Foundation Baptist Church. If you guys want to go ahead and take your hymnals, we're going to turn to page number
one hundred and twenty-four. That's page number
one hundred and twenty-four. God will take care of you.
Turn to page number two hundred and forty-four. Two hundred and forty-four.
First of the week is Proverbs 11 verse 30. Proverbs 11 is a tree
of life. When it soles, that's Proverbs 11 verse. Alright, service
times are 10.30 this morning and 3.30 this afternoon. And Wednesday evening Bible
study is at 6.30 p.m. So many times were normally at 10.30 on Saturdays and then
1.00 p.m. One is still in one. So that brings our salvation for number up to
four, which is a total or, was that added? Salvation were 87 for the year so far
with November being three and October seven. So amen. And then attendance is
down below. Upcoming events. This next Tuesday, which will be the 18th, will be
the monthly homeschool gathering for those that wish to bring your homeschoolers
together, you know, to socialize and build those skills and just have fun
craft snacks and all that. Just let Miss Kylie know and I heard it went well
last month. I hope it goes well this month. This November 23rd, which will be
next Sunday, will be the choir practice for kids right after the morning service.
So looking forward to seeing what's put together with that. On November 25th, we
would normally have a Wednesday evening Bison. We have a midweek service, but
with that for traveling, we're gonna cancel the Wednesday. It'll be Tuesday to
24th Tuesday. So please mark that because I feel bad if you show up and no one's
here. So also on November 30th will be the next men's preaching night and we're
mixing that with also a social, a Pi social, following the service. So hope
everyone's able to come and enjoy some fellowship and Pi. All right kids, new
memory verse. If you can memorize this verse and let Miss Kylie hear it, you can
receive a reward of a piece of candy. So that is John 14 verse 6. John 14 verse
6. Jesus say unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the
Father, but memorize that. Love to have you recite it. All right, for going further
tithing is down below. If I can get a birthday song we're going to sing happy
birthday to Mr. Getz himself. Be added to the list. Please just let the Thompsons
know they'll have it added to the bulletin. Before that, let's turn to the Lord in
prayer. Holy Father, thank you essentially for the day. Thank you so much for allowing us to come
to you in prayer. Lord, we give thanks for...
We're going to take your Bibles. We're going to turn to Psalm 117 for 117. Everybody, welcome
to Sure Foundation Baptist Church. If you could go ahead and take your Bibles and
turn to Matthew chapter 28. Matthew 28, and as our custom is here at Sure
Foundation Baptist Church, we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
Matthew chapter 28, the Bible reads, "In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to
dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
to see the sepulchre. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for the angel of
the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door
and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.
And for fear of him, the keepers did shake and became as dead men. And the
angel answered and said unto the women, "Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek
Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen as he said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay, and go quickly and tell his disciples that he
is risen from the dead. And behold, he goeth before you into Galilee. There
shall ye see him. Lo, I have told you." And they departed quickly from the
sepulcher with fear and great joy, and did run to bring his disciples' word.
And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying,
"All hail!" And they came and held him by the feet and worshiped, and said Jesus unto them,
"Be not afraid, go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me."
Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city and showed
unto the chief priests all that, all things that were done. And when they were assembled
with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a large money unto the soldiers saying,
"Say ye, his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept. And if this
come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and secure you." So they took the money
and did as they were taught. And this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
And when they saw him, they worshiped him. But son doubted. Jesus came and spake unto them saying,
"All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Ghosts, teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end
of the world. Amen." Brother Daniel, could you... Amen. You guys are there in Matthew 28. We're
going to look down at verse number 16, what the Bible says. "Then the 11 disciples went away into
Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshiped him,
but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven
and earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you.
And lo, I'm with you all the way, even unto the end of the world. Amen."
The title of my sermon this morning is SFBC Soul Winning. Let's pray. Dear Father God,
thank you so much for this wonderful day. Thank you so much for this great group of people that
I can preach your word to, God. Thank you so much for everybody that came this morning, God,
and the others that I know would be here that weren't for other things popping up in their
life. God, I just thank you so much for the church that we have that are labors that want to go out
into the harvest, God, and I just pray that you'd send more labor to the harvest, and I just pray
that you'd help me to be filled with your Holy Spirit as I preach this sermon. Help me to say
what you want me to say and keep me from saying what you don't want me to say. I ask all these
things, Jesus name I pray, amen. Talking about someone, like I said again, is SFBC Soling,
so Sure Foundation Baptist Church Soling. We're here in Matthew chapter number 28, and this morning
I'm going to talk to you guys a little bit about our Soling program here at Sure Foundation Baptist
Church, and I wanted this for several reasons. Number one is I think it's good for everybody to
know what I expect from you while we're out Soling, and also just what our pastor expects from you
while you're out Soling under the banner of Sure Foundation Baptist Church. And most importantly,
of course, what God expects from you while you're out Soling. And the things I'm going to lay out
in this sermon are not necessarily going to be all necessary, like thou shalt commandments,
like a hard rule from the Word of God. But you should just realize this, that when you're going
out Soling with our church, you're being sent out from Sure Foundation Baptist Church. So if you're
being sent out under the banner of Sure Foundation Baptist Church, you should obey the rules that
Sure Foundation Baptist Church gives while we're out Soling. So not everything is going to be like
a hard commandment, but these are going to be things that are recommendations and rules that
are set in place from our pastor, Pastor Aaron Thompson in Vancouver, Washington. Second reason
I want to preach about this topic, though, is that Soling is obviously of the utmost importance. It's
like the main thing of this church. It always will be the main thing at this church. And so this is
like the one area specifically of our Christian life that, I mean, there's many areas, but this
is the most specific example that I could think of right now where we want to be as effective
as possible in what we do. And so that's another reason why I'm preaching this. And the third
reason is because we have a couple of new soul winners lately. So I just thought it'd be good
to kind of go over a couple of things concerning how we soul win, you know, things I expect when
people are out soul winning and how we can be more effective soul winners. So even if you are a soul
winner already in here, this, this sermon is for everybody. This is not just for new people. So
don't just tune me out what I'm saying right now. This is going to be applicable to every single
person in this room. And before I start the sermon, I want to say this. I preached a sermon a while
back called tips for effective soul winning. This is not the same sermon though. I'm not going to
overlap on virtually anything I said in that sermon. This is its own brand new standalone sermon.
And so don't think that I'm just like recycling like the old word like that. But so first thing
I want to bring up in this sermon is this. I want to talk about our main goals out soul winning.
You guys are there in Matthew 28. We're going to look in at verse number 19. I just want you to
notice though that I say goals plural because we often I believe get really focused on the first
step of the great commission which is you know preaching the gospel to people which is all
obviously the most important thing in the step of the great commission. But what I want to talk
about is the other two things that I think that sometimes we forget to bring up or that we don't
put as much as a focus on in this sermon today. So look at it says in verse 19 of Matthew 28.
Again it says go ye therefore and teach all nations which in context would be preaching
the gospel right we're teaching all nations about the gospel the death bearer and resurrection of
jesus christ he says baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever i've commanded you and lo i am with you always
even unto the end of the world so obviously like i said soul winning is the most important thing
the preaching of the gospel is the most important thing of the great commission that's why he
lists it first because he wants you to know this is the most important thing but that's not the end
of the charge right there there's two other things that he brings up which was baptizing them in the
name of the father son of the holy ghost and then also teaching them to observe all things whatsoever
he's commanded us so when we're out soul winning we should first focus on getting people saved but
what i my point bringing this point up specifically today is this is that i want you to get out of
this mindset that when you're done preaching the gospel you're done with the person at the door
because your work is not done yet because there's two other things that the great commission lays
out you're supposed to preach in the gospel but after you pray it's not just like a wrap up and
leave you're supposed to tell them about baptism that's what jesus christ is teaching us here
that's what he's commanding us to do here so many people what the heck is this who is not brushing
their teeth there's a toothbrush up here they're gonna distract me okay we're keeping that don't
use that by the way um but uh man i got lost on the on the toothbrush now what was i even talking
about about the great commission okay when we're out soul winning after you pray with them it
shouldn't be like this just like you know in Jesus name we pray amen all right well if i never saw
you again where would i see you in heaven have a good day leave the door it should be the next
step after they get saved should be baptism you talking to them about getting baptized okay
because it was important to to remember out so wanting number one i brought this up before this
example of them when you get someone saved they become your spiritual child per se in the gospel
so you should be guiding them like a spiritual parent to them and when we get someone saved they
don't have any clue really about what they should do next i mean sometimes people can get an idea of
it but we don't want them just have to wonder we want to tell them the exact next step that they
should do and the next step that someone should do after they believe on jesus christ is they should
get baptized that's what the bible teaches so when you're out so wanting this is what i want us to
bring up the people every single time there might be like weird acceptance where someone just like in
a rush they got to go whatever but i'm saying in a standard soul winning presentation after you
preach in the gospel you should immediately go to baptism and tell them why they need to get baptized
and i'll just say this i'm just as guilty as this sometimes sometimes i forget because the thing is
is we get really wrapped up about wanting them to get saved which is a good thing but it just kind
of escapes our mind sometimes i mean i'm not just like i've done this perfectly like i forget this
sometimes too but why i'm bringing this up is because this is what i want us all to start
doing moving forward every single time so if you're a silent partner because your partner
might forget when they're preaching the gospel if you notice that they forget to bring up baptism
point it out to them obviously in a non-distracting way right but just be like talk about baptism or
you know bring up baptism next or something along those lines because this is the fulfilling of the
great commission not just the preaching of the gospel but baptizing people and then teaching them
all things that god has commanded after that and so an example of this go to acts 8 35 acts 8 verse
number 35 i just want you to understand before i even say that is that this is not like an optional
step this is what you should be doing if you're following the charge that jesus christ gives us
in telling them about baptism but this is what i usually do when i will try to bring up the subject
of baptism people after i'm done praying with them i'll kind of you know talk like find a way
to transition to say this like i know i took enough a lot of your time but now like i want
to leave you with one thing and i'm like i want to talk to you about what the bible says about
being baptized and so i'll turn to axe 835 and actually 35 is good for multiple reasons because
not only can you bring up the subject of baptism here but depending on how willing they are and
how receptive they are you can also bring up the king james bible here because if you're unfamiliar
in the new bible versions verse 37 of axe 837 is just completely removed so if you want to
that i mean if you are a perceiving this person's you know receptive to what you're saying you can
always show them hey if you have a modern version that verse number 37 is completely gone from the
text it goes 36 38 which is super bizarre reason 10 000 why i'm always going to be king james only
and none of these other modern versions but also it's good for baptism because look what it says
in verse 35 it says then philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto
him jesus and then usually i'll say to them that's what i just did with you here i preached unto you
jesus christ right verse 36 it says and as they went on their way they came into certain water
and the eunuch said see here is water what doth hinder me to be baptized and philip said if thou
believeth with all thine heart thou mayest and he answered and said i believe that jesus christ is
the son of god and and he commanded the chariot to stand still and they went down both into the
water both philip and the eunuch and he baptized him so after i've done preaching them the gospel
i show them this story right here and i say hey this guy's asking what do i have to do like what
do i need to do to get you know baptized and i explained them again like baptism is not a part
of salvation just so we're very clear and i'm like but when it comes to being baptized the bible
says in this story you must believe on jesus christ first before you're baptized and a lot of
people will when you bring this up to them they'll be like oh but i already was baptized or they'll
say i got baptized when i was a baby or at a different church or something like that
which is a perfect segue into the third part of the great commission which is teaching them all
things that god commanded them but also it's just a good segue to explain to them what the bible
really teaches about baptism because so many people think nowadays that you're supposed to
get baptized before you believe on jesus christ but this is the opposite of what the bible teaches
contrary to what the roman catholic church teaches you should be saved you should believe on jesus
christ before you ever get baptized go to axe 19 number one this is another verse because i've
had multiple when i bring this up to them they'll say i've already been baptized before so i show
them why i'm explaining that they need to get baptized now even if they had been baptized
before axe 19 is a really good verse for showing them that but again i explained to them very
clearly and you should too that baptism has nothing to do with salvation don't confuse them
at the door you want to be crystal clear with people what i usually say is along the lines of
like this now that you believe on jesus christ you can begin to have a proper relationship and
fellowship with him you can begin to have you know a proper uh friendship with jesus christ is a lot
of times what i'll say and i'll say the first step in that friendship and in that fellowship
that jesus wants you to do is to get baptized at church so that you can identify with jesus christ
is usually the way that i transition to that to make it clear that it's not about salvation that
it's about their friendship and fellowship with jesus christ because that is what baptism is that
doesn't have nothing to do with salvation. Acts 19 one it says this because a lot of people again
will say i've already been baptized before i show them the story it says and it came to pass that
while apollos was at corinth paul having passed through the upper coast came to ephesus and finding
certain disciples he said unto them have you received the holy ghost since ye believed
and so right here the first i want to point about this is that when paul's in ephesus he identifies
these people as disciples okay but obviously from this context here we're going to find out that
these people are calling themselves disciples but they're not truly saved because what paul is
doing in this story because he says you know have you and he said unto them have you received the
holy ghost since you believed he's doing a salvation check on them he's trying to figure out if these
people really are saved or not because just like nowadays there's many people that claim the name
of jesus but not everybody that claims the name of jesus christ is truly saved and is truly a
disciple and so when he asks them that uh it's look what it says look what they say right here
it says and they said to him we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy ghost so these
guys don't even know that the holy ghost exists so are these people saved absolutely not because
you have to believe in the holy ghost to be saved period people would argue with that they try to
play games with the scripture and how things are worded but paul agrees with us here that these
people are not saved that's why he goes and rebaptizes them in this story okay because they
didn't understand the right gospel and look what it says in verse number three it says and he said
unto them unto what then were you baptized so these people have been baptized before
says and they said unto john's baptism then paul or then said paul john verily baptized with the
baptism of repentance saying unto the people that they should believe on him which should come after
him that is on christ jesus what a beautiful set of verses that also debunks this repenting your
sins garbage this that you have to repent your sins and be saved because people all the time
will be like the baptism of repentance the baptism of repentance this is true though that's what the
bible teaches but what is the baptism of repentance according to acts right here it's that they should
believe on him which should come after him that is on christ jesus so the baptism of repentance
is believing on jesus christ clears day from the bible so that's a good heresy that you can also
debunk but they should probably already know that before uh you know you get them saved but if they're
from a pentecostal background that might be good to sure them up so that they have a defense for
you know family members or whatever that would kind of attack their new beliefs that they would
have if you just got them saved at the door but what i'm bringing up this verse to show you is
this is that these men were not saved they were baptized before into the baptism of john without
understanding what baptism baptism is truly for so what does paul do he re-baptizes these people
after they believe the gospel and then they understand the gospel and so he re-baptized
them here uh i don't even know if i read that in verse number five he says when they heard this
they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus so a lot of times that people have already been
baptized before this is the story i'll take them to i'll say hey there these people got baptized
before but he re-baptizes them because they didn't understand why they were being baptized in the
first place okay and was this the right thing to do 100 because your baptism does not count
before you believe on jesus christ because here's the thing what is the prerequisite for baptism
like we just saw in acts eight you have to believe on jesus christ that's what you have to do before
you get baptized or else it's just a bath and if you're at the catholic church and you get
sprinkled as a baby that's not baptism either that's sprinkling okay baptism is being immersed
in something being dunked in something this is baptism not what the catholic church does
because even think when it comes to the subject of baptism what does it represent the death the
burial and the resurrection that's you standing you're going into the water and you're coming back
up how can you be baptized with the death burial and resurrection something that represents that
when you don't even believe in that in the first place right you have to believe this first
that's what the bible teaches the catholic church would do well to look at these scriptures and
actually apply them because here's the thing about this and and when i was thinking about this this
really destroys the doctrine that catholics teach because first of all again they teach that you
should just sprinkle people with water but in the story that we saw with the ethiopian eunuch philip
goes into the water with him it says why because he's going to dunk him under the water not just
sprinkle a little bit of water on top of him that's not baptism just sprinkling okay because that is
the picture like jesus being he dunked under the water is the picture of the death and the lifting
up out of the water is the picture of the resurrection little sprinkle what is that picture
it pictures that you know nothing about the bible that's what it pictures because every single time
we see someone get baptized it's with immersion that's what we're supposed to baptize with it
they'd also do well to just understand from these verses as well that like you have to believe
before you're baptized because think about this this story really crushes this because
act 19 just completely stomps on this false doctrine because these men are baptized and
why are they rebaptized because they weren't saved right so that because i'm bringing this up
because of this the catholic church believes that you should baptize babies what do babies believe
when they're baptized nothing they have no idea what's going on they don't not even like really
sentient barely it's like they have no idea what's going on in life so if why would paul
baptize these men here rebaptize them if it's irrelevant what you believe before you get
baptized doesn't make any sense right it's because it is relevant that's why he asked them he's like
what did you guys believe before this he and and i'm sure that they'd get all worked up and they'd
be like these people probably got baptized by someone outside of the authority of the catholic
church or something dumb like that but it's like no his focus here is what did you guys believe
before this not who baptized you he says what did you guys believe before this oh you didn't
understand what the baptism of john truly was let me explain it to you you need to believe on
jesus christ and then he baptizes him again why am i bringing this all up because when you're
out soul wanting if someone's been baptized before it's good to explain to them that if they were
baptized before they believed it didn't count it's just a bath okay just uh especially if it was
just like a catholic church baby baptism okay um what this is by the way why we're called baptist
in the first place okay because we disagree with the catholics on this because the catholic church
would call us the anabaptists which is like the re-baptizers we're like that's kind of a sick
name but let's drop ana because that's a girl's name so like we're just gonna go with the baptist
okay we're like that that's cool it's funny how christians always have done that throughout
centuries like even the name christians they're like oh little christ we're like oh that's a
tight name we'll take that it's like they can't levy anything against us but the same thing is
true of baptist they try to call us ana baptist and we're like hey no we're just baptist because
here's the thing we're not re-baptizing anybody from the catholic church because nobody at the
catholic church has been baptized when they're just sprinkled as a little baby we're just
baptist we're baptizing them according to what the bible says that's the first time they've
been baptized if you've been baptized quote-unquote at the catholic church as a little baby because we
never see that in the bible but the second thing and go to uh second Corinthians 5 18
second Corinthians 5 verse number 18 is that when it comes to like telling people about baptism
they're clearly going to have to go to church for that and that would be the the fulfilling
of the third step as well in the great commission because here's the thing if someone if you tell
them about baptism and they don't get baptized you've done your part that's all you can do it's just
like the gospel you tell them the gospel you can't force them to believe the gospel but the same
thing should be true with baptism you should give them an opportunity to get baptized and if they
don't you've already done your job but when they come to church and get baptized clearly they would
be more likely to stay at the church and actually fulfill that third part which is being taught all
things that Jesus Christ has commanded they'd hear that from the preaching you can also do that as
well if you're just discipling someone as well if you want to you know give them your number and
communicate with them that's also something that you can do to fill that third part of the great
commission the second goal though that I was going to bring up about you know out so wanting and
I'm something I'm going to glance over really fast because we talked about this before is that
there's kind of two options with people they either you know get saved and then you can go
down that tree where you try to get them baptized and all these kind of things but the second one
is that if they don't hear the gospel then our goal should be this to leave them with something
that's thought-provoking from the bible leave them with something to question to ponder about to
think about and prepare their heart for the next person that's going to come and preach the gospel
to them so there's two goals that we have try to get them saved and then you go down that tree
or if they don't want to hear the gospel try to prepare them for the next minister of Jesus Christ
that's going to preach the gospel to them and and leave them with like a good taste in their mouth
because it even just makes me think I kind of talked about this on Wednesday a little bit with
when we're just talking to brother Ryan's co-worker that when we were first talking with this guy he's
a um very combative with us he's like you know any verse I'm showing him he's not having what we're
what we're showing him but we spent four hours with him talking with him it was a long time that
we were talking with this guy and and at the end of it I wasn't just like okay well then you're
going to hell then have a good day I'm leaving right it's like I leave him with the thought about
just like hey I always tell them I'm showing you this not to debate you not to like try to you know
show that I'm right and you're wrong I'm like I'm showing you this because I know that you want
to believe what the Bible actually teaches and that's what I'm trying to show you right now try
to leave him on a good note like with a good taste in his mouth so that he's not just hardened to the
gospel that's what you should be doing with people that's what we tried to do with him
and that's another that's like a side note to that as well but this is helpful while you're
out so many as well when you perceive that someone thinks that you're just debating with them
it is good to explain that you're not trying to debate with them because we're not and if you are
trying to debate with people at the door what you're doing is fruitless because debates one-on-one
debates doesn't win anybody over to any position all it is is an argument it's a fight at that
point we're not trying to fight with people though we're trying to teach them the gospel is what the
bible tells us right so multiple times i've told other people when i'm preaching the gospel like
hey i'm not trying to debate you right now i'm not just trying to like get you with a gotcha verse
and make you look stupid i'm just trying to show you what the bible says about going to heaven
always make that clear with people because you're never going to win someone we're just going back
and forth like it's a like it's a debate the first point of this sermon though was our goals out so
when we have multiple goals getting people saved getting people baptized getting people discipled
and then if they don't get saved we should try to prepare them for the next person that's going to
preach in the gospel the second thing i want to talk about though is how we conduct ourselves
out so wanting you guys are there at second corinthians 5 verse number 18 second corinthians 5
verse number 18 the bible says this it says and all things are of god who hath reconciled us to
himself by uh jesus christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation to it that god was
in christ uh reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath
committed unto us the word of reconciliation look what it says here it says now then we are
ambassadors for christ as though god did beseech you by us we pray you in christ's stead be
reconciled to god so the second point i'm going to bring up is this is that it's important how
we conduct ourselves while we're out soul winning under the banner of sure foundation baptist
church and there's a couple things i want to bring about these verses in particular number one is
that paul's talking about the ministry of reconciliation here and he's meaning this
in like two ways he's talking about obviously getting people saved but then with the church
of quarantine he's obviously telling them as well that they need to be reconciled to christ like
they need to get their heart right with jesus christ okay but the second thing i want to bring
up about this is that paul says that we are ambassadors for christ what does that mean okay
and i've used this a lot in sermons like i'll quote this without taking you to this verse
this is where i get this from obviously though but i like this verse because it explains what an
ambassador is what is it it says we pray you in christ's stead be reconciled to god so it's
someone who's speaking on the behalf of someone else is what an ambassador is that's what we are
for christ we're speaking in christ's stead we're representing jesus christ okay and so an ambassador
is someone who speaks on behalf of someone else so when paul is telling us this he's saying we
represent jesus christ and this is the authority that he gives us in matthew 28 he's saying that
we have the authority to go and preach the gospel to be a light under this world and to continue in
the ministry of reconciliation on his behalf in his stead because now that jesus christ is gone he
was the light of the world but he says when he leaves now we are the light of the world now we
have the ministry of reconciliation that's what jesus christ has given to us that's what he gives
to us in matthew 28 the power to go and continue this ministry and there's a lot of like good ways
you can apply this like you can apply this in the privilege that we have to preach the gospel
the the necessity that we have to preach the gospel but what i want to focus on right now
is how we should present ourselves in light of the fact that we represent jesus christ when we're
out swearing and in light of the fact that we are in his stead preaching the gospel to people
the first thing i want to bring up is uh go to proverbs 7 10 first thing i want to bring up is
you should dress like you represent jesus christ when you're out swearing go to proverbs 7 verse
number 10 while you guys are turned there i'll just tell you this nowadays we still have ambassadors
you know just in a secular sense like people that represent the united states of america
you know you know foreign diplomats stuff like this but i would just ask you when it comes to
these people even in a secular sense if someone's going to go represent the united states to a
foreign country do you think that they're going to have some kind of dress code do you think they're
going to dress in a certain way like do you think that there's going to be any ambassador out there
that's going to go out there with like crocs you know crocs are wicked okay anyways but shorts and
like you know a tank top no shock right and that's for a worldly government that they're
representing but if we're representing the person who owns all governments on this planet how much
more than should we dress up when we're representing him when we're being an ambassador
for jesus christ okay and i have you guys turn in there to proverbs 7 verse number 10 i would
just say that like i want to be careful i would say this but like it's it's very important how we
represent jesus christ okay it's very important the impression that we give to people and how
you're dressed is often going to be the first impression that someone gets when we go and knock
on their door and this by the way could go beyond so wanting like for example at this church if you
come up behind this pulpit you should wear a shirt and a tie that is what our pastor expects for any
kind of ministry that you're doing you should come up with a shirt and a tie on there's going
to be acceptance of that my dad one time got him preach a sermon in his work clothes because he
was on call things happen right he understands this i understand this we all understand this
sounds like something that trump would say okay but uh we know this right uh but but it's true
that like just take what i'm saying and like take the the meat of what i'm saying and spit out the
bones if you will and just realize our pastor is a very reasonable guy i'm a reasonable guy in my
own opinion okay and the god that we serve is a very reasonable god okay i'm pretty reasonable
you know what i mean okay but but when it comes to you know our church we have a standard but
out sewing we have a standard as well and this is the standard that our pastor sets forth for us
is that he wants men to wear a collared shirt while they're out sewing and he wants women to
wear skirts and dresses a modest skirt and dress right or here's another exception to this he says
you know wearing like a bible t-shirt with cargo shorts when it's hot outside
this is okay too but the main idea behind what he says is that he just wants you to look presentable
at the door he wants you to look like you didn't just roll out of bed okay he doesn't want you
obviously going out with some like you know Coors light shirt on or something crazy like that right
can you have that you just need to get rid of it anyways but definitely don't bring it out
to someone okay um but but here's the thing on this like i'll just be honest with you because
i'm only bringing this up just because it came to my mind when i was writing this sermon i'll be
honest with you i have no idea what anybody wears out so many okay i i don't i don't pay attention
to what other people wear because i am a straight man okay i'm not like fashion what someone's
wearing i like as long as in the boxes of it's men's garments and it's you know modest it's like
everything else it's like i don't know what people are wearing okay so this is not to pick on anybody
this is just specifically so that go it just goes with the the theme of the sermon right that how we
represent jesus christ we should represent him properly and part of that is what we you know
wear out so on what we show people as a first impression you guys are going to proverbs 7
verse number 10 again there's exceptions that uh like even when it comes to come to church and
stuff like that but i'm not going to get into that too much but like the rules are there like
the the rules that are i want to make this clear these rules are not just there to lord over you
though it's not the point it's the point is just that we represent jesus christ and we want to do
that as effectively as possible and if someone if anybody would look out the window and be like
oh that guy's dressed like a bum i'm not coming to the door if there's even one person that would
do that it's not worth it right so we should come dressed as they would expect us to look when we
come to the door and again this is like even practical reasons for this like someone could
look out the door i mean they might look out the door anyways like with brother paul yesterday
someone look at the people and they just you heard the the lock go and the chain go over the door
i mean like can you blame him though you know but it's like he's wearing a suit and tie around
someone or whatever and they're still doing that okay but here's the thing how much more likely
someone to do that if two bigger men come to the door and we're just wearing like basketball
shorts and a wife beater right it's like someone's gonna be like right 9-1-1 help us right so we do
even just in a practical sense this makes sense and uh it just as a representative of jesus christ
that makes sense as well look what this says in proverbs 7 10 though it says and behold there met
him a woman with the attire of an harlot and subtle of heart now the reason i took you to this
verse is because i want you to realize this from this verse this verse doesn't actually tell you
what this woman specifically is wearing it just says the attire of a harlot but can you imagine
can you picture from this story what this girl's wearing in your head just by it saying the attire
of a harlot you absolutely can right and my point in showing you that is this is that you have a
perception of your in your head of what people should look like or what they will look like
according to the actions they're doing or the career that they're in for example if i say like
a construction worker i don't have to tell you what they're wearing you can already kind of
imagine like like a hard hat you know a vest you know the blue jeans on they're probably dirty
probably smoking they're probably doing all these tan things right that's kind of the picture you
get in your head right the smoking's not as every construction worker though but um or you think of
like a doctor what do you think of you're not thinking about a guy in basketball shorts you're
thinking about a guy in a white coat right with the little steps that scope around his neck or
something like that football player you're thinking of guy in pads a basketball player you're thinking
of a guy in a jersey and shorts a teacher i mean there's a lot of different outfits for teachers
but what you're not thinking of is for a teacher is someone coming to work in their pajamas right
there's an expected attire with every career that you'd list for a pastor if i say oh my pastor's
preaching a sermon what are you going to think he's wearing probably a shirt and tie and i meant to
put my suit jacket on but i forgot to so forgive me that wrong right now but that's kind of what
you expect right a shirt and a tie i mean other than what you'd expect at a king james baptist
church at least right these are feminine churches these weak churches i'm sure that they're like oh
i just imagine a guy in a pink shirt we're not talking about this right now though we're talking
about real christianity okay talk about real biblical christianity where the men are not
effeminate and coming up wearing like pink clothes and like these like weird outfits that they wear
these modern trendy outfits we're talking about like a real king james pastor right a real bible
believing pastor is what we're talking about but also so i i've given you all these things but now
imagine this if i say hey two christians came to my door yesterday to talk to me you're probably
thinking like mormons jehovah's witnesses but x them out for a second okay we're the real christians
not just jehovah's witnesses mormons they came to my door yesterday to talk to me what do you think
they're going to be wearing if you're thinking about it a man and a woman what do you think
they're wearing probably the collared shirt probably a tie probably a dress if they're a woman
or skirt or something like that right so if that's what you picture in your head that's what other
people in this world are going to be expecting you to wear as well so i think that you should dress
accordingly to that okay because we don't want to give people a bad impression just by the things
that we wear and you might say like that's carnal even if it is carnal though okay we're speaking
to carnal people so we should focus on doing the best that we can to win them over and even if that
is just like what we're wearing okay the second thing i want to talk about though about being an
ambassador for jesus christ and before i say that i just say this whether you agree with that or not
that is our pastor's preference when we're out soul winning so i would just say that you should
submit to that to the best of your ability okay there's going to be exceptions he understands
that but for the most part if you can he expects a collared shirt out soul winning or like a bible
shirt and he expects if you're a woman to be wearing a skirt and a dress here's the thing
though we're not going to dress code you though okay this is not high school if you come up to
it's soul winning and you are wearing the basketball shorts and you are wearing a wife beater
it's not going to be like get out of here you're not dressed for the occasion right this is not
high school that's not what we're going to do but this is our pastor's preference and this preference
that i think makes sense in line with the principles of the bible so we should dress like we represent
jesus christ but we should also behave like we represent jesus christ you guys go to first peter
220 first peter 220 this is the last little sub point of this in the last part of the sermon
anyways we should dress like we represent jesus christ we should behave like we represent jesus
christ we're there in first peter two verse number 20 the bible says this for what glory is this if
when ye were when you be buffeted for your faults you take it patiently but if when you do well and
suffer for it you take it patiently this is acceptable with god for even on here unto where
you called because christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that you should follow in
his steps who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled reviled not
again when he suffered he threatened not but committed himself unto him that judges righteously
so i just want you to notice here what peter's saying about uh jesus christ in his example is
that this is what he calls us to follow he calls us to follow the example of jesus christ who when
he was reviled he reviled not again when he was cursed he didn't curse these people back when he
was spoken evil of he didn't speak evil back to these people and i was writing this i was just
like i mean we all know about the cross obviously in the crucifix of jesus christ but i was like
it made me think how much more incredible it is that jesus controlling himself in the circumstances
that he's in because i don't know about you but when i'm in pain i get angry even if someone's
not being mean to me i just kind of get a little snippy sometimes when you're in a lot of pain
especially like you got tooth pain something like that can make me mad but jesus christ is in
excruciating pain on the cross people are mocking him they're reviling him they're speaking all evil
against him and he still doesn't say anything back to them just shows you like the incredible
self-control and the love that jesus had to control himself in that situation for us especially the
situation where he could have snapped and all of them could have been you know damned to hell in a
moment right but i'm bringing this up because peter says that this is the example that we're
supposed to follow as christians this should just apply to your daily life period in every aspect
of your life this should be the case but i'm going to submit to you this if this is the case
in just your average you know you know run-of-the-mill day in life it should apply twofold more
when you're out soul winning because when you're out soul winning you are specifically taking the
name of Jesus Christ upon yourself and purposely representing him and preaching in his name okay
so if this have if this is true about when we're outside of soul winning even twofold more when
we're in soul winning and we're actually preaching in the name of Jesus Christ okay and again what
did he do and how what is our calling to follow when he was reviled he reviled not again when he
suffered he threatened not but committed himself to him that judges right righteously when he was
cursed when he was reviled when he was hated upon he committed to God the father's way says him that
judged it righteously he doesn't answer them back he just lets God handle the situation this is what
we're called to do as Christians okay outside of soul winning but so much more when we are
soul winning and representing Jesus Christ uh to the world okay but even besides just a spiritual
reason okay because I'm talking about like not you know getting down on people's level and trading
words with them and all these kind of things okay even outside of just a spiritual reason
because the because Jesus is commanding you not to do this should be enough for you period here
but there's very practical reasons for this as well while we're out so many okay one of these
things could be people that stalk us out so many okay because here's the thing in my lifetime I've
been followed many times out so many okay um sometimes for things that I said some things
times for things my partner said sometimes for no fault of our own it was just like people hear the
name of Jesus and the demons start tweaking out sometimes all right so sometimes this happens but
when I look back to most of the time when I had people follow us follow me out so only when it was
my doing it was usually never I should not say usually it was never for something that just like
blatantly outright simple but I did like I didn't like cut someone out or anything crazy like that
okay it was always for me just giving them back a smart remark just you know they say something dumb
I say something dumb back right within the bounds of like it's nothing crazy they'll just be like
oh you know you're not supposed to be soliciting here and you're like I'm like well I'm gonna do
whatever I want you're not gonna tell me what to do right back in my younger days when I was a
center okay not not anymore would I do anything like this okay but you know when I was thinking
back about it I was just like most of the time when people followed me was because I was pitching
them back whatever they were giving to me first right but I've gotten more mature I just realized
that this is just never worth it as a Christian when you're not so wanting it's just never worth
it to answer people according to their own folly when you're out so wanting no good ever comes from
this okay and I just want to say this in a vacuum arguing with people pitching back what they're
beginning to you it's probably not the worst thing in the world right just like in an isolated
situation in a vacuum probably not the worst but the reality is when we're out so wanting things
are not a vacuum like there's there's other people that are out there with us so wanting
there's a bigger mission that we're hoping to accomplish it's not just that one door that we
have to be concerned about okay and i'm bringing this up to say this that if you were a wise person
if you're a spiritual christian you'd hear what i'm about to say right now it is never worth it
to go tit for tat with people at the door it nothing ever good ever comes from it period never
does because i just want you to weigh the pros and cons of this real quick say someone says
something smart to me and i say something smart back to them what is the best thing that can have
in that scenario nothing there's no positive in that scenario like you tell them off oh i'm so
manly i told this person to buzz off what does that accomplish really nothing okay but what's the
con in this scenario what's the worst thing that can happen well lots of things right they could
come out and follow you they could come out and disrupt the soul winning they could come out and
shoot you i mean we don't know whose doors we're knocking on when we're out soul winning right
so i'm bringing this up because if you're a wise christian if you're a spiritual christian you take
that and say hey it really is never worth it to get down on these people's level when we're out
soul winning okay don't stoop down these people's level that's what they want you to do and here's
the thing they win when you do that because their goal and being smart to you is to get under your
skin so if you let them get under your skin they won they had a power over you they're able to
control you in a moment you're not able to control your own spirit they win when you let that happen
okay now anymore with soul winning i just i just can't even get mad because i just think when
people say stuff it's funny like they're trying to offend me i'm like you're never gonna offend
me when i'm out so i'm now like who cares that guy they're like hail satan oh shut the door it's
like wow that hurt me big time bud like it's so stupid like i'm trying to do that because
they want a reaction and i'm sure the mormons are like when that happens but it's like as christians
were like satan and the demons they don't have any power over us okay so we don't need to worry
about them in the first place but i'm bringing this up because i just want you to realize like
i'm talking about spiritual maturity when it comes to situations like this this is like the
difference between even just like real life like physical kids in maturity in in like the real
world like for example because i'm bringing this up like when when you act in like a vacuum and
when you're doing things and you're only thinking about yourself you're acting like a kid does okay
because that's what babies do right a baby will cry at 3 a.m they'll wake their mom up they'll
keep their mom up every single hour of the night and they don't care how that makes the mom feel
because it's all about them right they're like feed me what are you doing mom sleep no feed me
right change my diaper do whatever that's what a baby does right little kids do the same thing
they don't care about how their actions affect other people they just they want whatever is
going to make them happy in the moment what what's what meets their you know needs in that moment
that's what they're going to do but when when you when a kid starts to transition to being an adult
that's when you see that difference where you no longer just do things just to make yourself
happy you think about other people as well like if i took this whole cake and ate it and gave
nothing to my brother in christ how would he feel right that's that's like that's when you
become an adult that's what you should be thinking of that's what you should be thinking of some
people never learn that lesson which is unfortunate but in an ideal world this is the case but i'm
bringing this up because when you're out so when you just realize this as well that your actions
are never just going to affect you because we go in a group of people out so wanting so you always
if you're being spiritual if you're being mature when you're dealing with people at the door you
should keep in mind that what you're going to do is going to affect everybody else that's out there
that's part of being a mature christian go to james 1 verse number 19 james 1 verse number 19
your your goal out so wanting should be to de-escalate situations not to escalate them okay
for the sake of the gospel because it's never worth it when you escalate situations it even
reminds me me and brother daniel was out so many actually as a matter of fact and he did something
that i thought was very mature when we're out so many this guy he's all mad at us because we he
came out to us twice actually he was like really pressed and we didn't do anything except for knock
on his neighbor's door not even his door he like he made a point to come out to the fence the
second time was like um can you guys just put me on the do not knock list like we have a list like
that anyways and brother daniel just like yeah sir we'll do that thanks let it be at that okay
why is he doing that because brother daniel understands that it's not worth it to escalate
in that situation because what's worst case scenario that guy comes out and follows us he
starts screaming at us he makes a big deal he you know hinders us from preaching the gospel in the
neighborhood but by just de-escalating and just being like okay that's it and then you keep moving
and it just works out way better for everybody else that's being mature it's thinking about
not just that little tit for tat moment but thinking about the greater picture that we have
which is reaching the community with the gospel in the first place. James 1 19 says this wherefore
my beloved brethren let every man be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath for the wrath
of man worketh not the righteousness of God. The little derpy things that you come up with to say
to people when we're out soulening they're never going to solve anything it's only going to make
things worse and the bible says that the wrath of man doesn't work the righteousness of God
so you need to be able to control yourself when you're out soulening and it also says in proverbs
26 four answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou be likened unto him when you get down
on the level of a fool you're acting like a fool right and then it's going to appear to everyone
that you're you're acting like a fool go to uh matthew 10 16 if you would matthew 10 16 there's
also just uh because this is the little the last little subpoint of this is that beyond just like
people stalking us out someone talk about like realistic things that can happen or whatever or
i should say maybe um practical things what i meant to say talk about practical advice for this
is that safety issues could be a huge deal out so wanting because again when we're knocking on
people's doors we have no idea whose door we're actually knocking on okay there's people with
mental health issues there's people that are drug addicts that are high on whatever they're on
there's people that are just children of the devil there's people that are of all sorts of
backgrounds gangs you know whatever right we never know whose door we're knocking on so we
should always just make sure that we're treating all people like within that that that realm of
thought okay realizing that we don't need to be stirring up people that already have pre-existing
problems or anything like that we want to do our best to de-escalate these kind of situations and
make a and and not make any confrontation where we don't need to because there's situations where
you know worst case scenario they could seriously harm you they could see they could pull out a gun
and shoot you i mean we live in crazy times in this world where people have no morals
people go out and shoot schools full of innocent children nowadays that's the kind of people that
we have in our society so i mean just know when you're knocking on doors you could be knocking
on someone's door who's just like that who's a crazy person like that and this is not to say
like because here's the thing you shouldn't be scared out so many because in all my years
are going out so wanting i've never had someone pull out a gun and well i guess you guys have
to hear that here but i have never had someone pull a gun on me okay um in all my years even
when i have been sitting with people like the worst thing i ever saw was that brother robert
alcorta in vancouver some old guy came up and smacked him in the face one time for preaching
the gospel in a in a community and brother robert took that like a champ he didn't even
he didn't even hit him back he didn't do anything he turned to their cheek i was like
chef's kiss brother robert on that one and i was not his partner that day but they had like the
the video footage of that like it's probably good i was his partner because i probably would have
suplexed that guy for doing that okay it's like which is not good don't do that okay but because
with the verse it says you're supposed to be harmless of doves okay i don't think doves are
suplexed of people but in my flesh that's what i wanted would have wanted to do okay but brother
robert got slapped in the face that's the worst thing that i've seen happen i've never had anybody
do anything like that to me but i do know that there's lots of crazy things that happen in this
world and christ has called us into peace is what the bible teaches us okay as as much as it's
possible we're supposed to live peaceably with all men is what the bible teaches so you shouldn't be
scared to god's will that's my point bring that up and i would say this if you are a person who's
de-escalating things 99.9 percent of the time nothing will ever happen to you because most
of the strife in the back and forth that happens is because people are raising the bar and they're
not de-escalating they're escalating these kinds of situations okay but if you're a person here
just like i don't care if someone pulls out a gun on me and shoots me it's like okay you might not
care about yourself but first of all i care because i'm going to be the one who's having to like
resuscitate you if you're bleeding there on the sidewalk okay so think about me at least okay and
anybody else in this room and then think about the fact that this that you could also get your
partner killed if you were being an idiot like that and here's an even thing more important than
any of the the men in this room we take men and ours we take women and children with us all the
time out so wanting so think about their safety as well because you might pipe off and you're
just like i'm just going tit for tat this guy what's the big deal the big deal is that person
could be crazy they could shoot you and they could start attacking everybody else in our group right
so you have to this again this is being mature it's thinking about things not just in a vacuum but
how it could affect everybody else that's around us so at least consider the women and children
while you're behaving yourself out so wanting and again even besides this spiritually Jesus tells us
to turn the other cheek he tells us to not revile again and all these things okay he might think
though like oh Remy you're just being dramatic though these things would ever happen all these
kind of things okay let me tell you these things okay two things that I one I've seen one I did
not see but I but I I read about number one is that we were in we were so wanting in Vancouver
one time and I wasn't at this door but I was in the same apartment complex it was uh brother
Dillon pastor Dillon okay Reverend Oz okay okay he was uh he was with a guy and he was a silent
partner in the situation so he's not the one who agitated this person at the door his partner did
that I'll just leave unnamed they don't go to a church anymore but I'll just leave unnamed
because they were a saved christian okay but when they knock on the door in this apartment complex
but again pastor Oz is the silent partner this guy he opens the door it's a it's a tranny that's
at the door and the guy I can't remember exactly what he did I don't remember if he just was like
oh or if he was like he was like um you know said something smart or whatever it was
whatever he did though it pissed that tranny off really bad okay enough where they're freaking out
they're screaming they're yelling at him causes a huge ruckus in this apartment complex and Dylan
told me this story pastor Oz told me this story because of the fact that when that the train was
freaking out at the spit in his eye not like on purpose like it wasn't like a but it's like
he's yelling like you know the spit comes out sometimes he's like like that's in the greek that's
where you have to pluck your eye all right in that version that but so he has that happen and he was
telling the story he's telling me he was really ticked off about this happening because he told
me he was like there was no reason for this to happen and it because like his partner was just
like under the assumption he was like well it's a reprobate so i can just do whatever i want this
this is a dumb idea that people need to get out their heads they're like once they see a child of
the devil sometimes they'll just be like oh that's a free pass to just do whatever i want in that
moment but hey whatever i want nothing matters at that point i just need to attack uh like verbally
obviously this survey and insult them to the best of my degree this is my calling in life
that's not what we're called to is it we're called to peace says as much as it's possible
as much as it lies within you live peaceably with all men that's what you're supposed to do
and people will be like well they're not a man they're a beast okay shut up okay you guys know
what i'm talking about right now okay but i'm bringing this up because this guy in that story
was like afterwards he's like there's just nothing we could have done to avoid that situation
nothing we could have done and it's like well there was something you could have done though
okay you know you could have done you could have controlled your emotions you could have
controlled your actions at the door okay because again people have this dumb idea that as soon as
it's the reverberator at the door they can just do whatever they want but i'm telling you if you're
thinking like that it's a stupid mindset you need to get that out of your head it's a carnal mindset
because you need to realize in a vacuum it might not be that big of a deal and behind the pulpit
will rip on people that are everybody's okay but things are not just a vacuum when you're out Sony
okay because because of that situation that guy freaks out he spits in you know pastor dylan's
eye on accident and then he's freaking out he calls the police he gets us all kicked out of the
apartment complex for what because the guy at the door went oh when he saw this tranny okay some
people i'm sure you'd be like oh rimmy give him a break no breaks though because this is stupid
this is exactly what i'm talking about it's such a carnal mindset where people think that life just
revolves around them they think that everything they do it only affects them but there's a bigger
picture especially when we're out so wanting and one of those pictures is if you're treating people
like trash if you're treating people like garbage if you're acting on christ like it's going to
hinder the gospel to everybody else in that apartment complex in that community okay because
he did that that thing went around got us all kicked out called the police and it's like what
was the prophet in that at the other day no prophet it was stupid is what it was it was carnal is
what it truly was he's like there's no way we could have avoided that yeah there was though
okay and so don't i'm tired of people doing this they like just like act like they lose all like
control their body when they're in the presence of someone who's a reprobate something like that
like grow up seriously like control your spirit like i've talked about this before but jesus christ
was in the midst of a reprobate for three years that was going to betray him and get him crucified
on the cross and he was able to function how was that i mean and jesus is perfect so you're not
there's nothing he did that was wrong because what was it that jesus was focused on the bigger
picture of his ministry that's why okay stop letting these people have a power over you it's
so weird like i can't even work at a job if there's a sodomite there's a reprobate what
you're letting a sodomite determine where you work at what are you talking about right now
i can't go to church if there's someone there like that what are you talking about it's so
weird the loopholes and the weird things people will do in their head it's like follow what the
bible actually says stop trying to loophole and nickel and dime god's commandments that he has
for us in the bible like living peaceably with people like the verse that you guys are at it
says behold i send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be there for wise as serpents
and harmless as doves be wise when you're out sewing don't be an idiot control your actions
and control your emotions and stop like letting things get to you uh it's very unwise for us to
do this okay you guys are there in math you go last time the last place you have these turns first
Corinthians 10 23 first Corinthians 10 23 I seriously though I get cringed out big time when
people are like that they're so like I don't know I I just I can't imagine letting someone have a
power over me like that in my day-to-day life it's like I'm as disgusted as the next guy truly I am
I mean you guys have heard my sermon you heard last Wednesday's sermon about what I was talking
about okay it's like there comes a point where it's like you have to like be able to function
in your day-to-day life knowing that we're in a world of unsafe people and people that are
children of the devil without letting them have a power over you and think about the
bigger pictures of things Tom this when you guys are going to first Corinthians I want to
tell you that another story that it has to do with this okay there's a guy I was talking to
brother Paul brother Ryan about when we're out so wanting named Tommy Han I don't know if you
guys have heard this story before but he was amongst our circles he's uh he went to a new
IP church he went to um pastor major's church before they had the whole big old you know split
or whatever but he got kicked out of his church for I think it was fornication okay I'm not 100
sure but I think that that was what it was for he got kicked out of his church um but this guy
was in Alabama and even he after he's kicked out of church he's still going out soul winning and
trying to reach people and I was just thinking it was funny like in the story it's like even in a new
IP church like people get kicked out they're like okay I might have got kicked out of church but I
can't stop soul winning now I mean go on now but so he he's going out soul winning with his family
and when he was out soul winning this is in 2022 by the way you can look up the article if you want
to after I'm done with this but he goes to a door he knocks on someone's door he talks to a mom
and there's a son at the door guys like 17 years old the kid is and whatever they talk about she
was not having it they don't agree they don't have a good conversation so they leave the door not on
great terms okay so he starts walking down the street he's going to the next door and that kid
that was just there that saw him you know talking with his mom goes up to him and says hey you're
going towards my grandma's house don't knock on her door and obviously i don't think we have
everything that was said there but this is what the article said happened the article said that
that man named tommy hann said you don't know who i am and the kid said you don't know who i am
and it says that tommy reached into his pocket but the thing is that the article also says he
was unarmed so i don't know if he was pump thinking this guy or he was just reaching
for a track i don't know what he was doing okay it's not it's not very clear but i do know this
that because he did that that kid grabbed a handgun out of his pocket and shot him in the chest
and killed him right there on the spot in front of his two-year-old kid in front of his wife
while they're out sawing the same kind of sewing that we do no difference that's why i bring up
this story okay and obviously that kid that did that is wicked as hell and he should be put to
death for that if we were in a righteous government that's what it would happen i don't know what
happened to this guy because i can't find anything else about about it online but in this scenario
the reason i'm bringing this up is this is because although that kid was 100% wrong because even if
tommy hann freaked out on him and cut him out he shouldn't have shot him in the chest what in the
world but because he escalates that situation he says you don't know who i am the end result of
that is he ends up dead getting shot in the chest for like a little petty argument with someone
which again not to say that he's in the wrong like by any means okay i'm just saying this
that that's a perfect example of the fact that we have no idea whose door we're knocking on
we have no idea the people that we're talking to and for your own safety for the safety everybody
else in here for the safety of your children and of your wife you should just be careful with how
you talk to people you should be following what the bible says which is what being wise as serpents
harmless as doves and if we never see jesus freaking out on people and going tip for
tat with people in the bible then why would we ever do that we're out sawing that's what
i kind of want to leave you with that thought look at it i hate you guys though in first
christen 1023 it says this he says all things are lawful for me but all things are not expedient
which means helpful says all things are lawful for me but all things edify not you should just
realize as a christian there's some things you could do that there's technically not always a
chapter and verse for for every specific situation but in your liberty as a christian you realize
some things are just not helpful some things edify not and some things are damaging to you
potentially okay and what can very well be potentially damaged you is just piping off to
people when we're out somewhere okay so we should and that was the last thing i was gonna say about
that as well i'm the one who has to deal with all that because i have my name on this specific
specific plant here too so if you're acting like a fool out there you're gonna i have to deal with
all your drama too so don't make me do that because then i'm gonna just send it to you and be like
call this guy and deal he he's the one who did this okay you deal with him okay because seriously
though like like or you're gonna send up to our pastor who has enough on his plate already it's
like like you should just realize you don't have your name stand on this church but you do represent
this church so all the actions you do it's going to fall on the leadership okay so keep that in
perspectives as well as uh thinking about your brother and sister in christ in summary of this
someone knows this okay we should remember our goals out soning our goal is chiefly to get
people saved but after this we should try to get them baptized we should try to teach them the
bible and then number two is that we should remember that we represent jesus christ around
soul winning so we should represent him in how we dress and we should represent him in how we deal
with people don't go tit for tat people it's never worth it i mean i'm using really extreme
examples but even in the least extreme example you can still get us kicked out of a neighborhood
or have someone stalk us in the neighborhood and ruin soul winning for the day right so don't do
that just do what follow the example of jesus christ that's what peter says he says when people
revile you when they curse you and they attack you don't attack them back that's what we're
called to do as christians so that being said let's pray deal with the god thank you so much
wonderful day thank you so much for everything you do for us god thank you so much for this
church god i just pray that you protect us god and help us to be wise as serpents as harmless
as does while we're out so many god i just pray that you help us to always keep the main picture
in mind god and just realize that the things we do are not in a vacuum god and i just pray that
you help us to always be considerate of each other god and i just pray that you help us to be in
control of our spirit god and to not let people have a power over us we ask these things and just
pray amen we're going to turn to page number 63 page number 63 what a day that will be