.040 So obviously, no one... 35:36.100 --> 35:42.020 wants to die and no one wants to lay down their life for somebody else, but hey, Jesus 35:42.020 --> 35:47.080 did it and again it says that Jesus was this example for us that He's what we should be 35:47.080 --> 35:51.340 looking to and trying to model and trying to strive to and it says that He laid down 35:51.340 --> 35:56.380 His life for us and we should be willing to lay it down for brethren, which obviously 35:56.380 --> 36:00.940 in America it's not going to be you're going to probably die, right? But you know, you 36:00.940 --> 36:04.100 lay down your life where like hey instead of trying to 36:04.100 --> 36:08.480 get the big cabin and the boat and you know living this great life you lay that 36:08.480 --> 36:12.520 aside and you know you're more pouring and you're serving God and you're with 36:12.520 --> 36:15.280 your brethren you're doing the mission trips and you're serving other people 36:15.280 --> 36:19.080 and maybe you're not going to die physically but you know your bank 36:19.080 --> 36:22.500 accounts dead or you know you're 36:22.500 --> 36:31.160 my mom's 36:31.160 --> 36:32.180 name. 36:32.180 --> 36:36.500 In fact, I'm not so sure. 36:36.500 --> 36:40.140 It's not that I'm not so sure. 36:40.140 --> 36:42.660 It's not that I'm not so sure. 36:42.660 --> 36:43.500 It's not that I'm not so sure. 36:45.100 --> 36:43.500 It's not that I'm not so sure. 36:47.560 --> 36:43.500 It's not that I'm not so sure. 36:49.880 --> 36:43.500 It's not that I'm not so sure. 36:43.600 --> 36:50.040 But whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his 36:50.040 --> 36:55.200 bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 36:55.200 --> 36:56.640 My little children, let us 36:57.300 --> 37:02.300 not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 37:02.300 --> 37:04.300 So obviously, hey, we should help people out. 37:04.300 --> 37:06.300 If we have an abundance, we should help people. 37:06.300 --> 37:09.300 We should try to help people that don't have as much, 37:09.300 --> 37:13.300 that are in need or lose their job or whatever, 37:13.300 --> 37:17.300 and, you know, give somebody a ride or buy somebody groceries. 37:17.300 --> 37:18.300 but also... 37:18.700 --> 37:21.100 You know, people need to be saved, right? 37:21.100 --> 37:23.740 So obviously if you have salvation, 37:23.740 --> 37:25.740 that's the ultimate gift. 37:25.740 --> 37:30.340 That's something that's more than the whole world in value. 37:30.340 --> 37:33.660 So if you have that, you should look at other people 37:33.660 --> 37:36.060 and try to get them saved and try to get them in church 37:36.060 --> 37:38.660 and try to get them to get rewards 37:38.660 --> 37:40.500 and put your time in people to say, hey, 37:40.500 --> 37:43.580 like you can be super rich in heaven. 37:43.580 --> 37:45.060 And come with me. 37:45.060 --> 37:46.620 I'll show you how to do it, right? 37:46.700 --> 37:53.580 So obviously helping people physically is a big thing that we should do, but also to 37:53.580 --> 37:58.740 think about, hey, spiritually, that hey, if we have a lot of money, why don't we use that 37:58.740 --> 38:03.180 to either go on a mission trip or either pay somebody, you know, hey, somebody wants to 38:03.180 --> 38:06.860 go on a mission trip and you can't go, but you're rich, be like, hey, I'll fund you to 38:06.860 --> 38:11.860 go or hey, I'll donate to a church that's doing missions or, you know, there's lots 38:11.860 --> 38:14.060 of different things you can do. 38:14.060 --> 38:14.660 And yeah. 38:14.700 --> 38:19.260 You know, not everything has to just be about yourself 38:19.260 --> 38:21.140 and think, well, you know, I had this money, 38:21.140 --> 38:22.640 I can't go do a mission trip, 38:22.640 --> 38:24.380 but I don't wanna see somebody else 38:24.380 --> 38:25.500 get all these people saved, 38:25.500 --> 38:29.000 so I'm gonna keep the money and just die with it, right? 38:29.000 --> 38:31.660 You want to either do it yourself 38:31.660 --> 38:34.420 or help other people be able to do it, or both, right? 38:34.420 --> 38:37.100 So if you guys flip over to Romans 16. 38:45.200 --> 38:54.000 So in Romans 16 we're going to see an example of two people who are doing this, they're laying 38:54.000 --> 39:00.800 down their life for the brethren and serving with the Apostle Paul. It says in Romans 16 verse number 39:00.800 --> 39:09.760 3 it says, greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus, who have for my life laid down 39:09.760 --> 39:10.880 their own necks. 39:11.900 --> 39:16.060 Unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles 39:17.140 --> 39:20.540 Most oh yeah, so you know hey these people here 39:21.300 --> 39:24.300 They're laying down their own necks, but obviously they're not dead, right? 39:24.300 --> 39:30.380 It's just metaphorically, spiritually, hey, you know, if you do enough work, sometimes 39:30.380 --> 39:33.000 you feel like you're dead, right? 39:33.000 --> 39:38.640 You just have no energy, you just can't keep going, and you lay it all on the line, right? 39:38.640 --> 39:39.780 And that's what we can do spiritually. 39:39.780 --> 39:44.300 Hey, these people are helping the Apostle Paul do great works, they're starting churches, 39:44.300 --> 39:49.300 and all the Church of the Gentiles are looking at these people as great pillars of the faith. 39:49.300 --> 39:53.860 and you know we can do the same thing right I mean we could be willing to lay 39:53.860 --> 39:58.980 down our own necks to help this church or other churches or people all over the 39:58.980 --> 40:03.460 world there's no limit on what you can do but obviously if you have a selfish 40:03.460 --> 40:05.000 attitude 40:05.100 --> 40:09.100 you know, you're never going to be able to do the great works, right? 40:09.100 --> 40:13.900 Because every time you do something for God, usually it's going to cost you, right? 40:13.900 --> 40:16.900 If you go on a mission trip, it's going to cost you personally. 40:16.900 --> 40:20.100 You're going to have to pay for it, you're going to have to work harder, you're going to have to work more hours. 40:20.100 --> 40:23.600 And when you're there, you know, who knows what could happen? 40:23.600 --> 40:30.000 And then obviously when you're there, people might not receive you, people could mock you, people could, you know, 40:30.000 --> 40:33.000 I heard Pastor Anderson's recent sermon with the Indian... 40:33.100 --> 40:36.300 reservation, somebody attacked them so that the Indians could come after you. 40:36.300 --> 40:42.020 Lots of bad things can happen, right? So you never know, but you know you should 40:42.020 --> 40:46.400 be willing to lay down your life physically but also just... 40:46.500 --> 40:52.620 No matter what happens, you're giving it your all and you're not going to die regretting 40:52.620 --> 40:55.840 all the stuff you could have done because you're going to say, hey, I laid everything 40:55.840 --> 40:58.320 out and I gave it 100%. 40:58.320 --> 41:01.120 So if you guys have football at 1 Thessalonians chapter 2. 41:04.200 --> 41:05.800 1 Thessalonians chapter 2. 41:10.100 --> 41:15.380 And obviously another thing here, you know, you could feel like a burden for brothers, right? 41:15.380 --> 41:21.700 Like people that suffer lots of persecution, that preach a sermon or get protests or things, right? 41:21.700 --> 41:26.660 You can feel like you're laying down your own neck when you also help them and then they, 41:26.660 --> 41:31.380 you know, you take some heat off them and you're standing with them. You don't want to leave your 41:31.380 --> 41:38.100 brothers just out in the cold and be like, well, you suffer and I'll come back when the times are good, right? 41:38.100 --> 41:45.260 you want to help them and have your neck ready to be chopped off by some protester in order 41:45.260 --> 41:48.260 to help take some heat off them. 41:48.260 --> 41:53.380 So you guys are in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, look at verse number 7. 41:53.380 --> 42:00.220 It says, but we were gentle among you even as a nurse, cherises her children, so being 42:00.220 --> 42:05.020 affectionately desire us of you, we were willing to have imparted on you. 42:05.800 --> 42:07.300 willing to have imparted. 42:07.400 --> 42:15.400 parted unto you not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls because you were dear unto us." 42:15.400 --> 42:20.120 So hey, that's a great verse there that hey, you know, you're willing to not only give people 42:20.120 --> 42:24.760 the gospel, but you know, your own soul, right? You're giving them everything that you have 42:24.760 --> 42:29.000 because those people are dear unto you, right? You want those people to get the rewards. You want 42:29.000 --> 42:33.960 those people to change their life. You want those people to get off the drugs and the drinking. And 42:33.960 --> 42:35.240 And the more you put in... 42:35.400 --> 42:41.720 somebody, the more it's going to take away from you, right? It's a lot of work to try to put into people, right? 42:42.200 --> 42:48.260 And, we'll continue in verse number 9, it says, For ye remember, brethren, our labor 42:48.260 --> 42:55.160 and travail, for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, 42:55.160 --> 42:58.360 we preached unto you the gospel of God. 42:58.360 --> 43:05.020 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holy and justly and unblamedly we have behaved ourselves 43:05.020 --> 43:06.780 among you that believe. 43:08.000 --> 43:15.160 As ye know how, we exhort and comfort it and charge every one of you as a father doth 43:15.160 --> 43:16.160 his children." 43:16.160 --> 43:19.680 So, hey, the apostle Paul is laboring, right? 43:19.680 --> 43:23.920 He's working a job and he doesn't want to be chargeable to the people in that church, 43:23.920 --> 43:28.080 doesn't want to take a bunch of money from them and, you know, he wants to... 43:28.500 --> 43:33.540 Be a great example and to do the hard work and he talks about hey 43:33.540 --> 43:36.860 He's like a father with his children right and obviously people 43:37.300 --> 43:42.060 You know that have a lot of kids you always hear them say like people come up to you and say why do you have so 43:42.060 --> 43:47.660 Many kids or when you're gonna stop because it's a lot of work to have a lot of kids right and and people don't want 43:47.660 --> 43:53.080 To do the work so how much more when you're putting in to you know the apostle Paul 43:53.700 --> 43:56.500 thousands of people all over the world that are your spiritual children 43:56.500 --> 43:59.500 and you know, obviously didn't have physical children, 43:59.500 --> 44:01.500 but hey, when you have that many spiritual children, 44:01.500 --> 44:04.000 he's like a busy father, right? 44:04.000 --> 44:06.500 He's like trying to get people to do right 44:06.500 --> 44:09.000 and putting into all these people all the time. 44:09.000 --> 44:12.000 And then obviously, you know, they're stabbing them in the back 44:12.000 --> 44:15.000 and you know, they're turning on them and doing bad things. 44:15.000 --> 44:19.000 He still keeps going, which obviously is very difficult, right? 44:19.000 --> 44:21.000 I mean, if you had a child that got older 44:21.000 --> 44:23.500 and didn't want to be with you, didn't like you, 44:23.500 --> 44:24.500 stabbed you in the back... 44:24.500 --> 44:28.500 said bad things about you and just completely hated you. 44:28.500 --> 44:30.340 Like I'm sure that would hurt a lot of parents, right? 44:30.340 --> 44:32.180 So the Apostle Paul is talking to these people, 44:32.180 --> 44:33.620 hey, I'm like a father to you. 44:33.620 --> 44:35.380 He's putting all of this effort in 44:35.380 --> 44:38.900 and then they stab him in the back and they turn on him. 44:38.900 --> 44:42.580 I'm sure it wants to make you quit at some point, right? 44:42.580 --> 44:44.260 Because when you put into all these people 44:44.260 --> 44:47.060 and you love these people and then they don't reciprocate, 44:47.860 --> 44:49.940 I'm sure it's definitely very difficult 44:49.940 --> 44:52.420 because we've all had friends or family that you like. 44:52.500 --> 44:56.600 and then they turn on you or they don't like you because maybe you come to church maybe you do 44:57.040 --> 45:03.460 Certain things they don't like and I'm sure it hurts you right you don't want that family member that you really like to hate you 45:03.460 --> 45:09.160 Because you go to church and you're doing right same thing with the Apostle Paul. He knows he's doing right. He knows he's doing good and 45:09.760 --> 45:15.880 Throughout his whole ministry. It's like these people leave and turn on him and don't like him and he's like, you know, I'm doing right 45:15.880 --> 45:20.500 I'm the right one here. You need to follow me, but you know, you can't make people 45:20.500 --> 45:23.900 choose the correct path, right? 45:23.900 --> 45:28.900 So if you guys follow the first Corinthians chapter nine, 45:30.860 --> 45:32.940 the apostle Paul is also a great example 45:32.940 --> 45:35.240 of somebody who's very selfless. 45:35.240 --> 45:36.080 You know, he... 45:36.200 --> 45:42.120 His whole ministry is just trying to help other people and just sacrificing and suffering a lot 45:42.120 --> 45:47.720 of persecution and anguish. And you know I've said it before in a sermon so I didn't put in here, 45:47.720 --> 45:52.760 but even he said that he'd be willing to be a curse from Christ to save the Jews, right? And then 45:54.440 --> 45:58.280 you know obviously that's just such an example of being just the complete 45:58.280 --> 46:00.840 selfless person of being willing to 46:01.800 --> 46:09.020 lose everything and even you know not be saved to help other people get saved right so in first Corinthians chapter 9 verse look at 46:09.420 --> 46:16.460 verse 19 it says for though I be free from all men yet have I made myself 46:17.060 --> 46:24.680 servant unto all that I might gain the more and unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews 46:24.880 --> 46:27.080 to them that are under the law as 46:27.900 --> 46:33.460 under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law, to them that are without law as without law, 46:34.820 --> 46:38.660 being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ. 46:39.700 --> 46:42.140 that I might gain them that are without law. 46:42.140 --> 46:44.860 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak. 46:44.860 --> 46:49.500 I have made all things to all men, that I might save some. 46:49.500 --> 46:53.140 So the apostle Paul is just willing to do whatever it takes. 46:53.140 --> 46:56.540 He's willing to eat the food he might not want to eat, 46:56.540 --> 46:58.820 go to the places he doesn't necessarily want to go, 46:58.820 --> 47:01.260 be around people that maybe he doesn't want to necessarily 47:01.260 --> 47:03.060 be around. 47:03.060 --> 47:04.780 And I don't know how it is at this time, 47:04.780 --> 47:07.700 but you look at the world right now, it's like, does anyone 47:07.700 --> 47:12.500 really want to go to India and eat you know you see the videos and like cooking 47:12.500 --> 47:15.380 food with their feet and stuff and you're like I don't know maybe I'll skip 47:15.380 --> 47:19.820 that mission trip but you know obviously hey somebody needs to go there right 47:19.820 --> 47:24.340 just not me you guys who's taking I'm just kidding but obviously hey that's a big 47:24.340 --> 47:29.240 sacrifice right I mean obviously if the soul one is good I'm sure I'd go but at 47:29.240 --> 47:30.400 the same time 47:30.600 --> 47:32.300 you know, it's going to be a sacrifice. 47:32.300 --> 47:35.200 I'll probably have to pack a lot of like granola bars and stuff 47:35.200 --> 47:37.400 and get it shipped there before I go. 47:37.400 --> 47:40.100 But, you know, at this time, I'm sure it's the same way, right? 47:40.100 --> 47:43.100 There's probably places that don't have the best... 47:43.400 --> 47:49.500 accommodations or food standards or you know the culture is not necessarily want to go but hey 47:49.500 --> 47:53.320 he's I'll become all things to all men to try to get people saved right and 47:54.080 --> 47:58.500 Obviously whenever you leave America. There's definitely a standard difference right 47:58.500 --> 48:03.300 I mean there's nowhere in the world that you're going to go and be like man. This is just as good as America 48:03.300 --> 48:09.320 I mean you look at Europe, and it's you know on us like the Middle East right so even here up is bad, right? 48:09.320 --> 48:11.320 There's nowhere that you're going to go and you're just like 48:11.400 --> 48:13.400 This is better than America. 48:13.400 --> 48:16.400 So anywhere we go it's going to be because we love people. 48:16.400 --> 48:19.400 It's not going to be to benefit ourselves. 48:20.400 --> 48:25.400 So if you guys would flip over to Acts chapter 20, I'm going to read three verses as you turn there. 48:25.400 --> 48:28.400 It says in 1 Corinthians 10, 24, it says, 48:28.400 --> 48:33.400 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. 48:33.400 --> 48:36.400 So again, the Apostle Paul is saying, hey, don't seek things for yourself, 48:36.400 --> 48:39.400 seek things for other people, think about other people's wealth. 48:39.400 --> 48:41.400 And obviously you can think the same thing about soul winning, right? 48:41.400 --> 48:46.400 It's a bad attitude to think like, I need to see everybody saved and I need to do whatever. 48:46.400 --> 48:48.400 it should be hey if other people 48:48.400 --> 48:51.280 are gonna get that wealth, like praise God, right? 48:51.280 --> 48:53.000 I mean, you can still be a part of it, 48:53.000 --> 48:54.860 you don't have to always be number one, 48:54.860 --> 48:56.520 and you don't always have to do everything, right? 48:56.520 --> 48:58.720 If like a church ordains an evangelist 48:58.720 --> 49:00.680 and he's getting thousands of people saved, 49:00.680 --> 49:02.980 like just be happy that your church is supporting that, 49:02.980 --> 49:04.380 or that you get to donate to that, 49:04.380 --> 49:06.500 or you get to be in a movement with that. 49:06.500 --> 49:08.940 Like don't think, well like, why am I not the one 49:08.940 --> 49:09.780 that's the evangelist? 49:09.780 --> 49:11.220 Why am I not the missionary? 49:11.220 --> 49:14.120 Why didn't the church fund me to go on that trip? 49:14.120 --> 49:16.400 Why did they fund, you know, somebody else to do it? 49:16.400 --> 49:21.120 You should think about other people and you know obviously I think that hey if 49:21.120 --> 49:24.680 your church is supporting a missionary and you're tithing and giving money like 49:24.680 --> 49:28.000 you're you're gonna get something for that's not all gonna be the glory of 49:28.000 --> 49:32.000 that one person like wow this evangelist he did all the work and he got 49:32.000 --> 49:35.920 everybody saved and you guys didn't do anything it's like no the church as a 49:35.920 --> 49:40.240 whole is helping that go on right because if you're a missionary and you're 49:40.240 --> 49:43.880 funded by a church if that church wasn't there you wouldn't be there right so you 49:43.880 --> 49:44.400 You know, it's all. 49:44.400 --> 49:49.880 a team and it's all connected and you know you should think as a whole and not be mad 49:49.880 --> 49:54.640 if other people are getting wealth right. So in 1 Corinthians 10 33, you don't have 49:54.640 --> 50:00.160 to turn the reader, it says, even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own 50:00.160 --> 50:07.160 profit but the profit of many that they may be saved. 2 Corinthians 12 5 it says, and 50:07.160 --> 50:08.500 and I will... 50:08.900 --> 50:15.180 Very very gladly spend and be spent of you though the more abundantly 50:15.180 --> 50:19.940 I love you the less I be loved so the Apostle Paul is just saying hey, I'm not seeking my own prophet 50:19.940 --> 50:27.360 I'm seeking for other people he gladly be spent and even hey the more he loves other people the less he's loved right 50:27.480 --> 50:32.740 So the Apostle Paul it's funny because he has this attitude of just thinking about everybody else 50:32.900 --> 50:36.740 But then now we look at him as the greatest Christian ever right so he's thinking about 50:36.900 --> 50:40.140 hey everybody else and we're looking at him as like man this guy's probably the 50:40.140 --> 50:45.020 best Christian ever lived probably got the most rewards and you know I mean 50:45.020 --> 50:49.100 it's almost impossible to be a better soul winner than the Apostle Paul right 50:49.100 --> 50:50.700 I mean it's he's like 50:50.800 --> 50:53.400 up there as the top of the top, right? 50:53.400 --> 50:55.300 And his whole life is just about other people, 50:55.300 --> 50:56.400 other people, other people. 50:56.400 --> 50:57.900 So if we want to do that, 50:57.900 --> 50:59.300 we should have the same attitude, right? 50:59.300 --> 51:01.200 Other people, other people, other people, 51:01.200 --> 51:03.300 and not think, hey, ourself. 51:03.300 --> 51:04.900 Because if you start thinking about yourself, 51:04.900 --> 51:07.000 well then you're not following Jesus as an example 51:07.000 --> 51:08.100 or the Apostle Paul, 51:08.100 --> 51:10.100 so you're never going to be up there, right? 51:10.100 --> 51:12.900 That's why you see so many churches that, 51:12.900 --> 51:14.600 you know, they get started, they're doing good, 51:14.600 --> 51:16.100 and then all of a sudden, like, 51:16.100 --> 51:18.700 the pastor, like, just seems like he loses his mind and... 51:18.800 --> 51:23.040 doesn't want you listening to certain preachers or hanging around certain people and then the church 51:23.040 --> 51:27.360 closes and claps and everything falls apart it's because hey he's not following that example of 51:27.360 --> 51:33.360 being selfish or he's being selfish and not selfless and he's thinking about I want everybody 51:33.360 --> 51:38.240 following me and I want everybody listening to me and everything's about me me me and that's not 51:38.240 --> 51:42.320 the example God wants so the church crumbles and falls apart because you're not following 51:43.040 --> 51:46.720 the correct way right you see churches where certain pastors like 51:46.800 --> 51:52.360 Yeah, listen everybody else and go visit that church and be around those people and then they thrive because they're following that Bible 51:52.920 --> 51:57.240 Example of hey, we're all one team and we're thinking about other people 51:57.240 --> 52:03.720 So if other people need help go help them, right? So you guys are in Acts chapter 20. Look at verse number 33 52:04.560 --> 52:09.460 It says I have coveted no man's silver or gold or peril 52:11.400 --> 52:19.540 ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were 52:19.540 --> 52:25.780 with me, I have showed you all things, how that soul laboring ye ought to support the 52:25.780 --> 52:28.380 week and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus. 52:28.900 --> 52:33.400 how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive. 52:33.400 --> 52:37.040 So hey the apostle Paul is ministering with his own hands, right? 52:37.040 --> 52:41.840 He's not even taking all his money from church, which obviously it's fine for a pastor to 52:41.840 --> 52:46.880 be paid and for missionaries to be paid, but hey the apostle Paul is doing double duty 52:46.880 --> 52:52.600 a lot of times and he's just completely sacrificing. 52:53.300 --> 52:54.800 He's doing it for other people, right? 52:54.800 --> 52:59.620 And he's saying, hey, remember that Jesus said it's more blessed to give than to receive. 52:59.620 --> 53:03.060 Which obviously in today's society, it's all about what can I get? 53:03.060 --> 53:08.620 So it's the exact opposite mindset that most of us are raised on. 53:08.620 --> 53:11.420 You guys can flip to Philippians chapter 1. 53:15.200 --> 53:19.800 And obviously a lot of people, right, a lot of pastors or missionaries or people, especially 53:19.800 --> 53:24.280 Anand and Ames or whatever, you see these just mega churches and everything's about 53:24.280 --> 53:30.000 give me more money and there's a funny video where like this pastor has like got people 53:30.000 --> 53:31.000 on a line. 53:31.000 --> 53:35.040 It's like anybody giving like $2,000 come up or whatever and some lady only gave like 53:35.040 --> 53:39.360 $1,200 and he's like, you're not understanding. 53:39.360 --> 53:43.200 I said $1,000 plus $1,000 and you only gave $1,200. 53:43.200 --> 53:49.280 200 so we need to work on whatever he calls around in front everybody for not giving the thousand plus a thousand and 53:49.920 --> 53:51.680 It's like a video that was going around 53:51.680 --> 53:55.720 But you know that guy is just wanting money and to show hey these people are giving money 53:55.720 --> 54:00.480 Everything's about money money money whereas the Apostle Paul's like I'm not coveting anybody's money 54:00.480 --> 54:03.920 And that's the attitude we should have you need money to do trips 54:04.080 --> 54:10.240 But obviously it's wrong to you know just covet that and go in the ministry to think I'm gonna get rich 54:10.240 --> 54:11.200 And I'm gonna have the problem 54:11.200 --> 54:15.080 a jet like Kenneth Copeland or whatever, right? 54:15.080 --> 54:20.320 So in Philippians chapter 1 verse 21 it says, 54:20.320 --> 54:26.320 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 54:26.320 --> 54:30.280 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. 54:30.280 --> 54:34.800 Yet what I shall choose I want not, for I am 54:34.800 --> 54:35.200 them. 54:35.300 --> 54:42.100 in a straight betwixt to having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better, 54:42.100 --> 54:48.340 nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. So the apostle Paul is saying, hey, for me 54:48.340 --> 54:54.500 to live is all about Jesus Christ, right? And to die is actually better for me as gain. And he says 54:54.500 --> 55:00.980 in verse 23 that he has a desire to depart and to be with Christ. But in verse 24, obviously the 55:00.980 --> 55:02.980 the Apostle Paul, he's super. 55:03.300 --> 55:05.620 uh... selfless and he said hey 55:05.620 --> 55:08.520 but for me to be here is better for you so i'm gonna be here because i love you 55:08.520 --> 55:09.200 guys 55:09.200 --> 55:12.180 i want to do what's best for you but selfishly 55:12.180 --> 55:14.820 i want to just die and go be with jesus right now 55:14.820 --> 55:15.940 but obviously 55:15.940 --> 55:18.340 a lot of people are going to go to hell if that happens so 55:18.340 --> 55:22.560 you know he's again thinking about other people everything that he did 55:22.560 --> 55:26.300 and that jesus did is always just other people other people other people 55:26.300 --> 55:28.740 and obviously there's tons more examples 55:28.740 --> 55:30.260 and we can't go through them all. 55:30.800 --> 55:36.280 Now I kind of want to switch focus a little bit and talk about how selfishness can destroy 55:36.280 --> 55:37.280 your life, right? 55:37.280 --> 55:39.280 So what happens if you don't follow these examples? 55:39.280 --> 55:41.200 And I already talked about it a little bit, right? 55:41.200 --> 55:45.880 A lot of churches, they become selfish and they just crumble and the whole thing just 55:45.880 --> 55:50.520 goes up in a vapor in like a matter of a few months, right? 55:50.520 --> 55:53.600 So if you guys have football at a first, John, chapter two. 55:59.700 --> 56:06.260 So in 1 John chapter 2 verse number 16 it says, 56:06.400 --> 56:11.280 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the 56:11.280 --> 56:16.200 pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. 56:16.200 --> 56:20.520 So hey, you know, most sin that you're going to run into, most sin you're going to commit, 56:20.520 --> 56:24.920 most sin that people are going to commit, it's going to be due to being selfish. 56:24.920 --> 56:29.080 And here you see, hey, the lust of the flesh, you're gratifying things that, you know, make 56:29.080 --> 56:33.880 you happy, things that you want, things that you enjoy, and thinking about, you know, how 56:33.880 --> 56:34.400 to make yourself happy. 56:34.400 --> 56:39.400 self-happy, then you have the lust of the eyes again. It's just things that you like to look at. You know you want that 56:41.520 --> 56:43.520 500 fish invade or whatever 56:43.960 --> 56:48.440 5,000 probably I have a lot so you know you you lost at that and you want it and 56:50.100 --> 56:52.140 The pride of life, right? 56:52.140 --> 56:53.820 Again, just being prideful. 56:53.820 --> 56:55.540 You want the bigger house, the bigger car. 56:55.540 --> 56:58.100 You want everybody to look at you and to be the best. 56:58.100 --> 57:01.220 You want to be number one, and you want to be the cool person, 57:01.220 --> 57:02.620 and everybody to like you. 57:02.620 --> 57:04.700 So all of that is going to be selfish. 57:04.700 --> 57:06.460 It's all selfish things. 57:06.460 --> 57:09.220 So most sins that you're going to commit 57:09.220 --> 57:10.720 and that people commit is all going 57:10.720 --> 57:13.420 to be because somebody's being selfish in that instance. 57:13.420 --> 57:17.420 So if you guys would flip over to 2 Timothy chapter 3. 57:19.600 --> 57:23.840 going to see that this is going to be a big problem as we get closer and closer to the 57:23.840 --> 57:24.840 end times. 57:24.840 --> 57:29.960 So the closer you get to the end times, the more people are going to be selfish. 57:29.960 --> 57:36.240 And it says in 2 Timothy 3 verse number 1, it says, This know also that in the last days 57:36.240 --> 57:41.400 perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves. 57:41.800 --> 57:49.360 covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural 57:49.360 --> 57:57.480 affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traders 57:57.480 --> 57:57.900 Cheers! 57:58.800 --> 58:03.740 Heide, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. 58:03.740 --> 58:08.220 So in verse number two this list starts with men shall be lovers of their own selves, which 58:08.220 --> 58:10.420 obviously is selfish, right? 58:10.420 --> 58:11.820 I mean that's super clear. 58:11.820 --> 58:16.740 But then it also ends with verse number four with the same things, lovers of pleasures, 58:16.740 --> 58:17.900 which is being selfish, right? 58:17.900 --> 58:21.960 You love to be pleasuring yourself more than lovers of God. 58:21.960 --> 58:26.760 So every single sin in here pretty much is asked on some degree. 58:26.800 --> 58:30.240 because somebody's selfish, but the verse is super clear at the beginning and at the 58:30.240 --> 58:36.760 end that it's all about pleasure and that somebody loves their own selves, right? 58:36.760 --> 58:42.760 And side note, but it's verse number three where it says without natural affection. 58:42.760 --> 58:46.680 I never seem too much on it, but I think ... 58:47.700 --> 58:56.060 I got the story right-ish, but apparently like some lady killed her child or something the last couple days or whatever and then 58:57.140 --> 59:03.620 You know obviously there's a poem so the pastor's wife that said you know stuff about what people should do 59:03.780 --> 59:11.660 you know if they're having postpartum depression or whatever and you know all of terrible advice, but 59:12.200 --> 59:17.120 Anyway, this crazy thing that a parent would kill her child and then some people even 59:17.120 --> 59:22.360 passage-wise would use this like post-partum depression as an excuse, you know, that's 59:22.360 --> 59:25.000 crazy thing that any parent would, uh... 59:25.500 --> 59:29.740 do that, right? At the end times that without natural affection seems to be 59:29.740 --> 59:34.780 another huge problem which ties into being selfish, right? People are just 59:34.780 --> 59:38.060 all about themselves and don't even want to take care of their own 59:38.060 --> 59:41.260 children and it's crazy and then 59:41.260 --> 59:45.620 what I love about it though, and this is none of this has to do with the sermon, it just popped into my mind, but 59:45.620 --> 59:50.100 you know when I went to the hospital they said, hey men can have postpartum 59:50.100 --> 59:51.020 depression too 59:51.020 --> 59:53.300 and then I asked AI, and it's pretty close, it's like 59:53.500 --> 59:56.900 up to 15% of women, up to 10% of men. 59:56.900 --> 59:58.540 But it's funny, it's like everything 59:58.540 --> 01:00:00.140 with the feminist society is like, 01:00:00.140 --> 01:00:04.060 oh, well the woman, she can just throw the kids at home 01:00:04.060 --> 01:00:06.540 and just leave and take off and text the guy 01:00:06.540 --> 01:00:09.160 and say, hey, you take care of the kids, 01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:10.380 I can't handle this anymore, 01:00:10.380 --> 01:00:12.820 and that's the advice from pastors' wives. 01:00:12.820 --> 01:00:14.620 But it's like, so can the guy just do that? 01:00:14.620 --> 01:00:16.820 Can the guy just be like, hey, I'm not coming home? 01:00:16.820 --> 01:00:19.420 I have postpartum depression, 01:00:19.420 --> 01:00:20.780 the kids can just do whatever. 01:00:20.780 --> 01:00:21.420 like. 01:00:21.500 --> 01:00:24.820 stupid and terrible advice is that it's like if you have a child take care of 01:00:24.820 --> 01:00:28.020 the child like I don't care if you have postpartum depression if you have 01:00:28.020 --> 01:00:32.220 whatever depression like take care of the kid and quit being selfish right I 01:00:32.220 --> 01:00:36.060 mean my goodness like if you have a child you need to take care of that child 01:00:36.060 --> 01:00:39.460 like this because I get depressed doesn't mean I can just go to work and 01:00:39.460 --> 01:00:42.940 just do whatever I want and sit in the corner like I have to do my job if 01:00:42.940 --> 01:00:45.200 you're a parent you have to be a parent I mean 01:00:45.600 --> 01:00:48.000 It's crazy to think, like it's not that difficult. 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:49.240 If you're a parent, be a parent. 01:00:49.240 --> 01:00:51.120 If you're working, work, right? 01:00:51.120 --> 01:00:53.200 I mean, everything in life is like that. 01:00:53.200 --> 01:00:55.080 You can't just have an excuse. 01:00:55.080 --> 01:00:57.920 And it's like everything in society is always an excuse. 01:00:57.920 --> 01:00:59.960 Oh, this person's depressed, and this person this. 01:00:59.960 --> 01:01:01.840 And it's like, I'm sure people do have that, 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:05.200 but at some level, be an adult and grow up, right? 01:01:05.200 --> 01:01:07.320 I mean, if you have a child, I don't 01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:08.900 care what's going through your brain. 01:01:08.900 --> 01:01:11.400 You need to be a parent and take care of that child, right? 01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:13.600 I mean, it's common sense, but I guess. 01:01:13.600 --> 01:01:16.600 as the end times get closer, common sense is not very common. 01:01:16.600 --> 01:01:20.600 So back to the sermon that had nothing to do with any of my notes. 01:01:20.600 --> 01:01:26.600 But I have asked AI who the most selfish generation is. 01:01:26.600 --> 01:01:30.600 And the two generations that they say are the most selfish 01:01:30.600 --> 01:01:32.600 are actually the ones right now. 01:01:32.600 --> 01:01:34.300 So apparently the Bible was... 01:01:34.500 --> 01:01:38.260 Pretty accurate when it says you get close at the end times people are going to be selfish 01:01:38.340 --> 01:01:42.740 So I said the number one most selfish generation they consider it the baby boomers 01:01:43.020 --> 01:01:44.220 so 01:01:44.220 --> 01:01:49.700 Historically dubbed the me generation in the 1970s by social commentators 01:01:50.020 --> 01:01:56.520 It says boomers were criticized for shifting cultural values towards individual fulfillment 01:01:57.300 --> 01:01:59.100 consumerism and personal 01:01:59.200 --> 01:02:04.840 indulgence so I always love to like old older people sorry if you're a boomer but 01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:07.440 You know they say how? 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:12.080 Selfish and how bad and how terrible the kids are in society right? 01:02:12.080 --> 01:02:19.480 It's like the young people and the new generation. It's like you who raised them. I mean you can't just blame and obviously 01:02:20.200 --> 01:02:23.320 You know, you could raise a kid perfectly and they turn out bad, obviously. 01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:27.920 But as a whole generation, when you're the me generation and it's all about you and then 01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:32.040 you raise a bunch of kids that aren't very good, you know, obviously a lot of that is 01:02:32.040 --> 01:02:33.300 your fault. 01:02:33.300 --> 01:02:38.080 So you can't criticize the kids when you only cared about yourself and you didn't raise 01:02:38.080 --> 01:02:39.080 the kids. 01:02:39.080 --> 01:02:40.080 You dropped them off at public school, right? 01:02:40.080 --> 01:02:43.120 I mean, if you're homeschooling your kids and you're teaching them all the stuff that 01:02:43.120 --> 01:02:46.840 they should learn and you're putting everything you can in them and they turn out bad, you 01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:48.120 did what you could, right? 01:02:48.200 --> 01:02:51.400 You drop them off at the daycare, drop them off at the school, and you never teach them 01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:53.520 how to even open a bank account. 01:02:53.520 --> 01:02:54.900 That's on you, right? 01:02:54.900 --> 01:02:58.480 So the number two generation is millennials. 01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:03.760 I guess number two is millennials and Gen Z, so I guess that's two generations. 01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:09.040 It says older generations often critique younger generations for 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:11.960 lots of things that we already talked about, 01:03:11.960 --> 01:03:14.200 being self-absorbed and things, 01:03:14.200 --> 01:03:15.880 but they did the same thing. 01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:18.800 So it says social and family shifts, 01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:23.720 critics cite delayed marriage, falling birth rates, 01:03:23.720 --> 01:03:27.520 career first mindset as evidence of self-interest. 01:03:28.100 --> 01:03:33.860 for the younger generation and then obviously the younger generation's points to like, 01:03:33.860 --> 01:03:37.860 hey, the student loan debt is so high, we can't afford to do these things, 01:03:37.860 --> 01:03:39.860 then housing unaffordability. 01:03:39.860 --> 01:03:46.660 So a lot of that is kind of true, that it is hard to start a family when you're $100,000 in student loan debt 01:03:46.660 --> 01:03:52.060 and then the house is $250,000 and you're making $15 an hour or $20 an hour. 01:03:52.060 --> 01:03:56.060 So I do get that it is difficult, but obviously there is some truth. 01:03:56.100 --> 01:04:00.420 to being related to selfishness as well. 01:04:00.420 --> 01:04:02.820 But again, a lot of it goes back to the baby boomers 01:04:02.820 --> 01:04:06.340 who put us in a lot of the $40 trillion in debt, right? 01:04:06.340 --> 01:04:09.940 So that's what we're going to get to here with the statistics 01:04:09.940 --> 01:04:15.060 that these generations here with the baby boomers and then on 01:04:15.060 --> 01:04:18.900 is that in what year is this here? 01:04:18.900 --> 01:04:23.260 1940, the national debt was $50 billion. 01:04:23.700 --> 01:04:29.300 So, way less money than even Elon Musk has or anybody else. 01:04:29.300 --> 01:04:32.420 Whereas now it's $40 trillion in debt. 01:04:32.420 --> 01:04:35.620 So, Donald Trump... 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:38.800 is pretty sure he's the most now, 01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:41.600 that he's did the most debt out of any president, 01:04:41.600 --> 01:04:43.000 because his first term he was like 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:45.000 right behind Obama who was number one, 01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:47.400 but then like his second term he's just like 01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:50.400 completely, you know, even flood at the gate, right, 01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:52.800 with his big beautiful debt bill that he had. 01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:58.000 So now each person owes $114,000 01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:01.800 versus the 1940s each person owed $380. 01:05:02.200 --> 01:05:06.200 So obviously, when you have just this crazy amount of debt... 01:05:06.300 --> 01:05:08.800 It allows the stock market to go up. 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.900 It allows lots of things to inflate, 01:05:11.900 --> 01:05:14.000 which obviously has helped the older generations 01:05:14.000 --> 01:05:16.600 who own the land, who own the houses. 01:05:16.600 --> 01:05:17.800 But again, that's selfish. 01:05:17.800 --> 01:05:20.100 Hey, let's put the country in all this debt 01:05:20.100 --> 01:05:22.800 because we don't want to go through an economic downturn. 01:05:22.800 --> 01:05:25.900 We don't want to tough out, you know, 2008. 01:05:25.900 --> 01:05:28.400 We don't want to tough out the Great Depression 01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:29.200 and all this stuff. 01:05:29.200 --> 01:05:30.400 We just want to print money. 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:32.600 And, you know, the next generations, 01:05:32.600 --> 01:05:34.200 they can deal with the big... 01:05:34.300 --> 01:05:39.260 bubble that's going to pop and screw them, it's just all about us. 01:05:39.260 --> 01:05:45.220 But not only did they put everybody in debt and not only did they ruin the economy, well 01:05:45.220 --> 01:05:51.580 they also passed abortion in 1973. 01:05:51.900 --> 01:05:55.140 So, you know, that's a great thing that's happened. 01:05:55.140 --> 01:05:58.700 Legal nationwide abortion in 1973. 01:05:58.700 --> 01:06:02.300 No-fault divorce with the greatest president 01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:03.240 after Trump, right? 01:06:03.240 --> 01:06:05.940 Ronald Reagan, the Republican, right? 01:06:05.940 --> 01:06:07.340 He's real conservative. 01:06:07.340 --> 01:06:10.440 No-fault divorce in 1969 in California, 01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:13.540 which spread throughout the rest of the country by the 19... 01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:19.880 80s, you know, going through, right, which is obviously still around today. 01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:24.520 And obviously the divorce rates haven't went up since then, right, it's not like everybody's 01:06:24.520 --> 01:06:27.040 getting divorced now, which, you know. 01:06:27.600 --> 01:06:30.960 Crazed to think it's a Republican that everybody praises, not a Democrat, right? 01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:35.840 You'd think only Democrats did bad, but I guess even Reagan can ruin the country. 01:06:35.840 --> 01:06:42.800 So they said property zoning, control is another reason for these generations to be very selfish. 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:51.440 I guess they restricted multifamily housing and caused younger generations to not be able to afford housing 01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:52.440 because they wanted their. 01:06:52.800 --> 01:06:56.800 property values to stay high instead of letting more houses be built. 01:06:56.800 --> 01:07:01.800 So, you know, obviously the price wouldn't go up, but people could actually have a house. 01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:06.300 And then corporate law and shareholder. 01:07:06.300 --> 01:07:10.800 So I guess during the 1980s it shifted to where... 01:07:13.000 --> 01:07:17.880 employees, communities, it all went to the shareholders instead. 01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:22.440 So instead of like businesses, I guess, you know, caring about the employee and the community 01:07:22.440 --> 01:07:27.420 and like actually having like an owner and things, everything shifted to shareholders. 01:07:27.420 --> 01:07:32.360 So now it's all replaced by financial returns for whoever owns that stock. 01:07:32.360 --> 01:07:37.000 So now a company like All That Matters is like say Elon Musk owns a huge chunk of stock. 01:07:37.400 --> 01:07:42.080 he's going to determine the money's going to go to him with dividend checks. 01:07:42.080 --> 01:07:45.560 Instead of before, you actually had an owner that owned the company, 01:07:45.560 --> 01:07:47.600 like Henry Ford owned Ford, 01:07:47.600 --> 01:07:50.680 and he cared about the employees to some degree because he sees them, 01:07:50.680 --> 01:07:53.900 he owns the company, his name is on the car place. 01:07:53.900 --> 01:07:57.640 Now, it's just a bunch of shareholders that own stock that want to get that dividend, 01:07:57.640 --> 01:07:59.080 so they're keeping the money. 01:07:59.080 --> 01:08:02.080 So that's another reason they said it's selfish. 01:08:02.080 --> 01:08:04.080 And then also they said that... 01:08:04.700 --> 01:08:12.660 The 1978, that these generations allowed companies to stop giving pension plans, and then all 01:08:12.660 --> 01:08:21.020 of it shift to just 401Ks, which also keeps the money in with all the rich people and 01:08:21.020 --> 01:08:22.020 the shareholders. 01:08:22.020 --> 01:08:27.500 So now, obviously now that's why you have multi, Elon Musk was a trillionaire or whatever, 01:08:27.500 --> 01:08:28.500 right? 01:08:28.500 --> 01:08:32.700 And then also, the next thing they have is that church membership went down. 01:08:32.700 --> 01:08:39.800 So church membership was 73 to 76 percent, now it's 47 percent, and then weekly attendance 01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:44.960 was 45 to 50 percent in the 1940s, now it's 30 percent. 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:50.840 So there's just tons of examples of these generations that they have of just why they're 01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:52.720 selfish, which is what the Bible said, right? 01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:55.900 hey, these people are going to be very selfish in the end times. 01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:57.560 They're going to be lovers of themselves, right? 01:08:57.560 --> 01:08:58.880 They don't want the kids. 01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:00.800 They want to be able to divorce when they want. 01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:04.160 They want their houses to go up, and who cares 01:09:04.160 --> 01:09:05.480 about the next generation? 01:09:05.480 --> 01:09:07.880 They want the debt to go up as long as they're 01:09:07.880 --> 01:09:08.960 going to live a good life. 01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:12.160 And if it pops when my kids are around, who cares? 01:09:12.160 --> 01:09:15.720 So these generations in just many, many aspects 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:17.480 are very, very selfish. 01:09:17.480 --> 01:09:18.920 So if you guys would flip over to. 01:09:20.900 --> 01:09:27.060 We're going to skip this, there's a lot here, but I'm sure most of you guys know this story, 01:09:27.060 --> 01:09:29.240 I'll kind of summarize it I guess. 01:09:29.240 --> 01:09:33.220 In the book of Esther, right, you have Haman and you have Mordecai, right? 01:09:33.220 --> 01:09:42.420 You have a story here where hey, a guy, Mordecai, does not want to bow down to Haman, who's 01:09:42.420 --> 01:09:44.660 you know, high up in the government and... 01:09:45.100 --> 01:09:47.300 because he doesn't want to bow down to him, 01:09:47.300 --> 01:09:49.700 he just doesn't matter what he's given. 01:09:49.700 --> 01:09:51.600 He has all the money, all the power, 01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:54.100 all the fame and the accolades, 01:09:54.100 --> 01:09:56.300 but one guy does not want to worship him 01:09:56.300 --> 01:09:59.900 and treat him as just this great individual 01:09:59.900 --> 01:10:01.300 and give reverence to him. 01:10:01.300 --> 01:10:04.800 And not only does he want to kill this guy, 01:10:04.800 --> 01:10:06.900 he wants to kill millions of people probably. 01:10:06.900 --> 01:10:08.900 I don't know how many Jews, I guess, were alive at that time, 01:10:08.900 --> 01:10:11.600 but hundreds of thousands or millions of people, 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:12.840 because one guy... 01:10:13.100 --> 01:10:17.500 doesn't want to give him reverence, so he wants to kill every single Jew in the whole 01:10:17.500 --> 01:10:20.740 nation because of one person. 01:10:20.740 --> 01:10:26.140 And obviously that sent a downward spiral in his life because he ends up being killed. 01:10:26.140 --> 01:10:32.020 At the end of the story, he dies and he hangs on the gallows that he wanted to kill, you 01:10:32.020 --> 01:10:36.060 know, the one person that wouldn't worship him and give him reverence. 01:10:36.060 --> 01:10:41.060 So in your life, you could end up going down a bad path. 01:10:41.100 --> 01:10:44.340 this attitude of, hey, I need to be the best, 01:10:44.340 --> 01:10:45.620 and everybody needs to worship me. 01:10:45.620 --> 01:10:50.500 And just one little thing caused you to just lose your mind. 01:10:50.500 --> 01:10:54.540 So you guys flip over to Joshua 7. 01:10:54.540 --> 01:10:59.300 So you could go down a very bad path because of that. 01:10:59.300 --> 01:11:02.620 And you see that a lot in churches, right? 01:11:02.620 --> 01:11:03.900 People get tunnel vision. 01:11:04.400 --> 01:11:06.740 where everything's going good, right? 01:11:06.740 --> 01:11:07.700 Their marriage is fixed. 01:11:07.700 --> 01:11:09.220 Their life's going better. 01:11:09.220 --> 01:11:10.020 They're doing good. 01:11:10.020 --> 01:11:10.940 They're doing the soul winning. 01:11:10.940 --> 01:11:13.860 Things are going great, but they get in one disagreement 01:11:13.860 --> 01:11:16.180 with somebody at church, or somebody at church 01:11:16.180 --> 01:11:20.260 gets kicked out that they like, or one thing happens, and. 01:11:20.400 --> 01:11:25.400 It's just that tunnel vision of just they give everything else up because that one little 01:11:25.400 --> 01:11:29.840 incident and it's the same thing you see in that Esther story of just, hey, if he would 01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:32.440 have just let that slide, his whole life would have been going great. 01:11:32.440 --> 01:11:36.600 He would have had all the money and the power and the fame and everything would have been 01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:37.600 perfect. 01:11:37.600 --> 01:11:42.680 He even says that in the story that everything is great, but he says that because Mordecai 01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:46.800 won't bow down to him, he says everything availeth me nothing. 01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:48.400 It's like none of that matters because. 01:11:48.400 --> 01:11:49.820 this one person. 01:11:49.820 --> 01:11:52.860 And it's like, you know, we get that same attitude sometimes, right? 01:11:52.860 --> 01:11:56.620 I mean, even at work, everything goes great, but your boss yells at you one time, and you're 01:11:56.620 --> 01:11:58.780 like, oh man, I can't work at this place anymore. 01:11:58.780 --> 01:12:04.220 It's just, you know, don't get that tunnel vision of being jealous, selfish, and thinking 01:12:04.220 --> 01:12:05.220 about yourself. 01:12:05.220 --> 01:12:08.060 Just let it go and think about all the positive stuff, right? 01:12:08.060 --> 01:12:11.260 I mean, you don't want to get thinking about the negative things. 01:12:11.260 --> 01:12:12.260 So in Joshua. 01:12:12.900 --> 01:12:20.860 7 verse number 1 we're going to see the same thing of just one little tiny incident of 01:12:20.860 --> 01:12:26.260 the selfishness that pops in your mind can lead the same thing down this path where you 01:12:26.260 --> 01:12:27.740 can end up dying. 01:12:27.740 --> 01:12:32.060 So in Joshua 7 verse number 1 it says, but the children of Israel committed a trespass 01:12:32.060 --> 01:12:38.460 and the accursed thing for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zaddai, the son of... 01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:43.380 19. Zoriah of the tribe of Judah took a via cursit thing, and the anger of the Lord was 01:12:43.380 --> 01:12:45.800 kindled against the children of Israel. 01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:47.240 20. So one person... 01:12:47.700 --> 01:12:49.840 does something selfishly, right? 01:12:49.840 --> 01:12:51.640 They take something they shouldn't, 01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:54.040 and they do something God said not to do, 01:12:54.040 --> 01:12:57.040 and not only was God mad at him, 01:12:57.040 --> 01:12:58.640 but now he's mad at who? 01:12:58.640 --> 01:13:00.040 The children of Israel. 01:13:00.040 --> 01:13:01.780 Only one person did something wrong, right? 01:13:01.780 --> 01:13:03.540 No one else even knows what's going on. 01:13:03.540 --> 01:13:04.940 No one else did anything, 01:13:04.940 --> 01:13:07.900 but God has taken it out on all of them. 01:13:08.500 --> 01:13:11.400 And if you go down to verse number three it says, 01:13:11.400 --> 01:13:13.740 and they returned to Joshua and said unto him, 01:13:13.740 --> 01:13:16.300 let not all the people go up, but let about two or three 01:13:16.300 --> 01:13:21.100 thousand men go up and smite AI and make not all the people. 01:13:21.100 --> 01:13:23.100 to labor, they are but few. 01:13:23.100 --> 01:13:29.440 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, and they fled before the 01:13:29.440 --> 01:13:35.280 men of Ai, and the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men, for they chased 01:13:35.280 --> 01:13:38.080 them from before the gate even unto the gate. 01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:40.800 Shabiram and 01:13:41.200 --> 01:13:43.520 Smote them in the going down 01:13:44.120 --> 01:13:48.160 Wherefore the hearts of the people melted and became as water so hey 01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:52.380 one guy was selfish one guy did something he shouldn't do and 01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:59.420 God's mad at the children of Israel and it affects three thousand men that go to battle and they have to flee and 01:14:00.280 --> 01:14:06.720 36 people died that literally didn't do anything right none of them even know probably what's going on and they 01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:09.480 die because of one person's selfishness. 01:14:09.480 --> 01:14:12.840 So just because you think that, hey, I can be selfish, 01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:15.440 I can do whatever, it's not going to affect anyone else, 01:14:15.440 --> 01:14:17.840 you never know how God is going to take that, right? 01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:21.040 The same thing with David when he commits adultery 01:14:21.040 --> 01:14:24.040 and he has a child with Bathsheba. 01:14:24.040 --> 01:14:25.520 That child didn't do anything wrong. 01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:27.440 That child had no part of it. 01:14:27.700 --> 01:14:28.700 25. 01:14:28.700 --> 01:14:29.700 Who suffered the most? 01:14:29.700 --> 01:14:30.700 The child, right? 01:14:30.700 --> 01:14:31.700 The child died. 01:14:31.700 --> 01:14:34.300 And obviously the child went to heaven, but, you know, I don't know about you guys, but 01:14:34.300 --> 01:14:37.660 I would rather be born and be able to get some rewards, be able to go soul winning, 01:14:37.660 --> 01:14:40.940 get people saved, like have a life, like be able to do things. 01:14:40.940 --> 01:14:46.260 So that child did suffer because of his dad's selfishness, right? 01:14:46.260 --> 01:14:50.700 So if you skit out in verse number 25, 01:14:51.900 --> 01:14:55.400 It says, and Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? 01:14:55.400 --> 01:15:01.540 The Lord shall trouble thee this day, and all Israel stoned him with stones, and burnt 01:15:01.540 --> 01:15:07.020 them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. 01:15:07.020 --> 01:15:08.380 So in verse 24... 01:15:08.700 --> 01:15:14.700 The reason it says, burnt them with fire after they had stoned them with stones, like plural, 01:15:14.700 --> 01:15:21.740 because in verse 24 it says, they took the silver, the garment, the gold, his sons and his daughters 01:15:21.740 --> 01:15:27.740 and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had. So hey, not only did those 01:15:27.740 --> 01:15:32.860 36 people die, his whole family suffered and the animals, right? The animals didn't do anything, 01:15:32.860 --> 01:15:36.540 his family didn't do anything. And hey, the Bible says, and burnt. 01:15:36.700 --> 01:15:40.300 them with fire and they stone them with stones. 01:15:40.300 --> 01:15:47.300 So obviously hey, you don't want to do major sin and be selfish because it's going to affect 01:15:47.300 --> 01:15:52.680 your friends, your family, your loved ones, and people you care about. 01:15:52.680 --> 01:16:00.760 So if you guys would flip over to Deuteronomy chapter 15. 01:16:06.900 --> 01:16:12.900 So in Deuteronomy 15, I'll read one verse in Luke 12, 15, it says, 01:16:12.900 --> 01:16:15.780 And he said to them, Take heed and beware of covetousness, 01:16:15.780 --> 01:16:20.980 for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. 01:16:21.620 --> 01:16:27.140 So hey, the story, this guy dies because he's worried about the things that he possesses, 01:16:27.140 --> 01:16:31.060 right? And God says, hey, don't worry about that. Your life isn't about that. 01:16:31.060 --> 01:16:33.060 So in Deuteronomy 15... 01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:39.000 This is God's attitude he wants us to have towards people. 01:16:39.200 --> 01:16:42.400 that are in need and have not had the selfish attitude. 01:16:42.400 --> 01:16:43.960 In verse number 7 it says, 01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:50.000 17 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in 01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:56.440 thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut 01:16:56.440 --> 01:17:02.320 thine hand from thy poor brother, but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt 01:17:02.320 --> 01:17:07.200 surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wants. 01:17:07.200 --> 01:17:14.400 wanteth, beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, 01:17:14.400 --> 01:17:19.840 the year of release of that hand, and thine eye be evil against thy brother, and thou 01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:26.920 giveth him not, and he cryeth to the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee. 01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:33.000 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto 01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:34.500 him because that... 01:17:35.900 --> 01:17:41.580 For this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou 01:17:41.580 --> 01:17:43.700 puttest thine hand unto. 01:17:44.700 --> 01:17:49.060 So, hey, God's saying, hey, He doesn't want you to have a bad attitude even, even if you 01:17:49.060 --> 01:17:50.060 do give to people. 01:17:50.060 --> 01:17:55.980 It says, you know, be not grieved when you give, and God's going to bless you in all 01:17:55.980 --> 01:17:56.980 your works. 01:17:56.980 --> 01:18:01.060 And we see that so far with the Apostle Paul, and all he did is, hey, he gave everything 01:18:01.060 --> 01:18:06.480 he had to people, and, you know, maybe he never went around giving all this food and 01:18:06.480 --> 01:18:10.340 this money and all these possessions to poor people like some of the other churches do, 01:18:10.340 --> 01:18:12.220 right, the food pantries and the whatever. 01:18:12.220 --> 01:18:12.700 But hey, use. 01:18:12.700 --> 01:18:16.420 that money to give people save, to do the work, to go on the mission trips, and to give 01:18:16.420 --> 01:18:21.740 the most important thing, which is the gospel, and to give people save, right? 01:18:21.740 --> 01:18:25.540 And you know, don't think that well, you know, now I have to work a bunch of hours and just 01:18:25.540 --> 01:18:27.840 give money to all these homeless derelicts. 01:18:27.840 --> 01:18:31.900 You know, the important thing is, hey, work, get that money, and give people save, preach 01:18:31.900 --> 01:18:38.640 the gospel, and do things that have eternal value, and give people all that you have, 01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:39.860 but on a spiritual value, right? 01:18:39.860 --> 01:18:40.700 It doesn't do any good. 01:18:40.700 --> 01:18:43.100 to give everybody all your money. 01:18:43.100 --> 01:18:44.940 And you save up $20,000 every year, 01:18:44.940 --> 01:18:48.780 and you just donate it all to some homeless shelter, 01:18:48.780 --> 01:18:51.020 because all those people are going to die and go to hell. 01:18:51.020 --> 01:18:54.580 So use that $20,000 and do a bunch of mission trips 01:18:54.580 --> 01:18:58.340 and get people saved and do things that have eternal value. 01:18:58.340 --> 01:18:59.980 So if you guys would flip over to. 01:19:02.900 --> 01:19:04.900 John chapter 3 01:19:12.200 --> 01:19:17.400 And on that know it about, hey, helping people, the Bible says in Proverbs 29 verse 7, it 01:19:17.400 --> 01:19:22.380 says, the righteous considereth the cause of the poor, but the wicked regardeth not to 01:19:22.380 --> 01:19:23.380 know it. 01:19:23.380 --> 01:19:25.760 So hey, if you're a righteous person, you're going to think, you know, if you're going 01:19:25.760 --> 01:19:30.880 to give somebody physical money or physical things, they consider why they're poor, right? 01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:33.960 If they don't work, they don't have a job, the Bible says, hey, they shouldn't eat. 01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:36.980 So just because you're giving people money doesn't mean you're doing right. 01:19:36.980 --> 01:19:40.200 So if you're going to give your heart of money, you want to do it right. 01:19:40.200 --> 01:19:43.000 what the Bible says, because if not, you might as well just keep it, right? 01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:46.720 I mean, you want to consider that cause, and the government does not do that. 01:19:46.720 --> 01:19:50.560 They just give money to everybody, and you go to the store, and all these people are 01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:54.040 loading up their carts with a bunch of food, and they don't work. 01:19:54.040 --> 01:19:57.320 So you're like, man, like that's where my tax dollars are going, you know? 01:19:57.320 --> 01:20:01.120 But obviously, we should be giving the money to people, not the government, because we 01:20:01.120 --> 01:20:03.080 would know who deserves the help. 01:20:03.080 --> 01:20:06.600 The government just gives it to everybody that says they make under a certain dollar 01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:07.600 value, but hey. 01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:08.000 Okay. 01:20:08.100 --> 01:20:13.340 you know, we would know this person has a job, but their tire blew out, or hey, they 01:20:13.340 --> 01:20:15.260 have a job, but they got laid off. 01:20:15.260 --> 01:20:19.100 You know, you would know how somebody is if you're around them. 01:20:19.100 --> 01:20:22.900 That's why the government giving people money doesn't work, because it just causes people 01:20:22.900 --> 01:20:24.260 not to do anything. 01:20:24.260 --> 01:20:32.780 So in John chapter 3 verse 26, it says, And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, 01:20:32.780 --> 01:20:35.100 that was with the Beyond Jordan. 01:20:35.900 --> 01:20:42.140 to whom thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. 01:20:42.140 --> 01:20:49.260 15 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. 01:20:49.260 --> 01:20:54.860 16 Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 01:20:55.500 --> 01:21:00.340 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom which standeth 01:21:00.340 --> 01:21:05.360 and heareth him rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. 01:21:05.360 --> 01:21:08.160 This my joy therefore is fulfilled." 01:21:08.160 --> 01:21:14.620 So hey another example of somebody being not being selfish is John the Baptist because 01:21:14.620 --> 01:21:16.400 hey these people are trying to get him. 01:21:44.100 --> 01:21:46.420 It says, you don't have to turn there unless you want to, 01:21:46.420 --> 01:21:47.260 but you don't have to. 01:21:47.260 --> 01:21:49.300 It says, I write to the church, but. 01:21:49.400 --> 01:21:55.520 Deutrophes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 01:21:55.520 --> 01:21:59.160 Wherefore if I come, I will remember his deed, which he doeth, 01:21:59.160 --> 01:22:04.120 Praying against us with malicious words, and not content therewith, 01:22:04.120 --> 01:22:08.800 Neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbideth them that would, 01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:11.120 And casteth them out of the church. 01:22:11.120 --> 01:22:12.720 So hey, you have two examples, right? 01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:14.680 You have Deutrophes who doesn't want. 01:22:15.100 --> 01:22:18.700 people hanging out with the men of God. He wants to be the star of the show. 01:22:18.700 --> 01:22:24.860 And then you have John the Baptist, who actually is, you know, probably considered a star of the 01:22:24.860 --> 01:22:29.740 show, right? John the Baptist. I mean, most churches that are good are named after John the Baptist. 01:22:29.740 --> 01:22:35.100 And even he's saying, hey, people need to follow Jesus, not me. Then you have other people like 01:22:35.100 --> 01:22:40.060 Deutrophes saying, hey, people need to follow me and not the Apostle Paul, right? And then if you 01:22:40.060 --> 01:22:40.700 Listen to them. 01:22:40.700 --> 01:22:42.620 We're going to cast you out of the church. 01:22:42.620 --> 01:22:43.100 And. 01:22:43.100 --> 01:22:49.820 this stuff happens all the time. So you want to have that attitude. If you're still in 01:22:49.820 --> 01:22:55.100 John chapter 3 where it says in verse number 30, it says, He must increase, but I must 01:22:55.100 --> 01:22:59.860 decrease. So that's the ultimate, you know, not being selfish, just saying, hey, like, 01:22:59.860 --> 01:23:04.180 I don't need to be the star of the show. Jesus needs to be the star of the show, right? I 01:23:04.180 --> 01:23:07.180 I need to decrease, he needs to increase. 01:23:08.500 --> 01:23:14.500 You don't want to be somebody who gets this selfish bug because in 2nd Timothy 4.10, 01:23:14.500 --> 01:23:16.200 you don't have to turn there, it says, 01:23:16.200 --> 01:23:20.900 for Demith has forsaken me, having loved this present world, 01:23:20.900 --> 01:23:22.900 and has departed unto Thessalonica, 01:23:22.900 --> 01:23:26.500 Cretians to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. 01:23:26.500 --> 01:23:28.800 So hey, lots of people are going to quit, 01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:33.900 lots of people are going to stop going, and you know, even people that... 01:23:34.200 --> 01:23:40.560 I've known that came to every soul-winning thing that I had that led the singing at, 01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:42.480 you know, this conference. 01:23:42.480 --> 01:23:46.400 Just like people that I thought were never going to give up and then now it's like I 01:23:46.400 --> 01:23:47.720 don't even know what they're saying, right? 01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:52.340 Or like, you guys preach a false gospel and you're like, whoa, like you guys were like 01:23:52.340 --> 01:23:57.200 new IFB to the Corps and then now you guys, you know, are church fathers and you're saying 01:23:57.200 --> 01:24:02.000 that we preach a false gospel and, you know, they were around for years and years and years. 01:24:02.000 --> 01:24:02.200 So. 01:24:02.200 --> 01:24:06.640 So, you know, just remember, lots of people are going to give up, and lots of people are 01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:10.560 going to quit, and lots of people are going to turn out to be Judas Iscariots, but as 01:24:10.560 --> 01:24:14.320 long as you're not selfish and you think about other people, you're going to keep going. 01:24:14.320 --> 01:24:18.880 That's the biggest thing is don't be selfish and, you know, never get this attitude where 01:24:18.880 --> 01:24:20.760 you need to be the star of the show, right? 01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:25.120 Because, you know, even the John the Baptist says, even the Apostle Pauls, even Jesus, 01:24:25.120 --> 01:24:28.760 it's like they're making other people the star, right? 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:30.200 They're putting all the focus on them. 01:24:30.200 --> 01:24:35.160 them, they're preaching to them, everything's geared towards them, and you know if you do 01:24:35.160 --> 01:24:38.360 that, you're going to shine and you're going to be like the Apostle Paul where people are 01:24:38.360 --> 01:24:42.880 going to talk about you years and years down the road of hey, you're one of the greatest 01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:47.760 Christians of our time because you cared about other people. If you care about yourself, 01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:52.440 you're just never going to make it because that's not the Bible's way of doing it. God's 01:24:52.440 --> 01:24:55.680 not going to bless something that he's telling you to do it one way and you do it another 01:24:55.680 --> 01:24:57.560 way, he's not going to bless it, right? 01:24:57.560 --> 01:24:58.100 So. 01:24:58.200 --> 01:25:00.200 We can close with a word of prayer. 01:25:00.200 --> 01:25:03.200 Sorry it wasn't a shorter sermon with the heat. 01:25:03.200 --> 01:25:05.200 Thank you Lord for a great day in church today. 01:25:05.200 --> 01:25:11.200 Thank you for an amazing church and having the ability to have a complete Bible 01:25:11.200 --> 01:25:16.200 and to be able to have the freedom to preach and to just keep blessing us 01:25:16.200 --> 01:25:19.200 and bless everybody as they travel home and keep us all safe. 01:25:19.200 --> 01:25:22.200 We love you and thank you and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 01:25:27.100 --> 01:25:29.100 Alright, amen. 01:25:29.980 --> 01:25:31.980 Last song's gonna be song 01:25:32.380 --> 01:25:38.320 448, Brethren We Have Met To Worship. Song 448 in your handbooks. 01:25:40.020 --> 01:25:42.020 448. 01:25:42.860 --> 01:25:44.600 On the first. 01:25:47.200 --> 01:25:57.640 Brethren, we have met to worship and adore the Lord our God. 01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:08.120 Will you pray with all your power while we try to preach the word? 01:26:08.300 --> 01:26:18.700 All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down. 01:26:18.700 --> 01:26:29.100 Brethren, pray and holy manna will be showered all around. 01:26:29.100 --> 01:26:36.300 Brethren, see poor sinners round you slumbering on. 01:26:36.300 --> 01:26:39.300 on the brink of woe. 01:26:39.500 --> 01:26:49.820 Death is coming, hell is moving, can you bear to let them go? 01:26:49.820 --> 01:26:59.980 See our fathers and our mothers and our children sinking down. 01:26:59.980 --> 01:27:07.500 Brethren, pray and holy manna will be showered. 01:27:07.500 --> 01:27:21.860 all around sisters will you join and help us Moses sister aided him will you 01:27:21.860 --> 01:27:31.100 help the trembling mourners who are struggling hard with sin 01:27:31.200 --> 01:27:41.440 Tell them all about the Savior, tell them that He will be found. 01:27:41.440 --> 01:27:51.600 Sisters pray in holy manna will be showered all around. 01:27:51.700 --> 01:28:02.060 Let us love our God supremely. Let us love each other too. 01:28:02.060 --> 01:28:12.300 Let us love and pray for sinners till our God makes all things new. 01:28:12.400 --> 01:28:22.400 Then He'll call us home to heaven, at this table we'll sit down. 01:28:22.400 --> 01:28:32.400 Christ will gird Himself and serve us with sweet manna all around. 01:28:32.400 --> 01:28:36.400 Alright, great singing, Brother Wake. Can you please close out with a word of prayer? 01:29:05.500 --> 01:29:08.540 Amen. Thank you guys for coming. I know it's hard, but thank you.