Sorry, verse 35. "Cast not away there for your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward, for you have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise."
Here's what he's saying. Sometimes the promises in God's Word don't happen right away. That's what he's saying to Habakkuk.
He says, vision is yet from the point of time, but he says, "I want you to preach it right now, because it is coming. It will come. It will not tarry."
And God is saying here, "Cast not away there for your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward, for you have need of patience,
for you have done the will of God, I promise." And so here's what he's saying.
God has promised you that if you do what God says in the Bible, if you obey the Bible, you will receive great blessings, great reward,
but he says sometimes we're just not willing to wait for that.
So we confidence and say, "Oh, I'm nuts to this church thing. Church for, you know, for two years and three months!"
That stuff does not always operate on our timetable.
Sometimes God says at a point in time, he says, "I know exactly what it's going to be." You have need of packages to keep the promise.
We need to just keep on moving forward, not based on our circumstances.
Sometimes we can look around and say, "Just look at my family. Look at my..."
You don't know when God's going to bless you.
Don't decide whether you're living in the will of God based on your circumstances.
Decide whether you're following God's will based on whether what you're doing lines up with what the Bible says.
If what you're doing lines up with what the Bible says,
everything's going wrong around you, that doesn't mean God is cursing you.
God's not blessing me.
You know, you run into people all the time who will decide,
"This is what I'm going to do. This is what God wants me to do."
And then they'll start doing it. Things go wrong.
Don't be this charismatic that this gets all these feelings, you know, based on what you believe.
Believe what you believe based on what the Bible says.
I don't care whether you tingle about it or not. I mean, the Bible says that it's true.
And so, do you say, "Pastor Anderson," and see like the attendance of church and kind of decide whether you're preaching right? No.
The service we've had or the biggest crowd we've ever had, it's not going to change.
Just keep preaching it the way that the Bible told me to preach it.
It has nothing to do with the reaction I get. It has nothing to do with the results I get.
You say, "Pastor Anderson, are you still kind of deciding whether daughter or soul winning works?" No.
Because God said to do it, "I'll do it until I die," or not.
Somebody told me recently, "Yeah, you know, a better way."
Let them come, and then once they visit once, then you can go back and try and get them saved, and it works better.
And this is his numbers, and it's working. I'm going to every church. People have no desire to go to church.
I'm going to say, "Listen to me for 10 minutes!"
What am I going to do? My service toward a bunch of unsaved visitors that I'm trying to win to the Lord?
No, I'm going to win the law and then bring my sheaves.
I'm going to bring a bunch of seeds to church with me.
You know, I'm going to bring my sheaves with me.
The song is bringing in the sheaves, not bringing in the seeds.
Then we'll have music for a priest of the Bible to save people.
And we'll preach the "live right" and the "talk right" and the "dress right" and the "be right" from the whole book.
Salvation, salvation, salvation, salvation.
Hey, we'll get them saved out there.
Say, well, I want you to win people to Christ.
I want you to preach on the gospel.
Hey, you want to learn how to win people to Christ?
Why don't you come with me and knock doors with me?
I'll teach you how to win people to Christ.