Saved by the Blood, number 227.
Start there right on the first.
♪ Saved by the Blood ♪
Father, thank you for this opportunity that we have.
Sing praises unto you, Lord.
I pray that you would bless this service
and be with those that are out sick this evening, Lord.
Jesus' name.
For our next song, if you would turn in your hymnals,
the hymn number 419.
Sound the Battle Cry, hymn number 419.
Go ahead and start there right on the first.
Sound the battle cry, see the foe is nigh.
Praise the standard line for the dead.
Everyone, please raise your hand.
We've got on the front there our Bible memory passage of the week,
2 Timothy 1 verse 3.
"I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience,
that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day."
We do have on the inside our service times listed there,
and below that are soul-winning times.
With one update, Brother Theodore is going to be sending the location
for the Saturday soul-winning time in our Signal Group on Fridays.
So if you go soul-winning on Saturday, please do be looking for that message.
Then below we have our year-to-date soul-winning statistics.
Soul-winning's just been great this year, very thankful for that, at 126 for the year.
Upcoming events, March 7th is our next big soul-winning marathon in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We'll be meeting there in Tulsa at 12 o'clock p.m. and soul-winning through 4 p.m. Then March 8th,
the next day, is our next men's preaching night followed by potluck and fellowship.
March 28th, we've got our listeners pick soul-winning marathon. Lots of people have
shown some interest in this. Pastor Russell was even texting me about it, so I'm really excited to
see what the Lord's gonna do with this, but stay tuned for March 14th when we announce what city
we're going to be going to. Then we have April 1st is the Lord's Supper Service on Wednesday. May
20th through the 24th is the Anti-Israel Conference at Steadfast Baptist Church. That's always fun to
say when you have visitors. You should see it from my perspective sometimes when I get up and say we
have the Anti-Israel Conference and the old IFB visitors look a little shook during that, but it's
okay. It's fun. June 17th through the 20th is the soul-winning conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
Also, I think there's a missions conference coming up at Southwest Baptist Church,
and my family and I were planning on going just to support them on that Thursday evening. I want to
say it might be next week or the week after. I'll have to remind you, but one other person said they
wanted to come with me. Anyone who wants to come is more than welcome just to support other Baptist
churches in the area. We do also have on the right our visitor card and online giving card
and our prayer list. We have a couple updates there. Of course, Brother Eric is going to be
traveling soon to the Philippines, so do be praying for his travel. And of course,
we're definitely going to miss you, but we're thankful for the work you're going to be doing
over there. And then also, if you made it, you might notice you've survived some sort of plague
going around. It's like 2020 or something, I'm not sure. But thank God for health, but let's pray for
the rest of the sick members. So let's go ahead and have a word of prayer before we go to our
third song. Lord, thank you for the opportunity to be safely here in church tonight. I pray that
your spirit would just be upon this service, that you just fill us all with the Holy Ghost, help us
to sing out in our hearts to you. And I pray that you would be with all of the church members this
evening who are sick and couldn't make it, that you just heal their bodies, that you would just
stop any more illness from being spread around our church and this community, Lord. I also want to
pray for brother Eric, that you would just anoint him greatly with the power of the Holy Ghost as
he goes to the Philippines, that you just help him to stay focused and to work hard and to do a great
job over there. I just pray that the door would be open for him and that many people would be saved
through his work. I also pray, Lord, that you bless the travel, that you keep him safe,
that everyone in here would not forget him and just keep reaching out and praying for him, Lord.
And the same thing for evangelist Urbanic, pastor Stuckey, all the great soul winners that are over
there in the Philippines. I do pray that you please bless them, Lord. Also for brother Theodore's mom,
that you just heal her cancer completely, and that you'd be with the family members of church
members that we have that are not saved, that you just soften hearts to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Also pray for brother Miles, Ms. Rhea, that you bless them and their health, and please bless
the service, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. All right, at this time we'll go ahead and go to
our third song together. For our next song, if you would at this time, take your white handouts
and turn to Psalm chapter 139. That's Psalm chapter 139 in the white handouts. Go ahead
and start there right on the first. "Surely thou wilt slay the wicked."
Chapter 15, chapter number 15. "We then that are strong, the infirmities of the weak, and not to
please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.
For even Christ pleased not himself, but as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached
thee fell on me. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Now the God of
patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus.
That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wherefore receive ye one another as Christ also received us to the glory of God. Now I say that
Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the promises made
unto the fathers and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy as it is written for
this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name and again he
saith rejoice ye Gentiles with his people and again praise the Lord all ye Gentiles and laud
him all ye people and again Asaias saith there shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise
to reign over the Gentiles and him shall the Gentiles trust. Now the God of hope fill you with
all joy and peace and believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.
And I myself also am persuaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness
filled with all knowledge able also to admonish one another. Nevertheless brethren I have written
the more boldly unto you in some sort as putting them in mind because of the grace that is given
to me of God that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles ministering the gospel
of God that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
I have therefore whereof I make glory through Jesus Christ and those things which pertain to
God for I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make
the Gentiles obedient by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the
Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about unto Deliquium I have fully preached the
gospel of Christ; yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I
should build upon another man's foundation, but as it is written, to whom he was not spoken of,
they shall see, and they that have not heard shall understand, for which cause also I have
been much hindered from coming to you; but now, having no more place in these parts,
and having a great desire these many years to come unto you, whensoever I take my journey into Spain,
I will come to you, for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way to the word
by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company. But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister
unto the saints, for it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution
for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. It hath pleased them verily, and their debtors they are,
for if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to
minister unto them in carnal things. When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this
fruit, I will come by you into Spain. And I am sure that when I come unto you, I shall come in the
fullness of the blessing in the gospel of Christ. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus
Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers
to God for me. That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea, and that my service,
which I have for Jerusalem, may be accepted of the saints. That I may come unto you with joy
by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Let's bow our heads for a prayer. Father in heaven, we thank you for this day in our church, and we ask that you still cast your spirit, and help us to see the light of God, to see the soul saved, the body, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Man, Romans chapter 15 verse 1, the Bible says, "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities
of the weak and not to please ourselves." Of course, this is tying in with what we've been
talking about a lot in Romans 14, where it's the weaker brother who is offended by one that would
eat meat and it's the stronger brother that knows, "Hey, we can eat all things. Just pray for your
food and receive it with thanksgiving." Of course, the stronger brother is the one who is not just
offended by everyone's personal standards, but the Bible says here, "Okay, well then we that are
strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves." It seems like
the Epistle to the Romans is written to a fairly spiritual crowd, a crowd that's more mature in
the faith than, for example, when you read 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians. Like 1 and 2 Corinthians,
Paul is just rebuking the fire out of them non-stop and like borderline threatening them,
how he's going to come deal with them. But he's kind of saying here like, "Okay, this group seems
to be a little more mature." Well, if you're mature, hey, we that are strong, we ought to be
bearing the infirmities of the weak. You're not just strong for the sake of yourself. You know,
God gives you that strength so that you could help other people. And this is true in every area of
life. It's like, why is the man stronger than the woman? Because he should be carrying that load
of responsibility. He should be carrying the load for his family and bearing the infirmities of those
that are weaker than him. He has that strength and he has that authority, not really just to only be
served, but to serve his family as well. And here the strong are are told to bear the infirmities of
the weak. Notice what it says in verse two, let every one of us please his neighbor for his good
to edification, right? So in the context of chapter 14, the stronger brother is going to consider
the weaker brethren and not go out and just intentionally put a stumbling block before them.
Why? Because they want to please their neighbor for his good to edification, right? So it's like,
hey, something that's lawful for them, eating meat, celebrating a holiday. That weaker brother with
the weaker conscience, you wouldn't just go out of your way to offend that person. You might actually
go out of your way to not offend that person who's the weaker brother. Why? Because you don't have
liberty? No, just because you want to please your neighbor for his good for edification, right? The
work of God is more than meat and drink. We don't want to be that destroyer of the work of God over
things that are secondary, you know, these personal standards that we have. We want to be considerate
of other people in that area. And then he gives us the best example of all in verse three, for even
Christ, please not himself. But as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached thee fell
on me. Now, if you would go to Matthew 23, keep your place there, Matthew 23, what does it look
like thinking about your neighbor, thinking about his good for his edification? Well, it looks like
the ministry of Jesus Christ. He's the best example when it comes to this area. Go to Matthew 23,
if you would, and notice what Jesus himself said in verse number 10. The Bible says, "Neither be
called masters, for one is your master, even Christ, but he that is greatest among you shall
be your servant, and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself
shall be exalted." So for the Lord Jesus Christ, what he says is the greatest thing that you could
be in this world is a servant. And here's the thing, you can be a servant to others
regardless of your position, right? Regardless of whether you're the Lord Jesus Christ himself
or one of his disciples. I mean, what did Jesus come to do? He came to give his life. He came to
please his neighbor for his good, for his edification. He came to sacrifice himself
for others. And you know, the disciples at times were arguing who's going to be the greatest in
the kingdom of God. And at one point he tells them, Hey, unless you become like one of these
little children, you know, that's who's really going to be the greatest in the kingdom of God.
And if you would go back to Romans chapter number 15, so Christ, he pleased not himself,
but as it is written, notice this, the reproaches of them that reproached the fell on me.
If we went back to Psalm 69 and we read where this is coming from, what this is talking about
is how the Lord Jesus Christ is bearing the reproaches of people who were reproaching God.
Now that's definitely, you know, taking on other people's infirmities. That's more so than taking
on people's infirmities. I mean, he went the ultimate route and just took on the whole sins
of the world. But think about what that's saying. The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell
on me. So people are reproaching God, making fun of God, blaspheming God, right? And Jesus himself
took the reproach that was due for those people, deserving of those people, and he took the blame
for that. And of course, you know, this can happen to a much lesser extent, but it can still happen
to us in this life where we could receive reproach for the name of Jesus Christ. And you know,
obviously, Jesus did not deserve any of that reproach, but he took that reproach on himself
for us, for us, for the people who killed him on the cross, for the whole world. He died for
everyone. And we in this life, we too can oftentimes suffer reproach for the things of God.
And you know, it's in those moments that we should count ourselves honored and be humbled that God
has counted us worthy to suffer for his name. You know, I heard a testimony recently of these
Christians in Israel, not a fun place to be a Christian, not a place that I'd want to be at all,
because these Christians often get spit upon literally in Israel. And there was this person
asking these guys, you know, hey, you know, how do you feel about getting spit on? And these
Christians were just saying like, well, it's an honor because Jesus Christ was spit on. And we get
to share a little bit of his humiliation. And she's like, wow, that's some great faith right
there. Because, you know, in the flesh, when people reproach us, when people speak negatively
of us, especially when we're doing what's right, I mean, that our flesh could just be like, no,
it's not fair. That's not right. Why am I suffering persecution? Why am I going through something?
But then you got to remember, oh, well, the reproaches of those that reproached God actually
fell on the Lord Jesus Christ. So you know what? If Jesus could suffer reproach, being sinless,
being perfect, you know, I could suffer some reproach too. And you know what? I ought to
stop thinking of myself so highly. We ought to stop, you know, exalting ourselves and we have to
say, Hey, you know what? Let's just be humble servants of God. And let's just, you know what?
If God wants us to take reproach, then take reproach. What does it say in second Timothy?
Be thou therefore a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.
Be not ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, right? Be a partaker of the
afflictions of the gospel. You know, we should just embrace affliction, embrace reproach,
embrace suffering for his sake, because you know what? We need that in life. We need that to keep
us humble. We need that to keep us, you know, grounded and to keep us having the same heart
that God has, that God wants us to have, because people that don't go through hardship become
spoiled, arrogant jerks. And you know what? God does not use the prideful. Have you noticed that?
Have you noticed that the greatest preachers, have you noticed that the greatest evangelists
are not all these people that think so highly of themselves, exalt themselves,
are too good to suffer reproach? I mean, one of my favorite quotes of Pastor Anderson is he said,
"Hey, I am willing to lose everything for the Lord Jesus Christ." That's a great quote right there.
What to God that we all could say that and mean that in our hearts? Why? Because the reproaches of
those that reproached God fell on Christ. Go to verse four of Romans 15, verse number four.
Notice what it says, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,
that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." So look,
we're going to suffer that reproach, but what is it that's going to give us hope to keep going?
It's reading the Bible. And you know, the only way you're going to make it through tribulation,
persecution, reproach, is if you have that hope by reading the word of God.
And specifically, this is referring to the Old Testament here. There's some Christians today
that just want to get away from the Old Testament. A lot of churches want to never preach out of the
Old Testament, and they only want to stay in the new. But I mean, the Old Testament is profitable.
Look what it says, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning."
Right? So we can learn from the stories of the Old Testament that we, through patience and comfort
of the Scriptures, might have hope. You know, we need that hope to go forward. And you know what
helps when you're going through a hard time? How about reading the Psalms? You know, when you're
going through a hard time, it's just like, "Hey, get yourself alone. Get your phone out of your room.
Go lock your phone in the gun safe or something. And just whatever you got to do, get with the
Psalms. Read the Psalms." You know what can help you when you're going through a time? You know,
read Daniel and see God deliver Daniel out of the lion's den. See him deliver Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego from the burning fiery furnace. When, you know, from a human perspective, it's like certain
death is awaiting them, right? But you read these stories, you know it does. It gives you hope. It
reminds you of the spiritual things. And you know, we live in a carnal world. We're doing our jobs.
We're living our life. We got to make sure that we're staying spiritual and reminding ourselves
of these things by reading the scriptures. Look at verse number five. "Now the God of patience
and consolation grant you to be like-minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus."
So now we're kind of talking about the desire that Paul has for this church to have unity. And what
does it take for a church to have unity? Well, it takes like what he's talking about here, humility.
And the beginning part of this chapter, thinking about others, bearing other people's burdens and
not just only thinking about yourself. It's also going to take you being spiritual, reading the
Bible, right? It's going to take a lot of those things to be a unified church. And when you see
a church that's falling apart, that's not unified, why is that often the case? It's often because
people are not reading their Bible because what are church splits often about? Oftentimes it's
about doctrine and why are there divisions in the house of God? Someone's right and someone's wrong.
This isn't like, you know, the promoters of the modern versions where it's like, yeah, we know
they're all different, but trust me, they're all the same. It's like, no, there's a right doctrine
and there are false doctrines. And how are you going to have unity in church? Look, you've got
to be reading the scriptures and we should never ever take for granted the unity that we have at
anchor Baptist church and think that this is just going to automatically continue with no
maintenance required. You know, it's kind of like any other perishable skill. It's like, if you don't
go shooting for a really, really long time, you're not going to be as sharp as it used to be. Well,
it's like, Hey, you have to actually put effort into keeping the church of God unified. It takes a
group effort of all of us. Hey, humbling ourselves, taking on their approaches, embracing the
affliction, caring about other people and reading your Bible. If those things stop, there will be
division, right? Go listen to my sermon. Why there's division. Why is there division? When
people get prideful, when people start, stop reading their Bible and start preaching false
doctrine, right? Or when people just don't care about doctrine, then they'll start to be division.
Notice what it says in verse number six, says that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God,
even the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you would go to John 17. So he says with one mind
and with one mouth, I want you guys to glorify God. Now we obviously know that not every single
thing in the Bible is literal, right? He's not saying we're going to fuse into one mind and fuse
into one mouth. But you know, there's people that overly take the Bible literal and will sometimes
teach like this oneness doctrine where it's like, oh, I and the father are one. And they'll say like,
see, there's no distinction between the father, son and the Holy Spirit. You know, Jesus is the
father and Jesus is the Holy Spirit and vice versa. But it's like, okay, well, Paul wants us to have
one mouth. It's like, are we really one mouth? Do we really have one mind? Look at John 17. This is
a great way to understand what's going on here. Let's start reading in verse 15. It says, I pray
not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
So Jesus is praying to God the father and he's saying, don't just get them out of the world,
right? We need to serve God. We need to reach people, but keep them from harm. Keep them from
evil. Verse 16, they are not of the world. Even as I am not of the world, sanctify them through thy
truth. Thy word is truth. As thou has sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the
world. And for their sakes, I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. So
he's praying for us here that they may all, that they all may be one. Notice that. But then he says
this as meaning similarly in like manner in a similar fashion right as thou father art in me
and I and thee that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me
so he's praying to god the father for his disciples and for all those that would in the
future believe through his disciples word so he's he's praying even for future christians here and
he says hey i want these people to be one as we are one now the modalists will say oh yeah jesus
and god the father are the same person well then why would jesus be praying that we would be one as
him and the father are one is he wanting us to be one person is he wanting us to be literally one
mouth one mind this is a stupid doctrine this is a stupid way of reading the bible you know there
are metaphors in the bible you do have to use context use your brain and what is the context
describing here unity right hey i want them to be one as we are one what does that mean to be
unified how are they going to be unified well look what it said there in verse 17
sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth isn't that the exact same thing that
the apostle paul was saying in romans 15 he's talking about how we through patience and hope
or comfort of the scriptures might have hope right it's important for us to be reading the
bible and then right after he's talking about the importance of reading the bible he says hey i want
you guys to have one mind and one mouth how are we going to be unified at church read the bible
read the word of god right it's not about ingesting books about the bible or podcasts
or commentaries we've got to read the word of god sanctify them through thy truth thy word
is truth let's go back to romans 15 romans 15 look at verse number seven he says wherefore
receive ye one another as christ also as christ also received us to the glory of god so hey the
weaker brethren receive those receive each other as christ received us and hey how does christ
receive us i mean he receives us with open arms with unconditional love nothing can separate us
from the love of christ right and so how should we receive other christians you know greatly if
there's there any group of people on this earth that we should treat really really well it should
be god's people right the people we should be the most gracious towards the most long suffering
towards the people we should just want to make sure that we're good to is god's people hey i mean
the bible says let us do good unto all men especially to those that are of the household
of faith i'm not saying don't be good to other people don't be nice to other people but i mean
come on receive christians it's like it's really sad when christians hate each other when christians
just want to destroy each other it's like that's the unrighteous attitude you know if you hate your
brother the bible says you walk in darkness the bible says you are a fool it is never ever okay
to hate your brother in christ there could be situations where you have to show some tough
love there could be situations with rebuke there could be situations all the way leading up to
church discipline and delivering them over to satan for the destruction of the flesh but even
that in and of itself is a loving act we already saw in romans 13 love is the fulfilling of the law
anytime you're doing anything the bible says that is loving but you know what it's never okay
to hate your brethren it's never okay to wish evil upon them curse them despise them no we need to
receive one another and that means hey even people that aren't exactly like us we got other flavors
of baptists here that are saved like there's other independent baptist churches here that believe the
right gospel they go out and evangelize maybe not as you know efficiently as we do i believe we have
the best method but hey they're going out they're knocking doors they're once saved always saved
they're king james only and it's like why would i make that person my enemy you know i'm gonna do
i'm just gonna show up to their missions conference and just enjoy say amen where i can you know sing
out with all my heart to the lord there right we don't have to be like an enmity with people that
aren't exactly like us we're gonna preach what we believe but you know what we still love those
people we love the old ifb they may not love us sometimes but you know i read a book recently
by an old ifb guy and i thought it was excellent and i you know message him and try to encourage
him like we want to receive other christians right notice what it says in verse number eight now i
say that jesus christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of god to confirm the
promises made unto the fathers this portion of the chapter is going to kind of transition and
explain how jews and gentiles are one in christ jesus right there's there's not this difference
between these two groups anymore he brings up the jews first that's the circumcision saying
jesus was a minister to them for the truth of god to confirm the promises made unto the fathers
right we went through romans 11 hey is the word of god been made of none effect and all of romans 11
is explaining how that's not the case right through esau and through isaac and then it says in verse
number nine and that the gentiles might glorify god for his mercy notice this as it is written
that's quoting the old testament for this cause i will confess to thee among the gentiles and sing
unto thy name and again he saith rejoice ye gentiles with his people and again praise the lord
all ye gentiles and laud him all ye people you know it was not like the dispensationalist teach
where god has a certain plan but then man fails and god kind of has to go back to the drawing
board and figure out how he's going to deal with humanity on the next stage right they believe in
these seven dispensations where god dealt with man in seven different ways throughout history
and some people will teach like hey you know the gentiles were not god's plan that the only reason
that the gentiles even have you know the gospel or even had a chance is because of the fact that
the jews rejected jesus but notice that this is quoting the old testament talking about how the
gentiles are going to be praising the lord now let's look at some old testament references on
this if you would go to psalm 117 psalm 117 which is the shortest chapter in the bible psalm 117
while you're turning there deuteronomy 32 43 says rejoice oh ye nations with his people for he will
avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will be merciful
unto his land and to his people so deuteronomy 32 is one place that's being quoted there look at
psalm 117 verse 1 oh praise the lord notice this all ye nations praise him all ye people now that
seems pretty simple right go to psalm 100 let's flip a couple pages back to psalm 100 this is some
really complicated doctrine notice what it says in verse 1 of psalm 100 make a joyful noise unto
the lord all ye lands serve the lord with gladness come before his presence with singing now that
scripture is pretty clear that god wanted praise from all nations all lands he i mean god is not
willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance that's not new jesus christ the
same yesterday today and forever i am the lord i change not god has always wanted all lands all
nations to be safe but you know what's funny is one time a person let me borrow a ruckman bible
commentary peter ruckman bible with his commentary on it and i would just flip through it at random
every once in a while one time i flipped open to psalm 100 verse 1 and it says you know make a
joyful noise unto the lord all ye lands and i'm like well that's a problem for ruckmanites
and then you look at his footnote and it's like you know this is actually just talking about the
jews i'm just like what how can you say that make a joyful noise unto the lord all ye lands he's
like that's just talking about the jews that's just talking about israel it's like you are a
liar you are confounded right and paul is just bringing this up in romans 15 saying hey this was
always the plan go if you would to isaiah chapter 11 isaiah chapter number 11 this is a great one
isaiah chapter number 11 isaiah 11 when you're there look at verse number 10 it says and in
that day there shall be a root of jesse which shall stand for an end sign of the people now
if you're saved and you got the holy spirit of god in you who is that talking about jesus right
notice to it shall the gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious i mean the bible is already
prophesying back in isaiah hey the gentiles are going to be seeking god the gentiles are going
to be seeking jesus and the gospel this was not some plan b this is something that god already knew
would happen right so you know don't listen to guys like sam gip that gets up and says you know
hey jesus isn't your messiah you know about a decade ago he went all viral because he said hey
jesus isn't your messiah are you of gentile stock well then you were never promised a messiah
what a blasphemous false doctrine that is to say that we were never promised a messiah it's like
what are you a calvinist then like god just created gentiles to just be destroyed and burn
in hell with no chance of course not no we already know from reading the old testament
that god's plan was for the gospel to go to all people that all people had a chance to be saved
also if you would go to luke chapter number two i think luke chapter number two is another great
place to prove that the gentiles always had a chance through jesus christ salvation is always
going to be through jesus christ that is the same thing it was always taught in the old testament
and we get this story through the man simian i love this story here in luke chapter number two
starting in verse 25 it says and behold there was a man in jerusalem whose name was simian
and the same man was just and devout waiting for the consolation of israel and the holy ghost
was upon him this man is saved right he's just he is justified this is a believer not only is he
saved he is devout so he's one of the mature christians we're reading about in romans 15
this is a man who actually reads the scriptures who knows the scriptures how do we know that he
knows the bible because he's waiting for the consolation of israel now if you're waiting for
something you're anticipating that it's going to happen right you know it's going to happen kind
of like the disciples in john one they're like we found the messiah of whom moses and the prophets
did right jesus of nazareth right they were looking for him this man's looking for him verse
26 and it was revealed unto him by the holy ghost that he should not see death before he had seen
the lord's christ that's a cool vision right there to know like hey i'm not going to die until i see
this consolation of israel until i see this messiah notice it says in verse 27 and he came by the
spirit into the temple and when the parents brought in the child jesus to do for him after
the custom of the law then took he him up in his arms and blessed god and said lord now let us
thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word for mine eyes have seen thy salvation what a
cool moment that is i mean he sees the baby lord jesus christ and he's just like i've seen salvation
i can die now i could die a happy man lord i have seen your salvation verse 31 notice this
which thou has prepared before the face of all people a light to lighten who the gentiles in the
glory of thy people israel right so who was jesus the messiah like yes physically jesus descended
from the tribe of judah of course we know that we're not denying that but jesus is not just
israel's messiah jesus is not just the messiah of the jews no no he was a light to lighten the
gentiles and the glory of his people israel so you know we as gentiles are not second-class citizens
in the kingdom of god and people who are you know ethnically of the descendants of abraham
that are saved they are not you know first class in the kingdom of god we are all one in christ
jesus now if you are a physical descendant of abraham and you are not saved you're definitely
not first class you're not even in the family you're your child of wrath you're on your way
to hell and you know a gentile who doesn't believe in jesus christ nothing special about that person
but you know what a jew and a gentile that believe in jesus they're equally special in god's eyes
because you know what race doesn't mean anything blood type doesn't mean anything your ancestry
i mean the bible literally says to avoid genealogies that it doesn't matter that it's not profitable
and it's funny how one of the biggest arguments over zionism and the people who live in israel
today is that some of the people there will claim you know ancestry going back to abraham
and what's funny about that is that during the diaspora jews were scattered throughout
the entire earth and a lot of them were scattered all throughout europe and eastern europe it's
like you know netanyahu the president of israel i believe that his parents and grandparents are
from poland and that like you look at jews what do they look like they look like eastern europeans
and does it look like they have you know some mix of middle eastern in them yeah probably
but you know what it doesn't matter what they where they descend from and you know who cares
about this kind of stuff really carnal people because like here is just the truth just reality
is that the people that live in israel are white people that's just the truth folks but you know
who that upsets people like nick fuentes nick fuentes is just talking about like you know i
don't like that this is the argument that we're using to attack zionism because really it's just
an anti-white argument and it's like hey idiot the problem with jews in israel is not that they're
either brown or that they're white it's that they're satanic because they worship they follow a
satanic religion judaism is the problem you know what if all of the jews in israel were black
and they hated jesus christ they'd be cursed and they're all white if they're all brown
you know anyone that detests jesus christ let them be anathema and you know what israel today is a
cursed wicked satanic nation not having anything to do with their ancestry or their skin color has to
do with their evil religion and you know the the race argument is a losing argument here's the
problem the talmud here's the problem jews that's the problem judaism that is the issue today you
know what it's not anything else go back to romans 15 and that's what he's explaining here hey praise
the lord all you gentiles and laud him all you people verse 12 and again as i say it there shall
be a root of jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the gentiles in him shall the gentiles trust
we looked at that in isaiah now the god of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that
you may abound in hope through the power of the holy ghost like hey how do you get joy and peace
in this world whether you're brown black white jew gentile it's through believing it's through
believing in jesus christ and you know what when you believe in jesus christ now you could actually
have true peace now you hey there's therefore now no condemnation to them who are in christ
jesus to those who walk not after the flesh look at verse number 14 and i myself this is interesting
here and i myself also am persuaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness
filled with all knowledge able also to admonish one another now here's the thing the apostle paul
is not a flatterer the apostle paul is not a people pleaser read galatians 1 he's like hey
if i if i tried to please man i would not be the servant of christ read first corinthians chapter
all of them sorry first corinthians and second corinthians he's constantly rebuking people
telling them how carnal they are he's like threatening them like do i need to come to you
with the rod hey you're gonna know the power of me basically he's like all these people doubting
my apostleship doubting my ministry but this is way different in in romans he's saying here hey i'm
persuaded of you my brethren that you also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge and
able also to admonish one another you know that's a that's a comforting feeling for a minister to
feel like people are being spiritual and to feel like hey you know people don't necessarily need
their hand held for everything there's just not all these just constant major glaring issues going
on he's like hey you guys you know you're pretty squared away you guys have things going right you
guys can admonish one another you guys are filled with goodness you guys are doing well in this area
but but here's verse 15 is really why i think that 14 is interesting he says nevertheless brethren
i have written the more boldly unto you in some sort as putting you in mind because of the grace
that is given to me of god you know that teaches me that you know even if you're doing okay even
if you are the stronger brethren even if you are more spiritual than the weaker brethren you know
you still need hard preaching and you still need the word of god and you still need paul and you
still need his instruction i mean don't miss that he's like you guys are filled with knowledge
you're able to admonish one another these aren't helpless christians these are mature christians
but he doesn't any you know what anyways i still wrote unto you the more boldly he says as putting
you in mind because of the grace that is given to me of god he's just saying like look i'm still
gonna put you in remembrance of things i'm still gonna put you in mind i'm still gonna write boldly
unto you because it's my job because of the grace of god that is given to me and you know what that
tells me is that you know what every sermon we need every doctrine we need every hard sermon on
sin we need even if you're not guilty of that sin you hear a hard sermon on fornication and you're
not committing fornication you know what you still need that because though you're right on that
issue you want to make sure you stay right on that issue hey you know what if you're already a soul
winner you still need hard preaching on soul winning because you don't want to quit being a
soul winner you know you need hard preaching today on things like adultery you need hard preaching
today on things like blasphemy you say but i don't take the lord's name in vain yeah but you know
what i need to put you in mind of these things because of the grace of god given unto me you may
be able you know to go your days without blaspheming god lately but you know if you just don't think
about these things if you don't read the bible if you're not reminded of these truths you even
though you are spiritual you can go down a route of oh taking the lord's name in vain oh doing
something you shouldn't do being somewhere you shouldn't be going down a road you shouldn't go
down and so you know never think that you're above preaching never think you're above any sermon
never think even doctrines you feel like you have nailed down never sit here and just check out and
think you're better than that no because you know what these christians seem pretty spiritual but
paul saying you know i'm still writing boldly unto you right and you know what preachers should be
exhorted to not think like oh you know my people don't need this one it's like hey preach the word
be instant in season and out of season some preaching is in season some sermons it's like
everyone's going to agree with this but you know what it's doctrine it's what the bible teaches
it needs to be taught you know we got to keep preaching the word of god notice verse 17 he says
i have thereof where for where i have therefore whereof i make glory through jesus christ in
those things which pertain to god for i will not dare to speak of any of those things which christ
hath not wrought by me to make the gentiles obedient by word and deed what this reminds me of if you
keep your place there and go to galatians chapter number six galatians chapter number six he says
hey i'm not going to speak of those things which christ hath not wrought by me notice what it says
in galatians six verse two should sound familiar to what we're talking about bear ye one another's
burdens and so fulfill the law of christ if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing
he deceiveth himself but notice let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoicing
in himself alone and not in another he's like hey i'm not boasting in other man's works i'm
not bragging about other man's works he's like hey i'm focused on my own works and you know what
all of us need to have our own works you need to have your own works and you know what you going
to a soul winning church doesn't make you a soul winner you going to a church that emphasizes
bible reading doesn't mean you're reading your bible i mean you having the memory verse on the
front of your bulletin sure does not mean you memorize it because most people don't do it
you know what you need to have your own works and not just be like you know i go to the church
that passes out the quarter zips it's like you get the quarter zip you get the quarter zip
you know by memorizing god's word you know you need to have your own works today
because if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing he deceive it himself and i
think there's a lot of christians in this world where they kind of view church and they kind of
view serving god as like a really awesome sports game and it's like they want to be there like they
want to be in the stadium but they just want to watch and i feel like the judgment seat of christ
someday is going to reveal to some people and it's going to be kind of surprising to some people
who maybe thought they were something because they they showed up and and watched but they're
going to find out real soon that you know you need to have your own works you know the apostle paul
is a really hard working person go to romans 15 he said under the inspiration of the holy ghost
that he labored more abundantly than they all that is scripture it's just like fact the apostle paul
was the hardest working person around i mean that's inspiring to look at the work that he did
you know he talks about some of his works notice it says here he says through mighty signs and
wonders by the power of the spirit of god so notice he's not taking credit for himself saying like
by my own will and intellect and discipline and strength he's like no of course this is by the
spirit of god but by the power of the spirit of god so that from jerusalem and round about
unto illyricum i have fully preached the gospel of christ now this is crazy this is insane if you
look at a map today what i've been able to find is that illyricum is in the baltic states so if
you could picture italy and the adriatic sea right next to italy the eastern shores of the adriatic
sea are the baltic states now he says from jerusalem and round about unto illyric you know i wonder do i
have a map let me see if i have a map maybe you guys will be able to see this everyone look if
they have a really big map that would be super cool all right i don't have a huge map that's way
too small man over there all right we're gonna try to look at this real quick so we got let's see
where we at here okay so the israel area so he's going from jerusalem round about unto the baltic
states take a look at that if you can over here we got jerusalem round about unto the baltic state
the eastern part of the adriatic sea if you think about that that distance which is over a thousand
miles easily it's over a thousand miles as the bird flies now he's going around about on land
doing that in the ancient world where there was no cars there's no helicopters there's no airplanes
i mean he's just like walking the roman roads basically he's walking the roman roads he's
traveling on foot and you know what he's preaching from jerusalem roundabout unto lyricum this is a
man that works super hard this is a man he doesn't just think himself to be something and he's
nothing you know he's proved his own work and by the power of the spirit he was able to do a great
work for god you know there is nothing stopping us from doing huge wonderful works for god if we
just decide to rely on the power of the holy spirit and work hard stop with this nonsense today
that baptists have where they get up in their big 20 million dollar building and they sit there and
pray for revival and they say hey donate five dollars a month to this missionary who i've read
you the missionary letters it's like hey we are in italy and we celebrated the fourth of july
and my wife planted a garden isn't it awesome i mean paul would just freak out on people like
that because he's going on foot from jerusalem round about until larry come and you know he's
filling these places with the gospel you know what we need today is not god to sprinkle pixie dust
called revival from heaven we need christians to work get to work hey preach the gospel and
jerusalem and samaria in judaea hey to the uttermost parts of the earth we just need people
with a vision and that are willing to go out and do the work and what i love about the new ifb
is that we don't just sit here praying for revival it's like hey we do do it yourself missions and
people just you know what are spiritual and instead of using all their vacation time on some vacation
to hawaii which hey there's nothing wrong with that in and of itself but a lot of people just
want to go to a mission field and spend a week of their life in bahamas and spend a week of their
life in the philippines spend a year of their life in the philippines you know that's great we need
to encourage that kind of stuff we need to provoke others to do that kind of stuff and you know that's
the heart that the apostle paul had look at verse 20 he said yay so if i strive to preach the gospel
not where christ was named lest i should build upon another man's foundation but as it is written
to whom he was not spoken of they shall see and they that have not heard shall understand you know
again this just makes me think about our soul winning program is that a lot of churches today
their idea is to preach the gospel to people who come to church to have them walk the aisle right
and just you know sing the sad quiet songs and while everyone is starving and wanting to get
lunch the pastor is going to go on and on until he gets his bodies at the altar right you know
it's crazy today but notice his attitude he's preaching the gospel where christ was not named
you know we're going to places in oklahoma city where people don't know the gospel where people
are not saved and sometimes where people don't know the most basic facts about jesus christ and
you know what maybe you're listening to that and you don't believe me you think like of course
everyone's heard of jesus of course everyone has heard of the virgin bird everyone's heard of the
resurrection every once in a while i get shocked and i run into some kid that has never heard of
these things and it's like that's sad but you know what we need to go reach that kid we need to go
into the ghettos we need to go into the rough areas we need to go to the swat soul winning times
we need to go to detroit chicago memphis new jersey all these places we need to fill these places
with the gospel not where not where he's already named lest i should build upon another man's
foundation but as it is written to whom he was not spoken of they shall see and they that have not
heard shall understand you know it's funny is that what's kind of funny is oftentimes the least
people know about religion sometimes the more receptive they are the people who think that they
could see are actually blind and if you it's like hey if you were blind you would actually be able
to see john chapter number nine right people who often just think they're so wise they're so smart
they know so much bible good luck getting people like that saved good luck getting the calvinist
saved the esv promoter saved those people are annoying to talk to but you know what some kid
who's like yeah i haven't heard that person will likely get saved notice what he says in verse number
22 for which cause also i have been much hindered from coming to you that's interesting for what
cause for the cause that he's working on for the gospel of jesus christ for his mission now he loves
these christians in chapter one he was talking about how he's desired to see them for a long time
that he may impart some spiritual gift unto them he wants to see them but he says hey my work though
has kind of hindered me from doing that and you know what that teaches me is that if you really
want to go all out for the lord jesus christ you might miss out on some things you might miss out
on some things in this life you might have to sacrifice some things in this life and you know
what you have to be willing to count the costs and make that decision hey jesus can i bury my
father no let the dead bury their dead i mean that's some serious dedication right there
and it's like if you actually want to be serious about serving god you know what you can't just
look at every single thing you could possibly do in life as some excuse because you'll always
find an excuse right like you just have to be steadfast you have to be singular minded
on the things of god and it's like hey you know i serve god on saturday mornings i serve god on
sunday mornings hey i go to church on wednesday night and it's like oh but but our kid's birthday
party is on sunday morning it's like you know do i desire to go yeah but you know what i'm going
to be hindered from going because i have a mission to do i have a job to do i have something that's
more important to do and you know i'm sure he loved these people in fact we know that he loves
these people because he said that i pray for you every single day right under the inspiration of
the holy spirit he says hey i always have you in remembrance in my prayers he loves these people
but you know he hasn't been able to see him he's been hindered from coming out of them because he's
doing a great work and that's just the cost you have to count notice what it says in verse number
23 he says but now having no more place in these parts and having a great desire these many years
to come unto you when soever i take my journey into spain i will come to you for i trust to see
you in my journey and to be brought on my way the other word by you if first i be somewhat filled
with your company so why is he now coming under them finally well because of verse 23 he says but
now having no more place in these parts he's like i've fully preached the gospel from jerusalem
round about until lyricum hey i've just filled these places with the gospel i've started churches
here there's groups going here he's like okay now i can come see you by the way i'm gonna come see
you on my way to spain because i'm coming to take over spain next i'm coming over to do a great work
for god next and he says by the way you're gonna bring me there i like how he says that he says for
i trust to see you in my journey and to be brought on my way vitherward by you if first i be somewhat
filled with your company hey i want to see you i'm coming to you on my way to spain and you guys are
going to get me to spain i don't know if you know it's an uber i don't know if he's just giving him
money you know paying his way to go there but he's just like i'm coming and you're getting me to
spain but it's like hey if apostle paul is in town are we going to help him out are we going to bless
the man of god hey you want to come visit us please you need help getting to spain please right we use
the the resources god has given us to help someone like paul you know don't be like diatrophes who
you know he wants to have the preeminence and so he doesn't receive the men of god could you imagine
the romans receiving this letter and just be like no we're not letting him come to our churches like
that's insane but there are people that are like that today in fact think about this you know turkey
asia minor on the way to lyricum later in paul's ministry he says all they that are in asia be
turned away from me how crazy is that i mean he dedicates his life he walks on foot thousands of
miles to start churches to fill the land with god's word and the gospel of jesus christ and
you know what he loves people he's praying for people he's investing in people and the more he
loves the less he's loved back and you know what the reproaches of those their approach the fell
on me he didn't quit he said none of these things move me i'm really inspired by this guy what a
great man notice what it says in verse 25 but now this is funny too but now i go into jerusalem to
minister under the saints it's like wait a second you know you're going around to lyrical you're
gonna go all the way back to jerusalem first to minister under the saints i mean this guy's just
zealous he just doesn't stop working he doesn't take a day off i mean this man is just ready to
do a great work for god no wonder that through him and the other apostles the bible says that
they were just turning the world upside down because they were turning the world upside down
with the gospel and he's like you know what first i'm going to jerusalem to minister under the saints
why because he cares about them too look what it says in verse 26 for it has pleased them of
macedonia and akaya to make a certain contribution contribution for the poor saints which are at
jerusalem why is he going to jerusalem to bless the poor christians there that were given a love
offering by these christians in macedonia so he's in macedonia and akaya and these guys are like hey
you know we're really inspired by the work that the christians are doing in jerusalem
there's great soul winners there there's great things that are being done there i want you paul
to give this love offering to them and it's not like you could sell it or put it in the us post
office or anything like that he's like all right i'm on my way to rome actually never mind i'm going
to turn around go all the way back for his own good for his own profit no just to serve other
people boy how about we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the week i mean the
imposter paul is just literally just dedicating everything in his life to serving other people
and he's not even taking it he's like bringing it to them so great to see look what it says there
in uh verse 27 it says it have pleased them verily so they're happy to give it and their debtors
they are he's saying the macedonians are in debt to these poor saints in jerusalem why for if the
gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to minister
unto them in carnal things the macedonians had the right perspective on life yeah they had more
material goods they have more riches but they realized that what the poor saints are doing in
jerusalem the giving out of the gospel the service of god that's worth so much more than money right
so it's just it's just common sense that if you look at things through a biblical lens you know
spiritual things are worth so much more than carnal things and so if you're made partaker of a
spiritual benefit it's like the least you could do is return a carnal benefit to that person
right it's like if the apostle paul is coming to your church in rome and he says can you get me to
spain it's like yeah we'll pay your way to spain we'll do whatever we got to do you know that's
just common sense and you know what i like how it says that it pleased them the bible says god
loves a cheerful giver right hey if we're going to bless someone if we're going to bless another
church another man of god you know we should just be pleased to do it we shouldn't be holding our
nose at it or begrudgingly giving it you know let's just be happy to serve god and if you've
been made partaker of some spiritual benefit hey returning the favor carnally just be happy to do
that because you got the better end of the deal notice verse 28 when therefore i have performed
this and have sealed to them this fruit i will come by you into spain so it's going to be a while
i'm turning around i'm going all the way to jerusalem to drop off this love offering
then i'll come back and i'll see you guys on my way to spain and i am sure that when i come unto
you i shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of christ the bible doesn't record
if the apostle paul ever made it to spain but one thing we could learn from this that i love about
him is that he had a big vision right he didn't have this ah that can't be done ah that's that's
too big of a work that's too crazy he said let's go like that sermon pastor shelly preached hey
let's go to spain let's do it he's like hey i'm coming to you on my way to spain and like he says
hey when i come unto you i shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of christ
isn't it nice when you could do a great work for god and you could show up and then you know
everything's going good in the church he's not coming with the rod he's not coming with rebuke
he wants to come in the fullness of the blessing of christ and you know this is what ministers want
ministers they're not necessarily trying to kick people out of church they're not trying to you
know constantly have to deal with issues it's like they want to just come in the fullness of
blessing of christ but what does that take takes being that mature group notice what he says uh
verse 30 now i beseech you brethren for the lord jesus christ's sake and for the love of the spirit
that you strive together with me in your prayers to god for me now i would say these people owe him
that since he's praying for them every single day he's saying hey i beg you guys please pray
for me pray you know we should pray for men of god we should pray for guys like pastor stuckey like
evangelist urbanic pastor anderson pastor shelly these guys that are doing great works for god
i mean that's the least you could do is pray for these guys because you know what being a pastor
is a hard job and i'm sure being an apostle was a way harder job but being an evangelist being a
pastor being you know an apostle just a servant of god that's a lot of work there's a lot of
pressures there's a lot of behind the scenes battles there's a lot of issues i mean here's
the here's what we're reading on the surface is paul's just traveling around right and people
are probably thinking oh you know paul's just having his vacation right i mean paul's got his
church sponsored vacation but it's like why don't you read other parts of the bible where he's
stoned shipwrecked you know betrayed by his brethren betrayed by countrymen betrayed by
all these people it's like let me just tell you there's often a lot of fights and issues and
problems in the background that you never know about you know what men of god would appreciate
is some prayer is to be lifted up in prayer because you know what pastors have the same
flesh that you do we need the same grace that you do we need the same spirit of god to help us do
this work that you do and you know what the man the apostle paul is not special great pastors that
we know as a man they're not special i mean the apostle paul is like a thorn in the flesh he's
made fun of for being kind of contemptible in the flesh and not really seeming to be that macho and
authoritative and it's like look not many mighty are called not many noble it's like hey the great
pastors of this world are just men and you know what we should pray for them you should pray for
them please do i beseech you now he has two specific requests and this is this is very
interesting verse 31 says here's his request number one that i may be delivered from them that do not
believe in judae the apostle paul is not living in 2026 suburbia america he's living during some
dangerous tumultuous times you know nero existing there's christians being killed constantly there's
serious threat to his life and you know he's just going into jerusalem just to bless some christians
he's like hey can you just pray that we're delivered from those that do not believe that's
a good thing to pray that we would be physically kept safe we do live in a safe society but you
know we could never take anything for granted there's been churches bombed there's been doxing
there's been threats there could be assassinations and assassination attempts you know that ought to
be one thing to be kept in prayer now this is the crazy one i expect the world to try to kill and
hate christians but look at this and that my service which i have for jerusalem may be accepted of the
saints that's kind of sad that you have to pray for that but you know we live in a world filled
with selfish carnal people where even if a man of god he has his heart open unto people he tries
to bless them he tries to do good he tries to rebuke them which is love he tries to do good
you know some people just don't receive that and how crazy is it that the greatest man of god at
this time one of his prayer requests is just that people would accept his service accept that he is
doing something for others how crazy is that it's not hey please you know pray that these people
will do all these favors for me and bless me and help me and protect me and do all these great
things for me it's like pray that these people will just accept my service think about that is
crazy but you know what that is the world that we live in we live in a world today where the more
you love the less you're loved we live in a world today where men of god will get up they'll love
the church they'll preach sound doctrine they'll rebuke you know they'll be a good friend and people
will forsake them lie about them slander them i mean how about paul wittenberger someone who is
financially extremely blessed by pastor stephen anderson the only reason that this guy is popular
at all is because pastor anderson's films were just great content great preaching great content
and you know why people love paul wittenberger's films let me help you out it wasn't because of
paul wittenberger you know why people love pastor anderson's films it's because of pastor anderson
and more than that it was the doctrine that pastor anderson was teaching you know it wasn't because
of the production value look hollywood has great production value what was it it was the content
and you know a man who had so much good done unto him you know what he does not he no longer
accepts the service of faithful word baptist church you know what likes pastor anderson
and in fact he's now went from getting financially blessed making documentaries that were being you
know created by pastor anderson being promoted by pastor anderson now he's making a documentary
against pastor anderson called man of god where he's standing with rebellious children that have
been breaking god's commandments not honoring their father and mother in some cases cursing
their father and mother which is worthy of death sin and paul wittenberger is now going to stand
with those wicked people and you know what he's not going to accept pastor anderson as a man of
god he's going to attack man of god you know what a wicked piece of trash and you know what any
single person who stands with the children throughout all this drama in the last couple
years stand with the children stand with paul wittenberger ex new ifb you are all 100 pieces
of crap terrible people trash and you know what i i now understand because i've lived through the
last couple years i now understand why prayer requests like this are in the bible because
before i would not have understood it it's like what who would reject the apostle paul who would
not accept his services who would not let him preach who would not let him bless but you know
what it took me about one day being a pastor literally i just happened to get ordained in
like the biggest fight ever took me like one day on the job to realize wow people really suck
that's just the fact and you know what it's just crazy today that people will not accept
good being done unto them but you know that's another thing we should pray we should pray hey
that people at anchor baptist church people that we reach in the future will just hey accept the
hard preaching accept the love that's being offered you right what we're giving at anchor
baptist church you know we're not giving a bad meal here we're giving god's work we're giving
the king james bible we're giving sound doctrine we're giving out the gospel we're going out to
your neighborhood okay see we're going out to your homicide locations to your burned down fire
complexes and you know the oklahoman wants to hate us and the fags of this community want to hate us
and people want to you know attack us and leave us a million voicemails it's like you know what
i think i know who the problem is in this city that's not anchor baptist church it's not the new
ifb i think i know what the problem is in america you know what and it's anyone with the last name
berger all right it's not it's not uh pastor anderson it's paul wittenberger watch out for last
names like that i'm just saying look at verse number 32 notice what he said what he wants
this is all pastors want that i may come unto you with joy by the will of god and may with you be
refreshed it's so refreshing when you go and preach somewhere and people are just ready to
receive it and they just love the hard preaching and they love the soul winning you know it's
refreshing when we just put out a video to the world and we just say hey we want to come soul
winning in your town and we just get all these emails just like come soul winning in our town
it's like that's refreshing that's what we want in america we want some people that are fired up
about the word of god we want some people that are fired up about the gospel and you know what
we want to come to people with joy we want to go soul winning with people who want to go soul
winning we want to go to church with people who want to go to church we want to hear hard preaching
from people who actually like our preaching we don't want a divided church verse 33 last verse
now the god of peace be with you all what a great chapter this is and the apollos of paul is such a
great inspiration and you know what we need to take these things to heart we need to be that
stronger brethren that's carrying the responsibilities the weights the infirmities of other people we
need to be reading the bible so that we're unified in faith and doctrine we need to have a big vision
for this world we need to work super hard for the gospel of jesus christ and you know what if god
puts a man of god in your life if god blesses you with a minister you need to receive that
minister you need to receive the ministry that he's giving you you need to receive the hard
preaching you need to show up and even if you're doing good in an area and you think hey this
sermon isn't about you you know what you need to take it as against yourself anyways i'm already
doing well well you need to keep doing well you need to keep hearing these right things you know
if you do this then pastors can have joy pastors could be happy ministers could be happy that's
what we want let's pray lord thank you so much for this great chapter thank you for the uh
inspiration that the apostle paul is to us here i pray that our church would be a spiritual one
that we would be seeking to please our neighbor for his edification that we'd read the word of
god we'd be on fire and zealous for the things of god and please bless us as we are separate
ways tonight in Jesus name we pray amen include the service if you would take your hymnals
and turn to hymn number 197 singing i go hymn number 197 start there right on the first