My name is Ron Talley. I speak on behalf of the KJV.
Not good news for modern men or the NIV, but the King James Bible that's been given to me.
I see my God in the Bible wherever I chance to look.
I see my God in the Bible, the heart, the theme of the book.
My whole life has been nothing but soul winning.
Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost.
I fear our churches are caught up in everything but soul winning.
Everything but keeping somebody out of hell.
Abba motto, if you win souls as you go, you never have to go soul winning.
Should I repeat that? If you win souls as you go, you never have to go soul winning.
You win them at the store. You win them at the post office.
You win them door to door. You win them downtown. You win them next door.
Wherever you meet people, they need to be saved.
Everybody needs a Savior and you and I have the answer.
And God forbid that we would not give that answer out.
I'm not looking for church members. That's up to God.
This is not my church. This is God's church.
God never called me to build a church. God called me to go soul winning.
He'll build a church. I can run them off fast as I can bring them in.
By the way, everybody's not your brother. Everybody's not your friend.
Everybody's not your acquaintance. But everybody needs to be saved.
Everybody you meet, every Mormon, Jehovah Witness, Catholic, Muslim,
red, yellow, black, white, they need a Savior.
And if we don't take it and give it to them, they'll die and go to hell
and their blood will be on our hands.
By the way, you read that text in Ezekiel, that's a warning text, not a winning text.
And it's our job to warn them and if God moves, we can win them to Him. Amen.
Any preacher that don't win souls ought to go sell you stars.
I wouldn't have a preacher that didn't read the Bible, the King James.
I wouldn't have a preacher that wouldn't go soul winning, that wouldn't love the unlovely,
can't go dying and rescue the person and I wouldn't have him.
He's lazy. That's right.
You know what they did? They got their chairs wore out, not their shoes wore out.
That's exactly right.
I was meeting the veterans at the veteran's building at McGuire Hospital
and I talked to a man, he was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.
And if you read it, there were 40,000 helicopter pilots, 40,000 plus helicopters in Vietnam.
They had what they called an MOS, that's what their job is in the military.
Some are machinists, some are welders, some are gunners, an MOS.
The MOS for a helicopter pilot in Vietnam lasted four weeks.
It was an average length before they were killed.
So when you roll into Vietnam, they say, what's your MOS?
They say, I'm a helicopter pilot. They say, oh, four weeks you'll be dead.
That was a common joke in Vietnam.
He's up in his 80s, near 90 and I was visiting with him.
I was sitting down at McGuire and I said to him, I said, sir, what was your scariest time in Vietnam?
Was it when they shot ground to air missiles?
When they were shooting at you from the ground?
When you landed and up?
And he said they had invented something that you could tie to the propellers.
They would have them come down, they would hit the trees and cut them, they could land.
He said the soldier would have to hurry to get out of there under fire.
They would take plastic explosives, blow the trees out.
They would make a landing pad about the size of a post stamp for a Huey helicopter to get in there.
They would all bail in and they would get out and they would fly them out.
I said, was it landing, flying, coming? What was your scariest time?
He said, I was never really scared like that. I'd give you my worst time.
I said, what was your worst time?
He said, I would land to pick up soldiers that were under fire.
I could pick up 14 and there were 30 waiting on me.
I left 16 behind and some of them I never got back to go get them.
He said, I'm an old man now and I wonder if they ever made it out of Vietnam.
I was shot down twice. I know I didn't get back then.
He said they would hang on to the skids until the helicopter wouldn't leave the ground,
begging me to take them with them and I couldn't.
I said, if you don't let go, I can't get out of here.
I said, the guys are inside are yelling at them, get off the helicopter, get off the helicopter.
They were fighting to get in.
He said, you'll fight a helicopter out and he would look back and see all the men under fire
and he couldn't carry with him.
Well, let me tell you something. One day we're going to get to heaven
and we're going to look back and see people we could have won to Christ and we didn't.
And we should have won them.
We were too tired. We were too lazy. We were too busy making money.
We're going to leave them behind and we're going to do our best to get folks saved.
How long have you been doing this, brother?
Three and a half years.
I hope when you're 64, you're still doing it.
Everywhere you go, they're going to discourage you.
You don't meet many men like this.
You know my old church would ask me, how did anybody get saved today?
I've got two teenage boys now. I'm mentoring them.
And these boys are 12 years old and I've been mentoring them.
Now, every day they text a preacher, get somebody saved today.
Preacher, I'm praying for you today. These two boys.
Plus folks that got used to it.
Anyway, I say this to you.
You ought to look out for each other.
My brother, you ought to try and pick him up.
You ought to try and love him.
I had never met Sean in my whole life.
But I knew he was trying to handle it.
He hasn't been saved very long, three or four years, I think.
But I wanted to love him and encourage him.
I said, how do you do what you do?
How do you do this right here?
You run down the website and it means you let a restaurant.
And you go in that neighborhood, my neighborhood.
Nobody really cares if you do it in Iowa.
Except the folks that got saved today.
God, as you live like my mother and my sister, I've got about six or seven more years left.
And I've been doing all I can for Christ.
I've been leaving nobody behind.
No stone unturned.
No sermon unfreaking.
Nobody unreached.
If that helicopter pilot feels like that about leaving him in the jungle,
how do we feel about leaving him in the jungle of Wallston Dine and going to hell?
He deserves it.
If the world dies, not in the fires, not in Christ.
And you and I, we know the bridge is out.
And we have the answer.
Let us keep doing what we are doing.
Let us keep loving like we love.
Let us give back the gospel like we ought to.
Love it like we should.
I'm glad I got to be part of this.
Don't quit.
Love each other.
I say to you today, keep up the good work.