pages of God's word and see exactly what you want me to preach and Father I just
pray that you would speak to every heart and please bless those that are here and
help them to go away with something that will bring them closer to you and make
them a greater servant of God in Jesus name I pray, amen. Now in this chapter
here there's a little phrase that I want to bring to your attention at the end of
verse number 20 there that phrase that says without excuse. God hates excuses.
God hates excuses and we're living in a time when it seems that everyone has an
excuse for everything people just make excuses constantly. Boy in the business
world if you work you probably work around people that are like this they
just always have excuses there's always a reason why it can't be done they're
always coming to you with the problem we can't do it and this is why or people
that person that's just always late but don't worry they always have a good
reason it was always a legitimate reason why they were late and so sorry
I'm not pointing you guys out this morning that were late look I already wrote it
down before you even came I'm just gonna preach the sermon but anyway we're
living in a day when people just make excuses for everything
God hates excuses he says listen and this is dealing with the unsaved in
Romans chapter 1 here he says I don't want anybody to have an excuse for not
being saved and so here's what I've done I've created this marvelous
creation I've created this magnificent sky in the heavens and he says I want to
show everybody my glory and I want to show them that there's a God and I want
to even show them the power of the Godhead through the natural world why
because I don't want them to have any excuse for not being saved you see
people that are not saved they have no excuse they can anytime they want look
up at the stars and see God's magnificent hand of creation anytime
they want to they can look at the plant life and just see the intricate design
of God and the Creator anytime they want to they can look at the animal kingdom
they can go to the zoo and just examine the beauty and the majesty of God's
created animals you see there's no excuse if you look at it all and say
well I don't care and I refuse to believe that God created this world I
refuse to believe that God has revealed himself to us through his word and you
say I call God a liar you don't have an excuse for that you see God wanted that
way because he hates excuses he wanted it to be such a way where nobody can
make an excuse you see if you go to hell you have to just ignore what God has
created and shown us if you go to hell you have to ignore every verse from the
Bible that you've ever heard quoted your whole life if people always make
excuses about people who've never heard the Gospels but look you most people on
this earth for about 70 some years and how many times they haven't heard the
Bible quoted to them how many times they haven't seen a verse of scripture how
many times they haven't come across a saved loved one or saved co-worker how
many times somebody hasn't maybe knocked on their door and nobody has an excuse
for not being saved if you go to hell you have to ignore God's creation you
have to ignore every verse that you ever hear quoted from the Bible or preached
in the church pulpit you have to stumble over the broken body of Jesus Christ in
order to go to hell see God God doesn't want anybody to go to hell and he's not
gonna give you an excuse you'll have to climb over and stumble over the broken
body of Jesus where he said this is my body which is broken for you and you
have to just walk right by it and say no I refuse to be saved I'm gonna go to
hell you see if you go to if you go to hell you'll have to go through all the
prayers of everybody who's ever prayed for you every ends every saved loved one
a relative or friend at work or pastor that was in your area trying to trying
to get people saved you'll have to go through the prayer of Jesus Christ
himself in John chapter 17 where he said neither pray I for these alone but for
them also which shall believe on me through their word you see Jesus Christ
himself on this earth prayed that people would be saved through the testimony of
his disciples he says I'm praying for the unsaved that they'll be saved you
there's no excuse for anybody who goes to hell now there's always some
hypothetical that people bring up and they say well what about this guy that's
in this deep dark jungle and it's just some crazy story that they make up what
about some guy who's in some deep dark jungle somewhere and he is just never
heard of Jesus never heard the gospel surely God's not going to send him to
hell if he doesn't get saved there's no way a loving God would it yes he will
send them to hell yes they will go to hell because the Bible says neither is
their salvation and any other but there is none of the name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved you see let me let me let me quote this for
you from Romans chapter 10 the Bible says for whosoever it starts in verse
13 if you want to follow along for whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved how then shall they call on him and whom they've not
believed and how so they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how so
they hear without a preacher and how should they preach except they be sent
you see God is saying here yes people are unsaved yes people are lost yes they
need to hear the gospel but how are they going to call on somebody to be saved
that they don't believe it how are they going to believe in somebody that
they've never heard of and how so they hear without a preacher and after they
preach except they be sent as is written how beautiful are the feet of them that
preach the gospel of peace that bring glad tidings of good things but they
have not obeyed the gospel for his eyes say it Lord who has believed our report
so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God now listen to
this part but I say have they not heard yes barely their sound went into all the
earth and their words unto the ends of the world see in Paul's day in Romans
chapter 10 people are saying well they these people haven't heard the gospel
it's not fair he said no yes he said yes they have heard their sound went
into all the earth their words went into the ends of the world he's talking about
the Apostles he's talking about the witness of Jesus Christ has gone all
over the world friend and they heard they've heard the gospel and and you
say well I don't think it's fair because today there are some people that haven't
heard the gospel and they're in some jungle somewhere and you know what I
don't think it's fair either I don't think it's fair that there are people in
some country somewhere that haven't heard the gospel so instead of crying
about it why don't we go preach the gospel to everybody we can and get them
saved see he said how so they hear without a preacher the problem is not that I'm not fair God
saying the problem is not is that you're not preaching the gospel that's the
problem he says anytime you want to you can preach the gospel and win the win
people to Christ now I was looking at I love math and I was looking at an
interesting statistic here trying to follow this logic but everybody in the
world let's say if I talk to somebody there's certain people that I come into
contact with I'm not going to come into contact with everybody in the world am I
but there are certain people I'm going to come into contact with you know
probably a lot around Tempe and I travel different places in California and
everything and I come into contact with certain people then those people come
into contact with certain amount of people and it's interesting you can
trace a line between any two people in the world I mean the guy in the deep
dark jungle the guy in China you can trace a line statistically it's
impossible this is not work you can trace a line of no more than 12 people
where I know somebody who knows somebody who knows them who knows them who knows
them to that guy in the jungle it's just because we come into contact with so
many people and people travel around so much and just it would be statistically
improbable that you can't draw a line between any two people in this world and
there's only 11 people between them so if we would just get the gospel to
everybody we know and then if they get the gospel to everybody they know and
then they get the gospel to everybody they know boy we would get these people
safe and not only that but there are missionaries who go and bring God we
support a missionary Barry Hoffman to Korea he takes the gospel and preaches
it to all these people in Korea and then they can preach it and they preach it
the answer is that we would preach the gospel to every creature that's the
answer and see their words went under the ends of the world in policy we need
to get it on the ends of the world in our day and instead of crying about what
we don't think is fair of God not giving people an excuse to go to hell no matter
what let's do something about it let's be a soul winner let's preach the gospel
let's get people saved but not only that not only that but God's people many
times we make excuses that was the unsaved that we were dealing with turn
if you would to Luke chapter 14 third book in the New Testament Luke chapter
14 you know that's the unsaved people who have an excuse they think for not
being saved for not believing on Jesus Christ but God says they're without
excuse I've given my body I've prayed for them I've sent out preachers I've
given the Word of God I've shown in the natural world they said they have no
excuse but sometimes God's people make the same make excuses also this
philosophy creeps and look at Luke chapter 14 verse number 15 let me just
have a second turn here it says and when one of them that sat at meet with him
heard these things he said unto him blessed is he that shall eat bread in
the kingdom of God here's a man in verse 15 who understood the value of the things
of God it says in verse number 16 then said he unto them this is Jesus speaking
a certain man made a great supper and bade many and sent his servant at
suppertime to say to them that were bid and come for all things are now ready
and they all with one at consent began to make excuse the first said unto him
I bought a piece of ground and I must needs go and see it I pray they have me
excused and another said I've bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them
I pray they have me excused and another said I've married a wife and therefore I
cannot come so that servant came and showed his Lord these things then the
master of the house being angry said to his servant go out quickly into the
streets and lanes of the city and bring in either the poor and the maimed and
the halt and the blind and the servant said Lord it is done as thou has
commanded and yet there is room and the Lord said unto the servant go out into
the highways and hedges and compelled them to come in that my house may be
filled for I say to you that none of those men which were bidden shall taste
of my supper you see God in this story the the man the Lord there is
representing God himself and he's he's prepared this great meal he's prepared
this great supper and he's inviting people to come and partake of this meal
that he's worked so hard to provide and they all are making excuses now look at
these excuses look at one of verse 18 it says he bought a piece of land a needs
to go look at it you think anybody really buys land without looking at it
so he's gonna buy property without looking at it no that's not true look at
verse number 19 he bought these oxen it says and he has to go test them out this
would be like in our day like buying a car without even taking it for a test
drive right didn't you test drive a car yesterday right okay well can you
imagine just buying a car and saying well no God I don't have time for you
right now I have to go test drive the car that I already bought that's
ridiculous it doesn't make any sense look at look at verse number 20 it says
and another said I've married a wife and therefore I cannot come look this is
ridiculous everybody knows that when you first get married a free meal will be
like the best thing in the world okay nobody you have a lot of money when you
first get you have a lot of money when you first get married if I if that was
me when I just got married I'd bring my wife there and we would skip breakfast
and then we would eat this meal till we were sick and we would need to eat for
another 24 hours and save the money and so people make stupid excuses about why
they don't want to come to God's meal it's silly they make the most ridiculous
excuses what am I talking about what kind of meal well what about the meal
right here that God provides for you every day in the Word of God Job said I
have esteemed the words of thy mouth more than my necessary food he said this
is more necessary to me than eating food and so if you remember on Wednesday
night I touched on this how it might have been a couple weeks ago but on
Wednesday night I talked about how when the children of Israel came out of Egypt
and they were in the wilderness God provided the manna on the ground and we
saw in Deuteronomy chapter 8 that God said I suffered thee to hunger and fed
thee with manna that thou mightest know that man does not live by parade alone
but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God that man live and so
what he did was he got them eating this manna he was trying to teach them the
Bible says their need for the Word of God and being sustained by God's food
not about physical food and so if you remember the manna was put out there
every morning and they had to go out before the Sun was hot and they had to
gather up the manna and they couldn't gather it for two days they had to
gather it every day and if they tried to store it up it would breed worms and so
they had to just get it just enough for that day only and they would get it and
guess what if they didn't get it by the time the Sun came out it was gone I mean
if they slept in if they were lazy and just slept in bed and the alarm didn't
go off or whatever and they get up in the morning okay God what do you have
for me God nothing it's gone and the next day it's gonna be totally different
manna you missed it forever you missed what God had same thing when you when
you skip a day of reading this book when you wake up in the morning or rather
don't wake up perhaps and you don't read this book you missed the truth that God
had for you for that day it's gone and just as the man in this story he says I
made this supper for you you don't want to come you've got an excuse I'm sure
you could come another day but he says I'm gonna invite all these other
different people and he says the people that were big shall not taste of this
supper see that meals never coming back that meal that God the Father was
offering here the opportunity was never gonna be there because it's gonna be
consumed by someone else and that's the same thing when we don't partake of
God's meal every day when we don't eat the food that God has provided for us
it's gone you missed it so don't get hung up that you missed in the past just
don't miss it tomorrow so miss it today you've got to get your food out of the
Word of God but what else think about the meal that God provides here on
Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night think about the meal
provided in church the Word of God that's preached you see God provides the
meal right here this way provides the ingredients and I'm like the I'm like
the chef okay I'm the cook all right and here's what I do I get out I go to my
pantry here and I get out all the different ingredients and I open them
up and I mix them together and I I seasoned it up a little bit and
sometimes like oh man but but I cook up something every Sunday morning every
Sunday night and every Wednesday now let me ask how would my wife feel if my wife
was in this kitchen slaving over a hot stove for three or four hours and she
got flour all over her and her hair is all messed up and oil splattered all
over because she's been sleeping on this meal and I come home and say oh
honey just about a block from the house I had Burger King I don't I'm not gonna
be having your meal tonight don't worry you know I'm not hungry what wouldn't
that be ridiculous or what I call her up and say you know I'm busy I don't have
time to come eat this meal that you made how's she gonna feel she's gonna she's
gonna feel exactly the way that God felt in the story well how do you feel angry
it says the master of the house being angry and he's gonna be angry saying
I made this meal I went through all this work and you're out test-driving your
ox he says look I made this meal you need to be here and eat it and look I
cook these meals for you because I want you to get the meal I want you to come
in and bring your tray and I'm gonna serve it up for you and you need to get
this meal I don't look I never I'm gonna tell you something I never get up here
and just rattle my cage oh you can ask my wife I agonize over every sermon what
I'm gonna preach because I take very seriously Sunday morning Sunday night
and Wednesday night I'm not up here trying to fill some kind of time slot
I'll tell you something if tonight's sermon wasn't just vital if it wasn't
just necessary and important I'd cancel church tonight I don't have time I don't
have time to mess with that I got other things to do I got I got you know I got
bills to pay and I got work to do but if I didn't think that tonight's sermon was
just necessary and vital and important I would cancel church in a heartbeat
because I'm not gonna get up and fill some time slot in the name of Jesus Christ and in the name of the institution that he died for
preach something that's just oh yeah that was kind of neat or you know no it's
important this is the this is the the food groups that you need and if it
wasn't some kind of food groups that you need it's not some Twinkie that you're
gonna get tonight okay it's not just something that's gonna make it fill you
up a little bit no it's important you know Wednesday nights Wednesday night is
the most important service that this church offers Wednesday night Bible
study because I'll tell you it's my favorite service number one because I
put the most preparation into Wednesday night church you say wait a minute
wouldn't you put the most preparation into Sunday morning because that's like
the main service that's when a lot of people just think that they feel they
need to come no because I put those the work into Wednesday night because if
somebody's gonna come back on Wednesday night I want to give them something that
makes it worth their while to come out on a Wednesday night you know when you
got work the next day when you're busy when you're in the middle of your week
look it's harder to come to church on Wednesday night so I'm gonna make sure
that you get something that's that's well prepared it's not going to be you
know hamburger helper on Wednesday night it's going to be something that's made
from scratch and and so that's why every Wednesday night service those Bible
says I do I memorize every chapter that I preach on Wednesday night every
chapter that I preach I preach through one chapter every single week since I
started the church every time it's a chapter that I already had memorized for
weeks and I have it memorized I mull it over and I beg God to show me something
from the Bible and I meditated on that chapter and I quoted that chapter
literally hundreds of times and I'm ready to give you the meal this isn't
some little devotional that I got out of some book by you know dr. Dobson or
something some hocus-pocus on the family little devotional somewhere some little
our daily bread that I read somewhere and I brushed it up and personalized it
a little bit this isn't something I bought off the internet you know ten
sermons for $39.95 that I saw the other day from an independent fundamental
Baptist Church hey this is something that's made from scratch friend this is
something that I have memorized and prayed over and worked on because it's
important that's why and look I don't care who shows up and who doesn't show
up there's gonna be it there's gonna be a sermon on Wednesday night it's been
well prepared and there's gonna be a sermon on Wednesday night with the Holy
Ghost of God power on it I don't care who comes I don't care if my if my
family's here here that's enough for me because I'm telling you something
Wednesday night church is important I have right now 81 chapters that are
memorized just waiting waiting until the opportunity that I have to preach that
sermon on a Wednesday night Wednesday nights are important but I'm sure that
there are a lot of excuses not to come on Wednesday night not to come to church
on Wednesday night but there's always going to be an excuse it's always gonna
be some ox somewhere it's always gonna be some wife you married but there's
always going to be something right so just be there don't you the whole point
of the sermon is God doesn't like excuses don't have excuses just do what
needs to be done so number one there are excuses for skipping God's meals but
number two there are excuses for not living for God look if you would have
Matthew chapter 8 verse 19 Matthew chapter 8 verse 19 and of course this
Wednesday is gonna be Matthew 8 I want to steal my own thunder here but I was
just as I was preparing my sermon for this Wednesday night I couldn't help but
see this just jump out of me these excuses that people are making in
Matthew chapter 8 verse 19 it says in Matthew 8 19 and a certain scribe came
and said in a master I will follow thee with us so ever thou goest and Jesus
saith unto him the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the
son of man hath not where to lay his head see here's a man who's got a big
mouth and he says Jesus I'm gonna follow you wherever you go he's a scribe now
scribe is somebody who studied the Bible incessantly back then and they would
copy out copies of the Bible that's how they didn't have a printing press so
they would reproduce the Bible by these men called scribes and they would just
study the Bible and copy it out word for word and they learn the Bible and here
he is faced with Jesus Christ in the flesh he says master I will follow thee
with us so ever thou goest but see what Jesus say says hey the foxes have holes
and the birds of the air have nets but the son of man hath not where to lay
his head he says do you really want to follow me because I hope you realize
that if you follow me we're probably not gonna end up in the holiday in tonight
when we're traveling around preaching he says it's not going to be the the
Hyatt Regency when you're on the road with me it may not be Marriott resident
sin and you're not going to be eating a continental breakfast with me at comfort
sweets tomorrow he says and this little pansy wimp you know what he does you can
tell by the stories you read on he didn't follow Jesus why didn't he follow
Jesus and see Jesus obvious Jesus looked at the guy he saw his pink little tie
you know he saw his cute little hairdo and he said I can tell exactly what your
problem is he says I can tell exactly what your problem is you want to follow
me but you don't want to suffer you don't want to pay the price you don't
want to go without you just want to live the comfortable Christian life and he
says that's not the kind of life that I live he says sometimes I don't know
where I'm gonna sleep tonight can you deal with that can you handle that can
they can you handle that sweetie and he said and he couldn't handle it and so he
left you see he had an excuse though he had a pretty good excuse right I mean
he's got to have his beauty rest on his feather down pillow he had a good
excuse look at this look at this excuse and this is a great excuse Matthew 821
just right there it says and another of his disciples said to him Lord suffer me
first to go and bury my father but Jesus said unto him follow me and let the dead
bury the dead see that's a man that if there's any excuse that's a good excuse
this guy's dad died he says I'm gonna go bury my dad and then I'm gonna follow
you and Jesus is like I'm leaving right now are you gonna follow me or not see
Jesus was only on this earth for a very short time and his ministry of preaching
only lasted three and a half years and he's already into it at this point
here's the Son of God in the flesh and you know what he's just not gonna stop
everything to go to this guy's funeral service for his dad he says no he says
there is no excuse for not following me that's the point these make is I can't
think of a better excuse but he says no there is no excuse you must follow me
I'm going somewhere get on board obey this book there's no excuse there is no
excuse for not living for God he's saying seems kind of harsh but see you
have to understand that if God starts letting people make excuses everybody
will make excuses nobody will be doing anything for God because there's always
something that's gonna come up let's face it and by the way this attitude
this will make you succeed at your job this will make you succeed in business
because there this is so rare today a person who doesn't make excuses boy if
you could if you want to succeed at your job I'll tell you how I'll tell you how
you want to make more money you want to get raises at your job it's not by
sending your check you know put your checking offering plate and you're gonna
get a raise it's not by that it's not by putting your hand on the screen of Benny
in and you're gonna receive a check in the mail and it's not by send your
donation now no I'll tell you how to make more money at your job it's called
not making excuses it's called working harder it's called when a problem arises
you just find a way to solve it you don't always go to the boss see this is
what bosses hate bosses hate somebody coming to them with problems because
they're busy you know they have their own job and then they have all these
people under them working for them coming to them every time oh I can't
figure this out I don't know what to do you know that's what bosses say if you
could just find a way to be a person that says I will not make excuses I'm
just gonna find a way to get it done every time and I mean the boss is gonna
forget that I even exist he's just gonna see how the work done and he's not even
gonna know about me because I'm not gonna be coming to him constantly with
excuses I'm just gonna find a way to get done I don't talk about being on time
being on time to work is today if I could just find an employee that would
just show up on time every time even if they were a bad worker used to be
thrilled you just be elated just be ecstatic to somebody who knew how to get
out of bed and just be on time every time you just know that they're gonna
be there I mean you know you're gonna think I'm crazy but this is how I am at
my job I was never late for my job in Chicago for three years never late one
time and sometimes I worked like four hours away and in Chicago there's two
seasons winter and construction and either of them you can't go anywhere
construction is worse than winter winter there's snow everywhere and construction
just everything is under construction in Chicago 24 hours a day I don't know
what the deal is I don't know what they're making those roads out of but
they relayed them a couple times while I lived there they relayed them a couple
times and I would literally set three alarm clocks in the morning I'd set one
right next to my head and they're all powered from independent power sources
I'd have one right next to my head I'd have one across the room because
otherwise I just go shut it off I got one across the room and then I got the
wake-up call you know if I'm in the hotel also and I've got like three
independent ways to wake me up and then I get there an hour early I just get
there an hour early and you know if I you know instead of reading my Bible
before I left the house I just get ready get in the car and just get there and
then do my Bible reading there I'd eat breakfast there I do whatever it took to
just know that I would never be late because there's a huge massive
difference a huge difference and my wife thinks this is funny but there's a
huge difference between being late one time and being late zero times huge
massive difference colossal difference and in order to be late never you got to
really get up early and you've got to really make sure you've got to have no
excuses because I and people would be late all the damn Ryan expressways on the
construction it's under construction 365 days a year now there's always traffic
Chicago thank God to live in Phoenix hallelujah you don't realize Phoenix
like the worst rush hour in Phoenix is like 2 a.m. at Chicago on you know
Tuesday night or something it's like the worst rush hour Phoenix thank God but
just you've got to get out of this philosophy of making excuses find a way
to get the job done find a way to be the church Sunday morning Sunday night
Wednesday find a way to be out soul winning find a way to read the Bible
find a way to get it done so number one people make excuses for skipping God's
meals as Bible reading that's where you feed yourself out of the fridge and then
church that's where you come here and I serve it up for you and by the way I've
been here's a phrase that if anybody who's been in Christianity for a while
has heard this phrase people used to leave our our church that we went to in
Sacramento we used to go to a great church segment or Regency Baptist Church
and people leave the church and that's what they say I just wasn't getting fed
and they came Sunday morning only it's like look you're gonna starve to death
you come Sunday morning only you don't come back Sunday night you don't come
back Wednesday night you never go so winning you're not getting the balanced
diet of what this church offers you're just getting the hors d'oeuvre on Sunday
morning look that's why you're not getting fed because you're not gonna be
able to survive on that I hate that phrase I just wasn't being fed feed
yourself are you a baby need somebody to feed you all the time be a man and
feed yourself but anyway number three people make excuses for sin look at you
at a first Samuel chapter 15 first Samuel 15 Old Testament about this about
the eighth book there I believe first Samuel chapter 15 now this is a maybe a
familiar story from the Bible I'm not sure but first Samuel 15 Bible reads
here in verse number 24 get there myself here says and Saul said unto Samuel I
have sinned well what a great attitude he just says look I'm wrong I'm sorry
said unto Samuel I have sinned for I have transgressed the commandment of the
Lord and then here's the excuse because I feared the people and obeyed their
voice now therefore I pray thee pardon my sin and turn again with me that I may
worship the Lord and Samuel said unto Saul I will not return with thee for the
house rejected the word of the Lord and the Lord has rejected thee from being
king over Israel and as Samuel turned about to go away he laid hold upon the
skirt of his mantle and at rent and Samuelson the Lord has rent the king of
Israel from thee this day and have given it to a neighbor of thine that is better
than now now turn back just a few pages show you the same man mr. excuses Saul
in chapter 13 first first Samuel 13 11 I love it's funny reading this it says
here and Samuel said what is thou done I mean here he's again blowing it what is
thou done and Saul said because I saw that the people were scattered from me
so this is excuse number one the people were scattered from me and that thou
came it's not within the days appointed he's like you were late that's my other
excuse and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at McMash therefore
said I the Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal and I've not made
supplication of the Lord I love this I forced myself therefore he forced
himself therefore and offered a burnt offering and Samuel said to Saul now it's
done foolishly now it's not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God which he
commanded thee for now with the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel
forever and so here's Saul again making excuses he says look I forced myself I
mean this is exactly contrary to what God had commanded him to do and I don't
have time to go into the story unfortunately but there are a few things
that God has commanded him to do he says I was just afraid the people were
leaving you were late and so I just forced myself to do this and he says
look it doesn't matter what I did that wrong by being late it doesn't matter
what the people did wrong by telling you what to do he says I don't care what
your excuses he says you could have been king of Israel forever your son would
have sat on the throne and his son and his son but because you've rejected the
Lord these two times you disobeyed God's command I know you had your excuse but I
don't care he says you will not be king and your son Jonathan is not going to be
king and of course we know the story David became king instead of Saul in
his house became that eternal king ship that went all the way down the eternal
kingdom that went all the way down to Jesus Christ and the Jesus is going to
come back someday and he's going to set up his kingdom on the throne of David
and he's going to rule this world from the throne of David in Jerusalem the
city of David and Israel and not nothing with Saul Saul is known as mr. excuses
and David is a man whose kingdom was set up for an everlasting kingdom and you
see it doesn't matter today that the people gave him a bad time and talked
him into it it doesn't matter today that saw Samuel showed up late what matters
is the fact that he disobeyed God you know so many times we find excuses for
the things we do wrong but people that are married their spouse is always their
excuse you know I would I would just boy you understand what kind of an on fire
soul-winding preacher I would be I spent so much time just trying to keep
her straight I can't even I can't even hardly live for God it's always some
crisis just trying to keep her reading the Bible and it's pray for me it's like
it's so stupid so ridiculous and people always want to point the finger at
something you were late therefore I'm gonna sin and do wrong you know well you
know my husband does this and so otherwise I'd be man I'd just be in
church I'd just be straight down the line but you know how my husband is yeah
boy that's so ridiculous and then nothing makes me more sick than a man or
woman criticizing their spouse I mean it's to me it's disgusting especially
when I hear a man criticize his wife makes me want to throw up when I listen
to a man some little pansy tell oh I do such and such business my wife couldn't
handle it you couldn't handle it you pansy why don't you be a leader and and
why don't you teach your wife that'd be right with God you're just a pansy liar
who's hiding behind your wife for why you don't live for God feels it oh God's
called me to preach I'm gonna go into the ministry and start a church but my
wife said no I'm glad she said no I'm glad you're not gonna be in a pulpit I'm
glad she needs to give you a spanking then maybe you'll learn how to be a man
and get some discipline that you obviously didn't get when you were a kid
she beats the fire out of you and it gets you in your place so that you'll
learn how to obey God and not be some little pansy that always points to somebody else see we'll live in a day where it's
everybody else's fault oh you don't understand when I was a kid well where's
the sailboat rod I can't find when I was a kid my dad spanked me with the sailboat
rod and I have it here but I can't find it but is it on the fridge it's buried
somewhere but my dad spanked me with a sailboat rod that's why I'm so that's
why every time somebody you know it talks about sailing I go like this or
that's why every time I go to the down to the marina in San Francisco I get a
little sorry kind of well you know you're scared because my dad beat me
with a sailboat rod and my kids are gonna be scared of spoons for the rest
of their life they're gonna eat with a fork and knife every meal they're gonna
eat clam chowder with a fork because they got spanked with a spoon and it's
all somebody else's fault you don't understand my upbringing you understand
my child that's all psychology is that's all dr. Dobson and his hocus-pocus on
the family is that's all Christian psychiatry and worldly psychology it all
goes back to some pervert named Sigmund Freud there was a there was a weirdo and
a pervert yes he was a pervert and he taught everybody to blame mom and blame
dad well look yeah we can blame dad and he can blame his dad he can blame his
dad it'll go all the way back to Adam and Eve who committed the first sin in the
Garden of Eden so yeah it goes back to Adam and really it wasn't it was really
God's fault because if you remember Eve said no it wasn't my fault the serpent
beguiled me and then Adam said well man I'm all mixed up but the serpent said
the serpent didn't say anything he said he said the serpent beguiled me you know
and then Adam said well it was the woman that you gave me so whose fault was is
God because you're the one who gave me this woman who deceived me so God it's
your fault and that's all psychology isn't psychiatry is is just blaming God
we don't need psychiatry when I was a kid psychology was like a cuss word in
the churches that I grew up in psychiatry was a dirty word I remember I
came home from school with a book a chapter it was a it was a health and
safety book a chapter about psychology a chapter about stress and my dad said
don't read that chapter that's wicked and the churches that we went to they
preached against psychiatry they preach against psychology now the average
independent fundamental Baptist Church the preaching is psychology and the
preaching is psychiatry and it's just examining you and psychoanalyzing you
and they they need to get rid of the pews then just line up sofas
say that's the kind of preaching we need the word of God preach we don't need
somebody oh wow it's like he knows me oh he knows what I'm going through he knows
what I'm struggling with oh I love this church no we need somebody to kick you
and say hey read that Bible go to church do what's right it's why we live
in a wicked ungodly society because the preachers are all your poor baby because
the Bible said that it would happen he said and they shall turn away from the
there is from the truth and shall be turned under fables therefore shall they
keep to themselves teachers having itching ears you know a preacher not a
preacher I'm sorry a teacher because they preaching we need teaching and the
teacher is gonna come scratch you behind the ears a little and you can go because
he's gonna tell you what you want to hear and God said there there there's
gonna come a day when they'll turn away their ears from the truth he says
they'll not be able to endure sound doctrine but they'll be turned into
fables and shall he to themselves teachers having itching ears and on and
on with that so number one people make excuses for skipping God's meals number
two they make excuses for not living for God and number three to make excuses for
for sin because they blame somebody else why they're a pervert because they got
molested as a kid and on and on number four they make people make excuses for
not soul-winding now turn if you would day Ecclesiastes chapter 11 it's my
final point turn to Ecclesiastes 11 and while you're turning I want to read you
a scripture in Psalm 126 but just turn to Ecclesiastes 11 the Bible says they
that sow in tears shall reap in joy he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing
precious seed that's the Word of God shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing bringing his sheaves with them you ever heard the song bringing in the
sheaves it's an old hymn bringing in the sheaves well here's what it's about it's
saying if you take the precious seed not the NIV in the ASV in the RSV in the HIV
but if you take the KJV and you go out soul-winding he says if you weep and get
your heart right and say I'm gonna bear the precious seed and I'm gonna sow the
seed you know sowing the seed of God that means you're gonna talk to that
person at work and give them the gospel and you're gonna show them the scripture
and you're gonna knock on that door and give you the gospel he says if you do
that you'll doubtless doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing your
sheaves with you see the sheep is what you've gone out into the field not just
planted not just watered the sheep is the finished product when you actually
reap the sheep and you've got your convert with you that you wonder the
Lord that's the sheep that's the finished product he said you'll come
back with your sheaves if you go forth weeping bearing precious seed now look
at Ecclesiastes 11 with that in mind Ecclesiastes 11 verse number 4 the Bible
reads here he that observeth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the
clouds shall not reap see he's saying look if you let the weather determine
whether you're gonna sow the seed if you say wow you know the winds blowing I
don't think this would be a good time to what to sow the sea because something
blown away or well I'm looking at the clouds and I forgive me I know nothing
about farming but I don't know when the good time is to sow the seed but you
know oh man the clouds I don't know it's gonna start raining on me out there and
I'm not gonna sow the seed today and well but then it's windy again he says
look you're never gonna end up doing it because there's never gonna be that
perfect time that perfect opportunity he says you just have to do it now look at
verse number five so he that observeth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth
the clouds shall not reap as thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit
nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child even so thou
knowest not the works of God who makest all in the morning sow thy seed and in
the evening withhold not thine hand for thou knowest not whether shall prosper
either this or that whether they both shall be a light good he says look you
don't know which door you're gonna knock on he says you don't know which week
you're gonna win people to Christ to see people saved you don't know which time
you're gonna win that person the Lord that's that's gonna be a great soul
winner that's gonna live for God for the rest of their life that's your sheep
that you won the Lord about the church yeah you don't know when it's gonna
prosper you don't know when you're gonna get the door slammed and you don't know
when people are gonna get saved and you don't know when somebody's gonna receive
the gospel you don't know when somebody's gonna reject that he says you
cannot understand what God is doing you just can't understand it he says look do
you understand how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child we
don't understand that you know the abortion doctor he thinks he
understands it you know he thinks oh well it's alive here and it's not alive
here no he's talking about he's an idiot the Bible says we don't understand these
things these are the things that are belong unto God and we don't have any
understanding of the pregnancy process and see alike we don't have
understanding of the soul winning process many times we can talk to
somebody increase the gospel it seems like they went in one ear and out the
other we don't know what God's doing we don't know what the Holy Spirit's doing
maybe 20 years from now that person might get saved and a part of it had
something to do with the seed we planted or we win somebody the Lord and they get
saved and they trust Christ the Savior they don't come to church they don't get
baptized we don't know what's going on maybe 10 years from now they'll get in
church and get on fire I've known so many people who said I got saved when I
was 13 but I never got into church until I was 22 or whatever and then now
they're living for God and you do not know which of your seeds that you throw
out there are gonna prosper you don't know which ones are gonna go by the
wayside so he says look just have a pattern you know in this case he said
every morning and every night he said I'm just gonna sow my seed as the
farmer and I don't know which one's gonna prosper I'm just gonna keep doing
it just every time I'm gonna be there I'm not gonna miss because I don't want
to miss the soul anytime when something big could happen when I could have
really seen the power of God he said I don't want to ever miss because I just
don't know when that's gonna be that's what he said I don't understand good
night I'm not God so don't let the weather affect so winning and here we
are in Phoenix Arizona it's hot outside don't let the weather stop you from
solving be a soul winner anyhow there there are places you can go indoors and
there's times you can go in the evening and and so forth you've got to be a soul
winner because you don't know which seeds gonna prosper and you don't know
which person which day you're gonna win somebody the Lord and just that one
person's worth it worth everything and boy they can go on and win people Lord
boy your life can be doubled when you if you could reproduce yourself and when
one other person and they could do exactly what you do for the rest of their
life you've just doubled your efforts in one time out so winning you don't know
but see we don't know when that's gonna happen we don't know if it's gonna
happen all we know is to sow our seed and doubtless we're gonna come again
rejoicing let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer God I thank you so much
that you've given us the Word of God and and you've shown us your power through
creation father boy none of us has an excuse in 2006 here we are we've got the
King James Bible the preserved perfect Word of God