1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:05,920 I'll tell you when the pastor's away, I considered it a 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:10,280 privilege when he goes. The reason is, is I learned a 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:14,920 long time ago that when you can share your pastor with the world 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,840 in the world, and I mean the Christian world and the 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,960 Christian world wants him, that's a privilege to us. 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,080 So I try not to miss him, but I miss him tonight. 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,480 I didn't miss him this morning, but I miss him tonight. 8 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,960 It's always a chore to to fill in for him and especially behind 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,680 this pulpit. I was telling somebody the other 10 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,800 day, if you put a podium down there, I would feel a lot more 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:49,160 comfortable. But it's this sacred desk that 12 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:53,760 is so important when it comes to the church because from it, the 13 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,000 Word of God is proclaimed to the church. 14 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,880 And for the next few minutes that that we have, I know that 15 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,120 there'll be a time when God holds me accountable for taking 16 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,400 your time. And everyone up here feels the 17 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,120 same way. But I thank God for our pastor. 18 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,920 I truly do. As some of you know, we have a 19 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:22,880 40 sermon challenge that we do twice a year and last year it 20 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:28,240 started on December the 1st and it ended on March the 31st. 21 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,840 And it is a 40 sermon outline challenge and all the young 22 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:39,400 people are taking part in it and they have to outline 40 messages 23 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,440 in those four months And at the end of those four months they 24 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:47,720 have a reward strip. And so this past April the 7th, 25 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:52,080 we took the reward strip for the last challenge and I got 3 26 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,640 pictures I want to put up. Lydia, if you can push those, 27 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:00,200 put those up. OK, That's we were at K1 speed 28 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,440 and we were pretty. We were there pretty much by 29 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,880 ourselves. And so that was at the beginning 30 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,160 before they ever got in. I think there's another one. 31 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,520 Lydia, what's the second one? I think that's the girls getting 32 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,320 ready. Yeah, they got skirts on them. 33 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,520 That's the girls. And then this is just a picture 34 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,440 of them on the inside. Now I will tell you something. 35 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,160 You saw those two beautiful, sweet little girls up here 36 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,000 singing this morning. I mean this afternoon it was dog 37 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,480 eat dog. Those two were rough. 38 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,320 I'm glad I didn't get on the track. 39 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:41,080 The only one rougher was really Miss Rebecca. 40 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,440 She was pretty tough. Of course, her daddy raced on 41 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,400 the dirt track. So so anyway, she must have 42 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,840 inherited that a little bit. But I just wanted to show you 43 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,840 those pictures. We have a whole lot more and 44 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,720 maybe sometime we'll get those and and let you see them. 45 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:03,200 But it was it was tough. And by the way, I say all of 46 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,920 that and say that the girls were tough, the guys were tough, the 47 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,480 guys were really tough. In fact, Pastor won. 48 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,080 He's the most competitive of all, most competitive, but the 49 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,680 kids had fun. I have fun watching them and I I 50 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,280 know that, but but I appreciate our, our young people. 51 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,000 I truly appreciate them. And may the first starts the 52 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:32,760 next challenge and it will go for May, June, July and August. 53 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,800 And then in September we will take another word rewards trip. 54 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,920 OK, so you guys be aware of that. 55 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,280 There's a couple that are not here. 56 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,200 Be sure to we'll get that word to them that they know what it 57 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,160 is. Tonight. 58 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,160 You know, we're getting into a time of the year where things 59 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,840 are warmer. In the past four weeks, I guess 60 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,600 we have seen more people stop in for Bibles and we saw all winter 61 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,880 long people are out and people, I think their attitudes change 62 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,320 just a little bit when it's a little bit warmer. 63 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:11,920 And tonight I would like to speak on a subject that we don't 64 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:17,160 really speak of too often. And tonight I, I just feel led 65 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,839 to be able to speak on this. And if I had to put a title on 66 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,760 it, it is hints of helping someone see the need for 67 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,040 salvation, to see the need for salvation. 68 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,000 There's an old saying that goes way back. 69 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,240 I, I don't know who coined it, but there's an old saying that 70 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:41,000 goes way back. You can't get them saved until 71 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,680 you get them lost and there's probably that is true. 72 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:53,680 And but I think that we sometimes forget that we have to 73 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,280 convince them or lead them, I should say, not convince. 74 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:00,880 We should lead them in a way that they understand that they 75 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,440 are lost and that's tough to do sometimes. 76 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,080 Sometimes we talk about, OK, let's just give them the Romans 77 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,600 roads. Well, you got to get them lost 78 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,600 before the Romans Rd. before they can understand the Romans 79 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,440 roads. And so often there was a lady 80 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,920 that came in the parking lot couple weeks ago, two or three 81 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,000 weeks ago, and I think brother Johnny was there and I was there 82 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,360 and Andrew was there and, and you know it, it was just very 83 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,480 difficult to get her lost, very difficult to get her lost. 84 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,440 And so tonight I've just got some points. 85 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,440 We're going to be flipping through the Bible a little bit. 86 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,360 But tonight I do have some points. 87 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,480 And it's just simply how to lead someone to a point to where that 88 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,000 they know that they're lost. And so we're going to start with 89 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,120 that, But let's pray first. Father, we do thank you, Lord, 90 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,840 that you are using US. We thank you God, Lord, we know 91 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:57,480 that you didn't have to use us, but God, you have chosen to use 92 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,280 this. And Lord, we need to be better 93 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:03,000 servants to you, especially when it comes to talking to people 94 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,240 and leading people to the Lord, leading people to you. 95 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,520 And so God, we pray tonight that maybe we'll glean something out 96 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,240 of this that will make us better servants for you as we talk to 97 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,160 people this summer in Jesus name we pray, Amen. 98 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,720 The before I get started, we're going to be talking a whole lot 99 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:27,480 about you and the person that you're talking to. 100 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,480 But we, I need to say this right now as we talk about that, we're 101 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,400 going to talk about a lot of that, but we can't forget that 102 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,320 the third, third person there, and that is the Holy Spirit, OK, 103 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,960 So a lot of this, as we talk about this, we may be even 104 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,160 talking about the psychology of how people think, but don't 105 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,640 forget the Holy Spirit is there. Now this, the individual may not 106 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,800 have the Holy Spirit in him, but the Holy Spirit's going to be 107 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,000 with you, OK, as you speak to them. 108 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:02,040 So just understand that. So the the first question that I 109 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,120 need to ask is why is it so difficult? 110 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,320 Why is it so difficult to show somebody that they're lost? 111 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,960 And I think you'll agree with me that it's getting more and more 112 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,560 difficult to get people to the point where they think they're 113 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,800 lost. And we're going to look at 3 114 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,280 areas in in that tonight. But it's very difficult for them 115 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,120 to get this, get to a point where they say, well, don't you 116 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,560 turn on the 1st Corinthian, Corinthians 214, First 117 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:34,520 Corinthians 214. We'll look at why it is so 118 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,840 difficult today. A couple of reasons why First 119 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:46,600 Corinthians two 14214 says But the natural man receiveth not 120 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,200 the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolish unto him, 121 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:56,160 neither can he know them because they are spiritually, because 122 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,200 for they are foolish and unto him, neither can he know them 123 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,440 because they are spiritually discerned. 124 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,400 OK, did I get that right? Did I read that All right? 125 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:12,800 But anyway, you get the point. The natural man does not 126 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:18,280 understand that he's lost. When you're talking to someone, 127 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:25,000 you have to have empathy. Now, if you have been saved all 128 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,800 of your life, you may not understand completely what it 129 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:37,760 means to be unsaved. This is why I really do like 130 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,159 listening to people who have testimonies who got saved later 131 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:45,640 on in years. I was saved at a very early age. 132 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,560 I really I can imagine what I felt like before I got saved. 133 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,760 But it's hard to have empathy for someone or to to see things 134 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,840 from their standpoint if you can't remember when you were 135 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,440 unsaved. Now we can get a lot from the 136 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,360 scripture of what it was like, but I would encourage you, 137 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,680 there's nothing wrong with finding good godly Christian men 138 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,040 who have had that kind of testimony and listen to them or 139 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,080 read behind them. Why? 140 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:19,520 Because it is going to help you as you talk to these folks that 141 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:24,320 may be unsaved or that are unsaved and don't even know 142 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,320 they're unsaved and really don't even want to know they're 143 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,240 unsaved. Because if you read this 144 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,960 scripture right, he doesn't even know he wants to be saved. 145 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,760 So we have to understand that as we talk to them, whether it's 146 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,800 knocking on a door and talking to someone, whether it's talking 147 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,880 to a Co worker, whether it's talking to somebody that comes 148 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,800 into the parking lot, we don't know. 149 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:50,640 Turn over to Romans chapter 8 and we're going to read 5 and 8, 150 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,920 five through 8, Romans 8, five through 8. 151 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,880 The Bible says, For they that are after the flesh do mind the 152 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,320 things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, the 153 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,360 things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is 154 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,880 death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, 155 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,640 because the carnal mind is enmity against God. 156 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:23,960 For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it 157 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,760 be. So then they that are in the 158 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,880 flesh cannot please God. Now if you, if you think about 159 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,720 that, what that tells us is this. 160 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,120 We have a tough job of explaining to them that they're 161 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,280 lost. So let's just admit it from the 162 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,000 very beginning. In a world like we are today, 163 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,920 that we have today, it's very difficult to lead somebody to 164 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,120 the point that they are lost. But you can't get them saved if 165 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,000 they're not lost. If they don't think they're 166 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,720 lost, they're not going to get saved. 167 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,920 So what I'd like to do tonight, I've got three areas. 168 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,600 And I want to talk about a little bit about needs. 169 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:10,560 Because needs are where we, it's where they don't see, they don't 170 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:13,040 need salvation. So let's talk about how their 171 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:17,080 carnal mind considers what a need is. 172 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,600 OK, that's what I want to do. And I've got a little object 173 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,800 lesson here for you tonight that I want to show you. 174 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:25,680 Just just a little object lesson, that's all. 175 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:34,320 I've got a pair of old, old water shoes and they are very 176 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,080 old. They're several years old. 177 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:41,200 They're torn in the sides. If you can see torn in that 178 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,520 side. The insoles are are pretty much 179 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,720 gone in them. They're very old. 180 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,920 OK. And if I told you I want to sell 181 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,520 you these for 50 bucks, you're not going to do it, OK? 182 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:00,640 It in fact, if you even took AI want to make sure Brian is OK? 183 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,680 He didn't go any farther than this, did he? 184 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:07,400 Want to make sure you see them? OK, 50 bucks, you're going to 185 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,360 look at me and you're going to say, well, no way, I don't want 186 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,720 those. But now I have no need for them. 187 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:18,120 But now let's suppose that you and I were walking barefooted on 188 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,440 the beach. And let's suppose we were 189 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,520 walking up the beach, and this was a beautiful island coral 190 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,000 just outside the coast. I mean, outside the breakwater, 191 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,960 just a beautiful beach. And let's suppose that we were 192 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,760 walking down that beach, beautiful sand. 193 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:39,840 And then all of a sudden a storm came up and we looked behind us 194 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,520 and the waves had covered the beach behind us. 195 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,320 And the only way that we could go was forward. 196 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:52,600 But as we begin to go forward, we can see it was clear beach, 197 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,040 but it was full of pieces of coral. 198 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,920 You ever seen a beach full of pieces of coral? 199 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:04,080 They're sharp. And I came up to you and I said 200 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,480 we have got to go through that. Would you like to have these 201 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:11,520 water shoes? Well, you're going to say yes, 202 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:19,560 because I have a need for them. So needs in a carnal man's life 203 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:24,600 can change needs. What you see and what you have 204 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,120 today is not necessary in the carnal mind. 205 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,920 He may not see that need. So that's where we have to be 206 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,040 good guides in teaching them this. 207 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:43,040 Now here's three areas of how the carnal man figures out 208 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:47,480 needs. He he's motivated to see a need 209 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:51,520 because of three things. Fear is 1. 210 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:58,960 The second one, the second thing that he sees is, is 211 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,240 sustainability. He will consider a 212 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,760 sustainability. And the third one is really 213 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,480 secure relationships. If you look into a psychologist 214 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,800 and, and you, you ask him, so how do people figure out if they 215 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,320 need something, he'll say they'll fit in one of those 3 216 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,200 carat categories for the most part. 217 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,280 So let's look at each one of those and see how the carnal man 218 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,520 does see it and see what the Bible says about it. 219 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,120 The first one we're going to talk about is fear. 220 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:36,360 I want you to turn over to first Timothy 17, the second Timothy 221 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:48,400 17, I'm sorry, Second Timothy 17 verse 7 says, for God hath not 222 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:53,240 given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a 223 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,920 Psalm 9. Now who is he talking to here? 224 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,760 The saved or the unsaved saved, saved. 225 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:06,680 OK, I want you to turn over to Proverbs 2925. 226 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:18,680 Verse 25 says the fear of man bringeth A snare. 227 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,880 But whoso putteth this trust in the Lord shall be safe. 228 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,560 Now there's a distinction here, isn't there? 229 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,360 There's a distinction that as a saved person we have a different 230 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:37,120 attitude towards fear than a carnal man before he gets saved. 231 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:43,400 Fear is really a motivating factor in a person's wisdom as 232 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,560 to whether he actually needs something. 233 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:51,720 So fear, if some of you older folks may remember this, but 234 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:57,040 back years ago, you would see people, it was fire and 235 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,280 brimstone. You're going to hell, OK? 236 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,880 It was all to get people to fear enough to know that they're that 237 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:13,600 they're, that they're unsaved, OK, but Satan has a device to 238 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,360 take care of that fear in people. 239 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,720 Do you know that people aren't afraid anymore? 240 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:23,360 Do you think that it's by accident that the teenagers ran 241 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,040 or running around with stickers on the back of their truck 242 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,240 windows? No Fear. 243 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:35,560 Do you think it's by accident that extreme sports are so 244 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:40,760 popular? All of that is to desensitize 245 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:45,680 people against fear. So when you walk up to them and 246 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:50,120 you tell them, hey, there is a place called hell, sorry man, I 247 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,880 don't have buddies there. There is No Fear. 248 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,680 Satan is very good at at disguising fear. 249 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,640 So people do not fear as they used to. 250 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:10,440 They look one I can remember as a kid there were a couple of 251 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:16,560 horror movies, Dracula, some of those. 252 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:24,839 Today the horror movies are absolutely horrendous. 253 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,040 That's all. For one reason is to desensitize 254 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:36,680 the carnal man against fear. Now I am not against theme 255 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:43,040 parks, but I will tell you theme parks have an adverse effect on 256 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:48,400 the carnal man when they can go up and drop 200 feet. 257 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,280 It seems like 1000 I guess. But whoever it is, it has an 258 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:58,160 effect on the carnal man. So Satan has used this to 259 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:03,120 disguise or to to make people not fear as they used to. 260 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:10,560 People can drive on the highway a whole lot more precarious than 261 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,240 they used to because they just have No Fear. 262 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,600 Now I will tell you that in the last few years and talking to 263 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:23,760 people, I have seen this coming out in the unsaved man, that I 264 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,840 just have No Fear. Don't talk to me about hell. 265 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,360 Don't talk to me about damnation. 266 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,400 Don't talk to me about that. I don't fear that they have a 267 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,360 lot of company. Satan has done a good job of 268 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:40,000 desensitizing us to fear. But what can we do? 269 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,360 What can we do against that? The only thing that we can do 270 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:46,760 and we have the Holy Spirit to help us with that. 271 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,640 But the only thing that we can do is is we can talk to them 272 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:56,040 about about the about what's going on about that. 273 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:01,320 Satan is trying to to do that. But here's one of the things 274 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,080 that we can help do and we can become better at. 275 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:08,440 Have you ever told a story? Have you ever had somebody that 276 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,320 you really wanted to tell about your vacation? 277 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:18,520 And and so you try to have them do visualize that vacation. 278 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:20,760 You you don't where I'm coming from. 279 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,040 I mean, it's one thing just to say, hey, we got a great we had 280 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,080 a great trip to Virginia Beach, but it's another thing to say 281 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,400 you ought to sell the sand and and the way the waves were 282 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,840 breaking over the beach. See what you're trying to do is 283 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,600 we are going to have to get to a point. 284 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,600 If we're going to convince people that you're lost, we are 285 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,880 going to have to help them visualize. 286 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:51,040 Hell, if it means back in the hearse up to the door and 287 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,600 letting them smell the roses or the flowers, then we need to do 288 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:59,320 that. We have to undo or try to. 289 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:06,760 Counter attack from Satan, because Satan has put it in 290 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,000 there that No Fear and we are going to have to help them 291 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,760 visualize what hell is really going to be like. 292 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,560 I know it would probably be offensive to ask somebody that 293 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:24,000 you're talking to, how old do you think you're going to be 294 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,800 when you die? What age are you going to be? 295 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,440 You know, you think, well, that's really kind of offensive. 296 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,280 People may not want to talk about death like that. 297 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,320 Or what about this? What if you were to ask somebody 298 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,680 when's the last time you attended a funeral? 299 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,560 And they say, well, it was six months ago. 300 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,120 Do you know if that person knew the Lord or not? 301 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:57,800 Oh, I no, he was. Do you know that He's literally 302 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:05,120 burning in hell right now. We have got to overcome Satan's 303 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,320 desensitization. If you're going to get them to a 304 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:14,040 point where they understand that they are lost, we are going to 305 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,840 have to do a better job of talking to them and overcoming 306 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:25,400 what Satan is doing. Second thing is sustainability. 307 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,760 Now sustainability is another reason that one of the things 308 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,360 that people use to determine if they have a need or not is 309 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:38,880 sustainability. Everyday life, things that that 310 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:43,840 that they enjoy on an everyday, on an everyday, things that 311 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,680 food, things of this nature they have. 312 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,040 They use that to determine, OK, do I need that? 313 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,080 Do I need? Do I need sustainability? 314 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,040 Is that a need that I have? Do I need cornflakes? 315 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:06,600 Do I need a new car? Do I need this or do I need 316 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,080 that? It's sustainability. 317 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:11,160 People base their needs on sustainability. 318 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,320 So I want you to turn over to Psalms 3410. 319 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:32,160 The Bible says the Young Lions do lack and suffer hunger, but 320 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,760 they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. 321 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:42,680 Now, what that's saying is this, if you don't know the Lord, if 322 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,080 the lion doesn't know the Lord, then he's going to hunger all 323 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,640 the time. But if you know the Lord, it's 324 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,960 going to be satisfied. Basically what that's saying is 325 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,600 God will sustain you. And if we set up here tonight, 326 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,440 and I gave you all of the verses that said that if you're saved, 327 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,560 God is going to sustain you. He's going to he's, he's going 328 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,400 to take care of you. He's going to provide for you. 329 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,360 We'd be here all night long. There's so many in there. 330 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,280 But the thing that we need to understand is this, the carnal 331 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,960 man, God doesn't say he's going to sustain. 332 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:21,800 God doesn't say that. So when we go to someone and we 333 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,680 say to them being saved means that God's going to take care of 334 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,840 us, we have to have enough empathy to understand they don't 335 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,200 understand that. Why don't they understand it? 336 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:37,240 Here again, it's Satan's devices. 337 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:46,360 Satan has taught the world needs are your rights, needs are your 338 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,680 rights. You will be provided for. 339 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,280 The government will be provided will provide for you. 340 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,720 Don't worry about that. Don't worry about anything. 341 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,960 They'll all be they'll all be provided for you. 342 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:03,440 And here's the other thing on substance on that he uses 343 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,200 material things. Folks, one of the reasons that 344 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,520 we find it so hard to get people lost in America is that we have 345 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:18,240 so many material things. I thought it was interesting 346 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:26,320 when the pastor was up here from Australia last week and he was 347 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:32,600 talking about that the snacks that they have in America, I 348 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,840 mean, it's, it's, it's, it's overabundance. 349 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,720 They'll go into a store and they may have 3 or 4 snacks. 350 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,600 We go into a store and there's a hundreds. 351 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,240 America is one of those areas that God has blessed so much. 352 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:53,440 But Satan, as he always does, takes what God gives us and 353 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:58,480 tries to turn it around on us. And I'm afraid he has done that. 354 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,960 The the lost world, the unsaved world, they don't think they 355 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:08,080 need God to sustain them because Satan has, has given them a lie. 356 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,720 Satan has, has just sold them on a lie. 357 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,520 There's no, there's, there's absolutely nothing that they 358 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,160 need. So when someone is used to 359 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,720 meeting his own needs, his attitude is, is why do I need 360 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,200 that? Why do I need God? 361 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,040 Now, I don't know about you, but I've actually had people say 362 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,120 that to me. I don't need that. 363 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,840 I can take care of myself. So how do we combat that? 364 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:44,120 Well, we try to help them uncover and tell and and explain 365 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:48,360 to them that there's going to come a time when they do have a 366 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,960 need that they can't meet. It's one of the ways that we can 367 00:25:53,960 --> 00:26:01,360 overcome what Satan has been so successful at doing is we can 368 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:07,880 help them find there that there could be a time when no one else 369 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,000 can help them. I think one of the best ways of 370 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,480 those, especially when you're talking to somebody that's 371 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:19,600 unsaved and somebody that's it's very difficult to get lost, is 372 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,240 the deathbed is the loneliest time in a person's life. 373 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,400 Even though you've got all of your family around it, you're 374 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,040 not going to be able to provide for that. 375 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,040 Again, it comes to visualization. 376 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:40,080 I think we have to make people visualize when that that that 377 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,760 day comes. Now it could come just like 378 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,880 that. But regardless of when it comes, 379 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,560 it's a lonely, lonely time. They think that hell is going to 380 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,160 be a party. It's not. 381 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,640 It's going to be 1. You're going to be fighting off 382 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:04,440 everyone. So visualization again for them 383 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,120 and trying to understand from their point of view. 384 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:09,520 This is why I say it's very important. 385 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,200 If you find somebody who got saved later in life, who who 386 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:19,200 maybe lived a life of denying that they were lost, it is great 387 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,240 to talk to them and say, how did you feel when somebody talked to 388 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,680 you? What could that? 389 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:30,120 What could someone have said to you that may have influenced you 390 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,080 to understand that you were lost? 391 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,680 So we can, we can do that. We can explain to them how 392 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,040 important, I mean how lonely it is at the time that they die. 393 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,560 We can also look, we can also ask them things like, have you 394 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,640 ever had a circumstance where it was just you and you had a, you 395 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:54,640 had a situation that you had to, you had to take care of and it 396 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,880 was just you. That's another way to talk to 397 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,400 help them to visualize that sustainability comes from the, 398 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,160 from God. It doesn't come from themselves. 399 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,080 It doesn't come from their own abilities, but paint that 400 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,040 picture of death. You know what? 401 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:21,720 I could take away all of your talents and you could still 402 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:26,720 rehabilitate and get more. I could take away all of your 403 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:33,120 resources, all your money, and as long as you have your 404 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,400 talents, you can always gain more. 405 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:47,680 But if I take away your time, all the abilities you had, all 406 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,840 of the resources you had don't mean a thing. 407 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:59,480 It is you and God, so we can paint those pictures for people 408 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,520 to help them. And I would encourage you, this 409 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,760 is so brief and I could, I really do want to encourage you 410 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,440 to find more ways that you can visualize this to people because 411 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,680 you have to understand Satan's desensitizing them. 412 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,080 He doesn't want them to go to heaven. 413 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,760 He wants them to go to hell. I don't know. 414 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,680 Maybe Satan thinks it's going to be a big party. 415 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,520 I have no clue, but he sure doesn't want to go to heaven. 416 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,800 He sure doesn't want God to have the glory. 417 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,400 The 4th of the third one is secure relationships. 418 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,760 That's another thing. It's another way that we 419 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,040 determine whether we need something. 420 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,920 If secure relationships are one of those things to motivate us 421 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,280 to decide, well, do I really need that? 422 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:53,880 You know, I'm sure if Brian buys something a need, he's going to 423 00:29:54,240 --> 00:30:00,240 consider Sarah. I am sure that if if if you've 424 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:05,360 got friends and that they have a need, you're going to consider 425 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,320 meeting that need. It's all about relationship. 426 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,480 And I'm not talking about man, woman necessarily. 427 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,880 I'm just talking about the body of Christ. 428 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:20,280 We all understand that and turned in fact we talk about man 429 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:33,160 and woman turned to Genesis 218. We'll read it 218 and the Lord 430 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,840 God said it is not good for that man should be alone. 431 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,520 I will make him help me for him. Now this is from the very 432 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,320 beginning. So what this tells us is this, 433 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,880 Now I know this is talking about marriage, but we can go through 434 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,440 other Scripture and I can show you where it's God basically 435 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,920 says the same thing that that relationships are important on 436 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,520 this earth. They are tremendously important 437 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,480 because they help us decide what do we need. 438 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:10,000 In fact, there's another verse. Go over to Ecclesiastes 4 verse 439 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:17,280 9 through 12, because this doesn't just involve the man and 440 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:24,760 woman or the husband and wife. This really involves more than 441 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,080 that. In verse 9, verse 4, verse 9, it 442 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,640 says 2 are better than one because they have a good reward 443 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,440 for their labor. For if they fall, the one will 444 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:41,240 lift him, lift up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone 445 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,840 when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up again. 446 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,000 If two lie together, then they have heat. 447 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,760 But how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, 448 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,120 two shall withstand him. And a three fold cord is not 449 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,040 quickly broken. We know that verse. 450 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,480 We have read that verse over and over. 451 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,920 What that verse is basically saying is that relationships are 452 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,600 so important that they help us to define our needs. 453 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:21,360 Satan has a device. He has a device to desensitize 454 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:26,120 to relationships. The marriage rate is going down. 455 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:32,480 Nobody, no, shouldn't say that. There are more and more people 456 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,560 that do not want a marriage. Why? 457 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,080 Because they want it temporary. They have no intentions of 458 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,040 living their entire life together. 459 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,000 They relationships are temporary. 460 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,760 Satan is is showing them that they're temporary. 461 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,760 They're showing them that they can be here today and that you 462 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,280 can have a relationship with someone next week. 463 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,240 They are no longer secure relationships. 464 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,720 The TV's and the movies are full of this. 465 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,640 Satan has taken not just marriage, not just marriage, 466 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,960 he's done a good job on on desensitizing people to 467 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:12,920 marriage. He really has. 468 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,360 He's done just AI say good, you know what I mean? 469 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,640 He's just done a good job, but he's not only doing a good job 470 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,760 on that, but he's doing a good job on relationships between you 471 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,040 and I. He's teaching us that I don't 472 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,000 need to be your friend. I can be your friend today, but 473 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,760 I can turn on you tomorrow. Satan's doing a real good job of 474 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,640 desensitizing people to relationships. 475 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,080 It doesn't make any difference what it is, husbands or or 476 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,320 fathers to their children, children to their parents, he's 477 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:54,400 destroying those relationships through television, through all 478 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,360 kinds of media. He's destroying the 479 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,800 relationships that a child should have to their parents. 480 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:06,120 He's desensitizing them. So if we are trying to look at 481 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,120 somebody and and we're trying to talk to them about a 482 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,960 relationship with the Lord and they're this, they're sort of 483 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,800 like, I don't want a long term relationship anyway. 484 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,360 That's not good. They're not going to want a 485 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,040 relationship with God that is long term. 486 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,600 See what I'm saying? So we have to approach that. 487 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,280 So when you look at the carnal man and you look at these three 488 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:34,840 areas that a carnal man normally makes decisions on what they 489 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:41,920 need, and Satan has has destroyed all of those, it's 490 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:47,000 easy to see why we're standing here today and nobody we can, we 491 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,520 can't get anybody lost because they don't need God. 492 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,760 But we can come better, become better servants for the Lord, if 493 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:05,000 we can help people get lost. You have to get them lost before 494 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,280 they get saved. You can't always jump in with 495 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,640 Romans roads and figure this'll just take care of everything. 496 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,040 If they don't realize they're lost. 497 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,800 That's that. 123. What, Pastor? 498 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,640 Call it 123 now you saved or something like that. 499 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:26,920 Yeah. Yeah. 500 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,520 Something like that. That's what it's all about. 501 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:37,240 That's why today and talking about relationships, I, I will, 502 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:45,280 I will say this, the modern church is not helping that at 503 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,480 all. The modern church is only 504 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,880 talking about this easy salvation. 505 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,120 And you know what? Brian said it this morning and I 506 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,800 totally agree with him and you should totally agree with him. 507 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:06,720 And, and I'm not going to say it like he said it, but here's the 508 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:11,520 way I feel. If grace is how we get saved, 509 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:16,920 repentance is the window that opens up to grace. 510 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,760 Amen. Amen. 511 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,840 You can't be saved without repentance. 512 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,400 I don't care what the murder church is saying. 513 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,800 Amen. You can't get saved without 514 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:32,440 repentance and that relationship with with the Lord is important. 515 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,120 So how do we do that? How do we how do we overcome 516 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,760 what Satan's done? Well, we can talk about our 517 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,800 relationship with God. We can talk about that, but and 518 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,560 we can talk about other things. But tonight we're out of time. 519 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:52,120 But I, I would encourage you, I really do encourage you become 520 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:58,480 better at visualizing, helping them visualize that they're lost 521 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,800 because we're living in a world, folks, that I mean, people come 522 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,600 out here for Bibles and we talk to them and it's difficult to 523 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,120 get them lost. Even ones that are coming in to 524 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:15,400 pick up a Bible, sometimes it's very difficult to get them lost. 525 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,960 They're not going to get saved if they don't realize they're 526 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,520 lost. It's just not going to happen. 527 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:26,280 So I would encourage you there's there's probably great resources 528 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,760 out there helping people visualize where they are with 529 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,000 the Lord. But I would encourage you to 530 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,880 try. And as I said, if you know 531 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:39,040 people who did not get saved, who lived that maybe that wicked 532 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,520 life in the past, sit down and talk to them, pick their pick 533 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,680 their brain. Ask them what did it feel like 534 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,240 that's going to help you? If you run into that person that 535 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:58,720 says I'm not lost, it's just up to you, OK, We want to do better 536 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:01,480 for the Lord. We want to be better servants 537 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,920 for the Lord and Satan. I think that's the problem. 538 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:12,680 Satan works 24/7, double time, triple time, whatever you want 539 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,720 to call it. We still don't work 24/7. 540 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,680 And we need to understand Satan more. 541 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,000 We need to understand his devices more. 542 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,040 I think we do. I think some of the things we've 543 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,560 talked about tonight, you probably say, well, yeah, I 544 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,600 realize that, Brother Gary, but do you realize it enough to be 545 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,160 able to use it against Satan's devices? 546 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,840 And so that's where we are. But if we're going to reach 547 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:45,960 people this year that are lost, we're going to have to convince 548 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,440 them or show them that they are lost. 549 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,680 And if we're going to do that, we have to become better at 550 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,520 visualizing with them that they are lost the only way they're 551 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,800 going to see it. Because they don't understand. 552 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,360 They have that need. They don't understand. 553 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,400 They don't fear God. They think they can meet all of 554 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,360 their needs. And they do not care about 555 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,400 relationships at all. Because if this one doesn't 556 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,640 last, I'll pick up another one next week. 557 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,200 Satan's done a good job, but just remember when I started 558 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,960 this, I said we are going to be talking about you and the 559 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,680 unsaved man, but there's a third person there, and that is the 560 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:33,280 Holy Spirit. And we engage the Holy Spirit in 561 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,680 those conversations. Some of our visualization may 562 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:43,200 become very, very real in their hearts as they talk to them, but 563 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,080 we're going to have to get busy doing that. 564 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,280 And that's out of our comfort zone. 565 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,920 It's it's out of our comfort zone to back the hearse up to 566 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,600 the door and let them smell the flowers. 567 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,040 That's hard to do. That's hard to ask somebody at 568 00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,480 what age you think you're going to die. 569 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,640 It's hard to ask somebody that. But I hope we can come become 570 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,640 better at visualizing to help the people understand that 571 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,000 they're lost. Let's pray. 572 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,920 Father, we do thank you again, Lord, as we said in the very 573 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,320 beginning that you called us to do your work here on this earth. 574 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,400 God, sometimes we almost wish that you would send an Angel to 575 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,640 walk beside us and do the talking for us to help us. 576 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,320 But Lord, we know that you have given something better than the 577 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,200 Angel and that is the Holy Spirit. 578 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:38,440 And so often, Lord, we, we do go talk to people without inviting 579 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,320 the Holy Spirit to go with us. And we ask your forgiveness for 580 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,960 that. But God, we do ask for your 581 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,600 power. We thank you so much that this 582 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,600 church has evangelism on its heart. 583 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:52,720 It's mine. Or we thank you that they have. 584 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:55,240 We have not lost our first love for you. 585 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:58,640 But God, we understand what you want of us. 586 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,960 And God, we pray that you would protect that. 587 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,240 Please don't allow Satan build a hedge around this church, Lord, 588 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:08,120 and don't ever let Satan convince us to let that go by 589 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,480 the wayside. God, we want to be a soul 590 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,440 winning church. We want to be a church that 591 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,880 reaches out to people through the lost. 592 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:20,040 But God, you know, the lost are very desensitized now because of 593 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,080 Satan. But Lord, we remind you that you 594 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:28,080 are the one that created every single one of those souls. 595 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,680 And God, you have said that whose server will come with me. 596 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,600 God help us to be able to reach those souls. 597 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:44,800 Help us, God, to be able to have the tools that we need to be 598 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,520 able to convince them that without you there is an eternal 599 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,200 help. So God, we pray, we thank you 600 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,960 for just loving us. We thank you God, that you've 601 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,960 given us the privilege of serving you. 602 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,080 And Lord, tonight we just ask that you would bless in this 603 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,160 service in Jesus name, Amen.