A song book. Open that song book to song number 431. Silent
Night, Holy Night.
Song number 431. Silent Night, Holy Night.
If you are able, let's all stand together for this first song.
Song 431. Silent Night. Everyone all together nice and strong.
Silent night. Holy night. All is calm. All is bright. Round
young virgin, mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild.
Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace. Silent
night. Holy night. Shepherds quake at the sight. Glory stream
from heaven afar. Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia. Christ the
Savior is born. Christ the Savior is born. Silent night.
Holy night. Son of God. Love's pure light. Radiant beams from
thy holy face. With the dawn of redeeming grace. Jesus Lord at
thy birth. Jesus Lord at thy birth. Silent night. Holy night.
Wondrous star. Land thy light. With the angels let us sing.
Alleluia to our King. Christ the Savior is born. Christ the
Savior is born. Amen. Let's open our service with the word of
prayer. Father God we just thank you Lord so much God for
this time of Christmas Lord that we could think upon you
sending your son Jesus Christ into the world Lord to redeem
us God we just thank you so much for that Lord and we thank you
God for the opportunity Lord that you gave us here tonight
Lord to be gathered together and hear your word preached unto us
God and we pray God that you would bless the service Lord
every aspect of it God that the singing would tenderize our
hearts to the message Lord that pastors prepared for us Lord and
we pray God that you would fill him with your Holy Spirit Lord
as he preaches to us God and help us to apply that which we
hear to our lives Lord and leave here differently than when we
came in God we love you Lord and it's in Jesus name we pray.
Amen. You may be seated. Song number 187. Jesus loves me. Song
number 187. Jesus loves me. Everyone all together. Jesus
loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so little ones to
him belong. They are weak but he is strong. Yes Jesus loves me.
Yes Jesus loves me. Yes Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so.
Jesus loves me. He who died. Heaven's gate to open wide. He
will wash away my sin. Let his little child come in. Yes Jesus
loves me. Yes Jesus loves me. Yes Jesus loves me. The Bible
tells me so. Jesus loves me. He will stay close beside me all
the way. Thou has bled and died for me. I will henceforth live
for thee. Yes Jesus loves me. Yes Jesus loves me. Yes Jesus
loves me. The Bible tells me so.
All right. Great singing. Thank you for being here at First
Works Baptist Church. If you want to get the next song ready
here song number five. If you want to get that ready when I
survey the wondrous cross song number five. If you did not get
a bulletin go ahead and raise your hand one of the ushers can
get one for you. Some important information on there as well as
our prayer sheet. We're gonna actually we're gonna skip this
tonight but if you can keep that and and use it and of course
pray over some of the needs here. We would appreciate that
but we're gonna skip that for tonight. Some of the upcoming
church are the announcements here of course our Sunday
morning services at ten thirty Sunday evening at five p.m. and
then we have our Thursday night Bible study at seven o'clock.
You see the sowing times and teams and of course this coming
Sunday is the birthday breakfast. And so that's the
first Sunday of every month. So make sure you get here a little
early to participate in that. You see right there at the
bottom the list of expecting mothers. We can remove Nicole
Carey and Melissa pay from the from the bulletin here because
Melissa pay had her baby. Amen. So congratulations to them. Let
me just pull up the stats here for Melissa. I don't have the
carries stats but I do have Melissa pays. Let's see here.
Give me a minute. Congratulations to Connor and
Melissa pay on the birth of their baby girl Bethany. No
stats available but we know the name. OK. So congratulations to
them. If you'd like to be a blessing and bring them a meal
or send a gift card please speak to Mrs. Tamara brash. And so I'm
sure they would greatly appreciate that. Please be a
blessing to them so they can focus on just nurturing the
baby and helping Melissa recover. And so we can remove
Miss Melissa and Nicole from the sheet there from the list of
expecting mothers and praise God for that. You see there at the
bottom the important reminders. And on the right hand side this
Sunday December 3rd is Malia Polito's baby shower that'll be
after the service. And so keep that in mind of course. I've
been announcing it over the last couple of weeks but Pastor
Anderson will be preaching this Sunday Sunday morning and Sunday
night but the Sunday morning service will be a little
unorthodox. So just keep that in mind because as soon as he gets
here he's going to start preaching. We're not going to do
the preliminaries first. All of the announcements singing
offering all of that will be after he's done preaching
because once he's done he's got to get out of here to keep an
appointment that he has in Los Angeles. However on Sunday
night he will it'll be a regular service he's going to be
preaching. And of course it'll just be completely normal with
all the preliminaries and he'll hang around for just a little
bit. Actually I'm sorry I take that back. I don't think he's
actually hanging around on Sunday night. I think he has to
catch his flight back but he will be here at 10 o'clock in
the morning. And so if you want to fellowship with him take a
picture with him get your Bible sign. Make sure you're here nice
and early to talk to him at 10 a.m. because as soon as 1030
hits he's going to start preaching and so just keep that
in mind. Looking forward to having him make sure you thank
him for coming. And then on Saturday December 9th is the
Christmas caroling. And so that'll be next Saturday. And
keep in mind on Sunday night if you would like to learn some of
the songs if you want to learn how to carry a tune especially
to the songs that we're going to be singing. We're going to
be meeting here on Sunday night. Brother John's going to
be leading the group there. Now you don't have to be a part of
that if you're saying well is this the only way I can
participate in the Christmas caroling. Just come to the
Christmas caroling. This is just kind of like a supplement
to help you out if you want to learn some of the songs and
learn some of the parts. And so it's very organized. Brother
John has all the music sheets and a Google. What am I looking
for? The Google Docs folder where all of the parts are
individually given in folders and you can actually listen to
them. So maybe but but just be realistic though. You know what
I mean? Like if it's a tenor and you if you know that you're a
tenor you know what I mean? Then then memorize that part and
you know alto and all that. But you can click on that and you
can memorize your part for those particular songs that
we're going to be singing next Saturday. But if you have any
questions about that you can see Brother John. But on Sunday
nights this Sunday night actually will be the last night
that we cover that and so just keep that in mind. Looking
forward to the Christmas caroling. It's always been a
blessing and it's very receptive where we go and so
we're looking forward to it. And then Saturday December
17th is the First Works Christmas program. Make sure you
invite your family and friends to that to hear the little
kiddos sing. I know they're working hard on that and so
Brother Maury and the team are doing a great job. And then on
Sunday December 24th of course is our Christmas Eve service.
And the rumor has it there will be food food catered on that
evening but more specifically I think it's Mediterranean food
right? It's Mediterranean somewhere along the lines of
like Lebanese you know or Armenian some type of
Mediterranean type food. And so that's my favorite food so I
don't care which one it is as long as it's Mediterranean it's
all good. So we're looking forward to that. That'll be on
Sunday night for that Christmas Eve and so stick around and
we'll have a great time. And then you see the regular
reminders there at the bottom. Please make sure you silence
your phones during the preaching so as to not be a
distraction during the service. And that is it. Let's go ahead
and sing our next song. Song number five. When I survey the
wondrous cross.
Alright song number five. When I survey the wondrous cross.
Song number five. When I survey the wondrous cross. Everyone
all together nice and strong. When I survey the wondrous
cross. On which the prince of glory died. My richest gain. I
count but loss. And poor contempt on all my pride. Forbid
it Lord that I should boast. Save in the death of Christ my
God. All the vain things that charm me most. I sacrifice them
to his blood. See from his head his hands his feet. Sorrow and
love flow mingled down. Dead air such love and sorrow meet.
Or thorns composed so rich a crown. Amen.
Were the whole realm of nature mine. That were a present far
too small. Love so amazing so divine. Demands my soul my life
my all. Amen. Great singing. At this time the ushers will
collect the offering. Tonight will be in Matthew chapter 28.
Thank you.
Good evening. We're in Matthew chapter 28. And the Bible reads at the end of the Sabbath
as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary to the sepulcher. And behold there was a great earthquake for the angel of the Lord
descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon
it. His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow. And for fear of
him the keepers did shake and became as dead men. The angel answered and said unto the
women fear not ye for I know that you seek Jesus which was crucified. He is not here
for he is risen as he said. Come see the place where the Lord lay and go quickly and tell
his disciples that he is risen from the dead and behold he goes before you into Galilee.
There shall you see him. Lo I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulcher
with fear and great joy and did run to bring his disciples word. And as they were went
to tell his disciples behold Jesus met them saying all hail. They came and held them by
the feet and worshiped him. Then said Jesus unto them be not afraid. Go tell my brethren
that they go into Galilee. There shall they see me. Now when they were going behold some
of the watch came to the city and shown to the chief priests all the things that were
done. When they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel they gave large money
unto the soldiers saying say ye his disciples came by night and stole them away while we
slept. And if this come to the governor's ears we will persuade him and secure you.
So they took the money and did as they were taught. And this saying is commonly reported
among the Jews until this day. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee into a mountain
where Jesus had appointed them. When they saw him they worshiped him but some doubted.
And Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in
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. Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world. Amen. Let's pray. We
thank you Heavenly Father for your precious promises dear God and we thank you for your
faithfulness we thank you for this Bible dear Lord you have given us. Thank you for
our church and we thank you for our pastor dear God. Please bless him as he preaches
your word unto us this evening in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Amen. Okay tonight we conclude the book of Matthew and this is chapter twenty eight covering
the resurrection as well as the Great Commission. Now of course this what we see here regarding
the resurrection is obviously covered in all four of the gospels but if you've actually
read Matthew Mark Luke and John you'll see that there's a lot of variation in the accounts
almost to the point where if you're not paying attention you might think that it's contradicting
one another that the accounts are so different in certain aspects that you would think man
this is a contradiction and in fact I'm sure there's a lot of atheists out there and people
who criticize the Bible who would point to these passages of scripture as proof that
you know the Bible contradicts itself but obviously people seem to fail to realize that
the four gospels are four accounts of four different people right and so they're obviously
writing it from their perspective or the perspective that they heard of that they were taught from
others and so you have to read all four gospels to get the entire picture and when you when
you read Matthew twenty eight the proof of the fact that you know these all these four
gospels have information that some of the other gospels don't the proof of that is the fact that
chapter 28 is only 20 verses long but we obviously know there's a lot of things that have taken place
between his resurrection and him giving the Great Commission and his ascension that are not found
in chapter 28 but are distinctly talked about in chapter 16 of Mark in chapter 24 of Luke and
chapter 20 and 21 of the book of John and so we kind of have to just kind of put them together
and piece the pieces of the puzzle here in order to understand what is it that's taken place now
look at verse number one I'm gonna give you an example here it says in the end of the Sabbath
as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to
the sepulcher and behold there was a great earthquake for the angel of the Lord descended
from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it and his countenance
was like lightning and his raiment white as snow and for fear of him the keepers did shake and
became as dead men so what do we have here well the common narrative that we see obviously with
all four gospels is that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary are coming to the sepulcher first now
what are the variations though when comparing these to the other gospels well one of the
variations that we find is the fact that in Mark chapter 16 for example it talks about the fact
that the woman come to the sepulcher but they're saying who's gonna roll the stone away okay
whereas here and if you look down at verse number four it says and for fear of him the keepers did
shake and became as dead men of course verse number two tells us that the that the stone was
rolled back from the door and that the angel sat upon it so what's actually taking place well what
we see is the fact that when the women come to the sepulcher the stone has already been removed
now that's not explicitly stated in Matthew 28 but it is explicitly stated in the other gospel so
Matt mark 16 Luke 24 and John chapter 20 all record Mary Magdalene and the other Mary essentially
saying who's gonna roll the stone away from us implying that they're not there yet because once
they get there they'll see that the stone has already been rolled away it's already been removed
and in fact the only info that we have that kind of validates that in Matthew 28 is verse
number four that the keepers are afraid and of course we see that they shake and they become as
dead men so by the time the women get to the sepulcher there's these two dudes on the floor
the stone has already been rolled away but on the way to the sepulcher they're asking the question
who's actually going to remove that stone now let me show you something else here look at verse
number eight it says and as they departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy and did
to bring his disciples word and as they went to tell his disciples behold Jesus met them saying
all hail and they came and held them by the feet and worshiped him now what's the significance of
that well think about it it says here that when Jesus meets them he says hail and then they fall
before his feet they hold his feet and worship him now why is that a significant aspect of this
story well because in John chapter 20 Jesus Christ tells Mary Magdalene not to touch him
for he has not yet ascended unto his father right that's what it says in John chapter 20 he appears
before Mary Magdalene and this is essentially the story in John chapter 20 where she says she
thinks he's the gardener and you know he says Mary and then she finally says rabbini that is
the same master and of course then he instructs her and he says do not touch me for I have not
yet ascended unto my father and I'll explain what he's referring to in just a bit but if we were to
take John's account in chapter 20 of the fact that Jesus said that to Mary then that would mean that
that actually took place prior to verse number nine in Matthew 28 why is that well because in
Matthew 28 verse 9 they're touching his feet okay you say so what's going on then well really what's
going on is that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary are kind of coming back and forth to the
sepulcher a few times okay that's what's taking place and so we see here that he in verse number
nine that they they hold them by his feet implying that at this point he has already ascended unto
his father and in fact in Mark chapter 16 it actually states that Jesus Christ appeared first
unto Mary Magdalene so she's the first that he appeared unto and you would think well
Matthew 28 and Luke 24 they kind of seem to indicate that he's appearing to some of the
disciples here what's going on well let me explain to you the chronology of what's actually taking
place okay what you have is Mary Magdalene and the other Mary there's a lot of Mary's in the
story by the way okay they come to the sepulcher the stone has already been removed the keepers
are dead no they're not dead they fainted basically right they're as dead men and the
angel instructs the women to go and tell the disciples at which point you can jump to John
chapter 20 where Mary Magdalene goes to Peter and tells Peter that someone's taking his body they
don't know what's taking place and that's where you have the famous story of Peter and John
running to the sepulcher right and of course John referring to himself as that disciple
whom Jesus loved outruns Peter that other disciple outruns Peter they get to the sepulcher they look
down there's nothing there and of course they end up going back home but Mary stays there at
the sepulcher so keep in mind she went to go tell the disciples she comes back with the disciples
the two disciples Peter and John go back home Mary stays there supposes that Jesus Christ is
the gardener at which point he reveals himself to her which is the fulfillment of March chapter 16
that he revealed himself first to Mary Magdalene okay so when he does he says don't touch me for
I've not yet ascended unto my father and then he course of course he gives her that same instruction
to go and tell the disciples once again she does she returns back that's when they see the angels
and then of course once again they instruct her go and tell the disciples which is what we have
here in Matthew 28 in verse number 9 that they're going to tell the disciples and then Jesus appears
to them once again okay and you say I didn't catch any of that well luckily you have it in
your Bible so you can reference it and check it out the only reason I'm explaining this because
of the fact that you know if you're not careful you might read Matthew Mark Luke and John think
to yourself well that's not what I read in Matthew that's not where to read it in Mark that's not
what I read in Luke they seem to be opposing narratives here what's taking place well what's
taking place is that each gospel is filling in the blanks for the other gospel okay and you know let
me just give you a little word of advice because when you look at Matthew 28 you see one angel but
then in Mark and Luke you see two angels and you say well what's the deal with that well whenever
you have an instance where in one gospel one person is mentioned as being there almost in
an isolated form but then in the other gospels you have two you go with the two you don't subtract
and say well that other one wasn't really there right like the maniac of Gadara there's accounts
of the maniac of Gadara where there's one account of our excuse me there's one person there but then
the other accounts have two maniacs of Gadara in the particular story now obviously when it comes
to the maniac of Gadara the one who's being recorded as being the individual in that
particular gospel is obviously the prominent one okay he's obviously the outspoken one and
that is the one that the writer chose to actually highlight and so in this particular instance in
Matthew 28 you know Matthew obviously decided to just highlight the one angel and then the
other gospels obviously include the other angel and what the other angel said which is why you
have various statements that are different from Matthew Mark Luke and John as far as the account
of what the angels are saying okay I know it's really interesting stuff okay you're like help
me with my depression I don't want to hear about you know these accounts here I'm just trying to
explain this to you just to kind of show you that you know obviously there's a lot taking place here
and you got to fill in the blanks and understand that just because you know verses 8 and 9 or verse
9 comes right after 8 in Matthew 28 you know you have to understand that there's some events that
are taking place in between those instances okay and in fact we have the Great Commission being
given here but we obviously see that the Great Commission is given in Mark 16 and Luke 24 but
they're obviously different you know why it's because of the fact that he gave it in different
times so Matthew 28 Great Commission isn't necessarily this isn't necessarily the Commission
that Mark 16 is talking about the Commission is given in Mark 16 is a different instance the
Commission that's given in Luke 24 is a different instance you understand it's another time where it
was given and in fact the Great Commission is given in Acts 1 8 is also different right
it's because of the fact that Jesus Christ didn't give the Great Commission once he gave it multiple
times and that's why you have various ways of how he stated it not only that but you know you said
what about the gospel or the Great Commission in the book of John well there is no Great Commission
in the book of John what you have is a more specific isolated more direct commandment given
to Peter to feed his sheep feed his flock right and so he's telling him that in John chapter 21
however we don't see that story being told here in Matthew 28 so obviously it took place somewhere
in between these verses here understand and I would encourage you I mean it's a great little
project you can delve into during your Christmas break or something just kind of draw the lines
of when these events take place between what verses but we obviously have to approach the
Bible knowing full well that it's all true okay so Matthew Mark Luke and John they're not
contradicting one another all they're all God's Word it's just that God is a very intricate author
it's very detailed pays attention to a lot of the minute details and even to the point where
the most feeble mind I get confused you know they're like ah see look at all these contradictions
you're just dumb and you can't seem to like cross-reference and it's hard for you to kind
of put the pieces of the puzzle together because God is the one who wrote it and so if you approach
the Bible with faith believing the Bible it comes together if you approach the Bible you know with
without faith if you're critical of the Word of God then it's gonna seem as though it contradicts
itself and you know what God has no issue with unbelievers thinking that the Bible contradicts
itself because he's not looking to prove himself to anybody it's not like well God needs to come
down here and show me it's not gonna happen because he doesn't owe you anything he's already
he's art he already came right and so you know it's important that when we approach the Word of God
we always approach it in faith he that come into God must believe that he is and he is a reward of
them to diligently seek him you know it's great to read the book of Proverbs and the book of John
but it's another level to have to cross references all four Gospels to kind of find out when these
events took place now in John chapter 20 you actually have the instance where he tells Mary
not to touch him because he has not yet ascended unto his father but in the same chapter he ends
up appearing unto his disciples and specifically to who Thomas and Thomas was able to touch him you
know touches wounds in his hands and in his side you said what's taking place there well then you
know if he said touch me not for I've not yet ascended to my father and then he tells Thomas
he can touch him well what can we deduce from that he's already ascended unto his father between
those two events I mean it's eight days later so obviously he did and in fact he ascended unto God
the Father even sooner than that because of the fact that we have these instances in fact he did
it that day because when Mary Magdalene comes back to the sepulcher gets instructed by the
angels once again and leaves she sees Jesus Christ there and she touches his feet showing
us that at that point he had already ascended unto his father now people when they read John
chapter 20 when he says touch me not for I've not yet ascended unto my father they automatically
think that he's actually referring to what we would consider to be that major ascension in
Acts chapter 1 where he stays in heaven forever at the right hand of the Father but that's actually
not what it's referring to what it's actually talking about is the fact that he's gonna go to
heaven to the mercy seat that's in heaven the actual mercy seat okay and put his blood on the
mercy seat apply the blood there according to I believe it's Hebrew chapter 9 he actually applied
his blood there and then returned and at that point he couldn't be physically touched of the
disciples for them to see that that he's not a spirit he's not just a ghost that resurrected
you know it's it's a bodily resurrection okay so that took place within a span of at least a few
hours maybe a day but I would say a few hours because we have this particular story here and
from the time to get to the sepulcher to verse number nine where they're touching his feet it
took place between that time okay and so what we have here is just simply the disciples when I say
the disciples I am including Mary Magdalene and the other Mary's because there are followers of
the Lord as well going back and forth unto the sepulcher now one thing I do want to point out
is like what's going on with the male disciples at this time because who the first ones to show
up are the women they're the first ones to show up I mean they were there at the cross when he
was crucified they were there you know at the grave at the sepulcher he appeared into Mary
first and so I don't know what's going I don't really have an answer for you as far as that's
concerned it's just always bothered me I'll just be honest like the fact that Peter and James and
John these guys seem to be pillars but yet they weren't there during the major events you know
their their faith was being tried at the time and so I want to point that out now the other thing
that I want to point out is obviously very basic and very obvious is the fact that Matthew 28 is
an important chapter because it talks about the resurrection and the resurrection is an essential
doctrine to be saved it's not something we breeze over it's not something we think to ourselves you
know if they don't believe in it they can still be saved wrong if you don't believe in and let
me repeat the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ you cannot be saved now people will listen to a
statement like that and say oh you know I thought you guys said you only have to believe on Jesus
Christ to be saved but then you start adding all these things believe in the bodily resurrection
believe in this and that well when we say believe on Jesus Christ it's obviously implied that the
Jesus Christ we're referring to is the Jesus Christ of the Bible who bodily resurrected so
if a Jehovah's Witness you know claims it makes a profession of faith claiming to believe on Jesus
Christ we know for a fact that they don't believe in the right Jesus even if they pay lip service to
that because they have a view that Jesus Christ did not bodily resurrect they don't even have a
view that Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross okay I think he was crucified on a stick on a
stake you know it's just kind of like you know you're showing yourself you're showing that your
religion is a really dumb religion it's a really stupid cult because you could just look at history
and see that Jesus Christ was not the only person crucified during that time in the first century AD
this is a Roman way of executing people so you can just literally compare it with the most obvious
of Roman history and say he was crucified on the cross but they want to just ignore all that and
say well no he was crucified in a state because the Bible says that he hung on a tree and so they
interpret that as oh a tree must been a stick no a cross is made of a tree the material you use
that they would use to make a cross was a tree it's wood so if the Bible says that Hugh you know
cursed as everyone to hang it on a tree he's obviously referring to wood now obviously the
most literal interpretation of that is the fact that when someone was literally hung on a tree
they were cursed in the Old Testament but obviously it was figuratively depicting the
crucifixion of Christ since he was also hung on a tree made you know a cross that's made out of wood
understand and so it's important to note you know the resurrection is an important doctrine it's
not something we breeze over and don't breeze over it in your gospel presentation either you
know Romans chapter 10 verses 9 and 10 should always be quoted should always be used in your
gospel presentation don't try to get cute with it you know stick to the tried-and-true Romans
Road if you want to deviate a little bit and show some other verses that's perfectly fine but I
personally think Romans chapter 10 verse 9 is a powerful verse to use to teach someone that they
have to believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ okay you know and going back to the
the concept of you know oh you're adding all these things to believing in Jesus Christ no we're
obviously adhering to the Jesus of the Bible so when we say you have to believe on Jesus Christ
it carries with that and includes believing that he's God right it includes that he is God includes
the bodily resurrection and includes the fact that he was crucified on the cross and includes
that he's the Son of God and that he's not God the Father okay now you say but do you explain
every single one of those details to every single person you run to the door no because the vast
majority of the people that I talked to at the door have not been brainwashed by false doctrine
so you know one thing I've noticed is that when you knock on a door to a on the door of a person
that has not been tainted and tainted with false doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses Mormonism things
of that nature they readily receive these doctrines they just kind of believe them easy it's not very
hard for them to understand those things they believe it by faith and they just get it the ones
you have to convince are the ones who have been duped by those false doctrines okay you know I
don't really have to try to convince the unsaved person who's never been in church that Jesus went
to hell they have like zero issue when you explain that to them I can just literally just say it and
not even have to go to acts 2 and based upon their demeanor and the nodding of their head they agree
with what I say you say who has a problem with it the dispensation is that the Baptists do
unfortunately these fundamental Baptist dispensationalists have an issue with it you
know it's not unsaved people who are receiving the gospel because they have not been tainted
by false doctrine they don't have false doctrine to overcome they readily receive it you know who
has the problem with faith alone in Christ alone for salvation people have been tainted with a
false gospel it's not the person who hasn't been in church and doesn't understand any other false
religion when you explain the gospel to them they get it it's easy for them it's the person
who grew up in some non-denom church or some you know watered-down church where the where the
gospel is muddied where they mix in works where they mix in repenting of your sins where they
say all manner of nonsense that's the person that struggles with understanding the simplicity which
is in Christ however the person who's never heard of those things has never done a Bible study they
get it okay and so it's important for us to realize and understand that the resurrection
is an essential doctrine and let me tell you how important it is it's so important in the Bible
that the Apostle Paul dedicated an entire chapter explaining the details of the resurrection to the
point where he was like questioning the salvation of some of the members at the church at Corinth
because of it essentially almost claiming that they believed in vain because apparently in 1st
Corinthians 15 based upon what we read in 1st Corinthians 15 there might have been some members
at Corinth who were wondering if it was a bodily resurrection or if there is any resurrection which
is obviously grounds to question whether that person is saved or not understand and if they
don't believe in the bodily resurrection then they believed in vain even if they made a profession of
faith so if they prayed the prayer and confessed with their mouth the Lord Jesus but then later on
they are questioning the resurrection of Jesus Christ well then at that point we would say
according to 1st Corinthians 15 verses 1 through 3 that person probably believed in vain okay and
I'm not talking about a person who might be confused on him and this is one thing that we
have to understand is that when people are confused on essential doctrines maybe they're
babes in Christ and you explain it to them and then they're just like okay I get it now case
close right it's when the person was like I get what you're saying but you know I I get your point
I can't really argue it but okay then that person is probably not saved they believed in vain I mean
we had a person like that come to our church I don't know within the last couple of months and
I forgot what doctrine they were they were hung up on does anybody remember what was it what is
I'm hearing tongues of different calling upon the name oh just the calling upon the name of the Lord
which is not a hard doctrine to understand and you know I'm giving him a slew of different verses
just giving him the benefit of the doubt and the person even told me himself he said this he's just
like that makes sense based upon what you're saying and based on what the Bible says but I'm
just still struggling with like actually no you're not sure you're just rejecting it at that point
it's not like oh it makes sense and therefore you know but I did it doesn't really make sense
it's more like it makes sense I just don't know how else to refute it therefore you know I'm not
gonna believe it yet or something you know they're obviously against that doctrine and and so you
know we have to understand that a person can easily understand the basics of salvation and
if they reject those things and they they're either they believed in vain or they're just
devils okay we're trying to trip people up but what I'm saying is this is that you do have to
believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ to be saved and in fact you know the Bible says in
Romans chapter 4 that he was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification
okay you say which one is essential the death or the resurrection yes what is essential like him
being the Son of God calling upon the name of the Lord believing in your heart confessing with like
which one is it yes next question you know people always want to be they want to strain
it and swallow a camel and just say but what one specific one is it it's all of it okay and so it's
important for us to realize that both of them are essential and that we need to explain that to
people and I'm not saying you have to do an entire Bible study at the door for them to understand okay
you know learn how to read people learn how to check people's demeanor and that when they agree
with you facially they kind of agree with their facial expressions they're not stumbling at the
stumbling stone they're getting it okay you can move on to the next point now we'll say this is
that when you're preaching the gospel and you find out that this person is a former Jehovah's
Witness or maybe they're like a Bachelorette and Mormon you should obviously direct your gospel
presentation and focus on particular aspects of your gospel that have to deal with that particular
system of beliefs okay so if you're dealing with the Jehovah's Witnesses you are you should focus a
good amount on the fact that Jesus is God right and obviously if you're dealing with the Jehovah's
Witness and they get all that okay then they also need to believe in hell oh there you go again
you're adding stuff folks this is it's it's a logical thing to believe in if you're gonna
believe on Jesus Christ for salvation it's like but I thought you say you just have to believe
that we say you're saying you have to believe in hell too what are you being saved from it's like
yeah and so it's important for us to understand that so we have here the resurrection of Jesus
let's read on here before I chase other rabbits it says in verse number five and the angel answered
and said unto the woman fear not ye for I know that you see Jesus which was crucified he is not
here he is risen as he said come see the place where the Lord lay I love that verse right there
in verse number six where it just says he is risen because we're reading a book that obviously was
written 2,000 years ago but literally he is still risen today like he's in he's he's he lives amen
he lives he lives he's in heaven today he's listening to the sermon right now he's listening
to the inner recesses of our heart right now he is risen and this is obviously the distinguishing
factor between Christianity and all other religions is the fact that our Savior is still
alive okay the Creator the one who made our religion is still alive you know Muhammad is
burning in hell Buddha is in hell you point out any other leader of whatever cult or false religion
that's out there that you know Joseph Smith is for sure burning in hell they're all weeping
and wailing and gnashing their teeth whereas Jesus Christ at this moment is sitting at the
right hand of the Father he's making intercessions for us he's walking with us I mean he we serve a
living God my friend he is risen so it's a beautiful verse and you know obviously this
is Christmas we're in the Christmas season you know Christmas and Easter are kind of one of the
same we're celebrating these these very important doctrines of the birth of Christ which is
essential to us because he was born to die and of course he died and he conquered death and he
resurrected and so look at verse number seven it says go quickly and tell his disciples that he
has risen from the dead and behold he goes before you into Galilee there shall you see him lo I have
told you so there's multiple instances where Jesus Christ specifically told the disciples that he's
gonna meet them in Galilee and of course it's reiterated here by the angel but you know the
disciples like Christians sometimes they need the announcements like more than once you know
I mean you know I give an announcement it's just like I have they're not gonna catch you guys aren't
gonna cast in the out the announcement until I give it for like the fifth or sixth time okay
it's just like oh is that new it's just like no I've been announcing it this whole time you know
and so God obviously knows the nature of man that things have to be reiterated over and over again
in order for them to understand it which is why he gives them the Great Commission multiple times
as well and you know what they still didn't get it he gave it to them in Matthew Mark Luke and
Acts 1 8 and they still didn't get it so how do you know cuz they stayed in Jerusalem it's just
like hello Jesus is already told gave you guys your homework your instructions and they still
weren't getting it and so it's just the nature of man verse number eight says and they departed
quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy and did run to bring his disciples word and
as they went to tell his disciples behold Jesus met them saying all hail I like that so why cuz
he's hailing the disciples you said why is that significant because Catholics always talk about
hail Mary they literally built a doctrine an entire practice on Ave Maria which means hail
Mary right I literally had someone tell me that this week they're like Ave Maria hail Mary and
they're like it's in the Bible well here we have Jesus Christ hailing his disciples you know why
because hail simply means like salutations and it always boggles my mind that Catholics and people
like Catholics you know you have Orthodox as well I'm not sure if the Orthodox do this but Orthodox
are just they're just another version of Catholicism the Catholicism on steroids okay it's
like a bastardization of Catholicism it's like the step it's like the younger brother of Catholicism
who's trying to outdo his brother right and idolatry worship it's like you have Catholicism
idolatrous and wicked and vile and then you have orthodoxy there's just a little bit more you know
but he's like the younger brother okay because he's trying to outdo his older brother Catholicism
but they're both wicked right but here he says hail to the disciples but yet the Catholics want
to create this doctrine that you got to say 50 hail Mary's full of grace or whatever because
they esteem her as being someone who's divine and you know what Catholics are a bunch of liars
I'm just gonna say that right now they're liars because you confront them about this and they're
like we don't worship Mary we don't think she's like a mediator your your catechism you probably
need to go back to communion again in your what's that called what is the catechism or catechism the
communion because part of their doctrine is believing in Mariology that she's the Mediatrix
I mean that is a major doctrine of the Catholic Church meaning she's the mediator between Jesus
Christ and man okay so it's like in order to go to Jesus we have to pray to marry first now when
so when they deny the fact that they believe that you show them what their catechism says
and then they're just like caught and so what they'll try to do is they'll try to make excuses
as to why they believe that and it's not like how we say it is like well anybody would you know in
the Bible if someone wanted to get to the king that would have to go through the mother this is
the example they give I've heard this multiple times so they'll use that as a justification of
why Catholics go to Mary because in the Bible in the Old Testament when someone would want to speak
to the king they would have to go to the mother first now this is hilarious okay let me explain
to you why let's see who is who is well versed in the Bible here who's the only guy in the Bible who
went to his mother to petition something from the king does anybody remember his name starts with an
A Adonijah so Adonijah went to his mother Bathsheba to petition Solomon for his wife
and Adonijah ended up getting killed so I like how they just bring this up these are all you
got to go to the who wanted Solomon's wife and then ends up you know obviously he doesn't get
killed right away but he ends up getting killed because of that Solomon wants him dead because of
that but that's the Catholic justification to go to Mary for Jesus no the Bible says that we may
come boldly unto the throne of grace to obtain mercy to help in a time of need we can go straight
to the throne we don't need to go and you know Mary once all history is over who's gonna be the
one to break the news to her like did you know what people have been doing for thousands of
years they're like praying to and she's never heard any of their prayers she didn't get any
of the mail mail's been going to like another address is that what address some demon who
bleeds out of his eyes or something some image or something like that she knows nothing of those
things the Saints in heaven don't know anything about those things so they're one day they're
gonna find out like are you gotta be there they're gonna be face palm me like people have been
praying us this entire time like well a specific group not all people they're called Catholics
okay and they they they purport that you guys are Catholics and they purport they that Peter
let me just tell you you are very important to them Peter you're like the first Pope okay even
though Peter just you know messed up on the first day in office by rebuking the Lord like immediately
after he was given the keys after he supposedly was ordained as the first Pope then he's like
rebuking Jesus Christ and so I just want to point that out because I like to get on Catholics every
once in a while and you know I'm a former Catholic and so you know I love Catholics which is why we
win them to the Lord every single week which is why we want a ton of them in Belize and baptize
a lot of them okay but these people who want to promote and propagate Catholic doctrine to keep
people in darkness are a bunch of wicked you know false prophets they're wicked okay so Catholicism
needs to be exposed and you may think to yourself well doesn't doesn't everyone already know about
Catholicism well you'd be surprised what this generation is ignorant of okay especially with
social media right now a lot of false information is being put out there and Catholics are working
full-time to propagate their false doctrine so they need we need you know the world needs
essentially fundamental Baptist to get up and talk about because we in our minds are like well
everyone should know this already but but they don't okay it's catching a lot of momentum
Orthodoxy is catching a lot of momentum and you know a lot of guys are getting involved with
Orthodoxy and Christian and Catholicism but you know they need to realize that it is a
bastardization of Christianity there's nothing manly about Catholicism manliness in the Bible
is to be like Jesus Christ manliness in the Bible is to participate in the union of marriage which
is something Catholic priests don't do okay manliness from a biological perspective is to
eat red meat amen but yet they tell you to abstain from meats they forbid to marry and
according to the Bible that's a doctrine of Devils first Timothy chapter 4 yeah but we gave
you your Bible you know we made your Bible oh really you made the Old Testament oh so you you're
the one who made the old you want to take credit for making the Old Testament well no we gave you
the cannon so are you trying to tell me that from Genesis to Malachi the Jews the believing Jews had
no cannon of the Old Testament until the Catholic Church came in 300 AD I mean what nonsense is that
and obviously we don't believe that they canonize the New Testament scriptures either but to claim
that they canonize the entire Bible including the Old Testament that existed thousands of years
prior to them I mean all of Israel knew what the Word of God was from the first five books of the
Bible to the historical books the major and minor prophets the the poetical books they knew about
all those books and rent and and revered them as being God's Word oh no that's not true it's not
until the Catholic Church came and canonized them in 300 AD what nonsense is this you know Catholics
are really good when it comes to gaslighting people okay yeah but we gave you like the new
to we put the who put the New Testament together Christians did case closed you know and I always
tell Catholics because they're like give me an example of I'm like churches did and they're
just like give me an example of a church of churches they did that I'm like okay church at
Thessalonica church at Sardis church of Thyatira church at Ephesus the churches of Galatia and
Cappadocia but then you I mean the list goes on and on and on I know like oh yeah but that's in
the Bible well the Bible is the superior historical book though like you want me to quote some
historical reference as to a group of Christians that compiled the Bible but you and I would both
agree that the Word of God is the most superior document of history to Christians so why would I
reference an inferior document when I could just go to the Bible you know why they don't want to go
to the Bible though because it proves them wrong and I always ask them you if you guys wrote the
Bible you guys suck at it because you never put Catholicism in them you never put the word Catholic
in it you never put sad everything everything that you guys believe you just left out of the
Bible apparently you know I mean you must regret writing the Bible for us in fact you know you
forgot to put Catholicism but you'd for sure put Baptist in there you put it multiple times
I'll tell you why because it wasn't written by Catholics and they want to talk about their
Council of Trent the Council of hippopotamus or whatever they do and that's when they canonize
the scripture folks it's so nonsensical to think that because of the fact that the Septuagint
which is not even a book that we would even consider to be legitimate there's all kinds of
errors in the Septuagint but the Septuagint even prior to the Latin Vulgate that was written in
400 AD the Septuagint existed prior to that and it was already canonized it was already using
canon the canon of Scripture as far as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John you have the Old Testament all
those books they were already used back then but you're trying to point to like the 1800s as being
the time when the councils came together and they gave us our Bible it existed prior to that and in
fact the Word of God existed in in various languages in the first century AD it already
existed so how do you know because of the fact that God providentially according to the Bible
providentially wanted to get the Word of God out into all languages you say so explain to me then
how was the Bible canonized well obviously there's no historical document that we can point to to say
this is the person who actually put it together what probably took place based upon what we're
reading is the fact that if he's addressing seven churches which are in Asia he's addressing all
these Gentile churches in Galatia, Bithynia, Pontius in those areas churches are keeping
track of what is canon and what is not. Calisthenia. Churches are keeping track and you know what they
might just be putting it on the wall or something so by the time that the book of Revelation is
written okay or for example the book of Jude maybe approximately 70 AD most churches already
know what the canon is you understand and you say well how do they know though who are they
like referencing to know what the canon of Scripture is the Holy Spirit no no I mean like
a like you know like an actual person well the Holy Spirit is an actual person it's got the
Bible calls him the anointing which you have in you and it actually says that in context of not
being seduced so Christians obviously in the first century understanding had the Holy Spirit then
when a false document would come their way claiming to be the Word of God they would disregard it
because it doesn't fit the canon of Scripture and here's the thing is just like the Catholics are
like we gave you your Bible well that's weird because we have 66 books and you have like 80
books in yours so what's the issue here why is your so different from mine why does your teach
all kinds of false doctrine and mine doesn't because you didn't give me my Bible now if you
want to claim that you gave me the King James Bible then you you basically made your own funeral
because my King James Bible refutes everything the Catholicism believes in and so in the first
century AD you have churches that are receiving letters how do we know that because he even told
the churches which are in Asia to swap letters to read letters and even in the book of Colossians
he's telling those at Colossae read this at Laodicea and the one that Laodicea is receiving make sure
that's being read in Colossae so they're obviously sharing letters so that they obviously understand
what is doctrine what is the Word of God so when someone comes with the epistle of Barnabas they
read them they're just like this is who wrote this this is not from Barnabas this is not Scripture it
sounds like a Catholic wrote it he said what's the deal with those extra books of the Bible
that the Catholics use well the reason they keep those books in their Catholic Bible is because
those are the only books that actually reinforce their foolish doctrines like purgatory and penance
and all that that's why they need to keep them in there but you can compare those apocryphal
readings to the rest of the canon of Scripture and see how much they contradict and so anybody
with two brain cells to rub together who has the Holy Spirit of God living within them you know
the person who is least in the church can judge those matters and look at exhibit A look at
exhibit B and say okay exhibit B is not Scripture exhibit A is Scripture because this is talking
about someplace between heaven and hell called purgatory and nowhere in the Bible does it say
in that and any of the letters that we have received of the Lord I mean prove all things
hold fast that which is good okay and I know you need the Catholic Church to be able to understand
the Word of God no you don't you need the Catholic Church if you want to go apostate if you want a
one ticket way to apostasy go to the Catholic Church they know all about it because Catholicism
is an apostasy of Christianity there is some Christian out there who believed in vain in
probably the second third century BC or not BC AD who essentially was claiming to be a Christian
and amalgamated paganism and created Christianity or Catholicism excuse me okay and so that's what
it is and you have to do all types of mental gymnastics to justify Catholicism yeah that's
just it that's that's all I hear on the internet is a bunch of mental gymnastics that people are
doing parkour doing like mental parkour to make these leaps these mental leaps of just doctrines
that they believe and try to use the Bible to justify that's why they don't want you to hold
the Word of God as being authoritative because they know that the Bible completely contradicts
it they know it how can you not know it it's been shown to them multiple times that's why
Catholicism was Catholicism will tell you well we gave you the Bible so because we gave you the
Bible therefore you shouldn't hold the Bible's being authoritative you need the Catholic Church
okay it's nonsense and so anytime a Catholic wants to talk to me it's just like well let's
only talk about the Bible because I don't I don't esteem your councils I don't esteem your
popes I think they're all twofold more child of hell than you I think the whole Catholic system
is wicked the only thing I esteem is the Word of God so let's just use the Word of God but they
don't want that because the Word of God can contradicts them because you can do nothing
against the truth before the truth that's my Catholic rant for the evening I make no
apologies about it and so look at verse 10 then said Jesus unto them be not afraid go tell my
brethren that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me now when they were going behold some
of the watch came into the city and showed it to the chief priests all the things that were done
and when they were assembled with the elders and that taking counsel they gave large money unto the
soldiers saying say ye his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept and if
this come to the governor's ears we will persuade him and secure you so this is essentially one of
the first Jewish fables that's being purported which is that oh you know someone stole his body
and so it's not that he resurrected so what does that tell us it tells us that they know he
resurrected if they have to pay money to people to have a different narrative which is a narrative
that is also purported in the Talmud you know if they have to say this it's because they know that
he actually resurrected from the grave so what does this tell me it tells us that people sometimes
won't believe though one rose from the grave because at the end of the day you have to have
faith in the Word of God whether you see Jesus Christ or not because there's people who saw him
they saw the empty tomb they received the witness even from the keepers and they not only did they
choose not to believe it they concocted a narrative to suppress the truth okay to keep it from others
hearing that Jesus Christ actually resurrected it says in verse 15 so they took the money and and
did as they were top and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day and let me
say this until this day as well okay and so that's why Jews have such a blasphemous view of Jesus
even if they're not as wicked as Ben Shapiro the most common Jew will have that view that he was
just he's not a savior he's just like a regular man or whatever that was creating trouble I mean
how do you work for Ben Shapiro when he's saying stuff like that how do you work for Ben Shapiro as
a Christian when he just blasphemes the name of Jesus Christ in such a wicked manner says in verse
16 then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee 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 unto me in heaven and in earth now when it says that some doubted I don't believe
it's saying that some doubted that he was the Christ I believe the common thing that the
disciples are constantly struggling with throughout the Gospels is like when is the kingdom gonna be
set up okay which is why he's saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth power
referring to authority and of course we know this to be true because this concept is also
reiterated in Acts chapter 1 when they actually blatantly asked Jesus Christ when he's gonna
bring in the kingdom and of course he corrects them and he says you know the times of the seasons
are not for you to know and then he says but you shall receive power you shall have authority and
he's talking about how they're gonna have the power to witness regarding the gospel and get
people saved that's what they need to concern themselves with and you know what that's what
Christians need to concern themselves with today too not the political battles concern yourself
with the power that God has already given to you okay I'm all for politics in the millennial
reign amen when I'm ruling over five cities or ten cities or however many cities he gives me
that's when I'm concerned with politics but until then you know what until then all power and he's
gonna give us power the authority to preach the Word of God to get people saved and so that's
important he says in verse 19 go ye therefore and teach all nations now teaching all nations
implies preaching the gospel you say well doesn't say preach the gospel well teaching all nations
we know that it's referring to the gospel because of the fact that immediately after that it says
baptizing them and the biblical model that we see is that baptism always comes after someone
gets saved and so if baptism comes after someone gets saved and that is the biblical model that we
see we can deduce that when he says teach all nations is referring to preaching the gospel
unto them getting them saved and then baptizing them thereafter and also I mean think about it
when we're preaching the God we say we preach the gospel but we're not like you know believe
all the Lord we're not like yelling at them we literally have to teach them those concepts right
I mean aren't we all basically like teachers when we're at the door only like systematically
explaining to people at the door what our intent is and what the gospel is like where we go to the
verse and we're explaining what the words mean and we're trying to get them to receive those
concepts and we're cross-referencing why because we are teaching the gospel as well so as biblical
as it is to say preach in the gospel it's also biblical to say to teach the gospel because we're
teaching them that they are sinners deserving of hell but that Jesus Christ died for them
resurrected and if they believe on them they can be saved and that salvation can never be lost so
it says go ye referring to all of them and of course we can apply this to ourselves and teach
all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost so
you don't see there in the name of Jesus we believe on Jesus for salvation but we do not
baptize in the name of Jesus okay now we do baptize with the authority of Jesus Christ we
come in the authority of Jesus Christ but when we actually baptize we baptize in the name of the
three persons of the Trinity well why because Jesus said to do it that way which drives me nuts
that people want to push this Jesus only baptism and literally just ignore what Jesus says here in
Matthew 28 like what are you supposed to do with this verse and my Bible and obviously it's all
the Word of God but those those letters aren't read in case you don't know like basically means
is like these are the words that Jesus is saying we obviously know that but you know maybe there
might be someone out there who doesn't he's literally saying he's instructing so if you
if you see an example of someone in the Bible and the narrator saying that they baptize them
in Jesus name but then you have the instruction of how to baptize then you have to interpret what
it says in Acts based upon what it says in Matthew because Jesus Christ is the one who gave the
instructions to baptize and how to do it we don't use the book of Acts as an instruction manual on
how to do things the book of Acts just highlights their actions okay it's a great historical book
of the the the church in the New Testament churches in the New Testament but it's not an
instructional guide though on doctrine it's not supposed to teach systematic doctrine you can
learn a lot of doctrine from the book of Acts but if you want to learn how to baptize obviously
Matthew 28 is a good place to go to because this is what Jesus literally said for them to do and
you know you'd ask yourself so did the Apostles contradict what Jesus said then aren't they
disobeyed if they baptize people in the name of Jesus the way people claimed that they did the
way that people are claiming today that the way they did aren't they literally disobeying what
Jesus said because he did not tell them to do that but we know that they didn't that's a narrative
it's essentially given us a summation of what they did you have to understand that folks when
the Bible when we read the Gospels we read the book of Acts God's not gonna give us like every
little detail of everything that happened and everything that was said sometimes years are
covered in just a matter of a few verses okay but here we have the clear instruction of how to
baptize and then in verse 20 says teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded
you and lo I'm with you all way even until the end of the world amen now what is he saying here
is basically saying that once you get them saved of course the next thing is to get them baptized
and then the next thing is to teach them the Word of God okay how do we do that well we go out and
preach the gospel we baptize people when they're here we get them baptized and we try to get them
faithful in church because how are they going to learn how are we going to teach them to observe
all things well by getting them faithful to a local congregation this local congregation where
they can get preaching yeah but you only preach like three times a week well that's sometimes
that's all people can handle by the way I mean that's three hours of just systematic doctrine
so look if you can handle three sermons a week let's say you handle three sermons a week first
okay three hours of preaching first and if that's not enough for you in six months then go look for
a church that has five or six services or something but I guarantee you you will be fed
you will be nourished in God's Word and even aside from that we not only teach that you have to be
under preaching but we also teach you have to read the Bible so a way to teach someone to observe all
things is not only through the preaching of God's Word in church but it's also by teaching them how
to read the Bible themselves because we don't want to keep people in the dark now and you know
be like these Catholics in the dark ages where it's just like you only have to go to one person no
according to the Bible yeah there's people in church the pastors and evangelists can teach you
for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of
Christ but the Bible also says that you have to read because there's commands given in the Word
of God that say for you to prove all things hold fast that which is good to prove the spirits to
try the spirits excuse me okay and so that's what it means when it says to teach them to observe all
things and all things is not just referring to what's found in the Gospels it's the entire Bible
say well what is this discipleship program done though it's never done we don't have a 12 week
course of discipleship here it's like as soon as you start week one you go through 12 weeks of
discipleship and then you're a mature Christian doesn't work that way you just mature throughout
the years and in fact sometimes people regress and they have to get back on the ball later on so
it's a lifelong process and of course we have a promise that he says he'll be with us always so
here is a good here's good motivation great motivation for you listen to me to serve God
because if you serve God you will always have the promise available to you that Jesus is with you
but I don't know if Jesus is with me start serving him and you don't have to worry about it like man
I'm really backslitting right I don't know if Jesus is with me then get in church and start
that's like insurance to know that Jesus Jesus Christ is always with you and laboring with you
if you're laboring for him that's a great way to make sure that Jesus Christ will never leave you
no forsake you obviously we're not referring to salvation but just in life his blessings his
provisions things of that nature in order to keep those things constant in our lives we need to be
serving God that's what he says and so great book in the New Testament the book of Matthew
a lot to learn here let's pray and we'll be dismissed father we thank you so much for the
book of Matthew Lord so many great truths Lord that we learned throughout the weeks help us to
take to heart that which was taught and may we continue to serve you Lord so that we assure
ourselves that you always be with us not for salvation but just so we abide in the blessing
of God all the days of our life you'll continue to provide for us and protect us commune with us
Lord and I pray that you'd help us to do so bless us as we go on our way Lord and may we live lives
that are honoring to you in Jesus name amen all right we'll sing one last song
song number 10 great hymn near the cross song number 10
everyone nice and strong all together from the heart to the Lord Jesus keep me near the cross
there a precious fountain free to all a healing stream flows from Calvary's Mountain in the cross
in the cross be my glory ever till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river near the
cross a trembling soul love and mercy found me there the bride and morning star sheds its beams
around me in the cross in the cross be my glory ever till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond
the river near the cross O Lamb of God bring it scenes before me help me walk from day to day
with its shadows or me in the cross in the cross be my glory ever till my raptured soul shall find
rest beyond the river near the cross I'll watch and wait hoping trusting ever till I reach the
golden strand just beyond the river in the cross in the cross be my glory ever till my raptured
soul shall find rest beyond the river amen wonderful singing you are dismissed