Use the gooseneck, okay, all right, okay, well again
So the verse I want to focus on is in 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse number 5 it says
But watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof
Of thy ministry now of course is the Apostle Paul
Talking to Timothy who is a pastor and he's telling this pastor that he needs to do the work of an evangelist now
First of all I just want to point you and direct you to the the fact that being an evangelist is
Work okay, it says do the work of an evangelist now an evangelist
Basically I went back to the Greek on this okay. It just means someone that preaches the gospel, okay?
So an evangelist is someone that brings forth the gospel, okay?
But it's it's it's not an office of the church
But it is a position in the church where because it talks about it in the scriptures
And I'll go to those later on in the sermon, but
And obviously like I said I'm directing this message towards brother Ian
And I want you to take these things to heart that you know that I mean obviously you know you've been doing it for a while
You know the job is work all right and so
What is the work of an evangelist well like I said the name indicates?
Someone that does evangelism or a soul winner and so a lot of people in here
We do that we all do the work of an evangelist if you're out so any you're doing the work of an evangelist
But brother Ian has also expressed the desire to become a bishop in this church or a pastor
Or an elder or whatever you want to call it. They're kind of used interchangeably
But he wants to become the bishop of this church, but he must first be proved before this can happen
Now I'm going to ordain him as the evangelist today
Because he has proven his ability to do the work of an evangelist in my mind in seven months this church has grown
I mean we have a packed house today and
Basically this church is the only game in town. It's the only game in the country
It's the only game in Europe really. I mean there's there's I'm not saying there's no other state pastors or anything like that
But I'm saying that for a church like sure Foundation Baptist Church
This is the only one of its kind in all of UK right now and definitely in all of Europe now
There's a lot of people that are getting together for soul winning, but at this point
There's no other churches that have been founded under
the Sir Foundation Baptist name or any name of any of the friends of
Pastor friends of mine or any of those other churches, so I think this church is gonna grow even greater
We're trying to get this new building kind of locked down once we do that
I think that you know we extend the the tent so to speak we
Stretch forth and we get a bigger place and more people are gonna come. That's just how it works
And so like I said for nearly seven months brother Ian's been doing the improving his ministry at this church plant
But brother Ian was also already doing some of this work before
We even started this church and so some I just been I've been watching this group of soul winners for a while
You didn't know it, but I was watching you
from afar
So I was watching the good works that you guys were doing the great works, and it was everybody
You know it was just it was called UK soul winners right there still some groups of people in UK so owners
I'm not trying to slight them
But this kind of became the church plant and I was brother Ian's name came up to me
from different people and I kind of checked into a little talk to him on the phone and we started working together and
Then we just said hey, well, let's just launch it. Let's just do it right
So we did and I didn't come over I didn't make the trip over
you know we had all the COVID stuff going on and all that nonsense and
So we just decided to do it, and I you know to me the the model of church that we have you know this
Church planting model you know we have to have someone that can lead we have to have someone that can be boots on the ground
So what someone has to be here to preach someone has to have control over the services someone has to
Be willing to do the hard stuff, and we don't have a plurality of elders
That's not we're not this is not a Presbyterian Church. This is a Baptist Church, and it's elder led it's pastor led
But while I can't be here. I am your pastor from however many thousand miles away
It is but I have placed an entrusted brother Ian Tavenner as the leader at this church
And so he's like I said done a great job, and he was doing it before
This that we even started the church and so he came highly recommended to me by several people
So now I'm gonna put him to the test and see if he's got what it takes to become the pastor
Of this church, and I think he does and so it'll probably be another year and a half or so and we'll revisit things and
I'm sure he's gonna still be doing a great job
And that's what I'm looking forward to is seeing this church grow and I'm gonna try to make it back at least once a year
To come visit y'all, but once a year is probably about the limit of what I'm gonna be able to do so
But now you'll have someone that can
Baptize people you won't have to wait for years on end to be baptized and things like that so
But he's gonna
As the pastor if you're gonna become the pastor someday
You know you're gonna be required to feed the flock of God
To do the work and to be put into the ministry. You know it's it's something that it's not just me ordaining you today brother
Ian it's the Lord Jesus Christ is looking down on this church, and you know he's the one that ultimately puts people in the ministry
He looks at people's works. He sees what they do and then he just makes it happen
Right and so that's kind of what's happening today
But I do want to have I do have I think three points of my sermon today
I think it's three
Of the work of an evangelist so the types of work that has to be done by the evangelist so number one this morning
An evangelist must be willing to work out of class
An evangelist must be willing to work out of class and what I mean by that is that
You know of the as Ian as the evangelist. He's not the pastor
But he still has to do the work that a pastor would do he still has to do the work that a deacon would do
He still has to do the work that a deacon would do
I'm, not saying that there's it's a class system like in that way
I'm, just saying that like just take like secular work for instance like uh, brother doran you work
Do you have to have certain people have to have certain classifications to dig and you know if you're working on the x excavator?
You kind of you're supposed to have a license
No, I mean, I know how things work in the real world, but different classifications
Uh, you have to be able to do that work. You have to be qualified to do that kind of work
And so as an evangelist, you know brother ian's not qualified yet to become the pastor
But that's what he's working toward but i've already deemed that I believe that he's ready to do the work of an evangelist
And so that's what he's going to be ordained at but in the in the future also doing he's already been doing the work of a
Pastor he's not the pastor but he's doing the work of a pastor. He's also been doing the work of a deacon
you know deacons were brought into
Uh serve tables to do to to actually just be like laborers and workers but that's not all they were expected to do
Because we know the first, uh martyr stephen
Was what was he he was a deacon
But he also preached and did manual labor
And so there's different classifications, you know that you have to do
Um, but you kind of have to be able to do everything, you know to be the pastor
You kind of have to be able to do
Everything in the in in classes below you at where I work
If you were a crew leader
You have to be able to do
Every position underneath you as far as and again i'm not trying to say that
Anybody in the church is underneath us in that way. I'm just saying
That leadership is held to a higher standard
And to be like a leader at my work. You have to be able to have the ability to do all the paperwork
lead people lead other
Grown men and tell them what to do
And you know, sometimes that can be difficult. Some people aren't just cut out to do that kind of stuff
Some people just cannot lead and there's nothing wrong with you if you're not a leader
But there does have to be types of people that are in leadership and and you have to be able to fulfill those roles
Let's look at act chapter six verse number one
we'll look and and what I want to look at is the life of philip and how
he uh
Was a great evangelist and a lot of people don't think of philip as a great evangelist, but he was a great evangelist
And not only was he evangelist, but he was a deacon also
Look at act six one. It says in those days when the number of the disciples was
Multiplied there arose a murmuring of the grations against the hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration
So what's going on here is well
Uh, there's so much so many people that the pastors can't keep up with all the work
And so what did they what what happened look at verse number two it says
Then the 12 called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said it is not reason that we should leave the word of god
And serve tables now
Is it wrong for pastors to help do the physical work in the church?
No, but if it's taking up so much time that they can't even study their bibles
They can't even have time to read their bibles. They don't have time to write sermons to edify the people
What's the pastor's main job to do is to feed my sheep that's what jesus said feed my lambs feed my sheep
And so as a pastor
Your job is to feed the sheep. That's the main job to watch over them to protect them to care for them
And it's not waiting tables. All right, and again, there's nothing wrong with waiting tables, but the this position was was made
So that the pastor so that the elders so that the apostles had time
To
Study the word of god. See it says it's not reason that we should leave the word of god and serve tables
Look at verse number three. It says wherefore brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report
full of the holy ghost and wisdom
whom we may appoint
Over this business. So it's not just hey find the workers find the hardest workers
Now I would say that people that are hard workers are good candidates to be in leadership
But look at they had to be of honest report
They had to be full of the holy ghost
They had to have wisdom
So what they should probably know the bible
They should be saved obviously
Uh whom we may appoint over this business now that word a point
Is another word for that ascendant for that would be what ordain?
Ordained so a point over this business now people will say, uh, you're just running the house of god like a business
Yeah, because it's a business
It's my father's business and we have to run it in a specific way
And so he's saying hey, let's appoint these men these seven men over this business of what waiting tables
Helping with the daily ministration helping with anything that the pastor needed help with
It wasn't to be some kind of lordship over the pastor
Like you see in most churches today where the deacons run the church the deacons say what what goes on the deacons say what?
What money gets spent on what that's not how this church is run this is a elder-led church
Now what it says in verse four says but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry
Of the word so they needed these deacons these workers to step up and help with the daily ministration because it's not reason for the pastor
to have to to just
Drop everything he's doing all the things that are the main thing that they're supposed to be doing to serve tables, right?
So they invented this position of the deacon alga verse number five
It says in the same please the whole multitude and they chose stephen
a man full of faith and of the holy ghost and who
philip
and prochorus and acanter
And timon and parmenius and nicholas the proselyte of antioc
But you don't really hear about these other guys too much more in the scriptures, but who do you hear about stephen?
And he was martyred and killed for his faith while he was doing what
Preaching so he was working out of class, wasn't he?
He was he was preaching the word of god and he was so powerful in his preaching
That they ran upon him gnashing upon their teeth and grabbed him and threw him outside of the city and stoned him with stones
That he died
He was a man full of the holy ghost though, wasn't he?
But he was working out. What what were the deacons first?
What did they first have to come to do they had to come to help with the daily ministration?
So but part of that is hey go preach a sermon for me over here go preach a sermon for me over there
That wasn't just about waiting tables. They were doing things out of their own class so to speak also
That says in verse six whom they set before the apostles and when they had prayed and laid their hands on them
That's ordination, right? They pray for them. And that's what i'm going to do after the service. I'm going to pray for brother
Ian i'm going to lay my hands upon him and ordain him as the evangelist here and it says
Verse seven and the word of god increased
And the number of the disciples multiplied in jerusalem greatly. So what was the end result of this happening? Well
When these seven men were ordained the word of god increased
And the number of the disciples multiplied in jerusalem greatly because of what they came in to do
They freed up the apostles and the elders
to do
more preaching to to study harder to be able to bring better sermons to
Uh be able to organize soul winning and so on and so forth, but it it was a help to the church. It wasn't a hindrance
and so
As philip was willing to do things that a pastor would do brother. Ian
I also expect you to do things that a pastor would do again. You've already been doing them, but that's
Part of the charge of this ordination. It's not just about going and preaching the gospel. It's about bible preaching
It's about doing maybe the work of a deacon
But now just because you're doing that work doesn't make you that okay, so people don't call him pastor until he
Becomes the pastor, but you don't have to call him evangelist
Either you can still call brother Ian, but you can call evangelist if you want after the service. All right, but
i'm kidding
but uh
So like I explained to you at my secular job we have those rules about
uh being in certain classes
You must be able to perform the duties underneath you like
And i'm not saying it's under like I don't want you to get me wrong here
Nothing is under beneath me as the pastor, but like I normally don't
Lead songs you could probably tell
And I normally don't lead and if I do lead songs, it's never without a piano
So I was out of my comfort zone a little bit this morning
And I got to do it this again this afternoon, but
It's fine because you know, sometimes there's a need to do something that isn't necessarily always in your wheelhouse
But you know and this is something you all can take
Upon yourself also that sometimes you got to step out and do things that you're not exactly comfortable doing
And brother Ian is going to be charged with doing things that he might not necessarily always be comfortable with, you know, sometimes
Uh, it gets it gets ugly. Sometimes the ministry gets ugly. Sometimes you're attacked. Sometimes you're
Belined and lied about sometimes there's people that creep in and try to do destruction in the church
And you know, he's got to deal with that kind of stuff
but uh
You know, it's just part of the job. So it's it's the solanine's great. The baptisms are great the church attendance and the singing
Great, you know everything that's done is being great
But sometimes there's ugly parts of the ministry that you're gonna have to deal with brother ain't
And so i'm i'm praying that for you that you have strength to deal with those situations
As they arise look at first timothy chapter three verse number eight
So I just kind of want to prove to you that you know, the deacons also did other things besides just serving tables
Um, look at what it says in the qualifications of the deacons look at first timothy chapter three verse eight. It says likewise must
Does it say must?
Yeah, must the deacons be grave that means serious not double tongued not giving a much wine
not greedy of filthy lucre
and wouldn't you say that some of these are in the
the qualifications of a bishop too
Yeah, so the deacons have to have a lot of the qualifications the bishop does pretty much almost all the same things
And it says holding the mystery of faith and pure in a pure conscience
And let these also first be proved so a deacon must also first be proved before they can become a deacon
Then let them use the office
Of a deacon being found what blameless are are pastors supposed to be blameless also. Yes pastors are supposed to be blameless
also
Even so must their wives be grave
Not slanderers sober
Faithful in all things so it even the deacon's wives even have this, you know, you can't just be some you know
Some great guy some great man of god all these you meet all these qualifications, but your wife is just kind of a slanderer
You know, she's not serious she's always just goofing around and never taking anything serious
She's a drunkard, you know, you can't you know, you it's kind of a package deal
And so you have to be faithful in all things. It says let the deacons
Be the husbands of a one wife. Isn't that one of the qualifications of a bishop?
Yeah, the husbands of one wife and it's not one wife at a time ruckmanites
That's kind of what they were they how they interpret that it's like oh, yeah
You can marry and get divorced then just keep doing that and you can still be the pastor
Or the deacon that's not what the bible is teaching here. It's the husband of one wife
Ruling their children and their own house as well. So you also have to you know, um as you're attaining, you know
these qualifications you have to be able to
Rule your children and your own house. Well, because what's the bible say that if you can't rule that your own house?
How are you going to rule the house of god?
So that's that's why that qualification is there because if your whole life's a mess and your kids are a mess and your wife's a mess
Then you know, you just aren't qualified doesn't mean you're a wicked person or anything like that
Just means you're not qualified for that position
It says in verse 13 for they that have used the office of a deacon well purchased to themselves a good degree
and great boldness in the faith, which is in
Christ jesus so great boldness that doesn't mean you're sitting behind the desk only doing paperwork, right if you have great boldness
In the faith which is in christ jesus, what are you going to be doing preaching doesn't take doesn't preaching take boldness
It does doesn't preaching the gospel take boldness. Yes, it does. So
now I showed you that philip is one of the
Seven deacons and so he had to meet all these qualifications first
But yet also he's an evangelist
And then the apostle paul told timothy he has to do the work of an evangelist
And so you see how they all kind of have some of the similar similar things
But an evangelist doesn't necessarily have to be married. Why not?
Because the apostle paul was not married and I think that the apostle paul was an evangelist, you know
What we call a missionary today is what the bible calls an evangelist because isn't that the work that philip was doing?
What was he doing? Well, we're going to get into it
But you must be able to attain some of the qualifications of bishops and and likewise
They have to do the things that an evangelist would do
so
Philip was an evangelist and he was also a deacon and i'll prove that to you at the end of the sermon that he was
an evangelist also, but
paul told timothy again
To do the work of an evangelist
And as a pastor, you don't just get to stop solely just because you become the pastor now
I know there's a lot of pastors out there that actually believe that and practice that
They're like go invite someone to church today
It's like why don't you go and invite someone to church today?
You lazy slug go out and do something go out and preach the gospel to someone
It's not their job to bring people in to march them down an aisle so they can sit there
And and bow before them and and then they lead them to the lord
It's I mean, that's not how the bible design we're supposed to go and preach the gospel, right?
Does it say bring them in and preach the gospel now? There's nothing wrong with the gospel being preached here at the building
I I agree if there's someone that's not saved
Then we should go to that person if they come to our church and try to give them an opportunity to be saved
but
The apostle paul was not married. The apostle paul did not have children and yet he was able to do the work of an evangelist
Didn't he? I mean if anybody if you can say anybody did the work of an evangelist was the apostle paul
And did he do the the office of a deacon? He probably did. You know, it says he worked with his own hands
laboring
Uh with his hands to do work
and also
um, he did the work of a pastor because
You know, but was he a pastor?
No, he wasn't qualified to be a pastor because he was he wasn't the husband of one wife and he didn't have children
So but he was also an apostle. So he's one of the ones that saw the lord jesus christ
And so he was able to do all those things
And so you see what i'm saying? Like by working out of class you do
Different things and maybe that's not your title. Maybe that's not your exact position
But you're still supposed to be able to do
All the things within the other classes, right? So
And by classes, I just mean positions. Okay. I'm not i'm not saying it's like the hierarchy of of church or something. So
but number one you must be willing brother ian to work out of class number two, you need to be able to
Preach the word of god. You need to be able to preach the word of god number two
Let's look at acts chapter eight verse number four acts chapter eight verse number four
The bible says when therefore they were scattered abroad
Went everywhere. What did the what's it say?
Preaching the word right then philip
This is philip the same philip. That was the deacon
Went down into the city of samaria and preached christ unto them
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which philip spake
Hearing and seeing the miracles which he did
For unclean spirits crying with a loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them
And many taken with palsies
And that were lame were healed
And what to say there was great joy in that city now remember jesus came with his disciples as he was going to jerusalem
And they said hey
What's called, you know, they didn't want to receive christ at that point in time
And they said hey let us call fire down like elijah did and consume them
And jesus said, you know, not what spirit you are of
Now philip comes back years later and what he turns that world the world upside down
And he goes and preaches in samaria the same place that they wanted to destroy
He came and saved those people
Because maybe they're not ready at that time
So that should just be a good clue for people when you're at the door with someone
Even if they don't want to receive what you're saying at that time
Don't leave them with the sour taste don't leave them with all those baptists, you know
They came here and they told me I was going to hell
You know, and there's nothing wrong with telling someone that but I mean there's just a tactful way to do it. Okay
So we do need to warn people
Me and hoonar were out yesterday
And there was a lady who was uh, I think she was an orthodox
And she was telling us do you believe in the cross?
You know, it's like yeah, I believe in the cross but like not the way you're saying it
Like she says we have to pick up your cross daily and follow after me
I'm, just like okay, and we're real nice to her and she was a nice lady and in the end, you know
I basically just told her, you know, she was an older lady
So like I usually try a little bit harder
If someone's an elder because that might be the last time someone ever knocks on her door
I mean and then you know, at least we needed to warn her and let her know
Hey, you know what? I just told her what you're believing is not the truth
And this is the truth is that you have to believe on the lord
Jesus christ and trust in him only for your salvation and baptism does not save you
so
You know, she was we left her with though with a good taste in her in her mouth as far as what we you know
We weren't mean to her, you know, don't just be like, oh, yeah
You don't want to receive christ. We'll go to hell then or something, you know, that's just that's not the attitude we should have
Now obviously if the person's like some reprobate or something
Even then like I knocked on the door of a reprobate yesterday
Guy had fingernail polish on both hands
Toenail polish on his toes. He was wearing some kind of a weird shirt
but then he said he wanted to hear the gospel and I was just like
Talk about getting out of your comfort zone
but then he starts talking about how judas the book of judas was taken out by the church and
You know judas actually was the one that was crucified. It wasn't jesus. I was just like
Okay, this guy's a bait. He a reprobate
But uh
So, but you know what I didn't do I didn't go you stinking queer or whatever, you know, I didn't freak out on him
I just said well
See you later, you know, we just left
You know, I said look at the card and whatever, you know, but you know if I would have said something really
Really what what I wanted to say
Then what would that have accomplished him just spazzing out freaking out probably chasing us trying to put his hands on us or something
And you know, I don't want to have them put their hands on me anyway
So I don't want to touch them in any way shape or form. So
But you know what would have done what would that have done had we the next door?
Maybe someone gets saved even though they didn't but you just don't know but like when you when you open the door to that kind
of stuff
Then, you know, obviously people are going to freak out on you regardless of whether you're nice or not
Sometimes they're just going to come around and take all the invitations off the doors. You guys ever have that happen here?
Or they just kind of wig out. I don't know we have these apartment managers
And they're usually they have to like have a blood oath to be given over to satan or something
in the states
And they'll call me and they'll email me and say, you know, you're not supposed to be here
It's like you ever heard of the first amendment
America anyway
I got off track here. But where was I at? Let's see. There's great joy in that city. So
The evangelist, uh, I mean the the deacon known as philip was also doing the work of an evangelist here
And he uh, he settled in samaria here where he preached christ now look at second timothy chapter four where we started
In our text this morning
second timothy chapter four
Verse number one the bible says I charged thee therefore before god and the lord jesus christ who shall judge
the quick and the dead
at his appearing
And his kingdom
Preach the word. So one of the one of the things that I want you to do in is preach the word
And it says be instant in season
out of season
reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering
And doctrine it's not just preach what everybody's happy with
It's not just preach, you know and make sure not to offend certain people
The bible says that we're supposed to preach in season and out of season
There's certain things that are out of season, aren't there?
There's certain things like, you know, for instance preaching against the homos that's out of season, isn't it?
And you know, you can get in trouble for it, I guess
but
You know, I mean trouble is going to come but you can't just you can't taper down the message. You can't trim the message
You know, sometimes you have to be in the same room with somebody and you're saying something that you know is a hard thing for
Them it could just be something that they're not doing right in their life
And you know that that's gonna you know, it's either gonna make them leave or it's gonna make them change
So and and listen to this folks if if ian brother ian says something and it you know rubs you the wrong way
It's like rubbing the cat backwards or whatever, you know when you rub them the wrong way
They kind of get irritated with you and scratch you
Well, don't be like that
Take in the word of god into your heart into your ears. Let it sink down
And if it's something that you know, if it makes you mad
Then it's probably something you need to work on it's probably something you need to fix
In your life, and so don't be afraid to be challenged by god's word
It's not hard preaching if it never steps on your toes, is it?
And so you have to he's going to have to preach some hard stuff
You know as my it might step on your toes. It might make you feel bad, you know
But there's plenty of churches out here you can go to they're going to make you feel good every time you walk out the doors
But you know, sometimes the hard truth is something that you need to hear
And so brother ian i'm charging you to preach the word of god
And it says with all long suffering and doctrine reprove that means to tell someone they're wrong
rebuke that means to say that they're wrong in a harsh way and then
Exhort means to encourage so he's supposed to do all three of those things. It's not just one a one-trick pony only exhortation
That's joel osteen you guys want to go to his church we'll go to his church then if you just want to be exhorted
Don't let the devil steal your joy, and he's got the big stupid smile on his face
You know these tv preachers they get up and they really literally they look the part they act the part
But literally inside they're just ravening wolves
TV jakes and all these bozos that are preaching on tv every week
You know why they're able to preach on tv like that on a live audience like that
Or whatever are recorded anyway
They're able to do that because they have all kinds of money
Because that's what they care about is
Uh the love of money, which is the root of all evil and people are going to preach things to make you
Uh, just feel good about yourself
And sometimes you should walk out the doors and feel bad about yourself
Sometimes you should walk out the doors and say I have something I need to work on
And just let the word of god change you
Because you're never going to get any better if you don't let the word of god chip away
At the hardness of your heart, you're never going to get any better
If you don't let the word of god chip away at the rough parts of you
Because when you first got saved are you any different than when you then when you got saved?
I think that most of the people in here are
What would you have been wearing the day one when you got saved?
You know tank top like I did I walked in smelling like cigarettes had a tank top of portland trailblazers
Uh tank top on a pair of shorts
Smelling like smoke
Smelling like sulfur, you know
But things chipped away the word of god was preached to me
I started to learn my bible and after a while you just you start to change don't you it's little by little here little
There a little you don't just automatically, you know, I gave up smoking the first day
You know, I I never wanted to sin again for the rest of my life. It's like you liar
You know, you were drinking beers and smoking cigarettes after you got saved even also, but you know
When the word of god comes to you, let it
Do what it does
Don't resist don't deny it when the bible says to dress like a woman dress like a woman women
When the bible says to be a man
Men then be a man
Don't be walking around with these skinny jeans on
Getting pedicures and stuff. What's wrong with you?
So
Let the word of god
Be preached and let it be preached without sparing
Now look what it says in verse three for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine
But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears?
And this is the problem right now in modern in the modern day world
Is that people want to heap to themselves? What's a heap? That's like a pile, right?
They want to pile high all these wicked false teachers
And they've turned their ears away from what the truth is
That's why when I tried to do baptisms at the hotel I was at they said oh, we don't have the license to do that
It's like you have to have a license to baptize somebody when did that happen?
only in england I guess but
Hey, we still were able to baptize yesterday and you know what it was a beautiful picturesque scene so of the ocean it was nice
but
You know people have been turned to fables
And they just refuse to hear what the word of god says anymore
And that's why they get so mad about a church like this that we get up and we just preach the bible
It says what it says
Do what it says and your life will be better off
Your marriage will be better off. Your children will be better off. Hey, you know what happens when you start actually spanking your children
Is that what you call it here? What do you call it? It says spanking. Okay, I just want to make sure it's like
You guys got some different words here, okay
Once you start spanking your children, don't they get better?
Yeah, they do
And there's some people that like they get saved and they've never spanked their kid yet and they're you know
Kind of little monsters, but then once you start spanking them they get better don't they because the bible says to spare not
You're not supposed to spare that rod are we so we're supposed to so if you're not sparing that means you're using it
Right and so now i'm gonna get in trouble for saying you should spank your kids
But I don't care because the word of god needs to be preached. Amen
And so we need to get away from the people that are going to tell you what you want to hear
And tickle your ears and make you feel all good when you go outside
and maybe you just need to have some some guy in a rough garment preach the word of god to you so that
You can get your life, right?
Because a lot of people come to church because their life is going the wrong way
But the bible is going to help you
Make your life go the right way and bible preaching is going to help you. So look what it says in verse five
But watch thou in all things endure afflictions
Do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry?
So that's what as you get ordained as an evangelist, you know
Your job is to make full proof of your ministry and then you know, we'll get together
And you know at some point i'll ordain you to be the pastor and then it'll be an independent baptist church, you know
And hopefully we'll see many churches started
From this location and you know, even ireland, you know, we might think about ireland someday now
Of course ireland, you know, it's part it's kind of part of the island a little bit, right? I don't know anyway
How about uh, what scotland? Yeah
That'd be rough. That'd be a rough ministry up there. But hey the people need the word of god in scotland too
And all of europe needs to to hear the gospel and so you guys are definitely in a better position to start churches over there
than we are in the united states, so
But it says make full proof of thy ministry for I am now ready to be offered in the time of my departures at hand
I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith and that's the most important thing is that you
finish
You know, it's it's not what you start. That's how you finish
So if you finish strong, you know each and every single one of you in here, you know
The the goal is to finish the course to finish the christian life. You run the race you finish
You know and a lot of people dash their foot against the stone and they're out of the race
Something happens hard in their life. They're out of the race, you know
Some of the pastor says something they don't like they're out of the race, you know
They listen to people that are come and corrupt the people in this church and they don't finish the race
The goal is to finish the christian life and like the apostle paul said i've fought a good fight
You know what the christian life is a fight
It's something we have to fight every single day
That lady was right yesterday when she said, you know that you have to take up your cross daily and follow after him
That's true, but it's not this cross
It's it's talking metaphorically about how jesus christ carried his cross to calvary and was crucified there
We have to take it we have to kill the old man every single day because the old man never leaves you
You know when you're saved you have the new man, but the old man never leaves and so we have to wake up every day
You know, and maybe you didn't do that good yesterday. Today is a better day
Tomorrow could be a better day
And so you have to finish the course you have to keep the faith brother. Ian
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day
And not to me only but unto all them
Also that love is appearing. So the way you finish brother. Ian can affect the way everybody in this room finishes also
And so it's not just about you know, the the man of god or whoever's leading the church
Is how they finish it's not just about them. It's about how that allows everybody else to finish
And so we all need to have our eyes on the prize and try to finish this
This race look at titus chapter 1 verse 5
titus chapter 1 verse number 5
Bible says for this cause left I be in crete
Thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city as I have appointed thee
And obviously everybody probably knows this that I have a heart for church planting. I want more churches to be planted
So that way, you know, we can fulfill the great commission
And so my goal is to ordain elders in every city but there's steps that it takes to get to that point
But look what it says if any be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly
For a bishop must be blameless. See aren't those the same qualifications you saw for the deacon
as the steward of god
Not self-willed not soon angry not given to wine. No striker not given
To filthy lucre same same basic things there
It says but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men sober just
Holy temperate and what does it say holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught?
What does that talk about talking about the bible this book is faithful the god is faithful
He's given us his word and this is a perfect translation for us to read in english
You know, this is a great book. You know what it came from this continent. It came from this island the king james bible
Amen, and this is the bible the only bible that we'll have preached at this church, you know
As long as i'm the pastor, we're never going niv, you know, I know ian likes the esv and i'm just kidding. He doesn't
He doesn't really he's king james only right and that's what this church is
But we're supposed to hold fast the faithful word
As you've been taught that it may be able to by sound doctrine both to exhort
And convince the gainsayers see, you know, we're supposed to exhort but we're also supposed to convince the gainsayers
And we're also supposed to go to battle with people, you know
That's another thing that people like want to talk about how we need to have this sweet spirit
Well, you know what the word sweet spirit is not in the bible
I don't know if you knew that or not, but that word is not even in the bible
There's a lot of different things about different spirits are in the bible
But sweet spirit is not one of them now. Am I saying that we should be a bean spirit?
No, i'm not saying that i'm just saying that sometimes you got to do, you know, if it's a battle
You know, what are the what are the life of the apostle paul show you?
What the life of the apostle paul teach you have you actually read the book of acts?
Have you actually read where paul was just always being chased down the jews are always trying to go and cause trouble with him
They beat him with rods he was shipwrecked three times he was stoned with stones, you know, he was lashed
He was beaten with rods all these different things
Sounds like he was in a fight sounds like he was in a battle, right?
And sometimes people are lying about him and maligning him and saying all kinds of manner of evil against him
But uh, you know he's saying here to titus
He's saying look look at verse 10 for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
Especially them of the circumcision whose mouth must be allowed to discontinue. Is that what it says?
No, it says whose mouth must be stopped
Right their mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses
Teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. What's the real agenda ultimately filthy lucre?
That's what it is. And that means filthy money
The love of money is the root of all evil
But there's going to be people that try to creep into this church
There's going to be enemies from the outside that want to say all manner of evil about us
And the bible says that we got to stop their mouths and how would you do that preaching?
I get a lot of grief over my billy graham sermon every day. I have people just emailing me
Not emailing me necessarily about youtube comments
About that sermon and they're all mad about it, but he was a false prophet folks
Sorry to tell you that but billy graham was a false prophet and a lot of people from england are on those comments
Like billy graham was better than you. It's just all this stuff. Okay
He preached the right gospel. How dare you talk about billy? Like they're just like best friends with them or something. Oh billy boy
The bible says their mouths must be stopped. What did he teach you have to repent of your sins?
I repent of my sins, you know, that's part of his his prayer when he closes with supposedly leads some of the lord
But the bible says people like that make people too full more the child of hell than they are themselves
There are evil people out there folks and we do have to do battle with them
And it's not a mean spirit
To preach against false prophets. It's not it's right. It's what's right. It's what he said to do, right their mouths must be stopped
Why because they subvert whole houses they convert people to their evil ways
And it says that we have to convince the gate the gainsayers, you know what brother ian has to preach sometimes again
You know, he preached against the church of england
That's the state-led
Religion here the state actually, I mean the what is it the prime minister actually appoints the people
That are the clergy. I mean talk about a corrupted system
I don't know if you know this but your prime minister is probably not a very good person
Just like our president is it if our president appointed the people that were supposed to lead the the religion
We don't even have a state religion. We're not allowed to have a state religion
In our country, but i'm not trying to like, you know, say ours is better or something like that. Okay
But i'm just saying that
You know, we have these wicked people and it's just weird that we would have you'd have a state religion
Telling you who who can license the religion?
Who can be licensed to baptize, you know, don't they don't they use a squirt gun or something to baptize people here or something?
I mean, don't they spray people with water they drip water on them or something?
That's not what the bible says it says they went down into the water, right
so
Um, so a pot the apostles preached pastors preach deacons preach
Evangelists preach did phillips preach the apostles preached the apostles preached the apostles preached the apostles?
Will it preach?
Yes, he did. Was he a deacon? Yeah, he was but he was also what an evangelist
Look at ephesians chapter 4 verse number 11. Ephesians chapter 4 verse number 11
God gives leadership as a gift to the people
And you know people have a hard time with this
They have a hard time swallowing but what just look at what the bible says
And he gave some
gave right
He gave right what was it when he gives something it's a gift right and he gave some apostles and some
Prophets and some what to say?
evangelists
and some pastors
And teachers what to say for the perfecting of the saints to make them not perfect so they can walk on water
But you're the total package that means that you're a complete christian
For the perfecting of the saints for the what's it say?
The work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of christ
So it's a gift that you get when you get an evangelist when you have a pastor
Look at all the places out there that don't have a pastor
Look at all the people around the world that believe just like we do but they don't have a pastor
They don't have an apostle. Well, there's no more apostles. They don't have a
Prophet, they don't have a teacher. They don't have a pastor. They don't have an evangelist
They're just a group of people just trying to do their best to serve god in this wicked and adulterous generation that we live in
Where legitimate churches aren't even considered legitimate. We're called cults
Well, you know
Call me a cult member then because I believe the bible
Like why do you even why would you even call yourself a christian if you don't believe this book why
Why
You know, it's just like I make this example like hey who's got a watch on right now
What time does it say exactly brother ian?
11 41 anybody else got a different time
Everybody else got what's that say 11 44
Which one's right? They're all the same though
They're all the same all the all clocks are the same right all watches are the same
That's what they try to say about the bible
There's only one right bible folks. There's only one right bible in english. It's the king james bible
So it's you know, they can't if they all say different things
My point is if they all say different things and they all can't be right
Just like not all clocks are right. Okay, my clock's right
11 41 and 51 seconds, right? Anyway
My book's right the king james. All right, so, um, we're still on ephesians chapter 4 verse 13
Says tell we all come in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the son of god
Unto a perfect man into a measure of the statue of the fullness of christ that we henceforth be no more children
Tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men
And the cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive
Everybody's good though
Everybody's pretty much good. No, they're not pretty much good
There's people they're lying in wait to deceive you
And it's a gift to you that you're going to have an evangelist to lead this church
And hopefully someday soon to be the pastor of this church and you know, don't give this guy a bunch of grief
You know, is he going to be perfect? Is he going to be the perfect evangelist?
I don't know
I hope he's real close
But he's probably not going to be he's going to fall short
He's a man just like everybody every other man in this room and we all have our own problems, right?
We're not always going to do everything perfect
So don't put something on him that he's not able to accomplish
You know ours the bible says that you have to have your children in subjection
Doesn't say they have to be perfect
Doesn't say they have to be sinless
He doesn't have to be sinless either
Does it say must be sinless
Well, no, there would be no pastors in existence if that was true
So that's just not a right standard to hold on someone and so don't start thinking that he has to you know
Obviously he has to be you know
He has to do certain things on a higher caliber, but to to expect perfect that's
You know perfect if you say complete that's good. But perfect as in he walks on water. That's not going to happen
You're never going to see him on the south end sea, you know walking on the water. Okay?
Number three is my last point
The work of an evangelist is to fulfill
The great commission so not only do you have to preach the word of god, but you also have to fulfill
The great commission that's talking about evangelism
right soul winning
Baptizing, you know teaching look at acts chapter eight verse nine acts chapter eight verse nine
Acts chapter eight verse nine the bible says
But there was a certain man named called simon which before time
In the same city used sorcery and bewitched the people of samaria giving out that he that himself was some great one
To whom they all gave heed
From the least to the greatest saying this man is the great power of god and to him
They had regard because of that long time. He had bewitched them with sorcery. So this guy's not a very good guy
He's a sorcerer, right?
And so he's a bad guy, but look at verse 12 it says
So he's a bad guy but look at verse 12 says but when they believed philip
Preaching the things concerning the kingdom of god and the name of jesus christ. They were baptized both men and women
So see this evangelist this deacon
And evangelist this guy came and made a big waves in the city of samaria and this sorcerer
See sometimes even the most wicked people are going to get saved
You know, we we have a guy that was a former mason in our church. He wasn't 33rd degree
Okay, so don't worry
but you know sometimes
You know people are going to get converted there are witches. Sometimes people are going to convert it that are sorcerers
I mean, that's what the bible says right manassa
Was like one of the worst witchcraft sorcerer devil worshippers there was and he got saved. That's what I believe
so sometimes
There's going to be these people that you know have a lot of issues
They're going to get saved says then simon himself believed also and when he was baptized he continued with who?
with philip
See a good man or good people are going to attach themselves to a good man
And philip was a good man. It says in wonder beholding miracles and signs which were done
Now when the apostles which were at drussell heard that samaria had received the word of god they sent unto them peter and john
Isn't that funny though? They sent peter and john aren't those guys two of the same guys that said hey lord
Let's call down fire and and have a barbecue here lord
All right, they wanted to destroy these people. But when they heard that samaria
Heard the word of god they came to help
So at somewhere down the line, they had a change of heart and didn't want these people to be destroyed
Now hold your finger here in acts chapter 8 and turn to matthew chapter 28 verse 19
matthew chapter 28 verse 19
It says in matthew chapter 28 verse 19 says go ye therefore and teach all nations
baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost
And we committed some of the we I mean we commended some of the saints to baptism yesterday
And it says baptizing them in the name of the father son the holy ghost didn't I?
Baptized in the name of the father son the holy ghost yesterday. That's part of the great commission
That's one of the things that jesus told us, but he says go ye therefore
Teach all nations look at verse 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. I've commanded you
And lo I am with you always even until the end of the world look folks we have the power of jesus christ
Every time we go out soul winning don't think that you're alone
We have the lord jesus christ going with us all power is given unto me in heaven and earth is what he says
And so he gives us that power at pentecost what he do. He gave the disciples the power of god of the holy ghost
They already had the holy ghost but the holy ghost came to them with power
Didn't he and you know what you each and every single person in this room has power more power than you probably realize
Because you're going forth in jesus name and we're going and preaching the gospel
Teaching nations baptizing them and that's what philip was doing here wasn't he?
He was going he got a lot of people in samaria saved. He converted some sorcerer and that sorcerer started to follow him
Now was the sorcerer perfect? No, he's called simon the sorcerer
And he you know, he did some things that he wasn't supposed to do after this but that just shows you that
People aren't going to be always perfect once they get saved. They're going to have some issues
Now go back to acts chapter 8 where I had you and look at verse 26
Acts chapter 8 verse 26
And the angel of the lord spake unto philip saying arise and go toward the south unto the way
That goeth down from jerusalem unto gaza, which is desert and what's to say he arose and went
And behold a man of etheopia eunuch of great authority under candace queen of the etheopians
Who had the charge of all the treasure and came to jerusalem for the worship was returning and sitting in his chair
Chariot read isaias the prophet and the spirit said unto philip go near and join themselves to his chariot
And philip ran dither to him
And heard him read the prophet isaias and said understandest what thou what thou readest and he said how can I?
Except some man should guide me and he desired philip that he should come up and sit with him
So here's this story
so it's the same chapter where he goes to samaria gets all these people say is but the
But the spirit of god says hey go and join yourself into this chariot
You know as an evangelist brother ian, you know
It's not just about evangelizing this area here, but it's about going to other places also
And you guys do this so many marathons once a month. That's great
And you know, I I expect that at some point you might go to scotland or you might go to ireland to have some kind
of soul winning marathon, you know, I mean you're gonna have to pick out some good spots, but
I'm just kidding, but ever hey people still need to hear that the world may know
We want the world to know who the lord is i'm just going to read this this scripture real quickly
It says in uh roman chapter 1 verse 15
You can just keep where you're at so as much as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel
To you that are at rome also, so we have to be always be ready and brother ian
You have to always be ready to jump out and and reach these ethiopian eunuchs and get them saved be willing to go
You know because you you have a lot of responsibility
But don't forget the main part of your response, you know, the the word evangelist is someone that goes and preaches the gospel, right?
So don't lose track of that part
Of your calling the work of an evangelist is to go out and evangelize people look at acts 8 32
In the place of the scripture which he read was this
he was
Led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb done before the shearer so opened he not his mouth
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth
And the eunuch answered philip and said I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophet this of himself or of some other man
Then philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him. Jesus
As they went on their way they came to a certain water and the eunuch said see here's water
What doth hinder me to be baptized?
And philip said if thou believeth with all thine heart
Thou mayest and he answered and said I believe that jesus christ is the son of god
And he commanded the chariot to stand still and they went
Down both into the water both philip and the eunuch and he baptized him
And when they were come up out of the water the spirit of the lord caught away philip that the eunuch saw him no more
And he went on his way rejoicing
See and that's just a great story of fulfilling the great commission the lord sent him to this man
This man's reading the bible. He doesn't understand what he's even reading
And then
That's what philip says. Hey, you understand what you're reading?
And how many times do we go to people's doors and they say, you know, I was just thinking about
Going to church. I was just thinking about what it takes to be saved. Do you think that's an accident?
No, god sends us to doors and it's not like he tells you. Hey go to this door
But the spirit of god is going to send us where we need to go
You know, and that's why it's important that we have someone leading this soul winning someone leading the charge
And I know that there's captains in here that that leads so many but think about this, you know
How many times have you heard something like that?
That's not every door that you hear it
But a lot of times you do hear it you hear I was just thinking what it takes to be saved just a few minutes ago
It's like yeah the spirit of god sent me to your door
I mean, that's just a fact, right?
But brother ian, you got to be willing to continue
uh to fulfill the great commission
And uh, look what it says in verse 40. I think this is really interesting
It says but philip was founded as otis and passing through he preached in all the cities till he came to where
cesarea
Now let's pick up the story many years later
See a lot of people think that evangelists that you know, they just go for a little while and they stop being an evangelist
You know, but philip didn't stop being an evangelist
And i'm not exactly sure how many years have passed between acts chapter 8 and acts chapter 21. I didn't sit down and
Figure all that out
But many years later
Philip is still doing the same thing. Remember he leaves off
In acts 8 40 says tell he came to cesarea
So he went in all these cities he was preaching doing the work of an evangelist
baptizing people
Look at acts 28 or 21 verse 8
It says in the next day we that were of paul's company departed and came to where?
cesarea the same place where we see philip leaving off
It says when we entered into the house of philip the what what's he called the evangelist
Which was one of the what?
Seven so here we have it nailed down. He was one of the first deacons and he's also the evangelist. He's both
Right. He was one of the seven and abode with him
So he's a hospitable guy they all abode with him and the same man had four daughters virgins, which did what?
Prophesied
Now they're not fortune tell they're not telling the future here
But I would say that they're soul winning ladies virgins soul winning ladies
And so what does that tell you that philip raised his family? Well, he ruled his family
Well, he still had those qualifications in place as a deacon
And it says as we tarried there many days
There came down from judia a certain prophet named agabus. So
They you know, it shows also that philip's a hospitable guy
But where did he what did he do he planted roots in cesarea said, you know what i'm going to stay in cesarea
And just raise my family there
Do continue to do he says he was still an evangelist, right? So an evangelist can plant roots in a place
And you know, sometimes there there might be a situation where someone maybe they're not qualified to be a pastor. They're an evangelist
They're not qualified to be a pastor, but that person could stay an evangelist for many many years
Does that mean that their church is not legitimate?
No
i'm sure he had some kind of an outpost that he was ruling there that he was ruling over but wasn't a
You know, he wasn't a pastor. He was an evangelist. I don't know what the reason for that was
Maybe he just didn't want to be one
but you know just because
Ian's an evangelist doesn't mean that this church is not legit. This church is legit
Amen
So we're just as legit as anybody else
So number one an evangelist should be willing to work out of class
Number two an evangelist must be willing to preach the word of god regardless of who it offends
regardless of what what
What season it is?
You know, you got to preach the word of god brother. Ian
And an evangelist must be willing to fulfill the great commission. That means continue soul winning preaching
Evangelism and the great commission baptizing, you know and leading this church and so my charge to you brother
Ian is that you lead this church well and that you continue
To work towards, you know getting your qualifications as a bishop
and
I'm commending this church to you and everybody here under the sound of my voice
You know, ian is the leader here and that's not going to change unless he does something that makes me mad. No, i'm just kidding
but
You won't know about it if he makes me mad it'll be a private thing but uh,
Ian, you know, you've done a great job so far and I want you to come up and i'm gonna
Let's put this over here just have to come right here and so i'm gonna pray for ian and command him into the ministry. All right
Heavenly father lord, we pray right now for brother. Ian the lord you just bless him and fill him with your spirit and lord that he
would
Uh, we would continue with the charge that's been given to him
To continue to preach the word of god to lead this church to preach the gospel lord
I just pray for him and his family and uh his children
I pray lord that he would be a great leader in his home and a great leader in this church and lord
I just commend this church into his hands
As the pastor of sure foundation baptist church. I now ordain ian as an evangelist to sure foundation baptist in the uk
In jesus name we pray. Amen
Congratulations. All right. This is your evangelist everybody
Song