at his time is this morning. If you would find a seat and grab a hymnal, first hymn is number 56.
When we all 56, they're on the first. Father, we thank you for this day. Just as always,
another opportunity to freely sing praises in your name and to hear from your word. Lord,
I pray that you would be with those salvations that we had for our marathon yesterday and with
all the seeds that were planted. Also pray that you would just continue to bless us and lead us
to those who are ready for that salvation, who are ready to make that decision to put their faith in
you as we go out this afternoon and as we just hopefully, Lord, continue to make this a priority
and go out for the rest of our lives. Also pray that you'd be with us for the service, that
everything is done decently and in order. These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen. For our next
hymn, number 170, 170, hallelujah, what a savior, 170 there on the first. And Timothy chapter,
keep on memorizing that. Just want to say thanks to all those who came out and participated in the
soul winning marathon or prayed for the soul winning marathon yesterday. We did have 10
salvations, which praise God for those 10, but I'll tell you what, for me, that was a rough day.
I hope there's no OSU fans in here because that school is wicked. Let me tell you right now,
nothing but Muslims, Hindus, atheists. Me and Cameron knocked on this one door. Guy opens up,
he looks like a school shooter. He's got the SSRI eyes. You know, he just looks like a school
shooter all over his wall. Communist flags just everywhere. I'm just like, wow, wonderful.
Muslims, Hindus, atheists, cops got called on us. Finally, me and Cameron just asked this atheist,
like, hey, what's wrong with this town? What's going on here? Why is everyone atheist? Oh,
we just have such an open mind. We're just open-minded. It was rough, at least for us.
Praise God for those 10. But for me, it was definitely like Anadarko 2.0. So if you're an
OSU fan, it's time to get right with God, I guess, and change. But that's all the how that went
yesterday. But let's go through the rest of our announcements. We have our service times listed
there. Sunday morning 10.30, Sunday evening 4.30, and our Wednesday Bible study at 7 o'clock. Then
we have our soul winning times listed there below. Really excited to go soul winning in Oklahoma City
today and avenge that day from yesterday. And then we have below that our year to date statistics.
We've got 15 for May, so that's 10 for the soul winning marathon, and then a couple reported
from our brother Eric in the Philippines. So that brings us to our total of 9.13 for the year, so
praise the Lord for that. We've got our visitor card information there, online giving information,
as well as our prayer list. So please keep all those requests in prayer. On the back you'll see
our upcoming events. This upcoming Saturday is our ladies tea. Here at the church there's a sign-up
sheet with all the information for that event on the back. So please do come, we'd love to have you
for that. May 17th is going to be the next men's preaching night for the evening service and we're
going to have a potluck again after the service. Whatever energy you guys brought for the last
potluck bring that again because that was an amazing amazing potluck. So please do that,
that was wonderful. May 20th through the 24th coming up real soon is the anti-Israel conference. Very
excited to be able to go preach there at Steadfast Baptist Church, my old church, and see my old
pastor, Pastor Shelley. And so if you could drive down and be a support to that missions, or sorry,
that conference, that'd be a great blessing. June 14th, Brother Ben Naim preaching both services
for us. Make sure to come and support him. Brother Ben is a great preacher, so looking forward to
that. And then June 17th through the 20th is the European soul winning conference in Frankfurt,
Germany. That's going to be it for announcements. Let's go ahead and go to our third song together.
Our third song this morning, number 106, hymn number 106, 106, abide with me. 106 there on the
first. You're being patterned if you would do John. Chapter number five. After this, there was a
feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a
pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great
multitude of impotent folk of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel
went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water. Whosoever then first after
the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain
man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie and knew that
he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" The impotent
man answered him, "Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool. But
while I am coming, another stepeth down before me." Jesus saith unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed and
walk." And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked. And on the same day
was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, "It is the Sabbath day. It is not
lawful for thee to carry thy bed." He answered them, "He that made me whole, the same said unto me,
take up thy bed and walk." Then asked they him, "What man is that which said unto thee,
take up thy bed and walk?" And he that was healed, whist not who it was, for Jesus had
conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple
and said unto him, "Behold, thou art made whole. Sin no more, lest the worst thing come unto thee."
The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him,
because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, "My father worketh
hitherto, and I work." Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had
broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of
himself, but what he seeth the Father do. For what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth; and he will
show him greater works than these that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead,
and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man,
but hath committed all judgment unto the Son, that all men should honor the Son, even as they
honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father which hath sent him.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear
the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself,
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself, and hath given him authority to execute
judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming,
in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth. They that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection
of damnation. I can of mine own self do nothing, as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just,
because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. If I bear witness
of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me, and I know
that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. Ye sent unto John, and he bear witness unto the
truth. But I receive not testimony from man, but these things I say that ye might be saved.
He was a burning and a shining light, and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
But I have greater witness than that of John. For the works which the Father hath given me to
finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me. And the Father
himself which hath sent me hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time,
nor seen his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in you, for whom he hath sent,
him ye believe not. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life,
and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
I receive not honor from men, but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not. If another shall come in his own name,
him ye will receive. How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the
honor that cometh from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is
one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, you would have
believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believed not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
I pray that you will fill Pastor Oz with your spirit and help him to preach an edifying sermon
of the gospel. There was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue
Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind,
halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season
into the pool and troubled the water. Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water,
stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie
and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
The impotent man answered him, "Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool,
but while I am coming another stepeth down before me." Jesus saith unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed
and walk." And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked, and on the same day
was the Sabbath. This is a very interesting story in the Word of God, that here at this pool in
Bethesda, the Bible says, "Lay a great multitude of impotent folk." And who knows what that great
multitude could be? Could that be a hundred? Could that be thousands of people, maybe? Who knows?
But the Bible says that every single year at a certain season, so is this once a year? Is it a
couple times a year? Again, not exactly sure, but it just seems like it's not something that's
happening every day. There's this certain season where the angel comes down and troubles the water,
and of all these great multitude that are there, whoever comes in first to the water is all of a
sudden made whole of whatsoever disease that they have. That sounds like a pretty great deal.
You know, it sounds like if there was all these, you know, people, these faith healers today that
claim that they could heal people's diseases. You know what you would find? Great multitudes
of people flocking to them trying to get healed. But the Bible says here that there was
a certain man who had had an infirmity for 38 years. This man for 38 years wanted to be healed,
but or did not get healed, I should say, because every time he tried to go down into the pool,
someone was quicker than him and got in. You can only imagine the frustration of that.
And Jesus sees this man who, the Bible says, had this issue for 38 years. I'm not going to
ask for a raise of hands this morning. That's, you know, longer than most people in this room
probably have been alive, 30 years of infirmity. And yet Jesus walks up to him and he asks this
really interesting question in verse number six. When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been
now a long time in that case, he sayeth unto him, "Wilt thou be made whole?" The title of my sermon
is "Wilt thou be made whole?" When I was a teenager and I started reading through for the first time,
I came to this part of the Bible in John chapter number five and I read this question and my first
thought was, you know, who would not want to be made whole? You know, doesn't everyone in this
world want to be made whole? But you know what? Jesus is not asking a vain, meaningless, pointless
question here. Jesus is not just filling some words on our page here. The reason Jesus Christ
asks this question, it reveals a crazy truth about human nature to us in this question,
and that is that not everyone wants to be made whole. Otherwise, why would Jesus even ask this
question? Jesus, everything that he says has a purpose. And so the fact that Jesus Christ
asked this question to this man who has not been healed goes to show that not everyone wants to be
made whole. This morning, I want to give you three statements from this question of will thou be made
whole. Go to Revelation, Revelation 22. You need a will to get saved. You need to have a will to get
saved. And you know why a lot of people in this world do not get saved? Is because they do not
want to be made whole. And we as believers in Christ, we see people in this world that are not
saved, and we do not understand why you would not want to be made whole. But you know what?
Questions like this in the Bible remind me that, wow, there are some people in this world that do
not want to be made whole. Now look, it does not take very many years in the ministry. It does not
take very many times going out soul-winning for you to learn this lesson firsthand. That there are
people that just do not want to be made whole. They do not want the truth. They do not want to
get out of their position of being weak and infirm and impotent. They just don't care, and that's crazy
to me. Look what the Bible says in Revelation 22 verse 17. It says this, "And the Spirit and the
bride say come, and let him that heareth say come, and let him that is a thirst come, and whosoever
will let him take the water of life freely." Notice what it takes to be saved. It takes someone that
has a will to take the water of life freely. Now it's not, oh you have to have a will to repent of
all your sins. You have to have a will to give up all your kingpin sins and get your life right with
God. No, what you have to do is you just have to have a will to just take the glass of water.
You just have to have a will to come. You just have to have a will to walk through the door,
to eat the bread of life, to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and why is it many people are not
saved? Because they do not want to be made whole and that question reminds us of that.
Calvinist doctrine called unconditional election and let me tell you it's wicked and false.
There is a condition in getting saved and it's will you be made whole. The condition is will
you choose to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? God did not choose from the foundation who is
going to heaven, who is going to hell and he's magically imparting will unto you. It's not like
when we go soul winning and we find someone that wants to hear the gospel, God just sprinkled will
down from heaven on that person. No, someone's soul was thirsty. Someone said hey I don't want
to be infirm anymore. I don't want to be impotent anymore. I want to be healed and Jesus asked this
man will thou be made whole and then what happened he tells him rise up and walk and he was healed
right man did have a desire but not everyone does not everyone does have this desire go if you will
to second peter chapter number three now when it comes to the will for salvation of course god's
will is already set god wants all to be saved god is not willing that any should perish but what is
the will that is like the variable in this equation it's man's will it's wilt thou be made whole
notice jesus jesus didn't say do i want to heal you do i want you to get better he said wilt thou
be made whole second peter chapter three verse three knowing this that there shall come in the
last days scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying where is the promise of his coming
for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of
the creation notice this for this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of god the heavens
were of old and the earth standing out of the water notice these people it doesn't say man in
the last days we're going to have so much more scientific knowledge we're going to have so many
more discoveries that prove that god isn't real that the biblical account of the flood isn't real
no the bible says that these people are what scoffers walking in their own lusts not their
enlightened mind not their more information their own lusts and as a result of their lusts they what
are willingly ignorant look if you look at this world if you learn anything about science and you
come to the conclusion that there is no you are willingly ignorant you are a fool because here's
the thing even like some of the scientists and physicists of this world that are not saved but
at least they're sincere and honest people they will admit we don't understand how this works
this makes no sense to us right i i i claim by no means whatsoever to be an expert in science or
anything like this started reading an interesting book this weekend and it talks about the nature
of light in this book and how the nature of light is mysterious because no matter what the speed of
the light source light always travels at the exact same speed which is like i don't want to get the
number wrong but i think it's 299.7 million meters per second is what i believe it is
but if you think about this like if i'm on a train going 100 miles an hour and i throw a baseball
80 miles an hour relative to the ground that baseball is now going what relative to the ground
but but here's the thing about light no matter what force of the light is no matter what its
speed is going to say this makes no sense we don't understand this is crap this is a miracle i mean
just the nature of light itself you know that makes sense because the bible says god is light
he is that true light which lighted every man that cometh into the world and it's very interesting
that light itself is such a mystery but here's the thing if you scientifically study light at
bare minimum you're going to say this is a mystery this is amazing we don't know but smart people
are going to say wow god created this world wow god created the the laws of nature and how amazing
is it that we could even find out the laws of nature and roman teaches that the things that may
be known of god are manifest are clear by the creation so someone looks at this world and we
learn about you know space and the planets and the sun and the orbits and just the nature of of light
and time and it just all gives glory to god like wow what an amazing wonderful creator and if you
could learn all that stuff and say that we came from nothing that nothing exploded into everything
and nothing exploded and created all these uniform laws in this universe you are willingly
ignorant you know why some people don't want to let go of evolution and their big bang theory is
because they're wicked and they don't want to they want to not acknowledge the truth they're
willingly ignorant they don't want to be made whole by the way you know you go soul winning you'll
see people that do not want to be made whole this is why it's so important as a soul winner to ask
a person if they would like to hear the gospel do not just show up to every door and just demand
that you're just going to preach the full gospel to every person because you will waste your time
because there are people in this world that do not want to hear the truth and you will end up just
wasting your time with this idiot with this person who is willingly ignorant when you can go next
to someone who wants to be made whole who wants to hear the gospel you know last week i was talking
to this muslim and i was already annoyed just because of this attitude that this guy had he
told me he's never told a lie i said well you just told a lie right now and i asked this person you
know hey what do you think about jesus christ because a lot of muslims will lie to me and
telling me that they believe in jesus christ but the bible says that jesus is god in the flesh
and he goes oh no we don't believe in jesus christ i said well i appreciate your honesty
bye left because i'm not going to see her just like oh let me just waste my entire soul winning
time with this muslim no i went a few doors down and got some people saved because there are some
people that want to be made whole and some people that do not look at verse six it says whereby the
world that then was being overflowed with water now by the same word are kept in store reserved
unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men but beloved be not ignorant of this
one thing that one day is with the lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day
the lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is long suffering
to us word notice this not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance the
bible says that god does not will does not desire for anyone to go to hell so what does that mean
why is it that so many people are going to hell because those people did not want to be made whole
god did not create people wanting to send someone to hell god did not make babies in this earth
saying oh this other person's predestined to go to heaven no god's not willing that any should
perish but that all should come to from unbelief to belief in jesus christ but people today lack
the will to be made and that word repentance is used i want to make sure that the false prophets
of this world are corrupting your mind in thinking that this is saying oh repent of your sins the
bible says as you're turning to axe three then said paul john verily baptized with the baptism
of repentance saying unto the people that they should believe on him which should come after him
that is on christ jesus what is repentance for salvation it's changing from whatever you are
trusting in before to putting your faith in christ and you know what that takes will that takes a
decision saying hey i want to be made whole i don't want to trust in my idols anymore i don't
want to be baptized i don't trust it oh i go to church i want to trust in jesus that takes will
doesn't take doesn't take works but it does take will axe chapter number three let me turn myself
there axe chapter number three axe chapter three let's start reading in verse number 12 the bible
says and when peter saw it he answered unto the people ye men of israel why marvel ye at this
or why look ye so earnestly on us as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man
to walk so they had healed someone who was impotent as well verse 13 the god of abraham
and of isaac and of jacob the god of our fathers hath glorified his son jesus whom ye delivered up
and denied him in the presence of pilot when he was determined to let him go but ye denied the
holy one and the just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you hey why didn't the jews get
saved because they had a will they had a desire that a murderer would be released unto them not
the lord jesus christ that's their own will notice it says and killed the prince of life whom god
hath raised from the dead whereof we are witnesses and his name notice this through faith in his name
hath made this man strong whom you see and know yea the faith which is by him hath given him this
perfect soundness in the presence of you all see to be healed what do you have to do you have to
have a will to what have faith in the lord jesus christ and the bible makes it clear how is it that
this man is now standing before you whole how is it that this man is no longer impotent it's through
faith in the name of jesus christ that's how the man in john five was healed that's how the man in
axe chapter three was healed guess what that's how we are healed spiritually as well is by believing
in the lord jesus christ go to john chapter three john chapter number three john chapter number
three talking about the will to get saved look at verse number 16 says for god so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
everlasting life what's the will of god the will of god is that everyone would not perish that they
would have everlasting life but what does that take believing in jesus christ so you know people
whether they want to say outwardly with their mouth oh yeah i want to go to heaven okay then
do you want to believe in jesus christ oh no i'm good oh yeah i want to go to heaven oh are you
100 sure that if you were to die today that you'd go to heaven no i'm not 100 sure do you want to
go to heaven when you die oh yeah yeah well can i show you from the bible no i'm good guess what
you want to be healed you don't want to be made whole because jesus god's desire is that we would
all not perish that we would all have everlasting life but you know what you got to do you have to
believe in the lord jesus christ and today when you go out soul winning it reveals the truth of
people's hearts when you ask them can i show you from the bible what it takes to be saved and they
say no or you tell them hey what you believe right now is not what the bible says it takes to get
saved you're believing something wrong you're not saved can i show you that will thou be made whole
and they say no i'm good i already know oh i have a bible you know what then just sit down
for the next 38 years waiting for someone to pick you up and throw you in the pool
it's not going to happen you're going to be sitting there for 38 years and then you're going
to die and go to hell and you're never going to be made whole why because god hated you and chose
you for damnation no because you idiot didn't want to be saved because you did not want to be made
whole you know what we need some people today to humble themselves and realize that they're not
whole right now and that they need to become whole and listen to a soul winner notice what the bible
said in john chapter 5 he said hey lord i have no man when the water's troubled i have no man
that can lead me into the water that can get me there someone gets there before you know what it
takes to get people saved it takes a man it takes a woman it takes a child that's out preaching the
gospel of jesus christ so that people can be made whole here's a here's a facebook comment i saw
this week because because one reason why people don't want to be made is because they don't even
want to hear the gospel they don't want to even listen to a soul winner you know another reason
people don't want to be made whole is because they don't want to give up their false idea they
think man i'm a good person i do a lot of works i'm so dedicated i'm so religious i live such a good
life and they they're self-deluded in their mind thinking that they're saved by their works not
realizing that they're not whole and if they don't get that will to be made whole they're never going
to be healed here's a comment i saw uh to one of my videos this week brothers and sisters i hope
you will consider the following hope plus works equals faith remember that sermon how i was telling
you how so many people say yeah salvation is by faith but what faith really means is works yeah
that wasn't a straw man this is what millions of people believe this is what millions of people
in our country believe that faith is actually oh hope in jesus and works that's what faith means
no it's not what the bible says they say in other words if we have hope in christ we do the works
he commanded us well that's weird but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness but according to a lot of people no no no if you
really have faith you're gonna have works then why does the bible describe a situation of a man who
has no works but has faith and is saved because guess what faith is not works faith is trust he
says this in fact faith isn't even faith without works then he goes and he defines like the works
that jesus gave us to do as like jesus uh giving us the great commission doing good works he says
but consider this no one is trying to do the work that christ gave us unless they have hope in christ
so no one's doing works for god unless they're already trusting in christ according to this guy
again that doesn't make matthew seven make any sense when these people aren't saved and they're
saying lord lord have we not prophesied in the devils and in the name of done many wonderful
works jesus said i never knew you depart from me you that work iniquity it says if everyone is
doing the work that christ gave us that's because they are already trusting in christ go to aphesians
chapter number two aphesians chapter number two so again this is just a poison of the mind that's
out there today that we must never stop fighting that this idea that oh faith is actually works
oh faith is actually being dedicated faith is fulfilling the great commission faith is doing
the things jesus told us to do wrong verse number eight it says for my grace are you safe through
it is the gift of god not of works lest any man should boast i would love to scream that
every work salvation is faith means faith no no it's a faith not of works it's a faith not
of yourself these cannot be the same thing but hey will thou be made whole you know these people
don't want to be made whole today they don't want to humble themselves and listen to what the bible
says it takes to be saved because they think already in their mind oh i already have perfect
soundness i already am made whole i'm already good but you know what they're not good they are
not saved go ahead and go to aphesians chapter one aphesians chapter number one i'm gonna read a
couple verses for you proverbs chapter 20 verse 9 says this who can say i have made my heart clean
i am pure from my sin now to us that's just common sense it's like duh who could say that
they've made it's clean who could say that you are pure from your own sin we wouldn't say that in
this room because we're saved we believe in jesus christ and it's so funny that this you know
question this rhetorical question is being asked in proverbs but a lot of people do say this
a lot of people say yeah i have made myself clean through my works i have made myself pure from my
sin through my works no there's none righteous no not one i'll read another one for you james 2
verse 10 says for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of
all right so this idea of trying to get to heaven by repenting of your sins you just mess up one
time you're guilty you're condemned you need a savior so number one you need a will to be saved
number two you need a will to be filled with the holy spirit of god right in the in the new
testament every single believer is sealed with the holy spirit let's read that ephesians chapter
number one ephesians chapter number one verse 13 it says in whom you also trusted after that you
heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom after that you believed
you were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory so one of the differences
between the old testament and the new testament in the old testament you constantly see the spirit
of god coming upon someone and it it's a short acute amount of time that allows them to do some
the lord comes upon samson constantly the lord came upon saul but the bible also talks about how
the spirit of the lord departed from saul right so in the new testament here's the thing the
comforter has come jesus christ has sent forth the comforter into our hearts we have been sealed
with the holy spirit of god but you know what there's the sealing of the holy spirit and then
there is the fullness of the holy spirit then there is being filled with the spirit having the
oil of gladness anointed on you and you know what that comes from someone's will i think some people
make the mistake of seeing a spirit-filled soul winner or or spirit-filled pastor and they think
like wow must be nice to be filled with the spirit like that wow must be nice to have the power of
god on your life like that man it must be nice to be able to just preach the gospel so clearly
and get tons of people saved or to preach a sermon that affects someone's life wow must be nice you
know why people are filled with the spirit because they had a will to be with the spirit because they
had a desire to be filled with the spirit and if you are not filled with the spirit let me just
break some news to you it's because you don't want to be because if you want to be filled with
the spirit you will be filled with the spirit go to aphesians chapter number four aphesians chapter
number four you know i think that one of the mistakes people often make is because we look
at the charismatics and the pentacostals and them teaching just stupidity about the spirit of god
and making a mockery of the holy spirit and turning church into a joke speaking with tongues which
they're not doing the biblical speaking with tongues they're rolling on the ground speaking
gibberish you know lying to people about these spirit gifts that have been given into the unto
them i i i don't want us to make this mistake that because those people are liars and charlatans
that we all of a sudden start to under emphasize the importance of the power of the spirit of god
let me tell you something the holy spirit is the third person of the godhead the holy spirit
is god the holy spirit dwells within us not by might not by power say the lord but by my spirit
we need the spirit of god you need to be filled with the spirit of god today ephesians 4 verse 26
notice what it says be he angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither give
place to the devil let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labor working with his
hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may
minister grace unto the hearers notice and grieve not the holy spirit of god that's a command
whereby you're sealed unto the day of redemption so we're always sealed with the spirit if you're
saved you are sealed with the spirit of god you can never lose your salvation but you know we can
do we grieve the holy spirit of god and you know why people grieve the holy spirit of god is because
they made a choice to grieve the holy spirit of god they willed for that to happen you don't just
accidentally do this no what are the things that this is in context of be ye angry and sin not okay
that's a choice we could be angry there could be righteous indignation but there's also unrighteous
anger how about people that get angry on the road and pull out a gun and shoot someone guess what
that's a sin someone made a decision to grieve the holy spirit of god if someone's saved in that
situation it says notice let not the sun go down upon your wrath you could be angry but if you hold
on to that anger and it becomes bitterness you are not going to be filled with the spirit of god
oh why can't i get filled with the spirit because you're angry and bitter you made that choice
you have decided that you don't want to be filled with the spirit of god because you have let anger
rest in your bosom you've let the sun go down on that anger and now you are the holy spirit of god
this doesn't say let him that stole steal no more you know if you're saved and you're out
stealing you are going to be grieving the spirit of god you cannot be a spirit-filled person
and you're living a life of theft you're stealing people's stuff you're robbing people's stuff
you know or stealing time from your let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth
you know if people are going out blaspheming god stubbing their toe and using god's name as
a cuss word saying jesus christ as a cuss word you are not going to be filled with the spirit of god
corrupt communication lying railing being a tail bearer being a busy body being a gossip you will
not be filled with the spirit of god okay look at verse 31 let all bitterness and wrath and anger
and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice he's saying put these things
aside you know what that is a choice a choice see there's things you get mad about there's
things where you know from a human carnal perspective i could say i kind of understand
on a human level why you're bitter about that but you know what we could do we could just decide
to put that aside because we need the spirit of god and look whatever issues you have in your life
that you're just constantly angry about that you're constantly bitter about you know what
it is more important to do the work of god with his power than to hold on to that stupid crap
and some of you guys just need to say hey i'm just gonna put away anger i'm just gonna put away
bitterness wrath clamor evil speaking why because i don't want to grieve the spirit of god oh that
person doesn't deserve it well what about the holy spirit does he deserve it because the holy
spirit of god is not going to fill you the holy spirit of god is going to be grieved when you're
stealing wrathful corrupt communication coming out of your mouth look it is a choice today to
be filled with the spirit of god if you see someone preaching if you see a soul winner
that's effective and you say wow the spirit of god is upon that person let me tell you why
that made a choice to put away those things that person made a choice saying you know it is more
important for me to have the spirit of god on my life than to hold on to the anger the bitterness
the wrath the clamor the evil speaking it is a choice go to aphesians 5 aphesians chapter number
five let me tell you something you can be filled with the spirit of god it is a choice it is a will
you can be filled with the spirit of god look at verse number 18 notice it says and be not drunk
with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit man i just want to be filled with the
spirit hey you could stop being a drunk anytime you could decide to put down the bottle anytime
calvinist you know what no these drunk calvinist pastors are filled with the spirit most of the
time because they're not even the spirit but if there are any that are saved and they're out
drinking alcohol drinking wine pushing wine you will never be filled with the spirit drinking wine
you are a fool it's not what it's often called spirits you cannot be filled with the spirit of
alcohol and also be filled with the spirit of god it will not happen and so guess what you know why
are people filled with the spirit because they made a saying you know i don't want to be drunk
with wine wherein is excess i want to be filled with the spirit of god let's keep reading what
verse was that someone help me out verse 19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the lord hey you know at any time you
can decide to sing praise to god and be filled with the spirit hey any one of these times you
can decide to start singing in church and to sing out with your heart man i want to be filled with
the spirit why don't you sing out and make a joyful noise to the lord you say you don't
understand i'm bitter i'm angry i'm envious you know i've got problems in my life no one's stopping
you from being at your house and you just you know pulling out your guitar pulling out your
hymn book and just start singing praise to god hey anytime you want to be filled with the spirit
you can be filled with the spirit and you know what don't have this stupid attitude
where you look others that are filled with the spirit and you think nice must be cool wow i'd
like to be used like that you can you know what there's nothing special about any servant of god
the same flesh you find an effective soul winner in this world there's nothing special about that
person you see an effective pastor there is nothing special about that person's flesh the only thing
that is special is the power is the spirit of god on someone's life and you know you could have that
anytime you want as soon as you want to stop being a selfish jerk and being envious and bitter and
wrathful and a drunkard and a thief having corrupt communication come out of your mouth hey you could
have the power of god anytime you want anytime you will thou be made whole will thou have the
spirit of god go to luke chapter number 11 luke chapter number 11 look i think some people look
at soul winners they're like man you know i i couldn't be a soul winner because i am shy man i
couldn't be a soul winner because i don't have good speech or i don't know everything about the
bible here's what you need the spirit of god here's what you need to be filled with the spirit of god
and let me ask you a question are you saved then you know how to get someone saved what does it
take to get to heaven hey if your answers believe in the lord jesus christ then you can get someone
saved stop thinking oh i gotta become this great man of god someday to get someone saved there's
no difference between you and the great man of god except one wanted to be filled with the spirit
one they had to have it they had to have god's spirit they wanted his spirit look at luke chap
number 11 verse 9 and i say unto you ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock
and it shall be opened unto you hey you want to become a soul winner let me tell you something
if that's true that you want to become a soul winner you will become a soul winner and if you
don't want to be a soul winner you won't and it's not because your because you don't want to be one
because you know what you actually got in your face and asked if you sought if you said god i
want to be a soul winner i want to preach the gospel use me he's ready to do so he wants to
verse 10 for everyone that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh
it shall be opened if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father will he give him a stone
or if he ask a fish will he for a fish give him a serpent or if he shall ask an egg will he offer
him a scorpion only if you're trolling them all right i could see a dad doing a little bit of a
troll number here oh you want an egg here's a scorpion but here's the thing i could see myself
doing that as a joke but you know what i would do first of all it would be dead all right i
wouldn't try to endanger them but then i would give them what they want to give them an egg
right if your kids want something don't you want to don't want to give your children the things
that they desire don't you love your children and when they desire something from you and when they
ask you don't you want to give that to them now sometimes there's things that we can't provide
right but here's the thing to provide anything let's keep reading if you then being evil know
how to give good under your children how much more shall your heavenly father give notice to them
you know what one of the things you should be asking god for is the power of the holy spirit
the fullness of the holy spirit because if we as parents know how to give good gifts to our
children and our kids ask something of us and we want to get to them we say here you go honey this
is just for you how much more does god want to give the holy spirit to them that ask them you
know i don't get why people are so scared to go soul winning let me ask you something does god
want people to be saved do you want people to be saved what's the problem if god wants someone to
get saved and you want someone to be saved and you say god here am i send me fill me with the
holy spirit help me to get someone saved let me tell you something you're going to get people
saved hey you know he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again
with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him god wants people to get saved and if you go out with
the word of god and the spirit of god you will get people saved you want to know why joe jones
tells his congregation hey you know if we get zero people saved in five years it'll be a 100
success rate because he doesn't have the spirit of god and he's telling you hey failure is incoming
be ready for it hey just so you know i can't get ever anyone saved so expect zero salvations let
me tell you something if you go out soul winning for five years and get zero people saved i'm going
to question your salvation or tell you to leave north korea because god's word is powerful okay
don't don't go to israel don't go to north korea you know let's go to oklahoma city
let's go to bethany let's go to dell city let's go to all the places that are normal places in
this world and preach the gospel and guess what you will see people saved and you know what you're
like man i don't i haven't seen anyone saved i haven't gotten someone else saved let me just
break some news to you that is because you don't want to get people saved that's why it's not
because god doesn't want people to get saved it's not because the bible has lost its power
it must be because you don't want to get someone saved you must not want to get filled with the
spirit because god is ready today go if you will to act chapter number six act chapter number six
look one of the things let me just encourage you right now let me just give you something to do
this week here's something you should pray for every single day of your life is that god would
fill you with power of the holy spirit you say well you do that because your pastor did that before
i was a pastor because let me tell you something we need spirit-filled soul winners in this world
we need spirit-filled workers on the job we need spirit-filled mothers homeschooling their children
we need spirit-filled dads we need some spirit-filled children we know we need some
kids soul winners in this world you know it's kind of weird when we walk up to young kids
you know it's nice we have some kids soul winners we need some kids to get on their face this week
and ask to be filled with the spirit of God please the whole multitude and they chose
Stephen notice a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost and Philip and Procurus and Nickanor
and Tymon and Parmenas and Nicholas the proselyte of Antioch whom they set before the apostles
and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them notice the result and the word of God
increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great company of the
priests were obedient to the faith look if a church is not getting people saved if we're not
getting saved we're not reaching people it must be because that church doesn't want to reach people
because look at the result of Stephen the Bible says he's a man full of faith and of the Holy
Ghost and what do you see the word of God being multiplied you know I heard some bozo this week
from one of these ex new ify pastors say there's zero evidence of the Holy Spirit in the new ifb
and I'm like what do you consider evidence how many tens of thousands of salvations do you need
for it to be evidence what about pastor Bruce Mejia reaching hundreds of thousands of bees
getting tens of thousands of people saved look we're not some gigantic church here we're a
smaller church but we're getting 2 000 plus people saved last year on track to destroy that this year
you want to know why that's happening the spirit of god the power of the spirit it does not take a
gigantic army of people now look the more laborers the more work we could do but you know god could
do a great work with a small group of people that are full of faith and of the holy ghost
and you know what you need to do every single day for the rest of your life is pray and ask
god to fill you with power of the holy spirit of god and you know what sometimes that might mean
okay then that you need to put off stop stealing then you need to stop being a drunkard then you
need to put all your corrupt communication out of your mouth but i'm telling you if you come to
god with a sincere heart saying god i want to be used by you i want to do something great for you
i want to be filled with the holy spirit of god he will answer that prayer he absolutely will do
it was 18 proverbs 18 number one you need a will to be saved number two you need a will to be
filled with the holy spirit number three you need a will to do great things for god i love that
question jesus asked will thou be made whole it doesn't apply in so many areas salvation being
being filled with the Holy Spirit of God.
What about just doing something great for God?
You know what it takes?
A will.
It takes a will.
Look at Proverbs 18, verse one.
Through desire, I love that word.
Through desire, a man having separated himself,
seeketh and intermedaleth with all wisdom.
A fool hath no delight in understanding,
but that his heart may discover itself.
How is it that someone, you see someone,
you're like, wow, that person is separated.
Wow, that person is nice.
Wow, that person is powerful.
Wow, they're doing a great work for God.
It came through.
It came through the will to do something.
You know, I think about how many churches I've heard in my life
that are praying for revival.
And they're saying, like, God, give America revival.
Give OSU revival.
Give still birth water, you know,
revival over still water.
No, no, no, no, no.
God does not send revival.
He sends workers.
God does not send revival.
He sends soul winners.
God does not send revival.
He sends spirit-filled men of God and women of God
that are willing to do a great work.
And I don't care what person you're thinking of.
You want to point out the greats of the past.
You think about men like Pastor Jack Hiles.
Let me tell you what.
Pastor Jack Hiles did not fall out of heaven.
Pastor Jack Hiles was a normal man with normal flesh
who had a will to do something great for God.
Like, how did First Baptist Church of Hammon, Indiana,
happen?
How did they have 3,000 saved and baptized in one day?
How did they reach there for the Lord Jesus Christ?
It came from a desire to do so.
And you know what we lack today in America?
We lack Christians today that have a desire
to do something bigger than themself.
Today we have so many Christians that, boy,
do they have a desire to watch every football game.
Boy, do they have a desire to go on vacation.
Boy, do they have a desire to make money and be secure.
But where are the Christians today
that desire to see their city reached for Christ?
Where are the Christians today that desire
for that map back there to be filled?
Where's the desire to fill up that map right there?
We need more of that desire today.
And again, if you're not seeing great things being done
for God in your life, self, it's not that God
hasn't sprinkled the pixie dust of revival upon your head.
It's because somewhere you must not have a will in yourself.
Just get on your face this week and pray and ask God
for boldness, for power, to be filled with the Spirit of God,
to do something great for Him.
Because there's absolutely nothing stopping our church
from doing some greatest works ever.
There's nothing stopping Anchor Baptist Church
for being the greatest, soul-winning powerhouse
in the state of Oklahoma.
There's nothing stopping that.
Here's what's stopping it, the will of people, the desire.
Because here's the thing, I can go soul-winning
and I can reach a certain amount of people or people
when you go soul-winning, when you go soul-winning,
when you go soul-winning,
when we all go soul-winning together,
there's gonna be way more.
It cannot be done by one man.
It has to be a group of people that has a will
to do something great for God.
Go to Galatians chapter number six.
Galatians chapter number six.
There's nothing stopping you from obeying His commandments.
There's nothing stopping our church
from walking in the old paths wherein is the right way.
Right, so many churches today are changing,
getting away from the King James,
becoming contemporary, becoming liberal.
Nothing's stopping us from staying on the old paths.
Nothing's stopping us from being King James only
and not being ashamed of it.
Look at Galatians chapter six verse seven.
It says, "Be not deceived, God is not mocked.
"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
You know, this principle could be leveraged
for good or for bad.
You know, if you're someone where what you're constantly
sowing is anger, bitterness, clamor, wrath, stealing,
being drunk, okay, you're gonna reap the results
of those sins.
But also, if what you're constantly sowing is,
God, I wanna be used for you.
God, please use me great.
And you go out soul winning.
You go out with a care in your heart for lost souls.
You go out asking to be filled with the Holy Spirit of God.
Hey, faithful isn't just a side view.
It's, hey, I'm faithful to my church.
I wanna see something big done for God.
You know, you're gonna reap those things eventually.
But it doesn't happen immediately.
That's what people make the mistake of doing.
We have a lot of people today without the character
to keep going in life and keep, you know,
keep doing the small things that are necessary
to reap a big result.
Verse eight, "For he that soweth to the flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption,
but he that soweth to the spirit
shall of the spirit reap life everlasting."
Notice this, "And let us not be weary in well-doing,
for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."
Right, so the Bible says, hey,
don't be weary in well-doing.
Why, 'cause anyone who has done well for a long time
knows that there's often a temptation to be weary.
You know, if you've never been weary in well-doing,
you've probably never done anything in your life for God.
Right, here's the thing, if you go soul winning,
week in and week out for a decade or two decades,
there's gonna come a point
where you probably feel a little bit weary.
And when you feel weary, you need to come to this verse
and say, hey, be not weary in well-doing.
Why, because we will reap what, if we faint not.
But what do we lack today?
We lack a lot of Christians that have the will
and the desire to get to the reaping point
because they don't wanna push past the I'm fainting point.
They don't wanna push past the this is hard point.
But it's, hey, you've gotta keep going.
You gotta keep doing the right things.
You gotta keep having that will.
And then eventually, hey, we'll reap those things
if we faint not.
And again, great examples of the past.
Pastor Jack Hiles, you know, great pastors we see today.
Pastor Stephen Anderson, Pastor Jonathan Shelley.
It's men who had a desire to do something big for God.
It's men who had a desire to be filled
with the Holy Spirit of God.
And it was men that had a desire strong enough
to push through hardships to get to that reaping point.
And you think about Pastor Anderson,
all the battles he's been through.
And you think about how he started a church in his house
that ran 10 for like five or six years.
Let me tell you, that could bring a person
when you're constantly putting good
and you're constantly inputting hard work
and you're constantly on your face begging for God's power
and begging for God to do something.
And then it doesn't seem like you're seeing those results
at first, that could be discouraging.
That could be hard, but what does it take?
And it takes character and will to push past
those hard points to get to the reaping point.
And everyone wants the end results of a great church.
Everyone wants the end results of a great family.
Everyone wants to get to the end of their life
and say, man, I reached thousands of people for Christ.
But here's the thing, here's what you gotta do.
You gotta do all the little things every day,
every week, every month to the end of your race
to be able to say, I fought a good fight.
I finished my race.
I've done the things that God has asked me to do.
Go to Luke chapter number 10.
Luke chapter number 10.
About some of those Christians that the Bible says
that all those, they did all those great things
through faith, but they didn't even receive
the promises in this life.
Let me tell you what, those people still are going to reap,
but it's gonna be in heaven.
And you know, maybe in this life,
maybe we're not gonna get to reap all the things
that we hope and desire, but do you believe
that there's a God in heaven that rewards you?
Do you believe that there's rewards in heaven?
Because guess what?
No good work is gonna be unrewarded.
God is not unrighteous to forget our labor of love,
Hebrews chapter six says.
He will reward us.
Go to Luke chapter number 10.
Luke chapter 10, verse number one, the Bible says,
"After these things, the Lord appointed other 70 also,
"and sent them two and two before his face
"into every city and place, whether he himself would come.
"Therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great,
"but the laborers are few.
"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest
"that he would send forth laborers into his harvest."
Notice, Jesus' desire is what?
That people would be saved.
We already read that in 2 Peter,
that God is not willing that any should perish.
Constantly, you read in the gospels,
Jesus sees the multitudes, and what does it say about him?
He was moved with compassion.
Yet, what do we see in reality?
Tons of people going to hell,
tons of people not being saved, why?
Hey, the harvest is plenious, but the laborers are few.
Why are so many people going to hell today?
Because so many Christians don't give a rip,
and I don't understand how you could be so cold-hearted
to know the horrors of hell
and not care about others going there.
I will never understand that.
Look, I understand being shy.
I understand being a silent partner for a while
because you don't wanna just go out there on your own
without even learning from someone else.
Hey, I understand it could be hard in the flesh,
but here's what I don't understand,
how you could just not care.
I don't understand that.
I don't understand how you could realize,
the Bible says, that there's weeping and gnashing
of teeth in hell, that their worm dieth not,
that the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever,
that they have no rest, day nor night.
I don't understand,
how you could know that that's real and not even care.
How can you go soul winning?
I mean, how can you go to a church like this?
How can you be part of God and not care about lost souls?
You've lost your will.
You wanna be a soul winner?
Will thou be made whole?
Do you wanna reach people for Christ?
Do you wanna do something great?
And step one, be the answer to this prayer.
What a hypocrite you are.
If you have ever prayed to God,
ask him for more soul winners in this world,
ask him to send more laborers to Anchor Baptist Church
if you are not a soul winner, what a hypocrite.
Now here's the thing, step one,
be the answer to this prayer.
Then get on your face and ask God for laborers.
Then say, God, send us more.
Like, hey God, I'm working.
God, I care.
God, I wanna reach people.
God, I wanna see people saved.
So please send us more people that want that same thing.
But don't be a hypocrite.
Imagine asking God, and he's like, what are you?
Don't you go to Anchor Baptist?
Is there a soul winning church? If someone's listening to this online?
Even if you're not in a soul winning church,
have you? Do you know how to go soul winning?
Hey, did we not visit New Jersey and teach you how to go soul winning?
I don't care if you have a soul winning church or not.
If you know to go and you're not going, you're wicked.
You're not right with God.
Go back to John chapter number five. John chapter number five.
John five verse five.
It says, "And a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a long time in that case,
he saith unto him, 'Wilt thou be made whole?'"
You know what I like about the Lord Jesus Christ is he cared.
He saw this man among the multitudes.
And among the multitudes, he saw this man who's been waiting 38 years to be healed.
And he asked this one man, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
And a lot of times people want to focus on, oh, let's reach the multitudes.
Oh, let's reach all of Oklahoma City.
Let's reach Oklahoma.
Let's reach the world.
Here's how that's actually done, is you find the one man in the midst of the multitudes.
And among the great multitudes of impotent folk, you find the one man who's been unsaved
for 38 years, 45 years, 50 years, 60 years, and you ask that one man, "Wilt thou be made
whole?"
And then you get that guy saved, and then you go to the next individual, and you say,
"Wilt thou be made whole?"
And you go to the next individual, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
And then you go to the next individual, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
That's how you reach the multitudes.
One person at a time, but look at verse number 7, "The impotent man answered him, 'Man.'"
If you underline your Bible, underline this right here, "Sir, I have no man when the water
is troubled to put me into the pool, but while I am coming another stepeth down before me."
You know there's people like this all over Oklahoma City.
There are people like this all over Oklahoma City that do have a will to be made whole.
They do want to be put into the pool of living waters, right?
They do want the Lord Jesus Christ to heal them, but you know what the problem is?
They don't have you.
They don't have us.
They need a man.
They have no man.
You know what it takes for people to get saved?
It takes a man.
It takes one soul winner to care about this person.
It took the Lord Jesus Christ to show up and in the midst of the multitudes to go up to
him and ask him, "Will thou be made whole?"
You know the Bible says, it says, "How 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?
How are people going to get saved if you don't go, if I don't go?
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."
You look, you can try to comfort yourself with your false doctrine all you want.
If Christians don't preach the Bible, more people will go to hell.
And you can try to help yourself sleep better at night by thinking, "Oh, I just think when
people die, they're going to get one more chance that Jesus is going to show up to people
and say, 'Here I am.
Do you want to accept me, or do you want to burn in fiery torment for all of eternity?'"
You know, maybe Jesus gets them a little close to the flame.
"Oh, you want this?
You want this?
You want to come to me?"
That's not how it works.
Without faith, it is impossible to please Him.
How it works is it is appointed unto man once to die, and after this, the judgment.
How it works is right now, you've got to go to people and ask them, "Will thou be
made whole?"
This is their one chance, otherwise they will spend eternity in hell.
And look, if you ask them, "Will thou be made whole?"
And they say, "No."
Okay, well your blood be upon you.
Enjoy hell, idiot, fool.
It was a free gift, it was there for you.
God's not willing that any should perish, but at least our blood, our hands are clean
from that blood.
Notice what Jesus said in verse number eight, "Jesus saith on him, 'Rise, take up thy bed
and walk.'
And immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked, and on the same
day was the Sabbath."
What would have happened to this man if Jesus did not show up?
What would have happened to this man if Jesus didn't care?
If Jesus didn't walk up to him and say, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
He would have been there for another 10, 20, 38 years maybe.
He would have died.
And you know what?
That's how people are in this city right now.
There are people right now in their apartments, in their houses, out in the highways and hedges
that are unsaved, that are impotent, that are blind, that are maimed, that are halt,
that are on their way to hell, and if you don't start to get something from loving
these people, they will go to hell.
Some of you need to wake up, some of you need to get a fire in you and say, "Look,
this world is going to end someday.
The things that we have in this world are temporal, they're not eternal, but you know
what?
Souls are eternal, and you need to start caring for them."
I love how Jesus just had a will to help this man.
Go to Isaiah chapter number six.
Man, you need a will to do great things for God.
And let me just reiterate to you, a soul winner can be anyone, kids, busy moms, busy dads,
a soul winner can be anyone.
There's nothing special about a soul winner other than the word of God that they carry
and the spirit of God in their heart.
That's it.
And if you're saved, you can have those things and you could be an effective soul winner.
You don't have to be a path soul winning leader.
You don't have to be some great missionary.
You could be a regular nine to five working dad with a busy schedule and you can get lots
of people saved in your life.
I mean, why don't you just start with one time a week and just say, Hey, I'm coming
to this time a week.
I'm going to learn.
Look, if you don't know how to do it, be a silent partner.
We'll teach you.
Why don't you just start saying, Hey, I want to will I have a will to do something great
for God.
I have a will to get people saved.
Isaiah chapter six verse eight says, Also, I heard the voice of the Lord, but understand
not and see indeed but perceive not.
Look, there's nothing special about Isaiah.
There's nothing different about it.
People think man, soul winners, pastors, they just have this special sauce.
They're just so different.
They're just built different.
What made Isaiah different?
He actually was willing to go.
And look, if you want to be used greatly by God, have a will to go and he will use you.
Notice, God didn't say, oh, and he said, see if there's a better option that comes along.
I don't want to use farmers.
I want to use, you know, white-collar people.
I don't want to use you, Isaiah.
Let me see if a better option comes along.
It's just like, who's going to go for us?
Anyone?
Bueller?
I'll go.
God immediately says, go, right?
And so that could be any of us.
Whether you're shy, whether you're introverted, you don't think you could speak well, you
don't have the greatest health, look, God's ready to use you.
God's ready to make you a soul winner.
Go if you will to.
In John chapter number five, God is ready to use people today that want to be used by God.
And when you see people in your life that are being used greatly by God, it is not because
they are special, but it is because they have an insatiable desire to be used by God.
You see a great pastor, I guarantee you, that is a man on his face every day begging for
God's power.
You see a soul winner, very zealous, getting tons of people saved.
I guarantee you that is a soul winner on his face begging for God to lead him to receptive
people and to do great things for God.
And look, I see laymen all over the new IFV movement that are just epic, incredible soul
winners.
People just getting thousands of people saved.
People, I don't know, how about like brother Eric, just leaving the US and just paying
his own way to go to the Philippines.
Why?
Because he's just reaching thousands of people for Christ because he wants to.
He just desires it.
And you know what, nothing is stopping you from having that same desire.
Someone asked me years ago, hey, you know, because I'd gotten ordained by Pastor Shelley
and someone's asked me like, hey, how do you become a pastor?
Can you give me some advice on how to become a pastor?
I said two words, love God, love God.
Because if you desire to be a pastor and you're sincere and you love God, everything follows
from that.
You love God with all your heart.
You desire to see great things done for him.
You're sincere.
You're real.
He wants to use you.
Do you think that God wants more pastors in this world or less?
Do you think God wants more churches in this world or less?
More soul winners or less?
Why is it less than in this world?
Because people lack the desire.
That's why.
Not because God's power isn't there.
Not because God doesn't desire it, but because people don't desire it.
Because people desire ESPN on Saturday morning more than they desire serving God.
Because people desire sleep on Sunday morning more than they desire to serve God.
Because people desire their video games and their vanity of this world more than they
desire to get every day in this book and read it for an hour.
They desire the things of this world more than actually separating themselves and saying,
"Here am I, Lord.
Send me.
Hey, I'll give up the career.
I'll give up my dreams.
I'll give up my carnal passions because I want to serve God."
Nothing is stopping you from doing that.
Nothing is stopping anyone from doing that.
Go to John chapter number five.
John chapter number five.
John chapter number five, look at verse six, "When Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had
been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, 'Wilt thou be made whole?'"
What a question that is, isn't it?
What a question that is.
Number one, you need a will to get saved.
Number two, you need a will to be filled with the Spirit.
Number three, you need a will to do great things for God.
Here's the thing.
I cannot will it for you.
Your husband cannot will it for you.
Your friends, your pastor, other soul winners, your cousins, your children.
No one else can will it for you.
You have to find it within yourself to have that desire.
No one can make you get saved.
Right?
We go out, we know that we can't make people get saved.
They have to desire to be made whole.
All we can do is show up and bring them the water of life and say, "Wilt thou be made
whole?"
You want to be healed?
And you know what?
If they want, it's like, "Hey, nothing's stopping you right now from being a Spirit-filled
Christian."
But you know what the kicker is?
Your desire.
You want it.
"Wilt thou be made whole?"
Nothing is stopping you from doing great works for God.
Nothing is stopping you from reaching thousands, yea, millions of people for Christ in your
life.
Nothing is stopping Anchor Baptist Church from being a great church.
The question is, "Wilt thou be made whole?"
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you for this great question that you asked this man.
I pray that we would just help these things to sink down deep into our hearts.
That you would just help us all to find it within ourselves to have a will to serve you
with our lives, to be filled with the spirit, to do great things for your honor and glory.
It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
To 224, hymn number 224, there shall be showers of blessing.
Hymn number 224-224, 224, we'll sing there starting on the first.
There shall be showers of blessing.
This is the promise of love.
There shall be seasons refreshing, sent from the savior of love.
Showers of blessing we need, mercy from the storm falling,
but for the showers we plead, shall be showers of blessing.
Precious reminding again, over the hills and the valleys,
round of abundance of rain, showers of blessing we have,
round of sunfall, showers of blessing, the moon is down.
Showers of blessing we have, round of sunfall,
showers of blessing, all to God we're prepared.
Showers of blessing we have, round of sunfall,
showers of blessing, all to God we're prepared.