Satan's
your job.
Excellent singing everybody, but the apology please up stuff in a word of
prayer. Amen. All right, if you want to go ahead and take your hymnals, we're
Page number three hundred and twenty-seven higher ground
All right, we'll sing it out on the first
and sing everybody, it's time we will have our announcements.
Good morning everyone, welcome to church.
The bulletins are being handed out.
Little technical difficulty, if you didn't get one,
we'll make sure we have a few after the service
if you need one.
But the verse of the week is Jeremiah 29, verse 11.
Jeremiah 29, verse 11.
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you.
thoughts of peace, and not evil, to give you an expected end.
That is Jeremiah 29, verse 11.
All right. Service times are at 10.30 a.m. in the morning and 3.30 p.m. in the afternoon.
We have soul winning in between the services at 1 p.m. today and also at 10.30 on Saturdays.
And yesterday, I believe we had two salvations, so that's good. We had a little bit of a dry spell,
but hey, going out we will soul win or soul warn and hey, and every now and then we reap a harvest
That brings us to 73 for the year so far.
Tendencies is down below.
Upcoming event, just for all those that know,
and thank you so much for having the visitors come in.
I almost wish you came next week,
because next week is our church silverwood trip.
It's kind of a long weekend.
Pastor Thompson is coming in on Friday
to do a special service on Friday evening.
And then the whole church goes to Silverwood on Saturday.
Hopefully you've RSVP'd if you are planning to go with Brother Remy.
And they've made arrangements for all that.
And also we're having Brother David Ackerly come and preach both services next Sunday.
I'm excited to hear him preach.
I'm not sure I've met him, so I'm just
excited to see a traveling brother.
That's exciting.
So we have a full weekend next weekend
for those that wish to come and join us.
And for those that don't know, the Tompsons,
the local Tompsons, little Thompson, if you will,
though he's bigger than me, they're
traveling to Seattle to be a support to that church.
He's preaching and supporting that branch,
Remy and Kylie are currently so uh just keep them in prayers because even though it's a
good fun filled trip a traveling is always you know worrisome so just keep them in prayers.
So next week we have a bunch of activities so glad to see so many people here today.
As a reminder to all the kids um I'll task my wife because I know uh Ms. Kylie is not here
Say it word for word. I will find candy somehow so we can do that because I know if kids have been playing for this
And all of a sudden that was taken from them. That's not what we're trying to infert
We want you to encourage getting the word Lord in you and memorizing it even at an early age
So if anyone needs or wants to do that, we will make sure you're taken care of
All right, if you have any other prayer requests
or any other activities you think coming up,
please just let me know after the service
and we'll make sure we get it into the bulletin.
But with that, let's turn to the Lord in prayer.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this day.
Thank you so much for so many people
gathering today this morning.
And Lord, it says that we...
Go ahead and take your Bibles.
We're going to turn to Psalm number 11.
That's Psalm number 11.
That's Psalm number 11 in the Lord, put on my trust.
Psalm number 11.
All right, we'll sing it out on the first.
In the Lord put I my trust, I'll say he to my soul,
flee as a bird to your mountain, for low the wicked bend
their bow.
They make ready their arrow upon the string
that they may privilege shoot at.
The upright in heart, if the foundations be destroyed.
What can the righteous do?
The Lord is in his holy temple.
The Lord's throne is in heaven.
His eyes behold.
His eyelids try the children of men.
The Lord tryeth the righteous.
But the wicked and him the love and violence.
His soul hath hath.
upon the wicked he shall reign snares fire and brimstone and and horrible
tempest this shall be the portion of their cup for the righteous Lord love
its righteousness is counten-
and sing everybody for the apology.
Please pray for the offering.
Thank you so much for all that we have.
And Lord, let's have a thank you this fall.
Let's see who we are for this Lord.
Little as much when you are in it.
And we always have faith in the work that you're doing.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Welcome to Sher Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could go ahead and take your Bibles
and turn to Philippians chapter four.
Philippians chapter four,
and as everyone knows, our custom
is that we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
Philippians chapter 4, the Bible reads,
Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and long for,
My joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
I beseech Yodias and beseech Sinteki that they be of the same mind in the Lord,
and I entreat the also true Yoke fellow. Help those women which labored with me in the gospel,
with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers whose names are in the Book of Life.
Rejoice in the Lord all way, and again I say rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men.
The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication,
with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God,
which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are
just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think
on these things. Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard
But I rejoiced in the Lord, greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again, wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
Not that I speak in respect of want, for I have learned, and whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound.
Everywhere and in all things, I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry,
both to abound and to suffer need.
I can do all things through Christ with strength in it me.
Notwithstanding, you have well done that you did communicate with my affliction.
Now, ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia,
no church communicated with me as concerning, giving, and receiving, but ye only.
For even in Thessalonica, ye sent once and again unto my necessity, not because I desire
But I have all and abound.
I am full, having received of apathroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor
of sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Salute every saint in Christ Jesus,
the brethren which are with me greet you.
All the saints salute you, chiefly,
they that are of Caesar's household.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Amen.
Brother Daniel, can you please pray for the preaching?
Amen, all right, so the title of my sermon is in a time like this
in a time like this.
Now, I don't know in your personal life,
I know in my personal life,
I've had many kind of hardships come up.
Some things kind of devastating.
To my grandchild, to my personal life, to that.
Hey, within kind of this movement,
if you knew there was a great tragedy that happened
the last week where, you know,
a young married couple lost that relationship
and ended suddenly without excuse.
Nationally, there's great things happening
that things are.
Happening and it's destroying people's worlds. You like they're crumbling. They don't know what the future is like and some people would say
How could you do anything? How could you have hope in a time like this?
And let me tell you where I got this sermon was actually because multiple people have told me looking at me one
They're like, well, you're kind of old and two they're like, are you really going to bring a child into a time like this a
time like this
I mean, with chaos and rumors of war, and I mean, you don't even know.
Political chaos, strife, I mean, everything's looking bad.
It seems like the moral decay of the world is just happening in a time like this.
You're going to bring a child.
And here's the thing is, many a times, and I know,
and many people who have ever heard me preach,
I will hit hard and perhaps possibly negative.
And I think of Bible has a lot of negative things.
Don't do this, don't do this.
And a lot of times how I motivate myself,
as I see that other people have gone through worse than me.
And I think Paul, even other times, he says,
I have spent time in the depth.
He's been thrown overseas, he's been beaten, he's been that.
But you know, sometimes, you know what we need to do to move on and see hope in the future is to
realize the good things we have right now. So, even though it takes in a time like this, people,
you should put that to shame me of what I'm choosing to do with my future. I'm actually
going to turn around and be like, dude, in a time like this, you're not having kids.
In a time like this, you're not excited for the future. In a time like this, you're don't want,
man, I just want to bring everyone, I wish everyone in all time could experience right now.
So that's the thing.
You're like, Paul, are you actually,
as the most negative person here,
going to do a positive sermon?
This is my attempt as a positive servant,
so I hope it comes off as such.
And I had you read, or I had read to you,
Philippians 4, Philippians 4, starting in verse 4.
What does it say?
Rejoice.
Rejoice, and the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.
Do we not think of the good that we have?
Do we not see the blessings that we have?
Let me tell you this, as a Christian,
you should always have, as a safe person know,
that in the end, you have heaven to always go through.
So it doesn't matter the pains and sufferings
we may have in this world.
We shouldn't be bogged down by the depressions
in this world, because hey, guess what?
If you live in the world,
You are hopeless. It is meaningless. It is goldless.
In the end, fire will take away any type of human achievement.
It will never exist for all time. That can be dread.
Don't let the world drag you down with it.
But let me tell you this, even though we are not of this world,
do we live within the world? We do.
But let me tell you this, it's not always all negative.
And it says in verse 5,
let your moderation be known to all men.
The Lord is at hand.
All it's saying is, hey, when you're going through life,
don't be pulled so much one way or the other.
Be moderate in all things and the Lord can guide you.
Be careful for nothing,
but in everything be in prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving.
You know what you're giving thanks for?
The good in your life, the good that you have, this is how we can rejoice and be rejoicing continuously.
Let your request be known unto God and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your heart and minds through Jesus Christ.
Do you understand? If you are saved and you have the Holy Ghost within you, you have that
indwelling of our promised possession that will come in the time. The world is small.
It is a vapor here tomorrow. Tomorrow we shall see our glory. But here's the thing,
you are not promised a life of ease, but I want by the end of this, no, there is easy within your life.
There is blessings to be born right now, in this time, in this life, right now.
And that is a glory and a blessing to you.
It says, finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatever things are honest,
whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report.
If they be any virtue and there be any praise,
think on these things. Do you know why we are so down? And here's the thing is we have so much
wealth, so much technology, so much health, so much monetary and possessions thrown upon us.
We are the grumpiest generation that has ever lived. And here's the thing is you don't like this
term whatever it is. We are connected to our phones and do you know what sells?
Happiness does not sell.
Stress, drama, and fear is what grabs us,
because it grabs us personally, and this is our character.
And let me tell you, are there things
to be fearful in this world?
Yes, there are.
Are there things that should be stressed about,
worried about?
Yes, but do you understand that there are also blessings?
And the Lord says, hey, you want to rejoice and rejoice
and know the peace that surpasses all understanding?
Think upon the good things.
I am not telling you to be ignorant of this world but what I am telling you is sometimes
you have to stop and refresh your mind to what you have before you.
We can always find ways to be negative.
That's a special gift we all have.
We can find what's wrong all the time.
But can you also find what is good within your life of where you are right now?
These things which ye have learned and received and heard and seen in me do and
God of peace shall be with you. It is saying you know what?
You want to have peace that surpasses all understanding in this world right now?
Think upon what is pure, what is good, what is a blessing?
And you meditate on that, you recount it, you see what's virtuous in your life,
and that is what you put your mind and your focus on.
And let me tell you this, Paul says, that is what I've tried to do for you.
I hope that's what you've received, I hope that's what you learned,
and I hope that's what you give to other believers.
That is the purpose of this sermon. That is what I mean in Proverbs 17 22 it says a merry heart
Doth good like a medicine
But a broken spirit dryeth the bones
There is a big saying that
Most of life. It's about 20% what happens to you and 80% how you take it
And here's the thing is some people take it kind of like Eastern Chinese thought being like well our
Mind over matter, but there is a lot of truth to that because things are going to happen in your life
And it's crazy the people that can withstand it go through and be a blessing to others
Somehow they view what happens to them a little bit different than those that
Literally have what most people would see as a minor inconvenience and it destroys them their whole day collapses
Because if you're focused on what's negative and failing and no hope in all future and then a little thing happens
It's too much for you
And hey, we've all been overwhelmed.
We've all been taken down.
We've all had our collapses, mentally, physically, and that.
And then you have to rebuild from nothing.
But if we focus on what's pure and virtuous and focus on that,
we don't have to reach the edge that when things happen,
we aren't there to collapse.
So if I could say anything today my thing is to tell you why it's a blessing right now to be
Right now to if you are here in Spokane listening to my voice
There are blessings upon blessings that most generations would have killed to have and yet we don't care
We look past it. We don't give thanks for it
So today the whole sermon is just kind of a list of reflect and hey not all of these hit on you
But something I hope I mentioned today you can go Lord
I am thankful I have this and Lord, what a blessing, what a grace, what a virtue that
I get to experience this that perhaps 99% of all people that have come before me from Adam
and Eve until the end, they probably didn't get to experience these blessings.
The world is hopeless and if you follow what they're interested in we can be dragged down and hey
I am not tell if you've served me preach before
You know I find things problematic
You know I can complain and you know I tail towards probably the more pessimistic or melancholy mood
That is who I naturally am but the thing is we must have everything in moderation
We must refresh ourselves to think of the good and then if we have our mind set in virtue
We can not just help ourselves through trouble as times we can help others and that is what Christians should be in a light in this world
So what am I talking about? What do you mean? It's like because people ask me like you're gonna bring up a kid at the time
Like this as the world is now
And I've been told that I don't know if anyone else has been told that but I have
You know
But hey, let me just tell you this.
Hey, the Bible also says like,
if you don't have hope in God,
eat, drink and tomorrow for tomorrow you die.
Why?
It's been a blessing from time immemorial.
It's a human thing that good food and good drink
can bring joy to your life.
Hey, in Genesis 9.3, it says,
every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.
And even the green herbs, have I given you all things?
Now here's the thing is, from time immemorial,
We've been allowed to eat whatever we want like whatever sustains you if that's what floats your boat
Great, it's it's okay for you
But here's the thing is even though we've had permission to do that
I'm gonna ask you
If you look at this I
Hope you can see this about as big as I can print with reasonableness of my budget
This is from and I'm just going to explain this photo because I'm going to refer to it multiple times a hundred years ago
We were building a great world wonder that's still a great wonder called the Hoover Dam
We were going through the Great Depression
And they're building this in the middle of the desert
In the middle of Arizona
There are no jobs
People pick up their family to move into the middle of desert to work
12 to 14 maybe 16 hours a day in the heat and drought
So their family can live in a tent and people flocked by the thousands to have this opportunity
And now I'm talking about food and drink. Do you believe this family and I'm sorry I keep hitting my mic
I'll move it over here
Do you believe this family?
Have the opportunity of you going down to Safeway
Let's talk about our food options
I should have asked, but I'm going to speak to my wife for a minute.
She likes raspberries in the middle of winter.
Actually, she doesn't care what the weather is outside.
She just likes berries.
Now, many of you go, oh, you know, they're not in season.
They're not the best they could be.
Do you know most people that live in this climate in North
has probably never experienced blueberries, raspberries?
Like, we had strawberries here.
We did have raspberries.
So let me think of other fruit.
How about mangoes?
How about jackfruit? How about cantaloupes? How about melons? These things didn't exist here
Do you think if you lived in Spokane a hundred years ago that you even had the opportunity in your lifetime to
Experience the things we walk by and do not care at all
What's in that farmers market or not even fun? No, sorry farmers markets that elevate a thing. How about safe way?
Because safe way is literally such a luxury
And I'm going to tell you this, I'm not going to, I'll try not to go do too many rabbit
tales.
Do you understand that the Soviet Union collapsed because their leadership came to an American
supermarket in 1990?
You say that's crazy.
They went to a supermarket in America and saw what our peasants got, and they said,
we have completely failed and lost.
I don't think that's taught anymore, but that's a true story.
Gorbachev saw an American supermarket and went,
capitalism has won.
We have failed our people, and it collapsed.
But you're like, but they don't have the apples I like.
Why don't they have Crosmond crisp right now?
It's only golden delicious and honey crisp.
Right?
We can be so picky, we're like,
I want the most exotic, limited, specific apple,
and it only comes like nine times a year.
Let me tell you about food.
Okay.
Do they look like they have a freezer?
Where you're like, well, it's a good deal right now.
I think I'll buy and maybe in a few months I'll eat it.
Do they have a fridge?
If this lady
Got lucky enough to get fresh anything. She's either going to preserve it immediately
Like in vinegar salt or you're gonna have to eat it immediately because it's going to rock
Let me tell you this
I'm not using this example because it was an extreme.
I'm just saying because this was my grandparents' generation.
Yes, my grandparents and my parents had late children
just like I am.
So we kind of, maybe a little further,
maybe it was your great grandparents,
but my grandparents lived through this.
And you know what?
This is what opportunity and thankfulness look like
to my grandparents, because they got work
and that got them to feed.
Let me tell you, as despite as they're like,
I'm just going to use this standard that this woman who did not probably have the health care
We have down the street is obviously healthy enough to have money children
So she's getting what she needs and they're obviously living life and understand how did are the patriarchs of the Bible live?
In a tent
This is normal if you want to look at history. This is what normal is
This is stuff that royalty themselves a hundred years ago could not possibly have.
To have ice cream at any time was not an option.
So if you can walk away today and wonder,
let me explain food in America.
This is the quickest way to explain the blessings that we should be thinkable about.
What is listed as the greatest problem or health concern with who is considered
poor in America? Obesity. We have such a plinthra of food that our generation, I'm
just using words that people, the peasantry are dying because they're
think you have to read many books to learn that you know obesity was not what was wiping
people out 400 years ago.
Royalty was viewed as royalty because they're the only ones that could put weight on.
So if nothing else how about just the quantity how about the quality and how about the plethora of food?
You're like, but you don't understand there was more vitamins
It was more natural and all this hey you have that option that anything the person in the tent a hundred years live to go
You have opportunity to have
So if you want to go back and I learned this word from you know, brother Thompson here
I never heard it before crunchy lifestyle. You want to be super healthy and natural. I had to look that out
I didn't know what that meant, but but you can
And let me tell you this.
Why a lot of people know it is,
hey, you think that the lady in the tent?
Do you think she was like,
ugh, my husband better give me
more 30 minute options to cook food?
Do you think the microwave helped her get stuff done?
I am going to go on a limb and say
a great amount of her time was managing that household.
Clothing and fizzing all those children plus the few hours a day that the husband came home because they worked
Seven days a week on this product. It was a mega project. It was out there. I think they had Christmas in
One other day off guaranteed and other than that you better be dying from a sickness or you get fired because thousands of people
fled
to live like this
This was opportunity a thousand years ago. I'm sorry
100 years ago. I'm old, I ain't that old. Okay, so I just, hey, maybe be thankful. Now here's the
thing is, it also says in Isaiah 12 verse 3, it says, therefore with joy shall ye draw waters out
of the wells of salvation. The Bible uses metaphors that everyone throughout time should realize, but
here's the thing is, if you're not living in the desert, not drinking from the well, maybe this
Salvation is so sweet and refreshing to your very being it is I like you taking pure water and drinking that and for those
That have gone out and worked or suffered or hey, you were just sunbathing for so long. You're like, whoa, I need some water
That is a refreshing moment within your life. And that's how they refer to salvation now
Let me tell you this if food just abundance that we have how about water
Because here's the thing I won't even go back now
I'm sure the water that they got probably was not, you know, the most high purified,
you know, a perfect pH balance or whatever you get from a bottle from the store now.
But let's not go 100 years ago.
How about when I was in Afghanistan a few years ago?
This was a normal sight throughout Kabul.
In many countries now, in 100 years ago, it absolutely was not.
In America, now my mother, and I grant you, she had me late, so this might blow your mind.
She remembers when they built the water closet in her house, in high school.
They did not have a working toilet.
Until she was in high school, they had an outhouse.
Families spend many hours of their day lining up to where there are few well pumps that are allowed for people to go
And this is what not every day. That's why they have so many buckets
But at least once a week if not more they had to go down and spend their life just to get an essential to live
But Spokane water tastes funky, so I mean, I don't really like the tap
Like, we are so blessed in America that we forget what not being blessed is like.
And I'm not using these examples like, well, a thousand years ago during a famine.
How about just common life?
Hey, if we want to think back to the pioneer times and, you know, manifest destiny, do
you think they just had the freshest bottled water all the time?
And I won't go through all that, but I'm just saying a lot of diseases that wiped out people through all at all times was brown water issues and
Now we're just like
My pH back I some days I need high pH balance
So I go with you know pH water and sometimes I need low so I just it balances me
And that's you God bless you not a sin you do what you want, but can you at least take them home be like God?
Thank you. I have this option
Thank you that I don't have to drink water that literally tastes like the animal
I pulled out of it because somebody it fell in and died and I wanted to clean my water
But I can't die from not drinking water. I will die if I don't drink it. So I still got to drink it
Most of you would be disgusted if you saw so and please don't go down the Spokane River
There are other issues and just drink straight straight from the water, but do you understand from?
Adam to now, that's the common thing.
Open water, however it is, straight to mouth.
Most of us are like, ugh.
Be thankful.
Give God praise that you were born in a time like this,
that clean water and food is literally so abundant
that you can be choosy at wherever you are in life.
Yeah.
Be thankful.
How about housing?
I'm gonna bring this up, and I just, this one photo.
Here's the thing, if you can't see, they're smiling.
I know most people who look at this photo are just like,
ugh, this is probably the first time in years
the husband's working, they're feeling, they have hope,
they're looking forward, the family's going,
maybe she can have a few more.
What, don't you have enough?
That's a modern idea.
America, when it was first founded,
was an average 14 children per family.
Average, that's the normal.
People had more, they had less.
Fourteen, she's behind.
But here's the thing.
If you thought this was bad,
do you know how they lived in New York?
It was the biggest city, it was a world wonder.
About two to 300 square feet for a family.
Most of us be like well, that's a really small condo. I guess I can live there with my cat. No, no, no
That's what fat like bunk beds and the parents got the bottom
There's no such thing as privacy
This is the land of opportunity and freedom during the time that we were known through the world to be such
And you think you're six hundred eight foot hundred foot of butter like man
I just I don't know if anyone's ever lived in such small thing like
And then we have things that I think are like witchcraft like AC
I mean the workers of AC like
I'm just over here
But think for a minute
How many of you experienced every 100 degree day inside your house this year?
Hey, one out of how many?
Because I know in my house, if it gets above 72,
I'm like, well, goodbye, global cooling.
I'm jacking this thing up because we have the power to control the environment.
Doing this for 12 hours. There was no such thing for royalty
You could be the most powerful wealthy person in the world that could not even imagine
These simple creature comforts that you have and here's the thing is I
Have always had like because I hate the heat so much. It's a villain to me
sometimes I would not pay for heat because I'll put on a sweater but I will
tell you during every summer I paid for AC. If that meant I had less quality food
I paid for AC but I had that choice. Why? Because we live in a time that is
insane. Now I just heard hey sometimes hey we still got to clean we still got to
maintain we still have to do that and sometimes you know compared to everyone
else we feel like we're a little bit lower but hey if you compare to just the
How are you doing and
You're like well, you know, I'm having to rant. I just I'm not gonna invest. I don't know what to pass down
Hey, I understand the concern, but do you think they own this land?
Think they're setting up a homestead that you know is passed down to generations now
No, as soon as humor damned it this whole thing called hoover civvy collapsed minus
like
200 people that maintained the dam it was I think I'm going to get this number on
I should look this up as I'm using this example, but I think
12,000 to 25,000 workers came to the middle of the desert to work on this project and they were happy and like I said
You missed two days in a row
You were fired because there are people in line waiting to take your job to live
Like this and do you know they lost like a thousand people through the years just from heat exhaust from sickness through
disease going through the camp and as soon as they're dead people are lining up to get it.
You might want to be thankful for the housing you have whatever that is and I know we're all
come from different situations but what we view as low now even 50 years ago may have been seen
Why don't we be thankful? I mean it says and my people shall dwell in the peaceful habitations and sure dwellings in a quiet resting place in Isaiah I
Honestly believe that most people unless you have family
drama
Probably can fulfill this verse right now to what God is promising his chosen people in the future
Our living situations are so nice that we have if we look through time from Adam to now
think we I mean we should fall down and give thanks to God like what a beautiful
time to be alive what a beautiful time to start a family what a beautiful time
to just be let's be thankful how about laboring jobs I told you about Hoover you
know Hoover damn how about this literally up until the 1950s
America averaged about 60 to 75 hours a week.
That was normal.
If you go back another 100 years, it was 80 to 90.
You would get Sunday off,
but you were expected 12 to 16 hours a day other than that.
Some people were like, that's not possible.
Well, in the military, they worked me a minimum
of 12 hours a day, seven days a week
for a whole year in Afghanistan.
You adapt.
But I'll tell you this most people don't understand like cuz I know there's a big movement be like 40s too much
There's no way like what about me
And hey, if you have the ability to not do that and you have different sound, I'm not mad at you
You should just be thankful
Because many people throughout the world right now and Americans have a problem because you know age one be one people come in
They're coming for a society that says 18 a days, you know hours seven days a week. You got it
It's really hard for Americans to compete
And I'm not telling you this but I'm just saying if you can sustain yourself on 40 hours
You're doing pretty good
You're you actually have more time than most people did before and there are other balances here
But here's the thing the French Revolution because you're like well
We just need that we just need to change like this whole thing of like this
We just got to change hey during the French Revolution when they did a liberal revolt and we're like we're gonna improve things
We drop this part of the metric system. I don't know if we're going to metric
Why don't we do the full metric system? It was 10 days each day is 10 hours
Each hour is 100 minutes each minute is 100 seconds
But here's the thing is you get one day off in that week
So now we've gone from one and seven days because the backwards Christians said one and seven
The liberal pros like that's wasteful. How would you like to go because right now?
Let's just let's just say you have a normal American anyway
I know everyone's different here, but the American normal right now is you have you have five days and two days off
Which mean in a month you probably have about eight to nine days off
Just built in
The liberal revolution of the French said, how about three?
That didn't work.
That's how you had the atheist country go
merely back to fundamental Catholic under Napoleon.
And they're like, well, we get more days off.
So whatever God you want to put there, great.
And I won't go into that.
They were worshiping Greek gods for a few years.
But what I'm saying is this,
if you can work and you can find a job,
You work more or less that's up to you
But I'm just saying if it is possible that you even get a days off a week beyond just Sundays
Or how about just Sundays?
Because there are people that work I work with people for whatever reason they choose. They just don't take time off ever
That can be hard on you, but hey, that's normal
Even up until the 80s the Soviet Union who was for the people all that and we just need we need socialism the country
Understand they enforced six days a week
48 hours a week was the minimum you were going to work to live in the People's Republic
Because why like it's for it's for the people. It's for the state. What are you gonna do be at home and be a lazy capitalist?
And I can go in this but I'm just saying
The safety standards that we have
We have I mean, let me tell you if you look at the stats of a hundred years ago
What how many men died?
And if you want to understand the value of men and women you just have to do this
Men made sure pretty much every household had dishwashers
Clothes clothing machines heating and cooling before we implemented. Hey men if you're in a coal mine put mask on
Pretty much every woman had all their jobs simplified before we're like, well, I guess a lot of men are dying
I guess we could implement this very simple
I mean, I'm just gonna tell you a mask that blocks cold dust is a little bit simpler than the entire modern
luxuries we have in the home
But men's lives haven't cared they haven't mattered
But now we have an entire system that if you go to work and somehow they endanger your life
You're liable to never have to work again, and I'm not saying the right and wrong of that
But I'm just saying you live in a time that if you go work, and you are forced to do something dangerous
You're probably going to be compensated
Let me tell you this if you were a dynamite handler or a nitroglycerin handler
You were expected 18 months to live hope you enjoy it, and that's how we built the railroads in America
All I'm saying is, can we be thankful about any part of our job and where we live today?
I don't know if I read the verse.
Sorry, I forgot to read this part, but the next is 20 in verse 9, it says,
6 days thou shalt labor and do all thy work.
Let me tell you this, sometimes I think we think of labor and we think of that as just getting paid.
I honestly think God also means that's maintaining your house, doing all that,
like you can work that however you want.
We should be thankful for even the jobs that we have because let me tell you if you look around the world
And yes, I know not everyone here in war zones are probably not the best way to get a feel of how the world is
But that's how I did most of my traveling
And let me tell you this
The way that they were able to be thankful because they were able to find any work
Which means they were able to bring any food home and yet they still had better attitudes than most Americans
And let me know, hey, a joyful spirit is like a medicine.
All right, being thankful is like a medicine
to your very soul.
Because let me tell you this, in Afghanistan specifically,
the thought that you can plan six months out
is literally not in their mind.
Everything is, inshallah, God will it.
Like, God wills it, maybe it will happen.
Why?
They've been at war for 30 years with everything blown up.
They don't have a long term planning process but every day they're like,
I got to eat something. I even made a little bit of money and I actually got
some water today. Things are looking good.
I'm not telling you as an American that that's your attitude,
but can we be thankful that that's not even a good.
I'm just going to go on a limb.
The vast majority of people in here are not being like,
I don't know where I'm going to sleep tonight.
I don't know if I'll ever eat again,
and I'm dying of thirst.
You have just eliminated the biggest causes for people to be
motivated to do anything throughout history.
Praise the Lord.
We have focuses that most people could not even comprehend.
Now here's the thing is let's just say things go wrong. I mean hey man. I mean our lifestyle now. It's sedentary
I mean you might look like this an office worker. I
Mean that's the horrors of a modern life and let me tell you man
We just go to the doctors all the time and all this well hey
And third John 1, it says, beloved,
I wish above all things that thou may
as prosper and be in health even as I so prosper.
How can we be thankful for the health that we have in America?
How about the health care that we have?
You're like, it's expensive, but we have it.
I'm not going to argue what's a better system than that,
but let me tell you this.
At least the doctors did not tell me have you I thought about suicide, which are northern neighbors
That's pretty much their first diagnosis now because it's so much more effect
It's so cheaper on the state if you just kill yourself
And I'm not trying to be dark that is a literal thing if you did not know in Canada, they will offer suicide
But let me tell you this even that
This is an average operating room about 120 years ago. This was high science
It was done in the university, very normal, and you'd have a lot of men, some of them probably smoking,
watching you get cut.
Why there's so many men there is because, you know, the sedatives,
many of you get put out to have dentist work here.
I didn't know that that was even an option, but...
Alright, so...
We get painkillers, so we don't feel pain to get our painkillers now
Like people get gas, novocaine, and then shot just so you feel no discomfort and God bless you
God bless you. What a time to live a life. Do you know why there's so many men around this table?
Because what they're very likely after giving you a few shots of whatever they had
You're it's numbing you, but it's not killing those nerves
They're about to cut into you hopefully to save your life, but you get to be there with them
I'm not gonna ask for around the hands, but it's on average most of us through our life are going to go through a surgery or two
How would you like to be there?
presently mentally
listening
and I'm not trying to gross you out but I want you to be understanding the time we
live in is crazily blessed. Even like there are things that happen to us right
now that would be life altering in ending.
I like I live in a neighborhood of a lot of retired people and they like to me
They're like be on it like bionic people
They're like I don't have hit like the hips aren't real the kneels aren't real the shoulder ain't real
Like I mean basically we're almost cyborgs at this point and they're always like huh. I lost my entire hip
Which I'm gonna tell you that meant you're gonna lay on a bed and slowly die
50 years ago all the way back to Adam and now they're like
Took me like two months to feel better, and now I'm golfing again
And I like I'm not trying to mock this like cuz let me tell you if you tell me your hips going on
You're about to have surgery and that is a long painful recovery for you
I am emphasizing with you my main point is this can we be thankful that that's even an option
We live in a time that blessings beyond blessings what people would have prayed to God
It would have been a miracle that they would have overcome is so common people plan out their replacement
Sir like at least in my job. They're like well
Five years before I retire. I'm gonna get this replaced and two years before I go and then right before I go
I'm gonna get my whole hand rebuilt
Like we live in a time that is beyond anything and hey within my within our lifetime
Things have happened. When I was a little kid, if you had your fingers cut off, you no longer have fingers.
We now have surgery that if you act fast enough, we can reattach appendages and they will work again.
Let me tell you, I'm not anti-science. I know that's a thing thrown at fundamentalist. I want you to be thankful, like what a crazy time we live.
What an amazing time we live. What a thing we should be thankful that in a time like this I could bring a family forth
I get to live in this way until I die unless society completely collapses because the end has come.
I mean if I get a boo boo, I go to the doctor and he does more than just kiss and say good luck.
Which a hundred years ago
That was almost the level of what we had we cut it off and hope you don't die when I cut it off
And then hopefully you live a few more years. That was high surgery
And I won't gross you out with anymore
But like if you want to look into civil war surgery because that's where we got a lot of our practices for the next hundred years
Those keep me up at night to think that that was real
But I'm just telling you, let's be thankful.
How about life, the length of life?
In Proverbs 16 and 31, it says,
the hoary head is a crown of glory.
It is the found in the way of righteousness.
And let me tell you this.
Hey, I know the way, you know, we're like,
oh, people average to live 30 years.
Well, there was more, so many people died young.
And then, you know, it kind of worked out that.
But let me tell you, I think about this because
I know I'm above what they said the average
I'm now above the average age I'd like by mathematical statistics. I should be dead throughout the whole time since Adam till now
I'm at least thankful. I'm not I
Don't know about you guys, but you know
Can I be thankful that I pretty much feel that I probably got a few more decades just normally?
In most countries, that's not the way you think you're like as soon as I can't work
My family needs to get rid of me because it's hard on us
I live in a neighborhood where 80 and 90,
they're still living on their own
because of our healthcare, because the quality of our food,
because of water access, because the housing they live in.
Like we live in a time that we can pretty much get
beyond what they said was the normal time,
because...
You know three score years and maybe a few more if you're lucky like six
We're expected to work past that now on America because they're like you guys aren't dying fast enough
You got to work until 65 maybe 67 before your retirement could kick in
You're like why people like whoa, I'll never get to retire like dude. You're expected to be able to work
Do you know, you know, 100 years ago, if you were 30, 40 years old still able to work,
they're like, man, good job.
How'd you survive the coal mines?
We haven't given you a mask yet, but hey, good job.
Can we be thankful for the life that we get to live?
And here's the thing, this is a general topic, but technology.
We have wonders in our pocket that literally all humanity would have said is not really like if you would have tried to go back and
explain to someone
How a phone like your smartphone works?
They would probably kill you because you're describing witchcraft
And here's the thing is if you think you're you know, no, I'll logically explain to them
I'll explain this to technology if I take you leave you in the woods with a hatchet. How long do you send me an email?
You're not explaining this all right. I don't care if it's the most normal thing every kid will grow up right now be like
Like my own godchild 15 years ago. Literally we're watching a movie which I got informed was old
I didn't know that yet about myself
But in the movie they walked over and picked up this piece of plastic off the wall. It was like hello
She's like
What are they doing?
I said, well, that's a phone.
They're like, why would you keep it on the wall?
Well, because there's a cord connected to it.
They're like, that's stupid.
I was like, well, you don't understand.
My house are fa...
Oh.
You know how my parents flaunt money?
A lot of you don't remember this bling.
I'm talking like we were flaunting our money.
We had like a 35-foot core that wind up.
Whoo!
I could walk into the room and sit down with it.
Not everybody had that type of luxury.
I know Coralus phone was wild.
My parents didn't get it because they said cancer is going to come from it.
I can't imagine what they think about cell phones now.
But I'm just telling you, high technology is very strange.
And if you don't know what this is, people don't even know what an operator is now.
But let me explain this.
And it's like, I would like to talk to Jason Graber.
Hold on a minute.
And basically, they would pass down the line.
It was long distance.
So you had to have a connection to the entire city.
And there are people lined up that
had to remember every single person's location
and the entire network to plug a wire in.
And that's how you got to talk to people.
Yeah.
This is not I you're like those before my time. I know I'm a hoary head at this point
But this was literally so sophisticated that other countries said America is living in the deep future. This is sci-fi
And I'm gonna tell you that's nothing compared to what we have now
That is this this is actually
That's a good point. He said this is old-school to AI. Do you know one AI company just folded because actually it wasn't AI?
It was like 10,000 Indians
So you type in a question and they're sending it to like 10,000 programmers. They turn it up. They're like, this is amazing technology
It was just that's the funniest scam I've ever heard but anyway
Anyway, that's funny
But can we not be thankful?
How about entertainment in Proverbs 15 and 13 it says a merry heart make it the cheerful contents
But a sorrow the sorrow of the heart is the spirit broken. Hey
God wants you to have some good time. Hey times can be hard work is hard life can get us down
But you know, you should refresh yourself every now and then and I don't know how you entertain yourself
And if you like this, that's fine. It is not a sin what I'm about to show you, but I'm just using an example
You know, 200 years ago, you know what entertainment would be?
How about we take wood, we're going to carve shoes out of it that are uncomfortable, and
we're going to try to dance in the most uncomfortable dumb shoes because it's silly, and, hey, that's
high entertainment.
And I'm not, there's nothing wrong with this.
You go clog it all you want, but I'm just saying, do you have more options now?
I'm just saying, I already talked about the wonder machine that's in your pocket.
Can we be thankful for what you...
Let me tell you this.
Do you know some people would spend months at a time saving up enough money so they could
go here and orchestra?
How many of you listen to music today outside of the singing we did for you are you you participated in but I'm going to tell you this
Listening to music was a high luxury that you did it fast
This is why and I believe music was probably better because every household had someone to play music because somebody had to do something
Because the nights are long and dark
People played music and music was a great thing, but you can hear the highest quality audio
recording that is better than the human ear can receive of any type of music
genre and time or storytelling directly to you know your to headphones or
whatever you listen to or you can blare it on your beats blasting down the road
thumping us all out of the lane but this is something that was not even
You know, the elders that are still alive might remember vinyls.
They were not the highest quality speakers.
There's a lot of static.
And now, if you had that, you would call YouTube and be like,
I want my five bucks a month back. How dare you give me such bad stuff?
And here's the thing is, I'm not for against,
you do whatever you want for entertainment.
All I'm saying is, you should be very, very thankful
of all the things as life has given you so much free time,
even if you work your full-time,
even if you work multiple full-time jobs,
the entertainment we have while driving,
which is probably unsafe,
but you can engage in stuff that literally 99%
of all people that are old times could have never experienced.
And I just think, be thankful.
In Proverbs 31 and verse seven,
I have a few more of these.
I know they're not all connected, but just stick with me.
Proverbs 31, verse 27,
she looketh well to the way of her household
and eateth not the bread of idleness.
If I go back to that lady in a tent,
do you think she had the bread of idleness?
Do you believe?
She had it very easy
She probably had to work morning to night to maintain the household you're like, but it's a tent
She's got to feed clothes clean all those clothes keep the house as clean as you could be feed
Go through endless amount of labor endless amount of that and you know where people were thankful
This is just about a hundred years ago. Let me read you an advertisement here
Okay
This is a washing machine when they like first came like high technology. We're living in the future. This is like the Jetsons
This is happy stays washing machine
It saves time labor nerves clothes strength and transforms those blue Mondays
Which I assume is when they usually did laundry after Sunday
Into a bright happy day happy day washing machines and look she's happy
Now if you can't tell what's going on here, it's a barrel and she's got a rod and
she's gonna sit there and
pump it herself
Pumping
How long is your like I always said it on the short because I who got time for that like I'm done like 30 minutes for the short run
I don't know what a normal runtime is, but let's just go short
30 minutes you sit in there and you're pumping and people are like
Whoo, that sounds awesome!
If you love me, you're going to get this for our anniversary.
I'll tell you right now.
Does that sound awesome to you?
You probably live in a blessed time.
Because this is what, this is like, I mean, can you imagine, like...
You're not down there in the river.
You're not there with your hands getting
wrinkled as that and your water there.
You're just scraping.
And if someone here could explain to me what a wash,
I know a wash where you take the clothes
and you rub it against that weird metal thing.
If anyone could explain to me how that heck that works,
but that's beyond me.
That's black magic too, I guess.
I don't understand a lot.
But.
But here's the thing is this is essentially exactly what you have at home except metal
Operated it has a little thing that turns it around, but you're cranking it
And she's happy
They're it's literally called happy days
They knew women wanted this why this was such a gift to them
It saved them labor their arms aren't soaked in lie and just you know, that's what we did it would stain your skin
Like and this is how they wash it's spent all day in their hands in a bucket of water
Let me tell you this
We always had that picture like it's a sunny day. They're washing clothes. It's drying on the Sun
And I mean even down to commercials like oh, it's so sometime fresh
You live in the Northwest you know half the year it ain't outside, right?
You're cooking in here, and you've got some boiling water clothes of filth here, and you're scrubbing it inside your house
It's going to be really damp, and then you're hanging the clothes near the fireplace the only part of warmth
And I'm not saying like understand that's most of humanity back to Adam
Most of you be like, uh, grow like
Send it to a laundromat, you know
All I'm saying is can we be thankful?
I mean, even ladies, I know I've talked about laboring men
and all this, like, understand dishwashers, laundry machines.
I mean, you know, feet soaking devices that vibrate.
I mean, women got a whole bunch of stuff right now.
I mean, like, it's a good time.
And I know this crazy.
It's coming from the Patriot article, you know,
controlling people that it's a good time to be a lady.
It's a good time to be a fundamental Baptist lady. I mean, there are a lot of things given to you and so what hey
The God says hey, and here's the thing is certain manual laborers take away. Is it still hard to run the house?
It absolutely is it's time-fulfilling and now all of a sudden homeschooling and all this there's so many things to do
But a lot of the manual labor and the hard things have been taken down
And we can go on and on and on
The Proverbs 1 verse 5, it says,
a white man here and will increase the learning
and a man of understanding shall attain a Dwight Council.
Let me tell you this, there has never been a time
if you want to be smart.
And you're like, well, public school,
let me tell you, public school doesn't control learning.
It certifies the whole job of colleges. I've been certified. I learned this but I'll tell you this if you just have an interest
I want to learn pretty much education of any specialty
From literally how to paint a you know furniture to literally a high-level
Mathematician orbital science
free on YouTube
If you want every single mat like if you want every book that literally Einstein grew up on its free PDF
online
You can read whatever great master piece,
educational piece, you can be taught.
We now I guess can take Apple iPods,
put that in our here and we'll
instantly learn every other language,
or we can talk to everyone.
What a time to be alive.
When people say, in a time like this,
you want to bring a child in,
what other time would I want to
bring a child into this world?
What other time would be better to be here,
to be now, to have hope for
the future and to raise the next generation?
How about the Bible?
First Timothy 4 and 1st 13, it says,
till I come, give it to the reading,
exhortation, and doctrine.
You know, in America, since they're based on our foundation,
pretty much every household has had a Bible.
We used to have traveling Bible salesmen,
but I mean, whether on your phone and paper,
it's given to you free.
It'll be shipped to you.
It'll be put into any translation that you want.
It can be given to you, and you can have it.
And understand in the last few hundred years that's been fairly normal. It's even more prevalent now and you can have it read to you
You're like, oh, I don't like that voice choose one of the other
900 different readings of the Bible that you want even in the King James Bible directly to your at the speed that you want
Let's speed that up 1.25. Thank you very much
Or you're like, ooh, man, we're an Ezekiel.
Let's put that to 0.5 because I cannot keep up, all right?
What is going on here?
And you can have it read to you.
What do I mean?
Outside of the high servants of
a lady sitting there having her servant read her the Bible,
how would that ever be possible?
Most of us could finish the Bible in
like a month just in our commute.
We live in a time that literally even the word of God has literally handed us in any possible way
And it's sad that most Christians could look you in the face be like I hope someday to finish it
Dude you finish five seasons of walking dead
last week
And I'm sorry like that that's I'm sure it on Godly show I've never seen it
But at work people talk about these things take take whatever show you want
Let me tell you
The Bible is not as long as the novel's Game of Thrones or, you know, whatever you want to put in there.
It's actually shorter than most people's entertainment they do on a normal weekly day.
And we're like, well, one year if you spend 15 minutes, yeah, most, like I'm just going to say, the average I believe is 22 hours of TV a week.
Do you know how much Bible you get done?
And I'm not telling anyone to do this because that would be hypocritical to me.
I don't spend that much time unless, you know, maybe when I was doing three sermons a week,
but that's a whole different thing.
But I'll tell you this, if anyone tells me in the modern life they could not get through
the Bible, I'm going to be like, you just don't care.
That's the that's actually the only excuse because I'm gonna tell you this even if you are completely
Literate you could finish your Bible probably faster because I can listen a lot faster than I can read and I read a lot
But I'll tell you I can take in audible information faster than I can read
So what a time to be alive?
There is literally not an excuse you can be blind and have the Bible read to you at ease at any time on
Literally a government government provided phone if you can't even up for the phone
It can literally be handed to you.
How about the gospel?
Mark 16 verse 16, it says,
and he said unto them,
go ye into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature.
What a time to be alive.
Can you imagine traveling in times of reform?
People would have to literally walk there.
Maybe they're lucky to have a horse
to drag you in the open weather.
Most of you are going to get in a car and travel
more than most people did in a year,
probably to commute to this church, some of you.
We travel all the time and comfort you know environmentally controlled with you know, whatever music we want listened to us probably with a heated seat
Because by gosh, I don't want my backside be cold while I'm driving
And it's hard to go talk to people
We should travel all the world and like I said we can turn online and literally have AI
Take my broken English and translate into Mandarin
Hopefully well, but I'm just saying the opportunities to actually go out and reach people that are not able to communicate with you before
literally a year ago
Like you might be able to use AI to translate electrolyte before that you had to have someone who was an expertise in that tongue
It was literally a great miracle in the Bible that people could communicate in multiple tongues at once
And now we are literally using AI,
and I guess you can do it immediately.
I haven't yet to try it, but do not tell me
the opportunity to give the gospel is going down.
It is going up.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to try to start a soul winning movement,
because let me tell you this,
how many people are coming to America
that are from all around the world?
Let me tell you, you don't even have to travel
now to reach the world.
How about we reach them right next to our houses
and then send them back home
and get the gospel that way?
What a time to be alive! What a time to be a fundamental Christian!
What a time to try to change the world!
Better, easier right now than it has ever been!
So don't tell me what about, you know, how could you in the time like this?
This is the time to be alive. This is where we want to be.
In Proverbs 17 and 22, I've read many times,
a merry heart does good, like a medicine,
but a broken spirit drives the bones.
Take anything I've said or come up with your own
and actually think of the blessings that you have.
The blessings that you have,
even things that you've never been thankful for,
can you stop and go,
could my great grandmother have been thankful for this?
It probably would have been better
than anything she could have ever hoped for.
Could I be thankful for what my kids might have? Because let me tell you this, the way we're going,
things are going to be vastly changed and probably better. Many aspects will be better.
Well, I think morals are going down. Great Christian, get out there and fix it.
Because society, infrastructure, travel, communication is all improving with our medical
things coming out with miracles every year to keep us here on this planet. Can't we go out and change
I'm going to tell you this, when they say what time is it like now?
No other time would have been better.
I wish to, you know, I thank God that I'm bringing a child in at a time like now to move forward
where we are right now, because I think the blessings and hopes that they have in the
future may be better than the opportunities that we've ever seen in our life.
What a blessed time that we're in how the have the medicine of happy thoughts in your head every now then
Thank God sit down and be thankful
Regularly with God for the things that you have in your life
And with that, let's pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you so much today.
Thank you so much for allowing me to preach this.
I hope other people will be edified
in the wonders and blessings that we have.
Lord, we can be pulled down by the news and things
and the concerns of our life, which are really affect us.
But Lord, sometimes we just need to be thankful for things
we don't even have to worry about anymore
and things that are a blessing beyond blessing
that even people in the rest of the world
cannot even comprehend that there are people like us
living like the way we do.
In all things, give thanks to Jesus.
Amen.
page number 66 at Calvary page number 66 all right we'll sing it out on the
Years I spent in vanity and pride,
Caring not my Lord was crucified.
No.
By God's word, at last my sin I'd learn That I trembled at the law-hide-sperm
Till my guilty soul and plow-ring turned to
salvation's plan. Oh, the grace that brought it down to...
Jesus, yeah.
excellent singing everybody but the rinds you please close this award a prayer