lost or confused or you need to be saved, no.
Just any of those things, just scan that code
and that'll get you inside the WhatsApp group.
So the meetup time is 930 a.m. for coffee and donuts,
I think.
Are we gonna have coffee and donuts?
I didn't get that part of it.
Where's Brother Justin, yes?
Just coffee, okay.
So eat at your hotel.
And there will be pizza provided at lunch
after the first full morning session's over.
Lunch is 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., we'll be catering in some pizza.
And we're gonna try, hopefully it's good.
We got some guys that actually live here in the area
and they said this pizza's pretty good.
So if it's not, then you can talk to them.
Anyway, so then there'll be a second session of soul winning.
And we will be, the baptism will be available.
Is there anybody that was wanting to be baptized
during this mission strip, or not mission strip yet?
Okay, one, two, three.
Anybody else? Four.
Anybody else want to get rebaptized?
Just kidding, all right.
So cool, we got some baptisms.
Just make sure that you have everything you need.
I'm sure that you'll make sure
your kids got what they need and yeah.
So, but we will be baptizing.
The water's supposed to be ready to go.
So I appreciate the pastor being hospitable to us
and allowing us to use the church.
So let's be respectful that we got a place
we can kind of hang out for the day.
Sunday, we're actually gonna be going
to First Baptist Church for church services.
If you wanna go to the church in Cicero,
I mean, I wouldn't be opposed to that either.
But I just kinda wanna go there to visit
just to, it's kind of like a,
just something I wanna scratch off on my bucket list.
So I'm older than you guys.
So my bucket is getting closer than yours.
So anyway, I would just like to go visit there
and just see, experience it for, you know,
just to say I did.
So anyway, and hopefully we'll be blessed
by the services there.
I'm sure we will be.
Monday is kind of a free day.
And also in between services on,
the service times at First Baptist Church are there.
I'm sure they have soul hunting in between.
I would guess that they do.
But we can also provide some maps
if you guys need to just want to go out with our people.
That's fine too.
So we'll make sure that if you want to do extra soul hunting,
we can provide, you know, extra opportunities for you.
It's no problem.
So, and then Monday you can,
we'll have optional maps also,
if you don't want to do sightseeing,
if you're just like,
I want to just get the whole spiritual experience.
I don't care about the sites.
It's all flat.
That's fine.
It is pretty flat here.
So, but there's some pretty cool stuff to see
in Chicago, I guess.
So I think some of us are wanting to go
to a baseball game on Monday.
So we'll see how that goes.
But anyway, that's all I have for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing another song.
Brother, son, Dylan, come on up and sing.
Haven't got to say that in a long time.
- I know, right?
- This guy's birthday was yesterday.
So everybody say happy birthday to brother Dylan.
- Thank you.
- And he's, what, 35?
No, 27.
We'll sing another song.
- All right, let's go.
♪ Forevermore at the golden shore ♪
♪ What a glorious day that will be ♪
♪ My Jesus I shall see ♪
♪ Love's face saved me by his grace ♪
♪ He ♪
- You need have to accept life by thought
and by the oppression.
You need have to expect the bottomless.
(indistinct)
♪ Will the fire of conscience ♪
♪ And melt it ♪
♪ So will I gather you in my anger ♪
♪ And my fear ♪
♪ I will lead you there ♪
♪ Day I will gather you ♪
♪ And blow upon you ♪
♪ Fire of my wrath ♪
♪ You will meet ♪
♪ It shall be melted ♪
♪ And killed for ♪
♪ You will know there's melted in the midst ♪
♪ So shall be the melted ♪
♪ You shall know that I the Lord ♪
♪ Have poured out my fury upon you ♪
♪ And the word of the Lord came on the sand ♪
♪ On a mansion ♪
♪ Say unto me ♪
♪ Thou art the land that is not clinging ♪
♪ Not rain ♪
♪ Nor rain upon the day of its indignation ♪
♪ There is a conspiracy of a prophecy ♪
♪ In the midst thereof ♪
♪ Like a roaring lion grabbing me in prey ♪
♪ They have devoured souls ♪
♪ They have taken the treasure and the precious thing ♪
♪ They have made her many widows in the midst thereof ♪
♪ Her creeps have violated my law and test ♪
♪ For fainting my poisons ♪
♪ They have put no difference between the holy and the fainting ♪
♪ Matters they show difference between unclean and in their eyes ♪
♪ For the test, for my past and my future ♪
♪ For fainting among the blood, prophets, prophets ♪
♪ And the unkind from the team banding ♪
♪ Binding lives under the blood-slinging of the gods ♪
♪ For the land and the waters of the world ♪
♪ And the souls that are being won ♪
- Please give power while we go, and no preaching.
- Amen. - Amen.
- Amen.
I want to also say thank you to Brother Justin and his wife
for all the effort put into making this happen,
and all the church family
from the Indianapolis Church Plant.
I just really appreciate it,
and want to say thank you
for all the hard work you've been doing.
And you've been doing a lot of great works.
A lot of people have been getting saved.
So it wasn't a mistake in starting that church.
And when people are getting saved,
it's never a mistake. Amen.
No regrets.
So we have here in Ezekiel chapter 22
a very famous portion of scripture here.
And let's look at verse number 30.
The Bible says, "And I sought for a man among them
that should make up the hedge
and stand in the gap before me for the land,
that I should not destroy it, but I found none."
The Bible teaches this principle that's very important.
There's certain men that are very important
for the actual land,
the places where people live,
that if there's not a man to stand in the gap for the Lord,
someone to fight the Lord's battles
and to preach the Word of God
and to motivate people to do what's right,
then what's it say?
That I should not destroy it, but I found none.
So when God doesn't find men to stand in the gap,
then that place eventually is going to get destroyed
because men eventually will corrupt themselves
and God then has to judge sin.
Look at verse 31, the Bible says,
"Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them.
"I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath.
"Their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,
"saith the Lord God."
It's very sad when things like this happen,
when nations destroy themselves,
when cities destroy themselves, when places destroy themselves,
when the land gets so corrupt that God
just has to wipe it off the face of the planet.
But we've seen this throughout history.
We've seen this in Bible, you know, in Bible history
and also in world history that God just,
it gets to a point where he just has to be done with it.
Now, I want to read you just a little excerpt
from the great Chicago fire.
The great Chicago fire burned in the American city
of Chicago during October 8th through 10th, 1871.
The fire killed approximately 300 people,
destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles of the city,
including over 17,000 structures,
and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.
The fire began in a neighborhood
southwest of the city center.
A long period of hot, dry, windy conditions
and the wooden construction prevalent in the city
led to the conflagration.
The fire leapt the south branch of the Chicago River
and destroyed much of central Chicago,
and then leapt the main stem of the river
consuming the near north side.
Now that happened in 1871.
It's called the Great Chicago Fire.
Who's heard of the Great Chicago Fire?
Probably most of the people around here.
I've heard of it, and I live on the west coast.
I've heard their songs sung about the Chicago Fire.
And 300 people dead, that doesn't seem like a lot,
But 17,000 structures, 100,000 people,
homeless, churches, buildings burnt down,
it was a pretty big deal.
Today there's 9.45 million people in the Chicago metro area.
It's the third largest city in the United States.
It's the largest in the Midwest.
It's the fourth largest city in North America.
And so today the greater Chicago area is spiritually dry
in a lot of ways and windy,
and it's a fire hazard just waiting for God's destruction.
It's in danger of the Lord destroying it.
And you're like, well, why do you think that?
Well, I mean, it's very obvious to see the problems
that this city has.
And you're like, well, don't talk about my city like that.
How dare you?
Well, I'm just saying that spiritually
it has a lot of problems.
I mean, the continual, just degradation
of the leadership of government here is just one picture.
I mean, you have a guy that seemingly isn't a queer,
but he certainly acts like a queer, doesn't he?
I mean, with all the policies that-- and then the last one,
he had Beetlejuice, the last mayor that you had.
Lori Lightfoot, I think she's starring in the new film that's
coming out or something.
But when the new mayor is more of a queer than the actual queer
that you had before, I mean, your city's in a lot of trouble.
And obviously, we're not in Chicago today,
but this is a suburb of Chicago.
It's kind of considered part of the metro area.
And the Lord is not going to just
continue to allow these great metropolitan areas
to just slide further into degradation.
Eventually, there's going to be a stop put to these things.
And it's gotten bad.
The crime is excessive and wicked.
I'm sure that there's just a lot of people
crying out because of the oppression
that they have in this city.
There's millions of souls in this area
that are just one heartbeat away from everlasting fire that
shall never be quenched.
The title of my sermon tonight is Chicago Needs Another Fire.
Chicago Needs Another Fire.
And I'm not talking about a necessarily physical fire,
although it might need some of that too.
Obviously, I don't want people to just die and burn up
in a fire.
But God does use natural disasters.
He does use fires and tornadoes and all those sorts of things
to pour His wrath upon people.
But what Chicago needs is a spiritual fire
to burn through the city and suburbs of Indiana
and Illinois today.
My first point is that Chicago needs a fire for the things of God.
Chicago needs a fire for the things of God.
And one of the first things that they need a fire for the things of God
is for His house.
Turn to John chapter 2.
John chapter number 2.
Chicago needs a fire for God's house.
A fire for God's house.
In John chapter 2, Jesus goes to the temple
and Jesus had a zeal for His house, for the Lord's house.
Verse 14, the Bible says,
"And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep
and doves and changers of money sitting.
And when He had made a scourge of small cords,
He drove them out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen
and poured out the changers' money and overthrew the tables
and said unto them that sold doves,
take these things hence, make not my father's house
a house of merchandise.
And the Lord Jesus Christ,
this is the most angry you ever see Him get
where He physically does something,
where He physically makes a tool of punishment
to actually drive people out
that are sitting there using God's house to make money,
to make merchandise of God's people,
to sit there and set up like a basic store inside His house.
And today though you see the same thing,
people selling their books and selling their DVDs
and making a mockery of God's house
and then acting like, "Oh, that's okay though."
No, it's not okay.
And you know what?
Today people need to have a zeal for God's house.
Look what it says in verse 17, it says,
"And His disciples remembered that it was written,
'The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.'"
So the disciples remembered this.
And what does zeal mean?
Well, zeal is an intense enthusiasm or fervor or passion
compelling one to action in something that you are devoted to.
In this case, God or God's house.
He's devoted and has this enthusiasm,
intense passion for the things of God, for the things of His house.
So today, Chicago needs a fire for the things of God.
And number one, the things of His house.
And it's like, how can you be zealous for the things of God
if you're not even there?
And a lot of people just forsake the assembling
of going to the house of God.
They just think it's just okay.
Like as if there's no commandment to go to God's house.
You know, and if people would make church a priority,
then maybe this city might be a little bit better.
Maybe your church would be a little bit better
if you actually just showed up for church
and made it a priority in your life.
But, you know, people just act like, you know,
it's just whenever they feel like it
or whenever they're not too busy to go
or, you know, it's just not, you know,
when it's convenient for me, I'll go to church.
But, you know, it might come a day soon
where, you know, you're tracked every time you go to church
or, you know, they have an app that tracks you
like they did with the coronavirus or something
where they're tracking, you know,
hey, you bumped into somebody
that had the coronavirus last week.
Well, maybe they use that as an app for, you know,
hey, you bumped into, you were 10 feet from a church,
you know, did you know that?
I mean, the systems that they can implement
in our future lives, we just don't know the extent
of how far they're gonna reach into our lives.
But why don't you go to church now while it's easy?
And, you know, people just, you know,
they get all upset about the things of,
you know, we had people that were so upset
that, you know, we were just not sure what was going on
with the whole pandemic thing.
And then, you know, we like broke up our church services
and had them at a house for like a little while.
But those people didn't even come to the last service
that we had where everybody was together
because they were mad about that.
It's just like, but you forsook the assembling
before even the time was to come
because you were mad about that?
And then stop coming to our church because of it?
It's like, what are you proving?
That you just don't care about church that much.
You just have a hobby horse that you like to rock on.
So the Bible says we're not supposed to forsake
the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is.
So don't let that be your manner.
You know, if we want to make our city better,
then we should have a zeal for God's house.
We should have a zeal for the things of God.
And another thing we should have a zeal for is his book, the Bible.
Turn to Psalm 119 verse 139.
I'm going to read Joshua 1-8.
Joshua 1-8 says, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth,
but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein.
For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success."
You want to have a successful Christian life?
Well, meditate in the Bible.
And what's it say?
Day and night.
We're supposed to meditate in God's Word.
Take some time. Isaac went out in the even tide and meditated.
Why? Because it was important to him.
We should find God's Word important.
Don't just do it in the morning, but do it at night, too.
Think about the things of God.
Think about what God's Word says.
Think about, you know, how to apply God's Word in your life,
and just take the time to read it.
You know, you can read it in a very short time
if you just put a little bit of work in it morning and night.
It actually only takes about seven and a half minutes in the morning,
seven and a half minutes at night to read the Bible cover to cover
all the way through if you're just an average reader.
So, I had to turn to Psalm 119 verse 139, it says,
"My zeal hath consumed me, my zeal hath consumed me,
because mine enemies have forgotten thy word."
So David's just upset over the fact, you know,
he's just consumed with the fact that even his enemies don't know God's word.
Hey, our enemies should know what we believe and what we think.
You know, we talked with an enemy today that he knows what we think,
he knows what we believe.
So, you know, we want to preach the word of God,
we want the word of God to be known even so that our enemies know it.
But see how David had a zeal for the things of God,
for the word of God that his, hey, just in case my enemies,
I want to make sure that I'm making sure my enemies know what the word of God says.
Look at 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 22.
We should have a zeal for the things of God, his book, his house, and also his people.
Fellowship, you know, do you just run out of church as soon as church is over?
Trying to get home before the traffic or whatever it is that you have to do that's so important,
that's more important than caring about the people that you go to church with,
your actual spiritual family?
Well, 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 22 says,
"Seeing you have purified your souls and obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love
of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently."
So what does the Bible say?
How should we treat those that are our brethren?
Well, it says that we should love them, we should love them with a pure heart fervently.
Now, fervently is kind of a similar word to having zeal.
It's a hot, passionate type love that we have for people.
Like, hey, that's my brother, or that's my sister.
I love this person.
I would do anything I could to help this person.
I would do anything I could to have this person's back.
And I care about this person.
I have compassion for this person.
When they're weeping, I'm weeping.
When they're having joyous times in their life, I want to rejoice with them.
That's how we should love our brethren.
Not fake, but an actual love.
Now also, we should have a thing, you know, that we should care about the things of God
and have a zeal and a fire in our hearts for the things of God with his form of communication.
And that form of communication is what?
Prayer.
We should pray to God.
We should have some sort of a prayer life, don't you think?
You know, the Bible says, you know, pray without ceasing.
Now, do you think that means that we're just supposed to be, you know,
just rattling off prayers in our mind like 24/7,
like robots just like walking around.
We wake up, you're praying.
I mean, I don't think that's what the intention of what it's saying.
Pray without ceasing is just like don't stop your prayer life.
You know, when you quit, when you cease from smoking,
it's called smoking cessation, right?
You stop smoking cigarettes.
Well, you don't want to stop your prayer life either.
The Bible says in James chapter 5 verse 16,
"Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another,
that you may be healed.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
So there you got that word fervent again.
Your prayer, when it's actually from the heart
and from a place of passion and compassion
and, you know, just a red hot prayer
are the things that move God to action.
Look at what it says, "Availeth much."
I mean, in the context,
Elijah makes it stop raining for three and a half years
because, and he's just a guy,
just like us, like passions,
puts his pants on one leg at a time,
just like all of us.
Yes, I think he wore pants,
but he didn't wear a dress,
I'll tell you that right now.
Says he had a leather and girdle.
I mean, come on, what do you use that for?
To make your dress look better or something?
No, so you can hold your pants up, right?
Anyway, that's a different subject for a different time.
But number two tonight.
So number one, we should have a passion for the things of God.
We need to have a fire in our heart for the things of God.
But number two, Chicago needs some spirit-filled men to preach some fire.
Chicago needs some spirit-filled men that preach fire.
Now, there's been some famous preachers in Chicago and some probably not so famous ones.
I don't really know a lot about the past preachers here.
I've heard of D.L. Moody. He was here when the Chicago fire actually happened.
I'm not sure whether the guy was saved or not. It seems like he might not have been,
but I think he was kind of one of those repent of your sins people or whatever.
But I'm not 100% sure. I don't really know everything there is to know about him.
But Jack Hiles is one that comes to mind, though.
Jack Hiles, you know, he was, I believe, saved for sure.
And I believe he was a one-of-a-kind preacher for his time.
When we think of fundamentalism, you know, I think a lot of people think of Jack Hiles.
I think they still think of Jack Hiles. He's been dead since 1993.
But just read a little snippet here about him.
Jack Frasier Hiles. I had no idea his middle name was Frasier.
He probably didn't say that a lot because, you know, he probably didn't like that name, Frasier.
But Jack Hiles was born September 25th, 1926. And oh, he died February 6th, 2001. I was wrong about
the date. So but was a leading figure in the independent Baptist movement, having pastored
the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana. From August 1959 until his death, he was
well known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each
week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services. Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a
thousand members to a membership of a hundred thousand in 1993. And again in 1994, it was
reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday. That's pretty, that's quite a lot
bigger than my church is. So but making it the most attended Baptist Church of the United States.
In 2001 at the time of Hyles death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school
each week. Jack Hyles, you know, he inspired countless men to go into the ministry and he had
the pastor's school and he inspired women and families to serve God. And I automatically suspect
the people that start down talking and bashing Jack Hyles. I automatically think that this person's,
you know, they got problems because I'm not saying that he was perfect and I'd agree with all of his
doctrine because I don't, but I do think that he built his church on hard preaching, practical
preaching that actually, you know, motivates people to do something. I think that he cared
a lot about soul winning. He talked a lot about soul winning. He implemented soul winning and,
you know, I don't necessarily agree with the whole bus ministry thing, but you can't deny the fact
that he did get people saved through the bus ministry. And I don't think that that's practical
for our times necessarily, and it's not really what the Bible says to do, but hey, you know,
let's get him saved. I don't really have a problem with that. I'm not envious of his, you know,
his fame or anything like that. I think that he was a great man of God and I don't have anything
bad to say about him. I didn't know him personally. I never met him, but I know that the church I
used to go to, there was a faction of people that just, they didn't like Jack Hiles. If you ever
brought up Jack Hiles, they're like, they had this like, and you know why? Because they didn't like
soul winning. That church moved away from soul winning. They moved away from, you know, all the
sword of the Lord stuff. They used to have like a rack of stuff that was sword of the Lord and had
all their stuff out and then slowly as the new pastor took over, all that stuff disappeared.
All that's left is the hymn book, you know, the soul winning songs and hymns or whatever. But there
was actually a guy that went to Highlands Anderson College from that church when I first started
going there and he was a missionary to Scotland, poor guy. But he came and he preached a sermon
and he preached things that I'd never really thought about before. Like he was just saying,
he was preaching a story about this, you know, about Columbine about because it was pretty
new that the Columbine massacre had happened and all that stuff and he was talking about the girl
Cassie that she's, you know, when they asked her, you know, are you a Christian? She said yes and
then they killed her, right? But he was talking about this guy that he got shot at the Columbine
massacre and he was like this little snowboarding guy that smoked cigarettes that had won like a
thousand people to Christ after, you know, the whole massacre thing. But, you know, he's preaching
that and what I didn't realize is that nobody really liked what he was having to say. But,
you know, it spoke to my heart. All the things he was saying about soul winning and winning people's
to Christ. I was just like, "Yeah!" I went up and talked to him afterwards and I was really excited
about what he preached. But, you know, they didn't like him. They didn't like him because he went to
Hiles Anderson College. And there's a faction of Baptists out there that just don't like Jack Hiles.
And you know that they don't like the new IFV because we like Jack Hiles and we like the
preaching style of Jack Hiles. We like the soul winning of Jack Hiles. So, you know, when Jack
Hiles was alive and he mentioned, like I said, fundamentalism, his name was in the same sentence
as fundamentalism. He was a special preacher. So, I call these special types of men of God
firebrands. That's what I like to call them. And he was like the Lord's, one of the Lord's firebrands.
Men that have caught fire and are used of God to set other men on fire and women and young people
on fire for the Lord. Go ahead and turn to Zechariah chapter three, Zechariah chapter number three.
And you have this story about Joshua the high priest and you know Joshua the high priest
was during the time of Zechariah and he was you know during the when the captivity came back from
Babylon. But it has this little section here about I think pastor Shelley's preaching to Zechariah.
Are you preaching to that right now? Hopefully I'm not contradicting anything that he said.
Sorry I haven't heard that sermon yet. We're pretty fired up on chapter four though right?
Is that what you said? All right verse number one though it says and he showed me Joshua the
high priest standing before the angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
You know when a man of God stands up Satan is going to be there to resist him. At his right hand
to resist him. So the you know the right hand is usually like the power hand too. So the devil wants
to you know stand and resist a great man of God that's doing great works for God and it says and
the Lord said unto Satan the Lord rebuke thee oh Satan even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem
rebuke thee is not this a brand plucked out of the fire and I feel like he's referring to
Joshua as this brand plucked out of the fire and what is a brand what is it what is it talking
about well a fire brand is just basically like a piece of wood or something that's on fire that
you use to catch something else on fire and I feel like Joshua was one of those guys that he was
one of the leaders that helped bring the children of Israel back to the land and he was a great man
of God along with all this you know Haggai and Zechariah and all those other guys but Zerubbabel
but he I believe is like one of those men that I mean is a special kind of guy that comes along
in a generation or maybe special few guys that come along in the generation that do great works
for God so but again Satan is going to be resisting people like that and of course Jack
Hiles had all his people that resist him and you know what great people great men of God in our days
have the same thing and people will say well they're not you know they're doing something wrong
that's why they're being resisted no okay Job's friend you know if you want to believe that we'll
believe that but you know sometimes the devil is just trying to stop what good men of God are doing
turn to Acts chapter number 18 Acts chapter number 18 the Bible says in Acts chapter number
18 verse 24 and a certain Jew named Apollos born in Alexandria an eloquent man and mighty in the
scriptures came to Ephesus this man was instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in the
spirit he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John so
here we have this Jew named up scriptures that's a good thing to be said about you right and
instructed in the ways of the Lord so he's not completely unschooled and fervent in the spirit
the Bible says that we are supposed to be fervent in the spirit right fired up in the things of God
and he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord so he's got a lot of great things going
for him look at verse 26 and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue whom when Aquila and
Priscilla had heard they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly
so he's already a great man of God and then he allows other people to come and make him even
better this is a man that's humble this is a man you know most people be like oh you know I don't
need your advice I'm already good enough but no what's he he allows them to make him even better
because he's allowing these people to sharpen him even more you know what we need a lot more men
like apollos today who would be fervent in the spirit the bible says in roman chapter 12
verse number 11 not slothful in business fervent in the spirit serving the lord so the bible
commands us as servants of the lord we're not I mean not everybody's a pastor but everybody
can be a servant right we're called to be servants of the lord Jesus Christ and you know what he
wants us to be fervent in the spirit fired up it's better to be hot than it is to be cold it's
better to be hot that way better to be hot than it is to be lukewarm and he wants us to be fervent
in the spirit turn to jeremiah chapter 5 verse 14 jeremiah chapter 5 verse 14 we need men in this
generation to rise up and preach the word of god and not be afraid to say what the bible says
because here's the thing people want to shut us up they want us to stop preaching the things that
we preach i mean again we have a meeting today with a guy and he wants to shut us up he wants
to you know take clips and make clips about us so that people get mad and i don't know what he
wants to have happen but you know i mean we get the death threats and we get all the the protesters
and all this other stuff i mean he's basically giving us rewards in heaven i appreciate that
but they what what do they want to do though satan wants to stand at our right hand and resist us
you think he likes that we're here to win souls in chicago this weekend he doesn't like that he
doesn't like that you went down to gary to get people safe he doesn't like that we're going to
cistero tomorrow to get people safe he wants to shut us up he wants to shut it down he wants to
shut this generation down from reaching because every because look every generation needs to have
men of god that are going to stand in the gap so that the land will not be destroyed
Jeremiah chapter 5 verse 14 the bible says wherefore thus saith the lord god of hosts
because you speak this word behold i will make my words in thy mouth fire so when we speak what
god wants us to speak he says i'm going to make my words in your mouth fire and it says and this
people would and it shall devour them i love that verse it's a great verse obviously i don't want
people to be burned up literally but i want the word of god to come out of my mouth and hey if
it needs to be fire to devour them in such a way then it needs to be that that kind of fire if it
needs to be fire that you know nothing's left except for hey what must i do to be saved then
i want that to go forth i want the word of god to go forth and do what it is meant to do to whoever
it's meant to do it to and i don't want to hold back you know if i hold back what i have to say
because i'm afraid of what's going to happen to me then that's why i just need to step down and
stop preaching. Jeremiah chapter 20 let's look at Jeremiah chapter 20. Jeremiah wanted to stop
preaching he he kind of got to the point where he was like sick of everybody hating him because
it does kind of suck sometimes you know and me and my pastor friends sometimes we go periods of time
where we're kind of doing our own thing we're really busy and we we're kind of on an island
for a while or whatever and it's like you start preaching a lot people are hating you and it's
just you know just just to be honest i'm not trying to complain but it does kind of suck sometimes
when it's just only negative that you're getting from everybody but Jeremiah everybody hated him
like i don't think that everybody hates me but a lot of people do but everybody pretty much hated
Jeremiah he had only had a couple friends what it says in verse seven oh lord thou has deceived me
and i was deceived thou art stronger than i and as prevailed i am in derision daily everyone mocketh
me for since i spake i cried out i cried violence and spoil because the word of the lord was made a
reproach unto me and a derision daily then i said i will not make mention of him nor speak anymore
in his name so he's like i'm done i'm done preaching sick of it but his word was in my heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones and i was weary with forbearing and i could not stay
he's like once i got the preaching i can't i can't stop the preaching no matter what i
try to do it just it was burning in here and you know that's the thing about being a preacher
it's like sometimes i'm like every once in a while and i'm not saying i feel this way all the time
but every once in a while i kind of feel like quitting i mean pastor shelly have you ever felt
like quitting before see he's yes yeah he's got the big yes and you know i know that it kind of
can be one of those feelings you know that you have every once in a while but then you're like
what am i going to do i'm not going to preach the word of god yeah right and then you're like okay
well i better just keep doing it and you do it i can't imagine not being a man that preaches the
word of god whether i'm a pastor or not i still want to preach the word of god the bible says
and it says there for i heard the defaming of many fear on every side report say they
and we will report it all my familiars watched with my halting or for my halting
same paired venture perhaps he will be enticed and we will prevail against him we will take
our revenge on him this is literally what people do to us all the time like they're just constantly
just watching us and you know trying to catch something that we say you know and when it says
familiars i'm thinking like that's kind of what you know the familiar spirit familiar the familiar
spirits that are just kind of watching and they're defaming us they're telling things about us that
are not true it says but the lord is with me as a mighty terrible one therefore my persecutors
shall stumble and they shall not prevail they shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper
their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten you know so when i start feeling
down i just know that god's on my side you know as long as i'm living right and i'm doing right
god's going to be there for me and whether i'm preaching and i get persecuted or not it doesn't
matter but that's what we need in this generation is we need a new generation to rise up because
we can't do this forever someone's going to have to fill our shoes eventually right and as pastors
you know we have to preach against the things that don't are not popular like how about false
prophets you know we preach against false prophets and surely someone's going to get upset about it
maybe someone in the church but mostly it's the people that follow the false prophets turn to
jeremiah chapter 25 uh 23 jeremiah chapter 23 jeremiah chapter 23 verse 25 because people will
say like what gives you the right pastor who told you to preach against that person who told you to
preach against the band skillet pastor thompson skillet rocks bro i want to go listen to skillet
now because you preach that it's like i haven't even preached the sermon i just preach like a
little thing about them and they just get people are just mad and salty about it still but anyway
and if you preach against billy graham or you preach against ravi zacharias or anybody else
they get all but heard about it um who else so john mccarthur any of those guys they get mad look
what it says is verse 25 i've heard what the prophets said the prophets they prophesied lies
in my name saying i have dreamed i have dreamed how long shall this be in the heart of the prophets
the prophesied lies yea they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart which think to cause my
people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor as their
fathers have forgotten my name for bail the prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream
and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully what is the chaff to the wheat saith
the lord so basically just saying you know i don't care i want you as a man of god to preach what i
have to preach faithfully you know what is the chaff to the wheat well who's the wheat we're the
wheat who's the chaff people are going to get burnt up and thrown in the fire with false prophets
right now it says in verse 29 is not my word like as a fire saith the lord and like a hammer
that breaketh the rock in pieces therefore behold i'm against the prophets who told you to preach
against the prophets pastor thompson god did i'm against the prophet said the lord that steal my
words every one of them from his neighbor behold i'm against the prophets said the lord that used
their tongues and say he saith there he said it twice right look at verse 32 behold i'm against
them that prophesy false dreams i went to heaven for 32 minutes and i came back and here's what i
have to say shut up you liar you didn't go to heaven you're going to go to hell though and it
says and the lord said the lord and do tell them and that and cause my people to err by their lies
and by their lightness yet i sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit
this people at all saith the lord who told you to preach against the false prophets pastor trompson
god did god wants us to preach against them he's against them three times he says it right there
a man of god needs to have zeal and he needs to be able to be infectious to others to pass that
zeal on to other people like jihoo he said come and ride my chariot and you know he says you know
see my zeal for the lord you know you can't he said see my zeal for the lord let me show it to you
you can't just get up there and preach lip service you can't let me tell you about my zeal for the
lord let me just tell you about it no he said see my zeal for the lord didn't he and he took him with
him he's like hey ride my my chariot you know he had the like the the chariot they like drive
ethereously right he's like the fast and the furious but what he do wiped out ahab's house
completely obliterated them and you're like well that's kind of mean that's what god told him to do
that's what the word of god said he was supposed to do that by the word by the mouth of elijah the
prophet he did it to a t you know and even killed all the prophets of baal he was a bad dude you
know killed jezebel or at least had her killed you know walked over a dead body he was a gangster
but you know what he showed his zeal didn't he he showed it he didn't just say oh go soul winning
i'm not going to go though that's not how he was now i know dylan will like this but george jones
sang a song a country song calling dylan out i'm just kidding george who knows who george jones is
you know he's a wicked country singer whatever he's a drunk but anyway he had a song called who's
going to fill their shoes who's ever heard that song before all right i'm not saying don't get on
in youtube and look for it later on but it's basically this concept of when elvis dies when
all these different people these great country western singers die who's going to who's going
to fill their shoes after they're gone you know and i'm just using this to make the point of
who's going to fill the shoes of the great preachers when they go on someone's got to fill their shoes
because like ezekiel was saying in chapter 22 he said that he sought for a man to stand in the gap
but he found none so is it possible that god's not going to find someone it is possible so who's
going to stand and feel the shoes of jack howes did jack scott fill the shoes of jack howes
that he filled them and and and just spread mud all over that ministry and jack isle's shoes have still not
been filled in you know at least you know the nobody's ever going to obviously be exactly like
him but what about pastor hanson he's a great man of god who's going to fill his shoes when he goes
who's going to fill pastor burgeon's shoes who's going to fill pastor humanities shoes who's going
to fill pastor shelly's shoes or pastor mahiya or pastor jones or pastor brisardski or pastor
robinson or pastor stuckey or pastor sepulveda or pastor tavern who's going to fill these guys
shoes and what i'm saying here is we need more men to rise up and say you know what i want to do
what the guys before me did and i don't want there to be a gap i want to stand in the gap
i want this place to have somebody that has a vision i mean you could sew in for the rest of
your life and probably not knock every door here but you know what if you have a bunch of people
that will follow your zeal and they'll and you and you have the preaching and you have the backbone
to get up and say what needs to be said hey this this area could be one back to christ this area
could be one back is it possible of course it's possible all things are possible now turn to uh
i gotta move on with this sermon but uh philippians chapter three turn to philippians chapter three
preach this passage last year in the red hot preaching conference and i preached it from an
outside perspective but i want to preach a little bit about it from the inside perspective
paul says here in verse number one finally my brethren so he's basically saying like one last
thing let me tell you one last thing rejoice in the lord to write the same things to you to me
indeed is not grievous but for you it is safe he's like i got some safety tips for you let me warn
you about these filthy faggots and false prophets and jews one more time i mean because that's what
he's about to say right beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision it's paul the
beloved paul he would never say anything like that would he well i mean he's calling them dogs is that
a nice thing to call somebody why is he saying why is he calling dogs because that's what the
bible compares male homosexuals to throughout the whole bible dogs evil workers what would that be
well false prophets false brethren that creep in unaware how about the concision well that's talking
about jews isn't it those that would and so what's he saying these are the top three things you got
to worry about what do you worry about the what is the what is the number one thing that you run into
out soul winning i mean it's actual dogs isn't it like isn't that like the number one deterrent to
soul winning like in reality but there's also the other kind of dogs that are also a deterrent to
your soul winning isn't it when you knock on the wrong one they're like ah yeah christian yeah and
then they just start following you around and taking down all your invites and all that kind
of stuff right so both dogs we should be aware of you know the little yappers the big pit bulls
that come out you guys got pit bulls in indianapolis don't you you guys are always
like talking about them there's no dead pit bulls or no dead dogs or whatever i don't know
justin's talking about barbecuing them or something anyway so but paul says here he says we're for we
are the circumcision which worship god in the spirit and rejoice in christ jesus and have no
confidence in the flesh what's he saying you know when he says beware of the concision he's saying
we are the circumcision which worship god in spirit and rejoice in christ jesus they're not
the real ones we are the real ones so that safety the safety topic of the day for paul was like be
aware of dogs the ones that bark and the fags and what do we see past baptist pastors preaching though
in most ifb churches or southern baptist churches or just regular baptist churches what are we here
bring the dogs in so that we can get them saved isn't that what they say well we got to love them
so what does deuteronomy 23 17 say well it says there shall be no whore of the daughters of israel
nor a sodomite of the sons of israel so there's not supposed to be any sodomites of the sons of
israel so what does that mean well for us in the new testament you know no real saved person is
going to be a queer and then it says thou shall not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a
dog into the house of lord so if you're not supposed to bring the price of a dog into the
house of lord how are you going to bring an actual dog in there we're not talking about puppies
we're not talking about your seeing eye dog or something we're talking about the ones that they
just talked about in the previous verse which is the sodomite okay so what so what is the normal
about the the kind of the other baptist churches say hey bring these people in we should get them
saved you shouldn't be mean to them every what how does that quote go from what's his name john
getch every person deserves dignity and respect regardless of their sexual orientation right is
something like that that's what he says right let them use your bathroom don't don't say
anything to them or give them a dirty look if they come into your church what did paul say
beware of them beware of them he says you know then they'll also say yeah bring those bring
them in so we can preach to the dogs and sows i like pastor stuckey's sermon about how the sows are
like the female sodomites right so if you haven't if you haven't heard that sermon you should watch
it but matthew chapter seven verse six says give not that which is holy unto the dogs who are the
dogs again the sodomites so should we be giving the gospel to the sodomites i mean accidentally
we have and on purpose i have maybe i shouldn't have done that but you know if they were just
being cordial i've done it before just even just as an experiment i've done it just to see like
am i actually am i wrong about this like here let me try one more time i think i did it with
brother temmo one time he was probably like what are you doing you know but did she get saved
she didn't get saved did she she's like oh i'm a child's witness she has all these other lesbians
in the house with her anyway that was a long time ago but what does the bible say give not
that which is whole into the dogs neither cassie or pearls before swine don't give those precious
things lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you second peter chapter 2
verse 22 says but it's happened unto them according to the true proverb the dog is turned to his own
vomit again who's ever eaten their own puke before in here anybody like you were just really you're
out in the wilderness you had to eat it to survive like the smell of puke makes me puke i'll just
tell you right now my weakness my kryptonite is puke snot that's like somewhat like a loogie
that someone spits on the ground if i see that i'm just puking it's like i just can't help it
disgusting smells like when you just started talking about maggots today pastor shelly i was
just like anyway but a queer doesn't mind eating their own vomit a dog a real dog will eat they'll
puke up something and then like eat it again who's ever seen a dog do that before crayons whatever
else they were eating that day the sow that was washed to her wallowing the mire so a sow is a
female pig so it says the dog the sow so that's where the concept comes from but where's the hard
preaching against lori lightfoot where's the red hot sermon that came out of hammond indiana or
chicago illinois that's just ripping face against that beetle juice looking freak that just shut
this whole place down is totally corrupt totally wicked where's that red hot preaching where's the
red hot preaching against what's his name now something johnson or something what does anybody
know the new mayor's name brandon is it brandon johnson let's go brandon sorry his name's brandon
okay you can't say i cussed okay but i was reading that 7.5 so basically that guy brandon
and the other guy that was running with him they were both competing to see who could pander more
to the queers in chicago because 7.5 percent of adults in chicago identify as homos that's a high
percentage that's a big percentage and it doesn't surprise me but i mean the guy's married and has
a few children and he's pandering to them because that's what's important to pander to them and to
get their votes you know where's the hard preaching that's come out against that guy i haven't heard
it maybe it's just hidden on some website that you have to have the code to type in or whatever
but you know you would think that i mean i looked up there's some a lot of baptist churches around
here where's the preaching where's your spine get up and rip against these things and you know what
you might not build you know the church where everybody gets along and everybody believes
different salvation and maybe some of your tithers will leave or whatever but you know what at least
you'll go to sleep at night knowing that you preach what the bible said instead of just going
to sleep knowing that you're a complete sellout and you're afraid to preach what the bible says
the day that i'm afraid to get up and preach the bible says the day that i need to retire and i
will but this city needs a man with a spine to get up and preach what the bible says and quit being
afraid of what their church members say about us or about anybody else that comes to visit like
just i just don't understand that you know stop you know get rid of this deacon run model too by
the way while you're at it holding back the people of god holding back a vision of soul winning
because you're just too mossed back to do anything different than what's already been done in the
past well you've had your time deacon a deacon means servant it doesn't mean you know the boss
of the pastor but what do the baptists say well they say the jews are god's chosen well
i skipped something i'm sorry they say beware of they say hey okay i'm sorry i was still on the
whole homo thing i'm sorry i lost my place i was just off on a tangent here okay so yeah what do
they say well instead you're gonna get born that way after all here's the book read it your your
homo kid's actually a eunuch that's what you're gonna get instead of ripping face they just like
do gymnastics mentally and spiritually and then put their people at day in danger to give them
this book this faggot book that tells you that oh they're just a confused eunuch put them in
your sunday school classes that's what that's what you're good that's what they're preaching
that they can get saved just like there is just a sin just like every other sin oh is that why
god said it was an exceeding sinful place in sodom exceedingly sinful i mean more sinful than other
things they were more sinful so what else are baptists preaching well pray for the evil workers
pray for Billy Graham why didn't you talk why didn't you Matthew 18 Billy Graham before he
preached that sermon pastor Thompson they take pictures with John MacArthur instead of ripping
face against them they don't call them names the only one that they care the only the only names
that they'll call is Stephen Anderson they'll call Stephen Anderson they'll kick his people you know
people that you know listen to his preaching they'll kick them out but if it's John MacArthur or no
we'll just take a picture over here me and John MacArthur be like this with me finish them off
anyway what does Paul say beware of evil workers don't embrace them don't give them a hug beware
what does Jesus say beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are
rabbiting wolves I mean why are we getting the opposite preaching that we should be getting from
Baptist right now you know Paul's like hey I'm the safe I'm the safety officer he's got the
what do they wear like a white hat or something or no a yellow safety hat right when they come on
the job site let me tell you some safety some safety topics for the day beware of dogs beware
of evil workers and then you know somebody else comes on don't listen to him dogs are nice pit bulls
are man's best friend you know homos would never molest a child what are you talking
homos can be saved bring them into the church I mean it's just insanity and then to then to be
friends with the false prophets and then the last thing is that what else do they preach well the
jews are god's chosen people they don't even understand like all the parables that jesus
was teaching them was basically against the jews that they rejected their savior and they are
the kingdom of god's been taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof
and they're just like oh no but they're still the best doctors and the best you know you better go
to a jewish doctor you better go to a jewish dentist they're you know we're just lucky that
we got in on the plan man if they hadn't done that you know it's like shut up man that is the
stupidest thing ever and it's like yeah but but all israel shall be saved you mean so but from
the last two thousand years all of them weren't but they're still god's chosen people how's that
work they're like even these baptists are like i just heard somebody the other day tell me they
just need to kill every palestinian i'm like well what about the christian ones what about the ones
that have christian churches they're going to should they have blown up that baptist hospital
that one too oh oh yeah oh what baptist hospital oh you just they just you know what how did jesus
feel about that when he goes through samaria and they're like jesus you know should we you know
just call fire down and destroy them like elijah's told like elijah did he's like you know not what
spirit you're of you know jesus came to save lives to save men's lives not to destroy them
and then we got baptist saying kill them all let god sort them out turn their place into a
parking lot turn their place into a turn their little gaza into a sea of glass or whatever
it's wicked and it's the opposite of what the apostle paul said we follow paul except for on
the sodomites and evil workers and the jews except for that you know other than that paul's right
about everything weird jesus said you know beware of men aggy before the synagogues so we're supposed
to believe like could you imagine if you had a person that trained he's your safety person
he's the one that's teaching you the safety stuff and then right after the safety talk is over he
just goes just don't do any of that stuff it's not real you know do the actual opposite of everything
in the safety videos like who works in whose work who works construction in here don't you have like
things that are just like you would die if you didn't do those safety things aren't these things
like life or death situations in reality i mean you just oh yeah homos can be saved that one's
saved he he changed his lifestyle is that how you get saved by changing your lifestyle it's not
last thing is i gotta i know i gotta be done i'm sorry pastor shelly hey it's only been an hour
one more minute it'll be an hour it's justin's fault okay blame justin but we do need some
men that will rise up and preach fire and not hold back number three chicago needs the gospel to
spread like a fire across the land just like that chicago fire but spiritually obviously
and now you know we need a fire here of zealous soul winners i mean you can see the need here
right i mean it's pretty much every neighborhood seems like it looks receptive to me i mean
maybe i'm wrong but it looked pretty receptive to me so uh turn to judges 15 and uh i'm not going
to be able to finish everything i have here but i'm just going to turn here and just kind of end
here judges 15 verse 4 i kind of want to take a spiritual interpretation of this passage here
samson he's given the philistines everything they give him and he's like i'm going to pay him back
more for what they've done and but if you'll if you look at this the spiritual picture here of
samson so samson went and caught 300 foxes and took firebrands and turned tail to tail and put
a firebrand in the midst between the two tails so we got two foxes he's tying their tails together
he's lighting them on fire and what's he do with them it says and when he had set the firebrands
on fire or the brands on fire excuse me he let them go into the standing corn of the philistines
and burnt up both the shocks and also the standing corn with the vineyards and olives
now he basically just destroyed their food source but remember when jesus he he's with the woman at
the well and the disciples go off to get food and he gets this lady saved and then he starts
to get it and then you know the lady goes the woman at the well gets saved she goes and brings
all the people back and the disciples come back and they're like just surprised they're just like
what are you doing talking you know they don't say it out loud but they think it in their mind
they think why is he talking to her you know he said why is he talking to this woman and in
john 4 35 it says say not ye but there are four months and then cometh harvest behold i say unto
you lift up your eyes and look on the fields for their white all ready to harvest so samson lets
these foxes go on fire to burn up these fields that are what already risen up right so the
spiritual picture is what we go to and to with uh our hearts on fire for the lord jesus christ with
a fervent spirit to what love people and get them saved right we go to and to like jesus said
and we go out and we go out to people that are ready to get saved he says lift up your eyes and
look on the fields for their white already to harvest there's people everywhere there's 10
million people here there's people everywhere that are ready to get saved and not just here
but everywhere you know and if we have a little bit of fire in our spirit and say hey i want to
make a difference then we go out two and two to the standing corn and with our with our ourselves
on fire in our spirit and we go out you know we're going to get people saved jesus wants us to hey
just just look up because a lot of people are just looking down you're looking at something else but
you're not looking at what jesus was looking at that was their problem they're like what's he
doing you know they go they're going off to get food and jesus is sitting around waiting for this
woman to come up so he could get her saved and when they come back with a stupid thought in
their head he doesn't even say anything to him about it but the bible records that that they
thought that and it's like what a stupid attitude to have but we have the same stupid attitude
sometimes don't we but he said if you just look up fields are white and ready to harvest you know
and Samson pictures Jesus a lot in those stories and I would say that he pictures Jesus when he
sends those foxes two and two to go out to the already white fields so Chicago needs another fire
all right they need a fire for the things of God they need a fire for men to get out and preach
the fire of God's word and and they need a fire of the gospel to spread out so people will get
saved and and we don't just need it in Chicago we need it everywhere in every city in every town
in every place across the land and yay the whole world let's pray or we thank you so much for this
gathering here pray lord that many people will be saved tomorrow lord that we would go out with a
fire in our belly and a tear in our eye to get as many people saved as we can lord pray you just
bless pastor Shelley as he comes up to preach the word of God in Jesus name we pray amen time
constraints you want to do what you want to take the break or take a five minute break to use that
real quick yeah we'll just skip the song yeah we'll skip the song amen thank you so much
pastor thompson for organizing this event thank you brother justin and all of the members of sure
foundation baptist church for coming out here and i know a lot of other people have also come out
here from other churches there's a lot of people here that came from steadfast and i really appreciate
you guys coming out here and i guess we're trying to start a fire so uh just don't tell the fire
marshal all right um but uh no it's great to be out here and to see on a friday night people still
want to hear the word of god being preached and really when i think about it the most important
thing i could preach on is loving god and when asked what was the great commandment in the bible
what is the first commandment jesus said in verse 30 thou shalt love the lord thy god
with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength this is the
first commandment there's only one group of people on this planet that will love god it is the saved
if we don't love god who will will you love god tonight will you turn in the pages divine scripture
this evening the bible that contains your lord and savior jesus christ will you love god after
this sermon will you love god when you lay down in bed tonight will you love god tomorrow will
you love god by preaching the gospel to the lost will you love god when sunday comes will we find
you in church will you love god in the morning will you read your bible will you pray will
you seek his face does your heart love god does your soul love god does your mind love god
are you putting all of your strength into loving god go into matthew six the bible says in first
john two love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man loved the world
the love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh
and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world and the
world passes away in the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of god abideth forever what do you
love tonight do you love basketball do you love football do you love baseball where is your heart
at what have you set your affections on the bible says to set your affection on things above not
on things on the earth for your dead and your life is hid with christ and god maybe you don't have
your affections on games but where is your mind at are you thinking about christ matthew six verse
24 the bible says no man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or
else he will hold to the one and despise the other he cannot serve god and mammon are you thinking
about money how you can make more your next promotion that next car that next house job
said naked came i out of my mother's womb and naked shall i return thither the lord gave and
the lord have taken away blessed be the name of the lord here's a question i have for you tonight
who are you tonight are you demis when the bible says demis have forsaken me having loved this
present world who are you tonight are you the seed among thorns which the bible says that he
heareth the word but the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and
he becomeeth unfruitful who are you tonight are you esau who is so hard up for money that he sold
his birthright for one morsel of meat are you the rich man in james chapter number five
who had heat treasure together for the last days the bible says behold the hire of the laborers
who you have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud cryeth and the cries of
them which have reaped or injured into the ears of the lord of sabioth you have lived in pleasure on
the earth and been wanted you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter you have condemned
and killed the just and he does not resist you matthew 6 verse 21 jesus said for where your treasure
is there will your heart be also do we not have enough rich men in this world what would another
rich man do to this planet's success are you trying to be another rich man thinking that that
will make a change in this world jesus said a parable the ground of a certain rich man brought
forth plentifully and he thought within himself saying what shall i do because i have no room
where to dispose my goods and he said this will i do i will pull down my barns and build greater
and there will i bestow all my fruits and my goods and i will say to my soul soul thou has
much goods laid up for many years take thine easy drink and be merry but god said in him thou fool
this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou has
provided so is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward god are you a
member of the laodicean church that says i am rich and increased with goods and have need of
nothing and knoweth not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked are
you the godly man the bible says in psalm chapter number 12 help lord for the godly man ceaseth
for the faithful fail from among the children of men they speak vanity everyone with his neighbor
with flattering lips and a double heart do they speak the bible says trust not in oppression
and become not vain in robbery set not your heart upon them the bible says when riches increase
set not your heart upon them how many people are setting their heart today on riches who are you
tonight are you solomon who the bible says about solomon that he had horses brought out of egypt
and in fact he had received 666 talents of gold in one year he had 700 wives and 300 concubines
the bible says that his wives burned away his heart go to proverbs chapter number seven go to
proverbs chapter seven who are you tonight do you love god do you love the lord thy god with all of
thy soul with all thy heart with all thy mind with all thy strength what are you putting your
effort and your energy towards so many men today are putting their heart and their effort and their
energy towards making money towards becoming rich towards having goods what will that do for you
what will that do for the men in the city what will that do for the kingdom of god what will
that do for the cause of christ god doesn't need your money men today they're chasing money why
because men because money answers all problems money answers everything in this world why do
men want money one reason is to have women and many men have their hearts set on women the bible
says in proverbs chapter seven verse seven and i beheld among the simple ones i discerned among
the use a young man void of understanding someone that's foolish they don't understand this world
the bible says in verse 21 talking about him meeting this horse woman with her much fair
speech she caused him to yield with the flattering of her lips she forced him he goes after her
straightway as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks
till the dart strike through his liver as a bird hasted to the snare and knoweth not that it is
for his life solomon the wisest man to ever live his heart was destroyed through women his heart
was destroyed through money he had a heart for god but he allowed money and he allowed women and
he allowed the things of this world to enter in and choke the word making it unfruitful who are
you tonight who do you love tonight what are you chasing tonight are you the simple one are you the
young man void of understanding samson loved many strange women as well and it destroyed him you
know it's important to go to church to be warned of fornication it's important to go to church
to be warned against adultery it's important to go to church to be warned against the love
and the lust of this world it's important to go to church so that you can get your heart on the
thing that matters and that thing that matters is god we go to church to love god and you know what
i love about going to church it's the closest that i'm going to get on this side of heaven
of having fellowship with god the bible says that men were made in the image of god and that if we
truly love god that we would love our brethren that we love mankind go to the first john chapter 4
first john chapter 4 the bible says by the shed blood of jesus christ he gives us the opportunity
to have the church the church was purchased with his own blood if we really love god then we'll
love the institution that was bought by god which is the church of the living god the pillar and
ground of the truth which is the new testament church and a church is not a building jesus christ
did not die for this building tonight jesus christ died for the men and the women and the
children sitting in this room that have put their trust in him and not only them he died for the
sins of the whole world but specifically he died for the church he died for this institution for
us to be gathered together and for us to demonstrate our love towards god by loving one another the
bible says in first john chapter 4 verse 20 if a man say i love god and hateth his brother he is a
liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love god whom he hath not seen
if you don't love the people in this room let me explain something to you you don't love god
those who love god are those who love their brother and love is not just merely reciprocating good for
good love is reciprocating good for evil it's reciprocating sweet for bitter it's giving grace
it's being long-suffering it's being charitable it's being kind it's being peaceable when you
can't be peaceable with your brother and you don't really love god look at verse 21 and this
commandment have we from him that he who loveth god love his brother also let me explain how you can
love your brother it's when you get on your knees and you beg god to be merciful unto your brother's
transgressions it's when you intercede for your brethren instead of looking at a fellow brother
in christ and wishing him evil hoping that god will punish him hoping he gets what he deserves
hoping that god will recompense all the evil he's done unto you the bible teaches that to love god
would be to intercede for your brother not to wish evil upon him not to wish bad upon him when
someone does you wrong to wish them good to ask god to give them mercy and grace look at first
john five verse 14 this is love verse 14 and this is the confidence that we have in him that if we
ask anything according to his will he heareth us and if we know that he hear us whatsoever we ask
we know that we have the petitions that we desire to him if any man see his brother sin a sin which
is not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death there
is a sin unto death i do not say he shall pray for it how many prayers are being made by baptist
and brethren today for the sins of death sins for people that shouldn't even be asked for but rather
we should be focusing in on the sins that are not unto death we heard it mentioned earlier
it's uncanny that baptist churches will separate from a man pastor steven anderson and they won't
pray for his good but they'll pray for literal god-hating sodomites for people that hate god
and despise the lord well let's pray for them but let's not pray for a brother in christ who
believes the gospel you know we don't want to be guilty of the same attitude and of the same
hatred for god and for his people by despising our brethren because they do us wrong personally
i don't believe pastor anderson has done wrong to many of these people that speak evil of him
but even if they did you know what why don't you pray for your brother why don't you have mercy
towards your brother why don't you have charity towards your brother and if another church does
us wrong if another church speaks evil of us why don't we pray for their good if you tell me that
you love God and you can't love your brother whom you've seen you're a liar do you really love the Lord
thy God with all of thy soul with all my mind and all of my strength but you curse your brethren
the Bible says that Job lost all of his sheep all of his cattle all his goods all of his money
all his money just torched overnight the Bible says that Job lost all 10 of his children which
It's just really easy to skip over for a moment.
Let's think about this.
He had 10 children.
He lost the oldest child that he had.
My oldest is Clayton.
He lost the second oldest child.
My second oldest is Jackson.
He lost the third oldest child that he had.
Mine is Abby.
He lost the fourth oldest child that he had.
Mine is James.
He lost the fifth oldest child that he had.
Mine is Ellie.
He lost the sixth of his children.
Mine is Adeline. I only have six children. I can't even imagine the sadness and the grief that I would have for losing any one of them, let alone all of them.
But Job lost the seventh! I'm sure he had a name, or she had a name. He lost the eighth, he lost the ninth, he lost the tenth. Job was stripped of all of his glory.
Job lost all of his brethren. Job lost his position. Job lost his status. Job lost his favor with God. Job lost his very friends.
And when all hope was gone, when he had no desire to live, when he was in excruciating pain, when he had suffered the loss of all things,
after he had been mocked by his closest friends, his own wife held him in contempt, when he couldn't be any more alone, Job prayed for his friends.
What excuse do you have to not pray for your brethren, when Job can pray for his brethren?
Just like Christ, who condescended a man of low estate, just like Christ, who put on mortality, and was stripped of all of his riches,
and was stripped of all his magnificent glory and excellence, just like Christ, who suffered shame and the mockery and the embarrassment of the cross,
just like Christ, who suffered the whips, he suffered the crown of thorns, bearing his own cross, the nail in his left hand and in his right hand,
the piercing of the flesh of his feet, when he is hung dying in extreme agony, he cried out, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
But how many of us have the same attitude towards our brethren in the flesh when they do us wrong?
When was the last time you've been crucified by your brethren?
When was the last time you were hanging on a cross and they wagged their head at you and mocked you and railed on you and you said, "Father, forgive them."
The Bible says that we would be known by our love.
Do we really see that amongst Baptists? Do we see that amongst brethren?
Do we have this extreme charity and love that's exhibited by Job, by the Lord Jesus Christ, by the Apostle Paul?
And really, is it not just a reproach upon us to show that we don't really love God when we're not loving our brethren?
We're not praying for our brethren. We're not seeking forgiveness and grace for our brethren.
The Bible says in Luke 18, and he spake a parable under this end that meant always to pray and not to faint.
At the end of the parable, Jesus Christ says, "When the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth."
Are you praying for your brethren? You tell me that you love God.
Are you praying for your brethren? Are you praying for your enemies? Are you loving your enemies?
The Bible says we love our brethren when we love God and we keep His commandments.
Do you keep the commandments? Well, you don't love God if you don't.
Do you lie about your brethren? Do you rail on your brethren?
Do you steal from your brethren? Do you gossip about your brethren?
Do you hold bitterness in your heart towards your brethren?
What is bitterness? Bitterness is holding on to the grievances that they've caused you.
Bitterness means that they have hurt you. They've done you wrong.
They've done evil unto you. They're guilty. They have transgressed.
But you're holding on to it. Do you really love God when you're holding on to the bitterness towards your brethren?
Do you really love God when you speak evil of your brethren?
Do you really love God when you lie about your brethren?
We only have one life to live in this world.
Why wouldn't we want to do something big for God?
You tell me that you love God. You tell me that you love your brethren.
But only you know right now if you love him with your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Go to Ephesians 5. Do you love God? Do you love the Lord thy God?
It's easy to say, "I love God." It's hard to pray for your brethren when they transgress against you.
It's hard to keep God's commandments. It's not easy to follow the commandments.
Ephesians 5, verse 16, the Bible says, "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit."
The Bible tells us that we should redeem the time.
Take the opportunities that we have and use them to the max, to the fullest.
We only have one life. Time goes by so quickly.
And we need to be filled with the Spirit of God today and not the Spirit of the world.
The Spirit of the world is personified here with drunkenness.
How many people are wasting their time and their effort and their energy getting drunk today?
And then they tell you that they love God.
Foolishness. Nonsense. When you drink, you forget the time.
The time passes quickly. What do people do when they get drunk?
Sin. They don't love God. They're not going to church.
They're not reading the Bible. They're not singing praises unto God when they get drunk.
Don't tell me that you like to drink alcohol and that you love God.
You're a liar. Well, but everybody drinks.
Well, guess what? Not everybody loves God.
Say, "Which commandments do I need to keep?" All of them.
Do you dress like you love God?
Do you wear the clothing that honors God or honors this world?
So many women today, they're so afraid to dress like a godly woman.
It just proves that they don't really love God if they choose to dress like the world.
There's so much pressure on men and women today when it comes to commandments.
But if you really love God, you're going to do what he said.
And it shows that you love the brethren.
How do women dress today? They dress like whores.
That's not loving God. They dress like men.
No one wants to see that. Men are ugly.
Dressed like a lady. Dressed like a godly woman.
But it's not loving a brethren.
They'll dress like Hillary Clinton.
Bill Clinton doesn't even want to be with that.
We need to be filled with the spirit of God.
We need to love God.
And one of the ways to do this is by singing praises unto God.
Think how much time and effort and energy people put into singing.
Most people when they sing, especially in the shower, they do with all their strength.
They do with all their might.
In fact, most songs today are sung, especially when we talk about men.
They sing in their head voice or in their higher range.
And in order to get those high notes, you have to sing with all of your effort and energy.
In order to reach that pitch, in order to reach that note,
you have to put all of this effort and strength and energy
and use all of your diaphragm to really belt out that note.
And we have people singing all day long praises under themselves, praises under this world,
praises under drinking alcohol, praises under fornication, praises under the pride of this life.
But the Bible says that those who love God are going to sing praises unto God.
What better is there to sing than the love of God?
The Bible says in Psalm, I'm sorry, in verse 19,
speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody.
Notice this word, "in your heart to the Lord."
Does your heart love the Lord thy God, or does your heart love the music of this world?
What are you singing today?
Michael Jackson? Are you singing "Endless Love" by Diana Ross and Mr. Ritchie?
Why not? Can it be?
Amazing love, how can it be that thou, my God, shouldest die for me?
That's love to sing about. That's the endless love we should be belting out.
Are you singing Celine Dion? When she sings, you have to admit it.
It sounds like she's putting in all of her effort. It sounds like she's putting in all of her energy.
Singing great love songs and great love ballads? Why not?
How I loved Jesus. Oh, how I loved Jesus. Oh, how I loved Jesus.
Because he first loved me.
Are you singing Mariah Carey? The Beastie Boys? N'Sync? Faggity Queer Band? Backstreet Boys?
It's more like Brokeback Street Boys.
Say, "Well, I'm depressed. I'm in a bad mood."
Okay. Well, why don't you sing Love Lifted Me?
I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore.
Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more.
But the master of the sea heard my despairing cry.
From the waters lifted me, now safe am I.
Love lifted me, love lifted me.
When nothing else could help, love lifted me.
Lifted me, lifted me.
Sing that, the person that loves God.
The person that recognizes the only real love in this world,
which is the Lord thy God.
The Bible says that God loves the greatest thing you could ever sing.
Well, how about I love to tell the story.
I love to tell the story.
My feet touch the sand.
I love to tell the story.
I'm going out there and preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Will you be a soul winner for the Lord Jesus Christ?
Will you love the story over to the poor kids in the ghetto that no one loves?
Will you go out into the streets, into the highways, into the hedges?
Will you go into the ghettos where children don't even speak English?
Those of you that speak a second language, will you preach in Spanish?
Will you preach in other languages, in Hindi, in Mandarin, in Russian, in all the languages of the world?
Will you love the children of this world and preach them the gospel?
You tell me that you love God, but where are you on Saturday morning?
Where are you at the soul-winning time? Where are you at the soul-winning marathon?
But you don't understand, Pastor Shelley, the Indiana Pacers are in the playoffs.
Well, we know what you love.
Well, you don't understand, Pastor Shelley, my favorite band's coming in for a concert.
Your honky-tonk red ass need to get out there and preach the gospel.
We know what you love.
Look at Psalm 119. You don't understand, Pastor Shelley.
I don't know how to do it.
Well, it sounds like you don't love the Lord thy God.
Because if you're saved and you love the Lord thy God,
and if you follow Jesus Christ, he said he'll make you a fisher of men.
With stammering lips and another tongue will he speak unto this people.
Psalm 119, look at verse 9.
The Bible says, "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way,
by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
With my whole heart have I sought thee.
Oh, let me not wander from thy commandments.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."
Why is the psalmist not wanting to sin against God?
It's because he loves God.
You say, "I struggle with sin. How do I fix it, Pastor Shelley?"
You need to love God more.
Say, "How do I love God more?"
"Go to church!" "How do I love God more?"
"Read your Bible!" "How do I love God more?"
"Memorize the scripture!" "How do I love God more?"
"Pray for your brethren!" "How do I love God more?"
"Go out and preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!"
"How do I love God more?" "Sing the songs and the hymns and the spiritual songs!"
And then come and tell me what your problem is.
"Well, you don't understand, Pastor Shelley. I went with my friends to the bar."
"And I went out drinking. And I met all kinds of girls."
"And I'm sorry, but I went out and I went to the basketball game after that."
"And then I went to work to make more money. And I'm struggling with sin."
"Well, I know why. Because you don't love the Lord thy God."
"Why weren't you in church? Why weren't you reading your Bible?"
"Why weren't you singing the songs and the hymns and the spiritual songs?"
"Why weren't you going out and preaching the gospel?"
"Why weren't you busy filling yourself with the Spirit of God?"
"It sounds like you're drunk on this world."
"It sounds like you're drunk on the lust of the flesh and the pride of the life that you want here."
"Don't be, Demas!"
"How are you going to cleanse your way by taking heed thereto according to thy word?"
What is the solution? It's the Bible.
What is the solution? It's church.
Don't tell me you love God and don't come to church.
Look at verse 47.
"I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved."
We love God by loving his commandments.
And not just Leviticus 20, 13. Every straight guy loves that verse.
Well, I could get up and scream and yell, and all the guys would be saying,
"Amen! Put the faggots to death!"
Then it's like, "Avoid horrors," and they're like, "Read your Bible. Love your enemies.
Visit the widows and the fatherless in their affliction.
Keep yourself unspotted from this world. Don't touch alcohol.
Work hard. Serve in your church. Be a nobody in your church and serve."
Well, I don't want to do that. I just want to hear about fags getting shot in the head.
By our government, I would never condone murder.
No, we love all of the commandments of God.
Tell me about how the Jews are terrible. How about how you're terrible?
How about your problems? How about your sin? How about your issues?
Because you know what? I don't expect an unsaved dog to clean himself up.
I expect a son of God to actually behave himself in the house of God in church.
Why don't you love your brethren? Oh, I can't love them because they're Zionists.
Well, love them anyways. I can't love them because they're pre-trib. Love them anyways.
I can't love them because they're not good at soul winning. Love them anyways.
We shouldn't just love the brethren that we like. We should love the brethren that we don't like.
Because we love God when we love the brethren. Look at verse 48.
"My hands also I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes."
Show me you love God by memorizing His Word. By meditating on His Word.
You say, "I struggle with my thoughts, Pastor Shelley. I struggle when I get alone."
Well, here's a solution. Meditate on His Word. Love the Lord thy God with all of thy mind. All of thy mind.
Verse 97. Oh, how love I thy law. It is my meditation. Notice this. Oh, the day.
Well, I really like meditating on the Word during a sermon. How about after the sermon?
How about in the morning? How about at lunch? How about at night? How about in the car?
Here's a way to pass your time on your long commute. Memorize Scripture.
Okay, just think about that. What does the Bible say in 113? I hate vain thoughts.
Do you understand Pastor Shelley? I love the daydream about being a professional basketball player on the way to work.
But you're not. You suck. You can't even dunk. You're white. You can't jump.
Since us being white, we have an excuse. If you're black and you can't dunk, I wouldn't even want to admit that.
I hate vain thoughts. Yeah, of course I could sit here and dream about how my life could be different.
I could dream about being rich. I could dream about being a professional athlete.
I could dream about being 6'5" and I'd still be shorter than Pastor Thompson.
I could dream about changing all of my worldly, carnal interests.
But you know what the Bible says? I hate vain thoughts.
Why? But thy love do I love. Because I love God.
10 starts with the mind.
119, the Bible says, "Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore, I love thy testimonies."
I can't wait for all the wicked to be put away.
127, "Therefore, I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold."
What do you wish to have today? Do you wish to have all the riches of this world?
I wish I had bought Bitcoin back in the day. I wish I had bought more real estate back in the day.
I wish I had invested back in the day in an unknown company named Apple or Amazon.
You know what the Bible says? The Bible says, "I love thy commandments above gold."
Men of this world are chasing gold. They're chasing money. They're chasing riches.
But we should chase the Lord thy God. We should chase his commandments. We should love God.
Look at 132. "Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name."
Here's a great benefit to loving God. He gives you more mercy.
What's the first commandment? To love the Lord thy God.
What's the great commandment? To love the Lord thy God.
Let me explain. Not only do you love God by loving the brethren.
You know how you love God? By loving this book. This is God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
This is God. And you love God by loving this.
By loving the Bible. By loving the Word of God.
By letting it communicate to you, and talk to you, and heal you, and fix you.
Psalm 119 verse 140. The Bible says, "Thy Word is very pure. Therefore thy servant loveth it."
You know why I love the King James Bible? Because it's very pure.
You know why I don't like the NIV? Because it's not pure.
You know why I don't like the modern versions today? Because it's not pure.
I love water, but I don't like it when it's not pure.
You know what? Men like their wives to be pure.
What makes something special and precious is that it's pure.
And you know what makes the King James Bible special and precious? It's that it's pure.
The Bible says in Psalm 119, look at verse 159, "Consider how I love thy precepts.
Quicken me, O Lord, according to thy loving kindness."
Notice that this person is asking God to consider how much he loves God.
How would you like for God to grade you right now on how much you love him?
How would you do if God judged you right now and he says,
"I'm going to judge you on how much your soul loves me right now."
How would you do if God judged your heart on how much your heart loves God?
If God were to judge you right now on your mind and the thoughts that you have
and the thoughts that you entertain and the thoughts that you act on,
how would God judge your mind?
If God were to measure all the strength and all the power
and all the effort and all the energy that you have
and he were to say, "How much of that are you putting towards loving God?"
How would you do?
Because the psalmist is saying, "Consider how I love thy precepts."
Do you love his precepts?
163, "I hate and abhor lying, but thy law do I love."
The worst person besides God to lie to is to lie to yourself.
Don't lie to yourself this evening.
Where are you at?
Where is your soul at?
Where is your heart at?
Where is your mind at?
The only people that will ever love God are the saved.
You are the opportunity for someone to love God. And He's such a great God to be loved. And if it's not you, who is going to love God?
Who is going to think about God? Who is going to pour out their heart to God? Who is going to pour out their soul to God?
Who is going to take all the strength that God gave them and put it all into God?
We have men today that are putting all of their strength into basketball. They're putting all of their strength into golf.
They're putting all of their strength into football. There are men today putting all of their strength into being crowned the MMA World Champion Fighter.
Today, striving to put all of their effort and their energy to put a man on the planet Mars.
What a waste of time, effort, energy, and money.
There are men today putting all of their effort and their energy into rebuilding the Antichrist Temple.
There are people today putting all their money, effort, and energy to building riches, to building a 401k, to building their farm, to building their personal life.
What have you decided? I'm going to put all of my strength into loving God.
I'm going to go to church with all of my might.
I'm going to read the Bible with the strength that I have.
I'm going to memorize it.
I'm going to teach it to my children.
I'm going to think about it.
I'm going to sing it.
I'm going to go out and I'm going to love to tell the story to the lost every single day.
The rest of my life.
I'm going to redeem the time and I'm going to love God.
165, the Bible says, "Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them."
Offend is meaning that you would be so sensitive and you would transgress God's commandments.
You would cause something that I say, "Oh, I love alcohol. I can't do that."
And you decide to just veer off and go to alcohol.
Go to the whores of this world.
Go to the games of this world for children.
Desire riches and money and fame and wealth and pleasure
and the lust of this world and the pride of life
and the deceitfulness of riches.
You'd be offended by God's Word.
You're offended by saying, "I don't really want to love God.
I don't want to love people that don't love me."
You know what the Bible says? "Great peace have they which love thy law."
167, the Bible says, "My soul hath kept thy testimonies, and I love them exceedingly."
The psalmist is trying to give you the prescription to loving God today.
I don't care if you never become a pastor, you can love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
I don't care if you're not a man, if you're a woman, you can love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
I don't care if you're not an adult tonight, if you're a child, you can love the Lord thy God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
The only person stopping you is you.
We need to be a generation of Christians.
We need to be a generation of Baptists that love the Lord thy God with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength.
We need to encourage one another.
We need to go to church to provoke one another into love and to good works.
To provoke unto love and good works.
There's so many today forsaking church.
They're forsaking the Bible.
They're forsaking preaching the Gospel today.
And you, by demonstrating your love towards God, can motivate other Christians to love God.
When you love God, others will love God with you.
When you forsake God like Peter and say, "I go a fishing," you drag other people down with you.
I would love to say, at the end of my life, my soul hath kept thy testimony, and I love them.
I love them exceedingly.
At the end of your life, what will you say?
I loved money.
I loved fornication.
I loved alcohol.
You know people that that would be their testimony.
I loved myself.
I loved being lazy.
I loved the cowboys.
I loved the bears.
No one loves the bears.
I'm just kidding.
Duh bears.
What do you love?
Who do you love?
If you don't love God, no one will.
If we don't decide to love God, no one will.
We have the greatest opportunity to love the greatest God that could ever exist.
The Lord thy God.
Who's done everything for us.
And he gives us an opportunity every day, every moment to love him.
Don't allow a sermon to come into your eyes and your ears and your heart and do nothing with it.
If you say, "I don't love the Lord thy God the way I should."
Make a change tonight.
Make a change right now.
Decide to love the Lord thy God now.
And never stop loving the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul.
Let us pray.
Thank you Heavenly Father for the gift that you've given us of your Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for being so gracious and kind and merciful unto us.
Thank you for being such a great God.
I pray that you would help motivate our minds and our soul and our hearts
and all the strength that we have to be turned back to you.
To love you more.
To demonstrate our love towards our brethren, towards the lost and dying world.
I pray that you would help us to see the importance of keeping thy commandments.
I pray that you would empower our new man to walk in newness of life
and have a desire to truly love you.
I pray that you would just motivate the men and the women in this room
and the children to love you with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Bring them in, Psalm 389, after this sermon you have no excuse not to sing this with all your strength.
Psalm 389, bring them in.
On the first part is the shepherd, her choice lies here.
Out in the desert dark and drear, calling the sheep who've gone astray.
Far from the shepherd's fold away.
Bring them in, bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in, bring them in.
Bring the wandering ones to Jesus in hell.
The shepherd coming, the wandering ones to find. Bring the lost ones to the false shelter.
From the cold to the sticks to sheep.
We've got some closing announcements and closes with a little prayer.
Tomorrow morning, 9.30, we're meeting at the church. Does anybody need the address?
Does anybody need the address? Everybody got it?
Alright, so 9.30 at the church, remember it's about 30 to 35 minutes from here, is that right guys?
So, leave early.
I think we're going to be heading out from the church right at 10.30.
So, as long as you're there by 10.30, you might want to get there early to get some partners and all that kind of stuff.
I just want to say thank you to Pastor Shelley for coming, making a special trip up here.
All the Steadfast guys, Son-in-law Dylan, and then everybody just made a big effort to come up here.
We really appreciate it.
And hopefully we'll have some more people show up tomorrow to help us bring them in, right?
So thank you everybody for being here tonight.
We appreciate it. Let's close on a word of prayer, okay?
Here on the Father, we thank you Lord so much for the great group that came up to just hear the Word of God tonight.
Lord, we pray that you just bless everybody as we go our separate ways tonight.
And Lord, we pray that you just bless the harvest tomorrow.
We pray that you would just lead us to those doors that are in most need of salvation.
We pray that everything done in the rest of this weekend would be to your glory and honor.
And Lord, that we would love you with all of our hearts, minds, souls, strength and power.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.