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Let's go ahead and find our seats this evening Find the seats and find a hymnal close to you in turn of page number 409 Song number four Let me correct that 406 sound number 406 Who is on the Lord's side song number 406 we're gonna sing it out on the first Who is on the Lord's side, who to Him will know By thy come the mercy, by thy great divine We are on the Lord's side, save for the earth I Song number 406 we're gonna sing it out on the second Not for weight of glory, not for crown and crown Entering the army, praise the Lord your Son But for love that claimeth, for we die Thou who teases us, amen, bless you on His side By thy love that's reigning, by thy great divine We are on the Lord's side, save for the earth Jesus thou hast brought us, not with gold or jam But with thy home life loved, for thy diet damn With thy blessing filling, peace who comes to thee Thou hast made us willing, thou hast made us free By thy breath we dance, by thy great divine We are on the Lord's side, save for the earth I You guys are singing well, let's finish strong On the last, here's may be the conflict He's only here alone But the King's own army, not yet overthrown Round his stands a reigning, victory listening through For his truth unchanging, victory drowning Sing it out! Joyfully enlisting, by thy great divine We are on the Lord's side, save your real life Amen, great team, welcome to Verity Baptist Church Here on our Sunday evening service, we're glad to see everyone here this evening Let's open the service with a word of prayer Dear Heavenly Father and Lord, we thank you for the day, thank you for the service tonight We pray that you bless everybody here, we pray that you bless the singing, the preaching Come, we love you, and in Jesus' name I pray, amen Alright, it's now time for favorites, where if you're selected, we will sing a stanza from the song that you pick Elijah, go ahead 415 Song number 415, Victory Through Grace Conquering now and still to conquer, sing it out on the first Conquering now and still to conquer, righted the King in his might Moving the host of all the faithful, into the midst of the fire In the name of courage, advancing, proud of their will and courage Shouting the name of their leader, give them a call to receive Now to the strong is the battle, now to the strong is the race Yet to the true and the faithful, victory's promised through grace CC, go ahead What was that? 319 Song number 319 Just a closer walk with thee, let's sing it out Song number 319 on the first I am weak without war strong Jesus keep me from all wrong I'll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to thee Just a closer walk with thee Granting Jesus as my King Telling, walking close to thee Let it be, let it be Lexi 144 Song number 144 Can we do this, Christian? Alright, song number 144 A mighty fortress is our God Sing it out on the first A mighty fortress is our God A bold work never failing Our help of He amidst the flood A mortal hell's deepening For still our ancient soul The sea to the world does roll His scraps and are our prey And are with whom all day On earth is at His equal Madison 261 Song number 261 Turn your eyes upon Jesus Song number 261 Oh soul, are you weary in trouble? Sing it out on the first Oh soul, are you weary in trouble? No light in the darkness you see This life for a look at the Savior And life for abundance and peace Turn your eyes upon Jesus Look full in His wonderful face And the things of earth Over all the strains He's in In the light of His glory and grace Ezekiel 160 160? 216, alright Song number 216 Surely goodness and mercy We're gonna skip that last tag Song number 216 on the first The pilgrim was I and the wondering In the moonlight of sin I did grow When Jesus saw my shepherd found me And now I am on the way home Surely goodness and mercy Shall follow me All the days, all the days of my life Surely goodness and mercy Shall follow me All the days, all the days of my life Sing one more song, Mauricio, go ahead 210? 210, wonderful grace of Jesus on the second We're gonna end this strong, alright Song number 210 on the second Wonderful grace of Jesus Reaching to all the lost By it I have been pardoned Saved to the utterness Chains have been torn up Santa Giving liberty For the wonderful grace of Jesus He shows me Wonderful the master's grace of Jesus Keep it under mighty rolling sea Higher than the mountains Parking like a fountain All sufficient grace for even me Rather than the scope of my sin's ration Singing with her father All my sin and shame O magnify the precious Name of Jesus Praise his name Amen, great singing Amen, we wanna welcome you to the Sunday evening service here at Verity Baptist Church The most exciting service of the week And we're glad that you are with us Let's take our bulletins this evening We'll look at some announcements If you did not receive a bulletin on your way in Go ahead and raise your hand And one of our ushers can grant one for you If you need a bulletin, just put your hand up And we will get one for you The verse this week, Psalm 11966 Teach me good judgment and knowledge For I have believed thy commandments And that's a good verse there, we like that If you need a bulletin, you'll see our service time Sunday morning service, 1030 a.m. And we had a wonderful service this morning We're glad you're back out tonight For the evening service And we do invite you to be with us this week Both Tuesday and Wednesday nights Special services, so we encourage you to be here for that If you look at our soul-winning times Our main soul-winning times on Saturday mornings And then we have additional soul-winning times On Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays at 2 p.m. If you are a soul-winner, don't forget To add your salvations on your communication cards And turn those into the offerings so we can update the bulletin And if you have a map that you did not finish Or if there's something wrong with the map Please clearly mark what was done, what was not done And you can return it in the bin in the foyer And that way we can get it recycled back through And make sure it gets finished up And if you're running late You can call us at the number there, 916-868-9080 Or text us and let us know you're planning on being At one of the soul-winning meetings but you're running late That way our team captains can make sure they have a map And a partner and have everything situated for you If you look there in the bulletin Of course if you're 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 this evening If you go out the main foyer Or if you go out our secondary foyer You'll see a little table set up And on that table you'll see these gift bags Please grab one on your way out As a gift from us to you for being our guest And there are several resources in this bag That we'd like you to have But the one I like to talk about Is this documentary that our church made It's called Being Baptist Very well made, very interesting I tell people it's educational It's enjoyable It's entertaining We think you'll like it Want to give this to you as a gift So please make sure you don't leave here 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 And if you need a pen just raise your hand 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 would just like a record of your attendance We actually would like to send you a little gift But we need your info to do that So please take a moment to fill the card out We are going to go through the announcements When we're done with the announcements We're going to sing a song When we're done singing we'll receive the offering And as the offering plate goes by You can drop this card in the offering plate If you look at the announcements Of course we're a family integrated church Children and infants are always welcome in the service We do not separate children from their parents For any reason We do have mother baby rooms and daddy rooms Available for your convenience If you need to be baptized Please let us know We'd love to baptize you You can let us know on your communication card On the back There's a place for check off That you'd like information about baptism And we will get you situated for that And then of course if you look at the announcements And upcoming events The Next Generation Youth Rally Is the big thing going on this week And we've got over 60 I don't know what the number is Brother Sheldon you know what What's the number of kids that are 63 63 teens signed up to come So praise the Lord for that And it's going to be a good week And we're going to talk about The Next Generation Youth Rally In the sermon So I'll kind of leave that for The sermon vision offering Is coming up Sunday March 26 Please take a moment to read Over the vision offering card And we'll start talking more about this After the youth rally But we want you to just be aware That our vision offering is coming You should have got a letter in the mail from us Please make sure you look through that Don't just throw it away all right Read through it And we appreciate your help with that And just get familiar with what we are doing here As far as raising money for the vision offering We'd appreciate your help with that All the ladies are invited to a baby shower For Ms. Skylar Thompson On Saturday March 18th at 3 p.m. And Ms. Skylar is having a girl She's registered on Amazon It is a potluck So if you can please bring a dish to share And if you'd like to attend You can sign up on your communication card Usher dinner and training Is coming up on Friday March 24th at 7 p.m. So we need all the ushers To be at the usher dinner and training And so please make sure that you are SVP And let us know that you're going to be there And then if you are interested in becoming an usher Then you can sign up for this as well If you don't, you signing up Does not mean you have to be an usher Or make you an usher You can just come and kind of learn What it means to be an usher And you might decide no I don't want to be part of that ragtag group of guys And that's okay But you can come and hear about it And we'd love for you to be a part of that It is for men that attend all three services Attend a soul winning time And you got to be able to arrive early to church Which I know that's really difficult for some of you But if you have the skill of learning how to read a clock You might be able to be an usher VBC choir They had choir practice today at 5 p.m. That's good Home school group They've got PE class on Thursday March 16th Don't forget about that 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 They're not a distraction to anybody If you look at the back of the bulletin Birthdays and anniversaries for the month of March Today is Naomi Naletescu's birthday, March 5th And brother Scott Sweetin has a birthday on March 10th As Casey Taylor has a birthday on March 11th Praise report, money matters All those things are there for you to look at And we were going to sing the chorus of the week But I really like that 210 I think we should go back to that And sing that What did we sing? 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Alright, let's do the first 210 If that's alright, that's alright brother Christian I apologize 210 It feels like a youth conference type of song Wonderful grace of Jesus Alright, 210 Now remember when you get to the chorus The men sing that bottom line Wonderful, matchless grace of Jesus The ladies sing the top line Alright, so it's guys versus gals Let's see who can sing it better 210 on the first Wonderful grace of Jesus Greater than all my sin How shall my time describe it Where shall its praise begin Taking away my burden Setting my spirit free Wonderful grace of Jesus Reaches Here we go, sing it out Wonderful, the matchless grace Greater than the mighty boats Higher than the mountains Darken like a fountain All sufficient grace for even me Darken like the smoke of my transgressions My sin and shame O magnified glass In the name of Jesus Jesus 210, that was pretty good, alright This time why don't you sing it like you're saved, alright Let's sing it like you're happy 210 on the third We sang the second already Let's sing it on the third Wonderful grace of Jesus Reaching the most defiled By its transforming power Making Him God's dear child Purchasing peace and heaven For all eternity And the wonderful grace of Jesus Reaches me Higher than the mountains Darken like a fountain All sufficient grace for even me Darken like the smoke of my transgressions My sin and shame O magnified glass In the name of Jesus His name 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 thank you for allowing us to gather together tonight Lord, we pray that you'd bless the offering, the gift and the giver We pray that you'd meet with us as we take some time Open your word and look at some verses from the word of God In Jesus' name we pray, Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen I want you is this little phrase And if you are a father here tonight I would like you to take a pin and just underline this little phrase And our fathers have told us And our fathers have told us Here the psalmist is referring to the fact that the Bible is filled with what we would call hidden mysteries The Bible teaches that only saved people can understand the word of God the doctrine is called the illumination of scripture you must be filled, you must have and habit the Holy Spirit of God in order to understand the Word of God. Unsaved people are unable to understand the Word of God which is why he says there in verse 2, I will open my mouth in parables I will utter dark sayings of hold but then he says which we have heard and known. So he says there are these truths in the Bible that an unsaved person sees as parables. They see them as utter dark sayings. He says but we have heard and known and then he gives us the source of how he knows, the source of where he learns. He said and our fathers have told us, our fathers have told us. Notice there verse 4, we will not hide them from their children and I want you to notice this little phrase showing to the generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done. Psalm 78 is the theme passage for our next generation youth rally. The reason we're calling it the next generation youth rally is because we want to show the generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done. Notice there verse 5, for he established the testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which we have commanded our fathers that they should, notice the words, make them known to their children. That they should make them known to their children. Verse 6, that the generation to come might know them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children. One of our goals in Christianity, in church ministry and especially in parenthood, is that we pass down our faith to the next generation. Want to make sure that the next generation carries the torch that they pick up the baton that we leave for them. Notice here in this passage the generations that are mentioned in verse 3, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. The first generation is mentioned there in verse 3. The writer is a second-generation, what we would call today Christian, a second-generation believer, second-generation follower and he is referring to the things that he was taught by his parents. He says, which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. Referring to that first generation. I've said this to you in the past, I am a second-generation Christian. Today or last night my parents got home. They were gone for several months in Venezuela. I'm thankful for them to be home and I can say like this psalmist can say that we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. There have been people who came before us, that first generation. But then I want you to notice in verse 4, we want to hide them from their children showing to the generation to come. So there is a reference to a coming generation. There is the generation before us, our fathers have told us. There's the generation that we're in. The psalmist speaking and then he talks about showing to the generations to come. Notice verse 5, for he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which we commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children. Referring to himself that the generation to come might know them. Notice even the children which should be born, again a third generation, a future generation, who should arise and declare them to their children. You've heard me say this many times over the years but it needs to be a theme when it comes to our ministry to young people and it is this, that there is no success without succession. If we fail to deliver to our children the faith, the doctrines, the things, the zeal that we have for the things of God, if we fail to deliver that to them, we will have failed. It doesn't matter how much we know, it doesn't matter how much we do, if we fail to make sure that the next generation carries on our faith. So our goal must be to pass down our faith to the next generation. Now keep your place there in Psalm 78 if you would. We're going to come back in that general area but go with me if you would to the New Testament book of 2nd Timothy. 2nd Timothy chapter 1. 2nd Timothy chapter 1. If you find the T books, they're all clustered together. 1st, 2nd Thessalonians, 1st Timothy, Titus, 2nd Timothy chapter 1. I'd like you to keep your place in Psalms but I'd also like you to keep your place in 2nd Timothy if you would. So keep a place in Psalms with a ribbon or a bookmark or something and then also keep your place in 2nd Timothy. 2nd Timothy chapter 1. Look at verse 5. 2nd Timothy chapter 1 and verse 5. The Bible says, when I call to remembrance, this is the Apostle Paul speaking to Timothy. He says, when I call to remembrance, notice the generations mentioned here. The unfeigned faith that is in thee. He's looking at Timothy and saying, I can see that there is an unfeigned. What does that word unfeigned mean? Well the word feigned or to feign means to fake something. He says there is an unfeigned faith. He says there is an authentic faith. There is a real faith and real walk that I can acknowledge in your life, Timothy. And listen to me, mom and dad. That needs to be your goal. That you would help develop in your children an unfeigned faith. A real faith. A genuine faith. Not just for salvation but an authentic walk with God. That these children would one day grow up to walk with God and serve God and love God and it would be a genuine thing that would happen even when they're no longer under the authority of their parents. He says, when I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, notice the generations which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and my mother Eunice and I am persuaded that in thee also. Here we have an example of a young man who had a godly grandmother and had a godly mother and now he being a third generation Christian, Paul is testifying to the fact that these individuals, this grandmother Lois and this mother Eunice were able to make sure that they passed down their faith to the next generation. Notice there you're there in 2 Timothy chapter 1. Go to 2 Timothy chapter 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3. Look at verse 15. 2 Timothy 3, 15. Notice what the Bible says and that, notice what Paul says to Timothy and that from a child thou has known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. So what is it that we need to do for the next generation? What is it that should be our goal and our purpose? Our number one goal must be that we pass down our faith, that we pass down our faith to the next generation, that they develop an unfeigned faith, a genuine authentic walk with God that they would love God and love the Lord and that they would transition out of our homes and from under our authority. Look, our job, we've been talking a lot about authority as we've been studying judgment over the last several weeks, but our job as parents is to take the authority that God has given us, our God-given authority over our children and to help our children as they grow and as they mature to transition from our authority not to no authority but to God's authority. God never meant for any man to live just under no authority, but our job is to help the young people transition, that they would transition into the authority, yes they might be the head of their home one day, but that they would still be under the authority of God. So we must pass down our faith. That's our goal. That's what we're trying to do. Go to Genesis if you would, Genesis chapter 14, first book in the Bible, should be fairly easy to find, Genesis chapter 14. We must pass down our faith. And by the way, let me just say this, we've got some good kids around here. I mean, I know it's easy sometimes to look at kids and see them make mistakes or whatever and we have to deal with that obviously and we need to take our job seriously. Let me tell you something, we've got some good kids around here. Some of them are a little nerdy, but that's okay. And I like them nerdy, you know, and especially when they don't know it, that's good. We've got some good kids though, honestly. As I travel the country, and I'm not saying this in all churches, but sometimes I see young people and I think to myself, good night, I'm glad that they are not part of a very Baptist church. And we've got some good kids and you've done a good job, but we want to make sure that we prepare them to take the faith, to pass down our faith to them. We must do what needs to be done to pass down our faith. But secondly, this evening, I want to mention to you that not only must we pass down our faith, but we must also prepare them to fight. We must prepare them to fight. In Genesis chapter 14, in verse 11, I want you to notice that in Genesis 14, we see the very first war mentioned in the Bible. And we see Lot, of course, Abraham's nephew, who has been taken captive. Genesis 14, 11, and they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their victuals and went their way. And they took Lot, Abraham's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom and his goods and departed. Notice verse 13, and there came one that had escaped and told Abram, the Hebrew, for he dwelt in the plane of Mamre the Amorite, brother to Eschol, the brother of Adner, and these were confederate with Abraham. Notice what Abraham does, verse 14. And when Abraham, and we're not going to take the time to go through the entire passage here, but I want you to notice that this was a big war. You've got four different kings fighting against five different kings. Sodom and Gomorrah has fallen and Lot, as a result of being in Sodom, has been taken captive. Abraham hears about this and here's what he does, verse 14, and when Abraham heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, notice these words, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. The Bible tells us that Abraham took just the people that were born in his house, there was three hundred and eighteen young servants that he had armed and trained and he took them and pursued them unto Dan, look at verse 15, and he divided himself against them, he and his servants by night, and smote them and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus, and he brought back all the goods and also brought again his brother Lot and his goods and the women also and the people. I want you to notice that Abraham had people that were born in his house and he did a good job at training them and arming them and preparing them for war and that is our job. You know our church obviously is reaching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ, we want to do that, we want to continue to do that. Twelve years ago we started this church in a living room and over the years the Lord has blessed us and we've been able to knock doors and reach people and disciple people and get people baptized and help them grow and learn, but as our church gets older and older obviously we want to continue to do that, want to continue to reach new people and reach people with the gospel and bring them to church and help them grow in the Lord and get baptized and disciple and all those things, but there's also going to be another crowd within this congregation of people that were just born within our house, within this house of Verity Baptist Church. You know we're having this youth rally and we've got, I don't know, I think 20 teens from our church that are registered to be at this youth rally, but there's almost a hundred kids in our church when you count from teens all the way down to newborns. I think there's probably a hundred, maybe a little bit more than a hundred kids in our church and these kids are gonna grow up and as these kids grow more and more kids are going to be born and the youth rally eventually, Lord willing, if we continue to do it by God's grace we'll have more and more teens not just from other churches and of course we love for teens to come from other churches, but even from our own church and look these teens are eventually gonna get married. I mean we're already starting to see some of that. We had five weddings last year, we had five baby showers this year and we had five brand new church members. Best church members we've got are those five little newborns that are gonna be running around here and these kids are gonna get married and have children and look my goal, I'm 37 years old, I don't know how long I'm gonna live, I don't know why I keep bringing this up, I keep talking about this every sermon, I'm not sure why, but I'm 37 years old, I don't know how long the Lord is gonna allow me to pass this church, but I feel like I could do this for another 30 years, another 40 years and it might be that in the next 40 years we can see our children grow up and get married and have children and watch those children go up and get married and have children and my goal, my commitment if God will allow me is to do my best to put my hand and stretch it across those generations and help them make sure they serve God. Before I get off the scene I want to make sure that those grandchildren and great-grandchildren they know about soul winning, they know about the King James Bible, they know about separation, they know that they know those things we want to pass down the faith. Why? Because we got to prepare them to fight, because we need some warriors. Wouldn't it be great if one day our church at this point we average somewhere around a hundred soul winners every week and I praise God for that. Wouldn't it be great one day if we had 300 and some odd soul winners every week. Wouldn't it be great one day if we said hey this week we had 318 soul winners just of the people born into this church. That's what Abraham did. The Bible says that he he took and verse 14 and when Abraham armed his brothers, when Abraham heard that his brother was taken captain, verse 14, he armed his train servants born in his own house. Just the ones that were born there. He trained them and he went and fought battles. Let me tell you something. We need to make sure that these kids get passed down to them our faith. Why? Because they're going to need it to be ready to fight. Notice Genesis 18. You're there in Genesis 14. Flip over to Genesis 18 and verse 18. I'm gonna do my best not to preach very long tonight. I've got some things I'd like to cover. Let me just show you these things from the Word of God first. Genesis 18 verse 18. Notice what God says about Abraham. Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. Notice what God says about Abraham verse 19. This is a very humbling thing that God would say this about Abraham. He says, for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he had spoken of him. God says, I know him that he will command his children and his household after him. Joshua said us, for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Go back to 2 Timothy. Did I ask you to keep your place in 2 Timothy? 2 Timothy chapter 3. Go back there real quickly. We need to train these kids. They need to be ready to fight because, listen to me, Pastor Jimenez and Pastor Anderson and Pastor Thompson and Pastor Shelley or Pastor Mihir, whatever pastor you're looking to for leadership, is not always going to be here to fight the battles that we're fighting. We're not always going to be here to lead the soul winning seminars and train new soul winners. We're not always going to be here to preach the sermons that are going to be needed for that time to motivate and mobilize Christians to do what they need to do. And I'm not saying that we're the only ones doing it. I'm just saying in our group and in our scope of influence, the Lord has allowed us to be used and I'm thankful for that. But we're not always going to be here and we're going to need some young men. We're going to need some young ladies who are coming behind us, who are coming in our footsteps that will take our place because there is no success without succession. We need to get them ready to fight. Why? Because the world is getting worse and worse. 2 Timothy 3-13, look at it, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. It's not getting better. It's getting worse. I'm not one of these defeatists. I'm not a Calvinist, all right? I'm not all just, hi, nothing's ever going to be fine. You know, I think we should serve God and we should be happy about it, but we should be realistic about the fact that the world is not getting any better. It's getting harder. It's getting more wicked. It's getting worse and we're going to have to train these young people to not only have authentic, real, genuine faith, an actual walk with God, but also they're going to have to have that faith so that they can fight for that faith, so that they can earnestly contend for the faith. We must pass on our faith and we must prepare them to fight because the world is getting worse and worse. And have you ever stopped to think this? You and I may be raising, and we obviously don't know how things are going to unfold. None of us know when the times of the end times will begin or have begun or whatever, but you and I may be raising the generation that lives through the tribulation period. Our children and our grandchildren may be the people that are here during the time of the Great Tribulation, during the time of the Mark of the Beast, during those times, and we've got to get them ready. We need to make sure they know what the Bible says and what they believe and why they believe it, and that they have the strength to fight, that they have the ability to be able to follow the Lord and to fight the battles of the Lord. So we must pass on our faith and we must prepare them to fight. Let me give you a third thought this evening. Go to Ecclesiastes, if you would. Ecclesiastes chapter 2. If you kept your place in Psalms, right after Psalms you have Proverbs and after Proverbs you have Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes chapter 2. What must we do for the next generation? Number one, we must pass on our faith. Number two, we must prepare them to fight. But here's the third thought, and I want you to understand this. This might help you understand why we're having this youth conference, this youth rally. We must pass on our faith. We must prepare them to fight. Thirdly tonight, we must provide opportunities for fun. These young people are good young people, but they're young people, and we need to provide opportunities for them to have fun. We need to provide opportunities for them to have a good time. Ecclesiastes chapter 2 verse 22. I want you to notice what the book of Ecclesiastes says, and I want you to look at this and I want you to see it because I recently, just today really, I was looking at this passage. I was talking to my wife about it and I was kind of seeing it with new eyes because Ecclesiastes tends to be a little bit of a downer of a book if you've read it. It's an old man, Solomon, talking about all the regrets that he has in life and giving advice about how to not end your life with a bunch of regrets. And he brings up over and over the vanity of vanities. All is vanity under the sun, and he talks about how we should not pursue wealth, and we should not pursue entertainment. We shouldn't pursue these things that the world pursues, that they will lead you to having a shallow and a vain life. And one of the things that he teaches here in Ecclesiastes, and it's taught throughout the Bible, is that we should not live our lives simply to eat, drink, and be married. That we should not live our lives simply to have a good time. It's very clear through the book of Ecclesiastes that if you live your life for yourself, you will end up with only yourself. That if you live for entertainment and to have a good time, you will end up depressed and bitter and lonely and it won't produce happiness in your life. But within that context, the book of Ecclesiastes also mentions something else. I want you to notice it. Look at verse 22, Ecclesiastes 2.22. Notice what he says. And it would be easy for you to read these verses and kind of think like, oh yeah, he's just talking about not living for fun. But if you look at it closely, you'll notice that that's not what he's saying. Now he does say that in other passages. But here he says, Ecclesiastes 2.22, For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored under the sun? For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief. Now up to this point, it sounds pretty much like Ecclesiastes, right? I mean all his days are sorrow, and his travail is grief. What hath the man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath labored in the sun? Notice verse 23. For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief. Yea, his heart taketh no rest in the night. And this is what he says, this also is vanity. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. Now that might sound a little confusing to you because you might think, well wait a minute, I thought we weren't supposed to live, to eat, and to drink, and to just have a good time. I thought all those things would lead to depression and discouragement. I mean in Ecclesiastes, Solomon says that he pursued wealth, he pursued wine, he pursued women, he pursued wisdom, he pursued success, he pursued everything that the world tells you will make you happy. And at the end of it all, he says, I hated life. But then here he says, he says there is nothing better for a man, verse 24, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. So you say, well what is he talking about? And I want you to understand this. Here's what he's saying. He's saying you should not live your life to eat, drink, and be merry. If you live your life with the stated purpose of just simply eat, party, have a good time, eat, drink, and be merry. He said you're gonna be miserable, you're gonna hate your life. The only way to have a life worth living is to have a life of purpose, and that requires you serving others and serving God. You can't just live to eat, drink, and enjoy your life. But, he says, while you're laboring, while you're working, for what, verse 22, for what have a man of all his labor? So he's not talking to the guy who's trying to not work and just party all day. That's not who he's talking to. He's talking to the guy that works hard, and we should work hard. For what have the man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, when he hath labored under the sun? He says, look, you work hard for all his days are sorrows, and his travail grieve, yea, his heart taketh no rest in the night. This also is vanity. He says, look, if you're gonna work hard, you're gonna have to work hard to do something that matters in this world. You're gonna have to get up early, stay up late, work hard, and get it done. But then he says, there's nothing better for a man that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. Here's what he's saying. If you're gonna work hard, then at least enjoy it while you're doing it. Do you understand that? He says, work hard. You gotta work hard. The land is cursed. All his days are sorrows and travail of grief. You've got to work hard. You've got to get up early. You've got to stay up late. Sometimes you've got to put in the labor. But he says, look, there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. While you're working, he says, enjoy it. So he says, don't live to eat and drink. Live to work and serve God. But while you're serving God, eat and drink and enjoy good. He says, this also I saw that it is from the hand of God. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Look at verse 12. Ecclesiastes 3, 12. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice and to do good in his life, and also that every man should, notice the words, eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God. Here's what he's saying. Don't be like the rich fool in the book of Luke that worked all his life and bestowed all his labor, and he built barns with all his wealth, and then he said, well, now that I have all these riches, now I'll eat, drink, and be merry. And God said, thou fool, tonight I will require thy life at thy hands. He was a rich fool. But what God is telling us in Ecclesiastes is, work hard, but while you're working, enjoy it. Here's what he's saying. You're working hard to provide for your family, so take him out to a nice dinner every once in a while. Go on a nice vacation every once in a while. Take some time off and take him to the next generation youth rally every once in a while. He says, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is a gift of God. He's not saying live to eat and drink and not work. He says work hard, but while you're working hard, eat and drink and enjoy it. What's he saying? Have a good time. Go to Ecclesiastes 8, look at verse 15. Ecclesiastes 8 and verse 15. Ecclesiastes 8 and 15. Then I commended mirth. What's mirth? Mirth is pleasure and enjoyment. Now in other places in Ecclesiastes, he talks negatively about mirth. He said don't live from mirth. He said it's better to live, he said it's better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of pleasure. So he says we've got to keep pleasure and enjoyment within the proper context. Our lives should not be to just have a good time. But here he says, then I commended mirth. Commend means to like recommend or to say. He said let me tell you something good about mirth. Let me tell you something good about enjoyment and pleasure. Then I commended mirth because a man have no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry for that shall abide with him of his labors the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun. You say I don't understand what is he saying. Go to Acts, Acts chapter 20. New Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts. Please understand this. He's not saying live your life for pleasure. I mean that's the overarching theme of Ecclesiastes is don't live your life for pleasure. You'll hate your life. But in order to balance that, here's what he's saying. He's saying look, raising children's a lot of work. Isn't that true? If you have children you should know that. Raising children's a lot of work. It's very expensive and as they get older I often tell people when you've got little children the problems are little. When you've got bigger children the problems are bigger. The stakes are higher. I always I chuckle at the parents that got the just that you know the four little babies and they're like I wonder I can't wait till they're older. No, when they're older you'll wish they were back there. It's actually easier to control them when they're this big. Sometimes there's heartache with raising children but here's what I want you to understand. Though raising children is hard work, though raising children is expensive, though raising children can sometimes bring a lot of stress and heartache, mom and dad make sure you enjoy those kids while you're working at them. While you're staying up late worried about them, while you're interceding in prayer for them, while you're worried and concerned, while you're disciplining them and dealing with their bad attitudes and their misbehavior, while you're teaching them these things and and while you're living that life hey make sure that while you're doing those things you're enjoying them. You're spending time with them and you're loving them and you're you're caring for them. Why? Because life cannot just be all about work. Now it should be about work. It should be about working God. It should be about serving God. It should not be about pleasure and having fun but while we're working and while we're serving God it's okay to have some fun in the meantime. It's okay to enjoy it on the way. It's okay to have a good time. So you know what these kids need? They need us to pass out our faith. They need us to prepare them to fight but they need us to provide opportunities for them to have fun because it can't just all be about you know the way some people live their Christian life they act like the Christian life is not supposed to be enjoyable. If you enjoy it you're not doing it right. I would say if you don't enjoy it you're not doing it right. Acts chapter 20 you're there look at it. Acts 20 23. Notice what Paul said. He said save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city saying Acts 20 23 notice what he says last part verse 23 saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. This is what Paul said. Paul said bonds and afflictions abide me. He said everywhere I go I have bonds. I get put in prison. Everywhere I go I get hurt. Bonds and afflictions abide me. The joke says that when Paul would first come to a city he wouldn't check out the local inn he'd check out the local prison because he knew he'd be there sooner than later. He says bonds and afflictions abide me. He says my life is hard. That's what Paul said. My life is hard. My life has a lot of I have a lot of enemies. I have a lot of regrets and I have a lot of people attacking me and I have a lot of people trying to hurt me. I've got I've got people that are that are against me and against my ministry. He says bonds and afflictions abide me but then in verse 24 he's not all down in the mouth about it. He's just stating that as a as a fact and as an observation. In verse 24 he says but none of these things move me. What is he talking about when he says these things? He's talking about the bonds and the afflictions. The fights and the stripes. The being beaten and being and being stabbed in the back and being lied about. He says bonds and affliction abide me but none of these things move me neither account I my life dear unto myself. Notice the words he says that I might finish my course. Now Paul said this in a very famous way in 2nd Timothy when he said I fought a good fight. I finished my course. I kept the faith. But I love it how he says it here in Acts 2024 because he says that I might finish my course and I love these two little words he says with joy. He says bonds and afflictions abide me. He says yes I've had troubles. Yes I've had battles. Yes I've had issues throughout my life but I'm gonna finish my course with joy. He said I'm gonna be happy about it. Listen mom and dad your kids need to see you having joy in the service of the king and we need to provide opportunities for them to have a good time. We need to provide opportunities for them to enjoy themselves. Opportunities for them to be able to eat drink and to have a good time. Not that that's what life is all about but while we're working and serving the Lord and fighting the battles that need to be fought we can have a good time in the process. We have joy in the process. Go to Judges chapter 2. Judges chapter 2 in the Old Testament you have Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges. Judges chapter 2. Let me just take a moment at this point in the sermon and just explain some things about this youth rally. And like I said this is not a normal sermon like I normally preach on a Sunday night. This is right before a big conference that we're having here. And I just want to help you understand some things and I'm gonna get real practical here because we've had a lot of questions about you know the youth rally and how's it gonna work and all these things and I realize you know some of you this is new to you. You didn't grow up in church. You didn't grow up with things like this. I grew up going to youth conferences and youth rallies my whole life. So I just want to help you understand some things and kind of answer some questions that we've been answering over the last couple of weeks and I know that if one or two or three people have asked us these questions and there's maybe more of you that are that are wondering. So I want to help you and I just want to go through kind of the schedule and just help you understand because I want you to be ready for the youth rally. I want you to be ready for this conference and I would encourage you if you want a schedule we have a schedule on our website veritybaptist.com and our Facebook and our Instagram and whatever. So the schedules are available for you and we will if you want one we will text you an image of the schedule so you can have it. But let me just kind of go through the schedule and help you understand you know what to expect and and what what you can be a part of and things like that. So on Tuesday morning we're gonna begin at 10 a.m. Well first of all from 9 to 10 a.m. is registration when the young people will come in and we will get them registered and put them on their teams. They're gonna be in two different teams during the youth rally. We'll get them their t-shirts. There's two teams with two different color t-shirts for the teams. At 10 a.m. the morning session will begin and the morning session is open to everyone. Anybody can come to it. You you can you can come to it even if you're not a teenager. In fact I want to encourage you to come to it. Now when you come remember that the youth rally is geared towards the young people. They're gonna be put into two teams. They're gonna be competing against each other during the youth rally just having a good time. When you show up on Tuesday this building is not gonna look like this all right. We've got a group of ladies coming in on Monday and they're gonna transform this auditorium into the the theme for the youth rally is gladiators and they're gonna turn this into a coliseum all right and maybe I'm exaggerating but we've got all sorts of things that they're gonna do and and and fun things and when you show up these three sections here are not going to be three sections they're going to be divided into two sections all right and those two sections will be for the young people so one team will sit on one side one team will sit on the other side and that's where we want the young people the teenagers to sit so they can sit with their teams they're gonna have competitions and things like that want them up front for the preaching and all of that you will still have we'll stop the two sections in the back and then we'll have these two wing sections when you show up on Tuesday if you come on Tuesday we want the parents and the non teen kids to sit and these sections or in the back and leave these two sections in the middle in the front for the teenagers to be on their different teams the 10 a.m. session is going to have singing like a normal church service there's gonna be a skit that is I think it's pretty awesome I think you'll like it if you come it's gonna be funny and it's gonna kind of set the context for the evening so we encourage you to be here if you can be that for that and then we're gonna have a 25-minute sermon that morning session for the kids pastor Jared Pazarski from whole fast Baptist Church is gonna be preaching in the morning so that morning session is open to anyone you're welcome to come it's gonna be a good time then from 12 to 1 p.m. we're gonna be serving lunch at a local park and we'll get you you'll have a bulletin or whatever and your the kids will have the addresses and everything they need let me say this about the lunches all right we have made plans to provide lunch and dinner over the next two days to anybody who registered to come to the conference so we've got the delegates and their families plus anybody who signed up to volunteer at certain times if they're if they're volunteering during lunchtime for lunch or something like that then we've we've kind of put them into the number to make sure that we've got enough food and all that for them but I want you understand that the lunch times and the dinner times are are for the delegates and the families that have registered to be here and any volunteers that have signed up to be here because we've we've made plans based off the numbers of people that told us that they were gonna be here so here's what I'm trying to tell you as kindly as possible is that if we have made plans to feed a hundred and fifty people and 250 people show up and a hundred of you never registered or told us you were coming that's not gonna work okay now we want to be a good host and the last thing that we want is people that came here from we got people coming from Alaska and Colorado and all all sorts of different places and the last thing we want is people that came here from out of state to come here and not get food because you decided Oh pastor Jimenez is providing meals and I don't have to cook meals for my kids you know so just the the lunches are for the delegates for the conference so lunch from 12 to 1 is for the teens and the families and their siblings if they registered and told us we've made plans for them if you signed up to volunteer at any of those things that we had volunteer opportunities for we've made plans for you but if not then we haven't made plans for you and just please help us with that that's not really open to everyone from one to four there's going to be games and competitions at the park we've got these big inflatable obstacle course that the kids are gonna be competing in we've got jousting and games and things that they're gonna do and you're welcome to come to that and and observe that but that really is activities for the kids from four to six there's a break to get ready for the evening service from six to seven we're gonna be serving dinner in the fellowship hall for the delegates all right and you say you're being a respecter of persons listen to my sermon this morning all right it's for the kids and for their parents and for the families that have signed up and that told us that they were coming obviously if you sign up to volunteer during those times and we've got you covered but we're serving dinner for the delegates six to seven before the evening service seven to nine we're having the service here of course the evening service is open to everyone and pastor Anderson's gonna be preaching and I'm sure that people will come from wherever just to hear and preach and that's great so you're welcome to be here at 7 p.m. for the evening service we're gonna have the evening service here we'll have a cookie fellowship that's for everyone cookie fellowship after the service and and a wrestling show in the fellowship on you're not gonna want to miss it the wrestling shows gonna be pretty awesome so make sure that you're here for that next day Wednesday 10 a.m. morning session again at the church building open to everyone lunch I'm looking at my notes I just want to make sure that I'm not I'm not missing anything here lunch 12 to 1 and the fellowship hall again for the delegates and their families and any volunteers that are there we're we got a group of ladies that are coming in to make sandwiches for the young people and for their families so obviously if you volunteered to make sandwiches we're not gonna make you make sandwiches and say okay go home now you know you're we've we've prepared for the volunteers as well but we have not prepared for our church and look I I'm I'm thankful for this but I just we have 240 people in church this morning and I praise the Lord for that but I just can't have 250 of you show up for free lunch on top of the hundred and fifty that are coming from out of town does that make sense I'm not trying to put a wet blanket on you or whatever I'm just trying to help you understand so lunch in the fellowship hall for the ladies 1 to 2 p.m. games in the fellowship hall for the teams 3 to 5 we've got a bowl-a-thon and we've rented a local bowling alley and again let me kind of just help you out with this all right we rented the entire bowling alley 16 lanes of those 16 lanes 12 of them are being are already ate up just by the kids that are coming so that leaves us for open lanes and we're going to cuz we are hosts right nobody hosts conferences like Verity Baptist Church host conferences and nobody you know serves out-of-town guests like our church serves out-of-town guests and we want to leave those four open lanes for any of the families that look not not all of them are gonna be able to bolt right because even they have to realize the priorities for the teams the teams are gonna take up 12 of those 16 lanes already that gives us four lanes and we're gonna try to keep those lanes open for the the moms and dads that are coming from out of town to be able to enjoy themselves as well so so look I'm not gonna be bowling my wife's not gonna be bowling my kid I've got six kids only two are teens my four girls are not gonna be bowling so so we're just so I can't just have you show up and be like free bowling yeah and you can do that at the other bowling alley but and and here's the thing I wouldn't even I would ask don't even come to the bowling alley because there's gonna be too many people there anyway already so you can come to the park if you want to just watch but don't even come to the bowling alley just to watch because we're already going to max out the capacity of it and we don't want to you know get in trouble or have somebody tell us that we have to get people out of the building order so I'm just trying to help you understand because we're getting a lot of questions about this five to six break to prepare for the evening service six to seven dinner for the delegates and families in the fellowship hall along with the along with the volunteers look I'm not trying to hurt your feeling I'm just trying to help you understand what we're doing here so that you can you can get it I'm sure the staff right now they're like I thought I was gonna bowl no no one bowling you know there we're just gonna what we're gonna doing it for the teams all right six to seven and look that that was the biggest bowling alley we could find you know and and that we could use like that then seven to nine evening service here at the church building wrestling show and all of that so I'm just trying to help you understand it's gonna be a fun time games and competitions we the kids are gonna have different competitions and they're gonna be earning points to for their teams to win the the major big competition every game that a kids a part of they're getting a $10 Amazon gift card as a prize for the games you know eating the jello Coliseum the fastest or whatever that we're doing we're having this big raffle with a electric scooter $630 electric scooter real nice scooter we're gonna raffle it off and raffle off hats and raffle off gift cards and things like that and the way that the kids are gonna get raffle tickets is by being involved you know by being involved and by by participating we're gonna have someone get up after the sermons and ask questions to the teens about the sermons and for every right answer you know they'll get a raffle ticket and the goal is that they get the people that get the most raffle tickets will have the most the biggest chance of winning you know and we're trying to have a good time and here's here's why I'm bringing all this up to you okay cuz I know Christians and I know fundamental Baptists and I know the holier-than-thou's out there and some of you are anything like this sounds like a little too much levity in the house of God let me tell you something when you were 15 years old you were fornicating and getting high so get your holier-than-thou attitude out of this thing and just let the kids have a good time all right don't have this attitude that's like I don't think we should be having this much fun let the kids have a good time look we don't let them watch movies we don't let at least you're not supposed to we don't let them listen to rock music we don't let them go to worldly parties let them have a good time you know and what I'm trying to say to you is get behind it when the kids are competing hey cheer them on clap for them have a good time with them one thing we're gonna do at the youth rally which is maybe different here and here's the other point I want you that it's not gonna feel like a church service all right now the preaching is gonna be preaching from the Word of God and that's gonna feel like church but the rest of it is just gonna be fun it's gonna be games gonna be competitions and when I was a kid growing up something that we would do would be we would cheer on the preachers and we're actually gonna do that here for the youth rally we've got these nice entrance audios that will play for for the preachers and they're gonna be announced in like like a like a fighter going down to the ring all right just go with it you know cheer on when pastor Anderson's announced cheer him on all right get it you say I don't think we should be cheering for a preacher hey I'd rather they cheer for a preacher than some sodomite football player I'd rather they make a hero out of a preacher than some drug addict basketball player so just don't don't have this attitude like I don't think this is look we're we're trying to have provided opportunities for these kids to have a good time in a clean environment or maybe they'll hear from the Word of God and have their hearts touched and they'll carry on the faith and fight the battles that need to be fought in the future so get involved let them have a good time but don't get so involved that you're taking up lanes and kids from out of town are crying cuz you thought you know pastor Jimenez should pay for you to go bowling all right does that make do you understand I'm saying hopefully that makes sense and hopefully I came off in the right spirit go to judges chapter 2 we're gonna finish this up judges chapter 2 if you have any questions talk to anybody but me but I hope you understood the spirit in which I'm I'm giving you instructions I just want you to be ready to participate and to cheer these kids on they want them to have a good time judges chapter 2 and verse 7 here's what we're trying to avoid we're gonna be done right now judges 2 7 and the people serve the Lord all the days of Joshua and all days of the elders that outlive Joshua who had seen all the great works of the Lord and he did that he did for Israel and Joshua the son of Nun the servants of the Lord died being in hundred and ten years old and they buried him in the borders of his inheritance in Timnath here is and the Mount of Ephraim on the north side of the hill Gaiash and also notice verse 10 all the generations were gathered unto their fathers here's what we're trying to avoid with this next generation youth rally and there arose another generation after them which knew not the Lord nor yet the works which he had done for Israel we want these kids to be excited about the house of God we want them to be excited about the Word of God we want them to be excited about the things of the Lord you know we're hoping that these kids will come to this conference and yeah they'll have a good time and yeah they'll have fun but I'm hoping they make some decisions with their lives I'm hoping they make decisions to maintain their purity until marriage I'm hoping some young men will decide you know what I'm not gonna live for for money I'm gonna I'm gonna go into the ministry and and and be a preacher I'm not saying every kid needs to do that I'm just saying I'm hoping there'll be some that will what we're hoping that some of these kids will say you know maybe I don't want to be a preacher but but I'm gonna be a faithful man at my church I'm gonna I'm gonna work hard and I'm gonna just be a blessing to my we're hoping that we can impact eternity through this next generation youth rally so I want to encourage you to pray and to prepare and to help in any way that we can that the generations to come will serve God and that it would not be said of our young people that there arose another generation after them which knew not the Lord inspire heads in our word of prayer Heavenly Father Lord we thank you and we love you and Lord I do thank you for our church I know that our church is filled with people that have a heart for serving steaming others better than themselves and obviously I'm biased but I know that this church puts on great events and I appreciate that I appreciate the people here just pray you'd help us to be ready to serve to make sure that our out-of-time guests and friends are taken care of and that these kids have a good time I want them to have a good memories of church help them to learn that they can have fun in a clean environment they can have fun in an environment where they're serving God what I pray that this week would be a wonderful week in the matchless name of Christ we pray amen all right well we're gonna have brother RJ come up and lead us in a final song just a couple of reminders first of all don't forget that the cookie fellowship if you can sign up if you'd like to sign up to bring cookies for the cookie fellowship on Tuesday at 7 and or Wednesday at 7 we've got clipboards in the foyer before that and then of course the next generation youth rally we hope you'll come Tuesday morning 10 a.m. you're welcome to be part of the morning session if you can't do that you're working we understand but 7 p.m. evening service you're not gonna want to miss it make sure you're here for that if there's anything we can do for you please let us know and you know I do like to just tell you and remind you from time to time I know sometimes in my preaching it might not feel like it but my wife and I really do love you and we pray for you and we appreciate the honor that it is to serve alongside you so please be in prayer for this week it'll be a good week if there's anything we do for you please let us know we'll have brother RJ come up and lead us in a final song now let's grab our songbooks and turn to page number 41 song number four one and service with sweet by and by song number four one there is a land that is fair than they saw number 41 let's go ahead sing it out on the first by we shall see and our spirit we shall be in the street unless to our we will offer for our and the blessings in the street by amen great singing if anyone here has questions about salvation baptism or church membership pastor will be at the door he would love to talk to you or directly to someone who's trained to do that as well brother Matt would you dismiss us with the order prayer yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah