is able to deliver thee.
Test the grandest thing in the earth or made.
Test the grandest thing for a mortal straight.
Test the grandest thing till the world again.
Our God is able to deliver thee.
He is able to deliver thee.
Oh, my sin oppressed, go to him, for rest our God is able to deliver thee.
Tis the grand esteem, let the tidings roll to the guilty heart, to the sinful soul.
Look to God in faith, they will make thee whole, our God is able to deliver thee.
to deliver thee. Go by sin, oppress, call to him, for rest our God is able to deliver thee.
Amen. Good start to our singing this morning. We want to go before Lauren as his blessing
on the service, so I've asked for the Fidel Gonzalez if he would listen to her please.
Father in heaven, we thank you for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We thank you Lord for all the souls that were won in the last missions trip, Lord.
We ask you to bless Pastor Anderson feeling with your Holy Spirit Lord and please bless our voices as we lift them up to you in praise
It's in Jesus name you prayed. Amen
Man back to 258 him number 258
Christ receive a sinful man him number 258
Begin sinners Jesus will receive him number 258 sing it out together now
Sinners Jesus will receive
South West World
Christ receive, a sinful man, even me with all my sin, heard from every spot and saved, and with him I enter in, sing it all and all again, Christ receive.
This time we'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin,
slip up your hand nice and high
and we'll get to you with one on the inside.
We have our service times.
Sunday mornings at 10 30 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at six.
Wednesday nights at seven is our Bible study.
This week we will be in Psalm 76.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below
as well as salvations and baptisms.
Cross the page, remember that next Sunday we'll have the donuts and coffee before the service in honor of all the birthdays and anniversaries in the month of April.
Below that, you're invited to the first Friday downtown soulening event.
Join us Friday April 4th at
at 6 p.m. at Burton Bar Phoenix Library,
meet at 1221 North Central Avenue,
and you can contact for the Steve Tilson
for more details, and Steve Tilson's phone number
is right there.
Also, we just had a bunch of our people come back
from the mission strip in the Bahamas.
It was a big success.
We had 27 people out there
with a total of 272 salvations.
So praise God for that, it was a big success.
Also, they brought home this flag and I think this just represents just a small fraction
of the soul winning that they did, but the group with my wife and the Madison's,
they were having people sign the flag when they got saved.
So that's a pretty cool decoration commemorating people that got saved on the trip.
And so, good job to everybody.
Thank you for everyone who prayed
and all of the hard work of our soul winners out there
in the Bahamas, because it's definitely a fun trip.
It's definitely beautiful, it's definitely entertaining,
but at the same time, it is hard work, of course,
going out there and preaching the gospel
over and over and over again
and out there in the highways and hedges.
And so, we appreciate everybody's hard work
on that, very well done.
On the back, we've got the note about the Mother Daughter Tea Party.
There are two opportunities to partake in this.
So if you haven't already, please RSVP and sign up for one of these dates
and be sure to put exactly who's going.
And remember, take the RSVP seriously because even though the event's free,
all of our activities are always free, but obviously it costs us money.
So therefore, you know, want to make sure that if you sign up that you actually show up when the time comes.
And so please RSVP based on the instructions there.
Other announcements, we've got the baby shower
coming up for Shannon Betty.
That is one week from today at two o'clock right here.
And there will be some refreshments provided,
but we're asking also that you bring a dish to share.
And then not this coming Wednesday,
but the next Wednesday, April the 9th,
we've got Pastor Bruce Mejia coming.
from First Works Baptist Church.
So even if you don't normally come on Wednesday nights,
mark the calendar for April 9th.
You're not gonna wanna hear missing,
you're not gonna wanna miss hearing, okay?
We don't wanna hear about you missing,
but we don't want you to miss hearing
Pastor Mejia preach on that day.
And that is, and then we've also got Pastor Dylan Oz
coming and preaching on Sunday, May 25th.
And Pastor Dylan Oz,
Those of you who may or may not know him,
he did preach at our missions conference last year.
He's the guy with the blonde curly hair,
but he is preaching now in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
He's the pastor of Anchor Baptist Church
there in Oklahoma City, and he's a great preacher.
And so that'll also be a treat to get to hear him
on May the 25th.
That is about it for announcements.
Let's sing our next song, come lead us.
All right, you should find the answer
hand and you'll receive one we'll sing it on that first together if you know
this song sing it out nice and strong to help those around you and learn this
together farther along tempted and tribe rough made the wonder sing it out
now tempted and tried we're off me to wander why it should be all the day
living about us never molested though in the wrong
Understanding all I am by
Before we continue singing, how many of you do know this song?
Okay, great. A bunch of people.
So let's go back and do that first, first, because not enough know this song.
So let's go back and sing that for a second and try.
Tempted and tried with rock made to wander
Why it should be
Amen. Great singing everybody. Let's turn your song books down to hymn number 81 hymn number 81
When we see Christ hymn number 81
We'll sing this out together on that first off times the day seems long
Our trial is hard to bear hymn number 81. Let's sing this out nice and strong together on that first now
I
Our Bible is to Galatians chapter five.
Galatians chapter number five, as we always do,
we'll read the entire chapter beginning of verse number one.
Follow along silently with Brother Dan as he reads,
Galatians five, beginning of verse number one.
Galatians five, the Bible reads,
Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free
and be not entangled again with the Yoke of bondage.
Behold, I, Paul, say unto you that if ye be circumcised,
Christ shall profit you nothing.
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Christ has become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law.
Ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which
worketh by love. He did run well. Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
I have confidence in you through the Lord that ye will be none otherwise minded,
but he that troubleeth you shall bear his judgment whosoever he be.
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution?
then is the offense of the cross ceased, I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
For brethren ye have been called unto liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh,
but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this,
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another,
This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
And these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envies, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like, of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
long-sufferingness, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such
there is no law, and they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the afflictions and lusts.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
Thank you, Father, for the opportunity to hear your holy,
your hallowed, and your sacred word.
As you feel, Pastor Anderson, with your holy spirit,
that he may preach your word boldly.
In Jesus' name, I pray this, amen.
Amen, this morning, we're gonna continue talking
about the fruit of the spirit.
We've been going through these one by one,
beginning verse number 22, the Bible reads,
but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, gentleness,
and today we're going to talk about goodness.
followed by faith, meekness, temperance,
against such there is no law.
Now, goodness at first could seem like
kind of a difficult subject to tackle
because it's kind of a big subject
because it's a little bit broad, isn't it?
Goodness in general.
But I think that the idea here is that the Holy Spirit
and being filled with the Holy Spirit
and walking in the Spirit is going to make you a good person.
It's going to make you a better person.
Back up if you would to verse number 16.
The Bible says this I say then walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh,
and these are contrary, the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
So there's this battle that's going on where it's the flesh versus the Spirit.
Those of us that are saved, we still are the same person from before we got saved.
That's the flesh, right? The old man, the old Steven Anderson from before I got saved.
He didn't disappear when I got saved. He's still there, he's still the same.
And this is what a lot of people fail to understand. They say,
oh man, when you get saved, you're transformed, you're changed, you're a totally different person.
But here's what they're missing though. Yes, when you get saved,
you're a brand new creature in Christ and God creates this new man.
But what they're failing off and understand is that the old man is still there
and that the old man is exactly the same as he was before you were saved.
Because the old man cannot be changed, he can't be reformed,
the carnal mind is enmity against God and it cannot be brought into subjection of the laws of God.
And so therefore, it's kind of a little bit misleading sometimes.
If you say, oh, if you could say, if you're just going to totally change, it's like, well, not really.
You're going to have a brand new creature that's brought in and then the old man stays exactly the same.
The only time you're going to see a change is when we put on the new man.
The only time you're going to see a change is when you're walking in the Spirit.
Because if you're walking in the flesh, you will continue to act the way you did before you got saved.
And so people will sometimes say,
well, if someone is living the same way after they got saved,
as they were living before they got saved,
well then they must not have really gotten saved.
That is incorrect.
All that means is that they're not walking in the Spirit.
It means they're walking in the flesh.
It means they're sowing to the old man instead of the new man.
And so, you know, I wish people would understand this.
It's something that Paul, excuse me, hammers again and again
in his epistles.
It's such an important truth.
But it says here that if you walk in the Spirit,
you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
And if you look at that list that we just read a moment ago
of the works of the flesh, these are the type of things
where if they characterize someone,
you would say that's a bad person.
Whereas people whose lives are characterized by love, joy, peace, long-suffering gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,
you would say that is a good person.
And so you could really summarize this by saying, walking in the Spirit makes you a good person.
Not walking in the Spirit, you're going to be a bad person, okay?
Now, one thing I really want to point out though in verse 17 is that it says,
Look at this last phrase, so that you cannot do the things that you would.
Now, would in this context means want to, okay?
And so it's saying, you don't end up doing the things that you want to,
because the flesh is warring against the spirit.
So, flip over if you were to Romans chapter 7.
This is one of the most famous passages in the New Testament.
It's so important of a passage and it's such a relatable passage to us as Christians
because we're all dealing with this struggle between the flesh and the spirit continually.
But notice that Paul said in Galatians 5.17 so that you cannot do the things that you would.
The idea here is that...
People who are saved, deep down, they want to do what's right.
They want to do what's good.
Because at the core of their being, they are a good person
because the new creature is a good person.
And the only reason that Christians end up acting like bad people
or doing bad things is because they're not walking in the spirit,
they're walking in the flesh.
Now look what the Bible says in verse 14 of Romans 7 it says for we know that the law is spiritual
But I'm carnal sold under sin. You'll also hear people say oh, there's no such thing as a carnal Christian
Well, apparently the apostle Paul doesn't exist
Because the apostle Paul just said I'm carnal
So yeah, if the Apostle Paul's carnal, let me tell you something, all of us are going to be carnal at times
if the Apostle Paul is carnal. And what does carnal mean? Well, if you know what chile con carne is, right?
What's carne in Spanish?
Meat, right? So carne is meat. So carnal means you're fleshly as opposed to being spiritual.
It's just the opposite of being spiritual. So the law is spiritual, but I'm carnal.
You know, I'm a fleshly person.
I'm dealing with the flesh every day.
I'm trying to walk in the Spirit, but there's a battle
between the flesh and the Spirit going on every single day,
which prevents me sometimes from doing the things that I want to do,
the good that I want to do, okay?
Look what the Bible says in verse number 15.
And it's a little tough to understand sometimes,
but it's a beautiful passage.
For that which I do, I allow not.
for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I."
So the apostle Paul is saying, look, I end up doing stuff that I hate.
I end up being disgusted with myself.
I'm disgusted with my own behavior.
I want to do what's right, and I end up not doing the things that I would do,
the things that I want to do, and I end up doing stuff that I hate.
It says in verse 16,
to be the new man, the saved man, the regenerate man,
the inward man, the spiritual man.
That's the real him, the new man.
But then the old man, the flesh is getting in the way.
And he says, so when I'm sinning,
it's not really me that's doing it.
It's sin that's dwelling in me.
Okay, and then it says in verse number 18,
for I know that in me, that is in my flesh,
Dwelleth no good thing.
And again, what is the sermon about this morning?
The fruit of the Spirit is goodness.
And so the idea here is that in my flesh dwells no good thing.
So if I'm going to have goodness in my life,
if I'm going to be a good person,
if I'm going to live a good life,
it's going to have to be by walking in the Spirit
because in my flesh dwells no good thing.
For the will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good. I find not he's saying look the will is there
The desire is there to do what's right
But then I just can't figure out how to actually execute because the flesh keeps getting in the way
So the apostle Paul's expressing frustration here with trying to live a good Christian life and struggling because of the flesh
Now again these
teachings that I'm showing you here from Romans chapter 7,
they're found elsewhere throughout the Bible as well.
And I feel like these should be like really basic rudimentary
teachings that are just constantly being taught in churches all over America.
Because these are like foundational truths.
New man versus old man, you know walking in the spirit versus walking in the flesh
What's the change that takes place when you get sick? But unfortunately
Most churches and most preachers they're not talking about this or they're explaining it
Incorrectly and they're confusing people and they come up with all of these things that end up confusing people about what the gospel even is
Because they'll say things like this, well, you know, you got to be willing to stop sinning in order to get saved or something.
And they're like, they're like asking people if they're willing to give up sins in order to get saved.
It's foolishness. It's madness.
My friend, salvation is by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life.
What must I do to be saved?
And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
But what you have to understand is that when you get saved you are transformed in the sense
that God creates a brand new creature, a new Steven Anderson, a new, insert your name here.
But the old man is still there, the flesh is still there.
Now you have two natures that are at odds with one another,
and you've got to choose which way you're going to walk in the spirit,
you're going to walk in the new man, you're going to walk in the old man.
But here's what I'm constantly saying to people,
because I'll be out evangelizing and preaching the gospel,
trying to get people to see that salvation is by faith alone.
And here's what people will say, and we've all heard it.
Yeah, but if you're really saved, you're going to live right.
Because you're not gonna you're not gonna want to do those old things anymore
You're gonna live right because you're saved now so anybody who doesn't isn't saved
But here's what's misleading about that is that yes
It's true that the moment that we get saved
We're indwelled by the Holy Spirit and our nature is transformed into a new nature and now inwardly
Deep down we desire to do what's right. That's all true
But where people are missing the boat is that they think that this is automatically going to translate into actually doing the right thing and
Here's a key verse from the mouth of Jesus Christ himself that puts this thing to rest
What did Jesus say the spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak
So this is what people need to understand and I end up quoting that verse to people out soul winning all the time when they try
To argue well if you're really saved you're just gonna just want to do all the right things, okay?
Great, but that doesn't necessarily translate into actually doing all the right things
It's a big difference between wanting to do what's right and actually going on doing what's right
And by the way, this is not a prerequisite for getting saved. It's a result of getting saved
When you believe on Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit moves in now all of a sudden you have this new man as well
And he wants to do what's right?
That's a result. It's not like well you have to want to do what's right, and then you can get saved
No, no after you get saved now deep down you want to do what's right, but does that translate into doing what's right?
Unfortunately, no because what the Spirit is willing, but the flesh is
weak
So to sit there and say oh well someone's not living right that means they're not saved
The problem with saying that is that you're insinuating a works-based salvation
Say oh people aren't living right must not be saved that leads people to think that you have to live right to be saved and
That is not the case because salvation is not of works. That's any man should boast and I do not believe for one second in this idea
That salvation automatically transforms someone's life
Because if that were true, then God wouldn't have to tell us over and over again,
walk in the Spirit, put on the new man.
He wouldn't have to keep telling us to do what's right if it were automatic.
Okay, it's not automatic.
We're all going through this Roman 7 type struggle.
If Paul's going through it, I guarantee you you're going through it, I'm going through it.
So he says in verse 18,
I know that in me that is in my flesh wealth, no good thing.
For to will is present with me.
But how to perform that which is good I find not so sure yet if you're saved
The will is going to be present with you, but that doesn't mean that you're going to actually perform that which is good
And how about this how about we just look around and notice that 99% of Christians are doing almost nothing for God?
99% of Christians do zero evangelizing zero soul winning preach the gospel of the lost zero
Okay, is that a sin?
Yeah, it is a sin right because God commanded us to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature
So I don't yeah, oh great. You cleaned up your life. You quit drinking whatever great amen
But if you're not out preaching the gospel of the lost you're not right with God anyway
And then you're gonna sit there and say oh well save people everybody who saves gonna live right funny
I didn't see you out soul winning. So I guess you're not living right
Because the same people who teach this confusing stuff about salvation and try to add to the Gospel
Works are the same people who don't evangelize
So, you know, they got a big beam in their eye, don't they?
And so it says here how to perform that which is good
I find not for the good that I would I do not
But the evil, which I would not, that I do.
So the saved man, yeah, he wants to do what's right
as a result of being saved
now that he has been spiritually quickened,
now that he has the Holy Spirit living inside of him.
He wants to do what's right,
but sadly, most of the time he ends up
doing things that he doesn't want to do, right?
And then it says, you know,
the evil that I would not, that do I.
Verse 20, now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man,
but I see another law in my members,
members meaning body parts or flesh,
warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin,
which is in my members.
So look, anyone who is truly saved,
deep down in their heart,
wants to do what's right,
and delights in the law of God,
deep down.
Okay, but,
According to what we just read in Romans 7, does that always translate into performance?
Does that always translate into an external change?
No. Of course, there's a dramatic internal change when someone gets saved,
but in order for that to translate to an external change,
where we actually see them living a good life,
They're gonna have to walk in the Spirit. They're gonna have to put on the new man
And and you know I could preach a whole nother sermon
It is about how to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but we're talking reading your Bible
praying
Meditating upon the things of God
Acknowledging God singing praises to God preaching the gospel going to church listening to preaching
These things are all gonna contribute to you being filled with the Spirit
Right reading your Bible praying
listening to preaching, going to church, singing hymns, singing praises to God,
thinking about the Lord and meditating upon the things of God and the Word of God.
Right? If you do that, if you're sowing to the new man,
then the new man's going to get stronger and stronger. The more you feed him...
And the more that you feed the flesh with just everything that's sinful and wrong and worldly and wicked,
well then the old man's going to get stronger and he's going to take over and you're going to be super carnal.
And you will be exactly, exactly like you were before you were saved and exactly like an unsaved person.
Exactly. Why? Because the flesh cannot be reformed, cannot be changed.
Go ahead and answer that.
Flip over you into Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter number 8.
That's an old school ringtone.
It's like the newsroom.
Hey, stop the press.
We've got a hot new story here.
Okay, Romans 8.
Verse 3 it says in verse 3 for what the law could not do and that it was weak through the flesh
God sending his own son in the likeness event of sinful flesh and for sin
Condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
Who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh
But they that are after the spirit
the things of the spirit.
And so what we see here in this passage
is that giving people rules
is not enough to make them a good person.
You know, having a perfect set of rules, a perfect set of laws, a perfect environment is not going to necessarily make them a good person.
Because if that person is walking in the flesh, what did Paul say?
In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.
And since people are inherently sinful, the law can't make them righteous.
The only thing that can really make us fulfill the law of God and walk in a way that is pleasing to God and follow the rules of the Bible,
is to be walking in the Spirit.
And then we'll end up automatically fulfilling them
without even necessarily thinking about the laws
because we're just doing good
because we're just a good person.
So we're just kind of automatically doing good things
because we love God and love our neighbor.
It's that simple.
But you gotta be spiritual.
You gotta walk in the spirit.
And so here's some advice.
Let's say that you're trying to, you know,
quit a certain sin in your life
or you're trying to deal with temptations
and there are certain things that you keep doing
Instead of fixating on those things,
maybe you should try an approach of just becoming a better Christian in general,
and just getting more spiritual in general, and walking in the spirit in general.
You know, I read a quote one time, I don't have the quote in front of me,
but it was something along, I think it was Isaac Newton or something,
he said something along the lines of, you know, if you just keep thinking about how you don't,
you know, not going to commit fornication, not going to commit fornication,
Even if you're thinking about not doing it and constantly dwelling upon those kind of rules
But he said instead, you know if you and I'm super paraphrasing and there's probably nothing Isaac Newton's like what the heck
I didn't say that but anyway, let's just pretend he did okay. It was something like this
Saw it on the internet a long time ago
Vaguely representing what he said who cares what I'm saying is good anyway, so it doesn't matter, you know
I'm just giving Isaac Newton the credit, you know
But basically, you know, instead of just fixating on that, right, you know, fill your life with godly spiritual activity
that's just going to make you a spirit-filled Christian walking in the Spirit and focus on reading your Bible,
praying, soul-winning, singing hymns to God, right?
Be filled with the Spirit, and if you walk in the Spirit, you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
as opposed to just fixating upon rules.
The rules are important, the rules are there,
the rules are good for a self-check of how we're doing
and what's right and what's wrong.
But at the end of the day, you know,
walking in the Spirit is the ticket
to being, you know, a successful Christian
and not giving it a temptation.
It says in verse 7, this is what I quoted a minute ago,
because the carnal mind is enmity against God,
for it is not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed can be,
so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Now, they that are in the flesh can either be,
A, an unsaved person,
or B, a saved person who's walking in the flesh.
Right? Because even after you're saved,
if you're walking in the flesh,
you're going to act like unsaved people.
So that's why we're commanded and told to walk in the Spirit
because it's not necessarily automatic.
You know, for example, in Galatians 5, 25,
it says if we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit, right?
It's not automatic.
You've got to make that decision to walk in the Spirit.
Okay, so that's point one this morning.
Point number one is that, you know,
the Holy Spirit is going to make you a good person
if you walk in the Spirit
But the only way they're going to actually perform those good works and be a good person in reality
is if they actually put on the new man and walk in the Spirit.
But number two this morning is that goodness is that which is acceptable unto the Lord.
Go if you would to Ephesians chapter 5.
Ephesians chapter number 5.
A few pages to the right in your Bible.
You see, God is the one who decides what's good, right?
The fruit of the Spirit's goodness.
Point number one.
is that walking in the Spirit is going to make you a good person.
You're never going to be a good person until you become a spiritual person.
You know, until you become serious about Christianity
and walking with God and reading your Bible and memorizing Scripture
and preaching the Gospel and singing hymns and praying,
those are the things that are going to make you a good person.
Okay, because goodness is the fruit of the Spirit
and those that are in the flesh, they can't please God.
They don't end up doing good.
But number two, goodness is defined as that which is acceptable unto the Lord.
God decides what is good and what is not.
Good and evil are decided by the Lord.
It says in verse 8 of Ephesians 5,
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light and the Lord walk as children of light.
For the fruit of the Spirit, that's what we're talking about this morning,
is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.
proving what is acceptable unto the Lord, okay?
That's what is good, it's that which is acceptable to God.
Go through it to 1 Peter chapter number three.
1 Peter chapter number three.
The Bible also says in 1 Timothy 2-3,
for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.
Because that which is good, I mean, who's the judge of what's good?
God's the judge of what's good and what's evil.
He's the one who decides.
And the reason I'm making a point about this is because our world today has their own definitions of right and wrong.
And their own definition of good and evil.
And they will often call good evil and evil good.
Look what the Bible says in 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 13.
It says,
But, and if, you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye, and be not afraid of their
terror, neither be troubled."
So according to verse 13, the Bible is saying, hey, if you do good, you're going to be okay,
right?
Who's going to harm you if you're a follower of that which is good?
Now, what does God mean by that?
Is he saying nothing bad is ever going to happen to you if you're good?
That's not what he's saying.
From those bad things that come at you. It's not that the bad things aren't gonna come at you
It's that God's gonna protect you. How do I know that? Because he says here
Who is he that will harm you if you be followers of that which is good? That's not saying oh you do good
Everybody's gonna leave you alone
Unfortunately, that's not the case all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
That's why in the next breath he says but an if you suffer for
righteousness sake
Happy are ye, and be not afraid of their terror.
Why should I not be afraid?
Because God's going to protect me.
God's going to take care of me.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts
and be ready always to give an answer to every man
that asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and fear.
Having a good conscience
that whereas they speak evil of you as of evildoers,
they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ,
for it is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well-doing
than for evil-doing. Now I think a lot of times when we read this,
when we think about being falsely accused, a lot of times we're thinking
about someone lying and saying that you did something that you didn't do.
And obviously, that is a major form of being falsely accused, right?
Somebody says you did something and you didn't do it.
But there's another way of being falsely accused,
is when you do something good,
and everybody agrees that you did it, you agree you did it, they agree you did it,
but the difference is they're saying it's bad when really it was something good that you did.
Has everybody understand what I'm saying?
Because look, I've read articles online attacking me, and sometimes the articles are lying and
saying that I said things I didn't say, or saying that I did things that I didn't say.
And you know, these articles are kind of irritating and frustrating to read as a human being to
hear somebody twisting what you did, twisting what you said, and those type of things.
That's one type of slander or false accusation.
that are attacking me and I'm reading them
and I'm just like, this article is awesome.
And I'm just like, yeah, yeah, uh-huh, yeah.
It's like, he said this.
Can you believe he said this?
I'm like, oh man, you're picking all the best parts
of my sermon.
That's like a greatest hits compilation here.
It's like when people will take these clips of my preaching
and label them on YouTube as crazy Pastor Anderson rants.
Pastor Anderson's most insane moments or, you know, wildest,
crazy preaching from Pastor Anderson.
A lot of people are literally going to those and listening to them as like,
oh, this is a greatest hits compilation of Pastor Anderson's best preaching or something.
Why? Because to one person, this is horrible what Pastor Anderson is saying.
And then to another person, like, this is great!
Do you guys see what I'm saying and so there's two different ways to attack Christians
There's two different ways to attack preachers either a
You're lying and saying that they did things that they didn't do or said things they didn't say or B
You're taking something that they really did say or do and painting it in a negative light and saying oh look
How bad this is and that's exactly what we see in this passage because in this passage it says that they are falsely accusing
Your good conversation of Christ and it says they speak evil of you as of evil doers
But he just finished saying in verse 13 that you're a follower of that which is good
And why are you suffering verse 14 for righteousness sake?
So a lot of times you do something righteous say something righteous and then people will say look how bad this is
Look how wicked this is why because they have forgotten that God is the one who decides what's right and wrong and that good
And bad is decided by the Lord not man
So, what is good is that which is acceptable unto the Lord.
So here's the thing.
Point number one was that walking in the Holy Spirit is going to make you a good person.
Amen?
Because the fruit of the Spirit is what?
Goodness.
So, walking in the Spirit is going to make you a good person.
But number two, just because you're a good person, it doesn't mean the world's going
to say you're a good person.
Because their idea of a good person and God's idea of a good person are different.
Right, because they will lift up some of the worst, most scummiest, sleaziest, weirdest people,
perverts, deviants, weirdos, and lift them up as wonderful people.
I mean, it's like these billboards, pass it on or whatever.
Who knows what I'm talking about? It's like, you know, some kind of an attribute.
I'm glad two people have seen the billboard.
It'll be like some attribute pass it on and it's like the the foundation for a better life or something and
And you know here's some of the people that I've seen featured on these billboards
You all have seen it. You just don't know what I'm talking about because I'm not explaining it, right?
But billboards and it'll be like, you know, I don't know just
The billboards people
But anyway, like here's some of the people I've seen featured Elton John
So there's a big picture of Elton John and oh, you know, he's this wonderful role model
hero that we should be all following, so you're walking through the airport and there's this
little inspirational advertisement and it's showing you Elton John and he's supposed to
be our hero.
Now here's the thing, the world would say that Elton John's a wonderful person because
he donated a bunch of money to AIDS research so that he could cure his own self, I guess.
But to the world, it's like, oh, and you know what, by the way, England knighted him.
You know, like, you know how England, they still kind of think they're in the Middle Ages a little bit sometimes?
So you know the Queen of England pulls out a sword and puts it on some faggot's shoulder, and so sir Elton John
Sir Paul McCartney, you know these like these are the knights of England like they're out there really even killing anybody
You know, I mean, I'm sure Elton John's killed a few people by giving them STDs
But I'm saying like I don't think I don't know if Paul McCartney's ever killed anybody
How do you get knighted when you didn't even go on the battlefield and, you know, you didn't even slay the enemy?
What is that?
But here's some people that I've seen on these Pass-It-On billboards.
Elton John,
Bishop Tutu,
you know, Bishop Desmond Tutu,
who said that if gays aren't allowed in heaven, he wants to go to hell.
And God's like, okay.
I find your terms acceptable.
But I'm saying like, you know, you if you look at the people that are featured on these things
It's rarely anyone that you could even think for a half a second as a godly Christian
It's rarely anybody that you would actually say okay. That's a pretty good person. It's usually just the most leftist
communist
weirdos, sodomites, just everything that's liberal, left-wing,
commie, ungodly, anti-Christian, anti-Bible.
And these are lifted up as the heroes of our world.
Okay? Why?
Because what we as Bible-believing Christians think of as a good person,
what are we picturing when we picture a good person?
We're picturing somebody who's, you know, faithful to their spouse.
right? And they're providing for their family, they're going to church,
they're being nice to other people, they're following the Ten Commandments, they're following the Bible, right?
That's what we're thinking of when we think of a good person, somebody whose life is in accordance with scripture and
they're basically like a clean cut, straight laced, godly, sober, righteous individual.
You know, but the world has a totally different idea about what it means to be a good person.
So who's right? Well, the Bible's right, because God decides what's acceptable.
If you would flip over to Isaiah chapter 5. Isaiah chapter 5, while you're turning to Isaiah 5,
I'm going to read for you from Proverbs chapter 2.
Verse 6 says, for the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth, cometh knowledge and understanding.
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous, he is a buckler to them that walk up rightly,
he keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveeth the way of his saints, then shalt thou understand
righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.
So, by meditating on the Word of God, then you will understand, the Bible says, every
good path.
You will know what is good by studying the Bible, because God is the arbiter of what
is good and what is evil.
Look at Isaiah chapter 5, verse 20, woe unto them that call evil good and good evil.
They put darkness for light and light for darkness.
They put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
And we could add to this, we could say, you know what?
Woe unto them, and I'm not trying to add to the Bible,
I'm just saying to continue in the same spirit,
we could also say in our society,
woe unto them that put male for female and female for male.
Because it's the same idea here.
Don't get things backwards, right?
Don't say good is evil and evil is good.
Don't put sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet,
but we live in an upside-down world
where the vilest men are exalted, the Bible says.
And so we got to watch out for that
and remember that when the Bible says
the fruit of the Spirit is goodness,
And when we say that walking with God makes you a good person,
we're talking about good by God's definition.
Because what did God define as being a good person?
You're not given into the lust of the flesh.
So you're not this drunkard, you're not this, you know,
hateful, malevolent, harmful, adulterous, drunken, you know,
thief, murderer, that kind of stuff, right?
That's what the Bible defines as being a good person.
not doing all those kinds of harmful, sinful things.
Now, if you would turn to Acts chapter number 11.
Acts chapter number 11.
So we said number one, walking in the Spirit
is what makes you a good person.
And the first step to being a good person is to get saved
so you can even have the new man,
so you can even have the Holy Spirit living inside of you
because of the fact that
if you're in the flesh, you can't even please God.
You know and what did Paul say in my flesh dwells? No good thing
Was that just because Paul it just happened to be a psychopath or something? No, that's everybody
All of us as far as the flesh we're sinful people by nature
Step one to being a good person is to get saved
But that's not enough. It's not like oh, you're saved. You're automatically going to be a good person
Oh, he's not a good person must not be saved and wrong. There are some very bad people who are saved
Why because they're walking in the flesh and if I walk in the flesh
I'm gonna be a bad person if you walk in the flesh you're gonna be a bad person
Which is why we need to focus on becoming more spiritual
And what does that look like?
What does that mean?
Well, the result is gonna look like
what God says it's gonna look like,
not what pass it on billboards of Elton John
and Bishop Tutu are gonna look like, okay?
Because they're lifting up the wrong people as heroes.
We need to walk with God so that we can become
a good person by God's definition,
which means that we're a righteous person,
which means that we're not living a life indulging in sin.
A raunchy life, a wicked life, a harmful life, a gross life that sin will take us into.
But thirdly this is that goodness will ultimately lead to much people being added to the Lord.
And another way of saying that is that many people will be saved as a result of our good
life.
Acts 11-24, for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, and much people
was added unto the Lord.
You see that?
When you have a good man who's full of the Holy Ghost and faith, much people get added
to the Lord.
That was the testimony of the life of Barnabas.
I mean, can you imagine dying and having this verse on your tombstone?
Right?
I mean, what a testimony.
Here lies, insert your name here, he was a good man, you know, or she was a good woman,
you could say, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, and much people was added to
the Lord.
What a great testimony.
I mean, that's an epitaph, if I've ever seen one.
Goodness will ultimately lead.
to much people being added to the Lord.
And if you would flip over to 2 Peter chapter 1.
And I just preached a whole sermon on this recently
that was called Aaron's Rod that Budded.
And in that sermon, I showed a bunch of scripture
and preached about the fact
that if you are living a sinful life,
if you're a bad person,
you're not going to be effective at winning people to Christ.
You're not going to be fruitful in your Christian life.
You're not going to bring forth a bunch of fruit
if you're living a bad life.
So if you're a backslidden, sinful, wicked Christian,
you are not going to end up winning a bunch of souls to Jesus Christ, okay?
And part of the reason that I preached about this is because,
you know, our enemies are always trying to pain us
as just being really bad, and Pastor Anderson's bad,
and Faithful Baptist Church is bad, but then they can't really deny the fruit.
They can't deny the fact that multitudes of people are being saved.
And here's one of the reasons why they can't deny that, is because usually their own church is filled with people who were one to Christ by moi,
or by one of us, or by one of our pastor friends, or by, you know, our church in general.
And so the thing is, they can't really deny the fact that our church has gotten a lot of people saved, but it's bad though.
You know, well, why is it bad?
You know, and it's, well, you know,
and it's just all their little nitpicky things
that they don't like about our doctrine
that they're the ones who are wrong about, by the way.
But they just have this attitude,
well, he's bad and the church is bad,
but, yeah, they do win a lot of souls to Christ.
Folks, this is not compute.
This is not biblical.
And that's what that whole sermon was about,
Aaron's Rod the Buddha.
See, the idea is that when you're good,
much people will be added to the Lord.
When you're bad, you're not going to be effective at winning souls to Christ. You're not going to be fruitful
I mean that this should be kind of obvious I would think but look what the Bible says in 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 5
It says beside this giving all diligence add to your faith virtue
So faith is where the Christian life begins because we're saved by
Faith, right? So we're saved by faith.
Nobody's saved unless they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's where it all starts trusting Jesus Christ as your Savior.
That is what saves you.
That's what starts the Christian life for you, believing.
But we don't want to just stop there and make no mistakes.
Some people do stop there.
They believe in Jesus and they continue living the same sinful, worldly life.
The Spirit is willing, deep down, there's a guy in there that loves God,
but they're just not executing, and they just keep going down the same path
until, hopefully, eventually they get discipled, they eventually grow,
something changes eventually externally.
What God wants us to do is to add to faith virtue.
And again, it's not going to be automatic.
If it were automatic, why would we have to take diligence?
To go from faith to virtue, why would that take diligence if,
oh, everybody who believes in Jesus is automatically living right,
and anybody who's not living right just doesn't say they just don't believe in Jesus?
Wrong.
You've got to give all diligence to add to your faith virtue.
Okay, and what is virtue?
You know, it's a very similar word to goodness, right?
You know what I mean?
It's having good quality attributes.
I mean, the virtuous woman is what?
You know, the virtuous woman is the one who is a great wife in many ways.
So add to your faith virtue and then add to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance
and to temperance, patience and to patience, godliness and to godliness, brotherly kindness
They make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So look, if you don't have these things, let's say you just believe in Jesus Christ,
but let's say you're not a virtuous person, you're not a knowledgeable person,
you're not a temperate person, you're not a patient person, you're not a godly person,
you don't have any love, you don't have any brotherly kindness or charity,
are you going to be a fruitful Christian if you don't have these things?
No, these things are what stop you from being barren and unfruitful.
What does barren mean?
Unable to reproduce.
If I said this woman is barren, it means she's unable to reproduce.
If I said this field is barren, it's unable to produce fruit.
Okay?
Right? We've got to be virtuous, loving, and do these things.
And so being good, like Barnabas, results in
much people being added to the Lord. Living a good Christian life
makes you more fruitful. So here's the takeaway.
Sinful, worldly, backslidden, ungodly Christians are not out there winning
multitudes to Christ. They just aren't.
our enemies can make up this weird narrative about all these really bad
churches and all these really bad people that are just winning multitudes to
Christ. It's a fiction. It doesn't exist. In fact, I heard one of these guys say
this. He said, you know what? He's like, here's my prediction about the new IFB. He
said, I think the new IFB is going to continue to produce great soul winners.
and lousy husbands, lousy fathers, and lousy people,
but great soul winners.
You know what I would say to that? I would say we'll just let faithful word just continue to suck
Because they're getting so many people saved and getting people out of hell is so important
Let them go let them go. I
Mean think about how crazy this is to think we got to stop faithful word
Even though they're super good at soul. It doesn't even make sense
Wouldn't you just be like, well, just let them go.
This is what you'd say.
Let them go.
We want to empower them and help them
to win multitude of Christ.
Then we'll go around making everybody a good person.
Because we're so much more godly than they are.
And what's funny is that some of these people,
they get so, they're so intent on debunking us
or attacking us, they'll say the wildest things.
Like you remember a while back Pastor Manly Perry who said quote
Judas Iscariot had more converts than any of the other disciples
So Judas Judas Iscariot according to Manly Perry was the most effective soul winner
I mean, can you imagine how weird it would be to think that to think that Judas?
Yeah, you know and then Pastor Shelley said well, I guess Judas hanging himself was the worst thing that ever happened to World of Angelism
Because if Bro hadn't of hanged himself, he could have just kept winning so many souls.
I mean, that's so stupid!
Folks, Judas is scary, it wasn't saved, and so guess how many people he wanted to Christ? Zero.
Because everything brings forth after its own kind, and an evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.
Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly there are ravening wolves.
Look, Judas Iscariot was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
He's pretending to be one of the disciples.
He's pretending to be super into following Jesus.
But inwardly he was a ravening wolf, and the Bible says that the bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit.
I mean, look.
It's already a false doctrine and dumb to say Judas got people saved that you okay
If somebody said that I'd be like well, you're wrong
But you could forgive someone for thinking that because they just don't understand this concept of
Reproduction and bringing forth fruit so I could I could easily forgive someone for saying okay, you know
I think Judas got some people say they're a thousand percent wrong
But you could at least see how a sane person could think that
But then you have Manly Perry saying,
well, I believe that Judas had more converts than anyone else.
You know, he's just the ultimate soul winner.
That's just crazy, right?
Then Matt First is like, okay, hold my beer, Manly Perry.
You know, just when you're thinking you've heard
the craziest thing from Manly Perry,
Matt First is like, okay, hold my beer.
Satan is the greatest soul winner, according to Matt First.
Like, you can't, you don't even believe me right now.
You don't even believe me, do you?
I don't blame you for not believing me, because it's so crazy.
You know, I know you don't believe me, that's okay, fine, don't believe me then.
But Pastor Matt first said, Satan, he said,
you know who the greatest soul winner is? The devil.
We know for a fact that Satan will have won the most souls in the end.
And it's like, that's out of context.
There is no context
Somebody said to me I put the clip online and somebody said this is out of context
I said okay, here it is with two minutes before and two minutes after
It's just like what the heck he's literally saying don't look up to soul winners because Satan is the greatest soul winner
Where does the Bible say anything like that?
Satan's the biggest soul loser the biggest soul dammer so he's like oh, yeah, you think oh, yeah
You think soul winners are heroes
You think you should look up to soul winners?
Satan is the best soul winner
Yeah, it's just like okay, I don't have the mic to drop but it's just like
And it was he literally says like at the end of his video like it's just that's just gay
It's like game over your move your move faithful word
Best soul winner is say okay manly Perry. I see your Judas and I'll raise you a Satan
But again, you know, this is the kind of madness that people engage in to get away from this biblical truth that he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
That's what the Bible says, okay?
Now look, I am not for one second saying, oh, just go soul winning, and then that'll make up for all the sin in your life.
Absolutely not. Here's what I'm saying.
I'm saying that if you have a bunch of sin in your life,
you're not going to be an effective soul winner.
And if you go out and do a bunch of soul winning
while you have a bunch of sin in your life,
then God's going to like the soul winning you're doing,
and then He'll purge you of the sins
so that you can bring forth more fruit.
Here's what I'm saying.
The more you go soul winning,
the more God will help you get sin out of your life.
The more you'll grow as a Christian,
the more you're out there preaching the gospel.
Guess what? You're going to be more filled with the Holy Spirit constantly preaching the Word of God
and praying for souls to be saved, right?
You're the silent partner praying for the souls to be saved
or you're the one doing the talking, preaching the Word of God.
You're memorizing the verses.
You're not going to believe this, but that's actually going to help you to walk in the Spirit and be a better person.
And here's the thing, anybody who is a very sinful,
backslidden Christian is not going to be effective at winning souls.
They're just not.
Okay?
And if they do go soul-winning a lot, God's going to work on them.
Because he knows that we're not going to be effective if we're not walking in the Spirit.
And if you're walking in the Spirit, you're not fulfilling the laws of the flesh.
And if you're not walking in the Spirit, you're not going to be a good soul-winner
because without Christ you can do nothing.
And again, I'm not going to re-preach my Aaron's rod that butted sermon,
but that's the same concept that I was preaching in that sermon.
And I think it's pretty obvious and it's pretty clear.
Look, you've got to walk in the Spirit and be good if you want to add much people to the Lord.
It's just that simple, okay?
And so I don't think any of this is complicated or difficult,
but it's just that you have people who are experiencing cognitive dissonance
And because of the fact that they are seeing a revival, they're seeing great works accomplished
for God, and they're just like, well, this can't be right, because this guy's pre-trib.
I mean, he's not pre-trib, I should say, excuse me.
They'll see great works for God and revival, this can't be right, he's not pre-trib.
This can't be right, this guy's not for Israel.
Or this can't be right, this guy spanks his kids too hard.
There's no way he's right with God winning all them souls. Oh, what it is is that the oh, it turns out the worst people win the most souls
Judas is scary. It's the best soul winner. No
Scratch that Satan is the best soul winner
You see what I'm saying
It's really what they want to do is they want to attack good people good churches and say oh, they're bad come to come to my
Failing us for no more church come to my failing high steeple few people church
We're all good people over here. We're not as good as soul winning
We don't win people to cry so over here barely at all just once in a blue moon
but
You know and by the way, Matt first who said that Satan was the best soul winner his church has no organized soul winning program
zilch zero none
None
No soul winning. So yeah, of course. He's got to say oh Satan's the best soul. Well, then you then your church must be super far from Satan
You know Satan's never been to your church
It's it's crazy folks, but anyway all that to say this number one
You know people are saved
And I'm preaching, obviously, to you all out there, 99% saved.
I'm sure there could be a visitor or someone who's not saved
or someone who was dragged here by a loved one.
But in general, everybody here is a believer.
Everybody here is confident that they're going to heaven
by putting their faith and trust in the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
Those of us that are saved,
we all, deep down, want to do what's right, don't we?
I mean, anybody here who says, you know what?
I don't even care, I don't want to do good.
I have no desire to do good.
No part of me wants to serve God or do good.
Well, that just sounds like you're just not even saved.
All of us who are saved, deep down, deep inside,
and hopefully it's not too deep,
we want to do what's right, we want to do what's good.
And if we walk in the spirit, if we put on the new man,
we will become a good person.
Okay, number one, we will become a good person because the fruit of the Spirit is
goodness.
Number two, when we say that we'll become a good person, we're talking about what the Bible defines as a good person.
Right? We're talking about somebody who is living a clean, sober,
helpful, not harmful life and being a good person, right?
being kind, not being drunk, not murdering,
not committing adultery, not committing fornicate.
Right, we're talking about somebody who's,
and look, obviously nobody's perfect,
but the more we walk in the spirit,
the less we're gonna sin.
The less we walk in the spirit, the more we're gonna sin.
And then number three, goodness isn't just about
living a clean, sober, straight-laced, kind, loving life.
It's also about much people being added to the Lord.
Barnabas was a good man, much people were added to the Lord.
If we add to faith virtue, virtue knowledge, knowledge temperance, temperance, patience, patience, godliness,
godliness, brotherly kindness, brotherly kindness, charity, some of those are listed as the fruit of the spirit, right?
Love, temperance.
If we add those things, we're not going to be barren or unfruitful.
When someone's barren or unfruitful, there's a problem with them spiritually.
Because Jesus said, if you follow me, I will make you fishers of men.
Somebody who's not winning any souls to Christ, someone who's never getting people saved,
there's a problem there spiritually.
They need to get filled with the Spirit, they need to get the goodness,
and then that goodness needs to translate into people being saved.
And so I don't think it's a complicated sermon this morning.
Walk in the Spirit, God will make you a good person.
If you get more spiritual through the transformative power of the Holy Spirit,
you'll be a good person.
Number two, you'll be a good person in God's sight.
Now, you know, you're not gonna be on a billboard
You know, there's not gonna be a pass it on billboard, you know hard preaching pass it on
Right
It's not gonna be like it's not gonna be like brother Jimenez after his Orlando sermon
And it's like a picture of him like, you know perseverance pass it on
You know what I mean?
It's not going to be a picture of some, you know, soul winner up there, you know, winning
souls in the Bahamas, you know, missions pass it on.
It's going to be Elton John, it's going to be Jane Goodall, it's going to be Bishop
Tutu, it's going to be, who else have I seen on there?
Come on, who knows what I'm talking about?
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Who else is on those billboards?
Oh, Dolly Parton.
I mean, they got Dolly Lama and Dolly Parton.
They got all the Dollies.
Because I saw Dolly Lama on there.
I don't really know anything about Dolly Parton,
except that Jolene was trying to take her man away or whatever.
I don't really know anything about her.
I don't know if she's a Christian or not.
But I know the Dolly Lamas in hell.
But anyway, who else is on these billboards?
Oprah, William Shatner, William Shatner is a Jew, so is Spock, by the way.
But the point is that, you know, it's going to be what God defines as good.
And then lastly this, goodness is ultimately going to allow us to be better at bringing
people to Christ.
Right? Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father, which is in heaven.
And obviously, if we're out there soul-winning and we're not filled with the Spirit, we're not going to be as effective as if we're filled with the Spirit.
And look, again, back to my sermon the other day, if you're not right with God and you're backslidden and sinful, go soul-winning anyway.
Because bring forth some fruit and then God will purge you and then you'll bring forth more fruit
It's a it's a it's a cycle and you got to start the cycle somewhere
Start the cycle by reading your Bible and getting your butt out there out soul winning
And so the fruit of the Spirit is goodness. Let's bear it and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word
We thank you so much for the Holy Spirit in our lives because Lord without the Holy Spirit
And without the transformative nature of salvation and the quickening of our spirit and the new man,
we would just all be rotten people because in our flesh dwells no good thing.
Lord God, I pray that every single one of us would walk in the spirit, put on the new man,
and that all of us would grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
help us to be good people who add much people to the Lord.
And in Jesus' name we pray amen.
Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Take your handles, please. Go to hymn number 60 hymn number 60
Face to face hymn number 60. We'll begin on that first verse together
It will be dismissed this morning hymn number 60 face to face with Christ my seed
So come with me, when with rapture I behold Him,
Jesus tries to die for me.
Face to face I shall behold Him far beyond the starry sky.
Face to face it all His glory.
We shall see Him by and by.
Only they think now I see Him with a darkly belly tweed.
One of us today is coming when His glory shall be seen.
Face to face, I shall behold him, army of the starry sky.
Face to face in all his glory, I shall see him by.
And the dark things shall be played.
Face to face I shall behold him,
Army on the starry sky.
Face to face and all is glory.
I shall see him.
I shall be open, far beyond the starry sky, face to face in all His glory.
I shall see Him by His side.
super quick before we dismissed a couple of other announcements real quick as we
almost always do on Wednesdays and sometimes we have on Sundays all that
free food over there to take home but then also I guess there are a bunch of
sandwiches and cheesecake and stuff that could be now so if you want to grab
some of that I think they're gonna cut up the cheesecake and you know cut up the
sandwiches or whatever
And then another thing I wanted to mention is that we do already have another group that's
already out on the mission field on another cruise mission strip starting today, which is
consists of Brother Daniel Ryder, Brother Kenton, Brother Kevin Rowe, and Brother Sean Conlon.
They're on a longer cruise mission strip. They're hitting, like, I think, six different countries.
over the next we can have so be praying for them that they have a you know a lot of success and
that many people are added to the Lord through their works but we got a team of four awesome
soul winners out there hitting like six or seven countries or something in the next few days.
All right we're dismissed.
Bye.