Good evening everyone, welcome to Anchor Baptist Church.
It is time to get started for the evening service.
If you would find a seat and grab a hymnal.
Our first hymn this evening is hymn number 43.
We're marching to Zion.
Hymn number 43, four, three.
We're marching to Zion, 43.
43, we're marching to Zion.
We'll start there right on the first.
Come we bow to the Lord and let our joy be known.
Heavenly Father, we thank you again for another opportunity to gather together this evening
to hear preaching from your word.
Lord, I just pray that the service would continue to be done decently and in order.
You would open our ears to the message and ready our hearts to apply it and that you
would fill evangelist fur with your spirit.
I also pray that you would just continue to have your hand of blessing and protection
upon Pastor Oz while he preaches at Spring Crest and as he travels back.
These things we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
For our next hymn this evening, 315, Take My Life and Let It Be, hymn number 315, 315,
Take My Life and Let It Be, 315, we'll sing there starting on the first.
Take my life and let it be.
We do have extra bulletins, if you don't have one from this morning, just raise your hand,
we can get one of those to you.
Of course, the new Bible Memories chapter is there on the front, if you'd like to get
that started, get started early, don't wait till the last minute, take it from someone
who procrastinates sometimes too much, don't wait till the last minute, it's easier if
you just start now, you have plenty of time, don't be lazy, hit the ground running on that
chapter.
Inside, of course, on the top left are our service times, under that are our solwenty
times.
I have nine that I counted that were reported to the signal group.
Is there any unreported salvations from today that people had?
You didn't text it in yet, going once, going twice, okay.
So it looks like we had nine, so as much as I was kind of leading on that it would be
unreceptive because of the Super Bowl, we had nine salvations, so amen, that was awesome,
that's great.
Of course, keep up the good work this year, let's end strong.
We want to end strong, we have to start strong, I should say let's start strong so that we
can end strong.
We went through our upcoming events this morning, of course today we have Evangelist Fur here
with us preaching, he and his family are going to be here, I think today, and you guys are
heading back sometime tomorrow I think, so just definitely, that means he's not, if he
tries to run out and not talk to you after the service, he's faking it, so you can stop
him and thank him for being here, I'm just kidding, so he's here today, just make sure
to thank him, and we love Brother Fur and him coming up, Pastor obviously wanted you
to know that he's really appreciative of you coming out, he's excited that he could
make it, he's excited to be at Spring Crest, but maybe another time you can come up for
us, he was talking about, who knows, you know, I don't know, maybe it didn't go so well today,
and he'll listen to the service, here's what it is, below that in our upcoming, that was
a joke, okay, for those of you that don't understand humor, that's a ha ha moment, underneath
that event that happened today, February 13th, we have our Sweethearts Banquet coming up,
that's this Friday, it's this Friday, at 6 p.m., so I've already sent off the list,
there was a last minute addition to that, so they were listening when I did, or y'all
were listening when I did an announcement this morning, there was a last minute addition,
the list is to pastor, so he's got that, he's gonna be buying everything, so I think everyone's
accounted for, that will be at 6 p.m., March 7th, we will have a soul winning marathon
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, details on that to come later, March 8th, the day after will be our
next men's preaching night and potluck so just some things to put on your calendar there coming up
of course visitor card and giving and the prayer list there and the spot for notes on the back
that's all i have for announcements so this time we'll go to our third hymn if you grab your hymnal
third hymn is number 164 164 praise him praise him 164 164 praise him praise him 164 there on the
first praise him praise him Jesus our blessed redeemer sing the way wonderful angels and glory
Jesus will guard his children if he carries them on his heart praise excellent praise
praise joyful songs our blessed redeemer and strong singing this evening the offering
plates are being passed turn if you would to mark chapter 16 mark chapter 16 mark chapter number 16
mark 16 the bible reads and when the sabbath was passed mary magdalene and mary the mother of james
and salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him and very early in the
morning the first day of the week they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun and they
said among themselves who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher and when they
looked they saw that the stone was rolled away for it was very great and entering into the sepulcher
they saw a young man sitting on the right side clothed in a long white garment and they were
affrighted and he saith unto them be not affrighted ye seek jesus of nazareth which was crucified
he is risen he is not here behold the place where they laid him but go your way
tell his disciples and peter that he goeth before you into galilee there shall ye see him as he said
unto you and they went out quickly and fled from the sepulcher for they trembled and were amazed
neither said they anything to any man for they were afraid now when jesus was risen early the
first day of the week he appeared first to mary magdalene out of whom he had cast seven devils
and she went and told them that had been with him as they mourned and wept and they when they
had heard that he was alive and had been seen of her believed not after that he appeared in
another form unto two of them as they walked and went into the country and they went and told it
unto the residue neither believed they them afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they
sat at meat and uprated them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believe not
them which had seen him after he was risen and he said unto them go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that
believeth not shall be damned and these signs shall follow them that believe in my name in my
name shall they cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues they shall take up serpents and
if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall lay hands on the sick and they
shall recover so then after the lord had spoken unto them he was received up into heaven and sat
on the right hand of god and they went forth and preached everywhere the lord working with them
and confirming the word with signs following amen that's about our heads for prayer father god in
heaven we thank you for this day thank you for our church and evangelist firm we ask that you get
filled in with your holy spirit help us to do great work for you and reach the world and our
local community amen well again i just want to thank pastor aus for the opportunity to come and
preach for you guys it's great honor and of course this church is very meaningful to me i'm glad to
be here to see my family but also my brothers and sisters in christ as well and so it's been a great
time of fellowship and i want to preach to you this evening the sermon and the title is lessons
from the philippines lessons from the philippines now we read this passage here about the great
commission look down at verse number 15 the bible says and he said unto them go ye into
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature so the bible is commanding us as
christians to go into all the world to spread the gospel to the furthest parts of the world
and there has never been a greater and easier time to go on a mission strip i mean you live
in 2026 america you have a you know just a free ticket basically to go into virtually any country
that you want to but more specifically into countries that are extremely receptive to the
gospel and to preach the gospel and so if this sermon feels like an infomercial for going on a
mission strip it is right i want to encourage you to go on a mission strip i promise you it'll be
the best decision that you've made in your life there's so many great things that you can learn
from uh going on a mission strip and of course i'm going to be talking about the philippines
there's many other opportunities out there for you to do this um and so i i just want to encourage
you this evening to make a decision if you haven't already been on a mission strip to to mark it down
on your calendar to plan for it that this is something that you need to do and again we live
in such a a prosperous nation we live in a time where literally your passport gets you into any
country virtually that you want to go to and so it's never been easier to go and do one of these
things not to mention when you partner with a church that's hosting one of those events it's
even that much easier right because oftentimes that church is helping with some sort of the
accommodations not only that you're going with other people everything's planned out for you
one of the greatest things you know and i said this in my testimony on wednesday is one of the
best things for me about this mission strip is i didn't have to hardly plan anything i just got
to show up and we got an itinerary and they're like hey go preach at this school for you know
14 hours you know go go here go there go do this you know what that was fun and so you know that's
even better when you can go on a mission strip where everything's already planned out for you
you know our uh our uh what do you call it what do you call the person who plans a vacation for
you somebody help me out what is it yeah travel agent right we had our own personal travel agent
and brother james perry like brother james perry hooking up us up with the good air bbs
he's hooking us up with schools obviously verity baptist church of manila helped us a lot a brother
brother frank franklin in that church has some connections i don't know what they are but he's
able to get into a lot of those schools and so we just were able to do a great work there
and so i i encourage you too that if you're going to plan a mission trip hey partner with the church
that's already going they're already you know going to have the itinerary they're going to
have everything lined out for you to do that but i want to look at a couple verses go to isaiah 52
you can lose your place here in mark 16 but go to isaiah 52 i'm going to read for you romans 1018
while you're turning there it's a familiar verse the bible says but i say have they not heard yes
verily their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world and and
it's just a truth that got the gospel of jesus christ is going to spread abroad through the whole
world and the bible even talks about this in matthew chapter 24 that the gospel will be preached
unto every creature before the end comes right and so this is you know what we are doing we're
fulfilling that great commission of jesus christ before he returns before our time here on earth
is up i mean obviously you know the old i.b they love to say hey you you know christ could return
tomorrow and we know that that's not true but here's the reality is christ could return in our
lifetime you know and not not to mention that we don't know how long our life is going to last
here on earth you know so you want to take advantage of these opportunities to go and and
do great works for god i'm going to kind of get to what we're able to accomplish but notice what
the bible says in isaiah 52 verse 10 the bible says the lord hath made bear his holy arm in the
eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our god you know
it's really cool about going to the philippines is i got to see that verse fulfilled with my own
eyes you know you go to the philippines you're literally on the other end of the world literally
right you're 14 hours difference you know when it's daytime here it's night time there and vice
versa and so you're on the the you're going to the ends of the world when you go to a place
like the philippines not to mention the philippines is vastly different than america
you know you want to talk about a culture shock if you've never been out of the country and then
you go to the philippines i mean you're in for uh an adventure let's just put it that away um it's
exciting you know going on mission trips it's just exciting you know uh personally um i didn't love
the 20-hour flight but hey you know what it was all worth it it was worth it to go and experience
many of the things i was able to experience and you know and i've been to the bahamas you know
and i've been on a mission cruise mission trip and those are great don't get me wrong i don't
want it to sound like you know those are debbie downers and that you know philippines is the only
way to go there's plenty ways to accomplish this goal of going on a mission strip and so you just
have to pick what fits for you and your family what you're able to do with your schedule go ahead
and turn to loot chapter number 10 and i have just some simple points some lessons that i learned
from the philippines and you know many of these things you know it's not like i didn't know these
things but it was i'm learning them firsthand and so um or being reminded of these things is really
maybe a better way of putting it i'm being reminded of these things and i think they're
really important so the first point that i have is that there are so many people in this world but
so few soul winners there's very few people actually going out and preaching the gospel
and this rang true in the philippines i mean obviously you know you know that we have what
seven plus billion people in this world right now that's a lot of people it's just really hard to
quantify that in your mind right without actually seeing it firsthand and the philippines helps you
see that a little bit it helps you to quantify that number um notice what the bible says there
in verse number two for jesus sends out the disciples two by two he says therefore said he
unto them the harvest truly is great but the laborers are few pray ye therefore the lord of the
harvest that he would send forth labors into his harvest you know the the reality is is that there
are millions and millions and millions of people that are going to die and go to hell and the
reason why is there's just not enough soul winners to get that job done right and that's the sad
reality is even in christ's time when christ is is about to send out his disciples he's recognizing
that even these 70 people that i'm about to send out are not enough right we need more labors we
need more people to go to the furthest ends of this world to preach the gospel and and it's a
really important point because if you lose sight of this you'll lose zeal for so what if you lose
sight of uh the fact that there are billions of people in this earth that are going to die every
single year right there are people dying all the time there are you know uh so many people that
don't have the gospel uh that is being preached unto them and good soul winners being sent out by
good churches you know it really helps you to understand just you know how full hell is going
to be you know when we get to uh uh you know and this isn't something we're going to have to
experience but the great white throne judgment you know they're going to be billions trillions of
people there and and it's because there's not enough labors for the harvest i felt like in
the philippines you know in the book of uh in the book of ruth right ruth goes into the to the the
fields and she's just picking up these handfuls of purpose that were left behind by all the the
labors and that's what it feels like in the philippines it's just like there's so many
people there you're just and everybody you talk to wants to know they want to hear what you have
to say they're like hey you're a white person you're an american what are you doing here right and
they want to hear what you have to say and they just are all interested they're all very receptive
and so it's like literally picking up just handfuls of purpose from the ground there's
so much work to be done i'll just give you some metrics about manila you know we stayed in a
basically a suburb of manila i believe we did actually go to the manila city proper the last
day where you're there but just to kind of give you some statistics to get in your mind kind of
what this region of the philippines is like the population of manila city limits is 1.85 million
people now that is a an area of of 16.4 square miles okay so that's that's pretty small that's
110 000 people per square mile so when you go there it feels like people are literally living
on top of each other because they are i mean they're just everywhere in comparison just so you can
kind of have some type of reference new york city and this will make more sense but new york city has
8.3 million now that number is significantly higher than manila but that is over a 300 square mile
section of land right so they're you know it's dense densely populated new york city but there's
only 27 000 people per square mile so when you think about just the density of manila it is the
most dense city in the world it ranks one or number two depending on which metric you're looking at
what statistics it's the either number one or the number two globally most dense city in the world
but then if you just expand outside of manila city limits this number just kind of is staggering
the if you include metro manila there are 13 to 14 million people remember new york city had
eight million metro manila and we were staying in like a suburb we're going to a lot of schools in
the suburbs so all the places we were going is would be contained in metro manila outside of
where steadfast baptist church in philippines is it would consist of 13 to 14 million that's five
million people more than new york city but that square area that square uh mileage is 240 square
miles so it's 60 square miles less than new york city and there are five million more people there
i mean it's hard to even explain just how many people are in that region and they're everywhere
i have some videos but even the videos don't even really do it justice i mean the city never sleeps
you you go outside at three in the morning and there's just cars honking driving like people
everywhere people going here people going there i mean the the schools the reason why we are
preaching at the schools for 14 hours straight is because the schools are are split up into two
sections you have one group of kids that come from 6 a.m to noon and then you have another group of
kids that come from noon to 6 p.m because there's so many people that the facilities can cannot even
contain they can't hold all the children all at the same time so I have to split this up into two
different sessions I mean the the amount of people is just it's mind-boggling you know and I come from
a small podunk little Oklahoma town I graduated with 20 people so uh you know going to a place
like Manila it's it's really eye-opening it really helps you to understand just how many people are
in this world how many people are going to die and go to hell and it really kind of it it should
prick your heart you know it should be something that motivates you to do more on this trip I had
152 salvations personally and in basically seven days of soul winning two of those days I wasn't
really going that hard you know we had church one day and you know we had some time for recreation
yes we have fun on missions trips it's not all work right we worked hard but you know we had some
fun too and you know I had 152 salvations I had my personal record of salvations in one day I had
47 salvations in one day I mean it's hard to just quantify and explain just how great the soul winning
is there you know as a group we had 3,576 people saved and I think it was roughly about 30 soul
winners including all the members of the churches that were helping us and we did that in a week
but you know 3,576 people is just a drop in the bucket for how many people actually live there
you know there's so much more work to be done you I you could go back every single year and
then here's the great thing is you go back every single year and you're going to get new waves of
kids right and that was primarily who we're targeting you know we're getting a lot of the
the you know people from 10 all the way up to 20 21 22 23 year old people saved of course there
were others mixed in there as well but that would have been the the primary demographic that we were
getting saved and so again i just want to emphasize just how few labors there are and how much work
there is to be done that alone should give you a zeal to want to go on a mission trip you know
here you go out every week multiple times a week and your job is to get people saved here in this
city this is your job this is what this church is is here to do but you know you can even go
beyond that and do extra you can go places like the Philippines you can go places like the Bahamas
or Barbados and I encourage you guys to to really consider that the second point that I have that a
lesson that I learned from the Philippines is that idolatry is wicked as hell you know idolatry is
worse than you think and you know it's hard for us in America to really understand how bad idolatry
is in the world just because you know virtually there's you know idolatry is kind of small on a
small scale here right of course there's Catholic churches and their shrines and things like that
and it's getting worse you know America is getting worse when it comes to its tolerance
for idolatry but man you go to a place like the Philippines or just any any place uh you know
in Asia and many times what you're going to find is a lot of idolatry and idolatry is wicked as
hell go to Leviticus chapter number 26 let's just look at a couple verses Leviticus chapter number
26 notice what the bible says here in verse number one it says ye shall make you no idols
nor graven image neither rear you up a standing image neither shall you set up any image of stone
in your land to bow down unto it for I am the Lord your God you see this is a direct commandment
from God that we are not to rear up idols and not even just so that you know oh well you can't have
an idol as long as you're you know or you can have an idol as long as you're not worshiping it right
I've heard this argument it's a stupid argument you know the Bible is clear here that you're
not to do uh uh make any type of graven image you're not to make up any type of standing image
and then it goes on it says neither are you to bow down and worship it right so it's condemning
both you shouldn't have any type of an idol whether you're bowing down and worshiping it or not
and you know if you say if you're on the side where you think oh well it's okay to have an
image as long as i'm not worshiping you know that's what the Catholics say it's what the
Catholics believe they don't believe that they're worshiping idols even though it's clear that's
what they're doing they're literally bowing down and worshiping praying unto them you know and
they have like a weird interpretation of that and and thinking that oh because we have these images
that we're not actually worshiping them that's that's a false that's lies right that is not what
they're doing you know there's this uh idol that is really popular in the Philippines now I didn't
personally see this but a lot of people are showing me this is this this idol called the black nazarene
and it's basically the Filipinos version of Jesus you know everybody has their own version of Jesus
you got the black Jesus the Filipino Jesus the white queer Jesus you know you got all these images
of people's Jesus in their own mind and there's this black nazarene figure basically I believe
it's once a year there's this procession of this idol going through and it's in its own little
carriage it's on its own little case kind of like the pope you know it's being carried on the
shoulders of men and and there's millions of people that come to this procession and also
that way they can just get close enough to touch the glass get close enough just to brush up
against it so that way they could be you know seemingly in their mind healed from their
disease or receive some type of blessing from god you know it's wicked as hell you know
god there's only one god it's the lord and he deserves all of our worship all of our
admiration you know there's no uh image that's going to uh provide any type of healing powers
it's a bunch of witchcraft voodoo garbage you know and the bible says that we ought to worship god
in spirit and in truth you know and so uh idolatry is very prevalent there it's worse than you think
you know this morning i had uh you know brought up the fact that hey you know we shouldn't really
we should be simple concerning that which is evil right but you know when it comes to false
religion we should have an idea as to what false religion teaches so that way we can combat those
things we can go to the bible and show the catholic why they're wrong we can go to the
bible and show the hindu why they're wrong we can go to the bible and show the orthodox priest why
they're wrong and so it's important that we kind of know what it is that false religion is teaching
so that way we can use the word of god to compel men to forsake those things to repent and to
believe the gospel to believe on jesus christ go to second kings chapter number 21 second kings
chapter number 21 and again i just want to show you another verse that highlights how god feels
about idolatry how it's wicked as hell and he punishes those that get involved in idolatry
second kings chapter number 21 we have the story of the king manasseh and of course the king manasseh
he's a wicked king he does many evil things worshiping the gods the false gods of those
around them notice what the bible says in verse 10 it says in the lord spake by his servants the
prophets saying because manasseh king of judah had done these abominations and have done wickedly
above all that the amerites did which were before him and have made judah also descend with his
idols therefore thus saith the lord god of israel behold i am bringing such evil upon jerusalem
and judah that whosoever heareth it both his ears shall tingle and i will stretch over jerusalem
the line of samaria and the plummet of the house of ahab and i'll wipe jerusalem as a man wipeth a
dish wiping it and turning it upside down now that's a pretty vivid description of what god
is about to do to jerusalem because of the wickedness of manasseh specifically his idolatry
the fact that he's allowing these idols not even just allowing he's promoting people worshiping
false gods false religion and god says hey you know what i'm gonna wipe it off the face of the
planet and you think about uh the philippines you know i don't think it's a coincidence that
the philippines has all these earthquakes that happen all the time you know they're involved
in a lot of wicked sins like idolatry you know and god may get to a point where he's sick and
tired of the idolatry the wickedness that's taking place and he may just decide to wipe
them off the face of the planet and destroy them now i think it's possible that god would have
grace and uh uh mercy because of the few remnant the righteous remnant that are there you know and
would to god that more people would get saved more people would stop worshiping idols you know i'd
heard of a story just even recently where a member of our church their parents destroyed their idols
and you know hey praise god for that that the preaching of the word of god would compel somebody
to get rid of that wickedness out of their life to destroy those things because god's not happy
with that you know idolatry is wicked and it's something that should be rejected by the philippinos
you know if there's some negative things i can say about the philippines it's that they love
idolatry and if they want to preserve their country they need to get rid of that garbage
and you know fall down on their knees and ask god for forgiveness here's another thing i learned
while in the philippines is the importance of watching your children the importance of
watching your children you know i know this might be a shocker but idolatry and faggots go hand in
hand you know it's no coincidence that many catholic priests are a bunch of pedophiles praying on
little children and man some of the most disheartening thing about being in the philippines
was just the amount the high percentage of faggots in that country you know depending on
what statistic you look up about eight to ten percent of the young adults in metro manila
identify as a faggot they identify as lgbt you know and when you're there it kind of feels like
more than that honestly um you know it's really sad we go into the schools you know we're preaching
to children that are 13 14 15 we had a couple opportunities to go into high school but primarily
it was about 13 to 15 16 year old kids and you know out of about a classroom about 30 35 kids
inevitably about four of them would be either trainees or just open faggots 13 14 you know in
america i think we can get confused because you know i i do think there is a a segment of the young
people in america where they're just acting or they're they're trying to be cool so they for
whatever reason i think it's cool to be a faggot a disgusting freak because of the media because of
hollywood because of uh you know the music today and so you know even though they would be disgusted
at a dude and a dude being together a woman they claim to be that right or they would say that
but listen in the philippines it's legitimately they are engaged in being of sodomite being a
faggot and you know what's sad about that is that these are kids so you know what that tells me is
that some uh faggot predator some pedophile preyed on these children and when you go there you
understand why that's true because kids are literally just running around with no supervision
whatsoever there were two different uh times where we are you know either fellowshipping
or soul winning in the parks and you know one specific time this seven-year-old girl just comes
out of nowhere parents nowhere in sight and and you know you know praise god we were a bunch of
soul winners and we tried to get her saved you know we're being good unto her some of the guys
were giving her some pesos so she could go get an ice cream but you know there are a lot of wicked
people in this world you know just letting your seven-year-old daughter alone in a park where any
just freak pedophile could come around and abuse that child i mean it's it's uh it's crazy to me
to think that parents would allow their children just to roam the streets unfettered which is
basically being able to do whatever they want to do you know and as Filipino parents you know they
need to understand that they need to watch their kids hey keep an eye on your kids you know this
is a great truth for us to understand as parents as well you know don't be so trusting that you
just allow your children to just go without your supervision it's important as a parent that you're
supervising your children at all times why because you never know when some pedophile freak is going
to prey on them when he's going to try to get his hands on them and you say oh this i don't know
about that you know is that true go to genesis chapter number 19 genesis chapter number 19
you know not only have i witnessed it with my own eyes in the philippines but you know the bible
tells us this the bible teaches us that not only are adults faggots but you know there can be young
kids that are faggots too you know and obviously again i feel bad for that situation but at the
end of the day and they're a faggot and they are desiring to be with another man or a woman that's
a young girl that's desiring to be with a girl guess what the bible says they should be put to
death that's what the bible says that they're reprobate you know and and the reason they
probably got there obviously is because you know the the predator pedophile defiled their mind
but you know at the end of the day is that child still has a choice right even though some terrible
things can happen in this life to people you know that's not an excuse for just rejecting
god in their heart and you know you see this a lot and it really is disheartening it sucks
it's a it's one of those uh terrible things of life but you know i don't feel sorry for them
because at the end of the day they have a choice they have a choice to believe on jesus christ and
obviously at some point along the way they chose to reject god in their heart notice what the bible
says here in genesis 19 you know and don't get so soft on me this evening thinking oh well they're
just a child listen what does the bible say verse number four but before they lay down the men of
the city even the men of sodom compass the house round both old and young all the people from every
quarter now i'll be honest reading this this verse i didn't quite i mean i believed it but i didn't
know that i you know it's kind of hard to understand it right but man you go to a place like the
philippines and you really start to understand man it's young and old young and old and you know
there were plenty occasions where some of these young men and i use the word men loosely right
because you know half the time they're looking like a tranny you couldn't even tell if it was
a boy or a girl and they're like wanting to try and hold your hand i had one that you know just
came up to give me a high five and so i gave it a high five and it locked onto my hand and tried to
hold i'm not yanking my hand away like what the hell is going on you know and and the reason why
i am bringing this up and i'm going into that much detail is because i want you to understand the
importance of watching your children don't allow your children to go unsupervised around anybody
even if it's somebody that you trust because you just never know and you know i'd rather be safe
than sorry personally when it comes to my children they're the most precious thing to me outside of
my wife she's the most important but you know my children are very precious to me and i don't want
anything to happen to my children you know and so it's important that you watch your children
that you have eyes on them at all times that you're not just allowing them to go and do all
sorts of things without any type of supervision go to first corinthians chapter number 16 first
corinthians chapter number 16 here's another thing that i really was convicted and walked away from
the philippines is the importance of teaching your boys to be men teaching your boys to be men now
when i was there i was able to preach a sermon uh there at steadfast and uh i preached a sermon
called gird up your loins like a man and the whole sermon was how men should be men right to be manly
you know not be these weak effeminate soy boys and you know that's something that the philippines
really needs to correct is an emphasis on teaching their boys to be men to act like men to dress
like men not some effeminate freak you know and the word effeminate literally means to be womanly
like you know in the modern versions it tries to change the word effeminate and the bible only
appears once in the bible it changes the word effeminate to homosexual that's not what the
word effeminate means the word effeminate is a dude that's acting like a chick right that's
acting like a woman acting uh uh womanly weak or uh soft or uh you know is all into them
their the way that they look and dress you know i think in america we call it a metrosexual right
somebody who's just up to speed on all the latest fashions and looking a certain way right you know
as men we should as men we should act like men we shouldn't dress like men we shouldn't want to talk
i'm sorry we should uh did i say we should yeah we should dress like men and not dress like women
we should want to uh uh talk like men and not talk and act like women you know and something that i
noticed in the philippines is you know you go to shake one of the guy's hands and it's every time
it's like a wet noodle right and sometimes i mean that literally you know you go and you grab it
and it's just like this nothing of a handshake right or they talk in a real soft voice they're
just not very outspoken it's like no listen man up hey be a man give me a firm handshake
it irritates me when i go to shake a dude's hand and it's it's like this limp noodle it's like hey
get some firmness to that grip you know that's just a part of being a man you know my son i want to
make him go out and do some hard jobs just so he'll know what it's like to be a man you know
and obviously as if you could get yourself educated and you know and and uh you know learn a trade
maybe where you don't have to work with your hand and and i say that i don't mean that people who
work with their hands are educated either many of those guys are really smart as well in their trade
it's just there's certain trades where you work more with your brain and on a computer and there's
other trades where you're working a lot with your hands and uh using analytics and things like that
and so uh you know if a person works with their their brain on a computer most of the day hey get
outside and go do something that's hard go do something that's tough so that way you can you
know get some calluses on the hands right nobody likes like the soft uh uh lotioned handshake
from the guy you know and i've worked with some guys where you know they use way too much of the
lysol uh hand uh antibacterial soap it's like every five seconds they're just lathering it up
and man when you shake their hand you can tell man get some calluses on those hands be a man the
bible says in first corinthians i have you turned to first corinthians 16 first corinthians 16 look
at verse 13 the bible says watch ye stand fast in the faith quit you like men be strong the bible
says gird up your loins like a man why because men wear pants men are the ones that are going
to go out and do the tough jobs they're going to be the ones that are working hard and that
should be the characteristics of a man you know teach your boys to be men go to matthew chapter
number 13 matthew chapter number 13 matthew chapter number 13 all right so we'll get off some of the
negative things about the philippines how to get some of that off my chest man some of that stuff
really irritates me you know especially when it comes to just the effeminacy of the philippinos
and the men there you know those are things that they need to change those are things that they
need to get right here's another lesson that i learned a prophet is not without honor and this
is very true especially when you go to a foreign country even the bahamas had elements of this
but man i tell you the philippines is on another level matthew 13 notice what the bible says in
verse 54 it says and when he was coming to his own country he taught them in their in their synagogue
in so much that they were astonished and said whence hath this man this wisdom in these mighty works
is not this the carpenter's son is not this it is not his mother called barry and his brethren james
and joses and simon and judas and his sisters are they not all with us whence then hath this man these
things and they were offended in him but jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honor save
in his own country and in his own house and he did not many mighty works there because of their
unbelief now i believe this is primarily one of the reasons why america you know when you go and
you preach in america it's just not as receptive as other countries now don't get me wrong depending
on where you're at it can be very receptive here right but it kind of is subjective it's depending
on how you're what you're comparing that to right you're comparing oklahoma texas soul winning to
california yeah oklahoma texas are pretty so uh pretty receptive right good places to go
soul winning and even like the east coast or places where maybe there's a lot more of a
liberal presence there it's going to seem like it's more receptive but you know the bible is
so true is that when you go to another country when you go somewhere else where even your skin
color you just kind of stand out because you're you know you're obviously not from that region
then there's this added element of receptivity that comes along with preaching the gospel
and that is so true in the philippines you know i felt like i was a rock star at these at these
schools you would go into the schools and the kids would just swarm you and they're just
you know they're going crazy they're going nuts everybody is smiling at you everybody wants to
talk to you everybody wants to hear what you have to say in between classes there would be like a
courtyard area it's kind of like their playground they had a basketball court and different things
and there would there would be times where these kids would come out and they would just be out
there playing and you would go and just start talking to like three or four of them and before
you're done there's like crowd of like 20 to 30 kids all huddled around you all wanting to know
what you have to say all just hanging on every word and when i walked into one of the classrooms
and one of the the kids shouted out it's mr beast you know they're associating me with some famous
guy in america just because he's white i guess you know like i'm just like the dude has a lot
more hair than i got you know we don't look that much of the same but you know i mean you're like
the beetles there it's amazing just how receptive they are just the sheer fact that you're an
american and it's even be like it's even more when you say you're an american because they're
like they see they don't know if you're from europe they don't know where you're from right
they kind of know you're from the west but then you say you're an american and then their eyes
just light up they're like wow you know they think that's great and they want to hear what
you have to say so you have special status when you go to a place like the philippines i mean hey
they even think you know theaters is the most handsome man that they've seen in their life
they're falling all over these single guys no wonder the single guys want to go there to get
a wife you know they get all the attention from the ladies you know and if you're a single guy
listen that's a good reason to go to the philippines if you're looking for a wife hey
you know you just show up and they're going to be like who are you mr beast who are you like uh
you know i don't know who's a famous person today for the young people uh anybody know
huh kanya yeah okay different skin color but yeah you know they're going to think you're some uh you
know somebody famous somebody special and you know the reality is you are somebody special you're a
soul winner you have the word of god you're better than mr beast you're better than kanya
obviously you're better than uh you know any famous person that could go there and you know
you can have a huge impact on people just by going to another country like the philippines
again the bahamas was cool and there was that element but it was the philippines is on a
different level of you know this this concept bringing true is that a profit is not without
honor and you know here there are plenty of people even you know when i was still here in
oklahoma city you know people that i went to high school with or you know people that knew me and
then you know know that i'm associated with the church they're just like Tanner yeah isn't isn't
that you know Billy and Sean's son isn't this the guy that i went to high school with you know isn't
and so you don't really have that same level of respect as a soul winner when you go to other
places like the Philippines it's just on another level and and quite honestly kind of makes you
feel special you know you kind of understand some of the things that Jesus Christ himself went
through now obviously we're not healing anybody but i want you to turn to a passage go to mark
chapter number five we're not healing anybody physically but you know we are healing people
spiritually and there's a correlation here notice what the bible says in mark chapter number five
verse number 24 it says and Jesus went with him and much people followed him and thronged him
and a certain woman which had an issue of blood 12 years and had suffered many things of many
physicians and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered but rather grew worse when she
had heard of Jesus come in the press behind and touched his garment for she said if I may but if
I may touch but his clothes I shall be whole and straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up
and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague and Jesus immediately knowing in himself
that virtue had gone out of him turned him about in the press and said who touched my clothes and
his disciples said unto him thou seest the multitude thronging thee and sayest thou who
touched me and he looked round about to see her that had done this thing but the woman fearing
and trembling knowing what was done in her came and fell down before him and told him all the
truth and he said unto her daughter thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace and be whole of thy
plague you know and you go to a place like the Philippines and you will be thronged you will be
just bombarded there will be a press upon you and there were several times where I just wanted to
kind of shout out who touched me you know just remembering this story right because it's kind
of surreal but the reality is is that we're going there and you're preaching the gospel and these
people they're looking for the truth they want to know the truth and but yet no physician can
heal them there why because they're all preaching some catholic doctrine they're all preaching some
false gospel but you know what we hold the words of truth and so we're bringing that to them and
then they could be spiritually healed by putting their faith in jesus christ and there's a really
cool correlation here and another thing i thought about in this passage is that jesus said hey i
felt virtue go from me and you don't really get experienced that in america preaching the gospel
but man you go to a place like the bahamas and i felt that like that a little bit but even more
so in the philippines where i got to the end of the day and i just felt more um more wiped out
and more tired than i felt doing a full day's worth of work of any type of hard labor i felt
as virtue had gone out of me and you know i remember sitting down on i think it was day one or
day two i think it was day two or friday it was the friday we did spend a full day at the schools
preaching all day class after class after class after that we ended up going to another park
and and getting more people saved there and i remember just sitting down on the tree and it's
it's like dusk and i'm just like i don't want to i don't want to preach the gospel ever again
you know like i just felt that tired and obviously that's hyperbole but that's how i felt in the
moment it's like i can't even open my mouth my jaw just hurts so much from talking and preaching
and you know that was a very fruitful day and you kind of get ideas to what it was like for
christ and the disciples when they worked tirelessly you know the disciples they came
to jesus and they're like you're beside yourself are you ever going to take a break are you ever
going to stop you know and obviously we're human we're not jesus you know we're not going to have
the that aptitude or that uh uh kind of strength to be able to endure all those things but you know
we should at least put forth a good amount of effort right and you can get a lot of things done
and accomplished in a place like the philippines to where your mouth is just hurting because you
preach so much and you just don't really experience that in america you know and that's
you know when you preach you know 12 13 14 15 times the gospel in a day man that is some work
that you put in and you really feel it but what's great is it's rewarding work right there's something
to show for it go to ephesians chapter number five go to ephesians chapter number five ephesians
chapter number five this is my sixth point for you this evening is one really great lesson that
i learned is to be thankful to be thankful notice what the bible says in verse number 20 it says
giving thanks always for all things unto god and the father in the name of our lord jesus christ
when you go to a place like the philippines where it's not like america it doesn't have a
lot of the luxuries it doesn't have a lot of the amenities that we get to enjoy here it kind of
puts a lot of things into perspective for you and i think it's really important as
you know christians in america that you do go experience what it is like for other people
around the world i think it'll help you if there's nothing else you take away which is
plenty you'll take away if there's nothing else it'll help you to be more thankful you know
brother joynell preached a great sermon uh there was a men's preaching night there at steadfast
that sunday for the sunday afternoon service and he preached a great sermon on being thankful
and it got me thinking a lot about just my time there and just what i was able to experience
what i saw and you know going to a place like that it's going to help you to be thankful it's
going to help you to thank god for all the things that you have every single day you know and i work
hard you know for for the things that i have and it you know nothing was given to me you know i
don't have like this special inheritance or you know that obviously there's some people in this
world that you know they may get those things um but you know all the things that i have i've
worked my butt off for them you know i'm working 40 50 60 hour weeks uh trying to provide for my
family but you know one thing that i i really just kind of recognized is that i did nothing to be
born in america you know it doesn't really matter how hard you work you know sometimes that's just
the hand that you're dealt you know i i have there's nothing that i earn there's no merit of my own
to being born in america i was just blessed to be born in a great country to be born in a place
where there's freedom to be born in a place where christianity is primarily like what what you know
the main religion is to be born in a state where there's a baptist church pretty much on every
corner to be born in a in a town in the city where there is a fundamental baptist church in my area
a bible believing fundamental baptist church i mean i did nothing to merit that did nothing to earn
that so it doesn't really matter how hard you work as a person there are plenty of people all
around this world that are working hard and yet they don't have the things that we get to enjoy
and so you need to be thankful as a person to God for just the fact that you live in this country
for all the great things that you have to enjoy go to Ecclesiastes chapter number nine Ecclesiastes
chapter number nine there's a great passage here of course Ecclesiastes is one of those books of
wisdom a lot of great things you can learn from this uh from this book um many you know many
verses in here similar to the proverbs written by Solomon but notice what the bible says in verse
number 10 it says whatsoever thy hand find it to do do it with thy might for there is no work nor
device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest the bible is just telling you
and teaching you hey be a hard worker work hard you know don't be lazy work hard for the things
that you need in this life but i like this next verse too it goes on it says in verse 11 i returned
and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong neither yet
bred to the wise nor yet riches to men of understanding nor yet favor to men of skill
but time and chance happen into them all you know what the bible is teaching is even though you may
work hard even though you know you may have a lot of skills and you may acquire you know a good uh
you know amount of wealth or maybe just you know you're able to provide for your family
you have no problems no issues you know at the end of the day you ought to just thank god
because time and chance happen to them all you know there's no thing there's nothing that you
did enough yourself to earn being born in this country you know there's plenty of people in the
philippines that work their butt off they're working harder than you could ever imagine
they're working 12 hour shifts six days a week to provide for the family just the bare necessities
and you know what they're working just as hard as i am but yet time and chance happen to them all
and so we should be thankful to god every single day for all the things that uh he's given us all
the blessings that he's given us you know i was also kind of just thinking about just this concept
of being thankful you know and it wasn't just the fact that i you know comparatively to the
filipinos that i have so much and they have so little that that caused me to be thankful
one of the main reasons i was really kind of dwelling on this is what stood out to me about
the filipinos is even though they have so little they are people are very thankful they're very
humble people and they're very thankful for all the things that they have they have a good attitude
you know they have very little and yet they're not complaining they have very little and they
have a good attitude about life they have very little and they have a lot of joy and happiness
that you see on their faces i mean you go to these schools and these kids you know they you know they
have not much but yet they are just have great attitudes you know and it really stands out to
you just the level of of joy that many of these people have in their lives yet they have nothing
and yet americans they get mad at you just because you cut them off in traffic you know just this
morning i got the the the bird flown at me i'm like hey welcome to oklahoma city right
you know just uh somebody got mad i guess because i was you know i was kind of in a hurry you know i
might have been a little close on their rear end and you know he flipped me the bird you know people
get so upset so uh wound tight and yet they have so much here so many people in america are not
thankful for the things that they have they whine they complain they bicker and you know as as
christians we should be very careful even though god may give us a lot we should be careful to be
content with the things that we have to have the right spirit the right attitude go to first
timothy chapter number six first timothy chapter number six first timothy chapter number six
bible says in verse number six but godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought
nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out and having food and raiment let
us therewith be content you know the bible says is commanding us that we should be content the
bible says be careful for nothing but in everything giving thanks unto god right we should be content
and and satisfied with the things that we have you know what i feel like god has blessed me with way
more than what i need you know the bible says to be content with food and raiment i have a lot more
than food or raiment so you know what i should be doing every day i should be getting on my knees
and thanking god for all the blessings that he's given us my family all the blessings that he's
given to each one of you you should be getting down and thanking god for those things and having
a good attitude about life you know life is too short to be wound tight and upset about every
little first world problem you know it's a shame that so many people are discontented hey be
content with the things that god has given you if you have a roof over your head if you have clothes
on your body if you have food that goes into your belly every single day you have nothing to
complain about you should be content with those things and realize that hey there's plenty other
people around this world that have much less and yet they're living a better life they're living a
more satisfied life because it's not about the abundance of things that your person has that
makes your life meaningful that doesn't make your life meaningful what makes your life meaningful
is serving god and being content with the things that you have being content with what he's given
you and you know just if anything else just i want to help you to remember that listen hey you did
nothing to earn the fact that you live in america that you're an american citizen you did nothing
it doesn't matter how hard you work there are plenty other people in this world that are working
just as hard it's just they were dealt a different hand so it's all how you look at this world it's
it's your mindset right this morning you know instead of complaining if you're thankful it'll
cause you to have that mindset of being thankful and you'll forget about all the you know the
the reasons you were wanting to complain in the first place all right the last point that i have
is uh serving god is fun serving god is fun go to psalm 133 psalm 133 you know and that's to
people who think that going to church is lame serving god is lame god's just trying to keep
his finger on you and keep you you know god doesn't allow any fun it's like listen you've
just never served god you just don't have the right attitude the right spirit because you know
serving god is a lot of fun you know that past week outside of the fact that i missed my family
so much i had a great time i had so much fun laughing joking the great fellowship notice what
the bible says here in psalm 133 verse 1 behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity that's a pleasant thing to be around like-minded brethren you know what's
cool is you go halfway around the world and i'm hanging out with philippinos that are saved that
are in these churches and you know what we have a kindred spirit it's like we've been buddies our
entire life you know guys like glenn guys like franklin you know there's many others you know
forgive me i'm terrible with names those are the two that i remembered um you know these the
philippinos there that are serving god they have the same spirit we have you know and it's great
to fellowship with them and uh you know to just spend time with them get to know them and um you
know not only just that just the brethren from steadfast and you know evangelist urbanic and
brother james perry and you know getting to see some familiar faces you know the fellowship is
always great and being able to rally around like-minded beliefs and just talk about soul
winning talk about experiences you know talking about like what it was like preaching in their
classroom and sharing this idea oh here's a tip on how to make it better you know those things
are invaluable and going on mission trips is fun serving god is fun and there's a lot of reward
in this life not just the next you know some people think well in order to be a good christian you
got to live this aesthetic lifestyle right you can't have any fun in america or in the christian
life and so you know you got to afflict your body and you got to go through it's like we worked
hard but you know what we went and did some fun things too you know when visited this spanish
fort in intramurus which was really cool i have my history guys so that was really cool to to go
into kind of see the history of the philippinos and then we went to hiking on this really cool
trail where there's falls you know the fellowship that we're able to have the good food that we're
able to eat man serving god is a lot of fun and i wouldn't trade it for the world right that
experience was one of a lot once in a lifetime event and you know i say once in a lifetime
i plan to go again right but it was such a it's something that you have to do at least once you
have to put it on your calendar it's got to be that bucket list thing where you go on a missions
trip and you serve god in that capacity it's just completely different go to first timothy chapter
four first timothy chapter number four first timothy chapter number four the bible says in
verse number eight for bodily exercise profiteth little but godliness is profitable unto all things
having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come you know serving god is not just
about the rewards that we're going to get in heaven and of course those are great and and i
would even say that those are better right that that is uh something even better but you know we
still can enjoy great things here on this earth too right in serving god and having fun and and
doing the things that he's called us to do i'll just read for you mark 10 verse 29 says and Jesus
said barely i say unto you there is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father
or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospels but he shall receive an hundredfold
now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions
and in the world to come eternal life so serving god affords you the ability to have fun in this
life now right in the time now um you know i got to meet a lot of brothers and sisters from the
other end of the world that was really cool you know that was something special that i'll remember
forever go to revelation chapter 22 will end revelation chapter number 22 you know at the
beginning of this this sermon i said life is short that we don't really know how much time we have
on this earth and so i want to encourage you that if you've never been on a mission strip or maybe
you've been i want to encourage you to go maybe somewhere new like the philippines or something
like it because life is short and there's only so much opportunity that you're going to have it's
never been easier to go on a mission strip and you can accomplish great things i mean i was able to
accomplish a lot in a week um you know uh you know by the grace of god i was able to get 152
people saved that is just amazing i mean that was almost as many people as i had saved all of last
year you know and one guy that went on the trip with us he had more salvations in that week than
he did have all last year it's amazing and you can do great things notice what the bible says
here revelation 22 verse 12 it says and behold i come quickly and my reward is with me to give
every man according as his work shall be we get greatly rewarded here in this life serving god
serving god is fun the great fellowship the great times that we get to have but you know what even
greater than that is the reward that we're going to receive in heaven for the work that we do
and life is short jesus christ said behold i come quickly now obviously that's to every generation
right since paul got this or i'm sorry since john got this revelation but you know i think
god does that on purpose because he wants us to understand that our life is short there's only so
much so many years that have been allotted for us no matter who we are and you need to as a as a
christian an american christian one that's saved a soul winning american christian you have to make
the decision to go on a missions trip go to the missions field go to somewhere that's receptive
you know partner with the church to where you can do great things for the lord and i promise you
will not regret it be the the best uh that money can buy right you'll never spend your money on
anything more valuable than a mission strip with that let's end in a word of prayer demily father
god thank you for all the souls that were able to get saved in the philippines thank you for
just the churches there that are working tirelessly that are are toiling and um you
know just doing a great work there in your name gotta pray that um that we would get a a burning
desire to go on mission trips to go abroad obviously lord i want people to be faithful
in serving their local community and preaching the gospel in in uh in and around their church
but god i pray that we would also have a desire to go to the uttermost parts of the earth
and to get as many people saved while we have breath in our lungs we pray these things in your
son's name amen our last hymn this evening you would turn to number 288 i am resolved 288
288 i am resolved 288 we'll sing there starting on the first