Amen the part of the chapter we're gonna focus on this morning is found in verse
number 10 where the Bible reads here and the angels said unto them fear not
for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people
skip down to verse number 15 and it came to pass as the angels were gone away
from them into heaven the shepherds said one to another let us now go even
unto Bethlehem and see this great thing and see this thing excuse me which has
come to pass which the Lord hath made known unto us and they came with
haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger and when
they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning
this child and all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told
them by the shepherds in the title of my sermon this morning is how to spread
good tidings how to spread good tidings in the part of the chapter
that we're I'm actually focusing on here is when it says and when they
had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them
concerning this child and you think about obviously Luke chapter 2 it's a
very famous passage of Scripture and we would have related to this matter of
Christmas right I hope you know in your family you would have the tradition in
my family we have the tradition that on Christmas Day this is the chapter we
read with fan with my family and it's just the time to reflect on the birth
of Christ and and just you know the the traditions that we have as
Christians but when we focus on the story I think it's very interesting to
know that these shepherds these shepherds were the ones who actually spread
abroad the birth of Christ right and in fact the Bible says that they spread
abroad in Bethlehem so as soon as they got the good tidings from the angels
they went out and spread it abroad to everyone else and I think that's a
beautiful picture of when someone first gets saved and they receive the
good tidings of great joy they get the gospel they get salvation what is
the first thing that they want to do they want to go preach the gospel
right they want to go tell others about Jesus Christ and I think that's a
natural desire that every person wants to have especially if they're attached
to a local church they want to learn how to get other people saved I
mean I remember when I first got saved and July 22nd 2007 I remember the
day that I got saved immediately after that I wanted to go and so and
I wanted to learn how to preach the gospel why because I had family we're
going to hell I have friends I had people who I love who I wanted to
spread abroad the news and I didn't know exactly I didn't know the Romans
road I know that I trusted Christ as my Savior okay and you know maybe my
gospel presentation was a little sloppy at that time but because I was
an independent Baptist Church where we learned soul winning we went out
every week you know I ended up learning and I was able to spread
abroad not just the gospel to my family and my friends but then to
strangers as we went out knocked on doors and we went out preaching the
gospel but I think that these shepherds are a good example to follow I think
it's a good they're worthy to know that these men because they're in the right
place at the right time they're taking care of their own business the angels
came gave them the good tidings and what do they do they took the
responsibility to go out and spread that abroad you know we as
Christians we as a church ought to have that same goal okay look I'm
thankful for church I'm thankful for fellowship I'm thankful for good
doctrine I'm thankful for for El Mani here and and the fact you know we're
gonna take pictures afterwards and tonight we're gonna we're gonna have a
deserve fellowship I forgot to announce that we're having a deserve
fellowship tonight so don't miss out on that okay but you know what why we're
here because we want to get here to get equipped to go out and preach the
gospel to see people save and you want not to be in our church for any
length of time and not want to go out and preach the gospel that ought to
be a goal that you have in your personal life that you personally
become a soul winner to go out and preach it let me say this preach it
right because there's a lot of churches out there then when they preach the
gospel they're not preaching the right kind of gospel okay you got these
these liberal churches with the repent of your sins and they're watered down
have a relationship with God all these all this crap that gets no one
saved and then they then they had this huge huge building with a bunch of
people full of unregenerated Christians right that's not what we want we
don't want to build a mega church here okay you know what we want to do we want
to get people saved okay and yes we want to save people to come to church
all right because that's a good thing all right so they can come get
equipped learn learn the Bible and go out and preach the gospel but that's
not what we want we don't want to just go out there and give some false
doctrine no we want to know what we're talking about but obviously these
guys knew what they're talking about you know as soon as they received it
they went out and gave it out and that's why it's not hard to preach
the gospel okay now throughout the years you're gonna learn better ways
you're gonna sharpen yourself a lot more you're gonna be equipped we understand
that but right off the bat you can get out there and do the work even if
it's not necessarily the best way to do it but you can still preach the
gospel and look the only reason you would is because you're just lazy okay
you're lazy and look we all have reasons why we can't go out all right we
all have reasons why we don't go out we all have reasons why we don't knock
on doors oh yeah look Moses had a reason why he couldn't leave the children of
Israel out of Egypt and God said where's Aaron you know it's just like he was
just frustrated with him but let me say this you know God's not gonna tell
you where's your brother he's gonna say no where you at you need to get
out there and preach the gospel oh but you don't understand on my church
who cares who cares then get into a church that preaches the gospel and
teaches you how to do it and learn how to do it okay but they received a
good tidings they wasted no time they jumped right in began preaching the
gospel go with me if you're with to Romans chapter 10 we're gonna look at
some familiar scriptures just by way of introduction Romans chapter number
10 and verse 13 I'm gonna read to you from Isaiah 52 in verse number 7
where the Bible reads how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings that publish its peace that bringeth good
tidings of good that publish its salvation that saith unto Zion thy God
reigneth and that is reiterated again in Romans chapter 10 verse 13 where
the Bible says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how
shall they believe on in him in whom they have not heard and how shall they
hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent as it
is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace and bring glad tidings of good things look you don't need a
manicure or a pedicure you just need to go preach the gospel to get some
beautiful feet now don't look at your feet after you're done preaching the
gospel especially if you do any kind of length of soul winning they're
probably not gonna look their best right but God says man you got
beautiful feet if you're out there preaching the gospel if you're out
there giving good a good time and what is tidings it means news the good
news of Jesus Christ that he died was buried and resurrected that he's the
only way of salvation that's good news and that's the good news that we
need to bring to a lost and dying world go to 2nd Corinthians chapter
number 5 2nd Corinthians chapter number 5 I'm gonna read to you from Nahum 1
15 where the Bible reads behold upon the mountains the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace Oh Judah keep thy solemn feast
perform thy vows for the wicked shall no more pass through thee it is
utterly cast off and you often see that when the Bible talks about good
tidings it relates it to peace right good tidings of peace why is that
because the Bible teaches us here in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 18 and all
things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and have
given to us the ministry of reconciliation see when we got saved we
got peace with God we don't have the peace of God necessary you know we
need to read the Bible and do all those things afterwards learn how to
pray but the Bible says we have peace with God now we're reconciled to God
and what does God expect of us when we get reconciled now we need to go
reconcile someone else to the Lord right the Bible says in verse 19 to wit
that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their
trespasses unto them and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation
which is the King James Bible right amen go to Romans chapter 5 this is
all introduction here look this is what Christmas is all about and you
know last week we preached on cheap substitutes for Christmas I hope you're
not celebrating Kwanzaa I hope you're not doing the los dia de los reyes okay I
sure hope you're not doing Santa someone came out to me and say second
clause not Santa Claus you know I hope you're not doing Hanukkah shame on you
if you even recognize that you know when I go to when I go to in and out
next time I'm bringing a sharpie and I'm just gonna sharpie how to cut
Hanukkah nonsense fight Romans 5 one says therefore being justified by faith
we have peace with God through through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom also we
have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of
the glory of God that's why it's a good tiding because now we have peace
with God we're the sons of God okay now it's obvious that we as God's
people need to learn how to preach the gospel right it's obvious that we
the Bible commands us to it says you know going there for him preached the
gospel to every creature and command after command after command that we need
to be out there learning how to preach the gospel getting people saved
go to 2nd Kings chapter number 7 2nd Kings chapter number 7 and look we have
one up on those who supposedly believe in the gospel but they don't go
out and preach the gospel churches that don't do the work right we have
one up on them because we actually emphasize that here but you know it's
dangerous and even in a church like we have here to emphasize this but not
emphasize how to do it right and even when we emphasize how to do it
sometimes every once in a while someone gets out out of kilter and they do it
wrong okay and look there's two types of people that will do something like
this we got our false prophet okay we got the false prophet who comes in here
and tries to spread a bunch of false doctrine and once we find out about
it we need to give them the boot and by the way you hear about that come
let me know and nothing like that is going on okay well no there's no as
far as I know okay now I have to service let me know and then Sunday
night we'll do it but when the false prophets come in here spreading their
garbage about repenting your sins and by the way if that's something that you
believe you start believing right or get out that's just the bottom line
okay why because this is not something this is not some hobby horse of our
movement this is what the Bible teaches and the fact of the matter is
if you don't preach the right gospel doesn't matter how you cover it up
you're gonna send someone to hell and look you may look at us and say you
guys are mean-spirited you guys are don't don't care about anybody you guys
aren't humble but you know what it takes love to get some of the real
gospel so they can go to heaven not to hell and we need to know what
we're talking about when we're actually preaching the gospel so no
false prophets allowed no homos no false prophets allowed okay but look
that's not the problem that will come very often okay I'm sure everyone's
look the Bible says that they will creep in and aware obviously right they
are gonna come so we're not ignorant to think that that's never gonna happen we
understand that that will that will happen we need to be vigilant and it's
not like and look we're not the Baptist police where we're just gonna
interrogate every single person to find out if you if you're a false
prophet if you're a reprobate we're not gonna do that okay but look
sometimes we as Christians can just get off kilter just just period okay
whether it's sincerely or insincerely and and begin preaching the gospel
in such a way that it's ineffective but not only ineffective it's not
according to the Bible and at that point we need to correct it okay so how
should we handle the good tidings okay like this is Christmas don't worry
we're gonna get in the nice Christmas message tonight all right but
this is a good Christmas message to write it's good tidings 2 Kings
chapter 7 we're gonna look at an example here in the Old Testament in
verse number 1 the Bible reads here then Elisha said hear ye the word of
the Lord thus saith the Lord tomorrow about this time shall a measure of
fine flour be sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in
the gate of Samaria then a Lord excuse me then a Lord on whose hand the king
leaned answered the man of God and said behold if the Lord would make
windows in heaven might this thing be and he said behold thou shall see it
with thine eyes but thou shall not eat thereof and there are four leprous
men at the entering in of the gate and they said one to another why sit
we here until we die if we say we will enter into the city then the
famine is in the city and we shall die there and if we sit still here we die
also now therefore come let us fall unto the host of the Syrians if they
save us alive we shall live and if they kill us we shall but die and
they arose up in the twilight to go into the camp of the Syrians and when
they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria behold there was
no man there for the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a
noise of chariots excuse me and a noise of horses even the noise of a
great host and they said one to another lo the king of Israel hath hired
against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come
upon us wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight and left their
tents and their horses and their asses even the camp as it was and fled
for their life so this is an amazing story here okay what a great
opportunity what we would call an open door right I mean these guys they're
like we're gonna die anyways let's just go ahead and give it a shot you
know if we go there they're gonna kill us and just put us put us out of our
misery because we're lepers so what do we have to lose well because they took
the risk to just do it they basically got to spoil okay and look at
verse number eight and when these lepers came to the uttermost parts of
the camp they went into one tent and did eat and drink and carried then
silver and gold and raiment and went and hid it so they found all the all
these treasures you know they got the the polos you know all the the what's a
good brand I don't tell me someone tell me all the JC penny stuff Levi they
still have Levi jeans man Levi jeans 501s whatever they found all the good
stuff and they're like man we're loaded and what do they do they hit
it and it came and came again and entered into another tent and carried
then also and went and hit it so they were just I mean they're just
going to each tent they're just like coming up you know verse 9 then they said
one to another look what he says we do not well man he's like we do not well
why this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace if we
tear it till the morning light so mischief will come upon us now
therefore come that we may go and tell the king's household so they came
and called him to the port of the city and they told them saying we
came to the camp of the Syrians and behold there was no man there neither
voice of men but horses tied and asses tied and the tents as they were
so on and so forth so we see these lepers they kind of come to
themselves I mean they're enjoying what they're getting their spoils and
one guy steps up and says look guys we do not well we're hiding this
stuff and we're holding our peace we need to go spread this abroad you know
we need Christians today to have that same attitude as that one nameless guy
in the Bible and say look we're saved we got the gospel we got the right
doctrine and if we're not out there we do not well we do not well to sit
and stay at home on a Sunday stay at home on a Saturday stay at home
throughout the week when you know the gospel but you're not getting it out
there you do not well and look what the guys did right here they're
hiding it look if our gospel be hit it's into them that are lost we need to get
out there and look we have any we can come up with the best excuses is why
we're not out so winning but your best excuse doesn't match up to the
amount of people they're gonna die and go to hell because you're not
going out there and telling them about the gospel we do not well but hey this
guy got it right he says this day is the day of good tidings and we hold our
peace if we tear it to the morning light some mischief will come upon us he
says look better to just get out there what if what if we reap what we
sow right and let me say this we as God's people we need to make sure
that we take responsibility and make sure we do well and don't hide our
light under a bushel don't hide the gospel from people get out there and do
the work get out there and learn you said I don't know how to preach the
gospel learn read the Bible memorize the scripture do whatever it takes but
learn how to preach the gospel because let me say this each and every
one of us we have unsafe people in our families what about them you have
unsafe people in your family people are gonna die and go to hell and
because of your laziness and your lack spirit they're gonna die and go there
because you're not willing to learn and give them the gospel see that hits that
hits more to home than the strangers across the street why don't you think
about them but let me say this the people who are across the street they
have family members too and they're waiting for someone obviously they're
not gonna say it openly but like the Macedonian come over and help us we
need to realize that okay and have a heart for lost people compassion to go
out there and preach the gospel look I hope this breaks your heart I hope that
you weep over these things I hope you weep over the fact that any one of your
family members can die tonight and burn in hell forever let that sink in
your ears if we're not out there we do not well we need to go we can't
hold our peace we can't hide the treasure go with me if you would to
2nd Corinthians chapter number 4 these men were good examples of how we should
preach the good tidings don't hide it don't hold your peace go out there and
and and boldly open your mouth to proclaim the gospel the Bible says 2nd
Corinthians chapter number 4 and verse number 4 the Bible says here but if our
gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this
world has blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them
for we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your
servants for Jesus sake skip down to verse number 7 but we have this
treasure wow just like the the lepers right we had this treasure in earthen
vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us
what is he saying look we're not like the lepers who had the treasures
in the tents no we have it right here so we have no excuse every saved
born-again Christian is able to preach the gospel sure someone can some
people can preach it better than others some people have a better gospel
presentation than others and look I haven't arrived I'm not yet
apprehended I'm still learning why because I want to be a better soul
winner but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be so arrogant and pompous to
believe that I've arrived because I'm the one who's preaching that faith
forward Baptist Church and I can't learn from anybody else no I want to
glean wisdom from everybody because there's always someone who can do it
a lot better but look even if I wasn't preaching here even if this wasn't my
ministry and my church I still got there that treasure in an earthen
vessel and it will still be my fault if I don't go out there and preach
the gospel so what am I saying you go to go to second Samuel second Samuel
what am I saying here look once we get the good tidings of glad tidings
all right we need to go out there and spread that abroad okay and look 2017
was a great year I mean the latter end of it the middle is still rough
okay a little stressful all right but the very end of it it was good but
let me say this 2018 is a way is gonna be way better way better we're
gonna see a lot more people saved we're gonna cover that map we're gonna
preach the gospel we're gonna more people are gonna come to church more
people are gonna get equipped more people we're gonna be a powerhouse of
soul winning for Southern California we're taking it over okay and look we
got a big vision here you say you got a small church but we got big
vision we're gonna do something big you say well are you gonna build a
church no I'm not no no building programs that's oh that's not what
we're doing here you said what are you doing we want to preach the gospel that's
way more important way more important because what if the building burns down
that could happen you know but here's the thing they can't stop us
because even if they listen let's just say they kill me okay first of all
you did me a favor you just you just gave me a crown man okay just make it
quick make it quick okay but here's the thing one thing about Christian
history is that when you kill when they martyr a Christian the message
spreads like that much faster so you're just gonna help us get the
message out there so much so much the more well you know what we want to
be as faithful or Baptist Church in Southern California we want to be you
know there's there's churches that are known as a singing church as a singing
church because everyone knows how to sing there okay I could give a crap if
you know if you know how to look if you believe right and you sound like a
crow trying to get to a screen door you know amen mark I'm just kidding mark
does a good job he makes a joyful noise amen but we're not trying to be the
singing church I want to be the soul in church the church to see people save
but we as we got we have the good tidings of glad tidings of great joy
we need to go out there and spread it abroad and have that as their motive
look as 2018 rolls around you need to have a goal of what you want to do
some of you know how to speak Spanish but you don't give the gospel in Spanish
you know cuz XY and Z you got a you got an excuse why don't you start
learning I mean we got the we got the Bibles back there we I pastor Jimenez
preached the gospel in Spanish you can learn it that way we don't we
look in the Danish where we live we have no excuse as to why not you know
and look there's a bunch of Chinese people here and in El Monte I don't
know how to speak Chinese full fully but I want to learn it's gonna take
time right but here's the thing is we don't have an excuse as to why we can't
get the gospel out there and you need to have a goal for this year this
is where I want to be at the end of 2018 okay to be able to give the
gospel see people safe on a weekly basis be faithful to so winning you know
and look yeah I get it sometimes we get lazy just get lazy and and you
get lazy you get lax and it's just like man I don't feel like going but
look we need to get to a point in our Christian lives when we do what we're
supposed to do not because we feel like doing it okay we're not babes in
Christ now if you're a babe in Christ praise the Lord but you need to
grow out of that and start doing things because you're supposed to do
not because you feel like doing it okay so that's how we should handle
the good tidings these guys did a good job you know they got the
treasure they're like hiding it but then one guy said hey we're not doing
well here we're just we're just kind of like it reminds me of the of the
churches of today right they had their nice beautiful building they're saved
they got a King James Bible they got all these things but what are they doing
they're not doing well because they're not giving the glad tidings the good
tidings to the rest of the people no as we're as we benefit from what
we're learning as we benefit from the preaching from everything that's taking
place we want to make sure we get it out okay so how should we not handle
the good tidings all right and this is the crux of the message here second
Samuel chapter 18 we're gonna look at another story here second Samuel chapter
number 18 and verse 15 the Bible reads here and ten young men that bear Joab's
armor come past about and smote Absalom and slew him and Joab blew the
trumpet and the people returned from pursuing after Israel for Joab held
back the people and they took Absalom and cast them into a great pit in the
wood and laid a very great heap of stones upon him and all Israel fled
everyone to his tent now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up
for himself a pillar which is in the Kings Dale for he said I have no son
to keep my name in remembrance and he called the pillar after his own name
and it is called unto this day Absalom's place then said Ahima as the
son of Zadok let me now run and bear the king tidings now remember
tidings is what news right how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies
and Joab said unto him thou shall not bear tidings this day but thou shall
bear tidings another day but this day thou shalt bear no tidings because
the king's son is dead so what do we see here Ahima is just a
messenger and obviously there's a big message that needs to be taken to the
king and he wants to be the one in charge of that let me go run and let
me go take care of it let me go tell him and job is like not today your
time's not now okay some other time you can bear the tidings but not today all
right verse 21 then said Joab to Cushai go tell the king what thou has seen
and Cushai bowed himself unto Joab and ran then said Ahima as the son
of Zadok yet again to Joab but howsoever let me I pray thee also run
after Cushai and Joab said wherefore wilt thou run my son seeing that thou
has no tidings ready so he's saying look look a guy comes back said please
let me go let me go and do it he said what are you gonna go you don't you're
not even ready verse 23 but howsoever said he let me run and he sent him a run
then Ahima ran by the way of the plane and overran Cushai and David sat
between the two gates and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate
unto the wall and lifted up his eyes and looked and behold a man running
alone and the watchman cried and told the king and the king said if he be
alone there is tidings in his mouth and he came apace and drew near excuse
me and the watchman saw another man running and the watchman called him to
the porter and said behold another man running alone and the king said he also
bringeth tidings so these guys are both running obviously these both look
like they got news to tell the king recognizes this verse 27 in the
watchman said me think if the running of the foremost is like the
running of Ahima as the son of Zadok and the king said he is a good man
and cometh with good tidings and Ahima's called and said unto the king
all is well that's all he said all is well and he fell down to the earth
upon his face before the king and said blessed be the Lord thy God which hath
delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my Lord the king
now let me ask you something was that what he was supposed to tell him
no I mean the first thing that comes out of his mouth is all is well
verse 29 the king said is the young man Absalom safe and Ahima has
answered when Joab sent the king's servant and me thy servant I saw a
great tumult but I knew not what it was so he doesn't even know what he's
talking about he gets there to the king all is well but he has no idea what
he's talking about verse 30 and the king sent it to him turn aside stand
here and turn and he turned aside and stood still so King David was like just
stand over here just stand still right verse 31 and behold excuse me
Cushai came and Cushai said tidings my Lord the king for the Lord hath
avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee and the king sent
unto Cushai is the young man Absalom safe and Cushai answered the enemies
of my Lord the king and all that rise against thee to do the hurt be as
that young man is what he's saying he's dead but he obviously he has
some discretion when he was saying it right he goes basically just as I said
how the the enemies of your enemies have died your son's basically the
same you know verse 33 and the king was moved was much moved and went up to
that chamber over the gate and wept and as he went thus he said oh my son
Absalom my son my son Absalom would God I had died for thee oh Absalom my son
my son so here you see there's two messengers okay there were there were
given the responsibility one took it upon himself really to go out and give
these tidings to the king that the king's son had died okay that was the
message that he was supposed to bring to him because though David was
concerned about winning the war he was far more concerned about the the the the
state of his son he wanted to know if his son had died okay and two guys
here Ahimaaz and Cushai were the ones coming to bear the king these
tidings but guess what one knew what he was doing and the other one did it
okay one knew exactly what to say and how to say it and the other one
didn't okay and here's the thing we're gonna relate this to preaching the
gospel all right it's a soul winning right now and I'm pretty sure you could
as you read the story you see some correlations to preach in the gospel
but we see that Ahimaaz did not do it right that's why he stood aside
and stood still so even though he got there before Cushai did even though he
outran him even though he got there and even though he had a sincere
heart he wanted to do it he didn't do it right Cushai yeah maybe he was
jogging I don't know got there a little late or maybe just on time but he gave
the message right told him that his son had died told him everything that he
needed to hear and he got the message across Ahimaaz did not always say
about Ahimaaz got there first it doesn't even matter if he got there
first because he didn't even get the message right look how many times have
you been out preaching the gospel or no excuse me not even preaching the gospel
maybe you're just like on a Sunday morning running to the store to go get
something before you go to church and who do you see out there walking
Jehovah's Witnesses I mean they're out there early sometimes I'm like man I
mean I'm all for preaching the gospel but let's like do it in the
afternoons when people are at least awake you know what I mean but they're
out there early and we can say well look at them they got passion they got zeal
they're out there early yeah but they're not even giving it right it's a wrong
message so you can get there as fast as you want to get you can be as
sincere as you want to be and let me say that there's probably some
Jehovah's Witnesses that are sincere they're actually think that they're
doing right but they're sincerely wrong you're damning people to hell we
understand that oh but they're early that doesn't matter Ahimaaz was
there early but guess what he wasn't giving the right message so we're gonna
relate that to giving good tidings here as far as the gospel is concerned now
look at verse 22 you pop in this um cough drop one of my fears when I pop
in the cough drop is when I'm preaching hard it might just fly out
yeah thanks Chad poke someone's eye or something so what was the problem
with Ahimaaz we're gonna go through through this these chapters right here
and we're almost finished well first of all we can say this this is how you
don't do it first of all Ahimaaz was not ready just wasn't ready look at
verse 22 then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab but who
so ever let me I pray thee also run after Cushai and Joab said wherefore
would thou run my son seeing thou hast not no tidings ready he's like you're
not even ready you don't even know what you're gonna go say he's wanted to go
do it see Ahimaaz's problem was that he wasn't prepared okay and a very
important element of preaching the gospel is that you need to be ready you
need to be prepared you need to know what you're doing this is not
we're not track dropping we're not door we're not doing the door hangers
you don't need preparation for that I mean what do you gotta do you just
gotta just put it on the door right I mean I don't gotta deal with anybody
right but that's not preaching the gospel we're actually preaching the
gospel and so it requires what preparation go to Romans chapter 1
Romans chapter number 1 I'm gonna read to you from 1st Peter chapter 3 verse
15 says but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to
give an answer to every man this asketh you a reason of the hope that is in
you with meekness and fear so the Bible tells us that to an extent yes
look we have so many times at our church right we have like five so many times
right now we're looking to increase them 2018 but we have a lot of so many
times and so why do we have that so you can have a designated time when you
can come out and preach the gospel so you can have a scheduled time to do it
and that's good and every church needs to do that we're always gonna do
that but let me say this you also ought to be ready to preach the
gospel even outside of those times because opportunities will present
themselves you know at your job with your family maybe today when you go
hang out with your family for Christmas you're gonna have an
opportunity to preach the gospel you ought to be ready for that so it's not
just during the so many times the so many times is like the training right
so then when you're outside of those times you're ready to preach the
gospel you're ready to give an answer okay to everyone that asks you of the
of the hope that is in you now look at Romans 1 verse 14 says I am a
debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians both to the wise and to
the unwise so as much as as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to you
that are at Rome also Paul said I'm ready and look what I mean by being
ready let's just talk about practically speaking okay when you come
to come when you come solely come with the ready mind with the right
attitude okay let me say this don't be a grump you're gonna fight with your
wife mmm before church or something like that get it right before you go so
many all right we're gonna go so many we're just gonna go do this and and
then you're like just mean-spirited let me be mean-spirited when I'm here
okay but we're all given the gospel you ought to be kind and nice to
everyone don't be a jerk okay there's some jerks out there to be honest with
you just mean just like you're just like just a jerk it's the other way to
put it you need to be kind the boxes with meekness you know and when you
make this is basically you're coming to them humbly because here's the thing
and look pastor Anderson preached a great message on giving the gospel
just tips on helping people so in last week I took notes and we're gonna go
over that for so many today I think it's important you need to be nice
don't be a jerk okay because we're not there to argue with them you know and
look yes we're looking to prove them wrong but with the motive of helping
them to believe right right so it's not like don't and here's the thing
sometimes people look to prove people wrong so they have a story to tell when
they come back yeah yeah I ran into this one guy and there's just like didn't
get saved or anything but yeah you're cool that's pretty cool man right on
you know no not right on okay you need to be kind to them you need to be
meek and look you need to learn how to be meek if you don't know if
you're if you're just naturally a jerk then you need to learn how not to
be a jerk when you're out so many look and unfortunately the liberal
churches have taken this concept and just to the extreme but you need to be
loving yes loving okay and look why are we going out there anyways right
because we love lost people and we want them to be saved now I mentioned
this before you know so I think sometimes people don't want to be too
nice because they're afraid they're gonna run into some faggot you know
and it's just like you know that happens but not very often now it
happened to me like two weeks ago who was I with I was with David like I
flat-out said I'm a queer I just threw up my hands and I walked away I was
like I'll report you you know but that's not everything that's not every
door okay that's just something every once in a while now that's fun to
talk about right there okay but the main thing we need to be talking
about the people we see saved you know and look meekness with humility going
to them humbly you know we want them to be saved we want them to go to heaven
okay but be ready come with the right answer bring your Bible bring your
Bible and look use your Bible right that's a that's a novel concept use
it okay use your Bible when you're out there now look memorize scripture
if you don't use your Bible it should be because you've already have the
scriptures memorized okay and there's times when I use my Bible there's times
when I just use my memory but I know the verses and I know verses outside of
the Romans Road okay I can go through the whole gospel presentation without
using my Bible but sometimes I do use my Bible so I can show them but
you need to be ready with something okay and look don't just give the
gospel don't don't just give the points of the Romans Road give them
the verses don't do this this crap where it's just like you know you're just
giving them the concepts but you're not giving them the verses you're not
sharing with them what the Word of God says faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the Word of God our wisdom doesn't win anybody to the Lord
we need to make sure that we're given and look if you don't have the
verses memorized then yes you do need the Bible and look there's nothing
shameful about that okay get up get a New Testament from back there it can
help you it has the steps right there it's marked for you I mean it does
pretty much everything other than preach the gospel for you open that
thing up follow the steps walk through it if you don't know the verses by
memory you have it right there read it to them show it to them but be
prepared don't be just careless of how you preaching the gospel you need to
make sure you know what you're doing be ready it's not like okay you're a
sinner you understand okay yeah you know hell okay yeah Jesus you believe
Jesus okay let's pray real quick that's a crappy way of giving the
gospel and that will never be popular that will never gain momentum in this
church and if you do something like that you need to repent get it right
admit that you're wrong and do it right because that's not gonna be
tolerated here we're talking about souls here and look we're not looking to
artificially inflate the numbers of our church look we're gonna see numbers
why cuz we're preaching the right gospel we're using the right Bible
we're using the right methods and when you use the right things you
will get the right numbers you'll get a lot we're gonna see a lot of people
safe we don't need you to artificially inflate the numbers just
you could come back and say well I got this many saved look I want to see
hundreds saved yay thousands but I want to do it the right way not the
wrong way there is a church in the Los Angeles area who's notorious for this
we call them the one two three prayer after me now the the Calvinists and
all these theologian you know theological idiots would call us that
which I could care less what they say you know but these guys are the one two
three prayer after me guys I mean their car salesmanship their car
salesman is what I'm saying they'll go up and they're like you believe this
believe this believe it and it's alright but just pray you know and they have
this method and I don't believe any of them and they do it for the sake of
numbers because they want to say well we got a hundred saved today and my
old church we have people who came from that church and they would tell us
all the horror stories of that church they would say that they would read
they would baptize the people the same person like five times just so
they can say just so they can say that they got that many baptized I
mean they have bus ministry problem number one right and then this bus
ministry they would they would literally they would the pastor would
say you can't come unless you have this many you know and if you didn't get
this many safe you need to go back out and get them saved or figure
something out I mean this weird stuff all for the sake of numbers but we
don't need to do all that to have big numbers we're doing just fine
just doing it right doing it the right way okay and look there's times
when I come back from soul winning and how many people do I see saved one one
but I'm not gonna come here you're ashamed what does it Alex when six
people and I come back and I win one I'm like oh man I'm like the pastor here
I'm only winning like one you know just kidding I meant one plus ten I
forgot to mention those other ten why you want I'm gonna do I'm gonna
rejoice over the six he won and be thankful I was able to lead one look
when it comes to Sony you just have your ebb and flows there's ebb and flows to
Sony some weeks you see zero some weeks you see three some weeks you see
one some weeks you see nine it just all depends but look just because
you've been seeing zero for weeks on end doesn't mean it gives you an
excuse to do it the wrong way you need to do it the right way and be
ready to give the gospel don't do this sloppy presentation of the gospel now I
know the some churches in our movement they've been struggling with this
thing of calling upon the name of the Lord you know which you're retarded I
mean I don't even know how you like who came up with like not having to
call upon the name of the Lord oh the devil that's right sorry I just but
that's that's not necessary issue we have here but look we will have
issues here one of the issues right now is just you need to be thorough
you need to use the Bible you need to be ready don't come here saying you
have all kinds of people saved and then like you didn't even give a clear
presentation of the gospel that's shameful okay be ready to preach the
gospel at all times you're in second Sam in chapter 18 what I must hasten
verse 23 but not only that he cut corners so he wasn't ready but he cut
corners the Bible says in verse 23 but howsoever said he let me run and
he said unto him run then a high mass ran by the way of the plane and
overran Cushai so he the reason he outran Cushai is because he ran the
way of the plane basically he took a shortcut is what we would say that's why
he got there before Cushai so we would say in our modern vernacular he cut
corners and one thing you don't want to do when you're out preaching the
gospel is cut corners okay and then temptation is like look you're in our
church all kinds of people seeing people save and you come up with no
fruit and it's just like man I just want to see one at least one person
and then what do you want to you want to cut corners in order to see that
one person safe don't do it have some integrity I'll share that illustration
just a bit let me reach you for 1st Thessalonians 2 7 says but we were
gentle among you even as a nurse cherishes their children so being
affectionately desires of you we were willing to have imparted unto you
not the gospel of God only but also our own souls because you were dear unto
us for you remember brethren our labor in travail for laboring night and day
because we would not be chargeable unto any of you we preach unto you the
gospel of God look don't just breeze over the message you need to get them to
understand and after a while you you understand how to do because as you're
talking to someone and they're just being kind of saying uh-huh but they're
kind of just like looking around you know you know they're just like oh
yeah I'll call you yeah and they're like doing something else okay they're
probably not paying attention to what you're talking about okay you need to
gauge that their attention span okay and I'm not saying they need to be in
tears I've had people who like break down crying when I give them the gospel
that's not every time I preach the gospel you know but you need to gauge
how they're paying attention and don't just cut corners and say well
let's just pray real quick let's just pray you believe okay let's pray
don't do that no you need to be make sure you're thorough and when I say
thorough I don't mean starting Genesis and then in Revelation I know people
who do that I mean they like too thorough all right what I mean thorough
is when I say thorough is giving them the verses and making sure that they
understand what you're talking about okay go to your seconds to go back to
second Sam in chapter 18 we'll read to you from another verse in Luke 24
this doesn't have to do with the gospel this does have to do with
explaining the Word of God Jesus reprimanding the disciples in the
world she may have says said this old fools and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have spoken and beginning of Moses and all the prophets
he expounded on to them in the scriptures the things concerning
himself he was very thorough okay and obviously when we preach the gospel we
don't need to be so thorough to the point where we confuse the person we
need to have some simplicity when we're speaking to them but we do need to
make sure that they understand what we're talking about okay but not only that we
see that he left out details so a high mass had a lot of problems he wasn't
ready by the way don't name your kid a high mass he wasn't ready he cut corners and
he left out the details second Samuel 18 28 says and a high mass called
and sent him to the king Paul as well and he fell down to the earth
upon his face before the king and said blessed be the Lord thy God which
had delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my Lord the king
he left out the details and that's why David was just like just stand over
here I don't think you know what you're talking about you know stand still you
know but he said all as well you know when we're out preaching the gospel we
need to make sure we're giving the entire gospel and part of that God
obviously the gospel is the death burial and resurrection right amen but
there's things that people need to understand and realize before they even
believe in that they need to realize they need to they need to admit that
they're a sinner okay and no not the right comfort type of
admit to your sin we're just slamming them and you're an adulterer and you do
this and you're gonna go to hell and it's just no they just need to
realize hey would you admit that you're a sinner yeah I admit that all
right move on to the next point but what's the next point hell now this
is very important here okay that we understand this people need to believe
that they're going to hell in order to be saved if they do not believe that
they're not going to hell if they don't believe that they're going to
hell they can't get saved oh but they only have to believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ they have to believe they they are going to hell why
there's a word that the Bible uses to communicate being born again what's
that word I'm what I'm saved so this the word saved is not just some word we just
throw out there just because it's like a cool word in the Bible it means
something it's not like okay look I can get a Buddhist to call upon the name
of the Lord and then without believing in hell because they're just gonna add
him to the rest of their gods their deities right but that's why they need
to understand that they're going to hell because in order to be saved what are
they being saved from you're being pulled out of the fire you're asking
him to save you from what from hell I remember a couple years ago I was the
um I took over a Spanish ministry okay I was preaching in Spanish I was a
Spanish pastor and right off the bat we went zoning and and I went with one
of the guys there who was kind of like a leader and we went to a door and I just
told my say I just want to listen to you you know cuz I'm new I kind of
preaching the gospel in Spanish so I want to learn you know so I want to I
want to follow your example just I'm gonna listen to you and he said all
right so he's preaching the gospel he talked to this lady choose from my
chiller or something like that and he went to the gospel presentation and
said now do you believe that you're going to hell she's I don't believe in
hell he goes okay well do you believe that Jesus Christ died for you she
said yeah I believe that you and he said okay would you are we going to
pray and ask him to be your Savior she said sure and I said that I was I
was dumbfounded to be honest with you I don't know what to say I couldn't
believe what I just heard and this guy's like been a Christian for a long
time and I pulled him aside right after that I didn't interrupt because I was
so flabbergasted because you know you're there and you're just here so I
went to this I told him I said hey brother you just that person's not
saved and he said what do you mean I said she didn't believe in hell he
goes yeah but she believes on Christ I was like for what well to be your
Savior Savior from what she doesn't believe in hell and he said I don't I'm
not catching you I said people need to believe that they're going to hell if
they're gonna get saved I mean I don't I mean I think it was there's no
illustration to give to even explain this it just takes common sense it's
logic look someone who's drowning in water does not want to get does not want
the lifeguard to jump in if they don't believe they're drowning they're just
swimming and stuff you even say he's like no dude I'm cool I mean if you
want to pull me out that's fine yeah sure but I'm good I mean this logic
says you need to believe that there's a hell who has warned you from the
hood who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come right and in fact I
went so in with Paul last week and and Paul talked to a guy who was a Catholic
and Paul did a good job I mean he was real thorough and he was going through
the points he was just reiterating everything and he said um all right do
you believe that you know your sinner yeah I agree with that okay you
believe that you're gonna help nope and Paul was like okay and so he kind
of just like went over it again started explaining to him about hell and
giving him verses and stuff like that and then he just started going and then
the guy's like okay you go so you understand he goes yeah I understand
that yeah yeah okay cool so you believe you're you're a sinner he goes
yeah I believe that do you believe you're going to help nope and me and
Paul looked at each other like and he kind of just threw up his hands like
alright man well um well I hope you come by and visit us or something I
mean what do you do right the guy was not willing to come to the
conclusion that he now let me say this he believed in Christ he's I mean
that's what he said but he did not believe that he was going to go to hell
now let me say this it would have been it would have been very easy for Paul
just okay well let's pray real quick don't worry we'll take care of that
later when you die here go to hell right but he didn't he's like okay
well you know I don't want to tell you you know the Bible says they
you're condemned to hell you know the wrath of God abideth on you and I
don't remember exactly all the words that he said but he was very thorough
and he just left it at that we went to the next door you know and and he was
we were there for like a good 20 minutes I mean he was like giving him
verses and and it wasn't a waste of time obviously because he gave him he
planted good seeds but he was not willing to get him to pray because that
guy said no I don't believe I'm going to hell and look not every door is
like that I've heard some guys say you know I struggle with that I see I
meet people like that a lot I don't personally meet a lot of people that
don't believe they're going to hell I think they some people are just
confused and maybe we just need to work things a little differently to get them
to understand but there are there are situations like that where the guy
just was just like nope I mean he made a pop like nope you know it's
like all right here's a Christmas CD you know it's like what do you say
Paul said how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you but I've
showed you and have taught you publicly from house to house we can't
leave out details and hell is a very important detail I mean Jesus died he
went to hell for us right you can't gloss over that and let me say this if
you're someone in our church you need to get this right don't breeze over
the hell doctrine don't breeze over it don't breeze over any of them you need
to be thorough and give the details now look those of you who got this
down pat relax with some of the people who don't have a down pat okay and
teach them be kind to them because people some people in our church maybe
they're just not you know mature soul owners yet and this is what you do
if someone says something a little weird you confront them very kindly and
say hey I noticed you did this when you're out there here's a better way of
doing in fact this is a more biblical way of doing it can I show you
real quick and you teach them how to do it then you say okay this is your
next floor try that out okay they'll appreciate it because the fact that
they're going out so many means that they want to learn so this is a
better way of doing it and look if the person's older than you you need to
meekly go to them and tell them that right now they're stubborn and they
don't want to listen to it you know bring it to me or whatever but here's
the thing in this matter of so many we're all on equal planes here and we
need to make sure that we're doing it right don't be a high mass and leave
out the details go back to let's see here go back to 2nd Samuel chapter 18
this is the last part we're done so it was the last problem that he had well
he lacked knowledge the Bible says in verse 29 the King said is the young
man epsilon safe and a high man's answered when Joab sent the King's
servant and me thy servant I saw a great tumult but I knew not what it
was you know he said he was like when I was there I saw stuff happening you
know there's like a bunch of like people fighting stuff I don't know but
I don't know it was you know I wasn't there you know he just say he saw a
great tumult I mean he's just people fighting or something and what he didn't
know what's going on you need to have some knowledge of the gospel okay
and as the years go by of course you'll gain more knowledge if you're
diligent if you learn but don't stay where you're at if you're lacking
knowledge gain some knowledge about the Bible gain some knowledge about
certain doctrines gain some knowledge about preaching the gospel so you can be
better at it more and more the Bible says in Proverbs 16 23 the heart of the
wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning to his lips you know what we
as Christians need to do we need to add learning to our lips especially
when it comes to preaching the gospel okay and what's the message
today it's a good message I promise okay good tidings amen but look we're
family here okay so sometimes we got to have family time and this is
family time preach the gospel right don't breeze over the hell message
don't breeze over the sinner the point about being a sinner don't breeze
over any of it be thorough so we can be like those shepherds that as soon
as they got it they got it and they spread it abroad you know if they were
if they were like weren't doing it right I don't think God would have
put it in the Bible you know yeah we're not putting that because they
didn't do it right you know no obviously they did it right yeah and
that's why God put him in the Bible okay we need to be like those
shepherds that are spreading the gospel abroad and doing it right all right
let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father we thank you so much for
the good tidings of great joy we're thankful for this Christmas time we're
risk we as Christians are just reminded of the importance of the gospel this
is the good news and it reminds us of our responsibility especially for the
coming year to blaze abroad that Jesus Christ died was buried and
resurrected and I pray that you'd help us to be like who shy help us to
be like those lepers Lord who didn't hide it all the silver and the gold and
the treasures but they spread it to everyone else and help us not to be
like a high mass who did it wrong and Lord if there's someone here who
maybe is in that position I pray that you just help them to just get it
right and Lord we're not a church that will condemn anybody but you know
people need to fix things and so that we're all on the same page we're
striving together with unity for the faith of the gospel and that's very
important I pray you help us to do so bless the soul wanting to follow in
Jesus name we pray amen