For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend
for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
But God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.
See, God would love to use someone who's not wise, considered good. He doesn't take a Bible
college education. If you're smart enough to get saved, then you're smart enough to preach it.
Someone might say, well, I'm not bold enough. Well, Paul asked people, he said,
pray for me that I may be able to be able to open my mouth boldly to make known the
ministry of the gospel. Paul, who's been exalted, he's probably one of the best soul
learners in history, asked people to pray for him to have boldness because he lacked boldness.
Now, it says sent. It doesn't say bring in because a lot of these churches,
because they're not having any fruit, they're compromising their standards of becoming worldly.
They want to become worldly to attract the worldly crowd so they can bring
unsaved worldly people in the church, then with the intention of giving them the gospel.
But as a result, these churches are filled with unsaved people. Because Stuckey was
preaching last night at John 15, Jesus says, unless you abide in me, you cannot bear fruit.
And so these churches are not bearing fruit because they've gone on the way,
they've become worldly. And so we don't want to compromise our standards. See,
we're trying to, what we need to do is fill the church up with saved people who are zealous for
God that want to learn how to become soul wires. And then we need to send them out.
The biggest perversion of the gospel is this phrase repent of your sins. Now,
I'm not against repent of your sins, but I'm against making a part of the gospel.
I am against making a part of salvation. Because we're saved by faith alone, period.
But a lot of these pastors who claim to be Baptist will say, oh, we're saved by faith alone,
but you got to repent of your sins. Or we're saved by faith alone, but faith that works is dead.
Now, I don't like that word but when it's at the end of salvation. The only time I like the word
but when it's after damnation, like in Romans 6 23, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift
of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Don't put a but on the end of salvation. Salvation
is finished. Now, someone might say, well, you know, I'm too young. I'm not qualified
because I'm too young. Well, remember, Jeremiah said the same thing. God ordained him to be a
preacher. And Jeremiah said, but I'm a child. And then God said, see, not that I'm a child,
for I'm with thee and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak. All right, so if you're old
enough to get saved, you're old enough to be a soul winner. Now, someone might say, well,
I'm not eloquent enough. I'm not a good speaker. Remember, Moses said the same thing that God is
an excuse when God ordained him to be a preacher to bring children out of Israel. And God said,
you know, who's made man's mouth? And he said, and, you know, you're going to speak, he said,
and whatever, he says, and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say.
So notice both times with those excuses, I'm a child, I'm not a good speaker. God says,
I'm with you, speak what I say. And so lastly, this, the Bible says in verse 17 of Romans 10,
it says, so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So the fourth element
we need for salvation to take place for revival is we need the word of God. We need the Bible.
Remember what God told Jeremiah and Moses? He says, for I am with thee and speak what I tell
you. I'll tell you what to say, Moses. I'll tell you what to say, Jeremiah. See, because here's
the thing. Our words, it's not our words that's going to get people safe because our words have
no power. It's going to be God's word. But notice it says faith cometh by hearing and hearing by
the word of God. It does not say faith cometh by reading and reading by a gospel tract. Okay.
Because gospel tracts, like I said, can't reproduce. They have no feet. They cannot speak
and they cannot bring forth. And so it's going to be through the mouth of a preacher. The only way
to fail today is by not opening our mouth. But see here today, we have all the elements here today.
We have, you know, we're not street preaching. We're going door to door.
We have the King James Bible. I mean, we have the sending church. We, you know, we're not preaching
out of the NIV. Okay. We're not going to free preaching and we're not telling people you got
to repent of your sins. We're going out and we're going to tell people, believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. All right. So we got the right gospel. We got the right Bible and
we have the right method. And we have a sending church today. We have New Testament Baptist
church, which is sending us out today. And this is, and we have all these elements. And so,
and here's the thing. We also have spiritual Christians. We have preachers, we have solar,
we have people ready to go and we have feet to take it. And so all these elements are in place.
And the Bible says, he that goeth forth, we being buried in Christ shall doubtless come
again rejoicing. Doubtless means for sure. So we will for sure be successful today. We will for
sure bring forth a harvest. We'll reap a harvest today. We're going to come back. We're going to
be rejoicing together, bringing our shoes with us. And so we will be successful. We will have
a harvest. And so let's go out knowing that the victory is already ours and let's flip this city
upside down.