This evening we would turn in our handles to song number 96
Song 96 wounded for me
That song 96
because I was on the wrong stand today.
And he was still doing his thing, I'm glad for that.
You don't have a bulletin, just raise your hand
if you need one, my son will get one for you.
And we are, today's the 16th.
Yeah, today's the 16th, right?
Today's July 16th.
Our services are Sunday morning, 10.30 a.m.,
Sunday evening, 4.30 p.m., Wednesday service, 5.30 p.m.
our regular soul winning time is Sunday between services at 2 p.m.
And then we are done with the Psalm of the week, Psalm 236.
I know that you guys are getting some text and I think we're off on one,
but we'll fix that and I appreciate your patience.
I think we sent out a text today that said Sunday services are coming.
And so we'll get that fixed as well.
But the good thing is you're getting notifications,
so that's always a good thing.
Um, as a reminder, we are having our soul winning marathon this Saturday.
So I'm excited about that.
That'll get, get us out there.
Number one, it'll get people that aren't normally able to do it on Sunday.
Number two, I mean, it's just the commission and actually that should be
number one, right?
But, and also it just helps us to just, uh, potentially get more numbers than
we're normally getting on a weekly basis.
Obviously the numbers aren't as important as going out.
but the numbers count, right?
So a year today, we have 152.
God willing, after this weekend,
we'll be rounding closer to 200.
And then we have the birthdays coming up.
Gentry's birthday was, well, it's today.
We need to call them, sorry.
We need to call Gentry today.
Lucy and Enrique, you guys need to remind me.
And then, not next week, but I think the week
after we have a bunch of birthdays, we have Aubrey.
Moe's younger sister, Lucy, my daughter, Victor,
DeMato's sister, Liberty's husband on the 28th
and then Kevin Rogers on the 28th.
So everybody's just piled up.
Then we have the anniversary's also coming up.
The Rogers and the DeMato's are on the 24th
and then we had the Miranda's on the 15th.
I didn't reach out to Josh, just Josh and Cynthia.
and they're a little baby Elizabeth through and fine,
they're just still getting you, which is fine.
I mean, usually, I think the custom is you try to wait six weeks
before you go out in public with the baby.
With the first one, you stick to it.
By the time you get to like the third one,
I mean, my daughter was born,
our third daughter was born on November 6th.
And literally less than a month later,
we were driving to Alabama for like, or a month and a half.
For like Christmas, you know in the remember that it was in 2021, but it was 2020
2022 remember that cold winter that got down to like the teens were driving and she was all bundled up like a little
So it just it's funny how you change for the third one
We didn't have any of the fancy stuff like you change them wherever for the first one you carry everything with you
And then we have the soul winning marathon.
And then next Saturday, we just have a church cleaning day.
So I would encourage everybody if you can to come out.
We had one earlier this year, we had a small turnout
and we're always appreciative of everybody who turns out.
But if we have a bigger turnout,
we can do some major things.
We want to do some paint up and touch up.
There's a ton out there.
And then coming up in August, we have the men's retreat
with steadfast baths church on August 14th through the 16th.
And then the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship August 27th through 31st, and then the Mexico Soul-Winning
Missionary Strip. It's coming up September 8th through the 12th
If anybody wants to join any of those events just let me know. We'll work that out and then
Brother Heath was letting me know who what was the name of the individual?
Christina
Christina and the last name
We'll add her to the prayer list she lost her son suddenly and she's still just dealing
with the pain of losing a child I can only imagine.
So keep praying for everybody on the prayer list we are sending those out on Monday and
already somebody did text me which I actually appreciate to remove some people and add some
people because that's what we want you know we want to be praying for everybody on our
Great church, so we've got everybody there. Is there any other announcements or people we need to add to the prayer list?
Take care of corals off
He's at home is he better
Okay, so at least we know that it wasn't life or death no problem will pray for everybody on the prayer list
If nothing else, turn your handles over to, let me just find here, 50, 51, and then we
are going to have Pastor Cobb preach today, so I'll go ahead and I'll read the chapter.
We're going to be in Acts 16, so Pastor Cobb, stay on theme.
We're going to go back to Acts 16, so there it is, 51, and we'll get motivated if he doesn't
All right, we're there in song 51 a mighty fortress is our God song 51
our songbinders to song 126 song 126 and our songbinders
chapter number 16. We'll go ahead and read and have the offering
paid passed. Turn your Bibles over to Acts 16. Acts 16, we'll
read the whole chapter as it's customary. And then we'll have
Pastor Cobb bring us the message. Acts 16. Let's go there to
where it reads, Then came he to Derby and Lystra, and behold a certain disciple was there, named
Timothyus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewish, and believed, but his father
was Greek, which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra in Econium, him
who Paul had to go forth with him, and took and circumcised them because of the Jews,
And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep that were ordained of the apostles and elders were to Jerusalem, and so were the churches established in the faith and increased in number daily.
and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,
after they were come to Maizia, they say to go into Bittinia, but the Spirit suffered them not,
and they, passing by Misha, came down to Troas, and a vision appeared to Paul in the night.
There stood a man of Macedonian prairie 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.
Therefore, loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia.
and the next day to Neapolis and from thence to Philippi which is the chief city of that part
of Macedonia and a colony and we were in that city abiding certain days and on the Sabbath
we went out of that city by a riverside where prayer was want not to be made and we sat down
and spake unto the women which restored their tither and a certain woman named Lydia a seller
Which worshiped God heard us whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul
And when she was baptized and her household she besought us saying if he have judged me to be faithful to the Lord
Coming to my house and abide there
She restrained us and they came to pass as we went to prayer certain dams will possess with the spirit of divination
Met us which brought her masters much gained by soot saying the same followed Paul
And us, in Christ saying, these men are the servants of the Most High God, which show us unto us the way of salvation.
And this did she many days, with Paul being grieved, turned and said to the Spirit,
I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.
And he came out the same hour.
And when her master saw that the way of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas
and drew them into the marketplace, into the rulers and brought them to the magistrates
saying, these men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city and teach customs which are
not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, be in Romans.
And the multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates rent off their clothes
and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into
prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, who haven't received such charge, thrust them
into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight, Paul and Silas
prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great
earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were
the keeper of the prison waking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open he drew out his
sword and would have killed himself supposing that the prisoners had been fled. Paul cried with
the loud boy saying do thyself no harm for we are all here then he called for a light and sprang
in and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said sirs what
must I do to be saved and they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved
And they spake unto him the word of the Lord unto all that were in his house, and he took
them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized he in all his
straight way.
And when he had brought them into the house, he set me before them, and rejoiced, believing
in God with all his house.
And when it was day the magistrates sent them, sergeant, saying, Let those men go.
And the keeper of the prison told this saint to Paul, the magistrates have sent to let you go.
Now therefore depart and go in peace, but Paul said unto them,
they have beaten us openly, uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison,
and now they do thrust us out privily, nay, verily, but to let them come themselves and fetch us out.
And the sergeant told these words unto the magistrates,
And they feared when they heard they were Romans, and they came and besought them and brought them out and desired them to depart out of the city.
And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of Lydia.
And when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here on a Wednesday night.
Thank you that Pastor Cobb is still preaching strong.
that would admonish us, that would reprove and rebuke us.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Thank you, brother, for the privilege of being able to stand and proclaim the Lord's word.
Well, I asked me a while ago what my message of it was, the subject was, and I said,
which way to heaven? And he said up. He's right on, wouldn't he?
Okay, okay, okay, thank you
You have a water here before we get started y'all forgive me
Well, it's a blessing to be in the Lord's house at any time, but especially in today's world
They asked someone directions to a certain place, and they answered, you go to the first
stop sign here on the street, take a right, go three, maybe six blocks, and then a right
And then go four blocks, and if you see an Exxon station you've gone too far.
That's the way to get some kind of directions.
Then you ask another, and he said, I'm headed that way, follow me.
where it is for Christians, we're headed to that celestial city to be with our Lord.
For what a glorious day that will be, but I don't have words to explain what's in store
for us.
And we can't hardly wait, but folks, there's a lot on the table for us.
When we talk about going directions, well, I'll tell you today, go get your Google map
and see which way it carries you, aren't those kind of inventions wonderful?
I haven't conquered that method as well as some people.
granddaughter and babies. And in a way, she was on that phone, I was talking to her and
she didn't have to pick up anything, she just talked to us. She drove too fast for me.
A while back I
Tried a car out and maybe buying the car
Then I got in it and we cut the key on and they said
What would you like me to take you?
And I had not had that experience before
And I said honeycombe
It didn't take us to honeycombe so you have to be careful
They don't do everything you gotta use your head while you at it
But if someone were to ask you the way to heaven
What would you be able to tell them
You might say I don't know a place like that in these parks
Not in these parks, is it?
Would you say I'm not very good at on directions that I ask someone else?
Yeah, they might say if I heard a preacher on TV
Say that you should turn right and go straight
Turn right and go straight, but then I heard that maybe he didn't actually know the way
And I thought I'm talking about that beard about two weeks ago.
It was a Pentecostal preacher, Jimmy Swaggered by name.
But I listened to him when he got in trouble back in the 80s.
You all remember that?
Him could fasten his sins to the world.
Well, I listened to him in an earlier message
just to see after he made the big time.
And he got up and preached the message. He said now I know that it's by the grace of God
That you saved in only grace
Then he stepped over here and says I
Actually saw this myself. He said, but you still gotta live it
You gotta live what
died one time for our sins. And that's always necessary.
You have your phone on you?
I suppose. I haven't touched it.
Let me take your phone off you.
Shut it?
Alright. Perfect.
Does that make noise?
Yeah, don't worry about it.
Apologize.
You're fine.
A good lesson for me, at least there
wasn't a thousand people here to see a guy goof up.
Someone I ask again, you might say,
well, let me ask my Sunday school teacher or my preacher.
And have his address, and you can go see him.
He can tell you how to get there.
A lot of people have done that, haven't they?
I'll give you a testimony.
I had an uncle that really lived with the world.
He was a worldly guy, but the Lord got dealing with him.
And he couldn't sleep at night.
He knew something had to be done.
So he sent for, and this is way back there,
sent for Linda's cousin to come and tell him about the Lord.
And he received the Lord and was saved and by the way went on to heaven in spite of his worldly years
As everybody has a past don't you
Now would you say to someone to ask you
Which way is it to heaven would you say well here's my mouth?
Let me show you what it says
And let's do that
If you have your paper, there's still Romans 10, verse 9.
Is that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus,
and shall believe in thine heart
that God raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
Well, with the heart man believeth under righteousness
and with the mouth confession is made under salvation.
Well, the Scripture said, whoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed, but there is
no difference between a Jew and a Greek for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that
call upon him.
And then he says, for whose service shall call upon the name of the Lord?
Might be, shall be saved, isn't it?
If we call him a little word, well, he saves us.
Could you show a lost traveler the way if he needed directions
again?
Suppose you said to him, I'm headed that way.
Follow me.
And folk, that's the best act you could give.
If to know the way and know enough about the way
Lead someone else to believe that way
Now
Years ago, I clipped this illustration out and
It stuck with me it's a good parallel
But it's a story of Thomas Jefferson
What about a long time ago former presidents?
Hey
He was with a group of men on horseback one day and they came up to the river that was
raging that it rained and it was real high.
And there was a fellow among them that had no horse, all the rest of them had horses.
And finally, he asked the fellow said, would you give me a ride?
Thomas Jefferson pulled down and said, get on. Let's go for a ride.
When they got to the end of the way as they embarked,
they asked Thomas Jefferson about his experience.
And they asked the man the experience.
And he said that as we were traversing over the river, these men came, each one on a horse.
And I looked in their eyes to see what might say yes.
And as they crossed over, Thomas Jefferson, I didn't know he was the president.
He was baffled that he was the one he looked in his eyes, and he had yes eyes. Yes, I'll give you a ride
And that's what the world the world needs to see us as Christians
If someone that can show us away and someone that'll go with us on that way at that route
But would you be the person that someone would ask directions to heaven?
If you headed to heaven, you ought to be able to tell someone else how.
Jesus was asked the way, wasn't he?
Then he asked the way.
What was his answer?
He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
that way hadn't changed. He's still the way.
He is the door of the sheepfold.
The Lord said himself, I am the door.
But the jailor asked Paul and Silas
while they were in jail, they were beaten
and they were singing praises at midnight when the Lord
sent an earthquake. And the earthquake shook the prison.
And the jailer asked someone that he believed and knew how to get to heaven.
The jailer sprang forth, and he was going to kill himself, because he was responsible
for these prisoners that he thought had escaped.
Boss said, do us have no harm, for we're all here.
You don't have to die for us.
Someone else has died for us.
When he told him to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
I shall be saved in thy house."
And the jailer believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
But when the earthquake shook the prison,
the jailer recognized that Paul and Silas
were an ordinary people that he knew.
They were someone that was headed to heaven.
Now the question is today, for us, does our neighbor see the love you have for God by
your faithfulness, or does he see by your unfaithfulness, or does he see you driving
And then I had a neighbor for a number of years. We've been in that house for 48 years
And next door was a fellow that was a
Lutheran
Some kind of a deacon, I'm not sure we got to what they call himself, but he was ahead at least he let out in the Luther church
And he's see Linda and I leave on Sunday morning
He'd already gone to church and came back and he'd say put your that I don't meant to church
It been to a Lutheran church
You said but pretty good people there there's good people that lost to if they don't know the Lord they're lost
But it's Christians we're to show the way
this Saturday we've got coming up a
soul-winning
Crip
And Pope God we hope pray that many souls will be saved
That's our purpose boy. That's a heart of a church folk
If you don't have a soul-winning program you forget it because that's what the Lord set us up for
But when we as Christians are to show the way
We should make the directions to heaven playing even for little children
I'm gonna tell y'all a story that happened in my ministry years ago
I'm done by years ago back in the 60s
A fellow working on the job behind the molding machine, if you've ever been in the foundry
or not, but it's the hottest, driest job that you could have, when they get the metal up
to 2400 degrees before they pour it in the sand mold.
And this fellow was a molder, he made those molds and out of dirt, sand.
I made my way one day over to his stall, there were 14 machines in a row.
And I climbed over in and started talking to this fellow.
He was a little older than myself at the time.
I was talking about him and his relationship with the Lord.
He knew what he said to me.
I'll never forget it.
He said, Pritcher, you're wasting your time.
He said, I'm lost.
I can't be saved, I'm lost forever."
He said, my dad was a Pentecostal preacher and he told me that I was lost because they
believed in a perfect life after they've been saved.
We believe it's impossible to live a perfect life, period.
The folk there is such a thing as the scripture refers to as a reprobate doctrine, and that's
those that have cast off the truth, but what bothers me is here this man was going on the
vice of his father that he was lost, helpless, could not be saved.
You ever met anyone like that?
Actually, this is what the man professed.
And I was never able to turn him around, but one day, by chance, I looked and I saw a burial
place in the cemetery where he'd buried.
And I never knew what had happened after I left the job there after 17 years.
Further than you think you can
And folk will give you this story here
Happened there in my ministry the young man
Like mother Moe here
About his age young guy
He was really on fire
He made a profession of faith and I baptized him
And a few months later, he came back and told me,
he said, Brother Cobb, I got saved again.
I want you to baptize me again.
Baptism is after one that had been saved.
I said, OK, his name was Bobby.
Y'all won't know what Bobby because this has been a long time ago.
But his name was Bobby.
I baptized Bobby.
Again, after the church voted to baptize him, a few months past, Bobby comes to me again
and said, I just got saved.
I said, but Bobby, you told me this twice before.
This is the third time.
Anyway, it went four times.
I baptized in each one of those four times, but on the fifth time, I refused.
Here was a man confused about his salvation, and he goes here, as a matter of fact, one
of the guys he went to here was Bob Harrington, some of you may remember the Burbank Street
Chaplain who preached over New Orleans for years and was well-known, he was a Southern
Baptist.
He'd come in with a fireball revival, there's nothing wrong with the revival, there's nothing
wrong with fire being in it.
There is wrong somewhere along the way that you're not holding the truth or teaching the
truth.
When I told brother Bobby, I said, brother, you're making yourself look bad, if you can't
You run across a person like that every now and then, as confused and as hard as you tell
them about the Lord, it's their decision to make.
We should make the message clear and plain.
Christians are headed to heaven.
Of course, he defeated death.
We know the rest of the story.
He's coming back again to receive us unto himself.
The world is headed to destruction.
The folk is, destruction is not in the book for the Christian, for the child of God.
We're going to get to dwell with the Lord forever and ever.
So, I think that a high tide had it right, the best way to tell them which way it ends up.
But it's through trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that trust along.
All right, may the Lord add blessings to these thoughts this evening.
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