All right, welcome back to Sure Foundation, back to church.
If you're happy to be in church this morning, say amen.
Amen.
I'm so encouraged by seeing the church almost this full on a Sunday evening.
It really encourages you.
Let's all stand and let's go to number 130, crown him with many crowns.
Crown him with many crowns, the lamb upon his throne.
Hark how the Hambley and Thumb, all music but its own,
Awake my soul and sing of him who died for.
As thy matzless great through all eternity.
On that second stanza, crown him the Lord of love.
Behold his hand and side, rich, wounded,
visible, above, in beauty glorified, no angel in the sky.
can fully bear that. But downward bends his wandering eye, at mystery so bright. On that
third stands a crown him the Lord of life, for the grave, who rose victorious to the strife,
sing it out his glories now we sing who died and rose on there we go that part
who died eternal life to bring and lives that on that fort stands a crown in the
through Him, give from yonder glorious throne to the be-endless praise, for Thou, O Lord,
through endless days adored and magnified.
Amen, let's take our Sombics to go to number 30. Nothing but the blood
Number 30 nothing but the blood and we're saved by the blood. Amen
What can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of Jesus on that first
What can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again nothing but the blood of Jesus
Oh
precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow.
No other fount I know.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my part in this I see.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
For my cleansing this I plead.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus Oh precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
nothing can force in a Tony man nothing but the blood of Jesus not of good that
I have done nothing but the blood of Jesus oh precious is the flow that makes
found I know nothing but the blood of Jesus this is all my hope and peace
nothing but the blood of Jesus this is all my righteousness nothing but the
blood of Jesus
precious is the flow that makes me white as snow no other fount I know nothing but
the blood of Jesus amen you may be see at this moment have evangelists just in
song come and give us some announcement
All right, welcome to Shoe Foundation Baptist Church
on the afternoon service.
If you don't have a bulletin, please don't raise your hand
because we are running out of bulletins.
How many bullets have we left?
Two more left, so let's get one away. I'm sorry something happened with the bulletin
So we need to protect trees, right? I'm kidding
So verse the week Roman chapter 1 verse number 20 the Bible says for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
Are clearly seen being the stupid things that are made even he's eternal power and God had so that they are without excuse
Of course, I'm pretty sure about answering atheists' objections this morning.
So basically, we can see the glory of God through the creation.
Nobody can deny the creation of God unless they are being brainwashed.
Let's look at the inside page. We are on YouTube Facebook rumble and X. So please give us a follow
We have service time Sunday morning at 11 Sunday afternoon service at 4 p.m.
And Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m. This coming Wednesday will be going over Ecclesiastes chapter number 11
So two more chapters until we finish that book. So
Let me know your suggestion about the next Bible study and I'll take that into
consideration
And then we have so many times Saturday morning at 10 30 and Sunday afternoon so winning at 1 30 p.m
And this afternoon we have 14 so winners and five salvations praise the Lord for that
And we are well over 1,000 salvations for the year. So praise the Lord and it's pretty
Interesting because this morning during the sermon I mentioned about
Cornelius praying to God and God sent a soul in the right and this afternoon brother Christian and I we will go in
someone name and then we were talking to a guy named Michael and
You know after he got saved he even told us that he was praying that God will make it clear
So praise the Lord for you know sending soul winners, you know like you like me to you know answer people's prayers
Amen, so
Let's look at the upcoming events. Dr. Phil Stringer will be preaching both services
on Sunday November 30th. And then we'll have our pie and praise service during the afternoon
service on Sunday November 23rd. So this is the service. We'll have a sound request until
Cannot talk anymore
And then we're gonna have a short sermon and then we're gonna partake pies raw milk. I will show a foundation fashion
Okay, so
Bring a pie to share on that day and then the Christmas service will take place on Sunday December 21st
There'll be a Pollock right after the morning service feel free to invite family and friends
And the Christmas Eve service will take place on Wednesday night December 24th
Sony Marathon December 27th is the winter one line Sony Marathon also the last Saturday of the month. We'll have a Gary
Sony Marathon shoe foundation is taking over Gary's when he married on so we will be you know in charge of that now so
Gary has been super super receptive. So hopefully we can blow that thing up even more
Let's see, please help us with the cleaning of the church building right after the afternoon
service.
And then the October Sunday afternoon preaching schedule is for you to see.
Please stay faithful in your following up
because the tub is always warm and clean.
So Titan offerings is for you to see as well.
Let's look on the backside.
We can see the October birthdays.
So if your dates are in October but it's not on the list,
please let me know so I can keep your information up to date.
So with that being said, let's sing one more song
and then we'll take up the offering.
Sing until brother L. You can't talk brother. You're gonna eat the whole songbook for that one, brother
So I'll stand and let's go to our binders and go to Psalm 67
Psalm 67 and our binders
This is one of my favorite songs
One second one second, I'm sorry
Psalm 67 I think it's in this one
Ready, God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us.
That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
See it out, church!
Let the people praise thee, O God.
Let all the people praise thee.
Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou shall judge the people,
Righteously and govern the nations upon earth.
The nations upon earth sealah, let the people praise thee, O God.
Let all the people praise thee, O let the nations be glad and sing.
joy then shall the earth yield her increase and God even her own God shall
bless us God shall bless us in all the ends of the earth shall fear him let the
people praise thee oh God let all the people praise thee
Oh, let the nation speak glad and sing for joy.
Amen.
You may be seated.
This moment will have ushers come up and give the offering.
Brother Alex, can you pray for the offering, please?
We're gonna be in second Timothy chapter one second Timothy chapter one if you don't have a Bible
Please raise your hand and an usher will hand you a Bible so you could read along with us
Second Timothy chapter 1 verse 1 reads Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God
According to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus to Timothy my dearly beloved son
grace mercy and peace from God the Father and
Christ Jesus our Lord
I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscious that without ceasing
I have remembrance of the in all
in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see the being mindful of thy tears that I may be
filled with joy when I call to remember it's the unfaith that is in thee which dwelt.
first in thy grandmother Lewis and thy mother Eunice and I am persuaded that in thee also
wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the
putting on of my hands for God have not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and
of a sound mind be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner
but be thou partakers of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,
who have saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according
to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who have abolished
to light through the gospel, whereunto I am appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher
of the Gentiles, for the which cause I also suffer these things, nevertheless I am not
ashamed for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that
which I have committed.
unto him against that day hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me
in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus that that good thing which was committed unto the
This thou knowest that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me of whom are
By jealous and Hermogenes the Lord give mercy unto the house of onus onus a forest
For he offer fresh me and he was not ashamed of my chain
But when he is in Rome he sought me out very diligently and found me the Lord grant unto him that he may find
Mercy of the Lord in that day
And in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
Brother Brett, could you please pray us unto the service?
I just want to thank, again, for another opportunity to preach, another full-length sermon, you know.
I know why you guys love listening to me, but I'm very grateful to be able to preach again.
Every time I get behind you, I'm just humbled.
You know, God really is good.
It's everyone in this church. You know, he's really doing a lot of good work here.
But, look again at the chapter we read.
Chapter 2, it says here in verse 8,
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our ward,
Nor of me his prisoner,
But be thou partaker of the functions of the gospel according to the power of God."
It says in verse 7 as well,
For God hath not given us a spirit of fear,
But of power, and of love, and a sound mind.
Title of my sermon is a simple one.
Be gold, be bold.
Now we live in a day and age
People today are afraid to be Christians. People are afraid to make a tough firm stand on the Bible and the Gospel.
Imagine a scenario where the air was thick with hostility as a man stepped onto a stage.
Every seat in the stadium was filled with a mix of supporters but also of critics.
who despised everything he stood for, this man.
They jeered before he spoke a single word,
yet he stood firm, unflinching.
The man knew the topics he would address,
truth, morality, and defense of values.
Most had long since abandoned Ignite Fury.
Still he pressed on, each word was challenged to the lies.
I shouted back at him and each challenge was met.
The man didn't flinch when the threats came, nor did he falter when the crowd turned violent.
He had always known this fight could cost him everything.
and in the end it did.
The shot ran through and silenced the world,
but not the message.
A man's life ended there on that stage,
but his boldness, his refusal to coward before hatred
echoed far beyond his final breath.
His courage lit a fire that no assassin's bullet
could ever extinguish.
Like martyrs of the past, and today we as Christians, we should be bold.
We, and you know, there's a lot of martyrs in the past that were just political or just, even for false religions like Catholicism.
Not every martyr that died in the past was someone that was dying for the truth.
But even if they could die for something they were believing in, why can't we die for the truth?
Why can't we be willing to take a stand for the truth?
So my first point is this, bonus is a command.
It's not just something that helps us,
it's not just something that is a virtue
of being a Christian, it's actually a command.
If you will with me, turn with me to Joshua chapter one.
In Joshua chapter one, Moses just died, he just passed.
And God is basically putting the mantle of leadership
passing on from Moses to Joshua.
And this is what Joshua, this is what God says to Joshua here in Joshua chapter one,
verse eight.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou mayst observe to do
According to all that is written therein and then thou shalt make the way prosperous and now shall have good success
So his first point of command here is hey read the Bible know it like at the back of your hand
And then notice is if that statement for you programmers out there, you know that
It's a condition in an if-and-if statement. If this condition is met, then you get the output, right?
It's very similar to this in verse 8. If you read the book of the law and it does not depart out and you meditate there
on day and night, then you're gonna have a good, prosperous way. Then you're gonna have good success, right?
But that's not all. He goes on further. It says in verse 9,
Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid.
Neither be thou dismayed, for the word thy God is with thee, whether so ever thou goest."
God just wants to fear. God does not want us to be afraid of men in this world, of people.
You know, the Bible's, the phrase fear not, or the wording fear and not, is one of the most
repeated commands in the Bible. I actually did a little search on the e-sword software online
when I was working on the sermon.
It appears in 62 verses and the exact phrase fear not appears with the words fear not 144 times in the Bible
Now if God's were saying that and repeating that many times
Do you think God wants us to fear or you think God wants us to get the message fear not?
Says in Deuteronomy 31 verse 6 be strong and of good courage
There's just a repetition of what God was well Joshua 1 9 is really repetition of what Moses was saying that Joshua
Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them.
For the Lord thy God, he is that that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor
forsake thee."
Now you've got to picture this.
Joshua is about to face a lot of battles ahead in his life.
He's about to cross the Jordan River with his army.
And these weren't trained, battle-hardened warriors that were fighting since their youth.
ex-slaves from Egypt, and you know they were fighting against a lot of nations
that are way stronger than they, but the Lord by God was with thee and they were
able to overcome a lot of obstacles. And again that's that's a that's my first
point a very very short point just on how bonus is a command. It's not something
where we should it's like optional like I'll open bull today but tomorrow I'm
going to hide myself and not tell anyone I'm a Christian. I'm just going to hide
the gospel and
No, we shouldn't be like that. We should be
Letting to be known to the world what we believe. No, absolutely. There's a time and place for we shouldn't be obnoxious about it
We shouldn't just be saying to everyone. There's an appropriate time to everything. Proverbs talks about having discernment
when to wisely discern
Reading the room and things like that when someone's more ready to receive the gospel ready to hear something from God
But we should at the end of the day
Be bold about what we believe. I mean
We've had a bunch of protests on and off for the last couple weeks and months. They're pretty bold what they believe, aren't they?
Now they want to gavant themselves among the streets like a bunch of faggots and perverts. Why can't we, with the truth,
be more bold than they? We have the actual truth. Yet, they have this disgusting
perversion of sodomy, which is against the Bible, which historically in other societies has been punishable by death.
If they can be bold about it, we can be bold about our faith.
That was my first point, point number two,
boldness against opposition.
You know, it's easy to say this in church.
It's easy to say to be bold in church,
but once you actually are outside of church,
you're living your life, you go through the motions,
you're going to work or whatever it is that you do
throughout the week, and then you meet opposition.
Okay, the Bible talks about that, you know?
And the Bible talks about don't fear the haters
and wicked doers that seek the church's hurt.
If you want, you can turn with me
And this is a really big theme in the Bible about going against adversity, facing against
enemies of people that are resistant against the truth and against the Bible, against Christianity
and the church.
It says here in 1 Corinthians 16 verse 13, it says this, Watch ye, stand fast in the
faith.
And the phrase, quit you like men means conduct yourself, basically act like a man, to simplify
it.
And you know what?
That can also apply to women.
Women should be strong in the faith as well.
Women should be bold about what they believe as well.
They, you know, obviously when they go out so wanting you should boldly proclaim the gospel
to the lost.
Know what you believe and say with boldness because if a soul owner if you're a soul owner you knock on someone's door
And you're giving them the gospel you're uncertain what you believe
That person's not gonna likely to get saved because you're not even sure what you're believing
You know confidence is a really important thing in just everyday life
Now it is something that
Is often overlooked
And don't let enemies of God shame you mean a Christian what it has to be ashamed of
What the truth that I think we don't have to go to hell that if you believe in Jesus Christ you get to go to heaven
Why why would anyone be ashamed of that today that that's my question?
We are a bunch of we Christians today
That's the problem why don't you Christians that want to just sit at home while they eat a bunch of junk food and do nothing for
The war is what they want to do
They just want no conflict in their life. They just want to live on easy, straight, all their life.
But that's not what God called us to do in this life. This is the time to work. This is the time to fight.
This is the time to battle. This is the time for war. The peace will come later. For now we war.
That's what the Bible emphasizes. It says in Romans 1.16,
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every
To everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and to also the Greek.
And the Bible says in Proverbs, the righteous are as bold as a lion.
You know, being righteous doesn't mean you're like a super good person you never sinned.
You know, being righteous means you have the righteousness of the blood of Jesus Christ imputed, placed onto you,
because you put your faith and trust on Jesus Christ. That's what it means to be righteous.
You know, and I say that all the time out of soul wanting, hey, the Bible says,
His faith make it righteous to him that works not but to him that believes on him that just that beyond godly his faith
Is counted for righteousness again?
It's your faith in the death burial
Bodily resurrection Jesus Christ that makes you righteous because yeah, Jesus Christ did all the hard work
Because if we can go to heaven by being a good person
Then Jesus Christ when he died on the cross, what was the point that was that just a little exercise to flex his God muscles or something?
Oh, look at me. I could just do like what was the point?
Jesus had to have died on the cross because it was the only way for us to go to heaven.
And we should not be ashamed of that. That's good news.
I mean, well, everyone is sort of being self-included. We all deserve to go to hell.
Every single sin, every infraction of the law that is contrary to us,
sends us to hell.
And like brother Evangelon said earlier, in the morning sermon,
you know, even if someone doesn't hear the gospel,
Would they still go to hell if they never hear the gospel? Yes, because it's not because they didn't hear the gospel that sends them
Hell's method they sinned
Your sin is what sends it to hell
There's two ways to have your sin paid for in eternity and burning hell forever or
Going through the death barrel resurrect Jesus Christ and putting your faith and trust in and that
And in 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7, I already quoted this verse, but I'll say it again,
for God had not given us the spirit of fear.
God does not want us to be fearful.
We have assurance.
And I was just listening to this morning before I drove the church this morning, the book
of Daniel, how Daniel was someone that could dissolve doubts.
In chapter 5, the queen Beltel Shazard and the king said, I know this man of Daniel.
He is able to absolve all doubts.
No, we have the truth.
We know we're going to heaven.
Every other religion doesn't know that.
You realize that, right?
We're the only religion in the world that says it's done.
Settled.
Finished.
It's not an ongoing continuing task.
It's done. It's been paid for.
I mean, what a powerful message that is.
Catholics, what do they say?
It's ongoing process. You might get there.
Gotta go to the priest.
You got to do all these works, you might get there.
What do Muslims say?
You got to pray five times a day.
You got to go to the GameCube over there in Mecca and Medenna.
You got to make that program.
It's just Saudi Arabia.
It's all these works.
Buddhists, oh, if I'm really good,
I'll break the chain of reincarnation
and accomplish nirvana if I light myself on fire.
Or if I play to my ancestors and seek guidance,
maybe I'll get to paradise if you're a Shintoist.
Now, all these other religions are preaching something you have to do, but the Bible says
it's already been done.
You know, I'll never understand it.
And I get it sometimes, like it's all written in a flash, like if you're at work and, you
know, you're the only saved person at work, I know that feeling, you know, but...
Everyone else is saying all the most great. I mean, there's so many people that are just so proud about their perversions today
We live in a sick perverted society today. I mean, there's just adultery abound
People can be at fornication and they're just proud about it. I mean my goodness
I I might commute to work in the morning when I'm going to work
I'm really seeing people vaping on their way to work and smoking weed. I can smell it
What kind of society we live in today? I don't know if anyone has listened to the
video that Pastor Anson uploaded with him talking with his father about his life living through the 60s. It was really good
He was talking about how
His dad Pastor Anson's dad said if someone was caught smoking weed. It was like horrible like you couldn't even believe it was so shocking
boy, like 60 years later
How far have we come now? It's like oh, it's weird if you don't smoke weed
I remember telling that to a customer at work yesterday.
You know, they were talking about, like,
drinking and doing drugs and stuff.
Like, yeah, I don't do anything.
I'm just a tea totaler.
He's like, wow, that must be nice.
Like, he's never even heard that before.
Like, we're in such a backward society today, it's insane.
Where being a tea totaler is weird.
Being a straight-laced, hard-preaching Baptist
is like foreign to people.
And it's not even that long ago where
Being a faggot was illegal. In 2003, in Texas, you could be arrested for being a sonomite.
22 years later, now it's like, you're weird if you're not on board with all that sickness and that perversion.
Won't him, they'll call evil good, good evil.
Darkness for life or darkness and bitterness for sweet and sweet and bitter, it's disgusting.
Boldness in action is my next point.
So my two points so far is boldness is a command.
You know, God has given us a command to be bold.
And even the great, I believe boldness is actually baked in
in the Great Commission as well.
Because God's command is to go around
and preach the gospel that takes boldness.
Going to strangers' homes knocking on the doors.
Who knows what they're gonna do?
You gotta be bold enough to go to the strangers
and just preach them the gospel.
So it is a command for us to be bold.
And being bold against the opposition. Yeah, we shouldn't be ashamed of the gospel
You know if someone comes at you being like, oh you're a Christian. She's like, yeah, and yeah, I am a Christian
How about that? You know, they're expecting. Oh, yeah, you know, I'm a Christian, but you know, no, I am a Christian
Yeah, I believe in Jesus Christ. I love Jesus
So point number three boldness in action. Okay, so we got the idea boldness. It's a command
What is in theory? What's in practice? Here it is in practice if you would turn with me in Matthew chapter 23
Now who's our prime example in anything in the Bible Jesus Christ, right? It is
Jesus Christ is our prime example. We'll never reach to his love. Of course. He was perfect and God in the flesh
But man we can try
Says here in Matthew 23 verse 1 then speak Jesus to the multitude
over that word there, multitude.
So isn't he just talking to save far-reaching Baptists here?
He was talking to a mix of people,
reparate somewhere on the fence, somewhere saved.
He was talking to a mix of people here.
And to his disciples, so he was talking to his followers.
He was talking to some people that maybe just got saved.
Obviously the first and Sadducees
a lot of them were reparates, but some of them also got saved.
That takes boldness right there.
I mean imagine talking, I mean I'm not really afraid of anyone in this room right now, but
imagine if like one section here there was like a couple of sonomites or something over
here, now thank God we don't allow faggots in the church and then we never will, amen?
But let's say that was the case.
That would take me boldness to stand behind this pulpit and still preach when I'm preaching
here.
And now.
Jesus Christ was talking in public here. He was dressed in a great crowd
So that's why he was it, you know, and they were falling like a bunch of weirdos, too
Okay, I never understood you read the Gospels and these Pharisees are like obsessed with Jesus
They just can't let go of them. There's just like falling them all over the place
Everybody's going just to ask them stupid questions and start to trip them up like get a life, dude
Do something with your life. It's like all these ex new ideas. There's just like, oh, man
I gotta listen to every single sermon. It's preached by some guy. I don't like
You're weird, you know if I don't like someone I don't have nothing to do with them, you know, but that's just me
I guess I'm weird. I don't know
But anyway, it says in Matthew 23 I'll go to verse 24
So he's addressing this mixed crowd
You blind guides with strain and a net and swallow a camel what a one to you scribes and Pharisees
hypocrites
The ye may clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of
extortion and excess.
Thou, b-
blind, Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside
of them may be clean also. I mean, God, I believe, is really ripping on them at this point,
just really going and taking them to task here. And these people hate them. They hate
Jesus. They want to crucify him. Imagine being this bold like Jesus, being able to stand
You child of devils, how can you escape the damnation of hell?
I mean, many times throughout the Gospels, I'm going to go to another part here in the Gospels
where they really wanted to kill Jesus for just what he was saying.
It says in Luke chapter 4 verse 28 to 30, and they all in this synagogue.
So in this setting, he's in a synagogue. This would be church in this time.
When he heard these things they were filled with wrath this guy was saying hey
He was basically reading Isaiah and he was talking about the prophecy of will be Jesus and he says this prophecy today
It's fulfilled nine years and that filled them with wrath because they're like oh, no, you can't be Jesus
We we started growing up and they rose up and
Thrust him out of the city
Why don't want to the brow of the hill the edge of the hill what in the city was built that they might cast him down head
I mean, have you ever preached something? Have you ever been out so many people really trying to throw you off a cliff?
That's never happened in my in my soul winning career, and I probably never will but
Jesus knew that Jesus knew everything Jesus knew exactly what every person's reaction was gonna be the moment
He was on the earth till he was gonna die. He had the whole thing mapped out
But he still did it anyway. He still went through with it
You know we need to be like that sometimes we know what the end is gonna be but you never know someone's gonna change your mind
We're get saved. You know, I can't think
How many times it went out so wanting where I thought someone was a psalmite because they looked weird
They got like, you know the gauges on the ears all this tattoo stuff
They look like a high school bathroom stall with all the tattoos on their face and stuff like that, you know
But they end up getting saved
You know, I try to keep people the benefit of it out and it takes boldness sometimes to you gotta see that stuff unfortunately
And again, back in the day, even when I was a kid,
I'm not that old, I'm only 27, you know?
I remember when I was a kid, when you got tattooed,
I was like, wait, did you go to jail to get that or something?
Or were you in a gang?
That's when people got tattoos.
Now it's like, oh, it's cool now.
You got a bunch of false prophets.
Teaching oh, it's okay to get tattoos now. No, guess what? It's still a sin and listen if you got a tattoo in the past
I'm not mad at you. Okay. I'm not saying. Oh, yeah, I get removed. You can't it's permanent
But the ones who don't have tattoos don't get one
Okay, just don't do it. It's permanent. It may maybe cool now, but do you want when you're 60?
Ask yourself that question. That's a good question asked that that I wasn't I wasn't raised Baptist
But the one thing for sure the reason why I never got that too was that thought alone
I just like I didn't want I didn't this is gonna be on me for the rest of my life
Like I'm good
But um
Jesus didn't run in fear. He didn't run from the heart thing. He faced it. He looked at a head-on and faced it, you know
Especially men, we need to take the hard things head on sometimes.
We need to face the foes in our life.
So many men today, they want to hide, they want to cower in fear, and just, you know,
shirk responsibility.
We as men, especially men, we're the leaders of the home.
We're the leaders in the relationship of the marriage.
We got to be willing to take the brunt of the force that wife throws at us.
He made a really good statement during the sermon that really resonated with me.
Life is going to chew you up and spit you out.
You know what?
I'm so very young, but you know what?
In the last couple years of my life, I can say, yep, it does.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it chews you up and spits you out.
I'm still here, though.
I'm with my life, happy, serving God.
God bless me.
You know, don't be afraid of the hard things.
Don't be afraid of what the devil will throw at you.
For God have not given us a spirit of fear.
It says,
For God have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
But also as improver, commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
The Lord hath made all things for himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
You know, how do you get that stable sound mind?
So, I'll be honest with you, I battled depression years ago.
I was able to overcome it. How?
Following that proverb, I committed my works unto the Lord. My thoughts were established. You want to get overcome depression
You want to overcome all these negativity in your life? First of all, just
Remove yourself from things like that. I think social media
Can be a great tool to you know, propagate Christianity in the gospel. Amen. That's great
But don't let it rule you. You rule it
That's the rule of thumb. I like to live by it for anything in life. You know, hey, nothing all social media just doesn't long doesn't have you
And again, Jesus faced his problems head-on, and it says in John 8.44, you can turn it
if you want, very famous verse, you know, he's talking to the Jews again, people that
hate his guts, is what Jesus says to them.
Ye are of your father the devil and the lost of your father ye will do again his foreknowledge
He knows what they're gonna do
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speak of the lie
He's speaking of his own for he's a liar and the father of it
I mean imagine just being in front of a bunch of Jews and just saying you serve your father the devil. I
Don't know if I could do that. I'm gonna honestly. I don't have that kind of boldness yet, but Jesus Christ did
And after preaching in his hometown, synagogue, and exposing their own belief,
again, I look forward, they tried to run Jesus Christ off a cliff.
And Jesus Christ sent him off from it, you know?
He walked right...
to the danger sometimes.
Now, of course, Jesus didn't do it all the time.
He wasn't suicidal.
So there's other parts in the Gospels where it said
they didn't receive his miracles.
They didn't receive him.
So he went to another city.
Now, there's wisdom.
Obviously, if there's an unreceptive area,
soul-winning, hey, just,
or let's say you're like in an apartment complex
and I don't know what's with a apartment manager,
they just hate soul-winners.
I don't know why.
They just do, but, you know.
Hey, if they're kicking you out,
Let's go to the next problem complex.
There's plenty of soul to win somewhere else.
You know what?
I don't think we should just be bashing our heads against the wall
if there's other places to go soul winning.
Now, if that's the only place you can go soul winning,
then, yeah, at that point, you got to stay on your ground
and stuff like that.
I would say that would be appropriate.
But 95% of the time, there's another place
to go soul winning that's probably more receptive anyway.
So that's my soul.
So far, I've covered point number one.
Boldness is a command. Point number two, boldness against opposition. Point number three, boldness in action.
Again, Jesus is our prime example, how he was able to be bold through adversity.
Point number four, boldness in daily life. For example, the workplace, family, just being out and about, things like that.
Again, we look at the biblical example, how it's put into practice. Okay, now let's take that, put it and apply it to ourselves now, how we can do that in our daily lives, right?
Let's go show the co-workers at your job. Do they know you're a Christian?
Ask yourself that question. Do they know?
If the Christian was illegal and they came to their place of work and they started asking all the co-workers
Hey, is this guy a Christian? Would they have enough evidence to convict you?
Would they?
So a question to ask yourself
Now obviously at work don't be obnoxious about being a Christian. I'm not saying every day
You just gotta preach this hellfire brimstone sermon to them
Obviously when I'm at work, I'm usually only talking about the gospel to them as all of
them aren't saved.
So use wisdom when you're on break with someone.
My whole problem is this.
If I'm ever alone with a coworker, give them the gospel.
And we're not busy doing something, yeah, now's the time to give them the gospel.
If I'm on break, now my job, I'm usually on lunch by myself, so.
But hey, if you're in a job where you're eating lunch on your break with someone else
and it's just you, just, hey, you go church anywhere?
It's that easy. It really is. You know, it doesn't have to be that awkward bringing up spiritual things. I mean
over, I think it's like 62% of people in AmeriCorps and Pew Research still go to church, at least on a
somewhat regular basis, like monthly basis or something like that. So church is still part of our culture. It is.
I know Kobe kind of killed a lot of that, but people still will call a church home. Even they haven't been there for months or years.
I'll sell one and I'll ask people, hey, you go to church anywhere.
Well, yeah, I haven't been there in a couple of years now.
They'll still say, yeah, I go to church.
So you can still ask that question.
It's still a good way to break the ice.
You don't have to be weird about it.
Like, hey, if you're dying there, will you go to hell?
You know, you don't have to be weird about it.
Just be like, hey, man, all day today, right?
Yeah, OK, hey, you go to church anywhere?
It's like asking them, hey, you're playing video games.
You read any books.
It's not like they're going to immediately report you to HR and you get fired, although
that did happen to me.
But again, I was working for a government job and stuff like that, and they're really
political and stuff like that.
If you work a rate-able college job, most of you aren't going to care, let's be honest.
But it says you're in Leviticus.
You can turn it over if you want.
Leviticus chapter 21.
about again being in the workplace being a Christian in the workplace and
Again, I talk about this because it's very important in my opinion
Because we spend more time really at work than really anywhere else if they think about it
On average eight hours a day if you're a man and you got a full-time job
Maybe even got two jobs. I mean we're power to you if you do this economy sometimes you need it
says in Moravica 21 verse 6 they shall be holy unto their God and not
profane the name of their God for the offerings of the Lord made by fire in
the bread of their God they do offer they for therefore they shall be holy
and again just talking about the priests in the Old Testament giving sacrifice
things like that but we can also spiritually apply this to us because
again the Bible says we believing Christians are now priests after the
There should be a difference between your unsaved co-worker. I work in you
Now I get it where the flash I make mistakes. I'm not perfect if you were to
Tag along and shadow me this week. You would see yeah, this guy's this guy's got a lot of problems. I do yep
I do I'm saved by grace. I'm not perfect. Okay
We can be in the flesh. I work sometimes, but you know what? I don't smoke. I don't drink alcohol. I don't do drugs
I've never committed fornication.
I've never done any egregious sins.
And also I work with virtual hands on all those things.
That gives me influence.
That gives me power.
by God to actually be a positive influence in these people's lives
because I could tell that about them and they see them and they're like,
wow, something's different about this guy, what's with this guy?
You know, in my job, it can be stressful sometimes, you know.
I got deadlines to meet and things like that.
And they see that nothing really bothers me.
I mean, I've had, I mean, I do deliveries.
So I've had people cuss me out, I've had people get in my face,
yell at me and stuff like that and I'm like, okay, whatever.
I'm getting paid, I don't care.
And they see them and they're like,
Man, I'm one customer one co-worker telling me it's like nothing ever upsets me. It's just I got the Holy Spirit, bro
You know, I'm good. I'm going heaven. It's like this. This is all bonus. I'm just I'm going forward to heaven, you know
This is just the little
Pain period between eternity, you know, obviously I'm not always in that mindset. Sometimes I get in the flash things do upset me
I'm human. We're all human. I'm not saying oh, yeah 24-7. I'm just perfect all the time. Yeah, no
I'm not for anyone if I say that
There should be a difference between the clean and the unclean between the holy and the unholy
We are the holy. We have the body Jesus Christ that
That's cleanses from all our sins and we now have the ability through the Holy Spirit to walk in the spirit
And the Bible says if you walk in spirit, you're not gonna fulfill the loss of the flesh
You know, how do I sin less? You're never gonna be sinless, but you can sin less
How do I do that? How do I sin less? How do I get sin on my life? You walk in the spirits. That's simple
You can't reform the old man
You got and I forgot who said this. It was my older. I feel such as I said this analogy
It was a very good analogy. So picture two wolves fighting for dominance in a mountain
The wolf that's gonna win is the one you feed the most
So if you're listening to woolly podcast talk shows first in the morning, you're not listening to the Bible
You're not reading the Bible. You're not praying
All right, you're probably in the flesh in the morning.
But if you're reading and listening to art,
the first thing I'm listening to when I wake up in the morning
is audio viable.
I'll get up, I'll read, probably the day I'll pray,
and then I'll put on some audio viable before I go
in the shower, get ready, and things like that.
So I immediately put down the old man.
I don't know about you.
First in the morning, that's when I get the weird thoughts.
That's when I'm like, whoa, OK, I got to, sometimes
when I get up, I'll try to quote the memory verse
that I'm working on throughout the week just
to get that weird thought immediately as soon as I wake up.
That already puts down the flesh, you know, because it's a daily battle every day.
Paul says, I die daily.
You gotta, again, it's a war, it's a spiritual battle.
And we like to talk about the Daryl, we like to talk about the Sonomites, the protesters
and things like that, but really the biggest enemy in your life is you.
The biggest enemy in your life is yourself.
It's weird. I know. It's like we're spiritually schizophrenic or something like that, but it's true
We have the flesh and they'll go and says Roman 7
Paul he's basically saying the things I hate I do the things I want to I'm not even doing and
That's why we have to die daily and then back to analogy with the two wolves
Whatever you feed the most
is what's gonna win at the end.
So if you're reading a lot of Bible,
if you're praying a lot, if you're thinking spiritual things,
if you're meditating on the word of God throughout the week,
well, you're gonna be walking the spirit more.
But if you're listening to WorldWay stuff,
podcasts, whatever, talk show, radio,
I don't know, I don't know, what people listen to, news.
Yeah, then you're gonna be in the spirit more,
you're gonna be in the flesh.
You know, there's a reason why I really strictly limit
my use of social media, especially on X.
X is just cringe now, it's just like, okay, yeah.
Because if I just consume that all the time, every day,
you know, doom scrolling is a big thing.
A lot of people, I've never done this,
but I know people that do this,
where they get up first in the morning
and they're just doing this, scrolling on the phone.
Like, if you're feeding that,
that's why you're on the flush.
You know, you need to put away the phone.
You gotta put the phone in subjection to you,
not serving the phone.
The phone serves you.
The phone is a good tool. I love smartphones. I think they're brilliant. I think they're great pieces of technology
I think AI is awesome. I use AI almost every day to help with various things. I love it
But it serves me ultimately. I don't serve AI. I don't serve
Social media it serves me
That's how we as Christians should be viewing these ends. It's not like social media is inherently bad. It's not
it can reach a lot of people very quickly and
And in Revegas chapter 22 verse 2, it's basically repeating, oh, I just read it in verse 6 of
chapter 21, says in, yeah, verse 2, speak unto Aaron and to his sons that they separate
themselves.
And again, when we're talking about the priests here, New Testament lens, this is us believers.
We're now priests through Jesus Christ, right?
Holy things of the children of Israel that they profane not my holy name in those scenes which they hallowed unto me
I am the Lord say unto them verse 3
Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations that go with unto the holy thing things
Which the children of Israel hallowed unto the Lord having his uncleanness upon him that the soul shall be cut off
From my presence. I am the Lord
And again
Don't know who came up with this stupid philosophy. Oh, if you guys say you're the boss, you're not really the boss
What do you guys just close that verse with I am the Lord? Oh
This guy's not really weird if he's got a customer my people who's in charge. I think it's a really stupid mentality
Oh, if your boss says you're you're he's the boss. He's not a good boss. It says who you okay
But again, there should be a separation between the clean the unclean the holy and the unholy right?
Well, that's Old Testament, virtually none of that matters, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Oh, let's go to the New Testament now
Let's go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 6
2nd Corinthians chapter 6. Oh, yeah, I totally forgot when Jesus died on the cross. It's okay to murder people now
I forgot we're in Age of Grace, bro. So
2nd Corinthians chapter 6 verse 17, wherefore come out from among them and be separate
Sayeth the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and then, and I will receive you.
Old Testament, New Testament, God wants us to be holy.
Hey, you don't need that to be saved, all you gotta do is put your faith in trust Jesus Christ.
But you know what, there should be an active, ongoing, sanctification, maintaining your relationship with Jesus Christ in your life.
Listen, if you don't do that, then God's gonna just give you a whooping throughout your life. I mean, do you want that?
I don't want that.
I don't want that for anyone in this room.
I want everyone to be holy, be right, have the favor gone in their life, because it's
great when you have the favor gone in your life.
Everything's going well, generally speaking, you're still going to have hardships, obviously.
You're still going to have opposition, but you're in general going to be doing better
in God's favor than in God's wrath.
Because at least when you're God's favor, when you meet opposition, you can be bold,
you have confidence in God, you're right with God, and you got Him fighting for you, right?
When you're God's wrath, though, you're facing against yourself, the devil, and God.
You're facing everyone, and just you, yet you're going to lose.
If God's universe backing me up against everyone else, everyone else sucks.
God trumps everyone. God and I make the majority.
You know? God and I make the majority.
And yes, it is possible. Everyone can be wrong except for Jesus.
in the Bible. Everyone else is wrong about salvation except for the Bible.
Except for God. Because the Bible makes it very clear
it's by faith alone in Jesus Christ and you can never lose it. Yes, every Catholic
is wrong. Yes, every Pope is wrong. Yes, John MacArthur is wrong.
Yes, they're all wrong. Oh, if they can't all be wrong,
yes they are. No, they can't. Do they believe salvation
was by faith alone in Jesus Christ? That the Bible boldly proclaims? No, they didn't.
So, yes, they are all wrong.
And again, we should be wholly separate and bold about it.
You know, if someone got by in this whole play,
and they were preaching a message,
and they were just born certain,
this is like a lot of pastors today,
and a lot of other churches,
where they're like, I know the Bible says this,
but you know, there's a lot of different interpretations.
You know, in this version, it says this,
you know, man, we can't be so judgmental.
You know, sometimes we just gotta,
we can get a good idea of what God meant.
We can't know exactly what He said.
That you're not blowing a certain signal on that point. You know, you're not blowing the trumpet to sound the alarm
You're giving you're giving an uncertain sound at that point. You know, we're supposed to be warners as
preachers
Either by this purple route they're preaching the gospel people you need to make your message clear. Hey, there's a hell you're going there believe on Christ
That's the message.
Oh, it's not loving.
Really?
Okay.
So, if you're in a burning building, your house is going to be on fire, you're going
to die, and I said, hey, dude, your house is on fire, you've got to get out of there.
I mean, that's pretty loving, right?
Like, yeah, get out of the fire, dude, right?
Or if I just said, oh, you're good, oh, you're good, see ya.
That wouldn't be lovin', right? That wouldn't be lovin'.
Right? Well, that's what most Christians are doing today. They're not lovin'.
I'm so lovin', I'm so lovin', I love the solemnites.
Oh, you know, they just need Jesus. Bro, they can't be saved.
Okay? It's funny how they're so big on reaching the solemnites that they won't reach anyone else.
That's right.
Yeah, we reach more solemnites by accident than they do on purpose.
That's what I find hilarious.
It's not loving to tolerate. It isn't. Tolerance isn't love.
No, you love yourself. That's what you love. You love yourself.
Oh, I just can't bear myself to say my kids don't love me too much.
No, you don't love them. You hate them. That's what the Bible says.
Now, he that has the spirit of his rod hated this son.
But the one that actually loves the child will chase them in B times, meaning early.
And if you're not a parent, that applies to your soul winning.
Uh, warn someone about hell.
Is faithful or the wounds of a friend open, rebuke as better than secret love?
I'd rather someone just be honest with me and just hurt my feelings.
I love that way more than someone just buttering me up just to stab me right in the back.
Do you behave me?
Just, just let me know.
You know?
And in Matthew, yeah, turn to Matthew chapter five next.
So I'm so important before boldness in our daily life.
or bull in the workplace.
How about in family?
How about when family goes against you?
Because you know what?
I know I love my parents.
My parents are awesome.
But sometimes they'll resist me on some things
that I believe, like the solemnized and stuff like that,
which, okay, I can still be at peace with them
about that stuff.
It's like, it's no big deal really.
But no, obviously when it comes to your parents,
I firmly believe you should never burn that bridge ever.
I don't care what they are.
I still think you should maintain a relationship with them, even if they are.
Now, don't hang out with them if there are pleasures and stuff like that, obviously.
But I still think in a way you should still honor them by living though, because even
if they are like that, I'm sure they still taught you something that you could take
with you that's wise and right.
I mean, parents have a natural law for their children.
They want to pass something down on to them.
It's a very rare thing anyway for a person to have their parents be reparated anyway
It's something that I've maybe ran into once or twice in my entire life
Most parents are good people. You know, they love their kids. They want what's best for them
No one wants you to succeed more than their parents
That's just a fact
No one else wants you to succeed in life more than your mom and dad
That's just facts. I mean, I want everyone to succeed in here, but I don't love you as much as your parents do
That's just the truth
I'm not related to you. I didn't raise you. I didn't spend decades of my life raising you.
Your parents did that. They sacrificed so much for you. And I think, especially when maintaining
your relationship with your parents, it should be something you should work on the absolute best
to maintain. Now, let's say they want nothing to do with you and they cut you off. Well,
that's their problem at that point. But you still honor them by living a good life,
a good, God-Christian life. That's what I would say.
So Matthew chapter 5 verse 13 it says ye are the salt of the earth
But if the salt have lost his savor wherewith shall it be salted in a sense worth good for something good for
Well, no no for nothing
You're good for nothing if you're not a soul of the earth. You're good for nothing if you're not a salty Christian
But to be cast out and to be trodden under the foot of men, ye are the light of the world,
a city that is set on the hill that cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and to give
it light unto all that are in the house."
God is saying, making it very clear, we are light-bearers of the light of the gospel.
We have something that the world just does not have, the truth.
And we have the power to go out there and get people saved through the power of the
Holy Ghost.
I mean, we do more for our country doing that than voting a Republican or whatever.
Oh, this is supposed to be the most important election of all of our time.
If you don't vote for Trump, oh, Biden's going to pack the court and all this stuff.
You know, every year, they just want to fear MongoDB.
This is the most life-threatening election for our country.
Yeah.
It's ridiculous. Sean Hannity. I can't stand that guy. He's such an idiot. So I just got to get that off my chest
He really is because every year it's like I was supposed to pull out of a lifetime. I mean my goodness
If you don't want to vote, I mean someone's gonna break out, you know, it's like dude. Give me a break
Now we do more for our country by getting them saved every week in this church and just in this area alone
I mean, there's a reason why Indiana in my opinion is getting more conservative more righteous is because
we had this church here doing the active work of the gospel and you know we're not the only church
doing this by the way there's a lot other good churches in this area I'm surprised I was like
there's some good churches in Indiana there's one in my town that God forbid if the church
didn't exist for something I could go there and start a sewing program there or something I mean
there's good churches in this state I've never been to a state with so many good churches so close
But that's why we have good politicians and powering out like Michael Beckwith and other people that just, you know, is money.
But why has God given us good leaders like that? Because we have lost salty Christians here.
You know, if you look at the leader, the leaders are often a reflection of the people in this country, they are anyway.
Our model of the government is the leaders are are supposed to fear the people
So if the people are righteous and godly well the leader that they're gonna elect is someone that's gonna be godly and righteous
Right. Well, why do we have someone like Donald Trump because most people in our country are not godly
Most people are like Donald Trump. That's why they're focused on just money monetary gain
Sure, maybe he has some good business acumen and stuff like that.
Maybe he has some good intellect when it comes to trading and stuff like that.
Okay, sure.
But it's Trump godly.
No.
Believe me.
Listen to my sermon on Donald Trump, you know, I'm honored and harried.
He was, he's not godly at all.
So we should be separate, holy, and bold about the truth.
We got the truth.
You know?
So that's point number four.
Point number five.
Now, I kind of talked about this earlier.
So again, we have the soul to the earth.
If we don't let our light shine, who will?
Let me ask you this right now.
Do you love God?
Do you really love God tonight?
Do you?
Do you read your Bible?
Do you pray?
Will you tell someone else about how to go to heaven this week?
Will you?
Because if you won't, who will?
There's not many of us out there
There just isn't
The Bible says help a ward for the godly man ceaseless. I saw for a man says in Ezekiel
I saw for a man just a man any man
It found out
What did not be said about this area what did not be said about Indiana
What does have an army of righteous people? What is be able to be bold about the truth?
John chapter 1
Verse 5 it says in John chapter 1 verse 5 and the lights shine in the darkness and the darkness
Comprehended and not it says so when the light talking like Jesus coming into the earth
That the darkness couldn't understand it. It confused it. It confounded it
Now there's a lot of darkness there's a lot of sin in this world no one can dispute that but you know what?
One righteous man the poor the poor one righteous man availed much
Some of the Bible says do you believe that verse you know when Israel is right with God in the Old Testament one person can chase away a thousand
It doesn't matter who how much is against us
We we got the ultimate weapon right here
And I made the joke to our brother Wayne earlier before we went so winning because that you know
I got my side piece right here and the Bible is like oh, I'm double-armed because I got my sword right here and my gun
you know so
This is more powerful than any weapon on New York, the King James Bible. It's something and again, I've said this in a previous sermon
I I have given the gospel to wife long Catholics people who have been Catholics all their life and they were like
50 60 years old in 20 minutes
Or that's dispelled in 20 minutes, but why because I'm awesome though. No, it's just because it's so powerful
This is extremely powerful.
That's why governments in the past have greatly suppressed
this book.
That's why the Catholic Church viciously killed
and murdered and butchered Christians
to not have this go into print.
This is so powerful.
That's why Mao Zedong and during the Cultural Revolution
in the 60s, where we try to out print the King James Bible
with his little red book of quotations.
It made it a government mandate to have
in his book, trying to replace the Bible with the St. Atheist model.
Why do governments do such a thing? Because they know there's power in the Bible.
John, the Baptist, was bold as well. He rebuked the perverted leaders in his day.
You don't have to turn to that by Luke 3, verse 19.
But Herod, that teetark,
Being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for all of the evils which Herod had done at a yet this above all,
that he shut up John in prison. So John is rebuking Herod for marrying his brother's wife. What was he, Muhammad or something?
Because that's what he did, you know? Very gross. And I mean, talk about boldness. I mean, that's like going to the President of the United States
and just being like, you're perverted, you're wicked, you married your brother's wife. And no, there's no freedom of speech.
during his time. So John got shot in prison for that.
And all Godly prophets of the Old Testament were bold
and in a sinful generation. I mean, I was thinking about this when I was writing the
sermon. I really can't think of a time in the Bible
where there was just like this really awesome generation of people
who just did write all the time. I mean, even when Moses
was leading the children of Israel, they were a pretty good generation. It says
they faithfully follow the Lord's commandments even to the days after
But even then, you had that seed.
Even then, in Duramae 31, he was saying,
I know you're going to rebel.
I know you're hard, you're stiff-necked.
He said that even during that time, he was like,
I already know you guys are rebels, you're stiff-necked.
Even in that time, there's always going
to be a simple generation.
We're always going to be in the minority in the present day.
But in the end, I believe we do outnumber the wicked.
And again, like the province of the Old Testament,
did they go through horror things?
They went through things I don't think any of us
in this room will ever go through.
Did any of you have to spend days and weeks
in a little underground prison filled with crap?
Jeremiah did.
He literally, he was brought out by his armpits
by a rope system and things like that.
Did any of you have to see your home country
slaughtered before your eyes?
Daniel did. Ezekiel did. Not only did Ezekiel have to see that happen, he also saw his wife die and God said don't even cry about it.
You don't even get to cry about it, Ezekiel.
No one's, I don't think anyone's gonna have to go through that.
You know, and we could play in our life so hard in America about inflation. I get it. Inflation is a thing, it is a problem.
But you know what? I'm not laying on my side for 390 days and eating crap bread.
That's what Ezekiel had to do. Hard stuff.
You know who was hard?
Being persecuted and chased by your father-in-law.
David, anyone?
David went through some hard things.
Did anyone have a father-in-law that tried
to murder you last week?
I hope not.
But no, I don't think anyone did.
Last time I checked.
I mean, Moses, for 40 years, just lived
in total isolation and exile after he murdered an Egyptian.
you know
They wanted to kill them
That's why God finally said we need to go back to Egypt. Hey the people that start your life are gone
They're dead you can go back to Egypt now about it's cool
I mean use a fugitive in a vagabond in an outlaw and if you had a little life like that no
Hopefully not. I mean if we go through the tribulation. Yeah, but you know, hopefully that doesn't happen in our lifetime
So in conclusion be gold be bold
If you're bold, hey, you are more precious than gold in God's sight.
It says here in Proverbs chapter 3, turn with me to Proverbs chapter 3, verse 13.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding.
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Gold is really valuable. Even in today's economy, if you have gold, that's a great investment.
Every economist I've ever talked to or researched or listened to says gold is a great investment.
You know what? Wisdom is better than gold. Better than gold.
Why is that? Because wisdom is something that gives us assurance.
You know, this is what I recommend reading through Proverbs every day, a chapter of Proverbs every day.
There's just so much wisdom. My son attended my wisdom.
No forsake it not pass not by
Don't ever forsake the law of thy mother or thy father
It'll be an ornament to thy head
Do you want to go to heaven empty-handed I
Mean, is that really how you want to just go to heaven? Hey, God got saved. I was a young kid. Did you aim for me? No
No words buddy
There's so many times they give you you've done this you go down this why didn't you do it?
I don't think God's gonna shame. I don't think there's any shame in heaven personally, but you know what still is that?
How you want to go to heaven though, man? I want to go to heaven
I want to have a whole army of people that are brought with me. I'd love that
I don't want to just have a whole city of people that I was able to touch with my life
That guy has given me here every every day is such a precious
Get from God it really is
says in Matthew 25 verse 21 his word said unto him well done thou good and faithful servant thou has been faithful over a
Few things I will make thee roar over many things and to thou and to the joy of thy word
So when
When you're a good servant when you're faithful in the things of God God will say to you well done
Thou good faithful servant. I want God to say that to me
That is self-reward, in my opinion.
Just haven't got to say that.
The guy who created the universe,
God has made so many people,
so many awesome talents,
so many awesome capabilities
that probably never even got saved.
But he gets saved, that's already separated to you.
Like, it's like you're shopping for a car,
you know, you look for the filter,
the filter out the kind of car you want.
So like, there's like 5,000 cars for sale,
but you put the filters
and now you only got like two cars, okay?
That's like Jesus working for a man. He's made all these people with all these awesome things
How many people are saved? Okay, that that already reduces people to like maybe a thousand. How many were actually
So many actually do it works, maybe five
Fewer saved fewer are the I mean
70 people are following Jesus at one point in his ministry. So about 70 people, but then there's 12
Are you and even when I was so strong, there was only two that were very close to Jesus
So even in the elite, even in the few, there's even fewer.
Happy is the man who doesn't allow fear or man to control them.
But the fear of God alone leads them to do what is necessary.
The fear, it says in Proverbs 29, verse 25,
the fear of man braineth a snare,
but whoso puteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
Again, the fear of man
It limits you. It traps you. It basically walks you in and you can't do what God wants you to do with your life
What you know?
You know because if you're afraid of people what they may do you're not gonna go soul-winning. Oh, well
What if someone does this what this happens that that just pulverizes you you're never gonna go soul-winning at that point, right?
That's what it says fear man's a snare. You know what nuts what people think nuts what happens
You just gotta realize you know whatever happens happens every day is good from God
You know, we need to have this perspective when it comes to life.
You know, every day we get to live, I didn't deserve.
I don't deserve to be here.
I don't deserve to even stand by this hole when I preach to you guys,
but I'm so grateful I get to.
What a blessed friend God is.
Would you accept $10 million if you were to die tomorrow?
No, that'd be stupid, right?
Okay, that's how much every day is worth to you then.
Right?
Okay, how about $100 million?
All right, so your life is very valuable, isn't it? Every day you get to live is very valuable, you know
God the Bible says in limitations chapter 3. It's by his mercies. We're not consumed great is his faithfulness if
If we live every day with that mentality we're gonna be way happier
You know because we like to ask the question if someone dies on tragically or something like that
Like Brother Kevin Rowe, it was very, it was very tragic, it was sad.
I was really moved when he dies.
Because I remember listening to him about his zeal for soul winning and all the missions he was going to do.
It was sad how he died, it was horrible, it was horrific.
But you know what?
Every day that he got to live was to get from God.
And, you know, he's definitely having a lot of rewards, I'll tell you that.
If you were to die today, would the rewards say well done to you?
Because we asked that question on our soul winning.
Hey, would you die today?
Are you 100% sure you go to heaven?
Obviously, I think everyone here is safe.
We all know the answer.
But how about this answer?
If you were to die today, would you
be happy with what you've done with your life for God?
Well, if the answer is no, well, do it now.
Do it while you have time.
This wasn't on my notes.
It just came to my mind.
Ecclesiastes.
I'm going to see if I can find that verse.
Shoot.
But it says, now is the time that I accept that our works.
Yeah.
But basically, it says along the lines, hey, now,
it might be in Z equal to chapter 9, actually.
It might be verse 8.
Basically, the spirit of the verse, what it's saying,
is now is the time that God accepted that our works.
The time is now.
So I'll serve verse five for the living know not that they shall die
But the dead know not anything now there have they any more reward for the memory than for God also their love and their hatred
In their envy is now perished now they have the any more apportion for every and anything that is done on the Sun
Go thy way eat that bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry heart for yet that first seven for God now
accepted thy works
It's now it's not later. It's not when you get to heaven right now
Do you have a pulse? Are you breathing right now? Are you healthy? Praise God. Do something for God.
Because now is the time. It says, for God now, except if that works.
Our lives are very short. We're going to die one day. We will. Every one of us will die. It will happen.
And obviously, that's a very morbid subject to be thinking about sometimes.
But, it is something we're all going to face.
It's the one event that happens to every person,
wise or foolish, everyone will die.
So if you were to die today,
would you be happy with what you did for God?
Would you?
Because if not, now is the time to get that fixed.
Because if you're still breathing, God wants you alive.
Business says in Philippians,
when Paul was talking about that,
hey man, for me to die, it's gonna be far better.
For me to die and be with Christ is gain.
But is more evil for me to be with you now
You know, Paul kind of knew he had some plot on with God for a little bit. He's like, well, you know, yeah, I
Know where I'm gonna go when I die. I'm going to heaven, but because I'm still starting charges
I'm doing those great works. I'm more than likely still gonna be around because I'm being of great use to God
Hey, give a reason for God to keep you on this earth
Women all life honor your parents do what God says
Obviously, this is not a guarantee, I'm not saying this is a promise, this is generalities.
In general, you'll live a longer life, you'll be healthier.
I mean, does God want you to be in the hospital full of illnesses if you're already doing
a ton of soul winning?
No, He wants you to be healthy and full of energy so you can go out there and knock
doors.
Some people, maybe God has them get sick because they're not doing the first works and the
only way for them to get to that point is having them get down such down to that level.
It says time and chance happen to them all in verse 11 of the Clesiastes chapter 9,
but time and chance happen to them all.
So sometimes things just happen.
You know, and God knows all that.
It's not like, it's not like God was like, whoops, oh that's slip, you know.
No, he knows everything and the beginning and the end of everything.
But again, I want everyone to go home tonight with this in mind.
Death will claim me one day. I will not be here anymore to do the war for God.
What can I do right now while I'm still breathing? I mean, you blink and you're
at age by 10 years. Time flies. I mean, I'm looking at my life and I'm reflecting
about my life right now and I'm just like, wow, time flies. So I had a Bible says,
Verse one, remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.
Verse 13, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret faith, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
Now, I don't think God's going to shame us in heaven and have all our sins in display and stuff like that. I don't think that's what he's saying here.
You will suffer loss if it's all wood, hay, and stubble.
I think that's what it's saying here in verse 14.
Again, be bold, be gold, okay?
Be gold, be bold.
Because now's the time to be bold.
Be bold in heaven.
I mean, what diversity is in heaven?
You know, if Jesus was going to reign over the earth for a thousand years,
there's really no opposition, really.
Maybe you got to put some rebellions down. Maybe. I don't know. I mean, maybe that's why we got to be knowing the law and stuff
Like that does talk about that
But in general this is the time where we're gonna be facing the fiercest opposition
Now's the time we're gonna be facing the RFOs because after that they're gonna be going to hell. I mean think about this
Everyone's crossing paths, right and
Right now we're at this little intersection where everyone is meeting and interacting with each other, right?
beyond saving the saved. But after that, we're going to heaven forever, they're going to hell forever.
Just a tiny little moment where we have this life to suffer persecution and goofy things.
In comparison to what we're going to be experiencing in the glory of God, this is going to be nothing.
And with that, I will end with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you Lord so much for giving
People would take to heart what I have said word and thank God so much for your word and thank you God
For just how awesome it is Lord and I just pray for everyone in this room ward to be a little bit more bold this week
In your name Jesus Christ and our prayer amen
Man
Let's go to
Who is on the Lord's side number 100 and leave it's 130
No, I'm sorry. Well, it was four four six
number 406 who is on the Lord's side thank you brother Stephen for that
Sermon
who is on the Lord's side who will serve the King who will be his helpers others
Who will leave the world side? Who will face the foe?
Who is on the Lord's side? Who for him will go?
By thy call of mercy, by thy grace divine
side Savior let's all stand let's all stand maybe this will help us get it out
a little a little more harder on that second stands up not for glory not for
crown and palm. Think about those words raise the warrior song
but full of their clay myth. Amen.
He whom Jesus named it must be on his side.
By thy love constraining, by thy grace divine,
Savior, we are thine.
Jesus, thou hast brought us, not with gold or gem,
but with thine own lifeblood for thy diadem.
But sing, filling, each who comes to thee.
Thou hast made us willing, Thou hast made us free.
Sing it out, church.
By thy grand redemption, by thy grace divine,
we are on the low side.
Save your we on that last verse.
Strong may be the foe
But the king's own army
None can overthrow
Round his standard raging
Victor is secure
Sing it out church!
For his truth unchanging
Makes the triumph show
Joyfully enlisting by thy grace divine We are on the low side, Savior, we are thine
Amen, you may be seated.
Brother Ewing, can you pray for us please?