Whosoever will they come, Whosoever will, Whosoever will, Send them upon the nation, Over will and fear.
Peace and love in power, Cause a wonder all, Whosoever will they come, Whosoever come, Let me not delay.
Out the door it's open and true while you wait, Jesus is the truth in the open every way, Whosoever will they come, Whosoever will, Whosoever will, Send them upon the nation, Over will and fear.
Peace and love in power, Cause a wonder all, Whosoever will they come, Whosoever will they come, Whosoever will, Send them upon the nation, Over will and fear.
Whosoever will, Whosoever will, Send them upon the nation, Over will and fear.
Peace and love in power, Cause a wonder all, Whosoever will they come.
Christ our Redeemer died on the cross, Died for the sinner, Paid all his due, All who received him, He never did, Yes, He will pass, He will pass over here.
When I see the gun, When I see the gun, When I see the gun, I will pass, I will pass over here.
Chiefest of sinners, Jesus can say, As He has promised, so will He do.
Oh sinner, fear Him, trust in His word, When He will pass, He will pass over you.
When I see the gun, When I see the gun, When I see the gun, I will pass, I will pass over here.
Judgment is coming, All will be there, Who have rejected, Who have refused, Oh sinner hates them, Let Jesus in, Let God will pass, He will pass over here.
When I see the gun, When I see the gun, When I see the gun, I will pass, I will pass over here.
Oh great compassion, Oh boundless love, Jesus has power, Jesus is true, All who believe are saved from the storm, Oh little past will pass over you.
When I see the gun, When I see the gun, When I see the gun, When I see the gun, I will pass, I will pass over here.
If the fight we have driven, After our neighbors are over, Rescue our souls will be given, Of the eternal shore,
Of all the soul of this beautiful world, Here we shall live as well as well,
Pray for the good of the good life, When Jesus is there, He is alive,
Now that the storm is over, We are excited, We are lovingly, We live for our younger friends, And beside the Christmas tree,
The Christmas tree rest is remaining, For the two children of God, Where there will be no complaining, Never a chasing run,
Of the soul of this beautiful world, Here we shall live as well,
Pray for the good of the good life, When Jesus is there, He is alive,
Now that the storm is over, We are excited, We are lovingly, We live for our younger friends, And beside the Christmas tree,
Soon a bright hope and a glory, We shall be home at that time, We knock the door to the morning, Just till the night is gone,
Of all the soul of this beautiful world, Here we shall live as well as well,
Pray for the good of the good life, When Jesus is there, He is alive,
Now that the storm is over, We are excited, We are lovingly, We live for our younger friends, And beside the Christmas tree,
From now on I repeat, Help us money to see, Help us to praise, Father of glorious, For all victorious,
Come and drink over us, Ancient of days, From now important word, Heard all thy mighty soul, Our prayer of day,
Come and guide me from last, And give thy word success, To rid of holiness for us we say,
The holy comfort earth, Thy sacred witness there, In this land now, Now rule all mighty earth,
Now rule in every heart, And have a lasting heart, Spirit of power, To the great heart in three, Eternal praises be, And sever more,
With sovereign majesty, May we in glory sing.
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to St. Baptist Church.
It's great to see everybody here this morning. If we can find our seats, we will grab a hymnal and start singing.
And once you find a hymnal, go ahead and go to song number 70.
Song number 70. Will Jesus find us waiting?
Great question. Song number 70. Will Jesus find us watching?
Song number 70. Everybody sing it out on the first.
When Jesus comes to reward His servants, Whether it be noon or night, Faithful to Him, will He find us watching?
With our lamps all trimmed and bright. Oh, can He say, We're ready, brother, Ready for the soul's bride home?
Say, Will He find you and me still watching? Waiting, waiting, when the Lord shall come?
If at the dawn of the early morning, He shall call us one by one.
When to the Lord we restore our talents, Will He answer thee well done?
Oh, can He say, We are ready, brother, Ready for the soul's bride home?
Say, Will He find you and me still watching? Waiting, waiting, when the Lord shall come?
Have we been true to the trust He left us? Do we seek to do our best?
If we obey all the Lord's command us, We shall then be truly blessed.
Oh, can He say, We are ready, brother, Ready for the soul's bride home?
Say, Will He find you and me still watching? Waiting, waiting, when the Lord shall come?
Everybody sing it out on the last. Blessed are those whom the Lord finds watching.
In His glory they shall share. If He shall come at the dawn or midnight, Will He find us watching there?
Oh, can He say, We are ready, brother, Ready for the soul's bride home?
Say, Will He find you and me still watching? Waiting, waiting, when the Lord shall come?
Great singing, everybody. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer.
Lord, we love you, and we just thank you so much for this church.
Thank you for everything you're doing for us, Lord.
And even for Steffas, Oklahoma, or Anchor Baptist Church, Lord.
We just ask that you bless this service there. Bless Brother Dylan.
And bless this church. And bless this service now. And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Amen.
Alright, for our next song, let's go to song number 404.
Song number 404, Win the Battles Over.
Song number 404.
Alright, sing it out on the verse.
Am I a soldier of the cross, the plumber of the lamb?
And shall I fear to own his cause, or blush to speak his name?
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown. Yes, we shall wear a crown. Yes, we shall wear a crown.
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the New Jerusalem.
Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown.
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the New Jerusalem.
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease?
While others fight to win the prize and sail through bloody seas?
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown. Yes, we shall wear a crown. Yes, we shall wear a crown.
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the New Jerusalem.
Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown.
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the New Jerusalem.
Sure, I must fight if I would reign, increase my courage, Lord.
I'll bear the toil in her, the pain supported by thy word.
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown. Yes, we shall wear a crown. We shall wear a crown.
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the New Jerusalem.
Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown.
And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the New Jerusalem.
All right, good morning, everyone. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin, please raise your hand nice and high, and we can come around and get that to you.
On the front there, we do have our new Bible memory chapter, Matthew chapter number 28.
Previously, we were memorizing Jonah chapter two, and Pastor is planning on handing out the gifts for that next week.
So, if you have memorized that, you get an extra week, essentially, extra grace week to get that done.
And on the inside, we have our service times, our soul winning times.
We have soul winning this afternoon at 2 p.m., and our regional soul winning times below that.
One thing to note is I was looking at our totals for last month, month over month for salvation.
We've doubled our salvation from last month, which is great.
Praise the Lord for that, and all you guys who put out so much effort in going out soul winning.
We want to keep up the good work there.
We have our expecting ladies there on the right to be in prayer for also our prayer request list.
On the back, we have some upcoming events to make mention of.
If you're here and you're kind of wondering where everybody is at, most everyone is in Oklahoma City this morning celebrating the ordination,
the pastoral ordination of Brother Dylan Oz and Anchor Baptist Church.
It becoming its own independent Baptist church, and that's just really great, and I'm very excited for them.
Of course, you all know Brother Dylan very well.
He spent many years here serving with you guys, and over the years I've gotten to know him,
and he's somebody that I consider a friend, very thankful for him,
and really excited for that church in Oklahoma City and the things that God has for them in the future.
Below that, we've got the Ladies' Christmas Party December 6th, and so there's some information here on that.
There is a sign-up sheet on the table in the fourier, so please make sure that you get signed up for that so we have a good count.
December 7th is going to be the Turkey Bowl, and Brother Marcel is going to be heading that up.
If you have any questions, you can see him message him about that.
There's going to be a children's football game, and then there's going to be an adult football game for those of you who are brave
and want to get out there and have some fun.
Everyone's welcome to come. We encourage you, even if you don't plan on playing or participating,
we encourage you to come to that.
And then December 9th is the Christmas caroling that we always do every year,
and I know we did this in Oklahoma City as well, and it is one of my favorite events of the year,
so you definitely don't want to miss out on that.
For those of you who have already been in the past, you know what I'm talking about.
It's great to go out and do that and spread Christmas cheer.
December 25th is the Christmas bake-off, and that'll be directly after the service there on Wednesday,
and then January 1st, we're going to be doing a men's preaching night and pizza to kick off the new year.
That's all the announcements this morning. Again, great to see everyone. We'll go to our next song.
All right, for our next song, let's go to Psalm 15 in your laminated handouts,
or your King James Bible, Psalm 15.
Psalm 15.
Those that know well, sing it out very loud.
Psalm 15.
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness
and speaketh the truth in his heart.
He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness
and singeth the truth in his heart.
He that backbideth not with his tongue
nor doeth evil to his neighbor
nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.
He that backbideth not with his tongue
in whose eyes a vile person is condemned
but he honoreth them that fear the Lord.
In whose eyes a vile person is condemned
but he honoreth them that fear the Lord.
He that sweareth truth and changeeth not.
He that puteth not out his money to usury.
He that sweareth to his own herd and changeeth not.
He that puteth not out his money to usury.
He that takeeth reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
He that takeeth reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle.
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill.
Great singing everybody now as the offering plates are being passed around.
Go ahead and turn on your bibles to Numbers chapter 28.
That's the book of Numbers chapter number 28.
Music
Numbers chapter 28 the Bible reads,
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying,
Command the children of Israel and say unto them,
My offering and my bread for my sacrifice is made by fire,
For a sweet savor unto me shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
And thou shalt say unto them,
This is the offering made by fire,
Which ye shall offer unto the Lord.
Two lambs of the first year without spot day by day,
For a continual burn offering.
The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning,
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even.
And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering,
Mingled with the fourth part of an hen of beaten oil.
It is a continual burn offering,
Which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a sweet savor,
A sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hen for the one lamb.
In the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord
For a drink offering.
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even.
As the meat offering of the morning,
And as the drink offering thereof,
Thou shalt offer it,
A sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord.
And on the Sabbath day,
Two lambs of the first year without spot,
And two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering,
Mingled with oil,
And the drink offering thereof.
This is the burn offering of every Sabbath,
Beside the continual burn offering and his drink offering.
And in the beginning of your months,
You shall offer a burn offering unto the Lord.
Two young bullocks and one ram,
Seven lambs of the first year without spot.
And three tenths deals of flour for a meat offering,
Mingled with oil for one bullock.
And two tenths deals of flour for a meat offering,
Mingled with oil for one ram.
And a several tenths deal of flour,
Mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb.
For a burn offering of a sweet savor,
A sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.
And their drink offering shall be
Half an hen of wine unto a bullock,
And the third part of an hen unto a ram,
And the fourth part of an hen unto a lamb.
This is the burn offering of every month
Throughout the months of the year.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering
Under the Lord shall be offered,
Beside the continual burn offering
And his drink offering.
And in the fourteenth day of the first month
Is the Passover of the Lord.
And in the fifteenth day of this month
Is the feast.
Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
In the first day shall be an holy convocation.
Ye shall do no manner of servile work therein.
But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire
For a burnt offering unto the Lord.
Two young bullocks and one ram
And seven lambs of the first year.
They shall be unto you without blemish.
And their meat offering shall be
The flour mingled with oil.
Three tenths deals shall you offer
For a bullock and two tenths deals for a ram.
A several tenths deals shall they'll offer
For every lamb throughout the seven lambs.
And one goat for a sin offering
To make an atonement for you.
Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering
In the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
After this manner,
Ye shall offer daily throughout the seven days
The meat of the sacrifice made by fire
Of a sweet savor unto the Lord.
It shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering
And his drink offering.
And on the seventh day, ye shall have an holy convocation.
Ye shall do no servile work.
Also in the day of the first fruits,
When ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord.
After your weeks be out,
Ye shall have an holy convocation.
Ye shall do no servile work.
But ye shall offer the burnt offering
For a sweet savor unto the Lord.
Two young bullocks, one ram,
Seven lambs of the first year.
And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil.
Three tenths deals unto one bullock.
Two tenths deals unto one ram.
A several tenths deal unto one lamb
Throughout the seven lambs.
And one kid of the goats to make an atonement for you.
Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offerings
And his meat offering.
They shall be unto you without blemish
And their drink offerings.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for the word of God.
I thank you for Brother Dylan Alls
And the excitement around his ordination.
I ask you to bless him and bless that church.
And I ask you to bless evangelist as far as he preaches to us now.
Please fill him with your Holy Spirit
And give us understanding of your word.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen. I want to start off by
thanking Pastor Shelley just for the opportunity to preach.
And it's always a great blessing to be able to do that.
And also I want to start off by saying how
you know, near and dear the church
in Oklahoma City is to myself,
you know, I was there at the very first service.
And so to see this church become independent,
it's a great joy for me to be able to see that.
I know they're in great hands.
I'm really excited for all the things that God has for that church.
And I think like the last time I was even able to preach for you guys here
was at the very old, old building.
The one in Jacksboro or off of Jacksboro Highway,
the Fort Worth building.
So it's been quite a while.
And you know, you might think this would be pretty easy
because there's a lesser crowd here this morning.
But you know, this is probably the biggest crowd
that I've ever preached to still.
So I'm used to preaching to a little bit of smaller crowd
but I'm thankful nonetheless.
So I want to start off,
but let's just start reading a couple of verses here
in chapter 28.
The Bible says in verse number seven,
And the drink offering thereof shall be
the fourth part of a hen for the one lamb.
In the holy place,
shalt thou cause the strong wine
to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even
as the meat offering of the morning
and as the drink offering thereof,
thou shalt offer it a sacrifice made by fire,
a sweet savor unto the Lord.
The title of my sermon this morning is drink offerings.
Drink offerings.
In this passage it's kind of detailing out
three specific offerings that were to be
done on a day by day basis.
You have the continual burnt offering of the lamb.
You had the meat offering, the bread offering.
And then you had this drink offering.
And these were to be offered in the morning
and in the evening.
And specifically I want to focus in on
the drink offering this morning
and what it represents.
And of course these sacrifices,
they all picture or a picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ
and his sacrifice.
The true sacrifice.
You have the lamb that's the continual burnt offering.
That's picturing what?
Jesus Christ's sacrifice
and him going to hell
and burning in hell for us.
Taking our place.
You have the bread offering which represents
Jesus Christ being that true bread.
That bread that came down from heaven.
And if you read in other places
it talks about that bread being waved
for a wave offering
which is picturing what?
The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The drink offering this morning
what I want to focus in on is
how this represents Jesus Christ's physical death
and the pain and suffering that he endured
leading up to the cross.
Go to, hold your place
and put a book marker here
in Numbers chapter number 28.
Go to Isaiah chapter number 53.
Isaiah chapter number 53
a very famous passage in the Bible
dealing with the death of Jesus Christ
and how he would be a sacrifice
for us.
Isaiah chapter number 53
we're going to start reading in verse number 10.
The Bible says,
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
He hath put him to grief
when thou shalt make notice
his soul an offering for sin.
He shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days
and the pleasure of the Lord
shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul
and shall be satisfied.
By his knowledge shall many righteous
shall my righteous servant justify many
for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him
a portion with the great
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong.
Notice this because he hath poured out
his soul unto death
and he was numbered with the transgressors
and he bear the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors.
So you have this picture
of Jesus Christ's death,
the pain that he endured
leading up to the cross
and then him finally giving up the ghost
on the cross
and the Bible is likening this to him
pouring out his soul unto death
and of course the drink offering
it's an offering of some liquid substance
whether it's water or wine
and that's being poured out completely
for the Lord
and that's a picture
that's symbolic of Jesus Christ
and how he would pour out himself
into that sacrifice
that he would make full atonement
full restitution by his death.
The Bible says in
first Peter chapter number three
it talks about the flood
and Noah's Ark
and it says that eight souls
were saved by water.
So when the Bible is using this word soul
we're not always talking about how
maybe sometimes we would think of
like our eternal being
you know you have your body, soul, spirit
sometimes the word soul in the Bible
is referring to the physical body
and so when the Bible says
eight souls were saved by water
it's just saying that eight people
were saved through the Ark
through the Ark that Noah built
it wasn't necessarily talking about
their eternal salvation obviously
it's talking about their physical body
so the Bible here
it's depicting to us
that Jesus Christ
he poured out his soul
unto death so that way we could have
salvation.
Go to Zechariah chapter number 12
the second to last book in the Old Testament
I want to look at another picture here
of this drink offering
being poured out for us
Zechariah
chapter number 12
verse number 10 the Bible says
and I will pour upon the house of David
and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem
notice this
spirit of grace and of supplications
and they shall look upon
me whom they have pierced
and they shall mourn for him
as one that mourneth for his only son
and shall be in bitterness for him
as one that is in bitterness for his
first born so
Zechariah here this is actually
a passage that he's prophesying
of the Lord Jesus Christ but it's also
of himself this is a dual fulfillment
passage here because we know this
in the book of Matthew, Matthew 23
Jesus is rebuking the Pharisees
and the Sadducees he said that
upon you may come all the righteous
blood the righteous blood
shed upon the earth from the righteous blood
of Abel unto the righteous
blood of Zechariah the son
of Barakaiah
or Zechariah the son of Barakaiah
whom he slew between the altar and the
temple so the Bible
is kind of illustrating
to us two things
here Zechariah's death
foreshadowing his death but also
ultimately foreshadowing
Jesus Christ death that they would look
upon him of whom they appear
they would mourn for him as one that
was their only son
notice the Bible says though that as
they're looking upon him
they're at the beginning of verse 10
the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the Bible says that God is going to
pour out upon the house of David
the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace
right so that drink offering
representing the grace
the abundant grace that God
has poured out for us
so that way we could have
salvation the Bible says for by grace
are you saved through faith
and that not of yourself so the Bible
is telling us that again
we have this abundant amount
of grace and it was
the full atonement of Jesus
Christ death
and also his burial and also
his resurrection that gives
us this remission of sins
go back to Numbers chapter number 28
I just want to look at a couple
depictions here of Jesus Christ
and what it means to
pour those things out but I want to
kind of focus in on the characteristics
associated with the drink offering
so I think it's pretty clear
most of these verses are pretty
famous verses in the Old Testament
that are prophesying
of Jesus Christ and his death
and it's pretty clear to see that
what is being poured out is representing
what Jesus Christ
did for us him pouring out
his soul unto death him pouring out
his abundant grace upon us
Numbers chapter number 28
let's look at a couple characteristics
of this drink offering
because I want you to notice
the potency and the consistency
of the drink offering
verse number 7
we'll read this verse it says
in the drink offering thereof shall be
the hen for the one lamb
in the holy place shall thou cause
the strong wine to be
poured unto the Lord
for a drink offering so
this particular drink offering was supposed
to be a vessel that contained
strong wine
strong wine now of course
in the Bible wine
can have many different meanings
and any time we're talking about wine
representing the blood of Jesus Christ
or representing the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
we're not talking about alcoholic wine
right and a lot of people get confused
on this concept in fact
even today we use words
that could mean
something that's an alcoholic beverage
and it could also mean something that's
a non-alcoholic beverage like for instance
my wife she really likes ginger ale
but it's non-alcoholic
right there's no alcohol
in ginger ale it's just a fizzy drink
right but yet then there's also
a process
in which you can make alcoholic
an alcoholic drink that's called an ale
right and so even today
we use these same terms
and it could mean
something that's non-alcoholic
something that's alcoholic we just have to look at the context
what are we talking about here so
I want to make sure that when we see
strong wine in the Bible we're not thinking
alcoholic wine
we're not thinking something that is poison
because God's sacrifice
is representing life
not death right
and so when it says
strong wine here what I believe the Bible is trying
to teach us here is the potency
the concentrate
of this
drink offering how
the pure blood of the grape
this was not watered down
this was not
mixed with anything
and I want to look at a verse just to help us understand this
go to Revelation 14
there at the end of your Bible
Revelation 14 I just want to look at a passage
to help us understand this concept
of a
a vessel of strong wine
that's not watered down
Revelation chapter 14
talking about the wrath of God
verse number 10
the Bible says the same
shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God
so here we have wine representing
Jesus Christ are we talking about alcoholic
wine? No
talking about fruit juice
the fresh blood of the grape
the fruit of the vine
it says the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God
which is poured out notice
without mixture
into the cup of designation
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the Lamb
so what the Bible is depicting here is that
God's wrath
is like a vessel of wine
without mixture
that is not watered down
that God's wrath is going to be
to its full potency
those that are going to be
enduring the wrath of God at that time
there's not going to be any holding back
from God
God's going to be completely pouring out his wrath
on the earth at that time
and so again
I just want you to get an idea to what we're talking about here
with the drink offering
that it's not watered down
it's not like the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
wasn't watered down
it made a full atonement
for our sins
it cleanses us from all of our sins
the Bible says he is the propitiation for our sins
not for our sins only but for the sins of the whole world
right?
it's not like Jesus Christ
made the down payment for our sins
and that we got to keep making that monthly payment
just so that way we can still have salvation
no friend
the Bible teaches that
the meaning of Jesus pouring out his soul unto death
was a strong
potency
it was something that
was not watered down
it was something that was very strong
another aspect
of the characteristic
you can go back to Numbers 28
another characteristic here
that we see
is that this was supposed to be done day by day
the Bible says
in verses number 8
it says
as the meat offering of the morning
and as the drink offering thereof
thou shalt offer it a sacrifice made by fire
of the sweet savor unto the Lord
so this drink offering
was supposed to be offered daily
morning and evening
so notice the consistency
how this is something
that happens on a daily basis
now
obviously the Bible teaches us that
Jesus Christ
sacrifices
they could not
literally cleanse
the observers of those
from their sins
it was the true sacrifice
the sacrifice that was once for all
that was going to cleanse us
of our sins these are just pictures
of the true
but I do think there's something that we can learn here
by it being day by day
is that salvation covers
all of our sins from our birth
to our death
it covers every sin
that we're ever going to commit
Jesus Christ died from every sin
day by day
go to Romans chapter number
5
I'm going to read Ephesians chapter number 1
for you
Ephesians 1 while you're turning there
the Bible says in verse 7
in whom we have redemption through his blood
the forgiveness of sins according to the riches
of his grace
Jesus Christ poured out his soul unto death
and that's picturing
the fact that Jesus Christ made
a full atonement that
he didn't just pay some of our sins
but no he paid all of our sins
it was him pouring out his soul
unto death also depicting
the spirit of grace that God was going to
pour upon the inhabitants of those that
beheld Jesus Christ
those that come to Jesus Christ
he's going to pour out his
great riches as
in chapter 1 verse 7 is saying
notice what the Bible says in
Romans 5 20
it says moreover the law entered that
the offense might abound
but where sin abounded
grace did much more abound
so even as you go day by day
in your daily life
you're inevitably going to commit sins
but guess what God's sacrifice
his grace is sufficient
his grace covers
all of our sins
and it's a
pouring out
of Jesus Christ for us
he is our drink offering
the Bible says that the Lord's
mercies are new every morning
great is thy faithfulness
God he has sufficient amount of grace
for everything that we
can go through in this life
especially when we're talking about
salvation
and so I thought it was
pretty interesting just to look at
what is the picture of the drink offering
it's kind of one of those offerings that
doesn't get a whole lot of airtime
people don't really you don't hear
a lot of sermons being preached on
the drink offering and I think it's pretty
clear to see from the Bible
that that drink offering is representing
Jesus Christ pouring out
himself and it was a strong
wine it was of strong potency
it was not watered down
but you know
there's also an application
from the drink offering that we can
apply to ourselves
and that's really what I want to focus on
for the remainder of the sermon
is that we
as Christians need to be
drink offerings poured out
for the Lord
we need to be drink offerings
that are poured out for the Lord
I want you to go to second Samuel
chapter number 23
second Samuel
chapter number 23
while you're turning
there I'm just going to read a very famous verse
for you Romans 12 1 the Bible says
I beseech you therefore brethren
by the mercies of God
that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice
wholly acceptable unto God
which is your reasonable service
so the Bible is saying is that
God he desires
for us to be a living sacrifice
a living offering
unto him
he wants us to serve him
with our whole heart
he wants us to
you know reject
the desires of the flesh
and the pooling of this world
to live
like the rest of the heathen of this world
and he wants us to live a sanctified life
that's set apart
that's an offering that is a sacrifice
on him and notice
I love the Bible and how it's worded here
it says that's our reasonable service
you know sometimes people who
spend a lot of time
in the ministry they spend a lot of time
serving God and going out soul winning
they kind of think that they're doing
above and beyond what they're asked to do
but the reality is that
that's just our reasonable service
right Jesus Christ
poured out his soul unto death
he left nothing
unturned it was a
full atonement of our sins
he suffered so many great things for us
it's just our reasonable service
to make ourselves a living sacrifice
unto him
we
as Christians should live our lives
as a living sacrifice
we should live our lives as a drink offering
I mean just think about a drink offering
it's being poured out
and we probably understand this concept
maybe you know a business owner
or somebody who's
successful in business
and you might say man they really pour themselves
into that business
what are we saying we're saying that
man they spend a lot of time
effort, energy
they're putting all their effort
into making that business successful
and what the Bible is saying
is that God he wants us
to be a drink offering for him
that's poured out for him
not for ourselves
you know the Bible says that we ought to esteem others
better than ourselves
and there's so many people that we have
the opportunity in our daily life
to pour out unto them
to be a drink offering
for the Lord to minister unto them
whether it's the ministry of reconciliation
going out soul winning, preaching the gospel
I want to look at a
passage here that kind of helps us to see this
and how dedicated
David's mighty men
were to him as their king
now this morning
if you're saved Jesus Christ he is your king
you know this is a very
saying right now
Jesus Christ is king
everybody's getting on
their social media
platform or whatever
tuning their horn about Jesus Christ being king
yet they don't live their life like Jesus Christ
is their king
they're not actually serving God
how God wants them to serve God
which is to be a living sacrifice
it's just your reasonable service
notice three mighty
men of David
are willing to do for their king
the bible says
in verse number 15
and David longed
and said oh that one would give me
drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem
which is by the gate
and the three mighty men
break through the host of the philistines
and drew water
out of the well of Bethlehem
that was by the gate
and took it and brought it to David
nevertheless he would not drink there
notice this
but poured it out
unto the Lord
these three men
they risked life and limb
they sacrificed their life
they laid down their life
to be able to gather this well
to draw this water from the well
of Bethlehem
to be able to give to their king
the king he longed
he said oh that one would give me drink
and did the three mighty men
that's impossible
we're not going to be able to win this battle
we can't break through there
we're going to die
now they were willing
to endure all kinds of
trouble
and persecution
and difficult times in their life
they were willing to do that
to draw water out
for the king
and notice David when he saw the sacrifice
that they made
he didn't keep that for himself
what he did he saw the sacrifice
and he poured it out as a drink offering
unto the Lord
which is picturing what the sacrifice
that these three men made
in service to their king
and as Christians
that's how we should view our life
we should view our life as we are a drink offering
we want to
the works that we do in this life
we want them to be
acceptable unto the Lord
and God is viewing that as
us pouring out our life unto him
or being that drink offering
being poured out
and notice the drink offering
it's potency
it wasn't something that's watered down
a lot of Christians they go to church Sunday morning
and then that's it
and they say oh well I'm being a drink offering
but is that the type of drink offering
that we saw in the Bible
was it one that was mixed with water
that was watered down
what was acceptable unto the Lord
what God commanded is that
that drink offering would be of the strong wine
without mixture
that it would be of their fullest effort
and just like they sacrifice their life
to draw water out of Bethlehem
we too
we should be willing to lay down our life
we should be willing to serve God to the bitter end
we should be willing
to at least just go and draw water out of that well
the water of life
so that way we can give that unto
those who need it
those who need to be saved
in service to the king
make your life
a drink offering
unto the Lord that's poured out
as a Christian
you should be pouring yourself into
the Christian life
and this is something I've noticed
is not very many people are willing to do that
not very many people are willing
to
it's funny to me
you'll see people are very
go-getters
they're very successful
they pour all their effort and energy
into something that's carnal
and it's something that's going to be gone
it's going to be burned up
and you're just thinking why are you wasting all of your time
why are you doing that
instead why don't you
refocus your energy effort and time
into serving God
into your Bible
into studying
into getting people saved
go to 1 Corinthians chapter 9
you know here's an example of somebody who poured out
himself into others
who was a drink offering
for the Lord
when it came to getting people saved
the apostle Paul
1 Corinthians chapter 9
again some pretty famous passages here
the Bible says in verse 19
I want you to notice
Paul's dedication to his work
verse 19 the Bible says
for though I be free from all men
yet have I made myself
servant unto all
that I might gain the more
just like Jesus Christ
he
made himself of no reputation
he came in the form of a servant
he humbled himself
so that way we could have salvation
we could have the benefit of his servitude
we too
ought to have the mindset that Paul had
is hey even though I'm free from all men
I made myself a servant unto all
so that way I can get
as many people saved
as I possibly can
notice what the Bible says in verse 20
and unto the Jews I became as a Jew
that I might gain the Jews
that are under the law
that I might gain them that are under the law
to them that are without law
as without law
be not without law to God
but under the law to Christ
that I might gain them that are without law
to the weak became I was weak
that I might gain the weak
I am made all things
to all men
that I might by all means
save some
Paul what did he do
he was pouring himself out into so many
he was pouring himself out
into getting people saved
why because it's the most important work
that we have to do
and it's a work of
selflessness
isn't it
it's not selfish
when we go out and we preach the gospel
we're giving up our time
we're giving up our energy
we're giving up our mental
aptitude
the gospel isn't easy
it's not necessarily physical
hard work sometimes it is
it depends on how hot it is
and how many stairs you gotta go up and down
but for the most part
it's mostly mentally taxing
but yet what did Paul do
he poured himself out into that work
he was a drink offering
unto the Lord
and we too
we ought to have that mindset that
hey I want to by all means
get some save
whatever I can do to get people
saved and here's the thing is some people
they want to be that drink offering
the problem is they find themselves
being watered down
they want to go soul-winning
but they didn't spend the time
pouring themselves into their bible study
to be prepared to give the gospel
they didn't spend the time
preparing the verses
that they're going to use
that are going to cut to the heart
they didn't spend the time
listening to that season
soul winner
and this is something that I
want to constantly try and strive
to do and I recommend
everybody do this is when you go out
soul-winning try to find somebody
who you know is a really good preacher
so you can learn something from them
I'm constantly learning things from other people
especially even moving here
because now I'm going soul-winning with a lot of new people
and so I'm hearing
examples that I've never heard before
and just
it's this desire of wanting to
pour yourself into that work
wanting to be the best soul-winner
that you could possibly be
you know because we don't have
an eternity here on this earth
we only have the time
in which God is allowed at us
and we don't even know what that looks like
we don't even know how long that is
and so I don't know about you
I want to pour myself out
into the work of God
into serving
the Lord
and make it the fullest that I possibly can
I love this saying
and I've heard this in the secular world
but how you do anything is how you do everything
you know you may take
a miniscule task
or something that is not as important to you
and you may do it halfway
you may be that drink offering
that's just with mixture of water
that's watered down being poured out
usually what ends up happening is that
then trickles down to other areas of your life
how you do anything
is how you're going to do everything
you know I like being around people who are intense
I like being around people
who are go-getters
around people who
you know want to pour themselves out
into whatever it is that they're doing
and obviously I'm specifically talking about
serving the Lord
go to 1st Timothy chapter number 4
I want to look at a couple other passages here
1st Timothy chapter number 4
when it comes to your Bible reading
how many of you are pouring yourself out
into your Bible reading
you know it was that daily
sacrifice wasn't it
that daily offering
evening, morning
I'm not saying you have to read your Bible
evening and morning but the Bible talks about
that being a benefit unto you
but you should at least have some time
once a day set out
that you're going to spend time reading the Bible
and when you're reading the Bible
do you read a couple chapters
and you don't get anything out of it
because you're so distracted
things are distracting the phone
maybe it's your kids
maybe it's work that you got to do later on that day
you know I've been guilty of that before
right so I know that
I'm not the only one
it's really easy to get distracted
when reading your Bible
but hey God every time we sit down
to read our Bible God's word
is there to speak to us
is there to be a benefit unto us
to bless us with his
word
notice what the Bible says in 1st Timothy chapter 4
says till I come give attendance
to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine
neglect not the gift that is in thee
which was given thee by prophecy
with the laying on of the hands of the
military, meditate upon these things
notice this, give thyself
holy to them
that thy profiting may
appear to all
so Paul's
instruction in the Timothy is that
when he's studying, when he's meditating upon
the word of God that he's
instructing him to give himself holy unto
that to be that strong
drink offering that's poured out
and again this is
you can apply this to going out so many
when you're meditating on the word, getting prepared
ready to go out so many
you should be giving yourself holy unto those
if you have an opportunity as a man to preach a sermon
hey you should give yourself holy
to the study of the scriptures
to preach an edifying
and a good sermon
Pastor Shelley has so much instruction
on how to be a good preacher
but yet I just constantly see people not
listening to his advice
and those sermons
are there to help us to be
better preachers
to help us to serve God better
1 Peter chapter 3
you can go ahead and turn there
1 Peter chapter 3 in verse 15
and I want you to ask yourself this
question when we get done reading this verse
ask yourself am I doing this
is this me
it says, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts
and be ready always
to give an answer to every man that
asks you a reason
of the hope that is within you with meekness and fear
if you had a
soul winning opportunity that just comes out of nowhere
it's not your designated soul winning time
maybe it's just a co-worker
maybe it's just somebody at the convenience store
maybe it's just you know somebody on the airplane
or whatever
are you ready to give an answer
always to those that ask of you
the hope that's in you
with meekness and fear
you know
again you say well how do I get to that point
well you have to be a drink offering unto the Lord
you have to be willing
to give all of your time, effort
energy to serving God
go ahead and skip to
Mark chapter 12
I'm going to skip a couple verses
Mark chapter number 12
verse number 30
Jesus
is asked whether the greatest commandments
the first
greatest commandment notice what the bible says
verse 30
it says
with all thy heart, with all thy soul
with all thy mind
with all thy strength
this is the first commandment
this isn't optional
you know this is what God
requires of us
is that he wants us
to give all of our time
effort energy
we ought to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart
mind soul and strength
everything that's within us
we should love the Lord
and you know that's going to
cause us to be that drink offering
that's poured out unto him
go to Romans chapter number 12
Romans chapter number 12
and verse 11
the bible says
not slothful in business
fervent in spirit
serving the Lord
you know that word fervent
means hot
it means burning
it means glowing
great intensity
right so
how are we supposed to serve the Lord
it's with great intensity
we're supposed to be on fire Christian
this is why I love our church
this is why I love our movement
as I know I'm preaching to the choir this morning
as many of you are very on fire Christians
many of you are people
who have a fervent spirit
when it comes to serving the Lord
and I like being around these type of people
it encourages me
you know and it's like
coals you know I like
to smoke meats and I like to cook
on the grill right and we got those lumps
of charcoal
in the grill
you get one of them nice and hot
and what does it do it starts getting all the other
coals that are around it
and it's near as proximity hot
and so when you see somebody who's on fire
for the Lord who has a fervent
spirit to serve the Lord
hey you should want to gravitate to that person
you should want to spend a lot of time
with that person
why so that way you can catch that fire
so that way you can catch that fervent
spirit
that's how we should serve God is
with that red hot spirit
hey you should be pouring yourself out
fully
into your wife
or your husband
right when it comes to that relationship
you should be red hot about
being that drink offering
and loving your wife as Christ loved the church
and women
submitting to your husbands as the church
submits unto Christ
right you should serve God
with a fervent spirit
when you have an opportunity to
serve your husband you should do it
when you have an opportunity to love your wife
you should do it
don't leave off of those things
be a drink offering unto the Lord
you should pour out yourself into be a father
and a mother
if you have children
and I get it because I have five children
and there are days I come home from work
and I just want to relax
but you know what though
my children they want to spend time with
that right
and so as a father
or as a mother you need to look at your role
that God has given you your job that God has given you
and pour out into those kids
right be that drink offering
for the Lord and be the type of father and mother
that God wants you to be
or how about
the vice versa
how about as a child you want to be a drink offering
pour it out in service to your parents
you know
like my children
it's funny as the house we moved it into
it doesn't have a dishwasher
and we didn't even notice that when we were looking
and that's fine
it's not that big of a deal but
it's kind of given us an opportunity
to give some more chores to our kids
and what I realize is like
that my kids sometimes
they're that watered down
drink offering where they're like leaving food
on the plates
you know the utensils I pull out a plate
put some food on it and it's got like leftovers
from the night before I'm just thinking
what's going on here right
and as a child when your parents ask you
to do something you should be that
drink offering that's poured out without
mixture for your parents
right serving your parents
and doing exactly what they ask you to do
not leaving anything
off and it should be something that's
done daily right
it's not just one day
of the week you pick to obey parents
you know you should obey your parents
every day of the week
how about pouring yourself out and to be in a good
musician
this is definitely a lot different
than Oklahoma City because we just didn't have
the blessing of having many
instrument players
right
but this church has many different
instrument players so
if you play an instrument or maybe you have
a hidden talent that nobody knows about
maybe you should decide
to be a drink offering for the Lord
and really pour yourself into
perfecting your craft
being better at being
a musician, being better
at song leading, being better
at whatever opportunity
you have to serve the Lord
be that drink offering for the Lord
and do everything
to your fullest ability
you know don't leave anything
off just like the Lord Jesus Christ
anytime you're thinking about
the Lord you just think of
the effort, energy that Jesus Christ
put into saving your soul
how he was a drink offering
for us and you should put that same type
of energy, effort
into being a drink offering that's poured out
onto the Lord
Ecclesiastes 9 10
I want you to just for a second time
go to 2 Kings chapter 13
you guys are going to be very familiar
with this verse I'll read it for you
Ecclesiastes 9 10 the Bible says
do, do it with thy might
for there is no
work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom
in the grave wither thou goest
and the Bible is instructing us
that whatever we find ourselves doing
even if it's something that's seemingly
small you should do with all your might
you should put all of your
effort into doing that
you know whatever it is
wherever you find yourself serving God
whatever opportunity you have
to serve the Lord hey give it your all
put everything you can into it
you say well I don't really have
that many talents I don't really have
that many great things going on
but hold on a second what about the poor widow
woman the poor widow woman
what did she do she cast in two mites
and God
said that she cast in all her living
she cast in more
than of their riches
the scribes and the Pharisees that were
casting in these great amounts yeah
they were casting these great amounts because they are very rich
because they are devouring widows houses
right
but this poor widow woman what did she do
she was a drink offering unto the Lord
by giving just those two mites that she had
she gave everything that she had
into serving God
and so you may find yourself saying
I don't have very many talents
or I don't have very much to offer
well what you do have to offer serve the Lord with that
you know do what you can
with what you have
serve the Lord with all thy might
go to church with all thy might
read your Bible with all thy might
preach sermons with all thy might
be a soul winner with all thy might
right that is what the Bible
is instructing us to do
is to be that drink offering
and support out unto him
we'll finish here second kings chapter 13
you know and
I also just want to encourage you that
you know again
you only have a short space
you're on this earth to serve God
and every
and this has always blown my mind is
everything that we do in this life
is going to last for eternity
when it comes to whether we do
good works or our works
are worthless after we're saved right
once we're saved
we can either build up
unto ourselves gold
silver precious stones
or we can build up a bunch of wood hay
and we only have such a short
time here on this earth to do that
right but everything that we do
here in this life has everything
to do with eternity
has everything to do
with what you're going to receive
in eternity the authority you're
going to be given in
eternity how you're going to serve God
in eternity I mean that's just always
blown my mind because it's such
a small blip on the radar
when we're talking about eternity
you know in each one of us
we only get so many years to serve the Lord
and I don't know about you
I want to serve the Lord with all my might
I want to be a
drink offering that's poured out without
mixture unto the Lord
I want to serve God to the best of my ability
every opportunity that
I have I want to serve the Lord
and you know
if you would
ask me four
five six years ago
and I would be
you know working for this church
and serving alongside
pastor and preaching a sermon
I would have been like you're nuts
I just had this mentality is whatever God
wants me to do I'm just going to try to do
with all my might
whatever that is right and so that's
the mentality you should have
notice the story here in 2 Kings chapter 13
the Bible says in verse 18 and he said
take the arrows
took them and he said unto the king
of Israel smite upon the ground
and he smote thrice
and stayed
and the man of God was
wroth with him and said
thou shouldest have smitten five or six
times
then hath thou smitten Syria
till thou hath consumed it
whereas now thou shalt smite
Syria but thrice
so you have this example
here where the king of Israel
smite the ground by the man of God
and he pours out
a drink offering that's mixed with water doesn't he
he doesn't exactly
go hard he doesn't exactly
have a mentality
of you know giving it his all
and what does the man of God say
you only smote three times
what are you doing
you should have smote five or six times
you should have gave it your all
and so
because of that God ended
up blessing them less
God ended up only delivering
them the Bible says from Syria
thrice
and so
again this morning
I want to encourage you that
when you're serving the Lord
you should be doing it with a fervent
spirit and it should be
a drink offering that is
not watered down
that you're giving everything that you have
into serving God whatever that is
wherever you have an opportunity
to serve God even if it's just
being a good father and a good husband
in your family leading your family
taking your family to the right church
taking your family to church
three times a week
you know spending time
serving the Lord because your time
on earth is so short
you only have a small opportunity
to be a drink offering unto the Lord
and I want
you know
to treat the same rewards
as those that
did great things that we read about in the New Testament
right you have the apostles
you have Paul you have so many people
where they just hazard their life
to serve the Lord
you know and we should be willing
to you know
to go through any type of persecution
again I get it
you know this church knows what it's like
to go through persecution and still serve the Lord
you know and I'm thankful for a church like this
that in the face of adversity
in the face of persecution
guess what you're still here
on Sunday morning guess what
many of you many of the church
members are in Oklahoma City celebrating
the ordination of Dylan Oz
and it's funny is like if anybody
you know Google Dylan Oz they would say
there's no way this guy could ever be a pastor right
you know he doesn't exactly
he's not exactly
beloved of this world
right
he's a great man of God
and he's leading the charge there in Oklahoma City
and we have many of our
members that are there supporting him
because they know what it's like to go through those
difficulties they know what it's like to go through those
battles those persecutions
you know and they're not smiting on the ground
you guys aren't smiting on the ground three times
you're smiting on the ground five and six
times and we want to keep
that going you know we have a great
opportunity to serve the Lord in this coming year
Pastor Shelley has some great opportunities
to serve the Lord and
I don't know about you I want to go
as hard as I can go
this upcoming year I want to get as many
people saved as I can possibly
get saved I want to influence people
more for Jesus Christ
in this next year than I did last
year how you do
anything is how you do everything and so
if you take the small opportunities to serve
the Lord seriously you're inevitably going to
take the the big
things seriously let's pray
definitely Father Lord I pray that you would
help us all to
be that drink offering that's poured out
for you Lord that we would
spend our time energy
effort into serving you that we would do it
with a spirit that's on fire
that we would do it
with
the abilities that you have given us
with all our might or we're thankful
for all that you do we're thankful for your son
being that drink offering that was poured out
for us to give us salvation
and Lord I just pray that
as we move forward
into this next year that we would find
opportunities to serve you more
and to do more for you we pray these things in your
son's name amen
alright for our last song let's go to
song number 401
very fitting song to follow up that sermon
set my soul afire
song number 401
set my soul afire
by singing out with me on the first
song number 401
set my soul
afire
Lord
for thy holy
word
burn it deep
within me
let your
voice be heard
millions
broken
darkness
in this day
and hour
I will
be your witness
fill me with
thy power
set my
soul afire
set my soul
afire
make my life
a witness
of thy
saving power
millions
broken darkness
waiting
for thy word
set my
soul afire
Lord
set my soul
afire
set my
soul afire
Lord
for the lost
and sin
give to me
a passion
as I
seem to
win
help me not
to falter
never let
me fail
fill me
with thy spirit
let
thy will prevail
set my
soul afire
Lord
set my soul
afire
make my life
a witness
of thy
saving power
millions
broken darkness
waiting
for thy word
set my
soul afire
Lord
set my soul
afire
set my
soul afire
Lord
in my daily
life
far too long
I've wandered
in this
day of strife
nothing else
will matter
to live for thee
I will be
your witness
as you
live in me
set my
soul afire
Lord
set my
soul afire
make my life
a witness
of thy
saving power
millions
broken darkness
waiting
for thy word
set my
soul afire
Lord
set my
soul afire
great singing everybody you were all