Page number 364, standing on the promises, page number 364,
that cannot fail, when the howling storms of life and fear assail, by the living word
of God I shall prevail, standing on the promises of God, standing, standing, standing on the
is a Christ the Lord bound to him eternally by love's strong
cord overcoming daily with the spirit's sword standing on the
promises of God standing standing standing
of God. Standing on the promises I cannot fall. Listening every moment to the
Spirit's call. Resting in my Savior as my all and all. Standing on the promises of
standing. I'm standing on the promises of God. All right,
excellent singing everybody, brother Paul, please up to
supper and word of prayer.
Amen.
All right, if you want to take your hymnals, we're going to
turn to page number 143.
It's page number 143, blessed assurance, page number 143, blessed assurance, Jesus is mine oh what a
of God. Born of his spirit, washed in his blood. This is my story. This is my song.
Perfect submission, perfect delight. Visions of rapture, numbers on my side. Angels descending,
bring from above. Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. This is my story, this is my song.
my Savior all the day long, this is my story, this is my song, praising my
Savior all the day long, perfect submission all is at rest, high in my
my song, praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story, this is my song, praising
my Savior all the day long. Alright, excellent singing everybody. At this time we will have
Good evening, everyone. Welcome. The verse of the week is Lamentations 3, 22, and 23.
Lamentations 3, 22, and 23. It is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed because his
All right. Service times are at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday morning and 3.30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon,
with our Bible study being at 6.30 on Wednesday.
Solving times will be at 10.30 a.m. this Saturday and 1.00 p.m. Sunday.
We had not yet a salvation in September, but we had 12 in August,
which brings us to a total of 71 for the year so far.
Attendance is down below.
upcoming events, and it is amazing how quickly it is coming up.
It is not this Friday, but the Friday after will be
the start of our, you know, kind of church
fellowship weekend. It's a great weekend we're having here because
on September 19th, Pastor Thompson will be
preaching here, which will start us off into a good weekend where on Saturday
we'll be going as a church to Silverwood,
Let Remy know if you plan to go. I'm sure most people have but that way, you know
You have tickets and time to go and then on September 21st
We're gonna have brother David accurately preach both services. So a nice little treat here to have a you know traveling pastor
I I'm not sure I've ever actually heard him preach. So that's gonna be a treat for me. So I'm looking forward to that. So a
Lot of things coming up kids. Please remember John 316 if you can recite that verse you get a reward of candy from miss Kylie
All right. Rules are all the same. Tithing is down below.
And if you have any more prayer requests, please just let myself or the Thompson Snow and they will get it placed into the bulletin.
All right. Let's turn to the Lord in prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for allowing us to come to you.
locally, nationally, just things happening. We see things because our new cycle just feeds us such
bad things that are happening around the world, Lord.
But Lord, we know we can always turn to you for prayer. And Lord, even if sometimes we don't understand why things happen, Lord,
we know you're in control of all. So Lord, we pray to you this week for all those that are
grieving from losses and just trying to get through hard times. But Lord, even closer here in church, Lord, we
pray to you. We pray for all those that are in pain and suffering within our
church and we just hope that they can get over the ailments and sicknesses that
are affecting them. And Lord we pray specifically for Amanda's mother. We pray
for my wife's father's health.
If you can keep my wife in prayer for the next couple of weeks until the delivery, we
just keep that in hope, it's just that the baby is healthy.
If you can keep my grandchild also in prayer, baby Rosie, she's still recovering from what
happened.
prayer for the court situation going on. If you can also keep
Shanika's sisters in prayer for her living situation.
Lord, we also just pray for your will to be shown in
Timothy's life and just everything that is going on. Lord, we also pray for
Marina and the pregnancy and just the pains having to bring another life into this world.
And Lord, we pray for Kyle's health, not just his leg now, but Lord, we pray for his shoulder,
which has been an ongoing issue that's troubling him at work.
We just pray that that can heal so he can maintain.
his income to maintain the stability he has in his life and Lord we also pray for his uncle to
overcome the traumas and cancer recovery that and it's a blessing that he has a good spirit Lord
but we know his body is currently failing him we just wish to keep him in prayer Lord we also pray
just that justice can be seen for the issues affecting Shanika right now we just pray that
both Jake and Callie in prayer to overcome the habits they've chosen Lord Lord
We just pray for all the others that are sick and just that they may heal and be able to come back and
Be a blessing to this church Lord and on top of that
We do give thanks to the many visitors we've had recently and to the people that are willing to keep coming become members and those
Blessings that for the first time in years Lord. We've had many
silent partners that are willing to learn to go out soul-winning and it's such a
blessing to see the discipleship happening in this church to build this
work so we can see even more people when we go to heaven by the works that this
church does and Lord that is a blessing to all of us in our time remaining here
on earth but all these things Lord we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
All right, if you want to take your Bibles, we're going to turn to Psalm number one hundred and fifty
Psalm number one hundred and fifty
Psalm number one hundred and fifty praise ye the Lord
Psalm number 150. We'll sing it out on the first.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with the sultry and harp.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance. Praise him with string instruments and organs.
everybody for the apology please pray for the offering.
If everybody can open up their King James Bible and go to 1st Corinthians chapter 3
1st Corinthians chapter 3 and here at Sherra Foundation Baptist Church. We read the entire chapter before the preaching
1st Corinthians chapter 3
1st Corinthians chapter 3 the Bible reads and
I
Brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual
But as unto carnal
Even as unto babes in Christ I have fed you with milk
not with meat for hitherto you were not able to bear it neither yet now are you
able for you are yet carnal for whereas there is among you and being and
strife and divisions are you not carnal and walk as men for while one sayeth I
am of Paul and another I am of Apollos you are not carnal who then is Paul and
Even as the Lord gave to every man, I have planted Apollos watered, but the God
but God gave the increase so that neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth,
but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth, and he that watereth, are one, and every
man shall receive his own reward according to his labor. For we are laborers together with God,
you are with God's husband tree, you are God's building, according to the grace of God which
As a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
For other foundation can no man lay that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble,
every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall
be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved,
yet so as by fire. Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.
For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
Let no man deceive himself.
If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world,
let him become a fool that he may be wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
For it is written, he takeeth the wise
in their own craftiness.
And again, the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise
that they are vain.
Therefore, let no man glory in men, for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos,
or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come.
All are yours, and you are in Christ, and Christ is God's."
Brother Ryan, I'm going to go ahead and pray for this service.
Amen, you guys are there in first Corinthians chapter number three. We're gonna look at verse number one where the Bible says
And I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal even as unto babes in Christ
The title of my sermon tonight is Stop Acting Like a Child.
Let's pray.
Dear Father God, thank you so much for this wonderful day.
Thank you so much for your generous God.
Thank you so much for this church, God.
Thank you so much for the hedge of protection
that you put around us, God.
And thank you so much, God, for the great people
that took time out of their week to come to the service.
I just pray that you would help me to be edifying.
For that reason, God, just help me to deliver the message
you put on my heart well and help me to be clear
and concise with what I say.
In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.
Time once again, like I said is stop acting like a child. We're here in 1st Corinthians chapter number three
I'll just tell you guys this so that you don't get scared we're not getting through this whole chapter
We're not getting that far. I don't think you're the chapter so you can take a sigh of relief
I'm trying to kind of figure out the range of where I can put all these sermon notes to actually I
Shoot for usually for a Wednesday like a 45 minute sermon is ideal because an hour long
You guys are looking like you're losing oxygen when I preach that long
So that's what we're shooting for tonight.
So if I go a little bit short,
I might adjust it a little bit.
But we're here in 1 Corinthians chapter number three
and right out the gate, Paul comes out swinging
in this sermon with something that's kind of reminiscent
to me of Hebrews chapter number five.
You guys don't have to turn here,
I'll just read this for you.
And you can probably understand how it sounds similar.
He says, of whom we have many things to say
and hard to be uttered,
seeing your dole of hearing.
For when for the time you ought to be teachers,
you have need that one teach you again,
which be the first principles of the oracles of God.
You're gonna become as such as have need of milk
and not of strong meat.
And this is kind of a little bit of a side note
in the sermon, but this is one of the things
that proves at least to me that
Paul is the author of Hebrews.
I think that makes the most sense.
I think that fits his writing style.
I think he pulls a lot of analogies
like he does between Galatians and Romans
and with first Corinthians and Romans.
And this is just, again,
one of the proof verses for that to me,
even though you can't 100% prove that,
that is just an opinion.
So I'd make that known, but.
I kind of bring this up because if you don't know, dispensationalists actually make a really big deal about this that Paul was not the author of Hebrews because they want to make sure that they can rightly divide, wrongly divide is how they do it.
But no matter they can rightly divide and be like, Matthew to Acts is like for the Jews and then they're like, and then the Gentile scum, we get, you know, Romans through Philemon, but then, you know, Hebrews until the end of Revelation, that's the chosen ones once again.
So they want to divide it like that and they can and they'll say like we can we know what's our
dispensation because Paul wrote all the books to you know us Gentiles scum but again I don't think
that's true and and obviously you can't prove that it's not the biggest deal in the world but I just
they fight you pretty hard to the nail not that it Paul's not the author which I think
it's pretty obvious that he is but again not provable uh first Corinthians 3 when we're
reading it again it says an eye brethren could not speak to you as under spiritual but as under
even as a babes in Christ.
I fed you with milk and not with meat.
For hitherto, you were not able to bear it.
Neither yet now are you able.
For ye are yet carnal.
For whereas there is among you envying
and strife and divisions.
Are you not carnal and walk as men?
And so we've kind of been over this idea
of what it means to be a babe in Christ
at this church before,
so I'm not gonna really deep dive into it.
I'm just gonna say one thing about this
for like the defining this,
A babe in Christ is someone who is either freshly saved or someone who is not very mature
in their faith.
That's what a babe in Christ is according to the Bible.
So you can be saved for 10 years and still be a babe in Christ if you just never grow.
And you can also be a babe in Christ if you just, you know, freshly get saved and I've said this before but there's nothing wrong with being a babe in Christ when you are one of these people where you're just like freshly saved or maybe you just have started to get back in the church.
There's nothing wrong with that also.
But if you're a person who comes to church constantly and constantly and constantly and you just stay.
a little baby, that is an issue.
You don't want to be a perpetual baby in Christ.
You need to grow as a Christian.
And one of the ways we can grow is by reading and learning
about what a baby in Christ is according to Paul.
And it kind of gives us some of these details
that define a baby in Christ in this chapter.
And it's been really interesting to me as I've read the Bible now that I'm married and I have my children
because you have such a different perspective once you actually, you know, read these verses in the Bible
pertaining to loving your wife or, you know, disciplining your children or raising your children
and just, like, you get a different perspective when you have them yourself, but also
you get a different perspective when you hear about people acting carnal or acting like babes in Christ
It's amazing to me how precise Paul is in this chapter when he's comparing, you know,
Christians to being like, Carnal, he's using like an analogy basically here,
and he's basically saying that, or at least how I'm deriving this from this chapter is that,
you know, Carnal-Christians act.
Like real-life children. That's kind of the analogy and it's true in the sense that how children behave is how
Carnal Christians act and it's also true in the sense of how you deal with Carnal Christians has to be different
Because again, what's the first thing that he said in this in this in this set of verses in verse one
He said and I brethren could not speak unto you as
Undisputed but as in the carnal even as unto babes and Christ
And so like the first analogy that I'm bringing forth here when we're comparing
Real-life physical children to babes in Christ is that babes in Christ and children you have to be careful with how you talk with them
And I'm more slanting this towards like a negative kind of thing on this because it's a shame when you have to always tip-toe around
Someone where you have to treat them like they are a literal child
Lest you offend them lest they throw a big tantrum because that
is what little children actually do like you can't just like you know be really harsh with a child
because they'll throw a big baby fit that's understandable with a child because they're a
child but when you're talking with someone to an adult you would expect them to not behave like a
child but again when we're talking about spiritually people do replicate children
And this is why to me personally,
how well a person can like take a rebuke
or take correction or take reproof
is a huge sign of how mature they are as a Christian.
Because if you're a person that just throws a big fit
every time you get corrected,
every time you get reproved,
every time you get rebuked on something,
that just shows me that you are more like a child
than you are like an adult Christian in the faith.
And I just say this as well as we're getting into this.
Being someone that can't take correction, that can't take rebuke is a terrible quality to have as a Christian.
Terrible quality.
And the Bible teaches this as well. Go to Proverbs 9 verse number 8 real quick and keep your finger there in 1 Corinthians 3.
Proverbs 9 verse number 8.
Being someone that can't take correction,
that can't take a rebuke,
that can't take a reproof is a terrible quality
in Christianity, but also just in every area of life.
Look at what it says there in Proverbs 9, verse number eight.
It says,
Reprove not a scornor, lest he hate thee.
Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser.
learning. What the Bible is saying here is that men and women that are wise, they
enjoy rebuke, they enjoy being corrected, and the reason for that is this, is that
it's only by being corrected that you can fix your mistakes and get better.
That is the whole point of taking correction and of taking reproof, but
the day that you stop taking correction and reproof and
rebukes as a Christian is the day that you'll stop growing. Because here's
The reason why people do that is because they're prideful.
Because it's only by pride that you would look at yourself and be like,
there's nothing wrong with me. I'm a perfect person.
I have no room to improve on. I've arrived.
How can you correct me, the Christian? How?
What is there to correct here?
Pride isn't it and the by and then we should just you should just realize with pride
God says that he hates pride and the Bible and the reason why he hates it is because it's detrimental to your Christian life
Because if you're a prideful person, you can't grow anymore
You hinder your own growth when you're a prideful person. You just need to be careful to never get this mindset of I'm perfect
I've arrived. I'm the best of the best
because the reality is you're not and you need to have a low view of yourself.
That's how you're going to be a successful Christian because even the best of the best Christians
that we see nowadays or that we see in the Bible didn't think that they were the end all be all.
They still had a low view of themselves. So we all should have a low view of ourselves
and pride is the enemy of growth for Christians. And what I can talk about earlier about you know
So one of the Bible that is like a great example of this is Peter.
Like Peter is constantly getting rebuked by Jesus Christ or getting corrected by Jesus Christ.
And like one of the most extreme examples of that that I probably brought up before but it's just like
a picture perfect example is that in front of all the disciples
when Peter's trying to correct Jesus he's like no no no he's like get behind me Satan that
And if you did that nowadays with most people, they'd probably just leave and never come back
and probably throw a big baby fit and say that they were in a cult or they were in something like that.
But Peter, you'll notice that he still follows Jesus Christ to the very end of his life.
He follows Jesus Christ. And that's because I'm trying to show you that Peter was not a little babe in Christ.
He was a man in the faith. And men, the difference between someone that's strong in the faith
and someone that's a babe in the faith, is that someone that's a man in the faith, someone that's strong in the faith.
can take rebuke, can take correction,
but someone that's a baby, they can't.
Just like little children, when you try to correct them,
they throw a fit.
It's like, with Karina, I've been trying to teach her
the Greek alphabet, which must be a little bit
joined to mine, I'm sure, because some of the letters
are the same exact letters.
So she's like trying to be like, this is A,
and I'm like, no, this is alpha, okay?
But.
But when I correct her on it, she gets upset.
Ugh, like, and she's throwing a fit.
I'm like, that's natural, because she's a kid, right?
Should not be so from adults, though.
And again, I've kind of calculated before that just
because you're corrected on something, that doesn't mean
that you're always in the wrong.
We understand this.
I hope you would understand this, but I'm just saying,
like,
Like, it's just a terrible quality in general to not be able to take correction.
I get corrected all the time, I shouldn't say all the time.
I have been corrected many times in my life is what I should say.
Even in my old job that I was at, my water job, I was there for eight years doing the
same work, doing water work, and there were still times where my boss would correct me.
And I wouldn't go, well, I've been here for eight years, what is he going to teach me?
You're going to teach me a lot because, listen, when you don't have this attitude of I'm the best, I've arrived in life, you can still grow and you'll still continue to grow.
But pride hinders that because pride is the one that says I'm the best, that there's no room for improvement.
But again, it's extremely respectable, extremely respectable, like with someone like Peter, that when you say, hey, you're wrong or I disagree or I don't think you should do things this way.
That you just take it like a man and say I understand understood, you know
We'll fix these things moving forward or something along those lines extremely respectable
Because little kids can't do that it takes a man to be able to do that
That's what we see from Peter and that's why I brought up that story
So we learn from these verses and Proverbs though that wise men love correction
But babes and Christ can't handle it and so if you want to mature in the faith
You should be someone that can take correction because you should just realize that nobody's perfect. We all
room for improvement in every area of our life. The day you think that you've
arrived in an area is the day you stop growing though.
and that comes from pride.
Here's the second way that Paul compares this though
in verse number three is that he compares
carnal Christians to being little kids
in the sense that little children have envy
and strife and divisions among them constantly.
Like, I'll read that verse again.
It says, for you are yet carnal,
for whereas as among you envying and strife and divisions,
are you not carnal and walk as men?
It's like,
Such a perfect example to use because if you are a parent in here or you've even seen children interact in here
You'll know this children love to fight with each other. They love to have strife with each other
Especially the siblings. Can I get a witness for that brother Jason?
They're like the best of friends and the worst of friends are like what is going on here?
But that's what children do they they're always fighting
It's like a date does not go by that ties and Karina are not telling on each other
Fighting on each other hitting each other calling each other names because they're little children. That's what children do
But obviously what I'm trying to bring to your attention is that that may be what children do, but that should not be what?
Mature Christians in the faith are doing and that's to say this if you're someone that fights with people
24-7 in any area of your life. That is a terrible quality to have
God has called us to peace is what the Bible says. He says that we should as much as life than us
We should try to live peaceably with all men
That's the calling as a Christian constantly peace is praised not strife not contention
There is a time for contention. You guys I'm sure all know this
but it's not all the time.
That's what you need to realize as a Christian.
It's not all the time.
And it shouldn't even be most of the time
in normal circumstances.
We're called to peace as Christians.
But again,
carnal Christians, just like children,
they like to fight with people.
It's really about quality though.
Go to Proverbs 13, verse 10, Proverbs 13, verse number 10.
It's a huge sign of immaturity
and of pride again in your life
when you're always just fighting with people.
when you're just never getting along with people.
And let me just show you that from the Bible
because I'm talking about, I'm bringing up pride a lot.
You just realize the theme of the beginning of this chapter
especially is talking about pride,
about having a high view of yourself.
And you'll see this as we go on.
The way it says in verse number 10, it says,
only by
Pride come with contention, but with the well-advised is wisdom. Why is this?
Why is it that pride only comes by contention? It's because pride doesn't let things go.
Pride needs every
wrong to be made right.
Pride doesn't care who it hurts or who it offends or what damage it causes as long as it gets its way at the end of the day.
This is why God hates the sin of pride and why it's so detrimental to Christians,
and you should just realize that if you allow that sin in your life,
it will completely destroy your progress in maturing in the faith.
It's a huge blot. And what's sad about pride though is that most people that are prideful
don't realize that they're prideful because it's like a natural blinder,
which is kind of an unfortunate thing. But that's the thing, if they have any
peer through the cracks and be like, hey, this, this reproaches me also.
Right.
And then you can try to fix your life because when I'm talking about God hates
pride, like the Bible says that God resisted the proud, but it gives grace to
the humble.
So many times pride is mentioned in the Bible and such a negative light, but
you should just realize too, uh, with pride that the antidote to it is this,
is that you just need to realize that you're just not that important.
You're not that special. You're not the best thing since sliced bread. You are not the end all be all for everybody
You know how I know that because what did he tell us in chapter one?
He says not many whys are called not many noble not many strong. Who does God call?
He says the average the normal people of this world. That's who he calls
That's who he uses. Why is that though? Because someone that has such a great quality about them. They're already naturally inclined towards pride
But then someone who's normal he can take them and use them even though normal people still stumble at pride as well
But God calls to end uses the people that are normal in this world because pride is so
Detrimental and because when people are doing works of God they get really puffed up in themselves
Go back to 1st Corinthians chapter 3 if I had you guys turn away over to chapter 3 verse number 4
You just need to realize life's not all about you,
and pride comes by contention, because again,
people have that idea where they're like,
how could they do me wrong?
How could they offend me?
How could they correct this guy right here?
That's why, because pride allows all of those things.
If you have a low view of yourself though,
But again, I've been referencing this to being like children, because again, I don't want to talk about like letting things go.
People that are proud just can't let things go.
Like I was saying earlier that they have to right every wrong.
This is how children are as well.
Children don't just let things slide.
They will go and tell their parents about every single offense under the sun,
to the point where you're like, stop tattling on your siblings, please.
But Christians do this sometimes also that are carnal though that every time someone offends them every single time someone does them wrong
They got to go immediately and make it right
I just don't understand that mindset number one because I'm just not a very confrontational person
But number two because it's just like why don't just let things go once in a while just realize when someone offends you
It's not it's not like you're some fantastic
Marvelous person who's never sinned on this earth. We all sin and comes from the glory of God
So learn to let things go and maybe
God will let things go with you when you slip up and when you mess up because you will because you're not a perfect person at the end of the day.
But again, children don't understand this, children fight 24 seven, children need to tell their parents about everything, children need to make everything that's wrong, righted.
But a mature Christian, if you're a mature Christian in this room, you should just try to put away those things and try to suffer yourself to be defrauded like we'll see a little bit later on in Corinthians.
who then is Paul and who is the,
and who is Apollo's but ministers by whom he believed
even as the Lord gave to every man.
I just want you to notice,
cause I talked about this last week about in the sense that
I was saying that this church,
we believe that you have to get saved by someone else.
People don't just pick up the Bible and get themselves saved,
but I'm going to take this verse at a different angle tonight,
which is in the theme of everything I've been talking about
with pride.
I just want you to notice how low a view that Paul has of himself in this verse, like when
he hears that people are dividing themselves into camps, he's not like, oh yeah, team Paul,
they're on my team because I'm the best, I'm the one that's flipping the world upside
down, so why wouldn't they be on my team?
What does he say?
He says, who then is Paul?
Who then is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believe as the Lord is given to every man?
You know what Paul says?
He says, I'm just like every other man.
And what like an amazing thing that a man that we, I'm sure everybody in this room would
look to and be like, he did great things for God.
He looks at himself and says, who's Paul?
That's why he was able to do so many great things for God because he didn't think he was the best thing ever
He understood that he was just a minister that God was using and if you get that mindset in your life
It would really do well for you do well in so many areas to realize that when you serve God
It's not some great thing.
That's our reasonable service is what the Bible says.
You are nothing special for serving God.
That's what you're supposed to do on this earth.
And really, it's a privilege at all that God uses us at the end of the day.
And Paul even says this himself.
He says, he says, who's Apollo?
Who's Apollo's ministers by whom you've believed?
And he says this, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Not by his might, not by his strength,
not by his knowledge, but by God's grace,
he was able to be something.
If we get this idea that we're something special of ourselves,
that'll be the last time that God uses us.
If we get this idea as a church that we're something special,
you could just count on God not using us,
because God is supposed to get all glory at the end of the day.
So we should realize that every good thing we do on this earth,
it's a privilege that is allowed to us by God's grace.
First Corinthians 3, verse number 6.
But as I'm going to this verse, I just ask you since Paul though clearly from these verses has such a low view of himself
I'd ask you to reflect yourself and think how do you be yourself really at the other day like genuinely
Like when you look in the mirror, do you think like that is the best Christian on earth right now?
Or do you think?
Who am I at the other day?
You think at the other day I'm just a minister
that's privileged to be under God's grace.
Because if you're not having the same view
that Paul's having right here when he's doing works
untold for God, then you are way out of line, okay?
Because nobody in this room is even close
to what the apostle Paul has done.
And he said about himself, who am I at the other day?
First Corinthians three, verse number six, the Bible says,
Excuse me chapter three verse number six. It says I have planted a polos watered
But God gave the increase. I just want to kind of bring up a few things about this verse
Number one is this is that when we're out soul winning
we're not only just called to strictly win souls.
Like, or maybe I should say it like this,
like the process of soul winning
is not just the winning in and of itself.
There is more to it than that.
As we read in that verse,
sometimes we're planting, sometimes we're watering,
sometimes we're reaping the low-hanging fruit
that's around us,
but no matter what effort we put in at the end of the day.
It's God that gets the increase.
And again, Paul's giving all glory to God in this situation
for giving the increase.
So you should just keep that in your mind,
because that's the whole theme for these verses,
is having a low view of yourself and not being proud.
But also, I just want you to kind of think about this,
because people get this wrong percentage of not solving.
They think like, if I'm not getting
someone saved every single time I'm at the door,
or every single time I go out, then I'm just failing.
I'm just not doing what God wants me to do.
That's just not true from these verses though.
Because what do we see in these verses?
It's not just the getting people saved,
the reaping of the fruit here.
Sometimes you're planting, sometimes you're watering,
sometimes you are reaping, but it's not all the time.
So you should just realize that just because
the conversation doesn't end with someone getting saved,
that doesn't mean that you fail,
because you don't know what part of that process
you're supposed to be in right there
with that person at that time.
And I gotta wanna use analogy.
with you with this because he's likening soul winning obviously to being like a plant.
Imagine someone goes out and like you know they're going out to plant like a garden or something like
that and they sprinkle some seeds and they're like there's no plant there. What is going on? I'm failing.
You'd think it was silly, right?
Because you're like, there's a process to growing a plant.
Same thing if you'll go out there and you water them
instantly, you're like, they should be growing now.
I'm failing.
I can't get these plants to grow.
No, the reality is that it's a process.
It takes some time.
So the same thing without soul and you just need to realize that sometimes when you're out the door
You are just gonna be planting seeds and then you shouldn't minimize that because that's a good work as well
Because when you're planting those seeds you might be having people you know start to doubt
What this world has been teaching them and the salvation that they believe in and even if they don't get saved right then
They might have that in the back of their mind and it to go about their day just be thinking about it
And they might start seeking God because of that as well
Sometimes as well, you might be watering like sometimes someone already has that seed and you're
Strengthening more and more the argument for once saved always saved and you're kind of you know ripping up some of these you know
tears that'll grow up among them or some of them
False doctrines that people will try to rebuttal the original seed with right we'll tell them
You know John 316 and then some will be like no no no
James 2 and then we come along and we kind of interpret that rightly we try to like develop them farther along in that process, right?
Sometimes though we do get to reap immediately the benefits of someone else's work with low-hanging fruit and
We like get to see like someone immediately say because
They're just super receptive to get saved, right?
Or sometimes we also get this,
sometimes we get to see a miracle when we're out soul-warning,
where we get to see the whole process all at once,
where someone gets planted, they get watered,
and they get grown up right away.
It's a miracle that we get to see out soul-warning
because the word of God is quick and powerful.
But you just what I'm trying to show you with all this is that you shouldn't expect that to happen every
Single time because there is times where you're planting. There's sometimes where you're watering
But at the end of the day, none of that is failed because here's the reality
You're doing what God says when you go to any door to preach someone the gospel even if they say get out of here
I don't want to hear anything about this you take a hike get off my property
But Jesus says dust the you know take your shoes and dust the the
The dust, dust the dust, is this English?
I think so, good night.
Dust the dust off your feet, okay,
and just keep it pushing, keep it moving, right?
How can you be failing when you're doing
what God told you to do in the first place?
And they're not gonna all hear, that just,
it is what it is, but at the other day,
you listened and obeyed to what God said,
and tried to love your neighbor as yourself
and to give them the gospel.
Here's the number two thing we should learn about this and go to Jude 122 as we're going there
Jude 122 is where you guys are going
The second thing I want to talk about with this kind of idea with now that we understand that kind of from these verses that
Solanning can be a process not always just a one-time event is that we shouldn't stomp out potential trees
while we're out solanning or stomp on the seeds that have already been planted out
Solanning and what I mean by that is this is that you should realize that when you're dealing with someone
You it is crucial to treat them kindly and to treat them with respect at the door
Even if they don't agree with you and the reason why is this is because you don't know where they're at in that process
You don't know if there's no seeds at all
You don't know that there is a seed there that you could water
You don't know if they're watering and they're getting close to getting saved
But I'll tell you this that if you go and stomp all that out by being a jerk to them
It's all lost at that point and I was saying earlier that it's not as failed
Conversation if someone doesn't get saved which is true if you're planting and watering, but here's the thing
If you act like a jerk at the door and give someone a bad taste about the gospel and turn them off to the gospel,
that is a failed conversation at that point.
And I'm taking you guys to Jude 122 because I just want you to realize this is that people can treat us like jerks at the door.
They could be really rude to us at the door or work salvation is sometimes the door can really frustrate us and kind of take us off.
but you just need to realize it is unacceptable to be a jerk
and to be, you know, a huge punk to someone at the door.
That's not what we're called to do as Christians,
because I want you to see what we're talking about,
because I had you guys turn to Jude 122.
And before I get on that, I should say this,
because I've been making this analogy with kids this whole time.
This is childish behavior.
Rendering evil for evil is childish behavior.
This is what my kids do all the time.
hit her back. She called me a name, so I called her a name back. Children do this thing. But as a
Christian, especially when you're out soul-warning, this is not what you should be doing out door to
door. Just because they make you mad, just because they frustrate you because they're not understanding
the gospel right away, that doesn't give you permission to just be a jerk to them or to treat
them like they're trash because we're still supposed to love them because they're our neighbor at the
And you just realized like when you're out so many,
we are representing Jesus Christ.
We are ambassadors of Jesus Christ.
And you're representing Sure Foundation Baptist Church
while you're out so many as well.
So don't have anybody call me and be like,
so and so is a jerk.
And I know people lie sometimes.
But I'm telling you, if you're actually,
let me just tell you this.
If I see someone being a jerk of the door,
you will get rebuked on the spot for that.
Unacceptable.
That is not gonna fly in this church.
That is not Christ's life.
If you're gonna represent Jesus Christ, you should act.
how Jesus Christ actually acted.
And what did Jesus Christ do when he was on this earth?
He turned the other cheek.
He didn't render evil for evil.
He suffered himself to be defrauded.
He didn't revile again when people reviled him.
That's what Jesus Christ did on this earth
and that's what we should do as well.
We shouldn't stoop down to the level of heathens God
as safe Christians he expects us to be better
than the people we're trying to win at the door.
And I get worked about that because I've seen this
in multiple churches in my life.
I've seen this multiple times out so many
where someone's just not getting it
or they just believe a false gospel
and someone's just like, bye then, see you later.
Why?
Like any shot that they had at getting saved at that point,
any seed that they had, any watering that was done,
you just stomped it out when you acted like that.
Someone doesn't want to hear the gospel. Obviously, we want them to hear the gospel, but if they don't just move on
That's I mean like that's sometimes that's being loving just not answering back again
Sometimes just letting something go that's being loving
And we see this with Jesus Christ when he's on the cross.
When he was, you know, mocked and reviled,
he was the land that was done before his sheers
is what the Bible says.
I have you guys in Jude 1.22, the Bible says here,
it says this, it says,
and some have compassion, making a difference,
and others save with fear.
pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
How does Jude say that we're supposed to get people saved here?
He gives us two ways.
He says, you can show some people compassion.
What does that mean?
You can be nice to people.
Be really kind to them.
Be really loving to them at the door.
That's a way that you can win them over so that they'll hear the gospel.
And he says this, that others saved by fear.
Some people, you can scare the hell out of them at the door, right?
You can scare them with hell and say,
If you don't believe the gospel, you will die and go to hell.
And not in a rude way, obviously, but you can tell them,
I've done this multiple times.
I'll just be like, hey, listen, man.
I understand you don't believe what I'm saying,
but according to what the Bible says,
if you don't believe that it's one safe,
always safe, you will die and go to hell.
You have to be a jerk about that.
You could say that very kindly
with giving them that fear as well.
But I want you to notice what's missing here.
He doesn't say others be a jerk to to win them,
or to be a punk to, or to act like an extreme scumbag
at the door to win them.
And the reason why is this,
is that those things don't win people over.
They turn people off to the gospel.
So don't do those things out, Sonning.
Show them love.
You can show them fear.
Don't show them your carnal fleshly side
coming out of the door.
That's not what's gonna get anybody saved.
You guys are there in Jude 1.22.
You guys can go back to 1 Corinthians 3, verse number seven.
Because you just understand with these people and I don't I don't understand why more people don't understand this or I
Maybe I shouldn't even say more bill
I just don't understand why this is such a stumbling block for people sometimes though is like
Like you were saved by grace. So why don't you show people some grace when you're out the door out so many like?
With some you don't understand what like some of these people the like someone who's like a work salvationist
They were raised in that a lot of times from their youth up
They don't know any different like they haven't heard a bunch of different arguments or different opinions
They just get raised up in that filth and sometimes obviously we're too late to try to preach in the gospel to get them saved
But you just have some grace in that regard just realized like a lot of people end up in that situation because their parents were in a false
Religion or their spouse convert them to some kind of false religion the same thing with you know
Atheists as well like some of them have never you know
Been to a good church before the church they went to is trash or you know
They had a bad experience with some kind of religious figure growing up or they just never had God presented to them in their home
Like you just have like grace in your heart as a Christian to realize that not everyone
has the privilege that you have of being saved at the moment,
to have your eyes open to see spiritual things.
So be patient with people,
be kind with people at the door.
That's how you're going to win these kinds of people over,
because you should just realize that if someone's been
a staunch atheist their whole life,
or a staunch work salvationist their whole life,
a 20-minute conversation is probably not going to win them over.
Like sometimes it can praise God because the Word of God has power,
but we're asking them to flip their whole belief system.
on their head.
So you should be patient with that
and be willing to say,
hey, if they don't hear me this day,
maybe they'll hear me another day,
if I'm kind to them at least,
if I show them at love at least,
like, because if you're just like with these people,
you're making good progress
and they don't get saved
and you just storm off from the door,
then you've lost all progress at that point.
And again, I'm saying you stomped on those seeds
and you stomped on those plants that were being watered.
Don't be like that as a Christian.
You should represent Jesus Christ properly.
Verse number seven of this chapter,
this is the last verse I'll read here.
It says this.
It says, so then neither is he that planted anything,
neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.
This again is all in the theme of this chapter that you know
The person who's planting the person is watering the person who's getting the person saved
We are nothing at the end of the day
It's only God that gives the increase and I was talking about this earlier
But you should just realize that the minute you start to think that I'm something special. That's why people are getting saved
Salvation stocks in your life are going to go way down at that point, okay?
Let me just tell you because you're we we are being used to getting people saved
But it's I and I said this last week, but it's because we're co-leaders with Jesus Christ
He's the one who's really getting them saved. We're just a tool to get them saved
We're a minister is what Paul says out sonning
And God says well as I quoted earlier he resisted the proud, but he gives grace to the humble
You think God will use you if you just think you're the best things in sliced bread probably not
First Corinthians 3 so I told you guys that's the last verse
I'm gonna have you guys read because I'm not gonna go any further
We're a little short on time a little short on time
I'll just kind of wrap this little part up though for the end of the sermon
I'll let you guys get out early as a privilege because we went long last week, right?
Someone's like no. He's like no we didn't okay. We're going for an hour now. Okay. We got to make up time
But I just want to say this like because we're talking about like not being
Something special when we're out soul-winning again
You should realize that it is a privilege to serve God in every area of your life and Christians would do well to realize
It's more it's a privilege to be able to read your Bible like I know I brought that up before
But truly what a blessing it is that I can pull this up on my phone
I can pull this up on any language that I want on my phone
I could take a copy to work and get a waterproof Bible
I can get 10 extra Bibles to give out to people if I want to like
How blessed are we with the Word of God nowadays?
It's a privilege.
But this is what Christians do.
I have to read my Bible.
No, you get to read your Bible as a Christian.
Like, what a privilege that we have
that we get the infallible Word of God
that as hard as the Catholic Church tried to hide from us,
we still get it nowadays and we can read it freely.
And now that it's more free than ever,
people don't read it as much as ever.
It's insane how that works.
It's a privilege to be able to read your Bible though.
It's a privilege to be able to go to God in prayer
and ask the King of Kings anything that you want
in this life.
And what a great contrast I'd have in your mind
if you'd adopt that mindset to realize like,
it's like God says I have to pray without ceasing.
So I guess I'm gonna pray today.
Now I get to go talk to the King of Kings,
the Lord of Lords,
the one that could do much more
than I could even think to ask him.
I get to talk to him.
I get to cry out to him, Abba father,
please do this and that.
We as Christians that are just dirt
that God breathed life into and sent his son to down the cross
for our sins and redeemed us,
we as sinful beings get to pray and ask
and beg the king of kings to do things for us.
It's incredible when you think about it the other day.
But a lot of people were, you know, neglected.
And I get like, sometimes we get through the ruts of life
and things are hard, but you should just never like,
forsake the privilege of prayer that we have.
The opportunity that you have to go to God
and ask Him for things or ask for comfort
or even just thank Him for the things
that He gives you on this earth.
It's a privilege to be able to come to church as well.
Like, what a privilege it is that, like,
there's so many churches that, like,
have so much dysfunction, so many issues with them.
Not that we're Mr. Perfect Church here,
but, like, I'm glad that I can come to a church
and I'm not, like, scared of whatever doctrine
is gonna get preached by the pulpit.
Like, I'm not just, like,
please, like, don't justify, you know,
Israel bombing Balasdine.
Please, pastor, don't do this.
It's like I know what I'm getting with brother Jason is going to preach. He's gonna rebuke Israel sharply, okay?
It's a privilege though.
It's a privilege to be able to felt it with good people
because I love the people in this room
and I love that the people in this room know their Bible
and that you're a kind people
and that you're a people that care about each other,
that bring food for each other,
that bring rides for each other,
that are willing to sacrifice their Saturdays
and their Sundays and their Wednesdays
to come here, me preach,
and to go out and preach the gospel to your community
and to go reach people
that slam the door in your face most of the time.
It's a privilege to be able to go
and be labors with you guys as well.
It's a blessing that we get to be a part of the ministry of reconciliation as well.
Siri, what is that?
The Jews heard the Israel thing and they're like, we got to start listening to him right
now.
What did he say about Palestine?
Listen up.
Okay, but in closing to this sermon, it's pretty funny.
As Christians, we need to be striving to grow
and not be perpetual babes.
And I'll explain the things that make you a babe,
not taking correction, that will hinder your growth
because that's from pride.
You know, fighting with people 24-7 having divisions,
that'll hinder your growth as well.
You know, not being able to let things go as a Christian,
all these things hinder our growth.
And so you should just realize that children are cute
and they're precious in this world,
but that's not what your role model should be
and how you're behaving as a Christian.
I
Number two is that we shouldn't stomp out, you know,
God's seeds when we're out soul-winning.
There's a process of planting and watering
and sometimes reaping.
You don't know where you're at in that process.
So make sure you leave every door that you can
with a good impression and with them having
a good representation of Jesus Christ
and what His servants are supposed to act like
outdoor, door, soul-winning.
Can I didn't say this?
I think I just skidded over this in my notes,
but like, there's another thing about that.
When we're winning, trying to win these work salvation
With once saved, always saved, what is like the biggest
reproach to once saved, always saved? What do they always say to us?
You're just saying that I can live however I want and still go to heaven.
If you go to their door and then say,
no, no, salvation's by grace through faith,
and you shouldn't just live however you want,
but then you treat them like they're trash at the door,
that's gonna be their impression of One Saved Always Saved.
They're gonna think that's what the fruit of it is,
that's what the spirit of it is.
Don't leave people with that impression.
Because some people can take advantage
of One Saved Always Saved,
but that is the true gospel.
It is that once you're saved,
you always have salvation, you can't lose your salvation.
But don't give them this idea we're like,
that's how most Christians that believe that are living.
Because it turns them off to the gospel, okay?
Because we wanna be a light to people.
And number three as I end this sermon is this,
is that we just need to realize
that we're nothing without God's grace.
We're nothing without God's grace,
and we're privileged to partake in all these areas
of our life as Christians,
and we should remember that throughout our week.
Without that being said, let's pray.
Dear Father God, thank you so much for the day.
Thank you so much.
For the wonderful people that came to church tonight God,
I just thank you so much for the privilege to preach God.
I just pray that you would be with us all throughout the week
and help us to have the strength to finish out our work week
and help the women in this room to have the strength
to finish their week with the kids
or taking care of the things that they have to at home.
I just pray that you would be with all our prayer requests
that are on our list.
And I pray that you would continue
to help us to grow as a church
and some more laborers of the harvest
and help us to never stagnate in our faith.
And Jesus I pray, amen.
If you want to take your hymnals, we're going to turn to page number 31.
Page number 31, he lives.
Page number 31, we'll sing it out on first.
I serve her as an savior, he's in the world today.
I know that he is living whatever man may say.
I see his hand of mercy, I hear his voice of cheer.
And just the time I need him, he's always near.
He lives, he lives.
walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way he lives he lives
salvation to
And though my heart grows weary, I never will despair.
I know that He is leading through all the stormy blasts.
The day of His appearing will come at last.
He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today.
to impart. You ask me how I know he lives. He lives within my heart. Rejoice, rejoice
today. He walks with me and talks with me. A long life stare away. He lives, he lives.
Salvation to impart. You ask me how I know he lives. He lives within my heart.