Amen. Good morning, and the title of the sermon this morning is we have this
ministry. We have this ministry. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you so much for the
fact that we do have a great ministry, and that's soul winning, Lord, and I
just pray that you just fill me with the Holy Spirit now as I preach, Lord, and let
the people be edified in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, so we've learned a lot
about people that are trash so far, but how do we fix this trash problem? Well,
you know, soul winning obviously is the answer to that. It looks like we have a
whole lot of soul winners here this morning. Amen. And I don't know how many
are here, but it looks like well over a hundred, and probably close to 200, but
the title of my sermon, like I said, is we have this ministry. So look down at verse
number one in our text here. It says, therefore seen we have this ministry as
we have received mercy we faint not. So just a little context behind this. This
is the Apostle Paul writing to the church at Corinth for the second time,
and in chapter 3 Paul gets done explaining how God has made us ministers
of the New Testament, and how the veil is over the eyes of the Jews when the law
of Moses is read every week. So turn back with me just one chapter here and look
at verse, let's see, 2 Corinthians 3 6. It says, who also hath made us able
ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the
letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. Now skip down to verse number 17. It
says in verse number 17, now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the
Lord is there is liberty. Now what is liberty? Liberty is the state of being
free, and it's also the state of being not imprisoned or enslaved. So God's
given us a liberty. He's given us a ministry. He's given us the ministry to
go soul winning, amen? And so turn over to 1st Corinthians chapter 16. So I'm just
going to go through some a few things before I really get into the meat of the
message here. God's given us a ministry though, and it's the ministry of
reconciliation. Look at 1st Corinthians 16 verse 9, and I'm going to read through
several scriptures here, but I'll try to do it quickly, okay? So it says, for a
great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. Now
if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear, for he worketh the
work of the Lord, as I also do. Let no man therefore despise him, but conduct him
forth in peace, that he may come unto me. For I look for him with the brethren, as
touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the
brethren, but this, but his will was not at all to come at this time. But he will
come when he shall have convenient time. Watch ye stand fast in the faith, quit
you like men, be strong, let all your things be done with charity. I beseech
you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first
fruits of Achaea, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of
the saints, that you submit yourselves unto such, and to everyone that helpeth
with us and laborerth. I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunus and
Achaea, for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied, for
they have refreshed my spirit and yours, therefore acknowledging them that are
such. The churches of Asia salute you, Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in
the Lord, with the church that is in their house. All the brethren greet you,
greet you one another with the holy kiss." Now, don't greet me with the holy kiss,
okay, if you see me, I'm just not that kind of guy, okay, but anyway, I'm just
kidding. But what's the point? Pastor Thompson, what's your point? Why did you
read all this? Well, the point is, is that Paul, one of the greatest soul
winners, arguably probably the greatest soul winner of all time, besides the Lord
Jesus Christ, he said in 2nd Corinthians 3, 6, he made us ministers of the New
Testament. Now, in 2nd Corinthians 4, 1, he said, we have this ministry. See, Paul the
Apostle didn't do it all by himself, he had a team of people to do it with him,
right? So, we have this ministry, everybody in this room has a ministry, and that
ministry is soul winning, amen? That's the one thing, why are we here? Why did
God leave us here after he saved us? Why are we still operating in this world?
Because we have this ministry, and this ministry is soul winning. And Paul didn't
say, I have this ministry, even though he'd be okay to say that, right? But he
said, we. He's talking to everybody as if they're one big team. So, and who is
his team? Well, we just went through Timotheus, Apollos, Stephanas, Fortunatus,
I don't know how to pronounce some of these names, Achaicus, Aquila,
Priscilla, he had Demas who forsook him, he had Mark, he had Barnabas, he had all
these, you know, every epistle, he kind of lists these people that are helping him
out. Because Paul didn't do it on his own, he had a great big team to do it with
him. That's why he said, we have this ministry. So it's not just one person,
it's not just Pastor Anderson, it's not just Pastor Jimenez, it's everybody in
our churches is part of that team. And we all need to be on that team. We, you know,
God, God wants everybody to be a soul winner in his churches, amen?
2 Corinthians 5, turn over to 2 Corinthians 5. I'm trying to make it
easy on you here early. We'll stay in the Corinthians here. 2 Corinthians 5,
look at verse number 17, it says, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ, by
Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. See, we have
obtained mercy, like it said in 2 Corinthians 4, we obtain mercy, that's why
we have this ministry. In this verse it says, he reconciled us to himself and
hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. And it says in verse 19,
to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not
imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed to us the word of
reconciliation. So what is the ministry we have? The ministry of reconciliation,
which is reconciling man to God. That's our job, that's what we're supposed to do
as soul winners, amen? So let's see, it is a great responsibility also to
have this ministry. It's not something that we should take lightly. And the we,
just a little English lesson here, we is plural, us is plural, right? And that's why
when we say, well the King James isn't that hard to understand, thee, thine, and
thou, that's singular, right? And ye, you, and yours is plural, okay? So let's look at
Matthew chapter 28, turn over to Matthew chapter number 28 verse number 18. So you
say, Pastor Thompson, are you saying that this is my ministry too? Of course I am,
that's exactly what I'm trying to say, it's everybody's ministry to do
soul-winning, amen? So look at Matthew 28 verse 18, it says,
And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, All power is given unto me in
heaven and earth, go ye therefore. Now is that plural or is that singular? That's
plural, right? Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe
whatsoever things I have commanded you, and lo I am with you always, even
unto the end of the world, amen? So now a lot of people, you know, people that don't
like soul-winning will say, well, you know, they were just talking to the apostles.
Really? Because why are we all here then? How did we all get here? Because somebody
got us saved, right? That that chain has been unbroken, that there's been always
saved people, because if that if the chain ever was completely broken, then we
wouldn't be here right now. That means we have this ministry of reconciliation, we
have this ministry, it's committed unto us, and so we are going forth today to
complete that ministry, amen? So that's, I mean, obviously everybody here is to go
soul-winning, right? But so let's see, turn us back to 2 Corinthians 4.1, and
here's the thing, we might not have all the flashy cars, and a lot of people in
this room have probably lost friends. Who's lost friends because you're part
of this ministry, okay? Who's lost family members? Who's had family members just
say, you know what, I don't want anything to do with you anymore?
Lots of people, right? You know, people at work, they mock us, don't they? They think
we're weirdos, you know, our friends have completely just gave up on us, they think
that we're brainwashed idiots, right? So we have a lot of issues dealing with
people out in the world, right? A lot of people hate us, they hate what we stand
for, you know, they can take everything away from us and just strip it, try to
strip everything away from us, but we know what we still do have, we still have
this ministry, and that is what's the most important, the most important thing
we could be doing is soul-winning, amen? So back in 2 Corinthians 4, I just want to
give you some things to help keep you in this ministry, all right? So 2
Corinthians 4 says, therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, we faint not. So number one, don't quit. You have this ministry, we have this
ministry, so what's the one thing that we should never do? We should never quit on
soul-winning. And look, I've been doing this for a little while, not as long as
Pastor Mendez and Pastor Anderson, some of the other pastors, but I've been doing
this for a while and I've seen people quit. So I'm sure they've seen people
quit. And Galatians, turn over to March 6 31, but in Galatians 6 9, I'll read that
for you while you're turning there, it says, let us not be weary in well-doing,
for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. So we're supposed to not be
worry in well-doing, and is it well-doing to go get people saved? Amen. Amen. So we
shouldn't, it says we faint not, in the Bible it has a, the Bible has a theme
talking about not fainting. And it's, you know, when you think of fainting you
think, oh, you know, I'm fainting. No. What, look, when you work in construction, who
works in construction in here? There's never been days when, you know, and of
course everybody has different jobs, but my job is construction right now, and
there's been some days where I'm out in the hot sun and I feel faint. And that's
what he's talking about, you know, you feel faint, you feel like quitting, you
feel like stopping, right? You get tired and you're like, oh man, I just want to
just be done, right? I've been out on asphalt for 14 hours and your feet get
hot, you feel cooked, you know, no water is helping, you just feel faint, you just
want to quit. But God doesn't want us to quit and He has ways to help us out in
that area. So we can get burnt out in our Christian life, we can get to the point
where we say, you know what, I really don't feel like going soul-wanting
today. You know, and as you do it for years, you feel that way more often than
you did when you first started. When I first started soul-wanting like all the
time, I was always excited to go and I was like, what's wrong with you guys?
Let's go, you know, but as I've been doing it for years now, it's more often, I'm not
saying all the time, but sometimes I feel like not going. Who feels like not going
sometimes? You know, obviously some people don't feel like going, and obviously if
you're super sick you probably shouldn't go and cough in people's faces and
things like that, right? But let's see, you're in Mark 6 31, it says, and He said
unto them, come ye apart into a desert place and rest awhile, for there were
many coming and going and they had no leisure so much as to eat. So the
apostles and the Lord Jesus Christ were working so hard they didn't even have
time to stop and eat. And Jesus said, come ye apart into a desert place and rest
awhile. Sometimes it's okay to take a rest, you know that? On our missions trips
you don't have to go for twelve and a half hours a day to be right with God,
okay? You can go for four or five hours on a missions trip and still be just as
right as God as anybody else, okay? And sometimes we get to where we're
pressuring people to feel like, hey you're not doing enough. Now obviously if
someone goes on a missions trip and they're like, well I went for 30 minutes
I'm gonna go on vacation, that's ridiculous, okay? But you know, obviously
there's people who get ultra spiritual and they're like, you're not
doing enough. You're not, you know, like people like Doug Trowbridge, right? You're
just not as spiritual as I am because I love souls, you know? And everybody
knows, if anybody knows, Doug Trowbridge is a clown, right? And obviously he's
probably a psychopath reprobate. You know, these people that get ultra spiritual
and they think that they act like they're so much better than you, in
reality they're probably not even really getting people saved. Look at Garrett
Kerchway for instance. Anyway, so the key to not quitting, turn over to Isaiah 40
verse 28. Isaiah 40 verse number 28.
God has the answers for everything. When you feel like quitting, this is some good
verses to go and just meditate on. Isaiah 40 verse 28 says,
See, God doesn't faint. God never gets tired, but he knows that we do sometimes.
Now look at what it says, it says,
Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. Now
I take this kind of verse to heart because I'm not a young man anymore. I'm
not a youth anymore. So I see kids running around and, you know, young men
can work, usually do a little more than I can, a lot more than I can. But, you know,
God is the one that gives me strength. God is the one that pushes me through to
keep going soul winning and to keep walking those triple-decker apartment
complexes, right? You know, the older you get, you look at those triple-deckers,
you're like, oh man, it's gonna be a rough soul winning day. But, you know, it says,
Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with
wings as eagles, and they shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not
faint. So what's the key to not fainting, to not quitting? Well, it's to wait upon
the Lord. And see, you know, I know a lot of people think that it's just like they
that pray and wait for God to answer their prayers, but that's what it's
talking about. But also, have you ever heard someone say, hey, who's your waiter?
You know, is there a waiter in the house or whatever? You know, we have
people that wait upon, waiting upon someone is also doing things for them,
isn't it? So, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but it says he giveth power to the
faint. To them that have no, no might, he increases strength. But they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength. When you're working hard for God, you
know, God's gonna renew your strength even though you're weary. You keep working
for God, and he's gonna take care of you. He's gonna make sure that you don't
faint. So the key to not fainting in your soul-winding ministry, get your strength
from the Lord. Don't get your strength from yourself. There's times when I get
super tired. I've worked a long week. I've worked four 12-hour shifts in a row or
whatever, and then it's time to go soul-winding, and I'm exhausted.
Sometimes I'll just say, I'll just stop because I know I'm feeling faint, and I
just say, Lord, give me the strength to get through today. Give me the strength
to get through tomorrow. Give me the strength to write my sermons for this
weekend. You know what I mean? You, when you're in the ministry, and guys that are
in the ministry understand this, there's times when you feel faint. There's times
when you need the Lord to give you the strength because you just can't go any
further without him. Amen? And if you ever feel like quitting soul-winding, just
remember this, God's gonna give you the strength to keep moving on. Right? The
young, even the young children will faint, but God will give you the strength and
increase your strength for you because God's gonna carry you through when you
get weary. Look at Matthew chapter 9 verse 35. Matthew chapter 9 verse 35. This
is my longest point. Matthew 9 verse 35. Because quite frankly, a lot of people
quit. They do. I mean, we started this church and we're running about, I don't
know, 80, 90 people right now, but we'd be running a lot more if all the people
that didn't quit stayed there. We've had whole families leave, but you know what?
It's funny, when one family leaves, another family comes, like the next week.
And not everybody quits because, no, you know, not everybody leaves the church
because of bad things. Sometimes people just move away, right? But God, it seems
like God always brings another family along as soon as that family leaves, so
it's pretty interesting. Matthew 9 35 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,
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. You see that?
The Lord Jesus Christ, He cared about the people and had compassion upon them
because, why? Because they fainted and they were as sheep having no shepherd.
Then saith He unto His disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the
laborers are few. Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest that He will send forth
laborers into His harvest. You know why the laborers are few? Because people faint.
Because people quit. And, you know, God is looking for laborers, and obviously we
have a whole room filled with laborers today, but look, there's gonna come a time
in your Christian life when you're gonna feel like quitting. There's gonna, when
all the persecution happens with your family and your friends and your work
and just it, look, the devil wants to put you in his pressure cooker. He wants to
put you in his compactor. But see, look, God's gonna renew your strength, amen? So
number two, we have this ministry. Don't hide it, okay? Look at, back at, you're
gonna want to keep a ribbon in 2 Corinthians chapter 4. 2 Corinthians 4
3 says, But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. So the worst
possible people to hide the gospel is who? Who do you, who's the worst possible
people you can hide the gospel from? The lost people, right? So he's saying if
it's hid, it's hid to them that are lost. And it says in verse 4, In whom the God
of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of
the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. So
the last possible thing we want to do is stop preaching the gospel to the lost.
It's hid, if it's hid, it's hid to them, it's hid to them that are lost, right?
But you know, we have so many times, but there's other times we could go, when we
are out and about, and you run into people, and you think, I know that some
people that are soul owners think, I should give this person the gospel, and
then sometimes you don't, right? Well, we're hiding the gospel from the lost.
Just because it's not your scheduled soul winning time, doesn't mean you can't
just stop and give someone else the gospel in your daily life. See, people
come across your past, and you know, when you get that, that, I don't know if it's
that inner conscience voice that you have, you say, I should give that, the
gospel to that person, you should listen. Because a lot of times, when you do
listen, that person gets saved. So, and obviously the God of this world is
blinding the minds of them that believe not. See, salvation is a miracle.
It really is, because the devil blinds the minds of them that believe not.
And we're the ones that are supposed to shine the light of the gospel to them.
In 2 Timothy 2, 25, it says, in meekness, instructing those that oppose
themselves, if God-paired venture will give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover
themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
So the devil has people that he has snared, and everybody has their own
snare that they're involved in. You know, you notice when you're soul winning
sometimes, that they just have this one particular thing that they don't want to
give up, and they won't get saved. Because, well I just think that God, you know,
wants me to do good works. And they just, no matter how many scripture verses you
give them, they just won't let that go, because they want to be in charge of
their own salvation. They don't want to trust the Lord Jesus Christ only for
their salvation. They want to trust the Lord Jesus Christ and
themselves. Which, their faith is made void if they do that, right? So look,
eternity is on the line here. It's heaven or hell. And this ministry is not a game.
It's not a game that we play. And the old IFB have played, they've resorted to
playing games like the bus ministry, right? You know, the bus ministry isn't
soul winning, just just so you know. And you might be able to win souls in the
bus ministry. Look, I've been part of the bus ministry. I've been part of
junior church. I've been part of all this. I've even been an altar worker, you know.
I know, I know, I'm wicked, right? But look, sometimes, sometimes people come up to
the altar, they do get saved if they have someone that gives them a right gospel.
Now I'm not advocating for altars. Obviously we don't do altar calls at our
church, because the Bible doesn't say anything about doing altar calls in the
New Testament, does it? I don't think it says anything about doing altar calls
necessarily in the Old Testament either. But anyway, that's neither here nor
there. But you know the thing is, door hangers aren't soul winning. See, the old
IFB has replaced real soul winning and replaced it with games and candy for
kids. And that the soul winning bus ministry is that, so if you look on a
website at a church and you say, hey I'm gonna go visit this church, they have
soul winning. What does the soul winning end up being? It ends up being the bus
ministry, doesn't it? Hey, go knock doors and try to get kids to come, lure them
with your candy, you know. I don't know who came up with that, but it works. It
does work. And look, you can get kids saved obviously. And I'm not knocking that. I'm
just saying that that's not what soul winning is. Soul winning is when the
Bible says, and daily in the temple in every house they cease not to teach and
preach Jesus Christ. That's soul winning. Going to the door. Jack Hyles said it
really good. He said, we need to get back to the doorstep. And that's what this
movement is doing, is we're getting back to the doorstep. You know, and I'm really
sick and tired of these Jehovah's Witnesses. People think we're Jehovah's Witnesses
when we come to the door. And we need to take that back and stop letting people
think we're Mormons and just, hey, make sure you realize, that they realize
you're a Baptist when you come to the door. And that when, you know, when they're
like, oh hey the Baptists are coming again. You know, they're not thinking the
Jehovah's Witnesses are coming again with their little slow walking, right? We're
Baptists. You know, if they're gonna get sick of us, I want them to be sick of the
Baptists coming to their door and not the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons.
Amen. So number one was don't quit. Number two was don't hide it. Number three, we
have this ministry. We need to let it shine. Turn back to 2nd Corinthians 4
5.
We were at the door the other day, I think it was me and brother Mark, and
they're like, oh you're not Jehovah's? You're not Jehovah's? No, we're Baptists. I
don't think we said it emphatically enough when we went to the door. Anyway,
look at verse number 5. 2nd Corinthians 4 5 says, for we preach not ourselves but
Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. For God who
commanded the light to shine out of the darkness has shined in our hearts to
give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of
the power of God may be of us or may be of God and not of us. So just like God
commanded the light to shine into the darkness, he commands us to be a light in
the world and shine into the darkness of this world, the darkness of men where sin
creeps around. You know, darkness is obviously a picture of sin and God wants
us to shine our lights into the darkness. Now you say, brother Aaron, what are you
talking about? It's the light of Jesus. It is the light of Jesus, but the light of
Jesus is in these earthen vessels and we need to shine that light forth. Look at
Matthew chapter, return to Matthew chapter 5 and while you're turning there
I'm going to read John chapter 3 verse 19. John 3 19 says, and this is the
condemnation that the light is coming to the world and men love darkness rather
than light because their deeds were evil. But everyone that doeth evil hateth the
light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that
doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest that they are
wrought in God. See the light, the darkness hates the light. They don't want
to be reproved of their sin, but Jesus told us very specifically in Matthew
chapter 5 verse number 13 says, you're the salt of the earth, but if the salt
has lost its saber, wherewith shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing,
but to be cast out and to be trodden under the foot of men. You're the light
of the world, a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid, neither do
men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick and it
giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men
that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
So first of all you got to understand you got to be a little salty, right? We
can't be without salt. If the salt's lost its saber, it's good for nothing, but to be
cast out. Look if you're not salt-wanting, you're really good for nothing to God to
be honest with you. That's what the Bible is really saying there and it also says
you're the light of the world. We have the light of Jesus within us, right? And
we need to shine that light forth to the people that are lost because the devil
has them taken captive at his will and we need to shine that light forth. And
you know what? I believe in lifestyle evangelism. Your life should match what
your message is preaching. So look if you're at work and you're just
living wickedly at work and you're cussing like a sailor, do you think that
that co-worker is gonna want to hear you the gospel that you're preaching to them?
No. And so you know don't be afraid pastor I'm sorry I mean I was being a
little facetious there when I said I believe in lifestyle evangelism but look
your life should match what you're preaching. If you're living like the
devil and then you're trying to give the gospel around everybody then they're not
gonna want to hear your message. You got to be salt. You've got to be light, right?
So and so number four, number one was don't quit, number two was don't hide it,
number three let it shine, number four we have this ministry don't let it be
quenched. Look at verse number eight in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse number
8 says we are troubled on every side yet not distressed. We are perplexed but not
in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed. So what's
the Bible saying? We are gonna go through trouble as Christians. We're gonna go
through persecutions. We're gonna be troubled. We're gonna be perplexed at
times. We're gonna be cast down. We're gonna be persecuted and look the Apostle
Paul goes on to say here and I'm not gonna read all the verses but he
actually was people were trying to literally kill him. People stoned him. He
was shipwrecked. He went all through all these things. He's just beaten with rods and
and you know he bared the marks of the Lord Jesus in his body. He got he got he
took some beat downs in his lifetime. Now we don't we're not going through that
right now. Our persecutions are light in comparison to what the Apostle Paul went
through but you know our persecutions are from family members saying you're in
a cult. You're in a cult. I can't believe you're going to church again, right? Who's
heard that? Yeah so you know those those persecution comes from your old friends.
You know they'll call they'll message you every once in a while on Facebook.
Do you really believe that all fags should burn in hell? Yeah you know and
slowly but surely they stop posting on your Facebook page don't they or they
just delete you you know whatever but our persecutions pretty light but we do
get persecution and sometimes that pressure from a family member can
can be pretty intense. Your own family. You know but the Bible is very clear
that Jesus said he came not to bring peace. Turn over to Luke chapter 12 verse
number 51. He said I don't I didn't bring peace I didn't come to bring peace but
to bring a sword. Luke 12 Luke 12 51.
Luke 12 51 says suppose you that I'm come to give peace on earth I tell you
nay but rather division for from henceforth there shall be five in one
house divided three against two two against three the father shall be
divided against the son and the son against the father the mother against
the daughter and the daughter against the mother the mother-in-law against the
daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and pastor
Anderson was pretty team used these start these verses a couple weeks ago
they said the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law that's that happens a
lot doesn't it but the pool what's the point here is that there's gonna be
divisions even within your own family members sons against dads you know those
verses of Deuteronomy chapter 13 it says where your hand will be the first upon
them sometimes that division is the husband and wife you know he said even
if it's your wife that you're supposed to be the first I mean that's crazy
right to kill have to kill your own wife but that's what that's how that's how
God divides things he's one he's not just you know a gray area God he's black
and white okay so in first Peter 5 8 we read we we saw those verses last night
but ultimately the persecution comes from the devil himself to first Peter 5
8 says be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring
lion walk at the bout seeking whom he may devour see he wants to devour you as
a Christian he wants to he wants to wreck your life he wants to kill you he
wants to divide your family he wants to eat you up it says who resists his
steadfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in
your brethren they're in the world he's resisting the steadfast in the faith the
ones that are standing strong the ones that are going so when he the ones are
living godly in Christ Jesus the ones that are reading their Bible the ones
that are praying the ones that are three to thrive at church he wants to resist
the steadfast right he wants to resist you because he wants to devour you and
he wants to trip you up and make you fall he wants to make you faint he
wants to make you quit and he wants to destroy you see the devil hate he hates
his own children too see God loves his children but the devil hates his
children he turns against his own children and has them killed too because
ultimately he doesn't care about anybody he doesn't care about his own children
he props them up and puts them in high places and lets them destroy themselves
and other people because that's ultimately what he wants to do in the
first place but since we have this ministry just let just know this that
are the things that we're doing in this movement are not going unnoticed by the
devil new false prophets are being revealed every week we had to kick some
clown out of our church named Sebastian that he's going around and still trying
to cause problems and in other churches causing problems with faith for Baptist
and he just he just look if that guy text messages you just ignore him he's a
clown he just wants the attention so just know this that he's a he's a
heretic he's a modalist and he's what else is he he's a flat earther okay
strike three you're out man but we had to kick him out and look evil men shall
wax worse and worse right the look where the word Jesus went just think about all
the times that Jesus went places and then some demons started manifesting
himself in front of them I mean look the demons are gonna come into our churches
the demons are gonna come and try to plant and supplant themselves into our
movement and look don't just it's been talked about a lot I know this but don't
let that discourage you don't let that you know keep your ranks like Pastor
Major was saying last night keep your ranks and just let that guy be anathema
maranatha right so but we have this ministry you know we have you know have
you ever noticed this also they're like the reprobates always seem to find each
other in the churches right they seem to find husbands and you know husbands and
wives right so you got Tyler Baker and his wife and then Dominique and Wendy
right they how do they find each other you know how do they find each other
like Garrett and now now now I knew for a long time that she was wicked but I
hope I thought that maybe she got shored up or something but apparently that
wasn't the case but you know how do they find each other it's like a fag right
fags can find each other in a room anytime it's like they just have this
fag sense about them that they just know who the other fags are right it's weird
it's the same thing with the reprobates the reprobates find each other too and
they collude together and now look at them all they're like the Legion of Doom
in there and their little Facebook group or whatever they're in not Facebook but
what's the what's the whatsapp right the other whatsapp group and they're just
look they're they're irrelevant we got to just keep going so wanting and doing
the things that we do and just you know don't don't marvel because the devil's
people manifest themselves of angels of light right they try to masquerade like
they're one of us they try to pretend like they're one of us but eventually
the mass comes off and we find out who they are but God reveals those things in
his time so just don't get discouraged about things like that number five
number one was don't quit number two was don't hide it number three let it shine
number four don't let it get quenched you know and the thing is about these
fags before I move on though is that you know they always find each other not
just the fags with the reprobates but you know persecution also comes from
churches I'm gonna before I move on to my next point I forgot this part all
right persecution comes in our own churches so not our churches but
churches like there's people here that go to a church it's not a new IFB church
right so just a little story about what happened in Boise so Boise is has been a
miracle of God also and you know the thing is is what what ended up what
ended up happening is that people are saying at these churches in these
different towns you know they'll call up and say hey you know what what time of
your service times they're like do you listen to Stephen Anderson and they're
like oh yeah and they're like okay you're not welcome here that's what's
happening they're saying if you know where'd you go to church last week was
my live stream something oh yeah who are you listen to Stephen Anderson and then
they say don't come here that's how the Boise Church basically started and and
and that's what they're doing they they want to try they're they're dividing the
lines right now they're cart they're they're dying on the vine their
churches are dying and what's really weird to me is that they'll just kick
out soul winners you know they're like all the people that are bring our soul
winning and bringing life into their church are like hey we got to get rid of
this guy because they just want to keep doing the same stuff that they're doing
they want to still have one person over here that believes and repent of your
sins one person over here that's Calvinistic you know they don't want to
they don't want to divide like you should they don't want the new IFB in
their churches because the new IFB is injecting life into their churches and
they're saying hey you know that guy's a pedophile why don't you kick him out of
the church and they don't like that kind of stuff they don't like to be told what
to do it's really funny to me that they'll kick out a person that's a soul
winner they'll say hey you can't come back here but they'll let some fag stay
into their church they'll let them be in the in the sound booth or they'll let
them be the song leader wearing his lavender shirt or whatever we had a guy
like that in art at one of the churches that we went to the last church before
we started this church there was a fag song leader and he went to Golden Calf
Bible College or whatever his name was Justin Gillen and Justin Gillen he got
caught with 280 porn child pornography things and he was a he was the principal
at a school a Baptist school over in I think it was in Oregon City okay caught
by the feds and you know how they caught him they tied the Fed that was whatever
the federal agent typed in setting seven-year-old boy and that's how they
found him and they linked back to what he was looking at and he was looking at
seven-year-old boys and that guy was at our church but they would rather have us
leave the new IFB people that were in their church they'd rather have us leave
than that faggot and you know what I said look he's gonna do it again and he
and when he does that's gonna be on you so months later he was married too by
the way and had like two kids his wife caught him not too long after that with
he was looking up incestuous things about his you know about young children
you know father-daughter weird stuff right so finally he kicked him out of
the church but you know someone that's a soul winner they'll just let them stay
there you know I mean they'll just kick them out and let the fag stay there it's
weird it's a strange anomaly that's going on in Baptist churches but you
know thank God that some people in Boise have bound together and we can give you
know Pastor Mendez could give them some structure that they can have their own
church because those churches have kicked him out there was a guy there
that was going to a church and he said you know the pastor just basically said
you can't even bring your own converts to church so the people that they were
getting saved they would even let the converts come to church that's pretty
crazy that's getting crazy but the thing is is that just like Samson you know
Samson was a spirit-filled man of God at times in his life and you know the when
the lion was roaring against him what did he do he rent that lion like it was
a kid and basically the old IFP is like this it's like that dead lion that dead
carcass on the ground and we just got to get the honey out of it and we need to
do our own thing right we just got to be like the bees getting the honey out of
it and just leave that carcass alone so moving on to my next point we have this
ministry start soul winning as soon as possible after being saved so there's a
lot of new saved people that join this movement all the time and we need to
understand that soul needs a big deal look we have this ministry you can take
the ministry back to your hometown you can start your own soul winning ministry
and obviously the best thing is to be in a good church but if you're not in a
good an area where there is a good church start soul winning anyway okay
and look maybe God will grant you a church of your own at some point so just
a little story about how the church you know do you think it was an accident
that the church got started up in Vancouver do you think that just it just
happened no you know there was people that were being faithful and soul
winning and we bound together as a big group and you know that's how it got
started basically and so once this church has started kicking all the
people out it was just like it's gonna be in Boise you know we you know God
just rose up a leader and it happened to be me I didn't know it was gonna be me
but that wasn't really the plan at first honestly it wasn't but when we
realized that so we had someone supposed to come be the pastor there and it
didn't end up happening didn't end up handing out at that time so someone asked
me hey do you want to be the what do you think about you are you are you are you
willing to do it and I was like let me pray about that but then the next day I
was talking to another friend of mine who goes to my church now and he's like
you need to step up okay but so you know and I just like okay I will and so
you know this is this is after the Orlando this is after post Orlando right
pastor man is looking for a building you know the last thing he wants to do is
start a new church up and you know up in Vancouver Washington but I watched a
video that pastor Anderson made it was it was called how to other ways to start
churches or something like that I'll tell you what God spoke to my heart in
that Matt and that you know it was just it wasn't even like a message this is
just how you start other churches and I thought this this could be the way you
know because look we were all about to move away and and look I would have been
willing to move away that's fine you know but I think that God wanted a place
up in that Vancouver Portland area so that people those people wouldn't all
have to go to hell too and look we've had over we've had over a thousand safe
say people there since we've started that ministry up there well over a
thousand I don't know the exact number off the top of my head but that wouldn't
have happened if if God's people had enough bound together and said hey we're
gonna do this thing together and look turn to uh let's see turn to 1st Samuel
chapter 22 1st Samuel chapter 22
Pastor Jimenez had mentioned this in his message I thought was a really good
point 1st Samuel 22 verse number 2 it says and everyone that was in distress
and everyone that was in debt and everyone that was discontented gathered
themselves unto him and he became a captain over them and there and there
with and there were with him about 400 men so David when he you know was
fleeing from Saul you know he had all these he had all these men that came and
gathered themselves together they were the discontented they were the ones that
were in debt you know it's kind of like it's kind of like how these new
satellite churches are starting it's like you got all these people they're
discontented and they're and they're unhappy because their churches are just
spiritually weak and that the pastors have no spine they'll tell one person
salvation by faith and they'll tell the next person's repent of your sins or
whatever but you know these people gathered themselves to gather together
under a captain who was David right so that's kind of how these new churches
are starting you know and look at Atlanta Georgia 25 30 guys boom pastor
Dave Burzins goes down and starts that church there how about Orlando Florida
there was people that were already soul winning down there you know Lake the
Lakeland soul winners and what happened so pastor Boyle he ended up not being
able to stay at the church he was at just shows up on a Wednesday night and
there's like what 20 30 people there starts a church right there that see the
churches are popping up were places where people are doing the work already
there were the people have already gathered themselves together and they're
just waiting for their captain to come and start the church right that's what's
been that's what's going on that's how we're growing now obviously there's two
ways to start a church there's one way where you know you have a man of God
that's sent out he's already qualified and and he goes and starts a church like
down a pure word Baptist Church down in Houston right but there's other ways to
start churches in the way that these satellite churches are starting is
because there's a group of people that are already there they're already
soul-winning so this is what I see a lot on online and on YouTube and things
where people like send somebody over here are you doing the work are you
bound together with other believers are you doing what you're what you should be
doing or you just not having your ministry you're like oh I'll just wait
to go so winning you know and bind together with other believers when
somebody comes that day is never gonna come if you think if you're not already
doing something that God's just gonna just send somebody to Timbuktu or
wherever you're at hodunk holla you know he's not you know there's got to be some
people are bound together you know and sometimes there's a like in Vancouver we
have a special thing there because we have people that travel from long
distances to get to our church obviously that's not something that you can do
forever but we have our services designed so that people could come and
just spend a whole day with us to go home and they're still at home at a
reasonable hour so but God is doing a great work right now with these
satellite churches and with these new church plants that's why there's so many
popping up and hopefully there's double what there is this time at this time
next year there's like over there's like somewhere around 20 churches or
something I'm starting to lose track but that's a good thing like I'm sitting
there trying to count all the different pastors and all the different satellites
and it's getting crazy right but if you start so winning early look if you're in
the new IFB and you're not so when you need to get into plugged into a program
if you don't have a good church to go to then you need to find one and if you
can't find one move you know but you don't have to necessarily move if you
have a big group of people just say hey we got 25 people over here we're already
so winning we're already doing the work send us somebody and I'll tell you what
God is gonna send a person to you he really will look the part of the story I
didn't tell you about is that I got I started listening to like pastor
Anderson pastor Hermana's his sermons and I was just like hey I'm just gonna go
down and ask him for a pastor you know I'm just that stupid I just go down I'm
just gonna go down to Phoenix I'm sure nobody else has ever done that before
please send us a pastor but that's kind of how it all started you know I was
just like hey I'm just gonna ask you know sometimes if you ask God for
things he's gonna give you the desires of your heart if he knows you're gonna
do what what he wants you to do but if you're just sitting there you know
watching YouTube videos hoping that some pastor is gonna start a church and some
small town out in the middle of nowhere of a new IFB Church people ask all the
time they're like hey will you start a church in like
Stanfield Oregon or you know I'm just making up you know whatever some potent
that town has like 3,000 people in it or something it's not gonna happen you know
we're what's the plan we're trying to send the people to the biggest
populations that we can right now and then you know eventually the smaller
areas will get people but you know Boise Idaho is not a huge place but like the
surrounding areas around it it is pretty big it's the biggest city in
Idaho how is the biggest city in Idaho getting a church how did that happen
well there was a bunch of people that were bound together and they said hey
pastor minutes will you send somebody over here and he looked at the situation
there's 25 people 30 people that don't have a church to go to but they're all
going so when they're all trying to go to church and God said hey I'm gonna
give you what you want right so let me move on so I didn't even get to my fifth
point here Acts chapter 9 verse 19 but in second Corinthians 4 verse 13 it says
we have the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believe and
therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak see Paul went
immediately soul winning and that is an example to us as believers that we
should immediately go soloing obviously Paul had special revelation he pretty
much had the God you know God spoke through the Holy Ghost to Paul and he
was able to go soloing right away but like even if you're just going as a
silent partner which is what you should start as you should still try to go
immediately sometimes people will come to our churches and I know they're not
going soloing you know they're not going and then when they come they're like oh
I'll go next time why go now go while you have the chance you're already at a
new IFB church so you just happen to be visiting why don't you go so winning
with them you know take your kids with you that that's the other thing like
there's a lot of ladies that take their kids out soloing with them it's kind of
tough sometimes but look God's gonna bless you when you take your kids out
soloing with you he's gonna bless you when you're out soloing and doing the
work and Acts 9 9 19 says and when he had received when he had received meat
he was strengthened then was Saul certain days with the disciples which
were at Damascus and straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues that
he is the Son of God but all that heard him were amazed and said it's not this
that he that destroyed them which called on the on this name in Jerusalem and
came hither for that intent that he might bring them bound into the chief
priests but Saul increased the more in strength and confounded the Jews which
were dwelt at Damascus proving that this is very Christ so you didn't take Paul
long to get out and start soul winning and before long he was already
confounding the Jews and smoking them you know look you should be able to get
out there and destroy a Jehovah's Witness you should know your Bible but
look just at the beginning you're not gonna be able to do that so don't try
you know you don't want to try to contend with the Jehovah's Witness when
you don't know the Bible but once you start to know the scriptures once you
start look once you start so wanting all the time you're gonna memorize the
scriptures because you're gonna say them so much but first you got to take that
step of actually going all right number number six this is the last point we
have this ministry exponential growth exponential rewards okay and we got to
think about the things we got to consider the rewards right God didn't
say that we had rewards just so we wouldn't try to plug into that reward
system right you have a reward cards for probably all different types of things
in your purses and wallets today don't you know why do you go to why do you go
to Dutch Brothers and have that little card punched on your card so you can get
the tenth one for free right but God's reward system is way better than than
any reward system that you can get it like I don't know even know what the
reward systems are there's all different kinds of ones there's gas rewards
obviously copies a big one what's that Jamba Juice does Jamba Juice have a
rewards program I don't know anyway but God's program is way better
2nd Corinthians 4 17 says for our light affliction which is but for a moment
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look
not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the
things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are
eternal so we need to look ahead and see the things that that are eternal
sometimes we just live our life day to day and we live our lives in the flesh
but those rewards that we have to look forward to those things are things that
we don't see but you know you can still look at those things and what and redeem
that time and Ephesians 5 15 it says see then that you walk circumspectly not as
fools but as wise redeeming the time see how do you walk circumspectly not as
fools but as wise you've got to redeem that time and look people that are older
they have a harder time soul winning did you know that the older you get the
harder it's gonna get so while you're young redeem the time because look we
got a little we got a kid in our church that's 12 years old and he's winning
souls already praise the Lord you know kids you can you can win souls did you
know that you know the pit we look I look creepy walking up to a little kid
in a in an apartment complex they get scared people get scared at the door
when I walk out to the door I'm like this big towering person in the middle
their doorway you need to get saved you need Jesus but a little kids when you
walk up the little kids in your six foot eight I mean they get freaked out but so
kids you can be a help when we're out and there's kids nobody's gonna stop
another little kid from giving their kid the gospel generally I mean there are
some weird people out there but kids you can be effective in the kingdom of God
you can be a soul winner just like anybody else and Zakiah at our church we
sick them on all the kids at the apartment complexes go get those kids
saved and he gets people saved all the time every week pretty much so look and
when you're older it's harder those three flight apartment complexes get
harder don't they guys so how many 90 year old people do you see out so many
not very many I don't think I don't know that I've ever seen a 90 year old
person out soul any so let me tell you this I mean there is no retirement
program in God's God's kingdom really but the thing is is that our bodies are
gonna catch up with with us there's gonna be time I have there's a guy that
came so many one time and he had had a hip surgery and so I said well hey I'll
just wheel you around and so I literally I wheeled him around in a wheelchair the
whole time on a soul any marathon and it got hard but imagine having to wheel
yourself you got to redeem the time now because the thing is you might not
always have your health and you might not always have the ability to walk and
climb stairs and I mean someone is hard work you beat the brakes off your shoes
don't you I mean I've had I had a I bought the exact same pair of shoes that
I had last time I was told I was just talking to this was brother fan and
earlier you got to have a nice pair of soul any shoes because if you don't then
your feet are gonna hurt but you know though you want those shoes to last you
for a while so you know if you're gonna spend a lot of money on something in
your wardrobe I mean you can get your coat at the Goodwill or whatever but you
should have a nice pair of shoes to go so anyway they men but anyway so we have
an exceeding weight and eternal weight of glory waiting for us and the Bible
says in 1st Corinthians 2 9 it says but as it is written I have not seen nor ear
heard neither have entered into the heart of a man the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him see God's prepared a great place for us in
heaven the Bible says in John 14 1 says let not your heart be troubled you
believe in God believe also in me in my father's house or many mansions if it
were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go
to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that
where I am there you may be also the Lord Jesus Christ has a great place
that he's preparing for us and look how do you get those rewards
soul-wanting and obviously it's not just the only thing that you get rewards for
but soul-wanting is the main thing and look what's the greatest reward you can
have in heaven seeing people that you love in heaven with you seeing people in
your family in heaven with you so be careful before you just sever complete
ties with family members that are unsaved look just just because they
don't like you or your religion doesn't mean that they're reprobates okay so try
to you know obviously we know which ones are reprobates which are if they're a
fag they're obviously a reprobate you know that just cut ties with them
forever but you know the thing is is that you want to see those people in
heaven with you you want to see your friends in heaven with you right so that
greatest reward that you can have in heaven is your friend your friends and
your loved ones there with you but even the people that aren't your friends you
know you're gonna when you get to heaven you're gonna see faces of people and
you're like hey I remember you from somewhere like yeah you got me saved
thank you and that's a that's a great reward amen but we you know in 1st
Corinthians 2 9 it says as is written I have not seen nor ear heard neither have
entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him look it hasn't even entered in our hearts you know I used to
wonder like what's heaven gonna be like well it's never entered into my heart I
don't know I don't know and Paul wasn't even allowed to come back and tell
people what heaven was like so it's it's far beyond the scope of what we can
think or dream of because it says it's not entered into our hearts so we have
this ministry and nobody can take that from us so what I would say to you is
that you need to make sure that you make that ministry yours as much as you
possibly can obviously we need to be sent out from a local church that's the
best way to do it but look do you think God if you don't have a church in your
area do you think God still wants you to go so wanting of course he does so
that's the thing that you should take away from this sermon if you take away
anything out of it at all is that you need that you need to make sure that
that ministry is you consider it yours we have this ministry it's given to us
and that we need to take that back take that back to your home I don't know
where everybody's from here some people are already in great churches don't quit
you know some people are in a church at least you're in a church and they're not
kicking you out stay there and be a blessing as long as you can if you can't
handle it if you can't contain then leave and go to another one that you
can't all right because sometimes that you know repent of your sins or whatever
it is that they're saying that just ridiculous you know the seminal Indian
what is it the seminal Indian somewhat of a prophet you know if your church
starts talking like that and you just can't handle it anymore you need to go
to a church that you can serve in amen so anyway let's pray Lord we thank you
so much for just the fact that you've given us a ministry Lord and I ask that
you would help us Lord to keep it in mind to not quit Lord and that we know
that we have this ministry and no matter what nobody can take that away from us I
pray that you would help us as we go out to preach the gospel today to be
fruitful and Lord that we might see some saved today in Jesus name amen