to God be the glory.
(singing in foreign language)
Daniel, would you open us up with a word of prayer?
Amen, our second song will be song number 364,
standing on the promises.
Song number 364, standing on the promises.
Three, six, four, let's sing it together on the first.
♪ Standing on the promises of Christ my King ♪
♪ I can't stand the promises of Christ my species ♪
♪ I can't ♪
Good seeing you this morning.
At this time, we'll have our announcement.
- Good morning, everyone.
The verse of the week is Psalms 51, verse 10.
Psalms 51, verse 10.
"Created me a clean heart, O God,
"and renew a right spirit within me."
That's Psalms 51, verse 10.
All right, service times are at 10.30 a.m.
and 3.30 p.m. today and 6.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.
So many times we're at 10.30 yesterday and 1.00 p.m. today.
Let's see here.
Was the, oh, the salvation was added from yesterday.
- Okay. - Perfect.
So the praise reports are six for September,
six for October, which brings us to a total of 83
for the year so far.
So attendance is down below.
All right, event of today, if somehow you missed it
or didn't have a chance yet,
I believe there will be another time after the service,
but it's picture day.
I'm very thankful that was, you know, I was blown away.
I didn't know we'd have all the equipment here.
It was great, you know?
So, but no, it's great.
Really nice blessing to have.
So, if you haven't, go ahead and make sure
you get your photo after service.
All right.
November 11th will be the next monthly homeschool day.
So, hey, look forward to snacks, crafts,
and songs, and games, and just getting all the kids together.
Really good thing to have.
So, but if you would like to come,
make sure you miss Lit, miss Kylie, no.
On to November 15th will be the next Cheney Soul Winning.
Be at 11 a.m. on that day, and just let brother Ryan know
if you would like to attend.
All right, and November 23rd will be the choir practice.
Ooh, I like the sound of that.
So that's always a blessing.
I mean, I love close-knit church, but sometimes, man,
like I'll say, if you've been to a large church
where they just have the kids choir and play,
it's just one of those things.
I love our church, and that's just something beautiful
that we finally have enough kids here to put that on.
I think that's a blessing.
So that's a really cool thing.
I'm really glad to see that being put together.
So that's November 23rd will be the kids' choir's practice
after the morning service.
So that's just gonna be a blessing to all of us.
So November 30th will be the next men's preaching night.
If you are a man who has a tie and would like,
has a King James Bible and would like to preach,
please let brother Remy know and sorry, brother Thompson know
and he will make a schedule of all the men that wish to.
And that will also be a pie social night.
So, you know, that's just a blessing.
That's just great.
Very good time to, you know, get the men out there,
look forward to the men's different sermons and to pie.
So that's just a great way to kind of start off
the holiday season.
So kids, also, if you can memorize Proverbs 28 13,
Proverbs 28 13, you can receive a piece of candy
from Miss Kylie.
So if you have that verse memorized, just let her know,
you can receive reward, it's a great thing.
Right, and I believe tithing information rule,
the rules are down below.
If you have any other prayer requests,
please let the Thompson's throw
and they will get it into the bulletin.
Well, let's turn to Lord in prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much.
- No longer on insulin.
- Oh, praise. - Insulin, praise.
- Praise God.
All right, if you guys wanna take your Bibles
and turn to Psalm number 25,
we're gonna do a little razzle dazzle.
I'm gonna teach you guys a Psalm that I learned
when I was in Sunday school,
which I thought would be good,
'cause there's so many Psalms
and we only sing like a little bit of them,
but I figured it'd be fun to do a little bit of a new one.
Psalms 25, but here's the thing with this one.
This one's a little different.
What it's gonna do, and we'll all learn it very easily,
is that I'm gonna repeat the first line
and then you guys echo back the line
and you continue doing that until we get to the,
let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me,
then we all say it together.
This will make sense when we actually go through and do it,
but it's gonna be like this.
♪ Unto thee, O Lord, unto thee, O Lord ♪
Yeah, ♪ Do I lift up my soul ♪
Yeah, yeah, so that's what we're gonna do.
So just stick with me and then when we get to the chorus,
it'll kind of be obvious, at least out of the first one, okay?
So if we crash and burn,
we were trying to do a righteous thing up here, okay?
Psalms 25, so sing along with me.
♪ Unto thee, O Lord ♪
♪ Stub my soul ♪
♪ Unto thee, O Lord ♪
♪ Stub my soul ♪
♪ Blessed in thee ♪
♪ Let me not be ashamed ♪
♪ Let not mine enemies triumph over me ♪
Perfect, you guys got the hang of it now,
let's do it on the next one.
♪ Yea, let not that way be a shame ♪
♪ Let not that way be a shame ♪
♪ Trust in thee ♪
♪ Not be ashamed ♪
♪ Let not mine enemies triumph ♪
Very good, and this is the last one.
♪ Remember sins of the ashamed ♪
♪ Let not mine ♪
Good singing, Brother Paul,
would you bless the offering for us?
Thank you so much for what we have,
and let us remember the times of harvest
are the good times,
giving the symbol of this timely year.
Let us always give thanks for what we have,
and never shun what we feel that we want.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen.
...to Sher Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could go ahead and take your Bibles
and turn to Luke chapter 21.
Luke chapter 21,
and here at Sher Foundation Baptist Church,
we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
Luke chapter 21, the Bible reads,
"And he looked up and saw the rich men
casting their gifts into the treasury.
And he saw also a certain poor widow
casting in thither two mites.
And he said, 'Of a truth I say unto you,
that this poor widow hath been more than they all.
For all these have of their abundance
cast in unto the offerings of God.
But she of her penury hath cast in all the living
that she had.
And as some spake of the temple,
how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts,
he said, 'As for these things which ye behold,
the days will come in the which there shall not be left
one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.'
And they asked him, saying, 'Master,
but when shall these things be, and what sign will there be
when these things shall come to pass?'
And he said, 'Take heed that ye be not deceived,
for many shall come in my name saying, 'I am Christ,'
and the time draweth near.
Go ye not therefore after them,
but when ye shall hear of wars and commotions,
be not terrified, for these things must first come to pass.
But the end is not by and by.'
Then said he unto them, 'Nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom;
and great earthquakes shall be in diverse places,
and famines and pestilences, and fearful sights,
and great signs shall there be from heaven.
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you,
and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues,
and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers
for my name's sake.
And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
Settle it therefore in your hearts,
not to meditate before what ye shall answer.
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,
which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay,
nor resist.
And ye shall be betrayed, both by parents, and brethren,
and kinsfolk, and friends.
And some of you shall they cause to be put to death,
and ye shall be hated of all men, for my name's sake.
But there shall not in hair of your head perish,
and your patience possess ye your souls.
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies,
then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Then let them which are in Judea flee into the mountains,
and let them which are in the midst of it depart out,
and let not them that are in the countries enter therein too.
For these be the days of vengeance,
that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
But woe unto them that are with child,
and to them that give suck in those days.
For there shall be great distress in the land,
and wrath upon this people.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword,
and shall be led away captive into all nations.
And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles,
until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
And there shall be signs in the sun,
and in the moon, and in the stars,
and upon earth distress of nations with perplexity,
the sea and waves roaring.
Men's hearts failing them for fear,
and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.
For the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall they see the Son of Man
coming in the cloud with power and great glory.
And when these things begin to come to pass,
then look up and lift up your heads,
for your redemption draweth nigh,
and he spake to them a parable.
Behold the fig tree and all the trees.
When they now shoot forth,
ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass,
know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Verily I say unto you,
this generation shall not pass away to all be fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my word shall not pass away.
And take heed to yourselves,
lest at any time your hearts be overcharged
with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life.
And so that they come upon you unawares.
For as a snare shall it come on all them
that dwell on all the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always,
that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things
that shall come to pass and stand before the Son of Man.
And in the day he was teaching in the temple,
and at night he went out in a boat in the mount
that is called the Mount of Olives.
And all the people came early in the morning to him
in the temple for to hear him.
Brother Jake, could you please pray for the preaching?
- Man, we're there in Luke 21.
We're gonna look in at verse number one of this chapter
where the Bible says, and he looked up
and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
The title of my sermon this morning is Give What You Can.
Let's pray.
Dear Father God, thank you so much for this wonderful day.
Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God.
Thank you so much for this church, God,
thank you so much for a great group of people to fellowship with.
I just pray that you would help me right now as I go up to preach this sermon.
I pray that you would fill me with your Holy Spirit, God,
and help me to preach words that would edify the people in this room
and that help challenge them to live as better Christians, God.
I just pray that all my speech can be with grace
and be to the purpose of edifying everybody in this room.
And I just pray that you'd help me to say what you want me to say
and keep me from saying what you don't want me to say.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
The title of my sermon, like I said again, is Give What You Can.
We're just going to jump right into verse number two and continue the story real quick.
It says, "And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in dither two mites.
And he said, 'Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.
For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God.
But she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.'"
So this is a very interesting story in Luke 21.
This is a story that when I was a kid it really jumped out to me.
The first time I remember hearing this, it really just made me think like,
"Wow, like our God is such a thoughtful God."
And that's a feeling that stuck with me as I read the Bible through all these years,
even though when I had first heard that I heard it in a sermon.
But it very much aligns with the theme of this sermon,
with God being a thoughtful and a caring God for all the things that we do for Him,
no matter how small they seem like on the surface.
But this primary context of this passage would be financial,
but I'm not going to just apply this financially, though this would obviously apply to that.
I'm going to apply this to giving what we can in every area of our life as Christians,
because the thing about the Bible is that it is a very deep book.
Like, even to this very day, I still will learn new things out of the Bible.
When I pick it up and read it, I've been reading the Bible consistently since I was 16 years old.
So, and Lord willing, I'll still be finding new things in the Bible until the day I die,
because the Bible is just, there's so many layers to it,
and there's just so many verses that jump out to you that you've just like never seen before.
You're like, "I've read this thing quite a few times and I've never seen this before."
It's a very interesting book in that regard, because it's a living book.
It's not like every other book out there in this world.
But I've been doing long intros lately, so I'm not going to do that today.
I'm just going to jump right into the sermon.
Let's look at verse number two one more time.
It says this, it says, "And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in dither two mites."
Now, what is a mite?
The always wise Chad GBT told me that a mite was basically 1/128 of a Daenerys.
So that should enlighten you guys, right?
But I was like, what is a Daenerys?
It was like a Daenerys was basically the average day's labor for a soldier, I guess.
So Chad GBT with all of its witchcraft calculated that the two mites here is like $1.50 our
money.
I don't know if that's true or not.
And here's the thing.
I don't think that these things really say, especially when it comes to money, because
of the fact there's been many times in my life where I look up something like a measurement
or like money related from the Bible and there's just such a span of opinions.
Like I remember there's a story in the Old Testament where David takes a crown off of
someone's head and it's one talent in weight.
And when I looked up how much was a talent weight, it was saying like 75 to a hundred
pounds.
It was like a hundred pound crown on your head.
There's no way.
Seventy five pounds is still way pushing it.
But if he's at like maybe 25 pounds, I mean, that's still going to be a strain on your
neck, but at least it's like somewhat reasonable.
But also when I looked up how much Jesus Christ was sold for in silver, I was like, what is
it nowadays?
And it was like, it's a range between $340 and $12,000.
And I was like, well, that's quite the swing right there, like 340 and $12,000.
But so I mean, I don't really take with a grain of salt what chat GBT or Grok would
tell you about this or just even Google itself, because here's the reality of this.
They don't know.
They're making educated guesses.
They're putting forth hypotheses on this.
I'm trying to sound educated and I'm feeling big time, OK?
They're putting out educated guesses on this, but they don't really know.
They don't know fully.
And science would do well, this is kind of a side note, to just admit when they don't
know something sometimes.
But everybody was so prideful.
The historians, the scientists were so puffed up that they don't want to think, they don't
want you to think that they don't know everything on this planet.
So they'll just put out an opinion or a hypothesis and just label it as a fact.
And so I would just, as a caution this morning, which has nothing to do with my sermon, but
just be careful when you read things online about the Bible.
Just take everything that you hear about the Bible.
If it's not from the Bible itself, with a grain of salt, because they just throw things
out there sometimes.
And some people have no business talking about anything about the Bible.
And they'll just like, as if their opinion on something is an utter fact and cannot be
challenged in any way, shape or form.
But kind of coming back to the mites right here, so we don't really know the exact value
of two mites, the two mites that this widow is giving here.
But this is what we do know.
Whatever she's giving, the value of it is really not that much, especially compared
to what the other people in the temple are giving.
It's very minimal in the grand scheme of things.
Or I should probably say it's minimal in the sight of men, because to Jesus Christ here,
he actually says that the two mites that this widow gave, they were way more than everybody
else gave at the temple that day.
Why is that?
Look at verse number three.
It says again, it says, "And he said of a truth, I say unto you, that this poor widow
hath cast in more than they all, for all these of their abundance cast into the offerings
of God.
But she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had."
So first of all, what is penury? Because for the longest time I said this word was penury,
so does anybody else in that same boat as me? No? Okay, I'm just dumb. All right. But
a penury, okay, if I say that in a sermon, just forgive me if it's wrong, okay? But penury
is extreme poverty or destitution, which is obvious from the context of this verse that
she's giving the last two mites that she has, and these are not like million dollar mites.
These are very meager, very small amounts that she's giving.
Probably most likely like giving like a nickel or a penny in our money nowadays.
But the second thing is why does Jesus say that she gave more than everybody else?
It's because like he said in this verse, they're giving out of their abundance, they're giving
out of their riches, but this widow woman is giving the last two mites that she had.
She's giving everything that she has right here, even though it is just two small mites.
But these two small mites, even though they were feeble in our sight, and even though
they're valueless probably in our sight, just like a penny would be like. When we see a penny on the
street, we're not going, we're not running to go pick it up, right? Unless you got some small hat
in your DNA somewhere down the line, right? You're probably not running, probably not running to go
pick up a penny in reality. But these two mites, which I would think would be around the equivalent,
were so impressive that they attracted the sight and the attention of Jesus Christ and of God
himself to write this down in the Bible for every man, woman, and child to read about this for all
of history until the end of time. So these two mites, though, why were they so precious to God?
Why was it so impressed? Why was, why does Jesus make a point to point this woman out in this story?
It's because again, they gave of their abundance, but she gave everything that she had. She gave all
that she could in this story. And what I want you to grasp from this, this morning, there's a couple
things we can get from this story. But one of the first things I want you to take home from this
story is this, is that God judges everything, everything in this world, according to his
perspective, not the perspective of mankind. Go to Psalms 33, if you would, verse number 13,
Psalms 33, verse number 13. And I'm going to read for you guys, Proverbs 15, verse number three,
where the Bible says this, it says, "The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil
and the good." And in Psalms 33, verse number 13, where you guys are going, the Bible says this,
"The Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth all the sons of men from the place of his habitation,
he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth, he fashioneth their hearts alike, he considereth
all their works." What makes God a perfect judge and what makes him, you know, the best judge in
the universe is that he doesn't only just know what you do for him or what you do just in life
in general, but he knows why you do what you do. But even further than that, he knows the
circumstances that you're in, the area of life that you're in that has caused you or has allowed
you to do or give what you can in your situation, your scenario. And so that should comfort us. Go
to Matthew 10 41. This should comfort us for this on many reasons, but with this one first, because
God judges things in his perspective, that means that God will never forget any good work that we
do for him on this earth. You guys are going to Matthew 10 41 and I'll read for you guys Hebrew
six verse number 10. The Bible says this, it says for God is not unrighteous to forget your work
and labor of love, which he has showed toward his name in that you have ministered to the saints and
do minister. God says right here in Hebrew six 10 that he is not unrighteous to forget your work.
And in context, I've talked about your work that you do for other people, but obviously because
God is righteous, he's not going to forget any good work that we do for him. And we'll see that
right here in Matthew 10 41 with something as small as this. It says, "He that received the
prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. And he that received the righteous
man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whosoever shall give
the drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple,
verily I stand to you, he shall in no wise lose his reward." So kind of staying within the idea
of doing small things for God, we see here that Jesus Christ says even something as small, as tiny,
as meaningless to us as just giving someone a cup of cold water, he says that you will not lose your
reward for doing this thing. If you're doing it in the name of a prophet, in the name of a disciple,
in the name of a righteous man, in the name of Jesus Christ is what he's saying right here.
If you're doing a good work for God, you're not going to lose your reward. There's two things I
want to point about that. Number one, he says cold water right here, which I would just, you know,
this has, this is just my own opinion, but I'm just like, I don't understand how people
like lukewarm water over cold water. Like what in the world is this? Like,
like again, it doesn't have to do with it, but I'm like, cold water is just like objectively
superior. What's going on? Like people are like, I got sensitive teeth or something like that.
Drink with a straw, dude. What's up with that? Like so, but he says the reward is for cold water,
not just lukewarm water. So just keep that in mind. But, uh, in all seriousness though,
this reminds me when I was typing this, how we're, we're a lot like God in some ways because we're
made in his image, but we're also very different in God in other ways. And one of these ways that
we're very different from God is in this fact that we forget little things that we do for each other
every single day. The good things my wife has done for me in this lifetime, the good things I've done
for her, the good thing my parents have done for me or that I've done for them, then my boss has
done for me or that I've done for him. All these little things, we forget them just like that. Like
within the minute, within the hour, within the day, it's already out of our mind. But then even when
it comes to bigger things, like if you have some kind of integrity about you, you'd usually remember
pretty big events that happen or pretty good gifts or benefits that people give you in this life. But
even with those things, we are very quick to forget these things. As soon as someone does us one wrong
or one perceived wrong, just like every good thing just goes out the window that they'd ever done for
us. And that's just such the opposite of God like we see in this story here. God remembers not only
our big things surely, but he remembers the very small things that we do as well. And this is what
makes him a perfect judge because he doesn't judge like us and just throw out all the good things for
one bad thing. He looks at everything in perspective to the smallest just giving someone a cup of water,
to giving someone two mites, to giving him two mites. He looks at those things and he does not
forget these things. He says you will in no wise lose your award and that should come for you this
morning that no matter what you're doing for God, if you're truly serving God, even if it seems small
in the sight of man, God doesn't forget about it. We'll all forget about it. We'll forget about it
next week but God never forgets the good things that you do for him and so that should comfort
you as a Christian. He never forgets our work of faith and our labor of love but here's something
else that should comfort us. Go to 2nd Corinthians 10 verse number 12, 2nd Corinthians 10 verse number
12, 2nd Corinthians 10 verse number 12. This is what also should comfort us in the fact that God
did this from his perspective is that God knows us and knows our circumstances with perfect
knowledge, with a complete knowledge because God knows everything in this universe and something we
see Christians do a lot as you guys are going to 2nd Corinthians 10-12 is that Christians when they
need like an ego boost or when they're just not they're feeling kind of guilty about what they're
doing lately this is what we like to do a lot of times we'll look at someone else and we'll be
like well I'm doing better than them in this area this area this area therefore I'm just a way better
Christian why am I even depressed like I might like I'm doing way better than this publican over
here that's what a lot of Christians do unfortunately a lot of times but we'll see why this is silly from
the bible look what it says in 2nd Corinthians 10 verse number 12 it says for we dare not make
ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves but they measuring
themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise the bible says it's
unwise it's foolish to judge yourself against other people why is that well it should make a
lot of sense with the story we just read about the widow giving the two mites because when you look
at that story jesus christ was not comparing what that widow was giving to compared to everybody
else at the temple he was comparing that widow what she was giving with her own life with her
own circumstances not against anybody else and so if you're wise you'd realize that god judges us
the same way he's not looking at you and being like well is remy better than brother ryan and
is he better than brother paul and is he better than brother jake and brother daniel like that's
not god saying is remy doing the best that remy can do today that's how he's judging you is remy
giving what he can give today that's what he's judging you on not against anybody else because
god knows perfectly that everyone has different lives in different circumstances about them
and he's given people different talents different lives in different situations that they're in
and so this is what i want you to grab from this as well this morning is that god wants us to focus
on what we can do not what we can't do for him this morning okay like you don't need to worry
about what anybody else is doing in terms of bible reading or soul winning or about anything else no
good that work that you do needs to be compared with what anybody else is doing you because god's
not judging you based on that he's judging you based on what you can actually do in your life
and because this widow woman wasn't just looking at everybody else and being like well they're
giving way more money than i am what are these two mites she doesn't have that attitude at all
because she doesn't have that attitude she's able to give these two mites and actually impress
jesus christ because she again gave the last two mites that she had she gave the last two uh you
know the last two uh objects of currency that she had and even though they were small by our
standards in the sight of god these things were not small go to first corinthians 7 verse number 32
first uh first corinthians 7 32 she gave all that she could give that's why jesus christ was
impressed with her so this morning i would just encourage you as well don't focus on what other
people are doing focus on what you can give to god in your life focus based on your circumstances
in the situation that you're in focus on how you can give all of that to god not what anybody else
is doing in this room or in this world what does this look like though okay as a wife
worry about the soul winning and the bible reading and the church attendance and the prayer that you
can do in your own life as a husband worry about the bible reading the soul winning the prayer
that you can do in your own life as a kid focus on what you can do in your own life as a single
focus on the bible reading the soul winning the prayer that you can do in your own life and the
reason i'm bringing up these groups is this is because when you compare these groups don't you
even just obviously see that there's differences in free time and ability just by nature of what
you are in this in this selection like if you're someone that's you know a mom or excuse me if
you're just someone who's a wife to a husband you have a certain amount of free time probably less
free time than just a single person but if you're a mom you know with multiple kids that can also
take away your time as well but even when you compare within the groups themselves it's still
not equal because there is a difference between a mom that has one kid and a mom that has 19 kids
19 kids in counting right the 19 kids and counting mom probably has a lot of free time though because
they're making big money off that show or at least they used to but my kind of point just kind of
bringing this up is because even when you compare amongst those groups nobody's life is the same as
your life that's what we should wrap our heads around and god knows this but god knows the exact
circumstance and the exact situation that you're in so he can judge it perfectly and so because
even amongst i was you know using the example because even if you do have five kids and i have
five kids or something like that that still doesn't mean that we have the same ability because
kids personalities can be way different and it's like my kids could also be different ages than
your kids as well and so my point is bring that all up is that you should just focus on yourself
okay don't worry about everybody's life and their circumstances is different focus on your own life
you guys are in there in first crinthian 732 it kind of reminds me as well like um with in terms
of this analogy because i i believe brother dylan kylie has the same amount of kids as us he has one
more four yeah so he has he has one more than us but i think at the time when i went and visited
them up in texas he had three kids just like we did or maybe winter wasn't born yet i can't exactly
remember but i remember there was nothing more like shocking like impressive to me that like
jasmine who's my sister um when she was like it was like nap time for the kids she was like okay
kids it's nap time go to bed and they literally i might be embellishing this in my mind because
i was so like amazed but i was like i can like remember them like getting in like a single file
line going to their bedroom and just laying down in bed the going into the bedroom part is not
embellished that was a fact i was just like sitting there like what like that would never
fly at my eyes my kids are just that's just not in the realm of their personality i was like i've
never seen something that impressive before now obviously that's probably a credit to their
their parenting as well but it also boils down to the kids's personality doesn't it because
there's some kids that are just you know rebellious there's some kids that will get in a single file
line and go to bed and then there's titus and karina on the opposite end of that spectrum okay
so that but i'm bringing that up to show you again that everyone's circumstances are different
and god judges you according to the circumstances that you're in that should give you comfort as a
christian that even if you can't give as much money or if you can't give as much as your time
if you can't give as much as anybody else that's that's irrelevant just focus on what you actually
can do as a christian and as like a practical example of this you know as a mom if you have
kids that are like as many as the sand of the sea you probably don't have three hours of free time
to just you know read your bible every day if you're a single you know guy or gal you might have
that free time even then you could have a different job or whatever but i'm just like bringing this up
to say that you know you might not have three hours to read your bible but this is what god
expects from me doesn't expect those three hours he expects you to do what you can as a mom within
the bounds of your life within the bounds of your schedule do what you can in that regard for praying
for bible reading for soul winning for going to church same thing as a man if you're like a man
in here that you know um occasionally misses church which i've been there because of my job
i've told you like i said before i had an on-call job for the water department and it really seemed
like every time there was a church service like satan was going and breaking these water lines
in the city like sundays and wednesday or thursdays exclusively which is not to bring a railing
accusation i'll say allegedly breaking these water lines okay but it was just like one story
that kind of jumps out to me in this regard is that there was one time where we were driving to
church i brought my work clothes with me but we got a call when i was on the way to church
i was like dang it like i was like we're looking forward to going to church so i had to go take
care of it so i was like kylie drive me to my work drop me off and then we'll figure it out
from there so i go to work i bust my butt really fast i go and get this job done and then i'm like
okay well maybe i can try to go home and grab my other car and i was like oh i don't have any keys
now so i was like what am i going to do and i was like well i could just sit at work and just you
know watch youtube on my phone or do whatever or call kylie and be like hey leave church and
come pick me up then i was like it's kind of a huge inconvenience so i was like you know what i
will do i'm just going to walk to church and it was within range of walking i think it was like
maybe a 15 minute walk or something like that i can't exactly remember what it was
but what's funny because people usually when they're telling stories like there was a giant
hill i had to cross you know both ways that i was going to school in the morning it was snowing it
was uphill but there truly was a giant hill that had to climb up to get to get there and i'm just
like trucking along and when you have a bear build like me you have to make sure you don't
stumble or you're just going to fall down the hill back to the beginning but i i remember you know
walking i'm kind of power walking when i get in the straight when i'm not on the hill anymore
and i get to church and there's like 15 minutes left of church and i go sit down i'm all dirty
because i just fixed like you know some kind of water line issue and i was all muddy and i
had my work boots on i had to take off at the door so i'm going in like you know just with my
holy socks on okay not holy like mormon holy like but i'm kind of like i'm like there's holes in my
socks like you're seeing my piggies out when i'm going into church okay so we're going and sitting
down it was like 15 minutes left of the sermon i had no idea where we were at in the sermon i was
just like man this really sucks like i really wanted to go to church today and i was looking
forward to hearing the sermon but when i look back at that kind of like in hindsight i realized
something that i was like you know at least in that situation i did what i could for god and i
And I would feel like in my heart that he would respect that that he's like, hey things pop up, you know work call
If you're a man you have any kind of you know construction job or just really any job they can pull you in just nothing
You can really do about it. That's understandable. God knows when that's the case. That's not sinful or anything like that
Okay, but what I'm submitting to you and one tell you the story is this to just give God what you can within those bounds
That's what he's pleased with. That's what he's impressed with
That's what we see with the story with the widow giving her last two mites in the temple
And if you're a single person in here, you can do a lot with your time
I'm sure probably not to just paint you with a wide brush
but to paint with a wide brush if you don't have the constraints of I say constraints that has a negative conversation, but if you don't
Have like the what is this word that I would use?
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, if you don't have the the loving burdens of a wife and kids to take care of or you know as a wife
You know a husband and kids to take care of you probably have a lot of time
And so you can probably go and do a lot of things for God
You should take advantage of that as a single person or as someone who's a kid in here as well
If you're a kid in here listen to me right now. I regret nothing more than in my youth
I just dinked around on video games and sports so much
I was like
I wish I just had some of this free time back from my youth so that I could take advantage of it and I'm like
If I would have been trying to learn a language then if I'd have been like
Dedicated to reading my Bible then I would have so much time to do it
And now I'm just like trying to squeeze things in but why that's what I have you guys here in
1st Corinthians 732 it says but I would have you without careful carefulness
He that is unmarried care for the things that belongeth to the Lord how he may please the Lord
But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world how he may please his wife
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin the unmarried woman care for the things of the Lord
That she may be holy both in body and in spirit
But she that it was married cares for the things the world how she may please her husband and look what he says in this last
Verse especially he says this he says and this I spake for your own profit
Not that I may cast a snare upon you
But for that which is comely and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction now
If you know the context here, I'm not gonna get into it too far because I'm gonna preach this on Wednesday
But just know Paul's not saying it's sinful to get married here
He's just saying that someone that is single that is you know
A virgin can do a lot more for God because they don't have the wife and kids to worry about taking care of
But the reason I'm bringing this up is because if you're single or if you're a child then you have a lot of time
So I'm just saying you should take advantage of that while you can and I think I brought that point up before
But as a side note to that as well
I just want you to see that Paul is saying this as a fact like this is what's going to happen
He's like if you're a married woman
You have to take care of your husband and if you're a married husband, you have to take care of your wife
That's gonna pull back some of your time as a Christian. That's just what it is
That's why Paul says that a single virgin can serve God more fully than a married person can
So you should just take that and realize this if you are in the stage of life where you are married right now
Or you have kids
You have to actually take care of them and make sure that you raise them up for God and make sure that you spend time
With them because then it ends in disaster because that is the opposite end of the spectrum here
Make no mistake about it when people are away from their kids too much when they aren't hanging out with their family enough
Even when they're going and doing a good thing like they're going and preaching or doing seminars or building huts in Africa or doing whatever
Those are all great things
But whenever you're doing those things it's taking away time from your family and from your wife and from your kids
So as a married person you don't realize you can't serve God like you used to when you're single
That is what it is
And if you don't heed that warning then you will end up with a bitter wife and with bitter children
Because of the fact that Paul is telling us here that when you're married
You just don't have time to do all these things that you used to do anymore. So just realize that as a Christian
Forsaking your kids and sacrificing your kids or your wife on the altar of doing more ministry for God is
Not the game that you want to play. That's what Paul says right here in first Corinthians. That's Paul the Apostle saying this
Okay
so just take that to heart because as a married person you just realize your ministry is your wife at that point your
Ministry is your kids at that point
And that's why single people can do a little bit more than you in in regards to serving God
Where we are here go to acts 5 verse number 1 acts 5 verse number 1. I just say that because you know, I've seen this
With someone like Jack Hiles in the past, you know, brother Jack Hiles or with someone like Kent Hovind where they're just always gone
They're always out of their house. They're always doing something away from their family and
They both you know churn out. I don't know about all Jack house kids
But there's one of them that like is just you know, reprobate to the max and then Eric Hovind
But I mean now that I look at his dad
I'm like, I don't know exactly that had to do with him, but I'm just saying this is a warning from Paulie
You should take heat you should take you know, not lightly your kids and your wife are very important when you get married your goals
And your priorities have to switch or it'll be at the cost of them at the end of the day
And so you guys are going to axe chapter number five. I've been being pretty nice here
I've been being like, you know, do what you can do
Let me give you a hug and we're just gonna hold hands and do what we can together
okay, and
And that's because everything I've been saying is true so far then I've been you know
Kind of showing you these things from the Bible and I think that this can be a double-edged sword though
That a lot of people that are in a good frame of mind will take what I've been saying so far and be like
You know what brother Remy is right, you know, I can be doing more for God. I need to step it up
I need to do more of what I can do in my life and there's more room for me to improve as a Christian
That's what I would hope you take from that
But there's a flip side of this where people
that are not doing very much for God or not living up to the best of their ability will take my words right now and
Justify what they're doing and be like Remi's giving me the you know, the green light. He's stamped in my past right here
He's he said do what you can do and this is all that I can do
That's what I'm doing right now
Some people will do that
But I would just point out to you that in the same way that it should come for you that God knows everything
It should also be a little bit scary to you as a Christian as well
That he judges from his perspective because he knows when you're being truthful and we're not being truthful and he knows
When you are giving all that you can give okay, and go to you guys are there in Acts 5 verse number 1 because
This should come for you when you don't have a lot of free time or when you don't have you know a lot of money
Or whatever that you want to use to serve God
Because God knows truly in your heart that you want to serve and if you had the ability that you would serve him
But you got also by virtue of knowing that knows when you're holding back from him when you're not serving him to the best of your
Ability in Acts 5 1 it says this it says but a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira
His wife sold a possession and kept back part of the price
His wife also being privy to it and brought a certain part and laid it at the Apostles feet
So if you don't really know this story Ananias and Sapphira their husband and wife
They see all these people selling all their land all their possessions or at least very costly possessions of theirs
And they're just coming giving it all to the Apostles. They're laying at the Apostles feet
but Ananias and Sapphira they wanted some of that glory they wanted some of that honor they wanted some of that respect of
Sacrificing you know everything you have or sacrificing a huge property and giving it to the Apostles
Like that'll be they'll make us look really holy if we do that
And so but the problem was is that they didn't want to actually separate with all their money
So they're like they come up with a 200 IQ plan
They're like what if we do this like what if we?
Sell the land at a certain price and then lie to the Apostles about how much we sold it for and keep back some of
That money that way we keep some of our money
But we also get the glory of selling the land completely which is a pretty bold strategy
It's like and you can probably imagine how this works out for them without even reading the next part of this story
But I will just say before I move on to that is that it's important realize that Ananias and Sapphira
Could have been free from sin at all in this story if they didn't want to give all their land
They did not have to this was not a requirement
This was a free will offering that they were offering right here
And also they could have just been honest and sold it and then kept back some of the price and just told them
Hey, we gave like 75% of our you know house to the church or something like that, but because they lie in this story
That's why God punishes them. So severely and we see that in the story
It says but Peter said why Satan lied
Why Satan filled that heart to lie the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land while as it remained
Was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in nine power? What is thou conceived?
Yeah, why has thou conceived this thing in my heart that was not lied unto men but unto God and this is a side note
Well, but imagine going to your wife and actually planning this out because that's what we're about to see in this story
It's not like Anna and I just did this on the whim and just like
Like in the moment. He just lied about it. He purposely went to his wife and was like, honey
I got the plan here. It's like we're gonna lie to all that we're gonna lie to Peter
Okay, and we're gonna you know, get all this glory and all this money at the same time
How wicked is it when when you're not even because sometimes when you stumble into sin sin that is what you're doing
You're stumbling into it you fall into it, but there's like a worst degree where you like plan it out
And you like are even conspiring with someone else to commit sin
It's just like when there's a difference between murdering someone when you premeditate it and when you don't right?
There is a difference in the sight of God, but moving on that's where we're gonna jump down to
Verse number eight says and Peter answered unto her tell me whether you sold the land for so much and she said this is wife
Yay for so much then Peter sent her how is it that you have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord behold the feet
Of them which have buried thy husband or at the door and shall carry thee out
Then she fell down straightway at his feet and yelled up the ghost and the young men came in and found her dead and carrying
Her forth buried her by her husband
So because they're trying to have their cake and eat it too
They end up getting killed because they're lying to the Holy Ghost in this story
Why am I bringing this up though? Because again in the theme of this sermon
God knows and understands perfectly what you can and can't do for him
He knows what you can and can't give therefore it makes no sense to play games with him because you're playing a game
You're playing a losing game. We're trying to hide things from someone that knows everything in this universe
How dumb could you be to play a game like that?
But people do it all the time because they can hide things to men to men's eyes
But more important than what men think about you realize that there is an all-powerful almighty consuming
Fire God that is judging everything that you do as a Christian
And so this story though doesn't it's not exactly a one-for-one of what I've been showing so far
But it does capture the essence of what I've been saying where God knows what we can and can't do
He knows when we're lying to him as well about what we can and can't do and he knows when we're holding back from him
On things of what we can and can't do as Christians go if you would the Proverbs 16 verse number two
What does this mean practically though? Okay, it means this it means you might tell people
I just have no time to read the Bible. I have no time to go so wanting
I have no time to go to church. I have no time to pray
I have no time to do any of these things. I just have no time in my day
Whatsoever hey that might be true, but you know who knows if that's true or not
It's God Almighty that knows and he will judge you for the things that you say the words that you put out there
To other people and he'll judge you according to what's true in this life because a lot of people be like
I just you know all I can do is all like I could only read one verse of the Bible a day
That's all I have time for just one verse all I have time for is before I go to bed at night
I have time for a one-minute prayer. I can squeeze in right before I go to sleep
That's all that's all I have time for you know. I just don't have time to come so wanting during the week
It's like, you know, I'm just busy. Okay, I'm busy. I don't have time for it. You these things could be true theoretically
But God knows if they're true or not and he's gonna judge them
He's gonna weigh them because you can say to people I'm busy. I'm overstretched. I'm in too much pain
I have too many more important things to do then work then like, you know, really get into the things of God
But God's gonna judge you for that at the end of the day and he'll weigh that at the other day is what we see here
Look at what it says in Proverbs 16 - it says all the ways of man are clean in his own eyes
Just realize this this is so true
Everyone always thinks that what they're doing is the best is peak is perfection in this life. It's insane
It says all the ways of man are clean in his own eyes. We all think like we're always 100% justified
We're 100% in the right. We're 100% righteous. We are
Completely solid in everything that we do in this life. That's what God is saying right here
But then look at the next part of the verse it says but the Lord weigheth the spirits
So what is he saying right there?
Everyone's gonna justify the things that they do themselves
Everyone's gonna justify what they can and can't do in this life
But just know God's gonna weigh that out on a balance and see if that's true or not
So if you were wise you'd realize this
Maybe I should fact-check what I think I can and can't do and make sure that that's accurate in the sight of God
Because obviously we know this has nothing to do about going to heaven and hell
But if you want to please God in your life
You want to be blessed by God in your life
You should be giving God all that you can give him at the end of the day and God knows
Every area of your life and what situation you're in so you should just not play that game with him in the first place
Go if you would to Malachi 1 verse number 7. It's the last place I'll be turned for the sermon Malachi 1 verse number 7
Because if we were honest of ourselves with ourselves as humans most of the time
We would realize that we have more time than we admit really at the end of the day and we have more ability to do
Things than we would like to admit at the end of the day. It reminds me of when I was a kid
This is what I used to say when I didn't do my homework
I just be like I had no time to do my homework. No time
I came home and it was just like it time zapped away. It's like well, what were you doing when you got home?
It's like, you know, I was doing chores. I had football practice, you know, I ate dinner. It's like, okay
Well, that's about like, you know three hours of time. What'd you do with the other two hours?
It's just oh, I just they're just they're gone. They're gone. I didn't have time
It's like but what you really mean by that what I really meant by that was that I didn't have time to
Do my homework when I included in the two hours of video games that I was playing before I went to bed, okay?
This is true about us as adults as well, though
We do the same thing even though it's you know, we justify more cuz we're adults
It's like like people be like I just I only have time to read like, you know
One verse of the Bible a day. Like I said, okay, and it's like does that really all you have time for though?
If it is if you're you know, I'm trying to think that you're like getting slave driven
You literally have no time your day if you can only read one verse God would respect that
I would imagine what we've seen but I would just submit you this is not true
This is not true in 2025 America that people just have no time in their day
What they really mean is they have no time after they get off Facebook after they got to take talk after they get off
Instagram after they get off YouTube after they get off doing whatever pulls their time away in this world
that's when they don't have time to do anything regarding that's that's the reality of things and
Especially now as I because I used to say I have no time
But now I really don't have very much time
Okay as an adult now with the the job and doing the preaching and doing the the sermon creation
I was like, I do not have a lot of time
I have to get up like super early in the morning just to get up in type and just to get up in
Try to you know, do whatever kind of other things I'm doing in the morning
Okay, I had to get up early to do this and I'm like man
I just I'm like looking for times on my day to be like where can I squeeze stuff in that and then someone is like
Just some single doesn't have a job or maybe they do have a job like part-time just like dude
I have no time in my day. It's like really you want to like compare schedules
Well, we'll see who really doesn't have time in their day. But again, what does that mean?
They don't have any time after they're done with the television or whatever. Okay, here's the thing though
Again, God is gonna weigh that and he's gonna see whether that's true or not
So this is what I would ask you when we're kind of come into the close of this sermon is just
Examine your life and think about your life truly and think am I doing the most that I can actually do for God today?
and if you're not then step it up a little bit and sometimes you have to take little baby steps to increase what you're doing for
God but just don't be one of these people where you just like use this as an excuse because that can work in the sight
Of men, but it'll never work on the side of God who knows every single detail about your life
So just go home and ask yourself am I doing the most that I can do for God because this is another thing that we like
To do as well. This is what I'm gonna close on this idea right here
Is that we'll kind of like give God like a pity offering and like expect him to respect it
That's why I had you guys turn to Malachi 1 verse number 7. They'll be like, this is all I can do for you God
I'll give you a little quick five-second prayer if I go to sleep
That's it. And then we're like, yeah, we have the audacity to be like and by the way
You should be thankful that I blessed you with this five-second prayer. I was happening out of sleep
See attitude you're like nobody does that. Oh, they do do that though. Look at look what it says in Malachi 1 7
It says this it says he offered polluted bread upon my altar and you say
when have we polluted thee and that you say the table of the Lord is contemptible and if he offered the blind for a
Sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil offer it now unto thy governor
Will be pleased with thee or accept thy person say it the Lord of hosts
What's happening here is that these people are offering crappy gifts to God and expecting him
To be happy with it. They're offering the worst of their lambs. They're offering the worst of their bread
They're offering the worst of their time
They're offering God their garbage time and they're like, aren't you so impressed that I at least did this and God's not impressed with that
Why is that though because he knows that they have more to offer than this?
That's why because they're they're not they're not this isn't their last lamb or their last offering that they're offering
There they have a bunch of them that they could offer and they're purposely selecting the worst one to give God
And that just tells you what's in their heart in that situation, right human beings do the same thing as well though
We'll be like, you know
If I just give God my garbage time if I just give him that little the table scraps that's gonna make him happy
God's not impressed with your garbage time though
That's what you should take from this God's not impressed with your little pity gifts that you give to him your little pity Bible reading
Your little pity prayer time that you do for him
God respects when you give him what you actually can which I'd submit to you again is probably more than we're all doing in
this room at the end of the day
So kind of just oh that is the last example
I want to give because that kind of ties back to Luke 21 as well
Where the rich man the rich men that are giving in that situation
They're giving way more money than this widow
But if you flip the roles right here, say this widow is a very rich woman and then she gives two mites
Think Jesus would have been impressed with that probably not right because
God judges things again in perspective
So I would submit to you that that's what we do a lot of times with God as well
That will say God this is all I have time for I just I can't go to church more than this
I can't pray them more this I can't go so any more than this
This is all I can give you and it's just not true. That's what I would submit is true for a lot of people
It's true of myself. I would even say like there's times where you know, I'm definitely not mr.
Perfect up here
There's areas that I lack in and one of the nice things about making a sermon sometimes you have to you're writing something
You're like man, I'm preaching this to myself as well. Like I got to step it up a little bit, right?
It's kind of a privilege that you have is preaching and a double-edged sword that you have is preaching as well
But all that to say this in summary for this room is this is that you shouldn't compare yourself to other people as a Christian
That's not how God's judging you. So don't make that comparison. It's foolish God judging you based on what you can do in your life
So just realize that and just know that God judges things in
perspective he judges you based on just like we saw with this widow whatever your circumstances are in this life and
God knows what we can and can't give him so just be honest about it be honest with God with what you do and what you
Don't give him because he knows about it. Anyway, so again, it's very foolish to do that
But just look to better yourself as a Christian and truly examine your own life and say am I doing the best that I can for?
God am I giving him all that I can give him and if you're not to make that change
That's what I'd submit to you this morning with that all being said, let's pray dear mother. God. Thank you so much. Wonderful day
Thank you so much for this
Chapter out of your word God and the story out of your word God
I just pray that you would help us to do our best for you as Christians God
We know that we there there really are times and seasons in our life when we're really busy
And we have a lot of things going on and there's lots of real stresses in this world God
but I just pray that you'd always help us to remember God that the reason we're on this earth is to serve you and to
Make you happy and to keep your commandments God and I just pray that we'd never let life distract us away from that
And if we have been distracted away from that God
I just pray that we would put our sights back on you and put our sights back on things that are above
That all being said, do you see me pray? Mm. What is that all being said good?
Hello, I'm back again. Our last song is gonna be song. What you noted 29 at the cross one number 29
I did that Biden moment again thing when I did where I'm like, I'm like closing the prayer and I'm like
I don't know what happens. Okay, I need to go to the doctor or something. Something's not right there
Song number 29 at the cross. Do you guys remember what I'm talking about in that Romans night? What did I do?
I ended the prayer. Oh, I ended the evening. Yeah, it was super weird. Okay. Anyways, all right
Song number 29 at the cross. Let's sing it together on the first
Alas, and did my saviour bleed
I saw such a sign
And the burden of my heart as they sighed singing on the second. Was it
Crimes that swear on the bird's sea side
Be all day, sunshine all day, fish strong on the last.
It's like we're ready for the kids choir there. Brother Ryan, would you close it with a prayer?
Let's give more to God that will help us do that, to better serve you God, and bless the food, and the fellowship, and the soul, and Jesus name. Amen.