Church this morning, it's so good to see you all here for our Sunday morning service.
Find your seats now, grab a song, but go to Hymn 296, we'll get started today.
Hymn 296, follow on.
Hymn number 296, once you find your place together, we'll begin on that first verse.
Down in the valley with my Savior, I would go.
Hymn number 296, lift your voice together now, 296.
Down in the valley with my savior, I would go
Where the flowers are blooming and the sweet waters flow
Everywhere he plays, see I would follow, follow on
Walking in his footsteps till the crown he wants
With the valley, with my Savior I would go
Where the storms are sweeping and the dark waters slow
With His hand to lead me, I will never, never peer
Nature cannot fright me if my Lord is here
Follow
on the service so I've asked for the Jason Maxis if you would leave some prayer please.
Dear heavenly father of the Lord thank you for allowing us to be in church on this beautiful
Sunday day. I pray that you would bless the music as we sing praises unto you and please
feel the passion with your holy spirit. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. That's a hymn number 406
number 406 who is on the Lord's side hymn number 406 we'll sing this out together on that first
And six, lift your voice on that first now.
Move.
together. If you don't have a bulletin, 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 10 30 is our preaching service Sunday
nights at six Wednesday nights at seven is our Bible study. This week we will be in second Chronicles
chapter 33. We've got the soul winning times listed there below as well as salvation and
baptisms. Congratulations to the urban family on the birth of baby Elias.
born on Tuesday, January 21st, seven pounds, 10 ounces.
And so please speak to Mrs. Amanda Wright or Mrs. Ventura
if you would like to help out with a meal.
And then, of course, next Sunday,
we'll have the coffee and donuts at 10 a.m. before the service.
At the bottom, there's the note about the donation items,
usually on Wednesday nights,
but also frequently on Sundays.
We will have stuff over there,
a lot of free food that gets donated and other free items.
And so that stuff is always just free for the taking.
And then there's also lost and found stuff over there.
But hopefully we don't confuse those two.
But yeah, that stuff is all free stuff.
There's a lot of free food.
all the time and it's a lot of really good stuff.
There'll be a lot of organic meat and produce
and really quality stuff.
So take advantage of that.
On the back, keep praying for the ladies that are expecting
that they'll have a safe and healthy pregnancy and delivery.
Speaking of which, there's a baby shower
in honor of Lola on Sunday, February 2nd,
so a week from today, 2 to 4 o'clock.
And that's for all ladies and teenage girls.
Food will be provided.
And then other upcoming events.
This Friday night, I am preaching in Oklahoma City
at Anchor Baptist Church, Pastor Dylan Oz.
And so I'm looking forward to that.
If you know anybody who's in that Oklahoma City region,
please let them know.
Or if anybody is watching that lives in that area,
please come out.
It's 7 p.m. this Friday night for the service.
And then we got Pastor Shelley preaching on February 19th.
We got the Bahamas cruise mission strip coming up
March 23rd through 28th.
And then also briefly, I'll just mention the reason that I wasn't here on Wednesday when
Pastor Thompson was preaching is that Brother Daniel Ryder and I went on a short mission
strip this week. And so we went to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.
And between the two of us, we had a total of 52 people saved.
So it was a really successful trip.
It was extremely receptive and fruitful.
And we went straight, we went to the Cayman Islands.
We went straight to the community college
because that's the best demographic, young adults.
And it was just so great because we're just walking
around the campus just talking to groups of like.
two, three, four students at a time and just going through the gospel with them.
We were there all day and that was where we had most of the people saved.
I had like 17 people saved, Daniel had like 22 people saved,
just being at that community college all day.
They went to Jamaica. I'm not gonna lie. I did not like Jamaica at all, and I'm never gonna go back.
It was probably my one of my least favorite places that I've ever been in my life.
But, you know, we had kind of a bad experience with the soul winning for the first few hours,
but then finally we found this park where we were able to post up and and talk to people and
we ended up finally throughout the whole day
getting a total between the two of us of 11 people saved.
So I mean, it ended up like the numbers make it sound good,
but because we did eventually find some,
some receptive people to talk to,
but I think it's probably the,
and here's the thing,
I know I've heard from the Jamaica crew that they said,
oh, Montego Bay is really good.
And they didn't necessarily like other parts
of Jamaica so much.
So we were not in Montego Bay,
which is what everybody loves.
We were in Ocho Rios.
and I did not like Oto Rios at all, okay?
Within just a couple minutes of getting off of the ship,
we had to just walk through like this gauntlet
of literally like a hundred people
trying to sell us something.
And look, I understand, I've been to Tijuana,
I've been to Nogales, I've been to these kind of places,
but I have never been anywhere where people were this rude and obnoxious.
I mean, just shoving stuff in our face
and just jumping in front of us and getting in our way and stuff.
I mean, it was like, I had to just be like,
yeah, yeah, you know, like to get, it was, it was insane.
Okay, we've been off the ship for like three minutes.
And you know, anybody who knows Brother Daniel Ryder, he's super polite.
You know, he's a very polite young man, okay, and
Some guy like like we've been off the ship for like three minutes
Some guy is like trying to sell him marijuana
And he's just like oh, he just says oh, no, thanks, and the guy just goes okay
Just keep walking mother
And I'm like, what the heck?
Like, just dropping F-bombs on us,
just for saying no thank you, walking by.
I mean, I was offered drugs,
the whole time we were in Jamaica,
just people were just offering us drugs the whole time.
All day.
Even when we got like a half hour walk from the cruise ship,
just people just offering us, anytime they see us,
they're just holding out, marijuana does,
holding out, adobe does,
hey, you know, just trying to get us to smoke weed.
And it was just, I think I was literally offered drugs
in one day more than my entire 43 years of life.
Up to that one day, it was, am I exaggerating Daniel?
It says, you can verify all this with Daniel.
This is how it was.
Then like so then we did you know, we did a bunch of successful soul winning and everything
I mean, I had some scary guy with like tattoos all over his face
Just yell hey dad. Come here. Come here dad. I need to talk to you
I'm like, I never knew you you're not my say
You're not my son I walk over to the guy. I'm thinking that he needs something. Hey, give me five dollars
I'm just like what that
It was it was a little bit. I'm not gonna lie. It was a little bit frustrating
Not my favorite place one star do not recommend
And so I guess it doesn't really matter that I'm banned from there. So
Because I don't want to go back anyway. All right, so enough about that. We had a great time. I don't want to be negative
back to the positive
52 salvations got a lot of people saved had a good time
and so forth so that was a blessing and so you know want to keep keep keep on
farming the Caribbean because there's so the fields are white under harvest you
know somebody somebody talked about the rise and fall of the new IFB
And I was, you know, I was trying to figure out what that could mean because of the fact that, you know,
we're having just so many people saved, all this preaching is happening,
all these people are being baptized, all these lives are being changed.
It seems like things are going so great.
And I personally, it's only what, January 26th, I've already had my number one best month of my entire life for personal soul winning in January 2025.
I've personally had my best month of my life for soul-winning.
And so I'm trying to figure out, like, what is this fall of the new IP?
But then I figured it out. Fall means autumn.
So I figured it out. It's the great harvest that we're experiencing.
So it was the rise and now it's the fall.
It's like the in-gathering of all the spiritual fruits.
So this is the fault. We are experiencing the fall
of the new IFB, the new IFB is in free fall, it turns out.
And so, yeah, it's been great.
Getting a lot of people say there's a lot of opportunities.
And so I hope that you will think about participating
in one of these future cruise mission strips.
Cayman Islands is an awesome place to go.
Bahamas is an awesome place to go.
You know, apparently Montego Bay's a great place to go.
I, you know, I can't vouch for it, but Ocho Rios was kind of no bueno.
I think that it's almost like the opposite of the conventional wisdom, because if you
think about it, in the United States of America, you know, we like to go to the poorest areas.
Like usually the best soul winning is we go to really poor areas and have a great time
soul winning.
And when we plan soul winning marathons across the country, we pick the poorest places and
I feel like in the Caribbean, it's kind of the opposite because the countries that are better off in the Caribbean seem to be the better soul winning, you know, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Turks and Kegos, because I think what happens is you get to a level where it just, it gets too derelict.
You know what I mean because it's like you want because what you want is like you want to reach the poor blessed or the poor
You know and and the poor are receptive
But then you get to people that aren't poor. They're just derelicts. They're drug addicts
Lazy whatever and it's sort of like
Trying to witness to homeless people in the United States like you would expect that to be a really receptive demographic
But if you have any experience trying to witness to homeless people, there's some of the least receptive people
So you can kind of get to a point where it's like you get so poor that it stops being receptive again
You know, and I think that's what we kind of experienced in some places
So it's almost like you go to when you're in a really super poor country
The nicer neighborhoods you have more success and then in a rich country like America the poor place is where you have the success
So it's almost like a little bit. I don't know
I was just something I was kind of thinking about just from my experiences over the last couple months of doing a lot of soul winning in several
Caribbean countries over the last couple of months.
Anyway, I know it was a long announcements,
but I just wanted to share with you a little bit
of my experiences this week out on the mission field.
And so with that, let's go ahead
and sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right, you should find the answer
in the front of your hymnal
with the hymn entitled Rejoice and the Lord.
If you don't have an answer, please raise your hand
and you'll receive one.
We'll sing it on that first together.
God never moves without purpose or plan.
Let's sing it out together.
God never moves with a purpose or plan
When trying a servant and molding a man
Give thanks to the Lord, though your testing seems wrong
In darkness He given the song
no mistake you know at the end of each path that I take for when I am tried and glorified
I shall come forth as dawn I could not see through the shadows
I say, you're incentive, I bow to the will of the faster that day.
Then peace came and tears fled away.
All rejoice in the Lord, He made no mistake.
I shall come forth as gold.
Now I can see testing comes to me.
man excellent singing everybody go to hymn number 136 and your hymnals number 136
really watch me when we get to that chorus especially 136 master the tempest is raging
hymn number 136
we'll sing this out together on that first
136 lift your voice on that first now master the tempest is raging the billows are tossing
The sky is our shadow with blackness
No shelter for help this night
Here is now not that we perish
How can't thou lie asleep
When each moment so madly is struck
The master of ocean and...
Master, when they wish us herein, I bow in my grave too.
Toasty, or demons, or men, or whatever it be, the water can swallow the ship where lies.
Thank you for watching.
plates around. And we will turn our Bibles to Revelation chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21,
as we always do, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse number 1. Follow along silently
with Brother Corbin Brock as he reads Revelation chapter 21 beginning in verse 1.
Revelation 21. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth
And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes,
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.
And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.
And he said unto me,
Right, for these words are true and faithful.
And he said unto me, It is done.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
I will give unto him that is a thirst
of the fountain of the water of life freely.
He that overcomes shall inherit all things.
I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars
She'll have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues and
Talked with me saying come hither. I will show thee the bride the lamb's wife
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.
Having the glory of God and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
And had a wall great and high and had twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels and names written thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
On the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates thereof and the wall thereof.
And the city lieeth four square, and the length is as large as the breadth.
And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs.
The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
And you measure the wall thereof, and hundred and forty and four cubits according to the measure of a man that is of the angel.
And the building of the wall of it was of Jasper, and the city was pure gold like under clear glass.
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.
The first foundation was Jasper, the second sapphire, the third a chalcedony, the fourth an emerald, the fifth sardonyx,
The sixth, Sardias, the seventh, Chrysalite, the eighth barrel, the ninth, the topaz, the tenth, a Chrysoporces,
the eleventh, adjacent, the twelfth, an amethyst, and the twelve gates were twelve pearls.
Every several gate was of one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold,
as it were transparent glass, and I saw no temple therein.
For the Lord, God, Almighty, and the Lamb are the temple of it.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there, and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileeth, neither whatsoever, worketh abomination, or maketh a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Father in heaven, we love you. This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it
We ask now Lord that you would bless and anoint pastor Anderson
Give him great wisdom as he teaches this as glorious chapter of the Bible Lord
We pray that our hearts would be
Drawn on to you Lord and that we would just be better Christians each and every day
And we give you all the glory and honor for it in Jesus name. Amen
Men, the part of the chapter that I want to focus on is verse number eight, which is one
of my favorite verses to use when I'm out soul winning.
And in fact, every single time I ever give the gospel to anyone.
I use this verse 100% of the time because I think it's just such a great verse to show that we've
all sinned and that truth be told we have all committed things that make us worthy of going
to hell. We all deserve to go to hell because we've all committed sin and especially because in
this particular verse it even mentions that all liars shall have their part.
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone and I think it's pretty easy
for everyone to relate with that as having lied before it's it's very rare
that you'll ever run into someone who claims to have never lied and of course
just by making that claim they're lying to you right then and there
But it starts out here with this list of all these different sins, but the fearful and unbelieving
and the abominable and murderers and hormongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall
have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
So we have this list of sins that would condemn
People to hell, you know, reasons why God is justified in sending the wicked to hell.
And so what I want to do though is just only focus on the very first one on the list in this sermon,
which is The Fearful.
right? Because when we're going down this list, some of them are pretty obvious, murderers,
and idolaters and so forth, but what are we talking about here when we start out this verse by
saying the fearful, right? This is in the list of people that are sinful people who are deserving
Obviously, every single person, if they were to be judged by their works, would be condemned
to hell, but that we have salvation through Jesus Christ.
And so by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, all of our sins are forgiven.
So in the spite of the fact that we have been fearful, unbelieving, etc., we've lied, we've
done these things, we are going to heaven because those sins are forgiven and forgotten
because we've put our faith in Christ.
fearful. Who are we talking about this group of people, the fearful? And in this context,
what we are referring to is cowards, right? That's how we would say this in our modern vernacular.
We would say cowards are going to hell, okay? Now, what does it mean to be a coward? Well,
if you would turn to Isaiah chapter 35, Isaiah chapter 35, and I want to preach this morning
Although we're saved and going to heaven no matter what because we have eternal life
We obviously want to live lives that are pleasing to God and apparently it does not please God for us to be fearful
Otherwise, this wouldn't be on a list of damning sins
Fearful unbelieving abominable murderers. I mean some really bad things apparently fearful is one of them
Now, in this context, we're not talking about the good kind of fear in the Bible because
there is a good kind of fear and a bad kind of fear.
Good fear in the Bible is when you're fearing the Lord, fearing God.
Or the Bible says, let every man fear his father and mother.
So that's a good kind of fear of authority, respecting authority and so forth.
Let me give you some Bible verses.
You turn to Isaiah 35, but I'm going to give you some examples of this from elsewhere.
Deuteronomy 20 verse 8, the Bible says,
The officers shall speak further unto the people,
and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted?
Let him go and return into his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
And the Bible is talking about here that when you go out to war,
you don't want to have cowards with you in the army.
And so the Lord instructed the Israelites
that whenever they go to battle,
the first thing that they should do is ask,
look, is anyone scared?
Is anyone fearful?
Is anyone fate-hearted?
Go home.
We don't want you here.
We don't need you here
because we're afraid that in the heat of battle
your cowardice is going to be like a contagion
that would cause other people to become fearful as well.
Of course, this reminds us of the story of Gideon, where God actually tells Gideon to enact this thing that's found in Deuteronomy, right?
Deuteronomy has this law, but then Gideon actually puts it into practice and he has 32,000 troops and he says anybody who's fearful, go home.
22,000 people go home and only 10,000 stay,
which I think was pretty disappointing for him.
But it says in Judges chapter 7 verse 3,
whosoever is fearful and afraid,
let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead,
there return to the people 22,000.
Okay.
And so we got a lot of cowards out there, right?
There are a lot of fearful people in this world.
And we as Christians, we do not want to be cowards
and this is a big problem today.
in the United States of America with Christians just being scared of their own shadows and as a
result they're not boldly standing up for what's right. Right? I mean you have not yet resisted
unto blood striving against sin and yet people are fearful of just maybe getting made fun of or
even just the slightest little bit of persecution.
And whenever I think about this statement that, well, if they fear they're going to cause the people around them to fear as well and then that's why they should go home from the army,
I think about when a church goes through persecution, right?
And, you know, for example, our church many, many years ago was persecuted because I preached
against homos, and so we had a bunch of, you know, homos and homosympathizers out there
protesting our church and trying to cause problems for us and so forth.
And here's the thing, when that happened, we lost very few church members.
Very few.
Why?
So it wasn't like we had some mass exodus, but stop and think about it
What if we had just scores of people leaving the church as soon as persecution comes as soon as some you know
Sodomite weirdos are out there protesting our church if a whole bunch of people quit
You know what that could cause like a domino effect where more people are oh everybody's leaving
Well, I'm gonna leave too and you know and it could cause a domino effect and you know
I've seen other churches where
Big chunks of the congregation left in times of persecution over the sodomite issue and
Here's the thing that's harmful every single person who leaves
during that kind of a fight, during those kind of persecutions,
not only are they a coward and a disgrace to the Lord,
being ashamed of Him and His words and this wicked and adulterous generation,
and allowing homos to tell them where to go to church,
the worst scum of the earth, are going to dictate to them,
what's right and wrong and what the Bible says and where they should go to church.
People who literally earlier in the week loved the sermon and then now all of a sudden
they're cowards and leaving. Not only that, but the sin of that is that they end up being
a bad influence on other people and causing other people to be a coward.
And it just spreads just like boldness and bravery and courage can spread so can cowardice
I'm thinking of one person individual who literally called me on the phone and told me what a great sermon pastor
He meant as it preached back in 2016 when he preached hard against the sodomites at particular sermon
This person called me on the phone to tell me how great the sermon was
Less than a week later quit the church. I don't agree with Pastor Jimenez
I don't agree with this doctrine. You're a coward is what you are and
Then of course this person has friends and then they lead other people to go be a wait a week
Little lame sissy coward like themselves and go let a bunch of fags and weirdos push them around
It's wickedness.
Now you're starting to see why this is on the list in Revelation 21-8.
Be in a coward, be fearful, be afraid to stand up for what's right
and to be in the Lord's army and instead turn tailing and running
and letting this world just overrun God's people
with a bunch of perverts in the United States of America.
Folks, we need some boldness today.
in 2025, we don't need a bunch of cowards.
And you know what, that's why I'm just glad
that our church isn't filled with cowards.
Because I know that if we ever get to a point
where we go through intense persecution,
we're gonna have some strong, bold, courageous people
that are gonna stand strong,
and then it's gonna help other people be strong as well.
It's gonna strengthen the people around them.
And that's the kind of people you wanna surround yourself with
going into a fight.
going into a spiritual battle.
Look if you would at Isaiah chapter 35, verse 3.
Here's what we should be doing as preachers.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart,
be strong, fear not, behold, your God will come with vengeance,
even God with a recompense, he will come and save you."
Right?
So we need to demonstrate that kind of courage,
and we need to also exhort one another and
admonish one another to be strong in times of tribulation,
trials, persecution, etc.
And again, we haven't yet resisted unto blood,
striving against sin.
And you wonder, some of these really weak,
cowardly Christians, how are they gonna do
in the Great Tribulation?
You know, when even the most minor hint of persecution
freaks them out.
It's pretty sad.
But not only that go if you were to 2 Timothy chapter 1 the preacher himself must not be a coward right because if the preacher is supposed to be
strengthening God's people if God's people are supposed to be strengthening one another the last thing
We want is a cowardly preacher in the pulpit preachers that are too scared to preach the entire Bible
And if I could change one thing about pastors across America,
if I could push a button to make all pastors,
you know, that are independent fundamental Baptist,
believe the doctrines that I believe,
or if I could push a button just taking away their fear,
I would push the button that just takes away their fear.
Because in reality,
multitudes of them already agree with me in their heart.
They're just too scared to preach.
I'd push this button, I'd be like, nothing happened.
It's like, exactly.
You know all if I push this button all the pastors are in America are gonna agree with me on the sodomites
I'm pushing the button and nothing's happening. Nothing's shit. It's broken. No, no it wait it a
Lot of these guys they already know that these people are disgusting repulsive evil reprobate that's not the problem
The problem is that they're scared
And so I'd rather push the button to just let pastors get their own beliefs from the Bible and the Holy Spirit.
I don't need to control what they believe. I don't need to influence what they believe.
Let them and the Lord and the Holy Spirit figure it out themselves.
I just wish that they would stop being cowards and just get up and just preach what they believe.
Even if it's not exactly what I believe.
Even if it's a little different than what I believe.
Even if their doctrine is slightly different, I just wish they'd get up and preach what they believe.
Just get up and preach something and not be a coward.
It's a huge problem today.
I'm telling you, it is a big problem today,
just scared preachers.
It says in verse 6,
wherefore I put thee in remembrance
that thou stir up the gift of God.
This is one preacher to another, right?
This is the apostle Paul talking to his young protege
in the ministry, Timothy.
I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God,
which is in thee by the putting out of my hands,
for God had not given us the spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be
thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God."
He's saying, look, don't be ashamed of the word of God.
Don't be ashamed of the man of God.
Be a participant, a partaker, one who shares in persecution because all that will live godly
in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Hey, put yourself out there as a preacher, Timothy.
Preach the word and let the chips fall where they may.
Stir up that gift of God because God has not given us the spirit of fear.
We need power, we need love, and we need to sound mine.
Now, if you would flip over to Psalm 27,
so if you think about it, fear that stops us from serving God
is not a rational fear.
because God has unlimited power to protect us and care for us.
So does it really make any sense to say,
oh, I'm scared to do what God told me to do,
because what if this bad thing happens to me?
God has unlimited power to protect us.
That fear makes no sense.
We should be much more afraid to not do what we're supposed to do,
because if God has it in for us, no one can protect us.
Whereas, if this world has it in for us, God can protect us all day long.
Look what the Bible says in Psalm 27.
It says in verse 1,
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh.
Sounds pretty rough there.
These are some serious enemies when they want to come and they don't want to just kill you. They want to eat you
Okay, he said come upon me to eat my flesh. They stumbled and fell
Don't when host that's an army
An host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear, though war should rise up
against me, in this will I be confident."
Right?
We can be confident knowing that the Lord is our salvation.
He is the strength of our life.
There's no reason to be afraid of anyone.
We should be confident.
Go if you want to Psalm 56.
Speaking of confidence, the Bible says in Proverbs 3.26, for the Lord shall be thy confidence.
and shall keep thy foot from being taken."
Right? He's not going to let you crash and burn.
He can protect you.
The Bible says in Isaiah 8.13,
sanctify the Lord of hosts himself.
and let him be your fear and let him be your dread, right?
Only fear the Lord.
Don't fear what man can do unto you.
Sanctify the Lord, meaning set apart the Lord in your mind
as the one who is truly worthy of your fear
and your dread, the Bible says.
Let him be your fear, let him be your dread.
Proverbs 29, 25, the fear of a man bringeth,
excuse me, the fear of man bringeth a snare,
but whoso puteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
So don't be ensnared or trapped by the fear of man, fear God only.
Look at Psalm 56 verse 1.
Be merciful unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up.
First they want to eat him, now they want to swallow him.
He fighting daily oppresseth me.
For they be many that fight against me, O thou most high, what time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
In God I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do unto me."
I mean that sounds a lot like what we have written on the money. Isn't that what it says on all the money?
In God we trust!
Then that means he should be our fear. He should be our dread.
We shouldn't be worried about what other people think when we're commanded to do right in the Word of God.
Don't ever be scared to do the right thing. It's an irrational fear.
We should always have the courage to do right because God has unlimited power to protect us and to control the outcome in our favor.
The Bible says in verse number five, every day they rest my words, meaning they twist my words, right?
They're trying to twist the things that he says to attack him.
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
they mark my steps when they wait for my soul.
Shall they escape by iniquity?
In my anger, cast down the people.
Oh God, he's saying, look, I'm going to trust in the Lord when I'm afraid.
Because look, inevitably there will be times when we're human when we will be afraid,
what time I'm afraid, I'll trust in thee, and then we pray to God to take care of our problem.
And that's what David is doing in this passage.
If you would go to Jeremiah chapter 38, Jeremiah chapter 38.
Now here's the thing, it's ironic, but oftentimes if you end up letting fear stop you from doing the right thing,
the exact thing that you were afraid of ends up happening to you.
a lot of the time.
So it's kind of ironic, right?
Like, oh, I'm scared this is going to happen,
so I'm not going to obey God,
and then that exact thing happens to you
that you are afraid of.
And here's what the Bible says,
the fear of the wicked,
it shall come upon him.
The thing that the wicked guy is afraid of?
Yeah, it'll happen.
But the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Now, look at Jeremiah 38, this is one of my most favorite classic examples of somebody
being afraid to serve God, afraid to do the right thing, and then the exact thing that
they're afraid of ends up happening to them.
But before we look at that, let me just give you some examples.
How about a pastor who's afraid to preach hard because he's afraid of losing members?
And then he ends up losing members anyway just by being so lame.
Because if you think about it, a lot of our independent, fundamentalist Baptist churches across America are in decline right now.
Why are they in decline?
Because they're lame.
And so if they, you know, oh, I'm afraid to preach really hard, I'm going to run people off,
and yet here you are running people off just with sheer suckiness.
You know what I mean?
And the thing is, look, let's face it, if we go across America and visit a lot of the old IFB churches,
because you just see a lot of gray heads out there,
very few young people, very little new fresh blood
coming in to these movements,
and they're in decline, unfortunately.
Now I'm not saying they all are,
they're a lot of great old IFB churches out there.
I'm just saying that in general though,
it's a problem where you don't have
a younger generation coming in
and the church's getting smaller and smaller and smaller,
and you're not reaching new people,
you don't have new life,
you don't have the young people and so forth.
And why? Because you're afraid to preach hard, you're afraid to be controversial,
you're afraid you're going to lose people. You are losing people.
And if we want to go all the way to the end of that road,
we could look at a place like England today,
where the churches have gotten so liberal and so watered down that no one goes anymore.
I think that, don't quote me on this, but it was some incredibly low statistic,
like less than 1% of people in England go to church.
Right because a lot of people go to church in America
But in England, it's like less than 1% because what happens is the churches get so liberal and watered down
What's even the point anymore?
And so the more liberal the churches get the the more their attendance goes down
That's why all the mainline denominations have been declining for decades
Methodist, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalents, their
attendances are all declining for decades because of the fact
that they're so weird.
It's like that weird lesbian creep that just that everybody
who knows what I'm talking about in the news this week, right?
That that this female bishop or whatever.
I was thinking maybe replace the shut with a, well, I better
not say that, but anyway, the point is like this, this gross
It's up there. Oh, yeah, our little LGBT. Just this disgusting
evil
demoniac up there
right and
Guess what religion she's a part of
Church of England right Episcopalian
Anglican or whatever right isn't that what she was?
Because I'm pretty sure Anglican, Episcopalian, Church of England, it's like, like basically, the people,
here's the good thing, when we got rid of the British in 1776, the Church of England in America essentially died, you know.
It wasn't really that popular to be part of the Church of England when, you know, we're independent now.
But there's still a few weird lesbian holdouts, I guess, apparently, in 2025 that are still into it.
But it's like what the heck like what could be more evil and satanic than this gross lesbian promoting sodomy from the pulpit
Burn it with fire
Good night
So you know you're afraid to preach hard and lose you say I don't know aren't you afraid you're gonna lose members
But I don't know I might gain a couple members preaching hard preaching what the Bible actually says
Then getting up and being afraid of my own shadow
You know, and I saw it, so-called Christians, it's so-called born-again Christians, saying,
oh, don't judge all female ministers based on...
The Bible clearly teaches that women are supposed to keep silence in the church, okay?
Everybody knows that who's read the Bible.
Or how about this, you're afraid to tithe because you don't want to crash and burn financially,
then you crash and burn financially because you don't tithe.
How about that?
Or how about this?
You're afraid to be embarrassed or humiliated by preaching the Gospel, by doing soul-winning?
And then God just finds some other way to embarrass and humiliate you.
Because it turns out there are a lot of ways to be embarrassed and humiliated in life.
Besides giving the gospel and getting made fun of for giving the gospel and you know look if you give the gospel long enough
You're gonna be in a situation where you give somebody the gospel and they laugh in your face or other people point at you and mock you
But guess what I guarantee you they've I look let's ask question right now
Who can remember a specific time when you were laughed at or made fun of?
for speaking up for Christ or the Gospel,
and you were mocked and made fun of for being Christ.
Okay, go ahead and put them down.
Now how about this?
Who can think of a time in their life
when they were ever mocked, humiliated, or made fun of
for something else other than the Gospel?
This would be every hand up.
Unless you're just super sheltered.
I mean, you really went your whole life
never getting made fun of?
You didn't go to my school.
The point is, we've all been mocked and humiliated
and made fun of for things that have nothing to do with Jesus.
Probably hundreds of times in our lives and so here's the thing you want God to protect you
You want God to bless you open your mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. You say oh, I'm too shy
I'm too embarrassed. I'm afraid to get made fun of I'm afraid to make a fool of myself
God has other ways of making a fool of you if you're disobey the Great Commission
If you obey the Great Commission God can actually protect you from being mocked and ridiculed and
Actually make you a respectable person
But let's look at the story because this is a great example Jeremiah 38 verse 17 says then said Jeremiah does that Akhaya
Does say at the Lord the God of hosts the God of Israel if thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes
We're in Jeremiah 38 17
Then thy soul shall live in
This city shall not be burned with fire and thou shall live and thy house
So God's giving him a really clear commandment here. He's saying you must surrender to the Babylonians
If you do, you'll be fine, the city will be fine, everything will be fine.
But, verse 18, if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans,
and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
Really clear message here.
If you do this, God's going to bless.
If you do this, it's all going to go bad.
God's going to punish you.
Zedekai, the king, verse 19, said unto Jeremiah, I'm afraid.
Right, so here's getting the perfect advice from the man of God thus say at the Lord very simple what you need to do
Surrender now. What do you think is easier surrendering or fighting?
Surrendering is easier
So he's being given a very easy thing to do
Just surrender
That's what you have to do if you do that God's gonna bless you and what's his answer? I'm afraid
Do right. No, I'm afraid. I'm scared
Zedekiah the king said in Jeremiah,
I'm afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans
lest they deliver me into their hand and they mock me.
I'm afraid of getting made fun of.
Everybody see that?
He literally just fly outside.
I would do what's right.
I know what you're saying is right.
I'm just scared that I'm gonna get made fun of.
And that's why I love this passage
because it's so relevant today
because people, they really worry about this today.
especially teenagers, young people,
they really worry about what other people think of them.
And they're afraid of being ridiculed.
They're afraid of being mocked or made fun of
if they bring their Bible to school
or if they preach the gospel
or if they take a stand for Christ.
If they stand against drugs, you know,
they're afraid that, I guess,
somebody will treat them the way Daniel was treated
when he turned down marijuana this week, you know?
They don't want to be ridiculed, right?
You know, I was I was I was joking around with him that you know when you're in your teens
You care what people think about you you really care what people think about when you're 20 when you're in your 20s
You kind of stop caring so much what people think about you and then when you get to your 30s
You realize people aren't thinking about you
you know
But young people they really worry about this I'm afraid I'm gonna get made fun of
Look at Jeremiah's answer
Jeremiah said, they shall not deliver thee.
He said, your fear is not going to happen.
God will protect you.
You will not be delivered over to those Jews that will mock you.
Obey, I beseech thee the voice of the Lord, which I speak unto thee, so it shall be well
unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the Lord hath showed me.
Behold, the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to
the king of Babylon's princes.
Watch this, and these women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on and have prevailed
against thee.
back. He basically says in verse 22, just to summarize, women are going to make fun of you.
If you disobey, the women are going to be mocking you and making fun of you.
You're worried about how you're going to look in front of the ladies,
so you don't want to obey the Lord. Hey, if you obey the Lord, God can protect you.
If you disobey the Lord, God knows how to humiliate you in front of the ladies.
Teenage boy.
That thing's like oh, I got to be cool in front of the ladies
So I'm gonna show how you know how edgy I am and how I can drink or smoke or do drugs or you know
Be a little bit rebellious or whatever. You know what God has a way of making you look stupid in front of the ladies
So obey I beseech you the voice of the Lord
And of course he says in verse 23,
they're going to bring out all thy wives and thy children
to the Chaldeans.
Thou shalt not escape out of their hand,
but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon,
and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
He's saying when this city is burned to the ground,
it's going to be your fault.
You're going to cause the city to be burned with fire because you disobeyed God.
What could be scarier than that? You're going to get made fun of.
You're going to lose everything. Your kids are going to die.
Your wives are going to be taken captive. Kids are going to be taken captive.
You're going to be blinded, mocked, ridiculed.
Oh, but I'm scared though.
Well, you, you ought to be scared because by disobeying the Lord,
all that stuff is going to come upon you.
And so again, it's very irrational
when in reality you should be afraid not to obey the Lord.
Another example of this, if you want to flip over to Judges chapter 8 quickly,
another example of this is Jethar, the firstborn son of Gideon.
So Gideon had a whole bunch of wives. He practiced polygamy, which obviously never been right.
But a lot of men in the Bible did do this even though it wasn't something they were supposed to be doing.
But anyway, Gideon, he had multiple wives, he had a lot of children,
and he actually had like 70 sons with all his various wives and so forth.
So he had a pretty big family.
But here we see his firstborn son, and we don't really know anything about this guy except this one verse.
It says in verse number 20, and he said unto Jethar his firstborn,
this is Gideon commanding his son, up and slay them.
So they've captured the enemy they've got some enemies that have been captured and Gideon wants his son Jethar
Just to basically execute these guys like they're they're unarmed
They've been captured and he wants Jethar to basically just finish these guys off
They're being executed and somebody's got to do it and so Gideon says to his son Jethar
Go kill these suckers
But the youth drew not his sword, for he feared because he was yet a youth.
So he's young, he's scared, and he won't do it.
And he disobeys dad.
I mean, dad's given him a direct order.
Dad is saying...
Do this, you know, we're in a war here, we're fighting,
this is your duty, you're not just putting on that uniform
for fun, you don't just have that sword for fun,
you know, you're here to fight,
take the sword out of the sheath
and do what you came here to do, kill this guy.
And the guy's like, I'm scared dad, doesn't do it.
So whatever happened to this guy?
Well, guess what?
He ends up getting killed.
He's too scared to pull out his sword
and fight when he's told to.
by his dad, and what ends up happening to him?
He ends up getting smoked.
He ends up dying, and so do all his brothers.
All, in fact, all 70 of Gideon's children,
they all end up getting slaughtered.
You know, and I wonder if it started
with the firstborn son being too much of a coward
to engage in the fight.
And you know what?
You might say, well, I don't know
if you're interpreting that story correctly,
but you have to understand that warfare in the Bible
It's allegorical, it has to do with our fight in the Christian life.
And the Bible says fight to good fight, of faith.
And there are a lot of people who are too soft and too cowardly to engage in the spiritual fight.
And they kind of just want to just kind of just, you know, the, you know, sorry, I'm a little down on Jamaica today, but you know, kind of just the kind of one love, let's get together and feel all right.
You know, no, it's not, you know, I heard that song as I was just being offered pot by a million different people, and I was thinking to myself, it's not one love.
I thought the first verse that popped my head was one Lord, one faith, one baptism.
That's what we need.
We don't need Bob Marley pot-smoking one love.
Here's what we need.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
One God and Father of all.
Who commandeth all men everywhere to repent.
And what does the Bible say?
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully
and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Now, obviously, we don't engage in a physical battle.
We don't wrestle with flesh and blood.
But you know what?
The Bible says that we should war a good warfare,
that we should fight the good fight.
Newsflash, you can't fight the good fight.
You can't war a good warfare
if you're literally afraid to take your sword out of its holster.
This guy can't even get his sword out of his sheath.
He can't even get the first base of being a warrior.
He's a pretender.
He's going through the motions.
He's showing up to the battle.
He's wearing a sword,
but he won't take the thing out and use it.
He's showing up to church with the Bible in his hand,
but he won't use the Bible to preach the word of God.
He won't use the Bible to stand up for what's right.
He won't use the Bible to win a soul to Christ.
He's afraid to take the sword out of the sheath.
Don't be a Jether, my friend.
You're gonna get smoked like Jether did
and all of his brothers.
He's afraid to obey his dad and bloody the sword and so ultimately he ends up perishing by the sword of
his brother the bastard Abimelech.
Fear can also lead you into sin. Let's go quickly. I'm almost out of time, but go to Genesis chapter 18.
Genesis chapter 18, fear can lead you to not do works for the Lord because you're too scared.
You're too scared to pull out the Bible, too scared to take the sword out of the sheath.
too scared to preach the word, too scared to say,
I'm a Christian, too scared to stand up for what's right.
Fear can also lead you into sin,
and here's a big sin that fear will lead you into lying.
Right, people who lie, they often lie,
because they're scared.
Isn't that something that caused a lot of people to lie?
Cowards lie, instead of taking ownership
of what happened, they lie about it.
Okay.
Look at Genesis chapter 18 verse 12, we have an example of this.
Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself saying,
After I'm waxed old, shall I have pleasure? My Lord being old also.
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh? Wherefore means why?
saying, like, wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, shall I of a surety bear a child which I am old?
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed, I will return unto thee,
according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Then Sarah denied, saying, I laugh not.
And why did she say I laugh not? For she was afraid.
And he said, Nay, but thou didst laugh.
And so he calls her out on the lie she laughs and he's like hey, why is Sarah laughing is anything too hard for the Lord?
She's like I didn't laugh. I didn't do it. I didn't take the cookies out of the cookie jar. I didn't break this
I don't know what happened. I didn't take it. I didn't take the money. I didn't do it
You know I didn't laugh and he's like nah you did laugh
You actually did lie he calls her out on the lie, but why did she like us? She was afraid and
Another good example of this is Peter. He denied Christ
I don't even know who that is.
And even the Bible says that he even cursed and swore saying I know not the man.
It doesn't give us exact words, but he said something along the lines of,
May God strike me dead if I know him.
The Lord do so to me and more also if I know if I know Jesus
You know, I look may I slip on a banana peel if I if I know Christ
He's basically saying I do not know him. I swear. I don't know him
I promise I don't know him and what says to curse him to swear
He's literally like putting curses on himself saying like, you know, may this bad thing happen to me if I if I'm lying
You know, let me I'd be struck by lightning if I'm lying right now when I say I don't know him
That's pretty intense. Why did he do it? Wouldn't you say that's a big sin and he felt super bad about it afterward?
He's crying and felt bad Jesus confronted him about it in John chapter 21. Why did he do it?
He did it for one reason and one reason alone Peter was scared. That's why he denied Christ
Same reason why Sarah denied laughing, you know, which is much more minor example
But still same principle at work in both stories
denying the truth and lying because you're scared.
So you see how fear can lead you into other sins as well.
There's no reason to fear, right?
Because what does the Bible say?
Ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, right?
If God be for us, who can be against us?
There's no reason in the world to be scared if God is on our side.
And so in conclusion, what I want to say to you this morning
is that you should pray for boldness.
Pray for boldness.
Okay, what's the opposite of fear?
Boldness.
Boldness, right?
What does the Bible say?
Proverbs 28, verse 1,
the wicked flea when no man pursueth,
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
The wicked flea when no man pursueth,
but the righteous are bold as a lion.
And whenever I read this verse,
I always think about preachers in America
because of the fact that nobody's pursuing.
It's 100% legal to preach anything you want out of the Bible.
We have freedom of speech. We have the First Amendment.
We have freedom of religion.
And I can get up and preach any verse in the entire Bible.
I can apply it to our society.
I can rip so hard on all of the homos
and sodomites and degenerates and lesbians
and where I could preach my guts out.
I can say everything I want to say and I have
and nothing's gonna happen to me.
I'm not going to get arrested. I'm not going to face any issue whatsoever.
Why? Because we have the freedom of speech in America.
Now here's the thing. You preach the exact same sermon in Canada.
You could have problems. You preach the exact same sermon in Germany.
You're going to have problems. You preach the exact same sermon in Austria.
You're going to have problems, right?
You could go to other places in the world where they don't have that same freedom of speech.
You know and here's they what's the worst thing that's gonna happen to you in America you you get your YouTube account deleted
You know there's I mean there should be a whole new chapter added to Fox's book of martyrs just for getting social media deleted
You know like what you're reading about all these horrible things at Fox book of martyrs
And it's like yeah, they you know Bank of America canceled our bank account
PayPal canceled us you went to Facebook jail for 30 days
You know what's even you know what the worst thing about Facebook deal is is like they let you go on Facebook
But you're not allowed to to say anything
So you have to just look at ever what everybody else is saying and then and then you'll type up some really cool comment
It's like sorry. You can't say anything for the next month
Whatever
Who cares?
Folks we could preach
Anything in the Bible as pastors
And yet we have the wicked fleeing when no man pursues.
We have a bunch of pastors scared to preach when nothing bad's even going to happen.
If they would just get up and just preach, nothing bad would even happen.
They could get up and preach the most rip-roar and sermon against homos,
and their church would probably like it, except some dyke-looking woman
might fold her arms and frown at them or something in the audience.
But at the end of the day, nothing's gonna happen.
Nobody's chasing you.
Why are you running scared?
Be bold as a lion.
Take a stand, do what's right,
the wicked flea when no man pursues.
But the righteous are bold as a lion.
Pray for boldness.
You know, one of the evidences according to scripture
of being filled with the Holy Spirit is boldness.
Because one of my favorite verses acts chapter 4 verse 31 when they had prayed the place
was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost
and they spake the Word of God with boldness.
And just a few verses earlier they had prayed and asked the Lord to grant them that they
would speak with boldness.
Ephesians chapter 6, the apostle Paul is giving his prayer request to the Ephesians.
He says, pray that I will have boldness.
Pray that I will have courage. Right? We talked about it a few weeks ago with Joshua. Be strong. Be of a good courage
Folks, there's a reason why the first thing on the list in Revelation 21 8 is the fearful and
Maybe maybe you're like me where when you go soul winning
Maybe you use that verse out soul winning who in their soul winning presentation typically goes to Revelation 21 8 like I do
Yeah, I go there every single time. So you've probably you've heard this verse a million times
There's a reason why the first thing on the list is cowards
Because it's a sin to be a coward. That's why this isn't just hey rah rah. Let's be bold
Let's have courage. No, no, no if you don't you're sinning
Anytime you get all scared and you don't want to do what's right because you're not you're too scared or something
Being that kind of a coward is a sin. How do you overcome it pray for boldness and get in the habit?
doing the right thing and overcoming your fears in those situations because you
know it's just like anything else we're all human the first thing is is the
fearful what's the last thing in in 218 all liars and and whenever we show this
people we always say hey I've lied before have you ever lied before because
that's just an easy one but you know what we could also say
Hey, I've been a coward. Have you ever been a coward before?
You know, and I'm not going to say that to people because I don't want to...
That seems a little creepy or weird, like, to really, like, drill down on somebody's darkest fears.
I'd rather just do the easy way of just saying, hey, I've lied before.
Have you ever lied? It's just a little bit more casual.
But, but honestly, we could say, hey, have you ever been a coward before?
Have you ever wimped out?
Right? Have you ever had something that you should have done, you should have spoken up, you should have helped someone,
you should have done the right thing, you should have preached the gospel, and you were too scared so you didn't do it?
Have you ever been a coward? I know I have. We've all done it, but that doesn't make it right.
And we need to work on overcoming fear in our lives and making sure that we sanctify the
Lord God in our hearts and make Him our fear and make Him our dread and not go through
life scared to do what's right.
And look again, of course there's good fear.
There's good fear.
Like for example, here's a good fear, fearing mom and dad.
Here's another good fear, fearing the Lord.
Here's another good fear, fear of like walking along the edge of a skyscraper or something.
That's a good fear that God gave you to protect you
You know you see these videos of people hanging off the edge of a skyscraper and stuff like nah, that's not normal
I'm not saying hey face your fears go skydiving or something. That's not what I'm that's not what the sermon is about
Those kind of fears are actually legitimate to protect us from being reckless and stupid
You know obviously like we should fear
recklessly
Endangering ourselves and others
So I'm not saying fear is always wrong. There's a lot of good fear in the Bible fear the Lord fear God
Also, you know, it says blesses the man the fear of always talking about, you know being circumspect cautious safe like obviously want to oh
Scaredy cat take off your seatbelt. Let's drive 150. That's not what I'm saying
That's a that's that's the right kind of fear. Here's a good fear put on your helmet when you're riding a motorcycle
So you don't get killed
That's a good kind of fear, but here's the bad kind of fear.
Oh, I'm not going to speak up for Christ because I'm afraid of getting made fun of.
Oh, I'm too scared to go soul-winning.
I'm too scared to give the gospel.
Oh, I'm a pastor and I'm too scared to preach controversial sermons
because I'm afraid Mr. Moneybags and Little Miss Boldike are going to, you know, give me guff about it.
You know, that's the wrong kind of fear and we need to work on having the boldness.
to speak God's word, to do what's right, to live our lives in a way that would please God, to obey him,
and let him be our fear. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord. We thank you so much for this great verse,
this powerful verse that has been used to win many, many people unto Christ, Lord.
Help us to continue to win many souls to Christ with its truth, and Lord, help us also
to not to just use this verse as a soul winning verse,
but also to look in the mirror and say,
hey, is this something I need to work on in my life?
Am I fearful? Am I faint-hearted? Am I a coward?
Lord, give me boldness.
And Lord, I ask you right now,
give me boldness to preach in 2025.
Help me to preach everything that you lay on my heart
as I read your word.
And I pray that our members would have the courage to continue standing for truth and right in 2025,
even if they get mocked and ridiculed for doing what's right.
In Jesus' name, we pray amen.
Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, take your hymnals, please.
Turn to hymn number six, hymn number six.
Beneath the cross of Jesus, I feign would take my stand.
Lift this up together on that first now.
Hymn number six.
Yeah, good thing this morning we are dismissed.