When for Jesus, my soul. When for Jesus, go and lead me each day.
A soul. When for Jesus, my soul. When for Jesus, he's done so much for me.
I want to be a soul when for Jesus comes for me, to lay my burdens down.
I want to hear him say, Sir, we've gathered many sheers, receive a starry crown.
A soul. When for Jesus, my soul. When for Jesus, go and lead me each day.
A soul. When for Jesus, my soul. When for Jesus, he's done so much for me.
Well, good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming to Great Chief Services.
And I just wanted to say welcome and thank you very much for all the hard work that you put in the last couple of days.
We're not quite done with the soul name yet. There's obviously going to be some opportunities today.
If you want to go, we're going to have maps available for you.
But I just want to read the numbers. I'm sure most of you know these, but our salvation is on day one.
We had thirty eight states and thirty six owners, so.
Yesterday, we had one solar and seventy three salvation.
There's definitely going to be something tomorrow and that's going to be at the same time as I think the same time,
same place. And how many people plan on going solely today? Materials, Bibles or any of the indications left?
I know a lot of my people brought some a lot of invites, but we had a lot of invites.
So we just pool our resources and just put everything on that table in the hall in between the services or make sure it's there by the last service.
We do have a little bit of a hitch in the schedule.
We can't get the lunch here until one o'clock. So it's a tall order, I guess.
So so it's going to be pushed. The service will be pushed probably like what?
Yeah. Yeah. So we'll have like an hour long break before the next service.
For us, preaching is going on.
So you guys know that. But anyway,
I just want to give a show of hands from Michigan here.
Oh, great. Keep your hands up. Just keep your hands up.
Well, make sure it's all right.
Great turnout. And I just want to say thank you to all the people who came from Canada and the other most parts of the United States.
Our church family, we had a lot of church family from.
This work and it's been it's been great.
We're from it's not like this.
You know, in our group yesterday, we had five salvations in the morning and six in the afternoon.
I mean, you guys are going, which is good because, you know, we're going to the most receptive areas.
So but I want to thank you about this church for allowing us to steal their name.
Yeah, that's what you do.
And you brought the piano. So thank you for that.
And I just want to appreciate that. That was your control and supply panel.
So we have him. So it's kind of tough to take like, you know, hundreds of pounds of panels.
So we appreciate that. And I just want to say thank you.
You can wrestle a big work at this church. You saw me for all the help this church.
There's a lot of this in there. OK, well, thank you, everybody.
No worries, you know, you guys have spent enough money just being here, so I appreciate that.
And so we're going to sing a song that we're going to Bible reading.
All right. Song number three hundred and seventy seven.
Rescue the parachute. Song number three hundred and seventy seven.
Rescue the parachute.
Song three sounds out. Let's sing it out on the first.
Rescue the parachute, care for the dying.
Smash them and give eat from sin and the grave.
We caring ones, lift up the fallen.
Tell them of Jesus, the mighty to save.
Rescue the parachute, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will save.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, you got to follow the song.
One second.
Though they are studying him still, he is waiting, waiting.
The pendant and child to receive.
Clean with them earnestly.
Clean with them gently.
He will forgive if they only believe.
Rescue the parachute, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will save.
Down in the human heart, crushed by the tender.
Feelings like where grief and grace can restore.
Touched by a loving heart, waken by kindness.
Coors that are broken will vibrate once more.
Rescue the parachute, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will save.
Rescue the parachute, give eat from sin and the grave.
For thy labor the Lord will provide.
Back to the narrow way, patiently with them.
Tell the poor wanderer a savior has died.
Rescue the parachute, care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful.
Jesus will save.
All right, turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 26.
Genesis 26.
Follow along silently as I read Genesis 26.
The Bible reads in verse 1, verse 10.
And there was a famine in the land beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines and to Gebirah.
And the Lord appeared unto him and said,
Go not down to Egypt, dwell in the land where you shall hell and to be of.
Sojourd in the land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee, brought to thee and unto thy seed.
I will give all these countries, and I will pour thee out, which I swear unto Abraham thy father.
And I will make thy seed multiplies the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
Because then Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar, and the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said,
She is my sister, for he heared to say, She is my wife, lest said he the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was fair to look upon.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelek king of the Philistines looked out a window, at a window, and saw and behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelek called Isaac and said, Behold of assurity, she is thy wife, and how sad is thou, she is my sister.
And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, lest I die for her.
And Abimelek said, What is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might likely have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldst have brought guiltiness upon us.
And Abimelek charged all his people, saying, He that touched this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
And Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew up until he became very great.
For he had possession of blocks, and possession of herds, and a great store of servants, and the Philistines envied him.
For all the wealth which his father's servants had daked in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped him and filled him with her.
And Abimelek said unto Isaac, Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we.
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
And Isaac daked again the wells of water, which they had daked in the days of Abraham his father.
For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac's servants daked in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
And the hermit of Gerar did strive with Isaac's hermit, saying, The water is ours.
And he called the name of the well Esag, because they stroked with him.
And they daked another well, and stroked with that also, and he called the name of it Sitna.
And he grew from thence, and daked another well, for that they stroked not.
And he called the name of it Rehoboth.
And he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
And he went out from thence to Beer-sheba.
And the Lord appeared unto him at the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham, thy father, fear not,
for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord.
And there Isaac's serpents digged a well.
Then Abimelech, with him Gerar, and Abhuzad, one of his friends, whom I called the chief captain of his army.
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore com ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent thee away from you?
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee, and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us,
even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt,
as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace,
thou art now the blessing of the Lord.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
And they rose a few times in the morning, and sware one to another, and Isaac sent them away,
and they departed from him in peace.
And it came to pass the same day that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged,
and said unto him, We have found water.
And he called it Sheba, therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Mirai the Hittite,
and Pashamath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, which were a grief of mine unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
And your only father, thank you for this sermon where it came out.
We have been preaching every word this morning and pray that you would fill fast and constant with the Holy Spirit,
and that we would have years and years to apply the message to our lives.
Amen.
Thank you everybody for being here.
I appreciate all the hard work that you've gone into it.
Maybe some of you are feeling it.
It's a lot of walking.
So, you know, I've had some of my dogs before yesterday when I got them.
Anyway, the title of the sermon this morning is Sowing Spiritual Seeds and Digging Spiritual Wells.
Sowing Spiritual Seeds and Digging Spiritual Wells.
And this pulpit is probably going to throw me off a little bit.
It's like, you know, silver comp barrels or something.
You know, if somebody falls asleep, I could just dig one of these up and just go.
So I don't fall asleep.
And I think the temperature is starting to come down a little bit.
They had the heat on when we first got here, which is fine kryptonite.
So anyway, bear with me as I fumble around this thing.
But I forgot to push.
OK.
All right.
So in this morning, I just want to I want to preach some spiritual truths from this chapter.
Spiritual lessons from the works of Isaac, because it talks a lot about digging wells and sowing in the land and reaping.
And I believe that these are pictures of sowing.
These are pictures of the Holy Spirit being able to be drawn in any place we go.
Any place that we go preach a gospel, the Spirit of God, there's always going to be a well there for us.
And that well, you know, represents the Holy Spirit and the living waters that we can draw out and give to the people.
And so point number one is we are called as Christians to sow the word of God.
And you see that picture here in Genesis, chapter 26, verse 12.
It says that Isaac sowed in the land and received in the same year and hundred fold.
And the Lord blessed him.
So immediately, what does that make you think about?
It makes you think about probably Matthew chapter 13.
And go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter 13.
While you're turning there, I'm just going to have a quick word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for all the labors and your servants that came out.
Lord, to preach the gospel and to draw deep into the well and give it up to the people that need it.
Lord, in a dry and thirsty land.
Lord, we pray that you just bless everything that's done for the rest of this trip.
We pray that the preaching, I pray that you would bless Brother Corbin as he preaches the word of God today.
Pray that more people will be saved and that we would just add to the total of souls saved this weekend.
Lord, I pray you fill in with the Spirit.
I preach your word in Jesus' name, Amen.
So Matthew chapter 13.
So that term for Isaac in Genesis 6, that term, Isaac sowed in the land and received in the same year and hundred fold.
So notice it says it's a year. In the same year, he received a hundred fold.
I know like Pastor Anderson's taught that he believes the 30, some 60, some 100 is talking about what a Christian can bring forth in a year if they're sowing on a regular basis.
And I agree with him. I believe that that principle is taught there.
Look at Matthew 13, verse three, it says, And he spake many things unto them in parable, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow.
So if you preach the gospel, you're going to sow the seeds of the word of God.
And when you do that, you aren't going to reap in the land.
You're going to reap salvations because the Bible says what's over man sowed, that shall he also reap, right?
And Matthew 13 says, But others fell into the good ground, brought forth fruit, some in hundred fold, some 60 fold, some 30 fold.
Who hath ears to hear, let them hear.
And I believe that it's directly correlated with what Isaac did in Genesis chapter 26.
Nothing is accidental in the Bible.
And I think that Jesus, a lot of times he'll refer back to things that happened in the Old Testament.
I believe this is one of those things.
I believe that the picture that Isaac is showing us, obviously, Isaac pictures Christ in many different ways.
He pictures him when Abraham goes to sacrifice him as his only begotten son.
And then when Abraham is gone, Isaac now is the patriarch of the family, so to speak.
And Abraham did a good job of passing his faith onto his son.
And God chose Abraham because he knew that he'd be faithful in all of his house.
He knew he'd be faithful to pass that on to the next generation.
And so don't discount the fact that we need to get the gospel out to the next generation, our own children.
Don't be so busy working and working for the Lord that you don't pass that on to the next generation, your children and the other children of this generation.
But look at Luke Chapter eight, verse five.
This is a parallel passage talking about the same thing.
So obviously the picture is we're sowing in the land.
We're supposed to sow spiritual seeds in the land.
And when you sow good things, when you sow the word of God, great things will happen for us in this life.
And, you know, Isaac was very blessed of God monetarily with cattle and everything.
You know, he had servants, he had all these things.
He was very blessed.
And I believe this is a picture of us.
You know, if we do the same thing, our lives will be blessed.
Luke Chapter eight, verse five.
The Bible says the sower went out to sow his seed and he sowed.
Some fell by the wayside and it was trodden down and a thousand of the air devoured it.
Not everybody's going to get saved.
But, you know, there's a lot, you know, we're supposed to sow the word.
That's why when we go door to door, you know, some, you know, sometimes the birds eat the seed.
Sometimes the devil comes and snatches that which is in their heart.
You know, I heard a story yesterday about someone, you know, they're just about to pray with somebody and then the mom comes and shuts it down.
But, you know, God's word is very powerful.
And whatever was sown in that person's heart, I believe that, you know, later on they could reap, you know, and hopefully they end up getting saved.
Those people that get interrupted.
But anyway, look at verse eight.
It says, and others fell on good ground and sprang up and bare fruit and a hundredfold.
So here you have the parallel passage.
It doesn't say the 60 some 30, but it does say a hundredfold, which I believe, again, directly correlates to Isaac there.
And when he had said these things, he cried.
He didn't have ears to hear.
Let him hear.
Now skip down to verse 11 says, now this is the this is now assuming that now the parable is this.
The seed is the word of God.
So we know that Jesus is directly talking about his own words, the word of God.
And so that's what it's talking about.
And Jesus, a lot of times in the Bible, you hear farming terms and being a shepherd, those types of things.
But when it's a lot of times it's talking about farming and bringing forth because farming, I don't know who's a farmer in here or whatever it has been.
Is it hard work?
It is.
And you do have to have patience.
You have to tenderly care for those things.
You know, you have to do everything just right.
So the crop comes up and then there's a time when you read.
That's a day of joy when you get to read.
But, you know, a lot of hard work goes into solving, too.
A lot of people that aren't interested, a lot of people that you have to battle with.
You know, sometimes you have to battle with false prophets when you're out preaching the gospel.
And, you know, we kind of run into everything or even just heartbroken Christians that haven't been going to church.
And you just, you know, maybe you're going to help them steer the right way.
There's a lot of things you do around.
So it's not just getting people saved.
It's sowing the word of God.
It's watering down, which has already been sown.
And a lot of times they're reaping.
Sometimes we're reaping off what somebody else did.
Because I know that the person that got me saved.
There were several people and several things that happened in my life that led to, that culminated to that event.
So, you know, those people get rewards, too.
So everything that, you know, in every labor there's a prophet, right?
Look at verse 15. It says, But thou on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it.
And what does it say? And bring forth fruit with patience.
So the Bible talks about the word patience.
A lot of times we think of, you know, you've got to have patience not to freak out on somebody or something, right?
But that's not always necessarily what it's talking about.
You know, when you're sowing, it can be grueling.
Like it's been hot here. It's been record highs.
You know, Phoenix or the people from Arizona brought the nice weather for us.
But it does take patience as far as being willing to endure and keep going, even though it's hard.
And then, like I saw a picture last night, what's that group of, you know, was it Brother Logan getting someone saved the last heart?
And he was getting skunked this whole time.
And it's just like, I don't got anybody yet.
But, you know, he patiently worked and kept going.
And then the very last door, you know, so we patiently endure.
We're also going to reap. You know, we're not going to sow only, you know, unless we're sowing in the wrong spot.
You know, he's missionaries to Israel or whatever.
And even then, they might bring something, you know, there might be something, you know, Gentile to get saved or something.
I'm not saying Jews can't be saved. I think it's just very, it's definitely a very hard field we're trying to do.
So, you know, we need to bring forth fruit with patience, though.
Don't get discouraged if you're in an area that's not super receptive to the gospel.
You can always come to events like this and then just kind of just woo, it's a big party of reaping, right?
It's like you come to the harvest, the heartland of America or whatever.
But, you know, farming is hard. Reaping and sowing and all that is hard work.
And who would say, you know, nobody's going to say it's not hard work for sowing because it is hard work, you know.
But the payoff is great because, you know what, once you bring forth that fruit, it's not just a fruit that you eat one time or whatever.
The fruit is people getting saved. The fruit is forever and ever and ever.
Someone's going to be grateful to you, the Lord Jesus Christ, for you going out and patiently working in this field.
Turn to Psalm chapter one.
Psalm chapter number one.
You know, think about this, Isaac, he had it made, didn't he? He inherited the riches of his father, Abraham, and Abraham was mighty in the land.
He had lots of wealth. He had lots of riches.
He could have just kind of just toasted the rest of his life.
But what did he do? He went out and started working in the land also.
And the Bible talks about the man that's blessed in Psalm chapter one.
And would you say Isaac is a blessed man? Absolutely.
I mean, this chapter kind of lays it out for us.
So in verse number two, the Bible says, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law that he meditates day and night.
So if you want to be blessed, you know, get into the Word of God.
Obviously, we're supposed to sow the Word of God, but hey, it's a good thing to read the Word of God, too.
You know, no more than just the basic verses.
Because sometimes people are going to be at the door and they're going to ask you a complicated question.
And maybe they don't want that. They're not going to hear what you have to say and tell you, help them impart that spiritual truth.
Now, some people are skeptical. A lot of people are skeptical.
There's a lot of weird religious cults that go door to door.
And then also you're at their door and they're like, they're calling us automatically probably what they think in most cases.
And sometimes we're going to ease people's minds and just tell them, hey, we're Baptist.
What was that shirt? Somebody was wearing a shirt yesterday. It's OK, we're Baptist.
I like that shirt. Probably should be part of our soul.
Don't be alarmed. But it says that in his law that he meditates day and night and you don't have to turn there.
Turn there. But in Genesis, Chapter 24, verse 63, it says Isaac went out to meditate in the field that even.
So why was Isaac such a blessed man? And obviously he didn't have the Bible necessarily, but he didn't have the words of God.
I'm sure Abraham's father told him what you know and what what God had told Abraham.
And Isaac is meditating in the field at even time.
So day and night. Right. And to meditate needs to think deeply or carefully about something to consider it.
So when we meditate in the word of God, we shouldn't just be reading it for our accolades or how many times we read the Bible cover to cover,
which I think those things are important, but sometimes it's good to sit and think about the word of God and what it's actually saying and to meditate on those things.
And Isaac was a blessed man. And in that verse, it says that he went out into even time to meditate.
And what happens immediately after the camels and his love at first sight, Rebecca shows up.
He's like, hey, you know, God's going to reward us for meditating.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bring forth the fruit in his season.
His leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
So we meditate the word of God. We we participate in the things of God and we're going to be like a tree that's planted by the rivers of water.
That means a strong tree with strong roots, you know, a little wind or breeze isn't going to knock us down.
And, you know, we're going to bring forth the fruit in its season.
You know, you don't get necessarily people say every time you go out soloing, maybe if you're in a super receptive area, you do.
But sometimes we go through droughts in our bringing forth fruit.
And like in Vancouver, Washington, we've been getting a lot of good success, but it's definitely not even close to the cities here.
And that's why people fly all the way or people fly all the way across the nation.
Like, I don't know, but my Bible, like seven months, sometimes that that's that, you know, maybe not open up your Bible.
There's a couple of people that are telling me that they have got everybody safe since we went to Yakima.
That's a long time.
So sometimes you just have seasons where you're not bringing forth, but then you get a good season and you bring forth the fruit.
It says this leaf also shall not wither.
So when you're talking about enduring with patience, you know, when we got to keep on going, regardless of how receptive it is,
we got to keep going and sowing the seeds of the word of God and bringing forth that fruit.
And then it says whatsoever you do shall prosper.
Now look at Galatians chapter six, verse seven.
Galatians chapter six, verse seven.
In case you didn't know this.
So hopefully that's all right with you.
Galatians chapter six, verse seven.
He not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
So the thing is, this is the principle, people call it karma.
But we don't believe in karma, we're not heathen.
We believe in the principle of reaping and sowing.
So when he sowed, look at what it says in verse eight.
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
But he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting.
Now that's not talking about our works making us have everlasting life.
We don't believe that.
So what's it talking about?
Well, when you sow the word of God, then you're going to reap life everlasting, aren't you?
Someone's going to get saved, and that reward is life everlasting for that person, but also eternal rewards for you.
But verse nine says, and let us not be weary in well-doing.
So let us not wither.
Let us not be weary.
Let us reap in patience.
Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
So I just want to say this to you.
We need to keep going.
We need to keep sowing.
We need to keep sowing the word of God and not faint.
Don't fall out.
You know, if it's not receptive, don't stop.
Maybe your church is the greatest church.
Don't stop.
Don't quit.
Keep going.
Keep sowing.
That's what Isaac did in the land, and that's what we should do as Christians.
Look at Proverbs 11.
I'll just read Proverbs 11.
You guys all know this one, but turn around to chapter 10.
Proverbs 11 says, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that win his souls is wise.
So if you're winning souls, you are wise.
But what happens if you stop winning souls?
Wouldn't you cease to be with the righteous?
So the fruit of the righteous, we are the trees that bring forth this fruit, and we want to bring forth other trees also.
Because that's what's really, we want to pass it on so that more trees are in the land that can go out and sow, and then they can bring forth fruit.
Look at Romans chapter 10, verse 12, it says, for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek.
For the same Lord over all is, what does it say?
Rich unto all that call upon.
So we're also causing people to be rich.
Now, we went into poor areas.
Are they rich monetarily because they went there and got people saved?
No, they're rich because they've got everything now.
It's just waiting for them in heaven.
We all are rich, and we just don't realize it.
Sometimes we think, well, I just don't have enough money.
There's going to come a day when we don't have to worry about money ever again.
Our Father owns everything.
Just like Abraham owned everything.
Now we are his sons by faith.
We are God's children.
It says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
How then shall I call on him in whom they have not believed?
And how shall they believe in him in whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Our job is so important to the kings of God.
You know, because what?
Because if there's not a preacher to preach to people, then people aren't going to get saved.
Contrary to popular belief, it takes a soul owner to win a soul.
It takes a man or a woman scared to fail to win a soul.
Judas didn't get anybody saved.
It's ridiculous.
And yes, calling upon the name of the Lord is what you do to get saved.
You believe, you call.
It's part of the process.
I mean, obviously, salvation is not a process, but what I'm saying is like, it's part of salvation.
This ridiculous teaching that you don't have to call upon the name of the Lord.
It says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
What does that mean?
You call upon him, he's saved.
Right?
So, let's turn back to our text.
Genesis 26 verse 13.
I'm going to finish off Romans chapter 10 verse 15 where it says,
How shall they hear except they be sent?
As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things.
Now, some of y'all's feet are probably gross to look at.
You know, people don't want to see those things.
You know, you try to cover, you want to keep them covered.
Obviously, it's flip flop season starting, but you know, some people just need to not wear flip flops.
But your toes and your feet can be the ugliest things on your body.
They're really not pretty.
I just think feet are pretty ugly.
But you know what, God thinks when you go and you use those feet to preach the gospel,
he looks at your gnarly, corn-filled, discolored toenails.
Some of you young people don't want to talk about that.
But if you get older, you'll understand.
God looks at those things and says, those are beautiful.
Because you are doing what God said and you're bringing glad tidings of good things.
Right?
You know, and maybe those people who got saved will never step foot into the church,
but you know who they're going to step foot in? Heaven.
And there's a lot of misconceptions about so many people who say,
well, you're just going to leave the baby in the dumpster after you get him.
After you bear this baby, you're just going to put him in the dumpster and not get him to go to church.
It's better than, you know, we're not doing that.
But it's better than not getting him saved at all.
People just have a weird way of looking at things.
And, you know, the old IFB has fallen down completely on the job.
This area is wide in the harvest.
What's all the independent, fundamental, fire-breaking Baptist churches?
Why are you here this morning and you're from Michigan?
If you had a fire-breaking, red-hot church, where the pastor is just like,
he understands these concepts that, you know,
you don't have to go to the middle class or upper class to get your church members.
You know, once you go to the core of the land first,
maybe God will start filling your churches back up again.
I mean, don't have an unbalanced church of just old people.
And there's nothing wrong with being old, right?
But there is a balance.
We should have young, middle-aged, you know, all different types and ages of people,
not just old people.
Because what happens to those churches?
They die and they give their church to a heretic or something.
I mean, they just don't get the concept.
When we sow in the land, we're going to reap.
And God is the one that builds the church.
When we're doing what God says to do,
He's going to do great, mighty things in your church.
Regardless of whether those people that you've got to say to come to church or not,
God's going to bring people because they're going to see that light shining.
They're going to be like, I want in on this.
I want to get in on preaching the gospel to people.
This is what church is supposed to be like.
So, Backyard Texas says in Genesis 26, 13, it says,
And the man waxed great.
That means he grew to a great man of God and went forward
and grew until he became very great.
He had already inherited the greatness of his father Abraham.
And then he goes out and makes it his own name for himself through the same things that Abraham did.
Stalking in the land, digging wells.
So, number one, we're called as Christians to sow the word of God.
But number two, because God blesses us, our enemies will envy us.
And this is a true thing.
And, you know, to use the Philistines as a picture of this,
obviously not all B churches or the Philistines or whatever.
But, you know, we have many enemies.
We have many enemies that want our church types of churches to be destroyed.
They want to do anything they can to disrupt it.
The devil wants to bring people into our congregations that, you know,
rise up and take away disciples from amongst us.
We have wolves and sheeps clothing on.
And it's so funny when people, you know, a wolf gets exposed to them.
I'm like, what person did all this?
They're faking it.
That's why they're in sheep's clothing.
They're pretending to be one of us.
And they're going to try to cause lots of damages.
But there's also just, you know, personal enemies that try to stop us.
There are enemies that are other churches, you know.
And Saul was an enemy of David, but he was saved.
But he just kind of missed the boat on everything he was supposed to be doing,
kind of like the life he is doing right now.
But we're going to get God-eaters, personal enemies,
other churches that are not doing anything,
they will hate on us because they see the blessings that we're being blessed with,
you know, that we're waxing great.
Our churches are waxing great.
We can go any place in this country and drum up a church service, you know,
just willy-nilly, basically.
We just say, hey, we're going to Saul in here, and just people show up.
People show up, and they go out to Saul.
We have people from all over this country in here right now.
We have people from other nations in here right now.
And it's just like, you know, when the Philistines see these things,
they hate on us.
Well, they're not really getting those people today, you know.
But what did people see when they walked up to us yesterday?
They saw an army in a coffee shop just getting ready for war,
sharpening our swords, you know, getting all of our materials out,
fellowshipping with great fellowship, loving the brethren.
You know, we're accused of not loving people all the time.
I haven't seen anybody being haters this whole time.
Everybody just seems to love each other.
And some people don't even know each other here.
But instantly there's that camaraderie of, hey, we've got one purpose.
We've got one mission to accomplish.
And that's to get people saved.
You know, obviously we want to start churches.
We want to start churches all over this nation.
Look at Genesis 26, verse 14.
And just like when Isaac started sowing in the land, what happened?
The haters showed up.
Look at verse 14.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds,
and a great store of servants.
And the Philistines envied him.
So the people that were in the land with them envied them.
That means they, you know,
they're basically cutting half of the things that he has
and the blessings that he has.
And people will do that with us, too.
With us as soldiers.
And they just throw shade on us
and just try to say we're not getting people saved
and all this weird stuff.
But they're just envious.
They're envious.
They're like, well, how are our churches growing?
And it's like, do what God said.
Maybe your church will grow.
So it says, in all the wells which his father's servants
had digged in the days of Abraham his father,
the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth.
And you know, you'll see like great sowing movements
like from Jack Hyles and great fundamentalists of the past.
But the fundamentalists now,
they're just living off the laurels of what other men
had already done before them.
They don't realize the Philistines have already
filled their wells in with earth.
And that's the problem is, you know,
you have a great city like this
and all the wells have been filled in.
But you know what we can do?
We can dig those old wells.
But it says, in all the wells which his father's servants
had digged in the days of Abraham his father,
they filled those things in.
So one generation, and they're already filling in as well.
All the work that Abraham did in the land
was filled up with earth.
And you know, this can happen in one generation.
Where there's a great church, a great sowing church,
and then the next person takes over, they're an idiot.
The next person takes over and they're not saved.
They're repent of your sins and they just ruin everything
that was done at that church.
In one generation, they fill up the wells.
Because the wells, you know, the Holy Spirit
is like that well of life,
like springing up the living water.
And you know, we can tap into that well
any time and any place we want.
But the haters come and the false prophets come
and they fill those wells in our enemies.
Look at verse 16.
In the middle I said to Isaac,
go from us, without our much mightier than we.
And Isaac departed then and pitched his tent
in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.
So what do we do?
We just, we keep going forward.
Isaac went forward, didn't he?
And we're supposed to go forward
and you know, if someone's not gonna receive us
in one place, we'll just go someplace else.
Isn't that the principle that Jesus teaches in the Bible?
Look at Matthew chapter 10.
Matthew chapter 10.
I think it's kind of a picture of people
just not wanting the gospel in one place.
So the Philistines didn't want to, you know,
they didn't want to get in on what Isaac was doing,
they just wanted to envy him.
This is what happens in a lot of our cities.
The independent chapters in our area
don't want to talk to me at all.
They're too cowardly to say what they think of me.
They'll say it like sermons that are,
you know, or some fellowship meeting,
some, you know, old lad meeting, fellowship meeting,
and they don't like me.
You know what?
Ask me how much I care.
I mean, I want to be friendly.
I want to be friends.
I want to help a whole lot of churches,
you know, kind of get the fire back into them.
But they just have this, like, mental handicap, it seems like.
Their college has brainwashed them into
this is how you do things.
Or, you know, they're just weak.
They're afraid to preach over to God.
They're afraid to get up because they, you know,
sometimes people see what we go through
and they're like, I don't know if I want that.
I don't know if I want that persecution.
I don't know if I want that people always making up lies
about you and hating on you.
It's just part of the course, though.
Really.
But look at Matthew 10, 14, it says,
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words,
when you depart out of that house or city,
shake the dust off your feet.
So what did Isaac do?
He departed the vents.
What are we supposed to do?
Depart out of that city.
Depart out of that place and shake the dust off our feet.
You know, we need to keep going like Isaac
because there's always another well to dig.
There's always another seed to sow someplace else.
And, you know, this world, this country needs a word of God.
There's a great dearth in the Midwest.
There's no new IFB churches in the Midwest.
And we need, you know, we got a lot on the West Coast.
We got some on the East Coast.
But we need to fill in this gap.
We have a heart for this area and for the Midwest
to get the gospel.
So number three this morning, we need to dig and re-dig
new spiritual wells.
Dig and re-dig new spiritual wells.
Look at Genesis 26, verse 18.
The Bible reads,
And Isaac digged again the wells of water,
which they had digged in the days of Abraham.
For the Philistines had stopped them
after the death of Abraham,
and he called their names after the names
by which his father had called them.
You know what we're going to call the next church we start?
Baptists.
John was a Baptist.
Jesus went to the Baptists.
When we go to, you know, when you're going to get baptized,
who's the best person to baptize you?
The Baptists!
Right?
But Abraham, I'm not saying Abraham
was to call himself a Baptist, okay?
Don't get me wrong.
I'm just saying that he called them after the same names
his father did.
So why would you change to take Baptists off your name
when that great church that came before you
was called Baptists?
The last time I checked,
the people doing the most works for God are Baptists.
People going door to door and sowing are Baptists.
You know what?
We don't have to change the names.
I'm going to call the name of a church a Baptist Church
because you know what?
That's what our fathers called it too.
So, you know, I don't care if people like this or not.
On and on churches are hardly doing anything.
If they're King James only, it's a rarity.
Some country church or the pastor
just still likes the King James or whatever.
But most of these on and off churches
are using modern Bible versions.
So what are they sowing?
They're not sowing anything,
but if they did sow something,
it'd be the NIV.
Is that the Word of God?
No.
They'd be sowing NASB.
Is that the Word of God?
No.
Or Don MacArthur.
What's he sowing?
Trash.
His trashy versions.
The ESD and whatever.
What's the new version that you came out with?
The Legacy.
The what?
The Legacy.
It's funny, we drove past a church,
and when we're out sowing,
it's called Paradox Church.
That's how they say words.
I think they just like to make up these weird words
and go, who's Paradox?
Paradox Church.
But anyway, so Isaac, what'd he do?
He went and dig the old wells, didn't he?
And so Detroit has been around for a long time,
and there's a legacy of great creatures
and great churches here, but where are they all now?
What happened?
Well, people stopped digging the old wells.
You know, when some bozo takes over
and the church becomes some all-black church
that they're just, all it is is about human rights
and all this stuff.
What happened?
Well, people quit preaching the gospel.
That's what happened.
The Indians took over these churches
and drove them into the ground.
That's what happens.
The wells of the previous generations need to be dug again,
and we need to go and plow the fallow ground.
What's the fallow ground?
Fallow ground is when the land is laid to rest for a while.
You know, sometimes we're out sowing.
We go to the same areas a few times.
It's like, okay, we've got what we're gonna get out of here
for a while.
We need to let the land rest.
But we don't let it rest forever.
You still gotta go back and go back over things
in every generation and dig these new spiritual wells.
Detroit used to have a pastor,
and he was one of the biggest independent Baptist preachers
of his time.
His name was J. Frank Norris.
Who started J. Frank Norris?
And J. Frank Norris really had the first megachurch
in the United States.
And there's nothing wrong,
Moses had a megachurch of millions of people.
Don't get on to it.
Too bad.
But we think a megachurch now is a bad thing,
like Joel Osteen's a megachurch.
It's like, ugh.
He was no J. Frank Norris.
He was no J. Frank Norris, folks.
J. Frank Norris was the pastor of First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas,
and then he began to pastor a church here in Detroit,
and the building is still there,
and that building held over 5,000 people.
And it's still there today, but it's not the same church.
It's not the same name.
So obviously the building is not the church.
But somewhere down the line,
that church building got given over to some bad people,
and then now it's just like a wokeness center, basically.
So J. Frank Norris was here in Detroit
and had a huge church here.
The church was humongous.
His church in Fort Worth, Texas, was humongous.
He was not some sissy britches preacher.
The guy hated alcohol.
His dad was an alcoholic,
and he heard about an accident that happened in town,
and he drove to the spot,
scooped up the brains of the person that died in the accident,
the drunk driver, in a bottle,
and then he went and preached about the wickedness of alcohol
with the bottle in his hand.
He was a controversial preacher.
Pastor Anderson hasn't done that yet.
I don't know if that's even legal.
So he was preaching against evolution,
and he got all the monkeys from the Fort Worth Zoo
and dressed them up in clothing and had them behind him
as he preached the sermon.
I mean, there's some stuff we just haven't delved into.
But we need to get on the game here.
But he was highly controversial.
His houses were burnt down.
His church buildings were burnt down.
He shot a man in a Catholic guy in his office.
I mean, he was ill-baffled.
And this guy presses to kill him,
and he comes in, and he shoots him dead.
It's a big, huge scandal,
or not scandal, but a big, you know,
it's just like a huge news story.
It was a nationwide news story.
And he had a lot of enemies too.
He called out the names.
He called out the politicians.
He, you know, he was our core fundamentalist Baptist
and highly controversial.
And he preached to crowds that numbered
up to 10,000 at a time.
So that was a big, deep spiritual well
that was already here at one time.
And so the name of the church here
was called Temple Baptist Church.
And in Fort Worth, simultaneously,
he flew back and forth and pastored
both churches at the same time.
So, and that was back when, you know,
air travel was in its infancy.
He was just traveling back and forth
to these churches.
He was riding trains and so on and so forth.
But in 1935, Norris accepted the pastor
as second of that second church,
Temple Baptist Church here in Detroit, Michigan.
By 1946, the combined membership
of the two congregations was more than 26,000.
For 16 years, Norris commuted by train
and plane between a few churches.
So, you know, his church, you know,
he came here.
He didn't just inherit some church
and drive into the ground.
He got it bigger.
It grew by 6,193 members.
And so he traveled 119,000 miles.
You know, there was over 18,000 in attendance
in one service that he had
with a special Bible school.
I mean, you see those pictures
of those old Baptist churches
where there was just like thousands
of people standing in front of it.
Like, we take our pictures,
like, that's kind of hard to get these 60 people
or 100 people or whatever.
I mean, there's a picture of him
in this little church standing, you know,
in front of the church that was downtown.
And it was just like,
you can't even take the picture
from a long ways away, it looked like.
But what happened?
Where's that church at today?
Where's Temple Baptist Church today?
Well, someone allowed the well to be filled up
and didn't dig it again.
In 1950, after internal feuding,
George Beauchamp Vick became pastor
and remained so after the church moved
to a new location on Grand River Avenue in 1968.
The Third Temple Baptist Church
opened in Redford Township,
so they just keep moving it
from downtown to other areas.
And then it says at 23800 West Chicago,
now it's Detroit World Outreach.
I don't even know what that is,
but it doesn't sound like a good church.
I mean, if they're outreaching,
but anyway, after the death of G. Beauchamp Vick,
Temple Baptist was passed by A.V. Henderson
and then by Truman Dollar
until his death by suicide in the 1980s.
Brad Powell was then called in as the pastor in 1990
and the church changed its name to Northridge Church.
They stopped naming it after the name of the fathers.
They just named it Northridge Church.
So, you know, they took the name
Baptist off the sign, didn't they?
They forgot to continue digging the spiritual levels.
And then it was relocated to Plymouth, Michigan.
It's basically just nothing, I'm sure.
I'm sure they're doing nothing for God there.
You take the name Baptist off the sign,
that means, you know, that tells me a lot about you, right?
So the old building, which is in downtown
and still here today, is called King Solomon Baptist Church.
And they purchased the Temple Baptist Church building in 1951.
The main auditorium with a capacity of over 5,000 people
was at the time the largest African American auditorium in Detroit.
The church was an important location to the civil rights movement
as it was an early member of the progressive National Baptist Convention.
And the site of the body's second annual conference,
it served as the location of Malcolm X's 1963 message to the grassroots.
So they let a Muslim get up and preach in that church building.
And also, other influential speeches,
numerous guests including Martin Luther King Jr. was there,
you know, the false prophet, and some other guys.
But I looked at their website to see what they're doing now.
King Solomon Baptist Church is to revitalize the church community
and Spirit of God's people that suffer from the devastation
of global socioeconomic inequality.
And look, you know, I'm not for racism, obviously,
but this place has become just a woke center.
It turned into a civil rights place.
It is allowing false prophets to come in and preach there
and even have a muzzle on them.
I mean, J. Frank Norris must have been rolling over in his grave,
like, seeing all this stuff happen.
And the great church that he spearheaded here and in Fort Worth, Texas,
I think Fort Worth, Texas is now like a café or something.
And again, I'm talking about buildings, but where are those churches?
What are they doing now?
They're doing nothing because somebody fell down on the job
and didn't continue like Isaac did to dig new wells
and to dig out the ones that were covered up.
It says together as a congregation, we seek to empower and educate
the lost and disenfranchised through the example set forth in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
So, you know, they want to help God's people that suffer from devastation.
It doesn't say all people, it's just some people.
They just want to help some people.
They just want to help just make this world a better place.
Well, I don't think that they're doing things better than what J. Frank Norris did.
Obviously, this was a thriving city at the time.
Now everybody wants, you know, a lot of people have moved away from here.
You know, you see houses that are burned down, houses that are boarded up,
and, you know, it's just devastating.
But, you know, when God's blessing is taken off of a place,
that's the type of things that could happen.
But it sounds to me like Detroit needs some new wells dug, doesn't it?
Detroit needs the seed of the word of God and new wells to be dug.
That's why we're here. That's what we're trying to do.
Genesis 26, verse 19, the Bible says,
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
So, remember, Isaac departs.
He lives in the Philistines.
You know, he just wants to get away from them and do new things.
He sowed in the land.
And now he's digging wells, his servants are digging wells.
You know what, as God's servants, that's what we're supposed to be doing here.
And they found the well of springing water.
What does that remind you of?
Well, it reminds me of John 4.
So go ahead and read John 4.
John 4, verse 5, the Bible says,
Then cometh thee to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar,
near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now, as far as I can tell, the Bible doesn't say that Jacob dug wells.
But this is called Jacob's well.
The Bible says it's called Jacob's well, doesn't it?
This is the, you know, the writer of John.
The Holy Spirit inspired words of God here.
Now Jacob's well was there.
So, Jacob gave this ground to his son Joseph.
So you see how, you know, Isaac got it passed down from Abraham,
and then Abraham passed down to Jacob.
Jacob passed down to Joseph.
Now we've got to reach the next generation with the gospel every single time.
But it says Jacob's well was there.
Jesus, therefore, being weary with his journey, sat with us on the well when it was about the sixth hour.
Then cometh the woman of Samaria to draw water.
Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
Whereas the disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat.
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest him to drink of meat,
which him a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans?
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee,
Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given me living water.
So it's funny, Jesus, all these years later, he's still tapping into the well that was still there.
That was passed down from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph.
And now, what's going on here? Well, these people of Samaria, they're mixed up on a lot of stuff.
They've been taken away by the Assyrians, intermingled with them,
and now they're kind of quasi-religious or whatever with some of the teachings of God.
And they have their own spin on things, right?
So the well has kind of been filled up a little bit, even though it's actually really there.
They're mixed up on a lot of stuff. But Jesus goes there for a specific reason.
And later on, you'll see Philip go back to Samaria and just get all these people saved.
But Jesus tapped into the well that was already there.
And that woman was there specifically for him to be saved.
She goes back to the village, tells other people about it.
He's drawn us a picture of the fact that we still need to draw from the well and give it to the people,
even though that well's been there for a long time.
So Jesus is going to get this lady saved, and says,
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou is coming to draw with, and the well is deep.
For whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst begin,
but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst,
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
We need to dig the old wells. We need to draw deep and give unto the people.
The wells are still there. The wells are all over. We just have to find them.
And obviously I'm talking about spiritually.
But there's always going to be someone that needs to drink from these wells.
There's always going to be another generation that needs to receive this living water.
But Jacob's servants are digging, and they find this well of springing water.
And he obviously he's not done digging though.
That's the thing. Like the rest of this chapter, he's just there digging wells.
And then great things are happening.
And what is the significance of a well in the desert?
Well, if you don't have water, you're going to die.
So the picture is, you know, you don't have this living water.
You're going to die.
Your soul is thirsty, but the Lord can fill you up.
The Lord can hydrate you.
Rehydrate people that are dying.
So, you know, we can tap into this salvation anywhere, anytime.
Number four, this morning, not all the wells that we dig will last or work out.
Look at verse 20 in Genesis chapter 26.
So sometimes churches get planted and they just don't work out, right?
But does that mean we don't go there and try to tap into that well to keep people safe?
Maybe there isn't a great church in the area, but you know what?
It's starting something. It's doing something.
And look at all these people in the building room.
Full of people that are in this area.
I probably would love to have a great Baptist church here.
And a great solely Baptist church life.
You know, obviously, I don't know if the days are gone of 26,000 member churches.
I mean, we don't have that many in our church.
But, you know, they were a big church.
They got over 400 people there.
That's like a big church today.
And obviously time has changed.
There's a lot going on that's wicked in this world.
But, you know, good churches are still getting started.
Young people are still doing great things.
They ought to not give up on that.
But verse 20 says,
And the hurtman of Gerard did strive with Isaac's hurtman, saying,
The water is ours.
And he called the name of that well Isaac, because they strove with him.
So what do we do when people strive with us?
Well, you know, we do what Isaac did.
We just go someplace else, you know.
Obviously, we want to fight for what we have.
But, you know, for us to just stay in one place and never go anywhere else.
You know, we said that we're supposed to go to Jerusalem, Savannah, the other parts of the world.
You know, we're supposed to reach the world, not just reach our own Jerusalem.
So verse 21 says,
And they digged another well.
And they strove for that also.
And he called the name of it Sitna.
And he removed from this and digged the well.
And for that they strove not.
And he called the name of it Rehoboath.
And he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
See, it takes the well and water and the people the water.
And he didn't stop digging wells.
That's the point.
He didn't dig another well.
You know, they found a spring of living water.
They found that.
I mean, he's just going and digging more wells, isn't he?
He's going back to his father's wells and digging those back up again.
So, as independent developmental Baptists, we should be always going and digging more wells.
It says he went up to bear Sheba.
And the Lord appeared in him the same night and said,
I am the God of Abraham thy father.
Fear not, I am with thee, and I will bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
So, what is God giving him?
He's saying, basically, you're doing the right thing.
What you're doing in the right thing.
It doesn't say he's winged souls, but he is spiritually doing that for us to see.
We don't stop digging these wells.
We don't stop multiplying in the land.
You know, what's Isaac going?
He wants to do more.
He wants to do more and keep going.
Number five, someplace will be sowed and dig.
We'll get churches.
You know, sometimes it happens, but it doesn't always happen.
Verse 25, it says he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there.
And there are Isaac's servants.
What do they do?
They take them well, don't they?
So, obviously, he's, you know, out in a place, a place where there's maybe a church service or building a church here.
But some of the places will get churches, some places won't.
It just kind of depends.
You know, we need men that have the mind that Isaac had and they want to go out and dig more wells.
They want to go and ask for churches.
They want to go and start churches.
And really the only thing that's holding our movement back, I believe, is men that are willing to do these things.
And I'm not saying men aren't willing to work and put in the work and do the work.
I'm saying we need pastors.
You want churches?
We need pastors.
And, you know, we need guys that are going to say, I'm not afraid to get up and preach the word of God.
I'm not afraid of what's going to come at me.
I'm going to do this because the wells need to be dug.
The seeds need to be sowed.
And, you know, how are they going to hear the gospel if we don't send them out?
Somebody has to step up and do it.
I've said this before, but I think, you know, when the movement was first new, all these people were like,
I'm going to be a pastor, you know, I'm going to reap about ten times cover to cover, get a wife, get kids, get a pastor.
And it was just that easy.
There's a lot more to it.
It takes up a lot of time.
It can infringe on family time to a certain extent.
You know, it's just you're being pulled apart.
When you've been there, you're going to be able to weather the storm.
Because if you're going to do it, get all in.
Make sure your wife is all in.
Because if she's not, then just don't do it.
Say there's somebody else.
But we need men that are going to say, you know, no matter what, I'm going to be at the church service preaching.
No matter what, I'm going to show up to the services and lead the people out.
No matter what, I'm going to keep the storm going.
No matter what, I'm going to preach the word of God.
And who cares if YouTube nix this?
There's other things to get it out.
And, you know, obviously YouTube and social media is a good way to get our message out.
But they kind of try to cripple us there too.
They're trying to stop us.
You know, we're just a bunch of little trickers in trip malls.
So why are they so afraid?
Why are they so afraid of what we're doing?
Why are they so afraid to have our message out on the internet?
Because it's working.
It's helping.
It's doing more than people realize.
Because our enemies see it.
Our enemies know it.
And they want to stop it.
They want to fill in the wells that we've already dug.
They want to stop us and fight us for the wells that we're digging.
They want to stop the word of God from going out.
But you know what?
We do need men.
We need men to rise up and look, if you can't do it, then don't do it.
If you're not qualified, then don't do it.
But if you can be and you have a mind to the work, God will bless you.
But you've got to have this mentality that no matter what happens, I'm going to keep going.
Because there's probably a lot of guys that are more talented than me.
There's a lot of guys that preach better than me.
There's a lot of guys that, you know, they have a lot more talent than I do.
But you know what makes it different?
Is that I'm weathering the storms.
And look, I'm not trying to make myself in here.
I'm just saying, people say, well, I can do what he does.
Can you though?
Can you keep doing that?
Because that's what really matters.
Can you keep going?
Can you keep digging more wells?
And you know what?
I just decided a long time ago, no matter what happens, I'm not quitting.
No matter what people say about me, I'm not quitting.
They said stuff they call Jesus deals with them.
So why would I care if someone's going to talk about me?
Go ahead and keep talking.
You know what I'm going to keep doing?
I'm going to keep digging wells.
That's what I'm going to keep doing.
I'm going to keep sowing in the land.
And that's what needs to be done.
A man with grit and sand that's going to stand up and say, you know what?
I'm leaving my family.
I'm leaving my wife.
And I'm going to start a church.
I want to sow in the land, too.
So we need that.
That's what our movement desperately needs.
People are always asking me, hey, do you want to start a church here?
Do you want to start a church there, man?
Are you going to preach?
The deadline of three sermons a week comes up every week.
It's like when I when I rise, it's there.
It's there.
It's always something that's on your mind to be in the ministry is a constant pressure.
It's constant.
And you have to be willing and able to deal with that because times get tough.
Times get dark.
But you know what?
I think it's great when when Jesus stands behind Paul and says, no man's going to touch you.
No man is going to make you fear.
I'm with you.
And God appears to Isaac.
He says, I'm with thee and will bless thee and multiply thy seed to God.
We have to know that God's going to leave us or forsake us.
And no matter what comes our way, we got to keep going.
Because what's the devil want to do?
He wants to knock us out of this.
He wants to knock you.
He wants some wolf to come in and spread a bunch of false doctrine and drag you out.
He wants to, you know, make the devil wants Tyler Doka to say something for you to think that you're Jesus.
I saw this.
I saw this little video.
I don't know who shared it, but it's him measuring his face with a big measure.
Has anybody seen that?
He's like, I've never been doing this before.
People are going to think I'm an idiot.
It's like, no people already think you're an idiot.
He's measuring his face because he says his head is the exact dimensions of the temple.
That's all I have to know.
That increases some weird doctrine.
Apparently, I'm one of the 10 kings.
With our splits of real nutters, it's a passion.
I think that is kind of weaned itself out.
There's been a lot of weird things, but it's getting pretty normal now for the most part.
Maybe there's going to be another wave of weirdos.
Oh, God.
It's like the people that were that way are now going to these other people's churches.
Have fun sucking the bottom scum and being friends with them, no matter what they believe, no matter what they say.
And the enemy's always band together with, you know, they're in one accord.
What are they in one accord against? Us.
Oh, you believe you're Jesus? Well, hey, I want to email you.
Let's talk about this.
It's like, what?
I mean, just think about that for a second.
There's someone that used to call himself one of us who now says if you don't believe in him, you cannot be saved.
That's insane.
I saw this comment where it's like, they're like, what's your wife?
What's your wife do when she found out that you said that you were Jesus?
He's like, she said, he said, my wife thinks I'm a devil.
Well said.
Yeah, I'll say yes.
So the other point here, number six, the last point here.
What is verse 26?
Did I even get to my verse in the chat?
Did I read verse 25?
So Isaac digged a well.
He started, you know, basically picture of starting a church, building an altar, called upon the name of the Lord, pitched a tent there.
And then in verse 26, 26 is digging wells to build bridges, digging wells to build bridges.
Verse 26, then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, of Huzath, one of his friends, and Vichol, the chief captain of his army.
And Isaac said unto them, wherefore come you to me, seeing he hate me, and have sent me away from you?
So now the people who were his enemies and wanted him to go away, now I want to be his friends, you know.
And it says, and they said, we saw certainly that the Lord was with thee.
And we said, let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee.
So I mean, I kind of just think of the old life being, you know.
Sometimes they'll come around and I'll say, hey, we want to get part of this, and I hope that happens.
You know, usually it ends in a train wreck, but I still always give hope that they'll come and see things.
Maybe they won't see everything our way, but you know what, for the gospel's sake, if they believe the right gospel, they send out soul winners.
They're King James only.
I mean, we can come together on those purposes. We can come together with those things.
The Bible says when a man's ways please the Lord, he may give even his enemies to be at peace with them.
And sometimes, you know, these old life churches are enemies.
As soon as you say, I've got saved by Pastor Anderson, it's like, get out!
You heathen! You heretic!
It's like, how am I heretic?
You believe in the post-trib rapture. You're taking away the blessed hope.
You don't love Israel. I am Israel!
What do you mean I don't love Israel? I love Israel.
But, so Isaac, you know, he's like, why?
Why are you guys coming to me now? I thought you guys hated me.
But you know, digging wells can build bridges.
You know, sometimes the old life becomes around, and there are some that, you know, maybe they're afraid to be associated with this, but maybe there are more for these things.
And God bless them. You know, if you have a great old life church you're going to, don't stop going to that church.
You know, obviously, if a church that you like better starts up, you're free to go to whatever church you want.
But we'll stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If we can come together and build some bridges with the old life beat, then I'm all for it.
So, I'm not going out intentionally seeking to be friends with them, because it seems like every time I do that, it ends up burning.
But, if they want to be friends, don't be friends with them. We don't have to agree on everything.
It used to be that we could disagree on certain things, and we could still be friends.
So, you know, other Christians might not be for us.
And they might disagree with our doctrine.
But, like I said, we have the main things like salvation, by faith alone, baptism, diversion, the Trinity, being King James only, old hymns, I think in Psalms, you know.
And so, we can be cordial. We can coexist.
And this is kind of like what I see with the Philistines. They're like, well, hey, you know, we see that God's blessing you. We want to get in on this blessing.
And I'm all for that. I don't want to just kick your life, or whatever, or other churches that might want to get in on a great movement.
So, look at verse 29. It says, and that will do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace, thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
And, you know, it's funny because people always act like we're the ones that are mean to other people and don't want them to be with us.
But, in reality, it's the opposite.
We're like, hey, here's our right hand of fellowship. And they're like, they don't want to be friends with us.
And then they'll say, well, we've never done anything to you. And that's kind of what the Philistines were like. What did they do though? They filled up the wells, didn't they?
They were just constantly contending with them over things that are not a salvation issue.
We're still premillennial. They're premillennial.
So, as long as we're not going off the deep end saying all the things in Revelation have already happened, or all the things in Matthew have already happened,
look, not all the things have already happened, folks. There's still things yet to come.
But, you know, those things are side issues in comparison to what the most important thing is. Sowing in the land and digging spiritual wells.
Look at Psalm 126 verse 6. I'm going to read Romans chapter 12 verse 14. Romans chapter 12 verse 14 says,
Bless them which persecute you. Bless and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
And these are really famous verses in Romans that I'm reading to, but apply that with soul.
You know, hey, let's not curse our enemies when they're rejoicing and getting people saved also.
And there will be an agreement for these precious souls. Look at Psalm 126 verse 6.
It says, He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
And so, we can still come together and comment a little bit on things like the gospel.
And, you know, let's look back at our text here. Let me try to wrap this up.
This is like Peter tell one.
You need to get up and stretch. You're fine. I'm used to it.
But anyway, Genesis chapter 26 verse 30 says,
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. And they rose up a few times in the morning and swear one to another.
And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
So he makes this covenant with the Philistines that says, Hey, you know what? I'm not going to harm you. You're not going to harm me.
We can coexist in the land. And, you know, they recognize that Isaac was a blessed man.
Trickle Romans chapter 12 verse 16.
Romans 12 verse 16 says,
Be of the same mind, one for another. Mind not high things, but condescending men of low estate.
Be not wise in your own conceits, recompense them of evil for evil.
Provide them with things honest and societal.
It would be possible as much as lying in peaceably with all men.
So we should try our best to get along with other people that are not necessarily our enemies.
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place under wrath.
For as rent and vengeance is mine, I will repay you safe and forward.
So, I mean, you apply this to, you know, maybe you did a lot, but he does take shots at us.
Maybe they do kick our people out of their church, out of our churches.
But, you know, who's going to repay that? God's going to repay that.
We don't have to worry about that. We don't have to get on a video about how bad that church was necessarily.
I mean, sometimes it's necessary. If they're a false prophet, all bets are off on that.
But I'm just saying, if someone's saved and maybe they mistreated you, you know, we should be willing to turn the other side sometimes.
You know, maybe God's got something better for you.
Because when the Philistines first sent him away, Isaac was blessed tremendously because he continued to do the work of the Lord.
It says, Therefore, if thy enemy hunger, feed him.
If he thirst, give him drink. For in doing so thou shalt reap coals of fire on his head.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
And that should be our mission. Let's go out and do good.
And that will overcome all this evil that comes upon us.
And maybe when people see our behavior, that we behave ourselves wisely, then maybe they'll say, well, hey, maybe there is something to that.
Maybe we can get in on this soul on the marathon or whatever.
And I would like to send people to a local church where they can get baptized.
You know, I like to send people to a church.
Maybe it's not like us exactly, but it's a church that someone could be in there, learn some things, you know, get in on soul winning and things like that.
But let's look back at our text in Genesis, chapter 26, verse 32 says,
and it came to pass the same day. See, they made the peace agreement.
They came to pass on the same day that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well, which they had digged and said unto him.
What did they say? We have found water.
So they, they, God blessed again.
We found water.
That means Isaac's servants didn't stop digging.
Nothing's going to stop us.
The only thing that's going to stop us is us ourselves.
It's us not reaching the next generation.
It's us not continuing to sow in the land, not continuing to find new water.
And he called the place, he called it Sheba, therefore the name of the city is called Sheba unto this day.
So why did Isaac keep digging the wells?
I mean, could he have just stayed one spot?
But you know why he did? Because he had faith that he was going to find water.
He had faith that he was going to find water.
We need to keep that faith.
We're going to find that water every place we go.
We're going to tap in in Detroit.
We're going to tap into the water source.
Anywhere we go, God is going to be with us.
But you know when he's not going to bless us?
There's one way to quit.
Don't quit.
And if you just can't stand the church you're in, move to a church so you can't see anything.
Get plugged in.
Look, we only have this life to sow the seed.
We only have this life to dig the wells.
Abraham died, didn't he?
Obviously he's alive.
But he died.
Isaac's dead. Jacob's dead.
Joseph's dead.
But there's still a witness in this world right now.
Jesus said that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church.
But guess what? We're here today.
We're still doing what God called us to do.
So don't quit.
Don't stop digging the wells.
Because you know what?
We're going to keep digging wells.
And guess what we're going to do? We're going to find water.
So, and we're going to disperse that to the people and we're going to sustain that.
You know why? Because sowing the works.
And it's an ordained of God and it's a command of God.
So it's not just for one person to do, it's not just for the pastor to do, it's everybody.
Somebody told me a story and I can't remember who it was, but they said,
that they were, oh yeah, somebody was at a church and they went around sowing with the pastor.
And they said, hey pastor, are you okay if I try?
I was like, I would never ask my pastor that question.
As if he's just the, you know, what is he doing? He's stopping the well, isn't he?
There's just so many pastors out there that are stopping the wells today.
When, you know, someone's just like, hey, can you teach me how to do it?
Because it wasn't just Isaac digging with the, you know,
I mean, digging wells is a hard job.
Do you think Isaac was the one swinging the pickaxe the whole time or shoveling everything and everybody else was just watching him do it?
It's gone.
His servants were digging wells too.
It's forever done.
Thanks again everybody for all of our hard work, kid.
And let's get out there and get some more souls saved before we leave and just enjoy a break before lunch.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you Lord so much.
For all the people that are here willing to sow spiritual seeds and dig the spiritual wells, Lord.
So thankful that we can just come to a place, any place, and there's people willing to come and get people saved.
Pray that you just bless the rest of our day together in our fellowship and the food to follow as we sing and pray.
We'll write our last song.
375, Work for the Night is Coming.
Song number 375, Work for the Night is Coming.
Song 375, let's sing it together first.
Work for the night is coming, work through the morning hours.
Work while the dew is sparkling, work in springing flowers.
Work when the day grows brighter, work in the glowing sun.
Work for the night is coming, when next work is done.
Work for the night is coming, work through the sunny new.
Fill bright stars with labor, rest come sure and soon.
Give every flying minute something to keep in store.
Work for the night is coming, when next works no more.
Work for the night is coming, under the sunset skies.
While there our tanks are glowing, work for daylight flies.
Work till the last beam faded, faded to shine no more.
Work while the night is darkening, when next work is o'er.
Amen.
Father God, we thank you so much for all things.