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If you need a bulletin, just look up your hand and one of the ushers will bring you a bulletin.
Alright, as the bulletins are being passed around, I'm just going to go ahead and read the verse of the week.
It says, For whosoever shall call upon, the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans chapter 10 verse 13.
It's a great, great scripture there, and an eternal truth.
And our service time is at the Shure Foundation Baptist Church. Our Sunday morning service is 10.30 a.m.
And our Sunday evening service is 3.30 p.m. We'll be back in our series.
The pictures of the Antichrist, we'll be preaching about Judas tonight.
And then Thursday evening is our Bible study, and that's at 6.30 p.m.
We're in the book of 1 Peter, so we're still going to be in 1 Peter chapter 1.
We're going to start off the chapter this Thursday.
And then we have soul winning. There are various different soul winning times listed below there.
Today we're going to be going out soul winning. Brother Sean Collins, the team captain for Sunday.
So if you are wanting to go soul winning or not in our WhatsApp group.
Brother Sean, why don't you lift up your hands so everybody knows who you are.
And Brother Sean, there will be a map inside the WhatsApp group.
If you're not in the WhatsApp group, like I said, you can get in the WhatsApp group.
I think me and my wife can put you in there. Just come and talk to us and we'll get you in.
And then we'll go out. I think we meet in here at 1.15 and then we head out.
From there you can meet on location as long as you have the map location.
Just make sure you're going where they sent you.
So anyway, let's see. The praise report.
You can just see the salvation, baptisms and attendance totals below.
And we had our Seattle soul winning trip yesterday.
And it was actually Kent. So I know people get mad because I say Seattle.
To me it's all Seattle up there.
But we ended up having four salvations yesterday. So praise the Lord for that.
And we had a good time also just hanging out and fellowshipping.
And we got to eat all that Panda Express to ourselves.
So sorry if you didn't come. You didn't get that Panda.
But you're probably still sick of it. That's why you didn't go.
But anyway, October 23rd is our next, excuse me, September 28th is our next upcoming event.
And that's going to be the Yakima soul winning trip. That's going to go Wednesday through Saturday.
And so we're going to put a sign up sheet in the group.
So or if you're planning on going or you're not in the WhatsApp group, please just email me and let me know that you're coming.
How many days you're coming and how many people are going to be with you.
Because I'm going to be booking hotel rooms for people that are going to be there.
So if you want to go, just let me know that you're going.
Or stay in the WhatsApp group and I'll see if someone like my wife or Julene can.
Julene, can you do it? Yeah.
So remember the, you're going to be there.
So remember the categories are, you know, what dates you're going.
For sure who's going with you.
So I need the number, the total number for how many are going, how many nights.
So if you're not 100% sure yet, just make sure you know as soon as possible.
Because it is coming upon us quickly here.
And then there'll be a preaching service on one of those nights.
It's probably going to be on Friday night is what I'm thinking.
So Friday night I'll be preaching at an event center there.
And then Saturday will be our last hurrah.
We'll probably maybe pick up some maps that didn't get finished and then we'll head home.
And it's always a good time.
We always have good fellowship and great soloing results.
So if you are tired of the non-receptive area that we live in,
then try to go on this trip if you can.
Even if you can just go for a couple days, it'll be worth it because it's very receptive there.
In comparison to here, it is definitely very receptive here.
So anyway, but that's coming up then.
Pastor Roger Jimenez is going to be coming up and preaching for us on October 23rd.
And that'll be, I'm not sure if he's preaching Sunday morning, Sunday night yet.
But I'll get that information to you soon.
And then October 27th through 29th is going to be the Kent
soul-wanting preaching.
Well, maybe not soul-wanting, but for sure preaching. We could probably do some soul-wanting in Kent
during that day. So that's going to be Thursday. So if you wanted to go up early on Thursday,
you're more than welcome to do that. And I'm going to be renting out a spot
to preach just a sermon. So hopefully
we get some people from the Seattle area to come and
hear some Bible preaching. And then the next day we're going to go up to Blaine
and do some soul-wanting there. And then we're going to have
the Sure Foundation Baptist North anniversary service is going to be at
the place that we've been going to, Peace Arch Park.
And we'll have the place rented out for the whole day on Saturday. So it is kind of a big
weekend. Lots of things coming
up here. And so lots of soul-wanting opportunities.
And we're a family-integrated church. That means the children and infants are welcome
during the church services. We do have available for your family
a mother-baby room which is located in the back, dad-baby room located
in the back right corner to me, or your left
if you're, it's going to be your right if you're facing it.
And then the mother-baby rooms are for your convenience
during the services. I don't want men in the mother-baby room
while the services are going, and I don't want moms in the dad-baby room while the
services are going. And I'm going to give a couple
further instructions on that because
I don't want the children playing in the mother-baby rooms
or dad-baby rooms after the services because
things are just not being watched like I want them to be.
So I would prefer, I don't want kids
swinging the door and slamming the door and things like that.
And really that kind of stuff shouldn't be happening anyway because you're supposed to be watching your children
so, you know, obviously kids do
foolish things sometimes, but you know
if your child is doing something like that and an adult corrects them
you need to, children, you need to listen to what the adult
says because if something, if somebody's going to get hurt, I don't
care who it is, they're allowed to correct that child.
And so I just want to make sure that this is very
understood. I'm really just getting tired of saying this stuff
over and over again and people not listening. When I say watch your children
I really do mean it. So, you know
apparently just me saying it doesn't make it happen.
And here's the other thing, you're allowed
to tell your children, I'm not the boss of your children outside of here, but I am the boss
of everybody in here when you're here at church.
So, if you don't want people correcting your children then
be with them at all times because you can't have this policy within your own
you know, within your own family where you're just like nobody can correct my kids
or I have to, someone has to go and tell someone else
or tell that parent that what your kids are doing and then the parent
gets mad too. So, I just want to make myself very clear
alright, if someone, if your child is doing something wrong or they're
by themselves and they're getting into stuff and a parent or any adult in this
church says something to them, I'm okay with that. And if you're
not okay with that, then you need to be with your children. It's just that
simple, okay. And I am going to start just having to say
something to people because it's obviously not getting listened to
and you know I made a rule where the children aren't allowed to be getting on the new piano
that we just got, we just paid a whole bunch of money to have it fixed and everything
and then every single service, children are coming up and getting on that piano
even though they've been told multiple times not to
do that. So children, if you're listening to me right now, if you're not listening
just look up at me right now so you can acknowledge that
I'm saying do not get on that piano. I don't care
if your parents tell you it's okay, I don't care if another adult tells you it's okay
I'm the pastor of the church, if you want to get on that piano you're going to have to
come and ask me for permission. Me, not anybody else.
Is that understood? Say yes if you understand that.
Okay, no kid said yes.
So this is my final warning about that and then it's just
going to get ugly, okay. I'm going to just go up and
if any adult sees any child on that piano, they're more than welcome
to walk up and tell that child get down, you're not supposed to be up here.
Because I'm tired of having to just keep
what am I even reading this for? People aren't going to listen to what I'm saying.
So I'm going to start just checking people about stuff
if you don't listen to what I'm saying. Don't leave
your kids unattended. If your kids are doing something wrong
they're allowed to be corrected. If you're not there then just expect
it and don't get mad about it. And you're like well pastor you don't have the
authority to say that. I do have the authority to say that in this church. Listen I've
gone to multiple non new IFB Baptist churches.
I've gone to multiple new IFB Baptist churches
and I never see children at Faith Ward Baptist Church
anytime I've ever been there, I've never seen a child just walk up
to the piano and start messing with it and playing with it. Never.
I've never seen a pastor in menaces church and if it does happen
I'm sure they get corrected immediately but it just doesn't happen.
So why is it okay at our church for people to just continuously
break the rules, continuously just ignore what the pastor says.
You know it just makes me feel like people are saying don't listen to what the pastor
says. Or you just don't care. But you know what
the fangs are going to come out next time. Trust me and it's not going to be pretty.
I'm going to come up and I'll correct them in front of everybody or I'll correct the parents
in front of everybody because I'm done taking this. It's over.
So do not get on that piano unless you have
the express permission from the pastor.
I want to make sure that I'm very clear with this and I hate having to take the
morning service time to sit here and rehash things that I've said
over and over again. Just listen to what I'm saying
stop doing it. Stop letting your children run around in the
mother baby rooms after the service and slamming the door.
That room is not a nap room. I mean how many times do I have to get up and say stuff
before someone is going to listen.
So and the rule in the past has been that you can
get on the piano if you're doing some kind of special. That rule is over. If you're not
the piano player that's been allowed permission
to be on that piano for the services then do not get on it.
No matter what anybody else tells you. Because you're going to get yelled
at by me. You don't want that. So
anyway let me finish the rest of the announcements.
And you're like pastor you seem like you're mad. I am mad.
I'm agitated about it. I love our church and I love all the kids
here. I love everybody here. But please you know be
respectful. It's just common sense.
Anyway all the rest of the stuff you already know. So I want to
sing happy birthday to some people. Theo is Theo here?
Is he not here? Okay he's sick. So Theo's birthday
Gary we missed his birthday somehow. His birthday was
on the 25th. So brother Gary
are you older than the pyramids or younger?
He's been around
since Moses was in short pants. So anyway
and then Annabelle's birthday was on the 26th. I can't
remember whether she was saying happy birthday to Annabelle. Did we sing
Oh okay. So Olivia
and then Maddie Ritchie. Hi Maddie.
Her face is already turning red. We haven't even sang into her yet.
Anyway let's sing happy birthday okay.
Happy birthday
to you. Happy
birthday to you. Happy
birthday God bless you.
Happy birthday to you.
Alright nobody's stupid enough to get married
in August so we're done with the announcements. Let's sing another song we'll receive y'all.
Alright let's open our Bibles to Psalm 11.
Psalm 11
Sing it out on that first verse.
They make ready their arrow
upon the string that they
may privately shoot at the
upright in heart if the foundations be
destroyed. What can the righteous do?
The Lord is in his holy temple.
The Lord's throne is in heaven.
His eyes behold his eye
let's try the children of
men. The Lord triteth
the righteous but the wicked.
His soul hated
His soul hated upon
the wicked. He shall rain
snares, fire and brimstone
in horrible tempest.
It shall be the portion
of their coming for the righteous
Lord. Loveth righteousness
His countenance
doth behold
doth behold the upright
in the Lord but I might trust.
Amen. Great singing everyone. At this time we'll receive our offering.
Brother Sean can you bless the offering for us?
piano music
Turn your Bibles to Romans chapter 1.
Romans chapter 1.
If you don't have a Bible raise your hand and one of the ushers will bring you one.
Romans chapter 1.
We'll start reading on verse 1. The Bible reads
Paul a servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle
separated unto the gospel of God which he had promised to for by his prophets
in the holy scriptures concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord
which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh and declare
to be the son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by
the resurrection from the dead by whom we have received grace and apostleship
for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name among whom are
he also the called of Jesus Christ to all that be in Rome beloved of God
called to be Saints grace to you and peace from God our father
and the Lord Jesus Christ first I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all
that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world for God is my witness
for God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of the sun
that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers making requests
if by any means now length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God
to come unto you for I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual
gift to the end you may be established that is that I may be comforted
together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me now I would not have you
ignorant brethren that oftentimes I purpose to come unto you but was let hither
to that I might have some fruit that I might have some fruit among you also
even as among other Gentiles I am dead or both to the Greeks
and to the barbarians both to the wise and to the unwise so as much as
in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are Rome also
for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation
to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek
for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written
that just shall live by faith for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth
and unrighteousness because that which may be known of God is manifest in them
for God has showed it unto them for the invisible things of him from the creation
of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made
even as eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse
because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God
neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened
professing themselves to be wise they became fools and changed the glory
of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible
man and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things wherefore
God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth
of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator
who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them
up unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature and likewise also the men leaving the natural
use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another
men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense
of their error which was me and even as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient being filled with all unrighteousness
fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of
envy murder debate deceit malignity whispers backbiters
haters of God despiteful proud boasters inventors of evil
things disobedient to parents without understanding covenant breakers
without natural affection implacable unmerciful who knowing
the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death not only
do the same but have pleasure in them that do them. Brother Bill will you open us
in a word of prayer?
Amen. Alright well I'm not
preaching about what you think I'm preaching about this morning so
it's one of those click bait Bible readings
alright so anyway today I'm preaching about
being ready to go soul winning. Ready to go
soul winning. Let's look at verse number 14 in Romans chapter 1 where the Bible says
I am deader both to the Greeks and to the barbarians both to the
wise and to the unwise so as much as in me
is I am ready to preach the gospel
to you that are at Rome also for I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first
and also to the Greek for therein is the righteousness
of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written
the just shall live by faith. Let's pray. Heavenly Father we thank you Lord so much
for this great gathering of your people pray Lord that you would fill this
congregation with your spirit Lord that you would walk amongst us and Lord help us to
apply these things in our own soul winning and Lord
I pray that you would just help us to have an open heart and Lord if people need to be rebuked
they need to be rebuked if they need to be reproved they need to be reproved and Lord sometimes
it's just good to have a refreshing
course of how to do things and things
how our church expects to do them is expected to do those things
Lord I pray that you would just fill me with your spirit right now in Jesus name I pray Amen
So I wanted to preach about instructive soul winning
because well it's just something I haven't preached about
in a long time I don't even know if I've ever actually I probably have I don't know
I shouldn't say that because I said I rarely ever don't wear a shirt and tie when I go out soul winning
I was corrected about that pretty quickly so
it is rare that I don't do that but
I was with a brother yesterday soul winning and he was like no you wore
that the last time you went soul winning with me and I was like oh man I think I maybe I did
maybe it was with pants though I think I wore shorts yesterday
and a collared shirt but normally I don't do that
but we're out of town so I was like it's casual Saturday
or something anyway so I wanted to give some instruction on
soul winning what I expect people that go soul winning with our church to do
and obviously if you're at some other church or you're visiting some other church you know
every church kind of has their own type of rules and things like that
but I also want to instruct people how to give the gospel
not just the nuances of proper etiquette and things like that
so the apostle Paul here says in verse 15 that he's ready to
preach the gospel so that would make us
to believe or to understand that he knew what he was talking about
he knew how to present the gospel and he was ready to do that
and obviously the context he's ready to preach the gospel to you that are in Rome also
but the fact that he's ready just shows that the apostle Paul took
the gospel seriously and how to preach the gospel very seriously
and you know we shouldn't be ashamed to preach the gospel
it is the power of God unto salvation so don't you think it would be good
for us to get those things right while we're out there doing these things
to not offend people by our mannerisms
or maybe the way we hold ourselves, the way we dress
how we knock on people's doors, how we even put the invitation
on the doors so those are things that I just, I know Pastor Mendez
had a real pet peeve about people putting the invitation
facing backwards or some other way and he's
a real type A personality so it really bothers him but
it's something that I picked up on and I like that too
and if people don't know what we expect or what we want or how
the gospel should be preached at our church if you come to this church
and go solely on a regular basis I'm not here to like put you down or just be mean
or something but I do want people to understand that what I
expect as the pastor of the church and what God expects
is that you would do things correctly, decently and in order
so you know if we want people to get
you know it's important for us to go out and preach the gospel because the Bible says in
verse 17 there it says from faith to faith as it is written
the just shall live by faith so if the people that have faith aren't giving it
to the people that don't you know the only way that we're going to do that is to transfer
that faith to someone else is to preach the gospel to them and get them saved
so that's our goal when we go out soloing obviously is to get people saved
but we also we plant we water you know we minister
to people if someone's having a hard time we even pray with them sometimes and things like that
so there's a lot of different things that soloing can accomplish but what is the main
thing that we're trying to accomplish the main thing we're trying to accomplish
is that we're trying to get people saved so I'm just going to start out with
some things about good etiquette when it comes to
going out soloing so you're like good etiquette
well where's that in the Bible just hang on I'll give you a verse
but good etiquette is the customary code
of polite behavior in society or among
members of a particular profession or group and we're a group
and we're members of a particular
profession you know our profession of being
in a church or a profession of faith you know we're a group that goes out
and does things so we should have a customary you know
where does the Bible say we're supposed to have a customary code well isn't customary kind of the same
thing as tradition? Turn to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 15
and I'm not even sure if I'm going to finish this whole sermon today
because I wrote it on the way home and then I realized it was a lot of pages
and just a lot of stuff I mean Pastor Mendez has like a seminar
he does like in three hours or something so if I have to cut this short
and just preach the rest of it then that's what I'll probably end up doing so
but anyway etiquette is good to have
don't you teach your children manners?
Didn't your parents teach you manners? I mean sometimes people say you got any manners
did your parents teach you any manners? Were you born in a barn or whatever you know
when you leave the door open the air conditioning is going or you're letting the heat out
you know there's just certain things that are normative in society
and obviously society has gotten really bad and people are
lacking in a lot of these things but when we go out
sowing we should have good etiquette when we go out and
preach to people. 2 Thessalonians 2.15 says therefore brethren stand fast
and hold the traditions which ye have been taught
whether by word or our epistles so whether they told them
what these traditions were or whether they
taught them through an epistle now not all epistles made it into the Bible
I don't know if you realize that or not but like they didn't have email they sent
letters to people and some of Paul's letters didn't even make it in the Bible some of
the other apostles I mean we don't have very many other apostles that have letters that are
in the Bible so you know obviously word
of mouth was how things traveled but also by writing
letters and so we also should hold
to traditions that you're being taught here at this church
not all traditions bad you know the Pharisees had the tradition of men
and taught them as commandments of God I'm not teaching this as a
commandment of God I'm just saying hey there's some things that we need to do when we're out sowing
that are proper etiquette they're customary and polite
polite in a society so we should do these things
number one I'm just going to say this walking through people's grass
now if you're walking through the rocks I mean the rocks aren't
grass some people get really upset when you walk through their grass
and you might think well that's kind of a weird thing to bring up but it's just polite
to not do that in Hawaii I had a Hawaiian guy threaten to fight
me because we walked through his fence now here if you
walk through someone's fence in most cases people aren't going to freak out on you or stick their dog on you but
in Hawaii it's customary to not walk through somebody's fence or at least
that guy's so we want to try our best to not be
for people to not be offended they're already offended when they see a bible in our hand they're already
offended when they see us in shirts and ties or just ladies
in dresses and they know that we're here for a religious purpose
there are people already offended because they think we're Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons
you know we want to do the least amount of offense that we can and try
to reach that person through some good and polite
behavior don't walk through people's grass you know just walk around it's only a couple
extra steps and you're going to get some extra steps on your step meter
whatever you're using so you know just don't do that
there's times when I have like if cars are
completely blocking any part of the concrete you know
it's kind of hard to not do that but I would just say as a rule in your mind
just think about it don't walk through people's grass unless you absolutely
have to so and let's see not
we don't put things in people's mailbox now in
England that's the only way people want things so like when you
knock on their door and they come to the door you know
they know you're for their something other than to just put an invitation
on their door or whatever but you have to put the invitations in the mailbox there's like
little slots on every door there like every door
it's kind of a big thing there so it was hard for me to get used to that because I
want to put it where I always put it but then
sometimes I couldn't get the invitation through the mail slot or whatever
because sometimes stuff would suck in it or whatever and I just felt like I was being intrusive like the
moment my fingers crossed the threshold into their property I feel like
man I'm like doing something wrong here because in America if you
did that you know most people don't have mail boxes on their doors anymore
or mail slots but you know here it's just like you've
crossed a boundary that you shouldn't cross so like different
places have different customs we got to keep those things in mind
talking to underage kids when their parents aren't home
this is something that I have done in the past until I was talking to
a ten year old girl with another grown man and then
their parents came home from grocery shopping like what are you doing talking to my ten year old daughter
I'm just like trying to get him saved
but you know they're not going to understand that so like if some
I would say a fifteen year old kid you should still probably ask are your parents
home or whatever you know we got to be careful because people just
freak out it's funny they'll just let their kids just roam everywhere in the apartment
complex they don't know who they're playing with they don't know who's talking to them but as soon as they
see a bible open and you talking to them they get all offended about it
but you know some parents are just like well that's my kid I'm going to
decide what religion they're going to be or you know you're trying to brainwash
them or you know people just get upset so I would just say be very cautious when
you're talking to underage kids if you have other kids with you that's very helpful
and at the door if they're under fifteen I wouldn't even attempt
to preach the gospel to them unless you get their parents permission that's just
you know that's my advice to you
because it can get awkward so but also putting
invitations upside down or facing back first I'm going to
just cover this really quickly so when you have
I need an invitation here somebody get me an invitation
yeah yeah
so like when you go to put one on the
door sometimes you know the door the little
seal is like brand new or something and you can't really jam them
in there but I like to just jam them in you know so they can see the
picture you know when they come up and walk up and look at our
invitation I don't want them to see this or this
cause it's just like you know it's supposed to
the pretty picture's on there for a reason alright even though it's a volcano that's been destroyed but
it's got flowers there you see that so I just you know the presentation
sometimes is everything you know chefs they prepare their meals and they put
the little things around the plate just a certain way which I don't really care about that stuff
but some people you know chefs are judged by the way they present
their plates of food you don't just slop you know they're not Baptist they don't just
slop everything on and mix it together right so but
it just shows professionalism that's all so and if you didn't already know
that before now you know so but I it seems like any
time I go soloing I see people do that and I have to resist the inner urge
to correct them I didn't do it yesterday I did correct the person but it's not like a big
deal it's like if you didn't know you didn't know so and with
that also when you're knocking on someone's door don't use a battering ram
like you're the police there to serve a search warrant because you know
they just might shoot you you know there's a lot of people on drugs
today maybe they're on a paranoid delusional trip and then
you pound on the door like you're taking them to jail or something and you might
get a shotgun blast to the door or whatever just you know we're not
you know serving search warrants here we're
knocking on the door so you know obviously you should knock loud enough so people can hear you
and here's the other thing knock on the hinge side of the door
knock on the hinge side of the door because it's all and this will only take you're like well
pastor you're just kind of getting too technical and weird well when you
knock on a door and then the door swings open and you're just like standing there and everybody's
like looking at you like why did you open my door then you're going to understand
exactly why that is a rule
so you know because sometimes people just forget to close their door all the way I've had it happen
to me before I'm just like oh man hi
it's just kind of embarrassing so just a little
etiquette there you know just knock on the hinge side of the door knock loud enough but don't just go
boom boom boom boom now I will tell you on the screen doors
and you've probably seen these if you've saw one anywhere in Sacramento
or Phoenix that they have these white screen doors
but they're just like made out of metal there's no place to knock and some places
don't have any other places to knock besides you know that won't
break your fingers when you try to knock on it loud so but there is
you can just hit the top of the door jam a little bit and it kind of makes it like a rattling
sound and you don't have to do it too hard because it's loud enough but
there's a little tip for you on those you can't see through the screen either when they
come to the door you're like hi and then they're like what do you want
you know what I'm talking about you know what the screen doors I'm talking about so
but to knock on them you just hit the jam with your hand like that if you're tall enough
if you have to get a step ladder then you know you're going to have to carry a step ladder with you so
anyway so sitting on people's
lawn furniture if you're the silent partner and you're just
tired you know there's been times when I was tired enough to sit down on
a curb and just sit there last year I think at
Yakamai did that I was just smoked but don't
just sit on their tailgate of their truck or lean
on their car or you know you want to have some you know some
decent posture if you need that if you're just hurting so bad you have to sit down
don't sit on their lawn furniture just like sit on the grass somewhere with permission
of course or you know on the curb or something like that but we don't want to just
kind of show up and just like you know just act
like we own the place or something so and then you know
leaning slobingly on people's other people's vehicles some people are really touchy
about their cars like I could care less if someone's you know leaning on my car really
I don't care but some people get really upset about it I just waxed that you know
you don't want to run into that be respectful be courteous
remember you came to their door this is
like things that people need to understand when you're at their door
you know just remember that you're at their door you came to them they didn't come to you
so just be respectful and courteous as much as possible obviously if you got
some evil person some reprobate
you know sometimes you can lose it with
people and I'm not saying I never have I have lost it with people but
as a whole we shouldn't just confront
and be mean to someone just because they closed the door on our face so if they
close the door on your face and cuss you out or whatever you can just
walk away and then God's going to reward you greatly
for you know putting up with some persecution that's really pretty
light but we don't have to tell them off every time they slam
the door on our face so you know the object is to be professional
you know we should be as professional as we possibly can be
and then when we're
being kicked out of an apartment complex or asked to leave
try not to lose your cool and you know what you don't have to go around and say hey we got
kicked out to every person that's at the apartment complex that's kind of
a red flag to me when people do that it's like well why are you making sure everybody
knows we got kicked out let them finish their doors the goal is to finish knocking
the doors and so if they don't know about the other people's existence don't take
the apartment manager around and say hey we got to go I've had
someone do that before and they turn out to be a reprobate so anyway
but yeah and don't you know live to fight
another day and at an apartment you know at an apartment
sometimes you get these freaks that follow you around and try to
take all your invitations off the door but sometimes we bring that on ourselves
by reacting to how freaky they're being
sometimes they just do it anyway and there's nothing you can do about that but if you go
you filthy faggot or something like that and then
you don't expect them to be mad and walk around
and bother you they're going to bother you so just be aware
that they know they're a filthy faggot you don't have to tell them that every time
so how you should dress well
I personally prefer that people wear collared
shirts men wear collared shirts obviously ladies wear dresses or whatever
but I'm not really super strict on dress code
just because I know people come from other churches and whatever and I don't want to make people feel bad because they wore
the graphic tee outsole or whatever but
I think one thing is for sure is that
you shouldn't look like you just rolled out of bed when you're going to the door I mean maybe comb
your hair or some stuff like that dress
nice if you can you know I personally think the nicer you
dress the more people are going to respect you I just saw a meme
before I came to church and it says dress like the job
you want not you know dress the part of the job
you want and so then the lady had like this Cinderella dress on or something
but if you're you know
in a professional setting you wear a shirt and tie right so in
most cases so obviously things have really
become more casual in society today but that doesn't mean we have to as Christians
become more casual look at 1 Kings chapter 10 verse 4
1 Kings chapter 10 verse number 4
and sometimes people to see how you appear
does mean whether they will talk to you or not that could mean
the difference between being able to open up your Bible and share with them or not
you're like pastor you're being legalistic no I'm not I'm not being
legalistic at all I'm not telling you you have to do that
but I think that you should dress like a
professional you know and obviously shirt and tie you know I'm not telling you to wear
an imam dress or something I'm not telling you to wear you know men
to wear these like weird wizard costumes and stuff when you go to the door because
that's what false prophets wear right but you know
most of the time you know if you look at pictures from the 1800's
and the early 20th century or 21st century
or whatever the 1900's even up to not too
long ago most of the time you see ladies in dresses even if they're not saved
and you see men wearing shirts and ties even at baseball games
you know how often do you see at baseball games where men are wearing shirts and ties
up in the stands cheering you don't really see that anymore but there was a time when
that was a thing and you didn't just go to some event looking
like a scrub okay so 1 Kings 10 verse 4
it meant all the things to the queen of Sheba it wasn't just the only
thing but it was some part of it that really affected her about how Solomon
ran his kingdom it says and when the queen
of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom and the house that he had built
and the meat of his table and the sitting of his
servants and the attendance of his ministers
and their what's it say there? Apparel the clothing that they were wearing right
and his cup bearers and his ascent by which he
went up onto the house of the Lord there was no more
spirit in her so all these things affected the way the queen of
Sheba responded to Solomon
and I believe the queen of Sheba ended up getting saved I believe
she was saved for sure if she came up wanting to ask hard questions
but when she also saw someone answering those
hard questions that she had they also she also looked
at everything that was done in that kingdom and some people are like that
so take those things into mind now there are some people that will be like
oh they're wearing a shirt and tie they think they're better than me well you know
you can't really help that right but we should try to
look nice and presentable when we're going to the
door don't you know obviously wear your pajamas like you're going to Walmart or something
so nobody in our church does that but you know I'm sure there's going to come a
time when it happens or something so hygiene here's another thing hygiene
well hygiene is just like taking care of yourself taking you know being clean
brushing your teeth stuff like that turn to Job 17
1 I'll give you a verse about breath bad breath
because you know you don't
want to just eat an onion burger sandwich or something
extra onions get a salad with extra red onions
like my wife does but you know
we don't want to go to preach the gospel to people and then they can't
they don't want to smell our breath from 3 feet away or whatever
what Job says in Job 17 1 it says
my breath is corrupt my days are extinct the graves
are ready for me you don't want that to be your you know
theme verse when you go out sawing breath you know he's got the dragon
breath or you know my days are extinct the graves are ready
I smell like I'm about ready to go into the grave you know you don't
want that that witness so so if you
got bad breath or whatever then if you can't brush your teeth
chew some gum or something but you know wear deodorant
shower wear clean clothes those things are
very important so anyway let's look at some other stuff
how about politeness kindness meekness loving long suffering
that's how we should be when we go to people's doors it's not so we can say
how many people we got saved it's not so we can you know pat ourselves on the back because
we worked for God that day but our job is really to go out and
love people and if you can go out and have you know
the best soul winning presentation looking sharp your breath's on
point your hair is all did
you know you're wearing nice clothes all that stuff but if you're a jerk
then people aren't going to want to listen to you if you're rude people aren't going to want to
listen to you look at Colossians chapter 3 verse 12 Colossians chapter 3
verse number 12
so we should have a good attitude
we should actually care about the people that we're going to
get saved right I should have said this already but you should
take notes if you have the ability to take notes you should probably take notes
on this sermon but anyway Colossians 3 12 says put on therefore
as the elect of God holy and beloved
bowels of mercies kindness humbleness of mind
meekness long suffering in other words
show people love look at 1 Corinthians chapter 13
verse 4 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verse number 4
the Bible says in 1 Corinthians
13 it says charity suffereth long so charity is
another word for love charity suffereth long so
there's people that are annoying at the door sometimes and sometimes we have to get around their
stupid questions you know sometimes people really do have stupid questions
people say there is no such thing as stupid questions yes there is
there really is stupid questions alright you know if you pull up
to McDonald's are we going to McDonald's that's a stupid question I mean you know whatever
there are such things as stupid questions so anyway
are we going to church on Sunday that's a stupid question you should be going to church right
so let's see so it says suffereth
long and is kind charity envieth not
charity vaunteth not itself is not
puffed up so this is like a prideful attitude that you're better
than other people and it says doth not behave itself
unseemly seeketh not her own
is not easily provoked thinketh no
evil that should be our heart as we go out to preach the gospel to people
that we're going to suffer long with people we're going to be kind
we love them we care about them you know people can tell
people can tell if you're just robotically going through the motions
and you don't really care about them so if they think
that you're just you know on a sales pitch then
they might not want to listen to you because they get sales people get sales pitches all the time
you know the people that are exterminators that are going door to door try to get you to get rid
of your bugs the people that want to clean your roofs you know people just
go the people are trying to paint your house anything people are
trying to sell you something and so when people you know get this
idea that you don't really care about them when you're actually trying to save their soul then
they're not going to want to talk to you they can see through it they can read
between the lines here's another thing arguing and debating
about issues besides the gospel arguing and debating
about issues besides the gospel and again there's people
that have gone with me that know that I've done this before Brandon the last time I did it was with
Brandon I was just got really mad I was in the flesh for sure
Brandon's going pastor pastor who's with me was that
that was brother Bill yeah brother Bill see he remembers he might not remember the time
when we got people saved or whatever but he remembers the time when I was like giving it to these guys
and they just whatever it is I don't know what
it was but I just got triggered man and it's happened before
so I'm not saying you know the exception proves the rule we should I'm not
always like that though most of the time I'm very nice and gentle with people but these guys
were just clowns so but I did end up going past
the two admonitions like by a long shot and
anyway I apologize so but
it's going to happen from time to time people are going to get your goat if you leave it out
in the yard so but arguing and debating
about issues besides the gospel is just a fool's errand it's really
just a dumb thing and you know
arguing with heretics is a stupid thing turn to Titus chapter
3 verse 9 Titus chapter 3 verse 9
and we should take this attitude of Titus 3
9 to heart when we're out sowing
it says but avoid foolish questions oh there's no such thing as stupid questions
well the Bible says something different doesn't it
a foolish question is a stupid question isn't it right but avoid foolish
questions and genealogies and contentions and
strivings about the law arguing about the Bible for they
are unprofitable and vain no profit
in it it's purely a fleshly desire for you to smoke a
Jehovah's Witness or Mormon as they are
preaching their false doctrine it's just
not something that's going to be helpful to God's kingdom and they're probably just
trying to tie you up because two doors down someone is going to
get saved and so those demons or whatever that are controlling them
are trying to get you in the flesh to fight because
they don't want you to be in the spirit three doors down
so we want to avoid these types of situations
it says a man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition
reject that means you go away
from them if you can't get them away from you you get away from them and that's generally what's
happening when we're going out sowing is that we're going from door to door
and so we can reject them very easily and say you know and you don't even have to be mean at
that point either it doesn't say reject them and call them a lying false
profit now I've done that before I know people that have
done that before and you know I wasn't mad about it at all
sometimes people just upset you sometimes people you know get
you really angry when they're blaspheming God and things like that but it's just the Bible is saying it's
just avoid these situations it's unprofitable and vain
you don't need to tell a homo they're a homo you don't need to tell a false prophet they're a false prophet
if you want to they're just going to antagonize you after that so
just get to the next door knowing that he that is such is subverted
and sinneth being condemned of himself
so subverted means that they're undermined there's something wrong with their
faith there's something wrong and they're just they're probably you know if they're just arguing
to the death about some wicked blasphemy that they believe
then they're subverted and they're condemning themselves
so once they've condemned themselves a couple times and just like okay they're not willing
to listen anyway they're not going to listen anyway so now
and that brings me to this point here is that asking people
if you can preach to them asking people if you can
preach to them we should not be a battering ram just going through trying to
charge and give every you know because it says to preach the gospel to every creature
but if they don't give you an opportunity to preach that doesn't mean that you just like
yeah I'm going to preach no matter what they're not listening
once they've said I'm not interested
then you start to go I mean you can obviously say well hey if you ever are
you know look at the invitation on the back it has the Bible Way to Heaven there's some other good Christian
videos whatever you can say that or you can ask them if they would like to
hear one verse before you leave I don't have a problem with that at all
but basically you ask people whether you can preach them the gospel
and if they say no
then what why are you continuing to just badger
them you shouldn't do that so again be nice
giving them the courteous you know look at the video
here's the verse or whatever if they say no they don't
want you to give them a verse don't give them a verse anyway because at that
point you're just being rude you're at their door don't just try to
ramrod your way into somebody's life you know don't stick
your foot in the door I've actually seen
people do that before there was an old IFB pastor
that I used to go Pastor Jones used to go soloing with and
he would stick his foot in the door
and then lean on the door jam like this
you can invite me in he was kind of like a
Baptist vampire you know he wouldn't cross the threshold or whatever but
he would he would put his foot in the door he wouldn't
go all the way in but and then he would lean there like he's just you know getting comfortable
and so you know you got time for a visit
that's what he would say you got time for a visit and sometimes people would let him in
you know but I just think that that's a strange thing to do
and we had a guy at our church that used to like do a little bow
and like put his hand like he was on the tonight show or something Johnny Carson
whatever and he would stick his foot I saw him one time stick his foot in
the door and then he did this little bow and said I'm coming to you with the
preparation of the gospel of peace and then he would bow to the people
at the door every time and I had to get on to him
several times about it and you know he's a bozo and he got kicked out of our church so
it's no surprise
to me that someone that did that is some kind of a bozo or a clown but
you know don't say weird things to people when you come to the door
they're already weirded out by the fact that you're there anyway and a lot of people
don't communicate or interact with normal humans all the time or whatever
but you know they're already like why are you
here why are you at my door and then to proclaim some strange
thing to them or say some weird salutation that you know
they're not used to church life okay or people are like
I'm coming to you in the preparation of the gospel you know it's just like shut up man what are you doing here
don't say nice cat nice dog nice house nice bushes
nice yard they people want you to get to the point why are you here
and you know who in here does not like people to knock
on their door alright a lot of people and so
but what do we do here every week we knock
on people's doors so if you feel that way then they might
feel that way too so the best advice I can give to you is be as
least offensive as you possibly can and when you come
come with a point so because it might
make you feel more comfortable to say that and get on their level somehow
but you can win people over without telling them how nice their yard is and then beating around the bush
I've seen it all man I've seen people do that
multiple times I've seen people give their testimony before they
ever even they'll just start telling their testimony of how they got saved
because they think that that's like some kind of warm up look the
gospel is the power of God unto salvation it's not your
testimony it's not your words it's not how you came to Jesus it might be
a cool story but I have a friend who's an expert on cool stories and he doesn't want to hear
your story so don't just start telling your own story
unless someone asks you and obviously there's times when it might be
appropriate but like don't do it at the beginning of a conversation you could say
well hey you could get on their level and say hey I was here before also
and this is kind of what happened with me or whatever but like most of the time
you know we just need to preach the gospel that's what we're there for let's get to the point
so and again learn to take no
for an answer don't keep flapping your gums
don't keep bumping your gums just when they say no say okay
God bless you have a great day that's real easy right because what's the goal
to get to the person that does want to hear we want to get to the person
that wants to hear the gospel not to waste our time and waste
our breath continuing to just talk to someone that's
not when they say no
no means no right doesn't mean no when you don't try to
you know just overtake them with
your power of persuasion because if they say no here's how and this is how
Pastor Mendez kind of explained it to me he said when people say no just take that
as God telling you that person is not interested
even though that person is telling you they're not interested
however they do that they could say I'm going to work
oh man I'm just now cooking dinner you know people have lots of different
reasons and excuses turn to Luke chapter 14 people have all kinds
of reasons and excuses why they don't want to hear it they just think of
something on the fly and a lot of times it's I'm on my way to work
a lot of the times it's I'm cooking and sometimes you can smell the cooking
you're like yeah it smells good or you can see that their like makeup is halfway
done you can see that you know whatever
you can tell that they're telling the truth but sometimes people are just making up excuses so they don't have to do it
and that's fine it doesn't matter what their excuse is they don't
want to hear it they don't have time leave them with whatever
quickly imparted advice you can give them and go don't
keep pushing it because really you know we want to redeem
the time we already don't go out you know as much as we
probably could or should but then when you can and
you are out there then you know
minimizing your interaction when you don't have to
interact anymore is really key to redeeming your time
when you're out soloing so when someone shuts it down no matter what the argument
is no matter what the excuse is you
need to just move on ok
so again think of it like it's God telling you to move
on without him actually physically coming down and saying move on
go
we're expecting like some answer from God or something I mean I know you're not but
it's just like just take it that way because really that is what's
happening they're rejecting you for whatever reason
and you need to go to the person who wants to hear it look at Luke 14 16 it says
then said he unto them a certain man made
a great supper and bade many so we're going out to preach the gospel to everybody right
this is kind of like that kind of a story so it says then
sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden come for all
things are now ready and they all with one consent begin to make
excuse so people and it's going to give us some examples of
excuses that people like to use the first said unto him I have bought a piece of ground
I must needs go and see it I pray thee have me excused
what is the excuse really I don't have time
I got something else going on I have to go to work whatever it is
and another said I bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove
them I pray thee have me excused it's
a you know it's just like it's like saying today I bought a car online and I'm
going to go see whether I like it or not so I mean these
excuses are kind of lame you know I bought a piece of ground I must go and see
it what you didn't go see it beforehand you just bought the land blindly
I mean today we can see the pictures we can scroll through multiple pictures
of that property and see everything that we like or don't like about it and obviously
you want to put your eyes on it at some point so you can see the big picture
I guess but you know today we have back then they didn't have a way
to find out what the property looked like before they bought it unless someone just drew a picture
of it so people are going to have excuses and it says
another man said I have married a wife therefore I cannot come it's like
well okay valid excuse but you know
I mean still the point is people have excuses
right so what so that servant came and showed his lord these
things and the master of the house being angry sent his servant out quickly into the streets
and the lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor and the maimed
and the halt and the blind and the lord said lord it has
it is done as thou hast commanded and yet there is room and the lord
said unto the servant go out into the highways and hedges and compel them
to come in that my house may be filled for I say unto you
that none of those men which were bidden felt taste of my
supper so basically you know look at it
like God's given you that answer and
whatever excuse they have just move on go and what's he saying go to the highways
and hedges just go away from those people that are saying no don't keep begging them
to come to the dinner go to the people that want to come
and a lot of times those people are the poor you know when we scope out a place
to go on a sewing trip we don't go to the richest neighborhood there
if we went down to California on a sewing trip we're not going to Beverly Hills
we're not going to whatever Santa Barbara
we're going to go to places where people actually want to hear the gospel and get saved like
Compton, Watts, East L.A. something like that
so it doesn't matter if you say everything perfectly
right their answer would have been no anyway
so drill that into your head because I see
people just continue to try to say one more thing
or whatever because you want that I want those people to be saved too but if they're
condemning themselves by saying they don't want to go then you just move on
learn to read people learn to read people
so sometimes you know if someone answers the door
and they're like this barely cracked and then like they kind of open
it and then like you keep talking and then they just start closing okay yeah
if someone's walking backwards and closing their door they don't want to talk to you
I'm not saying don't be nice and don't say things
don't just go and walk off or whatever
but just understand that you're just
your words are just causing them to just slowly close it
but they don't want to talk to you learn to read people and take no for an answer
don't be robotic
don't be afraid to employ some humor or something
some people are just really self conscious of how they talk or maybe you're new at soul winning or whatever
I'm not trying to discourage you but like you know
if you start giving the gospel more and more you're probably going to develop your own style
and how you interact with people and I try to use humor a little bit
when I'm talking to people like I'll say well so have you sinned before
yeah well yeah I have too and this person
is a really bad sinner like I'll say that a lot to people
anybody that's been soul winning with me know I'll use you as the bad example over me
because I don't want them to think I'm so bad they can't get the gospel from me but I want them to think
well hey even someone as bad as this person behind me they're really a liar
so I say stuff like that and that just helps people feel more comfortable
so you can do whatever you want when it comes to that
obviously just try to give the gospel the best you can
when you're starting out do it by the numbers
and what I mean by that is do it by your path
whatever the path is that you're using it should be the points of
how you get saved you don't start saying
call upon the name of the Lord before you go and tell people
that they're sinful and need to be saved
you gotta do things in a proper order but don't be
robotic employ some humor if you want to
you don't have to do that I'm just trying to give you some tips that might help you if you feel a little
uncomfortable and sometimes someone having a little bit of a laugh
smile
here's an awful idea why don't you smile hey how's it going be friendly
don't be kool-aid weird like the Mormons but like
there's a fine line you know like hi
I'm coming to you in the name no don't be like that
so just have a normal smile hi how you doing whatever
like they're a good friend or something I don't know anyway so and then
once you get a point and they understand the point
don't keep attacking that point and trying to prove
the point that you've already proven to them move on to the next point
this is a trap that people like to fall into because they like
they know they really have to understand how sinful they are
you're a disgrace in front of God your sin
is like filthy rags you know you're the worst scum of the face of the earth
you've broken all the ten commandments you know you don't have to do that most people know that they're sinful
right that is not a hard point to prove so once
you've proven that point and they admit that they've sinned they don't have to like grovel in front of you
on their hands and knees just if they admit
that they've sinned then move on and then if they
haven't gotten a point don't move on you can't just say well you know
we'll come back to hell later if they don't believe that there's a fiery hell that they
have to escape from what are they going to get saved from they have to understand
their sinful condition is going to send them to hell
and sometimes convincing them that they are sinful enough to deserve hell
can be a task you know because if you say
well what does the bible say these people are going to go
so do you deserve hell and they're like no
yeah you do you said you're a liar you know so then sometimes
you might have to just refresh that with them and say well didn't you say you've sinned
where does it say all liars go the lake of fire you might not be a murderer
you might not be an adulterer you might not be you know a sodomite or whatever
you're not these other things but you did say you're a liar
and the bible says that all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone
which is the second death so don't move on
to the points unless they understand them okay but don't
beat the horse that's already dead to deadly death okay
you don't have to keep stomping it and hitting it you know if they understand
eternal security and they understand they can't lose it you don't have to
rapid fire fifteen more verses about eternal security if they
got it they got it if they get the gift they get the gift if they understand
jesus christ is god move on you don't have
to just go well let me show you the trinity you know after you've already
after they've already said yeah i believe that and you're like you believe jesus is god yeah okay
next point you know so just move on
because listen time is a factor especially with children
time is a factor so
time is a factor because they're going to get interrupted their friends are going to be trying
to stop them from getting saved you know the dogs going to be barking whatever it is you know
time is of an essence i'm not saying hurry through your gospel presentation but
sometimes you kind of feel that feeling like any minute this can get interrupted
and that's when you probably need to make time of an essence but still help them
understand you know and sometimes people just don't care how long you take
and you can see that they're comfortable they don't have some place to go well yeah
if you got you know if you say hey can i show you the gospel in ten minutes
and they're like yeah but it's really got to be quick don't turn that into an hour
long conversation where you go back to genesis and say the serpent was more subtle than any beast
of the field you know it's just like you don't have to do that
okay so time is a factor
and you know what time is a factor with adults nowadays because every fifteen minutes they get a commercial break
so you know fifteen minutes is good but obviously
it takes me longer to give the gospel than fifteen minutes but i'm just saying
if they don't understand something you got to address it and then if they
do understand it then move on because again you can be
the best you can give the best presentation ever that nobody gets saved from
think about that your presentation can be spot on
you've covered every point you got ten verses for you're a sinner
you got ten verses for hell you got ten verses for the gift or whatever
you got all these verses your presentation is flawless but then
you never get past point one because you've just taken too long
and the kid runs off to play with his friends or you know whatever it is so
just be mindful of those things then if
people say no leave a good taste in their mouth about our church
and about God because
we're not always reaping
sometimes we're sowing the seed the first time they ever heard it or the first time
someone's actually used a real bible in their presence and they're not
quite ready to have some
stranger convince them that everything that they've believed for the last thirty-five years is not true
you know sometimes it takes time with people
I had a guy that was talking to me about
God but he never even gave me a bible verse but he gave me his card
and I never forgot the fact that he was respectful to me
and when I said no he said ok well fair enough can I give you
my business card and if you ever have any questions then give me a call
that guy ended up leading me to the Lord later because
he respected my wishes now what if he would have just said
you need to be saved you're going to split hell
wide open you walk out these doors you could get hit and killed and die right now
now if he would have been like that with me then it would have been an instant turn off to me
you know he's just like one more person that wants to just ram everything down
people's throats and we don't want to we want people to say hey
those people were really nice to us you know they were really respectful and then
some tragedy happens in their life or you know they get to the point where they
feel like they want to be saved or want to start searching the things of God then
they'll think back on that interaction that they had with that soul winner that was positive and even if you
didn't get to leave them a verse even if you didn't get to talk to them about anything but
you just were you just said like they literally said no thanks and he said well we
you know well thanks God bless you have a great day or whatever you just say that
and that person ends up getting saved later by somebody else that comes
you know sometimes we're the planters sometimes we're watering someone that's been planted
and sometimes we're raping so we don't we just don't you know we don't know
so let's leave a good taste in their mouth and let them have good thoughts
about our church instead of thinking that we're evil and ram rotters
so um yeah don't say you're going to fry
in hell sucker see you later loser don't say
stuff like that unless they literally already know for
a fact but okay most of the time we don't know so
um so the intro to giving the gospel
is knocking on their door
I've already kind of gone over a lot of this other stuff and I am going to have to end here pretty soon
but you know sometimes when we start our intro
then we say hey I'm so and so
from Sure Foundation Baptist Church or whatever church you're soul-wanting with
you know if they have invitations that say their name or in their local area
you know we make invitations that are for out of town where I don't
put the church's address on there and I do that for a reason because if we're out
somewhere and they're like woah where's your church at? It's like oh it's in Vancouver we're on a missions trip you can just
say that instead of going well you know and they're like why would you come
all the way out here and try to invite us to a church that's three hours away
how many times have you heard that? I've heard it quite a few times it's like well
so that's why I design those invitations the way I do sometimes so that
people don't get that idea and you know we should
say hey be very distinct of the fact that we are from a Baptist
church I'm from Sure Foundation Baptist Church
right? You don't have to say it like that either I'm just joking but anyway
we're from or I'm from a Baptist church if you're out soul-wanting
because it's true if you're out in Detroit and
there's no church that you're working with or whatever you just say I'm from a Baptist
church because it's true you are from a Baptist church it just happens to be like 2,000 miles away
so people do missionary trips all the time
and just because we're doing a missionary trip in this country or in another town doesn't mean
anything so but if you want an easy intro
that's it I'm out inviting people to church
or I'm asking people if they know for sure that they're going to heaven
sometimes people don't like to say if you died today
you know sometimes people say well if you were un-alive today
no they don't but you know sometimes people don't like to say
that because you know like my wife was talking to me about it last night and she said I don't like to say
that when I'm around elderly people because you know they literally could die today or whatever
she just doesn't want to offend them so I don't think there's anything wrong with saying hey are you
100% sure that you're going to heaven
you don't have to say if you died today I say that but not everybody says that
and that's fine you know as long as you're just asking that question that's a good question to ask
right so whatever you say hey
I'm inviting you to church do you have a church that you go to
or hey we're out you know from a Baptist church
are you 100% sure that you're going to heaven we're going around people asking
this question I mean you can intro without being awkward
and weird and I don't think that's really awkward and weird it's obvious you're from a church you've got a Bible on your hand
you've got an invitation so just make it not weird
make it not awkward and then if they say yes I go to the
first church of the deep freeze or I go to second Baptist
church or third Pentecostal full gospel whatever
it is that they say we're trying to get to the next question which is
you know well are you 100% sure you're going to heaven
and if they say yes then you ask them how they know
if they say no can I preach the gospel to you if they say yes
how do you know how do they know well because I'm a good person
because I do good things because I was a teacher
because I was in the military I've actually heard those answers
I was in you know the goal four it's like oh you're saved because you're a teacher
okay you were a teacher for 30 years wow well I guess
God's changed his standard or whatever well you don't say that to them obviously but you just
say well and then so like if they say no
ask if you can preach the gospel ask them for permission if they say yes proceed
if they say no for any other reason you know move on
alright if they say yes then you just start off your gospel presentation like you
normally would if they say no again don't
continue talking to them about it so but if they say
yeah you know most of the time people are going to give you a works resume of
why they're saved you know whatever their answer is say well you know the Bible
says something different than that can I show you and a lot of times they'll
say no sometimes they'll say yes sometimes they'll say I'm not
100% sure and when you say can I show you
you know they're you should still try to find a way to ask them what
they believe because that will come up good later
in the conversation when they try to weasel out of that
when you allow them to say what they believe what's out of their heart
they can't really deny that in the end they can
try but then you can hold their feet to the fire when
it comes to them getting well I just think you have to follow Jesus I think it's
the golden rule or I just think this or that you know if it's anything
besides Jesus Christ is my savior he saved me
faith alone you know and then
the second question you want to ask people can you lose your salvation if they say the right
answer that they believe in Jesus or they've Jesus asked
Jesus in their heart or you know they gave their life to Jesus whatever their answer
whatever their answer is you should always follow up that even if they give the
perfect answer to well is there anything you could do to lose
your salvation do you believe in once saved always saved or something along those
lines and then if they say no you can't lose
it then you're probably dealing with a saved person so
sometimes people like to give weird answers though and you can't
help that sometimes people just give you some really strange answers
when you're you know given the gospel
or asking them questions or sometimes they say what is this a quiz show or something
or what is this you know why are you asking me all these questions and then you can just be polite and say well I'm just trying
to discern where you're at here because a lot of people believe a lot of different things
so those are some kind of intros that you can use
and remember if they get whatever wrong answer they give
remember what it is that they said well
I believe in you know I was baptized when I was whatever
when you go through the whole thing with them and you're going with the follow up
questions to kind of wrap everything up then that's
when you know you bring their
railing accusation against themselves no not railing but they give their accusation against
themselves and then you can say well when I first got here
you said that you had to follow Jesus and keep the ten commandments
now what do you believe and if they say well I didn't
really believe that but that's what you said you know so I mean you don't have to
be mean about it but usually that just kind of brings into remembrance
that they believe the wrong thing because look if we get through
all the points and we get everything said and done and at the end
you just got someone to pray a prayer with you that's our biggest
people that's what people say they don't like about our style of
soul winning so we have to be thorough when we're giving the gospel we have to help
them understand the truth and if they don't repent from what they
believed that was sending them to hell and believe the truth
then you did nothing you just prayed a prayer with somebody
that was already religious so be sure you know it's like this is
people's souls at stake so make sure that you're doing the right job and obviously
we can't you know we can't a hundred percent know what everybody
actually believes there's not like a little button on their head that rings
that turns green that lets us know that they actually did get saved
have you prayed with some false converts before? You probably have, I probably have
but we don't really know but what we do know is if they call upon the name of the Lord if they say
they believe if they believe in internal security you know you should have them
invite them to call upon the name of the Lord with you and get saved
okay so anyway
so those are some good things you can ask when you're introing you know are you a hundred percent
sure you're saved? No, can I show you
are you a hundred percent sure that you're on your way to heaven or do you have doubts
yes I have doubts, can I show you
are you a hundred percent sure you're on your way to heaven? Yes I am
well how do you know? And if they say anything besides the right answers then
you say can I show you from the Bible what it takes to be saved
so I mean these are things that I mean obviously I've gone through a lot
of things that are just like you know common sense things
rule you know kind of rules of thumb basically to help
you to not get tangled up and mixed up with
people but when you ask someone
to show if you can show them from the Bible how they can be a hundred percent
sure because sometimes people say well nobody can know that
well how do you know if you are? Yeah
I do, why? Because I believe in Jesus
sometimes people can you know if you ask them show them from the Bible
what they can you know sometimes when people say
when people say nobody
can be a hundred percent sure then I always say well yeah you can the Bible actually says
that you can know for sure here's the verse for that
these things, I John 5 13, these things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of God that ye may
know that ye have eternal life and that ye
may believe on the name of the Son of God
so you know if you I just quote that verse and then
I just say see the Bible says you can know God wants you to know
can I show you and if they say yes then proceed to
your main gospel presentation which is
you know people are sinful, people deserve hell
you know I'm going to go through that when I preach the rest of the part two to this sermon but
so far it was just kind of like intro questions to ask
and if you have anything that you have questions about feel free to ask me
if there's something I didn't cover that like maybe you have questions about feel free to come talk
to me about it because like I said I wrote this in the car on the way back
from someone yesterday so I might have left something out
but the next sermon I preach about it's going to be the instructional verses
and how to move on how to convince people
of these truths because sometimes people can you know
you can read the verse but listen you have to explain to them
what the verses mean you have to be able to expect you're preaching
the gospel so you have to preaching as you're explaining
things you know you're teaching them what's true and you know what
if the Holy Spirit is not part of that action
then it's in vain you can read verses all day long
people can listen to the Bible 24-7 and if nobody explains to them what it means
they're not going to get saved the Bible reading people like
to say I read the Bible and I got saved no you didn't so
that's not what the Bible says it's from faith to faith you're like well the Bible
comes down from faith to faith that's not what it's talking about the Bible actually says
that you can't even understand what it's saying because it's
spiritually discerned and so someone that's filled with the Spirit
has to explain someone that's not and there's like it's salvation's a miracle
because God has to be God's got to be part
of the salvation right so when the Holy Spirit is like convincing
people yeah this is true listen to this you know
and sometimes people might even not believe the Bible until the moment
you preach all this stuff to them and then they believe the Bible
so I was talking to my wife about that last night too she's like I don't usually ask people
if they believe the Bible sometimes I do sometimes I don't
but sometimes I do because I know that they have a Christian background and I'll say
do you believe the Bible is true and if they say yes then
you know I'll say stuff like well if you believe the Bible is true
and I show you from the Bible what's true will you believe it
and then they always will say yes but then I can hang them later
with that too I say well you said if I showed you from the Bible
that you know whatever
whatever and I showed it to them then you said you'll believe it and what I mean
hang them by it I mean you can
throw it back in their face or whatever not in a rude way of course
but you held them hey remember when he said this
let's remember what you said actually let's remember what you believed
let's remember that you said you believe the Bible is true
but you don't have to do that you don't have to say do you believe the Bible is true
but some people do some people don't so anyway
that's it for the first sermon on
soul winning instruction it's actually ready
being ready to go soul winning and just the last thing
if you're new to soul winning tab your Bible
so you know where to go to the next places and when we
when I preach the next sermon I'll write some verses and you don't have to use the exact verses
that I do I think if you're new and you don't know the verses
already to go to then you should probably just write them down and tab them so that you
have a path to go to because when you're under the gun and you can't find
it you're like you got something in your mind you're saying you're just like you don't know where
it is and I mean I still do it sometimes but you want
to be able to know where to go next so even if you're fumbling through and
sound you know your instruction isn't great they can still
get saved because you've showed them the verses and that you've explained them to them
okay alright let's bow our heads and have our word of prayer heavenly father we thank you lord so much
for this great church and lord I pray that you'd help us to use these things when we're out
soul winning today lord usually when some soul winning tip or
some soul winning strategies preached lord it seems like we run into it
when we're out soul winning I pray you'd help us as we run into some of these issues help us to
keep in mind that we're supposed to be loving
people lord and that we're supposed to present them the gospel we're not out
to get in fights and to argue lord help us to have good
etiquette as we go out not walking through people's yards and just making sure
that we're doing things professional so that when people see us coming
that they have respect lord and I pray that you'd help us to
just listen to all this instruction lord help us to be
get better and nobody's arrived in this church lord we can
always improve our soul winning and I pray you'd help us to do that in Jesus name we pray amen
let's sing our last song page 379 in your green
hymn books page 379 we're going to sing bringing
in the sheaves page 379
bringing in the sheaves sing it out on the first
sowing in the morning sowing
seeds of kindness sowing in the new
tide in the dirty eve waiting for
the harvest in the time of reaping
we shall come rejoicing bringing
in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves
bringing in the sheaves we shall come
rejoicing bringing in the sheaves
bringing in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves
we shall come rejoicing bringing
in the sheaves sowing in the sunshine
sowing in the shadows fearing neither
clouds nor winters chilling breeze
by and by the harvest and the labor
ended we shall come rejoicing bringing
in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves
bringing in the sheaves we shall come
rejoicing bringing in the sheaves
bringing in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves
we shall come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves going forth
with weeping sowing for the master
though the loss sustained our spirit often
grieves when our weeping's over he will
bid us welcome we shall come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves bringing in
the sheaves bringing in the sheaves
we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves
bringing in the sheaves bringing
in the sheaves we shall come rejoicing
bringing in the sheaves
thank you for coming to our sunday morning service we'd like to see you back here at 3.30
we have a Sony time at 1.30 I'd like to see you out there brother Temo
give us the word of prayer