["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Good evening, welcome to Faith Word Baptist Church.
Take your seats, we'll get started.
Turn in your songbooks to song 164,
Praise Him, Praise Him.
Song 164.
["Praise Him, Praise Him"]
Song 164.
["Praise Him, Praise Him"]
Father in Heaven, thank you for the gathering of believers here in your house today.
I pray that you please bless all aspects of the service,
including the song worship and the instruments being played.
And please bless Pastor Anderson as well as he preaches your word.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Amen. Let's turn to the next song, song 158.
O four thousand tongues to sing, song 158.
Song 158.
O four thousand tongues to sing, my great Redeemer's praise.
The glories of my God and King, the triumphs of His grace.
My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim.
To spread through all the earth, the crop, the honors of my name.
Jesus, the name that charms our fears, that bends our sorrows, steams.
This music in the sinner's ears, this life and health and peace.
He breaks the power of canceled sin, He sets the cleanser free.
His blood can make the palace clean, His blood availed for me.
Dear Him, ye death, His grace be come, your loosed tongues employ.
Ye blind, behold, your Savior come, and He be laid for joy.
Alright, this time we'll go through our announcements.
If you don't have a bullet, then slip up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside we have our service time.
Sunday mornings at 1030 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at 6. Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study.
Tonight we're in Psalm 65.
We've got the soul winning times and salvation and baptisms down below there.
Across the page is the Bible memory passage, Isaiah chapter 40.
Just wrapping that up over the next few weeks.
The portion there from verses 21 through 31.
And then on the back we've got the singing classes on Sundays at 4.30.
Keep praying for the pregnant ladies in the church.
Thank you to those who prayed for the Yakima reservation soul winning.
They had a great event up there.
I think he gave me the number of how many soul winners.
They had like 30 to 50 people up there soul winning.
So it was a pretty good crew up there.
And they had 115 people saved.
And so praise the Lord for that success.
Brother Russell will be back in a few days.
And that's about it for announcements.
Let's go ahead and count up the soul winning for the past few days.
Going back to Monday. Anything from Monday?
Alright, anything else from Monday?
How about Tuesday?
Ford Surprise.
Alright.
Anything else from Tuesday?
And then today, I know we had two for the van group outside the van.
Alright, anything else from today?
Very good. Keep up the great work on soul winning.
And with that, let's sing our next song. Come lead us.
Alright, we are going to do Rejoice in the Lord.
It should be in your hymnal. It's a little sheet in your hymnal.
Rejoice in the Lord. Please raise your hand if you don't have one.
Rejoice in the Lord.
Alright, let's do one more song in your hymnal.
Song 153.
Alfirma Foundation.
Song 153.
Alright, this time we'll pass our offering plate.
As the plates go around, let's turn our Bibles to Psalm 65.
Psalm 65, as we always do.
We'll read the entire chapter, beginning in verse number 1.
Follow along silently with Brother Hester as he reads.
Psalm 65, beginning in verse number 1.
Psalm 65, and the Bible reads,
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion.
And unto thee shall the vow be performed.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Iniquities prevail against me, as for our transgressions,
thou shalt purge them away.
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest,
and causest to approach unto thee,
that he may dwell in thy courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,
even of thy holy temple.
By terrible things in righteousness
wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation,
who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
and of them that are afar off upon the sea,
which by his strength seteth fast the mountains,
being girded with power,
which stilleth the noise of the seas,
the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts
are afraid at thy tokens.
Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it.
Thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God,
which is full of water.
Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly.
Thou settlest the furrows thereof.
Thou makest it soft with showers.
Thou blessest the springing thereof.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness,
and thy paths drop fatness.
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness,
and the little hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with flocks.
The valleys also are covered over with corn.
They shout for joy. They also sing.
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for this church.
Lord, at this time, please fill Pastor Anderson with your spirit
and allow us to be edified in order to better glorify you
and become better Christians, and in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen. Psalm 65.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion,
and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
Now, Zion is just another name for Jerusalem.
It's kind of a spiritual name for Jerusalem.
So when we're reading about Zion in the Old Testament,
we're talking about the city of Jerusalem.
And then in the New Testament, it takes on a different significance
because it's the heavenly Jerusalem, the new Jerusalem.
And the Bible distinguishes between the Jerusalem that's on this earth
that's in bondage that has rejected the Lord Jesus Christ
and the Jerusalem that's in heaven.
And many people get confused about that
and they start pointing their tent toward the Jerusalem on this earth
and thinking that that is somehow a blessed place.
But honestly, the Bible says that place is in bondage
and because of the rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ,
that place is not under the blessing of God.
It's under the curse of God.
When the Bible says,
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life,
but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him,
you know, if you actually get the context of that passage,
he's speaking to the Jews.
And so if you think the Jews are exempt from that,
they're the ones who had that verse initially spoken to them.
And so if it's relevant for anybody, it's relevant for them.
The Jews don't get some kind of a special pass for being Jewish
that they are just somehow blessed by God no matter what.
If you don't believe on Jesus Christ,
the wrath of God is abiding on you.
It doesn't matter whether you're Jew or Gentile.
The wrath of God is abiding on you.
And then specifically in 1 Thessalonians 2,
the Bible says that the wrath of God is abiding on them especially
because it says,
For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen,
even as they have of the Jews,
who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets,
and have persecuted us.
They please not God.
They're contrary to all men.
And then it rounds all that out by saying,
For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
The wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
So how could you say, well, they're still blessed by God?
While experiencing the wrath of God,
while abiding in the wrath of God,
it doesn't make any sense, does it?
But yet that's what most Christians believe.
That's what I believed until I was 25 years old
because I was taught that my whole life.
And so it doesn't jive with scripture though.
In the New Testament,
we as Christians are the chosen people.
In the Old Testament,
Israel was the chosen people.
In the New Testament,
it's those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
red, yellow, black, and white.
We are the elect.
We are the chosen.
And I'm going to talk a little bit about that word elect
coming up here because the Bible says in verse 2,
O thou that hearest prayer,
unto thee shall all flesh come.
And there's a theme in this chapter
about the whole world worshipping the Lord,
the entire world,
even under the uttermost parts of the earth,
worshipping the Lord.
Now we know right now,
there's not a total fulfillment of that
in the sense that obviously not everyone
worships the Lord.
But there is a partial fulfillment of this
in the sense that in every corner of this world,
there are people who do worship the Lord.
Every nation,
every tongue,
all continents.
It's not a religion that's limited
to a certain group of people.
It's not like Hinduism,
or Judaism,
or religions like Buddhism,
or Sikhism,
or Baha'i that are just kind of restricted
to Mormonism over white people.
But things that are just restricted
to a certain region,
or ethnicity,
or nation.
And it is true that Mormonism,
even though they send their missionaries
all over the world,
the vast majority of Mormons
are pretty much concentrated in one place.
And that one place is Utah and Arizona.
So Utah and Arizona
is the highest concentration
rating out from there.
I was there for a few hours a week
for over two years in Illinois,
and I only met one Mormon
in all that time.
Over two years,
and I ran into a multitude of people
of every other religion you can imagine.
And it's ironic because, of course,
you know, Joseph Smith's headquarters
was in Illinois.
And Brigham Young was the one
who moved it to Salt Lake City.
But the point is, you know,
most places don't deal with as many Mormons
as we do.
They're like, what's a Mormon?
They've never even run into one.
We go soul-winning in Mesa,
and it's just like Mormon after Mormon
after Mormon.
But here's the thing about biblical Christianity.
It's everywhere.
And you can't even really pick one place
and say, this is the hub.
Because if you were to say,
the United States is the hub,
or the south of the United States
is the hub,
we could point to places all over the world
that have millions of Bible-believing Christians
or even in China there are lots of people
who are Christians.
There are people all over Africa
that are Christians.
You know, there are a lot of saved people
in this world.
We just went soul-winning,
and I literally probably ran into
at least what?
What did we run into?
Like six people that were saved probably
in an hour.
I mean, just everybody was just giving us
the right answers.
Just saved, saved, saved.
Because everywhere in this world
there are millions of saved people
in Africa, millions and millions
of saved people in Asia,
millions of saved in Europe.
I mean, all over the world
Christianity exists.
Because God is the God of the whole earth.
His house is a house of prayer
for all nations.
And it's not the white man's religion
or the black man's religion
or whatever.
It's everybody's right religion.
If you're not saved,
you're doomed because Jesus
is the only way to heaven.
And so we see in this psalm
it's emphasized that the whole world
will believe on Christ
and worship Christ.
Now, like I said, at this time
there's only a partial fulfillment of that
because there are saved people
in every corner of the globe.
But in the future there will come a time
when the earth shall be filled
with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
Of course, I'm talking about the millennium
because even beyond the millennium
there's going to be a new heaven
and a new earth.
And God is going to be worshipped
by every single person that exists
at that time on this earth
because everybody else will be gone.
And so we see here that all flesh
shall come unto the Lord,
the Bible's saying.
And again, that's referring to a future time
when the whole earth is at peace
and the Lord Jesus Christ is reigning
and so forth.
But at this time the fulfillment that we see
in the world, and there are representatives
in every nation that believe on Christ
and many of them.
So the Bible says in verse three,
iniquities prevail against me.
As for our transgressions,
thou shalt purge them away.
What does it mean to prevail?
Of course, David uses a lot of military
terminology in the book of Psalms
talking about prevailing would be
like an enemy that defeats you in battle.
They prevailed.
That's the way that word is typically
used in the Bible.
And so when it says iniquities prevail
against me, that's present tense.
It's just saying in general,
iniquities prevail against me.
What the Bible is saying is that sin
will defeat us.
If we decide to wage our own personal
war on sin, we're going to lose.
It's like the war on poverty.
It's like the war on drugs, right?
If you say, hey, I'm going to declare
war on sin, you're going to lose.
Because there's not a just man upon the
earth that doeth good and sinneth not.
And there's never been anybody in the
history of mankind that decided,
you know what, I am going to win the
victory over sin.
I am going to stop sinning.
I'm going to reform myself and live
a righteous life on my own.
It's not possible.
Sin prevails against us.
Iniquities prevail against me.
Now, if we're saved, though,
God can purge us of our sins.
The Bible says, iniquities prevail
against me as for our transgressions,
which here is being used parallel
with iniquities.
Thou shalt purge them away.
It's the blood of Jesus Christ,
God's son, that cleanses us from sin.
And so if we think we're going to win
the victory over sin on our own,
it's not going to happen.
God purges us of our sins.
And of course, this has a double
meaning as well.
One meaning is the fact that by
believing on Jesus Christ,
all of our sins are forgiven.
Our record is expunged,
and we are purged of the guilt
of our sins.
And so we get to go to heaven
on the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
So that's one meaning.
And then another meaning,
when it talks about God purging us
from our transgressions,
is an ongoing continual process
of God helping us actually clean up
our lives on this earth so that
we can become more conformed
to human grace and the knowledge
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
and live a more godly life,
getting sin out of our lives
through the help of the Holy Spirit
and through God's purging.
You know, the Bible talks about
in John chapter 15 that Jesus
is the true vine and we're the branches
and if we abide in him,
we'll bring forth much fruit.
And the Bible says that if we bring forth
fruit, he'll purge us so that
we bring forth more fruit.
So if you're a person who's not
going to bring forth any fruit,
you're probably also not going to be
purged as much as the person
who's bringing forth fruit.
The one who brings forth fruit,
they get purged, they bring forth more.
What does it mean to be purged?
Purge comes from the same root word
as purify.
Look at the first three letters, P-U-R.
So purging is similar to purifying.
And so purging is referring to
cutting things out of our life
that don't belong, they're junk.
When you think of a branch,
that's bringing forth fruit,
purging would be called pruning, right?
We'd be cutting off unfruitful things,
just dead leaves and branches
and things that don't belong there.
God needs to cut some things
out of our life that don't belong.
Wrong things in our life,
sinful practices, bad habits,
bad practices and things that we do.
If we bring forth fruit,
God will remove those things
from our life and help us
to be a better Christian.
What does it mean to bring forth fruit?
Well, bringing forth fruit is reproduction.
So if we go out and we're fruitful
and we multiply, we go out
and we win people onto Christ,
we bring forth fruit, we evangelize,
some 30, some 60, some 100,
the person who goes out soul winning,
God is gonna help them also clean up
their life, purify their life,
purge their life and live a better
Christian life so they can be more
effective at soul winning.
Have you ever noticed that the churches
that are the loosest churches,
the ones that are really liberal
in terms of how the Christian goes,
you got people living in fornication,
everybody thinks drinking's fine,
everybody's super worldly
and sin abounds.
Have you noticed that they're not
big on soul winning?
Have you noticed that they're not
winning a lot of people to Christ?
And then you go to the red hot soul winning
church that's knocking a ton of doors
and you find people living a stricter lifestyle.
You find people that are not okay
with fornication, drunkenness, stealing.
You find people that are living
the way they should be and that's
because God is purging and purifying
those who bring forth fruit and then
because they've been purged and purified
they end up bringing forth more fruit
and so these two things go together.
You know a lot of people think if we
got rid of the hard preaching on sin
we could win more people to the Lord
because they say hey you're turning
people away from the gospel with that
hard preaching on sin.
If you would just kind of lighten up,
be positive, preach the nice messages
you're gonna reach more people but
you're not gonna reach more people.
Here's how I'm gonna reach more people.
Abiding in the vine, bringing forth fruit
and then God purging me of my transgressions.
Purging me of my sins so that I can
bring forth more fruit.
So I'm not gonna go with the worldly
logic that says hey hard preaching
offends people, hard preaching makes
people uncomfortable.
Well that's funny because I've made
a lot of people uncomfortable.
I've said a lot of hard things.
I've been even shown publicly on the
news and in the newspaper and on the
internet and on TV.
Look at this hateful preacher.
Look at these mean things.
Can you believe what he said?
And yet how many people has our church
wanted the Lord?
So there you go folks.
In spite of the offense under the world,
the offense that hard preaching brings,
we still end up getting more people
saved.
And you say well yeah but I think that
we can have the best of both worlds.
Doesn't work that way my friend.
It doesn't work.
Show me the example where it's working.
You can't.
Because these big mega churches, they
might claim oh we're reaching tens of
thousands of people except we knock on
their door and ask them if they know
they're going to heaven.
They don't have a clue.
We know folks, we're on the ground.
We're not reading a statistic.
We get out there, boots on the ground
and what do we do?
Every single week what do we do?
We're talking to people.
We're talking to you.
And you'll notice a pattern.
Everybody from that church gives the
right answer and is saved and believes
on Christ and knows that they're going
to heaven and everybody from that church
is giving me the wrong answer.
And they all think salvation is by works
and they have no clue if they're going
to heaven.
You pretty much figure out which churches
are good churches and which ones aren't.
You know what I'm talking about right?
When you go over and over and over again
and sometimes you can't always tell by
what you're saying, you keep running into
unsaved people from that church.
And then another church doesn't have
Baptists in the name but yet it's just
saved, saved, saved, saved.
And so you get to know each individual
church by doing a little fruit inspection.
You know, by talking to the fruit that
that church has produced, you get a good
idea, you get a better idea even than
just looking at a doctrinal statement.
By actually talking to the people that
are listening to that preaching, that
are a part of that body, that are
listening, that are a part of that body
and you test out that body and you find
out that these big mega church fun centers
usually, typically are filled with
unsaved people.
And I'm not speaking from theory, I'm
speaking from my own experience.
You probably had similar experience.
Of course the exception proves the rule.
Every once in a while you can get around
a mega church where a lot of people end
up being saved.
But I'm telling you in general, these big
wild rock and roll smoke and mirrors type
churches, they don't have the gospel being
proclaimed clearly.
Isn't it interesting that they also
haven't been purged?
So you see how these two things go
together.
You know, if we want to be an effective
soul winner, live a clean life.
Right?
We need to do right, live a clean life,
try to get the sin out of our life.
Obviously no one's perfect.
And look, don't wait till you're perfect
to go soul winning.
Go soul winning and then get purged.
You know, I just need, I just need to quit
smoking first.
Hey, just, just smoke one right before we
go, my friend.
And then let's go soul winning.
And you know what?
And then pray for God to help you overcome
that addiction in your life.
And when God sees you bringing forth fruit,
He can purge you of that.
You know, there's some people who they
didn't really want to quit smoking, but
they just kind of ended up quitting smoking
because of something else that happened.
Like for example, you know, some people,
you know, they could smoke something and
then they couldn't smoke or they couldn't
enjoy it.
And then that caused them not to do it for
a few days.
And then they're like, Hey, I'm through the
worst part of it, you know, and they just
kind of stayed with, you know, God could,
God could do a work in your body.
He'd make you sick.
He can do stuff for you.
But I'm just saying like, you know, he can
do something or work something out or help
you figure out that if you chew Wrigley's,
you know, you're going to be okay without
being perfect.
You say, I don't know, pastor Anderson,
you know, I, I'm just a brand new believer
and I've got a lot of sin in my life.
Are you sure I should be out representing
the church?
Hey, I'm not worried about the church's
reputation. Amen.
It doesn't have one.
So, Hey, you know what?
I don't care what you look like because
some people have been offended because
like I've taken some people that looked
pretty wild out soul winning and I'm just
like, I don't care what they look like.
I'm just like, you know, I'm just looking
at my soul.
Let's do it.
Amen.
Who knows?
You know, you never know who we're going
to run into, who God can use.
God's not looking for perfect people.
And here's the thing.
This is not a come as you are stay as you
came kind of a church, but it is a come as
you are church and then we'll get you out
there soul winning.
And next thing you know, God is doing a
work in your life and purging and purifying
come iniquities prevail against me as for our transgressions thou shalt purge
them away again the double meaning blessed is the man whom thou choosest
and causes to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts now let's just I
really want to park it on this concept of choosing because it's a big subject
in the Bible isn't it I mean if we were to look up the words choose chosen elect
election we're gonna find those words a lot in the Bible this is a major concept
in the Bible first of all there's the issue that we already dealt with of who
are the chosen people and of course we know that it is believers and I could
quote you a bunch of scriptures from the New Testament if you don't believe me on
that but for sake of time I'm not going to at this time but you know watch our
film marching design and we go through a lot of those scriptures but I'll just
give you one who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect it is God that
justifies those who are elect are those who are justified by God and they are
blameless in their standing with God because their sins have been washed away
in the blood of Jesus Christ that's what it means to be elect but but here's
another interesting point about that is that it says blessed is the man whom
thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee here's my question if the Jews
are chosen how come God's not causing them to approach unto him can you
explain that to me because I don't see them approaching God I don't see them
approaching the Lord Jesus Christ I don't see them dwelling in his courts I
don't see them entering his house with praise for God the Father in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ I don't see them worshipping the God of the Bible because
the Bible says if you don't have the Son you don't have the Father but whosoever
acknowledge that the Son has the Father also so if they're the chosen why isn't
God causing them to approach unto him we're the chosen and God is causing us
to approach unto him that's why we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ because
we are saved now another aspect of chosen that I want to talk about is the
false doctrine that states that we don't choose whether or not we get saved
God arbitrarily chooses who goes to heaven and who goes to hell and this is
commonly referred to as Calvinism some people just call it predestination for
short obviously we all believe in predestination but usually when you hear
people say predestination in the context of Bible doctrine they're usually
referring to this Calvinistic view that basically says we don't choose to come
to Christ the choice is not ours but rather God made that choice in the past
and there's nothing we can do to affect that choice okay now that is not what
the Bible teaches the Bible clearly teaches over and over again that
whosoever will may come and will means wants to whosoever wants to may come
wouldn't it be disingenuous of God to say that God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish but have everlasting life notice he loved the world he didn't just love
the ones who believed he loved the world he gave his only begotten Son for the
world so that whichever ones of them believe all the ones among them who
believe would have eternal life notice it doesn't say for God so loved the
people who believe that he gave his only begotten Son for them so that they would
no no he loved even the people who didn't believe he loved every single
person in the entire world so that he gave his only begotten Son he sent the
son the Bible says the father sent the son to be the Savior of the world okay
so it would be very disingenuous of God to say come whosoever will may come and
he's like just kidding because nobody can come unless I've already chosen them
beforehand and there's nothing that you do or think or believe or that nothing
can impact that decision it's just it's already been made now obviously every
lie has a little bit of truth in it typically in order to be an effective
lie I mean if you tell a lie that has no truth in it nobody's gonna believe it
you pull out of monopoly money nobody's gonna take it that the best counterfeit
is the one that resembles the real thing so obviously there's some truth to this
thing of being chosen because there's a doctrine of predestination there's a
doctrine of being chosen there's a doctrine of election in the Bible but
what's happening is that this doctrine is being abused by the Calvinist
position to the point where it negates free will and the Bible teaches that we
have free will now some Calvinists kind of try to have it both ways I think it's
cognitive dissonance to say well I believe in free will but I also believe
God chooses who goes to heaven and hell and that it's just a set deal and
there's nothing we can do to change it well we can pull people out of the fire
amen that's why we're out that's why we're out doing it that's what motivates
us now let me just debunk this Calvinist idea just with a single word and it's
their favorite word I'm gonna use their favorite word to debunk their doctrine
you know what their favorite word is elect right they love that word elect
okay well let's talk about the word elect so aren't we gonna elect a
president in November so basically that means I guess that we're just gonna
choose him based on no discernible criteria stop and think about this what
does it mean to elect what does it mean to seal put an S in front of it select
what does it mean to choose okay let's say I have a bag of marbles up here
right and that bag of marbles contains green marbles red marbles yellow marbles
and blue marbles if I close my eyes reach behind my bag into reach by my
back into that bag and pull out a marble did I choose a marble no did I elect a
marble did I select a marble no because in order to choose something there must
be criteria in order to select something think about everything you've ever
chosen in your entire life you had criteria okay you chose who to marry
right was it just like you know what it's just by the mystery of my grace I
can't explain why I chose you honey but I did yeah what in the world
no you chose your wife because you liked the way she talked with you and you
liked being with her you liked her looks you liked her cooking whatever there
must even if it was the wrong criteria you had a criteria for every what what
makes you choose where you go to eat is it just the mystery of your will you
choose based on quality price healthfulness you have criteria every
choice and when people are gonna elect a president they don't just walk in and
just check whatever the box and just it's just it's just by grace it's just
and I'd look I did a sermon where I completely annihilated this this is
their version of grace because sometimes they don't call it Calvinism they
typically call it the doctrines of grace what was that sermon called somebody
helped me out it had grace in the name the biblical doctrine of grace or so I
don't know I did a sermon that had grace in the name go to faith for
Baptist org type in the word grace and there's a really cool by the way the
preaching calm let me just say that type in the preaching calm it takes you to
our sermon page and it has a little search bar at the top a lot of people
don't take advantage of that search bar you can type in any word and boom if
it's in the title there's there's almost 2,000 sermons there and it'll it'll pop
up and type in grace I did a sermon where I went through every mention of
the word grace like all the way from Genesis to like Romans or something or
even further and I showed that every single time God extended grace to
someone there was a reason every single time and so you can't just say God
chooses God elects God and then you say okay well who does he choose well it's
just who he chooses it's just the mystery of his own I submit to you that
God chooses based upon the heart of that person whether or not that person is
going to receive the gift you know the Bible says we are elect according to the
foreknowledge of God I mean think about it when God chose Abraham did he just
pick somebody and he really just could have picked anybody or was his choice of
Abraham based on something discernible something that we can actually
articulate because didn't God even say to Abraham in Genesis 18 or he say to
the angels that were with them he said I know Abraham he's gonna he's gonna teach
his children he's gonna order his house all that so God foreknew what Abraham
was gonna be like he foreknew what Isaac was gonna be like he foreknew what
Jacob was gonna be like and you say what about Romans 9 Romans 9 isn't about
salvation and I've done many sermons on that just go to the preaching calm and
type in Romans 9 and I've gone through and proven up one side and down the
other that that's talking about where he's choosing which nation is gonna be
the chosen people it's not him choosing who goes to heaven and who goes to hell
let me tell you something God predestinated those who he foreknew and
the Bible says whom he did foreknew them also did he predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his son okay now what's the destiny the destiny is
not which people will go to heaven the destiny is where those people will go
that he chooses does everybody understand what I'm saying you know what
what does God choose does God choose I'm just I'm gonna send this person to
heaven and this person to hell this person's gonna believe in me this
person's not gonna believe on me and it's just based on nothing good or bad
about that person that is it it'd be like if you just went to the hospital
and there's just a whole bunch of babies lined up in the nursery you're just like
die die die live die die live die live is that what God does no we are elect
according to the foreknowledge of God so if you take away the foreknowledge then
you have the Calvinist view that just says we're just elect based on nothing
so when you confront Calvinist with this and say hey look every time there's a
choice every time there's a selection every time there's an election there's a
criteria what's the criteria when God chose who would go to heaven and who
would go to hell what was the criteria for that choice because look we all
believe that God chose for people to go to heaven and he chose for people to go
to hell but what's the criteria we believe the criteria is he chose the
people who believe on him to go to heaven now couldn't he have made a
different choice he could have chosen hey everybody who does X amount of works
is gonna be saved everybody who attends church this many times shall be saved
everybody who abstains from these particular sins shall be saved no he
chose to save those who believe on him and the criteria in his foreknowledge is
he can look forward in time and know which people will receive Christ and
which ones won't which people will believe the gospel and which ones won't
which people love darkness rather than light which people are folks he chose us
look does it feel good to be chosen by God I mean everybody wants to be chosen
right everybody wants to be chosen but you know what it's kind of lame being
chosen when God just picked you totally at random that's not cool like you know
I chose you it's like wow really you chose me cool well I just pulled your
name out of a hat and the the Calvinists are like well yeah you know
that's keeps us humble we're trash we're scum and he just you know he chose us
anyway for no reason it's great yeah except it has a kind of dark side like
the majority of people not getting chosen and being damned and there's
nothing they can do about it and then God's just giving lip service like well
whosoever will they come suckers burn in hell that doesn't make any sense folks
in order for God to be just he has to honor his word and he can't he wouldn't
just get up and just give these disingenuous appeals to come to people
who can't come what did he say the Pharisees but you can't come to me
because you're not one of the chosen he said you will not come to me that you
might have life if you came to me you'd have life but you don't want to you will
what do the people say in the parable we will not have this man to rule over us
whosoever will may come so remember being chosen amen amen we're chosen
amen God chooses the same but guess what he chooses it based on a criteria and
that's his for knowledge he knows our heart so look everybody who's saved
obviously God already knows who's gonna be saved and who's not like it's not
like God is up in heaven wondering you know which way this person is gonna go
he knows the end from the beginning and he already knows which people are going
to be saved and which ones aren't and before the world began he looked forward
into time he saw all the people that would get saved and he predestined them
to be glorified to be justified so he predestined the what not the who that's
what predestination is and the criteria for being one of the chosen according to
his foreknowledge is that you are one who believes on Jesus Christ now when I
confront Calvinist with this they'll and say so what what's it based on every
choice is based on something is it random no no it's not random well then
what's the criteria how did he choose and here's they say it's a mystery the
mystery of his will and here's my answer to that well you know what if it's such
a mystery then why do you spend so much time talking about it since you don't
know anything about it they just want to emphasize this is I mean this is for
many people it's their cornerstone doctrine election predestination God
choosing who goes to heaven who goes to hell but yet they can't tell you what it
means they can't tell you what the criteria is they can't tell well it's
just the fact so it's like let's all just get together and just talk about
the fact hey guess what everybody we're saved everybody else is screwed and we
don't even know why isn't it great isn't God good isn't he amazing what's the
point of that doctrine it's a meaningless doctrine you know what all
the doctrines that I believe in the Bible they have a point that's a
pointless dot like even if you believe that let's just say that you bullet
because I don't believe it for one second I believe we have free will and I
believe that people who go I think I think Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in hell
because it's her fault that she's in hell it's not God's fault it's not like
God's just like RBG nope you're going to hell no you know God sent Jesus
Christ to die for that evil God hating reprobate and there was a time when she
was a little girl that God didn't hate her guts there was a time when God loved
her and sent his son to die for her and offered salvation to her and she chose
to reject and hate the Lord Jesus Christ and become an evil reprobate but you
know what she could have gone the other way but it was her will that sent her to
hell it was her choice to not follow whatever light she was given and so she
has made her own bed and she is laying in it you say don't speak ill of the
dead well you know what when somebody is responsible for murdering tens of
millions of people you know what we should rejoice when they burn in hell
she's not your garden variety sinner the Bible says the righteous shall rejoice
when they see the vengeance they shall wash his feet he shall wash his feet in
the blood of the wicked okay Ruth Bader Ginsburg who voted for abortion she was
part of Roe vs. Wade and and and her her dying wish was that you know that we
wait for the next president to appoint a Supreme Court justice because she's just
scared that that somehow Roe vs. Wade could get overturned not that it
probably ever will be overturned you know that's just kind of this little
carrot that the Republicans are always like putting in front of our nose and
then they just appoint complete idiots to the Supreme Court even the Republican
nominees are complete idiots and it never gets overturned anyway but she
just like with her dying breath is just like please let the slaughter of unborn
babies continue she's of the devil evil satanic Antichrist Jew who hated God and
was responsible for the murder of countless babies in the abortion
Holocaust that's the real Holocaust you know you Jews and your Holocaust how
about the abortion Holocaust what about that guess what when Gentiles die it
matters to Gentile Lives Matter GLM man and so that was kind of a little bit of
a rabbit trail but I wanted to just you know cover that about choices that you
know what did Jesus die for Ruth Bader Ginsburg I say yes I think he so loved
the world I think he died for the whole world I think there was a time when she
could have been saved there was a time when God loved her and cared about her
and convicted her and reproved her of sin but you know what now it's too late
for her at some point it becomes too late no matter what your doctrine you'd
have to agree if you're even halfway Baptist that at some point it becomes
too late so let's jump back in here I just wanted to talk about that with
choosing that you know what choosing is always based on some criteria the
Calvinist can't tell you what that criteria is yet the Bible tells us over
and over again what the criteria is if you believe you're elect if you believe
you have eternal life well yeah but why does one believe and one doesn't it's
the will the will to believe because of the fact that one person chooses not to
believe you know we believe what we want have you ever noticed that people
believe what they want you can try to convince someone of something but if
they don't want to believe it they won't listen we've all had those frustrating
type of experiences or maybe we were the one where they're just refused to
believe something and people are just showing it does but we just don't want
to believe it you know sometimes we really want to see the good in people
and and people show us how bad they are and we're just like no don't show me
that I can't I don't believe you I gotta hurry up here but it says blessed is the
man whom thou choosest and cause us to approach unto thee that he may dwell in
thy courts we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house even of thy
holy temple and you know what we're not talking about some building that's going
to be building Jerusalem where they can sacrifice animals we're talking about
the house of God the local church by terrible things in righteousness wilt
thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence here's that theme
again who are at the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that
are afar off upon the sea isn't it interesting that we're reading a verse
like that in the Old Testament when God supposedly only cared about Israel guess
what even in the Old Testament God so loved the world and God's already
thinking about the world and he's already foreshadowing the whole world
being filled with the gospel and so he says that God is the confidence of all
the ends of the earth and them that are a far off upon the sea even on islands
and distant lands it says which by his strength set us fast the mountains fast
means that they're firm they're like fastened being girded with power which
still at the noise of the seas the noise of their waves and the tumult of the
people they also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy
tokens thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice so again
the gospel goes to the whole world everybody has a chance to be saved
everybody has the chance to respond to the gospel the whole world hears of the
Lord and if they respond to the little light that they have they get a little
more light and they get a little more light and eventually they come to Christ
I like that word token so I just looked it up in the dictionary I'm pulling out
my phone because I wanted to read this to you the dictionary definition I didn't
write it down so I got to type it in here for token I love this definition
why are you not cooperating with me all right here we go listen to this because
look what the Bible says it says they also the dwell on the uttermost parts of
are afraid of thy tokens and and and what's the context of the tokens well he
talks about him stilling the sea and he talks about him doing terrible things
and the rivers and rain and weather and there are other scriptures and Psalms
that talk about him sending storms and lightning and and doing all these things
well listen to what a token is definition number one something serving
to represent or indicate some fact so something that represents or indicates a
fact number two a characteristic indication or mark of something but
listen to number four something used to indicate authenticity authority and
that's the definition that I really like something that shows authenticity or
authority you know God shows his power through the natural world God has shown
his magnificence through his creation the heavens declare the glory of God the
earth showeth forth his handiwork and so God through the natural world shows his
greatness his power it's a token of his authority it's a token of his
authenticity and it represents a fact that God is the god of the whole earth
and that God is in control and that God has power let's read about this token or
these tokens it says in verse number nine thou visitest the earth and
water ist it thou greatly and richest it with the water with the river of God
which is full of water thou preparest them corn when thou is so provided for
it thou water is the ridges thereof abundantly thou settle ist the furrows
thereof thou makest it soft with showers thou blesses the sprinkling thereof or
the springing thereof so basically here's what's going on when we plant a
field we plow furrows into the ground right we dig a row in the earth and then
we plant the seed and then we water it so we dig the furrows we water and
there's a lot of work that goes into farming farming is a hard job people
throughout history who owned their own land and farmed and grew their own food
without modern tools and equipment you know they lived as very poor people
subsistence farming doesn't make you rich the only way people would get rich is by
having a bunch of servants and other people doing the work and just managing
like a gigantic farm but if somebody just works their own farm where they're
the one who does everything one man show or maybe just them and their kids they
can just barely produce enough food to live you know it's not it's not cutting
a fat hog you know when you're just subsistence farming and so it's big why
because it's very hard work you go out there and you break your back to get the
earth to produce some food
obviously now we have machines and silver but even now it's not like
farmers are super wealthy even right now
ok so what the Bible saying is it's comparing God to the farmer and
basically instead of a field where you're digging little rows it's
basically talking about the ridges of the earth you know if you look at the
earth obviously there are parts of the earth that are ridges there's mountains
there's valleys and it's basically saying like this is God's great big farm
and he digs these furrows and he waters it and the watering it is just the rain
and you say okay well what's what's the big deal about that what's so
interesting about that
well here's the thing about that you know when you do some gardening isn't it
hard
now I'm terrible at gardening every time I garden
I fail and when I was a kid I successfully made a couple things grow
but I've had a lot more casualties than successes and you know what maybe you're
good at gardening and maybe you're out there and you've got a green thumb and
it's easy for you to make things grow but you know what who here struggles to
garden who here it just everything dies
yeah that that's me and here's the thing about that have you ever stopped and
I know I thought this a lot
have you ever thought about the fact there's all these plants growing by
themselves
you know I mean like even in Arizona and I'm thinking like nobody waters them
they never get water
nobody prunes them nobody takes care of them and they just grow by themselves
and they're just doing great
you can carve your name in the side of them and they're still alive but yet you
can sit there and take care of everything make it perfect water it you
feed it just dies
you all I forgot to water for two days dies water too much
it dies has anybody ever thought about that like what what in the world
you know why cuz God's just really good at gardening I'm serious
God when God does something he makes it look easy
he just makes things grow and every he just makes things grow no problem
we try to make things grow we really have to use our brains
you know we have to be smart we have to be skilled we have to know what we're
doing and it's a lot of hard work
God just makes it happen piece of cake easy happens on its own
no work and look it's not like there are just huge parts of the earth that just
things don't grow
there are a few places like that but think about it we could go all over
America and it's all different climate different types of plants everything but
things are just growing everywhere
things are growing things are all the wonders of evolution
yeah right it's a design and God when he does things he does them perfect and you
know what this is why it's so scary when man tries to tamper with the ecosystem
because of the fact that as soon as man gets involved now we're in gardening
mode and I don't care how good you are gardening when you try to garden like a
whole state or garden a whole continent you're gonna mess it up and how many
times have we seen people tamper with the environment they release some
genetically modified plant into the environment
genetically modified organisms genetically modified insects or whatever
oh this is going to solve this problem and then it creates another problem
you know it's like oh well we're going to introduce this new breed of fish into
these waters or whatever and then it's like they have no natural predators next
thing you know there's way too many of them and they just start taking over and
then it's like okay now we have to tamper more
oh hey maybe if we change the pH of the water we can kill those fish and then
you end up killing everything you know killing us
I mean there are so many things that can go wrong look though there's two there
are just too many variables when it comes to the ecosystem
now obviously like I said people that are good at it can garden a little
controlled area certain climate certain plants they know what they're doing but
trying to affect the climate on the whole planet is a fool's errand now look
can we screw up the climate on this planet sure could we screw up the
ecosystem could we pump a bunch of junk into the air and can we can we pump a
bunch of junk into a lake and make everything die yeah I mean we're pretty
good at killing things and wiping things out and I could do that in my own garden
too by the way with the best of them you know we can mess things up but as far
as making it work right only God can do that so here's the thing when you when
you have an environmental agenda that crosses over into saying well you know
what we're gonna actually actively step in and start fixing the environment
that's a scary thought because there could be so many unintended consequences
that they haven't thought of because they're just too many variables it's
it's the same thing like when countries try to have a planned economy you know
the communists take over and then the communists are like hey we're gonna plan
this economy five-year plan everybody's starving five years later why but when
you kind of just let the economy go right then it does better when you
tamper with it that's the way nature is God's got it all dialed in a certain way
and when you tamper with nature you end up making things worse even if you think
you're doing something better for it you're gonna end up making it worse so
look I'm all for taking care of the environment in the sense of I don't want
people polluting where I live I don't want I don't want some factory just
pumping out some giant black cloud or something that's just gonna mess
everything up I don't want some nuclear power plant that's just dumping like
radioactive waste or something into some body of water you know so yeah okay I
think we could all agree that we don't want to walk outside and not be able to
breathe and we don't want to be able to to we don't want to have to you know
reverse osmosis every drop of water in order to get something clean we don't
want our shower to be like burning us with like not the temperature being
wrong but just you know burning us with just acidic water or something you know
I think we can all agree on that but here's the thing when they start talking
about hey we're gonna you know spray this stuff in the sky or something it's
gonna block the sun's rays or it's like whoa do not tamper with it you know
there's certain damage that's already been done to our planet you know I just
try not to do any more damage amen but you can't sit there and try to undo it
by tampering more and hey we're gonna release these genetically modified
mosquitoes and they're gonna bite everybody and give them vitamins and
minerals or it's like whoa they're gonna vaccinate you you know here's how we get
the vaccine out send it out in genetically modified mosquitoes and when
they bite you you're vaccinated it's like you don't even have to it's like
whoa because once you let that genie out of the bottle you can't put it back once
you allow genetically modified organisms into the environment you can't
get them back and they're already out there folks all the GMO foods you're
eating at the grocery store they're growing in fields and then the wind
comes and it blows that over into the next field and so now even when you're
buying organic even when you're buying the stuff that's non-gmo a lot of it's
getting contaminated because it's breeding with the GMO stuff and it's
it's gonna get harder hard to find good clean food so the point is I love this
chapter just because it's describing God just the ultimate gardener you know
everything just works he's got his furrows he waters it everything works
and and the only reason it has problems is is man messing with it or tampering
with it but God's created some beautiful places in this world hasn't he and his
trees grow well it says in verse 11 now crown us the year with thy goodness and
thy paths drop fatness they drop upon the pasture of the wilderness and the
little hills rejoice on every side the pastures are clothed with flocks the
valleys also are covered over with corn they shout for joy they also sing so the
whole earth is praising God the plants and the animals are all glorifying God
in their own way and so at the end of the day what the Bible saying is rely
on God fear his terrible tokens fear the Lord glorify the God of the earth bless
him worship him and understand that he controls your destiny you know what I
don't believe that our planet is going to die while we're living on it you know
a lot of people they predict this doom because the Bible tells us in Genesis
chapter 8 that as long as the earth remaineth that summer and winter and
seed time and harvest will not cease day and night will not cease so as long as
this world's gonna be run see here's the thing guess what we're not gonna be here
for 4 billion years folks the problem is that people who don't believe in the
Bible don't believe in God they think we're gonna be here for another four and
a half billion years well you know then it's like well yeah I don't know if this
thing's gonna last at the rate we're going I don't think we're gonna make it
but but here's the thing we're not trying to be here for four and a half
billion years and again I'm totally against pollution but my point is I'm
not gonna dedicate my life to stop the planet from dying and turning into Venus
or something with a runaway greenhouse effect I'm not gonna devote my life to
that because the fact that I know that ultimately it's in God's hands God knows
the end from the beginning this earth has an expiration date on it God knows
how long it needs to last and it's gonna last that long now I do believe
that God's gonna allow all environmental hell to break loose in the book of
Revelation because I think some of the things we see in Revelation are
obviously supernatural and then I think he's also gonna use a lot of natural
things and so there is gonna be some runaway greenhouse effect in the book of
Revelation there's gonna be some hardcore global warming when people are
being scorched with heat but but thank God we're gonna be gone before that
before God pours out his wrath we're going to be removed pre-wrath and so we
don't have to worry about that and look like I said I'm not for dumping toxic
waste and ruining the environment but at the same time I have bigger fish to fry
I'm not gonna dedicate my life to serving the creature I'm gonna dedicate
my life to serving the Creator and the Bible warns us what happens when you
serve the creature rather than the Creator you know what your foolish heart
gets darkened and that's why we see so many people that are the most radical
environmentalists are they Bible believing Christians are the radical
environmentalists of this world typically haters of God if you think
about it I mean if you if we were to examine that I think that that's not a
hard case to make that typically Bible believing Christians aren't that worried
about it because this world's not our home and we know that God's ultimately
in control of it so here's the thing you know people you have people looking
at what's going on in California and elsewhere which by the way a lot of that
could be due to arson you know a lot of these wildfires there there is you know
who benefits you could see an agenda for why someone would want to start those
fires to further their environmental agenda and they don't mind killing
people to do it or whatever now I'm not saying it's arson I'm just saying that
it's probable it's likely to be arson we don't know I has anyone been caught
lighting fires well there you go so there have been some that have even been
caught lighting the fires but but here's the thing let's just take that out of
the equation for a moment okay let's just say for a minute okay it's getting
hotter in California which I don't think there's any question about that when it
was a hundred and twenty one degrees Fahrenheit in Woodland Hills California
that's never happened before I mean that's unbelievable in the West in the
valley you know in LA in the valley to hit 121 that's not normal okay but
here's the thing about that okay so California is getting really hot and
that's making the wildfire season worse and then what do fires produce what are
the the the products of that combustion well they are h2o and co2 going into the
atmosphere and what are those greenhouse gases and then it gets hotter
and then there's more fire and then there's more greenhouse gas now this is
the stuff that's gonna give little Greta Thurnberg nightmares but you know what
ought to give her nightmares is the fires of hell not the fires of California
because I'm going to tell you something God can bless California whenever he
wants to and God can send a cold front in whenever he wants to do you think
that God's incapable of cooling down the weather in California if he wants to
or cooling down the weather in Arizona if he wants to ultimately it comes down
to this do we respect God and understand that he is the one who ultimately
controls nature and he's the god of nature and he's the one who ultimately
has the power to fix things or are we gonna say no we got to do it on our own
because this earth is just a big accident it's a cosmic accident and and
we got to make this sucker last for four billion years and then we got to go find
a new planet I mean think about it folks ultimately what we ought to be doing
when we see natural disasters happening is repenting and turning to the Lord and
saying you know what God is allowing bad things to happen in 2020 because he is
angry with America that's what I believe and you know what that's what I've been
saying all along you know I you know go back to you know I I actually preached a
sermon about coronavirus on March 1st 2020 March 1st it wasn't even a thing
yet nobody knew how big it was gonna be in fact I remember the day before I
remember on Saturday the day before so I guess that would have been what
February 29th or whatever I remember saying to my wife in the kitchen I said
to her I said you know what I said I'm not even sure if I should even preach a
sermon on this coronavirus thing because I don't even know if it's even gonna be
a thing or if it's just like a China thing or something I don't even know if
it's gonna be big here if it's gonna be a thing but I said you know what I think
it's just a good opportunity to lay down some biblical principles that are true
no matter what and so that's why at the beginning of that sermon I even say hey
I don't know if this is gonna be a big thing or not but let's just lay down
some biblical principles anyway because this is just some stuff that the Bible
says it's always good to learn the Bible and I laid that down and one of the
things that I laid down in that original sermon that I did back on March 1st was
I said hey God sends a pestilence as a punishment pestilence is one of his
major punishments that he sends and guess what here I am in September and I
feel the same way and I think God's punishing us in other ways as well and
you know a lot of people are complaining about how bad 2020 is because of the fact
that I think anyone would agree it's not been a picnic I think you know no matter
where you fall on these various complicated issues everybody agrees it's
bad bad year now you can say it's bad because the virus made it bad it's bad
because the reaction to the virus made it bad it's both it's every it's all of
the above but here's the thing it's just bad on bad with a little more bad
added but guess what if we were right with God we wouldn't be suffering like
this as a nation God is is allowing these things to happen okay and you say
well it's arson it's man-made hey God is allowing those people to light those
fires that look at it that way God and by the way they're not just lighting
fires in the forest they're burning the city's down in Portland and Seattle and
different places even they did it here for a little while thankfully it was
short-lived but folks the day is is our country turning to God yet has anybody
felt like a movement of like things are bad
2020s hard let's let's get back to our Christian roots as a nation I mean is
anybody feeling that at all is that is the is the right wing doing that is the
left wing doing that I mean is because I don't think CNN and MSNBC are doing that
but is Fox News doing that is that what they're saying is Fox News saying hey
look folks the reason that things are going so bad in our country is because
we're not honoring Jesus Christ that's why this is happening I mean I don't
know I don't follow the news I don't listen to it but did Donald Trump get up
and say hey everybody 2020 is a bad year because we've been spitting in the face
of God did he say anything like that or anything okay well then you know what I
think God needs to turn up the heat a little more because apparently his
message isn't getting through I mean think about it if I'm trying to send
somebody message and they're not getting the message I might start talking a
little louder or I might start making the message a little clearer and you
know I wonder how loud is God gonna have to get and how bad is it gonna have
to get and how much heat is he gonna have to turn up before Christians in this
country start waking up you know I mentioned I mentioned earlier that I
went soul-winding and Randall like six people that were already saved just in
the space of like an hour knocking doors in Scottsdale just saved saved saved
saved okay well when are those millions and millions and millions of saved
people in America gonna get off their butts and start doing something for God
you know of course they're they're always ready to tell us to vote for
Trump you know where I was not I was out soul-wining hey you guys she's like yes
I'm saved I know I'm going to heaven and you better be voting for Trump and and
this and that and I'm and I'm it's just like and she said we're gonna overturn
Roe vs. Wade you know what I've heard that one before I've been hearing about
overturning Roe vs. Wade my whole life and Reagan has appointed justices and
Bush has appointed justices and here we are folks and still we have no
overturning of Roe vs. Wade I'll believe it when I see it and you know what I'd
much rather do the sure thing winning people to Christ preaching the gospel
and you know what here's my message for America be afraid be very afraid fear
God's tokens because that forest fire is a token the heat wave is a token the
rioting looting is a token showing you God's angry and you need to repent
that's the message that America needs to hear right now and you know what you I
don't care if you solve the conspiracy and you unmask the people behind the
conspiracy you know what it doesn't matter because God will just use
something different to punish you because if you're not right with God you
get punished period by hook or by crook you can escape a bear and then you run
into the house and shut the door and you're safe and you put your hand on the
door and a snake bites you that's what it's like when God wants to punish you
and you're running away let's buy odds and have a word of prayer father we
thank you so much for the fact that even in a time of turmoil even when this
world's being punished even when our state or city could even be punished
Lord that we live in the land of Goshen and that there's always light in our
dwellings even when this world's in darkness there's always light in our
dwellings thank you so much Lord for blessing us and and taking care of us
and allowing our church to continue to thrive and win people to Christ and and
thank you so much Lord for allowing us to to just enjoy in our personal lives
Lord all the blessings you give us Lord I'm thinking of my soul-wining partner
this afternoon that said hey I'm just excited about the future Lord there's so
much that you have in store for us so many good things that we can't even
imagine Lord help us not to get down help us not to get discouraged help us
to fear you and love you and worship you and Lord help us to do great things for
you even in a troubling time and in Jesus name we pray amen
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this is my father's world
I rest me in the thine of rocks and trees of skies and seas
his hand the wonders wrought
this is my father's world
the birds their carols raise
the morning light the lily white
declare their maker's praise
this is my father's world
he shines in all that's rare
in the broad swing grass I hear him pass
he speaks to me everywhere
this is my father's world
oh let me there forget
that though the rocks he tops so strong
God is the ruler yet
this is my father's world
the battle is not done
Jesus who died shall be satisfied
when earth and heaven be won
you