let's go ahead and find our seats and we will get started
and once we've all found a seat let's grab a hymnal and for tonight's service our first song
will be song number 74 or sorry 206 song number 206
I
Lord we love you and thank you so much for the opportunity to go soul-winning this afternoon
Thank you for all the souls that were one to you this afternoon Lord through this church
We just ask that you bless all the things that this church says and does and we bless the singing now and it's in Jesus name
We pray amen
All right for our next song. Let's go to song number 64
Song number 64
Now we gather at the river, song number 64, let's all sing it out together.
welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. At this time we're going to go over a few
announcements on our bulletin. On the front we have our Bible memory passage.
This week we're in Jude verse 12. Jude verse 12, if you can quote the entire
chapter to a non-family member, you will receive a special prize. On the inside
you'll notice we have our church stats as well as our soul winning times. Excuse
Church stats they're evangelist herbanic. We're comparing his numbers to the numbers for our entire church, which I think is interesting
and you can see the progress we're making.
Please keep in mind and in your prayers,
the expecting ladies, the names are listed there
and some upcoming events to be aware of.
The semi-annual business meeting is occurring July 13th.
We have our soul winning marathon in Lancaster, Texas
on July the 19th.
A few teen summer events are coming up.
The first one, Bowling Night.
July the 29th. If you plan on attending, please be sure to sign up. The sign-up sheet is in the
hallway there. The other one is the Boulder Adventure Park event happening on August 9th.
And again, you could sign up for that. We have the men's retreat August 14th through the 16th.
That's going to be a lot of fun. The Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship Conference.
August the 27th through the 31st to give the church a guess as to how many people plan on attending.
There's a few sheets there as well where you can market and basically just let the church know which days you plan on coming.
A missions trip to Mexico City, Mexico, September 8th through the 12th.
Be sure to talk to Brother Diego if you have any questions on that.
Arkansas Marathon. So we gave you a bit of a testimony about what's happening in the Philippines this morning, and for the evening service, I wanted to give
Brother Samuel a chance to give us a few minutes of a testimony of what happened over the weekend at this Solining Marathon. So if you could come up and talk to the people here about the
Yeah, so we just came back from Springdale. We had an event that July 4th and July 5th soul winning marathon
and we had 14 soul winners and 180 salvations and that is
Well above average. That's very similar to a missions trip and we're targeting the Marshall Islands immigrants
Marshallese people and in Arkansas. There's about 15,000
Marshallese and they're really concentrated in
the northwest region, which is where Springdale is.
And so I just wanted to give a couple stories
from this trip.
On the first day, we kind of expected to show up
to this baseball park and just kind of like what happened
in Cleveland, just have an event already there
ready to soul win, but it didn't really happen
as expected.
And it was kind of hard to find the Marshallese.
They're very receptive, but they're very hard to find.
In the afternoon, we were able to find some really heavily concentrated apartments, and we had a lot of success.
And then the Marshallese people, they're kind of similar to Asian people and their personality. They're very shy in general.
And they kind of have this nonchalant personality.
And so, the thing is though, they're very poor and they're very humble.
and that makes them very receptive to the gospel.
A lot of them, a vast majority,
when you ask them if they wanna hear the gospel,
they will listen to you.
And I think that's what makes them so receptive
and very easy to get saved.
And at the end of the first day,
we were originally gonna have dinner at this diner,
but it was closed for 4th of July,
so we went to a fast food restaurant instead.
And...
That was God guiding us, because as we were there, I noticed the neighboring business in the parking lot,
there were a bunch of Marshallese people playing basketball, and I could kind of hear their Marshallese music.
So I had a plan that...
All our soul winners when we were done with dinner
We just swarmed this group of people playing basketball and we ended up getting a ton of salvations there
But it wound up that what it actually was was a car wash
fundraiser for a non-denom church and so we were swarming this non-denom church in their parking lot and
Just getting a quarter of the church saved and then their false prophet pastor ended up running us off
But that was a pretty cool story where the spirit blows, right?
And so the second day we were able to find kind of the baseball tournament that we were looking for the whole time
And we had a lot of success that day as well
And I just want to thank everybody that came out thank the soul winners and thank everybody that prayed
And I want to thank pastichelli as well for letting this happen. So
Thank you, Samuel. My only commentary to that is never stop soul winning
Brother Marcel will be preaching for us this evening and that's all I have for announcements
So brother Dustin if you can come back up and we'll sing another song
All right for a song of the week it'd be Psalm 58
Psalm chapter 58 in your special binders.
Know well, sing it out loud.
being passed around. Go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter
number six. That's Genesis chapter number six.
Genesis chapter 6, the Bible says,
and it came to pass when men began to multiply
on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men
that they were fair, and they took them wives of all
which they chose.
And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also is flesh.
Yet his days shall be in 120 years.
There were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and
They bear children of them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown and God saw the wickedness of man
Was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
Continually and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth,
both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air,
for it repenteth me that I have made them.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord."
These are the generations of Noah.
Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations.
And Noah walked with God.
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
The earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence and God looked upon the earth and behold
It was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth and
God said on Inoa the end of all flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them and
Behold I will destroy them with the earth
Make thee an ark of gopher wood room shout thou make in the ark and shout pitch it within and without with pitch
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of the length of the ark shall be
300 cubits the breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits a
Window shout thou make to the ark and in a cubit shout
Thou finish it above and the door of the ark shout
Thou set in the side thereof with lower second and third stories shout thou make it
And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh, wearing as the breath of life, from under heaven.
And every thing that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee will I establish my covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shout thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee
They shall be male and female of fowls after their kind and of cattle after their kind of every creeping thing of the earth
After his kind two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive and thou shalt take unto thee of the
of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee, and it shall be food for thee and for
them. Thus did Noah, according to all that God commanded him, so did he. Let us pray. Dear Heavenly
Father, I want to thank you for steadfast Baptist Church. Thank you for Pastor Shelley. I ask you
to give him safe travels as he comes home. Please bless Brother Marcel as he brings your word to
us now. Please remove distractions and help us to apply the word to our hearts. In Jesus' name, amen.
And man, I just want to thank Pastor Shelly for allowing me to fill the pulpit this evening.
He's always a privilege, he's always an honor to be able to preach the Word of God.
If you're there in Genesis chapter 6, the title of my sermon this evening is Lessons
from the Life of Noah, Lessons from the Life of Noah.
Now, Noah is a famous Bible character, he's listed in the Hall of Faith in Hebrews chapter
11.
We're going to look at, you know, the verses about Noah in Hebrews chapter 11 in a few
minutes.
But I just want to kind of start here just to kind of give you a quick summary of the
what he did and kind of make some, you know,
points from that, from those verses.
Now if you would, look at Genesis chapter 6 verse 5.
The Bible says in God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and it repented the
Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the Lord said
I would destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and
the creeping thing and the fall of the air for repenteth me that I have made that I have
made them.
but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
So I just want to stop there.
So Noah was living in a generation
where the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually.
And not only in this generation,
we have just wicked people, but also the sons of God
because the Bible tells us that the sons of God,
that they mingle themselves with the sons of man.
So the sons of God, they were wicked.
The children of man, they were wicked.
Obviously you have reprobates in every single nation.
But Noah, he finds grace in the eyes of the Lord.
And I just like this word, he found grace
because that just shows me that Noah was saved.
And the Bible says, for by grace,
are you saved through faith?
And that not of yourself, it is the gift of God,
not of work, as any man should boast.
So we know that Noah had faith
because he's in Hebrew chapter 11.
But also it said that he found grace as well.
Now God is revealing to Noah his plan of flooding the earth and we're gonna see Noah's response
Look at Hebrew. I'm sorry. Look at Genesis chapter 6 verse 9
It says these are the generations of Noah
Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation and
Noah walked with God and Noah begot three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence, and God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood, room shall not make in the ark, and I shall pitch it with pitch, within and without."
It's going to kind of reiterate the same thing.
It says,
And behold, I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth
to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven,
and everything that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee will I establish my covenant,
and thou shall come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife,
and thy sons' wife with thee, and of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every sort shall thou bring in the ark,
to keep them alive with thee, they shall be male or female.
And look what it says now in verse 22,
thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him,
so did he.
So God reveals his plan to Noah
that he's gonna destroy all flesh
because flesh had corrupted itself before the Lord.
And God gives Noah clear instructions to build an ark
that's gonna save him from the flood
that God's gonna bring upon the earth
and it's gonna save his family.
And Noah hearkened unto the voice of the Lord.
Now if you would, go to Hebrews chapter 11.
And it's going to kind of give us more insight on this passage that we just read.
Now there's many similarities with Noah with Jesus in the Bible.
I don't have time really to go over all of them, but just a couple at the surface that
you see really quickly is that God establishes his covenant with Noah that he's not going
to destroy all of mankind and he gives them a token, which is the rainbow.
with Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ is going to die for our sins and the token is
going to be his blood.
So we see that Jesus Christ, he saves us from the wrath to come.
We see that Noah, you know, he saved his family from the wrath to come by the art.
Jesus Christ pictures the art.
What I want to focus really is on the faith of Noah so I have three simple points that we could learn from the lesson of from
The life of Noah the first point is that Noah was a man of faith
So for Noah to build this art
It took a lot of faith for him to build this art and look at the Bible reads in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 7
It says by faith
Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet
Moved with fear prepared an art to the saving of his house
By the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness
Which is by faith so the Bible teaches that Noah prepared the art by faith
So he did this great task all by faith and in order for us to be a great church a great Christian a great man
A great woman we need to have faith
The Bible said that without faith it is impossible to please him, referring to God.
We cannot please God if we don't have faith in God, number one.
And the Bible said that he's a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
So when we have faith in God, not only do we have to have faith,
but we also have to diligently seek him.
And what makes Noah such a great man was that Noah was a man of faith.
The Bible tells us explains to us what faith is in Hebrew chapter 11. Look what it says
It says now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen
So the Bible tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for it's also the evidence of things not seen so
I think a passage that helps us understand what faith looks like when it says the evidence
is James 2.
Now false teachers will use James 2 to show, hey, if your faith doesn't have works, your
faith is dead and you're not going to be saved and go to heaven.
That's wrong.
According to the Bible, you can have faith without works as we just clearly articulated
in Ephesians chapter 2 and still be saved.
But what James 2 is saying is he says, show me that faith without works and I will show
So the way we can tell somebody has a lot of faith
is by their works.
And the way we know that Noah has a lot of faith
was by him preparing the ark.
And the Bible said that he prepared an ark
to the saving of his house.
Now, the way I kind of illustrate this,
or I kind of think of this,
is like you have hope in something, right?
Now I'm gonna give you two illustrations.
Let's say you have hope let's say kids or you know when everybody was a child
You want to be like an NFL player? You want it to be a basketball player?
You want it to be a baseball player?
What I want to be a cop a firefighter
Well, if you have hope to do this task one day
Well, the vehicle that's gonna get you there is your works your works that vehicle that's gonna get you to your destination
Now faith the way that plays in faith is like the gasoline that fuels that vehicle
to go there.
And what happens is, when you run out of faith,
you run out of gasoline, and you're no longer working
to get to that destination.
If you would,
turn to Matthew 21.
So faith is the gasoline to get us to that destination.
and our vehicle is our works.
Now to be saved,
What we have to put the gasoline in is in Jesus' vehicle.
Jesus' works is what saves us, it's not our own works.
So we have to put our faith and trust in what Jesus did
to save us and to take us to heaven
and not put that into our own vehicle to take us to heaven
because we won't go to heaven, we won't go to hell.
So, but in order to achieve our goals in life
or whatever it is that we want to do in life,
we have to have a lot of faith,
a lot of gasoline to put in our vehicles
to get us there safe, to get us there.
I'm gonna give you a couple of verses from the Bible to kind of give you some more thoughts about faith and Matthew 21
You should be there
Look at the Bible reads in verse 21
Matthew 21 verse 21
The Bible says Jesus answered and said unto them verily I say unto you if you have faith and doubt not
You shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree,
but also if you shall say unto this mountain,
be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea,
it shall be done."
So Jesus says if you have faith and you don't doubt you can tell this mountain to be not cast into the sea
And it would be done. It would happen. So to have faith
This means you're just not doubting and if you want to have faith in whatever you're trying to do in life
Let's say you want to be an NFL player basketball player baseball player or if children want to be a pastor or deacon or evangelist
If you guys want to do something great for God, well, then you need to have faith and not doubt
So your vehicle needs to have gasoline and when you start to doubt it's kind of like you're running out of gas, right?
Another verse you don't have to turn there
And mark chapter 11
It says for verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain
Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart
But shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he saith
So we see again another verse in the Bible telling us that if we
say, cast this mountain to the sea, that we don't doubt, but we
just believe we're going to have whatever those things that we
say. Now, I think for us as a church, you know, I like the goal
that we have this year. We want to like double our numbers this
year and we want to beat evangelist or ban it. So I
have faith this year that we can beat evangelist or ban it.
But we need to have the works to do so.
That's how Pastor Shelley got the Bahamas trip.
We got the Mexico mission trip.
We got all these mission ships
and that way we could try to beat them.
Now, whenever we go to Mexico, I mean to Mexico,
you know, I believe we're gonna get 100,
you know, hopefully 100 people saved, 200, who knows, right?
But I know we can just go there,
do as much work as possible.
When we go to the Bahamas last year,
well, two years ago, we had about 1,000 people
saved, I believe.
And when we went last time,
I believe when we went to the college campus people were like out of school at that time period and we still had great numbers.
I was fortunate enough to go to the college campus where there was a lot of students this past winter and I was preaching the gospel for a five hour straight.
So, if we as a church, we're able to go to the college campus in October and the campus
is just filled with college students, I guarantee you we could double our numbers in the Bahamas
this year.
I have faith in it, but just because we have faith, we can't just sit back and think it's
going to magically happen.
We have to go put in the work to make sure it happens.
You know, a lot of people say, hey, I want to get a good paying job.
They have faith they're going to get a good paying job.
But they're not doing nothing to get a good paying job.
They're just sitting on their couch, eating chips off their chest, as it's been like to say,
and they expect to just get a high paying job.
It's not going to work like that.
You need to put in a lot of work to get to that position.
Now, what's interesting is this, though, the Bible tells us if we doubt, not.
And if we think of the story about Peter, and when Peter sees Jesus walking on the water,
Jesus tells Peter, hey, come to me in the sea.
So Peter starts walking on the water.
But what happens? Peter, he sees that the winds were boisterous and there was a storm and what happens?
He begins to doubt and the moment he begins to doubt he begins to sink and it's the same way
Whenever we achieve to do something great and we begin to doubt that's when we begin to sink
So, you know, if you're a young man, you should all aspire to be a great soul owner some day.
Should all aspire to be an evangelist or a deacon or a pastor. You don't have to be that to do great works.
I don't think the Bible tells us that Noah was one of these characters. He wasn't a pastor.
But you know what? Noah had a lot of faith. And if you have a lot of faith, you could be greatly used by God.
But here's what's going to happen though. God is going to lead you through the wilderness like he led Israel through the wilderness.
And what happens is when you're driving on that roll to the promise land or to your goals, whatever that may be as you're going there, you might get a flat tire, you know, you might end up.
Crashing right, but you get out the vehicle you pass the tire back up
You fix your vehicle and you just keep driving to that destination to the promised land
And you just don't give up you don't stop you refuel that gas tank so that way you can get there safely
The nation of Israel when they were in the wilderness, they got hungry
They they went through a lot of temptations. They were thirsty and what happened they begin to doubt
They started questioning God God are you gonna take me to this location? Are you gonna do this for me?
And God was, they just needed to have faith.
And the Bible says in Hebrews chapter three,
why did they didn't enter into the Promised Land?
Because they didn't believe.
So as men,
You know, we need to just have faith, number one,
and that we could provide for our families.
You know, in the society that we're living in today,
it's very difficult to provide on a one income household.
But if you have faith in God and you're diligent,
God will reward you.
And it takes a lot of work for you to be able to provide
for your family on a single income household.
But if you have faith and you begin to do all the works
and you don't doubt,
Then you could be able to achieve that goal now
It's gonna take a lot of time for you to build a skill
It might take you five years ten years
but once you build that skill you'll be able to provide for your family with a one-income household and
You know, obviously if you look at Noah
You know the Bible talks about when Noah was 500 that he had you know
Shem, Hammock, Japheth and the Bible tells us that when he was 600 years old
Excuse me that Noah entered into the yard
So, we see that no, he did a lot of work for a long time, and you know, a lot of times
people expect to get results right away, and you don't just get results right away, it's
not going to happen overnight.
You know, you're not going to build that art in one year, two years, three years, five
years, ten years, twenty years, it took him a hundred years to build the art.
How many people today, when they're working for something for five years that you want
to give up?
You know, they want to start a new profession.
They want to start a new career.
Instead of just grinding through it, working through it,
working through the pain, and finally when that arc is done,
they'll receive that blessing.
So, you know, you need to just keep grinding,
keep working, keep working hard.
The same way that Noah had faith and he prepared the arc.
You need to have faith so that way you can provide for your family
and that way you can try to do great work for God.
And then not only that, you know, let's say you want to open up a business.
You know, opening up a business takes a lot of work.
It takes a lot of diligence.
And you can do it if you have faith.
That's the first step.
But then on the way to, you know, run a successful business,
you just got to make sure that you keep updating your vehicle.
You know, a lot of times...
You know, you just get a car, after five, ten years, it's out of date, you know, they
have better gas mileage in the newer models, they have a better radio in the newer models,
they have cruise control in the newer models.
So you know, that vehicle of yours that's taking you to that promised lander is going
to help you build that art.
You just got to make sure that that vehicle, you know, the tires you have are tires of
being proactive, you know, because if you're not proactive, you're not going to be able
So you have to just make sure that that tires are proactive.
You're being proactive.
That vehicle's going to get you there.
Also,
What I think too is cool is like sometimes, you know,
we're only human and we begin to doubt sometimes,
things get difficult, we do see the wind
and it starts getting bolsterous
and we begin to sink sometimes.
So coming to church is a great location
to get that, you know, to refuel your gas tank.
You know, coming to church is gonna help you
get more faith, reading the word of God.
You know, when I read this verse in Matthew chapter 21,
you know, I just on my normal reading.
It says, verily I say unto you, if ye have faith and doubt not,
ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree,
but also ye shall say unto the mountain,
be thou removed, and be cast into the sea,
and it shall be done."
So when I read that right there,
that helps build my faith.
But, you know, if you notice, the apostles sometimes,
you know, they say, you know, help my faith,
help me to have more faith.
And Jesus is like, well, if you have faith,
the grain of a mustard seed,
you shall, you know, say this to this mountain.
And what does that mean?
All you need is just a little bit of gas in that vehicle
to get you there.
I mean, how many people here have drove on E before?
Come on, I know everybody has drove on E one time, right?
All you need is just a little bit of gas in that vehicle
to get you to the gas station,
and then I was gonna help you keep going
to that next destination.
So, you know, we just need to have faith,
just a grain of a mustard seed,
to achieve great works for God.
You know, if you're a young man,
I encourage you to try to do great works for God.
When I see young men going, doing mistress trips,
and getting 180 people saved,
and these things are like, wow.
And this sort of shows me that these people
have great faith.
And also, you know, as a spouse, you know, ladies,
you know, you know, providing for your family,
getting a career, getting a skill,
leading your family is a lot of work.
And what's worse than having a hard day at work
as you're coming home and your wife's nagging you,
well, why, if you can encourage your husband,
you could put a little fuel in his gas tank for him
and help him to keep going.
You know, he might need a little fuel in his gas tank
so that way he could keep going to that destination.
He could keep going.
He needs to continue to have faith.
For wives, you know, in the same way wives need to have faith that you can raise golly children
You know, I remember when me my wife first got married and the thought of us like home schooling and
Raising kids and teaching them edg- like giving them education
It was like foreign for us because we grew up in public school and we thought you know according to the
You know propaganda that were taught is that you need to go to college so that way you could be able to teach in school
So for us to have to do it ourselves, it's pretty crazy.
It's like, I got to teach my children.
But yes, you can actually teach your children
and you can do a better job than the education system
and you can raise golly children.
But it all starts with faith first, you know?
And a lot of times, you know,
you got to just figure out what's the goal.
Like, why are you doing what you're doing?
Don't just go through the motions.
If you want your children to be godly,
it's not gonna happen by ox most,
it's not gonna happen by accident,
it's gonna take a lot of work and a lot of diligence,
a lot of effort for you to raise godly children.
But if you have faith and you don't doubt, you can do it.
You know, if you wanna have children,
sometimes you have people in the Bible
who can't just have children.
You know, sometimes you might be in this predicament.
Well, just have faith in God and do the work necessary.
And you can have children someday
if God opens up the womb for you.
But it just takes to have faith.
think a lot of great applications as well for kids you know wives of families you
know as a man I want to you know have you know I want to raise a godly family
I want to have a great marriage if I want to have a great marriage number one
I have to have faith and then I have to do the work necessary no when God tells
Noah to build an ark to save his house he gives him the instructions on how to
do it right
Well, if you want to have a great marriage, God gives you the instructions on how to have a great marriage.
And the way you do it, husbands, is by loving your wives.
God gives you those instructions. So I have faith that if I keep loving my wife,
if I'm not bitter towards her, then I'm going to have a great marriage.
And wives, if you want to have a great marriage with your husband,
well, the Bible says wives see that she reverence her husband.
And you know, I like how the Bible words that it says see that she reverts her husband, because a lot of times, you know, we can all fall into this trap is that we could get too comfortable.
You know, we become we become too much buddies, you know, and there should always be a line of respect.
And it always is always, you know, baffling to me is funny to me like sometime when I see like wives, they just command their husbands and they tell them like, hey, do this, or.
Make me a sandwich or whatever the case may be like you should never tell your husband
You should never give him a command because it's just not reverence. You should always ask. Hey
So for example, it's like, hey, can I go to the store?
It's not hey
I'm going to the store because you're not referencing you like who gave you that authority just tell me to you know
You're going to the store you have to ask for permission like hey, can I go to the store?
Hey, can I do this? You know just go and tell your husband. Hey, I'm gonna do this, you know
If I'm working at the, if I'm at the workforce,
I don't just go and tell my boss,
hey, I'm gonna go do this,
or I'm leaving early, or I'm taking a four for July off,
or I'm taking the weekend off.
No, it's like, hey, sir, if it's okay with you,
can I take four for July off?
Can I do this?
Can I do X, Y, and Z?
Because that's reverencing.
So wives should never be commanded their husbands,
they should always be making requests,
just like Esther, you know,
she goes to King of Hazel Harris,
and she makes them a five course meal,
two days in a row, just to make her request.
And after she makes his meal, yeah,
then he's like, yeah, you have to take half the kingdom.
Like, if my wife comes to me with a bunch of food
and she's being nice, hey honey, can I do this?
Sure, why not?
but don't just come to me, try to boss me around and say,
hey, I'm gonna go here, I'm gonna do this,
I'm gonna do that, because it's not happening.
So if you wanna have a great marriage as a wife,
see that she referenced your husband,
and I guarantee you, if you're referencing your husband,
you're giving him that respect,
you're fueling up his gas tank,
you're gonna have a great marriage.
The Bible says in the first Peter chapter three,
that if a wife has an unbelieving husband,
and if she, now she could win him over
by her taste conversations.
So, if she sees that she referenced her husband, she has faith, she could win her husband over.
You know, why would a man be upset or mad at a woman who's just trying to please him at all times?
The problem comes in when the woman is not trying to please the husband, she's trying to please herself.
And the man is not trying to please his wife, he's trying to please himself.
So, if everybody just plays their roles and do their job, you're going to have a great marriage.
But first, it starts with faith.
And the Bible gives you the instruction, the same way that God gave Noah the instruction on how to build the ark.
The Bible gives you an instruction how to have a great marriage the Bible gives you instruction how to raise godly children
The Bible gives you instruction how to be a great Christian
You just have to follow the instruction that the Bible is laid out for us
Now if you would turning your Bible to Hebrews chapter 11 again
So the first lesson that we can take from the life of Noah
was that Noah was a man of faith.
You know, the Bible says that Noah walked with God.
And as Christians, we walk by faith, not by sight.
And if we want to begin to please God with our lives,
we just need to have a lot of faith in God and not doubt.
And once we do that, we can begin to please God
and God will reward us if we diligently seek Him.
The second lesson that we could learn
from the life of Noah.
is that Noah took heed to warnings.
Look what the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 11, verse seven
again, it says, by faith, Noah being warned of God,
of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,
prepared an ark to the saving of his house,
by the which he condemned the world,
and became heir of the righteousness, which is by faith.
Now if you will, go back to Genesis chapter six
really quickly.
So the Bible tells us that by faith when Noah was warned of God that he prepared an art and Noah took
He to God when God warned him that he was going to destroy all mankind
Noah not only took he took the heat and he obeyed God and he did what God said and
Genesis chapter 6 shows us how he does that
Genesis chapter 6 look at verse 13. This is when God warns Noah
It says and God said unto Noah
The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold
I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood, room shall thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it with thin and without
with pitch." Verse 17.
And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh,
wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die.
And take thou unto thee all of all the food that has eaten, and thou
shall gather it to thee, and it shall be for food for thee, and
for them. Thus did Noah, according to all that the Lord
God had commanded him.
So we see that God know he warns Noah of this impending judgment this danger that's gonna come into the world
How he's gonna flood the earth and Noah obeyed God by making the art God Noah took heed to warnings and
In order for us as well in our lives to have a successful Christian life
Not only do we need to have a lot of faith in God
but also we need to take heed to warnings.
And this is why coming to church is very important
because church is going to give you warning
on how you can destroy your life.
You know, when your pastor is coming up every single week,
he's teaching you doctrine, the Bible says in Timothy
that if he takes heed unto the doctrine,
that he's going to both save himself and them that hear thee.
So the pastor, he's making a spiritual arc for you
to save you from judgment, save you from destroying your life.
You know, it's so important that we come to a good church like ours
because most churches are not going to teach you everything that the Bible says.
Most churches are not going to go through all the doctrines of the Bible
whereas Steadifat Baptist Church is going to teach you every doctrine in the Bible
and it's not going to hold back, it's not going to sugarcoat it
and you know if we have to go through some some crap, get evicted,
we'll get evicted for it but we're not going to stop preaching the Word of God.
Now one of the biggest things I think as individuals as parents that we all need to take heed to and if you would turn to
Turn to first Kings chapter 11
First thing we need to like all of us need to take heed to and there's a couple things in here
But it says I'm a read to you from Hosea chapter 4. You should be turned to 1st Kings 11 in
Hosea chapter 4 the Bible says Hordom and wine and new wine
Take away the heart and if we want to live a life where God always has our heart
We need to avoid Hordom's wine and new wine now
Hordom is pretty obvious is sleeping around committing fornication
Wine is drinking alcohol, and if you haven't heard this morning sermon, I encourage you to listen to it again
So you can hear how wicked alcohol is and how it can destroy your life, but also new wine
That's like just giving yourself to pleasures, right? That's just being overindulging and
Before I kind of dive more into that. I just want to show you a verse from Kings about Solomon how
Solomon's heart was taken because of Hortom
The Bible says that 1st Kings 11 verse 4,
for it came to pass when Solomon was old,
that his wives turned away his heart after other gods,
and his heart was not perfect with the Lord, his God,
as was the heart of David, his father.
And if you know, Solomon had a thousand wives, and because as a result of that, his wives
turned away his heart after other gods.
So if you want God to, you know, if you want to make sure that, you know, God never, like,
you never, you're never given away.
your heart is not taken away from God or the things of God or from church,
then you have to protect your heart by these sins.
Hordom's wine and new wine is going to take away your heart according to the Bible.
And it says in Nehemiah chapter 13,
It said, did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin by these, yet among many nations was there
no king like him who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel, nevertheless,
even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
So we see that Hortom took away Solomon's heart, and because of that he didn't finish
his course like he should have finished his course, the same way that his father did.
This is what America is just given to.
I feel like America is just given to Hortom, Wine and New Wine.
And New Wine is like just over-indulging.
It's for like, everybody always have to have the latest car,
have the latest video game,
have to have the latest iPhone, the latest TV.
Like I have a family member,
every time I go to this guy's house, he has a new TV.
Hey, let me show you my new TV, this is the 80 inch.
Now, I know last year I had the 65-inch,
but this is the 80-inch TV.
You know, you see your friends in the hood
is like, hey, you see, I got these new spinners.
I got these new rims.
These are 23s.
Last time I had 20s.
And it's like people are constantly just overindulging,
and as a result of it, it's taking their heart away.
And you see that Noah, he took heed to God's warning
and he built the ark, but why was the ark built?
What did the Bible say?
And since by faith, Noah prepared an art
to the saving of his house.
He built that to save his house.
You know what?
And as men, we need to save our house
by telling, warning our children,
hey, don't ever get involved and hoard them.
Don't ever get involved in drinking.
And you know, as parents, we gotta make sure
that we don't allow our kids to overindulge.
We can't just let them just watch TV all day,
binge watch every single TV show.
Just...
Stay on the iPad all day.
You go out to eat lunch, the kids on the iPhone,
they can't just be off the iPhone,
they can't be off the tablet
because it's gonna take their heart away.
And, you know, I'm not perfect at this, I could get better,
but we have to just have moderation.
I think it's, you know, let your moderation be known
to all men.
So I think it's okay to like have some fun,
but we just can't overdo it.
Like, I'll ball some season passes to like Hawaiian Falls,
and it's like, I want to go every single day.
But then it's like, now my kids,
they expect to go every single day,
and they don't want to do homeschooling no more.
It's like, you know what, we just got to back off
for a few days, maybe we'll do it once a weekend,
and maybe you won't be overindulged.
And think about this.
In Matthew 13, when Jesus, you know, he gives a parable of the sower that's sowing the word of God,
some of those seeds, they fall among the thorny ground.
And what is the thorn in the ground?
That's the cares of this world.
And it chokes that seed and it becomes unfruitful, right?
So, you know, new wine is gonna choke the word of God
and you're gonna become unfruitful.
Your heart is gonna be taken away from the Lord.
So even as men, as ourselves,
you know, we gotta be careful
that we don't always overindulge.
We don't have to get the latest iPhone.
We don't have to get the latest vehicle.
We don't have to get the latest house
because the eye is not satisfied.
You're never gonna be satisfied with the latest house.
You're never gonna be satisfied with the latest iPhone.
You know, I got the iPhone 9, I was like, you know what?
This thing is the same exact thing as iPhone 16.
It's the same thing as iPhone 10.
Like, what's the difference?
They got one more camera?
Yeah.
And then next year, they're gonna come out with iPhone 17.
Instead of three cameras, there's four cameras now
that I cut.
Come on.
Like, what's going on?
So we just gotta be careful that we don't overindulge.
So that way, our heart is not taken away from the Lord.
Because, you know, back as I was saying,
in my first point,
You know we need to have faith to do great works for God and you know when we get to heaven as a church
You know if we don't if we are overindulged in pleasures of this world or
or people are involved in, you know, wickedness like fornication or adultery or, you know,
or wine, you could be kicked out of church for that and now in heaven, you're going to be considered the least in heaven.
You know, as a church, when we get to church, our assembly, we want to be one of the greatest churches in heaven.
Like when we get to heaven, we want to be like, yeah, we put in some work.
We got hundreds of thousands of people saved.
You know, and I have faith that our church could reach the entire DFW area.
by the end of our lifetime.
I might take a long time, but if every individual here
just say, hey, I want to take over this portion of the map
and knocks it out, we can knock it all out,
but we just need to have faith.
But if we're just overindulged in new wine,
that could destroy our hearts,
that could take our hearts away from God.
And as parents, we just need to warn our children
about these sins.
Because the Bible says he that committed sin
is the servant of sin.
It's kind of like this, when you give a child,
Let's say a child is used to drinking water all the time and you give him Kool-Aid
He will never want the water again. He's gonna want to Kool-Aid every single time for dinner
You know so like when you start introducing new things to your children
It's gonna be hard for them to just live like just a humble life because they're so used to like you know
luxuries and it's funny because
my brother
This guy likes to be in his house and it's hot in there. I'm like bro turn the AC on
So, my house, the AC is always on.
At least it gotta be nice and cold,
so he's inviting my son to go over there.
He's like, I don't wanna go over there, it's too hot.
It's just like, you don't wanna spend time with family
because it's too hot in this house.
You see what I'm saying?
Because he's used to that new wine.
He doesn't want the old wine, he wants the new wine.
He likes the AC, like the cool air.
And now he can't go spend time with Uncle
because it's too hot over there, you know?
So, same thing for us, like we just, as a church,
we can't just allow ourselves to just be given over.
But also, you know, Noah built the Ark to save his house, and as men, we need to save
our family from the destruction of this world, from the cares of this world.
We have to protect their hearts.
You know, we are responsible for that.
And if you will, turn to Proverbs chapter one.
Not only should we warn our children of the sin or the dangers of hordom and fornication and how God
destroyed 23,000 people in one day because of fornication and how we need to protect them from wine and we need to protect them from new
From new wine, but we also need to teach our children and warn them of bad people
Because I feel like when you're young you're just very naive and you and you don't realize that bad people exist
until they exist
And it's like the disciples, you know, they didn't know Judas was Judas until they found out he was Judas
So if you have to have discretion and warn your children about bad people in this world, warn your wife about bad people
You know this church, that's why it calls people out on the first king this five list
Because the Bible says that if they're on that list, that's a wicked person
You know, maybe you don't see a person
that's drinking alcohol all the time that's wicked,
but the Bible says that they're wicked.
The Bible says a fornicator's wicked,
an extortion is wicked,
and that's what the Bible teaches,
and that's why the church,
it preaches against these sins to protect us,
but also if somebody's kicked out,
it's a warning to protect you from wicked people
because they're gonna drag you down with them.
In Proverbs chapter one,
you're there in Proverbs one,
let me read to you from Proverbs chapter four.
It says, enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men, and go
not in the way of evil men, avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
We see that Solomon's giving instruction to his son to not enter into the path of the
wicked.
So there's a path that the wicked go down and you need to warn your son, hey, don't
go down this path.
What's one of those paths?
Horde them, wine, drink and alcohol, partying every single weekend.
This will destroy you.
In Proverbs chapter one, look what it says.
It says, my son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Now, what do sinners wanna do?
They want to entice you.
They wanna say, hey bro, we're about to go out this weekend,
we're gonna drink some alcohols,
they're gonna be a bunch of ladies there,
they're gonna be bikinis, we're gonna go have fun,
we're gonna sleep around.
They're trying to entice you.
They want to lure you in.
And the Bible said that sin is a pleasure.
But what happens, the Bible says, I like Proverbs chapter 5, how it kind of describes a woman,
but it's kind of using sin. You can just turn to it really quickly.
But it's kind of describing sin as well.
The word it says in Proverbs chapter 5, verse 3, it says,
but her and is bitter as warm wood. Sharp as a two-edged sword, her feet go down to death,
her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou should despond of the path of life,
her ways are movable that thou canst not know them.
If sin is enticed thee, consent thou not, and that's what sin does, it entices you.
It says her lips are smooth as oil.
Sin is saying all the right things, it's hitting on all of your senses.
It's hitting on all of your lustful senses, and it's trying to entice you.
But what does the Bible say?
But at the end, but her end is bitter as warm wood.
So yeah, if you get enticed, be sure that your sins will find you out.
Her end is bitter as warm wood.
Your life will be destroyed.
If you go and drink alcohol and you start driving,
you could literally kill an entire family,
wife, mother, and children,
and now you will be in jail almost for the rest of your life.
Now is that worth it?
Is that sin that entices you worth it?
Her end is bitter as warm wood.
And
That's what Hortom does to you. Hortom is gonna destroy your life by sleeping around and then God's gonna judge you
God's gonna give you an STD. God's gonna give you
rabies. He's gonna give you something that you don't want and you know what?
That's why it's important that you stay away from these outlandish women, but back to Proverbs chapter 1
It says my son in verse 10
It says, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not, and they say, Come with us, let us lay
wait for blood, let us look privily for the innocent without cause, let us swallow them
up alive as the grave and hold as those that go down to the pit.
Verse 13, we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill all houses with spoil.
My son, walk not thou in the way with them, refrain thy foot from their path, for their
Surely in vain, the net is spread on the side of any bird,
and they lay wait for their own blood.
They lurk privily for their own lives.
So all the ways of everyone, that is greedy of gain,
which is taking away the life of the owner thereof.
So like I said, we need to make sure that we're warning our
children of wicked people because they're going to try to
entice you to commit sin, but the Bible said that they lay
wait for their own blood.
They really think that they're going to get over on somebody
by lying to them or stealing from them or taking advantage
But the Bible said that they're laying a net for themselves
because the Bible says the eyes of the Lord on every room
be holding the evil and the good.
All you're going to do is destroy yourself.
When you allow your child to get around wicked people,
they're going to destroy themselves.
And the Bible gives you a whole list of sins
that you should teach your children to get away
from these kind of people, drunkards,
people that smoke marijuana, people that go to the clubs,
people that like to gamble, people that like to whatever
the case may be.
So that way you can protect them, you can save your house.
The same way that Noah took heed to warnings,
in the same way that we need to take heed to warnings,
so that way our heart is not given over.
We don't lose sight of the goal of what we have to do in life.
You know, we should all have a desire
to finish our course.
You know, just like Paul says, I finished my course, I ran the race, and therefore crowned
it laid up for me in heaven, we all need to have a desire to get that crown in heaven.
You know, I want that crown in heaven.
I'm sure everybody else does, and we can get that crown in heaven.
First we just got to believe you could and then put in the work to get it and don't allow anything to deviate us
You know as we're driving our vehicles in that direction
There's gonna be a lot of things that are gonna try to take us off the path
You know they're gonna say hey turn right turn left
No, make straight path for your feet as the Bible said and look right ahead and keep going
Now if you would turn to 2nd Peter chapter 2
So, one lesson that we learned from the life of Noah, number one, is that Noah was a man
of faith.
Noah walked with God.
Number two, we learned that Noah took heed to warnings.
And number three, what I want us to look at is that Noah was a preacher.
Now, in 2 Peter chapter 2, look at the Bible, in verse 5.
It says, and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.
So the Bible tells us right here that Noah was a preacher, and he was a preacher of righteousness.
Now, what I believe here, when he's saying he was a preacher of righteousness,
the Bible kind of gives us more insight on this.
Turn of your words to 1 Peter 3.
Noah, just like us, he was a preacher of the righteousness of Christ, right?
So when we go and preach the gospel, we're not preaching our own righteousness, we're
preaching the righteousness of Christ.
And Noah, that's what he did.
Verse 18, look at the Bible reads,
for Christ also has once suffered for sins,
the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit.
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison in prison
Which some time were disobedient when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah
While the ark was a preparing where in few that is eight souls were saved by water
So a lot of people will say something about Abraham's bosom how Jesus literally went to hell to free these people from hell
To take them out of hell, which is a false doctrine
What the Bible is teaching here, it says that when Jesus said that he rose from the dead and it says he rose from the dead by the spirit,
it says by which also referring to the spirit, he went and preached unto the spirits in prison.
So, and it says right here, sorry one more time, it says which sometimes we're disobedient when once a long time we have God waiting in the days of Noah.
So Noah, while he was also preparing the ark, which took over a hundred years, the Bible teaches that he was also preaching the righteousness of Christ, right?
He was freeing those spirits that are in prison.
Now, the spirits in prison here are referring to the lost, the unsaved.
The Bible expounds on this, you don't have to turn in Isaiah 61.
This is a reference that Jesus quotes in Luke 4 as well.
And he's quoting Isaiah.
He said, The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the
Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to preach
liberty to the captives and the opening of the prisons to
them that are bound.
So, when the Bible talks about that Noah went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
he's referring to the loss of the unsaved.
And the same way today, we're preaching to the spirits in prison when we go out and preach
the gospel because we're preaching to the loss of the unsaved.
But we're doing it by the Holy Spirit of God.
The moment a person believes in Jesus, they receive the
indwelling of the Holy Ghost, and that's how we're able to
preach the Word of God and go and to free people from the
prison of hell, to free them from the prison of sin, from
bondage. Now if you would, turn to 2nd Peter chapter 3.
So when Noah he was a preacher of righteousness the Bible says that he was preaching to the spirits in prison
He was getting people saved. So Noah was a soul winner as well. Just like today. We're soul winners
Noah was a soul winner as well in his day and
Probably arguably is probably more difficult in his time because the Bible says the thought of man was only evil continually
Now look what it says and
Look what it says in 2 Peter chapter 3
So it says, knowing this first, that there should come in the last day scoffers walking
after their own lust and saying, where is the promise of His coming?
For since their fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of
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 waters that then
was being overflowed with water perished.
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
So, the application I want to make here is this.
Noah, he lived pre-flood and post-flood.
And the Bible tells us that the world that then was being overflowed with water perished.
But the Bible says that the world that that is today it's reserved up to fire against the day of judgment
The same way that God warned Noah. Hey, he's gonna destroy all flesh
God is telling us through his word that when he comes back again
He's gonna just he's gonna pour out his wrath upon the earth the Bible says the whole world is gonna be dissolved with fire
And we could possibly be a generation that we live pre-wrath and post-wrath.
We could be just like Noah where we know God's judgment is coming, which we do,
and it could be our generation that we could live past the wrath of God and make it to the other side,
which would be really cool to think about.
But I think this is the secret.
Because the Bible talks about when those days come and we shall see, you know, the antichrist and we see the
Abomination of desolation, we see Jerusalem comes to us about with army when we see all these signs
And he said look up here, you know, look up for your redemption draw of nine
I think what's cool is that he says pray that you're counted worthy to make it past all this, right?
Now if you just look at the life of Noah, how did Noah make it past the wrath of God?
Well, number one, Noah had a lot of faith.
So if we want to make it past that time period,
and if it's not in our lives,
we could tell this to our children
so that way they can make it past this time period.
But number one, Noah had a lot of faith.
You know, if we have a lot of faith in God,
then we can make it past it.
We can make it past it.
Number two, if we take heed to God's warning,
what does that mean?
We keep His commandments.
You know, the reason why,
You know you might not make it past this because you're in sin and God's gonna judge you not gonna allow you
To make it through to the other side if you will turn to Genesis chapter 7 really quickly. I thought this was interesting
So Noah he builds the Ark and
You would assume just because he built the art that he he gets to go on
But the Bible tells us right here, why does he get to go on the art?
Turn of you will to Genesis chapter 7
I don't have this in my nose because it was like too many verses, but I thought it was pretty cool.
And it seemed like I had an extra minute, but look what it says in Genesis chapter 7, it says,
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
So we see that Noah, he enters into the ark because look, the ark is done already.
And he stood and entered into the ark and so God told him to enter into the ark
And he says come down to the ark for thee have I seen righteous now
The Bible is very clear that before the flood came that there was sons of God and the sons of God was there
So that means a lot of the sons of God they died in the flood unfortunately
Because they were wicked because you know, they were multiplied that the Bible said they took wives of all they wanted
So, you know, a lot of them didn't make it through, but why
didn't Noah make it through because he was righteous?
You know, so if we want to make it past that great
tribulation period, then we need to have faith and we need to
take heed to God's warnings by keeping His commandments.
And I think a cool verse here, it says in Ezekiel, you don't
have to turn there.
And it says, this is when God's judging Judah for sin.
He says, though Noah, Daniel, and Job are in it,
as I live, saith the Lord God,
they shall deliver neither son nor daughter,
they shall deliver their own souls by their righteousness."
So Noah was able to deliver his own soul
from the wrath of God that came upon the world
through his own righteousness.
So if we're righteous and we're taking heat to God's warning,
And lastly, we're preaching the gospel during this time period, during a great tribulation
time period.
I believe I have faith that God will allow us to make it through to the end and we could
be one of those generations that lived pre-wrath and post-wrath era, just like Noah, he lived
pre-flood and post-flood era by having a lot of faith, by taking heat unto God's warning,
by being a preacher, we can follow that same recipe, and when that time comes, if it's
in our lifetime, then we can also make it through.
I think it's going to be a great time, you know, I mean, it's going to be a great story
to tell.
And the stories you get to tell is like,
yeah, I live when the Antichrist was alive
and the Abomination of Desolation
and they were chasing all of us
and we had to run through Mexico,
we had to run through Guatemala,
we had to run to Colombia, we were running,
but we were preaching at the same time.
Every single state, every single country we went to,
we got people saved, we just kept working for the Lord
and I'll stop.
I mean, that's going to be epic story.
And you know, one thing I pray for,
And I don't know, you know, they always say,
like, be careful what you ask for.
You know, I always ask God for a great story.
You know what I mean?
I want a good story to tell my children,
my grandchildren, my great grandchildren.
And it's like, that might be scary
because I don't know what God's gonna put in that story.
I don't know what stops are gonna be in the road.
But you know, all of us, we wanna just have a great testimony.
When you look at the stories of the men in the Bible,
I'm like, man, these are great stories.
Like when you slayed Goliath,
I want to hear that story in person.
You know, I want to talk to Enoch and how Enoch walked with God for 300 years.
I want to talk to Enoch and ask him, hey, what was going on in your time period?
We have an idea from the Bible, the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually.
You know, God took him, but you know, it would be a great person to go talk to, find different people to talk to.
But, you know, ultimately the main goal, the main message of this sermon is that
There's some great lessons we can learn from knowing the Bible.
The Bible says that all scripture is given by the inspiration of God and it's profitable
for doctrine.
Every character in the Bible we can learn something from, good or bad.
So figure out, read those stories in the Bible, see what you can learn from them, and try
to apply them to your life, the good, not the bad, and then just try to be a godly Christian
and have a lot of faith in God.
Never quit, never give up no matter how hard and how difficult the role may seem or how
just have faith. Don't give up. Listen to God's warning. Take
heed to his warning. Listen to your pastor's warning. Listen to
your parents' warning. Wives listen to your husband's warning.
Children listen to your parents. And let's just keep preaching
the gospel. Let's keep putting in work. Let's try to double our
numbers this year. Let's try to do more work next year in 10
years. Let's look at these days and be like, man, we weren't
doing nothing compared to now. So, let's have a lot of faith
and let's pray.
Lord God we just thank you for this day. Thank you for giving us the opportunity Lord to come to your house Lord to hear
The word of God Lord. Thank you for giving us the Bible so we could learn from them. We could glean some wisdom from them
Thank you for
characters in the Bible like Noah and we could try to have a we could try to follow his examples the good and
Lord God asks that you just give us a lot of faith in our church
Help us to not doubt and doing a great work for you Lord help us to take heed to all of your warnings and help us to all
Be preachers Lord Jesus in my prayer amen
All right for our last song let's go to song number 74
Song number 74
Christ return it song number 74 let's all sing that out together