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The Baptist Church Foundation Baptist Church page 192 in your green hymnals, page 192 ring
the bells of heaven.
Ring the bells of heaven page 192 in your green hymnals, let's sing it out on the first.
Ring the bells of heaven, there is joy today, for a soul returning from the wild.
See the Father meets him all upon the way, welcoming his weary wondering child.
Glory, glory, how the angels sing, glory, glory, how the loud harps bring,
Does the ransom army like a mighty sea, peeling forth the anthem of the free on the second.
Ring the bells of heaven, there is joy today, for the wanderer now is reconciled.
Yes, the soul is rescued from his sinful way, and is born a new and ransomed child.
Glory, glory, how the angels sing, glory, glory, how the loud harps bring,
Does the ransom army like a mighty sea, peeling forth the anthem of the free on the last.
Ring the bells of heaven, spread the feast today, angels swell the glad triumphant strain.
Tell the joyful tidings, bear it far away, for a precious soul is born again.
Glory, glory, how the angels sing, glory, glory, how the loud harps bring,
Does the ransom army like a mighty sea, peeling forth the anthem of the free.
Help us to learn and pay attention to the sermon tonight. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen. Let's do favorites this evening. Sherry?
I don't know the name of UPCOVERY MOUNTAIN. One piece, one more?
UPCOVERY MOUNTAIN. Page 12? Okay. That's alright.
Blessed Redeemer, page 12. Blessed Redeemer, page 12, on the first.
UPCOVERY'S MOUNTAIN, WONDERFUL MOURN,
GOD CHRIST MY SAVIOR, WEARY AND WARM,
FACING FOUR SINNERS, DEATH ON THE CROSS,
AND HE MIGHT SAVE THEM FROM MENTLESS LOSS.
BLESSED REDEEMER, PRECIOUS REDEEMER,
SEEMS NOW I SEE HIM ON CALVARY'S TREE.
WOUNDED AND BLEEDING, FOUR SINNERS PLEADING,
WINDED UNHEEDING, DYING FOR ME.
Kayla? 215?
HEAVEN CAME DOWN AND GLORY FILLED MY SOUL, page 215.
On the first.
OH, WHAT A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL DAY,
A DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET,
AFTER I WONDERED IN DARKNESS AWAY,
JESUS MY SAVIOR, I MEANT.
OH, WHAT A TENDER, COMPASSIONATE FRIEND,
HE MEANT THE NEED OF MY HEART,
SHADOWS DISPELLING WITH JOY,
I AM TELLING HE MADE ALL THE DARKNESS DEPART,
HEAVEN CAME DOWN AND GLORY FILLED MY SOUL,
WHEN AT THE CROSS THE SAVIOR MADE ME WHOLE.
MY SINS WERE WASHED AWAY,
AND MY NIGHT WAS TURNED TODAY,
HEAVEN CAME DOWN AND GLORY FILLED MY SOUL.
81 on the third.
Can we see Christ, page 81?
Page 81, on the third verse.
OH, IPE'S DAY WILL SOON BE OARED,
ALL STORMS FOREVER PAST,
WE'LL CROSS THE GREAT DIVINE,
TO GLORY SAFE AT LAST,
WE'LL SHARE THE JOYS OF HEAVEN,
A HEART PAHOMA CROWN,
THE TEMPER WILL BE BANISHED,
WE'LL LAY OUR MURDER DOWN,
IT WILL BE WORTH IT ALL,
WHEN WE SEE JESUS,
LIFE'S SHOUTS WILL SEEP SO SMALL,
WHEN WE SEE CHRIST,
ONE PRIPSE OF HIS DEAR FACE,
FALL SORROW'S WILL ERASE,
SO BLAVE WE RUN THE RACE,
TILL WE SEE CHRIST.
Bill?
160 on the first.
Page 160 on the first.
CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS, page 160.
Say it out loud on the first.
CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS,
THE LAMB UPON HIS THROW,
BARK OUT THE HEAVY AND THE DROWN,
THE MUSIC BUT IT'S ALL,
AWAKE MY SOUL AND SING,
OF HIM WHO DIED FOR THEE,
AND HAIL HIM AS THY MATCHLESS KNING,
THROUGH ALL ETERNITY.
Back there?
Yeah.
188 on the third.
Amen.
LOVE OF GOD, page 188 on the third.
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
In were the skies of parts mid-May,
Where ev'ry stock on earth a quill,
And ev'ry man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry,
Or cut the squall, contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
O LOVE OF GOD, how rich and pure,
The soul now measureless each long,
And shall forevermore endure,
The saints' and angels' songs.
Sarah.
92.
HOW CAN I BE LONELY, page 92.
92 on the first.
One is walking with me over life's uneven way,
Constantly supporting me each moment of the day,
How can I be lonely when such fellowship is mine,
With my blessed Lord Divine?
How can I be lonely when such fellowship is mine,
How can I be lonely when I'm Jesus only,
To be my companion and unfailing guide?
Why should I be weary or my past seem dreary,
When He's walking by my side?
Amy.
261.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus on the verse.
O soul, are you weary and troubled,
No light in the darkness you see.
There's light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
Page 150.
My faith has found a resting place.
Page 150 on the first.
My faith has found a resting place,
Not in device nor creed.
I trust the ever-living One,
His wounds for me shall plead.
I need no other argument,
I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died,
And that He died for me.
Brother Eli.
260 on the third.
260?
260.
216 on the third.
Okay.
Surely goodness and mercy on the third.
When I walk through the dark slopes of valley,
My Savior will walk with me there,
And safely His great hand will lead me
To the missions He's gone to prepare.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days, all the days of my life.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days, all the days of my life.
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever,
And I shall feast at the table spread for me.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days, all the days of my life.
Welcome back to Shure Foundation Baptist Church for the evening service.
Let's take our bulletins and go through some quick announcements here
before we get on with the final service here of the week.
Or actually it's the second service of the first.
Never mind.
Alright, I'm confused.
On the front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says,
Nevertheless, the foundation of the Lord stand is sure,
Having this seal that the Lord knoweth them that are His,
And let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
2 Timothy chapter 2, verse number 19.
I guess I should have asked, does anybody need a bulletin?
I'm going out of order here.
Right there.
And anybody else?
Alright.
Our service times are Sunday morning at 10.30 a.m.
And we had a wonderful service this morning.
Pastor Joe Jones preached a really great sermon.
But they ended up having to go back to Idaho,
so it was great having them here for the short time.
Hopefully they can stay a little longer next time.
Tonight I'll be preaching,
and I'm going out of my series that I just started,
but I'm just going to preach a stand-alone sermon
about our anniversary a little bit,
about how God builds the church and things like that.
And Thursday we'll be back in Titus chapter number 2.
We'll finish the second half of that chapter.
And we have so many times, various different so many times.
And our 1 o'clock so many time today.
I need to count how many salvations we had.
Does anybody have a salvation?
Good, 5? 1, okay.
2, 3, 4. Alright, praise God.
Praise God. Alright.
So we had 4 salvations yesterday and 4 today.
And then we had 1 on Friday, 1 on Thursday.
So great job everybody.
And we're not getting video game numbers like England right now,
but we're still getting people saved every week.
So that's good that people are getting saved at our church,
and I still want that to continue for years and years to come.
If you look down you can see the praise report,
the salvations, baptisms, and attendance totals.
I think I told you that in the last service that in England
they got 51 salvations yesterday in their solely marathon.
They had I think 9 today.
They've had like 1,600 in the last year.
So they're doing really well.
And so also Brother Ian, if you pray for him,
he's traveling to Poland next Saturday,
and there's like 60 people that want to get baptized there.
So the most I've ever done is 12 in one day,
and then I did 12.
I think I've done like 12 in a day.
By the time you get done just dunking people,
especially since I'm tall.
I was like having to drag them out and then put them in knee high water
and then like reaching down and dunking them.
Because what's deep to me isn't necessarily deep to other people,
or is deeper to other people.
But anyway, so yeah, he's supposed to baptize like 50 or 60 people.
He's going to just go out there and preach for them on Saturday.
So great things are happening.
There's supposed to be a church possibly starting out there.
And so our church is just kind of partnering alongside them
and trying to help them out,
going there and preaching the word of God to them and baptizing.
So I'm looking forward to hearing all the great things
that are going on that week, next weekend for them.
And I just want to say once again happy anniversary to our church.
It's our fourth anniversary as Church Foundation Baptist Church
and almost six years in the ministry here for our church.
And I'm very thankful for our church.
I'm very thankful for all you who show up and put in the work
and those that are visiting with us today.
I really appreciate being here.
And we appreciate any time someone comes to visit our church
and hopefully people have been nice and I'm sure they have.
And I'm looking forward to spending some time with some of you,
even after the service, getting to know you.
Appreciate you coming as first time visitors.
And let's see, we've got some upcoming soul winning events.
But the first one coming up is the Seattle Tacoma Soul Winning.
That's going to be an overnight trip
unless you just want to drive up early in the morning.
You can do that also.
But we don't have all the details yet, of course.
But we'll get those forthcoming as it gets a little closer here.
And September 29th through October 1st will be the Yakima Soul Winning trip.
And we usually do that every year.
We've done a week and times past,
but we're just going to do Thursday through Saturday.
And we'll probably have like a Thursday night preaching service
or Friday night preaching service up there.
And then another trip is scheduled for October 28th through 29th at Blaine.
Hopefully the rain hasn't come in fully yet at that time.
But even if it does, it's better than going out in 100 degree weather.
I'll just say we could put an umbrella over my head and I'm good, you know.
But of course I would not use an umbrella. No, I'm just kidding.
So most people from Oregon and Washington don't really use umbrellas.
It's kind of funny.
But you'll see in other places they're like, ah, you know.
Like Mary Poppins out there.
But anyway, we're a family integrated church.
That means the children and infants are welcome here at the church services.
Please utilize some of the baby rooms and the dad baby rooms for your convenience.
And the rockers are for pregnant nursing mothers only and elders only.
Please reserve the back rows for families with young children.
And no under 10 children at any time, please.
And we're going to have ice cream after the service.
We're going to have Tillamook ice cream.
The best ice cream in the whole world, that I've ever tried anyway,
is going to be back there after the service.
So I would just ask that you don't let your kids go up there and scoop the scoops themselves.
Can we get a couple of volunteers to scoop some ice cream?
Anybody?
Not? Okay.
Oh, hey, what's up? Yeah, okay.
Well, Julene and then Ollie, you wanted to help? Okay.
That's all we need, right? Two? Okay, two scoopers?
Thank you for volunteering. That was a lot of volunteers.
Like, you guys must have heard some preaching this week that made you want to volunteer or something.
Anyway, I appreciate that.
So we'll have different kinds and we'll just have the kind of bowls pre-made and stuff like that.
So anyway, I just thought it would be a nice treat to have.
And, you know, it's our anniversary, so go high on the hog and get some Tillamook.
You know, it's good stuff.
So anyway, I think that's all I have for announcements.
I don't see Ethan here, so yeah, we'll just sing another song and then we'll receive the offer.
Actually, hold on one second.
I did want to say thanks to everybody again for helping with the piano and stuff like that.
I know I've already thanked you a few times.
But we also had to have the piano repaired.
And so I know that there's already been a rule about children getting on the piano.
Unless children are actually playing for some kind of services, then I don't want kids on the piano.
Because they said, like when they fixed it, they said that the pedal, like that, whatever was in there could pop out really easily.
And so if there's a bunch of people up there, you know, hitting the pedals and stuff like that, that it's going to mess it up.
So it wasn't cheap to repair.
So I just ask that you make sure your children aren't going up there and playing on that piano
unless they're like doing some kind of a special or something.
So I'm not trying to be mean. It's just, it is what it is.
So we've got good stuff. Let's take care of it, alright?
Alright, that's all I've got. Thanks.
Alright, let's all turn to page 275 in your Green Hymn books.
Almost persuaded page 275.
Page 275, almost persuaded.
Alright, sing it out loud on that first.
Almost persuaded, now to believe.
Almost persuaded, Christ to receive.
Seems now some soul to say, go Spirit, go thy way.
Some more convenient day on the alcohol.
Almost persuaded, come, come today.
Almost persuaded, turn not away.
Jesus, invite to hear. Angels are lingering near.
Prayers rise from hearts so dear.
All ones were come. Almost persuaded.
Harvest is past. Almost persuaded.
Doom comes at last. Almost cannot avail.
Almost is but to fail. Sad, sad, that bitter wail.
Almost but lost.
Amen. Great singing this evening.
At this time we'll receive our offering.
Brother Sean Harrington, can you bless the offering for us?
Lord, thank you so much for this church, Lord.
Thank you so much for the past four years.
I pray that you would just continue to bless this church, Lord.
And fill Pastor Thompson with your Spirit, Lord.
And that he would preach the bowl to us.
Lord, I pray that you would bless this offering, Lord.
Bless both the gift and the gift. In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
All right, go ahead and turn to your Bibles too.
2 Chronicles chapter number 3.
2 Chronicles 3. If you don't have a Bible, raise your hand and one of the ushers will bring you one.
2 Chronicles 3.
2 Chronicles 3, the Bible reads,
And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And he began to build in the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God.
The length by cubits after the first major was three score cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty.
And he overlaid it within with pure gold.
And the greater house he sealed with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty, and the gold was gold of parvium.
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof with gold, and graved cherubims on the walls.
And he made the most holy house, the length thereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits.
And he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold, and he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image, work, and overlaid them with gold.
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long.
One wing of the one cherubim was five cubits reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing was likewise five cubits reaching to the wing of the other cherubim.
And one wing of the other cherubim was five cubits reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits also joining to the wing of the other cherubim.
And the wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars, and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left, and called the name of that on the right hand, Jacob, and the name of that on the left, Boaz.
Brother Tim, will you pray for us?
Amen. We're in 2 Chronicles 3, and this is a chapter where people usually tune out, or just kind of skim over their Bible reading, and they're like,
What is this all talking about? Why do we need to know this stuff? But everything in God's Word is needed. Amen.
And it's all given for our admonition, and for our learning. So, today I'm going to preach a sermon out of this chapter called, In the Fourth Year.
In the Fourth Year. So, this is the fourth year of Sure Foundation Baptist Church, so I thought, well maybe I should just look up, you know, a fourth year and see what I can find in the Bible.
And there's a lot of actual references to In the Fourth Year, several references actually. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to preach three fairly quick points,
and then I'm going to just kind of go over some other instances in the Bible that it talks about, things that it talks about happening in the fourth year, and try to make some application at the end with everything.
So, and you know, we've heard some really great sermons. I've liked the application that's been used, and other sermons that have been preached.
I really like Pastor Pizarnsky's sermon, Brother Corbin, I liked all of them. They're all really good sermons, and very fitting for a fourth year of a church.
And it is an accomplishment to get to the fourth year of a church, and people don't realize just how much work actually goes into it,
and how much it takes to run a church. And I don't run this church by myself. I definitely don't run it by myself.
I have a lot of people helping in many different areas and aspects, and pretty much everybody here does something for the Lord, and I really appreciate that.
And even if all you do is go soul wanting, that's enough for me. Amen. I mean, obviously we should be able to, we should try to do whatever we can for the Lord,
but you know, if you just went soul wanting once a week, that would be, I think that's great. So, let's look at the first verse,
or let's look down at verse number two in our chapter here. It says,
And it began to build in the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
So, like I said, the title of the sermon is, In the Fourth Year.
And so, again, I just took instances where it actually says that term, found many terms in there,
but I chose to preach out of this chapter because it kind of talks a little bit about building the house of the Lord.
As a matter of fact, it talks a lot about it. The whole chapter is about building the house of the Lord, and how Solomon built this house.
Let's look at verse number one. It says,
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord of Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father,
in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
So, point number one this evening is building the house of the Lord requires preparation.
So, building the house, you know, this building is not the house of the Lord.
The house of the Lord in the New Testament is where the believers gather together.
We are the church when we gather together in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and to go preach the Gospel, and to have the Word of God preached.
That is the gathering of the people together.
In the Old Testament, they had the same thing.
They had a gathering of the people, and it was called the congregation of the Lord.
Congregation means church.
So, it's just a transliteration from the Greek to English, is the word church.
And in the Old Testament is the congregation.
The Bible uses those terms simultaneously.
So, you could turn to one, I think it's Psalm chapter 22, and it says that it's a congregation,
and then in the New Testament it's quoted, I think, in the book of Hebrews, where it says it's the church.
So, anyway, just a little background on that.
But the Bible says here that, you know,
Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah,
where the Lord appeared unto David his father.
So, notice first that he's building it in a specific place.
So, in the Old Testament, God said, this is where my people are going to meet.
This is how I want the house to be built.
In the Old Testament, the tabernacle of the congregation is what Moses commanded through God
to build this tabernacle. It was basically like a mobile tent that had all the holy things of God that were in it.
And, you know, there was a preparation for even putting that together.
And it was a great amount of priests that had to carry all this stuff around.
It was a laborious work.
And they basically just traveled from place to place wherever God told them to go.
And then, later on in David's reign, you know, he actually was commanded to build in Mount Moriah,
which is actually where Abraham was supposed to sacrifice Isaac,
but then God, of course, stopped him from doing that.
So, this place is a special place to God.
I really don't understand why it is, but you know who does understand?
God understands.
And, you know, God is God.
He expects us to do what He asks, you know.
And so, when David started to prepare this place, he prepared it in a specific place,
and he prepared it with specific things.
So, you know, it made me think about the fact that this church here had to be prepared to be put into place also.
So, we had to have a group of people that kind of came together as like a soul winning group,
and we just kind of all started hanging out, a bunch of people from the northern area of Washington and Seattle and so forth,
and then here in Washington, Vancouver, Washington, and also in places in Oregon, Portland, Oregon, and things like that.
And we all kind of just came together and just started going soul winning, you know.
When there was something going on, like when Pastor Anderson was doing like an event or something,
then we would just kind of do something along the same lines, and we all just kind of became friends.
You know, and we went to the Red Hot Preaching Conference in July of 2016 after Pastor Jimenez was going through all the things that he was going through,
and he said, you know, we're going to do this.
We're going to start a church in Vancouver, Washington, and then he began to prepare these things.
So, like David had to, you know, obviously I'm not calling Pastor Jimenez David, okay.
Don't be stupid, okay. I'm not saying that.
But I'm just saying it made me think about the fact that there had to be a preparation for the house of the Lord to be built.
And so, the house of the Lord is obviously the church. It's considered the church in the New Testament.
And so, it had to be prepared. Let's look at 1 Chronicles 22, verse number 2.
So, flip back in your Bible a few pages here.
And so, you know, when we first started, when Pastor Jimenez gave us a shot here,
you know, we started, I think our first service had like 22 people in it.
And then that weekend, the people from Washington came, and then it kind of added to that number.
And then just slowly but surely, we started to add people into the church.
But we were not an independent Baptist church.
So, it took a while for us to get to the point where we were an independent Baptist church.
We were what we call a church plant or a satellite church of Verity Baptist Church.
So, another pastor from California planted this church here.
And we used to meet in downtown Vancouver, which was really interesting.
But now we're here since we've been here for a year now.
But the Bible throws around a lot of years and dates and things like that.
But sometimes those things have significance.
And, you know, I've preached about stuff like this before,
how, you know, certain numbers kind of appear a lot of different times in the Bible.
And I don't think that Donald Trump's presidency was predicted through the Scriptures or anything weird like that, okay?
I'm not going that far with it, all right?
I'm not like into numerology.
But God does use specific numbers certain times.
And I think that teaches us something that tells us something about that chapter or how he feels about that.
Or it's a symbolic of a time period or something like that.
But in the fourth year, you know, I really couldn't find necessarily a pattern.
But I did notice that there's a lot of great things that happened in the fourth year in the Bible.
So, you know, we're in our fourth year and I want us to get to our fifth year.
I want us to get to our sixth year. I want us to get to our seventh year.
I want us to just keep moving forward and doing great things for God.
And, you know, I never wanted us to get burnt out and doing well for the Lord.
And, you know, I don't want us to just become some regular church that, you know, that just people just don't care about the things of God anymore.
They've glossed over the Word of God in their mind.
The Bible can get preached to them and they just don't retain it.
They don't apply it, you know, that the Word of God stops being special in people's lives.
We don't want to get to that point.
We don't want to get to the point where, you know, only the pastor's going out on visitation every Thursday night.
And then the two deacons show up to go with them.
Who's been to a church like that before?
Oh, we're going on visitation tomorrow and I pray for us.
It's like, why don't you go soul winning?
How about that?
You know, our church goes soul winning and we do that, not so we can brag about it, but so that we can get people saved.
Amen. So we had four people saved today.
Praise God for that.
Four people saved yesterday.
Praise God for that.
We've had several people saved this week.
And you know why?
Because we care.
And we want to do what God commands, which is to preach the gospel to every creature.
And we're going forth to the other most parts of the earth.
I said that in the announcements.
You know, we've planted a church in London, well it's kind of London, it's actually South End.
Don't get mad about that.
But it's close to London, okay?
It's closer to London than any place I know of.
So I don't really know England that well, but I do know where South End is.
But now the church has moved to a different location, which I can't pronounce right now.
Sorry, forgive me.
But every church goes through a process where they're prepared.
When I started that church with Brother Ian, we talked for months before we ever even sprung that plan into action.
There was preparations that had to be made.
There was training that has to get done.
Pastor Mendez had to train me in a lot of different areas.
That I didn't know.
What else is a preparation?
Well, getting the chairs, getting the piano, getting all the things that we need, getting a map.
Whatever else goes into just having a bunch of people.
And we want to have a big church mentality.
I remember I used to set out chairs when our church was really small.
I would set chairs all the way to the back of the auditorium.
Because I would just pray that God would fill those chairs.
And you know what?
A lot of the times when I would set those chairs out, we would have extra people come and sit in those chairs.
Who remembers that?
Right?
So, you know, we never want to get where we don't have a zeal for the things of God.
Or we don't care about God building His house.
But a lot of preparation has to go into that.
So I had to turn to 1 Chronicles 22, verse 2, it says,
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel.
And he set masons to hew wrought stones and to build the house of God.
So, remember, it said David prepared the place.
Solomon was to build the temple.
Solomon was to build the house of the Lord.
But David gathered together and prepared the things.
So what did he do?
He got the strangers together in the land.
And we need to go out and get strangers from the land and bring them into the house of God.
Amen?
And it says he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
So God wants us to get out there, do the work, and bring some stones in to build up this lively temple, this lively house.
He wants to take lively stones and build this house.
Right?
So how are we going to do that?
We're going to do it one person at a time.
We're going to do it one soul winning at a time.
And you know, does everybody that gets saved come to our church that same day?
No, they don't.
But you know what people will say that are these hater type churches?
They'll just say, well, if they didn't come to church, then they really didn't get saved.
Oh, really?
So I suppose that every single person in this church that got saved, they went to church that same day?
Who didn't go the same day?
See, there's a lot of people that didn't go.
You're not saved because you didn't go to church.
I mean, that's stupid.
Everybody's in a different situation.
Not everybody has the ability to come to church.
That mentality just boggles my mind because it took me six months to darken the doorstep of a church.
And then I just quickly, as I went to church, I started to learn the Bible.
I got baptized and really just started to become a student of the Bible.
Because I did, once I got into the house of God, I wanted to learn.
I just wanted to soak it in and learn everything I could.
So you have here David, like I said, he's preparing the building.
He's preparing the place.
So that's what made me think about Pastor Jimenez is that he prepared this place.
He prepared me to do the work.
He prepared you all to do the work.
He'd come and preach sermons to us and help us in any way he could.
He was very supportive.
But what was the goal?
To make this an independent, fundamental Baptist church that would go on and make other independent, fundamental Baptist churches, right?
And so the goal is not just to start some denomination.
We're not a denomination.
What did I say?
Independent Baptist churches.
That means independent of us.
Once a church that we start has a pastor that gets ordained, that becomes an independent Baptist church and the umbilical cord gets cut, so to speak.
And then they're an independent Baptist church.
And that's how things have been done since the church started.
But if it's done a different way, they're not doing it God's way.
See, God requires preparation for the building, but it has to be prepared in a correct way.
And so what were the things that had to be done?
Well, all these things had to be brought forth.
In 1 Chronicles 22, look at what it says.
And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails of the doors of the gates and for the joinings and brass in abundance without weight and cedar trees in abundance for the Sidonians.
And they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnificul.
And yes, that is a real word because it's in the Bible, magnificul.
Of fame and of glory throughout all countries, I will therefore now make preparation for it.
So David prepared abundantly before his death.
See, he wasn't allowed to build the house of the Lord because he'd had so many wars and shed blood.
And God said, you know, I'm going to have your son do it who's tender and delicate.
But you see in that last verse where it says that the house must be exceeding magnificul.
This is what I want this house of the Lord to be like, exceeding magnificul.
And I'm not talking about the nails and the gold and all the different dishes and all that kind of stuff.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about how our church operates.
What is our main goal? Our main goal is to get people saved.
Our main goal is to preach the word of God, to teach the word of God, to get people saved,
and to baptize people and teach them how to serve the Lord themselves.
We're basically like making, you know, if you're thinking about a plant, sometimes you can take a plant and clone it.
I've never done this before, but I've heard it can be done, okay?
So you take a piece of a plant or a tree or something and you plant it, and that's like a clone or whatever is what they say.
So that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to bring forth another tree or another plant that's like us, you know?
And we want those people to be like that home-run Christian.
When we get someone saved, our goal should be to try to disciple that person or when someone new comes into our church,
to come alongside them and help them, train them, help them to be what's a home-run Christian.
So when you get saved, that comes to church, gets baptized, and then they start soul winning and they stay in church and follow the Lord.
That's like a home-run Christian, right?
It might be a grand slam Christian.
I guess that's if you have the bases loaded, but never mind.
Well, let's move on here.
So, but things had to be prepared in order for that church to be built.
You know, this is a physical building that we're talking about here.
But, you know, again, the people we get are from soul winning and workers that are doing the work.
And, you know, God has a hand in everything that's done here.
God has a hand in everything that's done here, and He calls for us to do the work of the ministry.
Now, He also needs a man in place.
So we're not going to just start a church in any place, and obviously I like starting churches,
but unless we have a man that can run that place, we're not going to do it.
So God does require that when we're talking about the preparation.
Part of the preparation to build the house of the Lord, the New Testament church, is that God really does require a man to be in place there.
So let's look at Numbers chapter 27, and we'll see kind of what Moses realized that he was at his end.
God told him, you know, you're going to die, Moses.
You know, this is what's going to happen.
And basically Moses, you know, he didn't whine and cry and ask for extra life or anything like that.
He said, okay, well, you know, let's get things in order here.
But look what Moses said. This is what a great man of God he was.
Numbers 27 verse 15, it says,
And Moses spake unto the Lord, saying, Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation.
Now a lot of people say, you're just following a man.
You're just, you know, you're man-centered or whatever.
And what did Moses say?
He said, hey, Lord, I want the Lord to set a man over the congregation.
Okay, so, and who did God set over the congregation?
It was Moses.
And so God chose a man that he picked to go forth and lead this great nation of Israel, this millions of people.
And God knew what he was doing.
Moses had the heart to do it.
And like Pastor Pizarnsky was talking about how the names were on the shoulders of the children of Israel.
Well, obviously, there's a lot of names on these shoulders.
And Moses got to the point where he was just like, just kill me, God.
I mean, I can't bear the burden of all these people.
And so God helped him out and had 70 other men to help him do the things.
And God kind of helped him get organized, you know.
So, but God said, or but Moses said, here, God, would you please set a man over the congregation
which may go out before them and which may go in before them,
and which may lead them out and which may bring them in,
that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
And the Lord said unto Moses, take thee Joshua the son of Nun,
a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him,
and set him before Eleazar the priest before all the congregation,
and give him a charge in their sight.
And thou shalt put some of thine honor upon him,
that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest,
who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the Lord.
At his word shall they go out, and at his word shall they come in,
both he and all the children of Israel with him,
even all the congregation.
And Moses did as the Lord commanded him,
and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest,
and before all the congregation,
and he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge
as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
So, you know, obviously, God wants a man to be in charge.
When Moses, it was Moses' turn to step back,
and for him to pass on, then he, what did Moses want?
He wanted a good man to come in and take his place.
And he asked God to bring this man,
and, you know, obviously, this man had been training with Moses his whole time.
He was basically Moses' servant.
And, you know, if you want to be a man of God someday,
if you want to be a pastor someday,
you have to be willing to follow somebody first.
You know, we can't be self-willed and just want to do everything,
and, you know, I forget who said it, but I think it was Pastor Buzarnsky,
but he said, if you want power just so you can kind of lord it over people,
then you want a leader.
If you want to lead just because you want that power,
that's what he said,
then, you know, if that's what you want,
then you want to lead for the wrong reasons.
So, you know, it shouldn't be a power trip or whatever.
It shouldn't be something that you're doing
just because you want to say that I'm the man or whatever.
That's a wrong attitude,
because Moses, like, as great of a man as he was,
you know, he's a man just like everybody else,
but he didn't say,
oh, God, just let me live.
I promise I won't do this again or whatever.
He's just like, pick another man.
Pick somebody else.
Pick somebody that's good.
And, obviously, we know that Joshua was good,
and he led the children of Israel into the Promised Land.
So, number two tonight,
every year is a milestone that should be celebrated and praised,
and I believe that,
and that's why I make a big deal
about our anniversaries every single year.
I always have.
I've always tried to get great preachers in here
to preach the Word of God to us.
You know, obviously, our first anniversary,
I think we had Pastor Jimenez
and Pastor Anderson preach for us,
and I can't remember all the different years,
but I've always tried to bring in someone
that would preach the Word of God,
and, you know, I mean,
I think, to me, it's a great celebration
that we have every single year,
and I never want to make light of that
because every year that a church
like this church is here in this place
or in places around the world,
it's a great thing,
and it's a great accomplishment
because churches like ours
are going the way of the dodo,
which means they're becoming extinct.
Churches that actually preach the Word of God,
that actually go soloing,
that actually, you know,
want to please the Lord
and do things that are right and true,
are going by the wayside.
Pastors that actually get up
and preach the Bible,
that's going by the wayside,
and if they do get up
and preach the Bible,
they're preaching the wrong version.
It's like they're preaching
a Bible version that's been corrupted,
and so, really,
they're not really doing anything good
for the Kingdom of God in reality
because they got the wrong Bible,
so they're not preaching
the right Word of God,
they're not preaching
the true Word of God,
and they're, you know,
Pastor Jimenez talked about
real-life church down there,
and I've passed by that church many times,
and that stupid song always plays in my head
from like the 90s or whatever,
called Real Life,
but I don't want to,
hopefully nobody knows that song,
but it's stupid, so.
But I wonder if that's why
they named that church that name
because of that song.
It's some like R&B song or something,
but anyway, I mean,
all these churches around here,
they have these like hokey names
like Abundant Life Church
and, you know,
Gaithe Creek and just whatever,
all these weird named churches like,
what's wrong with just a Bible name
and Baptist church at the end of it?
People are ashamed to say
that they're Baptist,
and sometimes I could see
with some of the so-called Baptists
why people would feel that way,
but, you know, if you're just,
you know, our type of Baptist church
is a Baptist church that believes
in the fundamentals of the faith,
and we don't apologize for that,
and sometimes negative things
come forth out of this pulpit,
but, you know,
if you actually look at the Bible,
about two-thirds of it's negative.
About two-thirds of it's negative,
so why is that the case?
Well, because men are sinful
because there's something wrong with us.
It's called sin,
and we all have it in our lives.
Even Christians,
even people that grew up in church,
everybody has sin in their life,
and, you know,
we need to be able to work on that sin,
and how are we going to do that?
Well, coming to church with believers
that believe the same way you do,
and hearing the Word of God
thundered forth from the pulpit,
that's what's going to help you
to get that sin out of your life,
and, look, you've got to want it.
Like, you can't just say,
well, I want to get sin out of my life,
but then you just never try.
You never try,
and you just kind of sit there
and think about other things
while the sermon's going on.
You don't really show
that you care that much,
but, you know,
I think that it's important
to celebrate, you know,
our churches being one year older
than it was last year,
and 2 Chronicles 3, verse 2 says,
And he began to build
in the second day of the second month
in the fourth year of his reign.
So, Solomon, you know,
he was supposed to build
the house of the Lord,
but look what year he started
doing it, the fourth year.
Now, you know,
we celebrate all types of things
every year, don't we?
Every year we have Father's Day.
Every year we have Mother's Day.
Every year we have,
now it's like Grandpa's Day,
and, you know,
there's just all these days, right?
And I think it's Hallmark's
secret agenda to try to get us
to buy cards for everybody
every time something goes on.
Birthday, I mean,
you've got birthdays,
anniversaries, and, you know,
those things are good.
Why do people celebrate them?
Because they're worth celebrating.
You know, your anniversary
to your spouse is worth celebrating.
Your new year that you are older
is worth celebrating,
unless you get to 50,
and then it's, no, I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding.
I'm getting there.
So, that's when I get the black
over the hill cake, right?
But they're worth celebrating.
Why?
Because people are worth celebrating.
You know, anniversaries
are worth celebrating.
The new year's worth celebrating.
You know, there's all kinds of things
that are worth celebrating,
but you know what?
A church getting older,
and wiser, and better,
and, you know,
and whatever has come that year,
you know, we're celebrating the fact
that we made it another year.
And I don't think there's anything
in the world wrong with that,
and this is when Solomon began
to build the house of the Lord.
And you know, it took him seven years
to build the house of the Lord,
and in the fourth year
is when the foundation
of the house of the Lord was laid.
So, you know, he started building it
in the fourth year.
Four years into the seventh year,
four years into the seven years
that he started building,
he laid the foundation
of the house of the Lord.
So, you know, there's something special
about an anniversary,
and I don't think there's anything
wrong with celebrating.
As a matter of fact,
I'm always gonna try to make it
a big thing in our church.
So, number three tonight,
the house of God must be built
by God and His standards
and His precepts.
The house of God must be built
by God and His standards
and His precepts.
So, listen,
are you in 2 Chronicles 3?
If you aren't, turn back there,
verse number three.
The Bible reads,
Now these are the things
wherein Solomon was instructed
for building the house of the Lord.
The length by cubits
after the first measure
was three-score cubits,
and the breadth, 20 cubits.
So, notice that Solomon,
when he began to start building
the house of the Lord,
did it as he was instructed.
See, you can't just build
a church in the name of God
and do it opposite of the way
that he told you to do it.
See, the preparation was made
by his father, David.
David said,
Here's the materials
you need to have.
This is what you need to do.
I'm gonna lay out
the instructions for you.
And Solomon said,
Okay, and then he gathered
all these workers.
He gathered all this stuff
to build this great house
that's supposed to be
significant and better
than all the houses
in the whole world of worship.
And then Solomon was instructed
to build the house of the Lord.
And guess what?
He did it exactly
like he was supposed to.
And this is the thing
about churches,
is that you can have
some fly-by-night,
gimmicky church,
you know, six-eight church
and all these other churches
with the fancy names.
And look, you can build
a big congregation
with smoke and lights
and, you know,
some kind of rock band
playing at the front
for the whole thing.
And everybody's waving
and swaying their arms
and carrying the television
and, you know, all that stuff.
And the fog is coming in
and, you know,
they're all breathy
with their music.
And then the pastor gets up
and he tells you
a bunch of nice things
about yourself
and how good you are
and how beautiful you look.
And, you know,
God's never mad at you
for anything.
And if anybody tells you that,
they're majoring on the minors
and, you know,
just all this stuff.
It's a bunch of fluff.
Look, if you read after,
if you actually read
what the Bible says,
that's not how God is.
Now, He is gentle.
He is tender.
He is merciful.
He is tender-hearted
towards His people.
But you know what?
When He asks to get after
somebody, He gets after them.
You know, and sometimes
we need to have somebody
get after us.
Pastor Jones was preaching
in his sermon
how we're the, you know,
we need to police ourselves,
but we're the worst police
officers for ourselves.
You know, it's true.
You know, a lot of times,
people will look at
what other people are doing
and don't realize
what they're doing themselves.
And we've got to take,
like you said,
a self-audit of our lives
probably on a daily basis
because it's real easy
to slip back into old habits,
isn't it?
It's real easy to start
thinking you're better
than other people
because you've been saved
for about five years
and you've cleaned up your life
but maybe not everybody else
in the church.
You know what I mean?
So we can't get
that kind of attitude.
We've got to have the attitude
that we're going to do things
the way God told us to do it.
And, you know,
so Solomon was instructed
into building
the house of the Lord
and he did it
like he was supposed to.
So God expects the church
to be built by His standards
and His precepts.
That's what Solomon did, right?
Now we're talking
about a physical house, okay?
In the Old Testament,
but then, like I said,
the New Testament
is still the house of the Lord
but it's a spiritual house
filled with believers.
Believers who are indwelt
by the Holy Spirit
and if you're indwelt
by the Holy Spirit
and you come together
in a congregation like this,
we have a specific time
that we meet,
we have specific days
that we meet
and we come
and we worship the Lord
the way we believe.
The Bible says
you're supposed to worship Him
in spirit and in truth.
So we don't have the rock band.
Sorry if you were coming here today
expecting us to sing Bon Jovi
living on a prayer
for our worship service
or something.
But what we're going to do,
we're going to take the old hymns
that actually teach doctrine,
that have a good melody to them.
It's not some screeching
on a guitar.
It's not a bunch of people
with piercings up in their faces
saying that they're Christians
or really not.
We're using just
stringed instruments.
The piano is a stringed instrument
and you know what?
I believe that that's
the kind of music.
The Bible says
speaking to yourselves in psalms,
hymns, and spiritual songs.
Singing and making melody
in your heart,
not to the congregation,
not to yourself,
but who?
To the Lord.
So we're supposed to be
singing unto the Lord.
It's not a showboat,
American Idol practice
for the next superstar,
Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston
or whatever you think
that you're going to be.
This is not a competition
of who can sing the best.
We all sing together
as a congregation
and there's some people
that sing better than others,
but the better singers
can drown out the bad singers.
I'm just kidding.
The Bible says,
make a joyful noise
unto the Lord.
It doesn't say
that it has to be pretty.
You just make a noise.
If the dogs start barking,
then we'll give you
some singing lessons
or whatever,
but what else do we do?
I've talked about soul
wanting a little bit,
but that's one of the things
that will help build the church.
Now listen,
God builds the church.
I understand that,
but He also sets men and women
into this church
and we help God.
We are co-laborers with God.
We are God's husbandry
and we co-labor together with Him.
In case you didn't realize
that Jesus wasn't standing
at the door to greet you
as He walked in the door,
but you know what Jesus is here?
He's part of this congregation.
He says where two or three
are gathered together
in the midst of thee,
I will be in the midst of thee.
Where two or three
are gathered together,
but God is in the middle.
He's in the service.
He's partaking in the things
that we do
and He's here leading us
with His Holy Spirit
and He wants us to go out
and go soul winning.
He wants us to go out
and seek and save
that which was lost.
That's what Jesus said.
That's what the Bible says,
that Jesus came to seek
and save that which was lost.
And so when He left,
He said I'm going to prepare
a place for you
and He left.
He's coming back again
to receive us unto Himself
that where He is,
we're going to be there also.
So we're going to be
in glory with Him someday,
but He's left us here
to do the work
and what is the work?
The work is soul winning.
The work is getting people saved.
You're like, well,
you can't get anybody saved.
Look, I've heard that
so many times,
but when's the last time
you saw Jesus,
when you got to an apartment
complex to knock the doors
and Jesus was already there
knocking them?
When's the last time
that's happened?
Never, because He's
in heaven right now.
So Jesus is not going to
knock the doors for you.
That's not going to happen.
We are left here
to do the work
and He said,
He just said to go.
Go ye therefore
into all the world
and preach the gospel
to every creature, right?
So we're supposed to go.
We're supposed to preach.
He left the job to us
and we can't fall down
on that job.
So if the house of God
is going to be built,
it's got to be built
by God's standards.
It's got to be built
by His precepts.
Let's look at, let's see.
Well, I want to read
a couple more verses here.
I'm sorry.
I'll stay where we're at.
In verse 4 it says
in the porch that was
in the front of the house
and the length of it
was according to the breadth
of the house, 20 cubits
and the height was 120
and He overlaid it
with pure gold.
And the greater house
He sealed with fir tree
and He overlaid it
with fine gold
and He set there
on palm trees and chains
and He garnished the house
with precious stones
for beauty
and the gold was gold
of parvain.
So, you know,
I'm not going to go on
for time's sake
with all this stuff
but it's detailing
everything that was supposed
to be done,
that was instructed
to be done.
But see, God has instructions
for us in the New Testament also.
He has instructions
on how the house of God
is supposed to be built.
As a matter of fact,
let's turn over to
Psalm 127, verse 1.
That's not necessarily
Old Testament but I guess
some people would consider
it to be but it's the
songbook of the Lord
that I just mentioned earlier
that we're commanded
to sing out of, right?
Psalm 127, verse 1,
the Bible says,
except the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain
that build it.
Except the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain
that build it.
Now, what does that mean?
That God's just going to do
everything magically
and we just get to step in
and it's all done?
No, that's not what
it's talking about.
It's talking about that
if He's not in it,
then it's not really
going to get built.
It's not going to get built
the way He wants it
to be built.
It says, except the Lord
build the house,
they labor in vain
to build it.
You can build your version
of church or your version
of the house of the Lord
all you want,
but if God's not in it,
it's not really a church.
If it's not teaching
the correct doctrine,
it's not really a church.
If it's not using
the right Bible,
it's not really a church.
If it's not reaching the lost,
it's not really a church.
It's phony.
There's a lot of gloss
out there, folks.
People are like,
well, there's so many churches
to choose from.
I don't know which one
is the one that actually
does what God says.
There's a reality check
for you.
If your church is just
a country club where you
get together and hang out
with your other friends
that like Donald Trump,
that's not a church.
Now, if you like Donald Trump,
whatever, I don't care,
but that's not what
church is about.
We're not Fox News Baptist
here.
We're not Newsweek
or what's the new one?
Newsmax, yeah.
I never watch it,
but I've heard of it, okay?
But yeah, we're not
Newsmax Baptist Church.
We don't get together
to talk about politics.
We get together
to talk about the Lord.
You know what I love
about our church
is that we get together
and at the end
of church services,
there's guys that are
standing around
with their Bibles
opening their hands
and we're like,
hey, what do you think
about this verse?
What do you think about this?
Well, what do you
think about this?
And it's just like,
we're not trying to
just searching the Scriptures
and seeing whether
these things are so
or iron that's sharpening iron
or trying to figure out
the deeper things of God.
And sometimes there's
some deep things of God
that people have
different opinions on
or it's just not real clear.
We see through a glass
darkly in some instances
like the things of
end times Bible prophecy
are kind of a little difficult
sometimes because,
but we will know
when it starts to happen,
we're going to know
exactly what it was
talking about like,
oh, that's it right there.
Now I see what that meant.
But I love that
about our church
that we, the Bible
is a big deal here.
And you know what?
If it's not founded
on the Bible,
then it's not a good church.
See, you have to have
the right doctrine.
You have to have
the right Bible.
You have to have
the right type of action.
What is the action?
Soul winning.
So there has to be
the right kind.
I believe that the right
kind of music has to be there.
The right kind of salvation
has to be at a church.
And if you're building it
on all that right stuff,
then it's going to be right.
The Lord is going to be
with it and the Lord
is going to build that church.
That's what I believe.
Because you know what
the Bible says,
except the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain
to build it.
So if we're working
together with the Lord
to do it the way He wants,
then it's going to
turn out right.
Look at 1 Timothy 3, verse 15.
1 Timothy 3,
chapter 3, verse 15.
Excuse me.
The Bible says,
But if I tarry long,
that thou mayest know
thou oughtest to behave
thyself in the house of God,
which is the church
of the living God,
the pillar and ground
of the truth.
So what is God saying?
He's letting us know
that if you think about
the house of God
in the Old Testament,
in the New Testament,
the house of God
is the church
of the living God,
the pillar and ground
of the truth.
In the New Testament,
the house of God
is the church
of the living God,
and it's the pillar
and ground of the truth.
When you come to church,
you should expect
to be taught the truth.
You should expect
to be able to get the truth
while you're here.
Of all places that you go,
of all places that you
walk into the doors of,
you should be able to go
to a church and hear
what's right and true.
We shouldn't hear
a bunch of lies
and a bunch of false doctrine
and a false salvation.
We should be hearing
the true salvation,
salvation by faith alone
and Christ alone
and nothing else added to it.
We don't have to do
a bunch of works to be saved.
We want to do works
because we are saved.
We want to do works for God
because He loved us,
because He did those things.
But look, you weren't out
in 100 degree weather
because you thought
you were earning your way
to heaven today.
See, I know that the
Jehovah's Witnesses
think that and that's why
they would probably have
like misters on them.
They just send letters
in the mail now.
It's like, they've gotten so,
they won't even go door to door.
They'd rather just go
to a door with their mailbox
and write things in crayons
or whatever and like that's
going to just make me turn
to a Jehovah's Witness
or something.
They don't even have the sand
to go door to door anymore.
And you know what,
when it's hot out there,
that's when it's hard.
Soul winning sometimes
is great, it's fun,
but sometimes it's hard
and it's work.
So that's why it's called
the work of the Lord.
We're supposed to do it.
Now turn to 1 Peter 2,
verse 2, 1 Peter 2,
verse number 2.
Now when you're newly saved,
the Bible says that
you should desire
the milk of the Word.
Look at what it says.
As newborn babes desire
the sincere milk of the Word
that you may grow thereby.
So when you're new in church
and you get plugged
into a church,
hey, get into the Bible
because that's what's
going to help you to grow.
You don't want to stay
a baby forever.
Wouldn't that be weird
if your baby just stayed a baby
and they just never changed
from being a baby?
Think of that
as a spiritual level.
I mean it would be weird
if Titus was just
three months old
or four months old
for the rest of his baby life.
But he was like 35
and still that age.
So God wants us to grow
by the Word of God
when we get into church
and it says we're supposed
to desire the sincere
milk of the Word.
So what is that?
It's the Bible.
You start with the easy parts.
You start with John.
You start with easier books
of the Bible
and you read that
and it's like drinking
a baba or whatever.
It's like breastfeeding
or whatever.
You're just like getting
all that milk
and it's helping you grow.
So you don't want to stay
a baby forever as a Christian.
You want to grow up
and start to get to a toddler
and then whatever else
comes along, the tween
or whatever and then the teen.
It's just like get
the holy water out
and I'm just kidding.
But they'll love you again
when they're older.
They love you.
When you come home,
they love you.
They hug your leg
and it's like the best
feeling in the world
when they're teenagers.
They stink and they like
don't want to be around
anymore or whatever.
But that'll change.
That'll change and then
they'll love you again
and they're like,
here, here's my kid.
But we don't want to
stay babies forever, right?
Look what it says
in verse 3.
If so be ye have tasted
that the Lord is gracious,
to whom coming as unto
a living stone disallowed
indeed of men but chosen
of God and precious.
So of course it's talking
about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ye also as lively stones
are built up a spiritual house
and holy priesthood
to offer up spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to God
by Jesus Christ.
So Jesus Christ is
that living stone.
He's the chief cornerstone.
He's the foundation
of our faith.
But the house of God
is built up by us also
as lively stones.
What does it say?
Built up a spiritual house
and holy priesthood.
So we're kings and priests.
If we're saved here,
we are kings and priests.
And it says to offer up
spiritual sacrifices.
See we don't sacrifice
animals on an altar.
That was a picture of Christ
in the Old Testament.
But Christ is the Lamb of God
that was slain from the
foundation of the world.
And we don't have to slay
that Lamb anymore.
He was slain once and for all.
And He placed the blood,
His own blood on the altar
and purges us from
all of our sins forever.
Right?
But what does God
want us to do?
Well, He wants us to build up
a spiritual house
as lively stones.
And to offer up
spiritual sacrifices.
What would that be?
That would be good works.
He wants us to do good works.
And it says acceptable
to God by Jesus Christ.
We want to do that
which is acceptable.
We want to do that
which is right.
And we don't want to get
caught up in dumb things
that don't matter.
Like politics.
Who cares?
Unless it's talking about
politics like abortion.
Those aren't politics.
Those are moral issues
that are politicized
in our country.
But the Bible says that
when someone conceives,
they're with child.
That's what it said
about Mary.
So these abortion
freakazoids out there
that just want to kill babies
for any reason necessary,
they would have killed
Jesus Christ too.
So these people are really wicked
that are doing this stuff.
But anyway,
I don't want to get off on that.
But,
wherefore also it is contained
in the scripture, verse 6,
behold I lay in Zion
a chief cornerstone,
elect, precious,
and he that believeth on him
shall not be confounded.
So if we put our faith
on that cornerstone
which is Christ,
we won't be confounded.
And he's the one that's elect,
he's the one that's precious,
but we're built upon
the foundation of that stone.
It says unto you therefore
which believeth he is precious,
but unto them
which be disobedient,
the stone which the builders
disallowed the same
is made the head of the corner.
So they didn't want
Jesus to be the Messiah,
they didn't want to accept him
as their Lord,
but no matter what,
he still became
what they didn't want him to become.
Turn to 2 Timothy 2, verse 19.
2 Timothy 2, verse 19.
This is our verse of the day also.
2 Timothy 2, 19.
It says, nevertheless,
the foundation of God
standest sure.
Having this seal,
the Lord knoweth them
that are his.
And let everyone that nameth
the name of Christ
depart from iniquity.
Now look what it says
about a great house.
It says, but in a great house
there are not only vessels
of gold and of silver,
but also of wood and of earth,
and some to honor
and some to dishonor.
If a man therefore purge
himself from these,
he shall be a vessel unto honor,
sanctified and meet
for the master's use
and prepared unto every good work.
What does God want from us?
Well, he wants us to be
a vessel of honor.
So as Christians,
we should walk in this life
as vessels of honor, sanctified.
That means set apart.
You're not into all that
worldly trash.
You're not into all
the worldly music
and all the holy weird movies
and all this other stuff.
Hey, we should focus on
the fact that God wants us
to be meet.
That means fitting
for the master's use.
And so to be fitting,
we've got to chip off
the rough edges in our lives,
the things that we're still
holding onto,
the high places in our life
that still have a stronghold
against us.
Because you notice even
the most godly kings
in the Bible,
they would say they did
all this good stuff,
but yet they kept
the high places in place.
They did not take down
the high places.
And from the time of Solomon
when he went bad to the time
near the end of the kings,
I think it was Hezekiah
was the one that finally
took them all down.
Maybe it was Josiah.
I can't remember right off
the top of my head,
but there was a point,
I mean, there was like
a 400-year period
where those high places
that Solomon built
were still there.
So what Solomon did
was really bad.
I mean, here he's doing good,
but later on in life
he got turned away.
And this is something
that kind of Pastor Jones
talked about today, too,
is that we want to finish.
This is what the concept
he was talking about.
We need to finish well.
We don't want to get dragged
out of church
over something dumb.
We've got to keep going.
We've got to stay in the fight.
We've got to keep rank.
We've got to stay,
because this is like an army.
In the Lord's army,
women are allowed.
You're fighting with men,
men and women fighting
alongside each other,
children also.
There's children in the Bible
that did right and true
and said, you know what,
I'm not going to eat
the king's meat
nor drink his wine
and we're ready to die.
They were actually thrown
into a fiery furnace
because they refused
to bow down
and worship an idol.
When all the worldly music
was playing and everybody else
was bowing down,
they refused to do it.
Gadrak, Meshach and Abednego,
look kids, you can be holy
unto the Lord also.
And God expects it.
You have more of a responsibility
than most kids
because not all kids
grow up in church.
So you need to stay
your course, children,
and do what's right and true.
Your parents,
you can't live your Christianity
through your parents.
You have to make
your own choices.
You have to make
your own stands.
You have to make
your own walk in the Lord.
Now, let's move on
to Matthew 7.
Probably not going to have time
to go through
all the other stuff.
Maybe I'll just make
a couple mentions,
but I wanted to show you
Matthew 7, verse 24.
The Bible says,
Therefore whosoever heareth
these sayings of mine
and doeth them,
I will liken him unto
a wise man which built
his house upon a rock.
And the rain descended,
and the floods came,
and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house,
and it fell not,
for it was founded
upon a rock.
What's he saying?
Hey, when the storms of life
are coming after you,
when all the hard things
are happening,
if you have your house,
if you're built upon the rock,
which represents who?
The Lord Jesus Christ.
If your faith
is settled on Christ
and not on your parents
or anything else besides Christ,
when all these things happen
and all these hard things
come into your life,
if you have Christ as your rock,
you're going to make it through.
Your house is not
going to be destroyed.
You will not be destroyed.
But you better make sure
that your life and your faith
and your practice
and everything you do
is founded upon that rock.
Because look at the alternative.
It says,
And everyone that hearth
these sayings of mine,
and doeth them not,
shall be likened unto
a foolish man,
which built his house
upon the sand.
And the rain descended,
and the floods came,
and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house,
and it fell.
And great was the fall of it.
See, this is,
I believe this is,
I mean, there's different
applications for this.
But, you know,
if you're not built
upon the rock,
if your foundation
is not Christ alone,
then, you know,
you're going to be in
for a hard time,
because when you've built
your house and your faith
and all your beliefs
on sinking sand,
that when those storms
of life come,
when the floods rise up
against you,
when the persecution comes
and your faith is not
founded on that rock,
it says great is going
to be the fall of it.
So make sure that when you're,
you know, taking all this in
and learning the Bible
and everything,
that your faith is on the rock,
because if it's not,
then you're going to be in
for a bad time.
Look at Isaiah chapter 28.
Isaiah chapter 28.
The Bible says in
Isaiah chapter 28,
look at verse number 16.
And this is our church's
like theme verse here.
It says,
therefore thus saith the Lord God,
behold, I lay in Zion
for a foundation a stone,
a tried stone,
a precious cornerstone,
a sure foundation.
He that believeth
shall not make haste.
So what is it saying?
Well, you know,
we need to believe
on that tried stone,
that precious stone.
We need to have
a sure foundation.
That sure foundation
is Christ.
And that's why our church
is named Sure Foundation
Baptist Church,
because the foundation
of this church
was built upon Christ.
And as long as I'm
the pastor here,
it always will be.
And I hope if there's ever
a successor to me,
that a man that loves the Lord
and wants to serve God
and wants to continue
in what this church
was built upon
is chosen to be the pastor.
Because I'm not going
to be the pastor forever.
Someone else is going
to be the pastor someday.
Someone else is going
to replace you someday.
Your kids are going to rise up
and be the next generation.
Are you teaching them?
Are they learning?
Are they sold out?
Are they bought in?
Because, look, it's not
a brainwashing, folks.
I mean, it kind of is.
We've got to wash
our children's brains
from the defilement
of this world.
Really what's happened
out there every time
we step out these doors
is defilement.
I mean, sometimes
you can't even walk out
the front door
and just not have,
I mean, you see stuff
that you wish you hadn't seen.
You go to the restaurant.
You look at people
you wish you hadn't
looked at.
People serving you food
that you wish didn't touch it.
I mean, this world's
gone crazy and, look,
our kids need to know
the truth and be able
to hang their hat
on what's right and true.
And so we need to keep them
far away from the things
of this world
as much as we possibly can
and protect them.
So let's turn over to,
let's see, Leviticus.
Let me just go to,
actually go to 2 Kings
chapter 18.
I'm just going to go through
a couple of these things.
So just a couple of things
to think about
as I close here.
Where it has, I mean,
I went through and just looked
at what the 4th,
in the 4th year said.
In Leviticus it talks about
the 4th year of your fruit
to be holy, to be praised
to the Lord with all.
It talks about in 1 Kings
that the 4th year
was the foundation
of the house the Lord laid.
It talks about in 1 Kings 22,
it talks about how Jehoshaphat,
the son of Asa,
began to reign over Judah
in the 4th year of Ahab,
king of Israel.
And I mean,
just a side note there,
you know, it's good to have
good leaders in perpetuity.
You know, like you had
Jack Hyles,
then you had Jack Scoppe.
Alright, we don't want
Jack Scoppe,
we want Jack Hyles
and then somebody good
after that, right?
So it's good to have
leaders in perpetuity
so Jehoshaphat
was the son of Asa
and they were both great kings.
2 Kings chapter 2 verse 8,
what did I say?
2 Kings 18, 9?
It says,
And it came to pass
in the 4th year of king Hezekiah,
which was the 7th year
of Hoshea, son of Elah,
king of Israel,
that Shalmaneser,
king of Assyria,
came up against Samaria
and besieged it.
So, I guess the point
I'd like to make here
is that, you know,
king Hezekiah was a good king.
He was a great king.
But he was during the same time,
I think as, let's see,
I think he was in the same
time period as, oh, it says
Hoshea, son of Elah,
king of Israel, let's see.
So, I mean,
I think he was around
the same time as Ahab.
Maybe I'm wrong about that.
Anyway, but you know,
when a good king's in rule,
you know, it's nice to see
that God's still going to
take care of business
and destroy the enemies
of the Lord.
You know, for every bad leader,
there's a good leader
to stand against them
if they were right.
So, you notice in the book
of Kings, a lot of times
there'd be a bad king there,
and then a good king would
rise up and that king
would do well.
And it kind of helped
balance the scales of evil
so that God's people
still had a remnant
in the land.
Jeremiah chapter 25.
And in Jeremiah,
there's like multiple times
where it brings up
this fourth year.
And so, I just want to go
through a couple of these
real quick and then
we'll be out of here, okay?
Jeremiah chapter 25 verse 1
says, the word of the Lord
came to Jeremiah concerning
all the people of Judah
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim,
the son of Josiah,
king of Judah.
So, and what happens?
Well, it says,
the word of the Lord,
let's see, verse 2,
the which Jeremiah
the prophet spake unto
all the people of Judah
and to all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, saying,
the thirteenth year of Josiah,
the son of Ammon,
king of Judah,
even unto this day,
that is the thirteenth and
twentieth year,
the word of the Lord
hath come unto me,
and I have spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking,
but you have not hearkened.
And the Lord has sent unto you
all his servants the prophets,
rising early and sending them,
but ye have not hearkened
nor inclined your ear to hear.
So, here we have Jeremiah
in the fourth,
it says in the fourth year
of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah,
the word of the Lord came to him
and it basically just said,
you know, I've sent all these
prophets to you,
I've tried to help you,
they've rose up early,
but you have not hearkened.
And let us never get to the
point in this church,
in the fourth year,
the fifth year, the sixth year,
or any other year,
where we stop hearkening
unto the word of the Lord.
When prophets are coming to you,
when people are coming to you
and preaching the word of God
to you, or the pastor's
preaching the word of God
to you, and you just don't
want to hear what's coming
from the mouth of the prophets.
And you know what,
the mouth of the prophets
are right here in this book.
And they're going to speak
to you, and if they stop
speaking to you, that means
you've stopped hearkening
unto them, you've stopped
listening unto them.
And this happened in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim.
Now look down at,
turn over to Jeremiah 36 verse 1.
So, you know, the first thing
that I wanted to show you here
in the book of Jeremiah
is in the fourth year
of the king of Jehoiakim,
the son of Josiah,
king of Judah.
So, Jehoiakim was
the son of Josiah.
Josiah was a great king.
Jehoiakim was a bad king.
He did evil in the sight
of the Lord.
Jeremiah 36 one says,
and it came to pass
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim,
son of Josiah, king of Judah.
So, this is the same year,
isn't it?
Right, it's the fourth year
of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah,
king of Judah,
and this word came unto
Jeremiah from the Lord.
So, here's another time
in the same year
where the Lord comes to Jeremiah
and it says,
take thee a roll of a book
and write therein all the words
that I have spoken unto thee
against Israel and against Judah
and against all the nations
from the day I spake unto thee
from the days of Josiah,
even unto this day.
It may be that the house of Judah
will hear all the evil
which I propose to do unto them
and come to them.
They may return every man
from his evil way,
that I may forgive
their iniquity and sin.
Look, why does God come and say
this is going to happen to you
if you don't stop
doing what you're doing?
Why?
Because He wants to forgive
our iniquity.
He's giving us a chance
to get things right.
Isn't that what it's saying?
He wants them to return
every man from their evil way,
that I may forgive
their iniquity and their sin.
He's wanting, you know,
He's pleading with you,
please allow me to forgive you.
Please get right.
Please do that which is right.
And, you know, a lot of times
people just won't hearken.
Let the Word of God,
you know what, never, you know,
quit thundering forth
out of the lips of the pulpit
from this church,
from the people that preach
out of this church
to the people of Sure Foundation
Baptist Church.
Let it never stop going forth
and telling people to return
from their evil ways
and do that which is right.
So people get on to our church
a lot because they are like,
well, all you do is just
preach about bad stuff.
Not everything I preached about
was negative today.
Not everything I preached about
was negative, but, you know,
some things are negative.
And God wants you
to get right with Him
and He expects people
in His church to, you know,
toe the line
and to do what He says.
We're God's people.
It shouldn't be that big
of a deal, you know.
And obviously we all have
our sin in our life,
but, you know,
it shouldn't define us.
Jeremiah chapter 45.
The Bible says in verse number 1,
the word of Jeremiah,
the prophet spake unto Baruch
the son of Neriah
when they had written
these words in a book
at the mouth of Jeremiah.
Now what does it say?
In the fourth year of who?
Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah,
king of Judah.
Is this the same year?
Is this the same king?
Yeah, so, so far,
Jeremiah 25,
Jeremiah chapter 36,
Jeremiah chapter 45,
this is all happening
in the same year.
These are different chapters
that are explaining it,
but God's telling us,
you know, when it happened,
under what king it happened,
and what seems
to be happening here.
The word of God is being
preached by a man
that is standing alone,
basically, in this nation.
He's got a couple homies
that are on his side,
Baruch, the son of Neriah,
and I think he has
some other friend in here
that it mentions,
but he didn't have
a lot of friends.
Everybody hated him.
Even his own family
wanted to kill him.
But you know what he was doing?
He was preaching
the word of God.
He was preaching
that was right and true,
and look at what he says.
Thus saith the Lord,
God of Israel,
unto thee, O Baruch.
Thou didst say,
Woe is me now,
for the Lord hath
added grief to my sorrow.
I fainted in my sign,
and I find no rest.
So this chapter in the book
of Jeremiah is only five verses,
and it's written to one man.
Those are written to.
It's written to Baruch.
God takes time to write
to his friend that stood
beside Jeremiah and allowed
a whole chapter,
even though it's only
five verses,
to be written to one man.
And I would say this,
that let the word of God
never quit speaking
to the individual
in this church.
In the fourth year,
in the fifth year,
in the sixth year,
in the 20th year,
hey, the individual needs
to receive the word of God.
This was written specifically
to one man, to Baruch,
which was his friend
that helped him out.
He's the one that wrote it out,
all the word of God,
and the princes cut it up,
because Jeremiah was locked
in a prison and couldn't
go preach the Bible.
So I think that's really cool.
There's a whole chapter
just written to this one man.
But God speaks to one person
all the time.
You know, if He's speaking
to you in any sermon
that you listen to,
or when you're reading
the Bible on your own,
He's speaking to you
as an individual, isn't He?
You're Baruch, you know.
So I know that's not
the best baby name in the world,
but, you know,
I mean, that was His name.
But you know what?
God cared about Baruch
enough to speak the word
of God to him,
and it made it into the Bible.
Look at Jeremiah 46.
I've only got two more places
to have you turn,
and we're done.
Jeremiah 46,
I know it's been long,
I'm sorry.
Sorry, not sorry.
Jeremiah 46,
the ice cream's melting,
pastor, pastor,
it's an emergency,
the ice cream's melting.
It'll just be that easier
to scoop, you know.
Jeremiah 46, the Bible says,
the word of the Lord,
which came to Jeremiah
the prophet against the Gentiles,
against Egypt,
against the army of Pharaoh Niko.
That's Maria Niko's
great-great-grandfather,
I think, and king of Egypt,
I'm just kidding, Maria,
which was the river Euphrates
in Charamesh,
which Nebuchadnezzar,
king of Babylon,
smote, and what does it say there?
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim,
the son of Josiah,
king of Judah.
Apparently, there's a lot
of things going on
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim,
the son of Josiah,
king of Judah.
It's a big year, isn't it?
So, and it says,
order ye buckler and shield
and draw near to battle.
So what's God doing?
He's preaching against a nation
that's not the nation of Israel.
He's preaching against
the Gentiles.
You know what Jeremiah
was made and ordained
a prophet unto the nations?
See, people will say to us,
why are you preaching about,
why are you going over there
and being a colonizer
in the Philippines?
Or why are you being
a colonizer over here
and over there?
Jesus Christ told us
to be colonizers.
He said to go preach the gospel
and get people saved
and put them in the colony
of the kingdom of God.
We're not trying to make them
our personal slaves
or something weird like that.
We want people to be saved.
You know what?
God is going to preach
against these Gentile nations.
You know what?
As a man of God,
I'm supposed to get up
and do the same thing.
You know,
woe unto you North Korea,
you torturous,
barbarous wretches
that just torture
Christians to death.
I mean, you know,
I guess I need to preach
a sermon against the country
here real soon
because it's really,
I haven't done it in a while.
But you know what?
God's preaching against who?
Egypt.
You know,
what does the world worship?
Egypt.
You know,
what's the biggest tours
you can go on?
Egypt, Egyptian tours
and go see the pyramids
and all that.
And look,
cool if you did that.
All right?
I would do it too
if I had the chance.
But like,
do I care about it
and the fact that I just,
you know,
I just love Egypt
in that way?
No, I don't.
Because a lot of the
wicked things,
you know,
Egypt is a picture of
wickedness in the Bible.
So we've got to guard
ourselves against just
getting too carried away
with stuff like that.
But my point is,
is let the word of God
always go out against
the nations that
despise the Lord.
And you know what?
God made sure that
Jeremiah said,
you know what Pharaoh Niko?
You're going down, buddy.
You killed Josiah.
You've hurt the people
of the Lord.
And you're going to
have a recompense
and a whirlwind
for that.
You know what?
Today there's countries
that hate the word of God.
They hate the Lord.
You know,
it seems like our country
is starting to spin
in that direction.
Yeah, you're right.
It has been that way
for a while.
And the last verse
I'll have you turn to,
Jeremiah chapter 51.
I just find it really interesting
all these different things
are just kind of
sandwiched in there
and you wouldn't really,
unless you look that term
up in the Bible,
you're not going to
really see that,
that all these things
happen in this same year.
But here's another one.
It says,
the word which Jeremiah
the prophet, verse 59,
excuse me, Jeremiah 51,
verse 59.
This is actually
a different one.
That was the last one
of the fourth year
of Jehoiachin.
But this is another
fourth year verse, okay?
Jeremiah 51, verse 59,
the word which Jeremiah
the prophet commanded Sariah,
the son of Neriah,
the son of Nasiah,
when he went with Zedekiah,
the king of Judah
unto Babylon
in the fourth year
of his reign.
And this Sariah
was a quiet prince.
So Jeremiah wrote in a book
all the evil
that should come upon Babylon,
even all these words
that are written against Babylon.
And Jeremiah said to Sariah,
when thou comest to Babylon
and shalt see
and shalt read
all these things,
then shalt thou say,
O Lord, thou has spoken
against this place
to cut it off,
that none shall remain in it,
neither man nor beast,
but that it shall be
desolate forever.
And it shall be,
when thou hast made an end
of reading this book,
that thou shalt bind
a stone to it,
and cast it in the midst
of the Euphrates,
and thou shalt say,
Thus shall Babylon sink,
and shalt not rise
from the evil
that I will bring upon her,
and they shall be weary.
Thus far are the words
of Jeremiah.
So this happened
in this fourth year
of the reign of, let's see,
what did it say?
Fourth year of his reign.
Yeah, Sariah, sorry.
So in this fourth year,
you have this,
where Jeremiah goes
and preaches against Babylon,
he goes actually
to the nation of Babylon,
and then he puts this stone
in the midst of Euphrates,
but this is getting
into Bible prophecy.
Now, the kingdom of Babylon
was really destroyed,
but there's a secondary
application to this
because there's an end times
Babylon that's going
to be destroyed.
Well, why am I bringing
all this up?
Because we need to make haste
to learning the mysteries
of the Bible,
and to applying ourselves
to trying to figure out
the things that are going
to come to pass.
And that's what I was
talking about earlier,
how us guys will get around
and we'll talk about stuff,
and we need to not be lazy.
Let's figure this stuff out,
and obviously we don't want
to go down deep
and stay down too long
and come up dry, right?
But we should be trying
to just figure out
the things of the Bible.
How does this apply
to end times Babylon?
Well, these are things
that we need to study about,
and so we've just been recently
kind of all talking about
Babylon lately,
so that's kind of why I thought
that was a cool verse
to bring up, but the Bible says
it shall be desolate forever.
It means the literal city
that already has been destroyed,
but it also means
that end times nation
that will be destroyed.
So I hope you learned
something today,
and we've got to move on
to the next year.
Hey, we've got four years in,
let's move on to the next year.
Let's do great things for God
in the fifth year,
in the sixth year,
in the seventh year,
and just keep going
and don't quit,
and battles are going to come,
the storms are going to rage
against us, but if we're built
upon the sure foundation,
the rock, which is the Lord
Jesus Christ in our church,
will always be around.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father,
we thank you, Lord,
for the great sermons
that were preached this week,
and let's pray that you bless
all those men of God
that came to feed us
with knowledge and truth.
Pray that you just bless
each and every single person here.
We thank you so much
for all the people here
that are just helping
in some capacity around here,
anybody that cleans
or does any kind of construction
or the sound system
or the video system
and people that go soul winning
and just all the things
that it takes to run
a spiritual house here, Lord,
this church.
I pray that you just bless
each and every one of them,
Lord, and we thank you so much
for the people
that got saved this week.
Pray that you bless us
as we go our way
and just bless this church
for many years to come.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Varily, verily, sing it out loud on the first.
O what a savior
that he died for me!
From condemnation
he hath made me free!
He that believeth on the Son saith, He hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the Son is true, hath everlasting life.
All my iniquities, not him were linked, All my indebtedness by him was paid,
All who believe on him the Lord hath said, Hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the Son is true, hath everlasting life.
The poor in me, I can trust my Lord, All weak and sinful, I believe his Word,
O glad message every child of God, hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the Son is true, hath everlasting life.
Though all unworthy and I will not doubt, For him that cometh he will not cast out,
He that believeth on the Good News shall, hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the Son is true, hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the Good News shall, hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Verily, verily, message ever new, He that believeth on the Good News shall,
He that believeth on the Good News shall, hath everlasting life.
Thank you.