me fast 454 454 he will hold me fast out there on the first father we just thank
you again for this evening service and thank you for the souls that were saved
today and the seeds that were planted Lord I pray that you would be with us
that everything would be done decently and in order for this service tonight
that you'd open our ears to the message and just have us able to learn also pray
that you would be with pastor Oz as he is traveling just be with him strengthen
him keep him safe these things we pray in Jesus name amen for our next him
number 202 my Redeemer 202 202 my Redeemer remember the time change there
in the middle from 9/8 to 12/8 that just means it goes from feeling like 3 to
feeling like for 202 my Redeemer
they're starting on the first you don't have one just raise your I think we have
a couple extra brother John brother Eric can grab if you need one same nothing
has changed since this morning front there you have the memory verse let me
check real quick I think we got a count of salvations this afternoon it seemed
fairly receptive let me see are there any salvations that weren't reported in
the group so everyone's there so it looks like one three four six today
total think unless I'm counting wrong which is awesome so we actually went
out today - I didn't tell everybody this ahead of time but it worked out where we
went today it was kind of like a SWAT Sunday because just this morning so a
few hours ago there were three people found dead in the apartment one of the
apartments that we went to police it's not suspicious not like a homicide or
something they just found these people passed away I mean if we're gonna be
honest it's probably drug-related right I mean what else is gonna cause three
people to just crash out or fall out whatever in an apartment and one of the
groups the ladies group miss Nikki and my wife ran into a mission I think the
lady whose son had died which unfortunately she was not in a position
obviously to hear it today she was very distraught but good that we could go out
there at least and talk to people six other people I mean hey three were found
dead this morning and six are found eternally alive this evening and that
might sound cliche but that's actually just true and like it's real so that's
why it's important that we just keep doing this and going out there because
you never know I mean when something's gonna happen people lose their kids
they lose you know family members unexpectedly so I'm just glad that we
could go out so look you did a SWOT soul winning and you didn't even know it
wasn't that bad right it was okay you're alright you lived but did you
die below our service times our soul winning times of course our church
stats which are unupdated for today the upcoming events that we went over this
morning I think everyone's pretty familiar visitor and giving card of
course the prayer list and a spot for notes on the back that's all that I have
for announcements so we'll go ahead and go to our third song this evening which
will be number 77 this is a short one so we're gonna do it twice number 77
behold he comes so remember at the end of that first line it's behold he comes
four times you hold it and every eye shall see him so just remember to hold out
on behold he comes on that first line and then we'll repeat it just because it
is a short one number 77 behold he comes starting there on the first
plates are being turned to chapter number ten Romans chapter number ten
good evening Romans 10 the Bible reads brethren my heart's desire and prayer to
God for Israel is that they might be saved for I bear them record that they
have a zeal of God and not according to knowledge for they being ignorant of
God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have
not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God for Christ is the
end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth for Moses
describeth the righteousness which is of the law that the man which doeth those
things shall live by them but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh
on this wise say not in thine heart who shall ascend into heaven that is to
bring Christ down from above or who shall descend into the deep that is to
bring up Christ again from the dead but what saith it the word is nigh thee
even in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in
heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made
into salvation for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the
same Lord overall is rich unto all that call upon him for whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved how then shall they call in on him in
whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they
have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they
preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things but
they have not all obeyed the gospel for as I saith Lord who hath believed our
report so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God but I
say have they not heard yes verily their sound went into all the earth and their
words unto the ends of the world but I say did not Israel know first Moses
saith I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people and by a foolish
nation I will anger you but as size is very bold and saith I was found of them
that sought me not I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me but
to Israel he saith all day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a
disobedient and gain-saying people that's power has for prayer and then
well I just want to thank as I get started here pastor Oz for the
opportunity to preach it is just echoing what brother Eric said this morning it's
something that I take very seriously and a great honor to be able to stand up and
so I've got a message today starting here in Romans chapter 10 a very
familiar passage for I think pretty much all of us right if we go in Romans 10
looking at verse 14 the Bible says in Romans 10 verse 14 says how then shall
they call on him and whom they've not believed and how shall they believe in
him whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher this
is a pretty dense verse really if you slow it down it's a simple verse but
it's pretty dense in Romans chapter 10 it's giving us a lot of the elements
that are required for a salvation really for not only salvation but also for
someone to even hear the gospel you know how shall they hear without a preacher
right how shall they preach except they be sent so we're kind of seeing this
breakdown of elements that are required in the gospel right and in Romans 10
verse 14 it's literally just saying hey how shall they hear without a preacher
that's kind of the end of the thought here in verse 14 and I get my title for
this sermon from that verse an idea from this rather and that's this it takes a
soul winner it takes a soul winner that's my message for you tonight and I
have gone opposite Eric had two points that were long I have ten but they're
very short so don't worry I'm not keeping you here till like eight or
something all right I don't know I kid the spirit of pastor Shelley may come
upon me but here's the thing it takes a soul winner and it's not just for people
to hear the gospel it's not just for people to get saved I actually believe
that the Bible indicates to us that there are a lot of elements of our
Christian life that can be accelerated that are better for us if we are a soul
winner if we're preaching God's Word but here's what it takes it takes a soul
winner and that person is really you like in this context the only person that
you could apply this sermon to is you I mean you could think about your neighbor
on the pew next to you that's not gonna help you though you're the person that
has to make this decision now we'll start with just the immediate context
Romans chapter 10 verse 14 says how they shall they call on him and whom
they've not believed and how shall they believe in him a move they've not heard
and how shall they hear without a preacher look getting someone saved it
takes a soul winner and I don't know how this is some debatable doctrine not in
our churches or French churches but like in kind of the outside theologian world
of like well I think we could just like leave a Bible on someone's doorstep and
they'll get saved if they read it no no it takes a soul winner what why is this
a difficult concept jump down you're in Romans 10 but look at verse 17 it says
so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God look they have
to hear the gospel in order to be saved now when I say this immediately what's
going to happen in these gainsaying haters that are out there oh well you
think they have to physically hear with their ears look I think it says as much
physically hearing with your ear as it is physically believing with your blood
beating heart which is not at all it's talking about the concept of them
understanding them receiving the word it's funny that they're like they'll
hang it on that but then it's like okay well no one is saying that you have to
believe with your blood pumping organ right if you believe in your heart
that's what these people always get hung up on they get hung up on the carnal
what's it saying it's talking about like the seed of your emotions to believe
then what's it talking about when it says here that you have to hear someone
has to receive the gospel and it's from a soul winner the Bible says that the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith now look here's not what
I'm saying I'm not saying that it's not possible for someone to like get saved
over a text message because look these are the weird doctrines that will come
out of people going hyper literal with this and that they do it to attack us
they do it to attack faith to faith you here's why it gets they hate soul
winning they don't actually want to go soul winning they want to just like
leaflet drop they just want to leave a door hanger they just want to pass
Bibles out in the ghetto and they're saying well we're doing our soul winning
and then when we say no no no it's from faith to faith you have to have a soul
winner oh well then you're saying you can't even text them because they've
got to hear it with their ear you're saying they couldn't watch a Bible
presentation video no buddy that's not what anyone is saying what we're saying
is it takes a person filled with faith to give it to another person filled with
faith look if I and I've done this I've gotten a friend saved online who was
across the world he was on deployment in Japan and I got him saved over text now
here's the element it takes a soul winner who was the soul winner hi it's
me and who received it him okay but here's what I didn't do hey give me your
address I'm gonna mail you a Bible look obviously this is the Word of God
obviously it has you know great truths in it but just giving someone the Word
of God is not explaining it to them right this is not even in my notes but
just thinking of this it's like the eunuch in Acts chapter 16 is like how
could you know understand us what that read us is what Philip asked him and he
goes how can I except some man should guide me and it's not like Philip was
like oh well actually you could have that's a dumb question you actually
could have understood it you don't need me no no it's how can I accept some man
should guide me when it comes to getting someone saved it takes a soul winner I
heard a sermon I didn't even actually listen to it I heard the opening clip
of a sermon from a no longer Baptist Church that used to be kind of in our
circles but they're not even a Baptist Church now I don't even know what they
are they changed their name to like 15 parts and the guy got up and he's like I
want to address a doctrine that I think a lot of people have questions about and
it's kind of an unsaved person get a safe person saved that was literally
that was the quote can an unsafe person get a safe person save I know some
people have some questions about this here's the thing one I hope that if
anyone ever got up and preach something like that in this church if any layman
got up they would be so ashamed and look this wasn't a layman this was a pastor
that got up and said this now okay let's say they just misspoke because look bro
a safe person doesn't need to get saved if you notice that in the quote can an
unsafe person get a safe person safe the answer is no they don't need to they're
safe let's just say okay he misspoke he just meant can an unsafe person get a
person saved here's the answer no here's my proof it takes a soul winner it takes
faith faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith let's just let's just
break it down really easy so that even all the really young children can
understand this does an unsafe person have faith no okay so then how can the
righteousness of God be revealed from faith to faith and an unsaved person get
someone saved this is also why and look no I don't think there's anyone that I
know that believes this but if you do fix it this is also why you're never
gonna have like AI preaching the gospel you're not gonna train chat GPT to
repeat the gospel and start telling it to people online which I have literally
heard that people believe that's not gonna happen chat GPT doesn't have faith
I like it too I use it too it's not safe it's not faith it takes a soul winner
getting someone saved takes a soul winner it takes preaching the gospel now
here's the thing these things kind of lay on top of each other my first point
is what getting someone saved it takes a soul winner but here's my second point
and it might sound very similar but just understand the nuance here my second
point is this preaching the gospel it doesn't take a perfect presentation it
doesn't take you've just got everything nailed down it doesn't take that you'll
never mess up that you'll never stutter preaching the gospel takes a soul
winner it takes a soul winner and you know what I did not have this plan I
did not know that brother Tristan was gonna get his first salvation today when
I wrote this sermon yesterday and I did not know when we sat ten minutes before
soul-winning time and he practiced with me and he was stuttering and he was
falling over his words I did not know that he was gonna get his first
salvation today and when he went out and had the boldest and when he knocked the
door he probably didn't know hey I'm gonna it's gonna go perfectly well he
probably knew this is not gonna go perfect and brother Dan his dad probably
did not know this is just gonna go perfect nothing's gonna go wrong but you
know what Tristan as a young man knew it takes a soul winner and man if that
doesn't inspire you I don't know what will I do not know what will but you
know out of the mouths of babes and sucklings is praise perfected and when
the little kids here know I'm gonna stutter it's embarrassing I'm falling
over myself I can't remember my points I mean he got frustrated and I get that I
get frustrated I forget things and I get mad I don't understand why I say things
I don't want to say it's it's irritating but I don't stop because it takes a soul
winner and Tristan was not dismayed today he went out and someone is saved
eternally and going to heaven because he understood preaching the gospel hey does
it take your just perfect just everything is dialed in you've got it
all you never say anything wrong no one ever has anything to say negatively
about you how about this preaching the gospel well you got to clean up your
life first haven't we heard that I know people that have said that that have
kind of fallen out funny how the people that want you to clean up your life to
go soul winning end up falling and backsliding away look it doesn't take you
having a cleaned up life to preach the gospel it doesn't take memorizing every
verse to preach the gospel it doesn't take come to church for a year and then
we'll get you on a plan to learn how to preach the gospel preaching the gospel
takes a soul winner when I got saved from listening to pastor Anderson the
first person I got saved was my wife I had not gone to church I had not listened
to anything it was theater brother theater was asking me about it today I
was like it was probably the worst salvation presentation you've ever heard
in your life all I did was basically said to my wife which I kind of try to
do this with people now it doesn't work but I was like you're wrong because she
was like I already believe that I was like no you don't you don't believe that
she was like riding in the car with me to get dinner so she had no escape I was
like I know you don't believe this I know that you're wrong and she's like no
I believe I was like no you don't and I explained it to her you know what she
got saved you know why because it wasn't because I was just so dialed in I was
so eloquent it just takes a soul winner folks it takes a soul winner you do not
have to have been coming here forever look I want someone to show up day one
the first day that I showed up to steadfast OKC and I got grilled by
brother James Perry it was actually a Thursday night so it wasn't the first
day let me correct my story that was a Thursday night because pastor Anderson
was preaching that Sunday I said I'll be back and you know who I went soul
winning with who wanted to take me under their wing and teach me all the tips and
tricks soul winning Bo Ballard so you know what it doesn't take you getting
someone to you know really show you what soul winnings like because I went out
with an unsaved false prophet Bo Ballard I had not been going to church I had not
read my Bible through cover to cover I had not cleaned up my life it took a
soul winner it took me saying like dude I was wrong I was in my late 20s my mid
to late 20s I just wanted to go out and do that and look for the same thing for
me for it and really where I got the idea for this message is yesterday
Saturday right brother Theodore and I were out preaching yesterday and we're
out for a long time and it's like nobody wants to talk to us nobody's talking to
us nobody then like the last door we knock he gets a guy saved and then the
last door we knock this lady answers and she I think sent her like her
mid-30s she's very polite very sweet her family's Catholic she doesn't really
know what she believes she's interested I show her the gospel she gets saved and
she makes this comment to me she goes no church something along the lines of like
no church I've ever been to has just shown me that it's forgotten that's that
easy no one has ever showed me as clearly as you do and then she said this
and they're like oh it just hit me she was like if only someone had showed me I
wouldn't be in my 30s and getting saved now like if only someone had shown me
and I thought it takes a soul winner and I thought hey that'll preach but
here's the thing it does actually take a soul winner if we hadn't shown up
she's searching she told me I've been looking for years I've been like for
three years looking for the truth and look if you ask it'll be answered under
you if you seek you shall find if you knock it shall be opened unto you that's
what Jesus says she's been looking why is it that in Oklahoma City someone can
for three years and I'm just taking her at a word for three years seek for the
truth and I believe her because she ultimately found the truth with us being
there and not find it church after church after church after church after
church after church not by not found no gospel no gospel no truth no truth
because it doesn't take your big church it doesn't take Southwest Baptist it
doesn't and look I'm not against them I'm just saying it doesn't take the big
facility the great choir it doesn't take the awesome seminary and the school or
whatever if it even is awesome I don't know what it takes is a soul winner
that's what it takes you know turn to Jude if you would here's another point
here on just on this sub point or I guess a sub point of this point
preaching the gospel it doesn't take your perfect presentation it doesn't
take you know making sure that you don't stutter and that you don't like
misspeak it also doesn't take making sure that you just like never offend
someone and I've run into that a lot with people who are like oh I can come
off a little strong and a little and I've run into people who are just like
hey I would really dial that back hey and it's always people that go soul
winning like once and then I don't see them again and then they're telling me
how to soul win and so I look at the time I'm like oh okay thank you you know
I'll take that in not consideration or whatever but what does the Bible say in
Jude look at verse 22 it says and of some have compassion making a difference
and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh this is in the context of saving people saving with
fear and I have heard before oh you don't want to leave a bad taste in their
mouth now look I agree with this in the extent that I don't want to be like some
rude you know booty to someone at their door or someone by just being mean for
no reason or like trying to agitate them but here's what I'm not gonna do I'm
not gonna compromise on what the Bible says because it takes a soul winner and
to win a soul sometimes it's someone that you had to be really compassionate
with I got a lady saved today very sweet I did not have to go hard she was a real
sweet old lady very low-hanging fruit I mean she was the one that I was like I
want to pray if she goes okay and she's like wants to hold my hand and I just do
I'm like all right I just wash my hands when I get back because I don't like
touching anyone okay so I'm like all right okay some have compassion I'm not
gonna be like no and you need to put your hand away pray right now because if
you don't you're going to that's not what it's talking about when it says if
some say with fear but here's what it is talking about I don't want it to be
misconstrued at the door if someone doesn't want to receive it I say hey I'd
really check out that out when you get a chance it's really important that you do
here's why the most loving thing I can tell you the Bible says salvation is
different than what you believe based on our conversation you're not saved
there's no chance you're gonna make it to heaven and I don't want that I want
you to go to heaven just check that out we're out of here that will get you one
star reviews that will get pastor a lot of voicemails it's happened but look it
takes a soul winner and it takes someone saying you know what I'm gonna tell them
because I don't want to leave and they're just like oh that church man was
so nice to me and I just feel so comfortable where I'm at I want to leave
and they're like he told me I was wrong he told me I was wrong and then they
kind of think about it they're like am I wrong no I'm not wrong and then if they
really care about whether they're right or wrong they're gonna look into the
truth and then it's on them then they're realizing now again you don't have to be
mean to do this I don't want you to be mean to do this but look preaching the
gospel it takes a soul winner and I don't want people to think like oh if I
just if I don't say they're the right thing we're gonna get a one-star review
when they're gonna protest us and there's gonna be another article and all
I say is like great bring it on who cares as long as what we're doing is
preaching the gospel you know some of envy and strife I rejoice because the
gospel is preached you know what even if you go out because you're just and
you're going out wrong and it would be a wrong reason to preach the gospel to
have envy and strife with people if you're preaching the right gospel even
if you have the bad motivation I'm still glad that you're doing it okay I'm happy
for that why it takes a soul winner turn to Matthew chapter number four move on
to the next point this evening how about this I hear this all the time too oh you
guys just gonna go to eat it and preach to people and get them saved in what
church are they gonna go to where are they gonna go you know pastor Oz just
preached on this it's like I don't really care I care that they're saved
but here's the thing making disciples does not take a five-step program making
disciples does not take your big fancy church making disciples does not take
movie night making disciples does not take a you can come for the fifth
Sunday fellowship and that's how we're gonna get you to be a disciple now look
come for that I want you to be here for that okay here's how you make disciples
it takes a soul winner because how are they even gonna follow after you if
you're not calling out to them if you're not presenting to them the call that
Jesus Christ is calling on them to be saved and to get on his program Matthew
chapter 4 verse 18 it says Matthew 4 18 and Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee
saw two brethren Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into
the sea for they were fishers and he saith unto them follow me and I will
make you fishers of men and they straightway left their nets and followed
him now that is discipleship now let me be honest with you I have never had a
disciple work like that the one person that I've preached to they got saved
got baptized and showed up to church and went soul winning is my wife I've got
one so I'm good with that like but it is what it is where are the nine it's
just not gonna happen all the time but people will fall into this like well we
just don't want to go preach the gospel to some random area because I mean we're
setting them up for failure what are they gonna do they're not gonna have a
church and I mean you're just you're just leaving them in the wilderness
brother it's like well look they were gonna die and go to hell now they're not
now because they're saved and look here's what discipleship takes more than
it takes a soul winner it takes them wanting it I mean I cannot force them to
want it but here's one thing that I dead sure know as that if I don't preach the
gospel to an area because I'm worried about leaving them unchurched or
something they're going to die and go to hell so here's what it does take for me
to make sure that there's the best chance of discipleship in an area is it
takes a soul winner it takes me going out and preaching the gospel there's a
parallel of this in mark chapter 1 turn over there if you would to mark chapter
number one it's like well maybe maybe some details were left out Matthew
maybe goes into more detail maybe he did give them the five-step program real
quick we shouldn't get that okay well here's the parallel in mark 1 verse 17
and Jesus said to them come ye after me and I will make you to become fishers of
men and straightway they forsook their nets and followed him turn to Matthew
chapter 28 so look I don't want someone to come to me and tell me hey here's how
you make disciples and then what's your soul winning program nothing we have no
soul winning program we do no outreach we don't preach the gospel but here's
how you make disciples thanks buddy I don't want your opinion because here's
what it takes to make disciples it takes a soul winner that's where it starts
okay Matthew chapter 28 verse number 19 Jesus says this go ye therefore and
teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son of
the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world amen now this
is the Great Commission this is kind of a parallel to mark chapter number 16
where Jesus is commanding his disciples to go out to preach the word teach all
nations but look it's really interesting who who's going to go teach all nations
takes a soul winner it's the soul winner that's going to do that now look
what follows teach all nations verse 19 baptizing them in the name of the father
the son of the Holy Ghost verse 20 teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I've commanded you and lo I'm with you always even at the end of the
world amen it sounds like it starts with a soul winner you know why making
disciples getting people on a discipleship program if you will it takes
a soul winner it does not take all of it we will make zero disciples if we
invest all of our time at anchor Baptist Church and showing up to church dressing
super nice getting the music program just perfected having the visitor
program having the coffee bar at the front door getting all the materials
everything's alphabetized it's immaculately clean everything's always
updated all the technology is great zero disciples because it takes a soul
winner and that's why we need to focus our efforts on going out and reaching
the lost which is what we do as a church but I'm wanting to encourage you I'm
wanting to remind you of why we do what we do because one of the attacks from
hater I'm doing a really bad job by the way because pastor I know priest this
morning on ignore the haters in 2026 but you know what they kind of fuel me
sometimes for inspiration so I am ignoring them in that sense and I'm
using them to make me better but here's what haters will say right haters will
always say like oh well you just you don't have the facility like you're
gonna reach these people but like you don't have the program how do you what
do you do for Sunday school I mean how many people have been soul winning and
you just get asked all the time what's your Sunday school like and do you have
a bus it's like no and no it's like that's the answer what do you mean no
what's it like I mean it doesn't exist well how are you ever gonna get people
to show up that have kids I don't know it seems like everybody here has a bunch
of kids and we're doing just fine Jesus has suffered the little children to come
unto me look I'm not looking to establish and set up all these these fun
events and all these games and look there's nothing wrong with those things
but that's not what going that is not what is going to win disciples it takes
a soul winner move on to the next point what about this reaching the world we
kind of already alluded to this a little bit and look you could say all these
have big overlap right talking about preaching the gospel getting people say
making disciples reaching the world inherently that's kind of 50,000 foot
view all the same but there is a lot of nuance in the Bible that I think we
should slow down and make sure that we're understanding these different
pieces together because I just think it's really neat reaching the world mark
chapter 16 which I alluded to go ahead and turn there mark chapter number 16
we'll look at verse 15 mark chapter 16 verse 15 says this and he said unto them
go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature now go into all
the world what does that take what does it take to reach the world does it take
a huge bank account does it take just you have to have a job that's like
settled that you're like working remote from that your boss just knows like you
got to be established at your job and you got to make sure that you sow your
wild oats first and then you get settled get married get settled with your family
have a couple kids save up the bank account buy a house then you can reach
the world no it takes a soul winner he said at him go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature and you know we had ourselves as a church we
went on with steadfast to a mission strip in the Bahamas and let me tell you
it was not because I bought a house it was not because I had kids yet and it
was not because I set up my bank account it's because I wanted to go reach the
world I wanted to go preach the gospel and here's an even better example than
just us having gone on that trip brother Eric and brother Theodore going to the
Philippines I mean these guys have nothing going for them I'm just kidding
that's just a joke okay but look this is what the world will think they will look
at people who are younger who love God who are zealous who are putting him
first who are sacrificing an early start on their career they're sacrificing an
early start on their 401k they're sacrificing an early start on settling
down and having a family and the world will look at that and think that you're
crazy but you know what you think you know what you think I know what you guys
will think it takes a soul winner and that's why you're excited and you're
zealous and you want to do it because you understand what it takes to reach
the world is not vast amounts of money what it takes to reach the world is not
all this income what it takes to reach the world is not you have to learn a
second language first look that'd be great if you did you can reach a lot of
people by learning another language I'm not against that I've been learning
another language for many years but that's not what it takes to reach the
world it takes a soul winner Acts chapter 17 turn to Acts chapter number
17 Acts chapter 17 verse 5 says but the Jews which believed not moved with envy
took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company
and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought
to bring them out to the people now why are they doing this looking for six and
when they found them not they drew Jason and certain brethren under the rulers
of the city crying these that have turned the world upside down are come
hither also what are the Jews mad about it's not finances although that would
be par for the course it's not that people aren't listening to them
necessarily it's not I mean it is in a way because these people are doing what
they're turning the world upside down with the gospel and coming hither also
so what's happening now we're in in acts do we just see these people these
disciples of Christ are just like they're loved by everyone they've got a
ton of money they've got Taylor Swift's private jet that they can fly you know
to New England or something for lunch and then be in LA for dinner that's not
what they have what they had was a zeal and a desire and a passion to reach the
world because it takes a soul winner to reach the world it does not take oh well
I have to have my church put on the program for me so that I can go now look
I'm for churches putting on soul winning programs I'm for the upcoming soul
winning marathons that are potentially happening in Germany this year and I
think there's one in Barbados that's happening late this year with steadfast
look I'm for this the cruise missions trips I know brother Ben is doing another
cruise mission he just got back from one he's doing another I'm for these but you
also don't have to wait for someone else to set one up for you did you know that
all these people that are setting them up did of their own volition because
they wanted to reach the world did you know that you can do that you can plan
the soul winning trip by yourself like you don't need someone else to do it for
you you can you can plan one brother James and I have been talking and it's
not anywhere close to happening right now but we've both been talking that at
some time in hopefully the next few years we want to go on a trip to Japan I
don't know any a soul winning trip to Japan okay but it would be cool to go
just in general but there's like an independent Baptist Church that we've
researched in Tokyo they seem to have the right gospel with an English-speaking
pastor it looks like a white guy too so it's like that's even better because
foreigners in Japan don't really mix that well but like we can plan that I
don't have to like sit around and wait like oh I really want to reach this
region of the world with the gospel but I mean it takes this and X and Y and no
no it takes a soul winner that's what it takes and I'm a soul winner you're a
soul winner here today it takes you you can accomplish these great things turn
to Revelation chapter number three so my next point this evening how about
growing a church what does it take to grow a church it's almost like the same
overlap as these discipleship programs right oh it takes movie night it takes
the million-dollar facility it takes the bus ministry it takes the people in the
golf carts that drive around after you park and they like shuttle you to the
this is a real thing I have a family member that does this for a Baptist
Church in Lawton they like it's my shift on the golf cart to shuttle people in
like okay cool I'm not I'm not against that I am kind of making fun of it I'm
not super against it if you have the means I'm not against a bus ministry I'm
not against a big building I'm not against having a great music ministry
either but it doesn't take those things to build a church those come later
here's what it takes to grow a church it takes a soul winner you know it
doesn't take the amenities I know some people that would love that it doesn't
take any amenities to grow a church it just takes a soul winner you know that
makes me think of someone on the front row Revelation chapter 3 verse number
1 says this says and under the angel of the church in Sardis right these things
saith he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars I know thy works
that thou notice this has the name that thou livest and art dead I don't know
what anyone else thinks of in Revelation 3 1 I always think life church sweat
every time you have a name that you live and are dead life church what's your
church life church how many people have you ever run into that are saved from
life church ding ding ding ding I mean like zero maybe one I don't know how
many people that I've ever run into from that church that are actually alive but
boy they go to life church and here's what they mean when they say I go to
life church they mean I might once a year turn on the live stream while I'm
brushing my teeth in the morning when I get up at 1 30 p.m. on a Sunday that's
what going to life church is for a lot of these people look in Revelation he's
saying into the church you have a name that you live but are dead verse 2 be
watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die for I have
not found thy works perfect before God what's being brought up here is the
church is failing is dying on the works now you could suppose that these works
are referring to a great many thing I submit to you that the works are the
first works are soul winning is soul winning rather that I submit to you this
church that has a name that they live and are yet dead is because they're not
preaching the gospel now here's the thing if you look from a worldly
perspective on growing a church you would say well well your point fails
because Life Church is huge they have campuses everywhere they have many
members what do you mean it takes a soul winner you just said there's no one
saved and they have a big church so didn't you just disprove your own point
no keep with me here they're dead that's not a church a church is a
congregation of believers Life Church is not a congregation of believers they
did not grow a church they grew a club they grew a friend circle or something I
don't know what it is that they have they grew a den of iniquity they grew a
sepulcher with whited walls and inside are full of dead men's bones they grew
just like the modern-day Pharisee in the semblance of a giant building but they
didn't grow a church you know why growing a church it takes a soul winner
turn if you would to Psalm 146 Psalm 146 we're gonna shift a little bit we've
been in kind of the church realm here for this portion of the sermon now I
want to kind of look outside the walls a little bit Psalm 146 if you're online on
the internet Facebook rumble Twitter X or whatever you want to call it now at
all you will probably know that there's this huge shift in like traditional
traditional values I'm gonna air quote that okay traditional values trad wife
trad culture you know based orthodoxy that's an oxymoron because every
orthodox dude I've ever run into was effeminate and faggity so it's just like
what is it though that the world thinks is this up-and-coming culture shift oh
we got the traditional bad values for culture shift we want to shift the
culture right let's all become Nazis it's like whoa we have gone the wrong
direction Hitler was not the greatest Christian no matter what haters in the
Livestream will literally comment when I preach the sermon. They're like Hitler was the greatest Christian
That's a legitimate view that a person that breathes air had okay Wow
Get stop it get some help. Okay. Look culture shift doesn't take a politician
It doesn't take reading and implementing mind comp
It doesn't take doing all these things and politics where you go out and you're like, I'm gonna go protest
And I'm gonna go march on Washington and I'm gonna go
You know run over people in the street when they're ice or something. That's not what a culture shift is
Here's what it takes to shift the culture
It takes a soul winner because the only way that we're gonna change the way the world thinks is by changing what they believe
It's changing their heart right to take that heart of stone and to make it to quicken it to give them a heart of flesh
This is not my opinion like well, but Trump Trump is really gonna get us. He's got Venezuela
We got the Gulf of America or whatever like Trump's policies man. He's setting us up for the future
Okay
Well you take that and the Bible here and tell me which one you believe Psalm 146 verse 3
But not your trust in princes nor in the Son of Man in whom there is no help his breath goeth forth
He returned it to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish
You know how long Trump's policies are going to be in effect until the day he's elected out of office
Someone else takes his office and you know the day that that new politicians policies will go away the day that they're replaced and you know
the day that governor Stitt's policies will go away the day that he's replaced and
Unfortunately, you know the day a lot of churches go from being independent fundamental Baptist hardcore
Is when the pastor passes away and the weak members of the church don't have the things of the Lord
They were really only following it because they were following a man. We need to follow Jesus Christ
Now look I'm for follow me as I follow Christ, right? That's biblical. I'm for following a man
I'm not against that but we're following as they follow Christ
Why because a prince I'm not gonna put my trust in princes
I'm not gonna put my trust in a king in a ruler of this earth because the moment they die their thoughts perish
Someone else takes their office. They change everything they start cutting things down putting things up. Just I mean brother Eric
referred to the Kings in
The Old Testament it's like and they break thousands of the sodomites and then the remnant and then the next one's like and he
Did more wickedly it's like wow, I'm getting whiplash here, but that's just the way that it goes. It goes really well
It goes really bad. It goes really well. It goes really bad
It's back and forth back and forth back and forth, but turn to Psalm 119 will be in verse 89
I know it's a large portion of scripture Psalm 119 verse 89 if that helps you find your place
Psalm 119 verse 89 now that whiplash that back and forth that man the prince
He's got good things. There's no help in the milk. He's gonna die. It goes away. Then we got this new guy
That's uncertain. That's not secure. That's really kind of worrisome
But look at the piece of Psalm one eight or excuse me 119 verse 89 forever
Oh Lord, thy word is settled in heaven thy faithfulness is unto all generations
Thou hast established the earth and it abideth they continue this day according to thine
Coordinances for all are thy servants, you know, when will the theory of gravity or the law of gravity?
Really be replaced. No one's gonna die and that's gonna change because God has ordained how the universe works
He is ordained at a molecular level how everything
Operates and is and exists so even more so this is never gonna change
God's Word will never change. It is a timeless truth. It's the same
at yesterday today and forever if I put my trust in this if I put my trust in what the Bible says and
If I convince people to put their trust in this and to believe this that's how we'll effectuate a culture shift
I'm not going to effectuate a culture shift by getting people on my trad culture of the week
Until they change their mind and they get sick and tired of it and they move on like you go from like the Berkey
To the Stanley to like whatever cup is next. It's like these things last for a short time and I like them
There's nothing wrong with them, but they don't last
They're just in and out in and out in and out iPhone 13 iPhone 14 iPhone 15 iPhone 16
It's just like what in the world there's no stability things change things are different whatever happens
Culture shift does not take all this politicking. It does not take rubbing shoulders with the right people
It does not take just convincing someone logically that you're so smart in their positions dumb
It takes a soul winner because when I get someone saved at the door
I might never change necessarily how they live at their life
But I have changed their eternal destiny and I have changed who they are just
Intrinsically as a person and that can never change see here's the thing with culture shift
It just keeps shifting good bad good bad good bad
Here's the thing with salvation you go unsaved saved that nothing it doesn't go back
That's the kind of shift I want that's the conversion therapy
We should sign up for right not the one that doesn't actually work
Just turn the shock diodes up on the conversion therapy. We'll convert them from you know dead to dead
You know because they're already twice dead culture shift takes a soul winner
It takes a soul winner turn to Proverbs chapter 11. You're fairly close there Proverbs chapter number 11
We talked about culture shift and you know convincing people that you're so smart and that's why they should listen to you
Well, what about wisdom? What about intelligence? What about how smart you are how well you hold yourself the things that you know
Attaining wisdom. What does that take? Here's what the world will tell you send your daughters off to college alone by themselves
Send them out. Let them be independent send your sons off to college and look I'm not against that but you need to be wary and
Obviously there comes a time in every man's life where he's got to make his own decisions
But there's a lot of bad peer pressure there. Just like send them to higher education
Send them off to do X Y & Z and that's how you get smart. It's like with our pastor here pastor Oz
I've been out where people are like, oh what what seminary do you go to? I'm like he saved
He's read the Bible scores of times. He's saved. He has proven himself according to the qualification
Oh, so you're saying he doesn't have a degree
Meanwhile, the guy has some seminary degree. It's unsaved. I'm like wow, you know why attaining wisdom doesn't take a degree
Takes a soul winner and you're like, whoa, not soul winning makes you smarter. Yes
Proverbs 11 30 says this the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that win his souls is wise
You go out you preach the gospel you get someone saved you're smart and look the world can look at you
The world can say whatever they want to about you. The world can make fun of you
I just know that the Bible is true. I go out I preach the gospel they get saved
I'm wise you go out you preach the gospel they get saved
They're wise, you know Joe Blow goes to seminary never gets anyone saved in his life isn't married has no kids gets ordained over
Some mega church. He's an idiot. Oh, but he's got such a big church
I mean they have all these programs and I mean haven't you seen his suits always pressed and it looks so great and he
Chat GPT is all of his sermons. It sounds really great. Not smart. He's an idiot
Why because it takes a soul winner soul winning is what makes you wise and look this is true in more ways than just it's
It's not it like this is something that you just have to believe the Bible and take it there are some things in the Bible
Where God will tell you something and it is a faith a hundred percent of faith based operation that you just believe
Salvation the fact that my soul was switched from unsaved to saved the moment
I believe that I'm totally regenerate renewed my new man doesn't sin when I die
I'm gonna experience just like pleasures that I've never even been able to comprehend in heaven. That's faith
That's a hundred percent faith based. Okay
Being wise becoming wise after soul winning is not faith-based because you'll go and talk to people and you'll realize like is
Everyone as dumb as you like is everyone that dumb or you just hear people say things and then it makes you start thinking like
Wow, people really think that way and look it's not to disparage or to denigrate people
But here's the reality people that are not saved the world's minds these bright minds of the world
They may be very smart in mathematics in science. You can be very
Astute in those areas, but when the world tries to take their worldly theology ideology
They're smarts and put it to the Bible and they're not saved as a soul winner
You just realize like wow, you're dumb. Wow, you are stupid. You don't know
Anything according to the Bible look the guy that brother Tristan got saved today
It was not like an eight nine ten year old kid. It was like a man
It was like a grown adult man living on his own in an apartment. And look, I'm happy for that guy. He got saved
He's no longer like this. But when they showed up at his door, the guy was dumb and here's what I mean by that
He didn't know I'm not he was just ignorant. He had no idea but Tristan shows up and he's incredibly smart
He's wise why because he's got the degrees because he's got a doctorate because he's been to all these higher education
But no, no, no, because he said I know what it takes to be saved. I'm saved
I want to preach the gospel. It takes a soul winner and he's wise. It's not that hard
This is not even a faith-based one that you could just see this in real life
If you've gone soul winning you realize like why they just don't know like the lady I talked to yesterday
It was so simple. It's not that I'm showing her some like extremely obtuse thing. Look at point number one
It's from faith to faith. These people can read the Bible as many times as they want when they're usually lying
Oh, I've read the Bible 20 times. Okay, like and you still don't know what salvation is
Hey, maybe their age been telling the truth though. Why because they're not gonna get saved by just reading something
It takes a soul winner and it's just a wise thing to do you go soul winning. You will become wise
You'll be a smarter person because of it. You're there in Proverbs 11 verse 30
Let's look at verse 31 for the next point 11 Proverbs 11 31 says behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth
Much more the wicked in the center having a blessed life
Having a comfortable life does not take a six-figure job. It does not take getting that degree
Just like we looked at a minute ago
It does not take checking all the boxes that the world says you need to check
The Bible says it takes a soul winner because the Bible says what's the context here the fruit of the righteous in?
Verse 30 verse 31 behold the righteous so we're talking about these people that are soul winning
preaching the gospel soul winners
shall be
Recompensed in the earth look we all have great rewards coming for us in heaven
We're I've heard the term before that we're building up our spiritual 401k, and that's true
We are we are building up a retirement account in heaven as it were but God says you'll also be recompensed in the earth
The righteous will be recompensed in the earth now look it doesn't stop with soul winning obviously the context of the sermon is it
Takes a soul winner, but go to church read the Bible go soul winning try to clean up your life
All these things will lead to you having a blessed life, but if you feel like your life
It's kind of in the dumps if you feel like things are not really going that great if you feel like you're kind of cratering
I feel like this a lot. I
My wife calls it the Sunday scaries like we get to go back to work, but it's not like Sunday scary
Sometimes I just get that it's like the you know 20 24 scaries or something
Whatever you just kind of feel down you kind of struggle with emotions. Everyone's kind of their own person
I definitely struggle with this from time to time
You know what the Bible says that we should do in that instance. Just go soul winning. Oh, but I'm not in the best mood
I don't have I'm not just like super happy. I'm not positive all the time. You know, I hate my life right now. It sucks
I'm really struggling. I don't want to be alive anymore
Great prophets in the Bible struggled with that and the solution was go soul, and it's like Jonah
Jonah's just kind of being a little putz and he keeps kind of being that honestly
But God's like ages go to Nineveh go preach to them and he has a bad attitude but he works a great work and then God
Gives him the gourd and he says a bad attitude. So he drives it up, you know
Jonah story is kind of really it's kind of funny to me
I think it's really humorous
But look the answer in life if you want the life to be blessed if you want to increase it's not too
Hey, I'm gonna stop going to church and go build my business. I'm gonna stop going to church and pick up that second job
I'm gonna stop going soul winning and I'm going to go to college in my off time. Look, there's nothing wrong
With any of those things but seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you
That's Matthew 6 33, which I just quoted. We don't to turn there seeking first the kingdom of
God look it even applies to the afterlife turn to Daniel chapter number 12 Daniel chapter number 12
Look, you're gonna be recompense in this earth. You're gonna be recompense in the afterlife, too
So even if I give you this advice you execute it perfectly and your life never gets better and you're like, ah Cameron
You lied to me one. I'm not the one that said it. God said it and he can't lie
So it's not gonna fall out on you for one
But for two even if potentially it could not work out for you in this life
You're gonna be blessed in the life that is to come Daniel 12 verse 3 now
Remember the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that win if souls is wise
So the righteous and the wise in the context of soul winning are interchangeable from that verse that we just read
They are analogous. They are the same thing
They're synonymous if you will Daniel 12 verse 3 says this and they that be wise
The righteous right the soul winners shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness
That's a soul winner as the stars forever and ever look
How cool would it be to get to heaven and share in God's glory? You're just like actually shining
I'm already kind of there as a white person like this white and I'm like the ginger white guy
I mean pastor Oz does kind of have me beat I I'll take second seat right to that for sure
But just like look I want to shine bright in a spiritual sense
And this is anybody anybody can do this Daniel 12 3 why and they that turned many of the latter half of that verse and they
That turned many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever just like when you go out in the country
And it's like a really dark night and you look up you see all the stars
I always think that's cool, but she feels small
I like things that make you feel like really small just like the magnitude of
Certain structures and just the universe when you kind of look out the moon can make you feel really small
Stars are really neat to think that's like a burning ball of gas and plasma like way far away
But that could be us like we could shine with a glory like unto that how it takes a soul winner by turning many to
Righteousness how about finding a saved spouse?
Finding a saved spouse does not take look turn to Matthew chapter number six
It is not all American women are hoes or whatever, you know, all they know there's the meme
It's like they all they know is eat hot chip and sleep later. Whatever. Look, that's not true
But even if that were true, it doesn't take you just complaining about your situation
if you want to get it better or
Women that have just like impossibly high standards for men. Look you should I think women should have the higher standard
Because they're under that authority. I fully believe that they should have high standards
But it doesn't take luck. It doesn't take winning the lottery and it doesn't take being a passport, bro
You can you could do whatever you want. Okay. Here's what it really takes though
It takes a soul winner now look at Matthew chapter 6 verse 34
It says this take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought of the things of itself
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
now this is kind of piggybacking off of having a blessed life increasing in many things and
I could see this like okay, you're kind of taking a stretch on like finding a safe spouse and really I'm gonna talk specifically to the men
Finding a saved wife is not just luck. It's not winning the lottery. It takes a soul winner and you say, okay
Where's your where's your proof for this? Well one Matthew 6 34 is telling us this. Hey, don't take thought for tomorrow
We don't need to be if you're in the situation where you're looking for, you know a partner
You're looking for a saved wife
It doesn't need to be that you're just absolutely consumed with that to that. You don't do anything for yourself
You like don't take care of yourself. You don't attend church. You're like like I've heard I've heard people say this I'm against this
I'm not saying it's just unequivocally wrong, but it's like hey
I'm just gonna go to like all these 50 different churches until you know
And I'm just gonna rotate through all these churches until I find a spouse
It's like I'm not saying unequivocally that this is wrong. I'm saying that Cameron thinks that's a bad idea
Okay, I think you should just seek the things of God because like look if you're just going to a bunch of different churches
But the thought of like why am I going to church today wife up didn't find one there next church wife
Next church wife next church wife. You're really kind of putting that at the forefront of your mind rather than like hey, I'm serving God
I'm trusting in God's will for my life
I'm trusting that he will provide and praying for that and here's my second proof text to that because if there's not a verse that
Says thou shalt soul win and be you know, given a wife
Or like whatever that's not there
We have to take what the Bible says and compare scripture with scripture
So turn if you would to Genesis chapter number two and again, this is why I'm specifically talking to the men here
Matthew 6 told us what don't take thought for tomorrow. Don't be so consumed with tomorrow. Don't be so consumed with what's going on
Sufficient under the day is the evil thereof it takes a soul winner to find a saved wife
Why look at Genesis chapter 2 verse 18 and the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone
I will make him and help meet for him
And you know, sometimes you read the Bible and you're like, oh, it's not good for me to be alone
And then you like understand God's mindset you see single men and you're like it is not good
That guy's alone like where's the wife like someone needs to help him. Look God is just saying in general
It's not good that a man should be alone
Let me make a help meet for him like Adam had everything was perfect. But God realized that even in a perfect situation
God's like it's not good for a man to be alone. Let me give him some help now. We just read about the righteous being recompensed
In the earth about having a blessed life about seeking first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you
And God literally telling us in Genesis chapter 2 that it's not good for a man to be alone and that he wants to make
A help meet for the man. So here's what I can surmise from that you go soul winning
You just be a warrior of soul winner warrior for God you do the right thing
He's going to provide a wife for you men. That is what I'm getting from this
It's not like God wants to withhold a blessing from you. It just might not be the right time
Selfishly, I'll use myself as an example. God wants all people to what?
Be fruitful multiply I in seven. Well, I don't even know say how long have we been married. That's longer than seven years
It's like ten. How long we married what year is this? It's 2026. So it will be 12 years this year
Wow, that's rough. My memory is failing me. That's how long I've been married. No kids. Okay, it's not good
I don't want them. It's not that we're preventing in any way
It's not that I think that like I've got some major unchecked sin in my life. Although none of us are perfect
Sometimes it's just not God's plan right at that moment. Sometimes it's not the perfect time and look
I don't think any single guy wants to hear me say maybe it's not the perfect time for you to find a wife
But that's why I'm relating with you by saying that in my core
I have a sting of wanting children and I have learned over the last 12 years that
Sometimes it's just not that time yet and it's not God's moment and you know what?
I'm not gonna question that it is what it is and it may never happen
And I just still want it to happen for everybody else and I want to be excited when it happens for someone else
So look single men if another guy gets a lady first, you don't have to like, you know
Is there any reason these two should not be joined? Yeah, I have one
I'm a better guy than he is or whatever
You don't have to like be envious or have strive or whatever fight
You can just be happy for someone else and keep working for yourself
Here's how you're gonna work for yourself work for God Seek ye first the kingdom of God all these things shall be added unto you
Here's the last point. We'll finish up this evening. How about being a good preacher?
Well, as you can probably tell I'm just kidding being a good preacher as a joke. All right, I ha ha let's get a laugh out
Okay, you guys are not asleep yet being a good preacher. It doesn't take eloquence
It doesn't take whatever it is that Kenneth Copeland does and it doesn't take what the world thinks is being a good
Preacher because here's the thing being a good preacher does not mean oh man when he gets up just everything is said perfectly
He never has brainfrog. He never trips on his words. He never says something weird
Everything's always just preach just just never a mistake made. Here's what being a good preacher takes
It takes a soul winner. You're like what what do you mean by that?
Like how does that even matter look at Exodus chapter number four Exodus chapter number four?
And again, I didn't plan this and again
I'm gonna bring up brother Tristan today because he could have had this mindset in Exodus 4
It's a Moses mindset like look at verse 10 Exodus 4 10 and Moses said to the Lord. Oh my lord
I am NOT eloquent neither here to for nor since thou has spoken unto thy servant
But I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue now, you know
Wouldn't it be easy for someone that kind of like stutters a little bit?
I'm not saying that he does but I'm saying like if we do or like we have an issue and we kind of like lose
Our words wouldn't it be easy for us to say like well God, that's just not my calling. I'm just not really that guy
I'm not that good preacher that you want to go preach the gospel send Theodore send Eric
You know send one of those young guys that they sound really good when they talk or whatever
But look what God's response is in verse 11 says in the Lord sent of them who has made man's mouth
That's a that's a great question. It's so funny
I when I read this and maybe you kind of read yourself into Bible stories
But it's like when I read this I cannot read that without thinking that it was like one of the funniest things that God has
Ever said to someone it's like oh you got a slow mouth who made that that's weird
Do you know who made that who made that mouth?
I can't remember kind of having a hard time or who make it the dumb or deaf or the seeing or the blind in verse 11
Have not I the Lord it's like who made oh, yeah, I just remember I made that hey
I gave you that mouth idiot. What are you gonna do sitting here and tell me? Oh god
I just can't go preach the gospel because I have x y z problem
And well, I just can't do it because this to the God that made you as if you're telling him something that he didn't know
He's like, oh, that's right. I made you a loser
You're just a piece of crap. I like you can't do it. We're fearfully and wonderfully made God wants us all day
He didn't give us them unachievable goal in going out and preaching the gospel. Here's what it takes
It takes a soul winner. It doesn't take your perfect physique
It doesn't take you can run a 5k. It doesn't take whatever like do that though. I did catch the 5k
You know what? I can hit stairs a lot more now those three-story apartments like let's go. I eat them for lunch
Couple years ago. They were eating me for lunch. I was like this is rough. But look it doesn't take just having everything perfect
You're saying everything the perfect way you're in the perfect physique. You have the perfect time. You're not tired
Oh, I'm really tired. If I go today, I'm gonna be really tired. We'll go be tired
You know why it takes a soul winner. It doesn't take a full night's sleep. Go preach to the gospel be a good preacher
Verse 12 Exodus 4 so Moses like hey, I'm not eloquent and God's like, oh who made that?
Oh, yeah
It was me verse 12 now therefore go and I will be with my mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say
Look God's not just like now go and go do it by yourself and I'm gonna laugh and make fun of you when you fail
That's not what God is saying. He kind of gives you that admonition like well who made your mouth who made you?
Have that stuttering tongue who gave you that tongue tie who gave you that cleft palate or whatever?
Okay, I did now go preach and I'm with you
I've got your back and I love that attribute of God that he'll put us in situations that we
It seems difficult to us, but he's there and he's with us and it's like that verse that we read earlier that Jesus says
Behold I'm with you all the way even under the ends of the earth forever and ever amen
God in Exodus 4 is telling Moses go and I'll be with your mouth. I'm gonna help you out
It's like I made the dang thing
I think I can fix it for a minute if I'm asking you to preach. Hello
It takes a soul winner being a good preacher does not take the seminary degree
It does not take the big church
It does not take the big vocabulary because I'll tell you what any preacher that has never gone soul winning in their life
I want to hear zero of what they have to say period any preacher that would get up and say I'm gonna preach to you God's
Word how many times have you been soul winning zero? I've never preached the gospel at anyone by
That's the first thing that you should be doing by how did you get ordained without ever preaching?
Oh, you just went to a seminary by I don't want that. Here's how you're a good preacher
You're a soul winner. You preach the gospel. You don't want you don't have to have men's preaching night
Like all the only time I can practice preaching as men's preaching night really because there's like
40 chances per soul winning time to do a 15 minute sermon and it's the same sermon every time
So you don't have to think of a new concept. You could take the same concept
It's called the gospel and preach it like 40 different times and keep fixing it fixing it fixing it
You're gonna become a better preacher why it takes a soul winner. So as we wrap up this evening
Here's what I want you to realize
Here's what I want you to realize or to remember from this sermon is that all these elements of our life
Where we think man it might take this part or I'm missing that or I've just like lack in this or this isn't going well
For me right now or we don't have the biggest church or I don't know how I'm going to achieve this or I'm looking for
A wife or my job is going really difficult. I need more money
Here's what it really takes out of you to achieve to excel and to just put yourself on the fastest path for success
It takes a soul winner just make the decision today to go soul winning if you have not gone soul winning this year
This sermon really needs to encourage you to do so if you don't have a regular soul winning time that you attend
This sermon should really encourage you to do so and you look what does it take to establish a random soul winning time on Sunday?
Or Saturday or Wednesday? It takes a soul winner. I can't make it Sunday. Can't make it Wednesday. Can't make it Saturday
I can only make it Thursday at 3 a.m. It's like well, you know what just establish your time find somewhere
What's up, I guess go to Walmart. Well, they're not even 24 hours and it will go to Crest and
Preach to people at Crest. I don't know but look you have the onus is on you. You can do it
It takes a soul winner. Let's end with a word of prayer of Heavenly Father
I just thank you for this day and the opportunity to preach pray that this message would be edifying to us
Also pray that you would be with us and guide us as we go our separate ways. Keep us safe these things
We pray in Jesus name. Amen for our last hymn this evening if you would turn to number
178
Bible I see this is that here is that Jesus loves me
I am so glad that Jesus loves me
Jesus loves me
I am so glad that Jesus loves me
Jesus loves even me
Oh, I forgive him and wonder away
But love me where it back to his dear loving arms would I flee
Remember that Jesus loves me
Oh, glad Jesus loves me
Jesus loves me
So glad Jesus loves me
Jesus loves even me
Is only one song I can sing
When he the great king
This shall my song in eternity be oh what Jesus loves me