I got to put my timer on. Get myself in trouble. Nobody said go preach it.
They're like we know Pastor Thompson. They stopped saying preach it.
The timer's already up here I see. Wow is this just installed this morning?
Anyway I want to thank Pastor Pazarski and Mrs. Pazarski for and and the hold
for I mean the stand fast family I mean hold fast family for all the
hospitality. I'm just kidding. I just want to give them a little ribbon
because you know that's what we pastors do behind closed doors but I'll
just do it openly in front of all. Now I really appreciate Pastor Pazarski.
He's a good friend of ours and Mrs. Pazarski and the family at hold
fast. We're so thankful to be here today and I'm gonna preach a soul
winning sermon but I'm gonna run away and not go soul winning today so I'm sorry
I have to catch a plane. That's just how it is though but the title of the
sermon this morning is Recharge Your Soul Winning Battery. Recharging your soul
winning battery. Let's go ahead and turn to Acts chapter number one. Acts
chapter number one and for sake of time I'm just gonna read three verses.
Here in Acts chapter number one look at verse number six the Bible says when
they therefore were come together they asked of him saying Lord wilt thou at
this time restore the kingdom to Israel and he said unto them it is not
for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in
his own power but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has
come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and
in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Let's
pray. Lord we thank you so much for Hold Fast Baptist Church and for the
pastor and just everybody that showed up today to go soul winning in your
in your harvest Lord or just pray that you just bless everybody as they
go out that they'd be very fruitful. Lord we just want to also have a
special prayer Lord for brother Sha and Miss Ava and the loss of their child
would just pray that or that you'd comfort their hearts and help them and
and help the the very family and everybody else to just be a blessing
to them in whatever way they can and Lord I pray that you just fill me with
your spirit as I begin to preach your word in Jesus name I pray amen.
So Acts chapter 1 obviously this is where Jesus kind of gives his final
orders as to what they're supposed to be doing next and basically he just
left us with that we need to go soul winning and he said ye shall receive power and who do we
receive that power from we receive that power from God so we're charging our
soul winning batteries you know sometimes we can get to the point
where just like you know I just don't really feel like going soul winning right
now or you know maybe we just need to change some things up and and so I
just kind of want to give some some some inspiration to keep going
obviously I'm preaching to the choir here but like back at your own home
churches sometimes it can be like well you know and you want to go to a vent
like this instead of going soul winning at your own church and I would just say
this that you need to stay soul winning at your own church also but
it's good to come to things like this because it can recharge your soul
winning batteries so now God gave us the power he gave us the power of the
Holy Spirit but sometimes we can quench the spirit and sometimes the flesh can
take over so we don't want that to happen so again I'm just gonna give
you a few things this morning about recharging your soul winning batteries
but let's look at verse 8 again the Bible says but you shall receive power
after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me
both in Jerusalem so the Jerusalem for this church would be this whole fast
Baptist Church this city Fresno California and in all Judea I guess
that would be California the state of California and in Samaria you know I
guess that'd be Mexico and Canada our borders and then on to the uttermost
parts of the earth that means just or else so we have been commissioned
to reach the whole world one place at a time and so I went on this trip to
Toronto last week and I just want to talk a little bit about that and it
was like it was a great trip there was and I'll read the stats to you in
just a second but even though I got sick it was still a great trip and I
got to go so many a few times when I was there but I literally met people
from many nations any dissents white Italian Hispanic Asian black Latino
German French Canadian American and you know and probably a bunch of other
nations that I'm probably forgetting but it was like a melting pot type of soul
winning marathon and the entire marathon was Friday July 28th to Monday
August 7th so a long marathon it was like all these events and things
going on and different it took place at America and then up and there was a
hundred eighty seven salvations as a result of all those people going out
soul winning and I'm just gonna read you kind of the the the wrap-up of the
the marathon itself it was 187 salvations the main soul winning days
Thursday was a full day had 25 soul winners 47 salvations Friday morning
30 soul winners 28 salvation Saturday full day 36 soul winners 72
salvations and these invitations that we were handing out had QR codes for
the Bible way to heaven and when you when you scan that code it takes it to
whatever language your phone is in so if you're a Spanish speaker or whatever
just whatever language your phone is in it automatically converted the Bible
way to heaven to that language it was really cool like I want to
definitely incorporate that into our invitations but so that's from Bible
way to heaven calm BW to h calm so if you pull up that site and your phone
is an English it's gonna be an English one but you can also click on it and
it'll you can go to all the different languages that are already on it it was
really cool but I want to give you the stats for that too so last the so
for the marathon there was 56 clicks on that particular QR code for the
Bible way to heaven and then on the backside there's a preaching and
documentary site that had 30 clicks on it Friday the there was preaching food
fellowship and everybody watched the LGBT terrorist film so there was 60 in
attendance on that day so on the trip I met I was sitting there for dinner
it was a great event but I was sitting there for dinner and I met a
man named Aaron from Germany he was already a man after my own heart after
meeting him so and he came there with his girlfriend his girlfriend's name was
Nivi Mika and she was born in a place that I'd never heard of called Kang Kanger
suck and it was over a thousand miles north of Montreal so if you don't know
where that is I didn't know either I had to look it up on a map but we
were all kind of sitting at the same table there and I just started you
know chatting with them and I knew that she was probably like some sort of
Native American or Native descent and when I asked her if she was Inuit which
is like kind of like what we would call Eskimo I guess but that's
offensive to them I guess in some places so I don't know I'm sure it's
not you know how it is so anyway but the Inuit people are natives from
the north regions of the earth and Inuit is it means the people are a group of
culturally similar similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and sub
Arctic regions of Greenland Labrador Quebec Nunavut and Northwest Territories
and Alaska Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo languages Elio languages I
probably said that wrong also known as it and also ask elute I'm saying all
that wrong probably but I'm sorry I don't speak that language and I've never
said those words in my life so anyway I just when you put it on paper it's
just like oh yeah I can pronounce that you're like nevermind so but the
population of the town that she was from is 561 people it became a permanent
settlement in 1921 and for centuries it was an Inuit hunting and fishing
like location that people there wasn't like a permanent settlement there they
found Viking settlements there at some point the average temperature there is
minus eighteen point five in January and July is an average of fifty three
point eight degrees high so they get highs of fifty five I mean that's cold
like that to me that's to you in California that's freezing isn't it so
but anyway so there there's like 14 communities up in that area about six
or seven hundred people total and the only way to get there is by plane if you
try to Google search the name of the place where she's from it says Google
can't find a way to get there and so I was just I was interested in how
she got saved because she's from such a faraway region way I mean a thousand
miles north of Montreal in Canada so I was interested how she got saved she
told me that her cousin got her saved watching New World Order Bible versions
well she got her cousin got saved watching New World Order Bible versions
and I said well did he get saved watching it in that town yes so somehow
New World Order Bible versions Bible way to heaven got to her cousin you
know a thousand miles north you know the uttermost parts he got her saved
and the only exposure that they ever had to Christianity was that you know
she said her grandparents had raised her and they went to an Anglican
Church so there was an Anglican Church in their town and a Catholic Church the
other church that way yeah like I said was Catholic but her then her cousin
got saved and then taught her the gospel and she got saved and
eventually she moved to Montreal and her and met her boyfriend Aaron who
like I said so he was he's German he spoke multiple languages and so they
buddy so he's German but he's living in Montreal which is a French-speaking
area in Canada so anyway so they drove five hours from Montreal to come to
Toronto just to come to the soul winning marathon so that they could
learn how to preach the gospel and you know just fellowship with the
Saints and to hear the Bible being preached in person and it just really
encouraged me to know that we think that the things that we do the small
things that we do don't matter but even just sharing like a Bible way to
heaven on social media or mirroring other channels and things like that
they can't make a difference I mean this couple came from I mean obviously
five hours is a long drive but then but really it's she from even further
than that and it really encouraged me because you know sometimes even pastors
need to have their spiritually better spiritual batteries recharged I'm glad I
went to that so many marathon it was a blessing to me it fired me back up for
solely not that I don't love so I mean I do love so any but everybody can
get into the you know it's it's just kind of like it becomes a chore
sometimes especially if you're not very receptive area it can be like
that but I would just say this we need to be faithful in the churches
that we're at don't shun Sony don't be a spiritual adrenaline junkie and
just only go to so many marathons and things like that but so funds are
other churches are good to go to look at Psalm chapter 2 verse number 8 Psalm
chapter 2 verse number 8 the Bible says ask of me give thee heat and for thine
inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession so you
know in Psalm chapter 2 verse 8 obviously this is talking about the
Lord Jesus Christ you know in the New Testament this is where Jesus tells us
in Acts chapter 1 he tells us hey the uttermost parts of the earth and that
just means everywhere but I would say it also means the farthest reaches of
the earth and I just that's very encouraging to me that and it says
he'll give him the utter the the heathen for an inheritance to the
othermost parts of the earth now turn to Matthew chapter 12 verse 41 we
have a great responsibility to go and reach everybody and obviously you know
hold fast is what this is the second is this the second anniversary and I
don't know you know what plans pastor bazarski has for missions later but
I'm sure that more the more the longer he's doing it the more he's
gonna do just like kind of all the pastors have done that are part of this
movement so Matthew chapter 12 verse 41 the Bible says the men of Nineveh
shall rise up with this generation shall condemn it because they repented at the
preaching of Jonas and behold a greater than Jonas is here sometimes
we go to cities and we just do like a one big soul winning marathon we get a
whole bunch of people saved but there's no church there after that but
like what I've learned also Paul in the Bible is that sometimes he would
just go to a place like Philippi he gets one lady and her whole house gets
saved they get baptized then they then they have this demon possessed lady come
and then she is harassing them and all this stuff and then they cast that
devil out of her and then she was a gain for you know the people of that
city they beat them they throw them in jail then Paul stops a guy from
committing suicide gets him saved he gets his whole house saved and baptized
and then he throws them back in jail and then makes the the officials of
the town come and pull them out of jail themselves but Philippi you know
the book of Philippians is written to a church that was formed just because
going in that one time and getting these two big families saved and so
when we go a city and we get a bunch of people saved hey great things can
come from great churches can be formed based upon just one little thing we do
and you know that story about the the Inuit lady getting saved her her and
her cousin getting saved in the uttermost parts of the earth and then
come down to go soul winning with us like that's a great thing like people
take that as a small thing but it's not a small thing because we know
that the uttermost parts of the earth are being reached by the message of the
gospel through efforts of pastors in this movement from efforts of people in
this movement and it is you know people say the new IFB is dead or
whatever these bozos online will say that kind of stuff but I think it's
greater than it ever has been because the been balanced out I mean obviously
there's always those surrounding us in some way shape or form a lot of the
weird people have left so you know it's balancing out and then there's so
many activities going on right now that it's like people don't have the money or
the time off to be able to but and I understand that you know it's like hey
we're doing this we're doing this we're doing this it's like well we
can't go to that we can't go to that we'll go this go to something go
to be a part of it look at verse 42 Matthew chapter 12 it says meaning
of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall
condemn it for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon and that's obviously the Queen of Sheba she heard
everything that Solomon had to say saw all the great things the ascent to the
to the house of the Lord and the you know just all that stuff and she
had no more spirit left in her she had all these hard questions and then
they got answered and she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to
hear that wisdom but you know the that same lady that I was just talking
about came from the uttermost parts of the earth to also you know try to
complete that circle of the Christian life where you know being saved isn't
enough I mean it's enough for us to go to heaven obviously but we're
supposed to continue to work for the Lord we are kings and priests and the
Lord our God and what do priests do they serve don't they and so we are a
royal priesthood and so we are supposed to serve Lord but she came from the
uttermost parts of the earth and it says behold a greater than Solomon is here of
course we have the Lord Jesus Christ to tell people about and that is you
know obviously greater than Solomon but people will receive the message and
people will have their lives changed forever because of the work that we do
as soul winners look at Luke chapter 24 verse 47 Luke chapter 24 verse 47
the Bible says and that repentance and remission sins should be preached in his
name among all nations beginning at Jerusalem so does God want us to reach
all nations absolutely he wants us to reach all nations and begin at
Jerusalem but this is your Jerusalem here so you know the plan for us in
the Bible is to reach our Jerusalem you know our Judea our Sumeria and then
the uttermost parts of the earth so you know I I have a vision to reach
Washington State and we have four churches in Washington State now so but
I want to go I want to do more you're like pastor you're doing enough really
but we're about to ordain you know one of our men as the pastor in England
soon and so then there'll be an independent Baptist Church there I know
there's plans of a pastor going into Poland there's plans you know there's
already a church in Germany and so we're kind of moving over to the European
side of things and I think that great things are still yet to come
obviously we're just scratching the surface of this movement we've just
kind of really begun to do great works you know the Philippines is being
reached by brother stuck and other people he's got like I think he's
trying to compete with me right now he's got three churches talking about
two more so I can start a church at the end of the sermon I mean I don't make me
mad so how do we recharge our soul winning batteries well I'm just gonna
give you six really quick things you're like oh man I'm gonna do it
fast Galatians 6-8 so the first thing is you ought to continue to soul
win in your local church now obviously this is a great event this is a
perfect example of an event but not everybody here goes to this church but
it's you know people that go to this church should definitely be here for an
event that their church is putting on but you know just the day in and day
out so winning at your church you should stay involved in and you're
like well how's that gonna recharge my batteries because in Galatians 6 9
just like Galatians 6 9 says and let us not be weary in well-doing for in
due season we shall reap if we faint not so don't faint in your body don't faint
in your mind don't get this Black Hill attitude about soul winning in your
area have a great attitude about the soul in your area you know what we
we're not in the most receptive part world in Vancouver Washington but you
know what we get people saved every single week and people still go out and
get saved and you know people are getting saved you know and then you
can add supplemental things to help like if your area is not that receptive
we'll go to someplace that is receptive so the first thing is you
ought to continue to soul win in your local church and don't forsake
your local church soul winning so number two go soul winning at another
church on like a church I call it a church cation before I was you know
the the leader in Verity Baptist Vancouver I was just a soul winner
going to church but I like to go on what I call church cases I use all my
vacation time just to go and visit other churches I've only visited
Pastor Jimenez when visit a faithful word and back then there wasn't a lot
of options but you know we would just I would use all my vacation time just
to go to another church so I go soul winning there and and you know have
fellowship and things like that chapter 16 go ahead to Roman chapter 16 so I
would say this it's like you can do whatever you want but when your
church is having a big weekend don't go to somebody else's church that you know
be there to support your church you know it's a blessing to see this whole
room filled with people that are ready to go and go soul winning on a
marathon here and I've heard that it's very receptive here that's great
and you know but but if your church is having a big weekend don't say well
I'm going to visit you know you know First Works Baptist Church or
something today instead I mean obviously you could do whatever you
want like I said if you already planned it well in advance you know
I'm caveating that but I'm just saying if your church is having a big
weekend be a part of it and be supportive to your pastor because it is
a big deal look at Romans 16 one says I commend unto you Phoebe our sister
which is a servant of the church which is at centria they receive her
in the Lord as become a Saints and the assist her in whatever business she
hath need of you for she hath been a securer of many and of myself also
greet Priscilla and Aquila my my helpers and Jesus in Christ Jesus who
have for my life laid down their own necks unto whom not only I give
thanks but also all the churches of the Gentile so you know Paul's writing this
letter and he's like commending people to hey these people are visiting your
church take care of them do good unto them they're helping the cause of
Christ they're helping the churches of the Gentiles and you know so it's
when people come to visit your church treat them nice you know talk to them
you know they're people too they might not be in your circle but you know be
outgoing you know they're coming here on their own dime you know treat them
right I know Pastor Pizar she's gonna do that but just you know don't don't
shun other people from other churches and be suspicious of them
they're they're here to help right so three but what conference where
soul-waning is done and get around other people like you that may be able
to also sharpen you so of course we have the red-hot preaching conference
that I haven't missed one of them yet and eternal Ecclesiastes 12 9 so I think
it's good for you not only to go church solely in your own church to
recharge your battery but also go soul-waning at other churches to recharge
your battery but don't forsake your local church and then go to a
conference where soul-waning is done because most of the conferences that are
held have soul-waning going on Pastor Menes has soul-waning going on we
had a King James conference but we still had soul-waning going on that's the
great thing about this movement it's not just a sit around and listen to
great preachers preach us that's that's a great part of it but also
we're we're trying to help you get involved in the ministry and how to
learn how to go soul-waning if you've never been or maybe just experienced
another place I think it's cool going to other places I like going to
other places and going soul-waning and I think it's fun I think it's you know
it's it's just every place is different every place that you know the Bible
or not the Bible but people say variety is the spice of life and sometimes it's
good to have some variety and get out and go to a soul-waning church or go to
a conference where great preaching is happening and soul-waning is being
promoted Ecclesiastes 12 9 says moreover because the preacher was wise
he still taught the people knowledge yea he gave good heed and sought out and
set in order many proverbs the preacher sought to find out acceptable words that
which was written was upright even words of truth the words of the wise
are as goads and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies which are
given from one Shepherd so when you go to a conference you're gonna hear
some goading from the from the shepherds that are trying to inspire you to do
better inspire you to get sin out of your life and so when you're going to
like a great conference you're gonna get not only you're gonna get a lot of food
and a lot of a lot of teachings from the Word of God from great men of God
but you're also going to be able to have chances to go so many in another
place and that will recharge you you know going to a great conference is
going to recharge you and in and hopefully recharge your soul-waning
batteries number four go on a missions trip to a small town or another big
city go on a missions trip to a small town or another big city look at Luke
eight one Luke eight one I'm not gonna give you time to get there I'm just
gonna start reading and it came to pass that went he went through out
every city and village preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom
of God and the twelve were with him so what did Jesus do his custom was to
go into what to say there every city and village every single one preaching
and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God so he's preaching the
Bible he's also showing people the gospel and teaching people the gospel so
it is biblical to hit small towns and you're like well what are we supposed
to do leave our our newborns in the dumpster or whatever and and not give
them a good church to go to what's better than not being saved at all
isn't it so we're our mission when we go so one is to get people saved
obviously we want the whole Great Commission to happen but you know like
I said Philip I end up getting a great church after just two families got
saved number five go on a foreign missions trip to another country go on a
foreign missions trip to another country I went to the Philippines and it
was very fruitful as a matter of fact brother RJ was my first so many
partner and I realized pretty quickly that there was some language barriers
you know they spoke English but maybe weren't you know understanding exactly
how I put in maybe I was talking too fast I don't know but I just RJ was
just sitting right sitting on a spot with a Bible in his hand and I'm just
like come here the gospel come here the gospel come here the gospel you know
over and over and over again he probably barely could talk the next day
I'm sure but how many do you remember how many people you guys
saved that day I think was more than that but maybe it's just my wife had
also a native speaker with her maybe we I'm just thinking that I thought was
like over 30 people but it was just I I just was you know it's not about me
it's about people getting saved so I was just feeding them to them here you go
here you go but that's what's great about going on a foreign missions trip
where it's very receptive you know where people we're trying to grab
people and hook them to get them in the boat but there they're just
jumping in it's like when you grab the nets it's like 156 fish or
whatever and they're all big you know so it's great to go like pastor
he is going to Belize in what November and that's been very fruitful I
think he's talking about starting a church there and you know there's lots of
great things that could come out of a missions trip so I'm not gonna take the
time to go to the verses but actually just John 4 35 John 4 35 I'll just
read it for you while you're going there says say not ye there are yet
four months and then cometh harvest behold I say unto you lift up your
eyes and look on the fields for their white already to harvest this is in
Jesus's time we're talking about Jerusalem I mean it probably wasn't as
receptive as a lot of other places in the world are today because I mean a
lot of the Jews rejected him right and he always had this entourage that
followed him that were just constantly bothering him but Jesus said you know
look look up you know this is after he meets the woman at the well and
they're all off grocery shopping or whatever and it just takes the time
to personally lead some woman to Christ and what happened as a result of
that a whole bunch of people from that town got saved right in Samaria of all
places right so number six the last thing is to go on a trip to the
uttermost place of the earth go to one of these places you know I've
actually yet to go to some remote village in Alaska or something but I do
want to do that and you know people will get saved in the place you know in
some Inuit village way up north then people will get saved everywhere and
you know and in Psalm chapter 2 it says he'll give the you know the
inheritance of the heathen to the Lord Jesus Christ and that and I believe
that wherever we go wherever our foot the sole of our foot goes people will
get saved when we go out and preach the gospel so you know in the Bible
says in Psalm 126 verse 1 it says when the Lord turned again the
captivity of Zion we were like them the dream then was our mouth filled
with laughing our tongue with singing then said they among the heathen the
Lord hath done great things for them the Lord hath done great things for us
whereof we are glad turn again our captivity O Lord as the streams of the
south they that sow in tears shall reap in joy he that goeth forth and
weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing
bringing his sheaves with them so the Bible teaches that if we go out
sowing we're gonna we're gonna reap the harvest Jesus said the the
fields are already ripe under the harvest already white under this so when
we go people are gonna get saved but there's not a lot of laborers you
know right now we have a lot of laborers in this room but compared to
how big this city is it's it's we never seem to have enough so we need
all hands on deck for soul winning get behind your pastor get behind your
your pastor's soul winning vision and you know when you when you feel it
like you need to get a recharge do one of these things that I've listed
here and you'll you'll definitely get a recharge if you go to a super receptive
area you're gonna get a recharge but don't just get all jaded about your
area I think it's very important it's discouraging when a pastor has a soul
winning program then people don't show up for it but they'll go to other
people's churches so I'm just saying have balance don't you know support
your pastor support your soul winning program but you know get get out
and go other places the Bible that's what Jesus told us to do right so let's
get out there today and get some people safe so whether it's a small town in
the frozen tundra or a Pacific island atoll or small island in the middle of
the Pacific there are plenty of places to choose from share the Bible
way to heaven videos on social media mirror them on your platforms and you
know you never know when somebody's cousin is gonna get somebody saved and
that person's gonna come to a great soul in a marathon and learn how to go
soul winning and in fellowship with the Saints so anyway let's pray