WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Matthew chapter 9. 00:09.000 --> 00:12.000 Follow along silently as we read. 00:19.000 --> 00:21.000 Matthew chapter 9. 00:21.000 --> 00:22.000 The Bible reads, 00:22.000 --> 00:24.000 Matthew chapter 9. 00:52.000 --> 00:56.000 But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins, 00:56.000 --> 01:02.000 then saith he to the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. 01:02.000 --> 01:05.000 And he arose and departed to his house. 01:05.000 --> 01:12.000 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. 01:12.000 --> 01:17.000 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receipt of custom, 01:17.000 --> 01:21.000 and he saith unto him, Follow me, and he arose and followed him. 01:21.000 --> 01:29.000 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at me in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. 01:29.000 --> 01:35.000 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners? 01:35.000 --> 01:42.000 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that behold need not a physician, but they that are sick. 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 But go ye and learn what that meaneth. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. 01:47.000 --> 01:51.000 For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 01:51.000 --> 01:59.000 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast off, but thy disciples fast not? 01:59.000 --> 02:05.000 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? 02:05.000 --> 02:10.000 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. 02:11.000 --> 02:20.000 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment. For that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 02:20.000 --> 02:27.000 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 But they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. 02:31.000 --> 02:42.000 While he spake these things unto them, behold there came a certain ruler and worshiped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead, but come, and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his disciples. 02:46.000 --> 02:53.000 And behold a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him and touched the hem of his garment. 02:53.000 --> 02:57.000 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 02:57.000 --> 03:05.000 But Jesus turned to him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 And the woman was made whole from that hour. 03:08.000 --> 03:17.000 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, he said unto them, Give place, for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 And they laughed him to scorn. 03:20.000 --> 03:25.000 But when the people were put forth, he went in and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. 03:25.000 --> 03:29.000 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land. 03:29.000 --> 03:36.000 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us. 03:36.000 --> 03:44.000 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 They said unto him, Yea, Lord. 03:46.000 --> 03:50.000 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you. 03:50.000 --> 03:55.000 And their eyes were opened, and Jesus straightly charged them, saying, See, that no man know it. 03:55.000 --> 04:00.000 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. 04:00.000 --> 04:05.000 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. 04:05.000 --> 04:12.000 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake and the multitude marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. 04:17.000 --> 04:23.000 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, 04:23.000 --> 04:26.000 and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 04:26.000 --> 04:34.000 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. 04:34.000 --> 04:40.000 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. 04:40.000 --> 04:45.000 Pray ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Brother Temel, could you purpose hers? 05:11.000 --> 05:17.000 And I was not ready for him to be done reading yet. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 He snuck up on me. 05:20.000 --> 05:27.000 I was like, Usually Matthew has longer chapters than that, but maybe he just reads fast. 05:27.000 --> 05:28.000 I don't know. Okay. 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 The title of the sermon tonight is Keep Your Soul Winning Red Hot. 05:31.000 --> 05:38.000 I'm going to move away from doing the Book of Revelation just for one Sunday here. 05:38.000 --> 05:43.000 And when I come back from Texas, I will continue back with the series. 05:43.000 --> 05:55.000 But I preached this as a as a soul challenge yesterday, and I didn't get a really complete the full sermon. 05:55.000 --> 06:00.000 So I figured I would just preach the whole thing in length here for you guys. 06:00.000 --> 06:04.000 And so the title of the sermon is Keep Your Soul Winning Red Hot. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 Keep Your Soul Winning Red Hot. 06:07.000 --> 06:20.000 And in verse 35, the Bible says, And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 06:20.000 --> 06:29.000 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. 06:30.000 --> 06:34.000 So Jesus was very moved when he saw the multitudes of people. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 And why? Because they were they fainted. 06:37.000 --> 06:44.000 They fainted and they were as sheep scattered abroad, having no shepherd. 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 And he was moved. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 He didn't just have compassion. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 He didn't just have this feeling of, oh, I feel bad for them. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 He was moved by this. 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 He was moved to do something about it. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 And that's what compassion is. 06:59.000 --> 07:08.000 Compassion is seeing someone's need and not only caring and having empathy for them, but actively taking action to alleviate their suffering. 07:08.000 --> 07:14.000 And that is what soul winning is, because there's a lot of Christians out there that, yeah, they care. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 But do they care enough to actually do something about it? 07:17.000 --> 07:20.000 And there's very few soul winners in the world. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 There's very few soul winners. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 I mean, there's a there's very few Christians. 07:24.000 --> 07:31.000 But then out of that group of Christianity, there's very few Christians that will actually do something about people's state. 07:31.000 --> 07:43.000 And that's why it's so important to be a soul winner in a church, because there's so you know, there's already few enough Christians, but there needs to be more soul winners. 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 And in this passage, Jesus actually does care. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 And he's an individual here. 07:47.000 --> 07:59.000 So my first point is keep your soul and red hot within because it's very important as an individual that you stay red hot for soul winning, because if you don't, you're going to get what cold? 07:59.000 --> 08:03.000 It's not you don't want to get lukewarm or cold. 08:03.000 --> 08:09.000 You know, obviously, Jesus said it's better to be cold than lukewarm, but you don't want to be either one of those things. 08:09.000 --> 08:11.000 You want to stay red hot. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 And we were at the Red Hot Preaching Conference 2.0. 08:15.000 --> 08:35.000 And I felt like it was important to help people understand the importance of individually being a soul winner and being fired up for soul winning, because you know, when you start doing it for years, you can get to the point where you're just like, you know, or you can just go through times when you're just meh. 08:35.000 --> 08:40.000 You know, you don't feel it like you did when you first got saved or you don't feel like you did when you first started going soul winning. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 When you got fired up about it. 08:42.000 --> 08:51.000 And you know, when if you don't have that fire in your belly to do it and care about it, then you can get lax in it or you can just stop doing it all together. 08:51.000 --> 08:57.000 And I remember when our first church, our church first started that we had 100% participation in soul winning. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 And I would say that's just not true about our church anymore. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 And I and I don't like that. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 But there's nothing I can do about that. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 So it's up to the individual to care about going. 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 It's up to the individual to care about soul winning. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 And Jesus cared. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 Jesus was an individual. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Jesus was the son of God. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 And yeah, he was perfect. 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 But it's he was he's our example to look to. 09:19.000 --> 09:23.000 We can't look at people that men that fail and go, oh, well, he failed. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 So now I got to fail or, oh, he's not on fire. 09:27.000 --> 09:28.000 So I don't want to be on fire. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 And yeah, it is important for us to have our zeal rub off on other people. 09:32.000 --> 09:36.000 And if people around us stop being zealous, it can be a detriment to our to ourselves. 09:36.000 --> 09:43.000 I get that. But you still have an individual responsibility to stay in the game, to still keep fighting and to still stay stolen. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Whatever you have to do to motivate yourself. 09:45.000 --> 09:48.000 That's what you got to do, because Jesus commended us to go. 09:48.000 --> 09:53.000 He didn't say, oh, it's OK for you to take a break forever because you already did it for like five years or whatever. 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 That's not what the Bible says. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 It's not what Jesus said to do. 09:56.000 --> 10:01.000 And we have an individual responsibility to stay so willing. 10:01.000 --> 10:05.000 And even if you're in a slump, don't start feeling sorry for yourself. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 And just quit going or quit caring. 10:07.000 --> 10:18.000 And as an individual, Jesus showed us the impact that one man can have because he cared about people, because he cared about seeking and saving that which is lost. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 He came down to show us an example of what to do. 10:20.000 --> 10:28.000 And even when the disciples were whining and complaining that they didn't have a break, he still just said, hey, no, you feed them. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 No, you take care of them. 10:30.000 --> 10:31.000 And was setting an example. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 And he worked so hard that people thought he was insane. 10:33.000 --> 10:37.000 The disciples were like, oh, come on, let us rest in this desert place. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 And he's like, no, we got work to do. 10:39.000 --> 10:43.000 You know, he only had a few years on this earth to do the work he did. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 And so he wanted to put everything he had into it. 10:46.000 --> 10:53.000 And I've told I've talked about this before that we only have so much time on this earth to do the things that we can do. 10:53.000 --> 11:02.000 And we need to we need to make sure that we have like a focus and an energy where we just do everything we can in the years that we can do them. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Because there could be a time when you can't walk. 11:04.000 --> 11:09.000 There can be a time when you maybe you have some sort of ailment that comes upon you where you can't go anymore. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 And you'll be sad when that happens. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 You'll be sad when you say, well, I should have just done more when I had the chance. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 And I should have redeemed the time when I could. 11:18.000 --> 11:25.000 And, you know, you don't you don't see it maybe necessarily right now, but you would be sad about it. 11:25.000 --> 11:30.000 You would be sad if you knew that tomorrow was the last time you could ever go so in order if today was the last day you could go. 11:31.000 --> 11:37.000 Or if yesterday was the last day you could go and you never went again, you'd be sad about it, especially if you have a soul winner's heart. 11:37.000 --> 11:40.000 Because all of us have times when we don't feel like going. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 I get that. I understand that. 11:42.000 --> 11:43.000 And I'm not trying to get on to anybody. 11:43.000 --> 11:47.000 I'm just saying we need to keep our soul winning hot as an individual. 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 We need to keep that soul winning red hot within us. 11:50.000 --> 11:54.000 And Jesus had the compassion to do that. 11:54.000 --> 12:02.000 He cared about people and part of compassion is suffering together means to suffer together with someone. 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 And sometimes soul winning is suffering. 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 A lot of times here it is suffering when you're going to the triple decker apartments. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 It's suffering. 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 It's not easy. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 It's not easy even for the most fit person. 12:14.000 --> 12:23.000 If you're just if nobody's home that day and if it's been raining for 40 straight days and nights and then it's a nice day all of a sudden. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 And you're like, oh, the apartments, they'll be receptive. 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 It's like, nope, nobody's home because everybody wants to go out and do something. 12:28.000 --> 12:35.000 And then, you know, you're like, man, I just put some some miles on the pedometer here. 12:35.000 --> 12:38.000 And it doesn't seem like it took that many steps, but they're all uphill. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 You know, they're all up and downstairs or whatever on concrete. 12:40.000 --> 12:41.000 And it hurts. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 It can become a grind. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 It's not always fun going soul winning. 12:45.000 --> 12:49.000 It's not fun when you've knocked a zillion doors and nobody would even talk to you. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 But why is it so important? 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 Because people are fainting. 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 People are faint. 12:54.000 --> 12:58.000 People are scattered as sheep not having a shepherd. 12:58.000 --> 12:59.000 But you know what? 12:59.000 --> 13:05.000 When someone gets saved, they they can they can rely on the Holy Spirit to not be faint. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 They can run and not faint. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 And you know what? 13:08.000 --> 13:12.000 They can have a shepherd who is Jesus Christ. 13:12.000 --> 13:17.000 You know, when they get saved, Jesus becomes that shepherd in the bishop of their soul. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 So they're not without a shepherd. 13:19.000 --> 13:26.000 Even if they don't have a good church to go to or, you know, but they'll never be lonely with Jesus within them. 13:26.000 --> 13:27.000 You know what I mean? 13:27.000 --> 13:33.000 So even if someone just gets saved and they just have they're just saved and that's it, they're not faint anymore. 13:33.000 --> 13:39.000 And because they're going to have everlasting life and they're going to have a shepherd to watch over them. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 And they will not be alone. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 He said, I'll never leave the north for safety. 13:43.000 --> 13:47.000 And the multitudes are not saved. 13:47.000 --> 13:48.000 Look at verse 37. 13:48.000 --> 13:55.000 It says, Then saith he unto his disciples, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. 13:55.000 --> 13:59.000 He didn't just say that as a filler thing to say. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 That's it's really the truth. 14:01.000 --> 14:07.000 There's a lot of people to reach and not enough people to reach them. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 The harvest truly is plenteous. 14:09.000 --> 14:15.000 There's a lot of stuff, work that needs to get done, but there's not a lot of people to do it. 14:15.000 --> 14:24.000 And this is always true in church life and old I.F.E. churches that I went to, it applied to the work that needed to get done around the church. 14:24.000 --> 14:33.000 But he's applying it to people that need to help with the labor force of this harvest of souls that are out there that need to be saved. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 This is what he's talking about. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 He's not talking about who's going to clean the church. 14:37.000 --> 14:41.000 He's talking about who's going to who's going to harvest these souls. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 And it's just not enough. 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 We just don't have enough. 14:46.000 --> 14:50.000 That's why we need the individual because we need all hands on deck. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 We need everybody to show up. 14:52.000 --> 14:57.000 We need everybody to go out at least once a week and go out there and work in the fields. 14:57.000 --> 15:03.000 We need every soldier to stay red hot so that we can save the multitudes. 15:03.000 --> 15:07.000 You're like, well, this isn't very receptive around here, pastor. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 Did someone get saved today? 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 Well, it's receptive. 15:11.000 --> 15:19.000 You know, and it might not be the Philippines or something, but we're still getting people saved here every single week. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 We don't go without getting people saved every week. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 People get saved here every week. 15:23.000 --> 15:29.000 So and if you're not like they're not jumping in your boat, hey, you're still getting rewards for everything that you do. 15:29.000 --> 15:33.000 And then, you know, go on different supplemental trips. 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 You know, it's people are getting saved here. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Maybe you just need to go more. 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 Maybe that's maybe that's the answer to your question. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 You know, if you go more, you're going to get more people saved. 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 It's just that simple. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 So you put more time into it. 15:48.000 --> 15:51.000 In all labor, there is profit, the Bible says. 15:51.000 --> 15:55.000 So why does the individual matter? 15:55.000 --> 16:01.000 Well, because each individual makes up the team and there's multitudes that need to be saved. 16:01.000 --> 16:08.000 Jesus said, pray therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 It's the Lord's harvest. 16:10.000 --> 16:11.000 It's people. 16:11.000 --> 16:12.000 And he will. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 We're supposed to what? 16:14.000 --> 16:15.000 Pray for these things. 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 Pray for new laborers. 16:17.000 --> 16:21.000 But don't forget to pray for yourself, because here's the thing. 16:21.000 --> 16:27.000 If you're just only thinking about other people, which it's good to think about other people, it's good to pray for other people. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 That's really important. 16:29.000 --> 16:43.000 But it's also you can't just neglect yourself spiritually and think that you're going to be OK, because if you're not reading your Bible, if you're not praying, if you're not attending church and if you're not so winning, then you're not helping yourself. 16:43.000 --> 16:45.000 You're hurting yourself. 16:45.000 --> 16:51.000 You're hurting your ability to go out and win souls because you're not spiritually up to snuff. 16:51.000 --> 16:59.000 You're not a spiritual you're not spiritually a trained and you're not you're you're not the best soldier you can be. 16:59.000 --> 17:13.000 Do you think if someone goes into the military boot camp and they're like private pile and you know they're just they're not fit they can't run they can't do the they can't shoot that you know they're the worst shot in the world. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 They can't jump over the walls. 17:15.000 --> 17:16.000 They can't do push ups. 17:16.000 --> 17:17.000 They can't do all these things. 17:17.000 --> 17:21.000 You think that's going to be the best person in the military. 17:21.000 --> 17:27.000 No, they're not because they're not doing what needs to be done to be the best soldiers that they can be. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 And we're not military in that way. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 We're military in a different way. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 A spiritual we're spiritual soldiers. 17:33.000 --> 17:37.000 And so if you want to be spiritual, you want to get more people saved. 17:37.000 --> 17:41.000 You want God to depend on you and bring people across your path. 17:41.000 --> 17:47.000 Well, when you get those opportunities, then use those opportunities to work for God. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 You want God to bring people across your path. 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 Well, be thinking about it. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 Be ready for it to happen. 17:53.000 --> 17:57.000 Are you approachable in public or do you act weird? 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 I mean, are you a nice person? 17:59.000 --> 18:09.000 I mean, is every stranger trying to kill you or I'm looking I'm not saying in the dark the dark of night when you're fumbling with your car keys or something that you would hey stranger how's it going? 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 You know, are you on the street? 18:11.000 --> 18:21.000 I'm not saying, you know, put yourself in dangerous positions, but I'm just saying if you're out in public, maybe you're at the store and you see some other lady or whatever and you want to talk and try to get them saved. 18:21.000 --> 18:27.000 Those are opportunities, individual opportunities, because not everything has to be within a soul any time. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 It could be on a sitting next to a stranger on a plane. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 It could be out in public somewhere. 18:32.000 --> 18:36.000 It could be at work when you're not supposed to be working those types of situations. 18:36.000 --> 18:43.000 And it's important for the individual to look for opportunities and use those opportunities. 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 Pray for laborers. 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 And so you have to take care of yourself spiritually. 18:48.000 --> 18:52.000 And because if you're not up to snuff spiritually, how can you help others? 18:52.000 --> 18:56.000 How can you get other people saved if you're not up to snuff yourself? 18:56.000 --> 19:00.000 And you can't forget about the people within your family. 19:00.000 --> 19:06.000 You know, you have to you have to have a good testimony. 19:06.000 --> 19:12.000 If you want people in your family to get saved, you know, I'm talking about the extended relatives, then you have to have a good testimony with them. 19:12.000 --> 19:21.000 And obviously, sometimes, you know, a prophet is not without honor, but in his own nation, with his own kin's kin's folk and so on and so forth. 19:21.000 --> 19:25.000 Jesus wasn't even accepted of his own brothers and sisters or his family. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 So sometimes they're just hard to win. 19:28.000 --> 19:33.000 But if you want to win them, then you know, you have to work at that. 19:33.000 --> 19:39.000 Don't expect them to be some sinless perfection person. 19:39.000 --> 19:46.000 You know, if they're lost, I mean, a lot of times I think people just think that their lost relatives are supposed to be just like you or something. 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 It's like they're not going to be. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 So don't expect that. 19:50.000 --> 19:59.000 And then, you know, so if you want to get your family saved, you know, you got to work at it and you got to be nice and you got to be kind. 19:59.000 --> 20:03.000 And you can't just blow up on them and then think the next day you're going to get them saved. 20:03.000 --> 20:04.000 You can't cuss out your sister. 20:04.000 --> 20:08.000 And then the next day you're like, oh, by the way, are you 100 percent sure you're going to heaven? 20:08.000 --> 20:11.000 So she'd be like, I'm never going to by you. 20:11.000 --> 20:14.000 I can tell you that right now. 20:14.000 --> 20:18.000 But, you know, you can look for opportunities when people come and visit our church. 20:18.000 --> 20:24.000 You know, the ushers are sending people over to to talk to people. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.000 This is our church. 20:25.000 --> 20:27.000 And a lot of times they just be lining it right out. 20:27.000 --> 20:28.000 I understand that. 20:28.000 --> 20:31.000 You know, they've been held hostage here by me or whatever. 20:31.000 --> 20:34.000 And or they just it's just not their cup of tea. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 And they just they just go right out the door. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 OK. And then just walk past here. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Whatever. I understand. 20:40.000 --> 20:45.000 But there's a lot of times we've had people get saved in the service or after the service. 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 And those are opportunities for an individual. 20:48.000 --> 20:54.000 Our community, though, we you know, we need to continue to still try to get people saved in our community. 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 And we do every week. 20:56.000 --> 21:04.000 So number two, we need to keep keep your soul winning red hot by going without going without our community, 21:04.000 --> 21:09.000 going without the walls of our church, going without your comfort zone in your own family. 21:09.000 --> 21:14.000 And by the way, in your own family, that includes your children, by the way. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Yeah. Get your kids saved. 21:16.000 --> 21:19.000 Make that a priority in your life. 21:19.000 --> 21:25.000 And then so but number two, keep your soul winning red hot by going without. 21:25.000 --> 21:37.000 Let's look at Acts, chapter number 16, Acts, chapter 16, Acts, chapter number 16, verse number nine. 21:37.000 --> 21:42.000 And Paul, of course, you know, he's called a missionary, but the word missionary is not in the Bible. 21:42.000 --> 21:47.000 But that's what I mean, if you want to call him a missionary, that's that is what he was, basically. 21:47.000 --> 21:52.000 But Paul went all over the known world at that time, just preaching the gospel, starting churches. 21:52.000 --> 21:56.000 And he has this vision. It's called the Macedonian Call. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 That's what it's generally called is the Macedonian Call. 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 Here it is right here. 22:01.000 --> 22:05.000 Acts 16, nine, it says, And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. 22:05.000 --> 22:12.000 There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us. 22:12.000 --> 22:18.000 And after he had seen the vision immediately, we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuring assuredly, 22:18.000 --> 22:24.000 gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. 22:24.000 --> 22:27.000 So he has this dream. He understands exactly what it means. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 We need to go to Macedonia. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 We the Lord's called us. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 You know, we know what we need to do. 22:34.000 --> 22:44.000 So notice he didn't he didn't need to know that God is specifically saying they need to preach the gospel. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 He already knows that he's supposed to preach the gospel. 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 He just needed to know where where is he going? 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 Where's he calling us to next? 22:51.000 --> 22:59.000 And God is specifically calling them to this spot because the Apostle Paul is getting direct revelation from the Lord Jesus Christ. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 We don't necessarily get that. 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 He wants us to go everywhere and preach the gospel. 23:04.000 --> 23:08.000 And obviously, there's places where we can't necessarily get into right now. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 But God makes that pretty clear. 23:10.000 --> 23:15.000 You know, you got to be pretty dumb to try to get into North Korea right now. 23:15.000 --> 23:23.000 If you just want to die, trying to get some Bibles to people, then by all means, just try to run and throw some Bibles over the wall or wherever. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 I don't think you get close to the border. 23:25.000 --> 23:29.000 There's like the demilitarized zone that you have to get across. 23:29.000 --> 23:36.000 American troops on one side and Korean North Korean troops on the other side and then South Korean troops. 23:36.000 --> 23:40.000 And there's like a I'm not sure how long that stretch is. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 There's where you can't cross that zone or whatever. 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 You're going to get shot. 23:44.000 --> 23:48.000 So and people are trying to escape there all the time. 23:48.000 --> 23:54.000 And then they have China on one part and, you know, Russia, I think, on another part or whatever. 23:54.000 --> 23:57.000 Or they'll then they'll kill you. 23:57.000 --> 24:03.000 If they people try to escape from there, they'll just turn them in to the North Koreans and give them back or they'll just kill them wherever they're at. 24:03.000 --> 24:15.000 People want to get away from there so bad because it's just a complete dictatorship, a cult of weirdness that you have to worship the government basically. 24:15.000 --> 24:18.000 So we know where we can and can't go. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 We know what countries are closed and not closed. 24:21.000 --> 24:26.000 And hopefully sometime that regime falls and we can get the gospel to those people. 24:26.000 --> 24:29.000 And there's people that try to sneak stuff across in some other ways. 24:29.000 --> 24:37.000 But that's just not we we don't have the resources and the ability to just help those people right now. 24:37.000 --> 24:40.000 Maybe some people do some people that are close to that situation. 24:40.000 --> 24:45.000 But we have to just go wherever we get called to go to. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 And North Korea is not the place. 24:47.000 --> 24:54.000 I think Pastor Stuckey like did a pretend so many marathon or whatever in North Korea, didn't he? 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 Like made a video saying that they're going to do it. 24:56.000 --> 24:57.000 It was a joke. 24:57.000 --> 25:03.000 I think people actually thought it was real, though, because it seemed like a real one or whatever. 25:03.000 --> 25:12.000 But he was joking because but it would be cool if, you know, Kim Young-Joon or whatever the heck his name is with Kim Jung. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 Is it Kim Jung-Yoon or what? 25:14.000 --> 25:15.000 I don't know. 25:15.000 --> 25:16.000 What was his name, Brother Bill? 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 Do you know Kim Jung-il? 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 Yeah, he's ill. 25:20.000 --> 25:29.000 So until he dies or somebody takes over that country that gives them freedom, they're they're just enslaved, unfortunately. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 But there's places that we can go. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 There's plenty of places we can go. 25:33.000 --> 25:34.000 Paul's called to Macedonia. 25:34.000 --> 25:43.000 But this is something that I've that I've seen, like in mainly old life be churches because I've never been to any other church besides the Baptist churches. 25:43.000 --> 25:47.000 But, you know, except for if I was visiting for some dumb reason or whatever. 25:47.000 --> 25:50.000 But but here's what people do. 25:50.000 --> 25:57.000 They go, I'm praying about whether God wants me to go preach the gospel or something. 25:57.000 --> 26:01.000 It's like you don't need to pray for that. 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 Jesus already told us what he wants us to do. 26:03.000 --> 26:07.000 Turn over to Matthew, Chapter 28. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 What is it? 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 Kim Jung-un. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 Okay. 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 Kim Jung-il was the dad. 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 Kim Jung-un was the son. 26:17.000 --> 26:19.000 Is that the chubby one? 26:19.000 --> 26:20.000 Chubby panda looking guy? 26:20.000 --> 26:21.000 Okay. 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 Yeah. 26:23.000 --> 26:27.000 He's he's just as crazy as his dad. 26:27.000 --> 26:33.000 So Matthew, Chapter 28, Jesus gives what's called the Great Commission. 26:33.000 --> 26:41.000 And it says in verse 18, it says, And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 26:41.000 --> 26:51.000 Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you. 26:51.000 --> 26:55.000 And lo, I am with you all way, even unto the end of the world. 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 So there's no doubt about it. 26:57.000 --> 27:01.000 He sent us to go. 27:01.000 --> 27:02.000 He said to go. 27:02.000 --> 27:06.000 He didn't say stay and invite people to church and have them walk up to the altar. 27:06.000 --> 27:12.000 And, you know, I'm not saying that people don't get saved in those situations, but that's not what he said to do. 27:12.000 --> 27:16.000 He didn't say go and invite somebody to church. 27:16.000 --> 27:17.000 Not that we don't do that. 27:17.000 --> 27:18.000 We do do that. 27:18.000 --> 27:20.000 There's lots of ways you can get people saved. 27:20.000 --> 27:22.000 I'm just saying that's not what Jesus said. 27:22.000 --> 27:25.000 He said, Go ye therefore. 27:25.000 --> 27:30.000 And he wants us to go out and preach the gospel. 27:30.000 --> 27:34.000 And we're supposed to baptize them and we're supposed to teach them. 27:34.000 --> 27:39.000 And we're supposed to disciple them and train them to do likewise. 27:39.000 --> 27:41.000 This is how Christianity replicates. 27:41.000 --> 27:45.000 This is how Christianity grows exponentially. 27:45.000 --> 27:47.000 This is how it's supposed to work. 27:47.000 --> 27:51.000 And people go, well, that was to the disciples only. 27:51.000 --> 27:56.000 Well, that's funny because it wouldn't have gotten very far if it was only to the disciples. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 This is a commandment to all Christians. 27:58.000 --> 28:02.000 Yes, it was to the disciples, but they went and taught other people to do these things. 28:02.000 --> 28:05.000 The apostle Paul didn't do this stuff by himself. 28:05.000 --> 28:10.000 He's the last apostle, but if you read his letters, which hopefully you have, 28:10.000 --> 28:14.000 he's always commending people that help him. 28:14.000 --> 28:20.000 Phoebe, command Phoebe, command all these, you know, all these Apollos and Timothy 28:20.000 --> 28:23.000 and all these different people helped him do these things. 28:23.000 --> 28:26.000 It's not like Paul was just, nope, it's just me. 28:26.000 --> 28:27.000 He just commanded the apostles. 28:27.000 --> 28:28.000 That's it. 28:28.000 --> 28:30.000 No, he commanded everybody to do these things. 28:30.000 --> 28:33.000 They helped him accomplish these goals. 28:33.000 --> 28:37.000 Other people helped, and that's because that's how Christianity grows. 28:37.000 --> 28:41.000 But notice how it says in verse 18, all power is given unto me. 28:41.000 --> 28:46.000 So, and there's that song, all power is given unto me. 28:46.000 --> 28:50.000 Go you and preach the gospel, you know, whatever that song. 28:50.000 --> 28:53.000 But all power is given unto Jesus. 28:53.000 --> 28:56.000 The Father has put all things into his hands. 28:56.000 --> 28:59.000 Now go to Acts 1, 8, Acts 1, 8. 28:59.000 --> 29:07.000 So, Jesus goes up 40 days after he rises from the dead, and he ascends up into heaven. 29:07.000 --> 29:15.000 And then 10 days later, at Pentecost, he sends the Holy Ghost 29:15.000 --> 29:19.000 and gives them the power of the Holy Ghost. 29:19.000 --> 29:24.000 See, the disciples already get, Jesus blows on them in, I think it's in John, the book of John, 29:24.000 --> 29:31.000 I think it's chapter 20, and he blows, and he says, receive ye the Holy Ghost. 29:31.000 --> 29:36.000 So the disciples are already indwelt with the Holy Ghost in John chapter 20. 29:36.000 --> 29:41.000 But he tells them here in Acts chapter number 1, verse 8, it says, 29:41.000 --> 29:47.000 But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, 29:47.000 --> 29:54.000 And ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria, 29:54.000 --> 29:57.000 and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 29:57.000 --> 30:00.000 So, now notice it says, ye shall receive power. 30:00.000 --> 30:04.000 But didn't Jesus say in Matthew chapter 28, all power is given unto me? 30:04.000 --> 30:07.000 So who's sending that power to them? 30:07.000 --> 30:10.000 The Lord Jesus Christ sends the Holy Spirit. 30:10.000 --> 30:13.000 He's the one that sends the Holy Spirit. 30:13.000 --> 30:19.000 He says, it's expedient that I go, because if he doesn't go in John chapter 14, 30:19.000 --> 30:23.000 if he doesn't go, then the Spirit, the Comforter will not come. 30:23.000 --> 30:28.000 So he sends the Spirit of God into our hearts, crying Abba Father. 30:28.000 --> 30:33.000 That's why, I don't know why that's the case, but that's what Jesus said. 30:33.000 --> 30:38.000 And so when Jesus goes up into heaven, 10 days earlier than Pentecost, 30:38.000 --> 30:42.000 then 10 days after that, the power of God from on high comes, 30:42.000 --> 30:46.000 and that's when that great sermon is preached by Peter. 30:46.000 --> 30:51.000 That's when 5,000 people get saved and baptized on the same day. 30:51.000 --> 30:56.000 And so we get this power when we get saved. 30:56.000 --> 31:00.000 We get the Holy Spirit the moment we believe we get the Holy Spirit, 31:00.000 --> 31:02.000 and then we get this same power. 31:02.000 --> 31:06.000 This is something that transfers onto us also. 31:06.000 --> 31:08.000 But notice what it says in verse 9. 31:08.000 --> 31:12.000 It says, And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, 31:12.000 --> 31:16.000 he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. 31:16.000 --> 31:20.000 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven, he went up, 31:20.000 --> 31:24.000 behold, two men stood by them in white apparel. 31:24.000 --> 31:29.000 Which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye up gazing up into heaven? 31:29.000 --> 31:33.000 This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, 31:33.000 --> 31:39.000 shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. 31:39.000 --> 31:41.000 So get the picture. 31:41.000 --> 31:43.000 Jesus, this is the Mount of Olives. 31:43.000 --> 31:48.000 Jesus just, you know, he tells them, he gives them this last thing. 31:48.000 --> 31:52.000 The last thing he tells them is that you're going to receive this power. 31:52.000 --> 31:54.000 The Holy Ghost is going to come upon you. 31:54.000 --> 31:56.000 You're going to be my witnesses. 31:56.000 --> 31:59.000 The last thing he tells them is to, you're going to get the power, 31:59.000 --> 32:02.000 and you're going to go to all these places in the uttermost parts of the earth. 32:02.000 --> 32:05.000 And it's like, whoosh, he just takes off. 32:05.000 --> 32:09.000 And they're just like, I kind of picture the disciples like this, 32:09.000 --> 32:13.000 with their mouths up and going, I don't know why, 32:13.000 --> 32:18.000 but I'm sure if we saw someone float off into a cloud, 32:18.000 --> 32:21.000 and just at some point we stopped seeing, 32:21.000 --> 32:24.000 it's like have you ever let a balloon fly up into the air, 32:24.000 --> 32:27.000 and at some point you just can't see it anymore? 32:27.000 --> 32:29.000 It's probably what they're doing, right? 32:29.000 --> 32:31.000 But it's Jesus instead. 32:31.000 --> 32:34.000 Well then these guys are just standing by all of a sudden. 32:34.000 --> 32:36.000 It's like, who are these, where did you guys come from? 32:36.000 --> 32:38.000 But what do they say to him? 32:38.000 --> 32:41.000 I think it's just really interesting what they say to him. 32:41.000 --> 32:43.000 Why are you just standing here? 32:43.000 --> 32:46.000 Why stand you gazing up into heaven? 32:46.000 --> 32:50.000 And then it's like, gee, he's going to come back in like manners, 32:50.000 --> 32:52.000 you've seen him go up. 32:52.000 --> 32:56.000 And I just kind of always just thought this was a really interesting thing to say to him. 32:56.000 --> 32:59.000 It's almost kind of like, why are you just standing around? 32:59.000 --> 33:00.000 You guys got things to do. 33:00.000 --> 33:02.000 You got work to do. 33:02.000 --> 33:06.000 And I know that the apostles are workers. 33:06.000 --> 33:08.000 I know that they're going to get the work done or whatever, 33:08.000 --> 33:12.000 but they kind of don't for a while. 33:12.000 --> 33:17.000 And I feel like, look, I'm not saying that obviously they're better men than I'll ever be. 33:17.000 --> 33:24.000 I'm just saying that they're kind of a little bit taking them to task here. 33:24.000 --> 33:26.000 Why are you just standing? 33:26.000 --> 33:28.000 I call this gawking. 33:28.000 --> 33:30.000 This is like a word for what they're doing. 33:30.000 --> 33:33.000 They're standing there staring up into space, gawking. 33:33.000 --> 33:39.000 I feel like that's what a lot of Christians do today instead of getting that work done. 33:39.000 --> 33:45.000 Instead of working and going out to Samaria and Judea and Jerusalem 33:45.000 --> 33:47.000 and the other most parts of the earth, 33:47.000 --> 33:53.000 they're standing around looking up at the sky, Jesus could just come back at any moment. 33:53.000 --> 33:54.000 And that's what they say. 33:54.000 --> 33:58.000 If they really believe that, then why aren't they just beating the bushes 33:58.000 --> 34:02.000 and going in the highways and the hedges and compelling people to come in? 34:02.000 --> 34:04.000 If they really believe that you can come back at any moment, 34:04.000 --> 34:06.000 I don't think that they really believe that. 34:06.000 --> 34:09.000 I don't really think that they believe that stupid lie, 34:09.000 --> 34:12.000 that stupid Jewish trick that Schofield pulled on the whole world. 34:12.000 --> 34:14.000 I don't believe that. 34:14.000 --> 34:15.000 I don't think that they really believe that. 34:15.000 --> 34:21.000 Because if you really believe that, you'd be even more of a soul winner than they really are. 34:21.000 --> 34:25.000 And the old IFB is not doing the job that they should be doing. 34:25.000 --> 34:27.000 I'm not saying that they have in the past, they have. 34:27.000 --> 34:31.000 I'm not saying that there's not good old IFB soul winning churches, there are. 34:31.000 --> 34:34.000 But they're not doing it now. 34:34.000 --> 34:37.000 Most of them are not doing it now. 34:37.000 --> 34:43.000 But you don't want to get a bad worker nickname. 34:43.000 --> 34:48.000 And in construction, construction is a rough type of job. 34:48.000 --> 34:51.000 I know anything that works in construction. 34:51.000 --> 34:52.000 Who else does? 34:52.000 --> 34:54.000 You work in construction? 34:54.000 --> 34:56.000 I know road construction here. 34:56.000 --> 34:59.000 And you work in some sort of a shop. 34:59.000 --> 35:03.000 I know that there's probably some rough customers there. 35:03.000 --> 35:08.000 But in all aspects of jobs, you might get nicknames. 35:08.000 --> 35:13.000 But in construction, it's jobs like that, blue collar jobs, 35:13.000 --> 35:17.000 you're going to get a lot of rousing if you're lazy. 35:17.000 --> 35:21.000 Or if you're just, there's things that people can pick on you about. 35:21.000 --> 35:24.000 I'm going to give you some of them. 35:24.000 --> 35:28.000 Well, for people in public that stand around watching other people work 35:28.000 --> 35:33.000 and try to nitpick what they're doing, we call them looky-loos. 35:33.000 --> 35:35.000 And they're just standing there. 35:35.000 --> 35:38.000 And they'll just, when I worked for the city, 35:38.000 --> 35:42.000 there would always be these, you know, I pay taxes and you're doing this, 35:42.000 --> 35:45.000 whatever on a Saturday and getting paid overtime or whatever. 35:45.000 --> 35:47.000 And they're like, yeah, because we can't do it during the day. 35:47.000 --> 35:49.000 And then, you know, they'll just stand there and watch you 35:49.000 --> 35:52.000 and just waiting for you to turn around so they can give you crap or whatever. 35:52.000 --> 35:54.000 But anyway, those are looky-loos. 35:54.000 --> 35:59.000 But here's the bad worker nicknames, right? 35:59.000 --> 36:03.000 And this is kind of what got me this idea. 36:03.000 --> 36:06.000 It says, why stand ye? 36:06.000 --> 36:08.000 Stanley. 36:08.000 --> 36:11.000 When people are just standing around doing nothing, 36:11.000 --> 36:13.000 we call those people Stanley. 36:13.000 --> 36:16.000 Or if they're just standing around. 36:16.000 --> 36:19.000 Or if they're just standing around with their hands in their pockets, 36:19.000 --> 36:21.000 we call them pockets. 36:21.000 --> 36:24.000 Hey, pockets, get over here and do something. 36:24.000 --> 36:27.000 So here's one that's maybe a little more crass. 36:27.000 --> 36:30.000 We call them pisser. 36:30.000 --> 36:32.000 They always have, whenever it's time to get something done, 36:32.000 --> 36:34.000 they always got to take a piss somewhere. 36:34.000 --> 36:36.000 They always got to, oh, I got to go to the bathroom. 36:36.000 --> 36:38.000 And you don't want that because at our job, 36:38.000 --> 36:42.000 you had to find a bathroom someplace off the job site. 36:42.000 --> 36:46.000 So if we had someone that we would call pisser, 36:46.000 --> 36:50.000 they had to carry the porta piss behind their truck on a little, 36:50.000 --> 36:53.000 you know, they have those trailer ones where you can put it on the trailer 36:53.000 --> 36:55.000 and drive around, and then they're pisser. 36:55.000 --> 36:59.000 So if you're a pisser, then you are the one that has to take 36:59.000 --> 37:02.000 the porta potty around with you. 37:02.000 --> 37:04.000 Okay? 37:04.000 --> 37:07.000 Here's some that, after I preach this little message, 37:07.000 --> 37:09.000 brother Matt Adams sent me these, 37:09.000 --> 37:13.000 so I can't claim that I know that I had these already up my sleeve, 37:13.000 --> 37:15.000 but these were pretty funny. 37:15.000 --> 37:19.000 Daisy, some daisy in and some days he isn't. 37:19.000 --> 37:23.000 So don't be a daisy. 37:23.000 --> 37:26.000 Kit Kat, always taking a break. 37:26.000 --> 37:29.000 Butter knife, not the sharpest knife in the drawer. 37:29.000 --> 37:34.000 And let's see, ET, always trying to go home. 37:34.000 --> 37:38.000 Those people that are like, oh, I got to go home because of this 37:38.000 --> 37:40.000 or that. 37:40.000 --> 37:43.000 Seaweed, floats around all day and stinks like crap. 37:43.000 --> 37:44.000 Okay. 37:44.000 --> 37:46.000 I don't know, that was pretty rough. 37:46.000 --> 37:50.000 But lantern, not very bright and has to be carried. 37:50.000 --> 37:55.000 So deck chair, always folds under pressure. 37:55.000 --> 37:58.000 And then my personal favorite is motion light. 37:58.000 --> 38:01.000 Only works when someone walks past them. 38:01.000 --> 38:05.000 There are people like that. 38:05.000 --> 38:06.000 Oh, the boss is here. 38:06.000 --> 38:07.000 Start working. 38:07.000 --> 38:08.000 Whatever. 38:08.000 --> 38:13.000 So, but we don't want to be, we've got enough Stanleys and Pockets 38:13.000 --> 38:16.000 and pissers in Christianity where, you know, 38:16.000 --> 38:19.000 we have enough people standing around doing nothing. 38:19.000 --> 38:22.000 We've got enough Christians in this world that don't want to help 38:22.000 --> 38:23.000 and do things. 38:23.000 --> 38:25.000 We don't want to be like that. 38:25.000 --> 38:27.000 We want to be people that are working and trying to get things done. 38:27.000 --> 38:31.000 And the main job that we do in this church is soul winning. 38:31.000 --> 38:33.000 That is the main thing. 38:33.000 --> 38:35.000 Obviously, doctrine is important. 38:35.000 --> 38:37.000 There's a lot of things that are important. 38:37.000 --> 38:40.000 But soul winning is the main thing. 38:40.000 --> 38:43.000 And that's the main ministry that we have. 38:43.000 --> 38:47.000 So we don't need people, and look, I'm not saying you can't come to this 38:47.000 --> 38:48.000 church if you don't go to soul winning. 38:48.000 --> 38:49.000 I'm not saying that. 38:49.000 --> 38:52.000 I'm just saying that, you know, if you've been out of it for a while, 38:52.000 --> 38:53.000 get back into it. 38:53.000 --> 38:57.000 We've already been given the power to do it. 38:57.000 --> 38:59.000 He's given us the charge to do it. 38:59.000 --> 39:02.000 And people are like, oh, I just need to pray and see if, you know, 39:03.000 --> 39:06.000 I've heard that for years in the old life. 39:06.000 --> 39:09.000 Well, I'm just praying to see if that's what God's will for my life is. 39:09.000 --> 39:11.000 You don't have to pray for it. 39:11.000 --> 39:14.000 He already told us he gave us the charge in Matthew chapter 28. 39:14.000 --> 39:17.000 And then he said, these are the places you're going to go. 39:17.000 --> 39:20.000 To the uttermost parts of the earth. 39:20.000 --> 39:21.000 Everywhere. 39:21.000 --> 39:24.000 So do you need to pray about going on a missions trip? 39:24.000 --> 39:25.000 No. 39:25.000 --> 39:27.000 Do you need to pray about going out to your community? 39:27.000 --> 39:28.000 No. 39:28.000 --> 39:30.000 Do you need to pray about giving someone the gospel at church? 39:30.000 --> 39:31.000 No. 39:31.000 --> 39:34.000 Do you need to pray about giving your family member the gospel? 39:34.000 --> 39:35.000 No. 39:35.000 --> 39:38.000 Do you have to pray about giving a coworker the gospel? 39:38.000 --> 39:39.000 No. 39:39.000 --> 39:40.000 You don't have to pray about these things. 39:40.000 --> 39:43.000 Jesus already said to do them. 39:43.000 --> 39:46.000 Now, do you need to maybe pray for boldness? 39:46.000 --> 39:47.000 Yeah. 39:47.000 --> 39:51.000 Do you need to pray that you could memorize the scriptures better? 39:51.000 --> 39:52.000 Yeah. 39:52.000 --> 39:53.000 You can pray about those types of things. 39:53.000 --> 39:57.000 But, you know, do you need to pray about going to North Korea? 39:57.000 --> 40:00.000 You need to just pray to get smart because, no, you don't need to go to North Korea right now. 40:00.000 --> 40:02.000 There are just things, places you don't go. 40:02.000 --> 40:05.000 Paul was told not to go to Asia at a certain point. 40:05.000 --> 40:09.000 But the Holy Ghost isn't necessarily going to tell you that right now. 40:09.000 --> 40:12.000 Paul had, like I said, Paul had special revelation. 40:12.000 --> 40:23.000 But he also, God gave us also intelligence to know, hey, don't go to an island off the coast of India where they've killed people every time they try to go to the island. 40:23.000 --> 40:25.000 This is common sense. 40:25.000 --> 40:26.000 All right? 40:27.000 --> 40:34.000 And so if they have already speared someone to death every time they go there, don't go to that place unless you've got guns. 40:34.000 --> 40:35.000 No. 40:35.000 --> 40:37.000 And we're not going to try to kill people, right? 40:37.000 --> 40:41.000 Turn to 2 Kings, Chapter 10, 2 Kings, Chapter 10. 40:41.000 --> 40:46.000 So we don't need to wonder whether we're doing something that's God's will. 40:46.000 --> 40:51.000 If you're going to the Alaska trip, you don't need to pray whether it's God's will for you to go. 40:51.000 --> 40:53.000 He just, just go. 40:53.000 --> 40:57.000 2 Kings, Chapter 10, Verse 15, 2 Kings, Chapter 10, Verse 15. 41:03.000 --> 41:06.000 And look, we can go to other people's families. 41:06.000 --> 41:10.000 You know, you want people to reach your family, well, why don't you go to somebody else's family? 41:10.000 --> 41:11.000 Sometimes people give special requests. 41:11.000 --> 41:13.000 Hey, can you go to this person's family? 41:13.000 --> 41:15.000 Can you go visit this person? 41:15.000 --> 41:17.000 And they're in our area. 41:17.000 --> 41:19.000 You know, special requests like that. 41:19.000 --> 41:22.000 Hey, if you want someone to reach your family member in a different area, 41:22.000 --> 41:25.000 why don't you go reach somebody else's family member in a different area? 41:25.000 --> 41:28.000 Here, or wherever you're close to. 41:28.000 --> 41:32.000 If you, when you're visiting someone else's church, do you go so many with their church? 41:32.000 --> 41:34.000 Do you go so many in their community? 41:34.000 --> 41:39.000 You know, and you want people to be reached in our country, 41:39.000 --> 41:41.000 well, why don't we go and help somebody in another country? 41:41.000 --> 41:43.000 And zealously affect some other Christians. 41:43.000 --> 41:45.000 Look at 2 Kings, Chapter 10. 41:45.000 --> 41:50.000 Verse 15. 41:50.000 --> 41:54.000 It says, When he was departed hence, he lighted on Jehanadab, 41:54.000 --> 41:58.000 the son of Rehkab, coming to meet him. 41:58.000 --> 42:03.000 And he saluted him and said to him, Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? 42:03.000 --> 42:06.000 And Jehanadab answered, It is. 42:06.000 --> 42:08.000 If it be, give me thine hand. 42:08.000 --> 42:12.000 And he gave him his hand, and he took him up into the chariot. 42:12.000 --> 42:15.000 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. 42:15.000 --> 42:17.000 So they made him ride in his chariot. 42:17.000 --> 42:22.000 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, 42:22.000 --> 42:29.000 till he had destroyed him according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah. 42:29.000 --> 42:36.000 Now, this fateful meeting that Jehanadab had with Jehu, Jehu is full of zeal. 42:36.000 --> 42:40.000 You know, he is fully zealous for the things of God, of course. 42:40.000 --> 42:42.000 He's killing people. 42:42.000 --> 42:44.000 That's not what we're trying to do. 42:44.000 --> 42:49.000 But the zeal rubbed off on Jehanadab, the zeal for the LORD. 42:49.000 --> 42:54.000 And look, the zeal of soul winning can rub off on you. 42:54.000 --> 42:59.000 Jesus' zeal to help people rubbed off on other people. 42:59.000 --> 43:03.000 And your zeal for the LORD can rub off on other people. 43:03.000 --> 43:09.000 And so you don't know what your zeal can do for somebody else when you go soul winning with them. 43:09.000 --> 43:13.000 When some person, look, at the Red Hot Preaching Conference, 43:13.000 --> 43:16.000 there was people that came from other places that I had never met before. 43:16.000 --> 43:22.000 And maybe they're just coming, there was a specific family that had never gone out soul winning before. 43:22.000 --> 43:25.000 And they were visiting from a place and they were like, 43:25.000 --> 43:29.000 hey, we've been listening online and stuff, but we've never done soul winning before. 43:29.000 --> 43:34.000 And when you take someone with you like that and they've never seen someone get saved before, 43:34.000 --> 43:41.000 and they see that happen, that sparks a zeal in them to continue and carry it on themselves. 43:41.000 --> 43:43.000 And that zeal rubs off on them. 43:43.000 --> 43:46.000 And that's how other people become soul winners. 43:46.000 --> 43:49.000 You think it's no big deal because you've done it so many times, 43:49.000 --> 43:54.000 but to a person that's never done that before, it affects them greatly. 43:54.000 --> 43:57.000 And so when you think, nobody's going to miss me if I'm not there. 43:57.000 --> 44:00.000 Nobody's going to, it's not going to be a big deal. 44:00.000 --> 44:03.000 It's a bigger deal than you think. 44:03.000 --> 44:06.000 And Jehanadab was in the right place at the right time. 44:06.000 --> 44:10.000 And look, this affected his family for generations. 44:10.000 --> 44:15.000 Where Jeremiah the prophet goes and visits his family hundreds of years later, 44:15.000 --> 44:20.000 and they're still keeping commandment of their father Jehanadab. 44:20.000 --> 44:22.000 They're still not drinking any wine. 44:22.000 --> 44:25.000 They're still not living in their own houses. 44:25.000 --> 44:29.000 Everything that their father had commanded them to do, they're still doing. 44:29.000 --> 44:33.000 And it's an example that these people who are not children of Israel 44:33.000 --> 44:36.000 are keeping their father's commandment and the children of Israel. 44:36.000 --> 44:40.000 Jehu, his posterior was cut off. 44:40.000 --> 44:43.000 His children didn't remain kings in Israel 44:43.000 --> 44:48.000 because his zeal was great for a certain extent of time. 44:48.000 --> 44:51.000 But look, your zeal can rub off on other people 44:51.000 --> 44:54.000 and cause great things to happen in their lives. 44:54.000 --> 44:58.000 And look, we need to remember that there's other people besides ourselves to think about. 44:58.000 --> 45:03.000 And our zeal can last generations for somebody else. 45:03.000 --> 45:09.000 Don't underestimate the effect that you have on a new soul winner when they go out with you. 45:09.000 --> 45:14.000 Your attitude, how thorough you are, the wisdom and the joy that you impart with them. 45:14.000 --> 45:18.000 Just the fellowship with someone that's never gone before. 45:18.000 --> 45:21.000 It does help people. It does affect them. 45:21.000 --> 45:24.000 And it can affect them for the rest of their life. 45:24.000 --> 45:27.000 The impact of seeing that one salvation. 45:27.000 --> 45:32.000 Because a lot of times God will just allow that salvation to take place when you're with that new person. 45:32.000 --> 45:39.000 And something about that affects them because they see your zeal. 45:39.000 --> 45:45.000 And when you're going with a person for the first time, be excited about it. 45:45.000 --> 45:49.000 Show them the ropes. Teach them. Help them. 45:49.000 --> 45:53.000 And impart with them something. Don't have a bad attitude. 45:53.000 --> 45:58.000 And acting like it's just another day at the office. Get excited. 45:58.000 --> 46:01.000 Or the impact of going on a missions trip. 46:01.000 --> 46:04.000 We do the do it yourself missions trips. 46:04.000 --> 46:11.000 A life change that you may never see again, but you will see in heaven again. 46:11.000 --> 46:17.000 Their change may not be much in this life, but their eternity just changed. 46:17.000 --> 46:23.000 You might not have any kind of benefit at all from this in this life, but you know what? 46:23.000 --> 46:26.000 The benefits in heaven are going to be huge. 46:26.000 --> 46:30.000 And again, in this life, maybe they never find a good church to go to. 46:30.000 --> 46:32.000 Maybe they don't even do a lot of great works. 46:32.000 --> 46:36.000 But their eternity is affected forever. 46:36.000 --> 46:39.000 And you have a part to play in that. 46:39.000 --> 46:43.000 And so going without and doing things without our church. 46:43.000 --> 46:45.000 And doing things at other people's churches. 46:45.000 --> 46:51.000 And affecting other soul winners is a great way to keep your soul winning red hot. 46:51.000 --> 46:56.000 So it's important to stay red hot for soul winning. 46:56.000 --> 47:04.000 And have a fire in your belly for other nations and others outside the sphere of your influence. 47:04.000 --> 47:10.000 And when visiting other churches, you can be a help for that time that you are there. 47:10.000 --> 47:15.000 Maybe that pastor, you know, maybe you go to and visit on vacation like another church. 47:15.000 --> 47:18.000 Maybe their soul winning isn't doing great. 47:18.000 --> 47:20.000 You can be a help to that pastor. 47:20.000 --> 47:22.000 You can be an encouragement to that pastor. 47:22.000 --> 47:25.000 You can be an encouragement to some of the soul winners that are there. 47:25.000 --> 47:30.000 Or just even teach them something that maybe they were lacking in their soul winning presentation. 47:30.000 --> 47:33.000 That's why it's good to go with other partners sometimes. 47:33.000 --> 47:36.000 Because you teach other people new techniques. 47:36.000 --> 47:38.000 They teach you new things. 47:38.000 --> 47:41.000 And it's good to get fresh perspectives and to learn. 47:41.000 --> 47:43.000 You know, we should be lifelong learners. 47:43.000 --> 47:48.000 And learning from others things that you've never learned before. 47:48.000 --> 47:50.000 I'm not saying you're going to reinvent the wheel of soul winning. 47:50.000 --> 47:54.000 But there might be something that you can glean from them that helps you. 47:54.000 --> 47:56.000 And you know what? You can also make new friends. 47:56.000 --> 48:01.000 When you go with someone you've never gone before, you know, there's these things called other friends. 48:01.000 --> 48:05.000 You don't have to just have cliques and only certain people you hang around. 48:05.000 --> 48:07.000 You can be friends with a multitude of people. 48:07.000 --> 48:14.000 And you can make new friends out soul winning and meet friends that maybe would be a lifelong friend. 48:14.000 --> 48:15.000 You never know. 48:15.000 --> 48:21.000 Now the last point I have here is keep your soul winning red hot because it's hot down below. 48:21.000 --> 48:22.000 It's hot down below. 48:22.000 --> 48:24.000 Look at Luke chapter 16 verse 23. 48:24.000 --> 48:27.000 Turn to Luke 16 verse 23. 48:27.000 --> 48:32.000 Luke 16, 23. 48:33.000 --> 48:39.000 Of course, it's the famous story of the rich man and Lazarus. 48:39.000 --> 48:41.000 Why is the rich man not named? 48:41.000 --> 48:44.000 Because it really doesn't matter what his name is. 48:44.000 --> 48:48.000 Because he's in hell. 48:48.000 --> 48:51.000 He's dead for all eternity. 48:51.000 --> 48:59.000 But it says in verse 23, and in hell, he talking about the rich man, lift up his eyes being in torments 48:59.000 --> 49:04.000 and see if Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. 49:04.000 --> 49:15.000 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I'm tormented in this flame. 49:15.000 --> 49:24.000 But Abraham said, son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receive us thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things. 49:24.000 --> 49:27.000 But now he is comforted and thou are tormented. 49:27.000 --> 49:35.000 And beside all this, between us and you, there's a great goal fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot. 49:35.000 --> 49:40.000 Neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. 49:40.000 --> 49:45.000 There are people dying and going to hell every half second. 49:45.000 --> 49:53.000 That is the statistic that is given that every half second someone dies. 49:53.000 --> 49:55.000 That's two people per second. 49:55.000 --> 50:00.000 So I mean, that's a huge statistic. 50:00.000 --> 50:05.000 Every second two people are dying, just dying. 50:05.000 --> 50:08.000 And a lot of those people are going to hell. 50:08.000 --> 50:10.000 A lot of them are going to hell. 50:10.000 --> 50:12.000 The Bible says there's few that be saved. 50:12.000 --> 50:20.000 Not broad is the way that leadeth unto destruction and many be that go in there at. 50:21.000 --> 50:29.000 Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that find it. 50:29.000 --> 50:32.000 There's very few people that are saved in this world. 50:32.000 --> 50:34.000 Few means like three. 50:34.000 --> 50:36.000 You know, there's just a few. 50:36.000 --> 50:38.000 And I'm not saying there's only like three in the whole world. 50:38.000 --> 50:39.000 I'm not saying that. 50:39.000 --> 50:48.000 I'm just saying if you put three as a percentage, three or four or five or whatever as a percentage, that's not a lot of people in the grand scheme of things. 50:48.000 --> 50:50.000 I mean, it's millions in the world. 50:50.000 --> 51:05.000 But in places like India and China and these places with massive amounts of hard to reach people like Buddhists and Hindus and Muslims who might as well be Mormons. 51:05.000 --> 51:09.000 I mean, there's probably even fewer. 51:09.000 --> 51:14.000 But in places where it's a little more receptive, probably better percentages. 51:14.000 --> 51:22.000 But people are dying to go into hell at rapid succession and there's not a lot of people to reach these people. 51:22.000 --> 51:24.000 Not like we need. 51:24.000 --> 51:27.000 And so why is it so important that we stay red hot? 51:27.000 --> 51:29.000 Because we can't afford to lose any more laborers. 51:29.000 --> 51:32.000 We can't afford to lose any more soul winners. 51:32.000 --> 51:34.000 We need to gain some. 51:34.000 --> 51:35.000 We need to get more. 51:35.000 --> 51:39.000 We need to recruit more, not less. 51:39.000 --> 51:49.000 And the last thing we need is people dropping off on soul winning and not going soul winning and not caring about people and caring more about their own selves than they do other people. 51:49.000 --> 51:52.000 And, you know, Jesus died saving others. 51:52.000 --> 51:53.000 He didn't care. 51:53.000 --> 51:56.000 He didn't care about his own life in that way. 51:56.000 --> 51:58.000 He cared about others being saved. 51:58.000 --> 52:00.000 That's selfless. 52:00.000 --> 52:03.000 That's charity. 52:03.000 --> 52:04.000 That is love. 52:04.000 --> 52:11.000 Greater love have no man have no none than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. 52:11.000 --> 52:15.000 And we are his friends if we do whatever he asks. 52:15.000 --> 52:16.000 Right. 52:16.000 --> 52:19.000 So two people die every second. 52:19.000 --> 52:22.000 One hundred and twenty people every minute. 52:22.000 --> 52:24.000 Seventy two hundred people every hour. 52:24.000 --> 52:27.000 One hundred seventy thousand people every day. 52:27.000 --> 52:31.000 One hundred sixty or sixty million people every year. 52:31.000 --> 52:34.000 That's a lot of people that are dying. 52:34.000 --> 52:37.000 And you think that half those people are going to heaven? 52:37.000 --> 52:39.000 No, they're not. 52:39.000 --> 52:41.000 Half those people are not going to heaven. 52:41.000 --> 52:44.000 A quarter of those people are not going to heaven. 52:44.000 --> 52:46.000 Fifteen percent of those people are not going to heaven. 52:46.000 --> 52:49.000 Ten percent of those people are probably not going to heaven. 52:49.000 --> 52:52.000 Maybe three to five percent are. 52:52.000 --> 52:54.000 Maybe. 52:54.000 --> 52:57.000 That would be a few. 52:57.000 --> 53:00.000 That's a small percentage of people. 53:00.000 --> 53:05.000 Very small. 53:05.000 --> 53:10.000 So stay red hot because hell is hot. 53:10.000 --> 53:13.000 It's important to stay red hot in our soul. 53:13.000 --> 53:17.000 You know I got saved because I knew that hell was a reality. 53:17.000 --> 53:20.000 And you know what I knew I was going there. 53:20.000 --> 53:22.000 That's why I got saved. 53:22.000 --> 53:25.000 I got saved because I knew I was going to hell. 53:25.000 --> 53:28.000 How about you guys? 53:28.000 --> 53:31.000 I mean what are we getting saved from? 53:31.000 --> 53:35.000 I didn't get saved because I knew that the warmth of Jesus' love or whatever. 53:35.000 --> 53:39.000 I knew, I mean obviously I knew that Jesus loved me and died for me. 53:39.000 --> 53:43.000 But I didn't get saved because I felt this comfort and warmth. 53:43.000 --> 53:46.000 You know people give these like weird testimonies or whatever. 53:46.000 --> 53:50.000 And look I'm not saying there isn't people that like they're low hanging fruit. 53:50.000 --> 53:52.000 They respond to the love of God. 53:52.000 --> 53:54.000 I'm not saying that that's weird. 53:54.000 --> 53:57.000 But I'm just saying that that wasn't my experience. 53:57.000 --> 53:59.000 My experience was that I believed the Bible. 53:59.000 --> 54:03.000 And that if I believed in Jesus, that I knew I'd be saved. 54:03.000 --> 54:06.000 And I didn't want to go to hell. 54:06.000 --> 54:12.000 Turn to Jude, the book of Jude. 54:12.000 --> 54:16.000 But I know that I deserve to go to hell. 54:16.000 --> 54:21.000 And for whatever reason, he sought me out. 54:21.000 --> 54:23.000 And I was a hard case. 54:23.000 --> 54:25.000 And he really had to work to get me. 54:25.000 --> 54:27.000 Because I know the devil wanted me. 54:27.000 --> 54:30.000 For whatever reason or purpose. 54:30.000 --> 54:36.000 But I mean I was recruited by the Freemasons more than once. 54:36.000 --> 54:39.000 Like multiple, three times. 54:39.000 --> 54:41.000 Multiple times. 54:41.000 --> 54:43.000 So I don't know why they wanted me so much. 54:43.000 --> 54:46.000 But even as a teenager they tried to recruit me. 54:46.000 --> 54:51.000 But I mean I just wasn't, you know, demon lay sounds like demon lay. 54:51.000 --> 54:53.000 You know I didn't want nothing to do with it. 54:53.000 --> 54:56.000 So I was a little weary of that. 54:56.000 --> 54:59.000 Plus the fact that they were watching us all weekend on cameras or something. 54:59.000 --> 55:01.000 I felt like it was just weird. 55:01.000 --> 55:04.000 So anyway, they didn't make me do anything weird though. 55:04.000 --> 55:06.000 So don't think that. 55:06.000 --> 55:09.000 But anyway, Jude 1-21 says, 55:09.000 --> 55:12.000 Keep yourselves in the love of God, 55:12.000 --> 55:18.000 looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 55:18.000 --> 55:21.000 And if some have compassion, making a difference. 55:21.000 --> 55:23.000 Look there are those people that we're just going to come across. 55:23.000 --> 55:26.000 And they're just looking for compassion. 55:26.000 --> 55:28.000 And we give them Jesus. 55:28.000 --> 55:32.000 And then there's these ones right here in verse 23. 55:32.000 --> 55:36.000 Others, saved with fear, pulling them out of the fire. 55:36.000 --> 55:39.000 Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 55:39.000 --> 55:42.000 Look there's some people, they're real close to the flames of hell. 55:42.000 --> 55:45.000 And they just need someone to pull them out. 55:45.000 --> 55:48.000 And those are the people that we have to tell about hell. 55:48.000 --> 55:51.000 And look, we can't flinch about these things. 55:51.000 --> 55:54.000 We have to tell them about hell. 55:54.000 --> 55:56.000 We have to tell them about the reality of hell. 55:56.000 --> 56:01.000 And look, more people now, I feel like more people nowadays, today, 56:01.000 --> 56:04.000 they'll try to say that they don't believe in hell. 56:04.000 --> 56:09.000 Or they'll say that they don't deserve to go there, even though they know that hell is real. 56:09.000 --> 56:14.000 I'm just like, what do you mean you don't think that you don't believe that you need to go there? 56:14.000 --> 56:20.000 There was a guy over the weekend, he said he didn't believe in hell. 56:20.000 --> 56:23.000 We're in hell right now. 56:23.000 --> 56:26.000 That's a stupid popular belief that people say, isn't it? 56:26.000 --> 56:29.000 I was like, you're not on fire, man. 56:29.000 --> 56:31.000 I don't see any fire around you. 56:31.000 --> 56:33.000 Because that's what hell is. 56:33.000 --> 56:35.000 And I quoted him some verses. 56:35.000 --> 56:40.000 It's like, that's why people won't get saved, because of dumb stuff like that, that they get taught. 56:41.000 --> 56:48.000 And it all gets regurgitated in stupid movies and all kinds of other dumb books that people read. 56:48.000 --> 56:50.000 And they start believing this stuff. 56:50.000 --> 56:51.000 Hell is real. 56:51.000 --> 56:54.000 And it's a place of fire and torment and screaming. 56:54.000 --> 56:56.000 And the rich man lift up his eyes and held. 56:56.000 --> 57:03.000 The moment he woke up from dying, his eyes were in flames of fire. 57:03.000 --> 57:04.000 He was on fire. 57:04.000 --> 57:10.000 And he just wanted a drop of water, just some kind of soothing to get out of it. 57:10.000 --> 57:19.000 And you know, they're going to get resurrected on the last day, on judgment day, just for a brief moment. 57:19.000 --> 57:23.000 Just so God can judge them according to their works. 57:23.000 --> 57:27.000 And then they're going to be cast into the lake of fire for all eternity. 57:27.000 --> 57:30.000 So they get a little reprieve for a second. 57:30.000 --> 57:36.000 And then their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched for all eternity. 57:36.000 --> 57:39.000 And all they had to do is believe. 57:39.000 --> 57:43.000 But some people didn't get reached, because somebody didn't tell them. 57:43.000 --> 57:45.000 Somebody was too afraid to tell them. 57:45.000 --> 57:47.000 Someone didn't take the time to tell them. 57:47.000 --> 57:53.000 Someone was just standing around with their hands in their pockets and didn't care. 57:53.000 --> 57:57.000 Something was more important. 57:57.000 --> 58:00.000 Look, I'm not saying that we should be 24, 7, 3, 6, 5, only soul-willing. 58:00.000 --> 58:02.000 I'm not saying that. 58:02.000 --> 58:07.000 But hey, if you've lost your zeal to soul-willing, if you don't care anymore, 58:07.000 --> 58:11.000 look, you need to get your heart right with God and start caring again. 58:11.000 --> 58:17.000 Because we need to keep our zeal for God, we need to keep our soul-willing red hot. 58:17.000 --> 58:18.000 Let's pray. 58:18.000 --> 58:21.000 Lord, thank you so much for the Bible. 58:21.000 --> 58:24.000 Lord, help us if we're backslidden in this area. 58:24.000 --> 58:27.000 Lord, help any of us, including me, Lord. 58:27.000 --> 58:30.000 And help us to have a zeal for soul-willing. 58:30.000 --> 58:33.000 Help us, Lord, to care about the lost. 58:33.000 --> 58:38.000 Help us to look on the multitude with compassion and be moved with compassion 58:38.000 --> 58:40.000 to do something about it. 58:40.000 --> 58:43.000 Help us to look for opportunities in our daily life. 58:43.000 --> 58:45.000 Help us to look for opportunities in our family life. 58:45.000 --> 58:47.000 Help us to look for opportunities in our community. 58:47.000 --> 58:51.000 Help us to care about the people in other nations. 58:51.000 --> 58:57.000 Help us to care about the people in other nations, in other states, in other churches. 58:57.000 --> 59:02.000 And wherever we can find opportunity, Lord, help us to use our life as a living sacrifice for you 59:02.000 --> 59:06.000 and that you would be pleased with our efforts, Lord. 59:06.000 --> 59:07.000 Help us to care. 59:07.000 --> 59:09.000 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 59:09.000 --> 59:12.000 Right. 59:12.000 --> 59:17.000 Remember the first time I actually was a talker and presented the Gospel to someone, 59:17.000 --> 59:22.000 it was a girl here in Vancouver who was like, I just moved here from Cincinnati. 59:22.000 --> 59:25.000 And I was like, I just moved here from Cincinnati. 59:25.000 --> 59:31.000 And then she got saved and was like, what are the statistical chances of me knocking that door? 59:31.000 --> 59:32.000 Right? 59:32.000 --> 59:34.000 And so it's kind of interesting. 59:34.000 --> 59:35.000 353. 59:35.000 --> 59:37.000 Yeah, From Every Stormy Wind. 59:37.000 --> 59:39.000 353 in the red of the green. 59:39.000 --> 59:45.000 From every stormy wind that blows. 59:45.000 --> 59:51.000 From every stormy wind that blows. 59:51.000 --> 59:57.000 From every stormy wind that blows. 59:57.000 --> 01:00:03.000 From every stormy wind that blows. 01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:09.000 From every stormy wind that blows. 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:15.000 From every stormy wind that blows. 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:21.000 From every stormy wind that blows. 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:33.000 From beneath the mercy sea. 01:00:33.000 --> 01:00:42.000 There is a place where Jesus sheds. 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:49.000 For the gladness born. 01:00:49.000 --> 01:01:01.000 For it's a place that all besides more sweet. 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:11.000 It is a place where all is seen. 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:21.000 It is a place where all is seen. 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:26.000 Where spirits learn. 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:31.000 The friend holds the Lord. 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:35.000 Shed the friend. 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:40.000 The son that born. 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:45.000 By faith they meet. 01:01:45.000 --> 01:02:00.000 Around one God in mercy sea. 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:10.000 There there on eagles wings we soar. 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:20.000 And sin and sins move us onward. 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:30.000 And then comes the our souls to greet. 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:45.000 When glory comes on mercy sea. 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:10.000 When glory comes on mercy sea.