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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Bible reads, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That's a strong, uh, you know, uh, I guess, uh, I, I, I can't even think of, like, what the word is for that. I'm tired, okay? I'm trying to think of, like, what the word would mean, the accolade. Um, but in Mark chapter six, I want you to see here that not only did he preach the gospel, he actually preached hard to. He preached hard against sin. And not only did he preach hard against sin, he preached hard against sin to anybody. And he wasn't a respecter of persons, whether they were in authority or not. So, go to, uh, Mark chapter six, verse seventeen. Okay, so this is why he was put into prison, because of Herodias, uh, and notice what it says here in verse eighteen. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. So, John wasn't just going around just preaching the gospel and that's it. He was preaching saying, Herod, you're in sin for marrying your brother's wife. Notice what it says, keep reading there. Because what's interesting about this is that Herod didn't want to kill John. And the reason that, you know, basically all this went down is because of Herodias. Notice what it says in verse, uh, verse nineteen. It says, Therefore Herod's, Herodias had a quarrel against him. So, basically, Herodias is just like offended at this. You know, how dare this prophet say that, this man say that I can't marry my brother or my, uh, you know, this other man, you know, whatever. And notice what it says in verse, uh, yeah, uh, verse nineteen. It says, Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him and would have killed him, but she could not. Why? For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and holy. Remember we talked about being a light, right? Being the idea that they see, they behold your good works. That they may glorify your Father, which is in heaven. You know, the idea that they may see your good works. That everybody knows that John is not some, some horrible person. Like he, he's a just person. He's a righteous man. And then it goes on here, it says, and observed him. Herod observed John. And it says, uh, in verse, uh, in verse twenty there, it says, And when he heard him, he did many things and heard him gladly. So Herod was listening to John and, you know, heard him gladly, even did some of the things that John said. So, you know, Herod wasn't out to get John, but because of the sin that Herod was in, you know, Herodias is the reason that, that he put him in the prison. And ultimately, if you remember the story, obviously Herodias' daughter danced for Herod and he made this stupid oath. And then, in the end, he had to be, he didn't have to, but he beheaded John because of his oath that he made to Herodias' daughter. And, you know, ended up killing him. And after that, I believe that, I believe Herod was able to get saved before that. I believe he, you know, he heard John gladly. He even did some of the things that he said. But after that, if you remember when Jesus was being, when he was going up to, you know, Pilate and all that, and he sent him over to Herod. You remember that he didn't answer him a word? He wouldn't even speak to him. At all. So, I believe after he killed John, that was like the last straw. And he was done after that. But, that being said, is that John, he wasn't just a light, he was a burning light. He offended people. And he offended some of the highest people in the land. So, tell me again that I shouldn't preach against the president. Or I shouldn't preach against any type of higher up, you know, governing authority. Because if they're in sin, they're in sin. And that goes for Donald Trump. You know, that he was a whore monger and, you know, all this other stuff. That goes for Biden, and Hunter Biden, and like all, and the Clintons, and all the murderers that are in office and all that stuff. It goes for all of them that, you know what, I'll call it out for what it is. And the thing is that John did that, and he was a burning and shining light. Go to 2 Timothy chapter 4, because as a preacher, and especially as a pastor. Because this sermon is not just about a pastor being a burning and a shining light. Obviously, I should be. If you guys should be, shouldn't I be? But this is a sermon to everybody. All Christians should be a burning and a shining light. Notice what it says in verse 1 of 2 Timothy 4. It says, I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom. Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season. Now the key here is that there are certain things when you preach, it's in season. Meaning everybody's just like, ah, that's great, you know, fine, that's great. It's in season. But then it becomes out of season. You know what, that homosexuality was not always out of season to preach against. It wasn't that long ago that people would rip face on that, and people would just be like, yeah, of course. The news wouldn't be coming down your throat and saying that you're a big hate group, and you're part of this, you know, the Southern Poverty Law Center is coming down and saying you're a hate group. They basically say any church that preaches the truth is a hate group. But that was not a big hot item button back in like the 50s, or the 60s for that matter. Good night in the 60s, they had like a PSA video saying that they're mentally ill and that you need to be aware of them, and that, you know, call the police if you find a homosexual. That's what it was like in the 60s. And even in the 90s they would preach hard against it, but they still, it wasn't that open, and, you know, at that time like they were just coming out with shows where there would be like this open queer or whatever. But now it's out of season to preach against the queers. It was in season, everybody would say, amen, you wouldn't have any recourse for it. Now it's out of season. There are certain things that are still in season. Listen, bestiality is still in season. Thank God. But who knows what our country is going to come to. Hey listen, you probably thought that pedophilia would be in season to preach on all the time, but I guarantee you, and I already see it today, that love is love and love doesn't have an age, and they're going to try to come down on us for being against pedophilia, but I have a little, a little, like that much hope in humanity in the fact that I think that's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Because you start coming after the children and everybody's going to just break and say, you know what, nuts to everything else that you said. Because if you think this LGBTQAARP MICKEY, you know, alphabet community is just about being with the same sex, then your head is in the sand like an ostrich. And you know what, it's offensive, obviously, to preach Leviticus 2013, which says if a man also lied with mankind as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination that should surely be put to death or blood shall be upon them. You know what, that's not in season today, but it needs to be preached. Especially when we got done with Pride Queer Month. Since when did June get defiled? And I have to see all this stuff, you know, all these companies put up these rainbow flags and put out this trans crap, and then my kids have to see all this stuff that's around. It's just disgusting. And you know what, June has just become a month of filth. You know, pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. You know what, read your Bible and tell me that we should be celebrating some Pride Month. You know, any Christian that would celebrate Pride Month should just be, you know, just take that name off. You're not a Christian. And the thing is that a preacher should be salty. And listen, that's salty. So, and today, that's not in season. Tomorrow it might be pedophilia. Tomorrow it might be bestiality. Tomorrow it might be sacrificing your children to like a false god. You think I'm crazy? Read the Bible. Read the Bible. Because there were kings that were sacrificing their children to a false god. And that stuff happened, and there's nothing new under the sun. So listen, you know how you keep it in season? You preach it in season. And the problem is there were not enough preachers preaching it in season when it was easy to preach to keep, you know, this wickedness out of our country. But, you know, now we got to deal with it. And listen, I'm not going to stop preaching it because it's out of season. And listen, I don't preach something just because it's out of season either. Right? I'm trying to think of what we were preaching on recently. But if I preached on, I'm trying to think of what's in season. Because it seems like everything in the Bible was out of season, right? Everything in the Bible just offends somebody. But I'm trying to think of something that would be not so offensive to people. Okay, how about the universal church compared to the local church? I'm just trying to think off the top of my head. You know, I'm not going to get the news station down here and be like, that church believes it's a local church and that there's not this all-encompassing universal church. Hate him. Shame. You know, like, they're not going to do that. Okay? And I can't think of a good one, to be honest with you. But I'm just saying that obviously there's things that, you know, I could preach right now that's in season and people aren't going to give a rip about. But keep reading there. It says in verse 2, it says, Preach the word, be instant, in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables. And today there's a bunch of pastors out there and a bunch of churches that are just throwing out a bunch of fables and don't want to hear sound doctrine. They don't want to read Leviticus 20 and 13. They don't want to read Romans 1 where it says, They which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. They don't actually want to read that, that they're haters of God, that God's the one that gave them over to a reprobate mind. They don't want to hear that because that's sound doctrine. And the idea here is that people are going to go to a church where they have itching ears. Meaning, they want someone to scratch them. They want to feel good. They want their ears to feel good. They want everything to come in there to be goodness and light and unicorns and rainbows. Everything is just fun, it's nice, and they don't want to have any salt that's associated with it. Listen, I preach sermons where it's just goodness and light. And it's just a fun sermon or it's not going to ruffle anybody's feathers. Again, everything will ruffle somebody's feathers. But if I preached on like, you know, satyrs in the Bible, when I was preaching on cryptozoology, you know, it's not like that really offends somebody, right? I mean, that there's like these weird creatures in the Bible or that there's, you know, that the Bible talks about dragons and different things in the Bible, that's not going to offend anybody. I mean, it will offend somebody, but what I'm saying is that it's not like these hot topic buttons that are out of season. Go to Proverbs 27, Proverbs 27. Now, when it comes to salt, like I said, you need to be salty because the Word of God is going to be offensive. But we want to be offensive because of the Word of God, not because of ourselves, okay? We don't want it to just be, you know, I don't like your face, I don't like who you are, I don't like the way you talk to me. You can't really help your face, but you can help the way that you talk to somebody. You can be nice, not condescending, you can be loving and compassionate, right? And if some have compassion, making a difference, and others say with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garments spotted by the flesh. The idea is that we need to have compassion, we need to love the person that we're talking to, and not just try to win an argument. If that's the way you're going to go into it, it's not going to end well, because there needs to be love and compassion that's associated with it. There needs to be grace within your speech, and if there's not, then it's just salt, okay? Grace seasoned with salt, not just salt. Not salt seasoned with grace, grace seasoned with salt, okay? Now, in Proverbs chapter 27 verse 5 here, notice what it says. Proverbs 27 verse 5, it says, Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. And obviously I think of Judas kissing Jesus on the cheek, you know, like kissing Jesus to say, Hey, you know, this is the one, the kisses of an enemy, right? And the idea that, you know what, open rebuke is better than secret love, meaning that you know who really loves you is the person that tells you that something's wrong. You know, because you could say, well, you know, I care about these people too much, I don't want to offend them by telling them, hey, you need to get saved, or talking to them about the gospel. I don't want to offend them because I love them too much, I don't want to offend them because of that. Well, open rebuke's better than secret love because the wounds of a friend are faithful. And listen, when you tell someone and you give them the gospel, that wound, you know, you may cause a wound there because that's going to hurt. By the way, even if the person's saved or if you're telling them, like, hey, this sin is wrong, you might be opening up a wound and it's going to hurt and they may not like you for it, but open rebuke is better than secret love. And listen, salt can actually help wounds. Did you know that? Who here has had a sore throat and gurgled salt water? A lot of us, right? Who here has put salt on a canker sore, like a mouth sore? Let me ask you a question. Does that hurt? You better believe that hurts. You know, like, you don't have any of that stuff at the store. So you just put salt on it, right? You put salt on the wound. It hurts, but there are healing properties, you know, dealing with salt. But doesn't it sting? I mean, even the stuff, the antiseptic stuff that they give you to spray on, like, scrapes and stuff like that, I guarantee every kid's going to be like, that stings. Yeah, because a lot of times the cure stings. The cure hurts. And truth hurts. Truth is better than a lie. It's better for you to hear the truth, believe the truth, get saved, be on your way to heaven, and have eternal life than just to believe a lie because it doesn't offend you and go to hell for all eternity. So that's the ultimate thing when you've got to be thinking about, okay, I don't want to offend anybody, but do you want people to go to hell? If someone was in a burning building and they didn't realize it, would you care if they were offended if you went in there and just ripped them out of that building, kicking and screaming? Would you be thinking about, man, I don't want to hurt their feelings, you know, because they think they're safe. No, you're going to rip them out of there, and then at that point, you know, let them do what they want to do. Now, obviously, I'm not telling you to do that outsole-winning. Bust them into the house and be like, ripping them out, you get saved. You're going to get the cops call on you, and I can't really defend that. That's called breaking and entering, and you don't want to do that. You get my point, you know, obviously, when it comes to sole-winning, that's kind of the illustration you think of, is they're in this burning building, it's about ready to collapse on them, and you're trying to save them, and they may get angry that you're trying to save them. But go to Luke 24, because when I think of a burning light, obviously I think of the saltiness, right, where the salt of the earth, you know, it's going to be offensive, it's going to burn, and a synonymous term that the Bible uses when you burn is to be offended. But burning's not always associated with being offended. Actually, sometimes burning is associated with zeal, with excitement. And as Baptists, you know, obviously we're not charismatic, so I'm not, like, hanging from a chandelier, barking like a dog, and falling all over the place. But there's an idea of being excited, being, you know, on fire for the Lord, and that idea of not just being a light, but being on fire, you know, having some zeal, having some gumption, you know, the idea that when they try to come after you, you're like this burning lamp that won't go out, and it can't be quenched. That's the type of fire that you need to be. That's what it says in Luke 24, verse 31, dealing with those that were on the road to Emmaus, notice what it says in verse 31. It says, And while He opened to us the Scriptures. Now, I don't believe it's saying they were offended. I think it was saying that, you know, basically it was just like this excitement, like they're hearing this, because it was the Lord. They didn't realize it was the Lord, but there was something going on there, because the Word of God should burn in your heart when you read it. When you see something, and something clicks in the Bible, and you see some nugget of truth, that should get you excited. I don't know about you, but when I'm reading through the Bible, and I'm like, oh, that finally makes sense, or I finally figure out how these two things correlate, I'm excited about it, and I'm so excited about it that I usually preach a sermon on it, because I want to show you about it. And who here, when they see something like that, wants to show someone about it? Those of you who are just like, I want to show somebody, because if I didn't realize this, someone else maybe didn't realize this. That's the type of excitement and zeal that you have. And listen, you know, zeal gets a bad rap, because you don't want to have zeal with no knowledge. And like in the brightness of the light to knowledge, and the burning to zeal, because you want to have knowledge, right? But what good is knowledge if you don't use it? What good is all the knowledge of the Bible? Let's say you knew everything in the Bible, you just arrived when it came to knowledge, but you didn't tell anybody about it. What profit is that? I mean, I'm glad you know it, you know, but you should be telling other people about it. Go to Jeremiah chapter 20. Jeremiah chapter 20 and verse 9. Jeremiah chapter 20 and verse 9. Jeremiah 20 and verse 9, now this is Jeremiah, obviously he's getting a lot of persecution. Anna, Clara, look up here and pay attention. Jeremiah 20 and verse 9 says, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, but his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. So it's stating that Jeremiah, he's basically saying, I'm not going to say any more. Because he's basically getting all this persecution for, everything he's getting persecution for is because he's just preaching the word of God, and preaching what God told him to say, and he's just getting, you know, just annihilated by the government, and just everybody that's coming after him. He's just like, I'm not going to say anything about it. And he's just like, it was like this burning fire. He's like, I just couldn't help it. Why? Because we cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard. It can't help but say what that, you know, what the word of God is that's burning in your heart to where you want to say, hey, you need to get saved. Hey, you know, look at this truth over here. Listen, if you're not reading your Bible, you're not going to have that. You need to let the word of God, you know, dwell in you richly. You have the word of God dwelling in you richly. You're reading it. You're memorizing it. Listen, that's when it's going to burn. It's going to burn. You know, when you read through the Bible, you're going to see that. You're just going to love it. You're either going to, you know, be weeping over the thought of what God, how much God loves you, or you're going to be excited about the things of God, or, you know, whatever the case may be. There's this zeal that's associated with the word of God. And, you know, so much zeal. Think of Jesus when he obviously, you know, threw out the money changer that says, the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. The idea of zeal eating you up, you know, kind of being in your heart to where, you know, you just can't help but let it out. And Jeremiah was that way. He couldn't help it. Imagine that you're in a room where people are just constantly lying about Jesus. Okay? Imagine, if you will, you're in a room and everybody around there is just saying that, you know, Jesus did this and the Bible never says that he did it. Right? Or, you know, the Bible says this and it doesn't say that. You know, all sin is equal. We should love everybody. You know, all the different things that, oh, the Bible says that Jesus ate with homosexuals. Or the Bible says that Jesus did this, or Jesus did that, or Jesus said this. And just imagine, if you will, you're in a room where people are just around you, just saying all this garbage, saying all these lies, and then imagine not saying anything. Okay? Imagine how that would feel. Because that's probably, you know, what Jeremiah felt where he's just like, I'm not going to say anything, but then it's just lies being spewed. The Lord said this. The Lord said that. The Lord said this. God said this. And you're just like, ah, no he didn't. Thus said the Lord. The Bible says this. It's like when people say, well, the Bible says, you know, you have to be a good person and live a good life, and they'll just misquote stuff all over the place and try to insert their own doctrine. The Bible says you've got to repent of your sins. You're just like, never mentioned in the Bible. That phrase, repent of your sins, never there. And you just want to be like, the Bible says, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. The Bible says, verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death into light. And you just want to say it, because you have the zeal in your heart, because you have the knowledge of God, but you don't want to keep it in. That's a burning in a shining light. And listen, our church better not lose that burning that's associated with the light. Because we can know everything in the Bible. But what is that worth if we're not using it? You might as well just say that you're like the guy in James 2 that has all this faith that you can move mountains, but you won't help anybody with it. What is it profitable? You know, if a man say you have faith and have not works, you know. And the idea is that you're not having a profitable faith. And what good is all that knowledge if you're not going to use it? Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And notice what it says, go to, I have all kinds of verses on zeal, but I don't know if I want to get into that. Let's go down to 2 Corinthians 9. The thing you have to realize, too, is that people desire to have knowledge. I believe that's true. But there's something interesting about zeal. Zeal is like a fire, and zeal can spread like a fire. Whether good or bad, they zealously affect you, but not well. It talks about that in Galatians. So I'm not saying all zeal is good, but being zealously affected always isn't a good thing. The Bible talks about the fact that zeal, being zealously affected, it can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing, but the idea there is that it can spread. Notice what it says in 2 Corinthians 9, in verse 1, it says, For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you. For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal had provoked very many. So when it says it's superfluous for me to write to you, it means it's not needed. It's over the top for me to write this to you, because you've already been doing it, Achaia was ready a year ago, because your zeal had provoked very many. And that's the key, you're zealously affecting all these people in a good way. And notice what it says in Philippians 1. Here's an idea of your zeal affecting somebody. I've seen this in the past, where we get someone saved, and that zeal has caused people to want to get on board. You kind of think of Jehu and Jehonadab, I kind of used that example a little while back, but Jehu obviously was a great leader, and Jehonadab, basically Jehu said to Jehonadab, Is thine heart right as my heart is with thine heart? Say that like six times fast. And he says it is, and he says, Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. And the idea of how that zeal, that leader, he's just charging into battle, and he's just like, Come with me. Come with me! Let's do great things for God, but that zeal, that'll catch on fire. And that's what needs to happen. Our zeal needs to provoke very many. Philippians 1, verse 12. Anna, Anna, go into the mother baby room with mama. And Philippians 1, verse 12, that's what it says. It says, But I would you should understand, brethren, that things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the further and unto the gospel, so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places. And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. What's going on here? You have the fact that Paul was bound for preaching the gospel. And he's saying that my bonds have caused other people to be more bold in their preaching for the gospel. That's what it says in verse 15. Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife, and some also of good will. The one preached Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I am set for this defense of the gospel. What then, notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached and I there and do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. And he's basically saying there's some people that don't like me, and they're preaching it more boldly so that I get a worse punishment or something like that. And other people are doing it for love because they love me and they want to support me and they want to show people, hey, we're going to do it too. Stop us all. And Paul's saying, I don't care how you're preaching, you know, like, obviously how, obviously, the right gospel. He's talking about the true gospel, okay? He's like, I don't care if you like me, dislike me, if you're preaching the gospel, I'm going to rejoice. And because of his bonds, the zeal of Paul to preach the gospel to prison, unto bonds, that caused other people to start going the same route. Why? Because, you know what, zeal will start brush fires. And, you know what, it is the 4th of July, and there is a quote by Samuel Adams, but I'll butcher it, so look it up later on. There is a quote that it doesn't take a majority to win, but a tireless, irate minority keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the hearts of men. That's a mouthful, but think about that for a second. It doesn't take a majority to win, but a tireless, irate, keen minority that are setting brush fires of freedom in the hearts of men. You know, think about a brush fire and how it can set a whole field on fire. How just one little thing can cause that one little bit of fire can cause this massive flame and for it to spread. You know, and obviously in our independence, it wasn't a majority of people that wanted to secede from England. It was a minority, okay, but it happened. And listen, we're not the majority. I don't care what state you're in. You know, I don't care how big your church is that's a real church that's preaching the gospel. You're not the majority. We're never going to be the majority, but we don't need to be the majority. Listen, there's always going to be few that are saved and the majority are going to hell. But in the end, you know what, that minority that is keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the hearts of men. You say, well, you know, they're talking about freedom. Yeah, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. The Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And the idea is that, you know what, he has made us free in the liberty we're with. Stand fast therefore in the liberty we're with, Christ has made us free. And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. And the idea is that, you know what, we can get people on fire, but we have to be that burning light. And go to 1 Samuel chapter 3. I'm going to end with this, 1 Samuel chapter 3. Every time I read this passage in 1 Samuel, it's so kind of chilling. At the same time, there's hope. Meaning that, if you know the story of Eli, Eli was a priest, he was a judge in Israel. And Samuel obviously was put under his tutelage. Obviously, you know the story with Hannah and how she basically lent him to the Lord. But Eli had two sons of Belial. And when I say sons of Belial, I mean that they were children of the devil. And Eli, I believe, was a good man. I believe he was a saved person. But at the same time, he wasn't doing what he should be doing. He wasn't rebuking his sons. His sons were basically lying with women and all this other stuff. And they were married and all that. And so his sons were wicked. He wasn't doing anything about it. But Samuel obviously was a great prophet. We know that because you read on and hear about Samuel. But notice this, this is when Samuel was a child. In 1 Samuel 3, verse 1, it says, And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word Lord was precious in those days, there was no open vision. So you see the state of affairs, right? Is that God wasn't just speaking to all these prophets. And like basically, you know, precious means like rare. Like a precious stone. It's rare. Verse 2, And it came to pass, at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see. And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of the covenant was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep, that the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, Here am I. Now the phrase that always just kind of stuck out that was a little chilling is like when the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord. And I definitely believe there's symbolism in the idea of like, that's what happened with Eli. The lamp of God went out. They were not following God. They were not doing what they should be doing. But here's the hope. You have Samuel. And he's calling Samuel. And Samuel's going to get on fire for God. Samuel's going to do great things for God. And he does do great things for God. And the idea is that, yeah, the lamp might go out with other people, but, listen, ultimately it's never going to go out holistically. Because God's Word is always going to go forth. There's always going to be a remnant that's going to do what they should be doing. But, listen, let it not be said about us that our lamp goes out. Oh, you know, Mountain Baptist used to do great works for God. They used to go out soloing. That lamp has gone out. Let it not be said about us that our lamp goes out. Or that, well, Mountain Baptist Church, they have some great doctrine. You know, they know a lot about the Bible. But they're not doing anything with it. And, by the way, just so you know, there is a correlation with knowing a lot about the Bible and actually using it. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that win his souls is wise. If you think that there's not a correlation to that, The Bible says that babes, you know, it talks about the milk of the Word is for babes. But it says strong meat belong to them that are of full age. It says even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. You want to have some meat? You want to understand the meat of the Word? You better be using it. Why would God show you more if you're not using what you've got? Use what you've got. He'll give you more. And the moment we stop being that burning light, I believe, it's just the beginning for when the light goes out. And I'm not talking about losing our salvation. I'm talking about a church dying. I'm talking about being a Sardis, where you had a name that thou livest in our dead. And we don't want to be that. You've got to keep that light burning. Keep the lamp burning in the house of God. Be girt about, your loins girt about. And it talks about our loins being girt about with truth when it talks about the whole armor of God. But it says let your lamps be burning. So be a burning and a shining light. That's what John the Baptist was. And by the way, John the Baptist was the greatest prophet to ever walk on the face of the earth besides the Lord Jesus Christ. According to Jesus. So that's the end of the word of prayer. Father, we thank you for today. Thank you for your word. Thank you for the passage with John the Baptist and just these other passages where we can see that, hey, yeah, we need to have knowledge. But we also need to preach your word, which can be offensive. But also that we need to have zeal associated with that knowledge. And Lord, we just pray that you be with us today as we go out soul winning. But also as we come back at the church service and with the baptism and all that, Lord, we just pray that you be with us. We love you and pray all this in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. But today we'll come and sing one more song and then we'll be dismissed. All right, song 200 in your song books. Song 200 will sing. He's a wonderful savior to me. If you would stand, we'll sing song 200. I was lost in sin, but Jesus rescued me. He's a wonderful savior to me. I was bound by fear, but Jesus set me free. He's a wonderful savior to me. He's a wonderful savior to me. He's a wonderful savior to me. I was lost in sin, but Jesus took me in. He's a wonderful savior to me. He's a friend so true, so patient and so kind. He's a wonderful savior to me. Everything I need in Him I always find. He's a wonderful savior to me. He's a wonderful savior to me. He's a wonderful savior to me.