turn in our hymnals to song 361, song 361, higher ground at song 361.
to Spring Crest Baptist Church. Today's June 29th and also fifth Sunday dinner so we're excited
about that. The food will be coming shortly. I drew an audible and we're not doing Mexican food,
we're doing Italian food.
or as, who was telling you that?
Italian, a brother from Steadfast came on a Wednesday
and he said that he likes to eat Italian food, not Italian.
But Sunday morning services, 10.30 a.m.,
Sunday evening, 4.30, and then Wednesday services are 5.30.
Our soul winning time is 2 p.m.,
and then our memory chapter is Psalms 23.5.
I mean, our memory chapter is Psalms 23.
the verses Psalm 23.5 that prepares the table before me in the presence of mine enemies,
thou anointest my head with oil, my cup, runneth over, if the children can quote any of these verses at the end of the week.
They'll get ice cream, we don't have any, we'll get you some ice cream, and then at
the end, and they have to quote it to somebody that's not a non-family member, at the end
of the whole chapter, if an adult or a child can quote the whole thing, then we'll give
them like a gift card, and so I encourage you to memorize that.
I mean, the incentive's pretty good at ice cream when you're a child, but the much better
in time of need, and there's nothing better than the Word of God, so I would encourage
you all to participate.
And then, souls one for the year to date, 148, Sister Sylvia had a soul one on Monday,
she texted me about it, and then right there, we have the July happenings, we have apparently
July's the month, we're having Brother Trey's birthday's coming up, Brother Boaz is coming
up, Kevin, when is the 7th, by the way, 4th?
Is that next Sunday? No, right?
The fourth is it's after the it's after that one. Okay, so then today
We'll we'll sing for brother Trey and then next week. We'll get Bo asked and then basically it seems like we're gonna wait till the end
On actually gentry. Sorry gentry. We got it all backwards, but gentry's on the 16th
And then we have Kevin Rogers and Victor de Matos, which is
sister
Liberty man sister liberties husband and then Aubrey is on 26 my daughter's on
the 27th and then I don't know why I have Kevin Rogers twice so we need to
fix that so I kind of I mean I might have overlapped we did do this on Friday
but we were having the printer freaked out on us and so we were having more
problems with the printer like I don't know what happened that day but and then
to the 28th was yesterday was sister Christians birthday on the 28
And then Anniversary's coming up, the Rogers.
is the 24th, the Montos is the 24th.
They did not plan that, but that's how it worked out.
And then Sister Miranda, her anniversary's on the 15th.
And then of course we have a couple of events coming up,
the men's retreat with steadfast,
August 14th through the 16th.
So if any of you may want to join, let me know
and we'll work that out with you guys.
And then the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship,
I will be preaching that Sunday morning in Spanish.
And then Pastor Mejia, his wife is,
is do any day now in well actually in August. So he had to not basically he had to bow out.
So I actually will be preaching the evening service in English. So it's Spanish and English on Sunday,
August 31st. Other than that, we just we're gonna have some good food. And the only thing I do want
to do some housekeeping, we'll pray for the meal after the service. And then of course just like
Always ladies, you know, women and children first and then the men afterwards. There's gonna be plenty of food and
Everything's pretty much set up. But if you need anything just ask
Just ask us and we'll make sure that gets taken care of if nothing else
Oh, and it's good to see sister Karen back
She hadn't been with us for a while and it's good to have Annalisa and Amanda and their daughter with us again
They were here Wednesday. They're from Corpus. They're just in town for a couple of days
They'll be going back to Corpus, but they're visiting us and green is tracing us with their presence
So we really appreciate them and they came on a good week because you're gonna get to eat some good food
My wife found some good deal apparently we're having caravas
So if you like caravas, and you know, it'll be good other than that. We'll have brother Mo lead the singing and we'll go to the next
Alright, turn in your hymnals to song 360.
Song 360.
Lead me to Calvary.
Song 360.
another song here except this one is going to be in these white binders I left there's one on
every single row we're doing something starting something new here uh turn in the white binders
to Psalm 150 the Psalms are in order as they appear in the bible because some of them have uh
But, we are going to be in Psalm, some of them only have the Psalms, but we're going to be in Psalm 150.
Psalm 150.
tab, the Psalms, because they're straight from the Bible. Nice for memorizing the Bible.
Now, if we would all turn in our Bibles to Ephesians chapter number four. Ephesians chapter
as we pass the offering plate there in Ephesians chapter 4 where the Bible reads,
Therefore, the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
with all lowliness and meekness with long suffering for bearing one another in love,
endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.
One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God, and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Wherefore, he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill
all things. And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors
and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the
So we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children,
tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men and cunning
craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive, but speaking the truth and love may grow up into
from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supply of
according to the effectual working in the measure of every part making increase of the body
This I say therefore and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind
Having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them
Because of the blindness of their heart
Who being past feeling have given themselves over until the civviousness to work all uncleanness with
Greediness, but ye have not so learned Christ
If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus,
that ye put off concerning the former conversation of the old man, which is corrupt according
to the deceitful thus, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
and that you put on the new man which is after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Be 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 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,
and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed into the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor
and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice,
and be kind one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake
had forgiven you.
Let's have a quick word of prayer.
Dear Father God, thank you for this day.
Thank you for all that you've given us, Lord.
I just pray that you fill pastor Enrique with your spirit,
helping to preach a bold and accurate sermon, Lord.
And I pray that you be with us all,
help us to receive the knowledge from your word
and receive the sermon that he's about to lay on us
in Jesus' name, I pray, amen.
Amen.
All right before we start the brother train will stand I forgot to sing and happy birthday
Thank you for my wife for reminding me. So his birthday is coming up on 3rd. He's getting up there in age
I won't say his age, but it's whatever if you know my age, you all know his age on the 1st
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you happy birthday God bless you
Happy birthday to...
And many more.
So many of you don't know this, but Trey,
I've known him for, I don't know,
20 years or something like that.
So he's a dear friend.
We love him, and not only in church,
but our family loves him.
Sometimes I think my kids like him
better than me sometimes.
I mean, I literally have videos where they're like,
you know, Uncle Trey and stuff like that.
So anyways, they call him Uncle and all like that.
But just wish him a happy birthday.
But we're there in Ephesians 5,
and for the sake, I'm gonna,
keep an eye on my watch today,
because I do have an illustration right at the end.
This is, I mean, I'm just gonna close out the month
with the same concept of, you know, the reprobate
and the, you know, basically the individuals
who hate the Lord Jesus Christ,
but it's not the same message,
it's just an emphasis or a different visual of,
the way that we understand this concept because honestly there's a lot of people even to this day
that don't believe this doctrine even though it's clear in the bible and I think number one
people aren't reading the bible because if they read it it would just be clear but number two
I just think that I don't know maybe they just didn't my dad was always uh maybe they just grow up
like with a dad like mine my dad was always really good at just explaining stuff and kind of bringing
that was number one, but number two, he always had like really good visuals and he taught us like
with examples and stuff like that. So I'm not saying my dad's way better at it. He's actually an
artist when we were little. I remember we had a project in elementary school to like make a clay
molding of a heart and he literally took and he made a clay molding of a heart like with the aorta
and all the valves and everything I showed up. The teachers were really impressed. Of course,
I didn't do it. My dad did it. So I would never be able to do anything like that. But the
the visual I have at the end hopefully gives you a better idea that it is a biblical concept
and it's easy to visualize, it's easy to understand and so the title of the sermon this morning is
sealed or seared and really at the end of the day which one are we going to be right?
We're either sealed in the Holy Spirit or our minds are seared and the Bible actually uses
both terms like it gives us clear example of both and so I'm going to give you guys a lot of
I've never done this, but I'm gonna give you guys a lot of definitions because apparently people just
You know, I I really want to just kind of dumb this down for and I did it for two reasons
I knew was fifth Sunday dinner. So number one, everybody's gonna have dessert
So the visuals of dessert, but number two, we also have more children in the church and I just remember
When I was growing up and going to like these Christian schools
And I think that's where a lot of the seeds were planted
The visuals always helped me out like they stuck in my mind
There was a I was telling my wife there was a pastor in a I went to grace Christian school in far, Texas for many years
And I didn't get saved till I was 25,
but I'll never forget Pastor Wally Marillo.
And if he's listening or he's alive, you know,
he did a good job.
But the only thing is he only preached one message
at all our...
at all our whatever they called it the you know we had uh every Wednesday we had to have chapel
at chapel uh or if it was a graduation or something and he would preach about how and
he'd bring out a wallet and it was always real visual and he's like this represents your sins
and you'd put it on your hand he's like this represents you and this represents God and
his wallet was real thick and he's like this is what separates you from God but Jesus paid all
your sins so that you and God could you know so that just kind of always stuck in my mind visually
It's just always, it's always there.
And I probably butchered that he did it way better
cause that's what he did on a regular basis.
But one of the things that really stands out to me
is we have a very visual representation
of not only salvation,
when the Lord says that we're sealed,
right, until the day of redemption, but also we have a very visual representation of the fact that
there are people where the Lord has seared their mind, and there is a big difference, right?
Who's ever seared a steak, right? If you ever sear a steak, what's the whole goal is?
You basically mar the outside or create a steak so that the juices are contained inside, right?
We're trying to keep everything inside. So when the Lord sears a mind,
everything that's evil and vile and affectionate, you know, all that stuff is already in there.
It's not going to be able to come out.
the Lord's had rejected those individuals, right?
But let's go real quick right there.
The verse that I'm going to focus on
is right there in verse 30, and it says,
and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Before we get into kind of the definitions of these things just go back to verse one
It says therefore I therefore the prison of the Lord beseech you that you walk
Worthy of the vocation where with your call and a couple things I want to point out is you don't have that you can be sealed
And you don't have to live godly for he wants you that you walk
And what is is Paul saying here side beseech you hey, I'm begging you. I'm asking you to walk
worthy of the vocation, wherewith ye are called.
And then he's going to go on and give a bunch of instructions.
Going down to verse three, he says,
endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
And what are we sealed with?
We're sealed with the Holy Ghost, right?
The Holy Spirit.
Verse four says,
there's one body and one spirit,
even as ye are called in one hope of your calling.
If you go down to verse 14, it says,
Tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slate of men the sleight of men and cunning craftiness
Whereby they lie and wait to deceive and of course today I'm focused on the contrast, right?
There's a the people who are reprobate or they're seared and their mind is just far gone and then there's the seal
right? And those that are saved by grace through Jesus Christ, the lost are lost, right? That's who
we're all tug of war, like this is a tug of war for the lost. But here in verse 14, what I really
like is that there are a group of people that we need to learn about because it says, hey, you're
no more a child, right? The Bible also refers to learning the Bible as the milk of the word
and then the meat of the word, right? He says that you are, that you, that you're not tossed about
Right, you're not just tossed around with like doctors like oh, you know come as you are or
Everybody can get saved or whatever people want to say he says because it's by the sleight of men and the cunning craftiness
Whereby, what is it that they're lying in wait to deceive basically these guys are conniving or planning or pre-meditating
How to deceive the world right it says
Verse 18 says having the understanding darkened
About these individuals being alienated alienated means you're no longer you're removed
From the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart
And I've already preached that what I want to do is really make that contrast today, right?
And then we we see obviously we looked at verse verse 22 says that you put off talking about us as safe
God wants us to, that you put off the concerning the former conversation of the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, right?
We need to be in the spirit. We need to not only understand that we're sealed, but we need to activate the Holy Spirit.
Because obviously the old man will constantly be at war with the new man.
And then I love that verse 26, because people always say you shouldn't get angry, but verse 26 gives us clear understanding from Scripture that says,
and sin not so I can be angry and as a matter of fact I'm angry a lot about the the state of the world
about the reprobates about those that are preaching and watered down gospel but I don't go to bed
you know angry about it like I just I move on you know I get mad for a little bit and then
anybody who knows me knows that I actually have a very short fuse but that's exactly what it is
it's a short fuse like I'll be angry for a few minutes maybe a few hours and then
I'm not like that. And then verse 30 says, of course,
and grieve not the Holy Spirit, whereby, and that word whereby is.
you know by what or how or by by what or by which under the terms of which so
right there is by what year sealed unto the day of redemption which is what
we are sealed by the Holy Spirit right the Holy Spirit lives in us and so we
already sealed basically we're we're basically we have a reservation
in heaven, but that reservation is because of the Holy Spirit that lives in us.
So just a couple of things to notice. We go through the studies, you know,
we are sealed by the Holy Spirit after we choose to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I just want to make this because obviously it's been on the news and I'm going to just harp
on it as long as I can. I mean, as long as it's on the news, we got to also cover it.
We're not say it's by choice, not by race.
Right? Because one of the things that I've seen lately now that Israel and Iran and all this stuff's going on is now there's a group of Christians that's come out.
I've seen it all over social media. They're like, well, Israel still gots chosen people. God's not done with Israel.
And although that is true, God's not done with Israel. I don't think it's the way they think it is. Right? Anybody who rejects the Lord Jesus Christ, Jew or Mexican.
or African, or whatever you Asian, whatever you want to, if they mess with God, God's going to
take care of that. He is not a respecter of persons. Specifically, he's not even a
respecter of a nation, of no nation. They were his chosen people in the Old Testament,
but if you read the Old Testament, people just need to read the Old Testament.
Every time the Israelites messed up, they got what was coming to them.
I mean, it was like a very serious thing, right?
But because lately, I mean, I've just seen comments, and all of a sudden also it's, I don't know if it's a positive yet,
but I've seen this like resurgence of all these like people of my generation
that are now wanting to read their Bible, which I actually think it's a really good thing, except that I don't know if they're saved, and so they have
Centers of influence some of them bigger than others and they're right like blogs and articles and they're like wow
You know, I read this article of this lady that runs a business. It's just like 2,000 client
They were in a pretty big business, but lately she's been really open about she's reading her Bible and studying it and using chat
GPT to explain her Bible of course right not not church not a pastor, but chat GPT
And I mean, I wish I was kidding, like this, this lady's like, she's doing trainings on this.
And she writes these blogs and she has a huge following. And one of the articles she wrote was,
oh, people just haven't read Daniel 924. If they would, then they would know that,
you know, it's about Israel and that God's always going to protect Israel.
Talking about what's going on right now.
Obviously, she's never read Galatians 3.16, where it says,
Now, to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made,
he sayeth not and to seeds as of many,
which is not hard English to say,
and hey, it's not to a lot of seeds, but as of one,
and what does it say, and to thy seed, which is what?
Christ, right?
Because they want to go back to Abraham,
except Abraham was of the lineage of Jesus Christ,
because Abraham called upon the name of the Lord.
Abraham believed and it was counted to him for righteousness, right? The Bible says in Romans 4.
So let me just give you these definitions really quick.
And like I said, we're probably gonna go through this fairly quickly because I want to make sure I have enough time for the illustration and so
What does sealed mean right or seal it just means like an embossed emblem a figure a symbol
a word or letter used to an evidence of authenticity, right?
A stamp or medallion and impression obtained.
And the reason I bring this up because most of the time when we think seal today,
we think of like Ziploc bag, right? Like, oh, you're sealing that.
And that is a form of a seal, but it's also a mark.
What literally it is, is God has sealed us.
He's marked us unto the day of redemption.
You know, the world recognizes and the devil recognizes that we walk around.
We are the children of light.
right? We have a mark which is the Holy Spirit living in us, and that's why we're sealed until
the Day of Redemption. We might not see or feel the Holy Spirit, you know, I know Charismatics would
differ, but that's not, but you know who does recognize that the devil, right? When we're out
in the world, the, what, what, uh, I guess the powers and principalities of this world know that
we are sealed because of the Holy Spirit, right? A couple of, I'm not going to give you all the
because it basically ends up being the same thing, but it's a mark, a sign, or a symbol.
Serbian is visible, evidence of something.
I like these these as it when it's used to verb use with an object to decide
Irrevocably right if something is sealed this it's a decision that is irrevocable like if they seal the record right people
Always fighting about unsealing the records of so-and-so or to grant under one seal or authority as what as a pardon
So, you know the Lord's pardon us because of the blood of Jesus Christ and we are sealed in the Holy Spirit, right?
I like this one to close
Hermetically because you know it's like there's nothing in there when you do something hermetically and I'm not I know
I there's engineers in the room if you would like all that stuff better
I'm just giving you the basics. Okay, so don't don't beat me up about it later
And then there's another word we're gonna look at and that word is earnest
It's easy if you've ever bought a home because you have to do a down payment in earnest, right?
You're making a contract where you're saying hey, I'm giving you this in
in the hope or in the promise that I'm going to follow through with that commitment, right?
And the Bible actually talks about that, that we are in earnestly sealed to the Holy Spirit.
I'm going to, we're going to go to those verses, right? And so I just want to make sure we know
what that means, right? It's showing depth and sincerity of feeling also when we're earnest
about something. It's seriously importing, demanding or receiving serious attention.
So these are pretty strong words that the King James uses about us being saved.
and the seriousness that God took by sending His only Son to die on the cross for us.
And the reason that this is, I think, an important sermon is because we need to realize how important it was.
For him not only to seal us, but also to show us that there are people that are seared and then there's an entire world is lost
Because time is fleeting. I mean, you know, we're talking about Trey's birthday
But you know the one thing that we realize I don't know how he feels about it
But I do is like man
It's just like I just want to do as much as I can in a day
And I hate when I get procrastinate or when I get lazy or sidetracked because I mean life's just it's just flying by
And so, if I spend my time working on something that wasn't a worthy investment, it's just
kind of frustrating.
Right?
And when you think about the ministry, if I'm preaching to the wrong people, man, what
a waste of time.
And I think about all the people that I gave the gospel to that just were never going to
get saved or never thought about it just because I didn't have the knowledge of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible in my spirit, in my mind.
I just hadn't internalized it.
And of course, I haven't internalized it all.
And so the last word I want to just kind of, I've kind of given you a definition, but the word is seer, right?
It's to burn or char the surface off of, and so when I saw that word, the first time that I actually was going through the Bible
slowly and you see that about the reprobate, I mean, for me, that just kind of stands out.
Right, I have a you can't really see them anymore because I got them when I was young
But I have a few scars here in my hands when I was young
I've always kind of been even now you can tell them
I've got a lot of energy and sometimes I'm over exuberant and because that also can get overly stressed and
A symptom of stress can be warts, you know, and I was like 15 or 16
I got some warts in my hand and I didn't like them
So you know what my dad did? He cauterized them. And if anybody knows what a cauterization is,
is you just take a little heating element and basically you burn it. You sear that,
that wart down to the root. And I mean, my dad, you know, being
Growing up with a dad who's a doctor in Mexico,
like you just do things a little bit different, right?
I mean, I just, I don't remember beating in his office.
And he's like, come here.
He's like, you don't like those?
Yeah, I was like, he's like, all right,
just put your hand right there.
And then my, you know, doctors are the worst
is whether children, like there's no warning.
He's just like, just put your hand right there.
And he's like, I was like, oh, what's going on?
You know, the, who's ever had the numbing agent,
it stings really bad.
Like it actually hurts worse than the burning.
And then he burned them all.
And you know, of course it stings,
but that's what those scars are.
really see him anymore as prominent as they were.
But he seared him, and you know what it did though,
that skin never grew back.
The way that it is when you like maybe scrape yourself, right? It's just it's marred. It's ruined
That's why I can see those scars because that's never gonna be the same way it was
As before right? Yeah, it's a mark with a branding or iron
Branding iron to burn or scorch injuously or painfully to harden or scar emotionally
To dry up or wither to parched
Right. It's just basically a a corruption of the original. It's a corrupt thing
It's no longer, it can no longer be uncorrupted.
You can't like sear a steak and then unsear it.
Once it's seared, it's over with, right?
That's why you know it's really hard for burn victims to have a recovery because when you
get a burn victim the skin will never grow back the same and I know they have advanced grafting
technology and all that stuff but it's just never the same you know who's ever been burned
where you get a like a little bit of scarring or blistering it's just that that section is just
On top of that, it's just a really painful experience.
So that's why I called Trey and I called some of the guys
and said, hey, we're going to be playing with fire.
We got the fire extinguisher because we don't want anybody
to get burned, by the way.
So for the children in the audience,
if you're not paying attention, you
will want to pay attention at the end.
We're going to be burning some stuff.
Not no fireworks, nothing like that.
So first point I have for you really quick,
just go over to John 6.
Obviously, we're sealed by the Holy Spirit, but again, I'm just going to re-emphasize
these points.
I want it to really kind of visually in your mind come through.
It's a mark of salvation, the Holy Spirit, right?
Whether you engage it or not.
And the Holy Spirit doesn't need your permission for you to have that mark.
That's why it's so important to understand salvation is by faith through grace, right?
Because the Lord is the one that seals us with the Holy Spirit.
It's the blood of Jesus Christ once we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
In John 6, 26, the Bible says, Jesus answered them and said, very, very nice to you.
You seek me not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat the loaves and were
filled.
He had fed the people and they followed him and he's calling him out for that, right?
And he says,
labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life.
He says, hey, work for that meat, which is what, the word of God,
which the Son of Man shall give unto you, for him hath God the Father what, sealed.
Then said they unto him, what shall we do?
Then we might work the works of God.
And I love the answer here.
It says, Jesus answered and said unto them,
this is the work, and pay attention.
The work of who?
The work of God.
Not your work, this is the work of God,
that you believe on him whom he had said.
Cause lately I've even been hearing people say
that even believe in his works.
But that's actually blasphemy because the Bible says that the work of God is that you believe on him who?
He had sent so who did the work so that we could believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?
God got the father by sending his only begotten son that whosoever believed within him should not perish
But have everlasting life go over back to Ephesians and by the way try to keep up with me
We're gonna go through this stuff quickly, but we are gonna cover a lot of scripture and Ephesians 1 verse 12
The Bible says that we should
Be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom he also trusted after that he heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation, in whom also after that he believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.
that which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession
Until the praise of his glory basically the down payment for our eternity is the Holy Spirit
Right. It's the earnest of our inheritance is the seal the seal that we have with the Holy Spirit
Because there will be a group of people that argue otherwise and say, hey, you know
That's why they're always saying like being saved or working on you're always constantly saving yourself
It's because they think that salvation isn't right now, right?
It's not the minute you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. You're already saved. You're transformed in the spirit
You're now sealed in the Holy Spirit. You have eternal life from that point on
It's not later it we're gonna cash that ticket in when we get to heaven
But we're catching it in because of the Holy Spirit the earnest of our inheritance
Until the redemption of the purchased possession
Who was purchased we were through the blood of Jesus Christ unto the praise of his glory second Corinthians 1 verse 21 the Bible says now he
Which established us?
with you in Christ, and hath anointing us is God, who hath also sealed us and given us
the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. And not only is the down payment for the future,
but he's also here in our hearts. We know we have the hope of eternal life. We have the hope
You know, it's funny. It's funny because we were preparing for this and we were talking. I was talking about the Heath and I'm like, Hey, brother Heath, here's this fire extinguisher.
And we're not playing without much fire, but you just always got to be careful, right? We're in a public setting.
I'm like, there's the fire extinguisher. There's this. And my son comes to me. He's like, Dad, if the church burned down and we all die, we all know we're going to heaven.
I was like, okay, well, that's good, but that's a little do-it-go buddy. I appreciate that, but we need to calm down.
Nobody's dying today, God willing, right?
But, you know, he understands that he's sealed unto the day of redemption, right?
He has that peace.
It's actually, that's actually a good attitude to have, right?
Hey, if we die, don't worry about it because we're going to heaven.
It's great.
At least you're not stressed about it.
Romans 8 verse 12, the Bible says,
For if you live after the flesh, ye shall die, but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body shall live, for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God, for we have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear, but have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father.
And then we see verse 16 says,
the spirit itself bear witness with what?
Our spirit, that we are the children of God.
So the Holy Spirit has a huge,
it plays a huge part in our salvation.
It literally is the mark that we carry spiritually, right?
Against the wigginess of this world that says, hey.
These guys are saved and they're living for Christ.
That's why we need to, you know,
that's why the Bible says that,
yeah, all that live Christ,
the Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Look, if we're doing the things of God,
that light's only gonna shine brighter.
It's gonna draw in, you know,
all the cockroaches and insects of the world, right?
Well, the cockroaches flee,
but the moths and the flies and everything, right?
I'm just comparing, you know, the evil to insects.
Maybe that wasn't a great analogy,
but either way, you get it.
But second point,
is that we're also sealed unto the day of redemption, and what does this do?
It re-emphasizes what in our life? Eternal security, right? And these are very important points.
These are very important concepts that I know we drill home a lot and we're maybe over-repetitive,
but you'd be surprised how many people don't believe this stuff. Actually, the majority
of so-called Christians are not saved because they think that this is not real.
You know, I'll run into people and be like, hey, are you saved?
And they're like, yeah, how do you get saved?
By Jesus Christ.
Can you ever lose your salvation?
Oh, absolutely.
Well, you're not saved.
What do you mean?
Yeah, I mean, you're either saved or you're not saved.
You can't lose your salvation because you didn't do anything to earn it.
Yeah, there's nothing you can do to add it or take it away, right?
In John 10.
Verse 28 the Bible says and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish
I mean literally this stuff is like not difficult, but there still seems to be an argument, right?
It says neither shall any man what plucked them out of my hand my father
Which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand
Right, and we know the rest of those verses
In Romans 8 38 the Bible says for I'm persuaded that neither death
Nor life nor angels. Who's also an angel? Lucifer the devil, right?
Nor principalities nor powers nor things present or things to come nor height nor depth nor any creature
She'll be able to what?
Separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Why because of the Holy Spirit?
Why because of the seal we have you know
unto our spirit
Philippians 1 6 the Bible says being confident of this very thing
that he which has begun a good work and you will perform at what until the day of Jesus Christ.
Look, if God's, he's already started the good work. Now it's for us to pick up that torch.
Unfortunately, we don't always pick up that torch the way we should, right?
The third point I have for you today. So the first one is sealed by the Holy Spirit.
That's our mark. It's what we carry. We were sealed, but not marred. We were made incorruptible
But also, number two, we're sealed unto the day of redemption.
Look, there's this false doctrine out there by some small groups and even some false religions
that say that, hey, you're going to spend the millennium in hell if you misbehave as a Christian
and then when Jesus comes after the millennium, you'll go to heaven.
That doesn't even line up with the Bible.
Right that those are real beliefs. There's a there's an entire religion called the Catholics who believe
There's a section of the world that's called purgatory
Where you're just kind of hanging around in a waiting area area hopefully to be called up into the right place
You know, they're playing the the elevator music and you're just kind of like twiddling your thumbs
You're like man, you know, I hope my wife and my kids are praying for me because if not, I'm gonna go to hell
I mean, that's literally their doctrine, they'll say it isn't if they're listening to this,
but I don't really care what they say, right?
And then the third point I have for you is that the, now you, I want to talk a little
bit about the, the seared or the reprobate or the, the rejected group of people, right?
The seared conscious.
conscious, I'm sorry, the the reprobation of an individual. In 1 Timothy 4 verse 1
and 2, the Bible says, now the Spirit speaketh expressly. And notice that the
Spirit has a lot to do with this, right? It says that in the latter times, so how
do we know to recognize these people? The Spirit speaketh expressly, that word
expressly specifically, with a purpose. Look, the reason people don't believe this
doctrine is because they're not talking to the Spirit, they're living in the flesh.
Right the spirits speak of expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirit and
doctrines of what of devils
Speaking lies in hypocrisy what having their conscience seared with a hot iron and honestly what I really wanted for the illustration was I wanted to buy a branding iron and sear something but it wasn't worth the expense I looked them up I was just like what am I going to do with a $30 $50 you know
branding iron that I'm only going to use one time. But that's really, you know,
because if you've ever seen something like, you know, a cow gets seared,
that section is ruined. That's why you're able to recognize the brand because
that section of skin is ruined. It's been seared in there, right? And it says with what? With a hot iron.
Right that was a technique of torture in the medieval times and even I don't know if they still do I'm pretty sure there's places
But you would you would basically heat up a hot iron and you would sear the eyes or you would sear
You know you would mutilate people you would hurt them because it would just be very concentrated
But the Bible says that what it what did he sear the conscience
That's why they don't they have no hope of ever being saved
And I thought, I told my wife, I thought to myself, you know, it's been great to have
Trump in office when it comes to at least the Pride month, because I have not seen anything.
It feels like we're living in the 90s again, right?
I haven't seen anything out there.
Nobody's really pushing an agenda.
It's great.
And I said, man, maybe I just like used all my servants on the, on the reprobates this
month for nothing.
But no, I mean, anything that you put on the internet lives forever, somebody will find
it.
The one thing though is we can't let our guard down because that's what happened in the 90s
Christians let their guard down because they stopped breeding
Verses like 1st Timothy 4 1 2 1 and 2 and then they were like oh no these people aren't as bad the Bible says
They're conscious is seared. It's corrupted with a hot iron. The Lord wants nothing to do with them
So he made sure of that right? He let those filthy juices like stay inside of their brain or their mind forever
I mean that's literally what's happening in Titus 1 verse 15 the Bible says unto the pure all things are pure
but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and consciousness
defiled, they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable
and disobedient unto every good work, reprobate." Guys, this is real out there. I'm not going to
read this whole thing. Who heard of this guy? American Zionist with Hebrew tattoo admits to
Friday, June 27th, 2025, I saw the interview the guy was like I was gonna crucify one
Evangelical pastor for each tribe of Israel
The reason that he did it according to this because he confessed he's like has no qualms about it
First of all, he did a crown of thorns like he literally tortured this this this pastor
Says the Zionist convict said that he had a hit list of at least 14 Christians
For deceiving followers, but here's what it is. It's driven by an obsession with the Old Testament and militant rejection of the new
She described his operation as part of what he called operation first commandment and that is that he had no apology
To offer because Christian churches were encouraging believers to follow what a false God. I mean the Bible is clear on the description
This is just like two days ago. This guy's making the news for literally taking the word of God
Because it says that they profess that they know God. Isn't that what this guy's doing? He said hey, I'm doing it
He's literally named his mission first commandment whatever he called it does but but in their works
They deny him because God would never approve of a vigilante act like that let alone such an atrocious act
it says a
Being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work
Reprobate because there's no good work for them in Romans 128
We know these verses that says even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge
God gave them over to reprobate reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient
The fourth point I have for you really quick go over to John 16
Let me just make this quick comparison of the sealed versus the seared according to the Bible.
The first point was that you're sealed by the Holy Spirit. It's a mark of salvation.
You're sealed until the day of redemption. We know that we have eternal security. We cannot lose our salvation
ever. One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to convince you that you could lose your salvation.
Right, then you could do something the Lord is not interested in your works
Right, he's interested in your belief then when you believe then he's interested in your works
right
And then the seared conscious is what a reprobate conscious John 3 6 16 3 let's look at a couple of
Contrasting verses I'm gonna go through these quickly John 16 13 says how be it when he the spirit of truth
and that word spirit is capitalized, the Holy Spirit, is come, He will guide you in all truth,
for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that He shall speak,
and He will show you things to come. So this is an important
doctrine because we need to activate that by the Word of God.
Look, you want to understand what's going on in the world today? Just open up your Bible.
Just activate the Holy Spirit.
I like to think of it like activating charcoal, you know, you eat active charcoal whenever you get like food poisoning
So you can get rid of all the bad stuff, right?
You got eat some good charcoal in our lives so we can filter out all the junk that's coming at us every single day
Keepers 3 for 15 the Bible says while it is said today if you will hear his voice
Harden not your hearts as in the provocation
In Galatians 5 16 the Bible says this I say then walk in the spirit
And you walk, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
And, you know, oftentimes we preach about the lust of the flesh we're talking about,
which is correct.
We're talking about, like, don't sin, you know, don't have bad thoughts, don't fornicate,
don't commit adultery, don't do drugs.
But also, we need, the lust of the flesh is also when we're, like, hypersensitive to
things, when we're bleeding hearts to groups of people that we shouldn't be bleeding hearts
to, or we do things that go against the Word of God.
You know, churches today would be like, well, you know, a queer could get saved if he confessed
No, we can't. It's not biblical. So stop being nicer than God. There's nobody more loving than
God. And obviously, I'm being really sarcastic there. The most loving individual in the world is
the Lord Jesus Christ. You can't outdo the Lord in love. So the Lord, if God, if Jesus says,
hey, this group of people don't don't associate with or keep him away or preach against them,
then we should do that because that's actually in love because that's what Jesus has taught us.
But today, that's not the case, right?
Like, I mean, you literally have people who don't even want to obey the word of God.
That's a whole other sermon. Let me not get distracted.
But what do we see about someone who's seared?
In Acts 7.51, the Bible says,
You stiff decked and uncircumcised in your heart,
and years, ye do always resist what?
The Holy Ghost, the Spirit.
As your fathers did, so do ye.
Look, there's gonna be a group of people
who always resist the Holy Ghost.
So we need to stop wasting our time with them, right?
Whether they're pushing hard, like in years past,
or they're not pushing at all, like in this year,
we're still like,
We keep this verse and they always resist the Holy Ghost
We keep this top of mind knowing that there's evil out there in the world and we need to not only protect ourselves
But our families from this and our church. I mean the whole world really
John 1240 the Bible says he has blinded their eyes and
Hard in their heart that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them
Proverbs 29 one Bible says he that being often reproved hardened at his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and
That without remedy. There's no remedy for them
There is no solution for a seared conscience
Right, and I know I hope I'm preaching to the choir, but this is such an antagonistic viewpoint in the world
That you might disagree with it, but it's biblical
I mean, I'm proving it to you from the Bible that there's a group of people out there that walk around
Bible says twice dead. I could have given you those verses. I mean, there's so many verses like I'm not like I said
I don't want to belabor the point
But point number five and then we'll get here to our illustration as a matter of fact you almost there, but uh, the dangerous path
There's a dangerous path to fellow shipping with those that are seer, right?
With engaging those with allowing those things in the world look even as as
Citizens of this country there's groups of people. There's leadership that we just we don't we don't agree with
We're not going to just do what they say
To the point where I mean we might be thrown in jail. We might lose our lives. We might just get attacked
We just don't do it because they're there for the destruction of souls
You know just like there's a gospel unto salvation. You know what the devil has a gospel unto
Amen. And I'm kind of pleased. I'm butchering this a little bit because obviously gospel means good news
But in his world, he'll paint it like that a good news of sin and defilement and all that stuff only to die
Maybe you know what it is. Maybe what triggered it because I'm looking over at some of my contemporaries
Maybe what triggered the illustration today was remember the 80s and the 90s you get home from from school
And you turn on the afternoon, you know TV shows and they had that one commercial that never like ran endlessly
This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Remember that who remember that? You know, it's like this is your brain
And it was like they fry an egg and then they're like,
this is your brain on drugs.
We were learning this concept in the 80s.
Thank you for public school and public broadcasting.
I just remember that,
but we need an ad fellowship with these individuals.
John 319, Bible says,
and this is a condemnation that light is coming to the world
and that men love darkness rather than light
because their deeds were evil
for everyone that doeth evil hadith the light.
Neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Second Thessalonians 2, the Bible says in verse 10, it says,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth
that they might be saved, for this cause God shall send them strong delusion
that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth,
but at a pleasure in unrighteousness.
Jeremiah 630 the Bible says reprobate silver show men call them because the Lord had rejected them. I
Mean, it's pretty clear. I
Saw somebody who literally I guess they're still going around. I saw somebody that I know in the valley
you guys would never know him and he posted a video of him at a news boy concert just last night
which is weird because they've been all over the news this is a Christian rock group because one
of their singers 20 years ago had
all kinds of defilement with drugs and with
unseemly things with other people, not just of the same
gender but the opposite gender, and he admitted it. And in the letter he's like
oh I did do these things and I did touch other individuals of the gender, the
same gender inappropriately, but I'm going to ask the Lord to forgive me.
And people are still paying money to go because nobody's reading their Bible like why would you want to associate with that kind of crap?
Oh, you shouldn't say crap. That's grosser than me saying crap
This is disgusting
So we just don't want to fellowship with them. We don't want to do this and then I'm here. I'm got to I'm to the last point
I'm gonna have you turn over to Daniel three and while while I'm doing this
I am gonna have brother Moe bring out like this stuff because like I said, I want to keep this on time
I'm going to ask you guys for maybe a little bit of grace.
I don't think I'll go over, but whoever, just for the men,
the tithes are over here, so I just appreciate it.
But the last point I have for you, so number one,
we're sealed by the Holy Spirit,
and it's a mark of our salvation, right?
That's how the world knows we're saved.
It's not because of how good or bad we are.
We learn those things, we get better,
and maybe our light grows, and the mark becomes
more prominent, right? We have a target on our back, but it's because of the Holy Spirit. That's
why we have a target, right? We're sealed into the day of redemption. We have that eternal
security. We're never going to lose that either, right? It's the earnest down payment of our salvation.
And then we don't want to, when we're looking at the contrast, the seared mind is a reprobate
mind.
Like, it's literally been corrupted and allowed to stay corrupted so that there's no hope
of salvation.
All right, then I give you a contrast of the sealed versus the seared mind, and then we
By the way, I want to thank my wife for making all these Jell-O molds of a brain
because that was the closest thing I could come up with a mind and
She works really hard at it because it was a big task. That's a whole other conversation. You guys can we can talk about it later
But in Acts 1a the Bible says
But ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
Hey, we want to activate that spirit, but for one purpose and one purpose only, for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, for edifying the brotherhood.
Look, if we're preaching the gospel, the rest of it's going to fall in line.
but if we don't do that first, we forget our first love, everything else is going to just
fall by the wayside. Romans 10, 15 the Bible says, 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, I'm sorry,
and bring glad tidings of good things. In Jude 1, verse 22, we know that it says,
and some have compassion, making a difference, and others, saving with fear, pulling them out of
Verse 26, the Bible tells us that since for this cause, God gave them up to vile affections,
for even their women did change the natural use of that which is against nature.
And likewise, also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one
toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error which was meat.
And then in Isaiah 5 verse 20, the Bible says,
one went to them to call evil good and good evil
that put darkness for light and light for darkness
and that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Now I'm gonna close in just a couple of verses.
This really came up, came to me as a really good contrast
of sealed versus seared.
The Bible actually gives us a very good illustration.
I will not do it justice with what I'm gonna do today,
but in Daniel 3 verse 22,
you're there in Daniel 3 verse 22, we'll come back to that.
But what I wanted to do was for, especially for the kids,
If you look, I was trying to get better brains, but, you know, also, there's only so many
colors of Jell-O, right?
These are brain molds that we have here.
Well, we're gonna do obviously these represent
Like the the reprobate mine this nasty black cherry
Lime thing that my wife put together here, and we're gonna make an attempt to burn one of these a little bit
We're not gonna burn the building down
So you guys can see just once you once we even light it on fire
It's not gonna sear it per se because I tried but it will not look the same anymore. It's ruined
right, but if
But this one's in a bag and it's sealed
mean we could it's protected from the fire from all that stuff right and I mean
this is a worldly illustration I know somebody you always have like people
listening oh you could just take a torch and burn that well of course right
we're talking about the spirit I'm not this is not a perfect example but it's
just a good visual especially for the kids right if it's sealed you know
nothing's gonna get in here no alcohol no bad stuff it's it's it's just
protected and then what I wanted to really do here is represent kind of a
a third group of people that we don't really talk about, and it's the world, right? And I kind of try
to pick just the neutral color. The world is what we're concerned about. But most evangelical
Christians want to save these people.
They're like, we need to go after these people, the Jews, the queers, the dignitaries.
Oh, wouldn't it be great if such a celebrity got saved?
It would, but that's not my harvest area.
What I'm concerned about, I'm not going to touch this, is these people.
That's what we go out in the world, right?
This brain still has the ability, and I try to choose, like I said, this is not a perfect
illustration, but green is always a positive color, right?
We have a green light to go into heaven.
I was trying to have more do it like an orange,
but you know, yellow or red, it's like stop or you're yellow.
These people are to stop from going to heaven
because they have not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ
or there's a yellow light.
There's everybody's fighting for them, right?
And even the kids today need to understand
this is who the devil's fighting for.
Not for them. They're already on the devil's team.
The devil wants these people and it's our duty to bring them to Christ to turn them green give them a nice green
This one I wanted a brighter green, but you know, it's not my wife's fault like I jello is jello
It is what it's gonna do what it's gonna do and by the way, she she worked really hard
I don't know if you've ever seen like she got the jello really hard because the first bolt we did it just like broke apart on us, but
But what I wanted to do is just kind of show you guys a little bit
We'll see if this works and if it doesn't well you guys get the idea
But I just want to, we're going to light this one on fire for two reasons.
Number one, we're talking about seared and seared means fire.
And number two, I think the kids will enjoy it and I rarely do stuff for the kids.
And we don't have really Sunday school, but we try our best.
I've got all kinds of fire paraphernalia.
Any man who doesn't like fire is not, you know, I just, I don't know
what, what that man wants to do.
So yeah, the kids can come up here close by with their parents if they want to.
Or as long as they pay attention to the adults and we might have to turn these lights off well
Maybe that one
Everybody you guys need to calm down
And just because we're doing live I want to make sure that we know we put the safety we're here brother
I don't think we'll get that far, but we'll see what we can do here
Now alcohol just burns off kids if you want to do this with your parents ask them don't that's not my fault
Let's see what we can do here
Let me see which one that we can light it with let's see
There we go, I think it's lit you guys see the flame can you guys see that?
Yeah, and then once it's burned
That's what the Lord does
So a mind that rejects the Lord Jesus Christ. He burns their brain. We don't need any commentary son. Thank you very much
But I appreciate it
But if you notice when we go back in the back, we're gonna see that that brain is no longer
The way these look right it's gonna be seared. It's gonna be marred. It's gonna be in uncorrupted
But I mean this is a small fire and that should burn off here in a second or so
But the Bible literally says hell is a real fire
right? This is what's happening to those individuals both here on this world.
You know, you think about the torture mentally that these people are dealing with,
just the life that they have, but not only that, their only hope is to go into eternal flames for
all eternity to be damned and to be tortured, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Now, most of you probably are saved or you've heard the gospel, but what you don't want
is your friends and your family to go to hell.
You know, we were talking about one of my uncles that I look exactly like him.
He's dead now and he's been in hell since he died last year because he was a reprobate.
And that's what we don't want to do.
I guess I put a lot of alcohol, but you know,
you guys get the point.
It's going to burn off here in a second.
But when you guys look at the end,
you'll see the nice little ridges on this brain.
This was going to be all ruined.
And let me tell you something.
Go to Daniel 3, and you're there in verse 22.
We'll close out.
You guys can stay here if you want as it burns out.
But in Daniel 3 verse 22, we know the famous story of what?
Shadrack meat.
You can feel the heat, can't you?
Right?
And that's just a little fire.
Imagine when you're in hell.
There's no there's no escaping that
There's no as a matter of fact
I'm actually getting hot over here because fire is something you don't mess with God is a consuming fire
He's either gonna refine you
or he's going to destroy you.
And the Bible says there in Daniel 3, 22,
the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
they're going to get thrown in the fire.
But this really stood out to me.
It says, in verse 22, it says,
Therefore, because the King commanded,
commandment was urgent,
and the furnace exceeding hot,
the flames of the fire, what slew
those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
There was actually people that ended up going to hell
that very minute that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
were going to be spared.
It says, And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down, bound in the midst
of the burning fiery furnace.
Then Nebuchadnezzar, the king, was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake and said unto
his counselors, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?
They answered and said unto the king, Truo king.
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walkied in the midst of the fire, and they
in the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
The only thing that keeps us from the flame and from being charred and from being seared
is because we're saved unto the day of redemption because we're marked with the Holy Spirit because
Jesus Christ died for our blood. And I mean, it wasn't supposed to be a salvation message,
but there's nothing wrong with just recovering it, right? We believe that we're saved because
we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And what we don't want to do is we don't want to associate
Right we can throw it away. It's covered in alcohol. You can't even eat it
That's why we made an extra one. It's just it's done. It's ruined
Right, and that's what a seared brain is so I hope that was helpful
I just thought it'd be fun on fifth Sunday dinner and for the kids to do something like this and
To drive the point home that there's the extremes, but what we're worried about
We're not I don't care about the seared what I do is I pray for their death
That's what we did the imprecatory prayer sermon what I care about is everybody wherever I care about the lost world, right?
We want all of these people to get saved. I don't care about these guys. So anyways if
You know what?
Afterwards, we'll maybe make some decisions about if the kids want to play with this stuff.
I'll deal with the men and the parents.
Let's not...
Nobody come up here and touch any of this fire stuff without your parents permission or
talking to me first.
Let's just keep that simple.
But let's go ahead and close in a word of prayer, and we are going to have one hymn
after the prayer, but I am going to go ahead and bless the food.
Everything should be ready, right?
Women and children first and then the men afterwards. Let's go ahead and pray Heavenly Father Lord. Thank you so much for today Lord
Thank you for your blessings Lord. Thank you for
Allowing us to preach in a free country Lord and and to be able to preach the truth
Unencumbered unfiltered just the the raw truth of the Bible
But Lord I it is my prayer that as I continue to pray and if you give me many more years to do
I mean to preach and if you give me more years to do so that I would just be more
Clear more concise in your word and remove my opinions and my thoughts in the process
That it would be your word and your spirit that would shine so that we could make a change in this world that we could affect the world
for not just positivity, but for eternal
security Lord. Thank you for all those here in attendance. Lord just bless the food we're about
to eat and help us to enjoy the great meal that you provided for us Lord and we're very grateful
for it and we're grateful for everybody here and we just ask all this in your precious name Lord
in Jesus name we pray. Amen.