get started this morning. It's good to see everybody. Welcome to
Springcrest Baptist Church. If you would turn in your hymns to
song 393.
Song number 393 at the cross.
Song 393.
this church for things like you might getting some bulletins and passing them
out if anybody needs them. I'm trying a new format so it's printed a little bit
weird but we'll get that fixed. But right there today September 7th no it's not
September 7th is it? It's September 8th.
I did this on September, I did this on Wednesday
under a lot of pain and having a lot of drug.
Apparently I thought I was getting ready for this weekend
and I, what is the name?
The 14th, okay, sorry, September 14th.
I apologize and we have all our contact information there.
Service times are Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m.
Sunday evening at 4 30 p.m.
And then Wednesday service is 5 30 p.m.
And our soul winning time is 2 p.m. So and then I just added a couple of notes there
I know some people stay I know I've mentioned in the past, but we have like a full kitchen
We have a stove and microwave and utensils and the fridge
So if you want to bring stuff and that way you're not always having to go to lunch
You're more than welcome to do that. Obviously. I mean, I would encourage you to label stuff
I don't think anybody take your food, but you know
I don't know how that would happen until we would we would deal with that when the time comes, but just do that
And then our memory chapter is Philippians 1 and we're in verse 5
Where it says your for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now and again if anybody can quote it
There was a children to a non-family member for that week. They get ice cream with the parents permission, of course
And then just a couple of things there, just we are,
as we're growing, just always remind,
we are a family integrated church.
So we love all the children in the church services.
But of course there are times
where the children just get a little out of hand.
We have the mother baby room in the back.
It's specifically for the mothers and the babies.
And that way they can go out there and just make sure that they can call their baby
Then the souls one for the year are two hundred and five actually. I think it's actually two hundred and seven
I meant to update that but I'll that'll be updated on the other one
So there was a group that went out soul winning yesterday
There's about ten of them and they got like five souls one and then I tried something new which I'm gonna
See maybe some of the young guys want to help me out with
So I I haven't been able to go soul winning and I actually only had about an hour's worth even though
I didn't go anywhere, but it's called ohm TV. It's kind of weird, but it was it still worked out. It's om e
Dot TV basically it's like you're on camera, and I guess the people I mean that I guess they're
On the counterpart, it's worldwide.
It tells you how many people are online.
At the time I logged in, it was like 250,000
or 500,000 people online.
And you're just basically scrolling
through people's screens
and they either decide to stay on to talk to you or not.
And the instructions I got was just like,
hey, just ask them if they're Christian.
And of course, people ignore you.
I started giving the gospel to a couple young ladies
and then they just switched me.
You know, they can just go next.
And then they just leave you hanging.
But I was able to lead five people to the Lord,
you know, in about an hour.
And so it was pretty cool.
It's kind of weird.
So if you want to try it, I encourage you.
I'm not saying that's a substitute for soul winning,
but I hadn't been soul winning in a month.
And so it was nice to just get back out there and actually lead some souls to Christ.
So I would encourage us to just have as many methods as possible to give the gospel.
So if anybody wants to take up that banner and just do a marathon like once a month for the church
Kind of plug people in let me know and I'd be happy to work that facilitate that out
I did it with a guy by the name of Matt Walker for faithful work Baptist Church
And they have like a little group chat on Facebook and he just gave me the instructions and it really is like that like people are just like
You just see like people just zooming in it's like a remember back in the day when
The other kids won't remember like the micro fish films, you know, they would it's just like
That's how that's what it feels like is it's like and then they stop and you're like hey
Are you Christian and then they move on or you're Christian or somebody's like?
The only thing I would say I would caution is some people say some lude stuff like they're trying to be shocking off
It's a lot of teenagers so you can already imagine some of the intros that I got it was kind of interesting
But I'm like wow whatever. I was a teenager once through. I don't it doesn't really bother me
And then we had all the birthdays that came up. We didn't miss
Is that correct Christian? Was it her first birthday? So she's one year old now
So she was brand new when you guys showed up. Oh, man
Well, she's a her, uh, every else one year old.
So I mean, if you want to tell a one year old, happy birthday, be my guest.
I don't know what you'll do with it, but, and then no, if your birthdays
or anniversaries are not in the bulletin, or if I don't have them,
just let me know so that we can add them to the next week's bulletin.
Uh, upcoming activities on your bulletin, it's blank, but I actually mean to add this.
I just haven't had a chance, but the one I do want to plan for is October 31st is
on a Friday.
and last year we had a like a potluck slash like chili it wasn't a cookoff because the only one
who cooked was brother heat so he won but if you want we can do a chili cookoff
Don't tell Pastor Shelley this, but I am not that strict.
If you want to put beans in it, be my guest.
I'm a Mexican, and so I know it's a terracy.
But if you want to do a chili cookup, great.
But if not, I think the fellowship would be nice.
We did that last year.
It was really cool.
We just played games and hung out and did all that.
So we can start planning that.
And then I just have a couple of notes there
for all the things that are going on.
So I don't have to go through all the requests.
On the back, we updated the prayer requests.
Pray for the Roe family.
You don't know who they are.
I've met them.
They're members at Faithful Word Baptist Church.
As a matter of fact, OmTV,
and if you've heard me talk about Mission Scrooge,
Trips was basically like the brainchild of Kevin.
He passed away suddenly. Well, not suddenly.
He was killed by a drunk driver last Sunday.
And he had just been married less than a year and they have a four-month-old baby girl that he left behind
That's what was kind of tragic, but you know the Lord knows what he's doing. The Lord knows best
And so just pray for that family. He was a cellist soul winner just a good guy
I met him a couple of times and I really enjoyed fellowshiping with him and then we just added a couple other people there
If you see any typos let me know my wife already made sure to call me out on several so
You're not gonna offend me help me fix this thing and then just a couple more notes there
Because I keep forgetting to bring stuff up
And with that being said we'll sing the next hand, which is three sixty six three sixty six
Well before that is there any announcements or anything that I might have missed
I didn't take her off. I'm sorry. I will do that
Thank you
I'll remove surely car. Is there anybody else we need to update or remove any soul any numbers that we need to get
Samson, oh man, I'm just dropping the ball everywhere
Christina Longoria, okay, I'll get that done after the services
Oh, and by the way, yeah, let me know after the services who's going so any if you guys need anything
I probably will skip one more week. It just
I look fine, but I'm in a lot of pain still so
And then what happens is the next day I just dragged me out
So I got to try to get through the day today. So without being sad. Let's let's let's go to 366. Thank you very much
On page 366, Hymn number 366, I am resolved.
It's going to be on page 327.
Page number 327, I love to tell the story.
Corinthians chapter number six. Second Corinthians six, we'll read there as we
pass the offering plate. Second Corinthians six, where the Bible reads,
Besiege you also that you receive not grace of God in vain, for ye sayeth, I have heard thee in the time accepted, and in the day of salvation, have I succored thee, behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation, giving no offense in anything that the ministry be not blamed, but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God in much patience and afflictions and necessities and distresses and stripes.
in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings, by pureness, by knowledge,
by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love, unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the
power of God, by the armor of righteousness, on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor,
by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true, as unknown and yet will be known.
as dying and behold we live as chastened and not killed, as sorrowful yet all-way rejoicing,
as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
ye are not straightened in us, but ye are straightened in your own vows.
Now, for a recompense in the same, I speak as unto my children, be ye also enlarged,
be ye not equally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness, and what concord hath Christ
with beath leal, for what part hath he that believeth with an infidel, and what agreement
at the temple of God with idols. For ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said,
I will dwell in them that walk in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate, sayeth the Lord, and touch not the
unclean thing, and I will receive you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and
Dear Father God, thank you for this day.
Thank you for gathering us all here together, Lord.
Thank you for the souls that have been won
over this past week, and Lord, I pray that we
are able to go out today and get more people
added to your family, Lord.
And I pray that you fill the pastor in recap with your spirit,
helping to preach a bold and accurate sermon, Lord.
And I pray that you bless us all as we go on our way
and go home and keep us safe and Jesus' name, I pray.
Amen.
2nd Corinthians 6, 2nd Corinthians 6, let me just plug this in real quick we're there in 2nd
Corinthians 6 and the title of my sermon this morning is the time is now the time is now let
by too much, oh wait, that's not what I want.
You don't want a timer to go off in two minutes
and interrupt the sermon, so I don't know why I did that.
But the time is now, and the reason that I chose this title
is actually I'd chosen a different title,
but I was like, I want a title that just makes sense,
even if somebody listens to it like five, 10, 15,
20 years down the road, and you know what, as a Christian,
The time is always now, right? The time is now to do all the things that God's asked us to do,
to praise the Lord, to show up to church, to make a change for the better, to go out soul-winning.
The time is now and we're there in 2 Corinthians 6 verse 1 and right there I want to focus on
those first three verses as we then as workers together with him beseech you also that you
In other words, don't be unprofitable in your life.
It says, for he saith,
I have heard thee in a time accepted,
and in the day of salvation have I suckered thee.
Behold, now is the accepted time.
Behold, now is the day of salvation.
Giving no offense in anything that the ministry be not blamed.
Know I love this verse because when I first read this many many years ago, it just you know
Resonate it with me. I'm one of those people that likes to just take action and get a result
And you know when's the best time to do anything right now, right?
The past is past the past is gone. The future is not guaranteed
So if you're gonna do anything in your life that's worth doing when is the best time to do it right now today?
Right, what is it September 14th? Is that what we're at September 14th?
If you had all these plans to do great things for the Lord and you've been planning on them start today, right?
This is the time to get things done and what really set this off
Let me just focus on a couple verses real quick as a way of introduction, but right there
I like verse 8 it says by honor and dishonor by evil report and good report and I like this as deceivers
And yet true, you know the world will always call us liars. They will falsely accuse us, but you know what?
We need to remain true to what, the Word of God.
And then right there in verse nine, I like that it is unknown and yet well-known.
And the way that I read this is that we want to be well-known in the eyes of God.
As a matter of fact, my prayer is always to reduce my instinct to please people
and all I care that I should care about is to please the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
It's not my duty to get up here and preach the Word of God to your liking.
It's my duty to preach the Word of God.
to God's liking. That's really the goal of what we're trying to do, whether it's this sermon
or any other sermon, is that I'm trying to preach the Word of God the way He needs it to be preached,
not the way that I need it or you need it to be preached. And as a way of introduction, you know,
what triggered this? I think you guys would know, right? There's a lot of things that have been going
on in our world. I mean, our world is just in a bad place. I mean, and it's in a precipitous fall.
it's sliding down basically directly into the pit of hell. I mean, we'll start with the most obvious,
the thing that probably most people have on their mind, right? Charlie Kirk,
who was a political pundit, was assassinated by a tranny-loving god-hating liberal.
I mean, just, you know, one of the things that I think we as Christians need to do more often is just call things out for what they are, right?
Just be more direct and not be afraid of what the world does.
I mean, if this guy who wasn't even preaching the gospel clearly, now I believe based on the little research that I've done that actually I believe he was saved
because I can't really find anything
works based when he's given a testimony.
If he's not, you know, that's between him and God.
I pray that he was saved because then he's in heaven and he's there forever.
If he wasn't, then you know, that's just a sad result of not believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.
But the one thing was that...
The way they kill him just for basically preaching what the world thinks is truth
It's not even hundred percent God's truth because he there's a couple things
You know if you listen over the years that aren't really aligned with biblically with what we teach
But even with that, I mean, that's literally why he was shot and murdered, right?
I I really think personally this is just I'm giving you my thoughts
that he was saved the other reason is just the way that he went was so quick right if you know
anything about you know just severing the carotid like he probably didn't even suffer I don't even
know if he was aware what happened like it just happened so quickly he moved on and you know moved
That same day, obviously, that didn't make big news.
I don't know if you know this, there was a shooting just in another state, like a neighboring
state in Colorado, there was another school shooting where some young kid went in there
and I think two people were killed and others were injured and I don't know what happened
to the kid.
I didn't go into all the details.
I just was kind of giving you guys, this is just this week alone, right?
Who heard about this guy in Dallas? Who heard about the guy in Dallas? I mean, it's nuts this guy in Dallas this Cuban immigrant
Went to a motel and got mad because his washer wasn't working
Chased down the owner of the motel. There's literally video
Stabbed him to death and then decapitated him and then took time to kick his head down the street
Before put it in the trash can and then being caught
In broad daylight it wasn't like in the middle of the night. It was like in the morning hours
The in front of his family his family was pleading his child and his wife were pleading for this to stop. I
Mean if if if the winds of the devil aren't taking
You know over if you think this is just like on the run of the mill then you know
You needed a checkup from the neck up, right? And then
Although it happened on August 22nd, but it wasn't released until this week. I
Don't know also just randomly that black guy on a train
Murdered that young Ukrainian woman for no reason just because he was nuts possessed by the devil. I
Mean she literally gets on the bus. I mean, I'm sorry on the train. My wife corrected me on Wednesday. Sorry on the train
pulls out a knife
Kills her and then just walks away. I
Mean what what in the world are we living in?
Right then to top it all off. I mean just the kind of things that we're the this is more personally just pisses me off
You know cash Patel the the director of the FBI he gets up there
You know when they supposedly catch captured this guy and his last he says lastly
This is his quote to my friend Charlie Kirk rest now brother. We have the watch and I will see you in Valhalla
Well, how is hell if you just in case you don't know anything about Viking
Mythology or whatever the Norse. It's just representative of hell
right
Cache Patel is looking forward to hell like
There's no God fearing individuals anymore in this country. This country was founded on God
But now we just got all kinds of religion all kinds of beliefs all kinds of people just confused about where they're going to heaven
right and then
To top it all off. Well, let me just I do want to just because that word I have it here
And I probably should have done it first, but it's fine
That word sucker just means to help or relieve for aid,
because whenever you're reading your Bible
and you read that word,
it's not a very common word that we use today,
but basically it just means that the Lord's there
to help us on the day of salvation, right?
Today is the day of salvation.
And if you look at it in context in 1 Corinthians,
it's not just talking about your spiritual salvation,
but also our salvation here on earth,
sparing us from some of the things that we might encounter,
even unto death.
Sometimes God takes us,
for the reasons of sparing us, maybe some of the grotesque things we might have to face
in this world. We don't know why he does that. And then just to round out the celebration,
I mean the introduction, sorry about that, I'm reading the word celebrate it.
People literally celebrated the death of Charlie Kerr.
I don't care what if you agree.
As a matter of fact, I'll just tell you right now,
I've listened to that guy for years,
because he was not a bad speaker.
And I mean, I've told my wife,
there's a ton of stuff I didn't agree with, come on, right?
There's a lot of positions he's taken
that I just personally didn't agree with.
But I would never wish that on my personally, on my enemy.
The Bible says to hate the enemies of God.
but to love our enemies, I would never wish that on my worst enemy, right? Just to go young,
he was 31 years old, he had two young kids, a young wife, just leaving it all behind. I think
about my family, if I passed away right now, it would be devastating to my wife and kids,
or anybody here who has young kids, if you passed away, it would devastate your family.
It would just be a thing that you would have to overcome.
in time, right? And people celebrated this. But what was more interesting is I mentioned this guy,
Kevin Rowe, which is really where I want to end before I transition to our first point. I only
have seven points for you today. It's all in Corinthians. So if you don't want to skip around
to all the other verses, it's going to be based on first Corinthians one through seven, just go
with me. But the reason I bring up this guy, Kevin Rowe, is because, you know, it's interesting,
On Monday morning, I saw like something on Facebook about Kevin and then it disappeared and I think it disappeared because they were
You know
Waiting to put a more official statement. I met this young guy
Earlier this year in May at the King James conference
And if you don't know anything about him like he's just a really down-to-earth guy
Really strong soul winner
But he's kind of credited with like the missions trip and the new FB movement, you know going on cruises and do that
He just did that
He has like his own, well, he had his own website
where he's giving the gospel and he's breaking stuff down.
Like just one of these people that's just,
all their focus was soul winning, soul winning, soul winning.
Just how can we do more soul winning?
How can we get more people and pull them out of hell
and put them in heaven, right?
And when that first came about,
There's other these there's but there's a group of people that hate what's called the new IFB
And they hate it so much that even when this guy passed they mocked his death
I thought you know just what kind of world are we living in that you hate a group of pastors or churches so much that
Anybody that gets affected in that group you would just mock
But then Charlie Kirk dies and the world hates the truth so much that they literally would make fun of and
Chant and make tick-tock videos and Instagram reels about the death of someone
You know, I mean to the point where it was kind of grotesque some of the stuff that they were saying, right?
This is the state that we're living in. This is the the state of our nation the state of our world
Right and the reason is because the devil doesn't want the truth to come out
You know, Charlie Kirk might have not been preaching it correctly, but you know what?
He was preaching something and it, you know, stirring up the enemy of Christ.
And the problem is, why is someone like that having so much impact?
Because pastors in America have stopped preaching the truth about God's Word.
If you think about it, I mean if you look at his doctrine compared to what the Bible actually says, it's not even like the most hardcore of the doctrines.
I mean we've gotten soul watered down that a Charlie Kirk could create so much hate and vitriol in this country and that's not even the whole truth.
But it's our duty not to back down, but to step up, you know today in America after seeing something like that a lot of people
Pull back
Pastors will preach more water down. They'll be more afraid to preach
But I'm telling you the time is now to preach harder to tell it more like it is from the word of God to call it out
For what it is not just be specific on sin
But be specific on the satanic agenda that is after our families and after your souls
Like that's really the problem with America, you know on Wednesday
We had brother Philip come and I'm glad he did because I don't I wouldn't have been able to preach
I would have wanted to preach but I wouldn't have been able to preach
But I almost was like hey
Let me preach because this is the kind of stuff that just gets me fired up because you know the reality of life is that it's fleeting
There you know at the end of the day
It doesn't matter what you've done or what you're gonna do when you die. The only thing that matters is your eternal
You know destination
And what you did for the Lord? I don't care if you have billions of dollars or just thousands of dollars in your bank account
At the end of the day, you're both going to the grave
But you know what if you have souls one and you've got them tallied up when you get to heaven
You'll get those crowns, right? That's what's really gonna matter and that's where that's where we started, but you know
Which leads me to my first point. Let's go over to go over to 2nd Corinthians 1
Go over to 2nd Corinthians 1 and the the reason I brought up Kevin and versus like a Charlie is number one
Most people never know who Kevin row is
Right, you guys probably never met him if you did maybe some of you that went to the fire breathing Baptist Fellowship met him
Most of you don't even know who he is. You wouldn't be able to put two and two together
But you know who puts it together the Lord does
Lord knows exactly what he did with all those souls, whereas someone like, you know, a more prominent figure that's just
talking about political ideology, but we don't necessarily know if people are getting saved or not, you know, those rewards are different, right?
And I'm not knocking by the way. I'm not this is not that sermon, you know with Charlie Kirk did Charlie Kirk did
I keep wanting to say Charlie Clark. Just so you guys know I grew up in the Rogue Grand Valley. There's a really famous
Car dealership and literally the guy at the owner of that dealership is named Charlie Clark
Which makes it really difficult to do this up here, but you know one of the things we need is we just need more
Directness, you know when I was 23 years old
I wanted to become a financial advisor and I had a mentor in business at that time and I wanted to
learn from him and so I set up a meeting to go with a family to meet that family. This was the
first time he was going to take me on this training. We would go across and sit across the
kitchen table and ask him all their financial questions and then formulate a plan and then
ask him to invest with us. And when he got, when I got in the car that time I was 23 years old and
he goes, hey, I heard you're a Seventh-day Adventist and I said, yeah, I am. And he goes, you know
I was like that's pretty rough. You know, I mean I remember thinking like yikes
You know what that was the thing that started me on this path to get saved a couple years later at it
At the age of 25 I got saved because he just kind of cut through all the junk
He didn't tiptoe around the fact that I was the seventh event be like well all religions are the same, you know
You worship God. I worship God. Oh, it was like hey, you're worshiping Satan
I mean to this day I have people in my life that say you shouldn't say stuff like that because you might offend somebody well good
Maybe somebody will be pulled out of hell
Because you told them that they're worshiping a satanic cult because I mean I'll just tell you this that young guy who?
murdered Charlie Kirk not only was he being you know shacking up with a tranny
But he's also grew up a Mormon and I'm just gonna tell you something about Mormons Mormons are from the pit of hell
Mormon is a Satanic religion. They worship Satan, you know, and if it's not clear enough, you know
I'll make it clear today
But we just need to be more direct
But the first point I have for you is that the time is now
To sound the battle cry and that was the original title of my sermon was the battle cry
But as I thought that's pretty good for now
But it's not good for like maybe later because you're not always in a battle. Sometimes you're in battle
Sometimes you're out of battles, but you know what the time is now to do something for Christ
You know, it's now to be in a battle sometimes.
The time is now to be out of a battle.
The time is now to be preparing for a battle.
The time is now to just go out in the battlefield
and lead people to Christ, right?
Go to there to 2 Corinthians 1, and we're there in verse one.
It says, Paul and Apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, and Timothy our brother
unto the church of God, which is at Corinth.
Oh, there we go, sorry.
Which is at Corinth with all the saints
which are all in Acacia.
Grace be to you in peace from God our Father
and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,
who comforted us all in our tribulation.
that we may be able to comfort them, which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
For as the suffering of Christ abound in us, so are consolation also abounded by Christ.
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual, meaning effective,
in the enduring of the same sufferings, which we also suffer, or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the suffering,
so shall ye be also of the consolation.
for we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia,
that we were pressed out of measure above strength in so much that we despaired even our life."
What is the synopsis of this? It's saying, hey, you need to have some trials in your life.
You need to have some tough times in your life for Christ so that you can then comfort
those that are trying to come up in the same way.
Right, you need to be in the battle so that when people are coming up behind you the next generation and you know
Maybe you young Eli or my son or Gentry, you know in 10 15 years are out in the battle and they're like, yeah
I don't know what to do. It'd be like I've been there. Don't worry about it. Let me help you out
First of all, don't quit
second of all
Fight harder, right because at the end of the day, I'm gonna die. You're gonna die. We're gonna get older
the next generation is the one that needs to pick up the battle cry, right? We need to sound that
battle cry so that our families know that we're serious about this thing of eternal life and
death, right? We need to sound the battle cry so people know that we're not going to back down
when things get tough, but we're going to get tougher, right? It makes me think of that song.
Remember when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. I'm not going to sing it because I'll
But as God is true our word toward you was not yay and nay. I like the way this is worded
I don't know if it'll resonate with you like it did with me
But just pay attention here says for the son of God Jesus Christ who's preached among you by us even by me and
Sylvania's and Timothy's was not yay and nay, but in him was what yay in other words and saying hey sometimes we said no
We said yes
We're human, but whenever God preaches it, it's always true
Whenever we preach the Lord Jesus Christ, it's always true 100%
It says for all the promises of God in him are yay and in him amen
Unto the glory of God by us. I love that all his promises are what are true now he which
established us
With you in Christ and have anointed us is God who has also sealed us and given us the earnest of the spirit in our hearts more over
I call God for a record upon my soul that to spare you, I came not as yet unto Corinth,
not for that we have dominion over your faith, but our helpers of your joy, for by faith ye stand."
Hey, how are we going to stand in the day of trouble? By faith. How are we going to live? By faith.
Our goal is not to be thrown by every wind of doctrine.
You know, this was a serious thing.
I mean, I've been following this.
People have been seriously affected by an assassination,
not an attempt, but a true assassination on our soil.
This is the kind of stuff we see in third world countries.
We don't expect that in the United States of America.
We don't expect people to just go out and speak publicly and then all of a sudden be killed by a sniper
trained or untrained I'm not here to you know argue conspiracy theories we can do that
You know separately we can have that fun later, but I'm just telling you like that's not you don't get up in the morning
Nobody got up on what was it Tuesday or Wednesday morning and thought oh, yeah, you know
So and so speaking. I hope he doesn't get killed. It's more like I can't believe he was killed
What what what in the world's going on in our country, right?
Like I grew up, you know being on the border. I grew up with a lot of Mexican culture
Like that's the kind of stuff you see in Mexico. I remember in the mid
I think it was like late 90s or early 2000s. I meant to get that I forgot
But I don't know whoever's followed Mexican politics. There's a guy by the name of Colossio
And he was making in grounds in Mexico with a lot of the truth and a lot of the things that we believe here in America
And I mean they killed him point blank
They they weren't even trying to hide it from 200 yards. There's you know the video this is in Mexico
It's way worse than it is here
Like you know, I know that they now they've censored it, but it was like visible if you saw it
I'm sorry that you had to see that but in Mexico. They don't care
I remember going as a kid who's ever been in Mexico and seen the newspapers in Mexico
like it's kind of gruesome right like you're like a fight like an eight-year-old kid and the
headlines like oh so-and-so is beheaded and then they show like the head next to the body with all
the blood like it's not blurred out it's like whoa so you know when this guy was killed there you
know we're watching mexican news and like the guy just came up from behind him and shot him in the
back of the head and you just see everything kind of it's pretty gruesome right but you know what
we need a little bloodness in our lives we need not be so sheltered to realize there's evil in this
There's a literally a satanic agenda to destroy the truth and to come after your families, you know
I thought about I was like why is violence going going up so bad and by the way turn over to 2nd Corinthians 10
I thought about it
Why is violence just increased to this point where someone's would be so brazen to just kill someone
from a perch for preaching what they considered is the truth
And it's because
You know before in 2003 we gave we use it's actually happened here in Houston
You know queer marriage was
You know whatever legalized
But it didn't stop there, right? Then they wanted the rights for this and then they wanted the rights for that
Then they want it, but you know that's not
When we grew up in the queer culture like in the 90s and stuff
Maybe someone was effeminate. Maybe someone was gay. Maybe someone was a little homo
You weren't kind of sure who was all the way, right? Because the influence of life, right? Maybe someone's trying to figure out their life
All that stuff but when you go full tranny
You've given up
Like you're demented
You have a mental disease called you're corrupted by God. You've been seared in the brain
Like these people don't have consciousness
They were literally exemplify Romans one. It says they were they were filled with all the sins. They don't care anymore
Right. There's a big difference between having a gay culture and I'm not for it
And I the reason I'm using gay cultures because it resonated people that grew up, right?
So a lot of people don't understand the word sodomite, right or queer
But the gay culture where people were just like, I don't know. Maybe I maybe I am maybe I'm not versus you've committed
You've like anchored in and said I'm going to change everything about me to go against God and against the world I
Was born a male and I wouldn't now be a female
And I'm gonna not only dress like a tranny, but I'm gonna change my physiologic my biology my physiology
Everything about me and I'm gonna make sure that the world knows about it
And if they don't agree with it, I'm gonna do whatever it takes to let them know
to the point of death
And you say, that seems a little exact.
That's exactly how they think.
You think about a couple years ago in the Olympics,
you had that tranny that was beating up on women
because he wanted to be accepted as a woman.
Like what kind of consciousness do you have
that you would do that, right?
I mean, my son has very strict rules in the house
on certain things, on lax on others.
You don't mess with women at all, right?
That was like, who grew up like that?
You know you didn't mess with women though the hardest weapons I got in my life was when I thought I was a little brave around women
And my dad made sure to whoop up on me and let me know that's not the way it goes
But go to 2nd Corinthians 10 verse 1 and
Right here we start
Uh, oh, let me read this first says now
I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ who in in presence and base among you
But being absent and bold toward you
But I beseech you that I may not be bold when I'm present with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some
which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh, for though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war after the flesh. And here's the thing, we as Baptists don't even want a physical
battle. I'm not asking you to get the battle cry for a militia, so we can have a revolution.
I'm just saying, hey, let's just go out there and preach the Word of God more boldly, more abundantly,
That's all I'm saying here because that's what the Bible tells us to this is for the weapons of warfare are not carnal
But mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds
Casting down
Imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the what?
obedience of Christ and having in readiness to revenge
all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled, hey, how do you get revenge
all this violence and all this wickedness and all this abuse, you obey the Lord Jesus Christ?
That's what the Bible is saying here, right? It says, hey, when your obedience is fulfilled,
then you get revenge on all the disobedience, you know, and it really starts with what?
and feed the flock, at least for me personally, right?
I'm not just about so many,
but if I'm gonna continue preaching behind the pulpit,
I might not be the most dynamic preacher,
I might not be the most eloquent preacher,
but you know what you're gonna get,
and if I stop doing that, you better tell me
and I'll just step down, you're gonna get the truth.
I'm gonna obey God's word 100%, right?
My goal is to preach God's word unfiltered to you,
holding nothing back.
Go to it. You don't have to go there go over for first Corinthians
five
Oh, yeah, go to 1st Corinthians 5. Sorry about that. But in 1st Timothy 1 verse 18, the Bible says this charge
I committed unto the son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee,
that thou by them mightest war a good warfare,
holding faith and a good conscience,
which some have you put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
of whom Hymenius and Alexander,
whom I delivered unto Satan that they may learn,
not to blaspheme, hey,
we've got to deliver some people to Satan,
both from the reprobate standpoint,
but also those that are backslidden.
Hey, it's our duty to pray
that some people get their lives right
and come back to the things of God.
See this is not just a sermon against the enemies of God because we know those are the enemies easy to spot
I'm talking about those that are just being lazy and wicked and not willing to just stand up for the things of Christ
99% of Christians will never do anything for God
You know the one thing that at least that's really good that came out of the assassination of Charlie Kirk is that people are like
Hey, they're looking for the faith
They're looking for religion
And I was on this thing, oh me TV yesterday, soul winning for an hour on this weird platform.
And I was talking to the two young girls, they were like teenagers, probably 14, 15
years old.
And you know what got, you know, what got them to listen to me?
I said, you know, you don't want to die like the assassination that just happened because
people are thinking about life and death.
But that's only gonna last for a little bit before it fates away
Just like September 11th lasted for a little bit people thought they love God and then it just faded away
You know, we celebrated what 24 years. I cannot believe it's 24 years since
9-11 I can I still feel like I could go back to that day and I still feel like I'm that youth but
Judging by my x-rays. I'm not the same man that I was before so I'm just letting you know
But go there to 1st Corinthians 5
The second point I have for you, so the first one is that we, you know, it's time to sound the battle cry.
Right? And our battle cry is a spiritual call.
We fight the spiritual battle. It's not our duty to go out there and take up arms and fight people.
That's not going to solve anything, but preaching the Word of God will.
But the second point is the time is now to judge truthfully.
Right, and what do I mean by that? Well a couple of things that stand out right in second Corinthians chapter 2
Which we're gonna be in it deals with forgiving the man who was kicked out and what in first Corinthians 5
That's why we're going to first Corinthians 5 and
The reason I bring that up is because we don't invent or adjust our morality
To what suits us we stick to what God says and what I mean by that is first of all
This is a reprobate tranny who deserves death, but he deserves death not for the supposed murder of Charlie Kirk
If we had a righteous government he deserved death because that's what the Bible says
Hey, if you're a reprobate you just need to just be stoned to death
Right, that's righteous judgment
But what I didn't like was when the governor of Utah got up there in the press conference
And he's like the first words out of his mouth was we got him
You say, well, aren't you happy that they got him?
No, I'm happy they got him.
I just don't know if they got him.
Because last I checked, in this country,
you're innocent until you're proven guilty, right?
We should still have people go through the court of law.
We should still have people go through the due process
of what this country established,
because that's the right thing to do.
Because right now it's the right and right now it makes sense because your emotions are high
But they could just flip that on you and be like hey, we got up for what? I don't know. We just got him
Was he guilty? We got him. You wanted a headline and then what they did to Jesus?
Punches pilot like hey, I find no fault in him. What do you want me to do?
Crucify him
But he hadn't done anything crucify him anyways. He's like I wash my hands of this
And that's what's going to happen, right?
You know, you got to pay attention to just the whole thing,
not just what you like or don't like about the situation, right?
I mean, I don't care.
I believe this guy is wicked for other reasons.
It hasn't been proven that he's the one that pulled the trigger.
He should die for being a tranny lover.
That's a fact.
But I don't know if he should die for being blamed for this murder,
because we don't know yet.
He hasn't gone through the due process.
I know that's not a popular, especially, you know, with right wing Republican Americans right now, that's not a popular statement, but that's just the truth, right?
It's our duty to judge truthfully.
You go there at 1 Corinthians 5 and verse 1 says it is reported commonly that there's fornication among you and such fornication is not so much is named among the Gentiles that one should have his father's wife.
And you're puffed up and I've not rather mourned that he hath done this deed might be taken away from among you
And then just go down in verse 11. Basically, he kicks him out. He says hey, you need to kick this guy out
Right church discipline. It says but now I have written unto you not to keep company
If any man is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an adulter or a railer or a drunkard or an
Extortioner with such as one know not eat know not to eat for what I have to do
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without do not ye judge them that are within
But them that are without God judges therefore put away from among yourselves
That wicked person, you know the problem is America preachers stop holding the church accountable
Then you go to church today and people are getting divorced and remarried with the same people in the church
You walk in a contemporary church, and you're like hey, weren't you married to that lady?
Yeah, I was but now she's with that. We're co-parenting
You know, that's the world's term, but now the church is like hey, we'll just adopt it as well. We'll just hang out with everybody
Right, they're not judging so then when it comes to judging rightfully from a government standpoint
I mean if you can't do it in church, how much less are you gonna do it from a government standpoint?
Go to 2nd Corinthians 2 go to 2nd Corinthians 2 verse 14
And in second Corinthians two he's dealing with this and he's like basically like saying hey the guys fixed it
Then stop holding them, you know, forgive him
And then he closes out with us, he says,
Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us
to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest
the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.
For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ,
in them that are saved, and in them that perish,
to the one we are the savor of death unto death,
and the other the savor of life unto life.
And who is sufficient for these things?
For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God,
but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.
Hey, it's our duty not to corrupt the word of God, but just preach the word of God.
We are corrupt, but this book is not corrupt and as long as we stick to the words of this
Book and we preach them correctly then we are incorruptible, right now
Once I get out of here. I just let me clear that up
I am very corruptible, but as long as I'm in the spirit preaching it correctly. I am not corrupt
Right, you don't have to turn there go to 2 Corinthians 3 but in John 7 verse 24
I love this verse it says judge not according to the appearance
In other words, we don't know what we're seeing especially right now. There's so much misinformation
Right? Was it Mossad? Was it Israel? Was it just a guy that was off his hinges?
You know, was it a you know an inside job? We don't know. We'll probably never know
Look if you peel away all the layers of this onion, let me just tell you what I do know for a fact
It was Satan
It was satanic. It was demonic. That's a fact
Judge this is judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. Hey, we're gonna judge according to the word of God
Period end of story. You don't like it. I
Don't take it up to God
Point number three is that the time is now to speak plainly in the spirit
That word plainly is used a lot in the King James and all it means is hey, let me just tell it to you straight
You know why is Donald Trump in office because people think he speaks plainly now as a Christian
I don't think he speaks plainly
But if you're not reading your Bible and if you're not in church all the time well in your ears can't discern
That kind of speech and so it just sounds like he just speaks what he thinks which he does
But not you shouldn't speak everything you think
You know, we try to speak everything God says, not what he thinks, but Trump just speaks his mind.
People like that because at least they're getting it straight, right?
But the challenge is he's not always preaching truth.
And so, again, let me just be very plain with you.
This is satanic what's happening in our country and in the world. Period. It's evil.
I don't care. I mean, you can go down the rabbit trails, all the theories.
I've seen so many conspiracy theories already.
You know, people were signaling the sniper, and one guy was holding his hand under his armpit,
and he's the one who actually shot him. I don't know.
I mean, you'd have to be there. You'd have to be the one that saw it.
I'm just going to tell you, it doesn't really matter, because at the end of the day, it's all satanic.
Satan. See, we're not preaching about Satan enough. All sin starts because we
transgress the law, but you know who's also pushing that agenda? Satan. Because
hell was reserved for who? For Satan and his angels. That's right. It's not reserved
for us, so why do we want to go there? We need to speak plainly. 2 Corinthians 3
Or in need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation
from you?
Ye, our epistle, written in our hearts, know and read of all men, for as much as ye are
manifestly declared to be the epistles of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but
with the spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of
In such trust have we through Christ to God word not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves
But our sufficiency is of God
Who also has made us?
Abel ministers of the New Testament not of the letter
But of the spirit for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life that we skipped down in verse 12
He said seeing that we have such hope
We use great plainness of speech and I love the the imagery here, you know, it really popped out to me
I never really put two and two together, but here it's talking about how you know
It says where was it? He says but the fleshly table of our hearts
What did Moses do when he came down from the mount the first time he had the the the Ten Commandments on the tape on this
On the the stones, right? He broke them
And I think that that's a picture of what the fact that we cannot rely on physical stones.
Who is our rock?
Jesus Christ.
We are the flesh that carries the Spirit, but the flesh is going to mess up.
So we need to land or lean on the shoulders of Jesus Christ, right?
The only way to speak plainly is to just speak the words of God.
Bible says in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God
We're not this is not something we're debating. This is a fact of life
Right in John 11, you don't have to turn there go to 2nd Corinthians 4
But in John 11 verse 11 it says these things said he and after he had said unto them our friend Lazarus sleepeth
He's talking to the Apostles. He's like hey, let's go to see Lazarus
But I go that I may wake him out of his sleep then said his disciples Lord if he sleep
He shall do well
How be it Jesus spake of his death
But they thought he had spoken of taking rest and asleep then Jesus said unto them plainly Lazarus is death
Hey, you know sometimes you know why you come to church because you're reading something and you're thinking one thing
And it's our duty to go and be like hey, no, it's this you know, oh, okay. I didn't I didn't realize that's what it was
Right. I mean the apostles were always like
Often left field and Jesus like come back. Let me let's get you on the right road. Lazarus is dead
I don't you didn't you didn't get it the first time. Let me let me tell it to you straight
Right when we go so anywhere like hey, are you 100% sure you're going to heaven?
What do you mean? Well, if you're not you're going to hell
You know, we don't mince around we don't tippy-toe around the fact that people are going to hell and that they'll suffer there for an entire eternity
Right, this is a serious thing John 10 verse 24 the Bible says then came the Jews
Round about him and said unto him how long does thou make us to doubt if thou be the Christ tell us plainly
Hey, give it to a straight
Jesus answered them. I told you and you believe me not
The works that I do in my father's name they bear witness of me
But you believe me not because you're not my sheep as I said unto you my sheep hear my voice
And I know them and they follow me and I give unto them eternal life
And they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand my father
Which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to plug them out of my father's hand
I and my father are one and what's that next verse?
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Hey, there's a theory out there that the Jews did it because Charlie Kirk started
seeing the anti-Zionist movement. I don't know. But I will tell you this, the Jews hate Jesus Christ.
I don't need Charlie Kirk's assassination to tell me that. I just need the fact that they hate Jesus
Christ. Period. Because you can't go to Israel and preach the gospel. They'll stone you.
To this day, they'll still try to kill you
Let's go to a fourth point
second Corinthians 4
So we saw that the time is now to sound the battle cry
Then to judge truthfully and to speak plainly in the spirit and the time is now to endure and
faint not
The time is now to endure and faint not
You know people are gonna back down people are gonna be afraid
The enemies of Christ are afraid. That's why they're doing they're going to extreme measures
This is the sign of someone who's cowardly right to to shoot someone from afar is someone who's cowardly
unless you're in a military environment under the the ordinances and
Law, you know the orders of war. It's just that you're just a coward to do something like that
So I can Corinthians 4 go to verse one
This is therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy. We faint not
Hey, because we receive mercy and because we have this ministry we faint not
Don't give up. Don't quit stop complaining about all your problems. You know, I mean just just quit
Right, what's verse 2, but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully,
but by manifestation of the truth commanding ourselves to every man's conscious in the sight of God.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.
Hey, don't cower so nobody can see your gospel.
Let your light shine so everybody knows how to find the road to heaven.
Right it says in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not
Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them for we preach not ourselves
But Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves he servants of
For Jesus's sake for God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the
Knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels
that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.
Hey, it's all about Jesus.
What down in verse 16 says,
for which cause we faint not,
but though the outward man perish,
let me tell you, it's perishing.
My wife was really kind to me this morning.
I was complaining about the pain, and she's like, you know,
at least you know how to deal with pain because you're athletic.
I was like, I was athletic.
I'm no longer athletic.
You know what I'm saying?
The outward man is perishing.
But you know what?
The inward man is renewed day by day.
I'm in a lot of pain right now, but you know what, I'm excited to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I'm excited that we had a group of soul winners yesterday on their own accord.
They got together and they went out and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
They were renewed day by day says for our light affliction
You know all this pain that I'm feeling all the pain that you're feeling all the death and loss that you've experienced
the loss of a brother row the the fact that he left the young child behind the fact that a young family was left behind because Charlie
You know this guy was murdered or assassinated Bible says for our light affliction
which is what, for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Hey, the weight of glory is so much better than anything we're going to suffer here on this earth.
While we look not at the things which you're seeing, but at the things which you're not
seeing, for the things which you're seeing are temporal, but the things which we're not seeing
are eternal. Hey, let's focus on the eternal. If you focus on the eternal, you're going to
Right it depends on the trial you're going through but at some time in your life depends on your trial
You just want to give up
And if you don't you're much better than me because in the last month I've had a couple of times where the pain has been so severe
I'm just like just let's just call it a day. Let me clock in. Let me clock out, right?
Like I'm just but but when you read your word when you leave the Bible, you know, who's there to lift you up
God go to go to Isaiah 40. I will have you go there, but then just remember we're in 2nd Corinthians
the seven points I have for you, and we're already on point number four, is all based on this,
and the next ones go fairly quickly. But in Proverbs 24-10, the Bible says,
if thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. So don't have small strength.
The only way to do that is to be in the Word of God.
Isaiah 40 verse 28 the Bible says has thou not known, has thou not heard that the everlasting
God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary.
There is no searching of his understanding.
He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increases strength.
Youth shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall
But they that weighed upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles
They shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint. Hey, let's just lean on the Lord Jesus Christ
If anything, this thing should motivate us to just endure
and fight stronger and harder.
And it's not just the assassination, all the news,
like it's just, you know, this is,
people forget this in a month.
It's just, because the next disaster
is just around the corner.
You're like, you're kind of being a little bit negative.
I'm just being honest with you.
I mean, people don't even remember half the stuff that's happened in the last ten years and it's been pretty bad.
I mean, wasn't it just like a couple years ago that Ukraine went to war with Russia?
And it wasn't it just a little bit later that the Jews and the Palestinians were bombing each other and killing innocent people?
I mean, just name it.
World War three people were gonna getting ready on the list and go to war and battle. I mean these things just come
But we need to just lean on the Lord and faint not because the Bible tells us these things have to happen
Our goal is to stave them off as long as possible by preaching the word of God
Look, I want our generation and the next generation to be King Josiah's generation
Where God said hey, I'm just gonna give you peace and rest because Josiah was so good
I'm not gonna judge the land yet, but you know what he's he's like, but judgment is coming
Because of the sense of Manasseh
Judgment is coming because we didn't stop the queer agenda
Judgment is coming because we didn't stop for an occasion
Judgment is coming because we didn't stop drug use
Judgment is coming because we didn't stop adultery. Judgment is coming because we just didn't stop common decency
Like we would just do whatever the hell they want
I mean our parents would have whooped up on us if we would have celebrated the death of somebody
Wrong, right? I mean who had parents like that. Don't say stuff like that. That's not right
Don't act like that. You don't know what you're talking about who had that kind of parent. I did
You know, we said something stupid you might remember that was the scariest thing whenever you said something stupid and your dad caught you
Why did you say that? I don't know. We better know. What do you mean?
Okay, well come here. Go get me the bell
Right and and then I would bring him the bell that he's like no, that's not the bell I want
So I have to go back and get the one that he had bought specifically to whoop on us. I'm not even kidding
He's like that's the belt son of gun. You know like here we go
Point number five the time is now to exalt Christ
Right. We need to just let him increase and us decrease
Go to 2nd Corinthians 5 go to 2nd Corinthians 5 says for we know in verse 1 that if our earthly house of this tabernacle
We're dissolved. We have a building of God and the house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens
For in this we grown earnestly designed to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven if it's so
Be that being clothed we shall not be found naked
For we that are in his tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not that we would be unclothed,
but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now he that hath brought us, for the self-same thing is God, who also hath given us unto
the earnest of the Spirit.
We're always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord,
for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent
from the body and to be present with the Lord, wherefore we labor that whether present or absent,
we may be accepted of Him.
for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,
that everyone may receive the things done in his body
according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord,
we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God.
And I trust also are made manifest in your consciousness.
Hey, the most terrifying thing is the terror of the Lord.
Who cares about a bunch of trannies?
Who cares about a bunch of God-hating Jews?
Who cares about a bunch of occultist Catholics and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses and Eastern mythology?
Who cares about what I care about it is not being
terrorized by the Lord?
What is it? What did the what did the demons say when the Lord showed up?
Have you come to torment us before our time?
They knew they didn't tremble that man, but Jesus showed up and they cowered
They're like have you come to torment us before our time they were scared the devil's running scared
Just go to stay there and second Corinthians go to verse chapter 6
But I'll just read for you real quick Luke 9 49 the Bible says in John answer and said master
We saw one casting out devils in thy name and we forbade him because he followed not us not with us
And Jesus said attempt forbid him not
For he that is not against us is for us.
Hey, I don't know if Charlie Kirk was saved or not.
I want to think and I lean on that.
And you know, it's funny, we get blamed
because most of the time I'm just like,
saying now that guy's not saved or that guy.
Well, I honestly, I don't know.
As a matter of fact, there's been two key figures this year
that passed away that I think are saved.
Hal Kogan, I really believe was saved
based on his testimony.
If you listen and Charlie Kirk.
But what I will say is that the name of Jesus is being uttered out of people's mouth, and it's not for us to forbid that.
And I'll prove it to you in Philippians 1 verse 15 the Bible says some indeed preach Christ
Even of envy is strife and some also of goodwill
But one preaches Christ of contention not sincerely
Supposing to add affliction to my bonds, but the other of love knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel
What then not withstanding every way whether in pretense or in truth
Christ is preached and I therein do rejoice,
yea and will rejoice. Hey, let's take advantage that the word of Christ is in
people's mouths right now and let's clear that up, right?
Let's clear it up for them because people are confused.
You know, I talked to like five, it was all young teenage girls
on this, this Omi TV thing and one of the group of girls was like,
they're like, oh we're going to heaven. I'm like, well how do you know you're
And they're like, well, I, I, I don't know, I don't know how I'm going to heaven.
Let's get this thing right.
Let's get this thing cleared up.
Let's preach the word of Christ.
They had Christ in their mouth, but they just didn't have it right.
They thought they just because they're going to church and doing good things.
I'm like, no, it has nothing to do with any of that.
We know the gospel.
It's by faith alone, but we need to be the ones to preach it because who's going to
do it?
And I'm talking about the majority, right?
I mean, obviously this group is saved here.
But let's go to point number six.
The time is now for salvation.
I've got two more points, they're real quick,
but the time is now for salvation.
You know, people have said that Charlie Kirk
did not die because we are now all Charlie Kirk.
Have you seen that?
Who saw that?
But the reality is, I'm not here to...
You know lift up somebody that was just a man
I'm glad he preached Christ. I really am
right
But I mean there's someone that died
2,000 years ago
That died for our sins
He didn't die a martyr's death. He died a Savior's death Jesus Christ. That's the name we need to lift up
That's the only name under heaven by which men will be saved
Right?
You can get behind a battle cry for a charlie's of this world for the trumps of this world or whatever you want to choose
But that's not gonna save you out of anything
But you get on a battle cry and you get on a war path
Against the enemies of God for Jesus Christ. Let me tell you we're gonna win some battles
That's going to be exciting, right?
In 2 Corinthians 6, verse 1, the Bible says,
we then as workers together with Him beseech you
that ye also receive not the grace of God in vain.
For ye sayeth, I have heard thee in a time accepted
and in the day of salvation, I have suckered thee.
I have helped you long.
Behold, now is the time accepted.
Behold, now is the day of salvation,
giving no offense in anything
that the ministry be not blamed.
And go down to verse 14, it says,
unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship has righteousness with
unrighteousness and what communion had light with darkness. Hey, let us be the Baptist
church that doesn't say, hey, come as you are. If you're a homo, we're going to accept you.
No, we're going to kick you out. I'm just telling you what. Oh, I'm an atheist. You got to get
that thing right. If not, we don't need you here. Oh, I think that Mormons and all these
You know there was a game show or a show in Spanish a long time ago and then whenever
somebody messed up they would say like fuera fuera fuera you know what it means out get out of here
you know that's that's what we need to do right they come in and they're they're you know they're
against god fuera just get out of here we don't need you
Right it says in what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols for ye are the temple of the living God as God has said
I will dwell in them and walk in them
I will be their God and they shall be my people
wherefore
Come out from among them and be ye separate sayeth the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you hey
I saw literally
Comments where people were like oh this poor young guy he had so much, you know
He has so much future don't judge him so harshly. Yeah, actually
He's I mean forget the fact if it's proven that he killed him he deserves the death penalty
We are for capital punishment
But even for if it's not for that the fact that he's already just so far gone
He deserves capital punishment anyways. I
Don't care what kind of future he had he threw it away
As a matter of fact young people listening right now you're gonna make decisions that will affect the rest of your life
So you better get right with God now
2 Corinthians 9 verse 6 says but this I say he which so it's sparingly shall reap also sparingly and he which so with bountifully
Shall reap also bountifully every man accord is he purposed in his heart
So let him give not grudgingly or of a necessity for God love at the cheerful giver
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency and all things may abound to every good work
As it is written he hath dispersed abroad he hath given to the poor his righteousness
Remaineth forever. Most people think about this just for in tithes. I'm talking about I want your spiritual tithes
God will provide the money for the church. I'm not worried about that
We need soldiers to battle for Christ
We need people to show up and labor for the work of Christ
That's what he needs. Hey, you have children. You better bring him to church because those are your first fruits
That's what God wants. I don't care about your tithes
Then you say, well, don't you need church to God's always going to provide
Hebrews 3 verse 7 the Bible says wherefore as the Holy Ghost said today if you will hear his voice heart not your heart as in the day of
Provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness
And Isaiah 556 says seek ye the Lord while he may be found
Call upon upon him while he is near hey the Lord is still in the United States of America
But he won't hang out much longer if we continue down this path
And Trump's not gonna fix it. We're gonna fix it
Spring Crest is gonna fix the problems in Houston not some other church
You know the church of Latter-day Saints or whatever Latter-day Satan's Satanist down the road or wherever they're at
They're not gonna fix dilly squat. You know these Pentecostals that are down here. They're not fixing crap
But you know most baptists would walk out because I use I said crap and you don't believe it
I've lived we've literally had people leave because I use the word crap from the pulpit. I
Rather use the word crap and have a bunch of soul winners
They go to church never uses the word crap and does nothing for Christ
And I'm not justifying myself the Bible uses the word dong which is a synonym to crap
Just there's another synonym I could use that I actually don't use just because it's not culturally accepted and you know what it is
right
It could go very well with that town in the Bible.
Shit them, right?
That's the one title that you have in the Bible.
Verse, the last point I have for you and we'll close out.
The time is now.
Give me five more minutes, guys.
I'm going to go over it by five minutes, but I appreciate it.
The time is now to clean house.
Our church needs to be a lean, mean fighting machine.
I don't normally, I don't really watch anything anymore,
but I made the mistake.
I told my wife, help me out.
You know, the only bad thing about taking,
I'm not really on super strong drugs,
but medication affects me just really bad.
And I'm on these pain medications and it makes my brain a little foggy.
I don't know what I was thinking.
I was like, oh, let me have some coffee at six o'clock in the afternoon yesterday.
So I was up.
I was like awake.
And I'm reading my Bible.
You know, I mean, you can only read your Bible so much and write your sermon so much.
So they had the Canelo Alvarez fight with, which was a boring,
I don't know why I haven't watched.
It was really boring.
It was one of the worst fights I've ever watched.
But you know what?
The reason he won because he was a lean, mean fighting machine, right?
The reason I like boxing is because you have to lean down, you have to like be really disciplined about your
meal plan and your diet and your sleep patterns and how you spend time with your family and your training.
That's the way we need to be in church, right?
We need to lean down. You know, we need to get in the punching bag of reading our Bibles.
You know you need to go for a jog of praying to the Lord Jesus Christ
You need to show up to church and train here and go out in the battle and really get out there because the only thing
That's that's gonna do is clean house
Right because I'm not aware of everybody in church or what they're doing, but you might be let's get the trash out
I'm not saying there's any trash where I don't think we're big enough to have those problems
We are if there's any trash make sure you let me know we'll kick them out
Right, but we need to be able to be a lean mean fighting machine because we need to get the trash out of the world too
Right second Corinthians 7 verse 1 the Bible says having therefore these promises dearly beloved
Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit
Perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Hey, you do it because you fear God
Not because you want somebody to notice how good and clean you are. We're not Mormons. We don't drink, you know
I love coffee. I've been drinking coffee all morning
I don't tell you, hey, don't drink coffee so you can think, oh, what a great guy he is.
I love eating pork and shrimp and scallops and octopus, just letting you know for the
70s of Venice in my life, right, that that's still, but I do clean up my life for God.
Because God is the one that I want to please says receive us. We have wrong no man. We have corrupted no man
We have defrauded no man. I speak not this to condemn you for I have said before
That ye are in our hearts to die and live with you great is my boldness of speech toward you
Great is my glorifying of you. I am filled with comfort. I am exceeding joyful in all our
Tribulation hey, I'm I want to be to the point where I'm exceeding joyful because we're getting
you know attacked x2 20 you don't have to turn that these are just real quick you can go to
jude that's where i'm gonna have you close x 20 verse 21 says in how i kept nothing
That was profitable unto you, but I've showed you and I've taught you publicly from house to house
Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks
Repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Hey, that's what they asked you there's an interview
They asked Charlie Kirk. What do you want to be known for was his faith? I think that's that's admirable
I think that's a decent response, but you know what I want to be known for my faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ
specifically
Because when you say whenever you know for your faith, it can be very generic people have faith in a lot of things
That's why we're Baptist because our faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ
Where people say oh, I'm safe because I believe in God. I'm like, who do you believe in God or Jesus wasn't it the same thing?
No, not necessarily
It's one God but it's three persons but the Bible says where I am the way the truth in the life
No, man come with them to me. I'm gonna go no man come with them to the father, but by me, right?
And who said that? Jesus, not God the Father, not the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ.
Romans 1 verse 16 says,
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
For it is the power of God and salvation for everyone that believeth
to the Jew first and also the Greek.
And let's end with this one.
But this is really the battle cry.
I mean, if we could submit all of, the time is now to do what?
The work of the Lord.
The work of the Lord Jesus Christ, you know, I keep telling the Lord Lord just help me with my bionic arm to be better
For the next 20 years
Because I've been out of commission for like 30 days. You know, what's the most frustrating part?
It's not that I've missed work or time with family is that I've not been in church
The way that I want to that I've not been out soul winning the way that I want to and I'm not making this up
Ask my wife ask my children. That's frustrating. I was excited yesterday that I could go do some soul winning
Even if it was just from behind a screen
And I like it better door-to-door, but I will do it on occasion
But Jude one we love this verse right in verse 22 and of some have compassion
Making a difference
and others, safe with fear, pulling them out of the fire,
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Look, if our lives could be defined by one verse,
this probably should be it.
Because we're not gonna do everything right.
Let me tell you what.
Even in a traumatic event you have one of those moments where you're like Lord just if you could spare me
Obviously, we don't we don't vow or anything, but if you could just spare me
I won't do this that oh crap. You're gonna do it all over again
You're gonna fall into the same sense you you were falling in before
You're gonna have the same thoughts you were the only way to clean that up is to just go out and do the work of the Lord
Right, but the one thing I that I do I want people to just if I die
Today and people show up at the at my funeral. I don't want to say he was a great father and a great husband and all this stuff. I
Just want to know that hey, he always was like preaching the word of God
He was just zealous for the things of God. He was a soul winner
You know Kevin row who you guys don't know the reason that it hit me so hard is because he was a soul winner
That's a soldier that we don't have for Christ anymore.
Now his ways are higher than our ways, I believe that.
But hey, it should motivate us to go out there and preach to the Word of God.
I don't want anybody to replace Charlie Kirk from like a political pundits point of view
like that.
Like if they want to do that, that's great, but you know what, it would be great if somebody
replaced them by saying, hey, let's go soul winning first, and then they did all the other
things.
Wouldn't that be awesome if somebody guy just took up the mantle and was like hey the first thing we want to clear up
Is we're just gonna go so many and then we'll go to every college campus in America and tell them to prove me wrong
Or I'm not against all that do me. Let me make make that clear. I'm just saying that's not the most important thing
Right the most important thing is what's the difference? What's the contrast?
Well when God looks down he's looking at the soul winners more so than the guys who are getting accolades from the world
Even if you make it to heaven as least in the kingdom at least you made it
But wouldn't you want to just get there and have all the rewards and recompense of Christ?
I mean at the end of the day, I'll close out with this
The time is now
Today is the day we're gonna get things done make those decisions now. Let's close in a word of prayer heavenly father Lord
Thank you so much for today. Thank you for your blessings Lord. Thank you for the opportunity to preach
Thank you for the congregation just give showing me a little bit of grace today with a little bit of a longer sermon
And help us just go out there Lord and make some serious
Decisions and changes
because today is the day of salvation.
The time to redeem is now, not later, not tomorrow,
not in a few hours, right now,
and not the Mexican right now, the American right now,
this very minute, right now.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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