Oh, yeah, for a seat again.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
This time we'll pass our offering plates around as the plates go around.
Let's turn our Bibles to Second Chronicles chapter number 30.
Second Chronicles chapter number 30.
As we always do, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse number one.
All along silently with Brother Dan as he reads Second Chronicles 30 beginning in verse number one.
Second Chronicles 30, the Bible reads,
And the thing pleased the king in all the congregation.
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel from Beersheba even to Dan,
that they should come to keep the Passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem.
For they had not done it of a long time in such short and such sort as it was written.
So the post went with the letters from the king and his princess throughout all Israel and Judah.
And according to the commandment of the king saying,
Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel.
And he will return to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
And be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers,
who therefore gave them up to desolation as ye see.
Now be ye not stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord
and enter into a sanctuary which he hath sanctified forever.
And serve the Lord your God that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive,
so that they shall come again into this land.
For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return unto him.
So the post passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun.
But they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
Nevertheless, diverse of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the Lord.
And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem,
and all the altars for incense took they away and cast them into the Brook Kidron.
Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month,
and the priests and the Levites were ashamed and sanctified themselves
and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.
And they stood in their place after their manner according to the law of Moses, the man of God.
The priests sprinkled the blood which they received in the hands of the Levites.
For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified.
Therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the Passover for every one that was not clean to sanctify them unto the Lord.
For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Isaacar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves,
yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it was written.
But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying the good Lord pardoned everyone that prepared his heart to seek God,
the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness.
And the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord,
and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings,
and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.
And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days, and they kept other seven days with gladness.
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep,
and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep,
and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
And all the congregation of Judah with the priests and the Levites,
and all the congregation that came out to Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel,
and that dwelt in Judah rejoiced.
So there was great joy in Jerusalem.
For since the time of the Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, there was not the like in Jerusalem.
Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard,
and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this opportunity to gather here today.
Lord, please bless Pastor Anderson with your Holy Spirit.
Fill him so they can preach your word boldly.
Please open up our ears and hearts to receive the message, and learn from this passage today.
Do you see him in prayer? Amen.
Men, we're continuing with Hezekiah.
If you remember last week, we started out with the reign of Hezekiah.
He was following up from Ahaz's wicked reign.
The southern kingdom of Judah had been worshiping God for a long time.
Ahaz ruined everything, and they're worshiping literally Satan.
They had shut down the house of God.
And if you remember last week, we talked about how Hezekiah reopens the house of God,
gets the burnt sacrifices going once again, gets the vessels dedicated once again to the Lord.
And in chapter 30, he's going to be holding the Passover,
which is something that had not happened for a long time.
They'd been delinquent in doing this.
And of course, this is their main holiday, right?
This is the main thing that they're supposed to be doing.
The most important sacrifice of the year is this Passover that they do.
And if you think about it, obviously all of the sacrifices in the Old Testament
are pointing us in some way toward Christ.
But the Passover is kind of the big one.
The Lamb that's being slain and Christ is called our Passover in 1 Corinthians chapter 5, for example.
And so you can look at this in a lot of ways as symbolic of pointing us toward Jesus Christ.
And the idea here of getting the northern kingdom to come celebrate the Passover with them in the southern kingdom,
you could look at it symbolically as really evangelizing the northern kingdom.
Because the northern kingdom has gotten away from God, they're not worshiping the Lord.
And so most of the people up there are not saved.
And so Hezekiah, yes, he's opened the house of God in the southern kingdom,
but he also wants to evangelize the northern kingdom.
He wants to get them worshiping the Lord as well.
So it starts out in verse number one of chapter 30.
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah.
So notice he's not just dealing with that southern kingdom of Judah.
Israel is the northern kingdom that he's not reigning over.
He's only reigning over the southern kingdom.
But the northern kingdom, he wants to evangelize it and get them involved as well.
And so he writes also to Ephraim and Manassee, which are the two big northern tribes.
That they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to keep the Passover unto the Lord God of Israel,
for the king had taken counsel and his princes and all the congregation in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
For they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently.
We'll continue in a moment.
But remember, the Passover is supposed to happen first month, 14th day of the month.
But if you remember, Hezekiah had just taken power.
He's just cleansed the house of God and even opened it up again for business and got the nation back right with God.
He doesn't have all those ducks in a row in time for the 14th day of the first month.
And so God in the law had provided for a backup day to celebrate the Passover.
So even when things are going good in the nation and everybody else is celebrating it on that 14th day of the first month,
let's say somebody's on a journey or they're traveling or they happen to be unclean on that day,
then there was a second chance Passover on the 14th day of the second month like,
hey, if you mess up and you miss it in the first month, you can always do it in the second month.
And again, these things are all symbolic.
It's a picture of the fact that God is a God of a second chance, right?
God doesn't just expect always every single person to get saved the first time they hear the gospel.
He'll often give somebody a second chance and a third chance and even a fourth chance.
God wants people to get saved.
He's long suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
And so God does give a lot of second and third chances.
One thing that kind of stood out to me, I was just reading it recently in my Bible reading,
the passage about that second chance Passover.
And the thing that was interesting was it said, do not do this and I'm paraphrasing,
but it basically said, do not do this if you can keep it on the first month.
Like this is only for people who have a valid excuse.
So you have to have been unclean or traveling or something.
Not just like, oh, you know, that's not really a good week for me.
Let's see if we can just push this back into February.
He was basically saying, don't push it back on purpose.
If it happens to be that you can't do it, then I'm going to give you a second chance to do it in the second month.
And to me, the thing that I thought of with that is that, you know,
God wants people to get saved when they hear the gospel the first time.
Especially the first time they really understand it and it clicks.
Now is the accepted time.
The Bible says now is the day of salvation.
Okay.
So yeah, if there's a reason, then yeah, he'll give a second chance, third chance,
but he doesn't want people to just pass up on the gospel for no reason.
You know, maybe they don't quite understand it.
Maybe they need to hear it again.
Maybe the scene needs to be watered a little bit.
And sometimes people have to hear the gospel many times before it really clicks
or before they're ready, quote, unquote.
But at the same time, if people just should get saved today and they understand
and it's right there in front of them and they walk away from it, that's a scary thing to do.
Because God's not necessarily going to give you a second chance
if you're just turning your nose up at like the gospel on a silver platter for you.
Okay.
So here in this situation, nobody's doing it on the 14th day of the first month
because they're not ready.
So therefore, everybody's doing the second chance Passover,
second month, 14th day of the month.
And what's interesting about this to me is that you would think
that if this is his first Passover with the people once he takes power,
wouldn't you think that basically he would just say,
well, let's just do it with Judah alone, see how it goes
before we start inviting people from another country to join in, right?
Like, let's have one Passover with just our nation,
then we'll think about evangelizing other nations.
But no, rather, it's the first time for Judah,
he wants to include the Northern Kingdom right away.
And I think that one symbolic thing we could take from this
is that God doesn't want us to wait until we've totally evangelized our own area
before we think about evangelizing other areas.
It's like God wants us to be evangelizing abroad from day one right away immediately,
not like, well, we've got to finish Tempe first before we do any missions
or before we hit any Indian reservations.
Now, why is that?
Well, first of all, because sometimes our own area isn't necessarily the most receptive.
And so while we're kind of grinding away at our own area where it's challenging,
there's no reason in the world why we shouldn't hop over to some super receptive area
three hours away or a plane ride away and get even more people saved, right?
And so also the job of evangelizing is never done anyway.
I mean, are you ever going to say like,
well, we've totally evangelized Arizona, we're just done?
No, because once we finish every door, we'll knock every door again.
And then we'll knock every door again.
It's a never ending job.
People are born.
People grow up.
People change.
People move.
People move in.
People move out.
So the evangelization never stops.
So if you're going to wait to do missions,
if you're going to wait to branch out into other areas,
then you're just never going to get it done.
And God wants us working on the whole world, you know.
And so basically the idea here is, yeah, we're evangelizing our own area,
but you know what?
Let's evangelize the Northern Kingdom at the same time, right?
So, hey, we're working on Tempe.
We're working on Phoenix.
Hey, let's hit the Navajo reservation at the same time.
Let's take mission strips to the Caribbean, Jamaica, Guyana.
Let's go to South America at the same time and go to these receptive places
and win people to Christ.
And so it says that they did it on the second month
because they weren't ready for the first month.
Verse number four, the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
So they established the decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel
from Beersheba, right?
That's the southernmost extreme point of the nation,
all the way to Dan in the extreme north,
that they should come to keep the Passover under the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem
for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
So keeping like a legit Passover exactly the way they were supposed to do it
as a congregation following the biblical rules.
Later we're going to find out they really haven't done this since the days of Solomon, right?
So many generations back when they were a united kingdom, they had done it this way
where everybody's coming to Jerusalem for a legit Passover.
And so it says in verse six, so the posts went with the letters, right?
This is like our word post office, you know?
The King James is so hard to understand, isn't it?
So the postman, right?
The postal workers went with the letters from the King and his princes
throughout all Israel and Judah according to the commandment of the King
saying, you children of Israel, turn again under the Lord God of Abraham,
Isaac and Israel and he will return to the remnant of you
that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Because remember the northern kingdom has already,
a lot of them have already gone into captivity into Assyria.
The northern nations super messed up.
And by the way, that's what's going to make the northern kingdom probably more receptive
because when people are doing well and they're rich and everything's going well,
they're usually not that receptive to the gospel.
Usually it's when people have a messed up life that they're more interested in hearing the gospel.
When they're poor or experiencing hardships, problems, they're destitute in some way.
And be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren,
which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers,
who therefore gave them up to desolation as you see.
And the thing I want to point out here is that the northern kingdom,
of course, if you go back far enough,
has a history of actually worshiping the Lord and serving God at Jerusalem.
And so this makes them another reason why they're a great mission field
because they already have some history with the things of God.
It's just that their fathers and their brethren,
the last generation has dropped the ball or maybe several generations have dropped the ball.
And so they're trying to bring them back to the Lord.
And here's the thing, when we think about doing missions,
typically missions are most successful in places that have a history of
bona fide Christianity in the not too distant past.
If we were to go to a country that is just a hardcore Buddhist country,
hardcore Hindu country, hardcore Islamic,
chances are it's going to be pretty unreceptive unfortunately.
Obviously the word of God has power, the gospel has power.
We're going to get people saved no matter where we go.
But we want to focus on the areas that are most receptive.
We've only got so much time and resources and energy.
Let's put it into a winner.
Let's go to the most receptive places.
And typically the most receptive places are the places where nominally
they kind of have a Christian culture because in the past
there's been a lot of good Christianity there.
But here's the thing, it doesn't matter if you're living in a Christian nation,
a Christian culture and everybody sort of thinks of themselves as Christian
just because Wikipedia says it's 92% Christian or something, 93% Christian.
Guess what?
If you're walking up to people and asking them,
do you know for sure if you die today you go to heaven?
And they say, no, I hope so.
I'm a pretty good person.
I don't know.
I hope I'm good enough or no, I won't because I have sin in my life.
Well, you know what?
Who cares what the label is?
You're going to hell.
You're not saved.
Right?
If you are not trusting in Christ as your savior,
it doesn't matter whether you go to church or go through the motions
or think that you're a Christian, you're not.
Right?
The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we're the children of God.
Okay?
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God
that you may know that you have eternal life
and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.
How do we know we have eternal life?
Because we believe on the name of the Son of God.
When you've got somebody that tells you,
well, I don't know because I've got sin in my life,
well, that just tells you they're not believing on Jesus.
They're believing on themselves.
And if I was believing on myself,
I wouldn't think I was going to heaven either.
I'd look at myself in the mirror and say, oh, not going.
Because we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
We all come up short.
None of us is good enough.
And here's the interesting thing about going soul-winning in the Caribbean.
Because we've talked about this a lot lately.
We had the missions conference.
We've done missions trips there recently like the Jamaica trip.
We're going to have more missions trips coming up in the new year
to places like the Bahamas, Jamaica, places like that.
Here's what's interesting about going soul-winning in the Caribbean.
In America, if someone goes to church
and you ask that person, are you a Christian?
They're 100% going to say yes.
Of course they're going to say yes, right?
You'll walk up to people in the Caribbean and say,
are you a Christian? They'll be like, no.
But then you'll talk to them and you'll find out
they go to church every Sunday.
And this used to confuse me.
And I asked people like, okay, you go to church every Sunday.
I thought you said you weren't a Christian.
What are you talking about?
But they're like saying I'm not a Christian
because they think that in order to bear the name Christian
they have to live up to this certain standard of morality
because they're believing in a works-based salvation.
So it's like they haven't achieved Christian stat.
They haven't unlocked that achievement yet.
They haven't gotten the Christian badge yet unlocked
in their account.
They need more like XP of serving God or something.
And this just goes to show the wrong-headed mentality.
But the good thing about that mentality of that
is that at least they don't already think that they're good to go.
Because sometimes you're out soul-winning.
Oh, we're fine here. We're just soul-winning like an hour ago.
And it's like we're all squared away.
We're all taken care of here.
We got this answer several times tonight.
Hey, we're good. We're all taken care of.
We're all cared for here.
Squared away.
The good thing at least is that these people know that they're lost.
And then that ends up making them receptive
because then they're like, oh, wow.
I can know for sure I'm going to heaven. Tell me how.
I'd love to know that.
Because they realize that they don't.
And so you'll have a mentality down there
that at least realizes that they're lost
and at least has an interest.
But there's a Christian culture.
But let's face it, person after person after person
that we talked to down there isn't saved.
Even though Wikipedia will say, oh, yeah, they're Protestant.
They're Baptist. They're 70 Adventists.
They're evangelical, all these different things.
They're not saved.
Because when you ask them about salvation, they don't have a clue.
And in fact, they're not even comfortable calling themselves a Christian.
That's crazy, right?
But to us, being a Christian means you believe in Jesus.
To them, being a Christian is works.
That's where they get it wrong.
I remember just when I was down there a couple of weeks ago,
I was talking to a teenage girl and she said,
you know, well, she said the problem,
because I asked her if she knew she was going to have it.
She said, well, the problem is that, you know,
there's some sins in my life. I try to get rid of them.
But then every once in a while I kind of, you know, relapse
and commit those sins again.
And it's like, it's like, yeah, join the club.
Right? I mean, you know, you and the apostle Paul, both.
Because even the apostle Paul in Romans chapter 7
said that there were things that he hates
that he does and that his inward man
wants to follow the law of God,
but that his flesh, the members, his body parts,
they're dragging him into sin and making him do stuff that he hates.
And this girl, that's why she didn't know she's going to heaven,
because she's saying, you know, I sometimes sin.
She's like, I sin occasionally.
Like, and I don't even think she was doing anything like super bad.
She does, every once in a while she sins.
And I'm just kind of like, wow, you sin every once in a while?
Like everybody sins every once in a while.
This is why we need salvation.
That's why we need Jesus.
That's why the gospel is the way it is.
And so if you can go to a place where people already kind of
have the background, they used to be Baptist a long time ago,
or they used to be Christian or whatever.
And now they've become corrupt.
And so now they have the name Christian,
but they're not actually worshiping Christ.
Those are often receptive people to the gospel,
because you're not starting from scratch with them.
Like you would be with a Hindu or a Muslim or something.
Where you talk to a Muslim and it's like,
even if you both speak fluent English,
it's like you're speaking two different languages.
Like all the definitions are different.
They're thinking is so messed up.
You have to really work to get them to understand the gospel,
because they're so far from the truth.
They're not even close.
And so these people in the Northern Kingdom,
yet they're worshiping the Lord up there,
but it's a golden calf.
They're not saved.
They're not actually following the Bible or anything
when it comes to their beliefs.
They're just kind of in name only.
It's sort of like people that are quote unquote Christian
or Catholic or something,
but they're not actually saved.
That's kind of what the Northern Kingdom is,
which is why it's a good receptive mission field.
They've got the background.
That's why he's saying the Lord God of your fathers,
but your immediate fathers and brother,
and they've screwed things up.
So don't be stiff-necked like them.
Don't be stubborn like them.
He says in verse number eight,
now be not stiff-necked as your fathers were,
but yield yourselves unto the Lord
and enter His sanctuary,
which He has sanctified forever,
and serve the Lord your God,
that the fierceness of His wrath
may turn away from you.
Now here's the thing.
When we go out soul-winning, when we evangelize,
we talk about the fierceness of God's wrath.
We don't just have a positive only message
of just, hey, God loves you,
and get saved
so that you can have a relationship with Jesus
and have a more fulfilled life.
You want to get saved
so you don't burn in hell.
Amen?
I mean, look, obviously,
there are a lot of benefits
to getting saved.
You know, it's sort of like
you're drowning out in the ocean, right?
Like, you're on some piece of driftwood
or something, and you're just out there
and you're worried when the sharks
are going to get you,
and you're just out there getting a sunburn
and cooking out there and getting dehydrated.
You're dying out there, right?
You need a boat to come save you.
Okay?
Well, here's the good news.
Like, the boat that's coming to save you
is like a five-star cruise ship
that's coming to get you.
Okay? But it's not like,
hey, come aboard for the food.
You know, come aboard
for the five-star service.
Hey, come aboard for the entertainment.
It's like, no, come aboard so you don't die.
So you don't drown.
Yeah, there's going to be a nice bed.
There's going to be food.
There's going to be a swimming pool or whatever.
But that's not why you're getting on the ship.
You're getting on the ship so you don't die,
so you don't drown.
Okay, so yeah, we could go around telling people,
hey, go ahead and believe on Jesus
so you can have a more fulfilling life.
We'd be telling the truth
if we told people,
hey, get saved so that you can have joy.
We'd be telling the truth
if we said, hey, get saved
so that you'll find peace.
We'd be telling the truth.
But guess what?
A lot more people are probably going to respond
to this message, hey, get saved
so you don't burn in hell eternally.
Now, I know that's why I got saved.
Maybe you got saved for one of these other loftier reasons.
I simply got saved
because I didn't want to burn in hell for all eternity.
You know, and then I found out
like, hey, this ship's pretty cool.
You know, this is pretty nice
being on this ship. This is pretty comfortable place.
But that's not why I got in.
I got in. I got saved.
That's why it's called saved.
Why doesn't it just called,
you know, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be enlightened.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be satisfied.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be fulfilled.
And look, the Bible does talk about being satisfied.
It talks about being enlightened.
It talks about being fulfilled.
But when it comes to the gospel
it's about being saved.
It's about having eternal life.
I mean, what's John 3.16 about?
It's about not perishing
but having everlasting life.
Okay, so yeah, there are
and look, I'm sure that there are people out there
who get saved just because
they want peace in their life
or they want to have a relationship
with God or something.
Hey, great. I don't care why people get saved.
I just want people to get saved
for whatever reason.
The most effective message
is going to be the message
that the Bible emphasizes
which is salvation.
Why? To get our sins forgiven.
To get our butts into heaven.
That's what it's really ultimately about.
Okay?
And yeah, after that
there are a lot of wonderful other benefits
of being saved.
And like I said, there's nothing wrong
with telling people about those things.
There's nothing wrong with people getting saved
because people here would say
when I got saved, I was kind of just thinking about
not going to hell when I got saved.
That was kind of a big part of it for me.
Yeah, that was the big one.
I mean, yeah, that's going to be the big one, folks.
And so look, what are they saying?
Hey, come celebrate the Passover
because it's a cool holiday.
You know, be like saying, hey, come celebrate Christmas.
The tree
is so beautiful.
You know, the mashed potatoes
and gravy and ham dinner
and you know, hey,
the gift exchange is wonderful.
That's not the point here.
The point is, hey, you need to
worship the Lord.
Why?
Well, he tells them why
at the end of verse 8, the last phrase there
that the fierceness of his wrath
may turn away from you, right?
Because guess what?
Anybody who doesn't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
has God's wrath abiding on them.
Right?
The Bible says,
he that believeth on the Son
has everlasting life,
but he that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God
abideth on him.
That means Monday the wrath of God is on them.
Tuesday the wrath of God is on them.
I mean, in general,
God's wrath is on that person.
People who are not saved are at enmity
with God.
That's what the Bible says.
Now, of course, God loves them in spite of that
side. God wants them to be saved.
God has sent us as ambassadors
to go reach out to the enemies
and bring them to Christ.
You know, it'd be like
if the United States had
a hostile relationship with a certain other country.
Right?
You know, I mean, who's a country
that we have a bad relationship with?
North Korea.
So it'd be like, we have a bad
relationship with North Korea.
There are enemies, right? But then let's say
there's an ambassador over there
basically saying,
hey, what can we do
to fix things or something?
You know what I mean?
And here's the thing, like our wrath
is abiding on North Korea.
Right?
Maybe that's a bad example because I don't know
if we want to be their friend or not.
They're like a reprobate.
Maybe somebody who there's more of a chance
of fixing things with.
You know?
So we send over our ambassador
to try to basically find a way
to fix things
or come to some kind of agreement
or get along with one another.
And so here's the thing, unsaved people
are at enmity
with God the Father.
Right?
And God the Father's wrath is on them
and Jesus Christ
is basically the one
who can bridge that gap.
Right?
Between God and man.
And then we are the ambassadors
of Jesus Christ.
So we're going around and telling people, hey,
Jesus Christ can fix things
between you and God.
Right? And then the Bible says in Romans
chapter 5, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Right?
By faith, by grace,
by believing in him,
we have peace with God.
We are reconciled to God
in the place of Christ, instead of Christ.
Be reconciled to God.
Jesus wants to bring about
reconciliation between God and man
and we are Jesus ambassadors
to spread that message.
And so here these ambassadors
are sent
to the Northern Kingdom
with a message from Hezekiah
saying, hey, get right with God.
Let's get you right with God.
Let's get you back worshiping the true God
instead of worshiping idols
instead of worshiping the devil.
Right?
And He says, why?
So that the fierceness of His wrath
may turn away from you.
And so what people need to understand is that
yes, God loves the lost.
Right?
But here's the thing, you could love someone
and still be at enmity with that person.
You could love someone
and have no relationship with that person.
Look at David. David loved Absalom.
But he had no relationship
with God.
And he said, hey, man,
we really love Cuba or something.
But it's like, we need to fix things though.
Right now we're enemies.
What does the Bible say?
Love your enemies.
So God can still be
at enmity with man
and still love unsaved people at the same time.
It's like, hey, I love you.
I want to save you.
I want you to go to heaven.
But right now your sin
right? But if you will put your faith
and trust in Jesus Christ,
you'll be forgiven.
That'll fix things. That's how this can be fixed.
The only way to fix it
is to believe in Jesus.
And until then
my wrath is on you.
And how does that look?
A person dying in that condition?
Well, that's going to hell
to be burned and tormented
and suffer in hell.
That's the place
of God's wrath and punishment.
And so again, our message
as we go out and evangelize
is
avoid the wrath of God by believing in Jesus.
Believe in Jesus so you don't go to hell.
This is a biblical
message to preach. And we see it right here
even in the Old Testament,
even in 2 Chronicles 30, we can already see that
being foreshadowed, that message
that we preach in the New Testament.
And look, obviously
in the book of Acts
we can see preaching like this.
Preaching about how
God's wrath
is on the unsaved and so forth.
So let's get back into the text here.
It says in verse 9
for if you turn again unto the Lord
your brethren and your children shall find compassion
before them that lead them captive
so that they shall come again into this land
for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful
and will not turn away his face from you
if you return unto him.
So the post passed from the city to city
in the history of Ephraim and Manasseh
even unto Zebulun.
But they laugh them to scorn
and mock them. And look, this is often going to happen
when you go out and preach the gospel
there are going to be people who make fun of you.
And I remember this is something that I was
scared of as a kid and as a teenager.
I was afraid of bringing up
the gospel and being made fun of.
Hopefully if you're an adult though
you should grow out of that.
That mentality of like, oh I'm scared
of what people are thinking, oh I'm scared
of what's going to be left that are made fun of.
You know, that's juvenile.
Grow out of that.
And you know, brothers say Gora
preached two awesome sermons during
the missions conference and one of the things
that he touched on was that sometimes
you know what we call fear
of embarrassment
what is it really? It's really kind
of pride, right?
Because it takes a little bit of humility
to put yourself out there.
And so it's like, oh I'm afraid
to go talk to that person, I'm shy
I'm embarrassed, but some I'm shy
and embarrassed can be a little bit of a code word
for just I'm prideful.
I want people to think I'm great
I'm not willing to humble myself
put myself out there maybe make myself
look a little stupid
well guess what? The Bible says
that the preaching of the cross
is to them that perish
foolishness. So yeah
to the unsaved people out there
to the unregenerate the gospel is stupid
to them. And so you preach the gospel
you're going to look stupid to them
because what you're preaching is foolishness
to the unsaved. But us
which are saved is the power of God
and so it's going to take
humility
to put yourself out there
and risk quote-unquote looking a little
dumb or looking a little stupid
you know. Now look we shouldn't look
dumb or stupid because we are dumb or stupid
like we shouldn't act dumb and stupid
act weird because I've seen some people
evangelizing in really weird ways
and they were kind of just
it wasn't the gospel that was making them look foolish
to the world. It was
more just they were being weird they were making
it weird. You know some of these kind of people
with the bull horns and the sandwich boards
and stuff sometimes they just kind of make it weird
and it's not
the gospel that's making it weird it's them
that's making it weird you know. We don't want
people to be offended
or think we're dumb because
we're being like a weirdo
and act and weird
but here's the thing if we walk up
like a normal person and preach to someone
you know even just the message
itself even just the act of preaching
the gospel to some people is going to be foolishness
that's what the Bible predicted
and so you got to get over that
you got to get over this thing of oh I'm afraid
people are going to make fun of me or laugh at me.
I remember one time and I wasn't even
I wasn't even evangelizing like I should have
but I remember one time when I was in
sixth grade I was 11 years old
and I wasn't even a soul winner
I didn't even know how to give the gospel
I was a poor witness for Christ
you know but I was only 11
and I remember just being 11
and kids finding out
that next year I'm not going to be
at junior high with them
next year I'm going to a Christian school
so then they started making fun of me
just for being a Christian
and going to a Christian school and they were calling me
Christian brother
which I mean you know I've been caught a lot worse
I mean
now I would love to be called Christian
brother now
but then you know when you're a kid
you know kids will just they'll pick anything
to make fun of you and so I just remember
literally kids standing around
me in a circle it was like it was like the
cliche like they're literally around me in a
circle you know Christian
brother Christian
brother Christian brother
over we are Christian brother
over here just mocking me
and you know when you're a kid
that really bothers you
I mean now I would just be kind of like
you know I'd be like
louder louder
say it louder
yeah Christian brother
yeah you know but when you're a kid
you know it's like it's humiliating
you're embarrassed like everybody's
making fun of you and laughing at you
and pointing at you and hey
Christian brother you know I don't know
for some reason whenever I was going up I just
given a lot of nicknames
you know and most of them were derogatory
some of them were not derogatory but
I don't know people always gave me nicknames
even if they were positive nicknames
you know
thankfully I don't think people give me nicknames
now they just call me a lot of
bad names but
I don't think
I really have a nickname that is really caught
on thankfully what
PSA I mean that's
that's just my initials man
I kind of like that you know it stands for
public service announcement or
they're both laying down facts for you
you know
yeah when I was in sixth grade
my nickname before that was
Casper everyone would call me Casper
because I was so white
I was in a class with a lot of brown kids
so I was
and I was like why do you guys call me
Casper like I said
there's other white kids like I'm like
I'm not the only white kid here
but they're like yeah
but you're the only white kid that we hang out with
and so you're Casper
like the friendly ghost
because you're like
you're the white kid that we relate to
hey I've always been down with the brothers
you know what I'm saying
even all the way back to sixth grade
to come all things to all men
when I worked at round table pizza I had
a weirder nickname I was called Guile
because I looked like the guy in Street Fighter 2
because I had this kind of like
blonde punked out here
and so the first day I walked in this guy's like
it's Guile and then I just
it was literally on the schedule that way
for years like I'm saying
for years like the schedule people
some people didn't even know my name
it was just on the schedule it was just Guile
it's pretty weird man
but I mean hey Street Fighter 2
was a great game what can I say
I can't complain
but the thing is you know
people are going to make fun of you
when you preach the gospel people are going to make fun of you
when you go to someone
look if you go to someone long enough
you will get made fun of
right anybody who's gone to someone
for any late time has been made fun of
they've had somebody yell at them
they've had somebody call them names
they've had somebody just you know
scoff at them and whatever and so yeah
when they get there and they go to evangelize
they have them to scorn it says at the end of verse 10
and mocked them
they mocked them
nevertheless
divers, divers means you know
various that would be
the word we would probably be more likely to use
you know various people
of Asher and Manasseh
and of Zabuelan humbled themselves
and came to Jerusalem
because guess what it takes more than anything else
to get saved is humility
right but the biggest enemy of getting saved
is pride
oh I can get to heaven on my own
I'm good enough to go to heaven
I'm going to keep the commandments
I'm going to repent of all my sins
I am going to serve Christ
and I'm going to give my life to Jesus
and do all this stuff for him
instead of just trusting what he already did
the finished work of Christ
on the cross
his death, his burial, his resurrection
as my only way to heaven that's humble
because you're basically saying hey I'm a sinner
it's all Jesus
it's me not at all
it's all Jesus
so here's the thing
some people are going to make fun of you
but other people are going to get saved
seriously if I go out
it sounds like most people made fun of them
and it was a minority that got saved
that came down
because remember obviously I understand
that coming down is not the same as getting saved
but remember this is symbolic
coming down and doing the Passover
is symbolic of believing
on the Lord Jesus Christ and being saved
I'm reading this passage
as an allegory
obviously we know that these events really happen
they're little events but they're also allegorical as well
so the Bible is always symbolizing
things that can help us today
you know it's funny I open the mailbox
just a few days ago I opened the mailbox
and I had two things in the mailbox
I had a card from somebody
thanking me for getting them saved
and saying like hey
you got me saved
listening to yourself thank you
and then I also had another envelope
with excrement in it
and here's the thing about that is that
I'd rather get both than neither
amen
because you know what yeah nobody likes getting
feces in the mail but here's the thing
I'd rather get feces in the mail
and a note from somebody saying that they got saved
than to be a do nothing
be nothing
who gets neither the letter in the mail
from someone who got saved
nor the human waste
or whatever animal
waste hopefully it was an animal
who knows
but do you see what I'm saying
do you think I'm just like oh man
I think I should just stop
as long as I can keep getting both
then I'm good to go
I've had people send me a Christmas present
I had to go down to the post office
and sign for it and I'm thinking
like oh you know I wonder what my present is
I opened it up it was all charcoal
you know because it was like
you get a lump of coal for your AIDS free
Christmas or whatever well you know but I'd
rather have an AIDS free Christmas and a lump
of coal than to be filled
with AIDS
and get you know a I don't know
a box of seized candy or something that
I like you see what I'm saying the point
is you know
that obviously
there are going to be people who reject
the message the majority are going to reject the
message and many will even laugh and mock
who cares
all that matters is the people that you get saved
you go to
100 people and preach the gospel
or attempt to preach the gospel
and 99 of them
just don't even want to hear
don't even give you the time of day and then
you get the 100th person saved was it worth it
or would you be like well I
don't know if this is worth it
because I had to waste time with 99
people to get to the one
of course it's worth it right
because just getting one person saved is a big deal
right getting one person saved
is huge and you know we never want to
get to a point obviously we get a lot of people
saved around here we don't ever want to get to a point
where we get so many people saved where we're just like
whatever oh oh
two salvation is that all
two salvation you know
because sometimes I've seen people act like oh man
only seven people got saved at that event or something
it's like what
that's seven people got saved
so we don't we don't ever want to
stop thinking about the fact
that every single person
that gets saved is a big deal
I mean to that person it's a huge deal
to their loved ones it's a huge deal
and so
yeah people are going to make fun but
some people divers
verse 11 of
Asher, Manasseh, and Zabuel and humble themselves
and came to Jerusalem hey
it sounds to me like Hezekiah
he did a good thing
mission accomplished
he had a successful mission strip
and so it says in verse
12 also in Judah
the hand of God was to give them
one heart
to do the commandment of the king and of the
princes by the word of the Lord
notice how God is blessing
the church back in Judah
by giving them unity
right God's spirit
comes in and helps them achieve unity
and God gives them one heart
you see the church that's doing the
work of the Lord the church that's out
evangelizing and
soul winning in their local area
soul winning abroad doing the mission strips
whatever
that church is going to be blessed by God
and one of the ways that God blesses
is by giving unity
and it's like well what good is it
going to do our church to win people to
Lord thousands of miles away in the Caribbean
well God's going to bless us back home for doing that
and if we go to the Navajo
reservation four or five hours away
are those people going to join our church
no probably not although
a lot of them it is their dream to get to Phoenix
maybe someday they'll come but the point is though
most of them are probably
never going to darken the door of our church
but God's going to bless our church
and God has
blessed our church for 19
years that we've been in
existence this month it's 19
years for us and God
has blessed and God
has given us not only a church
that's effective but also
a church it's just a great group of people
where we enjoy coming to church
and there's a lot of cool people to talk to
there's a great spirit there's a great atmosphere
there's great unity
God has blessed our church because of what we did
over there God's blessing the kingdom
of Judah
by giving them unity
because they went and tried to evangelize
the neighbors
and if you think about it
David also in the Psalms talks about
how God is the one
who subdues the people under him
because God because David is the king
and a lot of kings get rebelled
against and even at times
David gets rebelled against right
we have multiple rebellions
we've got Absalom
we've got Adonijah
we've got Sheba the son of Bikrai
you've got multiple rebellions and at the
beginning of his reign he's dealing with people like
Bosheth and other
pretenders to the throne
and so forth and so
here's the thing about that is that
you know
God subdued the people
under David meaning gave him
the position of authority
that he had where he's able to like rule
effectively and
lead a righteous nation and
have them serve God
Hezekiah
Hezekiah is a godly king
but he's not immune
from uprisings
and rebellion
and strife and civil war
that we've seen throughout the history of
lots of countries including
Israel and Judah
and so God blesses Hezekiah
because Hezekiah is like
day one let's open the house of the Lord
we're going to serve God
we're going to get the Levites going
we're going to get the priests going
we're going to do the animal sacrifices
we're going to evangelize
the neighboring nation
then God blesses him
by securing
his position
where he gives them one heart
to do the commandment look at verse 12
to do the commandment of the king
and of the princes
by the word of the Lord
so basically people are following
Hezekiah's leadership
and his lieutenants
and his princes and other people that are under him
they're following those leaders
why? because God is blessing
with unity
and with a spirit that wants to
follow this godly leader
King Hezekiah
and what else does the king want?
he wants to basically be able to
do his job
he doesn't want to be dealing with
a bunch of refractory, rebellious types
he wants to have people
following his lead
so that he can do what? great works for God
so that he can establish
the truth and the house of God
and even evangelize neighboring areas
so that's the blessing
that happens he gives them one heart
unity and look
this phrase one heart
we see this a lot later
in books like acts
or Philippians
this idea of one heart
one mind, one accord
and what does that mean?
Paul says in Philippians
over and over again
for them to mind the same thing
to walk by the same rule
to think the same way
it's an idea
that people have the same beliefs
the same mission
we're on the same page
obviously we're not saying a bunch of clones
or robots
but you know what people always accuse
people of oh you guys are a bunch of clones
you're a bunch of robots or whatever
they're just trying to incite rebellion
they're just trying to do
like they'll say to my pastor friends
like oh you're just like pastor Anderson
huh you're just a clone of pastor Anderson
because they want that guy's pride to kick in
like no I'm not I'm my own man
I can do it on my own
and then they'll just start being different
for the sake of being different
let me tell you something
it's always bad to be different for the sake of being different
and you know what
when I started faith forward Baptist church
I did not want to be different
I was just trying to be another independent Baptist
I ended up being different
by accident
but I wasn't like oh I gotta show that I'm different
or you know I'm gonna be the new IFB
I'm not gonna be the old IFB
I'm gonna be the new IFB
that was never the intention
that was never the plan
that's just something that just kind of happened
I didn't expect that though
I never saw that coming in a million years
okay because
I'm not the kind of guy who just sets out
to be different for the sake of being different
that's a stupid juvenile mentality
hey
let's all make our hair green and purple
so we can be different
let's find a new part of our body
to pierce that nobody's ever thought of yet
right
let's just pierce you know something that nobody's ever
you know I it's probably all been thought of
but it's just well you know we gotta be different
we gotta stand out and this idea of like
well I have to I have to show that I'm different
from my parents
you know I gotta show that I'm different from the pastor
we gotta show that we're different from Faithful Word
you know we gotta be different
look here's the thing
if Faithful Word is doing something wrong
then be different in that area
but if it ain't broke don't fix it
and don't just feel like oh I gotta
just show that I'm different
that's a prideful arrogant mentality
okay
you don't want to have that attitude
of just variance
of just well I just have to be variant
just so that I can
show that I'm original or something
and by the way all the stuff that I'm
supposedly different on or original on
none of it's original with me
you know here's I have a confession to make
all of my doctrines existed
before I was born
and so I'm not original
with anything and you know people accuse people
of copying me well sorry
I copied a lot of other preachers too
I copied a bunch of stuff from Brother Hiles
I copied a bunch of stuff from Pastor Nichols
I copied all I copy
look to this day if I hear
a good sermon somewhere I'm a copy it
and I don't you know
I don't believe in intellectual property
I'll I will
and you know what people will constantly
people will literally contact me and ask me for permission
to use my material in their sermons and I always say
yes you may use it and you never have to
ask me again anything that I preach behind
this pulpit is public domain
do whatever you want with it
you know because I
because I didn't even come up with it anyway
you know I borrowed it from someone else
you're borrowing it from me
at the end of the day all I care about is the truth
getting preached I don't need to get credit for it
you don't have to cite me as your source
just get up and just take my
material steal it from me wholesale
preach entire sermons verbatim
and pass it off
as your own work
I'd love it
because I just want the gospel to be preached
I just want the Word of God to be preached who cares
it's not about taking credit
and so here's the thing
about that is that you know
following the leader is a good thing
right fall being on board
have being of one accord to one mind
doesn't make you a zombie or a robot
to basically just follow
the leadership you know I guess I was a
zombie and a robot before I started
pastoring a church because every church I went to
I was just like on board with the program
and I didn't cause trouble and I didn't fight
the leadership I just followed the program
for the first 24 years
of my life I just followed the program
I just jumped on board
and participated in the program
does that make me a robot
does that make me a clone or something
you know what hey who cares
that's all prideful talk
gotta be different
gotta break the mold
gotta be special
everybody wants to be special now
everybody's like oh
you know they like people who don't
have disabilities then they'll make one up
just to be different
they'll just like pretend
that they have all these because they want to be
divergent
you know so they're like oh I'm
neurologically divergent yeah join the club
we're all neurologically damaged here
like
I'm pretty sure that every person I've ever met
in my life had some neurological damage
myself included everybody's got
some weird quirks
and you're like no it's just you man
you know I'm sure if you asked
my wife she could tell you that I've got some
weird quirks
some neurological damage man
I guess that makes me mentally
ill or something
but here's the end look I know that there are
obviously people
who have real disabilities
and real problems I'm not down on that
but you know what people with all the fake
disabilities they're actually the ones being
jerks to the people with the real disabilities
because then it's like the boy who cried wolf
nobody even takes
anything seriously because so many people
are faking it
and by the way these
these statistics that are just like through the roof
for how many Americans
are you know
bisexual
or questioning or you know
g l g b t whatever
right
g whatever
all that stuff
a lot of those statistics are
inflated by just teenagers
and young people just claiming to be
they're not even reprobates
they're literally just pretending
to be a reprobate because it's like cool
to be
it's cool to be
you know
I don't even want to say these words
because they're so weird
I'm a pan gender
fluid you know
bi, tri, quadri
whatever
it's like you know what
that's why when I'm soul winning and I run into some teenager
that claims to be bi or something
you know
I'll usually give them the benefit of that and try to talk to them and everything
and a lot of times you find out
that it's just a little trendy thing that they're just saying
that you know they're not really even
a reprobate they're not even really a
sodomite
but people are just putting all these weird ideas
and then we just have this
mentality now
everybody wants to be a victim
everybody wants to have like a handicap
everybody's disabled
everybody's on the spectrum
everybody's divergent
everybody's a pervert
and it's just like yeah we're different
yeah
what if I told you there's nothing wrong
with just being a normal person
and in fact you're not going to believe this
that's like the most radical form of rebellion
in 2024
is to be normal right now
like if you want to be like a punk rocker
you basically
just like or like a clean cut
Christian
normal like just straight
person that's like you're like
that's like faithful word Baptist church
is like the punk rock
of Baptist churches literally
I'm not kidding
I'm dead serious right now
we're literally like the punk rock like we get
on us
it's totally true
we are
I mean think about it like one of the most
wicked, ungodly
just filthy
music groups
in the world whose goal is just
to be as offensive as they possibly can
right
the insane clown posse
ICP
literally probably like the worst thing
you could possibly be listening to
I'm not going to ask who is listening to this crap
because at first I thought like
I was like I wonder if like only reprobates even listen to this
it's so bad but then I met just so many
saved Christians are like yeah you still listen to it
I was like okay okay alright
alrighty then
so apparently it's a thing that people listen to
but I mean we're talking about a group that just
they're literally just trying to be as offensive
as they possibly can
and then a few years ago
on the final track of their album
they just include like a three
and a half minute clip of me preaching
as like the coup de grace
of just this
album that's just trying to just shock
and it's like they just it's like
they've run out of cuss words the cuss words
like nobody cares people here the cuss words
is like meh I already saw
a movie with you know 300 f words in it
or whatever it's just like meh
so they've already just said all the wild
things all the you know they've just offended
everyone the worst possible way and then they're like
now we're going to pull out the big gun
of just the most
radical offensive thing we possibly can
right?
Pastor Anderson preaching for three minutes
and it's like it's just like
you know people I mean
yeah it's bad
you know what I'm saying though
so quit trying to
quit trying to be a punk
and be normal
first of all be normal because it's the
right thing to do number one
but number two being a zealous sold out Christian
you're different enough
oh I'm just going to blend in with everybody
first of all there's nothing wrong with blending in
you prideful arrogant juvenile
but
secondly
you're not going to blend in if you're a zealous
Christian
you'll stand out in a good way
but you don't have to prove I got to prove I'm different than my parents
I got to prove I'm different than Pastor Anderson
I got to prove I'm different than this pastor over here
I got to prove that I'm different you know
no you don't just be
a normal person for crying out loud
live a normal life
and I'm trying to live a normal life
I promise
I mean that
and they're assembled
I'll wrap up I'm pretty much out of time
verse 13 they're assembled at Jerusalem
much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread
in the second month
a very great congregation
took away the altars that were in Jerusalem
and the altars for instance
took their way and cast them into the brook
chydron so these are the altars to false gods
right
because guess what
in order to receive Christ as
savior you have to stop believing
in these other gods
you cannot add Jesus Christ to
an existing religion
and then so it's like they
got rid of these bad altars
then they killed the Passover verse 15
on the 14th day of the second
month right so basically
if you're a Hindu you have to stop being a Hindu
before you can receive Jesus Christ as savior
you have to say okay it's not
going to be these Hindu gods
it's going to be Jesus
you can't say well I'm
still going to believe in
the traditional Native American religions
and I'm still going to pray to a great grandfather
and pray to my
ancestors and all these things
and then I'm just going to add Jesus to that
why because you have
to put all of your faith in Jesus
okay and this is the
kind of repentance for salvation that's actually
biblical here's what's not
biblical oh repent of your sins to be
saved well then nobody saved
because nobody has repented of their sins
everybody is still sin and last time I
checked okay but
if somebody is
Buddhist they can't be like well I'm a
born again Buddhist
I'm a Buddhist who believes in Jesus
like well wait a minute they're not compatible
if you're a Buddhist
you're not trusting Jesus as your savior
you believe something totally different
if you say well
I'm a Roman Catholic but I'm a born
again Roman Catholic really because last time I
checked a Roman Catholic by definition
is believing a different
salvation and whenever
I've talked to somebody who went to a Roman Catholic
church that gave me all the right answers
on salvation you know when I tell that person
then you're not Catholic
you might you might you know
have attended a Roman Catholic church once
a year or twice a year
or some relative drag you there but I said
that that that ick on
the end of Catholic means somebody who believes
in
right
Catholicism the ism there
is a belief in
Catholicism is a belief in
what the Roman Catholic sees that's why I would say
no Roman Catholic is saved
because if you're saved you're not a Roman Catholic
if you're going to sit there and tell me
that salvation is by faith in Christ alone
not of work
even if you attend that church
you are not a Catholic
a Roman Catholic believes
that you have to do the sacraments
to be saved you got to go to
confession you got to do the
mass you got to go through all this
stuff to be saved and and and here's the thing
in
2024 virtually everyone
who's attending a Roman Catholic church is not saved
because the saved people
wouldn't be going there
some people you'll you'll run into
it rarely where somebody just goes
there for their wife or for their parents
or or they just go there once a year and they just
don't even listen and they don't even they don't even
know or care or whatever they're just confused
or something but in general my friend
when I'm
giving the gospel to Catholic I tell them
this is what the Catholic church teaches
and here's what I'm showing you from the Bible
which one do you believe
and I make them actually make a choice
and and you know
usually when I get to that point
and I put the choice they say well I believe what the Bible says
and then I'm okay now
you're ready to get saved whereas if they
go well no I'm still Catholic
no I'm gonna go and I'm like all right well
God bless you see you later
so you know you got to get
rid of the false gods you got to turn
from
God from idols
simply because
if you're trusting in another God
you don't have all your faith in Jesus
you got to have all your faith in Jesus it can't be
well you know I'm doing Buddhism and Jesus
one of them's gonna pan out
something's gotta pan out you know it's like
I'm either going to heaven or I'm getting
reincarnated in a better situation so
either way I win
wrong you can't just
hedge your bets like that
you can't just say well I'm doing Islam
Christianity I'm a prey to Mecca
five times a day and I'm going to receive
Christ as savior you need
to reject the Prophet Muhammad
because
Muhammad clearly taught that God has no son
and guess what
you got to believe Jesus is the son of God to be saved
which means zero
count them zero Muslims
are going to heaven
because they believe that Jesus
is not the son of God and the one
thing you have to do to go to heaven you got to
believe that Jesus is the son of God and they're not
doing it they're not going
it's that simple
Father we thank you so much for your word
we thank you so much for King Hezekiah Lord
help us to follow his godly example
of not only evangelizing our own area
but also evangelizing
other areas as we have opportunity
to do so Lord God
I pray that you would bless our church as we
go out and evangelize
far flung foreign fields
Lord I pray that you would actually bless us
with unity and bless our church
here at home and Lord God
help us to preach that message
of salvation from the wrath to come
by
simple faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ it's in his name we pray amen
amen alright ladies and gentlemen take your hymnals
please go to hymn 425
hymn number 425
no room in the end
hymn number 425
let's sing it together
hymn number 425
let's sing it together now
no beautiful chamber
no soft cradle head
no
no grace but a manger
no
no prayer for his head
no
no praises of
no water
no
no praises of
no water
let's sing
no pouring
by sadness
no
room in the end
no room
no room for
Jesus
for him as well
was free
by scripture
here at the
in today
there is
no room for
him
no sleep
consecration
no sleeping
his heart
no
humiliation
no
place in the heart
no part
of the sacred
no
no sorrow for sin
no
prayer for his
manger
no room
in the end
no room
no room for Jesus
for him
as well
free
by scripture
here at
the end
there is
no room for him
no
water
in the end
no
no water
in the end
no water
in the end
no staff
but a spear
no sleeping
his treasure
no sleeping
for sin
no
building his pleasure
no room
in the end
no room
no room for
Jesus
for him
as well
free
by scripture
as well
and sin
there is
no room
for him
thank you guys for tonight we are left
you