comes the full white rain and shall begin
before the angels he shall know his name confessed in head
then onward from the hills of life our hearts with love a flame
will vanquish all the hosts of night in jesus conquering name
faith is the victory faith is the victory
oh glorious victory that overcomes the world
amen good seeing brother paul would you open the word of prayer
here
amen our second song to be sung number 134 i know that my redeemer liveth
song number 134 i know that my redeemer liveth
song 134 i know that my redeemer liveth song 134 let's sing it together on the
first i know that my redeemer liveth
and on the earth again shall stand i know
eternal life he giveth that grace and power
are in his hand i know i know that jesus liveth
and on the earth again shall stand i know i know
that life he giveth that grace and power
are in his hand i know his promise never fail
if the word he speaks it cannot die though cruel
death my flesh assail if yet i shall see
him by and by i know i know that jesus liveth
and on the earth again shall stand i know i know
that life he giveth that grace and power
are in his hand i know my mansion he prepareth
that where he is there i may be oh wondrous thought for me he careth
and he at last will come for me
i know i know that jesus liveth and on the earth
again shall stand i know i know that life he giveth
that grace and power are in his hand
all right good every good morning everybody welcome to
bible believers baptist church and i got spluttered out the gate right
there so um anyway good morning everybody
welcome to uh bible foundation bible believers baptist church for our
one year anniversary as me being the pastor i guess
um i'm not exactly sure how long this church has been around do you know
you know there's a little plaque on the back there of the
guy that founded the church you know jesus actually founded the church but
um but we we definitely were under new management and
you know it's it's been a great year a lot of great things have happened
in this church this year and we just want to celebrate that and
thank you everybody for coming all the people that came from far and wide
and we appreciate all the people that have been participating
locally here and just making this church run
on a day-to-day and weekly basis just want to say thank you
to everybody and for coming and laboring yesterday and
the heat of the day and uh for those that are going to go out today
the verse of the week oh yeah if you need a bulletin just lift up your
hand one of the ushers will bring you a
bolt anybody miss getting a bulletin while that's being handed out i'll read
the verses of the week there it says trust in the lord with all mine
heart and lean not unto thine own understanding
in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths two very
great scriptures there those are ones you want to memorize
and uh put those to memory and just remember those all the days of your
life they're great great scriptures there and uh
again we just want to thank you for being here at bible believers
baptist church it's our prayer that you be blessed by the
music and the preaching of god's word and if you're a first-time guest uh
we're very thankful that you're here please drop uh fill out a guest card
and drop it in the offering plate as it goes by
if you didn't get a guest card please get one from one of the ushers or
one of the ushers just hand out ones you know if you're if you're
visiting from one of our churches and don't worry about filling it out but
if you're just a first-time guest that's ever been here before you're
not going to one of our current churches
and we'd love you to fill one of those out and
we also would love to be a service to you any way we can
don't hesitate to ask for anything we'll do it within reason
and we're an independent fundamental king james only baptist
soul-winning church and we believe in salvation by faith alone we're family
integrated we do have a mother baby room in the
back up there i apologize that it's not the air
conditioning is on the fritz right now
we are working to get that taken care of but it probably
is not going to happen probably till the end of this month so i really do
apologize for that so um if you but it's it's abnormally is
this abnormally hot for this time of year or is this normal
anybody that lives here it's normal okay
i don't think i've ever been here when it's this hot so
but anyway it's it's it's not too bad it's not like it's phoenix arizona or
something so um but it's it's it's rough when
you're not used to it so anyhow so if you have any questions
feel free to come talk to me after the service i'd love to answer any
questions you might have or just reach out to me via email so
and uh let's see we look you can look at the stats the
we got the little charts there we had 56
in the service on friday so praise the lord for that
and you can see the offerings that came in for the month of
june and then the salvations all the different i think those are
representing all the different months there
we had yeah 15 salvations yesterday out soul winning so praise god for that and
that was only in like about a two hour time a couple
few people went out for an extended time got two more but
uh yeah that was it was pretty warm so
uh that's pretty good for like kind of a half
marathon um maybe not even a full half there so
um anyway so our uh schedule today 10 30 of course every
sunday is our 10th is our uh preaching service at 10 30 in
the morning and we do have soul winning in between the services
and then we have a 3 30 pm service every sunday
and a 4 pm soul winning serve of soul winning on wednesdays
and a 6 pm service bible study so the soul winning today might be a little
short um do you have a do you have a plan
for soul winning today noah or is there somebody that normally leads to
sunday time
okay yeah if you if you and if you had maps yesterday that didn't get finished
we can always go out and we could either tackle one map or whatever
we'll figure that out but we are going to have food after the
service and that probably won't be here till about 12 30
so we'll just hang out in fellowship afterwards and yes it's going to be
panda express so but i tried to get the best
panda express i possibly could so and we're also going to have
cake and ice cream so you'll want to go out and
and burn all those calories off afterwards anyway
so i got orange chicken teriyaki chicken
i got the shrimp the walnut shrimp and then a broccoli beef
with chow mein and rice and super greens
so if you're super keto you can do the you can do the teriyaki chicken
without the sauce super greens all right so yeah
so we'll be eating like kings today um and having that cake and eating it too
so um anyway you can look down you see
the preaching schedule all the preaching that's coming up uh
let's see looks like yeah okay looks good all right um upcoming events
also we already had brother daniel preached for us on friday so
we really appreciate that sermon bro daniel was really good
and uh yeah today's our anniversary so and then we have birthdays coming up
here let's see 7 16
that's not the real kylie is it okay i didn't think so
and my my my is uh 7 17 jina the 20th aquila the 23rd and daniel the
26th so and then today there's no
anniversaries on here but today is my anniversary my
23rd anniversary and i've been married for 23 years to
sweet and beautiful lady named miss sherry you all know her
she's in the back hurting children right now but uh
i just wanted to say happy anniversary to my wife
and it's been it's been great it only gets better
so i love you honey and uh thanks for putting up with me all these years
i know it's not easy so but i love you more than ever now than i ever have so
we're getting close to that 25-year mark so if you guys want to send us to
tahiti or something like that that'd be great
i'm just teasing um but anyway yeah it's our anniversary so thankful for my
wife she's i couldn't do this without her
honestly she's she's a rock for me so in a lot of ways
so anyway that's all i have for announcements uh let's go ahead
and we're going to sing another song and after the song we'll have the men
come up for the offering all right
all right i think we got to sing happy anniversary real quick though to
the pastor and his wife huh you down for it
we do the god bless you and keep you on the second half of it but
i'll probably mess it up anyways ready happy anniversary
to you happy anniversary to you god bless you
and keep you happy anniversary to you
so
all right for our next song we'll be doing uh song number 498
when we all get to heaven
song number 498 when we all get to heaven
you gotta shout when it says shout the victory though we have to redo the
whole verse song number 498 let's sing it
together on the first sing the wondrous love of jesus sing
his mercy and his grace in the mansion's bride
and blessed he'll prepare for us a place
when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be
when we all see jesus we'll sing and shout the victory
amen on the second while we walk the pilgrim pathway
clouds will over spread the sky when the traveling days are
over not a shadow not a sign when we all get to heaven
what a day of rejoicing that will be when we all see
jesus we'll sing and shout the victory
let us then be true and faithful trusting serving
every day just one glimpse of him in glory
will the toils of life repay when we all get to heaven
what a day of rejoicing that will be
when we all see jesus we'll sing and shout the
victory amen good singing on the last onward to the prize before
us soon his beauty will behold soon the
pearly gates will open we shall trip the streets of gold
when we all get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be
when we all see jesus we'll sing and shout the victory
amen good singing uh at this time we're gonna have our offering but
paul will you bless the offering for us
and let us pray father god thank you for today lord
we're coming in church and fellowship father god and just be with
us as we go so one in today beat the preaching
bless the offering father and bless those that came father
in jesus precious mighty name i pray amen
so
amen i'll open your bible to ezekiel chapter 22 ezekiel chapter
22
as is our custom in our churches we'll read the whole chapter so just follow
along silently if you need a bible please
raise your hand ushers will bring you one
ezekiel chapter 2 the bible reads moreover the word of the lord came
unto me saying now thou son of man wilt thou judge
wilt thou judge the bloody city yea thou shalt show her all her
abominations then say thou thus saith the lord god the city
shed blood in the midst of it that her time may come and maketh idols
against herself to defile herself thou art become guilty in thy blood
that thou hast shed and has defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast
made and thou hast caused thy days to draw
near and art come even unto thy years therefore have i made thee a reproach
unto the heathen and a mocking to all countries
those that be near and those that be far from thee shall mock thee which are
infamous and much vexed behold the princes of israel and
everyone were in thee to their power to
shed blood in thee have they set light by father
and mother in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the
stranger in thee have they vexed the fatherless
and the widow thou hast despised mine holy things and has profaned
my sabbaths in thee are men that carry tales to shed blood and in
thee they eat upon the mountains in the midst of thee
they commit lewdness in thee have they discovered their father's nakedness
in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution
and one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife and another
hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law and another in thee hath humbled
his sister his father's daughter in thee have they taken gifts to shed
blood thou has taken usury and increase and thou has greedily gained
of thy neighbor neighbors by extortion and has forgotten
me saith the lord god behold therefore i have smitten mine
hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made
and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee
can thine heart endure or can it thine hands be strong
in the days that i shall deal with thee i the lord have spoken it and will do
it and i will scatter thee among the heathen and disperse thee in the
countries and will consume thy filthiness out of thee
and thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen
and thou shalt know that i am the lord
and the word of the lord came unto me saying son of man the house of
israel is to me become dross all they are brass and tin and iron and
lead in the midst of the furnace they are even the dross of silver
therefore thus saith the lord god because they are all become dross
behold therefore i will gather you into the midst of jerusalem
as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead
and tin into the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it to
melt it so will i gather you in mine anger
and in my fury and i will leave you there and melt you
yea i will gather you and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath and ye
shall be melted in the midst thereof as silver is melted in the midst of the
furnace so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof and ye
shall know that i am the lord that i the lord have poured out my
fury upon you and the word of the lord came unto
me saying son of man say unto her thou art the land that is not cleansed
nor rained upon in the day of indignation there is a conspiracy of
her prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring lion
ravening the prey they have devoured souls they have taken the
treasure and precious things they have made her many widows in the midst
thereof her priests have violated my laws and
have profaned mine holy things they have
put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they showed
difference between the unclean and the clean
and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths and i am profaned among them
her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed
blood and to destroy souls to get dishonest gain and her prophets
have daubed them with untempered mortar seeing vanity and
divining lies unto them saying thus saith the lord god when the lord
hath not spoken the people of the land have used
oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy
yea they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully
and i sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand
in the gap before me for the land that i should not destroy it but i
found none therefore have i poured out my
indignation upon them i've consumed them with the fire of my wrath
their own way have i recompensed upon their heads say it the lord god
brother nor can you pray for the service
amen all right well we're there in ezekiel chapter number 22
is very famous passage in scripture lots of great
sermons have been preached out of this passage and we're going to
look at uh verse 23 this morning we'll read
down to verse 31 the the bible says and the word of the
lord came unto me saying son of man saying to her thou art the land
that is not cleansed nor rained upon in the day
of indignation there's a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof
like a roaring lion ravitting the prey they have devoured souls
they have taken the treasure and precious things they have made her
many widows in the midst thereof so the bible here is talking about
the prophets that have just they're not real true prophets they're false
prophets and the bible uh in in the land of
israel the bible is describing how supposedly god's people have just
completely gone astray and turned into these wicked
false prophets and it says they've devoured souls
because when things have been given over to
to preachers and and pastors and and
here priests it talks about their prophets their
their pastors and they are given over to these
you know the people are being led by thank you
the people are being led by these wicked people that aren't even saved
then they they are devouring their souls in a way because
they're not getting saved and jesus talked about people who are twice dead
plucked up by the roots he talked about how they compass sea
and land to make one proselyte and they make them twofold more the
child of hell than they are themselves
so read on in verse 26 the bible says her priests have violated my law
and a profane mind holy things they have put no difference between the
holy and profane neither have they showed difference between
the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths and i am profaned among them
this is what we see in the land today you know you could go all over
there's plenty of churches around here
there's uh i could swing a dead cat and throw it to
a church on uh on a corner right across
the kitty corner from here and a pentecostal style church
that is sending souls to hell right now they're breathing air in this city
right now they're breathing air in union gap
they're breathing air in yakima and they're breathing air on the
on the reservation and the surrounding towns
and they're just like these people right here where they
are devouring souls they're violating god's law they're not putting a
difference between the good and the evil they are
profaning the lord by teaching wicked false doctrine
they have not showed a difference between the holy
and the profane they are letting queers into their churches
they're letting all kinds of wickedness go on with no church
discipline it says in verse 27 her princes in
the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and
destroy souls and get dishonest gain now of course
this would be talking about like the rulers
and like if you notice every city has a place that has city hall
and they're rulers and then you find all these weird demon-possessed people
in the downtown areas why do you think that is because
principalities and powers in most cases are run by satan himself
that's why the bible says we're supposed to put on the armor of god
like like brother daniel was preaching
about the other day and we were just talking about this how
you know why is it why is it that all these demon-possessed people
and these weird people are always flocking to downtown areas
well that's where the seat of power is in cities and that's why
you see all this demonic behavior and this
lawlessness and drug addicted people and these drug addicted people they let
their walls be knocked down their hedges of
protection are knocked down and then the devils can easily enter
into them and take them over it says in verse 28 and her prophets
have dobbed them with untempered mortar seen vanity
and dividing lies unto them saying thus saith the lord
when the lord hath not spoken and these are the types of people like
pentecostals they say the lord told me this and the lord
told me that the lord didn't tell you anything you lying idiot
the lord shut your mouth that's what you should do is just shut up
and quit put heaping more wrath upon yourself
for the day of wrath they haven't spoken
no god does not god speaks to us through his word
the book is finished at revelation chapter number 22
it's over there's no more being written down so god is not
speaking to you unless it's through the word of god so anybody that says
god told me this if unless it's through the bible
god didn't tell them anything so they're just lying
it says the people the land of extras have used oppression and exercise
robbery and have vexed the poor and needy yay they have
expressed or excuse me oppressed the stranger
wrongfully we have this happening in our land today
and it says and i sought for a man among them that should make up the
hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that i should
not destroy it but i found none in ezekiel's day this is what he's
saying i you know at the time i sought for a man among them
to make up the hedge and stand in the gap for the land before me
the title of my sermon this morning is standing in the union gap
standing in the union gap i mean we're in union gap this is where the church
is and so the bible says here in verse 31
also therefore have i poured out my
indignation upon them and i have consumed them with the fire of my wrath
their own way have i recompensed upon their heads
saith the lord god now i want you to turn over to joe chapter 1 keep
your finger here and then turn over to joe chapter 1
verse 9
because you have this term in ezekiel 30 where it says i sought for a man
among them that should make up the hedge now
satan goes and he accuses joe before god
satan still has access to accuse people before god
and this is shown and proven in joe chapter 1 here
but i wanted you to kind of see what's meant by
a hedge joe chapter 1 verse 9 the bible says then satan answered the lord
and said doth joe fear god for naught hast not thou made
an hedge about him about his house and about all that he hath on every
side see if god's blessing you and you're
in his favor there's a hedge about you look what it
i mean just really specifically it says a hedge about him
so god protects his people god protect it says about his house so
you know and that could just mean not just his physical house but the
people in his house like his children
his wife his family members his friends
and it says about all that he hath on every side
so this is what it's talking about by a hedge it says thou hast blessed the
work of his hands and the substance is increased in the land but put
forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath
and he will curse thee to thy face so when the bible says i sought for a
man among them that should make up the hedge
and stand in the gap for me for the land
you know what happens when the the the towns and the cities
are overrun by devils and false prophets and false priests and
wicked rulers and there's no man of god there's no people of god that are
standing in the gap that are helping make the
heads for the people that they could stand there and get
people saved and preach what's right and true
a refuge for people to come to and not have to be deceived by these wicked
people anymore and not have to not have to put up
with you know at least they have right teaching going on
there's people getting saved in the land and god doesn't have to destroy
that place and you know so union gap has a
special place in this area where we are going out
and we are you know slowly but surely we're converting people
what other church do you think in this area went out
in mass like we did yesterday and went soul winning in 100 degree weather
do you think any church went out there yesterday i guarantee you that no other
church was out there doing what we were doing yesterday and i'm not trying
to pat us on the back that's our duty that like like
brother daniel said that's our duty that's our duty to do that would to
god that all the churches that were that had the right doctrine
had the right salvation were out doing that same thing this
land wouldn't be given over to all the wickedness
that it is with all the gangs and false religion and drug abuse
and you know molestation and faggotry and all the and all the other wicked
things that are going on in this area you know this place
would be better if there was a hedge made up
by individuals by a man of god by the people of god
to stand in the gap and to make a hedge
about this area now this the union gap is called
it's called union gap because it was named after a scouting party
of union soldiers that just after world war uh
not world war the civil war ended on july 4th
they came and camped here in this area and that's why they called it
union gap i didn't know that so i just kind of looked that up the
internet's always right so it must be true right
so but uh but what is a gap well if you define it
through the dictionary it's a break or space
in an object or between two objects so or it's a pass or a way through a range
of hills so when you come from the set from the
north you we come north and come through
that pass where you can actually get cell service again
that's uh you're coming through that pass and you come through that little
when you get to union gap that's the gap between
you know where we were on the reservation and then
you get to well you get to the reservation and then you get to
the union gap and then you get to yakima and so we're kind of between
the the reservation and between the yakima area so
we're right in a very good spot we're like dead center pretty much
between right where we need to be because we're
in the gap so that's why you know it's it's it's kind of a cool
area that we're in because we're right where we need to be we're standing
in the gap for the people of the land and so we need men and women
who will stand in the gap so the lord will not destroy
this land what a perfect name for a city
and to have a baptist church in so bible believers baptist church we
stand in the gap between the city of yakima
the nation of yakima so there's another nation
called the yakima nation with uh native americans or
indians and we're at the doorstep of other communities like sila moxie
sunny side zilla you know um what what are some other areas anybody know
wapato well yeah it's on the reservation but i'm just talking about
other ones that we haven't hit yet necessarily
because i i just look at maps i'm just like wow we haven't we haven't
been there there's a lot of places that we can
reach but you know we only have so many people right now so we kind of
have to go at a pace right there's i looked to
see what the metro area is the population of the yakima
metro area and it said 256 728 people i'm pretty sure we haven't knocked all
those doors yet so we still have a lot of work to
do it's bigger than most people think
i mean that's a pretty good sized area 256 728 people
but number one this morning we need a man to lead the charge to set the
captives free well at some point we need a pastor
that's going to be full-time able to be here someone that's actually
qualified and ordained to lead here in this area let's turn over to second
timothy chapter 2 verse 24 because when i took over the
church as the pastor i'm pastoring from afar so
it's it's been a little bit of a challenge
because it can't be here all the time and really what this church needs
is a man that's going to be here and that can that can actually lead
and be the pastor here someday that's the goal my goal is not to just
collect churches and just keep you know keep them like
pokemon or something where i can i choose you
yakima i choose you you know that's not my goal that's not what i
want i don't want to just be able to say oh i got all these churches you
know i actually want them to have pastors
and and and so look at second timothy chapter 2 verse 24 it says
and the servant of the lord must not strive but be gentle
unto all men apt to teach patient and you're like well new fb pastors aren't
like that well this is talking about soul winning
right here this is not talking about when you have to thunder down and rip
face on people this is talking about when we're out
soul winning we we do need to be and we're all servants of the lord
obviously this is talking about it's talking to timothy but
everybody is called to be a servant of the lord it's not just pastors
it's not just evangelists it's not just deacons but it says
we must not strive but be gentle unto all men
apt to teach and patient in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves
if god peradventure or perhaps will give them repentance
to the acknowledging of the truth and that's not repentance of sins
that is repentance unto the acknowledging of the truth they don't
understand the truth now they believe the truth that's what
the man of god needs to lead the congregation into
doing now right now you guys are already doing that
on a good scale but eventually there needs to be a man
that's going to lead this charge here
and one day god willing we'll have that
there's no guarantees though there really isn't
so we just have to do the best we can until we have a man that's
qualified to be here to be here on a permanent basis
it says in verse 26 and that we they may
recover themselves out of the snare of the devil
who are taken captive by him at his will
there's a lot of people you know anybody that's unsaved
is ensnared by the devil and taken captive by him at his will there's
nothing that they can do to get out of it
except for get saved and so the whole world is taken
captive by him there's some kind of system that
they're caught up in there's some kind of religion that they're caught up
in there's some kind of thing that they're doing besides serving and
worshiping the lord and we have to wake them up we have to
help them the only way they can get out of that
prison is that jesus gets them out of prison
we wake them up with the gospel and jesus lets them and sets them free
when it says that jesus sets them free it's not like he has to go down
to abraham's bosom and you know in in hell the the good
hell or whatever like people try to preach
that's not true we you know when when he jesus was setting captives free
he's he's he's saving demon possessed people
he's saving people that have these ailments
and he's setting them free from the snare of the devil
so the devil can take people captive at his will
so we need to be able to lead that charge
and set these captives free turn to second carinthians chapter 4
verse 3 second carinthians chapter 4 verse 3
in order to stand in the gap our church has to continue to
reach those people that we're trying to protect because if we stop reaching
people if we stop going so in which look
lots of church churches do that and in reality a lot of
churches don't make it past the first generation
of their greatness i mean jack hyles made first baptist church great
and i'm not saying it's not still a good church but it's not what it once
was you know jack scott took over and
ruined it and then you know it's being pastored by pastor
wilkerson now and he's definitely doing a better job than
jack scott but things are not the same as they were
when it was at zenith so you know we need to
you know while we're in this generation not forget that people
out there are captured they are taken captive
they're ensnared they're trapped in whatever religion they're in they're
trapped in whatever sin they're in and we need to wake them up look at
second carinthians 4 3 it says but if our gospel be hid it
is hid to them that are lost if we don't preach the gospel
people aren't going to get saved that's what it's saying you're hiding
it from somebody someone at work you know that they would get saved but you
just don't tell them you need to tell them not not while
you're working but you know find a time when you can you know talk
to them when it's break time or you're driving
somewhere or just when you get a chance to get
them saved or you know your family members or
whatever whoever it is you know we don't want to hide the
gospel we want to put it on a candlestick
a city on the hill cannot be hid you're going to see that city you're
going to see it light up and people are going to know you're a
christian you can't hide it from people they're just going to know why do you
have so many kids you know you've been married for 23
years like what are you catholic or something or you know what
what are you a mormon you know they're no i'm christian that's what i am
and you know let the people let the redeemed of the lord say so
if someone asks you are a christian don't be ashamed of that
the bible so it says in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds
of them which believe not see we shouldn't get mad at
people necessarily that are sinful yeah we should still preach against
it we should still hate sin but when someone's unsaved how are you
going to hold them accountable necessarily for things that they're not
awake woke awake about you know i'm not saying
be woke i'm just saying awoken awakened to the gospel
you know we can't hold family members to the same standards we hold ourselves
to because they're not saved you know we can we can choose not to
be around them because you don't want to you know
partake in their sins and their evil deeds but at the same time
we can't expect them to not be you know to not partake in the things they
do because their minds are blinded they're ensnared
they're captive to the devil it says lest the light of the glorious
gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine
unto them see we have to wake them up we have to shine the light on them
what's the light jesus is the light and we are the mirrors that have to
reflect that light onto people and so look at verse five it says
for we preach not ourselves but christ jesus the lord
and ourselves your servants for jesus sake
see it's not about us we're not preaching ourselves
people are like well give your testimony to people it's like
i mean in some instances that's fine but
your testimony is not getting anybody saved
it's jesus's testimony that's getting people saved what did jesus do for you
this is what jesus did for you this is where you're going
this is where you're going to go unless you accept what jesus did for
you and so there's a lot of problems in
this area with gangs and drugs and poverty
dog worship
i mean good night my my wife took out a tape i
i charged up a taser i brought it from home and she almost didn't take it out
with her yesterday she was like kind of worried because it didn't have the
case those cases are kind of cheap and
they break uh the little belt loop things
so i didn't have it in a case and she was just worried that it was going
to flip up and shock her somehow i don't know
but i was like you better just take it so she's on
some road at the end of the road some
shaggy dog starts running after her it's got a little posse with it but
it's the only dog that came out and the dog's trying to attack her
and miss michelle and so she pulled out the taser and
you know made the sound and the dog ran off
but there's there's more dogs here i think than people
i mean literally i think that there is but i could be wrong about that but
it's like almost every person has dogs and they have signs beware of dogs
dogs will bite i mean we had a pit bull yapping at us
yesterday when we're just trying to talk to this guy and they are the number
one deterrent to soul winning especially in this town i mean it's in
yakima and on the rez for sure like they just let their dogs run free
on the rez so it's just like wow we got animal worship going on we got
faggotry going on we got idolatry going on we got
hoard them going on we got theft going on you know we had some
for the third time in this year we had our bank account our business bank
account hacked and and and that's what i was
taking care of yesterday before you know
after soul winning so just really annoying stuff
and you know people bearing false witness fornication adultery these are
problems that are in this area and i'm sure
there's many more that i didn't get to but
there's spiritual oppression in this area i mean the catholic church came into
this area and they come and they abuse their
their power and they destroy the native culture you know and and some
of the native culture needs to be destroyed
you know i like what brother paul said he said he knocks on doors
sometimes and their native natives answer the door
and they say why are you following the white man's religion and he's like
you know i'm not following a white man's religion i'm just following the one
true god right isn't that what you say and he says i'm not going to follow my
ancestors into hell like you are because you know god you know i i don't
think jesus was white it's not a big shocker
he lived in the middle east i'm sure he was pretty dark
so for when people say he's the white man's god you know that's just a weird
thing to say but that's the brainwashing that
goes on because you have the peyote religion which is
only it's not even that old the pay the peyote religion that people
that the natives practice is not even old peyote doesn't even grow here
peyote grows in mexico peyote was started by
you know this this white dude and then this Comanche chief who was half
white and uh quanta parker
he's the one that was that was uh the main one that pushed it
so all these sweat lodges where you know they're giving children peyote
for religious purposes that's like that's their communion am i lying about
that communion is their peyote and they
go to these sweat lodges and then they let these kids have
these visions or whatever yeah you know what's going to happen it's going
to destroy their minds it's going to make them see things
some kind of weird stuff and you know people die in those in those sweat
lodges sometimes they get all dehydrated and don't know
where they're at and you know they're on heavy hallucinogenic
it's masculine it's what it is and it doesn't grow here
you have to go and get it from other places you have to have it grown
specially to have these ceremonies but that spread like wildfire and it
was like the 1880s or 1890s or something
it isn't that old of a religion now if you want to talk about all the
totem poles and all that kind of stuff
that probably was but look you keep the great parts about culture
this is what i believe whatever culture you have
fine that's great but if it's culture that's heathen
then don't keep it get rid of that culture you know if it's sacrificing
human beings you got to get rid of that part of
the culture if you're putting babies into a fire
and offering them to molluck that's a part of the culture you need to get
rid of we need to get rid of abortion you
know donald trump's not not hard enough on it his doesn't want to
you know lose everybody or whatever he probably doesn't even believe
in in in not you know he doesn't believe
he was pro-choice before he ran for president
there's interviews where maybe he changed i mean people do change
but we got to get rid of this heathen culture
that's just allowing the the carte blanche of killing and murdering
children and the supreme court ruling that it's
okay to just have this abortion pill that
people can just take and just be guilt-free well you know what you're not
guilt-free it's premeditated murder you're
planning on just murdering your child it's premeditated murder
so we need to someone we need people that are going to stand in the
gap and change people's minds wake them up wake them up with the
gospel and allow them to to pared venture have
repentance that they would change from non-belief or whatever wicked
religion they're a part of and to wake up and become a true
christian that believes what the bible says we got roman
catholics here the roman catholic whore you know we
got two catholic boys saved yesterday praise god
her the mom actually we asked for permission we just said is it okay and
she's like yeah they got saved praise god
there's pentecostal madness going on in this place there's jehovah's false
witnesses there's latter-day satans you know we got to fight against all
these false problems this is what ezekiel's talking about
and then not only that then we have the government that's wicked
and what's our you're like pastor what's the ultimate goal for this
church turn to acts chapter 5 verse 42 while
you're turning there i'm going to read for you second
timothy chapter 4 verse 5 second timothy chapter 4 verse 5 says
but watch now in all things endure afflictions
do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry
what's an evangelist do an evangelist evangelizes
they preach the gospel so timothy's job was to
to watch unto all things and endure afflictions do the work of an
evangelist because you know what if we're doing the work of an
evangelist we are going to endure afflictions
all that live godly in christ jesus shall suffer
persecution it's it's it's not going to happen every time but it's going to
happen sometimes and so you're in acts 5 42 it says
and daily in the temple and in every house they cease not to
teach and preach jesus christ so what's the
goal pastor thompson well it's a daily thing and we you know
people are like well we just want to be
like the church at acts you know they did everything daily
we're we're just asking for three days a week and some people can't even
do that so daily in the temple and in every
house they cease not to teach preach jesus christ
you know the goal is to have so many going on seven days a week and i'm not
saying you have to do that i'm not saying that we even have to
have church seven days a week but we should try our best to to get
to as much soul as we can and go to
church as much as we can with all of our mind so that fire in
moxie the other night i got that that alert on my phone that said run
for the hills and grab your dogs or whatever
that really brings it home though when you have fires burning around you
we've been here when the whole area was just completely engulfed in smoke
and went so many in it like crazy people that we are
you know everybody's like what are you doing out here why do you have
your kids out in the smoke it's like
we're we're here i mean we might as well preach the gospel it
wasn't that hot you know well it made it was supposed to be
like in the 90s that week but you know um but when you see
places in danger it reminds you of hellfire doesn't it
because god said that the the fire of his
wrath is going to burn against these people for the
the things that he said in this chapter it's like the fire of god's
wrath is going to burn and then when you see
fires burning all over in the west coast states
washington oregon california the left coast the liberal left coast
you wonder like why is that happening so much well god's
not very happy god's angry with the people of this land
and that's why it's so important that we have people to stand
in the union gap number two we also need a man
to fight the lord's battles to be a strong leader
and a congregation that will back him up let's look at numbers chapter 16
numbers chapter number 16
numbers chapter 16 the bible says
now just to give you a little background here this is when
cora rebelled against moses and he has already fallen and all that
pertaineth unto him into hell kicking and screaming alive
into the pit okay so he has fallen into the pit
because he wanted to have a vote and see if all the
people are holy and all the people are going to be the
priest and you know they were given a specific task because these people
are related to moses and they want to be the priest the
priest you know they don't think that's just moses's job
to be the leader they want to be co-leaders or whatever with moses
and god is the one that specifically appointed moses to be the leader
and aaron to be the high priest and they're
they're just trying to cause a rebellion they are
typical false prophets that have crept in and they're trying to
cause an uprising against moses and sometimes when these types of things
happen you have people that are good people
they get dragged out with them and what we have to understand at this
church is the battles are going to come
and sometimes it's going to be like well this kind of like why is pastor
being like this or why is pastor angry at this person or why is pastor throwing
this person out i thought they were pretty cool why is
you know why is pastor fighting with these people and some you know sometimes
the battle comes and you know you have to pick who god
picked you can't just you know and obviously
you got to take everything as it comes but like these people here
that they know that god picked moses but yet they're still choosing the
wrong side look what it says in verse 41
but on the morrow all the congregation of the children of israel
murmured against moses and against aaron saying
you have killed the people of the lord
so they're complaining they're whining
and saying that moses and aaron killed the people of the lord who killed
them the lord killed them
moses didn't kill him he just said hey if these guys
die a common death then you know god didn't call me he's like this is
basically saying who's the one that's qualified who's
the one that's leading this congregation
let god you know be the one that answers and then hell opens up and
they all drop in they're like you guys killed the people of the lord
the congregation wasn't on their side it's like
what are you guys talking about what are you doing you saw what god did
you saw who god picked and then it says ye have killed the people of the
lord they're out of their minds it says that
it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against moses and against
aaron that they looked toward the
tabernacle of the congregation and behold the cloud covered it and the
glory of the lord appeared and moses and aaron came before the
tabernacle of the congregation the lord spake unto moses saying
get you up from among this congregation that i may consume them
as in a moment and they fell on their faces so who's
whose side is god on here is it all the people that are voting against
moses and aaron no it's moses and aaron whose side
he's on he's sticking with the leadership on this
because he already killed a bunch of people because they were trying to
cause a big problem in the church in the congregation and now he's going to
tell him he's like i'm going to just kill everybody
how about that so this is a good thing for people in church to
understand is that you know sometimes the battles are
going to come and you're like i don't know whose side i'm on
you better get on the leadership side as long as they're right
as long as they're right and it says and moses said to aaron take a sensor
and put fire there in from off the altar
and put on incense and go quickly under the congregation
and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the lord
the plague has begun and see here's another good thing about moses
even though they're going against them even though they want to overthrow them
moses still loves the people and still is praying for them and hoping that
you know god will turn back his wrath against them and you know
a lot of times people like leave over things that have happened
controversies and things like that but you know what i'll still give
people chances and still try to convince people of what the truth of
the matter is and sometimes they just leave anyway
and it's just like whatever but you know you should try to choose the
right side you know what side is right well the side that god's on
that's the side it says and aaron took as moses commanded and ran to the
midst of the congregation and behold the plague was begun among the people
and he put on incense and made an atonement for the people and he stood
between the dead and the living and the plague was stayed so what did he
do he stood in the gap he went in the
midst of the congregation and he stood between the dead and the living and
the plague was stayed see this is what the man of god that's
why it's so important you have a man of god
leading in an area it can't just be a congregationally led
church that's like why i got rid of voting
in this church and that's why people left
because they just want to vote every they want to vote on the toilet paper
they want to vote on the carpet color people want to vote on whether
we're going to take the missionaries off the wall that they haven't been
supporting for 20 years or something it's like why do you have them up is
this some kind of a shrine or something like what's the point if you're if
they're if you're not even i mean they're from the 50s or something
it's like they're still up from the 19 you know 19 they still got their
cart their mission cart from the 1960s or something it's like
they're probably not even alive anymore like what what's the deal here
it's like sometimes things have to change
and so the first thing i said as a pastor here
is that we're we're voting's over with and that
the bunch of people left because of that well what do you mean voting's over
so they pulled they tried to pull the cora on me immediately
and a bunch of people left this church as soon as i became the pastor i
wasn't really expecting that i honestly wasn't i was expecting some
to leave but some people i was expecting to
stay that didn't stay and it was like okay well i guess this
is how it's going to go but you can't put new wine into old
wineskins sometimes you know that's just the way it is so
they they want change but they want it to be on their terms
and this is what people try to do to pastors in all these different
churches that's why pastors just hop from church to church
and it's like well i was called you know he's the pastor's get up and
like i'm called to this church it's like
yeah you're called to a bigger paycheck and you're called to get away from all
these people that are painting the neck to you
but if a man is god of a man the man of god just got up and said hey
this is the way it's going to be voting's over
and just they get a strong leader like moses and aaron
hey they still love the people they still stood in the gap between
the dead and the living but they didn't just bow down to everything that
the people wanted because if that's how it's going to go
then the rock and roll music is going to come the drum set's going to come
the plexiglass pulpit with the bottle of scotch
on the on the bar stool and and the you know the smoke and the purple
lights all that stuff's going to come if everybody's just voting on what's
going to happen then nobody's really in charge are
they it's the majority vote this isn't you know fourth of
july baptist church it might have been named on the
fourth of july union gap but we're not we're not naming it because of a
democracy the bible doesn't teach a democracy it
never teaches voting moses said this is how it's going to
be and that's what happened based upon what god's word said
god told moses to do stuff and most said hey the word of the lord said
this let's go do this when he said to joshua hey go here go
there give this land to this people that's what happened so it says in
verse 49 now they that died of the plague
were 14 700 beside them that died about the matter
of quora and aaron returned unto moses under the
door of the tabernacle the congregation the plague
was stayed so they stood in in for the people and it says that a
bunch of people died and so obviously we don't have
millions of people to go to this church
but if you're going to be on the wrong side of things
you're going to listen to what wicked people say because this is
this kind of has happened twice here when brother rick
who was pastor messler you know was here
this big ruck when i insurrection happened
where people are trying to overthrow him as the pastor and i came and helped
him and you know they were in the wrong
they did like a quora style rebellion they like called all the people that
have been on the rolls for years that hadn't even showed up to church
they they did like a they literally did a fake
a fake uh restraining order keeping brother rick away from the
building and from the people and did a fake servite serving on him
or they there was no stamp by the judge but
they tried to they said you've been served and handed them to him and
certain served him fake papers and so he didn't think he was supposed to
be here so i came to hold service here
then all these people started showing up that didn't even go to the church
and they were just on the rolls as like church members to come and vote
him out of being the pastor i just kicked
them all out they came to the door smiling they're
like oh hey how's it going i was like get out
bye because i was i was given permission to stand in place of him
that night and i'm not going to let these
freaks come in here and try to overthrow the church are you kidding me
but then a couple people a couple these couple ladies came in
and they're like talking and saying things to me while i'm preaching
i said it's a shame for women to speak in the church
and you know i shut down walker and texas ranger
one of them had a walker and the other one had like a texas ranger
outfit on so anyway i just called him walker and
texas ranger so but this you know that's that was
three years before i even took over as the pastor
and people are just like oh you're just trying to take over the church and
steal all their money and all this other stuff it's like
i don't care about your money i don't care
yeah i'm just just trying to steal the money i don't care about money
i never have if i cared about money i wouldn't be doing this
i would just have kept my golden ticket and continued
serving my 30 years and retired with a great pension that's what i would
have done so anyway but uh
yeah i mean i fought that insurrection off and then
found out that the paperwork was bogus i just looked at it i was like
where's the judge's stamp on here i mean that's how wicked people are
like to where they'll literally that walker walker and texas ranger actually
are the ones that tried to serve brother rick those papers they did
serve it to him and he just he was just so upset he just didn't
really think it through or something but he thought that they were legit i
was just like i don't think these are legit man
i called him right after the service i was like there's no stamp of a judge
on here i was like they're just messing with
they could that's i'm pretty sure that's a felony
it's a felony i mean they're committing felonious acts
to try to take over the church calling people that hadn't gone here in years
and then trying to come in for some mega vote
no no not on my watch it's not going to happen
i'm not going to let him get steamrolled like that
so then when i come over and and i'm appointed as the pastor
by pastor messler at the time and then
i have this other uprising happens so where
you know we got you know people who are actually family members of church
members that go here you know but what was jeff aerobate and
jerry who i thought was good jerry is bad jerry he's a pedophile
come to find out i was like why am i having so much opposition from this guy
and then we find out that the guys are registered sex offenders for doing
stuff to children under 12 years old i mean
reprobate like a real reprobate and they're going around talking to people in
our church and going to their workplace and trying to tell them not to come to
our church and not to come back and it's just like and they succeeded
in a lot of ways but this is you know just compare
that to this that they died in the plague
people died in the plague why did they die in the plague because they
they got caught up in believing the lies
they got caught up in loving court the chorus
of the congregation instead of supporting and backing up the man of god like
they should be and a lot of the you know some of these
guys that died they were like filing lawsuits against pastor messler
and all this other stuff and you know those some of those people drop
dead literally drop dead some of them i think multiple people of
them have died so it's just a warning
that you know the man of god is the one here
that is in charge and you should be following him and not and it's not a
democracy korra so you come in here and you think
you're just going to mess things up well you're wrong you're going to get
met with opposition by strong leadership
those people that let you know i thought we're going to start off with
like 30 35 people right off the bat
and then like a whole bunch of people left it's just like okay that's crazy
and then our church members get start getting persecuted by their own family
members that were coming here i mean but it's just been kind of wild
i'm not going to lie there's times when i thought this church might not
make it but here we are still alive and kicking
that was just a lack of faith on my part though i was just a little worried
a couple times but it's all good turn to second timothy
chapter four one
the bible charges us as pastors the bible charges us to do certain
things and one of the things that the bible charges us to do
is to preach the bible okay and so you know if you're going to have a
man of god here that's going to take over as a pastor someday
they need to be someone that's going to preach the bible a lot of churches
they'll their pastor will get old or they'll retire or they'll pass on
and then the church will just bring some clown in
that doesn't even use the king james anymore
they're calvinist leaning or whatever it's like how could you hire somebody
to take over your church that's a cow that's
leaning calvinist in any way whatsoever that should be just like if
you're a baptist and someone says they're leaning calvinist
that should be just an automatic exclusion from anybody being a pastor
that has a calvinist leaning bye go play with your your friends in
your in your doctrinal books okay because they're not going to preach
hard they're going to exegete the scriptures
to the deadly death they're going to talk they're going to
talk about and what does and mean wait and they're
just going to just pick apart every single sentence
you're going to get romans one done in like 10 years
they're going to go back to the greek and try to pronounce everything wrong
and they're going to miss the spiritual application of the scriptures
look at first tim second timothy four one the bible says
i charge thee before god and the lord jesus christ
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing
and his kingdom preach the word be instant in season out of season
when it's popular when it's not popular reprove
rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine that's what the charge is
to timothy that's the charge to any pastor
get up preach the bible the word is the bible
not your own words the bible be instant get be ready to preach
and whether it's popular or not you know we rip on the homos all the time
because they need to be ripped on because nobody else is doing it
it's out of season anything that we basically the whole bible is out of
season now you're fortunate if you go to a church
where people are going to preach the bible at all
you're getting ted talks you're getting
inspirational sermons you're getting joel osteen
as a baptist preacher that's what you're getting
you're getting a feel-good sermon you're getting a couple poems
and one bible verse or two in the whole sermon
that's not how that's not preaching the bible
and you know just in case you didn't realize reproving is telling someone
they're wrong so like if your toes get stepped on
in a sermon in this church it's like that's what that's what the
bible says we're supposed to do we're not pinning you down we're not
going like who can i preach against this week
ryan he didn't put sunblock on yesterday
he's not taking care of his temple i saw him eat mcdonald's yesterday
i'm gonna rip on him i know jason ain't mcdonald's because he admitted it
and i'm emailing pastor anderson and telling him
that's that's not the but at some point
so if you're if you're preaching the whole bible which we're supposed to do
something in there is going to offend you and don't let it offend you
because the bible says great peace have they that which love thy law and
nothing shall offend you if you we're supposed to have thick skin
like the honey badger right we're supposed to have thick skin and
be able to deal with it and sometimes
the word of god stings it hurts and we're like oh man i
really don't like that it makes me feel uncomfortable
well you know the bible is probably just helping you to change
the bible says that the word of god is quick it means it's alive
it's powerful it's sharper than any two-edged sword
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit
and of the joints and marrow and it's a discerner of the thoughts
and intense and intent of the heart so it's alive it can figure you out it
knows what you're thinking and it's going to attack your heart
and tell you you're doing something wrong
you need to fix something so reprove telling you you're wrong
rebuke telling you're wrong in a really loud and bombastic way or just
you know in a real matter of fact way or exhort
with all long suffering and doctrine so we're supposed to teach doctrine
we're supposed to be long suffering to people sometimes people just don't get
things the first time you know we'll rip on certain things
like men not having long hair or women not wearing pants or whatever
and people get all offended about it's just like well look it's just what
the bible teaches and i'll be long suffering about it
but sometimes we rip about it it's just the way it is
but exhortation is encouraging somebody to go out and do something so that's why
we preach about soul winning and doing works and being at church and things
like that so and and why do we need to do that
well it says for the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine and folks we're living in that time
they won't endure anything they can't people cannot handle the bible
they can't handle the bible about anything even divorce and remarriage
they get all upset about divorce and remarriage it's like but what about
this hey what about that it's just like dude just because you you didn't
know at the time just deal with the fact that you did
something wrong and and then just move on with your life apologize to god
for what you did and move on with your life but don't
blame the preacher the preacher's supposed to offend you to
a certain extent they're supposed to rebuke the sin
that happens you know cry aloud spare not
lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people
their sins that's what he was he told isaiah to say
you think that the people in the old testament you think that i'm pretty i
preach hard sometimes ezekiel has some pretty hairy
eyeball sermons they're they offend me kind of like
dang
he's like says whore and hoard them like multiple times i think it's a
chapter 16 this is a super long chapter he's like
whore boredom whores harlot harlots whores like
hey god told him to preach it you know don't get mad at don't get mad at
ezekiel either it's god's word he put he made sure
it was in the bible for us
so it says for the time will come well they will not endorse sound
doctrine but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers
having itching ears hey people nowadays just want to have
their little ears tickled oh thank you for the ted talks pastor
it was so great so it's like you should go out
sometimes feeling like garbage because you got your sins ripped on
don't take it out on the pastor don't take it on your fellow church
members don't leave and say i'm never coming back because you offended me
don't get offended just fix it just get right with god
like well i don't agree with that well then you don't agree with god
you're just i mean because if the bible says that you should just believe
it and if you didn't believe it before
believe it now that you heard it because that's you know faith cometh by
hearing and hearing by the word of god
it's not just faith to believe the you know saving faith it is that
but what about just hearing the word of god preaching like oh
i didn't know that before now i know now i believe it
it says that they shall turn their ears away from the truth
and shall be turned onto fables and that's where we're at today folks
they're just they don't believe the truth people don't believe the truth
they don't understand the truth they don't even have salvation right
they read out these modern bible perversions
that don't even have the right gospel in there
i mean there are bible versions that say repent of your sins in them
so when we say there's no the bible doesn't say repent of your sins it's
like well this one goes that's because some devil was on
their translation committee that's because some faggot was on their
translation committee and that's why it says you know
temple prostitutes instead of homosexuals or sodomites
that's why it's like what is a temple prostitute
like what temple but what temple was there in israel
besides the temple was there i mean i i guess there was maybe
the bail temples or whatever but i don't know they just want to make it
where homos aren't homos they just want to make it where oh
they're it's just talking about prop male prostitutes no
it's talking about queers all right sodomite
is exactly what they were in genesis chapter 19 and judges chapter 19
all right last point here let's move on to
number three while there's a gap of a present pastor we need
a present congregation we need a present
congregation turn to hebrews chapter 10 verse 24
i'm going to read first corinthians 14 40 first corinthians 14 40 says
let all things be done decently and in order and so everything that we
do here at this church should be with a purpose
it should be with a plan and if you don't have something that you're
currently doing here then all you have to do is ask and i'll
give you something to do just wherever things are lacking just
pitching and help i mean that's uh that's kind of what we need
right now our church is pretty small right now
and you know but in reality our church could be
and should be a lot bigger than it is hebrews chapter 10 verse 24
says and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works
well how do we do that well it says not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together so what is forsaking the assembling of
yourselves together not coming to church
assembly means you all meet together as the manner of some is there's some
people whose manner is not to come to church and whatever
excuse there is for the day that's the excuse they use
it says but exhorting one another that means encouraging one another right
and so much the more as you see the day approaching what day is it
talking about well the day that christ comes back for us
so the the closer we get tomorrow's gonna be closer than today
so every day is going to be a closer day and so
do we go to church more or less more
but because the times that we live in
it makes it easier for people to miss church
you know and you're like well i have to work i have to do this i
understand that but you know maybe find a job
where you don't have to work on sundays and you can get wednesday nights off
and it's like and i'll just say this anytime i've ever had a job
where i had to work on a day that there was church i always just
like prayed to god that he would give me a schedule that was favorable so
i could go to church because there are times that i have
taken a job like i was just saying i forgot who i was saying this to but i
had to work friday saturday and sunday nights and it
was 12 hour shifts and they'd always make me stay 13 hours
so it's five at night to basically six in the morning
6 30 in the morning then i'd have to go to sunday school
and i was just like i was that's when i was in old ifb a long time ago but
i mean i would be sleeping for a few hours and i was like zombie
zombie in the services so like i wasn't really getting much out of it
but i was still just trying to go and just be there
i mean most people wouldn't even do that like oh i worked all night
i'm not i'm not trying to toot my own horn i'm not saying i did i did it
perfect every time but i did do it and god just gave me the desire of my
heart look he knows what you really want
so if you really want to go to church he's going to make that happen for you
and there is a law in this country where they cannot discriminate against
you for your sincerely religious held beliefs
so if you say i'm a devout christian and i go to church on sunday
and they say well sorry i'm not going to give that day to you
then it is like it's a federal law i mean they they can't just tell you
that you can't like they're giving somebody else that
doesn't go to church sunday off they're not giving it to you like
that's not a that's not a so they can't say well if it's not a if it's a
harming the business or something that they don't have to give it to you but
they'd have to be able to prove that so if you say well hey i got to be at
church at six o'clock on wednesdays and i got i have all day church
sunday's just not optional for me then they they do have to do that and
you can you can file something you know you don't want to have to do
that but just say hey you put me on the schedule all you want but i'm not
going to be there so i mean that's that's an option
but i mean there's a great need for people to be
present at all the services when we have a small church
why pastor why is it so important well because when we have everybody here
at the same time it's a pretty decent sized church
and we have a lot of out-of-town guests today
but
when we have you know someone comes in that's a first time or a
first-time visitor and they come in on a wednesday night and there's seven
people here that makes it kind of tough you know
and sometimes you know if there's five six seven people here
there's no usher there's no piano player there's no professional song
service nobody knows who's taking up the
offering nobody's ready to read the announcements
nobody's ready to read the bible then guess what people probably won't come
back and even if the preaching's good which
it is you know man does not look at the
out man man does look on the outward
appearance but god looks on the heart this is a great church but man still
does look at the outward appearance so they're going to look at how are
the grounds kept up is the is the grass cut
is the how is the church painted is it clean
you know how do how do the services run
and if there's not enough people to run the services then it makes it really
hard it makes it hard on the people that are here
it makes it hard on the people that you know because like if if brother
rick's preaching on wednesday night and nobody else is here that can lead
songs and and nobody's here that can do all the other stuff that needs to be
done then it's just kind of hard i mean nobody wants to do all that
stuff and have to be the one person that does it i'm not saying that's what
happens all the time i'm just saying that that's why it's important for
people to be here to be in the positions that you do
because and i'm look if you're sick i'm not talking about that
i'm not saying be here if you're you know i mean brother rick's not here
today because he's his health is bad and so that's why we need men to be
able to stand in the gap for in the in the congregation and
just help out when brother rick can't be here or you
know he retired for a reason he retired because you know his health
wasn't good enough to be preaching three times a week
and all that so and now he's kind of just out
and you know we need guys to step up and be here so it's important that we
have a present congregation so be here be involved
help out if you're here others will want to be here
if you care then they'll care right yeah
so is that always right that people judge us by how we run our
services i mean not necessarily but
if they think if if they think it's important to you
then or if they think it's not important to you excuse me
if they think it's not important to you then why would it be important to
them to be here they come here and they're like they
know there's more people that come to this church and they're just not here
for some reason like why would it be
important for them to come back you know what i mean yeah so it should be
important to you to be here first corinthians 4 2 says moreover is
required in stewards that a man be found faithful
what does faithful mean well that you're just you do
what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it you take care
of the tasks that are your responsibility be faithful to church
be faithful to your duties be faithful to your preaching times
be faithful to your cleaning times whenever that is you know be faithful in
song learning be faithful in ushering be faithful in counting be faithful in
bible reading and you know if you're gonna if
you're supposed to be preaching on the calendar
guys you can't just lay something in someone's lap at the last second
you know if you're deathly ill or something i understand but you can't
just like say well yeah i'm gonna preach and then like
three hours you know nine o'clock at night you go hey i can't preach
it's like that's you're laying something pretty heavy on someone that
especially when we don't have a lot of
experienced guys here to preach they're getting a lot more experience
you guys are doing great but uh we need people to be faithful
ecclesiastes 9 10 says whatsoever thy hand find it to do
do it with thy might so if you have a task to do
do the best job that you can do it with all your might
okay uh collagens 3 23 go ahead and turn to collagens 3 23 we're almost
done here guys collagens 3 23
the bible says and whatsoever you do do it heartily as to the lord and not
unto men don't think you're i mean you you might think you're doing things
for me but who are you really doing things for
you're not doing things for your brothers and sisters in christ necessarily
you might be but in reality who are we doing the things that we do for
we're doing them for the lord not unto men
knowing that of the lord you shall receive the reward
of the inheritance for you serve the lord christ
the song services we should try to run them as professional as possible
the announcements read clearly and concise
the bible reading practice reading the bible reading out loud
the preaching do it on a regular basis and find ways to improve
the usher program go over your duties and be as professional as possible
the soul winning make sure that you're tabbing your bibles and asking
the questions and covering all the main points
you gotta ask questions folks you do you can't just you know look and i've
said this before and i'll say it again
when you're out soul winning people can understand all the points
who all went to school in here pretty much everybody i think nobody
was raised in you know the the hills of you know the south
or something
barefoot with a banjo right
so everybody went to school did you who took a test
who's ever taken a test before okay has there ever been a test where you
disagree with the the what the what they're asking you
you don't agree with the question on the test
but you still know the answer that the teacher wants
we all we've all done that like i don't i don't agree but i'll write it
anyway right we've all done that but that's how
soul winning is too you can get someone to understand they
know what the points are they know what you're wanting but do
they believe it that's you have to ask that i mean
it's so important that you ask that question
and you just say and it might seem weird for you to even ask it
but i'm telling you like when you ask them
what do you believe they're going to tell you what they really believe
oh it's you know because they'll give you all the right answers oh you just
got to believe you know this eternal life yeah it's a
gift and then you're like well what do
you believe you're like oh you just gotta
be baptized have good works and believe in jesus like
it seems weird but out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speak is so ask the questions cover the you got to
cover the points they're sinner you know they deserve hell
salvation is by faith it's eternal security of the believer
it's a gift call upon the name of the lord
follow up invite people to church and get back get them baptized get them a
bible text them offer to pick them up make an effort to get your converts
into church cleaning the church in the in the
property let's do our best to make sure the property
and inside is the best it can be and
look the best it can be let's turn to first kings chapter 10
first kings chapter 10
i mean basically what i'm saying is that we need to have a big church
mentality i've taught this before and we have to
you know we might be a small church now but our mentality needs to be that
someday this church is going to be big
and so we have to run it like it's already a big church
so that when people come in there it's like oh wow this is a well-oiled
machine it's already it's already running like a big like
a big time church and then and then when they come in it'll feel
that way to them too and then it'll get big first kings 10
1 says and when the queen of sheba heard
of the famous solomon concerning the name of the lord she came and proved
him with hard questions and she came to jerusalem with a very great train
with candles and then bare spices and very much gold and precious stones and
when he was come to solomon or she was
come to solomon she communed with him all that was in her heart so she came to
prove him with hard questions you know people are going to come
to our church and some people have questions they just come to church like
well i got questions or you know i want to see you know what
is this church actually like and they come and they
and they want their questions answered and maybe they get their questions
answered in a sermon or maybe they want to talk after church and
you know so we should have some wisdom in what we believe here
but it says and solomon told her all her questions
and there was not anything hid from the king which he told her not
and when the queen of sheba had seen all of solomon's wisdom and the house
that he built and the meat of his table and the
sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers
and their apparel and his cupbearers and the ascent by which he came
went up to the house of the lord there was no more spirit in her
so that's a that's a pretty cool list of things there but
he saw the wisdom or she saw the wisdom the meat the food i mean you
you know amen we should have some good food as baptists right
but their apparel does their clothes matter
when people come in they're going to notice what what are we dressed like
you know what were the attendance of the ministers how are the ushers the
ushers are ministers you know the people that are here are
ministers so how how are we attending to people
how are we dressed his cupbearers the ascent by which he came up to the
house lord there was no more spirit in her so she saw
what she saw the outward things the things that
seem don't really matter to us as much but they do matter to people
that are seeking they matter to people that have questions
she said to the king it was a true report that i heard
in my own land of the acts of thy wisdom howbeit i believed not the words
until i came and my eyes had seen it and behold the
half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the
fame which i heard happy are thy men happy are these thy
servants which stand continually before thee
and hear thy wisdom blessed be the lord thy god
which delighted in thee to set thee on the throne of israel because the lord
loved israel forever therefore made he the king to do
judgment and justice so what she ultimately ultimately saw is
that the church the the place was run great
everything aesthetically looked good she was very impressed with all that
she was impressed with the wisdom of solomon so
you know when people come to their church they should be impressed with
our wisdom of knowing the bible they should be impressed with how the
building looks and and everything like that
excuse me how we're dressed and all that
and then also how happy are we i mean do you guys mope around here or
are you actually happy when people come and shaking their hand and smiling
and you know we're the people of the lord we should be happy
we should be joyous we should have smiles on our face and be excited about
the things of god people are getting saved here the
word of god's being preached and sometimes you know church could
just be like oh it's just kind of you know it's just church
you know but if you were going to an old live b church you'd be in agony
and torture right now if you're going to a non-denominational
church you'd be in agony and torture be like
man i wish i could get back to that church
but sometimes we just get we get comfortable we get lulled back into
because like it's like just with anything you know hard preaching can become
just like any old other kind of preaching
you know it just seems you know you can get the same glazed look over your
face you can get the same this kind of
thing while you're listening to sermons we don't want to
be those kind of people let's be happy let's be joyous have a
big church mentality isaiah 54 2 says enlarge the place
of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtain of thy habitation
spare not lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes
we should always have the mentality that we're going to grow
and get bigger and have that big church
mentality and god's not going to just give us everything at once he's not
going to just make this church huge in one year turn to exodus chapter 23
verse 27 i know i got to hurry up
but um and i really am this is the last place i'll have to turn
and we'll be done he's not going to give us too much too soon so
we're at this is the one year anniversary of
you know being you know me being the pastor of the church here
and one year under a new ministry it says in is he uh excuse me in
exodus 23 27 it says i will send my fear before
thee and destroy all the people whom thou
of to whom thou shall come and i will make all the
thine enemies turn their backs unto thee and i will send hornets before
thee which shall drive out the hivite the
Canaanite the height the Hittite before thee i will not drive them out
before thee in one year lest the land become desolate and the
beasts of the field multiply against thee
by little and little will i drive them out before thee until they'll be
increased and inherit the land so when you apply this spiritually
look we're supposed to be conquering this land for christ
so to speak spiritually using the sword of the spirit not the real sword
it's a spiritual battle not a literal carnal battle but he's not going to
drive it all out in one year we can't just take over in one year
and have this giant church god just doesn't work that way little by little
we're going to get bigger little by little if we keep up the
good work that we're doing right now and we get real you know the more
serious we get about the work of the lord here
the better we get everything dialed in the more we start attending
the services the the more serious we take things
god's gonna you know little by little excuse me sorry um little by little he's
gonna help us to grow and if we have this kind of
mentality so the church you know is not new but the leadership is and
you know we need people to stand in the union gap for this land
and just apply that to all the gaps and the services and any gaps that
there are we need people to fill those gaps
and this church is going to be what people make it
and i feel that way about all of our church plants if i can't be there
i can't i don't make anything happen really i'm just the leader
and you know everything rises and falls on leadership i understand that
but if i'm not there always then it's gonna be to a certain extent
what the people make of it so i can't do it all from afar and i
can only just guide you the best that i can
but i can't be here all the time i can't be in spokane i can't be in
seattle all the time or surrey or indianapolis and some you
know a lot of times i defraud our own church home
enough you know just from traveling as much as i do
but this church is at a disadvantage to try to get a permanent pastor i'll
just say that right now the size of the area the isolation of
the area i mean it's not easy to get here by plane
they got like two flights a day one of them at the worst possible times
ever and uh driving here is hard in the winter time and you know as
far as like getting here and it's uh you know it's really up to
you to make it appealing i mean if somebody comes and they're
like thinking about being the pastor of this church or something
and they come on a wednesday night to preach and five people are here
and they come on a sunday morning and no and
half the church isn't here and there's not really a good reason why
then it's going to just make it even more hard
so that's why it's so important for the church to be present here
be here whenever you can be that's going to help the church
because if everybody's here we got over 30 people
and so when people come in to visit on a sunday morning they see
30 people here you know instead of 10 or whatever it's it's you know we've
had some good attendances though things have gotten better as far as
attendance goes but then we've just had some
i'm just like some real head scratchers i'm just like where is
everybody so i'm not trying to get down on you i
love you guys of course but i do want you to take it
seriously take church seriously and you know
we can just move forward and next year could be an even greater year for our
church i love this church i'm not again i'm
i'm not down on you don't think that i don't appreciate everything you've
done i do appreciate it i appreciate every single
person in this church i know everybody does stuff here
so don't think i'm down on you i just want us to get better
and the only way we get better is to try harder
and you know you just it's just like working a job
you're only as good as the training that you get
obviously you know you go through new higher orientation you don't know
anything then you work learn and work and get better right so
but anyway happy anniversary yakima bible believers baptist church let's
pray lord we thank you so much for this great church and pray that
you just bless the rest of our day together
and pray that you would bless the food that we're about to
eat later here in a little bit and that you would
just bless the soul winning that gets done today
and lord that you would just take everybody home safely
this afternoon it's in jesus name we pray amen
all right our last song is song number 228
my faith has found a resting place
song number 228 my faith has found a resting place
let's sing it together on the first
my faith has found a resting place not in device nor
creed i trust the ever living one his wounds for
me shall bleed i need no other argument
i need no other plea it is enough that
jesus died and that he died for me enough for me
that jesus says this ends my fear and
a simple soul i come to him he'll never
cast me out i need no other argument
i need no other plea it is enough that
jesus died and that he died for me
my heart is leaning on the word the written word of god
salvation by my savior's name
patient through his blood i need no other
argument i need no other plea
it is enough that jesus died and that he died for me
my great physician heals the sick the lost he came to
save for me his precious blood he shed for me
his life he gave i need no other argument
i need no other plea it is enough that jesus died
and that he died for me