So let's do it.
But let me just prove to you even further, and I'm going to close the Bible now and just
give you one final closing thought here.
I want to further support what I said, if we don't do it, it's not going to get done.
You know, I love math and I've got a little mathematical equation here to expound to you
tonight.
You probably know what exponents are, you've heard of exponents, you know, whatever.
You may not know what they are, but that's fine.
Well, I'm going to talk to you about exponents right now.
And here's the thing, let's pretend tonight that I'm the only saved person in the entire
world.
Now obviously that's ridiculous because, you know, how many people are saved?
There's millions of people that are saved in this world, right?
You know, nobody knows the exact number.
We know that it's the minority, because the Bible says, "Broad's the way that leads to
destruction."
We know the majority is on their way to hell tonight.
But let's just pretend tonight, and in fact, forget me, let's make it past three minutes.
Let's pretend that he's the only saved person tonight, okay?
Only in the whole world saved except him, okay?
Let's say he just gets one person saved this year, in 2011.
Is that a crazy goal or anything?
That's pretty reasonable, right?
Just like the whole year, he just gets one person saved, okay?
Then how many people are going to be saved at the end of the year?
Wait a minute, one plus one is not one, one plus one is two, okay.
Wait, exponents, I need to get a little more basic.
So hey, at the end of the year there's going to be two, we start with one, I don't know,
this is going to take longer than I thought, the pizza is getting cold.
Anyway, yeah, there's one, so at the end of the year how many are there?
Two.
Okay, now we got two, now boy this is a really thriving church, two members, do you think
anybody is really impressed?
You think the other pastors in Sacramento are probably thinking, "Wow, I need to learn
some tips."
Two, you know, okay, two is not that impressive, is it, after a year of labor?
But let's say, you know what, we're just doing a humble, he's a humble, you know, he's setting
the bar low, you know, ain't low, but anyway, for those of you in the Air Force, but anyway,
anyway the bottom line is here, you'd have two, well guess what?
What if he could just train that guy to be like him?
What if he could just say, "Be like me, follow me as I follow Christ, come soul winning with
me, I'll show you the ropes."
Okay, and let's say they each go out and get one person saved next year, how many people
are going to be saved at the end of next year?
Four.
Okay, I'm going to keep looking at you, you have the right answer.
Four.
So we start with one, then you got somebody saved, now there's two.
Well then they each got somebody saved, now there's four.
So at the end of two years, only four, at the end of three years it's going to be eight.
You know, if every believer, if every saint, if every born-again child of God would just
get one person saved a year, a year, okay, after three years you're going to have eight.
Then the next year you're going to have sixteen, the next year you're going to have thirty-two.
And you say, "Oh man, we're five years into it, there's thirty-two people."
Wow, you're a failure, you're a failure!
But wait a minute, is he a failure?
Let's keep seeing.
The sixth year, he's going to have sixty-four.
And we're going to keep doubling like that.
Even if just every believer, and we only start with one believer, one believer just gets
one person saved per year, at the end of ten years though, because we're going to go from
sixty-four, one twenty-eight, two fifty-six, now that's a pretty good size shirt, two hundred
fifty-six, five hundred and twelve, a thousand and twenty-four in ten years of just getting
one person saved the whole year.
So after ten years he's got a hundred, alright, now in the world there's a thousand and twenty-four
people saved, we'll only start with one, okay?
Well let's continue that for the next ten years, and we go from one thousand twenty-four, hey
next year there's two thousand forty-eight, this is a fast growing church now, and not
only that, we're not just packing it with a bunch of bodies, these are bona fide soul
winners.
These are guys that have been trained to be like him, and to be a legitimate bona fide
soul winner.
This is a church of laborers, 2048, 4096, it keeps doubling, after 20 years, his church
would have a million and 48,576 people in it.
You didn't think so, did you, when it was going like 2, 4, 8, 16?
Did you know that 20 years later he would have a million?
He's out of the house at that point.
He's got a building at that point.
So, 1,048,576 people, and we'll really start with one, how many people are really saved
in the world?
Millions.
We're talking about one man with a vision, okay?
And you know, 20 years there'd be a million and 48,576 people saved, and in 30 years there'd
be one billion, you know, because you just keep doubling, one billion, 73 million, 741,824,
and in 33 years every person in the whole world would be saved.
Now we know that's never going to happen, but you know why it's never going to happen?
Because every believer doesn't win one person's heart per year.
Isn't that, you know, I'm not up here with voodoo math tonight, I'm not making stuff
up here.
Anybody who knows math tonight knows that what I'm saying is true, and what I'm preaching
unto you tonight is the proof that if we don't do it it's not going to get done.
It's the proof.
This tells me that Christians are not getting hardly anybody saved in their whole lifetime.
Because even if they would just get one person saved a year, okay, let's say that we're starting
with millions in ten years, the whole world would be saved, you know, starting with the
millions of saved, and we could just get every saved person tonight, just get somebody's,
and of course we know that salvation is a personal choice.
You're never going to get everybody saved, and you know what, people have to believe
on Jesus Christ, but you know what, I'm not saying tonight that my vision is for every
person in the Sacramento area to be saved tonight, because I know that's impossible,
because you know what, nobody can make that choice for you, you know.
But my vision tonight, and the vision of Verity Baptist Church, is that every person in Sacramento
would be given the choice tonight, and to hear a clear presentation of the Gospel preached
in the power of the Holy Spirit by a man, woman, boy or girl, somebody would give them
a clear presentation of the Gospel, because you know what, it breaks my heart tonight
that people are going to hell.
But you know what breaks my heart more, is that there are people who are going to hell
who would get saved if they would hear the Gospel, and I, you know, that's a fact.
There are people out there who would get saved if somebody would preach in the Gospel, if
somebody would go, if somebody would do the work.
That breaks my heart even more, because it's one thing if somebody hears the Gospel over
and over again, and Verity Baptist just keeps knocking their door over and over again to
where they get a sign that says, you know, "No more Verity, we're not interested."
You know, it'd be one thing if somebody just gives them the Gospel, and then they go to
work and they're buddy at work, you know, pulls the Bible out of the lunchbox, and it's
in the Gospel, you know, and then they're hearing it here, and they're hearing it from
there, and they're hearing it again and again, and they reject it, and they reject it, and
they reject it, and they reject it, they go down, you know, that's sad, but it's not nearly
as sad, and the person's never even heard the Gospel, 'cause nobody loved him, and nobody
cared, and he'd say, "Oh, I go to this other church a lot more loving, because the pastor's
so sweet to me, and he writes me a little note, puts a little smiley face, he's really
a loving God, and he doesn't raise his voice, he doesn't scream and yell, but I'm here pretending
tonight that the love of Christ constraints us to preach the gospel to every creature.
This is love that we walk after his commandment, and the greatest commandment that he left the
Great Commission was when he said, "Go preach to the world."
Go preach the gospel to every creature tonight, not just your buddy at work, and I want you
to preach to your buddy at work, but you know what, everybody doesn't work at your work.
You've got to go out into the highways and hedges and knock every door.
That's the only way you're going to do it, Brother Ynez.
That's the only way you're going to get to everybody, is to knock every door.
And then knock it again, because they weren't home the first time.
And then knock it the third time.
And you say it's impossible, you say it's a pipe dream, you say, "This little church,
you've got to be kidding, you know, these five loaves and two fishes, this little church,
you know, beating in a house, you're a joke.
Let me tell you something, it's going to get done."
Hey, 70 people could get this done in just a few years, 70 people who would be laborers.
Our church is not big.
I'm not going to get up here and lie to you.
You know, on Sunday morning we had 68 people in our morning service in Phoenix, Arizona.
And you know what, our church has a revolving door in the front because we have tons of
visitors there.
We knock so many doors and we have tons of visitors because we're knocking so many doors
and we're out there bringing people in, but you know what, people can't take this kind
of preaching anymore because they're so watered down and they're so perverted by the television
and everything else.
They can't take it.
So we have like a revolving door.
Our church isn't huge.
We have 68 people in our church, but our church has knocked the doors of about 20% of our
map that's like this in five years.
And our map's doubled the size because Phoenix is double the size of Sacramento.
We've done 20% in five years.
That means that, you know, a small group that's really out there working.
And, you know, I thank God for my guys that are here tonight.
I put up my hand here from Faithful Word Baptist Church.
Hey, these guys were out knocking the doors in Sacramento today.
And these guys are the laborers.
They're the workers.
They're here tonight because they have a vision tonight.
And I hope you have a vision tonight.
Let's pray.
Let's end that Word of Prayer.
Father, we thank you for your Word, dear God, and we thank you for the Holy Spirit, and
we thank you for the ability to go out and preach the Gospel.
Even if we're not talented or a good speaker, thank you that you can use any - who is Paul?
Who is Stephen?
There's anybody, dear God, that'll yield themselves unto you as a laborer.
I know that you can use them, and so I pray that every person here tonight, not just a
few certain people, but every person here tonight, would apply this message to themself
and to get a vision.
And as their eyes are closed right now, they see nothing.
But God, let them see gospel going out to every creature of your God in a vision tonight.
And in Jesus' name we ask these blessings, amen.