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Anybody have a salvation tonight? Anybody? No?
It was a little tough time, we ran into a witch, me and brother Alex and Remi
and we asked if we could invite them to church and they went
They didn't really do that but they were kind of mean but anyway
At least we did some soul warning out there, amen?
We also have our regional captains there below
Our praise report, you can see the salvation, baptisms and attendance totals from last week
We did have another baptism last week, Cali got baptized so praise God for that
And let's see, kids choir practice is immediately after the evening service
Is that working out okay?
Alright well if there's any need to be changing the time or anything like that
Rylan just get with me if that's something you need to do
Otherwise we're going to keep doing the same thing
And it'll be immediately after the evening service until the 19th
So ladies cookie exchange is coming up, it'll be December 11th
And it's the white elephant game and also bring three dozen cookies
The cook is going to be at Julian and Rylan's home
So I think there's breakfast burritos, I think you all got the breakfast burrito thing handled
I was going to come and watch and stand guard over the food to just make sure it was not all eaten by the kids
So I charged $25 an hour for that too by the way, I'm just kidding
But anyway it's been a good time so if you are just on the fence about going
Please just go, you don't have to bring all that stuff if you don't want to
You can just go and enjoy yourself
So I'm sure there will be plenty of stuff there
December 16th we have the kids cookie and ornament decorating here at the church building at 2pm
And so bring your kids and have a good time decorating cookies
More cookies for dads to eat at home, like we just need that right
Grandparents, yeah, I don't need any
December 19th we have the Christmas service
And then we'll have the children's choir sing and I'll be preaching a sermon
A Christmas style sermon and then we'll have a prime rib dinner after the morning service
And it will be a great day
And then I'll try to preach a short sermon in the evening so you guys don't fall into a total coma
Anyway, December 23rd we have our candlelight service that is on a Thursday night
And so it will be a shorter sermon
But we just want to honor the Lord Jesus Christ and have a candlelight service there
And then December 31st we're going to pray the New Year
We'll have a game night and a ping pong tournament and all that good stuff
And this January 1st we're going to start the New Testament challenge
That's nine chapters a day for 30 or 31 days, whatever
You've got 31 days to get it read
And it's a great challenge, it's a great way to start out the New Year reading God's word
And if you've never read the Bible cover to cover
Maybe you've just never read the New Testament
Well that's a good place to start is in the New Testament
Because in case you didn't know, we're in the New Testament
So anyway, it's a great challenge to do for yourself
And even, like I said, if you've said this before
Even if you don't do the nine chapters a day
Just try to get it finished
This year try to put a purpose in your heart to finish reading the Bible cover to cover
For one time per year
So we're a family and a great church
That means the children and infants are welcome during the church services
Please utilize the baby rooms for your convenience
And the rockers are for pregnant nursing mothers and elders only
Please know unattended children in the building
Please no food in the assembly area unless it's a special event
Silence your cell phones if you would at this time please
And escorts are available to your vehicles by the ushers
Should you need one just ask
And then the online donations are available on our website
And also text giving, you can do it that way
Or just the old fashioned way, put it in the basket
So ties and offerings so far for last month
I think we still need a total at the very end
But other than that, that's all we got
On the back page, does anybody have a birthday this week that didn't get in the...
No? Okay, alright well
We do have the picture
Did you make sure you get a picture? Did you take one of these home for your wife?
Oh man, you're going to be in trouble
Alright, she already has this picture though I'm sure
It's a nice memorabilia thing
So anyway, congratulations again to the Alcorta family
For the birth of Lydia Lynn Alcorta
Weighing in at 8 pounds, 2 ounces
The new Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion of the World
And she's 19.5 inches long
Alright, that's all I got for announcements
Let's sing another song and we'll receive the offering
Oh wait, one more thing, I'm sorry
But wait, there's more
So I put this kit together
I know we've already done this in the past
But I just wanted to show you kind of how I put some up here
And if you want to grab one for soul winning or if you want to make your own kids
I bought like a hundred of these bags
And so basically I just put like a full bible in here
I put a pin, there's a card if you get someone saved you can write their name down
You got, you know, cards galore here
We got our, and I've been putting the Christmas CDs in here
And then like our invitations
One baptismal sheet to just explain baptism and then one DVD
So if you get someone saved then you can just give them like most of the stuff in the package
And even the case itself
And if you just use up a bunch of stuff
Then just come back and fill it in whatever it needs to and you can use it again
So they're pretty handy instead of digging through all your pockets
And you know, where did I put the, you know
So it's all right here in your hand
So anyway I just wanted to show you that real quick
And if you want to make them, you can make them however you want
But anyway I just wanted to show you that
Let's sing another song
All right, our next song is song number 433 in the green
Away in a manger
Song number 433 in the green, Away in a manger
Song number 433, let's sing it out in the first
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed
The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head
The stars in the sky looked down where he lay
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay
The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes
I love you Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh
Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay
Close by me forever and love me I pray
Bless all the dear children in thy tender care
And take us to heaven to live with thee there
And little Sean, could you bless the offering for us?
Dear Lord, thank you so much for this day
Thank you so much Lord that we would come to your house and hear your word preached
I pray that you would bless this offering Lord, bless both the gift and the giver
In Jesus' name, Amen
Thank you
All right, well let's bow our heads together and go to the Lord in prayer tonight
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you Lord so much for the ability and privilege to come to you in Jesus' name
Lord, we ask that you would watch over and be with the mothers, the pregnant mothers Lord Ms. Kylie and Ms. Alana
We praise you Lord for Olivia's appointment going well
And we praise you for Lydia's appointment going well
And we would continue to pray that she would be able to hold milk in her mouth and not spit up so much
And that she could gain some weight
And Lord, we also ask for traveling mercies for Ms. Alejandra's sister Daisy and cousin Karen
And strength for the Velasquez family as they try to finish up and sell their home to move
And I pray that you just help the process to go smooth
Ms. Chantel has a special unspoken and Ms. Sheila has prayer unspoken
And for Amanda, unspoken prayer for her mom and her family
And also Alex just wants to thank everybody for the prayers for Mary
And also that she's doing better, I pray that she'll continue to improve her health
And Ms. Sherry has a special unspoken and Remy has a request that Lord you would help him in his new job that he got
And thanks everybody for praying and also for Tony for prayer for his healing from his accident
We ask Lord that you just help Steadfast Baptist Church right now as they're going through many battles
Just pray Lord you just bless Pastor Shelley and his family and Lord all those involved
Just pray that we'd be faithful to pray for them and all things that are going on
Pray that you just bless according to your will
And Lord that of course our people would win the battle
And Lord we also pray for all of our church plants that we have
Pray for Spokane and also for Canada and for brother Ian as he's about to go to Geneva
Pray that that will be a fruitful trip and Lord the brother will be refreshed by his coming
And pray for a special event that we're trying to plan for Canada
Pray Lord that you would make that happen
And also that you would just watch over Daniel's son who has fallen sick
But he's feeling a little bit better but Lord just pray that you bless him and watch over him
And a special unspoken for the Larson family
And Lord we just thank you for all your blessings here Lord
Pray that you just help us to stay healthy here Lord and let the sickness pass over us
Pray that those that are sick would come back to church as soon as possible
And that you would heal them up
In Jesus' name we pray Lord, Amen
Alright good evening, would you turn with me to the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 16
1 Corinthians chapter 16
The first book of Corinthians and the last chapter 16
And as is our custom we'll read the entire chapter
Please follow along with me silently as I read starting in verse 1
1 Corinthians chapter 16 the Bible reads
Now concerning the collection for the saints
As I have given order to the churches of Galatia even so do ye
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store
As God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come
And when I come whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters
Them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem
And if it be meet that I go also they shall go with me
Now I will come unto you when I shall pass through Macedonia for I do pass through Macedonia
And it may be that I will abide yea and winter with you that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go
For I will not see you now by the way but I trust to tarry awhile with you if the Lord permit
But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost for a great door and effectual is opened unto me and there are many adversaries
Now if Timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh the work of the Lord as I also do
Let no man therefore despise him but conduct him forth in peace that he may come unto me for I look for him with the brethren
As touching our brother Apollos I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren but his will was not at all to come at this time
But he will come but he will come unto you with the brethren excuse me but he will come when he shall have convenient time
Watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong let all your things be done with charity
I beseech you brethren ye know the house of Stephanas that it is the first fruits of Achaea and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints
That ye submit yourselves unto such and to everyone that helpeth with us and laboureth
I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied
For they have refreshed my spirit and yours therefore acknowledging them that are such
The churches of Asia salute you Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord with the church that is in their house
All the brethren greet you greet ye one another with an holy kiss the salutation of me Paul with mine own hand
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be anathema maranatha
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you my love be with you all in Christ Jesus Amen
Father Alex would you pray for us
Would you pray for us
Father thank you for bringing us here safely
Amen
Well we're finally there the end of 1 Corinthians chapter the book of 1 Corinthians and we're finishing up the final chapter here 1 Corinthians
And we got to verse 9 last time in our study and basically I got to the part where it talks about us having many adversaries
But there's also great doors that get opened amen and when you're in church work there's always going to be open doors and opportunities
But just remember there's always going to be many adversaries that come along with that so we should never be surprised by that
It surprises me when people are surprised about that kind of stuff
But you know I mean sometimes things just take you off guard people betray you that you don't think are ever going to
And you know it's not just enemies from within it's enemies from without and enemies from below
You know it's just it's just a fact of being a Christian so there's going to be persecution there's going to be trouble
There's also going to be many blessings so it's not all negative you know we shouldn't look at it like it is because in the future it's all going to be positive
Ultimately we win hashtag winning right so we always win we always triumph in Christ Jesus
And we should never get to the point where we're just all depressed and down about things because ultimately if you're saved today or tonight
You have everlasting life, and you also have rewards in heaven because if you're in a church like this
You're probably doing something for the Lord and if you're not then you should get busy and start doing something for the Lord amen
But so first Corinthians we're going to start off in chapter and verse number 16 or good night verse number 10 tonight
And basically this is just final thoughts and instructions from Paul as he closes out now just before I begin here
I just want to remind everybody that this church is a church that had a lot of problems and so this whole 16 chapters is Paul trying to straighten out people's doctrinal issues
That they have and just there's just a lot of problems and Paul you know he loves these people he started this church he cares about this church
And it's very evident in the way he's very patient with them and in the next book you're going to see it's a lot more meat
So these people have grown up Paul's letter obviously helped them being under strong leadership helped them and so the next one is going to be a lot more complicated
But you'll see that people the enemies don't change you know there's people accusing him of not being a real apostle
And there's just like you'll see as we dive into second Corinthians that the trouble doesn't go away you know the trouble is still there
And but it's a lot more meaty than the first book so hopefully we can all learn together in second Corinthians
There's a lot of stuff that's hard Paul said a lot of things that were hard to be understood that's what the Bible says Peter said that
He's like and he's an apostle also so he's like some of the stuff he says is hard to understand and it is and it's hard to dissect sometimes
So but we'll try to do that together so look at verse number 10 tonight
It says now if Timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh the work of the Lord as I also do
So just starting off right out the gate he's talking about Timothy you know Timotheus is Timothy there's first and second Timothy
Those books were written by Paul to Timothy a young preacher a young pastor and he is telling the Corinthians hey if Timothy come
So remember Paul always has that mindset of you know never nothing's going to happen for sure you know we just if the Lord will it's going to happen
He's saying if Timotheus come see that he be without fear for he worketh the work of the Lord and obviously the ministry is work
And it's work you know anything that you do for the Lord it's work it's hard and sometimes it's hard work but work is work and I see a lot of times where people just be like
Well it's not really you know you're just preaching or whatever it's like well why don't you get up and try it see how easy it is
Why don't you study because you know the sermon is the hours of study you already put into something you know it's not just the hour that you got to hear it again
Or hour and twenty minutes but the ministries work you know talking about him traveling traveling to go preach places is work you know some people would say that's vacation
Well I'd like to see you be six foot eight and get on an airplane as much as I did this year and you see if that's a vacation to you because it's usually an anxiety attack
Before you get through security and you know it's just it's work it's not always you know people just think it's all fun it's not all fun it is fun I like the ministry like getting accosted by witches tonight was fun
You know Alex didn't think so but he's like I think they might have been serious because they said we're witches and we're going to hell
I was like yeah I know but that's just the kind of stuff that you know when you go out soul wanting you always get into fun adventures but isn't soul wanting work
When you go out soul wanting and nobody wants to talk to you that's work you know it's work when you have to talk to them too so soul wanting is hard work so anything that you do in ministry is going to be work
Whether it's cleaning the church whether it's you know knocking on doors whether it's preaching whether you know just there's everything it's work and the apostle Paul says he worked at the work of the Lord as I also do
Paul was a hard worker he said he outworked all the apostles do you believe him I mean it's scripture so I believe him so let's look at Ephesians chapter four verse eleven
Ephesians chapter four verse eleven we'll turn over there real quick and just keep your finger in first Corinthians sixteen Ephesians chapter four verse eleven says and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers
for the perfecting of the saints what's it say there for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ so you know ministers aren't there to be ministered to necessarily they're there to minister to other people
and you don't have to be a pastor to minister to other people you can be a minister of Christ we all have a ministry here we all have as Christians we all have ministry aren't we supposed to all go soul wanting
yeah because that's the word that's we have a ministry it's not just one person it's not just the pastor it's not just the deacons and the evangelists and all that
but everybody has a spot to play but God specifically did give the apostles and the prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers for the work of the ministry
so someone has to do all that work and obviously everybody here in this church does something around here and I appreciate that because I don't think I could do it all alone
and if there wasn't people that were helping me it'd be very frustrating it'd be very hard it'd be hard to want to stay a pastor if nobody ever wanted to help
because there's a lot of people in here that help with a lot of different things and it's a blessing to me so but you know those people that criticize pastors about not working hard
it's just like some churches they have one service a week and it's one hour a week like I've ever seen like the you're driven by those non-denom churches it's like Sunday 1030
it's like the only time they have it's like dang that must be nice you know you show up you make more money than I do and you have one service a week and it's probably like a 15 minute
you know Joel Osteen's speech or something with a bunch of rock music you know a bunch of people getting up and washing the windows and carrying the televisions and all that stuff you know
but it's hard work being a minister it's hard work being a pastor so and God does call it work so if you're saying pastors don't have to work hard well all work is pretty hard isn't it
I mean that's why it's called work and not fun you ever heard that saying is you know people at work who's like well this isn't very fun well it's not supposed to be it's called work you know but work can be fun you can have fun at work
you know and I know that like where I work like we like to have fun obviously there's a time to be serious but we like to have fun and joke around stuff like that and we do that here you know me and Remy were joking around out soul winning but obviously when we get to the door we're serious but we were laughing about the witches so it was pretty funny
but anyway I think Anthony might have met one of them before at some point but anyway let's look at verse number 11 back in our text
but you know people that say that being ministering and working for the church is not hard those people are like the Monday morning quarterbacks that could always do it better than you can
and I was like let's see you do it then because there's not as far as I know there's not a lot of people signing up to be pastors especially in churches like ours it's like I remember when all this start first kicked off and every young man wanted to be a pastor they had their
checklist of you know find wife get married have kids read the Bible 10 times where they all at where they at because it's a lot easier to say that you're going to do something than it is to actually do it and I encourage young men to want to be in the ministry and to have all that checklist I mean I make fun of that stuff just because we actually found some some checklist that somebody left in the pews one time
and the guy was a total bozo so but it is what it is but there's nothing wrong with having a checklist though or goals you know but to leave it in the I don't know if that was just like left on purpose how do you leave that checklist laying around like I want people to see my checklist of what I'm about to do
it's like that guy's a Mennonite now anyway yeah Mennonites I don't think they believe in internal security I'm pretty sure so don't they like do hay bailing and stuff or something like that I don't know I don't know enough about it but yeah they're kind of like they're like Amish people right except for they're a little different okay so anyhow yeah it's easy for people to say what you should do and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should be done and how this should
be done and stuff like that but when it comes down to it you know someone has to be the person that
does you know the has to be the boss you know if everybody just has a free for all you know then
it won't the work isn't going to get done and so but there's always someone that thinks that they
know how to do it better and it's like it's just like people like that criticize my preaching
sometimes on youtube it's like I mean yeah okay you got me there but where's your sermons at buddy
you know I don't see you your sermons it's like I don't know and sometimes they're on
maybe they're fair criticisms you know I don't mind getting criticized when I say something
wrong or whatever I'll walk it back you know I will but this is funny it's like some people
will just get on there just to kind of cut you down it's like well we'll see your sermons well
can I listen to yours too I'll give you some criticism too it's like you don't even preach so
you know it's easy to sit there and clown people when you don't do it so but anyhow
verse number 11 let no man stand excuse me let no man therefore despise him talking about timothy
but conduct him forth in peace that he may come unto me for I look for him with the brethren
so you know why is he telling them this because I believe it's tied to first timothy chapter 4
verse 12 and I'm not gonna have you turn there but it says let no man despise thy youth but be
thou an example of the believers in word and conversation in charity in spirit and faith in
purity so that's paul talking to timothy and say let no man despise thy youth so obviously timothy
is a young man and sometimes older people tend to look at someone that's young and think that guy
doesn't know anything he's just a young punk and you know that's not true you can be young and know
the bible as good as an old man can you just have to read it you just have to do the study you have
to do the work so you know but timothy if he was a pastor obviously he was qualified or he wouldn't
have got ordained as one and he did get ordained as one so obviously you know he was an elder in
the faith see pastors are called you know bishops or elders now just because they're an elder
doesn't mean that they're an old person necessarily it means that they're an elder
necessary you know in the faith so timothy had the bible knowledge of someone that probably just
is an average church you know more than excuse me more than an average churchgoer his knowledge
you know was enough to be a pastor where he is able to get up and explain the bible and teach
people and lead people but there's some people that have been in church their whole life and
they still haven't read the bible cover to cover one time so i mean you shouldn't despise somebody
because of their youth or you shouldn't despise someone because they're older you know and that
seems to be the way society is you know at least the the things i've seen is that people will
despise old people and act like oh he just he's just an old old fart he doesn't know what he's
talking about or whatever right but that's not true why old older people have a lot of wisdom
they've lived a long time and and you know there's no fool like an old fool i understand that so if
someone's old and foolish then they're not wise right but if someone's old and they know the bible
real well they have a lot more experience than you so we should despise someone for being older
we shouldn't despise someone for being young and that's why i think paul's saying hey let no man
despise him let no man therefore despise him you know look down on him hate him for being a young
man because you know i mean if some young 24 year old man starts a church or he's a he's sent to a
church to be the pastor there or something and you got men that have been there for 20 years you know
they're going to give them some grief you know they're going to look down their nose at them
and that's paul's saying hey don't don't do that that's not how we should you know hey at least
give the guy a chance you know maybe he's a little more put together than you want to give him credit
so we shouldn't despise youth we should uh actually encourage people that are young
to read the bible and learn you know if you want to be a pastor someday hey start now
if you're young start now get your bible reading and now like well i'm only i've only done it four
or five times well keep working at it keep keep reading you know keep learning keep learning how
to preach because we definitely need more pastors look at verse number 12 in our text says as
touching our brother apollos another great preacher i greatly desired him to come unto you
with the brethren but his will was not at all to come at this time but he will come when he shall
have convenient time so he's basically just kind of talking about how paul's was supposed to come
and visit their church also so remember the apostle paul's an apostle and he's he's kind
of overseeing a bunch of different churches but yet you know and he started all these churches
and he so he's sending people preaching to different places and we kind of do that too
like we've sent people when we first started the church in spokane we started sending
you know men all the time like every every other week or so to to preach there and that's kind of
how you do it when you first start and you want to get experienced preachers to help
if you're doing like some kind of a church plant or something but uh you know guest preaching is
to help you to be blessed by other ministers and preaching or preachers excuse me because
you know sometimes you get tired of hearing me talk you're probably tired of me right now
but every once in a while i'll bring preachers in to preach to you so that you can be edified
and it's kind of like a change of pace you know and that pastor you know pastors that go visit
they're always like the superstar or whatever everybody's like hey it's great to see you
but you know that's fine i want that i want the i want you to treat the pastors that come here to
preach for you like a superstar you know i'm not saying like you know bow down and worship them or
something i'm just saying you know you should respect them as a man of god and they come here
and they take their time away from their church to come and preach to us and we should we should
appreciate that we should show up you know we should say amen in their sermons we should talk
to them and let them know we appreciate them but you know the reason why i have people come in and
preach for us it's not just you know it's for it's not for nothing it's because i want someone
to come in and edify you also it sounds like this is what the apostle paul was doing he's like
having you know obviously he's talking about timothy coming and then he's talking about apollos
and they're you know they're in the bible these guys are famous preachers so you know and when
i have pastors come here they're they're usually famous preachers maybe in our circles but like
maybe not in some circles they're probably infamous preachers but hey you know if the
world hates you you know you're doing something right so anyway look at verse 13 it says watch ye
stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong so paul's exhorting the corinthians here
to watch you know watch what's going on pay attention to what's going on stand fast in the
faith don't be moved you know this this is the problem i see is that people want to quit all
the time they want to go someplace else because the grass is greener you know you got it's time
to you know you should plant roots sometimes you know are you just hopping to different churches
every two years you know because that's some people's manner you know they get there and it's
like oh this wasn't what i thought it was going to be you know or whatever and instead of giving
it a chance they just want to jump around from church to church or they want to go back to some
other place it's like maybe you should it's saying stand fast in the faith obviously it's not saying
don't move churches but i'm just saying that if you have a good church to go to you should stick
in that church and try to make it great so but it's saying quit you like men be strong so quit
quit you like men basically just means be a man you know there's nothing wrong with being a man
in 2021 but it sure seems like it's a problem with all this feminist garbage that's going on
and being taught all right even churches are doing it it's like what is wrong with you
you know they got rainbow flags hanging off their abilities they got
you know there's there's women with short hair leading congregations all over this city across
the city probably here too it's like what happened to all the men i thought it was men that were
supposed to lead right but yet you that's not what you're seeing anymore you're seeing this woke
generation they're so woke they're a joke right like pastor jones says you know they're so woke
they're just a joke or you're not woke you're a joke how about that but the problem is is
that men stop have stopped being like you know it's it's almost like a sin in society to be
manly you're made fun of because you're manly and that's not right but in the old testament
god was saying for people to be manly and just like in the old testament nothing's changed people
act like in the from the old testament to the new testament like god's like okay grow long hair
wear a dress you're in the new testament jesus wore a dress jesus wore you know it's like what
are you talking about they act like jesus this little scrawny you know nerdy guy with long hair
and a long beard and wore this flowing garment dress and that's the perception that people have
of him but that's not the perception the bible has of him right you know when he set his face
like a flint to go up to jerusalem you know he was he was probably in great shape he walked
everywhere he went he didn't he wasn't riding on horseback was he so he's probably in good shape
took good care of himself and he was probably strong he worked i'm sure until his ministry
just like all of his other disciples it's not like jesus was just sitting around reading books all
day i'm sure he did a job i'm sure he worked with his dad his you know his stepdad or whatever
but this generation that we're living in right now it's getting worse and worse
it's getting so bad that you have to almost apologize for being a man today i'm not going
to apologize for being a man i'll just be flexing like yeah oh man but uh i don't have as big as
muscles i used to but so i probably won't flex but you know what i'm saying it's like we the
bible's saying to quit you like men and be strong what what is it saying be strong if you're a man
you're going to be strong build your muscles build your brain get some knowledge act manly
if you're wearing pink skinny jeans you you you've gone off the rails
if your wife you know is making you hold her cat and sew some some mittens for her or something
you you you need to wear the pants in the family make her wear the dress you know we need to stop
with the pink shirts look if it's pink it stinks don't wear it guys all right and i know guys will
be like well i'm a man that's why i can wear pink no you look like a fag okay quit wearing pink
shirts wear like earthy colors or blue you know like blue but black blue you know i just and
acting like a man is being strong look strong be strong if you're a if you're the man of your house
be a strong leader be a strong man don't be effeminate don't be weak you know in joe 38 3
it says gird up now thy loins like a man for i will demand of thee and answer thou me when
god talks to joe he says hey why don't you pull up your pants your pants not your who girds up a dress
i mean it's so weird that people think i mean people will argue this point and say
oh they all wore tunics back then with no undies on the undies weren't invented until you know the
priest and only the priests wore the undies because they don't want to see their nakedness
on the altar or something it's like no men have been wearing pants for thousands of years
it's a fact it's a fact and if they didn't wear pants the other armies that were fighting against
them mocked them and made fun of them what was it the persians saw the greeks and they're like
these guys are wearing dresses
they're making fun of them there's you know there's picture like i was in when i was in
england i went to a roman villa and in that roman villa there's all these different artifacts like
it's all enclosed so it's actually the roman villa the old archaeology and all that stuff in
there and on one of the one of the things it was talking about how what people wore and in roman
times which was two thousand years ago it said that they wore pants imagine that two thousand
years ago they wore pants didn't jesus live two thousand years ago so pants weren't invented back
then though they didn't wear pants then how do you know just because your flannel graph on your
sunday school told you that i mean come on if you're you know in your sunday school and they
have the little flannel graphs and it's jesus wearing a dress it's like uh no you don't know
what he looked like you don't know he would you know and they'd say he was wearing a robe
well do all robes go down to the to the length of your toes i mean most robes don't they go
probably to the knee but just because if he had a robe on which the bible doesn't say that he did
the only time jesus ever had a robe on according to the bible was when he was being crucified
and when they were mocking him so people just have this mental picture of what jesus was wearing
but what was he really wearing it didn't say he was wearing a robe so where are you getting that
you're not getting that from the bible are you and so you're just trying you're trying to tell me
that jesus walked all around in the hot desert in the hot sun with a robe on with a dress on
and no underwear is that what you're telling me that's ridiculous and when men work they're not
going to do it in a tunic the guys that were wearing tunics were these like philosophers
and socrates and all those types of guys okay and if they were if and obviously some cultures have
moved over like you know in scotland for instance they didn't even start wearing kilts until the
1300s okay so they wore pants before that that was just something that you know when cultures
get out of control and they get all faggoty that's what they do and so you see these emoms and stuff
what do they wear these people in the middle east what are they wearing they're wearing dresses
nice dress bro where'd you get that jc penny i mean it looks weird it looks strange but
even even like the religious people that are in different religions what do they always wear
wizard outfits that look like dresses i mean the roman catholic church there the pope is wearing
a dress and some funny giant hat with fishes on them and all this other stuff swinging stuff
around and that's not manly it's they're trying to be a peer righteous before men that's why they
do that but you know what i think when i see a man in a dress i don't think they're righteous
at all i think that they're faggoty and weird okay so when and god says so who who when they
if a man's wearing a dress how's he girding up his loins gird up you know when when i put my pants
on i pull them up and i strap my belt that's what girding your pant you know if you go out without
pants or i mean excuse me if you go with pants on and no belt what's going to happen to most men in
this room your pants are going to fall down or if you're working you're going to get the plumber's
crack which nobody wants to see you know just like every time they bend over to pick some up
you're like oh man come on but when god said told tells job to get up his loins like a man
you know that's what men do okay you don't gird up a dress i know that they have that like meme
on the internet where it's like you know they show the dress and it's like he they tuck it in
and make it look like a diaper have you ever seen that i mean it's the sultan with the diaper on
or something with the sword or whatever nobody did that nobody did that's just a made-up picture
folks the internet said so quoted by abraham lincoln anyway look if you if you're a man you
should avoid these things skinny jeans soy milk letting your pants come off your hip
exposing your buttocks nobody wants to see that man it makes you look like a fairy it's weird
it's weird when you see someone that has their their pants all the way down to their ankle or
down past here and their underwear showing it's like what's wrong with you you're cruising for
something man because that's what they think in prison that's where it was made up
seriously pull your pants up bro and put put you know cinch your gird up your loins like a man
turn to first kings chapter two verse one first kings chapter two verse one
and being manly isn't just about dressing manly working hard is manly you know wear your hair
like a man that means i i just got my hair cut so i can just talk crap right now
there's some people in here needing they're they're they're close to the line right now
just kidding i'm kidding i'm kidding i'm just saying that because i'm like way up above like
yeah you know but uh if your hair is long you look like a girl girls are supposed to have long hair
guys are supposed to have short hair god wants to see a difference between people
it looks weird when girls have super short you know dude cuts like remy knocked on the door
tonight and she was obviously peter pan you know i mean she had the shaved sides short haircut
she was like not interested i could tell right away i was like yeah i could tell
you're not interested but like you know as the lesbians want to cut their hair short to look
like a dude and guys want to grow their hair long look like a woman so god doesn't like that god is
you know he says it's a shame for a man to have long hair so if it's a shame for a man to have
long hair then tell me how did jesus have long hair then if us having long hair shames our head
our head is jesus christ but so does the picture fit right then it doesn't fit right because it's
not true you know and jesus you know if jesus christ our head and he says it's a shame for a
man to have long hair i mean are you following the logic here and then you're saying jesus had
long hair why would it be a shame then why doesn't everybody have long hair because it's not true
if you look at sculptures of any roman back then i mean they have sculptures they have the bust
of heads they find all over the place and guess what they don't have long hair they have short
hair and when jesus was in the garden of gethsemane if he was the only one with long hair jesus
wouldn't have said hey the one that i kissed that's the one that it is you know why because
he looked like everybody else and so they would have just said hey get the long hair right there
get the john lennon looking guy and take him away you know what i mean it's like people got to use
some common sense and actually know what the bible says quit thinking about jesus as some effeminate
soft little lily he's not he was a man and we should be manly the bible says quit you like men
be strong okay first kings chapter two verse one says now the days of david drew nigh that
he should die and he charged solomon his son saying i go the way of all the earth be thou
strong therefore and show thyself a man so what's he saying be strong what's paul what's paul the
apostle saying be strong be a man same thing in the old testament same thing in the new testament
and so what what are some of the signs that would show you know david kind of goes through and says
the things that he would do if he if he's saying show yourself strong be thou strong therefore and
show thyself a man he's like hey i'm i'm gonna die son and you know what i need you to be i need you
to be a man i need you to be strong i need you to be able to continue in my footsteps and be a good
king and here's some of the things he said look at verse number three it says and keep the charge of
the lord thy god to walk in his ways to keep his statutes and his commandments and his judgments
and his testimonies as it is written so what is he what's what's a manly attribute well hey how
about following the lord and walking in his steps and keeping his statutes and keeping his
commandments and keeping his judgments in his testimony as it is written that's being manly
that's what david's saying hey you want to be a man you know a lot of people say oh you love jesus
you're a sissy no you're a sissy well i'm a man because i do want to follow god and i think that
every man in this church should feel the same exact way and david's telling his son hey you
want to be a man well the first thing you got to do is keep the charge of the lord as it is in the
law of moses thou mayest prosper and all that thou doest and whithersoever thou tarnish thyself so
being godly equals manly doesn't it it's not sissy it's manly it's the opposite of what the world
says oh you like to go to church you're soft you're weak you're not manly here's another look at
verse five judging righteously is manly also look what it says moreover thou knowest also what joe
ab the son of zarawiah did to me and what he did to the two captains of the host of israel onto
abner the son of ner and unto amassa the son of jether whom he slew and shed the blood of war
and peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins and in the shoes that
were on his feet do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his whore head
go down to the grave in peace what's he's saying well you need to judge the right way if you're a
king you know we're as a king psalm was being asked to be strong show himself a man well what
was the first thing he said do well the first thing he says is to follow the lord your god
and the next thing he says hey you know what joab did you know what he murdered two of the captains
of the host don't let his whore head his gray head go down to the grave in peace he's like
sometimes you're gonna have to make a judgment salman and you're gonna have to make a hard
judgment joe ab has been the captain of the armies for this all these years but he deserves to die
for what he did and so he's saying hey one of the first things you do as a king as a man is you need
to get rid of joe ab and make sure he's punished for the things that he did and also and look down
at verse number seven so he was supposed to be godly he was supposed to judge righteously and
he was and loyalty to friends that's a manly attribute also look at verse seven it says but
show that show kindness unto the sons of barzillai the gileadite and let them be of those that eat at
thy table for so they came to me when i fled because of absolem thy brother so he's saying
here's another thing you need to do to show yourself a man to be strong and show yourself
a man is show kindness to the people that show kindness to you show kindness to the people that
show kindness to to your dad you know some people just have no loyalty some men have no loyalty and
you know what you should be loyal to the people that are loyal to you and and not and you know
he said hey let them eat at thy table let's take care of them take care of those types of people
and the other thing is in verse eight making hard choices and wise decisions is a manly attribute
look at verse number eight it says and behold thou hast with thee shimmy i the son of gira
a benjaminite of bahuram which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when i went to mahanim
but he came down to meet to meet me at jordan and i swear to him by the lord saying i would not put
thee to death with the sword now therefore hold him not guiltless for thou art a wise man and
knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him but his whore head bring thou down to the grave with blood
see solomon had to make some decisions that are going to solidify his kingdom and david is trying
to help him you know here's the other thing if you're a manly listen to what your parents have
to say if you're a man you know obviously if your parents are wise maybe they're not going to make
every decision exactly correctly the way you think that they should but when your dad is
talking to you and he has solid advice don't just blow off what he's saying have some wisdom have
you know your dad raised you and probably knows more than you do about a lot of different things
why don't you take their advice obviously if it's foolish advice don't take it but
i'm saying if they got good like david is giving him good advice isn't he he says to be strong he
charges them to be strong and he tells them these are the things that you need to do to make sure
you're strong and some two of those things were executing two people that deserve to die and
david you know obviously going into the whole history with him and joab is not something i have
time to do tonight but one of these days we'll we'll get there but you know joab knew some of
david's secrets and and you know david failed to do the right thing he's like hey i failed to do
the right thing let me tell you this is what you need to do to do it right be a man so i know this
has nothing to do with the sermon i'm going to bring this up anyway just because i wanted to
give you a timeout here for a second but manly men aren't weird with animals they're not weird with
animals now this is another thing i see where and i'm not saying don't love your animals don't take
care of them beat them or be mean to them or whatever i'm not saying that because i have
animals that i've loved too we just had to put our dog that we had for like 16 years to sleep
and it was it was hard you know when the dog's been with your family for as long
almost as old as your kids are you know you grow attached to them a little bit
but when you get to the point where you're they're designing phones that your dog can walk up and
nudge with his nose and call you on the phone and and see you you know they're doing these tests
for these these dogs they're calling they think that they're calling their masters
so that their masters can talk to them on the phone they're like recording how many
times like this one dog had like called the woman like six times in a day or something like that
she's like i know he just wants to talk to me it's like he can't talk he's a dog what's he
gonna say to you i want food unless it's scooby-doo you can't talk to him okay but i just think it's
weird that men you know men get real weird with animals too with their with their women it's just
like you know if you're dressing up your your dogs and dresses and and coats and stuff like
that and you're a man i don't know i'm suspect anyway moving on verse number 14 back in our text
text let's look at verse number 14 i want to show some charity here says let all let your things be
done with charity that means love right so all all your things to be done with charity so now
you say well pastor thompson you just been ranting and raving for like the last 10-15 minutes how was
that charity well it is charity because when you tell someone the truth you're supposed to speak
the truth and love and so if i didn't love you i would never tell you the things that the bible
says for you to do because a lot of it's controversial a lot of it's controversial for
this time that we live in right now people worshiping their animals is what you see out
there don't you they worship them it's gotten strange folks you know when you're going around
picking up their poop all the time i mean obviously i know if you're walking them in a
park you got kind of got to do that but just people like live in like big cities and they
walk around and they're going in the in the planters and it's just like they're following
them around and they're treating like they got stickers on the back of their car with how many
dogs they have these are my human or these are my children what do they call my fur fur buddy
fur babies yeah come on man you've gone too far all right so and you know when it says let all
things be done with charity you know there's a time to be loving and talk about loving things
but there's also a time that we need to tell the truth about things that are hard like men being
men you know if someone walked in with skinny jeans you think it'd be hard for me to preach
that sermon yeah but sometimes i i'm telling you this i've preached probably a few times when
someone had a man had long hair and preached and i knew that i had to preach that and i knew it
was already in my notes and twice well actually one guy cut his hair and i never even told me
that he should have cut his hair he just said he came up after church he's like i'm cutting my hair
and buying some suits i was like okay i never even preached about it he's just the spirit of
god just came upon him and he realized but there was another there's a guy that you know and in a
different church and i preach i was preaching about it and he got his hair cut and he got
baptized and he started coming to the church it's like you know you never know what people need
you think that someone's going to get mad because they walk in with long hair and you say hey
you know you look like a fruitcake you know obviously i don't say that you know but
you do so but i mean obviously you can say it nicely without being tactless or whatever but
because nobody some people just don't know they don't know it's wrong and so if someone's unsaved
or they just don't know you know obviously do that in love so nobody no men in here have long
hair except for eli tonight so i'm just kidding did you catch that oh okay i said no man in here
has long hair except for eli i'm just teasing i was teasing him before the service so sorry brother
eli anyway so but telling the truth is love preaching hard is love warning people is love
and so if you if someone's about to go you know the bridge is out you know the signs are are
been moved out of the way and you're there and you know that someone's about to drive across
a bridge would you try to stop them and warn them what is what's more loving to try to stop
them and say you know they're on they're on a family vacation you know and they're about
to drive off a cliff don't you think it's the the loving thing to do is to tell them
or just ignore them and keep walking ah you know they should have they should have looked at the
signs you know it's wrong and so i think it is loving i think it is charitable to tell someone
to warn someone about something when they're you know going to wreck their life or you know whether
they're doing something that god is is upset with you know that's my job as a preacher so
anyway look at verse 15 it says i beseech you brethren you know that the house of stefanis
that is it is the first fruits of akia and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry
of the saints so you know that's that's a good thing to be addicted to it's good it's a good
thing to be addicted to the ministry you know there's a lot of addictions out in the world
isn't there there's people that are you know addicted to all kinds of what is that new drug
fentanyl right i don't think it's new actually but you know i don't really know a lot about it
i just know it's way more powerful than heroin and people are overdosing on it all the time
what people are down on overdosing downtown or on is fentanyl it's a really scourge of america
right now all these opioids and all these addicted people that eventually you know i think i think
fentanyl is more powerful than heroin i'm not sure about it is yeah so i mean there's a lot
of things that to be addicted to that are really bad for you like you know porn offer pornography
or drugs alcohol food entertainment music sports video games whatever it is the girls like to do
but you know there's a lot of things that we can get addicted to in our life though but you know
what's really good to be addicted to is addicted to the ministry or you're just addicted to being
at church and you want to help people and you want to serve the lord you know that these people were
addicted that they addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints and so it's not just helping
yourself it's it's really about helping other people it's about helping each other and that's
a good thing to be addicted to all these other things these worldly things that we get addicted
to you know they're they're not helping us they're not earning us rewards in heaven you know so being
addicted isn't always bad as long as it's something that's good you know obviously you can burn
yourself out and i kind of already talked about that before but look at first john chapter 2 verse
15. first john chapter 2 verse 15. i assume everybody's using a pad or something like is
there no bible pages turning here you you're not turning your bibles anymore first john chapter 2
verse 15. if you don't if you don't turn the if i don't hear pages turning then i kind of just
assume everybody's checked out so i just want to kind of bring you back to reality all right
check back in first john chapter 2 verse 15. the bible says love not the world neither the things
that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him for all that
is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and 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 doeth the
will of god abideth forever so what is the lust of the eyes the pride of life the lust of the flesh
these are things that we're addicted to if someone's lusting after something that means
that they're desiring it so much to the fact that they just can't get enough of it and they and they
are addicted to it people are addicted to alcohol there's people that they have to drink or they'll
die that's how addicted they are you know and it's the same thing with like anything else that
you're addicted to you know those things are hard to get over and so we ought to make sure that we're
you know we have to ask god to help us and to pray for us that we would start to hate
these things that we're addicted to and get more addicted to the things of the lord
because you know without god's help you're not going to overcome any sin in your life
you know any sin that anything that you can think of right now in your mind you don't have to say
it out loud something you're addicted to that you need to change in your life you know why don't you
ask god to help you hate that thing to the point where you won't do it anymore quit cold turkey
wean yourself off whatever you have to do but if there's something that you're addicted to and
we're all addicted to something we all we all are i mean if i just sit up here and act like i don't
have any problems then you know i'm just lying because we're all sinful and so we all have
problems in our lives but you know our what we're supposed to do is get better as time goes by as a
christian not get worse we're supposed to get better and so we're supposed to how do we do that
well we walk in the spirit you learn to walk in the spirit you learn to hate the things of the
flesh and crucify the flesh in your life and how do you do that well you know you're not going to
do it without god's help now can people quit drinking alcohol without god's help yes they can
but there's some sins i'm sure that's that people in this room commit that the only thing that's
helping them is god because there's there's sins that were that are easily uh what are the the sin
that easily besets us the bible says there's certain sins that we're we have the proclivity
to do and it's just it's really hard it's like a button gets pushed and you have to have it and so
the only person that's going to be able to help us with stuff like that is god so and obviously
like i said you can get over anything without the help of god pretty much but sin
is going to reign in our mortal bodies until the day that the lord jesus christ comes back
and so we have to learn to try you know getting yourself addicted to the ministry
maybe it'll help you get you know because some people say that those add that there's addicts
right and addicts that we try to replace whatever they were addicted to they they quit doing this
but then they get addicted to something else isn't that true so if you're an addict which probably
everybody in here is an addict of something then take that and replace it with something good
replace it with something in the ministry replace it with more sowing times or
you know whatever you got to do to overcome that addiction you know if if that's the if that's the
truth that addicted people you know go to another addiction then make that other addiction something
good instead of replacing it with something that's equally as bad then you're just like going hopping
from addiction to addiction so and you know loving the things of the world those things
i mean like i said they're not going to get you a reward they're not going to help you in the long
run you know what's going to help you is the things that you do for god and when we get to
the judgment seat of christ and he gives us our rewards you know the jumbotron is not going to
play all your sins that's a lie from the devil all of our sins are forgiven but there's going
to be a rewards given out and based upon those things that are eternal you know what did you do
for eternity's sake what did you do to help someone else get into the kingdom of god what
did you do to help birth a new son into this world a spiritual son or daughter into this world did
you do so i mean those are the things that are going to count for eternity get yourself addicted
to those things get yourself addicted to the bible where you just want to learn about what
god's done and you know obviously we all get in pitfalls in our christian life sometimes
you know you're reading the bible you're doing great i don't know if i'm the only
one that ever struggles with this stuff but i'm sure that i'm not and i'm the pastor you know
do you think that there's not times that i don't feel like reading the bible in a day
but that's my job i have to do it but do i love do i always love doing it i don't always love
doing it and you're like well you're fired pastor well i'm sorry you better find someone else that
is perfect okay because i'm not but i'm just saying that you know you can get yourself
addicted to stuff and hey if you're you know there's certain kinds of foods that you like
sometimes too right you're like i really like this particular brand of coffee or i like
this particular kind of food or this kind of ice cream but if you get it all the time don't you get
sick of it sometimes like i'm done with this ice cream forever or i'm done with this kind of food
whatever it is you know if someone makes spaghetti every week you know you're gonna get sick of
spaghetti and if there's no meat in it then you're really then you're really gonna be mad i'm just
kidding i always have to bring that up but but the point is is that we should get addicted to
the things that are going to help us in our life if you want to replace your addictions replace
them with something godly that you can you know actually get something for that addiction and
these guys addicted themselves to the ministry um so second corinthians 4-1 says therefore seeing
that we have this ministry as we have received mercy we faint not so we have a ministry also
and i mentioned this earlier in my sermon but it's not just my ministry here it's you know
first of all it's god's ministry but it's not just this is not just pastor thompson's ministry here
so if you want to dictate does this guy stefanis i mean and they addicted themselves to the ministry
or whatever but you can do the same thing you can get on fire for god and do great things for the
lord but don't like i said don't burn yourself out but when it says we have this ministry
it's not just paul well who does paul talk about he talks about the people that work with him
the people he's talking in this chapter about timothy being sent and apollo's you know he had
a network of people that were helping to work it wasn't just paul doing everything now was he the
main hard charger that the person that was making stuff get done yeah but when he says therefore
seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy we faint not you know don't faint in your
service of the lord you might not you know and you might not think like reading the bible is
service the lord is service because it teaches you how to do things that he wants you to do
it helps you to know things that he wants you to know to be the most effective christian that
you can be when you pray to him and when you pray for other people you're helping other people that
is a ministry have you heard of prayer warriors you know why do we why do we have a group called
sfbc prayers so that we can pray for each other so when something serious is going on in someone's
life at that time we can just stop whatever we're doing right there and just take even if it's just
a few seconds to pray for that person that needs prayer you know what that's that's something that
god holds in a high reward he he keeps our prayers in bottles you know how many prayers do you have
in a bottle is it going to be like one drop you know those he he takes that vial he's like this
smells really good it's like this is brother alex's drip just one drop no you know we should be
praying to the lord and not just for ourself not just for our family members not just for our
church but for for other people you know there's a lot of people in other churches that have prayer
requests too do you ever pray for them you ever you know if you're scrolling through facebook
you're just like oh man sucks to be them you just keep on scrolling by or do you actually have
compassion on people and care for them and think about them and and you know reach out to them and
say hey i'm praying for you i mean those are good things to do we have a ministry and it's not just
my job to pray for people it's just not my job to preach to people it's y'all's job too and we
shouldn't faint in these ministries so if you're taking on too much so that you're gonna faint and
you're gonna fall out of church and you're gonna leave and you're gonna go live your life and go
back to these things of the world these lusts of the flesh and the pride of life and all this other
stuff that you want then slow down because the best thing for you to do is stay in the race
stay in the army don't be a deserter you know what happens to deserters they get shot
right so you're in the lord's army and if you go out back to that world it's only a matter of time
before god's gonna start shooting at you right he's gonna punish you and you're like i still
understand when my life is falling apart it's like duh you left you left god you left the church you
left all the things you were doing because you're selfish and you're addicted to everything else out
there instead of being addicted to the ministry instead of being addicted to the things of god
you're addicted to everything else well i just want to be a full-time seahawks fan so i'm just
going to quit church and travel and go to every single game there's people that do stuff like that
you know they get into some sport and they think that that's more important or they get into some
weight loss club and then all of a sudden they start looking good again and they go off and start
doing the things that they used to do before and they forget the lord god that helped them lose
that weight in the first place you know i mean there's all kinds of stories like that or people
come in you know people just get tired of the things of god and they just want to go live their
life but i'll tell you what if you're doing too so much here that you feel burnt out from serving
the lord then you need to dial it back and and say hey i'm just going to do this much because
right now i feel like at any moment i could just be gone i don't want people to feel like that
but at the same time do something if you're doing nothing then that's even you know well if you're
doing nothing you're still in church at least there's a chance for you to start doing something
eventually but you know i mean we're here to serve the lord for the rest of our life
are you a lifer did you get the tattoo right here the lifer tattoo like when you get saved
you know and obviously it's not one you can see but like you know what i'm saying like
this is a lifelong dedication like are you are you willing to stick through it are you willing
to stick with it because it's hard christian life's hard but we need to stick with it if you
can't hang then you need to dial it back some galatians chapter 6 verse 9 go ahead and turn there
galatians 6 9 the bible says and let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall
reap if we faint not we're gonna reap but don't faint you know sometimes you're working hard
you know i've ever worked out in a field doing something or the sun's just beating on your back
or maybe you're doing a roof or you're just out working in the hot sun and you feel like fainting
because it's so hot outside that's the way the lord's work can be sometimes for us but you know
obviously sometimes you need to put a hat on that covers your your neck and your your shoulders
that'll help i mean you need to do something to where you're not going to faint drink some drink
some gatorade or something but uh you know we don't want to faint because we want to have
like it says in verse 10 as we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially
them who are of the household face so you know we don't want to faint and fall out because what good
is that going to do for you and what good is that going to do for other people you know what are you
here for is it for yourself is it so your prayer requests can get answered oh i just i don't care
about your prayer requests i just care about mine are you a narcissist prayer warrior
do you only care about your prayer requests and nobody else's
it's all about me my family i mean we need to pray forever for other people's prayer requests
too and like i said you don't have to get on your knees for eight hours a day and pray
it's like god knows he can hear in a few words someone's prayer request you know and the fact
that you just within faith pray to god and know that he can do something to make a difference in
that person's life he knows that you can make a difference in that person's health he knows that
that that he can do something to help that person whatever the request is whatever the hard mountain
that they can't seem to climb up by themselves that they need a little push they need a little
help from the lord you know we we sometimes we're selfish and we need to get unselfish
to the point where we're thinking about other people's lives too so look at verse 16 says that
you submit yourselves unto such and to everyone that helpeth with us and laboreth i'm glad at
the communist tifonus and fortune this or fortunateis excuse me in a case for that which
was lacking on your part they have supplied for they have refreshed my spirit in yours
therefore acknowledging them that are such i thought about this passage for a long time
when i was writing this sermon and even that last part it says acknowledging them that are such well
what's it's saying here it's saying you know submit yourself to unto such these people that
are helping us these people that labor there's some people that have the opportunity to do more
labor maybe your job puts you out 50 60 hours a week and you can only just do so much and maybe
there's somebody else that can come in where we're lacking and pick up the pace and and maybe you
know pick up the head you know stand in the gap in a different area and you know these types of
people are ref or he says they have refreshed my spirit you know paul's talking about the people
that work with him and work for him that the people that help and labor hey we should acknowledge
those people because they're refreshing to my spirit they're refreshed and it says and yours
because when someone comes in and does extra stuff and helps you know the the leader or whatever they
helps paul people that come and help me you know i don't necessarily acknowledge everything that
that person does in front of everybody but i'll tell you what there's some people in here that
do some extra stuff and they're refreshing to my spirit and i appreciate it and i'm not saying if
you if you're not that person or whatever then i'm not mad i'm just saying that i mean everybody
here basically refreshes my spirit but i'm just saying there's some people that they do like a
whole bunch of different extra stuff and it's like i'm like how am i going to get all this done and
someone just comes and just says hey i'll take care of that that's that's refreshing that helps
me that makes me you know feel good you know because i'll just be honest with you sometimes
being a pastor is a hard job and sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's like man
you know in and out the same week i mean i have a deadline to preach three sermons every week
and that's that's hard you know so and sometimes you know there's everybody's lives are going wrong
and you're counseling all these different people and trying to help all these people and it's just
like man and then your life is is turned upside down at the same time and when people come along
and help you labor and they and they help with other things or the things that are lacking the
things that need to be picked up those people are a blessing it says therefore acknowledging them
that are such you know have you ever told someone that's helping you hey you're a blessing thank you
that's something that you should do you're a blessing you know i mean there's nothing
wrong with acknowledging that i mean just if you're but if you're in it to get the
attaboy a pat on the back all the time you know you're you're not always going to get that maybe
someone just doesn't even see the thing that you do but why did you do that thing in the first
place did you do it so someone could notice it and get and you could get a pat on the back for it
or did you do it because you love god and you want to help because that's really the ultimate like
if you're doing anything for any other reason then you just want to help
and and work for the lord and you want his acknowledgement then you shouldn't worry about
whether someone thanks you or not now is it good to thank them well paul says acknowledge them which
are such hey if someone's being a blessing to you someone's helping you out you know i just i can't
understand people that would never thank somebody when they do something nice for them i just think
it's weird it's like how can you not thank somebody you know and i'm not talking about
anybody here at all i'm just saying that there's there's been people in my life it's like they get
everything handed to them on the silver platter they're always in trouble there's always something
going bad in their life and then when they get help they don't even think the people that do
that help them it's just like i i can't understand that it's like a welfare mentality or something
it's like you're so used to getting everything handed to you that you just don't acknowledge
when people are doings are a refresher so what are you tonight are you a refresher
or are you a pain in the neck you know that that's a good question to ask you know are you diligent
are you a blessing are you a refresher or are you negative nelly everything's always going
wrong this could be better you're always complaining the pastor's preaching too long
sermons i don't care you should have done that a long time ago
but ask yourself this question are you one that would be considered
a refreshing person or are you somebody that's a detriment
or are you just neither one you're just
but you know if you're a blessing then you should be acknowledged as such
but you know don't don't necessarily think that every person is going to knowledge everything you
do you know maybe you spent extra time cleaning here or something like that and pastor never
notices when i do this pastor look i notice more than you think and i do appreciate all the work
that y'all do and you know when i come into the church it's clean my spirit's refreshed i thank
god for that because otherwise it'd be me here doing it for four hours or whatever
and sometimes it is but you know are you a refresher well we should work on being someone
that's a refreshing person not just to me but to each other you know instead of being a pain
in the neck or a negative person you know positivity there's a lot of power and positive
things like there's you know those people that are positive only preachers there is something
to that that's why people like listening to them they don't like being ripped to shreds so they
walk away every service feeling bad about themselves but you know being positive is a
good thing having a positive attitude hey we're going to get through this i know we're going to
get through this because you just have a positive attitude if you're always negative about everything
well this is never going to work it's not receptive in vancouver and whatever hey we'll go
on receptive trips other places don't worry about it we just need to do the work that we're here to
do verse 19 the churches of asia salute you akila and priscilla salute you much in the lord with the
church that is in their house and i would take time to develop this but i just am out of time
but basically there's churches that start and their church starts in the house there's nothing
wrong with that but just don't confuse that with the house church movement okay the house church
movement basically is like a bozo movement that people ordain themselves as pastors and
you know i mean i i can't speak for every home church that in the world that i know of because
i don't really know a lot of them but one thing i do know is that they're they try to do this
small group thing and they don't have qualified pastors i was looking on the there's a you can
sign up to be your own home church and all you have to do is like believe in jesus or whatever
and then you're qualified or whatever it's like okay who's overseeing that you know so
a true house church is one that started by a pastor and there's boots on the ground there's
someone that's leading it you know and the the goal is to someday probably get out of that house
unless it's like a mansion or something but so there is a difference between a house church and
a church house okay so and there's nothing wrong with starting a church in a house
that's biblical it's been you know there's other verses i could turn to but i just don't have time
for that but just know this that there's people that are against you know coming to a church like
this they're like well they're taking ties and they're doing this and you know ties pay the
late the light bill the light bill is expensive here we got a jumbotron white out there that's
running i don't i'm scared to see what the light belt's gonna be like this month you know the heat
never wants to turn off or whatever it's just like but things cost money if you want a nice
building to worship in and to do things in it's going to cost money and these house church people
are just like against that kind of stuff they think that everything's bad including pastors
anyway let's move on verse 20 says all the brethren greet you greet you one another
with an holy kiss now i personally think this is like a uh i don't think this is a commandment
all right because if you greet me with a holy kiss you're going to be missing some teeth
all right so don't do that unless you're my wife she can greet me with a holy kiss
i think that that's kind of like the or whatever i don't know what that is exactly but
i told i've told you the story about the pastor that came up and kissed me on the face at one
time i was just like get the heck away from me what are you doing don't as you got one chance
that's the last time that ever happens you're like slobbering i was before i had a beard too
it was like slobbery ugh don't ever do that to me not even joking around all right the salutation
me paul with mine own hand if any man loved not the lord jesus christ let him be anatha maranatha
now just really quickly before i close i just want to explain this anatha maranatha
it basically means to be accursed that love not his appearing that's kind of what i i did some
study on it i'm not a greek scholar or anything like that i'm not claiming to be not going back
to the greek but uh that's what i've seen oh i think a lot of consensus says that that's what
that means so i i mean i know there's a lot of people that name their churches maranatha baptist
church or whatever so i guess if that means the appearing of our love the appearing of our lord
and i guess that's a good name for a for a baptist church but if it's an ask about maranatha baptist
church then it's like you're saying that uh if you don't love the appearing of our lord jesus
christ let them be accursed so and that that's what you know the catholic church when they
excommunicate people they go anathema maranatha or whatever and then they burn their bones or
whatever they do but anyway so anyway so the bible you know and and paul's saying hey if you
don't love the lord then be accursed people they act like that's such a bad thing you know paul
but paul was paul's nice jesus was nice you know they never cursed anybody that he cursed them
right there he said if you don't love the appearing of our lord jesus christ let them be accursed
that's what it says that's what it means and i'll and in second thessalonians i'm just going to read
it real quick it says even him who's coming after the working of saint with all power and signs and
lying wonders with all deceivableness and unrighteousness and then they'll perish because
they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause god shall send
them strong delusion they should believe a lie god's going to actually send strong delusion on
people to believe a lie because they wouldn't believe the truth that they all might be damned
who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness so let me and this is the
apostle paul saying this so look the new testament's a little more hairy than you think it is
you know you just never heard that at the the community church that used to go to you never
heard that at a different church but that's what paul said he said let them be damned you know what
he said in galatians 1 8 let them be accursed you know if anybody comes to you with another gospel
like jehovah's witnesses or mormons or somebody else is preaching a workspace salvation or lordship
salvation he said let them be accursed he says it twice in galatians chapter 1 you know why because
they're they're damning people to hell what is worse than that what scum is worse than someone
that would preach a false gospel in order to send somebody to hell there's nothing worse than that
can you imagine any other worse thing than going to hell i mean nobody is there's nothing worse
even a murderer they're not worse than that but they're murdering people's souls that's the
difference all right let's wrap it up verse 23 grace of our lord jesus be with you let's
praise the lord jesus christ be with you hey amen and it says my love be with you all in christ
jesus amen so right after he curses the people that don't believe in jesus he's like hey the
people that do grace be with you and my love be with you all in jesus in christ jesus so like i
said at the beginning paul loved these people and so if he's hard on them you know what sometimes
you got to be hard on people but it doesn't mean that you don't love them it doesn't mean that and
so that's what you know that's what 2021 people that are just you know they're so fragile they
have to go into a safe room you know in order to get their feelings back together or whatever
but you know if you love someone you're going to tell them the hard truth and you're going to be
and you know and paul did in this whole book paul is telling people hard truths i've preached some
hairy eyeball sermons out of these out of these books and they came from the bible they didn't
come from my own heart they came from this book so let's pray we're done with first corinthians
first corinthians all right let's pray heavenly father thank you lord so much for this great book
lord i pray that you would help us as we study the the next book second corinthians
and i pray that everybody would get home safely tonight and you bless
each and every person that came in attendance tonight in jesus name we pray amen
all right our last song we saw number 285 in the blue hymnal
angels we have heard on high song number 285 in the blue hymnal angels we have heard on high
song number 285 let's sing it on the first angels
and the mountains and recline and go back there joy it swings
oh
shepherds why this jubilee
is
and exiles
come to
christ
oh
jesus
so
oh
so