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Mean we're in Matthew chapter number four in verse number 18 where the Bible reads here in Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee
Saw two brethren Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea
For there were fishers and he saith unto them follow me and I will make you fishers of men
And they straightway left their nets and followed him and it's out of the sermon this morning is make the Commission great again
Make the Commission great again now obviously, what does that phrase come from?
It comes in that foolish phrase make America great again, right?
But here's the thing is people are so concerned with making this country great again
What do they mean by that?
Well, they mean make it very powerful make it very rich and make it the basically the ultimate power of this world
But you know what? That's not what God's concerned about and the fact of the matter is if you study history
America was great at one time not because of the money not because of their prosperity as far as finances are concerned
You know why it was great because it was the hotbed for the gospel preachers. They're going out and getting people saved
It was a country that would send now
Missionaries all over the world soul winners all over the world and the preachers of America at one point were fiery hot
Preachers that's what made America great. Well, you know what we need today
We need to make the Commission great again if you want to make America great again, okay now
Go to Luke chapter number 10 if you would
Luke chapter number 10
You see this is important and the fact of the matter is is obviously we understand what the Great Commission is
It's basically preaching the gospel to every creature all over the world every nation
Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. I've commanded you and lo I'm with you always even until the end of the world
Amen, that is the Great Commission
It's big. It's a big vision that God set forth before he went to heaven now
We see here in Matthew chapter number four first and foremost that Jesus Christ when he was on this earth
He cast that a vision constantly
Didn't he he was constantly saying look if you want to follow me if you want to be if you're gonna follow me
I'm gonna make you a fisher of men. What did that mean?
He's basically saying you're gonna see a lot of people saved
Okay, you're gonna go out there. You're gonna fish for men. You're gonna see people saved
You're gonna make a huge difference and look they did and in fact look at Luke chapter 10 verse number one
It says after these things the Lord appointed other 70 also
And sent them two and two before his face and to every city and place whether he himself would come
Therefore said he unto them the harvest truly is great
But the laborers are few pray therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labors into his harvest
Go your ways behold. I send you forth as lambs among
Wolves carrying either purse nor scrip nor shoes and salute no man by the way and then so what's over house
He enter first say peace be to this house
And if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon him
If not
It shall return to you again in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as as they give for the labor is worthy
Of his hire go not from house to house and into whatsoever city
Enter and they receive you each such things as are set before you and heal the sick that are there in and saying to them
The kingdom of God is come nine unto you
So we see him casting vision in Matthew chapter number four and saying hey
You'll be a fisher of benefit follow me and Luke chapter 10. What do we see 70 people being sent out?
70 soul winners going out
Preaching the gospel seeing people saved preaching the kingdom of God to people
I mean, this is a great so many revival that were seen here in Luke chapter number 10 now go to John chapter 21
Everyone's excited
Everything's going great
People are being saved
Everything is just fiery. Everything's great, you know, September 17th
Fwbc la starts everyone's so winning, you know, they're preaching the kingdom of God and all these things but what happens Jesus Christ dies
Right and one of these disciples dude they go fishing
Look at Luke 21 verse 1 and after these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberius on
This wise showed he himself there were together Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus and the than you of Cana in Galilee and the sons
Of Zebedee and two other of his disciples Simon Peter saith unto them I go a-fishing
They say unto them we also go with thee and they went forth and entered into a ship immediately
And that night they caught nothing
So what do we see the disciples before Jesus Christ came on the on the scene? They're fishing for just regular fish
Jesus came completely changed their perspective then they they started laboring for the Lord
70 people being sent out a great work being done Jesus Christ dies and what happens after that they go fishing not for men
You know and sometimes
Christians are like that even today
There's nothing new under the Sun at one point you get excited like man soul winning. We got the right gospel
We're seeing people say what happens a problem comes along
Okay, a little trial comes along you get a little too busy
Right you get a little too busy
the the cares of this world choked the word out of your heart and guess what soul winning is not as exciting as it used
To be and what do you do you go a-fishing you go do something else you start focusing on things that are
Important but let me say this not as important as the Great Commission
You know what you need to do make the Commission great again
Make the Commission great again in your personal life
Hey faithful word Baptist Church of LA needs to make the Commission great again
You say well, you know, I just been discouraged, you know, I've been fighting with my my parents
All right, I lost my job or or just trials and difficulties. Well join the crowd
Who doesn't have problems
But you don't want when problems come that's not an excuse for us to minimize the gospel in our personal lives
We need to make it great again
now
Problems everyone's gonna have problems
But you know what?
We need to make sure that we're balanced Christians that we can deal with problems and still get the work of God done
Okay, but what do we have today?
We have Christians even churches pastors even that have gone their focus off of the Great Commission
What are they putting it on on bus ministry?
Right, they're putting on all these different ministries. They aren't doing squat. They're not getting a whole lot done
He said well, but they're working hard, but they're not getting anything done
And you could disagree with that as much as you want, but the fact remains I've seen in my personal life
It doesn't get the job done
You know what gets the job done following Christ and be a fisher of men
One on one soul winning when a church gets fired up
They realize there's a lost and dying world going to hell and it's your responsibility go out and give them the gospel
You know, it's not the bus workers responsibility. It's not your visitation is not doing anything
Why don't you go visit a lost soul and give them the gospel instead?
Why don't you make the Commission great again?
You see in my personal believe anybody who first gets saved they do get excited about soul winning
Why because they just got saved themselves, you know
And they want to know how they can get their family saved and their friends saved
But you know if they're not careful over the course of a couple of months
Yay, maybe even a couple of years that desire begins to die down a little bit
Okay, maybe you get a little too puffed up because you start learning some Bible or you just get a little lazy a little web on
Which means lazy in Spanish
Some the word that we use very commonly while we're out in Mexico
Bunch of web onus to those Baptist who are out there who aren't doing nothing
Okay, and what happens you stop making the Commission great again in your life you need to make it great again
You know, you know these old IFP churches
Even if they didn't agree with us on a lot of these doctrines as long as they would make the Commission great again
Hey, that would be great
That would be awesome. You know if they're doing the Sony marathons and mission strips and seeing people say that would be
Amazing. They don't have to agree with us and everything. But you know what if there are gospel preachers, amen
But that's not what's happening today. Is it okay? I look just like these disciples maybe at one point
There are fishers of men maybe at one point they were doing great things and 70 people were going out
But you know what we have today is Christians. They're going to fishing
Okay, they're just going and doing the bare minimum having a name though
They though as if they're living but they're actually dead
Now go to Isaiah chapter 61 if you would
So, why are you preaching this message I just came back from Mexico
Where we I that's the first mission strip I've ever been on
You know, I've been I've traveled to different places
I went to Mexico last year, but it wasn't as fruitful as this year. It wasn't necessary a missions trip
This trip was one of the most fruitful trips I've ever seen it's only it was almost fake
You say what do you mean by that because it's something that we don't see here
right
Okay. Now we see it here as far as people getting saved, but I'm talking about the the receptiveness of the people and
It just reminded me why God told us go into all the world
Because there's people out there who are very open to the gospel and look let me say this. This was real missions. I
Was a missionary for like three days and I probably got more done in three days
Then most missionaries get done in three years
I'm talking about me you're boasting. I'm just being honest
Because in that mission strip we saw as a group and the numbers aren't even finished at least 240 people saved
Well, how do you know all those people shut up?
How do you know I do were you with me? Did you see me give the gospel?
Well, how thorough were you? Well, you know what you buy a plane ticket you come with me next time and we'll see how thorough
I am
240 people saved
And I'm talking about we're being conservative
Pastor Anderson went out with him and I went out
We went we preached the gospel together for those couple of days and there's some people we prayed with we didn't count. I
Mean we prayed with people and it's just like yeah, you know, but we're just not sure
The confirmations we got were like these people understand. I mean yet on Saturday
I'm going this my partner's giving the gospel and I see a guy in the street and I said, hey
I got a free DVD for you. And he said I already got one. I said, okay
Well more important than that is knowing 100% sure that if you're to die today, you're gonna go to heaven. He said I'm saved
He said I got saved yesterday
He said a gringo told me yesterday about this
He says I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ already, what do you say I said, okay
Guys yes, you know
I'm talking about they're giving clear answers
This is legitimate salvation's right here. Okay?
So before you are, you know, what are you trying to say? This is real missions. Yeah, it's real missions. It's real
And we had a stinking good time doing it too
You know when we first got there
It was rough to be honest with you at first pastor Anderson and I went out and it's just like this looks bad
I'm with my boss and we're not seeing anybody safe and everyone's like, you know, seven eight and
Then he tells me he goes. Okay you first, you know, he goes you're gonna priest the gospel
I was like, alright great
So I'm going there and I we gave the gospel to like 12 people fully and then he gets saved and I'm like man
This is bad. You know, this place is bad
And then pastor Anderson goes it's because we haven't had the tacos yet
He'd even laugh
And I look there I was like, okay, he's here he's like
necesitamos los tacos
And he was like I guarantee you once we eat the tacos. We're gonna see people say I'm like, okay, you know it happened
We
Ate tacos and immediately afterwards. It was like one person after another getting saved
We could even we didn't finish our block
Because it was and we were zigzagging to different houses. It's just like okay all these are saved
Their households were getting safe
mother
father
children
Yay cousins were getting saved
It was amazing, you know, what is that? That's making the Commission great again
You know, you know and maybe you're sitting here thinking, you know, I just lost faith that the the gospel works
Well, you know what? You need to get that faith back
And we get it back is by renewing your vision for the gospel for soul winning
Recognize it works and look maybe you give the gospel to 12 people last week and no one got saved
Well, you know what eat some tacos
And get back at it again
Because it works it works
And it was just like the we just have to prime the pump is what it was with tacos and then boom
We're seeing people say left and right
Look at isaiah 61 verse 1. It says the spirit of the lord
God is upon me because the lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the weak
He had sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them
That are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord and the day of vengeance of our god to comfort all that mourn
You know what people need and you know why people aren't getting people saved because they're not spirit filled
I'm not saying you're not seeing people saved. You know, you give the gospel to nine people
You don't see people say i'm talking about they're just not even doing it. You know why because they're not spirit filled
You say are you trying to say you're spirit filled? Yeah
Amen
Not because i'm anything special but because I prayed god, please I remember going back and I was in the restroom when
After that first part of the sowing and I said god, please
I came out because I want to see people saved
You know, i'm not perfect, but can you please fill me with your power? I want to see someone saved
And it was just like god was just like that's what I was waiting for
Boom
The commission was great again
You know, maybe what you need just some time in prayer and say god, can you please i'm not perfect. I'm a sinner
You know, I have my flaws and my failures
And I mess up but can you please fill me with your power and your spirit because I want to see someone saved
You know god can use anybody that's right anybody
Obviously he won't use a prideful arrogant
person or a lazy person
But you use the person who says please use me. I just want to be filled with your power and your spirit
I want the commission to be great again in my personal life
Look go to ezekiel chapter 34
The spirit of the lord is what we need. We need that power to go out and preach the gospel and look you're saved
You know saved people are the only people that could get people saved, right? So you got that down if you're saved
All you got to do is number one pray for god to fill you with his spirit number two
Just go out and do it in faith
Look at ezekiel 34 and verse number one and the word of the lord came unto me saying son of man prophesy
against the shepherds of israel
Prophesy and say unto them thus saith the lord god unto the shepherds woe be to the shepherds of israel that do feed themselves
Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
You eat the fat and you clothe you with with the wool you kill them that are fed
But you feed not the flock the disease you have not strengthened neither
Have you healed that which was sick neither have you bound up that which was broken neither?
Have you brought again that which was driven away neither have you sought that which was lost?
But with force and with cruelty have you ruled them and they were scattered because there is no shepherd
And they became meat to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered isn't it in stark contrast what we read in isaiah?
You see someone who's spirit filled preaches the gospel and guess what they bound up
The broken-hearted
That's what the gospel does
They heal people but you know what the shepherds of israel i.e christians of today
Because they're not spirit filled. They're just feeding themselves and that they're not getting the job done
We need to have a church atmosphere where the most important thing obviously is the preaching of the word of god, but you know what?
Synonymous with that is this the great commission going out and soul
winning
Don't be a lazy
dead
christian
You know if you feel like you need a little ump in your in your in your christian life go do some soul winning
You know tenderize your heart again, let it burn within you again. I know things come up. I know fights come up
I know there's trials and difficulties that come up but get over it
Get back on your feet and go preach the gospel again make it great again
Look once you start doing that all the other things just kind of seem very small in comparison to the salvation of a lost person
It's amazing
I mean some of the so we're out preaching the gospel there and
um
You know, we didn't even get to finish our block because there's so many people walking and at one point
There's one house that we're trying to go to but every time we would go to it people would come
We'd give them the gospel they'd get saved
And then we try to get to the house and we spent like over an hour there
Trying to knock that one door. We couldn't knock
It was crazy
And this one guy walks up and he's like on a mission. He's going somewhere and say hey, I got a free movie for you
Which by the way, they're like?
you know, they're like
Well now you're free. It's just like
You know
And I gave it to him and I was like do you have five to ten minutes?
Can I show you from the bible how to get to heaven and he's like, yeah
You know and so I started giving him the gospel and the guy gets saved
He was stuck on repenting your sins for for a while gave him some more verses and then he just believed it
And he ended up getting saved
And it was cool. His name was david
And I said, all right. Well, it's funny because you know, i'm there with uh with pastor anderson and pastor anderson
He's not the type to just stand there. Just watch you. He'll just sit down
And just like drink water. He's just like kind of like looking around, you know
and um
And I said, do you have any questions?
And he said yeah, what's what's up with baptism?
I said, yeah, you need to get baptized right now
and he said
And I explained to him what baptism was I said, so basically I can I can baptize you right now
I said you want to get baptized right now, and he said yeah
Let's go. I said, okay
We're gonna do baptisms. I said and then pastor was like, I guess the hotel
But we hadn't we hadn't even registered in the hotel yet
We didn't get our rooms or nothing
So I said, okay, so this is what I told this is what we're going to do
We have to walk back to our van. I said, so you want to walk with us?
You don't have to change what I just baptized you like that and he's like, okay
So we walk all the way back to our van get in the car
Then we drive all the way back to the hotel, you know, and and he's sitting there and I get out and I said
All right, we're going to baptize you and he got baptized
So he gets baptized and you guys saw the video i'm sure the guy that's the guy who got baptized
So another so we told another soul winning group about it
And they're like, wow, that's praise the lord, you know, so they go back to their area and they never met the guy
So that group comes back and he goes I met the guy that you baptized
He's like because we dropped him off at his house and he goes we're walking down the street and there's a guy walking towards us
With the biggest smile on his face
He's like half wet
He has he has this place right with him and he's just like
And I was like, hey, uh, you know, can we give you this dvd or whatever and he's just like I got saved right now
He goes and I just got baptized and they're like, oh you're the guy
Like man, we heard about you and he's like, yeah
He's like man i'm excited, you know
And the guy was telling me he goes he had like the his his smiles were from like ear to ear
Happy as the day is long that he just got saved and baptized make the commission great again
You know and sometimes we think you know, I mean god tells us to baptize them after they get saved
Right
Well sometimes they're like, well, you know, I just don't want to you know
Kind of put that in there because we're just out there preaching the gospel. He told us to do it
And guess what he got baptized the same hour
That hour he got baptized
Go to first corinthians chapter number nine
It's not this isn't this is reality here, you know, this is this is the book of acts right here
We're seeing it happen
And look
Those of I mean there's people out there they're like they're calling me a preacher of hate and look let me just say this
I don't deny that for one second
You people think they insult me when they call me a preacher of hate. Oh, you're just a preacher of hate. I'm like, yeah, I mean
You got it, right? Yeah
I'm glad you recognize that
That means i'm doing my job, right?
If you think i'm a preacher of hate, but you know what what I disagree with if you only think
That i'm only a preacher of hate, right?
Okay
There's a guy who went on the trip, but let's read this real quick. I got a lot of stories
I gotta tell you right first corinthians 9 14 says even so hath the lord ordained
That they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel
But i've used none of these things neither have I written these things that it should be so done unto me
For it were better for me to die that that then that any man should make my glorying void
For though I preach the gospel. I have nothing to glory of for necessity is laid upon me
Yea woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel for if I do this thing willingly
I have a reward but if against my will a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. Hey, we're dispensationalists
Because of dispensation of the gospel has been getting committed unto us
To dispense the gospel also
But we're the real dispensationalists
amen
There's a guy and look back to the point of being loving and hateful
That's garbage when people say that there's a guy I can't remember his name are valerian
I think it's valerian for faithful word. He's from
africa
Okay, this guy speaks english and french. You know who i'm talking about, right?
He speaks english and french. He learns spanish
To go win mexicans in mexico
Let me say this that's love
That's love that's right
That's real love
So any old I have beer that criticizes the way we do things. Well, go ahead. Why don't you learn a language?
Of some foreign people that you don't even know
Buy yourself a plane ticket and go win 250 people to the lord then
But this guy has enough love in his heart to learn a language to go reach people on the other side of the world
Yeah
That's love
Not stinking oh i'm called to the mission field
But you don't even have the stinking discipline or the gall to learn the language
You know brother jonathan shelley
Okay, which brother jonathan shelley he's white
He he can fit into see I think it's uh, cina. Lo where those white mexicans are at
Cina law is it cina law? I mean they're white blonde hair blue. I mean he he could fit in that
Criteria this guy learned spanish in six months
Okay
Six months, you know why because he's starting a church in august and you know, what's the area he's going to houston
You know what's there hispanics
So because he loves people
He's learning spanish so we can win them to christ
That's love
So yeah, call us hateful if you want, but you know, what are you learning spanish old ifb?
Critical christian are you learning a language so you can reach people so you can better communicate with them and give them the gospel
Don't tell me that we're just hateful if you're not getting your butt out there learning a language to go reach someone
That you've never ever met in your whole life enough love to play to pay up your own plane ticket learn a language to win
people to christ
Six months, that's amazing. I mean he speaks it like a white guy don't get me wrong
You know
But he speaks it
And he won his first people to the lord in spanish in mexico
And we told him like man if you can win mexicans in mexico
For sure, you're gonna win mexicans in the united states
guaranteed
You know, but that's love
That's true love right there
Okay
and look
We're not saying we're godlier than anybody
But you can't accuse us of not having love
We love people
Now go to second corinthians chapter number five
Second corinthians chapter number five
The bible says here in verse 17 therefore if any man be in christ, he is a new creature
Old things are passed away behold all things are become new and all things are of god who hath reconciled us to himself
By jesus christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation
I just don't know what ministry to be a part of right here
The ministry of reconciliation. I don't know what i'm called to do the ministry of reconciliation
To wit that god was in christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us
The word of reconciliation and no that doesn't mean giving out an invitation
only
not just
Nice
I'm all for giving invitations right we give out invitations
We give out invitations if someone's in a rush or they're not they're not willing to listen
But you know what? We don't just depend on giving out invitations. Our main objective is to get that person saved
Right. Okay. The invitation is to give them something so we have common ground
The common ground is this I have something that I want to give to you for free and you want something free
Right
Hand it off. We give them the gospel
But the guess what the track's not going to win this to them
You know, I was hearing about stories on the road where we're out there pastor saying that garbage
They're over here saying well, you know
The god the the gospel track is what's going to preach to them the gospel. Does that thing have life?
You know, no god is committed unto us
The word of reconciliation, okay
Jesus christ
Emphasized a great commission over and over again
Actually over the the 40 days where he revealed to himself to the disciples
He actually gave the commission at least four times
Okay, he gave it in john chapter 20 go to john chapter 20
And i'm i'm saying this because just to show that you know, we need to hear it over and over again
You know if in those 40 days obviously he taught many things but you know what he emphasized the gospel over and over again
He didn't just give the great commission right before he left
And say hey just go preach the gospel to every creature
Peace. No, he said it more than once
in different ways
So as he was teaching he was telling him. Hey
Go preach the gospel to every creature. You know why because we don't listen the first time
He said why do you keep giving the same announcements every single week because you don't listen
That's why
You don't listen
Okay, we print out the the paper
I spent an hour designing this for you
You know, I put them on there so so that you remember
So you don't come after him and say hey, so when is the sony marathon?
it's like
It's like here
Get it tatted
Because you don't remember okay
But he's telling him over and over again
right
And in different ways look what it says in john chapter 20 verse 18 mary magdalene came
And told the disciples that she had seen the lord and that he had spoken these things unto her by the way
This is in jerusalem behind closed doors
This is the first time the great commission was given thomas wasn't there at that time verse 19 says
Then the same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
Of the jews came jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them peace be unto you
And when he had said had so said he showed unto them his hands at his side
Then were the disciples glad when they saw the lord then said jesus to them again. Peace be unto you as my father had sent me
Even so send I you
He said well, how is that the gospel because what did god send the son to do to seek and to save that which is lost
So as he's sending the son to seek him to save that which is lost guess what we're doing
We're seeking and we're saving that which is lost
Go with me if you would to luke chapter 24, this is basically like a parallel passage
Happens about eight days after luke 24 verse 44
Luke 24 44 says and he said unto them. These are the words which I spake unto you
Well, I was yet with you that all
Things may must be fulfilled which were written in the law of moses and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me
Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures and he said unto them thus it is written
Thus it behoove christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins
Should be preached in his name among all nations beginning at jerusalem and ye are witnesses of these
Things so we see here the same thing
And he's saying repent. He's like, well see that repentance repent of sin. It doesn't say repent of sins
It says repentance and remission of sins
Okay, and by the way, when we go out there they do have to repent
They have to repent of what they're trusting in
And trust in christ and maybe it's their good works. They have to repent of trusting in their good works
Right to go to heaven and trust in christ
But the fact remains he says preach in his name among all nations you see
Missions today has become a glorified vacation
And people who want to claim to be missionaries, but you know what they're doing they're going all over the world inspiring people
right
To preach the word of god when they should be doing it themselves
Real missions is for you to preach
And win those people to the lord
Okay, not to have a glorified vacation and do discipleship
You know, i'm all for discipleship, but you know what preach the gospel
And if you want to really disciple someone you bring someone along with you as you're preaching the gospel
Go to mark chapter 16, this is the second time
Then he mentions it
So he says as the father sent me so sinned are you and he's talking to every individual?
No one is exempt from this and don't ever get this attitude where it's like well, you know
Well, you know in a month when i'm ready no go now
Okay, and look this is the best way to break the ice and this is how we do it in our church
You are a silent partner for a while
Watch someone else do it for a while
Watch someone do it observe them and when you are ready you can do it yourself
But you need to go and look
Being a silent partner is great because guess what you get the rewards of the person who's preaching the gospel
Because you're laboring with them so you get some freebies
for a while
You know because you're laboring with them as you're going out there. You're praying you're helping the you're sowing partner out
You're helping with the distractions. God's going to reward you too
So these are like freebies for us
Right because you're not necessarily putting in the word to preach the gospel
But because you're helping the laborer preach the gospel you're getting the rewards
Amen that is sweet, you know, that should encourage you and say hey look you should take this this sale now
While it lasts
You know if you're afraid then go ahead. Okay still go
You're still going to get rewarded as if you're the one preaching the gospel because you're laboring with your partner
Be a silent partner go out and learn and look
People in this mission strip learn spanish to go preach the gospel. You already know english
As far as I know everyone knows english here, right
You already know it. So guess what? It's easier for you
To learn it now, okay the gospel look at mark 16 verse 14 afterward
He appeared unto the 11 as they sat at me verse 14 and abraded them with their own
With their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen
And he said unto them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature
He that believeth in his baptize shall be saved
But he that believeth not shall be damned the bible says when it's talking about creatures talk about creation us people
Is what it's talking about. It's not talking about animals
Okay
He says look and look this verse 16 goes to show you the emphasis that he's putting on baptism
Okay, because he says he that believeth in his baptize shall be saved
He said whoa, are you saying that baptism saves? No, because later on he says he that believeth not
Shall be damned. He doesn't include baptism, but he does include baptism in the first part
You know what? That means that god wants you to baptize people
After they get saved and look we need to start implementing this into our gospel presentation after they get saved
Not just like all right. God bless
See ya
No, why don't you take it a step further and say hey, okay now that you're saved according to the bible
You need to get baptized
Why I just don't want to offend anybody. You just told them they're going to hell
How much worse can I get after that you told them hey you're lake of fire you're gonna have your part
In the lake of fire and you think you're gonna offend them by telling them they need to get baptized you're weird
If that's what you think
That's like the worst thing you can tell is that they're going to hell
Right
Well after they get saved say, okay. Well
Now that you're saved and look you have not
Because you asked not
Right. I just don't think well have you asked
them
And look, what's the worst that can happen? They say no
Yeah, you said no, okay. All right. I just want to let you know that that's what you need to do next
That's your first step of obedience after salvation
Because we want to let you know and the worst that can happen is they say no
But you need to start implementing this into your gospel presentation after they get saved
Okay, make it a habit to teach them what the bible says about bapta and look
It's going to take some extra effort and some extra work to do that
Because if you your mind is programmed to only give the gospel which is good
You know, there's another step you got to add into that and that's getting them baptized
Hey, look, we're the church where we'll baptize in any time
You know
Hey, look i'll take it a step further because I was inspired on wednesday. I was talking to pastor anderson
And he was telling me he was showing me some awards that he got while he was at house anderson
He's like check out this award that I got while I was at first baptist church
And it was the most baptisms for that month
You know, they're having a program which goes to show that he was with the program of his church
When he was there, okay and side note here. We need to be with the program of the church
But he was getting all kinds of people baptized and he said that the pastor got up and said all right
We're doing a new thing. I don't know if we'll take it this far
Okay, but this is pretty good and he said
If you get someone saved
At any hour of the day
including midnight
whenever
And they get they want to get baptized. We will have someone on the property that can baptize them
It doesn't matter what hour of the day it is
Pastor anderson took it literally
And he was working like, uh, I think he was working third shift. He wants someone to the lord at his job
two days afterwards
And then he showed him in the bible
He says that same hour that he was he was baptized and he goes you need to get baptized and the guy said, all right
Let's go
So he's like I got a place where you can get baptized at any hour of the day
So they go he goes to the first baptist church and he's and he goes to the security guard
he was like
He's like, hey, I got a guy who wants to get baptized. He's like
Like are you serious? He's like, yeah
So they had to call like a deacon, you know and get him out of bed and stuff
He was like, hey this guy and the guy literally came you can tell like the guy was just he had just woken up
But they baptized him
And the church was ecstatic like yeah, we had our first baptism like one two o'clock in the morning
I don't know if we'll take it to the extreme
Because I probably won't answer you if you call me
No baptism now i'm just kidding. But you know what? We're not just subject to baptisms on sundays and thursdays
Okay
If someone gets saved and look it's it's a reasonable time and i'm close by or something i'm close by anyways
I don't want to go you call me say hey this person wants to get baptized right now
I'll say all right fill up fill fill her up. I'll be right there
Okay, if someone gets saved this afternoon and wants to get baptized
Come back
Fill her up and say hey brother bruce. Someone's getting baptized. I'll come back and we'll baptize him. Why not?
It should be it's a part of the great commission
So let's take it a step further
You know how you make the commission great again is by doing it all
And we got we already got the teaching all things whatsoever god's commanded us we're preaching the bible right now
Why don't we add some baptisms to that?
You know, there's um, well i'll give you some other stories in just a bit go to matthew 28
This is the third time. So this is when they're sitting at me and they're in galley matthew 28
28
Verse 16 says the 11 disciples went away into galley into a mountain where jesus had appointed them
And when they saw him they worshipped him
But some doubted and jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given to me in heaven and on earth
Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever
I've commanded you and lo i'm with you always even until the end of the world. Amen
Now other versions of the bible including the reign of alaren 1960 that garbage translation of the spanish bible
Will translate verse 19 as go ye therefore and make disciples, right?
Because they want to say well teach is not and i've had supposed king james only
people
Say yeah teach all nations a better rendition would be disciples because that's what you're doing. You're teaching them
No, the teaching is in verse 20 when you're discipling them
Teaching them to observe all things the teaching in verse 19 is the gospel
Because you know what you do when you go out there and preach the gospel you're teaching them
That they're sinners
That they deserve hell that jesus christ died for them according to the scriptures you're teaching them those things
Okay, but they want to say make disciples. Well, you know what becoming a decide to be a disciple
You have to obey the commandments of god
You have to observe all things
That's what a disciple is. That's not what salvation is
You know, I don't care how many spanish churches use the reign of lara 1960
I don't care how for how long they've used it for it's a garbage translation
Along with the niv nkjv and all those hiv perversions
The reign of alara 1960 is a devilish bible
Amen
You know and then you have has
How can you say don't you know that all the churches including the pentecostals?
Including the catholics use this version of the bible. Yeah, exactly
Hey, you got that, right?
Thanks for proving my point
Don't you know we've used it for so many years. So what?
So just because it was used for so many years
We just just overlooked the fact that the body that it tells us to work our way to salvation
You know when the bible talks about desire and the sins the sincere milk of the word that you may grow into salvation
Because it says that
That's stupid
This is a rabbit trail, but we're I like the rabbit we're looking at and we're going to skit it and kill it
The reign of lara 1960 is a garbage translation and let me say this don't bring that garbage bible into our church
Amen
If you bring it into our church, you show it to me i'll ask for it and i'll throw it in the trash
You say what version do you use well, I personally use the reign of lara gomez
An Indian version before that like the 1909. It's an okay translation 1602
Etc. But the 1960
Is the devil's bible?
Put that on youtube put that on instagram
Send it to your stupid spanish pastors who are not willing to humble themselves and change that bible
It's a garbage translation it says teach all nations not make disciples and look i'm not against making disciples
It's necessary
You know, we need to learn how to teach other people and get them into church and baptize them
Okay, we need to teach them how to go soul winning how to live a holy life
We need to befriend them and love them and be kind to them and and and teach them the things of the lord
But you know what? They need to get saved first and they don't get saved by becoming a disciple, right?
Go to luke 24
But that's anyways, so that's the the third time it was mentioned. Okay, obviously he's emphasizing this point quite a bit because it's important
And mind you this is within the 40 days after his resurrection
Okay, look at luke 24
I'm, sorry, don't go to luke 24 go to act chapter one act chapter one
This is the fourth one
Verse number one says the former treaties
Have I written have I made o theophilus of all that jesus began both to do and teach
Until the day in which he was taken up
After that, he through the holy ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen by the way
on this reign of larry 1960
You know, I find it interesting that there's spanish pastors
Who have spanish ministries from an english church they use in 1960, but their church is a king james only church
So, you know what these english pastors need to do? Why don't you scrutinize the bible that they're using?
Because they're because you wouldn't accept that niv you wouldn't accept any church leader in your church to use an niv
or a new king james
So why are you permitting for them to use the 1960 that reads just like those books in spanish?
You know, you need to scrutinize and say hey
That teaches a works-based salvation. You need to change that. Well, I don't want to change it. You're firing
Right leave if you don't want to change that
But there but you know, it's all about the money
Acts chapter one, where was I?
Verse two until the day in which he was taken up after that
He through the holy ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen to him
Also, he showed himself alive after his passions by many infallible proofs
Being seen of them 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of god
And being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from jerusalem
But wait for the promise of the father which saith he ye have heard of me for john truly baptized with water
But ye shall be baptized with the holy ghost not many days hence
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him saying lord will thou at this time restore again the kingdom of to israel
And he said unto them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father put in his own power
But ye shall receive power after that the holy ghost has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem and in all judea and in samaria and into the uttermost parts of the earth and of course later on he's taken up in
A cloud. Okay. This is actually the last time he gives the commission very clear
Yeah, I mean, can we tell from these four times that he mentioned it that it's important?
He was uh make the commission great again
in your personal life
Forget making america great again
Forget your money forget your your prosperity dreams make the commission great again
Make it important to you again
Make it real to you go to act chapter two
Verse number one says when the day of pentecost was fully come
They were all with one accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind
And it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues
Like as a fire and it sat upon each of them
And they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance now
They weren't saying hala shalaballah and a six-pack dollar
They weren't saying that
Amen
I don't care what pentecost will say
You know your that's not tongues tongue is this thing you have in your mouth that you use to speak languages with
Okay
So what's going on here? It is a miracle
Because the holy ghost is coming upon them to to preach the word of god in their languages
Okay
You say is that is that still evident today not in this manner, but it is still evident
Because someone who's spear filled
Can learn another language if god has given them the ability to do so and guess what as they're filled with the spirit
They can win people to cry. I saw this take place in mexico
Okay, where people who are from canada africa argentina and different portions of the world came to mexico speaking spanish
And winning tons of people to the lord
Look what it says in verse number five and there were dwelling at jerusalem jews devout men out of every nation under heaven
Now when this was noise the broad the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man
Every white guy and gringo and african heard them speak in his own language
And they were all amazed and marveled saying one to another behold are not all these which speak gringos
Sorry galileans
And how here we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born
Parthenians and meads and elamites and dwells in mesopotamia
And in judea and capodosia and ponchos in asia fergie and pamphylia in egypt and in the parts of libya around syrene and strangers of rome
Jews and proselytes creeks and arabians. We do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of god
And they were all amazed and were in doubt saying one to another what meaneth this others mocking said these men are full of
New wine, but peter's standing with by the way, we weren't filled with new wine, but we're filled with tacos, okay
But peter's standing up with the 11 lifted up his voice and sent him to the men of judea
And all you that dwell at jerusalem be this known unto you and harken to my words
For these are not drunken as you suppose seeing as but the third hour of the day
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet joel
And it shall come to pass in the last day saith god
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy
And your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream
Dreams and all my servants and all my handmaidings. I will pour out in those days of my spirit and they shall prophesy
I saw that done this week
Prophesying dreaming dreams and vision. What was the vision to see people saved?
That we can do go there and see a great work. Let me say this you guys
We need to go on a missions trip
A real one, that's good, right?
You need to plan one out. We need to do it. It needs to be done
The stories that i'm going to tell you
You'll believe them but you don't really believe them until you're there and you see it for yourself
Because I heard these stories and it's just like okay, you know, i'm sure we'll see a lot of people saved
But when you have 12 year olds and i'm telling hey, can I give you the gospel and he just throws his bike and says yeah
Give me he didn't he disregarded everything he had just to listen to what I had to say
That's amazing
you know the um
Go to act chapter eight there's the the ladies in our group they
For like a day and a half. They could not leave one house
Yeah, because they kept seeing people saved in that one house
Okay
Moms dads sisters brothers cousins
They couldn't leave that one house
They'd come back the next day and more people would get saved in that house
It's amazing
and then this so
This that same household, you know, we were like looking for like where were these girls man. They got kidnapped
It's it's mexico. They got kidnapped, you know, hey, they're saved though. I'm just kidding
You know
And finally we found them and they had a group with them and they said hey they want to get baptized
You know a mom by the name of veronica and her two children
And and I said, all right, so we went and we baptized them
And then you know, it was already lunch time
So we're about to drop them off and then pastor anderson said just bring them with us. Let's go ollie
And I said get in comer tacos
And they're like, yeah
So we all we all I mean talk about
Acts
Okay, because they believe and what were they doing afterwards breaking bread?
Fellowship and then continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine. You see how is that because we gave them the youtube channel
You know, here's the here's the preaching right here in spanish
And then now they're on the facebook and I heard there, you know, there are the groups maybe I don't know
That's not a good idea. I'm just kidding. You know, they have everything now they have all the material
We're friends with them now we have their information she just so happens to have family right here in hacienda heights
You know that she's going to contact
Amazing
Look at acts chapter 8 verse 12, but when they believe
Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of god in the name of jesus christ
They were baptized both men and women then simon himself believed also when he was baptized
He continued with philip and wondered beholding the miracles and signs which were done skip down to verse 29
Then the spirit said unto philip go near and join thyself to this mexican
I'm this chariot and philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet isaias and said
Understand this that without readest and he said how can I accept some man should guide me?
And his desire philip that he would come up and sit with him the place of the scripture
Which he read was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb done before his shears
So opened he not his mouth and in humiliation his judgment was taken away
And who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth and the eunuch said
Answered philip and said I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophet of whom speaketh the prophet this of himself or of some other man
Then philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached them to him. Jesus. So we're there right and
Okay, so I can't all the the events are out of order
So i'm going to give you what I remember so we're there and and and we see some young girls like three young girls
I go over there give her a dvd
Start giving it their gospel and she's kind of like not paying attention
You know, she's just kind of looking around and I really didn't think she was listening
And look i'm of the bent and look i'm not saying this is what you need to do
But I I do this and I saw pastor aniston do this and I think it's a very good idea
If they're not paying attention
Bye
You know instead of like trying to argue doctrine and just trying to get look if they're not getting it just move on
Not only is your time valuable your energy
It takes work to give the gospel
It's tiresome
So it's just like all right back so I said, okay
Well, I just want to leave you john 316. I left it with that. I was like, see you guys. See you later
God bless and I left
well the next day
I'm giving a gospel to a lady across the street because we couldn't get past that street and she ended up getting saved
Well, I was getting her to say pastor aniston gave a dvd to a guy walking by he grabbed and he said, thank you
But he just kept walking and he was actually the neighbor
So we get to that house, but we didn't know that that's where he lived
We knock on the door and he comes out, but I just want to give you he's like, yeah, you just gave me one
And he goes, okay great and he's pastor aniston said, you know more important than that and he gives him the question
And then he and then uh, of course, he doesn't know and he's willing to listen and he goes wait
He opens the door and he goes come in
We go in and he said my wife is reading the bible right now
You know, can you come tell her what you're telling me, can you tell us both
It's like the eunuch, you know, he's like I don't understand what i'm reading here
He goes we're trying to understand the bible, but we don't understand the bible
So we sit there and we get them safe now by the way
So here in the united states the pastor aniston or anybody says, you know, I got 10 kids
And people are like what in the world you're psycho are you crazy 10 kids not in mexico, right?
he's over here like yeah, I got 10 kids and they're just like
You know, it's just like whatever about it that's like minimum over there, okay
Bear that's like base number over there
No one reacted to that
Everyone was just like whatever about it
They both get saved
They both get saved. They're ecstatic
And they're very thankful very grateful people
So we walk out we find
Two teenagers that pastor aniston is witnessing to and then I find another lady that i'm witnessing to
She gets saved but before she gets saved i'm talking to her and the girl from yesterday
Who wasn't paying attention? She's walking down the street and she sees us and she comes up
She just completely makes a left turn to go towards us and she stands next to the lady listening
And i'm kind of like i'm not going to waste my time i'm just going to talk to this lady
Well, i'm asking the lady the questions the girl starts answering the questions
Hell everlasting life can't lose it
So then I start talking to them both
And they both get saved
Well, guess who that girl was?
She was the daughter of those people that pastor aniston got saved who were reading the bible
Because she goes in I was like you live here. She goes. Yeah, these are my parents
Now in that household
Amazing
And then their neighbor got saved. It was just one thing after another but this is the book of acts right here taking place
Go with me if you would to act chapter 16
Acts chapter 16
Verse number nine says in a vision appeared to paul on the night
Paul on the night
There stood a man of mastodonia and prayed saying come over into mastodonia and help us
And after he had seen the vision immediately we endeavored to go into mastodonia assuredly gathering that the lord has called us for to preach the gospel
Unto them go to act chapter 20
We'll read the scripture and then i'm gonna finish with one last story
Acts chapter 20 verse 25 says and now behold I know that ye all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of god
Shall see my face no more
Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of god
Take he therefore into yourselves into all the flock over the which the holy ghost
Hath made you overseers to feed the church of god, which he hath purchased with his own blood
For I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock
Also of your own self shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them
Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three days or years days for us
I cease not to warn ever one night and day with tears now brethren
I commend you to god into the word of his grace
Which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified
I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel by the way, every time we talk to someone in mexico
Their perspective of christiana were people who wanted money
That's what they would tell us
Look at verse 34 yay
Ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my necessities and to them that were with me
I have showed you all things how that so laboring you ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the lord
Jesus how he said it is more blessed to give them to receive and when he had thus spoken
He kneeled down and prayed with them all and they all wept sore and wept and fell upon paul's neck and kissed him
Sorry, most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more and they accompanied him
Unto the ship very touching story right there. Well the last day that we were there
My friend from canada
He's he this lady goes into her her driveway and she's getting she looks like she's in a hurry and he goes and he
You know, I go. Hey, can I give you this dvd for free? He just says can I give you the gospel?
And she was like sure. Yeah
She leaves the door open
Well, we didn't know that her son actually the day before had gotten saved by one of the people in our group
Got him that guy saved
And she heard about it
Because her son was like a troublemaker and she heard she was like wow, you know
He's he's excited about the fact that he got saved. So that's actually what kind of motivated her to listen to what my partner had to say
So he's witnessing to her and that kind of just give him a space and I was actually during that time
Making an instagram report of what I was doing
I'm like, yeah, it's going great here, you know, it only gives you like a couple seconds
You can talk so it stops and a girl walks up and I say hey
Can I give you a dvd for free and she goes? Yeah
And I said, you know
Can I give you the gospel and stuff like that and she listens she gets saved and I report that on the instagram
If you saw that well that ended up being her daughter
These families are big in mexico
She gets saved of course the son got saved the day before and then the mom is about to get saved the mom gets saved
And I go up and and he tells me he goes
Yeah, she just got saved right now. And I said man, congratulations. What a blessing and she goes. Can I have a bible?
And he said yeah, of course and we give her a bible actually he gives her his own bible like leather bound bible
This is it was the last door. It was the last one and we had to leave after that. This is the last salvation
And then she grabs it and with tears in her eyes
She goes when are you coming back?
You know, and it's just like I look at my partner he looks at me and we're just like
And we just said we'll be back
And tears and how she says when are you coming back?
What do you say
And I just said
You know, we'll come back. I said we promise we'll be back
promise
And you know, I talked to pastor anderson about that and he said we got to come back
Amen
He says we we got to come here at least twice a year
You know because it's so open
And she just hears she goes and she said she says I just want to thank you so much
My son saved my my daughter got saved. I got saved
Please come back
What do you say to that?
You know and it just reminded me of that story
Because people are weeping and they're just like we're never going to see them again
But you know what these people can see us again
We can go back
Make the commission
Great again
You know if you want to be a pastor one day
Amen, you want to be an evangelist one day. Amen if you want to just be a regular church member one day. Amen
But more than that
Just make the commission great again
Let's get out there and see people saved
You know and look you don't have to wait to the next mission strip to go you can do it this afternoon
Okay, we can see people saved today
What's the message today? The message is simply this
You know soul winning is our big the biggest responsibility we have
And these people who at one point these 240 people
Were going to go to hell
and these
People who are despised and rejected went there they gave them the gospel they got saved it can happen
Because these put people placed a priority on that. Let's put a priority once again on sowing. Amen
Let's pray father. We thank you so much for
The great commission help us as individuals make it great again
And god i'm thankful for those 240 people that were saved
I pray that uh lord you give us the opportunity to go back
And see more people saved there there's a lot more people children
husbands and wives
That need the gospel and I pray god that you would help us lord, but not just there
This is our jerusalem and we're responsible for this area help us to take it serious
Help us to realize that each and every one of us has to do our part
And I pray god that you'd use us to do. So please fill us with your power with your spirit
To do a great work for thee in jesus name. We pray. Amen
So
You