church it is time to go ahead and get started. We'll grab a hymnal, turn to our first hymn number
172, 172, Divine Selling, 72, 72 there on the fir.
Heavenly Father, we thank you just again for this day, for all the salvations that were had this
afternoon and the seeds that were. Lord, I pray just as we did for this morning that you would be
with us for the evening service, that you'd incline your ear as we sing out our praises unto you
from the heart, Lord, that we just believe and we care and we actually want to lift up our voices
and praise you. And I just pray that you would also incline your ear to us as we do so and that
you'd also open, soften rather, our hearts to the message and fill pasture with your spirit.
These things we pray in Jesus name, amen. For our next hymn, number 155, we will sing this twice
through. 155, 155, doxology. 155 there on the first, remember we'll sing it twice through.
Nusher can bring you one. On the front is our Bible memory passage of the week, that's second
Timothy chapter number 1 verse 12, so keep up the work with memorizing that chapter. Then we have
our service times listed, Sunday morning at 10 30, Sunday evening at 4 30, and our Wednesday Bible
study through Ecclesiastes at 7 o'clock. Below that we have our official soul winning times listed
there, and then our year to date soul winning statistics. We had three as a group out today
that I saw plus two, so five. I'll check the single group, but great job out soul winning today.
I ran into a Muslim that for once was honest with me, and he told me that Muslims do not believe in
Jesus. Usually they try to lie to you and say, "Oh Muslims, we believe Jesus. We accept him. He's
a prophet." He just said, "Muslims don't believe in Jesus." I said, "Thank you for being honest,
because most Muslims lie to me and tell me that you do." But he just, right before that he told
me he never lied, so he's a liar. It's just really hard to have conversations with Muslims, but when
you run into them, if they're not receptive, go to the next door, because right after that we got a
bunch of people saved, so don't waste your time with those type of people if they're not interested.
We do have our online visitor card, QR code there, as well as online giving, and our updated prayer
list. If you could keep all those requests in prayer, and then if you have any requests to add,
please email the church. We'd be happy to add that for you. On the back we have our upcoming events.
Please do make sure to sign up for the OSU Stillwater Soaring Marathon. If you are attending,
I know we're kind of used to using the physical sign-up sheet for things, but for the Soaring
Marathon I figured we'd use Pastor Shelley's website, GodResource.com/events. Please do sign
up for that if you are going to be going. May 9th, that we do have a physical sign-up for.
In the back for the ladies tea. It's not too late to sign up. Please do participate. We'd love to
have you for that. May 20th through the 24th is the Anti-Israel Conference at Steadfast Baptist
Church. June 14th, Brother Ben from Steadfast is going to come up and preach both services for us.
Make sure to attend that weekend while I'm in Germany. And then June 17th through the 20th
are the official dates of the conference itself in Frankfurt for the European So-Winning Conference
in Frankfurt, Germany. And that's going to be it for announcements. We'll go ahead and go to our
third song together. Our third hymn this evening, number 100, Day by Day. Hymn number 100, Day by
Day. 100 there on the 1st.
Day by day, passing on, strength I've found, to be my child, teaching it, might be so, man of
me, as I do, day what he deems deadly, help is near me, a step for each other, so I'll be laid,
I'll be in bed, there's a plan to try, sleep on the land.
Joshua chapter 11, Joshua chapter 11, and it came to pass when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those
things that he sent to Jobab king of Medan, and to the king of Shimran, and to the king of Akshav,
and to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of
Kinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west, and to the Canaanite on the east,
and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in
the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mispe. And they went out, they and all
their hosts, with them, much peopled, even as the sand that is in upon the seashore and multitude,
with horses and chariots, very many. And when all these kings were met together,
they came and pitched together at the waters of Miram to fight against Israel.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time
will I deliver them up all slain before Israel. Thou shalt hawk their horses and burn their
chariots with fire. So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by
the waters of Miram suddenly, and they fell upon them. And the LORD delivered them into the hand
of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Miseroth-Mayim,
and unto the valley of Mispi eastward. And they smote them until they left them none remaining.
And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him. He hawked their horses and burnt their chariots
with fire. And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smoked the king thereof
with a sword. For Hazor before time was the head of all those kingdoms. And they smote all the
souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was not
any left to breathe. And he burnt Hazor with fire. And all the cities of those kings, and all the
kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword. And he utterly destroyed
them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. But as for the cities that stood still in their
strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only. That did Joshua burn. And all the spoil of
these cities, and the cattle the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves.
But every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them.
Neither left they any to breed. As the Lord commanded Moses his servant,
so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord
commanded Moses. So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land
of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same,
even from the Mount Halak, that goeth up unto Sir, even unto Baal-gad, in the valley of Lebanon,
under Mount Hermon, and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them. And Joshua made war
a long time with all those kings. It was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel,
save the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon, all other they took in battle. For it was of the Lord
to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy
them utterly, and that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded
Moses. And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron,
from Dibur, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel.
Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities. There was none of the Anakims left in the land
of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod they remained. So Joshua took the
whole lands according to all that the Lord said unto Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance
unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes, and the land rested from war.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day
and for the soul-winning teaching this morning. I pray that you would go fast along with your spirit
and open our ears to the secret message. Amen. Joshua chapter 11, let's start reading in verse
15. The Bible says, "As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua,
and so did Joshua. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses."
Notice how in this verse here it doesn't say that Joshua left absolutely nothing undone in his entire
life. No, rather he left nothing undone of all the things that were commanded Moses. He prioritized
the commandments that God gave to Moses in his life. And so the title of my sermon this evening
is this "Priorities." Go to Psalm chapter number 90. But I kind of like that statement
that we get there in Joshua chapter 11 that Joshua left nothing undone of all the commandments,
showing that of all the things that there were in his life, what is it that Joshua spent his time?
What did he give his attention to? What did he make sure that he fulfilled in life? It was the
commandments that God gave to Moses. He had the right priorities in life and I want to give you
a few statements this evening about having the right priorities. Number one, you cannot do
everything in life. You cannot do everything in life and honestly this is a sermon that someone
like me really needs because I am the type of person that can just get fascinated and obsessed
by just like a wide array of random things. Anyone else like that in the room where you can just find
yourself finding yourself interested or obsessed with just like everything and it's kind of hard
for me sometimes to make sure that I'm giving my attention to the right thing so I need this
sermon as well but number one you cannot do everything in life. Look at Psalm 90 verse 10
the Bible says this the days of our years are three score years and ten and if by reason of
strength they be four score years that's 80 yet is their strength labor and sorrow for it is soon
cut off and we fly away who know it the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy
wrath so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom it's good for us to
think about our lives soberly and remember truly what a short time it is that we have on this earth
and a lot of people in this life they live to be 60 years old 70 years old if by reason of strength
people make it to 80 even it's even rarer for someone to make it into their 90s way rarer to
make it even into their 100s and in the grand scheme of eternity and just even the history of
this world our lifespan is so incredibly short the bible says that our life is like a vapor
it appears for one moment and then boom it's gone it vanished it away right and so in our lives you
know time is going by very quickly and it's very important for us to be sober and have wisdom in
our lives saying hey you know what i cannot do everything in life there are going to be some
things in life that are going to be left undone but what i like about joshua is it says that
there's nothing left undone of all the commandments that god gave to moses see there's a lot of things
in my life that i just find interesting and if i did not sit down and think about my life soberly
and really try to apply my heart to wisdom and use my time wisely i could really get into those
things you know for example i really like to play guitar and like if i just had unlimited time i
could totally see myself just really getting into guitar and just trying to become an expert
guitar player but you know what i've not even gotten close to that here's why it is nowhere near
the top of my priority lists it's not saying i wouldn't enjoy it i would enjoy it i would have
a lot of fun doing that you know i like to go hunting i like to go fishing i really like aviation
and flying but you know these things are just nowhere near the top of my priority list there
in my in my life there's going to be a lot of hunting that was left undone there's going to be
a lot of fishing that is left undone but you know what i don't want my soul winning to be left undone
i don't want my church attendance to be left undone i don't want my bible reading to be left
undone where a lot of people in this world they have the wrong priorities they're making sure oh
we're going to get our camping done we're going to get our fishing done we're going to learn to
be an expert guitarist but they don't read the bible they don't go to church and you know what
they're wasting their life they're not realizing hey you know what i am not able to accomplish
everything in my life my life is short it's going to be 60 years maybe 70 maybe 80 maybe more than
that but for most of us it's just going to be boom gone like that and even me you know i'm a
young man but i feel like i could just immediately snap myself back to being a child in my mind and
then just like boom here i am today and that time just went so fast and i'm sure everyone feels that
way where you just remember you're you and then just boom here you are today life is going by
fast and you better realize that you cannot do everything in life go to luke chapter number 10
while you're turning there john 21 25 says this and there are also many other things which jesus
did the which if they should be written everyone i suppose that even the world itself could not
contain the books that should be written amen you know this idea of how you can't do everything in
life even the bible itself kind of recognizes this saying hey the bible doesn't have literally
every single thing that jesus did because if the bible included everything jesus did i think the
world itself wouldn't even be able to contain the books right so there had to be some prioritization
in the word of god that god chose to inspire and preserve for us we don't have literally every
single thing jesus did there had to be a realization saying hey you know we have to have a book that
contains the word of god and it has to have the priorities of what matters to god that we were
that we have received so number one you can't do everything in life number two you must choose what
to do and what to leave undone you must choose what to do and what to leave undone luke chapter
10 verse 38 now it came to pass as they went that he entered into a certain village and a certain
woman named martha received him into her house and she had a sister called mary which also sat at
jesus's feet and heard his word but martha was covered about much serving and came to him and
said lord does thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone bid her therefore that she
helped me and jesus answered and said unto her martha martha thou art careful and troubled about
many things but one thing is needful and mary hath chosen that better part the witch which shall
not be taken away from her so notice in life you're not going to be able to get everything done
and so we have to choose what it is we'll do what it is that we'll leave undone at the moment that
jesus was in the home of mary and martha mary chose hey i'm going to leave the chores undone
for a moment because the lord jesus christ is here what did she do she had the right priorities
whereas martha she was going to make sure that the chores are done but that was at the expense
of her time with the lord jesus christ what is this proving hey you cannot do everything in life
you cannot do everything in life so you must choose intentionally what is it i'm gonna leave
done what is it that i'm going to leave undone joshua he left nothing undone of all the
commandments that god gave to moses martha made sure that she was not leaving undone her time
with the lord jesus christ mary she made the choice oh i'm gonna get my chores done not gonna
spend time with the lord jesus christ it's like it's not saying that oh you know mary was good
because she just eternally forsook her chores or something like that but it's just pointing out
that at that moment she had the right priorities and like i tell my wife like my wife is very busy
she's got a bunch of kids she's homeschooling she's taking care of the house like i would rather
certain things be left undone than others like like here's some things i don't ever want undone
reading the bible like i don't want the homeschooling left undone i don't want my
dinner left undone like if i have to choose like is the house going to be like perfectly clean
or am i going to have dinner i would rather dinner okay we're just going to have to choose in life
there's going to be some things we have to choose this is what's going to be done this is what's
going to be left undone you know in my house there's a lot of projects at my house that are
just left undone i mean i've got i've got a fence to fix i've got birds that live underneath the
awning and my siding of my house i need to trim the trees but you know what all that stuff is
going to be left undone for a long time because i've got a lot of important things to do i've got
priorities in my life and here's the thing i could go do all those things and make my house look
really nice but then i would be leaving undone other things that are way more important i don't
want to leave my saturday soul winning time undone to do some carnal tours around the house i don't
want to make my bible reading have that be a time that's undone because i'm getting the birds out
of the siding or whatever like you know what it's just you have to make priorities in your life
you have to come to a decision purposely saying what is actually important in my life what are
some things that i'm willing to leave undone what are some things i'm not willing to leave undone
i like joshua's mentality he's saying hey i'm not going to leave anything undone of the commandments
that god gave moses that's the right mentality go if you would to matthew chapter number 16
matthew chapter number 16 matthew 16 look at verse 24 then said jesus unto his disciples
if any man will come after me notice this let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
for whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake
shall find it for what is a man profited if he if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own
soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul you know what if you actually want to say
hey i want to make a priority in my life i actually want to follow the lord jesus christ
with all my heart i want to make serving god a priority in my life i want that to be the
main thing in my life you know what that means there's probably some carnal dreams and desires
that you have that you will have to sacrifice for the lord jesus christ sometimes you will have to
lose your life in order to find it sometimes you will have to deny yourself in order to follow
the lord jesus christ you know this is the difference between someone just being saved
and being a disciple salvation believe in the lord jesus christ and thou shalt be saved being a
disciple denying yourself denying your life losing your life for the sake of the gospel
you know that is what's really important you think about it think about some examples in the bible
peter and andrew to follow the lord jesus christ you know what they had to do they had to forsake
their business they had a fishing business who knows how long it was in their family but i'm sure
they worked really really hard i'm sure it was you know what they were giving their life's work too
but in order to follow jesus jesus said hey follow me and i will make you fishers of men they had to
leave their business and look i'm not saying that god is asking every single person to do that if
you're a business owner you have to give that up or something but look there's some people where
that is the case where you would need to leave your business what's an example of that well how
about like full-time ministry you know we need some people in this world that are willing to
sacrifice career sacrifice business and give themselves fully to the work of god if those
people didn't exist well guess what there'd be a lot of stuff undone in the kingdom of god there'd
be a lot of stuff undone in the house of god if literally no one in this world was willing to
sacrifice those things we need some people willing to do that how about abraham abraham had to
forsake the land of his fathers you know a lot of people today they live super far from a good
church but they make priority their land their priority is their family farm and you know what
they're they're willing to leave the work of god undone because they want to make sure all their
farm work is done you know some people in this world god is calling them to leave a mother and
father leave the land of their heritage leave the farm leave the ranch and go to a good church that
would be god's will for some people it was god's will for abraham to leave the country of his
fathers how about moses moses had to leave the riches and pleasures of egypt i mean moses grew
up in pharaoh's tutelage and he grew up being like an egyptian he was powerful he had the riches he
had the pleasures of egypt he gave those things up he sacrificed those things to lead the people
of god and so it's like again why would someone do that because they have the right priorities
they realize hey we cannot have it all in life we cannot get every single thing done in life
we have to prioritize the things that actually matter you know paul gave up his status as a
pharisee right paul was a pharisee of the pharisees he had you know prestige and status being a
religious leader he forsook it all to follow the lord jesus christ go to philippians chapter number
three you know there are many things that i would like to do in my life but i have made the choice
to serve god you know it's not like oh man you know you fundamentalists you christians you you
people that are religious though you go to church three times a week you go soul winning you know
you only do that because you don't know how to have any fun in your life you only do that because
there's literally nothing else going on in your life you know that is not true i know tons of
people where i'm sure if we just sat down a list of things we would like to do on a weekend or
like to do spending our life there's lots of fun things in this world that i'm sure we would all
like to do but guess what some of those things if you want to serve god are going to be left
undone your little dream list your little bucket list your little travel to see the seven wonders
of the world you know sometimes that's just going to be left undone sometimes you're not going to
get the bucket list filled off sometimes you're not going to travel everywhere you want to travel
sometimes you're not going to live out every dream that you want to live out if you want to serve god
now here's the thing if you just want to serve mammon with your life and be selfish and only
care about money i'm sure there's plenty of carnal things that you can accomplish but then
you're going to be leaving undone the spiritual you can't do both you can't serve god and mammon
jesus said look at what uh philippians three verse eight says yay doubtless and i count all things
but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of christ jesus my lord for whom i have suffered
the loss of all things notice and do count them but dung that i may win christ so notice anything
that the apostle paul gave up to serve christ he says i have no regrets why because when you
actually do make the right decision in life and you actually do prioritize serving god and you
leave some of your carnal dreams behind you'll realize that what you're doing is so much better
than the dreams that you had like you know i'll just be honest some some silly dreams i had growing
up is you know i really love hunting and fishing and i grew up in idaho i spent a lot of time
there i mean carnally speaking like what i was preaching about this morning living out in the
middle of the woods sounds pretty fun but you know that's a selfish carnal desire that i had
and i'm glad i didn't chase that because winning souls is so much more fulfilling
than being in the middle of the woods but you know brother cameron i'm just gonna call him out he
told me the same thing today that at one point he wanted to live in the middle of alaska and
homestead that's probably a pretty common desire that men have to kind of go out in the woods and
just you know rough it out there you know that's a carnal desire that i'm sure many people have
but if you actually live out that desire you're going to leave a lot of stuff undone for the lord
right you know oh we have all these dreams all these you know careers that man may have a desire
to have but those careers keep them out of church man you got to leave one thing undone either your
dream career is going to be left undone or serving god's going to be left undone make the right
decision right leave those dreams that you have undone and serve god and then when you do that
you're you're gonna actually find out that you're not going to have any regrets he says all that
stuff that was lost it's done it's crap it's meaningless it's worthless you will have no
regrets serving god go to uh luke chapter number nine luke chapter number nine cannot do everything
in life luke chapter number nine verse 57 and it came to pass as they went in the way a certain man
said unto him lord i will follow thee whithersoever thou goest and jesus said unto him foxes have holes
and birds of the air have nests but the son of man hath not where to lay his head so if you're
living at the time of jesus walking this earth and you think to yourself you know i'd like to be a
disciple of jesus christ i would like to follow the lord jesus christ and you have that desire
in your heart but maybe in another chamber of your heart you have this desire i would like to
live in a really nice house i would like to have a really nice pleasurable comfortable life life
you got to choose because he's saying hey the son of man hath not where to lay his head you would
have to make a decision here and say hey one of these are going to be done one's going to be left
undone where are your priorities in life he says in verse 59 and he said unto another follow me but
he said lord suffer me first to go and bury my father jesus said unto him let the dead bury their
dead but go thou and preach the kingdom of god you see he wants to follow jesus and he also wants
to bury his father well you got priorities in life and one's going to be done one's going to
be left undone now that's pretty intense right there i mean imagine your father dying but the
lord jesus christ is saying hey go preach the kingdom of god one of these is about to be done
one is about to be left undone but you know what you should do is you should always prioritize the
lord jesus christ even over family and you know what's great is when your family serves god with
you but that's not always the case but you know what you should always put the lord jesus christ
first and if you are seriously a disciple of the lord jesus christ you know what that means that
means that you probably won't be able to attend every single wedding every single funeral every
single family function every single thing this world has to offer because if you did you would
start to notice oh the spiritual is being left undone right i mean we could all just figure out
ways to fill our time in our life but if you just do that with carnal things then you're going to
be leaving the spiritual undone verse 61 and another also said lord i will follow thee but
let me first go bid them farewell which are at my home at my house and jesus said unto him no man
having his hands to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of god i mean this guy just
says let me go say goodbye to mommy and daddy he's just like if you do that you're not even
fit for the kingdom of god he's like come follow me right now you know man looking back is fit
for the kingdom of god i mean that's an intense level of discipleship right there but here's the
thing no one accomplishes great things for god in their life by accident right no one just like
stumbles themselves into being a great servant of god no one like accidentally stumbles into being
a disciple of jesus christ you know along the way of serving god there are going to be all these
little things that are calling for your attention calling for your time and you're going to
constantly in life be having to make a decision a conscious decision saying hey what am i going to
do what am i going to leave undone that is something that's going to go on for the rest
of your life if you want to serve god it's never an accident go if you would to exodus 18 you know
the reason why people do big works whether that's carnally speaking or or things for god is that
they're actually intentionally purposely doing the big things and not letting all the little things
get in their way because little things are constantly calling for our attention little
things are constantly begging for our time and there's a great story that illustrates this in
exodus chapter 18 it says verse 13 and it came to pass on the morrow that moses sat to judge the
people and the people stood by moses from the morning unto the evening so if you notice morning
to evening you know what that is that's all of moses's time i mean all of his working hours all
of his time is being taken up by people coming up to him one by one and asking for advice asking
for judgment trying to get in front of the man of god that's taking up 100 of his day okay and look
you know man you provide you can see how easy it is for just 100 of your day to be taken up by
little things verse 14 and when moses father-in-law saw all that he did to the people he said what is
this thing that thou doest to the people why sittest thou thyself alone and all the people
stand by thee from morning unto even and moses said unto his father-in-law because the people
come unto me to inquire of god it's like here's why i'm doing this father-in-law because tasks
are coming upon me right and it's like it's very easy in life to find ourselves just constantly
being bombarded with little things little tasks that can keep us away from doing the big things
why are you doing this moses well because they keep coming because the problems keep coming
because the people keep coming that's why i'm doing it but notice he says um verse 17 and moses
father-in-law said unto him the thing that thou doest is not good thou wilt surely wear away both
thou and this people that is with thee for this thing is too heavy for thee thou art not able to
perform it thyself alone back to point number one you can't do everything in life you will not be
able to accomplish everything in life harken now into my voice i will give thee counsel and god
shall be with thee be thou for the people to godward that thou mayest bring the causes unto god
and thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk
and the work that they must do moreover thou shalt provide out of all all the people able men such
as fear god men of truth hating covetousness in place such over them to be rulers of thousands
rulers of hundreds rulers of 50s rulers of teens let them judge the people at all seasons and it
shall be that every great matter they shall bring unto thee but every small matter they shall judge
so shall it be easier for thyself and they shall bear the burden with thee so moses's father-in-law
gives moses and uh admonishment and encouragement to say hey why don't you get some other good men
why don't you delegate some of your tasks to other qualified men that way you could focus
on the big things the great matters the big important matters can come to you but all the
easy small trivial repetitive recurring issues that people come to you with have these other people
handle those things one of the things i think we can learn from that is that we as christians we
ought to be spending our lives doing the things that only we can do how about soul winning i mean
this is the great commission this is why we're here on this earth this is our purpose in life
is to preach the gospel to every creature this is the great thing this i mean it's called the great
commission right this is the big work this is the first work and it's like look there's so many
little things in life that'll call for our attention that'll get us distracted from the
main work but we need to remind ourselves hey we're here to do the big things we're here to do
the main things and yeah there's so much on a sunday or on a saturday morning there's so much
on a sunday afternoon that could distract us away from that but we got to remind ourselves of our
priorities in life we got to realize hey not everything can be done some things are going to
be left undone but let's not have it be the big things that are undone let's not have it be the
soul winning that's undone and of course you know this could help you in many areas of your life
you know if you're at work there's some things you're probably more specialized in doing than
others there's probably some big overarching goals that you have if you're the owner of the company
if you're a manager or even if you're a technician specializing in your area you want to be focusing
on the things that only you can do you know it's not it's not a good management principle
when the management is doing all the menial labor of the lower level workforce that's not a good
manager someone who's just literally doing all the same work as the people are under him no he
wants to delegate those things that he could focus on the big vision of the company how he
could push things forward how he could expand into the market and help his company grow because
that's how his workers get paid right and so you could work with that in a whole bunch of different
areas but you know you need to do the things that matter most the things that only you can do you
know moms anyone can clean up the house and i'm not saying you shouldn't clean up the house but you
know what you're giving to them to raise those kids to teach those kids the word of god to train
those kids that's the most important thing go to nehemiah chapter six there's another great story
that illustrates this in nehemiah you know nehemiah he's trying to do a great work he's trying to
rebuild the wall that's his focus that's his overarching mission and of course there's all
these small things that are trying to take him away distract him from doing that it says in nehemiah
chapter six verse one now it came to pass when sand ballot and tobiah and geisham the arabian
and the rest of our enemies heard that i'd builded the wall and that there was no breach left there
in though at that time i had not set up the doors upon the gates that sand ballot and geisham sent
unto me saying come let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of ono but they
thought to do me mischief and i sent messengers unto them saying i am doing a great work so that i
cannot come down why should the work cease whilst i leave it and come down to you yet they sent
unto me four times after this sort and i answered them after the same manner notice nehemiah hey he
had his priorities some things are going to be done some things are going to be undone he wants
the wall to be done he wants the great work for god to be done you know the meetings with sand
ballot and tabiah and all these time wasters he's like let those things be left undone he
recognizes i cannot do everything in life i cannot accomplish everything i can't stop this great
work that i'm doing for god to come down and talk to you right there's so many things in our life
that are just begging for our attention ready to waste our time but we need to take ownership of
these things and tell our life hey you know what prioritize the things that actually matter the
things i want done forget about the things that i want undone go to james chapter number four
james chapter number four number three make daily decisions that line up with your priorities in
life i said number one you cannot do everything in life number two you must choose what to do
and what to leave undone number three make daily decisions that line up with your priorities in
life i mean you can sit down on paper and say oh i want to serve god with my life oh i want to be
a disciple of jesus christ but you know what what you do on a daily basis and what you do on a weekly
basis reveals who you really actually are you know it just every day oh i want to be a disciple i
want to serve god you just never read your bible though you never pray you never go soul winning
you never go to church it's like you can sit there and pretend like that's your priority in life
but what you do on a daily and a weekly basis is who you really are look at james chapter 4 verse
13 go to now ye that say today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year
and buy and sell and get gain whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow for what is your
life it is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away for that you
ought to say if the lord will we shall live and do this or that but now you rejoice in your boasting
all such rejoicing is evil therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is
Sin you know if there's something important in your life that you want to accomplish do it now
Don't sit here and say like man. I really I really want to prioritize serving God
I really want to prioritize being a faithful church member being a faithful soul winner
Going out on a mission strip doing great works for God. I really want to prioritize in my life
And you know what I'll do that someday. I'll do that when I get order older
I'll do that when I get my finances in order. I'll do that when I'm married
I'll do that when I have kids. I'll do that when I'm retired
No go to now the Bible says go to now if there's something in your life
You want to accomplish you know what start doing that thing now?
Make sure that your daily actions actually are matching up with the priorities that you say you have in your life
Why because him that knoweth to do good and do with it not to him it is sin right and boy a boy
There are so many saved believers in this world that know that it's right to preach the gospel
But they don't do it and you know what that's a sin
And you know don't tell me that your priority in life is serving God and following Jesus if you're not a soul winner
Why because Jesus said follow me and I will make you fishers of men if you're not a soul winner
You're not following Jesus stop deceiving yourself. You're self-deluded today
If you think you're serving God and you're not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
You're self-deluded today if you think I'm a spiritual person, but you don't read the Bible
You're self-deluded today. If you think oh, I love God, but I don't go to church. No, you don't you're honoring him
With your lips and with your mouth, but your heart is far from him
You know, if you actually have a priority of wanting to serve God
Why don't you let your actions show that on a daily basis on a weekly basis go to Matthew chapter number four
Let's talk about a different a couple different categories of people in life because you know, I don't want to leave
Undone the important things of life. I would love to get to the end of my life and be like Joshua
Where's like hey, he left nothing undone of all the commandments that God gave, you know
Let let the house projects be left undone. Let mastering the guitar be left undone
I mean, that'd be cool someday, but if I have to choose between the two it's like let all that stuff be left undone
Let's make sure that the important things in life are done. Let's talk about Christians in general, right many Christians today are
Prioritizing things in life that are not the right priorities that God gave, you know
What's an example of this a lot of Christians today?
Prioritize things like I don't know becoming an online influencer like these are becoming this is like a really big category is like being
Christian influencers and it's not like pastors and ordainment of God and people that are leading a church
It's just like these random bozos are prioritizing like becoming some sort of internet influencer when what they should be
Prioritizing is following a man of God what they should be prioritizing is being a blessing to their church
What they should be prioritizing is reading the Word of God, right? Look at Matthew chapter number four. Look what it says in verse number four
It says but he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone
But by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God
The Bible says nothing about becoming an online influencer
But it does say something about reading this book the Bible doesn't say anything about becoming an influencer
But it does say that you would live by every word of God
You know, the Bible does not say anything about reading books about the Bible
It talks about reading the Bible, right? I mean a lot of Christians say they have their priority is all let's let's have a little
Devotion with God and they open up books about the Bible, but the Bible doesn't emphasize this
That's not the priorities that God gives that's a messed up priority that you have in your life
If you want to leave, you know undone the commandments of the Lord will then focus on your little devotionals
But you know what?
Let's leave the devotionals undone and let's leave the Word of God read and look I'm someone I love to read
I love to read all sorts of different books secular books, you know, even some, you know religiously themed books
But you know what if I have to ever choose those books are always gonna be left unread and the Bible is gonna be left
Read if I have to choose between the two, right?
I mean if I have only time in the day to read one thing
It's gonna be the King James Bible 100% of the time
It's wrong to sit here and forsake reading the Bible to read a book about the Bible
Why Psalm 11 says blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly
Nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful
But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate
Day and night look I'm not against reading other books. I encourage you to read other books
I encourage you to become educated
But if you ever come to a decision in your life where it's like I can only do one or the other
You know what you do meditate read the words of God day and night prioritize the King James Bible over other books
Here's another example. You know, the Bible does not command you to go to Bible College
This is a big, you know priority for some Christians and their big priority in life is going to Bible College
The Bible doesn't say to go to Bible College
What it does say is to study to show thyself approved unto God and there's some people they they want to go to Bible College
They want to attend a physical institution. They want to get a piece of paper saying look, he's a pastor
Look this 21 year old with no wife. No kids. No experience hasn't been proved
Look, he's a pastor because he went to Bible College. The Bible doesn't say to go to Bible College. It says to study to show
Thyself approved unto God, you know if you want to be a pastor you better get your priorities right in life
You know what your priority should be is reading this book cover to cover dozens of times
That should be your priority
And you know what if we actually had preachers today young men today that want to be pastors if they read this two dozen times
Before they got ordained. Maybe there wouldn't be a bunch of pastors in this country that don't know what repentance is
Maybe wouldn't have a bunch of pastors today getting up and saying oh god loves the faggots bring the faggots into the church
Let them be nursery workers bring them in oh, you know just denying the reprobate doctrine not understanding scripture
Not being clear with what they preach. It is a shame today
Why because pastors and preachers oftentimes don't have the right priorities
Let's go to the Bible college. Let's get a piece of paper
What does that benefit you if you don't know the Bible?
And you know, I just want to repeat what I said this morning any pastor whether he is saved or not if he cannot
Clearly preach what salvation is he needs to sit down and shut up period
And you know if you're in a church and your pastor is confused on repentance
You should leave because you know someone is not worthy of being followed as a spiritual leader
When they can't sit here and teach the most important doctrine in the Bible
Why because they've sat there and they prioritize their Bible college
They prioritize getting their little degree, but they didn't actually sit down and study the Word of God
You know before you get up behind a pulpit and preach the Word of God
Why don't you sit down shut up and study the Word of God? It's a shame to get up and preach lies
It's a shame to get up and preach false doctrine
I don't care who you are you've got the wrong priority in your life
You know the Bible doesn't say to come down to an old-fashioned altar
Come on down to an old-fashioned altar and get right with God
That's not what the Bible says the Bible says draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you
Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded, you know
Instead of putting on a show of you getting right with God
Why don't you actually get right with God wouldn't that be a good priority to have in your life?
But a lot of people oh, they just want to hear the preacher say every head bowed every eyes closed
Come on down to an old-fashioned altar and do business with God and get right with God. Hey instead of looking spiritual
Here's an idea
Why don't you actually be spiritual?
Because why is it that so many people in these churches that have altar calls are just coming down and re getting saved every week
Bro, there's a problem here. Look if you're not right with God instead of trying to make people, you know
Think you're getting right with God think you're spiritual. Why don't you actually just get right with God?
Why don't you just actually let the Word of God smite your heart and say God, I'm sorry. I want to change
Hey God, I want to get this out of my life him that know to do good and do it that not to him at a sin
God, I know I should be doing this and I want to start doing that. You know what?
You don't need to tell everyone. Why don't you just actually do it? You don't need to tell everyone you're getting right with God
Why don't you just actually get right with God? That would be having the right priorities in your life
You know, the Bible doesn't say thou shalt watch, you know
24,000 sermons per week the Bible says to go to church the Bible says not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
You know if someone out there is just watching sermon after sermon, but they're not going to church
You've got the wrong priorities in life
You know the Bible doesn't say thou shalt be reachable by the whole world 24/7
But it does say to pray to your father which is in secret go to Matthew chapter number six
You know, we live in a world today that's so connected and digital and people their priority in life is just making sure that they're reachable
By everyone every single second of the day and there's this high pressure to be online be reachable be connected
But you know what?
There's some times where you should be disconnected from this world and connected to the Lord in prayer
Look at Matthew chapter 6 verse 6
But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut thy door pray to thy father
Which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly, you know
You should prioritize some alone time where you're not reachable
You should prioritize some times where you can't be gotten a hold of because you're praying to your father in your closet in secret
It's just you and the Lord, you know
I've got a lot of unopened Facebook messenger messages that are gonna be left undone in my life
And you know what? That's no offense to all the people that message me
But you know what? There's some things in my life that are gonna be done
There's some things in my life that are gonna be left undone
And you know what the Facebook messages are gonna be unread the texts are gonna be unread the Instagram messages are gonna be unread
The emails sometimes gonna be unread because I am going to be praying to my father
I am going to get my Bible time in I am going to pastor this church
I am going to write sermons. I am going to be the father to my children
I am going to be the husband to my wife because I have priorities in my life
And I realize hey not everything can be done not everything could be done
I am going to say hey some of those things are going to be left undone and honestly I hate Facebook messenger anyways
It is probably the surest bet that I will never respond to you unless you are my mother
Email the church if you want to get a hold of me ok I hate Facebook messengers so much
You know the bible never commands you to go to a foreign country to build schools and purify water
But it does say go forth into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature
Boy a lot of churches today have their priorities messed up
And they want to spend all these thousands of dollars doing missions trips throughout the world
But they're not even preaching the gospel, they're purifying water
You know is there anything wrong with purifying water?
No, I hope there's some people in this world that purify water
But you know what? We as Christians should do the one thing we should do that we can do
Preach the gospel
See you don't have to be saved to purify water
You don't have to be saved to build schools
You don't have to be saved to give ham sandwiches to the poor people of Africa
But you do need to be saved to get someone else saved
And so what should we be focusing on?
What should be our priority?
Is preaching the gospel
Go if you would to 1 Timothy 5
Let's talk about another group
Husbands
The Bible does not say that you need to be your wife's emotional cheerleader
You know that that's not your priority as a husband
That's what the world would have you to think
What is a husband's duty?
Be your wife's biggest fan
Be your wife's cheerleader
You know the Bible doesn't say that you have to constantly romance your wife with gifts or vacations
And money to keep her happy and content
You know what the Bible actually says is for you to provide for your family
1st Timothy 5 verse 8
But if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own house
He has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel
You know if you're a man and you're not providing for your family
Oh boy, but you're such a good cheerleader
I mean you're really emotionally supportive
Your priorities are jacked up my friend
And the world just wants to tell you what's a perfect husband look like?
You know he's a cheerleader
He's the Labrador husband
He is just so easy to be controlled by the wife
And he's so submissive, he's so obedient
I'm sorry, that's the jacked up priority
You know what your priority is?
Is to provide
You know what your priority is?
Is to lead and to love your wife
Go if you would to Ephesians 5
The Bible doesn't say that you need to be a modern, sensitive man
And share all your feelings with your wife
And come home from a hard day's work
And just unload all your emotions on her
And just tell her how hard your day was
You know what it tells you to do?
Is to love her like Christ loved the church
You know what it tells you to do?
Is to lead her spiritually
Ephesians 5 verse 25
Husbands, love your wives
Even as Christ also loved the church
And gave himself for it
Why?
That he might sanctify and cleanse it
With the washing of water by the word
That he might present it to himself
A glorious church not having spot or wrinkle
Or any such thing
But that it should be holy and without blemish
See if your husband, oh you're so supportive
You're so emotionally sensitive
But you're not leading your wife spiritually
Your priorities are messed up
I'm sure there's a lot of husbands that on paper
People would be like, oh this husband's doing such a good job
Let me tell you something
If you're not taking your wife to church
You're not doing a good job
If you're not leading your wife spiritually
You're not doing a good job as a husband
You need to sit here and stop having the world's philosophy
And get the right priorities in your life
Let's talk about wives
You know the Bible never commands wives to be a trad wife influencer
I mean isn't this the priority for some women today?
I know what I'll do
Instead of being a loud mouth, busy body feminist online
I'll be a loud mouth, busy body trad wife online
And I'll spend all of my days filming myself in the kitchen
And spending 8 hours editing a 60 second video
To show the world how trad I am
It's like the Bible doesn't say to be an online trad wife
You know what it says is to raise your kids
To love your husband
To be a keeper at home
Instead of showing off what a great housekeeper you are
Why don't you actually be a good housekeeper
Why don't you actually take care of your home
And not live this fake manufactured life
Look at Titus chapter 2
Titus chapter 2 verse 3
It says the aged women likewise
That they be in behavior as becomeeth holiness
Not false accusers
Not given to much wine
Teachers of good things
That they may teach the young women to be sober
To love their husbands
To love their children
To be discreet
Chased
Keepers at home
Good, obedient to their own husbands
That the word of God be not blasphemed
The Bible never climbs you to go climb the corporate ladder
Ladies
It says to be a keeper at home
The Bible never says to be, you know, obsessed with every online Facebook spat of drama
You know what it says?
Is to love your children
To love your husband
To be a keeper at home
You know what the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 5?
Wives, obey your husbands
Oh, but I've got such a good job
Well, if you're not obeying your husband, you're pretty worthless
You have the wrong priorities in life
Go to Ephesians chapter 6
Ephesians chapter number 6
What about parents?
You know, the Bible doesn't say
Make sure you take your kids camping
Make sure that your kids get lots of vacations when they grow up
Make sure that on Christmas morning
They've got like 20 presents to open up
Make sure when your kid loses a tooth
That you give them money
That you give them some sort of treat
I mean, these are the type of things that the world would say
If you're doing these things, you're a good parent
If you could give your kid vacations
If you could play ball with your kids
If you give them money
If you give them Christmas parents
You're doing such a good job as a parent
The Bible doesn't say to do any of those things
The Bible actually says in verse number 4
"And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath
But bring them up in the nurture
And admonition of the Lord"
You know the Bible doesn't say
"Thou shalt have your kids play organized sports"
You know the Bible doesn't say
"Thou shalt take your kids fishing"
"Thou shalt play ball with your kids"
"Thou shalt play hide and seek with your kids"
The Bible says to raise them in the
Nurture and admonition of the Lord
And some parents today would do a better job
As a father and as a mother
If you stop worrying about
Taking your kids camping and playing ball
And playing hide and seek and playing tag
And actually teaching them the word of God
Some of you would be better parents if you spent less time
And money on, I gotta make sure that kids
Play all the sports, do all the things
And you actually taught them how to be a soul winner
You actually modeled a life of being free to thrive
You actually modeled a life of saying
Hey, God is the most important thing
That is actually in the eyes of God, the best type of parent
Because there's a lot of parents in this world
That can just give their kids the moon
They can give their kids a college education
They can pay for their car
They can pay for their first house
They did all the daddy things, they were there for everything
They played ball, they did all those things
But you know what, if that kid doesn't grow up
With the spiritual bone in his body
What did it accomplish?
Were you really having the right priorities?
Maybe not, you know I'm just sick of our society
Lifting up people, acting like
If you could do all these things, you're a good parent
But you know, oh these poor
Fundamental Baptist kids that are three to thrive
It's like, it's such a joke folks
Raise your children in the
Nurture and admonition of the Lord, and you know what
I think that serving God is the best way to have fun anyways
I mean my kids are all
Under the age of seven and they've all been to the Bahamas
So I'm just saying
You could sometimes have both of these
Things, but here's the thing, if I had to choose
If it's like, you know, vacation in the Bahamas
You know, soul wedding in the Bahamas
Or just like, making sure that they serve
God on a regular basis, I'm always going to
Choose that one. Deuteronomy chapter number six
Deuteronomy chapter number six, I'll just read it for you
Verse seven, "And thou shalt teach them
Diligently unto thy children, and shalt
Talk of them when thou sittest in thine house
And when thou walkest by the way
And when thou liest down, and when thou
Rises up." You know, if you
Take your kids camping every weekend
And you take them fishing every weekend
But you don't ever have a time where you sit down and teach them
The word of God, you have messed up
Priorities. You have messed up in your priorities
In your life. You need to get back to
What the Bible teaches as a good parent
Is a parent that's just teaching their children the word of God.
What about pastors? Go to 2 Timothy chapter 4
2 Timothy chapter 4. You know
The Bible does not say to pastors
"Thou shalt be a stand-up comedian."
Right? A lot of pastors today
They just kind of hijack God's time
Behind the pulpit. They hijack God's
People's time. And they're just doing like a
Stand-up comedy routine. And look, I'm not
Against using comedy every once in a while
And being entertaining and being
Dynamic in these things. But look, this
Is the house of God. Here's the
Sacred desk here. Here's the word of God that's being
Preached. It's not a comedy show.
The house of God is serious.
And you know what? It's not a time to be pulling
Stunts. You know, when every single
Sermon is this weird, cutesy, clickbaity
Thing, I have read flags about
A preacher like that. I'm just like, "Hey,
What chapter in the Bible were you
Reading where you came to this Sermon
Title?" Right? We all have seen preachers
Like that, where it's just like the craziest
Sermon titles, the most random
Topics. It's like, "What does this
Have to do with the Bible? How
Are you having the right priorities preaching
All this nonsense? What does the Bible say?
Second Timothy 4 verse 2, "Preach
The Word, be instant in season,
Out of season, reprove, rebuke,
Exhort with all long-suffering
And doctrine." Look, my priorities
Is not to be liked,
Is not to be, "Wow, that pastor's
Funny. Wow, that pastor's dynamic."
My job is to preach the Word of God.
And if I'm preaching the Word of God,
Then I have fulfilled my duty. Now look,
Praise God for pastors that are really dynamic
And they're teaching truth, and they're
Reproving, they're rebuking correctly,
They're exhorting correctly, and they're
Fun to listen to as well. Praise God for that.
And I'm not against the occasional
Sermon that's a little more fun, that's a little
More on a different type of a topic.
Like even this morning I preached about
David Koresh, but if you just go to our YouTube
Channel, you just look at the tiles of my sermons,
They're almost always just coming directly from the
Bible, just straight from the text. I don't have
All these weird, cutesy, made-up
Sermons because I'm trying to preach
The word. And you know what, when
I was being trained to be a pastor, you know what
Pastor Shelley said about me, is that
Man, his preaching is boring, but it's biblical.
And I'm like, I'll take it. I'll take
That. You know, rather than like, wow,
What a crazy, weird idea
Sermon title. But it's like, but where did you
Get that from the Bible? I don't want
To come to church to hear your opinion
Your ideas, your stupid little
Clickbait titles. Preach
The word. You know, the Bible does not say
Make sure you have lots of church events.
You know, the Bible doesn't say thou shalt have a sweetheart's banquet.
The Bible doesn't say make documentaries.
The Bible doesn't even say to do weddings
Or funerals. The Bible doesn't say to do counseling.
Look, I'm not against those
Things. But if those things are getting
In the way of a pastor's
Priorities, then he needs to get back
To his priorities, right?
I mean, if a pastor is just obsessed
With these extra biblical topics
And he's not preaching the word
He's not studying the Bible
He's not praying to God. He's not doing the work
Of the evangelist, well then his priorities
Have become messed up. Go to Acts chapter number
Six. Acts chapter number
Six. And look, I love
Events. And I love our sweetheart's
Banquet. And I love, you know, the idea
Of doing a documentary and all these things
But I'm just telling you, that stuff is
Not my biblical priorities.
You know, even counseling, even weddings, even
Funerals. Hey, I'll do weddings, I'll do funerals.
The Bible doesn't tell me to do that though.
And so here's the thing. I'm not going to stop
Studying the Bible to go perform a bunch of weddings.
I'm not going to stop studying the Bible
To go do a bunch of funerals or something like that.
Look at Acts chapter six, verse one.
"And in those days, when the number of the
Disciples was multiplied, there arose
A murmuring of the Grecians against the
Hebrews, because their widows were
Neglected in the daily ministration.
Then the Twelve called the multitude
Of the Disciples unto them, and said,
'It is not reason that we should
Leave the word of God and serve
Tables.'" Notice there's all these
Administrative tasks that are
Kind of falling by the wayside just because
They're so busy, they're so overburdened with work,
And it's affecting people. The
Widows are not being taken care of,
And these Disciples are saying, "Look, it is
Not reason, it does not make sense,
It's not profitable for us to
Stop doing the one thing that we
Can do, right? The one thing that
Matters most, the big things, the Word of
God, studying the Word of God, to go serve
Tables, right? They're trying to say, "Hey, we
Need to keep our priorities intact."
That's why it says in verse 3, "Wherefore
Brethren, look ye out among you seven
Men of honest report, full of the Holy
Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint
Over this business." Like, here's some
Church staff being hired, right?
And even, even this job is very
Important, because it doesn't say like, "Go find
Some bum, some random bum, some loser."
It says, "No, find seven men of honest
Report, full of the Holy Ghost and
Wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business."
But, verse 4, "But we will
Give ourselves continually to prayer
And to the ministry of
The Word." Also, the Bible says
In 2nd Timothy 4-5, "But watch
Thou in all things, endure afflictions,
Do the work of an evangelist."
When it comes to ministers
And pastors, what are
Their main priority? It's
Prayer, it's studying the Word of
God, it's preaching the Word of God,
It's doing the work of an evangelist,
Soul winning, right? These are the things
Pastors should be focusing on today.
Prayer, soul winning, preaching,
Studying the Word of God. That is what they're
Supposed to be doing. You know, I think about a lot of
Pastor Jack Hiles sermons, he was talking about
How when he was a young pastor
And he was working full time for
The church, he's like, "I'd spend 20 hours
In week, soul winning, and 20 hours a week
In prayer." And it's like,
That's actually good use of a pastor's time.
Studying the word of God, praying,
Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ,
You know, serving tables, running events,
That is all extra stuff. And there's nothing wrong
With those things whatsoever. I love those things.
I plan on continuing to do those things.
But I'm not going to do those things
At the expense of studying the Bible.
Reading his word, praying, going soul winning.
Go back to Joshua chapter number 11.
We'll close in Joshua chapter number 11.
Joshua chapter number 11, verse 15.
Notice this again.
"As the Lord commanded Moses,
his servant,
so did Moses command Joshua,
and so did Joshua.
He left nothing undone
of all that the Lord
commanded Moses."
Man, Joshua had his priorities
set straight in life.
And you know, what an honor to him
that the word of God records for us
that Joshua had his priorities
set straight. It doesn't say that
he left nothing undone in all of his life.
It says that, hey, he didn't leave anything undone
of all the commandments
of God. Here's a quote for you
from Pastor Jack Hiles. He said this,
"Don't show me what you've done.
Show me what you've left undone.
Most of us leave the important things
undone." That's a good quote right there.
Hey, you know, don't show me what you've done.
Show me what you've left undone because
most people leave the most important
things undone. Don't show me
oh, I took my kid camping every single weekend.
Oh, man, he played in so many sports.
Oh, man, you should see the tree on Christmas
morning in our house. We have so much. Oh,
every time they lose a tooth, man, there's so much money
being thrown at them. No, no, no. Show me what
you've left undone. Did you leave teaching them to be a
soul winner undone? Did you leave teaching them
how to be free to thrive in church undone?
Because you know what? You've exposed your priorities
in life. And oftentimes, people are
leaving the most important things undone.
If you're going to leave something undone
in life, don't let it be the commandments of God.
Hey, at the end, let it be said of you, hey,
he left nothing undone of all the commandments
that God gave, right?
Hey, and if I make it to the end of my life
and it says, man, the project
truck was left undone, the
1969 F-100
Ford, the project, it was left undone,
okay? The mastery of the
guitar, it was left undone. You know,
I hope to get my pilot's license someday,
but if the pilot's license has to be left
undone, that's okay. If,
you know, a wall full of photographs
of all the places I've traveled, if that has to be
left undone, that's okay.
As long as the important things are not
left undone, if I can make it to the end of my life
and it's like, hey, soul winning was not left
undone, reading the Bible was not left
undone, pastoring was not left
undone, being a father to those kids
was not left undone, being a husband
to my wife was not left undone,
then hey, you know what, let all that other stuff
be left undone, because
I want to have the right priorities
in life. Let this sermon tonight be
a time of reflection for you, and just
asking yourself, you know, what is it in my life that I'm
leaving undone? Are you leaving things
in your life undone that you
are looking at saying like, "No, I do want that done.
I actually do want that finished." Okay, well let
your daily and your weekly activities
actually reflect that. Let's pray. Lord, thank you
so much for your word. Thank you for
this example here with Joshua. I
pray that all of us would just consider our lives
and the actions that we have going
on, that we make sure that we're setting the right
priorities for our life, that we're
executing on those tasks, Lord,
and just help us to have a heart that's drawn very
closely to you and not the things of this
world. We love you in Jesus name we pray, Amen.