Good afternoon and welcome to Chair Foundation Baptist Church.
We're going to sing number 211, Whosoever Meneth Me, number 211.
I am happy today and the sun shines bright. The clouds have been rolled away.
For the Savior said whosoever will, may come with him to stay.
Whosoever surely meaneth me, surely meaneth me, oh surely meaneth me.
Whosoever surely meaneth me, whosoever meaneth me.
All my hopes have been raised, Oh, his name be praised, His glory has filled my soul.
I've been lifted up and from sin set free, And blood hath made me whole.
Whosoever surely meaneth me, surely meaneth me, oh surely meaneth me, whosoever surely meaneth me, whosoever meaneth me, oh what wonderful love, oh what grace divine, that Jesus should die for me.
I was lost in sin for the world I pine, but now I am set free.
Whosoever surely meaneth me, surely meaneth me, oh surely meaneth me.
Whosoever surely meaneth me, whosoever meaneth me.
Amen.
Okay, man, let's sing number 205.
He keeps me singing number 205.
There's within my heart a melody.
Jesus whispers sweet and low.
Fear not, I am with thee, peace be still
in all of life's ebbs and flow.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know, fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go.
All my life was wrecked by sin and strife, discord filled my heart with pain.
Stir the stumbling chords again.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest name I know
Fills my every longing
Keeps me singing as I go
Feasting on the riches of His grace
Resting beneath His sheltering
Always looking on his smiling face
That is why I shout and sing
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Sweetest name I know
Fills my every longing
Keys me singing as I go
Though sometimes he leads through waters deep
Trials fall across the way
Though sometimes a past seems rough and steep
See his footprints all the way
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Sweetest name I know
Fills my every longing
Keeps me singing as I
Soon he's coming back to welcome me, far beyond the starry sky.
I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown.
I shall reign with him on high.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I.
Keeps me singing as I go
Hey man, this time evangelist Justin Zhang will give the announcements
All right, welcome back to Sure Foundation Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon service.
Raise your hand if you need a bulletin, and then I'll sure bring one to you.
So you guys are not Sunday morning glory, but Sunday afternoon glory,
because more people show up in the afternoon service, so...
Yeah, let's look at the verse of the week, Isaiah 5, verse 20.
The Bible says,
One to them that call evil good and good evil,
That put darkness for light and light for darkness,
That put bitter for sweet and sweet for...
Bitter, that's a great verse to describe the state of the nation, people are perverting
justice and morality.
Of course I preach a sermon about Charlie Kirk this morning, so please feel free to
listen to that if you haven't done so.
If you flip on the inside page, we are on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble, and X.
Please give us a follow there.
Service times on the morning at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4.
And Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m.
This Wednesday we'll be going through Ecclesiastes chapter number 10.
So we have three more chapters away from finishing the book.
So if you have any suggestions about the next Bible study, let me know.
I'll take that into consideration and then the salvations and last week's attendance is below for you to see we have broken
1,000 salvations so praise the Lord for that. So we have two salvations this afternoon
So again praise the Lord for the salvations upcoming events. Thank you for coming and praying for the
Detroit Sony Marathon this past Friday and Saturday. We have a total of 42
Salvation and great fellowship food is okay. I mean the deepest pizza is good
Okay, but then but then spaghetti is you know up for questioning, but if you know, you know
Dr. Fuel string will be preaching
on November 18th, sorry I cut it off on the bulletin.
Just check out the website for more details on that.
Sony Marathon December 27th is the winter
one-line Sony Marathon.
And then Brother Jerry is hosting
the Notre Dame Sony Marathon, so more details to come.
Let me know so I can fill in the bulletin on that.
Please help us with the cleaning of the church building
right after the service.
That will be hugely appreciated.
If you only know how to be saved or needs to be baptized, please see an usher or myself after
service. Please be faithful in your follow-ups. We have a bubble baptist to baptize people, so
Titan offering is for you to see as well. Please stay faithful in your tithing. If you flip on
the back side, we have an anniversary coming up. We have the Moorheads family is going to have their
14th anniversary on the 24th.
So let's sing happy anniversary to the more heads.
Happy anniversary to you.
God bless you and keep you.
Happy anniversary to you.
Congratulations.
with that being said let's sing one more song and then we'll take up the offering
all right let's sing number 188 the love of god
number 188 number 188 that was 189 on the next page it's a good song but
The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell.
His airing child he reconciled and pardoned from his sin.
O love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong
It shall forevermore endure the saints and angels song
shall pass away and earthly thrones and kingdoms fall when men who hear refuse to
pray and rocks and hills and mountains call God's love so sure shall still
the saints and angels song oh love of God how rich and pure how measureless and
strong it shall forever more endure the saints and angels song could we
of parchment made were every stonk on earth a quill and every man ascribed by
trade to write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry nor could the
rich and pure, how measureless and strong it shall forever more endure the
saints and angels song. Amen. This time the ushers could come forward for the
offering. Brother Stephen, could you pray for the offering?
Matthew 4 we're going to be in Matthew chapter 4 tonight if you don't have a Bible
Please raise your hand so you can follow along and I shall hand you a Bible
Matthew chapter 4 verse 1 says then was Jesus led up?
the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had
fasted 40 days and 40 nights he was afterward and hungered and when the
tempter came to him he said if thou be the son of God command that these stones
be made bread but he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread
alone but by every word that precedes out of the mouth of God
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city,
and seteth him on a pinnacle of the temple.
And sayeth unto him, if thou be the son of God,
cast thyself down for his ridden,
he shall give his angels charge concerning thee.
and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou shalt dash thy foot against a stone."
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and showeth him
all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. And sayeth unto him,
All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Then say of Jesus unto him, Get the hence Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveeth him, and behold, angels came,
and ministered unto him. Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into
Galilee, and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coasts in the
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah as the prophet saying
the land of Zabulon and the land of Natalim by the way of the sea beyond
Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people which sat in the darkness saw great
light and them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
From that time Jesus began to preach and say repent for the kingdom of heaven is
at hand.
And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting...
Casting a net into the sea for they were fishers and he said and he saith unto them follow me
And I will make you fishers of men and they straightway left their nets and followed him and going on from Nents
He saw other two brethren James the son of Zebedee and John his brother and a ship with Zebedee their father
Mending their nets and he called them and they immediately
Left the ship and their father and followed him and Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all men of sickness and all
men of disease among the people and his fame went through all Syria and they
brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and
torments and those which were possessed with devils and those which were a
lunatic and those that had the palsy and he healed them and there followed him
Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan. Brother Jared, could you please pray
us into the service? Amen. Well, we're there in Matthew chapter number
four. Go with me if you would real quickly. Keep your place there in Matthew four. Let's
Real quick the chapter right before and
The Bible says in verse number 16 and Jesus when he was baptized went up straight way out of the water and lo the heavens were
Open unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove
Lighting upon him and lower voice from heaven saying this is my beloved son in whom I am well
Please and the title my sermon tonight is victory in
persecution
victory in
Now, in Matthew chapter number three, John the Baptist is preaching repentance.
People are getting saved, great works are being done for God.
And Jesus makes this decision to get baptized.
Now, Jesus does this obviously because while He's on earth, He's following the will of God the Father.
And He does this to please God the Father.
Now,
Something that I noticed, first time I wrote this sermon, I was like about maybe 10, 11, 12 years old, and I actually was preaching this exact same sermon, I'm preaching to you guys tonight at another church.
And reading through this passage for the first time, I noticed something interesting that jumped out at me, was that in Matthew 3, all these great works were being done for God, people were getting saved, people were getting baptized.
Everything was going very well and God was being pleased by this and immediately after in Matthew chapter number four persecution happens
Now
What made me think about this sermon what made me pull this sermon out of the vote now?
I'm not preaching the exact same sermon word for word that I preach obviously
You know when a new I preach so I sprinkled faggot in there a little bit more and you know blame a couple of things on the juice
but
But what made me bring the sermon back was that?
When we were at the Chicago Sowning Marathon, and Brother Justin, I don't think it's ironic
that immediately after the 49 souls that were saved from hell in Chicago, I don't think
it's ironic that immediately after that same Sunday that men got up and preached the Word
of God, they pleased God, that immediately after there was persecution from these
and these sodomites are trying to persecute our church.
See, because the Bible's very clear that
that they that live godly in Christ Jesus,
he says, yeah, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
Let me tell you something, church.
That sign that we got persecuted
means that we're doing the right thing.
You ain't gonna see these homos
at Fat Coast Baptist College.
You're gonna see these homos and these people
persecuting us when we're doing what's right,
when we're going summoning,
when we're preaching the word of God.
Okay, and the thing is that it's a good sign that we were getting persecuted that we were put through that trial because that means that
We're pleasing God
You see Jesus got persecuted he got tempted immediately after he made that decision to please God
and you know, I'm pretty sure and
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure God was pleased when people were getting saved in Chicago
I'm pretty sure God was pleased when men lay men had the guts to get up here and preach what does say if the Lord
Right? The Bible is very clear that when we do what's right, when we do what pleases God,
persecution is bound to come. Right?
Now, you know, the Bible is very clear that, how I said,
When we live righteously, when we do what pleases God, especially as a church, persecution is bound to come.
Okay?
Now, what do we do in time of persecution?
What do we do as a church to be able to make it through this time of persecution?
Well, we need to follow the steps and example of our Savior in the wilderness.
In this time of persecution. I'm pretty sure God left us this to be able to this this trial of Jesus and the wilderness
To be able to apply to our own lives and be able to take these principles and apply to ourselves in times of persecution
The Bible's the first point I have tonight
I'm sorry is number one the first thing I noticed in Matthew 4 that Jesus did when he was being attacked by the devil and the
Winners is number one. He stood for the word of God. We look at Matthew 4 verse number three
The Bible says and when a tempter came to him, he said if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Now we're going to read the whole verse in a second, but I want you guys to focus on these couple words right here.
It says, but he answered and said, it is written.
The first thing that I see that Jesus did here was he stood for the Word of God.
He took a stand for God's word when he was being persecuted he didn't hide God's word
He quoted God's word, you know what in this time of persecution church or in the future when we get persecuted again
Because it's bound to come again church because we're doing the right thing when in the future when we get persecuted
What we ought to do is we ought to take a stand for the word of God
Shouldn't be a time that we get scared and we we hide behind our beliefs and all well, you know
I only believe that on Sundays, but during the week. I really don't believe no we had a stand for the word of God
We had to not be like these pastors who compromise, who say, well, you know, I feel that way,
but you know, I think the homeless can get st- no, no, no.
We had to stand for what we preach.
If we preach about this pulpit, we had to stand for it, especially in persecution.
You know, we had to take a stand on principles that we often get attacked for as church.
Like we had to take a stand on a man-led household.
You know the Bible says that the man should leave the house
You know we get attacked by these feminists who want to you know come at us and say well you guys are our sexist and this now
Let me make this very clear. Obviously when we get up here
We our church does not condone and we don't believe in sexism. Okay, not at all
It's nothing it's something we've never believed but the Bible does teach
Toxic masculinity and unfortunately that is something that nowadays in this generation is is not popular
See see we don't condone sexes if we don't condone being misogynist
But see nowadays if you read the Bible and you read what the Bible says it is going to be somewhat misogynist
In nature to people are going to find a misogynist that people of this world
When you say that the man is the one who's supposed to lead the household and the lady
supposed to stay at home and be a keeper of the house, people get offended and they call
that sexist.
Okay?
And we ought to stand on that.
We ought to not back down on these things.
We ought to take a stand against feminism.
Okay, we're gonna take a stand against false prophets. We're gonna not get get scared and say well
You know I apologize and I want to issue an apology to John MacArthur and well
We had a well we can't this a little bit too late for that one
But you know what an apology to the Pope and we had an issue and no we shouldn't compromise and we shouldn't
Apologize these people if they're sending people to hell we ought to take a stand on that
Okay
We ought to take a stand again against the evil that pushes and prevails against the church like for example
There have been administrations of the past that have oppressed Christianity like one of the examples is Joe Biden and and I know it
upset
A lot of people even have said a beloved dictator here
It upset him so much that Joe Biden made
Last year Easter he had done something like making us like transgender visibility day or something like that
Yeah, that's wicked. You know we ought to take a stand against that in the church
Okay, we had a not coward. We ought to not get scared right now. It's the time. We ought to not compromise. Okay number two
is that Jesus, and let me just say one last thing,
we need a young revival of men that would get the guts
to get up behind the pulpit and preach what the Bible says.
You wanna know why these homos are so preeminent
because nobody has the guts to get up here
and preach against them.
You don't know why people get so scared
to preach the truth nowadays,
it's because there's not enough people saying it.
You know what, the old foggies without the respect
are getting too old.
And one day they're going to be gone, and they're not going to be able to preach what they've been preaching for the past 50 years.
You know what? We're going to need some men to stand up and get some guts and say, hey, does sayeth the Lord thy God.
Okay?
Number two is that Jesus, in time of persecution, in trials, He meditated on the Word of God.
If you look at verse number four,
So we're going to finish it, but the answer instead it is written,
Man shall not lift by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.
Church, in time of persecution,
it's important that we spend time in God's word.
We spend time in the Bible.
You see, and I know there's one of the most popular Pastor Anderson videos,
but I think it's still relevant today, you know,
we shouldn't become a church that just parrots what we believe.
We should believe what we believe because we read out of the Bible.
Now, of course, there's times where we all need help understanding a certain verse or
certain scriptures.
There's times I've hit Brother Justin up and I've asked him, hey, Brother Justin, what
does the Bible say about this?
What do you think about this?
And you know, he's helped me out with those things, but you know, the majority of the
things that I know and I believe shouldn't be because a man taught me them.
It should be because I learned it and I got it out of the Word of God.
And, you know, our meditation ought to not be on what people are saying or the events
of the world.
Now, look, let me make this very clear.
I'm not saying it's sinful at all to look at the news or to see what's going on in the
world, but that shouldn't be our meditation daily and all day.
Okay, we shouldn't just wake up and just scroll through our phone and look
It gets there was a point where I would literally wake up every single day and just scroll through my phone
And the first thing I'd see is like, you know pedophile not to meet with a with a minor or something and or or or murder
Did this or rapist did that and it gets the pressing it honestly does get the pressing for that to be the meditation
That you meditate on every single day, you know, the Bible says in Psalm 1 verse number one
Let's go like they're actually Psalm 1 verse number one
One of my favorite verses in the Bible, Psalm 1.
Verse number one the Bible says blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly
Nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sit it in the seat of the scornful
But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law that he meditate day and night
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rose of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season
His sleep also should not wither, but what's already doeth shall prosper. Hey my friend
I don't think it could get much clearer than that. We ought to meditate on God's word
We shouldn't be meditating on anything else and
You know, this is not, like I said,
I'm just preaching here.
I'm not talking about anyone specifically,
but you know, there have been lots of people in the past,
especially, you know, in other churches
that have been a part of where, you know,
the parents claim to love God
and they post verses about the Bible,
but then like, they don't ever read the Bible in the home.
Now I'm not a parent and I'm not pretending to get up here
and know that I preach,
that I know how to be a good parent, none of that.
But you know, it's important to open the word of God
and read the word of God, especially in the home.
Okay, especially or let's say you're a young man, and maybe your family's not too into church
It's important that you give them the example. Hey, this book is pretty important mom and dad
You know hey brother and sister this book is very important
I remember my little brothers would get mad growing up because I would like force them to read the Bible like I'll be like
Turn this this Xbox off and like I'll threaten to break their Xbox like read read the Bible right read the Bible
I would force them to read the Bible. Obviously don't go about it that way. I'm not
saying that, that's pretty mean to force them to do that, right?
But, you know, but it's important to emphasize the importance of spending time in God's word.
Many people are so worried about, oh, what about this new strata, the coronavirus or about
this new thing happening in China or in Afghanistan, in Israel and some of the wars and things happening.
But the thing is that they shouldn't be meditating. We shouldn't be meditating on that.
We should be meditating on God's word, on scripture.
You know, one of the illustrations that I often like to use, now, for those who don't know and I'm pretty sure everyone else here, I love coffee, right?
I'm a caffeine fiend. I love caffeine once I went to the hospital because I drank like seven large cups like this, a little bit bigger than this,
but I drank seven large cups and I went to the hospital, okay? Now...
When I first started getting into as you would call it the caffeine game, right the caffeine game I
Would drink like a cup that's almost like this size like very small like maybe like I would drink like this small amount right here
Like small amount of coffee right here
and I would get a big panic attack
because my body wasn't used to caffeine
and my body was very naturally sensitive to caffeine.
And, but I just remember like being so jealous
of the people who would drink coffee.
I'm like, man, this people drink coffee,
they feel just fine, they could drink an entire pot.
And here's me drinking like two sips
and already having a panic attack
and having heart jitters, right?
But,
One day I decided to man it out and continue to drink coffee for a week straight
But I only drank that little small amount that would cause me to have a panic attack after a week
I wouldn't feel anything so then I increased it by a little bit and you know was man enough to drink a whole cup
That cold cup caused me to feel a little bit of jitteries.
But then I manned that one out.
I kept drinking.
Eventually, my body became tolerant to that.
And long story short, now I'm able to drink a lot of these
and not feel anything.
But you see, I started out only drinking a little bit of coffee
and feeling panic attacks.
So now I can drink high amounts of caffeine daily
and not feel a thing.
And why?
Because my tolerance is I kept going increased.
I kept going slowly, but it increased.
Last week, there was an incident that occurred with me at work where I guess I got my morning
coffee as usual, but I guess we were so busy at work that I ended up tossing, I only took
two sips and I tossed my entire cup of coffee and that was the only caffeine I had, just
literally two sips of coffee, right?
So basically nothing, right?
And I remember that my head started hurting, like, bad, like I'm talking about, like,
I remember when I was a kid, I got a concussion.
Like I hit my head on a wall, on an AC,
and I went to the hospital.
The pain that I got from the headache
was like 10 times worse than that concussion pain.
Like that's how bad it was that I didn't drink coffee,
you know?
I was having bad caffeine withdrawals.
And even my coworkers told me like,
hey, Elliot, we can tell, bro, when you don't drink coffee,
like you work like, you suck, buddy.
That's what they tell me.
Like they're just straight up honest to me.
And
People can notice when you don't have your coffee,
your morning coffee, and I notice it
when I don't have my morning coffee.
I feel sluggish, I feel lazy.
I don't get the courage to do anything.
I just want to sit down on my butt all day.
And when I drink caffeine, it's like,
there's times, and I think I did that last night.
I only slept two hours, and I drank a sip of caffeine.
I was like, man, even they even told me at the restaurant
before we came to the service, hey, Elliot,
how much coffee did you have to drink?
I only had one.
Oh, bro, you're like.
You're on two-time speed today. That's what Brother Stephen told me.
And, you know, why do I give you guys that?
Because, you know, that's the same way that we as Christians should be with our Bible reading.
Okay? Now, of course, please, I don't want anyone to twist this.
If you don't feel any kind of conviction for not reading your Bible, that doesn't mean you're not saved.
Okay, I'm not teaching that. I just want to make that very clear.
Because people often take that out of the country.
Yeah, because that means you're not saved, so you don't feel bad when you don't read your Bible. No.
Obviously when a Christian daily meditates on the word and he builds that tolerance is like, oh, yeah
Okay, I got to read my word in my Bible and then one day he misses his Bible reading or maybe he decides to read in the afternoon
He's gonna feel it and that's the way it should be where we read our Bible and when we miss our Bible reading we feel it
We feel like something's off. We feel like we haven't had our morning coffee.
And that's how it should be with Bible reading.
And so we ought to meditate on God's Word. We ought to make that...
By the way, there's people who have been saved for 10 years and haven't read the Bible cover.
We need to read our Bible cover to cover. That's very important, you know?
And something that's very admirable about the new IFB movement is that I've seen lots of people,
lots of young men that are like college age or that are high school age,
that have read their Bible cover to cover already.
Whereas there's literally people in Bible college who have been saved for years
Literally, our studying to be pastors have never even read their Bible cover to cover.
So it's not at all like, I'm not talking about anyone specifically, I just want to emphasize
the importance of reading your Bible cover to cover.
It's very important, okay?
That helps us have integrity.
Number three, let's go to verse number five and six.
Verse number five and six, Matthew chapter number four, five and six.
Matthew 4, verse number 5 and 6.
The Bible says then the devil taketh him up into the holy city and set it him on a pinnacle of the temple and
Said unto him if thou be the son of God
Cast thyself down for it is written. He shall give his angel charge concerning thee and
In their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou shall dash thy foot against the stone
Jesus said unto him it is written thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God now
We were actually having a pretty interesting conversation about this we had a couple of like four hours to kill from Detroit
I guess or something when we were driving back and
You know, we're actually having pretty interesting conversation about this with the guy who brother Stephen brother Jared
You know, I don't necessarily think although yes
I think that Satan was trying to get Jesus to kill himself
But I think more importantly than that was that Satan was trying to kill what Jesus was gonna do on this earth
Jesus wanted to kill, I'm sorry, Satan wanted to kill Jesus' potential on this earth.
You know what? We ought to take that example and apply it to our life.
In time of persecution, we shouldn't let the devil kill our potential for God.
And what I mean is that we shouldn't just give up on the ministry like that.
Oh wow, my Jesus is getting persecuted. I'm scared. Let me just stay home for a bit. No.
We had to continue to go to church, now's the time to be faithful to church, now's the time to read your Bible, now's the time to go soul-winning, because that's the main goal of the people who are trying to pursue your church and trying to distract us from doing God's word.
Doing God's work.
And, you know, I remember the weekend of the Chicago soul-winning marathon.
There was an opportunity, I had gotten, my uncle was like,
hey man, I want you to go with me to a show,
like a comedy show or whatever.
And he invited me to like a comedy show.
When I went to that comedy show, I actually got an opportunity
to be able to travel the country and...
make money and
potentially become famous because I like I had performed or something and people liked it and they're like
Hey, we want you to come perform at Zaini's comedy club in Chicago and this then the third and I've gotten a big opportunity
to make a lot of money and
I'm like alright, so what I have to do right and they said the only thing you have to do right is you kind of
You're gonna have to come and perform every single Sunday night in Chicago
So it was like during the time of the Chicago so many marathon and I had a choice to make and look
I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you guys. Okay. I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you guys
I was real tempted to take the not me bro. There's big money. You get to travel the country
You get to make lots of money
What made me not want to take that opportunity?
Because here's the thing, if I would have taken the opportunity, I would have had to
quit this church.
I would have to tell brother Justin, hey, you know, I have to give him some kind of
lame excuse.
Oh, well, you know, I have to come, you know, I'm going to go to church with my parents.
I would have given up basically on the ministry, because that would have taken me out completely
from the ministry.
What made me not want to take that opportunity?
The young man Keenan who in Indianapolis when I was with brother NAR got saved and when I called him in the middle of the week
Keenan I asked Keenan a Keenan a randomly called him Keenan
What do you have to do to be saved like do you have to turn from sins to be saved?
He's like no bro. No, and I'm like, okay Keenan. I said can you lose your salvation?
He said no, I said, okay Keenan if somebody asked you when did you get saved?
What would you tell him when you and that other guy came to my house and got me saved?
What made me not want to take the opportunity was Tiara from Detroit when I was with Brother Jared last year and Tiara
We were giving her the gospel and I told her hey Tiara you don't have to turn from sins to be saved
You don't have to repent of your sins to be saved
And when I read her Hebrew 6-1 talking about repentance from dead works, and I told her hey
Repentance isn't turning from sins
She was so happy to hear that that she said hey, brother. Can you say that one more time? I give it to her. She got super happy
She got saved
What made me not want to take that opportunity to make money was that man from in Detroit
who looked possessed, and I was with Brother Jared a couple months ago, and we were in
Detroit and this guy who looked possessed, like, dude looked like he wanted to kill
me and Jared, you know, and opened the door, smelled like weed everywhere, dude looked
like possessed, he would look out of this world, like, under the influence of drugs,
I remember 10 minutes later, Jared was soaning and he comes and tells you,
hey, I'll leave that guy that we give that track to.
Yeah, he tapped on my shoulder.
He was in tears and he said, hey, man, what do I have to do to be saved?
And he got saved.
What made me not want to take that what made me not want to take that that the position that I had offered doing comedy was that man
That young lady Ashley from Detroit who yesterday I got saved just yesterday and wouldn't have gotten saved if I would have given up on the
Ministry what made me want want to give up on the ministry was jock from Gary who I remember I was with building Miguel and I was with
I don't know who else, I was with the Jeremy from Emmanuel Baptist and we knocked on this door and this I mean
I don't blame you know
I was with one of my brothers and I don't blame this guy
I was I was telling one of the guys who are silent partisan
I'm like hey you should try taking this door and the guy open the door
I mean just look dude look like a killer and one of my my brothers who was with me like hey
Ellie you take this one and I don't blame him like the dude looked like a dangerous, you know murder, right and you know
His name is Jock and I gave him the gospel and he got saved and that man who looked like he was rough
He had weed he was under the influence of drugs got saved and get this this Saturday
He's planning on coming so many with us and Gary Indiana
You know that guy what made me not want to take that that that comedy show
That decision to make money was Christian and Gary who was who was drinking he had he had a beer in his hand
and I got him saved and
Now, he's looking for a church in Gary.
What made me not want to get,
what made me not want to take the opportunity
was Jesse and Gary, who also got saved
and was with Christian, and of course,
now is not going to go to hell
because I didn't give up on the ministry.
What made me not want to get,
Take that decision was Patrick from work,
who when I got him saved just last week, Patrick,
I got him saved, I didn't have my Bible with me,
I butchered most of the Bible verses,
and when I got him saved and I asked him,
Patrick, what do you have to do to get saved?
Do you have to turn from sins?
Can you lose your salvation?
No, and then I asked him,
Patrick, hypothetically speaking,
let's say today you were to go out and murder 20 people.
Would you still go to heaven?
And you know what he told me?
I butchered Matthew 10, when I quoted him,
Matthew 10, 27 about eternal security.
And you know what he told me?
No, because I'm plucked.
Nobody can pluck me out of the father's hand.
That's exactly what he told me.
But maybe I want to take that decision was,
Christian from work that young man who was literally an agnostic atheist and if I wouldn't have if I would have given up on the
Ministry and taken that money Christian wouldn't be saved right now now
He believes on the Lord Jesus Christ and every single time I ask him. Hey, buddy. How do you know you're safe?
You know
Do you have to turn from sins to be saved?
No, buddy, we don't have to get saved.
That's how he talks.
He talks with a funny accent.
And amen, he wouldn't have gotten saved
if I would have given up on the ministry.
Vaughn from Gay, I was with brother Bradley Papyrus,
and Vaughn from Gay was this young man
who had his daughter, his young three-month-year-old
daughter or something, and I was with Bradley,
and I remember the dude got saved.
I asked him, when did you get saved?
Because I always do my salvation test with them,
and he told me right now, and he was literally in tears,
hugged me and Bradley and I posted that picture with him
and he said, hey man, I really needed this, thank you.
What made me not want to take that decision was,
the two kids who I was with brother Justin and brother
Miguel Alcantara, remember the young girl got saved
and we tested her salvation and we determined
that she was saved and then the young boy came
and he said next to the girl, there was a sister
and then there was another little boy there, her brother
and he was like, hey, I want to get saved too.
And I just looked at brother Justin like, what should we do?
He's like, and brother Justin asked him,
well, do you believe this?
Do you believe that?
He's like, yeah, yeah, I believe that.
He answered all the right questions
and brother Justin was just like, well, not
call upon the name of the Lord and he got saved.
What made me not want to take that decision was the three people saved in Detroit this week that I got personally saved what
And the 42 people who got saved in Detroit this week because we had a bunch of guys who decided not to give up on the ministry
Well, maybe not want to take that decision to me to do comedy was my grandma who would probably be going to hell right now
If it weren't for me giving up on the ministry
I'm sorry if it weren't for me not giving up on the ministry my uncle
him from life support and I prayed to God I'm like God if you could give me an
opportunity please get him saved and somehow he made like a full recovery
like doodles talking, eating, walking and doodles literally like about to die from
cancer and I gave him the gospel he got saved and like literally like
24 hours later he went back to the critical condition and passed away but
you know what hey they were chanting Hail Mary's at his funeral but I know that
he saved
Because I didn't give up on the ministry, you know, and this is by the way, this is not to post myself
I'm just trying to put you guys in the mentality where I had to really realize that if I would have given up on the ministry
There's people who would have gone to hell right now
My grandpa Jose Hernandez who's literally has Alzheimer's who grew up in a repenting or sins Pentecostal church
Would have gotten not saying if I would have given up on the ministry my brother
Emanuel who you guys saw the screenshots when I sent it in the group chat literally ask him
Do you have to turn from sins to be saved and of course he being my brother?
He said no man, right and and and I asked him can you lose your salvation? He said no
Hello people that if they would have given up on the ministry would have given up
Thousands of people go into hell.
Like, literally, if they were, think about the people.
Don't just think about me.
Think about all the people who would've,
they would've given up on the ministry.
They would've literally sent thousands
and millions of people to help.
What had happened, and Stephen Anderson decided in 2006,
not to start Faith Award Baptist Church,
and to just make money.
I mean, dude's literally like a walking encyclopedia.
He's smart.
He could've gotten a big degree, right?
And he has degrees, right?
But if he would've decided to dedicate his entire life
to making money,
How many thousands of people would have literally been in hell right now or probably been on
their way to hell if Stephen Anderson would have given up on the ministry?
How many thousands of people would be, I guess 2,000 people so far this year and how many
salvations did we have last year, Brother Justin, do you know off the top of your head?
800 something, hey, how many people would have gone to hell
if Justin Song would have decided, hey,
I'm gonna be a scientist or whatever Chinese people do,
right, after high school.
If Justin Song would have decided to give up
on the ministry, how many people would be
on the way to hell right now?
Cause, hey, maybe Pastor Thompson said there's no person
to lead in Indianapolis, maybe there's nobody qualified
and this church plant would have never started
and those people would have been saved.
How many people would have been on their way to hell if Aaron Thompson, Pastor Aaron Thompson wouldn't have started his church plans all across America?
How many people would have been on their way to hell if Aaron Thompson decided, hey, I'm going to give up on the ministry?
How many Hispanic people would have been under way to hell if Bruce Mejia would have given up on the ministry and not decided to start?
First Works Baptist Church in California.
Think about it, how many people would have been
on their way to hell right now if Roger Jimenez
would have decided to give up on the ministry.
One of the examples, I have sitting right in front of me
is a family who got saved literally because Pastor Jimenez,
they watched Pastor Jimenez as a byword of heaven.
Well that family would probably be on their way to hell
right now had Pastor Jimenez given up on the ministry.
Jack Hiles, how many millions of best kids would have gotten to hell if Jack Hiles decided
to give up on the ministry?
If he said, hey, I'm gonna give up on the ministry, I'm gonna make money, how many millions
of people have been on their way to hell if Jack Hiles, the great, great, one of the
greatest preachers of last generation, what if Jack Hiles would have decided to give it
up on the ministry?
What if John Francis, some of you guys don't know him,
John Francis, the bus director of First Baptist Church
of Ham in Indiana, where I grew up,
how many millions of bus kids would have gone to hell
had John Francis given up on the ministry?
How many people would have given up on the ministry
of Ricky Torres, the youth pastor for the Chicago Lantines
at First Baptist Church of Ham in Indiana?
What if decided to give up on the ministry?
How many people would be under way to hell right now?
If Pastor Freddie D'Anda, when he was young
and his dad offered him that car and that job
millions of dollars by now, made him a millionaire by now,
what if Freddie DeAndre would have decided,
hey, I'm not gonna become a pastor,
I'm not gonna serve God with my life,
how many millions of people would be on their way
to hell right now?
Had Freddie DeAndre made that decision,
what am I telling you, my friend?
In time of persecution, you're gonna get the temptation
to leave the ministry, to give up on God,
but don't give up on God.
And you're like, well, why?
Why shouldn't I give up on God?
Well, it's not about yourself, buddy,
it's about the person who's gonna go to hell
if you give up on them.
It's probably a mom in hell right now saying, hey, please, please get my son safe.
I mean, hell right now, get my soul safe, get my son safe, get my husband safe, get my
grandpa safe, and you keep contemplating an extra hour of work.
Hey, and we need to wake up today because there's lots of guys giving up on the ministry
because there's still all these faggots out here.
They're scared of what would happen if they give up their life, if they give up their degree, if they give up their sales job.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with working. I'm a worker myself. I work every day. I love working.
But when that takes the place of ministry and someone positively goes to hell right now, you ought to think about that.
So what if one day you died and the only hope for your son to get saved was a soul winner?
Was there someone there from this church or from another church and that someone that was
contemplating leaving the ministry, you would be literally begging them from hell.
Oh, please save my son. Hey, make the right decision.
We shouldn't give up on the ministry. It's not worth. It's not worth that little girl going to hell.
It's not worth that little boy going to hell. It's not worth that grandma going to hell.
It's not worth that grandpa going to hell.
And there's lots of people who if I wouldn't have missed church as much as I did when I first started coming to this church
Probably on the way to hell right now because I made that decision and I have to think about that
Number four
Jesus didn't compromise his standards to gain riches or favor
Let's go to
verse number eight
Again the devil taking them up
Into an exceeding high mountain and show them all the kingdom of the world and the glory of them and said unto him
All these things will I give thee if thou will fall down and worship me then saith Jesus unto him get the hand Satan for
It is written thou shall worship the Lord thy God and him only and him only shall thou serve you see in time of persecution
Church we shouldn't compromise our message see Jesus chose
not to take riches.
You see, most of these pastors nowadays,
they choose riches instead of choosing the truth
because they don't love their brethren,
they don't love their parishioners,
they don't love the people that go to their church,
they love money.
And in time of persecution,
we shouldn't compromise on that
just because we don't have enough money.
Look, let me tell you something.
I like what Pastor Anderson said.
He said, we shouldn't, in times where we're struggling,
we should crawl, he said that when he came to preach,
we should keep crawling.
And look, even if you lose money, and it costs you money,
and it costs you sweat, and it costs you your health,
and it costs you all sorts of things
to come to church every Sunday, and God will see that.
Even if it takes you losing your health,
even if it takes you losing money,
you should crawl your way to church,
The ministry, we ought to choose God over choosing riches.
You know, and I love, let me tell you something,
this man, Justin Zung, we ought to back him up.
When he gets up behind the pulpit, we ought to back him up.
I thank God, I'm an evangelist who has preached
behind the pulpit, and I'm pretty sure a lot of the times,
I don't mean this in a bad way, I'm glad he did.
I'm pretty sure lots of times, lots of what brother Justin
said was directed towards me.
And people would go to that kind of church, and they would come to this church and they'll be like,
Oh, I'm mad that he preached against me. No, you ought to thank God, you're a man who loves you enough to preach against you.
You know, we have these pastors nowadays who will give you a hug, they'll give you a big coffee,
they'll put a nice shirt on you, they'll give you a nice bulletin, they'll give you nice seats to sit on,
but they don't care about you. They care about your money.
They come at your tide. No my friend. I'm glad I have an evangelist
I'm glad I have a pastor who cares enough about me to tell me what they say at the Lord about what I'm doing and
Look, I'm not gonna lie to you guys, but Justin has gotten on me in the past and he knows I took about it with him
But you know I love him like my dad because you know what Justin tells me what needs to be said because he loves me
You shouldn't get mad and better at Justin when he corrects you.
Brother Justin, when he corrects you because we ought to thank God that we have somebody who loves us enough
to correct us because he wants to see us grow.
He wants to see our children in church.
He wants to see you in the ministry one day, preach your mind to pulpit.
He wants to see you winning souls.
He wants to see you right with God.
He doesn't want to see you on the street doing drugs.
He doesn't want to see you on the street drinking.
He doesn't want to see you at a rehab drug health clinic.
He loves you and we ought to thank God we have a man.
loves us enough to tell us what does the Lord want to back him up. Number five, he made them,
thank you Peter, he made them fishers of men and trained them, he made them fishers of men and
trained them. Let's look at verse number 19 and 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
Jesus is walking by the sea of Galilee. He saw two brethren, Simon, Carl Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting an end to the sea, for they were fishers.
And he said unto them, Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.
And then, and they straightway left their nets and they followed him and going on from thence, he saw
other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in a ship with Zebedee, their father, mending their nets and he called them.
They immediately left the ship and their father followed them. You see what I saw Jesus did after he got out of persecution and
hopefully Lord willing, we're out of that
this little round of persecution, Lord willing, things are dying down. That's all I'm gonna say about that. But
When persecution was going on and after Jesus left the desert he made fishers of men
He made fishers of men. He started training new guys
And you know what what we ought to do in persecution is we ought to not focus on what's going on out there
We ought to focus on what's going on in here, and we ought to focus on training up our new people see
The older guys, the people that have been saved a little longer, who have been going
soul-winning a little longer, should take the younger guys who maybe don't have that much
experience soul-winning and they should care for them enough to train them.
We had to take the newer guys who've only been saved a year, two years, three years,
who have maybe been in our movement only a couple of months, just fresh from the old AFP.
We had to take them and we had to train them.
And we had to love them enough and train them.
See, Jesus encouraged his new converts to go so many.
He said, let's make you fishers of men.
You know what?
And that's something that I love about this church.
We have church members.
Jared's always telling me, come with us to Gary.
I'm always, I'm always, you know, hey, brother Miguel, he calls me, hey, you want to go so
many today?
You want to talk about doctrine?
You want to talk about the Spanish Bible documentary?
And it's super encouraging that I go to a church where the men keep me accountable and
they keep me in the ministry and they encourage me to keep going in the ministry.
Super encouraging when I go to Gary and I see Brother Andrew Gwynne in there and his
son and his family and Gary, and it's super encouraging to me.
It's super encouraging to me.
You know, that when we were having the thing, the first time that stuff went down, that's
what I want to say.
And we'll be careful what I'm saying, sermons for you guys, not for them out there, right?
But it was super, I was super scared and nervous because I was like, man, these people are
like yelling at us and they want us dead and they want to kill us.
Was when when I was there and they were protesting us and and and brother Wade showed up and like I said hi to him
And like to me like that like kind of like renewed my spirits a bit and encouraged me
Like it was encouraging like okay, I like I saw them out there protesting and then he came in and it's like bro
I'm like we're in this together, Brody like that's how I felt
You know and that encouraged me a lot that like I had a weight there
I brought a weight there like to like encourage me, you know, and he was the one getting close
I was not no one didn't even know who I was and I was more scared right then but then brother wait, right?
But it was super encouraging to have brother Wade there and he was like, yeah, bro
You know, just leave him alone, bro.
Ignore them.
Let's sing, bro.
And I love that I brought Brother Wade,
that he's super encouraging,
and he's always encouraging me to keep serving God,
and he's always hitting me up during the week.
Hey, bro, how you doing?
The same thing with Brother Stephen,
always texting me.
Hey, by the way,
Guys, we ought to keep up on each other during the week.
We shouldn't just say fellowship for Sunday.
We ought to keep up with each other, text each other,
how you doing, brother?
I'm praying for you.
I hope you've been doing well.
Hey, keep up in the ministry.
I don't know what's going on.
I saw that prayer request, I'm praying for you,
and that's how it ought to be.
I'm glad I have guys like that.
I have Miguel to do that during the week.
He lives like 10 minutes for me,
and he is always very encouraging to me.
I'm glad I have Jared, who's always encouraging me,
always keeps me right.
It keeps me, you know, I have for that integrity,
for integrity reasons.
But the Jared all the time, when I go soul-warning,
because he keeps me focused on the right thing,
he keeps me right, and he kicks me in the butt
when I need a one in the butt.
But the Jared kicks me in the butt,
with and I always enjoyed brother Rashid's fellowship. I always enjoyed brother Matt whenever I see him Sundays there
He texts me during the week
You know all sorts of hey, we got to keep up with each other. We got to encourage each other and ladies y'all ought to do the same thing
Y'all you know how to encourage each other and and and hit each other up there in the week, too
And and keep up with each other shouldn't be just a Sunday thing
Okay
By the way, Jesus fed off their zeal. Hey by the way
We oughta take the guys who are maybe a little overzealous,
right?
And we oughta feed off their zeal.
The guys who are like super zealous,
we oughta feed off their zeal.
You know, the older veteran guys oughta feed off
the zeal of the younger guys.
The younger guys who have a bit more,
you know, a bit more time to go soul in eating.
And they got, you know, that zeal in them
that they wanna be preachers and get behind the pulpit.
They oughta feed, the older guys oughta feed off
the zeal of the younger guys.
We should encourage our younger brothers in Christ who are maybe babes in the faith.
We should encourage them to have integrity with the souls they get saved.
You know, M is in a good way. I don't mean this in a bad way.
This is, like I said, I'm just preaching, right?
You know, if you think I'm preaching about you, I'm gonna tell you guys what Brother Justin said.
Everybody, I'm not gonna tell you guys what Brother Justin said.
They're like, I'll preach you, I'll preach you, right?
If you think of sermons about you, it is.
That's what he would say, right?
But we should encourage these guys.
Oftentimes, we see that.
Unfortunately, the heart, sometimes it's easy for the younger babes in Christ to get distracted
while soul winning.
So sometimes we have what we call, and we were talking about this in Detroit yesterday,
gas station soul winning numbers.
You know, the older guys ought to go with the younger guys and encourage them, hey, let's
have integrity with our soul safe.
I've been soul winning and have heard of people in 30 minutes getting like 70 people saved.
I don't think if I even quit my job and dedicated so many 24 hours a day, I could get that in a month.
But somehow, I've seen people supposedly get 70 people saved in 30 minutes, but you know what?
We as the older guys ought to take the younger new guys and train them to have integrity and so many
have integrity like hey buddy like don't be discouraging, be patient with them
but be like hey like check your salvation bro like check see if they're actually saved
we ought to take them and train them that way
you know we should encourage them to have grace at the door
Unfortunately, I've run into people who,
and like I said, I'm not characterizing,
when I say the new IFB, I'm not characterizing
the whole movement or everyone or specific people.
Like I said, I'm just preaching,
but I've run into very few guys who have,
they're super zealous, they're super passionate
about the things of God and about heart preaching
and about the reprobates and the Jews,
and amen, that's great.
But unfortunately, sometimes they wanna take
that attitude to the door, so many.
Got our guys to have a little bit more grace at the door. I shouldn't tell people. Hey, go to hell, right?
We should have a buke people. I'm gonna use a personal example of mine when I was with Brother Wade Raleigh
I'm not I'm not at all proud of this, but one day
Regular day in India. I came we had a commute. I only had two hours of sleep running off like five coffees
Samo Samo I was a little irritated that day and I remember I was with Brother Wade and
Brother Wade and I knocked on this door and it was like this Muslim guy
I remember that this guy just like kept being argumentative and stuff and so I
remember at a point he was like oh we're Muslim we're the same thing and I did
something I'm not proud of and I was just like well Mohammed's a pedophile
that's what I said as soon as they told him Mohammed's a pedophile the guy was
like you want to come inside and he got mad and
I'm ashamed of that because now that guy's probably not going to get saved because I did that.
Or at least from somebody, if our church comes to his door and they see our track, he's probably going to remember that and not want anything to do with us.
That's something I'm ashamed of admitting, but unfortunately, it's something I learned from, but unfortunately, it's something that's preeminent with a lot of our guys in our churches, in our movement.
Churches all across America, there's guys who are overzealous, and they take that hard preaching attitude to the door.
And the problem is like, you can't rebuke people because here's the thing, that might cause them not to get saved.
That might cause them to like have a bad taste even if they're rude you should be like I have a great day
God bless you okay, and you know what that's why it's important that the older guys take the younger zealous guys out
So that the older guys could be there to give them integrity. Hey, bro. You shouldn't be saying that
Or maybe cut the guy, but if you see that your younger guy is about to say something
at a convert, cut him off and, hey bro, hey, you know, go walk the dog, go look at that
dog over there, something, and then cut in and leave a good taste in that person's mouth.
And so it's important that the older guys take the younger guys' soul winning and stuff.
We should encourage them to come to church
and keep them accountable.
We should encourage, oh, you know, by the way,
this goes for younger guys and older guys.
We should never have this prideful attitude.
Oh, my soul winning presentation
can never take any improvement.
Oh, I have the best soul winning presentation in the world.
No, there's stuff, look, there's stuff
that I even added last week to my soul winning presentation.
My soul winning presentation is still in development.
And it should always be in the,
there's always something new you can learn.
Oh, see, for example, one of the things I started adding to my
Sony presentation, I learned from Brother Justin's, after I got
the People Save, I started asking him, do you think Jesus is
Lord, do you think Jesus was sinless? And, you know, oftentimes,
the older guys might give the newer guys some correction on
their Sony methods, and the younger guys will just react
like, Oh, no, no, no, I like how the way I do it. I like the way
I do it. But that shouldn't be our attitude.
Our attitude should always be growing and developing our soning presentation and making
it better.
So we should never have this prideful attitude, hey, just because I've gotten so many people
say, I've got the best sony present.
No, there's always something new you can learn.
And by the way.
I was talking with someone and I was training them on how to go sonning and this person's
mom gave me a good verse that I added to my sonning presentation.
So the person I was training gave me something that my sonning presentation.
So there's always something you can learn.
Never have a pride fight.
Oh, my sonning presentation is the best.
That's not a good attitude to have.
We should encourage our guys to do sonning follow ups.
Listen to Brett Justin's sonning follow up sermon.
One of the greatest sermons in the world.
I like it, because here's the thing,
the whole IFP has this thing where like,
they wanna promote the bunny for the bus route
and not get the person saved and wait for them
to come to church to get them saved.
And we, as a new FB, we do strong, like we focus on so many
and amen, that's great.
But we ought to not forget, we ought to emphasize
how important it is to also do so many follow-ups.
Because if we want our church to grow,
we should want to follow up with the converts.
We have these so many follow-up cards
where you could check how many letters you've sent them,
how many phone calls, how many text messages.
And that's a great tool that I encourage everyone
in this room to get.
You could follow up on your converts, invite them to church, and that's how we're going to grow our church.
Let's give brother Justin an excuse to buy another building, right?
Amen. That would be a great reason to buy another building, right?
Because we're getting people saved and we're getting them in the church.
Um, you know and by the way talking about being you know being positive and having grace at the door
I wasn't in Detroit this week with brother Rob. Rob Marsh. He's a friend of brother Brandon's. He saved his brother in Christ
I love him and I was so winning with him and and while we were so winning
This guy's car broke down and brother Rob Marsh
Literally pulled out like like the the cords that you connect to another person's car to jump the car and stuff stuff like that and
Basically, he told the guy hey listen to him and while you listen to him. I'm gonna fix your car
Now unfortunately the guy didn't get saved but
You know what, at least we left a good taste in his mouth
and we left a good seed that possibly now
he could get saved in the future,
possibly scan the QR code.
And you're like, oh, you just wasted your time being nice.
Oh, how much work did Rob probably do?
Yeah, but you know what?
I'd rather live a good taste in somebody's mouth
than be rude and disrespectful
and them not wanting anything to do with God anymore.
Hey, by the way, we should encourage each other
to get involved and preach sermons.
and actually talk to them in so many.
Now I'm not saying force silent partners to speak.
If somebody's not comfortable speaking,
they don't want to have to speak,
don't be mean and don't force them and don't gas like them.
Oh, you're not right with God.
No, they're going so many too
and they're doing God's work too.
But we should encourage them to,
hey brother, you should preach, bro.
Why don't you get up and preach men's preaching night?
You know, I wish, and I might as I was one day,
we could have like the biggest men's preaching night ever
where it's like every guy in the church
gets up and preaches.
Now, I don't know if that's physically possible to do because we need doctors at the door
and stuff.
But you know what?
We ought to encourage each other to preach sermons, to talk through and soaring.
We have these humble guys from Emmanuel Baptist Church, one of the guys by the Jeremy Swartz.
I just love how humble and how humble he is.
And I love that whenever I go soaring, literally he opens up his New Testament and he's literally,
as I go, I'm telling him the convert, I'm like, hey, Romans 3 says this, and he goes
it and you know what that's somebody who who who I pray that you know I can
help him grow and stuff but that encouraged me we have these zealous
guys who like they're thirsty to learn like he's highlighting the verses oh
brother Elliot I didn't I didn't know that one that's that's really good like
and he highlights it and brother Jeremy you know he's hungry to go so many and
now I find out from from somebody else that he he was a little shy to talk now
He's talking probably because his church the guys he surrounds himself with the Emanuel Baptist church guys are super encouraging guys
Who encouraged their guys? Hey, bro?
Let's go let's go knock on doors and you talk man, and that's super encouraging
you know and
By the way point number six, and I'm done is I'm ending this
It's never too late to get back in the ministry when you mess up
It's never too late to get back in the ministry. I'm gonna finish up with this never too late to get back in the ministry
There was a point in my life where I was it was not too long ago, and I was not right with God
I was backslidden. I was doing things I shouldn't have done. I was like in a rough place in my life. I was
you know
dry out clinics and all sorts of things that were going on therapists and
just not good, not good.
And I remember one, I mean,
I had lost interest in the things of God.
I'd grown bitter to the church
and I've grown bitter to people in church.
And I remember that one Sunday,
my parents made me go to church
and they said, oh, we need you to go to church with us.
And by the way, at this point,
I wasn't even living with my parents.
Like, I was like, like that backslidden,
I don't want to live with you guys anymore. You know, I'm super bitter at my parents cursing my parents like
horrible things and I feel like please son, at least go to church with us one Sunday, and I went and
I remember the pastor opened up to Psalm 20 verse 6 if you guys go with me then I'm gonna finish with this
Psalm chapter number 20 verse number 6
I still remember this by the way the sins has become my life first
Psalm 20 verse 6 and the Bible says here
Psalm 20 verse number six Bible says now I know that the Lord saved with his anointed
He will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. I remember that reading that it made me meditate
I'm like man. God I remember when I was in city Baptist schools, and I was
Getting people saved, and I was at First Baptist Church
of Hammond, Indiana, and I wanted to be a preacher boy,
and I was sleeping at the House Anderson dorm
because I wanted to go to Bible college
and become a preacher.
And I remember I was on the bus routes,
and now God, now I'm a high school dropout,
now I'm a drug addict, now I'm an alcoholic God,
now I curse my parents, now my parents
probably have given up on me.
I've been to a mental hospital, I've been to a drive clinic,
my parents,
Probably were at the point of disowning me and I said God like and I remember it just brought me emotion
I started crying like God like please if it's even possible for me to do this
Can I be restored in the ministry? I remember that day. I prayed that I
remember
at same week I
Was passed out drunk on the floor of some random person's apartment
And I remember that I opened Instagram and I saw the story of somebody who I was not even close to at First Baptist Church of Ham in Indiana
But they knew them from First Baptist Church of Ham in Indiana and that brother left and came to this church
I didn't know what this church. I didn't even know this church existed. I remember I
Didn't even like him by the way. We didn't even like each other. We had like beef for First Baptist, right? No
We obviously we since then made up right but
I remember I didn't even like this, but I looked at their story, and they were preaching behind,
and I was like drunk looking at this.
They were preaching behind this very same pulpit I'm preaching.
I'm like, what? Did this dude become a pastor or something?
I was like drunk, and I remember I'm like, well, I think he's like a pastor. Let me ask him to pray for me.
I hit the person up, and I asked him to pray for me.
That person took me out to eat.
Hey, bro, do you know what the new IFB is? I'm like, what's the new IFB?
That day, everything changed.
That same day, he rebuked me.
He got me back in my parents' home.
He loved me.
He put a Bible.
I didn't even have my Bible.
I lost like, I had like 15 Bibles
when I was at First Baptist.
I didn't even have a single one.
Like I lost all my Bibles.
That's how much I didn't care about the God in the Bible rebuked me got me right back into church and a month later
From me making that prayer. I was soening with him again
And in a month later I walked into this church and a year and a half later
I'm able to look I'm able to I'm able to stand and tell the story from the same pulpit that it to a year and a half later
I was drunk and I was looking at the same pulpit now and now I'm preaching behind the same pulpit
And now, what am I trying to say here?
You may think that God can never use you again.
You may think that you could be beyond the point
of getting used by God.
You may be in some kind of sin that you may think
God can never restore you again to the ministry.
But let me tell you something, my friend.
I was literally at the bottom and God restored me.
Hey, let me tell you this, I'm not gonna have you guys go there, but in the book of Exodus, when Moses was in Mount Sinai and God was giving him the instructions of how to make Aaron's garments to execute the office of the Levitical priesthood, at the same time that that was going on, Aaron was with the nation of Israel making the golden calf.
And you know what's funny God knew that and while Eric Aaron was in sin, he was in idolatry,
he was in the worst wicked sin he could possibly be as a leader, God was making the garments
to use him.
And you know what?
You may be in that place where there is,
you may have committed grievous sin,
but let me tell you something.
God is making your comment right now.
God can make you the next Stephen Anderson.
God can make you the next Jack Hals.
God can make you the next Justin Zahm.
God can make you the next Aaron Thompson.
It's never too late, never, never too late
to get back into the ministry.
God can restore anyone.
You think God, you know, my life is wasted.
No.
I thought I thought my life was wasted
But God restored me and thank God I love this church. I love the new IFB
I thank God every single day for this church and God answered my prayer and he gave me a great church
He gave me a great church leader a great evangelist and God could always restore you no matter how bad your sin is
God could always use you again time of persecution
Time of persecution, we should stand on the Word of God.
And time of persecution, when we go through your relation,
we should meditate on the Word of God.
And time of persecution, we shouldn't allow
to state in the killer potential.
Time of persecution, we shouldn't compromise standards
to gain riches.
Time of persecution, we should train our new men.
And in time of persecution, you realize,
if you're insane, God can always use you.
One of the songs though it is dark in this world of sin
Though evil prosperous it shall not win
Through tribulation then with a shout will be caught away for his wrath poured out
Should realize that through tribulation we should put our faith and trust and God and not in ourselves
Who could be who could be a how's that verse go?
I'm sorry, my voice is gone.
Who could be, who could be, I'm sorry.
See, I'm sorry.
Who could be against us if God be for us?
I'm sorry, my mind just went to blank right now, I'm sorry.
How does that verse go?
Who could be against us if God be for us?
Yeah, if God be for us, who could be against us?
So if God is on our side, we shouldn't be scared.
Keep soul winning, keep serving God.
Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for the opportunity to be here at Sure Foundation Baptist Church
Lord Ashler to please help these people Lord help their zeal Lord go their zeal Lord keep helping our church
I love this church Lord and continue to please Lord use this church and
light up the zeal
Lord more than it already is it's already that a high zeal Lord but keep lighting the zeal of this church
I pray Lord that you please help him realize that only use is the one that we should be trusting through in tribulation in
Persecution, please Lord in Christ's name. I pray Lord Amen
Hey man, thank you brother Iliad. Let's sing that song in the Black Binder number, all right, well,
through Tribulation. It should be in the front of your Black Binder. Through Tribulation.
Though it is dark in this world of sin,
First tribulation, then with a shout, will be caught away for his wrath poured out.
The Lord will come with ten thousands of saints,
He'll judge the earth for his righteous name's sake.
Through tribulation, though we must come, there's not
Can't separate us from his love.
When sorrows increase, be not dismayed.
All must be fulfilled before that day.
The man of sin we will surely see.
The sun and moon darken, then we shall be free.
The Lord shall come.
with ten thousands of saints,
He'll judge He earth for His righteous name's sake.
Through tribulation, though we must come,
there's not can separate us from His love.
We must trust in Him, though time
time seems dark. These trials purify us with refining fire. When these come to pass, redemption
is nigh. He'll catch us away in the blink of an eye. The Lord shall come with ten thousands
righteous namesake through tribulation though we must come that there's not
can separate us from his love amen brother Jared can close the word prayer
Ma'am.