Amen.
All right, so first and foremost,
I would like to thank Pastor and Brother Ressel
and the congregation here down in Tucson
for allowing me to preach tonight.
I consider it a great privilege and a great honor.
Unfortunately, my throat is a little bit hoarse tonight,
but I'll do my best.
But anyway, my sermon tonight is gonna be focusing
around the trip that we just got back from.
For those of you who don't know, Brother Fabian and I,
we just went on a trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Just to check it out,
we did a lot of soul winning down there and everything.
And it was a fantastic trip.
We both agreed that it was one of the best trips
that we've ever been on, church related.
And specifically, we went to the island of St. Croix,
where Brother Ressel used to live.
So that's pretty cool.
But anyway, we went there and we went soul winning.
We were there for two full days,
and we ended up getting 10 people saved for those two days.
So praise the Lord for that.
It was a great trip.
There was a lot of history there.
You can't even drive down the road
without seeing these 100, 200 year old buildings everywhere.
We visited the spot where Christopher Columbus landed
the first time that he came to the New World and everything.
So it was very interesting as far as that's concerned,
just on the secular side of things.
But overall, it was a fantastic trip.
And we would love to take a big mission trip there
in the near future.
So my sermon is gonna be sort of talking
about that a little bit.
The title of my sermon tonight is
Strategy to Evangelize the Caribbean.
So tonight I wanna talk to you a little bit
about our church's vision to reach the entire Caribbean
with the gospel.
And that is a huge region,
but we're gonna talk about it tonight.
We're gonna break it down step by step
how we're gonna do that.
Now, you're there in Acts chapter 16.
And I want you to look down at verse number nine.
Now me and Fabian, we talked about this story
while we were on the island of St. Croix.
And I thought a lot about this.
And I told him how this is probably my favorite story
out of the entire Bible.
It's only two verses long, but I just, I love this.
I can't help but read it.
And it almost brings tears to my eyes
every time that I read it.
But Fabian disagreed.
He thought that David and Goliath was better.
But anyway, that's beside the point.
So look down, if you would, at verse nine
where the Bible reads,
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night.
There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him,
saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us.
And after he had seen the vision,
immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia,
assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us
for to preach the gospel unto them.
Whenever you read these couple of verses,
you can almost hear the desperation and the man's voice.
You know, come and help us, right?
And I like what it says right after that,
how Paul immediately endeavored to go into Macedonia.
And you know, Paul, he answered the Macedonian call,
but as our church, you know,
we're answering a different call.
We're answering the Caribbean call, you know?
Come and help us, mon.
You know?
But yeah, we're doing it
and we're going to do it immediately too.
We're planning a trip over there and everything.
Now, this sermon is loosely based off of a sermon
that our pastor preached many years ago called,
Strategy to Evangelize the Entire World in Our Lifetime.
And if you haven't listened to that sermon,
I would highly recommend it.
I believe that that is,
well, that's one of my favorite sermons
I've ever heard before.
You know, that sermon caused me to want to move here
to Arizona to go to Faithful Word Baptist Church.
I grew up in Tennessee, but I moved here not solely,
but mainly because of that sermon,
because I wanted to be a part of a church
that had a big vision to serve the Lord
and to reach as many people as we can with the gospel.
You know, the Bible says that where there is no vision,
the people perish.
So I wanted to be a part of a church that had a big vision.
That was my number one driving factor for moving out here.
And you know, from day one, since I've been here,
I've been going sewing.
You know, I remember pulling up into town in Tempe
and I just got my car unloaded and, you know,
I'm settling down in my apartment for the very first day.
And I called Brother Segura and I said,
hey, I made it into town.
You know, we had been talking on the phone before then
and he said, great, well, there's sewing tonight
at five o'clock, are you going to be there?
I'm like, yeah, I guess so.
You know, so the very first day I started sewing
and you know, as long as I'm a member
at Faithful Word Baptist Church, I want to continue,
you know, trying to fulfill that goal
of fulfilling the great commission.
I want to always be a part of that
and always be a part of the sewing program
that we have here.
Now, before I get into the meat of the sermon,
I would like to start off simply by laying a groundwork
for the sermon and basically explaining our church's vision
to reach the entire world with the gospel.
Because a lot of people,
actually turn if you would to Acts chapter one,
Acts chapter one.
Because a lot of people would hear that goal
and they would think that that's a pipe dream
or that's something that cannot be accomplished.
However, I'm going to prove to you that it can be done.
So the first thing I'd like to show you
is the fact that it has been done in the past.
In the first century AD,
the gospel was preached in all the world.
I'm just going to read you a couple of verses.
You're there in Acts chapter one, stay there.
But in Colossians one, verses five and six,
it says, for the hope, which is laid up for you in heaven,
whereof ye heard before in the word of truth of the gospel,
which is come unto you as it is in all the world
and bringeth forth fruit as it does also in you.
So the Bible records the fact in Colossians chapter one,
that the gospel had gone out into all the world
at this point, whenever this was written.
In Acts 19, 10, it says,
and this continued by the space of two years.
So that all they which dwelt in Asia
heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
So everybody in Asia heard the gospel
according to that verse, right?
And that records one region hearing the entire gospel.
In Romans one, five, it says,
by whom we have received grace and apostleship
for obedience to the faith among all nations,
for his name.
So once again, the gospel is in all nations,
Romans 10, 17 and 13.
See the Bible talks a lot about this,
but it says in Romans chapter 10, it says,
so then faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by the word of God.
But I say, have they not heard?
Yes, verily, their sound went in all the earth
and their words unto the ends of the world.
So once again, it went out into all the world.
So it has been done.
And this is my favorite verse on the subject,
Colossians 1 23, it says,
if ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled
and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel,
which ye have heard and which was preached
to every creature, which is under heaven,
whereof I Paul am made a minister.
So once again, the Bible records the fact
that every creature heard the gospel
at that time in history.
So not only has it been done,
it has been done in the past,
but not only that, it can be done as well.
Look down if you would at Acts chapter one,
see, we have the power to do that.
It says, but ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you
and ye shall be witnesses unto me,
both in Jerusalem and in all Judea
and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
So once again, Jesus here,
he's given us this commandment.
This is called the Great Commission.
And this is recorded a few times in the Bible,
but this is one of the verses
that Jesus is giving us that Great Commission.
And so what that tells me is God's not gonna command us
to do something that we can't do.
He said to go out unto the uttermost part of the earth.
So I know that it can be done.
Now hold your finger there in Acts chapter one,
but also turn if you would to Mark 16, Mark chapter 16.
We're gonna read two parallel passages with Acts chapter one
where God gives us the Great Commission.
Now in Matthew 28, it says, and this is a parallel passage.
It says, and Jesus came and spake unto them saying,
all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost,
teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I've commanded you.
And lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world, amen.
And so once again, he says to go on to all nations
and then Mark 16, 15, where you're at,
look down if you would at verse 15, where it says,
and he said unto them, go ye into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature,
all the world, every creature.
So God has commanded us to do it and it can be done.
And that's our job, that's our goal, that's our commission.
Now all three of these verses that we just looked at
have one thing in common.
They're all talking about the Great Commission
and they all have one thing in common
and that is the fact that all three of them speak
about the entire world.
In Acts chapter one, that's the most vague
out of these three.
It says to go out into the uttermost parts of the earth.
Now that can be left up to interpretation.
Maybe you think, oh, well, I don't know about that.
But then in Matthew 28, it gets a little bit clearer
where it says all nations.
So from there, we see that we're not allowed
to leave out any nation.
All nations need to hear the gospel.
But then in Mark 16, where you're at,
it gets the most precise, it gets the most clear
whenever it says every creature.
See, every creature needs that opportunity
to hear the gospel.
And that is our goal, that is our commission
is to preach the gospel to every creature.
So it has been done and it can be done.
But a lot of people don't believe that though.
A lot of people do not believe that it can be done.
I've heard people say that sort of thing before.
But see, here's the thing though.
The Bible says all nations, so does all mean all.
And it says every creature, does every mean every?
All nations, except for India.
No, India needs the gospel too.
All nations, except for Afghanistan or something.
Now Afghanistan has been in the news lately,
and a lot of bad things are happening over there.
But you know what?
Someday, I firmly believe this,
someday we will be preaching the gospel there.
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow,
but someday it will happen because God has said all nations.
So I know for a fact that we will be there someday.
It's not gonna be anytime soon, maybe, but it will happen.
And it says every creature, right?
Every creature, except for this group of people
or that group of people, nope.
Every single creature needs to hear that gospel.
And obviously, we're not gonna go
to these dangerous places right now
because of a philosophy that our church holds
and that is called common sense missions.
We wanna go to the places that are receptive,
safe and legal first.
And then once we're done with those places,
then God's gonna open up doors in other places
that right now, it'd be very dangerous for us to go there.
So I do believe that we're gonna get
to these other countries,
but God just has to open up those doors.
So we need to go to places
that the door's wide open for us right now.
So all we need is to have enough faith.
Jesus said, be not faithless, but believing.
The Bible says it's anything too hard for the Lord.
And of course, it's not.
Now, turn if you would to Matthew chapter 24, Matthew 24.
So we talked about how it has been done.
The gospel has been preached in all the world
and it can be done.
God has commanded it to us and so it can be done.
But I also wanna talk to you about how it has to be done.
It will be done beyond a shadow of a doubt.
It has to be done.
Now, where you're turning to is Matthew 24,
which is a prophetic passage of the end times.
Now, Mark 13 is a parallel passage
that also talks about the end times.
Now I'm gonna read to you from Mark 13, the Bible reads,
and the gospel must first, now that word first,
that is referring to before the rapture,
before God's wrath being poured out,
the gospel must first be published among all nations.
So the Bible is telling us that before the end can come,
before the end of the world and all that stuff
and everything, the gospel must first be published
in all nations.
Now look down if you would at Matthew 24 and verse 14,
where the Bible reads,
and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
and all the world for a witness unto all nations
and then shall the end come.
So see the end cannot come until we preach the gospel
to every nation, to every creature, right?
And just yesterday, I had a conversation with a guy
and I love this guy, we're good friends and everything.
We had a great conversation about the end times.
We were just speculating and things like that.
But there was one point that we disagreed on.
And I said that I don't believe that the end times
are gonna start happening anytime soon.
I think it's gonna be maybe 50 years down the line or so.
And he didn't agree with me,
but I told him why I thought that.
And that was because of the fact that I look at,
how close are we getting to evangelizing the entire world?
And I use that sort of as a litmus test
to see how close we are to the end,
because the end cannot come until we reach
the whole world with the gospel.
And of course, it's not just us.
There's other people out there
who are preaching the gospel and everything,
but they're few and far between.
People who are preaching the true gospel
and they have the vision to preach the gospel
to every single creature.
So I kind of look at what we do
and what our friends churches do
and churches that we send out.
I kind of look at that and then I determine
how long it's gonna take.
And I could be totally wrong on that,
but that's just how I kind of look at it.
Now turn back if you would to Acts chapter one,
I told you to leave your finger there.
So preaching the gospel to every creature,
it has been done, it can be done and it will be done again.
And the Bible, God doesn't only just give us
this great commission,
but he also tells us a way to accomplish it as well.
He tells us a battle plan.
Now it says in Acts chapter one,
at that verse that we looked at earlier in verse eight,
it says, but ye shall receive power after that,
the Holy Ghost has come upon you
and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem.
Now, if we bring this verse into our modern day times
and apply to our situation here in Arizona,
then our Jerusalem, at least in Tempe,
our Jerusalem would be Phoenix.
You guys, your Jerusalem would be Tucson, right?
And then it goes on to say, and in all Judea.
Now our Judea is mutual, it's Arizona, right?
And we wanna preach the gospel
to every single creature in Arizona, that's our Judea, right?
And then it says in all Samaria,
now that would be the rest of the United States.
And then it says unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
And that's what we're gonna focus on tonight.
We're gonna talk about the uttermost parts of the earth.
And more specifically, we're gonna talk about the region
that is called the Caribbean, right?
We're gonna talk about how we're gonna reach the Caribbean
with the gospel.
So you'd say, why the Caribbean?
Why are we gonna focus our attention
on the Caribbean going forward?
And I'll tell you why, there's lots of reasons.
Well, first of all, that common sense missions
that we talked about, it hits all those checkpoints, right?
Pretty much every single country and territory
in the Caribbean is receptive, it's safe,
and it's legal to go there.
Maybe with the exception of Cuba,
I'm not sure if it's legal to preach the gospel there
or not, I'm not sure.
I haven't done the research, no, probably not.
Anyway, not Cuba, we're not talking about Cuba.
Anyway, but not only does it match common sense missions,
but also in addition to that,
it's usually very cheap to buy a plane ticket there.
So it's very cost-effective, it's very affordable, right?
If you wanna go to the Philippines, for example,
that's where my wife is from, I spent a lot of time there.
You're gonna be looking at a plane ticket,
a round trip ticket for maybe $1,200 or so.
You can get pretty much anywhere in the Caribbean
for maybe $500.
So it's cheap, pretty much everybody there,
at least in the countries that we're gonna be focusing on,
speaks very good English, so there's no language barrier.
And if any of you have done foreign missions before,
you realize the importance of there
not being that much of a language barrier,
because that can be a big determining factor on where we go.
Not only that, you don't mess up your sleeping schedule,
it's not that much of a time difference, so that's good,
as opposed to going on the other side of the world.
And not only that, let's just face it,
whenever we think about the Caribbean,
we think about palm trees and beaches,
and we think about paradise, so it's more desirable as well,
we're gonna have more people
who come to those types of mission trips.
And so there's lots of reasons
why we wanna shift our focus
to mainly go into the Caribbean
on mission trips going forward.
Now, at this point in the sermon,
I would like to basically go over
the Caribbean countries and territories that are over there.
Now, I've got this board,
I've got this visual aid to help me out.
Now, the words are a little bit small,
but hopefully some of you guys can see this at least.
Now, this is a list of all 28 countries and territories
that are found in the Caribbean,
and then it goes in order from the most populated
to the least populated, okay?
There are 28 countries and territories,
and altogether, these places have a combined population
of about 45 million people, so that's a lot of people.
But you know what?
Our church has that goal of reaching this entire region
with the gospel.
Now, got my pen here, my marker,
and we're gonna talk a little bit about this.
Now, first of all, these first three countries right here,
this is Cuba, Haiti, and Dominican Republic.
These three countries hold about 75%
of the entire population of the Caribbean,
so it's only focused in those three countries.
Okay, that's a huge deal.
Those three are very big.
Cuba has a little over 11 million,
the other two have a little over 10 million.
And then if we include the first six countries
or territories, so Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic,
Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago,
this represents 90% of the population of the Caribbean,
so that's a lot of people, okay?
And so I'd like to, first of all,
start talking about church planting.
I wanna talk a little bit about our church's philosophy
on planting churches.
Now, from the way that I understand it,
our church would like to plant other churches
in places that have over one million people,
and then those churches would plant churches
in their region in places that have over 100,000 people.
And so if we followed that strategy for the Caribbean,
then we would have to plant five churches personally,
because there are five cities that have
over a million people in the Caribbean.
That would be Havana, Cuba, Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
and Kingston, Jamaica.
Those would be our five places
that we'd wanna plant churches.
Unfortunately, most of those are not English speaking,
so those wouldn't really be good candidates
for a mission trip, at least not anytime soon.
But those would be the places that we would plant churches.
Now, full disclosure, we don't have any plans
of planting any churches right now.
This is more of a theoretical plan
for something in the future,
because we don't have a lot of guys
who are ready or willing to go and plant churches
in the Caribbean at this time.
But then once we would plant those churches,
those churches right there,
in all those places with over a million people,
those churches would plant an additional 49 churches
all throughout the Caribbean.
And then all together, Cuba would have 14 churches
because of different areas that have over 100,000 people.
So then Cuba would have 14, Haiti would have 19,
Dominican Republic would have eight churches,
Puerto Rico would have four,
Kingston, Jamaica would be one, of course.
And then there'd be one on the island of Trinidad,
there'd be one on the island of Guadalupe, Martinique,
the island of Nassau, Bahamas,
probably mispronouncing that, but.
And then Barbados would have one,
St. Lucia would have one, Curacao, Aruba, and then Grenada.
So then those would be the places where those churches,
those original five would plant more churches
in the near future.
And so that would basically be the plan,
and that would reach a huge portion of this,
and that would basically take care
of these first churches right here.
However, since we don't have plans for that right now,
in the near future, we're gonna start focusing
on doing mission trips there,
and that's gonna be the bulk of what we do
in the near future.
And to begin with, we would not focus our missions
on places that don't really speak English.
So that would take out Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic,
let's see here, Guadalupe, Martinique,
St. Martin, and St. Barthelemy,
because those places speak French and Spanish.
So we wouldn't really focus on those,
but all the rest of these would be basically up for grabs.
Now, I didn't mention Puerto Rico,
because I believe that Puerto Rico would be a great place
to have a mission trip, and here's why,
because most of the younger people there are bilingual,
they speak English and Spanish.
So that would be a great place
for somebody who is learning Spanish.
So I think that that would be a great place
to have a mission trip in the future.
So Puerto Rico is good.
Now, the places that we would personally wanna go
on mission trips and take mission trips to
would be Jamaica, of course.
We've gone to Jamaica before.
We went to Jamaica in 2018, and we had a great time.
I was a part of that trip, and that was fantastic.
Other places would include Trinidad, Barbados,
but not Bahamas, though.
And the reason is because of the fact
that if our plan is gonna work
to reach the entire world with the gospel,
whenever we're working together with other churches,
each church would basically have
their own territory that they cover.
And of course, Pastor Shelley and Steadfast Baptist Church,
they've pretty much claimed Bahamas as their mission field.
That's where they're going to mission trips.
That's where they wanna take over.
So we're gonna basically leave that to them,
and we're gonna take care of those other places.
Now, as far as the top places that our church
is going to be looking into for missions
in the near future, there are 16 places,
and let me show those to you.
So these are our top picks.
So number one, Saint Lucia, right?
Now, Saint Lucia has a population of 172,000 people.
Curacao, Aruba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
with 110,000 people.
The US Virgin Islands, now that's the one
that me and Fabian just got back from,
and that one was awesome, and it has a population
of about 105,000 people.
There's also Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda,
Dominica, Cayman Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Martin, which belongs to the Netherlands.
Now, they're multilingual there.
They speak Dutch, but they also speak Spanish
and English as well.
So I think that we could get around
pretty safely in that one.
And then there's Turks and Caicos Islands,
which belongs to the United Kingdom,
not Saint Martin because they speak French there,
the British Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Netherlands,
Anguilla, and the last one is Montserrat,
and I'm probably mispronouncing that one too.
Anyway, and then that one only has 5,000 people there.
And that is such a small place that we could go there
with a big group of people and we can knock
every single door there in just a matter
of a couple of days.
And that's really cool, if you ask me.
But we picked these 16 right here,
mainly because of their low populations,
because those other, those bigger places,
they deserve their own church.
And of course, these places,
we would love to plant churches there too,
but we can knock some of these places out
in just one mission trip.
If we just went there with a lot of people,
we can knock every single door in an entire mission trip.
And that would be amazing if we could do that.
And you might say that that might be too big of a goal,
but you know what?
We've been talking about, first,
tonight we talked about reaching the entire world,
then the Caribbean, and now we're talking about
reaching an entire Caribbean country with the gospel.
And you know what?
It can be done.
And let me break it down to you.
And I'm just gonna break it down to you really quickly
about how it can be done.
All right, I'm gonna flip this over.
And then we're gonna do a little bit of math
and we're going to take a look at how long it would take us
to knock every single door in one of these countries
or territories, all right?
Now, for our example, we're going to use
the U.S. Virgin Islands,
because that's where we just came back from.
And it was great.
It was super receptive.
It was wonderful.
And we're planning on hopefully going there
on a mission trip in the near future.
So we're gonna talk about how long would it take
to knock every single door in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Now, the Virgin Islands have a population
of about 105,000 people,
but we're gonna round it down to 100,000 people.
So with a population of 100,000 people,
that would be about 30,000 doors
because there's roughly maybe a little over three people
per household in the United States.
So then let's just say 30,000 doors.
Don't lose me on this either.
This is exciting.
I don't know, this gets me excited.
That's why I'm preaching a whole sermon about it,
because I love this.
All right, so check it out.
30,000 doors.
Now, anybody who goes soloing,
now this might be an arbitrary number,
because obviously we don't know.
Now, a lot of these numbers that we're about to go over,
it's speculation.
And that's because we don't know
until we actually get there and we do it,
and we can look back and do it.
But this is gonna get us in the ballpark.
So just bear with me.
Now, anybody who goes soloing knows that to knock a door
from start to finish,
it would probably take around two to three minutes.
And I've talked about this with Brother Russell,
and he agrees with that statement.
By the time that you leave one door,
you go to the next, you knock on it,
the person comes to the door, and then they say,
hey, I'm not really interested or whatever,
or I'm busy, I got something on the stove.
Okay, well, can I leave you with a verse or whatever?
That whole process,
some doors are gonna take a little bit more
than three minutes,
some doors are gonna take a little less than two minutes,
but we're just gonna say
that it's gonna take roughly three minutes per door.
Now, that number is gonna be important to us
in just a minute.
Now, this is a concrete number.
Me and Brother Fabian,
whenever we went to the U.S. Virgin Islands,
we got 10 people saved over the course
of roughly eight hours of soul winning.
So that's a little more than one salvation per hour.
But whenever we go back,
we're gonna be knocking on every door in the island,
hopefully, Lord willing, if we have a big group.
And so we're gonna get roughly one salvation per hour.
So one person saved per hour.
Okay?
So if we get one person saved,
and then it takes maybe 30 minutes
to preach them the gospel,
maybe 25 minutes of preaching,
another five minutes of small talk
and giving them some DVDs and a Bible and everything.
So we take 30 minutes of their time
to preach them the gospel and they get saved.
Then for the additional, for the rest of the 30 minutes,
then you would knock about 10 more doors.
Now, the reason that this is important
is that now we get that number of 10 doors per hour
in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Once again, this is total speculation,
but this is gonna get us in the ballpark
for how long it's gonna take to knock every single door
in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Now, if it takes us 10 doors,
if it takes us one hour to knock 10 doors,
then that would be 3000 hours of soul winning
in order to knock every single door.
Now, just for, I guess to bring that into perspective,
let's say that one person goes over there
and then they just knock doors or two people.
Let's say that me and Fabian,
we just moved to the Virgin Islands
and then we're just not gonna leave
until we knock every single door.
Well, if we put in a 40 hour work week
and we knock doors for 40 hours a week,
it would still take us a year and a half
to knock every single door.
So this is still a big goal, 3000 hours of soul winning.
But if we take a big mission trip there,
and let's say that we had 40 people come
on that mission trip.
And that might seem like a big number,
but just think about it though,
whenever we went to Jamaica, we had about 50 people come.
And whenever we went to the island of Aruba back in the day,
that was back in 2018, we had over 75 people come there.
So I think that this is actually a realistic
or a conservative number.
40 people show up to a mission trip
to the US Virgin Islands.
That would be 20 teams, 20 soul winning teams.
Okay.
Now, 20 teams, if they go out soul winning
for five hours a day.
Now that is our church's basic,
our policy kind of is just doing five hours a day
of soul winning whenever you go on a mission trip
or on one of our weekend soul winning trips
or on a soul winning marathon day,
you do about five hours of soul winning,
two and a half in the morning, two and a half after lunch.
So if we have 20 teams doing five hours
of soul winning per day,
then that means that we have 100 hours
of soul winning per day.
100 hours per day.
And if we do that for six days
on a six day long mission trip, then guess what?
We have 600 hours of soul winning done
on that one mission trip.
So 600 hours on one mission trip.
Now, if we had five mission trips just like this,
then we would knock every single door
in the US Virgin Islands.
So we could do it in five mission trips.
And once again, that's a ballpark.
It might be three or four mission trips,
might be six or seven, but I think it can be done.
And this is my estimation on that.
So five mission trips, we could do it.
And so if we had an annual mission trip every single year,
let's say that we started in January, 2022,
then we would end in January, 2026
and we will have knocked every single door
in the Virgin Islands, not to even to mention
the hundreds of salvations that we would have gotten.
And that's the most important part right there.
Amen.
So yeah, we could totally get that done.
All right, I'm gonna move this out of the way now.
I'm done with that.
In conclusion, I preach this sermon
basically for one reason and one reason only.
And that is simply this,
just to get you excited about soul winning.
I want you to be excited.
And I'll tell you what, this excites me like nothing else.
Just thinking about how we're gonna reach the entire world.
You can tell I've put a lot of thought into this.
So it gets me excited, I love it.
And it's so important too.
This is what Jesus has commanded us to do.
This is the great commission.
And so I preach this to get you excited, hopefully numbers
and things like that get you excited, just like me.
I know that me and Gabriel, we're numbers guys, right?
That's what you always say at the door.
But there are many different reasons to go out soul winning.
Just because you love people and you want them to be saved.
And that is such a great reason to go out soul winning.
Just following God's commandments,
because God has told us to go out soul winning.
That's another great reason to earn rewards in heaven.
I mean, that's a reason right there.
But I can honestly say that one of my biggest reasons
for going out soul winning is simply
just to fulfill the great commission to reach everybody.
Because this stuff right here gets me excited.
Whenever I come to church and I see the map in the back
and it's getting shaded in,
that gets me excited like nothing else.
Whenever we get back from one of our weekend trips,
I'm shading it in on the map or whatever.
Hey, that is exciting.
The Christian life is exciting.
And so I preach this sermon because I want you
to be excited, just like I am.
Just like our church, we're gonna do it.
We're gonna reach the entire, well, Caribbean,
but the entire world with the gospel.
I believe that, I believe that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
And you know what?
You can be a part of that as well.
Not only just coming on the mission trip.
Hey, listen, I want you to come on mission trips.
We're actually having a big mission trip,
not to the Caribbean, but to Africa coming up in October,
to Sierra Leone.
And I would love to see you guys come to that.
Everybody in here is invited to that.
If you want more details, just let me know.
But then in the near future after that,
we're also gonna have a mission trip
to the US Virgin Islands.
And hey, we would love to have you come to that as well.
But even if you're not able to go on those trips,
maybe you're not able to take off work.
Maybe you're not financially able to.
And that's totally fine because you know what?
The Great Commission starts at home.
It starts with just soul winning,
not daily, but weekly, just being faithful to it.
I saw in your bulletin that you guys down here,
you guys have three soul winning times per week.
So you can make it to one of those.
And obviously we have the weekend trips every single weekend
where we go to a small town and we preach the gospel there
and we knock on doors there for the weekend.
And we just started our Mexico Monday trips, right?
And first Monday of every single month,
you know, we go down to Mexico and you guys are only what?
Like an hour from Nogales, right?
So, I mean, yeah, you guys can just start right here.
But whenever we go, you know, just be praying for us.
And I hope that you guys can make it to a mission trip
in the near future.
Just support us through prayer and just keep soul winning
and just get excited, you know?
And let's pray, Lord.