167 on the first wonderful work of life on the first 167
to me, wonderful world of love. Let me for other beauty see, wonderful world of love.
Thank you all, thank you so much, and bye.
All right, I think we go get a bullet, we're in.
All right, we have our announcers right there on the left-hand side today, it's the 8th, 28th of May, and we have all our contact info there on the left, and Sunday morning service, 10.30 am, Seoul, winning time, 2.00 pm on Sunday, Sunday evening, 4.30, Wednesday service, 5.30, pray for our expecting mother, Cynthia, Garcia, and then Seoul's one year to date, or 144.
And then we'll get the June happenings here for the next week on Sunday.
And I think what we're going to try to do is start for the month of June.
Well, let's actually do that. Let's pick a chapter.
So we just memorize one verse a week until we get it done and we'll set up the prizes if you'll help me.
I have a text from one of the church members on how you guys can do it, but let's get that implemented.
And then on the back, we have the prayer requests.
Nobody really stands out other than sister Karen. She's not here today. So just pray for her
She's she's usually pretty faithful. What's that faster?
Oh, she had a series of tests done
So just pray for sister Karen also look out we will start emailing or texting the prayer list as well
With all that being said
I'd like to welcome my sister and her husband. They're here visiting us from out of town.
I don't know they're visiting us from Texas or from Ohio, but they're visiting us from somewhere.
And then, uh, and then we'll just turn our handles over to page 102. When I surveyed the wonderous cross.
We need to try three.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
So
There's not enough, right?
Nothing that we could do enough.
Turn your hymn over to page three or four, three or four.
King Solomon couldn't pay for it.
We hour of prayer.
All the tears and fears we have,
But I call this song,
They call my words,
And their wishes come.
Season's up with shreds.
The hour of grace, the hour of grace, the hour of grace that we shall my petition bear to give is true.
He will lead his faith, will lead his heart, and trust his praise.
I'll cast on him my every care.
and shout, while passing, where will, where will be the heart, where will be the heart.
Alright, if you'll turn your Bibles over to Acts 20, we'll have Brother Moe read the Bible,
the chapters is our custom, and then we'll go ahead and then...
we're there in Acts chapter number 20 where the Bible reads, and after the
uproar was seized, Paul called unto him the disciples and embraced them and
departed for to go to Macedonia. And we had gone over those parts and had given
them much exhortation. He came unto Greece and there abode three months,
and when the Jews laid wait for him as he was about to sail into Syria, he
And there accompanied him into Asia, sopator of Baria, and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus
and Secundus, and Gaius of Derby, and Tymotheus and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
These, going before, tarried for us at Troas, and we sailed away from Philippi after the
days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven
days.
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul
preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight.
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together, and there
sat in the window a certain young man named Euticus, being fallen into a deep sleep.
And as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft
and was taken up dead.
And Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves
when he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while,
even till break of days, so he departed. And they brought the young man alive,
and were not a little comforted. And we went before to ship, and sailed onto Asos,
there intending to take in Paul, for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
And when he met with us at Asos, we took him in and came to Medellin, and when he sailed
thence and came the next day over against Chios, and the next day we arrived at Samos
and tarried at Tragilium, and the next day we came to Miletus, for Paul had determined
to sail by Ephesus because he would not spend time in Asia for he hasted if it were possible
And from my leaders, he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church.
And when they were come to him, he said unto them, You know from the first day that I came
into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with
all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying
and weight of the Jews, and how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but I
have showed you, and I have taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying both to
also to the Greeks, repentance towards God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And now,
behold, I go, bound in the Spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there,
save that the Holy Ghosts witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish
to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
And now behold, I know that ye all
among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God,
shall see my face no more.
Wherefore, I take you to record this day
that I am pure from the blood of all men,
for I have not shunned to declare unto you all
the capital of God.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves
and of all the flock over which the holy ghost
have made you overseers, to feed the church of God.
which he hath purchased with his own blood, for I know this, that after my departing shall
grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men
arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them."
Therefore, watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I cease not to warn every
one night and day with tears.
And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to
build you up and to give you an inheritance among all which are sanctified."
I have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel, yea, ye yourselves know that these
hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and
to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said it is more blessed to give than to
receive.
and they all wept sore and fell on pause neck and kissed him,
sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more,
and they accompanied him unto the ship." Let's have a quick word of prayer.
Dear Father God, thank you for this day. Thank you for gathering us all here together.
Thank you for everyone in the sanctuary right now, Lord. I pray that you fill us all with your spirit,
help us to receive the message that Pastor has prepared for us, Lord, and I pray that
we all get home safely. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
All right, you're there in acts 20. Let me just get this plugged in
You're there in act 20 and last week we were in acts 19 and there was a big old problem because
Guys were making money in ethicists off the idle Diana and they caused the whole ruckus and basically we're carrying over from that
That that's section of scripture and we're there in a verse
I mean in verse one, but let's go back to acts 19 really quick and
We see in acts 19 that you know as Paul is going through the cities. He comes in Ephesus and
Right there in verse 27
When verse 26 says moreover you see and hear that not alone at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath persuaded and turned away
Much people saying that they be no gods which are made with his hand
So they're not only this our craft is in danger to be said at not
But also that the temple the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised or magnificence should be
Destroyed whom all Asia and the world worship and when they heard these sayings
They were full of wrath and they cried out saying great is Diana the Ephesians
and the whole city was filled with confusion.
And it's interesting because, you know,
we get the contrast, right?
These guys are mad about losing money.
And here at the end of Acts 20, Paul says,
hey,
I didn't I didn't ask you or I didn't covet for silver or gold or apparel and yet
Who's getting the better who's getting the better work done Paul?
And we see here Paul makes a big shift in one of his missionary
Trips and so this is basically what we're going through and the title of the sermon this morning or this morning this afternoon is
None of these things move me acts chapter 20 none of these things move me in the first point
I have for you this afternoon is that faithfulness
is measured over time. Faithfulness is measured over time. If we look at the ministry of Paul,
we're here now, laid into the ministry of Paul. And remember in the beginning of Acts,
right about Acts 9 is when he got saved, you know, if we're going by the timeline of the book of Acts,
not a specific timeline. But now,
When he first went out there Barnabas had to be the Son of Constellation remember that Barnabas had to kind of come and
And convince everybody that Paul was not a devil that he was littered legitimately saved by grace through faith that he
Actually had made a change but not only that but that he was zealous for the things of God
But now when we get to
This part where Paul feels like he's coming to the end of his life or the end of his ministry
And of course we we know he wrote over 70% of the Bible. So, you know this timeline
is you know there's a lot to cover here and I'm not going to specifically focus on that today
what I want to focus on is the spiritual but when we get to this we see that now his faithfulness
has been proven right I mean our ministries are not measured by days or weeks or months but
literally they're measured by decades you know the thing that that stands out the most in my life
is if I look back at from when I first got saved 20 years ago in the last two decades
you know there was not an immediate change
Right and there could have never been a change. I mean my salvation was not determined by change
But my zeal for God is determined by that. Let's go there verse one, you know, our faithfulness is measured over time
It's it's it's all our life
It's really the rest of our life is what will prove our faithfulness and what I'm talking about here faithfulness
Just so people don't get you know these Calvinist or
Safe by works people get all confused
All that's required to get saved is faith
But there's more than one type of faith. You also have faith and God to prove himself
You got to have faith in him to come through and never leave the nor forsake the faith in him to try you through the fire
Faith in doing these things and what I'm talking about here is this faithfulness to grow in Christ is not measured on a one thing
It's measured over time. And so we see there says it after the upward were seized
So remember the town clerk. He's like look if this is not a legal matter. I don't even want to listen to it
All right, and so thank God for the laws of the land there
It says but then so this ends it and it says Paul called into his decide him the disciples and embraced them and departed for to go
Into Macedonia and we had gone over those parts and he had given much exhortation
He came into Greece and they're abode there three months and when the Jews
Laid wait for him. Hey when you're preaching the word of Christ somebody's weighing laying weight to get you
You know, we might not have some of the attacks that other people have, but don't be mistaken.
Somebody's looking out to get us, right?
As long as we're preaching the Word of God, somebody's out there hating us.
And if it's not a specific person, it's a specific demon because the Lord tells us that
Satan is the father of, you know, lies, and he was a murderer from the beginning and he's
seeking to murder every single one of us.
So that's a fact, right?
If we're here today, if we're being preached to, if we're preaching the Word of God, you
And it says here, and when the Jews late wait for him and he was about to sail into Syria,
he purposed to return through Macedonia.
And there accompanied him into Asia, Sopater, of Berea, and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus,
and Secundus, and Gaius of Derby, and Timothyus, and of Asia, Caikus, and Trophimus, and these
going before, tarried for as Troas, and we sailed away from Philippi after the days of
Seven days and one of the things that really stands out to me is
You know, nobody wanted to touch Paul with a 10-foot pole when he started and now he's got like an entourage
Right.
It kind of goes back to the sermon I preached on Sunday morning about being, you know, just
labeling yourself in a way that separates you from the world, right?
We currently will maybe label ourselves as a new independent fundamental Baptist or something.
I was listening to a clip by Jack Hiles, pastor, and he was talking about how he was praying.
He said, some of my friends say that we've gotten away from the faith.
He goes, we never moved.
He goes, I welcome back.
Come on back. You know, he's been dealing with the same thing that I was preaching about on Sunday,
like come back to the old roots, come back to the faith, come back to the things that matter.
But what's interesting about Paul is he stayed faithful and all of a sudden he gathered a good
group of people.
Now, Barnabas is no longer there, I've preached on that, but he's got a good group of people
from Asia and from the Thessalonians and, you know, he's got Timothy with him and from
Asia, you know, he's got a group of friends.
So you know, I'm not off when I preach that I say, hey, it's good to have fellowship with
other churches that think and look like us.
Maybe they're not exactly like us because we want to have fellowship with people that
Just as good as us, we want to have fellowship with people who are looking up to us, but
we especially want to have fellowship with people that are better than us.
I think the danger is it's easy to want to hang around a gang of people.
That's why gangs work, right?
Because everybody's like at the same level, you only have like one leader, but most of
the people are like, oh, I relate to this guy.
They found this common ground over family.
But the real test of leadership is when you're willing to follow somebody that's better than you and you recognize that and you're doing it
And you see these guys here
All of these guys, you know, they're following Paul because he's doing great things for the Lord
Right and so he he gets there and just go over to Proverbs 28
But I'll read for you really quick in 1 Corinthians 4 verse 2 the Bible says more over it is required as stewards
That a man be found faithful, right?
the reason people are following Paul is because they know that he's faithful.
I mean, he tells us constantly over and over again. And I don't think Paul is bragging.
I think at times you do have to tell on yourself because people just don't get it. You know,
Paul constantly reminds them, Hey, I didn't ask for money. I didn't need this from you. I cried
and I suffered and I was beat up and I was left for dead and I was thrown in jail all for your sake.
Right.
He was found faithful in Galatians 6 verse 9 the Bible says and let us not be weary in well doing for in due season
We shall reap if if we faint not
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Look, even when God's telling us that, you know, we need to not faint and we're going to reap, what does he say?
Hey, but when you have opportunity, do good to all men, but who, especially those of the household of faith?
Right?
Too many times, especially in 2025 with everything available to us, the biggest challenge we
have is people are all about me, me, me, me, me.
You know, I mean it used to be 10 years ago. We would just say Facebook, right and Instagram now
It's like Facebook and Instagram and X and tick-tock and
You just name it. Everybody's you know, and everybody has their own private channel. They have their own YouTube channel
They have their own whatever distribution channel like buy my own merchandise, you know every but God says here
Hey, we need to be
Good unto those of the you know what that's causing you to do to stop being so selfish
That's why I think also important and this is a tight note
This actually has nothing to do with this summer
But I just thought about it because I'm looking on the audience with my kids is that's why I think you know if you're a young man
Or young woman get married to the right person first of all if you don't know how to get married to the right person
Read the book of Proverbs. There's a lot of good advice right there, but number two
Nothing teaches you to be unselfish like having kids
My wife got up this morning early and she was gonna do a little bit of work
And she said I mean our kids have been waking up like at 7 38 now
You know, they've been waking up a little bit later
And it's almost like our daughter knew that my wife was gonna work because at 6 o'clock in the morning she was up
Causing all mayhem and destruction, right? You know, and but what did my wife do? She doesn't treat her best
She does she treats her good because she's in our household, right? It's the same thing with the people in church
We need to treat them. Well, we need a love on those that are for the faith
We need to be you know, if there's an opportunity we need to do good to them
And what's the best way to do that from behind the pulpit is to feed the flock
And I and that's a really important point because we're actually going to touch on that as well here in the sermon
But in Proverbs 28 you're there in verse 18 the Bible says whoso walketh up rightly
Shall be saved but he that is perverse in his ways
She'll fall at once and by the way the word save doesn't always talk about salvation of the soul
Sometimes it's actually talking about physical salvation here. Someone who's walking uprightly is doing right
You can be you can walk uprightly your all your life and not be saved and you'll still be saved physically, right?
But obviously we want to do the double application here where we walk uprightly in Christ, but we're also saved in Christ, right?
But that he the but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread
But he that followeth after rain persons shall have poverty enough a faithful man show bound with blessings
But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent
To have respect of persons is not good
For, for a piece of bread, that man will transgress.
It's interesting.
I was watching, um, I guess it's award season or something.
And there was like a, a worth people.
And I thought it was just really funny that all the people that I grew up, you know, when
I was in the world listening to like J.Lo, and if you don't know who these people are,
don't worry about it.
And, uh, you know, uh, no doubt or all these artists, they're still trying to be in the
They're still trying to be respectful of people.
You know, you got this old 50-year-old lady trying to look like she's 25.
You know why?
Because for a piece of bread, she'll transgress.
She'll dress up like a whore just to get a little bit of bread.
And I think about the fact that, you know, the Bible says here a faithful man shall bound with blessings
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread, you know
If we just as Christians just realize that God's gonna provide for us, then we'll be faithful to his word
You know, we're not always just gonna seek to follow after money to follow after riches to follow after
Fame and fortune and the things that the world's asking us to it is a hard lesson to learn right because even as Christians
we want good jobs, we want to be able to take vacations, you know, my wife, my wife's planning
a vacation here in a couple of weeks to Dallas. You know, we want to have the funds to be able
to do some fun things. We don't want to just go there and eat beans and bread and or feed our kids
water of affliction and bread of affliction like the Bible says, but also we want to find a balance
to know that God will provide for those times.
as long as we're faithful in the times that you're right.
And see, God's faithfulness is different than the world.
And so we really need to remember that faithfulness is measured over time.
And God will reward those things, but it's not the way that we think, right?
It's not the way that we think it's going to work.
So the first point that I had for you is faithfulness is measured over time.
Second thing that we want to look at is we're going through the book of Acts.
And by the way, we still have like eight more weeks of the book of Acts, so we won't be done
till probably mid-July, early August, depending on what goes on, is that the church, and this is
just, you know, I love preaching through, because you know, one of the things you learn as a preacher
is you want to preach one main point. But when you're going through the Bible verse by verse,
the main point is that whole chapter, right? And here we see in point number two that the church
Now, for me, this is a really near and dear doctrine because I grew up a Seventh-day Adventist.
Most of my life I was Seventh-day Adventist and Seventh-day Adventists have this idiotic
belief that you need to keep the fourth commandment, except forget the first three and the other
seven behind it.
You know, I was just like, there's only one commandment, but somehow it's number four.
That's the one we need to keep, right?
So, you know, the church gathered together on the first of the week, but the Bible is
Came in and he was the new covenant. He got rid of the old covenant. He's the better covenant the new testament, right?
It's the better testament
Everybody started to gather when on the first day of the week
We see there in Acts 20 verse 7 the Bible says and upon the first day of the week
When the disciples came together to break bread Paul preached unto them
Ready to depart on the morrow and continue to speech until midnight now
What I say the title of the sermon was right?
None of these things move me, which is also one of the verses here, but let me just tell you
You guys getting bored in there. None of your things move me
I'm gonna preach until somebody falls asleep, you know today. So just so you know because it's x20
We might be here till midnight. I'm kidding honey. I've got my timer right here
Just just so you know, but but it's interesting how we've gotten away from the fact that you know people
I remember seeing this even 20 years ago. I would drive up for business all the way down I 35
you know, coming up from McAllen down to Austin and San Antonio and all that.
And I remember when it was all under construction,
there was this one sign that always stood out to me.
There was a church and it said,
come, come to church or something like that.
We have 30 minute sermons.
We'll get you in and out in 30 minutes.
Like this is like 20 years ago.
They don't even announce it anymore because most people can't even sit through a one-hour sermon
They can't even sit through a 15 minute sermon because if you go to most of these churches
90% of the church is just entertainment
It's like 30 30 minutes of like contemporary music and then they've got a little video
and then they've got a little devotional and then they've got a story for the kids and then the pastor pulls out some
You know Amazon written sermon that he bought
you know, for all the pastors in his generation, he preaches the same thing everybody else is
preaching and then you go home. But Paul's here. It says he was ready to leave and he's like,
man, I need to get everything covered that I didn't cover before. And it says that he continued
in his speech until midnight and there were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered
together and they're sat in a window, a certain young man named Eutychus being fallen into deep
So, you know, sometimes I get a little flack for preaching long. Hey, if you want me to
be like Paul, you just got to put up with the long preaching, right? It says he sunk down
with his sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead. Paul preached
so much that he literally killed somebody. Like, I mean, like literally somebody's just
like, I, this is way too much. It wasn't for boredom. It was from length. Let me just be
The people were hanging around, I mean, Paul's been preaching till midnight.
Think about how good of a preacher and how much knowledge and wisdom Paul had, all joking
aside, that people showed up and they knew he was leaving and they're literally hanging
on his every word to the point of death.
It says, And Paul went down and fell on him and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves
for his life is in him, when he therefore was come up again and had broken bread and
Even till break of day. So he departs. So Paul preached. He literally preached an all nighter
You know, we ought to just take the book of Acts and then just create like a Acts 20 day
And then just come up here to church and like you remember remember in high school
Well, maybe some of you don't but remember I remember in high school
We had a what it was real popular for the seniors like the last week of school
They had a lock-in whoever did a lock-in, you know, and they did a 24-hour lock-in
They'd rent out like a skate center or a pizza place
or an arcade center and everybody would hang out for 20.
It was like the last time they were all gonna be together.
Oh, I love you so much.
We'll be friends forever.
Will you sign my yearbook?
You know, and you locked in for 24 hours.
That's what we should do.
We should just lock the doors of the church for 24 hours
and then I'll just preach.
You guys can get up and go bring in food and everything
and we'll just see how long we can go.
I'm not even kidding, like I'm really thinking about it.
We'll see who wants to do that, but, but it says, while he was there, come again.
He had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while and even till break of day.
So he departed and they brought the young men alive and I love this phrase and we're
not a little comforted.
You know this guy was important. I mean they loved this guy
When they thought he was dead they they were sorrowful and when they saw that he was back brought back to life
I like the way the King James says that they were not a little comforted meaning they were super comforted
It was a big deal that Paul not only preached to give him good wisdom and fed the flock
But also brought this guy back to life, you know first Corinthians 16 verse 2 the Bible says
The Bible says upon the first of the week let everyone of you lay
Buy him and store as God hath prospered with him in Hebrews 10 verse 25
You guys could go to 2nd Timothy
Go to 2nd Timothy, but I'll just read this for you real quick in Hebrews 10 verse 25
The Bible says not forsaking the assembly of ourselves. We know this verse right as the manner of some is but exhorting one another
And so much more as you see the day approaching
But I love this pastor Cobb and I had this conversation just a couple weeks ago
Verse 26 says for if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of truth
There remain no more sacrifice for sin and Pastor Cobb actually gave me a really good lesson
And this is why it's important to surround yourself with great people
And you know he said like the sad part about forsaking the assembly of ourselves is that you've missed out on that blessing for that day
You don't get back that Sunday that you missed or that Wednesday you missed and so like if you think about your faith
Kind of stacking up and in strength in your armor getting thicker, right?
Let's assume that when we put on the harm or God as new Christians, maybe it's a thin plate of steel
But every time we come to church,
we just add another to the layer.
And the Lord keeps adding layers and layers,
but it's not a heavy layer, right?
Because our burden is not heavy to Him.
Our yoke is not heavy to Him.
And then we just keep going to church three times a week,
three to thrive.
We show up whenever there's a special preacher,
we show up when there's a soul winning time.
We're just, we're getting a blessing
that we would have not gotten before.
But when we miss,
there's a little bit of a chink in our armor.
Right, there's there's a weakness somewhere that the devil can find like I really love the way that the pastor
Brought it up to me because I'd never thought about like like that. You're missing out on that blessing and it's gone forever
We'll get other blessings and of course when we get to heaven will be blessed for all eternity
But I there's a there's something to the fact that we live on this earth
And we have to do things to get crowns and rewards in heaven that even in the span of eternity
Some people will just always be eternally ahead of you
They're just always gonna have a head start. Maybe there'll be opportunities to catch up
But I don't know what that looks like in heaven
But man, I'm trying to do my best to just catch up right now because you know, I've got to make up for a lot of lost time
right
But the one thing that I love about being
I guess not forced because nobody forced me, but now I'm committed, right?
I'm not volunteering because I know that there's that doctrine of like we're all volunteers
I don't I didn't maybe I volunteered to become a preacher or a pastor, but the minute that Pastor Cobb ordained me
You know, it became like a contract
Like God expects certain duties of me and the one thing that it does for me though is hey, we're here
about 90% of the time on Sunday morning and Sunday evening and Wednesday, and hey, if you're not here
Sunday morning, Sunday evening and Wednesday, you're the one missing out on the blessing.
You want to catch up? Show up. Right there in Revelation 1 verse 10, the Bible says,
I was in the spirit of the Lord's day. You're in 2 Timothy, but in Revelation 1 verse 10 said,
the Lord's day and heard him behind a great voices of a trumpet and I love
that because when do we activate the spirit the most when we're around people
that are godly when we're around men and women of God families of God when we're
around the things of God you know if I'm out at a nightclub which I'm not at an
ending I don't go I haven't been a nightclub in a long time I'll just put it
like that but I'm not activating the spirit
Well, my wife and I were talking because we were talking about just some person
We know in comment that she grew up with and she married this weird. Just this weird over the top like
Hoity-toity like, you know, one of these do-gooders
They're they're too good for you and I remember one time we were in Dallas and I was sitting down at a chair
Just waiting for my family and this guy came to talk to me. He's like, hey, I know you're a pastor or whatever
Just weird guy just gives you the heebie-jeebies and he's like, hey, you know, what do you think about?
this ministry about going to strip joints
and preaching the gospel to strippers.
And I was like, bro, I don't agree with that doctrine at all.
Like, I don't know what you're talking about.
He's like, yeah, even strippers need the gospel.
I was like, if strippers need the gospel,
give them the church, go to their house
when they're not stripping at the strip joint naked
and give them the gospel at their house.
Like, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, right?
Like it just made me think,
You know, if you're in the strip joint, you're not in the spirit.
I'm going to tell you what, I would never go to a strip joint to preach the gospel because
I'm a man.
I'm just like, I'm just not going to put myself in a situation where I wouldn't even be able
to think on the spirit.
Let me just be honest with you. I'm a man. Like I don't want to be surrounded by a bunch of nude women and then but somehow
I'm so powerful in my mind that I can preach the gospel and overlook that don't be an idiot
You know, I I wanted to punch the guy in the face
But you know, of course that my my calling doesn't allow me to do that because it's just so dumb that people
I mean and then I looked it up. I thought it was just a one-off
There's literally an entire ministry nationwide of these people that go to like prostitutes
and strippers in their work to give them the gospel.
That's not effective.
You know, that's not the way you do things.
You're not in the spirit when you're doing that.
I don't know how I got off on that, but just anyways I did.
But going back to Acts 20 and obviously keep your finger there in 2 Timothy, point number
3.
So first, faithfulness is measured over time, right?
It's the rest of your life.
It's decades.
No, but you shouldn't show up to church when Sunday and think you're good.
It's the rest of your life.
You shouldn't read your Bible on January 1st and think, oh, I'm good.
No, it's every day, the Bible says.
You know, and then the church gathered together, what, on the first day of the week.
The reason we go to church on Sunday is because that's the biblical doctrine.
As a matter of fact, I mean the Sabbath worship is so easy to overcome.
It's not even funny.
All you got to do, and I always forget if it's in Deutera, I think it's in Leviticus,
but it's Leviticus like 23 or 32.
I've never been diagnosed, but I think I might at some points have dyslexia, just like slightly.
I do invert stuff, but it's in one of those chapters where literally God's like, oh, in
this day, on the eighth day, shall be a Sabbath to you.
She'll be a Sabbath to you. Oh and this month and this day on the ninth day and on the 18th day and on this day
She'll be a Sabbath to you. You know because a Sabbath is just a celebration of God's rest
Our Sabbath is Jesus Christ and then the third point that I have for you is a good minister
warns, or feeds the flock, holding nothing back.
I want to be surrounded by people who are preaching an unfiltered Word of God.
This week, one of my friends, he's a young guy, he's about 27, 28.
He preaches for Anchor Baptist Church in Oklahoma, and he works for City Hall.
And it's funny because you read the article, because there was an article against him because
he preached that like a year ago or two years ago, he preached that you should line up all
the sodomites, all the queers, and then you should just shoot them in the back of the
head.
You know, it's like stoning them.
Which I don't disagree with at any point.
Do I disagree with anything that he said?
As a matter of fact, I don't even think it's aggressive.
I don't think it's mean. I don't think it's cruel.
I just think it's biblical.
Then the Bible say that it's an abomination
and that they shall be put to death.
I mean, literally, that's what the Bible says.
So, the method is irrelevant, but people are annoyed that the method he chose was lining
them up.
By the way, this country used to have the part of the death penalty in certain states.
They would line you up and shoot you.
It wasn't that long ago.
I'm not talking like in the early stages of our country.
I'm talking like in the 19th century, the 20th century, these things were happening.
But anyways, long story short, the article reads, and they're like, well, he shows up
And he's so nice and he does his work and he's been promoted because he's doing such a good job.
But then all of a sudden some queer got on there. They're like, well, yeah, but then when I looked
him up, which by the way, how do you randomly look someone up? They gave him an excuse,
but somebody told him obviously that he's a preacher and then I heard the words out of his
And on the website itself, and you've heard me preach it, if we had a righteous government,
and the government was doing what the Bible said, that is the penalty for sodomy.
It wasn't too long ago that in this country, the penalty for sodomy was death.
By the way, that's not the only thing that's a penalty for death.
The penalty for death was for adultery, right?
For following after false gods.
And in this country, we still have the death penalty.
So he's not preaching to the egregious, and he's following the Bible, meaning we never
preach vigilanteism.
In other words, I'm not taking it upon myself and neither should any, if I ever hear that
anybody in our congregation decided to take it on their own to enact violence on the
LGBT or any community, they'll hear from me because that's not biblical.
But if God takes vengeance on those people, you're not going to hear me cry or pout about
it.
I'm just telling you that.
But if we had a righteous government, if Donald Trump got up there and said, hey, the death penalty for the sodomites we have now enacted the death penalty, I'd be like, well, that's biblical.
Amen.
That's it.
So anyways, what I'm trying to say here is that you want to surround yourself with good ministers who hold nothing back in spite of what they're facing.
I'm always going to try to back and do my best to back men like that.
And in case you didn't know where I stand on the issue. Yes, I stand with anchor Baptist church
And I stand with pastor Dylan Oz like anybody who's preaching the word of God and is getting attacked for it
They're just doing the work of the Lord
Bible says yay and all the live godly and Christ Jesus shall suffer tribulation. I mean persecution. Sorry
The Bible says they're in Acts 20 verse 17 says and from my leaders
He sent to Ephesus and he called the elders of the church. This is where he makes this this very
I guess emotional plea to the church.
He says, and when they were coming to him, he said unto them, you know, from the first
day that I came into Asia, after what manner I've been with you at all seasons, serving
the Lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and temptations, which befell me
by the line and weight of the Jews.
And by the way, I didn't just throw this in there.
This is literally appropriate because that's exactly what is going on here.
Paul, if Paul was in modern day 2025, it would be the newspaper article, right?
The Jews laying in wait for you would be the ones throwing you under the bus, trying to
get you fired, trying to destroy your family, trying to put a wedge between you and the
church.
It says in verse 20, and it says, and how I kept nothing that was profitable unto you.
How I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you.
If God said to preach it, I preached it.
But I've showed you and I've taught you publicly from house to house.
Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God.
And I like this because it defines itself.
This is how you know we don't get repent of your sins in this church because it says repentance
toward God.
And what does it mean?
And faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
And I did want to touch on this a little bit because it's always, you know, a point of contention in the world that people believe you have to repent of your sins to get saved.
But literally what he says is, hey, how do you repent towards God?
Well, I didn't, I believed in all this over here to get me to heaven.
my good works, my faith tithing, my reading my Bible.
But then I read my Bible and somebody expounded the words
like Philip to the eunuch and they cleared up.
There was by Jesus Christ and I just turned around
and I said, you know what?
I'm putting all my faith in Jesus Christ.
And I left all these weird ideas behind and realized there's nothing I can do to get to heaven
But by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the way, the other thing is now that I know that I'm facing this way
There's nothing that could ever remove me from this path. It's eternal forever
You haven't you have no idea how many times you're like pastor. You're preaching to us. We know what eternal means
We know what forever means. We know what infinity means you do the world does it
I'm like, Hey, if God gives you a gift that lasts forever, when can he, when can he take
it away?
Whenever he wants, no, never, you know, I get so frustrated because I'll have calls with
my team.
You know, I know you guys have heard my frustrations, but I'll say, Hey, you know, I want you to
do this, this and that.
And then they'll call me back and they're like, Hey, we did this, this and that.
But I just come in and realize that people just don't have the basic use of the English language.
Eternal is forever. If God gives you something that's forever, it's forever.
It's settled. You can never lose it.
You're there in 2 Timothy 2. In verse 24, the Bible says,
And the servant of the Lord must strive, but be gentle unto all men.
App to teach, patient, in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves.
If God pray adventure that he will give them repentance,
What onto the acknowledging of the truth repentance is just that they're changing their mind from lies to truth
Lamentations to verse 11 says mine eyes do fail
With the tears and my bowels are troubled my liver is poured upon the earth
For the destruction of the daughter of my people the lamenting prophet Jeremiah
He shed a lot of tears. It sounds like he Paul had somewhere to draw from
Now Paul didn't say he was crying from the pulpit. He just said he shut tears
I want to make that clear and by the way
I mean if somebody cried from the pulpit like on ever on a like a blue moon
I guess I wouldn't be opposed to it
But these these preachers that cry like at every sermon. Yeah, that's a little bit effeminate to me. I'm just
I've witnessed, you know, I just I got a good
Lineage of spiritual leaders. I've witnessed it, you know, and I know pastor
I don't mean to make you uncomfortable, but it is what it is
I'm gonna preach anyways
But I've witnessed pastor Cobb talk about his personal life and about some very difficult losses and hold himself and pull composure together
Just to not show tears. Why not because he's showing tears is a sign of weakness
But because when you're behind the pulpit, you have to show leadership
That's the big thing. Paul is the leader and the big thing that I'm leaving you with is,
hey, in the behind closed doors, I worry about you. Behind closed doors, you'll see me break down.
My wife witnesses those things, but here you need to know that we're ready for the battle.
God doesn't want any wimps behind the pulpit.
You know, if not, I mean, you've just not read the Old Testament.
You know, remember all those people that are afraid. He's like, hey, leave these behind because
He didn't he didn't beat up on me. Just like these are not ready for the battle
Not everybody's ready for the battle all the time in Romans 9 verse 2
The Bible says that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart
For I could wish that myself were a curse from Christ for my brethren my Kingsman
According to the flesh. Hey when you have a
Like a a zeal for the souls that are going to hell
You're gonna hurt a little bit
The truth opens up your eyes and actually makes you sad for the world.
You know, I think about all the people in my life that I didn't get to give the gospel to that are in hell now.
Some of them, there's nothing I could do about it. You know, I was too young, I was too little, I was not saved.
There's people in hell right now roasting. They just didn't have the chance.
You know, I can't cry over spilled milk.
8 billion people at minimum in the world that need to know of Jesus Christ.
Now, I mean, I know some of them are saved, but let's just round it out.
The majority of the world is going hell in a handbasket.
And it really does just like it gnaws at you if you think about it for too long.
That's why the Bible tells us that we need to be content at whatever state we're in,
because when you start to think about the state of the world, you get a little sad.
And so that's why we preach because we're going to warn the congregation and we're going
to warn the world that there are consequences.
Hey, if you're here, the warning to you is clean up your life so that you get the blessings
of God, right?
That's what the purpose of church is and learn the things that you need to learn so you're
better for the world.
And if you're not saved, you need to listen to the warning so you don't go to hell.
The fifth point I have for you, I have six points and we're almost done, is that true
ministry is fueled literally by Christ, right?
So we have faithfulness is measured over time, the church gathered together on the first
day of the week, a good minister warns, holding nothing back in a true minister, or a true
ministry is fueled by Christ.
It's not me.
It's not Pastor Cobb.
It's not maybe Moe who's literally helping us.
These are just the catalysts.
that make things better.
You know, the reason I pick on Mola
is because he's made things better.
I can do other things.
I can focus better on the sermons.
I can focus on things.
Right, when I came in,
maybe that's what it was for Pastor Cobb.
You know, he was able to focus on other things
because I took some burdens off of him.
But the church wasn't better because of me
or because of you or because of,
it's because of Christ,
because we're all centered on Christ.
Like, and I've told him and I stick to that
to anybody who will ever work for us in the church.
If your excuse is to mis-church or to not do the things of Christ because you think you know
You need to do the work first then don't work for us because it is not a job
That you're working for me or for pastor Cobb. You're working for Christ
The one you've got to answer to is the Lord Jesus Christ not me
Any other job you might need to answer to Christ and that boss
But here the only person you answer to is the Lord Jesus Christ go to Acts 20 verse 22 says and I'll behold I go bound
In the spirit unto Jerusalem, do I have six points or seven points?
Let me just make sure I have, let me just make sure we're, oh I have seven points, but they're quick.
I'm almost done.
And I'll behold I go down in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall
befall me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city saying that the bonds and afflictions
abiding me.
But none of these things move me.
I'm not gonna stop is what he's saying. They're not gonna move me away from the purpose that I need to do
He says neither I count my life dear unto myself so that I might finish the course with joy in the ministry
Which I've received the Lord Jesus Christ to testify the gospel of the grace of God
It isn't so important for us today because you know, there's times where I mean you get attacked
You're just like do I even continue or maybe someone doesn't show up and you do I continue?
And but then you read verse 24 you're like, but none of these things move me
If Philippians 1 verse 20, the Bible says, according to my earnest expectation and my
hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness as always, so now also
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death, for to me to live
is Christ and to die is gain.
You know, if we could really understand that, I think it'd even make us better.
You know, some people I believe have truly understood that.
I don't know if I'm there, I wouldn't want to even venture to say that, but I would
want to venture that at least I know I'm moving in that direction.
Second Corinthians 12 verse 10 says, therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches,
in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake for when I am weak, then
I am strong.
We got to be like Paul.
We got to take pleasure in other hard things.
You know, my wife was, we were talking and she's like,
sometimes it just feels like it's like never ending.
It's like one blow after another.
And I did tell her, I wasn't, I hadn't read all this
as I was preparing for it.
But I did tell her, I was like, you know what?
Pastor Cobb told us, I don't know if I said you specifically,
but I did say what you told me, which is as you get older,
what happens with life, it gets harder.
The one thing about getting older and life getting harder
is you get a little bit more callous.
So at least you can kind of bounce them off a little bit easier, but it's just part of life.
The only good thing, I have a queer uncle that will rot in hell for all eternity.
He's still alive right now, but the only good piece of advice he ever said that I ever thought
was actually really good. He said, hey, getting old is not for the week, which is true. Like,
In verse 25, you know, even a broken clock can be twice right in a day, right?
So Acts 20 verse 25, the Bible says, and now behold, oh, the fifth point I have for you.
Did I get, oh no, I got ahead of myself here.
Second Timothy 4-7, the Bible says, I have fought a good fight and I've finished my course.
I've kept the faith.
Henceforth, there's laid up for me a crown of righteousness, and that crown I think is
available to everybody, right?
Which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me on that day and not to me only but unto them also that love is appearing
That's why we don't believe in the pre-trip rapture because God's gonna show up. It's not a secret rapture
It's not like oops where did it go?
Bible says in Acts 20 verse 25
And now behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
Wherefore, I take record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men.
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel I've got. I hear it is again.
I've shunned, I mean, I have not held back. I have not kept it from you.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves into the all the flock over which the holy ghosts have made you overseers to feed the church of God
Which he hath purchased with his own blood
For I know this, that after my departing, and here's why it's so important to surround
yourself with people because we need to leave the next generation.
You know, Paul's not being a little arrogant here.
He's just being honest.
He knows people are following him, but he just doesn't see anybody at the capacity
he's at.
He's a little concerned.
He says, for I know that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock.
because if we go to the book of Corinthians and we go to the book of Ephesians, literally that's
what he's talking about, isn't it? And he says, also of your own self shall men arise speaking
perverse things to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch and remember that by the space of
And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to
build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
And so I didn't give you the point, but the sixth point or the fifth point, where am I
here?
I wrote my notes in an interesting way today, so just forgive me.
My fifth point here.
So I do have six points for you.
Sorry.
I did enrollment numerals and I'm usually pretty good, but for some reason I'm not reading
them well today.
It's purchased with the blood.
So we need to guard it.
And really, you know, we need to do two things when we're guarding the number one.
You see Paul and he's not holding back. He says, hey, I held nothing back. I didn't shun anything
Look stop stop thinking like stop leading your congregation and leaving them with like little nuggets
Like thinking that the next time they come to church, they're gonna learn something new just give it all
You know churches do that today
I remember preachers would get up and preach in the Sunday morning service and then they'd be like, hey
I would finish this point, but I want to make sure that you come back tonight
So I'm not gonna tell you this point. Just tell me
Cuz what if I die? What if I actually meant to come back Sunday night and I didn't cuz I died
I know it's a good people are gonna show up to church because they want to show up to church
You don't need to coerce them number one number two
People do that. You know why because they want to have like this aura of power and knowledge
Like oh, there's things that you don't know that I know and I just can't let you know them all
I think maybe I don't like this because, you know, I'm in the digital marketing space and
in the digital marketing space, like there's this thing called YouTube university, like
literally anything you want to learn, you could learn on YouTube, especially digitally.
But then you'll have these people will build out this whole thing and they're like, Hey,
download this free guide.
But if you want to learn the real secrets behind it, pay me $197 a month.
Or pay me $2,000 a month.
And then you pay them.
And guess what?
It's something you could have learned on a YouTube video in 35 minutes.
Because there's nothing new under the sun.
You know, the people that give liberally are the ones that are going to get back liberally,
right?
And then the second thing, the reason we need to guard it is because if we have good leadership
right now and we're following good leadership and we're, let's say we're good leaders, the
two things are going to happen, either that church will continue under a different leadership
or it's just going to fail. And what's happening about these churches in America today,
they're starting to fail because those guys didn't pass the torch correctly,
and they passed it to some young punk who had no experience and went out and he read some
church marketing book. If you don't think those things exist that you've not been around for a
Facebook ads because they know I run the church web like the church Facebook and it says if you run a church and
You're not getting congregations
We can show you how to target people in your area to make sure they show up to your church
It won't even show you the wording and all that stuff
Look, I want people to ship to church because they want to learn the Bible
And if they don't want to learn the Bible and don't show up
Because I'm still gonna show up. It doesn't matter
Right the church is purchased with the blood. We must guard it and this is really probably my longest point the last point
I might or might not even touch on it because I really want to emphasize this it go over to first Peter
I actually go to Ezekiel 34 go to Ezekiel 34
But in the first Peter 5 verse 1 the Bible says the elders were among you I exhort
who I'm also an elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that
shall be revealed, feed the flock of God, which is among you, taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint, but willingly, nor for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind."
Now, people have taught this weird, but here, I mean, and I've actually taught it this way
ever since I read it. I mean, I've preached on this verse a ton of times. Here, not holding
Right, nobody's forcing me but willingly but also not holding any of the word back not by constraint
Not like just giving you tidbits not Joe Olstein style. I'm only gonna give you the good stuff
Right not a for filthy looker, but of a ready mind now
There's being lords over God's heritage but being examples to the flock and when the chief shepherd shall appear
You shall receive a crown of glory
The fated is not away in Hebrews 13 verse 17 the Bible says obey them that have rule over you and submit yourselves
For they watch for your souls as they must give account
that they may do with joy and not with grief,
for that is unprofitable for you.
Pray for us, for we trust we have a good conscience
in all things willing to live honestly.
There's certain things that I just won't do to make money,
or to get fame, or to get fortune,
or to get notoriety, you know.
because this office carries some serious consequences.
In Ezekiel 34, verse one, the Bible says,
and the word of the Lord came unto me saying,
son of man prophesy against the shepherds of Israel,
prophesy and say unto them, thus saith the Lord God,
unto the shepherds, woe be to the shepherds of Israel,
that do feed themselves,
should not the shepherds feed the flocks.
Hey, you're reading your Bible,
but you're not teaching the Bible, Catholics.
Because you want to preach it in Latin even though everybody speaks English
Even the idiot Pope that just got it ordained didn't he do his whole first thing in like Latin
Who speaks Latin anymore?
Like fluently as I mean one of the last time you had a conversation with someone in Latin. I
Not had it
You eat the fat and you close with the war you killed them that are fed but you feed not the flock
The disease
You have have you not strength it neither have you healed them which are sick which was sick neither
Have you bound up that which was broken neither?
Have you brought again that which was driven away neither?
Have you sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them and they were scattered because there's no
Shepherd and they became meat to all beasts of the field and when they were scattered my sheep wondered through all the mountains and upon the
High heel yay my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth
And none did search or seek after them, therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord.
As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey and my flock became
meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherd
search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not the flock, therefore
oh ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord.
The book of Ezekiel is pretty rough, and I'm not the only overseer.
You oversee your family if you're a man of the house, right?
If you have a wife and kids, feed the flock.
Bible says in 1 Corinthians 11 verse 1 be followers of me even as also as I also am of Christ now
I praise you brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances
I've delivered them unto you, but I would have you know
That the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is man
I like this and the head of Christ is God even even Christ follows a hierarchy
You know what I'm saying
Oh, we didn't that's funny because we charged that one. We're trying to work on our lighting here
But we did charge that one. We need to check next time. And so now I've lost the lights. I'm going to pre-tort. I'm just
We're gonna install a better lighting system, but we're trying to do things so mo you drop the ball around skin
And the last point I have for you go to acts 20 verse 33 give more than you can take
Give more than you can take right we saw
We saw that faithfulness is measured over time and you know when you're when you're giving more than you can take
You're gonna be faithful over time the church gathered together the first of the week the good ministers. They hold nothing back
True ministry is filled by Christ is fueled by Christ
The church is purchased with the blood of God so we must guard it and then we've got to give more than we can take
Look in sports. We use this analogy all the time people are like leave everything on the field
You know what, we want to leave everything on the field of faith, right?
We want to leave it all.
In verse 33, he says, I have covenant no man's silver or gold or apparel, yea ye yourselves
know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with
me.
I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember
the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, it is more blessed to give than to receive,
And they all wept sore and fell upon Paul's neck and kissed him
Soaring more of all the words which he spake that they should see his face no more and they accompanied him onto the ship
You know, it'll be we should be sad when we know one of our brothers and sisters is going home to be to the Lord
We'll be happy for them because they're going home
But we sat because we're gonna miss them if there was else for the Lord. They're gonna miss Paul
Not only because he was a good preacher and he was willing to die for them, but he he cared for them
He loved them, right?
I mean, and he was tough
Some of the some of the letters he wrote
He's like, you know, if you don't fix this thing and I get there
It's gonna be worse for you than the letter that I just sent you
I mean, I'm paraphrasing but literally that's kind of what he said, right?
In Matthew 6 verse 29, we know these verses, but I just want to close out with this. This is this is good
You know, we need to remind ourselves of this Bible says lay not up for yourself treasures upon earth
Where moth and rust death corrupt and where thieves break through and steal but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven
We're neither month nor rust death corrupt and where thieves do not break through or steal for where your treasure is there
Will your heart be also?
Proverbs 11-25, love this, the liberal soul.
Yeah, we're a bunch of liberals in church,
but not the kind that's out there, right?
Shall be made fat, and he that watereth,
shall be watereth also himself.
Hey, we want to just give everything we can.
You know, that's why we don't sell anything at the church,
right?
If people need something, we're going to help them out.
Sometimes to a fault now bombs. We just don't help out. So a bums if you're listening
Stop calling because I get pretty regular calls from people. We will not pay your rent
We will not pay your we're not gonna give you an advance on your salary. We're not but hey, if you're serving we'll take care of you
Our church has not done as much as some other churches, but hey
We've given some nice steak dinners and we ordered some of the best food we can you're at the end of the day
We are Baptist if we're doing so many marathons. I try to get you know
The nice bagels and the good donuts and the nice coffee and the good burgers and all that good stuff
Second Corinthians nine. This is the last place. I'll have you turn if you want to turn there and we're done
Second Corinthians nine and verse six the Bible says but this I say
He which soweth sparingly shall also reap, shall reap also sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Every man of corn is he hath purposed in his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly, for of a necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye, always having all sufficiency
and all things may abound to every good work.
It's funny, I brought this up, I think last week or whatever, and it made me think about
the fact that I didn't want to leave it undone.
I'm actually going to prepare a sermon on tithing, but not for the purpose that most
people think, which is churches usually preach on tithing because they need money.
We don't need your money.
As a matter of fact, God's going to give us the money that we need.
But the Bible tells us that, you know, we just need to give, right?
And it says that God is able to make all grace abound toward you,
that you always have all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
We just need to give over our time.
We need to give over our effort.
God wants our first fruits.
He wants our first thoughts.
He wants our first readings.
He wants our first efforts.
He wants our first, you know, emotions.
It's not just the money that he's asking for.
He wants all all of us and and God's not even he only asked for 10%
I mean honestly, we should give it all
Pastor Cobb has a servant called what can a man, you know give God I might have gotten a little bit wrong
But that's a great if you've not heard it. We have it on our website. That's a great servant because nothing
We can give it all
Didn't we read that? What was the hymn that we sang? Let me I really do want to go
102
I just, I love that. Right. Um, the kids think I'm crazy cause whenever we play it in the
car, I just get really excited when we get to that verse. But in someone, I mean, in
the him, the, the survey, the winners cross, this guy gets it, right? We're the whole realm
of nature. Mine that were a present far too small. He said, Hey, if I owned all the kingdoms
It's love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
The reason that I want to clear that up or just on the tithing is because people should
have a proper balance and understanding of what tithing is.
The church doesn't need members, the church doesn't need money, the church needs faithful
There is a difference if people are just showing up to for a membership you might not be saved
You might not be a church member
Look, I'd rather have the 30 40 people to show up that are saved in Christ that are willing to serve that are willing to fight
Then 300 members that just clock in and then they can come brag to me about how much tithing they do so that I have to
Then preach whatever they want to hear
You do whatever you want at the end of the day is between you and God
Right, let me tell you as far as for our house
Spring crest as for me in this house, we're going to serve the Lord.
Let's close in order prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for your blessings, Lord.
Thank you for the opportunity to just preach through the book of Acts.
And man, it's been a great year just with the reminder and just the great soul waiting
we've done.
And there's just so many more things that we want to accomplish and we just had so many
good blessings.
I mean, there's also been challenges and just hard times and things and we know families
are struggling.
You know, we're ready and we want to, we want to continue growing and help us to give more
and to do more and to sacrifice more and to fight more, but do it for the right reasons,
Lord.
All right.
And that when the world decides to try to sway us or tempt us, that, you know, we will
not be moved, Lord.
Thank you so much for today.
Thank you for this Wednesday.
Thank you that my sister and her brother are here and we would have a good time and just
be with all those here in attendance.
In Jesus' name we pray.