church it's time to get started this evening you would grab a hymnal turn to our first song number
56 when we all get to heaven hymn number 56 56 when we all get to heaven 56 there on the first
this day opportunity together lord take that actually come with our whole heart
for you ready and prepared to learn from your word to sing lift up our voices and praise you
lord i pray that you'd be with the salvation this evening and the seeds that were planted
also pray that you'd be with us for the service that you would soften our heart to the message
and fill pastor with your spirit these things we pray in jesus name amen for our next hymn number
102 102 he hideth my soul 102 he hideth my soul 102 there on the first
to our work into his own purpose and grace which was given us in christ jesus for the world began
on the inside you'll see our service times are listed there sunday morning at 10 30
sunday evening 4 30 of course our wednesday service at seven below that we have our churchwide
soul winning times with the leaders and respective times there and then we have an updated count of
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an option for you we do have on the back our upcoming events this upcoming sat sunday evening
it's our men's preaching night if you would like to sign up there's still time if you have not yet
put your topic on there please do fill that out as soon as possible and we'll have a couple guys
preaching on the sunday evening oh yeah also um for the potluck it'll be bring your own potluck
night so please do help with that that'd be a great blessing may 2nd is the oklahoma state
university still water soul winning marathon first time doing a college soul winning marathon
so if you'd like to attend that you can scan that qr code and sign up godresource.com events
and then let's see may 9th is the mother's day tea may 20th through the 24th anti-israel conference
steadfast baptist church and it's always funny when people go online and accuse our church
you guys are zionists you baptists zionists you worship israel it's like we're going to the
anti-israel conference folks it's crazy online you just get accused of everything on every end
of the extreme so pretty funny but i'm looking forward to that conference i'll be preaching
may 23rd that saturday so looking forward to that june 17th through the 20th is the european
soul-winning conference in germany don't get the wrong idea i know it says anti-israel and then
germany these things are not related okay nazis bad we've preached on that don't get the wrong
idea we do have our prayer list as well there's an update i'm going to be an uncle i'm excited
for that so my brand new sister-in-law reagan is pregnant so if you keep her in prayer also
remember to please keep praying daily for baby uriah his heart condition of course remember we're
just praying that he'd be very strong because as soon as baby uriah is born he's supposed to go
get a very major surgery so keep that in prayer the lemon family first works baptist church
those are the major updates i could see there of course all these we're keeping in prayer
throughout the week but if you have anything new that you'd like us to add please do email the
church at any time and we'll add that for you but before we go to our third song let's go ahead and
go to the lord in prayer as a church family lord we thank you for the opportunity to be in your
house tonight to open up our bibles and hear from your word i pray that you would just pour out your
spirit upon this service that you'd greatly bless us this evening that you'd answer these prayer
requests according to your will i pray that you would bless my sister-in-law reagan brother i
pray that you just bless the unborn baby womb that you'd help the pregnancy to be healthy
and for everything to go well for them i pray for the lemons family that you would bless
their unborn twins in the womb especially baby uriah that you would just heal that baby's heart
that your hand would just be upon that child that baby would grow strong be as strong as possible
and everything would go well with the surgery lord that you just majorly bless in this situation
pray that you help this family during this time give them strength lord and please bless
first works baptist church as well we pray for brother hall that you bless his health and his
upcoming health appointments that you just help him through his health issues lord we pray for
piper that she would just be able to get sleep that you'd help her with her pain management
and range of motion and everything that goes along with recovery i pray that you just help
her spirits to be high help her during a difficult time lord i also want to pray for the soul winning
that's going on in the philippines brother eric jameson some other people that are over there
pray that you bless them keep them safe door open to them that they can get many people saved of
course please continue to bless pastor stuckey evangelister bannock the great works that are
being done over there what i pray that you just send more laborers into the harvest both the
philippines here in oklahoma city all over the world we need more soul winners i pray that you
would send us more people that have a heart to reach the lost lord we pray for brother theodore
for his mother's cancer to be healed pray for brother miles that you bless him and miss rhea
that you help them during the health situation brother miles also pray for all the church members
that we have here with unsaved loved ones that you would fill us with boldness to be good witnesses
for christ to our family members that those people would be receptive lord that they'd soften their
hearts to the gospel i pray that you'd be with us for the remainder of this service and this week
we love you in Jesus name we pray amen all right at this time we'll go and go to our third song
for our third song this evening in your white handouts we psalm 150 psalm 150 150 in your white
handouts psalm 150 there on that first verse
if you would to ecclesiastes chapter ecclesiastes chapter three good evening
ecclesiastes three the bible reads to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose
under the heaven, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up
that which is planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build
up, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away
stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to get and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away, a time to rend
and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate,
a time of war and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made
everything beautiful in his time. Also he hath set the world in their heart so that no man can find
out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them but
for a man to rejoice and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink and
enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God. I know that whatsoever God doeth it shall
be forever. Nothing can be put to it nor anything taken from it. And God doeth it that men should
fear before him. That which hath been is now and that which is to be hath already been. And God
requireth that which is past. And moreover I saw under the heaven and moreover I saw under the sun
the place of judgment that wickedness was there and the place of righteousness that iniquity was
there. I said in my heart God shall judge the righteous and the wicked for there is a time
there for every purpose and for every work. I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of
men that God might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For
that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one
dieth so dieth the other. Yea they have all one breath so that a man hath no more so that a man
hath no preeminence above a beast for all is vanity all go into one place all are of the dust
and all turn to dust again who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward in the spirit of the
beast that goeth downward to the earth wherefore i proceed that there is nothing better than that
a man should rejoice in his own works for that is his portion for who shall bring him to see
what shall be after him let's bow our heads for prayer father in heaven thank you for this day
man well we are in ecclesiastes three this is a very poetic part of the book and of course
ecclesiastes is a very philosophical book and he's been talking about the vanity of life under the
sun now he's going to go on to explain kind of the seasons of life that we go through it says
in verse number one to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven
what's interesting is when it comes to righteousness and sin one of the things believe it or not that
could divide something being right and wrong and simply doing something at the right time right for
example you know there's a time to say the name of god right in prayer if i say the name of god
that would be an appropriate time to say god's name when we stub our toe that would be an
inappropriate time to say god's name right hey you know the physical relationship between husband
and wife that's a good time to do that when you're married it's a bad time to do that when you're
not married right so really time can be one of the defining factors in our life that determines
what's right what's wrong what's appropriate god's given us these different times it says in verse
number two a time to be born and a time to die a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which
is planted and of course you know we don't believe in evolution or the big bang theory
or anything like that we believe that the lord opens and closes the womb and if you exist today
it's because god created you and god had a time appointed for you to be born we're not here by
accident we're not some sort of cosmic accident there was a date there was a time that god said
you know be born you're you're here today right for me may 23rd 1997 that was my time to be born
and i have no clue when my time to die is i believe that there is a time that god's will is for each
of us to die now we could do stupid things to kind of override god's will in that sense right
people commit suicide people do terrible things but you know i do believe that god has appointed
time for me to die that his will would be for me to die and so what should we do look what it says
and a time to or sorry a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted so the time that
we find ourselves right now hey we've been born we are alive someday there's going to be a time
to pluck up that which is planted but right now is our time to plant right now is our time to sow
while we're alive while we have breath in our lungs we should be using this time of life that
god has given to us to serve him to win souls to do things for christ why because everything
else under the sun is vanity everything else under the sun is going to be burned up someday
and you know what you're going to stand before christ at the at the judgment seat of christ
and you know everything that's wood hay and stubble is going to be burned up but that silver that gold
those precious things is are going to remain and so now is the time to plant look at verse number
three a time to kill now again there's a there's a time differentiation here that would make it
appropriate to kill or would make it sinful wicked the sin of murder some people would say that it's
always wrong to kill no matter what because a lot of people just take a really shallow understanding
of the bible they go to exodus 20 oh thou shalt not kill therefore you know capital punishment is
off the table therefore self-defense is off the table but here's the thing when jesus quoted that
he quoted it as thou shalt do no murder so according to the bible there is a time to kill
there are times where it would be appropriate even just and righteous to kill what would be one of
those times well the government has been entrusted with the duty of punishing evil doers right so if
someone has committed a capital crime i believe that god wants that person to go through the
proper channels of our government to have a trial to face their charges to be convicted
and eventually to be executed that would be a righteous thing that would be one of those
times where hey it's good it's righteous to kill you know also defending your life would be a time
where it would be righteous where it would be acceptable to kill now the bible talks about how
hey if a thief is breaking your into your house and the sun has risen up upon him that would be
an inappropriate time because you don't want to kill someone just for stealing what's the spirit
though of that law is hey if someone's trying to hurt you if it's night or you don't know if they're
going to hurt you or if you do know that they're going to hurt you you could even use lethal force
and that would be appropriate you know thank god we live in a country where the laws reflect
those biblical values where in oklahoma you're not going to be punished for defending your life
for using lethal force when someone's trying to kill you or something like that and it says and
a time to heal time to break down and a time to build up right so you could look at these seasons
of life from the perspective of your personal life you know your church your family sometimes
churches families can go through cycles like this and i think like in the last couple years it seems
like there's been a lot of breaking down in like our new ifb friends and just like a lot of fighting
and drama and just having all these issues but then there's also a time to build up and for me
i'm really focusing and purposing in 2026 my motto for 2026 is ignore the haters haven't looked at
the haters one single time all year and i'm feeling great because i want this to just be a time of
building up you know i'm trying to spend just a lot of extra time in my bible and just really
get into god's word serving god as hard as i can because i feel like our church kind of gone
through that cycle of breaking down and now we're kind of in that season of building up it says
verse number four a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance so
obviously you know we should as christians have good discretion and one of the great ways you can
get discretion by the way is reading the word of god proverbs chapter one talks about how these
things are written to give the young man wisdom and discretion right there's an appropriate time
to be laughing and there's an inappropriate time to be laughing you know there's an appropriate
time to be mourning and if you would go to roman's chapter number 12 roman's chapter number 12
notice what it says let's see here looking for weep with them that we rejoice with those that
rejoice 18 you said 15 notice what it says rejoice with them that do rejoice so what would be an
appropriate time to laugh or rejoice when your brother or sister in christ is rejoicing or
laughing right someone buys a new house someone gets a promotion someone has a baby someone has
something good happen toward them you know the right response to that is rejoicing and you know
it's weird how some people they don't want to do this they want to be envious and when their
brother and sister in christ has something good happen to them they're kind of angry about that
they kind of back up or don't want to say congratulations but look as christians part
of loving your neighbor loving your brother esteeming others better than yourself is considering
how other people are feeling and saying hey you know my brother my sister they're having a really
important moment in their life maybe you're having a bad week maybe you're having a bad day
you put those things aside you do what a mature spiritual christian does you put those things
aside and you rejoice with your brother you are excited with your brother for things that are
going well in their life and on the other side the bible says to weep with those that weep you
know what if you're just having a great week things are going great for you and you know you
get a call from someone and they're having a terrible week they had some sort of tragedy
you know you want to have like this wicked attitude creep up where it's like well i don't
want to deal with this i'm having a good day you know you're killing my mood you're killing my vibe
no no there's a time to weep there's a time to laugh and you know what weep with those that weep
have your heart break with people when their heart breaks that would be having discretion
go back to ecclesiastes chapter number three ecclesiastes chapter number three it says a time
to mourn and a time to dance now i don't know if the old ifb likes that verse because they'll just
say it's always sinful to dance no matter what in any context but the bible says there's a time to
dance and you know when i see my little toddlers dancing i don't think it's anything sinful about
what they're doing they're just you know having a great little time there's a time to dance the
bible says it says a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together time to embrace
and a time to refrain from embracing now sometimes in different bibles that you have do any of you
have like little numbers that like to cross reference you to a different verse this one
doesn't have that but i have another bible that does and it's interesting here where it talks
about how there's a time to embrace there's a time to refrain from embracing you know when i saw
that i immediately thought of what i mentioned in verse one like you know the physical relationship
between husband and wife there's a time for that it's in marriage there's a time to refrain from
embracing before you're married now look that is a hard thing to do obviously man has that
natural desire inside of him but guess what it's time to refrain from embracing when you are not
married now go if you would to joel chapter number two joel chapter number two because one
of my other bibles had this cross reference i just thought this was kind of interesting joel
chapter number two joel chapter two look at verse number 12 it says therefore also now sayeth the
lord turn ye even to me with all your heart and with notice this word fasting and with weeping
and with mourning and rend your heart and knot your garments and turn unto the lord your god for he
is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil so
notice this in the context here is about people who had done wrong right their hearts were far
from god and they're kind of going through the process of getting right with god that's why it
mentions things like fasting right one of the reasons people often fast is you know maybe they
have a sin or they just want to feel close to god they want god's power back on their life
and they're saying you know god i'm gonna withhold myself from this what physical pleasure
this you know physical appetite that i have so that i could draw near to you i could give you
all my attention i could give you all my heart and that's what's happening here and it says notice
who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him even a meat offering and a
drink offering unto the lord blow the trumpet in xion sanctify a fast call a solemn assembly
gather the people sanctify the congregation assemble the elders gather the children and those
that suck the breasts and then notice this let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride
out of her closet so you know it's talking about just all these different groups of people what
are they they're fasting they're mourning they're turning from their evil ways they're getting right
with God and specifically it mentions who the bridegroom and the bride it's saying hey bride
bridegroom come forth out of your chamber right that's like a room a bedroom or something bride
out of your closet and this reminded me if you would go to first corinthians chapter number seven
first corinthians chapter number seven ecclesiastes three is talking about hey there's a time to
embrace there's a time to refrain from embracing what's one of those times where you should refrain
from embracing well when you're not married that's one of those times but actually the bible talks
about there's like one specific instance if you have consent to refrain even within the marriage
covenant notice what it says in first corinthian seven verse one now concerning things whereof you
wrote unto me it is good for a man not to touch a woman nevertheless to avoid fornication let every
man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband so hey time to refrain from embracing
when you're not married so hey you don't want to commit fornication so what do you need you need a
wife ladies what do you need you need a husband and it says let the husband render unto the wife
due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband so the bible says this physical
relationship is something that's due to the other party it's something that is owed to the other
party it says in verse four the wife hath not power of her own body but the husband and likewise
also the husband hath not power of his own body but the wife so when it comes to within the bounds
of marriage you know time to refrain a time not to refrain it's whenever the other spouse wants it
that person has to yield their body in the physical relationship that's what the bible says
the wife has no power over her own body do you hear that ex-new wifey the wife has no power
over her own body right my body my choice no no no my wife's body my choice ladies your husband's
body your choice that is why it's due benevolence it's something that is due unto the other now but
notice what i what i'm really focusing on because i've preached a lot on those other verses but
notice verse five it says defraud ye not one the other except it be with consent for a time why
that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again that satan satan tempts
you not for your incontinency so first of all notice how if you are withholding this relationship
in marriage when one party wants this relationship and the other is not giving that up to the other
partner what does the bible say that is fraud that's why it says defraud ye not one the other
notice it says accept it be with consent for a time so if this part of your marriage is not
happening there has to be some boundaries it has to be by consent right some people will teach oh
you have to get consent to have this activity no that's the world's philosophy that's feminism
the bible actually says you have to get consent to not have this relationship it says why that you
may give yourselves to fasting and prayer isn't that interesting and Joel too he's like saying hey
you know you're fasting you're praying you're getting things right with me and then you're
saying hey bridegroom out of the out of the chamber bride out of the closet why because
this would even be one of those rare times in marriage where there's a time to embrace there's
a time to refrain from embracing if something major is happening all in your life you know let's say
god forbid you have a child in the hospital and this child is on life support i mean this is just
a really serious situation you might be losing your child you know a lot of people are going to
be fasting in that situation i know i would be right you know your child's about to die i'd be
fasting i'd be praying i'd be calling every one of you please pray for my child right that's what
we all would do right and so this would be a time obviously where it'd be kind of weird if you're
fasting you're crying out to god you're praying but then you know you're partaking of the physical
relationship with your spouse like that doesn't really match like the severity of the situation
that you're in right so if something is going on where you're fasting for any reason you just hey
hey sorry you know speak now if ever hold your peace as i've heard it said right hey i'm gonna
fast speak now if ever hold your your peace and if you get that consent then it's okay to refrain
of course during that time so the bible says there's a time to embrace there's a time to refrain from
embracing when you're single you gotta refrain you say i don't want to that sucks okay well then get
married talk to girls put on deodorant get a job have a car wear nice clothes okay get a girl okay
but then when you're married obviously you get a partake of that whenever you want but there's
even an appropriate time to refrain from that relationship during times of fasting let's go
back to uh Ecclesiastes chapter number three Ecclesiastes chapter number three by the way
this is not a new ifb doctrine because you know my bible publisher had those verses as cross
references you know that wasn't that wasn't the steven anderson commentary or something like that
that wasn't the anchor baptist church commentary that was just some random bible company putting
that there so let's see where are we at we are on verse number uh the six a time to get and a time
to lose a time to keep and a time to cast away hey the seasons of life sometimes you know things
are going great financially and you're making good money and things are going well other times it
might just be a time to lose other times it might just be a time to cast away you know we ought to
trust god in whatever season of life we're in and not always trying to fight against whatever
season god is having us go through because of the fact that all things work together for good to
them that love god to those who are the called according to his purpose and sometimes you're
going through leanness maybe as a test maybe as a trial all these different seasons of life you
know people just struggle with being content and people always think the grass is greener on the
other side right if they don't have they want to have if they have they want to have more you know
a time of sowing it's always a time of sowing or it's always a time of reaping that they need
but really we just got to be content with such things as we have hey you know if you go through
a time of leanness trust in the lord don't stop serving him during those times don't stop doing
what's right you might just be going through a time to lose a time to keep and a time to cast
away now in my house it's always a time to cast away i'm trying to throw everything away i mean i
just wanted to cast it's just that is the time in my house just throwing things away i hate
accumulation hoarders need to get right with god it is a time to cast away some dang things
we as americans we just have too much stuff that's just why it's crazy you know the storage unit
boom in america not because people are moving or anything like that it's just like permanent
storage because of how much stuff we have it's crazy some for some of you guys it might be a
time to cast away then it says in verse number seven a time to rend and a time to sew you know
i can think about this in many different contexts one of those could be relationships right i mean
the lord talks about in first gradients five how there's certain types of christians that we
shouldn't have fellowship with people who are railers drunkards extortioners you know these
type of people fornicators and sometimes for people it's really easy to let those people go
it's like i didn't really like them anyways sometimes that's going to be people close in
your life and it's going to take some faith it's going to take some you know character
to realize hey this is a time to rend this is a time to cut things off and hey that's the lord's
will sometime other times it's a time to sew maybe something's been rent in the past you know you
never want to have this attitude if you've ever had some sort of relationship severed unless it's
a reprobate of just like things can never be fixed things can never be restored you know it really
bothered me just to speak frankly when roger jimenez got up at verity baptist church and was
just trashing the new ifb and he said you know things have changed with me with the new ifb and
then he said and it's never going back well why that's an unchristian attitude to say like hey
things are wrong with my brother and sister in christ and they're never going to go back they're
never going to be better that's a wicked attitude like why would you ever ever have an idea in your
mind that there's any christian on this earth that just i don't care what happens i don't care if they
apologize i don't care if they mature i don't care what they do you know i'm just never going to sew
that back together that's wicked folks and let me tell you i'm preaching this because there's a
danger with being unforgiving being bitter and here's the thing what does jesus say he says that
if you don't forgive men their trespasses neither will your heavenly father forgive you of your
trespasses and how you treat others is often how god treats you now i don't think that god liked
it you know god looking down from heaven seeing roger jimenez saying oh yeah all my brothers in
christ that have supported me and loved me over the years yeah never will get right with them i'll
never you know be friends with them again that's a bad attitude the only people in this world that
you should look at and say hey i will never have anything to do with those person is someone that
is a reprobate look even your unsaved family members even if they've said mean things to you
even if they've said that you're in a cult look even if they're drunk even if they're a railer
shouldn't you hope that someday they won't be a drunk i mean shouldn't you hope and pray that
someday they won't be a railer oh you don't understand they they've blasphemed god they've
said our church is so terrible don't you hope that they get saved someday and don't you hope
that they get right with god and look i understand there's some family dynamics where you just think
in your mind like i can't ever see this person serving god like i can't ever see this person
getting saved much much more like imagining them getting saved and like getting plugged in
becoming a soul winner but look you should never lose hope for those type of things
you should always pray for those types of things you should always wish for the best for those
types of things and if there's anything rent in your life you know your desire in your heart
would would be that that is sewn back together someday now here's the thing we don't want to
just sew it back together contrary to god's word there's some people the bible says to separate
from right there's some christians the bible says to separate from until they repent until they get
things right with god but you know just having this attitude of i'll never fix things with this
person i'll never love them again that is a wicked carnal attitude we got to make sure we don't have
that in our hearts it says uh a time to rend and a time to sew a time to keep silence and a time
to speak go if you would to amos chapter number five amos chapter number five there's a time to
keep silence and there's a time to speak let's talk first about time to keep silence amos chapter
number five look at verse number 10 it says they hate him that rebukeeth in the gate and they abhor
him that speaketh uprightly you know there's some people there's some apartment complexes there's
some whole nations that just hate men of god hate soul winners despise the doctrine of the bible
just want christianity to be very far from them right you know a lot of eastern countries are
like this a lot of these asian countries are like this definitely not the philippines but you know
china and japan by and large they're not christian places you know in general they kind of just
despise and hate him that you know rebukes and him that speaks in the gate notice verse 11 is
for as much therefore as your treading is upon the poor and you take from him burdens of wheat
you have built houses of hewn stone but you shall not dwell in them you have planted pleasant
vineyards but you shall not drink wine of them for i know your manifold transgressions
and your mighty sins they afflict the just they take a bribe and they turn aside the poor in the
gate from their right therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evil time
will be a time to keep silence you know let's say you're out soul winning and you knock on
someone's door and that person hates the one who's rebuking with god's word that person hates him
that's speaking in the gates literally right someone just despises you they don't like you
they don't want to hear from you you know that's not a time to try to just shove the bible down
someone's throat the bible says after the first and second admonition reject right so when you're
out soul winning hey we're there in general for what a time to speak i mean we're there to speak
we're there to preach god's word but you know what that could quickly change to a time to keep
silence if you're preaching to someone you give them the first admonition you give them the second
admonition they reject you okay well it's time to keep silent with that person and move on right
don't just sit here beating your head against the wall with people that don't want to hear the truth
even the bible talks about reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee right you know there might be
other times in life where you keep silence around the scorner you know there's some people that just
scorn truth there's some people that just hate truth that you try to instruct them they don't
have a desire to learn they don't want facts they don't want to see the truth would it really be
profitable for me to just spend all my time trying to fix that person all my time trying to help that
person see the truth no because there's a time to keep silence you know we're not going to have a
ministry to the flat earthers trying to convince them of the globe that would be a waste of time
why because these people are evil and wicked and they're scorners and they don't want to see the
truth and you can present them with evidence you can present them with facts and it's not going to
help anything and so it's like why waste our time why speak in the ears of a fool you know there's
this guy i think his name is like yan or or jan schultz he's in germany and he was trying to like
glob on to this soul winning club and he's a big time flat earther and so he decided to go online
and say that we are a babylonian sun cult anchor baptist church that that i am a catholic that i am
an idolater you know just going online and railing against me and you know i gave him one rebuke i
gave him two rebukes and then i just publicly marked the guy like hey everyone in germany watch
out for this moron this flat earther this guy who denies reality and because here's the thing
you know jesus is the way the truth and the life it is a red flag when someone hates truth let's
just take a little commercial break all right it is a red flag when someone hates truth and you know
this might be a hot take i think the vast majority of flat earthers and these mood landing deniers
especially the artemis program are going to split hell wide open when they die because they hate
truth it's like when you just can't acknowledge truth when you're just rejecting truth it makes
me wonder what types of truth what other types of truth do you hate it's like there's literally a
guy i'm not gonna say his name but there's a guy at spring crest baptist church who works in the
johnson space center as a software engineer and he was sending me pictures this week from inside
of mission control during the artemis mission and it's employees only i'm just like that is so cool
like you're there during the artemis mission and it's like is this whole guy this whole life a lie
this guy doesn't even exist you know at spring crest baptist church this evening there is an
apparition there's a government plant apparition pastor reyes is preaching to him right now they're
going to shake hands he's not real he's a hologram he he doesn't work as a software developer he gets
paid money to do nothing he wasn't actually there in mission control he didn't send me
pictures of that this week like i literally sent this guy pictures he just he just laughs it like
this is a moron actually there's not here's the thing there's not even words in the english
language fitting to describe the stupidity and wickedness of these people like like words don't
do justice how evil and wicked you are and it's like i want nothing to do with flat earthers and
these freaks and like some of the comments i've seen because obviously this is in the news with
the artemis mission this week some of the comments i've seen this week have really reassured me
of my position because i've heard people say like you know i love the new ife preaching
but you know they're wrong on on the space program they're wrong on nasa and someone's like well you
just got to show them that nasa lies you got to show them all the evidence and they said no good
luck you're never going to convince these pastors i just don't talk about it with them it's like
praise god that's the goal is i want people to be scared to say such stupid evil wicked things
i want people scared to come to anchor baptist church and admit that they believe something so
ludicrous it's like i would have a hard time rebuking you because again i just don't have words
that adequately described how stupid and evil you are so like please just stay away or repent and get
right with god that's that's my feeling towards that okay that had nothing to do with ecclesiastes
but it's very relevant for this week let's go back to ecclesiastes ecclesiastes a time to keep
silence and a time to speak hey speak not in the ears of a fool the bible says hey one and two
admonitions move on but then there's a time to speak right and we as christians hey we need to
get our voice back and go preach the gospel too many christians are silent in this world today
too many christians have gotten saved and they're just keeping their mouth shut we need to open our
mouths boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel that's one thing that you need to open
your mouth wide and speak and hey you know the bible says that it's not permitted for women
to speak in the church ladies are not supposed to be pastors but please by all means go out and
preach your heart out preaching the gospel of jesus christ please open your mouth boldly
and you know let the words of life flow out of your mouth getting people saved
we need more people to speak in that situation there's a time to keep your silence there's a
time to speak look at uh john or i'm sorry ecclesiastes three verse eight the bible says a
time to love here's one that a lot of people don't want to acknowledge and a time to hate a time of
war and a time of peace you know the world says that it's always a time to love we should love
everyone no matter what the bible says there is a time to hate you know there are some times where
the appropriate godly spirit-filled emotion is hatred right in psalm 139 david says do not i
hate them oh lord that hate thee i hate them with perfect hatred hey someone that is a reprobate
the bible says they are a hater of god guess what you are free to hate that person you should hate
that person you know child molesters it's so weird and unnatural how so many people are trying to
tell you to love even the child molester oh forgive the child molester love the mass school
shooter it's like that's unnatural that's bizarre that's weird no no no hate the child predator
hate the sodomite hate the mass you know school shooter these trannies no these people are evil
and wicked hate the false prophet how about that one hate people preaching a repent of your sins
false gospel hate the pope today oh he's an american may he rot in hell i don't care if
he's an american he's a false prophet you know hate billy graham may he he already is burning
in hell i don't even have to hope for that right there's a time to hate but you know there's also
a time to love go to john chapter number 15 you know there's also a time to love and i'll be honest
when it comes to the state of this world i truly believe that the biggest need that this world has
right now is true biblical christian love right we're living in a dark world we're living in a
world that's waxing cold that's waxing hateful in an ungodly way right we're living in a world
where some 30 year old father charlie kirk is just like the most mild political commentator ever
and he gets shot in the neck live and half the country celebrates it like you know there's a
time to love and you know the bible talks about there's lots of people that we should love we
should love the lost in this world you know for god so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten
son your default position in this life should be love people should have to change that like oh i
found out you're a sodomite oh i found out you're a child molester but you know anyone we meet in
life with our default position should be to love that person and look you should give people the
benefit of the doubt too you don't want to be like well that that guy looks effeminate so i'm just
going to assume he's a sodomite look if you don't know there's not points for finding out earlier
Your default position is to love someone, let someone prove you wrong if they're a reprobate.
But look, we need more love in this world for the lost in general.
The Bible says to love your enemies, that's a lot of love.
That's a lot of love that Jesus commands of us.
And what does he say we have to do to love our enemies?
What's the proof that you love your enemies?
When you pray for your enemies, when you do good for your enemies, when you bless your enemies.
So you can't just say, "Oh, I love my enemies."
Do you pray for them? Do you do good to them? Do you bless them?
If you're not doing those things, you don't love your enemies.
And look, how you love your enemies sounds like a pretty good way to love your friends, too.
To do good, to pray, and to bless. That sounds like a good way to love your friends.
That sounds like a good way to love your wife.
That sounds like a good way to love your brothers in Christ.
Love should be our default position in this world.
Especially when it comes to Christians, loving each other,
loving your fellow brother and sister in Christ is so important.
Look at John chapter number 15.
Look at verse number 11.
It says, "These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you
and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you."
Jesus says, "Hey, I'm giving you these commandments so that I can have joy
and so that you can have joy."
The commandments of God are not grievous.
The commandments of God help our lives and following the commandments of God,
Jesus says, brings him joy too.
Seems pretty important.
What does he command?
"That ye love one another as I have loved you."
Not only does Jesus just say, "Hey, you need to love each other.
You need to love your brothers and sisters in Christ."
He says, "You need to love each other as I have loved you."
That's an extremely high level of love, right?
Jesus is the most selfless person who's ever lived, right?
He never did wrong to anyone. He's only suffering wrong,
but he's returning good for the wrong that he's received.
He's blessing. He's healing. He's ministering unto.
He's spending time with. He's being kind to.
And the Bible says, "Hey, you ought to love each other the way that Jesus loved the people that he was around."
And so, you know, if you can't love your brother and sister in Christ,
the Bible says, "How dwelleth the love of God in you?"
You know, people just want to deceive themselves today.
"Oh, I love my enemy," but you don't pray for them,
you don't do good for them, you don't, you know, bless them.
No, you don't love your enemy.
Oh, it's like, "Oh, I love God," but you don't love your brother in Christ?
It doesn't sound like you love God.
"Oh, no, I really love God."
Well, how do you treat your brother in Christ?
How do you treat your sister in Christ?
Because, you know, if you don't have love in your heart
for your brother and sister in Christ, you don't love God.
Now, look, does the Bible say, "Thou shalt be best friends
with every single saved Christian on planet Earth"?
No, that's not possible.
Does the Bible even say, like, "Thou shalt be best friends
with every single person in church"?
No, that's not even possible for a lot of churches, right?
But, like, for example, you know what the Bible does say
is salute one another.
It's like, can you say hello to your fellow brothers
and sisters in Christ?
Because, like, if you have such bitterness and anger
in your heart that you can't even say hi
to your brothers and sisters in Christ,
how dwelleth the love of God in you?
How is it that you're loving one another?
Now, notice, that would be, like, baseline to me.
Like, how easy is it to say hi?
How easy is it to say, "Hey, good evening, brother. Good to see ya."
"Hey, good evening, sister." Like, how easy is that?
Jesus said to love each other as He loved you.
That's a lot of love, right?
His level of love is much higher.
So that's why I say today, look, I think we got the hatred part down.
I don't think there's any fag sympathizers in this room.
I don't think there's anyone struggling right now, like,
"Should I love this pedophile? Should I pray for this pedophile?
Should I do good unto this pedophile?"
I don't think anyone is struggling with that.
I really hope no one's struggling with that.
But what I guarantee you, every Christian at one point in their life
will struggle with is feeling negative towards their brother,
holding onto bitterness towards their brother.
And look, that is a sin.
It is something that you need to get your heart right with,
and it does not matter what other people did to you.
The Bible commands us not to be bitter one against another.
That's just what the Bible says.
It says, "Hey, grieve not the Holy Spirit of God."
Grieve the Holy Spirit of God when you're bitter,
when you hate, when you despise someone for whom Christ died.
And look, let's be honest, Christians can be annoying sometimes.
Christians can do really stupid things sometimes.
Christians can do things to hurt us sometimes, but you know what?
Even just if it's for your own sake, just being like,
"I want at least God to know that I'm merciful to my brothers,
that I'm forgiving to my brothers, that I'm loving to my brothers,
because when I mess up, I don't want God to come down on me like a ton of bricks."
But if you're that person where you're just like, "I'm going to hold on to bitterness.
I'm not going to love my brother. I'm not going to be kind.
I'm not going to show the fruits of the Spirit to this person."
Well, you better watch out when you sin, when you mess up.
That's when God's going to come down hard on you.
Go to Ecclesiastes chapter number 3. Ecclesiastes chapter number 3.
So there's a time to love. There's a time to hate.
If someone's saved, you always got to love that person.
There's always a time to love in that situation.
Now notice what it says in verse 9.
"What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?"
So now he's kind of switching gears and he's getting back to just the carnal work of man,
the vanity under the sun.
He says, "I have seen the travail which God have given to the sons of men to be exercised in it."
Right? So, you know, exercise, like doing, I think of like doing a training exercise, right?
You're doing like the fire drill at school as a kid.
It's like you're not actually escaping the flames.
You're not actually doing anything.
You're kind of just practicing, kind of just like going through an exercise.
Well, it's like our carnal earth in this world is kind of like a vain, pointless exercise.
We're just like doing these meaningless things under the sun.
And God has given us this travail, this hardship, these problems, kind of just to be exercised with, like as a test.
Look what it says in verse number 11.
"He hath made everything beautiful in His time."
So when you're doing things according to God's time, it's going to be beautiful, it's going to be fitting, it's going to be right.
This is interesting.
"Also, He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."
When it says that God has set the world in their heart, I think that mankind just kind of has like a natural love for this world.
Of course, the Bible says, "Love not the world, neither the things in the world."
Whoever loves the world doesn't love God, I'm paraphrasing that a little bit.
But let's just be honest, God kind of has set the world in our heart.
And what is the purpose that God has set the world in our heart?
He says there, "so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."
So here's the thing, God, He is unsearchable. How unsearchable are His ways and His ways past finding out, Romans chapter 11 says.
The more that we study about this world, learn about this world, the more we kind of realize the greatness and power and magnificence of God and how much we don't really know.
God's kind of set the world in our heart and we're interested in things like space travel, things that are happening this week.
And we see like these amazing pictures of the moon and the solar eclipse that happened and pictures of the earth coming up.
You know, we find it striking. We find it amazing.
We find it just awesome in the purest sense of the word.
And God's kind of put that desire in our heart.
And the more that we learn about these things, the more we learn how great God is and how unsearchable his ways are, how his ways are past finding out.
But we're kind of just as human beings going through this exercise, going through this travail of learning, working, discovering, always on the brink of,
"Oh, scientists, they almost have everything figured out." That's what they always say, right?
And then they realize, "Oh, there's another milestone down the way." And we're just going to be chasing that forever, as long as mankind exists, right?
Because here, think, God is just not fully knowable to us.
Now, we have the mind of Christ. We have the words of God.
But you know what? I would be lying if I stood up here and said, "I understand everything about the nature of the creator of the universe."
I'm kind of glad that I don't fully understand the creator of the universe.
How weird would that be? It's just like, yeah, the creator, I get everything about him.
I agree with him on all subjects. It's like that's very convenient, right?
But you know what? That's not the case. We're always learning. We're always growing.
We're never going to fully figure it out. But that's our exercise in this world.
It says, "I know," verse 12, "that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice and to do good in his life."
You know, strictly speaking from a carnal perspective, what is this life good for?
Hey, it's doing that exercise. It's enjoying good. It's rejoicing. It says in verse number 13,
"And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good, all his labor. It is the gift of God."
You have some people that are like ascetic, where they don't want to give themselves any worldly pleasure at all.
And they don't want to even eat good food. They don't want to drink a drink.
Then you have people who are like hedonists and they live for pleasure.
You know, Solomon, he kind of tried out that hedonist life.
And obviously if you get into covetousness, gluttony, hedonism, you could go way far wrong direction.
But the Bible also says to not be righteous over much.
And you know what, it is the gift of God to enjoy some of the things of this world.
The Bible says that God's, you know, given us the world in our hearts.
And I'm not talking about enjoying a little bit of sinful things, okay?
I'm not saying, yeah, you know, just enjoy a little bit of sin.
But it's like, you know, there's nothing wrong with having a big, juicy steak.
Hey, if you like coffee, there's nothing wrong with having a coffee.
There's nothing wrong with working hard in this earth and enjoying the fruit of your labor.
The Bible says that that is the gift of God.
Now look, you're a fool if that's all you live for.
If all you live for is just what can my money buy?
What's the best food I could eat?
What's the best vacation I could take?
What's the most entertainment?
You know, the most amount of time I could spend entertaining myself.
You're a fool.
You're not a wise person.
You're not walking circumspectly redeeming the time.
You're walking as a fool of all you care about as the things of this world.
But you know what?
You also don't want to be a holier than now where you could just never enjoy anything good.
Don't be a holier than now.
You know, for example, people could be like this on missions trips.
A lot of people, they go on missions trips, they spend their own money, they're paying their own way.
And a lot of times when new IFB churches do missions trips, you know, we have a lot of soul winning.
We're there to work.
We're there primarily to get people saved.
But sometimes it's like, you know, an hour in the evening of scheduled leisure or there's a Saturday of a couple hours of scheduled fun.
You know, don't like discourage people or make fun of people or try to look down on people if they actually want to go do those fun things and you don't.
Look, praise God. If you just want to go super hard and you just want to go pedal to the metal and just work the whole time and soul win the whole time.
Praise God for you. That's great. But you know what? Don't try to act like you're better than people because they want to have a good meal, too.
They don't they don't want to sleep on the floor. You know, they want to have a bed. They want to have a hotel or something like that.
Oh, maybe they even want a place of the swimming pool and have some fun. You know, there's nothing wrong with enjoying the good of this life.
You know, we should just always put the Lord first, make sure that we're loving the Lord with all of our heart, soul, mind, strength.
You know, and then if there's things in this world that we can enjoy, praise God.
The Apostle Paul said, "I've learned how to be abased and I've learned how to abound."
In all places, he was content. You know, if he had nice luxury lodging, he was happy.
If he didn't, he was happy. That's how we should be as well.
He says in verse number 14, "I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever.
Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it.
And God doeth it that men should fear before Him."
So in contrast with man's work, which is vanity, it doesn't last, it has no meaning,
whatever God does, the Bible says that it shall be forever.
No man can put anything to it or take away.
And so obviously primarily in this life that we have, while we're alive,
what should we be doing? We should be spending our time doing things of eternal value.
Why? Because you know what? Your business that you're building,
you know the electrical wire that you're running, the computers that you're working on,
whatever your job is, all the things that you are doing will all be burned up someday.
Every single thing you're doing in your carnal life is not going to last.
It has an end. It's vanity under the sun.
But whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever.
Every soul that you win to Christ, that's eternal.
People could spend 50 years, 60 years on the job,
investing so much of their life just caring only about their career,
and then one day it's gone, never to be returned.
It's just over.
But you know what? Every single soul you win to Christ, it's eternal.
And every single thing that you do for the Lord,
the Bible says no one could put to nor take away.
I don't believe you could lose your rewards.
I believe if you serve God and you're gaining rewards in heaven,
I don't think you could ever lose those rewards for any reason.
Those things are things of eternal value.
He says, "That which hath been is now,
and that which is to be hath already been."
Right? Hey, there's no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1 talks about.
I like this last phrase, "And God requireth that which is past."
What should we do with our lives?
How is it that we please God?
That which is past, that which we've already done.
You know, the Bible says, "I am the Lord, I change not."
Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.
How do we please God?
You know, the same things that pleased him yesterday.
Winning souls to Christ, what does he require of you tomorrow?
That which is past, that which you've already done, right?
Hey, we had a big weekend, soul winning marathon, great day soul winning,
39 total salvations, you know what God requires of us next weekend?
More soul winning.
You know what he requires of us the weekend after that?
More soul winning.
You know what he requires you to do?
Next week is to be in the house of God, to read your Bible,
to pray to him, to love your neighbor, to love your brother,
to serve him with all of your heart.
What God requires of you is nothing new, right?
He's just requiring that which is past.
That which pleased him in times past is that which pleases him now.
You know, as a Christian, I love Pastor Schell.
He always would use to say this, is that it's not hard to know what to do.
It's just hard to do it.
You know, pleasing God and serving him, it is simple, right?
Fear God and keep his commandments.
This is the whole duty of man.
That's the end of this book, right?
It's simple, but it's not necessarily easy.
But look, you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
You don't have to sit here thinking, like, I've got to find the
mystical, magical will of God for my life.
No, he just requires that which is past.
Hey, what you've already done that pleased him in the past,
that's what he requires of you again.
Verse 16, "And moreover I saw under the sun, the place of judgment,
that wickedness was there.
And the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there."
And this could obviously be very frustrating.
It could be very blackpilling when you look to institutions like,
I don't know, the Supreme Court or to, you know, district judges
or just places where judgment should be coming forth,
righteousness should be coming forth,
and then you see iniquity, you see corruption,
you see all these terrible things going on.
That could be kind of blackpilling if you're only thinking about under the sun.
Right? Psalm 73 and Psalm 37 talks about the psalmist.
He's just kind of losing his mind a little bit because he's seeing the wicked prosper.
He's seeing the rich live out long days.
He's seeing their children grow up in health.
He's seeing them not have all these issues.
And then finally, you know, he's like, I almost, you know,
my steps almost slipped until I went to the house of God.
Then I considered their end.
Right? And that's what this is saying.
It says in verse 17, I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.
For there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
You know, we got to remind ourselves that God will judge.
It just blows my mind in the day and age that we live in,
that it seems like so many people just have no fear of God.
And it's like the Bible says that God is going to judge the righteous and the wicked.
You know what God is even going to judge? The Saved, whom the Lord loveth, he chasteth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
And look, we as Christians, we need to, every once in a while,
make sure we remind ourselves that God is the judge.
He still sees. He still hears. He still knows what's going on.
And we should, what? Fear God.
We shouldn't constantly be living our lives thinking about what other people do.
What did she do? What did he do?
You know, what are you doing? Are you fearing God?
Are you remembering that he is going to judge?
Are you asking him for mercy? Because God will judge.
He says in verse 18, "I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men,
that they might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts.
Even one thing befalleth them, as the one dieth, so dieth the other.
Yea, they have all one breath, so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast, for all is vanity.
Now remember, you don't want to take these verses out of context.
In Ecclesiastes, he's explaining the fruitlessness and vanity of life under the sun.
And you know, if you only looked at life through a biological perspective,
you could come away with this idea that what's the difference between man and beast.
Oh yeah, isn't that what a lot of people believe?
That we're just beasts? That we're just evolved creatures?
Well here's the thing, if you just look at things, strictly carnally speaking,
you're living life and you're looking through the lens of under the sun,
you know, our biological processes, the way we live our life,
you know, there is no difference between us and a beast if you look at things only carnally.
Why? Because look, he's like, man, one thing befalleth,
he says, for that which befalleth beasts, the sons of men befalleth beasts.
Even one thing befalleth them, as the one dyeth, so dyeth the other.
It's like, man, this gazelle, he gets killed.
Oh, look, this guy in the ghetto got killed.
Oh, look, this animal got a disease and died.
Oh, look, this human got a disease and died.
Oh, look, this animal died in childbirth.
Oh, look, this woman died in childbirth.
And it's like, man, these animals are just dying, and they're just being buried,
and they're returning to dust, and human beings,
if you're not looking at the spiritual, are just dying,
they're being put in the earth, they're returning to dust.
You know, what a black-feeling way to live your life, by the way,
and which is so crazy how atheists actually live their day-to-day
thinking that we're all just cosmic accidents,
that there's no meaning to life, there's no purpose in anything that we're doing,
we're just beasts, everything that we do is just completely pointless.
It says verse 20, "All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
I had someone one time at an old IFB church show me this verse
to try to prove that people don't go to heaven when they die.
And I'm just like, oh snap, you're not saved.
I'm just like, I thought you were saved, like we're in an IFB church
and you don't believe that people go to heaven when they die.
It's like, folks, he's just talking about life under the sun.
You got to read things in context.
He's talking like strictly, carnally speaking, what happens to our bodies.
Hey, we go to one place, we go to the earth, we turn into dust.
dust. Now thankfully if you're saved, that's not where the story ends, right? Because one of these
days God's gonna raise the dead in Christ, you know, the Lord is going to return and we actually
will rise again even after we die. We're not gonna just end up being dust and ceasing to exist. No,
our bodies will rise again someday. We just had Easter and you know just as sure as Jesus rose again
from the dead, I will rise again from the dead. You will rise again from the dead someday. Don't
have this hopeless black pilling thing. Oh life just sucks. You pay taxes. Everything's terrible
and then you get buried in the ground. The end. It's like no there is heaven coming and you know
what there's hell coming for the unsaved and you know what it should terrify a lost person
that there's a real hell and there's such fools today walking according to this course of the
world not thinking about things like heaven and hell saying things like oh I'm good. I don't need
Christianity. I don't need the Bible. It's like look you're not just going in a hole someday and
ceasing to exist. There's a real heaven. There's a real hell in the life we live under the sun.
You know we're fighting for the spiritual life of people. We're fighting for people's souls,
people's eternity. It says wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man
should rejoice in his own works for that is his proportion for who shall bring him to see what
shall be after him. So okay under the sun what's the ultimate you know benefit you can get out of
this life strictly carnally speaking well it's just enjoying your own works how excited are you
like this is the meaning of life enjoy your work enjoy your job men enjoy being a plumber enjoy
turning the screwdriver ladies enjoy changing diapers enjoy the laundry and then you're going
in the hole someday and then the end right he says for that is his portion for who shall bring him
to see what shall be after him here's the thing living life under the sun there are some benefits
there are some pleasures there are some joys that are gifts from god let us enjoy those things but
let's not be like the atheist and like the evolutionist that has you know this earthly
vision where you're just seeing bodies and you're oh these people just die someday they'll go in the
ground it'll all be over no you need to have the heavenly vision that we are in a spiritual battle
klesiastes is trying to get it through your head that looking just under the sun yeah life is vain
yeah things are pointless but of course we know it's not just the things under the sun that exist
we live in a spiritual time there's spiritual battle going on there's people's souls that are
at stake and you know what if our gospel is hid it is hid to those that are lost what did klesiastes
three say there's a time to keep silence there's a time to speak you know we need to be people that
are out speaking the gospel of jesus christ because if we don't it is hid to those that are lost and
you know this world may think that they're just working their job enjoying their vacations and
someday they're just going to die and cease to exist but there is a real hell coming for people
i think about my grandfather who unfortunately i'm almost 100 certain is in hell right now
and will be for all of eternity that's a horrible thought is the saddest loss i've ever had in my
life because i know for sure that he wasn't saved but man he just lived under this son i mean he had
so much money he had the boats he had airplanes he really just enjoyed this life and you know i'm
sure he just thought hey you know let's live it up now because soon you know i'm just going to
cease to exist someday and you know it hurts me to say but you know what i i need the truth i need
to say the truth that i believe that he's in hell right now and you know what it didn't really go
according to his plan did it and there's a lot of people in this world that are just like my
grandfather where they think it's all about golf it's all about baseball it's all about money it's
all about the next vacation but you know what when they die when they breathe their last if
they are not saved they will spend an eternity in hell let us wake up let us have some spiritual
vision let us you know not live for the things under the sun let us get a care and a love in
our heart for the lost so that other people don't have to lose their grandpa like that
you know let's be soul winners like hey i had to lose my grandpa my grandpa's not saved but you
know i can go and knock on some random person's door and get their grandpa saved and there's some
guy out there who's grandpa i just got saved like that happens right that is actually important
that is actually living a life of meaning that is actually you know not just living under the sun
actually having meaning to your life let's pray lord thank you for ecclesiastes i pray that
everyone in here would not have such a earthly mindset that we'd only care about the things in
this world pray that you would just bless us with things and help us to enjoy the carnal pleasures
that you do give us in this life but help us not to worship those things be consumed or obsessed
over those things help us always to remember to view life through a spiritual lens and most
importantly to be a soul winner in jesus name we pray amen last hymn this evening if you would turn
to number 119 hymn number 119 119 till the storm passes by 119 they're on the first