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And then we also have Pastor Jared Pazarski coming and preaching for us. He'll be at camp on Thursday but he'll be preaching for us Friday night and Saturday morning. He'll be bringing his whole family with him. So looking forward to seeing Brother Jared and hearing him preach. June 10th is going to be our trip to New Jersey. I'll be preaching with Pastor Jimenez on Friday night, June 10th. And there'll be food and fellowship beforehand and baptisms after the service. And also a soul eating marathon on Saturday. June 16th we have our last homeschool field trip and it's going to be at Oaks Park. So we've already bought the 14th. Did I say 14th? Yes. June 14th. Did I say 16th? Okay. Thank you. My four looks like a six there but I see what I did. All right. So Oaks Park and that's so we're buying bracelets for everybody and you can go on the rides and all that stuff. Is there going to be skating? Are we doing skating? No, no skating. So no skating but it's just the amusement park portion of it and we're going on a Tuesday. So I think it's going to be whatever time they open. Maybe it'll show up a little bit early. Do the sack launch. I'd like to come to that if I can. I'm too small to go on the rides but I would still like to go. June 18th is the men's shooting event in Stevenson, Washington. June 19th is Father's Day. That'll be a gift for every dad in attendance. And then the FWBC mega conference is going to be happening in June. And basically that's where Pastor Anderson is inviting all the pastors, all his pastor friends to come and preach at his church while he goes and preaches at their churches. So that's the conference. It's kind of a unique style conference. But I'm looking forward to it. Pastor Anderson is going to be preaching here Thursday night on the 23rd of June. So make sure that you're here for that. And then if you missed that or if you just want to get three times Pastor Anderson then you can just go up to our church plant in Spokane on June 26th. He'll be preaching both services on Sunday. And so we're looking forward to that. I'll be preaching in Phoenix on June 26th at the same time as he's in Spokane. So I'll be here for the Thursday night service but not for the weekend service. So I need everybody to be on their best behavior up there and down here. And I think he might be doing a little bit of filming too. So he might ask people to do some interviews. I think he's basically just trying to get some footage of how different the churches are. We always get accused of being a cult and everybody has to do things the same and preach exactly the same and all that stuff. And that's not really true. So anyway that's going to be a good time. And then July 14th or 17th is the Red Hot Preaching Conference. And all the other stuff you already know on the page. Let's see. Anybody have a birthday? Mandy had a birthday on the 18th which was yesterday. Happy birthday Mandy. Brother Eli's coming up in coral. We'll sing happy birthday to them this Sunday. Right? What? Oh Eli Woods I'm sorry. Got to check that last name there. Alright that's all we got for announcements. Let's sing another song and we'll receive the offering. The next song will be song number 245. Little is much when God is in it. Song number 245. Little is much when God is in it. Song 245. Little is much when God is in it. Let's sing it on the first. In the harvest field now ripen there's a word for all to do. Hark the voice of God is calling to the harvest calling you. Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name. Does the place you're called to labor seem so small and little numb? It is great if God is in it and he'll not forget his own. Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name. Are you laid aside from service, body worn from toil and care? You can still be in the battle in the sacred place of prayer. Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name. When the conflict here is ended and our race on earth is run, he will say to all the faithful, welcome home my child well done. Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus name. Amen. Good scene. For Shawn Coleman, could you bless the offering for us? Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day in this church, Lord, and I thank you for this opportunity to be in church today, and I pray that you would bless the preaching, Lord, just to help us to listen and to learn something today, and I pray you bless this offering in Jesus name I pray. Amen. . . Thank you, ladies. All right. As we always do on Thursday night, we go to board and prayer. Let's all bow our heads together and pray. Lord, we thank you so much for the opportunity to come to you in Jesus name. And Lord, we ask that you would hear our request. Lord, we know you will. We ask especially, Lord, to be with brother Alex and his wife, Mary, and just pray that you would give them comfort and strength and Lord, just help them through this hard time, and pray that you would help heal her, Lord, and that you would give brother Alex strength and wisdom. I pray that you would just reach down and let them feel blessed. Lord, I pray, Lord, that you would put a hedge of protection around our church, and Lord, that you would help us to find a building in Spokane as soon as possible, and also for brother Chris as he's deployed overseas, we pray that you would help him and take care of him. Lord, we ask that you would bless the ladies in our church that are with child, Ms. Alana, Ms. Chantel, Ms. Amy, and Ms. Nia. Pray that you would just bless their pregnancies, Lord, help them to have safe births and that the children would be healthy, and Lord, we also ask for Ms. Alana who's recovering from a sickness, that you would just bless her, help her to feel better as soon as possible, and Lord, for Olivia, my granddaughter, I pray that you would just help her to feel better, and Ms. Amy, that you would help them to get better from the cold that they have. Lord, we ask for prayer for Annie's grandparents' health and for Ms. Sheila's pain that she's been going through, and I pray that you would help her to get the help that she needs to ease the pain that she's in, and Lord, we ask for prayer for Ms. Julene who has a CT appointment on Monday and that she would get some clear answers to her questions that she has concerning her health and for Brother Chris and the Lew Ollie family, we pray that you would help the transfer to go through for Washington so they can continue to be here after Brother Chris gets back, and we also pray for Brother Kenny to find employment as soon as possible, and Lord, help him in any way you can, and help Brother Kenny to the right job, choose the right job, and we know you're going to get one, Lord, because he's looking for work, and we thank you for that. We pray for Brother Steve concerning wisdom for their pet and also for Josh for healing from the procedure that he had yesterday for his dental procedure, and we also pray, Lord, for Ms. Lisa Taberner, Brother Ian's wife, and they serve as leaders in our church in England. Lord, do you know what they're going through? I just pray that you'd help Ms. Lisa to recover from the miscarriage that she had, Lord, and that you'd help her get her strength back up, and Lord, we're just so sad to hear about the news, and I just pray that you would help her, help Brother Ian to take care of her, and Lord, I pray that she'd be well and feeling better as soon as possible and comfort their hearts. In Jesus' name we pray all these things. Amen. All right, good evening. Would you turn with me to the last book of 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 13. 2 Corinthians 13. If you get to the book of Galatians, you've gone too far. 2 Corinthians chapter 13. As is our custom, we'll read through the whole chapter, starting in verse 1, so please read along with me silently. 2 Corinthians chapter 13, the Bible reads, This is the third time I'm coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. I told you before and foretell you as if I were present the second time, and being absent now, I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other that if I come again I will not spare, since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you it is not weak, but is mighty in you. For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we are glad when we are weak, and ye are strong. And this also we wish, even your perfection. Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Greet one another with an holy kiss. All the saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. Brother Bill, would you pray for us? Amen. Well, like Brother Bill was saying, we are in our last chapter in the book of 2 Corinthians. My sermon tonight is except ye be reprobates. You're like, really, pastor? You really got to talk about the reprobates again? Well, it's in the chapter, okay? Put your whining about it. All right? Look at what it says in verse number 1. It says, this is the third time I'm coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Now, why would the Apostle Paul say this? Well, it sounds like he's going to take some people to task. And if you've been paying attention, he's been kind of defending himself, speaking foolishly, as he put it, where he kind of basically had to give him his works resume and said, I'm speaking foolishly. This is not something that people should normally do. But since they're calling him into question for so many things, even saying that he might not even be speaking for Christ, and it sounds like some people might be saying to him that he is a reprobate. But the Apostle Paul does have authority over this church. He is the Apostle. He's the one that started the church. He's the one that probably got most of these people saved, if not all of them, or his group of people that he had traveling with him. And he's saying, in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Now, what does that remind you of? It reminds me of Matthew chapter 18. So turn over to Matthew chapter 18. And I believe that the reason why he's saying this, these exact words, is because he's fitting to pull Matthew 18 on some people that are going to that church. Right? Because he's saying, in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Matthew chapter 18 verse 15, the Bible says, Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. So, we're past this point. This is the first point when someone does you wrong at church, then you are supposed to go to that person. You and them alone. You're not supposed to go tell other people. You're not supposed to get other people involved. You're supposed to try to tell them the fault between thee and him alone. And it says, If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother, or sister, or whatever the case is. And then, you know, if you can work it out just between you two, and they accept the fact that they did something wrong, then, you know, you've gained your brother or gained your sister. Look at verse 16, it says, But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. That's basically exactly what the Apostle Paul said, right? So, he is going to be challenging things that people said. That's what it sounds like to me. He says, I'm coming the third time to you. So, he's already obviously come twice to them. The third time, it sounds like he's going to have to clean up some messes that have been going on at the church there. Look what it says in verse 17, where you're still in Matthew 18, it says, And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church. But if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. So, once someone neglects to hear the, you know, the one of one, then the two or three witnesses, then it's unto the church. And if the person will not accept their wrongdoing, then they're to be kicked out. Isn't that what it's saying? Because it says, Let them be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican. An unbeliever or like a really bad worldly person, basically. And so, the Apostle Paul, you know, again, the language he's using in this chapter, he's being a little harsh. He's being a little negative, isn't he? And so, people always want to say, well, you know, the New Testament's always positive. There's never anything negative. But if you actually read the Bible, you can't believe that that's true. If you actually have gone through these two books with me, you cannot believe that that's true. Because this church is a church that has lots of problems. And the Apostle Paul has just one by one dissected every single problem that they had. And then in this, in 2 Corinthians, he's basically talking about the ministry and the hardships of the ministry. And then he's also dealing with the people that, there's certain people in this church, I wouldn't say that's everybody. But there's a faction in this church that the Apostle Paul is probably trying to root out. That's kind of what I'm guessing by the language he's saying. If he's Matthew 18, as we would call it, if he's going and going through this process, it's a serious process for people who have been saying some stuff about him that's not true. And they're trying to usurp the authority over this church and to kick Paul to the curb. Kind of like Diotrophes did to John, right? And so this is the kind of stuff that can happen when you have wolves in sheep's clothing that creep in unawares. You have these people that are always going to try to do this. I know I preach about this a lot, but it's just the truth. We have to prepare for it. We have to deal with it. And you know, it can't always be hearts and rainbows and unicorns and puppy dogs and glitter, okay? There has to be some hard truth sometimes. And hey, if you're a true man of God, you're going to say things sometimes that's going to upset people. You're going to say things in a tone that upsets people. You're going to say the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts, doesn't it? Haven't you ever heard that term, the truth hurts? Because it does. And when the Bible is preached, the truth of God's Word will hurt you. It will harm you. It will tell you, hey, you're doing something wrong. But how you deal with that is of the utmost importance. How do you deal with it? Do you believe what God's Word says and just accept that and say, hey, I need to change something about what I'm doing. I need to change whatever it might be. I need to change some things I'm doing in my marriage. I need to change some things I'm doing in my personal life, some of my hobbies. I need to change my parenting skills. I need to change, you know, just how I work. You know, do I work hard? Well, you know, the Bible is very clear about these types of things. And, you know, obviously there's other stuff in the Bible. There's tons of things in the Bible that we get the truth told to us or about us. And it comes straight from the Bible. And if it comes from the Bible, then it should not bother you. It should not offend you. Right? Let's look back at 2 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 2. It says, I told you before and foretell you as if I were present the second time, and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned and to all other, that if I come again I will not spare. So what is the Apostle Paul saying? He's saying, when I come again, I'm not going to spare. I'm not going to spare your feelings. You know, people get hurt feelings and stuff at church. Like, I just can't go to that church anymore because it's just too negative. Well, you know, Paul is being negative here, isn't he? He's saying, I'm not going to spare when I come back. What does that mean? Well, he's not going to sugarcoat things. And a lot of preachers do this. They'll get up and they'll sugarcoat things and try super hard not to offend anybody. But listen, if I never even preached about reprobates at all, if I just say I took that out of any of my preaching, everything that I preach out of here is still going to offend somebody. Everything. Think about that for a second. The Word of God is so offensive, I can't even preach about marriage without people commenting on our YouTube page. I can't preach about anything. I can't preach about that if a man doesn't work, neither should he eat. I can't even preach that without that being controversial. How is that controversial? It's because the unsaved people that are running all these other churches that are having these big outreach programs for homeless people, you know, they don't want to hear that because that's their ticket to heaven. They think that their good works are going to take them there. You know, just like all these Hollywood stars giving to charity and all these other people giving to charity, they think giving a fat check to some charity is going to get them into heaven. Well, you know, the road to hell is paved with a lot of good intentions. And you're not going to get there by your works. You're not going to get there by, you know, being some super homeless giver or whatever where you're just doing all this charity. I saw a mattress box spring on a median on my way into church tonight. How do you think that got there? You know, because people are like building tents on the sides of the road. You know what, I'm not going to go too deep into that because I just get too worked up about it. So I just have to see it too much. It's very angering how people just say, well, if you just give them some more money, oh, that's the worst thing you can do. So Paul says, if I come again, I will not spare. He's not sparing their feelings. He's not sugarcoating anything. He's going to tell it how it is. And he's going to call people out that need to be called out. Turn to Isaiah 58 verse 1. Isaiah 58 verse number 1. The Bible tells us to preach like that. I'm sure you've heard this preach a lot. But this is the language that Paul is using. If you read the Bible a lot, you can't help but use Bible words sometimes when you're just talking in general. So he's saying, I will not spare. Well, what does it say in Isaiah 58 verse 1? It says, cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. See, the preaching in church is to church people. And church people still sin. And so that's why the preaching has to be geared towards that type of thing. Because the Bible says we're supposed to cry aloud as a preacher. We're supposed to not spare. I know this is going to hurt so-and-so's feelings, so I'm not going to preach it. That's when you compromise and you need to go and get a different job. Because if you're afraid to get up and preach something that might hurt somebody's feelings, now obviously you don't go out of your way to intentionally hurt people's feelings. But the Word of God, like I said, is going to hurt people's feelings. And we're not supposed to spare. The Bible says spare not. Paul was a great example of this as a man willing to preach the truth no matter what it cost him. And you know what? It cost him dearly, didn't it? And we've gone through all the chapters where Paul is talking about the times he was beaten and stoned and all the different things that he went through. And you know why he went through that? Because he wasn't afraid to go and preach the Bible every single place he went. Every place he went, he knew this is going to, I'm probably going to get beat up, I'm probably going to get thrown in jail, or both, maybe killed, but you know what? I'm going to go anyway. That's courage. That's courage to go. And the Word of God is so powerful that just the words alone can stir up people's anger so much that they will try to kill you. They will try to kill you. You know that saying that sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me? That's actually not really true. Words can hurt you, and the Word of God definitely can hurt you, especially when it's messing with your conscience. Your conscience is, you know, if someone's conscience is void of being able to be reached, then that person can just flip on you and try to murder you. Look at Acts chapter 20 verse 20. Acts chapter 20 verse 20, very famous portion of scripture in the book of Acts. This is as Paul's dwindling down his earthly ministry where he's going from place to place. He's headed on his way back to Jerusalem to go and do something he's actually not supposed to be doing, but that's beside the point. Acts chapter 20 verse 20 says, And how I kept back, nothing. Isn't that sparing not, how I kept back nothing? That was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly and from house to house. So the apostle Paul kept back nothing. He didn't trim the message. He didn't spare people's feelings. He told it the way it was. Look at verse 21, it says, Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And now behold, so bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. What is the apostle Paul saying? He's saying that every city, the Holy Ghost tells him this, saying that bonds and affliction abide him. He's going to get beaten. He's going to get afflicted. He's going to have to be put into bonds. And that's not a comfortable feeling. It's not a good feeling to know that you're going into hostile territory and bad things might happen to you. It says, But none of these things move me, neither count on my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God. And now behold, I know that ye all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God shall see my face no more, wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men, for I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. So the apostle Paul is just telling it to him. He's saying, Hey, I haven't shunned anything. I haven't kept anything back. I'm not sparing. And this is the same way he is with this church at Corinth. He's saying, When I come again, I'm not going to spare. He's going to give it to them and they're going to have to receive it. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 3. It says, Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you word is not weak, but is mighty in you. See, he's talking about people that are seeking proof. What more proof would you need than the fact that Paul started that church and got a whole bunch of people saved in the process? You know, I mean, people are standing in doubt of Paul. And so, you know, he realizes, I believe, that he has to come and clean house. He's going to have to come and he's going to have to bring the rod. Look at verse 4. It says, For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God, for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? So the apostle Paul, now he's using some real strong language, isn't he? He's saying, hey, you need to examine yourself, whether you're even saved or not. You know, if you actually think that you need proof of Christ speaking in Paul, he's like, you need to check whether you're even saved or not. Because how can you not discern this truth? How can you not see things for what they are? How can you not see that that person's a false prophet and the apostle Paul is the one that has done, basically laid down his life at every point to help this church? And he's not even, he said that he wasn't even burdensome to them. And the fact that he was, you know, he didn't get any money from them whatsoever. As a matter of fact, he says, I rob churches in order to help you. And yet people are still calling him into question about money. So he says, examine yourselves, whether you're in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you. See, if you're saved, Jesus Christ is in you. It says, except ye be reprobates. Except ye be reprobates. So what is he saying? He's saying that, you know, hey, if Jesus isn't in you by now, you might be reprobates. Because the gospel's been preached to them clearly. They've been sitting in the church listening to preaching. He's sent them letters. He's tried to straighten them out. And he's like, hey, you know, if you don't understand this, then maybe you're not even saved. Maybe you're a reprobate. And you're like, well, Pastor Thompson, what's a reprobate? And I think that most people in this church probably know what that is. But let me give you the dictionary.com. Let me give you the world's definition of what a reprobate is. And it's a very strong thing. It's something really bad to call somebody. Right? Dictionary.com says, a person rejected by God and beyond the hope of salvation. When you say you reprobate to somebody, you're saying that person's rejected by God and beyond the hope of salvation. So that means what? They can't be saved anymore. That's what it means. It means God said, you know what? I'm done with you. You've crossed a line somewhere that you can't come back from. You can't be saved. Period. So that's the world's definition of it. But that's a great definition. And you know what? The Bible has a law or principle of first mention. I'm sure some of you have heard this, but when you're studying the Word of God, the first time a word's mentioned, you can take and study that word. You study it in the context of the first mention to get the definition of what it is. Okay? And sometimes it's really super clear. Sometimes it might take a little bit of work and study. But let me just read to you something. I just kind of looked it up on the Internet what the law of first mention is. It says the law or principle or rule of first mention is a guideline that some people use for studying Scripture. The law of first mention says that to understand a particular word or doctrine, we must find the first place in the Scripture that the word or doctrine is revealed and study that passage. The reasoning is the Bible's first mention of a concept is the simplest and clearest presentation. Doctrines are then more fully developed on that foundation. So to fully understand an important and complex theological concept, Bible students are advised to start with its first mention. So like the first mention of repent or the first mention of love or the first mention of baptism, first mention of salvation or hell or death, etc. Any word that has some kind of theological meaning that we need to understand, the first mention of it is going to kind of give you the context of what the meaning of that word is. Now obviously the word repent can mean to change your mind or to turn. But the first time the word repent is mentioned is in Exodus, I believe it's chapter number 12, talking about that if they go by the way of the Philistines, I'm not quoting the verse, but they go by the way of the Philistines, then they'll be afraid of war and they'll repent and go back to Egypt. Which means they're going to turn from the way they were supposed to be going and go back to Egypt. So that tells you it's a turn. But the first time it's mentioned in the Bible in its form is repenteth. And that's from, I believe it's Genesis chapter number 6, where God repents the fact that He made mankind. Now people will say that repent means to turn from sin. And if the first time it's used is by God, I don't think that the word means to turn from sin. But you know what, even if you look in the dictionary, it'll say that. If you look in the lexicon, it'll say that. But that's not what that word means. It's based upon its context. So the principle of first mention, let's turn to Jeremiah chapter 6 verse 30. What does reprobate mean? What is the first mention in the Bible of the word reprobate? Well it's in Jeremiah 6.30. So the Bible says in Jeremiah 6.30, reprobate silver shall men call them. Why? Well because the Lord hath rejected them. So compare that with the dictionary.com. It's basically saying men are going to call these people reprobates. Why? Because God rejected them. That means, so reprobate silver is basically the dross that you would take off silver. You'd try to refine gold or silver down to its most purest form. There'll be some scum that you have to get off the top. It's called dross. And so God uses this word reprobate here in Jeremiah 6.30 and he says because the Lord has rejected him. So what is the definition the Bible gives us? The Bible gives us the definition that God has rejected them. That's what a reprobate is. Someone that's rejected. Isn't that what the dictionary.com thing said? It said someone that's rejected by God and with no hope of salvation. That's what it means. So all these Bible people that are trying to say that they don't believe the reprobate doctrine, the reprobate doctrine isn't true. Well, you know what? The Bible disagrees with you. Why is the Apostle Paul saying it? If Jesus Christ is in you, accept you be reprobates. Now Calvinists believe that everybody is a reprobate basically until they get saved and God gives them the ability to be saved and all this other stuff. But we have a choice whether we want to be saved or not. God doesn't choose whether we get saved or not. We choose ourselves. It's called free will and the term free will is in the Bible and people do have a choice to be saved. So a reprobate is someone that's basically rejected God, they hate God and so God has rejected them. Turn to Romans chapter 1 verse 24. Romans chapter 1 verse 24. We'll give some other mentions in the New Testament. As a matter of fact, I'm going to give you all the mentions in the New Testament tonight and it's not really that many. But let's look at the context of every time it's being used and you decide for yourself whether you believe it's true or not. Because people say, well you can be saved to the very last moment. That's what I've always been taught. We've been taught lies. It's just that simple. Because if you want to study the Bible for what it says, let's look at the context. I'm going to give you the context. Okay. Romans 1 verse 24. This is talking about these people that have, they just basically they don't want to have anything to do with God. You know, they profess themselves to be wise and they become fools. That's basically your atheist, your modern atheist. You know, they profess they're so wise that they become fools and they can't believe the truth anymore. And it says, wherefore God also gave them up. So when God gives up on you, is that pretty much the finish line? If you're so bad that God gives up on you, then you're done. Right? Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts. To dishonor their own bodies between themselves. What is this talking about? Well, let's read on a little further. You know, let's just see what the Bible says. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause, God gave them up. So it's the second time it said God gave them up. What's he giving them up to? Vile affections. What did he give them up to before? Uncleanness. For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. What's it talking about? Lesbians. It's talking about being a queer. And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another. What's that talking about? Men with men. Men with men. Disgusting. It says working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat or fitting. You know, how about AIDS? How about monkey pox or whatever else is coming out now? God's not going to just let them cure everything. These sodomites pass around so much venereal diseases it's disgusting. And they do go both ways and that's why women also get it too or vice versa or whatever. And so that's why you shouldn't commit fornication. You never know whether you're seven steps to some sodomite that's going to give you AIDS. It's going to give you something that you can't get rid of. A disease that there is no cure from. You could get that just from sleeping with one person one time. Right? So be careful what you do. But this is talking about homosexuals, is it not? I mean if it says they burned in their lusts one toward another. Men with men. Working that which is unseemly. So you know people accuse me of, you know, you're just making stuff, you're just taking stuff out of context. What is the Bible talking about? It's talking about these people that God gave up on. If he gave up on them, what did he give them up on to do? Well to do these vile affections. To burn in their lusts one toward another. It's not normal for a man to like another man in that way. It's not normal for a woman to want another woman in that way. It's disgusting. It's vile. It's unclean. It's reprobate. It's vile affections. And God gives up on people. Yes he does. And people just have to face the fact that that's true. And you know what? It's not popular to preach this right now. People get really upset about this because the queers have come out of the closet. The Supreme Court has ruled that they can get married or whatever. And people are just like, well I can't believe you're talking about that. You're preaching about this in 2022. Hey, this is still true in 2022. The reprobate doctrine is still true. It doesn't matter what you say. Look, that's what the Bible teaches. Let's look at verse 28. It says, And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, See, they don't want God. It says God gave them over to what? A reprobate mind. To do those things which are not convenient. Men with men, not convenient. Women with women, not convenient. Men were designed and made by God to be with women. And vice versa. Not the other way around. Not Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Eve, right? But I just gave, I gave you the definition in dictionary.com of what a reprobate is. That someone that God's given, you know, someone that's in, they don't have any hope of salvation. Because they've been rejected by God. In Romans 1 24 it says God gave them up to uncleanness. For this cause God gave them up, verse 26, to undo vile affections. So this is telling you the symptoms of what happens when someone is given over to a reprobate mind. This is just one of those things. And the apostle Paul, you know, some idiot named Bo Ballard was saying, if you preach the reprobate doctrine out of Romans 1, then you're a false prophet. You know what? You're an idiot. You think the trees came alive and killed people in 2 Samuel. So shut up. Because this isn't the Lord of the Rings, buddy. You watch too many movies. And that guy's not even safe. So, you know, I don't care what he says. The Bible says that God gave them over to a reprobate mind. And that means that God gave them over to a rejected mind. That means God rejected them. That means he gave up on them. How more simple in English could God put it when it says that he gave up on them? Isn't there some people that you finally come to the point where you're like, you give up on them? And I'm not saying that you're saying they're rejected and no hope of salvation. I'm just saying, isn't there people in your life that you've tried to help, you've tried to give the gospel to them, you've tried to do all these things, and then they just don't take that help? And at some point you just say, you know, I'm giving up. I can't do this anymore. It happens every day. And it's not in terms of salvation. It's not in terms of I can't deal with this person anymore. I'm giving up. But when God gives up on you, you know, if you're running in a race and the person falls down and you know they're not going to go to the finish line, at some point you have to give up that that person is going to finish, right? And so that's what God does. He gives up on people because they gave up on him first. And I don't know when that process happens. You know, I don't know if it happens the first, you know, God knows people's hearts. He knows whether that's a total rejection of him when we come to their door. We don't know if that's a total rejection of him forever. We could knock their door two years later and the people get saved. We don't know. We are just going to give the gospel to people, you know, unless they're just straight up have a rainbow tattoo on their forehead or a rainbow flag streaming all over the house and, you know, just whatever. I knocked the door last Sunday and it had like a yard sign. Brother Bill, what was it? It was like a sticker on their door or something. And Bill was like, oh man. But the lady was house sitting. She wasn't even a queer. But there was like one of those ring things on the door and the queer said, go away and don't ever come back. See, they rejected me. I was trying to give the gospel to this lady that probably was not saved and they stopped, they jumped in the middle of it and stopped me from giving the gospel to her. So they still got through with the technology and they rejected me. But you know what? They rejected God a long time ago. So it says in verse 29, being filled with all unrighteousness. That means these people are capable of doing anything. Now some of the things on this list here, we are capable of doing ourselves. But there's some things on here that we're not capable of doing as a Christian. See, once God's taken the restrainer bolt off of you, once he's taken the governor off your pedal to where you can just do any kind of sin, that's what you come up with. A bunch of freaks and faggots that dress and parade and mock Jesus Christ in their parades. They dress up like Jesus and act all gay. And when I say gay, I mean faggoty, right? So gay means happy. But a faggot is a filthy sodomite, right? So anyway, it says being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God. See, that's not us. People will say, well, this is just talking about sin in general. No, it's not. I've never hated God. When someone says I hate God, they're a reprobate. If they mean it, they're a reprobate. Take it to the bank. Despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable. That means no matter how much you try to reason with them, they're never going to come to a compromise with you on anything. They're always going to try to go further and more. That's why people, when they first came out of the closet, they're like, we just want to love. We just want to get married. That's all we want. Isn't that what they said? And then what did they want after that? They wanted more. They wanted to adopt children. And now you have a bunch of little children that they try to mold into their form of wickedness. They color their hair and do all kinds of weird stuff. And these poor kids are probably molested. No doubt about it. Once they have carte blanche to do whatever they want, you think they're going to not molest those kids? They're going to molest them. There's multiple stories where people will tell about how cruel these people are. They're cruel. And it's not just sodomites, false prophets. They don't have to be sodomites. They could just be, you know, they're basically a psychopath. Once you become a reprobate, you become a psychopath. And that means you're capable of doing anything. And even, you know, modern day science and psychopathy, the study of psychopaths, says that they cannot be helped. They can't be fixed. There's nothing you can do to help these types of people. And I agree. That's what the Bible says too. It says they're beyond hope of salvation. God gave them up. God gave them over to a reprobate mind. And the Bible says that there, who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death. That's what the Bible says. And we're being called into question all the time for the things that we preach. It's like, that's what the Bible says. We're preaching the Bible. Welcome to the Bible. I know a lot of people, you know, a lot of Christians don't even understand what the Bible is because they don't even read it. But they'll say, the Bible just talks about love. It doesn't just talk about love, people. This is the Apostle Paul. He's saying they're worthy of death. Not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. So here we got, so the first mention in Jeremiah 6, 30 says that God's rejected them. Reprobate silver is what men will call them because God's, the Lord's rejected them. Romans chapter 1 clearly spells it out for us that God gives up on some people. And if he gives up on some people, they might just become a queer because the restraining bolt's off. You know, a governor is like, if you work for a trucking company or maybe a construction company or some kind of company where they don't want you to go faster than 55, they put what's called a governor in that makes you not be able to go past a certain speed. But this, when you become a reprobate, it's like the governor's taking off. You can go as fast as you want. You can do whatever you want. Does that make sense? So these people are worthy of death according to the Bible. They're like, well, everybody's worthy of death. Yes, everybody's worthy of death. But let's talk about context. So people always want to say, well, you're just taking that out of context. I just read you the whole context. Didn't I? Now turn to 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 1. Well, let's look at another instance of where the Bible talks. And I'm going to give you the context again just in case, you know, you want to say I'm not exegeting the scriptures for you. It says this know also that in the last days, that's the days we're living in, perilous times shall come. That means dangerous times. It says for men shall be lovers of their own selves. Let me just park it here for just a second. There's people that are, I mean, man, I went down a YouTube hellhole yesterday and there's people that change their lips. They change their behinds. They sit and stand in front of things and pretend like, you know, they just, people are narcissistic to a really ridiculous fault. Don't get caught up, kids, in this narcissistic lifestyle where you're taking 50,000 headshots of yourself on your Facebook. Parents, just take Facebook away from your children if they can't handle it because, you know, people in this world now, it says they're lovers of their own selves. Why would that be dangerous? Because when someone loves themselves more than everybody else, then they become, you know, in this, they can get into this category where they're reprobates. Narcissistic personality disorder, those people are reprobates. They care more about themselves to the point where they'll hurt other people and destroy other people's lives. And it says they're covetous, they're boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection. It means that they just have no feeling. They don't have a natural affection. That could be that they're queers. You know, because a natural affection is for a man to like a woman or a woman to like a man. This is without natural affection. It could also be towards your children. You know, how many people right now are raging and doing all these protests so they can murder their children? What a weird thing to do in 2022. What a weird thing to do. But that's what's going on. It says without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers. You know, here's what they also like to say if we preach about this doctrine or against the queers in general. Well, I wonder when we're going to catch them with a 14-year-old boy. Or I wonder when they're going to catch them with a bunch of dudes. You're sick. That's what you do. That's what you want to do, you freaks. Don't try to put that on us. There ain't no freak here. You're the freak. So it says without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. These reprobates, they hate people that are good. If you're a Christian nowadays, they're hateful towards you. I had someone call me on the phone. Of course I knew that it was some... I just always get calls from people all the time. So that's why I like to share them with you. But I didn't answer the phone. I'm glad I didn't. Because I was just in one of those moods. And they're like, how dare you put your leaflet on our door and touch my house. I'm just like, you mean invite you to church? Leave an invitation to our church on your door? You have no right. So of course, you know, being my very kind self. I was like, well, I'm sorry for being so mean. I mean, these people, they just, they're crazy. It's like, you're so weird that you think it's bad for someone to do something good towards you. We had a whole protest of our church in downtown Vancouver because we invited some sodomite to church that we didn't even know was a sodomite. We accidentally tried to give the gospel to somebody. And look how they treat us. We were trying to be nice. We were trying to be good. We were trying to leave some manner of hope for that person. But then it just turned into this thing where all these fags are in front of our building. And what are they doing? Trying to show dirty pictures to our kids. Twerking with spandex on when they're fat, Jabba the Hutt-looking freaks. So that our kids have to look at that when they walk into the building. What are they trying to do? They're trying to defile your children's minds. And we have to just put up with it because it's a public sidewalk. It's disgusting. So it says, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away. The Bible says we should turn away from them. Not witness to them. Not try to give them the gospel. And let me just show you that the context is talking about reprobate. So look what it says. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such turn away. So they say that they're godly. They say that they're saved but they're denying the power of God. For of this sorter they which creep into houses and leave captive silly women laden with sins led away with diverse lusts. Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. So they're learning all these things but they can never get saved. You know why? Because they're unable to be saved because they're reprobates. How do I know that? Well look what it says in verse 8. Now as Jans and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist what? The truth. Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith. Rejected concerning the faith. God's done with them. You know I just don't understand how a preacher can get up and preach these verses. Like what preacher, what Baptist churches are people teaching about reprobates? Churches like ours. But when's the last time you've heard an old IFB Baptist church go to 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and preach about reprobates? It's part of the context. It's part of the sermon. I mean he mentions, there's two mentions of reprobates in this chapter. Maybe even three. But Paul is talking about hey if you don't have Jesus Christ in you, you're probably a reprobate. Talking about the people that have been there for a while. Not everybody is a reprobate that isn't saved. So but he says Jans and Jambres, these guys were the ones that they threw out their snake, or I mean their staff and turned into a snake also and were trying to replicate the miracles of God. And then there came a point where they just couldn't keep up and do what Moses was able to do through the power of God. But these guys were reprobates. They were a reprobate concerning the faith. These men were false prophets. So you don't just have to be a fag. You can be a false prophet. Every false prophet is a reprobate. Okay? So you know, when someone's a pastor, and they've been a pastor for a church for 30 years, and they believe that you can lose your salvation, guess what that person is? They're a reprobate. You don't just preach that message for 30 years to people in your congregation and you're not a reprobate. He says if Jesus Christ isn't in you, then what are you? You're a reprobate. He's talking about these people that are trying to teach and lead these people astray at the church in Corinth. So it says, but they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was. Unto the pure, all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being what? Abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work, what? Reprobate. They're reprobates. They're unable to be saved. False prophets. Homos. Not able to be saved. And that's in the context, folks. This is two major contexts that I just got done reading to you, and what's it saying? These people reprobate. What's the definition of a reprobate? Someone's been rejected by God and unable to be saved. Now let's turn back to 2 Corinthians chapter 13, verse number 6. 2 Corinthians chapter 13, verse number 6. Hopefully that was very clear to you. And I've given you all the times that reprobate's been used in the New Testament. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 13, verse 6. But I trust that ye shall know that we're not reprobates. That's the apostle Paul saying, hopefully you know that. That we're not reprobates. Now I pray to God that ye do know evil, not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. So they're looking at them like they are, but the apostle Paul's not a reprobate. But there's people that are looking at them like they are. It says, though we be as reprobates. They're not saying that they are reprobates. He's not saying they are reprobates. He's saying in certain people's eyes, we're reprobates. It says, for we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we are glad when we are weak and ear strong, and this also we wish even unto, or excuse me, even your perfection. So what's the apostle Paul's ultimate goal for the church at Corinth? He wants them to move on to perfection. The Bible tells us to move on to perfection. And look, you know, I'm not telling you that you have, I'm not talking about sinless perfection. Should we try our best to be sinless? Absolutely. But is that ever going to happen until Christ comes back? No, it's not. So we are to move on to perfection. The apostle Paul, his goal is to make this congregation complete. That's what perfection is talking about. It's not talking about walking on water by the end of the service, all right? Look at verse 10, it says, Therefore I write these things, being absent, lest being present, I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. Paul wants to edify that Paul doesn't want to have to come and kick butt, and take names, and use sharpness, and not spare. He wants to be able to, you know, just move on to edification, but see, every church is going to have problems like this arise. But what we have to understand, and look, you might not even believe the doctrine that I just preached to you. There might be someone in this room that's like, yeah, I'm not so sure about that. I think that they might be able to be saved. Well then, you know, you're rejecting what the Bible says. The Bible says that reprobates are beyond hope of salvation. They're rejected by God. That's the truth. And the Bible also says they're worthy of death. Is a false prophet worthy of death? Yeah, I think if you go back to the books of Moses, that God says that the false prophet should be put to death. You're calling for the death of all the false prophets. I'm saying that God says that all false prophets should be killed. God says. I'm just repeating what God says. He's calling for the death of all the Sodomites. No, I'm not calling for the death of all the Sodomites. God is calling for all the death of the Sodomites. There's a difference there. I can't call anybody in the government and have them do anything for me. This is the other thing they're saying. He's calling for the government to kill all the Sodomites. I'm saying, let me be very clear. I'm saying that if we lived in a righteous nation where the law of God was reigning supreme, then the government would kill Sodomites. The government would kill false prophets. The government would kill adulterers. The government would kill rapists. The government would kill child molesters. Not let them out in 60 days. You see, God's standard is holiness, obviously. Nobody in this room has reached living in holiness, as Ray Comfort would say. Are you living in holiness? What's the Bible say? That reprobates are rejected and that they're worthy of death. Any reprobate. Doesn't matter whether a homo or not. Reprobates, which is the context of Romans chapter 1. And as I showed you the context of other chapters that I went to, it's defined for us in the Bible. It's defined in the dictionary for us. So why would you not believe? First of all, the Bible is true no matter what the dictionary says. But when the dictionary and the Bible agree with each other, then you've got some sweet, sweet stuff going on there. So, look, we have to just believe what the Bible says and there's a lot of pressure out there. There's a lot of pressure out there to conform at your work with your family. You know, I can't believe your church teaches this. Well, it's what the Bible says. What am I supposed to teach? Am I supposed to ignore this like 99% of all pastors in this country do? Just ignore it? Or if they do deal with it, they won't deal with it publicly because they're afraid? What did God tell Jeremiah? He said, don't be afraid of their faces. We're supposed to preach the Bible and, you know what, he wasn't preaching on YouTube, was he, Jeremiah? You're like, well, you don't have to put it on YouTube, Pastor Thompson. No, Jeremiah just put it for the whole world to see in the Bible. That's where God put it. The timeless YouTube. The YouTube that cannot be corrupted. Alright? God put it in there for us so that we, in 2022, regardless of what this crazy, insane world is doing outside of these walls, that we're supposed to believe what the Bible says. And we're not supposed to put our unborn children to death either. How have we come to this point where evil is called good and good is called evil? But that's what the Bible said was going to happen too. It's not a big surprise. You know, and eventually they're going to start coming after us. They're going to start trying to criminalize speech like this, hate speech. Well, I guess you better put God on trial too then, right? Because there's a lot of hate speech in this Bible. I know that people don't realize that, but God says there's a time to love and a time to hate. And you know what? We're supposed to hate false prophets. We're supposed to hate sodomites. We're supposed to hate those that hate the Lord. Period. We love our enemies. We do good to them that do evil to us and we do good to those that hate us. But the Bible has a very strict definition of which, you know, when someone hates God, then we're that person's enemy also. Why would you do good to them that hate the Lord? Why? Why would you do good for them? Why would you try to help them? Why would you try to give the Bible to... The Bible says not to cast your pearls before swine. You know, do you want to be rend? That's what's going to happen when you cast your pearls before these pigs. They're going to turn again and rend you. And you know, swine is what it actually uses. A swine has tusks. Did you know that? And they can turn around with those tusks and rip you up. They're very dangerous to hunt. You think of a pig or a swine, you think of a big fat pink pig at the fair, right? But these ones out in the jungle, you know, not jungle, but wherever. Yeah, wherever they're at. Wherever these pigs are at, these swine, they have tusks. And when you try to go after them, they'll rip you up. We're not supposed to cast our pearls, the things that God's given us to give to other people so they can be saved. He doesn't want us to use those things and give them to people that are just going to turn around and attack you. That's what they're going to do. And that's what reprobates always do. How dare you touch my door? You know, I got technology over here telling me to get out of here and never come back. They're like in Hawaii or something. You know, real time, technology can work good for you, but it can also work bad. You know, I should have just smashed that thing. But these people, look, these people, they don't have our best interest at heart. They'll say, oh, I don't hate you. I just hate your message. But isn't it funny how they say that we're not supposed to hate, but they hate our guts? Isn't it funny how they say that we're not supposed to hate, but then they're going around spray painting churches and breaking their windows out with rocks because they're so loving? And it's funny, it's hypocrisy is what it is. They want to say, oh, Christians are hypocrites. And you know, some people are. I'm sure everybody in this room has been a hypocrite at some point in their life. But you know what, to tell people that we're only supposed to love and not hate and then they hate our guts? That's hypocrisy. That's utter hypocrisy. You know what, don't let the world fool you into thinking that this truth is not true. They want to make us out to be freaks. They want to make us out to be a cult that just has some fringe belief. But you sought for yourself in the Bible. You can't deny that. If you're saved, except you be reprobates, you have to look at the Bible honestly as a saved person and say, this is what it says. I'm not going to back down from it for any reason. So let's finish off here, the chapter, verse 11, it says, finally brethren, bear well. Paul wishes them well, as a good leader should. Be perfect. Be of good comfort. Be of one mind. Live in peace. And the God of love and peace shall be with you. It's a very good benediction here. It's a very good final greeting to them. You see, he doesn't have bad intentions for these people. He's saying, don't make me turn into Officer Paul. I want to help you and help you and edify you, but if you're going to let these reprobates come in and bad talk me, and then they're accusing me of all these different things and you're just going to go ahead and let that ride, then I'm going to come with a rod. I'm going to come and slap you around. But what does he really want? He wants them to fare well. He wants them to be perfect. He wants them to have a balanced Christian life. He wants them to have good comfort. Be of one mind. Live in peace. Those are good things. Those are wholesome words, aren't they? It says, and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. This is like the one thing that I think that is past. This is like a custom that we're not going to practice here. Don't ever come up and try to give me a holy kiss, if you're a guy. Unless you're my wife, don't try to give me a holy kiss. I've told this story before about a preacher that came up and gave me a big kiss on the cheek. He did it to me twice. I think he might have done it to me twice, but the first time he did it, I was just like, I was just shocked. He wasn't trying to be a weirdo or anything. He was just trying to be funny. But it was slobbery. Don't ever do that again. It says, all the saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and truth came from Jesus Christ. And the love of God, for God so loved the world. And the communion of the Holy Ghost. Jesus Christ sent the Holy Ghost to be a comforter to us. Be with you all. Amen. So what was Paul's ultimate message? It was unity. It was peace. It was love. It was grace. It was fellowship. It was comfort. It was well-wishing. But you know, sometimes these things happen, and you have to be tough as a preacher, as a man of God. You have to confront people. You have to call people out. And sometimes you have to not spare your words. You have to preach the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, no matter who it offends, or hair, lips, or dog ears. And so we can't spare the preaching. We can't spare the doctrine. And we cannot spare the uncomfortable truths of the Bible. Because there's some uncomfortable truths of the Bible. There's things that I read in there sometimes, and I'm like, man, that's harsh. But you know what? God's right. Every time. And those are the things that people just, I can't believe God would do this. It's like, well, whatever He does is right, so that's my boundary. If He does it, it's right. If He says it, it's good. If He says it, it's right. If He says it, it's true. You know, and Paul loved that church and served them and tried to do his best to correct them and straighten out the things that were going on with them. And I mean, if you read these books, any book that Paul writes and you get that Paul doesn't love those people, you're getting the wrong sense of things. So even though Paul's, you know, it's funny, and Paul, you know, he's the one that taught the reprobate doctrine. He's the one that like really nails it down in Romans 1. But the New Testament's only love, right? When in the book of Revelation, when fireballs are coming down, and you know, people are hiding in the dens of the earth and under the rocks, saying, fall on us and hide us from the face of the wrath of the Lamb of God. The Lamb is going to have horns when He comes back. And He's going to be in a vesture dipped with blood. And His name is called the Word of God. And you know what? The people are going to be very sorry that they ever spoke against Him, against the Lord's anointed. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank You, Lord, so much for a great book, 2 Corinthians, and for the book of 1 Corinthians also, Lord, and for the faithfulness of Your servant, the Apostle Paul. We thank You for all the things that we can learn from Him. And Lord, we thank You for pure words. We thank You for pure doctrine. We thank You for truth. And Lord, I pray that You would just help us in this church, Lord, to never just conform to the things of this world. Lord, that we would make the Bible our boss, and that Lord, we would take things in the light of the Bible and apply them in our lives, Lord, not just something that we get excited about hearing, but something we get excited about doing, Lord. I pray that You would help us to do Your work and Your will, and that You would bless and protect this church regardless of what we preach, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Sweet hour of prayer. Song number 252 in your Blue Hymn books. Sweet hour of prayer. Song number 252, sweet hour of prayer. Song 252. Let's sing it out on that first verse. Sweet hour of prayer. Sweet hour of prayer. That calls me from a world of care and bids me at my Father's throne. Make all my wants and wishes known. In seasons of distress and grief my soul has often found relief. And oft escape the tempter's snare. By Thy return, sweet hour of prayer. Sweet hour of prayer. Sweet hour of prayer. Thy wings shall my petition bear to Him whose truth and faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless. And since He bids me seek His face, believe His word and trust His grace. I'll cast on Him my every care and wait for Thee. Sweet hour of prayer. Sweet hour of prayer. Sweet hour of prayer. May I Thy consolation share. Till from Mt. Pisgah's lofty height I view my home and take my flight. This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise to seize the everlasting prize and shout while passing through the air. Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer.