Music
Constantly abiding
336
Constantly abiding
Song 336
Let's sing it out together. Constantly abiding
Music
There's a peace in my heart that the world never gave, a peace it cannot take away. Though the trials are wide, they surround like a cloud by the peace that has come there to stay.
Constantly abiding
Jesus is mine
Constantly abiding
After divine
He never leaves me lonely
Whispers of so kind
I will never leave me
Jesus is mine
All the world seemed to see
All the Savior and King
When He sweetly came to my heart
Traumas all fled away
And my night turned to day
Blessed Jesus, how glorious Thou art
Constantly abiding
Jesus is mine
Constantly abiding
After divine
He never leaves me lonely
Whispers of so kind
I will never leave me
Jesus is mine
All the last
This treasure I have
In a temple of flame
While here on this bloodstool I roam
But He's coming to take me some glorious day
Over there to my heavenly home
Constantly abiding
Jesus is mine
Constantly abiding
After divine
He never leaves me lonely
Whispers of so kind
I will never leave me
Jesus is mine
Great singing. Let's open up with a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your word.
Thank You for the great promises that we have.
And just thank You for this church.
Pray that You bless this evening's service to Your honor and glory.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright, for our next song, let's go to 223...
223 Springs of Living Water.
223. Sing it out together.
I first stand in the barren land of sin and shame
And nothing satisfying there I found
But to the blessed cross of Christ the day I came
Where springs of living water lay abound
Drinking at the springs of living water
Happy now and high, my soul lay satisfied
Drinking at the springs of living water
Oh, wonderful and bountiful supply
How sweet the living water from the hills of God
It makes me glad and happy all the way
Now the free breaks and blessing of the path I've trod
I'm shouting hallelujah every day
Drinking at the springs of living water
Happy now and high, my soul lay satisfied
Drinking at the springs of living water
Oh, wonderful and bountiful supply
Oh, sinner won't you come today to Calvary
A mountain there is flowing deep and wide
The Savior now invites you to the water free
Where thirsting spirits can be satisfied
Drinking at the springs of living water
Happy now and high, my soul lay satisfied
Drinking at the springs of living water
Oh, wonderful and bountiful supply
Great singing, right before we do announcements
If you guys will allow me, I would just like to sing one more song
It's one of my favorite songs, it's 238
Christ liveth in me, if you'll help me sing this out nice and loud
Great hymn here, 238
Christ liveth in me
Let's sing it out together, 238
Christ liveth in me
Once far from God and dead in sin
No light my heart could see
But in God's word the light I count
Now Christ liveth in me
Christ liveth in me
Oh, what a salvation this
Christ liveth in me
As rays of light from younger sun
The clouds of earth set free
So I can light and love before
The Christ liveth in me
Christ liveth in me
Oh, what a salvation this
Christ liveth in me
As lives the flower within the sea
As in the cloud the tree
So praise the God of truth and grace
His Spirit welleth in me
Christ liveth in me
Oh, what a salvation this
That Christ liveth in me
With longing all my heart is filled
That life in mine may be
As all the wonders God, I will
And Christ liveth in me
Christ liveth in me
Oh, what a salvation this
That Christ liveth in me
Great singing this evening.
At this time, we'll go through our announcements.
If you don't have a bulletin, go ahead and raise your hand
and an usher will bring you one.
On the front cover there, we have our verse of the week,
Psalm 59, 14, if you're 18 or under.
And you can quote that to an usher after the Wednesday service,
you will get an ice cream cone.
On the inside left, we have our service times there.
Just make a note of that Spanish service
is every Sunday at 9 a.m.
If you're out soul winning, you run into a Spanish speaker.
Make sure to promote that service for them
so that that ministry can grow.
We have our church-wide soul winning times listed there
and all those meet here at the church building.
And then the regional soul winning times
all meet at different areas throughout the DFW metro.
So if you're interested in a soul winning time
at that particular day,
get in touch with that soul winning leader.
As always, make sure you're returning your soul winning maps
to the bin in the hallway there
and reporting your salvation numbers to your captains.
If you were in my tribe, Pastor Shelley this week
made the switch to where he's taking over that tribe.
So if you were reporting your salvations to me,
going forward, make sure you report that to Pastor Shelley
either by texting him or emailing him.
And he made a special note that he'd like to know
the name of your soul winning partner, yourself,
and how many salvations you got.
So if you were in the Oz tribe,
go ahead and do that going forward.
We have our church stats listed there on the bottom
year to date.
Please be praying for our expecting ladies there
on the top left.
And we have some upcoming events.
Pastor had mentioned he was gonna give some special
instructions for tonight, so I'm sure he'll do that
either before or after his sermon.
August 15th, we have the Mighty Men's Conference
coming up. Please do sign up for that.
There's a sign up sheet in the hallway.
And that's gonna be great.
Pastor Menes will be preaching for us during that time.
On August 24th,
we're gonna be having a joint baby shower
for Miss Hannah and Miss Lori May.
So please come to that.
And if you're interested in bringing them a gift,
they are registered on Amazon.
On September 4th, or September 1st,
is going to be the
pastoral ordination of
Brother Salvador Alvarez
down at Pure Words Baptist Church.
So if you can make it out for that, I'm sure he would
appreciate the support that weekend.
September 8th, we're gonna have
Dr. Phil Stringer, guest preaching
for us, a great defender
of the King James Bible, so please do come to that.
And October 4th through
the 6th is going to be our
Heritage of the Lord Conference.
That conference is more geared towards the youth.
So please come to that
so that we can be a blessing
to your families in that area.
A little note about the baby shower there.
On the back is our updated prayer list.
As always, keep emailing your prayer requests
into the church email,
and we do update those weekly
unless you say specifically otherwise.
So if you want something to stay in there,
please let us know.
Lastly, before we go to our
Psalm of the Week, we have a congratulations
in order to the Spurgeon family
on the birth of Flint Edward Spurgeon,
4th, 707 A.M., weighing
6 pounds, 11 ounces,
and measuring 19 inches long.
So congratulations to them.
Alright.
Let's go ahead and go to our Psalm of the Week.
Psalm 147
in your white handouts.
Psalm 147.
Let's sing it out together.
Psalm 147.
Our God.
For it is good
to sing
praises
unto our God.
Our God.
For it is
pleasant and
praises come
the Lord of Jerusalem.
He
gathered together
the outcasts
of Israel.
He lit the world great
in one infinite
of their
wounds.
He
dealt with the
number of the
skulls.
He
called them all.
He called them all
by their names.
Great is
the Lord.
And the great
God.
His
understanding is
infinite.
The Lord
lived with
the weak.
He casted the wicked
down to the ground.
Sing unto
the Lord with
thanksgiving.
Our God.
For it is
pleasant and
praises come
the Lord.
Our God.
For it is
infinite and
praises come
the Lord with
thanksgiving.
Our God.
For it is
infinite and
praises come
the Lord with
thanksgiving.
Our God.
For it is
infinite and
praises come
the Lord with
thanksgiving.
Our God.
For it is
infinite and
praises come
the Lord with
thanksgiving.
My
my
Galatians chapter 6 the Bible reads brethren if a man be overtaken in a
fault ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness
considering thyself lest thou also be tempted bear ye one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law of Christ for if a man think himself to be
something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself but let every man
prove his own work and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and not
in another for every man shall bear his own burden let him that is taught in the
word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things be not deceived God
is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he
that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that
soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting and let us
not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not as
we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto
them who are of the household of faith you see how large a letter I have
written unto you with my own hand as many as desire to make a fair show
in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised only less they should
suffer persecution for the cross of Christ for neither they themselves who
are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they make
glory in your flesh but God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto
the world for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor
uncircumcision but a new creature and as many as walk according to this
rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God from henceforth
let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus
brethren the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit amen let us
pray dear Heavenly Father thank you for the Bible I thank you for
steadfast badgers Church thank you for pastor Shelley please bless him now
as he preaches your word please remove distractions and help us to be
attentive in Jesus name Amen I wanted to read this passage again and I want
to look at verse 7 the Bible says be not deceived God is not mocked for
sober man soweth that shall he also reap this is a very famous verse in the
Bible and it's very applicable and we need to really think about this
and I kind of have three simple points that I want to make this evening but
I want to first just address the word reap and you know what does it
mean to reap according to the dictionary it says receive a reward or
benefit as a consequence of one's own or other people's actions
now that's what a lot of people think of I would like to say that the Bible's
broader than that though it's really not necessarily always a reward or
benefit it's really just the product of what you've been sowing because you
can reap things that are bad you can reap things that are negative
you can reap things that are what more we think of as a consequence not
necessarily actually just a reward or benefit but you will reap what you sow
and another aspect that I want to address is the idea that even if you're not in your mind
sowing something you are always sowing every action and every decision you make you are
sowing the question is really what are you sowing and so that's the title of my sermon is
what are you sowing because you're going to be sowing something the question is what are you
sowing and my first point it sounds a little bit contradictory to that but I just want to make
it clear what I'm saying is that many people are just not sowing but by default you're still
sowing something okay so I don't want it to seem contradictory but I'm just trying to explain
these concepts that many people are not actively sowing anything or they're not trying to sow
anything but in a sense they are still sowing okay and that's the first group that I want
to talk about go if you went to proverbs chapter 12 proverbs chapter number 12
what does this look like well not sowing would be someone that's just basically just living
their life with no direction no aim just simply living for pleasure and unfortunately by doing
that you are sowing something many people live a very hard life of sin they're drinking alcohol
often they're doing drugs they're fornicating they're perhaps even going into more illicit
drugs fentanyl marijuana cocaine all these different things but what they're sowing is
a potential alcohol dependency some kind of an addiction to alcohol that's what they're sowing
and what they're going to end up reaping is that alcohol dependency alcohol addiction because
they are drinking alcohol on a regular basis whether that be drugs fornicating doesn't matter
what you're doing in your life but when you sin you're still sowing so you're not necessarily
even reaping a reward or a benefit you're reaping a consequence you're reaping difficulty
or tribulation because of your actions and by just literally doing nothing
just by being lazy just by being slothful you are still going to be sowing something
and reaping something look at proverbs chapter 12 verse 24 the hand of the diligent shall bear
rule but the slothful shall be under tribute so by doing nothing by being lazy what you're
sowing there you're going to reap tribute you're going to reap oppression you're going to reap
someone that's going to be a dictator and bring harsh rules into your life by being lazy
so no matter what you're doing even by doing nothing you're technically sewing in a sense
now again i titled this you're not sewing but it's really just you're not doing anything with
your life and unfortunately a lot of people are in this category where they're just not doing
anything with their life they're just simply living day by day decision by decision with no
real purpose no real aim in life and they're just constantly sewing all of these negative things
and they're going to reap a lot of negative consequences as a result of that
you know us as christians we should try our best to avoid sewing sin sewing drinking and
alcohol and drugs and all the different consequences that come from those actions
but even if you didn't do any of that even if you're avoiding all that you say hey i'm not
doing that some people are just they're sewing pleasure they're not really sewing anything of
value they're just living a life of pleasure and by doing that they're going to reap a lot
of negative consequences too you know a lot of young men they're simply just sewing video games
like they just that's all they do and look i know what that's like because i grew up
i had every video game console i played video games a lot now fortunately for me my parents
made a rule that i could not play video games monday through friday so like during the school
week i couldn't play but boy as soon as that green light turned on i was just i could not
stop playing video games until that turned off again like it was just like hey as soon as i
could on friday night i just started playing until sunday night and then i was disappointed
that it was monday and i was just like waiting until i could do that again and i i played a lot
of computer games a lot of video games and i was it was fun it wasn't it wasn't even that it
was like something i didn't like i loved it i thought it was fun it was engaging i did it
with friends this is kind of before the internet so you had to have land parties or you had
to bring the the xboxes together and play halo we had halo parties back in my day okay who
did a halo party all right i see that hand god bless you all right all right see that was back
in the day but it was still fun you know and we enjoyed it but you know i'm reaping nothing
positive from halo parties today now again there's nothing wrong with having some fun
but you know today i think a lot of people are addicted to games like fortnight there's there's
other new games that people are really addicted to in fact video games has gotten to a whole
another level to where now it's actually a collegiate sport i know somebody they told
me like their their child is going to school on scholarship to play some video game
and and i kid you not the video game that they're playing somebody probably can help me
with this name i can't i can't remember the name of this game but it's like you're playing
soccer with a with a car rocket league there you go thank you like not only
are there video games in college but the video game is playing soccer with a car
i'm just like how stupid can our society get and i'm just thinking like this is what
we're sewing for the nation of america we are literally sewing young men and young women
we're paying them to go to school to play a video game of a soccer game with a car
like there's probably some benefit to some video games like you know something that was
like really realistic as far as like flying a plane or maybe some kind of military strategy
game or something i'm sure there's some benefits you could draw from that but playing
soccer with a car out of maybe a little bit of hand dexterity i mean there's virtually no
benefit whatsoever and what are we gonna reap as a nation and as a society from these young
men that are desiring to be a professional video game player in rocket league right i mean that's
and look some people some kids they literally are investing in that like it i know a kid that's
going to college on scholarship how many kids didn't make it though how many kids spent hours
and hours and time playing all these games and doing all this and they didn't make it they're
not going to be professional they're not going to make any money on this it's not a career it's
not something that is going to last you know what are they going to reap from all that sewing
from all that time invested in those things people spend a lot of time in college going to
parties and that's what they're all focused in but what are they going to reap stds what are
they going to reap from that bastard children uh broken relationships broken marriages the fact
that nobody now wants to get married to them because they're just used up trash or because
they ruined themselves or they they cause themselves all kinds of problems and really
people aren't thinking like you know right now i'm sewing into the party life in college
that's why i'm putting in this category of your quote not sewing even though you are sewing
that's what people just don't understand by not sewing you're sewing and by spending all this
time playing video games or partying or or even maybe traveling there's nothing wrong with traveling
but look at proverbs 21 and i want to show you verse 17 even by traveling you're sewing
and what you're sewing is poverty what does it say in proverbs 21 verse 17 he that loveth
pleasure shall be a poor man he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich notice
individuals that are just constantly sewing pleasure and just sewing just gratifying the
flesh and just living it up and just having fun what does the bible say they will be poor
you said like why are people poor most of the times because they just love pleasure
they can't say no to the flesh they're just living it up and and what's sad is a lot of
their pleasure isn't even fun anyways it's kind of boring or it's it's drinking alcohol is fun
to them or doing drugs is fun to them or all these different things and and they're really
just going to become very poor go with me into south dallas and you'll find a lot of poor people
and i guarantee most of their decisions are based on one thing and it's pleasure
watching stupid videos online going out and partying hanging out with friends you know the
talk of lips tend at the penury is what the bible says you know you don't accomplish a lot
by just talking people that have money and people that are successful they work and they work
hard and they're sewing into things and even individuals that have made tons of money in their
life because they just live a life of pleasure and luxury they lose all of it individuals like
michael jackson michael jackson had earned over a billion dollars in his lifetime and even
at some points in his life he was making around 50 to 100 million dollars a year he did that
for like a decade there was like a decade of michael jackson's life where he was making anywhere
from 50 to 100 million dollars every year and at his at the time of michael jackson's death
he had a 500 million dollar debt he didn't have a 500 million dollar net worth he had a 500
million dollar debt he didn't have money he owed 500 million dollars how do you make a billion
and then owe a half a billion because you live a life of pleasure and luxury another individual
mike tyson mike tyson has reportedly earned 400 million dollars up to you know this point or
whatever point this article that i saw but he's currently in in debt up to 27 million
and you know why the article said that he spent four hundred thousand dollars a month
that's his lifestyle he's spending like honestly if someone gave me four hundred thousand dollars
i don't know if i could spend it in a month now i know some wives out there probably could but
i'm just saying like i don't even know like what are you gonna do with four hundred thousand
i mean that's a lot of amazon boxes folks okay i mean the front yard is gonna be filled
up pretty soon i'm just saying like how do you spend four hundred thousand dollars a month
but you know that just goes to show that it doesn't really matter how much money you make
you spend it anyways if you have the wrong attitude the wrong mindset if you're not a diligent
person most people just spend what comes in i've seen doctors making millions of dollars
living paycheck to paycheck literally just because they just get used to spending whatever
and it's because they don't have the right mindset go to ecclesiastes chapter 11
and you have to understand that you're going to reap what you sow period and even by doing
nothing you are sowing what are you going to reap when you're sowing nothing when you're
sowing laziness slothfulness life of pleasure well you're going to reap poverty shame embarrassment
all kinds of evil consequences are going to happen as a result of doing nothing
ecclesiastes chapter number 11 look at verse number four the bible says this he that
observant the wind shall not sow so notice there's people out there that are not sowing
and that's where i get the the basically the idea of this first point there are people
that are quote not sowing but technically while that's true in a sense they're still sowing
right when you're not sowing you're being lazy when you're not sowing you're not really doing
anything and by doing that you're basically going to end up reaping the consequences of
poverty and tribute and just all kinds of oppression as a result of being slothful the
bible says and he that regarded the clouds shall not reap as though not was the way of the
spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child even so they'll notice not
the works of god who maketh all in the morning sow thy seed and in the evening withhold not
thine hand for that knows not whether shall prosper either this or that or whether they
both shall be a light good so according to the bible we should avoid the idea of not
sowing by just being lazy and just doing vain things and sinning because you could get horrible
consequences like addiction but rather we should try really hard to sow we should be sowing
constantly we should be actively sowing not sowing by proxy or sowing by laziness
go to proverbs 22 i want to show you another verse in proverbs it's just a few pages to the
left look at verse number eight notice again that you can technically sow something bad the
bible says he that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity and the rod of his anger shall fall shall
fail so a lot of people are sowing iniquity you know who would be someone like that like
andrew tate who was sowing iniquity what do you mean well when you start businesses
based on selling women well then you know hey that's sowing iniquity and what is he going to
reap vanity the people that like andrew tate are vain people there's not he doesn't have genuine
andrew tate does not have genuine friends nor does he have genuine women that are ever
interested in him in fact he has psychos that are interested in him i i saw a video i think it
was his brother tristan tate and he was complaining about being famous because he says
there's like this there's this woman that's like obsessed with him and like wants to marry
him so she just goes and stands outside of his house and just like screams all day
about how much she just wants to like marry him and love him or whatever and it's like that's
what you reap that's what you reap by just being a complete just sower of iniquity and
just giving yourself to vanity and just worrying so much about what people think about you online
and just you get these crazy weirdos and stalkers that are just obsessed with you
and the women that chase them are only gold diggers
they're complete whores only a whore would be with andrew tate
there is no self-respecting godly woman that would ever ever be with andrew tate and the
guy's probably a sodomite anyways but i'm just saying like you sow iniquity you're gonna reap
vanity many people are just the hollywood celebrities athletes musicians they're constantly
sowing all kinds of iniquity and they just reap all kinds of vanity from that
and and really it's them just not proactively sowing anything good they're just they're simply
just being bad they're not like trying to think like you know i want to plant some
fornication and see what that turns into i wanted to plant a little bit of alcohol or
they're not like thinking that they're sowing anything they're just living this life and
sowing iniquity by proxy but again they're really the category of this person that's not sowing
so what i'm trying to encourage you to do or to think about is this you should be
actively sowing every day you should be actively sowing every day and purposefully sowing
something many people fall in the category of not doing this if you just wake up and you're
just like okay today i'm just going to look at my phone i'm going to play some games i'm
just going to eat food and then i'm just hoping to do that again the next day and then i'm
gonna go traveling then i'm gonna play video games then i'm just gonna go to the bar then
i'm just gonna hang out with my friends then i'm just gonna play a game like this is someone
that's just not sewing where you're just spending all of your time all of your thoughts
all of your energy on just doing vain things meaningless things you're just the person that's
just not sewing and in case many times you're even sewing iniquity you're sewing sin you're
doing things that are not even right and you're going to reap a lot of negative consequences
so we should be spending a lot of time sewing every day what should be sewing in you should
be sewing in your physical body what does that look like being in shape you should be sewing
every day into your physical body as a man you should be either doing some push-ups or
lifting weights or doing some running you should be doing something to sew in your body and if
you don't well we'll see the consequences of it you know by not sewing in this area
we'll see the consequences of it you know the reason why men look really strong and fit and
good looking is because they've sewn a lot in that area that's just the fact it's just the
fact that the men that look good are strong are in good shape and are healthy they're sewing
in that area of their life okay and you know being athletic you know being athletic there's a
little bit of genetics to this but a lot of it is just putting a lot of time and energy into it
and you know i think that's fine i think that it's good for people to work on being athletic
because it helps you with all areas of your life being able to stand sit carry things move
things just being generally athletic just helps you working your physical body eating good food
here's a question what are you sewing what are you sewing into your body because you are
what you eat you are what you eat sometimes you even smell like what you eat
okay but if you're not eating good healthy food you know it'll change your physical appearance
it'll change how healthy you are it'll change how strong you are you know you should be eating
good food you should be eating healthy food and hey you children you should be eating lots and
lots of healthy food in fact you should eat as much as possible but you know what don't
necessarily load up on the junk now we're gonna have some tonight okay you have a little bit but
you know i think all the children you should be eating as much healthy food as you can possibly
you know eating meats and breads and produce all the stuff that god created you should just
be eating as much as possible it'll help with your growth it'll help with your attitude
and you know it literally will help the boys grow taller like you they really can't get fat on
good food obviously i'm not saying eat unlimited candy sugar ice cream sugar cereal those kind of
things i'm saying like eggs i'm saying like steak i'm saying like you know vegetables i'm
saying like fruit you can't eat too much of that as a kid as a kid you should just be
loading your body with this it'll make you sharper smarter healthier it'll make you grow
the tallest that you can be it'll make you the strongest that you can be and i believe that
you should be sewing in that area and we see the consequences of our society where young children
today are not sewing into their physical bodies they they can't do anything physically active
in fact we've had presidents of the past that said it would be embarrassing if our nation
was a bunch of overweight children and criticizing that you know it used to be if you had pe
like if he was mandatory in school and the pe and most schools in times past would be
like boot camp today where you're running jumping lifting doing push-ups like it wasn't
like well i'm not that athletic it was like you're doing it like every single man is going
to be running jumping lifting as a nation as a society and you know it makes sense as a society
we become lazy slothful we become fat obese and and we're reaping the consequences of that
why because people are sewing into their phone tablets playing video games just wasting
time all day rather than getting up and doing some exercise playing a sport doing something
to actually keep them in shape also you need to be sewing and work regularly
you should be working hard if you're a young single guy you should be working a lot and
constantly sewing and work instead of sewing in like i said video games vanity worthless things
i mean as a young man you should be going you should be hitting the gym up you should be working
maybe a second job i mean you should just be constantly sewing in this area as a man providing
for a family we many of us have to by necessity but you know you should be sewing
into your career trying to get further into the career field and think about it from a growing
crop perspective you know you you take some seeds and you plant let's just say you plant and
you get a tree well that tree produces a lot of fruit it produces a lot of apples then you take
those apples you take all the seeds then you plant a lot of trees so now you get five ten
trees then the next season you plant all those now you get 20 trees and then you keep planting
and you have this multiplication factor that's how it works in the career world that's how it
works in america at least i know other parts of you know socialism and communism doesn't this
doesn't make sense but in the real world in our world in america if you spend all of your time
reinvesting in your work and your labor you stick with a career and you keep getting better at it you
you build a business you reinvest in that business things will start to multiply over time but the
reason why people are in debt and jobs have no skills can't find a job don't have money
can't get anywhere it's because they don't sew into work they don't learn anything they don't
have any skills they're not putting any extra effort they're not trying whatsoever and you know
what you reap what you sow many people that are doing well financially i guarantee they've
sewed a lot into work they've sewed a lot into a career and today it's never been easier to do
side businesses side hustles you can learn anything and everything you should be sewing a lot
into work otherwise you'll reap what being you know under tribute being poor you know you
could sew into a business hey here's something to sew into how about church
and and here's the thing how about the pastor of a church a pastor of the church
should be constantly sewing you know many pastors they constantly think about
growth like they're worried about growth of a church and how to grow the church you know
what they should be worrying about they shouldn't be worrying about growing their church
they should worry about sewing into their church and so the pastor if he wants to have
a successful church he should constantly be sewing soul winning that's what he's sewing
he's sewing you know and for us we do things like we sew documentaries we sew conferences we sew
inviting friends and family because here's the thing if i never go soul winning if our church
doesn't go soul winning if i don't make any documentaries if i don't put our sermons online
if we don't host any conferences if we don't invite our family and friends
let me explain something we will never have visitors you know why we have visitors because
of soul winning you want to know why we have visitors because of documentaries you want
to know why we have visitors because of conferences you want to know why we have
visitors because we're inviting friends and family you know why we're reaping something from that
it's because we're sewing but churches that are not soul winning not doing documentaries
not having conferences not inviting friends and family not preaching the bible you know what
they're dying and we see there's so many independent phenomenal churches today dying
because they're not sewing anything and you know you want to have something successful
well you better start sewing you can't just expect to have an apple tree just show up in
your house for no reason you got to plant it and water it and you got to sew it if you
want to actually reap something and you know you young men you say hey i want to have a successful
career i want to make good money i want to take care of my family well you know what you have to
sew and sometimes you have to sew year after year after year after year and constantly put
an effort and energy into that me included i spent a lot of time in the work field and not
being very successful and you know i worked banking i didn't like it i went back to school
that wasn't really working i tried side jobs and finally when i got with software it made
sense to me i was like okay well at least this career is something that if i sew it can start
to multiply over time but you know when i switched careers i actually made less money
and it was it was painful and i made so little money that if it was today and i had to switch
i couldn't do it like i have too many bills too much money and this is why people get stuck
in dead-end jobs is because they wait too long to get into a career-minded job where they're
thinking about the future they're thinking about making a lot of money so they make just enough
to where they can't start over but not really enough to really be that satisfied
and so they just kind of get stuck making this particular salary that they can't get away
from and then you start having a lot of kids you start having bills and it just it starts
becoming an impossible game this is why they literally call it a dead-end job or being stuck
is you know you can't really advance and for most people the only way to really make good money
is to own your own business but you know what no one can just do that overnight
you know be self-employed do it yourself and you know it's very difficult a lot of work very
intensive but you know you can start sewing now and five years ten years you can actually
reap the benefits of it but a lot of people they just want to reap benefits now hey i want
to have a successful business and be my own boss today okay well that doesn't happen but if you
want that you could sew now and you could sew next year and say next year and so next year and
so next year and so then a year after that and then maybe eventually you get to that point
but the reason why people have businesses are successful are doing things is because they've
been sewing hey you want to win a lot of people to christ well you got to do a lot of sewing
so winning and you know praise god you live in an area that's actually very receptive but there's
places in the world that aren't even that receptive you have to put a lot of hours a
lot of energy into sewing no one just gets someone saved without trying yeah no one you
do not just accidentally get someone saved you don't like just trip and fall down and drop a
track into someone's lap and they get saved from it or something like and you know you
you've almost never have someone just randomly coming up to you and just being like sirs what must
i do to be saved sometimes it might happen in a soul-winning environment but it's certainly
not happening like at you know walmart or something i'm not like walking down the aisles
of walmart and they're like sirs what must i do to be saved you know that's not happening
it's i'm lucky if they're even wearing clothes when you're walking up and down those aisles
hey learning a foreign language does not happen automatically after a young child as a young
child it was a free gift after that it is the most difficult thing you can imagine
learning a foreign language and being good at that language you only get there by constantly
sewing and to get to learn more i mean as soon as you stop you stop reaping i mean if you
want to learn a foreign language i mean you have to put effort and energy and learn and learn
and learn let me explain this this is for your children you want to think about where you
want your children to be when they're 18 this is what you should really do every mom in here that
homeschool you need to think this is what i want my child to be like at 18 this is what i
want my child to know this is what i might i want my child to do and then you have to go
backwards and think how am i going to get them there or you could just be like most people and
just do absolutely nothing and then be shocked when they're a brain-dead video game addicted
loser at 18. it's like hey i want my kid to be able to speak fluently this language when
they're 18 well you better start when they're like six or seven you better start making
them do it for a few hours every single day hey i want my kid to be a great pianist well you
better make them practice piano two or three hours every single day for a decade hey i want
my kid to do whatever you know whatever it is that you want them to do you better start them now
and you know for you children that are old enough to understand what i'm saying
even if your parents aren't forcing you to do this you do it you know no one's holding
children back in the homeschool environment from learning all kinds of stuff you know you could
just sit there and just like i just want to get the answers right to be done and go play
or you could actually think about the material you're studying read things on your own you could
ask your parents how to learn something or give you the tools to learn stuff on your own many
of the greatest people at any activity or task were never instructed they just learned it on their
own they just learned how to play guitar on their own they learned how to be a piano player
on their own they learned some engineering they learned some skill but they were sewing
into their future they weren't just like how can i just play all day childhood and youth
are vanity according to the bible and we noticed that most of the youth today they are very
ill-prepared for their future because they haven't been sewing anything and what are they reaping
vanity you know i wish that my parents had prepared me more and tried to instruct and
instill in me the importance of working very hard at a young age because that was
going to impact the rest of my future thinking about being more educated reading the bible
reading in general being well educated maybe learning a foreign language younger in life these
things would have been really important you know i stopped playing piano at a young age when
i was actually very good if i had kept on the trajectory that i was on i may have been a very
good piano player you know i'm not i'm just basic or average at best right now but it's
why because i stopped sewing so i've stopped reaping and now i've probably even gone a little
downhill because i don't play as much i don't practice as much anymore but you know the
people that are really really great at stuff whatever it is piano sports business anything
you go and talk to those people you ask those people they say they did it for hours every day
for decades at this point there are occasional savants that exist in society but you're not
that person so why are we talking about it because if you were we'd already know yeah there's
occasionally a random person that's like i've never played piano then they just play it and
it's perfect and you're just like what's wrong with your brain you know but that's not anybody
else and you're not that person you know the reason why people are really great at piano
is because they just played it for hours a day every single day govie wood to second
corinthians chapter nine point one is this don't be the person that's not sewing you need
to be sewing every single day you know as young ladies in our church that are raising families
this is so important that you're constantly thinking about what are you sewing what are you
sewing what are you sewing in yourself and your and your children and here's the second
point that i want to make is some people though are only sewing into themselves
again there's nothing wrong we need to do that we all need to sew into ourselves
but some people are only sewing into themselves and you know as especially mothers and fathers we
need to make sure that we're also sewing into other people you know here's another relationship
you need to be sewing into is just marriage in general people think like i want to have a
good marriage but they don't want to sew anything into the marriage you will not have
a good marriage if you don't sew into your marriage the only way to have a good marriage
and to maintain a good marriage is to sew into that relationship what does that look like talking
to each other spending time thinking about the other person doing things that are selfless
doing things that are selfless you know many parts of a relationship are doing things that you
don't want to do you know giving my wife a back massage is not like benefiting me
i don't know if that you know it's not like my fingers enjoy that or something like that
or my elbow or something you know in fact giving a massage can actually just be physically grueling
in some cases you know especially if you do it for a long time you know what i like to do
it just because it makes my wife feel better sometimes you know it's for her right and of
course vice versa men and women should do things for each other to help them feel better
and sometimes they do things that aren't even necessarily they're that into it's just to bless
the other person and by doing that they're sewing into their relationship and they're
going to make their marriage better you know me going out and providing i don't even necessarily
need all the money that i make like it was just me living by myself i don't need all the
money that i'm making but i have to make so much extra money so i can also have my wife
and i can have my children and we can have nice things and they can have things that are
luxuries even sometimes not even just the necessities why i'm trying to sew into that
relationship and my wife she's doing things that she doesn't necessarily have to do or want to
do she's when she makes dinner she never makes a portion that's just for her she's making giant
portions to feed this army of children and me that we have at the house and we're constantly
having to think about each other if we're going to have a good marriage and when does our
marriage at a low point when we've been neglecting each other we're not talking we're not
spending time and you know maybe we're not thinking of each other doing things together
investing in each other you're only sewing into yourself when you get into a season where you're
just sewing only in yourself you'll notice your marriage will start to dip and it'll start to go
down because you're not doing anything for your spouse you should be sewing into your spouse
every day every single day you should be doing something that's an activity a thought a choice
whatever with them talking to them sitting down hanging out doing activity and you know
be smart about the decisions you're making i'm bringing up all kinds of things you need
sewing about right what if you hey i'm gonna sew into my marriage by us taking a walk
together well now i'm killing two birds with one stone because we're doing something physically
active and we're spending some time together right so you could even hey i'm gonna help her
make dinner so we're hanging out we're spending time together and making it go quicker you know or
ladies sometimes maybe your husband maybe has a side job a business or some kind of activity
and you're like hey i'm gonna help him with that job or that business or this extra task he
has so that we can spend that time together but then he's still accomplishing work so you
you can be smart about the time that you have and actually try to sew because you know
you why you get close to people and you have a good relationship is because you work together
many people they're not sewing into others they're only sewing into themselves and when it comes
to your kids you just can't make up for lost time and you and i both know that when we go
out to these ghetto neighborhoods and we reach these young people these 20 22 25 year old men
and we give them the gospel and they believe they're going to heaven we know that
but let me explain something we can't make up for all the lost time of the neglect of their life
we can't just magically make them very educated a good reader not have drug addiction not have
a criminal history not have all the baggage that that person's existing with and they're
right now reaping some hard consequences of their life and i wish that we could undo it
because you know you look at these young people you think like man if you could just
get plugged in and start reading the bible and start trying and trying to work hard you could kind
of go in a good direction you know for a lot of them they're starting from scratch
and life just like if you've never played basketball in your life and you're 25 years old
you're not going pro but many people many young people it's like they haven't even started
life yet they're not even well read they've read almost nothing they can't even read well they
can't even write they can't even communicate they have a criminal history they have all these
problems and then it's like oh man getting saved is not going to fix any of that
and let me explain something to this you homeschool moms just by getting your children
saved are not going to make them successful in life you better teach them how to read you
better teach them how to write you better teach them how to be highly educated critical thinkers
how to work hard how to be disciplined and have all kinds of activities and tasks that
they're working on and when they're getting closer to the age of going into the career
force giving them jobs and tasks and giving them skills that they can carry with them
into the future of their life because if you don't you will reap and they will reap and we
should constantly be putting effort and energy into them hey if you want your kids to be
really really great at something they better be doing it often and all the time see like hey
i want my kid to be really good at baseball well you better teach them how to throw and hit
all day every day basically i mean the people that are really good at soccer and baseball
and golf and all these things i mean they're spending hours every single day you know and
again i'm not saying that that's exactly what you want but for many parents they want their
kids to be good at certain things and they want them to have some skills you're not going
to get there accidentally hey you want your kid to be physically fit you want them to be a
good fighter you want them to be a good shooter you want them to be a good fisher you want them
to be a good surfer you want whatever the you know whatever it is that you're wanting to do
you better invest time into that child and teach them how to do it or they won't be able to
do it and you young children even if your parents won't find something that you like and you
want to do and start doing it and start learning it and don't just spend all your time just
playing and wasting time readers are leaders and let me explain something you cannot make up
eight years 18 years of lost time if your kids have just been goofing off and you've
been doing what's called no schooling by some people boy you're setting up your kids for
failure in a lot of ways you need to be diligent and putting a lot of effort and energy
in your children there's so many children today that are dumb lazy disrespectful and argue all
the time and they're addicted to media because that's what their parents are sewing into their
children they're sewing into their children to be dumb to be lazy to be addicted to phones
if if all you do is look at your phone all day and let your kids watch tv all day
it's gonna be bad when your kids are 18 they're gonna be dumb
and that's all they're gonna want to do
and look i'm not against tv i'm not against media i'm not against the phone i'm not against
us having some some enjoyment and some pleasure in our life but boy please do not be sewing
this for 18 years you cannot make up 18 years of time you can't make up 20 years of time
going down this path you will reap what you sow and we go out into the ghetto we see the
evidence of that people that are reaping the horrible consequences of their upbringing
many people in this room are have experienced the horrible consequences of their upbringing
do not pass that on to the next generation because you're too lazy to sew into your children
look at second reading chapter nine verse six but this i say he which so sparingly shall reap
also sparingly and he which so bountifully shall reap also bountifully now this is the
context of money and giving money how about you know sewing money into missionaries that's not you
sewing money into an evangelist or in a sewing programs into other people
what god is literally saying that if you sow sparingly you're going to reap sparingly
but if you sow bountifully you would reap bountifully now of course this is important
verse seven every man according has he purpose within his heart so let him give not grudgingly
or of necessity for god love of the cheerful giver you know hey i want to be successful
i want god to bless me financially why don't you work super hard and then give
money to evangelists maybe god will bless you more than you could ever imagine
oh but i'm but what am i gonna i can just i need to take that money and sew it in myself
sew it in all of my things
you know god is able to give you all the things that you need
and even more than you can realize in in this context it says that god's going to minister
bread and us that are the givers and the sewers go to Galatians chapter number five
go to Galatians chapter number five what are you sewing most people aren't even sewing
and then many people that are choosing to sew they're very selfish in that or they're making
bad investments well i'm gonna sew into becoming a professional video game player bad investment
i'm gonna sew and going to a division one school and getting a degree in liberal arts
it's a bad investment
well we're gonna you know we're gonna homeschool
but we're not gonna teach our kids anything that's a bad investment
i'm gonna read a book called becoming michelle obama bad investment of your time
i'm gonna go to a liberal church bad investment of your time you know what what are you sewing
in your life you know it's it's it's really important you know if you're not sewing into
your marriage you know how do people commit adultery they sew into a different relationship
i wonder how many people would actually be happy with their spouse if they actually
sewed into their spouse they spent time with their spouse
now here's the last one i want to make and i kind of made a lot of this point this morning
but here's the third problem that people make when it comes to sewing is they they
only sew to the flesh it's very important though we need to sew to the flesh but we can't
only sew to the flesh so here's the mistakes that people make in sewing because they don't
sew purposefully they don't do anything second thing is they may only sew into themselves
but thirdly is when people will only sew to their flesh and here's the thing we have to
think about what mode are we in our lives what are we walking in are we walking in the
flesh or in the spirit if i wake up and i'm just thinking okay i need to work out i need to
eat healthy i need to go to the gym i'm gonna go play i'm gonna shoot some hoops i'm gonna
play golf i'm going to work really hard in my business there's nothing wrong with any of that
but what i'm doing is only sewing to the flesh only sewing carnally and what the bible
says if you only sew to the flesh you're going to reap corruption because eventually you're
not going to be strong you're not going to be young things are going to change you're not
going to necessarily have everything you want to go to john chapter four if you would
we need to make sure that we're sewing spiritually and when we're walking in the spirit
you know we're not going to fulfill the lust of the flesh and think about it giving money
to a missionary doesn't help you carnally at all it hurts you taking money that you have
in your bank account and giving it to another person does not bless you carnally but it can
spiritually and then because of that spiritual blessing god may decide to give you more carnally
not it is a miracle in a sense it's a supernatural act of god to bless you
when that happens because it cannot happen carnally speaking it doesn't
it doesn't make sense on paper but things on paper aren't necessarily what's real there's a
lot of things that happen in our universe that we can't see and we can't understand
there's emotion there's the spiritual aspect there's things that are invisible
and the bible is not written to a carnal people it's written to a spiritual people when we
read a passage we're not supposed to read about what we're supposed to do carnally we're
supposed to read about what we're supposed to do spiritually look at john chapter 4 verse 35
say not ye there yet four months and then cometh harvest now think about why is he saying this
because in four months there will be literal harvest he's saying hey in four months you're
we're gonna all harvest the wheat we're gonna harvest the crop we're gonna harvest our fall
we're gonna have our fall harvest or we're gonna enjoy the the fruits of our labor and he's
saying don't say this why i sand you lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are
white already to harvest he's saying there's a harvest that you can have right now what's this
harvest verse 36 and he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal
that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together and here is that saying
true one soweth and another reapeth i sent you to reap that wherein you bestowed no labor
other men labored and you're entered into their labors what christ is saying is it's so important
to sow carnally so that you can reap carnally but more important than that is sewing
spiritually so that you can reap spiritually the problem is we live in such a lazy and
derelict society i have to explain first why it's so important just even so carnally
but we need to do that but then we need to go beyond that and realize even more important
than investing in sewing into my business and making money and earning literal wages is going
out and preaching the gospel and getting people saved and earning a heavenly wage a spiritual
wage and think about this there's so many people in this world that are not earning any wages
spiritually whatsoever and what are they going to reap in heaven nothing they will reap nothing
they will suffer loss as it says in first corinthians chapter number three when they see
all their wood hay and stubble all their works being burned he shall suffer loss and when
we go out and we preach the gospel no one's going to insert money in your bank account that
is something that you have to believe by faith but of course we walk according to the spirit
not according to the flesh and we recognize when we go out in the ghetto neighborhoods
it's harvest right now so how's it harvest like 102 degrees outside it's super hot
dude the fields are white into harvest and it's not because the field's white because if
you go into a white neighborhood it is not white under harvest as brother dylan loves to
say it was black under harvest okay and it's like boy this looks like a fruitful field
but doesn't that make sense i mean imagine you're a farmer and you're looking at all the fields out
there you're like hey this one got fruit on the ground i can literally just walk up and just
pick fruit on the ground and then you look at another field and you can't even see any fruit
there like maybe if we inspect and look through every branch we might be able to find one little
piece of fruit somewhere it's like i'm gonna go to the fruit where there's or the field
where the fruit's just on the ground i can just go start picking up by handfuls that's like
the Bahamas field that's like the Philippines field that's like the Mexico field that's you
know and and there's even areas here in Dallas Fort Worth in Houston in Shreveport Louisiana
where you can go out and it's easy pickings who does that the person that wants to earn
wages and here's the question there will be a payday how much are you going to get paid
on payday well the person that didn't so i mean there's nothing wrong getting saved at the end of
our life in the sense that it still counts and you still go to heaven but here's the downfall
of getting saved later in life is that your spiritual bank accounts zero you know it's the
benefit of getting saved at a young age that you can start earning wages every single day
for the future you can start earning it nine years old ten years old and just think about
how great and how much joy that person's going to have when they get to heaven
saying hey i was a soul winner for 60 years of my life that's a lot of wages to earn and it's
a blessing to get saved at a young age it's a blessing to go to a good church you know
you're going to reap what you sow it's a blessing to learn how to read at a young age
it's a blessing to learn multiple languages it's a blessing to be educated by your parents
you know for many children they don't choose these things we as parents have to decide to
invest in them and not just carnally invest them spiritually and teach them how to be a
soul winner and teach them how to love jesus christ and teach them why we use a king james
bible and teach them why we go to a fundamental baptist church and teach them why we believe
that there's the trinity teach them the doctrines of the faith we teach them the
importance of avoiding heresy and sin and teaching them what the word of god says the
bible says they that sow in tears shall reap in joy but here's the question what are you sowing
and there's so many christians today that they're not sowing anything
they're sowing absolutely nothing they're sowing junk
they're sowing their little bible study they're selling they're sowing their devotional
they're not going to reap anything
go to first john chapter number two go to first john chapter two
when you think about your life we all need balance
so i don't want you to take the sermon the wrong way i want you to be i want you to
understand what i'm saying clearly we need to sow into ourselves and we need to sow both
physically and spiritually and then we also need to sow into the things of god
and other people's lives carnally and spiritually and so this is why i said early in the sermon
we need to be constantly sewing you need to you need to have a plan every day hey i'm gonna
i'm gonna spend an hour sewing into myself carnally i'm gonna spend an hour sewing into myself
spiritually i'm gonna spend you know five or six hours sewing into my into my family carnally
because i gotta go work or whatever eight hours or ten hours right then thinking like hey i'm
gonna sew spiritually in my family you know have a family bible time i'm gonna sew into my
marriage and then pretty soon you're thinking like what else i mean if i just do that then
i'm not gonna have a lot of time for fun exactly
will work till jesus comes will work it's like how are you gonna have fun
i'm not this world's not even that great anyways anymore
i work so much it's stupid i don't even have a day off i just like i have to work
so much every single day and you know it's not because i have to it's because why wouldn't i
why wouldn't i just constantly be so there's there's i'm actually constantly disappointed
on how little i get done and how little i how much i accomplished even though i may be working
a lot a lot of hours and it just it boggles my mind when i look at other individuals
who have so much more time than me and they're not sewing anything
and you know if you're a young single guy boy you have so much time to be sewing into so many
incredible things and my question is just like what are you so well we're gonna have game night
tonight we're gonna play dungeons and dragons it's like you want a wife and that's what you're
sewing like you should have like a third job you know you should have so much money you could
get any lady to walk up to you and just be interested right where you can overcome all
where you can overcome all those looks that you have on your face right
i mean why would you not i mean if i was single i would be working so hard starting all
kinds of businesses working hard on my physique i mean why wouldn't you and you know even
though i am married i still do you know work for your relationship work for your spouse
work for your children and you know don't get caught up
in the pleasures of this life and i think that's what really is the is the point of this passage
but it's really strong language says in first john chapter 2 verse 15 love not the world
neither the things that are in the world if any man loved the world the love of the father
is not in him for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes
the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world and the world passeth away and
the lust thereof but he that do it the will of god abideth forever you know we need to do
you know we need to do the will of god and let me explain something the will of god
is for us to invest in our children the will of god for husbands is to provide for their family
the will of god for wives is to submit unto their husband and to raise their children and
to guide the house and to give none occasion the adversary to speak reproachfully
i mean this is that is the will of god that's what the bible says the bible says that
the whole duty of man is to fear god and to keep his commandments the bible is commanding
us to go to church and to read our bible there is so much work and so many things to do
and we need to do it but the but most people are just loving the world loving pleasure and
they're not sewing anything and you know what they're going to reap that too and and i just
i i i want to be really dramatic and bombastic i don't even know if i've done a good
enough job because five years from now so many people are going to be so lazy and have done
nothing and i'm gonna i'm just gonna think like why what are you doing what are you sewing what
are you doing with your life and we can't i can't hit a button you know there's gonna be
children that i'm gonna see and i'm gonna think like man it's a shame what you've done
to your child and and really what you've not done you didn't teach them they're not well
educated they're not well behaved they're not you just you didn't you didn't sew anything and
you know what you can't undo the 18 years or the 20 years that you had with that child
when you just didn't do anything now is the time to sew now is the time men will get late into
their career and it's like you know why didn't you start sewing in your career when you were 16
why didn't you sew into your career when you were 15 one of my bosses that i had for a software
company he started coding when he was 14 years old and he was already getting paid because and
again it was a family business but hey he started coding and getting paid at 14 by the time he was
18 he was way better than virtually any college kid that's going to school getting a computer
science degree way better and by the time he's in his 20s then he was leading the company
and a management position running the company i mean and that's just one industry it doesn't
matter one industry it could be construction you could start doing jobs and working with people
14 15 16 i know there's labor laws and stuff i'm not trying to ignore that but i'm just saying
like you know you could start learning this stuff and doing stuff at a young age and getting
plugged in and the people that are successful they started young and worked hard they weren't
just going to college playing rocket league what degree are you getting i don't know i'm
just playing rocket league for now and see how it works out you know from a career perspective
just pick something and stick with it hey from a spiritual perspective pick a church and stick
with it pick the king games bible start in genesis and stick with it and get to revelation
find a neighborhood that you want to get saved and finish that neighborhood and then move on to
another neighborhood you know just pick something and stick with it and sew into it and invest in
it hey pick a wife and sew into her the rest of your life hey most of you have already
picked quit worrying about that decision and just embrace that decision and so into your wife
hey wise hey you're stuck with him just feed him all right you know so into so into that
relationship god gave you those kids you know you may want more or less or different things
about them but that's the kid you got so into that kid invest into that kid do what god has
already given you and just don't let's just not be a church where we all get to heaven
and we're like boy we had a good time down there on earth didn't we but we don't have
anything to show for now we want to be a church where god looks down from heaven and says that's
a church that's sold a lot and and we have to balance these things you have to spend time
doing all of it because you say like well i'm just going to only so spiritually that
this doesn't exist folks you got to take care of yourself you got to take care of your family
you got to take care of of all the areas of your life and find that good balance because
if you don't invest in those other carnal areas you're not going to do it spiritually
if you didn't have to do any carnal sewing wouldn't we go out into these neighborhoods
where there's these poor ghetto thugs and getting them saved and they'd come in here
and be the best christians why is it that they're not
why is it that virtually most of the the really great people that are used of god
have even been doing it young and i'm not saying there isn't exceptions but let's let's just
think of a couple examples i don't know how about like pastor anderson who's literally
raised the independent fund of a baptist who read the bible as a young kid who loved
the king james bible was always in church who was serious about preaching at a young age
who learned foreign languages on his own who then went to bible college purposefully
to be an evangelist and a missionary who went to europe on missions trips
who memorized large sections of the bible and then he became a great pastor it's not like
i'm just going to run into a random person that's done nothing for god and never tried
and get him saved he's like now he's gonna be a great pastor let's look at like pastor minutes
oh yeah raised in the same church worked hard in the military memorized the bible you know i
mean these are the people that god are using and you know you want your children to be great
start them on a trajectory right now and a course that they can continue for the rest of their
lives don't just sit here and just be like man you're so annoying just go watch tv
oh you're so annoying just go out there and play with sticks and stones
i mean just go into the ghettos with us and you'll just see kids just running around with
nothing to do aimless no one cares about them no one's feeding them no one's teaching
them anything no one's training them anything they're just wandering around with nothing to do
just mischief and then we just wonder why they're just so terrible when they become adults
it's because no one invested in them no one's sowed into them we must sow into our children
and sow into our marriages and sow into our churches and sow into the word of god
and we need to go out there and sow these fields and get people saved
and earn the wages that god has for us but you won't earn anything by doing nothing
let us sow so that we can reap let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father so much for
giving us this king james bible and giving us this church and putting us in a place that's
so receptive and giving us so much opportunity to to earn wages thank you so much for your gift
of salvation being completely free but i pray that we'd also consider the fact that there's
many wages out there to be earned that you've given us family members and children and and wives
to look after and to love and to cherish i pray that we would actually sow into their lives
that we would take this seriously that you're not going to be mocked that what people
are constantly sowing they will reap i pray that we take that very seriously
that we think about the future we think about the people in our lives that we
can affect and that we would start sowing and we wouldn't sow vanity that we wouldn't be lazy we
wouldn't be slothful that we'd avoid sowing iniquity but rather we would sow the things that
are in the bible and in jesus name we pray amen we have a couple baptisms
all right we're going to sing one song before we have a couple baptisms this evening
we're going to sing 248 now i belong to jesus 248 now i belong to jesus
let's sing it out together nice and loud two four eight now i belong to jesus
forever
he gave his life
me
once i was lost
sorrow and shame
jesus
on the last
is
jesus
we have a sister kensley here coming for baptism she's eight years old
yes so whenever i say the name of father son and holy ghost i'll have you hold your nose
i'm going to dip you down and bring you back up out of the water okay
sister kensley i baptize you the name of the father son and holy ghost
buried in the likeness of his death raised to walk and newness of life
congratulations
i'll help you out
are you next mr
let's take a picture first
maybe just sit all the way down on your bottom for me
okay we have sister shardell coming for baptism have you trusted christ as your savior
then i baptize you in the name of the father son and holy ghost
buried in the likeness of his death raised to walk in newness of life
congratulations
and we have brother chris also coming
i'll have you sit all the way down on your bottom for me perfect
you screwed up just a little bit for me thank you all right
we have brother chris coming here for baptism as well brother chris have
you trusted christ as your savior yes then i baptize you in the name of the father
son and holy ghost buried in the likeness of his death raised to walk in newness of life
so
all right make sure to congratulate all of our baptisms this this evening
tonight we are celebrating a it's a bittersweet going away of brother aus and his family
and we'll be having a dessert fellowship i want to say a few words then i'll explain the
dessert fellowship but we are going to let the aus family go first this evening until y'all
can get y'all's desserts but i really want to say thank you so much to brother aus and his
family for coming here and being a part of our church they've been a huge blessing and a
prayer request to me personally for our church at the time that i was considering needing
another employee for the church i was really really needing it and and i was really hoping to
have somebody that i felt that could be very loyal that loved the word of god that loved
the bible and honestly i i didn't really have many options in mind i really kind of
only wanted to hire dylan and he didn't even know that he didn't even know who i was hardly
and uh but i just looking from afar and i had met dylan before is i could i could really tell
and i listened to him i was preaching i could really tell he was someone that loved the lord
he was very loyal and that's why i wanted him to work for us and and boy was that
necessary because uh obviously steadfast baptist church while it's been fun and i don't know
what it's like to work for me but i'm sure it's hard and i'm sure it's been hard at times
and that we've gone through a lot of persecution a lot of tribulation
i think that for any normal person there would been temptations to want to quit
or find a new job even and so you know i i really appreciate brother awes loyalty that
he's shown to our church the hard work and he has a great family has a great wife
and i'm really looking forward to them transitioning up to oklahoma and and doing the work up there
and god willing in a few months once they're established and everything's good you know
being ordained to become the pastor up there and uh you know everybody in our church always
has spoken very well of brother awes and of the awes family and i know that we're all
going to miss you guys greatly and you've been a huge asset to our church great song leading
great soul winning you know leadership and and efforts and really there's been a lot of things
that our church has done successfully and well due to brother awes and his family behind the
scenes that people don't know don't see and of course while you may be moving a little bit
further away you're still part of our family i'm i'm glad that you're going to be so close
you're about as close as i would plant a church so and uh of course they're always welcome
and invited to our events and you know we'll see them often but this is this is most likely
the last time we'll see brother awes here in the services they're going to be moving up to
oklahoma and so please don't forget about them be praying for the awes family be praying
for brother dylan be praying for the church in oklahoma of course don't be a stranger i'm sure
he would love visitors and people coming up there i'm sure the softball team will miss you it
might even die with you but uh yeah it's probably gonna die but hey you know what it's hard when
you lose one of our star players and you know the thing about brother dylan he puts
his heart into it and he has such a great attitude and uh he you know it's really nice
to be around him because he's always very positive that's what i really like about brother
dylan is even when we've gone through a lot of difficulty he's excited for the fight and
the challenge that comes with being a christian and you know i'm gonna definitely miss you
we'll miss you our church will miss you it's a huge it's a huge asset loss for us but it's
a huge gain for oklahoma and that's what that's really what we're here for you know we're
not here to just build a kingdom of steadfast baptist church we're here to build the kingdom of
god and so sometimes that means we have to lose all all stars and our best talent and our
best people and so you know that's definitely one of the things we're doing we're losing one
of our best church members and uh you know it's gonna be it's gonna be felt we'll feel the
loss but we're excited about what god will be able to do with you guys up there and so and
of course if you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask us i want to i just want to
pray one more time as a church family for the oz and then i'll give you some instructions for
dessert thank you heavenly father so much for brother oz and for his family i pray that you
would just please help them in this transition for things to go smoothly for you to help them
financially and to bless them and to help them spiritually and have the time to invest into
their new careers into their new church i pray that the people up there that their hearts would
be welcome and receiving unto the oz family and that things would hearts would be knit
to brother dylan and to this family that's moving up there i pray that most importantly
that the work of god would increase that you would just bless them that you would give
brother dylan wisdom that you would bless their family with peace that you would continue
to bless their children and i pray that you would continue to use this family to do great
things for your son's name and it's his name we pray in jesus name amen all right for our
dessert fellowship you guys don't need the instructions you and your family can go ahead
and go all right the rest of us we're just going to wait we'll form a line one thing i do
want to ask and this is new but because y'all haven't had dinner and y'all are hungry
i want you to to limit yourself to only getting two items the first time through the line all
right so you're gonna find the two that you look like hey that one looks good that one looks good
and then leave because a lot of people would probably just load up their plate and waste
stuff also if your kids can't even eat a whole serving you know get it and they can share
right so there's nothing wrong with sharing um i don't want uh also children under five
they don't need to get their own serving they can just share they can still have a plate
but you know just have them share so everybody above five they can get two items i'm sure that
you'll be able to go back through the line again eventually but what i don't want is just
necessarily for it to get robbed for the first half of the line and the second half is you know
not getting anything so go through the line get two items there should be drinks there's milk
uh tea lemonade i think there might even be sodas out there if you want to get something
but help yourself of course it's a time to fellowship hang out some of the items can be
a little messy so please just please help us and be careful with your children on that one all
right but also please make sure to say thank you to brother dylan say thank you to his wife
say thank you to his children tell them that you're going to miss them and and be thinking
and praying for them okay so at this time we are dismissed you can go ahead and line up
have some dessert and fellowship and make sure to love on brother dylan and his family