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Can I please have everyone find their seats and grab their songbooks. We're going to turn to page number 405. Please find your seats, grab your songbooks and turn to page number 405. Tonight we're going to be singing the Banner of the Cross. That's page 405. And let's sing it out on the first. 🎵There's a royal banner given for display to the soldiers of the king.🎵 🎵As an ensign bear we lift it up today.🎵 🎵While his ransom ones we sing.🎵 🎵Marching on, marching on.🎵 🎵For Christ counts everything but loss.🎵 🎵And to crown him king, toil and sing.🎵 🎵Heed the banner of the cross.🎵 🎵Page 405 on the second.🎵 🎵Though the foe may rage and gather as the flood.🎵 🎵Let the standard be displayed.🎵 🎵And beneath its folds as soldiers of the Lord.🎵 🎵For the truth be not displayed.🎵 🎵Marching on, marching on.🎵 🎵For Christ counts everything but loss.🎵 🎵And to crown him king, toil and sing.🎵 🎵Heed the banner of the cross.🎵 🎵Over land and sea wherever man-made dwell.🎵 🎵Make the glorious fighting slow.🎵 🎵Of the crimson banner now the story tell.🎵 🎵While the Lord shall flame his own.🎵 🎵Marching on, marching on.🎵 🎵For Christ counts everything but loss.🎵 🎵And to crown him king, toil and sing.🎵 🎵Heed the banner of the cross.🎵 🎵4'05 on the last.🎵 🎵When the glory dawns, is drawing very near.🎵 🎵It is hasting day by day.🎵 🎵And before our king, the bow shall disappear.🎵 🎵And the cross the world shall sway.🎵 🎵Marching on, marching on.🎵 🎵For Christ counts everything but loss.🎵 🎵And to crown him king, toil and sing.🎵 🎵Heed the banner of the cross.🎵 Great singing. Let's open up with a word of prayer. Father God, thank you so much for this church, Lord. Thank you for those people coming out here on a Wednesday evening. I pray that our music would glorify you, Lord. I pray that you would bless the singing. I pray that you would bless the preaching of the sermon to come. In your holy and precious name I pray. Amen. All right, turn your song books to page number 224. Page 224. We're going to be singing, There Shall Be Showers of Blessing. Page 224 on the first. 🎵There shall be showers of blessing.🎵 🎵This is the promise of love.🎵 🎵There shall be seasons refreshing.🎵 🎵Sent from the Savior above.🎵 🎵Showers of blessing.🎵 🎵Shower of blessings we need.🎵 🎵Perseed rods round us are falling.🎵 🎵Look for the showers we plead.🎵 🎵There shall be showers of blessing.🎵 🎵Precious reviving again.🎵 🎵Over the hills and the valleys.🎵 🎵Sound of abundance of rain.🎵 🎵Showers of blessing.🎵 🎵Showers of blessing we need.🎵 🎵Mercy drops round us are falling.🎵 🎵Look for the showers we plead.🎵 🎵224 on the third.🎵 🎵There shall be showers of blessing.🎵 🎵Send them upon us, O Lord.🎵 🎵Grant to us now a refreshing.🎵 🎵Come and now honor Thy word.🎵 🎵Showers of blessing.🎵 🎵Shower of blessing we need.🎵 🎵Mercy drops round us are falling.🎵 🎵Look for the showers we plead.🎵 Alright, you guys have been singing good, but this last verse, let's put a little more umph into it. Let's sing it out on the last. 🎵There shall be showers of blessing.🎵 🎵O that today they might fall.🎵 🎵Now as to God we're confessing.🎵 🎵Now as on Jesus we call.🎵 🎵Showers of blessing.🎵 🎵Shower of blessings we need.🎵 🎵Mercy drops round us are falling.🎵 🎵Look for the showers we plead.🎵 Great singing. Amen. We want to welcome you to the Wednesday evening service of Verity Baptist Church. We're glad you're here tonight. We call it the most encouraging service of the week. And it's always, of course, good to be in God's house with God's people. Let's take our bulletin tonight and we'll look at some announcements. If you do not have a bulletin, just raise your hand and one of our ushers can get one for you. If you need a bulletin, just put your hand up and we'll get one for you. The verse this week, Hebrews 12-3, For consider him that endured such contradictions of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. And that's a good verse there. We like that. If you open up your bulletin, you'll see our service times. Sunday morning service 1030 a.m. And we do invite you to be with us, of course, on Sunday morning on the Lord's day for church. Sunday evening service at 6 p.m. And then, of course, our Wednesday evening Bible study at 7 p.m. We're glad you're here in church. If you look at our soul-winning times, our main soul-winning times on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m., then we have additional soul-winning times on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 2 p.m. So if you'd like to go soul-winning tomorrow, there'll be a time for you to be able to do that. We, of course, are a family integrated church. What that means is that children and infants are always welcome in the church service. We don't separate children from their parents. And we do have mother-baby rooms and daddy rooms available for your convenience. So if you have a child that's been distracting during the service, or if you need some privacy, we would encourage you to use those rooms as needed. And if you are a first-time guest, if it's your first time here at Verity Baptist Church, we're glad you're with us. We have a gift we'd like to give you as you walk out of the church building tonight as you go through the main foyer. If you go out our secondary foyer, you'll see a little table set up. And on that table, you'll see these little gift bags. Please grab one on your way out as a gift from us to you for being our guest tonight. There are several resources in this bag that we'd like you to have. The one I like to highlight is this documentary that our church made. It's called Being Baptist. It's very well made, very interesting. We think you'll like it and want to give it to you as a gift. So please make sure you don't leave here tonight without grabbing one of these gift bags on your way out. And if you are a guest, we'd ask that you please take a moment and fill out the communication card, which is inserted in your bulletin. If you need a pen, just raise your hand and one of our ushers can bring you by a Verity Baptist Church pen. You're welcome to keep the pen as a gift from us as well. We're not going to do anything odd with your info. We'd just like a record of your attendance. We actually want to send you a little gift, but we need your information to do that. So please take a moment to fill the card out. When we're done with the announcements, we're going to sing a song. When we're done singing, we're going to receive the offering. And as the offering plate goes by, you can drop this card in the offering plate, or you can hand it to me after the service. I'll be standing at the main door greeting people on the way out, and I hope you'll come by and say hello. If you look at the announcements there, of course, if you need to be baptized, please let us know. You can let us know on your communication card. There's a place for you to check off that you'd like information about baptism, and we'll follow up with you in regards to that. And then, of course, if you look at the announcements and upcoming events, we have our Journey with Jesus series that we're doing, and we are in a verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of Luke. We are learning about the life of Christ, and we're going to continue that tonight. And then, of course, our soul-winning seminar is coming up on Friday, September 9th. It'll be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and we'd love for you to make plans to attend our soul-winning seminar, especially if you have never, if you are a soul-winner at Verity Baptist Church, and you have never attended a soul-winning seminar at our church, I want to encourage you to take the time, make the effort. I realize it's on a Friday at 10 a.m. You might have to take a day off for work or something like that, but if you can make it, we'd love for you to make it. And you'll get a seminar binder, and it'll have all the lessons we'll go through, and they'll be filling the blanks. It won't be like a church service. It really, we call it a seminar for a reason. And we're going to teach you step-by-step how to present the Gospel, how to prepare for soul-winning, how to present the Gospel, also how to follow up on your guests and get them into church. It's an all-day event. Lunch will be provided. And even if you've already gone to the seminar and you just want to brush up on your soul-winning skills, then we'd love you to join us. Make sure you sign up for that. And then, of course, we have the VBC Choir Family and Friend Day. They're practicing for Family and Friend Day. They started on Sunday at 5. They're going to continue having practices on Sundays at 5. And I just want to make sure we correct this a little bit. For now, it's just the choir, not the orchestra. The orchestra will join in later on as we get closer to Family and Friend Day. But this Sunday, it's choir practice for Family and Friend Day at 5 p.m. Upcoming cleaning crew, you can check for your name there, and there's other things there for you to look at. Please don't forget to turn your cell phones off or place them on silent during the service if they're not a distraction to anybody. If you look at the back of the bulletin, birthdays and anniversaries for the month of August. Up to now, we've had Jordan Taylor's birthday on August 1st and Ellie Beville's birthday on August 3rd. My daughter Lydia Jimenez's birthday on August 4th. Ms. Brandy Barrett's birthday on August 4th. Daisy O2's birthday on August 5th. We had Abigail Deacon's birthday on August 7th. Christian Groenberg's birthday on August 8th. Cristiano Perez's birthday on August 9th. And then tomorrow is Daniel Nellitescu's birthday on August 11th. Praise Report, Money Matters, all those things are there for you to look at. And I think that's it for all of the announcements. So we're going to go ahead and take our songbooks and we're going to go to page number 150. Page number 150. And we're going to sing, My faith has found a resting place As we prepare to receive the offering Tonight, 150, sing it out on the first My faith has found a resting place Not in device nor cream I trust the ever living one His wounds for me shall bleed I need no other argument I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And that He died for me 150, sing it out on the second Enough for me that Jesus saved His end, my fear and doubt A sinful soul, I come to Him He'll never cast me out I need no other argument I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And that He died for me Go sing it out on the third My heart is leaning on the Word The written Word of God Salvation by my Savior's name Salvation through His blood I need no other argument I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And that He died for me 150, sing it out on the last My great physician heals the sick The loss He came to save For me His precious blood He shed For me His life He gave I need no other argument I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And that He died for me Amen. Good singing. We'll have the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time and let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, we do come to You tonight asking that You bless the offering. Of course, Lord, we pray that You bless the gift and the giver. And we pray that You meet with us today as we take time to pray for the request for our church family and then, of course, Lord, as we study Your Word together. We pray that You would help us, guide us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. All right. Well, let's take our prayer sheets tonight. If you did not get a prayer sheet on your way in, just raise your hand and one of our ushers will get one for you. If you need a prayer list, just put your hand up and we will get one for you. And, of course, I want to remind you that the way you add a request to the prayer sheet is through your communication card. On the back of the card is a place for you to write down a request. And make sure you mark whether it's private or public. If it's private, only I will see it. If it's public, we'll put it on the prayer sheet. If you don't mark it, we'll do our best to figure it out. But we usually don't put those on there. So just help us with that if you would. And we do put the request in for a couple of weeks and they're removed after that. So if you'd like it to be on there longer, please make sure to fill out another communication card. If you would write one, if you could write in a prayer request. This is a prayer request that came in late and didn't make it to the printing. But if you could write in for Brother Darrell Venable to please pray to find an affordable housing to relocate to near the church. So if you could write that in, we would appreciate that. Let's go ahead and take these requests to the Lord. I'll pray out loud as you follow along in your mind and your heart. And let's pray together. Heavenly Father, Lord, we come to you tonight asking for these requests from our church family, Lord. And we begin with these requests for salvation. For the Ron Edwards praying for his mom and his family's salvation. The Vokochich family praying for their family's salvation. And also Ms. Edith praying for Balthazar Grado's salvation and for his daughter's salvation. Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her children's salvation. Ms. Dogma praying for her daughter and her family's salvation. Lord, we pray for all of these individuals. We realize that these people will spend eternity somewhere in heaven or hell. And we ask that you would move in their hearts, Lord. That you would do everything that needs to happen in their lives to bring them to the place where they would be receptive to the Gospel, Lord. And we pray that you would allow a soul winner to communicate the Gospel clearly to them that they might be saved. Lord, we pray also for these that have requests for their families. Ed Torres praying for the family of Margarita who recently passed and she was a dear friend. She's praying for their grace and help and peace during this time. Brother Max praying for safe travels as he goes to visit family this month. And Ugo Estrada praying for his family. Ms. Edith praying for the daughters of Balthazar. Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for her daughter Lola who just had a baby. And Brother Salvador praying for his family. Lord, we pray for all these individuals and we pray for these families. Lord, that you bless them and that you help them and that you would give them grace, Lord. And we ask for these that also have health requests. Ms. Cricket praying for an elbow flare-up. And Evan Smith praying for Brother Jeff who had kidney stones. And Ms. Brandy praying for an upcoming oral surgery on August 16th. Brother Joe Maples praying for the healing of Joe Jr. and with his health problems. Ugo praying for Pastor Doug and the recovery of his son from a burn injury. Ms. Christine Ortiz praying for health and for her health and pain. Brother Salvador for his health. Ms. Dogma praying for her pain and also for her son-in-law's liver operation to remove cancer. That would go well. Of course, we continue to pray for little Uretzi that she would continue to be healthy and strong. Lord, we pray for all these individuals. We pray that you put your healing hand over them. We pray that you would heal them if that's your will, Lord, that you would relieve pain. We pray that you would give wisdom and discernment to the doctors, the nurses dealing with these individuals. We also pray for the ladies in our church that are expecting for Ms. Rebecca Lunsford and for Ms. Esther Davidson, for Ms. Antonina Vokulchik and for Ms. Katie Rosenberg, that you would give them healthy pregnancies with healthy babies and healthy deliveries and no problems, no complications. Lord, we thank you for a couple of praise reports. We always want to acknowledge when you answer a prayer, and Brother Allen has a praise report that his sister is out of the hospital and doing much better. We thank you for answering that prayer. Also, he had a good visit with his brother in prison, and we thank you for that. Brother Scott has a praise report that he passed his final exam. We've been praying for that for a while. He is now a California Civil Professional Engineer, and we thank you for that, Lord, for that praise report there. And Lord, we pray also for these that are just struggling and looking for help and needing help spiritually, for Balthazar Grotto for his recovery from alcoholism and praying for his walk with Christ. Brother Salvador praying for his faith and his walk with you as well, Lord, asking that you just bless and help. We also pray for these that have financial needs. Brother Salvador praying for his finances and for work. Brother Darryl praying that he could find an affordable housing near the church to relocate to, Lord, and we pray that you would take care of those needs and meet those needs and open those doors. We also pray for these that have unspoken requests, and Miss Cricket having an unspoken request, Miss Kimmy having an unspoken request, Brother Ike and Miss Jackie having an unspoken request, Julia and Emily Guessler both having unspoken requests, and Brother Salvador having an unspoken request, Miss Dogma having an unspoken request. Lord, you know what their petitions are, you know what they're asking for. We pray that you would please answer according to your will. We pray for our church, Lord. We pray for the prison ministry and the families involved in there, the inmates that get ministered to from us, Lord, and the 200 and some-odd inmates that get sermons from us every week, Lord. We pray that you would help them and bless them, Lord. We pray for the upcoming trip to the high desert prison, for the men that will be going there and holding a preaching service, that you would bless them, Lord, prepare them, prepare the hearts, the people they'll be speaking to. And, of course, we pray for our church here in Sacramento. We pray for our church plant in Manila and Pampanga and Bicole, that you would keep these locations safe and growing and healthy. Lord, we pray that you would meet with us tonight as we study another passage in scripture, Lord. Help us to be able to learn from it and help us apply it to our lives. Lord, help us to leave here different than we came. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Please open your mouths to Luke, chapter number 10. Luke, chapter number 10, if you need a Bible, just raise your hand and I'm just going to bring you a Bible. Luke, chapter number 10, if you need a Bible, just keep your hand up and let your will come by. Luke, chapter number 10, we'll read the entire chapter. Luke 10, just keep your hand up and let your will come by. Luke 10, verse number 1, after these things the Lord appointed others seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whether he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but the labors are few. Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labors into his harvest. Go your ways, behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves, carry neither purse, nor script, nor shoes, and salute no man by the way. And it's whatsoever house he enter, first say, peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it. If not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the labor is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. And it's whatsoever city he enter, and they receive you, each such things as are set before you, and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But it's whatsoever city he enter, and they receive you not. Go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you. Now outstanding be sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But I say unto you, there shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. Woe unto thee, Chorazin. Woe unto thee, Bethsaida. For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, that you had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell. He that heareth you, heareth me. And he that despiseth you, despiseth me. And he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. In the seventh day he returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now outstanding in this, rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. In that hour, Jesus rejoiced in the spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. And he turned him unto his disciples and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see things that ye see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them, and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? How readest thou? And he answered and said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou wast answered right, this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now these three thinkest thou wast neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. But Martha was covered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered, and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this evening. God, I thank you for your word, and for our church, for everyone that's here. I ask that you please give us a tender heart to the message. I say please for the pastor. God, just strengthen him. And from the Lord's spirit, we love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. All right, we're there in Luke chapter number 10. And of course, we are going through a series called Journey with Jesus, and we are doing a verse-by-verse study through the Gospel of Luke. We are studying the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. Of course, the Gospel of Luke is one of the most comprehensive Gospels in regards to giving us details about the life of Christ. And tonight, we find ourselves in chapter number 10 as we are working our way through the Gospel of Luke. And tonight, we're going to do something a little different than what we have been doing in Luke. Up to this point, we've been really taking our time through the Gospel of Luke, and we've been going through every detail, and we're going to continue to do that as we go forward. But tonight, we're going to cover, we've got a lot of territory to cover. We're going to cover 24 verses tonight, from Luke chapter 10, verse 1 to verse 24. Sunday morning, we'll deal with the famous, of course, story of the Good Samaritan, and then Sunday night, we'll deal with the story of Mary and Martha. But tonight, we're going to cover these 24 verses, and we're going to cover all 24 of them because of the fact that they're all talking about the same thing, and they all have to do with the same subject. And of course, in this passage before us tonight, we see the Lord Jesus Christ giving instructions to the group of 70 that He's getting ready to send out. If you remember just a couple of chapters ago, He sent out the 12 to go out and do missions to pretty much be soul winners, to do a missions trip. And now He's sending out a group of 70, the Bible tells us. If you look at Luke chapter 10, verse 1, I want you to notice something here. The Bible says, So this is other than the 12. He's got 70 that He's sending now. We're going to come back to these phrases here in a minute, but I just want you to notice the emphasis. He says, I want you to notice that when Jesus is getting ready to send the 70 out, He gives them instructions. That's what we're going to see in verses 1 through 24, the instructions that the Lord Jesus Christ gives to the 70 as He's getting ready to send them out. And He refers to them as laborers. And because of the fact that they are working in the ministry, He gives us some lessons for these laborers, a few lessons for these soul winning laborers. And let me just by way of introduction say this. When it comes to ministry, here we have the Lord Jesus Christ. He began by Himself. He got 12 guys. He trained them, sent them out. Now He's been training these 70. He's getting ready to send them out. He's going to give them one last training we're going to look at tonight, and then He's going to send them out. And when it comes to ministry, what we need is more laborers, of course. But when it comes to ministry, you know, soul winning and discipleship, these things that we do in ministry, it really should be a team sport. It should be a group effort. It should not be something that one guy does when one preacher gets up and preaches a sermon. No, it should be a group effort of all of us working together as laborers to fulfill the Great Commission. You don't have to turn here. Let me just read this for you. Philippians 1.27, Paul wrote this to the church at Philippi. He said, And that's really what a church should be. It should be a body of believers that are striving together for the faith of the gospel. And here we have the Lord Jesus Christ with 70 also, and He's getting ready to send them out. And of course, I'm going to apply a lot of this to soul winners, because that's really what they're doing. They're going to go out and preach the gospel. It really is more like a missions trip. But this is a passage of scripture that I would think a lot about, because when we first started our church, my wife and I started Verity Baptist Church 12 years ago in our living room. And when we first started the church, of course, there was nothing really going on in this area in regards to soul winning and our church got started. And of course, I started going soul winning, my wife started going soul winning, and slowly but surely we began gathering a group of soul winners. And I remember thinking to myself, one day we're going to have 12 soul winners. One day we're going to have 12 soul winners just like Jesus had His 12, and we're going to send them out into the community. And I remember how excited I was. It took a long time to have 12 soul winners go out and preach the gospel. And of course, soul winning is when we go out in the community, we knock doors, we invite people to church, we preach the gospel to anyone who's interested. And after we had 12, I remember thinking to myself, well, the next goal is 70 because Jesus had 12 and then He had 70. And I remember thinking we're probably never going to have 70, you know, because it was so hard to get 12 soul winners. I thought we're probably never, you know, oh, you have a little faith, we're probably never going to have 70 soul winners. But I kept thinking that's the goal, the goal of 70 soul winners. Well, you know, praise God, just this last Saturday we had 97 soul winners out. And we've had, you know, well over 70 soul winners for a long time. And I remember when we finally hit 70 soul winners, I was like, okay, well, what's the next number? And then it was like 120, you know, because the day of Pentecost you had 120 in the upper room. So that's our next goal, you know. Praise God for the 97 that went on on Saturday. We want 120 soul winners. And then, you know, after that, I don't know, 144,000, you know, and we're just, I don't know, we'll just keep going, you know. But we're striving together for the faith of the gospel is what we're trying to do. And we've got some lessons for soul winning and lessons for labors here. And if you're taking notes tonight, I'd encourage you to write these down. I got a lot to cover, so I'll move quickly. And of course, we always encourage you to take notes on the back of your course so there's a place for you to write down some things. Lessons for soul winning labors. Number one, we see the pattern for labors, the pattern for labors. We see it there in verse number one and notice it again. It says, after these things, the Lord appointed other 70 also and sent them. Notice what the Bible says, two and two. The Bible says that Jesus, he sends the 70 out and he sends them two and two. Now, keep your place there in Luke chapter 10. Of course, that's our text for tonight. But go maybe if you would to the book of Mark. Just going backwards, one book, Mark chapter number six. And look at verse number seven, Mark chapter six and verse seven, Mark 6-7. The Bible says, and he, referring to Jesus, called unto him the 12. This is back when he originally sent the 12 out and began to send them forth. Notice what the Bible says, by two and two and gave them power over unclean spirits. So the pattern we see in scripture when it comes to sending labors out, and we can preach all night on this and I'm not going to, but the Bible teaches that they are to go out two and two or by two and two and they're supposed to go out and preach. Notice, go back to Luke chapter 10 there, look at verse one. After these things the Lord appointed another 70 also and he sent them two and two before his face. Notice these words, into every city and place whether he himself would come. So the Bible tells us that Jesus set this pattern where he sent the disciples out. When he sent the 12, he sent them out by two and two. When he had the 70, he sent them out by two and two and he sent them into every city and place. Go to Acts real quickly, Acts chapter five. You're there in Luke, you just flip over past the book of John into the book of Acts. Acts chapter five and look at verse 42, Acts 5-42. You say, how do you reach an entire city? Because the Bible says that he sent them two and two, by two and two, into every city and place whether he himself would come. How do you reach an entire city? Well in Acts we see the pattern for that as well. Acts 5-42, the Bible says, and daily in the temple and in every house they cease not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. Go to Acts chapter 20 and verse 20. You're there in Acts 5, just flip over to Acts chapter 20 and verse 20. Acts 20-20, sometimes we call it Acts 20-20 vision. Acts 20-20 says, and how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you and have taught you publicly, notice these words, and from house to house. You say, how do you reach an entire city? House to house. You say, how do you send people out to go preach the gospel house to house? By two and two. You know the reason that at Verity Baptist Church we train soul winners, the reason we're having a soul winning seminar in a few weeks and we train soul winners and we encourage soul winning and we preach about soul winning and we send soul winners out two by two. That's what we do at our church. You show up here at our Saturday morning rally and we're going to partner you up with somebody and send you out into the community. You say, I don't know what to say. You can be a silent partner. We'll partner you with somebody who knows what they're doing and has been trained, has gone through the soul winning seminar. We'll send you out and we'll knock doors two by two, house by house. We'll invite people to church and then we'll preach the gospel to anyone who's interested. You say, where do you get that from? You get that from the Jehovah's Witnesses? You get that from the Mormons? No, we got it from the Word of God. The Bible says that Jesus sent them out by two and two. The Bible says that he sent them out into every city, into every house, from house to house. You say, well, why do the cults do it, the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses? You know, it's a sad thing that the cults are the ones that are known for knocking doors when it's something that Jesus came up with. And of course Satan always wants to pervert what Jesus does and he wants to take that and turn it into a false religion. But let me tell you something. The Bible says, and the pattern given by Jesus was to send, he sent his 12 and then he sent his 70 and he sent them two by two, house to house, preaching the gospel. So we see the pattern for laborers in verse number one. But I want you to notice secondly tonight, not only do we see the pattern for laborers in verse one, we also see the prayer for laborers in verse number two. Notice verse number two, Luke chapter 10, if you would, in verse number two. Notice what the Bible says. Therefore said he, this is Jesus, unto them, speaking to the 70. Notice what Jesus says. He says, the harvest truly is great. The word great means large, numerous, plenteous. In another passage Jesus says the harvest truly is plenteous. He says the harvest is great. He says there's a great harvest. And what he means by that is that there are lots of people out there that need to hear the gospel and there are lots of people out there. You say, well, there's people out there that will reject the gospel and they're not receptive. Well, we're going to cover that in Jesus' training here and we're in Jesus' soul winning seminar right now and he's training the laborers. We're going to cover that. But you know, the truth of the matter is that there's lots of people out there that would get saved if somebody brought them the gospel. They would get saved if somebody brought them the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ. So Jesus says, hey, the harvest truly is great. The harvest is plenteous. It's great. You say, what's the problem then? Here's the problem, but the laborers are few. There's not enough workers. In the illustration that Jesus is giving here, he's giving this agricultural illustration, of course, in the first century to an agricultural society and he's saying, look, the Great Commission, it's like a farmer who has farmed this land and now it's time to go out and harvest. He says the harvest truly is plenteous. He's got all this land, acres of land, and it's ready to be harvested. The harvest is ready to be brought in, but he doesn't have enough workers to bring it in. He doesn't have laborers to go out and bring in the harvest, and as a result, though the harvest is ready, there's not enough workers to bring it in. And Jesus says, that's the Great Commission. That's the work of the kingdom. The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. So notice what Jesus says, verse 2. He said, what are we to do with this problem? This problem of the harvest being plenteous, but the laborers are few. He says, we do with this problem what we should be doing with every problem, and it's to bring it to God in prayer. Notice what he says, verse 2. Therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. What do we do? Here's what he says. Pray, pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. Jesus tells us to pray that the Lord of the harvest, Jesus Christ, would send forth laborers into his harvest. Now keep your place there in Luke 10. Go with me, if you would, to Matthew chapter 9. If you go backwards, you've got Mark and then the book of Matthew. Go past the book of Mark, into the book of Matthew, Matthew chapter 9. And in Matthew 9, we have this famous passage given again. Now let me just be clear about something. Matthew 9 is a different time than Luke 10. You're going to notice that Jesus says pretty much the same thing, but they're not chronologically compatible, and sometimes people get confused by that, but you just have to realize that Jesus just said this twice, and he probably said it many times. If you're a preacher, you often say the same things over and over again, especially if it's important. Notice in Matthew 9, 36, the Bible says, but when he saw the multitudes, Matthew 9, chapter 9, and verse 36, but when he saw the multitudes, notice the reaction, the empathy of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. And listen to me. You say, I'm not excited about soul winning. I'm not excited about preaching the gospel. I'm not excited about the Great Commission. I'm not excited about discipleship. I'm not excited about reaching people with the gospel and helping them grow in grace. Let me tell you something. If you would open your eyes and realize that there are multitudes out there that are fainting and they're scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd, there are people out there that are hurting, that are in pain, that are making a mess of their lives because they don't have a shepherd, somebody to love them and help them. And Jesus said that he saw the multitudes and he was moved with compassion. He was moved with compassion because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. If you would open your eyes and look around in your neighborhood, you would find that there are people who are fainting and are scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. And Jesus says in verse 37, Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labors are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord the harvest, that he would send forth labors into his harvest. Notice he tells us to pray. And let me just quickly just give you some thoughts in regards to prayer and specifically for the harvest. You say, well, how can I pray for the harvest? Well, number one, I would encourage you to pray that God would send forth labors into his harvest. Pray that God would send us more labors to commission and train into the ministry and put them out there to preach the gospel. Pray that God would send forth more labors. Also, I would encourage you, if you're not a soul winner, and look, if you're not a soul winner, I'm not mad at you. I'm not trying to guilt trip you. I'm telling you this is what God has called all of us to do. You say, well, I don't know how to do it. Well, sign up for our sowing seminar and let us train you. But you say, I'm not a soul winner. Okay, can you do this? Could you pray for the labors? Could you commit to pray? You say, well, I won't go out on Saturday at 10 a.m. I won't go out on Thursday at 2 p.m. I won't go out on Friday at 2 p.m. I won't go out on Sunday at 2 p.m. Okay, maybe you're not willing to do it, but are you willing to pray for the labors? Say, I'm not willing to go out at 10 a.m. But are you willing at 10 a.m. to get on your knees and say, Lord, I'm not willing to do it, but there's 97 soul winners out at 320 Harris Avenue getting ready to go out and preach the gospel, and I want to pray that you would protect them and that you would bless them and that you would help them to find the people that are hurting and that need to hear the gospel and that are receptive to the gospel. Hey, would you pray for labors? Would you pray for the labors? And would you pray that God would make you a laborer? You say, why are you asking us to pray? Well, I'm asking you to pray because that's what Jesus said. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labors into his harvest. But I do have an ulterior motive with asking you to pray because I just believe that if you're actually saved and you have the Holy Spirit of God and you actually commit to pray for labors, it's just a matter of fact. It's just a matter of time before the fact of the great need will penetrate your heart. I just don't think you can pray for labors without eventually becoming a laborer, which is why I think Jesus said, Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labors. Go back to Luke chapter 10. We saw, number one, the pattern for labors. We saw, number two, the prayer for labors. Notice, thirdly, in verse three, we see the protection of labors. Notice what Jesus says in Luke chapter 10 in verse three. He's getting ready to send out these 70 out in... He's commissioning to go preach the gospel. He gives them the pattern in verse one, and we see the prayer for labors in verse two. And then in verse three, we see the protection of the labors. And I love the Lord Jesus Christ because, you know, obviously we love the Lord Jesus Christ. We're saved here. I hope you love the Lord Jesus Christ. But I just love... I love how he communicates that because here he is at this, you know, soul-winning rally. He's got 70 soul winners getting ready. You know, he's giving them a pep talk, and he's telling them, you know, I'm going to send you out. We're going to do this. It's going to be great. And then in verse three, he says, Go your ways. Behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. And if you're one of the 70, you're probably like, Yay! Yay? Lambs among wolves? He says, Go your way. Behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. See, that doesn't sound fun. You know, Jesus is teaching them, we're going to see this here in a minute, but he's teaching them that they should rely on him for protection. Go back to Matthew, if you would, Matthew chapter seven. Wolves are used throughout the Bible to illustrate the enemies of those preaching the gospel and those that believe in biblical Christianity. Here, Jesus says, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. And you say, why? Why does he say, I'm going to send you forth as lambs among wolves? Here's why. Because we're supposed to be like Christ. By the way, don't get offended. You say, a lamb's weak. Hey, Jesus came. John said, Behold the lamb of God. He's taken away the sins of the world. So we are supposed to be like him. In another passage, I won't have you go there in a parallel passage. He says, Hey, I'm sending you as lambs among wolves, so be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. And this idea of us being lambs is that we're not out there to fight. We're not out there to threaten people. We're not out there trying to cause issues. We're trying to get people safe. But Jesus says, be careful while you're out there because there's wolves. You're the lambs and he says there are wolves. Matthew seven, look at verse seventeen. There are false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. The word ravening means hungry, craving. Jesus tells us in Matthew seven, look, what's a wolf? It's a false prophet. Go to Acts chapter twenty. You're there in Matthew. Go past Mark, Luke, John, into the book of Acts. Acts chapter twenty. Look at verse twenty-nine. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts. Acts chapter twenty-nine. Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Acts twenty, verse twenty-nine. Notice what Paul says to the church leadership at Ephesus. Acts twenty-twenty-nine. For I know this, that after my departing notice the warning he gives shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock. You need to understand that the enemy of the soul winner what's the enemy of the soul winner? The independent vulnerable Baptist Bible-believing, soul-winning Christian. What's the enemy of the soul winner of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ? It's the false prophet. We're lambs among wolves. People are out there who think they're religious and they're going to die and go to hell because a wolf has tricked them into taking on some form of religion that is not true. And we are out there to bring people out of the influence of the wolves. You say, well, we're lambs. How can a lamb fight a wolf? Well, if God be for us, then who can stand against us? So there's a lesson here for protection and of course we see that spiritually but even physically of course when we're out there we always pray for the physical protection of God's people. You don't have to turn here. Proverbs 21 31 says the horse is prepared against the day of battle but safety is of the Lord. Now of course Jesus said I mentioned this in a parallel passage He said, be wise as serpents and harmless as dogs. So obviously when you're out there you need to be, the horse is prepared for the day of battle but safety is the Lord. We understand that safety is the Lord but you still prepare the horse for battle. You understand that? You say, well, we're out there as lambs among wolves. Okay, but be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove and don't put yourself in situations that are dangerous. This is why you need to come to our soul wing seminar because we're going to teach you hey, if the gates close and the house yard doesn't look that nice you might want to rattle that cage a few times where you just open that door and have a dog, not spiritually, physically you know, meet you. This is why we teach we teach, never go into anybody's house especially ladies never go into anybody's house and if for some odd, weird reason you are compelled to go into somebody's house you need to text somebody and tell them. That's why we send you out two by two. Why do we send you two by two? Because Jesus said it, but you know why we send you two by two? For protection and fellowship. And look, obviously safety is of the Lord but let's be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents. Let's be wise as serpents Carry neither purse. And a purse, of course, our King James Bible is translated in 1611 but a purse is exactly what you think of a purse right now. It's a bag or a wallet that holds money. Obviously Jesus is speaking to men here. Today we think of women having purses but a purse would be the same as a wallet or some sort of a bag that you would carry money. Notice what Jesus says. Carry neither purse nor scrip. What's a scrip? Not a bag or like a backpack. Something you would carry with you. He says nor shoes because in the ancient world, of course, they didn't have vehicles and only rich people really rode horses. So it's very common if you're going on a long journey that you would carry an additional pair of shoes and Jesus says don't carry a purse nor scrip nor shoes. Then he says and salute no man. What he means by that is don't get distracted. You see your buddy and you start talking. He said I don't want you to get distracted. Look at verse 7. We'll come back to verses 5 and 6 here in a minute. Look at verse 7. And in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give. And I want you to understand what Jesus is teaching here when he says don't carry a purse. Don't carry a bag of money or wallet. He says don't carry a scrip. Don't carry a bag with you or backpack or shoes. What he's teaching them is I want you to rely on my provision and he's promising them I'm going to provide for your needs. He says in verse 7 and in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give. He says when you go to a house and they receive you in, if they offer you food, he says eat and drink such things as they give for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. Now let me just break this verse down, okay? And in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give. He's promising them that as they're out, because they're not going out for soul winning a couple hours like you and I on a Saturday afternoon. They're going on a missions trip. They're going to be gone for a while. And he's telling them don't carry a purse. Don't carry a scrip. Don't carry shoes. I'm going to take care of you. He says the provision of the laborer is what he's teaching them. I'm going to provide for you and as you enter into people's houses, they're going to give you what you need. He says there in verse 7, eating and drinking such things as they give. And by the way, let me just say this, that's just good people skills. If somebody offers you food, you should eat it. All right? People have different thoughts about that or whatever, but you know, it's just good people skills. If somebody, if you go to somebody's house and they prepared a meal for you, don't turn your nose up and say, well, I don't eat that. Is it organic? You know, just eating and drinking such things as they give. For the laborer is worthy of his higher. I want you to notice that little phrase there, worthy of his higher. Because that phrase is quoted by Paul in 1 Timothy, go not from house to house. Now, when he says here, go not from house to house, that is in the context of when you're staying with somebody. Because if you come into the city, people are going to allow you to stay in their house. And he said, I don't want you going from house to house. And what he means by that is, I don't want you shopping around. Like, oh, well, this person has a nicer house. I'm going to go stay at their house. They have a pool. He says, no, you know, don't be looking for a better deal. He said, I'm going to protect you and I'm going to provide for you. Verse 8, and into whatsoever city you enter and they receive you, notice what he says, eat such things as are set before you. Again, just good people skills. But what he's telling them is, I'm going to provide for you. Because he says the laborer is worthy of his higher. Alright, so keep your place there in Luke 10 and go to 1 Timothy chapter 5. If you can find the T-books, they're all clustered together, 1 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy Titus, 1 Timothy chapter 5. And you know what, especially you guys that want to be pastors one day and go into ministry, you need to learn to quit being so stinking picky and just eat whatever is set before you. You say, pastor, what do you do when you're at a church member's house and they serve you something that you don't like? They'll never know it. Because I'll eat it, I'll smile, I'll say it's delicious, and I'll ask for seconds. Because that's what a good pastor does. That's what a good pastor's wife does. I mean, my wife and I have literally been invited, nobody here at our church now, but literally been invited into a house where you just walk in and you smell the cat urine and you just see the layer of cat hair and these people that you just got saved that are just so thankful that they got baptized or so thankful that you're counseling them and helping them. They just want to be a blessing to you and they serve you a meal. You say, what do you do? You eat it. That's why the Bible says, you know, you just pray a blessing on the food and you eat it. And, you know, and let God transform that hamburger helper into some organic beef, you know, and just deal with it. 1 Timothy 5. I'm just telling you, you guys don't want to be pastors. You're not going to survive in ministry if you're picky and turning your nose up at people. It's a good way to lose church people for your rudeness. 1 Timothy 5, 17. Let the elders, this is referring to pastors, let the elders that rule well, by the way, not all pastors are created equal. People don't like, you know, people don't want to hear this, but, you know, you go to work and, you know, just like some carpenters are better than other carpenters and some electricians are better than other electricians, some pastors are better than other pastors. And the Bible says here, let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, notice, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine. For the Scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, I'll come back to that phrase in a minute, but notice this phrase, and the laborer is worthy of his reward. That's Paul quoting the Lord Jesus Christ in Luke 10-7 when he says the laborer is worthy of his higher. And look, these 70 were literally going on on this mission, soul winning trip, they were gone for, we don't know how long, they were gone for maybe weeks or months, you know, they were out there preaching the gospel and he's telling them, I'm going to take care of you, I'm going to provide for your needs. And really the application here is that when you're, because these men are more like full-time ministry and the application is that the Lord provides your needs when you're in ministry. But, you know, the Bible says the church is worthy of his higher, and that's quoted by Paul saying, let the elders that rule will be counted worthy of double honor, especially if they have labor in the word of doctrine, for the scripture says, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, and the laborer is worthy of his reward. And, you know, the Bible teaches that a church should take care of their pastor for their financial needs. And you say, pastor, why are you preaching that? You're preaching that because, you know, the church, look, the church is taking care of me and my family, right? That's not why I'm preaching that. All right? And even if it wasn't, you know, the first four years of this church I worked a full-time job. So, you know, you say, why are you preaching that? Here's why I'm preaching it, because if I don't preach it to you, who's going to teach it to you? You know, when you, if you leave Verity Baptist Church and you go and you're a member of another church, make sure you take care of the man of God, especially if he's doing a good job. If he's ruling well and he should be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word of doctrine, you say, how can you tell if they're laboring in the word of doctrine? Listen to the preaching, you can tell. You can tell when they're phoning in the sermon. You know, you can tell when it's like, this guy doesn't seem like he's, he spent a little too much time on the golf course this week and didn't get a lot of study yet. 1 Timothy 5, 18, For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. Look, he's saying, look, if an ox is working, don't muzzle the ox, don't cover, let him eat. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. Go to 1 Corinthians 9, 1 Corinthians 9. If you go from Luke, just go forward, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 9. I just want to show this to you. And look, and I always try to teach our church people, get this idea out of your head, you don't pay the pastor to preach. Okay, in fact, probably the one thing you don't pay the pastor for is to preach. Because I'll tell you something about ministry, this is the fun part. Everything else sucks. You can pay me to do this, I do this for free. You know, you don't pay the pastor to preach. How does that work? You know, it's like, $9.99 for every sermon. We're going to have church every night. You provide for the needs of the man of God. 1 Corinthians 9, $9.99, $9.99, good night. 1 Corinthians 9, 9. For it is written in the law of Moses, here's the quote, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Now why does God say that? Notice what Paul says, Doth God take care for oxen? Is he saying this because God really cares about oxen? Or saith he it all together for our sakes, Paul says, for our sakes, no doubt this is written, that he that ploweth should plow in hope, and he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. And then later on in the same passage it talks about they that preach the gospel should live up the gospel. We see the pattern of labors, go back to Luke chapter 10, the prayer for labors, the protection for labors, the provision for labors. Let me give you the fifth one tonight. We see the probing of the labors. The probing of the labors. What does that mean? It means that our job as labors, as soul winning labors is to go out and to probe, which means to seek or to search. Notice what the Bible says in Luke chapter 10 verse 5. And into whatsoever house ye enter, because Jesus is sending them out, two by two, house to house, lambs among wolves, he says, into whatever house ye enter, first say peace be to this house. And again, these are people's skills. Look, don't walk up to somebody's house, please, I mean, you're not going to do that at very bad decisions very long. Don't walk up to people's house being rude. You know, you're going to go to hell, let me preach the gospel to you. You know, we're supposed to walk up and, well, we want to be a blessing to these people. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say peace be to this house. I've been out soul winning people where it's just like, they just look like they're acting like they're looking for a fight. And they're just in a bad mood. And it's like, what are you doing? Notice verse 6. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it. But notice what it says. If not, because that's a possibility too, it shall turn to you again. Verse 7. And in the same house remain, what house? The ones that are receptive. Say, when you're out soul winning, who should you spend your time with? The people that are receptive. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give you, for the labor is worthy of its hire. Go not from house to house, verse 8. And into whatsoever city ye enter, notice, and they receive you. Notice, it's all about, are they receiving you or are they rejecting you? And they receive you, eat such things as are set before you, and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, say unto who? Those that receive you, what are we supposed to say unto them? The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. That we're bringing the kingdom of God to them. We're bringing the message of God to them. We're bringing the message of salvation to them. Verse 10. But into whatsoever city ye enter, here's the contrast, and they receive you not. This is the person that's not receptive. Sit there and argue them for two hours and then yell at them and, is that what it says? But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, notice the words, go your ways. Go your ways out into the streets of the same and say, even the very dust of your city which cleaveth on us, we will wipe off against you, notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. Notice the same thing is said to those that receive you and those that reject you. The kingdom of God is come nigh to you. Because you say, what are we doing when we're out there preaching the gospel? Look, it doesn't matter if they receive you or they reject you, we're still winning, we're still accomplishing what we're supposed to accomplish, because our job is to warn people. Our job is to tell them, hey, the judgment of God is coming, God wants to save you, the kingdom of God is come nigh to you, God wants to save you, and if they receive it, great, spend time with them, preach the gospel to them, get them safe. And if they don't receive it, we still warn them. He says, but look, if they reject you, just move on. And you say, why? Because what we're probing, what we're looking for, is people that are interested. So if they receive you not, go your ways into the streets of the same and say, even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you, notwithstanding the sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh to you. There's something that Jesus said very similar to the 12 when he sent them out. Go to Luke 9, just real quickly, verse 5, Luke 9-5, notice what the Bible says, and whosoever will not receive you when you go out of that city, notice what he says, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. Look, we're not supposed to sit there and argue, we're not supposed to sit there and fight. If somebody says, I don't believe that, I don't, you know, the Bible says that if a man is a heretic, we're supposed to give him one admonition, a second admonition, and after the second admonition, we're supposed to reject them. So we just say, hey, if you don't believe it, we warn them, we tell them, this is what the Bible says, and this is what the word of God says, and then we shake off the very dust from your feet, and you move on. Paul did something similar in Acts 18, you don't have to turn there, I'll just read this for you, Acts 18, verse 6, and when they opposed themselves in blaspheme, he shook his raiment and said unto them, your blood be upon your own heads, I am clean from henceforth, I will go unto the Gentiles. So we're looking for those who are receptive and warning those who are not. And look, if I knock on somebody's door and they answer the door and I say, hi, we're coming from Verity Baptist Church, wanted to give you and your family an invitation to church, they take the invitation, and I say, hey, you know, let me ask you a question, do you know for sure if you died today, are you on your way to heaven? And they said, no, I don't know, or I'm not sure, and I respond to them, well, you know, the Bible says you can be 100% sure you're on your way to heaven, it's not based on being a good person or what religion you are, if I could show you from the Bible, I can take a few minutes and show you from the Bible how you can be 100% sure you're on your way to heaven. Would you like to hear that? And they're like, no. Well, look, I've warned them. I don't have to, oh, you're gonna go to hell. You know, you say, what do you do? You tell them, hey, if you decide you're interested, there's a video, there's a code you can scan, what are those things called? QR code you can scan, you see how technology I am. You know, there's a video you can watch, or you can hand them one of our pamphlets that teaches, you can give them a verse, whatever you want to do, but look, we just move on. So why do you ask, could I show you? Because I'm looking for people that are receptive. Because I'm looking for people that actually want to hear it. I don't want to just put my foot in the door and just make some, you know, I'm not gonna leave until they call the cops or something. We're looking for people who actually want to hear the gospel. Look at verse 12. But I say unto you, because he's talking about the fact that if people are not receptive, just move on is what he's teaching them. And then in verse 12, he says, but I say unto you, because he's about to bring up some cities that have not been receptive. He says, it shall be more tolerable in that day, referring to the day of judgment. He says, for Sodom, than for that city. He says, woe unto thee Korazin. This is a city that was during the time of Jesus in that Galilean area where Jesus has been ministering. He says, woe unto thee Bethsaida. Again, a city in that Galilean area where Jesus has been preaching. For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon. Tyre and Sidon are cities in the Old Testament that rejected the prophets. Jesus says, if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which had been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. Look at verse 14. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you, O thou Capernaum. Capernaum is where Jesus headquartered his ministry. And here Jesus says, look, if you lived in Capernaum, and Jesus has done more miracles, preached more sermons, done more things in Capernaum than in any other place. And Jesus says, and thou Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven. I mean, they had the Son of God headquarters ministries there. He says, if you live in Capernaum and you have rejected me, he said, which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell. And you say, what is Jesus talking about when he's saying, well, it's going to be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for these people. Well, go to Luke 12, because there's a principle that applies to judgment. And Jesus is referring to that. I want to show that to you. Luke 12, verse 47. And it's a principle you've probably heard of it. It goes as this, unto whomsoever much is given, much shall be required. You know that judgment is not going to be the same for everybody? The people that have been given more are going to be judged more harshly. And this is why Jesus says, look, it's going to be more tolerable in that day for Sodom and Chorazin and Bethsaida than for Tyre and Sidon. He says it's going to be more tolerable than to these cities because great truth has came to them. Luke 12, look at verse 47. Now, we saw it in Luke 10 in regards to cities. Jesus is going to say it here in regards to people. Luke 12, 47. And that servant, notice what it says about this servant, which knew his Lord's will. So this servant knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself, neither according to his will shall be, notice what the Bible says, beaten with many stripes, but he that knew not. So now we have another servant who didn't know his master's will and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. Look, he's saying when it comes to God's judgment upon your life, God says I will come down harder on you when you knew, when you had been given great light. Notice what he says at the end of verse 48. For unto whomsoever much is given of him shall be much required. And to whom men have committed much of him they will ask the more. And let me tell you something, if you have been given much and pretty much anyone that lives in the United States of America has been given much. You're not living in the middle of Pakistan. You're living in the U.S. and especially, let me say something to you young people at Verity Baptist Church. If you come to a church like this and your parents bring you to a church like this, God bless you, you've been given a lot. You've been given a lot of truth, you've been given a lot of knowledge, you've been given a lot of wisdom and when it comes to God's judgment, God's going to come down hard on you. Because that servant which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, God says. For unto whomsoever much is given, much shall be required. And this is not just talking about in the end, this is talking about here on earth. If God has, if you've been given light, if you've been given opportunities, if you've been given chances and you just ignore it and ignore it and ignore it, you better watch out because God's going to cloud up a rain on you. You're going to be beaten with many stripes. But God says, look, but he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes. So we need to understand this principle of unto whomsoever much is given of him shall be much required. Go back to Luke chapter 10, look at verse 16. We're talking about unreceptive people, unreceptive people. Look at verse 16. He says, he that heareth you, he's talking to the workers, the laborers, the soul winners, right? He that heareth you, heareth me. So Jesus says, he that heareth you, soul winner, heareth me, Jesus. And he that despiseth you, soul winner, despiseth me, and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me. And you know what Jesus is teaching here, he's saying when they reject you, don't take it so personal. They're not rejecting you, they're rejecting Christ. We are ambassadors for Christ. We are representing the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, he that heareth you, heareth me. By the way, when they receive you, they're not receiving you, they're receiving Christ. And he that despiseth you, despiseth me. So that's why I always think it's funny when soul winners get so angry and upset out of someone, it's like, man, are you the Lord Jesus Christ? They're not rejecting you, they're rejecting Christ. You say, what do you do when they reject you? You know, I do my best to preach the gospel, to warn them, and you know, I walk away thinking to myself, well, I'm saved. Praise God. And they've been warned, and it's their decision, and unto whomsoever much is given much shall be required. In 1 Samuel 8, 7, you have to turn here, I'll just read this for you. God told something similar to Samuel. 1 Samuel 8, 7, you can jot this down for your notes. And the Lord said unto Samuel, hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee, for they have not rejected thee, they have rejected me, and I shall not reign over them. When we are preachers, when we are instruments of God, when we're bringing the word of God to people and they reject it, obviously it should break our hearts, obviously we should weep for them and pray for them, but at the end of the day we should realize they're not rejecting us, they're rejecting Christ. They're rejecting God, and God's going to deal with it. Look at Luke 10 and verse 17. So number 1, we saw the pattern for labors in verse 1, the prayer for labors, verse 2, the protection for labors, verse 3, the provision for labors, verses 4, 7, and 8, the probing of labors, verses 5 through 16, notice number 6, the perspective for labors, verse 17, and the 70 returned again with joy. So now they've gone, they did what they were going to do, and now they've came back. Notice what the Bible says, and the 70 returned again with joy. You know what the Bible says? That if we go forth weeping, bearing precious seed, we shall doubtless come again with rejoicing. And here the Bible says that the 70 returned again with joy saying, notice what they're saying, Lord, they're really happy. They said, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. So they're casting out devils. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling from heaven. I'm not going to deal with that verse tonight. I'm probably going to preach a whole sermon just out of that one verse. So stay tuned. Come back next Wednesday night. Verse 19, behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. So they're really happy because he's, you know, they're coming back and saying, we're casting out devils. He's giving them power over serpents and scorpions. But I want you to notice number six, the perspective of the laborer. Because they're really happy about all these cool things they're doing. But in verse 20, he says, notwithstanding in this, rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. You know, the perspective of a laborer, you say, pastor, praise God for all the exciting things that are going on at Verity Baptist Church, and praise God for that. But you know what? At the end of the day, we're just happy that our names are written in heaven. And we always want to keep our minds on that because, you know, sometimes things aren't going well. Sometimes things are, sometimes it looks like, it seems like the wolves are winning. Sometimes it seems like the wolves are taking away the lambs. And even when things are going well, when the tendencies are high, the offerings are up, everything's going good, praise God. But when they're not high, and when things are not going well, and when we're struggling, and when we're fighting the devil, and when we're fighting to survive, you know what? We can always be thankful about the fact that we're saved. Because the worst day of a Christian is still better than the best day of an unsaved person is going to die and go to hell. So he says, notwithstanding in this, rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. So we see the perspective of the labors in verses 17 through 20. And then lastly tonight, we see the privilege of the labors, verses 21 through 24. That is what the Bible says. And in that hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent, and has revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to my Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. Notice verse 23, and he, Jesus, turned unto his disciples. I want you to get the context. Jesus is rejoicing. By the way, the Bible tells us that Jesus was a man of sorrows. We see Jesus weep throughout the Gospels. There's no verse that tells us that he laughed. Of course, I believe that he laughed. I'm sure he had a sense of humor. But the characteristics that are emphasized about the Lord Jesus Christ is that he was a man of sorrows, that he was a serious man, that he was a somber man, ready to do the will of his Father. But here we're told that Jesus rejoiced. And as far as I can, my memory serves as the only time we really see the Bible telling us that Jesus rejoiced. And what is he rejoicing? He's rejoicing about the fact that thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent, but has revealed them unto babes. You say, what does that mean? Verse 23, and he turned unto his disciples and said privately, notice the privilege of the laborers. He said, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them. And to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them. Jesus looks at his laborers and he says, go to 1 Peter if you would. We're gonna be done here in two minutes. 1 Peter chapter 1. If you kept your place in 1 Timothy I'm not sure if you kept your place in 1 Timothy or not. I meant to tell you that. But from 1 Timothy you got 1 Timothy Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter. 1 Peter chapter 1. 1 Timothy 1 Timothy Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter. 1 Peter chapter 1. We see the pattern for labors, the prayer for labors, the protection for labors, the provision for labors, the probing for labors, the perspective for labors, and then we see the privilege of the labors. And here's the privilege. Jesus says, you are getting to see. He said, many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them. You know, tonight you and I have the privilege to stand up and I have the privilege as a pastor to stand up and take this passage of scripture and outline it and teach it, read it, explain it, give you the cross references to all the different passages where it's connected. But you know, that's a great privilege that has not been like that for all mankind. In fact, for the very men that wrote the word of God, the Bible says, Jesus tells us the very prophets and kings that wrote, that the holy men of God who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel, as they wrote down the prophecies that they wrote, they spoke them, they wrote them, and then they wondered about them. I mean, they wrote prophecies about the coming Messiah and they wondered, I wonder what he's going to be like. I wonder how that's all going to play out. How's he going to die for everyone? How's he going to be a sacrifice? I mean, they understood things, but Jesus says, hey, I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them. Jesus tells these laborers, you have a great privilege. In 1 Peter 1 and verse 10, notice what Peter writes. He said, of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently. Do you understand that the Bible says that the prophets, the Old Testament prophets, the men that gave us the Word of God, they desired and inquired and searched diligently. I mean, they had half the story. They didn't have the entire canon of Scripture. They didn't have, oh, the Word of God. And they searched it and they inquired and they desired to know. They wanted to know. They wanted to know what the Word of God said. And you know what's even more interesting than that? Look at verse 12, same chapter, 1 Peter 1, verse 12. Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are not reported unto you by them that have preached the Gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Look, you and I are fortunate people that we have had the Gospel preached unto us with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Notice the last part of verse 12. Which things the angels desired to look into. You know, you say we're preaching about soul winning. Yeah, you should go. You know the angels are up in heaven and they're like, I don't understand, why don't, man, if you would let us go, we'd go and we wouldn't even complain. I mean, we, the angels looked down and they desired to look into the things that you and I have the privilege to look into over history, the kings and the prophets that gave us the Word of God. They wish they could read the Gospel of Luke. They wish they could study the Word of God. They wish they could stand up with a King James Bible that's perfect and preserved and inspired and read it. But you and I are too lazy, too distracted, too apathetic. Jesus said, you have great privilege. I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things with G.C. and you and I can get up tomorrow morning, open your King James Bible with the Holy Spirit of God and read the Word of God and know everything that God wants us to know. Study everything that God wants us to study. Find every answer for every area of life. But you'd rather be on Facebook. But you'd rather be on Instagram. But you'd rather waste your time with stupid things. And Jesus says, you, he's talking to the 70? No, he's talking to Verity Baptist Church. We have been given a great privilege to have the Word of God, to apply it to our lives and to bring it to other people. What will you do about it? Will you at least pray that he would send forth labors into his video? Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you, Lord, for your work. I know we went quickly through these 24 verses and I don't normally like to go that quickly, but it was a passage. Lord, I pray you'd help us to apply these things to our lives. Lord, I pray that you would help each and every one of us tomorrow morning to wake up and realize I have been given a great privilege. I have the Word of God. I can understand it. I can search it out. We've got software that can help us connect thoughts, things that prophets and kings desire that angels look down and desire to look into. We have that wonderful privilege. Help us never to forget that unto whom much is given, much shall be required. We're a blessed people. We're a highly blessed people. Help us to be a big blessing to others. In the matchless name of Christ, we pray. Amen. We're now, Brother Moses, come up and lead us in a final song. I just want to remind you about a couple of things. First of all, don't forget if you are in the choir, don't forget that there is choir practice at 5 p.m. on Sunday, and that is for the choir, not the orchestra. So make sure if you're in the orchestra, don't worry about that. I don't know if you've heard this, but we have a soul wing seminar. Have you heard that? I would love for you to sign up on Friday, September 9th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. I'd love to train you how to be a soul winner, go out and preach the gospel. If you can do that on your communication card. If there's anything we can do for you, please let us know. Of course, we've got soul wing tomorrow at 2 p.m. Friday at 2 p.m. Our main soul wing time is at 10 a.m. I'm new at this, I'd like to try. I would encourage you to come at 10 a.m. 10 a.m. on Saturday morning is the best time for you to go, especially if you're new. If there's anything we can do for you, please let us know. My brother Moses, come up and lead us in a final song. Let's sing it out on the first. 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