Anchor Baptist Church. It is time to get started this evening. Would hymnal turn to number 20?
Number 20. When I see the blood. Hymn number 2020. When I see the blood. We'll sing there starting
right on the first. Christ our redeemer of sin can save us in his truthful. Father we thank you again
for another opportunity this evening to gather together. Pray as always that you would just be
with us for the service that you'd open our ears as listeners that you would fill pastor alz with
your spirit and that you would continue to incline your ear as we sing praises unto you lord i also
just want to pray for the weather coming in that you'd have your hand of protection on us here and
on just our area in general and all those that will be affected these things we pray in jesus
name amen for our next hymn number 236 no not one 236236 no not one hymn number 236 we'll think
sing there starting on the first there's gonna be complete this couple different prizes who would say
hey i missed out on the hat opportunity i think the hat will be gone no one got their hat already
okay all right we'll figure something else out this is why we asked me out let's go ahead and go to
the inside portion there we have service times listed sunday morning at 10 30 on the evening at
4 30 wednesday evening at 7 just want to say thank you guys that filled in this weekend really
appreciate it good sermons and it was a good time being at faithful word baptist church you've not
been out to their new building it is fantastic it's way bigger than it seems in the videos it's a
basically an old movie theater converted to a church building it's really really awesome
and faithful word baptist church has a great spirit they're just really kicking butt over there
and so definitely visit them if you can we have our soul winning times listed below there and
our year-to-date soul winning statistics for upcoming events we have january 31st is our
soul winning marathon in laughton oklahoma so not this saturday but next saturday and brother
cameron has agreed to make a bunch of maps for that so brother will you just send the location
whenever you have one picked out for that okay sounds good so pay attention to the signal group
for the location there uh then the next day february 1st will be our next men's preaching
night for the evening service followed by potluck and game night uh exciting announcement there
below february 8th we're gonna have evangelist tanner fir preaching both services here and i'm
the only thing that's you know a downer about that is that i'll be gone but i will be excited
to be preaching at spring christ baptist church i really like pastor reyes and so i'm definitely
honored to be able to preach there and we're also spending that saturday before going to the nasa
space center and so you guys know me i'm really excited about that me and bethany are going to
spend the whole day there with church members at the nasa space center i mean if you have a
church in houston you could route out the flat earthers very easily it's just you have a church
field trip to the nasa space center so very cool looking forward to that and evangelist fer is
excited i know to come see everyone and be preaching bowl services for that weekend then
february 13th we're having our sweetheart's banquet at 6 p.m for married couples only then march 7th
another soul winning marathon in tulsa oklahoma we do have our visitor card on the right as well
as our online giving also i'm sure you're aware that there's some really potentially crazy weather
coming in this weekend our work was sent something from the national weather service saying like
40 chance of more than 12 inches of snow on saturday so who knows what this is going to look
like i'll just say this keep your eye on the signal group because if things get just too crazy
where driving isn't safe you know we may have to call a weekend off of church but we'll see we'll
play it by ear we're not going to make that decision until we have to but just pay attention
that and then we have our prayer list on the right brother anthony's father is doing a lot better but
please keep praying for his health and that's the only update i have let's go ahead and have a word
of prayer as a church family this evening lord thank you so much for anchor baptist church thank
you for the opportunity that we have to serve you and just to sing out praises to you this evening
to hear your word preached i pray that you bless this service that everything would be done for
your honor and glory lord i also pray for the safety of everyone here with the upcoming weather
uh just pray that we would have no issues with our homes or vehicles or crashes or anything like
that please just watch over us this weekend lord and also want to pray for brother anthony's father
that you would just fully heal him that you'd help him in his path to recovery i pray that you
bring my brother home safely in a couple of weeks pray that you would bless brother theodore's mother
that she'd be healed of her cancer i pray also for his sister's heart to be softened to the gospel
that she would have many opportunities to be saved and same thing with all those members we
have here whose loved ones are not saved and pray that those people would have soft hearts
to receive your word we also pray for brother miles's health and the hausburg family that they
would be blessed and lord just please bless this service this evening and bring us home safely in
jesus let me pray amen all right at this time we'll go ahead and go to our third song together for our
third song this evening in your white handout will be psalm 126 either in your white handout
or in your bible psalm 126 126 when the lord turned again psalm 126 we'll sing there starting on the first
here are being passed turn if you would to roman's chapter 10 roman's chapter number 10
roman's chapter 10 the bible reads brethren my heart's desire and prayer to god for israel
that they might be saved for i bear them record that they have a zeal of god but not according
to knowledge for they being ignorant of god's righteousness and going about to establish
their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of god
for christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth for moses describeth
the righteousness which is of the law that the man which doeth those things shall live by them
but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise say not in thine heart who shall
ascend into heaven that is to bring christ down from above or who shall descend into the deep that
is to bring up christ again from the dead but what saith it the word is nigh thee even in thy mouth
and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach that if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the lord jesus and shall believe in thine heart that god hath raised him from the dead
thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth
confession is made into salvation for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall
not be ashamed for there is no difference between the jew and the greek for the same lord over all
is rich unto all that call upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be
saved how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach
except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace and bring glad tidings of good things but they have not all obeyed the gospel for asias
saith lord who hath believed our report so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word
of god but i say have not but i say have they not heard yes verily their sound went into all the
earth and their words unto the end of the world but i say did not israel know first moses saith
i will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people and by a foolish nation i will anger you
but asias is very bold and saith i was found of them that sought me not i was made manifest
unto them that asked not after me but to israel he saith all day long i have stretched forth my
hands unto a disobedient and gain saying people let's bow our heads for the prayer father god in
heaven thank you for man well we've been doing a bible study through romans and we reached this
section of romans that is a trilogy that has a lot to do with the jews with the house of israel
if you remember in romans chapter 9 paul is expressing kind of his lamentation at the fact
that the jews aren't saved he said that he could wish that himself were cursed for christ for his
kinsman according to the flesh and he spends all of romans 9 kind of answering this accusation of
saying like well then did god break his promises like if most jews aren't saved today then did
god break his promises to abraham to jacob and he explains no it was fulfilled through isaac
which represents us no god's word has not taken none effect because it was fulfilled through jacob
which pictures jesus now we get into romans chapter 10 in the beginning we're going to see
number one paul's desire for israel verse one the bible says brethren my heart's desire and prayer
to god for israel is that they might be saved now of course this is obviously the right attitude to
have right the desire for the jews that they would get saved the house of israel that they would get
saved but i think we kind of just take for granted and we just assume that oh everybody obviously has
this mentality right of course everyone wants to see people saved but yet we see at times even good
men of god like jona for example not really too jazzed up about seeing people saved right god
tells him to go preach to Nineveh and the Ninevites repent right god sees their works that they repent
of their evil deeds and he repents of the evil that he was going to do unto them and then in
the next chapter it says that Jonah was greatly displeased now that's definitely not the right
attitude right you know you see someone get right with god you see them you know do what's right
and your reaction is to be displeased at that so we don't want to just take for granted that
just everybody automatically has this mentality hey we ought to have the mentality that paul had
here of desiring to see people get saved why because we know that this matches the mentality
and desire that god himself has go to first timothy chapter 2 and of course keep your place in
roman's 10 throughout this evening but you know if we see that god has a certain attitude about
anything in the bible anything in life then we know that it's the right attitude you know it's
funny how at times people will just bring their own worldly philosophy and say that some idea is
bad but it's like but if i show you god has that mentality then we know it's right right look at
first timothy 2 verse 3 the bible says for this is good and acceptable in the sight of god our
savior who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there
is one god and one mediator between god and men the man christ jesus who gave himself a ransom for
all to be testified in due time so the bible clearly states that god wills wants all men to be
saved right so we don't want to have this ridiculous calvinist false doctrine called
predetermination that god has just chosen before someone was ever born and just predestined them
to hell through no choice of their own the bible specifically says god wills that all men would be
saved now does that mean that all people will be saved absolutely not because god has given man
free will and man has to choose to believe the gospel this is one of the reasons why jesus in
his model prayer when his disciples says lord teach us to pray what does jesus say he says father
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven why are we praying that that would happen if god's
will just automatically happens all the time that proves that god's will does not always happen all
the time you some people have this idea like god's will will just always happen no matter what no no
because god's will is that all men would be saved yet not all men are saved are they and you want
to know why people are not saved well one reason is because people just choose to reject the gospel
and you know another reason why a lot of people aren't saved is because people aren't going out
preaching the gospel and so like that's why jesus says pray for laborers to be sent into the harvest
he says hey the fields are white under harvest but he says you need to pray for laborers because
that's what we lack today go to matthew 23 matthew 23 so we see paul wants the jews to be safe
saved we see god wants all men to be saved in general matthew 23 we see the lord jesus christ
specifically express his desire for the jews to be saved matthew 23 look at verse 37
jesus said oh jerusalem jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent
unto thee how often would i have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings what's the problem then look and ye would not behold your house is left
unto you desolate why is it that the jews are spiritually desolate today why is the nation of
israel cursed today why is it a place filled with an anti-christ religion a religion that
rejects jesus as the christ yay that hates jesus christ is because they would not it's not because
god just decided you know what i'm just going to curse this people i'm just going to scatter this
people across no jesus is saying how many times i would have gathered you together like like a
chicken bringing her chicks under her wings right you know he has that desire but yet they are not
saved because they themselves would not verse 39 says for i say unto you ye shall not see me hence
forth till ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the name of the lord back to roman's chapter
number 10 roman's chapter number 10 so you know we got to realize that when someone is not saved
that is not god's fault and you know what hell is a real punishment it's a real place people who die
and go to hell will be burning in an agony and in torment for all of eternity it's not a metaphor
and some people would look at a punishment like that and say what a cruel god what a wicked god
that would burn someone in hell but the bible says he would that all people would be saved
he said hey i want to gather them together any person that goes to hell is there of their own
fault because christ died for all the gift of salvation is offered unto all and you know what
every unbelieving jew that will spend eternity in flames it's their own fault it's not god's
unrighteousness number two this evening i want to point out this the reason the jews aren't saved
look at verse two he says for i bear them record that they have a zeal of god but not according to
knowledge right so he says my heart's desire and prayer for god for israel is that they might be
saved because he's going to point out now there's an error they're not saved but what's interesting
is though even though the jews are not saved the apostle paul points out something about them they
do have great zeal they do have ardor they do have passion they do have care for the things of god
but not according to knowledge and you know what being zealous about your beliefs is not good
enough for god being passionate about your religion is not good enough for god you have to be
passionate about the right things you can be as passionate and as zealous as you want about false
doctrine god's not excited by that god's not interested in that go to first timothy chapter
one first timothy chapter number one the dictionary definition of zeal is fervor for a person cause or
object eager desire to or endeavor enthusiastic diligence ardor synonyms are passion or intensity
so hey they had passion for god they had ardor for the law they had zeal they had intensity for
the things of god but you know what god doesn't care how passionate you are about a false religion
there's lots of people that are passionate about lies and they will go to hell unfortunately first
timothy 1 verse 12 you know who's a good example of this is the former apostle paul back when he
was sold verse 12 says and i think christ jesus our lord who hath enabled me for that he counted
me faithful putting me into the ministry who before who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor
and injurious but i obtained mercy because i did it ignorantly in unbelief so notice paul did
receive mercy right something he did not deserve if god was just just god could have even just killed
him before he even allowed him to get saved but you know he allowed him to become a great apostle
right and the apostle paul talks about how he was exceedingly zealous how he was zealous about the
traditions of his fathers above all of his countrymen but you know at that point before paul was saved
god was not pleased with him god did not you know see him as a child of god because he wasn't a
child of god he was in unbelief now what's what's very interesting about this verse is that he says
i obtained mercy because i did it ignorantly in unbelief the world will tell you that to be an
unbeliever means that you just don't believe in god but that's not how the bible defines being
an unbeliever because the apostle paul was exceedingly zealous of the law he was a hebrew of
the hebrew he was a chief of the pharisees he was very zealous about the word of god he was really
excited about the things of god but you know what he wasn't saved he was off and why was he not
saved because he didn't believe a god existed no he was very zealous right because he didn't
believe you know the torah or whatever no he was zealous about that stuff but he had not put his
trust in christ he was not saved that's why he's an unbeliever so look if someone is not saved if
they're trusting in their works to take them to heaven and they go to church three times a week
and they read about the bible every day and they sing hymns and songs and you know they're so
excited about the things of god but they're not saved it's like guess what buddy you have zeal
but not according to knowledge and you're unsaved there's a lot of people many will say to me in that
day lord lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out devils and in thy name
done many wonderful works and then will i profess unto them i never knew you depart from me ye
workers of iniquity right that's what jesus said in matthew chapter number seven so there's people
that will be in hell that said lord we preached in your name we cast out devils in your name
we're doing things in your name and notice why what they were trusting and they were trusting in
their works they said have we not done many wonderful works they're they're surprised that
they're not getting to heaven because they said look at all the works that we've done
well if you're trusting in your works to save you you're not saved you may have great zeal for
those works but not according to knowledge and you are not saved go to isaiah chapter number one
isaiah chapter number one we'll see a really similar concept here isaiah chapter number one
and this is definitely having to do with the house of israel so we could see the connection
where he's saying they have a zeal of god but not according to knowledge let's see what it was like
for them in the old testament isaiah 1 look at verse 11 the lord says to what purpose is the
multitude of your sacrifices unto me sayeth the lord i am full of the burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of fed beasts and i delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats
now do these people sound like they don't believe god exists no right they're following the old
testament law they're doing the sacrifices they're doing all those animal sacrifices right verse 12
when you come to appear before me who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts
bring no more vain ablations right empty meaningless incense is an abomination unto me
the new moons and sabbaths the calling of assemblies i cannot away with it is iniquity
even the solemn meeting your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth they are a trouble
unto me i am weary to bear them notice some of these actions were called for in the old testament
but god saying it's an abomination to me i hate it it's a vain ablation why because when the
unsaved man tries to do the things of god god's not pleased with that they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth is what jesus said oh i've got so much spirit i've got so much
zeal i'm so excited about the law but hold on do you have the truth because you can get all excited
about the things of god but if you don't know god he's not pleased with that verse 15 and when you
spread forth your hands i will hide mine eyes from you you know reminds me of these really
charismatic churches these really charismatic churches where the pastor doesn't even preach
a clear gospel i mean he teaches repent of your sin but there's all these people spreading out
their hands to god thinking he cares but he says hey i see your hands spread forth and i'm hiding
my eyes from you yay when you make many prayers i will not hear i thought god likes prayer well
not when you're wicked not when you're evil not when you don't have the knowledge of god he says
i will not hear your hands are full of blood wash you make you clean and put away the evil of your
doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed
judge the fatherless plead for the widow come now and let us reason together say at the lord
though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow though they be red like crimson
they shall be wool you know verse 18 of course is a beautiful picture of salvation right that we
are just fully cleansed by the blood of christ and our sins are forgiven and forgotten they're
removed as far as the east is from the west you know once you actually have that pure wool once
you actually are saved hey then god can start to take pleasure in your religion let me just read
this verse for you pay attention to this proverbs 21 27 the bible says the sacrifice of the wicked
is abomination how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind so understand this
when the wicked are bringing sacrifices to god the bible says that's an abomination and how much
more is it an abomination when he brings it with a wicked mind what does that tell you even if he's
not bringing it with a wicked mind even if he's sincere if he's sincerely wrong the bible says
his sacrifice is an abomination right so there's lots of people in this world that are sincere
and sincerely wrong they are deceived they're a part of apostate false churches and they themselves
in their heart they think hey i just i want to do this right i'm thinking i'm following after god
you know i want to go to church but you know what the sacrifice of the wicked is abomination unto
the lord now how much more of an abomination is it when he brings it with a wicked mind here's
your false prophets here's your reprobates here's the pope here's the catholic priest
here's the entire mormon clergy right here's every islamic imam these people are wicked and
they have a wicked mind but make no mistake the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to god
whether they are sincere or not and you know what that tells us the truth matters doctrine matters
you know people will kind of hold their nose at our type of church and be like you know why would
you spend so much time on doctrine why would you do all these bible studies why would you cross
reference all over the bible because you know what if you have a zeal of god but not according
to knowledge god's not going to be pleased with you hey it's great to have zeal but you know what
you also need to have knowledge think about jews today there are a lot of jews that are very
zealous for their false religion right some of them when they observe the observe the sabbath
they won't even press the crosswalk sign because electricity is creating a little spark of fire
and you can't kindle a fire on the sabbath day right hey there's so many muslims today
or there's so many mormons today that are very very zealous about their false religion
and you know they'll wear the magic underwear and they will they'll they'll abstain from caffeine
talk about a sad religion right they'll abstain from caffeine they'll wear the magic underwear
when they're 18 years old they'll travel sea and land with some rando and spend years and years
trying to drag people into their hellbound cult i mean it sounds like they have a lot of zeal but
it's not according to knowledge because mormons believe a false gospel mormons believe in a false
jesus mormons believe in a jesus that's the brother of satan mormons believe in a jesus that
is one among millions of gods and they believe that they themselves can become gods someday oh
but they have so much zeal you just got to have respect for the zeal no i have no respect for it
i have no respect for anything about any false religion period oh but you got to understand they
have so much zeal for family values well isn't that great that they have family values and are
going to burn in hell for all of eternity cool you had family values but you're going to hell folks
and so like hey it's great to have zeal when it's according to knowledge think about muslims
there's a lot of really zealous muslims in this world there's muslims that will blow themselves
to smithereens for allah they'll they'll make years and years of plans and they'll concoct all
these plans i mean think about the london bombings in 2004 and they're part of their sleeper cell for
years and years and they're planting bombs and they're blowing up bombs right next to their body
and they're killing themselves but you know what instead of waking up to 70 beautiful virgins they
wake up lifting their eyes up in hell burning in hell for all eternity and you know well man you
got to respect the dedication no i don't respect the dedication i don't respect the zeal that's
not according to knowledge go to galatians chapter number four and look you know we as a movement our
church we want to be zealous but we want to be zealous for the right things we want to be
zealous for the truth relations four look at verse 18 it says but it is good to be zealously affected
always in a good thing and not only when i am present with you nothing in the bibles incidental
coincidental accidental god could have just said hey it's always good to be zealous but it's not
always good to be zealous it's good to be zealous in a good thing right so hey let's get real excited
about the doctrine in the bible let's get real excited about soul winning let's get real excited
about church let's get real excited about loving our families let's get real excited about doing
things god's way but you know what you just getting excited about your own worldly philosophies is not
respectable is not commendable it's not acceptable to god you know if you're really excited about
your false doctrine that's an abomination to god if you're unsaved and you're really excited about
your false religion that's an abomination to god and so paul's saying look i'm bearing them
record he's speaking under the inspiration of the holy ghost they have a zeal of god but not
according to knowledge and so because of that they're unsaved doesn't joseph foresay my people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge look at verse number three of romans 10 go back to roman chapter
number 10 now what are they ignorant of they're ignorant of god's righteousness it says in verse
number three of romans 10 for they being ignorant of god's righteousness and going about to establish
their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of god the
jews are unsaved why why are they unsaved the jews are unsaved for the same reason
that every unsaved person is unsaved is that they're going around they're going about to
establish their own righteousness keep your place there go back to galatians chapter number five
any person in this world that seeks to be justified by their the merits of their being
their own works their own goodness their own good deeds that person is not submitting to the
righteousness of god they're going about to establish their own righteousness and they could
have all the zeal in the world but they are not saved and we go out soul winning every week and
we ask people what do you think it takes to get to heaven and here's what they say establishing my
own righteousness except that's the translation what they really say is be a good person repent
of all your sins be baptized go to church keep the commandments read the bible live a good life
you know those are the things that they say but translation let me tell you what that means
i'm going about to establish my own righteousness you know what's funny is you have all these
christians that are unsaved today and you ask them what does it take to get to heaven
and the name christ never comes out of their mouth jesus never comes out of their lips
what does it take to get to heaven nothing about jesus nothing about god it's just me me me me me
my works my deeds my actions anyone that's like that is not saved it doesn't matter how
zealous they are for their church it doesn't matter what they call themselves if they call
themselves a christian galatians 5 look at verse number one it says stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage
behold i paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised christ shall profit you nothing now
that's kind of confusing in and of itself because you'd read that and you'd say like is this saying
that anyone who's ever gotten circumcised is like damn to hell they're just reprobate they're not
going to be safe no no look at the next word for meaning because because i testify again to every
man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law see if if you're getting circumcised
with this mentality of i got to keep the law to get to heaven i got to keep the commandments to
be saved then the bible says that christ shall profit you nothing and even more scary look at
verse number four it says christ is become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by
the law you're fallen from grace so verse four is the key what are the what's in these people's
hearts they're trying to be justified by the law and it's so funny how people be like oh i
don't believe in work salvation of course i don't believe in work salvation but i mean
you got to keep the commandments isn't that the law aren't you did you did you just tell me you're
trying to be justified by the law i got some some news for you you believe in work salvation my
friend and here's the thing it is all or nothing with salvation it is not well of course i believe
in jesus but i also have to do my part to get myself to heaven look you may believe that he
exists you may believe facts about him but if you're trusting partly in your works to save you
and partly in jesus christ you're mixing works and faith and the bible says that christ is made of
none effect unto you so listen there are people that believe that jesus is divine there are people
that believe jesus died on the cross rose again from the dead that will spend eternity in hell
because they also think that they have to do good works to be saved what does it take to be saved
it's stopping trusting in ourselves realizing there's nothing that we could do to earn our
salvation and saying hey the only way i could get to heaven is trusting in the fact that jesus died
was buried and rose again we're both believing the same facts about jesus but one of us is putting
our faith in those facts one of us is putting our trust in those facts the other person is putting
the trust in themselves and they do not have knowledge they do not have faith they are not
saved this is a vast majority of christianity today this is the vast majority of churches today
jesus's disciples asked jesus lord are there few that be saved he said strive to enter in at the
straight gate for straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto salvation and few
there be that find it he says hey broad is the gate wide is the way that leadeth unto destruction
and many there be which go in there at jesus is saying most people are unsaved most preachers are
frauds are are you know fraudulent okay why because jesus didn't die for everyone no because they
just decided to trust themselves go to acts chapter 19 acts chapter number 19 well what
about repentance right because people will see these verses and they'll just ignore because they
have a confirmation bias they just already believe in work salvation so you just show them these
verses verses and it's like whoa what about repentance what it's like hold on what about
christ shall be made of none effect unto you like what about that my friend you're just going to
ignore that for some reason and talk about repentance okay well let's let the bible define
what repentance is acts chapter 19 verse 4 it says then said paul john verily baptized with
the baptism of repentance what's the baptism of repentance it defines it look saying unto the
people that they should believe on him which should come after him that is on christ jesus
the word repent alone just means to turn or to change the problem is there's been so much
false doctrine from preachers over the decades that when christians get to their bible and they
see the word repent they immediately add these words in their mind repent of your sins repent
of my sins but is that what the bible says no no it says that the baptism of repentance was what
believing on jesus christ because yes you do need to repent to be saved but you don't need
to repent of your sins to be saved because guess what it's impossible to repent of all your sins
number one number two the bible never says you have to repent of all your sins to be saved that's
works salvation and repentance is defined as going from unbelief to belief now that could look
different for a lot of people some people are an atheist and they have to go from believing in no
god to trusting in the lord jesus christ some people already believe jesus is real but they're
trusting in their works they need to repent and stop trusting in their works and trust in jesus
some people are a catholic and are trusting in the fact that they do the catechism that they do
the lord's supper but they call it something else what do they even call it i'm having a brain fart
here the eucharist the communion the eucharist right they're trusting in those things they're
trusting and confessing their sins to the priest they're could they're trusting in the pope okay
they have to repent of those things and trust in christ muslims they got to repent of being muslim
and become a christian mormons they gotta repent of their false gospel they gotta believe the true
gospel hey it does require repentance to be saved but just because you see repent in the bible does
not mean it's repent of your sins here's a great proof of that go to jonah jonah chapter number
three this is just a nail in the coffin here for people who want to say oh yeah repent means repent
of your sins well isn't it interesting how god constantly repents in the bible how you see the
lord repent so if we're seeing god repent is that of his sins are you saying god has sin of course
he doesn't right look at jona chapter number three verse nine it says who can tell if god will turn
and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not so hey who could tell if god
will repent is that saying who could tell if god will stop drinking who will tell if god will stop
blaspheming that's not what this is saying that's insane that's blasphemous no look at verse 10 and
god saw their works that they turned from their evil way also notice how works are deferred
defined as turning from your sin and god repented of the evil that he said that he would do unto
them and he did it not right so god is repenting of the evil that he was going to do what does it
mean to do evil it means to do harm that's what evil often means in the bible it's not saying
wickedness it's not saying like how our modern vernacular would necessarily use the word evil
god's turning away from destroying them he said hey i'm gonna destroy Nineveh i'm gonna overthrow
Nineveh what happens god sees their works that they turn from their evil way which salvation
is not of works the bible teaches right but god sees that they turned and then he repented of the
evil that he would do go back to roman chapter number 10 roman chapter number 10 so why are the
jews not saved why is anyone who's not saved not saved because they're going about to establish
their own righteousness then it says in verse number four four so because he's continuing on
the same thought for christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believe it
see there's only two ways to be righteous one is keeping the law perfectly and never sinning and
hey if if you kept the law perfectly if you never sin in your entire life you know what you would be
you'd be righteous right here's the problem with that no one's doing that right so you know trying
to attain that righteousness by the law you know that ceases when you get saved because christ is
the end of the law for righteousness we don't receive our righteousness from the law of god
our righteousness comes from christ i'll read for you second corinthians 521 says for he hath made
him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him
right so he took our sin in his own body on the tree and we got his righteousness so we get that
from christ not from the law verse five says for moses describeth the righteousness which is of the
law that the man which doeth those things shall live by them hey if you do the law perfectly
you'll be righteous you will have eternal life if you never sin it's not going to happen though
right number three how to get saved we talked about how the jews are not saved number three
how to get saved look at verse 6 it says but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this
wise say not in thine heart who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring christ down from above now
keep your place here and go to deuteronomy chapter 30 because paul is kind of adapting here a quote
from deuteronomy chapter number 30 but instead of the commandment being the focus of what paul's
talking about he's talking about the gospel because what's in view in deuteronomy 30 is the commandment
it says in deuteronomy 30 verse 11 for this what commandment which i command thee this day it is
not hidden from thee neither is it far off it is not in heaven that thou shouldest say who shall
go up for us to heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it neither is it beyond the
sea that thou shouldest say who shall go over the sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear
it and do it but the word is very nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it
by the way god promised to inspire his word and preserve his word he's saying hey the commandment
is here the command is right here buddy you have god's word right here you don't have to wonder you
don't have to go up to heaven to find it you don't have to travel across the sea to find it
you dead sure don't have to dig in a trash can in a monastery at mount sinai like constantin
von tischendorf did in the 1800s finding the critical text oh we lost god's commandments for
hundreds and thousands of years but thankfully this german heretic found it in a garbage can
no no no he's saying hey the word's nivy you don't got to go up to heaven to find it you don't have
to go across the sea to find it it's right here god has preserved his word now go back to romans
10 because what paul is doing is instead of using the commandment he's explaining the gospel right
he says the righteousness of faith speaketh on this wise say not in thine heart right who shall
send up in heaven that's to bring christ down from above why because he's already come look at verse
number seven or who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up christ again from the dead
hey we got to go find christ up in heaven we got to go find the gospel you know down in the deep
it's like hey he's already come and he's already risen again from the dead you don't have to go
looking for him verse number eight but what save it the word is ninety even in thy mouth and in
nine heart that is the word of faith which we preach people are not going to get saved today
by having some heavenly experience you are not going to find salvation you're not going to find
the gospel laying in your bed and some bright shining light is going to come to you and Jesus
is going to come down from heaven and explain the gospel personally to you that does not happen hey
God who had sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past under the prophets hasn't these
last days spoken unto us through his son Jesus is the word how God speaks to us today hey it's in
thy mouth and in thy heart what is it the word of faith which we preach you are not going to have a
personal experience for salvation and a lot of people today they're waiting for like this special
sign right the Greeks seek after wisdom the Jews seek a sign when Jesus was on this earth what were
the Jews constantly doing show us a sign show us a sign show us a sign and a lot of people have that
same spirit today where they're like i'm not going to believe the bible until God shows me a sign
until God proves to me hey he already did show you a sign it's called Jesus's death burial and
resurrection hey he already did show you a sign it's called his preserved words that we have here
that were you know in heaven settled before the earth even began that's a great sign God's done
plenty of signs but you know what you're not going to get a vision from heaven you're not going to go
down into the deep you know what the word is nigh you even in your mouth and in your heart it's the
word of faith which we preach go to first corinthians 3 you know people get saved by
someone preaching the gospel that is the only way people get saved you do not get saved by a special
emotional experience it is the word of faith it's the simplicity hey the bible says God has chosen
the foolishness of preaching right look at first corinthians chapter number three it says in verse
five who then is paul and who is apollos but ministers by whom ye believed even as the lord
gave to every man hey you know i believed in christ and that's why i'm safe you're right that
is why you're safe but notice that there's ministers by whom you believe who are those
ministers soul winners preachers people who open their mouth boldly to make known the mystery of
the gospel the bible says that there are ministers by whom people believe even as the lord gave to
every man hey we are soul winners in this room and you know what god wants us to go preach the
gospel to every creature and god has ordained a soul winner in this world for every single person
and you know what if soul winners don't go out and preach the gospel people will go to hell and
you know what there's ministers that he's given to every man and it's not just one person who's the
awesome superstar soul winner and like because this person's an awesome superstar soul winner
hey let's just let this guy do it all because he's great no no no we need all of us there's
there's ministers by whom people believe the lord is reserved to every man you man woman boy and
child are important in preaching the gospel and it's like who is paul who is paulos what are they
they're just vessels of the gospel who am i who are you we're no one special except we're
ambassadors for christ that's what makes us special go back to roman's chapter number 10
roman's chapter number 10 so it's about that word of faith it's not about a heavenly experience
then in verse number nine he says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus
and shalt believe in thine heart that god hath raised him from the dead thou shall be saved
the bible is describing two aspects of one event getting saved and one aspect of this is confession
with the mouth and the other is belief in the heart verse 10 says four with heart the heart man
believeth under righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation now here's what
some people like to do is they like to just pick and choose what parts of the bible they like
and they like they like to go for with the heart man believeth under righteousness amen amen i
believe that but why would you ignore the next part and with the mouth confession is made on
salvation i mean can't we just say with the mouth confession is made on the salvation yeah because
what the bible says these are two aspects of one event that's being described here now go to act
chapter number five act chapter number five and john chapter number four these these verbs confess
and believe these are not describing two different events two different ideas this is describing two
aspects of the same event called salvation it's believe it's confess so people today will attack
calling upon the name of the lord people will attack the sinner's prayer where we go out we
preach the gospel to someone and look we're not doing one two three repeat after me we're very
thorough in our gospel presentation we're making sure that we're clarifying all their hang-ups
that they're repenting that they're going from unbelief to belief that they're rejecting their
false religion that they're accepting the gospel and then at the end we pray with them and we call
upon the name of the lord and it doesn't matter exactly how you do it i usually say dear jesus i
know i'm a sinner i know i deserve hell but i believe you died on the cross for my sins that
you were buried that you rose again from the dead and i'm only trusting you to save me please save
me now amen that's how i do it you might do a little bit different and that's okay as long
as people are believing and confessing because that's what it takes to be saved now this is
known as coordinate verb structure where we're describing one event that's described with two
verbs this is a bit well known in english but you know your your morons like james white can't
understand this your your theologians can't understand this today they're too smart for the
bible so idiots like james white will go to axe chapter number five verse 30 and say that this is
an error in the king james bible it says in verse 30 the god of our fathers raised up jesus whom
he slew and hanged on a tree and james white will say this is an error in the king james because
the king james is saying that jesus was killed and then put on a tree it's like no idiots you
just obviously don't understand how the english language works you obviously don't even know what
coordinate verb structure is this is two aspects of one event the crucifixion of christ yeah he
was killed he was put on a tree it's not saying oh he was first killed then put on a tree it's
just like learn english okay and people just get way too hung up on this kind of stuff i told you
to go to john chapter number four john chapter number four there's two aspects that's being
described in romans 10 the confession with the mouth the belief in the heart john chapter four
look at verse number seven there cometh a woman of samaria to draw water jesus saith unto her
give me to drink for his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat then saith a woman of
samaria unto him how is it that thou being a jew askest drink of me which am a woman of samaria
for the jews have no dealings with the samaritans jesus answered and said unto her if thou knewest
the gift of god and who it is that saith to thee give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him
and he would have given thee living water hey i have a zeal of god but not according to knowledge
okay but if you knew though if you actually had the knowledge of salvation if you actually know
what the gospel is if you actually believe that jesus is able to save you you know what you would
do you would call upon his name you would confess with your mouth because if you're not confessing
with your mouth you know you either don't understand it or you don't believe it people
are not going to pray to someone that they don't believe is real right people are not going to ask
someone to save them who they are not confident can save them but jesus saying look if you knew
the gift of god what's the gift of god salvation right hey if you knew the gift of god and who it
is that saves today hey if you actually know jesus and who are those that know jesus it's safe right
if you actually know these things then you would have asked of him right so this is why you never
are allowed to count a salvation where you did not pray with someone never ever do that and i've
seen people kind of they're like well you know we had a great conversation i think they got it
and you know i think they went and prayed afterwards i hope they wouldn't pray afterwards
but never ever count a salvation for our church where you did not call upon the name of the lord
with them and you know what people people who are just good people people who are soul winners do
not have a problem with this doctrine it's always a major red flag and it's an indication of some
weirdo some freak when someone has a problem with people calling upon the name of the lord
and if you go soulening with someone and they're just like against going calling upon the name of
the lord they refuse to do it i need to know about that because that is a weird thing that
just seems to creep into churches like every five years or so i don't know why but just believe the
words here folks believe what jesus said it's very clear go back to romans 10 while you're turning
there genesis 4 26 says and to seth to him also there was born a son and he called his name enos
then began men to call upon the name of the lord right so we see people calling upon the name of
the lord all the way back in the beginning of genesis it's just such a weird doctrine
to freak out about such a weird doctrine for people to just despise and gain say against
it's so clear in the bible look at verse number 11 it says in romans 10 for the scripture sayeth
whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed now this is not talking about like hey you know
my face turns red and i'm getting embarrassed or you know i don't want to publicly proclaim christ
because we know for a fact that there are people that are saved that at times are embarrassed to
proclaim christ how about peter right peter is saved but he's asked by the woman hey aren't you
with christ like i don't know the man and he denies christ three times now is peter unsaved
no he's definitely saved but yet he was ashamed in that instance so this could not be talking
about being embarrassed. You know, some people would be like, "Ah, you know, you got to call upon
His name because the Bible says this," and I get the sentiment behind that, but that's not exactly
what this is talking about. Go, if you would, to Psalm 25, Psalm 25, and look, of course, we should
never be ashamed in an embarrassment way of Christ. Of course, we should never be ashamed of Him or His
words, or He'll be ashamed of us, the Bible teaches. But here's what it means. It's just saying that
when you believe, Christ will never let you down. That's what that's saying. It's saying Christ will
never forsake you. It's saying you will never be forsaken when you believe. Look at Psalm 25 verse
two. It says, "Oh my God, I trust in Thee." Isn't that what salvation is? Trusting in the Lord? "Oh
my God, I trust in Thee. Let me not be ashamed. Let not mine enemies triumph over me." You know,
the devil would love to see people go to hell, but you know what? He's never going to triumph
over us. When you've trusted in Christ, though He desires for you to be destroyed, you know what?
He's never going to see you ashamed. He's never going to see you forsaken because Christ will
never forsake us. Verse three, "Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed. Let them be ashamed,
which transgress without cause." Hey, the wicked, they're going to be ashamed. They're
going to be forsaken. They're going to be hung out to dry. But you know what? God's people will not.
Go back to John chapter number 12. Now, John chapter 12, where we're going in this passage,
I've seen someone who this online personality who uses the passage that we're about to read
to prove like, oh, you know, calling upon the name of the Lord isn't necessary because of John
chapter number 12. Look at the context here. It says in verse 42, "Nevertheless, among the chief
rulers, also many believed on him." So are these people saved or unsaved? They're saved, right?
They believe on him. "But because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put
out of the synagogue, for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God." And people
see like, "See, you could be saved without confessing with your mouth, because these people believed,
but they were afraid to confess him." This isn't saying that they believed, but that they never
called upon the name of the Lord. It's saying that they were scared in that moment to stand up and
say, "Yeah, I am a Christian. Yeah, I believe in Jesus. Yeah, this is the Messiah. Yeah, this is
the Son of God." Why? Because they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. And
there are plenty of saved people who, unfortunately, are ashamed and embarrassed of the words of Christ.
And they are saved. If you believe in Christ, you are saved. But that doesn't mean that you're
all of a sudden going to be super bold in your faith. That doesn't necessarily mean you're going
to have the strongest faith. Hey, you've got saving faith. You trusted in Christ for salvation.
But you know what? We also should strive to never be embarrassed of his words. Never come to a part
of the Bible where it's like, "Well, you know, the world doesn't really like that, so we're going to
shy away from that." No, no, no. Let's just not be ashamed of Christ in any situation. Whether
you're before the Jews, whether you're before your family, whether you're before your coworkers,
whether you're before your schoolmates, whatever, you know, never be ashamed of Christ.
Go to Romans chapter 10 again, Romans chapter number 10. This is not saying, "Oh, they never,
ever called upon the name of the Lord." That's just being deceitful intentionally. Someone that
would say that out of this verse is just intentionally trying to lie to you. Verse number
12 of the Bible says, "For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek. For the same Lord
over all is rich unto all that call upon him." Oh, the Jews are so special. They're God's chosen
special people, right? Really, for there's no difference between the Jew and the Greek.
I say that we're equal in Christ. "For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Why is this verse even in our
Bible if you don't have to call upon the name of the Lord to be saved? You think God is just
inserting meaningless verses into his word? No, you must call upon the name of the Lord to be
saved. And you say, "Well, the Bible says that all you have to do to be saved is believe." Exactly.
So let's reconcile these things. You know how you believe on him? By calling upon his name. That's
how you believe in him. This is how you believe in Christ, by asking him to save you, by calling out
to him. That is how you believe in him. Because what does it mean to believe? It does not just
mean that you believe he's real. It means to trust, right? So you've understood this gift of
salvation. You've understood that Jesus is God in the flesh, that he was sinless, that he died for
your sins, that he rose again from the dead, that it's a free gift, that it's only by faith,
that once you have it, you could never lose it. Okay. You have this information, but you know,
you have to decide, are you actually going to believe that? Well, guess what? Anyone who
actually believes that, you know what they're going to do? They're going to call upon Jesus name.
That's how you put your faith in him. Then the Bible gets a little more granular on the process
of getting someone safe. Verse 14, it says, how then shall they call on him in whom they've not
believed? How shall they believe in him of whom they've not heard? Excuse me. And how shall they
hear without a preacher? Look, people are not getting saved without a preacher. And you know
who doesn't like that? People who don't preach the gospel. People say, oh no, I mean, you, you
could have a bright shining light come into your room and God could speak to you to heaven and,
and, or how about this lifestyle evangelism? Oh, here's how people will get saved. They're
going to see me at the bank and they're going to see my smile and they're going to see the money
that I deposit and they're going to see God's blessing and they're going to see my health
and my wealth and my happiness and my joy. They're going to see everything about me
and they're going to say, wow, what do you have that I don't? What must I do to be safe? Yeah,
except that never happens. This is a fairy tale concocted by false prophets like Joel Osteen,
and he's just trying to lure you through the lust of the flesh. That's what he's after. That is not
how people get saved. Here's how people get saved. A preacher! How shall they hear without a preacher?
They won't! This is why we go soul winning, folks. This is not something that the new IFB created.
Like, this is our little hobby. No, no, Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel."
Go, he said. Preach, he said. He didn't just say pray, right? He didn't just say sit around and
pray for people to get saved. He didn't say, "Hey, fill up AC 130s with Bibles and drop those suckers
over Afghanistan and Somalia, and you'll put some gospel tracts in there too, and just shower it
down over the world." That's not how people get saved. They get saved through a preacher.
People don't get saved by opening the Bible themselves. You can't save yourself, okay?
Why don't you tell a drowning man, "Save yourself, bro." "Hey, I need help. Save me."
"Just save yourself." "Hey, you know, a child is burning. It is a burning building and is about
to die." "Oh, just save yourself, bro." "No, no, no. You need a savior, right? And you need someone
to come and rescue you." That's what a soul winner is. And that's why the Bible says, "Hey,
if some have compassion, others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire." Right? So others
save with fear. Hey, the apostle Paul said, "I've become all things to all men that I might by all
means save some." Oh, Jesus only saved. Of course, Jesus is the savior. Of course, Jesus died. Of
course, he's the one saving. But Paul also said that I'm saving. Why? Because how shall they hear
without a preacher? And you know what? We should pray for our loved ones to get saved. We should
pray that their hearts will be softened to the gospel. But you know what you also need to do?
You also need to open your mouth and preach to them. You could pray for Oklahoma City to get
saved, but you know what you need to do more than that is you need to go out soul winning
and preach the gospel. "Oh, I'll just pray that that America will have revival. I'll just pray
that America will have a spiritual revival, that everyone will get saved in America." How about you
go soul winning? You know, I often get frustrated at how wicked this world is. I often get frustrated
about the direction of our country and things that I see and things that just piss me off. The
feminism, the LGBT agenda, the transgender agenda, the wicked things being taught in colleges today,
just, you know, Democrats existing, you know, these disgusting ICE protests, like it all just
pisses me off to be honest with you. But you know the only thing that I could do to change anything
is go preach the gospel to someone? And I remind myself of that, like I'm pissed. How do I fix this?
I'll tell you how, I'm going soul winning on Saturday. Because when I get someone saved
and the Holy Spirit of God moves in, that's going to change their view of life. That's going to
change their view of this world. And you know when the Holy Spirit of God comes in, it's going to be
a lot harder for a woman to go murder her baby with an abortion. You know I'm not saying any
woman who's done that is just like a reprobate or something like that, but I'm saying when the
Holy Spirit of God is in you, it's going to be a lot harder to go butcher your child in the womb.
How do we make women not want to murder their babies? I don't know, let's get them saved.
How do we keep people from turning into sodomites? Let's get them saved before they become a sodomite,
right? How do we fight against, you know, child trafficking and child rape and all these horrible
things that happen in our world? Okay, well, put the facts to death and preach people before
they become a fact. That'll fix things. What do I do? What do I do? Go preach the Bible to someone.
Go preach the gospel. It's like, this is my outlet. Sowing and writing sermons. This is how we change
the world. Preaching. Go to Acts chapter number eight, Acts chapter number eight. We see an example
here of someone who wanted to know the truth. Someone who wanted to get saved. Some people think
that's enough. If you want to get saved, you'll get saved. If you want the truth, you'll just
magically get saved. You'll just read Revelation 19 and realize you're on the wrong side of
Armageddon and get saved. Isn't that what Bo Ballard said his salvation testimony was? Some bozo. I
heard some preacher said that. That's how they got saved. They read Revelation 19, realized they
were on the wrong side of history and got saved. And everyone clapped. No, it never happened, buddy.
Look at Acts chapter number eight, verse 29. Then the spirit said unto Philip, go near and join
thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither toward him. That's the man who wants to get saved
here and heard him read the prophet Isaiah's and said, understandest thou what he, what thou readest.
So Philip, the preacher, he goes up to the Ethiopian eunuch and the Ethiopian eunuch is
actively reading the Bible. He's actively reading the book of Isaiah. This seems like a pretty
receptive person. I mean, he has a zeal of God, right? And then he says, do you understand what
you're reading? The preacher says, do you understand what you are reading in Isaiah? Look at the key
verse in verse 31. And he said, how can I accept some man should guide me? And he desired Philip
that he would come up and sit with him. You know, the natural man receiveth not the things of the
spirit of God, neither can he know them, their foolishness unto him. The Bible teaches. Now,
once you're saved, you have the Holy Spirit of God in you that teaches you all things. And we don't
need a man to teach us once we're saved. But before you are saved, you cannot open up the Bible
and understand the spiritual truths of the Bible. You can understand some carnal truths,
Noah built an ark, Jesus, you know, did miracles or whatever. But you know, you're not going to
understand salvation unless someone guides you. Then it says in verse 32, the place of the
scripture, which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb dumb
before his shearer. So opened he not his mouth in his humiliation, his judgment was taken away.
And who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth. So what is this? This is
a prophecy of the sacrificial death of the coming Messiah, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. And the
eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee of whom speak at the prophet this of himself or of
some other man, get a picture into the unsaved mind here. I would not have to ask anyone in here.
I could talk to all the children in here and read those passages in Isaiah and say, well, who is
this talking about? And they would all say, Jesus, obviously it's talking about Jesus. Yet this man,
he wants to know the truth. He's reading Isaiah. He's like, who's, who's this writer speaking of
himself or someone else? Right. Then verse 35 says, then Philip opened his mouth and began at
the same scripture and preached unto him. Jesus. This is what it takes to get someone saved is
opening your mouth, preaching the scripture, preaching Jesus. And as they went on their way,
they came unto a certain water and the eunuch said, see here is water. What doth hinder me
to be baptized? Now, the next verse I'm going to read to you. If you have an NIV does not exist
in your Bible. It says, and Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.
And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. He sounds like he
confessed, right? Hey, isn't this an important verse right here? What's stopping someone from
getting baptized? Uh, you need to believe you need to be saved. I don't want that taken out
of my Bible. And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they went down both into the water,
both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. Hey, how shall they hear without a preacher? How
would this Ethiopian eunuch have heard without a Philip? He wouldn't have. He would have been
sitting there spinning his wheels, spinning his wheels, reading Isaiah. You know what? He would
have had a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, right? There's a lot of people out
there today reading the book of Isaiah. There's a lot of people that wake up every single day and
read the Bible that are not saved. Think about that. Uh, just like everyone in the Bahamas,
like everyone in the Bahamas reads the King James Bible is very zealous for the things of God.
They're singing the Bible in their school. They're memorizing scripture in the public school.
They're teaching Bible lessons in the public school. I mean, they've got a zeal,
but not according to knowledge because they didn't believe in salvation by faith alone,
or they were hung up on eternal security or something. How shall they hear without a
preacher? Yet people today, they just want to feel good about themselves and just think like,
yeah, you know, anyone who claims the name of Christ is saved. No, that's not the case.
Go back to Romans 10, Romans 10 verse 15 says, and how shall they preach except they be sent?
This is why we send people out to preach the gospel because if we don't send you out,
who's going to go preach? I'll be honest. Hey, I need the structure in my life.
I need other people encouraging me. I need a soul winning partner to go with me. And hey,
you know, if people weren't sending soul winners, a lot less people would go.
If you just lived off in an island by yourself, you weren't a part of a church,
you weren't a part of a soul winning group or anything like that. How often would you really
preach the gospel? And you know what? You're holier than now. If you think, oh, I would just
still do it all the time. No, you're just lying to yourself. And look, you might be able to do it
for a short amount of time. When I started soul winning, I did it by myself. It was not fun. It's
a lot more fun with other people and a lot more encouraged with other people. That's why we send
you as it is written. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring
glad tidings of good things, but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah saith Lord who
hath believed our report notice obeying the gospel is believing the report all right don't look at
this and say like oh you know this is teaching work salvation it's like why don't you just go
read the entire book of romans again and then reconsider that thought when you get to this verse
all right believing the gospel then it says verse 17 so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing
by the word of god what does it take to be saved faith in jesus how do you get faith in jesus well
you got to hear the gospel by someone who preaches the gospel by someone who's sent faith also comes
by hearing and hearing by the what the word of god here's another thing i want to dispel you know
it does not save anyone is your personal testimony drives me insane today that churches will waste
the time that god has given them where the word of god should be thundering forth and they want to
bring some ex you know uh mexican drug cartel guy to get up and say i've killed you know 70 people
and i used to skin people alive and i used to snort cocaine for breakfast and i used to just
drink alcohol every second of every day but praise god i found jesus and people are supposed to just
oh wow it's amazing it's so wonderful i'm so moved that doesn't get anyone saved and by the
way don't glory in your sin either it's not something to glory about that oh i used to be
the most promiscuous whore i've had 20 abortions okay let's keep that to yourself sister all right
let's let's go ahead and ask god to forgive you and and god will forgive you let's move on from
that let's not glory in how wicked you were thank god that jesus could save anyone but let's not
glory in how bad you were faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god here's your
testimony i believed in jesus christ and if you have any other testimony you want to share you're
not saved because it's not your changed life that got you saved it's the gospel of jesus christ how
boring would that be all right we're gonna have a testimony sharing service all right my turn i
trusted in jesus christ all right theodore come tell us how you got saved i trusted in jesus
christ all right chase i trusted in jesus christ who else wants to go i trusted in jesus christ
that's the only testimony that's real folks faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god
don't be afraid to preach people the word of god a lot of people have another worldly evangelical
mindset that well here's how i'll get people saved i'll be super nice to them i'll invite them over
to dinner for a few years you know and i'll hint hey jesus loves you and then maybe a few years
later we'll pray before we eat you know this is like this is like old ifb missionary letters
it's like we invited the muslim couple they've been coming over to our house for three years
we just want to praise god that we prayed before the meal in the name of jesus and they didn't blow
us up i think they're getting close to getting saved right no here's the power the word of god
that has the power do not be afraid to preach someone the word of god if you have someone that
is unsaved in your life a neighbor a co-worker a family member preach the word of god don't just
tell them jesus loves you preach the word of god and by the way if you want to convince a christian
of a doctrine in the bible don't give me your philosophy and your fluff and your great words
and your wonderful vocabulary and your speaking ability give me the word of god because that's
what has power let me read for you you could stay there first peter 123 says being born again
not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of god which liveth and abideth forever
you have to have the word of god to get saved you have to number four last point the jews rejection
of the gospel verse 18 says but i say have they not heard he's saying look well the jews are unsaved
like what's the problem here have they not heard yes verily their sound went into all the earth
and their words unto the ends of the world you know what in fact the jews have heard and in fact
the whole world has heard the whole world has heard the gospel verse 19 but i say did not israel no
first moses saith i will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people and by a foolish nation
will i anger you he's saying hey well maybe if the gentiles get saved maybe you'll get jealous
and get saved too unfortunately by and large that didn't happen verse 20 but isaias is very bold
and saith i was found of them that sought me not i was made manifest unto them that asked not after
me notice he's not running a seeker sensitive church here well you know we just have to make
people seek god and want the gospel he's saying no no i was found of those that weren't even
looking right that's what we're doing when we go soul winning people are not asking us to come
there in fact sometimes they're asking us not to come there and i don't care because jesus said go
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature and sometimes the apartment managers
don't care either and it's funny when their name is literally karen and they leave me voice mails
my name's karen please never come back to my apartment shut up i'm gonna do it anyways how
about that i was found of them that sought me not i was made manifest unto them that asked not after
me but to israel he saith all day long i've stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient
and gain saying people right so even though paul's desires for israel to be saved he's saying man
moses went through this isis went through this and at the end of the day isis was just stretching
out his hands unto a disobedient and gain saying people and it's like unfortunately the jews by
and large today not saved what did they say they said give us barabbas they said give us barabbas
they said his blood be on us and on our children they curse themselves and they hate the lord
jesus christ and the bible says that the jews are contrary to all men the bible says that the jews
are the synagogue of satan the bible says who is a liar but he that denied that jesus is the christ
he is anti-christ that denied the father and the son they're an anti-christ religion and you know
what we can't force people to believe paul cannot just will the jews to be saved he cannot just force
the jews to be saved and look we can't force oklahoma city to get saved we can't force uconn to
get saved we can't force you know lotton to get saved we can't force the bahamas to get saved now
thank god a lot of these people will get saved you cannot control who gets saved and who doesn't
but the only thing you can control is are you going to actually open your mouth and preach the
gospel because hey how will they hear without a preacher look i don't care if they're asking for
you i don't care if they're seeking for you preach to those hey preach to those that are asking for
you preach to those that are seeking preach to those who are not seeking you preach to those who
are not asking of you hey preach to the apartment complexes where karin tells you to leave just
preach the gospel because it's the only hope that people have christ is not going to come down in a
vision to them you know what they're reading isaiah tonight and they don't understand it some people
are going to go to church on sunday and they have a zeal for god but not according to knowledge and
they're going to go to church and if they die without believing in christ they will go to hell
there's lots of mormons this week that'll start their new missionary journey and they have a zeal
of god and they'll go to hell because it's not according to knowledge and there'll be muslims
that will literally blow themselves up for allah and they will go to hell because they have a zeal
of god but not according to knowledge the only way people get saved is if they hear the word
of god preached the only way the word of god is going to be preached is if you go let's pray lord
thank you so much for your word and thank you for the charge you've given us to preach the gospel
i pray that we would never get distracted in our lives with all the other just mundane things in
this world things that are vain things that will not last our jobs our money our businesses our
hobbies or we're thankful for those things but help us to be singularly minded on the main
mission you've called us here which is to preach the gospel to every creature help it always be
the primary focus of anchor baptist church and be the center of everything we do we love you
Jesus let me pray amen last hymn this evening in your hymnal will be number 415 hymn number
415 victory through grace 415 415 there on the first offering now