the precious blood of the lamb. Would you be wider, much wider than snow? There's power
in the blood, power in the blood. Sin stains are lost in its life-giving flow. There's
wonderful power in the blood. There is
do service for Jesus, your king. There's power in the blood, power in the blood.
Would you live daily? His praise is to sing. There's one
excellent singing everybody, but the apology please opens up with a word of
prayer. Amen. All right, if you want to take your, Himmels, we're going to turn to
page number 327. It's page number 327, higher ground.
Page number three hundred and twenty seven
I'm pressing on the upward way new heights. I'm gaining every day
Still praying as I'm onward bound Lord plant my feet on higher ground
Lord lift me up and let me stand by faith on
Our doubts arise and fears dismay, though some may dwell.
Though Satan's darts at me are hurled,
For faith hath caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
Lord, lift me up and let me stand,
My faith on heaven's table and,
A higher claim that I have found,
Lord, cland my feet on higher ground,
catch a gleam of glory bright but still I'll pray tell heaven I found Lord lead
me on to higher ground lift me up and let me stand by faith
excellent singing everybody. This time we will have our announcements.
Good evening everyone welcome the verse the week is John 5 verse 24 John 5 verse 24
Very very I say unto you he that heareth my word and believe it on him that sent me hath
Everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. That is John 5 verse
24
All right, service times are at 10 30 a.m. on Sunday and 3 30 p.m. Sunday evening Wednesday evening Bible study is at 6 30 p.m.
so many times are 10 30 on Saturday and
On Sunday, they're at 1 p.m. In between the services
Salvation reports
We've had I believe 2 for August which brings us to a total of 59 for the year so far
all right and uh
Tendons are down below.
Upcoming events.
This Saturday, we'll have a church cleaning event.
Food and supplies will be provided if you wish to help with any of your time.
It'll be right after soul winning, so yeah, if you want to attend.
Song-leaning class, not this Sunday, but the Sunday following will have a song leaders class.
So if you're a male that would like to learn or is willing to just go through a class
that have a deeper understanding on how to lead music, it'll be provided.
It's open to all males, it'll just be in between the services, so something here just so if we ever
have illness or not, we have more men that can come up and lead songs, and hey, we're commanded
to sing songs unto God, so it's a good part of the service to raise our spirits and our minds
before the preaching.
Alright August 23rd is my wife's baby shower will be here at 1 p.m.. Registry is there
Please RSV with Kylie if you wish to come August 30th will be the Cheney Soul winning
We're just moving through that town just hoping to knock it all out. So I hope to see everyone there
And then August 31st the evening service is going to be the men's preaching night. So
If you're a man willing to put on a tie,
use the King James Bible and not preach heresy,
you can get up and practice preaching.
So that's what we have available.
It's excited to see more men get up,
make, you know, learn how to study the word,
how to present, how to teach the word.
It's just a good time.
So look forward to that.
Kids, please remember, if you may memorize Psalms 34 verse 15
and actually tell Miss Kylie, you'll receive candy.
So we encourage that.
All right, and if you have any further prayer requests,
just let us know, and we'll add it to the bulletin.
But now let's turn to the Lord in prayer.
Holy Father, thank you so much for allowing us
to have this place, to come and worship, sing songs to you,
and hear your word preach boldly.
Lord, we give thanks for this, and we come together
to pray for one another.
Lord, we pray for Amanda's mother
and the issue going on there.
Lord, we pray.
for my wife's father's health and that he can find a doctor that I was willing to help him Lord
We pray for my wife's pregnancy and the pains that come along with that Lord
We pray for Natalia and James as they're looking for a place to live
We pray for Alejandro as he's searching for work Lord
We pray for Kyle's health and guidance and the issues that he's going through now
We pray for Shanika to find justice Lord. We also pray for Timothy that he can just have your
Blessing and guidance in this time as he works through what he is going through Lord. We pray just for
prayer for Jake and the situations going on right now.
We also pray for him to overcome the habit
that he's chosen for.
We pray for Callie to overcome the habits
that she's wishes to overcome.
Lord, we pray for Nate and Trish out there in North Dakota
that they can get a safe pastor
when the deacons select a new person
to take over their church.
Lord, all of these things we give thanks
and we also pray for more visitors,
more members and more soul winners
to build this work here
and to build your light here in Spokane.
We pray all of these things
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, if you guys want to go ahead and take your Bibles,
we're going to turn to Psalm number 117.
Psalm number 117, O praise the Lord.
O praise the Lord, all ye nations.
Praise Him, all ye people.
For His merciful kindness is great toward us.
everybody but the Polish please pray for the offering. Amen.
to go ahead and take your Bibles. We're going to turn to Romans chapter number 15.
That's Romans chapter number 15.
Romans chapter number 15, beginning verse number one, the Bible reads.
We, that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves, let
every one of us please his neighbor, for his good to edification.
For even Christ, please not himself, but as it is written, the reproach of them that reproach
thee fell on me."
For whatsoever things were written a four-time written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope
now the God of patience and
Constellation grant you to be like-minded one toward another according to Jesus Christ
that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to glory, to the glory of God.
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God
to confirm the promise made unto the fathers
that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy as it is written for this
cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name and
again he saith rejoice ye Gentiles with his people and again praise the Lord all
ye Gentiles and laud him all ye people and again Isaiah saith
There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles in him shall the Gentiles trust.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.
And I, myself also, am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness,
filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boundly unto you, in some sort, as putting
that I should be ministers of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
ministering the gospel of God,
that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable.
Being sanctified by the Holy Ghost,
I have therefore,
whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ
in those things which pertain to God.
For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me to make the Gentiles
obedient by word and deed through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God
so that from Jerusalem and round about unto
Lyacurium I have fully preached the gospel of Christ
Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation."
But as it is written, to whom he was not spoken of, they shall see, and they that have not heard shall understand, for which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
But now, having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you.
Once, however, I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you, for I trust to see you
in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you first if I be somewhat
filled with your company.
for hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor
saints which are at Jerusalem.
It hath pleased them verily, and their debtors they are, for if the Gentiles have been made
partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them incarnal
things.
to them by this fruit, I will come by you in Spain,
unto Spain.
And I am sure that when I come unto you,
I shall come in the fullness of the blessings
of the gospel of Christ.
Now I beseech you brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake
and for the love of the spirit that ye strive together
with me in your prayers to God for me.
That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea and that they may service
Which I have for Jerusalem
May be accepted of the saints that I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and
May with you be refreshed now the God of peace be with you all
Amen, brother. Probably should please pray for the preaching
to secure the words that are going to be addified to us now,
now that we have an understanding of the words.
So this is how my scope is.
Amen, we are there in Romans chapter number 15.
That laptop is still having an issue,
so I'm doing it, or excuse me,
that printer's still having an issue,
so I'm gonna do this off of the laptop again for today.
Something weird about the color on that,
it has like the ink in it,
but it's just actually not printing fully in color,
but again, you guys probably don't even care about that,
but I just wanted to justify this piece of technology
up here, okay?
We're there in Romans chapter 15,
let's look at verse number one, it says,
Are we then that are strong ought to and bear the infirmities of the week and not to please ourselves and the title of my sermon tonight is bear the infirmities of the week. Let's pray.
Do you have other God. Thank you so much for the day. Thank you so much for the first God. Thank you so much for this great church God and thank you so much for everybody that came tonight. God, I just pray that you would
Fill me with your Holy Spirit right now and help me to preach words and be edifying and help me to help
people in this room to understand this chapter better and to give them something that they can
use throughout their week God and that I could explain some of the confusing parts of these
chapters that are in Romans God. Do you see me pray? Amen. Tell them my sermon again like I said
is bear the infirmities of the week. We're here in verse number one. Obviously we finished last
week on Sunday the second part of Romans chapter number 14 which is a chapter that's basically
not offending people in the faith over little things
and picking and choosing your battles.
And also Paul's talking about in Romans chapter 14
a lot about having liberty in Christ,
but being able to balance the liberty that we have in Christ
with not offending people and with not destroying ourselves
and with not destroying other people as well.
And that
thought leads very well into this chapter because basically what Paul is doing is he's
piggybacking off of that idea with verse number one when he says we then that are strong ought to
bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. First I want to bring up about this
verse before we kind of get into the verse by verse proper is that in Romans chapter number six
and seven and eight I talked about this idea of sinless perfection which is the belief that
Some people I should say a false doctrine that some people teach that once you believe on Jesus Christ
You're just completely perfect and obviously we know that in according to our new man
We're a hundred percent perfect once we believe on Jesus Christ
But according to our flesh, we are absolutely not perfect.
We probably sin every single day, unfortunately.
But that's the reality of things.
But I bring this up because of the fact of this,
that when we look at this verse,
when it says that we that are strong,
talk about being strong in the faith,
ought to bear the infirmity of the weak,
how could a doctrine like sinless perfection
make sense in this context?
Because if you think about it, if we're all perfect,
the minute that we believe on Jesus Christ,
in the faith and people that are strong in the faith.
Does it make any sense?
If you were perfect, everybody would just be strong
in the faith, but obviously that is the opposite
of what Paul's teaching here.
He's saying some people are weak, some are strong,
and the people that are strong in the faith
should bear the infirmities of those
that are weak in the faith.
And what what infirmity is basically like a weakness or something that you struggle with a fault that you might have in your life.
And Paul is saying that it's our job as Christians to bear the infirmities of those that are weak.
And when you're going to apply this a couple different ways.
Like the first thing I kind of think about is
dealing with people that are weaker in the faith and bearing the infirmities by
Dealing with the wrongs that they do you because the reality is is this that when you're dealing with someone that's weak in the faith
They're not going to be as seasoned as you quote-unquote
So they're probably gonna do things that are gonna offend you sometimes or do things that's gonna tick you off or do things
That's gonna you know be like why are they doing that? But as a Christian that's mature in the faith. It's your job
to be bigger, truly, in the faith and turn the other cheek,
to suffer yourself, to be defrauded,
to not let people that are weak in the faith
cause you to stumble.
Because the kind of thing about it like this,
you ever have with kids, you have an older kid that's
dealing with their younger sibling.
And especially when they're a big age gap.
And the older sibling is just like,
hey, this little one is doing this or that.
Just something silly.
And you're like.
Come on, you're old enough to not let them get you ticked off about that.
That's kind of what Paul's also kind of saying here, like,
again, we should just realize, and this is like a just thing that's going to happen.
And when we have people that are coming to the church that are new in the faith,
that are weaker in the faith,
of course they're not going to have all of our same beliefs or have all of our same lingo
or do everything like we do they're probably going to make mistakes they're probably going to do
things that are sinful and you should be able to be mature enough to handle that as a Christian
would be one way of bearing someone's infirmity also just dealing with personalities that you
don't like because this can just be this doesn't have to be someone that's weak in the faith we
all probably have personalities that we get along with very well and personalities that we don't get
As a church, though, we want unity with everybody.
That doesn't mean that you have to be everybody's best friend,
but it should mean this.
You should be able to get along with every single person that comes to church.
Whether they're saved, whether they're unsaved,
whether they're weak in the faith,
or whether they're strong in the faith,
we should have a general unity and cohesion inside the house of God.
And the reason for that is this,
is that if we're saved, we're all bought by the blood of Christ,
we're all brothers and sisters in Christ,
we're all part of one family,
and God wants us to get along as one big family.
And again, that doesn't mean sometimes you have family members that you're not best friends with that's okay
But you should be able to be peaceable with people and we saw that the idea of peace was a huge theme in chapters 12 chapters 13 and chapters 14
but
The reason that Paul gives us for why we should do this,
why we should bear the infirmities of the week,
is he says that this is what Jesus Christ did
when he was on this earth.
Look at verse number two, it says,
let every one of us please his neighbor
for his good to edification.
For even Christ, please not himself,
but as it is written, the reproaches of them
that reproach thee fell on me.
Keep your finger there in Romans 15
and go to Psalms 69, verse number nine.
We're gonna go to where this is quoted from.
Psalms 69 verse number nine very popular verse in the Bible verse
It's usually the first half of this is quoted more so than the second half
Psalm 69 verse number nine it says this it says for the zeal of thine house have eaten me up and the
reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me
So what Paul is saying here is this is that the reason why we should bear the infirmities of those that are weaker in the faith
Is he says that this?
is what Jesus Christ did when he was on this earth.
That he didn't come to please himself,
he came to edify, he came to help,
he came to bear the infirmities of those that were around him.
He didn't seek his own pleasure,
he sought the pleasure and the edification
and the joy of other people.
And Paul's saying that's what Jesus Christ did,
who was God manifesting the flesh.
on this earth, that's what we should strive to do as well.
That's what we should seek to do as well.
We should try to obviously be more Christ-like.
Talk about that in my other sermon,
how that should just be an obvious goal for us as Christians.
But it truly, it's something that he brings up again,
so I'll bring it up again.
We should try to...
adopt the mind of Christ in every single area of our life.
Every single time we read something about Jesus Christ in the Bible,
we should try to adopt His mindset, His teachings, His doctrine,
His everything into our own lives. Because our goal as Christians is to
become what Christ is like. And the Bible was even saying in Romans that
our end goal is to be what?
conformed to the image of Jesus Christ and so we should try to do as much as
that early as we can right now and trying to overcome our flesh in some of
those areas. Go to Luke 22 41 real quick, Luke 22 verse number 41.
Paul brings us up and this is just as true then as it is nowadays that he's bringing this up in my opinion because people just have a
tendency to be very selfish and be very self-centered and to only care about themselves
But this is the opposite of the mind of Christ that we see in the Bible
And we see this a lot nowadays with things like you know
There's people that will just not have kids nowadays and their reasoning is because I just want to have as much fun
as possible. I'll just put that off until I'm like 38 or something like that, you know, just
right on the border, which I'm just, it's kind of silly. You should probably have your kids when
you're young so you can have the energy to deal with them. That's just a, maybe a little pro tip
for you guys. But like, when it comes, obviously that can't be the situation for everybody, but
that's the ideal thing in the Bible. But people will just be like, I don't want to have, you know,
How am I going to go to Rome?
How am I going to go to Greece when I have all these babies at home?
What is that though?
It's a selfish mindset that you're valuing going to some place on earth
more than bringing a life into this world that's a blessing that God says
and with the commandment that God gives us of be fruitful and multiply?
No, no, no. I don't want to do that. I want to go to Greece instead. I want to go to Rome. I want to go to Japan.
I want to go to South Korea.
Think about that. Yeah, not South Korea, not North Korea, okay?
Make sure you go to the right one, right?
But it's like that's an attitude nowadays that just and I
just have seen this even with some of my coworkers at different jobs where they're just like telling me like I
Even tell them I just have like two kids and they're like, oh, well, you're done having kids, right?
I'm like, no, we're probably not done having kids.
You're just like, I don't know how you do it.
It's like, I don't know how you do not having kids
because they're like the biggest joy
that there is in my life.
I don't understand people, it's kind of,
but I guess I do understand it's because people are selfish.
It's because they don't care about, you know,
bringing a life into this world.
They just want to care about themselves
and what makes them happy.
But what they don't realize is
that kids would make them happy.
You have like a little hump that you're dealing with
like baby issues and stuff like that.
But it's like,
Kids and family bring, like, the most joy that you'll ever have in this world.
Luke 22, where you guys are at.
Here's another thing that people are published about too.
Abortion is another thing.
Like, they're like, I gotta just, you know, kill my own baby and my womb.
Why though because I have to focus on my career or I have to focus on you know a lifestyle that's gonna be good for me
It's like abortion is like the pinnacle of selfishness. Just like you're killing a child
For what just because it is it's convenient for you because it's easy because you don't want to affect your life
I'm glad that we see the mind of Christ,
that he wasn't self-centered,
that he wasn't just focused on himself,
that he cared for all of us,
and he put our needs as the most important thing in his life.
We see this right here.
It says this in Luke 22, verse number 41.
It says, and as he was withdrawn from them,
about a stone's cast and kneeled down and prayed, saying,
Father, if thou be willing to remove this cup from me,
nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.
What I want you to understand from this is this,
is that being like Christ is doing what you should do
as a Christian, not always what you want to do
as a Christian.
Sometimes being a good Christian is just saying like,
I really want to do this thing.
But what would God want me to do?
Or saying, hey, I really don't want to do this thing.
But what would God actually want me to do?
Or just saying, like, hey, I would really like to do this,
but that's not going to help everybody else out in my life.
This was the mind of Christ that we see right here.
That Jesus Christ in his flesh is saying, like, you know,
I don't want to be, you know, tortured on this earth.
I don't want to be mocked.
I don't want to be spit on.
I don't want to be, you know, have a crown of thorns
put on my head.
He said, I don't want to be crucified and dying
across when I'm innocent.
But what does he say? Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.
What is Jesus doing there? He's putting our needs above his own well-being.
That's the mind of Christ. That's what we need more of in our life.
Not just thinking about what benefits us and what makes us happy,
but what we can do for other people. This is the mind of Christ.
That's what we see from Jesus Christ on this earth.
Paul is saying that if that was the mind of God
manifesting the flesh,
that's the exact same mindset that you should adopt
in your daily life as well.
This is being spiritual,
not doing what you want to do,
what makes you happy,
but doing what's best for other people
and doing things to the edification of other people
in our lives.
Go back to Romans 15, verse number four.
Romans 15.
Verse number four some just like good application that is this is that as a dad
Sometimes you're gonna come home from working to be really tired. You don't want to really hang out with your family
You just want to do your own thing and and sometimes you just need to realize hey
Nevertheless, not my will but dying be done. What would God want you to do to just go home and just
Recluse away every single day just like forsake the wife and kids that you have at home
Or maybe you could go out and play with your wife and play with your kids and actually have good family time
Right. It's hard to do sometimes when you're tired after work, but it's just like you have to put other people's
needs above yourself, that's what we learn from Christ.
Sometimes that's what being a man is,
is not caring about what you specifically wanna do
in your flesh, but doing what's best
for the people around you and specifically your family.
As a mom too, you know, you have a baby,
you're breastfeeding all night,
or you're just not getting a lot of sleep doing whatever.
As a mom still though, you should find time
to spend quality time with your kids.
Like,
Even if that's not what you want to do in the flesh sometimes,
because sometimes kids can get on your nerves a little bit.
Can I get an amen from somebody in here?
It's like they can, though.
But it's like sometimes you just got to put their needs
above yourself.
And that's a problem with parenting, too.
You don't want to be selfish and just only think about yourself.
That's like you have a lot of bad kids
that will grow up in this world.
As a church member, too, it's like you have a lot of bad kids
You could think about like helping obviously I said about earlier about turning the other cheek and then also like suffering yourself to be defrauded
But then also just like participating in things that are spiritual activities
Sometimes on the weekend you'll wake up on Saturday and be like I do not want to go soul-winning
But you know you're doing that situation you say hey
Not my will but God's will be done because guess what God does want you to do?
He wants you to go into all the world and preach the gospel
That's why it's the great commission that the last thing that he gives us before Jesus Christ leaves this earth
Sometimes you'll wake up on Sunday and be like man. I'm tired. I worked hard this week or the kids were a lot this week
I'd rather just stay home on Sunday here. I'll just give you a little hit
I feel like that sometimes but like I can't just be like a I'm tired guys. Sorry
Can somebody else run the show for a little bit?
No, you know what you got to do sometimes? You got to man up and just deal with whatever infirmity is in your flesh and just push it aside and just charge forward for Christ.
We just need a lot more of that in Christianity days. People are not just being like,
oh, I'm so tired. I'm so this. I'm so that. I need more free time. I need more family time. It's like,
hey, put your will aside. Put what you want to do aside and think about what God wants you to do.
That was the mind of Christ. That's what Jesus Christ did with His on this earth. He says,
be done. That should always be something that drives us as Christians, not just what makes
us happy in the moment, but what's best for everybody else around us. That's truly being
Christ's life. That's truly being spiritual as a person.
Romans 14 verse number five
Excuse me Romans 15 verse number four
It's kind of hard to preach this at you guys though a little bit though
Because I feel like this church does a really good job of not being self-centered though
Like let me just brag on you guys for a little bit like I truly think it is amazing like we have people that are just like willing to
pick people up for church or for any event.
We have people that'll bring food every single Sunday.
We have people that are just nice and welcoming people
and people that are kind and people that aren't just Pharisees.
I really enjoy being around you all.
I hope you actually know that like that.
It's refreshing to be around people
that are not just super self-centered
and actually put other people's needs first.
That's a refreshing thing.
And that's why Paul's commanding this here,
because it's good when everybody else is thinking
need to get met and everybody else gets joy and edification from it. So it's kind of hard for
me to preach this at you guys, but I would just say this, since you guys do a good job at this,
keep doing a good job at this. Keep thinking about other people, because the day we lose that
quality is the day that you just become like a Pharisee. Truly, you just become like just like
a carnal, a super carnal Christian and we lose a huge quality that made Christ so beneficial
Not to say again, we haven't arrived, but like just keep that attitude in your minds that the being selfless
Romans 15 for it says for what sort of things were written a four-time we're written for our learning that we through
Patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Can you give me a drink real quick to Kylie? I have some water. Thank you. I
Won't you notice that phrase that he says right there. He says we're written for
our learning. Now there's like a teaching out there nowadays that's kind of hard
to define just because there's a lot of different branches of it but I guess
this should not be new to us because as Baptist there's a bunch of divisions of
Baptist too like I was right my co-worker at work was trying to ask me
he was like so you guys are an independent fundamental Baptist right and
I was like yeah and he was like
what does that mean exactly? And I could tell him everything that it means, but then he was like,
so what's like a missionary Baptist? And he's like, and what's a Southern Baptist? And what's
just a Baptist Baptist? And he's like, and I was like, man, there's kind of a lot of Baptists out
there. Okay. There's like a lot of different things that people put themselves under. So the
same thing is kind of true with dispensationalism as well. Like, it's hard to pinpoint because
there's a lot of different beliefs about it. If I could just say generally, it's basically the
different like ages of life or times of life. Let me get this water to you real
quick. Which like is could be somewhat true in some sense like of the big
example of the point a lot of times like is the Old Testament versus the New
Testament. Obviously we're not under the Old Testament or though anymore we're
under the New Testament.
Since Jesus Christ down the cross for our sins, but here's the thing with dispensationalism that like I just I think I
Hopefully a lot of people would disagree with is that the fact that they believe that salvation changes
Throughout like the Bible is really really weird to me like there's a guy that I was talking to who
told me like 100%, he was like salvation is by faith
and Jesus Christ, he is solely by grace through faith.
in this age was like what see like yeah because you know back in the time of
Moses it was works and then in Revelation it becomes works again
I'm like how could you believe something like that it's very like
like especially what we're here in Romans in Romans chapter 4
what do we read about we read about the salvation of Abraham we read about the
salvation of David
and what is the Bible stress about those men that they were saved by faith
without works. The same way that Abraham was saved all those years ago is the same way that we're
saved nowadays and it's by faith in Jesus Christ and someone would argue like they didn't know the
name of Christ and all these kind of things but here's what the thing about it though that's like
I guess you could say that would be the only difference that
we have the name of Jesus Christ revealed unto us but that's not like a huge
deal in terms of like when it comes of like salvage where I want to be careful
how I say this but like anything about like with Moses God says to him that he
reveals his name Jehovah to him at the burning bush he said but Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob they didn't know me by my name Jehovah they knew me by
God Almighty or the Lord God, I forget which one he says right there.
He's like, but now he reveals to Moses that he's Jehovah.
So here's the thing though about that.
From the Old Testament and the New Testament,
in the Old Testament it took faith in God to be saved,
and in the New Testament it takes faith and Jesus Christ to be saved.
These are the same things though because Jesus Christ is God, right?
So it's still all faith in God that saves us.
It was never faith plus works.
It was never faith plus anything else.
It was always faith in God.
Abraham was not saved differently than us.
That's his whole point in Romans 4,
is that we know that salvation is not a circumcision,
it's not of works,
because Abraham was saved before the law
and before circumcision.
So we're saved by faith in Jesus Christ,
the same way that Abraham was saved by faith
in God Almighty.
But dispensationalism is like, this one guy I was talking to,
because this is like what you'll say,
this is like a bad stigma they don't like,
when you call them like hyper dispensationalists.
Nobody wants to be a hyper dispensationalist
because it's like, they're like,
those are the bad dispensationalists over here, okay?
That's like the Westboro Baptist Church in like our eyes.
We're like, we're not Westboro Baptist, we're okay.
But like, it's hard to pinpoint what that means.
I define anybody as hyper dispensationalist though,
if they believe that salvation is different in any age.
Because this one guy was telling me, I was just like, how do you-
know the different dispensations and the different ages and the different
salvation types? He's like, it's really easy. Let me just break it down for you.
He's like, you have the age of Adam for salvation, then you have the age of
Abraham, then you have the age of Moses, then you have the age of like David and
the kings, and he's like, and then you have the New Testament with Jesus Christ,
and then you have the New Testament with Paul, and then there's another one where
What are you talking about?
And where does he see that in the Bible?
Cause listen, I can see the difference
between the Old Testament split and the New Testament split,
not for salvation, but just for what laws were under.
But in the New Testament, there is no more division anymore.
The New Testament is the last covenant
that we get as Christians.
People want to teach that there's this third covenant that's coming.
That is not true.
And as a matter of fact, it's blasphemy is what it is.
When you say that there's a third covenant coming,
what you're saying is this, is that the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross was not sufficient for us.
That is heresy to the highest degree.
The last testament and the testament that we are under right now is the New Testament,
which was established by the death of Jesus Christ.
He was our testator that died on the cross and shed his blood for our sins.
It's the last covenant there is.
There is no future in coming covenant, okay?
But some dispensations will believe that,
or they'll say this, Paul taught a different gospel
than Jesus Christ.
it's like okay well then I'm gonna go with what Jesus Christ said not what Paul said okay
but here's the thing that's just not true because Jesus Christ and Paul taught the same thing
Jesus Christ said in John 3 16 for God's love the world that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believes in him should not perish but at everlasting life just as much as Paul wrote
in Ephesians 2 8 9 for by grace or you say it through faith the mat not of yourselves is the
gift of God not of Lord so sending man to boast it's by faith with Jesus Christ it's by faith with
salvation is of the devil. Truly. It's like, how could you try to say that in
revelation, we lose that blood of Jesus Christ was good for the
church age, okay? But then back in, when it comes to revelation, it loses its
power. Last for me. You have to do works again in the New Testament. Not so. First
of all, you never had to do works anyways, because the Bible says to us, if there was
ever a law given that would give us salvation, then salvation would be
If there was a law that could save Abraham, they could save David, they could save Moses,
salvation would have been by the law.
But salvation has never been by the law, it's always been by faith, always been by faith
in Jesus Christ.
Go to 1 Corinthians 9 verse number 8, 1 Corinthians 9 verse number 8, let me just kind of debunk
this idea.
I went on this whole tangent just because of the fact that it says that these things were
written a four time for our edification, right?
And that should just put a nail in dispensationalism because it's like
I don't understand because they'll say like things like this to like they'll say like the Old Testament was written for the Jews
Then like most of the New Testament is written for the Gentiles and then they're like, but what is the last one that they think?
Is it Philemon?
Hebrews, yeah
Tyson Philemon and then they say yeah, so like Matthew through Philemon. That's like the church age. That's our books are Gentile books
Okay, then they're like
Hebrews through
Revelation is for the Jews. It's like they're like
Yeah, it is called confusion, exactly right.
And this guy, I was talking to this distanced as well,
he said, yeah, the reason why so many Christians get confused
with books like Hebrews and books like James for work
salvation, he's like, it's because they don't realize
that it switches back to work salvation in that age.
He's like, you just break your neck trying to explain away
James and trying to explain and arrange Hebrews.
He's like, but there's nothing to explain away
because those books are for the Jews.
I thought that the every like you guys are there as first Corinthians number chapter 8 verse number
Or excuse me chapter 9 verse number 8 look what it says this it says
I say these or say these things as a man or say if not the law of the same also
For it is written in the law of Moses thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that tread about the corn
Death God take care for oxen and just remember here that Paul's gonna or that people would say like the Old Testament the law
That was for the Jews. Look what he says though in this next verse. It says this,
Or sayeth he it altogether for whose sakes? Our sakes. For our sakes no doubt this is written,
that he that plows should plow in hope, and he that thresheth in hope should be partaker
of his hope. So was the Old Testament just written for the Jews? It's just their book?
Absolutely not because he's saying here that in the law this commandment was written for
our sakes. Let me just give you a hint to the whole Bible is written for our sakes.
It's a book for all believers, okay? And obviously we understand that, you know,
we are not understained like the Levitical priesthood and stuff like that anymore.
But when it comes to like commandments and stuff that are not done away with under that
Levitical priesthood or with the the the carnal ordinances or anything like that,
they're still for a game. They still apply to us.
Where are you guys at? You guys are in 1 Corinthians. Go to 2 Timothy 3, 16 real quick. 2 Timothy 3, verse number 16.
they want to say like oh
You know this the unit because they'll say like this
They'll take that verse about rightly dividing the word of truth
And they'll be like you got to like chop the Bible up so that you can understand it
It's like they are not rightly dividing the word of truth when they divide that script right there
Okay, because you understand that what he's saying by that is it goes back to kind of like what Isaiah says when he's like precept
Must be upon precept line upon line line upon line. He's like here little in their little
What he means by rightly dividing the word of truth
is that you have to apply the Bible
in its proper context to get the truth of the Bible.
Because if you just chop it up and you like just,
you can make, like I said this before,
you can make the Bible say anything you want to.
If you just don't rightly divide it,
if you just stack scripture against scripture
people do that all the time, right?
They're like, well, you say that salvation's by faith,
but in James two, it says that it's by works.
What are they doing?
They're not rightly dividing the word of truth
when they do that.
Because if you rightly divide the word of truth there,
you'd understand that James is not talking
about a salvation that's by works,
because again, salvation can't be by works.
That Romans 4-5 says,
but to him that worketh not,
but believe on him that justified the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness.
And he also says that,
Wherefore, what sayeth the scripture? Abraham believed in God and it was accounted to him
for righteousness. So if you would rightly divide the word of truth, you'd understand that when
James is talking about Abraham being justified by works, you'd understand that Abraham is being
justified in the sight of men by works. Not before God, though. That's what he says. He says,
for Abraham, we had wear of the glory. Or if Abraham were justified by works, he had wear of the glory,
but not before God.
2nd Timothy 3.16 it says this all scriptures given by inspiration of God is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction and
righteousness. What does he say right there? All scripture. All of the Bible
is for us as Christians. This is not an amazing thing. Romans 15 verse number five
they'll go back there real quick. This reminds me of a story I think I tell
There was a girl in our church in Canada that used to go to a dispensationalist church
and she was telling us that her pastor recommended to her,
because she was more freshly saved at the time,
not to read the book of Acts.
He's like, do not read the book of Acts,
because it'll just confuse you right now, because you're just a babe in Christ.
He's like, you just focus on like Romans and all these other books.
He's like, but Acts is a transitional book.
So if you read that right now, you're just going to be confused.
It's like, what kind of person tells a Christian not to read the Bible?
What in the world? How bizarre is that?
You know why you actually didn't want her to read the book Vax though?
It's because it destroys a lot of dispensationalism, theology, that's why.
Romans 15, verse number 5.
I wanted to make sure, oh yeah, there we go.
Romans 15, number five, it says,
now the God of patience and consolation grant you
to be like might have one to another,
according to Christ Jesus.
Patience is obviously obvious what it means right there,
but what is consolation?
Consolation is basically comfort.
Like if you think about like a consolation prize,
what does that mean?
It's like a prize to like comfort you
that you're a loser, okay?
That's what it actually means, okay?
But obviously, consolation here is just to talk about comfort, not that you're a loser.
Though we are kind of losers without Jesus Christ though, okay?
But the Bible says right here that now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be what?
Like-minded one to another according to Christ Jesus
God is commanding us to be patient with each other and to show comfort to show
consolation to each other and again
Why does he say to do this? He says because this is what Jesus Christ did as well
I could have brought this up a little a few weeks ago, but I'll talk about how the fact that like
Jesus Christ was so patient with his disciples on this earth.
Like just imagine being perfect amongst sinful men and you still see that Jesus is encouraging them and trying to provoke them to do good works.
He's trying to teach them. He's being very patient.
And even with Peter, with all of his blunders, with all of his mistakes that he makes, he's still at the very end of it tells him, hey, go tell my disciples and Peter.
to come meet me right? He's patient with people and that should be what we should grab from
that is this is that we should be patient with the people around us as well. People are going to
grow at the same rate. People aren't going to be at the same spiritual level as you and you have
patients with people in that regard and just be like understanding that if someone's a babe
they're not going to meet all these high spiritual standards just like a little baby isn't going to
So you should be patient with people because Jesus Christ was as well.
And we should have consolation to people.
Like we should comfort people when people are going through a hard time,
when they're going through a bad situation,
we don't need to lecture them about everything that they're going through
or just like throw a bunch of facts at them.
You know, a lot of people just want some time.
They just want comfort, like to know that you care about them,
to know that you actually feel for them and you care about what they're going through.
And it just reminds you of how many times in the Bible
like Jesus Christ would just comfort people
and be kind to them and we should do the same thing.
Romans 15.
In verse number six, it says this,
that you may be one mind,
made with one mind and one mouth glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
wherefore receive ye one another also,
as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
I want you to think about this,
because if you remember in Romans chapter number 14,
how does he start off that chapter?
He says, him that is weak in the faith,
receive ye but not to doubtful disputation.
So it's not like receiving people to church.
So what he's basically saying here
is that when a new believer comes to church,
this was obviously from Romans 14,
we didn't want to push them away
with doubtful disputations.
But Paul is saying that we should receive one another,
like people that would be weak in the faith
that come to the church,
just like God received us,
Christ also received us to the glory of God.
What were the stipulations that we had to be received to the glory of God when it
comes to Jesus Christ? What do we have to do to receive that glory?
Believe on him right with a believe on him. So what he's saying is this is there's someone's a believer
We should receive them into the church whether they're weak in the faith or whether they're strong in the faith now
Obviously, there'd be exceptions to this rule. Obviously, he would caveat himself. I'm sure but in general what Paul is saying here
Is this is that you shouldn't have to meet like all these lists of specific doctrines just to be able to enter a church building?
Let me give you an example. That's actually I remember when I was on my honeymoon when we were in Hawaii
call the church and I was just looking for a good Baptist church to go to in
the area and I was like hey we're just me and my wife are in the in town we're
only here for the week we're just looking for a church to go to can I ask
you what you believe about salvation he said it's by faith alone awesome yeah
yeah I was like you use the King James like yeah we use the King James and I
was saying oh awesome and he was like well can I ask you like what church do
And I was like, oh, we go to Sherr Foundation Baptist Church
in Vancouver.
I think it might have been Verdi Baptist Church at that time,
because we were still the church plant.
Maybe?
Am I wrong?
No, I'm wrong.
Sherr Foundation, OK?
But when he asked me he was like when he asked me that he was like, oh, who's the pastor and I was like
Oh, it's pastor Aaron Thompson. He was like, oh, who sent him out and I was like my name pastor
Roger Jimenez and he's kind of like oh
I'm serious. He literally on the body. Oh, he was like, I just want to let you know kind of right now like
We're dispensationalists here and he's like,
and we have this belief and I know
you guys disagree with this and he's like,
I know you disagree with that,
I know you disagree with this and that and he's like,
so it might just be better for you guys not to come here.
And I was kind of like,
in the face of this verse,
we used to talk about like receiving people,
this is what it reminds me of.
It's just like, I was like, dude,
I'm just trying to go to a church
with a like-minded believers.
You don't have to meet every single doctrine of mine
for me to go and visit the church, what in the world?
But he's like, eventually I kind of talked to him enough
and I was just kind of like,
Hey, I really don't care about the dispensationalism thing.
I don't care about a lot of these things that you said.
Can I just come to church with my wife?
He's like, okay, yeah, fine, that's fine.
It's like, okay.
But I'm using that example to show you,
there should not be a checklist like that when people come to the door where it's just like,
oh yeah, you got to believe the same thing about the Jews like we do,
or the rapture that we do, or whatever doctor.
How did Christ receive us? Did he receive us with all these laundry lists of requirements?
No, he received us by when we had faith on Jesus Christ. That's it.
So we should be the same thing we do the same thing with other people. Obviously, there'd be like exceptions to this
I know for sure, but like
Again, like you don't want to just like get so to the point where you're just so divided away from people that nobody can come to your church
Unless they're just a hundred percent lockstep with you. That's weird
where we had the verse number six though,
but it does say though,
it says that you may be with one mind
and one mouth glorify God.
Like we should, our goal in a church
should be to have unity though.
Cause I'm caveatting this just because
there's two extremes of this.
Where like people are like,
you have to believe exactly like I do
to come to church.
Or some people will be like,
we don't care what you believe.
You can come to this church.
It's like, okay, but that's,
that's not exactly difficult either.
Okay.
We're just like, hey, you know,
Yeah, I might like if you like let me just give you a game like someone comes in their church
And they're like I'm a diehard Catholic. I'm never changing on that
I believe salvation's by works alone basically what Catholic Church believes not exactly
But it's like they're just like I'm fast in that belief, but I just want to come and visit be like
Maybe this is not the church for you, okay?
Because what was the requirement again that he said?
Like to receive them as Christ received us,
but we, Christ received us with faith though, okay?
Obviously that's not to say that unsaved people
can't come to church, but what I am saying is this,
when I talk about the extremes,
like there should be a semblance of unity
when we go to church.
Or you're just gonna argue with people the whole time.
Like...
I'm like, we'll be like, hey, let's pray.
And then like a Catholic coming in like, oh,
I'm going to pray to the saints real quick.
Oh, what?
Like, we are not agreed in that area, right?
OK?
Again, there's obviously caveats of this so hopefully you guys understand that okay, but it's like we have unity where it's not just like I
I've been to churches though where it's like the deacons like a hardcore Calvinist and then there's a there was a girl running the Sunday School Ministry
That was a hardcore work salvation
Not just like usually they give like some kind of mouth service
But she was like no it is you need works to save you and that was who was running the Sunday School Ministry
and the pastor's philosophy was just kind of like
Yeah, but I mean, you know, we want to welcome everybody in the church.
It's like, okay, maybe that's true, but I don't want everybody running the children's ministry.
You won the world.
I would have hoped that they'd have salvation right before you let them do that.
It's kind of weird.
Really, verse number eight, it says,
Now I say that Christ was a minister of the circumcision
for the truth of God to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.
and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy,
as it's written for this cause,
I will confess thee among the Gentiles
and sing unto thy name.
Something that people teach sometimes
where I just don't understand where they're coming from
is they'll say like, you know,
We were just like plan B is the Gentiles like you know like we're just kind of like the scum of the earth and like the Jews are
The real deal
Obviously he says in this verse he comes to the Jews
We see thousands like he came to his own his own received him not and he says there that he's doing this to fulfill the promises
That he made to the father, so that's a hundred percent clear, right?
But here's the thing is that we were not just a plan B. We were always in God's plan. Okay, and I want you to see this
This is he break he beats this over the head
He says that first thing that he quotes and look at verse number ten
He says and again, he says rejoice you Gentiles with his people and again praise the Lord all you Gentiles a lot of all you people
And again, Isaiah saith, there shall be a root of Jesse,
and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles,
and him shall the Gentiles trust.
This was always part of the plan from God.
This was, we were not just like second class citizens,
like where we're just like, we're just like,
oh, oh, the Jews didn't accept me.
I better just take these bums instead.
It's like, no.
We were always part of the plan for God.
He quotes like multiple scriptures here.
And it reminds me go to Acts 10, 44.
Acts 10, 44.
Some way I remember hearing this at one time,
he was just like, who was it, the guy that said,
do you guys remember, he was like,
I didn't even give you the quotes,
how are you going to remember?
He said, oh, that Christ isn't your Messiah.
He's only the Jews Messiah.
That's right.
Yeah, he says like Christ is not your Messiah. Um, yes, he is my Messiah if you believe on Jesus Christ
He is literally your savior. What in the world? How bizarre? That's not it
That's like an obsession that people have though
Christ is the Messiah to everybody that believes him on him, not just the Jews, it's very odd.
Acts 10-44 says,
I'm just like, they're like, with all these old Testament references, why are they so
shocked that this is happening right here?
And I just want you to, like, I bring this up to just show you that...
Your society can have a huge impact on how you interpret the Bible and how you read things and I already used the example of how
the people in America justified
slavery and it's just like and then treating people like they were like subhuman when it's like how could you get that from the
Bible when you just have clear verses like love your neighbor as yourself or that he's made every nation of one blood
But it's the same way that they're ignoring these verses about the Gentiles here because people really as much as we don't like to admit it
We let our society influence us and we'll just pick and choose verses that we want to apply.
But that's why you, as a Christian, you need to separate away mentally from your society
and go with what the word of God says, not just what your culture teaches you.
Because this allows terrible things to happen in history when you don't do this.
You have to go with what the Bible says above everything else.
And we're all going to have blind spots, but we should really try our best to not allow that to happen to us and not to
just ignore clear passage of scripture just because it's not like politically correct.
Just go with what the Bible says, period, okay?
The word of God is our beacon of truth, the thing that we depend on the other day,
and that should always be true.
You should never just like ignore verses just because it's not popular.
That's what they're doing right here. They're like, wow!
the Gentiles are getting the Holy Ghost poured out on them.
Who would have thought?
It's like, you would have thought
if you were reading the Bible,
like Paul quoted it like five times,
he's like, the Gentiles, the Gentiles,
the Gentiles, the Gentiles.
And they're like, can the Gentiles be saved?
Like, what were you guys reading?
Of course.
Romans 15 verse number 13 it says now the hope or now the God of hope fill you
with joy and peace and in believing that you may have bound in hope the way
it says here though it says through the power of the Holy Ghost it's almost like
he's nodding to that verse that we just read in Acts where like the Holy Ghost is
poured out upon the Gentiles and then he like specifically mentions here like
he's like
Through the power of the Holy Ghost like we as Gentiles scum get the Holy Ghost to it's not just for the Jews, right?
Romans 15 verse number 14 it says that I myself also am persuaded of you my brother and that ye also are full of goodness filled with all
Knowledge able also to admonish one another nevertheless person
I've written them more boldly unto you in some sort as putting you in mind because of the grace of God given
Or excuse me grace that is given to me of God only those a couple things number one is he's saying this he's saying that
He's writing to the brethren
They're full of goodness. They're filled with knowledge.
He's like, he says, able to admonish one another.
Like I want you to realize sometimes people get this idea that it's only the guy behind the pulpit
that's supposed to be like helping people in the church or teaching them things at church.
This is not true though.
He's saying right here that they can admonish one another.
Like you want to get to the point where the church
has Bible knowledge it's not just like they're only depending on like a preacher or a pastor to
lead them like we should be able to help each other as well because the reason why is that
there's only so many things you can talk about from behind the pulpit in a given week right it's
like you get like what three hours a week of things that you can talk about and in here it's
Yeah, basically two, if you're talking about me,
and then Brother Jason and Brother Paul, obviously,
alternate.
But there's only so many things you can talk about,
and it's going to be hard to get to do a bunch of topics.
But Lord willing, we can have people
that are knowledgeable enough in the Bible
where we can teach each other these things.
And that thing that we do where we gather after church
and talk about different Bible doctrine
and talk about different passages and different opinions,
it's a really good thing to have in church.
Because I've been to churches before where it's like,
after church, we do not talk about the Bible.
It's like you're talking about football.
basketball, soccer if they're more liberal, okay, or golf, you're like, I got to leave,
you're talking about golf, okay.
But no, like it but like seriously it's like it's a good thing though that you can talk about Bible doctrine
That's what we're supposed to be doing as Christians, right?
We're supposed to be sharpening each other as iron sharpens iron
It's good to talk about differences opinion and talk about different doctrines and explain the Bible to different people
And when someone comes to you with a question in church, you know
You want to be like what Paul says here where he's like he's confident that they have enough knowledge to admonish one another to talk about it with each other
He says in verse 15 as well. He says never less brother and I have written more boldly unto you and some sort is putting in you
In mind because of the grace of God given to me
Hopefully I could get this a point across sometimes I speak to you guys in this room a little bit boldly
It's because I think that you guys can handle it a lot of times. Okay, sometimes a little mean sometimes a little hard
Sometimes I raise my voice a little bit, okay
But I'm gonna tell you it's just because I'm bold because I know that you guys a while you guys in this room are seasoned Christians
Okay, and you can handle that so if I step on your toes or if I hurt your feelings
Give me a little bit of grace, okay?
I'm just confident that you guys can handle these things, okay?
And I'm also confident in this,
that when you guys get up and preach something
that I disagree with,
I'm not gonna throw a big baby fit either.
I'm not gonna go and just like freak out and just be like,
oh, I cannot believe he doesn't agree with me exactly.
Hey, I've talked about this before.
It's really good that we have differences of opinion, okay?
So sometimes I'll be bold.
Sometimes I might step on your toes
with some of the things that I'll say.
Like, I know you guys were offended about the deodorant, okay?
It's like, okay.
Get the natural deodorant, okay?
I'm gonna put that in the website of the church,
like must be non-natural deodorant, okay?
Not really, okay?
But I'm being a little silly right there,
but it's true that we're all gonna come
to different opinions about the Bible,
and that's okay, okay?
And we just need to be able to deal
with our differences sometimes,
and not get super offended or upset about them.
Matthew 15, verse number 16.
It says this that I should be a be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles ministering the gospel of God that the offering up of
The Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the Holy Ghost
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ and those things between the God for I will not dare to speak of any
Of those things which Christ has not rotten me by the rot by me to make the Gentiles obedient by
Word indeed. I was just thinking about this as I was writing this and I was like it's so really truly incredible
the work that Paul was able to do at that time in history because
nowadays for us, when we go out and preach the gospel, especially in America,
obviously, everybody knows who Jesus is. Everybody has like heard the name of Jesus.
It's not like maybe once in a blue moon, you'll meet someone who's like...
The Bible never heard of it. It's like, this is very rare.
Most people will tell you even that they're Christians or that they have some kind of faith in Christianity or whatever.
It's like, but Paul, back in this time, is like taking boats and trips to places where they have never heard anything about God.
Never heard anything about the God of the Bible.
And he's winning them to Christ like what an amazing feeling that just shows you that the word of God is truly powerful
Like you can take it and show it to someone who's never heard about Jesus before has never heard of the gospel before and in one
Conversation you can convert them and have them believe in God. You know why that's possible. It's not because we're great
It's because the word of God is quick and powerful. It's because the God will
Through his Holy Ghost will use us to do
Great works if we'll actually go out and attempt them. Okay, and we see that
with Paul that Paul was willing to go out and Paul and God used him greatly to do
just an incredible work to spread the gospel to basically everyone in the
known world at that time. Look at verse number 19 it says
through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem,
rent about the Alliricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named,
lest I should build upon another man's foundation.
But as it is written to him, he was not spoken of, they shall see,
and they that have not heard shall understand."
So we just realized with this kind of passage here that we're building
the foundation of the apostles and of the Christians before us like we truly do
stand on the shoulders of giants in that sense like but the fact that we can you
know go and preach to people and they already know who Jesus is and they
already know what the Bible is they already know what the gospel is it's
because of the men in the faith before us that went out and preached and spread
that into the whole world so we should always be thankful of that but the
second thing I want to bring up about this is this is that Paul says from
everywhere. Everywhere in the whole world he's fully preached the gospel of Christ.
What a testimony to him because again I'm thinking about back at that time it's
like it's not like he has an airplane that he can go fly to and go to all
these places with. It's like he either walk in by foot or horseback or he's
going by boat and he goes into all the world to preach the gospel. Truly truly
incredible that he dedicated his life to do that and obviously all glory goes to
through the power of God is what I'm trying to say.
But this should be a testimony to us
that we shouldn't just want to reach.
Spoke hand we should truly want to reach this whole world and obviously we're going to start in spoke hand because that's what we see from the
From Jesus Christ he starts in Jerusalem with everybody, but it doesn't just stay in Jerusalem
It goes into all the world so that's why I love the fact that we do the little small-town soul wings
I love that we're going to Cheney Cheney Cheney
Yeah, yeah, okay, so I'm growing too and getting edified
I love that though and praise God and hopefully we do that and tell to the day that this church closes down
You know why because I want to be guiltless from the blood of all men across the world
Right and at least if it's not every single area of this world that we preach the gospel to I want to go as far as we can
I want to get as much done as we possibly can for Jesus Christ and the benefit that we have nowadays that Paul didn't have is that we
Got the technology and we got the the advancements in society to do that. It's like it's not just like
a boat trip, like a six month boat,
perilous boat trip that you're going on.
It's like, you get on a plane,
you can fly to anywhere in this world.
It's incredible, like the benefits
and the opportunities that we have.
And when you compare that with the fact that,
like we get less done than these people did back then,
like it's kind of shameful.
Obviously there's more people in the world back,
or nowadays, excuse me,
but it's like still like,
with all the advancements we have in this world,
we don't hold a candle to anything
that they were doing back then.
Like we have like endless amounts of Bibles endless like technology like the planes we can go on the boats
If we wanted to go on a way better nowadays, and they were back then it's like we could take our cars anywhere
But nowadays we get less done for Christ than even these people are doing back then
How is that possible?
It's because people lose their love and they lose their desire to go out and do things for Christ
But what do God more Christians nowadays could get?
on fire and truly get zealous for souling and reaching this whole world and going into not
just Spokane and not just being say hey we knocked every door in Spokane but we can say hey we spread
out as far as possible in Washington state into Idaho into Montana as far as we could possibly go
and the amount of time that we had on this earth. That's the zeal that we need from Christians
nowadays look at verse number 22 it says for which cause also I have been much hindered from coming
To you, but now having no more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years to come unto you
Whensoever I take my journey in Spain, I will come to you for I trust to see you in my journey and to be brought on
My way their word by you
If first I be somewhat filled with your company
I just want to say this, and I'll move this pretty fast, but when it comes to going and visiting people first of all this
It's a really nice thing to be able to go out and visit brethren like I try to like I was telling Kelly
Like it's so amazing that like I can go to Seattle or I can go to Yakima or I can go to Indianapolis or I can go to
You know
Wherever we have church plans, but not just church plans, but just wherever there's like a Baptist church
That's right on salvation. I can go there and be immediately friends with people. Isn't that incredible?
That's like the unity that we see in Christ by believing the same thing as one another and it's just like
Like if you don't go out and travel and visit other churches, I'd recommend that you do it because it's really a
Good experience and for the simple fact of just this if nothing else that
Other churches and other like groups of people will do things better than us or have a better way of doing things and
That we can learn from and also not even just that just the fellowship that we have with people like meeting people
There's a lot of good people out there that don't just go specifically to this church
Obviously, but there's only one thing I want to bring up about this is that when you go and visit people's churches
You should be a blessing to that church. Okay, and and you should try your best to get along with people, okay?
I hear rumors, and this has been a long time
since I've heard something like this,
so that's kind of good,
but of people maybe back in the day more so,
where they go to churches and they've causing uproar,
they go up and they're like,
I gotta rebuke the pastor on this doctrine.
That should not be so okay. You're gonna go you should be a if you're gonna go be a guest at a church
You should be a good person there. Okay, you should represent Jesus Christ well and represent your home church
Well, okay, be like man anytime these bozos come from this church. They're just like causing a ruckus
Should be not named among us. Okay, cuz I want to tell you this because people will just like
Freak out about different doctrines that people believe sometimes, but it's like if someone's King James only their salvation by faith
And there's like a couple other key doctrines. They're gonna be think of for the most part. I'm gonna be able to get along with him
Truly at the end of the day. It's like whether it's old IFB whether it's whoever I'm gonna be able to get along with them pretty well
Okay, so this attitude of just always wanted to fight with people is not good
Verse number 25, look what it says, it says,
but now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints,
for it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Acadia
to make a certain contribution for the poor saints
which are at Jerusalem.
It hath pleased them verily that their debtors,
and their debtors they are for if the Gentiles
have been made partakers of their spiritual things,
their duty is also to minister unto them incarnal things.
Go to...
Oh, where is my oh, it's in Corinthians. I didn't post it again though
Go back to 1st Corinthians 9 again real quick 1st Corinthians 9 and this will be the last place
I have you guys turn before we wrap this up
First Corinthians 9 he's talking about like the fact that
That as Christians like
Oh, excuse me, I could lost my place a little bit.
In Macedonia, they came to make certain contribution
for the poor saints with direct Jerusalem.
I was talking to a guy recently that was telling me
that he thought it was unbiblical
for people at church to get paid at all.
Which I was just like, how could you reconcile this with what we see in 1 Corinthians?
Like, he's literally telling us in 1 Corinthians chapter number nine.
Let me get there real quick too because I didn't even turn there.
He's literally telling us there that someone that is preaching the gospel should be reaping
carnal things from that, okay?
Sorry, I meant I must have not placed that in my notes first Corinthians 9 verse number 8
What does he say this or go to this number verse number 7 because we're here now
It says who go with a warfare any time in his own
At his own charges who planted the vineyard to eat if not of the fruit thereof or who feed of the flock and eat if not
Of the milk of the flock say these things as a man or say it's not the law the same also
Ford is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn
Death God take care for oxen
What is Paul saying here? He's saying this because he's referencing to himself. He's like,
if someone's going out and spending their entire life and they've dedicated their life to doing
the work of God, why would they not be taken care of with carnal things? You understand what I'm
This guy was saying like he was like, no, no, no, it's it's bad that anybody would get paid for doing the work of God
It's like, I guess the Paul was a bad person then, okay?
Not that he received money from this church specifically
He actually wouldn't receive money from the Corinthians because they were so weak in the faith that they were doubting who Paul was a person
Which is very bizarre
but
Paul did receive money from people outside of him just being a tent maker as well where he did
You know do his work as well, but it reminds me of why I bring this up is there was a church in
Oregon somewhere
where they had this belief where they're like,
we don't want the pastor to get paid at all at the church.
So the pastor was working like a full-time job
and pastoring and he did that his whole career.
But I'm like, he's a pretty impressive man for doing that.
But I'm like, wouldn't you want to take the burden
from his physical work away from him
so that he could focus on his spiritual work
that he's doing?
Like this is what I was explaining to my coworker
that was telling me this.
I was like, if you're actually being paid to just be a pastor,
How many better sermons could you write? How many better events could you plan?
How much better counseling could you give to people?
Because you're not wasting your energy on like physical labor out in the world.
Doesn't that just make sense? Like why wouldn't you want your pastor
or even like a deacon in the church that's working
to get paid so that they can focus on the work of God more than just their carnal job?
I've always thought that was really weird and that church said like they quote a verse about
you know, them being a hireling if they're taking money, but he's like Paul's really clear here
that if someone is working of the gospel they should be paid that it says in verse number 11 it says
if we have sown unto you spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
He's like if we are spiritually benefiting you
What is money to you at that point? It's like what like what he's like if if I'm
bestowing into you like
Spiritual things like the things that will matter for all the eternity
How big of a deal is it to pay that person money or to give them housing or to give them?
You know, whatever they need so they can provide for those things very odd
Where we had in verse, uh, we'll go back to Romans 15
Romans 15 it says it have pleased them fairly or even verse 28 says what are when
therefore I have performed this and I've sealed to them this fruit I will come to
you into Spain by you into Spain excuse me and I'm sure that when I come on to
you I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ one
more thing about that though because I will go back to this because my bro my
co-worker brought up of people that are really rich in these mega pastors
Obviously, this is not a good thing, okay, like people that like like who is it that has the private jet Kenneth Copeland?
Yeah, he gets clowned on all the time online for having a private jet and probably rightfully so
It's like what in the world like how do you compare the life of Jesus who is not just a rich and wealthy and super?
You know well-off person
To his life. Can't open who has like a private jet. It just has millions of dollars
there's something wrong with that picture, okay?
If Christ was not just like filthy rich like that,
why should some other pastor
or some other spiritual person be like that?
It's a shame to the name of Christ, it really is.
I've had so many of my coworkers in my life
bring up these mega pastors and they'll tell me like,
that's your goal, right?
You wanna be a mega pastor?
Like, no, that is not my goal actually, okay?
Like...
Money should not be like a focus for you.
If you're gonna try to be a man of God,
if you're gonna be someone who's a pastor leading people,
money's just gonna blind you, okay?
Obviously, you do need to be provided for,
we saw that there.
But if you're owning a private jet,
there's an issue with that, okay?
It's like, and this should just be an example
where it's like,
You know, if you want to have like a Lamborghini or something like that and be a Christian,
it's probably not a good look, okay?
You'd be like, what's wrong with that?
It's like, there's nothing inherently wrong with Lamborghini, okay?
But it's like, something to look at that and be like, oh, okay, you're a weird, like,
because people just hate rich people, okay?
But like, talking about like, not giving like a cause to be like, blamed for the ministry,
you know what I mean?
There's just some things you should abstain from, not because they're inherently evil.
We learned this in Romans 14, but because other people are going to look at it and demonize it.
And so I keep on bringing up Kenneth Colvin because I've been seeing a lot of memes
without online lately, and I'm like, dude, he needs to just ditch the jet.
What in the world? He would save so much flak that he's getting, okay?
Where we had Romans 15 verse 30 it says and I beseech now
I beseech you brethren for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake and for the love of the Spirit that you strive together with me and your prayers
To God for me that I may be delivered from them
But do not believe in Judea and that my service which I have in Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints that
That I may come unto you with the joy by the will of God
and may with you be refreshed.
Now the God of peace be with you all, amen.
I'm just gonna end it on this note right here.
When he talks about praying,
he's asking for prayers right here.
I just want you to just have this in your mind
as a people that pray
that we should be praying for our spiritual leaders.
Like for, I'm gonna bring out obviously
like our pastor specifically, yeah?
Like,
Pastors have a lot on their plate to deal with and they cannot just do everything by themselves.
They need the power of God.
And so we should be praying to God that He would help out the spiritual leaders that we have, okay?
Because you can see in the Bible that even the greatest people fall down sometimes.
King David, Solomon, Peter, really great guys, but they fall, you know?
And that's because...
at the end of the day we're all men so what we should be doing and Paul's asking for prayer right
here that we could pray to God for the people that are trying to do good works for him so they
could do them successfully and so they can keep their testimony obviously so if you're not praying
for a pastor or for any of the spiritual leaders that we have in our churches you should be because
everybody that's a spiritual everybody needs help right but the spiritual leaders are going to be the
probably getting attacked by the devil.
Cause if you could take down the leader of a church,
you could take down the whole church, right?
So you should think about that in your minds.
I had one more thing to say about that and I forget it but it's a little bit late anyway
So we'll probably just end it right there
Just kind of in summary for the sermon though. We should I told I told it bearing the infirmities of the week
We should truly seek not to please ourselves as Christians with a private jet or Lamborghini
Okay, you should seek the benefit of others Kenneth Coban would have been well to read that verse in there and be like
man maybe instead of doing this I can help out the poor or put my money somewhere where I'm not
going to be judged for it okay anyways I'm he's catching straight just like Donald Trump wasn't
the other ones okay but let's just end it right there
Dear world of God, thank you so much for this wonderful day.
Thank you so much for this church, God.
Thank you so much for the great things that you do for us.
I just pray that you would continue to bless us
as a church God and send more labors to the harvest.
I just pray that you would soften the hearts
of the people in the Spokane area
and help them to receive the gospel
and help them to hear it and get saved and come to church.
And I just pray that you would help this country
to turn its heart to you, God,
and that we would...
Get back to to serving you God and making you know religion and Christianity specifically the main focus of our life
We ask these things you say we pray amen
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It's page number 125, The Solid Rock.
Page number 125.
We'll sing it out on the first.
My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand. When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace, in every high and stormy.
His oath, his covenant, his blood, support me in the well-made flood, all around my soul gives way.
And he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found, Dressed in his righteous
That excellence thing ever better for the Roger please close us a word of prayer