song number 41 I will praise them that song 41 in our hymnals I will praise them
just raise your hand and my son will get you one. Today is July 6th. I hope
everybody had a good 4th of July. We got in like early afternoon, well probably
early evening yesterday from Dallas after like a hectic whirlwind of a trip
but we're here. As you can see there's a, we got a lot of, I know the
And then Heath and his wife, Sylvia,
she texted me early this morning.
He's not feeling too well.
I think he was up all night under the weather.
So we've got a mix.
I kind of expected that.
I told Paul, I said, I said, get ready.
Cause usually July to August is where we have like everybody
going on vacation and stuff like that.
But right there on the left,
you have a Sunday morning services, 10 30 Sunday evening,
4 30 PM.
And then Wednesday service, 5 30 PM.
Our sole winning time is 2 PM on Sunday.
And then of course, I always make that available if anybody texts me during the week and we can coordinate it
I'll go out anywhere
I don't have people all over the city of Houston and surrounding areas and then the verse of the week for the memory chapter
Psalm 23 the verse of the week is Psalm 23 6 surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell on the house of Lord forever if the children can quote it that week as long as the parents are okay with it
We'll give them some ice cream
So non-family member and then they can quote the whole thing and they get a special price and the adults that they can quote the entire
Over chapter. I'm sorry at the end of next week
They they also go usually it's a gift card and so we'll be doing that most small gave you guys a toss up
He gave you an easy one to start out this new venture. It's on 23
Most people probably learned that at some point in their life, but if you feel so inclined
and you're behind, it's just six verses, it's a pretty easy chapter to memorize, and I would
encourage you to do so.
The Bible actually tells us and encourages us that we should meditate on the Word of
God day and night.
What better way to do that than with memorization?
And a year to date, Souls 1, 152.
Right there on the other side, we have all the birthdays coming up.
Bo asked Malouda, which is in a couple of days, but he's up on vacation with his family, so I'm pretty sure he'll take care of him.
Gentry's coming up in a couple of weeks. And then towards the end of the month, we have Aubrey and Lucy and Victor and Kevin.
So we've got quite a bit of birthdays there.
And then in the middle, you have a couple of anniversaries for the Rogers family, the De Matos and Miranda's.
And then we've got...
couple of events coming up so I've been trying to coordinate the events and it's
just really hard with everybody you know everybody's got their busy you know
life is going on so I just told them all I just said just just make a calendar
and we're just gonna put it on there whoever shows up great whoever doesn't
great because you know trying to coordinate with everybody is kind of a
big hassle so on July 19th we'll have a soul winning marathon the first ones
because I'm just rolling this out will be from here and it'll be local
But as the months progress, and we refine this calendar,
we'll make them around the surrounding cities,
or maybe somewhere where, you know, like,
I know Mike lives in Ataskasita,
maybe we can go do one over there,
and like in Pearland, in different areas.
So July 19th, Solway to Marathon.
So whenever we do a marathon, the way that it goes
is we just show up wherever we're gonna show up about nine.
We'll provide breakfast for that first hour,
just a little bit of getting prep time,
materials, all that stuff.
We'll go so many for a couple hours, then we'll provide lunch, and then we'll go so many again in
the afternoon for a couple hours, and then we'll just call it a day. So on July 19th,
we'll just meet here at the church. I'll probably have some breakfast tacos and
donuts, things like that, coffee, juice.
We'll go knock doors around the area, then we'll come back
We'll probably either go to lunch somewhere or eat here
And then we'll go back out for another couple hours and just knock a bunch of doors and the reason we're doing that number one
I mean that is a major command of the Bible to go out souling but number two we had a good start
to the year
But specifically a lot of that was we had steadfast come out in early January and just support us as
We had a bunch of people join us
from what was really known as pure words,
and we had a bunch of salvations,
and we had 100 people, a lot of people were here.
And so we got a good head start,
so now we've got to really do it ourselves.
And what I want to do is double that number.
And so the only way to do that is we need to have
more than just a regular soul,
many times we have some soul winning events and stuff like that.
And then on July 26th, we'll just have a church work day.
There's a bunch of stuff that needs to be done
around the building.
and whoever wants to volunteer and help out you know that would be greatly appreciated uh we're
constantly having you know if you walk around the church long enough you'll feel the floor shift and
you know you'll notice there's things not perfectly in order that's just this building's been here
since the 60s so welcome to the 60s you know that's just that's how it goes and then right there at
the end we have our men's retreat coming up with steadfast they invited us over to a men's retreat
And we'll coordinate that.
I think it's over in, where's that dinosaur place?
Glen Rose.
In Glen Rose.
That's what I think.
Pastor Shelley hasn't got me all the info yet.
And then I will be preaching on the 31st of August at the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship.
That Sunday morning, I'll be preaching in Spanish, and then that Sunday evening in English.
So I'll be doing a bilingual.
But I would encourage you to go to the whole thing.
There's going to be some great preachers.
Pastor Thompson will be there, Pastor Anderson, Pastor Russell from Arizona, Pastor Delos
from Oklahoma.
So there's a good lineup, and of course, Pastor Shelley.
So I would encourage you to do that.
You're going to have a ton of fun activities for the kids.
What was it, broom ball?
I've never heard of it, my wife has,
but apparently they're skating and football and kid stuff.
So I would definitely encourage you guys to go there.
If anybody from our church wants to go,
just get with me and we'll coordinate
and we'll go from there.
We've got a couple other stuff coming up,
but I'll leave that for another announcement.
If nothing else, turn your handles over to page 280.
280.
All right, song number 280.
Song 280, Heavenly Sunlight.
Song 280.
We're going to turn to Psalm 67.
That's going to be the Psalm that we're going to be singing this week.
It should be the second Psalm in there, Psalm 67.
Peter chapter number three. We'll have Pastor Ruth for us. Second Peter chapter
three. Let's turn our Bibles to second Peter number three. And for those of you
visiting, Pastor Cobb is my ordaining pastor. And if you see there on the
bullet test, he's Pastor Emeritus.
That's just the fancy title we gave him because he said that's what you normally do whenever
somebody else technically takes over. But Pasacov, you know, he's been here for 48 years,
right? I would get that wrong. 48 years. In the recent years, he stepped back a little bit,
but the one thing that
That time and I have discussed because I wouldn't want anybody to do it to me
You're gonna preach until it says last breath till the Lord tells him no more
And so we have a special tree is gonna be preaching for us today
second Peter 3 and
He ordained me back in
2016 so I and
And next year it'll be 10 years
Since I got ordained but Pastor Cobb got ordained
Long time before that, you know, so he's actually been preaching at this church way longer than I've been alive
So it's a prevalent privileged. I would preach for us. He's a really good friend of mine
I mean, he's like a second father to me. I really love him and I think you guys would be blessed
He's one of the best preachers I've heard in my life
So I really enjoy his preaching second Peter three second Peter three
Let's read the chapter as we normally do now and then we'll have to cop come up and
preach for us. In 2 Peter chapter 3, the Bible says this second epistle, beloved,
I now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by the way of remembrance that you
may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and that the commandments of us
the apostles of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first, that they shall come in the last day's
scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of His coming?
For since the fathers fall asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation."
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old
and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then
was being overflowed with water perished, but the heavens and the earth, which are now
by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand
years is one day. The Lord is not slack concerning this promise as some account slackness,
but is long suffering toward usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also in the works
that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of person is ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? Looking forward
and hasten unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to
His promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, wherefore,
beloved, seen that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in
peace, without spot and blameless. And I count that the long suffering of our Lord's salvation
Even as our beloved brother Paul, also according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written
unto you, as also in all his epistles speaking in them of these things which are some things
hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable rest, as they do also
the other scriptures unto their own destruction, ye therefore beloved, seeing that ye know
being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness, but grow in grace
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in whom be glory both now and forever. Amen.
Let's go ahead and bow and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for it
today. Thank you for the opportunity to be here, Lord. Thank you for allowing us to celebrate another
allowing us to just celebrate another year of independence in Christ, in the Spirit,
being free from the bondage of sin. Lord, just give power to the Holy Spirit to the pastor
Well, thank you, brother, for the privilege of standing here in this place and proclaiming
about a long time ago. I'll never forget the experience, but I won't play every
y'all with it. Thank the Lord, He brought me this far, and the Lord willing I'll be
pastor said here just now, he got a purpose for me. And y'all pray that I
might fulfill that purpose and might be a blessing and not a hindrance to the
work. But my message this morning is entitled don't be ignorant, don't be
sometimes ignorance is okay. I don't care what the world's doing out there. I'm
ignorant of the fact of what's happening, but I know the Lord's way is gonna be
done in the final windup. On back of the paper, I put a little joke. I don't
on TV somewhere. But if it's pretty good, it fits what we're talking about this morning.
The family circus, if you don't mind, look at that a moment. A little boy asks you,
Daddy, he said, Daddy, what's an eternity? Well, Billy, an eternity is forever. It's
It's a longer time than the mind can begin to imagine.
Eternity is without beginning or end, oh, the little boy says, what do you want to know?
Why do you want to know?
Sometimes these little kids get on you, but they're precious, you know, we're not going to complain about it because they're too precious to
But sometimes they get on you
Nerves a little bit that's part of growing up and being raised
And I love your mother and daddy for correcting you because they know what's best for you
But again our thoughts are
Taken from 2nd Peter chapter 3
If you'll keep that handy there, we're going to be referring to some of those verses individually.
But looking at the word ignorant, in seminary, one of the first words we learned and studied
And gnozko means I know, and of course you take it from there, and a lot of words spring from
that. The word ignore, literally it's against the word. But the ignorant of God's word is
A lot of people don't realize that some years back, not everybody could read and write.
There was a lot of ignorance that was there, but maybe uncalled for or at least unwanted.
God doesn't want us that way
And in the seminary one of the first things I learned
the old brother Kirkland the president of the school stood there and said the fellows
It's not a sin to be ignorant
It's a sin to stay that way
So we all have a certain amount of ignorance and we make our own choices in life
But God gave us His Holy Word, the Bible, to learn about Him.
A revelation of Him was given in words.
66 books go to make up this great Bible that we have, the Word of God.
Out of the 66 books, it was 39 of the Old Testament, 27 new.
And we have different writers.
Apostle Paul wrote most of the Bible under God's instruction and guidance.
If you're not reading your Bible, you're wasting your time.
You're wasting God's time.
But if you will look at that verse 8 on your papers there.
90 years has some wear and tear sometimes on it, so y'all give me a little patience.
But in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 8, but beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing.
That one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and
As a thousand years as one day
Now try to soak that in a moment
One day is as a thousand year and then a thousand years is as one day
Well
You can't measure eternity
The Lord said he'd put our sins from us as far as the east is from the west
Anybody got a micrometer or something we do a little measuring with
How far is the east from the west
If you take that along and sit on it a while it'll make you go looking looking for God and what he put us here for
There is coming the judgments of God
That's what we call it. There's basically two judgments
One of those being the great white throne judgment and the other the judgment seat of Christ
You and I are not going to stand before the great white throne
Because the Bible says
The books are going to be open, and they will be, and every man is going to receive according
to what he's done in the flesh.
It's coming the Lord said it
But don't be ignorant of the Lord's word especially I
Passed her to church up in East, Texas
that I started
For about six or seven years
And in that church I had two sisters what matter of fact there were three generations of people of the same family
their
And we had two sisters in the church, and one of them brought up to me seeking an argument.
He said the earth was square, because the Lord spoke of the angels in the four corners
of the earth.
But they said that the earth was quiet their daddy taught them
That the earth was square
And then I read to them Isaiah 40 verse 22
Which is the Lord sitting on the circle of the earth
They scratch through the mouth.
When you find that scripture hat
Oh
You hate to call somebody ignorant, but there's a lot of folks that way
Sometimes we call ourselves that way
But again, let me say to you quickly that some things
We as Christians need to be ignorant of we don't know what's going on out there in the world
Let them have it
But it says these coffers that come will be walking after their own lust
And look at verse four
They're saying where is the promise of his coming
For since the father fell asleep
All things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation
Now, let's redid again for emphasis sake, and saying worry is a promise of His coming.
For since the Father fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of
the creation.
Folks, not everybody is going to believe.
But they'll be walking after their own lust
Saying where is the promise of his coming they tried to deny the Lord
In Kentucky there was a man that in his effort to dispel
The Ark, and the happening there, he went to the trouble and the expense of spending $100
million to build an Ark.
Matter of fact, about two weeks ago, we had a family here, Viston, up the way, and that
they have gone to that place in Kentucky.
I know there was a lady from the church some years back
Wanted to get up a bunch and go up and see the Ark
Well, they won't see the Ark get no built
And I don't need to wonder the year to say it was built just to fact for me to believe it
God does not explain himself
Remember that God doesn't have to explain himself and the word we're reading from is what he wanted us to know or he
Wouldn't have given it to us
Not all things that he did are written
Bible says if they all things were written the earth could not contain the volumes
If all that our Lord had done
In his eternal life
The people are going to die of the Lord, period, by the pastor of here and I were together and the
And Ricky did what he should have done and he wrote on pass by it. He don't argue God's word
But he said there is no God
Whether you remember that
There is no God
Well
I'm glad that he's wrong about that
But look at verse 7 again
said, But the heavens and earth, which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved
under fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day when the Lord is a thousand years
But we don't know.
We don't know what all the Lord's got lined up for us.
He didn't try to explain to us what's going to be going on,
other than he did tell us there was going to be a thousand
year reign called the millennial.
And we have that ahead of us.
We're going to get to serve the Lord in person.
that millennial reign of Christ.
Scripture said he shall rule and reign on this earth for 1,000 years.
What are we going to be doing during that time?
Well, he's a boss.
We're going to let him decide.
Now, you can imagine all kinds of things that God's going to have us do in eternity.
We've all here today lost some of our loved ones.
And we grieve, don't we, for our loved ones.
But we know that we're going to rule and reign with them for 1,000 years on this earth.
But what about after the thousand years?
Can you grasp that one?
As far as the east is from the west, you can't measure, it's immeasurable, and our Lord is going to be in control.
But the heavens and the earth are reserved for fire, and no being of that.
Lord is not prejudiced. He's long-suffering. He's not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance. The good news is, in verse 10, it says,
the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat. The earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
Don't be careful what you put all your hope and thoughts in on this earth because you
The earthly things that we know today are stricter for the earth
Because of the other things are going to burn up
Frippity says they shall melt with fervent heat
And that's tough some of you that were here around here along know that I was a
And the founder of a machine shop business for a long 70 years I worked for one company.
But I had the job of over the melting and pouring division where we melted metal down
to about 2400 degrees.
That was brass that we usually melted.
We poured it in the mold and you had to get up there with a shield and that blaze coming
He dropped something off into the old furnace and it would burn and burn up.
Many times my employees would be working and I was a manager.
I'd see them out putting metal in the furnace to melt it and I'd walk up to them and I'd say,
It's going to be worse than that when the elements melt with fervent heat.
That's good news. The part I like in that verse, it says that the day of the Lord will come.
A lot of people pointed out in their scriptures, they said,
oh, I've heard that all my life.
If y'all have ever been around anyone,
and when you try to talk to them about the Lord coming,
and they're responsible, I've heard that all my life.
That just fulfills the scripture that we're studying now.
It's coming the day of the Lord.
Heaven shall pass away.
I didn't say that.
The Lord said it.
And what the Lord says counts.
He's good for His Word. You and I are not comparable to our Lord.
But look again at verse 11 and verse 12, I quote, verse 11, said,
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of person
thought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?
Looking far and hasting under the coming of the day of God, we're in the heavens
shall be dissolved, and elements shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according
to His promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth. We're in dwelleth righteousness,
but we've got something to look far to. Death is not the end for the believers in the
But rather it's the beginning of an eternity and I don't have all the answers what the Lord gonna have us doing in eternity
I don't know
But I'd rather be him than to be away from him
What all we to be no one get things are going to melt with fervent heat
Let me say again to you eternity is in Bob
The elements are going to melt
And that's a good thing but we look for new heavens and a new earth
Don't worry about our loved ones
They've died
and those at no cost are with him.
Those that reject him come here today. We want you to come to know our Lord as your Lord.
One of the greatest things that's ever happened to Springcrest is the soul-winning
program we've got going. I love to look over and see the number as he grows.
people that profess Christ as our Savior.
And folks, if you've never gone, you need to go.
Pastor Enrique goes on a regular basis.
I'm a little bit elderly, I don't go as much as I used to.
But my thoughts and prayers are with the folk as they go.
don't want to be bothered do they? And stranger you're not going to door and
they come to the door and you start explaining what you're there for. And
most of them want to close the door then. That was an Oriental guy down your
off-guestner. Sometime back now, last year
After Ricky walked up to the guy and said he wanted to talk to him about his soul and where he was headed
Man said I don't care where I go
Don't bother me
don't bother me and
They get a lot of they get a lot of don't bother me, but they do have some that will stop and after listening to the
Word of God, they accept the Word and folk that makes them born again.
You can't be any more born than that.
You say, well, wait a minute.
What if this person don't go to church and what they will?
That's their problem.
head and closed there, but I had another happening. I've had many, thank the Lord, in 61 years
of pastoring. But I don't know, this lady that's talking about, her husband died, called
A little town called Hargan, Texas.
And she said, brother Cobb, she said, I put a knife in the casket with my husband.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they say he's going to the happy hunting ground. He may need it.
Now, I'm not kidding you, folks. Actually, that's something I made up.
But she put that big old scouting knife in a casket
Tell you something both you don't need that right the way it's your time
We did a lady actually
told me she said
They've heard it. He may be going to the happy hunting ground
And he won't have a whiff
Some things you can't, there were words that don't, don't be ignorant.
Some people are bound to be that way.
All right.
By the way, I want to add a blessing to these thoughts this morning.
I appreciate y'all taking time to listen to me.
It's just good to be in the Lord's house for the Lord's people and the Lord today. All right, we'll stand together
That's Enrique would you give a closing prayer?
Let's bow our heads for prayer heavenly Father Lord, thanks so much for today Lord
Thank you for the opportunity to just come to church and listen to your word
What point of the work does it have to be for something here today, just to learn?
What'd you say, brother?
I was tired.
Yeah, boy.
That was a bad thing down there, wasn't it?
Central Texas.
Was that flooded?
Yeah.
51 people they've already found dead.
Oh, gosh.
My grandson, Chris, his mother lives there in that town, that little town.
Oh, wow.
Wow.