And proud, please.
256.
Ah.
I guess I'm moving on. Welcome to Springcrest Baptist Church. Thank you for being here on a
Wednesday afternoon. And we have a special treat today. We have Brother Philip visiting us from
Steadfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth. And he will actually be guest preaching for us today.
So I'm looking forward to it. I really appreciate not only Brother Philip, but even Pastor Shelley
When I broke my collar bone, I asked them if they could just send some guys over to help reduce some of the load and everybody's has been great.
As a matter of fact, I got a couple of people lined up for the next couple of weeks.
So my goal is...
From October on to be back and just preach full three week three times a week
But for the month of September, we're gonna get as many guests in here as possible because I'm still just trying to recover
But right there on the left. We have Sunday morning services at 10 30 Sunday evening 4 30 p.m.
Wednesday services 5 30 and then we have our soul winning time at 2 p.m. I
Haven't decided but I think I'm gonna try to do
I don't know who saw but Pastor Shelly put out a post about doing a soul-winning marathon
for
Just an honor of a brother who died in Christ. His name is Kevin Rowe. If you've ever met him
He was a really nice guy
Really is Ellis for the Lord and you know, just it's hard to lose someone like that
But in honor of that, you know, Pastor Shelly put out a challenge to just do an extra hour of soul winning
So wherever we can we're gonna we're gonna try to participate in that
So I'll let you guys know on that. If not, maybe Sunday will just
double up or something. The memory chapter is Philippians 1 and the verse for this week is
Philippians 1-5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now and then our souls
year to date are actually I got an update is 196 so we're at 196 and we'll set up so on the 30th
of September is six weeks from the date of surgery so I should
be way better. I should be back to normal or as close to normal as possible. I won't be 100% from
here for probably three months, but I'm talking physically. And my goal is to just have as many
events as possible. So many events, guest preachers and stuff like that for the last quarter.
So we're getting ready for his 90th birthday.
We'll just have a big shebang, you know,
big party next year for his 90th.
And then keep praying for the soul winners.
I've been getting the updates.
They're just knocking it out.
I thought, I think I saw on the group chat today
that 37 just this morning alone in Mexico City.
So they're going to be there through the week.
I was planning on being there this week, of course.
and but I'm really excited there I'm praying for them I know it won't be the last time it'll be
I think it's the first time it won't be the last so keep praying for them there and then just uh
right there on the prayer list I did for Sunday I did at Brother Kevin Rowe again if you don't
know him he was a member of faithful word uh as a matter of fact he's credited with the cruise missions
Trips, he's the one that actually did it first and then brought the idea to Pastor Anderson and then that's what kind of triggered all of that
unfortunately
he was
He was killed by a drunk driver on Sunday and he leaves up his wife and them him and not been married
But less than a year
and they have a baby daughter that's five months old so I think it's a daughter I
you know what they have a baby child I don't remember if it's a daughter or something but
I met him at the king james conference and two things stood out to me number one he's really
nice guy typical engineer I don't know if you guys know this but one pastor wrestle has this group
And he allowed me and Kevin to be in there,
even though we don't have a lot of weight to lose
because we're trying to just stay fit.
And I was like, hey, I'm counting calories
and I've lost a couple of pounds.
And he would be like, hey, I'm counting calories
and my BMI is this and my body fat.
And I was like, you know, the typical engineer,
like always overdoing it.
I was like, I can't keep up with that guy.
Like he had way too much data.
But the other thing that really stood out,
I guess he had to leave early,
either on Saturday or Sunday.
And like him and his wife just couldn't get enough of each other, you know
There was like a lot of smooching going on because they were gonna miss each other
And it was only gonna be like a couple of days
So, you know, that's always really sweet to see right that they're just deeply in love
They're doing in the right context. Hey, you want it?
Make out with your wife. That's your wife, you know, we're against the other stuff, right?
So, you know, I know they'll miss them and then there is a go fund me if you guys need the link or anybody wants to
I know will support it and they I think they've almost hit their goal for her because she's just going through as you can imagine
It's just devastating. We've gotten news like that in the past
not exactly in the same context, but when it's sudden death, it always hits a little bit harder.
And then on top of that, I mean, it's just been a kind of a crazy week in the world.
I mean, some random guy stabs some lady in a car and then, I mean, sorry, in a train.
Thank you, honey, for clearing that up for me. And then today, for those of you who don't know,
Charlie Kirk, who's a conservative pundit, I think he was saved. I'm not going to say he wasn't
but he was shot and killed by a sniper
at an event at a college.
So, you know, the devil's trying to shut people up.
It's our duty to speak up louder.
You know, we just got to get ready for the fight.
As a matter of fact, I almost called brother Phillips
and said, I'm preaching tonight.
I get fired up a lot of stuff, but no,
I wouldn't be able to.
He's gonna bring fire tonight.
I'm excited about it.
And, you know, the preacher always wants to preach,
especially under fire.
So that's just the way we are.
Other than that, I'm just really grateful to Brother Philip,
encourage him, pray for him as he's about to preach for us.
And if there's nothing else, is there any announcements or anybody that we need to
update or remove from the prayer list? If not...
Oh, yeah, that's true and it is we I was at the thing. He's actually
Thinking of competing next year at the mighty men's conference, you know, so his brother Samson, then me
We'll see who we add to the trifecta next year. I'm just kidding
So I'm just joking, but let's turn our handles over to page 260 260
Our handles over to page 260 there is power in the blood
in Matthew 6, Matthew 6. So turn your voice to Matthew 6 as well. 575 take my life and
let it be on the first.
Yeah
Matthew 6. We'll start there in verse 1 of Matthew 6.
Take heed that you do not do your alms before man to be seen of them,
otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as thy hypocrites
do in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men, verily I
say unto you that they have the reward.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."
that thine alms may be in secret, and thy father, which seeth in secret himself, shall reward the openly.
And when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets."
that they may be seen of men.
Barely, I say unto you, they have their reward.
But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet,
and when thou shalt thy door pray to thy father,
which is in secret, and thy father which seeeth in secret,
shall reward thee openly.
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions
as the heathens do, before they think
that they shall be heard of their much speaking,
be not therefore like unto them, for your father
After this manner therefore pray ye, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever.
Amen. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Moreover, when you fast, be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces,
but they may appear unto men to fast. Barely I say unto you, they have their reward.
But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face,
that thou appear not into men to fast, but unto thy father which is a secret,
and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust a doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal,
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full
of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light
that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness? No man can serve two masters for either
he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold the one and despise the other.
He cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life,
nor yet for your body what ye shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment?
Behold, the fowls of the air, for they sown at, neither do they reap nor gather to barns,
yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which of you by taking thought can add one cuban unto his stature?
And why take ye thought for your raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin,
and yet I say unto you that even Solomon and all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these.
Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is
cast into the oven, shall not he much more clothe you, O ye, of little faith.
Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal
for after all these things do the Gentiles seek.
For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you
Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Let us pray heavenly Father Lord. Thank you so much for today
Thank you for your opportunity to be here on a Wednesday. Thank you that brother Philip was able to make the trip
We appreciate his willingness to preach, help him to thunder your word,
Lord, and fill him with your spirit. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen, just want to thank Pastor Reyes for inviting me to preach tonight.
He's a good friend, met him some time ago, saw him at the KGB conference, met him at
the men's retreat, where he, you know, sadly nearly lost his shoulder, but he survived.
So but yeah, it's very grateful for him to ask me to come down and help and get to blessing.
So Stem Fast Baptist Church has some really good preachers, so I hope that some other
can come down and be a blessing to you also. And thanks to Pastor Shelley for also being a friend
to Pastor Reyes too. So thank you very much. And we're in Matthew chapter 6, the verses that I
want to point out are verses 16 through 17, looking verses 16 through 17, which says,
moreover, when you fast, be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their
They have their reward, but when thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy feet, so Jesus
here is trying to teach us and teach these people how to fast, what is the right way
to fast?
And obviously the wrong way here is to go around and looking pitiful because that's
what these Pharisees, that's what these hypocrites are doing.
They're making themselves to look like they're kind of pitiful, disheveled, they're in some
sort of distress.
distress, because if you've ever fasted before, it's very difficult. It's taxing on the body.
It's not easy. You're thirsty. You're hungry. You get frustrated. You're very irritable.
But Jesus doesn't want us to show those types of feelings or emotions when we're fasting. That's
not what he wants us to do, because those type of things make you look weak. And when we present
ourselves as a Christian, we shouldn't present ourselves as a weak person. We should present
And there are a few applications I'd like to make from this verse that we can all apply to ourselves
that will help us appear to be strong, clean, upright, ready, and some other things.
And so the title of my sermon tonight is Wash Your Face.
And I have four points today that emphasizes this commandment that Jesus is telling the people to wash their face
Right and point number one here is wash your face and stop being lazy
Wash your face and stop being lazy. You know, it's not a virtue to look sloppy
It's not a virtue to leave the house and not being put together
It's not a virtue to walk around looking gross looking disheveled looking pitiful in fact
I'm telling you people are gonna think you're weak
and a Christian should never look weak. We should look like that we're in some sort of
despair in some way, right? We should show some sort of strength and faith in God.
And, you know, Jesus is giving this commandment that, hey, when you're fasting, when you're going
through this, yeah, it's difficult. But when you come out of that house, look like everything's okay.
Look like everything is great, because really, everything is great. Everything is great. So
He doesn't want them to look their house or leave the house looking horrible looking completely just a wreck
It's not a way that we should present ourselves as Christian going to your bibles to song of Solomon chapter 4
Song of Solomon chapter 4 now. This is you know something that we should understand that looking sloppy and dirty is just not a virtue
It's just not good when we're out and about in our daily lives
And I don't I don't remember God ever wanting a Christian to be lazy
I don't ever see in a Bible where God said, hey, it's okay to be lazy.
It's okay to not take care of yourself.
It's okay to just be sloppy, be dirty.
Who really cares the way that you look?
I don't remember the Bible ever giving a Christian permission to look like a bum.
I really don't, right?
And so I clearly look.
What it does is it creates a really good impression on people, okay?
It can boost your confidence.
And really, when you think about it, no one really thinks highly of sloppy people.
I don't think there's a person out here you can think of like, oh, that guy's awesome because he's sloppy and doesn't put himself together
It doesn't exist
We should put ourselves together when we leave the house, we should wash our face, we should
clean ourselves up. This is a very basic thing, but some people just have a hard problem with
putting themselves together. And I don't know why it's very difficult because here in America,
we live in the greatest country on earth, where wealth is in abundance, where really no one
And it's really easy to get access to clothes.
It's really easy to get access to shampoo and toothbrushes
and all these basic necessities.
Anybody can get these things.
You know, and for someone to leave the house looking like a wreck, they're just looking
lazy because these things are in abundance.
You can get these things.
You can go to the store and get shampoo.
You can go to the store and get a toothbrush and some toothpaste.
You can go to the store and buy clothes.
Yeah, I understand that the Bible is teaching us that we shouldn't dress in this lavish
way wearing very expensive clothing and jewelry.
The Bible teaches us not to do that, but it's not permission to look sloppy.
That's not permission to look completely a wreck when you leave the house, right?
In here in America, and frankly, in Texas, we live in a great state too, right? If you talk to
anybody about the South that had moved here from anywhere in the country, they like the South
because people are very hospitable and very nice. And frankly, the cost of living is a lot better
than other places in the country. I would say the food is pretty good. You get abundance of food.
But just because God wants to stay away from those expensive closing, it doesn't mean that,
hey, just look bad, just look sloppy, right?
And when you leave the house sloppy,
you're just not presenting yourself as a diligent person, right?
The Bible says this in Ecclesiastes 9, verse 10,
it says,
whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might,
for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge,
nor wisdom in the grave with the valgoist.
You know, when we're doing things,
we should try to do the best that we can.
We should, hey, whatever you have,
do the best with what you got.
When you go to your closet and you're looking in there
and you're like, this is all I have.
Okay, well iron it.
Take the clothes out and iron your clothes.
You don't match your clothes up, figure out what looks good, figure that out.
There's nothing wrong with taking just a little bit of time in your morning, in your
day to figure out how can I just present myself in a decent way and not look like I'm lazy
and a bum.
It's really tiring when you go out, you go to different places.
I travel a lot, so I'm in the airport a lot, and people just are slobs.
I don't know why they think it's okay to leave the house the way they are.
They're wearing pajamas, they're wearing underwear, they don't look like they showered.
They look grungy and it's just not cool. It's sloppy and I don't think that God wants people
walking around just looking like a slob. Now he's not asking people to go out there and buy an
expensive clothes, buy expensive jewelry, wear tons of makeup, wear all this perfume and go out of
your way but you know there's nothing wrong with taking just a couple minutes to say okay where
Let me brush my teeth, let me put on some clean socks.
I don't like people think it's OK to dress like a teenager.
It's very common for teenagers to be sloppy.
We were all teenagers at one time, especially the guys.
We were the worst.
We would take clothes off, throw it in the back of the closet,
kick them under the bed.
When you get up for school, you're like, oh, man,
what am I going to wear?
You'd shake out the jeans.
You'd shake out the shirt, and you're just
trying to do your best.
You'd get your axe spray and spray it on there.
But at the end of the day, you know,
Halfway through the school day, you would just end up smelling like dirty axe. It was really bad
But you know that's the thing is that you know if you're a single guy and you're trying to find a spouse
What you want to clean yourself up? What do you want to look nice?
I don't know what it is with single guys today. They're complaining about women when they look like trash
when they can't clean themselves up.
They can't put on some decent clothes
and iron their pants or iron their shirt
and look good for trying to find a spouse.
I mean, if I was single and I'm trying to find a spouse,
I would probably clean myself up as best as I could.
Whatever means that I have, I would do it.
Hey, there's plenty of thrift shops out there
and you know what, Ross is cheap,
Five Below is cheap, Wal-Mart's cheap.
I mean, even Target's cheap.
You can go online, Walmart has sales on tons of clothes.
You can find something to wear.
It's no excuse to walk around and raggedy clothes
that don't match.
It's just no excuse, right?
And people try to act like, oh, you trying to tell me
that, you know, I know look all expensive and stuff.
And I'm like, look, I'm not trying to tell you
to look expensive.
I'm just trying to tell you to just take a couple minutes
out of your day to put yourself together.
I mean, I have a job to go to.
What if I show up to work just a complete wreck?
My job is to have business casual.
That's what I'm supposed to wear.
And if I have a beard,
it needs to be cleaned up pretty much, right?
That they're wrong in having a beard,
but for me, it needs to be cleaned up,
it needs to be trimmed, it needs to look decent.
I can't go to a meeting.
I can't go out and do my job looking like a wreck.
My boss would be like, go home.
What's wrong with you? What's going on?
And when people look like they're a wreck,
when they're disheveled, when they look pitiful,
you often think, what's wrong with that person?
What's wrong with him? Why can't they take a shower?
Why can't they iron their clothes?
Why don't they have anything decent to wear?
We're not children, right?
We should act like adults and dress like adults
and not dress like children.
It doesn't take very long to put some decent clothes on.
It doesn't take very long to look in your closet and say,
That's dirty. I probably shouldn't wear that or man. That's really wrinkled. Maybe I should throw in the dryer
Maybe I should buy a $5 iron
Maybe I should buy an ironing board and iron this or learn how to iron. I learned how to iron when I was about 13 years old
I would watch my mom get ready for work now my dad works swing shift
Plus he went to school full-time. So I hardly got to see my dad around maybe on the weekends
Especially on Sundays. It was I grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin. So on Sundays, it was you you're watching the Packer game
I mean, I grew up Catholic, so we would fly to Mass in the morning and fly home, and you're
probably listening to the game on the radio, right?
But during the work week, it was my mother that's up in the morning, and I would watch
her get ready for work, and she would be right in the kitchen, she'd pull out that little
cutting board, right?
If you have older houses, you have that little cutting board, you'd pull it out from, you
know, from your countertop, and she would lay her ironing board on there, and she would
And, you know, that's where I learned, like, hey, can I iron my shirt?
She's like, yeah, let me teach you how.
My mom literally taught me how to iron my clothes, and I just started ironing my clothes
at 13 years old.
Why?
Because she's teaching me not to be a slob, right?
Even if I'm going to high school or middle school, I'm learning to clean my clothes up,
and I'm thankful that my mom taught me how to do that as a teenager, otherwise I would
have been in real big trouble, right?
But the thing is is that you know if you're trying to find a spouse clean yourself up guys
work on it. You know, there's plenty of resources out there.
You can learn how to match your clothes.
You don't have to wear these weird outfits.
You look like a clown, right?
Put some shoes on. You don't have to wear flip flops everywhere.
You know, I can't show up to work in flip flops,
even though sometimes they're comfy.
We have to put ourselves together as men.
We have to act like men. You know, the Bible says
when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Put away the childish attitude of being sloppy.
That's what children do. Children can't dress themselves. Children can't comb their hair.
Children can't brush their teeth. You come into my house, you look at my seven-year-old son.
He looks like a wreck sometimes. I tell him to get ready for church. I'm like, you're wearing that.
His hair is all messed up. It's got bed head. I have to come here and I brush his hair and
straighten it up or I take off the shirt. Let me iron it.
I mean, that's what a child does.
And as men, is that what you want to show?
Is that what you want to walk out showing
to a potential spouse is, hey, I'm a child.
Look at me, but I want a wife too.
And I can take care of you too.
She's going to be like, no, you look like a child.
You can't take care of me.
I need a man to take care of me.
So maybe we should have the attitude that a man should have
and take care of himself before he leaves the house.
Right?
And same with ladies. I mean a woman needs to look decent she can't go out there looking for a husband
Dressed like a slob dressed in pajamas
Dressed in what she woke up in right she should put herself together
Like I said the Bible is not telling you to paint your face and to put on all this costly jewelry
Guys don't care about cost costly jewelry and really guys don't care too much for makeup really
It's really an attitude for a woman
But a man can tell if a woman's actually trying to put herself together the same with the women
They can tell when a guy is actually giving some effort to look decent and not look like a bum
And look, when I saw my wife, she looked pretty.
She was looking nice, right?
She was going out of, a little bit out of her way to look pleasant.
Why?
Because she doesn't want to look like trash, and I'm not going to be attracted to a trashy
looking woman.
And as Christians, we don't need to look trashy.
And for wives and for husbands, for your spouse, try to look good.
Right try to make yourself smell good be tender to look at be tender to smell
You know my wife doesn't want to marry or be married to a guy who just constantly looks like a slob and who smells
She doesn't want to get close to rub up on a guy who just smelled like he came out of the field from working
Yeah, I may smell like that sometimes when I mow the lawn or whatever, you know
But generally speaking, I don't need to be smelling like that all the time.
I don't need to be looking like a slob.
I should put myself together for my spouse and actually look decent.
And the same with my spouse, she should put herself together for me
and try to look good and try to look decent and try to be appealing.
I mean, isn't that what you want from your spouse to look decent?
Or you want your spouse to be interested in something else.
Now, I don't want my spouse to be interested in another man,
so I'm going to look good.
I'm going to do what I can to stay attractive to my wife.
I've been with my wife for over 20 years now.
I took her out on her 18th birthday.
I asked her out on a Monday.
Her birthday was a Friday.
And I was like, how old are you?
She said, 17.
I'm like, dang it.
I'm like, when's your birthday?
She said, Friday.
I said, game.
I took her out on her 18th birthday.
I walked into the house.
She had a bunch of family members there.
you know and I'm like okay this is kind of awkward I guess I'm meeting the family on the first day
hi uncle so-and-so hi aunt so-and-so I'm taking out Lauren oh okay next thing you know didn't
look back I married that woman and I'm happy I did and she looked good that night she looked nice
I love the way she looked and I like the way she looks now she looks pretty I'm attracted to my
wife and you know what you should look attractive to your spouse look at a song or Solomon chapter
there is no spot in me. When our spouses look at us, they don't want to see someone who's filthy.
They want to see someone who looks good, who smells good, who you want to touch and love up on, right?
That's what my wife probably wants from a man, right?
Someone she could hold and that smells good.
She doesn't want to love up on a smelly guy who stinks,
who doesn't take care of himself.
She wants to love up on a good smelling man.
You know what?
For me, I want to love up on a good smelling woman.
I don't want to love up on a wife that smells,
that stinks, that doesn't look good.
It doesn't take care of herself or has no respect for herself.
I'd rather have that look at verse 11.
Look at verse 11 and it says the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. Whatever Lebanon's smell like
It probably doesn't smell like that today
Smell good. Okay, the Middle East doesn't smell good. I was there in Iraq. It stinks. Okay, it doesn't smell good
But there was a time where Lebanon smelled good. It was decent
And what is he trying is what is what is the Bible saying is that hey? I like the way that you smell
Do you smell good for your spouse when your spouse gets close to you? Is she like I like that cologne?
I like the way that you smell I carry some cologne with me
I don't wear it all the time, but there are times I put some cologne on why because I want to smell nice
I don't want to be smelling like a bum and smelling disgusting look all I'm trying to say is don't look sloppy
Don't look unkept unkept take care of yourself wash your face wake up in the morning and get ready for the day
Take a couple minutes
to get ready.
It's not that hard.
These are just basic 101 stuff for people.
It's just to take care of themselves.
You know what, that might help you get a job.
That might help you get a promotion.
They may help you get a spouse.
They may help keep your spouse, right?
Just take care of yourselves.
Take some time before you leave the house.
Wash your face and stop being lazy.
The point number two is this.
Wash your face and stop sulking and depression.
Wash your face and stop soaking in depression going your Bible is the first Corinthians chapter one
first Corinthians chapter one
Look, they're gonna be some really
Some really difficult moments in our life and we're gonna get to some other point with it that deals with that
But honestly most people that are sulking in depression are just complaining brat crybabies
That's just basically what it is, right?
People acting childish complaining and sulking about their current circumstances or whatever is going on and it's just really childish
An ungrateful attitude to have that somebody's gonna walk around acting depressed and sulking like oh poor me
Oh, this stuff is just I just nothing's ever going my way
Everything's so bad my car my house my spouse my kids my church my friends or
America this and you know
You know the sodomites this and the left of this and everything's just so bad
Everything's so horrible. That's a really bad attitude to have and God does not want you to have that attitude at all
So we should wash our face and just stop sulking in depression.
Just stop sulking and acting like a little baby about things, right?
Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 1, look at verse 5.
1 Corinthians 1 verse 5, the Bible says this.
Actually, let me turn there. 1 Corinthians 1 verse 5.
It says this, for as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so much our consolation.
Sorry, I'm in the wrong. I'm in second Corinthians. I apologize first Corinthians chapter 5 or chapter 1 verse 5
Let me get there. I haven't written it down, but I actually wanted to read it straight from here
It says in verse 5
Actually, I'm going to start in verse 4. It says,
I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God,
which is given to you by Jesus Christ,
that in everything, everything you are enriched by Him
in all utterance and in all knowledge,
even as a testimony of Christ was confirmed in you.
What is the Bible saying here?
The Bible is saying that God has enriched us.
What does that mean?
He has made you rich.
Amen.
He has given you everything that you need.
So then what's there to complain about?
What's there really to be depressed about when the Bible says here that God has enriched you and look at two is
So that you come behind and no gift, which means you're not lacking anything
God isn't withholding something special from you. You're lacking. No gift. God has given you everything that you have here
You live in the greatest country in the world. You live to me in the greatest state in the United States, right?
Can't you just take a minute and realize that God has given you so much in your life and maybe that
you'll stop being depressed? Maybe then you'll stop sulking over the things that you don't have
and complaining about the things that you think you should have or you think you deserve?
Let me tell you something. You don't deserve really anything that you have.
Just take it as a blessing from God
that He's given you whatever you have
and just be thankful for it.
I'm sick and tired of people walking around,
sulking and depressing and depression.
They should just wake up, wash their face
and just think about all the blessings
that God has given, that God has enriched us.
And there's nothing that should be wanting with God.
God has given us everything that we need, right?
I mean, think about it, you should be a saved Christian.
If you believe in Jesus Christ and your faith is in Him,
What a wonderful gracious thing that you're never going to have to go to hell.
You're never going to see the punishment in the afterlife for your sins.
They are washed away.
Even before you even thought about the sins, they've been washed away.
God has paid for them on that cross, was buried and physically rose from the dead to wash them
away.
That's enough in and of itself just to be happy and not depressed, right?
I mean, David said, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.
That should be on your mind whenever you're down.
Restore unto me that day that I got saved that week that I remember getting saved
I I for me remember getting saved and it was it was amazing revelation because I was just searching for the truth
And I was in a really low spot of my life. I just I
Just lost my sister
Earlier, right? It was probably when I started getting interested in the Bible
really interested
was I think February March of 2013 and in November that the year before my sister had passed away and it was
Just kind of a sudden thing where you get that phone call in the morning
My sister was a year and a half older and she's gone and I'm just like
Are you kidding me? You know, and it feels like a shot to the gut you I'm sure people in here
I've lost loved ones or a close friend. It's a shot to the gut. I'm telling you what it'll put you down
hard
But you know
When I learned about the gospel it just kind of turned things around for me
It just did you know, I was searching for the truth. I wanted to go to I wanted to know how to go to heaven
Honestly for me
I just wanted to know how to get to heaven because if there's a chance my sister was in hell
Then I was just wanting to trade spots with her
I wanted that free ticket to go to heaven so I could give it to her if she's in hell
And I'll go to hell for her because that's how much I love my sister. She was very very close to me
And after getting saved, of course, I realize I'm not going to be able to lose it, which is a great thing.
But I was certainly very happy.
And I remember those first few sermons I've heard on salvation.
I went to a church there in Waco, Texas,
Greater Waco Baptist Church,
and I was hearing the gospel presentation every Sunday.
And, you know, honestly, that was good for me to go to hear that,
because it was just reminding me of the true blessings
that God has enriched me with.
Salvation.
The blessings of his son, Jesus Christ, right?
That end of itself just should be enough
to bring some joy into your heart.
Nuts to it, you know, my bank account is negative, but I'm saved dang it. Hey, you know what my car didn't start today
Whatever, I'm not gonna need one when I get to heaven. Amen. I don't really care now
Of course, that's easier said than done, but I'm just giving you some things to remind you of when that moment comes
Okay, because no one likes it when their car breaks down
You know, I mean you may have a janky looking house. You may have a janky car. You may have a spouse. That's not really spiritual
you may have children that are giving you a hard time or maybe not spiritual, right?
The thing is, or maybe you have a church that just needs some work, you know?
And I'm not talking about this one. I'm just talking to some people in general just have
a problem with the things they have in life and really just stop thinking about that, right?
Be thankful for the spouse that you have that someone was even willing to marry you.
I mean, I'm thankful if my wife was just willing to marry me, me.
I'm looking at mirror like she married this guy and I'm like thank you. Thank you
She stuck with me all these years has been the most faithful woman. She loves me so much. She does everything for me
I'm so happy that she's mine and that I didn't marry anybody else
I'm so glad and you should be happy for your spouse
You should wake up and be like well as they're sleeping on that bed you look at them. Thank you God for that woman
Thank you God for that man. Thank you God so much. How about your children?
Some people right now just they're praying day and night for children and they haven't had one
They've been married for years and still don't have a child. How about you look at your children?
Stop sulking and be thankful for the children that you have. Well, my children aren't perfect. No children aren't they're gonna drive you nuts
They're gonna get on your nerves, especially teenagers. Good night. If you have a teenager
It's like, wow, you are really getting on my nerves right now.
It's one thing for like a kid to like, you know, scribble crayon on the wall.
And you're like, okay, you need to stop doing that.
I'm really getting upset.
Then you've been teaching a teenager not to do a certain sin.
You've been teaching them and teaching them and teaching them.
And then they just do it.
Man, you talk about really getting upset because now they should know.
Now they should know.
So, you know, stop sulking.
Be thankful for what God has given you be thankful for what you have
You know just stop complaining going your Bible is a first Corinthians chapter 10 just move over to chapter 10 in your Bibles
And I have a real problem with this because there's just so much to be thankful for
And I get it, you know, my house has holes in the walls for my kids
You know, I put one in there too, right? I've messed things up
You know when you have kids your house is gonna get it's gonna be a wreck
You're going to have to constantly be cleaning it.
Cleaning your car is going to get destroyed.
Everything you have, kids just magically destroy it.
They look at something and they're like, oh, it's nice.
I think I can break this.
And then they break it.
And you're like, I just bought that.
What are you doing?
Well, how did you get a hold of that?
You see that permanent marker cap?
And you're like, oh, no.
Oh, no.
And you're like running around the house.
Where are the little kids?
Because they have no idea.
They think it's just fun to destroy stuff.
They'll grab things that are sharp and they'll swing it around.
They have no idea what's going on.
But, you know, honestly, people just need to stop being complaining, sulking brats.
Wash your face. Get up in the morning.
Wash your face. Start your day, you know, praising God, right?
Start your day that way.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 10, lick it, verse 9.
Verse 9 says neither let us tempt Christ as some of them some of them also tempted and were destroyed of
Serpents neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer
Now all these things happen under them for an example that they are written for abnomition
Upon whom the ends of the world are come and just for some context that I didn't give you before
It's talking about the children of Israel the fact that they were complaining
and the wilderness constantly murmuring about their situation, just being depressed, soaking brats.
And you know what? We shouldn't tempt God with that attitude. We shouldn't tempt God with those
things. We should think good things about God and all that He's given us, right? Think about the
life that you may have had before getting saved. Hopefully you've made some good changes for the
Lord. Just think about that, right? Think about all the knowledge that God has given you to help you
all the wisdom that's been bestowed upon you
by the work of other men in the Bible
who pinned it down for you and helped you understand it,
all the apostles and all the prophets in the Bible
that have expounded the word of God for you.
So you don't have to do it, right?
And so what a blessing that is.
And, you know, frankly, just if you're there,
just wake up tomorrow morning, wash your face
and stop being depressed.
Wash your face and think about the good things
that God has given you.
Be joyous in the Lord, praise His name.
So go to 2 Samuel chapter 12
2 Samuel chapter 12 Psalm 84 verse 11 says for the Lord God is a son and a shield
The Lord will give you grace and glory
No good thing will he withhold from me that work walk up rightly, you know if you're a Christian that's walking up rightly
God's not gonna withhold nothing from you. So what's there to be depressed about?
God's gonna give you everything that you need not everything you desire because we know the heart is desperately wicked
Who could know it? He's gonna give you everything that you need
Right, so be happy with that right God has provided for you. So don't soak. Don't live in pity
Don't be like this get up wash your face and be thankful for the day be thankful. You have another day
I mean, what about sister Lola today?
right
Hey, she lost her husband
Some people are waking up without their spouse today, right?
You know what happened to Charlie Kirk today? I don't know if he was saved or not. It really doesn't matter
The fact is is some wife today tomorrow is gonna wake up without her husband
And you wake up and your spouse is next to you be thankful for that. Amen, right?
The Bible says in Philippians 4-4,
rejoice in the Lord all way.
And again, I say rejoice, right?
Rejoice, come on, put a smile on the face, right?
We can all work on that.
I'm not saying that I'm perfect.
I'm saying these things to myself too,
because I go through times in my life
where I'm just thinking too much about stupid things
I shouldn't think about.
And I remember, man, what am I doing?
What am I wasting my time with?
These things are menial, the money's gonna come back,
the goods are gonna come back, ebbs and flows of life.
Your bank account's gonna look good one day
and then, man, something's gonna happen
and you'll be like, I'm broke.
All this stuff is gone, right?
So what?
It comes and goes, at the end of the day,
God is always there, He will never forsake you.
He is there.
Point number three is this, wash your face
and move on from failure.
Now, we just got done talking about sulking and depression, so this is a different thing.
This is just being a brat and complaining.
This is actually that you're going through a hard time or you've done something in your
life, maybe a sin or maybe not, that has got you down in the dumps.
And we've all been there.
Everybody has sinned.
Hopefully not grievous.
But we've all made mistakes that we regret we'll have decisions in our life that we could wish we can turn back the clock and be like
Man, I wish I can do that again. I wish I can go back and never say that
I wish I can go back and undo all those things that I did
I remember me being just a stupid young teenager and my parents going through a divorce and I'm just thinking
Could I just gone back and been a better son?
Maybe I would have held that thing together
What if I had just shown them that I can be a good son, right, and brought some joy into
the marriage, instead of just being this stupid teenager who just wants to run the streets
at night, you know, complaining about my parents, complaining about what's going on with them,
just being thankful, be like, hey, at least I have parents, at least some guy showed up
to take care of me, right, and be thankful for that.
We're going to fall. It's not if, right? You're in 2nd Samuel chapter 12, Liga verse 20.
David the story of David and you should be very familiar with the story of David that he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and then
Got her pregnant and then in order to cover up the pregnancy and the adultery
He killed his friend Uriah Hittite Bathsheba's husband and if you don't know Uriah Hittite is also named as one of David's mighty men
He's a strong fellow. He's probably a good man compared to other men, right?
But David ended up you know committing this grievous sin
And like the Bible said before, that God is not going to withhold anything from them that are uprightly.
But David did not walk himself in uprightly.
So God decided to take that good thing from him, which was the child.
Look at verse 20. This is after the child had died, after David learned.
He said, then David arose from the earth and washed it anointing himself and changed his apparel.
What does he do? What does David do? He washed himself.
You know you come to a time in your life where you you're going through some grievous situation
Whether or not you've made a mistake and you're just like man
Like if you just wallow in this thing, you're gonna have no progress in your life
You're gonna completely stump your Christian life. It's gonna end
Right, and if you just get up and wash your face and move on
Hey, you're gonna keep going as a Christian. You're gonna keep doing things for God
The last thing you should do is just quit last thing you should do is just say nuts to it and just leave
You shouldn't do that people are gonna make mistakes even if it's a grievous sin
You know hey, you know what still you got to move on you gotta wash your face and move on going your Bibles to
Actually going to Bible so first John actually second Corinthians chapter 7
2 Corinthians chapter 7, go in your Bibles there.
Look, David didn't stay in depression.
He didn't stay in the state.
Yeah, he was praying while the child was sick.
He was praying for the child during that time,
but he didn't stay down.
He rose up afterwards.
He decided, you know what, I need to get up.
I need to get up.
I need to wash myself.
I need to eat some food.
I need to take care of myself.
And that's the attitude that we should have
when we make mistakes is we should get up
and get on with our life.
And as husbands, as fathers, we definitely need to do that, because everything just is
on our shoulders as a family.
We bear that.
We bear the responsibility of the mistakes of our family, and sometimes it can get real
heavy at times.
But you know, we need to just get up, wash our face, and just move on with the day.
Just let it go.
You made a mistake, move on.
You made a bad financial decision, move on.
You messed up, move on, right?
Should have that attitude that's just gonna keep us down. You're not gonna go anywhere
Proverbs 24 verse 16 says this for just may I follow seven times and riseeth again, but the wicked shall fall in the mischievous
Look, I'm telling you this is not like a permission to fail
The guy's telling you no when you do you need to get your butt up when you do you need to get up and stop
Soaking you need to get up and move on
Because what happens when you don't get up you quit
And you only fail in the Christian life if you quit.
Right you fail when you quit and I'm telling you I've seen this
All my time being in church for the last 11 years
I've seen it that people they make mistakes they get into sin and they just say nuts to it
I can't do it and they leave that is the wrong attitude to have right
That is whatever past life you have if it starts creeping back in you don't quit
Just because you make a mistake you get it right and you move on you wash your face
And you stop being a crybaby about it and you move on
Hey, for some people the past man, it's it's right behind you. It feels like it's gaining on you for some people
Hey, you know what? Just keep moving and if you slip up get up and keep going
People you're gonna make mistakes in your life. Hopefully like I said, it's not the grievous ones that can end up destroying
lasting relationships
Like a dull tree is that can hit that could be some really bad stuff
But even just some other maybe say something bad to your spouse or you getting a bad argument with a brother or your mother
Hey, you know, we should live with these things, right?
It's going to bring you down.
I shouldn't stay in this state of sorrow
where you're gonna end up going nowhere.
You'll be going nowhere, and especially for men,
your family's gonna suffer the consequences.
And wives, mothers, your husband and your children
are gonna suffer those consequences too.
Because it all rolls right downhill.
Right, it all goes right downhill
And you know this this state that you're in where you just can't move on
It's just gonna drain your energy. You're gonna carry it with you wherever you go
It's you're gonna sap your motivation for God. You're gonna do less for God and even possibly quit
Right, and I would just say just don't carry the weight with you anymore
And 1 Corinthians or 2 Corinthians 2 verse 7 says this in verse 10 and verse 10
This is for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation
Not to be repentant of but the sorrow of the world where it gets death
You know where worldly sorrow gets you death a dead Christian doesn't have to be physical death
It could just be you're just a dead Christian, right?
You're the Christian who's now doing nothing for God.
Why? Because you let it get you down so bad that you ended up quitting on your church,
you quit on God, and you said, nuts to it, I can't do it.
That's not the attitude we have.
We shouldn't have the attitude that Peter had when he ran off to fish,
and you had to be dragged back to the ministry.
But you know, if that's what it takes, that's what it takes.
But we shouldn't have that attitude, right?
And thankfully, Jesus Christ showed up to drag...
The Apostle Peter back into the ministry and said, no, you need to get your butt back over here. We need you, right?
Sometimes someone's never gonna be there to do that for you. Sometimes you're just gonna have to just
Will it on your own, right? But ultimately, I think I think God is there motivating us if you read the Bible
It's gonna be there
But if you don't repent in the right direction, I'm telling you it's gonna be death for you and even sometimes for people
They'll end up just quitting on life completely and turning a temporary problem into a permanent problem
Right, and they'll end up taking their own life and just quitting on everybody completely
And that is the wrong answer to do you make a bad decision in life
Something doesn't go your way. That is the wrong thing to do is to take your own life period
that is a very selfish thing to do.
We repent in the right direction,
which is right towards God.
That's what we do.
We rise up, we wash our face and we repent to God.
We go to Him because He's able to handle our problems, right?
So my thing is, as 1 John chapter one, verse nine says,
If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all and righteousness.
Look, the first step is just you need to confess it to God and you get it right to him immediately.
He's the first person you go to with your problems.
With anything that you've done, he's the first person that you should tell is God.
Go to him. He can bear anything. He can take it.
Go to him and tell him what's going on in your heart.
You're going to feel a lot better.
But don't walk around with these mistakes.
So don't carry this weight with you wherever you go.
Confess it to God.
Gori Bailah is a Limitations Chapter 3.
I love this verse, Limitations Chapter 3.
We need to move forward like David did.
After he found out the child was dead,
David did the right thing.
And we should take that example that he had that, hey, he made a mistake, he messed up,
but he didn't stay down, he got up and he moved on with his life.
Lamentations 3 verse 22, look at verse 22, it says,
it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
Yeah, you're alive because God wants you to be alive, right?
Just remember that, because his compassion's fail not.
God is a loving God.
Amen.
We're alive because he loves us.
They are new every morning great is thy faithfulness
Hey, you know what's good is God has a new day for you tomorrow. Why don't you just take it?
God has built a new day with new mercies for tomorrow leave yesterday behind whatever mistake she made
Leave it behind because God wants you to leave it behind
He's got a new day for you new mercies every single day is just waiting for you
It's up to you to wake up to wash your face and to take it wash your face and then move on and say thank you Lord for the new day
Thank you Lord for renewing your mercies every single day because you love me
It does an excuse sin the Bible is not saying it's okay to sin because God's gonna forgive you
It's not what the Bible saying they say when you're ready to move on God is ready there for new mercies
That's what the Bible saying right we should an excuse sin
It's not okay to sin just because God is you're gonna be there to help you out. No, it's not okay, right?
In fact God can punish us severely for some of the sins that we commit
He's just if he doesn't you just better be grateful that he didn't
Go to your Bibles to your first Kings
Chapter 19
First Kings chapter 19
Second Timothy
Actually, sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.
So point number three is wash your face and move on.
Move on to that new day that God has provided for you.
Amen.
Point number four is wash your face
and be strong in the Lord.
And I kind of want to wrap up
through three points in this last one.
It's like, what does this look like really?
What I need to wash my face, not be lazy,
not be a sulking, depressed brat.
And to kind of get over some of the things and mistakes that I've made in my life is this be strong in the Lord, right?
Bible says it's like a Timothy chapter 3 verse 12 yay
Actually, that's not the first that I wanted to go to
And we're in first Kings chapter 19 in Liga verse 3. This is the story of Elijah and Elijah here is
Learned that a lot of the prophets have been slayed, right? And so he's kind of gonna get depressed here
And why bring this first up is because you know persecutions are going to happen in our life
It's not just mistakes, but also persecutions are going to come
I was going to read 2nd Timmy chapter 3 verse 12
I'll read it now. It's a J and all that will God will live godly and Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
It's going to happen if you want to serve God and be ready to get persecuted be ready for that
But at the same time, you know, you're going to have to find some strength because those things are not going to be easy to go
Through but they can be
You can't get through them with strength in God.
I can't get through these things in my life by myself.
I can't do them by my own might.
I have to do them by the strength of God.
He's going to get me through these things. He's going to get me through
Whatever it is that I'm dealing with like persecution and first Kings 19 verse 3 and it said when he saw that he rose
He went for his life and came to bear sheba which belonged at the Judah and he left his servant there
He's running for his life. He doesn't want to be slight too, right?
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and requested for himself
That he might die and said is enough now Lord take away my life for I am not better than my father's
And as he lay and slept on our Juniper tree beholden an angel touched him and said unto him arise and eat
God shows up and says no you need to get up
You need to get up and you know a persecution comes when things happen in her life
We need to just get up wash her face and get up
Why because God doesn't want you to sit under a Juniper tree. God doesn't want you to give up
God doesn't want you to do those things, right?
God wants you to get up and wash your face.
Get up and know that God is there to help you out.
God is there.
Elijah is fearing for his life, but he's not realizing God is his strength.
He should be more like Joshua, right?
Or Joshua 1-9 where it says, Have I not commanded thee?
Be strong and of good courage.
Be not afraid, now that it be dismayed, for the Lord that God is with thee, withsoever
thou goest.
Remember what Joshua said God is with thee with so ever thou goest if Elijah would just kept these words in his heart
And sold him in his heart. He wouldn't have sat under a Juniper tree and said forget it. I quit the plan failed
I'm just gonna die here. I'm done. I quit
That's not the attitude. We should have the attitude of Joshua and say you know what forget it God is my strength
God is there 1st Timothy chapter 2 or 2nd Timothy 2 or 1. Sorry
2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 7 says for God I think not giving us the spirit of fear but a power and a love and of a sound
Mine I don't want you to be afraid
He's it don't want you to be nervous or scared
Just put your faith in him put your strength in him go in your Bibles to
Micah chapter 7
Actually go in your Bible is the first Corinthians chapter 10 first Corinthians
chapter 10
Micah 7 8 says rejoice stand against me all mine into me when I fall I shall arise when I sit in the darkness
The Lord shall be a light unto me when you feel like you're dark when you feel like the world the walls are caving in on you
Just remember the God is a light unto you. There is a light. It is there
Look God is your strength. He is right here in his holy word the Bible and Psalm 43 says this it says
For thou art the God of my strength. Why is that cast me off?
Why go I morning because of the oppression of the enemy? Oh send out thy light and thy truth
Let them lead me let them bring me until thy holy hill until thy tabernacle
What is what is what is the Psalm saying saying God leave me? I'm in a time of distress
The enemy is after me, but you are my strength
you are the one that's going to be there for me and lead me to thy holy hill,
lead me to thy tabernacle. What is that? The truth. God, he's asking,
lead me into thy truth. Show me the truth. Why? Because the truth is what strengthens you.
The Bible is your strength. You need to go to the Bible every single day in order to get God's
strength. And if you don't, it's your fault. You're the one that feels that way.
God is our strength. His word is our strength. His truth is our strength. These words will
encourage you every single day to not be lazy, right? To not be depressed and soaking little
brat. And I'm helping move on from things in your life. I just thought of this. I don't,
I think I wanted to say it before, but it's just a thing where people have end up having this, this
attitude, a victim attitude, this mentality, and also where they just kind of, they become
their trauma.
I don't know if you've ever heard that before, where people just make their trauma, their
identity.
It's really annoying, where people just can't let things go.
Yeah, maybe some things bad may have happened to you in the past.
God forbid, something bad would have happened when we had a traumatic event.
But at the end of the day, you need to let it go.
Don't be like these weird, left-headed liberals
who wear the nose rings and all the piercings on their face
who just make their trauma their identity.
That's who I am is my trauma.
That's not it.
That's people that are weak.
I think those people are weak and weird.
Hey, don't be a weak and weird Christian.
Don't become your trauma if you have any.
Put your strength in God.
God will heal you up.
God will take care of you.
God is the one that's there for us.
God is there
He is our strengths get up and wash your face. How about this? Here's your prescription
Get up tomorrow and wash your face and read your Bible
Right get up wash your face and read your Bible. There's your strength. That's where it's at the beginning of your day
How about this wash your face and go to church?
Not only says thy truth, but thy holy hill and thy tabernacle God has provided for you a church here
Spring Crest Baptist Church get up wash your face and go to church on Wednesdays
Get up and wash your face and go to church on Sundays and then tell me if you don't feel good enough
Hey, read your Bible on Sunday go to church go soul winning and tell me you don't feel better
Tell me you're not thinking now about all the bad stuff. Look, there are a lot of bad things happening today
I mean, just hearing about the news of my friend Lola, who I met nine years ago, I let
her stay at our house for a wedding, and that's the first time I met her that I met
her again in 2018 on a mission trip to the Philippines.
And hearing about that news really hurt because she was really good person. She's really sweet to my wife and I
It was always a pleasure to get this year and to finally see her have a
Get married and have a child and I'd meet her and she's got these huge
Smile on her face and you had this devastating news yesterday. Man, it's a sock in the gut
Right. It sucks
And then you hear this news of this young lady on a train or something that gets stabbed
in the neck by some wicked psychopath from behind her.
She just on her phone, got done with work, and some psychopath pulls out a little pocket
knife and just kills her.
Right there.
It's like, what in the world are we living in where you can't even ride on the bus?
Ride on the train to go home.
People are just getting slaughtered and murdered by psychopaths.
The only the only thing he does is just debate weirdos and tell them how they're stupid, you know, and
Look, I don't know if Charlie Kirk is saved or not
But ultimately, you know the role he's playing to me is just keeping people from going full retard
He's just keeping people in the middle for you and I to go safe
Because we can't get those people who are too far gone
The reprobates, the people that hate God, who've gone way over here, they're unsavable.
We're not going to waste our time with those.
But there are people that are in the middle.
And some people like Charlie Kirk, who I believe are trying to hold those people in
the middle, and maybe God has used Charlie Kirk to help hold that group in the middle
for you and I to go rescue them and capture them and bring them out.
But what am I getting at?
A lot of persecution, a lot of troubling things are going to keep happening.
Just remember to wake up, wash your face, and have joy in God.
And I would say that by reading your Bible, going to church, and going so many.
If you've ever given the gospel to somebody and they got saved, you saw the joy in their
face.
And every once in a while you have somebody, usually it's never a guy.
It's always a girl.
They start tearing up with just happiness.
His apartment's near my house and I was preaching this young gal is with a couple of my kids probably and
I was preaching to her and there was a guy sitting on the couch behind her
I could just see his arm across the back of the couch and I was like
Okay, I can't just you know, he needs he's there. He's obviously hears me preaching like if I'm a husband
I wouldn't know who the heck my wife was talking to
So I'm like, Hey, does your husband want to come up and hear what I have to say?
Because he's probably eavesdropping anyways, just come up here and talk to me.
What are you afraid of? Right?
So she turns around, I could see him, she gets him, he comes up.
They both end up getting saved.
And at the end of it, she's in tears and she's crying.
She's like, thank you so much. I needed that.
Let me tell you something.
Don't wash away any bad, almost any bad thing that happened that day to you.
Giving the good news to somebody is just a recipe of joy.
You're just giving out a wonderful news to people, right?
And I want you to take these words with you.
I want you to remember this.
Me in my 810, for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Where do we get strength from?
Just look around all the blessings that God has given you.
Your church, the Bible that men have died to give you,
to give it a life for like William Tyndale, right?
Who died, who stood in front of the Catholic church
and said, I'm gonna translate this Bible
and you're not gonna stop me.
Right, that's a good attitude to have don't crumble
No, don't crumble on the weight and you know, just remind you guys that
You know stand firm in God's strengths
You know rise when you fall
Remember that God is your light. He's there rejoice in his strength rejoice in his blessings and just remember that this
Wash your face and stop being lazy
Wash your face and stop sulking in these little bratty depression episodes, whatever they are
Hey, wash your face in the morning move on from whatever mistakes you made yesterday
And wash your face and be strong in the Lord. Let's pray. Heavenly Father Lord. Thank you for your wonderful word
Thank you for spring Chris Baptist Church
Lord, I pray that you just bless this church with so many that love you that want to sincerely preach the gospel and I pray for the
strength of the men of this church for Paso Reyes
the best God Lord that you just be with him and help the Lord to serve you in truth and give them strength to
Continue on in their life and even with persecutions come Lord just give them the strength to stand here behind this pulpit and preach the Bible
Jesus and we pray amen
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