Really interesting time out soul winning today.
Turn your Bibles to Jeremiah chapter 23.
It reminded me of this verse.
But first of all, we ran into, the story is that we ran into
a couple of two individual really crazy people.
The second one probably demon possessed in my opinion.
But the first guy, we walked into this guy's yard
and we walked up and before we even got to the door
this guy came out of his house and just started yelling
obscenities at us and he called us white nationalists.
Brother Alex was asking me what a white nationalist is.
I'm not really sure, I think it's someone who's,
it's either someone who's a nationalist that's white
or someone that's a nationalist that thinks maybe
only white people should live here or something.
But considering the fact that most or a good portion
of our soul winning group wasn't even white,
I don't even know that that even makes any sense at all.
But as far, I'm not even sure the white nationalists exist
but I have, anyway, so that's not really the point.
But this guy's just screaming obscenities at us
and the thing to point out is we had not even said a word.
We had not said a word, we simply walked into,
he saw people walking into his yard with Bibles
in their hands or Bibles with them and immediately
was just enraged and started screaming things.
Didn't care that there was women,
didn't care that there was children.
You just have to notice this type of thing.
The second person was a lady, we never even saw her,
Jacob knocked on her door and it was this lady
just started screaming through the door
in a very weird, raspy, strange, seriously like,
horror movie type of voice about things about Satan
and all these types of things and worshiping the devil
and all this kind of stuff.
And like, not joking, like serious about this stuff.
We ran into this, I remember we ran into something
very similar to this about three years ago
when we were in the downtown church.
Well, first of all, demon possession is very real, okay?
And we ran into this and we actually met this person
because I actually went back to this door
and knocked on this door because I just wanted
to see it myself.
But the ladies actually ran into a situation
where there was somebody like this
and was just talking to them face to face,
like how they, and like quoting Bible verses.
And before the soul winner had actually even handed
this person an invitation, this person said
in this crazy voice, I'm King James only too,
kind of thing and just, you know,
I mean obviously not of this world.
But the point is, you're there in Jeremiah chapter 23.
The point I'm trying to get at is why bring this up, right?
I mean, we don't run into this all the time,
but these are things that you are going to run into.
And the thing that you have to remember is this,
look at Jeremiah chapter 23.
This is what this reminded me of today.
Look at Jeremiah chapter 23 and look down at verse number 28.
The Bible says this, it says,
the prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream,
and he that hath my word, let him speak my word
faithfully, okay, so the Bible is saying here,
hey, the prophet that has my word in his mouth
needs to be speaking that word.
And he's saying the prophet that hath a dream,
like, you know, God would give visions to his prophets,
he's like, he better go and say those things,
and he better be what, faithful about it,
he better go and do it anyway,
but look at the last part of the verse.
It says, what is the chaff to the wheat, sayeth the Lord.
Now chaff in the Bible, in Matthew chapter 13,
you know, it uses a different analogy.
It calls wheat, it calls the believers wheat and tares,
meaning weeds, but chaff is used to describe, you know,
people that don't want to hear the word of God,
people that are against the word of God, things like that.
The Bible here is saying, it's like, hey, you know,
what is the chaff to the wheat?
The chaff shouldn't matter.
You need to go faithfully speak the word of God.
What you need to understand is that this is a spiritual battle.
This is a spiritual battle and it's very real.
You know, it's very real.
That's why you're gonna see as you go out
soul winning more and more, all you're gonna see
is just biblical truths just coming true,
again and again and again.
It reminds me of, you know, the chaff, the chaff.
So the point is, we have to get through the chaff.
We have to get through the chaff to get to the wheat, right?
It reminds me of a combine, you know,
this big harvesting machine that would really harvest wheat,
you know, that you would see all the time
in the Great Plains in North Dakota.
I don't know if you see them that much here,
but basically the way the combine works
is it cuts the wheat down and look, a wheat plant,
one single plant of wheat is a large stem,
a whole bunch of things that are surrounding the kernels
and then these big long tines that stick up.
There's a lot of mass there that is not the wheat itself.
So this combine has to bring this entire plant
into the center of this machine
and there's this large called cylinder
that grinds all this up and it just,
literally the reason that harvesters can harvest more now
is because there's more horsepower
that can be put into these machines
because a vast majority of the horsepower of the combine
is used to turn this cylinder to grind up this plant
and to literally beat the chaff
away from the wheat kernels.
It literally separates the wheat from the chaff
and then it blows all the chaff.
If you've ever seen a YouTube video
or actually seen one going through a field,
you just see this massive tan cloud behind the machine
because this cylinder's grinding up all the chaff
and blowing it out the back of the machine
and then it's dumping all the grain,
all the clean grain into the hopper
at the back of the combine,
but all the chaff has to be,
the point is to get to the wheat,
you gotta grind through all the chaff
and that's where all the horsepower is needed.
So that's the spiritual example that we see today.
Look, that's not a normal thing
that we saw today in Fresno,
but that is something that we will see
because in order to get to,
look, we had a salvation today on that street.
Literally the house across from the first psychopath
that we met, the person got saved.
But we have to grind through that chaff
to get to that person
and that's what we always have to remember.
You gotta grind through those,
you gotta knock, I mean, it's easy to say
you gotta knock 99 doors to get to the one
that wants to listen,
but there's some real chaff out there
that needs to be gone through
before we can even get to the wheat kernel itself
and that's why the Bible uses that great analogy
of wheat and the chaff.
The Bible here in Jeremiah 23 is just saying like,
hey, you know, I mean, we have to think like that.
We have to think like Jeremiah 23.
We have to go out there and we have to just be like,
what is the chaff?
What is the chaff?
What is salvation today?
Did somebody, you know, accept the Lord Jesus Christ today
right across the street?
And the other group had another salvation today
and that's always the way it's gonna be,
but the chaff is there.
And you know, the demon possession is there.
Just, we gotta grind through all that chaff.
But look, to me,
to me, I don't wanna say I like it,
but to me, it's like I love seeing the Bible
just come true in life.
I love seeing the Bible come,
you know, the words of the Bible
just be proven true again and again and again.
And look, it just, you're gonna,
it's like the mysteries that we talked about
unlocking this morning.
As you go out soul winning more and more and more,
like just more mysteries are just gonna be unlocked to you.
You're like, oh, this reminds me of this.
It's just like, I was like,
this reminds me of Jeremiah 23.
It's just like these mysteries are just unlocked.
You're like, man, the Bible's so true.
The Bible's so true.
You know, it's just proven again and again and again to you.
But don't ever forget that, you know,
I mean, this is a spiritual battle
and it's not like we're the only ones fighting it.
Satan's fighting it too.
You know, Satan's fighting it too and he's got people,
he's not just fighting for the same people
we're fighting for.
He's already got some people on his side.
You know, I mean, that's not a normal thing
for somebody to come out with,
see somebody with a Bible and just come out
and just start screaming obscenities
no matter who's there.
That's not normal.
You know, something has happened to that person.
You know, they have gone to the other side.
There's people playing, there's spirits and people
with those spirits playing for the other side,
fighting, you know, that same battle with us.
So don't forget that.