the title of the sermon this morning is the spoils of spiritual warfare the spoils of spiritual warfare
let's look at verse number one in second chronicles chapter 26 it says concerning the divisions of
the quarters of the korites was mesha mesha la mia see that's why i didn't want you to have to read
that the son of kori and the sons of asaph so this chapter is dealing with the divisions of borders
okay so in the in chronicles in this chapter specifically it's dealing with quarters and
what is a porter someone have you ever gone to a hotel a really fancy hotel there's a guy that's
out front that person's called the porter usually and they sometimes they dress in weird outfits
and stuff you know modern day but anyway that's what they do they they grab the bags they help you
they do so they're kind of like a doorkeeper and so let's look down at verse 24
and uh i'll read a little bit here and then we'll pray it says and in shepuel the son of gershom
the son of moses was ruler of the treasures and his brethren by eliezer rephabiah the son
and jeshaiah his son and joram his son and zikrai his son and shelamith his son when shelamith and
his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things which david the king and the
chief fathers the captains over thousands and hundreds and the captains over the host have
dedicated out of the spoils won in battle did they dedicate to maintain the house of the lord
let's pray heavenly father we thank you lord so much uh lord for this great church i pray lord
to be here for many many years to come and lord i pray you've uh just set a hedge about this church
lord and and as best as you can keep the wicked people away from here lord pray that you give
pastor version strength and just help him as he continues his ministry and his wife and his family
lord and pray for all the people here lord pray that not one would be lost and lord that this
church would have faithful members that are stick with it for many many years to come and lord let's
pray a special blessing on this weekend for all the people that have come i pray bless them fill
them with the holy spirit now as uh your word is preached to them lord we've sung the songs and
we've worshiped you lord today and lord i pray you fill me with the holy spirit as a as i preach this
message and give me boldness and power in Jesus name we pray amen amen so the reason why i read
this is because what what goes on in churches isn't a lot different than what you see happen
in the king in the earthly kingdom of david you know there's always someone has to play their
part someone has to be there to be the poor someone has to be there to guard the treasures
you know count the money and all that kind of stuff and so these uh written chronicles in the
old testament describe to us a little bit about how the earthly kingdom of god function and and
it really isn't that much i mean there's a lot different like pastor versions isn't the king but
he is the pastor so he's the ruler over the house of god here and uh if you've noticed uh just
reading some of this that a lot of the people were doing different things for the kingdom of
god let's look at verse 28 you're still in the first chronicles chapter 26 it says in all that
samuel the seer and saw the son of kish and abram the son of ner and joab the son of zeruiah had
dedicated and whosoever had dedicated anything it was under the hand of shelamith and his brethren
of the israelites chedaniah and his sons for for the outward business over israel for officers and
judges so there's people that do the outward business there's people back in this time that
did uh that guarded over the things that were dedicated to the house of god now the house of
god back then was the temple of god right and so today the temple of the lord is within each
believer so the bible says when we get saved and we get the down payment the earnest of this holy
spirit and and you know the holy spirit walks within us god is inside of us and so every just
think about this everywhere you take them take god you're taking them you know everywhere you
go you're taking god with you that's right so think about that before you go into someplace
that you ought not to be going to right or looking at something you ought not to be looking at or
just anything like that i mean we've got to understand that the house of god is now with
us until once we're all joined together this is the congregation of the lord this is the church
amen so uh but look at verse 30 it says in the hebrew nights hashebi and his brethren
men of valor a thousand seven hundred were officers among the israel of the of israel on
this side of jordan westward in all the business of the lord and in the service of the king so
there's business that takes place at god's house isn't there so every one of you here is is here
to do the business of preaching the gospel to the lost today right that's the business that's going
on and it's actually the most important business that we could be doing for god amen and so you
know i'm very pleased to see how many people came out to go so many today and you know just the
reason why i i want to bring this chapter up is because there's just so many things that go on
in in the kingdom of god there's so many parts that have to be played you know from the person
that preaches the sermons from the person that you know plays the piano from the person that
leads the songs from the person or people that clean the house and clean up the building here
and all the things that go into this there's a lot that goes into it and you know one man can't
do all that stuff right it's hard for one man david had to delegate things pastor verses has
to delegate things and have you ever heard that saying that ten percent of people do a hundred
percent of the work of churches usually it's kind of true and hopefully it's not true in this church
and it's not true in my church but a lot of churches that's the way it is
and some people they just show up they come to service they get their they get their snack they
get their meal they get their uh t-bone ribeye steak or whatever the sermon the pastor persons
it's usually a ribeye right we had ribeyes last night so but you know some people just show up
to church and that's about all they do and in churches like this i doubt that that's the truth
but um so what the title of the sermon is the spoils of spiritual warfare look we're in a war
yeah we need to understand that that we're in a war today and we're fighting a spiritual battle
we're not fighting a physical battle sometimes you know we want to get into physical battles
it seems like but i don't want to get in a physical battle but sometimes i feel like it
sometimes you know sometimes it's either easier to slap someone around than it is to slap someone
bible right but uh i mean for me anyway but uh you know the local church functions a lot like
the physical kingdom back in the old testament but it's just different you know obviously but
so we are in a spiritual kingdom here but it is still a physical kingdom to a certain extent okay
because we live in the physical world we're not rapturing yet so um but you know every i just
want to say this every church member that's here every person that's here is important
and god defines you important you're an integral part of this church ministry here and even if
you're just someone that visits every once in a while you're the occasional nose you're the
occasional hand you know god god wants this church to function it takes all the different
bottles this is called the body of christ amen and so you know there's a hand there's a foot
there's legs there you know and maybe there's multiple legs i don't know what kind of body
this is but you know i always say that you know certain people would be like the nose of the
church you smell out you're the one that smells out the false prophet you're like some of those
smell right about this guy you know what i mean so but you know again everybody has their duties
that they do here at this church again you have one main leader the pastor and sometimes churches
have beacons and evangelists and porters or doorkeepers the guys that stand in the front
hand out the bulletins and welcome people to the church uh people that are in charge of the
treasury the money money counting the ushers people who clean fold bulletins softly play
piano go soul winning there's a big uh there's a big work that goes on and making this kingdom run
and then whichever told did you notice that part when it says it's his pleasure to give us the
kingdom we are the kingdom of god you know and obviously the ultimate kingdom of god is going
to be when christ comes back and rules for a thousand years and then we'll reign with him
forever but for now we are the kingdom of god here on earth and he's left it to us it's his
pleasure to give it to us but hey when he gives it to us we got to do something with with the
things that we're given we got to do something we got we all have to play our part in the kingdom
and look hey being a door a doorkeeper in god's house is just as important as anything else you
know there's a part to play and pastor versus i don't know if he has people do you have people
standing up front with the bulletins or all right so most churches have that and that's that's an
important job you know a first-time visitor when they walk through the door if they get a handshake
and a smile you know if you're just like you're talking about the newest controversy that's going
on in the new ip or whatever and then you're like oh hey here you go you know hey take that job
seriously you know they don't need to hear that drama right you know a first-time person should
get a smile and a handshake and a bulletin and say thanks for coming um every person here should
do their job and do it well and your job is important the first thing the first time someone
walks into this room and the church is not clean it's in disarray someone fell asleep on the job
and didn't do their job or whatever the first thing that they're going to notice is the church
isn't clean you know that is important people want to walk in and see a church that that is decently
in order right and so don't don't downplay what you do well i just clean the church hey god finds
that important your pastor finds that important when your pastor walks in and maybe he's running
a little bit late i don't know if that ever happens but you know he walks in and the church
looks like a hurricane katrina hit it then he's probably gonna be upset it's like what happened
you know so that is an important job and like the last thing that he wants to worry about before
he's about to get up and preach the word of god to you is whether the mother baby room got cleaned
and someone threw out the diapers you know what i mean so um everything is important every church
member is important the and and you know what talking about battles there's lots of battles
that goes on in churches like this isn't there you know we've just seen a controversy over the
king james bible just recently and i'm not going to preach about that so but that's a controversy
that's a battle that's just another battle that we got to go through and you know people are always
like i'm tired of the battles i'm tired of this the drama i'm tired of the spiritual warfare that
goes on well you know what you need to get used to that because we're constantly going to be in
battles in the kingdom of god that's why we're called to be warriors we're called to be soldiers
of christ and so look you might get sick of the drama you know but you know people soldiers in
real war like not real war but soldiers in physical war they get battle weary too they get battle
hard they get battle weary they get some ptsd and sometimes we suffer from spiritual ptsd don't we
it just sometimes even as a pastor sometimes i'm just like man again or something someone else is
stabbing us in the back someone else is stabbing uh another the past pastor anderson in the back
again or someone else is you know just you know causing drama it's it's not just pastors it's also
people that's right no and look there's going to be people that creep in the churches get used to
that there's going to be people that pull their mask off and show us what they really are and we
got to get used to that that's right it's just part of the program it's part of the war it's
part of the battle but don't quit amen you know we need to keep going for the cause of christ we
need to keep going uh for this church this church is counting on you to be here and if you drop off
because you're just like oh i can't handle this you know you just need to get tough
so don't get sick you know obviously you maybe you just need to get off facebook for a little
while and because you're having a problem i mean if facebook is your like main problem in the
christian life then maybe you just need to take a break but you don't have to tell everybody you're
taking a break okay i'm taking a break for a couple weeks and then you don't take a break
it's just like you know look nobody needs to know that update too okay
but you know what there's other churches that rarely battle in this yeah that's right i've
gone to churches where the biggest battle is what gossip the choir members are talking about or
you know just who didn't clean up after themselves after the service we're in real battles you know
the controversy over the king james bible that's a big battle the controversy over the trinity
that's a big battle yeah we got to get used to it there's going to be devils that creep in
and try to destroy the church there's going to be people that pretend to be good people
and they try to tip you know what do people do when they get revealed well they take a bunch
of people down with them don't they that's right and even good people that's why jesus said don't
pull the tears with the wheat because when you do that it's going to harm because people don't
realize you know us as pastors we i think that god gives us a little bit of extra discernment
and i don't know if you feel that way pastors are like sometimes i see things that other people
don't see i see things that the other church members don't see these people that just creep
in and they're just like you just see them working working the crowd working their people trying to
get people and draw them to them yeah you know as pastors we can't just go after people because of
what a hunch that we have necessarily but you know we can't watch that's right and find out
what's going on yeah so you know churches like us are on the front lines why because we're doing
a lot of soul winning i'm not saying we're the greatest movement that ever was or any of this
stuff what i am saying is that your church goes so many which this church does my church goes so
many you know what the devil has a target on our backs that's right every single person in this
room the devil has a target on your back and he wants to take you down that's right he wants to
take this church down you know what the church that doesn't go soloing i'm sure there's people
saved in those churches i'm sure sure they're there's there's saints in those churches but
you know what the devil's already defeated that church they stopped going soloing the
devil's already defeated that church they you know change their stance on certain things or whatever
but why is he going to go after a church so hard that's already quit why is he going to go after
a church so hard that's already given up on the main thing that we do which is winning souls
why is he going to care where do you think the devil's going to put his focus on he's going to
put his focus on churches like this church like my church like people we're baptist church
all these churches he's going to try to take them out that's right and you know how he does that
one person at a time that's right one person falling out of church one person
sick in the battle i quit i'm done i'm just going to go back to my old Miami church where it wasn't
so crazy all the time but you know what you're going to be back where the where the bean counters
are you know what i mean in war there's lots of different people there was you know there's people
that were a guard of the treasury there's people that just you know count bullets or whatever those
people that are not in the thick of the battle but we are in the thick of the battle in churches
like this we need to realize that we need to realize that the targets on our back and we so
for our families for our own sake for our own family's sake for this church's sake for this
pastor's sake we got to not fall off and just quit so we need to keep going and you know what
we have a lot of enemies don't we they have a lot of enemies there's people that just make up garbage
and throw it against the wall to make sure to see if it sticks i mean think about pastor Shelly
all the stuff that he's been having to go through after he took out a former steadfast there's just
been one thing after the other you know you got people just literally making up lives you know
and so that's the kind of underhanded games that people play and they want to go out with the
pastor they want to take the pastor down they want to take everybody in the church down with them so
why is there so much spiritual battle in these types of churches because of the type of church
this is this is a church that is in the front lines in the thick of the battle this is the
grunts this is the porters you know what a porter literally means is someone that carries the bag
that's what it means so and i didn't have to go back to the greek for that but anyway so
that's someone that picks up a bag and carry we're laborers in this church we're laborers in the
kingdom of god we're here to do the work of the lord amen so um and you know what the devil's
going to try to attack this church until he tries to destroy it and you know what this is a stronghold
baptist church amen you know the lord is with this church and but we need every single person
to maintain what they're supposed to be doing in this church if your job is to clean the church
clean the church with all your mind if your job is to lead the songs well get up and leave the songs
with all your mind if your job is to play the piano every single service then you get up and
play the piano with everything you've got if you're you know it's everybody's job to go soloing
and hey are you so are you uh do you have all the soloing verses memorized you know what i found in
my church when we first started is that we start with a lot of people that weren't talkers but then
we train people to become talkers and you know what happened our church grew and i i believe that
that's the the formula for church growth one of the formulas for church growth is that hey
we need more salt we need more silent partners so once all the silent partners become talkers
and more silent partners are going to come and join the church now the devil wants to
destroy that though let's turn to first peter chapter five verse number eight first peter five
verse number eight and this is a very popular verse and we've probably read it a lot of times
look what it says in verse eight it says be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil
as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour is he seeking that old dead church
member that old mossback deacon that goes to you know maranatha baptist church or whatever
probably not he's already defeated him he's already stopped him that guy he's already
stopped the pastor by stopping the deacon telling the deacon what to do right so
but look at what it says in verse nine so the devil is after us okay who says verse nine says
who resist steadfast in the faith is he going after the people that are losers or the people
that just have fallen off the people that aren't doing anything for god as you go who's he going
after who resists steadfast in the faith the people that are steadfast that's who he's going
after knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the
world so look the devil is not after the people he's already defeated he's already devoured those
people why does he need to you know or he's kept them at bay by you know leading them into a church
that doesn't go soloing isn't it hard who's been in a baptist church before you went to this church
or another whatever church you go to or someone you had to like just plead with the pastor to go
soloing have you ever been to a church like that because i have and at one church i went to we
would go soloing on saturday's and he would he would pray with us and give us a verse of
encouragement before we left but he never went soloing never i just thought what a hypocrite
you know he's going to sit there on a saturday morning waits for us to get there but he never
will go soloing with us that's right his soloing was visitation visiting the people that you know
come to the church whatever look he's after the steadfast of the faith he's after the people that
are battle ready battle hardened and he wants to take you down he wants to take you down one at a
time and you know you ever noticed that every time jesus went someplace that some demon would
manifest himself in front of you ever notice that you know why because jesus was in the forefront of
the battle too what i mean he was the lord and he was leading these disciples to preach and teach
and doing miracles and all these things but every time he went someplace guess what a demon would
like read the book of mark every place he went sometimes it was several why do you think that is
because jesus was doing the work that he was supposed to be doing and it was important work
and it was people getting saved and those devils would manifest themselves in them so why do you
think that that happens in churches like these churches why do you think it happens in a
spirit-filled soul-wanting church like stronghold baptist church well because you know and i'm not
saying demons have manifested themselves in here but what i think about demon manifests
themselves in our modern times i mean sometimes it's literally i mean if you go into a downtown
area i'm sure in atlanta it's the same as it is in port oregon or seattle washington you got
people spinning around and you know talking to themselves and they're you guys got that in
atlanta too okay i just want to make sure it's a downtown area for some reason but in churches like
ours you'll have devils that are within the congregation what didn't jesus call jews a devil
he said haven't i chosen 12 of you and one of you's a devil right every once a while a devil's
going to pop up and cause problems and try to start drama and drag people with them that's
a demon manifested themselves in front of you that's right that's someone that the devil controls
so you know jesus christ everywhere he went that happened you know so why do people get so they're
like oh the new ifb has all this drama in it the new ifb churches they're just you know there's
just always something going on now because we're in the thick of the battle amen amen that's why
second christians chapter 11 verse 23
so if that happened to jesus if demons manifested themselves and tried to mess around with what was
going on with him wouldn't you expect that to happen in churches that are doing the right
thing would you expect that to happen in godly churches or godly pastor preaching the word of
god and sending people out to get massive amounts of people saved i think so look what happened
with paul it says are they ministers of christ verse 23 i speak as a fool i am more in labors
more abundant in stripes above measured in prison more frequent in deaths off of the jews five times
received by 40 stripes say one thrice was i beaten with rods once i was stoned thrice i
suffered shipwreck a night and a day i have been in the deep and journeys often in perils of waters
in perils of robbers in pairs of my own countrymen in pairs of the heathen or by the heat excuse me
in perils in the city in perils in the wilderness in perils in the sea in perils among false
brethren and weariness and painfulness and watchings often and hunger and thirst
and fastings often and cold and nakedness it sounds like paul went through a lot of problems
didn't he that's right why do you think paul went through so many problems because he was just
dramatic because just drama you know he was just he was just a drama king is that what you think
why was it because he did more abundant than everybody else amen so guess what the devil was
always after paul the devil was always trying to stop his work he's having to be lowered down in
a basket on the on the outside of the city why why do they hate paul so much because he was doing
everything he was supposed to be doing amen he was doing right that's right he was in the thick of
the battle he was starting churches everywhere he was filled with the spirit he was writing scripture
so why did paul have so many problems because that's what happens when you're fired up that's
what happens when you're in the thick of the battle that's what happens when you're a special
forces baptist amen right right good so was paul bad because he was always wrapped up in drama
was paul wrong for always getting in arguments with people i mean seriously but that's what
people will say about churches like us well they're just you know they're just hate they're
so hateful that's why it's not because we're hateful because we love him yes right i got a
letter i got a some text messages some facebook messenger messages about so i preached a sermon
against ravens after he died that's my that's my thing so some paul's prophet dies i'm gonna
preach a sermon about him amen and try to get as many people to realize how about how he was
a false prophet right you should stop watching his videos stop listening to him but this person was
upset that they messaged my actually they messaged my church in canada the church might we have there
and they said this is part of this same church with the same name in vancouver washington and they
didn't they thought that they were contacting the leadership up there but i control the facebook
pages so i said yeah yeah we are and they're like well do you realize that they're part of the splc
hate hate group uh that they're that they're they're they're a hate group or whatever i was
like yeah yeah but i don't think we're a hate group i think we're a love group amen that's
right you know what because we love lost people and we go out to try to seek and save that which
was lost like the lord jesus christ told us to do amen and then you know she just got mad i said
shut up moron you know basically just pulled her off i told her off a little bit but that's because
she turned on me you know people want to ask us questions i'm sure pastor persons gets emails or
someone seeming to be nice at first and they just really want to say that you're cold and you're
hateful and all this other stuff right i've been getting a lot of hate mail from the
ravi zacharias people the sermon i preach against billy graham has 330 000 views wow and so but i
don't have people email me about that very rarely but ravi i mean they've missed ravioli they're just
so i've been getting emails every day from the ravi lovers they're like sir i'm praying for you
but you're gonna die and go to hell but look we gotta preach against the false prophets
who else is doing it nobody else is doing it that's right and so when people persecute us
because we preach the word of god if you listen to that sermon everything i said was straight out
of the bible that's right man everything i said was straight out of the bible and look you can
apply that to any false problem it didn't necessarily have to be ravioli zacharias
it could have been anybody but why do they hate us or why do they call us drama kings or
they call us that we're dramatic and that we're always causing problems that is you know what
paul paul was called the same thing you know he was a mover of a sedition of the sedition
amongst the jews is what the the yeah the chief priests and rulers set it up so why would we
expect any less we're going to get the same thing if we're preaching you know paul's the one that
wrote rose chapter one did you guys know that he's the one that said they're worthy of death
yeah he's the one that said that they're given over to a reprobate mind you know so when we
preach those sermons you know what paul preaches the same stuff he's the one that wrote it come on
you know but we're we're hateful so i would say this expect peril expect persecution expect false
brethren to rise up expect all prophets to rise up amongst the congregation expect people to
stab people in the back just expect it if you expect it then you're just like embracing the
truth of what's going to really happen if you're going to a church like this it's gonna happen
and people are gonna you know don't get confused by these people that's their goal is to drag you
out of church their goal is to get you to stop doing the things in your local church that you're
doing right now don't fall off don't uh let someone drag you out with a bunch of what they
call drama i call it bible preaching that's what i call it man so if i get up and rip on the sods
which i did two two nights ago my sermon was already taken down the next morning
so you can only view that on what was that bit shoot or whatever i think we're gonna put on
but i got i just got up and preached what the bible said yeah that's it i mean is it really
that that's that's why it's controversial because it's the word of god amen why do people hate
jesus because he was the word of god yeah that's right why do people persecute jesus because he
spoke the truth and so when i look at a church that has never done anything for god and they
got some giant building with great beautiful marble pulpits and they have all the pillars
in the front and all that stuff and they don't have so any program it doesn't surprise me that
they don't get persecuted yeah it doesn't surprise me at all so now when we work for the kingdom
and are steadfast in the faith we can expect these things to happen but if we stick and stay
and make it pay in the christian life god is going to reward us with the spoils of the spiritual
battles in this life and in the life to come make no mistake god has called us to be soldiers
and enlist us in the army to fight in this war this war is not going to end in your christian
life just get used to that just accept it today would you just if you don't have to bow your
heads and close your eyes or anything like that but just what would you right now just where
you're sitting accept the fact that we're going to be in battles and wars again and that christ
has called us to be soldiers would you just say if you just accept that it's going to make the
rest of your christian life a lot easier you're like i just can't believe this is happening again
believe it it's happening again it's going to happen all the time just get used to it oh here's
another battle okay let's fight be on the right side of course yeah be on the right side turn
to peter chapter six verse 12
peter chapter six verse 12
is that talk right that's where it is okay for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against
principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual
wickedness in high places what's the bible say to do hey fight we're not wrestling against flesh
and blood let's fight this spiritual battle who's our enemy principalities powers the spiritual
wickedness in high places the rulers of the darkness of this world that's what we're fighting
against just realize the battle is not hey if you go and and want to be a protester somewhere
or the alt-right or whatever that's just silliness why why go and protest about the
constitution all that stuff look that's all going to get taken away do you understand that that's
right it's all going to get taken away what are they doing right now trying to stop churches
from having services because they found their little covet 19 way to do it right now they're
just using they're abusing that even though they're saying i actually saw this on a news
report that said it was actually i forgot it was posted somewhere on facebook or something
but it said like you know how the news has those like screen captures or whatever or they're
telling you some information the health department says that it's healthy for you to get out and
protest even though they're not maintaining six foot with masks and all that stuff i mean if you
look at the protest department oregon they had like thousands of people marching right next to
each other a lot of them didn't have mats on but that's healthy but you know what don't go to
church because you can only have 10 people and you might get sick and it's just like come on
our rights are going to get taken away from us do you know in the tribulation if you said if
you're trying to hold up the constitution and go hey but my constitution says that i have freedom
of religion is that going to stop them from chopping your head off do you think that's
going to stop them it's not going to stop them look this is the book that we need to
rest our faith upon yeah it's not a paper made by man and i'm not saying don't use the constitution
paul used his roman citizenship to get him out of the beating one time but did that stop him from
taking all the beatings that he got after that i mean we just read through how he got shipwrecked
he got beat with rods he got you know beat he got stone stone they thought they stoned him to death
you know that didn't stop it all the time so look using your constitutional rights why don't you
just use the rights that god gave me it says it's better to obey god rather than man amen
turn to second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4
we need to realize what our weapons are look this is our sword and that this right here is our sword
the holy bible the king james bible is our sword okay and so that's what we need to rely on
okay second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 says for the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal but mighty through god to the pulling down of strongholds we're talking about satanic
strongholds this is a godly stronghold but we need to make sure that our we realize what our weapons
of our warfare are we're supposed to put on the full armor of god right that's what we need to
did you know the part of the full armor of god is having your feet shot with the preparation of the
gospel you know that that's part of your armor it's so funny how many people preach you know you
gotta have the armor of god on but they don't go soloing right right you got your feet chopped off
dude yeah you're done that's it you're over with you know my foot's hurt maybe that's why
i maybe that's why my foot's hurt i don't know i need i need to make sure that you know i
understand that i need to go soloing so if i do this only but anyway i don't know it's just you
know people it's it amazes me how many pastors don't go soloing but they preach about the armor
of god you forgot something you forgot your shoes so turn to second corinthian chapter two
excuse me second timothy chapter two verse one second timothy chapter two verse one
so if the weapons of our warfare are not carnal what are we doing well we're going to second
timothy chapter two verse one it says now therefore my son be strong in the grace that is in
christ jesus that the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to
faithful men who shall be able to teach others also you know it says faithful men
faithful it's important that you're faithful it says thou therefore endure hardness endure
hardness as a good soldier of jesus christ you know sometimes the battle is going to get hard
and that's why you say look timothy you're going to have to endure hardness you know your pastor
had to endure some hardness too didn't he got fired from his job the news is telling everybody
he's the hate monger you hate monger i can't believe how much you hate people that you're
sending you know 70 people out so many today you're so hateful that's right you know he hates the
right things but see today you know being some transvestite is is supposed to be you're a child
of god you're godly but that's what that lady said that's the other thing she said she said
homosexuals were born that way and they were made perfect
and she was saying saying that she was a christian
that's what made me have by the way i forgot about that so
anyway but pastor versus had to endure some hardness you know what every single person
in this room is going to have to endure hardness maybe it's not the news channels come after maybe
you're just going to have some battles within your own families maybe you're just going to
have some trouble at home maybe your kids maybe your wife maybe your husband whatever it is
you might have some different battles that you have to fight but you know what you have to
endure that hardness you want to be a good soldier you know soldiers have to stay at all light in the
rain they have to sit in foxholes and eat dirty and not take showers every day i've never been
a soldier but i just i just know that's what happens you know it's not like you have a shower
and running water sometimes you have to you know go to the bathroom in places you probably don't
feel comfortable going to i mean we we just get locked bathrooms and they flush and all that stuff
and we forget it sometimes it's a little harder out there for some people soldiers don't get those
kinds of things so the things that the comforts that we do have we should appreciate them
you know when we go through hardness don't quit when we go through hardness don't give up
it says no man that warth entangled himself with the affairs of this life
that he may please him who have chosen him to be a soldier look god's chosen us to be soldiers we're
fighting in a war we're in constant battles and we need to be able to endure that hardness as we
go through our christian life you know if you if you don't that's not for you you know i don't know
what to do i don't know what the hell you live but i'll just tell you this that your life isn't
going to turn out easier just because you stop and you know because you stop and fall out of
church or stop and quit doing your job at church it's not going to be easier because you know to
who much is given much is required right right so if you've been given a lot you know some people
go to some you know rock and roll church maybe they're saved they don't their family got them
into it they don't realize that everything they're being taught is pretty much alive
and they're not getting the type of preaching that you're getting at this church or whatever
church you go to they're not getting that type of preaching they're not getting that kind of
instruction they're not they're not watching the same youtube videos that you're watching
and so you're getting more information more of the word of god than most people are on this
planet right now that's just a fact and so god's gonna hold you to a higher standard when he's
given you the information he expects you to do something with it when he's given you a task
or some kind of stewardship over something he intends for you to keep doing that job
right so and if you said hey i want to be a pastor and then you just you know get married
and have a kid you're like man this is harder than i thought it was going to be it's hard to
be a pastor it's harder than you think but you know what you can endure that hardness
if you got some character you can become a pastor you got to rule your house well and make all make
sure that you keep all the qualifications and stay qualified and get qualified but you can do it
believe me if i can do it you can do it so you know what we need more than ever now we need more
pastors we need more we want we need more people to rise up and say hey you know what even if i'm
not going to be a pastor i want to get qualified to be one so uh let's see here in first uh second
timothy chapter two look at first timothy chapter six verse 12 people say well it shouldn't be so
hard to be a christian all the time it shouldn't be hard but it is hard it's a battle it's a fight
it's a war it says fight the good fight are we supposed to fight or not right supposed to fight
fight the good fight of faith laid hold on eternal life where to now we're also called
and has professed a good profession before many witnesses hey paul told timothy fight
you know it's not my job as a pastor to just you know get full time get a cadillac escalade that
says god's man on the back i might get a cadillac escalate because it fits me but it's not going to
say god's man on the back i'm probably saying king james only or something the real king james
let's see where am i where am i okay yeah we're supposed to the book of june says we're to
earnestly contend for the faith you know what content means he's the fighter we gotta fight
for the truth and so when we proclaim hey these people are teaching a false gospel this is the
truth there's nothing wrong with that that is a fight that's right you know you should expect
someone to fight you back on it the devil's army right so we need to always be ready for the battle
always be ready for the battle look at luke chapter 12 i'm finally getting back to luke
chapter 12 look verse 31 i gotta get there myself here luke chapter 12 verse 31 obviously i'm not
going to go through the whole uh chapter that was a long chapter but uh we're going to cover
some of this luke chapter 12 verse 31
i nixed some of it out of my notes so i'm gonna have to turn okay
okay it says but rather seek ye the kingdom of god and all these things shall be added unto you
fear not little flock for it is your uh actually let's look at verse 30 i'm sorry for all these
things do the nations of the world seek after your father know it that you have needed these things
say you know some people say well you know what i'm just not i'm not getting where i wanted my
life goals and things like that look we need to realize that we need to lay up treasures in heaven
look at verse 31 but rather seek ye the kingdom of god and these things shall be added unto you
fear not little flock for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom
sell that you have and give alms provide yourselves bags which wax not old a treasure
a treasure in the heavens that faileth not where no thief approaches neither off corrupted
so look the rewards in heaven that we get are eternal so if it says look it just says it's
talking about giving alms and that says that that is not corruptible right and you know and alms
isn't like you blowing the trumpet and saying i gave twenty thousand dollars to the church i
just want everybody to know i gave twenty thousand dollars to the church or i gave you know brother
so and so five thousand dollars because they were down on their luck hey i just want to let you know
that look you've already lost your reward if you're like that and that shouldn't be your purpose
telling you know you shouldn't tell people when you give alms but it does say provide yourself
bags which wax not old a treasure in the heavens that faileth not where no feet there's no thieves
in heaven thieves shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven okay where no thief approaches neither
moth does corrupt there there's no moths up there to eat holes in your bags you know when we go to
heaven our rewards are going to be they're waiting for us so um it says for where your
treasure is there will your heart be also what is what is important to you in this life
is it getting to escalate is it getting in the house is it getting all these things that look
there's nothing wrong with having things but if your goal is more about money than it is about
the kingdom of heaven people already lost your way amen blue verse 35 let your loins be girded
and your lights burning what is that saying hey be ready to work you're ready to work have your
lights burning but have you ever heard that uh you're burning the candle at both ends you ever
heard that saying that's what we should be like look if you want to be a pastor someday guess
what you're going to have to burn the candle at both ends i think pastor versions is still working
a full-time job i'm still working a full-time job and it's hard work to work a full-time job and to
be a pastor at the same time so but you know some of you guys work hard too you have probably
two jobs or whatever but what's the point well the point is is that we should be ready to do
god's work that's what's important laying up treasures in heaven is way more important than
laying up treasures on earth you know that stuff's all gonna burn up anyway the paint job's gonna
fade tired you're gonna get old no he's under the escalator sorry uh i got to split up my mind
verse 36 any yourselves lying on the men that wait for the lord when he will return from the wedding
that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately blessed are those servants
who the lord when he cometh shall find watching barely i say to you he shall gird himself let's
talk about jesus right listen to this and he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to
meet and will come forth and serve them you know in heaven that christ you know how how he bent
down he gird himself in the towel and bent down and washed the disciples feet it sounds to me
like he's going to come and serve us a meal in heaven that's what it says right he shall gird
himself and make him sit down make him sit down to meet and we'll come forth and serve them and
that's servant leadership right there you know people think that being the pastor is like hey
i'm the man now or whatever it's like no you're the servant now yeah we're the servants we're
supposed to serve the people that we minister to it says to know this that if the good men of the
house had known that what hour the thief would come he would have watched and not suffered his
house to be broke broken through be therefore ready also for the son of man cometh at an hour
when you think not some people drop out and they're like yeah you know i don't know if it's
going to be any time of the century so i'm just going to do what i want i'm going to just drop
off and you know not worry about it but you know what the bible says we're supposed to be watching
i'm not saying because the tribulation is going to happen or the rapture is going to happen any
moment but we still are supposed to be watching we're still supposed to be serving the lord
and watching for his return and you know what number two soldiers are faithful
when we're a soldier we're supposed to be faithful look at verse number 42 in the chapter 12 it says
and the lord said who then is that faithful and wise steward whom the lord shall make ruler over
his household to give them their portion of meat in due season who then is that faithful and wise
steward hey it's required that a steward be found faithful amen we're supposed to be faithful if
you're a steward of cleaning the church if you're a steward of whatever you know i've already gone
over this whatever your stewardship is whatever god has put over you or put you know put you as
as a ruler of you know if you do a good job of the little things that you do god's giving you
more things that's what the bible says so we should be faithful stewards and the things
that we do blessed is that servant whom the lord when he cometh shall find so doing
let me read that again blessed is that servant whom is lord when he cometh shall find so doing
god wants us to be faithful in the things that he gives us and you know what the bible says that
that servants can be blessed but you know what if you if you would have known what time the thief
was going to come and break through you would have suffered your house to be destroyed look
if you drop out what what are the what are the risks you know if you're just like you know what
me and my family we're done i'm sick of it i'm sick of all the fight i'm sick of all the drama
i'm just gonna go to some lily liver you know pink tea lemonade pink shirt wearing pastor's
church and just kind of ride it out what could happen what's the possibility could be happening
well they got children's church they got you know which you know you said well that's not so bad
isn't it yeah right or where they take your child they can take your child out of the service and
get watched by a stranger right or were they all the church believes false doctrine you got this
person over here is believing repent of your sins this guy's lordship salvation this person is a jew
this person you know they all believe i'm not saying you guys i'm picking up the bad guys
well think about that think about how your house can be broken up that's right because you go back
to the why did you leave that kind of church in the first place because you're already having
issues with it they already don't know so many look do you want your children to rise up and
be soul winners in the next generation or not i guarantee if you go back to the old style church
that you were going to where you had to beg the pastor for uh invitations that didn't say repent
of your sins on them and then you're gonna just go back to that because you're tired of finding
you gotta stay in the battle amen we gotta stay in the battle because you know what your house
will be broken up that's right your next generation is gonna be weak they're gonna be like you know
what my parents were hypocrites they said they believed all this stuff and they just took us out
of the church where we're going to your family's at stake your your uh marriages have stayed that's
think about these things so where am i at here first i'll leave off and somebody help me
oh yeah bless is he the servant that when the lord
cometh and shall find so doing of a truth i say it to you he will make him ruler of all that he
hath and if that's true say it is hard my lord the lathe is coming and shall begin to beat men
servants and babies to drink eat and drink and be drunken now of course it's a parable so think
i'm not saying that that's what you're going to do but when people go back to their old life
sometimes they do do that right and i don't know about beating med servants and maid servants i
don't know i've never had that opportunity before but eating and drinking being drunken
i think it's just basically god's way of saying hey going back to the things you used to do
because christians can fall back into the old sins that they were a part of it's called the
backslid i just say i just think that this is saying you know they've stopped working for the
lord and go back to the world look at verse 46 and the lord that of that servant will come in
a day when he when he looketh not to him and at the hour when he is not aware will cut asunder
and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers and that servant which knew his
lord's will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with
many stripes so look be ready to serve in your church in your family in your job that's what
you should be doing because you don't want to be that servant that gets beaten when the lord
comes back right it says and the servant which knew his lord's will and prepared not himself
oh excuse me look at verse 48 says but he that knew knew not and and did commit things worthy
of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes for unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much
be required and to whom they have committed much of him they will ask for the more so look the
people that didn't know as much as you they're not going to get beat with it but if you already
know then you fall off then you take your family out of a good church then you stop doing the work
for the lord you're going to get the people that's right and you know when you've it says
to whom men have committed much of him they'll ask for you know who i usually ask people to do
more stuff for me the people are already faithful doing the things that i've already asked them to
like hey how would you feel about doing this you know what the hardest thing about a pastor
being one of the hardest things about being a pastor is when you ask someone to do something
they're like oh yeah or they'll come to you and say hey pastor what can i do to help
and then you say well hey could you do this and then like they do it for a little while and they
just stop doing it they don't even give you a reason why they stopped doing it they just stop
doing it or they stopped doing it well and it's just like it's hard to ask that person to do
something else when they've already failed at the very small task that they've already been given
right so hey listen if you you go to your pastor and you ask hey what pastor can i do something
to help you out can i do something to help or the church can i lead a soul anytime can i do this or
that and you do that and he gives you that responsibility and then you you flop and flounder
with it don't expect him to give you anything else if you're the guy that says hey pastor
version will you train me to be a pastor and he's like yeah sure and then he starts to put little
more responsibilities on you you know hey would you mind doing this would you mind doing that
or you're a sowing captain you're always late you're never there on time your maps are not good
or whatever you you're not you're not doing the job that you're supposed to be doing
he's not going to ask you to do more i guarantee you he's not and i'm not going to do that either
no i want people to when they want to do something i want them to serve well you know and it's
sometimes you're just like you're stuck with someone that's doing a crappy job because you
know it is a volunteer job it's not like you're getting paid for it okay but who are you working
for ultimately are you working for pastor versions are you working for stronghold baptist church
you might be but guess who you're ultimately working for you're ultimately working for the
lord amen that's right and when we work for the lord we should do it with all of our life with
all of our soul all of our strength just like we should love him with all our mind all our soul
all our strength right so the war is going to cost you something this battle we're in you're not
going to come out unscathed you might get some ptsd okay luke 40 uh 12 49 says am i come to
send fire on the earth and what will i if i'd be already kindled but i have a baptism to be
baptized with now am i straight until it be accomplished suppose he that i've come to get
peace on earth i tell you day but rather division so you know i thought jesus was the prince of peace
i thought he was here to make peace on earth peace on earth good will for men yeah he's
he wants to give people peace with god he wants to give peace the peace that passes all understanding
he wants us to be saved but you know what when you're saved you're going to be immediately at
odds with people that are guess who those people are your family your own friends you know anybody
that wants to it's funny how someone could just be a drug addict and a loser and the family loves
them right yeah oh you were sober for three days oh you did a great job you know you're doing great
but then if you're like you're the one that's the loser and you're the one that was a drunkard and
you're the one that was doing drugs you're the one that was a you know uh or longer or whatever
adult adulterer whatever you know and then you say you know what i i got saved and then i'm
going to follow the bible phenomenon they're like you loser you know because it's not weird
but like someone can be the biggest loser in your family and everybody loves them
because you're saved and you're following the bible now you're the biggest loser right right
it's weird but that's what that's what happens it says for from henceforth verse 52 there should be
five and one house divided three against two two against three the father shall be divided against
the son and the son against the father the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the
mother and the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law that's not too tough and then the
and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law what does that talk about it's caught there's
going to be division caused in your family there's going to be division caused in your life but you
know what is more important to you say if you're in here and you have a family what is more
important to you being a compromiser with your extended family or your immediate family that
you're trying to raise and nurture and admonition of the lord and you're trying to leave your wife
right and you know what is more important because you know what sometimes you just got to cut your
losses you try to get those family members saved you try your best and then you'll a lot of people
just just only try to get their family saved that's all they care about and i understand
because you know if your mother raised you and you love her and dad or whatever but ultimately
people have their own choices to make and you can't just base your christianity upon the family
members that you've had problems with because you got saved that makes sense i hope it does
think about what you have god has given everyone in this room so much and we take it for granted
sometimes don't take your family for granted how many people how many christians have you seen
raise their family and or raise their family in church and then they just blow it and their kids
go to the devil that's where i've seen it happen in church lots of church stuff too so deciding to
follow jesus can cost you everything your family your friends your job and everything it can cost
you everything hey maybe you're the best bartender in atlanta but guess what when you get saved you
shouldn't be a bartender anymore it might cost you your job it might cost you some division
say your family you know you're you are in the greatest family ever you think at the time but
then when you get saved all those people hate god and you've got your fan your immediate family
what's more important that's right you know and they're always going to try to come to you on
sunday and say hey if so and so's birthday parties today we're going to have a swimming party it's
like no i'm going to church you got to make it lying in the sand and say look you can plan
everything you want but i'm not going to be there that's right i've ultimately had to tell my family
that look quit planning things on sunday because i go to church if you want me to be there then
quit playing on saturday after soul right so uh number four is the last point spoils of war
are great the spoils of war are great but we're going to turn to a different chapter in mark
chapter 10 see there's something there's a reward at the end of all this fighting and all this
battling we have great rewards we have marked chapter 10 verse 28 says then peter said unto them
unto him well we have left all and have followed thee and jesus answered says barely i say unto you
there is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or fathers or mother or wife or
children or lands for my sake in the gospels but he shall receive in hundredfold now in this time
houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands and persecutions
oh with persecutions so that's part of it like he lists all these great things we're going to get
back it's like with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life but many that are first shall
be last and the last first so you know we might have a divided family we might have to cut loose
some people and if you forsake all to follow christ there is a reward for that it says even
in this life we'll receive a hundredfold of this time you're like well pastor thompson when i got
saved i didn't get a bunch of new houses i didn't get a whole bunch of more brothers and sisters
i didn't get more chill you know i didn't get all this other stuff that you're talking about
i just got the persecutions no that's where you're wrong because everybody in this room is
your brother or sister amen and this church is the house of god when everybody's gathered together
you know you might not get all these houses in this life you might not get but you know there's
mothers in this church that you would look up to and call a mother right an elder woman in this
church that's a godly lady mothers and children hey maybe you can't have children anymore but
there's children in this church that are children of god they might be somebody else's children but
there's still children that are saved some of these children are safe in here and we do get
those things we just sometimes we look at things the wrong way sometimes we don't look at things
how in a spiritual manner and in the world it says the world to come eternal life hey even if
you don't have one single reward you know the thief in the cross he didn't have really have
a lot of rewards to stack up in heaven did he but you know the thing that everybody gets
the same is eternal life amen so that's a great that's a great gift on its own that's a great
reward just for believing you don't have to do anything for that right so in john chapter 14
verse 1 it says you can go ahead turn over there if you want john 14 verse 1 this is a really this
is a great promise of god right here it says let not your heart be troubled while you're turning
there let not your heart be troubled you know there's a lot of trouble going on in the world
today it's not just fighting and stuff and churches and all that there's a lot of turmoil
going on in the world 2020 did not begin and it's still not where i thought it was going to be
you know everybody's like 2020 vision we're going to be more soul winning and get more people saved
than we ever have and it's like the devil's like no 2020 is not going to be like that
maybe god said 2020 is not going to be the way he talked God is judging this nation
and there's a lot of weird stuff going on you know there's a lot of weird stuff going on
and we've had the whole covid thing everybody's you know being weird with the mask there's i
don't say no he has a mask on mister that's that's pretty cool amen i had to wear a mask
all i suffered for jesus on the way here i had to wear one of those dumb masks all the way on the
airplane it was not cool it's hot you know anyway but it says let not your heart be troubled you
know what we can trust in the lord jesus christ and he says hey let not your heart be troubled
even though all this stuff is going crazy in the world even though my life it might be turned
upside down right now but it says you believe in god believe also in me in my father's house are
many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you
and if i go to prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you into myself and where i am
there you may be also you know we have a promise that jesus when he went to heaven he said he's
going to prepare a place for us you know right now you might live in a two-bedroom apartment with
six kids but you know in heaven you're gonna have a mansion i believe it's literally talking about
a dwelling place a mansion i think that we're going to have all kinds of things
that we don't realize um you know we are going to have rewards you know the bible says and uh i'm
going to return to first corinthians three i gotta hurry uh i'm going to read you from
psalm chapter 126 verse 5 says they that sow in tears shall reap in joy he that goes forth weeping
bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him and
we go out and we go to soul winning and you go out and sow in tears and you beg and plead for
someone to get saved and you say please get saved amen and you know we're gonna doubtless come
again we're going to be rejoicing bringing the sheaves with us that means we're going to get
people saved we're going to have those rewards you know what when you get someone saved they're
saved for everlasting life right that's right because everlasting and eternal mean the same
yeah okay so it means the same thing amen and those people are saved forever that's right and
you know what that means that if you've got that person saved you have an eternal reward in heaven
that's right that's a reward that can't be taken away first corinthian chapter three uh it says
now he that plants and he that waters are one and every man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labors
labors we are for we are laborers together with god you're god's husbandry you're god's building
according to the grace of god which is given unto me as a wise master builder i have laid
the foundation this is the apostle paul talking and another buildeth and another buildeth thereon
so after paul built his foundation he was on the lord jesus christ it says another buildeth there
on so when paul passed away or died whenever he died someone else carried the torch on right
it says and let every man take heat on how he built it there upon for other foundation could
no man lay that is laid which is jesus christ so as long as you're building your foundation on
christ those rewards i believe are eternal amen now if any man build upon this foundation gold
silver precious stones wood haste double see wood haste double would be things that really
aren't really eternal okay and those things are going to be turned up it says every man's work
shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the
fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is if any man work if any man's work abide which
he hath built thereon he shall receive a reward if any man show uh work shall be burned he shall
suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so is by fire some people just get in by the skin of
their teeth right right but look what it says it says that um that you'll when you talk about
suffering loss i believe that's talked about if you fall out if you get backslidden for three
years if uh you just you're not building on the right foundation those things will burn up if your
if your ministry is a putting rape comfort tracks in the inside of 12-pack beers in the cooler aisle
i i think that's probably a stubble that's probably hey that's probably something that's
not everlasting right you know and i don't believe that tracks can keep you safe anyway
but um so if your ministry's just a track ministry hey look if tracks got people saved
why don't we just do operation dumbo drop and just just put tracks all over the world
you know people do that yeah people actually do that we had a pastor that said you know they
were in the philippines and they threw 500 tracks out the window and people were picking them up and
looking at them and stuff like that because i thought it was probably something cool but then
they called they looked at it and they're like we got 200 saved when they came back from that trip
they said they got 200 saved because they threw 500 invites out the door
is that building on the foundation i don't think it is i think you need a spirit-filled
man of god to get somebody's savings right amen that's what i believe so if you're just thinking
that you can just dump invites and that's you building the kingdom of heaven you're wrong
that's right now even when we go door knocking how many pastor how many invites gets a gets a
person at church
yeah if it would just when slip these invitations in the doors you're you're gonna you might get a
visitor but does it guarantee that person's gonna get saved i mean so that's all you did
you know it isn't a good work yeah but it's not like do you think that you're getting all these
people saved that's what these a lot of churches do they think that just passing out tracks a lot
of them have a long salvation message on we're not going to win the world to christ doing that
that's right it says we'll receive a reward for the things that we've done that are not wood
hay and stuff daniel chapter 12 this is the last verse i'll have you turn to i'm almost done
daniel chapter 12 verse 2
what was the title of the sermon the spoils of war what is the spoiler we're going to get we're
going to get rewards in heaven for the spiritual battles that we fought here on this earth
but if you're not in the battle you're not going to get the rewards if you're not doing the word
of the lord you're not going to get the rewards now we have the one benchmark ultimate reward
which is eternal life that's a great gift
but daniel chapter 12 says verse 2 and many of them that sleep in the dust of the year shall
wake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt and they that will be
wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament they shall turn many to righteousness
as the stars for what forever and ever is that any term yeah that'd be everlasting okay okay
you know what if you get someone say that reward lasts forever and ever
amen we're gonna say they'd be wise who are the people that are wise of saved people
that are turning many to righteousness doesn't say who passed out invitations
and got people saved now obviously i'm not saying anything bad about passing invitations i'm just
saying that look when you turn someone to righteousness when you get somebody saved
christ saves them he imputes his righteousness upon them and guess what we get to shine forever
and ever we get to partake in the glory or his husband we're the ones that he sent here to do
the labor war uh ambassadors for christ for him and we're gonna have in heaven we're gonna have
an everlasting family anybody you gotta save part of the family of god right man everlasting life
everlasting rewards and everlasting fellowship with god those are good things aren't they amen
you know christ wants us to continue in his love and you know what have your pastors back
have your pastors back you know he he does a lot of battles that you probably don't even know about
but you know what you should do you should encourage your pastor you know his pastor version's
perfect i i doubt that if i asked him right now he would say he's perfect he's a good pastor he's
a great guy but is he perfect no so and when you're around people for a long time you start
to notice the moles you start to notice you know things that maybe well i wouldn't do it that way
but you don't need to say that to you because you're not even doing it that's right so i would
say this have your pastors back pray for your pastor endure hardness expect battles finish
to finish your course of life and do everything you can in this church to make it better
and if you have a job to do be faithful in it be a good steward it's about longevity the christian
life is measured in decades as i've heard many wise men say i'm gonna i know i told you this last
verse i'm gonna have you turn to but i'm gonna read one last verse to you psalm chapter 84 84
verse 10 says for a day and i courts is better than a thousand i'd rather be a doorkeeper or
a porter in the house of my god um in the house of my god them to dwell than to dwell at the
tents of wickedness than to dwell the tents of wickedness look and quitting is dwelling in the
tents of wickedness right we need to be good servants of our lord jesus christ you know what
he calls us friends he says i know we're calling you servants but i call you friends right so we're
friends of god just like abraham with a friend of god so let's do everything we can to support this
church to support this pastor and work as hard as we can for the lord jesus christ let's pray
heavenly father thank you lord so much for this great church stronghold baptist church we thank
you so much for all the people that showed up here today lord i pray lord just take them to the
places that are the most ready to hear the gospel and so they could plant sow and reap lord pray
that you would just bless the rest of this weekend and pass the verses preaching and lord pray that
many people will pitch in and help whatever needs to be done around here lord there's just so much
that goes into running the church and i just pray that the people here would have a heart to serve
and to do great things for god here in jesus name we pray amen